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ing before it was too late. When asked about when he realized the crisis was coming, he simply said, “not soon enough.” He ex- plained that Berkshire Hathaway talked about it at their yearly meetings, and at one point, they called it a “bub- blette.” It was so small at the time that they did not even consider it a problem. He said that while he was aware of the internet bubble, he did not go out and “short the stocks.” If he had done something like that, it could have caused even more problems with the amount of personal wealth that he has. However, when it comes down to who ac- tually caused the crisis, Buffett said, “every aspect of society contributed to it, virtually.” The interviewer asked about rating agencies, bank management, and regulators, and each time, he believed that they all had a hand privileges turned over to parlia- ment. The week-long unrest has already affected Bahrain’s economy. An international rat- ing agency has cut the govern- ment’s credit ratings because of concerns about political turmoil as the crown prince was deciding on the fate of the March 13 season-opening For- mula One race, the kingdom’s biggest international event it has hosted annually since 2004. Standard & Poor’s cut the rat- ings Monday for Bahrain’s long and short-term sover- eign credit ratings, as well as those for the island nation’s central bank and the country’s sovereign wealth fund. Hundreds of pro- testers spent the night at the square, and thousands of government opponents have gathered at the site by the afternoon. The mood was upbeat and many appear to be camped there for the long haul, with makeshift kitchens serving meals to those who live in the small tent village. At several stalls, demonstra- tors queued for hot tea and joked about the weather, which turned windy and whipped up sand and trash. In the statement, the youth group called for authorities to be put on trial for attacks on protest- ers last week and demanded an elected government. They said monarchy. “We demand the overthrow of the oppressive Al Khalifa re- gime,” the manifesto said, refer- ring to the ruling royal family. “The people will choose the sys- tem they will be subjected to.” To underline their contempt for the monarchy, the protesters set up a chair resembling one be- longing to a royal with a sign be- neath it that says in Arabic “And does the throne of the oppressor stay?” It was not clear what their relationship is with the official Shiite opposition that includes 18 members of the 40-member parliament who resigned in pro- test Thursday. But their manifesto shows the range of demands among the opposition, from the all-or-noth- ing youth group to others who would let the monarchy survive but with many of its powers and Until a year ago, Eric Selby had been completely blind for two decades and was dependent on a guide dog to get around. However, after getting an ar- tificial retina im- planted into his eye, he can now detect shapes and shades of black, white, and gray. While only 40 people have gotten this treatment so far, it is a small step to bringing sight to the blind. How the artificial retina works and what it can do for the pa- tient is equally in- teresting. A U.S. based company called Second Sight, who is currently wait- ing to see if Dutch regulators will accept their request to mar- ket the device in the European Union, designed the artificial retina. They are also in nego- tiations with the U.S. Food and the multiple state-run satellite news channels, witnesses said. During the day Monday, a fire was raging at the People’s Hall, the main hall for government gatherings where the country’s equivalent of a parliament holds its sessions several times a year. The pro-government news web site Qureyna said flames were seen leaping from the building, and that the headquarters of the Olympics Committee was also on fire. Protesters were calling for a new protest at sunset Monday in Green Square, setting up the likelihood of new clashes. Al- ready, armed members of pro- government organizations called “Revolutionary Committees” were circulating in the streets hunting for protesters in Tripo- li’s old city, said one protester, named Fathi. The city on Monday was shut down, with schools, government offices and most shops closed www.ChargerBulletin.com The official student newspaper of the University of New Haven since 1938. Charger Bulletin Volume 91, Issue 5 | February 23, 2011 Bahrain Protesters Seek To the Warren Buffett Speaks about Financial Crisis By SARA J. DUFORT STAFF WRITER –––––––––––––––––––––––––– MANAMA, Bahrain – A group of young protesters camped out in Bahrain’s capital Monday called for the ouster of the entire ruling monarchy as part of sweeping demands to call off a weeklong uprising in the tiny, but strategically important Gulf nation. The call stakes out the most uncompromising demands of protesters to date, most of whom have only called for weakening the powers of the monarchy and it was impossible to determine how much weight they have in the country as a whole. Tensions are still high in Bah- rain after seesaw battles that saw riot police open fire on protesters trying to reclaim landmark Pearl Square last week. At least eight people have been killed and hundreds injured in the clashes since the unrest spilling across the Arab world reached the Gulf last week. Abdul Redha Mohammed Hassan, 32, who was shot in the head by security forces while trying to march to the square Fri- day, died in a hospital Monday, his relatives said. Bahrain holds particular im- portance to Washington as the host of the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, which is the main U.S. military counterweight to Iranian efforts to expand its military influence into the Gulf. A manifesto Monday from a group calling itself “Youth of Feb. 14” — after the day of the first marches — apparently seeks to raise the stakes of de- mands ahead of possible talks between the opposition and the See BUFFETT page 5 CAIRO – Libyan protest- ers celebrated in the streets of Benghazi on Monday, claiming control of the country’s second largest city after bloody fight- ing, and anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli’s main square for the first time. Moammar Gadhafi’s son vowed that his father and se- curity forces would fight “until the last bullet.” Even as Seif al-Islam Gad- hafi spoke on state TV Sun- day night, clashes were raging in and around Tripoli’s central Green Square, lasting until dawn Monday, witnesses said. They reported snipers opening fire on crowds trying to seize the square, and Gadhafi supporters speeding through in vehicles, shooting and running over pro- testers. Before dawn, protesters took over the offices of two of Libya: Protesters, Security Clash in Capital By MAGGIE MICHAEL & HAMZA HENDAWI ASSOCIATED PRESS –––––––––––––––––––––––––– Text message your news tips and comments to The Charger Bulletin! 1 (270) UNH-NEWS See BAHRAIN page 6 See LIBYA page 4 Artificial Retina Helps the Blind See Drug Administration to deter- mine the test needed to secure the implants approval in the United States. Currently, the im- plant is only intended for people with specific types of sight prob- lems, whose optic nerves are still working, and have previous- ly been able to see. This means that people who are born blind See RETINA page 5 By SARA J. DUFORT UNH TODAY –––––––––––––––––––––––––– AP PHOTO AN AP PHOTO AN AP PHOTO By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI & BARBARA SURK ASSOCIATED PRESS –––––––––––––––––––––––––– Overthrow Royal Family The world’s third richest man does not get that wealthy by not knowing anything about finances. Someone like this knows how to play the market, and Warren Buf- fett is no exception. With a net worth of 47 billion dollars, it is clear that he has figured out how to in- vest his money properly. Therefore, when Buffett has something to say about a financial crisis in the United States, people tend to take notice. Last week, several hours of audio were released from a May 2010 interview with the Berkshire Hathaway boss himself, Warren Buffett. While he touched upon many different topics, the most important were about what caused “the bubble,” when he saw it coming, and who contributed the most to it. When asked about the origins of the bubble, Buffett explained that people began to believe that housing prices could not fall sig- nificantly. He explained that it was the biggest asset class in the country, and as the easiest asset class to borrow against, it cre- ated probably the biggest bubble in our history. What he meant by this was that people kept borrow- ing money for houses that they could not afford, and then banks continued to give these people money. The problem arose when it finally came time for those people to pay their mortgages, realizing they did not have the means to do so. Sadly, even one of the rich- est men in the world could not see the financial collapse com- AP PHOTO

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ing before it was too late. When asked about when he realized the crisis was coming, he simply said, “not soon enough.” He ex-plained that Berkshire Hathaway talked about it at their yearly

meetings, and at one point, they called it a “bub-blette.” It was so small at the time that they did not even consider it a problem. He said that while he was aware of the internet bubble, he did not go out and “short the stocks.” If he had done something like that, it could have caused even more problems with the amount of personal wealth that he has.

H o w e v e r , when it comes

down to who ac-tually caused the crisis, Buffett said, “every aspect of society contributed to it, virtually.” The interviewer asked about rating agencies, bank management, and regulators, and each time, he believed that they all had a hand

privileges turned over to parlia-ment.

The week-long unrest has already affected Bahrain’s economy. An international rat-ing agency has cut the govern-ment’s credit ratings because

of concerns about political turmoil as the crown prince was deciding on the fate of the March 13 season-opening For-mula One race, the kingdom’s biggest international event it has hosted annually since 2004.

Standard & Poor’s cut the rat-ings Monday for Bahrain’s long and short-term sover-eign credit ratings, as well as those for the island nation’s central bank and the country’s sovereign wealth fund.

Hundreds of pro-testers spent the night at the square,

and thousands of government opponents have gathered at the site by the afternoon. The mood was upbeat and many appear to be camped there for the long haul, with makeshift kitchens serving meals to those who live in the small tent village.

At several stalls, demonstra-tors queued for hot tea and joked about the weather, which turned windy and whipped up sand and trash.

In the statement, the youth group called for authorities to be put on trial for attacks on protest-ers last week and demanded an elected government. They said

monarchy.“We demand the overthrow

of the oppressive Al Khalifa re-gime,” the manifesto said, refer-ring to the ruling royal family. “The people will choose the sys-tem they will be subjected to.”

To underline their contempt for the monarchy, the protesters set up a chair resembling one be-longing to a royal with a sign be-neath it that says in Arabic “And does the throne of the oppressor stay?”

It was not clear what their relationship is with the official Shiite opposition that includes 18 members of the 40-member parliament who resigned in pro-test Thursday.

But their manifesto shows the range of demands among the opposition, from the all-or-noth-ing youth group to others who would let the monarchy survive but with many of its powers and

Until a year ago, Eric Selby had been completely blind for two decades and was dependent on a guide dog to get around. However, after getting an ar-tificial retina im-planted into his eye, he can now detect shapes and shades of black, white, and gray. While only 40 people have gotten this treatment so far, it is a small step to bringing sight to the blind. How the artificial retina works and what it can do for the pa-tient is equally in-teresting.

A U.S. based company called Second Sight, who is currently wait-ing to see if Dutch regulators will accept their request to mar-ket the device in the European Union, designed the artificial retina. They are also in nego-tiations with the U.S. Food and

the multiple state-run satellite news channels, witnesses said.

During the day Monday, a fire was raging at the People’s Hall, the main hall for government gatherings where the country’s equivalent of a parliament holds its sessions several times a year. The pro-government news web site Qureyna said flames were seen leaping from the building, and that the headquarters of the Olympics Committee was also

on fire.Protesters were calling for a

new protest at sunset Monday in Green Square, setting up the likelihood of new clashes. Al-ready, armed members of pro-government organizations called “Revolutionary Committees” were circulating in the streets hunting for protesters in Tripo-li’s old city, said one protester, named Fathi.

The city on Monday was shut down, with schools, government offices and most shops closed

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MANAMA, Bahrain – A group of young protesters camped out in Bahrain’s capital Monday called for the ouster of the entire ruling monarchy as part of sweeping demands to call off a weeklong uprising in the tiny, but strategically important Gulf nation.

The call stakes out the most uncompromising demands of protesters to date, most of whom have only called for weakening the powers of the monarchy and it was impossible to determine how much weight they have in the country as a whole.

Tensions are still high in Bah-rain after seesaw battles that saw riot police open fire on protesters trying to reclaim landmark Pearl Square last week. At least eight people have been killed and hundreds injured in the clashes since the unrest spilling across the Arab world reached the Gulf last week.

Abdul Redha Mohammed Hassan, 32, who was shot in the head by security forces while trying to march to the square Fri-day, died in a hospital Monday, his relatives said.

Bahrain holds particular im-portance to Washington as the host of the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet, which is the main U.S. military counterweight to Iranian efforts to expand its military influence into the Gulf.

A manifesto Monday from a group calling itself “Youth of Feb. 14” — after the day of the first marches — apparently seeks to raise the stakes of de-mands ahead of possible talks between the opposition and the

See BUFFETT page 5

CAIRO – Libyan protest-ers celebrated in the streets of Benghazi on Monday, claiming control of the country’s second largest city after bloody fight-ing, and anti-government unrest spread to the capital with clashes in Tripoli’s main square for the first time. Moammar Gadhafi’s

son vowed that his father and se-curity forces would fight “until the last bullet.”

Even as Seif al-Islam Gad-hafi spoke on state TV Sun-day night, clashes were raging in and around Tripoli’s central Green Square, lasting until dawn Monday, witnesses said. They reported snipers opening fire on crowds trying to seize the square, and Gadhafi supporters speeding through in vehicles, shooting and running over pro-testers. Before dawn, protesters took over the offices of two of

Libya: Protesters, Security Clash in Capital

By MAGGIE MICHAEL & HAMZA HENDAWIASSOCIATED PRESS

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Text message your news tips and comments toThe Charger Bulletin!

1 (270) UNH-NEWSSee BAHRAIN page 6

See LIBYA page 4

Artificial Retina Helps the Blind See

Drug Administration to deter-mine the test needed to secure the implants approval in the United States. Currently, the im-plant is only intended for people with specific types of sight prob-

lems, whose optic nerves are still working, and have previous-ly been able to see. This means that people who are born blind

See RETINA page 5

By SARA J. DUFORTUNH TODAY

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The world’s third richest man does not get that wealthy by not knowing anything about finances. Someone like this knows how to play the market, and Warren Buf-fett is no exception. With a net worth of 47 billion dollars, it is clear that he has figured out how to in-vest his money properly. Therefore, when Buffett has something to say about a financial crisis in the United States, people tend to take notice. Last week, several hours of audio were released from a May 2010 interview with the Berkshire Hathaway boss himself, Warren Buffett. While he touched upon many different topics, the most important were about what caused “the bubble,” when he saw it coming, and who contributed the most to it.

When asked about the origins of the bubble, Buffett explained that people began to believe that housing prices could not fall sig-nificantly. He explained that it was the biggest asset class in the country, and as the easiest asset

class to borrow against, it cre-ated probably the biggest bubble in our history. What he meant by this was that people kept borrow-ing money for houses that they could not afford, and then banks

continued to give these people money. The problem arose when it finally came time for those people to pay their mortgages, realizing they did not have the means to do so.

Sadly, even one of the rich-est men in the world could not see the financial collapse com-

AP PHOTO

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Fellow UNH students,Well, it is that time of year to start thinking about USGA next year. That’s right UNH, it is USGA Elections time. Ap-

plications will be available on chargervoice.com starting on March 1, 2011 and will be due by March 10, 2011. The positions that are available are USGA President, USGA Treasurer, and there will be 20 positions open for USGA

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plications will be available starting on February 28, 2011 and are due on March 7, 2011. If you have any questions about the Media Head Selection Process, please e-mail me at [email protected].

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by Joann Wolwowicz

As promised, this week’s Did You Know segment will feature my favorite period in time: King Henry VIII. This is a topic that I can speak hours about and write pages on, but I promise not to bore you all with too many details. There are so many areas and directions I can go on King Henry, but for the purposes of keeping this article brief and entertaining, I’ll stick to the one major piece of historical fact that good old Henry is known for: his six wives. Yes, I know that he broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and made himself head of his own church all for a divorce, but today we’ll just skip all of that and get down to the reason King Henry has so many books, movies, and a television show all about him and his family.

The second monarch of the House of Tudor, Henry VIII ruled Eng-land from 1509 to 1547. Being the second son of Henry VII and Eliz-abeth of York, Henry was expected to enter a life with the clergy, while it was expected of his older brother, Arthur, to take the throne when it became time. However, Arthur died at the age of 15, only 20 weeks after his marriage to Catherine of Aragon. With Henry VIII now in line for the throne, his father promised his second son to Ar-thur’s widow, trying to seal a marital alliance between England and Spain. After a papal dispensation and 14 months later, Catherine was betrothed to Henry and married after he became king in 1509. After about 15 years of marriage, one daughter, Mary, and no sons, Henry became impatient with Catherine’s inability to produce the heir he desired.

In 1925, Henry grew even more impatient, while becoming enam-ored with a charismatic young woman who was a part of the Queen’s household. This woman was named Anne Boleyn, and she was a wom-an that changed the course of England’s history. At first, Anne resisted the king’s attempts to seduce her, refusing to become his mistress as her sister had done. All of Henry VIII’s mistresses never amounted to anything, and any children were labeled illegitimate. Anne’s re-fusal made Henry even more attracted to her, making him pursue her relentlessly. Anne would not relent to his infatuation until she was acknowledged queen. It soon became the king’s desire to annul his marriage to Catherine. We all know where that story ended. Unable to gain an annulment, Henry broke from the church, divorced and banished Catherine, married Anne, and made himself the head of the church. However the marriage of Henry and Anne was nothing like a fairy-tale. After giving birth to a daughter, Elizabeth I, the couple’s happiness faltered. After a serious of miscarriages, one of which was a son, Henry saw Anne’s failure to give him a son as a betrayal and declared their marriage to be a product of witchcraft.

Five men, including Anne’s own brother were arrested on charges of incest and treason, accused of having sexual relationships with the queen. On May 2, 1536, Anne was arrested and taken to the Tower of London. She was accused of adultery, incest, and high treason. Al-though the evidence was unconvincing, the accused were found guilty and condemned to death. The men were executed on May 17, 1536, and the queen was executed on Tower Green on May 19, 1536. One day after Anne’s execution, Henry became engaged to Jane Seymour, one of the Queen’s ladies-in-waiting to whom the king had been show-ing favor for some time. They were married ten days later.

Look forward to next week for the continuation of the six wives of Henry VIII. We will talk about his remaining four wives: Jane Sey-mour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr.

The Six Wives of Henry VIII – Part 1

If you’ve ever attempted to shed a few pounds or even just main-tain your current weight, you are aware of the dreaded act of count-ing calories. And sure, we are all equipped with the basic adding skills to figure out our total caloric consumption for a given day, but how many of us actually understand what we are keeping track of?

What is a calorie?A calorie is a unit of energy. In terms of nutrition, calories mea-

sure the amount of energy given off when food or drink is broken down in your body. Interestingly, the calories listed on food pack-ages are actually in kilocalories, which means there are 1,000 calo-ries in every food Calorie.

How are Calories measured?In order to accurately calculate the number of calories in food,

the United States Department of Agriculture (and other nutrition and science-based agencies) use a calorimeter. Inside the mecha-nism, the food or drink is burnt, and the amount of heat given off is measured. (Remember, heat = energy) Once the heat is converted into calories, chemists must also multiply the number to account for energy burned during digestion.

What happens to calories that aren’t used for energy?When we take in more calories than our body needs to function,

the extra calories are stored as fat. Our metabolism uses enzymes to break down what we have consumed in order to send the molecules from food to our cells. When the cells do not require immediate energy, these molecules are put in “storage” for later use.

Can I estimate calories without a calorimeter?By breaking down the food you are eating, you can get a rough

estimate of the number of calories you are consuming. For exam-ple, a gram of protein or a gram of carbohydrates both contain 4 calories, while a gram of fat contains 9.

How can I burn more calories?Living an active lifestyle is the best way to expend the number

of calories typical Americans consume on a daily basis. In addition, building muscle can help speed up your body’s metabolism and burn more calories. Muscle tissue contains cells that are constantly active, and as a result, burn more energy than fat cells, which are not active.

Health and Fitnessby Melanie Rovinsky

Counting Calories: What does it mean?

Hey everyone, hope you all had a great week! This past week SCOPE hosted some great events that we hope

you enjoyed. First we had the movie Megamind, which is an ani-mated film about a super villain who has conquered all superheroes and begins to find life quite boring without any new ones to conquer.

On Friday, we made tie dye t-shirts. Hey, a free t-shirt is always okay with me, especially if I get to make it look fun with all those cool colors. We were also able to host a video game party using the relatively new Xbox Kinect. I had never used it before, but I must say it was very entertaining. I would say the dancing games were the most fun, although the sports ones were entertaining as well.

This week is film week in honor of the Oscars this coming Sun-day, February 27, 2011. This past Monday, we showed the movie Burlesque, which is about a young woman who moves to Los An-geles and finds out if she has what it takes to be part of a neo-bur-lesque club run by a former dancer. There are some great actors in this movie, and it is definitely a must see.

Tuesday was the Disney movie Tangled, an animated film based off of Rapunzel, but of course there is a twist. Wednesday is going to be the Movie Trivia game, where teams will be able to compete against one another answering questions about various movies.

Thursday afternoon there will be a program where you can make movie clappers (you know “Action”) so you can hang it on your wall or make your very own film. Friday there will be a trip to see the movie I Am Number Four, which from the previews looks in-tense and pretty awesome.

Saturday is a double feature of the movies Burlesque and Tan-gled. Finally, Sunday is the night of the week that the Oscar Party is planned! Come out with your friends for some great food, wonder-fully dressed stars, and incredible prizes.

Don’t forget to come out and participate for a chance to win some great prizes and enjoy some great movies throughout this whole week, and look forward to the many events SCOPE has for you next week.

SCOPE It Out!by Courtney Faber

Did You Know?

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Man Jailed After Filming Himself Speeding

Of all the things artist extraordinaire Andy War-hol has accomplished in his lifetime, his singular most celebrated work is perhaps his famous adage of being popular for only however long the world is interested: “In the future, everyone will be world fa-mous for fifteen minutes.”

On Feb. 12, Stanislav

Vadimovich Bakanov of Portland, Oregon tested that theory, holding the spotlight for an antic that still seems to dazzle the world even today.

Stopped at 118 miles per hour, Bakanov was ar-rested and subsequently jailed after he was caught filming the speedometer of his black 2005 BMW. When he was pulled over by Sheriff Deputy Ryan Postlewait, he allegedly said that he was looking

to post the video of his speeding as well as his ar-rest on YouTube.

Postlewait seized Bakanov’s video as evi-dence, which later re-vealed that he had reached speeds well beyond 140 miles per hour. Held at Marion County Jail, he was charged with speeding and reckless driving. Au-thorities maintain this is his third speeding episode within the last year.

Man Arrested Over Valentine’s Day Threats

By MONICA LYONSSTAFF WRITER

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While Valentine’s Day is usually a time for love and kindness, it proved to be the opposite for a cou-ple in Florida.

Nathan Hemby, 33, of Key Largo was arrested on Sunday after he alleg-edly wished his girlfriend a “Happy bloody Valen-tine’s Day” and threatened to cut off her head with a knife and choke her with a belt, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s

Office. His 50-year-old girlfriend was able to lock herself in the bathroom and dial 911. She told officers that Hemby had recently been threatening her with a knife, screw driver, and a box cutter.

According to the vic-tim’s testimony found in the sheriff’s office report, his girlfriend said he held his hand over her mouth, put the knife to her throat, and told her he was go-ing to cut off her head and “grind up her body to sell for meat.”

She also reported that

he had threatened to choke her with leather belts hang-ing on the wall of their apartment and had taken a pair of her underwear, ex-plaining he was going to “add it to his collection of the other girls he had to do this to.”

Officers found all of the weapons and belts de-scribed in the apartment, as well as her underwear tucked into his back pock-et. Hemby was taken into custody and charged with aggravated assault.

except a few bakeries serving residents hunkered down in their houses, said a Tripoli lawyer, Rehab, who like Fathi spoke on condition she be identified only by her first name.

The protests and vio-lence were the heaviest yet in the capital of 2 mil-lion people, a sign of how unrest was spreading after six days of demonstrations in eastern cities demand-ing the end of the elder Gadhafi’s rule.

Gadhafi’s regime has unleashed the bloodiest crackdown of any Arab country against the wave of protests sweeping the region, which toppled the leaders of Egypt and Tu-nisia. More than 200 have been killed in Libya, ac-cording to medical offi-cials, human rights groups and exiled dissidents.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, visiting neighboring Egypt, called the Libyan government’s crackdown “appalling.”

“We can see what is happening in Libya which is completely appalling and unacceptable as the regime is using the most vicious forms of repres-sion against people who want to see that country — which is one of the most closed and one of the most autocratic — make prog-ress. The response they have shown has been quite appalling,” he told report-ers in Cairo.

Seif al-Islam Gadhafi warned of civil war in Lib-ya if protests continue, a theme continued Monday on Libyan state TV, where a pro-regime commentator spoke of chaos and “rivers of blood” turning Libya into “another Somalia” if security is not restored.

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danger in Libya, a country of deep tribal divisions and a historic rivalry between Tripoli and Benghazi. The Arab world’s longest rul-ing leader in power for nearly 42 years, Moam-mar Gadhafi has held an unquestioned grip over the highly decentralized sys-tem of government he cre-ated, called the “Jamahiri-ya,” or “rule by masses.”

Libya’s former ambas-sador to the Arab League in Cairo, Abdel-Moneim al-Houni, who a day ear-lier resigned from his post to side with protesters, is-sued a statement demand-ing Gadhafi “be put on trial along with his aides, security and military com-manders over the mass killings in Libya.”

“Gadhafi’s regime is now in the trash of history because he betrayed his nation and his people,” al-Houni said.

The spiraling turmoil in Libya, an OPEC country that is a significant oil sup-plier to Europe, was rais-ing international alarm. Oil prices jumped $1.67 to nearly $88 a barrel Mon-day amid investor concern.

Two leading oil compa-nies, Statoil and BP, said they were pulling some employees out of Libya or preparing to do so. Portu-gal sent plane to pick up its citizens and other EU nationals and Turkey sent two ferries to pick up con-struction workers stranded in the unrest-hit country. EU foreign ministers were discussing on Monday the possible evacuation of European citizens. Mobs attacked South Korean, Turkish and Serbian con-struction workers at vari-ous sites around the coun-try, officials from each

country said.The Internet has been

largely shut down in Lib-ya, residents can no longer make international calls from land lines and jour-nalists cannot work freely, but eyewitness reports trickling out of the country suggested that protesters were fighting back more forcefully. Most witness-es and residents spoke on condition they be indenti-fied by first name only or not at all, out of fear of re-taliation.

In Libya’s second larg-est city, Benghazi, protest-ers were in control of the streets Monday and took over the main security headquarters, known as the Katiba, after bloody clashes Sunday that killed at least 60 people, accord-ing to a doctor at the main hospital.

Cars honked their horns in celebration and protest-ers in the streets chanted “Long live Libya.” Pro-testers took down the Lib-yan flag from above Beng-hazi’s main courthouse and raised the flag of the country’s old monarchy, which was toppled in 1969 by the military coup that brought Moammar Gad-hafi to power, according to witnesses and video foot-age posted on the Internet.

Benghazi’s airport was closed, according to an airport official in Cairo. A Turkish Airlines flight try-ing to land in Benghazi to evacuate Turkish citizens Monday was turned away, told by ground control to circle over the airport then to return to Istanbul.

There were fears of chaos as young men — in-cluding regime supporters — seized weapons from the Katiba and other cap-tured security buildings.

“The youths now have arms and that’s worrying,” said Iman, a doctor at the main hospital. “We are ap-pealing to the wise men of every neighborhood to rein in the youths.”

Youth volunteers were directing traffic and guard-ing homes and public facilities, said Najla, a lawyer and university lec-turer in Benghazi. She and other residents said police had disappeared from the streets.

Benghazi has seen a cy-cle of bloody clashes over the past week, as security forces kill protesters, fol-lowed by funerals that turn into new protests, sparking new bloody shootings. Af-ter funerals Sunday, pro-testers fanned out, burning government buildings and police stations and besieg-ing the Katiba.

Security forces battled back, at times using heavy-caliber machine guns and anti-aircraft guns, accord-ing to residents. One wit-ness said she saw bodies torn apart and that make-shift clinics were set up in the streets to treat the wounded. Ahmed Hassan, a doctor at the main Al-Ja-laa hospital, said funerals were expected Monday for 20 of those killed the day before, but that families of 40 others were still trying to identify their loved ones because their bodies were too damaged.

In some cases, army units reportedly sided with protesters against security forces and pro-Gadhafi militias. Mohamed Abdul-Rahman, a 42-year-old Benghazi merchant, said he saw an army battalion chasing militiamen from a security compound.

After seizing the Ka-tiba, protesters found the

bodies of 13 uniformed se-curity officers inside who had been handcuffed and shot in the head, then set on fire, said Hassan, the doctor. He said protesters believed the 13 had been executed by fellow secu-rity forces for refusing to attack protesters.

Protest leaders and army units that sided with them were working to keep order in the streets Monday, directing traffic and guarding homes and official buildings, several residents said.

On Sunday night, Gad-hafi’s son Seif el-Islam took to state TV, trying to take a tough line in a ram-bling and sometimes con-fused speech of nearly 40 minutes.

“We are not Tunisia and Egypt,” he said. “Moam-mar Gadhafi, our leader, is leading the battle in Trip-oli, and we are with him.”

“The armed forces are with him. Tens of thou-sands are heading here to be with him. We will fight until the last man, the last woman, the last bullet,” he said.

He warned the protest-ers that they risked ignit-ing a civil war in which Libya’s oil wealth “will be burned.” He also promised “historic” reforms in Lib-ya if protests stop.

Seif has often been put forward as the regime’s face of reform. Several of the elder Gadhafi’s sons have powerful positions in the regime and in past years have competed for influence. Seif’s younger brother Mutassim is the national security adviser, with a strong role in the military and security forc-es, and another brother Khamis heads the army’s 32nd Brigade, which ac-

cording to U.S. diplomats is the best trained and best equipped force in the mili-tary.

Even as Seif spoke, ma-jor clashes had broken out for the first time in Tripoli.

Sunday afternoon, pro-testers from various parts of the city began to stream toward central Green Square, chanting “God is great,” said one 28-year-old man who was among the marchers.

In the square, they found groups of Gadhafi supporters, but the larger number of protesters ap-peared to be taking over the square and surround-ing streets, he and two oth-er witnesses said. That was when the backlash began, with snipers firing down from rooftops and militia-men attacking the crowds, shooting and chasing peo-ple down side streets. they said.

Gadhafi supporters in pickup trucks and cars raced through the suqare, shooting automatic weap-ons. “They were driving like mad men searching for someone to kill. ... It was total chaos, shooting and shouting,” said the 28-year-old.

The witnesses report-ed seeing casualties, but the number could not be confirmed. One witness, named Fathi, said he saw at least two he believed were dead and many more wounded.

After midnight, pro-testers took over the main Tripoli offices of two state-run satellite stations, Al-Jamahiriya-1 and Al-Shebabiya, one witness said.

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MADISON, Wis. – To end a high-stakes stale-mate over union rights that has captured the nation’s attention, a handful of Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin might have to stand up to their new gov-ernor.

Gov. Scott Walker made clear Monday he won’t back off his proposal to ef-fectively eliminate collec-tive bargaining rights for most public employees. Senate Democrats who fled the state last week to delay the plan vowed not to come back to allow it to pass — even if they have to miss votes on other bills Tuesday. And union lead-ers said they would not let up on protests that have consumed Wisconsin’s capital city for a week and made the state the center of a national debate over the role of public employ-ees’ unions.

That dynamic means it might take Republicans in the Legislature who believe Walker is going too far to try to break the impasse. One idea that has been floated by GOP Sen. Dale Schultz would temporarily take away bargaining rights to get through the state’s next two-year budget, then im-mediately restore them.

While it’s unclear whether that would be ac-ceptable to his colleagues, Democratic Sen. Jon Er-

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penbach said in a phone interview from the hotel room in Chicago where he’s hiding out that Schultz was brave for making the proposal. He said Schultz, of Richland Center, and five or six other Republi-can senators who have ties to organized labor are in the best position to get both sides to negotiate a deal.

Protesters who crowded inside the Capitol for a sixth day Sunday had a similar message. They hung a banner in the Capi-tol reading “Wisconsin needs 3 cou(R)ageous Senators,” referring to the number of Republi-cans needed to join with Democrats to block the bill.

The protesters have in-cluded teachers, who have sometimes arrived in such high numbers that their districts were forced to close due to understaffing. The Madison School Dis-trict was closed Wednes-day through Monday but was expected to reopen Tuesday.

Districts in central Wis-consin were also closed Monday, but that was be-cause of 10 to 12 inches of snow. Milwaukee schools were shut down for a pre-scheduled midsemester break. Those closures, on top of Monday being a previously scheduled fur-lough day for state work-ers, could elevate the number of protesters who demonstrate in Madison.

A few dozen protesters spent the night inside the Capitol again Sunday, with many of them still huddled inside sleeping bags before 8 a.m. Monday morning. The walls of the normally immaculate Capitol were adorned with signs urging Walker to back down, but

he’s shown no willingness to compromise.

Walker’s spokesman, Cullen Werwie, on Mon-day accused Senate Dem-ocrats of vacationing and renewed the call for them to return and vote on the bill.

So far, there’s little evidence that lawmak-ers will move to com-promise. “Won’t happen, won’t happen, won’t hap-pen,” said Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald. The Juneau Republican said he spoke with every member of his caucus over the weekend and they re-mained “rock solid” in their support for Walker’s plan, even if they had some internal disagree-ments earlier.

Fitzgerald said Re-publicans could not back

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Artificial Retina Helps Blind Seewill not be able to get this treatment. However, even with this limitation, one in every 3,000 people are blind due to these groups of hereditary diseases.

Shelby, who got the ar-tificial implant called the Argus II, said that, “It’s basically flashes of light that you have to trans-late in your brain, but it’s amazing I can see any-thing at all.” The way that the impact works is with a small video camera, a transmitter in glasses, and a small wireless computer. The computer processes images, and converts them into an electric signal that is sent to the implant. After this, the images move to the brain, where it is then translated into patterns of light.

Shelby, like other pa-tients, needed to learn how to interpret the flashes of lights received into some-thing she could under-stand. The senior director of European Operations at Second Sight said that the implants are not meant to replace guide dogs, but may help patients with daily tasks. Experts say that future implants may even restore sight enough to make some patients self-sufficient. However, they doubt the technology will ever be able to match normal human vision.

This advance is incred-ible, as Daniel Palanker, who works at Stanford University, describes,

“The device is currently very crude, but it’s impres-sive that some patients have been able to read large fonts. It’s just re-markable that we’ve gone from having no cure for blindness to a situation where we can restore sight to some extent.”

The only problem with the Argus II now is the large price tag of $100,000. This makes it difficult for an average person to buy, but in Britain, the National Health Service sometimes pays for expensive new technologies for a small number of patients. If Sec-ond Sight is able to get the implant approved for sale in the European and Amer-ica markets, it may open doors and lower the price for an average person.

Only time will tell where this technology will be ten years down the road. There could be extreme advances, or the companies may have only progressed a few steps. Regardless, Second Sight is not the only company that is trying to improve the lives of citizens who are blind. It is extremely possible that progress like this will someday be on the same level as the co-chlear implant for the deaf. Twenty years ago, they were just getting started, and now some patients are even able to make tele-phone calls. Society can only be hopeful that the retina implants will yield similar results.

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Warren Buffett Speaksin causing the problem. An example he gave had to do with Freddie and Fan-nie May. He believed that if they simply said, “we will only accept mortgages with 30% down payments, verified income, and pay-ments can’t be more than 30% of your income,” that would have stopped it. But the problem was that everyone was enjoy-ing “the party.” No one realized that it was going to paralyze the American economy, and once every-one started to believe this, there was no turning back.

Whether or not anyone could have predicted the financial collapse is still

up for debate. Many peo-ple argue that there were models that told everyone that there was going to be problem, but they just ig-nored the signs. Others say that the models are never right. We may never know if someone knew ahead of time, and did not tell any-one, but from what Warren Buffett said during his in-terview, it is clear that he believes people did.

We will always have periods of expansion and contraction according to the business cycle, but one can only hope that it will not be as bad as the one that we are currently re-covering

down now because the governor’s two-year bud-get blueprint, to be re-leased in coming days, slashes spending for pub-lic schools and municipal services by $1 billion or more. Local government leaders will need to make cuts without bargaining with employees, he said.

Walker’s plan would allow unions representing most public employees to negotiate only for wage increases, not benefits or working conditions. Any wage increase above the consumer price index would have to be approved in a referendum. Unions would face a vote of mem-bership every year to stay formed, and workers could opt out of paying dues.

The plan would also require many public em-ployees to cut their take home pay by about 8 per-cent by contributing more of their salaries toward their health insurance and retirement benefits. Union leaders said their members are willing to accept those concessions, but they will not give up their right to

collectively bargain.Mariah Clark, an emer-

gency medical technician at the University of Wis-consin hospital and a vol-unteer firefighter, said she stands to lose $250 per month with the benefits concessions. Standing on a bench holding a sign read-ing “EMT. Firefighter. Not

the public enemy,” she said the pay cut would hurt, but that’s not why she was protesting.

“I really believe this is about workers every-where, not just public employees,” said Clark, 29. “It’s pathetic that in Wisconsin, one of the places where the labor movement started, that this would happen.”

Wet weather includ-ing rain and sleet thinned out the outdoor Capitol protests Sunday although conditions were expected to ease up considerably Monday. The Weather Ser-vice predicted 1 to 2 inch-es of snow accompanied by a light drizzle Monday, with temperatures in the upper 20s.

Wisconsin was the first state to enact a compre-hensive collective bar-gaining law in 1959. It’s also the birthplace of the American Federation of State, County and Mu-nicipal Employees, the na-tional union representing all non-federal public em-ployees, which was found-ed in 1936 in Madison.

Walker said the conces-sions would help close a projected $3.6 billion bud-

get deficit through June 30, 2013, and the changes to weaken unions would pave the way for local and state governments to op-erate more efficiently for years to come.

The Republican-con-trolled Assembly is ex-pected to meet Tuesday to consider the plan. With Senate Democrats in Il-linois, Fitzgerald said the Senate would meet with-out them to pass non-spending bills and confirm some of Walker’s appoin-tees. While Republicans are one vote short of the quorum needed to take up the budget-repair bill, they need only a simple majority of the Senate’s 33 members to take up other measures.

Senate Minority Lead-er Mark Miller, speaking from “an undisclosed loca-tion in northern Illinois,” said it’s up to Republicans who privately have con-cerns with Walker’s plan to force the governor to compromise.

“I think it’s important those talks begin because there’s a lot of Republi-cans that are uncomfort-able with stripping away the rights of workers,” the Monona Democrat said. “They recognize public workers are their con-stituents and neighbors and want them respected. We need to find a way for those Republicans to be able to be part of a solu-tion.”

Convicted Murderer Gets 60 Years in Chandra Levy Case

After nearly a decade, the unsolved case of Chan-dra Levy has finally been put to rest. Convicted murderer, 29 year-old In-gmar Guandique, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the 2001 killing of Levy. However, it took eight long years before Washington police even suspected Guandique of committing the crime.

Prior to her disappear-ance, 24 year-old Levy was working as a federal intern for Democrat Gary Condit who represented California’s 18th Congres-sional District. Much of the early investigation fo-cused on the suspicion that Levy and the married Mr. Condit had an affair, and that Mr. Condit had some connection with her disap-pearance. However, Mr. Condit maintained his in-nocence, reports Reuters.

com, and denied that he and Levy engaged in an unprofessional relation-ship. Despite Mr. Condit never being named as a suspect in the case, this negative publicity contrib-uted to his reelection loss in 2002.

The search for Levy ended a year after she van-ished when her remains were found in Washing-ton's Rock Creek Park. Unfortunately, Washing-ton police had no leads and the case went cold. Only in 2009 did police turn their attention to il-legal Salvadoran immi-grant Guandique. At the time of his conviction, Guandique was already imprisoned for attacks on other women occurring in the same area that Levy went missing. Investiga-tors immediately looked for a connection between Guandique and Levy, but found no DNA evidence or witnesses linking the two.

Instead, prosecutors re-lied on a former inmate of Guandique who testified that Guandique confessed to the murder while in jail. The defense, reports the New York Times, claims that the inmate was unreli-able in his accusations and that Guandique is not con-nected to the crime.

However, this doubt did not stop a jury from convicting Guandique of first-degree murder on November 22. Judge Ger-ald I. Fisher of District of Columbia Superior Court sentenced Guandique to 60 years in prison, believ-ing that “Mr. Guandique was dangerous to society, particularly to women”. Ten years of grief and an-ger was clearly expressed

when Sandra Levy, Chan-dra Levy’s mother, made a statement prior to Judge Fisher. She confronted Guandique about the mur-der and called him a “hid-eous creature”, reports the New York Times.

But regardless of the court’s decision, Guan-dique maintains his inno-cence. “I am very sorry for what happened to your daughter,” he said in Span-ish to Susan Levy, “But I had nothing to do with it. I am innocent.” Guandique has 30 days to file an ap-peal. According to the Bureau of Prisons, Guan-dique is also eligible to re-duce his sentence by nine years if he maintains good behavior in prison.

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Afghan Police: At Least 30 Killed in Suicide BlastBy AMIR SHAHASSOCIATED PRESS

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KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to an Afghan government office Monday, killing at least 30 people — many who were waiting in line to obtain government identification cards, police said.

The attack occurred around noon in Imam Sa-hib district of Kunduz province in northern Af-ghanistan where there has been a sharp slide in secu-rity in recent months, said district police chief Abdul Qayum Ebrahimi. At least 40 people were wounded in the blast, he said.

“We were in a meeting. It was a very powerful ex-plosion,” said Ebrahimi, who works in the district police office next door to the blast site. “People had gathered in the front of the department to get identifi-cation cards.”

He said the explosion occurred in the district center on a day when peo-ple gather to shop.

“They become the tar-get of the terror today,” he said.

Violence has been on the rise in the north, where there are known hide-outs for the Taliban, al-Qaida and fighters from other militant factions, includ-

ing the Haqqani network, Hizb-i-Islami and the Is-lamic Movement of Uz-bekistan. NATO has sent more troops to the north and has been pushing harder into militant-held areas.

In October, a bomb killed Kunduz Gov. Mo-hammad Omar and 19 oth-ers in a crowded mosque in neighboring Takhar province. Omar was killed just days after he warned of escalating threats from Taliban and foreign fight-ers in the north.

Separately, the NATO coalition said it was in-vestigating the accidental death of Afghan civilians in Nangarhar province in eastern Afghanistan along the Pakistan border. NATO said it deeply regretted the accident Sunday night in Khogyani district.

Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, a spokesman for the gover-nor of Nangarhar, said co-alition forces fired at three insurgents planting a road-side mine near a NATO base. One weapon missed the target, hit a house and killed a couple and their four children, he said.

“My four grandsons, my daughter-in-law and my son were martyred here,” Mehrab Khan, 55, said at their funeral Mon-day.

The incident came a day after Afghan officials alleged that 64 civilians

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died in coalition opera-tions in neighboring Ku-nar province, a hotbed of the insurgency.

NATO said it had no evidence of civilian casu-alties, but is working with Afghan officials to inves-tigate recent operations in Kunar.

“The evidence viewed to date has revealed no evidence of children pres-ent at all on the night of the Feb. 17 and the adults were assessed to be men,” Brig. Gen. Josef Blotz, a NATO spokesman, told reporters in Kabul. “They were armed and moving in tactical formations.”

Also on Monday, Fazel Ahmad Manawi, chairman of Afghanistan’s Indepen-dent Election Commission, said the recent suspension of two high-ranking elec-tion officials and govern-ment interference in last year’s parliamentary elec-tion was “completely ille-gal.”

The comment was part of an ongoing dispute over a special tribunal — backed by President Ha-mid Karzai — that is in-vestigating allegations of election fraud. While Kar-zai hasn’t said so publicly, it is widely believed that the president is unhappy with the slate of winning candidates and thinks fraud reduced voter turn-out among his fellow eth-nic Pashtuns.

Last week, armed Af-ghan security forces, pros-ecutors and representatives of the special court forced their way into the election commission and sealed a vote-counting center and a warehouse full of ballots.

Over the weekend, the Afghan attorney gen-eral’s office sent a letter to the election commis-sion ordering Abdullah Ahmadzai, the commis-sion’s chief electoral of-ficer, and Qazi Suliman Hamed, a member of the commission, suspended from their jobs. The attor-ney general’s office said Monday that the two were suspended at the request of the special court for trying to prevent court officials from reviewing ballot boxes.

“I have not done any-thing illegal,” Ahmadzai said. “We are both presi-dential appointees and the attorney general, being part of the government, is not legally authorized to make any decision on a presidential or political appointee.”

Ahmadzai said the commission has certi-fied the election results, the parliamentarians have been seated and neither the special court or the at-torney general’s office has the legal authority to order a recount.

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AUSTIN, Texas – Texas is preparing to give college students and professors the right to carry guns on cam-pus, adding momentum to a national campaign to open this part of society to firearms.

More than half the mem-bers of the Texas House have signed on as co-au-thors of a measure direct-ing universities to allow concealed handguns. The Senate passed a similar bill in 2009 and is expected to do so again. Republi-can Gov. Rick Perry, who sometimes packs a pistol when he jogs, has said he’s in favor of the idea.

Texas has become a prime battleground for the issue because of its gun culture and its size, with

38 public universities and more than 500,000 stu-dents. It would become the second state, fol-lowing Utah, to pass such a broad-based law. Colo-rado gives colleg-es the option and several have al-lowed handguns.

Supporters of the legislation argue that gun violence on cam-puses, such as the mass shoot-ings at Virginia Tech in 2007 and Northern Illinois in 2008, show that the best defense against a gunman is stu-dents who can shoot back.

“It’s strictly a matter of self-defense,” said state Sen. Jeff Wentworth, R-San Antonio. “I don’t ever want to see repeated on a

Texas college campus what happened at Virginia Tech, where some deranged, sui-

cidal madman goes into a building and is able to pick off totally defenseless kids like sitting ducks.”

Until the Virginia Tech incident, the worst college shooting in U.S. history

occurred at the Univer-sity of Texas, when sniper Charles Whitman went

to the top of the adminis t ra t ion tower in 1966 and killed 16 people and wounded dozens. Last Sep-tember, a Univer-sity of Texas stu-dent fired several shots from an as-sault rifle before killing himself.

Similar fire-arms measures have been pro-posed in about a dozen other states, but all face strong opposi-

tion, especially from college leaders. In Oklahoma, all 25 pub-lic college and university presidents declared their opposition to a concealed carry proposal.

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Bahrain Protestersthe first priority should be the cancellation of citizen-ship for thousands of for-eigners who receive it as part of an effort to change the sectarian balance in the island nation. Few policies anger Bahrain’s Shiite ma-jority more than bestowing citizenship to outside Sun-nis, mostly Arabs but also from Pakistan and other South Asian countries.

Shiites in Bahrain have often complained of dis-crimination by the Sunni rulers. The Al Khalifa royal dynasty has been in power for 200 years and has strong backing from other Gulf Arab leaders, who fear that Shiite pow-erhouse Iran could gain further footholds through the uprising led by Bah-rain’s Shiites.

Bahrain’s rulers have offered talks with opposi-tion groups to try to defuse the showdown, but the op-position appears to be in no

hurry to talk with Crown Prince Sheik Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, who has been delegated by the king to lead the dialogue.

The leaders of the offi-cial Shiite opposition said they are not refusing to talk to the crown prince, but want guarantees the rulers’ words will be backed by action.

The main opposition demand is the resignation of the government that is responsible for this week’s bloodshed and has been led by the same prime minister — the king’s un-cle — for 40 years.

Other demands include abolishing the monarchy’s privileges to set policies and appoint all key po-litical posts, along with addressing longstanding claims of discrimination and abuses against Shi-ites, who represent about 70 percent of Bahrain’s 525,000 citizens.

“There is no scenario where allowing concealed weapons on college cam-puses will do anything other than create a more dangerous environment for students, faculty, staff and visitors,” Oklahoma Chancellor of Higher Edu-cation Glen Johnson said in January.

University of Texas President William Pow-ers has opposed concealed handguns on campus, say-ing the mix of students, guns and campus parties is too volatile.

Guns occupy a special place in Texas culture. Pol-iticians often tout owning a gun as essential to being Texan. Concealed hand-gun license holders are allowed to skip the metal detectors that scan Capitol visitors for guns, knives and other contraband.

Guns on campus bills have been rejected in 23 states since 2007, but gun control activists acknowl-edge it will be difficult to stop the Texas bill from passing this year. “Things

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What time is it? Well, it’s not quite summer time yet, but it is time to file your 2011-2012 Free Application for Federal Student Aid, otherwise known as the FAFSA! In order to re-ceive any form of need-based financial aid from the University of New Haven, students must complete a FAFSA. You must complete the application electronically by visiting the Department of Education’s website, www.fafsa.gov. An important piece of information you will need is the school code number, which is 001397. You will also need you and your parent’s Federal PIN numbers. The deadline for completion of the FAFSA is March 1, 2011. If you are confused about how to file your FAFSA, or have any questions regarding the deadlines, please consult the Financial Aid Office as soon as possible. January thru March is a two month window in which students are able to file their FAFSA application on time, so the earlier you get it done, the less stressed you will be as the deadline approaches! Filing a FAFSA after March 1, 2011 will result in your financial aid being considered late, and your award may be decreased by a late penalty. The later you file, the less you will receive!

Along with filing your FAFSA, it is also important to make sure that you have completed all of the documentation necessary to receive financial aid from UNH. All of the documents must be submitted to the university by the deadline, April 25, 2011. How do I check to see if the university has received all of my documentation? It’s easy! The first thing you have to do is go onto Matrix via the UNH website by using the Quick Links drop down bar near the search button, click on the link that says “Matrix: Students”. DO NOT LOG INTO MATRIX!!! On the left side of the page, below the Matrix login, there will be an icon or picture, as seen at the right, that says “UNH Financial Aid Online Access; Check your Status”. Click on this picture, and it will bring you to a website known as NetPartner. The direct website is www.netpartner.newhaven.edu/NetPartnerStudent.

The first thing you should see is the log in page. This is NOT Matrix, so do not try to use your Matrix log in. The log in process is easy. Where it says “Student ID” in the log in box, you will enter your 9 digit UNH ID number, easily found on your UNH student ID card.

If you have...- ...already logged in to NetPartner, and you remember your pin, all you have to do is enter the information and press submit. - ...forgotten your pin, click on the link that says “Forgot Pin” and follow the instructions to reset your pin. - ...never created an account on NetPartner, click the link that says “First Time User”, and follow the instructions to create your own pin and account. Once you have logged into your financial aid account, you will be able to view all of the information concerning your financial aid. Familiarize yourself with the website, and check under

the tab labeled “Documents” to see if you are missing any documents. If something says “not received” or “incomplete” next to it, then it means that you need to get that documentation to the Financial Aid Office as soon as possible. If you do see this as the status for any of your documents, for example, the Dependent Verification Form, then you can click on the tab labeled “Forms” and download the form online. It is important to constantly check up on your financial aid account, so that you can be sure that all of your important information gets submitted by the deadline date. Is this too much for you to handle right now? If so, then your parents can also check the status of your financial aid, as long as you share your log on information with them! We will never share it with your parents, but you can!

Explanations of Common Documents:FAFSA: Application filed online at www.fafsa.gov for need-based financial aid. Due March 1, 2011!!

Signed Student’s & Parent’s 2010 Federal Income Tax Return: Students and Parents must submit signed copies of their 2010 federal income tax return along with W-2 forms. These must be signed with a handwritten signature regardless if filed online electronically.

These can be faxed to our office at 203-931-6050.

Copies of Student’s & Parent’s 2010 W-2 Forms: A copy must be submitted to the Financial Aid Office along with your 2010 federal income tax return. Yes, we need ALL OF THEM! These can be faxed to our office at 203-931-6050.

FAFSA Signature Pagel: If you and/or your parents failed to sign the FAFSA, then you need to sign a certification form and return it to the Financial Aid Office. This must be an original signature and can NOT be faxed.

2010-2011 Independent/Dependent Verification Worksheet: If the U.S. Department of Education selects your financial aid application for a process called “Verification”, then you must complete the Verification worksheet, and then return it to the Financial Aid

Office. This can be faxed to 203-931-6050.

Citizenship: If the U.S. Department of Education was unable to confirm your immigration/citizenship status, the you must submit a legible photocopy of your documents (Passport or Driver’s License) to the Financial Aid Office proving your status.

Selective Service: If the U.S. Department of Education was unable to confirm your registration, then you must submit a copy of the registration acknowledgement letter you received from Selective Service to the Financial Aid Office. If you are female, you must send a copy of your driver’s license or birth certificate to prove you’re female and are exempt from registering.

It is not difficult to use NetPartner, nor is it hard to file your FAFSA, so the sooner you do it, the less stressed you will be as those deadlines approach. You’ll also receive the most money that you’re eligible for, so do it soon!

Texas Poised to Pass Bill Allowing Guns on Campuscon’t from page 6do look bleak,” said Colin Goddard, assistant direc-tor of federal legislation for the Brady Campaign Against Gun Violence, who was in Austin re-cently to lobby against the Texas bills.

Goddard was a student at Virginia Tech when he was shot four times in his French class. Student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people, including 10 in Goddard’s classroom, before shooting himself.

Goddard dismisses the idea that another student with a gun could have stopped the killer.

“People tell me that if they would have been there, they would have shot that guy. That offends me,” Goddard said. “Peo-ple want to be the hero, I understand that. They play video games and they think they understand the reality. It’s nothing like that.”

But Derek Titus, a se-nior at Texas A&M who

has a state license to carry a concealed handgun, said someone with a gun that day could have improved the chances of survival.

“Gun-free zones are shooting galleries for the mass murderers,” Titus said. “We do not feel that we must rely on the police or security forces to de-fend our lives.”

Texas enacted its con-cealed handgun law in 1995, allowing people 21 or older to carry weap-ons if they pass a training

course and a background check. The state had 461,724 license holders as of Dec. 31, according to the state Department of Public Safety.

Businesses, schools and churches can set rules ban-ning guns on their prem-ises. On college campus-es, guns are prohibited in buildings, dorms and cer-tain grounds around them.

Opponents of campus gun rights say students and faculty would live in fear of their classmates and

colleagues, not knowing who might pull a gun over a poor grade, a broken ro-mance or a drunken frater-nity argument.

Frankie Shulkin, a first-year law student at the University of Texas, said he doesn’t think he’d feel safer if other students in his classes had guns.

“If I was taking an exam and knew the person next to me had one, I don’t know how comfortable I would feel,” Shulkin said. “I am in favor of guns

rights and your typical conservative guy, but the classroom thing bugs me.”

Wentworth said he heard the “blood on the streets” warnings when Texas first passed the con-cealed handgun law. “They said we’d have shootouts at every intersection,” he said. “None of that has happened.”

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Say It With Me: Plagiarism is Bad!

Throughout much of my time as a student, if I had to pick one word that has come up in nearly every class that requires writing, it would be plagiarism. Let me start by saying that I hate how plagiarism is spelled, since I can never seem to get it write the first time I write or type it. This is very frustrating; howev-er, what’s more frustrating is people trying to pass off other’s work as their own (hehe, see what I did there? I set myself up for that so nicely). I have personally watched plagiaristic situ-ations multiple times over the years, never involv-ing myself, thankfully, but when someone is accused of plagiarism the rest of the story seems to always go the same way.

In middle and high school, I must say that Rutgers Preparatory School did a great job of preventing plagiarism by

As undergraduate stu-dents, many of us take what organizations we are involved with on campus very seriously. We put a lot of effort and thought into joining organizations that will benefit us and make the time we spend here at UNH well spent. Many students start out as gen-eral members at the begin-ning of their freshman year and work their way up to the executive board as the remaining time goes on. I respect members of clubs and organizations that take the time to be active mem-bers and actually work to make a club or organiza-tion better.

With all of that being said, I do have to say that a majority of people who do join a club or an organiza-tion join just to get their name on the list. They

never have any intention of doing anything produc-tive such as going to events or help-ing make the club a better club in the UNH commu-nity. In fact, these types of people often shine a bad light on clubs and organizations, be-cause of just that. My question to you then would be why did you join? Why waste your time and the time of the organiza-tion?

I am a member of a few organiza-tions on campus. Through-out my involvement in these organizations I have noticed a great deal of things and attitudes that need to change. Everyone wants to be a top 20 club, but no one seems to want to take the time of put out the effort to do it. It doesn’t

happen any other way. So here are some guidelines

about being in a club. Re-ally take them to heart and if you find that you are one of “these” people, try to pull yourself out of that category.

First, if you a member of something, make ev-ery effort to attend meet-ings. Meetings are a waste

of time is no one attends them. Do not just read the minutes because at-tendance really is a fac-tor, and do not make up an excuse because you do not want to leave your room for fifteen minutes. If you do not have class or anoth-er meeting, make the effort to go.

As a club member, you should make every effort to also attend any club events your organization organizes or co-sponsors. Nothing shines a more negative light on an orga-nization if 100 people are on the roster and only four attend events. Addition-ally, no member should complain that an organiza-tion is putting on events. Yes, this has happened. I have been to meetings where members groan be-cause there is going to be an event they are asked to go to. If there aren’t any events being hosted, then what is the point of meet-

ings? If there aren’t any meetings, then what is the point of a club? I person-ally like to be involved in my organizations so that when I do attend meetings and events, I feel that the time I invest in the organi-zation is worthwhile.

Lastly, but don’t be fooled, this is a big pet peeve of mine, I have a problem when people complain when clubs and organizations tighten their grip on their club mem-bers. Never have I heard more grumbling than when an organization announces that they will have an at-tendance policy, require members to attend a cer-tain amount of events, or join a committee to partic-ipate more. Club members seem to forget that clubs have every right to tighten the reins on club members if they so choose. It makes for a better club with more dedicated members. If you do not like it, then you

educating about it, the con-sequences, and the easy alternatives ALL the time. Between the library’s book collection and the online databases that we were pro-vided, sources for research were eas-ily accessible. Ad-ditionally, with many significant assignments, we were required to hand in parts of the paper little by little to space out the workload and ensure that we weren’t headed in the wrong direction. Usu-ally the writing process began with a rough thesis statement, perhaps a para-graph fleshing out some of the other details, and a handful of sources that we were planning on using. While in the moment mov-ing that slowly on a paper is infinitely frustrating, all students were forced to see if their topic was fea-sible weeks before a paper

was due, instead of finding out the night before that

their topic was a dead end, which may lead to some not so good ideas.

Freshman year at UNH, I was in a Composition class that was paired with a Western World history class. The last paper in the class was a research paper that was handled much like I was used to at Rutgers Prep; however, I sat back and complained that it was pointless to go through all

of the trouble the process required since I could han-

dle my workload just fine on my own! Flash forward to spring se-mester sophomore year and I felt a little differ-ently. One of my classes required a very large research paper and the only due date was the last class to hand it in. It’s moment like the end of that semester when I can understand one way that plagiarism could start. When students have no direction ex-cept for the length that a paper needs to be, it’s easy to get desperate or

reckless. I ended up finish-ing that paper with fewer sources than I would’ve liked (and less than what I was supposed to have) but it was a bit of a learning experience. That paper is what made me change my mind on how I think pro-fessors should assign large papers.

If a large paper is as-signed, I think any pro-fessor in their right mind

should set three dates right at the get go. One, a date to hand in a topic, a brief explanation of the topic, and a few sources, two, an optional date to meet with the professor around the halfway point to get some feedback on the progress students have made, and three, the actual due date. The first date gives the professor a chance to push students in the right direc-tion and maybe even of-fer some helpful tips for sources. The second date acts as “protection” for the professor because when that student shows up on the last day of class say-ing he or she didn’t know something about the as-signment or has a problem with his or her grade, the professor can point out the easy opportunity for help the students were given. Lastly, I don’t think I need to explain the purpose of a due date.

If more professors treat-ed papers like progressive works that take time and multiple attempts to per-

fect, I think they would be pleasantly surprised by the increased quality of work that students produce. I doubt all professors real-ize just how much work that gets handed in is not top quality but what the student felt would be sat-isfactory for an accept-able grade. Additionally, if professors put in that little bit of extra work, plagia-rism could be warded off a little bit by making sure that students have even a handful of sources prior to beginning their work.

Plagiarism is never the way to go, so please don’t do it! If you don’t get caught, you haven’t learned anything because you didn’t create what you handed in, putting yourself back where you started. If you do get caught, you may have just ruined your time in that class or this university. Be smart!

can always quit. Why be a member of something you are not willing to commit 100 percent to. Most or-ganizations do not require lifelong membership, so if you are really that unhap-py, you can always leave. These complainers are also those that complained that the organization never did anything worthwhile from the beginning. So, just to clarify, we com-plain when they don’t do anything, and then we complain when they try to make things better. Seems like a lose-lose situation.

Remember everyone that being a member of something doesn’t just mean that your name is on the roster. It means putting some of your time into an organization by attend-ing meetings and events to make this organization something you can be proud to say you were a part of later.

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I have to say that I am really glad that the university is taking time to introduce newly accepted students to on campus events before they actually get here. For

those of you who didn’t know, an “Accepted Student’s Concert” was held in the German Club on February 18, 2011, and it was a great time to say the least.

So, as you all know, I have been complaining for a while about having to pay for housing during summer courses, especially if that is the only time they are be-ing offered and you must take them to complete your major. Well, I just recently heard from a reliable source that that’s about to change. Let’s keep our fingers crossed.

NegativePositivesSo I thought we where past this cold snap, but just as I was ready to pull my

motorcycle out of storage and go out cruising in my leather jacket, I am stuck driving my PT-cruiser due to this ridiculous weather.

I heard that starting the beginning of next semester, even if you live in Sound-view next year, you will be forced to purchase a meal plan. As of right now, resi-dents living in apartments with a stove are not required to purchase a mean plan. But if this changes, I can see people having a problem with this.

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Okay, so I think it’s unfair that we are forced to buy meal plans in the first place, but I think that it’s even worse that we are forced to buy one if we live in a residence hall that has an stove. I mean, I love to cook, but frankly the C-Store does not carry

nearly enough for me to be able to cook all I want. So, if I was to have a meal plan, it would be almost a complete waste of money for me. That’s $2,000 down the drain, and josh does not like that.

The Battery Charge

Courtney's Weekly Wordstyro (tie’-roh) n. a beginner in learning, a novice. [from Latin tiro “young soldier, tyro”.]

Fact of the week: A lion’s roar can be heard from five miles away.

Did they seriously just say that? “In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it’s not like a blank stare.” -Cindi Crawford on modeling

Weekly Thought: Don’t get your knickers in a knot. Nothing is solved and it just makes you walk funny. -Kathryn Carpenter

By Courtney Faber

Edible OpinionsFor the last couple of weeks, we’ve been telling you about restaurants in downtown New Haven. Now, don’t get us wrong, we LOVE going out to

eat, but we also love to cook! That’s why this week, we’re going to tell you about a great place to get your groceries. No, we’re not talking about Shop Rite or the C-Store. You can find great stuff there, but a lot of it is the reason why students gain so much weight

in college. If you’re looking to switch up your diet from the usual microwaved meals, try the farmers market. Right now, there is one almost every weekend in New Haven, and it will have everything you need to make up for all those late-night Sandella’s trips.

Let’s start by putting a couple of myths to rest. The first is that farmers markets are expensive. While this can sometimes be true, there’s always a way to find a deal. Try asking the market manager if any of the vendors are having specials, or where to locate the cheapest produce. Also, be prepared. Make a list of what you need, and then spend some time browsing all of the stands to see who has the best price.

The second myth is that farmers markets don’t have a lot to offer in the winter. To put it simply, this isn’t true. There are fewer fruits than in the summer, but there is still plenty of other food to go around. There are greens and root vegetables, onions and garlic, and cheeses and eggs. You can also get homemade granola with tons of beneficial ingredients, and prepared foods for those of you without full kitchens (meatballs, chili, soups, and more).

The New Haven farmers markets (run by CitySeed) are close by. Just about every weekend until April, you can find one in either Wooster Square or Edgewood Park. The Wooster Square market is located in Russo Park, a short walk from Pepe’s Pizza. Choose a Saturday and head there with friends, picking up some groceries and then grabbing a pie – make a day out of it!

The Edgewood Park market is at the corner of Whalley and West Rock Avenues. It’s very close to the Wintergreen apartments, and a nice way to spend your Sunday. There are a couple of other great restaurants in that area that the locals stop at before or after their shopping. Try Lena’s for breakfast or Manjares for lunch.

For more details on the locations and times of the winter farmers markets, go to www.cityseed.org. CitySeed is a nonprofit organization that runs these markets (five during the summer!) and sells bread at each one to support the funds. We are emphasizing health in this article, but please don’t forego the bread. It’s baked fresh that morning, and there is an incredible variety from baguettes to ciabattas that will have you going back each week.

It can be intimidating at first, but we promise that the farmers markets are worth your while. Not only are they a great source for healthy, organic food, they are also an awesome place to meet the community. The farmers markets have turned into social events, and everyone from babies to grand-parents will be there, as well as the family pets. So get out there and support the farmers, support the markets, and most of all, support your bodies!

We discuss the markets a lot in our blog, so for photos and ideas, check out www.edibleopinions.blogspot.com.

By Kait Richmond &Shawn TremblayFarmer’s Markets

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Kobe Wins 4th MVP in West’s NBA All-Star Win

LOS ANGELES – Kobe Bryant felt LeBron James coming, seeking one of his chase-down blocks that would have further energized an East team that had momentum.

So Bryant jumped a little bit quicker and slammed it down over his pursuer — “I kind of snuck it by him,” Bryant said — then threw in a 3-pointer on the next possession for good measure to put the West back in control.

Nothing was going to stop Bryant from a victory in this All-Star game, not on his home floor.

Shining brightest again among the stars, Bryant brought Showtime back to the All-Star game, scoring 37 points and tying a re-cord with his fourth MVP award in the Western Con-ference’s 148-143 victory over the East on Sunday night.

“I feel like we have a sense of responsibility and we are voted in for what we do during the season, which is play hard,” Bry-ant said. “And we come here, that’s what the fans want to see. They want to see us go at it and see us compete and that’s what I try to do and that’s what I try to tell my teammates to do.”

Returning to the game he dominates after a one-year absence, Bryant added 14 rebounds in a spectacular performance

in front of the usual celeb-rity-filled crowd that turns out to see his Lakers at Staples Center.

“It was like playing in a playground. It was like a pickup game almost,” Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant said. “Just to watch it, I see it on TV all the time, I play against him all the time. But to be on his team and see the things that he was doing out there is just amazing.”

Durant chipped in 34 points, scoring five straight after the East cut a 17-point deficit after three quarters to two points with 2:34 to play. The NBA scor-ing leader added the clinching free throws after the East got back within three in the fi-nal seconds.

James powered the East rally, finishing with 29 points, 12 re-bounds and 10 assists to join Michael Jordan as the only players with a triple-double in the All-Star game. Amare Stoudemire also scored 29, but Mi-ami’s Dwyane Wade, the MVP of the East’s win last year, had to leave with an ankle injury after scoring 14.

Plenty of Hollywood giants were sitting court-side, but Bryant’s popu-larity here can rival most of them. This week, he became the first athlete to have his handprints and footprints put in con-crete outside Hollywood’s

famed Grauman’s Chinese Theater.

Bryant, who missed last year’s game in Dallas with an ankle injury, told fans

to “enjoy the show” before the tip, and as always he delivered a good one.

Always more about fo-cus than fun, Bryant had 21 points by the time Ri-hanna came out for her halftime performance, putting him halfway to Wilt Chamberlain’s record from 1962, the year of his 100-point game.

“You could tell he start-ed out from the start, he wanted to get the MVP,” Stoudemire said. “He was not passing the ball, at all. But that’s Kobe.”

And when the East made it close in the third

quarter, Bryant threw down his dunk over the chasing James, then nailed a 3-pointer to make it 90-79.

“He was unbelievable tonight,” James said. “You definitely saw his motor was going tonight.”

Carmelo Anthony scored eight points in his possible goodbye to the West team. The weekend was dominated by talk of a potential trade to New York or New Jersey, and the Denver Nuggets for-ward appeared alternately entertained and annoyed by the constant questions.

“At times, it can be tough, but it’s fun at the same time,” he said while walking on the magenta carpet before the game.

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“During this weekend I’m still having fun.”

While hearing some of the usual “MVP! MVP! chants he’s usually ser-enaded with at Staples Center, Bryant tied Bob Pettit’s record for All-Star game honors. He was scoreless for the final 6:48, but Lakers teammate Pau Gasol had a big basket to help the West hold on against an East team fea-turing a combined seven players from Boston and Miami, considered two of the biggest threats to end the Lakers’ two-year championship reign.

The exhibition game had a bit of a finals feel with the presence of a record-tying four players from the rival Celtics.

Paul Pierce — who grew up in nearby Ingle-wood — and Kevin Gar-nett received the heaviest boos during the starting lineups. Ray Allen and Ra-jon Rondo were also here from the group that lost Game 7 on this floor last June and would love an-other chance to come take the title back.

East coach Doc Rivers sent his four players out together midway through the first quarter to loud boos that usually provide the soundtrack of June in Los Angeles. They quickly turned to cheers when Al-len put up an airball on his first shot attempt.

Bryant denied gain-ing extra motivation from seeing the two rivals, both of whom already won at Staples Center this season.

But he was clearly into the game from the start, driv-ing for a couple of strong dunks or knocking down jumpers when defenders gave him room.

The crowd of enter-tainers included Beyonce and Jay-Z, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Jack Nicholson, Stevie Wonder, John Leg-end and Justin Bieber — who was called Justin “Berber” by the public address announcer while mentioning the teen star’s MVP performance in the celebrity game on Friday.

Los Angeles’ newest star, rookie Blake Grif-fin of the Clippers, caught an alley-oop pass from Deron Williams late in the first quarter for one of his powerful dunks — though not quite the degree of dif-ficulty as his slam while leaping over the hood of a car Saturday to win the dunk contest.

The game was a wel-come diversion from the Anthony talk and the trou-bling labor situation that threatens the league. Next year’s game is scheduled for Orlando, but nobody can be sure it will be played. A work stoppage is possible.

And it was a welcome break for Lakers fans, whose team stumbled into the break with three losses in a row.

They’ll be all right if Bryant is as sharp in the spring as he was Sunday.

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20-year-old Bayne Wins the Daytona 500BY JENNA FRYERASSOCIATED PRESS

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Leading on the final lap of the Daytona 500, a pack of veterans bar-ing down on his bumper, Trevor Bayne didn’t panic.

He figured it would be a cool story to tell someday, how he led a lap in NAS-CAR’s biggest show.

Somebody, maybe Tony Stewart, would pass him any moment and Bayne would dutifully push him to the win.

But the pack never came. Nobody ever passed him, and with one smooth block of Carl Edwards, Bayne pulled off a stun-ning upset.

Unlikely? Absolutely.Unworthy? He sure

thought so.Unbelievable? That’s

Daytona for you.“This is so crazy. I

don’t even know what to say,” Bayne said after Sun-day’s win. “I almost feel undeserving because ... all these guys out here that are racing against us that have been trying to do this for so long.”

It took Dale Earnhardt 20 years to win the Great American Race, and on

the 10th anniversary of his death in an accident on the last lap of the 2001 Dayto-na 500, Bayne because the youngest winner in race history.

Bayne won a day after his 20th birthday, in his first Daytona 500, in his sec-ond Sprint Cup Series start. And he did it with the Wood Broth-ers, NASCAR’s oldest team, a pioneering orga-nization that had fallen on hard times over the last two decades.

A l t h o u g h Bayne gave the Woods’ its fifth Daytona 500 victory — and first since David Pearson in 1976 — it was the team’s first Cup win since 2001.

That’s what happens, though, in NASCAR’s version of the Super Bowl, a race known to break the hearts of the most hard-ened veterans. This year was no different, with a record 74 lead changes among 22 drivers, and a record 16 cautions that wiped out many of the

main contenders.That included Dale

Earnhardt Jr., who found himself in the middle of the pack and out of conten-

tion because of a late flat tire when he was wrecked on the first attempt at NASCAR’s version of overtime. His entire Hen-drick Motorsports team had a rough day: five-time defending series champion Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gor-don and Mark Martin were all caught in an early 14-car accident.

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Racing, the class of the field all of Speedweeks, lost Kevin Harvick and Jeff Burton to engine fail-ures, and Clint Bowyer,

who led 31 laps, was wrecked late.

So it put a slew of unusu-al suspects out front at the end, and Bayne took over the lead when David Ra-gan, winless in 147 career starts, was penalized for changing lanes on the first restart. Bayne thought it was neat to be out front, but the aw-shucks Ten-nessean figured Stewart and Co. were coming.

“I’m a little bit worried that one of them is going

to come after me tonight,” he said. “I’m going to have to sleep with one eye open. That’s why I said I felt a little undeserving. I’m leading, and I’m saying, ‘Who can I push?’

“We get to turn four, and we were still lead-ing the band,” he said. “It seemed a little bit too easy there at the end.”

The rookie had been

great throughout Speed-weeks, even proving his mettle by pushing four-time champion Jeff Gor-don for most of a qualify-ing race, a performance Bayne said convinced the veterans he could be trust-ed on the track.

“I figured they had a chance after seeing that boy race in the 150s,” said Pearson, who will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in May. “I talk-ed to him this morning. I told him to keep his head straight and not to do any-thing crazy. I told him to stay relaxed. I’m proud of him.”

With the win Bayne breaks Gordon’s mark as the youngest winner in Daytona 500 history. Gor-don was 25 when he won the 500 in 1997.

“I think it’s very cool. Trevor’s a good kid, and I love the Wood Brothers,” Gordon said. “I’m really happy for him. And I think it’s great for the sport. To have a young talent like that — he’s got that spark, you know?”

The victory for NAS-CAR pioneers Leonard and Glen Wood ended a 10-year-losing streak and came the week of the 10th anniversary of Dale Earn-

hardt’s fatal accident on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500.

This was only the fourth win in the last 20 years for Wood Brothers — NASCAR’s oldest team — which hasn’t run a full Sprint Cup season since 2006 and hit the low point of their 61-year-old exis-tence when they failed to qualify for the 2008 Day-tona 500.

“When you miss a race, like the Daytona 500, it’s like somebody died,” said Eddie Wood, part of the second generation of Woods now running the team. “When you walk through the garage and you run into people you see every week, they don’t look at you, they don’t know what to say.”

The rebuild has been slow, and they got Bayne this year for 17 races, on loaner from Roush-Fen-way Racing, the team that snatched him up late last season when Michael Wal-trip Racing — which gave Bayne his start in 2009 — couldn’t promise a spon-sor for this season.

So it was on to Roush, which plans for Bayne to run for the Nationwide Se-ries title this season, and a

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Gagne Wins Four, Women Third at NE-10 Championship

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BOSTON, Mass. - Uni-versity of New Haven women’s track and field athlete Shannon Gagne won four events with re-cord-setting marks at the 2011 Northeast-10 Con-ference Indoor Track and Field Championship as she paced the Chargers for a third place finish. The se-nior repeated at the NE-10 Women’s Championship Most Valuable Athlete and was named the NE-10 Women’s Athlete of the Year.

As a team, New Haven finished with 112 points,

narrowly missing a sec-ond place finish to UMass Lowell who finished with 113 points.

Gagne won the 55m dash with a NE-10 record time of 7.05 seconds. She also won the champion-ship with record times in the 200m dash, 24.26 sec-onds, and the 400m dash, 55.63 seconds. Her fourth victory came in the long jump with a meet-record of 6.02m.

Freshman sprinter Ada Udaya also posted impres-sive times in two events at her first NE-10 Champion-ship. The West Haven na-tive finished second to just Gagne in the 55m dash with a time of 7.11 sec-

onds as well as the 200m dash with a time of 24.82 seconds. For her two per-formances, Udaya was named the NE-10 Wom-en’s Rookie of the Year.

Also top finishes for UNH were in the shot put as Shraya Manick finished second with a throw of 12.63m. The sophomore also finished second in the weight throw with a dis-tance of 15.71m. Calista Hutchinson added another second place finish in the high jump with a height of 1.67m.

The Chargers return to action on Friday, February 25 when they travel to the New England Champion-ships.

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20-year-old Bayne Wins the Daytona 500

Women’s Basketball Falls at Pace in Road Finale

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PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. – Senior class mem-bers Dominique Stellm-acher and Lauren Boivin combined for 34 points on Saturday afternoon, but it was not enough as Pace University handed the University of New Haven women’s basketball team a 75-48 loss at the Goldstein Fit Center.

Stellmacher finished with a team-high 18 points, four rebounds, three as-sists, two blocks and four steals and Boivin grabbed seven boards to go along with her 16 points. Outside of their double-digit show-ings though, the Chargers offense struggled to get going. Ayana Duncanson led the team with eight rebounds and added four

points.Brittany Huggins was

one of three players in double-figures for the hosting Setters. Huggins poured in 21 points on 7-of-12 shooting, while Kerri White registered 15 points and Brittany Shields scored 12.

Shooting woes plagued the visiting team, as the Chargers connected on just 30 percent (18-of-60) of their field goals. Fur-thermore, a formidable ef-fort from the Setters bench also proved to be a major difference. Pace collected 19 points from its bench, compared to just four from UNH’s. In addition, Pace knocked down nearly 60 percent of its shots from the floor, including 11-of-19 from behind the arc (66.7 percent).

The Setters jumped out to a quick lead in the game

and never looked back. Pace outscored New Ha-ven 41-21 in the first half and was able to cruise to comfortable victory in the second stanza. Over-whelmed by injuries, the Chargers tallied double-digit minutes from just six athletes.

With the loss, the Char-gers dropped to 2-24 over-all and 1-21 in the North-east-10 Conference. Pace continued its fine season, improving to 21-7, 15-7 in the league.

The Chargers return to action on Wednesday, Feb-ruary 23 with their final game of the 2010-11 cam-paign. UNH will take on Adelphi University at 5:30 p.m. at Charger Gymna-sium. Prior to the tip-off, the women’s basketball program will honor its five seniors as they conclude their careers.

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PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. – The University of New Haven men’s bas-ketball team concluded its 2010-11 road schedule on Saturday afternoon with a setback to Pace University at the Goldstein Fit Center. Despite a strong second half and a tremendous in-dividual effort from Justin Exum, the Chargers were

defeated by the Setters, 83-71.

The first half featured a positive start from the home team, as the Set-ters posted 41 points in the opening stanza. Exum kept the Chargers within striking distance with 15 points in the frame, leav-ing UNH trailing by nine (41-32) as the halftime whistle sounded.

After the break, the Chargers quickly erased

their deficit with a 13-0 run to start the second half. Exum knocked down three from behind the arc, paired with two lay-ups from Robert Jamerson and Jeffery Adkins. The teams would exchange baskets until the 8:40 mark, where the Chargers held a one-point lead.

Unfortunately, that was the last lead of the game for the Chargers, as Pace boasted off a 12-2 run over the next six minutes of ac-

tion. The double-digit lead was too much to overcome as UNH suffered its 13th loss away from home.

Exum finished with a game-high 24 points on 7-of-14 shooting, includ-ing 6-of-10 from behind the arc. Jamerson complet-ed the double-double with 16 points and 11 rebounds, while Mike Stys chimed in with 13 points of his own.

Four Setters poured in double-figures - David Eismeier (20), Delroy Dal-

ey (18), Adrian Mills (16) and Demetrius Primus-Devonish (10).

Pace connected on 50 percent of its field goals and controlled the boards with a 41-29 edge. New Haven knocked down 12-of-24 from long range and 45 percent from the floor. However, the Chargers only managed four points from the bench and com-mitted 10 turnovers lead-ing to 13 points for the Setters.

With the loss, the Char-gers fell to 7-18 overall and 5-16 in the North-east-10 Conference.

The Chargers return to action on Wednesday, Feb-ruary 23 with their final game of the 2010-11 cam-paign. UNH will take on Adelphi University at 7:30 p.m. at Charger Gymnasi-um. Prior to the tip-off, the men’s basketball program will honor its two seniors as they conclude their ca-reers.

deal was made to get him some seat time in the Cup Series with the Woods. It wouldn’t be for points, and he wasn’t eligible to run for rookie of the year.

But the stunning Day-tona 500 win — and the $1,462,563 payday — might change everybody’s plans. The team already said it now will go to Mar-tinsville, the sixth race of the season, which had not been on its original sched-ule.

Bayne could possibly retract his decision to run

for the Nationwide title. “I don’t even know if

that’s an option,” Bayne said.

Edwards wound up sec-ond in a Ford and seemed genuinely happy for Bayne.

“Second place in the Daytona 500 feels way worse than any other po-sition I’ve ever finished in the Daytona 500,” Ed-wards said. “But that is made better by listening to Trevor and how excited he is. He is really a nice young man, a great guy to represent this sport with

this win. “I think the world’s go-

ing to like him a lot.” David Gilliland finished

third and was followed by Bobby Labonte and Kurt Busch. Juan Pablo Mon-toya was sixth, Regan Smith seventh, and Kyle Busch, Paul Menard and Martin rounded out the top 10.

Stewart, who was sec-ond behind Bayne on the final restart, faded to 13th and is now winless in 13 career Daytona 500s.

Earnhardt Jr. wound up 24th.

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Liana’s Literary CommentaryWho deserves to get

into the Ivy League? More importantly, how do you outsmart the Ivy League? In Hacking Harvard by Robin Was-serman, Eric Roth faces this ultimate moral di-lemma as he attempts to beat the corrupt college admissions system by getting an unqualified slacker into the most prestigious university…Harvard.

Eric Roth and his best friends, Max Kim and Schwarz, have ex-ecuted countless pranks

and hacks at Wadsworth High School. Max is the leader; Schwarz the ge-nius. Eric is the voice of reason. Together, they are legends. However, when Max comes up with the ul-timate hack to fool college admissions, the stakes be-come higher than ever, and their true legacy is tested.

Eric seems hesitant to-ward the idea; however, the trio is convinced that universities only admit students that fit their spe-cific mold. In high school, everyone is asked to do their homework and follow

the rules. They are asked to exceed everyone’s ex-pectations for a spot at the coveted Ivy League insti-tutions…but many never achieve this. People lose themselves, Max says, be-cause they try to be what others want them to be. To prove this theory, they transform their slacker classmate, Clay Porter, into the perfect ivy-league applicant in order to draw attention to the unfair ad-missions system.

What the boys do not expect is their rivals, the Bongo Bums, to challenge

them. Pretty soon, the friends find themselves betting $25,000 that they can get Clay into Harvard. Max assures his friends that it will be a simple win. The Bums, however, have a few tricks up their sleeves.

The novel is very well-organized. The chapters reflect the steps of the col-lege admission process, giving high school and college readers a familiar subject to relate to. From a bugged interview to cheat-ing on the SATs, the ten-sion consistently builds as

By Liana TeixeiraHacking Harvard: You Don’t Need to be Brilliant You Just Need a Plan

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Crispy Gamer

RALEIGH, N.C. - 2K Sports has had suc-cess with “NHL 2K11” on Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch. Now the sports video game maker is bringing the franchise to Apple’s popular iPad.

Mike Rhinehart, se-nior brand manager at 2K Sports, who was at the 2011 NHL All-Star Weekend in Raleigh, said “NHL 2K11” is coming to iPad with all-new features to take advantage of the larger screen and touch pad. 2K Sports cover athlete Ryan Kesler was at the 2K Sports

booth at NHL Fan Fair to sign autographs and check out the “NHL 2K11” bus.

“NHL 2K11” will mark 2K Sports’ first game on Ap-ple’s now-ubiquitous iPad. “NHL 2K11” launched as a Wii ex-clusive, as Rhinehart said 2K Sports has spent the past year fo-cusing on a new Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 hockey game. But that extra time has allowed the game publisher to bring its NHL fran-chise to first the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch and now the iPad.

“NHL 2K11” was the first licensed NHL game for Ap-

ple’s iPhone and iPod Touch, and now it will enjoy the same status on iPad. 2K Sports has devised a new con-trol scheme designed

specifically for the iPad and based on the iPhone and iPod touch

version.The iPad hockey

game will feature high definition visuals - something hockey fans don’t experience in the

By John Gaudiosi

2K Sports Announces ‘NHL 2K11’ for Apple iPadWii version. The game also promises a vari-ety of modes, includ-ing the ability to jump into a Quick Game, practice your skills in Free Skate or take your favorite team to the Stanley Cup in Season Mode. 2K Sports will update the game throughout the rest of the season to keep the game fresh.

The Wii version of the game introduced

improved Wii Mo-tionPlus controls with the ability to execute real-time (one-to-one) dekes, puck juggling, shooting and defensive

maneuvers. Bringing these incredible moves to life are improved player models, freshly lit and redesigned are-nas, and highly detailed jerseys and equipment. 2K Sports introduced the all-new Road to the Cup mode featuring Mii characters battling in mini-games, trivia challenges and skills competitions.

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the boys attempt to imple-ment each portion of their master plan. By keeping the identity of the narra-tor a secret for most of the book, the author also adds a sense of mystery and cre-ates even more tension as the story continues.

This novel does not, in any way, outline a meth-od to cheating your way into college; it is unethi-cal to do so, and Wasser-man makes this very clear. Instead, this book can be seen as a drama, a comedy, a friend, and a book that each current college stu-

dent can relate to. Whether you ap-

plied to an Ivy League school or not, we all went through this criti-cal phase of our lives. All the confusion, the stress, and the hours of sleep lost to writing ad-missions essays…we all wonder if it was worth it. In the end, everyone does the best with what they have, and Hacking Harvard truly gives a different perspective on the mindset of college-bound students.

Megamind: a Super Villain Movie

Most superhero movies today follow the same gen-eral plot formula. From the point of view of the hero, the audience is treated to a battle against the vil-lain, who will inevitably lose. The hero may be at a disadvantage, go through self-doubt, and even tem-porarily “retire” for a while, but in the end they always win, leaving the

question of what would actually happen if the vil-lain won.

Last week, SCOPE aired the animated super-hero comedy Megamind on Tuesday and Friday at 9:00 p.m. in Bartels. The titular character, voiced by Will Ferrell, is a super-villain genius determined to take over Metro City. For years, Megamind has been locked in combat against Metro City’s su-perhero defender, Metro Man (Brad Pitt) while

aided by his best friend and minion aptly named Minion (David Cross), an army of “brainbots” he de-signed, as well as whatev-er schemes, giant robots, and unnecessarily flashy presentations he may de-cide to use in his next plan. Despite losing every time, Megamind remains deter-mined that evil will even-tually win. He kidnaps newspaper reporter Rox-anne Ritchi (Tina Fey), a close friend of Metro Man to lure him into another

trap. In a strange twist, this plan appears to suc-ceed, killing Metro Man and leaving no obstacle in Megamind’s plan to con-quer Metro City. Shortly after, Megamind proceeds to do just that, and estab-lishes himself as the ruler of Metro City.

Following a short “hon-eymoon period” however, Megamind begins to feel bored and empty, a rath-er realistic case of what would actually happen if left without someone

who had kept him busy for years. He attempts to remedy this by creating a new “hero” in Titan (Jonah Hill), but ends up falling in love with Roxanne as well and settling off a chain of events that make the audi-ence question who the ac-tual heros and villains of the story are.

Megamind attempts to deconstruct a few as-pects of the superhero film genre, while still remain-ing a very funny satire with a memorable soundtrack.

While it does admittedly suffer from many of the same clichés of other su-perhero movies, it also manages to tell its story with perspectives and plot developments not nor-mally found in its genre. Whether or not you are a fan of superhero movies, it may be worthwhile to see Megamind just to see the genre from a different per-spective.

Neeson's `Unknown' Wins Weekend with $21.8M Debut

LOS ANGELES – Liam Neeson has proven himself a known quantity again at the box office.

Neeson's thriller, "Un-known," debuted as the No. 1 movie with $21.8 million, following in the footsteps of his 2009 action hit "Tak-en," according to studio es-timates Sunday.

Another action tale, "I Am Number Four," opened at No. 2 with $19.5 million.

A Warner Bros. release, "Unknown" stars Neeson as a botanist who awakens from a coma to find his wife claims she does not know him and that another man

has taken his identity.DreamWorks' "I Am

Number Four" stars Alex Pettyfer as a teenage alien refugee on Earth who de-velops superpowers to battle the evil invaders that destroyed his planet. It was the first DreamWorks movie released under the company's distribution deal with Disney.

While "I Am Number Four" held youth appeal, "Unknown" was a rare No. 1 film that did most of its business among older crowds. According to War-ner, 54 percent of the mov-ie's audience was 50 and over and 89 percent was 25 and over.

The 58-year-old Neeson has had action roles before

but found unexpected suc-cess as an all-out action hero with "Taken," a $100 million hit.

"He's the new man. He's stepped up to the plate. Put him in the right role and he's every man's action star," said Dan Fellman, head of distribution at Warner.

Two movies that opened the previous weekend held the next two spots in the top 10.

Disney's animated com-edy, "Gnomeo & Juliet," was No. 3 with $19.4 mil-lion, finishing so closely to "I Am Number Four" that the two movies could change rankings when stu-dios release final numbers Tuesday, after the long President's Day weekend.

"Gnomeo & Juliet" raised its total to $50.4 million.

Adam Sandler and Jen-nifer Aniston's romance "Just Go With It," which had been No. 1 the previ-ous weekend, fell to fourth place with $18.2 million. The Sony release lifted its total to $60.8 million.

The weekend's other new wide release, Martin Lawrence's comedy, "Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son," was No. 5 with $17 million. The 20th Century Fox sequel has Lawrence reprising his role as a fed-eral agent who goes under-cover as a hefty woman to crack a case.

Hollywood finally broke a long downturn in business during which revenues were

off 14 straight weekends compared to last year's.

This weekend, receipts totaled $144 million, up 7.7 percent compared to the same period last year, ac-cording to box-office track-er Hollywood.com.

But compared to Presi-dent's Day weekend in 2010, which fell a week earlier, revenues this time were down 30 percent.

"This was certainly not a record President's Day weekend by any stretch, but it was a good weekend," said Hollywood.com ana-lyst Paul Dergarabedian. "It was solid but not spectacu-lar, but at least it broke the down streak."

Two top contenders at next Sunday's Academy

Awards hit the $100 million mark.

The Weinstein Co. dra-ma "The King's Speech," the best-picture front-run-ner, pulled in $6.6 million to lift its total to $103.3 mil-lion. Fox Searchlight's psy-chosexual thriller, "Black Swan," took in $1.3 million and raised its haul to $101.5 million.

Colin Firth of "The King's Speech" and Natalie Portman of "Black Swan" are considered the favorites for the lead-acting Oscar awards.

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Liam Neeson elevates the proceedings consider-ably, but Unknown is ultimately too derivative -- and

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6. Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You), Enrique Iglesias, featuring Ludacris & DJ Frank, Republic

7. Rocketeer, Far East Movement, featuring Ryan Tedder, Cherrytree/Interscope Records

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Dave’s Music ReportLove her or hate her,

there is little denying that Lady Gaga’s new single “Born This Way” was one of the most talked about and anticipated releases of 2011 thus far. Pretty much as soon as the song was released, the buzz grew exponentially thanks to its too-close-for-comfort similarities with Madon-na’s “Express Yourself,” questionable lyrics and an almost instantaneous bat-tle against Britney Spears’ “Hold It Against Me.” In addition, a show-stopping Grammy performance only added to the attention it was getting. Needless to

say, “Born This Way” be-came an instant hit, and a massive one at that.

Aside from the fact that the song made history by selling a million copies on iTunes in only five days, and even aside from becoming the nineteenth song in history to debut at number one, the song made some pretty serious his-tory by becoming the one thousandth number one single in the Billboard Hot 100. Ironi-

cally, in the same week,

the cast of Glee broke El-vis Presley’s record for

most appearances on the chart (despite only having two top-10 singles,) mak-ing this a pret-ty epic week in music his-tory.

Since the chart’s incep-tion in 1958 when Ricky N e l s o n s ’ “Poor Little Fool” be-came the first number one single, over

fifty years worth of songs have reached the summit.

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Number 1,000 could not have come in a more epic fashion. Of the other 998 singles, the Beatles hold the record for most num-ber ones singles with 20, followed by Mariah Carey with 18. The cast of Glee holds the record for most chart appearances (cur-rently 113) followed by Elvis with 108. Elvis also holds the record for most top-40 hits (104), but Ma-donna edged him out by only one song for most top-10 hits (37).

Despite all of the con-troversy, mixed reactions, and what many consider to be over-hype, the message

of “Born This Way” is one we can all get into. Lady Gaga is currently one of the biggest pop stars in the world (if the not the biggest) and she worked for this hit. Lady Gaga is still very early in her ca-reer, and she is far from breaking many records (al-though she is on track to,) but she is already in the history books as the art-ist who had the one thou-sandth number one single on the Billboard Hot 100, and that’s an accomplish-ment that will never be taken away from her.

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Hollywood Rarely Crowns British Monarchy at Oscars

LOS ANGELES – It may seem as though Acad-emy Awards voters would be a bunch of fawning monarchists, considering how often the ceremony has been a love fest for all things English. But British kings and queens gener-ally wind up losers at the Oscars.

If “The King’s Speech,” a saga about Queen Eliza-beth II’s dad, makes good on its status as best-pic-ture favorite on Sunday, it would become the first film with a British mon-arch as its central figure to win the top prize in the 83-year history of the Oscars.

Two films with a Brit-ish king or queen as a sup-

porting player — 1966’s “A Man for All Seasons” and 1998’s “Shakespeare in Love” — did win best picture. Yet past contend-ers with a monarch in a lead role have always lost: 1933’s “The Pri-vate Life of Henry VIII,” 1946’s “Henry V,” 1964’s “Becket,” 1968’s “The Lion in Winter,” 1969’s “Anne of the Thousand Days,” 1998’s “Eliza-beth” (which lost to “Shakespeare in Love”) and 2006’s “The Queen.”

Actors as British mon-archs have fared a bit bet-ter, with lead-acting wins by Charles Laughton in the title role of “The Pri-vate Life of Henry VIII”; Katharine Hepburn as Henry II’s captive queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, in “The Lion in Winter”; and

Helen Mirren as Elizabeth II in “The Queen.” Judi Dench won a supporting Oscar as Elizabeth I in “Shakespeare in Love.”

Best-actor front-runner Colin Firth as the current

queen’s father, George VI, is expected to join the win-ner’s list Sunday, though Helena Bonham Carter as his wife, the future Queen Mother Elizabeth, is a

longshot for supporting actress.

Losers far outnumber winners: 13 of the 17 actors nominated for playing a British king or queen have lost (there would be one

more loser if we throw in Vanessa Redgrave as best actress in 1971’s “Mary, Queen of Scots,” whose title character schemed but failed to take the English

crown from Elizabeth I).Two actors lost twice

for playing the same mon-arch — Peter O’Toole as Henry II in “Becket” and “The Lion in Winter” and Cate Blanchett as Eliza-beth I in “Elizabeth” and its 2007 sequel, “Eliza-beth: The Golden Age.”

Laurence Olivier lost twice for playing two dif-ferent kings in Shake-speare adaptations, 1946’s “Henry V” and 1956’s “Richard III.” Kenneth Branagh also lost for his 1989 version of “Henry V.”

Henry VIII has gone one-for-three at the Os-cars. After Laughton’s win, two other actors lost for playing the same role — Robert Shaw as sup-porting actor in “A Man for All Seasons” and Rich-

ard Burton as best actor for “Anne of the Thousand Days” (the latter film also was a best-actress loser for Genevieve Bujold in the title role, as one of Henry VIII’s queens, Anne Boleyn).

Before their wins, both Dench and Mirren lost at the Oscars for other roles as British queens. Mirren lost the supporting-actress race as Queen Charlotte in 1994’s “The Madness of King George,” for which Nigel Hawthorne also lost for best actor in the title role. Dench lost for best actress as Queen Victoria in 1997’s “Mrs. Brown.”

The Roommate

The Roommate, a PG-13 rated movie that has re-ceived some good ratings, is sure to send viewers kicking and screaming for more thrills.

College should be the best years of one’s life; it should be the best time to make the most of every-thing and to get a new way of freedom and individual-lality. It shouldn’t have to be about worrying about

what to expect or worry-ing about who will stand in one’s way. That is why The Roommate is such an attention-grabber to young college students and teens that are looking for a mov-ie to relate to.

The main character, Sara, from Iowa, moves to a college in Los Angeles to major in fashion. She is assigned to an art student from Pasadena, California, named Rebecca. Togeth-er, these girls seem to get along perfectly in the be-ginning, until Sara really

sees the true side of her new roommate.

After living together for a little while, Rebecca be-gins to obsess over her new best friend, trying to mim-ic every move Sara makes, resulting in her beginning to become just like her. While doing so, Rebecca’s intentions involve taking away anything that could get in between her and Sara, including friends,

family members, profes-sors, Sara’s boyfriend, etc. This obsession leaves Sara horrified, frightened, and clueless as what to do or how to take care of such a problem.

In the development of all of this, it becomes dan-gerous for Sara to just go about normally on a regu-lar basis anymore. She now has to sneak out to get away from her roommate,

without her knowing. As it gets harder and harder to, Rebecca eventually finds out where Sara sneaks off to, and she keeps her from going out ever again by making threats to Sara’s friends or love interests. This keeps Rebecca’s roommate inside and right by her side at all times.

Soon, Rebecca will do anything to keep Sara to herself, consisting of kill-ing off other people that get in her way. Finding out that her roommate has a medical problem and that

she must take medica-tion in order to be treated correctly, Sara tries to do something about it, but gets distracted by her aw-fully misguided living situation. Sara will have to do whatever it takes to get out of there and seek some help, no matter how tough it gets.

A psychological thriller about a deranged college freshman seems the way to go if you want to see a movie that gives you chills and thrills.

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