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INSIDE NEWS: NEAG PREPARES STUDENTS FOR CHANGING EDUCATION STANDARDS‘No Child’ waiver has little effect on Neag cur-riculum.
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Roof collapses in Delta Gamma sorority houseA large chunk of ceiling
collapsed in the Delta Gamma sorority Husky Village house common room around 7 a.m. Thursday morning as a result of a pipe burst. There were no injuries.
The burst pipe set off a fire alarm in the house around 5 a.m., which evacuated the building as well as the neigh-boring Pi Beta Phi sorority house. At that point, water was coming from the ceiling of the common room and fire depart-ment responders came to the scene.
“A pipe froze and burst in the common room,” said Lauren Bent, a 6th-semester communications major and Delta Gamma member.
Around 7 a.m., the large piece of the ceiling common room collapsed onto the floor and furniture. Delta Gamma members were unable to com-ment any further on the inci-dent because they were told to follow crisis procedure for the remainder of the situation.
Initial reports of the inci-dent show that the television and some other furniture in the common room was destroyed along with some property belonging to first floor resi-dents of the building.
Renovations were recently done in Husky Village that included new floors in the Delta Gamma house and other houses. It is unclear at this point how badly the floors were damaged by the water from the burst pipe.
By Mike CorasanitiAssociate Managing Editor
The Delta Gamma sorority Husky Village shown above was damaged when a pipe burst caused part of the ceiling to collapse in the common room. The extent of the damage remains unknown.
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Ban on women in combat overturned
The US Department of Defense announced Thursday it will lift the ban on women in combat positions, opening about 237,000 positions to women.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta made the announce-ment in a press conference Thursday afternoon.
“It’s clear to all of us that women are contributing in unprecedented ways to the military’s mission of defend-ing the nation,” Panetta said. “Women represent 15 percent of the force, over 200,000. They’re serving in a growing number of critical roles on and off the battlefield. The fact is that they have become an integral part of our ability to perform our mission.”
The service of women in the military is one large reason it remains all-volunteer. Panetta made the decision at the rec-ommendation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in the midst of lawsuits by military women who have been passed over for positions because they were female.
Former UConn men’s bas-ketball Head Coach and Army veteran Dee Rowe said he supports the decision.
“I have six daughters. My
daughters would be thrilled for this, and I would want to fully support it. I know my daughters will be cheering. I was taken with the decision. You say ‘equality,’ I’m all for equality,” Rowe said.
But Rowe said as a veteran, he recognizes there must be an adequate vetting process for allowing soldiers on the front lines.
“I never served in combat, but I know it takes a mind-set that not everyone has. I’d want to know how the deci-sions were made to put these people on the front lines. That goes for men and women.”
Panetta, who gave the offi-cial announcement shortly after Rowe’s interview, said those standards are not going to be compromised.
“Not everyone is going to be able to be a combat soldier, but everyone is entitled to a chance,” Panetta said. “If they can meet the qualifications for the job, they should have to serve regardless of creed, color, gender or sexual orien-tation.”
Col. Ellen Haring was one of two women who filed the first lawsuit to reverse the ban said she is “stunned and then
In this May 9, 2012 photo, Capt. Sara Rodriguez of the 101st Airborne Division walks through the woods during the expert field medical badge testing at Fort Campbell, Ky.
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Violent video games come under fire in wake of Newtown shooting
In the aftermath of the Newtown school shooting that left 26 people dead, there has been a renewed debate on vio-lent video games as a possible motivator behind such attacks.
Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old alleged gunman, was addicted to violent video games.
According to The Sun, who interviewed the Lanza’s family plumber, Peter Wlasuk, “The (Lanza) boys were fans of the military,” Wlasuk said. “They had posters all over the wall in the basement. They had one poster of every piece of military equipment the US ever made. It was a huge poster with every tank ever made. The kids could tell you about guns they had never seen from the 40s, 50s and 60s. The kids who play these games know all about them. I’m not blaming the games for what happened. But they see a picture of a historical gun and say ‘I’ve
used that on Call of Duty’.” Classmates of Lanza also
describe an awkwardly shy stu-dent who was obsessed with games like “Call of Duty” and referenced guns on many occa-sions.
While violent games may or may not have played a role in the shootings, they have sparked an intense debate over the influ-ence such games have over chil-dren and whether they play a role in gun violence.
In his first press conference of his second term, President Obama called for funding to research the potential effects such games have on youth. Obama has detailed a plan that would give $10 million to the Centers of Disease Control that would investigate causes of mass violence, including vio-lent video games as a possible incentive.
However, are violent video games a determining factor in gun violence?
Ashish Billava, CEO of
UConn Game Developer’s Club, believes that video games are not to blame.
“There is no definite evidence that shows causation between violence in video games and
acts of violence in real-life,” Billava said. “Many flaws and shortcomings were found in the scientific review of previ-ous video game and violence related research that attempted
to find a correlation between them. Also, the Supreme Court in 2011 voted 7-2 to overturn California’s proposed ban to sell violent video games to minors
By Jackie WattlesCampus Correspondent
By Stephen Underwood Staff Writer
This screen shot, taken from the popular video game, Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified, allows the player to experience a war situation. These video games have come under fire for promoting violent behavior.
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Spring Weekend revival aims for create a safe environment
The Spring Weekend Programming Committee held an information session for stu-dents, faculty and University of Connecticut organizations Thursday night to discuss this year’s Spring Weekend poli-cies, describe the new theme and explain how individual stu-dents and organizations can get involved.
Following the passing of Jafar Karzoun during Spring Weekend 2010, the university decided to put an end to what was former-ly known as UConn’s annual three-day-long party.
The Spring Weekend policies that were mandated in the years following Karzoun’s death, including limited access to roads leading to campus, the banning of guests from residence halls and regulating guests in local off-campus apartment complex-es, are being somewhat relieved after what Becca Herman, of UConn’s Student Activities office, described as both a successful and calm Spring Weekend 2012.
During Spring Weekend 2013, organizations can have events and meetings as normal, as long as they go through the Union and university services; build-
ings and buses will be available to UConn students and will be operating “somewhat normal-ly,” according to Herman. One policy that is not budging, how-ever, is the strict no guest policy.
No guests will be permitted to participate in any of the week-end’s events, nor will they have access to dining or residence halls, according to Herman.
As far as restrictions for off campus housing during Spring Weekend, “property managers have the ability to make deci-sions on their own, we only talk to them about what they’re planning to do. Many have dis-cussed about doing some guest restriction, hiring state troop-ers, so they are discussing that now. But, at this point we’re in the preliminary planning of all that,” said John Armstrong, the director of Off-Campus Student Services.
Though Spring Weekend is making a comeback, it is not the same event it was in years past. This year, the Spring Weekend Programming Committee has introduced a new theme, “UConn Learns, UConn Serves, UConn Cares,” and each night of the weekend will compliment that theme.
Thursday night will be “UConn Learns.” The
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Police arrest teen in New Haven killing
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — New Haven police say they’ve charged a 17-year-old boy in the fatal shooting of a man found wound-ed at a doughnut shop.
Officers say they executed a search warrant at the boy’s home at about 4 a.m. Thursday and took him into custody. Police say they found a gun in the home.
The teen’s name was withheld because of juvenile offender laws.Police were called to a Dunkin Donuts store shortly after 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday and found 29-year-old Lonni Star suffering from a gunshot wound. He later died at a hospital. Police believe he was shot at another location and driven to the store by a woman who called 911 for help.
Star was New Haven’s second homicide victim in two days, and the second homicide victim of the year.
Financier in Conn. fraud ordered into custody
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A Venezuelan financier awaiting sen-tencing in a massive Connecticut-based fraud scheme has been ordered into federal custody.
A judge has directed Francisco Illarramendi (ee’-yah-rah-MEHN’-dee) to surrender to the U.S. Marshals Service in Bridgeport by 10 a.m. Friday.
Illarramendi had been under house arrest in New Canaan since plead-ing guilty in 2011, but the sentencing has been postponed several times as Illarramendi has changed attorneys. The detention order was handed down last week by Judge Stefan Underhill.
Illarramendi ran unregistered hedge funds out of offices in Stamford. He has pleaded guilty last year to several counts of fraud and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Victims have been exposed to losses totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. Illarramendi’s biggest client was a pension fund for state oil workers in the South American country.
Gay marriage bill advances in US state
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — The Rhode Island House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed legislation to allow gay couples to marry.
The House passed the legislation 51-19 Thursday following an emotional debate that touched on religion, civil rights and the nature of marriage.
The bill now moves to the state Senate, where supporters and opponents say its fate is difficult to predict.
The vote was personal to Ken Fish, who showed up at the Statehouse early to get a seat in the viewing gallery. The 70-year-old says he and his partner of 25 years have long waited for Rhode Island to pass gay marriage. He called Thursday’s vote “history in the making.”
Rhode Island is now the only state in northeastern New England region that doesn’t allow same-sex couples to wed.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday tossed out $172 million in damages Mattel Inc. had been ordered to pay the maker of Bratz dolls, the latest twist in a bitter 9-year legal dispute over commercial rights to the ethnically diverse, pouty-lipped toys.
The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that a jury should not have been allowed to consider MGA Entertainment Inc.’s claims that it was the victim of trade secret theft during a trial convened to consider Mattel’s lawsuit alleging MGA stole the idea for Bratz from Mattel.
The convoluted case dates back to 2004 when El Segundo-based Mattel first filed a lawsuit claiming Bratz designer Carter Bryant was working for Mattel when he did the initial drawings and early work on the provocative, hip hop-inspired dolls with large eyes, heads, lips and feet, and tiny noses.
Courts cut $172 million from Bratz doll verdict
US hit by new stomach bug spreading around globe
NEW YORK (AP) — A new strain of stomach bug sweeping the globe is taking over in the U.S., health officials say.
Since September, more than 140 outbreaks in the U.S. have been caused by the new Sydney strain of norovirus. It may not be unusually dangerous; some scientists don’t think it is. But it is different, and many people might not be able to fight off its gut-wrenching effects.
Clearly, it’s having an impact. The new strain is making people sick in Japan, Western Europe, and other parts of the world. It was first identified last year in Australia and called the Sydney strain.
In the U.S., it is now accounting for about 60 percent of norovirus outbreaks, according to report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Norovirus — once known as Norwalk virus — is highly contagious and often spreads in places like schools, cruise ships and nursing homes, especially during the winter. Last month, 220 people on the Queen Mary II were stricken during a Caribbean cruise.
Sometimes mistakenly called stomach flu, the virus causes bouts of vomiting and diarrhea for a few days.
stating that the effects of play-ing video games are both small and indistinguishable from effects produced by other media.”
Billava also believes that video games should not be censored but still advocates researching poten-tial links into gun violence.
“I personally believe that video games as a source of entertain-ment and art should not be sub-jected to censorship even in the portrayal of violence,” Billava said. “ESRB’s (Entertainment Software Rating Board) enforce-ment of the sales of violent video
games has been shown to be effec-tive in minimizing their exposure to minors. I am encouraged by President Obama’s decision to invest $10 million in the CDC to research links between vio-lent media and real-life violence. This is preferable to a knee-jerk reaction of subjectively banning certain types of games which can compromise growth across the gaming industry.”
Other critics of correlating vio-lent video games to gun violence argue that violence has existed in society through different medi-ums including books, comics,
radio, TV and various other for-mats.
“We should be worrying about real world violence, not fantasy violence. Humans have always found ways to express their pre-dilection for violence: books, movies, plays and now video games. The arrival of a new medium didn’t have anything to do with it,” said Aaron Carta, a 6th semester math and physics major. “What we should be con-cerned with is our people - the culture of keeping to yourself and ignoring the problems of others has had more to do with these acts
of violence than anything else.”Whether or not video games
are connected to gun violence, President Obama believes that everything should be looked at in assessing factors that could have triggered the Newtown shooting.
“Congress will fund research into the effects that violent video games have on young minds,” Obama said. “We don’t benefit from ignorance. We don’t benefit from not knowing the science of this epidemic of violence.”
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ecstatic.”“It sounds today like they
plan to open everything to women. Nobody ever asked for special consideration or reduced standards. Just let us compete at the standards as they exist,” Haring told NPR news.
Of the approximately 237,000 positions now avail-able to women, 184,000 are in combat arms professions and 53,000 are assignments that were closed based on unit type.
This expands Panetta’s 2012 decision to open certain bat-talion level jobs in combat positions and lift the ban on allowing women to work in field jobs required to be “co-located” with ground combat units. That announcement was made on Feb. 9 and opened an additional 14,325 jobs to women.
Both decisions have effec-tively ebbed away the 1994 decision by the department to keep women banned from direct combat, and is the larg-est expansion of military jobs to women since reforms in April 1993 opened 200,000 non-combat.
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Neag prepares students for changing education standards
Since Connecticut recently won an exemption waiver from the “No Child Left Behind Act,” the Neag School of Education is teaching future educators how to prepare for different assessments in class-rooms.
“We are preparing our can-didates in our teacher educa-tion program to embrace the new common core standards so they can have a curriculum and a pedagogy that measures those standards,” said Mary Yakimowski, Neag director of assessment. “The curriculum and the assessment go hand in hand. The content, which is the curriculum, has to be taught by the teacher and then it’s going
to be assessed. Then, based on the assessment, we can see where there needs to be further improvements.”
The “No Child Left Behind Act,” signed into effect by President George W. Bush in 2002, required states to test students in grades three to eight annually in the subjects of read-ing and mathematics, according to the Education Week website. The act also required states to bring all students up to profi-cient levels in these subjects by the 2013-2014 school year. Under the act, all teachers have to be highly qualified in every subject that they teach.
“No Child Left Behind” has a premise to have better pre-pared teachers and we wanted our candidate to be the best prepared, and sometimes that
actually means two degrees,” Yakimowski said. “That was a focus that the Neag School of Education and CLAS worked together to pass. It was approved by the board of trust-ees and the senate that allowed for students to, for example, get a degree in mathematics and education.”
In total, 34 states and the District of Columbia have received waivers exempting them from the “No Child Left Behind Act,” according to NBC News. These states use dif-ferent methods of assessment, which results in differences in the curriculum.
“Across the nation, we now have two consortiums,” Yakimowski said. “We belong to one consortium called the Smarter Balanced Assessment
system. This assessment will be tied to the core standards of English language arts and mathematics.”
Yakimowski said that Neag is constantly striving to improve its program, regard-less of whether or not the “No Child Left Behind Act” is in effect.
“No Child Left Behind” didn’t impact our program, but we always look at our program to identify areas of strength and areas of improvement,” Yakimowski said. “Even with-out NCLB we would be doing the same thing. We prepare our alumni to go out and effec-tively teach our students in our K12 schools.”
By Christian FecteauSenior Staff Writer
Committee working to redefine Spring WeekendProgramming Committee is
encouraging professors to plan academic presentations for that night, and they are hoping to collaborate with the School of Fine Arts to put up displays. The Student Union Board of Governors is also planning on playing an outdoor movie once it gets dark, according to Elise Yonika of SUBOG and the Programming Committee.
Friday will be “UConn Serves,” and the Undergraduate Student Government and Community Outreach will host the anchor events.
Community Outreach is in the process of planning three volun-teer events for students to partici-pate in throughout the day. They have joined UConn’s Facilities Operations and have planned a variety of campus beautifica-tion projects for the morning, local outreach efforts, such as cleaning the yards of residents in areas close to campus who have been negatively affected by Spring Weekend activities in the past, and a series of kit-making stations on campus that night, according to Julie McGarry of Community Outreach.
Some of the kits include art kits for kids in hospitals and foster homes, as well as bagged dinners of non-perish-ables. To get involved in one of these projects, e-mail [email protected].
Friday will also be Student Appreciation Day, which will include giveaways and a food truck in Fairfield Way, according to Johan Tajada, the USG event
coordinator. “We want to say thank you, basically, if you are serving and following the rules of Spring Weekend,” Tajada said.
SUBOG is also planning a food truck festival to take place Friday evening, which will ten-tatively include, a cupcake truck, a fried dough truck and a pizza truck, “to say thank you to stu-dents for a great day of service,” Yonika said. WHUS will DJ the event.
Fresh Check Day, a day coor-dinated by the Jordan Matthew Porco foundation, which raises awareness to suicide prevention will also be held on Saturday. “Fresh Check Day is a big fun wellness fair with interactive elements,” according to Leah Nelson, the outreach coordinator
for the foundation. Fresh Check Day is team-
ing up with UConn’s Suicide Prevention Committee, ResLife, Active Minds, and other health and wellness oriented clubs and organizations to plan events and activities for the day.
“I think it’s great that they’re allowing students to have their freedom again in a constructive and positive way that will benefit the entire UConn community,” said UConn student Alli Cohen.
Spring Weekend 2013 is April 25-27. To participate in any of the anchor events, contact the organizations directly to find out how to get involved.
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In this file photo from April 22, 2010, students gather outside a house party during Spring Weekend. After imposing a lock down in 2011 and 2012, the university in bring a safe Spring Weekend back with precautions.
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As layoffs keep dropping, hopes rise for job gainsWASHINGTON (AP) —
Employers are laying off fewer workers, a trend that normally suggests hiring is picking up. The January jobs report next week will show whether employers have begun to hire more freely or are still waiting for the economy to strengthen.
The number of people seeking unemployment aid has reached a five-year low. Some employ-ers, such as health care compa-nies, restaurants and retailers, are hiring steadily. Yet overall job growth remains modest. And the unemployment rate is the same painful 7.8 percent it was when Barack Obama became president four years ago.
The economy isn’t growing fast enough to accelerate hiring. Flat pay and high unemploy-ment are holding back consumer spending, which rose at a meager annual rate of 1.6 percent in the July-September quarter.
The economy expanded at a 3.1 percent annual pace in the same period, partly because companies stockpiled more goods, which boosts production. Most economists think growth dipped below a 2 percent rate in the October-December quar-ter because consumer demand remains tepid.
Another factor has been uncertainty about federal spend-ing and budget deficits. Most companies don’t seem worried enough to cut jobs. But many
may not boost hiring until fur-ther progress on the budget is achieved. This month, Congress avoided the “fiscal cliff” in part by postponing automatic spend-ing cuts. And this week a dead-line for raising the government’s borrowing cap was put off for three months.
Significant hiring gains are “unlikely ... when there remains so much political uncertainty,” said Paul Dales, an economist at Capital Economics.
First-time applications for unemployment benefits dropped 5,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 330,000, the govern-ment said Thursday. That’s the fewest since January 2008. The four-week average, a less vola-tile measure, also fell to nearly a five-year low.
Applications are a proxy for layoffs. They fluctuated between 360,000 and 390,000 for most of last year. At the same time, employers have added an aver-age of 153,000 jobs a month.
Weekly applications have now fallen below that level for two straight weeks. That suggests that job gains could accelerate.
Still, economists caution that the figures are particularly vola-tile in January. The government has difficulty adjusting its num-bers to account for layoffs after the holiday shopping season. Layoffs typically spike in the second week of January as retail-ers and other employers cut staff.
Then layoffs plummet in the fol-lowing weeks. The government tries to adjust for those seasonal trends. But the figures can still be volatile.
Tom Gimbel, CEO of the LaSalle Network, a staffing and recruiting firm in Chicago, says he’s seeing more demand for temporary and contract employ-ees. Demand for temp employ-ees is up 25 percent in the past three months.
“Companies are putting their foot in the water,” Gimbel said.
But they’re reluctant to make more permanent hires, partly because they don’t want to have to lay off workers if the economy falters, he said. Many businesses still have painful memories of undergoing layoffs during the recession.
“Companies do not want to do that again,” he said.
Some sectors are already pick-ing up. Manufacturers added the most jobs in nine months in December. Retailers posted three months of big gains last fall. Restaurants and hotels have been hiring at a healthy pace since the summer.
Health care companies added nearly 30,000 jobs a month last year — almost one-fifth the overall total.
Construction companies may step up hiring soon. They added 30,000 jobs in December, though some of the increase likely reflected temporary hiring
for repairs and rebuilding after Superstorm Sandy.
But the once-battered hous-ing sector is recovering, which bodes well for construction jobs. Home builders started work in 2012 on the most new homes in four years. And sales of previ-ously occupied homes reached their highest level in five years last year.
Patrick Newport, an economist
at IHS Global Insight, forecasts that construction companies will add 140,000 jobs this year, up from a meager 18,000 in 2012.
Other industries may also ben-efit. Home improvement retailer Lowe’s said Tuesday that it will hire 45,000 temporary workers for the busy spring season. It also said it would add 9,000 perma-nent part-time employees.
State and local governments,
though, are still shedding jobs. And job gains in the financial services and transportation and warehousing industries have been weak for months.
United Airlines said Thursday that it will eliminate 600 posi-tions from its work force of 84,000 people worldwide. The company lost $723 million last year.
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In this Jan. 15, 2013, photo, Racheel Weston, stood in line with a few hundred other job seekers, during the job fair that the Miami Marlins hosted at Marlins Park in Miami. The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell last week to the lowest level in five years, a positive sign that layoffs have fallen and hiring may pick up.
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DUBLIN (AP) — A license to drive drunk? Some small-town politicians think it’s just the tonic for rural Ireland.
Councilmen in Kerry, south-west Ireland, passed a motion this week asking the govern-ment to create a permit that would allow isolated farmers the ability to drink a few pints and then return home in their car, or on their tractor, with-out fear of being busted.
Its backers say the measure is needed to combat an epi-demic of boredom and depres-sion on farms ever since Ireland imposed tough new blood-alcohol limits on driv-ers in 2011.
But Justice Minister Alan Shatter shot down the proposal dur-ing a speech in parliament Thursday as “grossly irre-sponsible.”
“There is no question of this government, or indeed I don’t believe any future govern-ment, facilitat-ing individuals drinking in excess of the blood alcohol limits,” Shatter told lawmak-ers.
A generation ago, drunken driving was commonplace in Ireland and even the smallest villages or forlorn crossroads would feature a pub. But in this century the country has steadily improved road safety standards, introducing manda-tory driving tests, blood and breath tests and above all a
penalty-points system that removes licenses from dan-gerous drivers, particularly drunks.
The effort has slashed road-related deaths from more than 400 annually in the 1990s to just 162 last year, a modern low in this country of 4.6 mil-lion.
Kerry pub owners say their business has plummeted right along with that nationwide carnage — yet deny any connection between the two trends. They describe the often narrow, lightly traf-ficked roads near their busi-nesses as safe for people to navigate even after three pints
(57 ounces) of beer.
Danny Healy-Rae, who owns a pub and comes from Kerry’s most famous and flamboyant polit-ical family, says farmers should be allowed to drive tipsy on their tractors because they don’t go fast enough to kill anyone. He said those drink-ing two to three pints at a pub should be issued a permit allowing
them to drive home so long as they stay below 30 mph (50 kph).
He was one of five Kerry County Council members who voted for the motion Monday night. Three others voted against, seven abstained and 12 council members didn’t show up. Their decision has no legal standing because the national government, not
councils, sets policy on road safety.
Healy-Rae — who like his politician father is nationally famous for wearing a cap everywhere and talking in rapid-fire local dialect easy to parody but hard to understand — said pub-loving farmers “are living in isolated rural areas where there’s no public transport of any kind. They end up at home looking at the four walls, night in and night out, because they don’t want to take the risk of losing their license.”
He said the older generation provided the sociological fuel to Ireland’s tradition of pub-based music and “craic,” Irish slang for entertaining conver-sation.
“All the wisdom and all the wit and all the culture that they had, the music and the singing, that’s all being lost to the younger generation,” Healy-Rae said. “These older people might as well be liv-ing in Japan and Jerusalem, because the younger genera-tion don’t see them at all any-more.”
Yet even in Kerry, many have dismissed the idea as both dangerous to public safety and impossible to enforce. And alcohol-abuse campaigners say Healy-Rae’s logic is twisted, since alcohol is a depressant and hardly a cure for the blues.
“The link between alcohol use and suicide has been well established and drinking alco-hol will exacerbate, not allevi-ate, any mental health difficul-ties that a person may be strug-gling with, such as depression or anxiety,” said Conor Cullen, spokesman for a pressure group called Alcohol Action Ireland.
Connecticut panel begins task of responding to Newtown shooting
“There is no question of this government...facilitating indi-viduals drinking in excess of the blood alcohol limits.”
Alan ShatterIreland Justice
Minister
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A panel charged by Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy with recommending a broad range of state poli-cy changes after the deadly Newtown school shooting began its work Thursday, urged to focus on the issue of mental health and how it can intersect with gun violence.
The panel embarked on the task as the top prosecutor in the case, Danbury State’s Attorney Stephen Sedensky III, said he’s prevented from turning over information about the shooter’s mental health background.
But Malloy said even though the mental condition the late shooter, 20-year-old Adam Lanza, won’t be available to the commission, he believes the group can address ways to improve mental health care and reduce the stigma of seek-ing treatment, a key focus of the 16-member panel of experts.
“That incident is an isolated incident, but we know a lot about other incidences and mental health issues,” he said, adding how Vice President Joe Biden’s recommendations to the president also looked beyond the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. “We know a lot about mental health. We know that mental health treatment is stigmatized in the United States to a greater extent than it is in many other countries and we need to move in a direction where it is less stig-matized.”
Sedensky, meanwhile, said the case remains under investigation and could take until June before a report is
ready from the state police. He acknowledged, however, that no prosecution “appears on the horizon” for the crime that left 20 first grad-ers and six educators dead. Lanza also killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, at the Newtown home they shared and later committed suicide as police approached the school.
Sedensky said while Lanza’s mental health information is privileged, he expressed a willingness to work with the commission, which is charged with the wide-ranging task of reviewing school safety, mental health and gun violence pre-vention and providing the gov-ernor with recommendations for law and policy changes.
“Anything that would not encumber or somehow hin-der the investigation, we will try to provide you with,” Sedensky said. “At the same time, we may have limitations based on the confidentiality, but we will strive to get you
what you need.”Commission members on
Thursday received advice from two members of similar panels created after school shootings that occurred in Colorado and Virginia.
Former Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter, a member of the panel that reviewed the 1999 shoot-ing at Columbine High School, urged the Connecticut group to focus on the intersection of mental health and gun vio-lence. He said “incident after incident” since Columbine has shown there’s a relationship between the two issues.
“What we don’t want is a policy debate in this country, I think, or in Connecticut, that gets locked down around the polar opposites around gun control or the polar oppo-sites around mental health or mental health funding,” Ritter said. “Part of this has to be this broad discussion and a discussion about the intersec-tion.”
Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy speaks at a news conference Thursday, Jan. 3 at the Capital in Hartford, Conn., where he announced the creation of an advisory commission to review and recommend changes to state laws and policies on gun control, school safety measures and mental health services.
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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Focus on home and family warms the hearth. It’s good medicine ... take as much as you can, with tea and company. Renew your spirit to go back out into the world again.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Changes could seem abrupt to others. Why not think it over? Handle the basics, do the routines and then take a walk to get lost in thought. No need for decisions.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -- You have this tendency to say yes when people ask, and then the tasks pile up. Keep checking stuff off the list, and earn some time for yourself.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your self-discipline is impressive, but you don’t have to go it alone, you know. You have plenty of friends. Everyone wants to contribute. You would do the same.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- An arrogant mood could take over, if you allow it to. Grand statements from the past could echo back. Own up to them if that happens. Laugh at yourself.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Practical efforts are favored, with Mars retrograde in your sign. There could be changes. Consult with experts and partners. Rules simplify.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Concentrate on great service, and the orders flood in. The workload is getting intense. Consider the previously impossible, and listen to your partner.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- You don’t need “no more trouble.” The love of your family is available, as long as you’re willing to harvest it. Fixing a leaky faucet can save money.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- It’s easier to express your thoughts or to start a new writing project. Find an answer in meditation. Others depend on you. Share your peace of mind.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Figure out new ways to bring in income, without sacrificing your core values. Bring the money in before you send it back out. Be proud of your contribution.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 9 -- You’re the top dog, and you know it. You’re back in control, but don’t let it make you lazy. Continue growing. Change is good now. Play with it.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 5 -- There’s no time for procrastination now. Complete a project in private. Listen only to the positive voice in your head. Hot chocolate could be nice.
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Discovering Storrs CenterIconic coffeehouse arrives with Dog Lane Cafe
Places like “Central Perk” from Friends, “Lukes” from Gilmore Girls and “Restaurant” from Seinfeld play a central role in the routines of our lives. Everybody fantasizes about the cozy café or diner where the wait staff knows names and orders by sheer thoughtfulness and regularity. The Dog Lane Café, recently opened in the Storrs Center, promises to be a hub of student activity on campus with its comfortable accommodations and superb menu. With weekday hours between 7 a.m and 10 p.m and week-end hours between 7:00 a.m and 11 p.m, the “European-American” styled café is anticipated to draw students throughout the day to study, socialize or simply enjoy a bite to eat.
As far as the menu is concerned, there is something for every meal of the day. The breakfast menu fea-tures typical breakfast sandwiches, like bacon, egg and cheese, bagels, pastries and an impressive array of omelets and burritos, as well as a hearty breakfast plate consisting of two eggs, an English muffin, bacon and fruit. The rest of the food options satisfy both the lunch and dinner cat-egory, but the selection is far from limited. Soups and chilies are offered daily in the form of a bowl or a small-er cup. The salad selection is small, yet interesting, with the arugula and beet salad being the most unusual, but delicious combination. The artisan grilled cheese sandwich selection is where Dog Lane really adds an excit-ing and colorful culinary experience, with offerings from apple and carmel-ized onion to andouille and pepper jack with avocado.” The rest of the sandwich selection is standard fare, consisting of favorites such as rue-bens, paninis and wraps, all of which are delectably described on the menu. Burgers are also offered and the grass fed local burger is well worth the $12 for an antibiotic and preservative free meal. All of the sandwiches are served with kettle chips and a pickle, which makes a simply delicious sandwich
into a simply delightful meal. One of the most unexpected offer-
ings at Dog Lane is their selection of beer and wine. For students old enough to imbibe, the casual and relaxing setting of the café could be the perfect place to kick back on a Saturday night to catch up on read-ing or chat with friends over a glass of wine. Their menu boasts of their student budget friendly alcohol selec-tion saying, “We look for inexpensive wines with good character that will complement our offerings.”
For students who are underage, the café offers more than standard coffee and tea concoctions. While the variety
of tea and coffee is impressive, the café also serves a range of diverse smoothies. Some of the offerings include the mixed berry blast and the dirty monkey, a mix of banana, choco-late milk and peanut butter, as well as other options. The basil-watermelon smoothie was delightfully refreshing and if it wasn’t below freezing out-side, it would be the perfect beverage to grab before class or to take over to the library for a late night study session. Other interesting beverages include the ginger lemonade and the caramel hot chocolate.
Unlike Starbucks, the prices are tailored towards students at Dog Lane
Café. The sandwiches are reasonably priced given the portions you receive and the beverages are extremely well priced. A cup of coffee and the espres-so drinks are under $3, an affordable option for students on a small budget. That said, the prices do not reflect the quality of the café. The inside is clean and new, the staff is friendly and the food is delicious. It is highly anticipated that The Dog Lane Café will become a UConn classic and the location of many student gatherings in the future.
Moo-rific burgers, fries and shakes Healthier versions of Storrs Center favorites
Dog Lane Cafe offers a non-chain coffee house with the perfect atmosphere for students and community members to “Come. Sit. Stay.” It’s sure to be an iconic hang out similar to those in television shows like “Friends”and “Gilmore Girls”.
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By Kathleen McWilliamsStaff Writer
Whether they’re sick of the dining halls, or just need a break from ramen noodles, almost every UConn stu-dent goes out to eat at some point; and with the new Storrs Center, options for food right off the southeast corner of campus, hungry students have more options than ever. With New Year’s resolutions in full swing, however, and with bit-ter temperatures keeping stu-dents inactive, many may be asking themselves: “how do I stave off winter weight given the new dining options?”
If one is looking for a meal at Moe’s Southwest Grill, be careful to avoid exces-sive cheese and dressings. The “Close Talker” a grilled chicken salad in a taco bowl, contains over 1000 calories – nearly 300 of which lie in the chipotle ranch dressing alone. Instead, one can opt for the vegetarian “Personal Trainer”, which comes out to a little less than 700 calo-ries without dressing. Second-semester Business major Mike Rosenthal commonly orders a Moe’s chicken burrito when UConn dining hall food won’t do, which is second only to fish burritos in its protein-to-fat ratio. However, any customer to a restaurant that offers “free chips and salsa with every order, house rules” should be prepared to consume 360 calories on the free side alone.
Though sacrilegious for some, forgoing bacon, cheese and other burger extras is one of the easiest ways to eat
healthier at Mooyah burger. Nick Greene, an eighth-semes-ter student wrapping up his degree in Human Development and Family Studies, says that he doesn’t always eat fast food, but after hearing rave reviews about the new burger joint in class the other day, he ordered a standard (i.e. without bacon) “Mooyah Burger” and will “definitely come back.” Other suggestions for a lighter Mooyah experience include skipping the milkshakes, most over 600 calories for twelve ounces and going for the sweet potato fries.
The Dog Lane Café is the only non-chain addition to the Storrs Center line of res-taurants, which unfortunately means that they lack corpo-rate resources to compile a nutritional breakdown of their menu. This being said, much of Dog Lane’s options are relatively healthy. Kylie Hill, a fourth-semester psychology and communication disorders student has been to the Café multiple times for the atmo-sphere. It’s not a chain she said, describing the restaurant as “relaxing and inviting.” Because it’s locally based and sourced, the impression for Hill and friend Hannah Rudd has been one of a healthy alternative to fast food. Nearly every one of the sandwiches can drop a few calories if the dressing, mayo or cream cheese is left out. Furthermore, the house soups and chili – options differ daily – are fill-ing yet healthy, and the turkey burger is a leaner alternative to traditional beef hamburgers.
By Cole von RichthofenCampus Correspondent
Economic environment
detrimental to green goals
Nearly all of the serious envi-ronmental problems facing the world today are a direct result of the Industrial Revolution. Pollution of the water, soil and atmosphere, landfills overflow-ing with toxic materials, com-munities fragmented by high-ways and urban sprawl and the many threats of climate change can ultimately by traced back to businesses and the way they have been allowed to operate over the past 150 years.
These environmental con-cerns are social problems as well. Often, the poorest peo-ple in a community are the ones cheated out of a clean environment and general well-being. Landfills, sewage treat-ment plants and garbage incin-erators are often located in poor urban districts, and poor areas are often left without adequate transportation services, isolat-ing residents from job opportu-nities and community cultural life. In fact, it is hard to think of any issue that is unaffected by the economy – whether you are personally concerned about cur-ing cancer, the prison system, children’s education or how we get our food, the issues that you care most deeply about are dependent upon wealth and how it changes hands.
In short, our economy cur-rently operates in a way that generates an unacceptable amount of human suffering and environmental damage. The answer for some has been to shirk the economy altogether, to go “off the grid,” and produce to meet all of their own needs through farming and home-steading skills.
This is an admirable feat. However, it is not the answer for all of us. Buying and selling goods and services has been a central part of human life for thousands of years, and there is nothing inherently wrong with it. Industry does not need to be an evil; it can actually be a very powerful and effec-tive means for creating posi-tive social change. And while the modern economy and its millions of interactions, con-nections and networks may seem like an overwhelming and firmly established entity, it is going to need to change in order to build a better world. Restructuring the economy so that it is in the interest of businesses to promote human well-being and environmental health is an absolutely essen-tial step for human progress. If it is done, it will lead to a future with much diminished suffering and greater amounts of happiness for everyone, if we do not do it, all of the issues that everyone is most concerned about will almost certainly get worse.
Building a “green economy” is going to take a lot of courage, strategy, and dedication. It will be no small effort to change the way that modern industry operates. Today, the men and women at the top of big busi-ness are the most powerful and influential people in the world – more powerful than any govern-ment leader. I, for one, believe that we can do it, because we all deserve an economy that pro-motes our individual and collec-tive well-being. Throughout this semester, the articles featured in this column will focus on real and practical steps that we can take as a society to transition to a green economy.
Mooyah Burgers, Fries and Shakes offers a fresh and fast answer to burger cuisine. The constant lack of seating in the restaurant is a testiment to the community’s interest one of the newest Storrs Center additions.
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Best Burger Ever: Now that may be a wee bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. Mooyah Burger, which recently opened in the developing Storrs Center shopping district, makes a burger which is right on par with what one might expect from a sand-wich ordered at an elegant hotel restaurant.
Mooyah Burger is a Texas-based chain of rapidly growing fresh, made to order food and fast-service restaurants, similar to Moe’s Southwest Grill and Five Guys Burgers and Fries. Last year, a location was opened near UConn’s Greater Hartford Campus in West Hartford, and it is quite exciting to see a location open in Storrs.
Unfortunately, unlike the West Hartford location, available seating space was in short supply during my lunch rush visit and many other customers were left without a place to sit. Despite this drawback, make no mistake Mooyah’s grub is can’t miss fare.
Many comparisons can be drawn between Five Guys and Mooyah Burger. Both have a limited menu of burgers, hot dogs, and fries, but Mooyah expands upon its competitor greatly. Mooyah offers both tur-key and veggie burgers in addition to the customary beef patties, as well the ability to take the sandwich with either a white or wheat bun or wrapped in let-tuce (known as an iceburger). In addition, Mooyah offers both regular and sweet potato fries, as well as milk shakes.
The fries are excellent, all are fresh cut “boardwalk
style” (a la Five Guys), seasoned with both salt and house seasoning, and served in generous portions.
On the beverage side of things, Mooyah offers great milkshakes, ranging from typical flavors such as vanilla to the ever so slightly more exotic flavors such as mint chocolate chip.
The restaurant serves Coca-Cola products (as well as Dr. Pepper), via a fantastic “Coke Freestyle” soda fountain which offers over 100 unique soda and fla-vored beverage flavors.
Of course, the burgers are the real star of the res-taurant. Mooyah uses only the freshest burger ingre-dients possible, beginning with the fact that all buns are baked fresh in the restaurant daily. All sandwich veggies from the pickles to the lettuce are incredibly fresh and crisp. The excellent burgers themselves are served rather thick and incredibly juicy. And while a large variety of toppings are offered at no extra charge, some do merit the extra price. For those willing to pay to add bacon to their sandwiches, I can honestly say I have never had bacon served thicker, crispier or more generously on a burger than at Mooyah.
Tips for diners: make sure to remember that a regular Mooyah Burger sandwich contains two beef patties and, considering their size, rookies are advised to order the one patty Little Moo burger.
Despite the seating issue, all in all you can’t find a burger and fries done better than at Mooyah Burger. Soon to be a star of Storrs Center, Mooyah Burger is a can’t miss burger joint.
By Alex SferrazzaCampus Correspondent
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Are Hollywood awards by gender out of touch?LOS ANGELES (AP) — Do Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and
Helen Mirren really need a category just for women — a singular kind of affirmative action — to snare one of Hollywood’s favorite accessories, an Oscar, Emmy or Screen Actors Guild trophy?
In a society tilting steadily toward gender neutrality, the separate-but-equal awards that divide actors into one camp and actresses into another have the whiff of a moldy anachronism.
True, the Association for Women in Science gives honors to encourage female success in male-dominated fields. But to mark enduring achievements, would its members ever yearn for a Women’s Nobel Prize in physics?
In contests of intellect or artistry, should gender ever matter?“It’s not like it’s upper body strength,” Gloria Steinem dryly
observed of the requirements of acting.The separate labeling of male and female performers is losing
favor in the industry. Actresses often swat the distinction away by calling themselves “actors,” standing shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts.
Usherettes are long gone from movie theater lobbies, after all. And defense officials said Wednesday the Pentagon will be lifting its ban on women in combat.
SAG, which holds its awards ceremony Sunday, edged toward neutrality with its trophy dubbed the Actor, although the guild gives separate honors to best performance by a male actor and by a female actor.
That cracks the door open, but only slightly. Fling it wide so that Daniel Day-Lewis’ majestic performance in “Lincoln” and Jessica Chastain’s steely turn in “Zero Dark Thirty” vie for the grand prize!
“That’s a great idea,” said Mark Andrews, writer-director of the animated film “Brave.” ‘’At the end of the day, we’re all storytell-ers, and I don’t think when we’re defining a character that the gen-der is the major defining factor.”
In all other awards-eligible fields, including directing, writing or
cinematography, everyone is “going for it,” male and female alike, Andrews said.
That may be progress in theory for performers but not in practice, according to Sally Field, a SAG and Oscar best supporting actress nominee for “Lincoln.”
“If you do that you won’t see any actresses up there (on stage) at all,” she said. “The percentage of roles is so weighted toward actors. That’s the way it’s always been.”
Exactly, concurred Naomi Watts, “The Impossible” best actress SAG and Academy Award nominee.
“There’s so much competition in life and I do think we are differ-ent,” she said. “Yes, we should be able to have the same things as much as possible ... (but) life’s a battle already and there’s so many great roles written for men. Women are definitely at a disadvantage when it comes to volume.”
Rapper Nicki Minaj, who’s considering launching an acting career, has a pragmatic take on the issue.
“You see all those divas in the audience looking so pretty, and they all want to beat each other out,” she said. “It’s entertainment.”
Hathaway, in the running for SAG and Oscar supporting actress honors for “Les Miserables,” considers the gender split “an awe-some question worthy of an awesome debate.”
“Can I conceive of a world where performance becomes a gen-derless concept? Absolutely. Do I think it’s going to happen anytime soon? No,” she said.
As Field pointed out, the bedrock challenge is that women get fewer substantive roles than men. Ironically, that’s obscured by the artificial parity on stage each year at awards shows. Five women compete, five men compete, two winners are crowned.
So what’s the problem? A quick numbers check makes it clear: Females comprised about a third of the characters in the 100 top-grossing films in 2011, according to the Center for the Study of Women in Television and Film at San Diego State University.
Anne Hathaway poses with the award for best performance by an actress in a supporting role in a motion picture in “Les Miserables” at the 70th Annual Golden Globe Awards.. Actors and actresses compete separately at awards shows, a tradition some in the industry consider vital for women but others question.
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Keep both your stomach and wallet full at Storrs CenterStorrs Center: nine new places to grab some-
thing to eat, from burritos and sandwiches to cookies and candy. It is a nice addition to the UConn area, sure, but eating out can be expen-sive. For those fond of the snacks and meals now available for purchase without unlimited wallets, some of these tips to save money at Storrs Center might help out.
First off, do not write off the tablets available in some storefronts, including Moe’s Southwest Grill and Mooyah Burgers and Fries. By enter-ing a phone number into their system, not only are free burgers or meals attainable through their reward system (ten visits at either store nets you a free entrée, as long as you purchase
a side and drink), but they will frequently text special coupons; for instance, a Mooyah text on Jan. 22 offered a free turkey burger with purchase of a drink.
UConn basketball games, for both men and women, are another good place to get a deal. Not only can coupons, such as a buy-one get-one for Moe’s, be found in the free booklets available at games, but other giveaways are common. For instance, the calendars given away at recent games include 24 Subway cou-pons, two for each month.
Another smart tip: watch portions. It’s way too easy to load up on too much food at some places, so being careful with orders can end up saving a bunch of cash by the end of the semester.
Moe’s offers mini burritos on their menu, for
instance, which are a buck cheaper than the nor-mal ones and are somewhat healthier (if only by having less calories) than their big brothers.
A regular order of a Mooyah burger comes with two patties; asking for a single burger will knock $1.25 off an order. And instead of a full pizza, two slices and a drink will only cost $4 from Husky Pizza.
Froyoworld and Sweet Emotions weigh orders by the ounce; avoiding that extra scoop of candy or that extra dollop of yogurt or top-pings can keep a buck or two off the final price, which will add up over time.
But there’s no denying the easiest ways to save money will be on stores’ menus or social media pages. 7-Eleven, the center’s new conve-nience store, offers small items like hot dogs, as well as some ridiculous yet delicious novel-
ties (for instance, a stick of buffalo chicken, complete with cheese inside), all of which are decently priced (under $2 in most cases) for those needing a snack. A small cup of coffee, for those needing just a small kick, can be purchased for under $2 at Dog Lane Café or 7-Eleven.
And, of course, Subway’s five-dollar foot-longs, though there are only about half-a-dozen options at any time, have helped the company become one of the biggest restaurant chains in the country.
Finally, some stores including Insomnia Cookies and Sweet Emotions put deals, cou-pons or sales on their Facebook pages; giving them a “Like” might pay off.
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Going undercover at Moe’s Positive impact for ‘Buck, Ship’ residents
On Jan. 18, 2013 CBS aired a new episode of “Undercover Boss” centered on Paul Damico, President of Moe’s Southwest Grill.
The reality show “Undercover Boss” initially appeared in Britain during 2009, when it was created by Studio Lambert, an independent production com-pany based in London. In 2010 the show arrived in the United States with the airing of its first episode on CBS on Feb. 10. The premise of the show involves a person in a high management position in a company going undercover to experience first-hand the circumstances of the company’s front line workers. Managers go undercover by radically altering their appear-ance, and giving a false reason to employees for why they have a camera crew following them. At the end of the show manag-ers reveal their identity to the employees they interacted with while filming, and generally set
the employees straight or offer them praise for a job well done.
Damico took over as the President of Moe’s in 2007 to oversee the continued growth of the company. Growing up, Damico worked in the restau-rant industry eventually putting himself through culinary school, and he has been in the industry ever since.
When Damico was younger one of his siblings came down with Hepatitis and was in need of a liver transplant as a result. A liver was matched to Damico’s sibling, but it would only last for two hours despite the fact Damico’s family lived six hours away from the hos-pital. Damico’s father’s boss sent the company plane to pick up Damico’s sibling, which got him to the hospital in time and saved his life. Damico wanted to repay this act of kindness, which he did at the end of the “Undercover Boss” episode.
Damico went undercover as a food service employee named Mark Richards at Moe’s, tell-
ing coworkers that he was a failed restaurant owner who was trying to get back into the business. His cover story was that he was competing on a reality show in an attempt to win his own restaurant, which explained the camera crew fol-lowing him around on the job. The fake reality TV show host interviewed Damico’s cowork-ers in order to get input on his performance and whether or not he deserved to win. In adopting his disguise Damico went so far as to get fake tattoos.
Interestingly the Moe’s locat-ed in Storrs differs from the way Moe’s was portrayed on “Undercover Boss” in several ways. For instance the Moe’s in Storrs does not always greet cus-tomers with a hearty “Welcome to Moe’s!” each time they walk in like the Moe’s locations on the show did. One thing that can be said of the Moe’s in Storrs though, is that they always seem to have a line.
Life has radically changed in the Buckley-Shippee area over the past several months thanks to the long awaited opening of the Storrs Center.
The Storrs Center is the new downtown area of the Town of Mansfield, and is located right next to Buckley Residence Hall. The Center features various restaurants and shops for UConn stu-dents to enjoy such as the recently opened Dog Lane Café and Froyo World. More locations are set to open in the Center over the coming months.
One of the big hits in Storrs Center for stu-dents living in the Buckley-Shippee area has been Insomnia Cookies, which offers a wide array of sugary treats such as cookies and brown-ies. Insomnia allows students in Buckley and Shippee, referred to as the Buck and Ship respec-tively by residents, to get the sugar rush they need to stay up late studying. Insomnia Cookies was founded by students at the University of Pennsylvania who noticed that college students could benefit from a late night sugar rush to help them study. Insomnia offers various varieties of cookies such as chocolate chunk and snicker doodle. Thankfully for students outside walking
distance, it delivers. One of the more recent additions to the Center,
The Dog Lane Café allows UConn students to get a caffeine fix thanks to its self serve-coffee bar. The Café also offers a variety of food and drink for patrons to enjoy.
One of the biggest fans of the Storrs Center is 2nd semester undecided major David Luchs, a resident of Buckley. He said the stores that have opened in the Storrs Center have had a positive impact in his life. Specifically he said by “mak-ing it easier to get food, especially late at night and giving me and my friends something to do that doesn’t involve a fifteen minute walk in the freezing cold.” Luch’s favorite place in Storrs Center is Husky Pizza because of the deal Husky Pizza offers at $4 for a small soda and two pizza slices.
When asked about 7-Eleven, Luchs said its discovery was one of the “seminal moments” of his college experience, because you can buy a bag of doughnuts for $2.50. Luchs said of his overall experience with the Storrs Center, “It has certainly made my waist line richer, at the expense of my wallet.”
By Michael McGuiganCampus Correspondent
Students that live on the South-east corner of campus appreciate the new stores and restaurants in Storrs Center because they offer a closer destination, especially for late night food.
RACHEL WEISS/The Daily CampusBy Michael McGuiganCampus Correspondent
Moe’s Southwest Girll was recently featured on CBS’s “Undercover Boss” where upper management masquerades as an entry level employee in their corporation to assess company policies.
RACHEL WEISS/The Daily Campus
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Q&A: fun. lead singer on Grammy nods
NEW YORK (AP) — Fun. is learning to have fun — with less alcohol and more sleep.
Lead singer Nate Ruess says the band’s successful year has taught him “that I need to take better care of myself.”
“Really, that’s been the big thing,” Ruess said in a phone inter-view from Detroit last week. “(The year) really put us through the ringer as far as everything is concerned, and we didn’t get a lot of sleep, so it was pretty rough. But what was cool is that I quit smoking and I cut back on drinking and I just made sleep a prior-ity — and I think that’s what all of us did.”
The trio, which includes guitarist Jack Antonoff and key-boardist Andrew Dost, has been on a wild ride since its dark pop-rock sophomore album, “Some Nights,” was released last February.
They performed at an inaugural ball for President Barack Obama, and had one of last year’s biggest anthems with the six-time plati-num No. 1 hit, “We Are Young.” The group’s second single and title track is a multiplatinum radio smash, and their album is near platinum status with 958,675 units sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. (One million units sold means platinum status.)
Fun. is nominated for six awards, including best album, song and record of the year, and best new artist, at this year’s Grammys, to air live on CBS from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 10.
Ruess, 30, talks about the multiple nominations, collaborating with other pop stars and the band’s current tour, which wraps up Feb. 16 in Nashville, Tenn.
AP: The band is back on the road after a month off. How does it feel?
Ruess: Everybody got in and everybody looked healthy and everybody just looked happy and so excited to be with each other, and I think that’s because we learned to take care of ourselves.
AP: Have you been working on new music?Ruess: I had just written (a song), and I wasn’t sure what I was
going to do with it. And (“Some Nights” producer Jeff Bhasker) was like, “That absolutely has to be on the next fun. album.” So,
that was really cool. And then we were with some friends and he like made me play it because he was like so proud of the song.
AP: How does it feel to be nominated in all of the top categories at the Grammys?
Ruess: It was just crazy. Someone from the Grammys right before they announced the first award was like, “Buckle your seatbelt.”
AP: How did you celebrate?Ruess: I’m not a celebratory kind of guy, but I will say that I
started drinking champagne. It’s my alcoholic beverage of choice, but perhaps then that makes every moment a celebration.
AP: You’re one of five songwriters listed on Ke$ha’s current hit single, “Die Young.” How did the collaboration come about?
Ruess: I just wrote the hook and I wrote it for something else, and then a couple of producers got a hold of it and worked on the rest with her. I was not involved in anything other than the (hook). Somewhere around the world there’s me singing that chorus.
AP: Do you want to do more of that?Ruess: I don’t do it that often. Jeff and I did the Pink song (“Just
Give Me a Reason”) and I think we have a couple other things on the horizon, but it’s not something that I, I don’t know. It takes definitely a certain artist for me to want to do it. I don’t write songs that often and for “Some Nights,” I wrote them songs like a month before we went into the studio, and a lot of them were fueled by meeting Jeff and getting really inspired. And for me, I don’t write that often, and when I do, I like to keep it for fun.
AP: How’s the tour going?Ruess: I write the set list every night before we go onstage. I
like to change it as much as possible. I spent my month off figur-ing out what new songs we’re going to play. We’re going to be adding a cover, adding songs off of “Some Nights” that we never really played before and expanding the set list. I’ve been studying Coldplay and U2, and how those bands do their set lists and how they choose songs and their light shows and everything like that. I got really heavy into all of that stuff.
The band fun., from left, Jack Antonoff, Andrew Dost and Nate Ruess pose for a photo backstage at the Grammy Nominations Concert Live! at Bridgestone Arena, in Nashville, Tenn. The band is up for six Grammy Awards, including the top four categories: album, song and record of the year, and best new artist.
AP
Netflix shuffles the TV deck with ‘House of Cards’
NEW YORK (AP) — In Netflix’s bid for a flagship original drama of its own — a “Sopranos” to its HBO — the subscription streaming service is presenting a high-class adapta-tion of a British political thriller offered up all at once, with its first season immediately ready for TV-viewing gluttony.
The show, “House of Cards,” is a bold attempt to remake the tele-vision landscape with the kind of prestige project cable channels like HBO, AMC and Showtime have used to define themselves. But “House of Cards,” produced by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey, won’t be on the dial of that refuge of quality dramas — cable television — but streamed online to laptops and beamed directly to flat-screens through set-top boxes and Internet-enabled devices.
“It’s sort of like we’re the new television series that isn’t on television,” says Spacey.
On Feb. 1, all 13 hours of “House of Cards” will premiere on Netflix, a potentially land-mark event that could herald the transition of television away from pricey cable bundles and toward the Internet — a pro-cess well under way at YouTube, Hulu, Yahoo and others, but not yet tested to the degree of “House of Cards.”
The show is no low-budget Web series, but an HBO-style production for which Netflix reportedly paid in the neighbor-hood of $100 million for two seasons.
“When we got into original programming, I wanted it to be loud and deliberate,” says Ted Sarandos, head of content at Netflix, who only will say the cost was in the “high end” for a TV show. “I wanted consum-ers to know that we were doing it and I wanted the industry to know that we were doing it so we could attract more interesting projects. Doing it in some half way, some small thing, it wasn’t going to get us there.”
The revered British original aired in three seasons from 1990 to 1996 and was adapted from the books by Michael Dobbs, a notable politician and adviser to Margaret Thatcher. It starred Ian Richardson as a scheming, manipulating politician who shared his power-hungry strate-gies directly into the camera. With a darkly comic antihero as protagonist, it was a forerunner to characters like Walter White of “Breaking Bad” and Dexter Morgan of “Dexter.”
Independent studio Media Rights Capital, a producer of films like “Ted” and “Babel,” purchased the rights to “House of Cards” and paired Fincher with the project, along with Beau Willimon, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of another political drama, “The Ides of March.”
When MRC approached differ-ent networks (HBO, Showtime and others), it reached out to Netflix about adding the show to its digital library following a run on TV. But Netflix wanted “House of Cards” as a statement show to launch a crop of original programming.
Sarandos says their wealth of data on user viewing habits proved there’s a large audience for Fincher, Spacey and political thrillers. As licensing rights have gotten pricier and harder to land, and the streaming business has grown more competitive, Netflix has focused on adding exclusive programming to entice viewers.
“When you look at ‘The Sopranos’ or ‘Sex and the City’ on HBO, or ‘Mad Men’ on AMC or ‘The Shield’ on FX or ‘Weeds’ on Showtime, if you have the opportunity to earn your way into becoming that sort of anchor flagship show that defines a net-work, it’s a very special thing,” says Modi Wiczyk, co-CEO of MRC. “I’m sure going in, all of those folks that produced all of those shows said, ‘This is not an incumbent. What’s it going to look like?’”
When George Bernard Shaw wrote in 1891 that, “the liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but
that he cannot believe anyone else,” was he revealing an uncharacteristic naïveté about belief and deception? After all, the daily life and basic functioning of human society
requires that every one of its members be skilled liars and subtle deceivers. We treat the lie, the conscious and cal-culated untruth and bearing of false witness against the universe, as the great moral trans-
gression of our exis-tence, but nowhere is it a criminal act outside of the anti-
septic space of the governmental tribunal. The problem remains that it would be as impossible to enforce a law that banned the lie as it would to enforce one that prohibited people from blinking. We all lie with aban-don, with ease and without remorse.
The prospect of being compelled always to be truthful, reminiscent as it is of tales of science-fiction dystopias, is so horrifying that we could never desire it even if it does represent moral perfection. When we ask the question of others, “how are you?” we do not expect to receive, and are rarely told, the truth. Neither do we volunteer an honest answer when we are asked the same question in turn. That is because we all experience
the world in deeply personal and emotional terms and struggle to convey those terms intelligibly to others. The opportunity to truly open one’s heart and mind to the inspection of someone else is one from which we usu-ally shrink from fear – the potential for being hurt, ridiculed or misunderstood is too great. Lying is thus a defensive maneuver, a cloak-ing device for our identities and insecurities.
We’ve become accustomed to the lie and strive to detect it wherever we can for our own benefit, but we remain remarkably willing to trust and to believe. What would become of us if it were otherwise – a Hobbesian world of ruthless deceit and malice? Just as we require for our survival the defensive stance provided us by the lie, so too do we need the spiritual succor of trust. Perhaps then, Shaw was wrong. The liar’s punishment is that he cannot free himself from belief. He – we – must look outwards even more desperately in hope of forthright and unashamed spiritual communion with others, but all the while knowing all too well that his lies have made that impossible.
Thus having witnessed the downfall of professional cyclist Lance Armstrong this past week, I found myself unable to join the chorus of indignation and outrage sur-rounding his eventual admission to having taken performance-enhancing drugs over the course of his hugely successful athletic career. Perhaps I should have felt enraged. I had, after all, selected Armstrong as the subject for a 5th-grade essay of mine on the subject of who I admired, believing him at the time to be the paragon of human heroism and utterly beyond reproach in his personal and athletic exploits. But somehow I could
not muster the acute sense of betrayal that the situation demanded of me. I felt that I could only pity him and wonder absently at the moral crisis that must have ravaged his soul for so long.
What was notable about Armstrong’s fall from grace? Certainly it was not his presence for well over a decade in the public eye, the high financial stakes involved by his decep-tion or the nobility of his charitable endeav-ors. It was not even Armstrong’s unremitting vehemence in lashing out at his detractors with lawsuits and vitriol. It was, instead, our willingness, by the millions, to believe him. We wanted, even needed, to confide in the potential for miraculous resurrection after a catastrophic illness, for an athlete to remain “clean” amidst the thoroughly soiled sport of professional cycling and to attain unrivaled, unaided dominance in competition – shame on us, not him.
It turns out Shaw was right, but in an unex-pectedly subtle way. The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, nor in the least that he cannot believe anyone else’s lies, but that he cannot believe others’ belief in his own lies. But those others, too, cannot believe that their belief in his lies can in turn be believed. Thus the web of deceit spun by Armstrong may have been excep-tionally intricate and tangled, but we should not be fooled by the comparative size of our own into believing that we, unlike him, are not spiders of the same genus and species.
Weekly Columnist Chris Kempf is a 6th-semester polit ical science major. He can be reached at [email protected].
Under the current vot-ing system, many people tend to vote for the “lesser evil”
of the Democrat and Republican rather than vote third party and risk the “greater evil” being elected. Although I disagree with that idea, there is an easier solu-tion than changing the mindset – we can change the voting system
instead.I n s t a n t
runoff vot-ing, a form of ranked choice vot-
ing, is a significant improvement to the current “first-past-the-post” system, where whichever candidate gets the most votes wins, regardless of how many votes he receives.
This system is already used by the cities of San Francisco and Oakland. Under instant runoff voting, voters rank all the candi-dates on the ballot in order of pref-erence, and if nobody receives more than half of the first place votes, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated from the ballot and their first place votes are distributed to the voters’ second choices. This will con-tinue for however many rounds it takes for someone to get more
than half
of the votes, but this process hap-pens instantaneously once the votes have been recorded, so it takes no more time to determine the winner than it does under the current system.
As an example, suppose there are five candidates running in a fictitious race – the two major party candidates, the Libertarian, a candidate from the Anti-Prohibition Party (a New York party with libertarian views) and the American Nazi Party can-didate. Almost everyone would have the Nazi Party as their last choice, while a few neo-Nazis would have him as their first. The Nazi would have the few-est first place votes. If none of the other four received a major-ity, then he would be eliminated and the voters who had him as their first choice would instead have their votes cast for their second choice. Suppose the Anti-Prohibition candidate is now in last, and nobody has a majority. Most of that candidate’s support-ers would probably vote for the Libertarian as a second choice, so most of their votes would be redistributed there. If nobody had a majority yet, the process would repeat until somebody did.
My choice of parties in that example was deliberate. Under the present system, the
Libertarian and Anti-Prohibition candidates would split the lib-ertarian vote, hurting both their totals. This is what happened when they both ran candidates for Governor of New York in 2010. Under instant-runoff, vot-ers would be able to select one party as a first choice and the other as a second choice. This way, the candidates will not take votes away from each other and swing the election to someone else. Instead, once one of them is eliminated, the other will get most of their votes.
Another main benefit of this system is that people would not have to decide whether or not to vote for the “lesser evil.” Most supporters of the Libertarian and Constitution Parties would rather have a Republican than a Democrat, while supporters of left-wing parties like the Green Party would pick the Democrat over the Republican if they had to. However, they would all rath-er see their own party’s candidate win.
Under the present system, they have to make a choice: vote for the “lesser evil” of the two major parties or vote for their own party and risk the “greater evil” winning. Under instant runoff voting, they could do both. They could put their own party’s can-
didate as their first choice, and further down the list, rank the “lesser evil” above the “greater evil” so that if it became neces-sary, they would vote for that candidate.
In addition to San Francisco, Oakland, and some smaller cit-ies, instant runoff is used by sev-eral private organizations. For instance, the Academy Award for Best Picture is selected under this system. After expanding the award to ten nominees in 2009, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided that ranked choice would be the best way to express the members’ judgment. Similarly, in an elec-tion with many third-party candi-dates in addition to the Democrat and Republican, ranked choice voting is the best system to accu-rately reflect the collective opin-ion of the electorate.
It is time for America to imple-ment instant runoff voting in local, state, and even national elections. This would create a fairer election system.
Editorial Board Elizabeth Crowley, Editor-in-ChiefTyler McCarthy, Commentary Editor
Jesse Rifkin, Associate Commentary EditorChris Kempf, Weekly Columnist
John Nitowski, Weekly ColumnistSam Tracy, Weekly Columnist
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Armstrong deserves the liar’s punishment
Friday, January 25, 2013
Funding needed to protect from nuclear fallout
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“I think we should all want to be Hufflepuffs.” -J.K. Rowling
“I need more snowfall, that’s my f**king problem.” -A$AP Hickey
Where’s all that climate change to make things warm-er? I’d like to believe there’s a short-term benefit to all the damage we’re doing to the earth.
Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate. Ack!
The talking UConn buses kind of sound like Rhenna.
Please don’t discontinue your Orient Apple flavor, Absolut. Love, a 21-year-old.
Mooyah butt out of the way, I’m trying to eat here.
I put cream in my coffee because coffee was running low. How fattening!
I can’t stop doting on Doty, hoping one day I can be dating on Doty.
Everybody huddle for warmth!
UConn needs a rival or something.
Radiation is both a blessing and a curse of mod-ern science. It can provide life-saving treat-ments like chemotherapy and is vital to count-less modern instruments (smoke detectors for
example). On the other hand, it’s also the source of the damage caused by nuclear weapons and made the disasters at Chernobyl and Fukushima more dangerous than they should have been.
That being said, radiation is nothing new. It exists natu-rally (technically everywhere) but is one of the greatest dangers of space flight. Astronauts are protected from the worst of it by Earth’s magnetic field, but strong bursts of radiation can pierce the field and be felt on Earth. Too much of it will disturb life on earth, perhaps even destroy-ing it.
Enter a mysterious fossil record from the eighth cen-tury. Scientists found a surge of carbon-14 in the rings of ancient cedar trees. Scientists soon put away the obvious candidates for increased radiation (supernovas are the usual suspects) and were stumped for a while. The new theory posits that two black holes collided, merged and sent out a strong yet brief burst of gamma radiation, caus-ing an extra layer of carbon-14 on the fossil record, and a mysterious line in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle recording the appearance of a “red crucifix” seen in the skies after sunset.
Why is this important? Well scientists have estimated that whatever caused the radiation surge had to be at least three thousand light-years away. Otherwise the radiation would have killed us all. The years 774-775 were a time of primeval technologies and agrarian non-industrial econo-mies. If there were to be another black-hole collision at the non-lethal distance of 3,000 light-years, the current world economy based on electricity, wireless connection, computerized air travel and an electronic infrastructure would face intense damage, if not total collapse.
But scientists are positive that we, as a species, can prepare for these sorts of events. While excuses for sci-ence funding are often referenced as “money-spending endeavors without profitable benefits,” the continued sur-vival of the human race, and life-as-we-know-it might be profitable. It becomes an effort of minimal comfort now, for an unsecure future, as opposed to small sacrifices, for a secure future. Science has produced so many benefits, but it’s most important use is to protect us from foreseeable harm. Here’s to science funding.
By Gregory KochStaff Columnist
Instant runoff system would benefit American system
By Chris KempfWeekly Columnist
Quick
W it“Where did We go Wrong? the republicans had everything going for them – a terrible economy, an unpopular incumbent, and a positive message for the american voter: ‘less than half of you
are parasites.’” –stephen colbert
It’s almost noon when Dr. Ali Shakibai, receives a disturbing phone call. His broth-
er-in-law, who recently had abdominal surgery, has
developed sepsis, a complica-tion that o c c u r s post oper-
atively. Sepsis is an infec-tion, and in most cases, is easily treatable with certain anti-biotics that are readily available, but if left untreat-ed this infection can be fatal. However, his brother in law lives in Iran.
Iran, due to its nuclear agenda, has been the tar-get of a non-stop barrage of coercions, ranging from removing its recognition to war. America, with inter-national support has placed economic sanctions against Iran. The sanctions imposed restrictions on Iranian banks and trade, resulting in dra-matic inflation and a lack of vital resources. A short-age in necessities including medicine has resulted in a vivid decrease in the quality of life for Iranians.
The ideology behind sanc-tions is to create fewer good choices, which in turn lower investments deteriorating the market. This results in
citizens utilizing their power to push their government to subside with the belligerent nation. However, in Iran’s government there is a large disconnect between the citi-zens and the government.
Dr. Jamshid Marvasti, an Iranian-American psy-chiatrist, explained the psychological impact these sanctions have on Iranians, “Iranians are traveling hundreds of miles to search for the proper medicine in cities for their loved ones, only to find the drug depleted or unafford-able.” Mothers are slowly losing their children, due to particularly painful diseas-es that are easily treatable. The idea that the person you love the most can be cured but is not due to a lack of availability, instills the feeling of helplessness and anger in many people, stat-ed Marvasti. He affirmed that many would rather “go to war than suffer from the painful and psychological trauma Iranians are facing today.”
Marvasti continued to explain that there are short-ages to treatments for sev-eral heart conditions, sco-liosis, cancer and much more. Some cardiologists are even forced to put two short stents in a patient’s
arteries due to a lack of available longer stents, acknowledged Shakibai.
These shortages due to sanctions are immoral and unethical, and lack of prop-er medical care due to sanc-
tions is rampant and tragic consequences are innumer-able.
America is targeting the weakest and the most vul-nerable, innocent and sick civilians, many if not all
of which have very little to do with the nuclear agen-da. And even then Iranians insist that their nuclear program is only for energy use.
Ironically, the United States boasts of its human rights record and vows to protect these rights. “A cen-tral goal of U.S. foreign policy has been the promo-tion of respect for human rights,” the Department of State declared. However, to promise to promote human rights, and to be the cause of human rights viola-tions in another country is hypocritical, in the eyes of many.
And according to UN sec-retary general Ban Ki Moon, these “economic sanctions are putting millions of lives at risk.”
What is even more upset-ting is the lack of aware-ness, especially in “west-ern” media, and the lack of publicity this issue is receiving. Many people know very little about the difficulties Iranians are cur-rently facing, and the media does very little to acknowl-edge this issue. Iran, like Pakistan, China and Israel, have every right to nuclear energy, and no one has the privilege to prevent these rights.
“Iran has not attacked or invaded any country for the past 80 years. We are not looking for war; we just want energy ” Marvasti said.
America, on the other hand, has invaded more than 15 countries in the past 30 years, and has both nuclear warheads and energy.
As Americans and as human beings, we should try to push for a more effec-tive and humane method of trying to accomplish our goals, instead of traumatiz-ing and injuring the weak and helpless.
America’s actions are adding more misery to the lives of millions of inno-cent people and will cre-ate more hatred toward the west and keep the people further away from a more democratic society.
Dr. Shakibai was able to obtain the proper medica-tion for his brother-in-law and shipped the treatment to Iran. His brother in law died, as the medication touched down in Tehran.
CommentaryFriday, January 25, 2013 The Daily Campus, Page 9
“My older brother – he’s graduating in the spring and I’ll probably never get another chance.”Jess Berner, 4th-semester pre-communica-tions major
“Mother Nature, for making it so damn cold!”
Bryan Burgos, 8th-semester political sci-ence major
“Steve Moffat, and all the rest of BBC. Their shows make me cry!”
RJ Yarrish, 8th-semester linguistics and psychology major
“That guy.”
Benjie Ding, 6th-semester pathobiology major
If you could pelt anyone with a snowball, who would it be?– By Rachel Weiss
» TOTALLY RAD/TOTALLY BAD
Totally bad
Your perspective: “Winter is great, because you can
bundle up!”
The New Orleans Pelicans’ logo
Oh right, this is what classes are like.
Beyonce, leader of the free world, is a victim of jealously.
Your perspective: “I’m frozen solid.”
Totally saw it coming
Totally rad
Staff Columnist Omar Allam is a 2nd-semester chemistry and English major. He can be reached at [email protected].
US must cease exploiting weak, underdeveloped countries
By Omar AllamStaff Columnist
“Iranians are travel-ing hundreds of miles to search for the proper medicine in cities for their loved ones, only to find the drug depleted or unaffordable.”
- Dr. Jamshid MarvastiIranian-American psychiatrist
SportsThe Daily Campus, Page 10 Friday, January 25, 2013
The UConn swimming and diving team resumes their season with a home meet this Sunday against Seton Hall. The meet was originally scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 26, but was moved to Sunday to accom-modate scheduling conflicts. Sunday also marks the last home meet of the sea-son and Senior Day for Nicole Borriello, Jordan Bowen, Danielle Cecco, Nick Cerra, Sean Cook, Mary DeMarrais, Katie Dobler, Grant Fecteau, Kim Fleming, Joe Glowacki, Isabelle Nat, Kate O’Leary and Kyungsoo Yoon.
The Seton Hall Pirates are undefeated winning all five of their meets, including triumphs over Providence College and Drexel University. UConn’s record for the season thus far is 2-1. The Huskies came out strong in their first two meets defeating Bucknell, Fordham and the Army. Due to the hurricane, UConn lost the opportunity to compete in the Big East Quad Meet. Even though the team missed opportunities
to compete and practice, they have shown to be a dominant force. The second half of their season is more difficult, yet the team seems to be right on track and ready for tough competition.
Although the Huskies had a long eight-week gap between meets, they have the upmost confidence in their abilities.
“To make up for the long gap we were on training trip for thirteen days where we trained almost twice a day every day,” senior diver Danielle Cecco said. “We did a lot of diving and everyone’s skills have improved from the trip.”
This long break gave the team time to hone in and fix their weaknesses from the first half of the season. “The break in between meets has its advantages like more time to fix the little mistakes made during a race. Also, more time to mentally prepare for your event,” freshman Diguan Pigot said. “But on the down side, you get off your racing game meaning you forget what it feels like to race. I will overcome these obstacles by paying attention to the little things in practice and also doing a lot more race anticipated work in practice.”
The team’s expectations are exceedingly high because the Big East Championships and the NCAA championships are right around the corner.
“My expectations for the team are for everyone who hasn’t qualified for the NCAA Zone Diving Championship to qualify and for the team to dive their best this upcoming meet,” Danielle Cecco said. “My expectations [for myself] are to do my best in all the meets for my last semester of diving. I want to improve on becoming more consistent on all my dives and getting higher scores each meet.”
Despite Seton Hall’s undefeated record this season, the Huskies plan to challenge the Pirates and triumph.
“I’m definitely expecting us, as a swim team, to win that meet,” Diguan Pigot said. “And as for me, I hope to get at least close to my personal best times.”
Senior Day ceremonies will start at 10:30 a.m. at the Wolff-Zackin Natatorium; the meet itself will start at 11 a.m.
By Erica BrancatoCampus Correspondent
Huskies celebrate seniors» SWIMMING/DIVING
While many UConn students were enjoying time with family, opening gifts and celebrating the holiday season this winter break, the UConn Skydiving Team was busy jumping 13,000 feet out of airplanes over the Arizona desert, during the United States Parachute Association Collegiate Nationals.
“It’s weird because a lot of peo-ple don’t even realize competi-tive skydiving even exists,” team representative and UConn grad student Will Harris said. “Even when I started jumping, I knew almost nothing about it, but there’s a whole hidden sport that’s sort of below the surface.”
While the team may not be well known in and around Storrs, in
the world of competitive colle-giate skydiving, the Huskies are regarded as one of the top teams in the country, as well as a mainstay at the USPA Collegiate National competition.
The team’s season, which begins in April and typically ends in October, includes week-end training jumps at Connecticut Parachutists in Ellington, summer training and multiple competitions during the early months of the fall semester.
“What we primarily do [dur-ing competitions] is formations, which means that we jump in two-person, four-person or six-person teams,” Harris said. “The idea is that beforehand, the judges will say ‘you have to make these for-mations as many times as you can.’ Someone jumps with us with a camera and they film the whole
jump. We go through the sequence of formations, with each formation worth one point. After the jump, the judges add up the points and the team with the most wins.”
The sport of skydiving is one of passion and fearlessness. In Harris’ case, immediately after his first jump, he was hooked; another vic-tim of the adrenaline bug.
“I did a semester abroad during my junior year to New Zealand, and naturally with the beautiful scenery, I wanted to skydive there, and I did. It was a great time,” he said. “After that I told myself I wanted to do it again, and just before I graduated undergrad I decided to check out the [UConn skydiving] club. I knew some people that were doing it, and I somehow just talked myself into it. It sort of took off from there.”
A group of 11 students led
by Harris embarked for the Collegiate National competition on Christmas afternoon, “much to the dismay of our family mem-bers,” Harris said. Team members who participated included fresh-man Sarah Chamberlain, junior Kevin Duignan, senior Joshua Ellenberg, junior Brandon Gilbert, grad student Doug Hendrix, soph-omore Justin Jetmar, senior Jim Marcum, sophomore Daniel Pace, sophomore Andrew Stipicevic and junior Jon Szylobryt.
The competition took place at Skydive Arizona, the largest and busiest skydiving dropzone in the United States.
“The place is unreal,” said Harris of the facility. “They have their own fleet of planes, facilities, a hotel, restaurants and so on. Its like Disneyland for skydivers.”
The Huskies – who had a three-
day window of practice jumps and preparation upon their arrival in Arizona – competed in the meet on Dec. 29 against over a dozen other collegiate skydiving teams. The competition included Air Force, Georgia Tech, South Carolina, Virginia Tech, Kansas State and Navy, among others.
The Huskies’ four-way jump team, took silver with a point total of 76. One of UConn’s two-way jump teams, comprised of Doug Hendrix and Andrew Stipicevic, also netted a silver medal. Justin Jetmar won gold for his efforts in the novice level accuracy jump, while Doug Hendrix took silver in the same event.
While the skydiving team’s sea-son is now over, Harris is con-fident that the rapidly-growing program has a very bright future. The team has plans to assemble a
roster to send to the 2013 USPA Nationals, the largest and most competitive skydiving competi-tion in the United States, next September. Attending the event, which is open not just to collegiate skydivers but to seasoned profes-sionals as well, would be a major benchmark in the growth of the club.
“Our team has grown tremen-dously in the past few years. We went from just a few people a cou-ple of years ago, to fifteen people this year,” Harris said. “The team has a sort of contagious enthusi-asm. Its just sort of the way the sport is. I’m expecting big things from them over the next couple of years. We’re just going to keep getting bigger and stronger.”
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The UConn women’s hockey team is back in action this Saturday at Freitas Forum against the Maine Bears at 1 p.m. The Bears will enter Freitas at 4-17-2 with a 1-10-1 record in Hockey East. Maine has won tw of their last 10 games, but are coming off a win against conference foe, Vermont.
This is the third time the Huskies and Bears have met this year. The series is currently split 1-1 with this Saturday’s game acting as the rubber match. The
first game of the series was the Huskies' first win of the season and their first overtime win since 2009. The game-winning goal was scored by sophomore Kayla Compero just 50 seconds into overtime.
The 2nd game of the series was played the very next day. After a goal by Caitlin Hewes, the Bears answered back with three straight goals of their own before the horn sounded for the end of the first period. The Huskies would cut the lead to one after a goal off the stick of freshmen Michaela Cava, but could not recover the lead.
The Huskies will come into Saturday’s game on a six-game losing streak having only won one of
their last 11 games. However, with both of these teams at the bottom of the Hockey East standings and with similar records, this is an outstanding chance for the Huskies to come away with a win. Of course, UConn will need to get the offense going as the Huskies have only scored multiple goals in a single game once since the beginning of 2013.
On Sunday, the Huskies will be shipping up to Boston to play the Boston College Eagles. The Eagles are currently tied with their cross-town rivals, Boston University, for first in Hockey East. Boston College currently lead Hockey East in scor-
ing offense, scoring defense, power play offense, shots and goals allowed. The Eagles are ranked No. 3 in the nation. Boston College is led by their senior in net, Corinne Boyles, who leads the Hockey East in goals against average, save percentage and winning percentage. They also boast the two top scorers in Hockey East, Alex Carpenter and Haley Skarupa.
The Huskies play the Bears at Freitas Forum in Storrs on Saturday at 1 p.m. and Boston College Sunday in Boston at 3 p.m.
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Returning after a long Christmas break and a refresh-ing training session in Puerto Rico, the UConn men’s swim-ming and diving team will host the Seton Hall Pirates on Senior Day Sunday.
Despite a long break from rac-ing, swimming head coach Bob Goldberg is confident that the team’s performance will not be negatively affected by the long winter break. The team has just returned from a two-week train-ing trip in Puerto Rico where it benefitted from access to a great pool and equally great weather.
“We had a really good trip and we’re in great shape, but now we’ve got to convert that into our racing speed, which I don’t really think will be a problem,” Goldberg said.
Coach Goldberg thinks that though the winter break hiatus has left the team “a little bit on the rusty side,” all universities have the same break and the Huskies should be able to fare well.
The Huskies are in fairly good health, although questions remain about Captain and butterfly swim-mer Nick Cerra who was set back
with a case of mono that was diagnosed in early December. Cerra has been back in the pool for two weeks and appears to be swimming well, however, so his prior illness should not have significant impact on his perfor-mance on Sunday.
This season, Seton Hall holds a 4-8 record while the Huskies stand at 2-2, not including their third place finish at the Virginia Tech Invitational. In their last encounter, the Huskies defeated Seton Hall by a score of 187-111, with three swimmers even win-ning multiple events. The divers had similar success, with cur-rent seniors Grant Fecteau and Anthony Cortright winning in the one–meter and three meter diving, respectively.
With this meet also being Senior Day, emotions are likely to run high amongst the pro-gram’s six seniors: swimmers Nick Cerra, Sean Cook, Joe Glowacki and Kyungsoo Yoon, and divers Grant Fecteau and Anthony Cortright. A special Senior Day presentation begins 30 minutes before the ceremony, and many family members and supporters will be present for the occasion.
Colts’ Luck excited for first career Pro Bowl
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Andrew Luck is getting down to business in Hawaii.
He attends quarterback meet-ings in the morning, practices in the afternoon and tries to glean as much information as possible from some of football’s biggest stars. For the record-setting rook-ie, it’s just another football week.
‘’That’s Andrew being Andrew, I think that’s the only way he knows how to roll,’’ Colts coach Chuck Pagano said with a chuckle Thursday.
To Luck, the Pro Bowl is about more than just fun in the sun.
Rookie quarterbacks rarely get the opportunity to play in Hawaii, and Luck only made it because New England’s Tom Brady pulled out of the game Monday with an injury. Luck, the first alternate for the AFC, was hop-ing for the call and was staying near his alma mater, Stanford, so he would have a shorter flight to Honolulu.
Now that he’s in Honolulu, Luck is working again with Peyton Manning, an old friend who gave him a chance to be both a student and a counselor at the Manning Passing Academy. Together, the Colts’ past and present franchise quarterbacks, both perfectionists by trade, are
trying to take the lead in making sure the Pro Bowl is taken seri-ously.
‘’I guess some folks weren’t happy with the play last year, but I think guys will take it upon themselves to keep this game going for many years to come and play hard,’’ Luck said after listening to Manning’s speech. ‘’I think it is part of our obligation to make sure we play hard and this game continues.’’
The hard-working Luck does have other plans this week.
Two of his Colts’ teammates, outside linebacker Robert Mathis and receiver Reggie Wayne, also are expected to play for the AFC on Sunday. Wayne has brought along the Colts’ receiving corps for the trip and Luck picked up the tab for third-string quarter-back Chandler Harnish, the last pick in April’s draft. Backup Drew Stanton declined to go, Luck said, because he wanted to stay home with his newborn son.
‘’Obviously you’re going to have fun, you’re in Hawaii, that’s what it’s about,’’ Luck told Indianapolis reporters during a conference call Thursday. ‘’But anytime you’re around so many great football players, it’s not an obligation, but close to it, to try to get better at football.’’
DETROIT (AP) -- A Northern Michigan University women’s soccer player who drowned during a team workout in a campus pool had epilepsy and may have had a seizure as recently as last summer, according to newly released investigative reports that detail the frantic attempt to revive her.
The medical examiner’s office ruled Arianna ‘’Anna’’ Alioto’s death an accidental drowning, and didn’t mention her epilepsy or suggest that any health condition may have contributed to her drowning.
The newly released reports, which The Associated Press obtained through Freedom of Information act requests, don’t contradict the medical examiner’s findings, but they do show that the 18-year-old freshman midfielder needed medication to keep epileptic seizures at bay.
Among the material obtained were police reports, witness statements, school administra-tor emails and a copy of the 911 call made after Alioto was spotted floating face-down in the pool after practice ended and the area was closed.
Alioto’s death shocked many in the 9,400-stu-dent campus community, particularly because she was an athlete whose drowning went unnoticed by her teammates, coach and the lifeguard on duty at the campus pool that evening.
According to the newly released reports, Wildcats women’s soccer coach Matt Granstrand oversaw the aquatic conditioning session that afternoon inside the Marquette school’s Physical Education Instruction Facility. During a play-er-pull exercise, Alioto teamed with Cassandra ‘’KC’’ McCary and Taylor Smith, both of whom noticed how tired she looked. When the drill was over, Granstrand ordered the players into a deeper pool where they were to spend 10 to 15 minutes completing their workout.
In her statement, Smith said she ‘’jumped out first’’ and put some equipment away and was ‘’pretty sure everyone else had gotten out of the pool at that point.’’
‘’I turned and looked at (Alioto), we made eye contact,’’ Smith wrote. ‘’She was standing in the shallow end by the diving board. She looked tired (everyone did). Her face was just blank. She looked fine just like she was tired and was taking her time. I didn’t think anything of it.’’
By 5 p.m., Granstrand ended practice and sent everyone to the locker room.
None of the players interviewed by police remembered seeing Alioto in the deeper pool or in the locker room.
Meanwhile, lifeguard Michele Kolin, believing everyone had left, told campus police she com-pleted her pool-closing duties, switched off the radio and locked the men’s locker room.
‘’Kolin advised she then scanned/checked the pool to make sure everyone was out of the water. When asked if she walked around the pool to visually check the pool perimeter, she stated, ‘no,’’’ the police report said.
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The UConn men’s track and field team returns to action this Saturday at Boston University’s Terrier Classic.
Coming off of a dominat-ing performance last week at the Great Dane Classic, Head Coach Gregory S. Roy and Co. are chomping at the bit to keep this roll going.
“While the Terrier Classic this weekend is not a scoring meet, we’ll face top notch com-petition in all of our events,” Roy said.
In addition to the Huskies capturing three first place titles in the 800 meter run, 60 meter hurdles and distance medley relay, junior pole vaulter Cory Duggan (Staten Island, N.Y.) was also named the Big East Field Athlete of the Week for his performance at the Great Dane Classic.
Duggan, a first time winner of the accolade, matched his personal best with a leap of 4.95 meters, placing him in 3rd for the meet. The jump is this year’s 4th highest in the Big East.
UConn will look to continue their overall success, as they have been showing strength in long and short distance running, as well as in the field events.
The Terrier Classic is sched-uled to being at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday.
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Monday night against Duke, the No. 3 UConn wom-en’s basketball team raised the bar for itself, and now it’s time to live up to it.
The Huskies started slug-gishly against the No. 4 Blue Devils, and went into the locker room with just a two-point lead due in large part to 12 first half turnovers.
But in the second half, a 16-0 run broke the game open and turned it into a 30-point UConn victory.
Now, the real work begins. “That’s the standard now,
that’s our precedent,” Kelly Faris said of the second half
against Duke. “And if we go below that that’s unaccept-able. So anything less than that should not be accept-able during practice, during games, during shoot-around, whatever it may be.”
On Saturday afternoon in Cincinnati, Faris and her team-mates will face their first test in keeping that same intensity rolling for the remainder of the season.
The Bearcats enter the con-test in the midst of a five-game losing streak and having lost seven of their last eight games, are struggling to over-come the injuries that have plagued them throughout the year.
Only four Cincinnati play-ers have played in all 18 of
their games this season, and just three have started at least 15 games, leading to incon-sistencies in their lineup from game to game.
On the other side of the matchup, the Huskies are just now returning to full strength.
Morgan Tuck, Breanna Stewart, Kiah Stokes, Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis and Bria Hartley have all been battling injuries throughout most of the season, but all five are expected to be available on Saturday.
Having the entire roster at their disposal will be key for the Huskies in what Faris con-siders a crucial stretch in their schedule.
“It’s pretty much now or never,” Faris said. “I think
[after the Stanford game] was our other opportunity that we could have really built on the way we played and just really thrive after that, and we didn’t. It’s getting later in the season and there’s not going to be many opportunities to do that. So like I said it’s now or never and there’s not a lot of time left to try and fix certain things.”
One of those things that still might need fixing, however, is the team’s penchant for turn-ing the ball over.
Despite leading the coun-try in four offensive statistical categories, UConn is No. 28 in turnovers per game and has given the ball away an aver-age of 14.2 times per game.
On Monday, the Huskies’ sloppy play in the first half
prevented them from pulling away despite shooting at a 15 percent better clip than the Blue Devils.
But UConn turned the ball over just three times in the closing 20 minutes and out-scored Duke 47-19 in the sec-ond half as a result.
A game against the Bearcats – who rank No. 305 in the country in steals – could provide the Huskies with an opportunity to work on improving their ball security problem.
Game time is set for 8 p.m. Saturday at Fifth Third Arena. The game can be seen on SNY or heard on 1080 WTIC AM.
After a 2-1 start to begin Big East play, Connecticut has suffered back-to-back losses to No.1 Louisville and Pittsburgh. UConn looks to end its two-game losing streak Sunday at 2 p.m. as the Huskies host conference rival Rutgers at the XL Center.
The Huskies enter Sunday 12-5 overall and 2-3 in the Big East.
Junior Shabazz Napier was limited in the 69-61 loss at Pittsburgh because of a left shoulder injury suffered early in the first half of the game against Louisville on Jan. 14. Despite scoring just eight points, he still leads the team in scoring, three-point percentage, free throw percentage, steals and defensive rebounds.
Napier was held out of practice on Wednesday but is expected to fully partici-pate in practice Saturday and will be ready for Sunday’s game.
After several off-court distractions last season, Ryan Boatright has proved to be a lightning rod for the Huskies. After trailing Pittsburgh by as many as
14, Boatright led the comeback charge as the Huskies tied the game late in the second half before running out of gas. The sophomore guard finished with a game-high 20 points to go along with six assists, four rebounds and four steals.
Sophomore DeAndre Daniels has also improved immensely from last season. After averaging just 3.1 points per game a year ago, Daniels has scored 10.5 ppg this season, has led the team in rebounding seven times and is the only Husky to grab double-digit rebounds.
The Huskies have only out-rebounded their oppo-nent four times and have won all four of those games. UConn’s - 4.1 rebounding margin is second worst in the Big East, only ahead of South Florida.
Freshman Omar Calhoun also averages in double figures with 10.9 points in 30 minutes per game. The highly touted guard out of Brooklyn certainly has the confidence to be the next great New York City guard at UConn.
“I know what I can do on the court,” Calhoun said. “I feel like there isn’t anyone stopping me besides me stopping myself.”
For the Scarlet Knights, they are looking to repeat the dismantling of the Huskies from last season. During former Head Coach Jim Calhoun’s suspension for NCAA violations, Rutgers pulled away late to preserve a 67-60 win at the RAC. Eli Carter scored a team-high 19 points to snap UConn’s ten-game winning streak in the series. The Huskies still holds a 17-2 edge in the regular season series.
As a sophomore, Carter leads the Scarlet Knights in scoring with 15.6 points per game. But he has proved to be a bit erratic; he has turned the ball over 49 times and shoots just 38 percent from the field. He shot just 1 for 14 in Wednesday’s 72-60 loss to St. John’s.
Rutgers (12-6 overall, 3-4 Big East) has loss three out of their last four games with the lone win coming over USF. The Scarlet Knights join the Huskies and seven other teams separated by just one game of each other in the Big East standings.
Sunday’s game can be seen on SNY and heard on WHUS 91.7.
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Scarlet KnightsBy Danny MaherStaff Writer
UConn’s junior guard Shabazz Napier drives toward the basket during a UConn men’s basketball game against the University of New Hampshire.RACHEL WEISS/Daily Campus
After nearly upsetting No. 2 Quinnipiac on Tuesday night, the UConn men’s hockey team returns to the ice in Storrs on Friday to take on American International College.
The Huskies (9-11-2, 6-8-1 AHA) dropped a 2-1 deci-sion in Hamden on Tuesday against the Bobcats. UConn came out flat in the first peri-od, but the intensity picked up over the final 40 minutes. Using physical play to insti-gate Quinnipiac, the Huskies almost pulled off the biggest upset in college hockey this season.
“We came in and wanted to be tied or ahead in the third,” said forward Billy Latta, who scored the lone goal for the Huskies. “We did that but didn’t pull it off. We aren’t really satisfied with a 2-1 loss. We wanted to win this
one tonight.”UConn now heads into the
home stretch, as they will play only Atlantic Hockey Association teams for the final 12 games of the regular season before the conference tournament in March.
Sitting in 10th place with 13 points, the Huskies will look to gain some ground in order to avoid a tough tournament matchup.
Playing into the Huskies’ advantage is that four of their final 12 games are against the two teams below them in the standings, starting this week-end with a home-and-home series against the Yellow Jackets.
AIC (5-13-3, 2-10-3 AHA) have struggled all season, pro-ducing only seven points in Atlantic Hockey play while allowing about four goals per game.
UConn and AIC met in Storrs on Dec. 29 in the UConn Hockey Classic. The
Huskies had no problems put-ting the Yellow Jackets down, taking the game 7-2, their most lopsided win of the sea-son.
The biggest question mark in the UConn lineup this weekend will be who Interim Head Coach David Berard decides to play in net. Matt Grogan and Garrett Bartus have been splitting time since mid-December, with both showing the ability to be a No. 1 goaltender.
Following Tuesday’s loss to Quinnipiac, Berard said he would likely go with the hot hand from here on out. That hot hand has more often than not been Grogan, who made 48 saves on Tuesday.
Friday’s game in Storrs begins at 7:05 p.m. The series moves to Springfield on Saturday for another 7:05 p.m. start. Both games can be heard on WHUS 91. 7 FM.
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UConn’s senior defender Alex Gerke hits a shot for the Huskies during a UConn men’s hockey game against Canisius at Freitas Ice Forum.TROY CALDEIRA/Daily Campus
