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JORgENSEN ENCHANTED BY VELVETEEN RABBIT

KICKED IN THE TEMPLE

Justice Department allows members of Indian tribes to own eagle feathers despite federal law.

Huskies fall to Temple Owls in second straight Big East loss.

Murphy exercised control over the debate while McMahon relied too heavily on stale rhetoric.

INSIDE NEWS: gOVERNMENT TO ALLOW NATIVE AMERICANS TO POSSESS EAgLE FEATHERS

Husky Ally Safe Zone training1 to 4 p.m.

Rainbow Center SU 403

The 3-hour workshop offers a highly interactive learning experience about the LGBT campus community. If interested, e-mail your name, net ID and preferred training date to huskyally@uconn.edu.

Particles, Astrophysics, and Nuclear Physics Seminar

2 to 3 p.m.Gant Science Complex, P-121

Late Night will have an evening full of attractions such as karaoke, a photo booth, custom masks, chips and dip and more.

Overdraft Film Screening6 to 8:30 p.m.

SU, Theater

The Honors Program in partnership with the Travelers Institute will host a screening of the film, “Overdraft,’ which explores America’s debt crisis.

Mock Nameless Debate7 to 9 p.m.

SU, 331

A mock presidential debate featuring students representing six presidential candidates in this year’s election.

– KIM WILSON

British children’s tale brought to life on stagewith puppetry.

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UConn alum shares Syrian experiences

UConn alum John Yearwood of class 1986 returned to cam-pus Friday to tell students that, though there are many problems in the world, they are correctable.

Yearwood is the World Editor of the Miami Herald and a former political sci-ence student at UConn. His journalism career has taken him around the world, from post-Apartheid South Africa to tsunami-struck Japan and earthquake-rocked Haiti. Yearwood’s experiences are extensive and varied, and he shared the best and the worst with current UConn students in his lecture “Dispatches From a World In Need of Healing.”

Syria is the current disaster Yearwood worries about. The Associated Press constantly reports on civilians being killed by government forces and the growing tensions on the Turkish border.

As a man who has personally interviewed Syrian President Bashar Assad, Yearwood says ‘The US military says they are hoping he will go and take his family with him. I think that is much easier said than done. I think we are in for a hard struggle in Syria.”

And as the Syrian civil war unfolds before us, Yearwood wonders: how do you heal the world from all these disasters?

Some such answers were found in Japan and South Africa. In Japan, Yearwood met a woman named Fuji, who saved her mother and herself from the devastating tsunami. She now spends her days helping the hundreds of thousands displaced by the disaster. Yearwood also interviewed Nelson Mandela in South Africa, where the famous leader has worked to help children orphaned by AIDS.

“Forgiveness and build-ing relationships, I thought to myself, I can’t think of a better way to heal the world,” said Yearwood.

That lead to Yearwood’s work in Haiti. Prior to the earthquake in 2010 that dev-astated the impoverished country, Jeanguy Saintus led a famous dance troupe in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince. Yearwood visited after the earthquake and said that many of the dancers, “had lost the will to dance, and it was a condition that must not go on.” Yearwood, along with a coalition of Miami com-munity leaders, organized a charity performance in Miami for Ayikodans. The event was a financial success for the company and is becoming an annual event.

Yearwood recounted these experiences to students and teachers, including stories

Chewing the fat: dining hall nutrition factsUConn Dining Services places cards

with nutritional content in front of the each food item served in each dining hall, but how accurate are these num-bers?

According to Dennis Pierce, director of Dining Services, the calorie content of food is accurate, based on the pro-portions that are served. Therefore, it is up to the personal responsibility of the students to ensure they are having a healthy meal.

One way that dining halls help stu-dents choose the right portion of food they serve themselves is by marking each ladle with number of ounces it serves.

“Ladles vary, what can help a stu-dent is on the arm of the metal label is a plastic handle that is engraved with how big the ladle is,” Pierce said. “Also the standard rule of thumb is if you cup your hands it equals four ounces.”

Since students serve themselves at the dining hall, they can monitor and control what they intake on a daily basis. Elliot Olivas, a 7th-semester natural resources major noticed that students often put more on their plate than the body needs.

“I think the ladles they give you are pretty close to the full ounce servings, however I’ve seen kids take four or five scoops of some things,” Olivas said.

All of the food served at UConn must meet quality standards that are outlined by the United States Drug Administration. Because the USDA has strict guidelines for their food, some students feel that the calorie content is accurate. Ethan Ives, a 5th-semester history major and employee of South Dining Hall said he believes that the calorie content presented to stu-dents is correct.

“[Dining Services] get their food straight from the distributors or from

their bakery, etc. so the calorie content is from the outside source, so I would assume its USDA regulated, so it should be correct,” he said.

One of the challenges that dining ser-vices faces is when you order food from an outside source, your calorie guidelines are based on what that company tells you about the nutritional content of their food. Sometimes major food corpora-tions such as the Purdue Farms Company change their nutritional facts and the company does not alert dinning services of these changes.

“There are over 5,000 recipes in our database and we buy from a diverse

group of large companies,” Pierce said. “The dilemma is they don’t always alert us when things change.”

Dining services at UConn is work-ing hard to make sure that students are educated about nutrition to make well informed choices when eating at the vari-ous dining halls on campus. In addition to posting nutritional information online, dining services will soon be unveiling a new app for smart phones that displays nutritional facts on the go.

Another tool students can utilize is the website choosemyplate.gov, a website that is run by the USDA which teaches students about healthy food options, as

well as weight management and physical activity.

McMahon Dining Hall will also soon have a LED plasma screen near the entrance of the building that will iden-tify the various meals being served that day, according to Pierce. McMahon has also been leading the charge for portion control in dining halls by using smaller plates.

“In McMahon, we’re able to control portion sizes and we are putting the ser-vice back in food service,” Pierce said.

By Tyler MorrisseyAssociate Sports Editor

McMahon Dining Hall’s servery style allows for Dining Services to control portions, ensuring that students are receiving the recommended portion in every serving. This serving style allows students to see what a portion size is and the nutritional content in that serving size.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The close race for majority control of the Senate comes down to whether Republican candidates in Massachusetts and Connecticut can win over President Barack Obama’s voters and Democrats from Indiana to Arizona can impress Mitt Romney’s GOP backers.

Ticket-splitting is vital to the prospects of Senate candidates in a half-dozen races in states that Obama and Romney are expected to win handily. These candidates are significantly outdistancing their parties’ presidential nomi-nees in polls, turning what should be an election-year rout into too-close-to-call contests.

With about three weeks to the Nov. 6 vote, Democrats hold a slight edge in keeping their major-ity in the Senate. GOP hopes have faded in New Mexico and Hawaii while incumbents in Florida and Ohio withstand an onslaught of outside spending to run ahead of their struggling rivals. In an unlikely scenario, races in Indiana and Arizona, once considered cer-tain GOP wins, are competitive.

“The map has expanded over the election cycle,” said Guy Cecil, executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, who credited the class of recruits. “When the cycle started no one gave Democrats a shot at holding the majority.”

Still, the mathematical equa-tions of the election remain unchanged.

Democrats hold a 53-47 advan-tage in the Senate, counting the

two independents, and must defend 23 seats to the GOP’s 10. The Republicans need a net of four seats to grab the majority if Obama wins and a net of three if Romney captures the White House and Paul Ryan as vice president breaks a Senate tie.

Republicans are counting the open seat in Nebraska as a pickup and are bullish about holding Nevada despite a con-certed Democratic effort. They’re also upbeat about snatching Democratic seats in close contests in Virginia, Montana and North Dakota. Romney’s first debate performance energized the party for the home stretch.

“There’s renewed enthusi-asm on our side,” said Rob Jesmer, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. “It’s filtered down to our Senate candidates. There’s very good movement across the

board.”In the lineup of ticket-splitting

races to watch, one of the biggest surprises and promising oppor-tunities for the GOP in the clos-ing weeks of the campaign is Connecticut.

Former professional wrestling executive Linda McMahon, in her second Senate bid, is running even with three-term Democrat Rep. Chris Murphy in the Democratic-leaning state.

The wealthy McMahon is financing her ads, forcing the DSCC to spend $2 million and counting in a state that’s solidly in the Obama column. This past week, the Democratic committee bought an additional $650,000 in ads while the Democratic group Majority PAC invested more than $500,000 to air spots to help Murphy. It’s money the Democrats certainly would rather spend elsewhere.

Voter ticket-splitting could determine next Senate election in CT and MA

In this Oct. 7, 2012, file photo U.S. Senate candidates for Connecticut, Republican Linda McMahon and Democratic Rep. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., shake hands after a live televised debate in Rocky Hill, Conn.

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‘Great Gatsby’ chosen for UConn reading program

STORRS, Conn. (AP) — A committee at the University of Connecticut has chosen “The Great Gatsby” as this year’s selection for a school-wide reading program.

University President Susan Herbst started the annual UConn Reads program last year as a way to bring together students, staff, alumni and the wider community.

The 1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald was chosen from nearly 200 classic fiction titles nominated by a selection committee.

Committee chairwoman Anne D’Alleva, a fine arts professor, says the book set on Long Island in the Jazz Age offers abundant learning opportunities, given its references to the music of the era and numer-ous film and television adaptations.

New Haven police make arrest in child shooting

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — New Haven police say they’ve charged someone in connection with the drive-by shooting of a 16-month-old boy last week, and they expect to make more arrests.

Authorities announced the arrest Sunday, but say they won’t be disclosing the person’s identity until Monday morning because of the other expected arrests.

Police say Tramire Miller was shot in the stomach last Wednesday while he was being held by his aunt on the front porch of a home on Kensington Street. He underwent surgery and is now at home recovering.

The target of the drive-by shooting isn’t clear. Police have said they’re certain Tramire was an innocent bystander.

Sex offender charged with DUI in Vernon

VERNON, Conn. (AP) — Vernon police say a man who kid-napped and raped a 6-year-old boy in 1997 has been charged with DUI after driving on the wrong side of Route 83.

Police say 43-year-old Efrain Morales of Mansfield was arrested early Sunday morning after an officer saw him driving the wrong way on a divided section of the road. Authorities say Morales failed several sobriety tests at the scene.

Morales was held on $25,000 bail. It’s not clear if he has a lawyer.

The state’s sex offender registry says Morales was convicted of first-degree sexual assault in Connecticut in 1998 and was released from prison last year. It’s not clear where the attack hap-pened.

NAACP Connecticut convention to focus on voting

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Members of Connecticut branches of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People are set to gather in Waterbury for a state con-vention that will focus on efforts to ensure that everyone will have the right to vote in the Nov. 6 elections.

Mayor Neil O’Leary is scheduled to host a press conference Tuesday to welcome the convention to Waterbury. The 47th annual state convention is set for Oct. 27.

Organizers say the theme of the convention is “NAACP: Your Power, Your Decision - Vote.” NAACP officials said their main priority this year is making sure that everyone, regardless of race, creed or economic status, will have the right to vote during this fall’s elections.

The convention will include a meet-and-greet reception with Senatorial Candidates Chris Murphy and Linda McMahon.

Students trash healthier school lunches

WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) — Schools are putting more fruits and vegetables on their menus, but those healthy foods aren’t necessarily ending up in students’ stomachs.

“They make students take stuff they don’t want and it goes straight to the garbage pan,” said Kurt Thomas, head custodian at John F. Kennedy High School in Waterbury.

Samantha Decena, a Kennedy volleyball player, said she eats the mozzarella sticks and strawberry milk, but throws away her fruit, vegetables, and meat because she finds it unappetizing.

“I could eat more, but I choose not to,” Decena said.Chris Wallace, director of food services for Education

Connection, the vendor that oversees the lunch programs for Torrington, Litchfield, Thomaston and New Hartford, said she has heard similar complaints.

New federal guidelines say students must take one cup of fruit or vegetables, one cup of milk, two ounces of whole grains, and two ounces of meat or other protein.

Reports: US regulators

move closer to suing GoogleWASHINGTON (AP) —

Federal regulators are moving closer to suing Google over allegations that the company has abused its dominance of Internet search to stifle com-petition and drive up online advertising prices, news reports said Friday.

Several news outlets report-ed that staff members at the Federal Trade Commission are preparing to recommend that the agency file an antitrust law-suit against the search giant. A majority of the five FTC commissioners would have to approve a suit before legal action could proceed.

The reports from The New York Times, Bloomberg News and Reuters cited unnamed people briefed on the FTC’s investigation.

FTC spokesman Peter Kaplan declined to comment.

The agency has been investi-gating Google’s business prac-tices. The probe was triggered by complaints that Google Inc. has been highlighting its peripheral services in its influ-ential search results and rel-egating offerings from its rivals to the back pages.

The FTC also has been look-ing into whether Google has rigged its results in a way that has prodded websites to pay more to promote their services through Google’s advertising network.

Government to allow Native Americans to possess eagle feathersWASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice

Department said Friday it is going to allow members of federally recognized Indian tribes to possess eagle feathers, although that’s a federal crime.

This is a significant religious and cultural issue for many tribes, who were consulted in advance about the policy the department announced.

The Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act and other federal wildlife laws criminalize the killing of eagles, which are listed as either endangered or threatened, and possession of feathers and bird parts, but the Constitution and federal laws also give tribes local sover-eignty for self-government.

Under the new Justice Department policy, tribal members will not be prosecuted for wearing or carrying federally protected birds, bird feathers or parts. They also may pick up feathers found in the wild as long as they do not disturb federally protected birds or nests. Giving, lending or trading feathers or bird parts among tribe members, without any other compensation, also will be allowed.

While Justice did not previously have a written policy, the new directive is in line with long-standing practice by Justice prosecutors, U.S. attorneys and the Interior Department not to prosecute in such circum-stances.

But the Justice Department will continue to prosecute tribe members and nonmembers alike for violating federal laws that prohibit killing eagles and other migratory birds or the buying or selling the feathers or other bird parts.

In addition, members of federally recog-nized tribes are covered by the new Justice Department policy regardless of whether they have a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service permit, Attorney General Eric Holder said

in a memo to U.S. attorney offices around the country.

Holder said the new policy was issued to address concerns of tribal members who were unsure of how they might be affected by federal wildlife law enforcement efforts, particularly whether a permit would be required. The Fish and Wildlife Service issues a very limited num-ber of permits for Indians to kill eagles in the wild or obtain feathers and carcasses of acci-

dentally killed eagles from a federal repository.Doug Craven, the natural resources direc-

tor for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians in Michigan, said tribal members there frequently encounter feathers from around 25 bald eagle nesting sites on their reservation. But it wasn’t always clear to them whether they could keep the feathers for ceremonial use or if they’d have to send them off to a repository.

In this May 27, 2006 file photo, Joseph Bearstail. a member of the Sioux tribe from Preston, Conn., wears a costume with eagle feathers while performing a traditional dance during the American Indian Arts Festival at the Rankokus Indian Reservation in Westampton, N.J.

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CDC: Meningitis outbreak growing, 14 people dead

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials have tracked down 12,000 of the roughly 14,000 people who may have received contaminated ste-roid shots in the nation’s grow-ing meningitis outbreak, warning Thursday that patients will need to keep watch for symptoms of the deadly infection for months.

“We know that we are not out of the woods yet,” Dr. J. Todd Weber of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said as the death toll reached 14.

Of the 170 people sickened in the outbreak, all but one have a rare fungal form of meningi-tis after receiving suspect ste-roid shots for back pain, the CDC said. The other case is an ankle infection discovered in Michigan; steroid shots also can be given to treat aching knees, shoulders or other joints.

Fungus has been found in at least 50 vials of an injectable steroid medication made at a specialty compounding phar-macy in Massachusetts, inves-tigators said. Health authorities haven’t yet said how they think the medication was contaminat-ed, but they have ruled out other suspects — other products used in administering the shots — and the focus continues to be on that pharmacy, the New England Compounding Center.

Compounding pharmacies tra-ditionally supply products that aren’t commercially available, unlike the steroid at issue in the outbreak. And Dr. Madeleine Biondolillo of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health said it appears the company vio-

lated state law governing those pharmacies, which aren’t sup-posed to do large-scale produc-tion like a drug manufacturer. Instead, they’re supposed to produce medication for patient-specific prescriptions, she said.

“This organization chose to apparently violate the licensing requirements under which they were allowed to operate,” she told reporters Thursday.

Company officials weren’t immediately available to com-ment Thursday but earlier this week declined comment except to say they were cooperating with the investigation.

Idaho becomes the 11th state to report at least one ill-ness. The others are Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee and

Virginia.Last month, after illnesses

began coming to light, the com-pany recalled three lots of the steroid medicine — known as preservative-free methylpred-nisolone acetate— that were made in May, June and August. The recall involved about 17,700 single-dose vials of the steroid sent to clinics in 23 states.

It’s not known if all or just some of the vials were contami-nated, or how many doses were administered for back pain or for other reasons. Those given joint injections are not believed to be at risk for fungal meningi-tis, which is an inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord. A back injection would put any contaminant in more direct contact with that lining.

Laboratory technician Ruth Rutledge packages cerebrospinal fluid of the three confirmed meningitis cases in Minn., to send to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for further testing, at the Minnesota Department of Health in St. Paul, Minn.

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World traveler says today’s problems are correctable

about interviewing Bill Clinton and Margaret Thatcher. Also present in the audience was his old professor, department head Maureen Croteau, listening to Yearwood’s lesson in saving the world.w

“That’s the whole intention of journalism, it’s to go out and see, report, be fair, and make a difference in the world by doing that. That’s what he’s done,” said Yearwood.

In the end, wYearwood had one simple yet effective message for the students who went to hear his experiences. He said, “The world, as I started, certainly is a danger-ous place. Yes, it is in need of healing. But I think we can all play a part, big or small.”

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel claimed a significant blow against al-Qaida-inspired militants in the Gaza Strip Sunday, killing one of the most influential leaders from an extreme branch of Islam that has targeted Egypt and Gaza’s Hamas rulers as well as Israel.

Hisham Saidani was killed alongside anoth-er top militant in the northern Gaza Strip in an airstrike late Saturday, Israel’s military said. He was one of the main ideological guides for the violent, ultra-conservative Islamic move-ments in Gaza known as Salafi jihadis.

The Israeli military said Saidani, 43, was suspected of carrying out attacks against Egyptian and Israeli targets, but they would not provide further information.

Militants on jihadi websites identified the other dead man as Ashraf Sabah, 37. They said he was the leader of another al-Qaida inspired group, Ansar al-Sunnah.

In recent years, a number of shadowy groups that claim inspiration from al-Qaida have been on the rise in Gaza. While they are not believed to have direct links with the global terror network, they share the same belief that they can impose their fundamentalist version of Islam by force and frequently borrow its tactics. They have also clashed with Gaza’s ruling Islamic militant Hamas movement.

Saidani led a small group, “Tawhid wal Jihad,” or “Monotheism and Holy War,” believed responsible for killing of an Israeli civilian working along the Egyptian border last June. He was also linked to the Mujahideen

Shura Council, another militant group oper-ating in Gaza and Egypt’s neighboring Sinai desert.

Salafi militants first emerged in Gaza around 2005, after Israel withdrew from the territory. Members of one such group, the Army of Islam, cooperated with Hamas in the abduction

of an Israeli soldier the following year. But after Hamas seized power in Gaza in 2007, dif-ferences emerged, and the sides parted ways.

Several hundred Salafi militants are now believed to be in Gaza. Saidani was the best known.

Saidani returned to Gaza in 2008 when Gaza

militants blew a hole through the border fence with Egypt. Thousands of people crossed the border at the time.

Followers of Saidani were responsible for kidnapping and killing Italian activist Vittorio Arrigoni in Gaza in March 2011. Saidani later denounced the act.

He sought to unite the many groups of ultra-conservative Salafis in Gaza, according to jihadis commenting about his death.

In response to Saidani’s death, al-Qaida’s media arm warned Israel that its “joy will not last long.”

“We fully trust our brothers that they will be capable of avenging the killing,” said a statement by the Global Islamic Media Front, a European group that supports al-Qaida and other extremist organizations. The statement underscored Saidani’s prominence among jihadis.

Over the past year, Israel has targeted mili-tant Salafi militants with airstrikes in Gaza, seeing them as a new threat to its southern border.

On Sunday, Israeli airstrikes killed three more militants, said Palestinian health spokes-man Ashraf al-Kidra. In all, five militants were killed in weekend fighting.

Israeli officials believe the militant Salafis sometimes cross between Gaza and Sinai, using the lawless Egyptian territory as a base to conduct attacks, or to flee after carrying out attacks elsewhere. Many adopt a Pakistani style of dress: long loose shirts over baggy pants, sandals and turbans.

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A Palestinian security officer helps farmers pick olives during the harvest season, in the northern West Bank village of Maythaloon, Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. The U.N. Middle East envoy said on Sunday he’s alarmed by attacks blamed on Israeli settlers against Palestinian farmers and their olive trees.

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» STORRSItaly’s secret anti-mob weapon: witness protectionROME (AP) — A woman who dares to

cooperate with police in the fight against a dreaded Italian mob network is murdered, her body dumped in a barrel of acid in the countryside near Milan. Her 17-year-old daughter steps forward and testifies, helping to send six people to prison for life.

The lurid 2009 murder and the court ver-dict delivered in April gave a rare peek into Italy’s secretive witness protection program, which marked its 20th anniversary this year and is considered Italy’s single most important window into the secretive world of organized crime. Hundreds of mobsters have been given new identities in exchange for information that helped put longtime fugitive leaders behind bars, including the “boss of bosses” Salvatore Riina.

The use of insiders has combined with the seizure of mob assets to help Italy achieve a once unattainable goal: crippling the Sicilian Cosa Nostra.

“It has advanced immensely the fight against organized crime,” said Felia Allum, a British academic who studies organized crime.

Italy’s famed anti-Mafia prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino had fought in the 1980s to establish the two anti-mob weapons, arguing that criminals needed some incentive to step forward and turn state’s evidence. They were killed by mob bombs within two months of one another in 1992, but not before they’d laid the foundations for a crime-fighting system that has largely tamed, if not defeated, the Mafia.

Living under state protection does take exact a heavy toll on witnesses.

A major problem is that most mobsters

in the program are from Italy’s underdevel-oped south, and they are generally exiled to what they see as a hostile environment in the prosperous north, because it’s easier to hide them there. There have been suicides. Some return to crime when their collaboration with the state comes to an end.

“They are given a new identity and a lump sum of money to start their new life but they are not helped as much as they should be to reintegrate back into society,” said Allum.

The dead woman in the 2009 murder, 36-year-old Lea Garofalo, had left the gov-ernment program “feeling uneasy” about her protection, her lawyer Vincenza Rando said, adding that she was subjected to unwanted sexual advances from her police guards. “She didn’t feel well protected and risked it on her own.”

Garofalo’s daughter Denise felt that her mother’s decision had cost her life, so she decided to put her trust in the program. She was the key witness in the trial and now lives with a new identity in an undisclosed location. The contrasting fates of mother and daughter underscore how critical it is for witnesses in mob cases to obtain new iden-tities. Without one, experts say, turncoats like Lea Garofalo become sitting ducks for inevitable revenge killings.

Denise Garofalo is one of nearly 4,700 people in the program -- about 1,000 so-called “collaborators” who have turned state’s evidence and the rest family mem-bers, according to a document obtained by The Associated Press on figures up to 2010. It is believed to be the second larg-est program after that of the United States. Most have been witnesses in cases against

the Sicilian Mafia, the Neapolitan Camorra and the Calabrian ‘ndrangheta --the crime syndicate in the Garofalo case.

Prosecutors say that no one who has fol-lowed the protection rules has been harmed. Those who stray do so at their own peril, like the son of a Camorra boss who returned to his hometown and was slain.

Changing immigration patterns and the spread of international terrorism have led authorities to open the program to east-

ern Europeans, North Africans and several other nationalities, according to the Interior Ministry report to parliament.

Lazhar Ben Mohamed Tlil, a Tunisian who became an Islamic militant and was trained in Afghanistan to kill Americans, entered the witness protection program after providing information to Italian investiga-tors about several detainees at Guantanamo, his court-appointed lawyer, Davide Boschi, told The Associated Press.

In this photo taken Friday, Aug. 3, 2012, the municipality of Monza commemorates Lea Garofalo with flowers and a plaque as an example of courage as a witness for legality, at a cemetery wall near the spot where she was murdered in Monza, near Milan, Italy.

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After an exciting summer jammed with blockbuster films and movies so

full of stars and CGI that you thought Michael Bay might have an aneurysm, it’s rather disappointing to see what’s playing during the fall months between the two main movie

s e a s o n s : Blockbuster and Oscar. To explain, b lockbust -er season

begins in May, where you’ll see huge money makers from Shrek to The Avengers; odds are great that a sequel in a huge franchise or super hero film will rake in the most money this month. Once all the kiddies go back to school in mid-August or September, it’s time to get rid of all those useless indie films and other flicks that didn’t deserve a summer release.

Oscar season will begin around November when stu-dios will start releasing all those lovely dramatic and heart wrenching movies about the Holocaust/mental illness/dramatic historical retellings, with bonus points if Meryl Streep stars. According to the rules of the Academy Awards,

a film must open during the previous calendar year right up until December 31st, and studios are convinced that voting members will forget about their films unless they’re released at the last possible second. Furthermore, you can capitalize on this with a lim-ited release in December, and then following Oscar nomina-tions in late January, heav-ily market that aspect when you open it in wide release. Or you just have an excellent Christmas Day release that will grab you the Oscars and the profits (we’re looking at you “Django Unchained” and Les “Misérables”).

Overall, even with some excellent films being released during this period, it is largely a matter of just releasing these films because they didn’t make the cut for summer blockbust-er time and don’t deserve the attention and lobbying to be successful during Oscar sea-son. Granted, some of the films released are pretty terrible; you won’t be reading an article by me defending “House at the End of the Street” (2012) or “Straw Dogs” (2011) as artis-tic and groundbreaking horror films. In fact, their only real contribution is a squandering of the talent in them.

Unfortunately, it’s upsetting that there has to exist a period like this for Hollywood. Every young film lover is rather naive in believing that the film indus-try exists purely so that art can be made, that stories and cinematic techniques can con-tinue to inspire their audience, that a message or an outlook can reach the average person. Then you find out about demo-graphics and learn the names of Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Eisner, and it becomes much more clear that the film industry is actually only about money for some people.

According to some, art is typically a medium where you tend to have to make mon-etary sacrifices in order to get your art across, and maybe this article is swaying a little towards that opinion itself. By being all about earning money, we end up with pathetic releas-es during the dump months that don’t compare artistically or financially to other films. When there’s so much focus on the action and the panache for blockbusters, and prepackaged art for Oscar season, there’s very little room for actual heart or credibility in films today. Perhaps we’re finally getting fed up with it. When film qual-ity goes down and ticket prices

continue to increase, we see that since 2002, number of tickets sold has decreased from the previous year except for in 2006 and 2009.

The fact remains that the main source of this dead zone in level of film interest or quality is the film industry’s stance on making money. This isn’t to say that the film indus-try shouldn’t want to make money--we are a capitalis-tic country after all. It just needs to note that the top three highest grossing films of this year, “The Avengers,” “The Dark Knight Rises,” and “The Hunger Games,” all received extremely positive reviews from critics, each with above a 85% Rotten Tomatoes score. Not all artsy, well-made mov-ies make nothing at the box office, yet not all flashy block-busters are mindless films with no heart. The real problem with the September dump month is that there is no soul to it, when the film industry so desperate-ly needs to reclaim the magic behind its art.

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200 people make up 72% of Foxwoods Casino’s gambling revenues.

This is according to Rebecca Carr, the Chief Marketing Officer

for the largest casino in the country, when she stopped by campus last week to present to the student organization UConn Marketing Society. If her statis-tic shocks you, it should. Is it right? Is it

fair? Should it be more? Should it be less?

Our nation has the highest income disparity between rich and poor in the indus-trialized world. Connecticut has the third-highest income disparity nationally behind New York and Washington D.C.

(The most equal state financially: Utah.) Is Connecticut’s status bad? Depends who you ask. Yes, Connecticut has 11 of the 400 richest Americans according to Forbes. Our hedge fund managers and Wall Street investors often earn jealousy and resent-ment from the state’s struggling suburban middle class and urban poor.

But with casino profits down because of recession and bordering states New York and Massachusetts opening gam-bling venues for the first time, those same billionaires and multi-millionaires are perhaps the primary factor keeping Foxwoods afloat in the present economic climate. Foxwoods is among the state’s largest employers, with about ten thousand workers according to a New York Times

Magazine article in March. One could argue that subtracting those two hundred would mean enormous harm for those ten thousand. Not to mention the possibil-ity of erasing the $174 million Foxwoods directly contributed to the state last year, money our state depends upon.

And the oft-repeated claim that the rich are “not paying their fair share” is fictitious: the rich actually pay more than their share in taxes. According to Citizens for Tax Justice, last year the infamous “Top One Percent” earned 21.0 percent of all income but paid 21.6 percent of all taxes. Similarly, the top two quintiles paid a greater percent-age of total taxes than they took in total income, while for the middle quintile and bottom two quintiles it was reversed, con-tributing a smaller percentage of total taxes than they made in total income.

The problem is when Republicans warn in apocalyptic terms of earth-shattering consequences upon raising taxes on bil-lionaires. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, in particular, would seemingly do anything to please their rich friends who fund their campaigns. (Romney, compared to Obama, has received less than half as large a per-centage of campaign funds from so-called “small donors,” according to the Center for Responsive Politics.) The Republican idea that raising taxes on billionaires will tank the economy is not only wrong, but the past two decades have actually proved the opposite. In the 1990s, Bill Clinton raised taxes on billionaires. The economy grew while unemployment dropped. In the 2000s, George W. Bush lowered taxes on billionaires. Economic growth slowed – even decreasing in 2008, which is almost unheard of – while unemployment rose.

The contention that raising taxes on

billionaires is “punishing success” is somewhat misleading. If you increase taxes on that group slightly, as President Obama currently proposes doing effec-tive this January, the rich will still be rich. (Contrary to Republican counterar-guments, Obama’s tax proposal is indeed mild, raising taxes on the wealthiest by under five percent.) “The American Dream” would not be crushed. The poor could still become rich.

In fact, that often occurs. According to W. Michael Cox, former chief economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, “86 percent of those in the lowest 20 percent of income earners in 1979 had moved to a higher grouping by 1988. Moreover, 66 percent reached the middle tier or above, with almost 15 percent making it all the way to the top fifth of income earners.” Old numbers, but a trend doubtless present throughout mod-ern American history. Poor people with skill and determination would still try to become rich, even if the rich are taxed more. Keep in mind: in most countries, the poor can never become rich.

The truth is, we should neither demon-ize the wealthy as the Occupy crowd and some Democrats do, nor should we exalt them on a pedestal as Republicans do. The truth resides somewhere in between. Increasing their taxes should not be off the table, especially with our large deficit. At the same time, the rich help the economy greatly.

Just look at Foxwoods for proof.

Foxwoods Resort Casino and the income gap

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Chris Murphy is clear winner of Senate debate at UConn

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Staff Columnist Victoria Kallsen is a 3rd-semester mechanical engineering major. She can be reached at Victoria.Kallsen@UConn.edu.

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

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

On Thursday, candidates Chris Murphy and Linda McMahon met at UConn for the second debate of the campaign for Connecticut’s open Senate seat. The event drew a large crowd, despite competing with Lip

Sync for UConn students, and was also streamed online. Just as with the first debate on Sunday, October 7, Representative Chris Murphy walked away the clear winner.

With the debate moderators asking questions on topics that had already been discussed at the prior debate, little new ground was covered. However, a few new issues did emerge, including criti-cisms of McMahon not voting in many local and state elections. Murphy successfully used this fact to build upon his campaign’s characterization of McMahon as someone who only cares about her own political ambitions, not about government or public policy.

This was just one example of Murphy exercising control over the direction of the debate, and engaging with the audience much better than his opponent. The only applause during the event was after Murphy called out McMahon for ignoring the issues while focusing her campaign on “character assaults.” McMahon was not able to connect with the audience as well, and the only strong reac-tion she got from the debate’s attendees was laughter after feebly stating, “Well, I did eventually pay,” after being criticized for only paying off her decades-old debts when they came into the spotlight during the campaign.

Rather than adapt to the unexpected and use it to her advantage, McMahon seemed to rely too heavily on the talking points from her own commercials and email blasts. She was unable to deftly respond to questions and criticisms, coming off as rather insincere and weak. This was even acknowledged by those intending to vote for her, with a McMahon supporter telling the Hartford Courant in a post-debate interview, “She’s not someone who debates real well. Not a criticism of her ideas or her policies, but the debate format does not flatter her as a way of presenting what she believes.”

While we believe Murphy won last Thursday’s debate, there are many more to come. Tonight at 7 p.m., the two candidates will meet in New London for a debate co-sponsored by The Day newspaper and WTNH. The final debate of the election, sponsored by the Connecticut Broadcasters Association, will take place Thursday at 4 p.m.

Debates are an important part of campaigns. They not only help voters find out what each candidate believes, but also serve as a way to see how well a person would represent us in government. A huge chunk of a senator’s job is debating with other senators about which bills to pass and what should be included in each bill. No matter how good a candidate’s ideas are, if they cannot coherently present them and skillfully respond to criticisms, they will not be able to make those ideas a reality.

However, a senator’s ability to turn his or her ideas into govern-ment policy is only a positive if you agree with those ideas in the first place. When deciding who to vote for this November, students should do their own research on the candidates’ positions on the various issues currently affecting Connecticut residents.

By Victoria KallsenStaff Columnist

By Jesse RifkinAssociate Commentary Editor

September: Another prime example of Hollywood greed

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Chad Christen needs to learn from Mitt Romney and go from the far right back to the center (of the uprights).

Apparently President Herbst took a picture of me cheering on Saturday with her iPhone. I feel honored.

The UConn football team’s performance towards the end of the game this weekend was scarier than anything else I will see this Halloween.

People who hold the door open for you when you’re still 20 yards away, forcing you into an awkward jog of grati-tude. #uncomfortable #pleasejuststop

Tear gas: the number one example of how much the police care about the safety of college students.

Apparently basketball posters listing both home AND away games was too much for Webster Bank.

The entire football team is going to be put on questionable list for next week’s game because of “injured pride.”

Quote from my friend at the football game: “He gets a scholarship for missing field goals. I could do that.”

Remember the InstantDaily from two years ago about “The UConn Football Team and the Temple of Doom”? We just saw the sequel.

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Well, it seems as if the hectic homecoming weekend has finally come to an end, and the only thing we have left as a reminder is our bloated, beer-bellied stomachs. College students love to drink alcohol, and yes, it is a very fun pastime, however many are igno-rant to the various health factors over-drinking could create. From a fitness viewpoint, the over con-sumption of alcohol reduces ath-letic performance, muscle growth, heart health and causes serious weight gain. Let’s take a few steps back and break this down.

According to Sports Doctor, alcohol hinders balance, hand-eye coordination and reaction time—all skills necessary in perfecting athletic excellence. Ever wake up the morning after a night of heavy drinking and think you can even move? When that hangover takes over, all fitness activities are virtu-ally thrown out the window.

Additionally, alcohol is a diuret-ic. For those of you who aren’t biology majors, that means that the liquor in your blood stream decreases your body’s produc-tion of Anti-Diuretic Hormone, or ADH, which in turn increases urine flow, depleting many vital vitamins, fluids and electrolytes your body needs. This explains why you may crave water that dreadful morning after. Alcohol leaves your body dehydrated and in need of replenishment. It also increases the production of lactic acid, which will additionally wors-en fatigue during exercise.

Alcohol further impairs pro-tein synthesis, interfering with your body’s ability to grow and maintain muscles. Also, accord-ing to Brock Press, binge drinking decreases testosterone levels while simultaneously increasing cortisol, a hormone known to deplete mus-cle growth. So for all those hitting the weight room slightly before or after any drinking festivities com-mence, you might as well give up. Instead, aim to go to the gym midday to avoid these detrimental consequences.

When it comes to heart health, I’m not necessarily saying all forms of drinking are harmful. In fact, that is quite the opposite of reality. In 1992, Harvard research-es “included moderate alcohol consumption as one of the eight proven ways to reduce coronary heart disease risk,” according to Yale-New Haven Hospital. Further research even proved that red wine specifically benefits overall heart health.

But what about binge drinking? What about to those younger folks, such as college students, who are still developing and drinking copi-ous amounts each week? Little is known about the link between excessive alcohol consumption and heart disease, but there are inklings of a higher risk of arrhyth-mias (irregular heart rhythms), cardiomyopathy (muscle heart is weakened and can’t pump as effi-ciently) and even sudden cardiac death, among many other health risks!

Lastly is the most obvious: weight gain. Yes, we have all heard of a beer belly, a wide-spread epidemic effecting high school students, college students and grown-ups alike. But it’s not just beer that causes this increase in weight; it’s any alcoholic (and sugary non-alcoholic at that) bev-erages. To avoid that nasty belly, the Mayo Clinic suggests drinking only two or fewer beverages a day, and, of course, monitoring your caloric intake.

And remember, while drinking healthfully, also drink responsibly!

Negative effects of alcohol on the body

By Jamie DinarCampus Correspondent

Jamie.Dinar@UConn.edu

Jorgesen enchanted by ‘Velveteen Rabbit’

The Enchantment Theatre Company’s version of children’s book “The Velveteen Rabbit” came to a nearly sold-out audi-ence at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts Sunday.

British author Margery Williams’ “The Velveteen Rabbit” is a story of devotion and the meaning of love depict-ed through the relationship of a young boy and his toy rab-bit. According to a Jorgensen press release, Williams “always thought her toys were real” when she was growing up.

The theatrical performance incorporated an original musical score, life-size puppetry, magic, masks and visually enchanting props to make Williams’ 1922 book a reality.

The story starts when a young boy receives a toy rabbit (made of velveteen) as a Christmas gift. The rabbit gets made fun of by the other toys in the nursery, like “the Mechanical Toys, full of modern ideas.” The rabbit then is told by a wiser and older, worn out toy that as long as he learns how to love and be loved by his new friend, he will become real, no matter how used he looks.

The velveteen rabbit’s char-acter won over the hearts and picked at the emotional strings of the audience, consisting mostly of children and their par-ents.

Jayda, 11, and Caitlyn, 10, both agreed that their favorite part of the show was the giant hunchbacked puppet character “Nanna” (and I have to agree with them--this was an amazing sight and the puppet was at least 11 feet tall).

A lucky pair of twins spent their ninth birthday at their first

live theatrical performance. The twins, Zachary and Brittany, and their family travelled over an hour to see the show.

“My favorite part was the cat-erpillar,” said Zachary, referring to a puppet that made most of the audience “ooh!” and “ahh!” Brittany’s favorite part of the show was when the velveteen

rabbit morphed into a real, live furry rabbit.

“It was tastefully done,” said the twins’ mother. “We’ll defi-nitely be coming back to [the Jorgensen].”

“The music really shaped the atmosphere of the play,” said 18-year-old University of Hartford freshman Alexandra

Levitz. Levitz, a theater pro-duction minor, said the music helped instill feelings of com-fort, worry, pity, excitement and other emotions among the crowd.

By Michelle GolladayCampus Correspondent

British children’s tale ‘The Velveteen Rabbit’ comes to life on stage at Jorgensen this past Sunday. The story tells a tale about a toy rabbit that is made fun of by other toys within the nursery that they live in.

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‘Earth Echoes’ through music

The Orpheus Orchestra performed at Jorgensen center of performing arts this past Friday. The orchestra enchanted the audience with their performance of ‘Earth Echoes.’

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For their annual presence at Jorgensen this year, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra performed their premiere of “Earth Echoes,” a composi-tion by Pulitzer Prize nominee Augusta Reed Thomas, Friday.

As audience members filled seats, they heard the orches-tra tuning backstage. Without need for an introduction or emcee, the musicians walked to their seats and stood as the crowd gave them applause. The Overture to “L’Italiana in Algieri” by Gioachino Rossin was the first piece the orchestra began with. The notes gave way to a dramatic twist, sym-bolizing the story of a sultan who finds an Italian girl that proves to be more than he can handle.

Artistic directors Jonathan Spitz and Ronnie Bauch spoke after the first piece, pointing out that the orchestra was cel-ebrating its 40th season.

“As our orchestra has devel-oped, we teach our own unique ways of teaching music,” said

Spitz. The orchestra had a group of

UConn students travel to New York to sit in on the orchestra’s first practice of Beethoven’s 5th Symphony. Bauch explained how there have been panel dis-cussions, seminars and partner-ships with UConn, demonstrat-ing how the continuing rela-tionship between UConn and the orchestra is becoming more established.

Bauch introduced “Earth Echoes” as the next piece the orchestra would play. “It’s an amazing mix between poetry and music; it’s rather quite remarkable and quite dramat-ic.”

Metropolitan Opera stars Sasha Cooke and Nathan Gunne performed the piece with the orchestra. This per-formance followed the debut of the piece the night before at Carnegie Hall. The first part of the song was slow com-pared to the second movement, which had unusual sounds that were more forceful. The fol-lowing movement gave way into somber tones accentuated by the mournful expressions of

the singers and the piece ended dramatically with an emphasis on the percussion instruments. Cooke and Gunne received lasting applause.

“I think that Sasha Cooke was a great pick cause her voice has an earthy tone,” said Amy Bleasdale, a 3rd-seester vocal performance major.

Bleasdale, who saw the orchestra last year, was excited to see this performance because of the renowned singers. She spoke of the class she took with Gunne last week where he shared tricks with students to help them practice and perform better.

“The things he talked about to the other singers, I’ve already started implementing,” she said during intermission before rushing off to take the house manager of Jorgensen up on an offer to meet the singers.

When the orchestra returned, they performed Beethoven’s 5th Symphony in C Minor, a composition that spanned half an hour. They bowed to a stand-ing ovation at the end of the show.

By Zarrin AhmedStaff Writer

Zarrin.Ahmed@UConn.edu

Michelle.Golladay@UConn.edu

History Channel featured professor

lectures on time travel

Dr. Ronald Mallett, a UConn professor of theoretical phys-ics, gave a presentation on the concept and possibility of time travel Saturday afternoon at the Connecticut Natural History Museum. Mallett said he became a physicist because of the idea of time travel; his father died when he was 5 years old, and Mallett hoped to be able to build a time machine so as to save his father’s life.

Mallett started his presen-tation with a brief primer on velocity and related proper-ties of light. In essence, if one throws a tennis ball from the top of a moving vehicle, the speed the tennis ball travels from the perspective of an outside observer is equal to the throw speed in addition to the speed of the vehicle. However, this does not happen with light. The reasoning behind this, Mallett explained, was that time has to slow down for the speed of light to remain constant. This is what would allow someone to travel forward in time by accelerating to or near the speed of light. To clarify, Mallett used the classic example of the time dilation effect that would occur if one of a pair of identical twins traveled for 10 years (from his perspec-tive) at near light speed. On returning, his twin would be 50 years older, so the traveling twin would have essentially traveled forward in time.

But how to travel into the past? Mallett explained that space and time are also affected by gravity. The example he gave

was the GPS. Stronger gravity slows time, so the clock in your GPS runs slower than the clock running in the satellite that is sending the signal. In order for GPS to work, we have to use computers to make up for the difference.

The key to Mallett’s theory of the time machine is that light can create gravity, and since gravity affects time, then light can also affect time. The way Mallett’s machine would work is by using lasers to twist space and time into a loop, thereby theoretically allowing travel.

Valentin de Wissocq, a 5th-semester history major exchange student from France, said, “I didn’t know about the link between time and gravity. That was very interesting.”

The experiment would first involve putting a neutron into the twisted space to see if it would move as predicted. Then, they would use particles that have short life spans and shoot a beam through the twisted space to see if any “lived” longer or shorter to confirm the theory.

David Furnes, a 7th-semester major, said, “I thought it was a fascinating and well-presented talk. I was particularly inter-ested in the idea of changing the medium you’re traveling in, rather than the qualities of the object you’re traveling in.”

As of now, Mallett hopes that time travel will be a real-ity within the next 100 years. However, he explained his work is currently in need of $250 mil-lion in funding, so all purchases of his book, “Time Traveler,” would be much appreciated.

By Jason WongStaff Writer

Jason.Wong@UConn.edu

Member of Jerry Lee Lewis band killed in shootoutMEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) —

Musician B.B. Cunningham Jr., a member of Jerry Lee Lewis’ band, was killed in a Memphis shootout early Sunday, police said.

Police said Cunningham was working as a security guard at an apartment complex on Memphis’ southeast side, when he heard a gunshot at the neigh-boring Cherry Crest apart-ments and went to investigate about 2 a.m., according to The Commercial Appeal.

Police didn’t provide details, but they said when officers arrived, both the 70-year-old Cunningham and a 16-year-old boy were found dead from gun-shot wounds.

The teenager has not been identified. Calls to police by The Associated Press were not returned.

When contacted at his home in Washington D.C., Bill Cunningham confirmed his brother was killed.

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TV Show Of The Week

Psych

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Underrated:

1. Sunday Night Football (NBC) - 7.22. Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick (NBC) - 5.43. The Big Bang Theory (CBS) - 4.94. Voice (NBC) - 4.65. Football NT America PT 3 (NBC) - 4.26. Grey’s Anatomy (ABC) - 3.8 7. NCIS (CBS) - 3.78. Two and Half Men (CBS) - 3.69. 60 Minutes (CBS) - 3.610. X-Factor (FOX) - 3.5

Ratings from TVbytheNumbers.comWeek ending October 9

1. NFL Regular Season (ESPN) - 166162. Presidential Debate (FOXN) - 104363. On the Record w/Greta (FOXN) - 81084. Sunday Movie II (LIFE) - 65115. NFL Regular Season Game (NFLN) - 64356. 1st Pres Debate 2012 (CNN) - 60517. Debate Night in America (CNN) - 58388. Hannity (FOXN) - 54259. MLB Wildcard (TBSC) - 530410. NASCAR Sprint Cup (ESPN) - 5113

Numbers from TVbytheNumbers.comWeek ending October 9

(Numbers of viewers x 1000)

Top 10 Cable

Psych USA

Wednesday 10 p.m.

What I’m Watching

The fake psychic detective, Shawn, has managed to fool everyone for six seasons and will be going into its seventh season in 2013. We follow

him and his shenanigans as he solves mysteries along with his pal Gus who has the odd talent of keen smell. Shawn has the gift of photographic memory, which has aided him through

the years in solving most of his cases.

In past episodes they have had themes such as Bollywood,

‘The Shining’ and the classic 90’s hit TV show ‘Twin Peaks.’ It’s the fact that this show is very corky but can keep you

captivated with its witty banter and many TV/movie/music

references. Shawn and Gus are always on top of their game

when it comes to solving these crimes but still trying to prove to Santa Barbara police depart-ment that their position should

become permanent even though they have solved countless

mysteries for them. ‘Psych’ pre-mieres February 27, 2013.

-Loumarie Rodriguez

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To be honest, events such as the following are an incredibly rare occurrence for people of my age. I’m only 19 years old and yet, such an event has recently come up that indeed makes me feel, to put is as simply as possible, old. Yes I feel quite old because this past weekend marked the beginning of Cartoon Network’s 20th anni-versary celebrations. It’s hard to imagine any kid growing up in the 90’s and 2000’s without the pres-ence of the channel’s iconic televi-sion shows so today we decided to take a look back.

Launching on October 1, 1992, Cartoon Network was formed from the remnants of the once dominant power in television ani-mation, Hanna-Barbera, the very same animation giant that was responsible for some of the 20th century’s most iconic children’s characters including Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Tom and Jerry, Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, and countless others. Indeed some of the earliest original Cartoon Network programs fol-lowed the Hanna-Barbera toons’ both in the use of the classic “lim-ited animation” style pioneered by HB and in structure whereby the main cartoon (such as “Dexter’s Lab”) would have two segments at the beginning and end of each epi-sodes while a relatively unrelated toon would headline a segment in the middle.

But as viewers would soon find out, these new cartoons would turn into something radically more sophisticated thanks to the influx of young new talent at the studio.

On April 27, 1996, Cartoon Network premiered what many consider its breakout series, “Dexter’s Laboratory,” created by Genndy Tartakovsky. Featuring a timeless conflict between boy genius Dexter and his rather moronic sister Dee-Dee, the show put CN on the map. Tartakovsky would go on to create the popular series “Star Wars: Clone Wars” and “Samurai Jack,” the latter of which would garner Cartoon Network its only win amongst numerous nom-inations for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (less than 1 hour).

Dexter writer and friend of Tartakovsky, Craig McCracken would go on create another two wildly popular series for the net-work “The Powerpuff Girls” and “Foster’s Home for Imaginary Friends” in the ensuing years.

Butch Hartman, creator of Nickelodeon’s “The Fairly Oddparents” and “Danny Phantom,” also served as a writer on “Dexter’s Lab,” as did his good friend Seth Macfarlane the creator of “Family Guy.”

Numerous other hit series have graced the airwaves on CN is the past two decades including “Space Ghost: Coast to Coast,” “ Johnny Bravo,” “Camp Lazlo,” “Courage the Cowardly Dog,” “The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy,” “The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack,” “Chowder,” “Ben 10,” “Teen Titans,” “Batman: The Brave and the Bold,” “Cow and Chicken,” “Star Wars: The Clone Wars,” “Young Justice,” “Codename: Kids Next Door” and countless others. And of course what would CN be without its syndication of popular anime shows including “Dragonball Z,” “Naruto,” and “Pokemon.”

While in recent years CN’s pro-gramming has declined in overall quality incorporating some live

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By Alex Sferrazza Campus Correspondent

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Dreaming of times in purgatory

Mixing in the old with the new ‘Supernatural’ continues with Dean and Sam protecting a Prophet of the Lord from demons and the king of hell in season eight. Throughout the episode there are flashbacks to Dean’s time in purgatory.

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Riffing off of one of Woody Allen’s classic comedies with its title, this episode of “Supernatural” mixes the old with the new, as has been seen for much of this season. Season eight sees brothers Sam and Dean Winchester protecting a Prophet of the Lord from the demon Crowley, the new King of Hell. The prophet, Kevin Tran, knows where tablets inscribed with the words of God are located. During the season opener, the Winchesters discov-ered that these words could be used to exorcise all demons cur-rently infesting the earth and seal the gates of Hell forever. From what I can gather from this plot point, it seems like “Supernatural” is setting up its own end this season. However,

the show is known for its twist endings, so what could happen at the end of this season is any-one’s guess.

While moving the story for-ward, this episode also focuses on the past. The show has also been giving flash-backs to Dean’s time in purgatory, where he had been trapped after the end of last season. In this episode, the viewer finds out a bit more about his time there. From the flashbacks, Dean’s time in purgatory seems similar to a somehow more brutal version of “The Hunger Games” that never ends and has an endless amount of tributes.

Dean somehow survived with the help of a vampire named Benny, and the show has been

keeping his story secret so far. Nothing new is revealed about Benny, but let’s just say Dean had quite a dark side when he was trapped in Purgatory. It’s nice that this episode gives

some answers to the questions that the last season’s ending cre-ated. Considering that this is only the second episode of this sea-son, they’re barebones answers at this point, but something is bet-

ter than nothing.As the story advances, the

tablet that the Winchesters and company are looking for gets stolen and put up for auction by Plutus, the Greek god of wealth. The brothers must attempt to win the tablet back. I found this to be a hilarious scene, since most of the attendees don’t bid using regular currency. When

the tablet finally appears for sale, the situation gets crazy when Crowley and an angel start making ridiculous wagers, like the Mona Lisa and the moon. I won’t spoil what happens next, but it all leads to a nice twist after the bidding, and the start of a gritty fight in which Sam kills two bad guys using Mjolnir, the Hammer of Thor

There isn’t a lot that’s note-worthy about this episode, but it’s still an enjoyable one to watch. The writers came up with an unusual setting that made the story play out in an interesting and hilarious fash-ion. I’m glad to see that they can still create some distinctly original ideas even after all this time. “Supernatural” may be on its eighth season, but it is far from tired.

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Let’s talk about sex with ‘South Park’

South Park in this week’s episode “Insecurity’ stars Ike walking in on his parents having sex and them attempting to come up with an explanation on their actions to him. Meanwhile Cartman installs a security system inside their home to protect his mother.

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“South Park” is a show that loves to go big. Sprawling plots with over the top satire and immense overlying jokes are Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s M.O. But, I think the show is at its best when it a takes a step back and tells a smaller story and uses it to extract great humor from the characters we know and love. The most recent episode, “Insecurity,” did just that.

“Insecurity” contains a plot pushed forward through the miscommunications and back-wards logic that can only be found in “South Park.” It stars with Ike walking in on his parents having sex while his father is dressed as a UPS driver. He believes his mother is having an affair and draws a

diagram of the event. The pic-ture gets into Randy Marsh’s hands and soon the whole male population believes all their wives are sleeping with the UPS man.

Meanwhile, Cartman ques-tions whether or not the sex is con-sensual and gets a home security system to protect his mother. This led to two jokes used repeatedly, and successfully, throughout the episode. The parents become increasingly more insane and paranoid; and Cartman screams at home security personnel about holes in their system. The latter was basically an excuse for Cartman to hypothetically say “I was trying to rape my mom” again and again, and it

never got old. The story isn’t the most creative we’ve seen on the show, and it follows the familiar domino effect formu-la. However, it was compel-ling enough and the constant buildup of shenanigans held

quite a few laughs.This eventually

leads to all the char-acters getting secu-rity systems inside themselves, with alarms going off when they become scared or anxious.

In Cartman’s case, it goes off when he finds out the Jewish population is growing. At that point I wondered if the entire story was created around that one joke. If it was, it was completely worth it. Eventually, everyone dresses up as Bane and attacks the UPS man. I don’t know why,

but if you have ever wanted to hear Bane say “Respect my authoritah,” then you can check that off your bucket list.

“Insecurity” worked because it was so character driven. The sources of most of the jokes were the mouths of Cartman and Randy, which often heeds positive results. The unusual premise was well utilized, there are no pointless subplots and the many dia-logue sequences never became longwinded. I doubt that the point of this episode was to satirize home security sys-tems or UPS, but just to show once again how deranged a place South Park is, and that’s why we tune in every week.

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By Brendon Field Campus Correspondent

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action programming and running cheaply made flash-animated cartoons, leading to the depar-ture of numerous figures includ-ing Tartakovsky and McCracken, we should not forget the amaz-ing shows it has given us in the past two decades. And with some true quality programming gracing the network again in the form of the DC Comic’s based “Young Justice,” who knows what other gems the network might turn out in the future. Happy Birthday Cartoon Network, here’s to anoth-er 20.

» CELEBRATING 20, page 6

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‘Taken 2’ takes down ‘Argo’ in close weekendLOS ANGELES (AP) —

Liam Neeson’s “Taken 2” has defended its box-office title with a narrow win over Ben Affleck’s “Argo.”

Sunday studio estimates put 20th Century Fox’s action sequel “Taken 2” at No. 1 with $22.5 million in its second weekend. “Taken 2” raised its domestic total to $86.8 million.

Affleck’s “Argo,” an Iranian hostage thriller from Warner Bros., opened in second-place with $20.1 million. Ethan Hawke’s “Sinister,” about a true-crime writer caught up in supernatural horror, debuted at No. 3 with $18.3 million. The movie was released by Lionsgate’s Summit Entertainment banner.

Sony’s “Here Comes the Boom,” with Kevin James as a teacher who becomes a mixed martial arts sensation, started weakly at No. 5 with $12 million.

The weekend’s other new wide release, CBS Films’ crime comedy “Seven Psychopaths,” also opened to small crowds, taking in $4.3 million to finish at No. 9. The movie’s ensemble cast includes Colin Farrell, Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken and Woody Harrelson.

The follow-up to “Taken,” the hit that established dra-matic star Neeson as an action hero, “Taken 2” was dinged by critics who called it a replay of the original. The sequel has Neeson’s ex-CIA guy up against a gang of Albanian goons out for revenge for their kin that he killed in the first movie.

“It kind of proves that reviews do not matter,” said Paul Dergarabedian, an ana-lyst for box-office tracker Hollywood.com. “Audiences just continue to eat this up. They just love Liam Neeson in this role.”

“Argo” may prove the oppo-site, using its great reviews and Academy Awards buzz to settle in for a long stay at the

box office. Affleck directed and starred in the real-life story about a CIA operative who concocts a plan to res-cue six Americans hiding in Tehran after the 1979 U.S. embassy takeover by disguis-ing them as members of a fake movie crew.

Revenues on the film ticked up a whopping 47 percent from opening day Friday to Saturday, a sign that audi-ences were talking it up exu-berantly to friends.

“This is a really good indi-cation of how quickly word of mouth can spread,” said Dan Fellman, head of distribution at Warner Bros. “The critical acclaim in this case is going to translate into commercial success.”

“Argo” played almost entirely to older crowds that do not necessarily rush out to see movies over opening

weekend but often check out well-reviewed films in subse-quent weeks.

Lionsgate was happy to come in third with “Sinister,” ‘’especially given most peo-ple’s projections on the film were in the low teens at best,” said David Spitz, head of dis-tribution. “It’s always nice to come in and over-perform everybody’s expectations.”

Hollywood’s business con-tinues to grow as it heads into the busy holiday season. Overall domestic revenues came in at $132 million, up 51 percent from the same week-end last year, when “Real Steel” led with $16.3 million.

Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where available, latest inter-national numbers are also included. Final domestic fig-

ures will be released Monday.

1. “Taken 2,” $22.5 million ($41 million international).

2. “Argo,” $20.1 million.3. “Sinister,” $18.3 million

($4 million international).4. “Hotel Transylvania,”

$17.3 million ($13.7 million international).

5. “Here Comes the Boom,” $12 million.

6. “Pitch Perfect,” $9.3 million.

7. “Frankenweenie,” $7 million ($4.9 million inter-national).

8. “Looper,” $6.3 million ($7.5 million international).

9. “Seven Psychopaths,” $4.3 million.

10. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” $2.2 million.

Estimated weekend ticket sales at international the-aters (excluding the U.S. and Canada) for films distributed overseas by Hollywood stu-dios, according to Rentrak:

1. “Taken 2,” $41 million.2. “Ted,” $13.9 million.3. “Hotel Transylvania,”

$13.7 million.4. “The Impossible,” $13.4

million.5. “Madagascar 3: Europe’s

Most Wanted,” $10.4 million.6. “Looper,” $7.5 million.7. “Resident Evil:

Retribution,” $5.8 million.8. “Masquerade,” $5.3 mil-

lion.9. “Frankenweenie,” $4.9

million.10 (tie). “A Company Man,”

$4 million.10 (tie). “Sinister,” $4 mil-

lion.

Liam Neeson in a scene from “Taken 2.” (AP Photo/20th Century Fox, Magali Bragard). ‘Taken 2’ has defended its box office title which has over taken ‘Argo’ starring Ben Affleck. This past weekend’s other wide releases included ‘Argo,’ ‘Seven Psychopaths’ and ‘Here Comes The Boom.’

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Aries (Mar. 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Don’t nitpick yourself or others ... there’s no time. Get going on those projects through which you want to make a difference, and exceed expectations. The news is all good.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 6 -- You’re pushed to be creative, and end up with abundance. Others come to you for advice, which is good, but it could also be exhausting. Make sure you take care of yourself and get plenty of rest.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is an 8 -- You achieve a lot now. Beat the deadline. Get more for less with shrewd planning. Rely on the power of love again. Tread lightly, and avoid future upsets and erosion.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Give away unneeded junk. Joy expands to fill the space. You’re very attractive now, but could also be intensely emotional. Exercise caution. Send someone else ahead.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- You get past a difficult moment and on to something beautiful. You’re stronger, thanks to love and persistence. You’re also brilliant. Offer encouragement to others.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Grasp opportunities for abundance, which is available on many levels. Watch where you’re going. Get another perspective. Friends help you make a connection. Create your own ticket to your dreams.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Keep most of what you know under your hat. The challenges coming in help you advance to the next level. Learn how to win at a new game. Big changes increase productivity.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 5 -- It’s an excellent moment for pushing old lim-its aside. Quick, decisive action is required. You feel loved. Trust a sibling’s advice. Increased efficiency leads to more money.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- You’re very lucky now and becoming a master. Friends and family come first, espe-cially now. Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Emote for effect when expressing the story.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- This could be a very productive Monday. Hit the ground running to create new possi-bilities in your career. Continue to ask neces-sary questions, even if they seem dumb. Build a strong foundation.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- Don’t be afraid to let your partner or a friend take the lead. But still watch your step. Climbing up provides a new perspec-tive. Don’t get too comfortable. Reach out even farther.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 5 -- You may have to let go of a preconception to advance. Increase your level of fun, and your productivity rises, too. Your work speaks well of you.

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SportsMonday, October 15, 2012 The Daily Campus, Page 9

A 3-4 conference record may not look impressive, but the UConn women’s volleyball team’s record in Big East Conference play does not say as much as the individ-ual improvement that has been increasingly evident throughout the season and the valuable experience being gained by the team.

This weekend, UConn faced two opponents in that sit in the top five of the Big East standings and held their own against both.

Friday night was a dramatic affair at Gampel Pavilion as the Huskies came back from a 2-0 def-icit to force a fifth set, the second time they have played a tiebreaker this season, before falling to the Cincinnati Bearcats (8-13, 6-2).

The Huskies (12-10, 3-4) then fell to the No. 15 Cardinals (18-3, 7-1) on Sunday 3-1. Despite even-tually losing the match, UConn made the defending Big East champions earn every point they got.

UConn won the first set 25-21

and looked like they were playing with more energy than they had all season. After dropping the second set 25-18, the Huskies lost a five-point lead late in the third and lost out in the tiebreaker 26-24. They then started out rather slow in the fourth set, but fought back before falling 25-22.

“I think we’ve proven that we can absolutely hang with any-body,” said Head Coach Holly Strauss-O’Brien. “We can beat anybody and we can absolutely lose to anybody. It’s about really us, you know, us taking care of the ball and eliminating errors.”

With eight games left in the regular season, the Huskies are in a spot where they need to continue playing the determined style of volleyball that have demonstrated recently. Playing to their advantage is the fact that they are through the toughest part of their schedule. Only one of the Huskies’ remaining opponents has a winning record in Big East play.

“We still have our best ball to come,” said Strauss-O’Brien. “We’re now done the toughest part of our conference schedule. The

rest of it’s still a grind, still tough. We still have to take care of the ball, but I think now that we know that we can hang with the best of them, anything can happen.”

UConn will travel to South Florida and Pittsburgh next week-end for two big matches in terms of positioning near the middle of the Big East standings. While her team is through the toughest part of their schedule, Strauss-O’Brien knows that there is still a lot of work to do.

“The rest of our schedule is still tough,” she said. “Everyone’s out for blood and no one can take any day for granted. I think going down to South Florida, playing on the road is always hard. They always have a great environment.”

Come tournament time, the experience of the tight matches they have been playing could ben-efit the Huskies. Louisville had only lost 20 of their 75 sets enter-ing Sunday and the inexperience nearly cost them.

“It’s gonna help us come cham-pionship time,” Strauss-O’Brien said. “If we face up against Louisville or Cincinnati in the first or second round of the Big East

Tournament we know we’re right there. Anyone can beat anybody in this league and I’m excited to see our group continue to work hard and keep pushing forward.”

As important as the experi-ence of close matches may be, what could prove to be even more important is the emergence of role players that will help take the pres-sure off of the team’s three star players: attacking players Devon Maugle and Mattison Quayle and defensive star Kelsey Maving.

“One day soon everyone’s gonna step up at the same time and we’re gonna be pretty deadly so I’m excited for that day,” Strauss-O’Brien said.

The biggest surprise recently has been sophomore Karson Ratliff, who had 10 kills against Louisville and has played a more active role in the attack over the past three matches.

“It’s been really important for her to step up for us and I’m excited to see her do it,” Strauss-O’Brien said. “It’s just helped everyone else pitch in their kills as well. By Karson getting kills, it opens up the pin for Devon and

[Mattison] Quayle as well.”With all the ups and downs they

have faced during the season and the way the team is coming togeth-er, Strauss-O’Brien is confident that UConn will have a lot to say come November.

“I think our guys are ready and

we’re hungry and we’re gonna make this happen. We’re gonna get to that Big East Tournament and compete for a championship,” said Strauss-O’Brien.

A UConn volleyball player prepares to bump the ball in a recent game at Gampel Pavilion.LAUREN STRAZDIS/The Daily Campus

Huskies falter to No. 15 Louisville at homeBy Tim FontenaultStaff Writer

Timothy.Fontenault@UConn.edu

The UConn field hockey team continued their winning streak this weekend to remain undefeated at 15-0 this season. Saturday the Huskies hosted the Georgetown Hoyas in their afternoon Homecoming game. UConn outshot Georgetown 39-3 and had 17 corners com-pared to the Hoyas’ one.

“Georgetown is an up-and-coming team in the confer-ence. It was 4-0 at half. So we put the reserves in the second half to save the starters for today’s game. I think it was a good decision and the reserves played well,” head coach Nancy Stevens said. “We chal-lenged our starters to make sure the game was over by half time. We got the 4-0 lead. Job done, and we could rest them for the second game.” Vicki Arthur and Chrissy Davidson each scored one goal, while Louisa Boddy scored two goals to help the Huskies in their win.

Sunday UConn beat Stanford 1-0 making it an extra special Senior Day for the team.

“Up until the whistle blows to start the game it gives you that competitive edge. Everyone wants to play well for the seniors. But once the game starts I think you could

have asked a number of our players and they would have forgotten that it was senior day,” Stevens said with a smile. “But I will say that we have been very fortunate to win almost every senior day game we’ve played against nation-ally ranked teams. I’m very thankful that we had a great day for the seniors.”

Stevens was especially happy with the team’s great defense, which resulted in their shut out win. “The thing we were most concerned about was Stanford’s penalty corner execution… it’s outstanding. And so by limiting their cor-ner opportunities it helped us win the game. We were able to play for the win for 30 minutes and that’s significant because it’s difficult to play with a lead,” Stevens said. “You have to fight the natural inclination to protect the lead. The other team is obviously pushing so hard to even it up and yet I thought our team handled it so well for 30 minutes. We played with the lead and we were just able to finish it out. That’s the sign of a mature team that plays well under pressure and I think that bodes well in the future.” Although UConn won the game it was a hard fought win. Stanford’s defense was tough, face guarding Bolles for a majority of the game; and their goalie let in only one goal out of the numerous shots

dished. “They had two outstanding

defenders Becky Drew and Kelsey Harbin that really keyed in on Marie Elena because they knew she’s one of the keys to our offense. But hav-ing said that Marie Elena had the assist,” Stevens said. “She carved the end line and set up a perfect shot to Sophie and we won the game on that. So even though they did neutralize her in parts of the game she was able to break through and create the winning goal for us.”

UConn’s top competitor, Syracuse, had their first loss this past week against UMass, leaving the Huskies as the only undefeated team in the NCAA Division I. “We are always sup-portive of conference teams. We want all conference teams to be successful,” Stevens said. “That being said there is some-thing special at the moment since we are the only undefeat-ed team in Division I. It helps in recruiting; it conversely puts a huge target on your back because everyone wants to be the first team to beat you.”

With Syracuse’s big upset loss, UConn will have to work even harder to keep their record perfect. The Huskies will be put to the test on Thursday when they face Boston College.

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By Erica BrancatoCampus Correspondent

Field hockey remainsunbeaten at 15-0

The University of Connecticut women’s ice hockey team, lead by head coach Heather Linstad, is seeking its first win of the sea-son after losing all but one game in their first fove against Union, Rensselaer and Colgate.

UConn dropped its season open-er 3-2 at Union, despite holding a 2-1 lead through the first period on goals by sophomore forward Rachel Farrel and classmate Caitlin Hewes.

In game one of two versus Rensselaer, the Engineers jumped out to a 3-0 lead until midway through the second period, when UConn erased the 3 goal deficit in a 4-4 tie following overtime. In the second game, UConn junior goaltender Sarah Moses, a transfer from Niagara making her Husky debut, stopped 27 shots in the 5-3 loss, marking the Huskies at 0-2-1.

Colgate was slated next up on the list for the Huskies in a non-conference matchup. UConn dropped both games versus the Raiders, 5-3, and 4-1.

Sophomore forward Sarah MacDonnell is leading the Huskies in points so far with 6 through the

first 5 games. MacDonnell has tal-lied 2 goals on 15 shots to go along with 4 assists. Sophomore forward, Rachel Farrel, currently leads the team with 3 goals, 2 of which come on power-play opportunities.

Defenseman, Casey Knajdek, and Maude Blain and forward Kelly Horan round out the senior

class for the UConn women’s ice hockey team.

At 0-4-1, the Huskies are in search of their first win on the sea-son. UConn will be back in action at Maine on October 20th and October 21st.

By Joe CrisalliCampus Correspondent

A UConn hockey player skates the puck up ice in a game last year at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum. The Huskies will play their home opener against Syracuse on October 26.

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Women's hockey winless in first five games

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Pasqualoni stands by kicker despite rough outing

It was a case of Jekyll and Hyde Saturday afternoon at Rentschler Field.

For the first quarter, UConn was dominating the game in every way imaginable. The Huskies were not only successful on offense, but they were—for the first time all season—truly balanced.

UConn’s running and pass-ing games were perfectly in syn-chronization with one another. They were feeding off of one another. Max DeLorenzo—start-ing in place of the injured Lyle McCombs—was productive with his carries. He was averaging just over four yards per attempt and was getting good blocking down-field.

Huskies’ quarterback Chandler Whitmer completed eight of his ten passes for 159 yards in just the first quarter. He was on the same page with his receivers and tight ends and he looked comfortable taking his chances down field.

In the first quarter alone, UConn had two touchdowns and a field goal opportunity.

Defensively, UConn held Temple to close to nothing. The Huskies had 192 yards of total offense and held the Owls to a mere 11. Temple ran only nine offensive plays all quarter and those plays totaled barely enough yards for a first down.

Temple running back Montel Harris, the conference offensive player of the week, rushed the ball five times for only seven yards. He averaged a lowly 1.4 yards per carry.

The Owls were unable to stay on the field anywhere near long enough to get into a rhythm. The Huskies had the Owls cornered. This game looked like it was going to get very ugly. A blowout seemed imminent.

Yet inexplicably, at the end of overtime, the Owls were on top. UConn had lost 17-14 and the already dwindled Rentschler Field crowd was left dead silent and utterly confused.

The easy scapegoat at the end

of the game was kicker Chad Christen. He missed three field goals—from 36, 42 and 28 yards away—and another one was blocked.

“Sometimes in the role and the life of a kicker, it’s a lonely posi-tion, a tough position,” Pasqualoni said after the game.

He also said that as soon as he gets the chance, he is going to talk to Christen. Pasqualoni told media that he will simply encour-age him and tell him to keep at it. There will be good days and there will be bad days in the career of a kicker.

After the game, Christen faced the media—it should be noted that he was the first player to do so.

Christen said that he did not have a very good day of practice Thursday. He said that he was not feeling the ball come off his foot well. He admitted that Saturday’s performance was a direct reflec-tion of how he had practiced.

When asked what two missed kicks and a blocked field goal can do to a kicker’s psyche, Christen confessed that it can be devastat-

ing. But he also admitted that a large part of being a kicker is being able to put away the distrac-tions.

But Pasqualoni later made it a point to express that the loss was more than just Christen’s fault. He went on to say that in games like Saturday’s when things aren’t going as planned, a football team has to keep going and continue to play hard.

There were very few scoring opportunities like those UConn had in the first quarter. When the chance to put six points on the board did present itself, the Huskies did not do anything with them. The points just stopped coming.

Temple stepped up for the final three quarters and it seemed as though UConn was unable to match the Owls’ intensity.

The loss puts UConn at 3-4 with a 0-2 Big East record. UConn’s next game is Friday night in New York against rival Syracuse.

By Dan AgabitiSports Editor

Dan.Agabiti@UConn.eduUConn kicker Chad Christen attempts a field goal against the Temple Owls. Christen missed all four field goals he tried versus the Owls.

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Chris Coyer on third and six, forcing the Owls to punt.

The Huskies started their next drive at the Temple 37 and drove the ball down the field 63 yards, highlighted by a 42 yard touch-down reception from Whitmer to tight end Ryan Griffin. UConn took a 14 point lead into the sec-ond quarter as the Temple offense only managed one first down and just 11 total offensive yards in the first quarter of play.

The Owl’s offense came alive halfway through the second quar-ter when Temple running back Montel Harris broke a 24 yard touchdown run that gave the Owls their first points of the afternoon. UConn took a 14-7 lead into the locker room at halftime and pre-pared to go on defense to start the second half. The third quarter was an offensive stalemate as Temple and UConn traded field position back and forth, as neither team could find the end zone.

In the fourth quarter with less than three minutes left in the game, Christen had a chance to extend the Huskies lead to 10 points, but he failed to convert on 45 yard field goal attempt when his kick was blocked by the Owls. Pasqualoni said after the game that he would have done the same thing again in that situation.

“I have so much confidence in Chad, my mindset was there’s no way he’s missing this one,” Pasqualoni said. “We gave him a shot at it and we felt good about it, to tell you the truth, I would prob-ably do the same thing again.”

Temple would get one last chance to tie the game with time winding down; Coyer led the Owl’s down the field in a 12 play 75 yard drive that ended when Temple wide receiver Jalen Fitzpatrick reeled in a 14 yard touchdown pass to send the game into overtime.

In the overtime period, the Owls won the toss and chose to go on defense. UConn set up

Christen for a 28 yard field goal in the extra frame but his kick would sail wide right, giving Temple a chance to win the game. Owl’s kicker Brandon McManus nailed a 29 yard field goal to propel Temple to victory.

After the game, Christen said he’s looking forward to rebound-ing from his performance against the Owls. “It’s just a matter of me not doing my job and every time I got the opportunity, I have to be able to make those, that’s where the trust comes in with Pasqualoni,” said Christen. “I look forward to rebounding from this and staying strong. I know all my teammates are supporting me to the fullest and I’m going to go out there and do my best next week.

UConn will take the field in search of their first conference win when the Huskies head to Syracuse on Friday, October 19th.

Temple comes from behind to defeat Huskies in OT

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from KICKED, page 12

thought Wirth was going to kill somebody. He was livid.

I’m not all that great at read-ing emotions, but you don’t have to be Sigmund Freud to see that Wirth’s demeanor was one of total frustration.

He gave the “right” answer to the media. The one that said that the Temple touchdowns were the defense’s fault and that the big plays allowed Temple were “inexcusable.” He talked about film assessment and practice and blah blah blah.

But you could tell Wirth was really frustrated at the loss, frus-trated that time and time again, this team just can’t come up with a win.

Pasqualoni himself said that defense played exceptionally for 90 percent of the game. When playing the likes of a Temple, that should be enough. The offense should meet the defense somewhere half way. The offense needs to do its fair share.

This doesn’t look like a defense motivated to take the team on its shoulders. It looks like a defense that is sick of losing.

It doesn’t add up.Let’s just call a spade a spade

here. Things aren’t going well and Saturday’s game proved it. The crap has officially hit the fan.

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Agabiti: Things are not going well for

football

The UConn Huskies women’s volleyball team dropped two games this weekend to two of the top teams in the Big East. Both were closely contested, but the Huskies came up short against the Cincinnati Bearcats and the Louisville Cardinals.

The volleyball team took to the court Friday night as the opening act of UConn’s First Night with a large crowd on hand. UConn dropped the first set by a score of 21-25, but did not go away easy. UConn went on a 5-0 run behind Devon Maugle’s serve, finishing the game strong. Maugle led the team with 4 kills in the set while Brianna Datti added 5 digs to the effort. UConn would continue to struggle to settle down during the second set. The Huskies were defeated 17-25 as the Bearcats pulled away late in the game.

The Huskies mounted an amazing comeback starting with

the third set. UConn was offi-cially on the attack and was rid-ing the crowd’s energy. Although the game was close, the Huskies trailed for most of the set. UConn narrowly defeated the Bearcats, 25-24, and rode the momentum into the fourth set leading for almost the entire game and tak-ing the set in convincing fashion 25-22. This game would lead to an overtime fifth set to 15.

“I think we finally settled down,” said head coach Holly Strauss-O’Brien. “We stopped making errors. It’s been a com-mon theme all season that we are our own worst enemies. We started to take care of the ball and started killing it. We had good energy and really fed off the crowd going into game 5.”

The Huskies came up short in overtime, losing by a score of 8-15. Despite the loss, the team had some tremendous individ-ual performances, led by senior Mattison Quayle in kills with 15. Devon Maugle added 12 kills of her own and a personal best

17 digs for yet another double-double, while Kelsey Maving continued to lead her team with a strong 25 dig outing. Karson Ratliff continued to emerge as another scoring threat for the Huskies as she had 14 kills dur-ing the contest.

UConn had a quick turnaround as their next game was Sunday afternoon against the nation-ally ranked no. 15 Louisville Cardinals. However, the Huskies were not intimidated. UConn took the first set by a score of 25-21, landing the first punch on the Cardinals. Louisville fought back during the second set, winning by a score of 25-18. Connecticut had the opportu-nity to go up 2-1 in sets in the third game, leading 24-20, but Louisville rallied with six straight points to win the set 26-24. The Huskies put up a fight in the fourth set, but UConn was ultimately overpowered by the Cardinals, taking the set 25-22 and the game 3-2.

“We’re definitely getting bet-

ter,” said coach Strauss-O’Brien. “We proved today that we can absolutely hang with anybody. We’ve now done the toughest part of our conference schedule, but it’s still a grind and still tough, but now that we know we can hang with the best of them, anything can happen.”

Mattison Quayle earned yet another double-double with 14 kills and a personal best for the senior, 19 digs. Muagle contin-ued her strong weekend with a team high 15 kills and 9 digs. Marissa Prinzbach had an out-standing showing as she dished out 39 assists and 20 digs. Prinzbach and Kelsey Maving each led their team with 20 digs. Karson Ratcliff added 10 kills of her own to the effort.

The two losses drop the Huskies to 3-3 in the conference and 12-10 overall. UConn will continue their Big East schedule Friday against USF.

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Volleyball drops two games on weekend By Scott CarrollCampus Correspondent

by Ollie and sophomore Ryan Boatright for a game of “Know Your Teammate.” Similar to “The Newlywed Game,” each player/coach had to guess what the other had guessed in a series of questions to determine how well they knew each other. Ollie and Boatright won, 4-2.

The final event was the Slam Dunk Contest. Six judges—the most notable was UConn President Susan Herbst—congregated at half-court and gave players a score from 1-10 based on their dunk. The athletes had 30 seconds to complete their dunk. Of the four players involved, three were fresh-men: Breanna Stewart represent-ing the women’s team, and Philip Nolan and Omar Calhoun partici-pating from the men’s team. The defending champion Boatright was the lone upperclassman in the com-petition.

Omar Calhoun and Boatright both advanced to the final round. Calhoun got there by lobbing a pass to himself, catching the ball on his way up, extending it down to his knees and then flushing it home with his back turned to the rim. Calhoun received a score of

47. Boatright made the finals with a score of 58, when he took a self-lob off the baseline and windmilled it home.

In the finals, Omar Calhoun led off. He took off from the left elbow of the key with the ball in his left hand. When Calhoun was airborne, he took the ball put it between his legs and finished the dunk with his right hand, get-ting a score of 53 from the judg-es. Boatright tried an alley-oop where he jumped over junior guard Shabazz Napier’s head, but was unsuccessful in his attempt and time expired. Calhoun addressed the crowd after being crowned champion.

“It feels good out here with the crowd supporting me and hyping me up,” Omar Calhoun said. “[You guys] definitely helped me finish my dunks.”

The UConn men’s basketball team kicks off their season on Nov. 1 against American International at Gampel Pavillion. The women’s squad starts their season at Gampel the next day, when they take on Indiana University (PA).

from BASKETBALL, page 12

Omar Calhoun wins slam dunk contest

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NEW YORK (AP) — Anibal Sanchez and the Detroit Tigers made the plays, got a favorable call from an umpire and took advantage of their few chances at the plate.

The reward: a commanding lead in the AL championship series, and a trip home with their ace ready to start.

Sanchez shut down a Yankees lineup minus injured Derek Jeter, and Detroit won without any drama, beating New York 3-0 Sunday for a 2-0 cushion.

Yankees starter Hiroki Kuroda pitched perfect ball into the sixth inning. But the slumping New York hitters looked lost a day after their captain broke his ankle in the 12th inning of a 6-4 loss.

Making his second postseason start, Sanchez pitched three-hit ball deep into the game to make Tigers manager Jim Leyland’s handling of a bullpen without struggling closer Jose Valverde a lot easier.

The Tigers scored twice in the eighth after second base umpire Jeff Nelson missed a call on a two-out tag at second base. Yankees manager Joe Girardi argued, and was ejected on his 48th birthday.

Game 3 in the best-of-seven series is Tuesday night in Detroit, with reigning AL MVP Justin Verlander starting for the Tigers against Phil Hughes. Verlander went 2-0 in the division series versus Oakland, including a four-hit shutout with 11 strikeouts in the decisive Game 5.

The Tigers led 1-0 in the eighth and had Omar Infante on first with two outs. Austin Jackson singled and when Infante took a wide turn at second, right fielder Nick Swisher threw behind him.

Robinson Cano made a swipe tag as Infante made a head-first dive back to second. Cano missed Infante’s arm but brushed his body, replays clearly showed. But Nelson called Infante safe.

Cano and Girardi pleaded the call to no avail. Boone Logan replaced Kuroda and gave up an RBI single to pinch hitter Avisail Garcia to make it 2-0.

Girardi returned to lift Logan for Joba Chamberlain, and then he remained on the field to resume the argument. Red-faced with neck muscles bulging, Girardi could be seen shouting at Nelson, “You were right there. How could you miss it?” He was tossed by Nelson for his first postseason ejection.

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UConn ends season with two shutouts

With the fall season coming to close, the UConn softball team wraps up their last two games with back-to-back shutouts against UMaine, walking away from both with deci-sive 2-0 wins behind solid pitching.

“I like the improvement we saw every week into the fall,” said Coach Karen Mullins. “I’m pleased with what we did this fall…I think our veterans provided some good leadership and I think our freshman really pushed our upperclassmen to be bet-ter.”

This weekend, Krista Robustelli made her official visit to UConn to see what the soft-ball program has to offer. Currently a senior at Stamford High School and a potential new recruit for UConn, Robustelli plays short-stop for Stamford’s team, being named to the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference (FCIAC) All-FCIAC First Team at the end of last season. On Sunday, she was thoroughly impressed with the Huskies performance.

“It’s really the first I’ve seen from college play in a while,” said Robustelli. “Defense looked really nice…the hitting was good. It looked like they had a lot of backup pitch-ers, which was nice to see.”

In the first game, senior Kiki Saveriano took the mound against the Black Bears. After two rough pitches to start the game, she quickly turned the situation around and walked away with back-to-back strikeouts in the first inning. Saveriano pitched 4.1 innings, striking out seven and walking none. The Huskies’ defense picked up the rest of the slack, giving Saveriano a one-

hitter through 4.1 innings.“It was kind of an odd morning with the

weather,” said Saveriano. “So coming out, I threw a couple balls to begin with. I was a little nervous, but I got it together at the end.”

Coming in for the last 3.2 innings of the first game was freshman Alyson Ambler, who struck out one and gave up three hits along with a walk. Both Saveriano and Ambler combined for a four-hit shutout of the Black Bears. Ambler felt good about the team’s performance in the game, saying that the Huskies came out with a lot of energy. On a personal level, Ambler thought she had a strong performance, but stressed that there was room for improvement.

“[I was] just trying to finish up fall ball on a good note,” said Ambler. “I think I had a great fall, but there’s also room for improve-ment as well.”

In the second game, junior Katelyn Callahan came out to pitch for the Huskies, going for 4.0 innings and posting two strike-outs. Where Callahan couldn’t take care of the batter herself, the UConn defense sealed the deal, giving her a one-hitter through four innings. In the fifth inning, sophomore Lauren Duggan came out in relief, pitching 3.0 innings and striking out two. After only giving up one hit, Duggan combined with Callahan for a two-hit shutout in the second game.

“I felt like coming in I did really well,” said Duggan. “[My fastball] was working, it was going where it needed to and I was able to get it by them.”

The solid pitching of UMaine tamed most of UConn’s offense in both games. In the second inning of the first game, the Huskies brought in two runs with a combination

of singles and walks. In the second game, senior Marissa Guches came up to the plate and hit a two-run homer to put the Huskies on the board. Beyond those two spurts of offense, the team’s offense was fairly lim-ited.

By the conclusion of this fall season, the Huskies were able to make significant prog-ress in their defensive efforts. Mullins com-mented that she thought these two games were the team’s strongest defensive perfor-mances of the fall season. However, the team readily admitted that more consistency was needed at the plate. Going into the spring, Mullins wants to work with the players on making quicker adjustments at the plate. If they can keep their energy level up and stay motivated, the team expressed confidence that their 5-1 record this fall season will be a good indicator for a strong spring season.

“Based on what our team has shown so far, we can beat anyone if we play up to our potential,” said freshman Heather Fyfe. “With the strong bats in the lineup, our team as a whole puts a lot of pressure on the com-petition. Our defense has been very sound so far, and the pitchers go out there and battle every game.”

As for Robustelli’s potential future with the Huskies, there is still much time for her to decide where to attend. Whether or not she decides to commit to the school remains in question, but one thing is certain: this fall, the UConn softball team did not under-perform.

“It’s obviously better talent than I’ve seen in high school level,” said Robustelli “It looked like a good, solid team out there, came out with two wins.”

By Kyle ConstableCampus Correspondent

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» INSIDE SPORTS TODAYP.11: UConn ends season with two shutouts/ P.10: Coach Pasqualoni stands by kicker despite rough outing/ P.9: Huskies fall to Louisville

It doesn’t add up

Dan Agabiti

» AGABITI, page 10

KICKED IN THE TEMPLE

It was a game of missed opportunities for the UConn football team, as the Huskies fell 17-14 to the Temple Owls in overtime at Rentschler Field.

UConn kicker Chad Christen missed four field goals including one in overtime in the loss for Huskies. With the loss to Temple, the Huskies are now 3-4 on the season and winless in Big East play. Head coach Paul Pasqualoni acknowledged the tough day that Christen had. “Obviously Chad had a tough day,” Pasqualoni said. “Sometimes in the world and life of a kicker it’s a lonely position and a tough position. I’m sure he’s tough and will move on from it.”

UConn quarterback Chandler Whitmer threw for 293 yards and two touchdowns, both coming

in the first quarter. On UConn’s second drive of the game, Whitmer

and the Huskies capped off a seven play 66 yard drive with a 15 yard touchdown pass to sophomore wide receiver, Michael Smith. It was Smith’s 3rd career touchdown reception and first of the 2012 season. Temple’s following pos-session was stopped at mid-field after UConn linebacker Sio Moore sacked Temple quarterback

» TEMPLE, page 10UConn quarterback Chandler Whitmer drops back to attempt a pass against the Temple Owls at Rentschler Field. Whitmer threw for 293 yards and two touchdown passes in the loss at home.

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Huskies fall to Temple Owls in second straight Big East loss

The easiest scapegoat for Saturday’s loss to Temple is Chad Christen. It’s almost too easy to peg the blame on him. He missed three field goals, two of which—the 36 and 28 yard-ers—were chip shots for a col-lege kicker. Then a fourth was blocked by the Owls.

Logic goes to say that with three missed field goals, the Huskies should have had 23 points at the end of regulation, instead of 14, and the game should have ended with a UConn win.

If only the game were that simple. Saturday’s loss was not Christen’s fault.

It was a group failure, a total meltdown. This wasn’t a one game thing. Things in Storrs are not as they might seem.

In the first quarter, UConn was lighting up Temple as if the Owls were the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree. Whitmer threw for 159 yards in the first quarter alone. The game was headed for a rout.

Then, inexplicably, UConn just seemed to get soft on offense.

Afterward, Pasqualoni said that the Huskies didn’t let up on the gas. He said that it was sim-ply a case of Temple bringing more pressure for the remain-der of the game and the Owls’ defense did better.

So if the Temple defense stepped up and brought more pressure, where was UConn’s increased pressure? What hap-pened to the momentum? What happened to the Chandler Whitmer that threw for 159 yards in just one quarter?

How does an offensive attack that dominating, that balanced and that confident all of a sud-den stop scoring? If it’ not a matter of UConn going soft, then what was it?

It doesn’t add up.Once again, when asked about

the offensive line, Pasqualoni talked about improvement. He talked about the linemen taking steps as a unit and he talked about group development.

Yet just a few minutes later, he mentioned that the Owls sacked Whitmer while rush-ing only three defensive line-men. I don’t care what kind of stunts, pulls, shifts or whatever Temple did. It’s a three-on-five advantage. If the linemen have been improving to the extent that Pasqualoni is talking about week after week, things like that wouldn’t be happening.

Whitmer was sacked six times Saturday, tied for the most of any game this season. That doesn’t sound like improvement to me. That sounds like regres-sion.

It doesn’t add up. One can’t help but wonder

how much longer this defense can take games like this.

Game after game after game, the Huskies’ defense puts the team into position to win the contest. Game after game after game, UConn opponents are suffocated for almost all of the match. Game after game after game, the offense doesn’t step up.

In last Tuesday’s press con-ference, Pasqualoni said that as a defender, you relish in times like that and see them as a chance for the defense to make the play that wins the game.

Yet, when defensive tackle Ryan Wirth came into the inter-view room after the game, I was happy that there was a police-man in the room with me. I

By Tyler MorrisseyAssociate Sports Editor

Basketball season begins with First Night

Men’s hockey falls to UMass in season opener

The official beginning to the UConn basketball season kicked off Friday night at Gampel Pavilion with the annual UConn First Night. Fans got their first look at the 2012-2013 players and coaches from both the men’s and women’s bas-ketball teams.

After a disappointing season that ended with a first round-exit in the NCAA Tournament, the men’s basketball team is experiencing its biggest transition since 1986. For the first time in 26 years, the face of the University of Connecticut, Jim Calhoun was not introduced as the head men’s basketball coach. Instead, a former player and coach under Calhoun, Kevin Ollie, has been chosen to lead the Huskies up the stairs and back to college basketball greatness.

“I do want this team to be the best attitude team in America,” Ollie said. “I want you to work hard, I want you to love your teammates and especially love this university.”

On the other side, Geno Auriemma enters his 27th season as UConn women’s basketball head coach. Auriemma’s team is expected to be one of the top teams again this season with most of last year’s Final Four team returning as well as the addition of highly-touted freshman Breanna Stewart.

The festivities began with player and coaches introduc-tions. Each player emerged through a haze of smoke and added a dance to the delight of a crowd of over 6,000.

A tribute video of last year’s basketball season was fol-lowed by a video from Jim Calhoun. He thanked the fans and players for 26 great years at UConn, adding “UConn will always be my baby but now it is Kevin’s turn.”

Although, the official announcement of Ollie as the new men’s basketball coach came a month ago, the moment for Ollie to address the UConn student body came Friday night.

“To my squad, they’re the reason I stand here. They didn’t transfer. They stayed,” Ollie said with a microphone in his hand. Ollie was refer-encing three contributors from last season’s team leaving UConn in lieu of their ban from post-season play, most notably Missouri senior Alex Oriakhi. “And with their loyalty, I had to come back. Thank coach [Jim Calhoun] for giving me this opportunity.”

He was interrupted by a chant that formed in the rafters of Gampel Pavilion. Slowly the chant grew, “Kev-in Oll-ie,” followed by five rhythmic claps. There was no sign of Calhoun; just Ollie in the center of the court.

The first contest of the night was the three-point competition. Three players from the men’s and women’s teams had a minute to make as many three point shots from five designated spots around the arc. The first three balls in a rack were worth one point and the final ball of each rack was a “money ball worth two. Sophomore DeAndre Daniels and two freshmen Leon Tolksdorf and Omar Calhoun represented the men’s team. Sophomore Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis, red-shirt senior Caroline Doty and freshman Megan Tuck were the shooters from the women’s squad. Mosqueda-Lewis won the contest with 20 points, while Doty was second with 16. The low-scorer was Daniels, who only managed six points.

The fans got involved in the next competition: Ultimate Knockout. Eleven students were selected from the Gampel crowd to participate in the contest along with all 11 players from the men’s team and all 11 women’s players. Everybody got in line and shot a free throw.

Because the game took on such a slow pace, DJ Joe D switched up the rules mid-game and made the shoot-ers back up to the three-point line. 3rd-semester pre-athletic training major Jack Adams was the last student on the floor that didn’t play basketball for UConn. Due to time con-straints, DJ Joe D interrupted the game when he noticed this and gave the ball to Adams. Adams was told that if he made his next shot, he’d be declared the victor. The Scarborough, Me. native nailed his three-point shot from the top of the arc and caused Gampel to erupt.

By Danny Maher & T.J. SouhlarisStaff Writers

UConn senior defenseman Alex Gerke plays the puck in a game at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum.

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The UConn men’s hockey team dropped its first game of the season on Friday, losing 4-1 against Massachusetts at the Mullins Center in Amherst, Mass.

Senior UConn goaltender Garrett Bartus did reach a milestone in the loss, saving 35 shots, moving him to No. 3 all-time in Atlantic Hockey Association history with 2,851 saves.

The Huskies, who were No. 3 in the nation last year on the power play at 25.7 percent, went a meager 1-8 and only produced nine shots with the advantage in their first game of the 2012-13 season.

Special teams overall was a cause for concern for Bruce Marshall’s team as that is where UMass took advan-tage. Besides going 1-8 on the

power play, the Huskies pen-alty kill unit was forced onto the ice ten times and allowed the Minutemen to score twice on power plays.

UMass went up early taking advantage of a tripping penalty on UConn sophomore Jacob Poe five minutes in. Just over a minute into the power play, Colin Shea beat Bartus with a slap shot.

UConn’s equalizer and lone goal came on a power play five minutes later. Freshman Tyler Helton picked up his own rebound off a shot from the right side and beat Minutemen goaltender Kevin Boyle for his first career goal to tie the score at 1-1.

The tie game would not last long. With three minutes remaining in the first peri-od, UMass junior forward Brandon Gracel picked up his second point of the period with an even strength goal to put

UMass up for good.UConn had five power plays

in the second period and failed to convert on all of them. During those five stints with an extra skater, the Huskies were only able to attempt six shots.

UMass put the game out of UConn’s grasp two min-utes into the third period when Steven Guzzo beat Bartus for his second point of the night. Six minutes later, a power play goal by Darren Rowe made it 4-1 and was the nail in the coffin on a long night for the Huskies.

The Huskies will not play again until Oct. 26 when they open their AHA campaign at Holy Cross. They return home the next day to play No. 10 Union, a Frozen Four team last season.

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First year UConn men’s basketball head coach Kevin Ollie, speaks to students and Husky fans at UConn’s annual First Night at Gampel Pavilion

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