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Monday, October 24, 2011Volume CXVIII No. 38 www.dailycampus.com
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NEWS/ page 2
Project 3510 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Benton
This eclectic and evolving com-pilation of video works was chosen by 35 international curators cel-ebrates the global reach that video has achieved as a contemporary art medium today.
ArcGIS.com Workshop2 to 3 p.m.
Babbidge, Electronic Classroom 1
This hands-on workshop will pro-vide participants with an opportunity to learn how to create maps using ArcGIS.com which can integrate data from multiple sources.
Erasing Borders 201111 a.m. to 3 p.m.Jorgensen Gallery
In its eighth year, Erasing Borders is curated by Vijay Kumar and produced by the Indo-American Arts Council. Jorgensen Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 11-3 and before programs.
Shut Up, I’m Talking7 to 9 p.m.
Student Union Theatre
Lecture from Jewish-American male Gregory Levey from the United Nations.
What’s on at UConn today...
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INSIDE NEWS: NEWSPAPER: HAYES BRAGGED OF 17 KILLINGS
Sunshine
FOCUS/ page 7
No. 1 UConn ties Georgetown on Senior Night at Morrone
EDITORIAL: LGBT INCLUSIVENESS APPROPRIATE ON COLLEGE APPS
COMMENTARY/page 4
SPORTS/ page 14
Question of sexual orien-tation fit for applications.
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OPERATIC ENDEAV-ORS IN STORRS
Convicted murder Steven Hayes writes letter about murders.
HUSKIES ARE FIT TO BE TIED
Pumpkinfest gave students the opportunity to carve pumpkins and sample some autumn themed cuisine Friday afternoon on Fairfield Way.
Pumpkinfest brings the taste of fall
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Storrs Center to offer new off-campus housing
UConn students anticipating new options for off-campus hous-ing from the new The Oaks on the Square apartment complex may be disappointed to find high costs and little flexibility for the college lifestyle.
With monthly rental fees start-ing at $999 for a studio apartment and escalating to $2,654 for a three-bedroom apartment, money-conscious students are wary about whether or not the new amenities offered are worth the price and are uncertain if the apartments will be a viable option for students look-ing to leave on-campus housing.
“I don’t think new appliances are necessarily what college stu-dents look for in an apartment,” said political science major Justine
O’Brien. “I know for me at least, price is the number one factor.”
The Oaks will boast ameni-ties such as stainless steel kitchen appliances, granite countertops, laminate hard wood floors and ceramic tile – all features that may be lost on students.
“I’m a college student on a restricted budget,” said psycholo-gy major Aileen Roberts. “ I don’t need new appliances to make me feel comfortable at home.”
Occupants also have the option of renting a parking spot for $60 a month and may have pets for a one-time fee of $300.
The Oaks are entering the stu-dent housing market as its high-est priced living option. Students living in Charter Oak two-bed-room apartments on campus pay approximately $925 monthly, util-ities included. Similarly priced off-campus housing options include
two-bedroom Celeron Apartments for $1,260 per month and two-bed-room Renwood Apartments for $950 per month. Although neither can claim the location or amenities of The Oaks, they are much more affordable than the new complex’s $2,099 monthly rate.
UConn’s Off-Campus Student Services, through the Office of Student Services & Advocacy, will be carrying The Oaks on the Square’s information for students searching for housing options.
The Oaks’ community manager Katie Andrighetti said that “a little bit of everyone” has expressed interest in the apartments. The apartments are open to anyone, and the office has already received around 35 residency applications for the August 2012 opening.
The proximity to the UConn campus and the shops and restau-rants on Route 195 give The Oaks
an ideal location for students who feel tied to campus, but the apart-ments may be better suited for an older market, according to uni-
versity spokesman Michael Kirk. “The housing constructed at Storrs
Students create hybrid go-cart
`Picture this: a go-cart used for pleasure and recreation that is also showing energy initiative. Sound unreal?
Well, look no further than University of Connecticut alums who have made this dream come true.
As part of their capstone senior design project, Andrew Coats ’11 (Engineering) and John Guiliano ’11 (Engineering) recently dem-onstrated a custom designed go-kart with a hybrid-electric drive-train. Known as a Hydration on Command, or HOC go-cart, the project was overseen by Ugur Pasaogullari, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering.
Further partners in the proj-ect include Rolls-Royce Naval Marine Inc. of Essex, Conn., Yardney Technical Products Inc. of Pawcatuck, Conn. and Algalco LLC of Indianapolis.
They designed a hybrid drive-train concept and converted an existing battery driven go-cart into a hybrid go-cart that combines the
Voter registration deadline looms for electionsWith the 2011 elections just
around the corner, UConn stu-dents have a chance to partici-pate in the American political system and let their voices be heard. Students interested in voting will first have to ensure that their voter registration is turned in prior to the voter registration deadline. Oct. 25 will be the last day for mail-in voter registration, while poten-tial voters can continue to reg-ister in person until 8:00 p.m. on Nov. 1.
“Anyone who wants a say in the future direction of their community in these tough times should make sure they either mail in their registration card or fill out a registration card in person,” said Secretary of the State Denise Merill in an announcement remind-ing potential voters about the deadline. “Crucial budget and
educational issues are facing many towns in Connecticut as voters go to the polls to choose municipal leaders this year, so it is imperative to register.”
Many of the political orga-nizations around campus are also encouraging students to register for vote. “It’s impor-tant because students need to have a voice in the politi-cal process as much as every-body else does,” said UConn College Republicans President Joseph Gasser, and 5th-semes-ter Political Science major. “Students sometimes like to be advocating on campus but sometimes they’re not even registered to vote. The point is that they need to allow them-selves to participate in the pro-cess,” Gasser added.
“Students can have such a profound impact in elections,” said UConn College Democrats secretary Amanda Hoey, 7th-semester Political Science major. “I would just really like to urge everyone to make sure
that they’re registered to vote and that they go out to vote on Election Day.”
While the College Republicans and College Democrats are encouraging students to get registered, the Alternative Political Society is taking a slightly different stance. “I think a personal decision you have to make is whether you want to partici-pate in the system and change it that way or to abstain instead,” said Alternative Political Society president Stephanie Blasnik, 5th-semester History/Psychology double major. “I think voting is one part of the system. In the past, for me personally, it wasn’t the answer.”
Both the College Republicans and the College Democrats said that they would provide inter-ested students with voter reg-istration forms, and they also said that they could mail in the forms on behalf of the students. Hoey added that students could
obtain forms from the registrar of voters at the Audrey P. Beck Municipal Building. Potential voters can also go online to www.sots.ct.gov to download a voter registration form or an application for an absentee bal-
lot. Students can obtain their registration forms from any of these institutions.
“Just make sure your voice is heard,” said Hoey.
By Olivia BalsingerStaff Writer
» SENIOR, page 2
By Christian FeacteauCampus Correspondent
By Jessica HooperCampus Correspondent
This August File photo shows the Storrs Center project, which intends to bring housing and business to the area including new off-campus housing options.
ARI MASON/The Daily Campus
A student fills out a voter registration form in preperation for the local elections that will take place next month.
ASHLEY POSPISIL/The Daily Campus
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NEW HAVEN (AP) — A Connecticut man convicted in a deadly home invasion bragged in a letter from death row that he has killed 17 people and col-lected victims’ sneakers as tro-phies, and he also disparaged his accomplice as “not even worthy” of being his partner in crime, according to a newspaper report.
The New Haven Register reported Sunday that it had acquired a letter that Steven Hayes allegedly wrote from pris-on, where he has been sentenced to death for the 2007 Cheshire home invasion that killed a moth-er and her two daughters.
Hayes’ convicted accomplice, Joshua Komisarjevsky, had attempted to have Hayes’ let-ters introduced into evidence as part of his defense case after they were confiscated by prison authorities. A judge rejected the request, calling the letters’ claims uncorroborated, vague and unre-liable.
The letters have not been pub-licly released, and the Register did not specify in its report how it obtained access to the letter it attributes to Hayes.
Hayes and Komisarjevsky have been convicted of murder, sex-ual assault and other offenses in the July 2007 deaths of Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela. They also were convicted of assault and other crimes against Dr. William Petit, the lone survivor.
The sentencing phase of Komisarjevsky’s trial starts Tuesday. Prosecutors are asking a jury to impose capital punishment in his case, too.
Connecticut officials confis-cated four handwritten letters allegedly written by Hayes to a North Carolina recipi-ent identified only as “Lynn.” In the letters, he claimed he had killed 17 people, commit-ted numerous sexual assaults of drugged victims in motels, taped 16 hours of one kid-napping and assault, and kept a collection of some victims’ sneakers as trophies.
Hayes’ sneaker fetish came out during his trial. Komisarjevsky’s attorneys say an unspecified num-ber of women’s sneakers were seized from his house and that
17-year-old Hayley Petit’s sneak-ers were found in the vehicle Hayes used during the home invasion.
State’s Attorney Michael Dearington and an FBI spokes-man have declined to say whether Hayes’ purported crimes are being
investigated or whether authori-ties are aware of 17 unsolved homicides matching details in his letters.
Hayes and Komisarjevsky blamed each other during their trials for escalating the violence that left the Petit women dead.
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Police: Suspect aims stolen van at state trooper
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NEW HAVEN (AP) — Connecticut State Police say an East Haven man driving a stolen van remains hospitalized after he drove toward a trooper and the officer fired his gun at him.
Police say 36-year-old Giuseppe Angileri was taken Saturday night to Yale New Haven Hospital, where he had surgery. His con-dition was not immediately disclosed Sunday afternoon.
The trooper, six-year veteran Jon Naples, suffered an undisclosed minor injury and was treated at a local hospital and released. State police say Naples will be assigned to administrative duties while the case is investigated.
Police say Naples spotted the van Saturday in New Haven and approached it at a stop light.
They say the driver pulled away as the trooper approached, then hit three vehicles and drove “directly” toward Naples, who fired his gun.
State lawmakers return to vote on jobs bills
HARTFORD (AP) — State lawmakers are returning to the Capitol to vote on two bills intended to help create new jobs in Connecticut.
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has called a special session for Wednesday.There appears to be more bipartisan support for the wide-ranging
jobs package, which includes ideas from Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration as well as Democratic and Republican lawmakers.
The plan calls for spending $516 million over two years on numerous initiatives, including assistance to small businesses.
Republican House Leader Lawrence Cafero said he’s not ready yet to support a second bill. It calls for eventually spending $291 million toward a new genetic research lab at the University of Connecticut in Farmington.
The Jackson Lab of Maine has said the $1.1 billion facility will attract world-class researchers.
Man convicted of killing bouncer gets 33 years
WATERBURY (AP) — A Meriden man convicted of killing a bouncer outside a nightclub has been sentenced to 33 years in prison in proceedings that set off a courthouse brawl.
The Republican-American reports that family and supporters of vic-tim Lawrence Mates were visibly upset by the 33-year sentence handed down Friday to 21-year-old Andre West of Meriden.
West was convicted of shooting Mates while the bouncer dealt with an unruly customer in May 2009 at the Swizzle Stix bar in Waterbury. A motive has not been revealed.
The newspaper reports court marshals had call police for help to stop a brawl in the hallway afterward between supporters of West and Mates.
West pleaded guilty to murder in July, but said Friday he wanted to rescind the plea. A judge refused his request.
Woman charged in state bank threats back in court VERNON (AP) — A Coventry woman is returning to court to
face allegations she phoned in bomb threats to banks to prevent her husband from inquiring about their money problems.
Forty-five-year-old Nicolina McLean is to appear in Rockville Superior Court on Monday, after having her first in-depth meeting with her public defender.
She hasn’t yet entered pleas to three felony threatening charges.Police say McLean hid the loss of her job and money problems
from her husband for nearly a year.When he began noticing the troubles and planned to go to their bank
to ask questions, police say McLean called in bogus bomb threats to two banks in Coventry and another in Mansfield last month.
McLean’s public defender declined to comment on the allega-tions. She’s being held on $45,000 bail.
State group sponsors student robot project
HARTFORD (AP) — Students from three Connecticut cities will try to improve their science and technology skills by learning to build robots.
About 75 high school sophomores from East Hartford, New Britain and Waterbury will build, program and test robots at the Connecticut Science Center in Hartford on Oct. 31.
The students are part of a program of the Connecticut Business and Industry Association. The project encourages underrepresented youth to excel in science, technology, engineering and math.
Students will develop robot sensor systems that prevent the types of driver error that cause car crashes.
power of a hydrogen fuel cell with a battery pack.
So what exactly is a “hybrid go-cart” anyways?
“The hybrid design is similar to hybrid vehicles on the road today, a fuel cell replaces the internal combustion engine,” said Pasaogullari. “The hybrid go-cart can run on batteries and batter-ies can be charged from external power sources , like plug-in mode, or they can be charged by the fuel cell during cruising. Depending on the power demand, batteries can supply all the power required or they can assist the fuel cell in hybrid mode.”
Pasaogullari continued that once the senior design project was over, the invention was continued in Summer 2011 by integrating a Hydrogen-On-Command (HOC) module by Algalco, Inc., which generates the hydrogen for the fuel cell on board instead of relying on stored hydrogen.
The idea for the go-carts was conceived in Spring 2010, when Coats and Guiliano took a class on fuel cells taught by Pasaogullari, where one of the requirements was to design a project involving
a fuel cell. “When we got approval from
Prof. Pasaogullari, we asked him if there were any fuel cells avail-able for us to use…If we could troubleshoot the fuel cell, repair it, and get it back into working order, we could use it.,” said Coats of he and Giuliano’s process. “It ended up taking us the entire semester to fix the fuel cell, and as a result, fixing the fuel cell turned out to be our class project.”
Coats continued that his main barrier in designing the go-cart was the electrical concepts and laws that would govern how they designed and then built the go-cart.
So what is to make of this new technology?
Coats believes that in this econ-omy, it would be hard to justify selling a fuel cell powered go-cart when, for much cheaper, one can by a gas or battery-powered vehicle.
“At this point, it will be tough to justify pursuing a business pro-ducing fuel cell powered vehicles unless one has a lot of capitol at their disposal and a group of inves-tors willing to take a chance on an up-and-coming technology.”
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Senior design project carried into summer 2011
Center will reach out to a mix of occupants – young professionals, empty nesters, faculty, graduate students and others.” Kirk said the residential complex is expected to “relieve pent-up demand for graduate, staff, and alumni hous-ing in a market that needs quality, upscale housing.”
Even some students agree that the housing might not be the best-suited options for their needs.
“I think the amenities create more of a luxury environment than college kids expect and are used to, which makes me think it’s not going to be college students but more professors and an older crowd of renters who are inter-ested in the apartments,” O’Brien said.
The building project is part of the larger Storrs Center Development, which aims to transform down-town Mansfield into a more metro-politan area, creating 700 residen-tial units and about 200,000 square feet of retail space, according to the Storrs Center website.
LeylandAlliance LLC, a real estate developing company that has created similar mixed-use neighborhood areas in Virginia, New York, and South Carolina, was hired for the proj-ect. LeylandAlliance is based in Tuxedo Park, N.Y., and is working with Education Realty Trust and Mansfield Downtown Partnership to create “a great place to live, work, play, and learn at the cross roads of the Town of Mansfield and the University of Connecticut” where both the town and the uni-versity can “come together to wel-come community, residents, stu-dents, and visitors.”
The Education Realty Trust, which describes itself as “America’s leader in collegiate housing,” will oversee the first two phases of the Storrs Center con-struction, which will include the 290 residential units in The Oaks on the Square complex, in addi-tion to 70,000 square feet of retail space. These first two phases will
cost an estimated $65.8 million and are scheduled for completion between 2012 and 2013.
The entire Storrs Center project will cost an estimated $220 mil-lion. The Mansfield Downtown Partnership will receive $750,000 in funding from UConn over a nine-year period, which will cover the cost of renovations to what is currently the Lakeside Apartments, and in the future will house University Communications, the Nayden Health Clinic and offices involved with the School of Fine Arts. The funding will also pay for water and sewage systems for the areas.
Although the downtown project is expected to excite and invigo-rate the town of Mansfield, some students remain dissatisfied with the price of The Oaks apartments.
Students who live in off-cam-pus residential areas rarely have to worry about dealing with neigh-bors who are not students, but the mixed appeal of The Oaks could create issues between stu-dents and older residents who may find themselves in unfamiliar and awkward living situations.
“ I wouldn’t want to live around other people who aren’t college students,” Roberts said “there’s too much of a lifestyle difference.”
Although Andrighetti and The Oaks are still waiting to hear from their attorneys before making poli-cies about guests and visitors, stu-dents are already aware of potential issues. “The only reason I would really consider living off-campus would be to play my music louder and not be bothered by an RA or neighbor,” O’Brien said. “ Off-campus housing at UConn is gen-erally for those who want a more party-friendly atmosphere.”
Although the downtown project and The Oaks apartments were expected to create new opportuni-ties for the UConn community, at least in the realm of new housing, undergraduates may find them-selves disappointed.
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$220 million project offers more than housing
Newspaper: Hayes bragged of 17 killings
This July 2007 police file photo released by the Connecticut Judicial Branch as evidence presented Wednesday, Sept. 21, in the Joshua Komisarjevsky trial in New Haven, Conn., Superior Court, shows a fire-damaged portion of the Petit home in Cheshire.
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ROTC programs return to Ivy League universities
NEW HAVEN (AP) — Yale sophomore Andrew Hendricks has gotten used to receiving strange looks when he crosses the Ivy League campus in his Air Force uniform.
Hendricks, the only Air Force cadet at Yale, wears the uni-form on days he drives to the University of Connecticut to train with the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, a program that had been barred from his uni-versity until faculty agreed to welcome it back beginning next fall. Judging from the reaction of Yale students, he does not expect much of a stir when cadets start conducting drills
amid the Gothic buildings in New Haven.
“I never get anything nega-tive,” said Hendricks, 19, of Fairfax Station, Va. “I think it’s mainly that people are really curious because they don’t see a lot of military influence on campus.”
Four decades after Vietnam War protesters cheered the departure of ROTC programs from some Ivy League universi-ties, their return is bringing little more than a symbolic change to campuses where a new genera-tion of students is neither orga-nizing against them nor lining up to enlist.
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Con artist who helped Google probe to be sentenced
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A massive federal investiga-tion that resulted in Google Inc. forfeiting $500 million this year to settle criminal claims over its advertising began with the 2008 arrest of a jet-setting career con artist, who took fed-eral agents in Rhode Island into the underground world of ped-dling pills online.
David Whitaker, 36, final-ized the decision to help fed-eral agents investigate Google within six weeks of being arrested in California after being expelled from Mexico, where he told authorities he spent his time selling drugs online, according to his plea agreement. He had already served three prison sentences and was staring down a max-imum sentence of 65 years in Rhode Island for bilking $8.7 to $22.6 million from small businesses and a credit card company during the mid-2000s, court records show.
The plea deal he signed with
federal prosecutors offered some salvation. If he agreed to help the government with an investigation, prosecutors would recommend a punish-ment “at the lowest point of sentences” when Whitaker learns his fate in the fraud case on Dec. 2 in U.S. District Court in Providence.
That was the start of his two-year stint using his expe-rience to help federal agents expose how operators exploited Google’s automated ad system known as AdWords to promote illegal Canadian pharmacies to American consumers.
But Whitaker’s role in the Google case is cold comfort to those who say they were ripped off by his Rhode Island electronics equipment provid-er, Mixitforme Inc. He pleaded guilty in 2008 to wire fraud, conspiracy and other charges.
“It’s wrong for the feds to use him,” said Matthew Grosso, 47, who says he lost his Stony Brook, N.Y., business and $1.3
million after his dealings with Whitaker went sour in 2005.
“You’re just perpetuating this guy’s god mentality.”
Whitaker’s victims paint a picture of a high-flying execu-tive who cheated them out of their small businesses.
Mixitforme began selling discount electronics in 2005 with Whitaker and a partner at the helm. The company claimed it had strong ties to overseas suppliers that made its prices about 30 percent lower than its competitors, officials said. The firm also claimed to be an authorized distributor for Apple and Motorola and said it had a special arrangement with Sony to sell its products. Federal prosecutors say those were all lies.
But Whitaker still found a way to lure clients. Grosso recalled visiting warehouses in New York and New England to look at Whitaker’s stockpiles of consumer electronics, includ-ing iPods and gaming systems.
Occupy Chicago: 130 arrested in city park protestCHICAGO (AP) — Anti-
Wall Street demonstrators of the Occupy Chicago movement stood their ground in a down-town park in noisy but peace-ful defiance of police orders to clear out, prompting 130 arrests early Sunday, authorities said.
Occupy Chicago spokesman Joshua Kaunert vowed after the arrests that protests would con-tinue in the Midwest city.
“We’re not going anywhere. There are still plenty of us,” Kaunert told The Associated Press after the arrests, which took police more than an hour to complete.
Elsewhere in the nation, police reported 11 arrests overnight in the Occupy Cincinnati protests. Police said those arrested had stayed in that city’s Fountain Square after Sunday’s 3 a.m. closing time and each was charged with criminal trespass.
In Chicago, police began taking people into custody just before 1 a.m. Sunday. Those arrested were led in groups to vans and two large white buses as others clamored to be arrest-ed.
“Take me next! Take me next!” some shouted as police began the arrests. Others chant-
ed as they were led away: “We’ll be back!”
Officers had begun placing metal barricades around the area of Chicago’s Grant Park known as Congress Plaza about 11:10 p.m. Saturday, minutes after the park had closed. Afterward, police then went through the crowd and warned people to leave or risk arrest for remain-ing in the closed park in viola-tion of a city ordinance.
Several of the protesters who stayed inside the barricades in the park sat on the ground. Others locked arms as police circled and then began arresting people.
“One: We are the people! Two: We are united! Three: The occupation is not leaving!” demonstrators shouted. Others joined in from just outside the park.
Chicago police said Sunday morning that 130 arrests had been made.
Kaunert said none of those arrested had resisted.
“Everybody was very peace-ful and smiling and there was no violence, though a lot of chant-ing,” he said.
He urged authorities to let the people resume protesting
peacefully against the perceived greed and other ills they see on Wall Street and elsewhere in corporate America. He noted it was the second straight week-end that arrests had been made in the park after 175 arrests the previous Sunday after protesters set up tents past public hours.
“The police came in and again took away our right to free speech and assembly,” he said. “Several paddywagons left and they had two very large prison buses and those are gone now.”
Paulina Jasczuk, a 24-year-old dental receptionist, watched as her boyfriend, Philip Devon, was led away in the night hours. She threw him a white sweater against the chill of a fall night in Chicago.
“I’m proud of everyone who got arrested tonight,” she told AP, adding she hoped they would inspire more demonstra-tors to join in the movement in the weeks ahead.
Demonstrators were taken away one by one and handcuffed with white plastic ties and. Some on the scene shouted: “This is what democracy looks like!”
Drums banged and some peo-ple clanged on metal.
Jonathan Sumner, 25, of
Chicago, watched the arrests from outside the park and began shouting at officers: “Why are you doing this?”
“It’s a sad day for the CPD” he said, referring to the Chicago
Police Department.Some said earlier that arrests
only signal the importance of the Occupy movement.
“This movement will not be a serious movement until we take
a stand, and getting arrested is just one way of taking a stand,” said Max Farrar, 20, a junior political science major at DePaul University, speaking Saturday to a reporter.
A protester gets arrested during an Occupy Chicago march and protest in Grant Park in Chicago, Sunday. Demonstrators of the anti-Wall Street group Occupy Chicago stood their ground in a downtown park and defied police orders to clear the area, prompting police to make more than a dozen arrests early Sunday.
AP
‘Miracle’ tornado survivor denied workers’ comp
In this Oct. 3 file photo, Mark Lindquist, of Joplin, Mo., and his sister Linda Baldwin walk together prior to Lindquist’s release from the Missouri Rehabilitation Center in Mount Vernon, Mo.
AP
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — By all accounts, Mark Lindquist is a hero, an underpaid social worker who nearly gave his life trying to save three devel-opmentally disabled adults from the Joplin tornado. Both houses of the Missouri legis-lature honored Lindquist, the Senate resolution calling him “a true hero and inspiration to others.”
But heroism doesn’t pay the bills. The tornado’s 200 mph winds tossed Lindquist nearly a block, broke every rib, oblit-erated his shoulder, knocked out most of his teeth and put him in a coma for about two months.
Lindquist, 51, ran up medi-cal expenses that exceed $2.5 million, and the bills keep coming. He requires 11 daily prescriptions and will need more surgery.
But he has no medical insurance. Lindquist couldn’t afford it on a job paying bare-ly above minimum wage. He
assumed workers’ compensa-tion would cover his bills, but his claim was denied “based on the fact that there was no greater risk than the general public at the time you were involved in the Joplin tor-nado,” according to a letter to Lindquist from Accident Fund Insurance Company of America, his company’s workers’ comp provider.
That reasoning has angered Lindquist’s family, employer, even lawmakers.
“I think they need to take another look at the circum-stances and revisit the claim,” state Rep. Bill Lant, R-Joplin, said. “What he did went beyond heroics.”
Lindquist watched the skies darken on the evening of May 22 while on his way to the group home occupied by Mark Farmer, Rick Fox and Tripp Miller, three middle-aged men with Down syndrome. Soon after he arrived, a tornado siren began to blare.
Hundreds of pictures, thousands of “friends,” the funniest of com-ments and the finest
slang around are the ideal ingredi-ents for the perfect Facebook profile. Countless hours are spent categoriz-ing, comparing oneself to others and waiting for that little red box to show up in the corner of the screen indicating that you have received an esteemed notification. You don’t not know why you care so much
about the lives of strangers. All you know is that for some reason,
you feel this need to maintain your Facebook account.
In analyzing these activities, the first question that comes to mind is, “Why?” Why has Facebook become such a popular pasttime for American youth? Why is it the prominent focus of teens today? Why, in a global society where America is slowly but steadily fall-ing off the intellectual podium of the world, do teens find themselves on Facebook for nearly 30 hours a week?
Mindless gabbing and gossip have replaced intelligent conversa-tion, changes in relationship statuses have become headline news and productive social communication and interaction have been reduced
to exchanges of sentence fragments and abbreviations. Facebook has transcended its goal of becoming a widespread “social network” by becoming our social lives.
Yet, the epidemic does not stop there. Facebook has essentially replaced our social skills. Before Facebook, we had no insight into the lives of others. Strangers remained absolute strangers until a personal interaction was initiated. People learned about others through face-to-face conversation rather than through “Facebook stalking.” Facebook has stolen our need for conversation by providing an easy online alternative. We now rely on Facebook to learn about others and to interact socially so much so that we potentially miss the time in our lives where these social and conver-sational skills are developed.
Facebook is generally most pop-ular amongst college students. A recent survey by istrategylabs.com found that 40 percent of Facebook’s approximately 900 million users are between the ages of 18 and 24. It is during this time in our lives that we need to build a solid foundation of social skills from which to base our future careers. We attend college to further our educations and to receive the tools necessary to work in a professional environment, but these tools aren’t limited to just textbook chapters and lectures. College pres-
ents us with a unique opportunity to interact with others and to build social skills in an environment free of judgment. Not only do we get a chance to learn how to meet and deal with people. We get a chance to learn how to converse with people, prior to being thrust into the profes-sional field. College provides us with the opportunity to build our conversational confidence, which is crucial when it comes to work-ing in professional environment. In learning how to deal with fellow students, professors and superiors, we gain confidence in the way we speak and present ourselves. We learn to speak more clearly and with more purpose, to not appear nervous or awkward and to become confident speakers and conversa-tionalists. It is with this confidence that speaking to people in a profes-sional environment such as fellow employees, employers and bosses becomes a much less intimidating and nerve-racking task.
If this time of our lives is spent under the aforementioned “Facebook stalk” mentality, than we will lose the opportunity to develop these skills entirely. If we do not branch out from the comfortable confines of our computer screens during the few years we have at col-lege, we run the risk of having little to no face-to-face conversational confidence or experience when
we truly need it in the professional world. Conversation leads to rela-tionships, these relationships lead to networking and this networking can provide job opportunities. Knowing and making positive first impres-sions on large amounts of people (through conversation and interac-tion, not through Facebook) is a major aspect of becoming successful in any business. Knowing this large and diverse group of people pro-motes the formation of connections. These connections, once established through the intelligent conversa-tion that Facebook is robbing of America’s youth, can provide you with greatly unexpected opportuni-ties. It is said that, “Life isn’t about what you know; it’s about who you know.” While this quote may not be entirely true, it does suggest a valid point: conversations provide con-nections to job prospects. Our youth needs to realize this.
Facebook claims to be a great social network; however, it is an obvious detriment to developing truly beneficial social skills. Without these social skills, we are forced to abandon meaningful social interac-tions and the potential friendships, connections and opportunities that such interactions can provide.
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Arragon Perrone, Commentary EditorRyan Gilbert, Associate Commentary EditorMichelle Anjirbag, Weekly Columnist
Tyler McCarthy, Weekly ColumnistJesse Rifkin, Weekly Columnist
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Working blue is the term used to describe a comedian who actively incorporates foul language and profane subject
matter into his or her act. Over the years, each generation has had its stand-up com-edy “bad boys” who push the envelope in terms of what is and isn’t acceptable to say
on-stage. Today, it’s comics like Katt Williams or Lisa Lampanelli. In the past, it was Andrew Dice Clay and Sam Kinison. Time and again, these performers are ridiculed for their off-color humor and language, with critics saying that to work blue is to
not be talented enough to get laughs with-out vulgarity. While there is some truth to that statement, it is also a flagrant over-simplification.
The art of stand-up comedy has never been as simple as it looks. It’s a lot more than just coming up with funny material and presenting it with a microphone and a spotlight. It’s about battling the crowd’s perceptions and mood, it’s finding the right balance of delivery, timing and atmosphere to get material across in a way that does the bit its full justice. Therefore, working blue can act as a powerful tool to help a comic form the correct settings for a good show, which is really what it’s all about. So while I’m not thrilled about defending the comedy stylings of Lisa Lampanelli and her ilk, they can’t be discredited as being artless or untalented. They may in
fact just have a profound understanding of the art of comedy and are utilizing profan-ity as a tool to affect audience’s perception and mood.
A study done by Susan Seizer for Anthropological Quarterly found that the use of curse words in stand-up helps to bring down barriers between a performer and their audience. The crowd will either feel superior to the comic or they’ll feel like his or her colloquial attitude makes them peers. Either way, curse words are able to create a relaxed setting and wake the crowd up. Peter McGraw, a professor of mar-keting and psychology at the University of Colorado Boulder, refers to this style of comedy as a “benign violation.” In a presentation earlier in the year, he com-pared it to being tickled, asking his audi-ence how many people hated to be tickled. When more than half the room raised their hands, he simply grinned and said, “Yet you laugh.”
Additional studies have proven that cer-tain types of jokes can illicit different emotional responses. There is a reason that people cringe at awkward moments on “The Office” or “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” but still find them funny. Their emotional responses are being played for the sake of achieving that perfect comedic mood. The same goes for stand-up. When these performers get on stage, it’s hard enough to have material that works, but getting an audience full of people with different backgrounds and sensibilities to find the
same things funny is almost impossible. This is especially true if they aren’t skilled at controlling the mood of a room. So before we chastise these raunchy comics, let’s take a step backwards and realize that they’re just as committed to their craft as cleaner comics like Ellen Degeneres or Jerry Seinfeld.
In fact, no one is a bigger student of audience perception than Seinfeld who, in his earlier career, experi-mented with foul language. He would tell certain jokes one night with swear words, then the next night he’d tell them clean. After a while he decided that the clean-er versions were better suited for him and his style. However, why should people who don’t identify with clean humor be accused of having a lack of tal-
ent? I don’t wish to give a green-light to any comics looking to spend ten minutes on a stage talking about profane content using words that would make any mother weep. However, for those who recognize the necessity for the art of comedy to sometimes be a little blue, I feel that they should be saluted, not criticized. All that it takes for a comedy show to turn into the most awkward event in the world is a comedian who doesn’t stay true to his or her self. If a little bit of adult language and subject matter is what is separating an audience from an enjoyable evening and a young comic from doing what he or she loves, I say let the F-bombs drop and when the dust clears, hope that people are laughing.
In defense of off-color comedy
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LGBT inclusiveness appropriate on college apps
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How do you know when to do laundry? When I look at my pile of dirty clothes and the word “sentient” comes to mind, I know it’s time.
Everywhere I go I keep having to duck from low tree branches. #tallpeopleproblems
Best drunk quote of the weekend: “All nipples are cre-ated equal!”
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Planned to skip church so I could sleep more and instead woke up at 9 a.m. to music blasting during the girls field hockey game. God set my alarm for me.
Not a lot of people walking around at 6:40 Sunday morning.
My room smells like something died in it. Considering my roommate is still alive, I don’t want to be the one who finds what did.
My wardrobe is like an avalanche.
I just to Ted’s and chugged 2 beavers in 40 minutes because my friend had to hurry to a group project meet-ing. That’s normal, right?
These spicy sweet chili whatever Doritos are a chore. But at least they’re there, which is more than what I can say for the turkey sandwich I’d need to go out into the cold and walk to retrieve.
That noise at Garrigus was really something, huh?
Would you consider yourself to be a member of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered) community? Check ‘Yes,’ ‘No’ or ‘Prefer Not to Answer.’”
This question is a healthy and well-intentioned addition to Elmhurst College’s undergraduate application form and should be adopted by all higher education institutions.
Elmhurst, a private liberal arts college in Illinois, is the first U.S. institute of higher education to ask students explicitly about sexual orientation and gender identity during the applica-tion process. The inquiry appears in a series of questions asking applicants about their religious affiliation, languages spoken at home and other questions school administrators hope will help identify students’ needs and possible interest in campus programs and resources.
Campus Pride, a national non-profit working to create safer, more LGBT-inclusive colleges, praised the school’s decision and hopes the question will also influence students’ eligibility for the school’s enrichment scholarship, which can be awarded to students from underrepresented groups on campus. In an interview with The Chronicle of Higher Education, Gary Rold, Elmhurst’s dean of admissions, said, “We ask a lot of questions in admissions, so we thought, why not ask about this, too? We are trying to recruit students who are academically qualified and diverse, and we consider this another form of diversity.”
Supporters of gay students have been encouraging colleges and universities to add such questions. In January, the board of the Common Application discussed and rejected the idea, and issued a statement suggesting that colleges have other ways to indicate support for applicants who are gay or who don’t identify with traditional gender categories, and that adding the questions could pose problems. Yet, the statement also left open the possibility that the questions might be added at some point in the future, calling for an additional review that would evaluate, among other things, “evolving cultural norms.”
The new questions should be elective, so any applicant who is uncomfortable could just avoid them. There are many pro-spective college students who are happy with their identities but want to be sure that they are looking at colleges that will be welcoming and accepting. By asking students about race and ethnicity and many other topics but not asking about sexual orientation and gender identity, college applications send a message that they are out of touch with the needs and concerns of LGBT students.
By Kenneth KlemensStaff Columnist
By Tyler McCarthyWeekly Columnist
Too much Facebook use stunts conversational skills of youth
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have lunch With JOe biden.’” –cOnan O’brien
“When over half the room raised their hands, he simply grinned and said, ‘Yet you laugh.’”
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To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.
Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Find strength in partnership if the day threatens to stress you out. Go along with a decisive person who agrees with you. Together you can weather any storm.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 9 -- You’re entering a time of great activity. Take good care of your health, and get the rest that keeps your motor running. Avoid romantic risks and sharp turns.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is an 8 -- Romance and love are important and available now. Play nicely. Don’t get carried away by sudden emotions. Use them to feed your art. Express them to someone who matters.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- There’s no place like home. Create a peaceful ambiance with tea, soothing music and candlelight. No need for risks or travel today. Enjoy your cozy nest.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- You’re getting smarter, and all this study and practice helps. Take good notes for best results. There’s no need for gambling. Postpone an investment (unless it’s in education).
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- You may want to play, but now’s as good time as ever to make some money. It could take some planning and budgeting, but you can accomplish what you apply yourself to.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- Errors are likely to occur when you’re trying to make everything happen at once. Slow down to get there faster. The moon in your sign today empowers you.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Take extra time for rest and reflection. Peace and quiet restores your energies. Let go of any power struggles. They’re not worth the energy. Keep it mellow.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- You may be torn between wanting to be public and private. Be adaptable to the circumstances to find balance. Don’t get sidetracked by household issues. Ask someone else for help.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- You’re in the spotlight, and previous preparation serves you well now. There could be a change in plans, so have a backup, just in case. Find another route.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- Take time to ponder deep questions. Take an outing or adventure that stimulates philosophical discovery. It doesn’t need to be distant or expensive. Consider what you really want.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Financial planning opens a new road. Patience helps reveal the best direction. Communication creates solutions. Listen to one who disagrees, and see it their way. Then choose.
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Libya declared free, but Gadhafi death still in question
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — Libya’s interim rulers declared the country liberated on Sunday after an 8-month civil war, launching the oil-rich nation on what is meant to be a two-year transition to democracy. But they laid out plans with an Islamist tone that could rattle their Western backers.
The joyful ceremony formally marking the end of Moammar Gadhafi’s 42-year tyranny was also clouded by mounting pres-sure from the leaders of the NATO campaign that helped secure victory to investigate whether Gadhafi, dragged wounded but alive out of a drainage ditch last week, was then executed by his captors.
The circumstances of Gadhafi’s death remain unclear. In separate accounts late Sunday, two Libyan fighters said Gadhafi was hurt after being captured, but was able to stand. One said that when he and others placed Gadhafi in an ambulance, the former Libyan leader had not yet suffered what Libya’s chief pathologist said was a fatal gunshot to the head.
Critics said the gruesome spec-tacle of his blood-streaked body laid out as a trophy for a third day of public viewing in a commer-cial freezer tests the new leader-ship’s commitment to the rule of law.
Britain’s defense secretary, Philip Hammond, said the Libyan revolutionaries’ image had been “a little bit stained” by Gadhafi’s violent death. Both he and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said a full inves-tigation is necessary.
Gadhafi’s capture and the fall of his hometown of Sirte, the last loyalist stronghold, set the stage for the long-awaited declaration of liberation, delivered by the head of the National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil.
He did not mention the circum-stances surrounding Gadhafi’s death — mobile phone videos showed the wounded leader being
taunted and beaten by a mob after his capture. But he urged his people to avoid hatred.
“You should only embrace hon-esty, patience, and mercy,” Abdul-Jalil told a flag-waving crowd of several thousand at the declara-tion ceremony in the eastern city of Benghazi, the birthplace of the uprising against Gadhafi.
Abdul-Jalil laid out a vision for
a new Libya with an Islamist tint, saying Islamic Sharia law would be the “basic source” of legisla-tion, and that existing laws that contradict the teachings of Islam would be nullified.
He outlined several changes to align with Islamic law, including putting caps on interest for bank loans and lifting restrictions on the number of wives Libyan men
can take. The Muslim holy book, the Quran, allows men up to four wives.
Abdul-Jalil thanked those who fought and fell in the war, saying they “are somewhere better than here, with God.” Displaying his own piety, he then stepped aside from the podium and knelt to offer a prayer of thanks.
Using Sharia as the main
source of legislation is stipulated in the constitution of neighbor-ing Egypt. Still, Egyptian laws remain largely secular as Sharia does not cover all aspects of mod-ern life.
Libya’s revolt erupted in February as part of anti-govern-ment protests spreading across the Middle East. Islamist groups stand to gain ground in neigh-boring Tunisia and Egypt, which shook off their dictators several months ago. Tunisia has taken the biggest steps so far on the path to democracy, voting Sunday for a new assembly, while Egypt’s parliamentary election is set for next month.
Libya’s struggle has been the bloodiest so far in the region. Mass protests turned into a civil war that killed thousands and paralyzed the country. Gadhafi loyalists held out for two more months after the fall of the cap-ital of Tripoli in late August. Gadhafi’s hometown of Sirte fell last week, but Gadhafi’s son and one-time heir appar-ent, Seif al-Islam, apparently escaped with some of his sup-porters.
The anti-Gadhafi forces enjoyed strong Western political and military support during their revolt, especially from the U.S., Britain and France, and NATO airstrikes were key to their vic-tory.
Abdul-Jalil paid tribute to the Gulf Cooperation Council, a six-nation alliance led by Saudi Arabia, the Arab League and the European Union. NATO per-formed its task with “efficiency and professionalism,” he said.
A Libyan child waves the victory sign while wearing a wig and holding a pre-Gadhafi flag during a celebration after transitional government leader Mustafa Abdul-Jalil declared the liberation of Libya in Benghazi Sunday.
AP
No deal yet on euro crisis as the
danger growsBRUSSELS (AP) —
European leaders again put off the tough decisions need-ed to save the continent from its debt crisis but promised Sunday that a comprehensive plan is still coming.
As they dawdled, the danger was rising in an already high-stakes game.
Leaders of the continent’s richest countries had unusu-ally stern words Sunday for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, because many fear his nation could be the next dragged into the debt crisis if it does not make major budget cuts quickly.
That would spell disaster: Europe has rescued three small nations — Greece, Ireland and Portugal — but cannot afford to rescue Italy, the euro-zone’s third largest economy. Analysts say leaders have to act now to eliminate the pos-sibility of Italy’s financial col-lapse.
For weeks it’s been clear what the 17 countries that use the euro must do: reduce Greece’s debt burden so the country eventually can stand
on its own, force banks to raise more money so they can ride out the financial storm that will entail, and show that their European bailout fund is big and nimble enough to prevent larger economies from getting dragged into the crisis.
On Saturday, officials said the leaders were near-ing agreement on slashing Greece’s debts and strength-ening the continent’s banks, many of which are awash in Greek bonds.
But Sunday, the only solid detail to emerge from three days of intense talks was that banks will have to raise their capital buffers much faster than they had planned — by the end of 2012, instead of 2019.
A European official said Saturday the banks would be forced to raise just over €100 billion ($140 billion) more for their rainy-day funds, but leaders have not given an official figure.
Instead, at a series of news conferences Sunday, all they could do was promise to deliv-er big at their next summit, called for Wednesday.
Thousands of Somalis flee area fearing fighting
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Thousands of peo-ple fled a camp for the dis-placed near Somalia’s capital on Sunday, fearing an immi-nent clash between African Union peacekeepers and the al-Qaida-linked militants who are trying to demonstrate their strength amid an assault on two fronts.
In the country’s south, mean-while, others braced for fierce battles as Kenyan soldiers closed in on a militant-held town in their weeklong effort to defeat the al-Shabab group blamed for suicide bombings, kidnapping foreigners and kill-ing famine victims.
African Union forces already have pushed the militants from their last base in the capital of Mogadishu, and those staying on the outskirts said they wor-ried the battles were approach-ing. The African Union Mission to Somalia force, also known as AMISOM, said in a statement Sunday they had advanced to
Mogadishu’s outskirts.“We want to pass here before
the fighting closes the escape routes,” said Salado Abdullahi, a mother of six, who was at a checkpoint in Mogadishu on Sunday.
Somalia has been a failed state for more than 20 years, and the lawless country is a haven for pirates and inter-national terrorists. Al-Shabab fighters have been waging a war against the weak Somali government for more than five years.
A force of 9,000 peacekeepers from Burundi and Uganda have been aiding the Somali forc-es. Al-Shabab retreated from Mogadishu amid a devastat-ing famine a few months back, but re-emerged by staging their deadliest single bombing that killed more than 100 people.
On Sunday, a suicide bomber killed himself and wounded two AU troops when he ran after the AU convoy.
The Kenyan military sent
troops into neighboring Somalia one week ago to pursue the mil-itants following a string of kid-nappings on Kenyan soil that were blamed on Somali gun-men. Al-Shabab has threatened to launch suicide bombings inside Kenya in retaliation, and
the U.S. Embassy warned late Saturday than an imminent ter-rorist attack is possible.
Kenya’s military spokes-man Maj. Emmanuel Chirchir said fighting was a likely to occur in the town of Afmadow “very soon.”
African Union peacekeepers are seen in the Deynile district of the capital Mogadishu, Somalia Thursday.
AP
1901A 63-year-old schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
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Intro to Beer Literature
A friend once told me that it’s a sad day when college students realize that they in fact cannot drink all of the time. So for those times when you’re in between homework or writing the latest paper, and can’t crack open a brew, there’s always the oppor-tunity to do the next best thing: read about beer. It’s no surprise that with the booming expansion of the craft brewing industry, many brewers have decided to share their stories, recipes, tech-niques and knowledge. There are a ton of great reads out there, but here are a few additions that are vital to your beer library.
Garrett Oliver, Brewmaster for Brooklyn Brewery, is one of the foremost authorities on beer in the U.S., and has two legendary texts to prove it. The first, entitled “The Brewmaster’s Table,” has been referred to as ‘The Bible’ in many beer-centric circles. It simply is one of the best, most masterfully compiled resources on beer, touching on-style defi-nitions and history, country- and brewery-specific details, as well as detailed methodologies and techniques for pairing foods with beer. In between beauti-ful color photos are food and beer descriptions that prompt an insatiable thirst and hunger from the reader. Oliver’s sec-ond book, the much-anticipated “Oxford Companion to Beer,” is an incredible resource that acts as the encyclopedia of beer. It’s no surprise that reviewers rave, “Everything you always wanted to know about beer but were afraid to ask!”
Other beer books take a dif-ferent angle. Mosher’s “Tasting Beer” provides an in-depth per-spective on how to properly sam-ple and taste the numerous fla-vors found in different styles of beer. Many of the flavor descrip-tors have extremely meticulous explanations both in terms of the human palate as well as the chemical makeup and relation to the brewing process. There are also a number of resources that provide helpful tips and process notes for home brewing such as Palmer’s “How to Brew.”
Another popular genre of beer book tells the story of a brewery and the stories behind its beers. Perhaps the best example of this genre is Stone Brewery’s new release entitled “The Craft of Stone Brewing Co.: Liquid Lore, Epic Recipes and Unabashed Arrogance.” The book journeys through the basics of the brewing process, a history of beer and an inside perspective to the begin-nings of Stone Brewing – from the initial doubts and long hours to the brewery names that didn’t make it (Old Shoe Brewing, anyone?). The book goes on to describe the inception of the famous “Arrogant Bastard Ale” as well as many of the grow-ing pains and obstacles that new breweries face during expansion. In addition to the descriptions and backstories of all of Stone’s beers, the book shares selected homebrew-sized recipes of its award-winning beers and reci-pes for some of the most popu-lar items from the Stone World Bistro and Gardens – its own on-site restaurant and all-encom-passing must-visit beer experi-ence whose impressiveness even I can attest to.
For beer drinkers, luckily there’s no shortage of reading options out there – it’s just a mat-ter of the type of book you are looking for to satisfy your level of beer curiosity. Cheers!
By Joe PentecostStaff Writer
Operatic endeavors in Storrs
Students from the School of Fine Arts perform at French Music Songfest at the J. Louis von der Medhen Recital Hall on Sunday afternoon. Titled “An Afternoon of French Mélodie,” the program featured 19 classical French opera pieces.VINCE TEJADA/The Daily Campus
Magnificent, astound-ing, breathtaking and simply amazing. Those were a few of the many raving reviews given of the French Music Songfest held at J. Louis von der Medhen Recital Hall on Sunday afternoon. At approxi-mately 3:00 p.m. the lights were dimmed and the perfor-mance began. The Songfest was self-titled “An Afternoon of French Mélodie.”
The performance con-cert consisted of selections from many UConn students in the School of Fine Arts. Performing 19 classical
French opera pieces, the stu-dent performers were accom-panied by Allan Conway, the music director, rehears-al and performance pianist for UConn Opera Theater. Conway has been an accom-panist and pianist for many choral ensembles on campus and is a key part in the music department. The entire perfor-mance was coordinated by Dr. Constance Rock, Coordinator of Vocal Studies and Opera at UConn. Rock is also an Associate Professor of music (voice) and also in demand as a concert and oratorio singer throughout the country.
The audience comprised about 40 people from friends,
parents and children. One by one, as each student graced the recital hall stage you could hear words of pride and appreciation coming from the audience, whether or not they knew the performers. Many parents shed tears of joy, sur-prise and pride for their chil-dren.
“I’m so glad I didn’t miss this tonight. I’m going to keep attending events here, its like a hidden treasure on campus,” stated Marilyn Pinto a 3rd-semester psychology major. Not one moment of the per-formances was the entire audience seated. With each song that ended there were at least 10 people on their feet.
“It was definitely relax-ing and it introduced me to a entirely different genre of music than what I’m used to back home and here on cam-pus.” stated Jennifer Smith, a 3rd-semester biology major. As the audience began to clear out, the student performers entered the audience and were greeted by friends and fam-ily. Plenty of hugs, kisses and flowers met the students at the end of their performance. Several students showed their thanks for all of the warm welcomes and audience atten-dance. The recital hall was flooded with families and friends not wanting to leave and even here some more
song selections. “I was surprised that UConn
had anything like this, I’m so happy I’m not in my dorm right now” said Rebecca Capelli, a first semester com-munications major. Much of the audience summed up the performance as ‘powerful’.The performance closed out with the audience rising to their feet with a thunderous applause filled with gratitude, appreciation, pride and a new found interest in the musical genre of Opera.
By Shaquana ChaneyfieldCampus Correspondent
French Music Songfest fills von der Medhen with classical talent from School of Fine Arts
‘Community’ delivers despite low ratingsDespite its low ratings on NBC,
which would get it canceled on any other network, “Community” continues not only to survive, but thrives as it continues its third season. The most recent two epi-sodes illuminated just how clever and hearty the show has become; the latest episode in particular has been widely revered as one of the show’s best.
The third episode of the season, “Competitive Ecology,” was rem-iniscent of some of the best sit-coms of all time, like “Seinfeld” or “Arrested Development.” Why you might ask? One of the writing room’s biggest strengths when it comes to the Greendale crew is its ability to show the study group’s alienation; the group of seven has spent so much time in a tight-knit environment that other students are kicked to the curb because the group simply doesn’t care about them. Just like the best sitcoms, we learn that our characters aren’t perfect, and actually harm others when outside of their safe zones.
“Competitive Ecology” focused on the group’s new biology class, taught by “The Wire” great
Michael K. Williams. The great character actor plays an ex-con professor who earned his degree in prison, and as a result takes no backtalk from his students. He assigns the class group projects, which leaves out an eighth student, Todd. Despite his extremely posi-tive qualities, such as saving turtles and serving in Iraq to afford col-lege, the group’s refusal to work ruins his academic career.
The group humorously argues all through the night about who gets stuck with him, taking so much time to do so that they don’t get their work done and fail the assignment. Todd is furious, and the ending may have set him up as the season’s villain. With such a great character potentially trying to take down the study group, there’s a lot to look forward to.
Of course, I haven’t even men-tioned the true success of Season 3, “Remedial Chaos Theory.” A lot has been said about this epi-sode, but it needs to be said; it was an instant classic the moment it ended. The episode seems sim-ple at first; Troy and Abed invite the group to their new apartment for pizza and Yahtzee, and to determine who gets the pizza, Jeff rolls dice.
Of course, with a fourth-wall breaking character like Abed in the cast, things get complicated. He mentions that six alternate uni-verses could erupt from the die’s roll, as each side is potentially a winner. Jeff scoffs and throws the die… then we see all six universes’ reactions to the roll. Some end ridiculously, as Britta marries a
pizza guy in one, and the apart-ment burns down and kills Pierce in another, but each one has little jokes consistent throughout with minor changes that show just how clever the show is.
Things that happen in three or four timelines don’t happen in others, creating major changes in the show’s mythology (at least,
in the alternate universes). Throw in an extended episode tag detail-ing how the study group in one alternate universe is going to band together and take their revenge on the real study group and you’ve got proof that “Community” is as good as ever, if not better.
By Joe O’LearySenior Staff Writer
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A still from season three, episode two of “Community,” “Geography of Global Conflict.” THe study group’s antics continue to amuse audiences in its third season.
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1. NCIS (CBS) - 11.72. Dancing with the Stars Results (ABC) - 11.03. Dancing with the Stars (ABC) - 11.24. NBC Sunday Night Football (NBC) - 10.15. Two and a Half Men (CBS) - 9.76. NCIS: Los Angeles (CBS) - 9.47. Sunday Night NFL Pre-Kick (NBC) - 8.88. Modern Family (ABC) - 8.0 9. The Big Bang Theory (CBS) - 8.310. Last Man Standing (ABC) - 7.9
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1. Bears/Lions (ESPN) - 16,3782. Walking Dead (AMC) - 7,2573. Jersey Shore (MTV) - 6,4724. NLCS Cardinals-Brewers 6 (TBSC) - 5,9385. NLCS Brewers-Cardinals 4 (TBSC) - 5,6506. NLCS Brewers-Cardinals 5 (TBSC) - 5,4617. WWE Entertainment (USA) - 5,3758. Michigan/Michigan State (ESPN) - 4,7779. WWE Entertainment (USA) - 4,66710. Sportscenter: L (ESPN) - 4,651Numbers from TVbytheNumbers.com
Week ending Oct. 16(Numbers of viewers x 1000)
Top 10 Cable
“Homeland”Sunday, 10 p.m.
Showtime
What I’m watching
In the tumultuous world of counter-terrorism, one small mistake can lead to the tragic loss of lives. In “Homeland,” on Showtime, the main charac-ter, Carrie Mathison, lives with this pain constantly. While it is never fully discussed, many allusions are made to the fact that Mathison missed a poten-tial lead to preventing the Sept. 11 attacks. When she receives intel that an American soldier has turned into an asset for Al Qaeda, she refuses to let this information go by the wayside. Soon thereafter, a POW by the name of Nicholas Brody returns home after eight years in captivity. Mathison decides she must covertly spy on Brody without consent from her supe-riors, all while the nation lauds the newly freed Marine.
- Sam Marshall
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By Hima MamillapalliStaff Writer
TV classics to always be remembered
Even though there are many popular shows currently airing on television, there are some series that will forever hold a special place in our hearts. Listed below are some of the classics that made us laugh, cry and wish for more.
1. “Friends” is a sitcom cre-ated by Marta Kauffman and David Crane in 1994. For a decade, the show taught us the importance of friendships and family. “Friends” features a group of friends in Manhattan who learn that life is full of unexpected surprises. The show garnered worldwide rec-ognition for the six lead actors, including Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox.
2. “Lost” follows the lives of the survivors of a commercial airplane crash on a bizarre trop-ical island. As the series pro-gresses, the characters learn of the island’s mysteries and the challenges they have to over-come to return home. “Lost” is widely regarded by U.S. critics as one of the top 10 series of all time and has won numerous awards, including a Primetime Emmy and Golden Globe.
3. For six seasons, we went on a journey with Tony Soprano as he taught us the difficulties of balancing family life with the powerful criminal organization that he leads. “The Sopranos” was an instant suc-cess and is the most financial-ly successful TV series of all time. Originally intended to be a feature film, “The Sopranos” captured the hearts of many and will be remembered for many years to come.
4. “The Office” is a mocku-mentary of a group of typical office workers based on the popular BBC series of the same name. The American come-dy stars Steve Carell as the regional manager of Dunder Miffilin, a company that specializes in paper produc-tion. The show was readapted by executive producer Greg Daniels, who brought us other hilarious comedies such as “King of the Hill” and “The Simpsons.”
5. “The Simpsons” defi-nitely deserves recognition as one of the best series of all time. The show is a parody of American culture, starring the Simpsons, a working class family that consists of Homer, Marge, Lisa, Bart and baby Maggie. The longest-running scripted show of all time, “The Simpsons” still airs on FOX.
6. “Battlestar Galactica” is an American sci-fi series that revolves around a human civilization that exists on a group of distant planets known as the Twelve Colonies. The series eventually turned into a franchise with the production of comic books, video games and board games. Although the original series remains a clas-sic, there have been attempts at recreating the series that never seem to live up to the original.
7. Finally, “24” is a show whose re-runs I always enjoy. “24” follows the life federal agent Jack Bauer as he saves the world from terrorists, evil politicians and deadly viruses. Bauer never seems to play by the rules as he goes about his job. Each season of the show contains 24 episodes that chronicle an hour of one very terrible day.
Other series that deserve an honorable mention include “Deadwood,” “Parks and Recreation,” “Prison Break” and “South Park.”
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Premiere brings ‘deadly’ drama
Between the drastic change in writing staff and the depar-ture of show developer, Frank Darabont, there was a lot of worry surrounding the second season of AMC’s “The Walking Dead.” Though we’ll have to see how it gradually plays out by the season finale, the pre-miere showed signs that it’s still the zombie-survival drama that fans know and love.
With the realization that Atlanta is a hopeless nest for zombies – known as “walkers” here – and its sole resource, the CDC building, now in flames, Rick and his group of survivors have decided it is time to search for salvation
in Fort Benning. However, it doesn’t even take a half-hour of this 90-minute premier for an undead ambush to interrupt the convoy in a graveyard of cars. Here the show is at its very best: helpless people use whatever means of defense and brainpower they have to sur-vive another day. The cinema-tography was great, the tension was chillingly excellent and those zombie designs were per-fection in every last disgusting detail. After that atrocity of a CG explosion in the season one finale, viewers became all the more unhinged when it was revealed that season two would have some more budget cuts. Yet that didn’t stop the make-up staff from continu-ally adding genuine horror in
watching those zombies chow down.
But after the team survived the awesome walker ambush by the skin of their teeth, there was still an hour of mate-rial. At this point, the show’s main issue began to show itself all over again: the characters. Once one of the kids, Sophia, suddenly vanishes, the group resumes their disconcerting soap opera. It was disappoint-ing to see Andrea become apa-thetic and suicidal and Carol turn into a useless worrywart – even before her daughter disappeared. But all that was nothing compared to the now-tired fight between Shane and Lori, with Shane acting like a spoiled child over the one-sided dispute. I can appreciate
the writers’ efforts to display some human emotion within the depressingly doomed soci-ety, but this episode showed that it still needs work.
When the drama did hit a pretty sweet spot, it showed just why we are invested in the group’s plight. When the search team shows up at a church, its true anguish shows. The survi-vors tearfully plead before God for a reason for this apocalypse. It was bittersweet when Shane and Rick take Carl to hunt for deer, briefly taking them back to the peaceful world that no longer exists. That is, until both the deer and Carl get shot by a mystery shooter. It was an appropriately shocking end to this good season two opener.
By Jason BogdanSenior Staff Writer
The cast of “Walking Dead,” including Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), Sophia Peletier (Madison Lintz), Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride), Lori Grimes (Sarah Wayne Callies), Carl Grimes (Chandler Riggs), T-Dog (IronE Singleton), Glenn (Steven Yeun), Andrea (Laurie Holden), Dale (Jeffrey DeMunn), Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) and Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal)
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Cartoon’s 23rd season lacks novelty
America’s longest-running primetime animated series and sitcom, “The Simpsons,” returned for a 23rd season this September.
In the season pre-miere, “The Falcon and the D’ohman,” the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant hires a new security guard named Wayne, who Homer instantly tries to befriend. At first, his friendship is coldly shunned, but eventually Wayne allows Homer to take him for a drink at Moe’s. There, he learns that Wayne is a former black-ops CIA agent who has chosen to go into hiding in Springfield. Unfortunately, Wayne draws the attention of a Ukrainian gangster who wants Wayne dead. The gangster kidnaps Homer to draw Wayne into a trap, but the gangster and his henchmen are all taken down by Wayne and Homer is res-cued. Wayne decides he must leave Springfield as he can’t find a job that will suit him – but Marge suggests he get a job at the DMV. The episode had its share of jokes and cul-tural references, the funniest of which being a Taiwanese animation with Wayne walk-ing past a ‘Tsarbucks’ when he goes through the Ukrainian part of Springfield. As a whole, however, the episode disappointed due to its absurd nature. “The Simpsons” used
to use classic American cul-ture to cleverly satirize it with incorrigible wit. Nowadays, it seems that “The Simpsons” writers are merely trying to imitate the writers of “Family Guy” and “South Park.”
The second episode, “Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts,” features Superintendent Chalmers attempting to edu-cate Bart by getting him interested in the rather heroic and rebellious life of former President Theodore Roosevelt. In an unauthorized field trip,
Nelson ends up breaking his arm, and Chalmers is blamed and subsequently fired. To get his job back, Bart and the other students take over the school and hold it hostage until Chalmers is promised his job back. Frankly, this episode was even more disappointing than the premiere. The most interesting and novel part of the episode was the couch gag scene at the beginning, and that was because it was guest animated and was fresh and novel for the first time in
a while. All in all, it seems that
“The Simpsons” is on its last legs, and that perhaps talk about canceling the long-running show is not without merit. One can only hope that the Halloween “Treehouse of Horror” episode lives up to its predecessors and gives the show the breath of life and novelty it so desperately needs.
The titular family of America’s longest-running primetime animated series and sitcom returned for its 23rd season this September. Photo courtesy of Fox.com
By Jason WongStaff Writer
FocusMonday, October 24, 2011 The Daily Campus, Page 9
New season of ‘Dexter’ kills againIt has been six years since the
American public was introduced to the crime-fighting serial kill-er Dexter Morgan. Whether it is tracking down the Ice Cream Truck Killer – who is actually his brother – or evading the police, finding trouble is a never a prob-lem for Dexter.
In the new season of “Dexter,” the murdering blood technician faces his weirdest opponent yet: a strange, religiously motivated group of killers has surfaced – and Dexter is more intrigued than viewers have seen in years.
This season already has all the thrills one would expect from a season of Dexter. Multiple plot lines have developed and haven’t yet to intersect, but the viewer can be sure that they will. Most intrigu-ing is the character of Brother Sam, played by Mos Def. During the first three episodes viewers can-not figure out if he is the reformed pastor he claims to be, or if he is still a dangerous criminal. Dexter cannot discern his motives, which is uncommon for Dexter.
The murderers that Dexter is tracking are quite compelling as well. Very little is known about
them, and their hyper-religious mystique makes them all the more interesting. Their motivations are not fully revealed, but constant references of the ‘end of days’ points to a predicted doomsday scenario unraveling before the viewers’ eyes.
The series is picking up from its last two slower seasons. The fam-ily aspect of the story is minimized, limited to solely Dexter coping with raising his son all while main-taining his life as a serial killer. He is forced to come to terms that he cannot stay in this life forever when he apprehends an elderly serial killer that tried to revisit his old ways. The killer, whom he once admired, was frail and piti-ful. This reflective scene was new for “Dexter,” which usually fol-lows in the main character’s cool, calculated ways. It’s a welcome addition to the show.
All things considered, this sea-son of Dexter is shaping up to be one of the best yet. Its new killer is by far the sickest and most compli-cated yet. With all of its story lines there is no time for the viewer to be bored. If this season isn’t enough to get you hooked on “Dexter,” nothing will.
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Michael C. Hall as the titular avenging serial killer from Showtime’s hit series, “Dexter.” The cult favorite entered it sixth season Sunday, Oct. 2, and has thus far kept fans enthralled with its complicated plotline.
Photo courtesy of nymag.com
By Sam MarshallCampus Correspondent
Will Ferrell wins nation’s top humor prize in DC
WASHINGTON (AP) — The “Saturday Night Live” star who perfected his char-acter as “President George W. Bush” and later took his presidential act to Broadway is receiving the nation’s top humor prize Sunday night in Washington.
As Will Ferrell receives the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jack Black, Conan O’Brien, Larry King and the rock band Green Day will offer tributes and performances in his honor. They will be joined by Maya Rudolph, Molly Shannon and Lorne Michaels from Ferrell’s “SNL” days. The show will be taped for broadcast Oct. 31 on PBS stations nationwide.
When the award was announced in May, Ferrell said he would begin “cultivating a Mark Twain-esque mustache” for the event. He was spot-ted Friday in the White House press briefing room ahead of Sunday night’s ceremony, though there was no word on the state of his mustache.
Earlier this year, Ferrell told The Associated Press why he wanted to be funny.
“The closest I can analyze it is that it was an easy way to make friends, I found out,” he said. “It was just a great kind of social tool.”
Ferrell is the son of a teacher and Roy Lee Ferrell, a guitarist for the Righteous Brothers. He grew up in Irvine, Calif., went to col-lege at the University of Southern California and got his start in comedy with the Los Angeles improv group, The Groundlings.
That’s where he was dis-covered by “SNL.” He starred for seven seasons on the NBC series, with memorable char-acters that included “Craig the Spartan Cheerleader,” a middle school music teacher named “Marty Culp” and impressions of Janet Reno, Alex Trebek and Neil Diamond.
Ferrell went on to make some outlandish movies including “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” ‘’Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby” and “Old School,” to name a few. More recently he has tried his hand at drama with this year’s independent film “Everything Must Go.” He has also made
a Spanish-language comedy, “Casa de Mi Padre.”
Ferrell told the AP he has tried different avenues as movie studio budgets tight-ened. He opted for projects with smaller budgets but more creative freedom.
In 2009, Ferrell revived his Bush character with a one-man Broadway show “You’re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush,” which was nominated for a Tony Award. He later per-formed the show live on HBO.
Longtime collaborator Adam McKay and Ferrell also took their comedy to the Internet with the 2007 creation of the popular video website FunnyorDie.com. Since then, it has drawn an audience of millions for its original Web programming.
Thirteen other people have won the Mark Twain Prize since 1998, including Tina Fey, Bill Cosby, Steve Martin and Whoopi Goldberg. It rec-ognizes people who have fol-lowed the tradition of Samuel Clemens, the writer known as Mark Twain who used social commentary and satire to have an impact on society.
» AWARDS
Bolena’s crown a good fit for Angela Meade
NEW YORK (AP) — On paper, it reads like the oper-atic equivalent of Mission Impossible: Take over the tax-ing title role of Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena” right after Russian superstar Anna Netrebko has completed a run of seven sold-out perfor-mances.
That was the assignment the Metropolitan Opera offered to Angela Meade. And the promising young American soprano rose to the challenge, putting her own stamp on the role and drawing prolonged cheers from the audience at Friday night’s final curtain.
Unable to compete with Netrebko’s mesmerizing stage presence — who can? — and lacking her uniquely alluring vocal timbre, Meade compen-sated with the gifts that have made her a fast-rising star. She has a strong, supple voice, a knack for floating soft high notes, and an unusual agility in the rapid-fire technique of bel canto singing so crucial to this 1830 masterpiece.
She wasted no time in show-ing off her talents. Anna’s first aria and cabaletta — which had proved difficult for Netrebko on opening night — was sung with impeccable phrasing and
included a couple of high pia-nissimos that seemed to be spun out of finest silk. There were more of those in the final scene, and at one point Meade accompanied a hushed high note by extending a hand in the air as if reaching for a thread of the delicate fabric.
In the long downward runs that Anna sings in the ensem-ble that ends Act 1, and again in the closing scene, Meade articulated each note with rare precision. Throughout the long evening, she made the intricate vocal line sound effortless — the mark of a true bel canto expert.
Not everything about her performance was flawless. Her chest voice, or lower regis-ter, is still developing, and that limited her ability to punch out some of Anna’s most urgent phrases. Her trills in the final scene didn’t come across dis-tinctly. And the E-flat above high C that she interpolated as her final note sounded thin and was quickly chopped off. (Her D natural at the conclusion of Act 1 had sounded just fine.)
Considering she was having to fit into a direction tailored to Netrebko’s talents, Meade did a commendable job carv-ing out her own portrayal. Her
Bolena was softer and more vulnerable, though never lack-ing in regal bearing. Her large size hampered her hardly at all, except on a few occasions when she had obvious diffi-culty rising from a sitting or kneeling position.
The only other newcomer to the cast was mezzo-sopra-no Katherine Goeldner, who subbed for an ailing Ekaterina Gubanova as Jane Seymour.
Goeldner’s voice is not as plush as Gubanova’s, but she sang with warmth and intensi-ty The David McVicar produc-tion looks every bit as dreary as it did on opening night, but from the first notes of the over-ture, Marco Armiliato’s con-ducting was greatly improved. He showed far more drive and sense of pacing, and the ensembles jelled better.
Meade, who is in her early 30s, had a meager Met resume before Friday: one perfor-mance of Verdi’s “Ernani” in 2008 — as a last-minute stand-in for an ailing col-league— and one performance in Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro.” This season, besides two more “Annas,” she gets an entire run of “Ernani” to herself, including a live HD broadcast.
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Seeger, Guthrie join Wall Street protest» PROTESTS
Activist musician Pete Seeger, 92, center, sings before a crowd of nearly a thousand demonstrators sympathetic to the Occupy Wall Street protests at a brief acoustic concert in Columbus Circle, Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011, in New York. The demonstrators marched down Broadway singing "This Little Light of Mine" and other folk and gospel songs while ad-libbing lines about corporate greed and social justice.
AP
NEW YORK (AP) — Folk music legend Pete Seeger and '60s folk singer Arlo Guthrie joined Occupy Wall Street dem-onstrators Friday in their cam-paign against corporate greed while residents near the protest park encampment pushed to regain some peace and quiet in their neighborhood.
Seeger joined in the Occupy Wall Street protest Friday night, replacing his banjo with two canes as he marched with throngs of people in New York City's tony Upper West Side past banks and shiny depart-ment stores.
The 92-year-old Seeger, accompanied by musician-grandson Tao Rodriguez Seeger,
composer David Amram, and bluesman Guy Davis, shouted out the verses of protest anthems as the crowd of about 1,000 people sang and chanted.
They marched peaceful-ly over more than 30 blocks from Symphony Space, where the Seegers and other musi-cians performed, to Columbus Circle. Police watched from the sidelines.
Occupy Wall Street began a month ago in lower Manhattan among a few young people, and has grown to tens of thou-sands around the country and the world. A recent Associated Press-GfK poll says more than one-third of the country sup-ports the Wall Street protesters,
and even more — 58 percent — say they are furious about America's politics.
But the encampment at Zuccotti Park has become more than a tolerable nuisance, some neighborhood residents say. At a meeting Thursday, they com-plained of protesters urinating in the streets and beating drums in the middle of the night. Some called for the protesters to vacate the park.
The area's community board voted unanimously for a reso-lution that recognized the pro-testers' First Amendment rights while calling for a crackdown on noise and public urination and defecation.
U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler,
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer and state Sen. Daniel Squadron said in a state-ment that the resolution was "an attempt to establish a sensi-ble framework that respects the protesters' fundamental rights while addressing the very real quality of life concerns for resi-dents and businesses around Zuccotti Park."
Asked about Occupy Wall Street on WOR Radio on Friday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the protesters' leaderless structure has made it difficult to negotiate with them.
Occupy Wall Street spokes-man Han Shan, who has served as a liaison between protest-ers and local elected officials,
agreed the protesters needed to be better neighbors. Shan, who attended the meeting, prom-ised to limit the noise.
At Columbus Circle, Seeger and friends walked to the chant of "We are the 99 percent" and "We are unstoppable; anoth-er world is possible." Seeger stopped to bang a metal statue of an elephant with his cane — to cheers from the crowd.
At the center of the plaza, Seeger and Amram were joined by Guthrie in a round of "We Shall Overcome," a protest anthem made popular by Seeger.
After more singing, Seeger asked for a mic check to tell the crowd: "The words are
simple: I could be happy spending my days on the river that flows both way-ay-ays."
During the march, the younger Seeger, in troubadour fashion like his grandfather, walked among the protesters playing songs. Amra took up a flute and others enlivened the night protest with the sounds of the accordion, banjos, and guitars.
At the front of the throng, marchers held American flags and a large blue flag that said: "Revolution Generation ... Debt is Slavery." Along the way, the crowd sang protest songs made popular or written by Seeger, Woody Guthrie, and others of the protest era.
Longtime CBS correspondent Robert Pierpoint dies» OBITUARY
LOS ANGELES (AP) — CBS News correspondent Robert C. Pierpoint — who covered six presidents, the Korean War, the Kennedy assassination and the Iranian hostage crisis in a career that spanned more than four decades — died Saturday in California, his daughter said. He was 86.
Pierpoint, who retired in 1990, died of complications from surgery at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, Marta Pierpoint told The Associated Press. He had broken his hip Oct. 12 at the Santa Barbara Retirement Community where he lived with his wife Patricia.
After making his name cov-ering the Korean War — a role he reprised when he provided his radio voice for the wide-ly watched final episode of "MASH" in 1983 — Pierpoint became a White House cor-respondent during the Dwight D. Eisenhower administra-tion, a position he would hold through the Jimmy Carter administration.
"He lived quite an amazing life," said Marta Pierpoint. She said her father was most proud of his coverage of the Korean War, Watergate and most of all the Kennedy assas-sination, an event that would still bring him to tears in an interview with his hometown paper three weeks before his death.
"I didn't like what the priest said about a time to live and a time to die," Robert Pierpoint told the Santa Barbara News-Press in an Oct. 2 story. "It was not Kennedy's time to die."
Pierpoint said his "one bad mistake" the day of the assas-sination was not revealing that Jacqueline Kennedy had blood
on her pink suit when she walked out of her husband's hospital room.
"I didn't describe the blood, and I should have," he said. "I was in shock."
Pierpoint said of the six administrations he covered, Kennedy's was the most fun.
"He was not afraid of the press," Pierpoint told the News-Press. "He had been a reporter. He knew everyone in the White House press corps by name and reputation and joked with us. He was com-fortable in his own skin."
Pierpoint said his first White House assignment, the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration starting in 1957, was not as easy. He said Eisenhower was "a relatively good president, but he wasn't a good communicator. I didn't feel that I did a good job, but they kept me on."
CBS certainly did keep Pierpoint on at the White House, for 23 years, a period he chroni-cled in his 1981 memoir, "At the White House."
He moved to covering the State Department in 1980, and ended his career on the show "Sunday Morning" with Charles Kuralt.
Born May 16, 1925, in Redondo Beach, Calif., Pierpoint joined the Navy in 1943 but didn't see action. He graduated from the University of Redlands, where his papers and archives are now kept, in 1948.
While a graduate student at the University of Stockholm he began work as a stringer for CBS, and found his calling. His coverage of an attempted Communist coup in Finland won him attention, and he was sent to Tokyo as a full-time correspon-
dent, which led to his coverage of the entire Korean War.
Pierpoint shifted as the news business did from radio to tele-vision, and appeared on the first episode of Edward R. Murrow's "See It Now" in 1951, eventu-ally becoming one of the close Murrow associates known as "Murrow's Boys."
Before his career was over he had won two Emmys with other reporters, including one for his work on a 1989 bank-ing scandal just before his retirement.
During retirement he was a frequent speaker and frequent-ly went fishing in Montana.
He also didn't hesitate to
give his opinion on the direc-tions the White House went after he left, saying recently that he was not impressed with President Obama.
"He's not a fighter. He sur-renders to Congress before it's necessary," Pierpoint told the News-Press. "Lyndon Johnson was a fighter. He fought for
what he believed in. He was wrong on Vietnam, but right on civil rights."
In addition to Patricia, he is survived by four chil-dren, including actor Eric Pierpoint, who has appeared "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," and "Liar, Liar" with Jim Carrey.
CBS News correspondent Robert C. Pierpoint shown in this 2007 family photo taken in West Yellowstone Montana _ who covered six presidents, the Korean War, the Kennedy assassination and the Iranian hostage crisis in a career that spanned more than four decades _ died Saturday Oct. 22, 2011 in California, his daughter said. He was 86.
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SportsMonday, October 24, 2011 The Daily Campus, Page 11
Special teams hits stride in Huskies' winAfter starting off the season in
somewhat anemic fashion, the UConn women’s hockey team’s special teams has started firing on all cylinders.
During their first few games of the season, both the power play and penalty kill struggled for the Huskies. They were unable to find the net and allowed a shorthanded goal against RPI, and they had trouble killing penalties against the University of Minnesota – Duluth.
But this weekend against Maine, the special teams units appeared to hit their stride.
The Huskies penalty kill unit
managed to kill off all 10 of Black Bears’ power-play opportunities, including a crucial five-on-three advantage in the early stages of the first period of their win on Saturday.
The power-play, after struggling to break out of its own zone effec-tively and into the offen-sive zone with posses-sion, began to click as passes with the man advantage were sharp and allowed the Huskies to set up their offense.
Once in the zone, the Huskies managed to work the puck well, picking and choos-ing their opportunities and get-ting quality looks from their
big shooters at the blue line.The result was a strong week-
end for the power play, as they went 4-for-13 against Maine, scor-
ing two goals with the man advantage in both games. The Huskies power play looked especially good on Saturday, when they managed to score on both of their first two attempts and managed 10 shots during their opportunities on the power play.
After the win on Saturday, Coach Heather Linstad was pleased with the performance of both units. She attributed much of the success to her
players starting to find their niche.
“Everybody’s trying to establish roles. I think the kids that we’ve put on special teams as far as pen-alty killing and the power play, I think they’re taking possession of their role and what they should be doing now,” Linstad said.
Now the next challenge, according to Linstad, will be to sustain this success moving forward. The Huskies will travel to Syracuse to face the Orange for two games next weekend, and hope to keep their success on special teams going.
By Matt StypulkoskiStaff Writer
Stephanie Raithby skates with the puck against Maine this weekend. The Huskies split the series. ROBERT SARGENT/The Daily Campus
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Jeute had a brilliant game,” said coach Nancy Stevens. “Offensively, she was a great weapon throughout the game.”
Both teams would have promising opportunities in the remainder of the second half, but neither were able to capi-talize and the game went into sudden-death overtime.
A glove save by Mansfield on a corner inside of two min-utes remaining preserved the stalemate in the first overtime
and, after a brief two-minute intermission, the game entered double overtime, where Bolles would be the hero.
“Marie Elena touched the ball past the goalkeeper and it just rolled into the net,” said Stevens. “There was a great buildup and it was a great finish. We were glad the ball made it across the line.”
It was a perfect way to end a remarkable career for the eight UConn seniors who played their final regular season game at the George
Sherman Family Complex.“It’s definitely a great feel-
ing (to win on Senior Day,)” said Silverman, a senior. “Syracuse is a huge rival so beating them is amazing…. Our group has gotten really close, on and off the field. We’ve created a close bond and you can see that by the way we play together out there.”
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Bolles nets game-winner for UConn on Senior Day
Tebow rallies Broncos past Dolphins in Miami» NFL
MIAMI (AP) — Fans chant-ed Tim Tebow's name in deri-sion. They hooted as he missed open receivers, got buried under blitzes and kept falling short on third down.
Then he led an improbable comeback that became the latest chapter in the legend of Tebow.
In his first start this year, Tebow rallied the Denver Broncos with two touchdown passes in the final 2:44 of the fourth quarter to force overtime, and Matt Prater's 52-yard field goal gave them an 18-15 win Sunday over the stunned Miami Dolphins.
"It's tough to say, but man, Timmy did a great job," said Dolphins center Mike Pouncey, who played with Tebow at Florida. "Hopefully the critics will get off him about what he can't do and talk about the things that he can do, and that's figure out a way to win the game, no matter what."
The Broncos appeared beaten when they trailed 15-0 with 5:23 left and took over at their 20. At that point Tebow was 4 for 14 for 40 yards, and Denver was 0 for 10 on third-down conver-sions.
"It was my fault we were in that position," Tebow said. "Silly things kept happening.
On the sidelines, we were still believing. We wanted it, and they believed in me for more than 60 minutes."
In the frantic final minutes of the fourth quarter, Tebow led TD drives of 80 and 56 yards sandwiched around a successful onside kick. He scored a 2-point conversion standing up with 17 seconds left to tie the game.
In overtime, Denver's D.J. Williams sacked Matt Moore to force a fumble and recovered it at the Miami 36. Three plays later Prater hit the game-winner.
"It was never in doubt," coach John Fox jokingly said. His team became the first to rally from a deficit of at least 15 points in the final three minutes since at least 1983, according to STATS LLC.
The Broncos (2-4) won for the first time in the eight games they've played on the Dolphins' field. Miami (0-6) extended the NFL's longest losing streak to nine games, leaving the status of embattled coach Tony Sparano even more tenuous.
"Of course he's the head coach and he's going to take a lot of heat," receiver Brandon Marshall said. "But trust me, it's not him. Not just him. It's all of us."
The Dolphins lost for the 12th
time in their past 13 home games."I'm just discouraged for the
players in the locker room," Sparano said. "They work really hard, and we don't have any-thing to show for it right now."
Tebow started for the benched Kyle Orton, and for much of the game the Broncos sputtered. Tebow was sacked seven times as he struggled to identify blitz-es, and several throws landed nowhere near a receiver.
As he walked to the sideline after one series stalled, specta-tors jeered, and Dolphins play-ers gestured to the crowd for more noise.
"You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already," Tebow said. "When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up."
That's what Tebow did. With the Broncos on the verge of being shut out for the first time since 1992, he led an eight-play touchdown drive that got them back in the game.
Matthew Willis' 42-yard reception was a pivotal play, and Tebow threw a 5-yard scoring pass to Demaryius Thomas with 2:44 left to make the score 15-7.
Then came the onside kick. Miami receiver Marlon Moore leaped to catch the ball but bob-
bled it and the Broncos' Virgil Green recovered at their 44 with 2:31 left.
"They made the play. I didn't," Moore said. "It was just a bang-bang play. I had it, the dude turned the corner, hit me, it came out, they got it."
Tebow's strike to a diving Daniel Fells gained 28 yards to the 3. Two plays later, Tebow fooled the Dolphins by rolling left and throwing back to the right to Fells, who dived across the goal line for a 3-yard score.
Denver still needed a 2-point conversion to stay alive, and Tebow kept up the middle to score standing up. Prater missed field-goal attempts of 49 and 43 yards in regulation, but his kick with 7:24 left in overtime gave Denver the victory.
"I'm trying to search for answers," Miami running back Reggie Bush said. "I just keep coming back to embarrassing."
While the Broncos were two time zones from home, lots of fans wore Tebow jerseys, and the popular quarterback drew a big roar trotting onto the field for his first series. Tebow won a 2005 high school state cham-pionship and the 2008 national title with the Florida Gators in the same stadium. Tim Tebow carries the ball in the Broncos 18-15 win at the Dolphins on Sunday,
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Murray, Cowboys run over RamsARLINGTON, Texas (AP)
— The only drama at the end of this one was whether rookie DeMarco Murray would set the Dallas Cowboys' franchise rush-ing record, a remarkable feat considering it's gone from Hall of Famer Tony Dorsett to NFL rushing king Emmitt Smith.
Murray indeed pulled it off, run-ning through a shoddy St. Louis Rams defense for 253 yards, including an early 91-yard touch-down that got the Cowboys started toward a 34-7 victory on Sunday.
Murray ran for the most yards in the NFL this season and the ninth-most in league history. His touchdown was the second-lon-gest run in team history, topped only by the NFL-record 99-yard-er by Dorsett in January 1983. He also had the most yards ever against the Rams, replacing Jim Brown on that list.
"I never thought in a million years that I'd ever have a day like this," Murray said. "This is what I've been working hard for since my Pop Warner days."
As impressive as Murray's performance was, it came against the Rams, who fell to 0-6 and came in with the NFL's worst defense against the run. They had allowed 163 yards per game, more than two first downs more anyone else.
The holes were so plentiful that when Murray took himself out to catch his breath in the fourth quarter, fourth-stringer Phillip Tanner finished that drive with 35 yards on the first four carries of his career, capping it with a 6-yard TD run. St. Louis wasn't even able to exploit a line featur-ing a starting left guard who was unemployed as of Monday.
"It's easy to run the ball when you're not making tackles," Rams safety Quintin Mikell. "When you're not getting guys on the ground, there's not much you can do."
For Dallas (3-3), the real satisfaction was ending a two-game losing skid and emphati-cally breaking a stretch of 11 straight games decided by four
points or less."It was the first one where
we could take a knee to win," receiver Miles Austin said. "It's a good feeling."
The Cowboys never trailed and left no reason for team owner Jerry Jones to criticize coach Jason Garrett's play-calling — except maybe to wonder why Murray didn't have a bigger role in the offense until this game.
Get this: Murray didn't even start against the Rams.
With lead back Felix Jones out with a high ankle sprain, Tashard Choice trotted out first. The plan was for him to share the load with Murray, a third-round pick whose development was slowed because he missed most of training camp with a hamstring injury.
It took all of one carry for Murray to become the main option.
On a first-and-19 from the Dallas 9, Murray went through a giant hole on the left side, cut through an attempted ankle tackle, then outran Mikell. It was a heck of a way to score the first touchdown of his career, and it more than doubled his career rushing total of 71 com-ing into the game.
Murray had 187 yards through three quarters, and the Cowboys were up 20-7. Because they want-ed to run to protect the lead, it was clear that Murray would get a shot at Smith's club record of 237 yards set Oct. 31, 1993, at Philadelphia.
Murray followed with a 43-yard run that could've gone for a 73-yard touchdown had he not run out of gas along the way. He finished it 2 yards shy of Smith's mark.
"I just wanted to get down and protect the ball," he said.
The record fell on his next try, an 8-yard run. He finished with 25 carries and an average of 10.1 yards. Dallas ran for 294 yards overall, spiking a season average of 84.8 that had been among the league's worst.
For the local fans, it was a ter-rific start to a baseball-football doubleheader between teams from Dallas-Fort Worth and St. Louis.
Game 4 of the World Series began just down the street less than an hour after this game ended. Josh Hamilton of the Rangers and Lance Berkman of the Cardinals showed up in uniform as honorary captains for the pregame coin toss.
The Rams were the perfect foe for the Cowboys to cure all that ailed them. In addition to their trouble stopping the run, they were without quarterback Sam Bradford (high ankle sprain) and were averaging the fewest points in the league even with him.
A.J. Feeley made his first start since 2007 and was 20 of 33 for 196 yards with one inter-ception and one sack. But the offense gained only 4 yards in the third quarter, and had only two good drives. The first ended in a 6-yard touchdown run by Steven Jackson that got St. Louis within 14-7. The other ended with a fourth-and-goal from the 1 that was stuffed in the final minutes.
"We couldn't get any rhythm and left the defense on the field entirely too long," Jackson said. "For whatever reason, this keeps being the same old story."
Jackson finished with 70 yards, 46 coming on the touch-down drive.
Brandon Lloyd caught six passes for 74 yards in his St. Louis debut. He was acquired from Denver earlier this week.
St. Louis also saw right tackle Jason Smith and backup defen-sive tackle Darell Scott carted off. Both were taken to a hos-pital for evaluation and were expected to fly home with the team. Smith, a Dallas native, had a strained neck; Scott's inju-ry was called a blow to the head.
Dallas' Tony Romo was 14 of 24 for 166 yards, with two touchdowns. He didn't have to throw much because the run-ning game was doing so well. However, he hit Dez Bryant for four passes and a touchdown in the second half, which was sig-nificant because they'd hooked up for only two catches after halftime all season. Romo's other TD throw went to Jason Witten.
Steelers get record play in winGLENDALE, Ariz. (AP)
— No matter where the Pittsburgh Steelers are on the field, Mike Wallace is a threat to go deep.
Never was that more appar-ent than on Sunday, when his 95-yard catch from Ben Roethlisberger, the longest pass reception in Steelers history, set the stage for Pittsburgh's 32-20 victory over Arizona, the Cardinals' fifth loss in a row.
"You know he can run by you," Steelers coach Mike Tomlin said, "but he still finds a way to do it."
Arizona coach Ken Whisenhunt had studied tape of Wallace outracing one defender after another.
"We knew that was com-ing," he said. "We did every-thing we could to work to prevent that."
To no avail."You put it out there for a
guy like that and you start smiling," Roethlisberger said, "because you know he is not going to get caught."
Roethlisberger, 26 of 39 for 361 yards, also had TD passes of 12 yards to Heath Miller and 4 yards to Emmanuel Sanders in the first game between the teams since Pittsburgh's 27-23 thriller over the Cardinals in the 2009 Super Bowl.
Kevin Kolb threw a pair of touchdown passes for Arizona (1-5), his first in three games, but missed several open receiv-ers and, with a blitzing LaMarr Woodley in his face, drew an intentional grounding call in the Cardinals' end zone for a safety.
Pittsburgh (5-2) won its third straight and improved to 2-2 on the road.
Shaun Suisham kicked field goals of 41, 42 and 39 yards for the Steelers.
The big play from Roethlisberger to Wallace, cheered on by a crowd that included a generous and bois-terous bunch of Steelers fans, came in the second quarter after an Arizona drive stalled at the Steelers 39 and Dave Zastudil's 30-yard punt pinned Pittsburgh on its 9-yard line. A false start penalty pushed it back to the Steelers 5.
On the next play, Roethlisberger dropped back into the Pittsburgh end zone and lofted a pass down the sideline toward Wallace, who had beaten cornerback Richard Marshall.
Wallace caught the ball in stride, breaking free of a pair of would-be tacklers along the way, and raced to the end zone for the score that made it 14-0 with 8:09 left in the half.
He said he was not the No.
1 receiver on the play, but was trying to clear things out for Miller underneath.
"Their guy jumped outside and let me get inside," he said. "The safety was in the middle of the field so I just threw my hand up."
And the ball landed per-fectly in his fingertips.
"A play like that kind of deflates them I would hope. I hope it takes a lot of out them but they kept playing," Wallace said.
The previous longest pass play was 90 yards, first set by Terry Bradshaw to Mark Malone against Seattle in 1981, then matched by Bubby Brister to Dwight Stone against Denver in 1990 and Kordell Stewart to Bobby Shaw against Baltimore in 2001.
It was the second-longest play from scrimmage for the Pittsburgh franchise. Only Bobby Gage's 97-yard run against Chicago in 1949 was longer.
Down 17-7 at the half, the Cardinals cut the lead to 17-14 with 9:26 left in the third quar-ter when Kolb threw short over the middle to LaRod Stephens-Howling and the 5-foot-7 back outran defenders on a 73-yard touchdown play.
Pittsburgh scored the next 15 points.
SportsThe Daily Campus, Page 12 Monday, October 24, 2011
Women's hockey picks up first win at Maine
The UConn women’s hock-ey team recorded its first win of the season by taking the second game of a two-game weekend series with Maine.
UConn made a late third-period comeback after being down 4-1 on Friday, but fell short as the Huskies lost by the final score of 4-3. This late-game surge was in part to two goals, one of them a power play goal scored by freshmen forward Rachel Farrel. The other came off the stick of freshmen Catlin Hewes. UConn’s momentum was stopped after receiving a
“too many players on the ice” penalty with just under two minutes left to play.
Maine blocked 14 shots during the game, which con-tributed to the Huskies frus-tration on offense early in the game. Head Coach Heather Linstad said, “We had a lot of shots but no rebounds, Maine was finding more pucks then we were.”
Between the pipes, senior net minder Alexandra Garcia made six saves in the first peri-od but was pulled after allow-ing three goals. Sophomore Nicole Paniccia allowed just one goal and made 21 saves.
“Nicole did a great job for us, she came into a very situ-ation and played well,” said
Linstad. In Saturday’s contest
against Maine, Paniccia stopped all 31 shots she faced en route to the first shutout of her career as the Huskies defeated the Black Bears 3-0. UConn was up by two goals after senior defensemen Sami Evelyn scored a power play goal. Freshmen Rachel Farrel scored her second goal of the weekend as the Huskies went into the second period with the lead.
UConn’s third goal of the game came from freshmen Christie Brauer at 9:01 in the second period. This was another power play goal for the Huskies and Brauer’s first goal of the season.
Special teams came up big for UConn this weekend as Maine could not score a power play goal. Heading into this weekend, Maine’s power play was ranked third in Hockey East at 19.4 percent efficien-cy. Maine went 0-for-10 on the power play this weekend.
UConn will look to build off their first win of the sea-son as they travel on the road to take on Syracuse for a two-game series this week-end. The Huskies return to the Mark Edwards Freitas Ice Forum when they take on Hockey East foe Northeastern on Nov. 5th.
Caitlin Hewes fights off a Black Bear defender this past weekend during the Huskies series against Maine. UConn won its first game of the season on Saturday with a 3-0 decision.
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By Tyler MorriseyCampus Correspondent
Men's swimming hosts Husky Invitational in Storrs
The UConn men's swimming and diving team competed in the Husky Invite this weekend.ROB SARGENT/The Daily Campus
The UConn Men’s Swimming and Diving Team competed this past Saturday in the Husky Invitational at home in Wolff-Zackin Natatorium. The Huskies competed against the teams from Providence, Fordham, Fairfield, Maine and Vermont. This meet was an invitational so there was no team scoring in any of the events and no diving. Considering there were six teams and that the women’s teams were there too, this meet took a very long time, beginning at 11 a.m. and finish-ing around 4 p.m. Overall though, with all of the aspects of this meet, Coach Bob Goldberg was pleased and felt that the day was a success for his men.
“I thought it was great. It was kind of a practice meet, kind of a scrimmage. Our guys knew what they were doing. I thought we had really good energy,” Goldberg said.
Many of the swimmers got impressive times for their events in this meet. Both returning swim-mers and new swimmers worked hard in the pool and the results of their hard work clearly showed. For the returners, the energy and hard work from last season came back in full force in this meet. Sophomore Keith Piper achieved victories in both the 100-yard backstroke and 200-yard back-stroke, getting times of 52.82 and 1:54.76. Other returners that swam well included sophomores Asher Garcia and Kyungsoo Yoon. For the newcomers, there were many spectacular perfor-mances from them in this meet.
Freshman Sawyer Franz achieved victories in both the 400 yard individual medley with a time of 4:13.52 and the 500-yard freestyle in a time of 4:42.01. Freshman Lachezar Shumkov also achieved two victories in both the 100-yard Breaststroke with a time of 58.97 and the 200 Yard Breaststroke with a time of 2:10.33. The other two freshmen, Wyatt Boliek and Luke Zalewski, swam impressive times at the meet too. With such great times in their first competi-tion, fans should keep their eyes on these freshmen. Freshman Lachezar Shumkov felt happy about his performance in the meet and is excited for the future com-petitions.
“I’m satisfied,” said Shumkov. “It was a good start to the season. We were all having fun and trying really hard. I think it’s going to be
a pretty good season.”With great times from both the
returners and newcomers in their competition against fairly decent teams, it seems very likely the Huskies will have a great season. One should remember that this meet was a scrimmage; future competitions will count for their record. Goldberg said that he will train his team differently for the next meet to reflect the difference. Most importantly of course, he is focused on making his swimmers get faster and faster times.
“If we keep that energy and focus for the rest of the year, it will pay us big dividends down the road. We will get ready for meets a little differently. Our times will continue to get faster as we go.”
By James HuangCampus Correspondent
UConn misses chances on Senior NightComing into Saturday’s Big
East matchup against No. 24 Georgetown (9-3-4, 4-2-1), the No. 1 UConn men’s soccer team (13-1-2, 4-1-2) had not scored in regula-tion in three of its past four games. Make that four of five with the Huskies scoreless tie to the Hoyas.
The Huskies and Hoyas played 110 minutes of score-less soccer, and the Huskies’ dominated almost every one of them. The offense, led by senior midfielder Tony Cascio and sophomore forward Mamadou Doudou-Diouf, seemed to constantly be on the verge of
scoring, but each opportunity was a missed one. The Huskies outshot the Hoyas 18-8 in the game, including a second-half 10-2 advantage. “We couldn’t find the net,” junior forward Carlos Alvarez said.
The Huskies controlled the ball so well that the draw felt as if it was somewhat of a win for the Hoyas and a disappointment of sorts for the Huskies.
Unfortunately for the Huskies, finishing opportunities is not something that is easy to work on in practice. The team did everything right on offense except for burying a goal. “It happens sometimes,” said Alvarez. “We just have to keep moving the ball.”
“We need to be in the right place at the right time,” said junior defender Max Wasserman.
With Alvarez hav-ing missed the past two games with a tweaked hamstring, it seemed that the Huskies’ 2-0 loss to West Virginia and 1-0 squeaker of a win over Pittsburgh could have been at least partially blamed on his absence. The tie erases that possibility as he played all 110 minutes. “I felt it a little bit, but I want to be on the field,” said Alvarez.
The Huskies have two games
left to figure it out before they begin postseason play in the Big East tournament and then NCAA tournament. The team
hosts Marquette on Wednesday and trav-els to play Seton Hall on Saturday.
Quick HitsBoth UConn and
Georgetown played aggressively, with a total of an astound-ing 36 fouls in the
game. Big East fans have come to expect such physicality in the conference, but this 36 is a big number. It never got out of hand, though, with only two cards being presented. Georgetown’s
sophomore midfielder Steve Neumann receiving a yellow in the second minute, and UConn sophomore defender Andrew Jean-Baptiste receiving a yel-low for dissent
The game was UConn’s “Senior Night,” with the team celebrating Cascio, goalkeeper Lionel Brown and defender Nickardo Blake, who played midfield Saturday. Before the game, which was the seniors’ second-to-last regular season home game, the team presented each senior with a frame that included each players’ jersey and photos.
“This league is tough for sure,” UConn Coach Ray Reid said.
UConn will take on Marquette (8-6-2, 5-1) on Wednesday. The teams share five common opponents thus far. The Golden Eagles lost to Georgetown 3-2, beat Providence 3-1, Notre Dame 1-0 and West Virginia 2-1, and tied Michigan St. 1-1. The Huskies beat Providence 2-1, tied Notre Dame 0-0, lost to West Virginia 2-0, and beat Michigan St. 2-1. Also notable is that the Golden Eagles beat Seton Hall 3-0; the Huskies wrap up the regular season by playing Seton Hall on Saturday.
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By Greg KeiserStaff Writer
UConn can't finish off the Hoyas, begin to look toward Marquette
“I want to be out there and help my team win,” Alvarez said.
The Huskies two greatest opportunities to score came halfway through the first half. In the 18th minute, junior Max Wasserman bent a free kick from just inside mid-field that was punched out by Georgetown goalkeeper Tomas Gomez. Sophomore Colin Bradley fired a shot from the top of the box, but his attempt went over the net.
Four minutes later, the Huskies continued the pres-sure when forwards Mamadou Doudou Diouf and Stephane Diop escaped behind the Georgetown defense, resulting
in Gomez falling down. The ball trickled out of bounds and Alvarez quickly set up a corner kick, the first of five unsuccess-ful corner kicks for UConn.
The Huskies controlled possession throughout the entire match, out shooting Georgetown 18-8, but could not finish on the offensive end.
“In a game that you domi-nate like that, you have to get a goal and we simply did not,” head coach Ray Reid said.
Wasserman used several free kicks to create chances in front of the Georgetown net, but could not find the foot or head of a UConn player all night.
“It’s a matter of us finishing our chances,” Wasserman said. “We need to score some goals, it must be a collective effort.”
The defensive clash carried over from the first half to the sec-ond half and into both overtimes.
Late in regulation time, freshman Allando Matheson’s header went wide of the left post after a cross from Alvarez.
UConn’s final chance came in the 109th minute when Diouf fought off a Georgetown defender as he raced towards the net and received a long through ball from Diop but Diouf’s one-timer went wide right.
Georgetown midfielder Ian Christianson, with three game-winning goals this sea-son already, launched a shot from just inside mid-field and barely squeezed above the crossbar, as time expired.
UConn goalkeeper, Andre Blake continued his remark-
able season in net and made the only save he needed to in Saturday’s draw. Blake improved his conference lead-ing goals against average to .30 goals allowed per game.
The Huskies will face anoth-er Big East foe in the final regular season home game Wednesday, October 26, at 7:30 p.m., against Marquette. Marquette (8-6-2, 6-1-0) cur-rently sits atop the Big East Blue Division ahead of the second place Huskies.
“We need to pick it up. I’m looking forward to Marquette,” Alvarez said. “If we never play as a team, we will not go anywhere.”
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season. I’m fed up with tolerat-ing nothing but speculation, draft projection and the second-guessing of coaches from the comfort of a press box.
Just like South Summit High School, the major media outlets in the world of sports are neglect-ing the real point of the story. Instead, they aim for ratings and what’s going to sell rather than searching out the extra points to a story and how the game affects the people involved.
Does ESPN try to bring the human element to sports stories? Sort of. I love “Outside the Lines” and I love “E:60” because that is what sports reporting should be. But they air at ridiculously inacces-sible times of the day when I’m out and about doing the whole college
student thing.ESPN’s “30 for 30” series
was so amazing because it went beyond the games that I know and love and gave an in-depth look at the people behind them, and aired dur-ing primetime. I could actually watch them without going out of my way.
I want to hear more sto-ries like that one about a small-town school who rallies around the cause of a severely injured teammate and I want them to be easily viewable. But that’s not going to hap-pen any time soon because that kind of reporting is too expensive and simply does not bring in enough money. What a shame.
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Holland, Rangers even World SeriesARLINGTON, Texas (AP)
— Derek Holland kept Albert Pujols in the ballpark and the Texas Rangers in this World Series.
In a title matchup that's getting more interesting with every game, Holland put the emphasis back on pitching. Given a pep talk by manag-er Ron Washington minutes before the game, Holland allowed two hits over 8 1-3 innings to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 4-0 on Sunday night and even things at 2-all.
Holland struck out seven,
walked two and never was in trouble against a team that erupted for 16 runs the previ-ous night. He came within two outs of pitching the first com-plete-game shutout in the World Series since Josh Beckett's gem for Florida to clinch the 2003 title at Yankee Stadium.
"I was very focused. I knew this was a big game for us," Holland said. "I had to step up and make sure I was prepared."
Hobbled Josh Hamilton put Texas ahead with an RBI double in the first inning. Then Mike Napoli broke it open with a
three-run homer in the sixth that set off a hearty high-five in the front row between team presi-dent Nolan Ryan and former President George W. Bush.
And just like that, for the first time since 2003, the World Series stood at two games apiece. Now the whole season is down to a best of three, with the outcome to be decided back at Busch Stadium.
Game 5 is Monday night at Rangers Ballpark. It's a rematch of the opener, when Cardinals ace Chris Carpenter topped C.J. Wilson.
A day after Pujols produced arguably the greatest hitting show in postseason history, tying Series records with three home runs, six RBIs and five hits during the Cardinals' romp, Holland emerged as the unlikely star.
Holland got a big cheer when he took the mound in the ninth and was still throw-ing 96 mph. With the crowd chanting his name, he walked Rafael Furcal and left after 8 1-3 innings. He tipped his cap and waved to the fans as he walked off.
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TWOPAGE 2 Q :A :
“Will UConn men’s basketball finish the regular season in the Top 5?”
“If winning the Big East and going undefeated puts you somewhere in the Top 5 then yes.”
–Tyler Walters, 5th-semester applied math major.
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“Will UConn women’s basketball finish the regular season in the Top 5?”
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» That’s what he said“The fans pay money to come see you do well and I felt for the past-
few weeks I was not playing well. This is gratifying.”
-New York Jets receiver Plaxico Burress after scoring three times against the Chargers in the Jets’ win.
Last regular patrol
Fans in the Goal Patrol student section chant during the UConn men’s soccer team’s 0-0 tie against Georgetown on Senior Night on Saturday. It was the final regular season home game for the Huskies.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — One trip into the end zone wasn’t enough for Plaxico Burress.
Neither was two.One touchdown catch after another,
Burress had the big breakout game he and the New York Jets have been expecting.
The veteran wide receiver tied a career high by catching three TD passes, including the go-ahead score that was set up by another intercep-tion by Darrelle Revis, and the Jets stormed back in the second half to defeat the San Diego Chargers 27-21 on Sunday.
“Every morning you wake up on Sundays and you want to be great,” said Burress, who has been slow to develop a rapport with quarterback Mark Sanchez. “I had to let the game come to me. I think I’ve been forcing it. But this was them saying, ‘He’s been working hard, we’ll stick with it.’
“The fans pay money to come see you do well, and I felt for the past few weeks I was not playing well. This is gratifying.”
Leading 21-17, the Chargers appeared to be driving for a possible game-sealing score when Philip Rivers threw to Vincent Jackson and the ball tipped off the receiver’s hands and right to Revis, who returned the inter-ception 64 yards to the Chargers 19.
“It was a big play,” said Revis, who thought cornerback Antonio Cromartie also got a piece of the ball.
Revis had two interceptions on Monday night, including a 100-yard touchdown return, in the Jets’ 24-6 win against the Miami Dolphins.
After a few runs by Shonn Greene and a defensive holding penalty — the Chargers’ 11th penalty in the game — Sanchez found Burress on a slant for a 3-yard touchdown to give the Jets (4-3) the lead for the first time with 8:41 remaining. It was Burress’ second three-TD catch game of his career, and first since 2007 while with the Giants.
“You’ve got to evaluate yourself,” Burress said. “I looked at myself and said I’ve got to play better. It was not on anybody but myself.”
San Diego turned it over again on its next pos-session when the Chargers (4-2) faced a third-and-6 from their 41 and Kyle Wilson picked off Rivers for the first interception of his career.
Nick Folk’s 30-yard field goal with 1:36 left made it 27-21. San Diego had one last shot for a winning drive, but couldn’t really threaten against New York’s defense.
“It’s our fault,” Chargers tight end Randy McMichael said. “You can ask any question you want to ask. The San Diego Chargers beat the San Diego Chargers. Nothing to do with the New York Jets. It’s embarrassing.”
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Pro SideTHE Storrs SideTHE Field Hockey beats rival
Syracuse, while men’s soccer ties
Game of the Week: Field Hockey vs. Syracuse
The No. 4 UConn field hockey team pulled off a win in double overtime Sunday to clinch at least part of their 12th Big East regular sea-son championship. The 3-2 win came after a long game against No. 6 Syracuse. UConn scored first at 14:04, followed by a pair of goals by Syracuse to tie up the game. Two overtimes later, sopho-more standout Marie Elena Boles maneuvered the ball around Orange goalkeeper Leann Stiver and sent the ball rolling towards the net where several orange defend-ers made desperate dives at the ball, which rolled into the goal in a dramatic 3-2 double overtime win.
The win brings the team to 15-1-0 (5-0 Big East). A victory on Friday at Rutgers will give the team an undis-puted claim to the Big East Regular Season title. The
Huskies have won at least 15 games in 16 of the last 18 seasons under Head coach Nancy Stevens.
Wish we were there: Men’s Soccer vs Georgetown
The No. 1 men’s soccer team tied No. 24 Georgetown in front of a sell out crowd at Morrone Stadium on cam-pus Saturday. The team was disappointed with the draw, which brings them to 13-1-2 (4-1-2 Big East). Freshman Goalkeeper Andre Blake needed just one save to keep the Hoyas scoreless. Several UConn scoring opportunities were squandered during the game. Mamadou Doudou Diof and Stephane Diop failed to communicate on a rebounded goal during the first 25 min-utes, and Diop missed a shot on open goal after a Hoya defender cleared out the ball on the goal line.
By Aaron Kasmanoff-DickAssociate Sports Editor
Jets comeback on Chargers, Raiders get shut out by Chiefs
Game of the Week: New York Jets vs. San Diego
Chargers
Things got off to a rough start for the Jets, which is typical this season as they have been outscored by opponents 44-30 going into yesterday’s game. Dustin Keller fumbled on the very first drive and the Charger defense returned it for six. The Jets followed with a field goal, but the Chargers answered again with a Phillip Rivers strike to Antonio Gates for another TD. When it was all said and done, San Diego had a 21-10 lead at half and things were looking bleak for gang green. The third quarter was stale for both offenses with the only scoring coming on a Sanchez pass to Burress for the receiver’s second TD of the game. Then the big play happened; a Rivers pass was tipped and then intercepted by all-pro cor-ner Darrelle Revis and returned for 60 yards to set up the go-ahead Jets TD. Another Jets INT later in the quarter by Kyle Wilson led to a Nick Folk field goal to put the Jets up 27-21 with 1:29 left
for Phil Rivers to attempt to engi-neer a game-winning drive. The result was less than pretty. The Jet defense completed its second half shutout and the Jets completed the comeback. The final: 27-21 Jets.
Big Letdown: The Raiders get blanked by the Chiefs
There was plenty of hype sur-rounding this matchup, and the Raiders have been playing good football after the loss of owner Al Davis. Not only that, but big name former Bengal QB Carson Palmer had been picked up later in the week. The hype was only hype however, as the Raiders QB duo of Kyle Boller and Carson Palmer combined for six INTs (three each) to all but demolish any hopes the Raiders had of continuing their win streak. The turnovers proved more than costly, especially see-ing as half the Chiefs’ points were from interceptions returned for TDs. The other two TDs came from rushes, but one TD was set up by yet another Oakland INT. Final score: Chiefs 28 Raiders 0.
By Darryl BlainCampus Correspondent
Oct. 29Seton Hall
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Nov. 12Rutgers2 p.m.
The No. 1 UConn men’s soccer team battled Big East rival No. 24 Georgetown to a scoreless tie Saturday night in front of a sell-out crowd of 5,100
at Morrone Stadium.The draw moves the
Huskies to 13-1-2 (4-1-2 Big East) and the Georgetown Hoyas go to 9-3-4 (4-2-1 Big East).
The Huskies are com-ing off their first loss of the season, at West Virginia, 2-0 on Oct. 19. Wednesday’s loss was the Huskies’ first defeat in regulation since fall-ing at Georgetown last season, 1-0.
Before the game, forward Tony Cascio, defenseman Nickardo Blake and goalkeeper Lionel Brown were hon-ored as part of Senior Night. Each player was recognized on field with
family members and given jerseys framed to com-memorate their soccer years at UConn.
As expected, the match-up between the Huskies and Hoyas was a dog fight. In the 2nd minute, Georgetown forward Steve Neumann earned a yellow card when he took out UConn midfielder Carlos Alvarez at the knees. Alvarez sat out the last two games due to a hamstring injury.
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Refusing the extra point
Usually, the first step in my column-writing process is to do some article aggregation using ESPN, Yahoo! and other sources and watch a little college foot-ball on a Saturday afternoon while sipping from my mug filled with black coffee.
This week, as soon as I saw the story that ran in the Salt Lake Tribune about a high school foot-ball game played Thursday night in Utah, I knew exactly what this week’s piece would be about.
The State of Utah is not exactly a hotbed for future college football talent. Dating back to 2006, there have only been three players from the state to make ESPNU’s Top-150 list of high school football players. Neither of the teams that were playing are anywhere near the best team in Utah. Needless to say, the game played in Kamas, Utah between the South Summit Wildcats and Moab Grand County High where South Summit blew away Grand County 33-0 was not the sexiest of high school football games this week.
But it was what South Summit did after their fourth touchdown that has earned its place as one of the most touching things I’ve heard all year and it’s the reason why that game is the subject of this week’s column.
According to the Tribune, “Instead of lining up for the extra point, the Wildcats gathered at their own sideline. Then, every player and coach pointed to the 26-0 tally on the scoreboard.”
The move was a fitting trib-ute to the team’s paralyzed team-mate Porter Hancock (26 was his number) who was in the hospi-tal recovering from a spinal cord injury that he had suffered during South Summit’s 40-15 shalack-ing of Castle Dale Emery High. Almost everybody on the Wildcats sideline had the number 26 written somewhere on their uniform since the incident.
Apparently, South Summit has not been able to evade the number 26 for the past few weeks. “It’s funny how the number keeps pop-ping up,” said South Summit quar-terback Matt Rydalch according to the Tribune. “Last week, we won by 26. It reminds us that we’re staying strong for Porter.”
During the game, a silent auc-tion was held, during which all money went toward paying Hancock’s medical bills. In addi-tion, all of the game’s conces-sions profits were donated to the same fund. In spite of facing a clearly more powerful opponent, Grand High donated $1,000 to Hancock’s cause. According to the Tribune piece, over $60,000 has been raised for Hancock in less than two weeks since the incident.
But in spite of the encour-agement and support from all over the state, the harsh and cold reality remains for South Summit, that there is still football to be played. The Wildcats boast a 7-3 record in Utah’s Division 2A North division and will be looking toward the playoffs very soon. For these high school kids, how they are going to handle playing while their teammate and friend is severely injured and hospitalized remains to be seen.
“I think everybody was a little anxious and wanted to do well,” South Summit football coach Jerry Parker said according to the Tribune. “We lost our rhythm in the second quarter, but we did a good job stopping them and get-ting back on track.”
The world of sports needs more stories of heart like that one. Quite honestly, I’m sick and tired of hearing some blowhard on ESPN yacking it up about which team would be a good fit for Terrell Owens halfway through the NFL
Senior send-off earns UConn Big East titleThe No. 4 UConn field
hockey team sent off its senior class with a custom-ary senior day game. Before the game started, the seniors were greeted by their family with the tra-ditional bouquet of flowers.
The Huskies team this year has a strong core of eight senior players that0 head coach Nancy Stevens says is a key element of her team’s success. The seniors include backs Colleen Connolly, Rayell Heistand and Jestine Angelini, mid-fielder Kim Krzyk and for-wards Ali Blankmeyer and Cara Silverman. Six players in this senior class are starters on the team.
“I think we’ve gotten really close,” said Silverman, who scored the opening goal for
the Huskies on a penalty cor-ner. “On the field and off the field we’re really close, but we have definitely created a bond and we go out there and play together and you can see that on the field.”
The Huskies ended their senior day in a grand way, winning on a sliding goal in dou-ble overtime by sophomore forward Marie Elena Bolles.
“We are just so happy for our seniors ,” said Stevens. “That is a perfect way to end senior day.”
When reflecting on her team Stevens said that “the best part of the day is practice. The coaching staff looks forward to practice all day, they work hard, they really love each other, and they play for each other. You could not have a better group of seniors.”
This group of seniors
helped the Huskies towards a regular season record of 15-1 as well as a regular season Big East championship, their 12th, all of which have come since 1996.
When looking back on her four years at UConn, Silverman said “It has been amazing. I have grown a whole family through this and I just love everyone and I wouldn’t change it for any-thing. I wouldn’t go anywhere else. I have grown so many friendships from it and it’s been great.”
Although senior day is the last home game of the season, the Huskies will have a chance to play at home again in the Big East Tournament, which starts on Nov. 5. The Huskies still have a pair of games left this season next weekend in New Jersey against Rutgers and Princeton.
Ali Blankmeyer carries the ball against Syracuse during UConn’s 3-2 victory in double overtime against the Orange. The Huskies are 15-1 on the season.
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HUSKIES ARE FIT TO BE TIED
Tony Cascio brings the ball upfield against Georgetown during his final regular season game at Morrone Stadium. The game ended in a 0-0 tie.
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No. 1 UConn ties Georgetown on Senior
Night at Morrone
Marie Elena Bolles tapped the ball past the Syracuse goalie moments before colliding with her and watched as the ball rolled into the back of the net, giving the No. 4 UConn field hockey team a thrilling 3-2 dou-ble overtime victory over No. 6 Syracuse on Sunday afternoon. With the win, the Huskies extended a nine-game winning streak and clinched the Big East regular season title.
Syracuse had won 11 straight games and looked unbeatable in their past three games, outscoring opponents by a combined score of 2-1. Their only two losses of the season prior to Sunday were to the No. 2 team in the country at the time, North Carolina on Sept. 2nd and Old Dominion on Sept. 10th.
The eight UConn seniors who were recognized in pregame Senior Day festivities, and their teammates played with intensity and emotion throughout the game.
The Orange came out aggres-sively in the opening minutes of the game, but UConn goalie Sarah Mansfield was able to defer several scoring opportu-nities with a dazzling array of
kick and glove saves. Mansfield, last year’s Big East Goalkeeper of the Year, finished the afternoon with four saves.
The Huskies offensive eventually
responded to the early pres-sure by Syracuse and would strike first on a penalty corner 14:04 into the game. Jestine Angelini fed the penalty shot to Cara Silverman who was able to launch a wrist shot past goalie Leann Stiver to give the Huskies a 1-0 advantage.
The game was nearly equal-
ized right before the half, but UConn back Allison Angula, who gave a rousing rendition of the national anthem before the game, saved a loose ball in front of the net, and was able to clear it behind her with some crafty stick work to preserve the lead.
Ten minutes into the second half, Syracuse equalized the game with a brilliant penalty cor-ner goal by Iona Hollaway, and only two minutes later tacked on a second goal. Jordan Page laid out in front of the goal and was able to get a stick on the ball and hit it in the direction of Lauren Brooks, who buried the shot into the corner of the net to give the Orange a 2-1 advantage.
The Syracuse lead would be shortlived, however. Only two minutes had elapsed before Angelini once again notched an assist on a penalty corner, this time to Anna Jeute, to tie the game.
By Peter LogueStaff Writer
Huskies beat rival Orange in double ot thriller
By Danny MaherCampus Correspondent
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