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Huskies sit in sixth place in AHA standings.

THREE-GAME SKID ENDS WINTER BREAK

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INSIDE NEWS: FORMER PEACE CORPS DIRECTOR, R. SARGENT SHRIVER, DIES

Shriver was one of the last links to JFK’s admin-istration.

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Showers

Huskies showed their pride as they cheered on the football team at the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Ariz. on Jan. 1. UConn only sold 25 percent of its ticket allotment. The athletic department said making a profit was not the purpose of the trip.

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An online vendor working with the UConn Co-op informed the bookstore that the UConn para-phernalia website, HuskyDirect.com, had been hacked during the winter recess.

HuskyDirect may have exposed billing information of customers, including names, addresses, e-mails, telephone

numbers, and credit card num-bers, expiration dates and secu-rity codes.

The HuskyDirect database contains about 18,000 names. The Co-op is investigating how many accounts were affected.

HuskyDirect sells UConn apparel and other items through the Co-op website.

The Co-op has asked HuskyDirect to take its database offline, and has removed the

HuskyDirect link from its web-site until the problem is fixed. The store sent an e-mail notify-ing customers whose informa-tion was in the database about the events.

Customers who purchased items in the Co-op with a credit card were not affected, nor were students who purchased text-books online , or made purchas-es in person at a Co-op store or off-site location. Only those

customers who made purchases through HuskyDirect.com were affected. No data stored by the University of Connecticut itself was exposed.

Stephen Corbo, an 8th-semes-ter computer science major, said that the hacking was most likely caused by a weak, non-random-ized password.

“It’s very common, especial-ly for an uninformed user,” Corbo said.

Corbo has never bought UConn Husky merchandise online, but feels that the Co-op is “the official place to get Husky merchandise,” although he laments the price.

Joe Levy, a 6th-semester human development and family studies major, agreed, saying he would buy Husky merchandise “if it was cheap and stuff.”

By Brian ZahnSenior Staff Writer

Brian.M.Zahn@UConn.edu

Though bowl games market big payouts, the majority of participants wind up incurring big losses. If UConn winds up losing big, they wouldn’t be the first.

A look back at past bowl games could shed light on what kind of costs UConn may be facing. Perhaps the best place to start is the 2008 Fiesta Bowl, which was the last time a Big East team appeared in the Fiesta Bowl prior to UConn. In that game, West Virginia blew out the heavily favored Oklahoma Sooners 48-28, but financially, the Mountaineers lost over $1 million.

Bowl games do not reim-burse the participating schools for transportation, nor do they pay for meals and lodging once the school arrives. They also force the schools to com-mit to selling a certain amount of tickets, protecting the bowl from potential losses and pass-ing the costs on to the schools and conferences.

As will likely be the case with

UConn, West Virginia’s big-gest issue was ticket sales. The Big East conference doesn’t reimburse schools for losses related to ticket sales, leaving the schools on the hook for whatever tickets go unsold.

West Virginia University only sold 7,981 tickets out of a 17,500 allotment, forcing the school to eat $1,285,065, according to West Virginia University’s summary of post-season football institutional bowl expenses from 2008.

Transportation, meals and lodging were also significant expenses that West Virginia had to cover. It cost the school $1,145,047 to get the team, band, cheerleaders and the official party to the game and back. The band and cheer-leaders by themselves cost the school $565,152, good for $1,479 per person.

The total meal and lodg-ing cost for West Virginia was $773,723, and the school incurred several other costs, such as entertainment, awards, administrative, equipment and supplies, that totaled $292,037.

Once everything had been taken

into account, the school faced total expenses of $3,495,872. The Fiesta Bowl helped pay for none of it, and as a result, West Virginia and the Big East confer-ence were forced to deal with the costs themselves.

West Virginia’s allotment of bowl revenue from the Big East totaled $2,425,600, which was intended to cover the school’s expenses. But the revenue allotment did not fac-tor in ticket losses, resulting in West Virginia’s loss of over $1 million.

West Virginia actually had it easy compared to some other schools. In 2009, Virginia Tech defeated Big East cham-pion Cincinnati in the Orange Bowl. But a look at Virginia Tech’s expense documents for the game show that the big win came at an enormous cost.

Virginia Tech sold 3,342 tickets, less than 20 percent of the 17,500 tickets they were required to sell. The ACC does help its member schools absorb some of the losses resulting from ticket sales, which was good for Virginia Tech because the combined losses between

the school and the conference wound up totaling $1,769,750.

The tradeoff for Virginia Tech, however, was that its revenue allotment from the ACC was significantly small-er than West Virginia’s allot-ment from the Big East. The Hokies only received $1.6 million from the ACC, and their total expenses ultimately totaled $3,818,904.

Virginia Tech’s fate should serve as a grim warning to UConn. UConn only sold 25 percent of its ticket allotment, and had to travel much farther to Arizona than Virginia Tech did to Miami. And unlike Virginia Tech, UConn will not have any cushion from the Big East to ease the pain of big ticket losses either.

The athletic department has said prestige and exposure, not profit, would be the main ben-efit of the bowl trip. But a mil-lion dollar loss is hard to ignore, especially if the final numbers that come out in March look anything like West Virginia’s or Virginia Tech’s did.

By Mac CerulloSports Editor

Michael.Cerullo@UConn.edu

HARTFORD (AP) — Former Secretary of the State Susan Bysiewicz said Tuesday that she’ll run in 2012 for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Joe Lieberman, becoming the first person to announce a candidacy.

The 49-year-old Democrat from Middletown told The Associated Press that Lieberman has dropped the ball on job cre-ation, and she’s worried about the high rate of young adults leaving Connecticut.

“I’m very concerned in our state that it’s really difficult for young people to get a job, afford a home and raise a family here,” Bysiewicz said.

A spokesman for Lieberman didn’t immediately return a message Tuesday morning.

Lieberman is scheduled to announce his 2012 plans Wednesday in Stamford. He won his fourth term in 2006 as an inde-pendent after losing the Democratic primary, but he continues to caucus with Senate Democrats.

Other Democrats, includ-ing U.S. Reps. Joe Courtney and Chris Murphy, have expressed interest in running for Lieberman’s seat.

Republican Linda McMahon, who lost the November elec-tion for Christopher Dodd’s U.S. Senate seat to Democrat Richard Blumenthal after spend-ing nearly $50 million of her own money, has said she is deciding whether to run for the Senate in 2012.

Bysiewicz was seen as the early front-runner for the Democratic nomination in last year’s governor’s race before switching to the state attorney general’s race in January 2010. But the state Supreme Court ruled in May that she didn’t have the required legal experience to run for attorney general.

Bysiewicz faced other con-troversy in 2010. She took heat for using a database with voter information maintained by the secretary of the state’s office for her political campaign, although she was cleared of wrongdoing by the chief state’s attorney’s office.

Bysiewicz was also criti-cized by Republicans after the November election for declar-ing fellow Democrat Dannel P. Malloy the winner of the close governor’s race based on unofficial vote totals. She also had to answer criticism of a ballot shortage in Bridgeport that led to confusion, count-ing problems and a delay in the vote tally, although it was city officials who ordered too few ballots.

Bysiewicz didn’t run for re-election as secretary of the state, a job she had held since 1999, and recently began working as an attorney at the Updike, Kelly & Spellacy law firm.

She said she’s not worried about potentially facing McMahon and her personal fortune.

Bysiewicz to run for Lieberman’s

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UConn undersells Fiesta Bowl tickets

HuskyDirect compromises customers’ information

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Charges against 2 dropped in Uzi death case

(AP) – A Massachusetts prosecutor on Tuesday dropped involun-tary manslaughter charges against two men in connection with the death of an 8-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself with an Uzi at a 2008 gun show, citing last week’s acquittal of a third defendant.

Prosecutor William Bennett filed “nolle prosequi” – not pros-ecuting – motions in Hampden Superior Court in Springfield in the cases of Domenico Spano of New Milford and Carl Giuffre of West Hartford.

A jury acquitted former Pelham, Mass., Police Chief Edward Fleury of involuntary manslaughter and furnishing machine guns to minors on Friday in the death of Christopher Bizilj of Ashford, Conn. Fleury’s firearms training company co-sponsored the gun show.

“As a result, the Commonwealth does not believe further prosecu-tion is in the interests of justice,” Bennett wrote in the two motions. He noted that Spano and Giuffre’s conduct was similar to Fleury’s.

Patients, groups sue Medicare over service cuts

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Five New England residents and five national health care advocacy groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the federal agency that administers Medicare, saying it had illegally reduced or denied benefits to thousands of patients with chronic health problems.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Burlington, named Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as its sole defendant and took aim at an arm of Sebelius’ agency, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It charged that when clients were deemed to be making no improvements after receiving nursing, physical, occupa-tional or speech therapy, those services often were cut off.

The standard has never been subjected to the review and public com-ment that federal regulations normally undergo, the lawsuit said, but was “a covert rule of thumb that operates as an additional and illegal condition of coverage” resulting in the termination, reduction or denial of benefits for thousands of Medicare beneficiaries annually.

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600 police officers will be assigned to WTC site

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Police Department Commissioner Raymond Kelly says the area around the World Trade Center will eventually have 673 officers assigned to it.

Kelly spoke about the need for securing the site at an event Tuesday for the nonprofit Police Foundation. The 9/11 memorial will open on Sept. 11, 2011, and the new buildings will open after that. The full number of officers won’t be at the site until all the buildings are completed.

Kelly has named a deputy commissioner for the World Trade Center command who is working on a security plan for the memo-rial service on the 10-year anniversary of the attacks.

Kelly says the site needs special attention because it remains a target for terrorists.

HESPERIA, Calif. (AP) — A Southern California couple has been arrested for allegedly having their toddler smoke a marijuana pipe.

San Bernardino County sheriff’s Deputy Lisa Guerra says a tipster provided video showing 20-year-old Melanie Soliz and 24-year-old Blake Hightower allowing their 23-month-old son to smoke pot. A sheriff’s spokeswoman says the video is evidence and won’t be released.

The Victorville Daily Press reports that Guerra went to the couple’s Hesperia home. Soliz, who is seven months pregnant, was arrested and booked for investigation of cruelty to a child. Hightower surrendered Saturday night and was also booked.

Video of toddler smoking pot lands couple in jail

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Conn. sen. wants 5 cent tax on plastic bags

BRIDGEPORT (AP) — A Connecticut lawmaker is reviving efforts to charge a fee for grocery bags.

Sen. Edward Meyer, chairman of the Legislature’s Environment Committee, is proposing a nickel tax for every plastic or paper bag shoppers get at the grocery store.

The Guilford Democrat tells The Connecticut Post that plastic bags are “hostile” to the environment and the goal is to get people to switch to reusable cloth bags.

The revenue from the 5-cent tax would go into a fund overseen by the state Department of Environmental Protection.

A similar bill in 2009 failed, in part because some people wanted an outright ban on plastic shopping bags.

(AP) – A new study provides disturbing answers to questions about how much students actually learn in college – for many, not much – and has inflamed a debate about the value of an American higher education.

The research of more than 2,300 undergraduates found 45 percent of students show no significant improvement in the key measures of critical thinking, complex rea-soning and writing by the end of their sophomore years.

One problem is that students just aren’t asked to do much, accord-ing to findings in a new book, “Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses.” Half of students did not take a single course requiring 20 pages of writing during their prior semester, and one-third did not take a single course requiring even 40 pages of reading per week.

That kind of light load sounded familiar to University of Missouri freshman Julia Rheinecker, who said her first semester of college largely duplicated the work she completed back home in south-ern Illinois.

“I’m not going to lie,” she said. “Most of what I learned this year I already had in high school. It was almost easier my first semester (in college).”

Three of the five classes she took at Missouri were in massive

lecture halls with several hundred students. And Rheinecker said she was required to complete at least 20 pages of writing in only one of those classes.

“I love the environment, don’t get me wrong,” she said. “I just haven’t found myself pushing as much as I expected.”

The study, an unusually large-scale effort to track student learn-ing over time, comes as the fed-eral government, reformers and others argue that the U.S. must produce more college graduates to remain competitive globally. But if students aren’t learning much that calls into question whether boosting graduation rates will provide that edge.

“It’s not the case that giving out more credentials is going to make the U.S. more economically com-petitive,” Richard Arum of New York University, who co-authored the book with Josipa Roksa of the University of Virginia, said in an interview. “It requires academic rigor ... You can’t just get it through osmosis at these institutions.”

The book is based on informa-tion from 24 schools, meant to be a representative sample, which provided Collegiate Learning Assessment data on students who took the standardized test in their first semester in fall 2005 and at the end of their sophomore years in spring 2007. The schools took

part on the condition that their institutions not be identified.

The Collegiate Learning Assessment has its share of critics who say it doesn’t capture learn-ing in specialized majors or isn’t a reliable measure of college per-formance because so many fac-tors are beyond their control.

The research found an average-scoring student in fall 2005 scored seven percentage points higher in spring of 2007 on the assessment. In other words, those who entered college in the 50th percentile would rise to the equivalent of the 57th after their sophomore years.

Among the findings outlined in the book and report, which tracked students through four years of college:

- Overall, the picture doesn’t brighten much over four years. After four years, 36 percent of students did not demonstrate sig-nificant improvement, compared to 45 percent after two.

- Students who studied alone, read and wrote more, attend-ed more selective schools and majored in traditional arts and sciences majors posted greater learning gains.

- Social engagement gener-ally does not help student perfor-mance. Students who spent more time studying with peers showed diminishing growth and students who spent more time in the Greek

system had decreased rates of learning, while activities such as working off campus, participating in campus clubs and volunteering did not impact learning.

- Students from families with different levels of parental educa-tion enter college with different learning levels but learn at about the same rates while attending college. The racial gap between black and white students going in, however, widens: Black students improve their assessment scores at lower levels than whites.

Arum and Roksa spread the blame, pointing to students who don’t study much and seek easy courses and a culture at colleg-es and universities that values research over good teaching.

Yahya Fahimuddin, a sixth-year computer science student at the University of California, Los Angeles, endorsed the latter find-ing, saying professors do seem more concerned with research. He said he can’t remember the last time he wrote a paper longer than three pages, double-spaced. He feels little connection to his professors and gets the sense that mastering material is not as important as the drudge work of meeting goals and getting through material on schedule.

“Honestly, you can get by with Wikipedia and pass just about anything,” he said.

Student tracking finds limited learning in college

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — R. Sargent Shriver, the exuber-ant public servant and Kennedy in-law whose career included directing the Peace Corps, fight-ing the War on Poverty, ambas-sador to France and, less suc-cessfully, running for office, died Tuesday. He was 95.

Shriver, who announced in 2003 that he had Alzheimer’s disease, had been hospitalized for several days. The family said he died sur-rounded by those he loved.

One of the last links to President Kennedy’s adminis-tration, Shriver’s death comes less than two years after his wife, Special Olympics founder Eunice Kennedy Shriver, died on Aug. 11, 2009, at age 88. The Kennedy family suffered a sec-ond blow that same month when Sen. Edward Kennedy died.

Speaking outside Suburban Hospital in Maryland, Anthony Kennedy Shriver said his father was “with my mom now,” and called his parents’ marriage a great love story.

At Eunice Shriver’s memo-rial service, their daughter Maria Shriver said her father let her mother “rip and he let her roar, and he loved everything about her.” He attended in a wheelchair.

The handsome Shriver was often known first as an in-law – brother-in-law of President John F. Kennedy and, late in life, father-in-law of actor-former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

But his achievements were historic in their own right and changed millions of lives: the Peace Corps’ first director and the leader of President Lyndon Johnson’s “War on Poverty,” out of which came such programs as Head Start and Legal Services.

President Barack Obama called Shriver “one of the brightest lights of the greatest generation.”

“Over the course of his long and distinguished career, Sarge came to embody the idea of public ser-

vice,” Obama said in a statement.Within the family, Shriver

was sometimes relied upon for the hardest tasks. When Jacqueline Kennedy needed the funeral arranged for her assas-sinated husband, she asked her brother-in-law.

“He was a man of giant love, energy, enthusiasm, and commit-ment,” the Shriver family said in a statement. “He lived to make the world a more joyful, faith-ful, and compassionate place. He centered everything on his faith and his family. He worked on stages both large and small but in the end, he will be best known for his love of others.”

In public, Shriver spoke warm-ly of his famous in-laws, but the private relationship was often

tense. As noted in Scott Stossel’s “Sarge,” an authorized 2004 biography, he was a faithful man amid a clan of womanizers, a sometimes giddy idealist labeled “the house Communist” by the family. His willingness to work for Johnson was seen as betrayal by some family members.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Shriver’s work eventually led to the Peace Corps sending almost a quarter-million volunteers to aid 139 countries around the world over the past 50 years.

“With tenacity and vision, Sargent Shriver built the prom-ise of the Peace Corps into an American institution,” Kerry said in a statement.

Kerry was elected to the Senate in 1984. He was the junior senator

from Massachusetts to Edward Kennedy until Kennedy’s death two years ago.

Though the Kennedys granted Sargent Shriver power, they also withheld it.

He had considered running for governor of Illinois in 1960, only to be told the family need-ed his help for John Kennedy’s presidential campaign. Hubert Humphrey considered him for running mate in the 1968 elec-tion, but family resistance helped Humphrey change his mind.

When Shriver finally became a candidate, the results were disastrous: He was George McGovern’s running mate in the 1972 election, but the Democrats lost in a landslide to President Richard M. Nixon.

Shriver, 1 of last links to JFK White House, dies

In this June 19, 1996 file photo, President Clinton embraces R. Sargent Shriver in the Rose Garden of the White House Wednesday June 19, 1996 during a ceremony to honor the 35th anniversary of the Peace Corps.

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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Two men who authorities say were competing to impress their fellow hackers were arrested Tuesday on federal charges they stole the e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 Apple iPad users, including politicians and media personalities.

The theft and the AT&T secu-

rity weakness that made it pos-sible were revealed months ago, and U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said there was no evidence the men used the swiped infor-mation for criminal purposes. Authorities cautioned, however, that it could theoretically have wound up in the hands of spam-mers and scam artists.

Daniel Spitler, a 26-year-old bookstore security guard from San Francisco, and Andrew Auernheimer, 25, of Fayetteville, Ark., were charged with fraud and conspiracy to access a com-puter without authorization.

Fishman said the men and their cohorts were engaged in “malicious one-upsmanship”

as they sought to impress each other and others online.

“We don’t tolerate committing crimes for street cred,” Fishman said. “Computer hacking is not a competitive sport, and security breaches are not a game.”

Spitler appeared in feder-al court in Newark and was released on $50,000 bail. A U.S. magistrate ordered him not to use the Internet except at his job at a Borders bookstore.

“I maintain my innocence and I’m not worried about this case at all,” Spitler said outside court. “The information in the com-plaint is false. This case has been blown way out of proportion.”

At Auernheimer’s court appear-ance in Fayetteville – where he also faces drug charges stem-ming from a search of his home in June – he was ordered held pending a bail hearing on Friday. He told a magistrate that he had been drinking until 6:30 a.m., and he mocked the case against him, telling federal officials in the courtroom, “This is a great affidavit – fantastic reading.”

The stolen e-mail addresses, on their own, aren’t that valu-able; many of them could easily have been guessed by knowing a person’s name and how his or her organization structures its e-mail addresses.

But once they knew a per-son was an iPad owner and an AT&T customer, cybercriminals and spammers could have sent

e-mails that looked like they came from Apple or AT&T, tricking the recipient into opening them.

Those e-mails could, in turn, plant malicious software on the recipient’s computer or trick the person into sharing vital pri-vate information, such as Social Security or credit card numbers.

The criminal complaint against Spitler and Auernheimer details online conversations in which their cohorts discuss sell-ing the addresses to spammers.

“you could put them in a data-base for spamming for example sell them to spammers,” a user named Nstyr wrote to Spitler.

“tru ipad focused spam,” Spitler allegedly responded.

The complaint also quotes an article published on Gawker.com that contended the e-mail addresses of film mogul Harvey Weinstein, then-White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Diane Sawyer of ABC News were among those lifted from AT&T’s servers.

The case was brought in New Jersey because about 16,000 victims live in the state, Fishman said.

AT&T spokesman Mark Siegel said, “We take our cus-tomers’ privacy very seriously.”

Apple referred questions to AT&T.

In June, AT&T acknowledged a security weak spot on a web-site that exposed the e-mail

addresses of apparently more than 100,000 iPad users. The company said that the vulner-ability affected only iPad users who signed up for AT&T’s 3G wireless Internet service and that it had fixed the problem.

A hacker group that called itself Goatse Security claimed at the time to have discovered the weakness and said it was able to trick AT&T’s site into coughing up more than 114,000 e-mail addresses. Both Spitler and Auernheimer were members of the group, authorities said.

A representative for the group told The Associated Press in June that it contacted AT&T and waited until the vulnerability was fixed before going public with the information. Federal prose-cutors disputed that on Tuesday, saying AT&T was unaware of the breach until it appeared in online media reports.

Representatives of Goatse Security did not immediately respond to an e-mail from AP.

According to court papers, the suspects used a computer script they called “the iPad3G Account Slurper” to fool AT&T’s servers into thinking they were commu-nicating with an actual iPad.

The theft of the e-mail addresses occurred between June 3 and June 8, according to court papers. On June 9, the information was provided to Gawker, which published an article on the breach.

2 charged with stealing iPad users’ information

Daniel Spitler, 26, of San Francisco, leaves the U.S. District Court in Newark, N.J. Spitler and another hacker stole the e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 Apple iPad users, including those of politicians and famous media personalities, federal prosecutors said in announcing criminal charges against the men.

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Obama holding first China state dinner in 13 yearsWASHINGTON (AP) —

Feeling snubbed, slighted even, when he visited five years ago, Chinese President Hu Jintao is getting a do-over – plus the White House state dinner he sought back then but was denied.

Wednesday’s opulent, black-tie affair with President Barack Obama – the grandest of White House soirees – will mark the first such event in China’s honor in 13 years and could help smooth tensions between the world’s two largest economies.

Some big questions remain: Who will cook? Who is coming to dinner? Can the White House avoid mistakes like those that marred the reception when a protocol-conscious Hu arrived for an April 2006 summit?

For starters, Hu was unhap-py that President George W. Bush opted for lunch over a state dinner.

Bush held few state dinners as president, preferring workman-like visits with foreign leaders over eating meals in a tuxedo. He also was sensitive to con-cerns in the U.S. about human rights in China and was reluc-tant to be seen as going all out for Hu with a state dinner.

But then Hu’s pomp-filled welcome on the South Lawn was spoiled when a woman pro-testing China’s treatment of the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement began shouting dur-ing his remarks. Bush apolo-gized after he and Hu went into the Oval Office.

Compounding the insult, a White House announcer called China the “Republic of China.”

That’s the formal name for Taiwan, the democratic island that autocratic China claims as its territory.

Wednesday’s affair will return the hospitality that Obama was shown at a state dinner in Beijing on his November 2009 visit.

A personal relationship between the two leaders is important for cooperation on several pressing issues in the time left on both of their terms in office, Asia watchers say. The visit is probably the last to Washington as president for Hu, a hydroelectric engineer who has ruled since 2002. He is expected to relinquish his lead-ership of the Communist Party next year and the presidency the year after.

“The only way you can move policy is at the very top, and it requires a personal connec-tion,” said Victor Cha, direc-tor of Asian affairs on Bush’s National Security Council and currently a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “Maybe this visit will be an opportunity to create some of that.”

Hu is getting plenty of face time with Obama, including a second dinner Tuesday night after he arrives in Washington. The more intimate meal, closed to media coverage, also will include Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, national security adviser Tom Donilon and Hu aides.

Wednesday’s schedule calls for a formal arrival ceremony on the South Lawn, a one-on-one meeting between Obama

and Hu, an expanded meeting between them that includes aides, a news conference and, finally, dinner.

It will be Obama’s third state dinner. He held dinners for India in 2009 and Mexico last year.

For each dinner, Mrs. Obama – who is responsible for plan-ning them with the White House social secretary – recruited a guest chef to help prepare the meal. But there was no word yet on who might cook for Hu.

In keeping with its usual practice, the White House held tight to details about the menu, the decor, where dinner will be served and what Mrs. Obama will wear until hours before the event begins.

But some tidbits began trick-ling out Tuesday.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, has declined to attend, according to his spokesman and White House press secre-tary Robert Gibbs. Members of the congressional leadership from both parties were invited, Gibbs said.

Boehner spokesman Brendan Buck noted Hu’s plans to visit Congress the next day. His boss didn’t attend the India and Mexico dinners either.

“The speaker is looking forward to his meeting with President Hu on Thursday, which he believes will be a pro-ductive setting for substantive discussions,” Buck said.

The White House seemed miffed by Boehner’s decision.

“We have invited . leaders from both parties, and we hoped that because of the importance

of the (U.S.-China) relationship that they would attend,” Gibbs said Tuesday.

Two other top congressio-nal leaders, Sens. Harry Reid, R-Nev., and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., will also be absent. Both are traveling, their offices said.

Actor Jackie Chan is confirmed.President Bill Clinton and

first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton welcomed President Jiang Zemin and his wife, Madame Wang Yeping, in October 1997, serving chilled

lobster in tarragon sauce, pep-per-crusted Oregon beef and whipped Yukon Gold pota-toes to more than 230 guests seated elbow-to-elbow in the East Room.

Dinner tickets were highly sought and the lucky holders pointed to one of Clinton’s chief aims: access to China’s consum-er market of more than 1 billion people. The guest list included chief executives from Xerox, PepsiCo, Walt Disney Co. and General Motors Corp.

The National Symphony Orchestra provided after-dinner entertainment, includ-ing the American classics “An American in Paris” by George Gershwin and “Stars and Stripes Forever” by John Philip Sousa.

White House officials sug-gested at the time that Jiang might be tempted to get up on stage. At a dinner the year before in the Philippines, he surprised his host by sing-ing “Love Me Tender” and “Swanee River.”

Chinese President Hu Jintao, left, and Vice President Joe Biden stand for the national anthems of both countries during an arrival ceremony on Tuesday, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.

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Last month, outraged voices rang through Tunisian cities, protest-ing the government.

Now, the President of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, has fled the country after 23 years of his corrupt, autocratic rule. This uprising, which is being called the Jasmine Revolution, is a possible turning point in the history of Arab

n a t i o n s , marking a time when p o p u l a r p r o t e s t s

have been successful in deposing a dictator.

During the U.S. invasion of Iraq, one of the main arguments for military action was that the U.S. could bring democracy to the people of Iraq. Proponents of the war argued that this would simul-taneously end the human rights abuses that were occurring under the regime of Saddam Hussein and create a stable, moderate govern-ment that could act as a guiding light for freedom in the heart of the Middle East. While the U.S. inva-sion may have ended the dictato-rial and cruel practices that existed before the war, it has certainly not created a stable government to which other Middle Eastern countries can aspire. Many in the Arab world see Iraqi democracy as a contrived government imposed

militarily by the United States and the West, which does not represent the true wishes of the Iraqi people. In this sense, the U.S. invasion has possibly worsened prospects for Western-style democracy.

This is what makes the recent events in Tunisia so important: they are an example of a true grassroots movement affecting change. The popular aspect of these protests, which now involve the middle class, working class and some elites, cre-ates a self-sustaining democracy. A democracy, by design, derives its power from the people it governs. So for any democracy to be suc-cessful, it must have the support of a large percentage of the popula-tion. If the protesters in Tunisia get their way with the ejection of the entire administration of Ben Ali and a new government is fairly elected, then that government, if it stays true to its principles, has the

opportunity to become a stable, free government in the heart of North Africa.

Already, people in the coun-tries surrounding Tunisia, such as Algeria and Egypt, are protesting against the rule of their own gov-ernments. If democracy succeeds in Tunisia, it will demonstrate that a government by the people and for the people can be successful in the Arab world. This success would encourage people through-out North Africa and the Middle East to use democracy as a way to free themselves from autocratic governments.

The importance of free, demo-cratic governments goes beyond the people they serve. It is impor-tant to the Western world that countries such as Tunisia have the presence of a stable, liberal gov-ernment that promotes economic growth and cultural pluralism. This form of government has the abil-ity to end the frustration of many of its citizens who feel they are being marginalized or held down. And when the number of frustrated citizens decreases, the number of people willing to act violently also decreases. In Tunisia, under the Ben Ali administration, many polit-ical groups were banned, including Islamist groups. In effect, the mem-bers of the banned groups were given no avenue to express their political convictions non-violently.

In countries like Tunisia, frustrated citizens often express their frustra-tion in hatred against the West. However, if citizens of all political stripes are able to be politically active, they will turn to violence less often. This is not to say that an Islamic government would be good for the West. Rather, it is good for the West if the govern-ment is able to actively change to reflect the beliefs of its citizens, which, overall, tend to be moderate and peaceful.

It remains to be seen whether the Jasmine Revolution will actu-ally change political conditions in Tunisia. It is possible that only the leaders of the government will change, letting the police state atmo-sphere and corruption remain. Or it is possible that the protesters will actually get the systemic change they are seeking. And when that change comes, it has the capability to spread democracy throughout Arab nations and decrease hatred against the West.

Hopefully, the violence in Tunisia will end soon. But when that violence does end, it would be a gift to the entire world if the people of Tunisia get the fair and free government they deserve.

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In the wake of the horrific attack on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), that killed six and injured 14, members of the political left have blamed

Sarah Palin and the Tea Party for one disturbed individual’s violent act. Critics consider the right wing’s militant language, such as Palin’s

comment “Don’t Retreat, Reload,” Glenn Beck’s use of emotional, doomsday rhetoric

and the Tea Party’s confrontational opposition to the Democrats’ healthcare overhaul to be directly responsible for the tragedy.

Such accusations are false and off-base. The only one responsible for the shooting is Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old, mentally unstable shooter. Pundits and so-called “experts” blame society for the shooter’s deranged act, transfer-ring responsibility away from the individual. To do so may be a natural human reaction to rationalize one disturbed man’s heinous act. Nevertheless, it is a counterproductive and dangerous because it does what the shooter would want people to do: draw criticism away from him.

Most of the criticism levied against Sarah Palin and the Tea Party comes from MSNBC and Paul Krugman, an economist and op-ed columnist for The New York Times. Krugman pointed the finger at “the saturation of our polit-ical discourse...with eliminationist rhetoric that lies behind the rising tide of violence. Where’s that toxic rhetoric coming from? Let’s not make a false pretense of balance: it’s coming...from the right.” MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann warned that “[i]f Sarah Palin...does not repudiate her own part, however tangential, in amplifying violence and violent imagery in American poli-tics, she must be dismissed from politics.”

Whether or not militant rhetoric creates a hostile political environment or merely reflects one is irrelevant to the Tucson shooting. There is no evidence that Loughner was motivated to assassinate Giffords because of the political opinions, words or actions of Tea Party figures. Lougher is a sick, twisted, psychotic individual whose actions stem from paranoid schizophre-nia, not political fervor. The facts of the case point the blame solely on him and a possible neurological disorder – no one else.

This is some of what the public now knows about Loughner’s personality: In high school, he was a socially awkward student who was nevertheless identified by friends as friendly and happy with his life. The group he hung out with smoked marijuana daily and often discussed philosophy and conspiracy theories. Loughner also engaged in frequent binge drink-ing. Once, when he was a junior, he was taken to the hospital and nearly died after binge drink-ing tequila during a lunch break. In 2008, he was rejected from the Army after he admitted to using marijuana so much that Army offi-cials present identified him as “a habitual drug abuser.” In October 2008, he was arrested for vandalizing a sign and admitted to other acts of vandalism in the area. When he attended Pima Community College, he often disrupted class with frequent outbursts. Campus police met him for “classroom and library disruptions” five times between February and September 2010. Later, police discovered a video he had posted on YouTube that accused the college of being unconstitutional and of torturing students. Loughner left voluntarily, but college officials ordered him not to return unless he had passed a mental health examination. Lynda Sorensen, who was in Loughner’s algebra class, described him as “a mentally unstable person...that scares the living crap out of me.”

Regarding his political beliefs, Loughner had a political ideology of his own. He believed that the government was “implying mind control and brainwash on the people by controlling grammar.” In 2007, before the nation knew about Sarah Palin and before the Tea Party ever existed, Lougher attended a “Congress on Your Corner” event held by Giffords, similar to the one at which he shot her. After she refused to answer his nonsensical question, he labelled her a “fake,” according to former friend Bryce Tierney. On pieces of paper found in his house, he wrote “Giffords” and “Die bitch.” Loughner was a registered Independent and did not vote in the 2010 midterm elections. A former class-

mate, Caitie Parker, said that “[as] I knew him he was left wing, quite liberal and oddly obsessed with the 2012 prophecy.” Friends, with whom he later dropped out of contact, say that his philosophy was defined by nihilism and conspiracy. He believed that the U.S. govern-ment orchestrated the 9-11 attacks and feared the rise of a single international monetary sys-tem under the power of governments used to control people. CBS News’ Bob Orr diagnoses Loughner as “a man who viewed the govern-ment as a monolith. He was just against the government....and the theory is that he didn’t attack Congresswoman Giffords because she was either liberal or conservative, or even mod-erate. He attacked Congresswoman Giffords, [the FBI] believes, because she was the repre-sentative of government closest to him.”

Jared Loughner attempted to assassinate a member of Congress, assassinated a federal judge and killed four others including a 9-year-old girl. Arguments and accusations that inten-tionally try to link the Tea Party or Palin to this crime are dishonest, deplorable and delusional. Such arguments, promoted by media pundits, place blame on societies and political parties, not where it should be – on the individual who pulled the trigger. Loughner probably enjoys society wondering what it could have done to stop him. But the answer lies with his nihil-ism – nothing. He decided to shoot Giffords, he “planned ahead” (in his own words) and he will pay for his crime.

There is nothing wrong with a society trying to explain the unexplainable questions: why does evil exist? Why does a young man with so much promise become a brutal monster? As Jon Stewart stated after the shooting, “Boy, wouldn’t it be nice to draw a straight line of causation from this horror to something tangi-ble, because then we could convince ourselves that if we just stop this [cause], the horrors will end.” In this case, no one is to blame except the criminal himself. An attempt to seek blame elsewhere only lets Loughner off the hook and denies justice to the man who committed an inexcusable, unjustifiable act.

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The snow day today and the Villinova game yesterday are definitely related. I think it’s God’s way of telling us He’s a Huskies fan.

Today is the 76th anniversary of men’s briefs. Let’s have a pants-off party to celebrate!

Someone just asked if Kemba Walker was related to Samurai.

The buildings are taking forever to finish, but UConn has accomplished a major goal: new toasters in South!

This afternoon I was having sex with my girlfriend of 13 years for the first time when I abruptly stopped and left without say-ing a word. Later she texted me asking what in the hell I was doing and I said “Giving you the Randy Edsall treatment.”

Does ANYONE have a sore throat?

Inclement weather day! Oh...wait. Thanks history professor for assigning work for the class that hasn’t met yet.

So I just got a Facebook invite for FarmVille...Really?

To all the New Year’s resolution gym goers: You’re going to fail, so please leave and stop using all the machines.

Fact: Kemba Walker gives Freddy Krueger nightmares.

My mom texted me this morning to say, “You can gradu-ate now. I got in the InstantDaily.” That makes one of us.

So I wake up early for class, and find out I can go back to sleep. Then I wake up again, and find out that I didn’t need to get up. Come on, man.

An analysis recently done by MSNBC projected that the rate of increase of college tuition is three times that of the national rate of inflation and the ratio is projected to worsen. In order to cover

this rapidly increasing cost, students turn to both federal and private loans, incurring exorbitant amounts of debt in the hopes that the education they receive will allow them to enter a field where they will make enough money to pay off their debt and attain a state of financial security.

But the recent recession has led to a lack of jobs across the nation, a problem especially affecting recent graduates who now face the real world, including the challenge of thousands of dollars in loans to pay off. Financial analysts and planners across the board agree student loans are the worst kind of debt to have, since you can’t default on them. Unlike other loans, students cannot declare bankruptcy if they are found delinquent in their payments. These loans must be repaid soon after graduation, unless students opt for a professional degree or other graduate school. As the system stands, the problem with student loans is that people are taking out loans they will be unable to repay, similar to what happened during the subprime morgage crisis, and the effects will be just as devastating. We are investing money we do not have into our education, and we can no longer assume that the bulk of student loans will be paid off. If loans remain unpaid, then we risk another recession; some-thing our economic system cannot withstand.

We desperately need a solution to this problem. State and federal officials, academics, school administrators and education and financial experts need to actively address this issue. They need to find a way to either make educa-tion more affordable or devise a better system, in which students can more easily pay back the money they borrow, even if the education they invested in does not ultimately give them the advantage or financial security they hoped for. Until that happens, students should try to pay back a portion of their loans as soon as possible if they can, and stay on top of their payments after graduation.

Education is quickly becoming an unaffordable com-modity, with or without loans. If a solution to the student loan and student debt problem is not found as tuition con-tinues to rise, higher education may no longer be worth the financial investment, which could lead to a completely separate set of economic and social problems, both domes-tically and internationally.

“The U.S....has pos-sibly worsened pros-pects for democracy...The events in Tunisia...create a self-sustain-ing democracy.”

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A gun in a 10th-grader’s back-pack discharged Tuesday when he dropped the bag, wounding two students at a high school, including one who remained in critical condition, police said.

A 15-year-old girl with a head wound underwent hours of surgery at Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, said Dr. Gail V. Anderson Jr. A 15-year-old boy was in serious condition with neck and shoulder wounds.

Both teens were hit with the same bullet, Los Angeles deputy police chief Patrick Gannon said.

John Deasy, deputy super-intendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, said there was no indication the stu-dent had touched the gun before it discharged.

“He literally dropped his knapsack on the desk and it went off,” Deasy said.

Gannon said the student apologized before running to another classroom.

“He said, ‘I’m sorry,’ when the gun went off. It made it appear to the teacher that it was an accident,” Gannon said.

Still, Los Angeles police Lt. John Pasquariello said it was a crime to bring a gun to campus. The unidentified student was arrested and charges were pend-ing, he said.

“We don’t know exactly what happened,” Pasquariello said. “Traditionally, guns don’t

go off without someone’s fin-ger on the trigger.”

The shooting occurred in a classroom at Gardena High School, where Principal Rudy Mendoza said students were on a break at the time. The campus was locked down after the inci-dent. Police initially reported a shooter was at large.

Student Semaj Elan was in an adjacent classroom when the shooting occurred.

“My friend came up to me in the classroom talking about how she almost got shot. They’re gonna be traumatized by that,” Elan said.

Numerous law enforcement agencies responded to the 2,400-student campus about 15 miles south of downtown Los Angeles.

Nelda Robledo, one of the worried parents who gath-ered near the school, said her 16-year-old daughter texted her that students were ordered to get down on the ground or hide in a corner after the shooting.

If the student is released on bail, the school will recommend to the district disciplinary office that he be suspended, district spokeswoman Gayle Pollard-Terry said. The office also could recommend expulsion, which would have to be approved by the school board.

Expelled students are referred to the Los Angeles County Office of Education to complete

their education.Shedric Porter, 14, said he

was walking past the classroom at the time.

“I didn’t see anything, but I heard the shot, and it was real-ly loud,” he said. “I stopped. I was scared. Then I thought it was just a book or something hitting the ground, but it was too loud for that.”

It’s unclear how the student got in with the gun in his back-pack, Pollard-Terry said.

Arriving students are checked with security wands on a random basis at Gardena High, she said. No district school is equipped with walkthrough metal detectors.

Several parents said their chil-dren had described racial ten-sion at the school.

“There’s usually fights everyday, you’re going to see blacks against whites and whites against blacks every single day,” said Christy Westbrooks, whose 16-year-old daughter attends the school. “Spanish, whites, Samoans – they don’t care what race.”

Discipline has long been a problem at Gardena, which ranks as one of the district’s lowest-per-forming high schools. Roughly 35 percent of students drop out.

Five years ago, more than 2,000 students were suspended, and 15 students were expelled. Those figures remained high until last year when the number of suspensions dropped to 300 and expulsions to two.

2 wounded at LA school when gun in backpack fires

Law enforcement officers stand outside Gardena High School Tuesday in Gardena, Calif, after reports of a number of students being wounded during a shooting.

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HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George H.W. Bush said Tuesday he has no regrets about his administration’s han-dling of the Gulf War, which began 20 years ago this week, including the decision pull out American forces even with a vanquished Saddam Hussein retaining power in Iraq.

During an interview with The Associated Press, Bush said he is comfortable that the war is considered the defining moment of his presidency and is relieved the loss of American lives was minimal after crit-ics warned “thousands of body bags” would be needed.

Bush said the objective was always to drive Saddam’s forc-es from Kuwait, not force the Iraqi leader from power.

“I don’t think we could have done anything differently,” Bush said. “I would have liked to see Saddam Hussein do him-self in in some way, but that wasn’t our objective.”

Bush said if he had pushed to oust or kill Saddam, he would have risked losing support from many other countries that backed the war after the inva-sion of Kuwait.

James A. Baker III, Bush’s secretary of state, joined Bush in his office during the inter-view. Baker said changing the mission midstream would have been disastrous.

“We would have been break-ing our word to the rest of the world,” Baker said. “You would have been turning a war of liber-ation into a war of occupation.”

Bush, Baker and other mem-bers of the administration involved in the war effort are

planning to commemorate the anniversary of the 1991 con-flict Thursday at Texas A&M University, home of Bush’s presidential library about 100 miles northwest of Houston. Among those scheduled to join them were former Vice President Dan Quayle, then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, former Joints Chiefs Chairman Colin Powell and Bush’s national security advi-sor, Brent Scowcroft.

The emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber al-Sabah, was among Kuwaiti dignitaries scheduled to attend.

Bush said while he runs into his former colleagues from time to time, the reunion would be a first for a close team that accomplished “a real pristine job of going in there, doing what we said we would do and then come home.”

Notably absent would be Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the coalition forces, whose health is prevent-ing “a great hero” from attend-ing, Bush said.

Bush said he believed Rev. Billy Graham was in the White House the night of Jan. 16, 1991, when the air assault began. They watched TV coverage.

“And we heard them say bombs were going off,” Bush said. “There was great appre-hension that a lot of kids would die. And some did. But thank God it wasn’t near what had been predicted.

“I think any time a president has to commit somebody else’s son or daughter into harm’s way it is a tough decision. You worry about it. But we were

convinced ... that we had to do this. We had to send a message we were going to enforce the UN resolutions and liberate the country.”

Bush and Baker recalled the struggle to convince a Democratic-controlled Congress the war that would be dubbed Desert Storm was the right deci-sion after Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in August 1990.

“Comments that thousands of body bags were being made right now, and just on and on it went,

arguing that this was going to be a bloodbath for many, many people,” Bush said.

“They were beating up on us so much.” Baker recalled. “How can you do this? How many thousands of people going to be killed? But not only that, how can you spend the resources of the country on this adventure when people are going hungry and our domestic situation and blah, blah, blah.”

He said at Bush’s direc-tion, he and other administra-

tion officials “went around the world with a tin cup,” securing $15 billion from the Kuwaitis, another $15 billion from the Saudis, and billions elsewhere.

“We got this war paid for to a large extent by the people whose bacon we were saving,” Baker said. “This was the first and only war in the history of the country we got other people to pay for.”

The U.S. tab was “$10 billion for a war that ended up costing $70 billion,” Baker said. “Yes,

we paid our share and we lost 370 brave young Americans. You can’t put a price on that, but this is the first and only war in the history of the country we got other people to pay for.”

Bush said he remembered New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan wondering why he would waste “American blood on sheiks living in a hotel.” Baker said French President Francois Mitterrand responded to his pitch by asking: “How in the world can I spill French blood for a man who has 13 wives and grows roses?”

“Democrats were saying some worse things,” Baker said. “But this was the first time since Vietnam America had gone to war in the substan-tial way we did. And it really ended the Vietnam syndrome.”

Bush and Baker said some opponents later would acknowledge their criticism was wrong.

“It was far better than we had feared,” Bush said of the outcome. “We feared it would go badly. But it went far more clean ... far more quickly, far less loss of our lives and Iraqi lives, than we worried about. It was very rewarding.

“We said what we were going to do, did it, took a moral message around the world, liberated a country, and sent a message in the process that the United States was willing to use force way across the world, even in that part of the world where those countries over there thought we never would intervene. And I think it was a signature historic event.”

20 years later, Bush has no regrets about Gulf War

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Is timing everything?By Alessandra PetrinoCampus Correspondent

It’s a new year, a new semes-ter for students and a time for people to have new hopes, new wishes and new dreams.

When that clock struck midnight on New Year’s Eve, many things may have hap-pened to you. You may have been kissed by someone you love, you may have toasted to a great year ahead, you may have been throwing up in a toilet from already having too many drinks or perhaps you were in a strangers room hav-ing sex.

Whatever you may have been doing as we all entered into 2011, I’m sure many of you did something similar: made a New Year’s resolution.

Common New Year’s resolu-tions people make are to lose weight, spend more time with their families, be nicer to those people they may not like too much at work or to find a sig-nificant other.

I made a resolution as well this year; perhaps not as com-mon as those I’ve listed. My resolution? Don’t fall in love this year. Sounds silly, right? Well, after starting off 2010 in a train wreck of a relationship, I figured I owed it to myself not to be heartbroken for a while.

Easier said than done.Needless to say, like most

New Year’s resolutions, mine lasted, oh, about five hours. I wish I could say I was exag-gerating, but I’m not. Around 5 a.m. while I was sleeping, my phone began to go off, alerting me I had a text message.

A normal person would prob-ably have ignored it or been too hung over to notice. Me? My eyes popped open, my heart skipped a beat or two and my hand thrust across the bed in hopes that the text was from one person. Him.

And it was. At that moment, I flung my resolution out the window, heart still fluttering. The rest of the first day of 2011 was perfect for me.

I’d like to tell you that there’s a happy ending for me here, but I’d be lying. If any of you are fans of the “Jersey Shore,” you may remember a motto from the first season, “don’t fall in love at the Jersey Shore.” Well, my new motto, “don’t fall in love over winter break.” Yes, I pulled a Ronnie and fell in love at the Jersey Shore, or in my case, over winter break. Bad move.

After all this rambling and blubbering to you all, I’ve final-ly gotten to the real issue at hand, sorry it took so long, but I think it will all be worth it when you finish reading.

Is timing everything?Without us knowing when,

relationships begin and end sometimes sporadically. Perhaps, even when it seems as though two people would be good for each other, the rela-tionship depends more upon the when and where rather than the who.

Exactly when somebody comes into your life could change how you see the per-son. If you’ve just gotten out of a serious relationship and are still in love with someone, it isn’t going to matter how great another person is or how seem-ingly perfect you two are when you are together. The timing just isn’t right for both of you.

Then there’s the where. Where two people are in their lives can make a difference in whether a relationship will work or not. Though I’m one of those people who truly believe age doesn’t matter in a rela-tionship, if one person knows where they want their life to

» WINTER, page 9

A new year, a new you

Set UConn resolutions to make this semester your best yet

The New Year always seems to be a time of reflec-tion on the year past: a time to look back and see what went well and what went oh-so-badly. The great thing about the beginning of each semes-ter is that it always gives a person a chance to improve on and even redeem themself from not-so-scholarly past behavior.

This semester, in the new year of 2011, it’s time to quit whining, get things done and take advantage of all the things UConn has to offer to become a better student/person.

Get your Read onHonestly, some UConn

students never even checked a book out of the Homer Babbidge Library or the Music and Dramatic Arts Library. But surprisingly enough, it’s

not all about books at the library. Not only are there vid-eos and CDs offered at both libraries, Babbidge offers the chance to borrow equipment like digital and video cam-eras, Kindles, laptops and iPads. They also offer servic-es like the new Scanning on Demand, which allows arti-cles to be scanned and sent to the students requesting them. The Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan services also offers the ability to bor-row books from any library worldwide through WorldCat.

Get a Second OpinionHave a daunting paper to

write? Not quite understand-ing your statistics homework? Why not get some outside help from your peers? Both the Writing Center and the Q Center offer a chance to be paired with a student tutor who will help you through every step of the writing pro-

cess or problems from Q or math-orientated classes. You can either make an appoint-ment through their respec-tive websites, or stop by their facilities on the first floor of Babbidge.

Get the Blood PumpingSurely losing weight or get-

ting/staying fit must be on everyone’s New Year’s reso-lution list. With the help of on campus facilities like the Student Recreation Facility that offers access to workout equipment, weight rooms, the Brundage Pool, the Climbing Center, racquetball, ten-nis, badminton and basket-ball courts, there are endless options to get fit this semes-ter. For even more fun while burning some calories, try taking Bodywise classes such as cycling, yoga and Zumba.

Get some CultureLiving on the Storrs cam-

pus can be similar to living in the middle of nowhere, but it doesn’t have to feel that way. With all the great arts institu-tions like Jorgensen Center of the Performing Arts, Benton Museum of Art and the Connecticut Repertory Theater, cultural events and activities on campus, and

even the Studio Union Movie Theater, there’s no excuse to feel like there is nothing to do or see. Feel like getting away for a day? SUBOG usu-ally offers an array of fun trips, including a trip to New York to see a Broadway show, every semester.

Get Involved Want to try out new activi-

ties to learn new skills, make a difference in and around the Storrs community or just try to make new friends? There’s nothing like joining a club, group or student orga-nization on campus. There are countless extracurricu-lar opportunities available to join, some of which will make an appearance at the campus-wide Involvement Fair on Wednesday, January 26 from 2-7 p.m.

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(Top left) The library is great for studying, but it also offer CDs, movies and rentable equipment for all types of projects. Photo by DANA LOVALLO. (Top right) Attending events at the various theaters on campus, like the Girl Talk concert above, help you to learn more about music, culture and more. Photo by ASHLEY POSPISIL. (Bottom left) Resolving to have a healthier year is easy with a climbing center, racquetball courts, weight rooms, pool and more all available on campus. FILE PHOTO. (Bottom right) Joining a club or organization, like the UConn Outing Club, is a great way to meet new people, make a difference or try something new. photo by ASHLEY POSPISIL.

For many of us, coming back to campus involves per-forming a balancing act atop ice patches and making our own parking spaces in snow banks. Still, there’s some-thing magical about the blan-ket of crisp, white snow that can bring even the most intel-lectual college student back to his or her childhood.

Since the Storrs campus has been transformed into its own Winter Wonderland, why not take advantage of the new landscape and head out-side for a classic “snow day” experience?

Grab a bunch of friends and head over to the South quad for a snowball fight. The open space is perfect for a snow battle and central enough to keep up the energy. Plenty of foot traffic can make it a snowball war and afterward, everybody can head into the dining hall to warm up with comfort food or hot cocoa.

If an adrenaline rush sounds more appealing, grab a sled and make your way to the hill behind Beach Hall. The

incline is extensive and can make for a speedy run all the way down to the main road.

Since most of us probably don’t keep a sled on hand, get creative and try differ-ent materials lying around the dorm or the campus. Storage bin lids and trashcan liners are ideal for sliding across the snow and can be even faster than store-bought sleds.

A traditional low-key win-ter pastime is building snow-men or making snow angels.

Since there is more than two feet of white stuff on the ground, this week is just right for stepping out into any quad or courtyard and building a snow sculpture. They can be classic or unique, and will outlast most of the snow cov-ering our walkways and park-ing lots.

If playing outside doesn’t sound appealing, take advan-tage of some of the other winter activities that UConn has on campus.

The Freitas Ice Forum, right by the Morrone Soccer Stadium, is home to open skate most of the year. General skate time is $5 per session, and skate rental runs $4 per pair. Free skate is suitable for big groups or for individuals looking to work out or just play around.

Storrs is already covered in ice and snow, but more is on its way to bury us deeper. So if the Jay Hickey gods grant students a few more days off this semester, don’t waste them inside a stuffy dorm with the remote. Instead, grab a coat, some gloves, and some friends, and hit the powder.

Let out your inner child with these winter activitiesBy Steph RattyStaff Writer

Snow is good for more than covering buildings and cancelling classes. Snowball fights, sledding, ice skating and building snowmen are fun for all ages, so get out fo your dorm rooms and get into the snow!

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As ready as I am to start sav-ing up for the 3DS, the new generation of portable gaming, it seems like the non-stereo-scopic-3DS still has some tricks up its sleeve. There’s obviously Pokemon Black/White that’ll come out in March. But in the first weeks of the new year arrived a gem for the system called Ghost Trick, from the folks who brought you the Phoenix Wright games.

The game begins, oddly enough, with your character dead as a doorknob. The victim

in question is Sissel, a man who is now a ghost with no memo-ries of who he was or why he was killed in the first place. But all is not lost for the dearly departed. He soon discovers that he has unique other-world-ly powers to manipulate inani-mate objects and reset time four minutes before a living being’s death. This clairvoyant ability is key to following any leads on figuring out his iden-tity before his soul is put to rest when the sun rises.

What follows is one insane-ly event-filled night of Sissel jumping from place to place via phone lines, continually mess-ing with objects and saving

lives before coming to a wholly satisfying conclusion at the end of this lengthy tale. The prem-ise and point-and-click game-play of manipulating an envi-ronment to your favor seems prone to nonsense. But keep in mind that the genius behind the charmingly endearing Ace Attorney series is at the helm of this project.

And from all the great char-acters, well-written dialogue and intriguing plot, rest assured that Ghost Trick will grab you from the beginning and keep you intrigued until the very end.

The presentation also has the Phoenix Wright touch, in both good and bad ways. The music is all-around fantastic and all the character anima-tions, from the flamboyant dances of a security guard to a detective chowing down on a chicken dinner, looks worthy of an animated feature.

The only sour points were some vague objectives and no real incentive to come back after the credits rolled. But it’s easily worth every penny for the outstanding campaign that lasts several hours.

I was worried before I first played that the whole game would just be me making some crazy breakfast-machine tricks that would make Tom & Jerry and Peter Griffin proud after seeing a few trailers. But I

never thought that once dur-ing the dozen-or-so hour long adventure. It’s a genius puzzle adventure game with continu-ously unique tasks wrapped around an endearing story. It just goes to show that despite how old the DS hardware is at this point, there can still be a creative game like Ghost Trick that can make for the first must-have game of 2011.

FocusThe Daily Campus, Page 8 Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Call it a bias on aesthetics, but when I bought a game with as much of an adorable presen-tation of ilomilo, I expected it to be the kind of game I can play laid back where brain power is hardly needed. And despite being proved incredibly wrong before with the hardcore chal-lenge that Super Monkey Ball was, it’s basically déjà vu with a whole new fun puzzle game that hides its eventually haunt-ing challenge within its apple tea flavored shell.

But for the record, it’s certainly not complete utter hell from the get-go. Like most other great puzzle games, the premise is a textbook definition of simplic-ity. Your objective is to get these cute-as-a-button creatures called Ilo and Milo to meet up over a blocky obstacle course. It’s a fun new kind of brain trainer where you constantly shift between per-spectives, all for the sake of a happy Ilo and Milo dance, as well as for the eye-candy collectables.

And for the first two worlds, it is as blissful an experience as the LittleBigPlanet-inspired visu-als imply that it is. But once you reach the latter half, where eleva-tor and sideways-moving blocks, creatures that block your path in multiple ways and the constant-ly switching perceptions cause headaches, the game’s true nature

as a puzzler shines. It honestly makes me wish

there were even more levels than there are so the developers can smooth out the transition from easy to hard. But between the clunky movements of the char-acters and moments where I had to restart the puzzle from the convoluted level layouts, this is

simply a “good” puzzle game that thankfully does nothing to make the experience turn mediocre.

However, the presentation is certainly on a superb level. The graphics look incredibly detailed, making those adorable aesthetics all the more soul-pleasing. Props should also be given to the music that uses a variety of instruments to make for a score that never gets irritating. Even if the actual puzzle game doesn’t have much “wow factor,” it’s presented in a way that makes me feel like I’m sipping Sleepytime Tea in front of a fireplace.

So the question in the end is, if a good puzzle game like ilo-milo is worth $10 dollars when you can find cream-of-the-crop like Cut the Rope available for less than a dollar. If I could turn back time, I likely would’ve waited for a price drop but for all the fun moments that I did have, and with a presentation that is top quality, ilomilo is certainly a game that has value for its price point.

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GAMESGame Of The Week

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1. LittleBigPlanet 2 (PS3) 9/102. Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective (DS) 9/103. Bioshock 2: Minerva’s Den (PS3, X360) 8.5/10 4. Mass Effect 2(PS3) 8.5/105. ilomilo(x360) 7.5/106. Lost in Shadow (Wii) 7.5/107. Tetris (PS3) 7.5/108. A World of Keflings (X360) 7/109. Kingdom Hearts re:coded (DS) 6.5/1010. Microbot (X360, PS3) 6.0/10

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ilomilo provides cute characters, bright and bubbly graphics and fun puzzles to users of all ages and skill levels. Make your way through their world as you try to unite Ilo and Milo.Image courtesy of Gamespot.com

Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood

(PS3, X360, PC)

Aside from rekindling my love for documentaries via Netflix streaming, the recent winter break was an outlet for me to finish up all my unfin-ished 2010 games to a success (mostly) to save room for the 2011 lineup. And as we all put a bow on the previous year, it only seems fair for me to reflect on the gaming moments that occurred in the first year of this new decade.

Part of what made 2010 so enticing from the very begin-ning was that it brought sequels to all sorts of games we loved in the past, from Mass Effect and Super Mario Galaxy to the long-lost Donkey Kong Country and Sin & Punishment. Unfortunately, it wasn’t all sun-shine and rainbows with them all. Final Fantasy XIII, for example, was met with mixed critical reactions for the awk-wardly paced campaign mixed with Western RPG mechan-ics, which didn’t make for so smooth of a synergy. Fable III was also considered a disap-pointment, with its cumbersome map system and confusing menu system, and Fallout: New Vegas was even buggier than Fallout 3.

But thankfully, 2010 wasn’t just the year of the sequel. There were also several great new IPs born. Developer Remedy finally released Alan Wake, which actu-ally turned out to be a genuinely great game. Platinum Games started the year off with a bang with the superb action game Bayonetta, eventually followed by the also great third-person shooter Vanquish. The down-loadable scene also had several amazing games like Limbo and Super Meat Boy, which showed off how important the DLC scene really is in providing new gaming experiences.

Thankfully, unlike the last few years where development studios were being shut down left and right during our eco-nomic recession, things were mostly stable. Sadly, Bizarre Creations, the guys who brought us Geometry Wars and Blur, was shut down by Activision Blizzard late in the year. But speaking of Activision, the developers behind the Modern Warfare games, Infinity Ward had quite a falling-out with the publisher in April, when more than ten employees (including the two studio heads) resigned from the company. Finally, although Bungie Studios is alive and well with their own plans for the future, Halo: Reach was officially the final Halo game they will make before passing the torch to 343 Industries.

Despite 2010 marking the fifth anniversary of the Xbox 360, there was startlingly little talk of any new console from any of the developers. There were no wink-and-nod refer-ences to a Playstation 4 or Wii 2, which was quite a surprise, since five years was always the standard console lifespan

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By Jason BogdanStaff Writer

ilomiloX360

7.5/10

The Good-A presentation that sure does know how to please both the eyes and the mind-An honest-to-goodness fun puzzle game with plenty of collectables and beatable scores to add replay value

The Bad-The daunting challenge later on can oftentimes frustrate

-Even with that neat retro unlockable game and vari-ous collectables, the amount of puzzles doesn’t seem

like enough. Jason.Bogdan@UConn.edu

ilomilo’s characters, graphics and puzzles make it a great game for the price

By Jason BogdanStaff Writer

As much as I’d love to write a gushing review about how great AC: Brotherhood is, I need to come to the reality that it’s two months too late for that. But at the very least, in this 100-word blurb, I’ll say that despite this game not being the official “III” of the series, Brotherhood is easily the most well-refined of the Assassin’s Creed games, with additional fun Assassin team management and a neat multiplayer mode. And that ending... I won’t spoil it, but it put me in enough shock to sit through the entire lengthy credits in a daze. That alone makes me consider it better than any regular “spin-off.” - Jason Bogdan

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Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective impresses

Ghost Trick: Phantom DetectiveNintendo DS

9.0/10The Good-A lengthy story that’s fun and endearing from start to finish-A unique version of the point-and-click adventure game style with enough tricks to never get old-The music is catchy and the graphics have tons of personality

The BadYou’ll only come back to this game if you want to

experience it all over again

In “Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective,” a new release for the Nintendo DS, you guide your character, Sissel, as he uses his newly discovered powers to discover his identity before time runs out.

Photo courtesy of Gamespot.com

» REMEMBERING, page 9

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go and the other person is still trying to figure it out, making a relationship work can become extremely difficult.

These are definite factors in relationships, but is it really everything?

I once read somewhere, “Life may not be perfect. People may not be perfect. But there are perfect moments.”

Maybe that’s what matters the most. Not the when or the

where, not the who. Maybe love is just about those per-fect moments and maybe then what comes before or after doesn’t matter.

Perhaps falling in love over winter break wasn’t necessarily a bad move. Perhaps it happened simply for those perfect moments I had with him.

from TIMING, page 7beforehand. But since this was the year when Microsoft and Sony released their own motion-based peripherals in the Kinect and Playstation Move, it seems we’ll be playing these consoles at least a bit longer. But not for the portable scene. The predecessor to the DS, the stereoscopic 3DS, was quietly announced, and with constant rumors of a PSP 2 and a Playstation Phone, 2010 ended with hints towards a whole new portable-gaming generation.

Jason.Bogdan@UConn.edu

from LOOKING, page 8

Remembering 2010 in gaming

» THEATER

Melissa Etheridge to step in for Armstrong in ‘American Idiot’

Singer Melissa Etheridge at the 10th Annual Avon Foundation for Women Gala.AP

NEW YORK (AP) — Melissa Etheridge is about to get in touch with her punk side.

The Grammy- and Oscar-winning singer will temporar-ily step in for Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong while he takes a break from perform-ing in his Broadway musical, “American Idiot.”

Etheridge, best known for her song “Come to My Window,” will play drug dealer “St. Jimmy” from Feb. 1 to Feb. 6. Armstrong, the composer and co-author of the musical, returns Feb. 10.

The high-octane show fol-lows three working-class characters as they wrestle with modern life. One joins the Army, one becomes a father and one descends into a drug-fueled life — thanks to St. Jimmy.

Says director Michael Mayer: “This character is seductive, thrilling and dan-gerous. Melissa Etheridge is all that and so much more.”

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday considered whether Anna Nicole Smith's estate legally deserves some of the $1.6 billion estate left behind by her late Texas billionaire husband.

The justices listened to argu-ments from a lawyer of the deceased former Playmate, whose estate is locked in a years-long battle for money they say was promised her by her husband, oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall.

The convoluted dispute over Marshall's money has its roots in a Houston strip club where he met Smith. The two were wed in 1994 when he was 89 and she 26. Marshall died the next year and his will left his estate to his son, E. Pierce Marshall, and nothing to Smith, whose real name was Vickie Lynn Marshall.

Smith challenged the will, claiming that her husband promised to leave her more than $300 million above the $7 million in cash and gifts showered on her during their 14-month marriage.

Smith moved to California after his death and filed bank-ruptcy in Los Angeles, alleg-ing in federal court filings that her husband promised her a large share of the estate. A bankruptcy judge awarded her $475 million from Marshall's estate, with a federal judge reducing that amount to $89 million in 2002.

Smith had wanted the courts to accept that ruling but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco threw it out, saying the bank-ruptcy judge could not rule on the probate case.

The appeals court said that determining court decision was that of a Houston jury that said Marshall was mentally fit and under no undue pressure when he wrote a will leaving nearly all of his estate to his son and nothing to Smith.

The younger Marshall died in 2006 and Smith died of a drug overdose in 2007.

The legal issue the justices are grappling with is whether bankruptcy judges can make rulings on issues outside of bankruptcy law.

Her lawyer, Kent L. Richland, said the appeals court was wrong on its limit-ing of the bankruptcy court's

reach. "This court's cases established that the bankrupt-cy court was constitutionally authorized to decide that entire dispute," he said.

The Marshalls' lawyer, Roy T. Englert, Jr., said the law is clear: Bankruptcy courts — which are non-Article III courts unlike the federal courts — can only bring final judg-ments on issues that are related to the Bankruptcy Code.

When debtors say, "'I get to bring my counterclaim against the creditor in a non-Article III forum and the non-Article III forum gets to hear it and deter-mine . then I suggest there is a constitutional problem," Englert said.

It is not immediately known when the court will rule on this case. But it is unlikely that the Supreme Court's ruling will end the legal wrangling, with other appeals of other aspects of the case working their way through the court system.

In fact, this was not the first time Smith's name had been heard at the high court.

She showed up at the

Supreme Court in 2006, dressed in all black, to hear the justices debate whether she could pursue her late husband's fortune in court. She wept in the courtroom as justices dis-cussed Marshall and whether he had intended to provide for his young wife in death.

The high court ruled in her favor that time.

And Justice Anthony Kennedy in 2009 refused to lift a court order that prevented Smith's estate from collecting any money under the bank-ruptcy court ruling. Elaine Marshall, Pierce Marshall's widow, had argued that the order preventing Smith's estate from collecting the money should remain in place while the tangle of competing claims was sorted out.

Smith's daughter, Dannielynn Birkhead, was named Smith's heir in 2008. The girl's father, Larry Birkhead, and attorney Howard K. Stern are in charge of the estate.

The case is Stern v. Marshall, 10-179.

In this Feb. 28, 2006, file photo, Anna Nicole Smith, leaves the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. The Supreme Court is preparing to hear arguments on whether Anna Nicole Smith’s estate should get part of the fortune left behind by her elderly Texas billionaire husband. Lawyers for the deceased former Playmate plan to tell justices Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011, her estate deserves some of the $1.6 billion estate of her late husband, J. Howard Marshall.

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» COURT CASES

Court hears appeal from Anna Nicole Smith’s estate

STRASBOURG, France (AP) — Some of the fees a British tabloid had to pay supermodel Naomi Campbell after losing a lawsuit were too high, a European high court ruled Tuesday.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled against the paper having to pay the "success fee" Campbell agreed to pay her lawyers on top of other legal costs, argu-ing it didn't fit the offense.

In 2004, Campbell won her battle against the Daily Mirror, which printed pho-tographs in 2001 showing her leaving a drug counsel-ing meeting. Britain's highest court ruled the paper breached Campbell's privacy by run-ning the photos and a story detailing her treatment.

The model testified at the time that she felt "shocked, angry, betrayed and violat-ed" by the piece, which was headlined: "Naomi: I am a drug addict."

The Strasbourg court said the "success fees" were more than 365,000 pounds as part of over 1,000,000 pounds in costs, and called them dispro-portionate.

The judges said there is a risk to media reporting and freedom of expression if the potential costs of defending a case risked putting pressure on the media and newspaper publishers to settle cases that could have been defended.

British libel laws place the burden of proof on the defen-dant to show what it pub-

lished was true. But many other countries — including the U.S. — require plaintiffs to prove a published article was both false and written with malicious intent.

Free speech advocates say the U.K. legislation has a chilling effect on journalism, as newspapers are reluctant to publish certain types of articles due to fears of hefty legal fees and lengthy court disputes.

That has earned Britain a reputation as a "libel tour-ism" destination for celebri-ties and corporations to wage costly legal battles — a phe-nomenon the government has vowed to curb.

"This judgment is a clarion call for the U.K. judiciary to put libel costs under the microscope," said media law specialist Mark Stephens, who helped prepare a sub-mission on free speech to the Strasbourg court and called the ruling an "amazingly good result."

"It means that the gravy train for grasping claimant lawyers and their greedy cli-ents has hit the buffers."

The government has pledged to change Britain's libel laws. In a statement Tuesday, it said it was already working on a "much-needed reform of conditional fee arrangements, including success fees."

The Daily Mirror wel-comed the ruling, saying that after a long hard fight it has "been proved right" about success fees.

The Daily Mirror had also complained to the court that the privacy verdict and the amount of legal fees breached the paper's right to freedom of expression.

The court, however, reject-ed that claim.

The judges found that, since the publication of the photos and articles had not contrib-uted to any "debate of gen-eral interest" to society, the newspaper had a lower level of protection for freedom of expression.

Court sides with Mirror over legal fees payment

Naomi Campbell as she walks the runway during her Fashion For Relief - Haiti fash-ion benefit during Fashion Week in New York. Some of the fees a British tabloid had to pay supermodel Naomi Campbell after losing a lawsuit were too high, a European high court ruled Tuesday.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Motley Crue singer Vince Neil will take a plea deal and serve two weeks of jail time, plus two weeks of house arrest, for driving drunk in his Lamborghini last summer near the Las Vegas Strip.

Neil agreed Tuesday to plead guilty to misdemeanor driving under the influence when he appears before a Las Vegas judge on Jan. 26, said Tess Driver, an aide to Clark County District Attorney David Roger.

Neil's publicist, Jill Siegel, released a statement on Neil's behalf.

"I have recognized that you can't drink and drive at all," it said.

Neil's lawyer, David Chesnoff, noted that Neil could have faced up to six months in jail and said there were legal defenses to the charge.

"Mr. Neil recognized that he needed to take responsibility for his actions," Chesnoff said.

Driver said Neil is scheduled to begin serving his sentence Feb. 15. That will be a week after Neil's 50th birthday.

Police said Neil was stopped in his black sports car late June

27 after leaving the Las Vegas Hilton. Less than a week earli-er, he had declared his sobriety.

"There's just a point in your life where you kind of stop, that's what happened with me," Neil told an AP reporter in an interview about a tell-all book. Neil said he hadn't used drugs in 20 years and had stopped abusing alcohol.

Neil is the front man for a four-member heavy metal band known for bad behavior, hard partying, famous girlfriends and hard-driving hits like "Girls, Girls, Girls" and "Dr. Feelgood." He and his fourth wife, Lia, live in Las Vegas, where Neil also owns tattoo shops and two bars.

Police said following Neil's arrest in June that they were also investigating a report of an incident that night involving Neil, a female fan and a bro-ken camera in front of the Las Vegas Hilton, home of Neil's Tres Rios Cantina.

The case was closed after the woman declined to coop-erate, department spokes-woman Barbara Morgan said Tuesday.

Neil's guilty plea won't be his first.

He pleaded guilty to man-slaughter and drunken driving in a 1984 crash in Redondo Beach, Calif., that killed his passenger, Nicholas Dingley, a 24-year-old drummer with the group Hanoi Rocks.

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Motley Crue singer gets 2 week jail sentence

Motley Crue singer, Vince NeilAP

FocusThe Daily Campus, Page 10 Wednesday, January 19, 2011

NEW YORK (AP) — Within moments after Regis Philbin caught viewers off-guard with the news that he'll be leav-ing his talk show, the guess-ing game had begun: Who will replace him?

Maybe "Survivor" host Jeff Probst? Mark Consuelos, hubby of Regis' co-host, Kelly Ripa? Golden Globes bad boy Ricky Gervais? Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino from "Jersey Shore"?

You kidding? Who can ever replace Reege?

"I don't want to alarm any-body," he began on Tuesday before dropping the bomb: "This will be my last year on the show."

More specifically, he meant he will be stepping down from "Live! With Regis and Kelly" sometime in late 2011, though he didn't pin down a departure date.

"We'll have a lot of fun between now and then," he promised his audience.

According to the syndicated show's distributor, Disney-ABC Domestic Television, "Live!" will carry on, with a new co-host to be named to join Ripa, who marks 10 years with the show next month.

"There is a time that every-thing must come to an end for certain people on camera — especially certain old people!" cracked the 79-year-old Philbin.

True enough for certain peo-ple. But no one was expect-ing this acknowledgment from Reege, whose energy, good-natured feistiness and gift of gab seem limitless, even now, after more than a half-century in television.

Tuesday's show had started typically enough, with him and Ripa batting the breeze about the Golden Globes broadcast, postseason football and the icy weather outside. Guests included Angie Dickinson and Steven Tyler, there to plug

his new role as a judge on "American Idol."

Then, with surprising calm for such a famously excitable guy, Philbin changed the subject and said, "Well, I've got one of those announcements to make."

Did he ever!"It's been 28 years," Philbin

said reflectively, speaking of his current Manhattan-based show. "It was the biggest thrill of my life to come back to New York, where I grew up as a kid watching TV in the early days, you know, never even dreaming that I would one day have the ability, or whatever it takes, to get in front of the camera and talk to it."

The Bronx-born Philbin has been in front of the camera and talking to it since the 1950s.

But for a long time, his career took him on an uncertain, often rocky road.

He began in local TV, then found national exposure as the announcer and sidekick on comic Joey Bishop's short-lived ABC late-night show. More local TV followed on the West Coast, notably as a co-host of a morning show in Los Angeles.

Then he returned to New York, where he landed a local morning show in 1983. The ratings grew. Two years later, Kathie Lee Johnson joined him as co-host.

In 1988, he and Kathie Lee (who by then was married to sportscaster Frank Gifford) went national.

Gifford left the show in 2000. After a tryout period for a replacement, soap star Ripa ("All My Children") won the job as his female foil.

Philbin clicks with daytime audiences as a common man who loves to sound off about familiar frustrations, even as he lives a life rubbing elbows with fellow celebrities.

During a typical "host chat" — the unscripted segment at the top of the show that's at least

as popular as the interviews with guests — Philbin might share details of a night out with wife Joy at a super-exclusive Greenwich Village bistro. Then, by way of paying homage to the Oreo cookie, he might sound off about newfangled Oreos made in different colors and flavors.

One moment, the world is his oyster. The next, he's the little guy against the world.

Philbin had clinched star sta-tus in the world of daytime TV when, a decade ago, he conquered prime time as host of "Who Wants to Be a

Millionaire," which resurrected the big-money quiz shows that had largely been extinct for 30 years. It became a ratings sensa-tion for ABC. He made "Is that your final answer?" a national catch phrase.

As Philbin prepares to exit "Live!" it remains strong, aver-aging about 4 million view-ers daily. It's the No. 2-rated daily talk show after "Oprah Winfrey."

His leave-taking will occur not long after Winfrey ends her syndicated show to con-centrate on her new cable net-

work. A Philbin contemporary in the broadcasting world, 77-year-old Larry King, retired from his prime-time CNN talk show last month.

Meanwhile, Philbin continues to add to his record for most hours logged (15,662, as certi-fied by Guinness World Records back in 2006).

"EV-ry DAY, you see the RECord SHATtered, pal!" Philbin boomed during an interview with The Associated Press three years ago, his rhythmic rant at full rev. "One more hour!"

On that occasion, he was asked how much longer he expected to keep doing "Live!" He answered that he still enjoyed doing it, that he was "very happy."

"I guess there's gonna have to be a sign somewhere along the way telling me enough's enough," he said then.

It's unclear if a particular sign — apart from Philbin's 80th birthday this August — led to Tuesday's bombshell. But it is already clear that, whoever is tapped to take his seat beside Ripa, no one can replace him.

Regis Philbin announces retirement

In this image from video released by Disney-ABC Domestic Television, co-hosts Regis Philbin, left, and Kelly Ripa are shown during the broadcast of “Live with Regis and Kelly,” Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2011, in New York. Philbin announced Tuesday that he will be retiring from the show this year. Philbin has hosted the morning talk show for more than a quarter-century, most recently sharing hosting duties with Kelly Ripa.

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Don Kirshner, a rock promoter and music publisher who helped garner hits for the make-believe groups The Monkees and The Archies and boosted the careers of Billy Joel, Neil Diamond and the Police, has died. He was 76.

Promoter Jack Wishna, a close friend and business associate, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Kirshner, whom Time maga-zine once dubbed "The Man with the Golden Ear," was in a hospital in Boca Raton being treated for an infection when he died on Monday.

"Donny Kirshner would take a kid off the street ... and turn him into Neil Diamond, Carole King, James Taylor, on and on," Wishna said. "I haven't spoken to anyone in the music business that Donny hasn't either discov-ered, promoted, or touched in some way.

"I've never seen anybody like this in my life," he said.

The Bronx-born Kirshner started off in the business as a songwriter, penning "My First Love" for Bobby Darin. But he had more success in tapping songwriting talents like Diamond, King and Neil Sedaka.

Kirshner's songwriters were tapped in the 1960s to create music for a group manufac-tured for TV — The Monkees. They became a huge sensation in both the TV and the rock world and had hits includ-ing "I'm a Believer," which Diamond wrote.

"I'm saddened to learn of the loss of Don Kirshner. He was the king of Tin Pan Alley — there never was a better song plugger," Diamond said in a statement to the AP. "ll always be grateful to him for pairing 'I'm A Believer' and other songs of mine with the Monkees. The music business never had a better supporter."

Kirshner also was behind

the music that made magic for The Archies, based off the comic strip characters, includ-ing the classic "Sugar Sugar."

"Don Kirshner's Rock Concert," which premiered in 1972 and ran a decade, gave national exposure to musi-cians including Joel and the Police. Kirshner also helped launch the careers of Prince, The Eagles, Lionel Richie and Ozzy Osborne. The show also boosted careers of com-ics including Billy Crystal, Arsenio Hall and David Letterman.

"Don Kirshner gave new, young musicians the opportu-nity to showcase their perfor-mances for a huge audience during the 'golden age' of the popular music business," Joel said in a statement. "At the time, his 'hands-off' approach to how rock and roll music was presented made television a viable medium for many now-iconic recording artists."

Paul Shaffer, Letterman's musical director, used to give a deadpan performance during his imitation of Kirshner on Saturday Night Live. Shaffer and Kirshner worked together on the short-lived sitcom, A Year at the Top, according to Shaffer's manager.

Pop singer Tony Orlando, whom Kirshner hired for $50 a week to record demos, said his mentor was like the Thomas Edison of music.

"Every dream I ever had as a kid, he was my genie," Orlando told AP.

Orlando said Kirshner was responsible for so many careers, "it would make your head spin."

"This was not just a song guy, this was a man who created the cornerstones of American pop music as we know it today," Orlando said. "Without Donny Kirshner, the music we know of today would not be the same. He was a game-changer, and I tell you that me and my family

feel this tremendous loss for this man."

Wishna said Kirshner was a mentor who knew the art of discovering talent and cared about the artists he worked with.

"He was a father to these people even though some of them were three or four years younger than him," Wishna said.

Wishna said Kirshner, who was honored by the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2007, was a pioneer who developed a system for sing-er-songwriters to share in the profits of selling music.

Howard Kramer, curatorial

director at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, said Kirshner will be most remembered for "nurturing and developing an early, unprecedented amount of artists, mostly songwriters, and also a television pioneer for bringing live rock 'n' roll to television."

Kirshner also ran three labels, Dimension Records, Colgems Records and Kirshner Records.

Before he died, Kirshner was chief creative officer of Rockrena, a company launch-ing this year to find and pro-mote talent online.

Don Kirshner, Rock music promoter, dies in Florida at the age of 76

» OBITUARIES

Music publisher Don Kirshner arrives for the 2007 Songwriters Hall of Fame gala in New York. Kirshner, the man Time magazine once dubbed the “Man With the Golden Ear” has died of heart failure in a Florida hospital. He was 76.

AP

HONG KONG (AP) — It's the kung fu classic that launched the career of a then little-known 17-year-old Chinese martial arts champion called Jet Li.

Nearly three decades later, "The Shaolin Temple" has received a blockbuster update, with the backing of the famous center of fighting monks of the title and the setting of the 1982 release. Veteran Hong Kong action direc-tor Benny Chan has written a new story and cast some of the big-gest names in Chinese cinema — Jackie Chan, Andy Lau, Nicholas Tse and Fan Bingbing.

It is the latest screen portrayal of the 1,500-year-old Shaolin Temple in central China, whose kung fu monks have featured in many TV series and movies. But the 2011 version is only the second to be authorized by temple officials.

Benny Chan, who directed Jackie Chan in some of his recent Hong Kong action thrill-ers including "Who Am I?," ''New Police Story" and "Rob-B-Hood," is unabashed about being a crowd-pleaser.

"I am a commercial director. I am not an art-house director. I don't know how to create very artistic shots. I don't know how to shoot slowly," Chan told The Associated Press in a recent interview.

But fans who are expecting an action-packed extravaganza must think twice. Unlike the 1982 original, which featured trademark Shaolin-style moves, the Hong Kong filmmaker said his focus is drama — not kung fu. And when the flashy action sequences do come into play, Chan says he asked the chore-ographer — veteran Corey Yuen — to imbue them with what he calls the spirit of "Zen fight-ing," which he characterizes as a composed fighting style that stresses personal development over violence.

"The Shaolin Temple" is a revenge story — Li plays a young boy adopted and trained by Shaolin monks who tries to avenge his father's death. For the 135-minute update, simply called "Shaolin," Benny Chan crafted an ambitious story arch. Set in China's warlord era shortly after the downfall of imperial rule in

the early 20th century, Lau plays a local military ruler paranoid about being betrayed by an ally. He devised an assassination plot, only to be double-crossed by his second-in-command (Tse). Lau's character then seeks refuge in the Shaolin Temple and becomes a monk who repents his terrorizing ways of the past.

"Everyone knows the first movie mainly features the Shaolin-style of kung fu, espe-cially given its star, Jet Li, was a five-time national champion at the time. That's a big selling point. But I won't use a martial arts champion as a selling point. Andy Lau is an actor," Chan said. The veteran Hong Kong leading man is widely respected for his talent as much as his heartthrob looks.

"Do I need to turn Andy Lau into Jet Li? I don't see the need. I don't want to," he said, adding that Lau, a devout Buddhist him-self, gave suggestions on how to develop his character.

There is kung fu in the movie — Lau is see practicing a set of Shaolin-style punches with a group of monks — although Chan says his focus was the phi-losophy behind the fighting.

"I don't think very flashy and very powerful moves are a display of Zen fighting ... As I understand the spirit of Zen fighting is that you have to understand your abil-ity first, how powerfully you can strike a fist. And then how to break through your limitations. And you will become happier as you prac-tice more," the director said, point-ing to a scene where Lau's warlord character blissfully practices his moves side-by-side with a young monk on a cold night.

"I tried to portray a state of mind," he said.

The interplay between the war-lord and Jackie Chan's character is another highlight. Benny Chan said he purposely paired the two together — Lau's calculating, Machiavellian military man and Jackie Chan's role of a happy-go-lucky monk who runs the Shaolin kitchen. Chan puts his comedic skills to good use. In one scene, when his character is attacked, he frantically says, "I don't know any kung fu," in a humorous reversal of his on-screen persona.

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NCAA provides great finish, but no playoff

As Wes Byrum drilled a19-yard field goal inside University of Phoenix Stadium, the college foot-ball season came to an end. When the dust finally settled, the Auburn Tigers were national champions. They had reached the pinnacle of college football, succeeding where 119 other teams failed.

As the curtain comes down on the 2010 season, we now have time to reflect on what the last six months have meant for college football. Sadly, this season may just become known as the year of hypocrisy.

Early season headlines were dominated with Reggie Bush Heisman talk, ultimately con-cluding with the ex-USC running back handing back his Heisman Trophy (supposedly before the Heisman Trust stripped him of it). Talk about the Heisman Trophy stopped for all of 18 minutes before Cam Newton, the afore-mentioned Auburn Tigers’ quar-terback and early season Heisman Trophy favorite, became the tar-get of a NCAA investigation. The findings of that investigation led to Newton being declared ineligible by the NCAA due to evidence being found that Cecil Newton, Cam’s father, attempted to solicit money from Mississippi State in exchange for Newton signing there. Despite this, Newton was reinstated less then one day later, and allowed to play in the SEC Championship Game and go on to collect the 2010 Heisman Trophy just 12 days after he was deemed ineligible by the NCAA.

Continuing with the theme of bizarre NCAA decisions, five Ohio State players were banned for five

games in 2011, but allowed to play in the 2010 Allstate Sugar Bowl after being slapped with NCAA sanctions. The Ohio State players sold items that had been given to them, including a sportsmanship award from the 2008 Fiesta Bowl, a 2008 Big Ten championship ring, gold pants (given to players who are a part of a win over rival Michigan), Big Ten championship rings, football jerseys, pants and shoes. Despite being found guilty of violating NCAA rules, they were still able to participate in the Buckeyes’ bowl game. Without a doubt, the NCCA lost a lot of street cred with many fans this season by not being consistent with any of its rulings.

The final error the NCAA made was not insulated to just this sea-son, but they continue to make it every season. Without a playoff system, how can we really judge who the best team is? The TCU Horned Frogs join the Auburn Tigers as the only two undefeated teams left at the end of the season, yet they won’t play each other. Many ideas have been thrown around on how to evolve the way college football decides its cham-pion without losing the tradition of the bowl system. The most popular ideas are a straight 16- or eight-team seeded playoff, or a plus-one system, where all teams would play the normal bowls and then have one last game between the best two remaining teams.

Despite these egregious errors in NCAA rulings, it would be hard to argue that the 2010 college football season was anything other then exciting and memorable. Who knows, perhaps 2011 will be known as the year of the Huskies.

Auburn's Wes Byrum (18) kicks the game-winning field goal late in the second half of the BCS National Championship NCAA college football game against Oregon Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, in Glendale, Ariz. Auburn won 22-19.

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By Miles DeGraziaNCAA Football Columnist

SportsThe Daily Campus, Page 12 Wednesday, January 19, 2011

saying Gallagher has gone “pret-ty much unchallenged” in some events. She will be a key compo-nent to the Huskies’ success as the season continues.

On the diving side, sophomore Danielle Cecco has been a stand-out performer thus far. Cecco has won several one-meter and three-meter diving events this season, including a victory each event respectively at the Terrapin

Cup posting scores of 254.35 and 286.30, respectively.

After a two-month break, the Huskies will finally be returning to the pool Saturday at the Wolff- Zackin Natatorium. The Huskies will host the Seton Hall Pirates in a Big East Conference game. The Huskies will look to improve to 3-1 in conference play as they square off against the Pirates at 1 p.m.

Griffin would provide John Wall with some competition in the Rookie of the Year race. Likewise, would Griffin’s game develop into something more than simply dunking the ball? Furthermore, would the Clippers have the NBA’s all-time worst season? Now fast forward to the present and one can truly appreciate the greatness of Griffin’s rookie season. Any original hesita-tion involving Griffin’s career has been replaced with new questions. For instance, what dunks will Griffin do when he wins the dunk contest? Is this the best rookie season of all time? Will the Clippers do the unthinkable and make the playoffs? No clear answer may exist to these questions, but the answers are not important. Instead, the monumental trans-formation of Griffin in his first season is the true beauty that demands recognition.

To appreciate one’s suc-cess, one must first appreciate failure. This is a concept not lost on Griffin, who had his first season tragically taken from him after he dunked the ball too hard (yes, appar-ently that is possible) and shattered his kneecap, lead-ing to season-ending surgery. For many, this would have been enough to derail an NBA career. But as we’ve come to learn, Griffin is a rare

breed. He refused to let injury stand in his way. After sur-gery, Griffin was unrelenting in his rehab. In his mind, he felt stronger than before the injury. Clearly his feelings were correct, as he hasn’t missed a single game during the season. Oh yeah, and he’s playing pretty well, too.

Griffin’s failure, subse-quent rehabilitation and pres-ent rise to stardom illustrate how his short career serves as a shining example of posi-tive karma. In a league cur-rently troubled by players demanding trades, golden boys becoming villains and a looming lockout, Griffin pro-vides NBA fans with some-thing to look forward to.

Whether you feel he is something special and poten-tially legendary, or simply a reminder of hard work trans-lating to success is up to you. But the message is clear: Karma doesn’t always have to be something involved with revenge or the drama between a player and his former team. On the contrary, it can stand for a future Hall of Famer’s triumph over hardship. This is the picture Griffin has painted us, and one we should all remember.

from HUSKIES, page 14

from EMERGING, page 14

Christopher.Zielinski@UConn.edu

Carmine.Colangelo@UConn.edu

Zielinski: Griffin is a star

UConn hits pool Saturday versus Pirates

someday use the countryside of Storrs as a stepping stone to a school where he was not over-shadowed by basketball and he would lead a more traditional program. That day was Jan. 2, the day after UConn’s Fiesta Bowl loss.

Edsall became a hot coach last season and was mentioned with a number of job openings includ-ing Notre Dame. The Huskies went 8-5 and ended the season on a four-game winning streak. The entire nation saw how admirably Edsall kept the team together after the murder of junior corner-back Jasper Howard. Not only the players but also student body and fans will remember the voice that gave others strength dur-ing one of the most difficult times in Husky history. Edsall spoke in the Student Union Quad three days after Howard died and openly wept in front of the stu-dent body. He said, and I’ll never forget it, “Turn to the person next to you and tell them you love them.” Days later, he eulogized Jasper in Miami at his funeral. The handling of the tragic situa-tion is what sparked Edsall as an attractive candidate not only to coach football but to lead young men’s lives.

Thankfully, Edsall stayed at UConn after 2009 and coached the 2011 senior class in what would’ve been Howard’s senior season, and came into this season with expectations of a confer-ence title and BCS berth. After a 3-4 start to the season, the Huskies showed resiliency that defines the team yet again and reeled off five consecutive wins to win the Big East and make the Fiesta Bowl. Edsall showed compassion and understanding during his last hours in the blue and white, asking Kashif Moore to wear the late Howard’s No. 6. Although it was another 8-5 season, Edsall thought it was his time to move forward personally.

So fans shouldn’t be shocked that Edsall has finally left

UConn, the manner in which he flew the coup is different. The former czar of Husky football never boardered the chartered flight back to Connecticut and met with Maryland officials to accept the job less than a day after the bowl game. According to The Hartford Courant, players were stunned, confused and upset when they found out through other parties that their coach had left them. After The Daily Campus spoke with Moore, he said that most found out through text messages from friends and teammates when they landed in Connecticut. I’m not saying that Edsall pulled a “LeBron” on his former school but it sure does seem like it.

Reports also say that Edsall asked Jordan Todman to announce to the team in the locker room in

Glendale that he was declaring for the NFL Draft. While Edsall sat silent Todman announced he was leaving. But Randy told them eventually; he called some play-ers after taking the position as Terps coach. Well, he made them wait a half an hour, then apolo-gized for not saying goodbye in person because it was “spur of the moment.” Edsall and the play-ers had been through so much together in the past two seasons and deserved a better departure from New England by their head coach and father figure.

Edsall left to a school that is more of a lateral move, than a step up. Maryland is a basket-ball-crazed school like UConn. The ACC is barely stronger than the Big East in football and the Terrapins have been to the same amount of BCS bowls as the

Huskies. Some speculate Edsall left Storrs because he couldn’t get along with Jeff Hathaway and didn’t like some of the admis-sions policies and salaries that the school paid his assistants.

Fans and players will get a chance to greet their former coach in 2012 and 2013 when the Huskies play a home and home with the Terrapins. Edsall will return to the house he built from scratch and it will be inter-esting to see how he is received by a fan base he created, in a stadium he built and a program he transformed.

Randy Edsall did everything he could for the state, univer-sity, fans and players during his 12 years at UConn-everything except leave gracefully.

from AU REVOIR, page 14

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University of Maryland director of athletics Kevin Anderson, left, shakes hands with new football coach Randy Edsall, right, during a news conference Monday, Jan. 3, 2011, in College Park, Md.

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McDonough: Edsall’s ungraceful exit spoils UConn career

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — Brandon Paul scored 17 of his 20 points in the first half to lead No. 23 Illinois past 17th-ranked Michigan State 71-62 on Tuesday night.

The Illini (14-5, 4-3 Big Ten) led 53-43 on a 3-pointer by Paul with 13:08 to play. But they had to hold off a late Spartans charge and ultimately won with seven free throws from four players that built a two-point lead back up to 65-57 with 5:25 left.

Demetri McCamey had 15 points and 11 assists, and Jereme Richmond added 14 points off the bench for Illinois. The win ended a two-game skid for the Illini that included defeats at Penn State and Wisconsin.

Michigan State (12-6, 4-2) was led by Kalin Lucas, who scored 15 points. Raymond Green had 12 but fouled out with 36 seconds to play.

The Illini led 41-37 at half-time and outscored Michigan State 12-6 over the first 7 min-utes of the second half.

They closed that stretch with two inside points from Richmond on a long pass from McCamey that sliced just over the outstretched hands of two Spartans defenders and a 3-pointer from Paul after Richmond forced a Michigan State turnover.

After a dunk that had revved up the home crowd, Lucas hit a 3-pointer that quieted fans and pulled the Spartans to 59-53 with 10:28 remaining.

Just 46 seconds later, Delvon Roe sank a short basket that cut the Illini lead to 59-55. With 8:55 to play, Roe tipped in a miss to it to 59-57.

The Illini, after riding their outside shooting much of the night, spent the next 3 minutes methodically rebuilding their lead at the free throw line.

Mike Tisdale hit one, fol-lowed by two each from McCamey, Mike Davis and Richmond to stretch Illinois’ edge back to 65-57.

Davis finished with 11 points and 11 rebounds.

Paul’s first-half outburst included nine points on 3-for-

3 shooting from 3-point range.The sophomore guard, com-

ing off the bench, hit one 3 that capped a 7-0 Illini run that gave Illinois a 28-23 lead with 8:24 to play in the first half.

Just under 5 minutes later he nailed his last 3-pointer of the half from the base-line in front of the Michigan State bench, giving the Illini a 38-31 cushion. Less than a minute later he added a three-point play when he was fouled by Keith Appling.

Paul played defense, too.With 2:16 to play in the half

and Illinois leading 41-35 he sprinted the distance of the court to chase down Korie Lucious, cleanly swatting down what looked like an easy layup off an Illini turnover.

After losing their shoot-ing touch in back-to-back road losses to Penn State and Wisconsin, Illinois found its form. The Illini went 25 of 47 (53.2 percent) from the field and made eight of their 17

3-pointers.Illinois hit 61.5 percent of

its shots — including six of its nine 3s — in the first half and led by as many as eight over the first 20 minutes.

Richmond missed some prac-tice time before the Wisconsin game and didn’t play to deal with unspecified family issues. He issued a statement denying rumors that he was consider-ing transferring.

Roe had eight points and 10 rebounds for Michigan State.

Michigan State’s Draymond Green (23) shoots over Illinois’ Jereme Richmond (22) and Mike Davis (24) during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday.

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Illinois holds off Michigan State 71-62 » NCAA BASKETBALL Georgetown tops Hall 80-75

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Austin Freeman scored 28 points and No. 23 Georgetown went 8 for 9 from the free throw line in the final 2:11 as the Hoyas held on for an 80-75 vic-tory over Seton Hall on Tuesday night.

The win was the second in three days in New Jersey for the Hoyas (14-5, 3-4 Big East), who had lost three straight before beating Rutgers on Saturday.

Jeff Robinson had 21 points for the Pirates (8-11, 2-5), who have lost five of six.

Seton Hall took advantage of a sudden shooting slump by the Hoyas with a 19-2 run that gave it a 52-45 lead with 12:13 to play.

Georgetown stayed within reach but didn’t take the lead again until Chris Wright made one of two free throws with 53 seconds left to make it 74-73.

After a Seton Hall miss, Freeman made two free throws with 27 seconds left. Jordan Theodore hit a side jumper for the Pirates with 9 seconds to go but it was only a 2-pointer and Georgetown still had a one-point lead.

Wright added four more free throws in the final 8.7 seconds

for the final margin.Wright had 17 points and

six assists for the Hoyas while Hollis Thompson added 14 points.

Freeman’s big game fol-lowed a 25-point effort against Rutgers, a game that broke him out of a three-game shooting slump that saw him score a total of 29 points.

The Hoyas shot 52.7 percent (29 for 55), better than the 50.7 percent they were at coming into the game, which had them third in the nation.

Theodore had 17 points and six assists for the Pirates, while Herb Pope had 16 points and nine rebounds and Jeremy Hazell, in his third back from a broken wrist, had 15. The four players accounted for all but six of Seton Hall’s points.

Hazell, who leads the Pirates with a 20.8 average, had nine points in the big run. His break-away dunk gave Seton Hall the 52-45 lead. During the run, Georgetown missed all six shots and turned the ball over three times.

The Hoyas quickly returned to form when Wright hit a 3 that started a 9-of-11 effort from the field to close the game.

Georgetown’s Chris Wright, right, is fouled by Seton Hall’s Keon Lawrence during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game Tuesday.

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TWOPAGE 2 Q:A:

“Who will win the NFC Championship game?”

“Packers, because Aaron Rodgers is good.”

– Joe Levy, 6th-semester human development and family studies major

E-mail your answers, along with your name, semester standing and major, to sports@dailycampus.com. The best answer will appear in tomorrow’s paper.

“Was Paul Pasqualoni a good hire?”

The Daily Question Tomorrow’sQuestion:

» That’s what he said“Even when I was away and managing other teams I always had an interest in what was happening with the Indians. It is

good to be home.”

– Mike Hargrove upon returning to the Cleveland Indians as a special advisor.

...in with the new

Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis smiles during an NFL football news conference introducing Hue Jackson as the team’s new coach at Raiders headquarters in Alameda, Calif. on Tuesday.

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Women’s Hockey (10-13-1)

Jan. 22MaineNoon

Jan. 28Boston

University7:00 p.m.

Jan. 21Maine

5:00 p.m.

Men’s Hockey (8-12-3)

Jan. 22Air Force

7:05 p.m.

Jan. 28Holy Cross7:05 p.m.

Jan. 21Air Force

7:05 p.m.

Jan. 29Holy Cross7:05 p.m.

Jan. 29 Boston

University4:00 p.m.

Women’s Basketball (17-1) (6-0)

Men’s Basketball (15-2) (4-2)

Jan. 22Tennessee2:00 p.m.

Jan. 25Marquette9:00 p.m.

Jan. 26Rutgers

7:30 p.m.

Gampel Pavilion, XL Center

Jan. 22Pittsburgh7:30 p.m.

Jan. 29Cincinnati2:00 p.m.

Feb. 4Army

7:05 p.m.

Jan. 31 Duke

7:00 p.m.

Jan. 29 Louisville

Noon

Women’s Track and Field

Jan. 22URI Invite

10:30 a.m.

Feb. 4/5New Balance

Invite2:00 p.m.

Feb. 5Giegengack

InviteAll Day

Jan. 28/29Penn St. InviteAll Day

Men’s Track and Field Jan. 21

Great Dane Invite

5:00 p.m.

Jan. 29Saturday Night at the Armory5:00 p.m.

Jan. 20UConn

HeptathalonTBA

Feb. 4Collegiate

Invite9:00 a.m.

Feb. 19/20Big East Champ.All Day

Feb. 5Giegengack

Invite9:00 a.m.

Women’s Swimming and Diving

Jan. 22Seton Hall1:00 p.m.

Jan. 29Bucknell

InvitationalAll Day

Feb. 5Yale

1:00 p.m.

Jan. 28Bucknell

6:00 p.m.

Men’s Swimming and Diving

Jan. 28Bucknell

1:00 p.m.

Jan. 29Bucknell

InvitationalNoon

Jan. 22Seton Hall1:00 p.m.

Feb. 5Yale

1:00 p.m.

Feb. 11Big East

ChampionshipsAll Day

Feb. 11Big East

ChampionshipAll Day

What's On TV

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NBA: Los Angeles Lakers at Dallas Mavericks, Wednesday, 9 p.m., ESPNThe defending champion Lakers enter this Western Conference matchup win-ning eight of their last nine contests, posting a 31-12 record on the season thus far.

Dallas enters the game 26-14 and losers of their last six games. The Mavericks went 2-7 while forward Dirk Nowitzki missed time due to injury. Since his return, however, Dallas has dropped back-to-back games.

Feb. 2Syracuse

7:00 p.m.

Feb. 5DePaul

2:00 p.m.

» MLBTigers will try to trade

Armando Galarraga(AP) — The Detroit Tigers appear ready to part

ways with Armando Galarraga, the right-hander who missed a perfect game last season when an umpire’s wrong call cost him what would have been the final out.

In an odd procedural move, the Tigers designated Galarraga for assignment Tuesday, almost imme-diately after agreeing to a $2.3 million, one-year contract with him. Detroit also finalized its one-year deal with Brad Penny, bumping Galarraga from the starting rotation.

Tigers general manager Dave Dombrowski said the Tigers will now try to trade Galarraga.

“There are clubs looking for starters right now,” Dombrowski said. “If we can find him a home in a rotation somewhere, that’s what we’ll be trying to do.”

Detroit has 10 days to make a move with Galarraga. If he isn’t traded, he could be sent to the minors.

Galarraga went 4-9 with a 4.49 ERA last year. By agreeing to a deal with the 29-year-old pitcher, the Tigers avoided salary arbitration.

Galarraga’s bid for a perfect game last June was one of the signature moments of the season. With two outs in the ninth inning, umpire Jim Joyce ruled that Cleveland’s Jason Donald was safe at first base.

» NFL

Feb. 5Seton Hall7:00 p.m.

Feb. 4Boston College

2:00 p.m.Singletary to join Vikings

as linebackers coachMINNEAPOLIS (AP)—Two members of

the Monsters of the Midway defense from Chicago’s famed championship team are reuniting in Minnesota.

Ex-San Francisco head coach Mike Singletary is joining former teammate Leslie Frazier’s staff with the Vikings. Singletary’s agent, Bob LaMonte, con-firmed in an e-mail to The Associated Press Tuesday that Singletary will be the linebackers coach and assistant head coach under Frazier, who was named head coach two weeks ago. Singletary told ESPN 1000 in Chicago during a radio interview earlier in the day he’s coming to Minnesota.

Singletary was 18-22 in two-plus seasons in charge of the 49ers, who fired him last month before their final game. Singletary, a linebacker, and Frazier, a cornerback, were part of the dominant defense that led the Bears to a Super Bowl title after the 1985 season. They’ve remained close friends since, and last season during the week lead-ing up to the 49ers-Vikings game both men spoke highly of each other.

The Celtics are coming off a three-point win over Orlando and enter with a 31-9 record, best in the Eastern Conference. It will be Kevin Garnett’s second game back after a calf injury. Garnett finished with 19 points and eight rebounds in his first contest back.

Detroit is 15-26 on the season.

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NBA: Montreal Canadiens vs. Buffalo Sabres, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m., Versus

Pro SideTHE Storrs SideTHE Pasqualoni brings plenty of

Big East experience to Storrs

The abrupt departure of former head football coach Randy Edsall left UConn scrambling for a lead-er of the program for the first time in 12 years. Jeff Hathaway tabbed Connecticut native Paul Pasqualoni for the job . The for-mer Syracuse head coach was most recently defensive coordi-nator for the Dallas Cowboys, but his life and coaching journey began in the Nutmeg State.

Born and raised in Cheshire, Pasqualoni played high school football at Cheshire and matric-ulated to Penn State. After col-lege he returned to coach in the Rams’ program. His first head coaching gig came at Western Connecticut State which earned him a job at Syracuse, where he took over head coaching duties in 1991. Pasqualoni had a knack for recruiting the best Connecticut talent and convinc-ing them to go to upstate New York. Tebucky Jones and Dwight Freeney were Orangemen. Not only did he produce NFL talent, but Pasqualoni also led ‘Cuse to big-time bowl games.

The Orangemen played in the 1992 Fiesta and 1995 Gator Bowl. In the first year of the BCS, Syracuse was the Big East’s representative, with Donovan McNabb under center in the Orange Bowl. Coach Pasq won six of the nine bowl games he made at Syracuse. Now he will try to lead UConn to Big East dominance after returning to the college ranks from the NFL.

Mark Whipple appeared to be the leading candidate in the job search, but with no head coaching experience in FBS, the former offensive coordinator of Miami failed to get the offer. Whipple led UMass to an FCS national title in 1998 and also coached locally at University of New Haven. But Whipple did not have the FBS track record Pasqualoni did. Pasqualoni is 61, but he says that as a father of young children, he has plenty of energy. If he brings the same intensity to his home state’s university that he did Syracuse, then the return of Pasqualoni to the Big East will not be welcome news for those outside Connecticut.

By Colin McDonoughSenior Staff Writer

Colin.McDonough@UConn.edu

No stopping the NFL coaching carousel from turning

While it has only been a few weeks since the NFL’s regular sea-son ended, four teams have already brought in a new head coach.

In Cleveland, the Browns hired the Rams’ offensive coordinator Pat Shurmur to be the head coach. It is Shurmur’s first time in the posi-tion. Ron Rivera will also take his first head coaching for the woeful Carolina Panthers. Most recently, the Oakland Raiders promoted their offensive coordinator Hue Jackson to the head coaching position.

But out of the four hires thus far, the most high-profile has been Jim Harbaugh, who left Stanford to accept the position in San Francisco as the 49ers head coach.

College head coaches moving to the NFL have had substantial prob-lems in the past. The list of college coaches who attempted coaching at the professional level and had a tough time in doing so is lengthy, including Steve Spurrier, Nick Saban, Dennis Erickson, Butch Davis, Rich Brooks and Mike Riley, just to name a few.

So why all of the hype over Harbaugh? NFL executives think

he’s different from others who have tried to switch leagues, and what he’s done with the Stanford program is too impressive to pass up.

When Harbaugh took over the team back in 2007, he acquired a group that finished 1-11 the previ-ous year. Within three years, that team was in a bowl game, and in his fourth year, Stanford demolished Virginia Tech in the Rose Bowl and finished fourth in the AP Top 25.

But there are critics who cite multiple reasons for their pessimism regarding Harbaugh potential career in the NFL. For example, during the two years of success he had at Stanford, it was at a time when the USC team was not the caliber it had been previously. This meant one less challenging conference oppo-nent for Stanford to play. A second criticism is that it takes a different type of coach to to prepare college kids than it does grown men.

Whether or not Harbaugh suc-ceeds remains to be seen. But he inherits a defense that ranked sixth in rushing yards allowed and a dis-mal NFC West conference, both of which could point to a promising run in the NFL.

By Dan AgabitiStaff Writer

Daniel.Agabiti@UConn.edu

The Huskies went 4-5 over winter break, making their current record 7-12-3.

UConn hosted the Toyota Classic on Dec. 29 and 30 with Princeton, Holy Cross and Bowling Green. The Huskies beat Holy Cross 2-1 to advance to the championship against Princeton, where they fell 4-1.

Junior No. 20 Marcello Ranallo netted the only goal for the Huskies.

They bounced back from the loss to beat Mercyhurst 3-1.

Sophomore No. 15 Sean Ambrosie scored two for the Huskies and sophomore defense-men No. 2 Alex Gerke scored off a power play.

The next night was not as successful for the Huskies. The Mercyhurst Lakers scored nine goals, while UConn scored three. They were outshot 41-23. The closest gap was at 6-3 when senior No. 33 Andrew Olson scored, but then the Lakers ran away with it.

UConn hit a slump for the next three games, losing to Dartmouth and Robert Morris on the road.

In Moon Township, Pa, freshman No. 16 Billy Latta and sophomore No. 23 Brant Harris scored two against Robert Morris, but it wasn’t enough to defeat the Colonials. Goaltender No. 29 Garrett Bartus earned an assist, rare for his position.

But it wasn’t all lows for the Huskies. Latta was named AHA Rookie of the month on Jan. 4. He finished the month with two goals and six assists. He recorded a point in four consecutive games, ending the month with eight points.

The Huskies currently sit in sixth place in the AHA standings and look to snap their losing streak against Air Force on Friday at home.

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» INSIDE SPORTS TODAYP.13: Singletary joins Vikings’ staff. / P.12: Illinois beats Michigan State. / P.11: NCAA needs playoff.

Au revoir, Edsall

Coaches Jim Calhoun and Geno Auriemma are legendary figures in the state of Connecticut who put UConn on the map and built the men’s and women’s basketball programs, respective-ly. Fans and players must now decide if former UConn football coach Randy Edsall should be held in the same high regard by Husky Nation.

Edsall came to Connecticut in 1999. In 2000, the Huskies were a I-A Independent playing at on-campus Memorial Stadium. Three years later, UConn moved into the Big East and East Hartford, running out of the tun-nel to a 40,000-seat Rentschler Field. Edsall led the program to its first bowl game and five total in the team’s seven seasons as a member of a BCS conference.

On Jan. 1, Edsall and the Huskies played in the school’s first BCS bowl game. The Big East champs lost to national power Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl. Although a 48-20 loss is never pretty, it was an accom-plishment no one but perhaps Edsall ever saw happening at UConn. And less than 24 hours after the Huskies’ special season ended, so did Edsall’s 12-year career at UConn, when he accepted the head coaching posi-tion at Maryland.

The college football world we live in is a coaching carousel where head coaches leave before and after bowl games, some-times for reasons unknown. It was expected that Edsall would

Junior forward Daniel Naurato carries the puck on Nov. 19, 2010 agaisnt AIC. JIM ANDERSON/The Daily Campus

Three-game skid ends winter breakHuskies sit in sixth

place in AHA standings

Colin McDonough

By Danielle EnnisStaff Writer

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UConn goes 4-1 over break with lone loss to Crimson

The UConn men’s swimming and diving team started off 2011 with a 4-1 record. The men had a strong first half last fall, and look to finish strong for the second half of their season. Both the swim-mers and divers have performed excellently so far in competition, showing the results of their effort, talent and teamwork. Coach Bob Goldberg is proud of his team so far.

“I’m pretty happy where we’re at right now,” he said.

The men started off excellently, winning their first four meets and defeating Georgetown, Villanova, Army and Penn. The men also swept the Husky Invitational and finished second to Maryland in the Terrapin Cup. In all of these meets, the Huskies performed to the highest of their poten-tial and never cowered. They

showed their power in victories over Georgetown and Villanova, beating both by huge margins. They showed their perseverance and courage in close wins over Army and Penn. But they also showed their weaknesses in their loss to Harvard. Even in the loss though, they put up a good fight and made great achievements. Granted, UConn is not perfect, and they do have some goals to work on. Yet, given where they are right now, with swimmers such as sophomores Jeremy Ramshaw and Karim Zayed and divers such as junior Brad Schott and sophomore Grant Fecteau, UConn is a team that all of the collegiate swimming and diving teams respect.

The men have a fairly tough schedule for the second half of their season. They face a strong Seton Hall team this Saturday that has a record of 7-1 so far. This will be a tough challenge and it will give them a chance to show

the results of their hard practices over break. They then face the Bucknell Bisons, followed by the Bucknell Invitational with compe-tition against Bucknell, American and Lafayette. After that, the men take on Yale at home before going on to the Big East Championship in Louisville, Ky. followed by NCAA Zone Diving competition in Annapolis, Md. To conclude their season, the men compete in the NCAA Championship. This second half will be tough for the men, but given how they’ve done so far, Ramshaw thinks they will have good races.

“Good races are the result of knowing you’ve trained hard and putting everything together,” Ramshaw said. “It doesn’t really matter what event you do, you just need to get up and race.”

Huskies heat up for second half of season

Just one day into the new semester and everything at UConn is covered in ice – well, almost everything. Despite the cold, the Wolff-Zackin Natatorium is heat-ing up for the second half of the UConn women’s swimming and diving season.

With the first half of the season in the books, the Huskies stand with a record of 4-2, as well as finishing third out of eight at the Terrapin Cup against Maryland. Two out of their four wins this season have come in conference, where the Lady Huskies currently stand at 2-1 in the Big East.

In a solid start to their 2010-2011 campaign, all four of the Huskies’ wins have come by at least 37 points. In their first victory this season, the Huskies came in first place at the Husky Invitational

with a total of 831 points. The second-place Fairfield Stags scored only 532 points during the Huskies’ dominating performance. This was followed by com-manding victories over confer-ence opponents Georgetown and Rutgers. The Huskies won 257-96 over the Hoyas and 224-129 over the Scarlet Knights. Their fourth single event victory came over Army, where the Huskies beat them 164-127.

Their third place finish at the Terrapin Cup was impressive by many standards, with some outstanding performances from some of the Huskies’ top swim-mers. Freshman Katlin Kyle had a career best 55.61 second time in the 100 meter back-stroke, good for the fifth-best 100 meter backstroke time of the Big East season. Sophomore Jordan Bowen also had a great time in the freshman mile event, where she finished with a time of

16:48.98. The time was a career best for Bowen, as well as good for the fifth-best finish in the Big East so far this season.

One of coach Bob Goldberg’s strongest and most consistent performers this season has been Caitlin Gallagher, a junior at UConn. Gallagher, who seems to win every time she competes, has a total of at least 10 first-place finishes in individual events so far this season. All the wins have come in events such as the back-stroke, individual medley and the breaststroke. Along with these individual accomplish-ments, she has also been a part of two relay victories with other accomplished swimmers such as juniors Erin DeVinney and Ye Ling, as well as sophomore Kim Fleming and freshman Courtney Gregorian and Kyle.

Goldberg has been quoted as

Sophomore Maddie Froehlich swims at the Husky Invitational on Oct. 23, 2010. ASHLEY POSPISIL/The Daily Campus

By Carmine ColangeloCampus Correspondent

By James HuangCampus Correspondent

James.Huang@UConn.edu

Emerging star shines

Not long ago, LeBron James mentioned karma when allud-ing to the struggles of his for-mer team. Surprising to no one, the story quickly escalated and became rather ugly, which is commonplace for everything involving James these days. As frequently demonstrated in the NBA and in society, karma often has a negative connota-tion, usually suggesting a rea-son for why someone “got what they deserve” or has seemingly earned the failure they encoun-ter. However, one storyline in the NBA refuses to take this path. This story, epitomizing the rare occurrence of posi-tive karma, is that of the Los Angeles Clippers’ Blake Griffin.

Griffin, one of the NBA’s rising superstars, is currently experiencing rare success. A franchise-record 27 double-doubles, averages of 22.5 points and 12.8 rebounds per game and a field goal percentage of more than 52 percent seem like the accolades to go with the career of a perennial all-star. Yet Griffin has accomplished all of this in the 40-game span of his rookie season. Arguably more intriguing is the high-light reel Griffin provides on a daily basis. With an amazing ability for highlight reel dunks not seen since the Vince Carter Toronto Raptors era, Griffin is must-see TV. If you need any convincing, just ask the New York Knicks. They’ll quickly change your opinion.

Rewind to the beginning of the season. With the season in its infant stage, a question every fan and analyst asked was if

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By Chris ZielinskiNBA Columnist

Danielle.Ennis@UConn.edu

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Nicholas Majtenyi competes in the 200-yard butterfly on Dec. 4, 2010. ASHLEY POSPISIL/The Daily Campus

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