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Friday:Cabaret Show8 to 10 p.m.Jorgensen

Grammy award winner Chucho Valdés, with the Afro-Cuban Messengers, will play Latin jazz selec-tions on piano.

Saturday:Food Eating Competition

9 p.m. to 1 a.m.Student Union

Students can compete to finish hot dogs, chicken tenders, pizza, apple pie or bagels for various gift cards.

Sunday:Cello Festival

All DayVon der Mehden

This day of activities includes work-shops and competitions for cellists of all ages and ends with performances for everyone.

Monday:Long River Review Submissions Due

5 p.m. deadlineCLAS 162

Submit your works of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and translations to [email protected], or bring hard copies to CLAS 162.

What’s on at UConn this weekend...

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EDITORIAL: MALLOY’S ONLINE VOTING PROPOSAL BENEFITS STATE

COMMENTARY/page 4

SPORTS/ page 14

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DATING ADVICE THROUGH LAUGHTER

Youtube comedians tout experience as “College Dating Coaches.”

HUSkIES GOING PLATINUM

Approval of Hispanic voters not as high as that of Black voters.

Men don new Nike Pro Combat jerseys as they take on the Irish.

New plan would empower absenteevoters.

INSIDE NEWS: OBAMA COURTS LATINO VOTE ON ECONOMIC TOUR

Activists send hundreds of tacos to mayorEAST HAVEN (AP) — The

office of East Haven’s mayor was blasted with prank phone calls and a delivery of hundreds of tacos Thursday after his now-famous quip that he would address accusations of anti-Latino bias by eating tacos, a remark that left emotions raw in the town’s large Hispanic community.

Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr. has apologized several times but resisted calls for his resignation over remarks he made to a televi-sion reporter following Tuesday’s arrests of four town police officers, men described by one FBI official as “bullies with badges.”

Maturo held regular meet-ings Thursday as Connecticut’s Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission called on him to resign.

“The Latino community is upset and deeply wounded in what should have been a day of redemption for them,” the commission’s acting executive director, Werner Oyandel, said in a written statement, calling the comment “unprofessional and given in poor taste.”

An immigration rights group, Reform Immigration for America, delivered 400 tacos to

his Town Hall office in protest, though Maturo had left shortly beforehand for a meeting and did not comment. A soup kitchen picked up the tacos, but one was

left symbolically for the mayor.His office fielded a steady

flow of calls, some with prank comments about tacos and oth-ers from supporters who want

him to stay in his job.Maturo has been mayor off

and on since 1997 in this pre-dominantly white, blue-collar town on the shore of Long

Island Sound where Latino resi-dents comprise about 10 percent of its population of 29,000. East Haven has been under federal scrutiny since the U.S. Justice Department launched a civil rights probe in 2009 that found discrimination and biased polic-ing against Latinos.

A federal indictment accuses the four police officers of assault-ing people while they were hand-cuffed, unlawfully searching Latino businesses, and harassing and intimidating people, includ-ing advocates, witnesses and other officers who tried to investigate or report misconduct or abuse.

The taco flap came after a reporter for New York’s WPIX-TV asked Maturo on Tuesday, “What are you doing for the Latino community today?”

Maturo’s response: “I might have tacos when I go home; I’m not quite sure yet.”

Maturo, who is of Italian heri-tage, then said he might have spaghetti or any other kind of ethnic food, growing increas-ingly angry as he told Diaz to “go for it, take your best shot” to make the “taco” comment seem to imply something he did not intend.

Unitarian minister Kathleen McTigue delivers tacos to East Haven Mayor Joseph Maturo Jr.’s office in East Haven, Thursday.AP

In an effort to effectively use technology to capture stu-dent body opinion, USG has introduced UConn IdeaScale, a Reddit-like website enabling students to quickly and easily voice their suggestions for cam-pus improvement.

The service will cost rough-ly $1,000 a year and will come out of USG’s Executive Committee budget.

“I think the new site is going to make USG more in-touch with the wants and needs of the student body than ever before,” said USG President Sam Tracy. “It’s going to make USG much more responsive to students, and that’s great because serving the student body is what we’re here for.”

IdeaScale, a private compa-

ny hired by USG, is a website through which students can post ideas to improve student life. After an idea is posted, other users can comment, agree or disagree. Ideas that receive more “agrees” rise to the top. Major corporations like Microsoft, ING, Subaru and Xerox also use IdeaScale.

Getting in touch with popu-lar student opinion has been a constant struggle for USG. For senators who represent constitu-encies like CLAS, accurately voicing student opinion for such large, diverse groups can be a difficult task. Though USG hosts Straight from the Source and its meetings are open, very few students are able to attend.

“Very few students make it… simply because they either don’t have time to make them, or because they don’t know they exist,” said Nina Hunter,

USG’s communications direc-tor. “But many of them have great ideas about how we can improve the university.”

USG hopes that the introduc-tion of IdeaScale will change this. Since IdeaScale relies on idea becoming “popular,” it gives senators an easy resource for gauging the general interest of various improvement ideas as opposed to just the students who are passionate enough to attend a meeting.

IdeaScale UConn has been in the works since September of last year, using Northeastern University’s implementation of the program as a model. However, coding for the site set back the unveiling until last week.

According to senator Ethan Senack, the site’s popularity

USG launches IdeaScale for student feedback

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By Kate SmithStaff Writer

» SITE, page 2

Jason Seacat, an assistant pro-fessor of psychology at Western New England University, dis-cussed the social stigma related to obesity at his lecture put on by the UConn Center for Health, Intervention, and Prevention.

The oft-overlooked aspect of the recent rise in obesity are the experiences of obese people and the effects those experiences have on them.

This point brought to light a new perspective to the issue. Researchers usually dedicate energy to understanding the physical consequences of obe-sity, but Seacat looked into the

social and physical barriers in the everyday lives of over-weight people.

In the first of this semester’s CHIP 2012 Distinguished Lecture Series, Seacat examined conse-quences of the social bias against those who are considered over-weight or obese: “lack of access and opportunity, psychological and emotional trauma, social iso-lation, delay and avoidance of medical treatment, avoidance of healthy behaviors, and perpetua-tion of obesity status.”

His study of 50 overweight people aged 19 to 61 showed that society hinders the ability of this growing demographic through sometimes-uninten-tional prejudice. Ranging from

treatment in doctors’ offices to “nasty comments from chil-dren and family members and inappropriate comments from healthcare personnel,” the results of his study showed a much higher rate of stigmatiza-tion than previously thought; his subjects experienced around 2.74 to 5.24 stigmatizing events per day, on average.

“One of my friends…we were out shopping and he’s overweight, a larger guy. He was shopping for a gift for a friend in the smaller sizes,” said Tashauna Goldsby, a third-year PhD. student in the Public Health program. “A woman approached and told us the big and tall section was in back.

She thought she was helping, because they weren’t his size.”

Further, a strong correla-tion between BMI (Body Mass Index) and stigma were shown, while a strong inverse relation-ship between exercise and social stigma appeared.

“I was a personal trainer in Southern California, and I actu-ally had some overweight cli-ents,” said Emily Moker, a mas-ter’s student studying kinesiol-ogy. “My overweight clients did not want to go upstairs [with the other members] because people would stare, so we would stay in the private studio.”

Seacat argued that this social marginalization often discouraged healthy behaviors in obese people.

“Obesity stigmatization occurs in all domains…[though] women are more frequently tar-geted than men as a result of having more salient standards,” Seacat said.

The main topic of discussion, however, was the effects direct-ly on the psychology of those subjected to these biases.

“It requires constant aware-ness…there is a trend toward equating physical status with moral integrity. One has to fight snap judgments,” said David Andrew, a 4th-semester individualized major interest-ed in public health and medi-cal anthropology.

Lecture examines social stigma associated with obesityBy Katherine PeinhardtCampus Correspondent

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DAILY BRIEFING

Malloy calls $150mdeficit estimate wrong

HARTFORD (AP) — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy on Thursday disputed an estimate by the General Assembly’s nonpartisan budget office that Connecticut’s state deficit is nearing $150 million.

Speaking to reporters by telephone Thursday from an economic forum in Davos, Switzerland, Malloy said he’s confident the state will close out the fiscal year on June 30 with a balanced budget.

“Honestly, I think that they have it wrong,” Malloy said, refer-ring to the General Assembly’s Office of Fiscal Analysis. “We’re confident, based on current numbers that we’re dealing with, that we’ll end in the black.”

On Wednesday, the Office of Fiscal Analysis released a report that projected a $144.5 million deficit in the state’s general fund, the largest state account. That figure includes a net spending increase of nearly $131 million and a reduction in revenue of nearly $95 million.

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Quinnipiac clears expelled student over prank call

HAMDEN (AP) — Quinnipiac University has cleared an expelled student of any racist intent for a prank call in 2008 and invited her to reapply to the college.

Courtney Stellwag was expelled amid allegations she and another student made harassing calls to a resident assistant’s dorm room. Stellwag says the random call was a Halloween joke.

In a letter Stellwag’s representatives released this week, Quinnipiac wrote that an investigation revealed the call was not motivated by hatred or bigotry. It said publications that suggested her conduct was racially motivated were not accurate.

“The university telephone records supported your assertion that the call was randomly dialed and the investigation revealed that the call was not racially motivated,” the letter stated. “Based on the informa-tion gathered, we understand that you intended it as only a joke.”

Education reform group offers priorities

HARTFORD (AP) — A group of Connecticut business executives pushing for reforms in the state’s education system says attracting and retaining the highest-quality teachers should be top priorities, along with evaluations that favor skill over seniority.

The Connecticut Council for Education Reform announced its legislative priorities Thursday, and will forward them to lawmakers for the upcoming General Assembly session.

The nonprofit group also wants the state to ensure more help for struggling students; pre-graduation testing to ensure students meet all academic goals and a phase-in process to fund preschool seats for all low-income children. It also wants teacher evaluations that include students’ progress as a factor in judging teachers’ skills.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Mitt and Ann Romney failed to list investment income from a Swiss bank account on financial disclosure forms filed last year. Other income was missing from the disclosure documents required of presidential candidates.

A Romney spokeswoman said Thursday the adjustments would be trivial and would not alter the overall picture of the Romneys’ finances. The former Massachusetts governor has estimated his wealth at as much as $250 million.

The Swiss account was held in Ann Romney’s blind trust. The tax returns show the Romneys made $1,783 in interest income from that account in 2010.

Romney’s campaign said it was updating 2011 financial disclosure forms after the Romneys’ 2010 tax return, released this week after intense pressure from his rivals, showed income from the Swiss account. Romney reported earning nearly $22 million that year, mainly from investments, and paid about $3 million in federal taxes.

Missouri teacher accused of molesting young boys

GRAIN VALLEY, Mo. (AP) — A popular suburban Kansas City elementary school teacher who also helped coach children’s soccer teams has been charged with molesting four boys in his second-grade classroom, and police say they are looking for other possible victims.

Matthew J. Nelson, 33, has taught second- and third-graders at Grain Valley elementary schools for a decade and was honored in 2007 as the local “Teacher of the Year.” He also was an assistant coach for boys and girls soccer teams.

“That’s our fear: the potential there could be more victims out there,” said Grain Valley Police Chief Aaron Ambrose.

Romney failed to disclose income from Swiss bank

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“has absolutely exploded.” As of Thursday evening, the site had already received 41 unique ideas, 45 comments, polled 1510 votes and trafficked 294 users. These numbers have already sur-passed Northeastern University’s IdeaScale site, which only received 28 unique ideas in its eight months of service.

Some of the more popular ideas for UConn were reno-vating the gym, getting a Red Box on campus and several ideas for cutting electricity use, with feedback scores hovering around 60.

Not all of the propositions have been well-received, how-ever. Ideas like building anoth-er library, firing bus drivers who are late, and installing a min-iature golf course have found themselves at the bottom of the idea pile, with feedback scores

less than negative 20.Hunter said that most adver-

tising for IdeaScale has targeted UConn’s resident population, making use of the Daily Digest and dining hall table tents. However, in the coming weeks, she expects a larger publicity effort including advertisements on shuttle buses and in The Daily Campus.

“Hopefully these will allow us to reach a larger audience,” Hunter said. “Especially those commuter students.”

To show they’re listening, Tracy has decided to write an entry in his presidential blog for each idea that exceeds a feedback score of 50 to either explain how the idea could be implemented or how the university has already taken steps toward implementing a similar proposal.

from USG, page 1

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Site already received numerous ideas, comments

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — Federal investigators helped by a conscientious paroled killer say they foiled a plot to abduct, extort and electrocute a wealthy man in a scheme they say bor-rowed elements from a televi-sion show and sought to blame the killing on the planned vic-tim’s cat.

A criminal complaint against Brett Nash of Pontoon Beach, unsealed Wednesday, identifies the target of the plot only as a former corporate attorney in the southern Illinois industrial town of Granite City who long pursued sex with Nash’s wife. According to an affidavit, one plan Nash explored involved forcing the intended victim into a hot tub and electrocuting him with a radio tossed into the water – followed by kitty lit-ter that Nash thought would prompt authorities to believe the animal was the culprit in

the killing.Agents arrested Nash, 45, on

Monday near a Kmart in Granite City shortly before the alleged crime was to have taken place. He was arraigned a day later on a felony charge of interference with commerce by violence – attempted extortion – and waived his detention hearing. His public defender, Thomas Gabel, declined to discuss the matter Thursday.

According to an affidavit by FBI Special Agent Nicholas Manns, authorities learned of the alleged plot after an acquain-tance Nash enlisted for help ear-lier this month reported the mat-ter to his former parole officer the next day. The unidentified recruit, who met Nash years ago while both worked as deckhands on river barges, went on to work for the FBI and secretly record-ed conversations with Nash in the next weeks.

FBI: Foiled slaying plot was to be blamed on cat

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The rig owner involved in drilling the ill-fated well that blew out in the Gulf of Mexico and spewed more than 200 million gallons of oil will not have to pay many of the pollu-tion claims because it was shielded in a contract with well-owner BP, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. The ruling comes as BP, the states affected by the disaster and the federal government are discussing a settlement over the nation’s larg-est offshore oil spill.

The decision may have spared Transocean from having to pay potentially billions of dollars in damage claims. However, U.S.

District Judge Carl Barbier said the driller still is not exempt from paying punitive damages and civil penalties that arise from the April 20, 2010, blowout 100 miles off the Louisiana coast. Those penalties could amount to billions of dollars.

Law experts were split over who is a clear-cut winner.

BP has been pursuing agree-ments with multiple parties to reach settlements that would make an upcoming trial involv-ing hundreds of spill lawsuits in New Orleans unnecessary, or at least resolve as many of the issues as possible.

The Justice Department also is involved, working with the states to create an outline for a settlement that would resolve their potentially multibillion dollar claims against BP and the other companies involved in the disaster, Alabama Attorney General Luther Strange told The Associated Press.

Justice led a meeting last week in Washington among the states in an effort to formulate an agreement that would satisfy government and state claims, including penalties and fines, Strange said. He also indicated if there is a settlement that officials are discussing what to do with the $20 billion fund set

up by BP to pay victims.The lead attorneys for individu-

als and businesses suing BP were not at the meeting.

According to Strange, a federal magistrate judge has been asked to expedite settlement discussions. The Louisiana attorney general’s office said in a statement to the AP that it is in settlement discussions with BP, which would not com-ment on any deals in the works. A first phase of the trial is set for Feb. 27 to determine liability for the spill.

“The closer you get to a trial date, the more pressure builds to reach a settlement,” Strange said.

Judge: BP contract shielded Transocean in spill

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Republican Gov. Susana Martinez suffered a temporary political setback Thursday in a bid to stop New Mexico from granting driver’s licenses to ille-gal immigrants.

A legislative commit-tee shelved her proposal and approved a Democrat-backed alternative that continues to allow licenses for illegal immi-grants but with new restrictions.

The politically-charged fight is far from over, however. The legislation heads to another panel for consideration and Martinez stands a strong chance of suc-cess if the issue reaches the full 70-member House for a vote. A measure to overturn New Mexico’s license policy for immigrants passed the House last year with the support of eight Democrats and one independent.

“I’ve got all the votes I need in the House,” said Rep. Andy Nunez, a Hatch independent spon-soring the governor’s proposal.

Nunez conceded it’s very uncertain whether the mea-sure can clear the Democrat-controlled Senate, which solidly rejected it last year.

The House Labor and Human Resources Committee voted 5-4

on a party-line split for what Democrats described as a com-promise proposal. Republicans opposed it.

The measure allows illegal immigrants to continue get-ting licenses but for only two years before needing renewal. Currently, licenses can last four or eight years. The mea-

sure increases penalties for license fraud and will can-cel licenses previously issued to foreign nationals if they renew them within two years — allowing the state to deter-mine whether people remain New Mexico residents.

House Majority Leader Ken Martinez, a Grants Democrat,

said the state’s license policy allows illegal immigrants to “come up from the shadows” so they can drive to work and take their children to school and other places without fear of arrest for not having a license. The committee-approved restrictions will “really hit the bad guys hard,” he said.

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Immigrant driver’s license repeal falls short in first vote

In this Jan. 24, 2012 photo, immigrant advocates use an image of New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez on a mock state driver’s license during a rally in Santa Fe to protest her proposal to repeal a state law that allows illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses.

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YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) — Some Washington state wheat farmers have thrown their sup-port behind legislation requiring labeling of genetically modified foods, giving food safety advo-cates fresh hope that lawmakers also will get behind the bill.

They haven’t been receptive to the idea in the past, and lawmakers at the national level and in more than a dozen states have rejected similar proposals in the past year.

But in an unusual pairing, a handful of Washington wheat farmers have joined so-called “foodies” to back the latest bill, fearing exports will be hurt if and when genetically modified wheat gains federal approval. The U.S. exports half of its wheat, and in Washington, the only bigger export is Boeing Co.’s airplanes.

Biotechnology giants Monsanto and Syngenta have announced plans to begin test-ing genetically modified wheat, though the product is likely a decade or more from being offered commercially.

Resistance from the European Union and Japan led Monsanto to abandon similar efforts in 2004. Pacific Rim countries haven’t historically been friendly to genetically modified products, and they remain the biggest buy-ers of Washington wheat.

“If we do nothing, we will be destroyed,” said Tom Stahl, a fourth-generation farmer in the

small town of Waterville, Wash., about 100 miles east of Seattle. “We will lose our markets and that will be devastating for the eastern Washington economy.”

Monsanto and Syngenta rep-resentatives didn’t immediate-ly return messages left after a Thursday hearing on the bill.

Dozens of people testified at a packed Senate committee hear-ing in Olympia, Wash., where the committee chairman raised concerns about passing a bill that may conflict with federal law.

About 50 countries require genetically modified foods to be labeled, but the U.S. isn’t one of them. Only Alaska has enacted legislation at the state

level, requiring the labeling of genetically engineered fish and shellfish products.

Supporters said that bill was needed to protect one of Alaska’s most lucrative and important industries, though genetically engineered fish are not yet on the market.

The Washington bill would require genetically engineered foods or foods containing geneti-cally engineered ingredients to be labeled with the ingredients listed effective July 1, 2014. The rule would apply to all foods sold in the state, although those in which GM ingredients make up less than half of 1 percent would be exempt.

Some Wash. wheat farmers back labels for GM foods

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Obama courts Latino vote on economic tourBUCKLEY AIR FORCE

BASE, Colo. (AP) — President Barack Obama is courting Hispanics in politically impor-tant states, setting himself up as a champion of the crucial Latino voting bloc and as a foil to Republican candidates fighting for a share of support from the same groups.

With Latino voters voting overwhelmingly Democratic, Obama is not in danger of losing the support of a major-ity of Hispanics. But he does need their intensity, and a Gallup tracking poll shows that while a majority of Hispanics approve of Obama, that approval is not as high as it is among black voters.

Pitching his economic agenda during a three-day, five-state trip this week, Obama has not ignored the fact that three of the states – Nevada, Arizona and Colorado — all have Hispanic populations of 20 percent or more. A majority of them are Democratic, but they also could be a factor in upcoming nomi-nating contests in those states.

Nevada and Colorado hold cau-cuses within two weeks and Arizona has a primary Feb. 28.

In Arizona Wednesday, where he was drawing attention to his efforts to increase manufactur-ing, Obama playfully interacted with a supporter who shouted out: “Barack es mi hermano! (Barack is my brother!)”

“Mi hermano — mucho gusto (My brother, a real pleasure),” Obama shouted back.

And it was no accident that he scheduled an inter-view with Univision, the Spanish language network that reaches a broad swath of the U.S. Latino population, while he was in Arizona and with local Telemundo affili-ates Thursday in Las Vegas and in Denver. All that while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and the rest of the Republican presidential field were bat-tling in Florida, another state with a key Latino voting bloc.

“It’s an important commu-nity in this country and he will

continue to have those interac-tions,” White House spokesman Jay Carney said of Obama’s efforts to reach out to Spanish language media.

No issue reverberates more in the appeal to Latinos than immigration.

For Obama, it reared up suddenly for him Wednesday when Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, a Republican who signed one of the toughest laws to curtail illegal immi-gration, greeted him at the airport tarmac in Mesa, Ariz., with a handwritten invitation for the president to join her in a visit to the Mexican border.

Obama replied coolly, noting that he did not appreciate the way she had depicted him in a book she published last year, “Scorpions for Breakfast.” In the book, Brewer writes that Obama was condescend-ing and lectured her during a meeting at the White House to discuss immigration. “He was a little disturbed about my book,” Brewer told two report-ers shortly after the encounter.

Obama continued to promote his economic plan Thursday in Nevada and Colorado, focus-ing on energy policy and his attempts to expand oil and gas

exploration while also empha-sizing clean energy.

“Doubling down on a clean energy industry will create lots of jobs in the process,” the pres-

ident said at Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado, where the Air Force has installed solar panels and tested jets that run on biofuels.

President Barack Obama holds five-year-old Madison Devera as he greets the crowd following his speech at UPS, Thursday.AP

CHICAGO (AP) — About 16 million Americans have oral HPV, a sexually transmitted virus more commonly linked with cer-vical cancer that also can cause mouth cancer, according to the first nationwide estimate.

HPV – human papilloma virus – is increasingly rec-ognized as a major cause of oral cancers affecting the back of the tongue and tonsil area. Smoking and heavy drinking are also key causes.

Until now, it was not known how many people have oral HPV infections.

Overall, 7 percent of Americans aged 14 to 69 are infected, the study found.

But the results are not cause for alarm. While mouth cancers are on the rise – probably from oral sex – most people with oral HPV will never develop cancer. And most don’t have the kind most strongly linked to cancer. Also, tests for oral HPV are costly and mainly used in research.

Still, experts say the study provides important informa-tion for future research that could increase knowledge about who is most at risk for oral cancer and ways to pre-vent the disease.

The nationally representative study is based on 30-second gargle tests given to about 5,500 people in a 2009-10 government

health survey. Their mouthwash samples were tested for HPV.

The results were published online Thursday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

There are many types of HPV, but one in particular, known as HPV-16, is most strongly linked with oral cancer and also is a common cause of cervical cancer. That form was found in about 1 percent of people studied, translating to about 2 million Americans.

Dr. Maura Gillison, the lead author and a researcher at Ohio State University, said the study “provides us some reassurance” that most people with oral HPV will not get oral cancer. Millions may have oral HPV, but fewer than 15,000 Americans get HPV-linked oral cancer each year.

She said the study should prompt research into whether the existing vaccines for cervi-cal cancer protect against oral HPV, too.

Gillison has consult-ed with Merck & Co., and GlaxoSmithKline, mak-ers of HPV vaccines. Ohio State, Merck and the National Cancer Institute helped pay for the study.

Dr. Ezra Cohen, a head and neck cancer specialist at the University of Chicago, said the study provides important infor-mation confirming similarities

in risk factors for HPV oral infections and oral cancer.

For example, oral HPV was more common in men than women – 10 percent versus almost 4 percent; in smokers; and in people who had many sexual partners. People aged 55 to 59 were most at risk.

Sexual activity was a strong risk factor, including oral sex.

Oral HPV infection rates were much lower than previ-ous estimates for HPV affect-ing the cervix and other geni-tal areas, suggesting that the mouth might somehow be more resistant to infection, according to a journal editorial.

Dr. Hans Schlecht, the edito-rial author and an infectious disease specialist at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said the study provides fodder for researching how some infec-tions lead to cancer and identi-fying ways to detect and treat HPV-related oral lesions before they turn into cancer.

Unlike non-HPV cancers easily seen in the front of the mouth, HPV-linked tumors in the rear tongue and tonsil area are often hard to detect.

Schlecht emphasized the importance of knowing symp-toms of these cancers, which can include a sore throat, dif-ficulty swallowing, ear pain and swollen lymph nodes in the neck.

Oral cancer virus affects 7 percent of Americans

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I think that I would be bela-boring the point if I wrote another column raging against the dying of the

light of idealism and activism both here on campus and at colleges across this country. My colleagues Arragon Perrone and Tim Brogan have already made it clear that this malaise can take the form of “stress-induced tunnelvision in aca-

demia,” as Mr. Brogan wrote last semester, or the “philo-sophical but

flawed reasons” related to a general feeling of hopelessness and ennui that Mr. Perrone ana-lyzed almost two years ago. Neither writer erred in their discussions of apathy, but I believe that they were far too negative in their outlook. Defeating apathy is, after all, a matter of rekindling a fire.

I accept that the vast com-plexity and rigidity of the structures of our society make change a daunting endeavor, and I understand why it seems impossible to distinguish the uniqueness of oneself amidst a crowd of millions. Often, students spend thousands of dollars to take classes from which we learn nothing. We work for years to attain degrees

that no longer guarantee any economic security beyond what a cashier’s wages can provide, and before and after gradua-tion, we often find ourselves wandering through society in search of meaning and fulfill-ment.

Students in France in May 1968 faced the same problems that we do today – discontent with education, overcrowding and economic hardship, among others – but their reaction was not to grin and bear their feel-ings of injustice and unfulfill-ment. Instead, these students began to organize, occupy and fight back.

A student leaflet of the time exhorted, “Let’s open wide the streets, the universities, the high schools, to creation and invention. Let’s welcome all the excluded, the poor and the oppressed of bourgeois cul-ture…Let’s liberate, together with all the workers, all the creative forces repressed by our society.” To these young French people, the prospect of a regimented, prescribed exis-tence as a cog in the great machine of a capitalist society that permitted grievous injus-tices and inequities was unac-ceptable. The revolutionary movement took on a socialist character for this reason. But

their idea of a new ordering of society was not confined by Marxist doctrine or allegiance to one party or nation – it was a more spontaneous reconceptu-alization of the idea of society that was devised, orchestrated and put into practice by college students.

These students realized, how-ever, that the economic and political realities of the modern industrial state could not be altered without a fundamental shift in the cultural values that made capitalism and bourgeois democracy possible. Part of the plan of the May 1968 move-ment was to set up “people’s studios” in the art schools, to free human thought and cre-ativity from those socially constructed norms intended to secure the assent of the masses to the old social regimes. The eventual goal of the protests was, consequently, to “realize, practically as well as theoreti-cally, the establishment of par-tial self-management of soci-ety,” a prospect that aroused newfound passion and imagi-nation among the students. As one sentence of Parisian graffiti read, “The more I make love, the more I want to make the Revolution; the more I make the Revolution, the more I want to make love.”

The fact of the French stu-dent movement’s leftist orien-tation is irrelevant – creativity and thought are not bounded by ideology. We are, after all, at a point in our lives when our disparate capacities to think, to imagine and to love are being fully realized, yet we think of the years that we spend in college as something to be endured and consequently turn to drugs and booze to make the time pass by more quickly. We cannot allow ourselves to fall into the habit of thinking that we are prisoners of fate or of the consequences of society, for if we come to believe we are voiceless, powerless and useless, why should we go on living?

I think that the feared specter of apathy hanging over the stu-dent body will disappear once we realize that being human is a wonderful experience that we cannot afford to waste on Natural Light or Angry Birds. Instead, trust in your vision for a better society and a better self. Don’t let anyone tell you that the future is not entirely yours to shape. Run, comrade, the old world is behind you.

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Seven years ago, my cousin and I made a bet. He predicted that 2012 would mark the end of the world. I found this prediction appalling;

what lack of trust in humankind’s capacity for progress! 2050 sounded more reasonable. It reflected gloom with a hint of optimism. Either way, whether the four horsemen came riding in 2012 or 2050, the end of the world seemed a long way off. Now, I’m not so sure.

Before I continue, life as we know it probably won’t come to a shattering con-clusion on December 21, 2012. Anyone who believes that has probably watched the

History Channel’s “Countdown to Armageddon” a few too many times. I’ve watched it four times and I still

don’t buy it. Mayan scholars dismiss the hys-teria, blaming it on Western pseudoscience.

Nostradamus’s predictions, though intrigu-ing, follow the same logic as horoscopes: they speak in the broadest of generalities so that anything, in hindsight, seems to fit. Regarding Edward Cayce, who allegedly predicted the coming of a New Age in 2012, he also predicted that Atlantis would be discovered in the 1960s. So far, that hasn’t happened.

When I express uncertainty about the end of the world, I mean it figuratively. For me, 2012 marks the end of many worlds. In May, I graduate from UConn and move into an uncertain future. In November, America chooses whether to keep Barack Obama in the White House or replace him with a Republican. What occurs after both dates

will impact multiple futures, collectively and individually.

To add greater anxiety, the road to both dates will be difficult. My honors thesis is due on April 6 and mountains of reasearch lie between now and then. Afterward, there is the question of graduate school, or law school, or even being a Catholic missionary. “This is an exciting time in your life,” some adults tell me. Maybe to them, years removed from one of the most defining moments of their life. From where I’m standing, 2012 is already the beginning of a “New Age.”

Then there’s poli-tics. For Republicans, 2012 looms as the year when spirit is traded for electability or when a noble battle is fought for an unlikely victory. Republicans have a choice: accept moder-ate Mitt Romney as the nominee or the more orthodox Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum. Pick the first and there’s a clear shot. Pick one of the latter two and it’s looking better for Obama. For Democrats, supporting the current president is like get-ting your oil changed. You’re just going to do it, it’s pretty inevitable, but you’re not thrilled about it.

Whether personal or political, we must all make tough choices this year. Whatever choice we make will have major conse-quences. We will not be the same. The ques-tion then is not whether we think a new age will come, but how we will accept that new age when it shows up on our doorstep. The way I see it, there are two responses. One response is the coward’s way: Pretend that

the change isn’t happening. By passively letting circumstances affect us, we refuse to grow up but instead live from the decisions that others make. The other response is the route of the explorer: Treat time like a friend and jump headlong into the future. This path means accepting responsibility when we’re wrong and enjoying the fruits when we’re right. This means treating suffering less like a punishment and more like an opportunity for growth.

Ayn Rand writes, “Throughout the centu-ries there were men [and women] who took

first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.” Like her or not, this quote captures the greatness of bravery in the face of unknown chal-lenges. Sometimes,

when the future is dark and uncertainty clouds our senses, we must trust the light we all have within us. Maybe this moment will come when choosing the next president. Maybe it’s when we decide the next step in our lives. Regardless, on those days of reck-oning we will have to make a choice. We will have to stand on our own two feet or lie down in defeat.

Debates can rage about the end of time. In the meantime, I have enough endings and beginnings to face -- and those are the moments for which to prepare.

2012: The end of several worlds

Friday, January 27, 2012

Malloy’s online voting proposal benefits state

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You know you go to UConn when “getting lucky” means finding a parking spot midday.

To the 6’ girl in McMahon with the short brown hair and duck boots, the similarly describable boy with black adidas says: “Hey.”

Today I saw a girl with a UConn coat and Syracuse pants. I felt like I was in a Starburst commercial. Not sure what part of my day to share with you, InstantDaily: there was the guy in my class who has a book stand, the kid in front of me playing and utterly failing temple run all through our lecture, and then there was the open condom in front of dunkin donuts. What a great Thursday.

Did Segway kid transfer or something?

I’m fighting John Watson’s war.

Moriarty was real.

I just added the Biology librarian to my contacts. Damn you, writing intensive courses!

To the plethora of people walking around campus wear-ing t-shirts and no coats, I have one question for you: WHERE ARE YOU FROM? SIBERIA????

My roommate just went to CVS on a chocolate run and she’s bringing me back Ghirardelli caramel chocolates. I’m just going to go ahead and throw it out there, I think she wins the roommate of the week award.

Gov. Dannel Malloy has proposed changes to the way we vote in Connecticut. The changes would make online voting possible and improve accessibility to absentee ballots. This proposal especially benefits

college students, many of whom attend a university far away from their hometown and often lack the time and resources to submit an absentee ballot.

While reaching out to voters, this proposal maintains the integrity of the voter registration system. To qualify for web-based registration, eligible voters must present a legal Connecticut driver’s license. Despite this requirement, oppo-nents argue that Election Day registration opens the door for fraud. According to opponents, allowing people to vote on Election Day would not give the state enough time to verify their identity. This fear, though out of the best of intentions, is unnecessary. With computers, the state no longer needs a week to prepare for the big day. Last-minute registration, while not preferable or the most efficient, is a manageable option.

The new system also takes aim at low voter turnout, a peren-nial election-time issue. Only 57 percent of the state’s eligible voters participated in the 2010 election. This past November, numbers were even worse: a mere 30 percent voted in munici-pal elections. Such low levels are unacceptable and should be avoided at all logical cost. The governor is right to show initia-tive by tackling this discouraging problem. Ultimately, whether or not someone votes is a personal choice. Nevertheless, reach-ing out to voters in a way that does not jeopardize the system itself won’t hurt. The state cannot make someone vote, but it can make voting so easy that non-voters run out of excuses.

Some citizens don’t vote for practical reasons rather than laziness. For college students who live quite a distance from home, voting in their town is not feasible. Most Election Days are just another work day for UConn students, who may lack the flexible schedules and transportation needed to drive miles away. Online registration through Election Day helps these stu-dents out. Instead of going through the hassle of acquiring and completing paperwork, they can go online and, with the proper registration, do their civic duty.

In the 21st century, technology helps voting become more readily accessible. Of course skeptics of the governor’s pro-posal are correct to demand the highest integrity from the state’s registration system. This proposal meets those demands. Rather than worsen the system, it makes the system fairer for a greater number of residents. As the 2010 gubernatorial election taught Connecticut, every vote counts. Making voting easier and more accessible through online registration goes a long way towards that goal.

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“From where I’m standing, 2012 is already the beginning of a ‘New Age’”

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Show me your scared face!– By Ashley Pospisil

Why Paul’s anti-war stance is refreshing to GOP raceMost of the 2012 pres-

idential contenders are war hawks. President Barack

Obama, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, former

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich are adamantly

pro-war. Fortunately for the war-weary, there is a credible alter-native in Texas Congressman Ron Paul.

In 2008, candidate Obama promised to end the war in Iraq. “If we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am President, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank,” he said. Once in office, he neglected that promise.

Although Obama finally

withdrew the troops from Iraq last year, he only withdrew them when the Iraqi govern-ment refused to allow American soldiers who committed crimes in Iraq to continue to enjoy immunity from prosecution. Moreover, more than 17,000 private security contractors and American military members remain in Iraq to this day.

Santorum is no better. He has stated that, as president, he would order air strikes on Iran if Iran does not open its nuclear facilities to inspectors. In addi-tion, he believes that Iranian nuclear scientists should be treated like “an enemy combat-ant” or “an Al-Qaeda member.” Santorum has taken this hawkish position despite the fact that, in 2010, Iran invited International Atomic Energy Agency inspec-tors to monitor its enrichment process. Furthermore, Iran claims it is only enriching urani-um at 20 percent. It would need

90-percent enrichment in order to develop nuclear weapons. In 2007, the American intelli-gence community declared with “high confidence” that Iran was not seeking nuclear weapons. This declaration has never been rescinded.

Santorum’s proposal to treat Iranian nuclear scientists like “Al-Qaeda members” is absurd. It would only anger Iran fur-ther, making war all the more likely. In fact, the CIA and the Mossad (the intelligence agen-cy of Israel) have already been assassinating Iranian nuclear scientists. Perhaps this, along with increased U.S. sanctions on Iran, helps to explain Iran’s increased hostility toward the United States, as evidenced by its warning to the United States to keep its navy out of the Persian Gulf and by the country’s testing of long-range missiles.

Like Santorum, Romney seems

trigger-happy. He has claimed, “The Iranian leadership is the greatest immediate threat to the world since the fall of the Soviet Union, and before that, Nazi Germany.” This claim is outra-geous. As former presidential candidate Pat Buchanan soberly points out, “[Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad] does not control Iran’s military, has lost favor with the Ayatollah [the Supreme Leader of Iran, who controls Iran’s military], and has been threatened with impeachment. Ahmadinejad is a lame duck with less than two years left in his term.” How can this weak leader possibly be compared to Hitler or the Soviets? Romney’s statement is sheer war propaganda.

As for Gingrich, he asserted in a speech, “I believe [President George W. Bush] was right, but in fact could not operational-ize what he said. That is, there was an Axis of Evil: Iran, Iraq,

North Korea. Well, we’re one out of three.” Did Gingrich miss the 2004 report by the Iraq Survey Group, which concluded that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction? Does he not realize that Iran is roughly three times as large and populous as Iraq? Does he not realize that, given its current entanglements around the world, the United States does not have a sufficiently large military to occupy Iran?

Thankfully, there is Paul, who has a long history of point-ing out the folly of American interventionism. In 1982, for instance, Paul warned that the U.S.’s decision to intervene mil-itarily in Lebanon could lead to hostilities against the U.S. His fears were validated in April 1983, when the U.S. embassy in Lebanon was bombed, and again in October 1983, when Hezbollah killed 241 American Marines. After the latter trag-

edy, President Ronald Reagan withdrew U.S. forces from Lebanon. In his autobiography, Reagan regretted his interven-tion in Lebanon, reflecting, “If that policy had changed towards more of a neutral position and neutrality, those 241 marines would be alive today.”

More recently, Paul has been a voice of reason on Iran, noting that there is no U.N. evidence that Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon. He states, “To me, the greatest danger is that we will have a president that will over-react.”

In conclusion, Ron Paul offers a beacon of hope to all those who are tired of our govern-ment’s warmongering.

By Sergio Goncalves

Staff Columnist

Staff Columnist Sergio Goncalves is a 6th-semester political science major. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Totally sawthat coming

It’s snowing, and I really love snow.

Totally rad

There’s snow business like snow business, like snow business I snow.

Totally bad

It’s snowing, and it’s mid-January.

I can’t find snow peas anywhere.

It’s snowing, and classes aren’t canceled.

Response to “Hunting for Success in Connecticut”

In response to your article “Hunting for Success in Connecticut” (19 Jan. 2012), I would like to stress how inef-fective hunting is for population con-trol, as it actually creates conditions that favor accelerated reproduction. The abrupt population decline that it causes leads to less competition for food among survivors, and ultimately, a higher birth rate, thus leading once more to the very problems that hunters claim to solve.

Hunting causes immeasurable suf-fering to bears and their families, often including orphaned cubs, who are left behind. Not every bear who is shot dies outright. Many are simply wounded and left to die slowly of blood loss, starvation, or gangrene. Bears have been

“managing” themselves without human interference for millennia. If left unal-tered, the delicate balance of nature’s ecosystems ensures the survival of most species. Even when unusual occurrences cause temporary animal-overpopulation problems, natural processes quickly sta-bilize the group.

We can enjoy nature and manage wildlife populations nonviolently and humanely. Although black bears typi-cally shy away from people, they may wander onto human-inhabited property, primarily looking for food. A few simple tips to keep bears away include remov-ing food sources from your yard and installing electric fencing, motion light sensors, and loud radios. For more infor-mation, please visit peta2.com.

– Amelia JensenCollege Campaigns Assistant

Santorum is No HeroJohn Nitkowski claims Rick Santorum

is “not really a bad guy” and claims evi-dence of his homophobia was “taken out of context.” However, that is hardly the case. Nitkowski cites a quote from Santorum saying he “doesn’t have a problem with homosexuality.” Let’s look at that quote in context. After all, Nitkowski can do that, so can we, right? “I have no problem with homosexual-ity, only with homosexual acts.” So in other words, as long as gay people don’t do anything gay, it’s ok. Basically, Santorum believes in “Don’t Ask, Don’t Do.” How is this not homophobic?

Additionally, Santorum has said at various points in his campaign that refer-ring to gay unions as “marriage” is like referring to a napkin as a paper towel, calling a glass of water a glass of beer, calling a tree a car, or calling a cup of tree a basketball. His argument is simply “it is what it is.” This is a tautological argument merely designed to perpetrate homophobia.

Finally, yes, Santorum’s “man on

dog” comments were taken out of con-text. Santorum was attempting to claim that homosexuality would lead to polyg-amy or bestiality. However, he failed to present any logical argument for this. Furthermore, even if we do assume it to be true, there is nothing that would stop heterosexual marriage from even-tually allowing those things. After all, if a man can marry one woman, what’s going to prevent him from marrying five women? Or going “man on [female] dog?” Clearly, Santorum doesn?t want you do think that way. But the fact is, there is no reason to believe acceptance of homosexuality will lead to acceptance of polygamy or bestiality. If those things ever become more socially accepted, then Santorum could take up a campaign against them. But if Nitkowski is correct and those are his only targets, it seems like he is creating a problem to search for a solution. None of the candidates in this election are arguing for legalization of polygamy or bestiality. So if that’s all Santorum has a problem with, why is he here now?

However, while Santorum is a blatant

homophobe, he does have one com-mendable stance on gay rights. During a debate, Santorum criticized Iran for “trampling on the rights of gays.” Then again, maybe he wants to keep his monopoly.

– Gregory Koch

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World News BriefsStricken cruise ship passengers

ponder compensation

Official: Iraq will take legalaction over US raid

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq will take legal action to ensure justice for the families of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians killed in a U.S. raid in Haditha seven years ago, a government spokesman said Thursday, after the lone U.S. Marine convicted in the killings reached a deal to escape jail time.

Residents in Haditha, a former Sunni insurgent stronghold of about 85,000 people along the Euphrates River valley some 140 miles (220 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, have expressed out-rage at the American military justice system for allowing Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich to avoid prison.

“The Haditha incident was a big crime against innocent civilians,” said Ali al-Moussawi, a spokes-man for the Iraqi government. “We will follow up all legal procedures and judiciary measures” to seek justice in the case, he added.

Al-Moussawi did not offer specifics and the Iraqi Justice Ministry declined to comment.Marine Corps officials said they do not comment on such announcements made by foreign govern-

BERLIN (AP) — Herbert Greszuk was at the bar on the fifth deck of the Costa Concordia when the ill-fated luxury liner hit a reef.

Unable to get back to his second-deck cabin after the emergency signal came, he made it to a lifeboat with only the clothes on his back — leaving behind everything he had with him for the cruise, including his tuxedo, camera, jewelry, €00 ($520) in cash, credit cards, identity papers and even his dentures.

The 62-year-old, who runs a small flower shop and cafe in the western German town of Recklinghausen, counts himself lucky to have escaped the ship after it capsized Jan. 13, but estimates that he lost at least €10,000 in goods alone.

UK forced to list people whorejected royal honors

LONDON (AP) — British authorities have released a list of the more than 250 people who rejected royal honors over the past half century.

The Cabinet Office’s list of rebellious would-be award recipients include the author Roald Dahl, the artist Lucian Freud and the sculptor Henry Moore. Painter Francis Bacon and novelist Aldous Huxley are on the list, which was made public Thursday following a freedom of information request.

For many, the disclosure was the first official confirmation that they had rejected a royal award.Generally such rejections are kept confidential unless the recipient goes public or the news leaks.Britain’s monarch can bestow a range of honors, from the title of knight to membership of the

Order of the British Empire.

JERUSALEM (AP) — It’s a huge question for observant Jews: How can one still believe in a merciful God after suffer-ing through the worst genocide in history?

As the world marks Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday, members of Israel’s most devout group will remember the victims with prayer, study of scripture and a deep conviction in a grand plan that is beyond their earthly comprehension.

Many notable survivors, including Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel, have famously ques-tioned where God was during the Holocaust. But survivors from the insular ultra-Ortho-dox community say they felt a divine presence even in the worst places imaginable.

After years of silence, a small group of pious elderly survivors have begun meeting in a weekly support group at a senior center in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, sharing their thoughts on how they reconcile with a Lord that allowed the destruction of their homes, their families and 6 mil-lion of their people.

“We stayed alive. We survived. How could this have happened without the almighty?” said Alex Seidenfeld, an 82-year-old sur-vivor from Hungary, who said he saw “miracles” unfold daily in Nazi concentration camps. “The almighty knows what he is doing. He has a plan that we sometimes don’t understand.”

The ultra-Orthodox support

group is the first of its kind, and members say their community’s public silence on the Holocaust has been misunderstood. In the eyes of most secular Israelis, the ultra-Orthodox have, at best, a cavalier approach to the Holocaust.

When Israel holds its own Holocaust commemorations each spring, the ultra-Orthodox do not participate. They ignore the two-minute air raid siren that brings the country to a standstill, calling it a foreign ritual unfit for Jews. They shun the somber songs and speeches of official ceremonies and reject the Israeli ethos of a Zionist state rising out the ashes of the Holocaust.

This has fueled anger toward the ultra-Orthodox from main-stream Israelis, who resent the closed community for avoiding military service, imposing reli-gious restrictions on others and for collecting government subsi-dies to study in seminaries rather than entering the work force.

There have been street clash-es, during which extremists in the ultra-Orthodox community have further antagonized other Israelis by calling policemen and journalists Nazis.

At a recent protest by a fringe group against secular resistance to ultra-Orthodox gender segrega-tion, demonstrators wore yellow Nazi-like Star of David patches with the word “Jude,” German for Jew. They dressed their chil-dren in striped black-and-white uniforms associated with Nazi camps, transporting them in the back of a truck. The image of a

child mimicking an iconic photo of a terrified Jewish boy in the Warsaw Ghetto appeared on the front of every newspaper.

Most ultra-Orthodox denounced such protests, but that made little difference to mainstream Israelis.

Yet these provocations belie the fact that the ultra-Orthodox com-munity was perhaps the hardest hit of any in World War II. Easily identified by their long beards, sidelocks and distinctive black garb, they were targeted first. Nearly all their seminaries were destroyed, their rabbinical lead-ers murdered and the community almost entirely obliterated.

Unlike the Zionists, who found comfort in establishing Israel, or communists who sought immersion in the Soviet Union, the ultra-Orthodox largely had no solace in the war’s after-math, said Amos Goldberg, a Holocaust scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

“Their spiritual center was destroyed. They were inferior compared to other ideologies like liberal America, which was attractive after the war,” he said. “They were focused on one thing only — rehabilitating their community.”

Today, the ultra-Orthodox have rebounded in Israel, where they number about 800,000 people, about 10 percent of the country’s population. Although no firm figures are available, they are believed to account for a small percentage of Israel’s 200,000 aging Holocaust survivors.

Observant survivors keep the faith after Holocaust

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In this Jan. 18 photo, Ultra Orthodox Jewish holocaust survivors hold a weekly meeting at the Misgav Lakashish seniors’ club in the religious neighborhood of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem.

AP

Survivors will relfect, pray on Holocaust Rememberance Day

French parliament passesArmenian ‘genocide’ bill

PARIS (AP) — France’s parliament voted Monday to make it a crime to deny that the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks nearly a century ago constituted a genocide, risking more sanctions from Turkey and complicating an already delicate relationship with the rising power.

Turkey, which sees the allegations of genocide as a threat to its national honor, suspended military, economic and political ties and briefly recalled its ambassador last month when the lower house of parliament approved the same bill.

Before Monday’s Senate vote, Turkey threatened more measures if the bill passed, though did not specify them. President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose party supported the bill, still needs to sign it into law, but that is largely considered a formality.

The debate surrounding the measure comes in the highly charged run-up to France’s presidential elections this spring, and critics have called the move a ploy to the garner votes of the some 500,000 Armenians who live in France.

Valerie Boyer, the lawmaker from Sarkozy’s conservative UMP party who wrote the bill, did not deny that, saying that politicians are supposed to pass laws that they think their constituents want.

“That’s democracy,” she said.But this domestic gamble could have major international consequences. France’s relations with

Turkey are already strained, in large part because Sarkozy opposes Turkey’s entry into the European Union. The law will no doubt further sour relations with a NATO member that is playing an increas-ingly important role in the international community’s response to the violence in Syria, the standoff over Iran’s nuclear program and peace negotiations in the Middle East.

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Ready, set, goal!

I’m not a flaky person, but I often say I am going to do something when it comes to fitness or diet and then chicken out. I make lofty goals that, in a perfect world, I would love to accomplish, yet life always seems to get in the way of fol-lowing through.

Until recently. I don’t know if it was leftover adrenaline from the whole “resolutions” thing or the start of a new semester, but this past weekend I signed up for my first half-marathon. There’s no backing out now. Gulp.

So why am I making such a public announcement? Hopefully to inspire you. Now, I am not saying to go sign up for a huge race if you haven’t stepped into a gym in years. I am, however, encouraging you to go after a goal you may think is unattainable. Set your mind to it and make it a priority.

Want to start the semes-ter fresh with a new ambi-tion and don’t know where to begin? Consider an activity you already excel at or enjoy and take the intensity up a notch. Challenge yourself to go beyond what is comfortable to see stellar results.

If that idea doesn’t tickle your fancy, what better time is there to try something totally out-of-the-box? Sign up for a dance class if you have two left feet or buy that somewhat embarassing-looking workout DVD you secretly want to try. Just pop it in when your room-mate isn’t around. Whatever objective you choose, stick with it.

Now, this of course is much easier said than done. “Well, I worked out today, what’s one bite of (fill in your weakness blank)?” Stop. If you want to gain any ground, there are no short cuts or slacking off. No exceptions. Plus, who can only eat one bite?

You have to be mentally tough if you are fully com-mitted to reaching your goal. Keep your eye on the prize by starting off slow, celebrating the little victories and having a solid support group to cheer you on.

Get someone else on the bandwagon with you to ease the transition. The Paleo Diet is easy to follow if you and, say, your roommate, stick to it together and hold each other accountable. Positive reinforce-ment!

I would never have been able to make the 13.1-mile leap without my running buddies encouraging me to sign up and making the 12-week training commitment with me.

Writing down the projected workout routine and meal ideas for the week is one way in partic-ular I stay on track. By doing so, I am conscious of where I stand in my overall path to success while documenting my progress with a food/exercise journal.

Seeing how far you have come along on paper is such a confidence booster! Still need a little extra oomph? Discover your own personal mantra that fuels your fire when the going gets tough.

“Just do it,” “My better is better than your better,” “Greatness is earned, never rewarded.” Recognize these? Nike always has the best moti-vational quotes.

There is no such thing as a perfect world, so why wait to put your mind to that one thing you’ve always wanted to accom-plish? Go get ‘em, Champ!

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Dating advice through laughs

Comedians Dave Ahdoot and Ethan Fixwell, lifelong friends who got their start on Craigslist and Youtube, give dating advice in the Student Union Theatre on Thursday evening. Dave and Ethan have toured as “College Dating Coaches” at hundreds of colleges around the U.S.

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Chucho Valdés and the Afro-Cuban Jazz Messengers will come to UConn this weekend to in the Jorgensen Centre for the Performing Arts. “The dean of Latin Jazz” and “one of the world’s great virtuosic pianists”, accord-ing to The New York Times, will showcase a set centred around the hard-bop sound of the Messengers perform on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. This weekend’s performance comes directly after a perfor-mance by Valdés at Carnegie Hall last Saturday.

Valdés has, according to a Jorgensen press release, recorded more than 80 albums

throughout his career, along with many famous jazz-ers such as Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis and Chick Corea. He has also won eight Grammys and been nominated 17 times over the past 30 years, and has played at such prestigious venues as the Kennedy Centre and the Hollywood Bowl.

Tickets are on sale from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily at the Jorgensen Box Office, for $55, $45, $38 or $34, with some discounts available for students. Tickets and more information on discounts are also available online at jor-gensen.uconn.edu.

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Comedians Dave and Ethan gave use-ful dating advice to UConn students during their performance at the Student Union Theater on Jan. 26.

Lifelong friends Dave Ahdoot and Ethan Fixwell began their come-dic careers when they posted ads on Craigslist and YouTube in 2008, invit-ing girls to double-date them. Through a series of dates and experiences, they made a YouTube comedy series about double dating. The comedians received even more responses from women across North America and embarked on over 200 double-dates. With such positive results and growing popularity, Dave and Ethan began hosting their own monthly show at the People’s Improv Theater in New York City, where they indulged their audience on their best and worst

dating experiences. They’ve worked with comics Jim Gaffigan, Todd Barry, Christian Finnegan and others. In addi-tion to the People’s Improv Theater in New York City, the duo has also per-formed in other New York venues such as Gotham Comedy, Eastville Comedy, and the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater. They’ve been featured in shows like The Colbert Report and The Millionaire Matchmaker as well as a number of web-sites and magazines.

Recently, Dave and Ethan have toured as “College Dating Coaches,” enlighten-ing hundreds of schools across the coun-try in the art of dating. By employing horror-date reenactments, songs of love, interactive exercises, and instructive demonstrations, the duo’s crash-course education as made them into bona fide Dating Experts.

“It was absolutely hilarious. The jokes were on point, they had great timing, and

they had a lot of talent,” said Martina Powell, a 2nd semester sociology major. “They engaged the audience really well by encouraging participation and being very friendly, open, and lighthearted. SUBOG always pulls off good comedy shows.”

The two began with jokes that related to their audience – making fun of the East, praising the South, and dishing jokes on the girls on campus who wear leggings, Uggs and North Faces. After they showed us a bad night at Huskies, and how they dance together, Ethan and Dave moved onto pickup lines in dif-ferent accents. While enacting a date, they gave students a sound piece of advice: rather than getting into a Giants vs Patriots fight on the first date, find things you both hate together. The rest of their night included reenactments of bad dates the audience experienced, a quick dating game where both Ethan and Dave

made the male contestants seem like creepy guys, dancing lessons to a variety of songs, and a question and answer ses-sion with the audience.

“I had a good time and really enjoyed it. It was all playful and in good fun, it was very light. There wasn’t anything offensive,” said Brittnie Carrier, a 2nd semester psychology and English double major. “They just had such a cute friend-ship – you kind of have to have a bro-mance to lick the other guy’s stomach… It was probably one of the best events I’ve gone to at UConn. I’d definitely see them again.”

Before closing the show, Dave and Ethan left the crowd with all of their contact information, encouraging them to add them as friends on Facebook, and ended with another song.

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In a Latin mood at the Jorgensen A meeting of sound and sight

Chucho Valdés, a jazz pianist, has won 8 Grammys in the past 30 years and has worked with jazz greats such as Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock.

JORGENSENThursday evening, the School of Fine Arts

presented Earl McDonald and the Hartford Jazz Society’s “New Directions Ensemble” in the university’s Classroom Building, which was recently completed for the fall semester. The ensemble performed original jazz compositions written by their pianist, Earl McDonald, as well as those of other Connecticut based jazz art-ists, to a slideshow of contemporary artwork produced by UConn’s own Professor Dancy and Ted Effermot. The two photographers col-laborated with McDonald to produce a visual smorgasbord complemented and accentuated by unique jazz music.

The ensemble attracted a considerable crowd of 60 or 70 people, but UConn students were severely underrepresented. Joseph Jacovino, an eighth semester sociology major professed that “more people should come and that these events are extremely important. People tune into their computers too much. I know I do. We all need to tune out and get into the real world.”

Jacovino had the added motivation to attend based on the fact that his sister is the ensemble’s trombonist, Sara Jacovino. Sara had hinted at some of the aspects of the performance when Joseph asked, but no amount of detail could have prepared him or the audience for what they

were about to experience. The performance began with a jaunty warm-

up piece to familiarize the audience with the ensemble’s style. It was immediately apparent that the musicians were passionate and devoted to their music; every foot was tapping and every head was bobbing to the upbeat music. After the musical introduction, Professor Dancy intro-duced her artwork and the performers, explain-ing that two pieces of art would be displayed: Beneath the Black Earth, the first exhibition, and Above the Surface of the Water.

The art was a series of photographs that faded in and out of one another. Most of the photo-graphs were of natural objects, such as dead leaves, twigs, bones, rice, and rocks. Hands were featured in the artwork and were depicted picking up or arranging objects several times. The music complemented the images perfectly with differentiated rhythms and musical keys that represented different objects. In the begin-ning of the slideshow, a pile of crisp dead leaves was shown and the music accompanying it was inherently ominous and dark, just as if the music itself was decomposing and fading away. As the images transitioned into brighter, more optimistic images, so did the musical accompa-niment. This created an exciting and dynamic feeling among the audience members.

The Hartford Jazz Society’s “New Jazz Ensemble” perofrms in the Classroom Building Thursday evening. The Ensemble’s performance was accompanied by photographs and other art images that change with the mood of the music.

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Have you ever seen a wider-ness survival movie and want-ed to see how you could do? Rogainig gives you the chance to navigate outdoors in a group, looking for checkpoints in order to make it through the most rug-ged of terrain.

Rogaining was developed in Australia and adapted its modern rules in 1976. It is especially popular in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, though it is beginning to catch on in the U.S. and Eastern Europe and the Baltics.

The basic rules of rogaining are simple: teams of two to five members proceed from check-point to checkpoint (marked with orange and white flags), using only compasses and maps for guidance. They must visit as many checkpoints as possible in the allotted time.

The high adventure sport com-bines elements of navigation, team-work, endurance, and an apprecia-tion for nature. It’s definitely worth checking out for nature lovers both casual and devoted.

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2012: a look at the new year in tech

Every year, consumers face the dilemma of buying the newest doodad and/or thing-amajig now or waiting for a cooler version of it to come out later. This year will be no exception, as many novel and exciting technologies (at least for a non-computer science major like me) are slated to hit the shelves this year. In no particular order:

1) Apple Products: Rumors about the iPhone 5 and iPad 3 are already out in the media. The iPhone 5 is expected to have a larger screen (prob-ably 5-inch) and complete-ly new design and casing. In addition to getting more memory, greater storage and a faster processor, the rumored new iPhone is also supposed to have full HD support and 4G capabilities.

The iPad 3 is expected to have a faster new quad-core ARM-based processor, along with other expected upgrades. One particularly exciting rumor is that the iPad will feature NFC (Near Field Communication) technology, which will allow iPad users to transfer data to other Apple products nearby with just a flick of the wrist.

2) The new Senseye mobile phone “reading” technology: This technology is not a prod-uct in and of itself; instead it is expected to be installed in future Smartphone models. As you may have gathered from its name, Senseye tech-nology will allow the user to control their phone with their eyes. The technology tracks the eyes of a user with the help of the front-facing cameras, which are usual-ly installed in most mobile devices already. With this technology, users can expect to be able to activate screens, play games and scroll down websites and more all without lifting a finger.

3) Waterproof coating for electronic devices (spe-cifically phones): This tech-nology was unveiled at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics show. The interior and exterior of the device is treated with a waterproofing formula in a vacuum cham-ber. The coating is able to protect devices submerged in water one meter deep for up to 30 minutes. The water-proofing is effective enough to even allow users to talk in the shower.

4) The PlayStation Vita: For the gamers out there, Sony is expected to release the PlayStation Vita in February. The handheld gaming device will likely have WiFi and 3G capabilities. In addition, the Vita is rumored to feature a quad-core processor, 5-inch OLED touch screen, dual ana-log sticks, dual cameras and a rear touch panel.

5) Windows 8: As every-one knows, Windows is the most widely-used operating system. After the success of Windows 7, Windows 8 is expected to boast a variety of new features including but not limited to the ability to support ARM tablets and x86 PCs. The OS can be booted from a USB device along with a user’s personal settings and preferences and many other features.

Warm winter butternut squash

This cold Connecticut weather lends well to a warm winter butternut squash soup. This soup recipe is not difficult to make and requires very few ingredients. You can even double the recipe and freeze it to enjoy later on again. This soup is a warm and filling delight on a cold night.

Serves: 2Here’s what you’ll need: - 1 butternut squash- 1 onion- 4 garlic cloves- Vegetable stock- Salt and pepper to taste

Start by doing your preparation. Peel your butternut squash and remove the seeds. Then chop it into small pieces. Now chop your onion into small pieces. Peel the garlic cloves and chop each clove very finely.

Add the garlic and onion to a large pot with a splash of olive oil. You should have enough olive oil to coat each of these pieces so they don’t burn. Cook your garlic and onion over medium heat for almost 10 minutes, or until your onion pieces become translucent. Then add your chopped butternut squash to the pot and lower the heat to a simmer. You will also need to add some liquid. You may use water or vegetable stock.

I didn’t measure this. Instead, I added enough liquid to just cover the vegetables in my large pot. I find this is a very easy way to make sure you have enough liq-uid, but not too much that your soup will be watered down.

Let your soup simmer for about 25 minutes, or until your butternut squash becomes fork tender. Now transfer the contents of your pot into a blender or a food processor and blend or process until smooth. Once you have pureed your soup, return it back to your pot and enjoy warm!

Whether prepping for a late–night study session or a movie night out with friends it can be nice to have comfort-ing junk food right around the corner. However, convenience and local food options can grow tiresome after a while.

Wings, pizzas and calzones sound great for a quick pick-me-up, but it’s always nice to treat yourself and dine out at a nice restaurant. It may require splurging a few extra bucks, but it’s worth it every once in a while if you’re eat-ing great cuisine.

From now through Feb. 5, Hartford will be hosting “Taste of Hartford 2012,” featuring special three-course specials at 33 different restaurants for only $20.12. If you are lucky enough to have some sort of transportation, check out the Hartford scene for nice, trendy restaurants. There are many hidden treasures offer an array of selections.

Some of these restaurants include sushi joints like Feng Asian Bistro, which offers a variety of sushi as well as a multi-course Southeast Asian dinner menu. For another ethnic restaurant, try La Fonda, which offers traditional Spanish food,

like flan and empanadas for fair prices. On certain nights they also have upbeat salsa music and karaoke.

For something Italian, check out Ficara’s Restaurant, which offers an array of pastas with many sauce choices. It may be a tad on the expensive side, however. Another great find is O’Porto, a Portuguese restau-rant that serves an assortment of seafood with special ingre-dients to bring out traditional flavors. Bonus: the restaurant also has a large Portuguese dessert menu.

For something that offers American cuisine but with a modern twist, be sure to check

out Firebox. This restaurant offers a dinner menu that can vary from roast organic chicken to cast iron duck. The original prices for this place are really steep but with the “Taste of Hartford” underway, you can receive certain meals for a special list price.

For the full list of restau-rant participating in “Taste of Hartford 2012,” be sure to check out www.connect-icutresturantweek.com. If you plan to attend this event, be sure to make reservations ahead of time.

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Butternut squash soup is easy to make, with commonly found ingredients, and lends itself well to leftovers. It is simple to double the recipe and freeze it to enjoy later on.MEGAN TOOMBS/The Daily Campus

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Vegas casinos relying more on baccarat

Baccarat dealer Ramiro Nepomuceno, right, shuffles cards as floor supervisor Sam Insyxiengmay looks on while preparing a table for play at the MGM Hotel and Casino on Wednesday.AP

LAS VEGAS (AP) — In the days before the Chinese New Year celebration began this week, six high rollers sat down at the private baccarat tables one day at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and began throwing down wagers of $100,000 to $200,000 a hand. It was a scene hardly out of place these days in Sin City.

Big-time gamblers, primarily from Asia, are flocking to Las Vegas to play baccarat and providing a big lift to the overall bottom line of the city’s casinos.

Baccarat has easily surpassed blackjack in terms of casino revenue in Las Vegas and now represents nearly 60 percent of the MGM Grand’s table games revenue over the past year. It’s especially popular this week with tens of thousands of tourists from Asia

in town to celebrate the Chinese New Year.“For us to make money in gaming today

without baccarat is almost impossible,” said Debra Nutton, senior vice president of casino operations at the MGM Grand hotel-casino. “We need the big whales to make money.”

In Las Vegas parlance, a “whale” is a big-time gambler who easily wagers more in one night at the tables than most American families make in a year. Casinos cater to them with plush, secluded gambling salons inside the top casinos — with baccarat games that often start out at a minimum $10,000 per hand.

The whales typically favor baccarat — a game romanticized in James Bond flicks and highly popular in Macau and Singapore.

The game is built on a simple premise: Who will end up with a better hand, the player or the banker? Gamblers are dealt two cards and predict whether they will beat the banker, typically a position that rotates among the players at the table. Smaller tables, known as midi-baccarat, start at $100 limits and look more like large blackjack tables, skipping the rotating banker and leaving that role to the dealer. Even smaller-limit tables are called mini-baccarat.

Nevada figures show that during the 12 months ending Nov. 30, casinos statewide won $1.27 billion from baccarat players, with the game offered at 258 total tables in 24 casinos. Blackjack, meanwhile, pulled in just $1.03 billion — even though it was offered across 2,810 tables in 151 casinos.

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Original Internet content on the rise

In this image released by Yahoo!, documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is shown in “The Failure Club,” a series about people trying to do the things they’ve always feared, for Yahoo! After years of drips and drabs of experimentation, the top video destinations on the Web are flush with original projects and teaming with a new wave of niche-oriented content creators.

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NEW YORK (AP) — After years of experimenting, the top video destinations on the Web are suddenly flush with origi-nal programming: documentaries, reality shows and scripted series.

Over the next few months, YouTube, Netflix and Hulu will roll out their most ambitious original programming yet — a digital push into a traditional television business that has money, a bevy of stars and a bold attitude of reinvention.

The long-predicted collision between Internet video and broadcast television is finally under way.

No one is suggesting that the quality on the Internet is close to that of broad-cast TV, but it’s becoming easy to imag-ine a day when it will be.

And even though critics question whether new media can rival a business that’s been around for about 70 years, the video sites have sought partnerships with seasoned professionals. And they benefit from the different economics of global Web-based entertainment.

Either way, what’s happening now is just the first wave.

“This convergence is now,” says docu-mentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, who created “The Failure Club,” a series about people trying to do the things they’ve always feared, for Yahoo, and “A Day in the Life,” a series documenting 24 hours of someone’s life, for Hulu.

He says the quality still varies, but viewers will soon see talent and produc-tion values begin to change.

On Feb. 6, Netflix will premiere its first scripted show, “Lilyhammer,” in which Steve Van Zandt (“The Sopranos”) plays a New York mobster in witness protection in Norway. Later this year, it will release “House of Cards,” a high-ly anticipated adaptation of the British miniseries produced by David Fincher and starring Kevin Spacey. Next year, it will debut new episodes of the cultish comedy “Arrested Development,” which originally aired on Fox.

Hulu plans a Feb. 14 premiere for

“Battleground,” a mock political docu-mentary. The site will later release “Up to Speed,” a six-part documentary by Richard Linklater about “monumentally ignored monuments of American cities.”

Hulu, which has some 30 million monthly users and 1.5 million for its monthly subscription service Hulu Plus, is co-owned by the parent companies of NBC, Fox and ABC.

Yahoo has sought to capitalize on its enormous search audience of nearly 180 million unique monthly visitors by draw-ing viewers to its original programming, including a slate of women-focused shows launched last fall and comedy pro-gramming planned for February. Its first scripted entry will be “Electric City,” a futuristic animated series produced by Tom Hanks, who will also voice a char-acter.

YouTube recently launched an entire catalog of original programming, spend-ing $100 million on the gradual rollout of more than 100 niche-oriented channels.

The channels don’t have the pressures of a 24-hour schedule and instead focus on short-form, on-demand programming. Partners vary from the Wall Street Journal to World Wrestling Entertainment to Madonna.

At the recent consumer electronics trade show CES, YouTube’s global head of content predicted that by 2020 about 75 percent of channels will be transmit-ted by the Internet. And video will soon be 90 percent of all traffic.

“Over time, you will see more and more television properties, television channels distributed over the Internet,” Robert Kyncl said. “Everything in its due time.”

Internet delivery allows programming that is “much harder to fulfill through traditional distribution means...because we have a global scale,” Kyncl added.

And online systems can serve niche audiences that would be difficult to sus-tain any other way, and do so at lower cost.

YouTube plans to expand to hundreds of Internet channels, just as television went from a few networks to dozens of cable channels. In the next few years, “most of your interests will have chan-nels on YouTube,” Kyncl predicts.

Netflix, which streamed 2 billion hours of video in the fourth quarter of 2011, is already operating under the assumption that video networks — whether stream-ing or televised — are converging. Just as Web video is undertaking original pro-gramming, TV networks are experiment-ing with systems such as TV Everywhere, which allows viewers to watch channels on the Web and on mobile devices.

“You can think of us as a cable-TV network, but we like to think we are at the center,” says Reed Hastings, CEO of Netflix. “We are an Internet TV network, and then they are going to become like us. But it’s the same thing, really.”

Hastings offers a comparison between Netflix and HBO: “We are becoming more like them in doing some origi-nals, starting that journey, and they are becoming more like us in creating an on-demand interface like HBO Go,” which allows viewers to watch channels on the Web and on mobile and tabulate devices.

HBO declined to comment.Production schedules will vary widely

at the sites, but Netflix plans one nota-ble difference: All its episodes will be released at once.

James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research, says the fact that Hanks is making a series for the Internet shows how the traditional TV system is “ready to unravel.

McQuivey says the disruption in video will “unfold in front of us like a slow-mo replay of an accident.”

“The new content won’t be as good as what you watch Thursday nights from 9 to 10 p.m., but it’s going to get closer to that quality,” he adds. “And it’s certainly as good as what you watch on Thursday from 3 to 4 in the afternoon or Saturday morning from 10 to 11.”

Picks revealed for free summer Central Park plays

In this file photo, actress Lily Rabe attends the premiere of “The Ides of March” at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York.

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NEW YORK (AP) — The Public Theater will be cel-ebrating the 50th anniver-sary of its Shakespeare in the Park series this summer with a little Bard and a little Sondheim.

The Public said Thursday that Daniel Sullivan will direct “As You Like It” in June with Lily Rabe as Rosalind. A month later, Timothy Sheader and Liam Steel will direct Stephen Sondheim’s and James Lapine’s “Into the Woods.”

The Shakespeare comedy reunites Rabe and Sullivan, who combined in 2010 in the park with a thrilling pro-duction of “The Merchant of Venice” led by Al Pacino as Shylock that transferred to Broadway and earned Tony Award nominations for all three.

The Sondheim musical, a reimagining of beloved clas-sic fairy tales that opened on Broadway in 1987, will be based on the Olivier Award-winning Regent’s Park Open

Air Theatre London produc-tion in 2010, which also was directed by Sheader and Steel. The original Broadway cast featured Bernadette Peters and a 2002 revival starred Vanessa Williams.

“I’m delighted that we are adding Stephen Sondheim to the Delacorte’s roster: our greatest artist of musical the-ater will sit very comfortably next to Shakespeare,” Oskar Eustis, artistic director of The Public Theater, said in a state-ment. “Sondheim in the Park has a good ring to it.”

The Delacorte Theater offi-cially opened in Central Park on June 18, 1962, with a pro-duction of “The Merchant of Venice,” directed by Joseph Papp and Gladys Vaughan and featuring George C. Scott as Shylock. Since then, stars including James Earl Jones, Kevin Kline, Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Raul Julia and Christopher Walken have acted on its stage.

After about twenty minutes of exquisite jazz and beauti-ful photographs, Beneath the Black Earth concluded and the audience exploded with applause. Professor Rosenfelt, UConn’s professor of violin, said, “The New Direction players are very good, I like applauding them.”

A brief and reluctant break was taken and within five minutes the ensemble was ready to begin the second segment of the perfor-mance, Above the Surface of the Water. This set of photographs began with a shot of a moun-tain and beneath it an upside down photograph of two people standing on a lakeside dock. The music was considerably less fast paced and remarkably relaxing. The images included in this per-formance were predominantly of running water, as the title would suggest, and the music adopted a distinctly whimsical and flighty feel.

As the photographs transi-tioned to pictures of mountains, one could sense the rising of the music and the impending climax as the photograph got closer and closer to focusing on the tip top of the peak. With the final scene

in place, the music faded and the audience hesitated to applause in hopes that the performance had not come to an end. Once it was clear that the performance was indeed over, Earl McDonald, the “New Direction Ensemble” and Professor Dancy were acknowl-edged with a standing ovation.

One of the most impressed members of the audience was Kathleen Deep, a first-year graduate student concentrat-ing on photography. She was amazed by the “absolutely beautiful performance…it complements really well.” She was particularly taken with the live music, mention-ing that it made her want to grab an instrument and start practicing. Joseph Jacovino agreed with Deep’s sentiments and said that “any form of self -expression is extremely important to me…art is a form of release.”

“Artistic and cultural events should be as big a part of the UConn education as ath-letic events, classwork, being a well-rounded person means experiencing arts and culture,” said Professor Rosenfelt.

Earl McDonald and the Hartford Jazz Society’s “New Directions Ensemble” was cer-tainly an artistic and cultural experience to be had. The fusion of art and music is a combina-tion that rarely fails, especially when the two parts are flaw-lessly complimentary.

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To get the advantage, check the day’s rating: 10 is the easiest day, 0 the most challenging.

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- With the moon in your sign, confidence is yours, and you talk a fine game. Let wild inspiration carry you away, and dive into action. Get others moving, too.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- The pressure’s increasing, and the game’s getting more intense. Contemplate your next move, and confer with your team. Refine your presentation.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Everyone wants to get together ... ask them to help with tasks, and together you make short work of it. Develop a profitable scheme. Collaborate with courage and creativity.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Choose for fit, comfort and style. There’s a period of testing, or trying things on. How does the role fit? Fulfill a fantasy. Talk it over.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Getting involved in a social project feeds your spirit. Travel conditions look good, especially if the price is right. Communicate long distances. Shop carefully.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Go over your resources, and get into the details. What you learn helps with decisions regarding future direction. Check out an interesting suggestion.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- You and an older partner are stirring things up for the next few days. You can solve a puzzle. Establish new rules. Start by fixing whatever’s broken.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- There may be a conflict between wanting change and wanting things to stay the same. Be creative, and see if you can have it both ways. You’re too busy to mess around.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- You’re lucky in love for the next two days. Others look to you for ethical leadership. A surprising development opens a new perspective. Friends balance it out.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Your family plays an important role, later today and through the weekend. It’s not too late to organize an impromptu party at your house. Dreams are good.

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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Tyler Zeller had 21 points and a career-best 17 rebounds to help No. 7 North Carolina beat North Carolina State 74-55 on Thursday night

Reggie Bullock added 11 points in his first career start for the Tar Heels (17-3, 4-1 Atlantic Coast Conference), who had no trouble winning their 11th straight against their longtime rivals.

While North Carolina State (15-6, 4-2) was off to its best start in the conference league in six years under new coach Mark Gottfried, the Tar Heels ended up making this game look like almost every other in the five years since the Wolfpack last beat them.

With its bigger front line dominating inside, North Carolina shot 48 percent and led by 31 points in the second half.

Scott Wood scored 11 points to lead the Wolfpack, whose only real highlight came when Lorenzo Brown

banked in an 80-foot heave to beat the halftime horn.

By that point, however, the Tar Heels led by 14 points and were on the way to turn-ing the entire second half into a crowd-pleasing romp.

N.C. State finished with its worst scoring total of the sea-son and shot 37 percent, though its second-half production came after the game was decided.

It was North Carolina's first game since losing starting guard Dexter Strickland to a season-ending knee injury last week at Virginia Tech. The injury robbed the team of its backup point guard and best perimeter defender, mean-ing a different look for the Tar Heels by starting Bullock and giving freshman Stilman White more minutes behind point guard Kendall Marshall.

Bullock hit 4 of 9 shots, including 3 of 5 from 3-point range, and finished with five rebounds and three assists. White hit a 3-pointer with about

12 minutes left to send the home crowd into a roar and give North Carolina a 59-32 lead.

Harrison Barnes added 15 points for the Tar Heels, while Marshall had 11 assists.

The Wolfpack entered the game averaging 77 points and shooting 48 percent behind a balanced attack, but things went badly from the start.

Richard Howell picked up three fouls by midway through the first half, while C.J. Leslie had a tough time scoring inside with Zeller and defen-sive specialist John Henson lurking in the paint. N.C. State struggled to get easy baskets inside, managed only a single basket on the fast break and missed most of its jumpers.

The Tar Heels had no such trouble. Zeller had a double-double by halftime with 13 points on 6-for-7 shooting and 12 rebounds. Barnes added nine points as the Tar Heels made 12 of 17 shots in the paint.

No. 7 UNC rolls past NC State

North Carolina's Harrison Barnes reacts to a first half dunk against NC State. The Tar Heels went on to cruise past the Wolfpack witha 75-55 victory.

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As for the women’s team, the Raiders currently have an over-all record of 4-2. They also have a strong conference record in the Patriot League of 2-0. They boast a few strong wins that con-tributed to their current record, such as their dominating perfor-

mances against schools such as Lehigh, Niagara, Binghamton and others. They also have sev-eral powerful swimmers, like senior captain Erica Derlath in freestyle/individual medley, senior captain Sarah Button in backstroke/butterfly and sopho-more diver Samantha Frankel.

Both the Raiders teams also

have a strong coaching staff with head coach Fernando Canales, diving Coach Shannon Cutting, and assistant coach Derick Roe.

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Men's and women's swimming set for weekend

PHOENIX (AP) — The Fiesta Bowl scandal has prompted two state law-makers to plan legislation that would include an outright ban on gifts to legislators.

Laws being drafted separately by Republican Sen. Ron Gould of Lake Havasu City and Democratic Sen. David Schapira of Tempe are a response to last year's revelations that 28 current or former state lawmak-ers received free football tickets and some got all expense-paid trips from the bowl.

Both also would prohibit lobbyists or corporations that hire lobbyists from giving anything of value to lawmakers. Currently, lawmakers generally can't accept items not provided to the public at large with the exception of food,

flowers, travel or lodging benefits. They don't have to report gifts costing less than $10, and they must disclose gifts from a single source of more than $500.

“People don't give you gifts just because of your good looks and great speaking ability,” Gould said. “They're trying to curry favor with you, they're trying to create a relationship, with the feeling that you're more apt to support the things that they push because of that relationship.”

Separately, a series of bills intro-duced Thursday by Democratic Sen. Steve Gallardo would prohibit lob-byists from donating to legislators or bundling contributions and bar pub-lic officials from using public funds to promote themselves a year prior

to an election. Another Gallardo bill would require companies, corporations or labor groups to disclose so-called “independent expenditures” aimed at influencing a candidate's election.

Gallardo's proposals also would bar legislators from accepting event tickets or accepting food and drinks from reg-istered lobbyists, a direct response to the Fiesta Bowl scandal.

“In the wake of the recent ethics scandals we've seen happen here at the Legislature, like Fiesta Bowl, it's clear that meaningful ethics reform is needed. It's time to eliminate cash and perks like food and trips as lobbying tools,” Gallardo said in a statement.

Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery investigated the lawmak-ers who took trips or tickets but decid-

ed in December that state reporting laws were so complex and contradicto-ry that he could not bring any criminal charges. He called on the Legislature to overhaul and consolidate reporting and gift laws for lobbyists and elected offi-cials, toughen reporting requirements, ban gifts outright and make some vio-lations a felony.

Schapira serves as Senate minority leader and already has introduced a separate bill prohibiting lobbyists from providing entertainment to legislators.

Both Gould and Schapira said the legislation they are writing would ban lawmakers from taking anything of value from a lobbyist or company, including meals. Neither took tickets or trips.

Gould, who is chairman of the

Senate Ethics committee, said he plans on inserting the lobbying restrictions in his gift ban bill, which must be filed by Monday.

Schapira said he didn't think the existing lobbying entertainment ban was unclear, as Montgomery said when he announced his decision not to pur-sue charges against lobbyists who pro-vided tickets or the lawmakers who accepted them.

“I thought the law actually was rela-tively clear, and I've been familiar with it since I came to the Legislature, which is why I've followed it precise-ly,” Schapira said. “Just to eliminate any confusion on anyone's part, I just want a flat-out ban on free entertain-ment coming from lobbyists or corpo-rate entities that hire lobbyists.”

Fiesta Bowl scandal spurs gift ban proposal

Mississippi falls to No. 14 Florida

OXFORD, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's old nemesis — a wayward shooting touch — ended what started as a promis-ing upset bid.

The Rebels squandered a 16-point lead in the first half before losing 64-60 to No. 14 Florida on Thursday night.

Terrance Henry had 21 points and 10 rebounds for Mississippi (13-7, 3-3 Southeastern Conference), while Nick Williams added 14 points. The Rebels shot 60.9 percent from the field in the first half and made all six of their 3-point attempts.

They couldn't duplicate that success in the second half, mak-ing just 8 of 29 (27.6 percent) from the field.

“You're not going to win many games shooting 27 percent in your own building,” Ole Miss coach Andy Kennedy said. “Our inability to make a play to stop the bleeding put us in a tough spot.”

The Gators clawed back from the first-half deficit to win for the sixth time in seven games. Patric Young scored 15 points

and Kenny Boynton added 12.“The best thing for us was we

never panicked,” Boynton said. “We were playing defense but they hit shots. They hit tough shots and were just killing it. In the second half we guarded the 3-point line a little better, but really, it was just kind of the law of averages.”

Boynton admitted keeping cool was tough when Ole Miss was draining 3-pointers in the first half in front of a raucous crowd at Tad Smith Coliseum.

The Rebels' dead-eye shooting was a shock considering they came into the game as the worst 3-point shooting team in the SEC, making just 27.2 percent.

Florida (16-4, 4-1) fell behind 20-4 in the opening minutes and trailed 38-28 at halftime. But the Gators worked their way back thanks to lockdown defense and clutch 3-pointers from Boynton and Mike Rosario.

Young was 7 of 10 from the field off the bench despite play-ing with tendinitis in his right ankle. Erving Walker had 10 points and nine assists.

“I thought that our guys stayed the course,” Florida coach Billy Donovan said. “I never thought they got rattled or overwhelmed.”

Ole Miss got the pace it wanted from the very beginning, forcing Florida into a half-court, physical game. That negated the Gators' one major strength — superior guard play — and they struggled to find open 3-point looks for much of the game.

The Rebels went on a 14-0 run to take a 20-4 lead in the first 8 minutes before settling for the 10-point halftime lead. Williams made four of the team's six first-half 3-pointers, knocking the Gators on their heels.

“Williams was incredible,” Boynton said. “But we knew they had to miss at some point.”

Florida slowly climbed back into the game in the second half behind Young and some well-timed 3-pointers, includ-ing Scottie Wilbekin's with 10:11 remaining that tied the game at 46. Young's dunk gave the Gators a 48-46 lead — their first since the opening minutes.

Mississippi forward Terrance Henry picks up a defensive rebound over Florida forward Will Yeguete. Mississippi went on to drop the game 64-60.

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SportsThe Daily Campus, Friday, January 27, 2012

» MEN'S HOCKEY

Huskies prepared for Holy CrossAfter an unsuccessful home

stand last weekend against Robert Morris, the UConn men’s hockey team will get a chance to snap their two-game losing streak tonight as they host con-ference opponent Holy Cross.

Last weekend, the Huskies lost a pair of one goal games to the Colonials falling 4-3 on Friday and losing 2-1 on Saturday night.

“The killer about this week-end is that we had a very lousy practice on Tuesday and we had another lousy one on Wednesday,” head coach Bruce Marshall said. “It correlated into the weekend so hopefully they’ve learned their lesson that they’re going to have to work hard every day.”

On Friday night, the Huskies had their four-game winning streak come to an end. After trailing 4-1 going in to the third period the Huskies rallied for

two uncontested goals, but could not find the tying one as they fell 4-3. Forward Billy Latta had a goal and two assists in the game. Saturday was not much better for the Huskies as they held a 1-0 lead through the first two periods of a very physical game, but gave up two goals in the third period. Forward Marcello Ranallo scored the lone goal for the Huskies.

“We played better than yester-day for sure,” Ranallo said after Saturday’s game. “We just have to execute on our chances and get more shots in the net.”

Now the 10-12-2 Huskies will continue their league play as they host the first game of their two-game series against the Crusaders this weekend. The Huskies, who are 9-8-1 in conference play, currently stand in a three-way-tie for sixth place in the Atlantic Hockey Association. The Huskies, Crusaders and Bentley all have 19 points so far this season. The

Crusaders are 10-11-3 and 8-6-3 in AHA play.

“We have to stay a little more disciplined than we were this weekend,” Marshall said. “Every team we play from here on out is going to be a one goal game and we just have to learn to play within that context.”

On Friday, the Huskies will continue its long running tradi-tion of donating all game pro-ceeds to the Friends of Mel Foundation as a part of the annual Skating Strides initia-tive for cancer research. On Saturday, the Huskies will play on the Crusaders’ home ice in Worcester, MA. Saturday’s game will be viewable to all people in northeastern, CT, including the Storrs area and the UConn campus. Both games will begin at 7:05 p.m. Tune into channel 83 on Saturday night to watch the game.

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A UConn hockey player pushes the puck forward in a Nov. 16 game against Sacred Heart. The Huskies won the game in dominant fashionwinning 8-3.

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game.”“We’re not getting enough on

offense. We’re not getting enough on defense. There is only so much each person can do,” Napier told UConnHuskies.com following the game. “If I knew what the prob-lem was we wouldn’t be losing.”

“They made some big plays and defended us pretty well,” coach Jim Calhoun told UConnHuskies.com after the loss. “Mainly they just dug, scratched and clawed. We thought on tape they played hard, and they played harder than we did. That’s how they won the game.”

“We’re not getting enough on offense. We’re not getting enough on defense. There is only so much each person can do,” Napier told

UConnHuskies.com following the game. “If I knew what the problem was we wouldn’t be los-ing.”

The loss to the Volunteers dropped the Huskies’ record to 14-5. The non-conference game was the last non-Big East game on UConn’s schedule this sea-son. The Huskies will look to improve its 4-3 conference record when they face a familiar foe in the Fighting Irish. The team’s last win was at Notre Dame on Jan. 14. UConn snapped the Irish’s 29-game home win streak by a score of 67-53. Trailing by one at halftime, the Huskies outscored Notre Dame 43-28 to run away with a win. It was a balanced attack by UConn as Alex Oriakhi, Andre Drummond, Roscoe Smith and Napier all scored in double

figures. The Huskies haven’t won since.

The Irish enter the week-end matchup with a 13-8 over-all record and 5-3 conference record. Although Notre Dame lost by seven at Rutgers follow-ing the home loss to UConn, they answered with a 67-58 win at home over previously unbeaten and top-ranked Syracuse. The Orange entered the contest with a 20-0 record, good for the best start in school history. On Wednesday night, the Fighting Irish won at Seton Hall and held the Pirates to 42 points. Notre Dame will look to make it two in a row on the road when they visit the Huskies, which have not played a game in more than a week.

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start for Mosqueda-Lewis, who entered the lineup in place of the injured Caroline Doty (knee bruise). Doty, however, is expected to return for Saturday’s home game against USF, accord-ing to several reports.

While Hartley and Mosqueda-Lewis helped UConn pull away from Syracuse, Hayes’ sharp-shooting never stopped. The senior went 11-for-15 from

the floor and hit six 3-pointers (also a career high) to go along with seven rebounds and three assists.

“She’s really in a good place right now - physically, mental-ly,” coach Geno Auriemma told UConnHuskies.com. “Tonight was probably a perfect example of all the things Tiffany can do on any given night … Tonight was kind of, `Here I am, this is what I do. I’m a senior.’

“I was really, really happy for

her. I hope there’s a lot more of these before she graduates.”

Hayes will get another chance to have “more of these” on Saturday.

Tip-off for the UConn-USF game is set for 1 p.m. at the XL Center. The Huskies will then fly to Durham, N.C., Monday for a top-5 showdown with Duke, to be aired on ESPN2.

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UConn Women’s Hockey Raises Thousands for Charity

This weekend, the UConn women’s hockey team will participate in the Hockey East Skating Strides Against Breast Cancer charity event, which has raised thousands of dollars to fight breast cancer.

In conjunction with the Mel Foundation, teams in Hockey East raise money to fund cancer research and education. UConn has participated for the past eight years, leading the Hockey East teams fund-raising for the last six years.

“Skating Strides is important because it creates awareness on campus, as one in eight women will be affected by breast can-cer,” said head coach Heather Linstad.

Skating Strides kicked off on Jan. 16 when the UConn wom-en’s hockey team put on a youth hockey clinic that included drills and activities with coach-es and athletes.

“It’s fun to be a part of some-thing that’s not just hockey related. It’s great to be working with kids, which means a lot to us,” said freshman defensemen Caitlin Hewes.

Those in attendance also got to take part in a meet-and-great

with the team, which included an autograph session.

“It’s important to give back to the community. It’s a great resume builder for our athletes, we had 85 participants in the clinic and some want to come back to UConn for school,” Linstad said.

Yesterday the women’s hock-ey team sold T-shirts in the Union to raise money for the cause. At tonight’s Men’s hock-ey game against Holy Cross there will be an auction of items such as Nike apparel as well as memorabilia from the 2011 NCAA National Championship men’s basketball team.

The weekend will conclude with a skating session with the team after the Huskies take on the Providence Friars, on Sunday. The skate is free and open to the public, but donations are suggested. Fans attending Sunday’s game are also asked to wear pink to support the cause.

“We hope this will help out fan base and it will be great to see men and women wearing pink in the stand,” Linstad said.

UConn heads into this week-end coming off a 1-1 tie with Maine and hard-fought 3-1 loss to Boston College. In their last meeting with Providence, the Huskies suffered a 2-0 loss.

“It comes down to mentality, we have a lot of talent and heart

in the locker room, it just hasn’t come to fruition,” Linstad said.

Freshmen forward Emily Snodgrass leads the team in points with 15, which includes six goals. Freshmen forwards Jocelyn Slattery and Kayla Campero also have six goals on the season thus far.

Campero suffered a shoulder injury in last weekend’s game against Boston College, but she did return to finish the game.

“She missed 10 minutes but came back to play the second and third period, you have to give her all the credit, she toughed it out and battled back,” Linstad said.

“It’s the captain’s locker room, we have three captains that have been here and gotten to the Hockey East title game just two years ago. It will be up to them to rally the troops,” Linstad said.

If the Huskies take both games from Providence this weekend, it will be the first series vic-tory of the season for UConn. “We are really excited to get another stab at them,” Hewes said. Saturday’s game will be played in Providence. The puck will drop on Sunday’s game at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum at 2 p.m.

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A UConn women's hockey player skates down the ice in a Jan. 1, 2011 game against BU. The Huskies wore pink to rase awareness for breast cancer.

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Game to Watch: UConn men’s basketball vs. Notre Dame

For the second time this season, the No. 24 Huskies have lost two games in a row with their 60-57 loss to Tennessee last Saturday. Guards Jeremy Lamb and Shabazz Napier led the Huskies in scoring with 23 and 18 points, respectively. The next leading scorer was center Andre Drummond, who finished with six. None of the forwards scored more than five points and not a single player on the bench scored in the game. Looking to snap their losing streak, the 14-5 Huskies will host Notre Dame this Sunday in the XL Center at noon. The Huskies played the Fighting Irish nearly two weeks ago, win-ning that game 67-53.

Game to Follow: UConn men’s hockey at Holy Cross

This weekend, the Huskies will split a two-game series with the conference rival Crusaders between home and away. On Friday, the Huskies will host the Crusaders in the Freita’s Ice

Forum. Saturday, the Huskies will travel to Worcester, Mass., to play at the Crusader’s arena. Last weekend, the Huskies dropped a two game home stand against Robert Morris, falling 4-3 on Friday and 2-1 on Saturday. After the losses, the Huskies are 10-12-2 on the season and 9-8-1 in con-ference play. The Huskies have 19 points in the Atlantic Hockey Association, putting them in a three-way tie for sixth place with Bentley and the Crusaders. Both games will begin at 7:05 p.m.

Number of the Week: 35On Wednesday, shooting guard

Tiffany Hayes scored a career-high 35 points for the No. 3 UConn women’s basketball team as Hayes and the Huskies defeated Syracuse 95-54. Hayes shot 11 for 15, hitting six 3-pointers, which ties a career high, and was perfect from the line hitting all seven of her free-throws. The 18-2 Huskies return to action this Saturday to take on conference opponent South Florida. The game will be played in the XL Center with tipoff at 1 p.m. The Huskies are 7-1 in Big East play this season.

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DETROIT (AP) — Prince Fielder stood with a smile and recalled his earliest memories of old Tiger Stadium, when he would hang out at the ballpark where his father hit so many mas-sive home runs.

“For me, it was always Sparky saying I was going to pinch hit — and I really believed him,” Fielder said, referring to former manager Sparky Anderson. “I’m just glad I get to come back.”

The Tigers introduced Fielder on Thursday after finalizing a $214 million, nine-year contract with the free agent first baseman, who is expected to hit a lot more home runs than his dad.

Fielder was born in 1984, the last time Detroit won the World Series. After luring him back to Michigan with the fourth-largest deal in baseball history, the Tigers are hoping Fielder will help usher in a new championship era for the Motor City.

“This is awesome,” Fielder said. “It’s kind of a dream come true. I’m excited.”

Detroit began seriously pursuing Fielder after designated hitter Victor Martinez tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during offseason conditioning. Now the Tigers have three of baseball’s biggest stars — Fielder, Miguel Cabrera and Justin Verlander — all in their primes. Detroit won the AL Central by 15 games last year but lost to Texas in the AL championship series.

“We’re trying to win right now,” general manager Dave Dombrowski said. “We tried to win last year. We were close. I think we’ve reached a point now, on a yearly basis, we feel that way. When you look at the core of our group of players, there’s a lot of guys that are on that field right now that are quality players.”

It will be up to manager Jim Leyland to fig-ure out where to play all of his powerful hitters. He said Thursday the Tigers will move Miguel Cabrera from first base to third to make room for Fielder. He also listed a possible batting order, with Cabrera hitting third and Fielder fourth.

It’s a lineup based on power, not speed. That much is clear.

“If they hit it where they’re supposed to hit ‘em, they can trot,” Leyland said. “We’re going back to the old-fashioned baseball. We’ve got big-time power on the corners.”

Fielder’s father Cecil became a big league star when he returned to the majors from Japan and hit 51 home runs with Detroit in 1990. Cecil played with the Tigers into the 1996 sea-son, and young Prince made a name for himself with his prodigious power displays during bat-ting practice at Tiger Stadium.

Detroit plays at Comerica Park now, and times have changed. Leyland manages the Tigers, not Sparky Anderson.

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Rafael Nadal rolls on to Australian Open final

» TENNIS

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Rafael Nadal outlasted Roger Federer 6-7 (5), 6-2, 7-6 (5), 6-4 in an Australian Open semifinal on Thursday night, the longtime rivals playing with the intensity normally displayed when meeting in a Grand Slam final.

The stars who met in eight Grand Slam finals were on the same side of the draw for the first time at a major since 2005.

Two weeks ago, Nadal injured his right knee and wasn’t sure he’d be able to start the tourna-ment. Now, he can barely believe he’s in the final.

“If you tell me that two Sundays ago, I really cannot imagine,” Nadal said. “For me, it’s a dream to be back in a final of the Australian Open.”

Nadal will have the opportunity to win another championship on Sunday night when the Spanish left-hander plays the winner of the semifinal Friday between defend-ing champion Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray.

Earlier Thursday, Maria Sharapova overcame Petra Kvitova to advance to the women’s final against Victoria Azarenka. Sharapova broke Kvitova’s serve in the last game to finish off a 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 victory and the third-seeded Azarenka beat defending

champion Kim Clijsters 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 to set up a Saturday night final at Rod Laver Arena that will decide the No. 1 ranking.

Nadal, who holds a 6-2 edge in Grand Slam finals against Federer, made the key service break in the ninth game of the fourth set, making an incredible cross-court forehand winner from well behind the baseline, then watching as Federer hit a backhand wide to give Nadal a 5-4 lead.

Serving for the match, Nadal moved two points away from the win when Federer sent a backhand long. He won on his second match point when Federer floated a fore-hand long.

At the end, Nadal smashed a ball up high in the stadium, almost clearing the roof. He then applauded along with the crowd when Federer walked off.

The 25-year-old Spaniard won the 2009 Australian title but lost in the quarterfinals in his next two trips to Melbourne Park. Federer hasn’t added to his record 16 Grand Slam titles since he won the 2010 Australian Open.

“I thought Rafa played well from start to finish,” Federer said. “It was a tough match physically as well. I’m disappointed, but it’s only the beginning of the season. I’m feeling all right, so it’s OK.”

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Men’s basketball takes on Irish, Holy Cross hosts men’s hockey

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Weekend AheadTHE

The UConn men’s and women’s swimming and div-ing teams will host Colgate at home this Sunday at noon in the Natatorium. Both the men’s and women’s teams will be looking to achieve their first home victo-ries for the second half of their regular seasons.

Both teams will be looking to improve their overall dual meet records of their regular seasons.

The men’s team currently has an overall dual meet record of 3-2 and the women’s team currently has an overall dual meet record of 4-2. Both of the teams most recently improved

their dual meet records by post-ing victories over Seton Hall this past Saturday. The Huskies also gained more energy and motivation for their future com-petitions, according to Coach Goldberg.

“The Seton Hall win was good for the team,” Coach Goldberg said. “We are ready for a hard meet with a very good Colgate team. They have some very fast swimmers and a lot of depth.”

This meet will be a big chal-lenge for the Huskies. Both of the men’s and women’s swim-ming and diving teams from Colgate are well-rounded and strong.

Colgate’s men’s team current-ly has an overall record of 1-5. They come from a strong Patriot

League that boasts several pow-erful men’s swim teams, which brings context to their 0-2 con-ference record. They have also competed against formidable non-conference opponents as well, such as Cornell. From competing against all of these strong teams, the Raiders have become a strong team of their own. They have several power-ful swimmers that will be dif-ficult to handle for the Huskies, like seniors Eric Carlson for butterfly, captain Costas Hadjipateras for butterfly/free-style, senior Teddy Perley in breaststroke/freestyle, freshman diver Miles Ronbeck and many other strong competitors.

As the Huskies get set to enter the toughest part of the their sched-ule, they must first get past the South Florida Bulls.

After a matchup with conference opponent USF (12-9, 4-3 Big East) tomorrow after-noon, the team’s next four games will be against ranked opponents before traveling to Oklahoma Feb. 13 to face the 12-5 Sooners. That slate includes visits to No. 5 Duke and No. 16 Louisville, as well as a show-down with No. 11 Rutgers, who sits just a half-game behind UConn in the Big East standings

with a 6-1 conference record.But first comes the matchup

with USF, which has won three of its last four games, includ-

ing a 66-63 win over then-No. 21 DePaul. The Bulldogs fea-ture three players averaging double figures, led by senior guard Jasmine Wynne’s 16 points per game. Juniors Inga Orekhova and Kaneisha Saunders follow at 13.7 points and 12.4 points, respectively.

The Huskies have won six straight since falling at No. 2 Notre Dame in over-time Jan. 7, and that can laregly in part be acredited to the hot streak of Tiffany Hayes.

The 5-foot-10 guard dropped in 35 points – including 19 in the first half – to lead No.

3 UConn (18-2, 7-1 Big East) to a 95-54 beatdown of the Orange in game No. 136 of her career.

“Syracuse is a good team, and they’re not going to give up,” Hayes told UConnHuskies.com after the game. “I knew that in the second half we were going to have to come out with our ‘A’ game or it was not going to be a pretty game.”

After Hayes’ early efforts helped UConn race out to a 40-33 lead at intermission, it was her starting backcourt mates – soph-omore point Bria Hartley and freshman Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis – that helped the Huskies run away with it in the second.

Hartley scored 18 points and dished out a team-high seven assists, while Mosqueda-Lewis, fresh off receiving her sixth Freshman of the Week on Monday, had 19 points and eight rebounds in the win.

It marked the first career

The No. 24 UConn men’s basketball team is going “platinum.” For one game, anyway.

The Huskies will sport new alternate uniforms for Sunday’s game at noon against Notre Dame at the XL Center. The new threads, compliments of Nike,

were unveiled earlier this week and will be worn by seven past men’s national champion teams. UConn will wear the uniforms, which are dominated by the dark gray “platinum” primary color and black and “electric” red trim, for only Sunday’s game in Hartford.

The jerseys include new “sweatback” designs. The Huskies will also sport new warmups, com-memorating the school’s three NCAA national championships on the back. Syracuse, Florida, Kentucky, Duke, Arizona and North Carolina will also wear the Nike “Pro

Combat” uniforms this season. The UConn women’s basketball team and Baylor women’s basketball team will also wear the gray non-traditional alternates.

Losers of two games in a row, the Huskies are hopeful that the flashy modern uniforms will trans-late to success on the court. UConn most recently lost at Tennessee 60-57 on Saturday. Jeremy Lamb and Shabazz Napier scored 23 and 18 points, respec-tively. There was no other offense to be found as no bench players scored and Lamb and Napier were the only players to score over six points.

harder than we did. That’s how they won the

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Raiding Rutgers

Huskies take on USF before tough stretch

UConn’s Tiffany Hayes makes a pass through North Carolina defenders in a Jan. 16 game. The Huskies rolled past the Tar Heels 86-35.

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HUSKIES GOING PLATINUM

UConn point guard Shabazz Napier looks for his options as he dribbles past a Cincinnati defender on Jan. 18. The Huskies lost 70-67.

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Men don new Nike Pro Combat jerseys as they take on the Irish

Mac Cerullo

By James HuangCampus Correspondent

By Ryan TeppermanStaff Writer

A UConn swimmer competes in a Feb. 5, 2011 meet at Yale University.

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» NAPIER, page 12

BASKETBALL

18-2, 7-1

Sat., 1 p.m., CPTVHartford, Conn.

VS.

12-9, 4-3

» GOLDBERG, page 11

BASKETBALL

14-5, 4-3

Sun., Noon, SNYHartford, Conn.

VS.

13-8, 5-3

» HAYES, page 12

The Big East coaching exodus continued yesterday when Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano left the school to become the head coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Schiano had been the head coach at Rutgers for 11 years, and during that time, he lifted the team from the dank cel-lar of college football’s ranks and led the team to winning seasons in six of the last seven years.

He was also poised to rein in one of his best recruiting class-es ever, but with national sign-ing day less than a week away, the timing of his departure couldn’t have been worse for Rutgers or better for UConn.

This past year has been gloomy for UConn football. First Randy Edsall skipped town the morning after the program’s biggest game, then one of the program’s biggest donors had a hissy fit after he felt disrespected, and once the season started, the team struggled while dealing with the specter of a conference that seemed ready to implode at any moment.

I say it’s time to move past the negativity and have some fun again. What better way to start than by taking a page out of the ACC’s playbook and poaching all of Rutgers’ best recruits?

As it stands, there are a lot of Rutgers recruits who are feeling very uneasy this morning, including many who UConn had been going after.

Perhaps the biggest poten-tial coup is New Jersey’s top offensive line prospect Ryan Brodie, who had narrowed his final two college choices to Rutgers and UConn. Brodie announced his commitment to Rutgers just days ago, but now he will reportedly re-open his recruitment, giving UConn a second chance.

The fact that Brodie was informed of Schiano’s depar-ture through a text message from a UConn assistant proba-bly isn’t going to hurt UConn’s chances.

But Brodie is only one of an impressive crop of blue chip commits who may now seek a new home. Rutgers had commitments from four-star prospects such as J.J. Denman and Chris Muller (offensive linemen), Leonte Carroo (wide receiver) and Quanzell Lambert (linebacker) and was considered a favorite to lock down the program’s first five-star recruit, defensive end Darius Hamilton.

Hamilton reportedly was deciding between Rutgers and Florida, while Denman had just switched from Wisconsin to Rutgers last week. Regardless of where they were thinking about being before, Pasqualoni needs to be aggressive and sell UConn to as many of these guys as possible. Convincing even one of them to come to Storrs would be a huge victory for the program.

One only needs to think back to the Fiesta Bowl to see why. Oklahoma rolled over UConn for one simple reason: they were bigger, faster and stronger than the Huskies at every position. The only way that is ever going to change is if UConn can start bringing in more talented prospects to close that gap.

And if that means stealing a few from Rutgers along the way, then even better.

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