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From garden to table, EcoHouse plans to include edible plants.
Huskies open 2012 at The Rent against UMass.
UConn climbs from No. 16 to No. 5 on the Sierra Club’s list of “Cool Schools”in one year.
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PwC BBQ11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
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School of Business students are
invited to come to a barbecue host-ed by PwC. Lunch will be provided, along with a raffle for a dinner with PwC and PwC giveaways
“Choosing to Be Civil”12 p.m. to 1 p.m.
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FAMILEE Mentoring Program Info session12 to 1 p.m.
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UConn Football vs. UMass7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
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Columnist Randy Cohen inspires students to be ethical in every day life.
Storrs to welcome UConn Health Center branch in 2013
President plans to reduce class sizes
UConn will hire about 200 faculty members over the next four years to improve the cur-rent student to teacher ratio and expand the research field.
“The student to teacher ratio isn’t great right now,” said UConn President Susan Herbst. “We want to improve that. It’s currently about 19:1 and ideally we want to get it down to 16:1 or 15:1. The class sizes right now are too big. We need to try to get them down.”
Herbst stressed the points of improving the quality of learn-ing for students as well as class-room relations with teachers. Currently many professors are having a difficult time meeting with students due to large class sizes.
Many upperclassmen are having difficult time fulfill-ing requirements due to lim-ited classes and Herbst said she hopes to solve this prob-lem with this multi-year plan. A larger faculty will allow for more courses to be offered to students as well as new majors.
“The goals of hiring in our
department is to be able to offer advanced courses and to devel-op the Chinese major,” said Dr. Rosa Helena Chinchilla, Department Head Literatures, Cultures and Languages. “This past semester we hired two new faculty in Judaic Studies and Hebrew. And we will develop the Hebrew major this year. The two new Chinese professors and one assistant professor in resi-dence would allow us to offer 11 new courses in Chinese.”
In order to provide fund-ing for more faculty student’s tuition will increase between 5.5 percent and 6.25 percent each year, according UConn Today. A lot of other sources are tapped out of money and there are bud-get cuts in Connecticut leading to raising the tuition one of the only options, Herbst said. The Board of Trustees approved the plan in December 2011.
Besides reducing class sizes by adding more faculty, Herbst said she hopes it will allow for better research opportunities within UConn. Another goal is to strengthen research capacity within various departments so as to not fall behind other uni-
UConn Health Center will open a Storrs Center branch in December 2013.
The Health Center will be located on One Royce Circle and will boast 18,000 square feet, according to Jim Thibeault, the director of Planning and Strategy at the UConn Health Center. It will have many services available, including urgent care, radiol-ogy and a laboratory speci-men draw station, Thibeault said. It will also have servic-es for primary care, internal medicine, and occupational medicine, Thibeault said.
The specialists at the new Heath Center will include orthopedics, cardiologists, gynecologists and psychia-trists.
“The UConn Health Center decided to put a health facil-ity in the new Storrs Center because there was an oppor-tunity and a need,” Thibeault said. “Every town has medi-cal needs. The UConn Health Center has the expertise to fill those needs. The Storrs cam-pus is surrounded by towns that have a population of over 72,000 people. There are
unmet medical needs in the area for primary care, urgent care and specialty medi-cal services. Area residents must travel to Windham, Manchester or Hartford to receive basic care. In addi-tion, the Storrs campus has over 5,000 state employees and 20,000 students that could benefit from the placement of medical services within the campus center.”
The Center will also add employment to the area, cre-ating 48 more available jobs. The new Health Center will be one of many branch centers throughout the state. Currently the main center is located in Farmington, with many satel-lite campuses located in Avon, West Hartford, East Hartford, Simsbury and Southington
“In addition to providing health services to area resi-dents, the placement of these medical facilities within the Storrs Center will provide greater opportunities for the UConn School of Medicine located in Farmington to col-laborate with the other health related schools located on the Storrs campus includ-ing the Schools of Nursing, Allied Health and Pharmacy,” Thibeault said.
“The Health Center is part of the University of Connecticut and is at the center of Bioscience Connecticut,” said Howard Kaufman, the managing member of Leyland Alliance and master devel-oper of Storrs Center, in an interview for UConn Today. “It is an honor to have such a prestigious health care orga-nization join us as an integral part of the Storrs Center com-munity.”
Students are also excited about the new construction so close to campus.
“Although I am a senior, having more convenience to a health center near the UConn campus would certainly be an important asset in the pre-medical education of undergraduate students,” said Nisarg Chhaya, 8th-semester Physiology and Neurobiology major.
Thibeault said the UConn Health Center will look to expand medical services in the Storrs Center based on identified needs of the area residents. If other specialties are requested in the future, the Health Center will work to meet those needs.
Student voice impacts vendor selection
Dining Services is listening to the student voices for the new food vendor selections in the Union.
Freshens, a smoothie chain, has been added to the ranks of UConn cuisine at the sug-gestions of students through Dining Services. UCSubs, a UConn original sandwich sta-tion, is a temporary vendor which will be replaced by a different shop once Dining Services surveys students on what type of store students want in the location.
“Freshens came out of requests from students,” said
Dining Services Director Dennis Pierce.
Dining services consulted the Undergraduate Student Government and the Student Policy Counsel responsible for the Student Union in their search for a new addition to the Union food selection, according to Pierce. Taking into account what students had requested, Dinning Services began comparing national chains used by other colleges. They wanted a store whose business model was compat-ible with meal plan points and who offered healthy, natural options.
“I’m really excited to go to
Freshens,” Jasmine Lui, a 3rd semester finance major said.
Freshens offers a range of all natural smoothies each with one free “booster”, such as MET-Rx® Protein™, which provides 15 percent of the recommended amount of daily protein, and Focus™, which offers an energy and concentration boost, accord-ing to the Freshens menu. As part of the Union Street Market, points are accepted at the Union Freshens.
“I’ve been to the Freshens,” Aaron Csehau, a 1st semes-ter nursing major said. “It was a really good smoothie. Definitely worth it.”
UCSubs is different from Freshens in that it is run by Dining Services, is not part of the Union Street Market and does not accept points. UCSubs offers students with a choice of sandwiches sport-ing college-themed names, such as Pop Quiz and Resume Builder.
“I thought it was a clever Subway-themed thing going on,” Rachelle Jean-Paul, a 7th semester molecular cell biol-ogy major, said. “It was nice it was open after the market-place closed.”
UCSubs is a self-bound temporary store open only until a more permanent out-
side vendor can be found to fill the space. Because it is located beside Panda Express and Wendy’s, restaurants that do not accept points, Dining Services felt it would be unwise to have a store, even if temporary, that accepted points in that location.
A survey will be conduct-ed to determine what type of stores students would like in that location. A “request for proposal” will be issued after the completion of the survey and companies will bid on the space.
UCSubs sandwich shop (left) and Freshens smoothies (right), located in the Student Union, present students with new dining options. Freshens was chosen because of student requests,and with a survey, student voices will decide what will be permanently placed in UCSubs station. Freshens accepts meal plan points while UCSubs, operated by Dining Services, does not accept meal plan points.
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New vendors freshen up food selection at Student Union per student requestsBy Katherine TibedoStaff Writer
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Tolland doctor pleads guilty to child porn charge
NEW HAVEN (AP) — A family doctor from Tolland has plead-ed guilty to federal child pornography charges, admitting he used a file-sharing service to trade thousands of images and videos.
Dr. Carl Koplin pleaded guilty Wednesday to a single count of receipt of child pornography.
Prosecutors say investigators were able to download about 300 images and videos of child porn from an Internet directory traced to Koplin’s computer. They say the FBI seized Koplin’s desktop computer and other storage media in July, 2010, and found 800 gigabytes of child porn.
Koplin, whose medical license expires on Friday, faces a mini-mum of five years in prison when he is sentenced on Dec. 11.
New Haven man charged with home invasion killingNEW HAVEN (AP) — A New Haven man was being held
Wednesday on $3 million bond on charges of killing a man during a home invasion last year.
Tashaun Fair, 19, faces charges of home invasion and felony mur-der in the shooting death of Mitchell Dubey. He made a brief appear-ance Wednesday in New Haven Superior Court. A public defender who represented him in court did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Police said there was no association between Fair and Dubey. Dubey was shot once in the chest on March 24, 2011, police said. He was taken to St. Raphael’s hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police had responded to reports of a man shot in a home on Bassett Street just after 10 p.m. Police say a masked man knocked on the door of the residence before opening fire.
Waterbury kindergartners dropped at wrong stop
WATERBURY (AP) — A Waterbury school bus driver has been suspended after dropping two kindergartners off at the wrong bus stop.
WVIT-TV reports the twins were put off the bus Monday afternoon about a half mile from their home, despite rules that require kindergar-teners to wear tags with their home address, and have an adult meet them at their stop.
The children’s father met the bus, only to find the twins were not on board. A neighbor found the children at another stop and brought them home.
The school notified the bus company, Durham School Services, which suspended the driver for three days and ordered additional training.
» NATIONNational Guard ends rescue
efforts in flooded areaNEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Louisiana National Guard says
they’ve wrapped up rescue operations in Plaquemines Parish, which was hit hard by flooding as Isaac stormed through.
National Guard spokesman Capt. Lance Cagnolatti says guardsmen are confident they’ve swept the thinly populated area and no one is still there.
Guardsmen rescued between 60 and 70 people in the area. None had any serious injuries, though an elderly woman who required dialysis was taken to a hospital. Cagnolatti says the search turned up no bodies in the floodwater.
Flooding has plagued the area since Isaac sloshed ashore Tuesday evening as a Category 1 hurricane. Officials plan to intentionally breach a levee in the area to alleviate pressure on it.
Defendant in Texas rape case disappears from trial
LIBERTY, Texas (AP) — One of the men accused in a series of repeated sexual assaults of a young Texas girl disappeared from his trial Wednesday, following a day of emotional testimony from the now 13-year-old girl who cried as a video of one of the encounters was played for jurors.
Testimony continued despite the absence of 20-year-old defen-dant Eric McGowen, who is one of 14 adults accused of having sex with the girl during a nearly three-month span two years ago. Six boys also are charged in the case.
Prosecutors and defense attorneys huddled briefly with District Judge Mark Morefield in front of his bench when defendant Eric McGowen, 20, failed to return to the courtroom following an afternoon break. The judge then told jurors the trial would go on without him.
April 23
Kevin A. Engel, 18, of Manchester, was arrested at 10:58 p.m. at B Project Service Road and charged with driving with a suspended license, driving under the influence and unsafe move-ment of a vehicle from a stopped position. Police stopped Engel’s car on B Project Service Road for unsafe movement from a stopped position. Police suspected Engel was under the influence of alcohol and Engel was subjected to a series of sobriety tests, which he failed. A check of DMV records indicated that Engel had a suspended driv-er’s license. His bond was posted at $1000 and his court date was on May 1.
April 25
Alan U. Ponce, 23, of Chino, CA, was arrested at 6:22 a.m. at North Eagleville Road and charged with giving a false state-ment in the second degree and interfering with an officer. Ponce turned himself in on an active warrant for his arrest stemming from an incident that occurred on September 3, 2011, and a sub-sequent investigation found that Ponce had interfered with police and given a false statement. His bond was posted at $1000 and his court date was on April 25.
April 26
Dennis A. Ragoza, 23, of Trumbull, was arrested at 12:15 a.m. at North Hillside Road and charged with failure to drive on the right side of the road, failure to drive in the proper lane on a multi-lane highway and driving while under the influence. Police stopped Ragoza’s car for crossing the double yellow line on North Hillside Road. After speaking with Ragoza, police suspected him of being under the influence. Ragoza was subjected to a series of sobri-ety tests, which he failed. His bond was posted at $500 and his court date was on May 7.
Erik A. Damiani, 22, of Southbury, was arrested at 12:56 a.m. at King Hill Road and charged with failure to have headlights lit and driving while under the influ-ence. Police stopped Damiani’s car on King Hill Road for fail-ure to have headlights lit. Officers suspected Damiani was under the influence and Damiani was sub-jected to a series of sobriety tests, which he failed. His bond was posted at $500 and his court date was on May 9.
William G. Senesac, 40, of Coventry, was arrested at 7:25 a.m. at Lake Street and charged with larceny of the sixth degree. Senesac was taken into custody
at his Coventry residence on an active warrant for larceny in the sixth degree and was transported to the UConn Police Department headquarters. His bond was posted at $440 and his court date was on April 26.
April 27
Robert M. Keohane, 22, of Tyngsborough, MA, was arrested at 1:07 a.m. at Hunting Lodge Road and charged with failure to drive on the right side of the road and driving under the influence. Police stopped Keohane’s car after observing it cross over the double yellow line on Hunting Lodge Road. Police suspected Keohane of being under the influence and Keohane was subjected to a series of sobriety tests, which he failed. His bond was posted at $500 and his court date was on May 7.
Tabor J. Crumrine, 21, of Washington, was arrested at 6:34 p.m. at North Eagleville Road and charged with procuring alcohol for a minor. Police observed Crumrine leaving Ted’s Liquor Store with a 30 pack of beer and two large bot-tles of liqueur. Crumrine met with two individuals and gave them the alcohol. After a brief investigation it was determined that Crumrine purchased the alcohol for these two individuals, who were under the legal drinking age of 21. His bond was set at $1000 and his court date was May 8.
Geoffery I. Ecker, 27, of Willington, was arrested on Route 195 and charged with failure to drive on the right side of the road, driving under the influence and traveling at an unreasonable speed. Police stopped Ecker’s car for traveling unreasonably fast and failing to drive on the right side of the road. Police suspected Ecker of being under the influence and Ecker was subjected to a series of sobriety tests, which he failed. His bond was posted at $500 and his court date was on May 7.
April 28
Brad A. Watson, 20, of Hartford, was arrested at 12:48 a.m. at B Project Service Road and charged with driving under the influence and driving the wrong way on a one-way street. Police stopped Watson’s car after observing it traveling the wrong way on B Project Service Road. Police sus-pected Watson of being under the influence and Watson was sub-jected to a series of sobriety tests, which he failed. His bond was posted at $500 and his court date was on May 5.
Justin R. Hill, 19, of South Orange, NJ, was arrested at 3:15 p.m. at North Eagleville Road and charged with first offense of pos-session of less than a half-ounce of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and criminal mis-chief in the fourth degree. Police responded to a complaint in Room 202 of Terry Hall concerning the smell of marijuana. An investiga-tion revealed that Hill had tam-pered with the smoke detector in Room 202 and was in posses-sion of less than half an ounce of marijuana, drug paraphernalia and
a controlled substance. His bond was posted at $10000 and his court date was on April 30.
Luke B. Wolmer, 18, of Smithtown, NY, was arrested at 12:05 a.m. at North Eagleville Road and charged with a first offense of possessing less than a half-ounce of marijuana and pos-session of a controlled substance. Police on a patrol check of North Campus found Wolmer to be in possession of a marijuana joint. After a brief investigation, Wolmer was also to be in possession of four adderral pills, a controlled substance, that were not his pre-scription.
May 3
Nathan A. Ross, 21, of Storrs, was arrested at 12:28 a.m. at Separatist Road and charged with driving under the influence and a stop sign violation. Police stopped Ross’s car after he failed to obey a stop sign on Hunting Lodge Road at its intersection with Separatist Road. Police suspected Ross to be under the influence and Ross was subjected to a series of sobriety tests, which he failed. His bond was posted at $500 and his court date was on May 15.
Jonathan A. Custardo, 22, of Norwalk, was arrested at 11:04 p.m. at Hunting Lodge Road and was charged with failure to drive on the right side of the road, driv-ing under the influence and trav-eling at an unreasonable speed. Police stopped Custardo’s car on Hunting Lodge Road for travel-ing unreasonably fast and failing to drive on the right side. Police suspected Custardo was under the influence and Custardo was sub-jected to a series of sobriety tests, which he failed. His bond was posted at $500 and his court date was on May 14.
May 5
Robert T. Cardin, 19, of Glastonbury, was arrested at 9:47 a.m. at UConn Buckley Resident Dormitory and charged with crim-inal mischief in the third degree. Police were dispatched to UConn’s Buckley Dormitory complex for a vandalism report. After a brief investigation, police identified Cardin as the person responsible for spray-painting graffiti inside and around the complex. His bond was posted at $1000 and his court date was on May 15.
May 7
Jamieson P. Maurer, 22, of West Hartford, was arrested at 1:00 a.m. at North Eagleville Road and was charged with failure to drive on the right side of the road, driving an unregistered vehicle, driving under the influence, and traveling at an unreasonable speed. Police stopped Maurer’s car and sus-pected Maurer of being under the influence. Maurer was subjected to a series of sobriety tests, which he failed. His bond was posted at $500 and his court date was on May 14.
May 9
Micheal S. Naple, 19, of East
Hartford, was arrested at 10:00 p.m. and charged with criminal mischief in the third degree. Naple turned himself in on an active arrest warrant charging him with two counts of criminal mischief in the third degree. The warrant stemmed from an incident in which Naple was responsible for vandalizing vehicles in A-Lot on March 5, 2012. His bond was posted at $1000 and his court date was on May 22.
May 15
Nicholas F. Gagliardi, 38, of New Britain, was arrested at 1:45 p.m. at the UConn Police Department and charged with fail-ure to appear in the second degree. Gagliardi arrived at the UConn Police Department because he had an active warrant for his arrest. Gagliardi failed to appear in court on January 31, 2012, after being arrested for motor vehicle vio-lations and weapons violation at UConn on April 21, 2011. His bond was posted at $500 and his court date was on May 29.
May 16
Michael Mudrik, 20, of Brooklyn, NY, was arrested at 7:08 p.m. at Bolton Road and charged with possession of drug paraphernalia, distribution of mari-juana or a controlled substance, illegal possession near a school, illegal possession of narcotics with intent to sell near a school, interfering with an officer, and possession of a controlled sub-stance or less than four ounces of marijuana. Police received a call of possible narcotics use in a vehi-cle parked in S-Lot. When police arrived, Mudrik exited his vehicle and attempted to leave the area, disobeying police orders to stop. After a brief investigation, Mudrik was found in possession of 56.6 grams of marijuana, several pieces of drug paraphernalia and 19 pills of Concerta, a controlled substance packaged for sale. Mudrik did not have a prescription for Concerta. Mudrik was found in possession of these items within 1500 feet of a school. His bond was posted at $10000 and his court date was on May 17.
May 21
Latoya L. Radway, 20, of Bridgeport, was arrested at 9:58 a.m. at the UConn Police Station and charged with burglary in the third degree, larceny in the sixth degree and possession of a con-trolled substance or less than four ounces of marijuana, Radway came to the UConn Police Station to turn herself in on an active arrest warrant. The warrant stemmed from an incident that occurred on April 22, 2012 when Radway entered another student’s unlocked, unoccupied dormitory without permission. After enter-ing the room unlawfully, Radway stole several Ritalin and Q-tips. Her bond was posted at $1500 and her court date was on May 29.
May 26
David J. McKinley, 23, of Storrs, was arrested at 2:16 a.m. at Hunting Lodge Road and charged with possession of drug parapher-nalia and possession of a halluci-nogenic or less than four ounces of marijuana. McKinley was the passenger of a vehicle stopped on Hunting Lodge by Celeron Apartments. After a brief investi-gation, McKinley was found to be in possession of MDMA, better known as ecstasy, and drug para-phernalia. His bond was posted at $2500 and his court date was on June 5.
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EcoHouse proposes new design for historic Whitney garden
Tuition to increase with faculty expansionsversities. “It’s not about improving departments,” said
Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, Michael Kirk. “It’s about strengthening our research and teaching capacity. We want a mixture of recruiting great researchers and providing more courses for students so they can graduate on time.”
According to the Faculty Hiring for Year Two, various departments that range from CLAS, phar-macy, genomics, digital medias, and many others are currently hiring new teachers. Not all depart-ments will see new staff members but they are targeting fields that meet student’s demands, Kirk said.
“A lot of students have struggles especially juniors and seniors that they are missing courses they need to graduate so it sounds great that there will be more faculty,” said Matt Tierno, 7th semes-ter journalism and political science double major. “It will be a lot less stressful with new faculty.”
“This cluster hire is particularly significant because if we only hired one faculty member, then we could not hope to offer a major in the Academic Year 2013-2014,” said Chinchilla. “We know that, in addition, the hires in Asian Studies in History and the Asian Studies Institute will compliment the related courses for the major in Chinese.”
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The overgrown, shabby-looking garden in front of Whitney Dining Hall might look unas-suming but it is steeped in UConn history. Called the Knot Garden, it was created to com-memorate 100 years of women at UConn. Its adjoining building, Sprague, was named after Amestella Sprague, UConn’s first female Dean. With these associations, the Knot Garden repre-sents many revolutions in thought, and now with EcoHouse’s planned Permaculture garden it will become the symbol of yet another revolution.
Tanner Burgdorf, a senior in Landscape Architecture and fourth year EcoHouse resi-dent, is leading the project with help from many EcoHouse members. Burgdorf hopes to create a garden that is both aesthetically pleasing while being functional and sustainable.
“Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals, and takes from nature. If you think of any sort of ecosystem, any sort
of forest, its very much self sufficient, every-thing biodegrades into the soil and there is a definite interconnectedness between the plants and the animals. But with modern gardening and agriculture we’ve kind of stepped away from that. Permaculture is taking that idea in a slightly more structured way. You are still creating a garden that is aesthetically pleasing but using those inherent qualities to create an ecosystem. Essentially, you are replicating an ecosystem. You’re planting flowers and plants that are attracting beneficial insects who will protect your plants from negative pests. And you are including variability in plantings,” said Burgdorf.
“We will also be focusing on purposeful plant-ing, and one way we will do this is to plant only species native to New England. They will be more accustomed to the types of soils here, the climate, and will lead to a more successful planting. We will also choose plants keeping in mind weather patterns and water availability. Purposefully picking plants like this will lead to
a more sustainable garden.The permaculture aims to be an example
against many unsustainable practices being used in gardening and farming today, such as the planting of monocultures and use of pesticides and synthetic fertilizers to support non-native plant growth.
“Often what you see in agriculture is just monoculture, that is planting only one type of plant purely for the sake of getting as much pro-duction as possible, and not planting anything to benefit the environment. This garden would challenge that and show that you can be just as productive while encompassing different types of plants,” said Burgdorf.
Burgdorf hopes that the permaculture garden will lead to changes in the community’s relation-ship with food and space in addition to a change in the thinking in agricultural science.
“This garden has potential to bring about an awareness of purposeful planting and awareness of our connection to our food. Landscapes are usually passive: they can do amazing things but
maybe aren’t as functional or as interactive as they could be,” said Burgdorf.
“And this garden is getting at the idea that you can do all those things while still being functional. And it empowers the people who get involved. It’s not just a garden; it’s also a place where people can gain confidence about their ability to grow some of their own food. I see this project kind of encompassing all of campus, and providing a shared space where everyone can go out to and know that they are a part of the answer to why it’s successful.”
Burgdorf plans to have many edible plants in the garden.
“It will have many herbs that Whitney Dining Hall has specifically asked for, including a lot of chives oregano and thyme. Some annual vegetable crops like onions, eggplants, peppers and some shrubs like blueberries. After comple-tion, the permaculture garden will satisfy all of Whitney’s needs for herbs.”
By Deepti BoddapatiCampus Correspondent
War on unemployment: France offers to pick up tab for young
PARIS (AP) — The French government wants companies to hire young people so much that it’s offering to pick up the tab.
The new Socialist president, Francois Hollande, told his Cabinet Wednesday that he wants to wage a war on unemployment and unveiled a plan for the government to pay most of the salaries of tens of thousands of young people hired next year.
Unemployment in France is 10 percent, but nearly 23 percent for those under the age of 25. That’s an imbalance that many European countries are strug-gling with: In Spain, youth unemployment is over 52 percent; it’s 34 percent in Italy.
European employers are especially reluctant to hire young people because restrictive labor laws make it hard for companies to lay off employees. What’s more, in France, young people are typically required to do a series of often unpaid internships before landing a full-time job or can only manage to get short-term contracts for years on end.
But few countries are approaching the problem in the way that France is. Italy and Spain have proposed modest tax breaks for companies that hire people just entering the workforce but have focused more on fundamental reforms of the labor market that they hope will address the root causes.
Under France’s new plan, companies that hire a person between 16 and 25 for at least a year will only have to pay as little as 25 percent of the salary. The government hopes to create 100,000 of these “contracts for the future” next year and another
50,000 in 2014. It has promised to continue paying its share of the employee’s salary for three years.
The government will give preference to young people hired from poor urban or rural areas that have been hit hardest by rising unemployment. Certain sectors will also be favored, such as medi-cine and digital or green technology.
“We are waging a battle for jobs,” Hollande told Cabinet ministers, according to government spokeswoman Najat Vallaud-Belkacem. “It’s the No. 1 challenge of our mandate.”
Some economists were skeptical of the approach.“Making the structures of the economy more
competitive and better performing is what really has to drive the thinking (in countries such as Spain, Italy and Greece),” said Nicolas Veron, an econo-mist affiliated with the Brussels-based think tank Bruegel and the Peterson Institute in Washington. “It’s not about targeted programs; it’s about the structure of the (labor) market.”
Whereas countries like Spain and Italy have recently passed wide-ranging labor market reforms to regain waning investor confidence in their econ-omies, France has so far been able to put off those kinds of tough decisions. Investor confidence in France has remained relatively strong in part because of the sheer size of the economy — it is the eurozone’s second-largest — and also the fact that its neighbors are worse off. But experts warn France will eventually also have to face the need to reform its economy.
French President Francois Hollande, left, waves to the media as he leave the first Cabinet meeting after the traditional August holiday, with Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian, right, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Wednesday, Aug 22, 2012.
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140 missing, 6 rescued as boat sinks off Indonesia
CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Rescuers were searching for scores of asylum seekers Thursday, a day after their boat sank off the Indonesian coast. Six people were rescued, but more than 140 remained missing.
The emergency was the latest in a series cre-ated by a growing human smuggling trade in which thousands of would-be refugees from countries including Afghanistan, Iran and Sri Lanka travel from Indonesia to Australia in overcrowded fishing boats.
More than 90 died when two boats sank within a week in June and more than 300 have lost their lives making the perilous journey across the Sunda Strait between Indonesia and the Australian territory of Christmas Island since last December.
In the latest incident, a boat reportedly carrying 150 asylum seekers sank off the main Indonesian island of Java on Wednesday.
The crew of a merchant ship taking part in the search, Liberian-flagged APL Bahrain, spotted sur-vivors in the water early Thursday 75 kilometers (45 miles) southwest of Java and rescued six, Home Affairs Minister Jason Clare said.
“There are grave fears for a lot more,” Clare told reporters.
The Bahrain’s captain, Manuel Nistorescu, told the Fairfax Media website that he also saw what he believed were bodies in the water.
“I think I saw some of them dead,” he said.Nistorescu said the six rescued, all Afghan
men, had been in the water for almost 24 hours. There were also women and children aboard the asylum-seeker boat when it sank, he said. The rescued men appeared to be in good condition and were given overalls from the ship to wear,
he said.Nistorescu said he was about to abandon the search
when he heard whistles and yelling from the dark water.
Australian Maritime Safety Authority spokeswom-an Jo Meehan said another four merchant ships and an Australian military aircraft had joined the search and rescue operation.
Two Indonesian government ships, an Australian navy patrol boat and two planes from Australia were to join the search later Thursday, she said.
Australian authorities received a call by satellite phone from someone aboard the missing boat early Wednesday requesting help. The person said there were 150 people aboard and the vessel had engine trouble. The boat was then 15 kilometers (9 miles) off Java, officials said.
Indonesian authorities launched a search with two boats and a helicopter but found no trace of the boat by late Wednesday.
Meehan said Australia had offered ships and air-craft to help the Indonesians search Wednesday, but that the offer was not taken up.
The survivors were spotted after Australian authori-ties expanded the search area based on drift patterns.
Clare, who is the minister responsible for Australian rescue authorities, said Indonesia should not be criti-cized for failing to find survivors on Wednesday.
“It is very hard to find people that are in distress on a little wooden boat in the middle of the Sunda Strait,” he said.
Richard Marles, Australia’s junior foreign minister, said the emergency highlighted the need for Australia to urgently establish detention camps in the Pacific island states of Papua New Guinea and Nauru to hold asylum seekers who reach Australia by boat.
Over 70% of stu-dents at UConn are, like me, from Connecticut. This
can be a great thing- it makes a school as big as UConn feel a little smaller and a little more comfortable.
As a freshman, I definitely appreciate the familiar faces, and the impression I’ve got-ten in my four days so far is
that most stu-dents know at least a couple of people from their graduat-ing class here.
It’s been very reassuring to already have a few friends around to help me through the first week, as I’m sure it was for many others, but my situation is a little different. There are 126 students from my graduating class starting as freshmen this year.
At first I saw nothing wrong with this. I’m incredibly proud that so many people from my high school were accepted here and chose to stay instate and bring our talents, abilities and new ideas to UConn. With one-quarter of my class here, I’ve had a whole network of people in many different pro-grams all over campus that I have been able to turn to since day one. My transition to college has undoubtedly
been easier, but I’m starting to see some downsides.
There are three students in my building alone from my town (one three doors down from me), and there seem to be people I rec-ognize everywhere I go. In the grip of freshman nerves (a strangling, crip-pling, vice-like grip, for those of you who don’t remember), I ended up spending a lot of my free time with these people, and at times felt like I was right back in high school. As an unsure new student, it seems so easy to fall into a familiar rhythm, but I think one of the most important parts of this time will be break-ing those rhythms. Just about everyone who has had any-thing to say to me about col-lege has told me to get out of my comfort zone, and I am now trying my best to make new friends. One of the things I want now that I’m at UConn is to not be the same person I was in high school, and that’s a bit more difficult with so many people who will recognize a change. While I absolutely want to maintain contact with my high school class, I want a col-lege experience too. Although I’m sure many of
my classmates feel the same way, I’ve seen a lot of them hanging out with the same groups they were part of in
high school. It can be stressful trying to make new friends and may seem unnecessary with so many old friends around, but I don’t think that should prevent anyone from reaching out. By keeping as much the same about high school and college as possible, students can miss out on one of the biggest opportunities this new stage in life affords. Young people often see themselves through the eyes of the people they keep around them, and college wipes that slate clean and gives a person a new chance to decide who they
want to be. I’m not suggesting that freshmen should forget the friends who have come all this way with them, but that
they should make room for those relationships to shift. The world just got a lot wider for all of us, and our places in it, as we find them, will likely be different from the ones we’ve gotten used to. We leave our homes and friends in order to start fresh, and this should be a time when we’re open to change.
The relationships I made in high school are among the most impor-tant to me, and I intend to preserve them, but I’m also going to try and
make my college experience something new and differ-ent. This is not to say that I consider my former/current classmates unmoving scenery in my life, they’re the people I grew up with and we’ll all find our own directions in college.
I hope that I can learn some-thing new about all of them.
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The first column of the year is my favorite. So much happened this summer that annoyed me, so find-ing a topic was simply a matter
of selecting which thing I wanted to talk about. Anyone who took the time to read my columns last year knows that I take my comedy very seriously. As a result, I have to say that the direction of the ongoing “Are
women funny?” debate over the past few months has won my award for most obnox-ious annoyance of the summer. Feminists and comics have been drawing their lines in the sand in this highly contagious debate for quite some time now. It’s reached the point
where we’re simply arguing over the minu-tia of the issue. For example, Ashley Fetters recently wrote a piece for The Atlantic titled “Why do so many pretty female comedians pretend to be ugly?” in which she uses the death of comedy icon Phyllis Diller as a jumping off point to complain that women can’t be beautiful and still be considered funny. She argues that men only tend to laugh when the humor is self-deprecating to the woman in question because, in that way, they don’t feel as threatened by her. This article was my breaking point. It’s not even close to true. Watch the women on NBC’s “Community,” listen to some stand-up from
Whitney Cummings or pick up a copy of Kristen Wigg’s “Bridesmaids,” all of which center around women who are unapologeti-cally funny and beautiful. It would seem that both factions in this unnecessary little war are spinning their wheels at this point and the victor will be whoever gets sick and tired of complaining about this garbage last. Being the comedy snob that I am, I’d like to do my part to put an end to this detrimental argument so that we can have some women in comedy and stop just talking about having women in comedy. What do I mean by that? Every time there is a new female comic in the public eye, she is placed under the microscope. Feminists everywhere jump at the chance to parade funny women around to us as “comedy icons” when, in reality, they’re just okay. There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s unrealistic to expect everyone with two X chromosomes who cracks a joke to be the next Tina Fey. Making every funny woman a mandatory role model for the comedy world is exactly the wrong way to actually get a real role model. No one is capable of living up to that hype who isn’t already an established personality. The result? People start thinking that because women can’t live up to this unre-alistic standard, that they actually aren’t funny. In an interview with the Post in June, comedian Adam Corolla had this to say on the subject of funny women: “When you’re picking a basketball team, you’ll take the brother over the guy with the yarmulke. Why? Because you’re playing the odds. When it comes to comedy, of course there’s
Sarah Silverman, Tina Fey, Kathy Griffin — super-funny chicks. But if you’re play-ing the odds? No.” First of all, shut up Adam Corolla. Second of all, this statement is the kind of misogyny that arises from putting every female come-dian on a pedestal. They aren’t allowed the luxury of being mediocre, which is a luxury that amateur comics of either gender need when starting out. The blame is on both sides; feminists, who seem to think that it’s important to prove to the world that women can be funny, and comics, who aren’t willing to give anyone a pass when just starting out. This is why this argument needs to end – because for the past few years, we’ve seen no rise in a female comedian without having to drag her through the muck that has become the “are women funny?” debacle. Now I’ll stop dancing around the ques-tion: Are women funny? Yes. Of course they are. If videos of cats on Youtube can be funny, then it stands to reason that the other half of the human race can be funny. The real question is: Do they need to be funny? No. Somewhere along the lines, feminists and comics alike got it in their heads that women need to prove their worth as funny people. They don’t. What they need is a little less time in the spotlight so that they can get a chance to earn it someday.
Are women funny? An argument to end the debate
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UConn continues to climb in green
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You know who is a terrible person? Anybody who wears a fedora with a t-shirt.
Walked out of Oak Hall. Entered Narnia.
“The question is not why we’re singing songs in this class. It’s why we’re not singing songs in every class,” said my awesome business law professor.
Watch out hurricane Isaac, New Orleans probably put a bounty on you, precious.
I wonder how many shirts had to be made so the Greek community could match this week.
I spent my introductory statistics lecture admiring how studious all the freshmen are at note taking, reminiscing about how that was me four years ago, and wondering where it all went wrong.
“You can stop by my office and drool all over my feet and even that will help you out,” said nervous TA.
The new chairs at McMahon are terrible. Every time I fart it has nowhere to go and just bounces right back.
As reported by the Daily Campus, UConn Today, and other news sources, UConn was recently ranked No. 5 in this year’s installation of the Sierra Club’s list of “Cool Schools.” In comparison, UConn was rated
No. 16 in 2011, and No. 49 in 2010. This jump in rankings is a great reflection of the work that
students, faculty and staff have recently put in to making UConn a more sustainable campus. Some notable endeavors include retro-commissioning many buildings to be more ener-gy-efficient, purchasing the first all-electric vehicle for Daily Campus deliveries, and USG’s “UConn Cycles” program to promote bicycling among students. We are thankful to every-one who has engaged in these and other projects increasing UConn’s commitment to sustainability.
However, while reflecting on our recent accomplishments, we must also be sure to avoid becoming complacent. There are many things that can be done to further reduce our negative impact on the environment. The UConn community should be continually evaluating our progress and identifying areas where we can improve.
For example, one proposal that deserves consideration is the implementation of a sustainability fee, commonly known as a “green fee.” A fee of $10 per semester would raise $330,000 to $360,000 per year (depending on enrollment,) and this money could be used to fund a myriad of projects to make our campus more sustainable.
Green fees are a growing trend and have been adopted at hundreds of colleges, public and private, in the past decade. Importantly, three out the four colleges ahead of UConn in the Sierra Club’s rankings – the Georgia Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the University of Washington – have recently implemented green fees. Many colleges in our own state have adopted fees of their own, including Connecticut College’s $25 annual fee for the purchase of renewable energy, and Wesleyan University’s $15 semesterly fee for its Green Fund. Existing sustainability fees often allow students to opt-out if they have financial limitations or objections to the projects.
If UConn students wanted to join the ranks of colleges with green fees, they would have to endure a long process which ensures that new fees are not implemented without forethought or the student body’s consent. A group would need to submit a proposal, gather signatures from students in order to bring it to a vote, and have the fee approved by a majority of the student body. Voting on student fees is nothing new to UConn students – just last March, students voted on proposed fee increases for the Undergraduate Student Government, the Daily Campus and the Nutmeg Yearbook.
Of course, the implementation of a new fee should never be taken lightly, and the exact proposal would require significant analysis by the UConn community. It would also have to be ensured that the funds were managed by students and with the utmost level of transparency. However, if we want to continue the trend of growing more environmentally friendly every year, it is a proposal worth serious consideration.
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“My situation is a little different. There are 126 students from my graduating class starting as freshmen this year.”
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The Student Union Theater saw a great turnout for the Go Greek informa-tional session Wednesday night, with a line stretching well past the Blue Cow. Through the doors, members of multiple Greek organizations, as well as represen-tatives of several Greek councils, eagerly awaited to share their input on getting involved in fraternity and sorority life with interested students.
Todd Sullivan, director of fraternity and sorority life at UConn, began the ceremony with a warm welcome and an invitation for attendees to stop by the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life in room 315 of the Student Union. Before opening the stage for the many organiza-tions and councils to come, he advised all students with interest to ask as many questions as possible and to visit www.greeklife.edu.
Next came the Intrafraternal Council, representing eleven fraternities on cam-pus; the Intercultural Greek Council, with eight organizations on campus; the National Panhellenic Council represented by four active branches at UConn; and finally the Panhellenic Council with eight active sororities. The Panhellenic Council urged those interested in attending soror-ity recruitment to visit the Greek Life site immediately, as all registration ends tonight at 11:00PM.
Each group offered a unique side of the Greek experience, but emphasized that fraternities and sororities are designed for and dedicated to upholding academic and social standards among members, as well as fostering a strong ethical code.
Brett Calash, a 5th-semester student and vice president of IFC recruitment,
said, “We’re all about values.”The presentation proceeded to list the
wide range of involvement opportunities that are open to members of Greek Life. These ranged from the Order of Omega, an honor society promoting excellence and leadership, to the large Greek involve-ment in HuskyTHON, a nightlong dance marathon open to the entire University.
Wrapping up the event, a Q&A session allowed students to ask important ques-tions about the many facets of sorority and fraternity life at UConn. This discus-sion led to topics such as the wide range of Alumni networks available to mem-bers of these organizations, community
service opportunities, and life in Husky Village.
Michael Pollack-Twomey, a 7th-semester senior political science major and president of the IFC, closed with wise words, “At the end of the day, we’re all Greek with the same basic purpose and mission.”
Before the informational event, UConn Greek life also held a barbeque on the Northwest Campus quad, where students could meet current fraternity and sorority members and find out more information about different organizations.
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Do good, be good and feel goodAs the vitriolic campaign
season quickly becomes more visible on the horizon, and jaywalkers abound wanton-ly here at UConn with the presumption of classes this week, Randy Cohen came to Jorgensen yesterday with a simple message: be good.
Cohen, who formerly wrote a column for The New York Times aptly titled “The Ethicist,” began his lecture by telling his audience that “we can’t just demand that people do the right thing,” a sentiment very much in line both with his mild eloquence and his belief that humanity, with a little gentle guidance, is more than capable of being benevolent by it’s own voli-tion.
Before embarking on a path of optimism, however, Cohen made sure to highlight the rabid incivility our forefathers had engaged in, though not without laughter.
“It’s a good thing we live in a timid time,” said Cohen, in reference to historic dem-onstrations of poor social eti-quette such as the blugeoning of abolitionist Charles Sumner on the senate floor, or incendi-ary propaganda released dur-ing the candidacy of Thomas Jefferson which painted him as nothing more than a morbid killer of young children.
Perhaps the most salient components of Cohen’s lec-
ture, however, occurred as he spoke of how present society can do its best to avoid simi-lar maliciousness in public interaction.
In particular, Cohen spoke of how “manners, courtesy
[convey] values in society,” giving the well-tread proverb “a good deed can go a long way” new life. Though warn-ing the audience to “be wary of being unethically courte-ous” (his example: the techni-
cally “polite” though insidi-ously-sexist gesture of giving your seat on the subway to a woman in good health rather than an “overburdened” per-son who simply “needs it”), Cohen claims “conduct turns
into belief,” attributing phe-nomena such as the drop of casually-uttered racial epi-thets to this tenant.
Interestingly, in this same vein, Cohen regards “ficti-tious benevolence,” his term
for the flimsy niceties strang-ers engage in if, say, brought to speak to each other on the sidewalk as “social lubri-cant” that itself can “help to change” society.
Kind manners, however, are not the sole device for world change, however, considering them “essential” but not “suf-ficient.”
“By changing a social assumption, it utterly trans-forms human conduct,” said Cohen, who continually stressed that “circumstances, not character” dictated how humans treated one another. Cohen conveyed several star-tling examples on this particu-lar topic, such as the seeming-ly miraculous organization of cagey New York City taxi pas-sengers due to nothing more than a painted queue line set up by the city.
“I thought it was interesting that our day-to-day obligations require us to be nice to each other,” said JT Kelleher, a 5th-semester allied health major.
Indeed, as the lecture drew to its close, courtesy in soci-ety became something not just responsible, but “your moral obligation to build a just soci-ety,” as Cohen said. “Most of us will behave the same way their neighbor behaves.”
As Abhishek Thakur, a 3rd-semester student, cogently put it outside Jorgensen following the lecture: “we are a product of our environment.”
Randy Cohen delivers a lecture Wednesday afternoon in Jorgensen. Cohen is a former New York Times ethical columnist who has also won four Emmys as a writer for shows including ‘Late Night with David Letterman’ and ‘TV Nation.’
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A crash-course in everything GreekBy Connor FrayCampus Correspondent
Members of UConn Greek life present their organizations to students interested in joining a fraternity or sorority in the Student Union Theater on Wednesday night.
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Singer-songwriter Yoko Ono and her son launch anti-fracking coalition in NY
NEW YORK (AP) — Yoko Ono and her son, Sean Lennon, on Wednesday launched a coalition of artists, musicians and filmmakers who oppose hydraulic fracturing in New York state.
The formation of the group Artists Against Fracking was announced at a news confer-ence in Manhattan with Ono, Lennon and Mark Ruffalo, who has long been outspoken on the issue. Other celebrities joining the coalition’s cause include Lady Gaga, Paul McCartney and Alec Baldwin.
The group’s formation comes as Gov. Andrew Cuomo pre-pares to decide whether to
allow shale gas drilling using high-volume hydraulic fractur-ing — known as hydrofracking, or fracking — after four years of studying its health and envi-ronmental impacts. The pro-cess uses millions of gallons of chemically treated water to blast open gas-rich shale deposits deep underground.
Ono and Lennon are calling on the governor to ban drilling in New York, which they said can cause gas wells to leak harmful methane into water supplies. They said their group has requested a meeting with Cuomo to discuss the issue.
In a letter sent to Cuomo on Monday, Ono and Lennon
called fracking “a danger to New Yorkers.”
“Inevitably, the process leads to the release of toxic chemicals — many of which are unknown and unreported — into our air and water,” they wrote.
The letter added: “It is a direct public health threat to families and communities.”
Proponents argue that drilling and fracking in the Marcellus Shale formation, which cov-ers large parts of Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and West Virginia, promises to deliver relatively cheaper natural gas to close customers in the ener-gy-hungry Northeast and create hundreds of well-paying jobs
in an economically depressed region.
Cuomo is expected to allow drilling to begin on a limited basis near the Pennsylvania state line, though Ono said she is confident the governor and fracking supporters will even-tually come around.
“Eventually logic will over-come everything,” she said. “Logic and love.”
The coalition is encourag-ing the public to pressure law-makers to take action against fracking. Beyond that, Ono and Lennon told The Associated Press that their next steps largely depended on Cuomo’s actions in the coming weeks.
Will dispute prevents burial of actor Sherman
Hemsley’s bodyEL PASO, Texas (AP) —
The embalmed body of actor Sherman Hemsley, who became famous for his role as televi-sion’s George Jefferson, will be kept in refrigeration at an El Paso funeral home until a local court rules on the validity of his will.
In the will Hemsley signed six weeks before dying of lung cancer July 24 he named Flora Enchinton, 56, whom he called a “beloved partner,” as sole ben-eficiary of his estate, which is estimated in court documents to be more than $50,000.
The will is being contest-ed by Richard Thornton, of Philadelphia, who claims to be Hemsley’s brother and says the will might not have been made by the actor.
Enchinton told The Associated Press on Wednesday that she had been friends with Hemsley and had been his manager for more than 20 years. Over the time she, Hemsley and Hemsley’s friend Kenny Johnston, 76, lived together, she said he never mentioned any relatives.
“Some people come out of the woodwork — they think
Sherman, they think money,” Enchinton said. “But the fact it that I did not know Sherman when he was in the limelight. I met them when they (Hemsley and Johnston) came running from Los Angeles with not one penny, when there was nothing but struggle.”
Mark Davis, listed in court documents as Thornton’s lawyer in El Paso, did not immediately respond to messages left at his office.
There is no date set for the case to be heard, court officials said. Enchinton said she hopes it will all be cleared in court.
The Philadelphia-born Hemsley played Jefferson in the CBS sitcom “All in the Family,” then starred in the spinoff “The Jeffersons” from 1975 to 1985. It was one of TV’s longest-running and most successful sit-coms, particularly noteworthy for its predominantly black cast.
Hemsley made George Jefferson — the bigoted, blus-tering Harlem businessman — one of TV’s most memorable characters and a symbol for urban upward mobility.
Yahoo fires bureau chief for Romney/blacks remark
NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo News fired its Washington bureau chief on Wednesday, less than 24 hours after he was caught on an open microphone saying that Mitt Romney and his wife, at the Republican convention in Florida while a hurricane was approaching Louisiana, were “happy to have a party with black people drown-ing.”
Company spokeswoman Anne Espiritu said Wednesday that David Chalian’s remark was inap-propriate and does not represent Yahoo’s views.
“We have already reached out to the Romney campaign, and we apologize to Mitt Romney, his staff, their supporters and anyone who was offend,” she said.
Chalian made the remark during a hot-mic moment before Yahoo began its live coverage of the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Tuesday eve-ning. Yahoo is streaming coverage in association with ABC News.
The website Newsbusters posted a copy of the video and the audio. The video showed Ann and Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, while the audio picked up background con-versation, not all of it intelligible, about the Republican convention taking place as Hurricane Isaac was about to hit the Louisiana coast.
Someone makes a remark, “they’re not concerned at all.” In a clearer voice, Chalian says, “they are happy to have a party with black people drowning.”
Chalian said Wednesday that he was “profoundly sorry for making an inappropriate and thoughtless joke.”
“I was commenting on the challenge of staging a conven-tion during a hurricane and about campaign optics,” he said. “I have apologized to the Romney cam-paign, and I want to take this opportunity to publicly apologize to governor and Mrs. Romney.”
While the boy band One Direction is the seemingly inescapable face – or rather, sound – of the modern “British Invasion”, the post-punk rock band Bloc Party is a wonderful alternative. As a proud owner of Bloc Party’s 2005 studio debut album, Silent Alarm, I am happy to note the similarities between the band’s Alarm work with that of Four [Frenchkiss Records], especially in the syncopated “Team A” track. Fans of Passion Pit and post-Viva La Vida Coldplay will find a lot to like in front man Kele Okereke’s high-pitched falsetto, but the album’s guitar riffs sound like a mix between Muse’s Black Holes and Revelations and Green Day’s American Idiot.
Much like the similarly-themed track “Pumped-Up Kicks” by Foster the People, the first Four single “Octopus” follows a school shooting from the kill-er’s perspective; multiple listens are a must to fully comprehend the desperation of the shooter as he laments, “I don’t know why I feel like crying”, since his idols “John Wayne, Rob Roy feel no pain.” The single is appropriately the most pop-like track on the album.
Listeners looking for more punk-sounding tracks need look no further than “Kettling” and “Coliseum.” Both feature vocals placed further back, with lead guitarist Russell Lissack’s manic playing taking up the front. While both of the aforementioned tracks are the purest punk on the album, one would expect far more inspiring guitar riffs
out of a band that has had four years to record since A Weekend in the City. “3 x 3” is a step in the right direction instrumentally, but the vocals are less than interesting.
Easily the best track is in fact the opener, “So He Begins To Lie,” a criticism of political candidate dishonesty which unfortunately leaves
listeners disappointed with the rest of the album. The lyrics complain that, to politicians, lying becomes “as easy as closing [their] eyes.” Though Bloc Party’s target is more likely the British Parliament, the message resonates with stateside sentiment as increasing num-bers of US citizens have become fed up with Congressional inefficiency and partisan gridlocks.
Though Bloc Party has rediscovered
their Silent Alarm sound, they appear to have lost the accompanying gusto and vitality they exercised so well in 2005. I would not recommend any of the bonus or deluxe-edition tracks (“Black Crown” on iTunes, “Lean” on Amazon, and both “Mean” and “Leaf Skeleton” in the Deluxe Edition), nor the additional tracks on the album.
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Billboard Top 10 Albums
1. “Based on a T.R.U. Story,” 2 Chainz2. “Now 43”3. “God Forgives, I Don’t,” Rick Ross4. “Mighty Death Pop,” Insane Clown Posse5. “Overexposed,” Maroon 56. “Believe,” Justin Bieber7. “Up All Night,” One Direction8. “21,” Adele9. “Uncaged,” Zac Brown Band10. “Southern Air,” Yellowcard
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‘Four’ isn’t quite enough for Bloc Party
“Four”Bloc Party
5.5/10
By Cole von RichthofenCampus Correspondent
The European alternative rock band Bloc Party is back on shelves with their new album, ‘Four.’ It’s their fourth album, though their best work remains their 2005 debut, ‘Silent Alarm.’
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A slightly excellent record As good as ever, minus a little
Once again, Slightly Stoopid showcases its ability to produce diverse sounds and styles, all the while unifying the genres of alternative, hip-hop and reggae.
Freshly released on August 14th, Top of the World is the alternative-rock band’s newest project. An impressive 21 tracks deep, the album offers a blend of their signa-ture reggae sound along with alternative rock undertones that reflects their progressive style and growth as a band. It’s a guaranteed summer favorite that’s sure to land on your vacation playlist.
Opening with their title track, Top of the World, Slightly Stoopid kicks off the album with a refreshed, almost funk-based vibe- a slight change from the usual. Their previ-ous albums, such as “Closer to the Sun” and “Everything You Need”, compile similarly constructed songs, flowing well
but bearing little or no variety in sound. They’ve done quite the opposite on this one.
If the band masters one skill on the album, it is diversi-fication. Slightly Stoopid’s reggae roots surface on tracks like “Don’t Stop” and “Just Thinking”, which seem as though they were destined for
beach-side replay, and return to funk elements on ones such as “Pon Da Horizon”, a song that combines upbeat jazzy ele-ments with short and scratchy guitar riffs. The band engages listeners from all musical nich-es, creating a fusion that’s all its own. If intensity is what you’re looking for, “Introduction to Organics” is a dynamic four-
minute instrumental gone hard rock jam sesh. The band expos-es listeners to possibly unfa-miliar sounds, especially those who solely listen to alternative rock. Clearly, appealing to a diverse audience is a major contributor to Stoopid’s con-tinuing success.
Lyrically, Top of the World delivers. As with previous albums, the band treads on the concepts of content-ment, acceptance of life’s ups and downs, along with some appreciation of the…ahem…herb, found evident in songs like “Marijuana” and “We Don’t Wanna
Go”. With each song the album explores a new musical horizon. Between the island drum beats and bongos, combined with hopeful and “no-worries” mes-sage, the band envelops your ears with an overall serene and catchy sound that would make Bob Marley himself proud.
“Top of the World”
Slightly Stoopid
8/10
By Emily HerbstCampus Correspondent
Minus the Bear seems to have lost the spark it once thrived on. After their new album, “Infinity Overheard,” was released this week via Dangerbird Records, I was disappointed to hear some-thing less than enthralling. The Seattle-based band lost its experimental vibes.
They no longer explored new realms within the genre of i nd ie -e l ec -tro-pop, and their once untried gui-tar playing now seemed almost too fo rmula t ed and struc-tured. They lost their wild synth-filled intros and all now we hear is a giant mess of uniformity.
Don’t get me wrong, there were a few songs reminiscent of their former sound, but it takes a while to listen and sift the good from the skippable.
“Steel and Blood” is the album’s leading track, and one of the more inspiring ones as well. It’s one of those songs that disguises troubled imag-ery behind a mask of uplift-ing guitar and synths. “She’s bleeding out, call an ambu-lance/ These shaking hands are soaked in red.” Apparently this track, as well as “Lonely
Gun,” was written while vocalist Jake Snider was in, what he refers to as a “deep depression.” Fitting consider-ing the lyrics.
On the other side of the spectrum were smoother tracks such as “Heaven Is a Ghost Town” or “Diamond Lightning,” both similar to their older Planet of Ice-style. “Heaven is a Ghost Town” is very depressing. Snider comments on his own idea of heaven, describing it as an infinitely lonely and dark
place. At least “Diamond Lightning” is a little bit more uplifting in a very extrater-restrial way.
Perhaps my favorite, how-ever, is “Cold Company.” It’s hard, it’s experimental, it’s rock and it’s everything I real-ly want to hear in a Minus the Bear track.
They may have lost their touch, but songs like “Cold Company” remind me of how great of a band they are: the sexiness that is Minus the Bear.
By Jamie DinarCampus Correspondent
“Infinity Overheard”
Minus the Bear
7/10
The Chariot rides ‘One Wing’ to glory with emotional, pure fury
Warning: The Chariot’s new album “One Wing,” the four piece’s fifth full length album might cause severe convulsions, extreme discomfort, and the manic impulse to destroy everything in your new shiny dorm room.
The Chariot is a hard group to pigeonhole, on their previous release the devastatingly vis-ceral and brutal “Long Live,” they formed a hybrid of spiral-ing guitars, pulsating drum blasts, and thick distortion that wove in between Josh Scogin’s raspy scream. For a metal band, this might not sound devastatingly original, but what hid under-neath this inclusive formula were moments of dizzying inventive-ness. The spoken word segment courtesy of Dan Smith from the group Listener (who I also highly recommend) on standout “David De La Hoz” was as intense as any breakdown you’d hear on “Long Live.” The upbeat sample of an ode to Atlanta, Georgia, found in
between the w r e c k a g e of “Calvin Makenz ie” sounds gim-micky on paper but made for a memorable yet surreal moment. This is what works best for The Chariot, ideas that on paper seem to be so atypical for a genre that has never depended on creativity, but somehow making these unorthodox concepts come to life without feeling forced.
“One Wing” is as relentless as “Long Live” in most places such as the pure power of the mathy riff found on the album’s opener “Forget.” The track spirals through thick bass riffs, slow stoner rock from hell segments and a thick as thieves’ breakdown that goes for the jugular. “Love” is a hard-core punk song for people with attention deficit disorder. The song “Tongues” finds The Chariot add-ing a bit of grunge to the mix for a slow burner of a song by
their standards. The strangest and most memorable moments on One Wing are the bits that feel so off kilter they somehow trans-form the album into a cohesive listen from beginning to end. The gospel interlude of “Your” finds Scogin backing away from the microphone. Angela Plake’s beau-tiful and angelic voice sounds like it could have been taken from a children’s song yet seems other worldly placed on an album of raw and intense musicianship. “First” builds up to a bridge that is laced with horns and mid-western guitar tones that sounds like a classic western movie.
The strangest, most powerful song on the album, “Speak,” is ultimately Scogin screaming his lungs out about the importance of forgiveness and how sparse our time can be on this world, while a discordant melody is played on piano. These moments add up to one of the most visceral and strangest metal albums of this and any other year. The Chariot are looking to shake up a genre that has seemed to be in a rut for some-time now, follow the gatekeepers, they’ll lead you to an exhilarating path.
By Zach FisherCampus Correspondent
“One Wing”The Chariot
8/10
Hardcore band The Chariot’s fifth album, ‘One Wing,’ is a rollicking ride, with a variety of quality hard rock trademarks in their sound.
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Rapper Beanie Sigel faces weapon charges in Pa.
ESSINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Rapper Beanie Sigel was arrest-ed Wednesday on weapon and drug violations during a traffic stop, just two weeks before he is scheduled to report to prison for failing to file taxes, state police said.
The 38-year-old rapper, whose real name is Dwight Grant, was a passenger in a car pulled over on Interstate 95 in Tinicum Township, just south of his hometown of Philadelphia.
Police said they found a gun in the car’s console. Both Sigel and driver Gerald Andrews are felons banned from having such weapons, according to troopers.
Andrews was also carrying several prescription bottles and a small amount of marijuana, police said. Sigel had more than $4,600 in cash, plus prescrip-tion pills and a bottle of codeine syrup, according to troopers.
Court records indicate Sigel and Andrews both face drug and gun charges and were unable to post bail. Sigel’s lawyer declined
to comment immediately, say-ing he had not yet reviewed the case. It was not clear if Andrews had an attorney.
Sigel’s latest album, called “This Time,” was released on Tuesday by Ruffhouse Records.
Chris Schwartz, the label’s chief executive, said in a state-ment that the company is disap-pointed in Sigel’s arrest. But he added that the rapper has displayed “the utmost profes-sionalism in all of the initiatives related to the promotion of his new release.”
“Beanie has obviously been struggling with some personal issues, and we continue to sup-port him now and throughout his impending incarceration,” Schwartz said.
Sigel is scheduled to begin a two-year prison sentence on Sept. 12 for failing to pay fed-eral taxes. Prosecutors said he owes more than $700,000 for the tax years 1999 through 2005.
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Lennon killer wants to live with minister if freedALBANY, N.Y. (AP) —
The man who killed ex-Bea-tle John Lennon said in his most recent parole bid that he hoped to live and work with an upstate New York minis-ter if released, according to a hearing transcript released Wednesday.
Mark David Chapman, 57, was denied parole last week for the seventh time. He can try again in two years.
Chapman shot Lennon in December 1980 outside the Manhattan apartment building where the former Beatle lived. He was sentenced in 1981 to 20 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.
Chapman, who said his moti-vation for killing Lennon was instant notoriety, also told the parole board he was surprised more celebrities haven’t been the targets of violence and said he has thought about someone
trying to kill him as a way to gain fame as the person who avenged Lennon.
“To do something like that against another person, it’s something that would keep me alive and boost me,” he said. “That’s ludicrous and I’m actually glad that that’s not done more. I thought maybe more people would do that and I’m glad that they have not. I’m surprised that they have not because this society is just geared toward celebrity like crazy.”
Chapman, who has said he considered killing sev-eral other celebrities, told the parole board he wanted Lennon’s widow, Yoko Ono, to know that he felt no anger toward Lennon.
“It wasn’t anything against her husband as a person, only as a famous person,” he said. “If he was less famous than three or four other people on
the list, he would not have been shot. And that’s the truth.”
During an interview Wednesday with The Associated Press, Ono and the couple’s son were reluctant to talk about Chapman or his lat-est parole denial.
“It’s not the kind of thing you can really answer simply. I mean, it’s complicated,” Sean Lennon said. “But let’s just say that our lives were changed forever by that, so it’s a sensi-tive sort of thing.”
“Especially for Sean,” Ono added. “Because Sean was so close to John and suddenly John was gone.”
Chapman, a former security guard from Hawaii, said during an Aug. 22 parole hearing that he’s been offered lodging and a farm job by Stanley Thurber in Medina, a village between Rochester and Buffalo.
“He’s a minister and he’s an
older fellow and he has a lot of contacts in the area and he has agreed to refurbish his upstairs apartment for me and offered me two jobs,” Chapman told the parole board.
He said his wife, Gloria Hiroko Chapman, met Thurber at a church function and was “impressed by his deep com-mitment to Christ.” After corresponding with Thurber, Chapman said, they met for the first time on Aug. 20.
A message left Wednesday at a phone number listed for Thurber was not immediately returned.
During the hearing, Chapman again expressed remorse for the killing, spoke of his Christian faith and talked about his rou-tine at the Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo, where he was moved in May and placed in “involuntary protective cus-tody.” This May 15, 2012 photo provided by the New York State Department of Corrections shows
Mark David Chapman at the Wende Correctional Facility in Alden, N.Y.
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Navy SEAL’s new book shows May 2011 bin Laden raid up closeWASHINGTON (AP) — A
Navy SEAL’s firsthand account of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden pulls back the veil on the secret operations con-ducted almost nightly by elite American forces against terror-ist suspects.
Former SEAL Matt Bissonnette’s account contra-dicted in key details the account of the raid presented by admin-istration officials in the days after the May 2011 raid in Abbotabad, Pakistan, that killed the al-Qaida leader, and raised questions about whether the SEALs followed to the letter the order to only use deadly force if they deemed him a threat.
Bissonnette wrote that the SEALs spotted bin Laden at the top of a darkened hallway and shot him in the head even though they could not tell whether he was armed. Administration offi-cials have described the SEALs shooting bin Laden only after he ducked back into a bedroom because they assumed he might be reaching for a weapon.
Military experts said Wednesday that if Bissonnette’s recollection is accurate, the SEALS made the right call to open fire on the terrorist mas-termind who had plenty of time to reach for a weapon or explo-sives as they made their way up to the third level of the house where he hid.
Bissonnette wrote the book, “No Easy Day,” under the pseudonym Mark Owen as one of the men in the room when they killed bin Laden. The book is to be published next week by Penguin Group (USA)’s Dutton imprint. The Associated Press purchased a copy Tuesday.
For years, the primary weap-on in the war on terror has been unmanned drones firing missiles from the sky. But the Bissonnette book reveals a more bloody war waged by special operators, one the public almost never gets to see close up.
The book offers intimate details of a special operations mission. The most memorable scenes are also the most human moments. Bissonnette describes one of the SEALs dressing the wounds of a woman who was shot when she lunged toward the SEALs. In another scene, a terrified mother clutches her child and a young girl identi-fies the dead man as Osama bin Laden, seemingly unaware of the significance of those words.
In that regard, the bin Laden raid seems destined to become an anachronism. Nearly every top al-Qaida figure killed by the United States since the 9/11 attacks has died in a remote-controlled strike by unmanned drone aircraft — their deaths seen back in Washington via high-definition video. An esti-mated 80 top terrorist leaders have been killed in places like Pakistan and Yemen, accord-ing to The Long War Journal.com, which tracks such airborne strikes.
Special operations troops often conduct raids similar to the bin Laden strike a dozen times a night in Afghanistan, and previously in Iraq, killing thousands of mostly mid- and lower-level terrorists. It’s all part of a war on terror that is winding down and giving way to the drone war outside tra-ditional war zones, given the scheduled drawdown of most U.S. troops in Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
“No Easy Day” shows how routine such operations have become. But the public rarely hears about them. This raid to capture bin Laden, though, was historic.
The SEALS, according to Bissonnette’s description, were prepared as they had been in other raids for a gunfight in close quarters, which likely would last only a few seconds, with no margin for error. By the time the SEALs reached the top floor of bin Laden’s compound, roughly 15 minutes had passed, giving the terror leader adequate time to strap on a suicide vest or get a gun, he said.
Bissonnette says he was directly behind a point man going up the stairs in the pitch black hallway. Near the top, he said, he heard two silenced shots fired by the first SEAL into the hallway. He wrote that the point man had seen a man peeking out of a door on the right side of the hallway, but Bissonnette could not tell from his vantage point whether the bullets hit the target.
The author writes that the man ducked back into his bed-room and the SEALs followed, only to find him crumpled on the floor in a pool of blood with a hole visible on the right side of his head and two women wail-ing over his body. Once they wiped the blood off his face, they were convinced it was bin
Laden.Bissonnette says the point
man pulled the two women out of the way and shoved them into a corner. He and the other SEALs trained their guns’ laser sights on bin Laden’s still-twitching body, shooting him several times until he lay motionless.
The SEALs later found two weapons stored by the doorway, untouched, the author said.
National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor late Tuesday would not comment on the apparent contradiction between the administration’s account and the book’s version.
Bissonnette writes that during a pre-raid briefing, an admin-istration lawyer told them that they were not on an assassi-nation mission. According to Bissonnette, the lawyer said if bin Laden did not pose a threat, they should detain him.
“If they didn’t feel like there was a threat, they would have captured him,” co-author Kevin Maurer told the AP on Wednesday. “But from when they first hit the ground, all the way until they got to the third deck, they had encountered armed men, which made the use of force essential,” said Maurer, a former AP reporter.
Bissonnette writes that none of the SEALs were fans of President Barack Obama and knew that his administration would take credit for ordering the raid. One of the SEALs said after the mission that they had just gotten Obama re-elected by carrying out the raid. But he says they respected him as com-mander in chief and for giving the operation the go-ahead.
In an interview scheduled to air Sunday on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” Bissonnette said the book was “not political whatso-ever” and not timed to influence the upcoming national elections. He said it was to commemorate the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and credit those whose work made the mission to get bin Laden a success.
“My worry from the begin-ning is, you know, it’s a politi-cal season. This book is not political whatsoever. It doesn’t bad-mouth either party, and we specifically chose Sept. 11 to keep it out of the politics. If these — crazies on either side of the aisle want to make it politi-cal, then shame on them.”
CBS said Bissonnette was disguised and his voice altered for the interview. The network used only his pseudonym and not his name.
A former deputy judge advo-cate general for the Air Force defended the decision to shoot the man the SEALs saw in the hallway.
“In a confined space like that where it is clear that there are hostiles, the SEALs need to take reasonable steps to ensure their safety and accomplish the mis-sion,” said the former JAG, ret. Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, who now teaches at Duke University law school.
The Pentagon and the CIA, which commanded the mission, are examining the manuscript for possible disclosure of classi-fied information, and could take legal action against Bissonnette.
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LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — On his first full day on the job as the kicker for the Washington Redskins, Billy Cundiff made three of four field goal attempts — and was booed for the one he missed
— making him the only first-stringer to do something note-worthy in Wednesday night's 30-3 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Cundiff, signed Tuesday after the Redskins cut Graham
Gano, converted from 39, 27 and 22 yards and got some grief from the crowd when he sliced one wide right from 46. The 2010 All-Pro, who joined Washington just two days after being released by the
Baltimore Ravens, launched five of his six kickoffs for touchbacks.
With head coaches Mike Shanahan and Greg Schiano resting nearly all of their offensive and defensive start-ers, the teams gathered before a modest crowd and proved that the backups from one consensus last-place team can beat the backups from another consensus last-place team, for whatever that's worth.
The second-, third- and fourth-teamers were vying for roster spots ahead of Friday's mandatory cuts, while the starters are already looking ahead to the regular season openers on Sept. 9.
Roy Helu Jr. and Evan Royster, who both might have a shot as the Redskins' start-ing running back job because of injuries, returned from ail-ments of their own to account for all three of Washington's touchdowns. Helu ran for 90 yards and two scores after missing two games with sore Achilles, while Royster ran for 44 yards and a TD after missing last week's game with a sore right knee.
No. 2 overall draft pick
Robert Griffin III was declared the Redskins start-ing quarterback before train-ing camp, so the Heisman Trophy-winner ran with the other first-teamers on the field before the game. He then watched fourth-round selec-tion Kirk Cousins play into the third quarter and complete 15 of 27 passes for 222 yards and an interception. Jonathan Crompton, signed earlier in the day after being cut Monday, finished the game.
Brett Ratliff, third on the depth chart behind Josh Freeman and Dan Orlovsky, played the entire game for the Buccaneers and was sacked five times. He completed 14 of 30 passes for 164 yards and three interceptions.
The Redskins decided to go with Cundiff before he had even practiced with the team, judging him off his body of work with the Ravens and fig-uring it to be an upgrade over Gano, who missed an NFL-high 10 field goal attempts last year — five of them blocked. However, Cundiff struggled with long-distance kicks last year, going 1 for 6 from 50-plus.
Meanwhile, first-year coach Schiano took the backup theme to the extreme by using his reserve long snapper, a decision that became appar-ent when Zack Pianalto sent a bouncer to the punter at the end of Tampa Bay's first offensive series. Pianalto had two other low snaps, showing he's no threat to unseat regular snapper Andrew Economos.
The game had other moments that showed why these players won't likely be featured when the games count for real. Cousins and Ratliff threw interceptions on con-secutive plays. Washington receiver Brandon Banks lined up as running back on a fourth-down play and dropped the handoff. Tampa Bay had just 6 yards rushing through three quarters.
Replacement referee Jim Core contributed to the theme by checking a replay, announc-ing the call was upheld, then telling the crowd: "We'll look at it one more time."
Redskins running back Tristan Davis and cornerback Richard Crawford both left the game with right knee inju-ries.
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Redksins running back Roy Helu heads up field in the first half of Washington's 30-3 win over the Buccaneers last night at FedEx Field.AP
It’s been seven months and 20 days since the end of the college football season, and this week-end it returns not a moment too soon. Finally, we will be spared of being forced to watch count-less batters adjust their batting gloves while an “exciting” pitch-ing duel ensues. The season of watching golfers not named Tiger Woods win golf tournaments has ended. The age of turning on “Teen Mom” because no watch-able games are on is over, and pretending to enjoy the Olympics is a thing of the past. We can finally get back to the pageantry, the tradition and the brute force of college football. With that being said, here is what to look for this season.
Conference to Watch: The Big 10 is my conference to watch this season. The conference has been overshadowed somewhat with the rise of the SEC. However, they do return some of the nation’s most
exciting players like Michigan’s Denard Robinson and Wisconsin’s Monte Ball. Both of these play-ers are on the Heisman Watch list to start the season and look to improve on impressive junior campaigns that helped lead their teams to BCS Bowls. Michigan State also returns a strong defense which was a couple of plays away from the BCS last season. Ohio State’s addition of former Florida head coach Urban Meyer brings new leadership to a team that will be unable to compete in the post season this year. The biggest reason to watch the Big 10 confer-ence this year is Penn State, who tries to regain a sense of normalcy as they heal from a devastating scandal.
Team to Watch: The Clemson Tigers have one of the most potent and explosive lineups in the ACC. The Tigers should be back to prove their haters wrong after a disappointing 70-33 loss to the West Virginia in the Orange Bowl to end last season. That should be all the motivation they need to
match their high caliber of talent. The Tigers return many of their stars on offense which averaged 33.5 points per game last season. The Tigers will be missing star wide receiver Sammy Watkins for the first four games to due to a violation of the team drug poli-cy, but if the Watkin-less Tigers can make it by the Florida State Seminoles week four, they should be able to make a run.
Player to Watch: Center, Barret Jones of the Alabama Crimson Tide is my player to watch this season. Maybe "Player to Know About" is a better title for Jones. The guy does it all. He has played every position on the offensive line during his tenure at Alabama and has successfully helped lead Alabama to a cou-ple of National Championships. You will be hearing his name on Sundays sooner than you think, so why not start paying attention now?
By Scott CarrollNCAA Football Columnist
What to watch for in College Football
Matt Barklety and the USC Trojans stand as the no. 1 team in the nation to start the season. A Heisman favorite, Barkley passed on early entry to the NFL draft to return for a national championship. USC will need to fend off Alabama, LSU, Oregon and perhaps Clemson.
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Longoria homers twice to help Rays over Rangers, 8-4ARLINGTON, Texas (AP)
— Tampa Bay's offense has sputtered at times this season.
For some reason, though, the Rays haven't had any prob-lems figuring out All-Star Matt Harrison.
Evan Longoria homered twice, Tampa Bay roughed up Harrison and the Rays beat the Texas Rangers 8-4 Wednesday night to snap a four-game los-ing streak.
The Rays are the lowest-scoring team in the American League and have lost four 1-0 games since Aug. 5 — includ-ing one Tuesday night.
But Tampa Bay found its
stride against Harrison, who was coming off one of the best starts of his career.
"Our hitters have a decent history against him," Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon said. "I think it's one of those things where our guys see him pretty well. And perhaps he doesn't see them that well."
Harrison (15-8) allowed seven runs and 12 hits in 5 1-3 innings.
The Rays have scored 14 runs with 26 hits in two starts against Harrison, who was looking to tie for the league lead in wins.
"We knew we had to jump out fast," said B.J. Upton, who hit a
three-run homer in the second that put the Rays on top 6-0. "We did that and kind of kept our foot down after that."
After dropping the last two against the AL West-leading Rangers by one run, the Rays avoided the three-game sweep.
Tampa Bay had scored only 11 runs during their losing skid before breaking out for 16 hits against Texas.
Longoria hit a two-run homer in the first and a solo shot in the ninth. Elliot Johnson added a solo blast in the sixth.
Jeff Keppinger went 4 for 5 and Ben Zobrist had three hits for the Rays.
Jake McGee (5-2) pitched a perfect sixth and five Tampa Bay relievers combined for 4 1-3 scoreless innings.
Since July 19, the Rays' bull-pen has posted a 0.76 ERA in 106 innings.
"Our 'pen was great once again," Maddon said. "That's who we are."
Josh Hamilton hit his 36th home run for Texas, a solo shot that brought Texas to 6-4 in the fifth.
The Rangers wrapped up a 7-3 homestand and have a 4½-game lead over Oakland in the AL West.
"If we can continue to win
series, we'll be right where we want to be," Texas manager Ron Washington said.
Harrison gave up seven runs and a career-high 14 hits in an 8-4 loss to the Rays on April 27. The left-hander struggled again against Tampa Bay on Wednesday night, giving up six runs and a pair of home runs by the second inning.
He took a no-hitter into the seventh and permitted two hits in eight shutout innings in his last outing Friday night against Minnesota.
"I put us in a big hole early in the game," Harrison said. "I didn't give us a chance"
Zobrist's RBI double in the first snapped a 13-inning score-less drought.
Longoria drove a 3-1 fastball from Harrison 409 feet to cen-ter. The two-run shot extend-ed Tampa Bay's lead to 3-0. Longoria is 6 for 9 with three home runs against Harrison in the regular season.
In the second inning, Sam Fuld tripled with one out and Desmond Jennings walked to set the stage for Upton.
After Texas pitching coach Mike Maddux visited Harrison, Upton lined a fastball into the seats in left for his 16th home run of the season.
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NEW YORK (AP) — CC Sabathia took the blame. Manager Joe Girardi spread it around.
No matter whose mistakes cost the Yankees in their sixth loss in nine games, they need to straighten things out: the quickly closing Baltimore Orioles are coming to the Bronx for three games start-ing Friday.
Sabathia failed to hold two leads, and New York made three errors and went homerless at Yankee Stadium in consecutive games for the first time this season. It all added up to an 8-5 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Wednesday.
"We didn't play well, that's the bottom line," Girardi said. "We had chances offensively: didn't get it done. We had chances
defensively: didn't get it done."The Yankees' inability to win
back-to-back games for the first time since beating Texas three in a row Aug. 13-15 has hurt them in the standings. New York's lead in the AL East would dwin-
dle to 2 1/2 half games if Baltimore wins later Wednesday. June 24 was the last time any-one was that close.
The Yankees went 3 for 17 with runners
in scoring position, even though they had six doubles for the first time since July 30, 2011.
"Things like this happen every once in a while. You just have to shake it off," Russell Martin said. "We've got to bring it against the Orioles this weekend, for sure. It's a big one."
Yunel Esccobar had the big day for Toronto. The short-stop hit a two-run homer, three
doubles and drove in five runs. He had a go-ahead RBI double in the third. His homer against Sabathia in the sixth gave the Blue Jays the lead again and his two-run double off Joba Chamberlain in the ninth helped secure Toronto's first series win since July 27-29. The five RBIs matched a career high for Escobar.
"He feels like anything posi-tive that happens to the club is going to be welcome right now," injured slugger Jose Bautista said, translating for Escobar. "He feels like winning a series on the road against a club like the Yankees that's definitely a positive and he hopes it can help bring up team morale a little bit."
J.A. Happ (3-1) overcame a season-high five walks, includ-ing an intentional pass of Derek Jeter to load the bases with one
out in the fourth inning, for the Blue Jays' second win in 10 games.
Four Blue Jays relievers com-bined to hold New York to a run and four doubles over four innings. Brandon Lyon opened the eighth by giving up con-secutive doubles to pinch-hitter Raul Ibanez and Martin, whose grounder bounced high off third base to make it 6-5.
Colby Rasmus, a late-game entrant, made a diving catch on Ichiro Suzuki's sinking liner and Lyon struck out Eric Chavez and got Jeter, with the crowd chanting his name, to fly out to right.
Casey Janssen pitched a per-fect ninth for his 17th save after blowing an opportunity in the ninth inning Monday night.
Sabathia (13-4) was unde-feated over his last nine starts against Toronto — 8-0 with a 2.48 ERA — since the begin-ning of his Cy Young Award season of 2007 with Cleveland.
In his second outing since coming off the disabled list, the big lefty was hurt by third base-man Jayson Nix's fielding error in the third inning that led to three unearned runs. Escobar's eighth homer made it 5-4 and came after right fielder Andruw Jones made a diving catch on Adam Lind's liner but lost the ball as he rolled over his glove. Jones tried to sell the catch by holding up the ball — flashing a sneaky grin — but the umpires weren't buying it.
"It's definitely disappointing," Sabathia said. "It's all my fault, obviously."
Toronto added a run on a squeeze play in the eighth with Jeff Mathis batting and Escobar on third after he led off with his second double.
Sabathia gave up at least five runs for the sixth time this year. He struck out eight in seven innings.
"You also have to give them credit for good at-bats," Sabathia said, "but I need to make better pitches."
Toronto Blue Jays catcher Jeff Mathis congratulates closer Casey Janssen after defeating the New York Yankees 8-5, Wednesday.AP
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DENVER (AP) — Hoping to come together in time for a big finish to the season, the revamped Los Angeles Dodgers relied on holdovers and new-comers alike to get back on a winning track.
Joe Blanton pitched effectively into the eighth inning for his first win with Los Angeles and A.J. Ellis hit his first career grand slam in a 10-8 win over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday.
Hanley Ramirez, another mid-season acquisition by the Dodgers, also homered in his second straight game to help the Dodgers overcome the absence of slugging center fielder Matt Kemp and withstand a late rally that saw Colorado score seven runs in the eighth inning. Kemp, whose status was characterized as day to day, sat out with a bone bruise on his left knee and sore jaw suffered in a collision with the center field wall the night before while trying to chase down a fly ball.
"That's kind of our team now, but we're just getting to know each other," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "It's defi-nitely a different feel. Hopefully, we can put this thing together quick and get that rhythm that we need to play. But really, it comes down to a matter of getting the
pitching and scoring runs."The Dodgers did both in snap-
ping a three-game losing streak that came on the heels of last week's blockbuster deal with Boston in which they added such headliners as pitcher Josh Beckett and Adrian Gonzalez,
who had two hits, including a two-run single.
Blanton (9-12), who was 0-3 with a 7.71 ERA in four previous starts since
joining the Dodgers in an Aug. 3 trade with Philadelphia, struck out five and walked one in 7 1-3 innings. It was his first win since July 16 when he beat the Dodgers in one of his last starts for the Phillies.
"As a starter, sometimes it's not necessary to get the win, just making sure the team gets the win, but that hadn't happened either way in my last couple of starts," Blanton said. "I think the most important thing right now are the team wins, not the indi-vidual wins.
"And I think the good thing is that everybody that has come over and everybody that was here before, we have a com-mon goal: We want to win and I think any time you have that, hopefully good things are going to happen, because everybody is thinking the right things out there."
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Ten years later, Chase Utley is considering the hot corner again.
Utley, the Phillies' five-time All-Star second baseman, took grounders at third base sev-eral hours before Philadelphia played the New York Mets on Wednesday night.
It's uncertain whether he'll do it in an actual game.
"I figured I'd give it a try just to get back over there, get my feet wet, just get a feel for the position again," Utley said. "It could be an option in the future. It's way too early to have an opinion either way on how it's going to go. I might take some more ground balls in the future. But I think if I'm able to play over there, it could create some more flexibility as far as the organization is concerned. It's just something I wanted to give a try and I may do it again."
While the idea is still in the early stages, it created quite a buzz around a team that's used to preparing for the postseason at this point instead of looking ahead to next year.
Utley last played third base
in 2002 at Triple-A. It didn't go well. He made 28 errors in 123 games and moved back to sec-ond base the following season.
"He struggled with the throwing part of that, in the first 40 games or something, he had something like 15 or 20 errors," general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said. "I guess he got much better toward the end. He improved quite a bit as the year went on. Who knows how it's going to play out, or if it's going to play out."
Manager Charlie Manuel said the possibility isn't "real serious" right now.
"He just went out there one day," Manuel said. "We'll see how it goes."
Some in the organization aren't sure the 33-year-old Utley can make a smooth transition.
A team official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity, that he questions whether Utley has the "arm strength or athleticism" required to play third base and "doubts" he could do it as an everyday player.
Chase Utley fields a ground ball against the Nationals last Saturday at Citizens Bank Park.AP
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the helm: former junior college all-American honorable mention Chandler Whitmer.
The rumors are true. Hartford, we have a quarterback.
Flipping to the other side of the ball, the secondary remains intact with playmakers in abundance. Captain Bildi Wreh-Wilson will lock down the left side for the Huskies with athletic freak Byron Jones patrolling behind him at free safety. Coached again by their highly aggressive and
creative coordinator Don Brown, the cover guys could very well blitz even more, from all sorts of places and angles.
Getting after the passer will be nothing new though for a front line showcasing two excellent bookend pass rushers. Trevardo Williams notched 12.5 sacks a year ago and has his sights set on a sweet sixteen over his senior campaign. Opposite Williams will be Jesse Joseph, who’s fully healthy and ready to again com-mand double teams.
Sandwiched between the front
and back units will be a group of linebackers rivaled by few in the country. Opposing running backs will have a better time finding a Saharan snowball than a way to get by past the likes of Sio Moore, Yawin Smallwood and captain Jory Johnson. Moore has already been honored on the Butkus and Lombardi award watchlist for the nation's best linebacker and best linebacker or lineman, respectively.
Of course, when analyzing anything in sports it’s imperative to take into consideration the
context or competition. Despite the loss of West Virginia, the Big East conference will see higher quality play across the board in 2012. A top-25 Louisville team is projected as the new top dog and USF is predicted to make a huge rebound to second place. Rutgers always provides a stiff test to UConn, and the Huskies will face all three of these teams on the road.
Yet, have hope because this team can go far. Combined with the toughness and determination instilled in the program a year ago, the tools this team possess will put them on solid ground in good places. No opponent's third down defense will domi-nate again. No team will pick apart the secondary. No team will achieve easy victory.
You should believe that this team will do enough to win every game and know that’s all you can ask for. The talent, depth, experi-ence, coaching and balance are there. It’s time to hold our expec-tations up to a higher level too.
So, while the end of 2012 is forecasted as one, big apoca-lyptic downer, I’m going to tell you differently. 93 days from now, you and I won’t see these Huskies empty-handed. You won’t see the end of anything. You’ll see the beginning of a bright, bright future.
Senior kick returner and wide receiver Nick Williams awaits a kick against Rutgers in the Huskies' final home game last season.FILE PHOTO/The Daily Campus
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QB Whitmer makes UConn debut tonight in season opener
Pasqualoni said. “I know how well-coached they are going to be fundamentally.”
Over on UConn’s defensive side, look for the Huskies to be constantly rotating linemen in and out of the game in an attempt to both keep fresh legs on the field and confuse the Minutemen offense with different looks.
In addition to the strategic advantage to playing more defend-ers, Pasuqaloni said that with a
UMass team that plays at such a high tempo, the need for depth is going to be greater.
On offense, the Huskies are looking to see how starting quar-terback Chandler Whitmer will do with his role. Historically, he’s had some problems making poor decisions with the football, but Pasqualoni said that questionable decisions are common in young quarterbacks.
“I think he’s making progress in that regard,” Pasqualoni said. “I think that Chandler, like a lot of
young quarterbacks at times tries to do too much and he’s getting better at that. Sometimes it’s not the worst thing to just pull the ball down and run down the field and get down on the ground before you get killed.”
When asked if Whitmer stay as the permanent starter, Pasqualoni was a bit coy about the situation.
“Chandler will start the game and we’ll see how the game goes,” Pasqualoni said. “But right now, Chandler is the starter.”
Another change to the offen-
sive side of the ball to look for is the Huskies’ tight end position. Last year it was Ryan Griffin who started the bulk of the time and this year, John Delahunt will be getting a lot of time as well.
“To tell you the truth, I don’t know who will start the game,” Pasqualoni said Sunday. “That’s not important. What’s important is that they’re both going to play and they’re going to play a lot.”
Kickoff is scheduled for 7:30.
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The competition among cities for baseball’s All-Star game has grown stiffer over the years, leading to some tough calls for Commissioner Bud Selig.
Awarding the 2014 game to the Minnesota Twins and Target Field, it turns out, was one of the easier decisions Selig has made.
“This is the right thing to do and this is the right place to do it,” Selig said Wednesday in making the official announcement.
Selig has long been close with the Pohlad family, which has owned the Twins for decades, especially the late Carl Pohlad. The commis-sioner stood by his side while he fought for a new ballpark in the late 1990s, a bitter dispute that threatened the franchise’s future in the Twin Cities.
Once the Twins finally won approval to build Target Field, it was only a matter of time before Selig was going to bring the mid-summer clas-sic back to Minnesota. It will be the third time the Twins have hosted the game, following 1965 at Metropolitan Stadium and 1985 at the Metrodome.
“Target Field is just spectacular,” Selig said. “Every time I’m here, I just can’t tell you how impressive this is. So this will be a great show-place for the 2014 All-Star game.”
The play on the field has been anything but spectacular over the last two seasons. The Twins entered the game against Seattle on Wednesday night with an AL-worst record of 52-77, one year after losing 99 games. The lack of success following a period of six division titles in nine seasons has caused attendance at the shiny, three-year-old ballpark to drop and a traditionally loyal fan base to start grumbling.
“They’ve been as passionate and as loyal as any fans in baseball,” Twins President Dave St. Peter said. “For what they’ve put up with on the field the last two years, they deserve an All-Star game and a lot more.”
Selig said he hoped the news of the game coming to Minnesota will be a brief respite for fans who have endured the last two seasons, and said he had no doubt the franchise would bounce back.
“As commissioner I get a chance to have a view of all 30 clubs, sometimes on a daily basis,” he said. “This is one of those clubs that you never worry about. They always do the right thing in the right way.”
Owner Jim Pohlad has been putting pressure on the front office and coaching staff to get things turned around while at the same time tak-ing the prudent, patient approach that has been the family’s hallmark while owning the team. Manager Ron Gardenhire, for now, does not appear to be in trouble.
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU coach Les Miles rode out Hurricane Isaac on Wednesday at the Tigers’ football oper-ations building, where he and members of his staff continued planning for Saturday night’s sched-uled home opener against North Texas.
Players for the third-ranked Tigers were given the option of staying in their own apartments, at the football opera-
tions building or in Tiger Stadium.
“All those guys that will be in their own apart-ments off campus have been told to reconcile where they’re at and rec-ognize this is a signifi-cant storm and that they need to be safe,” Miles said on the Southeastern Conference’s weekly conference call with coaches.
Miles added that those who had the opportunity
to be with family in south Louisiana were encour-aged to consider that option as well.
“Each guy’s really been given that choice,” Miles said. “”They had time to find the safest shelter and hunker down.”
Wednesday’s prac-tice was canceled, and Miles said he was hop-ing his players would be able to resume prepara-tions for the Mean Green on Thursday, depending
on the speed at which Isaac moves out of Baton Rouge and how much damage it leaves behind.
“We’re meeting in football and handling our business and reconciling the fact that we missed Wednesday’s practice and all the things that we needed to get covered on what was a Wednesday we need now to get cov-ered on Thursday,” Miles said
Isaac crept slowly across south Louisiana on Wednesday, which happened to be the sev-enth anniversary of much more powerful Hurricane Katrina. It was a hur-ricane for part of the day before being downgraded to a tropical storm.
Katrina caused LSU to postpone a game with North Texas in 2005, Miles’ first season with the Tigers. The coach joked that the LSU ath-letic department would no longer schedule games against the Mean Green, then added, “I don’t think North Texas really had anything to do with it, but it is an unusual coin-
cidence.”As of mid-day
Wednesday, LSU offi-cials said there was still power on campus and that the season opener remained on its origi-nal schedule of 6 p.m. Saturday.
That was subject to change, however, if stronger winds and rain expected Wednesday night made daily life in Baton Rouge too difficult for the community to host a football game attracting in excess of 90,000 fans to Tiger stadium.
“The schedule is obvi-ously in relationship to how fast or how slow the storm moves,” Miles said. “The schedule (on Thursday) will also depend on how things go (Wednesday) evening.”
LSU vice chancellor Herb Vincent said univer-sity officials expected to meet Thursday morning to evaluate damage and consult with area authori-ties about the condition of the community before making a final decision on whether to play the game as scheduled.
LSU head coach Les Miles gets his team fired up before a home game last season at Tiger Stadum in Baton Rouge.
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The Huskies take the field before their November 5th game against Syracuse a year ago. UConn was predicted to finish 6th out of 8 teams in the Big East by conference media and will open their sesaon tonight against the UMass Minutemen. UMass opens its first season of FBS competition.
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Huskies open 2012 at The Rent against UMass
By Dan AgabitiSports Editor
272 days ago, they took off for Cincinnati carrying a sliver of hope for a post-season berth.
Then, through a four-quarter date with the Bearcats, the 2011 UConn football team found out essentially before the check came that it wasn’t getting another chance. Instead, it was going home, alone and empty handed.
But let’s be honest with one another for a minute. Not your old “It’s not you, it’s me” kind of honest; more like “You kiss like a vacuum, joke like 10-year old Carrot Top and I’m throwing a ‘Happy to be single’ kegger after this talk,” honest.
Last season, the Huskies didn’t do enough to be consid-ered a good football team. The 2011 group didn’t have enough to be a good football team. Sure, they had a shot to win in the Queen city that day and get crowned bowl-eligible, but that fact doesn’t make them any better than they were.
They tried to full-on sprint while simultaneously take first steps in their new systems. Offensively, UConn played essentially just two downs and at times the pass defense couldn’t stop a slow drip. Paul Pasqualoni’s bunch was tough, rugged and physical but overall just old dogs with almost no tricks.
After starting the year 2-3 against poor to average com-petition, West Virginia took the Huskies out behind the woodshed in a 43-16 drub-bing. UConn then enjoyed some Homecoming cooking at The Rent, topping an athletic, talented but hornless South Florida Bulls team. Then, the team’s outlook continued to seesaw as they alternated wins and losses until that fateful afternoon in Ohio.
5-7, she wrote. The Huskies couldn’t produce big plays and needed more explosiveness, they said. It was certainly a year to forget, we all agreed.
But let’s be forward thinking with this team for a minute. Tonight, the Rent will welcome a capable quarterback. Tonight, UConn will bring back the most defensive starters in the Big East who could unite into the best unit in the confer-ence. And this season, coach Pasqualoni won’t be a rookie– but rather the second-year lead-er for seventeen experienced seniors in their last hurrah.
So, write this down: In 2012, they will have enough. They will do enough. They will make a splash sufficient to win games, fans and the label of being of a quality football team. They will take on Cincinnati in the finale again but this time, return to Storrs with a post-season berth.
Write it down.Hell, sharpie it in hot pink on
my forehead if you want. You will watch this team and
be inspired. Why? Take a look:You will see the better depth in
the backfield behind Freshman All-American and 1,000 yard rusher Lyle McCombs. You’ll witness two tight ends forc-ing mismatches in the passing game and an offensive line that boasts four players with start-ing experience from last year.
You’ll see a revamped receiving corps with old friend Michael Smith and newcomer, the explosive Shakim Phillips. Nick Williams will be back in the slot where he belongs, tearing up intermediate zones and linebackers like tissue paper. Not to mention every-one’s favorite new Husky at
A lot has changed since 1999. Since the UConn Huskies and Umass
Minutemen last met 13 years ago, the college football landscape has been transformed beyond what anybody could have imagined at the time.
Now things have come full circle. Back in ’99, UMass smacked UConn off the
field with a commanding 62-20 win in a FCS matchup between the two teams. Now it’s a new century and a new era of college football.
UConn comes into tonight’s game at Rentschler Field as a near 25-point favorite. The Huskies have been in the Big East for a few years now and UMass is the new kid on the block with something to prove.
After 71 matchups, 33 of which the Huskies have won, the programs are quite familiar with one another. This year’s players, however, are not.
But now, UConn coach Paul Pasqualoni is amped and ready for the rivalry to get going again.
“We are all very excited about it and are excited for the potential of what UMass/UConn football could be,” Pasqualoni said.
Going into the game, Pasqualoni isn’t treat-ing this game like the cakewalk it appears to be on paper. The Huskies are the heavy favorite. They’re playing at home and the Minutemen haven’t ever played a game on the FBS level.
However, he is quite familiar with the coach-ing staff and knows the prowess and intelligence they bring to the table.
For example, the Minutemen’s defensive coor-dinator, Phil Elmassion, worked under Pasqualoni at Syracuse, where Pasqualoni said Elmassion had a very impressive defensive mind.
From Syracuse, Elmassion went to Virginia Tech and then to Washington.
“I know the intensity they are going to bring,”
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Giants beat Patriots in preseason finaleEAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
(AP) — Lawrence Tynes kicked a 32-yard field goal with 1:03 to play and the New York Giants defeated the New England Patriots 6-3 on Wednesday night in the preseason finale for the teams that met in the Super Bowl in early February.
This one was hardly as interesting as the title game, but the Giants (2-2) once again scored late to win. Adewale Ojomo set up the game-winning score with a sack and forced fumble against Brian Hoyer that Marcus Thomas returned 12 yards to set up Tynes’ second field goal of the half.
Steve Gostkowski kicked a 20-yard field goal in the second quarter for the Patriots (1-3), who rested almost every starter.
The Super Bowl champion Giants will kick off the NFL season next Wednesday at home against Dallas. The Patriots will open on the road at Tennessee on Sept. 9.
The Giants iced the game with 13 seconds to play on an inter-ception by Laron Scott
Eli Manning and the majority of the Giants’ starters played just over a quarter, with receiver Hakeem Nicks making his
preseason debut. New England rested their starters with only fullback Eric Kettani and defen-sive tackle Brandon Deaderick starting.
.After collecting only four first downs and 69 total yards in the first half, the Giants took the second-half kickoff and went 64 yards in 13 plays with Tynes
tying the game with a 34-yard field goal. Andre Brown rushed nine times for 51 yards in what has to be a late bid to make the club.
The Patriots held a 3-0 half-time lead after 30 minutes that at best were boring.
Manning and the first-team offense played into the second quarter and never got into New England territory. The closest New York got was its own 49 in the next to last play of the half.
Manning was 4 of 8 for 29 yards in four series against the Patriots’ reserves, including three without making a first down.
Gostkowski provided the only points of the half with a 20-yard field goal a little more than 6 minutes into the second quar-ter. The 12-play, 51-yard drive was kept alive by a third-down facemask penalty against Giants linebacker Spencer Paysinger as
he tackled Brandon Bolden well short of a first down at the Giants 36.
If there was anything inter-esting in the first half it was
the work of referee Don King and his crew on a day the NFL announced that it would open the regular season next week with replacement officials.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Lucas Duda hit a two-run homer, Matt Harvey had another sharp outing and the New York Mets beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-2 Wednesday night for their fourth straight win.
The Mets have won five straight in Philadelphia and seven of eight overall this sea-son.
Harvey (3-3) allowed two runs and six hits, striking out six in 6 1-3 innings. He also had an RBI single. The rookie has a 2.76 ERA in seven starts.
Tyler Cloyd (0-1) was decent in his major league debut filling in for Cole Hamels, who was scratched from the start because of a gastrointestinal illness.
Cloyd allowed three runs and seven hits in six innings. The 25-year-old righty was 15-1
with a 2.26 ERA in the minors this season, including 12-1 with a 2.35 ERA at Triple-A Lehigh Valley.
Josh Edgin, Robert Carson and Jon Rauch combined to get five outs before Frank Francisco finished for his 22nd save in 25 tries.
Both teams are tied for third place in the NL East. They trail St. Louis by 10 games for the second wild-card spot with 32 games remaining, making it unlikely they’ll be playing in the postseason.
The lead went back-and-forth over the first three innings until Duda put the Mets up to stay with his 13th homer and first since being recalled from the minors on Sunday. His last homer came on July 6 before he was sent down later that month.
After Jimmy Rollins hit an RBI double to put Philadelphia up 2-1 in the second, Duda ripped a line-drive out to right to give the Mets a 3-2 lead in the third.
Duda preserved the one-run lead with a running catch on Ryan Howard’s liner to deep left with two on and two outs in the fifth.
Harvey helped himself in the second with a hit. Scott Hairston led off with a double and scored on Harvey’s one-out single to left to tie it at 1.
Harvey is 6 for 13 with two doubles and three RBIs.
The Phillies went up 1-0 in the first on Howard’s sacrifice fly. Juan Pierre lined a single off the right-field fence, advanced to third on Chase Utley’s single and scored on Howard’s fly.
Duda, Harvey lead Mets over Phils, 3-2
Lucas Duda comes home after a fourth inning home run to put the Mets up for good.AP
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