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Friday:Career Fair1 to 4 p.m.

Student Union, 304

Pi Sigma Epsilon and the Marketing Society are hosting a career fair for students interested in careers in mar-keting, management and sales.

Friday and Saturday:Pink Floyd Experience

8 to 10 p.m.Jorgensen

This rock and light show will recre-ate legendary songs by Pink Floyd. Admission ranges from $34 to 55.

Saturday:Fashion Event2 to 4 p.m.

Benton Museum of Art

This event called, “Vogue, Victorian Style” will feature accessories, style and art from the Victorian era in New England.

Sunday:Breaking Dawn Pt. 1

7 to 9 p.m.Student Union Theatre

In the fourth installment of the Twilight saga, Edward and Bella deal with tensions in Forks as they prepare to be parents. Admission is $2.

What’s on at UConn this weekend...

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AM clouds, PM sun

FOCUS/ page 7

EDITORIAL: UCONN’S ADDITION OF HUMAN RIGHTS MAJOR EXTREMELY POSITIVE

COMMENTARY/page 4

SPORTS/ page 14

» INSIDE

‘VOCALIZING’ HISTORY

Trials and tribulations of her childhood figure prominently in poet’s work.

THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

Space pioneer remem-bers circling Earth for the first time and later accomplishments.

Huskies go for 100 straight at home.

Expansion of program shows commitment to growth.

INSIDE NEWS: GODSPEED JOHN GLENN: 50 YEARS SINCE FIRST ORBIT

After five years of planning, the McMahon Dining Hall reno-vation project will break ground next week, the first step toward a fully revamped and interna-tional-themed dining hall.

There is a large percentage of international students dining at McMahon, which is the home to Global House learning com-munity, according to Dennis Pierce, director of UConn Dining Services.

Pierce said the international theme will extend beyond food options and will be visible in the layout of the renovated dining hall. The dining hall will incorpo-rate three different seating types, including low chairs and coffee tables, tall chairs and tables and the regular-sized tables currently in the dining hall.

“It will be a snazzy place,” Pierce said.

Renovations will also include updates to the serving layout, creating areas for gluten-free foods, grilled foods and dairy foods. Seating will be avail-able for diners at counters sur-rounding the cooks preparing the food.

“Students will really be able to interact with the people pre-paring their food,” Pierce said. “They can talk to them and ask them questions.”

UConn Dining Services has purchased two tandoori ovens, used for baking traditional Indian naan bread, as well as a stone oven. The chefs have col-laborated with students to create an international comfort-food-themed menu.

“I see students as emotional eaters,” Pierce said. “People cheat on diets. We like to have comfort food.”

Pierce said American stu-

dents have their versions of comfort food in the dining halls but that international students currently do not.

“What is comfort food? It’s not an American version of Asian food,” Pierce said. “It’s the food someone’s mother would have made in another country. We’ve put a lot of thought into these recipes.”

McMahon Dining Hall is sec-ond only to South Dining Hall in student usage. To accommo-date more diners, an expansion

to structure and an additional 200 seats is included in the reno-vations. During spring break, a wall will be constructed to cover the windowed wall of the din-ing hall. The existing windowed wall will be knocked down to extend the indoor dining area onto the patio.

When McMahon is fully revamped at the start of the Fall 2012 semester, the dining hall will extend its hours to include weekends while remaining open until 10 p.m. during the week.

During the rest of the spring semester, food service at McMahon will remain the same but students will use the north side entrance instead of the main entrance to accom-modate the construction zone. Construction will not take place any day before 8 a.m., during quiet hours or during finals week.

Students expressed enthu-siasm for the changes to McMahon.

“It really will enrich UConn

culture and McMahon renova-tions were much needed,” said Kristen Colberg, a 4th-semester biomedical engineering major. “It will be a great new addition to the UConn community.”

Pierce said he is optimistic about the renovations and believes students will enjoy the changes.

“From an ambiance perspec-tive, it will probably be the favorite dining location on cam-pus,” Pierce said.

By Kim WilsonSenior Staff Writer

This rendering shows the exterior renovations that will be made to McMahon Dining Hall. Dennis Piece, director of UConn Dining Services, said that the changes will be made by the start of the Fall 2012 semester.

PHOTO COURTESY OF DENNIS PIERCE

McMahon Dining Hall to be renovated

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Former student arrested in connection to Sywak death

A 19-year-old woman was arrested Thursday morning by Wilton police in connection with the death of her boyfriend, Pawel Sywak, a UConn junior who died on Jan. 24.

Amanda L. Denke, of Wilton, a former UConn sophomore who has since dropped out of school, according to The Courant, was charged with first-degree reck-less endangerment, possession

of heroin, tampering with evi-dence, interfering with police, possession of 4.8 grams of mari-juana and two counts of making a false statement to police.

When emergency personnel were called to Denke’s apart-ment in Mansfield Apartments, Sywak was already unrespon-sive. Denke “created a risk of endangerment by not request-ing immediate medical assis-tance,” opting to hide the drugs in a bedroom first, according to police.

Denke also intentionally with-

held information from respond-ers that could have assisted in reviving Sywak and knowingly provided false statements to police on two occassions, police said.

Denke’s bail was set for $50,000, which she posted, according to The Courant, and her arraignment date is Feb. 28.

According to public informa-tion on Denke’s Facebook page, she was dating Sywak before his death.

UConn third greenest college campus in world

» ENVIRONMENT

According to a list published by Universitas Indonesia in December, UConn is the third-greenest college campus in the world.

UI’s GreenMetric World University Ranking listed only Nottingham University (UK) and Northeastern University in Boston ahead of UConn. Schools accumulated points in the rankings based on five categories: setting and infrastructure, energy and cli-mate change, waste, water, and transportation. UConn received a score of 7,708, behind Nottingham’s 8,033 and Northeastern’s 7,981.

The calculation relies on information provided by the 178 universities contacted by UI to participate in the ranking. The researchers tried to establish “a picture about how the university is respond-ing to or dealing with the issue of sustainability through policies, actions, and com-munication,” according to the GreenMetric website.

The researchers also looked at setting (urban versus rural) and zoning policies as a mea-

sure of land use. “We want to see the degree of green space,” they said. The crite-ria were selected to try and produce a picture of how con-cerned survey respondents were with reducing environ-mental impact.

A commitment to envi-ronmental sustainability is in greater demand among today’s college applicants.

By Jimmy OnofrioStaff Writer

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#1 Nottingham University (UK)

#2 Northeastern University

#3 UConn

#4 University College Cork (Ireland)

#5 Linkoping University (Sweden)

UI’s Top Five Ranking

RANKINGS ACCORDING TO UI GREENMETRIC WEBSITEBy Brian ZahnAssociate Managing Editor

Brian.M.Zahn@UConn.edu

Amanda Denke, pictured here in police mugshots, was arrested Thursday morning in connection with the death of UConn junior Pawel Sywak.Photos courtesy of the UConn Police Department

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Some legislators backing red light cameras

HARTFORD (AP) — State lawmakers and advocates are resuming efforts to pass a bill allowing cities and towns the option to record drivers who blow through red lights.

Rocky Hill Rep. Antonio Guerrera joined Manchester Sen. Steve Cassano and other state officials in announcing support for the bill at a Thursday press conference.

Advocates say the red light cameras will change driver behavior and increase safety at busy intersections. Critics say it’s just a way to boost revenue and argue that fines would be mailed to the car’s owner, who may not have been driving.

Guerrera, a Democrat, said fines for motorists have yet to be decided.Currently 24 states and the District of Columbia use red light cameras.Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has previously said he will sign the legislation

if it reaches his desk.

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Student pleads not guilty in fatal accident

DANBURY (AP) — A 22-year-old Western Connecticut State University student has pleaded not guilty in connection with a hit-and-run accident that killed another student in November.

The News-Times of Danbury reports that Eugene Robinson of New Britain pleaded not guilty to evading responsibility Wednesday in Danbury Superior Court. His case was continued to March 7 and he remains free on $10,000 bail.

Nineteen-year-old Dong Lin of Brookfield died in the accident at the Danbury university. Witnesses said Robinson didn’t appear to be speed-ing and Lin may not have been paying attention to the road.

Police say Robinson told them he had no time to react to avoid Lin and he drove off because he panicked. Robinson’s lawyer says his client is “blameless” for the accident, but faces prosecution for what happened afterward.

State police revamping missing persons unit

MIDDLETOWN (AP) — Connecticut state police are revamping their missing persons unit to including major crime detectives from across the state.

The New Haven Register reports that the special team will be increas-ing its efforts at finding missing people and offering help to municipal departments. State police declined to release the number of investigators in the unit because of tactical and policy reasons.

Law enforcement databases have conflicting numbers on the number of missing persons cases in Connecticut. The Department of Justice lists 243 missing people in the state, while the National Crime Information Center lists 516 cases.

One notable case is the disappearance of Billy Smolinski of Waterbury, who was 31 years old when he disappeared in 2004, whose family has been pushing for laws improving how searches for missing people are done.

Mars to make all candy bars 250 calories or less

NEW YORK (AP) — Snickers bars may soon satisfy you a bit less.Mars Inc., the makers of popular candy brands including M&M’s and

Twix, will stop making chocolate products that exceed 250 calories by the end of next year.

That means king-sized versions of the company’s chocolate bars will disappear from candy aisles. The privately-held company also makes Milky Way, 3Musketeers, Bounty and Kudos bars.

Mars may not have to make radical changes to reach its goal, how-ever; a standard Snickers bar currently has 280 calories. A package of Twix and a bag of peanut M&M’s each clock in at 250 calories.

The company first posted the goal on its website in September of last year, but the plans got renewed attention after media organizations reported on it this week.

Judge throws out Facebook ban on sex offenders

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A federal judge threw out on Thursday a Louisiana law that bans certain sex offenders from Facebook and other social networking sites, calling the prohibition an unreasonable restric-tion on constitutionally protected speech.

The law, which took effect in August, made it a crime for anyone con-victed of a sex offense against a minor or of video voyeurism to use net-working websites, chat rooms and peer-to-peer networks. Lawmakers, backed by Gov. Bobby Jindal, said the ban was designed to keep sex offenders from preying on children in online forums.

U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson, based in Baton Rouge, said the prohibition went too far.

» NATIONOhio couple gets 8 years

in son’s cancer deathCLEVELAND (AP) —

The parents of an 8-year-old boy who died from Hodgkin lymphoma after suffering for months from undiagnosed swollen glands were sen-tenced to eight years in pris-on Thursday following their guilty pleas to denying him medical treatment.

Attorneys for Monica Hussing, 37, and William Robinson Sr., 40, had said the parents had financial problems and tried to get checkups for their son but couldn’t afford it.

The couple was given the max-imum sentence by Cuyahoga County Judge Michael Astrab, who accepted their guilty pleas last month to attempted invol-untary manslaughter in a last-minute plea deal before their trial was about to begin. They were handcuffed and taken into custody immediately. Both plan to appeal the sentence.

“I loved my son,” Robinson told the judge, occasionally wiping his eyes with a tissue. He said he was sorry.

“I tried to help my son,” Hussing said as family members

in the courtroom quietly sobbed.Hussing’s sister, Shelia

Slawinski, cried as she stood before the judge and gave voice to her nephew, Willie Robinson: “I am so in pain ... please take me to the doctor ... the last four weeks have been the most painful.”

“I told my sister,” Slawinski said. “I offered to help my sister.”

According to the prosecu-tion’s pre-sentencing memo to the judge, at least eight family mem-bers noticed Willie’s deteriorat-ing health over a period of more than two years and most spoke to the couple about it. One relative described the boy’s swollen neck glands as the size of a softball.

“Twenty-nine months he suffered,” Slawinski said. “Twenty-nine months they had to do something and they chose not to.”

Asked outside court why her sister hadn’t taken care of Willie and hadn’t enrolled him or three siblings in school, Slawinski said it was easier for Hussing to stay in bed during the day and do drugs. Both parents have abused drugs, their attorneys earlier told the judge.

Airlines cite high fuel costsas reason for raising fares

» TRAVEL

In this Feb. 9 photo, a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 waits to take off at Chicago’s Midway Airport as another lands. If you’re buying an airline ticket soon, get ready to pay a few bucks more. According to fare trackers, JetBlue Airways and Southwest Airlines are leading a round of price increases that will boost the base fare on many medium- and long-length flights by $10 per round trip.

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DALLAS (AP) — If you’re buying an airline ticket soon, get ready to pay a few bucks more.

According to fare trackers, JetBlue Airways and Southwest Airlines are leading a round of price increases that will boost the base fare on many medium-length and long flights by $10 per round trip.

United, Delta, American and US Airways said Thursday that they had matched the increases.

J.P. Morgan analyst Jamie Baker, who tracks fares, said United and US Airways expanded the price increases to routes that Southwest doesn’t fly and included Denver, where Southwest had not raised

prices. Rick Seaney, CEO of FareCompare.com, said at mid-day Thursday that all the largest U.S. airlines had raised fares.

Baker and Seaney said JetBlue took price increases that other airlines limited to a few markets such as Florida and expanded them nationwide last week. Southwest jumped in on Wednesday, they said.

JetBlue spokeswoman Alison Croyle said the airline raised prices by $5 each way on some Florida and West Coast routes last week and expanded the increase to other routes Sunday. Southwest spokeswoman Ashley Dillon said her airline raised prices to match JetBlue and

“cover operating costs including the high price of jet fuel.”

Jet fuel accounts for about one-third of an airline’s costs – about the same as labor – and the bill has been rising along with crude oil prices. This week, the spot price for Gulf Coast jet fuel was 12.1 percent higher than a year ago and up 8.5 percent so far in 2012, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That could mean more fare hikes ahead.

“It is pretty clear airlines will continue to try to recoup fuel increases regularly this year, with passengers telling carriers exactly when the price of middle seats has stepped over the line,” said Seaney.

Airlines raised base fares about a dozen times in 2011. But at the same time, they sac-rificed revenue by simultane-ously running sales to fill seats during slower travel periods or in specific markets. This week, even as it raised base fares, American launched a sale on Miami flights. Many consumers are savvy enough to wait for sales before buying tickets.

As a result of this yo-yo pric-ing, average fares don’t rise as fast as the number of increases would suggest. The average fare on Southwest, one of the few air-lines that discloses such figures, was $140 in late 2011, up 7 per-cent from a year earlier.

Numerous airlines increased medium to long round trips by $10

» COURT RULING

Among respondents to a 2011 Princeton Review survey, “69 percent said having information about a college’s commitment to the environment would impact their decision to apply to or attend a school.”

UConn was also named by the Princeton Review, as well as the U.S. Green Building Council, as one of America’s most eco-friendly colleges.

Director of environmental pol-icy Richard Miller told UConn Today, “We can be proud that UConn is emerging as a true lead-er for its environmental policies, practices, and sustainability ini-tiatives. We realize, as the survey results show, that there are still many areas for improvement, but we’re definitely headed in the

right direction.”He went on to say that UConn

hopes to use its ranking to facili-tate improvement in sustainability both here and at other schools, saying UConn could “help, advise and mentor other colleges around the world, especially through our involvement in Universitas 21.” He also congratulated schools in poorer countries that made the list and admired their effort in facing “unusually difficult challenges when it comes to implementing campus sustainability programs.”

The Office of Environmental Policy continues to work to mini-mize the university’s environmen-tal impact with new initiatives in 2012 and beyond. According to UConn Today, some of these projects include taking the Depot Campus off the energy grid with a 400-kilowatt, clean-energy fuel cell; an electric campus deliv-ery vehicle fleet; and composting units at two dining halls.

New construction projects such as the Classroom Building, East Building, and Storrs Hall Annex were all designed with LEED certification in mind, and many recent buildings achieved LEED status as well.

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Expert: TCU bust sign of increased pot problem(AP) – Maybe this week’s

drug bust at TCU shouldn’t sur-prise anyone.

National Center for Drug Free Sport vice president Andrea Wickerham said the arrests of four football players among 17 students overall on suspicion of selling marijuana is symbolic of an increasing pot problem in college athletics.

She hopes administrators across the nation are paying attention.

“I hope they don’t see this event at TCU as an isolated inci-dent. It’s not,” she said. “The question is, ‘What does TCU do about it?’ and what do other col-lege administrators do?”

The arrests at TCU came Wednesday, just a month after the NCAA said that 22.6 per-cent of 20,474 student-athletes participating in an anonymous survey in 2009 admitted to using marijuana the previous 12 months. That number was up from 21.2 percent in 2005.

Among the most high-profile sports, across all divisions, 26.7 percent of football players and 22 percent of men’s basketball players admitted in 2009 to using marijuana the previous year. Both were up significantly from the 2005 numbers (21.7 percent and 18.6 percent, respectively).

The report has been done every four years since 1985 and alcohol

always has been the overwhelm-ing substance of choice. Marijuana is No. 2. The NCAA tests for mari-juana at its championship events and football bowl games but not in its year-round testing program that has been in place since 1990.

In 2009-10, the most recent academic year for which data is available, 72 of 1,645 tested athletes (4.3 percent) turned up positive for marijuana. That was up from 28 of 1,799 tested ath-letes (1.6 percent) in 2008-09.

Chris Herren, a former player at Fresno State who struggled with cocaine and marijuana in college and during his brief stay in the NBA, said his marijuana use in high school led to his well-doc-umented problems. Herren, who said he has been clean since 2008, travels the country lecturing high school and college athletes about the dangers of street drugs.

Herren acknowledges the power of addiction. But with a clear mind now, he said, he can’t help but find the survey findings and NCAA testing results disheartening.

“We can sit here and say mar-ijuana is no big deal,” he said. “But in (athletes’) situations, it is a big deal. If they’re willing to throw away $200,000 of their education because of a blunt or a bong, let’s be honest, some-thing’s not right there.”

The National Center for Drug

Free Sport administers drug tests for more than 250 colleges as well as the NCAA. Wickerham said testing is the most effective deterrent and works best if it is consistently inconsistent.

“You want to test often enough so athletes truly believe they have a likelihood of being selected,” she said. “If you’re only doing it once a semester, or if you do it only when you hear about a bad event, that’s not a huge deterrent over time.”

More than 90 percent of the schools in Division I, more than 50 percent in Division II and about 20 percent in Division III have drug-testing programs, NCAA associate director of educational affairs Mary Wilfert said. Many offer counseling and treatment programs for those who test posi-tive. It is common for an athlete to be suspended for a year, or perma-nently, after a third positive test.

Seminars addressing the dan-gers of substance abuse and outlining testing programs and penalties are annual events at many colleges.

Still, the evidence shows mar-ijuana use is on the rise, despite what Wilfert said was an inten-sified effort the past four or five years to curb its use.

The NCAA and athletic departments are exploring ways to keep athletes from using mari-

juana or stopping the activity. Wilfert said peer intervention has become a popular tactic, with non-using athletes talking to marijuana-using teammates about the potential risks.

“One of the things we want to emphasize is that most stu-dent-athletes are not using — and the most recent substance-abuse

report supports that,” Wilfert said. “It is something to note and part of the (education) strategy, that most students make good choices.”

TCU said in a statement Wednesday that it tests its ath-letes for drug use “on a regu-lar basis.” At Nebraska, which started drug testing in the 1980s, an athlete is selected at random

or if there is reason to believe he or she is using illegal drugs, ath-letic director Tom Osborne said.

Nebraska athletes can expect to be tested as many as three times a year, either by the school, Big Ten or NCAA. Historically, Osborne said, fewer than 2 percent of ath-letes at Nebraska have turned up positive for any banned substance.

Supporters of Texas Christian University pray at Frog Fountain on campus Wednesday night, in reaction to Wednesday’s drug-related arrests on campus.

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» DRUGS

Obama fundraises for campaign across West CoastSAN FRANCISCO (AP)

— President Barack Obama is preaching an economic message aimed at the 99 percent and rais-ing campaign cash among the 1 percent, walking an election year tight rope complicated by the need for hundreds of millions of dollars at a time of high unemployment.

At a beachside communi-ty in southern California on Thursday, fresh off a dinner that included actor George Clooney, Obama was in the middle of a three-day fundrais-ing tour through opulent homes along California’s coast – a trip to be bookended by images of the president inside factories talking up job creation.

The president hauled in $750 million in 2008, shattering records, and his campaign has outpaced his Republican oppo-nents, collecting more than $220 million in 2011 even as it faces the prospect of hundreds of mil-lions from GOP-backed outside groups targeting his re-election.

To be sure, Obama’s cam-paign has mastered the art of raising money among the mass-es. In 2011, the campaign said it received money from 1.3 mil-lion donors, including 583,000 people who gave during the final three months of the year. More than 98 percent of sup-porters gave donations of $250 or less and the average donation

was $55.Yet a list of prominent donors

released by the campaign shows nearly 450 well-heeled backers who have collectively steered at least $74.7 million to the presi-dent’s campaign so far. Fully 62 of them collected at least $500,000 each to give to the campaign, including movie pro-ducers Jeffrey Katzenberg and Harvey Weinstein, and Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour.

California, where Obama scheduled six fundraisers during this three-day trip, figured most prominently on his roster of big-money “bundlers.” Sixteen are from California; 13 are from New York.

Fundraising is an inescap-able aspect of politics, and can-didates from both parties tap deep-pocketed supporters for cash and for help raising more from their network of wealthy friends. Many of those donors are the same ones that Obama is referring to when he tells audiences – whether well-off or working class — that the rich must pay a greater share in taxes.

Obama’s campaign pitch is aimed at the middle class. He sharpened his focus in a December speech in Osawatomie, Kan., where he decried a growing inequality between chief executives and

their workers. He reprised the theme in his State of the Union address last month and unveiled a budget proposal this month that put a policy sheen on that populist message.

As he pushes his economic agenda and as he raises money, Obama more and more is being forced to juxtapose working-class audiences and posh surroundings.

In Los Angeles, 1,000 Obama supporters watched a perfor-mance of the Grammy-winning rock band Foo Fighters on the well-manicured grounds of the home of Brad Bell, a prominent television producer.

“Love the Foo Fighters,” Obama told the crowd. “They were tired of winning so many awards, so they said, ‘Let’s do something else tonight.’“

Later, 80 people paying $35,800 apiece attended a dinner at Bell’s home, where guests drank wine from Kistler Vineyards and champagne by France’s Veuve Clicquot Ponsardin. Hollywood celebri-ties such as Clooney and actor Jim Belushi joined Obama advis-er Valerie Jarrett, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and others in a large dining room beneath a soaring chandelier.

In Orange County, Obama’s motorcade traveled along the Pacific Ocean to a beach-side community in Corona del

Mar, where the neighborhood was lined with Mercedes-Benz sedans, Toyota Prius hybrids and even a light-blue Nissan Leaf electric car. Speaking to guests beneath a white tent at the home of real estate developer Jeff Stack, Obama thanked the family for opening its “spectacular home.”

The fundraisers contrasted with a more modest official stop in Milwaukee on Wednesday. Obama visited the Master Lock plant where unionized workers manufacture padlocks famous for being “tough under fire.”

In San Francisco, Obama made an unscheduled stop in the heart of the city’s Chinatown neighborhood, shaking hands with diners and holding a crying baby. After posing for photos, the president pulled out some cash and paid for two bags of dim sum dumplings.

Obama was scheduled to end his three-day trip Friday in Seattle, where he planned to address workers at Boeing’s Everett Production Facility.

Republicans have repeatedly cited his high-wattage fundrais-ers to try to undercut Obama’s image with working-class voters. “President Obama campaigned on hope and change, but three years later he’s just another typical poli-tician,” said Kirsten Kukowski, a Republican National Committee spokeswoman.

» PRESIDENTIAL RACE

President Barack Obama gets Chinese food from Great Eastern Restaurant in San Francisco, Thursday. Obama is on a three-day trip to the West Coast for fundraising.

AP

Facebook has been one of the most transforma-tive developments in social interaction since

the creation of the mobile phone. Nearing in on a billion users, Facebook has affected almost every part of daily life in the 21st century. Just think about the sheer numbers of businesses, school clubs and social movement groups that have used Facebook to spread their messages and one

can begin to understand the optimism that has surrounded the announce-

ment of Facebook’s IPO. The IPO, filed in early February will be primarily underwritten by Wall Street giant Morgan Stanley and will result in tradable shares being available sometime around May.

While Facebook is rumored to be valued between $75 bil-lion and $100 billion, it will be a risky security for many. The key to determining whether Facebook will become as valu-able as the market bulls say is to think about the challenges the company will start having to face. Much of Facebook’s value is in its potential to more effec-tively monetize itself.

For example, Facebook stated in its S-1 filing that its mobile app is a new avenue for advertis-ing revenue for around 300 mil-lion active users monthly. The company also noted the surge in revenues in app purchases, in games like “Farmville.” It said the company will help balance out the additional advertising that may become necessary for Facebook as it becomes publicly traded. The “Like” button fea-tured on many popular websites, news sites and game sites has also helped to bring in additional rev-enue. Investors optimistic about Facebook cite possibilities for sustained, albeit slower, growth to drive in additional profits for years to come. Also, the difficul-ty of switching social networks – given the amount of time the average user puts into cultivat-ing a profile, it is very likely that Facebook will be –around for a long time to come.

However, despite my net optimism about the long-term viability of the stock, I am cau-tious and believe that investors should only allocate risk capi-tal for a purchase of Facebook stock in the short run. First off, despite Facebook’s potential for the future, the most off-putting fact about the stock is the esti-

mated price-to-earnings ratio of nearly a 100 given a $100 billion valuation. This makes the stock incredibly expensive compared to the dirt-cheap prices of nearly every other tech type stock out there, such as an Apple or a Yahoo. Facebook stated in its S-1 that the company faces signifi-cant competition in almost every aspect of their business. There are few barriers to prevent anoth-er college whiz kid from creating a website to rival Facebook, and although unlikely, doesn’t seem too far-fetched considering the fast rises and precipitous declines of sites such as Friendster or Myspace. All it takes is an easy process of transition. Facebook has an achilles heel in terms of privacy and the monetization of user information, user concerns that were hardly mentioned with-in their S-1.

Furthermore, Facebook rivals such as Google (trading around 20 times earnings) and Microsoft (trading around 11 times earn-ings) are much safer and cheaper investments. Depending on the state of the economy in May, and other factors such as the European debt crisis, Facebook’s stock might be extremely vola-tile from the get-go. In its S-1, Facebook reveals that founder

and CEO Mark Zuckerberg will retain nearly 57 percent of voting power, which some may interpret as a plus or a negative.

Zuckerberg seems to have been forced to go public with a company he tried hard to keep private. Given the level of voting power he retains, he may not be as likely to take Facebook in a direction that will soothe share-holder concerns through short-term gain. Instead, he might try to move his creation in a direc-tion that appeals to his own sense of “success” that might not nec-essarily be based on monetary terms.

Although I feel that Facebook’s stock will trend upward in the long run through a combination of an increase in users, increase in advertising and selling of pri-vate information to advertisers to a greater extent, the stock will be much too risky to purchase early on. The uncertain econo-my and the uncertain nature of Facebook’s intrinsic value makes it a risky stock that certainly can-not be considered the best invest-ment for this upcoming year.

Editorial Board Melanie Deziel, Editor-in-Chief

Ryan Gilbert, Commentary EditorTyler McCarthy, Associate Commentary Editor

Michelle Anjirbag, Weekly ColumnistChristopher Kempf, Weekly Columnist

Jesse Rifkin, Weekly Columnist

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This week, the world’s oldest democracy fell to its knees amidst a shower of tear-gas canisters and Molotov cocktails. The Greek

Parliament voted on Monday to pass a new round of fiscal austerity measures, slashing the minimum wage, cutting thou-sands of jobs and sparking a paroxysm of rage both against the nation’s increas-ingly undemocratic and unresponsive gov-

ernment and the broader European financial regime. What was once the brightest light of Western culture has very nearly gone out

in the frenzied struggle to contain Europe’s sovereign debt crisis.

Consider the words of the Greeks them-selves, as quoted in various New York Times and Associated Press articles. A shoe store employee’s vision of her coun-try’s future: “Greece will become a protec-torate…what kind of country are we going to leave [my children]?”

An insurance salesman’s opinion of his country’s political leadership: “They’ve all sold out in [Parliament], they should be punished…Can they live how they’re asking us to live?” A shop owner’s lament: “I’ve had it! I can’t take it any more. There’s no point in living in this country any more.”

From all corners of Greek society, there comes a recognition that Greek society is being dismantled to pay off German credi-

tors, that democracy no longer exists to serve the people, and that the outlook for the future is so grim as to fill young people and their parents with an incomprehen-sible sense of dread and despair.

The bailouts and austerity packages intended for Greece, European govern-ments claimed, had the intended purpose of saving the Greeks from their indulgent and irresponsible habit of government spending. It seemed that if they would stop drinking so much Ouzo and taking such long vacations, the Greek people could reintegrate themselves as responsi-ble economic citizens within the European Union. But why is it that after emascula-tive budget cuts, layoffs and tax increases, tax revenue continues to decline and the unemployment rate remains at levels not seen in the United States since the Great Depression? The program of austerity so popularly used as a straitjacket for finan-cially unhealthy nations is a cancer on the democratic state, destroying its capacity to nurture the public welfare and leaving it defenseless as financial predators under-take to carry off the remaining assets.

The conditions of Greece’s austerity programs – sell off government assets, raise income taxes, fire workers, lower wages – were drawn up by the European Central Bank for the purpose of prevent-ing Greece from defaulting on its debt or leaving the Eurozone, thus satisfying gov-ernmental and private lenders. But with each layoff or wage cut, economic activity generated by a worker having that job and earning that wage disappears, along with that worker’s confidence and hope. So the economy contracts, tax revenues decrease

and more austerity is needed to prevent Greece from sinking further into debt. It is a vile, circular process that results in destruction and misery.

Perhaps the most painful fact, however, is that the austerity measures enacted by Parliament have deprived the nation both of democratic governance and civil order. Under pressure from German and French leaders, the democratically elected prime minister resigned in November when his proposal to put austerity measures to a referendum caused panic in the finan-cial markets. The current prime minister, Lucas Papademos, is an economist head-ing a national unity government who does not belong to any political party and was never required to stand for election. Greece’s main political parties, all of which officially support the bailouts and austerity packages, have all but collapsed due to popular revulsion. Support is grow-ing for Greece’s extreme-left and extreme-right political factions. The legitimacy of the government has eroded to the point where power is won and lost by force in the streets and squares of Athens.

No nation should have to subject itself to such humiliation merely to satisfy finan-cial markets, let alone the nation which we have to thank for democracy, philosophy and geometry. The United States should therefore stand with the people of Greece and declare austerity to be a mortal enemy of democracy and freedom.

Democracy more valuable than austerity

Friday, February 17, 2012

UConn’s addition of human rights major extremely positive

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That awkward moment when you realize all of your current roommates have defriended you on Facebook.

I keep hoping that if I stare at my bio TA’s engagement ring for long enough that it’ll either dissapear or spon-taneously combust.

To all roomates that poach food and don’t replace: You’ll get yours one day... You’ll get yours.

We have an entire basketball team of Mandledoves this year...the talent is supposedly there but we never actu-ally see it. My best friend has been taking vitamins all week to pre-pare his liver for a visit to UConn. #HuskySwagger

You might own a Droid if: You don’t remember using your computer after the bar, but you wake up to 5 pages of Droid complaint forums. Dear Professors, If there are five minutes left until the end of class, don’t start a new topic. Sincerely, Students who aren’t listening anyway.

Does anyone else yell FEEL THE POWER when they dry their hands?

Attention all UConn boys: if a girl texts you after 8 p.m., she does not just want to talk about how her day was.

Every senior’s biggest peeve has to be teachers that go over scheduled class time because they love to hear themselves talk .

I have a huge crush on my lab partner... he knows just how to make my chemicals react.

Is it inappropriate to give yourself a nickname? I need to start calling myself Romita.

UConn’s Board of Trustees has taken another mea-sure to ensure that UConn is ahead of the curve by approving the addition of a new human rights major to the curriculum. UConn is the first major

public research university in the United States to do so, according to a press release by UConn Today.

UConn already hosted a human rights minor, in addition to showing an extra commitment to human rights through the dedication of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, the UConn Human Rights Institute, the Gary Gladstein Endowed Chair of Human Rights held by professor of law and anthro-pology Richard Wilson and the U.S.’s only United Nations UNESCO Chair in human rights, held by historian Amii Omara-Otunnu. By adding the major plan of study to the university curriculum, UConn has only heightened its com-mitment to this field.

Furthermore, this shows a commitment to the needs of UConn students outside the sciences. The human rights minor was established in 2001; the program has become popular enough in the 11 years since then to warrant the creation of the major. To complete the major, students will take an array of classes in the social sciences and the humanities. These classes will be selected to expose students to the “theory, application and violations of fundamental human rights that apply to humans around the globe,” according to UConn Today. Students who opt to complete a human rights major will have to complete a double major, as well as a capstone project that can be realized as either a thesis or a service learning internship. Students will be able to select the major in May of 2012.

The addition of this major to UConn’s list of programs is a commendable move on the part of the Board of Trustees. Such a major emphasizes that though we are already a pre-mier research university, we are also dedicated to the social sciences, and human rights – a field currently difficult to receive a thorough grounding in outside of law school. We hope that continued advances can be expected in the social sciences and humanities, as well as continued commitment to fulfilling student’s changing academic needs, as seen with the addition of the human rights major.

By Christopher KempfWeekly Columnist

Facebook stock value will hopefully succeed

By Srivats SatishStaff Columnist

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CommentaryFriday, February 17, 2012 The Daily Campus, Page 5

Totally bad

“I had pizza and wings with my friends and Facetimed with a special someone.”

Byron Henderson, 8th-semester economics major

“My boyfriend and I spent the night study-ing for our midterms.”

Nikki Stanise, 6th-semester communica-tions and journalism major

“I talked to my mom.”

Mack Ray, 4th-semester accounting major

“Let’s just say I didn’t make it to class the next day.”

Kate Raulli, 8th-semester communications major

What did you do Valentine’s Day night?– By Wynne Hamerman

When was the last time that you, as an individual, felt that you could

influence important policy deci-sions at the national level? If

your answer is “I can’t remember,” you are not alone. Many

Americans are frustrated to the point of hopelessness with how little power and respect the aver-age citizen commands in nation-al government. There are a few explanations for how our coun-try got this way, but by far the largest cause is the influence of big money in politics. Whether you are liberal, conservative or neither, citizens from all walks of life and political backgrounds agree that their national rep-resentatives are more likely to lend an ear to big-money donors

than to their constituents from home. This is especially true considering the 2010 Citizens United case and the consequent formation of SuperPACs. Many of us are left feeling emotionally debilitated as we watch policy makers make horrible choices in regard to the environment, the economy and social justice. We feel powerless to stop it. There are only so many letters that you can write to your federal Senator or representative before you begin to give up hope for real change.

Another factor that contrib-utes to the defectiveness of our federal government is the fact that America is simply too big. While it makes sense to enact some policies at the federal level, such as the printing of currency and the organization of national defense, there are many policy decisions that should be

left up to state governments. There is a huge disparity in cul-ture, beliefs, and values between states. It does not make sense to apply one generic federal policy to all of them on certain issues, such as education reform (as evidenced by the failure of the federal No Child Left Behind mandate). The idea that America is too large seems radi-cally unconventional, but it was an important part of the discus-sion surrounding the drafting of the U.S. Constitution. A 1787 New York Journal article by an anonymous Anti-Federalist summed up the problem suc-cinctly: “In a republic, the man-ners, sentiments, and interests of the people should be similar. If this be not the case, there will be a constant clashing of opinions; and the representatives of one part will be continually striving against those of the other. This

will retard the operations of government, and prevent such conclusions as will promote the public good.” Sound familiar?

So how do we address the changes that we want to see made at the national level? The answer is, we don’t. At least, we don’t try to implement these changes through federal reform. Instead, we must start closer to home and re-establish the political power and autono-my of our local governments. Sharing power between national and state governments is, after all, what the Founding Fathers sought to establish when they wrote the Constitution. Because there are less people and com-ponents involved in the legisla-tive process at the state level, change can be implemented more quickly and efficiently and with more direct representation. This is even more true at the

town/city level of government. Shifting power away from the federal government to individual states also means that policy can be better tailored to address the unique needs and circumstances of local communities.

Although this idea of “home rule” is far from mainstream and is virtually nonexistent in our national political dialogue, there have been a few recent and exciting examples of local com-munities taking back their right for self-governance. Towns in New York and Pennsylvania, for example, have enacted bans on gas drilling and hydraulic fracturing practices, arguing that they have a right to keep oil cor-porations from occupying their land, polluting their waters and poisoning their air. The legality of some of these bans is cur-rently being challenged as oppo-nents insist that towns cannot

preempt state and federal law. It is a sad day when American citizens are denied the right to make decisions about what goes on in their own backyard.

I am not advocating for anar-chy, because there are certainly some issues that require national federal regulation, where a top-down approach makes sense. However, I believe that the bal-ance of political power in this country is excessively skewed toward a few elite leaders in Washington who have no real accountability to local American communities. We need to restore the balance by advocating for greater state and municipal sov-ereignty.

Greater state sovereignty ensures more personal attention

By Kelsey SullivanStaff Columnist

Staff Columnist Kelsey Sullivan is a 3rd-semester natural resources major. She can be reached at Kelsey.2.Sullivan@UConn.edu.

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Survivor Season 24 premiere.

Totally rad

Pistachio.

I guess it’s midterm season...

Vasoconstrictors.

Does anyone look good in the freezing cold?

Guy in the Library With the Awesome Mustache

Dear Editor, In his editorial “Classroom Building Needs a Better Name” (2/15/2012) Jesse Rifkin sug-gests a better name might be “The Great Hall Named after the Guy in the Library with the Awesome Mustache.” I am that guy, and I thank you for appreciating my mustache. I work on level 1 of Babbidge Library in the IT office, so if anyone would like to stop by to talk about mus-taches, awesomeness or even library stuff, and I’d be happy to see you.

– Nicholas Eshelman

ShenanigansThe article in Thursday’s Commentary

section regarding the “Shenanigans” episode was largely anti-women. This letter is not intended to defend the video, which in my opinion is one of the most objectionable attempts at humor that I’ve had to subsidize in my four years here. I am writing to protest the idea that women on campus need to be sheltered from any portrayal of violence against them, which I believe is a patriarchal and condescending position to hold. A woman, in a free country like ours, needs legislation protecting her from false portrayal like a fish needs a bike.

In an effort to show how the video perpetuates rape culture, the author gives evidence that the portrayed situa-tion is statistically unlikely. The manner in which he does this suggests that he believes the episode was intended to be a documentary. This is equivalent to believing that “Star Wars” perpetu-ates a myth that the average woman is a Princess and falls in love with her brother. That subplot is both unrelated to the point of the story and clearly is not intended to be a general statement about all women. The “Shenanigans” skit was a short (unquestionably dis-gusting) fictional piece about sadistic

Blue Lights, not an educational video about the average rape. “Star Wars” takes place in space, but is it implying that all wars are fought among the stars? Does it discriminate against Earth wars? Does anyone believe that all rapes occur in situations just like the one set up on UCTV?

There is a saying that if all you have is a hammer, you treat every problem like a nail. The video supports sadism and cynicism, but not rape culture. The woman in the skit was strangled, not raped, but that doesn’t matter to the fanatics. Nor does it matter that an independent woman freely chose to par-ticipate in the skit. To them, women can only succeed by punishing masculinity, which they have tried to define as every-thing from chivalry to rape and sexual aggression. That people can consider themselves feminists while maintaining this idea is simply astounding.

– Liam Haller

“Colleges shouldn’t comfort comfortable” 2/9/12

Ryan Gilbert’s article, “Colleges shouldn’t comfort comfortable” (Daily Campus Commentary 2/9/12), is an egregious attack on college-aged males everywhere. To candidly speak that “for men, there is no discrimination,” is a wholly fallacious claim. Inherently, the nature of “affirmative action” pro-grams is discriminatory. Affirmative action has existed to correct so called “social wrongs” for groups that have been discriminated against. But what if men are the group being discriminated against? Men are the only gender who must enroll for Selective Service in order to qualify for federal benefits such as student loans. Societal roles have shoehorned men into believing they must fulfill certain gender roles and expectations, such as being the primary breadwinner of a household, or the belief that “success” is equated to “financial success.” Gilbert seems to believe that only certain groups should receive assistance from affirmative action, rather than any group being discriminated against. Indeed, men do rank lower in many forms of academic indicators; Girls get better grades, have higher educational aspirations, enroll in AP classes at higher rates, and out-

number boys in student government and honor societies. Additionally, men are more likely to be suspended, held back, or drop out; boys are three times as likely to be diagnosed as ADD. More boys are involved in crime, alcohol, and drugs. However, should these not be indicators that young males need assis-tance? Why is it when men fall behind, it is “simply the result of their own smugness, their own lack of ambition, and their own disconnect with the sys-tem.?” At what point should we reform the system to assist men? Or are we just going to continue to discredit their aca-demic disadvantages as intrinsic to the gender? Gilbert needs to take a serious look at his beliefs regarding the reasons why fewer men apply to college, before decrying the whole problem of admis-sions inequality as a result of “laziness” on the part of males.

– Gregory Brennan

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Godspeed John Glenn: 50 years since first US orbitCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

(AP) ¬– The name still res-onates and generates goose bumps like few others in the world of spaceflight.

John Glenn.Even astronauts - not just the

rest of us mere mortals - get mushy talking about Project Mercury’s “clean Marine” who led the country’s charge into orbit.

As the world’s most enduring and endearing spaceman gets set to celebrate what no other living astronaut has done - mark the 50th anniversary of his own spaceflight - he finds himself in overdrive reflecting on what has been an undeniably charmed, golden life.

First American to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7 on Feb. 20, 1962. Oldest person to fly in space, at age 77 aboard shuttle Discovery in 1998. U.S. senator for four terms and one-time presidential candidate. Namesake of a NASA center as well as a university’s school of public affairs.

Now 90 and living in Columbus, Ohio, Glenn just recently gave up flying and sold his twin-engine Beechcraft Baron. It was tough hopping up on a wing to climb aboard the plane. Glenn and his wife, Annie, who turns 92 on Friday, both had knee replace-ments last year.

“We decided it was time to pack it in,” Glenn said.

Besides, his goal was to fly the plane until 90, “and I did that.”

With so many blessings and accomplishments, there’s still one brass ring Glenn wishes he’d snagged: Apollo 11, the first manned moon landing in 1969. It’s a sentiment he’s shared often with Neil Armstrong, Ohio’s other revered son and the first man to set foot on the moon.

“I’ve been very fortunate to have a lot of great experiences in my life, and I’m thankful for them. So I don’t see myself as being envious. But in his case, I’ll make an exception,” Glenn said, laughing, during an inter-view late last month with The Associated Press.

Armstrong, for his part, would

like one day to be in Glenn’s shoes “and have as much suc-cess in longevity.” He called the milestone “the most significant of all the space anniversaries.”

“And John Glenn deserves all the honors that his country can bestow,” the 81-year-old Armstrong wrote in an email. “He is an American patriot.”

Five decades later, Glenn reflects with pride on the accomplishments of all seven of NASA’s original Mercury astro-nauts - not just his own.

“It’s amazing to me to look back 50 years and think that it’s been 50 years,” Glenn said, seated in his top-floor office at Ohio State University, inside the school of public affairs that bears his name.

Nearly every day he’s asked about spaceflight or NASA, so “it’s remained very vivid to me.”

Glenn is reluctant to comment on his superstar status. He’s as modest and down-to-Earth as ever. He cites attitude and exer-cise - he tries to walk a couple of miles every day - as key to his active longevity.

He walks and talks like a much younger man - standing straight and tall, and asking questions, not just answering them, in a clear and steady voice. He appears almost as robust as he was for his shuttle ride at age 77.

The only other surviv-ing Mercury astronaut, Scott Carpenter, ranks Glenn as tops among the hand-picked military test pilots presented in 1959 as the Mercury Seven.

“He’s a very good man,” said Carpenter, 86, who followed Glenn into orbit on May 24, 1962. “He’s a grown-up man, but he’s still a very good Boy Scout.”

Fifty years ago on Monday, Glenn circled Earth three times in five hours, putting America on even footing with the Soviet Union. The Soviets already had laid claim to the world’s first man-made satellite, Sputnik, and the first spaceman, Yuri Gagarin, who had orbited the globe a year earlier. Gagarin logged a full revolution; the next cosmonaut to fly spent an entire day in orbit.

Finally, it was America’s turn

to shine. But it was a nail-biter.Unlike the secretive Soviet

space program, NASA conducted its manned launches on live TV.

First, a thruster malfunctioned in orbit. Glenn had to take man-ual control. Then there were signs that the protective heat shield on his capsule was loose.

No one, Glenn included, knew whether he would survive the fiery re-entry. The shield proved to be tight, and Glenn returned a national hero on the scale of Charles Lindbergh.

Just outside Glenn’s office at Ohio State is the hand controller he used to fly the Friendship 7 capsule. The display box also holds the small failed thruster.

The artifacts are among more than 1,000 boxloads of materi-als he gave Ohio State for safe-keeping and display, with more

to come. The items span his entire life, from his small-town Ohio boyhood to his ace-flying days of World War II and Korea, to NASA to Democratic U.S. senator for his home state for 24 years, to his brief bid for presi-dent in 1984.

The capsule itself and Glenn’s silver spacesuit are at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum.

Glenn hasn’t auctioned any of his memorabilia, unlike some space pioneers who have found themselves in legal tussles with NASA. “I have never sold a single thing. Nor will I,” Glenn said firmly.

His hope is that the memen-tos drum up interest among schoolchildren in space, sci-ence and technology.

A collectible from that first

flight inspired astronaut Donald Pettit, 56, now a resident of the International Space Station. He recalls getting a pair of Red Ball Jets sneakers as a boy growing up in Oregon, and inside the box was a 45-rpm record of Glenn describing his orbital flight. The recording blew Pettit away, as did the photos of the pioneering astronauts that appeared in Life magazine. (Life held exclusive rights to the stories of the origi-nal Mercury Seven astronauts.)

From that moment on, Pettit was captivated with space, as were so many of his Cold War-born generation.

With Glenn’s flight, “space-flight moved from science fic-tion to science fact,” Pettit said from orbit last month.

All told, 330 Americans have followed Glenn into orbit.

Glenn was actually the third American - and the fifth per-son - to rocket into space. Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom were confined to 15-minute subor-bital hops in 1961, the same year the two Soviet cosmonauts blazed trails into orbit.

America was badly behind. Unmanned U.S. rockets kept exploding on the launch pads.

“Rocket performance was far from predictable,” Armstrong noted in his email.

The stakes couldn’t have been higher when it came time for Glenn to soar. And fears abounded as to whether a man could sur-vive weightlessness: Would his vision be impaired to the point he couldn’t land his vessel? Could he swallow food? Might he become so elated with space that he might never wish to return to Earth?

In this Feb. 20, 1962 photo provided by NASA, astronaut John Glenn climbs into the Friendship 7 space capsule atop an Atlas rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla. for the flight that made him the first American to orbit the earth.

AP

Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada is envisioning a day when taxicabs might shut-tle fares without a driver, or people with medical conditions that make them ineligible for a license could get around with a virtual chauffeur.

The concept took a big step when Nevada became the first state to approve regulations that spell out requirements for com-panies to test driverless cars on state roads.

“Then they have to take us out and prove that they can do it,” Bruce Breslow, direc-tor of the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles, said of the autonomous vehicles. “They’re not ready to go to market yet.”

But Nevada intends to be ready when they are, and officials hope to stay ahead of other states such as Florida and Hawaii that are considering similar testing regula-tions, Breslow said.

Gov. Brian Sandoval took a

test ride in a self-driving Toyota Prius in July. The car being developed by Google Inc. uses radar, sensors and computers that allow the vehicle to drive itself, though human drivers can override the autopilot function.

Companies that want to con-duct testing in Nevada will need a bond of $1 million to $3 mil-lion, depending on the number of cars they plan to test. Firms also must lay out their spe-cific intentions, such as testing a vehicle on urban roadways, or its ability to operate in the fog, rain or snow, and provide testing data to the state.

The cars must have two peo-ple in them at all times, with one able to take control. The new regulations approved last week also require companies to detail license requirements for people to operate them when they become available.

Cars must be equipped with separate data collectors – simi-

lar to the “black box” on an aircraft – that will “capture and store the autonomous technol-ogy sensor data for at least 30 seconds before a collision.”

The regulations go beyond testing procedures, anticipating the day when driverless cars become a reality on highways.

If a vehicle is certified as capable of being driven in autonomous mode without a driver, a person can operate the vehicle “without being physical-ly present,” one provision says.

Whether there’s a human driver or not, the regulations hold the operator responsible regardless of whether the person is physically present in the autonomous vehicle.

The only exception to traffic laws is texting or talking on a hand-held cellphone. A law passed by legislators last year to ban texting while driving included a specific exemption for operators of self-driving cars on autopilot.

This file photo shows Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval exiting a driverless car after a test drive in Carson City, Nev. The state is looking forward to the day when taxicabs show up without a driver and people take their pooch to the groomer without getting behind the wheel.

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» AUTOMOBILES

Organic milk low as demand is up and farmers struggle

» AGRICULTURE

WESTVILLE, N.Y. (AP) — “Got milk?” is getting to be a difficult question when it comes to organic.

Because even as more con-sumers are willing to pay pre-mium prices for organic milk, supermarkets are having trouble keeping it on the shelves as high feed and fuel prices have left some organic dairy farmers unable to keep up with demand.

“The market has surged faster than supply,” said George Siemon, CEO of Wisconsin-based Organic Valley, the nation’s largest coop-erative of organic farmers, “and at the same time we had high feed costs reduce supply, so we had a double hit here.”

Organic milk shortages are nothing new. As the milk – which federal regulations require be from cows fed organic feed and free from production-boosting syn-thetic hormones – rose in popular-ity during the past decade, there haven’t always been enough farm-ers to meet demand (it can take three years to transition a conven-

tional dairy farm to organic).The shortages have been seri-

ous enough that major chains like Hannaford Supermarkets in the Northeast and Publix Super Markets in the South recently post-ed signs in the milk aisle advising shoppers of reduced supply. Some relief is expected with the seasonal spring boost in production. But industry watchers say this short-age is more worrisome because of the alarming jumps in the price of organic corn and other feed coupled with higher fuel costs.

“It’s kind of like a treadmill thing,” said Siobhan Griffin, an upstate New York organic farm-er whose cows chomp hay in a hilly pasture. “If you make less milk you make less money, and then you can’t afford to make more milk.”

After a recent dip during the recession, sales of organic milk – which can sell for twice as much or more as conventional milk – are strong again. Sales for organic whole milk were up 16 percent from January through November

of last year compared with a year earlier, even as sales of conven-tional milk declined, according to federal agricultural statistics.

Molly Keveney, a spokes-woman for Horizon Organic, the No. 1 selling organic milk-brand, estimated a 7 percent growth in organic milk demand in a time of flat supply.

Some farmers have switched to less expensive feed, but that reduced production. Griffin, who runs Raindance Organic Farm 55 miles west of Albany, is losing money as costs outrun prices. She sold 15 cows in the fall so she could afford to buy feed for her remaining cows.

In Elko, Minn., Tim Zweber of Zweber Farms said his family sold about 20 milking cows since the fall because of the feed costs, leav-ing them with about 100. Zweber – who like Griffin is a member of the Organic Valley cooperative – said the price his family receives for its milk versus the high costs of producing it results in margins that are very tight.

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Natural ways to whiten teeth

Oh, fudge. Spring break is less than a month away.

While for most this real-ization spurs slight panic with the subsequent launch-ing of a hardcore diet and workout regimen, I have something else on my mind. A different area in which desperately needs tending to: a whiter smile.

After seeing a photo of myself taken over the week-end, I couldn’t believe the damage my coffee addic-tion has had on my supposed pearly whites.

A quick fix, of course, would be whitening strips, but that’s easier said than done. These sticky, nausea-induc-ing things are an investment of both time and money, not ideal for a college gal on a budget like myself. Plus, every time I start using them, my teeth are so sensitive I nearly jump out of my pants when I drink anything cold!

So what’s the next best thing? Natural whitening solu-tions. That’s right! Certain foods, beverages and home remedies can make a notice-able difference, especially in combination with a healthy maintenance routine.

For a brighter smile with a lot more “wow,” start by including strawberries and apples to your diet.

According to Dr. Mehmet Oz, strawberries contain an astringent and vitamin C that help fight surface stains, while clearing away any plaque. Famously known for being nature’s toothbrush, apples scrub away bacteria with each crunch and dissolve stains with malic acid, one of the common chemicals found in teeth whitening products.

An apple a day keeps the dentist away!

When it comes to mouth-wash alternatives, raisins or sugarless gum are great whitening options. Both flush away plaque by inducing the production of saliva.

Another natural concoction that yields sparkling results includes the simple, affordable home remedy of baking soda and freshly squeezed lemon juice. According to Reader’s Digest, gargling apple cider vinegar before brushing in the morning is another beauty trick that fights stains fast.

Other “cleaning agents” that strengthen and help pro-tect enamel include calci-um-rich dairy products like cheese, yogurt and low-fat milk. Prevent gum disease and gingivitis by increasing your intake of fruits and veggies high in vitamins A and C.

Crisp easy-to-snack-on foods like celery, carrot sticks and popcorn also help create a healthy mouth with all that chewing.

Although obvious, brushing and flossing multiple times a day is essential for a spar-kling grin. Use a new tooth-brush or change the head of your electric one every two months and schedule routine dentist cleanings.

So now for the list of things you should try to avoid.

Not surprisingly enough, sugary treats, especially any-thing gummy, lodge them-selves in between your teeth and stick to your enamel. Limit your intake of sweet food and drinks to avoid even-tual tooth decay.

Acidic beverages and fare, like wine for example, are also a big no, no, creating

By Lauren CardarelliCampus Correspondent

» WHITE, page 9

African American poetry jazzes up Black History Month

The African American Cultural Center presented an evening of poetry with Professor Arturo (Arthur Pfister) Thursday night. Arturo read a few poems inspired by his hometown, New Orleans. Professor Arturo is a fiction writer and poet as well as an educator. He is currently a pro-fessor at Norwalk Community College, yet his talent as a writer emanated through his detailed poems. He read from his published work, “My Name is New Orleans: 40 Years of Poetry and Other Jazz,” and infused within his reading a vibrancy that highlighted every detail in his words.

Professor Arturo began with a slideshow of pictures of New Orleans including several Mardi Gras Indians dressed up in colorful costumes, as well as Gumbo, Louis Armstrong, and segregated pools in the 50’s and 60’s. These images served as a preface for what New Orleans stands for and segued into his first poem “Shine on the Titanic.” The poem used the concept of a man named Shine aboard the Titanic who is trying to get home, but instead of New York, he awaits New Orleans. The poem uses rhymed couplets that Professor Arturo explained as the “pre-cursors for rap.” Through these couplets, exaggeration, allit-eration, repetition, hyperbole and a fair amount of boasting,

Professor Arturo’s bragging, cheeky character came alive. Shine encounters several char-acters including the captain’s wife, the captain, a rich banker, and several greedy characters. Shine’s saucy and sarcastic voice shone through Professor Arturo’s performance. The rise and fall of the inflections in his voice reflected a consistent rhythm. It was in the rhythmic recitation of each syllable and half rhyme that the inspiration of Jazz could be found.

The age of Jazz, James Brown, Louis Armstrong and other notable figures and artists are prominent in Arturo’s poet-ry. They are infused through references and lyrics such as

Music, monologues and more this weekend

Pink Floyd ExperienceFriday and Saturday, 8 p.m.,

Jorgensen. UConn students: $10, Non-UConn students: $15, Regular admission: $55, $45, $38, $34

Jorgensen continues its caba-ret series this weekend with a tribute to one of the most influ-entical classic rock bands, Pink Floyd. Six musicians will be playing songs from “Wish You Were Here” and other signature Floyd songs over a backdrop of lights, sound effects and three-dimensional sceneries. The costs for the special effects of the Pink Floyd Experience totals to over $2.5 million. The show is unlike any that has ever been put on at UConn, and tickets for both nights are nearly sold out.

The band behind the Pink Floyd Experience has been tour-ing America since 1994. All of its members have extensive experience with rock music. Their instruments include gui-

tars, a keyboard, a saxophone and drums. After this weekend, the group will be continuing on to Massachusetts, Maryland, New York and New Jersey.

Also at UConn this weekend:

The Vagina MonologuesFriday, 6:30 p.m., Student

Union theater. UConn students: $12, Non-UConn students: $15

A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant, & A Prayer

Saturday, 3:30 p.m., Student Union theater. UConn students: $12, Non-UConn students: $15

HuskyTHONSaturday, 6 p.m., Field HouseVisitors: $5

Vogue: Victorian StyleSaturday, 2-4 p.m., Benton

Museum

Honors music recitalSunday, 5:30 p.m., Benton

Museum

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Purbita.Saha@UConn.edu

The Pink Floyd Experience, a Pink Floyd tribute band, comes to the Jorgensen this week-end, and features a giant pig balloon as part of their act.

Courtesy of the Jorgensen

By Elmira FifoStaff Writer

» HISTORICAL, page 9

The African American Cultural Centre presented an evening of poetry Professor Arturo, also known as Arthur Pfister, on Thursday evening. Arturo’s poetry incorporates many references to jazz and soul musicians such as Louis Armstrong and James Brown.

RACHEL WEISS/The Daily Campus

The UConn Creative Writing Program and the Aetna Writing Chair co-sponsored a poetry reading by inter-nationally recognized poet Shara McCallum on Thursday evening. Last night’s event marked the beginning of the Creative Writing Program’s series of events for the spring semester. The spring semes-ter’s event calendar started with a two-day visit from McCallum, including dinners with faculty and students, guest lectures and last night’s reading. McCallum’s visit is part of a program created by both the UConn Creative Writing Department and the Aetna Writer in Residence program, which “invites two internationally known writ-ers, usually one poet and one fiction writer, each academic year,” said Dr. Sydney Plum, adjunct professor of English. Dr. Plum introduced the pro-gram and encouraged audi-ence members to attend other events through the creative writing program before turn-ing the microphone over to Dr. Penelope Pelizzon to introduce McCallum.

Pelizzon and McCallum have been good friends for many years; therefore Pelizzon was able to give McCallum a worthy and per-sonal introduction. Pelizzon gave background information on McCallum’s personal histo-ry and the effect McCallum’s poetry has on her audience. McCallum was born in 1972 in Kingston, Jamaica to Rastafarian parents, a religion and somewhat political move-ment that emphasized social and political equality. At this point in Jamaica’s history, the nation was in a constant

state of political upheaval and social chaos. McCallum was eventually taken to Miami in 1981 with her grandparents to escape the political brutality.

McCallum’s personal encounters with important chapters of history led her to pursue writing in order to make sense of her own past. Many of her poems center around historical events taking place in Kingston in the 1970s, such as one poem that she read, “Song for Kingston.” In her introduction of McCallum, Professor Pelizzon made clear

that although McCallum’s poems center on history and tell a historical narrative, in many cases they are not trite and boring passages out of a historical text. “It’s easy to intellectualize history, but as you’ll hear tonight, Shara McCallum vocalizes history.”

McCallum read the first poem she performed, “Calypso,” in a Jamaican accent because she wrote the poem from the point of view of Calypso, from Greek mythol-ogy, as a Jamaican woman. The inflection and intonation

of McCallum’s performance brought to life the words of Calypso. “I am very interested in voice,” said McCallum fol-lowing her readings, “I think it stems from the fact that when I was in high school I was toying with the idea of being an actress.”

Although her poetry dis-cussed difficult issues, such as her need to reconstruct her past and identify with it and her family troubles, her personal-ity and delivery were very relatable. McCallum present-ed seven poems from her three

volumes of poetry, noting that two of the three compilations took her eight years to fin-ish. Among the poems she performed were “Grammar for War,” “Penelope,” a poem about Odysseus’ wife, and “Miss Sally’s Wisdom”, a poem about her Grandmother. Her poetry, coupled with her likable personality created a wonderful experience for both aspiring writers and common people alike.

‘Vocalizing’ history

Internationally recognised poet Shara McCallum presented an evening of poetry Thursday, sponsored by both the UConn Creative Writing Program and the Aetna Writing Chair. McCallum’s Jamaican upbringing has heavily influenced her poetry, as has McCallum’s flirtation with acting.

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Trials and tribulations of her childhood figure prominently in poet’s workBy Kathleen McWilliamsCampus Correspondent

Kathleen.McWilliams@UConn.edu

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Out with the old and in with the new.

Say goodbye to Words with Friends and Hanging with Friends; Scramble with Friends is now THE multiplayer game to help iPhone users brush up on their vocabulary. Players are given a set of six let-ters and are expected to make multiple three-let-ter, four-letter, five-letter and six-letter words from the random set. The task may seem easy, but there’s an extensive amount of arrangements to be made. It’s especially easy to miss the shorter common words, even after the bonus six-letter word has already been conquered. Once a player gets through a round the other contestant takes a shot. The two then advance to the next round to see who has the most dexterity and the most knowledge of the English language.

“I think ‘The View’ would be an amazing show if they got rid of all of the cameras

and microphones.”

-Comedian Jenny Johnson

Bossaball

Scramble with

Friends

Bossaball is proof that conven-tional sports just aren’t enough for some people. About eight years ago, Filip Eyckmans of Spain decid-ed to combine volleyball, capoeira, gymnastics and soccer, and put it all on a big trampoline.

Western Europe is the site of most bossaball tournaments, but Brazil, Ecuador, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Singapore also are rising stars. Brazil and Spain are considered the best.

Scoring rules are fairly simple. Two teams of 3-5 players each attempt to score on the other team by hitting the floor of the opposite side within a designated scoring zone.

Contact rules are much more complex, however. Only six con-tacts with the ball per team can be used to score, including no more than one with the hands and two with the feet/head.

Bossaball tournaments are usually held in Brazil or Western Europe, but many teams travel the world so be sure to keep an eye out for a bossaball tournament near you!

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Sangría

» A CAMPUS IN STYLE

Supreme’s team continues

to grow and expand

Since the early 1990s, Supreme has been one of the most celebrated streetwear and skate companies in the world. What started as the nucleus of the New York City skate scene has grown into an internationally rec-ognizable brand.

From the beginning, Supreme has taken pride in the exclusivity, authenticity and individuality of the prod-ucts and pieces created. More recently, this iconic “box logo” has shown up in the news media and on the backs of some of our favorite celeb-rities. This brand has been around since 1994, but due to the aforementioned celebrity co-signs, it has expanded to a powerhouse today.

Supreme began as a skate company dedicated to expand-ing the culture around New York City. Today they are a fully developed streetwear retailer. What sets Supreme apart from other brands has been its more recent poster campaigns. Instead of opting for traditional advertisements, Supreme picks a celebrity from any profession to feature on their posters. On top of the celebrity appeal, Supreme usually gets famous photog-rapher Terry Richardson to shoot the models.

For this Spring 2012 col-lection, I was surprised and definitely excited to see that supermodel Kate Moss is the new face of the brand.

Long-time fans will remem-ber Moss as the model who wore one of the most sought after T-shirts Supreme has ever released. Professional models are not always chosen to be the face of the new col-lections, and sometimes they aren’t even human. Kermit the Frog, Mike Tyson, Lady Gaga, rappers Raekwon and Ghostface Killah and even Elmo have all donned the box logo for these photoshoots.

Supreme definitely has somewhat of a cult follow-ing, with fans and consumers who have been around since the brand began in the ‘90s. As far as our community at UConn goes, streetwear in general isn’t a hugely popular trend. Even the most popular brands, such as Supreme, The Hundreds and Bape haven’t caught on to our campus. The higher price tags and exclusiv-ity of products could definitely be a factor.

Exposure is also a key ele-ment of these styles spread-ing. Outside of bigger cities, these brands are only avail-able on internet shops. For years, celebrities and enter-tainers have been endorsing streetwear brands hoping to expose a new crop of consum-ers to the merchandise. From the entire Odd Future crew wearing 5-panel hats to Lady Gaga doing a nude photoshoot, Supreme is leading the way with smart and well-placed celebrity advertising.

By Jamil LarkinsCampus Correspondent

» HUNGRY HUSKY

Perfectly prepared personal pizzas

Pizza is an easy, affordable meal with ingredients that are easy to find. This recipe is easy to fall in love with.

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Today’s recipe is for pizza! In honor of Valentine’s Day earlier this week, I thought I would attempt to make a heart-shaped pizza. This pizza is super easy to make and extremely affordable. Though most of the ingredients will most-likely already be in your kitchen, there’s one ingredient you’ll probably have to buy... pizza dough.

So here’s what you will need to make one (almost) heart-shaped pizza:

- Mozzarella cheese- Tomato sauce- Fresh/dried sweet basil- Store bought wheat pizza

dough

Here are a few alternatives for you all. I used mozza-rella cheese, but you could use a variety of cheeses. I simply used marinara sauce meant for pasta but you could play with different flavors on your pizza. Lastly, I wanted to point out that the grocery store (Stop & Shop) where I bought my dough had a variety of doughs I could could from: garlic and herb, white and wheat. The dough is affordable and can be frozen as packaged so you can buy lots and freeze it for when you’re ready to make pizza

again. For this pizza, I kept it simple, but feel free to be adventurous with playing by all these alternatives to find a pizza you love!

To make your pizza:Preheat your oven to 500

degrees.

Take your pizza dough out of the fridge and let it sit for about an hour before cooking so that it is very soft and mal-leable, making it much easier to roll out. Dust a cutting board or a clean counter with flour. Then, take a small piece of dough – about a quarter of the package – and roll it out to a thin crust. Take a little bit of olive oil and gently coat the crust of the pizza so that it browns nicely. Then add your tomato sauce. Finally, add your cheese. Now you can have fun and place any spices or vegetables or any other toppings you’d like to try on your pizza. Then using a spat-ula, maneuver your pizza off the counter or cutting board and onto your cookie sheet or pizza stone. I used a pizza stone, but this is not neces-sary for making pizzas. Wait about five to seven minutes and your pizza crust will be brown and your cheese will be bubbling. Let the pizza cool, cut it and enjoy!

By Megan ToombsCampus Correspondent

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Finding last minute Spring Break ideas

Spring break is just around the corner. But who has time to plan anything when students are running around to classes and different activities? Have no fear, there is still plenty of a time to plan a quick get-away with some great last-minute deals.

If you want to go somewhere far but can’t find decent airplane tickets, take a look at www.studentuniverse.com, which offers where to find hotels, hostels and cheap flights. The website shows com-parisons with multiple airline and hotel companies. The site makes it really simple to plan out trips and even include student discounts and special package deals. One package the site is advertising for Spring Break is Panama City Beach, Fla. which is predicted to be the hotspot for Spring Break 2012.

Several packages are for vacation spots that require passports. These pack-

ages include Cancun, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic and others. All these packages have hotels, activities, transpor-tation and a few other freebies. But if you are not willing to fly internationally, there are also packages for Daytona Beach, Las Vegas, Miami and a few others. Some of these package deals can be found on www.studentcity.com.

These websites allow for last-minute planning and at good prices. The downside is flights are not included in the deals unless you ask for them to be included. These are some of the typical destinations for college students for Spring Break, how-ever, there are a few other alternatives if you aren’t into wild party scenes.

Rather than going crazy with thousands of other college students, you can explore cities you have never visited. Taking a cross-country trip with friends is always fun and can lead to many crazy adventures. Plan out a route and pack the car with a cooler then take off on the open road. If

you want to be really adventurous, leave the GPS at home and use the old-fashioned road map. Planning road trips is easy if you haven’t had time to make official plans for the break.

Hotels or motels can be found along the way or, if you’re feeling very cheap, there is always the possibility of sleeping in the car. If cross-country trips aren’t your thing, there is the idea of spending a few days exploring nearby cities. New York and Boston are always reliable cities to find something to do. You can either take the bus or a train. You can also take a train to Chicago.

Depending on your preferences, Spring Break can be a weeklong wild party, a journey to an unknown destination or a few days exploring a familiar yet dynamic city. There is still plenty of time to figure out your Spring Break plans.

By Loumarie RodriguezStaff Writer

Loumarie.Rodriguez@UConn.edu

Film with novice Eskimo cast opens in theaters

In this undated photo provided by Silverwood Films shows actors on snow mobiles on the ice during a scene from “One the Ice” in Barrow, Alaska.

AP

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two Inupiat Eskimo teenag-ers from a remote Arctic town find themselves at the center of a tragic killing brought on by a crystal meth-fueled fight during a seal hunt in the frozen north. The childhood best friends try to cover up the death but strug-gle to elude suspicions, forcing them to confront the limits of friendship and forgiveness.

The fictional dilemma is the heart of “On the Ice,” a thriller filmed in Barrow, Alaska, in 2010 with novice Inupiat actors. The 2011 Sundance Film fes-tival entry will make its theat-rical premiere Friday in New York and the Alaska cities of Anchorage and Fairbanks, then expand to cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco.

Barrow, an isolated whal-ing community of 4,300, is far from Alaska’s limited road sys-tem. Located about 320 miles north of the Arctic Circle, it is the northernmost town in the United States. Winter means endless nights and summer con-stant daylight, and temperatures can dip to 40 below. Everyone knows everyone, often through family connections.

For the filmmakers, it was important to capture the set-ting. It was crucial to cast Inuit people as Inuit people.

“I didn’t want to cast Japanese people or Korean people, which is what I grew up watching,” said its New York-based direc-tor and screenwriter, Andrew Okpeaha (pronounced OOK’-peh-hah) MacLean. “It’s just like, no way. That has to stop.”

The 96-minute film is the first feature-length movie from the 39-year-old MacLean — who is part Inupiat and spent much of his youth in Barrow — and was co-produced by his wife, Cara Marcous. It was loose-ly based on their short film “Sikumi,” which means on the ice in Inupiaq. The period film, shot in Barrow in the Inupiaq language, won the jury prize for short filmmaking at Sundance in 2008.

Both movies used nov-ice Inupiat actors, though the short film starred older ones — mostly MacLean’s friends. But few Inuits work as professional actors, especially teenagers, who were the focus of the story. Casting calls throughout Alaska, as well as in Arctic Canada, attracted about 700 hopefuls.

“What started as the nucleus of the New York skate scene has grown into an interna-tionally recogniz-able brand.”

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porous surfaces that eas-ily soak up dark pigments of whatever you’re consuming (ahem, coffee). Stain, stain go away! Come again…never.

A smile is one of the first impressions you make on someone. The simple expres-sion is a powerful one, whether your teeth are as straight as an arrow or a little less than perfect.

Consider incorporating these natural whitening solu-tions into your daily routine for a brighter, more confident grin. Say cheese!

A white smile is a powerful impression

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NY Fashion Week finishes up; shows begin in Europe

Fashion from the Fall 2012 collection of Calvin Klein is modeled on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 in New York.

AP

NEW YORK (AP) — Fashion’s tastemakers and trendsetters started packing up on the eighth and final day of New York Fashion Week Thursday as shows began in London, followed by Milan and Paris. But as the runway previews of fall looks con-tinue in Europe, some early trends have emerged.

The most popular looks to grace the runways over the past eight days include leath-er, military- and menswear-inspired tailoring and an overall sultriness that finds its allure in the mystery of the woman sheathed in high necklines and leather leg-gings instead of bare skin or overt sexiness.

Some of the best looks at Ralph Lauren’s show on Thursday were borrowed from the boys in a collec-tion plucked from a closet of a British aristocrat. The eveningwear silhouettes were simple, jazzed up with jew-eled collars — often with a high neckline.

“There’s a real practicality to the season in New York. There’s a lot of clothing that women will want to buy and wear,” said Ariel Foxman, editor of InStyle magazine. “I’m not seeing big, strong trend messaging. It’s not ALL about colorblocking or ALL about military.”

But one thing the stylish shopper will need is a new coat — could be a leather trench, an officer’s jacket or a tweed blazer — but outerwear was the big story after many cycles of daytime dresses.

“It’s interesting that in this mild winter there is so much outerwear,” said Foxman. “This idea of what fall and winter should be doesn’t go away.”

Brandon Holley, editor in chief of Lucky magazine, liked that a single outfit could have the toughness of a mili-tary look combined with a prim lace collar.

Attention was also drawn to the face with turtlenecks, which plays into the covered-up sexiness.

“Sexy to me is an attitude or mindset,” said designer Prabal Gurung, whose show was a top draw here. “There’s noth-

ing sexier than confidence this fall.”

Well, there is all the leather, which sometimes was tough looking but otherwise soft and buttery like the best pair of gloves. Holley said she some-times spots the trends by what the front row is wearing by the end of the week.

“I saw a lot of leather leg-gings. And then there were leather sleeves or leather pieces,” she said. “It’s about wearing a lot of leather but not wearing all leather.”

CALVIN KLEINCalvin Klein designs

have long been known for their razor-sharp lines, but the label’s creative direc-tor Francisco Costa seems to have a knack for curves, too.

His fall collection presented as one of the last major shows of New York Fashion Week ended things the way the sea-son largely started, offering clothes for a woman who can seduce and charm with intel-ligence and strength, but with-out wearing anything too tight or revealing.

Costa, in fact, purposely created a looser hourglass shape for this muse that gives room to move and breathe, sculpting stiff wool fabrics into outfits with rounded jewel necklines and a little extra fabric at the hips. For most women, this is going to work better in coats than dresses, but on the models, it was nice to see the chic, fuller shape shifts.

“Mysterious, sexy and super urban” was how Costa described it just after the show. “The iconography for this is all super modern,” he said.

“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” star Rooney Mara sat in the front row, and the clean, architectural and unadorned style that Costa has crafted as his Calvin Klein signa-ture seems a perfect fit for her. She might be the one to pull off a leather look at the Academy Awards.

The colors, as usual here, were dark and stark, with the only bright moments coming from a few flashes of red and a salmon-colored dress made of a glazed tweed and tulle.

‘Spider-Man’ producers, Taymor’s union reach dealNEW YORK (AP) —

Producers of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” have agreed to pay the Broadway musical’s former director and co-book writer Julie Taymor hundreds of thousands of dol-lars in royalties as part of a settlement that ends one chapter in the two sides’ bitter legal dispute.

The Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and the show’s producers, 8 Legged Productions LLC, announced the deal Thursday. No amount was officially dis-closed but Taymor is owed at least $600,000 so far, based on estimates.

Under the deal, producers have agreed to pay Taymor full royalties as director from the beginning of previews in November 2010 through until the end of the Broadway show, however long that is. According to industry esti-mates, she would qualify for royalties of about $10,000 per week.

The Tony Award-winner for “The Lion King” was fired in March 2011 after years of delays, accidents, critical backlash and ballooning costs that all pushed the show’s price tag to a record-setting $75 million. The settlement also grants Taymor royal-ties as a collaborator from November 2010 to March 2011, but defers payment to when the production pays back its investors.

The settlement does not end a federal copyright infringe-ment lawsuit brought by Taymor against the produc-ers and a countersuit filed by them against Taymor and her company, LOH Inc.

“The litigation between us is over, and we are hope-ful that any remaining issues between the producer and Ms. Taymor regarding her role as author can also be resolved to

the satisfaction of all,” Karen Azenberg, president of the SDC, said in a statement.

In the settlement announced Thursday, both sides pulled back from litigation just as they were undergoing arbitra-tion proceedings. Producers withdrew claims Taymor had breached her contract as director and agreed to no longer chal-lenge the union’s jurisdiction on antitrust grounds in the case.

The two sides also agreed to a compensation package for Taymor if any subsequent productions of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark” are staged. Producers have mulled the possibility of touring the show or mounting a produc-tion somewhere else, such as Las Vegas.

In a statement, produc-ers Michael Cohl and Jeremiah Harris of 8 Legged Productions, said: “We are very happy to have reached an amicable compromise with the SDC that will allow us all to move on.”

In the still-ongoing legal dispute between the two sides, Taymor is seeking half of all profits derived from the sale or license of any rights in the original “Spider-Man” book. It also seeks a jury trial to determine her share of profits from the unauthorized use of her version of the superhero story, which the lawsuit said was believed to be in excess of $1 million.

The producers, for their part, responded that she “caused numerous delays, drove up costs, and failed to direct a musical about Spider-Man that could open on Broadway.” Her version of the superhero story, they assert, bears little resemblance to the show that is currently playing at the Foxwoods Theatre.

Charles Spada, an attorney for Taymor, had no comment on Thursday’s settlement.

in the poem “Poem for our Mothers,” where references are made to Sojourner Truth, Ruby Bridges and Mary McCloed Bethune. Andre Lewis, a fourth-semester math major said, “This poem was the most creative. He’s very energetic in the way he presents himself for his age, even in a crowd of young people.” This poem was a powerful one that also maintained a steady rhyme, a serious yet humorous tone and exquisitely refined details of all kinds of mothers. “This poem is for the satin dolls, the yardbird suite tastes of honey, walkin’, (all by themselves) on Green Dolphin Street…or working in steamy, hot kitch-ens…” Professor Arturo read. He cites that “this poem is for yo’ momma…yo ‘momma who told you how hard it was when she laid down there and had you” transitioning from a serious to a playful, famil-iar tone. “ “That is why he is entertaining,” said Christina Edwards, a second-semester political science major.

Professor Arturo elaborated on what inspires him, as he said, “The remembrance of those who came before me, writers, singers, my family members, inspire me. I try to enrich others’ lives through stories and poems or praise about those people.” His poetry is like a memory where every sense is permeated by details of New Orleans. He concluded that though he admires stu-dents’ tech saviness, writing and art aren’t greeted with the same fervor. He says that stu-dents that want to foster their art should “read everything, question everything, and write every day.”

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

Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Work definitely takes priority for the next few days. Lots more business coming in. You’re attracting the attention of an important person. Good news from afar.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is an 8 -- There’s a test ahead, so sharpen your pencils. A respectful attitude and willing hands earn you new opportunities, and people are checking you out. Smile and wave.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 6 -- You may be tempted to stir up trouble, but leave that to others. Meditation helps you stay positive and centered. It’s so much better for your health.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Find strength in numbers. Take suggestions. Practice listening to someone as if you’ve paid them a million dollars. You can let another take the wheel.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 9 -- It’s getting busy now (and profitable). Stick to the high road, since anything lower has muddy pitfalls. A friend brings news. There’s an amazing breakthrough in love.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Nurture your creative side. Continue working on the things that make you happy. Make beauty. Cook with honey. It all could be very romantic.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Home has a strong pull on you now. Perhaps it’s time to beautify your nest or throw a party with special friends. Poetry, anyone? Say the magic words.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- Take advantage of your great discussion skills today. Pay special attention to successful friends ... they have a lot to teach you. Get a bonus.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 9 -- It’s not necessary to purchase things you want but don’t need to feel complete. You can find satisfaction in a job well done. Explore and discover.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 9 -- Being king or queen of the mountain comes with perks but also with responsibilities. Use your newly gained power wisely. Beware of tunnels that have no cheese.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- You can ponder perpetual motion or other impossible ideas now. Do the math. Listen to fresh ideas. Participate in the discussion. Procrastinate later.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Your friends really come through for you for the next few days. Take all the help that’s available. Your territory expands. Strange demands could arise.

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So does the Lin train stop at Penn Station when Melo arrives there?

Undoubtedly, there will have to be adjustments made. Questions will have to be answered, like “who gets the shot when they are down by 2 in the final pos-session?” or “can Melo handle giving up the ball more?”

Anthony was recently inter-viewed by Stephen A. Smith of ESPN where he spoke about his personal wonderment towards

where the fan sentiment that he is a selfish player came from. Most people can’t point to a specific instance, but a lot of Knicks fan will be quick to jump to the fact that there was plenty of excitement and little team out-put after his arrival. Those same fans are most likely expecting the same thing when he returns from this groin injury. But is that fair? I say give it a chance and see where it goes. Knicks cen-ter Tyson Chandler agrees. The 7-foot-1-inch teammate said the idea that Anthony and Lin won’t

do well together “nonsense.” So the Knicks got what they

sorely needed at the beginning of the season in a point guard. It came in the rarest of forms, but it came nonetheless. Lin has proven himself consistently over this win streak, and all that needs to happen now is the team needs to mesh. If they do, Knicks fans could be looking at a new era.

And if they don’t, it’s back to the drawing board.

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The UConn lacrosse team begins a new season this Saturday at home against Iona.

The Huskies are led by sec-ond year head coach Katie Woods, who is looking to build off of the positive momentum from a promising 9-7 (3-5 Big East) 2010-11 season by winning three out of their last four games. The three Big East wins are the most for the Huskies since the 2004-05 season.

UConn is ranked sixth in the Big East Preseason Coaches’ Poll and have eighteen players returning with varsity experi-ence, along with the addition of eight freshmen.

The key to the Huskies offense is senior attackman M.E. Lapham. The unanimous Preseason All-Big East selec-tion led the team with 55 goals and 63 points last sea-son. She was also named to the All-Big East and IWLCA All-Northeast Region First Teams. Lapham is on the precipice of breaking several school records in goals, points and shots. She needs just 34 goals as a senior to become

the Huskies’ all-time leading goal scorer.

Lapham will get some help on the attack from senior Kiersten Tupper, who was first on team in assists (16) and third in goals (19). Chelsea Hauswirth, Dorian Gilmartin-Dzitko and Shannon Kerr will each play a larger role in their junior seasons.

Sophomore midfielder Lauren Kahn finished sixth in the Big East in goals per game with 2.38 in 2010-2011. She looks to build on an impres-sive freshman season that consisted of 51 points and 38 goals including a team high in three game-winning goals and .576 shot percentage from last season.

Kahn will not be alone in the midfield. She will be joined by veterans Jordan Christopher, Morgan O’Reilly, and Kacey Pipitt, who all combined for 39 goals and 54 points last season.

The UConn defense is anchored by seniors Megan Lally and Kelsi Tucci. The duo helped to cause 150 turn-overs and won 231 ground balls last year. Both Lally and Tucci will see some time at midfield as well. Stephanie Norton adds some experience to an otherwise young defen-

sive front. The Husky defense has been bolstered by the addition of a trio of freshmen, Ashley van Scyoc, Karaline Smith and Valeri Everett.

Junior goalie Brittney Testa returns between the pipes after starting all 16 games as a sophomore. Testa recorded 127 saves and a .412 save per-centage in her first full season as the starting goalie.

Iona is looking to improve from a 5-12 season that had them in the bottom half of the MAAC in goals per game, ground balls per game, and save percentage. The Gaels lost their top two goal scorers from last season and will lean on junior Kylie Gregory and sophomores Brenna Lade and Nina Veneziale for most of the offensive production.

Iona is picked to finish fifth in the MAAC Preseason Coaches’ Poll. Senior defen-semen Kelsey Sickles and Amber Zimmerlink were named to the Preseason All-MAAC team.

The Huskies defeated the Gaels 18-11 last season in New Rochelle, NY. Lapham led the way with five goals and six points. Testa tallied five saves in the road victory.

By Danny MaherCampus Correspondent

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Lacrosse team starts season vs. Iona

Blain: Knicks still have adjustments to makeUConn midfielder Lauren Kahn cradles tbe ball while running up the field during a match against Cincinnati last season.

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NEW YORK (AP)—Jonathan Toews scored on a penalty shot to start Chicago’s four-goal first period against New York backup Martin Biron, and the Blackhawks emphatically snapped a nine-game losing streak with a 4-2 victory over the Eastern Conference-leading Rangers on Thursday night.

Toews kicked off the spree just over a minute in, defenseman Nick Leddy doubled the lead 1:03 later, and Patrick Sharp and Marian Hossa added goals to make it 4-0 before 10 minutes had elapsed. Corey Crawford kept things mostly intact the rest of the way, stopping 22 shots to help the Blackhawks earn their first win since they topped Florida on Jan. 20.

Toews and Hossa both added assists in the first period, and defenseman Brent Seabrook set up two goals for the Blackhawks, who scored over three goals in a game only once during their losing streak (0-8-1). Chicago, which had 22 shots, was 0-6-1 during the first seven games of a nine-game trip that ends Saturday at Columbus.

The Rangers went 0 for 7 on the power play and missed a chance to jump over Detroit to the top of the NHL standings as their four-game winning streak was broken. New York had won eight of 10 (8-1-1) to open a seven-point lead in the East over defending Stanley Cup champion Boston.

New York came out much better in the sec-ond period, pressuring Crawford and drawing penalties, but the early deficit was too much to overcome. Defenseman Marc Staal wrecked Crawford’s hopes of a shutout when he brought the Rangers to 4-1 at 3:04 of the second period with his first goal of the season.

Carl Hagelin scored with 4:45 left to make it 4-2.Crawford bounced back from a loss to San

Jose on Friday night, in which he gave up five goals on 27 shots, and won for the first time since Jan. 18. Ray Emery was the starter and loser in the Blackhawks’ previous two games.

Even with their long skid, the Blackhawks are still in a playoff position in the West, sitting in sixth place.

They weathered the Rangers’ second-period

surge and overcome a near second goal for New York. The Rangers thought Marian Gaborik shoved a shot in, but the puck sat on the goal line and wasn’t pushed all the way into the net by Ryan Callahan until after the whistle blew.

Biron was blitzed for four goals on Chicago’s first seven shots, although the onslaught wasn’t all his fault. The frustrated Blackhawks con-nected on a penalty shot and two breakaways—finding space between Biron’s old-school brown pads consistently.

Toews struck just 1:04 in after Rangers defen-seman Dan Girardi was caught cover-ing the puck in the crease when Biron couldn’t control a rebound. The Chicago captain streaked down the middle of the ice on the penalty shot and fired a shot that beat Biron and smacked off the pad at the back of the net.

Leddy doubled the lead 1:03 later when his shot from inside the center of the blue line made its way in through traffic.

Girardi found himself in the middle of another Chicago goal, but this time he was down in the offensive zone while the Blackhawks raced the other way. Girardi lost his stick in the Chicago end, and forced the Rangers to stay out of the Blackhawks zone while he retrieved it, as to avoid being offside.

New York turned over the puck, and Toews found Sharp with a long pass to send him in on a breakaway. Sharp split Biron’s pads with a shot to make it 3-0 just 4 minutes in, prompting annoyed Rangers fans to break into chants of “Hen-rik! Hen-rik!” while helpless No. 1 goalie Henrik Lundqvist sat on the bench.

When Biron stopped a shot from Seabrook from the other end of the ice— measured at 132 feet—he received a mock cheer from the annoyed crowd that has grown accustomed to good defense and winning hockey.

Hossa stretched the lead to 4-0 at 9:38 on the Blackhawks’ seventh shot of the period. Patrick Kane sent the high-scoring forward in on another breakaway for his 22nd goal of the season. Rangers coach John Tortorella then used his lone timeout, but there was little he could say to his team at that point.

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SportsThe Daily Campus, Page 12 Friday, February 17, 2012

Huskies in must-win game for playoffsAn entire season has come

down to just one weekend where the playoff fate will be determined for the UConn women’s hockey team, who will take on the Boston University Terriers in a home and home series.

The Huskies will come into this week-end’s series in 7th place, just one point behind the University of New Hampshire. In order for UConn to make the Hockey East playoffs, the team will have to win at least one game against BU and have UNH drop both of its games when they visit Maine. If the two teams are tied at the end of this weekend, New Hampshire would earn the last playoff spot based on the bet-ter head-to-head record against the Huskies.

“It feels like a playoff series, we have to win and come away with at least one win, but two victories would give us a lot of confidence

heading into the playoffs,” said coach Heather Linstad.

This Saturday will also be Senior Day and the final home game for three Huskies, defense-man and Captain Sami Evelyn, goaltender Alexandra Garcia and defensemen Rebecca Hewett.

“All three have had good careers here. Garcia goes down as one of our top goalies; Evelyn and Hewett have been talented on the blue line and con-sistent on the ice. I wish things went better in their senior season,” Linstad said.

BU comes into this weekend ranked No. 10 in the nation after defeating the University of Vermont 4-1. The Terriers are led by senior Captain Jenn Wakefield, who has 46 points this year, including 23 goals. Wakefield leads the Hockey East in points and assists this season. The last time UConn faced BU, the Huskies suffered a 4-2 loss. “We need to stay out of the pen-alty box. Also we need to play 5-5

hockey and play well on special teams,” Linstad said.

UConn heads into this week-end after a 5-0 loss at home and a 6-2 loss on the road to Boston College. Freshman forward Emily Snodgrass spearheads the Husky offense with 20 points on the year, which includes eight goals. Sophomore net-minder Nicole Paniccia has provided solid pro-tection in net with a goals against average of .926.

The Huskies must have a slim margin for error this weekend if they are going to make it to the post season, this will include accomplishing something that this team has not done yet this season; win a game on the road. So far this season UConn has zero road victories and they will have to face the Terriers in Boston on Sunday afternoon.

The puck will drop on Saturday at 2 p.m. when the Huskies take on BU at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum. On Sunday, UConn will play at 3 p.m. away in Boston.

» WOMEN'S HOCKEY

By Tyler MorrisseyCampus Correspondent

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UConn junior center Heather Buck goes up for a shot while a Georgetown defender contests during the February 11 matchup.

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UConn freshman forward Sarah MacDonnell handles the puck while a defender from UNH is at her back trying to defend her.ROB LARGENT/The Daily Campus

Napier said the Huskies expect to keep their momentum going, but before Saturday, they have to get through today’s practice.

“We gotta prepare for it,” Napier said. “Coach Ollie always told us 50 percent of the game is won at practice.”

In the two teams’ last meeting, the Golden Eagles beat UConn at the XL Center on Feb. 24, 2011, 74-67 in overtime.

“I remember that game,” Oriakhi said. “We made mistakes at the end and they were able to hit shots. The one thing that I respect about them is they go 100 percent.”

The Huskies went to Milwaukee and beat Marquette on Jan. 25. Jeremy Lamb had 24 points in the 76-68 victory.

This year’s Golden Eagles play as a team and rank seventh in the nation in team assists. Darius Johnson-Odom leads the team with 18.4 points per game. Jae Crowder is second on the team with 16.2 points per game and leads the team with 7.6 rebounds per game.

from GOLDEN, page 14

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Napier: Huskies expect to keep

momentum going

“You don’t replace those guys and their production,” Penders said. “But we have the makings of a few good younger guys that if you combine them all, hopefully you can manufacture enough runs.”

“We’re definitely going to have to manufacture a bit more and go more base to base this year.”

The catalyst of that offense will be preseason All-American LJ Mazzilli, who played for the Team USA National Collegiate team over the summer.

“He is an advanced hit-ter,” Penders said. “He was an advanced hitter in Little League, he was an advanced hitter in high school and now he’s an advanced hitter in col-lege. He knows what he can do with the bat and when he’s a confident hitter, there’s not many better in our game.”

It is hard to gauge how the team will perform in a game situation with so few, if any, practices outside, but the time has come and the Huskies should be ready for a chal-lenge as they face the three teams who all of which won more than 20 games in 2011. Purdue won 37 games.

“Ready or not, here it comes,” Penders said. “I’m ready to get started.”

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Penders: We still have good talent

After being selected No. 2 overall by Memphis in the 2009 NBA Draft, he earned the dubious distinction of being the highest selected draft pick in history to be relegated to the D-League. Last season he was traded to Houston, who sent him back to the D-League for a little while too.

This season has gone a little more smoothly for Thabeet, at least in the sense that expec-tations are lower and nothing bad has happened. He has only played in four games, averaging 1.5 points and one

rebound per game, but he has been with the team the whole season, and he even had some company on the bench for a few months when the Rockets signed Adrien. Yesterday was also Thabeet’s 25th birthday. Happy birthday Hasheem!

A.J. PriceA.J. Price was selected by

the Indiana Pacers with the No. 52 overall pick of the 2009 NBA Draft, and com-pared to Adrien and Thabeet has enjoyed a much more con-sistent and successful NBA career. In his rookie year, he was the primary backup at point guard and averaged 7.3 points per game. But since

then, his playing time and numbers have declined; George Hill has largely moved ahead of him on the depth chart at both point and shoot-ing guard.

Kemba WalkerKemba was only a fresh-

man on the 2008-09 team that reached the Final Four, and the experience undoubtedly helped prepare him for 2010-11 when he lead the team back to the Final Four to finish the job and bring the program’s third national championship back to Storrs.

But now Walker has joined his old teammates in the NBA, and so far he has done

very well. He is averaging 13.1 points, four rebounds and 3.6 assists per game as a rookie while competing for the starting point guard posi-tion with D.J. Augustin. He even recorded a triple-double in one game. But the down-side to all this is that he might be playing for the worst NBA team ever assembled. The Charlotte Bobcats are 3-26, have lost 16 games in a row and are not a threat to break the single-season record for losses in a season only because the season was short-ened by the lockout. Ouch.

Jerome Dyson and Stanley Robinson

Neither Dyson nor Robinson have reached the NBA, but both remain active in the D-League. It doesn’t seem that Robinson has done much in the D-League, but I can report that Jerome Dyson once dropped 37 points on former Villanova great Scottie Reynolds and former team-mate Gavin Edwards in Springfield last season.

I wouldn’t have believed it either if I wasn’t there to see it for myself, but it’s true, 37 points. Imagine that.

Follow Mac Cerullo on Twitter at @MacCerullo.

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“We’ve kind of been in a playoff mode every game since we played at South Bend. So, that doesn’t change anything for us.”

The Huskies and Fighting Irish will meet again on Feb. 27 at the XL Center in what is the two teams’ regular season finale.

UConn will honor Tiffany Hayes prior to the game as part of the team’s annual Senior Night festivities. The 5-foot-9 guard currently ranked eighth all-time in career 3-pointers and is 22 points shy of 1,700 for her career.

On Monday, Hayes led the way as the Huskies completed their non-conference schedule with a 73-55 win at Oklahoma in front of a national audi-ence, which included NBA superstar Kevin Durant sitting

courtside. “We kept our heads,” Hayes

told UConnHuskies.com. “We’d just come down, just run our stuff, not let them make us go too fast and I think that’s what helped us out.”

Hayes went for 23 points, six rebounds, seven assists and three steals in the win, while backcourt mate Bria Hartley added 20 points, seven rebounds and three assists of her own. Center Stefanie Dolson and forward Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis – who on Monday received her seventh Big East Freshman of the Week award – also went for double figures with 10 points apiece.

The Huskies will have to shoot well tomorrow against a red-hot St. John’s team. The Red Storm enters the game as winners of six of their last

seven, including two victo-ries over No. 17 Rutgers dur-ing that stretch. Their stifling defense has allowed over 70 points just three times this season

St. John’s uses a balanced offensive attack with four players averaging double figures, led by junior guards Eugeneia McPherson and Shenneika Smith’s 12.8 points per game.

Senior forward and Stamford native Da’Shena Stevens is averaging 10.4 points, 6.5 rebounds, 1.3 steals and 1.1 blocks for the Red Storm.

Tip-off for tomorrow’s action is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Gampel Pavilion – the last game at UConn’s campus this year.

from THE TURN, page 14

UConn to honor lone senior Tiffany Hayes during pre-game Senior Night ceremony

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The UConn men’s hockey team will play in their second to last home game this weekend as they host conference opponent Bentley with playoff standings on the line.

Last weekend the Huskies played a two game series against Sacred Heart, with one game at home and the second one at Harbor Yards in Milford, Conn. Both games went into overtime.

On Friday the Huskies found them-selves in a 4-1 hole in the sec-ond period. Forward Marcello Ranallo scored the opening goal in the first period, but after that the Pioneers scored four uncontested goals, two in the first period and two in the second. After that for-ward Cole Schneider scored three

straight goals, recording a natural hat trick in about five minutes, tying the game up at 4-4.

In the third period the Huskies went up 5-4 after a goal from forward Ryan Tyson. With 52 seconds remaining in the third

period, the Pioneers tied the game at 5-5. Neither team would score again in the third or in overtime, result-ing in a 5-5 tie.

On Saturday the Huskies traveled to Milford, Conn. for a game at Harbor Yards. Neither team scored until the third period when forward Cody

Sharib scored 2:02 into the peri-od. The Pioneers scored a minute and a half later, tying it at 1-1. This game went into overtime as well with the Pioneers scoring 4:25 into extra time. Goaltender Garrett Bartus finished with 35 saves.

After the weekend series the Huskies’ record stands at 12-15-3 and 11-10-2 in the Atlantic Hockey Association. They now stand at eighth in the AHA stand-ings with 24 points.

Today the Huskies will start a series with the Falcons, who are fifth in the AHA with 28 points. They are coming off of a series sweep against conference opponent American International. On Friday four different players scored for the Falcons as they defeated the Yellow Jackets 5-1. They played again on Saturday winning again 3-2. AIC’s regular season record stands at 11-12-7 and in conference they are 11-6-6.

The Huskies will host the Falcons tonight at 7:05 p.m. in the Mark Edwards Freitas Ice Forum. On Saturday they will travel to Waltham, Mass. to play on the Falcons’ home ice at 7:05 p.m.

By Carmine ColangeloStaff Writer

Men's hockey faces Bentley in crucial game

UConn's junior Tom Janosz moves the puck up the boards during a Feb. 10 game against Sacred Heart.

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“When will Jim Calhoun return from his leave of absence?”

“He’s gonna come back next Saturday against Syracuse and we’re going to beat them by 50. That’s a conservative estimate.”

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“What do you think of the women’s basketball team’s Final Four chances?”

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» That’s what he said“You can pretty much give him the ball in any situation, in

any circumstance, and he’ll make something good happen.”

– Knicks’ Jeremy Lin on the reliability of teammate Carmelo Anthony.

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Bobcats on pace to be worst team ever

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP)—Six-time NBA champion Michael Jordan continues to struggle as a league executive.

The Jordan-owned Bobcats are 3-26 and flirt-ing with NBA futility.

Because of the lockout-shortened sea-son Charlotte won’t challenge the 1972-73 Philadelphia 76ers’ record of 72 losses. However, the Bobcats have lost 16 straight games and have a worse winning percentage (.103) than that infa-mous 76ers team.

“Everybody wants to make history but you don’t want to make history that way,” said Bobcats guard Matt Carroll, currently in his second stint with Charlotte. “You don’t want to be that team.”

Jordan isn’t talking as the losses continue to mount. He declined an interview request through the Bobcats media relations department.

Jordan isn’t the only NBA executive hav-ing a tough time. There are only nine wins between he and Commissioner David Stern—the league-owned New Orleans Hornets have just six victories.

The Hornets and Bobcats are two of six teams that have failed to reach double digits in wins in a league that, despite efforts to push toward par-ity during the recent labor negotiations, seems to have a broadening gap between haves and have-nots.

But none seem as low as the Bobcats.“They’ve totally bottomed out,” said Steve

Kerr, an NBA analyst for TNT and a former Jordan teammate. “They are a total disaster right now. They are going to have to get lucky in the lottery and be really strong as an organization in the next couple of years to get out of this.”

Bobcats president of basketball operations Rod Higgins previously said the key is to be patient with the building process and avoid kneejerk reactions.

The Bobcats expect to be more than $20 million under the salary cap next year so they should be active in free agency. They’ll also likely get a top pick this year, although not nec-essarily the No. 1 overall because of the NBA’s lottery system.

“It’s up to us to go out and get that player, or those players, to help turn this team around,” Higgins said recently.

But the biggest question is whether or not they can do it as Jordan’s track record hasn’t been very good.

Since being named minority owner of the Bobcats in 2006 and being given full con-trol over the basketball operations, Jordan has selected eight players in the first round, but only four remain with the team. Three are no longer in the league.

Arguably the biggest draft day blunder was selecting Gonzaga’s Adam Morrison with the third overall pick in 2006 when they could have had Rudy Gay. Drafting Alexis Ajinca 20th overall in 2008 was another flop, especially after giving up a first-round pick to Denver to get him.

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Pro SideTHE Storrs SideTHE Men’s basketball faces Marquette

and baseball starts season

Game to Watch: Men’s basketball vs. Marquette.

Coming off of a dominating win over Depaul, the Huskies will play against Marquette this Saturday in the X.L. Center. On Wednesday the Huskies defeated the Blue Demons 80-54 in Gampel Pavilion. Both point guard Shabazz Napier and power forward Alex Oriakhi record-ed double-doubles in the game. Napier finished 14 points and 11 assists while Oriakhi added 14 points and 10 rebounds. Wednesday marked a season high in points for the Huskies. With the win, the Huskies’ record improves to 16-9 overall and 5-6 in conference play. On Saturday the Huskies will host the Golden Eagles at 12:00 p.m. in the XL Center, the last game in Hartford this season. It is also one of three final home games for the Huskies’ this year, who have five regular season games remaining.

Games to Follow: Men’s baseball Big East/Big Ten Challenge.

Today the Huskies will open up the 2012 baseball season in St. Petersburg, Fla. At 4 p.m. they will play Indiana in their first game of the Big East/ Big Ten Challenge. The Huskies will play in three games this weekend over the next three days against the Hoosiers, Purdue and Ohio State. The first two games will be played in St. Petersburg, while Sunday’s game against the Buckeyes will be in Clearwater, Fla. Last year the Huskies finished with an overall record of 45-20-1 as they won the Big East Regular Season Championship and made it to the NCAA Super-Regionals, where they fell to South Carolina. Lefty Brian Ward will get the nod on opening day for the Huskies; he is the only starting pitcher return-ing from last year’s rotation. He finished the 2011 season 6-1 with a 3.28 ERA.

Number of the Week: 12. UConn women’s basketball

team won its 12th straight win after beating Oklahoma.

By Carmine ColangeloStaff Writer

Carmine.Colangelo@UConn.edu

Magic take on Heat and Linsanity travels to Dallas

Game of the Week: Orlando Magic at Miami Heat (Sunday, 3:30 p.m. EST on ABC)

The visiting Magic will look to steal one away Sunday in a highly anticipated matchup ver-sus Miami. LeBron James and Dwayne Wade, who collectively average 50 points every night while maintaining their positions as the Heat’s assist leaders, will have to rely on fellow “big-three” teammate Chris Bosh to shut down Dwight Howard’s prolific low-post game. Though Bosh has overcome widespread criti-cism and is a team leader in his own right this year, it will be dif-ficult for him to affect Howard’s inside shot, which goes in more than half of the times it is released. Also, for those Orlando fans that are concerned, Stan Van Gundy will look to have forward Hedo Turkoglu, who is day-to-day with knee issues, active for the game.

Game to Watch: New York Knicks at Dallas Mavericks (Sunday, 1 p.m. EST on ABC)

The defending champion Mavericks will take on the Knicks

Sunday in an intriguing matchup that will pit the sharp-shooting Dirk Nowitzki against rising league star Jeremy Lin. Lin, who has averaged 24.3 points per game in his first six NBA career starts, set an NBA record Tuesday versus the Raptors for the most points scored in a player’s first five starts with 136. Meanwhile, Shawn Marion, who dropped 16 points and grabbed 10 boards Wednesday night versus the Nuggets, will look to curtail the recent success of Mike D’Antoni’s high-powered New York offense. Tune in to see if the Knicks will be able to jump ahead of the Celtics in the East, or if Dallas will instead edge closer to the Spurs in its fight for the top spot in the Southwest Division.

Number of the Week: 7The Boston Bruins are seven

points behind the New York Rangers in the NHL Eastern Conference standings. The Bruins, who were shutout by the Rangers on Tuesday 3-0, bounced back Wednesday with a win over Montreal, and will look to extend their winning streak over the weekend and close the gap.

By Dan KaganCampus Correspondent

Daniel.J.Kagan@UConn.edu

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Baseball (0-0)

TomorrowPurdue10 a.m.

TodayIndiana4 p.m.

TomorrowWestern Illinois3 p.m.

Feb. 19Ohio State

1 p.m.

TomorrowGeorgia7 p.m.

Feb. 18Tennessee

Tech5 p.m.

Feb. 24Xavier1 p.m.

February 25Charleston

5 p.m.

Feb. 19Buffalo11 a.m.

Feb. 18Winthrop 7 p.m.

Coming off one of the most successful seasons in program history, the 2012 UConn baseball team has a challenge ahead of them after losing key players to graduation and the MLB Draft.

The team’s biggest losses include first round picks George Springer and Matt Barnes as well as staff workhorse Greg Nappo and the school’s all-time hits leader Mike Nemeth.

Despite losing that talent, the goal for the 2012 Huskies remains the same as that of years past.

“The expectations are the same as they’ve been since 1985: to compete for a Big East Championship and win a Big East Championship,” said coach Jim Penders. “It’s going to be difficult but it’s difficult

every year”The Huskies just took home

the program’s first-ever Big East regular-season championship this past season.

The Huskies will take those high expectations to Florida this weekend, where they will participate in the Big East/Big Ten Challenge against Indiana, Purdue and Ohio State. It begins today at 4 p.m.

“You head into every week-end trying to win the series,” Penders said. “You want to go into the weekend and win every game you play, which is the first goal, but we can’t beat Indiana and Purdue at the same time, so I’m looking at Indiana and then hopefully we can win another and come out of the weekend with a positive result.”

The question of the state of team’s pitching abilities is at the forefront. Its two front of the line starters, Barnes and Nappo,

moved on to bigger and better things.

“We lost something like 70 or 80 career-wins,” Penders said. “But coaches aren’t very good at looking in the review mir-ror because we have to be wor-ried about the 18-wheeler com-ing toward our windshield and what’s ahead of us.

“Hopefully, we get a resem-blance of a rotation in the next few weeks, because we really don’t know who our starting pitchers are with the exception of Brian Ward.”

In 14 appearances and 10 starts, Ward compiled a record of 6-1 with an ERA of 3.28 in 60.1 inning pitched as a freshman for the 2011 Huskies.

Offensively, the Huskies will have to implore new strategies due to losing big bats of Springer and Nemeth.

With just four regular-season games remain-ing, it’s safe to say the No. 2 UConn women’s basketball team has reached the stretch run of its conference slate.

The Huskies (24-2, 11-1 Big East) will try to move into a tie for first place in the Big East standings tomorrow – and pick up lucky win

No. 13 in a row in the process – when they take on third-place St. John’s The Red Storm, mean-while, enter tomor-row’s action at 17-8 and tied with West Virginia at 9-3 in conference play.

The Huskies got some help in the Big East race Sunday when the unranked Mountaineers took down No. 3 Notre Dame 65-63 (25-2, 12-1 Big East) in South Bend. It was the first loss of conference play for the Fighting Irish, and dropped them behind UConn in the national polls for the first time since beating

the Huskies in overtime on Jan. 7. A UConn win tomorrow would give the

Huskies and the Fighting Irish identical records.“The No. 1 goal always, every year is to win

the regular season championship. ... In order for us to do that, we have to win every game,” said Auriemma, whose team has won at least a share of five straight Big East titles.

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Where are they now? THE TURN OF THE CENTURY

UConn freshman forward Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis handles the ball at the top of the key with Georgetown defender Tia Magee in her face.

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Huskies go for 100 straight at home

Baseball looks to build on success from 2011

Mac CerulloBy Ryan TeppermanStaff Writer

» UCONN, page 12

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Remember the 2008-09 men’s basketball team? I feel like a lot of people forget how good that team was. They went 27-3 in the regular season, with no bad losses, and then reached the Final Four. They were deep, there were stars at every position and the team wasn’t lacking in any areas.

What happened after the team moved on? None of the key contributors have really become big stars, but you might be surprised to know that most of them are still hanging around in the NBA or on the fringes. Let’s take a look and see what they’re up to now.

Jeff AdrienAfter graduating from

UConn, Jeff Adrien went undrafted in the 2009 NBA Draft, and since then he has been fighting for a spot in the league. At 6-foot-7, Adrien is undersized at power forward in the NBA, but since he is such a hard worker on and off the court, he has managed to claw his way up from the D-League a couple of times.

Most recently, Adrien was signed by the Houston Rockets back in December, where he played in eight games and averaged 2.6 points and 2.8 rebounds per game. Unfortunately, he was waived by the Rockets about a week ago and is currently a free agent. Hopefully the man who was once the darling of the InstantDaily will find a home on an NBA roster again soon.

Hasheem ThabeetThabeet hasn’t exactly had

the most glamorous start to his NBA career.

Linfatuation continues?

The sports media world has turned Jeremy Lin’s name into a Jeopardy category. I’ll take puns made with Lin for 500, Alex.

Rightfully so.The 6-foot-3-inch phenom-

enon from Harvard has over-come long odds and become the most talked about player in the NBA over the last two weeks. There are plenty of fun details about his journey along the way (staying on a friend’s couch) but I’d be wasting my breath if I went on about all of it, because by this point most of us know the miraculous story.

The real question moving forward here; can the Knicks and Jeremy Lin continue on the path he has placed them on? More to the point: Can Carmelo Anthony and Jeremy Lin coexist? That will deter-mine the fate of the Knicks’ season.

We have already witnessed the return of Amare Stoudemire. It started off a bit rocky, but finished strong. Jeremy Lin silenced the Toronto crowd, except the abundant amount that were there to see him on Asian Heritage Night, with a last-second 3-pointer to win the game. They followed with another win against Sacramento at the Garden where Lin record-ed a double-double despite only playing a little over 25 minutes.

By Darryl BlainTri-State Sports Columnist

Golden Eagles next on tap for the Huskies

UConn’s freshman guard Ryan Boatright plays defense against a player from DePaul during the Huskies’ win Wednesday.

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The UConn men’s basketball ended its two-game losing streak Wednesday night with a win over DePaul. The Huskies will look to start a two-game winning streak when No. 12 Marquette comes to the XL Center in Hartford tomorrow.

On Wednesday, both Shabazz Napier and Alex Oriakhi had double-doubles and UConn beat the Blue Demons 80-54 at Gampel Pavilion. The win moved the Huskies to 16-9 and 6-7 in the Big East. After losing at Louisville and Syracuse last week, the game was of vital importance to UConn.

“We told the team, we are in a very good position if we start getting wins,” said associate head

coach George Blaney. Marquette is 10-3 in the Big

East and 21-5 overall. The Golden Eagles are tied with Notre Dame for second in the conference, behind Syracuse. If the Huskies can beat Marquette, it would be a quality win as the team looks to improve its NCAA tournament

resume. Some of the team’s big wins include No. 20 Florida State, No. 24 Harvard and at No. 23 Notre Dame.

The Huskies have the No. 1 strength of schedule in the nation and holds a No. 20 RPI ranking. As Blaney and the players have said, if they start winning, they

will be in good shape for a bid. For the fifth straight game, the

Huskies will be without coach Jim Calhoun on the bench. Calhoun is suffering from spinal stenosis and extended his medi-

cal leave of absence through tomorrow’s game as well as Monday’s at Villanova. Napier said the team misses its coach, but needs to remain focused.

“We’re not thinking about that,” Napier said. “We’re just taking it a day at a time.”

Napier had 14 points, 11 assists and six rebounds against DePaul. Blaney said he was impressed with Napier’s leader-ship on the floor.

“I’m just taking my best foot forward,” Napier said. “I’m not here to pat my stats or claim the fame. When we win we all look good.”

Napier said assistant coach Kevin Ollie has been a major influence and has taught him about leadership at the point guard position.

“He’s always taken me under his wing,” Napier said.

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By Colin McDonoughAssociate Sports Editor

UConn pitcher Dave Fischer delivers a pitch to Quinnipiac during a game in April last season.

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By Willy PenfieldCampus Correspondent

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» CERULLO, page 12

» BLAIN, page 12

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