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THE LAST BATTLE

The Senate candidates debate in Hartford.

Huskies face Orange in final Big East meeting

Big tobacco companies are punished by courts.

INSIDE NEWS: MCMAHON, MURPHY FACE OFF IN FOURTH SENATE DEBATE

Class Ring Day11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Student Union

Jostens will be hosting a class ring showing for students who would like a momento to keep and treasure.

University College Dublin Information Session12:15 p.m. to 3 p.m.

Laurel HallLearn about UConn’s exchange pro-

gram with University College Dublin at this information session.

Staff Benda Bilili8 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Jorgensen Theater for Performing Arts

Come to the Jorgensen to see Staff Benda Bilili, a Congolese rumba-funk band.

Youtube Welcomes Late Night9 p.m. to 1 a.m.Student Union

Join Late Night for an evening of Youtube-themed festivities. Events include karaoke, and snacks such as cheese, crackers and red punch water will be served.

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UConn hosts Law School FairAlthough a law school bub-

ble formed during the reces-sion, many grads are consid-ering taking the plunge.

An informational fair was held for UConn undergradu-ates contemplating attending law school Thursday after-noon in the Student Union Ballroom. Thirty-three law schools were represented, including Boston College Law School, Fordham Law School and William & Mary Law School. At each booth there was a representative from the school, generally someone associated with admissions, and the literature detailed with the basic infra-structure of the law school.

The underclassman in attendance used the fair as more of an information vehicle, whereas upperclass-man attended to get a sense of specific schools that they may be applying to.

To learn about the specific schools, students would ask the representatives a variety of questions. Some students were more concerned with the

academia associated with law school and asked questions pertinent to how the nature of law school is divided between theoretical knowledge and practical application. Other

students seeking information not related to academia asked questions about anything from scholarship money to campus life to post-graduate employment rates.

Many of the representatives suggested that law school was for more than just poten-tial lawyers. In addition to being a requisite part of the path on the way to becoming

a lawyer, law school equips students with an ability to assess issues critically, ana-lytically and logically. These abilities are crucial in almost all matters of life and expand far beyond the bounds of a law-related career.

More specifically, law school teaches ethics, nego-tiation, critical reading, legal writing, research method-ologies, insurance policies, court procedure and many more fundamental skills.

Also emphasized was the misconception that law grad-uates spend their lives in the courtroom. Although there are some lawyers who oper-ate by these means, there is much more to the field than simply the connotation.

By the end of the fair it had been made clear that the benefits of a law degree do not just lie within the merits of the degree. Law school has not only an occupation-al purpose, but a pragmatic component that should not be neglected as students decide whether law school is right for them.

The tables of Hofstra Law and Pace Law School are on display in this photo of the UConn Law School Fair, taken Thursday, Oct. 18.NATALIA PYLYPSZYN/The Daily Campus

Student balances work and school

College students face a great deal of expenses like books, tuition, parking pass-es and other simple necessi-ties. In order to keep up on expenses, there is always the opportunity of working part-time while being a full-time student. However is it pos-sible to work 15-plus hours and still have descent grades in school?

Deanne Wallace, a 7th-semester and double major in political science and German studies, is a full-time stu-dent who works an average 20 hours a week while being in the Honors Program at UConn.

“I have really learned to prioritize my work and I don’t mess around since I need to focus,” Wallace said. “I stud-ied abroad in Germany last semester and learned better work ethics there.”

Wallace continued to say that the German work ethics are about taking pride in your academics.

Wallace was at the Student Union Marketplace, where she prepares and serves food, along with other tasks. Mondays and Wednesdays, Wallace works about seven hours and splits up her work shifts. By doing so, Wallace gets a break in between shifts so she can catch a meal and attend her classes. Marie begins her first shift at 8:15 a.m. and then goes to class. Later in the day, she will go to her second shift at 8:15 p.m. until close at 12:00 a.m. By 1:50 a.m., Wallace finally goes to bed.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays she has classes that begin at 9:30 a.m. and con-tinue past 3:30 p.m. But later

in the day, she still has time to teach an English class to people learning it as a second language from 6 to 8 p.m.

Despite teaching a class on the side, she is also current-ly writing her senior thesis through an independent study. This requires her to meet with her adviser once a week for 20 to 30 minutes to discuss the thesis.

“Usually on weekends I pick up shifts that are left over, especially on late nights so the hours are sporadic,” Wallace said. “Making money has allowed me to focus bet-ter on my studies since I am planning on applying to grad school in Germany.”

Wallace is planning on going to Germany during win-ter intersession and needs to save up for airfare, as well as for other trip expenses for the trip. In the past, she worked only 12 hours a week, but with growing expenses and grad school in the future, Marie said she has really buckled down and concentrated on her studies.

Wallace does schedule in down time, which she said is very important to have in her schedule. This typically includes watching TV, nap-ping, surfing the Internet and grabbing dinner with friends.

“I’m a really good planner now and I have a lot lists,” she said. “I’m not terribly happy [with the workload] but it has made me take more pride in my work and even enjoy the academic work.”

Wallace said she hopes to continue working on her the-sis next semester and create an easier school work load. In the long run, her main goal is attending grad school in Germany, even if it means long days and late nights.

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By Zachary KaploveCampus Correspondent

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Student entrepreneurs strive to create their own jobs

It used to be that students would go to college in hopes of working for a company and starting a career one day. But what if a student could make his or her own business with whatever they wanted to do? What if, instead of working under a boss, he or she started a whole new company?

One organization at the UConn is just the ticket for students wanting to pave their own pathway. The Social Entrepreneurship Organization allows students of all majors to come together and discuss how to find success in starting up business projects.

The clubs mission, as stated on their website, seo.uconn.edu, is “To bring together qual-ified students, faculty, and all other participating parties, with the goal to create a high level of value across topics relating to entrepreneurship, through events and activities that will allow members to enhance their knowledge and skills corre-sponding to the entrepreneurial mindset.”

Max Cutler, a 5th-semes-ter management major in the School of Business and the president of the Social Entrepreneurship Organization, he said that the club “[brings] together students with entre-preneurial mindsets and help them develop their business ideas through workshops and speaker events.”

Cutler added that the organi-zation strives to “bring in suc-cessful entrepreneurs to come speak to our members multiple times a semester and help them work with their businesses. We even offer a certificate of

Professional Development and Entrepreneurship [one of the four certificates offered by the business school) which can be earned by attending three of our speaker events, and a field trip during a semester.”

Cutler is the fourth presi-dent of the organization, which began in 2007. There are many benefits to becoming a member of the Social Entrepreneurship Organization, including fieldtrips to entrepreneurial firms and conferences with the SEO Eboard. Additionally, every member has the oppor-tunity to earn the Certificate of Professional Development. Members can run for other offi-cer positions and be featured on the organization’s webpage.

For more information about joining the Social Entrepreneurial Organization, go to seo.uconn.edu, or attend one of its events, held in the School of Business.

By Olivia BalsingerStaff Writer

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“We even offer a certificate of Professional Development which can be earned by attend-ing three of our speaker events.”

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DANBURY (AP) — The Dalai Lama called Thursday for a focus on dialogue rather than force to solve problems so that this century can be marked by peace rather than the bloodshed that dominated the last century.

The exiled Tibetan spiri-tual leader spoke at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury and was introduced by actor Richard Gere.

“Whenever I’m at an event with his holiness I’m struck by how much in common we all have and how much we really are brothers and sisters and deep from our hearts we start to feel that,” Gere said.

The Dalai Lama won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his nonviolent struggle in protest of Chinese rule of Tibet. He has been on a speaking tour in New England.

The 77-year-old noted that the 20th century was marked by bloodshed and violence. He said in order to create a peaceful century there must be a spirit of dialogue. He said the world is increasingly interdependent and problems such as global warm-ing cross national boundaries.

“So now this century should be a century of dialogue,” he said.

The Dalai Lama showed his lighter side, laughing at times and wearing a WCSU cap dur-ing his talk. He sparked laughter during a question and answer session after his talk when he was asked about how to deal with greed in capitalism and cre-ating a more compassionate cor-porate climate and responded, “I don’t know.”

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Hartford officer charged in fatal accident

HARTFORD (AP) — A Hartford police officer has been charged with negligent homicide in connection with an on-duty car accident that killed a man in July.

City police also charged Officer Taikwon Dudley on Thursday with reckless driving, traveling too fast for conditions and failure to obey a traffic signal. He was released on a promise to appear in court on Oct. 25.

Authorities said Dudley was on his way to help other officers arrest an armed suspect when his cruiser collided with a car driven by 50-year-old Anthony Mansfield of Hartford at the intersection of Albany Avenue and Woodland Street on July 13. Mansfield died seven days later.

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Border Patrol policy of excessive force scrutinized

PHOENIX (AP) — Government investigators are reviewing U.S. Border Patrol policies on use of lethal force amid a spate of deadly shootings along the border in recent years, including the killing last week of a teenager who agents said was throwing rocks at them from across a fence in Mexico.

Since 2010, at least 18 people have been killed by Border Patrol agents, eight in instances where federal authorities said they were being attacked by rock-throwers, a common occurrence along the Mexican border, said Vicki Gaubeca, director of the ACLU’s Regional Center for Border Rights, in Las Cruces, N.M.

The probe by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General involves a review of accusations of brutality and excessive force as it works to determine whether reforms have been implemented.

The review, briefly referenced in a 100-page report released this month, was launched after 16 members of Congress expressed concern over the 2010 death of an unarmed Mexican migrant in San Diego. They asked the Department of Homeland Security to determine whether the incident is “emblematic of a broader cultural problem” within the agency.

“It is ongoing,” Arlen Morales, a spokeswoman for the Inspector General’s Office, said Thursday.

She declined to comment on details of the investigation or when it began, but noted it could take up to a year to complete.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection also would not comment, noting only that it fully cooperates with the Inspector General’s Office, agency spokesman Michael Friel said.

In the San Diego shooting, Anastasio Hernandez, 42, died in May 2010 after being shot with a stun gun by a Border Patrol agent at the San Ysidro port of entry. An autopsy found he died of a heart attack, with a heart condition and methamphetamine listed as contributing factors.

The coroner’s report, citing a San Diego police detective, said Hernandez was agitated and confrontational after he was detained by agents while crossing the border illegally and became suddenly violent when his handcuffs were removed.

HARTFORD, (AP) — Republican Linda McMahon explained Thursday why she hasn’t offered specifics throughout the Connecticut Senate race on how she’d change Social Security and Medicare to keep the pro-grams financially solvent, saying she would be “dem-agogued” for providing detailed ideas.

When asked during the fourth and final debate between McMahon and Democratic U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy about what she would do to shore up the two benefits, McMahon acknowl-edged “there are several things to think about,” but said she has purposely “not offered specifics when I’m on the campaign trail because I’d get demagogued.”

Afterward, McMahon told reporters the media are the ones doing the damagogu-ing of Medicare and Social Security.

“Thanks to all you all folks in the media, you’re the ones who primarily do it and bash any suggestions that might be made to improve either Social Security, Medicare,” she said.

McMahon said federal law-makers need to “sit down and put those issues on the table and go through them all and debate them and have the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) score them and to see what economically makes sense and how we’re going to move forward, protecting our benefits and making sure that both Social Security and Medicare are there for the long term,” McMahon said. “To do nothing is irrespon-sible.”

Senior citizens issues,

including Social Security and Medicare, have been a key point of contention in the close race to fill the seat being vacated by the retiring Sen. Joe Lieberman, an inde-pendent.

Murphy has accused McMahon of wanting to “sunset” or phase out Social Security after 10 to 15 years for a review, pointing to taped comments she made to a group of tea party activ-ists earlier this year when she used the word sunset. He has also accused McMahon of supporting proposals to priva-tize Medicare. McMahon has denied both accusations and repeated on Thursday that she would not support a budget that cuts funding to either program.

Murphy pounced on McMahon’s “demagoguing” comment, accusing the former wrestling executive of admit-

ting she doesn’t want to risk votes by offering up specific ideas to the voters.

“You have an obligation as a candidate to tell peo-ple where you stand, even if that wins you some votes and loses you other votes,” he told reporters after the debate. “I thought it was great that Linda McMahon finally admitted that the reason that she’s not telling her positions on issues that she’s worried that people will vote against her.”

Murphy has called for increasing the cap on how much money goes into Social Security by having the wealthiest Americans pay more in Social Security taxes. On Medicare, the 5th Congressional District con-gressman has said the federal government should continue streamlining the system and reward medical outcomes rather than the number of pro-

cedures. If that doesn’t deliv-er enough savings, he has said there should be means testing for Medicare for the very wealthy.

A new University of Connecticut/Hartford Courant Poll released Thursday shows Murphy has a slight lead over McMahon, with 44 percent of likely voters supporting Murphy, compared to 38 per-cent who back McMahon. Seventeen percent said they are undecided. The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus four percentage points.

As in past debates, a lot of the focus was on women’s issues and abortion.

Murphy accused McMahon of not really supporting abor-tion rights, despite her repeat-ed statements in TV ads and during the hour-long debate that she is a “pro-choice woman.”

McMahon, Murphy face off in fourth Senate debate

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Man arrested for Bridgeport convenience store shootingBRIDGEPORT (AP) — A 21-year-old man has been charged in the

fatal shooting of a graduate student from Bangladesh who was killed inside a Bridgeport convenience store.

Police said that Courtney Burden, an escapee from a halfway house, was arrested Saturday and confessed to shooting University of Bridgeport stu-dent Moin Hassan during an attempted robbery Sept. 22. He was charged with murder and held on $1 million bond.

Hassan was shot in the abdomen and later died at a hospital. The 22-year-old Hassan had been in his first semester of a master’s degree program in electrical engineering.

The Connecticut Post reports that police are still looking for an accom-plice who was with Burden the night of the shooting.

It was not immediately clear if Burden has an attorney.

Woman, 80, arrested for removing Obama-Hitler poster

HEBRON, Conn. (AP) — An 80-year-old Connecticut woman has been charged with larceny and breach of peace after tearing down political signs that included an image of President Barack Obama with an Adolf Hitler-style mustache.

Nancy Lack tells WVIT-TV she was offended by the picture and took down three posters that were being hung last Thursday near the post office on Main Street in Hebron, Conn.

Workers for frequent presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, who were putting up the signs, called police.

Lack says she knew she would get in trouble. But she says she lived through World War II and was angry that someone would portray the president as a Nazi.

She was released on a promise to appear in court next week.

Dem. Chris Murphy (left) and Rep. Linda McMahon (right) debate in Hartford on Thursday, Oct. 18.AP

NEW YORK (AP) — Nike forgave Tiger Woods after he apologized for cheating on his wife. It welcomed back Michael Vick once he served time for illegal dog-fighting. But the company dropped Lance Armstrong faster than the cyclist could do a lap around the block.

What’s the difference? A marketer’s prerogative.

The world’s largest cloth-ing and footwear maker has stood by athletes through a number of scandals over the years, but this week it became the first company to sever ties with Armstrong in the wake of allegations that he used illegal drugs to boost his performance during his 20-plus year racing career.

At least five other compa-nies followed Nike’s lead, highlighting the tricky rela-tionship that evolves when marketers sign multimillion-dollar deals with celebrities and athletes to endorse their products. Everything a celeb-rity endorser says and does could negatively impact the company he or she repre-sents. And when something goes wrong, companies act as the judge and jury when deciding whether to continue those deals. They consider everything from the offense

itself to the fallout.“The tighter the association

and the more intimate the relationship, it can sort of be like breaking up a marriage,” said Allen Adamson, manag-ing director of branding firm Landor Associates.

Endorsement deals have been around for decades. The value of such deals are a closely held secret, but com-panies often shell out mil-lions of dollars for celebrities to wear their shoes, use their equipment or appear in their commercials.

The practice is even more common in the world of sports, where companies are willing to do almost anything to have their brand associated with the high performance of a top athlete. Think: The endorsement deal between sneaker maker Adidas and soccer player David Beckham or General Mills deal to have Olympic Gold medalist Gabby Douglas appear on a box of Wheaties cereal.

Companies typically add a “morals clause” to the deals. The specific language can vary, but the clause basically allows a company to cancel the contract if a celebrity does something that reflects poorly on the brand — or the celebs themselves.

STORRS (AP) — The University of Connecticut says it doesn’t have a copy of the multi-million dollar con-tract that makes Webster Bank a major marketing partner of the school.

UConn announced in July that Webster had become a major “multi-media part-ner” and said the marketing deal would “encompasses all aspects of the universi-ty.” Among other things, the deal calls for the bank and the school names to appear together in media campaigns and on signs at sports venues.

The company also agreed to make a separate gift to the UConn Foundation to help fund the school’s planned $40 million basketball training facility.

The school announced this week that is has raised $24 million in private dona-tions for that center, enough to begin construction in the spring. But it has not said how much Webster contributed.

The Associated Press asked for the marketing contract under the state’s Freedom of Information Law, arguing the public has an interest in knowing details of a major deal involving a public uni-versity.

But in a letter Wednesday, the school rejected the FOI request. It said the contract is between Webster and IMG College, a marketing firm that has an agreement with UConn and more than 70 other schools to administer licensing, media rights and content on school athletic websites.

“UConn is not a party to the agreement, nor does UConn have in its posses-sion a final, sign or otherwise executed version of the agree-ment,” wrote Rachel Krinsky Rudnick, the school’s assis-tant director of compliance and privacy.

She wrote the university also believes the contract could contain proprietary information.

The AP has appealed to the state’s Freedom of Commission, arguing the document should be provid-ed under the FOI law, which says that any document that is “used, received, or retained by a public agency” is a pub-lic record.

Sarah Barr, a spokeswoman for Webster, said it is the bank’s policy not to release details of significant invest-ments.

UConn claims to have no copy of

Webster Bank deal

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A streaking fireball lit up California skies and stunned stargazers Wednesday night, and professional observers say more meteors are on the way.

The exploding streak was vis-ible over the San Francisco Bay area and other parts of Northern California, and there were also reports of a loud boom.

“It looked like a plane crash or rocket,” said Philip Terzian, an amateur astronomer who happened to photograph the meteor while atop a ridge around Palo Alto.

Terzian had gathered there with a group of other astronomy enthu-siasts. The group had not met in some time and just happened to be there for the meteor.

“It was a ‘Holy Cow!’ moment,” he told The Associated Press.

Other observers described the

streak as crescent shaped, and red-dish orange in color.

The sound people reported could have been a sonic boom from the meteor traveling faster than the speed of sound, said Jonathan Braidman, an astronomy instructor with the Chabot Space & Science Center in Oakland.

“It’s like a jet fighter,” he said.Braidman said the meteor was

likely metal and rock from the asteroid belt. Astronomers at the center estimated its size as that of a car although Braidman said it probably broke into much smaller pieces before hitting the ground and then scattered over hundreds of miles.

Wednesday’s light streak comes as astronomers expect a more dra-matic light display this weekend that is part of the large, fast Orionid meteor shower, so-named because

it has the Orion constellation as a backdrop. The Orion meteors are space debris from Halley’s Comet, and they become visible as the earth crosses through their trail, according to the Sacramento Bee.

Braidman said he does not think Wednesday’s meteor and this weekend’s Orionid shower are con-nected.

The shower’s peak is supposed to be Saturday night and Sunday morning.

Wednesday’s meteor sighting was at least the second in Northern California in recent months. A meteor that exploded April 22 was seen over a large part of the region and Nevada.

That explosion prompted a group of scientists to go up in a slow-moving airship and look for meteorites.

Meteor lights up California sky

A shooting star passes above the Montebello Open Space Reserve in Palo Alto, Calif. on Oct. 17. Professional observers say that this star is only the first of many other stars to follow.

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NEW YORK (AP) — A new Gallup survey, touted as the larg-est of its kind, estimates that 3.4 percent of American adults iden-tify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender.

The findings, released Thursday, were based on inter-views with more than 121,000 people. Gallup said it is the largest study ever aimed at calculating the nation’s LGBT population.

The report’s lead author, demographer Gary Gates of the UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute, said he hoped the find-ings would help puncture some stereotypes about gays and lesbi-ans while illustrating the diversity of their community.

“Contemporary media often think of LGBT people as dispro-portionately white, male, urban and pretty wealthy,” he said. “But this data reveal that relative to the general population, the LGBT population has a larger proportion of nonwhite people and clearly is not overly wealthy.”

According to the survey, which was conducted between June and September, 4.6 percent of African-Americans identify as LGBT, 4 percent of Hispanics, 4.3 percent of Asians and 3.2 percent of whites. Overall, a third of those identifying as LGBT are nonwhite, the report said.

There was a slight gender dif-ference: 3.6 percent of women identified as LGBT, compared to 3.3 percent of men. And younger adults, aged 18 to 29, were more likely than their elders to identify as LGBT.

One striking difference: among 18-to-29-year-olds, 8.3 percent of women identify as LGBT, com-pared with 4.6 percent of men the same age.

The survey also asked about political leanings: It found that 44 percent of the LGBT adults iden-tified as Democratic, 43 percent as independent, and 13 percent as

Republican. In contrast to Gallup polling showing an overall even split between President Barack Obama and his Republican chal-lenger, Mitt Romney, the sur-vey found 71 percent of LGBT registered voters supporting Obama and 22 percent supporting Romney.

In contrast to some previous, smaller studies, the Gallup survey found that identification as LGBT is highest among Americans with the lowest levels of education. Among those with a high school education or less, 3.5 percent identify as LGBT, compared with 2.8 percent of those with a college degree and 3.2 percent of those with postgraduate education.

A similar pattern was found regarding income groups. More than 5 percent of those with annu-al incomes of less than $24,000 identify as LGBT, compared to 2.8 percent of those making more than $60,000 a year.

Among those who report income, about 16 percent of LGBT individuals have incomes above $90,000 per year, com-

pared with 21 percent of the over-all adult population, the Gallup survey found. It said 35 percent of those who identify as LGBT report incomes of less than $24,000 a year, compared to 24 percent for the population in gen-eral.

Regarding family status, 20 percent of LGBT individuals said they are married, and an additional 18 percent are living with a partner; they weren’t asked about the gender of those spouses and partners. Among non-LGBT Americans, 54 percent are mar-ried and 4 percent are living with a partner, the report said.

The survey found that 32 per-cent of both LGBT and non-LGBT women have children under 18 in their homes. By con-trast, 16 percent of LGBT men had children in their homes, com-pared to 31 percent of non-LGBT men.

Gates said he was struck by the geographical spread of the LGBT population, pegged at 3.7 percent in the East, 3.6 percent in the West, 3.4 percent in the Midwest and 3.2 percent in the South.

The survey was conducted by telephone June 1 through Sept. 30 and has a margin of sampling error of less than 1 percentage point.

The results were based on responses to the question, “Do you, personally, identify as les-bian, gay, bisexual, or transgen-der?” included in 121,290 Gallup interviews.

The overall 3.4 percent figure is similar to a 3.8 percent estimate made previously by Gates after averaging a group of smaller U.S. surveys conducted from 2004 to 2008.

The survey noted that its find-ings did not account for LGBT people who, for whatever reason, did not want to acknowledge their sexual orientations in the inter-views.

Judges rule for cheerleaders in Bible banner suit

“This data reveal that relative to the general popu-lation, the LGBT population has a larger portion of nonwhite people and clearly is not overtly wealthy.”

Gary GatesDemographer

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A judge ruled Thursday that cheer-leaders at an East Texas high school can display banners embla-zoned with Bible verses at football games, saying the school district’s ban on the practice appears to violate the students’ free speech rights.

District Judge Steve Thomas granted an injunction requested by the Kountze High School cheer-leaders allowing them to continue displaying religious-themed ban-ners pending the outcome of a law-suit, which is set to go to trial next June 24, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said. Thomas previ-ously granted a temporary restrain-ing order allowing the practice to continue.

School officials barred the cheerleaders from displaying ban-ners with religious messages such as, “If God is for us, who can be against us,” after the Freedom From Religion Foundation com-plained. The advocacy group

says the messages violate the First Amendment clause barring the government — or a publicly funded school district, in this case — from establishing or endorsing a religion.

Gov. Rick Perry, who appointed Thomas, a fellow Republican, to the district court to fill a vacancy, issued a statement welcoming the ruling.

“Today’s ruling is a victory for all who cherish our inalienable right to freedom of speech and religious expression,” Perry said. “I am proud of the cheerleaders at Kountze ISD for standing firm in the knowledge of these endowed rights and their willingness to be an example in defending those rights, which a secular group has needlessly tried to take away.”

Abbott, who filed court papers seeking to intervene in the lawsuit on behalf of the cheerleaders, also issued a statement commending the ruling.

“Students’ ability to express

their religious views adds to the diversity of thought that has made this country so strong,” Abbott said.

Abbott argued that the Texas Education Code also states that schools must respect the rights of students to express their religious beliefs.

“It is the individual speech of the cheerleaders and not in fact the government speaking,” David Starnes, the cheerleaders’ attorney said, according to KDFM televi-sion. “It is not just one girl or one person in the group that comes up with the quote, but it’s on a rotat-ing basis that each girl gets to pick the quote. That is their individual voices that are being portrayed on the banner.”

Thomas Brandt, the attorney rep-resenting the school district, said the superintendent had acted to comply within existing legal rulings.

The Anti-Defamation League issued a statement in which it called the judge’s decision misguided.

Gallup survey calculates nation’s LGBT population

Kountze High School cheerleaders and other children work on a large sign in Kountze, Texas on Sept. 19. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that he is intervening in a lawsuit that cheerleaders filed against the school district.

AP

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Aries (Mar. 21-April 19) -- Today is a 7 -- Check the big picture for the next few days, and take a leap into the next adventure. You don’t want to regret not having followed your heart. Resist the urge to splurge.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 5 -- Too many circumstances threaten to get in the way, but you find inspiration and rise to the occa-sion. Balance idealism with realism. Costs may end up higher than expected.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Play well with others, compromise, and win on many levels. Previous plans come to frui-tion. Intuition illuminates career matters. Check and double-check the data. Accept an unusual request.

Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Focus on work to tie up loose ends. Your energy may be scattered, so direct it toward priorities. Plan an outing.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Romance, games and relaxation take priority. But continue to build your reserves and remain flexible. You have what you need. Dreams reveal a major change.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- You’re entering a two-day domestic phase. Put a plan on paper to save time. You’re getting impatient to start. Don’t try it alone. A friend can put you in touch with the perfect partner.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Manage all that’s possible, and then some, with some help from innovations. There’s no time to complain, and it wouldn’t do you any good any-way. Adapt with grace.

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Scratch out the things you can’t afford, or that you’re never going to complete. Romance is a definite possibility ... full speed ahead. Go for what you want most.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is an 8 -- You get a head start, thanks to your focus and determination. Use your power for good. Give up something you don’t need and surge forward.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 5 -- You’re under pressure with deadlines for the next few days. Big spending is not the correct answer. Let partners do the heavy lifting. Stay rested, and it flows.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 7 -- What you’ve learned comes in very handy during the temporary confusion. Listen carefully to one who doesn’t say much. Friends really help over the next few days.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is a 7 -- Expect more from others and yourself. It’s not time to be slacking off ... every moment counts. Change the itinerary as needed. Do the job you’ve been thinking about.

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Senior students commence countdown » The New Green

Internship hunting season opens

The Senior Commencement Countdown has officially begun for the class of 2013, marked by this past Wednesday’s seniors-only commence-ment countdown event.

The event gave UConn seniors the opportunity to meet other fellow seniors while getting the perks of having seniority. Free senior T-shirts and senior buttons were given at the door. The button itself gives front-of-the line access to certain events and other discounts. One of the main benefits for seniors is the senior All-Access Pass. At the price of $30, the pass offers career webinars, alumni mentors in your field of interest, a network of 250,000 alumni worldwide and many other resources that can help

seniors search and make connections within their field of interest. The pass also stays active for two years after graduation.

“I’m mainly interested in network-ing and making connections with other alumni once I’ve graduated,” said 7th-semester and computer science engineering major Jose Rodriguez. “I don’t care much for the other dis-counts.”

Other benefits of the pass include listings of upcoming job fairs, job and resume postings and Linkedln connec-tions with UConn alumni by career or by location. If seniors were unable to attend the event, they can also buy the All-Access-Pass online through the UConn alumni website. The rev-enue collected from the purchase of the pass goes through a program that allows the Alumni association to pro-

vide scholarships to students and offer distinguished faculty or alumni awards according to their website.

Students don’t have to buy the pass; there is also the regular UCAA mem-bership. Benefits includes 10 percent off at the Co-op, $100 off LSAT, GRE’s, GMAT and other test prep courses and discounts on local eater-ies. Regular senior benefits are free Oozeball, which is valued at $15, front of the line access at the Midnight Breakfast, $15 off for Hertz rentals and more discounts on eateries.

“I got the pass because it offers networking opportunities and stay in touch with UConn Career services,” said 7th-semester chemical engineer-ing major Brian Ciezynski. “I’m still worried about getting a job since I currently don’t have anything lined up but career networking through this

pass can help.”The event also offered the oppor-

tunity for seniors to look into other possibilities of the future, aside from career perspectives such as insuranc-es, opening a bank account and live cooking demonstrations. The Jostens class ring table gave the chance to win a free class ring and seniors could also sign up for portraits for the Nutmeg yearbook or take them on the spot.

“It’s time to make the most of the college experience. It’s just not about jobs and work, but hanging out with friends before graduation,” Ciezynski said.

More information about senior events can be found through either Senior E-News or the Senior Year Experience website.

It’s November, and for most college students that means it is time to start the internship scavenger hunt. Sure, there are career fairs and internship boot camps available on campus to aid you in your search, but not everyone has time to attend these time-consuming accommodations. I have compiled five helpful hints to help you while searching for an internship on your own.

Identify career interests. What do you want to do with your life? Who do you want to work with? What qualities do you possess that you want to highlight in a future internship? What ‘keywords’ do you want to use while searching for your future internship?

These are all things to consider while deciding what to include in a resume and what internships to apply to. These small details are vital to work out before your applying phase begins.

Create a professional cover letter and resume. This is a representation of you as a person and as a working individual. What have you accomplished? What makes you a salient candidate for the job other than all other applicants?

These are all aspects you want to include in your cover letter. Hiring managers may not pay meticu-lous attention to these introductions, but the first few lines will stand out if you state what you will bring to the company and what you hope to gain

and learn. What experiences have you had that will aid in

your contributions to the company? Your resume will back all that you compiled for your cover let-ter. Make sure you organize it in a professional and consistent matter. The bullets, which describe each past experience you had, should detail the “what, how and why” aspect of your skills and how you execut them.

Okay, so you answered phones at a local restau-rant? Spice your bullet up a little: “Served customers in a friendly and efficient manner while maintaining organization throughout the restaurant.”

Begin searching early. If you are looking for a com-petitive internship with a large company or industry, try sending out your resumes and cover letters by November. Many deadlines are rapidly approaching; so try to be sure to get those in.

For those lesser-competitive internships, December break is a great time to search without the pressures of schoolwork. Be sure to check out online websites such as Internships.com, heading to career services to get a quick lesson on HuskyCareerLink or trying to gain professional connections.

Networking is a vital tool in gaining an intern-ship. Having a trustworthy employee at your desired company recommend you may not guarantee you a spot, but it will definitely speak wonders to the hiring manager or boss.

Spend time looking for an internship. It truly is like

taking a separate course. Don’t stop once you apply to your first five jobs, you need to keep going. The more you apply to, the higher chance you will have of scoring that dream internship.

Remember to personalize your cover letters per company. You will want to highlight different aspects or past job experiences for different businesses. Also, it may help to create a LinkedIn profile, which many professionals utilize, before the interviewing or hiring process. And on that note, make sure your Facebook, Twitter, etc. are all on private. You wouldn’t want an embarrassing picture or post to affect your chances of scoring that internship.

If you get an interview, be professional. Act professional, look professional and speak profes-sionally. Don’t use contractions and common slang. Remember, these hiring managers are looking for their best candidate. Be respectful, dress in work attire (think what you would wear to church or temple) and make sure you practice your answers to common interview questions.

This will help you avoid agitating word fillers such as “um” or “like.” Lastly, think ahead of what attri-butes you want to highlight: how do your personal skills relate to their company?

Of course there is no guarantee you will get an internship, but following these five tips can help bring you ahead of those who are less prepared for this searching season.Jamie.Dinar@UConn.edu

Tips for successful job searching and preparation

Eliminating One Way

Trash Flows

An estimated five pounds of waste is discarded per day for Connecticut residents. Currently we have a one–way trash flow that is woefully inefficient in resource use (there are meth-ods for running a more effi-cient “closed-loop” system). Hopefully, someday the resi-dents of Connecticut will enjoy an economy where they can enjoy products like food, elec-tronics and books without gen-erating excessive waste. We can actively work towards making that a reality, but in the mean-time it is important to know just where our waste goes after we toss it.

Did you know that in Connecticut it is required by law that 25 percent of the state’s waste stream is recycled? Solid waste disposal facilities in the state will not accept glass food and beverage containers, used motor oil, vehicle (lead-acid) batteries, scrap metal, corrugat-ed cardboard, newspaper, metal food and beverage contain-ers, leaves, white office paper, nickel-cadmium batteries or grass clippings, as all of these items are mandated recyclables by state law. Many towns have added additional recyclable items. Almost every town in Connecticut belongs to one of 10 recycling regions, and all of the trash gets sent to one of five intermediate processing cen-ters (ICPs) located in Stratford, Hartford, Danbury, Berlin and Groton. At the ICPs the recy-clables are prepared for sale on the market (serving as raw mate-rial for post-consumer products).

If waste is not recycled or composted it ends up in one of the state’s six waste-to-energy facilities located in Hartford, Bristol, Bridgeport, Wallingford, Preston and Lisbon. These plants burn the trash to produce electricity, which is then sold to electric utility companies. Incineration reduces the weight of the trash by 75 percent and the ash produced is land filled, usually in another state.

The state government should be commended for its leadership in recycling and its attempts to use resources more efficiently. Connecticut is one of the few states where you can get a deposit for returning plastic bottles and aluminum cans. However, we must not get comfortable with the status quo because there is much room for improvement. A 25 percent recycling mandate real-ly is not that high, and according to Connecticut’s Public Interest Research Group, “we burn more trash per person than any other state in the country, generating more than half a million tons of toxic ash every year.” And although burning trash to produce energy may seem like a cool idea, we must ask ourselves whether it is worth the cost of tremendous air pollution (including the release many known carcinogens such as dioxin into our cities). Other U.S. cities have banned plastic bags and water bottles, implemented composting services and mandat-ed less product packaging. Can we do the same for Connecticut’s towns and cities?

Kelsey.Sullivan@UConn.edu

By Kelsey SullivanCampus Correspondent

“We burn more trash per person than any other state in the coun-try.”

Connecticut’s Public Interest

Research Group

By Loumarie Rodriguez Senior Staff Writer

Loumarie.Rodriguez@UConn.edu

By Jamie DinarCampus Correspondent

Wind Ensemble entices audience at von der Mehden

The UConn Wind Ensemble played on Thursday night in von der Mehden Recital Hall.

The opening song, “Vox Populi (Voice of People)” by Richard Danielpour, filled the room with its lively, full sound, effectively capturing the attention of the audience. This classical music can be characterized as an arch that, as the music moves forward, slowly moves back to its beginning.

“My favorite song is the first piece because it was not straightforward and was very interesting to listen. There were no boring parts to it at all,” said Jen Beaty, a 7th-semester HDFS major. “I was actually expecting band-like music, but it turned out to be completely different. The songs were very unexpected and modern.”

Starting out soft, melodic and peaceful, the second piece, “Flourishes and Meditations on a Renaissance Theme” by Michael Gandolfi, is a series of different variations on a central renaissance theme. The slow peacefulness in the beginning suddenly changed into a faster, upbeat tempo. Different instruments in the ensemble had many brief solo parts in this particular varia-tion. The smooth transition into the fuller-sounding varia-tion filled the room, showing the audience the true sound of the full ensemble. A shift in the music consumed the room with suspense. As the suspense continued, the cre-scendo made the music even more climactic. The climax ended with an unexpected

clarinet solo, and then moved to a flute and clarinet duet-like music conversation. The ringing of a single triangle concluded this piece.

“Distant Moons” by Steve Danyew was the next song played. “I could almost see the moon as I continued to listen to this song. This illu-sion was so mesmerizing and real,” said Pam Smith, the grandmother of Bob Barney, a 5th-semester music perfor-mance major and a trombone player in the concert. “I came

to my grandson’s symphonic concert last week and when comparing these two concerts, this concert was completely different but much more inter-esting. The music that was played here was very far out and suspenseful, with the dif-ferent sounds and tones.”

The concert ended with a song by Joseph Schwantner, “From A Dark Mellennium.” This very suspenseful ghostly song made for an interesting finale to the concert. “The last song sounded like as if I was

having a nightmare,” Smith said. The use of bows brush-ing against percussion instru-ments and the soft girls’ sing-ing created a haunting effect in the song.

“I think the general consen-sus of the concert amongst the performers is that we did really well. We feel really good about our overall per-formance of the concert,” said Corey Killian, a 9th-semester music education major and saxophone player in the con-cert. “I started playing in the

Wind Ensemble in the second semester of my sophomore year, and I really like the fact that we play very different, newer music at every concert since then. This one is much more different than our past concerts in the way that there were a lot more contrasting styles.”

Wind Ensemble’s last con-cert of the semester in von der Mehden Recital Hall is on Thursday, Nov. 29 at 7:30

The UConn Wind Ensemble played new and interesting pieces that captivated the audience attention at their concert in von der Mehden. TROY CALDEIRA/The Daily Campus

By Shirley ChenCampus Correspondent

Shirley.Chen@UConn.edu

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In a normal situation, I’d keep my opinion to myself if I spot someone wearing a garment that I don’t necessar-ily endorse. My first rule for anyone in regard to fashion is simply to wear what you want. Don’t let anyone else’s style or opinion influence your deci-sions to get dressed in whatever makes you happy. Inspiration can come from anywhere, but real style should come from within.

However, there are some things that I absolutely don’t co-sign. You all read my opin-ion last week in regards to the winter season and women wearing Uggs. I felt it was right to include the male par-allel in this week’s edition. If you’ve ever doubted that there was something more repulsive than a furry pair of Uggs, then clearly you’ve never seen a guy wearing a pair of Polo boots.

There aren’t many things in life that I have a greater abhor-rence of than seeing a pair of Polo boots walking around aimlessly strapped to the feet of a young soul. What is a Polo boot, you might ask? Imagine a leather snowboard boot equipped with straps, all-terrain soles and the famous Ralph Lauren Polo emblem featured everywhere. Yes, they’re that bad. While Uggs compensate for aesthetics with warmth and comfort levels, these boots real-ly serve no useful functionality.

The relationship between the Ralph Lauren Polo brand and urban culture, specifically African-American culture, has been a very successful one. Though Ralph Lauren is an internationally renowned high-fashion designer, as shown by both his purple and black labels. The classic Polo shirt and khaki combo is normally reserved for the prep schools and golf cours-es, but African-American cul-ture from the 1990s and beyond has taken the iconic horse and transformed it into something new, so much so that moder-ately priced boots have now entered the market to allow the brand to reach an even wider audience. Unfortunately, these boots are an abomination.

Polo boots are usually reserved for people who lack a personal sense of style. In com-parison, we see the stereotypi-cal wearer of Sperry boat shoes often at UConn, especially jux-taposed with someone wearing Polo boots. I’ll go on record and say that I’ve never stuck my foot in Uggs, boat shoes or Polo boots, but as always, don’t let my opinion slow you down this winter season.

Footwear faux pas

Jamil.Larkins@UConn.edu

Fantasyland Forrest coming to Disney World

The world’s most popular vacation destination is about to become a bit more spectacular. The Walt Disney World Resort has consistently been at the very top of the world’s most visited amusement destinations. While its lead among its competitors in the Orlando area, includ-ing SeaWorld and Universal Studios, is still substantial, the latter’s recent addition of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter has generated significant buzz and increased attendance. While Disney knows that this small event is nothing to worry about, they have nonetheless responded with a bang.

On Dec. 6, 2012, Disney World will officially open a major addition to its Magic Kingdom Park, the single most-attended theme park in the world. The project, known as the Fantasyland Forest, is a massive expansion of arguably the most popular section of the park: Fantasyland. Occupying much of the land that previ-ously covered the site of the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea attraction, the new area will immerse guests in the realm of Disney’s most popular and iconic fairy tales.

The highlight of the area is arguably the dark new ride Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid, which is housed in a replica of Prince Eric’s castle. The ride’s omni-mover system (similar to that of The Haunted Mansion) will take guests right into the most iconic scenes of the classic 1989 Disney film.

Fantasyland Forest will also feature an area drawing on the 1991 film “Beauty and the Beast.” While this section is not home to a ride, guests will still be able to enter the world

of the film, with locations such as Belle’s Cottage, Gaston’s Tavern and the Beast’s Castle. The latter is arguably the high-light of the section, as it con-tains a table service restaurant in which diners will be able to sit in various locations around the castle, including the famous ballroom.

Unfortunately, the expansion has called for the demolition of the classic Snow White’s Scary Adventures attraction (which can still be enjoyed at the Disneyland Resort). On the bright side, however, this attraction is to be replaced by a themed children’s roller coaster called the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, which has fantastic spe-cial effects.

The expanded Fantasyland also includes Storybook Circus, a re-theming of the for-mer Mickey’s Toontown Fair. Catering more toward younger guests, the area is headlined by The Barnstormer featuring the Great Goofini, a children’s roller coaster and the iconic and newly expanded Dumbo: The Flying Elephant.

Not to be overshadowed by the Magic Kingdom, Epcot will open its re-designed ver-sion of the park’s very first thrill attraction, Test Track, on the very same day. Details on the refurbishment are scarce, but from concept art released it appears that the ride will be getting a much more modern look. It is surely not to be missed.

While most of these additions to Disney World are scheduled to officially open on Dec. 6, Disney has been known to hold soft openings for rides, wherein the rides may be open weeks ahead of time but are subject to closure at any time before the official opening.

Walt Disney characters announce plans for an addition to Walt Disney World Resort called Fantasyland Forest.

AP

By Alex SferrazzaStaff Writer

Alex.Sferrazza@uconn.edu

After the midterms and the mid–semester papers subside, it’s the perfect time to get away. Going home for the weekend is well and good, especially if a queen–sized bed and home cook-ing are the kind of therapy you need. But sometimes indepen-dently traveling to different loca-tions can be just as necessary to your mental health. With Boston right around the corner, New York City often gets over looked as a viable weekend destination for student travelers.

Yes, bus tickets to New York City are more expensive, and there is the matter of accommo-dation for an extended visit. But the truth is, you can make it any-where on a budget. For example, if you book a month ahead with Megabus, you can purchase tick-ets for a very reasonable rate. Even cheaper are the tickets through the SUBOG Broadway trips, which always give students the option to only buy bus tickets. With transportation settled, the next decision is whether to stay for one day or a few days. If your schedule permits you to stay for a few days in the city that never sleeps, you can always book a night or two in a hostel. Despite popular belief, hostels are incred-ibly cheap, running between $40

and $60 a night, and well–main-tained. Don’t let the horror mov-ies spook you into paying an astronomical amount for a room in Times Square. Hostels are safe and used by many internation-al student travelers. Aside from hostels, there is the option of “couch surfing,” or booking a space on someone’s couch for free. Couchsurfing.org is a safe and free service that sets travel-ers up with willing hosts in their destinations. To do couch surfing safely, travel with a group of friends and make contact with your host prior to your arrival. Many hosts have space for up to four guests, so travel in numbers to ensure your safety.

After all the endless travel arrangements and planning, it’s time to set your agenda for the city. The sights of New York City are memorable, but with the price of popularity and worldwide fame comes a complimentary hefty price tag. Going to see the Statue of Liberty might be a worthwhile experience, but on a clear day you can see Lady Liberty from the deck of the Staten Island Ferry, a free, all–day ferry service that provides stunning views of the city skyline, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Ellis Island. The museums of New York are also a must-see, and as a student you are granted free admission. The Metropolitan

Museum of Art hosts many of the world’s most important and valuable pieces of art and the American Museum of Natural History hosts numerous fascinat-ing exhibits. Conveniently locat-ed on the fringes of Central Park, the museums are accessible and close to many other fun attrac-tions. Music buffs can enjoy a stroll through the park in search of Strawberry Field and the trib-ute to John Lennon, located on Central Park West between 71st and 74th Streets.

Not everything in New York has to be uptown. Union and Washington Squares provide great spots to people watch and embrace New York’s more underground culture. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, the Union Square Farmer’s Market takes over the intersection of Broadway and Park. The Washington Square Park area is home of many vin-tage and second stores, as well as the home of the birth of iconic musical figures Bob Dylan and The Velvet Underground.

Don’t be daunted by price tags in the city. There are plenty of affordable ways to hit up the fine points of New York City. So take a break, forget Homer and Late Night and head to the city for a mid-semester change of scene!

Rhythm group triumphs

An incredible true story of triumph over adversity will be on display Friday night at the Jorgensen Center for the Performing Arts when Staff Benda Bilili takes the stage. Staff Benda Bilili is a rhythm group whose music includes roots of rumba, reggae and R&B.

Hailing from the Democratic Republic of Congo, the group is described in a press release as “a wandering band of street musi-cians” whose raw, emotional music helps bring inspiration to their listeners to “unite, regain hope and rise again.”

The band has seven main members, four of whom are paraplegics as a result of contracting polio as children. The group also tours with a group of abandoned children from Congo’s streets as its rhythm backup.

Staff Benda Bilili rehearses and records in a decaying zoo in the capital of DROC, Kinshasa, and keeps its headquarters in a traf-fic roundabout of the city’s financial district. In contrast to their living quarters, the band’s

music is energetic, positive and full of harmo-nious joy, all in French.

In 2004, two French documentarians named Florent de la Tullaye and Renaud Barret dis-covered the band’s story and created a 2010 documentary about them, titled “Benda Bilili.” The film was featured at Cannes and was nom-inated for a 2011 Cesar award, the national film awards of France. The documentary is now available on Netflix.

In the Jorgensen press release, Barret and de la Tullaye said Benda Bilili’s music pushes listeners to think and feel deeply.

“From the seedy sidewalks of Kinshasa to the hype clubs of Copenhagen, the limping odyssey of the Benda Bilili overthrows clichés regarding handicaps and misery,” the press release said. “It dares us to question our own limits and our ability to bounce back.”

Staff Benda Bilili takes the stage Friday night at 8 p.m. Tickets for UConn students are only $10, $15 for non-university students and $36 to $34 for all other audience members.

Staff Benda Bilili consists of seven main muscians who overcame Polio in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and tour with abandoned children to create background rhythm.

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By Focus Staff

Civil trial opens against Spears’ parentsLOS ANGELES (AP) — Britney Spears’

former confidante was made a scapegoat for her mental breakdown despite efforts to keep the singer from using drugs, his attorney told a jury Thursday in a case against the pop super-star’s parents and conservators.

Attorney Joseph Schleimer told the panel that Sam Lutfi was trying to help the singer but lost control in a series of events that led to her being hospitalized and placed under a court-ordered conservator. Lutfi is also seeking a share of the singer’s fortunes, claiming he had an agreement to serve as her manager in exchange for 15 percent of her earnings.

Schleimer conceded the case would be a complicated one. His opening statements included flashing photos of Spears with a shaved head and striking an SUV with an umbrella. He said one of Lutfi’s first actions after being hired as manager was having drug-sniffing dogs search the singer’s hilltop home.

“My client was made a scapegoat for drug

abuse and erratic behavior of Britney Spears,” Schleimer told the jury, most of whom knew of the singer but hadn’t followed her career or personal troubles.

Schleimer claimed Spears favored amphet-amines and that the dogs turned up a substance the Grammy-winner told Lutfi was probably crystal meth.

“He was terrified of being her manager when she overdosed,” Schleimer said.

Jurors likely won’t hear directly from the singer, who remains under a conservatorship overseen by a judge who has ordered her not to appear for trial or a deposition. Superior Court Judge Susan Bruguera told Schleimer during a break that all the accusations he raised during his opening statement should be supported by evidence that will be presented at trial.

Schleimer said he would prove them through either “testimony or documentary evidence.”

Attorneys for Spears’ parents and conserva-tors will have their own opportunity to present opening remarks to jurors Friday afternoon

when the trial resumes.Lutfi and Spears’ parents, Jamie and Lynne,

both sat in the audience as Schleimer made his opening statements to the panel of eight women and four men. Jamie Spears did not look up at the photos of his daughter that Schleimer displayed.

Lutfi is seeking millions of dollars from Spears and her family, claiming her mother’s book lied about him drugging and isolating the pop superstar. He is also seeking a portion of the singer’s profits, claiming he was a key player in her 2007 album “Blackout” and had the right to serve as her manager for years.

The case is the culmination of years of acrimony between Lutfi and Spears’ family and conservators, who successfully obtained a restraining order against him to keep him from contacting the singer or trying to intervene in her life. The order has expired, but conservator-ship attorneys are seeking repayment for more than $93,000 in legal fees — a judgment Lutfi is appealing.

Jurors were selected in a case against Britney Spears’ parents and conservators with opening statements expected to begin Thursday

AP

By Katie McWilliamsStaff Writer

Kathleen.McWilliams@UConn.edu

Affordable choices make NYC possible

FocusFriday, October 19, 2012 The Daily Campus, Page 7

Tracing odds on next TV show to get the ax

NEW YORK (AP) — Watch out, Fox. The Cancellation Bear is gaining on you.

The website TV By the Numbers is making sport out of predicting which television series will survive or disappear, and the first weeks of a new TV season are particularly busy. The Renew/Cancel Index is a popular feature, where all the broadcast networks’ shows are given ratings from one (certain to be cancelled) to five (certain to be renewed).

Less than four weeks into the new season, CBS’ “Made in Jersey” is already swimming with the fishes, and NBC announced on Thursday that the comedy “Animal Practice” will be out the door next month. That was one of six shows that the Renew/Cancel Index had given its dreaded single frowning face. Site founder Bill Gorman, asked to go out on a limb, predicted “The Mob Doctor” on Fox would be the next to disappear — but NBC beat him to the punch.

Gorman and partner Robert Seidman regularly tweet about their predictions as “The Cancellation Bear.” The name refers to the old joke about two men being chased by a bear; you don’t have to be faster than the bear, just outrun the other guy. Most TV shows just need better ratings than other programs on their network to survive.

The men, who started the site in 2007 to report news on television ratings, said people follow their favorite shows like they would sports teams, and are increasingly savvy about the business of entertainment.

“The difference between the shows and sports teams is, if the Yankees have a bad year, they’re not going out of business,” Gorman said.

Networks invest high hopes and a lot of money to make new series but inevitably many —often most — quickly fail. Late October is a big deci-sion-making time because networks must deter-mine if they will pay for a full season’s worth of

shows and, if a program is doing poorly, quickly replace it with something that could pull in higher ratings during the November ratings sweeps.

Other series that the Cancellation Bear sug-gests not getting attached to are the CBS comedy “Partners,” the ABC thriller “Last Resort” and creepy “666 Park Avenue,” and the NBC com-edies “Animal Practice” and “Up All Night.”

In Gorman’s defense, he had “Animal Practice” as the second or third most likely to go, along with “Partners.”

Gorman, who started the site with Seidman after noticing there wasn’t another blog that regu-larly discussed television ratings, said the num-bers usually make their rankings clear.

“We’re not splitting the atom,” Gorman said. “We’re just stating the obvious, and the only reason we’re unique is nobody else is stating the obvious.”

The Cancellation Bear occasionally tweets with Kelly Kahl, the executive in charge of CBS’ schedule. Kahl said the analyses provided by TV By the Numbers are generally more thorough and thoughtful than he sees online. Their weakness is an over-reliance on the numbers without weigh-ing many other factors that play into cancellation decisions, like whether a network has an owner-ship stake in a series, or whether a show is an executive’s personal favorite and thus given more time to succeed.

“We’re all kind of in the business and if we can have a little fun with it, that’s good,” Kahl said.

Gorman said he and Seidman, who weren’t connected to the TV industry before starting the site, are learning about those other factors. For instance, they find that a series that makes it into a third season almost always makes a fourth no matter the ratings because a fourth season is key to getting a syndication deal for reruns, and that’s where real money can be made.

Crystal as Dr. Zaius, and Justin Kirk as Dr. George Coleman are from the NBC comedy “Animal Practice.” The series, which premiered in the fall, was canceled by the network.

AP

Going out of print, Newsweek ends an era

NEW YORK (AP) — There was a time when the news-weeklies set the agenda for the nation’s conversation — when Time and Newsweek would digest the events of the week and Americans would wait by their mailboxes to see what was on the covers.

Those days have passed, and come the end of the year, the print edition of Newsweek will pass, too. Cause of death: The march of time.

“The tempo of the news and the Web have completely over-taken the news magazines,” said Stephen G. Smith, editor of the Washington Examiner and the holder of an unprece-dented newsweekly triple crown — nation editor at Time, edi-tor of U.S. News and World Report, and executive editor of Newsweek from 1986 to 1991.

Where once readers were content to sit back and wait for tempered accounts of domestic and foreign events, they now can find much of what they need almost instantaneously, on their smartphones and tablet comput-ers. Where once advertisers had limited places to spend their dollars to reach national audi-ences, they now have seemingly unlimited alternatives.

So on Thursday, when Newsweek’s current owners announced they intended to halt print publication and expand the magazine’s Web presence, there was little surprise. But there was a good deal of nos-talgia for what Smith called “the shared conversation that the nation used to have,” when the networks, the newsweeklies and a few national newspapers

reigned.Before Newsweek, there was

Time — the brainchild of Henry Luce and Briton Hadden. The first issue of the first news-weekly came out in 1923, and the formula, from the first, was to wrap up the week’s news and tie it with a bow, telling it with a singular voice.

Newsweek — or as it was originally called, News-week — came along in 1933. The found-ing editor was Thomas Martyn. The first foreign editor of Time, he was British-born and had a single leg, having lost the other in World War I. His magazine sold for 10 cents and was adver-tised as “an indispensable com-plement to newspaper reading, because it explains, expounds, clarifies.”

The magazine struggled for four years, until it merged with another magazine, Today, lost the hyphen, and emerged under the ownership of Averill Harriman and Vincent Astor, two of the country’s wealthiest men.

The modern era at Newsweek began in 1961, when it was pur-chased by the Washington Post Co. Benjamin Bradlee, who was Newsweek’s Washington bureau chief at the time and later execu-tive editor of the Post, helped negotiate the sale.

Edward Kosner, who worked at Newsweek from 1963 to 1979, ending as executive edi-tor, recalled the time as a kind of golden age of the newsweeklies.

“It’s a lost world,” he said. “It’s like talking about the 19th century.

“Everybody cared about what was on the cover Monday morn-

ing. People took the magazines very, very seriously. They were important. They were influen-tial.”

Richard M. Smith joined Newsweek for a two-week writ-ing tryout in 1970 and stayed until 2007, rising to executive editor before retiring as presi-dent and chief executive offi-cer. Newsweek was always the scrappy competitor to Time, which grew to a corporate behe-moth with numerous magazines and media properties and had the larger circulation; Smith said he and his colleagues pre-ferred to think of themselves as “the noble guerrilla band, fighting the ‘panzer division on Sixth Avenue.’ We took pride in our speed and flexibility and occasional irreverence.”

He recalled with pride Newsweek’s coverage of civil rights in the 1960s, the end of the Vietnam War and economic issues in the 1970s, the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s.

Perhaps because of Time’s Luceian origins — he and his wife, Clare Boothe Luce, were major Republican figures — Newsweek was often per-ceived as a more liberal coun-terweight. Its readers loved the weekly Periscope section, with its editorial cartoons and hot-off-the-presses news blurbs. Where Time only later started providing bylines for its stories, Newsweek offered star colum-nists like George Will, Eleanor Clift and Anna Quindlen.

Life in the newsweeklies, Stephen Smith recalls, was noth-ing like today’s frenetic media sprint. At the start of each week, reporters would come into work for a couple of days and think about story ideas and how to pitch them. The correspondents were far flung; the editing and fact-checking were meticulous.

“That world doesn’t exist anymore,” he said.

The magazines have tried to adjust. They do not rehash the week’s events as they once did. They offer more opinion, more analysis.

Newsweek often struggled over the years, and the Post sold it to stereo equipment magnate Sidney Harman in 2010 for $1. He died the next year, but not before the magazine was joined to The Daily Beast Web opera-tion.

The cost of maintaining a network of correspondents has risen dramatically, along with the costs of printing and post-age. Meanwhile, Newsweek’s circulation dropped from 3.14 million in 2000 to 1.5 million in 2012. Time, too, has dropped, but not as precipitously, from 4.2 million in 1997 to 3.38 mil-lion now.

Newsweek announced Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 that it will end its print publication after 80 years and shift to an all-digital format in early 2013. Its last U.S. print edition will be its Dec. 31 issue.

AP

Editorial Board Elizabeth Crowley, Editor-in-ChiefTyler McCarthy, Commentary Editor

Jesse Rifkin, Associate Commentary EditorChris Kempf, Weekly Columnist

John Nitowski, Weekly ColumnistSam Tracy, Weekly Columnist

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Mankind has been perched on the edge of an abyss for over 50 years.

Since the first use of an atomic weapon in warfare in 1945, the proliferation of nuclear weap-ons, technology and materials has

kept the fate of the world in question, threatening to plunge billions of people into a darker and more miser-able future at any moment.

In order to survive and to coexist with this horrifying possibility, our

necessary response is to ignore it, lest we be overcome and transfixed by that horror.

As a result, we rarely get a real sense of how close we are to the edge of the abyss. At the beginning of this year, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset its Doomsday Clock to 11:55 p.m., five minutes to midnight, citing inaction on nuclear disarmament, the portentous Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and the “potential for nuclear weapons use in regional conflicts in the Middle East, Northeast Asia and particularly in South Asia.”

The potential for two of the so-called “Axis of Evil” nations to acquire and use nuclear weapons for their invidi-ous objectives has not only domi-nated recent headlines, but has also captured the attention of the debating presidential candidates.

But is five minutes an accurate assessment of the temporal distance that separates mankind from oblivi-on?

Surely if the Doomsday Clock could have been reset quickly enough dur-ing the nuclear weapons tests of the 1950s or the Cuban Missile Crisis or the Vietnam War, we might have found ourselves to be just a matter of seconds away from midnight.

Just two days ago, we were once again reminded of the proximity of mutually assured destruction at the height of the Cold War. A short column titled “Nuclear Fight Was Option In 1962 Memo” appeared on Wednesday in The New York Times, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

It described how, in the early stages of the crisis, the United States mili-tary was beginning to make plans for

a ground invasion of Cuba in which nuclear weapons would be used.

In the memo, General Maxwell Taylor wrote, “Certainly, we might expect to lose very heavily at the outset if caught by surprise, but our retaliation would be rapid and devas-tating.”

In a sense, we can be thankful that President John F. Kennedy did not trust his rather trigger-happy gener-als with the finer points of diplomacy in US-Soviet relations.

B u t Kennedy, too, did his part to escalate the conflict, near-ly to the point of no return.

His boister-ous and belli-cose rhetoric, c o m p o u n d e d with the simi-lar strategies and faults of Nikita K h r u s c h e v , pushed the whole world to the edge of the abyss.

K e n n e d y , more so than almost any other human, peered down into the abyss, and it is likely due to his fear at what he saw that the clock has not yet struck 12.

“Not yet.” There is the great, fore-boding caveat. Some day our time will come, just not yet.

Humans have shown time and again that they are not to be trusted with nuclear weapons, or even with peace-ful nuclear technology. Though we may be able to stop the two-bit des-pots of the world from dispatching fusillades of nuclear missiles against their enemies, we cannot stop the thousands of terrorists who covet that nuclear technology from doing the same.

We cannot prevent the innumer-able errors of the humans whom we entrust with the construction, design and maintenance of nuclear reactors.

And perhaps most regrettably, we cannot shorten the half-lives of ura-

nium and plutonium. Admittedly, we have had some suc-

cess in our first century of coexistence with the awesome power of the atom.

Human societies have endured and even thrived – we are not dead yet, of course!

But we should nonetheless antici-pate the “yet.”

This must not be our legacy as a species, to per-ish in a flash of light and radiation that glows for eons afterward.

We have to real-ize that, in the course of human civilization, sci-ence has enabled us not only to encoun-ter nuclear energy, but to harness it and to employ it for whatever pur-poses we can jus-tify to ourselves.

It is good that we have discovered nuclear energy and learned its secrets, but it is better still that we can choose to set those secrets aside.

And the first to take action on that choice must be the powers of the Nuclear Club – the United States, France, Britain,

Israel, India, China, Russia, Pakistan and North Korea.

For the good of humanity, all nucle-ar weapons must be dismantled and rendered harmless.

No nation should be permitted to acquire them or to stockpile them.

And we must also be more wary of civilian nuclear power generation, working eventually toward making it obsolete.

With every Chernobyl, every Three Mile Island, every Fukushima, the hands of the Doomsday Clock move inexorably toward midnight and toward our plunge into the abyss.

Nuclear technology not worth the risks

Friday, October 19, 2012

Government shouldn’t force humiliating rules

upon companies

» EDITORIAL

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Weekly Columnist Chris Kempf is a 5th-semester polit ical science major. He can be reached at Christopher.Kempf@UConn.edu.

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No matter what time of day, my pillow always has a tempting offer for me.

I don’t care how lame the rules are, I am pumped for Zombies vs. Humans

It is Thursday and I, for one, am thirsty for many things.

Sometimes I think about how Syracuse’s mascot is an orange blob and I laugh to keep from crying (but mostly just to laugh).

Why doesn’t the InstantDaily ever respond to me? You’re the worst date ever.

Imagine being Diane Keaton with Meryl Streep’s career.

UConn Women’s Rowing will be racing alongisde 40 olympians this weekend. #getonourlevel

What was the InstantDaily like before hashtags? I say this as a senior.

I just looked in the mirror and asked myself if I can handle this three times. Turns out I can handle this. My body is just the perfect amount of bootylicious for you, babe.

Some girls have boyfriends. I have a cat.

It’s almost Halloween, which means “Candy” by Mandy Moore is in my head.

In 1999, the government brought tobacco companies to court under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations. The point of the suit was to hold the companies accountable for misleading and lying to

the public about the effects of tobacco products on human beings. For example, the companies said for years that they had no control over the amount of nicotine in a cigarette. The truth, as it turns out, is that cigarettes are specifically designed to have an addictive nicotine content.

The result of the 2006 court decision was that, to pre-vent companies from misleading the public in the future, companies would need to issue industry-funded corrective statements. Tobacco companies argued that the need to issue statements should be rejected by the courts because they are “a forced public confession.”

As strange as it may seem to agree with Big Tobacco on any issue, this one seems reasonable, seeing that it could possibly set a precedent that government can force com-panies who omit information or spin industry-researched statistics to publically announce their actions. While this seems logical in the case of tobacco companies misleading people about a health issue, the line is much more difficult to draw after that. Punishment for the tobacco company’s potential health risks is well within the governments right to impose. However, forcing contrition on a corporate entity, or an individual, steps out of the government’s job description and is therefore unacceptable.

Big Tobacco companies aren’t necessarily in the right on this issue. However, the battle surrounding this dangerous precedent is being fought by them, and Americans should take notice of this fight and be on their side, if only for the sake of ensuring that such a punishment does not happen to a company that might not deserve it.

Shaming and humiliating the tobacco companies feels right. But what authority does the federal government have to force these entities to feel bad for what they have done? The answer is none. Just because someone has the ability to do something does not mean that they have the right to do so. Americans should realize this and accept the limita-tions of how tobacco companies can be punished for their lies. The government is not a citizen’s parent. It therefore has no right to force contrition on a citizen – which is exactly what it is trying to do with tobacco companies. It is an unnecessary muscle-flexing tactic designed solely to humiliate the companies and make the people of America feel like they have a strong government instead of an over-powered one. This is a situation that needs to be stopped immediately.

By Chris KempfWeekly Columnist

Blue Versus White

This week: “Is NASA needed?”

Two writers argue their points of view on separate sides of the same issue.

“With every Chernobyl, every Three Mile Island, every Fukushima, the hands of the Doomsday Clock move inexorably toward midnight and toward our plunge into the abyss.”

CommentaryFriday, October 19, 2012 The Daily Campus, Page 9

The Nat iona l A e r o n a u t i c s a n d S p a c e A d m i n i s t r a t i o n

(NASA) was once seen as the pride of the United States, expanding knowledge and

promoting e x t r a t e r -r e s t r i a l e x p l o -r a t i o n .

Throughout the 1960s, NASA was not only a sym-bol of patriotism and nation-al pride, culminating in the first manned lunar landing in 1969. It was also a driving force for economic growth throughout its time as a gov-ernment program. NASA received, in 1966, just over 4 percent of the U.S. budget. But funding soon began to trickle away after the lunar landing. Today, its federal funding is less than 1 percent of the nation’s total budget.

There are many reasons why focusing more funding into NASA would help our country. Economic studies have shown that the increase in technology and Research and Development (R&D) companies is one of the most important ways of sustaining and improving the economy. As an R&D company, NASA has been paramount in the discovery and pioneering of new technologies.

In an era when unemploy-ment and job scarcity are alarming facts of life, job-creating companies should be more heavily funded, yet this has not been the case with NASA.

NASA has a proven track record of creating jobs. In 1975 alone, NASA created 20,000 new manufacturing jobs. The inception of the

space shuttle program was eventually found to have an employment multiplier of 2.8, meaning that direct employment of 95,300 more years yielded an increase of 266,000 more years in the total employment. Further research was conducted that found that for every one dol-lar spent R&D programs, there would be a return of $7. NASA was initially fund-ed with $25 million in 1958, and by 1987 had returned a total profit of $181 million.

NASA is incredibly impor-tant to our society, both inspirationally and fiscally, and must be given more fed-eral funding. For the past few decades, it has been marginalized in the United States budget, and there-fore in the minds of many American people. Those who have not forgotten it, how-ever, are the private compa-nies such as Sierra Nevada, Space Exploration (SpaceX) and Boeing. These three all receive grants from NASA to develop new shuttles. If NASA had more fund-ing from the government, it could either give more to these companies – creat-ing more jobs and advancing research and development – or use more of this money for its own private research and actual production.

With more robots and parts being added to the space station, it may even find a more practical use, which would only further the sup-port of NASA. Even better, more stations could be con-structed, which would create manufacturing jobs and cre-ate more interest in NASA’s goal, bringing it more into political focus for funding.

As of right now, half of the R&D programs in United States are linked to the mili-tary.

If more interest – and new jobs – were generated, however, NASA’s program would likely be seen as a greater gain for research and development than new and improved weapons.

The boosting of our space program may even have an effect on global politics. As with the current interna-tional space station, it could bring scientists from all over the world together, shar-ing knowledge and research and allowing all countries involved to gain from explo-ration and the construction of new technology.

One prospect that has been discussed which could have global impact is low-gravity flight. This would involve sending a shuttle up into the highest reaches of the atmo-sphere and having it travel across the globe.

If airstrips were built for this, we could travel from New York to Tokyo in as lit-tle as a few hours, drastically reducing time for shipments, or even travel.

All of this could be accom-plished with more federal funding. It is not enough to simply sustain an aeronautics and space program. We must promote it and pursue it, if we are to enable NASA to develop to the fullest extent of its capabilities.

Space program will continue to benefit economy, culture

By Carleton WhaleyStaff Columnist

Staff Columnist Carleton Whaley is a 1st-semes-ter English major. He can be reached at Carleton.Whaley@UConn.edu.

“The Black Keys”

Tony Le, 7th-semester physics major

“William Shatner”

Linda Moskva, 10th-semester evolutionary biology and theology double major

“Pearl Jam”

Doug Pence, 7th-semester engineering physics and electrical engineering double major

“Beyonce is already the perfect choice.”

Grace Vasington, 7th-semester French and English double major

Which musical act would you choose to perform the Halftime show?– By Jonathan Kulakofsky

» TOTALLY RAD/TOTALLY BAD

Totally bad

Television keeps getting cooler!

Insomnia Cookies, we love you!

Halloween might be cold, brrr.

My keyboard doesn’t have an interrobang key.

No letters to the editor for us to

read.

Totally saw it coming

Totally rad

The idea of explor-ing the unknown has always been imagined, but in the past century,

mankind was able to turn this vision into a reality. However, this great achievement was no easy task, as it required the integration of complex concepts from a wide array of different disciplines.

Space exploration was the abyss of scientific research, as

r e s e a r c h -ers had no p r a c t i c a l method of investigat-ing the uni-

verse other than looking through telescopes. Nonetheless, during the 20th century, the United States government developed the first space program. And this milestone in world histo-ry can be attributed to a sin-gle government agency, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

However, during the past decade, funding for NASA has decreased significantly as America struggles to recuperate with its ballooning budget defi-cit. The idea of ceasing funds toward NASA and pushing space travel toward privatization has caused social uproar, as many claim it to be a blow to national pride and unpatriotic. But priva-tization could be a giant leap for the space program. The concept of privatization is the act of changing a program from state to private ownership.

Privatization of the space pro-gram provides the capacity for further economic growth and employment opportunities, sav-ing millions of dollars and stim-ulating scientific advancement in space exploration.

By cutting back government funds to NASA, Washington can allocate taxpayer dollars to more necessary government programs like Medicare, social security and more. In addition, by allowing the private sector to reduce space costs, America

can send astronauts to space for less money, saving millions. Also, as the Russian govern-ment does now, these private American companies can retail seats onboard their spacecraft to astronauts from other countries, bringing in additional revenue.

The grandest of mankind’s technological advancements, space exploration, requires the type of ingenuity that is estab-lished when the mind is let loose from any restrictions. Yet, through government funding, we place these minds under the hands of governmental whims, limiting the advancements of scientific knowledge on the premise of basic knowledge. By integrating innovation through privately owned companies, technical advancements in space exploration is applicably stimu-lated.

After reaching its fullest potential, U.S.-funded programs are normally pushed toward commercialization in order to expand economic growth. Such is the case with air travel, the World Wide Web and telecom-munication. And now the time has come for the space program to be handed over to the private sector.

NASA’s space shuttle pro-gram, while responsible for sending the American nation into the space age, has become exceedingly costly and ineffi-cient. This can be seen through the White house’s proposal to end the Constellation pro-gram, NASA’s next mission to the moon, due to the program’s budget deficit and being behind schedule. Thus, the time has come for the excessive costs generated by the space pro-gram to be maintained more efficiently by the private sector, where competition and profit incentives can promote further innovation.

NASA has already hired four privately owned firms: SpaceX, Sierra Nevada, Blue Origin and Boeing, all of which, accord-ing to William Gerstenmaier,

director of human exploration and operations at NASA, are expected to reduce costs involv-ing space exploration. Reducing the costs involving space travel brings a rise to a new market, space tourism, which will then increase capital flow within the economy. In addition, creating the infrastructure needed for space travel through competi-tion allows the opportunity for economic and job growth. Also, athough NASA partially funds these companies, a majority of the funds procured to sustain these privately owned firms originate from its shareholders.

Adversaries of the priva-tization of space exploration argue that NASA is currently a Research and Development (R&D) firm, a necessity for eco-nomic growth. However by privatizing this market, there is no set limit on the number of R&D firms that can be estab-lished. Sierra Nevada, Space X and Blue Origin, all R&D firms, have been established on the premise of the privatization of the voyage to space. Hence, privatizing space exploration does not hinder the state of economy but instead promotes its growth.

The denationalization of the space program will not only ben-efit the overall advancements of scientific knowledge, but it will have a direct impact to society. A majority of our nation does not understand exactly what NASA does beyond sending astronauts into space. Thus, to spend tax-payer dollars on programs that have no direct effect on society is illogical. Instead, by privatiz-ing and deregulating the inter-stellar market, capital can be accrued by this expansion, and taxpayer dollars can be allocat-ed to more beneficial programs, hence having a direct favorable impact to society, especially in current economic conditions.

It’s time to leave NASA behind

By Omar AllamStaff Columnist

Staff Columnist Omar Allam is a 1st-semester chemistry and English double major. He can be reached at Omar.Allam@UConn.edu.

» CONTINUE EXPLORING » WHEN PIGS FLY

SportsThe Daily Campus, Page 10 Friday, October 19, 2012

The UConn women’s swim-ming and diving team’s season is ready to begin, as the Huskies host Fordham and Bucknell this Saturday. The team has already set the bar high for the 2012 season.

“Expectations are a little bit lofty because of the big talent and competency that these kids have," head diving coach John Bransfield said. "It’s a long year. We start training in the middle of September and go right until the beginning and middle of March. So, given that span of time, trying to keep

everybody operating at an opti-mal level with all the demands that a student athlete has these days is difficult. I have no pre-dictions, but I am optimistic that we can shine at the time of the year that’s most important.”

Training starts early for these athletes and continues on throughout the season up until the Big East Championships.

“We spend a good six to 10 weeks really working on build-ing blocks. For those weeks we are breaking things down and building it up, breaking it down and building other areas up, so they aren’t all in rhythm. Capabilities are there, but they are somewhat on their

heels. We’ve been doing a lot of drills as opposed to complete list of skills,” Bransfield said. “But the second semester is all championships.”

Although the 2012 season is just beginning, both coaches feel confident in their teams’ ability.

“It is early in the season, but our team is training hard, focus-ing on the Conference meet in February,” said head swimming coach Bob Goldberg. “Our expectation is to be our best for that meet.”

Both swimming and diving have seen phenomenal records from women who are return-ing to the team this year, thus

making it more of a challenge to break them. “The women want to break every record,” Goldberg pointed out. “That is what training and competing is all about.”

Isabelle Nat, Katie Dobler, Jordan Bowen, Katie Kyle and Chineyte Pigot have helped UConn break records in the freestyle relay, medley relays, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 and 1650-meter freestyle and 100-meter backstroke for swimming.

“Women’s [diving] records are going to be difficult because the girl who has them is still here,” Bransfield said. “The better you get, the more difficult those increments of

change are. But she’s certainly capable.”

Danielle Cecco, a senior this year, holds the record for both one-meter and three-meter diving.

“She’s our leading returning female. She’s been to nation-al championships twice, she’s competed at a high level and succeeded at a high level,” Bransfield said. “Having a vet-eran like that in the program makes the teaching a lot easier because she sets a pace. She sets the tone.”

For this upcoming meet, nei-ther coach seems very con-cerned about competition. They have the upmost confidence in their team.

“I’ll be honest, I don’t pay attention to who we have as competition for a couple of weeks,” Bransfield said. “We try to treat our practices like competition and we try to treat our competitions as though it’s another day in practice. Whoever the faces are that we are going to have a contest with, they do their thing, we do our thing and we see how it falls.”

The women’s swimming and diving team seems to have a bright future ahead of them as the season begins to unfold.

By Erica BrancatoCampus Correspondent

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UConn hosts Bucknell and Fordham

According to Pasqualoni, the swelling of McCombs left wrist prevented him from car-rying the ball normally so he decided it was best for the sophomore running back to sit out one game.

This game will also be the first time that Pasqualoni will make the trip back to the Carrier Dome since 2004 when he was the head coach of the Syracuse Orange. While at Syracuse, he coached the Orange to a 107–59–1 record, including six bowl victories. However Pasqualoni sees this game as just another confer-ence game on the Huskies schedule.

“It’s a Big East confer-ence game,” Pasqualoni said. “That’s where I’ve focused my energy. We’re just getting ready to play the game. They have played a tough sched-ule and they’re playing tough football.”

So far this season, Syracuse has an overall record of 2-4 and a 1-1 record in Big East play. The Orange are coming

off a recent 35-15 loss to No. 20 Rutgers. Syracuse quarter-back Ryan Nassib has com-pleted 162 of the 250 passes that he has attempted, as well as thrown for 11 touchdowns this year. Pasqualoni said that facing Nassib will be a big adjustment for his team.

“It’s a big adjustment, because Syracuse is going to throw the ball,” Pasqualoni said. “They’ve got good run-ning backs and good receiv-ers. Their quarterback is a good player.”

In order for the Huskies to find success this week-end, they will need to find a way to contain Syracuse wide receiver Marcus Sales. Sales leads the Orange receivers in receiving yards, with 545, as well as touchdowns, with five. Not far behind Sales is junior wide out Jarrod West, who has 374 yards on the year thus far.

UConn and Syracuse will kickoff tonight at 8 p.m. from the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, New York. The game can be seen live on ESPN.

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Coming off of 5-3 and 4-1 losses to Colgate, UConn women’s ice hockey is looking for its first win of the season this weekend at the University of Maine.

Early last season, the Huskies played Maine at the Mark Edward Freitas Ice Forum and secured their first win, 3-0, in the second game of the two–game set. UConn is 0-4-1 thus far this season. All previous games, howev-er, were road games, and the Huskies now find themselves in territory they are accus-tomed to.

UConn also had trouble last season on the road, with a 0-11-4 record. The Huskies are looking to snatch up their first road win in two seasons at the

Harold Alfond Sports Arena in Orono, Maine.

UConn is 4-1-1 versus the Black Bears since 2010.

The Huskies will be looking for more of the same this time around in the hopes of locking up that first victory.

Of their first five games, only one was lost by more than two goals, while another ended in a 4-4 tie. UConn has faced Union, Rensselaer and Colgate so far this season.

Maine is 0-2 on the season, with 5-2 and 6-1 losses to Quinnipiac University, and a lone exhibition 4-0 win over Dalhousie University.

The games between the Huskies and Black Bears will take place this weekend, Oct. 20 and Oct. 21, at 7 p.m. at 3 p.m. at Maine.

By Joe CrisalliCampus Correspondent

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The undefeated No. 4 UConn field hockey team continued their winning ways Thursday night, defeating No. 16 Boston College, 5-1, in Newton, Mass.

It was easy sailing for the Huskies the entire way, as they jumped out to an early lead on a Chloe Hunnable goal – her first of two on the evening – in the sixth minute.

By halftime, graduate student Louisa Boddy and Hunnable had each tacked on another goal, giving UConn a 3-0 advantage going into the locker room.

Boddy and junior Marie Elena Bolles both added a goal in the second half and junior goalkeeper Sarah Mansfield made five saves and allowed just one goal on the night to secure the victory.

With the win, UConn improved to 16-0 on the season.

The Huskies continue their road

trip on Sunday, as they pay a visit to No. 2 Princeton in what will be their toughest match of the season thus far.

Coach Nancy Stevens purposely scheduled a difficult slate of games early on in the season to prepare her team for the showdown with the Tigers. She will soon find out if her preparations were enough.

Princeton – who is ranked one spot above the Huskies in the RPI, currently slotted No. 3 – sports the most dangerous offensive player in the country in its lineup.

But the UConn defense should provide a strong test for Kathleen Sharkley, as they have conceded just .75 goals per game on average through 16 games this year.

Before taking on the Huskies, the 11-1 Tigers must first get past Ivy League rival Harvard, whom they face at home at noon on Saturday.

Game time on Sunday is set for 1 p.m. at Bedford Field in Princeton, N.J.

By Matt StypulkoskiStaff Writer

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Boston College next up for UConn field hockey

The No. 4 UConn men’s soccer team will look to keep pace at the top of the Big East Conference Blue Division when they play at Pittsburgh on Saturday night.

The Huskies (12-1-1, 4-1-0 Big East) are in a three-way tie for first place in the Blue Division with No. 5 Marquette and No. 6 Georgetown, with 12 points in conference play.

Both UConn and Marquette have a game in hand on Georgetown, making it seem likely that one of these two will take the No. 1 seed from the Blue Division for the Big East Tournament. Should they both win their remaining three games, Marquette would be the No. 1 seed as a result of their 3-2 win over UConn on Oct. 6.

Playing into the Huskies’ favor, however, is the fact that UConn’s final two opponents, Pittsburgh and Providence (whom the Huskies play twice), have com-

bined for an overall conference record of 1-10-0. Of Marquette’s remaining three matches, two are against No. 9 Notre Dame, whose two losses in the Big East are at UConn and at No. 21 Louisville.

UConn has only played twice in the 13 days since the loss to Marquette. But the Huskies have looked like a team that does not have the intention of losing again. They defeated Iona 2-0 last week and handed Seton Hall a 4-0 drub-bing on Wednesday night.

UConn looked dominate for

the better part of the 90 minutes on Wednesday, and it reflected on the scoreboard. Junior for-ward Mamadou Doudou Diouf scored twice against the Pirates, bringing his total to 11 on the season. Senior captain Stephane Diop added his second goal and third assist of the season, and senior left back Flo Liu picked up his second goal of the year in the winning effort.

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After a nine-day hiatus, the UConn women’s soccer team will have an opportunity to play its way into the postseason when it hosts Providence on Saturday night. The Huskies need either a win or a tie to ensure a playoff spot.

The Big East is broken into two divisions, American and National. The top four teams from each division make the playoffs and the next two best records, regardless of division, also advance. The Huskies are currently in fourth place in the American Division with 10 points, only one point ahead of Providence, which lurks right behind in fifth place. A UConn win or tie would clinch the fourth spot in the American Division, and a playoff berth.

However, if the Friars win, they will jump the Huskies, leaving their playoff aspirations up to the two wild card spots. In the National Division, Rutgers is in fifth place with 13 points, and DePaul is in sixth with 10. In the event of a UConn loss and a DePaul tie or win against Notre Dame, the Blue Demons would steal the final wild card spot and UConn’s season would be over.

The Huskies have hit a poorly timed slump in recent weeks, losing a series of hard-fought games to conference opponents. After a 3-2 win over DePaul on Sept. 28, they have gone 0-3-1. They are coming off a particularly dis-appointing loss to Pittsburgh on Oct. 11, when the Panthers upset UConn with a score of 2-1.

None of that will matter, however, if they are able to get back on track against Providence. The Friars enter the weekend at 8-8-1 (3-6-0 Big East), while the Huskies are 7-7-2 (3-5-1). Similarly to the Huskies, Providence has struggled mightily in the past month. In its previous seven games, it is 1-6, scoring only one goal.

For senior forward Danielle Schulmann, the game not only offers an opportunity to extend her collegiate career, but also a chance to cap off what has been one of the most pro-lific seasons in program history. She is lead-ing the team in virtually every offensive cat-egory, including goals (nine), assists (seven), points (25), shots (39), shot percentage (.231) and shots on goal (19). She is among the Big East leaders in all of these categories.

The critical contest between two teams battling for their seasons will take place at Joseph Morrone Stadium on Saturday night at 7 p.m.

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DETROIT (AP) — Max Scherzer capped a stupendous stretch for Detroit’s starting rota-tion, and the Tigers advanced to the World Series for the second time in seven years by beat-ing the New York Yankees 8-1 Thursday for a four-game sweep of the AL championship series.

Miguel Cabrera and Jhonny Peralta hit two-run homers in a four-run fourth inning against CC Sabathia, who was unable to prevent the Yankees from getting swept in a postseason series for the first time in 32 years.

‘’Yeah, we did it,’’ Cabrera said. ‘’It’s an unbelievable feel-ing. ... Four more wins, guys. Four more wins.’’

cherzer took a no-hit bid into the sixth against a New York starting lineup that was again without Alex Rodriguez, who flied out with two on in the sixth as a pinch hitter.

Austin Jackson added a solo shot in the seventh for Detroit, and Peralta hit another homer an inning later.

The game ended with first baseman Prince Fielder, Detroit’s prized offseason acquisition, gleefully calling off his team-mates on Jayson Nix’s popup and making the catch for the final out. The Tigers spilled onto the field for a celebration that began near second base and eventually moved closer to the third-base line.

Detroit won its 11th American

League pennant and first since 2006. The Tigers have five days off before the World Series starts Wednesday at defending cham-pion St. Louis or 2010 winner San Francisco.

After scoring in just three of 39 innings during the series, New York heads home to face unpleasant questions about its future following a postseason of awful hitting, benched stars and veterans showing the wear and tear of age. Rodriguez, the $275 million third baseman, was out of the starting lineup for the third time in the playoffs. Derek Jeter and Mariano Rivera could only watch following season-ending injuries.

The Yankees hit .188 in the postseason and .157 in the LCS. New York went quietly in the ninth inning, with the Comerica Park crowd chanting ‘’Sweep!’’ while the last three batters made out in order.

Detroit outhit New York 16-2 in the finale and 46-22 int he series

Without a World Series title since 1984, Detroit lost to Texas in last year’s ALCS but signed Fielder in the offseason. The excitement of that bold move subsided a bit when the Tigers struggled to a 26-32 start in the AL Central, but they overtook the Chicago White Sox in the final 10 days of the regular sea-son and won the division with an 88-74 record, matching the

Cardinals for the fewest wins among the 10 playoff teams. And in the postseason, their starting rotation has been impeccable.

Scherzer, Justin Verlander, Anibal Sanchez and Doug Fister allowed only two earned runs against the Yankees. New York was shut out once and totaled six runs in the series.

‘’Unbelievable. It’s why we’re here right now because out pitch-ing,’’ Cabrera said. ‘’Wow!’’

The Yankees lost Jeter to a bro-ken ankle in the opening game, and the slumping Rodriguez was

benched for Game 3. He was out of the starting lineup for Game 4 too, but A-Rod did have one last chance to turn his postseason around when Scherzer was lifted for left-hander Drew Smyly with two outs in the sixth and the Tigers up 6-1.

As Smyly finished warming up, Rodriguez popped out of the dugout to pinch hit for Raul Ibanez, but with men on first and third, he hit a routine fly to cen-ter field. He grounded out in the ninth, completing a postseason with no RBIs.

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Tonight the UConn football team will travel to Syracuse in search of their first Big East win of the season, along with hopes of ending a two-game losing streak.

The Huskies are coming off a tough loss to the Temple Owls at home, where UConn lost 17-14 in overtime. UConn quarterback Chandler Whitmer

threw for two touchdowns in the first quarter, for the Huskies only points of the afternoon. Kicker Chad Christen missed four field goals in the game, includ-ing one in overtime, but he’s looking to move forward from last week, according to UConn head coach Paul Pasqualoni.

“It will be like kicking indoors at the Shenkman Training Center,” Pasqualoni said. “Chad is going to work hard this week. We’re going to get a few more kicks in with him. I’m confident that he’s going to bounce back and do well.”

Last weekend UConn’s Max DeLorenzo got his

first start at tailback where he rushed for 91 yards on 23 carries. Pasqualoni announced this week that running back Lyle McCombs will be listed as prob-able for tonight’s games against the Orange, after recovering from a wrist injury that kept him out of the game against Temple.

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» INSIDE SPORTS TODAYP.11: Women’s soccer plays last regular season game. / P.11: Yankees get swept. / P.10: Women’s swimming & diving begins season.

After participating in an eventful Homecoming Alumni Meet last weekend, the UConn men’s swimming and div-ing team looks to start off the season against Fordham and Bucknell at home this Saturday.

The Huskies will host the Bucknell Bison and the Fordham Rams this weekend in the first meet of the year for the UConn squad. The team has competed regularly with both of these schools over the past years, making this competition a good indi-cator for how their season will unfold. However, this is an oddity for the Huskies, because this will be the first time since 2004 that the team has not started off the sea-son with the annual Husky Invitational, now called the UConn Open, which has been moved to February of 2013.

Despite this change, the team is still confident that they will have a strong per-formance at the beginning of the season. Coach Bob Goldberg believes that this season’s team could be one of the most impressive and successful in the history of men’s swimming and diving at this school. However, with these lofty beliefs about their potential comes an inevitable burden that will be placed entirely on the competitors and their work ethic simply because the coaches are con-vinced that the talent is there to excel.

But the coaches aren’t just speculating about the talent — they’ve seen it first hand. Most of last season’s team is returning, with only three competitors having graduated at the end of last year. This certainly serves as a good indicator for the Huskies as to how well they will perform Saturday afternoon.

Some of last season’s stron-gest competitors were juniors, including Kyungsoo Yoon, Nick Cerra, Joe Glowacki, Sean Cook, and Grant Fecteau. Included in the names listed are men’s swimming and div-ing school record holders and award-winning competitors in the Big East and NCAA cham-pionships. All five of these individuals have returned for a fourth and final season, forming the crux of the team’s vast experience. In addition, the team has added eight new freshmen to the roster that have spent time gleaning from their more experienced coun-terparts on the team. This has all the makings of a success story.

The expectations for this weekend are certainly high, as the Huskies have tradition-ally done well against these schools in the past. For over a decade, the men’s swimming and diving team has consis-tently defeated the Rams in competition at home and on the road. The Huskies have seen similar success against the Bison in recent years, besting them in a dual match last year in mid-January and again later in the month at the Bison Invitational, seiz-ing the wins 12 out of 17 of the events. The team doesn’t expect things to change and hopes to continue those suc-cesses through this weekend’s competition and beyond.

The Huskies will take on the Bison and Rams at noon on Saturday in UConn’s Wolff-Zackin Natatorium, amounting to their first real test before taking the head-first dive into the rest of the season.

THE LAST BATTLEHuskies face Orange in final Big East meeting

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UConn’s tight end Ryan Griffin has a pass to him from quarterback Chandler Whitmer broken up during the Huskies’ home game against Temple.KEVIN SCHELLER/The Daily Campus

Kicking the season off

The UConn volleyball team will look to get back on track this weekend as they hit the road for matches at South Florida and Pittsburgh.

With eight matches remaining, the Huskies (12-10) are in ninth in the Big East Conference stand-ings. The top eight teams at the end of the season will play for the conference championship in Milwaukee, Wis.

The advantage for UConn is that only four of the team’s remaining matches are against teams ahead of them. Two of those matches are against USF, who the Huskies play today in Tampa and again at Gampel Pavilion on Nov. 9. The Bulls are 4-4 in the conference (12-9 overall), meaning that the Huskies have more matches left than the Bulls. This them the advantage in positioning if they

can win on Friday.A win today certainly will not

come easy. The Bulls made life dif-ficult for two of the Big East’s best teams, Marquette and Louisville, in losses earlier this season. USF is even more of a close-match team than the Huskies. Four of their nine losses have come in five sets. UConn has played only two five set matches all year.

On Sunday, the Huskies will play the Pittsburgh Panthers in another crucial game. The Panthers have an overall record of 12-10, but are 3-5 in con-ference play, putting them half a match behind UConn in the standings. Pittsburgh’s losses also came at the hands of the top teams in the conference, like Louisville, Marquette, Cincinnati and Villanova.

UConn needs to win both matches this weekend to put them in a favorable position going for-

ward. But they will also need help from an unlikely source. The Huskies will need to rely on strong play from one of the school’s biggest rivals, St. John’s.

The Red Storm plays Pittsburgh today and South Florida on Sunday. If UConn and St. John’s can combine to keep South Florida and Pittsburgh winless this week-end, UConn will move to 5-4, USF would be 4-6 and Pittsburgh would be 3-7, meaning UConn would be in a conference tourna-ment spot, putting the odds in their favor with six matches remaining.

After the weekend road trip, the Huskies return home for matches next Saturday and Sunday against Rutgers and Seton Hall. They will then have a three-game road trip to Marquette, Syracuse and Georgetown before one last home game against USF.

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Timothy.Fontenault@UConn.eduUConn’s senior libero Kelsey Maving goes for a hit during a UConn volleyball match. This weekend, the Huskies take on South Florida and Pittsburgh.

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Head of Charles Regatta next up for the HuskiesThe University of Connecticut rowing

team will be competing in the prestigious Head of Charles Regatta this weekend in Boston. The two-day event attracts schools and clubs from all over the world. It is the world’s largest rowing event.

The UConn women will race in the Women’s Club Fours and Club Eights on Saturday and on Sunday afternoon in the Women’s Championship Eights.

“This is the most boats we have ever had accepted at the Charles,” head coach Jennifer Sanford-Wendry said. “We are excited about so many people on the team having an opportunity to race here.”

The first race on Saturday afternoon is the three-mile Women’s Club Fours race. Coxswain Elise McCormick, juniors Natalie Carlone and Julia Roth will be led by seniors Caitlin Swallow and Melissa Soucie. Soucie explained that she wants to medal in this event because there are crews in the top 12 of last year’s race that

they have seen and defeated before.“It’s a big goal but I think we have it

in us, we just have to prove to ourselves we are strong enough to succeed,” Soucie said. “I know the girls in my boat will race their hearts out and leave some boats in our wake this weekend.”

Roughly 40 minutes after the Women’s Club Fours launches, the Women’s Club Eights will begin at 1:35 p.m. The UConn rowers in this race are scheduled to be Liz Sarant, Amanda Litty, Emily Powers, Megan Duva, Teresa Starzecki, Abbie Viner, Emi Nishino, Haley Ullinger and Chelsea Zabel.

Last year, UConn finished third in the Club Eights race, and due to race rules, anyone who received a medal the year before cannot compete in the “club” race again. However, five of the rowers from the 2011 third-place finishing boat have been selected to race in the event’s biggest race, the Women’s Champ Eights.

The Women’s Championship Eights is the most competitive event at the Head of Charles because national teams from

many different countries will compete. The Olympic gold and silver medalists, United States and Canada Eights along with the “Great Eight,” an elite team of the top eight single rowers from eight different countries, all of which are also Olympic rowers, will all partake in the Champ Eight race.

Competing in this race for the Huskies at 3:08 p.m. on Sunday will be seniors Charlotte Kelley, Brittany Depoi, and Hillary Wiles-LaFayette, juniors Erin Mounce and Kendra Kohanski, sopho-mores Diana Gryszkiewicz and Kate Hughes, freshmen Kaitlin Anderson and Audrey Kelley. They will be the first UConn boat to ever compete in this event.

“Given the turns and bridges and atmo-sphere of passing at this race, this is defi-nitely a race that can get won or lost by the coxswain in how they steer the course and avoid collisions.” Sanford-Wendry said. “The rowers can row the best piece of their life but if the coxswain isn’t right on target with her steering they will end up losing to crews that are slower than them.”

The Charles is often referred to as “the coxswain race,” because of the reputa-tion of crashes between boats. Senior Charlotte Kelly will be coxing this race. The number one priority for Kelly will be the safety of the rowers.

“We depend on the rowers to get us down the course as fast as possible, but steering poorly here can add anywhere from seconds to minutes to our time,” Kelly said.

Another responsibility of a coxswain is to motivate and inspire her teammates in order to “shave every second off our time that we can,” Kelly said. “I’ve been reminding them for the past two weeks at practice who we will see and what scenarios we could end up in to get us to maximize our practice on the water.”

The Huskies will wrap up the fall schedule on Oct. 27 at the all-day Head of Fish event held in Saratoga, N.Y.

By Danny MaherStaff Writer

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