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Day 66 of the nursing home strike brings hard-ship for some workers.
UConn falls to N.C. State at home for first loss of the season.
New Google technology could help eliminate traffic collisions.
INSIDE NEWS: CONN. WORKERS COpE WITH LONG NURSING HOME STRIKE
UConn Dressage Team Gold
Medalist Clinic7 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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WHUS hosts local indie bands in concert at Storrs Congregational Church.
Police team up with Carriage residents to erase stigma of partying
Carriage House apartments have begun a partnership with the Mansfield Resident Trooper’s Office in an effort to promote a safer and higher quality liv-ing environment.
“Anyone with a past history of Carriage House knows it’s known for their par-ties,” said head of the Mansfield Resident Trooper’s Office Sergeant Richard Cournoyer. “There’s new management at Carriage, and they are into a safe environ-ment and not into partying. [They] want-ed a high quality and safe place to live.”
In efforts to remove Carriage’s stig-ma as what Cournoyer calls a stu-dent invasion of Mansfield, Cournoyer and his officers are personally working with the residents of Carriage House to keep the apartments safe and to pro-mote a healthy relationship between the Mansfield Troopers and Carriage residents.
Ryan Fried, a 7th-semester manage-ment information systems major and resident of Carriage House Apartments, said, “... Cournoyer ... has started a unique relationship with the residents of Carriage.” Fried added that some students had actively sought out to maintain a working relationship with the police. He said that Sgt. Cournoyer has played a major role in creating this open and inviting relationship between the two.
“He has come up to our apartments just to say hi. He wants to make sure we’re using him and his team as a resource, and not be afraid of them,” Fried explained. He added Cournoyer is working to promote self-policing within Carriage.
“The number one thing is I want to have a good working relationship with the students,” Cournoyer said.
Cournoyer is helping Carriage House residents keep strangers off the prop-erty, and requiring them to attend one of three information sessions as a way to ensure they have the same quality of life as any citizen of Mansfield and are held to the same standards.
“The meetings were to communicate with them that they are citizens of Mansfield and they have full rights as any year-round citizen,” explained Sgt. Cournoyer. “We want make the stu-dents aware that they are a valuable part of the community. We want them here.”
“Students think ‘this is a college town, we’re supposed to drink. What is [the police’s] right to prevent us from going to Carriage House and drinking
and smoking marijuana?’” Cournoyer said, “I want anyone to go into any law book and show me where underage drinking is a right, where hosting a party and giving alcohol to minors is a right just because it’s a college town. Those laws don’t exist.”
The University of Connecticut Police Department has also joined with Cournoyer and his team to keep Carriage a safe environment.
While the police department and the Mansfield State Troopers have worked together in the past, according to Captain Hans Rhynhart of the UConn Police Department, this joint mission is new. Rhynhart added that the UConn Police Department has aided the Mansfield
Resident Troopers with the formalized program at Carriage House.
“[The UConn Police Department] wants to provide a unified police force [with the Mansfield State Troopers]. A better partnership between the two agen-cies, and provide a clear, more impor-tant message from the police agencies.” Rhynhart said, “We’ll handle issues that may arise such as underage drinking and narcotics. And issues we can tackle together will be the services we’re look-ing to provide.”
Rhynhart said that the issues don’t fall solely on the police force, but “on the whole community of Mansfield and the university community.”
The actions taken by Carriage House residents and the Mansfield State Troopers have shown results. “[It’s] definitely a safer environment,” said Bobby Anastasion, a 7th semester Marketing Major, and Carriage House residents.
“Weekend one was terrible. People from everywhere came to Carriage. Weekend two, however, I saw an 80 per-cent compliance from the renters trying to do the right thing,” said Cournoyer. “Unfortunately, there are the 20 percent who manipulated the rules and the mes-sage given by the Mansfield police by invitations through social networks and thousands came.” He added, “We’ve taken strides towards a safer environment, we’ll fix it.”
The new partnership has been accept-ed by many of the Carriage residents. “I like how they’re not letting anyone we don’t know in,” said Anastasio. “I have no problem with [Cournoyer] being here. He is very respectful as long as you treat him with respect, and as long as it’s a mutual respect I have no prob-lem with the new safety policy.”
In this 4/22/12 file photo from Spring Weekend, a Carriage residence unit hosts a horde of partiers in the front lawn. This year, the UConn Police Department and Mansfield State Troopers are teaming up with Carriage residents to make the units safer and establish the residences as an integrated part of the Mansfield community.
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The Apartment Shuttle’s name has been changed to Purple Line as a way to dis-pel confusion about its route, according to Transportation Department Manager Janet Freniere.
Freniere said the name change was made in response to complaints the Transportation Department had been receiving in regards to the “Apartment” name. Many students believed that the line catered to all apart-ment complexes near campus and other students believed that the line only went to the apart-ments and were unaware of the numerous stops on the main
campus the route took. Freniere said that they have
not received any complaints about the name change.
Additional changes to the bus fleet included modifications in the routes for the Green, Purple, Orange, and Yellow lines for this academic school year, according to Freniere. She added that beyond that the department is quite happy with all changes and hopes that they will stay in effect for quite sometime.
Students expressed mixed thoughts between whether the Apartment Shuttle name change was irrelevant or con-fusing.
“I think it’s really irrelevant,”
said 3rd-semester animal sci-ence major Lexi Gallina. “I don’t really think it makes too much of a difference at all.”
Gina Pallino a 3rd-semester psychology major said, “I just don’t understand why it had to change.” He added, “I just think it was easier when it (the line) was called ‘Apartment.’”
For 7th-semester marketing and sports management dual-major Brendan Fitzpatrick the name change was a bit more confusing. “I still look for “Apartment Shuttle and when I see ‘Purple Line’ it takes me a little bit,” said Fitzpatrick. “I’d rather they have kept it (the old name).”
Apartment bus line renamed ‘Purple Line’ to create uniformity
The UConn Department of Transportation has renamed the apartment shuttle line ‘Purle Line’ in response to student complaints that ‘Apartment Line’ was a misleading name.
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By Alex SferrazzaCampus Correspondent
UConn ranked No. 1 for student drug activism
and school policy reform
The University of Connecticut is ranked first in the nation among marijuana activism and policy by High Times magazine.
The ranking, which was released in August, grades universities across the coun-try in terms of efforts to legal-ize cannabis, raise awareness and reform drug policy.
The magazine lists the many efforts by UConn’s Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) as the main reason for their ranking.
According to High Times, “The Huskies of UConn SSDP have led the pack this year in reforming marijua-na policy both on and off campus. Most notably, they played a huge role in help-ing pass medical marijuana legislation in Connecticut by hosting rallies, coordinating student-lobbying efforts and testifying before lawmakers.”
Sam Tracy, former pres-ident of Undergraduate Student Government (USG), Treasurer of Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) and Editorial Board member for The Daily Campus, played
a large role in the effort to change drug policy at UConn and for the decriminalization of marijuana in Connecticut.
“This ranking is very important because we were ranked number one out of hundreds of schools with SSDP chapters across the country” Tracy said. “Last year, we were ranked number nine and the year before that number ten. This is the first time we have been ranked number one. This recognizes our efforts in decriminalizing marijuana and the lobbying, rallying, and organizing that went into reforming UConn’s drug policy,” Tracy said.
Last year, the univer-sity’s Office of Community Standards changed its drug policy by penalizing students found in possession of small amounts of marijuana the same as those charged with underage drinking. Also, the state of Connecticut decrimi-nalized marijuana in the 2011 legislative session. These actions were cited in the mag-azines ranking criteria.
“This is not a ranking in how much UConn students do marijuana but shows how active the student body is
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Officials say Torrington woman died of head trauma
TORRINGTON, Conn. (AP) — The chief medical examiner’s office has ruled that a Torrington woman found at the bottom of a staircase in her home last week died of blunt head trauma, but officials can’t say for sure whether it was an accident.
A spokesman for the medical examiner’s office released the find-ing Saturday in the case of 45-year-old Leslie Holmes, who died at Hartford Hospital Thursday after reportedly falling down the stairs Tuesday. The agency says further studies are pending.
Police haven’t arrested anyone. Authorities say Holmes’ family told them they believe she was a victim of a crime.
Police say Holmes’ boyfriend told them he heard Holmes cry out, heard a crash and found her at the bottom of the stairs.
Authorities declined to say whether the boyfriend is a suspect.
Driver dies after car hits house in Bristol
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Bristol police say a 68-year-old man died after his car struck a house, and they’re trying to figure out what happened.
Police on Sunday identified the man as Wincenty Gwizdak of Kensington. Officers and emergency medical workers tried to revive Gwizdak after Saturday night’s accident, but he was later pronounced dead at Bristol Hospital.
Authorities say Gwizdak’s 1986 BMW struck a house near the intersection of Riverside Avenue and East Street at about 8 p.m. Police say the car and the house were moderately damaged.
Anyone with information about the accident is urged to call Bristol police.
Incentives bring sports media companies to Conn.HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — ESPN began work last week on
a new parking lot on the southern side of its 120-acre campus in Bristol.
The sports media giant has promised more than 200 new jobs over the next five years as part of a major expansion, and, spokesman Mike Soltys said, it needs somewhere for all its new employees to put their cars.
About 70 miles away in Stamford, work has begun to convert the site of a former Clairol factory into the new headquarters for NBC Sports, which is moving 450 jobs to Connecticut from New York.
And in Hartford, a new golf cable outlet, Back9Network Inc., is making plans for its new downtown studio and headquarters — bringing an estimated 50 jobs to the state by the first quarter
Amtrak opens new Conn. bridge over Niantic RiverEAST LYME, Conn. (AP) — Amtrak has opened its new bridge
over the Niantic River in East Lyme.Traffic was shifted overnight, officially closing the 105-year-old
Niantic River Bridge and opening the new span.Joe Boardman, the railroad’s president and chief executive,
called it a major accomplishment in Amtrak’s effort to improve the infrastructure along the Northeast Corridor.
He says the new lift bridge will allow for increased speeds and fewer delays through Connecticut.
The last train to operate over the old bridge was scheduled to go through just after 11:30 p.m. Friday. An Amtrak spokeswoman says the first train crossed over the new bridge on Saturday morning.
Amtrak will continue to open and close the old bridge for all maritime traffic until it is fully removed next spring, completing the $140 million project.
Probe after 1 man shot, 1 stabbed in Hartford
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Police are investigating after one man was shot several times shortly after midnight in Harford.
Officers responding to gunshots in the area of Mather Street found the victim in critical condition at about 12:50 a.m. Saturday.
Physicians list the victim in critical and stable condition.Investigators found 13 shell casings at the scene. No one has been
arrested, but police are looking for a suspect who was wearing a red and orange T-shirt, blue denim pants and a black baseball cap with a red rim.
Police are also searching for two suspects after one man was stabbed in the right chest when he grabbed a handgun carried by one of the assailant during an attempted robbery.
The incident occurred late Friday after the victim left a party to look for gas and his vehicle stalled on Wilson Street.
Reform boosts UConn’s ‘High Times’ rankpolitically. Our Students
for a Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) body is very active in talking with representatives and coordinating with other lobbying groups,” Tracy said.
Salvatore Sodaro, a Senior Mentor on SSDP, has also been active in reforming UConn’s drug policy and raising aware-ness across Connecticut.
“SSDP is big in education not incarceration. In terms of outreach, we work with other groups to spread knowledge and awareness. In terms of policy, were at the Capital more than I can count talk-ing to legislators and sena-tors. We also work with other groups and schools across Connecticut and hold confer-ences…Drug policy effects almost every demographic and has widespread effects politically, socially, and eco-nomically” he said.
Northeastern University in Boston, MA, came in sec-ond place in the rankings fol-lowed by Oregon SSDP chap-ters, Brown University and Piedmont Virginia Community College.
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ILFORD, Conn. (AP) — On day 66 of a nursing home strike in Connecticut, Jennifer Musante had plenty to worry about as she joined the picket line.
The single mother of two teen-agers is struggling to pay her bills, delaying a car payment and credit cards to pay for school supplies and clothes.
“Some nights you don’t sleep,” Musante said Wednesday as cars roared by on Interstate 95 on a muggy wet morning. “You worry about how you’re going to survive.”
Musante, a 39-year-old certi-fied nurse’s aide, is among about 600 workers on strike since early July at nursing homes in Milford, Westport, Stamford, Danbury and Newington. The workers went on strike to protest what they say are labor concessions imposed by the company that owns the nursing homes, Parsippany, N.J.-based HealthBridge/Care One.
The company, which has hired replacement workers, says the union has made unre-alistic demands in what has emerged as an unusually pro-longed strike in a labor-friendly state.
A hearing before an admin-istrative law judge was set for Monday on a complaint issued by the National Labor Relations Board at the regional level in July alleging the com-pany refused to bargain in good faith with the union, making changes to wages, hours and other conditions. The NLRB’s
acting general counsel is seek-ing an order that requires HealthBridge to reimburse employees lost wages and ben-efits.
The union says those changes include a steep jump in health insurance payments and loss of sick days, holidays, vacation time and a pension in favor of a
401(k) plan.HealthBridge has said it had
been negotiating in good faith with the union “when it chose to abandon negotiations, jobs and our residents.” HealthBridge said it has offered a raise that will give most employees an increase of 17 percent over six years despite cuts in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements.
“HealthBridge Management looks forward to having its day in court,” HealthBridge spokes-woman Lisa Crutchfield said. “We especially look forward to clearing our name as we respond to the many misleading, irre-sponsible charges made against us by the union.”
The union says it settle con-tracts with almost 50 other nurs-ing homes in Connecticut on terms similar to what it discussed with HealthBridge.
The workers have won some high-profile support. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, a Democrat, joined the picket line in July at Newington Health Care Center and accused the company of taking “unfair actions” against employees.
Norman Solomon, profes-sor of management at Fairfield University, said he’s surprised the strike lasted as long as it has, noting the governor’s interven-tion and the NLRB’s findings.
“In New England and Connecticut, it’s rare to have a strike like this go on for so long and be so acrimonious,” Solomon said.
Connecticut workers cope with long nursing home strike
In this Thursday, Sept. 6, 2012 photo, Jennifer Musante walks the picket line with fellow healthcare union workers in front of West River Health Care in Milford, Conn.
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China factory output weakest in 3 years in August
BEIJING (AP) — Growth in China’s factory production slowed to a three-year low in August, suggesting Beijing might need to launch more stim-ulus efforts to reverse a pain-ful slowdown in the world’s second-largest economy.
Inflation climbed to 2 per-cent as food prices rose, and further increases could com-plicate efforts by the gov-ernment to revive growth as Europe struggles with a debt crisis and the U.S. economy remains sluggish.
Growth in industrial pro-duction weakened to 8.9 per-cent from July’s 9.2 percent, according to National Bureau of Statistics figures released Sunday. August’s growth was the most anemic since May 2009, when factory produc-tion grew 8.9 percent.
“It’s clear that the stimulus measures that have been put in place thus far have not yet had an impact on growth,” said IHS Global Insight analyst Alistair Thornton. “So growth continues to slow, investment continues to weaken, the economy continues to go from worse to worse.”
The government has cut inter-est rates twice since the start of June, but authorities are mov-ing cautiously after Beijing’s huge stimulus during the 2008 global crisis ignited inflation and a wasteful building boom. Growth slowed to a three-year
low of 7.6 percent in the second quarter.
“The government doesn’t want to repeat the mistakes of four years ago,” but, given the pace of the slowdown, “they have to fall back on their tried and tested investment in infra-structure,” said Thornton.
Highlighting the govern-ment’s piecemal approach to stimulating the economy, it announced Thursday it had approved 25 subway building projects worth tens of billions of dollars.
Other data Sunday showed
that a jump in food prices pushed inflation to 2 percent in August from 1.8 percent in July. Food prices rose 3.4 percent from a year earlier in August after a 2.4 percent increase in July.
Retail sales growth for August inched up to 13.2 per-cent from the previous month’s 13.1 percent.
Producer prices fell 3.5 per-cent year-on-year, compared with a 2.9 percent decline in July, which could help ease overall inflation pressures in coming months.
A vendor pushes a cart selling fried buns at a Hutong alley in Beijing Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012. A jump in food prices pushed China’s inflation rate to rise 2 percent in August compared with a year earlier, complicating efforts by the government to revive growth with further stimulus measures.
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Shell begins petroleum drilling off Alaska coast» NATIONAL
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — More than four years after Royal Dutch Shell paid $2.8 billion to the federal government for petroleum leases in the Chukchi Sea, a company vessel on Sunday morning sent a drill bit into the ocean floor, beginning preliminary work on an explor-atory well 70 miles off the northwest coast of Alaska.
Drilling began at 4:30 a.m., said Shell Alaska spokesman Curtis Smith. Shell Alaska vice president Pete Slaiby called it historic.
“It’s the first time a drill bit has touched the sea floor in the U.S. Chukchi Sea in more than two decades,” Slaiby said in a prepared state-ment. “This is an exciting time for Alaska and for Shell. We look forward to continued drill-ing progress throughout the next several weeks and to adding another chapter to Alaska’s esteemed oil and gas history.”
Federal officials estimate Arctic waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas hold 26 bil-lion barrels of recoverable oil and 130 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced Aug. 30 that Shell would be permitted to begin preparation work at the Chukchi site even though the company’s spill response barge has not been certified and is not positioned nearby.
The company is authorized to drill narrow pilot holes 1,400 feet below the ocean floor and roughly 4,000 feet above a petroleum reservoir.
Shell has spent upward of $4.5 billion for Arctic Ocean drilling but had been thwarted
from drilling by environmental lawsuit, regula-tory requirements and short open-water drilling seasons. Despite the requirement to stay out of oil-bearing rock, they were elated to finally begin work.
“In the days to come, drilling will continue in the Chukchi Sea, and we will prepare for drill-ing to commence in the Beaufort Sea,” Slaiby said.
Drilling is bitterly opposed by environ-
mental groups that say oil companies have not demonstrated they can clean up a spill in ice-choked water. They say a spill of the magnitude of the Deepwater Horizon blowout in the Gulf of Mexico would be catastrophic in a region hammered by climate warming and home to endangered or threatened marine mammals such as bowhead whales, polar bear and walrus.
Shell officials say there’s little chance of that happening. They are drilling in about 130 feet deep, versus 5,000 at the site of the gulf spill, and wellhead pressure is expected to be far less. Shell also claims its support vessels could quickly choke off and respond to a spill.
Smith said workers Friday completed moor-ing of the drill ship, the Noble Discoverer, in heavy seas with eight anchors that each weigh 15 tons and are staged on the seafloor in a circular pattern. The diameter of the anchor pattern, he said by email, was more than 6,500-feet.
A 20-by-40-by-40-foot mud-line cellar will allow a blowout preventer to be positioned below the seafloor, protecting it from ice scrap-ing the bottom.
The oil spill response barge remains in Bellingham, Wash., and is expected to undergo sea trials over the weekend, he said.
Shell’s other Arctic Ocean drill ship, the Kulluk, is in the Beaufort Sea waiting for the fall whale hunt to end before moving to the drill site.
The Arctic Challenger, a containment barge designed to capture oil spilled during drilling, is seen Wednesday, Aug, 15, 2012, in Bellingham, Wa. Minor oil spills have plagued construction of the Arctic Challenger, the oil spill containment barge Shell Oil is waiting for to drill exploratory wells in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska.
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» POLITICS
Obama vies for health care edge in FloridaBOSTON (AP) — Mitt
Romney said he would retain some popular parts of the new health care law he has pledged to repeal, while President Barack Obama focused atten-tion in all-important Florida on the Republican ticket’s stand on Medicare, an issue that’s been more favorable to Democrats.
Romney also said it was a “mistake” for congressional Republicans to go along with the White House on a budget deal that has set up big auto-matic spending cuts in defense and elsewhere in the new year. His running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan, helped steer that agree-ment through Congress.
Health care grabbed the spot-light Sunday, less than months from Election Day in the dead-locked race.
Romney, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” for the first time in the campaign and the first time since June 28, 2009, said he would replace Obama’s health overhaul with a plan entirely his own, yet would keep some popular provisions.
“I’m not getting rid of all of health care reform. Of course, there are a number of things that I like in health care reform
that I’m going to put in place,” Romney said in the interview taped Friday and Saturday. He cited coverage for people with medical conditions and new insurance marketplaces.
Romney’s aides said that was consistent with his previous position that those who haven’t had a gap in coverage shouldn’t be denied coverage.
But the comments brought renewed attention to the similar-ities between Obama’s plan and the one Romney championed when he was Massachusetts governor, which included both protections for health conditions and an individual mandate that the Republican has since railed against.
The GOP nominee, who attended church in Boston before debate practice sessions, didn’t offer specifics for how he’d deal with the affordability of insur-ance, but suggested competition would help bring down costs. For seniors, Romney has called for restructuring Medicare by giving retirees a government payment that they would use to choose between traditional Medicare and private insurance.
Obama, campaign for a sec-ond day in Florida, tried to
move past a weak jobs report Friday and highlight the impact of Romney’s proposals on older workers and those nearing retirement.
The president promoted a study showing that future retirees under Romney’s plan would pay tens of thousands more for health care over their retirement period. The report was rejected quickly by Romney’s campaign, which
faulted Obama for relying on “discredited attacks” and noted the study was conducted by Obama’s former adviser.
Obama told about 3,000 sup-porters in Melbourne, Fla., that if Romney had his way, Americans will pay more so insurers could make more. “No American should have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies,” he said.
President Barack Obama, right, is picked-up and lifted off the ground by Scott Van Duzer, left, owner of Big Apple Pizza and Pasta Italian Restaurant during an unannounced stop, Sunday, Sept. 9, 2012, in Ft. Pierce, Fla.
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Romney says he likes parts of ‘Obamacare’
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who promised early in his cam-paign to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, says he would keep several important parts of the overhaul.
“Of course there are a number of things that I like in health care reform that I’m going to put in place,” he said in an interview broadcast Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” ‘’One is to make sure that those with pre-existing conditions can get coverage.”
Romney also said he would allow young adults to keep their coverage under their parents’ health-insur-ance.
Those provisions have been two of the more popular parts of Obama’s Affordable Care Act.
“I say we’re going to replace Obamacare. And I’m replacing it with my own plan,” Romney said. “And even in Massachusetts
when I was governor, our plan there deals with pre-existing conditions and with young people.”
In the interview, Romney, a former Massachusetts gov-ernor, also said he would offset his proposed tax cuts by closing loopholes for high income taxpayers.
“We’re not going to have high-income people pay less of the tax burden than they pay today. That’s not what’s going to happen,” he said.
When pressed, however, Romney declined to provide an example of a loophole he would close.
“I can tell you that people at the high end, high-income taxpayers, are going to have fewer deductions and exemptions. Those numbers are going to come down. Otherwise they’d get a tax break. And I want to make sure people understand, despite what the Democrats said at their convention, I am not reducing taxes on high-income taxpayers,” Romney said.
In this upcoming election, Connecticut voters will have the chance to choose from four candidates on the
ballot for President – Democrat Barack Obama, Republican Mitt Romney, Libertarian Gary Johnson, and Rocky Anderson of the Connecticut Independent Party. However, there are sev-eral interested and legitimate
third-party can-didates, includ-ing Jill Stein of the Green Party, who will
not be on the ballot due to Connecticut’s restrictive ballot access laws.
Signature requirements for third parties differ by state. Colorado, which only requires candidates to file and pay a fee, vastly differs from Oklahoma, which requires petitions signed by 5 percent of the voters in the previous election. Colorado and other states with the same policy should be commended for their interest in promoting democracy. Other states should follow their lead and adopt the same policy.
There will be 17 candidates listed on the presidential ballot in Colorado this year. These candidates represent a diverse set of viewpoints, ranging from Rosanne Barr on the
Peace & Freedom Party line, to Gloria LaRiva of the Party for Socialism and Liberation, to the Objectivist Party’s Tom Stevens. Virtually all Coloradans should be able to find one candidate for president who they support.
Meanwhile, in Oklahoma, only Obama and Romney are listed on the ballot at the moment, although there is a law-suit pending by Johnson. If he is not successful, Oklahomans will only have two choices for President, and since the state does not allow write-ins, resi-dents will be forced to pick either Obama or Romney. This is arguably not democratic.
A true democracy would allow citizens tovote for any candidate they choose. Unfortunately, in the age of machine-counted bal-lots, this is impossible. However, the next best option is to allow any candidate who files to get on the ballot, just as Colorado does. The more options there are in an election, the freer the election is. Coloradans, wheth-er they’re socialist, libertarian, objectivist, pro-life, or even white supremacist, will be able to vote for a candidate who shares their viewpoint. That is good for democracy.
On the other hand, none of those ideologies are represented on the ballot in Oklahoma this
year due to the states’ extreme-ly restrictive ballot laws. Considering 80% of Americans would consider voting for a third party this November, there is clear interest in voting for someone other than the two “major” parties.
Colorado recognizes this and allows 15 other candidates to be present on the ballot, giving voters a plethora of options. Oklahoma, on the other hand, failed to offer voters any other options. Unless the Johnson lawsuit succeeds, Oklahoma voters, no matter what they believe in politically, will only have two options. That is unfair to the 80% of voters who are considering voting outside the two party system.
Another good state for ballot access is Iowa, which simply requires parties to hold a con-vention to nominate a candidate. In fact, Iowa is the only state with a perfect record for third party ballot access. The only remotely large third party presi-dential campaign that failed to get on the ballot in Iowa was Strom Thurmond in 1948, but he had no interest in ballot access outside the South. Every other third party presidential candidate who campaigned on the national level has been on the ballot in Iowa.
As a result, Iowa’s Board of Elections has spent very little money counting write-in votes, since almost all Iowans are happy with one of the choic-es on the ballot. This reduced expenditure in turn saves the taxpayers money. So, in addi-tion to furthering democracy, increasing ballot access actually reduces government spending. While states often claim it would be expensive to allow over a dozen candidates on the ballot, it is actually far more expensive to certify several thousand sig-natures for each candidate who submits them and then count thousands of write-in votes for the multiple candidates who did not make it. So, even if money were an excuse for denying democracy, it clearly does not apply here.
By reducing restrictions for ballot access in elections, states would improve democracy. Ideally, all states should follow Colorado’s lead and grant access to anyone who files. At the very least, states like Oklahoma should drastically reduce their present requirements. That is the only way we can be a true democracy.
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UConn men’s basketball faces a postseason tournament ban for failing to meet newly-instituted academic require-
ments. However, the data used to calculate UConn’s academic scores was from 2008-09 and 2009-10 – so long ago that no current players were even on those teams. In fact, current players’ academic scores
land above the minimum require-ments. Regardless, the three-time national cham-pions are banned from the playoffs because of poor scores from for-mer players.
Is the follow-ing fictional news story really that different?
STORRS – In a shocking blow to the University of Connecticut athletics pro-gram, the NCAA yesterday announced a men’s basketball postseason ban in response to 1903 small forward Dwight Shurtleff once cheating on a spelling test.
Longtime head coach Jim Calhoun was visibly furious at a hastily-scheduled press conference. “This is completely unfair to our current players,” Calhoun vented. “No members of our present squad were even on the team back in 1903. Besides, I remember Dwight Shurtleff and he was a nice guy.”
Starting point guard and team co-captain Shabazz Napier concurred. “This is just devastating,” Napier agreed. “You should not punish innocent people for past actions
committed by others, but that is exactly what happened. Nothing could cheer me up and put a smile on my face right now, not even if you reminded me that my first name is Shabazz.”
Despite the retroactive punishment for a 1903 player cheating on a spelling test, not a single current UConn basketball player has ever cheated on a spelling test before. “I never copy others or look up words in a dictionary when I am spelling,” proudly proclaimed starting center Enosch Wolf. “Just look at any of my Twitter updates for proof.”
UConn basketball fans were dismayed by the shocking news of a postseason ban.
“This announcement is very disappoint-ing, a biased ruling against the active players because of a bad decision long ago,” lamented UConn President Susan Herbst, formerly of the university sys-tem of Georgia. “I say this as a longtime UConn basketball fan, having gone to attend games all the way back, all the way back to 2011.”
UConn Director of Dining Services Dennis Pierce lamented, “This postseason ban makes me feel so down, I will have to eat one of my favorite food dishes to raise my spirits. In particular, I was thinking of wild Fijian albacore sashimi with pea ten-dril salad, toasted hazelnuts, garlic chips, scallions and melon cilantro vinaigrette.”
Politicians even added their own com-ments. Former presidential candidate Al Gore bitterly complained, “It is extremely unfair to do everything right for several years, only to see all that hard work and effort taken away at the last moment by a small group of people, contrary to what the majority of the public desired.”
Walter Harrison, chairman of the NCAA
Subcommittee on Academic Performance, defended his decision. “Even though my critics contend that it would be much more logical to use the latest information to determine current sanctions, I decided that was irrational,” Harrison explained. “I mean, why use recent relevant data when you can use outdated historical data?”
Harrison – who also serves as president of the nearby University of Hartford – added, “This decision of mine has abso-lutely nothing to do with the fact that I previously applied to become the presi-dent of UConn and was rejected. Nothing to do with that at all.”
In addition to the postseason ban, UConn will also be docked several athletic schol-arships, will be allowed decreased practic-ing time, and will be permitted diminished options in recruiting high school players. To add insult to injury, pre-game player introductions can no longer take place to the song “Let’s Get Ready to Rumble,” but will instead be forced to arrive to “Amish Paradise” by Weird Al Yankovic.
The exact details on UConn’s 1903 offense are hazy, but it appears Dwight Shurtleff was taking an exam in which a question asked for the correct spelling of the main hill in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand. Shurtleff correctly answered ‘Taumatawhakatangihangakoauuamateapokai-whenuak itanatahu’ but only upon look-ing out the corner of his eye at the exam of shooting guard Perry Cornwall.
If the NCAA took UConn’s punishment even further
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CT should legalize self-driving cars
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UConn’s offensive line has more holes than a sieve.
Hey, the football team has given up an average of 5 points a game this year. #ThePowerOfPositiveThinking
“I’m so content with the temperature of my dorm room in North right now,” said nobody who ever lived ever.
Well, I guess my summer of training for intramural sea-son was a bit of a failure...
Is there anything better than getting retweeted by strangers?
I think there is a fire alarm going off in every building on campus right now.
UConn’s use of the Wildcat offense is textbook insanity: doing something over and over again and expecting a different result.
I went away this weekend; did any more houses get teargassed?
While a household name for its free search engine, Google, Inc. does a lot more than allow you to find what you’re looking for on the web. Its astound-ing success has allowed it to take on numerous
side projects. Some, such as Google Dengue Trends and Google Crisis Maps, are vitally important to preventing disease and quickening recovery from natural disasters. Others, like Google Glasses or its self-driving cars, seem like frivolous science fic-tion at first glance.
In what may be a surprise to many, Google’s self-driving cars are proving to be incredibly functional. Last month, the com-pany announced that its fleet of cars, outfitted with radar and other sensory equipment, had collectively logged over 300,000 miles. There was always an employee at the wheel to take over in case the computer systems failed, although that has never hap-pened. In over three years, the only collision experienced by a self-driving car was when one got rear-ended by a human driver while waiting at a red light.
This incredible new technology has not gone unnoticed by lawmakers. Last year, Nevada legalized self-driving cars, instructing its Department of Motor Vehicles to develop regula-tions to allow the cars to use public roads. The law currently only allows test vehicles, but the regulations will be re-evaluated as the cars move into production. The California state legislature recently passed similar legislation that the governor is expected to sign. In addition Hawaii, Florida, Arizona and Oklahoma are considering their own bills as well. Connecticut should join this movement and pass legislation to legalize self-driving cars in 2013.
Once further developed, this technology has the capability of helping to alleviate a large number of problems. In 2009, there were nearly 11 million traffic collisions nationwide, 90% of which were caused by human error. Self-driving cars are already appearing quite capable and are likely to be much better drivers than humans. They could be used for the daily commute, as taxis or as remarkably reliable designated drivers. One promotional video released by Google features a blind man taking a self-driving car out to do some errands, showcasing their ability to grant independence to individuals who currently have to rely on others for transportation. Additionally, a study by Columbia University’s Patcharinee Tientrakool suggests that self-driving cars could more than triple highway capacity.
Aside from improving road safety and decreasing traffic congestion, there are many potential side benefits of legalizing self-driving cars early on. If Connecticut allows them, Google will almost certainly test their vehicles in our state, as they have not yet logged any miles in areas with similar climates or terrain. This could spur economic growth, providing great internship and job opportunities for UConn students and recent graduates.
A study by KPMG and the Center for Automotive Research estimates that these cars could be on the market by 2019. For once, it would be great to see the government get ahead of tech-nology, rather than trying to play catch-up. Of course, passing legislation to allow testing of self-driving cars in Connecticut does not guarantee that any companies implement them. The worst-case scenario is that the law will just sit on a shelf col-lecting dust. Yet the best-case scenario is that Connecticut gets in on the ground floor of a new industry that may be the future of automobiles.
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Mat Franco’s magic show at the Student Union on Saturday night was, indeed, full of laughs and surprises. Though it was an unpleasant, rainy evening, the turnout at the show was unex-pectedly large, and even resulted in insufficient seating for the audience.
Franco, a Rhode Island native, started picking up magic tricks at the age of four, and is a fulltime magician.
Franco said, “I’m very excited to be back at UConn for the fourth time, it is one of my favor-ite campuses that I’ve performed in.”
For some students it was not their first time seeing Mat Franco. Despite tardiness, the crowd was still very excited for
the start.Franco began the show by
throwing cards at the audience, which immediately got every-one’s attention. He successfully engaged the audience by encour-aging audience participation. One student was asked to go up on the stage and join what Franco in doing a few dance moves and ripping a napkin into pieces.
The magician continued the trick by stuffing the napkin remnants into his mouth. The audience was bewildered and laughed at Franco’s comical facial expression. He then pro-ceeded to pull out of his mouth not the napkin, but a colorful necklace approximately 10 feet long.
Throughout the performance Franco made numerous sex jokes but they only made the show
even funnier and the audience to laugh harder.
Jennifer Yik, a 5th semester nursing major, was one of the audience members called to assist upon the magical stage said, “[Franco] is very charming. I’ve seen the trick that he just did on me but I still don’t know how he does it!”
Franco also taught the audi-ence a trick of turning a hand-kerchief into an egg by switching between hands. Another tricks he had up in his sleeve involved the dancing napkin that was aroused using strands of hair from a cou-ple in the audience.
Max Calvert, a 1st semester political science major, said it was a lot of fun participating in the show with Franco. He said, “He is great and he can engage the crowd very well.”
Magician mystifies students with trickery at Late Night
Mat Franco spits out cards as he performs a trick at Late Night on Saturday. The night was filled with surprises as he threw cards into the audience and even turned handkerchiefs into eggs.
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Indie bands rock church house
If a perfect balance is to be found between local bands and west coast indie groups, WHUS Radio found it in their first concert of the year this past Saturday. For those who can’t decide which coast has better music, the punk con-cert featured groups from both California and Connecticut; the first “Radio for the People” show of the season included the San Diego-based band Plateau on tour with Colleen Greene of Los Angeles, fol-lowed by Willimantic’s own The World is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to
Die. Half of the concertgoers
wore earplugs, many of which were fashioned out of paper towels and toilet paper. Miss Greene aside, the show could be heard and even felt from outside of the building. In true punk fashion, opening act Plateau unleashed a flurry of short, guitar-heavy, extremely loud songs, the lyrics to which were indiscernible to many.
Andrew Maloney, a 2011 UConn alum, described front man Kevin Gist’s band as “tight, but slightly repetitive.” The playing progressed from California surf-inspired lyr-ics over repetitive chord pro-
gressions to nearly anthemic punk.
Massachuse t t s - res ident -turned-Californian Colleen Greene followed Plateau with a balanced, surf-rock sound. Green, who usually plays gui-tar solo with a drum machine, was backed by members of Plateau as she pled, “Walk with me and tell me I’m your girl.” Her sound var-ied from more experimental drum-and-vocals sections to classic punk sounds. A self-described “stoner pop” musi-cian, Greene “I need you... I need you...” lyrics were not unlike that of her home state’s two-piece Best Coast.
However, and almost unex-pectedly, Greene’s later tracks proved she could hold her own among the heavier acts.
The headliners, The World is a Beautiful Place..., were a completely different sound altogether. The “twinkly emo” genre, according to Central Connecticut 1st-semester sociology student Nicole Lapriore, is named such that the acts associated with it are access points into mod-ern emo music. Easily the loudest of the three bands, “TWIABP&IANLATD” was tinged with emo and metal influences. Lead singer and keyboardist Thomas Diaz’s
voice was surprisingly per-ceptible over the wail of the band, which was easily the tightest-knit of the bands.
Jules LeFevre, promotional director for WHUS, is famil-iar with a wide range of music genres and aims to apply his extensive knowledge to book-ing future acts; Saturday’s concert is, accordingly, the first of many the radio hopes to put on throughout the year. When they happen, 1st-semester psychology major, Therese Masotta promised, “I will be them.”
Local bands and west coast indie bands performed at the first WHUS concert of the year this past Saturday night. Performing at the Storrs Congregational Church, the bands could be heard and felt from outside of the building. The concert featured Plateaus, pictured above, and other punk bands.
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Lawrence says she nearly passed on ‘Hunger Games’ TORONTO (AP) — As
Jennifer Lawrence prepares to start shooting the next install-ment of “The Hunger Games,” she’s thinking back to how she nearly turned down the role that’s made her one of Hollywood’s biggest stars.
Lawrence says she spent about three days figuring she would say no to playing Katniss Everdeen, the hero of the action franchise set in a post-apocalyp-tic North America where teens are forced to fight in televised death matches.
The 22-year-old actress said she had envisioned remaining where she started, in smaller independent films, and that “just saying yes to this one thing could completely change my life, and I don’t know if it’s going to be for the bet-ter,” Lawrence said in an interview over the weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival, where her comic drama “Silver Linings Playbook” premiered.
Lawrence already had a taste of studio life with the ensemble superhero tale “X-Men: First Class,” a role that came her way because of “Winter’s Bone,” the 2010 low-budget Ozarks crime tale that earned her a best actress Academy Awards nomination.
She ultimately agreed to do “The Hunger Games” for the same reasons she does indie flicks — and because of some straight talk from her mom.
“She was like, ‘You’re being a hypocrite, because you always say you don’t care about the size of the movies.’ Because when I was doing indies, every-body was always like, ‘Why don’t you ever do a studio?’ I’d say, ‘Because I don’t care about the size of the movie. I care about the story,’” Lawrence said. “And my mom was like,
‘Now you have a story you like, and you’re not going to do it because of the size.’
“The truth was, in the bottom of my heart, I wanted to do it. I wanted to play this character. I was scared of the aftermath, but you can’t say no to things because you’re scared. You just have to go for it.”
Lawrence, who also stars in the horror tale “House at the End of the Street” opening Sept. 21, is trying to fit in smaller films between her busy sched-ule of “Hunger Games” and “X-Men” sequels.
In “Silver Linings Playbook,” she plays a bit of a head case, an unstable young widow who falls for another troubled spirit, a man (Bradley Cooper) fresh out of a psychi-atric ward after turning violent when he caught his wife cheat-ing on him.
Directed by David O. Russell, the film co-stars Robert De Niro, Julia Stiles and Chris Tucker. “Silver Linings Playbook” opens in theaters in November.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — “The Possession” occupied the top spot at a nearly comatose box office.
The fright flick with Kyra Sedgwick and Jeffrey Dean Morgan playing the parents of a girl possessed by a demon earned $9.5 million in its second outing, the lowest grossing weekend for the box office this year and one of the worst weekends at the box office in a decade. It marked the first time since 2008 that no film managed to crack the $10 million mark.
The weekend after Labor Day is typically the slowest of the year, but this weekend’s grosses were down 20 percent over last year when “Contagion” opened in first place with $22.4 million. Total box office revenues are estimated at $67 million, which would make this the worst weekend at the box office since the weekend after 9/11 when revenues were $59.7 million.
“There just wasn’t a strong opener,” said Paul Dergarabedian, box-office analyst for Hollywood.com. “We came off a summer that ended with a whimper. There wasn’t any momentum. It just comes down to the movies and the marketplace. There’s wasn’t some extraneous force keeping people out of the theaters. This crop of movies just didn’t have that solid draw.”
The bootlegging tale “Lawless” starring Shia LaBeouf, Tom Hardy and Jessica Chastain kept a lock on the No. 2 position in its second weekend with $6 million, bringing its total haul to $23.5 million, while “The Words” fea-turing Bradley Cooper as an aspir-ing writer and Zoe Saldana as his girlfriend debuted in third place with $5 million.
A pair of action sequels round-ed out the top five films. The ensemble flick “The Expendables 2” earned $4.7 million in its fourth weekend, while “The Bourne Legacy” captured $4 million in its fifth outing at the box office. “Expendables 2” also won $14 million internationally in 23 ter-ritories, and “Bourne Legacy” nabbed $13 million in 49 ter-ritories.
“2016: Obama’s America,” a conservative film exploring the roots of President Barack Obama’s political views, raised its total to $26 million in its ninth week of release, earning another $3.3 million this weekend. That now makes “2016” the second highest grossing political docu-mentary of all time behind direc-tor Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which holds the top spot with $119.1 million.
“The Cold Light of Day,” the weekend’s only other new major release, wasn’t able to see the light of the top 10. The drama starring Henry Cavill and Bruce Willis earned just $1.8 million in the No. 13 spot.
Below “The Cold Light of Day,” an IMAX re-release of 1981’s “Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark” collected $1.7 million in the No. 14 posi-tion. The film starring Harrison Ford as the iconic archaeologist is playing a limited engagement in 267 theaters.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Where avail-able, latest international numbers are also included. Final domestic figures will be released Monday.
1. “The Possession,” $9.5 mil-lion ($3.5 million international).
2. “Lawless,” $6 million ($1.4 million international).
3. “The Words,” $5 million.4. “The Expendables 2,” $4.7
million ($14 million internation-al).
5. “The Bourne Legacy,” $4 million ($13 million internation-al).
6. “ParaNorman,” $3.8 million ($2.4 million international).
7. “The Odd Life of Timothy Green,” $3.6 million.
8. “The Campaign,” $3.5 mil-lion.
9. “The Dark Knight Rises,” $3.3 million ($13 million inter-national).
10. “2016: Obama’s America,” $3.3 million.
‘Possession’ remains No. 1 at weak box office
Jennifer Lawrence poses for a portrait at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival.
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1. America’s Election HQ Republican National Convention Thu (FOXN) - 9,0572. America’s Election HQ RNC Wed (FOXN) - 7,7033. America’s Election HQ RNC Thu Late (FOXN) - 7,3554. America’s Election HQ RNC Tue (FOXN) - 6,8795. America’s Election HQ RNC Wed 9:54-10:00 p.m. (FOXN) - 6,2996. America’s Election HQ Wed Late (FOXN) - 5,8897. Hannity (FOXN) - 5,8168. Major Crimes (Mon) - 5,7389. NASCAR Sprint Cup (ESPN) 5,55810. Hannity (FOXN) - 5,462
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The Big Bang Theory
CBSThursday at 8 p.m.
What I’m Watching
The Big Bang Theory still main-tains its quirkiness that we all know and love. As the show continues into the 6th season there is a lot more elements added into the sitcom that can still give us a good laugh years after it began back in 2007.
The character development doesn’t fall short as we see them move into bigger and more important aspects of real life such as marriage. Despite some seriousness the charac-ters still manage to keep their usual awkwardness as well as their true nerdy appeal.
Sheldon the unofficial leader of the group is still slowly learning the normal social skills. Although he is learning a great deal of how to prop-erly socialize with friends he still has his moments of driving the gang nuts with his unmeasurable intelligence.
Of course there is still the cute girl down the hall with her posse of unusual friends which has made the show a lot more funnier and more entertaining with these set of charac-ters. Let’s hope this season continues with the true nerd charm.
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Top 10 BroadcastCatch up
with Craig Ferguson
Craig Ferguson has quickly become a rising star within the realm of late night TV. While his program “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” which airs Mon-Fri at 12:35 a.m. on CBS, got off to a bit of a rocky start. However, time has been very good to the comedy program and numer-ous recurring segments of the show have become wildly popular. In recognition of this, CBS recently moved the show from its original studio to a much larger one. For the uninitiated, I thought now would be as good a time as any to talk about just what makes this nightly comedic jewel such a treat to watch.
Born in Scotland and known for battling alcohol and sub-stance abuse when he was younger, Ferguson has held pretty much every job in show business one could imagine. An accomplished actor, author, comic and drummer, Ferguson was best known as “Mr. Wick” from the popular 90s sitcom “The Drew Carey Show.” In 2005, he was given the oppor-tunity to follow late night leg-end David Letterman’s “Late Show” as the host of “The Late Late Show” following the departure of Craig Kilborn.
When Ferguson took over “The Late Late Show” in 2005, the program was notable for two reasons. Not only was there was no “sidekick” or other regular performer on the show with Ferguson, there was also no “house band” to pro-vide music.
Suffice to say, with such a small budget it took some time for Ferguson to get started. But eventually the comic found his voice.
He eventually stopped script-ing the majority of his nightly monologue and comedy bits in favor of simply improvising on the spot. No one, not even Ferguson knows what he will say on each night’s show.
Ferguson also began to use puppets on his show, the most notable of which is Sid, a cute, furry and foul-mouthed rabbit who enjoys cussing out the audience.
Another notable ele-ment to the show includes “Secretariat,” where two guys in a horse suit run onto the stage randomly and deliver a rockette-style kick before departing. This is typically done when Ferguson gets bored. Less frequently used are actual comedy skits such as “The Rather Late Programe” with Prince Charles, played by Ferguson.
Unlike other talk shows, Ferguson offers to end guest interviews in one of three ways: with a “Big Cash Prize” (now $7.50 in nickels), play-ing the “Mouth Organ” (har-monica), or an awkward pause.
However, the single biggest factor to the show’s newfound success is the addition of Geoff Peterson, a robot skeleton voiced and operated by come-dian Josh Robert Thompson. Geoff Peterson has served as Craig’s sidekick since 2010. From providing hilarious ban-ter with Ferguson during the “Tweets and Email” segment, which ranges from coming up with Dirty Las Vegas Casino names to doing a Morgan Freeman impression.
With so many people enjoy-ing the comedy of “The Late Late Show” you owe it to yourself to give it a try. It may be cheap, cheesy and unre-hearsed but that is precisely what makes it so great.
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The Doctor and dinos
Doctor Who continues for its seventh season in this week’s episode ‘Dinosaurs in a Spaceship’ where Queen Nefertiti makes a guest appearance. Picking up where the previous season left off, the Doctor and the gang fend off dinosaurs with a new companion.
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After a long hiatus, every-one’s favorite madman with a blue box has returned for the seventh season of the revamped “Doctor Who.” Ever since the season six finale, the fandom has been awash with specu-lation over the Doctor’s new companion, as well as the fate of his current companions, the Ponds. During the hiatus, a series of shorts entitled “Pond Life” have left fans in various states of worry over the Ponds’ relationship status.
The season premiere, “Asylum of the Daleks,” picked up where “Pond Life” left off; namely, with the Ponds’ rela-tionship problems. However,
the details of their strife are barely given before they, along with the Doctor, are whisked off into outer space by their long-time enemies, the Daleks. The episode gave viewers their first glimpse of the actress slated to be the new companion, Jenna-Louise Coleman. However, Coleman does not take the role of a companion, but rather plays a mys-terious woman who helps guide the Doctor and the Ponds through their ordeal.
As a whole, the episode was a wonderful start to the sea-son. Coleman’s performance as Oswin was impeccable, and the way she carried the plot twist at the end was heartwrench-
ing. Not to be outdone, Matt Smith’s portrayal as the Doctor was spot on; at times he’s been the man we have come to adore as the 11th Doctor, and at times he was the same character
from his past 10 incarnations. If I have one criticism of this episode, it’s that the final reveal regarding the Ponds’ rela-tionship problem seemed contrived.
The following episode, “Dinosaurs on a Spaceship,” takes place months after the last Pond/Doctor adventure. This time, they’re spirited away to a Silurian spaceship full of dinosaurs, along with Queen Nefertiti of Egypt and
Edwardian explorer John Riddel. To be honest, this epi-sode’s story was a mess. Don’t get me wrong. It was fun, what with the Doctor riding around on a triceratops and all, but the characters of Nefertiti and Riddel didn’t get enough screen time to make them truly interesting characters. In many ways, the episode seemed just like a cheap ploy to get a bunch of famous characters together on the same screen at the same time.
All in all, the return of the world’s longest running sci-fi series has been a positive one, and I look forward to the rest of the season with great antici-pation.
By Jason WongStaff Writer
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» TV NEWSFall’s must-see political TV: Obama-Romney
WASHINGTON (AP) — Finally, the fall season offers the matchup sure to attract the biggest audience of the campaign: President Barack Obama going one-on-one with Republican Mitt Romney in three prime-time debates.
Typically the top political draw in the final sprint to Election Day, the debates assume outsized importance this year with the race a dead heat.
The candidates will have their sound bites and rhetoric down cold so any slip or inadvertent move — remember President George H.W. Bush’s exasperated glance at his watch or Democrat Al Gore’s repeated sighing? — could roil the campaign for days and linger in voters’ mind until Nov. 6.
No wonder Romney spent days this past week at the Vermont estate of former Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey for debate practice sessions; Ohio Sen. Rob Portman, played the role of Obama.
The president has had one practice ses-sion with Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, the Democrats’ stand-in for Romney, and is certain to have several more before the first debate Oct. 3 in Denver
The second debate, a town hall-style ses-sion, is Oct. 16 in Hempstead, N.Y. The final debate, on foreign policy, is Oct. 22 in Boca Raton, Fla. GOP running mate Paul Ryan and Vice President Joe Biden have one debate, Oct. 11 in Danville, Ky.
Incumbents usually are at a disadvantage, defending a record against a challenger cri-tiquing four years of work. Obama will be trying to avoid the fate of Presidents Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, who turned in flat debate performances in their first encounters with rivals. In the end, though, it didn’t hurt either one as they both won re-election.
“Debating is a muscle that doesn’t get used very often,” said Alan Schroeder, a journalism professor at Northeastern University and the author of “Presidential Debates: Forty Years of High-Risk TV.” ‘’Mitt Romney is better toned because he came off 20-plus primary debates. President Obama has not been on a debate stage in four years.”
Debates aren’t like the highly choreo-graphed campaign event or stump speech marked by over-the-top rhetoric. Schroeder
said debates require a different dynamic — candidates need to be respectful, differing in opinion but avoiding any impression that it’s personal.
“In 2008, the first debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, one of the take-aways was McCain did not make eye con-tact with Obama,” Schroeder said. “That came off as rude, disrespectful.”
Part of the practice sessions is figuring out when to be aggressive and how to dem-onstrate leadership. It’s also honing the lines from months of campaign speeches as the candidates get their final opportunities to speak directly to tens of millions of voters.
In the first debate, on domestic policy, Romney and Obama will be armed with competing numbers and visions.
“We will not surrender our dreams to the failures of this president,” Romney told an audience in Bedford, N.H., last December. Expect the Republican to point to 23 million Americans out of work or underemployed, a national debt now at $16 trillion and three years of an unemployment rate above 8 percent.
In this Jan. 21, 2008 file photo, Democratic presidential hopefuls, from left, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, participate in a Democratic presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
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Coldplay, Rihanna, Jay-Z close London 2012 ParalympicsLONDON (AP) — Farewell, London. Good luck
matching that, Rio.Coldplay, Rihanna and Jay-Z rocked the Olympic
Stadium on Sunday night to give the biggest-ever Paralympic Games a rousing send-off, wrapping up an unforgettable summer of sports in Britain.
The three-hour party at the packed 80,000-seat arena in east London gave the world a chance to cel-ebrate 11 days of Paralympic competition that have shifted perceptions and shattered stereotypes about the disabled.
“In this country, we will never think of sport the same way and we will never think of disability the same way,” said Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London organizing committee. “The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.”
Central to the closing ceremony — called the “Festival of the Flame” — were the 4,200 Paralympians from 164 nations who encircled the field of play from the start, waving flags and taking in the extraordinary atmosphere. By the end of the extravaganza, they created an international mosh pit in front of the stage as volleys of fireworks rocketed above.
“I think it’s been an absolute triumph from start to finish,” said British Prime Minister David Cameron, whose disabled son Ivan died in 2009. “I think back to Ivan. As every parent, you think about all the things they can’t do, but at the Paralympics they are superhu-man, you see all the things they can do.
“It’s been a golden summer of British sport.”Coming after a hugely successful Olympic Games,
the 2012 Paralympics broke all records, with 2.7 mil-
lion spectators cramming into venues, more than $70 million raised in ticket sales and the games broadcast in more than 100 countries. They are unprecedented figures as the British public displayed an enthusi-asm previously unseen in the 52-year history of the Paralympics.
The wide exposure introduced the world to Paralympians such as Dutch wheelchair tennis play-er Esther Vergeer — who extended her nine-year unbeaten streak to 470 matches by winning the wom-en’s singles — and David Weir, a British wheelchair racer who won four golds in his home city.
It also enhanced the reputation of iconic South African double-amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius, who became the first track athlete to compete in both games. He won two golds in the Paralympics, includ-ing in the 4x100-meter relay which was one of 251 world records broken at these games.
“I think people are going to look back at this Paralympic Games and for the first time really, truly believe that Paralympic sport is not just inspirational, it’s hard-core sport,” said Pistorius, who drew a rous-ing cheer as his image was displayed in a montage of Paralympians on the big screen.
A moving tribute to wounded British servicemen and members of the British army opened the show. Luke Sinnott, a captain who lost both legs from above the knee in an explosion in Afghanistan in 2010, hung the Union Flag at the top of flagpole in the middle of the stadium. Rory Mackenzie, a serviceman who lost his leg on patrol in roadside bomb blast, gave a sono-rous introduction to the theme of the four seasons that was at the heart of the show.Fireworks explode over the stadium as rock band Coldplay perform at the closing ceremony for the 2012 Paralympics, Sunday, Sept.
9, 2012, in London.
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AP critic takes toddler to epic flop ‘Oogieloves’UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) — If you’re
the parent of a preschool-age child, you may have noticed the colorful ads in recent weeks for “The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure” and thought to yourself: “God, I hope my kid doesn’t insist on seeing that movie.”
If you’re not a parent, but have even a passing interest in pop culture, you may have heard of “The Oogieloves” anyway: It’s making news, and for all the wrong reasons. The G-rated, live-action family film had a historically abysmal opening: $443,901 in its first weekend in theaters (the movie had opened on 2,160 screens the previous Wednesday). That averages out to $206 per screen. Both figures are record-worsts for a wide release.
Suddenly, the word “Oogieloves” was right up there with “Ishtar” as a shorthand for film failure. But a morbid fascination with the movie seems to have developed over the past week. Jen Chaney wrote in her Washington Post blog: “The massive floppage of ‘The Oogieloves’ has only
made me feel more compelled to see it.” Arts writer Dave Itzkoff of The New York Times joked during the Democratic National Convention on Twitter, where he’s (at)ditzkoff: “Clinton’s speech so good he convinced me to see that Oogieloves movie. (hash)DNC” And Nick Robinson, a fix-ture in film circles who describes himself as an “award-winning festival bumper creator” went so far as to attend a Labor Day matinee and live-tweet the whole thing. Among the many funny (at)NickRob tweets: “To be fair this movie does a good job of portraying proper bicycle safety. (hash)OOGIELOVES”
So naturally, I had to witness this for myself. And I just happen to have a preschool-age child: my son Nicolas, who’s almost 3. Now, Nic has never been to a movie in a theater before, despite what his mom does for a living. He slept through a lot of Mommy & Me showings when he was an infant, but this would be his first time sitting in a big-boy seat and actually paying attention to things like plot
and character development and mise-en-scene.You may wonder who goes to a 4:05 p.m. mati-
nee of “The Oogieloves” at the Universal City Walk on a Thursday. The answer is ... no one. We were the only ones there. Which was cool, because we had the whole place to ourselves. But the staff hadn’t even cleaned the auditorium from the previous showing, so there were cups sitting in the drink holders and, on one seat, a cardboard container with a few random popcorn nuggets and a wadded-up dirty diaper.
Little did I realize when we sat down that this would be the perfect metaphor for the next 88 minutes of our lives.
Allow me to try and explain the plot of “The Oogieloves” to you now:
A trio of oversized, pear-shaped, brightly col-ored weirdoes named Goobie, Zoozie and Toofie are throwing a birthday party for a pillow named Schluufy. J. Edgar, a vacuum cleaner, was sup-posed to bring five magical, golden balloons as a gift, but he lost them along the way. So now the Oogieloves, with the help of Windy Window (who inexplicably speaks with a Southern drawl), must track down the balloons, which have scat-tered far and wide and fallen into the hands of a bizarre cross-section of people. They’re played by Cloris Leachman, Chazz Palminteri, Toni Braxton, Christopher Lloyd, Jaime Pressly and — in the most unsettling performance of all — Cary Elwes as a bouncing cowboy named Bobby Wobbly. He wears a deranged smile on his face the whole time, as if he were a character in a David Lynch film.
Also? The Oogieloves play in a band. So every time they perform, they encourage the kids in the audience (or kid, in my case) to get up and sing and dance. That’s actually a very clever idea, because anyone who has been around children this age knows they can’t sit still for long. My son is by no means a quiet, shy or low-key creature — he’s actually kind of a nut — but he had no interest in singing and dancing along with these Oogiepeople. When I got up to dance a couple times, hoping he’d join me, he reached over and shouted, “No, Mommy, don’t dance!” and pulled me back down to my seat. That’s probably going to happen again at some point in our lives, I’m guessing.
Nic pretty much sat there, staring ahead, clutch-ing the red glow wand the nice ticket-taker handed
him when we entered. Every once in a while he’d notice something on screen and shout out what it was: “Clouds!” ‘’Drums!” ‘’Bicycle!” I sat there wondering whether these actors knew what they were getting into when they said yes to this clunky, punny, unfunny film. There is a high cringe factor in watching these performers work-ing so hard with such odd, weak material. But “The Oogieloves” is also a mess from a technical standpoint, with harsh lighting, uncomfortable close-ups, and costumes and effects that look like something out of a Sid and Marty Krofft TV pro-gram from the ‘70s.
(Producer Kenn Viselman, the marketing mas-termind behind “Thomas the Tank Engine” and the “Teletubbies,” has said he’s happy the film has achieved such notoriety, because it’s drawn more attention than it would have with just an average opening. He’s also said he’ll go ahead with a cou-ple of planned sequels, even as this first film drops 1,879 screens in its second weekend to just 281.)
After about an hour, Nicolas got bored and started doing laps around the theater. He’d run up the stairs and then hop back down them. He’d sit in various seats, look back at me and wave, “Hi, Mommy!” He never seemed truly engaged like he is when he watches “Yo Gabba Gabba,” his favorite show these days, but he wasn’t miserable either. And as we were walking back to the car, he gave me a hug around my legs and said, “Thank you for taking me to the movies, Mommy.”
So I guess we had a happy ending after all.
This film image released by Kenn Viselman Presents, Inc. shows characters, from left, Goobie, Toofie and Zoozie.
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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is an 8 -- Don’t believe everything you hear, and try not to take yourself too seriously. Talk it over with family, and then choose. Increase compassion. You’re a dynamic teacher.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 7 -- You’re especially persuasive now. Good time to update your resume, or create a new marketing plan. You’re getting even more interested in stability. Rest and cool down.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) -- Today is a 6 -- There’s a change at the top. Work becomes fascinating, and surprising. Accept a new assignment. Don’t get into an argument with the one who signs your paychecks.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Make the decision and act, quickly. Stay put and keep the pressure on. The rewards are there, even if you can’t see them just yet. Postpone travel.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 5 -- No need to hurry. Dreams of travel and adventure inspire, but stay put for a few days. Don’t go shopping either. File papers, and increase financial security. Make plans.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- You’re very attractive now, and your status is rising. There’s no time to waste. Put your wonderful ideas into action, but do stop for directions. Keep asking questions.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Growth possibilities have you excited. Continue improving in the area of career, but don’t get overloaded with gimmicks. Keep receiving instruction. Then the trick’s to practice, practice, practice.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 7 -- The key is in the listening. Ask for sugges-tions from an intuitive person, and/or your own subconscious mind. Get what you need to make your home secure. Take care.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 5 -- An unexpected development may force you to revisit your plans. Seize the opportu-nity. Your friends help you make the most of it. Talk it over, and make the connection. Stay practical.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 7 -- You can get whatever you need, if you set your mind to it and take the necessary steps. It will take persistence, and putting up with others rattling your cage.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is a 6 -- Focus on your work and be extremely productive all day, and tomorrow. You’re the brains, and the heart, behind the operation. Handle the problems that arise. It’s not a good time to gamble.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8 -- Imagination is required to clear the confu-sion. No problem; it’s one of your strengths now. A change at the top reminds you to make the most of each moment.
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After Sunday’s 1-1 tie against Boston University, the No. 4 UConn men’s soc-cer team completed their busiest stretch of the sea-son, playing four games in nine days. Despite the tie, the Huskies extended their regu-lar season home undefeated streak to 29 games.
In the nine-day window, UConn beat Dartmouth and Washington in overtime at home, won at Michigan State and tied BU. UConn started 13-0-1 last season before a loss at West Virginia snapped their undefeated streak.
Close Games
The 110-minute battle with the Terriers on Sunday was nothing new for UConn (4-0-1). Each game this season has been decided by one goal. In fact, the Huskies have not played a single minute in 2012 with a two-goal advan-tage. On the other hand, they
have not trailed a single min-ute either.
The close games may pro-vide the Huskies with much-needed experience in tightly fought matches, as UConn has seen their season ended on penalty kicks for three consecutive seasons.
Sophomore goalkeeper Andre Blake has allowed only two goals, a desperation goal by Dartmouth with 6 seconds remaining in regula-tion and the game-tying goal allowed in the 61st minute of Sunday’s match.
UConn compared to UNC
A week before the BU Terriers came to Storrs to play Connecticut, they faced No. 1 North Carolina in Chapel Hill. BU lost 2-1 but head coach Neil Roberts says Connecticut compares even-ly with the high-octane Tar Heels despite different play-ing styles.
“North Carolina press-es forward more, as with Connecticut it’s more of a chess game,” Roberts said.
“I think Connecticut is more athletic. Once it’s all said and done, UConn is the best team we have played.”
Looking Ahead
After four of the first five games at home, head coach Ray Reid takes his team to Boston on Friday to play Harvard (1-2-1).
“We have to do a better job of taking care of the ball and finishing chances,” Reid said.
After the Harvard match, UConn returns home to face No. 24 Boston College on September 18. They then begin an eight-game confer-ence schedule on September 22 against rival, No. 22 St. John’s. In 2011, UConn finished 5-2-2 in Big East play, including Allando Matheson’s game-winning goal in the 74th minute en route to a 2-0 win over the Red Storm 2-0 in Storrs.
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The Huskies took the lead in the 31st minute, when Alverez was one-on-one with the Terriers’ keeper and lobbed the ball over him for his first goal of the season.
BU pegged the score back to 1-1 when forward Ali Sozeri headed a volleyed shot past Andre Blake. After the goal, other than one outstand-ing save by Blake, neither team threatened the other’s goal.
“We started off the match really well and we let it get away from us, we never real-ly took control of the game, after the first half it became a bit of a scrum and were not great at that, we gotta do a better job of taking care of the ball and finishing our chances,” UConn coach Ray Reid said.
The men play their next match against Harvard on Friday night in Boston.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tom Brady might have a bro-ken nose, about the only damage inflicted by the Tennessee Titans against the New England Patriots who simply don't lose season openers.
Brady threw for 236 yards and two touchdowns, and the defend-ing AFC champion Patriots rout-ed the Tennessee Titans 34-13 for their ninth straight season-open-ing win Sunday. It's the longest current streak in the league.
"I need some scars," Brady said, joking about the white ban-dage covering his nose and mar-ring his usual look.
Titans defensive end Kamerion Wimbley hurt Brady in the second quarter when he got Tennessee's only sack of the game. Brady said that was the only good hit he took all day and complimented his revised offensive line featuring a new left tackle in Nate Solder, new center in Dan Connolly and right guard in Donald Thomas.
"It wasn't perfect by any stretch, but it's always fun to win," Brady said. "It's a good feeling."
The Patriots ruined Jake Locker's debut as Tennessee's starter, sacking him twice and forcing two turnovers. New England rookie Dont'a Hightower returned Locker's fumble 6 yards for a TD in his own debut, and Stevan Ridley ran for 125 yards and a TD.
New England even knocked Locker out of the game in the fourth quarter and held Chris Johnson to 4 yards on 11 carries.
"This is something that can be a backbone for us," Patriots defen-sive tackle Vince Wilfork said. " To hold a great back to only 4 yards that was good defense."
Locker hurt his left shoulder tackling safety Patrick Chung on a fumble return officials should have whistled dead as an incom-plete pass to Titans receiver Nate Washington, who also was hurt on the play. Matt Hasselbeck replaced Locker, who was kept on the sideline as a precaution.
The eighth pick overall in 2011 tried to talk his way back onto the field after being examined. Locker said he was sore but expects to play next week at San Diego. And he won't shy away from tackling in the future.
"I know I'm playing offense," Locker said. "I'm not going to let a guy run into the end zone."
The Titans weren't happy at the failure of the replacement officials on three different passes into the end zone they thought deserved flags for pass interfer-ence. Coach Mike Munchak said there always will be calls they believe are missed by officials.
The first came on the open-ing drive when Devin McCourty helped break up a pass to Damian Williams in the end zone.
Patriots open season with 34-13 rout of Titans
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady (12) calls a play as teammates Sebastian Vollmer (76) and Dan Connolly (63) line up against the Tennessee Titans in the first quarter of an NFL football game on Sunday
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Robert Woods went over defensive backs and outmuscled them. He darted and cut through Syracuse, and made a huge play every time Southern California needed to shake free from the Orange.
The All-American receiver was so good, Matt Barkley's school-record six touchdown passes seemed almost pedes-trian.
Woods was spectacular with 200 all-purpose yards and two scores, helping No. 2 USC (2-0) come away from a rare trip to the Northeast with a 42-29 victory against the Orange on Saturday.
"Each and every player on this team is trying to take over," Woods said. "When the game is that close, each player has that mindset, let's take over."
Wood did just that, and the Trojans needed a boost. They were choppy at times, and Syracuse's hurry-up offense kept them working hard for four quarters at MetLife Stadium, the home of the Giants and Jets.
Led by Ryan Nassib, Syracuse (0-2) kept things close with consecutive touchdowns in the third quarter to make it 21-16 heading into the fourth. Nassib finished with 322 yards pass-ing, two touchdown passes and a touchdown run.
"That's the No. 2 team in the nation," receiver Alec Lemon said. "We put up a great fight against them."
But the Orange simply had no answer for Woods.
"Very frustrating. They have two great receivers, 2 and 9, Woods and (Marqise) Lee," Syracuse linebacker Marquis Spruill said. "They gave us a big problem."
Lee caught 11 passes and three touchdowns, but Woods made the game-changing plays.
He reached over a defend-er for a 29-yard score in the second quarter and boxed out a defensive back on a 4-yard touchdown in the third. He fin-ished with 10 catches for 93 yards.
His best plays, though, didn't involve catching passes.
In the fourth, he grabbed punt on the run and raced 31 yards to the Syracuse 22. Barkley converted that into his fourth touchdown pass, when Xavier Grimble broke free of four Syracuse tacklers at the 10 and ran into the end zone to make it 28-16.
Woods capped his virtuoso performance taking a reverse around left end from the USC 20, cutting back across field and racing to down the sideline before being pushed out at the Syracuse 4, 76 yards later.
Barkley, No. 2 USC shake Syracuse 42-29
Southern California quarterback Matt Barkley celebrates after throwing a touchdown pass to wide receiver Marqise Lee.
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changes may be on the hori-zon for this offensive line. “You go back and evaluate the film and try to make the cor-rections you feel like you need to make and we’ll go through that process tomorrow,” said Pasqualoni.
In recent years, UConn has had a successful time running the ball, but this weekend, the N.C. State defense limited the effectiveness of McCombs, who rushed for 60 yards and averaged three yards a carry. “Lyle did a good job, he had some nice runs, they did some nice things defensively with some twists up front,” said Whitmer. “We just got to be a little more physical and make some more plays.
The quotable Paul Pasqualoni
“It’s not always on the quar-terback. He’s got to do a better job obviously with some of his decisions, but we got to do a better job protecting him.” Pasqualoni said, after being asked about Whitmer’s perfor-mance over the past two games
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sis of the way the game played out.
“It wasn’t all the offense,” the defensive end said after the game. “We had a couple of plays that if you take those away, that’s zero points let up. As a team, we’re going to go back to the drawing board, patch it up and we’re going to come back and get a W.
Wirth was asked if the Huskies still believed in themselves.
“Absolutely,” he said. “It’s what? Two games?”
So what do you say after a game like that? Nothing. You go back, you work your tail off in practice and get back to work.
After all, it would be pretty sweet to go into College Park, Maryland and prove to a Mr. Randy Edsall that he didn’t know what he had ‘till it’s gone.
It shouldn’t be too difficult for some of these seniors to be motivated for that game, now should it?
That last sentence expressed Wirth’s sentiment, not mine. Just saying.
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was incomplete. Three and out.On the third UConn posses-
sion, the Huskies started on their own 45 yard-line. Whitmer completed a pass to tight end John Delahunt for a gain of six yards to start the drive off. Then McCombs was stopped at the line and then Whitmer’s pass to wide receiver Michael Smith was incomplete. Three and out.
“It seemed like every time we got going, something happened,” Pasqualoni said.
But while the UConn offense was unable to do anything with the football, the North Carolina State defense wasn’t having much luck either. The only dif-ference was the the Wolfpack weren’t beating themselves with mistakes, the Huskies just made sure they had nowhere to go with the ball.
By the end of the first quar-ter, the Wolfpack had only 12 yards rushing on 10 carries. In total, they only had 62 yards worth of offense, and three first downs. North Carolina State did not advance past the UConn 44 yard-line.
“We’re a good defense,” line-backer Sio Moore said after the game. “We’ve built that into what we do and how we do it.”
In the second quarter, the UConn offense performed a little bit better than it did during the first quarter. The Huskies had 75
yards worth of offense, compared to just 36 in the first quarter.
At one point, Whitmer man-aged to find an open Nick Williams for a 30-yard gain, one of the rare sparks for the UConn offense on the game.
But despite the boost, UConn still wasn’t getting any points from its scoring drives.
The Wolfpack had added a field goal from kicker Niklas Sade, but that was it. Going into the half the score was a manage-able 3-0.
Then the third quarter brought more of the same. The Huskies managed only 43 yards of offense and three first downs. Whitmer threw another interception and Delahunt fumbled on the first play of a UConn’s possession.
It was in the third quarter that the game-changing play occurred.
The Huskies had the Wolfpack on a third down and 15 with 8:34 remaining in the quarter.
North Carolina State quarter-back Mike Glennon dropped back to pass, letting the ball go a mere instant before UConn’s Trevardo Williams sent him to the ground. With the ball in the air, UConn cornerback Taylor Mack was caught slightly out of position and was beat by North Carolina State’s Bryan Underwood and by the time UConn safety Ty-Meer Brown had come over to help, it was too late.
North Carolina state had
thrown a 44-yard touchdown pass to make the game 10-0 and give itself a lead that may seem small, but the way the game was playing out, seemed insurmount-able.
“I love Taylor,” Pasqualoni said after the game. “It’s going to happen to every corner in America. You gotta have a short memory and come back in the lineup and play.”
The Huskies didn’t get much offense in the fourth quarter either and despite a late touchdown run from McCombs, UConn’s offense was flat.
After the game, the UConn defense was not quick to blame the offense for the loss. Defensive tackle Ryan Wirth acknowledged that every game is a team win or a team loss.
“We had a couple of plays that if you take that away, that’s zero points you let up,” Wirth said. “As a team, we’re going to go back to the drawing board, patch it up and we’re going to come back with a “W.”
The Huskies will next take the field against Maryland and for-mer UConn coach Randy Edsall, in a game which Wirth said, “Is not going to be hard to get fired up for. That’s all I’m going to say about that.”
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UConn defense dominate in loss at home
UConn’s defense dominate, despite offensive shortcomings
UConn’s strong defensive effort could not make up for the stagnant offense as the Huskies recorded their first loss of the season, 10-7 to the N.C. State Wolfpack.
On third down, UConn only converted two out of the 12 that they faced. Quarterback Chandler Whitmer threw for 204 yards, but also threw three interceptions in the loss. As a unit, the offense ran 59 plays for a total of 239 yards.
“Frustrating, it was a frustrat-ing afternoon,” said head coach Paul Pasqualoni. “N.C. State is a good solid team; you can’t turn it over four times against a team like that.”
The Huskies could not find the end zone until the 7 minute mark of the 4th quarter, when sophomore running back Lyle McCombs scored on a five yard rush to cut the N.C. State lead to a field goal. The touchdown would be the only score for UConn all afternoon, as a late game drive was stopped at mid-field to seal the victory for the Wolfpack.
Defense remains force to reckoned with
While play on the offensive side of the ball was not going the Huskies’ way, the defense played a great game to keep UConn in the game right to the very end. The Huskies allowed 258 yards on 71 N.C. State plays, after allowing only 59 yards in UConn’s home opener against UMass.
“We’re a good defense, hands down; it doesn’t matter the
opponent or who we play or what the scenario or situation is, we’re a good defense,” said senior linebacker Sio Moore. “We’ve built that into what we do and how we do it.”
Sophomore linebacker Yawin Smallwood continued to build off the success he found last weekend against UMass. Smallwood made 14 tack-les against N.C. State, which brings his season total to 21. Senior defensive end Trevardo Williams made five tackles for the Huskies, including 2.5 sacks.
Senior defensive tackle, Ryan Wirth, made four tackles against the Wolfpack, which Pasqualoni took away as one of the posi-tives on defense from the after-noon. “From a defensive stand-point I thought that up front, Ryan Wirth for the second week had a very good game against a senior offensive line that has played a lot of football games together,” said Pasqualoni.
Mistakes and miscues plagued offense
Whitmer’s three interceptions were just part of the mistakes that became problematic for the Husky offense. The offen-sive line allowed Whitmer to be sacked three times during the game. Whitmer also had his foot stepped on twice during the course of the game by members of the offensive line.
Redshirt sophmore running back Lyle McCombs advances the ball down the field, in a 10-7 loss to N.C. State at Rentschler Field.
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Huskies remain aggressive on defenseBy Tyler MorrisseyAssociate Sports Editor
Volleyball breaks even at Invitational
The UConn volleyball team went 2-2 this weekend at the Dr. Mary Jo Wynn Invitational, hosted by Missouri State University in Springfield, Mo.
Friday and Saturday both went the same way for Holly Strauss-O’Brien’s team, which is now 6-5. They started each day with a victory before their second opponent beat them in a convincing fashion.
The first match of the week-end was a 3-0 victory over New Orleans. The Privateers were never in the match. The Huskies dominated with a .420 kill percentage while holding New Orleans to a mere .066. Mattison Quayle led the way once again. The senior recorded a double-dou-ble with 12 kills and 10 digs. She had a season-best .500 kill percentage.
Friday evening was much tougher for the Huskies, who dropped a 3-0 decision to the hosts, Missouri State. Despite the loss, senior Kelsey Maving led all players with 22 digs. Sophomore Devon Maugle impressed with 12 kills and nine digs.
The first match on Saturday marked UConn’s first five-set match of the year result-ing in the Huskies defeating Nebraska-Omaha 3-2. UConn won the first set 25-14, but the Mavericks came back to win the next two. The Huskies had a tough fight for the rest of
the match from that point on eventually winning the fourth set 25-20 and taking the deciding set 15-10. Maugle led the way with 18 kills and 12 digs. Maving added anoth-er 25 digs. Freshman Marissa Prinzbach had 30 assists.
In the final match of the weekend, the Northern Illinois Huskies outplayed UConn and took the match 3-1. After tying the score at 1-1 after the second set, UConn dropped the final two sets to fall to
2-2 for the weekend. Despite the loss, Maving had 26 digs and Prinzbach had 39 assists. Maugle, who recorded 19 kills and 11 digs, was named to the All-Tournament Team.
The Huskies return to action on Friday at home against Harvard University. The Crimson have struggled thus far this year and currently have a record of 2-5.
A UConn volleyball player bumps the ball over the net in a recent game at Gampel PavilionLINDSAY COLLIER/The Daily Campus
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Boston Bruins sign Brad MarchandBOSTON (AP) — Against
the backdrop of an NHL lockout, the Bruins agreed to a new, four-year deal with forward Brad Marchand on Friday.
The feisty Marchand, 24, a key cog in the Bruins' run to the 2011 Stanley Cup, will make $4.5 million per sea-son, starting in 2013-14. He is scheduled to make $3 million in the coming season, the last of his two-year contract.
Marchand had 28 goals and 27 assists last season, as Boston won the Northeast Division but lost in the first round to Washington.
"His style of play, his per-sona, his timely goals and his amount of goals bring a great
component to the Bruins," general manager Peter Chiarelli said in a confer-ence call. "It's nice when you can sign a player like Brad who has worked his way up through the organization and plays the way we all enjoy watching him play."
Marchand, who was a plus-31 last season, was drafted No. 71 overall in 2006, and has 49 goals and 48 assists in 173 career games.
"We've tried to be rela-tively proactive in extending contracts for guys prior to the start of the season and we're trying to keep our core together," Chiarelli said. "It's part and parcel of that in what we're trying to do."
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BALTIMORE (AP) — The New York Yankees escaped from Camden Yards with their lead in the AL East intact, and as a bonus, slug-ger Curtis Granderson worked his way out of an annoying slump.
Granderson came off the bench to hit his 35th homer and drive in five runs, and New York beat the Baltimore Orioles 13-3 Sunday to regain sole possession of first place in the divi-sion and earn an important split of the season series.
Derek Jeter also homered for the Yankees, who lead the Orioles by one game with 22 left. Each team won twice in a four-game set that drew 173,572 fans, including 40,346 in the finale.
“The bottom line is we’re in first place,” Yankees manager Joe Girardi said. “The one thing that you want to be able to do is just rely on your club. You don’t want to have to rely on other people.”
Jeter, who had three RBIs and scored twice, said, “We lost a couple games, but we did battle back. Today was a big one for us. We have a much-needed day off (Monday), then we go to play Boston. I like the way we played.”
New York finished 9-9 against Baltimore this season. Had the Orioles won Sunday, they would have received home-field advantage in a playoff game if the teams finish tied atop the division. Baltimore would have also had home-field advantage if the Yankees and Orioles finish tied for both wild-card berths.
Now, if the teams are tied at the end of the regular season, record within the division will be the tiebreaker.
“We’ll try to make it not matter,” Orioles manager Buck Showalter said.
Granderson didn’t start because he was stuck in a 5-for-43 skid. He entered as a pinch hitter in the sixth inning and hit a solo shot to put New York up 6-3, then delivered a two-run single in the seventh to provide the Yankees a five-run cushion.
In the eighth, after Jeter hit a two-run drive off Kevin Gregg, Granderson doubled in two runs. The five RBIs matched a career high.
“Any way to try and help the team out,” Granderson said. “Physically I have felt fine. Who knows what it’s been? Just a matter of con-tinuing to swing the bat. I’ve been getting good pitches; I just haven’t been able to do anything with them. Just baseball being baseball.”
Manager Joe Girardi couldn’t have been hap-pier.
“It would be great to get him going because he has been so important to our offense,” he said. “For him to come in and get three hits and knock in five RBIs on a short day is pretty nice.”
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Yankees rout Orioles 13-3
Sanchez, defense lead Jets past Bills 48-28
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — One touchdown after another, the New York Jets eased all those preseason con-cerns about their low-scoring offense.
With a whole lot of Mark Sanchez, a sprinkling of Tim Tebow and a dominant first-half effort by the defense, New York manhandled the Buffalo Bills, routing their AFC East rivals 48-28 in the season opener Sunday.
Rex Ryan passed on a chance to say, “We told you so” to all of his team’s critics and doubters. So did Sanchez, and Tebow, too.
“Vindication, chip on our shoulder, maybe that’s not the right things,” Ryan said. “We were just excited to play.”
And, they looked it.Sanchez threw three touch-
down passes, including two to rookie Stephen Hill, Jeremy Kerley had a touchdown catch and a punt return for a score, and Antonio Cromartie took one of New York’s three inter-ceptions of Ryan Fitzpatrick to the end zone.
“It’s a great win, there’s no doubt about it,” Sanchez said. “But, we’ve got lots of work to do.”
That’s from a team — labeled by some a “circus” for its penchant for making offsea-son headlines, namely acquir-ing Tebow — that had many wondering what to expect after the first-team offense failed to score a touchdown in the first three games of the preseason.
“It looked like we were making up for lost time there,” Sanchez said.
Added Kerley: “We knew what we could do. We just showed the world
today.”There were plenty of touch-
downs in this one for the Jets, who set the franchise mark for most points in a season opener on Shonn Greene’s late 1-yard scoring run.
“He definitely turned it on today,” Kerley said of Sanchez. “I think there’s always a big target on Mark’s back and I think he likes it. He’s a guy we trust and know what he’s capable each week, and he showed it today.”
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Vick rallies Eagles past Browns 17-16
CLEVELAND (AP) — Even after his heroics saved Philadelphia from embarrass-ment, Michael Vick still had escape on his mind.
“Oh, man,” the quarter-back said. “I gotta get out of Cleveland.”
The Eagles hardly soared, but flew away with a win anyway.
Overcoming four intercep-tions — and nearly a fifth — by throwing a 4-yard touch-down pass to tight end Clay Harbor with 1:18 left, Vick rallied the penalty-prone Eagles to a n e r v e - r a c k i n g , 17-16 win over the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.
With his team trailing 16-10, Vick marched them 91 yards for the go-ahead score on his career-high 56th pass. Before that, the superstar played poor-ly and showed major rustiness after getting just 12 snaps dur-ing the preseason because of injuries.
But when it mattered most, Vick came through, and the Eagles, who hurt themselves with five turnovers and 12 pen-alties, prevailed.
“I wasn’t going to disappoint
my coaches and I wasn’t going to disappoint my teammates,” Vick said. “Whatever it took, I was going to get it done.”
Vick went 29 of 56 for 317 yards and threw two TDs, his first to Jeremy Maclin for 18 yards in the final minute of the first half. But besides those two passes, there were moments when Vick forced passes and looked more like a rookie than a four-time Pro Bowler.
On the play before his TD pass to Harbor, Vick underthrew Maclin and was nearly intercepted by rook-ie linebacker L.J. Fort, who let the
ball and game slip through his hands.
“He threw it right to me,” said Fort, who picked Vick off in the first half. “I should have made that play, definitely.”
But in the end, Vick was the one who made the biggest plays.
“I thought he was rusty,” Eagles coach Andy Reid said. “But he kept competing, kept shooting. He’s our quarterback and he had to work through it. He had to play, had to endure and had to tough it out.”
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BACK OF THE PACK
Red shirt junior running back Martin Hyppolite runs down field and avoids an N.C State player, in UConn’s first loss of the season to the N.C State Wolfpack in front of 34,202 fans at Rentschler field.
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UConn falls to N.C. State at home for first loss of the seasonBy Dan AgabitiSports Editor
Men’s Soccer remains unbeaten with tie
The University of Connecticut men’s soccer team is still undefeated after avoiding losses in both of their weekend matches. Each needed extra time to be decid-ed, with UConn defeating the University of Washington 1-0 on Friday and drawing 1-1 with Boston University Sunday.
It was a battle of the Huskies on Friday, as UConn took on Washington in Fox Soccer Channel’s NCAA soccer match of the week. Sophomore forward Allando Matheson was rewarded for his recent excellent play with a starting spot up front, part-nering Mamadou Doudou Diouf in a 4-4-2 forma-tion. Washington brought an extremely direct style of play with them from the west coast, catching the East Coast
Huskies off-guard with such physical play.
“All around it was a big strong team, they play direct the whole game, that’s not our style of play but we react-ed to it and tried to impose
our play,” said senior captain Jossimar Sanchez.
UConn kept possession of the ball well, but when Washington had possession they played long balls and asked questions of the UConn backline.
In the second half it was more of the same, as UConn looked for a gap through the Washington defense on the ground while Washington looked for gaps in the air.
The match was decided in overtime, as Carlos Alvarez picked up the ball in his own half and pushed forward, beat-ing two Washington players before he was brought down as he beat a third defender.
A red card was shown and UConn had a free kick 20 yards from goal.
Max Wasserman and Alverez both stood over the ball, but Wasserman curled the free kick into the net, giv-ing UConn the win 1-0
“Carlos set the ball up, we
were both kind of looking at the wall and I saw that the far post was open and I told Carlos I wanted it, and kind of felt confident in the kick and went for it, and it went right where I wanted it to go. I was happy with
it,” said Carlos Alverez about Wasserman’s goal.
In the second match of the weekend, UConn took on Boston University in a 1-1 draw.
Huskies need to stick together
What do you say after a game like Saturday’s?
What do you say after a game where the Huskies played such great defense all game? Heck, until the very end of the game, after Chandler Whitmer had been sacked for what felt like the 58th time (but was only the third) on a fourth down with the game on the line, the defense was unrelenting. There was lit-erally nothing but pride on the line and the defense was in beast mode.
It was an amazing sight to behold. It truly was. The UConn defense was all over the field, playing like this would be its last game. Linebacker Yawin Smallwood had 14 tackles and defensive end Jesse Joseph had eight of his own including a sack.
Sio Moore knows it, too. He knows the Huskies’ defense wasn’t just an apparition that appeared against a weak oppo-nent during the UMass game last Thursday night.
“We’re a good defense,” Moore said after the game. “It doesn’t matter the opponent or who we play or what the scenar-io or situation is. We’re a good defense. We’ve built that into what we do and how we do it.”
But on one play, a cornerback was caught out of position. On one play, the pass rusher didn’t get to the passer soon enough. On one play, the safety didn’t get over fast enough.
On another play, a 3rd down and 15 no less, the Huskies got a little bit sloppy and, to give credit to the Wolfpack, they made the Huskies pay for it with a 46-yard touchdown, making the game 10-0 with 8:34 to go in the third quarter.
At that point, the game was over. It really was. I don’t think there was a single person in Rentschler Field actively watch-ing that game, who didn’t actu-ally play for the Huskies, who thought UConn was capable of scoring more than 10 points for the rest of that game.
In the fourth quarter, UConn made a small comeback after a dumped off pass to Lyle McCombs, who took the ball 43 yards up the field and then McCombs ran into the endzone.
Whoopee, it was 10-7, but nobody wanted to get back into the game, if they’re willing to be honest. Why would anyone have had reason to believe that UConn had a chance at win-ning? All the Huskies had done for the past three quarters had trained us to believe that the offense couldn’t get it done.
The entire game was one step forward, two steps back. My gosh, was it brutal to watch.
Afterward, Pasqualoni was confused and aggravated by the way the offense played.
“It seemed like every time we got going, something hap-pened,” Pasqualoni said. “It was just so frustrating not to be able to get things going.”
As a fan, it’s easy to point fingers. It’s so easy to blame the offense and say, “Put in McEntee!” or “mix up the offensive line!” It’s even easy to peg the blame on the corner that got burnt deep, on the safety that didn’t help out as quickly as he could have, or on the pass rusher that wasn’t a split second sooner in his pursuit.
UConn players can’t do that, though.
This team needs to stay together, despite the offensive woes. After the game, Ryan Wirth was spot on in his analy-
Sophmore forward Allando Matheson works around a BU defensemen Kevin Scheller/The Daily Campus
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By Miles DeGraziaStaff Writer
» FIELD HOCKEY
Junior Marie Elena Bolles proved to be a force to be reckoned with this weekend, leading the No. 7 UConn field hockey team to wins against Michigan and Albany.
Bolles scored two goals on Saturday afternoon against No. 15 Michigan, including the game-win-ner with just over seven minutes remaining on an assist from sopho-more Chloe Hunnable. The goal was Bolles’ third game-winner in four games on the season.
Junior goalkeeper Sarah Mansfield was a solid presence in the net for the Huskies once
again, allowing Michigan just one goal while making six saves on the afternoon. UConn outshot the Wolverines 15-12, six of which came from the stick of Bolles.
Bolles again opened the scoring for the Huskies in Sunday’s game, as she tipped in a shot off a penalty corner from freshman Louisa Boddy just 20 minutes into the game to take a 1-0 lead over Albany.
Five minutes after halftime, Boddy was again involved in a pen-alty corner, firing another shot from the top of the circle. This time, no tip was needed as Boddy beat the Albany goalkeeper on her own to score the first goal of her career. The goal proved to be the game-winner, as the Great Danes cut the UConn lead to one with just over
five minutes remaining.Despite allowing the late goal,
Mansfield succeeded in shutting out the opposition, turning away eight shots on the afternoon and six in the second half, including an Albany scoring chance with under a minute remaining that would have tied the game. Both teams registered 12 shots on goal.
The Huskies played both games in Albany, N.Y., tallying their first neutral field and away wins while improving to 4-0 on the season. The Huskies’ next game is their Big East opener against Rutgers on Saturday at home on the Sherman Family Sports Complex. Game time is set for 12 p.m.
Huskies emerge victorious on the road
A UConn field hockey player plays the ball in a recent game against Penn State.TroyCaldeira/The Daily Campus
By Matt StypulkoskiStaff Writer
Small mistakes were what killed the Huskies in a big game.
In a difficult 10-7 loss to the North Carolina State Wolfpack, the little things, things that coach-es take for granted yet go crazy when they don’t happen, didn’t show up.
In the first 90 seconds of the post-game press conference, UConn coach Paul Pasqualoni used the word “frus-trating” to describe the game four times in about 90 seconds.
That frustration for Pasqualoni kicked in pretty early on and it played out like a scene from a head coach’s worst nightmare.
On the first UConn possession, the Huskies started off on their own 39 yard line. Tailback Lyle McCombs started things off with a five yard run then quarter-back Chandler Whitmer
found tight end Ryan Griffin for a four-yard gain. On third and one, the Huskies were unable to con-vert and had to punt the ball away. Three and out.
On the second UConn possession, the Huskies started on their own 48 yard-line. Whitmer stepped up and rushed for five yards as the pocket collapsed and then McCombs picked up one yard, making it third and four from the NC State 46. Then Kevin Friend was called for illegal proce-dure and on the third and long, Whitmer’s pass
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