This article is part of a series highlighting this year’s seniors who have outstanding achievements in their under-grad or outstanding plans for their post-grad.

For the first time in over 10 years UConn landscape archi-tecture seniors were given a real assignment for their capstone project rather than creating their own hypotheti-cal one. The 14 seniors are each creating a design for one aspect of a greater redesign plan for Riverside Park in New London.

Senior Tanner Burgdorf chose to tackle the low-income housing issue in the city.

“The design is housing that will make low-income resi-dents feel pride. By bettering people’s sur-rounding envi-ronments, those people become e m p o w e r e d , ” said Burgdorf.

Although the project is long-term, the student’s designs will “definitely” be part of the master plan for the park, said Executive Director of New London Landmarks Sandra Chalk. New London Landmarks is a preserva-tion agency in New London handling the redesign of the park, said Chalk. Department

professor Peter Miniutti said, “Tanner’s work itself is very long-term, but there is a very good chance his ideas will happen in the next four to five years.”

The redesign plan in Riverside Park began when the U.S. Coast Guard wanted to expand its facilities into the park and New London Landmarks challenged its proposal, saying that the park was important because it was the only natural landscape left in New London, said Chalk. The vote went into referen-dum and the city voted to keep the park by 17 votes.

Miniutti had been involved with New London Landmarks

as one of his projects through the University of Connecticut’s R e s e a r c h and Design Collaborative ( C R D C ) , a group of p r o f e s s o r s that share their exper-tise with the state, he said. After Chalk c o n t a c t e d

Miniutti about the park proj-ect, he decided to get his students involved. “The stu-dents work brings a new ener-gy to the city,” he said.

Burgdorf said the goal for his design is to create a neighborhood feel. When the project was presented to the students in Feb., he looked at census information

on unemployment, median income, diversity, and spend-ing potential to determine the areas that were especially impoverished. He went to the determined location, adjacent to Riverside Park, and under Interstate 95, and talked to the ex-boyfriend of a resident that lived in the area. He told Burgdorf that people in the area feel isolated, they do not walk around, and do not leave their building unless they have to.

The land he is working with involves two existing, parallel streets. He said the current houses are unorganized and “plopped down” away from the streets. He will propose to move the houses closer to the street so residents feel like they are driving through a neighborhood. The space between the streets will serve as a large, shared backyard, where he said he might add a community garden.

Burgdorf’s plans are com-municated through several drawings of layouts for the community in “plan view,” which he says is basically a birds-eye-view of the land.

According to Burgdorf, the concerns for the proj-ect are the impact of I-95 being so close and long-term maintenance, said Burgdorf. “It’s one of those things where I have really tried to think about it, though, and considered the risks of all decisions.” Burgdorf said although historically people associate New London low-income housing areas with

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UConn hosted its first Fresh Check Day at the Student Union quad attracting large crowds of students to learn more about the mental health resources offered on campus.

Large blow up tents were set up with various booths that offered students information and relaxing activities they could participate in. The yoga tent offered to teach different techniques to reduce stress. There was The Conduit Center where students could receive a vibrational massage using gongs and other low-key instru-ments.

“We are providing tools, options and starting conversa-tions on mental health,” said Leah Nelson the outreach coor-dinator. “We are showcasing the available resources for stu-dents on campus. We are send-ing a positive message on men-tal health since it’s not often talked about in an open way.”

Nelson said her hope is with all the positive feedback this event would be a great fit for Spring Weekends in the future and shows that the university cares for its students. Fresh Check Day began at Eastern Connecticut State University last year and another one was

held for the town of Durango, Colorado. It showcases tools, coping methods and programs offered to students if they feel their mental health is at stake.

“I think it’s (Fresh Check Day) important to show that we have a caring communi-ty,” said Betsey J. Cracco the Director of Counseling and Mental Health Services. “There

are many resources and it’s a good reminder to take care of yourself especially this time of the year.”

The event also offered booths for on campus groups such as Active Minds, Chill Out Zone, presented by the department of wellness and prevention servic-es and a lot more. Each booth had its own methods to deal

with stress. The Chill Out Zone gave out free earplugs, candy and other items while other tents gave away free t-shirts and various items. Free food was given out and students could participate in a raffle that had large prizes if they collect-ed a certain number of stamps from each of the tents. Also there were massage tents and

the Benton booth had students use darts to pop balloons full of paint onto a large canvas.

“It’s a good place to chill out and do really cool things,” said Alex Kinstler, 2nd-semes-ter mechanical engineering and German double major. “It’s a great way to spend a lazy Saturday.”

In the Service Members tent students could write messages to soldiers currently serving and learn about the issues that student service members face on daily basis.

“When you are on active duty your moral can go low especially in a war zone,” said student veteran Matt Anderson, 3rd-semester pathos biology major. “Letters from home can keep you grounded.”

In another tent presented by all the cultural centers ‘Love is Louder’ students could write love is louder than a certain negative thing that’s been on their mind. They also had the option to make a short video explaining what they think love is louder than.

“I think it’s (Self Check Day) is a source of positivity for stu-dents,” said Khadijah Hayes, 2nd-semester biology major. “It eliminates all the negative thoughts.”

UConn’s mental health services reaches out to students at Fresh Check Day

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Jordan Burnham is pictured above discussing his survival of a nine story fall and suicide attempt at “Fresh Check Day.” The event also included tents and booths that offered students information about mental health services Saturday.

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“By bettering people’s sur-rounding envi-ronments, those people become empowered.”

Tanner BurgdorfUConn senior

New York is proposing to raise the age limit to purchase cigarettes from 18 to 21. If this were to pass New York would be the first major city to make the legal age for buying cigarettes the same as alcohol. The measure would not make possession or actu-ally smoking illegal for those under 21.

New York City Council Speaker and mayoral candi-date Christine Quinn believes that the measure will keep people from picking up the habit of smoking and save lives.

“I don’t think it will stop people from smoking at a younger age,” said Craig Genz, a 4th-semester psy-chology major. “It’s the same thing with alcohol. I’m not 21 but I could easily get it. If people want to smoke they’re going to find a way to get it.”

Quinn told The New York Times that there was evidence that the majority of smokers started before age 21.

Ashley Mills, a 2nd-semes-ter human development and family studies and criminal just major, found that many people she knows started smoking at a young age.

“I dealt with the loss of a family member that started smoking at a very young age,” she said.

Mills feels that this pro-posal could prevent smoke-related health issues.

Ali Gadoush, a 6th-semes-ter allied health major, started

smoking when he was 18. He said, “It was easy since that was the legal age. If it was at 21 I probably couldn’t have bought them, wouldn’t have smoked and probably wouldn’t have started smok-ing at 21.”

Logan Mammen, a 4th-semester allied health major agrees that there is a dif-ference in decision making between 18 and 21 year olds. “Your frontal lobe is not fully developed until your twen-ties,” he said. “At 18 you’re legally an adult but you can-not do a lot of things like buy alcohol or get a gun permit.”

The New York proposal has been criticized for its inten-tions. Officials have advo-cated for the age limit based on public health initiatives, but there may also be politi-cal motives at hand. When a similar proposal had been mentioned in 2006, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg was opposed to it. A spokes-woman said that he has changed his mind because recently New York’s youth smoking rate has not seen any changes and there is research that suggests a correlation between a higher legal smok-ing age and lower smoking rates, according to The New York Times.

Many New Yorkers are wor-ried about the effects that a higher age limit for purchas-ing cigarettes will have on business. Quinn has tried to appease these fears by saying that the loss in tax revenue will be made up in money

New York to raise cigarette purchasing age, UConn students respondBy Domenica GhanemCampus Correspondent

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Conn. Republicans spar again over ethics proposals

HARTFORD (AP) — A Connecticut Republican legislative leader on Sunday criticized his party’s 2010 candidate for governor — and a pos-sible rival next year— over ethics legislation.

House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero Jr. of Norwalk, appearing on WFSB-TV’s “Face the State,” said Tom Foley fails to understand how the General Assembly works as he pushes legislation that would prevent lawmakers, public employees and their immediate family from receiving $1,000 or more from state contractors, public employee unions or lobbying firms.

“What’s somewhat surprising to some is the fact that after a run for governor and an intense campaign that four years have passed and obvi-ously he wants to take a second shot at it and he’s shown some degree of naivete and even ignorance with regard to the process,” Cafero said. “And that’s concerning, especially for one who would hope to be gover-nor of the state.”

Foley said in a telephone interview that if his demand for stronger eth-ics rules are naive, then “so be it.”

“I got a lot of pushback at the Capitol for my call for high ethical stan-dards,” he said. “It’s not a lack of understanding of how things work.”

Foley and Cafero could battle each other for the Republican nomina-tion for governor next year. They say they are considering running, but that it’s too early to declare.

Cafero said Connecticut’s part-time legislators who are lawyers like him could be snagged unfairly by rules proposed by Foley preventing lawmakers from receiving $1,000 or more from contractors or lobbying firms.

The bill died in the General Assembly’s Planning and Development Committee following a contentious hearing where Foley managed to offend members of his own party after accusing lawmakers of turning a blind eye to the need for tougher conflict of interest laws.

Conn. warrants to seize weapons increasing

HARTFORD (AP) — Warrants to temporarily seize weapons from individuals who are a threat to themselves or others have been rising in Connecticut, even before the killings last December of 20 school children and six administrators in Newtown.

The New Haven Register reports (http://bit.ly/ZWX2cb) that more than 2,000 weapons were seized in the 10 years since October 1999 when state law took effect following the killings of five people at the Connecticut State Lottery headquarters in 1998.

The courts approved 274 warrants through the end of 2008. Another 373 were approved through 2012.

Michael Lawlor, the state’s undersecretary for criminal justice policy and planning, requested an update showing that 256 warrants are pro-jected for 2013.

He attributes the increase to the Newtown killings and a growing awareness of the law among police.

Up in the air with the Life Star crew

HARTFORD (AP) — Fifteen hundred feet above the Connecticut River valley, neighborhoods look like they’ve been stolen from a game board, the “T’’ on the Trinity College athletic field plucked from a classroom alphabet, the Travelers Tower in the distance built of toy bricks.

People below us scurry from house to yard, car to store, their movements visible but faces unidentifiable. Traffic moves as if car-ried along on a conveyor belt and our shadow moves with it.

Those on the ground probably notice the helicopter. Maybe they wonder where we’re headed or why we’re out; maybe they say a little prayer.

The emblems on either side are a give-away.We’re aboard Life Star.Twenty years ago, Hartford Hospital’s air medical transport pro-

gram became the sixth member of my immediate family when my father, Edward Phillips, accepted a position as a pilot seven years into the program’s existence.

We plan family events around his seven-days-on/seven-days-off schedule, postpone dinners until 7 p.m. or later when he gets home, keep quiet if he needs an afternoon nap before a night shift.

The concept of what he does is pretty simple to me. He flies. He’s flown helicopters my entire life, corporate and military. In the health care field, it’s straightforward: fly the aircraft to the scene of an accident or the rooftop of another hospital, bring in advanced medical care and shuttle everyone where they need to go quicker than ground transport can offer.

But understanding what goes on in between flights, what deter-mines the feasibility of a flight, how it feels to take off and land isn’t something this daughter thought much about until she grew up.

This month, Dad indulged that curiosity and allowed me to shad-ow him for eight hours of his 12.5-hour shift in a Take Your Child to Work Day sort of way.

The prospect of flying alongside him was there, although not a guarantee depending on weather and if a call came in. Sitting with him in a cockpit is something we hadn’t done in more than 30 years — and as a 5-year-old, this daughter remembers only see-ing the treetops under her feet and eating a peanut butter and Fluff sandwich for lunch.

Graduating seniors plan to rebuild park in New London, people’s lives

crime, it was not one of his major concerns because the majority of people that live in the area are families.

Burgdorf said he thinks the most likely possibility will be to get funding from the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. One of the properties he is look-ing at is already owned by the federal organization. New London Housing Authorities maintains the property, but HUD subsidizes it. Because the government owns one of the properties he is consider-ing in his design, and there is

a need for new, low-income housing in New London, Burgdorf said his plan could be something HUD considers. He called the situation the “best case scenario.”

Burgdorf is also wait-ing for another project to be funded. He was the winner of the Musgrave Memorial Garden Design Competition last year that was voted on by a committee represent-ing the School of Agriculture and Natural Resources. Depending on when funding becomes available, his design will be installed outside the school, Burgdorf said.

At UConn Burgdorf also works and lives at Spring Valley Farm, a program con-nected to Eco House. He said working at the farm gives him a stronger grasp of landscape and soil, which adds to his studies.

Burgdorf will present his project on Thursday, May 2, sometime between 7-10 p.m. in Henry Ruthuen Monteith Building, room 307. Miniutti said those interested in attend-ing should email at peter.min-iutti@uconn.edu to confirm.

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saved by health costs.“People legally can’t buy

alcohol until they’re 21,” said Mills. “It’s something people will just get used to.”

Many UConn students lik-ened the New York proposal to the proposed smoking ban of Michael J. Eagen, direc-tor of the Office of Faculty and Staff Labor Relations and Counsel at UConn. They worry that if this proposal in New York were to pass, it might give more support to the proposed smoking ban on campus.

“I think it’s a terrible idea,” Steven Pelzman, a 4th-semes-ter psychology and economics major, said. “It impedes on peoples choices about their own lives.”

He went on to point out that even if smoking were banned on campus, it would not stop people from continu-ing to do it. “If you’re addict-ed to something you’re not just going to be able to stop because the rules changed,” he said.

New Yorkers and UConn students alike have found new smoking proposals to be overreaching. Others believe that there are more important issues to be taken care of in the city, such as high crime rates.

“Cigarettes are one of the leading causes of death,” said Genz, “so it’s important, but changing the age limit doesn’t stop people from getting ciga-rettes and banning smoking on campus is not going to stop anyone from smoking.”

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Dead basking shark washes

ashore in Misquamicut

WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) — A 28-foot-long dead basking shark has washed ashore on a Rhode Island beach.

The Day of New London (Conn.) reports that a homeowner in the Misquamicut beach area of Westerly reported the shark to police on Sunday morning.

Biologists with the Northeast Fisheries Science Center are expected to perform a necropsy to determine the cause of death.

The shark has been attract-ing curious onlookers who have stopped to take photos and touch it.

According to Mystic Aquarium, which sent staff members to the scene, basking sharks are giant fish that feed on nothing but plankton. They are common in New England waters.

Boston bomb suspect in small cell with steel doorAYER, Mass. (AP) — The

Boston Marathon bombing sus-pect is being held in a small cell with a steel door at a federal medical detention center about 40 miles outside the city, a fed-eral official said Saturday.

Federal Medical Center Devens spokesman John Collauti described the condi-tions under which 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was being

held in the Ayer facility after being moved there from a hos-pital Friday.

Tsarnaev was injured during a police chase Thursday in which his brother, also a suspect in the bombing, was fatally wounded.

Collauti said in a telephone interview that Tsarnaev is in secure housing where authori-ties can monitor him. His cell has a solid steel door with an

observation window and a slot for passing food and medica-tion.

Collauti wouldn’t discuss spe-cific details related to Tsarnaev, but said that typically medical workers making rounds each shift monitor the inmates. He said guards also keep an eye on some cells with video cameras.

Also, inmates in the more restrictive section do not have

access to TVs or radios, but can read books and other materials, he said.

“Really this type of facili-ty is fully capable of handling him and it’s not that much of an inconvenience because it’s more or less business as usual,” Collauti said.

Tsarnaev’s mother said the bombing allegations against her son are lies.

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Some are overlooked in US immigration overhaul SAN DIEGO (AP) — Carlos Gonzalez has

lived nearly all his 29 years in a country he considers home but now finds himself on the wrong side of the border — and the wrong side of a proposed overhaul of the U.S. immi-gration system that would grant legal status to millions of people.

Gonzalez was deported to Tijuana, Mexico, from Santa Barbara in December, one of nearly 2 million removals from the United States since Barack Obama was first elected president.

“I have nobody here,” said Gonzalez, who serves breakfasts in a Tijuana migrant shelter while nursing a foot that fractured in 10 places when he jumped the border fence in a failed attempt to rejoin his mother, two brothers and extended family in California. “The United States is all I know.”

While a Senate bill introduced earlier this month would bring many of the estimated 11 million people living in the U.S. illegally out of the shadows, not everyone would benefit. They include anyone who arrived after Dec. 31, 2011, those with gay partners legally in the U.S., siblings of U.S. citizens and many deportees such as Gonzalez.

With net immigration from Mexico near zero, the number who came to the U.S. since January 2012 is believed to be relatively small, possibly a few hundred thousand. They include Isaac Jimenez, 45, who paid a smug-gler $4,800 to guide him across the California

desert in August to reunite with his wife and children in Fresno.

“My children are here, everything is here for me,” Jimenez said from Fresno. He lived in the U.S. illegally since 1998 and returned voluntarily to southern Mexico last year to see his mother before she died.

So far, advocates on the left have shown limited appetite to fight for expanded cov-erage as they brace for a tough battle in Congress. Some take aim at other provisions of the sweeping legislation, like a 13-year track to citizenship they consider too long and $4.5 billion for increased border security.

Mississippi man charged in suspicious letters case

BRANDON, Miss. (AP) — The arrest of a 41-year-old Mississippi martial arts instructor

in a case of poison-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and others capped a week in which

investigators initially zeroed in on a rival of James Everett Dutschke, then decided they had the wrong man.

Federal authorities arrested Dutschke early Saturday at his home in Tupelo. He was charged with “knowingly developing, pro-ducing, stockpiling, transferring, acquiring, retaining and possess-ing a biological agent, toxin and delivery system, for use as a weap-on, to wit: ricin.”

U.S. attorney Felicia Adams and Daniel McMullen, the FBI agent in charge in Mississippi, made the announcement in a news release. Dutschke is expected to appear Monday in U.S. District Court in Oxford.

Authorities said the hunt for a suspect revealed tie after small-town tie between the two men being investigated and the 80-year-old county judge who, along with Obama and U.S. Sen. Roger

Wicker of Mississippi, was among the targets of the letters.

Dutschke’s house, business and vehicles in Tupelo were searched earlier in the week, often by crews in hazardous materials suits. He also had come under surveillance.

Dutschke’s attorney, Lori Nail Basham, said she had no comment. Earlier this week she said that Dutschke was cooperating fully with investigators and Dutschke has insisted he had nothing to do with the letters. He faces up to life in prison, if convicted.

He already had legal problems. Earlier this month, he pleaded not guilty in state court to two child molestation charges involving three girls younger than 16. He also was appealing a conviction on a different charge of indecent exposure. He told The Associated Press earlier this week that his lawyer told him not to comment on those cases.

In this April 18, 2013, photo, migrants and recent deportees from the U.S. wait in line to wash their hands during mealtime at the Padre Chava migrant shelter in the northern border city of Tijuana. Deportations topped 400,000 in fiscal 2012, more than double from seven years earlier, sending Mexicans to border cities like Tijuana where they often struggle to find work.

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In this Tuesday April 23, 2013 file photo, Everett Dutschke stands in the street near his home in Tupelo, Miss., and waits for the FBI to arrive and search his home in connection with the sending of poisoned letters to President Barack Obama and others.

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XALAPA, Mexico (AP) — Officials in Veracruz state say they know who killed Regina Martinez. The muckraking reporter, found beaten and suf-focated in her house, was just the victim of a robbery, accord-ing to prosecutors and a local court.

But many of her colleagues don’t believe it. The man con-victed of the crime was tor-tured into a confession, they allege. And the magazine she works for says state officials discussed sending police across the country in an attempt to hunt down and seize another reporter who raised questions about the death, which is one of a growing list of killings that have put Mexico among the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist.

Some 400 people gath-ered Sunday in the center of Veracruz’s state capital, Xalapa, for a march to demand justice in the Martinez case and an end to attacks on the press. Many held up posters suggest-ing the government had a hand in the case, some describing it as “a state killing.” Dozens also protested in Mexico City.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said in a February report that 12 Mexican journal-ists went missing in 2006-2012 and 14 were killed because of their work. Mexico’s federal Human Rights Commission lists 81 journalists killed since 2000.

Martinez was the Xalapa cor-respondent for Proceso, one of Mexico’s most respected inves-tigative newsmagazines, and she was one of the few in the state who continued to work on stories related to drug cartels. Her last story for the magazine was about the arrest of nine police officers accused of links to traffickers.

State officials accused a man named Jorge Antonio Hernandez Silva of taking part in the killing, saying it came during a robbery, and he was sentenced this month

to 38 years in prison. But he asserted he was forced to con-fess through several days of torture, and Proceso’s editors don’t believe the killing has been solved, noting that none of the fingerprints found at the scene of the killing match those of Hernandez Silva.

“Those who are truly guilty have not been identified,” the magazine said in an online statement.

Mike O’Connor, Mexico rep-resentative for the Committee to Protect Journalists, said fed-eral officials have doubts, too.

“The federal government is not convinced that Hernandez Silva is guilty because a very active investigation by the fed-eral government is continuing,” he said.

Proceso issued a statement this month alleging that some current and former state offi-cials had met to plan the capture of a reporter who questioned the verdict and “to do him harm if he resists.” Veracruz Gov. Javier Duarte later met with editors of Proceso and promised an exhaustive inves-tigation.

His Gulf coast state, plagued by clashes among powerful drug cartels, has been one of the most dangerous for jour-nalists. Twelve reporters have been slain or gone missing there since the start of 2010, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

Less than a week after Martinez was slain, three local reporters were dismembered, stuffed into black plastic bags and dumped into a waste canal, apparently by people linked to drug gangs that demand either favorable coverage or none at all.

Among those still missing is Sergio Landa Rosado, who vanished on Jan. 23, his first day back at work at Diario Cardel in the town of Cardel after being away for more than a month because of an earlier kidnapping that followed his reporting on the slaying of a taxi driver.

Mexican journalists march against attacks on press

As time goes by, the exams, the classes and the schoolwork largely slip from memory. What will I actually remember about

junior year?I remember the Student Union cutting

power to the television where dozens of stu-dents had crowded around at exactly midnight

on Election Day. “But the President is about to give his victory speech!” “Too bad, we’re closing.”

I remember turning 21 and legally gambling for the first time at Foxwoods with my friend Joel. He made a profit of four cents. I made a profit of 20 cents.

Looks like I won.I remember ice skating with Liz, Tyler,

Kim, Jess, Joe and Rachel during “open skate” at the Mark Edward Frietas Ice Forum. It took about half an hour of slipping and falling before Tyler informed me that your ice skate size is actually about two numbers smaller than your shoe size.

I remember watching terrible horror movies late at night with Loumarie and Lisa, thinking that perhaps the shared experience of watch-ing a teenage girl construct a new best friend out of body parts belonging to neighbors she murdered was not the happiest way we could have spent the evening. The next weekend we went to see “Wreck-It Ralph.”

I remember getting the call offering an internship next summer at USA Today.

Excitedly I called my paternal grandparents to tell them. Grandma: “Oh, congratulations! That’s such wonderful news!” Grandpa: “Have you been saving up your money? Washington DC can be pretty expensive.”

I remember celebrating outside Gampel Pavilion with thousands of fellow students after the women won the national basketball championship, which would have seemed like the best party ever if only the crowd hadn’t been double the size following the men’s championship two years ago.

I remember hosting my weekly comedy talk show “The UConn Tonight Show” on UCTV: surprising Governor Malloy with his college yearbook picture, convincing the State Archaeologist and the UConn Co-Op CEO to rap battle each other and asking out Miss Connecticut on the air.

I remember the first assignment in “Investigative Reporting” with journalism Professor Dufresne: “Find out as much about me as you can using legal methods.” For our next assignment we had to do the same for a different professor. I did, and now this semester I’m taking that professor’s class. I’m tempted to ask how his 13-year-old daughter Ashley is doing, but so far I haven’t.

I remember attending amazing talks and guest speakers: Al Franken, Bob Woodward (at ECSU), Doris Kearns Goodwin, Coach Ken Carter, Michael Shermer, Jody Williams and David Niose, to name the more prominent ones. Of course, there was also Ray Bendici lecturing on “Jerks of Connecticut History” and Matt Mogk of the Zombie Research Society. You need balance in life.

I remember going with John, Dave and Dave’s friend whose name I don’t remember for eight consecutive hours of an “Avengers”-themed movie marathon. Afterwards I won

a life-sized cardboard cutout of Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury. It’s still in my room and tends to scare people who walk in.

I remember heading down to Oklahoma on an alternative spring break with a dozen stu-dents I barely knew. Just by chance, the one I happened to talk to the least was probably Laura. We were randomly seated next to each other on the plane back, and we talked for hours. Turns out she writes some of the best short stories you’ve ever read.

I remember knocking on my suite-mate John’s door to ask if he had a ruler I could borrow, an encounter which somehow inad-vertently led to us playing several hours of “Batman: Arkham Asylum” on his Xbox. Still not quite sure how that happened.

I remember my friend Sam being appoint-ed head of the national organization Students for Sensible Drug Policy. How were you picked, I asked? “There was a drug test,” Sam answered. “They only offer you the job if you don’t pass.”

I remember spending hours during a late September afternoon on the Enfield Hall third floor patio (my relaxation spot of choice) blissfully reading my book in a T-shirt and shorts, knowing that it would be at least six months before I could do that again.

I remember the Husky logo getting rede-signed, spawning heated arguments with friends about whether the change was posi-tive or negative. In the words of psychologist Amos Tversky: “I’ve been in a thousand arguments over this topic. I’ve won them all, and I’ve convinced no one.”

The Fox News contributor Suzanne Venker, whose articles on the news sta-tion’s website have only

generated controversy since her November article, “The War on Men,” has strongly argued that feminists have caused the decline

of marriage rates. Venker is not the first, and probably won’t be the

last, person who will take a look at the women of this world and ask, “Why did you get a job?” However, I want to focus on what feminism really has to say about marriage, and why Venker’s sup-posed “War on Men” is nothing more than drivel.

First, let’s just talk about feminism in general, because as always, it seems we may need a refresher. I will turn to the great bell hooks, who wrote in “Feminism is for Everybody,” ““Simply put, feminism is a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression...it [does] not imply that men were the enemy...[it] implies that all sexist thinking and action is the problem, whether those who perpetuate it are female or male, child or adult.” There, I said it: I’m not a feminist because I think I’m better than a man. I’m not, but I am equal to him, even if society seems to refuse.

Feminism is not against all marriage. The marriage Venker appears to be advocating is one where I stick to my gender role, and to surrender to my feminin-ity which “means letting your man be the man despite the fact you’ve proved you’re his equal.” Venker’s marriage is patriarchal, where the man is the main authority figure in the relationship, and asserts that feminists wants a marriage that is matriarchal. I assert that the ideal “feminist” marriage is an egalitarian one – a marriage of equals. The language of femi-nism is important to remove sexism in patriarchal marriage so we can have that marriage of equals.

The marriage that Venker speaks of is a “marriage [that] is about embracing human nature, rather than trying to make the sexes interchangeable in the name of equality. We don’t need a revolution to make men and women equal. They’re already equal.” I’m keeping down a little bit of laughter right now, so excuse me. Am I really equal, Venker? Because then I’ve wasted a lot of time this year proving I’m not.

Venker believes women and men have physical differences, which they do, and psycho-logical differences that make it impossible for us to be inter-

changeable. I disagree. Male and female brains do differ, but do they differ in such a way that makes it impossible for me to be or want to be an engineer or anything else a man can be? To me, there are not as many female engineers because people like Venker are telling us there shouldn’t be. While so many advocate that men and women are different, the fact is we also have a lot in common , and both men and women can make the choice of family success, career success, or even both.

“Members of both sexes excel at skills that are commonly labeled gender specific,” accord-ing to studies by WebMD, and have many brain areas in com-mon. What we’re really arguing about is whether or not gender is biological or social, and I must really advocate the latter. I just want to give you kudos that you’re using the same argument that has formerly oppressed many races.

Feminists don’t want Venker’s marriage that is patri-archal, oppressive, and sexist. Feminism doesn’t have any-thing against love because it doesn’t have anything against men as an entire gender or the idea of two equals finding an attraction. There’s nothing wrong with dong things for

each other in a loving rela-tionship, but there needs to be equality in the acts performed and the frequency of them. Venker says I’m not going to get a husband, but I don’t want that type of husband. I’d rather the boyfriend who sends me feminism articles and tells me it’s cool that I want to design roller coasters. She says I need to accept my gender role and femininity but I come from a family where my mom works as an engineer and can’t cook while my dad was a stay-at-home dad while running his own business.

What can we blame for the decline of marriage? A culture that no longer perceives pre-marital sex as wrong or mar-riage entirely necessary, and perceives relationships as dis-posable. Just don’t blame fem-inism. If anything feminism is extremely necessary for the healthiest and most beautiful of relationships and marriages, and I refuse to allow Suzanne Venker the right to tarnish the name of feminism.

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

Jesse Rifkin, Associate Commentary EditorChris Kempf, Weekly Columnist

John Nitowski, Weekly ColumnistSam Tracy, Weekly Columnist

What I will remember from junior year

Neuharth legacy important for the future of media

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Staf f Columnist Victoria Kallsen is a 4th-semester mechanical engi -neering major. She can be reached at Victoria.Kallsen@UConn.edu.

A s soc ia t e Commenta r y Ed i t o r Jes se R i f k in i s a 6t h - semes te r jou rna l i sm ma jo r. He can be reached a t Jes se.R i f k in@UConn.edu.

The Daily Campus editorial is the official opinion of the newspaper and its editorial board. Commentary columns express opinions held solely by the author and do not in any way reflect the official opinion of The Daily Campus.

Al Neuharth, an American news business-man, author and columnist born in Eureka South Dakota, founded USA Today, one of the nation’s most widely circulated newspapers, on

September 15, 1982. Neuharth has been single handedly responsible for bringing the news to the United States for several years as a result of his work at USA Today. Unfortunately, on April 19, 2013, the businessman and newsman passed away in his home in Cocoa Beach Fla., ending a legacy of commitment to news and journalism that existed almost his entire life.

In addition to changing the way that newspapers caught readers’ eyes with the bright colors and big headlines of USA Today, which helped newspapers compete with television for several years, he helped found the Freedom Forum in 1991, a forum devoted to championing freedom of speech and the freedom of the press.

Furthering his commitment to the history of journal-ism in America, Neuharth was responsible for founding Newseum, a national archive of newspapers and the his-tory of journalism for several years. When the history of journalism remembers its titans, the conversation is usu-ally dominated by the great reporters of the day. Murrow, Rather, Cronkite and Bly are the go-to names. However, oftentimes it is forgotten that a newspaper is nothing without the great minds of the era understanding what is needed to make a publication successful and to allow it to bring the news to so many people. Reporters are noth-ing without a publication to go to and the news is nothing without an archive to teach future generations. Al Neuharth understood this and devoted his career to creating the two things that shining journalists need; a place to write and a purpose for writing.

It has been said that journalists are the ones who record history as it happens. Newseum and the Freedom Forum make that statement true. Furthermore, a long running and popular publication like USA Today is responsible for bringing news to so many people throughout the nation. Al Neuharth’s contribution to American history cannot be overstated.

Al Neuharth understood the necessity for newspapers and media in general in the United States. Although he has died, his legacy will continue on as USA Today continues to be one of the most well circulated newspapers in the United States, rivaled only by The Wall Street Journal. Journalism in America owes a thank you to men like Neuharth and he belongs on the same list as those men and women who have made reporting such a valuable and noble profession. Although he will be remembered as a business-man, his commitment to journalism is unparalleled.

Victoria KallsenStaff Columnist

By Jesse RifkinAssociate Commentary Editor

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UConn may be going to the AAC, but at least we know that we’re now in for some more Shabazzketball next year.

You’ve gotta love this place when it’s warm out. The jury’s still out on how I feel about you though, winter.

How awesome is it to see the Lakers go down?

25 flex passes left? Time to make up for all those favors I owe to my senior friends.

Forget whether you agree or disagree with Ms. Luby’s argu-ments. She deserves respect no matter what. Anyone (male or female) who threatens and belittles someone in such an extreme manner is PATHETIC and UNWORTHY of being part of the UConn community.

The next step for Facebook? Away messages.

I just want to announce to the world that I had the best freshman year I could have asked for. Thank you my new UConn family.

Turns out the National Guardsmen are really chill. But still, why were they on campus?

Maybe one day I’ll understand NASCAR.

I don’t know why but I just find it really funny when people tweet conversational style toward celebrities.

Sometimes you just get that insatiable craving that can only be cured with hummus.

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Passion and discrimination against big hair

The Connecticut Repertory Theatre presented the big hair and big voice ‘Hairspray.’ The 1960’s based play shows the struggles face by teenagers with discrimination with humor and loud colors. The actors appeared courtesy of the Actor’s Equity Association.

Photo courtesy of Connecictu Repatory Theatre

The opening night of the Connecticut Repertory Theatre’s rendition of Hairspray on Friday nearly filled the Harriet S. Jorgenson auditorium to capac-ity.

Comprised of nearly all UConn students, the cast per-formed flawlessly delivering a story of teenagers in the 1960’s who faced struggles of dis-crimination but overcame them through passion.

Though the majority of the cast was students, Lena Mary Amato who portrayed Tracy Turnblad, the leading role, along with Kevin Meany, who por-

trayed Tracy’s mother Edna in a Travolta-esque performance, were actors who appeared courtesy of the Actors’ Equity Association.

The Actors’ Equity Association is a labor union that represents actors to ensure that they are properly accom-modated for their performances. The AEA also assists in promot-ing actors by helping to find them roles.

Appearing actors also repre-sented by the AEA are Anthony J. Goes, Scott Ripley and Tina Fabrique.

Every performer, student or professional, did their best on Friday to recreate the tone and feel of the 60’s and undoubtedly had fun doing it.

Cast member Coles Prince said, “It’s a lot of fun, every-one’s worked so hard that when it pays off it comes out as fun.”

Despite the fact that the actors are supposedly only acting like they were having fun on stage, the truth was written all over every cast members face during each scene, they were all hav-ing fun.

But the fun was not before several hours of rehearsal a day. According to Prince, for seven weeks the cast was rehearsing four hours a day every week-day and still had an eight hour rehearsal on Saturdays. That comes to 28 hours a week, on top of being full-time students.

According to cast member Darrel Hollens, “It was all worth

it. The singing and dancing is so much fun. Just being out there and being a different person is so liberating. But the real accomplishment is getting to portray something so real.”

What Hollens meant was that the grand theme of discrimina-tion may not be as prevalent today as they were in the 60’s but it is still very real and sur-vives to our time, which is why the play is so important.

The play focuses on “The Corny Collins Show” which was inspired by “The Buddy Deane Show,” an afternoon television program locally pro-duced in Baltimore modeled after the popular national show “American Bandstand.”

“The Corny Collins Show”

and “The Buddy Dean Show” featured teenagers singing and dancing to the then new rock and roll style of music, consid-ered by most at the time to be “black music”.

The division between black and white seems to propel the passion of the stars of the show, fueling them to succeed in spite of those that oppose what they are doing, a true teenage stigma.

Director Paul Mullins beamed with enthusiasm after the show. “Our mission was to portray joy and happiness and I’m very excited by the responses from the crowd because it means we did just that,” said Mullins

By Matt Gantos Campus Correspondent

Matthew.Gantos@UConn.edu

Slim Shady laying out

his problems By Matt Gantos Campus Correspondent

One of the most iconic rap-pers of the 1990’s and 2000’s Marshall Mathers, more com-monly known as Eminem, has gone from one of a kind to run of the mill.

Okay, maybe that could be a bit of an exaggeration. Mather’s most recent music releases, the “Hell: The Sequel EP” and “Recovery,” while still are impressive in terms of lyrics and speed have lost their intensity and their story value.

There is an obvious climax in Mathers’ career, most fans believe to be after “The Eminem Show” released in 2002 sold over 25 million copies world-wide. The next album “Encore” dropped to only 18 million and the following album “Relapse” only 6 million.

It is a bit unfair to say “only 6 million” copies, but com-pared to the Marshall Mathers LP released in 2000 which sold over 27 million copies, 6 million seems a bit disappointing.

Mathers’ songs always con-tained a certain edge and contro-versy, especially in songs such as “Brain Dmamge” off of the Slim Shady LP.

The song talks about his strug-gle through childhood in a story-like pseudo-fictional manner.

Mathers’ also makes numerous references to former President Bill Clinton and his escapades as well as other numerous contem-porary events in the 90’s.

But despite controversial lyr-ics, these were the albums that sold the most records. It’s when Mathers’ began to over use his alternate personas and voices that his record sales began to dwindle.

He created a fictional char-acter named Ken Kaniff, dating back to the Slim Shady LP, who was an ambiguous pedophile, Internet predator and overall creep.

Some verses and entire songs off “Relapse” were performed in this obnoxious voice as opposed to small interjections and back-ground sound effects in the ear-lier albums.

Mathers’ knew that homopho-bia and violence would not sell for much longer, so he turned to this gimmick to see if the record would sell. It obviously did not do as well as he had hoped.

E admits that his “Relapse” album belongs in the trash. “Encore,” “Relapse,” “Recovery,” and “Hell: The Sequel” just do not seem to tell a story the same way that The Slim Shady LP and the Mathers LP could.

In those earlier albums Mathers’ could rap for an entire verse describing an event or one subject. This is what defined him as a rapper, controversial lyrics aside. It was the way in which he could not only rap and rhyme, he could tell a story that made the listener laugh at the same time.

“Recovery” especially lost this feature. Mathers’ seems to be just as any other rapper, no attention span, rhyming for the sake of rhyming, punch-line after punch-line, rather than building it up and ending with some preposterous lyric.

It’s true that we cannot listen to songs about killing hookers and doing drugs forever, but that is the wonder of recorded music, we can listen as much as we’d like to what happened in the past.

Artists change, that is inevita-ble and it would be unreasonable to ask them not to. If you want to hear some low-down and dirty white boy rap, go to YouTube and check out some tracks off the Slim Shady LP, you’ll probably be disgusted yet impressed at the same time.

Matthew.Gantos@UConn.edu

Basis, mastering all aspects of acting

If you’ve watched any mea-sure of TV in the past few years, you’ll more likely than not have seen Austin Basis bringing comic relief to the CW’s “Beauty and the Beast,” the thriller that came to TV in 2012, or “Life Unexpected,” the Liz Tigelaar-directed drama series which left the air in 2011. In both shows, Basis plays the lovable nerd, a character he understands and identifies with.

“Growing up,” said Basis, “I happened to play sports and I always had to be the best in every-thing that I did. But you get to the point in life, sports-wise, where people are getting bigger and bet-ter and you become a smaller fish in a bigger pond. I was a later bloomer, so there was a mid-teens to late-teens that was an awkward time, which are my biggest in-roads to play JT and Math [his characters in “Beauty” and “Life,” respectively].”

Although JT and Math are very similar, Basis says that challeng-es exist in portraying both men. “With JT specifically, the techni-cal jargon is not natural to me,” he said. “Half the challenge is trying to say this technical jargon in a way that implies I know it. The confidence is really tough to master.”

Basis, who had a passion for acting from a young age, described his ascent into the acting world as a natural occurrence. “Well, from an early age I wanted to act. My family are loud talkers, your typi-cal Jewish family from Brooklyn where conversations included everyone talking at the same time, doing impressions and I felt it was kind of in my blood from birth,” he said.

“I enjoyed entertaining people, dressing up in costumes, anything involving Halloween and getting on stage entertaining people. I really wanted to be a professional

baseball player; when that didn’t work out, acting was natural.”

After giving up on his dream of playing baseball for the New York Mets, Basis enrolled at Binghamton University where he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theater. When asked about advice for college students, Basis responded that getting out of one’s comfort zone and continuing one’s education are imperative.

“I would say that the number one thing to do is to push and stretch yourself to play charac-ters that you don’t necessarily see yourself in, because you’re not really going to get that opportunity in the real world,” Basis said. “Trying something new in college, when you have time to experiment, is crucial. You always find something new about yourself; if you do something you’ve already done, you’re just continuing the scene.”

“My second piece of advice is to not underestimate a well-rounded education. Whether it’s outside classes from theater or voice class-es or audition classes, do it all. You know you want as many tools and

Basis said his original dream was to be a baseball player.

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The more pressure there is for info, the more likely the mistakes

If you’re like me, two weeks ago you were plastered to your television, trying your hardest to figure out and make sense of what exactly had happened at the Boston Marathon. In the days after the tragedy that confusion didn’t subside, but that’s not because the situation remained unclear but because the media failed America in its coverage of the Boston bomb-ings.

The failures in the 24-hour news media’s mad scramble for information two weeks ago are somewhat excusable in the dis-orientation prevalent after a mas-sive explosion ripples through a crowd and then a city, but those excuses ran out around the time the smoke cleared. Instead, a combination of factors includ-ing ten minutes of information spread across an hour, negli-gence in pursuing other sto-ries and even hungry Redditors looking to stake a claim led to the worst possible result for the news media: they’re no longer trusted for news.

Outside of the New York Post, who made two inexcusable moves in declaring 12 people dead in the immediate aftermath and all but libeling two track-running teenagers on their front page two days later while never apologizing, the lion’s share of ridicule came from CNN. Some of their perceived errors were lesser so, like the immediately famous reporter waving her hand vigorously in front of the camera, that’s a known way for CNN cor-respondents to get the attention of the control room. However, CNN did indeed make a healthy amount of other errors. There was the April 17 debacle where exhausted and incredibly con-fused correspondents announced an arrest of at least one “dark-skinned male” suspect, only to

retract it an hour later, not before every major TV news outlet outside of NBC repeated their “scoop;” on April 19, a small legion of reporters across Boston and Watertown continually made faux pas with little knowledge of ongoing events, the major high-light being when Susan Candiotti described the empty streets of Boston, forcibly shut down, as “like a bomb went off.”

Ratings drive stories in the modern news climate, in which CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and HLN all compete to come out on top every night. That said, the events late on April 17 by all networks were inexcusable. As reports began to trickle out of West, Texas of a massive fertil-izer factory explosion, one source claiming as many as 70 fatali-ties and a four-block section of the town decimated, none of the news networks even mentioned the disaster, at least initially. An hour after news broke, Fox and MSNBC were still broadcast-ing late-market repeats of “The O’Reilly Factor” and “All In With Chris Hayes” while HLN stuck to their hour-long entertainment news report. Only CNN devoted any attention to the explosion, actually cutting away from Waco

after a few minutes to report on supposed “developments” in the Marathon case. The time spent from news breaking to any actual coverage was entirely too long, possibly because of the cost of cutting away from already-sold ads, perhaps because only a skel-eton crew was working the news-room late. Likely, it’s because they had already spread their teams too thin; CNN’s Texas cov-erage was based out of Boston, where at least four, likely many more of their correspondents already were.

What really highlighted the absurdity and unprofessionalism of Boston coverage was the intro-duction of Reddit and other social media into the hunt. Reddit, of course, is a massive website with millions of users, each of its sub-pages outside of its initial shell devoted to a different topic. Its users are all ages and all nationali-ties; the problem occurred when its users attempted to assist the FBI in their search. The problem with tens of thousands of ama-teurs helping out thousands of trained professionals should be evident and only led to incorrect information broadcasted on all sides of the story

The mad scramble by the news media has led to several mistakes made by various news outlets with CNN in particular.

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By Alex SfazzarraCampus Correspondent

Underrated:

1. The Voice (NBC) - 5.22. The Voice-TUE (NBC) - 4.63. American Idol-WED (FOX) - 3.44. The Big Bang Theory (CBS) - 3.35. The Big Bang Theory (CBS) - 3.1 6. American Idol-Thurs (FOX) - 3.07. NBC News SP 10P (NBC) - 3.08. Survivor- Caramoan (CBS) - 2.79. How I Met Your Mother (CBS) - 2.710. Amazing Race (CBS) - 2.4

Ratings from TVbytheNumbers.comWeek ending April 23

1. Duck Dynasty (A&E) - 85952. The ORIELLY Factor (FOXN) - 76263. Anderson Cooper 360 (CNN) - 67814. Hannity (FOXN) - 62175. The FOX Report W/S. Smith (FOXN) - 57436. Erin Burnett Outfront (CNN) - 51917. Piers Morgan Live (CNN) - 50928. Duck Dynasty (A&E) - 50679. NBA Playoff’s- Round 1 (TNT) - 490210. Game of Thrones (HBOM) - 4869Numbers from TVbytheNumbers.com

Week ending April 23(Numbers of viewers x 1000)

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Game of Thrones Sunday 9 p.m.

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What I’m Watching

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This obsession for ‘Game of Thrones’ really came out of no

where. It started off as a whisper but now has turned into an

everyday pop culture reference with ‘Winter is Coming.’ People cannot get enough of the show with all the unfolding drama and the latest plot twists make the

game a whole lot more interest-ing.

True die hard fans have read all the books that usually consist of thousands of pages since they are so thick. But what makes the show/books so impressive is the amount of details and the meticulous attention to creating the perfect setting and plot. Also

the imagination put into this story is impressive. Someone sat there thinking of this extensive kingdoms each one unique but all fighting for the same thing.

-Loumarie Rodriguez

By Maurilio AmorimStaff Writer

» Lessons I Learned from Television

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America, the not so greatest

You may not get this vibe from watching TV, but things are pretty serious with North Korea right now. It may seem from a rational view point unlikely or unwise for them to attack us, but can we say that North Korea would act ratio-nally? With this in mind, why is it that all I’ve ever seen on TV during this delicate situa-tion are images mocking North Korea and its leader again and again? What I’ve learned from TV is that America is No. 1 and it is silly to think anyone is ever a threat to this country.

America can’t lose a war right? We have Kiefer Sutherland who can talk in his intense Jack Bauer tone and go an entire day without eating, sleeping or using the bathroom to fight terrorism. Even if Sutherland is our go to man in a crisis, should we not take the threat of nuclear war against our country more seriously? In “Olympus has Fallen” a North Korean terror-ist group holds the president hostage in the White House. There is one line in the movie where it is made clear that these people were of course not directly affiliated with the North Korean government, but did the crowd in the theater around me who brought small children to the theater and kept screaming “Murica!” through-out get that? Does the trailer spread good messages to those who didn’t see it? The “Red Dawn” remake was forced to heavily censor and edit the final cut in order to change the Chinese invaders to North Koreans as there was fear the Chinese would be offended. Isn’t the idea that their military force would look the same and can be so easily altered to the other more offensive? Aren’t we more afraid of offending the country that wants to attack us? I’m sure North Koreans will never see the movie, but it leaders are probably aware of its existence.

On “30 Rock” we frequent-ly used to see Kim Jong Un depicted as an insane, cocky and oppressive ruler played by a dwarfish sized woman. On “Saturday Night Live” we see him be best friends with Dennis Rodman and degrade the character of the leader by doing things such as jump onto his back and claim that they were doing Jedi training. I’m not defending North Korea or its leader in any way. I would never do that and do not want this to be mistaken as a defense of the North Korean regime. However, television and mov-ies seem to spread the idea that North Korea is not a legitimate threat to our country and that its ruler should not be taken seriously. I’m not even saying that is necessarily untrue, but to spread these sort of ideas during a time where our lead-ers are trying to prevent some sort of nuclear action on the part of North Korea seems rather juvenile and irrespon-sible. Sadly, I have learned more from television and mov-ies than I have from probably just about any other place in my life, but I am not so sure that television is right this time. America may be No. 1, but shouldn’t we take things a little more seriously?

It’s all in the patterns

‘The Bletchley Circle’ follows four women who use to work as code breakers during World War II and seven years later attempting to solve a series of murders. The miniseries is cur-rently being aired by PBS.

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The British have done it again. They have created another show miniseries, ‘The Bletchley Circle’ that just arrived in the states and premiered April 21 on PBS. Although it’s very short with only about three episodes it’s certainly worth watching since it has great writing, acting and overall a unique storyline that I couldn’t help to sucked into. After watching the first epi-sode I suddenly felt that I must start sleuthing around, because who knows what kind of mystery could be right underneath our noses.

What makes this show fantas-tic is the four female lead charac-ters. There are some male char-acters in order to help the story along, but in the end the four females are what really brought about the show. The show takes place seven years after WWII and these four women are doing

mundane tasks that were quite typical for women to do dur-ing that time. However, during the war they were code breakers intercepting messages from the enemy and figuring out the pat-terns they used to send secret mes-sages. They went from an exciting job that chal-lenged their intel-ligence to a dull and remedial life-style because they had to go with the times. However, there is a serial killer on the loose murdering innocent women and one of the characters, Susan, has been fol-lowing the patterns of the killer.

Susan keeps a hidden map and news articles of where the killer has struck and slowly has been figuring out the pattern he has been leaving behind. She has to keep it hidden from her husband because he thinks that she is bored and is entertaining her-self by focusing on the murders.

Again because of the time period her opinion isn’t valued in the first episode when she tries to explain the pattern to him and he brushes it off. With the help of the three women Millie, Lucy

and Jean, they each have their own special skill that helps figure out the bigger picture.

The dialogue used is very natural and allows you as a viewer to fol-low along easily while keeping up with the unfolding pattern of the

killer. They even explain the pat-tern and how it makes sense in order to track down the killer. It’s complicated scenario to process but the way they break it down for viewers makes it understand-able with the ‘ah-hah’ moment when you finally see the bigger picture. But the main component to solving the mystery is figuring out where it began. It’s a dif-ferent way to look at a mystery because it’s not the usual pat-terns you see in other mystery

shows such as ‘NCIS’ or ‘Law and Order’ where the murder-er is trying make a statement. This type of pattern is something the killer is doing unintention-ally because we as humans leave patterns behind of our routines that we never consciously think about. We have our daily rou-tines which we follow almost every day and that is our pattern so they are following the routine/pattern of the killer.

There is no glamour in the show. The main characters aren’t dressed in high end fashion or even heels. They are typi-cal everyday women that could be your neighbor, teacher or coworker. You can almost relate to these women because they are dressed in regular clothes, which was common for middle class life during the 1950’s in England. They are normal (aside from their incredible intelli-gence) and it almost makes you feel as a viewer could take part in these strange events.

By Loumarie RodriguezSenior Staff Writer

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Comic relief in the White House

Late-night television host Conan O’Brien, from left, first lady Michelle Obama, Michael Clemente, Executive Vice President of Fox News, and President Barack Obama attend the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

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The annual White House cor-respondent’s dinner has been a tradition at the White House for decades. The annual event gathers all members of the news media at a Washington D.C. dinner to trade (usually) well-intentioned jabs with the President and each other. In recent years, the event has been a rare opportunity to see the sitting U.S. President perform, in essence, stand up comedy, while a comedian offers well-intentioned additional comic relief. Celebrities have also become a mainstay at the event, with Michael Douglas, Steven Spielberg and Julia Louis-Dreyfus being just a few of those who attended this year’s event.

President Obama delivered one of the funniest speeches in years, going after various media outlets and politicians alike. “I know CNN has taken some knocks lately, but I have to admire their commitment to cover all sides of

the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate,” he joked about the cable network’s recently criticized Boston Marathon bomb-ing coverage.

Obama also wasn’t afraid to poke fun at himself. Acknowledging the toll the office has taken on himself, he said, “I have to admit, I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist I used to be.”

Following the President’s remarks, the headliner took center stage. Conan O’Brien, host of TBS’s “Conan,” was selected for this year’s event marking the late night comedian’s second crack at the gig after host-ing in 1995.

Recent efforts by comedians have been a mixed bag, from the brilliantly scathing roast of President Bush in 2006 from Stephen Colbert to the equally entertaining, yet less offensive,

efforts by Craig Ferguson in 2008 and Jimmy Kimmel in 2012. O’Brien may just have topped them all with rapid-fire wit.

Conan’s overall speech was simply brilliant. What made his remarks so palatable? Besides

being funny, he equally targeted Democrats, Republicans, all news media outlets, the President and his trade-mark self-depreciating humor.

Comparing the attending media outlets to a high school caf-eteria, O’Brien said,

“Think about it. Fox is the jocks, MSNBC is the nerds, bloggers are the goths, NPR is the table for kids with peanut allergies, Al Jazeera is the weird foreign exchange student nobody talks to and print media, you’re the poor kid who died sophomore year in a car crash. Cheep up, we dedicate the yearbook to you!”

Another gem: “Speaker Boehner

and President Obama are still struggling to get along. President Obama and John Boehner are kind of like a blind date between Anderson Cooper and Rachael Maddow. In theory, they under-stand each others’ positions but deep down, you know nothing’s ever gonna happen.”

As his remarks wound down, Boston-area native O’Brien thanked the President for his efforts after the city’s recent events and concluded with a special edition of his movie/TV series casting bit from his late night shows. Announcing a fake new Washington politics series heading to TBS, Conan announced that Joe Biden would be played by Bob Barker and Paul Ryan would be played by Mr. Bean.

In all, the dinner was arguably the most entertaining thing seen on C-Span in years. Who knew Conan O’Brien and Barack Obama would make such a great comedy duo?

By Alex SferrazzaStaff Writer

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Big name news outlets getting it wrong

Sure, Redditors were able to dis-credit the Post’s libelous cover in mere minutes; less great were con-nections made between the bomb-ings and missing Brown student Sunil Tripathi. Sure, at face value it seemed almost too good to be true; Tripathi had disappeared a month before the bombing with no leads to his location and was of foreign descent, meaning there was the slightest possibility of his involvement. The too-good-to-be-true story was decidedly that; after the death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and manhunt of his brother Dzhokhar, it became clear Tripathi was inno-cent, making the discovery of his body on April 23 even worse for his family and loved ones. Incredibly, some news organizations including CNN shifted some of the blame for their incorrect coverage onto the website, while the FBI openly stated to the Washington Post that further release of information relat-ed to the bombings was to discount Redditors’ incorrect claims. Reddit is a valuable tool for journalists, but it has the same misgivings as any other website to one; there’s no way

to prove or discredit its evidence, at least immediately. Sourcing Reddit is akin to sourcing some guy on the street; unless you know he’s right there on the scene by being on the scene yourself, it’s nigh impossible to prove he’s correct.

The question that comes out of the ludicrous amounts of turmoil from Boston, then, isn’t about the past but about the future. Is jour-nalism, especially television jour-nalism, broken? Not necessarily. Live news is a difficult beast. On the wrong day, wrangling a story can be worse than trapping a tiger. One key aspect of the solution has already come at some places, for instance CNN’s newly-instated checks-and-balances system. On the other side lies the journalists themselves. One person’s failing, though it may seem that way, does not imply all-around failure. Over time, we will learn from the mis-takes made in Boston, but journal-ists will know them the most. For every Anderson Cooper or Edward R. Murrow, there’s a Jayson Blair; however, that statement can easily be reversed.

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Dreams playing baseball, ended up acting

strengths in your tool box to utilize at a moment’s notice… if you stay in that student mentality you know there’s always more to learn. You never get stuck in the mindset of I know everything; there isn’t any-thing new to learn.”

Basis’ life is not without its challenges. As a nine-year-old, the actor was diagnosed with type-one diabetes. As a child, this was difficult enough to cope with, but Basis’ father was the owner of a candy store. Because of the struggles Austin faced as a child, having to be vigilant about his diet and diligent with exercise, he is deeply involved with the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund.

“As I worked more and more as an actor and got into the position where I could reach more people, I made a conscious choice to try and act as an exam-ple for kids with diabetes,” said Basis. ”You really have to watch your diet, you have to exercise and I don’t want any kid with type-one diabetes to go through that and come out thinking they

can’t do anything, that it will prevent them from being a pro-fessional athlete or jogging a marathon, or being a singer, dancer, scientist. My goals in working with the JDRF is being open to attend events and speak with kids [and] to show up as an example of someone who’s lived with diabetes and can live a more normal life that anyone I know. Being conscientious of what I eat and how exercise has helped make me better as an adult and actor. I attend a few events, did Q&As with kids and incorporate it into interviews. Everyone has someone who has diabetes.”

Aside from his work with the JDRF and his career as an actor, Basis writes poetry to express his or his characters’ feelings and enjoys watching “Breaking Bad,” “Dexter” and “Modern Family” with his wife. Austin would also like to acknowledge his friend and director on “Life Unexpected,” Liz Tigelaar, who is a huge UConn Huskies fan.

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Navajo the chosen one for new ‘Star Wars’ dubFLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) —

In the new translation of “Star Wars,” Darth Vader is Luke’s bizhe’e.

The classic 1977 film that launched a science fiction empire and revealed the force within a farm boy who bat-tles evil has been dubbed in Japanese, French, Spanish and about a dozen other languages. Add Navajo to the list.

Manuelito Wheeler, the director of the Navajo Nation Museum who reached out to Lucasfilm Ltd. with the idea, has a very good feeling about this. He sees it as entertaining, educational and a way to pre-serve the Navajo language at a time when fewer tribal mem-bers are speaking it.

“That’s the beauty of what we’re doing; we’re teaching Navajo language to anybody who wants to learn the Navajo

language,” Wheeler said. “I find that very rewarding and somewhat ironic. We went from a country that wanted to limit our language, to the Navajo language saving our country through Code Talkers, to our language being part of a major motion picture.”

Native languages on the big screen are a rarity. Independent films and documentaries at film festivals have been in the tongue of American Indian tribes. Yet it’s far less com-mon to see it done in main-stream movies and shown in commercial theaters. “Bambi” was dubbed in the Arapaho lan-guage, and the cartoon series “The Berenstain Bears” was translated into the Dakota and Lakota languages.

“There’s a little bit of prec-edent but nothing like ‘Star Wars’ in the Navajo language,”

said Michael Smith, director of the American Indian Film Institute and a member of the Sioux Tribe of Montana.

A team of five Navajo speak-ers spent 36 hours translat-ing the script for “Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope,” and now they’re looking for fluent Navajo speakers to fill some two dozen roles. Casting calls are scheduled Monday in Burbank, Calif., and May 3 and 4 — the unofficial “Star Wars” holiday — at the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Ariz.

Potential actors shouldn’t worry if they don’t sound exactly like Princess Leia, Luke Skywalker or Han Solo, only that they have Princess Leia’s spunk and fire or Han Solo’s daring, bad-boy-next-door attitude. Chewbacca and R2D2 will keep the language

they speak in the Navajo ver-sion, and technical effects will be applied to Darth Vader and C-3PO so they sound like the originals, said Shana Priesz, senior director of localization for Deluxe, the studio oversee-ing the dubbing.

“Having the voice match isn’t as much as I want some-one who can deliver the lines,” she said.

Wheeler and William Nakai, one of the translators, declined to say how some catch phrases or sci-fi jargon in the movie might carry over into Navajo. But Laura Tohe, a fluent Navajo speaker and English professor at Arizona State University said the translation process could have been similar to what Navajo Code Talkers did in coming up with communication that confounded the Japanese during World War II.

Court rejects Pussy Riot member’s early release

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the feminist punk band, Pussy Riot, right, reads papers at a district court in Zubova Polyana.

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ZUBOVA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — A Russian court on Friday rejected a plea for early release from prison by a member of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot, whose provocative songs and pros-ecution have made them a symbol of the country’s oppo-sition movement.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who has been in custody since her arrest last March, is serv-ing a two-year sentence hand-ed down after the band staged an irreverent protest against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s main cathedral.

Judge Lidiya Yakovleva said evidence showed that Tolokonnikova did not deserve early release because she had “not always followed the rules of behavior” while in custody.

Tolokonnikova’s attorney Irina Khrunova was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying she would appeal on the grounds that the judge did not allow final statements by the defense team.

Tolokonnikova and two other band members were sentenced to prison terms on charges of hooliganism moti-vated by religious hatred. She sought early release after serving half her sentence, a provision allowed by law.

Another of the convicted band members, Yekaterina Samutsevich, had her sen-tence suspended on appeal last year.

Tolokonnikova, dressed in a Soviet-style dark prison uni-form with a white scarf around her neck, told the court that the prison colony where she is serving her sentence did not support her plea of early release because she “didn’t repent.” Russian law does not make repentance a condition for an early release.

In its deposition, the prison colony described Tolokonnikova as “insensitive to ethics and conscience and thinking only about herself.”

The prison colony also listed a penalty that Tolokonnikova received for failing to say hello to a prison official while she was in the hospital and noted that she was once rep-rimanded for her refusal to go out for a walk while she was held in a Moscow jail.

Defense lawyers urged the court to release Tolokonnikova so that she can take care of her 5-year-old daughter. Attorney Dmitry Dinze also complained that prison offi-cials seem unable to provide proper conditions to treat her persistent headaches.

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Aries (March 21-April 19) -- Today is a 5 -- You may need to find a peaceful, quiet place to regroup with your thoughts and get grounded. Slowing down helps put things into perspective. Find something to laugh about.

Taurus (April 20-May 20) -- Today is a 6 -- The next two days are great for having friends over. Set up meetings, gatherings and social opportunities. Network and tap into the abundance you have at home. Share resources.

Gemini (May 21-June 21) -- Today is a 6 -- Pay attention ... there’s a test. Someone is evaluating your performance. Stay respectful, and show your stuff. Opportunities arise. Give thanks.

Cancer (June 22-July 22) -- Today is a 7 -- Things are expanding into study, research, or even travel and adventure. Romance intrigues ... let your imagination loose. Discover a new source of revenue.

Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) -- Today is a 6 -- Count your blessings, and don’t forget to express your gratitude. Friends follow you wherever you lead them. Promises alone won’t do it. It must be the cookie trail.

Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Your generosity inspires another. It’s all about partnership. Come together and create something beautiful. Focus on the big picture, and don’t sweat the small stuff.

Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) -- Today is an 8 -- Create your own reality with poetry, and sing it. As Georges Braque said, “Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.”

Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) -- Today is a 5 -- All you need is love and a little bit of inspiration. Relax into the love of your family, and spread it around. They may be crazy, but who isn’t? Shower them with affection.

Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) -- Today is a 5 -- Clear your mind through meditation, philosophical musing, spiritual practice or getting lost in a good read. Plan a luxurious evening at home. Pamper and be pampered.

Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Today is a 6 -- Practicing something you love goes well now. Open your mind to greater possibilities. Use passion for the best. Take what you learn and apply it.

Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) -- Today is an 8 -- Abundance is available. The more love you give, the more you receive. You should be paid well for your efforts. Think and move quickly. Send those invoices.

Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) -- Today is an 8 -- There’s a tendency to get carried away by your passion, which could be a good thing. Use the circumstances to your advantage. Motivate others.

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Thank you, Mom, for main-taining excitement about my writing through all four years. Thank you, Dad for the sup-port all throughout college. Thanks, Mike and Dom, for just being awesome.

Thank you, Sherry for being understanding when I had to write a story about Calhoun’s retirement from my iPhone at Starbucks when we were on a date. You’ve been so support-ive and encouraging.

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Thank you to anyone I might have forgotten who helped me along the way. Even if you didn’t make this column, you are appreciated immensely.

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Softball sees Big East tournament hopes slipping away

The UConn softball team is on the outside looking in when it comes to the Big East Tournament bubble after drop-ping two out of three games to Seton Hall this weekend in New Jersey.

UConn (24-24, 7-12 Big East) is now tied for eighth place in the Big East Conference with Rutgers, but sit in ninth based on tiebreakers. Only the top eight teams will qualify for the con-ference tournament. With Notre Dame, Louisville, South Florida and DePaul having already clinched spots in next week’s tournament, only four spots remain and the Huskies are now in danger of missing out.

The biggest issue for UConn this weekend was that star pitch-er Kiki Saveriano got shelled by the Pirates’ hitters, allowing 13 runs in her two outings, which both came in losses.

In the first game on Saturday, the Huskies’ bats were alive, led by center fielder Kim Silva. UConn scored 10 runs and Silva went 5-for-5 with two home runs and four RBIs. Lexi Gifford and Brittany Duclos also added home runs for UConn, but the Huskies lost the game on the mound.

Saveriano allowed seven runs on 10 hits in four innings, but Lauren Duggan was credited with the loss. Duggan gave up four runs in the sixth, allow-ing the Pirates to take an 11-9 lead. Eleven runs proved to be enough as Seton Hall took the

first game 11-10.Duggan settled down in the

second game of Saturday’s doubleheader and the Huskies’ offense continued to shine. Duggan went all five innings of the shortened game, allowing only one run on four hits.

Gifford and Marissa Guches went yard for UConn and Silva and Emily O’Donnell each drove in two runs as the Huskies ran away with an 11-1 win.

Sunday’s game brought more nightmares for Saveriano. The senior gave up six runs on five hits in only one-third of an inning. Coach Karen Mullins quickly turned back to Duggan, who allowed four runs over 5.2 innings. The Huskies’ offense was unable to overcome the 10 runs that Saveriano and Duggan gave up, as Seton Hall grabbed

a 10-5 win to move within a game of UConn and Rutgers in the standings.

The Huskies only have three Big East games left to get into the tournament. UConn will start the week with noncon-ference home games against Boston College on Tuesday and Boston University on Wednesday. The Huskies will then take on DePaul in a three-game series at home to try and climb back into the tourna-ment field. The Blue Demons (28-18, 14-5 Big East) are already qualified for the tour-nament and sit in fourth place in the conference.

UConn redshirt senior Marissa Guches hits the ball in a recent softball game at Burrill Family Field at the Connecticut Softball Complex.

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Canadiens defeat sluggish Toronto Maple Leafs 4-1TORONTO (AP) — The

Toronto Maple Leafs are enter-ing the playoffs hardly playing their best.

"I was mystified tonight," Toronto coach Randy Caryle said after Saturday night's slug-gish 4-1 loss to the Montreal Canadiens in the regular-season finale for both teams.

The Maple Leafs showed a bit of jump to start — the Canadiens went without a shot for the first 11 minutes of the game, — and led 1-0 on a first-period Phil Kessel power-play goal.

But they faded fast and Montreal finished the period tied 1-1 and outshooting Toronto 9-6.

"For whatever reason, it was like we went brain-dead,"

Carlyle said. "Our execution level went way down."

How bad were the Leafs before a season-high crowd of 19,730? They managed one shot in the second period despite having three power plays.

One of those man advantages had captain Dion Phaneuf mis-handle the puck at the blue line, a Leafs player fire the puck into the netting above the glass and an icing call.

Toronto and Montreal could meet in the playoffs.

But that wasn't decided Saturday because Boston added to its point total by going to overtime in a loss to Washington, meaning that the Eastern Conference playoff matchup picture won't be com-

plete until Sunday when Boston plays Ottawa in a makeup game.

If Boston wins Sunday, the Leafs play Montreal. A Bruins loss and it's Boston versus Toronto.

Forward Jay McClement said the Leafs had to look after their own team, rather than wonder about their playoff opponent.

"We need to figure out our own game, no matter who we're playing. Because if we play like that tonight, it won't be good enough."

The way Toronto is playing, Boston fans may not regret los-ing Sunday.

"The idea of (Montreal ver-sus Toronto) is pretty cool," Montreal forward Brendan Gallagher said. "Obviously I'm

assuming it would be the most emotional first-round series ever, so that aspect of it is cool. But for us, we don't really care who we're playing. It's about us. It matters what we do and that's all we're talking about. We'll watch the game (Sunday) and find out who we play."

The Leafs (26-17-5) end the season having lost four of their last six, during which they've been outscored 20-15.

Kessel scored his 20th goal of the season for Toronto, getting his 10th goal in as many games.

Lars Eller had a goal and two assists to pace the Canadiens. Gallagher, Andrei Markov, and Thomas Plekanec also scored for Montreal, which won despite going 0-for-6 on the power play.

Montreal Canadiens right winger Brendan Gallagher, right, and Toronto Maple Leafs center Mikhail Grabovski battle for the puck during the first period of an NHL game in Toronto.

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Maher: A Boston sports fans with one Giant exception

to end the Red Sox’ 86-year drought or when he tackled my friends and me after Plaxico Burress caught the game-win-ning touchdown in Super Bowl 42, denying the Patriots its per-fect season.

It’s easy to see that I simply embraced the same passion for the Sox, C’s, B’s and G-men from my Dad but the question still remains: how did he end up a die-hard Boston sports fan, but turn to New York for his favorite team in today’s most popular league, the NFL?

My Dad was born just a few

short years after the then-Boston Patriots became an AFL team. Anyone familiar with the times knew it was taboo to like an AFL team so my Dad, with some guidance from my grandpa, chose the Giants.

It would have been easy to become a Patriots fan after the AFL-NFL merger in 1970, or even in 1999 when the Patriots sent Connecticut into a frenzy at the thought of an NFL team in downtown Hartford.

My Dad’s allegiance to the Giants never wavered and nei-ther will mine.

He was the person that intro-duced me to sports and without

him there is no way I would have been able to have all my incred-ible experiences in my time at UConn.

Through The Daily Campus I have been able to cover three of the most high-profile sports programs at the university that I grew up admiring, did every-thing to get into and will always call home.

Thanks to Sports Editor Dan Agabiti and Associate Sports Editor Tyler Morrissey, I was able to sit courtside, talk to players and coaches and go to Madison Square Garden, all covering the UConn basketball team. I cannot thank them enough for allowing

me to fulfill a lifelong dream for my senior year.

I was also able to cover a talented UConn soccer team and a UConn baseball team that might have a few future Major Leaguers. I have even learned a thing or two about women’s lacrosse and rowing.

But my love for UConn sports, the Red Sox, the Celtics, the Bruins and the Giants would all mean nothing if it was not for my Dad.

Thanks to you Dad, I have the best of both worlds.

Notre Dame bats light up UConnin Irish sweep of the Huskies

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man Bobby Melley.UConn went down in order

in the top of the ninth and Notre Dame closer Dan Slania earned his Big East-leading tenth save of the season.

Notre Dame’s offensive attack returned on Saturday, smacking 15 hits in the 12-5 win. UConn’s defense also struggled to help its pitch-ing staff, as it gave up four unearned runs and committed four errors.

Verdi went 3-for-5 in the loss, while right fielder Stanley Paul—earning only his 13th start of the season—added two hits and two runs.

With the three losses, UConn (25-19 overall, 8-10 in Big East) dropped to 7th

out of 11 teams in confer-ence play. The Huskies will have to stay among the top eight teams in the Big East in order to qualify for the Big East Championship, played in Clearwater, Fla. beginning on May 22.

Luckily for UConn, it will have a chance to make up some ground in Big East Play this upcoming weekend. After a couple of home non-conference games against Sacred Heart and Holy Cross on Tuesday and Wednesday respectively, the Huskies will travel to New Jersey to take on Rutgers in a three-game series, who is fifth in the Big East with a 8-7 record.

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Phillies sweep MetsNEW YORK (AP) — Ryan

Howard took half the day off and still ended up tormenting the Mets.

Howard snapped a seventh-inning tie with a pinch-hit double, Cole Hamels earned his first win of the season and the Philadelphia Phillies took advan-tage of a crucial error to beat New York 5-1 on Sunday and finish a three-game sweep.

Rested by manager Charlie Manuel in the midst of a hitting tear, Howard got his chance any-way and drove a two-run double off the center-field fence to give

Philadelphia a 3-1 lead. The big slugger has 23 RBIs in his last 13 games against the Mets, including seven in this series.

"It's not really an off day. You just don't start," Howard said. "Mentally you do things to keep yourself loose."

All-Star catcher Carlos Ruiz went 1 for 4 with a double

in his return to the Phillies from a 25-game amphetamine suspension. Even on the road, the popular Ruiz was greeted warmly with a chorus of "Choooooch," and one fan held a sign welcoming him back.

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» That’s what he said“I am very happy, it has been an important week for

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BOSTON (AP) — John Lackey returned from the disabled list and pitched six solid innings, David Ortiz drove in two more runs and the Boston Red Sox matched a team record with its 18th win in April by beating the Houston Astros 6-1 Sunday for a four-game sweep.

Lackey (1-1) missed all of last season recovering from Tommy John surgery and went on the DL after leaving his first start this year with a strained right biceps. He allowed five hits, struck out four and walked two. The two walks came with two outs in the first and cost Lackey his only run.

Stephen Drew hit a two-run triple and Ortiz had two hits, extending his hitting streak to 20 games dating back to last Season. Ortiz has 11 RBIs and is batting .516 in eight games since returning to the lineup last weekend.

Bud Norris (3-3) struck out six for Houston and held the Red Sox to three earned runs.

A double error by shortstop Marwin Gonzalez led to two unearned runs in the fourth that put Boston up 4-1, an insurmount-able margin for the Astros as they failed to deliver runs once again.

Houston left nine runners on base and was 2 for 9 with runners in scoring position on Sunday. The Astros were just 5 for 38 in the series. They had a runner on third with two outs in the ninth but Daniel Nava ended the game with a diving catch in right field.

Ronny Cedeno drove in Houston’s only run with a single in the first after Lackey had walked Jason Castro and Carlos Pena with two outs.

The Astros loaded the bases with one out in the sixth on consecutive singles by Castro, Pena and Cedeno, but Lackey got himself out of the jam by striking out Fernando Martinez and getting Matt Dominguez to ground into a fielder’s choice.

The Red Sox also left the bases loaded in the first after Ortiz’s RBI single scored Nava, who doubled with one out.

The missed opportunity didn’t hurt Boston as the Red Sox scored twice in both the fourth and fifth innings.

Mike Napoli led off the fourth with a blooper down the right field line and tried to stretch into a double, but former pitcher Rick Ankiel’s throw reached second well before Napoli and shortstop Gonzalez made the tag for one out.

The Red Sox still got two runs in the inning. Mike Carp and Jarrod Saltalamacchia hit back-to-back singles and scored easily when Drew — batting .136 coming in — tripled down the right field line and the Red Sox took their first lead at 3-1.

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BOSTON (AP) — Jason Terry’s nose still hurt. He wasn’t about to let his pride suffer as well.

Two days after being smacked by J.R. Smith’s elbow, the guard the Boston Celtics count on for his shooting scored their last nine points and kept their season going.

The Celtics beat the Knicks 97-90 in overtime on Sunday to avoid a first-round sweep and force a fifth game in New York on Wednesday night. Avoiding elimi-nation provided all the motivation Terry needed.

“It wasn’t really the elbow,” he said. “It was more (like) this is it. I mean, the season’s over. You can leave it all out here tonight and go home for a long summer or you can live to play another day.”

But, he conceded, his nose “still hurts right now. As long as I feel that, I guess I’ll be thinking about it.”

The NBA suspended Smith for the game, and the Knicks could have used his shooting. Carmelo Anthony scored 36 points and Raymond Felton picked up the slack with 27, but New York made just 28.9 percent of its shots in the first half as Boston took a 54-35 lead.

“J.R. is a big piece of what we do, but he wasn’t here,” Knicks coach Mike Woodson said, “so I’m not using that as an excuse.”

New York had tied the game 84-84 after trailing by 20 points early in the third quarter. It was 88-all before the Celtics regained control and took the lead for good on a 3-pointer by Terry. Anthony hit a short jumper, but Terry con-nected on a 15-footer with 50 sec-onds remaining for a 93-90 lead.

After Anthony, who shot 10 for 35 for the game, missed a 3-point-er with 21 seconds to go, Terry was fouled by Steve Novak and made both free throws. He added a layup to close out the game.

But the Celtics still have a huge deficit in trying to become the first team to win after trailing a series 3-0 in the NBA playoffs. The Knicks are trying to win their first playoff series in 13 years.

“We have to be confident going back home,” Anthony said. “We were confident here today.”

Paul Pierce led the Celtics with 29 points, Jeff Green added 26 and Terry finished with 18.

With leaders such as Pierce and Kevin Garnett, the Celtics have “tremendous” pride, Terry said. “Getting swept is something that no man that’s been in this league that long wants to do. It’s dis-heartening.

“Now we have to go into a hostile environment and they’re going to be trying to get it over with. They don’t want to come

back here, but we do.”The Celtics showed renewed

energy early after being held below 80 points in each of the first three games. They led 59-39 three minutes into the third quar-ter before their recent second-half woes returned.

In previous first halves, they scored just 25 points in Game 1 and 23 in Game 2. On Sunday, they were outscored 30-14 in the third quarter and led just 68-65 heading into the fourth.

“Good teams are going to make those runs,” said Garnett, who had 13 points, 17 rebounds and six assists for Boston. “It’s deflating, but we kept fighting. We found a way to get over the hump.”

Boston held a 65-51 lead when Anthony went to the bench with 3:35 remaining. The Knicks out-scored the Celtics 14-3 the rest of the way behind 11 points from Felton and a 3-pointer from Iman Shumpert. Felton finished with 16 points in the quarter.

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The UConn baseball team had another rough series last weekend as it was swept by a conference opponent for the second straight weekend.

Notre Dame, playing at home, defeated UConn 12-2 on Friday, 4-3 on Saturday and 12-5 on Sunday.

Notre Dame went on an offensive tear in the first game of the series, collecting a season-high 17 hits in the dominating victory. UConn starter Carson Cross (6-3), who has been the Huskies’ ace all season, was

chased from the game after only 2.2 innings while giving up nine hits and seven earned runs.

Cross held a 1.50 ERA entering the game; after he came out, it had climbed to 2.29.

Senior infielder LJ Mazzilli went 3-for-3 in the losing effort.

Notre Dame starting pitcher Pat Connoughton—who averaged 8.9 points per game for the Fighting Irish basketball team in 2012-13—earned the win.

The Huskies had a 3-2 lead entering the bottom of the eighth, thanks to a go-ahead Tom Verdi home run in the fifth. With one out and a runner on second, UConn reliever David Mahoney entered the game for Anthony Marzi. Mahoney induced a groundball to Mazzilli at second base; however, the all-American was unable to make the play, giving the Irish runners at the corners.

It was the only batter Mahoney faced, as closer Jordan Tabakman came into the game. Tabakman allowed an RBI single to Trey Mancini which tied the game up at three. The Huskies gave up another unearned run in the inning after an error by first base-

Huskies have no luck vs. IrishUConn swept by Notre Dame in three gamesBy TJ SouhlarisStaff Writer

A UConn pitcher mid windup in a recent game at J.O. Christan Field. The Huskies were swept on the road against Notre Dame this past weekend.TROY CALDEIRA/ The Daily Campus

The UConn women’s lacrosse team traveled to Georgetown and Loyola this past weekend to play their last two conference games of the regular season. The Huskies fell to Georgetown on Friday, while on Sunday, UConn lost to Loyola as well. With these two losses the Huskies overall record dropped to 13-3 while their conference record dropped to 5-3.

The No. 17 Huskies fell to the No. 8 Hoyas 9-6 on Friday after-noon. UConn started out strong in the first half as Kacey Pippitt, Carly Palmucci, and Lauren Kahn each scored goals within the first five minutes of the game that gave the Huskies a 3-0 lead. Georgetown’s Hannah Franklin fought back scoring an unassisted goal to get the Hoyas back in the game. Pippitt scored another goal with 13: 38 left on

the clock giving the Huskies a 4-1 advantage. However, by the end of the first half, Georgetown scored three consecutive goals to tie the game at four all. The Hoyas came out strong in the second half taking the lead of the game with a 7-4 advantage over the Huskies with 23:32 left on the clock. UConn’s Elizabeth Brown and Alexandra Crofts each scored goals for the Huskies, yet they couldn’t come back to win the game.

Sunday, UConn fell to Loyola in their last game of the season. Loyola came out strong in the first half as Kara Burke scored the first goal of the game, giving the Greyhounds the upper hand with 12 minutes left in the half. Loyola’s Taryn Vanthof scored the second goal of the game, while Burke scored again with thirteen seconds left to give the Greyhounds a 3-0 lead in the first half. The first thirty min-utes of the game seemed evenly matched as the low score gave

ample opportunity for each team to prove themselves in the sec-ond half of the game.

Within minutes of the sec-ond half Kahn scored the first goal for the Huskies allow-ing them to get back into the game. However, Loyola fought back scoring three consecutive goals to give the Greyhounds a 6-1 lead with twenty min-utes left on the clock. Palmucci scored the second goal for the Huskies in attempts to gain more momentum in the game. With Palmucci’s goal, Loyola was only up by four goals with ample time left in the game for the Huskies to gain scoring opportunities. However, every time UConn scored, Loyola responded with aggression and scored consecutive goals to keep a healthy lead. The Huskies bat-tled until the very end, as Kahn scored a goal with 54 seconds left in the match to cut into the Greyhoud’s 13-7 lead.

Despite their losses this week-

end, UConn will continue on to the Big East Championship set for May 2nd and 4th. This will be UConn’s first appearance at the Big East Championship. Georgetown, Loyola and Syracuse are also locked into

the tournament, making them the top four teams in the Big East.

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Thanks Dad, I have the best of both worlds

Boston and New York City sit just 220 miles apart yet are worlds apart in the sports universe. Roughly halfway between the two largest cities in the northeast lies the small town of Hebron, Connecticut.

It’s where I grew up and frankly it’s all I’ve known in my short 21 years of life. Just 25 minutes away from Hebron

is UConn, the school I grew up adoring, mostly because of the sports teams, but later this grew into a love for the university as a whole.

I would be lying if my 18-year dream to go to school in Storrs wasn’t mostly because of my obsession with UConn football and basketball.

Sports have and always will consume a good portion of my life.

Although I am not alone, I consider myself an anomaly as a professional sports fan. I love the Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins… and the New York Football Giants.

The way I always looked at it was that I love the cities of Boston and New York City, so as a Connecticut resident I should like at least one New York team.

I am a very proud Boston sports fan but I never bought into the idea that just because Connecticut is a New England state that everyone in New England should be a Patriots fan.

I do not hate the Patriots unlike how many Patriots fans have felt towards the Giants over the last five years. Although, I have to admit, it was a joy to see Patriots fans squirm during Super Bowl 42 and 46, the exact same way Yankees fans did in the 2004 ALCS.

I get goose bumps when I travel to the great city of New York but I have always despised the Yankees and everything they stand for. I don’t care for the Knicks or the Rangers, but I will never miss a Giants game.

My irregular fan allegiance was never an issue until the end

of high school and beginning of college when fellow sports nuts would give me a puzzled look as I told them about my favorite professional sports teams.

Of course I don’t think loving three out of four Boston teams and a New York football team is weird. It has always been one of the few things that have made sense to me. But I did begin to question how it all happened and as I am just two weeks away from graduating college, I found the answer and I didn’t have to look far.

I credit all my love for sports to the person I look up to and hope to be just like when I’m older, my Dad.

Anyone who has ever met my Dad can pretty much agree that I am a clone of him--just a generation younger.

A good percentage of our con-

versations are about sports. Not because we don’t have anything else in common, it’s just what we both love the most.

He is the only person I want to watch a big game with even though it frustrates me when he triggers my anxious, supersti-tious side by prematurely shout-ing “got ‘em” as a wide-open receiver drops an easy touch-down pass or yells “good!” as a basketball is half way down the hoop but somehow finds a way to rattle out.

Nothing can replace the mem-ories I have going to Fenway, Gampel or simply watching sports with my father.

Some of my favorite memo-ries include the utter disbelief we shared as we watched Doug Mientkiewicz catch the final out

It’s been real, DC

Thank you, God for giving me the past four years at this newspaper.

Thank you, Marc Gauthier. A little over three years ago, you sat down and kindly detailed why a swimming and diving story written by a young writer had written pretty much stunk. But you also took the extra step to tell that writer what he did well and how his work could improve. Those edits did more than just improve his writing, they taught him what it means to be Sports Editor.

Thank you, Professor Wayne Worcester. Thank you for fostering in-class discus-sion better than that of any class at this university. Thank you for meeting weekly and chatting about everything from the Providence MAFIA scene to Tom Boswell. You also taught that writing with a style is okay once you know the basics and that having a certain flair in a piece of jour-nalism is welcome.

Thank you, John Altavilla. Your writing on women’s basketball is exemplary. You taught the value of finding “your story” even when it seems as though everybody else is doing something dif-ferent. It meant a lot that you were willing to hang around at a Hyatt Regency in New Orleans and discuss the finer points of journalism with some young writers from The Daily Campus.

Thank you, Mike DeMauro, for your willingness to help young writers. Thank you for demonstrating through your writing that it is possible to write columns with a certain swagger and do it well.

Thank you, Steven Kalb, for teaching students not to use five words when two will suffice.

Thank you to the Daily Campus sports editors for the past three years. Marc, Mac Cerullo and Matt McDonough, you guys were great. The three of you did an amazing job of putting every writer in your section the best possible position to succeed.

Thank you, Russell Blair, Mac and Brian Zahn. You guys have been excellent managing editors. You were available, you were approachable, you were flexible and you never looked annoyed when people came to you with questions. Thanks especially to Russell who was willing to stay with a new sports designer until 2:30 in the morning and do one of his pages for him.

Thank you Tyler Morrissey, for being an excellent Associate Sports Editor this past year. I was lucky to have such a hard-working cowork-er with such a passion for this paper.

Thank you to the staff of the sports department this year. All of you were amazing and it’s been a privilege serving as your editor.

Thank you to all the copy editors who come every pro-duction day with the goal of making the paper as good as it can be.

Thank you to whoever thought it was a good idea to put a Nintendo 64 in the news-room along with MLB All Star Baseball 2001. The Yankees are amazing in that game (playing as Bernie Williams is a blast from the past) and the Braves are really good too. It was a trip down memory lane

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UConn senior midfield Liz Brown runs with the ball from a defender in a recent lacrosse game at the George J. Sherman Family-Sports Complex.

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