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21 Club continues to wait in line at Hawk’’s Nest

By Hayden Harrower
Staff Writer

The long-awaited 21 Club that was to be introduced at Hawk’’s

Nest on March 4 has been delayed for timing and vendor issues.
The 21 Club is a project set up to serve alcoholic drinks to
students who are over the age of 21. The original date of March
4 was changed so that the opening would not be overshadowed
by the America East basketball tournament being held on campus
around the same time.
Another issue preventing the club is an unsecure vendor; the
committee behind the idea is unsure at the moment whether Ara-
mark, who provides the rest of the schools vending needs, would
be interested in selling alcoholic drinks. In past attempts, Black
Bear Saloon has helped out to instate the project, and could remain
a possibility if the project becomes permanent.
Marsha Dawson, a Resident Director along with a few others,
have been behind the idea in hopes the 21 Club could become a
successful program. Not only that, but the people involved hope
that this could be the rst step to creating a pub on campus.
““I think this will be a huge success, and I think the students want
to see something like this on a regular basis,”” Dawson explains.
Many students who have been at the University for a few years
can remember the recent attempts they have had in the past, putting
on the 21 Club once a semester. With those attempts as experi-
ence, Dawson and the rest of the team behind the idea are excited
for this test run of the development, as they now know what will
bring in students and what will not.
Performances and special guests will be a marquis aspect of the
project. The 21 Club committee has also found that reaching out
to the alumni and commuter students was a great success in their
recent attempts as well.
A date still has not been set tentatively, but those who are in-
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volved along with the upper class of the student body are excited
for the opportunity and expect it to be a huge success. Hawk’’s Nest, a late-night dining location, is the proposed location for this year’’s 21 Club.

No-holds-barred comedy in ‘‘N*gger, Wetb*ck, Ch*nk’’

By Sarah Wilson
News Editor
A comedy show featuring racial epithets
as the basis for hilarity is coming to the
University on Feb. 10.
The show, titled ““N*gger, Wetb*ck,
Ch*nk,”” is a three-man performance
group who incorporates racial slurs
and stereotypes into skits, hip hop, and
slam poetry in order to address issues in
prejudice.
Often beginning their performance by
saying ““this show contains language that
may be offensive to some viewers,”” Rafael
Augustin, Dionysio Basco and Jackson
McQueen put on a daring yet hilarious
show by satirizing the discrimination
people face every day.
Seattle Weekly said of the show ““this
is the sort of dramatic experience, at the
eye-popping forefront of guerilla theatre,
that is guaranteed to stay relevant to the
race debate for years to come.””
But what is truly unique about this group
is their ability to address serious issues
in such an amusing manner.
They describe their show as ““charging
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into the dangerous territory of race, but
Race relations comedy ‘‘N*gger, Wetb*ck, Ch*nk’’ will shake things up on campus without the predictable anger and angst,””
Thursday, Feb. 10 at 8 p.m. in Lincoln Theater. on their website.
The Ecuadorian-born performer Rafael
Augustin created the show in 2007, after
he started acting at UCLA.
It has since toured the country winning
rave reviews. But, naturally, with a title
like the one in place, they cast was met
with some criticism as well.
It wasn’’t rare for people, who unaware
of the show’’s message would destroy the
posters hanging on college campuses and
in communities.
““What’’s really weird is the people who
will rip only off ‘‘n*gger’’ from the ier,
or they’’ll rip off ‘‘wetb*ck’’ or ‘‘ch*nk’’ as
if to say ‘‘I don’’t like that you’’re calling
me wetback, but it’’s ok if you call them
chink,”” former performer Allan Axibal
told the LA Times.
But despite some opposition of those
who are too quick to judge, the group has
been featured in news outlets around the
country including the New York Times,
NPR, and LA Times.
Students at the University of Hartford
have the opportunity to attend this unique
performance Thursday, Feb. 10 in Lin-
coln Theater. The performance is free to
University of Hartford students, $5 for
students who attend college elsewhere,
and $10 for general admission. The per-
formance will begin at 8 p.m.

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Hartt alumnus wins national award in acoustics

By Kaitlyn Schroyer
Staff Writer
In December 2010, an ordinary
student chapter meeting of the
Acoustical Society of America
turned into a life changing moment
for alumni David Dick, who recently
graduated from the University of
Hartford this past winter.
When he walked into the meet-
ing, complete shock came over
him when he saw his family, girl-
friend and the dean of CETA, Lou
Manzione, sitting there, waiting to
present him with the prestigious
Robert Bradford Newman Student
Medal for Merit in Architectural
Acoustics.
““It was a complete surprise,”” Dick
said, ““It means that my hard work
paid off.””
Dick received the award after
being nominated secretly by his
professors for his work on the
Belding Theater in Hartford. The
project included an investigation of
listener envelopment, or the sense as
an audience to be surrounded in the
sound eld. Dick’’s contribution was
creating the 3-D acoustic compute
model of the theater.
““Seeing the completed model and
analyzing the results was reward-
ing,”” Dick said, ““I presented my
work at the national Acoustical
Society of America conference,
which was a lot of fun.””
The results of this study were
extremely important. It is the rst
project to examine the relationship
between listener envelopment and
a room’’s total acoustic absorption.
The Belding Theater was a very
signicant part.
““The theater has the abil-
ity to change settings to vary the
acoustical properties, allowing
for measurements under different
conditions,”” Dick explained.
The Newman Award is awarded
to those that have demonstrated
excellence in this discipline and
the application of acoustical design
principles in the course of their
studies.
It is a highly selective national
award that is named for Robert B.
Newman of BBN, one of the original
acoustical consulting rms.
““[This project] was denitely a
great learning experience,”” Dick
said.
Dick has recently accepted a
position with Bose Corporation in
Framingham, Mass., and has started
a Master’’s degree in electrical and
computer engineering at Worcester
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““I just want to keep enjoy-
ing whatever I’’m doing and it’’s Hartt School alumnus, David A. Dick, recently won a national
working out so far.”” Dick said. award for his research in architectural acoustics.

Red Caps seek applicants for 2011 tryouts Alpha Chi

By Paige Patunas
Copy Chief
The Red Caps have received a low
number of applicants this year and
will be extending their application
deadline to Feb. 17.
According to Jordan Quimby, the
assistant director of Orientation,
this year they only received about 55
applications by the Feb. 5 deadline.
In the past they have received over
100 applications.
He believes the unusual amount
of snow days this semester has
been part of the reason that has kept
students from applying. Red Caps
typically accept between 25 and 30
new applicants each year.
Red Caps, Hartford’’s orientation leaders, are currently accepting applications for try outs for the 2011-2012 school year.
Quimby said that the application
process ““needs to be competitive
so that the Red Caps can nd the
best people the school has to offer.””
Red Caps are orientation student
leaders who are here to welcome and
help new students adjust to life at
the University during the orienta-
tion process and at the beginning
of each semester.
According to their application,
““a Red Cap is friendly, helpful,
outgoing, enthusiastic, and wants
to promote the University and the
opportunities it has to offer.””
After submitting an application,
applicants will go through a three
day tryout period. During this tryout
period applicants will participate
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in activities and games with each
other.
““It’’s a really great way to see how
people act with one another. It can
get competitive but it’’s a really fun
time,”” said Quimby.
All applicants are expected to be
available for all three days of the try-
out period, which begins Feb. 18.
The tryout period will narrow
down the applicants and after the
third day those remaining will be
invited back for an interview with
the student directors of Orientation.
Red Caps work during the early
and late summer advising new
students who are visiting the Uni-
versity for their Orientation.
In addition to working with
faculty and helping new students,
becoming a Red Cap means becom-
ing part of a very special family,
according to their application.
Red Caps look for applicants who
are generally either a freshman or
a sophomore, and not all Red Caps
in the program are guaranteed
to be kept on after each year. A
physical copy of all applications
must be turned into the Student
Success Center by Feb. 17 for
consideration.
Applications can be downloaded
from the Red Cap Facebook page
(Facebook.com/redcaps) and Twit-
ter page (@UofHRedCaps) as well
as picked up in the Student Success
Center behind B Complex.
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Book Drive
By Sarah Wilson
News Editor
Throughout February, Alpha
Chi will be sponsoring a book
drive in support of the national
program ““Reading is Fundamen-
tal.””
This chapter of the national
honor society is asking students to
donate books suitable for children
between kindergarten and twelfth
grade to aid in literacy among
local schools over the month of
February. Students are encour-
aged to donate books that are still
in a suitable condition, and have
been gently used.
There will be a drop box set
up by Alpha Chi in Mortensen
Library near the front desk
where students can drop off their
donated books between Feb. 14
and Feb. 25.
Chapters of Alpha Chi are
participating nationally during
this month in this program. Read-
ing is Fundamental is a national
non-prot organization that helps
children not only learn to read, but
have the resources to do so. They
address issues such as access to
books, early childhood reading
readiness, reading motivation
and the achievement gap and
multicultural literacy.
They do this through a variety
of programs, the Hartford chapter
of Alpha Chi is participating spe-
cically ““books for ownership,”” a
program that donates 15 million
books annually.

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late-night help in math, science
By Sarah Wilson
News Editor

With the success of last semes-

ter’’s ““Vampire”” math tutoring,
the program will again be imple-
mented this semester, this time
extending to chemistry and biol-
ogy as well.
With the Vampire Tutoring
program, students are offered a
convenient way of getting help. It
offers an opportunity for students
to get work done at a time when
they likely will not have any prior
obligations, as many are busy dur-
ing the day.
““Students can just walk in and do
homework on their own, and have
someone there to help them when
they get stuck,”” said Andrea Miller,
Associate Director of the Student
Success Center.
She explained that math and sci-
ence during Vampire Tutoring are
taught by two students majoring in
education, with an emphasis in the
math and science eld.
The idea for the program came
about after more and more students
contacted the Student Success Cen-
ter seeking help with work.
““The bulk of our tutoring requests
are for math and science, and mostly
the lower level courses,”” said Miller.
As a result, the Center created a con-
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Program aims to build leadership skills

By Ben Gyurik
Staff Writer
The Leadership Quest program
is being offered to all students
Feb. 20. Students can attend a free
one-day conference event focusing
on improving leadership skills and
time management.
““The event is focused on leader-
ship and getting more educated on
how to be a better leader; but there
are numerous speakers coming
that day that will be talking about
different tools and techniques
people can use to become better
leaders,”” explains Felecia Bumpus,
Director of Student Activities and
Greek Life.
““We’’d like to get more students
to sign up, and to get preregistered
for the event if possible, so far we
have 100 students attending, and
getting more students to attend is
our goal,”” says Bumpus.
There will be a welcoming address
during the event by Vice President of
Student Affairs Lee Peters, as well as
three educational sessions by faculty
and student speakers, and a closing
address by Amelia Barbagallo from
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““Each student that attends will
receive a certicate of completion
of Leadership Quest, which is some-
thing really benecial, as attending
this event looks impressive on a
resume,”” said Bumpus.
The event itself has been going on
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has been growing, as more and more
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The addicting relationship users have with Facebook make it impossible to break it off.
Facebook breakup could be benecial
““Are you sure you want to deac-
tivate your account? Tim will miss
you. Rob will miss you, Jenn will
miss you, Jackie will miss you.
Melissa will miss you!””
These words, accompanied by the
faces of ve of your closest friends
pleading you not to leave them
behind, is the last thing you’’ll see
if you so choose to deactivate your
Facebook account.
There’’s even a conveniently
anchored link under each friend’’s
photo to message him or her some
nal last words, to maybe try and
offer up a conceivable explanation
for doing something as horrid as
deleting your account.
Furthermore, Facebook, surely
feeling betrayed and dejected,
demands an explanation for the
break-up in the form of premeditated
checkboxes. But don’’t worry, you
can still offer up the break-up clichés
by assuring it is just a break with
““this is temporary, I’’ll be back,””
or admit to there being someone
else by checking ““I have another
Facebook account.””
So when it comes down to the
clicking of the ““deactivate”” button,
why are we all so reluctant? It’’s
true, we’’re attached at the hip to
Facebook like we’’re in a relation-
ship with it, but with students being
thrust into rigorous job hunts and
Slicing through competition poses problem for HP
Palm, a technology company
revered for advancements in por-
table technology, is no more as of
Wednesday.
HP, which bought the company
last year, announced an all-new line
of devices that feature WebOS, a
mobile operating system made for
touchscreen devices.
The one thing missing from those
new devices is the Palm brand name.
The mandate of Palm lives on,
however, and that’’s a good thing. HP
could have outright purchased the
company and completely spurn the
idea of WebOS products, yet include
the best elements of the software in
the new device.
That would have been a disastrous
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Sarah Wilson •• News Editor
sawilson@hartford.edu
Twitter: @swyzleh
professional positions, it’’s never
too soon to work on breaking the
addiction.
Facebook, along with other social
media sites, has evolved into some-
thing that’’s equally as dangerous
as it is useful. Papers are written in
sentence-Facebook intervals, hours
of browsing arbitrary photos sweep
you away from anything stimulat-
ing, and unnecessary tabs are kept
on 500 people you’’d never talk to in
person. Yet for some reason, parting
is just too hard to actually carry out.
But easing up a little might just do
you some good. Facebook’’s deacti-
vating feature lets users more or less
temporarily delete their account, so
giving it a trial run is the rst step.
Students in one Hartford class
were asked to deactivate their
accounts for a week as an extra
credit assignment, an experiment
that was carried out with curiosity
Jeremy Stanley •• Editor-in-Chief
jstanley@hartford.edu
Twitter: @JeremyDStanley
move for the company, which has
been toying with the right formula
to release a tablet device to compete
with the iPad.
Even worse were the ideas that
HP’’s use for WebOS would only
live on in the company’’s line of
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and enthusiasm. One student even
compared the process to quitting
smoking, but according to Mark
Cistulli, the professor of the Com-
munication Tactics class, said he
think most students just want to see
if they can do it.
This is something more of us
should think about doing. Though
we nd Facebook to be the one con-
necting force between our lives and
the rest of the world, trust me, you
wont drop off the face of the earth,
and no, your existence will not be
forgotten. Cell phones exist if you
need to talk to anybody you truly
care about, and let’’s face it, we’’ll all
fall out of touch with the 300 others
in our graduating classes eventually,
so why prolong the inevitable?
The results of the students partici-
pating in the deactivating of their
accounts is yet to be found out, but
odds are it’’ll seem like they have too
much time on their hands.
So give it a try; wean yourself off
even if only for a couple days. You’’ll
probably nd the whereabouts of
that kid you met at a party last
year will dissipate in importance.
The ve hours it usually takes to
write an essay will shrink to under
an hour. And maybe, just maybe,
the reading in the form of status
updates will transform into pages
in an actual book.
printers. WebOS is just too pow-
erful to be relegated to such an
industry.
The biggest (as in most im-
portant) WebOS device revealed
Wednesday happens to be the big-
gest one (in size).
The HP TouchPad is exactly the
competition that the iPad has, for
nearly a year now, needed.
As a fan of the WebOS interface,
it is surprising to see in the videos
on tech websites that it translates
just so well on a larger slate de-
vice——even if the interface was a
bit sluggish in the video.
The biggest issue, it seems, is
that Apple could run away with
the tablet market as it already is.
Luxury living lost in
the Village Apartments
It’’s hardly a secret to any
campus dweller that the resi-
dential living quarters are far
passed their prime.
Everyone that has moved
on passed the freshman dorms
knows that. But each year we
inevitably sign the housing
agreement because, after all,
we can’’t survive without a
place to rest our weary heads
at night.
We turn a cheek to the fact
that the Village Apartments are
dwindling on into their twilight
years and see it as a place where
freedom and apartment style
living can be achieved a short
distance from the academic
side of campus.
As someone who resides in
the Village I can say that I’’ve
seen my fair share of the ups
and downs of living there but
nothing horrendous enough to
stop me from hauling my room
full of stuff back and forth to
the very same apartment for
two years and counting.
There have been the occa-
sional clogged shower drains,
one every month since move-
in day, a few instances of the
garbage disposal refusing
to shut off, and last year the
plastic bathroom oor peeled
and puckered enough that fa-
cilities nally decided it was
time to replace it. One ruined
bathmat later and we have a
shiny new oor.
But aside from those few
minor things everything has
run pretty smoothly, although
some sort of air-conditioning
would be much appreciated
in the months closer to sum-
mertime.
However, with each year
comes more and more damage
and destruction to the future
homes of clueless newcom-
ers and what they’’re going
to be graced with isn’’t going
to be pretty unless a massive
makeover is in the future for
HP showed the device Wednes-
day, but doesn’’t expect it to be
in consumers’’ hands until much,
much later this year.
Current rumors suggest that the
iPad 2 is just on the horizon for
Apple and speculation suggests
improvements made to the device
could take it to another level ahead
of the competition.
Apple has a track record in setting
the tone for other devices——it didn’’t
invent the touchscreen phone, but
future touchscreen phones took
most of the design cues from the
company.
What Apple has planned for the
iPad 2, no one quite knows, but it
could do exactly the same thing
February 10, 2011
Danielle Huppke •• Managing Editor
huppke@hartford.edu
Twitter: @danielle618
the Village Apartments.
Two weeks ago a friend of
mine noticed that there was water
dripping down from his ceiling
directly onto his pillowcase. He
immediately called facilities and
explained his leaky ceiling situa-
tion to the person on the other end
of the line.
A few days later, after repeated
calls to facilities, two RFAs show
up, shift his bed into the center of
the room and place one of his own
plastic Tupperware containers un-
derneath the hole in order to catch
the residual drips. The RFAs say
that someone will come within the
next few days to patch the hole.
So now two weeks have gone
by and nobody has come to x
his drippy roof. For my friends
sake the dripping has seemed to
ease for the meantime, but what
happens when it begins to pour
through and facilities thinks his
situation isn’’t important enough to
be made a priority. He’’s stuck with
a drenched pillowcase and a nasty
case of the u from the damp air
and mildew that’’s soon to follow.
Yes, we live in old apartments,
but if students are cleared to stay
in them, then shouldn’’t housing
problems like this be rectied as
soon as possible and not let the
problem become worse as days
pass and holes aren’’t patched?
Money’’s tight and the University
is surely looking to pinch its pen-
nies wherever possible but maybe
this situation could be avoided
if there were a few more skilled
facilities workers around to x
what needs xing.
for tablets.
Not only that, John Gruber of
Daring Fireball, a website with a
track record for well-sourced Apple
rumors, is guessing an iPad 3 could
be seen in time for the holidays.
That is mere speculation based
on component rumors and Gruber
said, ““I don’’t think April is a par-
ticularly good month for an annual
iPad release.””
Regardless, HP arrives in the tablet
game just slightly behind schedule,
trailing a swath of Android tablets,
RIM’’s unreleased BlackBerry Play-
Book and the aforementioned iPad.
It’’s a game of catch-up and the
leading team could put the game
out of reach for HP.
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Finding a love connection on LikeALittle

By Spencer Allan Brooks to only 50 colleges at the end of December.
Arts Director

With Valentine's Day just around the

corner, you may be looking for a new love
connection.
Luckily a new irting-facilitator platform
(or FFP for you more advanced readers)
has emerged in the market, providing their
anonymous compliment posting services for
the bashful college student. Likealittle.com
is a website where users can anonymously
post messages to their secret crushes.
Sitting in the dining hall and notice the girl
you haven’’t been able to talk to? Just take to
LikeALittle and and tell that blonde, female
crush that you think she’’s cute and would
like a date. If the person you fancy just so
happens to log on and recognize their own
description they can reply.
The only drawback is the generic nature
of the descriptions. When you are reading
about a male brunette in the Gengras Student
Union who is wearing a Hartford sweatshirt,
you could really be reading about anyone.
Other than that, it is basically a younger, safer,
and fun alternative to Craigslist’’s ““missed
connections”” page, which may give you the
heeby-jeebies just thinking about it.
The website was created in response to
the developers’’ lack of game with women.
Likealittle.com launched in October of 2010
at Stanford and, since then, has spread east
to over 450 campuses nationwide, includ-
ing Hartford. The website is even offering
internships in Palo Alto, Calif. to students
who are passionate about social media, web
development, and business. The growth of
the FFP has been rapid, having been available
LikeALittle grew their network by requir-
ing votes from students that wanted to start a
new campus page. The very rst voters for a
Best of Like A Little at
school become the founding members that get
listed on the college’’s page. The University
of Hartford can thank freshmen Courtney
Cetta, Hannah Klotz, Niki Kalmus, Katy
Hartford
Sutherby, Mary Corso, and Izabela Ropiak
for founding Likealittle.com at Hartford. ““At Hawk’’s Nest: Female, Redhead.
““It's great for those who are too shy to
approach a stranger in person, and the site
works extremely hard to keep all comments
Do you play Quidditch? 'Cause girl,
positive," said Sutherby. "College students
all over the country love visiting the site you y.””
and trying to learn who the posts refer to.
Likealittle.com helps to expand social circles
and everyone loves to irt, so hopefully it
will become popular with students at the
University of Hartford."
LAL boasts a positive and complimentary
““At commons: Female, Black hair
community, where users are encouraged
to remove posts with full names, sexual long black hair, always eating cot-
references or anything offensive. In a time
where anonymous on the Internet usually
results in cyber-bullying, or nasty comments
tage cheese. im in love.””
(e.g. formspring.me and collegeacb.com), it
seems likealittle.com may be a step in the
right direction.
““People say some ridiculous things on
there. Some are nice and legitimate, but most ““At Mail Services: Female, Brunette
of them are just kind of inappropriate. I think
if I thought someone was cute, I would just
go and talk to them. I would hope they would
They didn’’t have your package, but i
do the same for me", says senior Leah Isaac.
It is not very probable that an anonymous have one i could give you ;)””
posting will trigger two strangers to fall in
love and engage in some post-marital baby- COURTESY OF LIKEALITTLE.COM
making, but one can always hope.

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Stumbling through class: laptops provide escape

By Kelsey Sterling
Staff Writer
Let’’s face it: class is boring. Listening to countless lectures
for countless hours gets old real fast, which is why a lot of
students like to lug their laptops across campus to the class-
room and surf the Web discreetly.
But what websites have us glued to our computer screens
as the professor drones on?
Popular sites such as StumbleUpon, AddictingGames
and CollegeHumor are just a few examples of the types of
sites that distract us when we should be doing other things.
StumbleUpon, a discovery engine that nds and recommends
Web content to its users is a personal favorite for many rea-
sons; its features allow users to discover and rate Web pages,
photos, and videos that are customized to their interests using
principles of peer-sourcing and social-networking. One can
literally click through an endless amount of pages involving all
things from photography to the paranormal. In a fty-minute
class you can browse a massive chunk of the World Wide
Web quickly and easily and in an hour and fteen-minute
class, even more.
Better yet, the pages that appear when clicking ““Stumble!””
are guaranteed to be of interest to you, because you choose what
subjects you want the site to provide. It's totally personalized.
Addictinggames.com is another addicting website perfect
for stumbling upon during class, hence its rather appropriate
name. Hundreds of shooting, strategy, puzzles, sports, arcade
and action games load up the site, which is now one of the
most popular ash gaming websites in the United States. Who
doesn’’t want to race a motorcycle or become an ultimate sniper
assassin within the connes of their own classroom? It most
denitely makes the time go by more smoothly and quickly.
Then, there’’s College Humor; clearly ideal for us college
kids since we have that ““college humor.”” In other words,we
are easily amused. That’’s why this website lled with hilarious
videos, pictures and links is another great way to stay awake
during physics. Articles covering topics including dating,
work, parents, and roommate issues preoccupy us with that
classic CollegeHumor, well, humor.
Another personal favorite is Damnyouautocorrect.com.
You know those annoying moments when you send a text
and the auto-correct application completely mutilates what
you meant to say? Things can get awkward that way, and
that’’s what makes this site hilarious. It shows hundreds of
pages of these texting fail screenshots from people all over
the world; before you know it you’’re on page forty seven
and you’’ve embarrassed yourself by laughing out loud in the
back of the classroom.
There are numerous websites beyond the all-time favorite
Facebook that can entertain us for hours on end in class.
Although surng the Web isn’’t the best way to achieve an
A, it is the best way to achieve a few minutes of the pure,
ridiculous entertainment we crave so much.
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App Store necessities for the Verizon iPhone 4

By Jeremy Stanley
Editor-in-Chief
After years of rumor, speculation
and wait, the iPhone is available
on Verizon Wireless beginning
this week.
The phone, which launched on
AT&T eight months ago is still
garnering critical acclaim on the new
network it is on. Aside from a slight
cosmetic change and the release of
the personal Wi-Fi hotspot feature,
the Verizon iPhone is the iPhone
AT&T users have grown to love,
but a minority, a vocal minority,
that have grown to dislike AT&T.
The iPhone’’s biggest strength
is in its App Store——a collection
of hundreds of thousands of apps
developed for use on the go. For
beginners to the App Store game, it’’s
tough sifting through the mountain
of apps. Here are some essential
downloads.
Facebook——Free: No, you can’’t
get access to Farmville on Face-
book (there is, however, an app for
Farmville), but you can access your
photos, contacts and chat through
the Facebook app. The sync feature
pairs the contacts in the phone’’s ad-
dress book with the website——prole
pictures become the contact photo.
Soon, you’’ll begin to wonder why
your friend’’s new car is calling you.
Also, if you get that phone number
at the club, use the sync feature
without being friends, chances are
that person’’s picture will show up as
well. That’’s not creepy at all.
A Twitter——Free: Don’’t use Twit-
ter? Ignore this. Twitter’’s iPhone
application happens to be at the
top of the class. Its inventor, Loren
Brichter, created the swipe to refresh
feature (pictured) that’’s now found
in so many of the apps found on the
App Store today. It’’s a great way to
keep up with the world in Twitter,
as well as keep everyone informed
about exactly just what is on your
mind.
Instagram——Free: The iPhone’’s
camera is downright awesome——
they take great shots indoors and
perform even better outdoors. In-
stagram is the social network that
connects the iPhone camera with
the world. With dozens of lters that
add a stylistic touch to photos and
awesome social network integration
(from Facebook to Foursquare and
everything in between), it’’s a fun
way to document life. Just don’’t
overdo it with those lters.
C it? Instead of incessantly writing
iMovie——$4.99: That awesome
camera doesn’’t just take boring old
stills——it shoots in high denition as
well. Apple has crammed the best of
its Mac software into an application
that cuts, edits and transforms longer
clips into something that friends and
family will actually want to see; un-
less it’’s a compilation of cool things
your cat did the other day——no one
wants to see that.
ESPN ScoreCenter——Free: Push
notications can alert you at the end
of every half of Hartford Hawks
basketball games. ESPN offers a
great way to keep on top of the sports
teams you care about the most.
AB
Breaking News——Free: Want
breaking news stories displayed
as soon as the MSNBC-owned
outfit Breaking News Online
reports it? This application is
pretty barebones——it’’s essentially
a Twitter-stream of every story that
the Breaking News team reports.
But the beauty is in the details: the
application makes use of push no-
tications that only the most urgent
of news gets displayed——about once
or twice a day.
B Kindle——Free: Like reading
in bite-sized chunks? Staring at a
3.5-inch LCD screen isn’’t best for
long-form reading, but it’’s certainly
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possible. The entire catalogue of
Kindle Books (but not newspapers
or magazines) is available, thanks
to the ““Buy Once, Read Anywhere””
option Amazon has developed.
CardStar——Free: Really want to
impress that girl at the checkout of
the pharmacy? When she asks you
for your store rewards card, take
out your phone, launch CardStar,
nd your store card that you pre-
programmed and present it to her.
Who knows, it could lead to true
love or something.
Shazam——Free Trial: Ever hear
that song in the grocery store that
you just have to gure out who sings
Top iPhone Apps
Source: iTunes
Free:
1. Google Translate
2. Sky Burger
3. Facebook
4. Angry Birds Free
5. Backbreaker Football
Paid:
1. Angry Birds ($0.99)
2. Angry Birds Seasons
($0.99)
3. Street Fighter IV ($0.99)
4. Tetris ($0.99)
5. Fruit Ninja ($0.99)
down the lyrics and then running
home and plugging it into Google,
launch Shazam and hold it up to-
ward the speakers. Within seconds,
the app identies it as that Wilson
Phillips song.
C Canabalt--$2.99: The most ad-
dicting iPhone game ever created
isn’’t Angry Birds; it’’s Canabalt. The
goal is simple, jump over obstacles
while moving left to right across a
landscape of muted grays and even
darker grays. There are lots of sur-
prises, but the goal is to run as far
as you can without dying.
Angry Birds——Free trial or
$0.99: Angry Birds is still pretty
addicting though. The object of the
game is quite simple: ing Kami-
kaze birds at pigs. The only mystery
of the game is what pissed off the
birds that much.
Instapaper——Free or $4.99:
Websites, let’’s face it, are just too
cluttered to provide an optimal
reading experience anywhere. With
bookmarklets users can install on a
Web browser on the computer and
many iPhone applications support
it, the application scrapes away all
of the clutter and presents just the
article.
Pandora——Free, subscription
available: Pandora is the mobile
version of the popular website
everyone browses to at the library,
when the iTunes collections are out
of reach. With great audio quality
and options to stream the audio
to car stereos, or, use them with
the already ubiquitous ““Made for
iPhone”” speakers.

It’’s not TV, but it is free (if you don’’t count tuition)
By Lisa Schwartz-Neubauer
Staff Writer
It is not that common that HBO is free, so
why not take advantage of all it has to offer?
The University of Hartford has provided
free HBO for a long time and although it
is not on-demand cable, there are plenty of
new movies, shows and specials the chan-
nel provides that you can turn on and enjoy
from the comfort of your residential halls.
Saturday at 9:00 p.m. Samuel L. Jackson
and Tommy Lee Jones are starring in an
HBO lm called "The Sunset Limited."
Based off a play by Pulitzer Prize winner
Cormac McCarthy, the drama examines
the relationship between two strangers
who are brought together by unfortunate
circumstances. Jackson plays a religious
ex con who saves an asocial, athiest college
professor (Jones) from throwing himself in
front of a train. The movie takes place in
the ex con’’s spare apartment in New York
City where the characters go after their en-
counter on the platform of the train. While
at the apartment, they debate the meaning
of human suffering, the existence of God,
and the propriety of the attempted suicide.
Beginning March 27 Oscar and Golden
Globe Winner Kate Winslet is premiering
in a ve part miniseries called ““Mildred
Peirce”” alongside actor Guy Peirce and
actress Evan Rachel Wood. The series sur-
rounds a middle class mother living in Los
Angeles who struggles to win the heart of
her daughter during the Great Depression.
After her unemployed husband leaves, she
struggles to provide for her children and
earn the respect of her daughter. Originally
Mildred Peirce was a novel and then it was
turned into an Oscar winning lm in 1945
and now the miniseries on HBO looks just
as good.
The creators of "Entourage" brought a
relatively new series to HBO called ““How
to Make it in America”” last year. The show
follows two young men in their twenties
who are trying to survive in New York City
and determined to achieve their American
Dream. Both of the guys try to make it in the
fashion business using their street knowledge
and connections to work their way up. With
other subplots and characters who are trying
to make it big as well the series proves how
difcult it can be to make it in the big Apple.
Season two premieres in April.
Every Friday at 9:00 p.m. British come-
dian Ricky Gervais teams up with friends
and British Comedians’’ Stephen Merchant
and Karl Pilkington in the "Ricky Gervais
Show." The series is an animated version
of Gervais’’s podcasts that has earned him a COURTESY OF HBO.COM
spot in the Guiness Book of World Records
for the most downloads. Gervais, Pilkington
and Merchant are all themselves in cartoon
forms and each week they discuss a variety
of different topics from how philosophy
has evolved through the ages to sugges-
tions about population control. The show
is only a half hour and keeps you laughing
the entire time.
So the next time you nd yourself thinking COURTESY OF TIME.COM
you have nothing left to watch on televi-
sion remember that HBO is just a few free Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson and
clicks away. Ricky Gervais are A-List stars on HBO.
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Bikram yoga lessons (left) and Wii Fit (right) are two of many options to maintain activity over stretches of staying indoors

Stuck on campus doesn’’t mean stuck in the dorm:

staying active while avoiding snow, cabin fever
By Danielle Nielsen
Staff Writer
With this winter facing the ““snowpoca-
lypse”” students have been battling cabin fever
for the entire winter thus far.
While sitting on the couch watching televi-
sion or refreshing your news feed on Facebook
for countless hours at a time may be the cure
for some during the winter, for others, being
cooped up inside wasting idle time can cause
people to go stir crazy and feel the need to
move around aside from the short walk from
the couch to the fridge. There are countless
options for a great work out right on campus.
The University of Hartford Sports Complex
is steps away from campus housing. With
the start of the new year and resolutions for
weight loss and more active lifestyles, a great
way to achieve those resolutions are right
here on campus without having to pay for a
gym membership.
The university’’s gym includes an aerobics
room, racquet ball court, weight room, cybex
room, and an olympic size indoor pool.
If a cardio workout and lifting weights isn’’t
in your workout routine, swimming laps in
the pool is a great alternative. Just 30 minutes
in the gym a day will keep you active in this
cold weather.
If the gym or ““working out”” per sé isn’’t in
your vocabulary, there are fun ways to get up
and moving right in your own dorm room. The
Wii Fit is a great alternative for non gym goers
and even great to play it when your friends
are over. One of the biggest features of the
game is that you can personalize your own
workout to t your own tness needs. With
a plethora of routines built into the system
they can make your workout even feel like a
game which can be a lot more appealing then
bench pressing weights.
For students that want to face the treacher-
ous roads and get off campus there’’s plenty
of alternative options in the area. If your
snuggie and annel pants aren’’t warming you
up, Bikram yoga better known as ““hot yoga””
will certainly warm you up.
Bikram Yoga classes are offered right in
Simsbury, Conn. Typically, classes are 90
minutes with the room set at around a steamy
105°F. The heat reduces stress and tension
which a lot can be set in during the winter
months.
““I really enjoy Bikram yoga during the
winter because it is such a relaxing way to
get out of the depressing snow and cold. In
the hot room it is easy to picture being on
an awesome beach somewhere instead of
being trapped in the gym. It works out your
body while relaxing your mind. It is a great
a 90 minute break from a boring routine and
although it is the same 26 postures and two
breathing exercises each time, it is challenging
every time you go.”” said senior Abby Dubnoff.
There are different ways to beat the cold
this winter, whether it would be a short walk
to gym, turning on your Wii in your dorm,
or taking a short drive to try an interesting
twist on yoga.
Whatever it is that you will do to stay ac-
tive will help your body and mind feel great.

Fox’’s comedy
‘‘Trafc Light’’ not
a show-stopper
By Paige Patunas and has the adorable British accent.
Copy Chief The show is being produced and

Need science credits? After seeing the promo for Fox’’s

new comedy ““Trafc Light”” I will
admit that I was a bit skeptical about
tuning into the premiere, which was
Tuesday after the popular new series
““Raising Hope.””
UVM Summer University offers a variety of science courses in This new series seemed to be just
like every other romantic comedy
medical, health, biological & physical sciences with credits on the surface but after 10 minutes
I found myself chuckling at some
that can transfer back to your institution. This summer, focus rather witty dialogue.
on the requirements that you really need. Post-baccalaureate The show looks to differentiate
itself from the rest of the romantic
summer premedical programs available, as well as comedy world by portraying the
male’’s side of how a relationship
over 400 general requirement courses. works. The series follows three
best friends in their thirties as they
make their way through the different
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Mike, played by David Denman,
Summer classes start May 23. most known for his role as Roy on
The Ofce,”” gives the viewers the
perspective of a married man with
a new child. From Adam, played
Catch Up. Get Ahead. by Nelson Franklin, we get some
insight into the life of a couple who
On Campus. Online. just took it to the next level and
moved in together. Finally, Ethan,
uvm.edu/summer/hartford played by Kris Marshall, lls the role
of the single guy who loves his dog
written by Bob Fisher, co-writer of
Wedding Crashers, and Adir Miller,
the creator of the original Israeli
series of the same name from which
““Trafc Light”” is based off of. On
IsraeliTV it is the highest-rated
comedy and just wrapped its second
season last November.
While ““Traffic Light”” airs at
9:30 p.m. on Tuesdays with the
very popular ““Raising Hope”” as its
lead-in, it will still have to prove
itself among the slew of romantic
comedies already on television,
including ““Perfect Couples”” which
follows three couples trying to get
their relationship right and airs on
NBC.
““Trafc Light”” may not be slap-
stick hilarious, but the occasional
witty banter, surprisingly, had me
laughing more than once. Trying
to see the three weasel their way
around not getting caught in the lies
men tell their signicant others will
warrant the show a second chance.
This one will take more than just one
episode to make me decide whether
to add it to the long list of television
shows I watch on a weekly basis or
throw it to the curb.
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What are winners made of?
Constant change is the norm for
professional sports teams, but con-
sistency may be the key to success.
Free agency has completely
changed the face of pro sports
from one of loyalty and die-hard
athleticism, into one where winning
a championship is pursued at all
costs –– literally.
Frustrated fans lament the dis-
loyal, greedy and selsh actions of
their favorite pros who, all too fre-
quently choose to follow the paper
trail to glory as their egos inate.
Beantown wept when its full-
bearded favorite betrayed them for
$52 million in 2005. Johnny Damon
agreed to shave his wild mane, and
then, he did the unthinkable, as he
stepped up to bat lead-off for the Evil
Empire, Boston’’s arch nemesis, the
New York Yankees.
Beyond the media frenzy, capital
gain and consequent ego-ination
that is the basis for pro-sports
today, the underlying principle of
trading athletes around like a pack
of baseball cards to try and nd the
missing piece to a winning team
is completely illogical. Especially
when it comes to team sports re-
quiring constant communication
and coordination to execute wins.
It is not uncommon to nd MLB
pitchers who prefer a specific
catcher on the other side of the plate
when they go out to the mound; this
is because of the consistency and
patterns of playing that evolve over
time when teams are stable.
According to the Wall Street Jour-
nal, Oxford University professor
Mark Van Vugt has spent much of
his time researching the ““Stability
and Performance in Football Teams””
in an effort to understand the effect
player consistency and team stabil-
ity have on game outcomes.
Van Vugt’’s ndings indicated that
there was a high correlation between
every facet of competitive success
and the consistency of team rosters
among pro European soccer teams.
Why was this correlation so high?
Intramural sports gaining popularity on campus
By Hayden Harrower
Staff Writer
Intramural basketball season is in
motion, and with it brings in bigger
crowds than Hartford basketball
itself many nights.
Most players compete on the bas-
ketball courts to keep playing time
on a team, to maintain a scholarship,
or in hopes to make huge sums of
money someday, but the students
that contend on the small courts
of the Sports Center in the empty
hours do so because they simply
love to play.
the informer
Jessica Rutledge •• Sports Editor
jrut424@yahoo.com
Twitter: @InformerSports
In part because of the ““highly coor-
dinated and synchronized activities””
vital to winning sporting events, but
also because of basic human nature
that kicks in and is our motivation
to succeed and win in life.
Or as Van Vugt put it, ““when play-
ers share both a common history and
the expectation of a common future,
their motivation improves and they
tend to ‘‘go the proverbial extra
mile for the team.’’ They become
stakeholders, not just employees.””
Change is Bad? How the EPL standings relate to roster stability
(% of players who were on team in August, 2008).
Van Vugt’’s ““Stability Index”” illustrates the highly positive
correlation among stable teams and overall success.
Everybody loves it when the
underdog wins, it is the classic
American hero story, an impossible
battle is overcome not by monetary
means, but by heart and an empow-
ered ghting spirit. So how come
today the underdog is no longer
For many of the players in the
intramural basketball league, it’’s
a second chance to play with a
team again. Many players that are
involved with intramurals were
promising high school athletes until
game-altering injuries had struck
them before they had their shot at
collegiate play.
Contrary to belief, the level of
competition is rather high for a
league of all regular college stu-
dents.
Almost every match is a close
one; game-winning three-pointers,
free throws to seal the deal, and
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the scrappy ghter capable of
overcoming the big guy, instead
he is rendered helpless by a lack
of money?
It’’s not fair, but at the same
time, money doesn’’t guarantee a
win. The New York Yankees and
the Dallas Cowboys are the two
most valuable sports franchises
in the pros, but they do not win
everything because of this, in
fact neither team made it to the
championship this past year!
So is success more likely for
a team that pursues new talent
or for one that sticks to its guns
and builds from within?
It is utterly impossible to slap
an unconditional solution onto
this sports conundrum.
In the meantime, it is also im-
portant to take into account each
side –– yes, money does help eld
a winning team in a capitalistic
society, but what’’s a team of
rich, talented strangers when
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they are up against a brotherhood
of talent, where each player is
completely synchronized and
familiarized with the playing
style of his teammates?
I think the sweet spot lies
somewhere in the middle.
three-second hustle plays to score
the last basket are all accustomed
nishers to the games of the intra-
mural league.
With teams such as NBD, Already
Won It and the Warriors, fans are
always entertained with great teams
and even greater rivalries.
““The best players, that don’’t
play for the school play in intra-
murals,”” said team captain of the
Warriors, Keith Burwell, a.k.a.
““Swagger””; who has played four
years in intramurals and has lost
in the championships every year.
Burwell continued to say, ““the best
The Hawks posted up a good ght, but were ultimately cut
short of a victory by a single three-point basket.
Hawks drop tight game
By Dan Lifshatz
Staff Writer
When Hartford traveled to Al-
bany, N.Y., Saturday, the idea was
to complete the sweep.
Hartford gave the Albany Great
Danes a beat-down in Hartford,
beating them soundly by 20 points.
This time, the Hawks got beat at
their own game, as the Great Danes
craved payback.
Hartford fell to the Great Danes
62-59, as Hartford could not com-
plete the massive comeback.
Hartford started slow, scoring just
seven points in the rst 9:19 of the
game, but showed promise with
a strong defensive game, holding
Albany to just nine points with only
10:41 remaining in the half.
After that, Albany went on a tear,
going on a 14-5 run, and leading by
seven at the half.
The second half was the same
early on, as Albany took the lead
by as much as 10, before the Hawks
competition is in intramurals, so if
you want to play the best, you play
intramurals.””
The surprising characteristic of
the league is the following for some
of the teams.
On nights where two good teams
play on one night, many have said
the bleachers ll up to the point
where people are forced to stand
to get a view of the game.
Its street ball attitude creates a
market for credibility and nick-
names. Some players dislike other
players, some teams dislike other
teams, and it is very similar to many
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started launching bombs. Hartford
came up shooting, going 10-of-22
from downtown after half, and
cutting the lead down to just three,
before an Anthony Minor lay-up
cut it to one.
After two more free throws from
Albany, the Hawks missed their
nal chance as Milton Burton’’s
three-point shot clanked off the
iron, and time expired to give the
Danes the win.
The Hawks played well, as Burton
lead the team with 16 points, while
Joe Zeglinski added 15 for his 100th
career double-digit game.
Genesis Maciel added nine, while
Ross Erickson followed up his
career high nine-point game with
eight against Albany.
The University of Hartford men
will try to stop their four-game skid
Thursday when they take on the
Maine Black Bears in Hartford, a
team they defeated 61-59 in Orono,
Maine.
Game tip-off is set for 7 p.m.
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other leagues.
““It’’s like any other league, there
are those powerhouses, and then
there are those teams that could
creep up on you but you know
you should beat,”” described Matt
Wilson, a.k.a. the White Mamba;
player for the Warriors.
The White Mamba, as is on the
back of his jersey, made a game
changing three-pointer late in the
second half to take the lead and ulti-
mately win the game Tuesday night.
The fun and excitement of in-
tramural sports is open to anyone
interested in signing up.

By Josh Batelli
Staff Writer
The Hartford’’s women’’s bas-
ketball team continued to play
their hearts out and were rewarded
with a win.
The Hawks put forth their best
basketball playing of the season in
Orono against the Black Bears of
the University of Maine on Tuesday
Feb. 8, winning 62-49.
The name of the game was
defense for the lady Hawks. They
held the Black Bears to 34 percent
shooting and forced 18 turnovers.
It was also a team game for the
Hawks as they nished with a
season high 20 assists.
The ball was spread around as
eight players had ve or more
points. It was their fourth straight
win following a three game los-
ing skid.
The game was a special one for
sophomore Alex Hall. She had
eight points, eight rebounds, and
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middle-distance races with a solid
seventh place and an admirable
2:00.26 time in the 800-meter run.
Records were broken by the
200-meter x4 relay team, who
crossed the nish line at an as-
tounding 1:31.10, crossing out the
former record of 1:31.87 set by last
season’’s squad.
A crossover between the track
and field events, multitalented
sophomore Ackeme Brown took
home third place in the 60-meter
dash and the long jump, earning a
7.08 and 6.38 meters respectively.
Freshman Rashawn Providence
proved himself this meet, making
the topmost triple jump mark of
13.09 meters.
Fellow triple jumper sophomore
Chasani Douglas ranked second in
the event, after combining for a total
of 12.80 meters.
Junior Kenterra Richardson got
the ball rolling for the lady Hawks
in the 60-meter dash, with an 8.35
Track & eld excelled at the Dartmouth Classic, the Hawks
hope to stay hot & win at the Valentine Invitational, hosted
by Boston University on Feb. 11-12.
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eight assists during the Hawks’’
fourth straight win.
in the preliminary races.
She then proceeded to place
eighth with a time of 8.26.
Sophomore Priscilla Appiagyei
came in fourth in the 400-meter
run at 59.07.
Sophomore Natalie Bonham
earned a fth place in the 500-me-
ter run, nishing up at 1:22.29.
The women’’s 200-meter x4
relay team honored second place
with a total time of 1:49.77.
Junior Nicolle Adams and
freshman Rebecca Cheatham
placed seventh and eighth in the
long jump, correspondingly with
5.10 and 4.97 meter jumps.
The men and women of the
University of Hartford track and
eld team will vie to continue their
early season success throughout
the spring.
The Hawks will travel to Bos-
ton University to compete in the
Valentine Invitational.
Women will compete on Feb.
11, while the men will jump into
the competition on Feb. 12.
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Hartford started the season at a
disappointing 1-9. Usually the gold
Although Lang is only a junior, her leadership skills & drive have earned her captaincy in 2011.
By Charlie Paullin
Staff Writer
Blizzards and subzero tempera-
tures are foreign to newly elected
co-captain Christiana Lang, but the
rising Hawk star is eager to adapt
and improve to excel in every way.
The Huntington Beach, Calif.,
native turned rising junior defense-
man for the University of Hartford
women’’s soccer team, has had to
get used to the brutal New England
winter.
That’’s OK though, No. 23 is adjust-
ing quite well, as Lang will be one
of two captains for the upcoming
2011 season.
The responsibility and prestige
bestowed upon Lang as captain has
her, ““so stoked……to be on the team,
let alone in a position to help out
even more,”” she said.
Lang was elected to serve as co-
captain along with fellow teammate,
senior Michele DeSanti for the fall
2011 season earlier this week.
Both of the captains are extraor-
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standard in the America East, they
began 3-4 in conference play.
Catching up with
soccer co-captain,
Ana Lang
dinary players on the eld, and off.
University of Hartford women’’s
soccer head coach John Natale com-
mended DeSanti, stating, ““she gives
110 percent every game, and will do
what it takes to win games. She leads
by example on the eld and therefore
has earned the respect of her peers
and the coaching staff,”” according
to hartfordhawks.com.
Lang is also driven and inspired to
succeed in her new role as co-captain.
Coach Natale describes the young
player as a ““natural born leader.””
Lang says she draws inspiration
from her favorite pro players Mia
Hamm and Brandy Chastain; and
watching them take down China for
U.S.A. in the 1999 World Cup Finals
is a game she will never forget.
As for the upcoming fall season,
Lang is condent that the whole team
is in to win it all.
““I think the core of the entire group
is unreal,”” she said, ““and I think
having such a strong core coming
back together is going to be a huge
advantage for us.””
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Now, the Hawks stand strong
at 7-4 and in sole possession of
fourth place. Overall, the Hawks
are 10-14.
The games get more important
from here and the Hawks jockey
for seeds for the America East
conference tournament.
Over the next week and a half, the
Hartford women’’s team will face
Boston University, Binghamton
University, and UMBC; the three
teams are rst place, second place,
and third place teams in the confer-
ence respectively.
Although the Hawks have already
lost to each team, they have not
faced off since their latest spark of
winning momentum. The Hawks
may have nally found their way
back into a winning groove.
After the games, we’’ll nd out
if the Hawks are a contender or a
pretender in the conference.
First up is Boston University,
who the Hawks will host at the
Reich Family Pavilion on Feb 13.
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Lang’’s healthy amount of success
on the eld is perfectly compli-
mented by her healthy lifestyle and
diet off the eld.
““I’’m a bit of a health freak,”” Lang
admits, ““not much a burger and fries
type of person.””
Instead, the newly elected co-
captain prefers a variety of ethnic
foods, especially sushi.
Lang tries to keep a healthy
balance in all areas of her life,
and with Valentine’’s Day rapidly
approaching, the beach blonde ef-
fortlessly keeps her game face on
and remains cool.
When asked about the upcom-
ing holiday Lang says that she
is completely focused on school
right now, but as far as a potential
Valentine’’s Day beau is concerned
she’’s ““denitely not keeping that
out of the picture.””
Poise, dedication and drive propel
Lang towards success both on and
off the eld.
Sports Editor Jessica Rutledge
contributed reporting.
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Hawks taste sweet victory, again

The Hawks are nally back on the road to victory & not a moment
too soon. As the games get more important, Hartford has upped the
ante, ghting to be a contender in the America East Championship.
See ““Big Wins keep Big East dreams alive,”” page 11.
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Track & eld shine at

Dartmouth Classic
By Erica White
Staff Writer
The men and women’’s track
and eld teams participated in the
Dartmouth Classic last Saturday,
with two rst place nishes and a
record-breaking performance.
Grabbing a No. 1 nish for the
Hartford men in the track events
was junior sprinter Anderson
Emerole, with a 1:06.41 in the
500-meter run. Emerole beat out
junior William Godfrey of New
Hampshire by only one-hundredth
of a second.
Senior Warren Lane, also a
sprinter, took second place in the
400-meter run with a time of 50.43.
Junior distance runner Andrew
Chalmers blazed the trail for the
See ““Hawks hook No. 1 nish-
es, break records,”” on page 11.

Upcoming Games
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Face-off specialist Tim Fallon (right) is poised to lead Hartford to victory in his nal season. M. bball vs. Maine @ 7 p.m. HOME*

UHa ranked No. 3 in coaches’’ poll FRIDAY, Feb. 11, 2011

By Jessica Rutledge
Sports Editor
The Seawolves may be the No. 1
preseason conference pick, but the
Hawks are ready to attack in 2011.
The America East preseason poll
was released on Tuesday, unveiling
the 2011 Men’’s Lacrosse Crown pre-
dictions cast by conference coaches.
Stony Brook captured the No. 1 spot
with 25 points, Albany followed with
20 points, the Hawks were tabbed at
No. 3 with 16 points, UMBC col-
lected 13 points at No. 4, while the
No. 5 and 6 slots went to Vermont
and Binghamton with a total of 11
and ve points, respectively.
Coaches were not permitted to vote
for their own team, so when all ve
possible rst-place votes went to
Stony Brook, the single remaining
rst-place pick vote was left to be
cast by the defending champs –– the
Seawolves’’ coach handed the vote
to Hartford.
The No. 3 slot and nal rst-place
vote reinforce the excitement, talent
and anticipation building among the
Hawks in the wake of their most
successful season.
Last year, the Hawks fought to
earn more victories and suffered
fewer defeats than the team has seen
in seven years.
Leading the way in 2011 is
face-off specialist Tim Fallon. The
powerhouse player returns for his se-
nior season this spring, having been
named D-I LaxPower All-American
and he also led the country in face
off percentages (.622) in 2010.
The Hawks will welcome back
a strong offensive crew, as four of
its ve top-scorers return having W. Track away at Valentine Invitational
averaged 10.0 goals per game,
No. 2 in the conference last year. (Boston University @ TBA)
Hartford will also add 10 new
faces to its roster this spring;
four midelders, two long stick
midelders, one goalie, two at-
SATURDAY, Feb. 12, 2011
tackmen and one defensemen will M. bball at Boston University @ 7 p.m.
beef up the team –– four of whom
are high school All-Americans. M. Track away at Valentine Invitational
Under the guidance of head
coach Peter Lawrence, the Hawks (Boston University @ TBA)
are eager to ght for the chance to
qualify for the 2011 America East
Championship, it would be their
rst time to qualify since 2003.
SUNDAY, Feb. 13, 2011
Hartford will face-off for the W. bball vs. Boston University @ 1 p.m. HOME
rst time in 2011 on Feb. 19
against No. 16/17 Massachusetts.
The game will be played at Al- *For more information regarding University of
Marzook Field in West Hartford Hartford athletics, please visit: www.hartfordhawks.com
and is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m.