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Donations solicited for local charities

ED RYAN/The Daily Campus
UConn is collecting non-perishable food including canned
goods and other foodstuffs to help local charities.
By Kate Monohan
Campus Correspondent
Imagine not having a steady food
supply with the holiday season just
around the corner.
“Nobody should be hungry on
Thanksgiving,” said Kim Ripley, a 1st-
semester real estate and urban eco-
nomics major. Ripley is a volunteer
for the Northeast Community Food
Collaborative food drive.
The Northeast Community Food
Collaborative is an organization that is
working through UConn Community
Outreach to provide Thanksgiving
meals for local residents. UConn stu-
dent volunteers are helping obtain
donations to give to the program for
this Thanksgiving.
This is a brand new food drive pro-
gram, which is working to help sev-
eral charities like the ACCESS Agency,
Catholic Charities and Covenant Soup
Kitchen in Willimantic, according to
program director Emily Galanto, a 5th-
semester environmental science major.
Items that are recommended for
donation are non-perishables such
as cereals, pastas and soups. Galanto
urges students who clean out their
rooms of extra foods that are going to
be left behind over Thanksgiving break
to donate them to feed hungry families
in the community.
The drive started on Nov. 17 and
ends today. Donations can be given at
a collection table in the Student Union
lobby from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. There
will also be health educational decora-
tions, and a can-tower building contest,
Galanto said.
According to Galanto, the drive has
been going on all week with participa-
tion from such groups as, Greek Life,
HuskyTHON, Students for Sensible
Drug Policy (SSDP), The UConn paint-
ball team, Hillel, and UConn’s cultural
centers. In addition, the modern and
classical languages, political science,
anthropology, statistics and individual-
ized major departments are sponsoring
the effort with large donations.
Galanto hopes students will donate
» GALANTO, page 2

Hogan looks to
cut costs with 99 problems for San Diego State
new task force Greene, Hayes
By Katherine Martinez
Campus Correspondent
key contributors in
Due to the recent recession, a Cost Operations rout of Aztecs
and Revenue Efficiencies (CORE) Taskforce
has been assembled with the goal of saving 3 to By Brittany Perotti
5 percent of state appropriated money, accord- Senior Staff Writer
ing to University President Michael Hogan.
Although the Taskforce was created by Hogan, HARTFORD — Two games. Two
he admits that the idea is not unique. different-looking teams. Same result
Several other universities, even private – another win. This time, however,
schools, have started similar programs that the women’s basketball team execu-
aim to save money. Thirty-five percent of the ted often and played as a unit as it
University budget comes from the state. won against
But over the years, Connecticut has reduced San Diego
the amount of money it gives the university. State, 99-55, WOMEN’S
According to Hogan, UConn lost 3 percent of
the money it usually receives this year and could
Thursday
night.
BASKETBALL
possibly lose much more. On paper,
With this, the President has formed a task the game
force that will consolidate spending, find ways looked like it
to use money more efficiently and productively was all Maya

99
and generate 2 to 3 percent more money from Moore, who
other resources, said Provost Peter Nicholls. had 17 points
Nicholls co-chairs the CORE task force along in the first
with Chief Financial Officer Richard Gray and half. Her abi-
Chief Operations Officer, Barry Feldman. There lity to knock
are a total of 11 people on the task force, which in the shots
seemed to be
» UCONN, page 3 contagious,

55
as UConn
went up

Campus cafés 56-27 at the

half.
“I think

selling more that we sha-

red the ball very well,” Moore said.
“I thought everybody was able to

coffee than usual contribute, you know, when our guys

were out there you were pretty sure
that anybody could score or make a
great pass.”
By Kelsey Bongiovanni Yet, on another level, it was about
DAN GINDRAUX/The Daily Campus
Campus Correspondent
Guard Kalana Greene drives the ball against Aztec forward Allison Duffy. UConn beat San Diego State 99-55 at the XL Center Thursday night. » MOORE, page 11
Coffee sales at UC Cafes located around
campus have seen a 4.93 percent increase per
pound since last year, according to Jeff Collins,
manager of UC Cafes.
So far, there have been 355 more pounds of
coffee sold in comparison to last year. In 2007,
T-shirt fund raisers, donations aim
from July 1 to Oct. 27, 7,199 pounds of coffee
were sold. From July 1 to Oct. 27 of this year,
7,554 pounds of coffee have been sold.
to clean, restore Mirror, Swan lakes
There is not a set explanation for the increase.
Many attribute it to a number of different things By Katherine Martinez sold at the Union Exchange on campus, the swamps were
such as the high student enrollment this semes- Campus Correspondent Convenience store in the Student transformed into “catch basins,”
ter, a variety of new coffee flavors being offered, Union so that students can help or lakes, to catch run-off water.
as well as the removal of disposable cups from Swan and Mirror Lakes are make a difference too. The lakes eventually run into
the dining halls. considered important symbols On the front corner of the public streams and rivers.
Many students rely on coffee to get them on the UConn campus. Yet the shirt, there is a cartoon image of “We have an environmental
through the day. lakes, which are over 100 years Hogan in a boat on a lake. On responsibility to keep the water
Taylor Schoenthaler, a 3rd-semester kinesi- old, are in desperate need of the back of the shirt is a life pre- clean,” Rhodes said.
ology major, drinks about 15 cups of coffee a maintenance in order to restore server and the letters “S.O.L.” According to Rhodes, there
week, sometimes two or three a day. To get her their original beauty. According to Rhodes, $3.50 will are phragmites that grow in
caffeine fix, Schoenthaler gets coffee where According to University be added to the fund for every Swan Lake that, if left alone,
ever it is available – that means a lot of trips to President Michael Hogan, the shirt sold for $10. will fill the entire lake. This
the UC Cafes. Save our Lakes Campaign has President Hogan estimates past summer, a crew of workers
Lynley Gates, a 3rd-semester history major, been launched to raise funds to that at least $1 million must be vacuumed out the over-grown
has also made buying coffee an essential part of help restore the lakes on cam- raised to restore both lakes. plant life, algae and muck. The
her daily routine. pus. “Over the long-term, they water was instantly clearer.
“I drink coffee every day,” she said. “I try to The goal of the campaign is require a lot of maintenance,” “Two students actually came
keep it at one cup, but some days I need to have to educate students and alumni Hogan said. out with inner tubes, although
two.” of the conditions of the lakes The maintenance is something they had to be turned away,”
Gates said that she usually buys her coffee at and raise money to help clean the President finds necessary in Rhodes said.
the Union Street Market. and landscape them, according to order to retain an image which Although the university made
Uniquely Caffeinated Cafes, the main sup- Stephen Rhodes, executive assis- has become a symbol of the progress over the summer, there
plier of coffee at UConn, have several loca- tant to the President. University. is still a lot of work to be done.
tions on campus including Bookworms’ Café The UConn Foundation has When UConn was established, According to Rhodes, the lakes NICK HART (top), SHAUN LEVY (bottom) /The Daily Campus
in Homer Babbidge Library, the Chem Café set up a fund on its Web site the lakes were merely swamps in need to be dredged to remove Swan Lake (top) and Mirror Lake (bottom) both got vacuumed
asking alumni to donate money. the middle of a farm. As build- this past summer to try and revitalize the lakes’ health, but more
» UNIVERSITY, page 3 Additionally, T-shirts are being ings and roads were constructed » CAMPUS, page 2 work is needed, administrators say.

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Agents of Improv Bench players Weather 2
bring the funny to productive in women’s Commentary 4
the Student Union basketball’s rout of Focus 7
Theater. Aztecs. Comics 10
see page 7 see page 14 Sports 14