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A blowout road win over Rhode Island gave RJ Harris and the football team plenty to celebrate Saturday.

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Hurricane Sandy forces campus exodus

Organization reinstated a� er suspension

At left, a sign informs students that Holloway Commons closed at 1 p.m. Monday. At center, updates on Hurricane Sandy play at Union Court in the MUB. At right, the � agpole outside the MUB is pictured shortly after o� cials removed the � ags in anticipation of high winds.

CATS REMAIN UNBEATEN Mazzaglia waives right to hearing

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Greg Burke skates with the puck in UNH’s 4-3 win Friday over Northeastern. With a tie Saturday, the Wildcats sit at 4-0-1.

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Storm makes its way through UNH

By KATIE GARDNERSTAFF WRITER

After a yearlong suspension, Com-mUNHiversity has offi cially been rein-stated as a student organization at UNH. The group is known for bringing together

CommUNHiversity returns a� er incident

By PHOEBE McPHERSON STAFF WRITER

It has multiple Twitter handles, has been Instagrammed, talked about, and has cancelled school up and down the Eastern seaboard. Its effects and path of destruction were constantly up in the air until it hit.

Hurricane Sandy has come to UNH and New England from the Ca-ribbean, and the school prepared for the worst. This is going to be “more powerful than Tropical Storm Irene,” according to Senior Corporate News Representative of PSNH Martin Mur-ray.

On Friday, UNH declared cur-tailed operations for Monday, Oct. 28 and Tuesday, Oct. 29 in preparation for Hurricane Sandy.

In an e-mail sent on Friday, Ex-ecutive Director of Public Safety Paul Dean explained that the backup gener-ator on campus would be scheduled for maintenance at the same time that the storm was anticipated to hit Durham.

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DOVER — The man charged with killing a Univer-sity of New Hampshire student whose body still has not been found has given up his right to a hearing.

Twenty-nine-old Seth Mazzaglia was scheduled to be in Dover District Court Monday for a probable cause hear-ing on second-degree murder charges.

Prosecutors say he suffocated or strangled 19-year-old Elizabeth “Lizzi” Marriott Oct. 9. Investigators continue to search for her body along the New Hampshire coastline.

A judge did not reach a decision Monday in a hear-

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CorrectionsIf you believe that we have made an error, or if you have questions about The New Hampshire’s journalistic standards and practices, you may contact Executive Editor Justin Doubleday by phone at 603-862-4076 or by email at [email protected].

Political Profi les Men’s hockey still undefeated

UNH College Republicans and Democrats explain what they see the most important issues to be in the upcoming election.

The UNH men’s ice hockey team came out with a draw in their road game against the Northeastern Huskies on Saturday night.

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15 In an exciting overtime victory, the UNH fi eld hockey team came out on top against the Dartmouth Big Green on Sunday.

‘Cats continue streak

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• Drop in Yoga for students and staff. 12-1 p.m. Wildcat Den, MUB.

• Durham Young People AA Meeting. 12-1 p.m. Durham Community Church.

• Live fi re extinguisher training. All Day. Outside of Whittemore Center.

• Get Out of Bed and Shred, 4:30 - 7:30 p.m. Granite State Room.

• Campus Closed • Halloween!• Campus reopens at 4 a.m. pend-

ing power and weather. • Yoga class for students. 1- 2 p.m.

Wildcat Den, MUB.

Get Out of Bed and Shred which was originally scheduled for today, was rescheduled to Thursday due to Hurricane Sandy.

Turn to page seven for early storm photos from around campus in prepa-ration for Hurricane Sandy.

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ing involving several newspapers regarding the release of several court documents pertaining to the case. The newspapers argue that the documents should be revealed and would give the public better knowledge of the details surround-ing the accusations against Maz-

zaglia. The prosecutors argue that releasing the information could jeopardize the case.

Assistant Attorney General James Vara objected the newspa-pers’ motions last week. In a nine-page document to the newspapers, Vara wrote, “If the affi davits are unsealed, there is a substantial chance that potential witnesses’ testimony may be tainted by the disclosure of information con-

tained within.”Marriott — of Westborough,

Mass. — was living with rela-tives in Chester and commuted to UNH.

She left a note for family members Oct. 9 saying she was visiting friends after her evening class but would be home by mid-night.

Her cell phone was last used in Dover that night.

By NORMA LOVEASSOCIATED PRESS

CONCORD —The Repub-

lican and Democratic candidates for New Hampshire governor are using a tried and true strategy in their campaigns: Frame their op-ponent’s views on issues.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Ovide Lamontagne is using a reliable GOP election strategy of trying to pin a tax-and-spend, liberal Democrat label on rival Maggie Hassan.

Lamontagne points to state budgets Hassan helped write as a state senator that contained tax and fee hikes as proof voters can expect more of the same if she’s elected. Lamontagne insists voters can’t trust Hassan’s word to veto a personal income or general sales tax.

Hassan is adopting a com-mon Democratic strategy by por-traying Lamontagne as an extrem-

ist with tea party ties who would take away the rights of women to make health-care decisions and the rights of gays to marry.

Hassan said Lamontagne is deceiving voters by not discuss-ing social issues or including his staunch opposition to abortion and gay marriage on his campaign website.

“The narratives fi t in with the national narratives of the two par-ties,” said political analyst Dean Spiliotes, who writes for NHPo-liticalCapital.com.

Republican Party candidates argue Democrats will raise taxes and spend money, he said. Demo-cratic Party candidates say GOP rivals are linked to the tea party and too socially conservative.

Trying to cement his point with voters, Lamontagne’s cam-paign issues daily releases titled “Maggie’s Taxes of the Day” with a list of fees or taxes in budgets passed when Hassan was in the Senate.

Gov. candidates frame issues for each other

“Another signifi cant consider-ation in this decision [curtailed op-erations] was that the university’s co-generation plant is offl ine for scheduled maintenance.

“Electrical power for the UNH campus comes from two sources: power generated by the co-gener-ation plant and power purchased from PSNH,” he said in the e-mail.

In a press release by Pub-lic Services of New Hampshire (PSNH) on Oct. 28, the company stated it has over 400 additional line crews ready. It also has 100 crews set for tree trimmings.

“[PSNH] worked to get extra crews,” Murray said. Some of the crews are from across the mid-west.

PSNH did admit that the amount of additional assistance and speed of power restoration will be diffi cult while the storm is in progress. “[We are] expecting pow-er outages, perhaps widespread,” Murray said. “[We are] anticipating a lot of damage.”

Customers are advised to stay prepared with storm supplies and to expect power outages. PSNH predicts “very high winds and rain” until Tuesday.

In preparation for the weather Murray advised people to have, “a fl ashlight, batteries, and library books. … Don’t study by candle-light, but fl ashlights are accept-able,” he said.

At 9 a.m. on Monday morning, there were 1,456 students left in the residence halls. Normally, there are between 5,000-6,000. Throughout the day, more students left campus to travel to the homes of relatives,

friends or their own home.Cameron Duval, a Gables res-

ident, had packed up his bags and called a cab, ready for departure from campus. Storms scare him, since, “I saw a movie called the ‘Wizard of Oz,’” he said.

Duval later returned to cam-pus. “I have work tomorrow,” he said. He is a supervisor for campus rec, and according to him, “they’ll be open.”

Out-of-stater Elizabeth Strods felt distressed as to the number of students left in her residence hall, Christensen, and her inability to go home.

“I have no way to get there,” she said. She was going to stay with relatives, but her plans were cut short, because “they’re not traveling because of the storm.”

Strods said she is not too con-cerned. “I don’t think the condi-tions will be horrible,” she said.

“I’m going home. My base-ment fl oods when it rains, so I wan-na help my mom,” said Liz Ross, a Gables resident assistant.

Student Daniel DelTufo stayed on campus for the storm. “I

don’t think that this storm is going to be as bad as it is portrayed,” he said.

Meanwhile, freshmen Emma Schmitt and Linsdey Adams trav-eled home on Sunday in prepara-tion for the storm.

“The school seemed to really want everyone off campus, and once the power goes out, I wouldn’t want to be there,” Adams said.

Schmitt agreed.“After hearing about classes

being canceled, the dining halls be-ing closed, and talking to my resi-dence hall director, it seemed like going home was a safer way to go,” she said.

Monday morning, in an e-mail to the UNH community, Dean re-addressed the situation. According to the e-mail, the MUB and Hamel Recreation Center would be clos-ing early at 2 p.m. Both Philbrook and Holloway Commons dining hall closed at 1 p.m., as well.

Later, at 3 p.m., Gov. Lynch placed New Hampshire into a state of emergency, which will require motorists and non-essential vehi-cles to be off the road.

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the UNH community, but in Spring 2011, it lost recognition after a haz-ing incident.

The incident occurred at an event that was intended to bring the organization closer together and to create a stronger bond between new members, but what occurred was considered hazing by the uni-versity.

“It was terribly unfortunate,” said CommUNHiversity member Kelsie Stevens. She went on to say that the event actually did work to bring the organization closer to-gether, but its members do under-stand why there was a problem.

“We have learned so much from this and now have a better understanding of what hazing actu-ally is,” she said.

The organization is moving forward and it has now fi nished the reinstatement process.

“They came back as essen-

tially a brand new organization,” said Nate Hastings, the coordinator of student organization and leader-ship. The group had to go through the same process as a new organi-zation and was treated no different from anyone else trying to start a group. However, CommUNHiver-sity is on a two-year probation.

The group had to have at least seven group members, with two be-ing full-time offi cers, which was no problem for this group, since it has approximately 15-20 members. It also had to draft a constitution and have a recognition meeting. Ste-vens also mentioned that the group had to educate all of its members on what is considered to be hazing.

In the past, CommUNHiver-sity has brought many events to UNH, all of which were intended to bring the university closer to-gether. A major event it is known for starting is the Homecoming bonfi re, which is held each year after the Homecoming parade. CommUNHiversity also started the fl ash dance, as well as the primal

scream, which is held in Dimond Library during fi nals week.

Looking to the future, the organization is currently brain-storming ideas for events. It has been collaborating with the group that took over UNH’s Best Dance Crew, which CommUNHiversity originally started. It is also look-ing to have the primal scream start again this year. Stevens spoke of trying to bring more fun events to campus now that the organization is up and running once again.

The university has high hopes for the group as well. “I think they’re going to contribute a lot of community spirit to UNH,” Hast-ings said.

That is what the group is known for and is also what Stevens hopes that students realize. Stevens said she hopes that the group’s set-back won’t alter students’ view of the group.

“Our organization is all about community and bringing the uni-versity together and getting more traditions on campus,” she said.

By CARLIE SCHWAEBERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The upcoming Nov. 6 elec-tion has already stirred up contro-versial conversation on campus, as politicians make campaign stops, students watch the de-bates and groups try to get their platforms heard in anticipation of what is expected to be a close race between President Barack Obama and former governor Mitt Romney.

However, one more con-versation will take place after all the polls are closed and the fi nal tally has been made. “What Hap-pened? A Post-Election Discus-sion with Dante Scala and Andy Smith,” will take place at 7 p.m. on Nov. 8 in the Strafford Room in the MUB.

As noted in the discussion name, Dante Scala and Andy Smith, both political scientists at UNH, will be present at this dis-cussion to talk about what hap-

pened at the election, as well as answering questions from the audience. Tom Haines, assistant professor of English, will be mod-erating this discussion.

“I think I was asked to lead the discussion because I have a background as a journalist,” Haines said. “I just see myself as the guys in the middle … helping things move a long.

Haines said he hopes to not only see UNH students at the dis-cussion, but faculty and the broad-er community. Haines is also plan-ning to ask Scala and Smith, who know a lot of detailed data, about the polling data. The importance of the election for the nation, as well as the district, will be greatly considered during this discussion

“After all the sound and fury of this election season, it’s impor-tant to take a deep breath, step back and think about whether and how our politics and government will change as a result of what just happened,” Scala said.

Profs prep for post election discussion

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A paper hangs from a door in the MUB warning of modi� ed MUB hours. The building will be open Tuesday.

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By LILY O’GARASTAFF WRITER

Olivia Ferdon, a bubbly fresh-man math major from East Lyme, Conn., has already been very in-volved with both the UNH College Democrats and UNH Students for Obama. She’s always been interested in politics, and was heavily involved in Obama’s fi rst presidential cam-paign in 2008, through efforts like phone banking. Ferdon even went to the inauguration in January 2009.

“I really felt that what I did made a difference,” Ferdon said. She added that seeing Obama elected was “one of the most rewarding things [she] could ever hope to experience.”

Ferdon said she enjoys being a member of both the UNH College Democrats and UNH Students for Obama, and she said she loves that they both share the common goal of promoting Obama and getting him re-elected.

Campaigning in a swing state has also been exciting for the fresh-man. As of right now, the race is very close; Ferdon knows this, and said that no matter the results of the election, she will be proud of the 15+ hours of work a week that she put into the cause.

“Our main objective is to get

kids at UNH to realize that their vote does make a difference,” Ferdon said.

Ferdon is a staunch Democrat, but she especially identifi es with the party’s platform in this election. She said that social issues like education, women’s issues and marriage equal-ity are critical right now. However, she does feel that both parties have swept these issues under the rug.

“I know that foreign policy and the economy are really important, but I want to see candidates ad-dress the social issues,” Ferdon said. “They’re important to me, and to all young people. “

Ferdon cited the Pell Grant is-sue as an example.

“I don’t want to leave college with debt the size of a mortgage,” Ferdon laughed.

She said that the social issues are what keep young people interest-ed and cause them to vote, as these issues affect everyday life.

While Ferdon is defi nitely knowledgeable and passionate about politics, she also plays the piano and guitar, rows crew, loves the arts and is the Hall Council President in Christensen.

By ALYSSA TALIAFERROSTAFF WRITER

With Election Day right around the corner, students every-where are scrambling to receive their absentee ballots, and make a point of watching at least one of the grueling and slightly comi-cal presidential debates. While the nation seems to be divided when it comes to voting for our nation’s next president, Brian Dobson, president to the UNH College Republicans (UNHCRs), has his mind made up.

At the age of 29, he has lit-tle time for hobbies as he and his wife just gave birth to their second child. As a senior political science major at UNH, however, he takes his position heading the UNHCRs very seriously. Dobson said he was drawn to the UNHCRs because he strongly believes in Republican ideas and ideals, and the organiza-tion is a great place to discuss and experience them.

As far as the direction of elec-tion, he said that it can head one of two ways.

“One, we can have a repeat of the last four years with more gov-ernment intrusion and dependence or we can look to a self-suffi cient future where government plays

a smaller role and the onus of re-sponsibility is put back on the peo-ple,” he said.

Dobson said that the current election would not be any differ-ent than any other election of our time, in that we must understand that not every presidential candi-date is going to keep every prom-ise they make. The intention might be there, but no candidate is super-man.

“Elections are about grand promises but it is important to know that not all of those promis-es can be met, so one must look at the past experiences of those run-ning and judge who is most likely to follow through on those prom-ises,” he said.

Despite demonstrating how aware he is of this common politi-cal pattern, Dobsen said the level of attacks on the part of both cam-paigns has been horrifying.

“This election has been one attack after another by both cam-paigns. Both sides should spend

less time criticizing and pointing fi ngers at the other and spend their time talking about what each can do for the American people and let the American people decide who is the best choice for this country,” he said.

As each day that passes is one step closer to Nov. 6, Dobson fears that the constant fi nger-pointing is causing a very serious divide in America rather than unifi cation. He said that this divide is in part because of those voters who go into the ballot box without any pri-or knowledge of either candidate, a problem this nation has come to know all too well.

“I would implore all students at UNH to get engaged, get in-formed and only then should one vote,” he said. “Without accurate knowledge, one corrupts the integ-rity of the democratic process and uninformed voters are more harm-ful to our country than those who simple choose not to vote.”

Dobson strongly suggested that we as young Americans “need to be more informed and engaged so that when we leave school and enter the ‘real world,’ we are pro-ductive members of society.”

Political pro� les: Students sound o� on electionDemocrat Olivia Ferdon talks about social issues

Republican Brian Dobson discusses candidates’ promises in election season

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President Barack Obama

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Without accurate knowledge, one cor-rupts the integrity of the democratic process and uninformed voters are more harmful to our country than those who simple choose not to vote.”

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“Our main objective

is to get kids at UNH to realize that their vote does make a di� erence.”

Olivia FerdonMember, UNH College

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STAFF REPORTASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Five things to watch for in the fi nal week of the presidential race between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney:

1. SANDY: The Superstorm barreling up the East Coast is threat-ening several important battleground states — Virginia, North Carolina, Ohio and New Hampshire. Already it’s caused both candidates and their running mates to shuffl e campaign travel schedules. Widespread power outages are likely, meaning weary voters in the storm’s path may get a reprieve from the TV ads and au-tomated calls fl ooding their homes. Beyond that, it’s unclear just how much impact the storm will have on the race.

2. GOVERNING OBAMA: Obama has spent months trying to balance his re-election bid with run-ning the government. Now his offi -cial job is beckoning — just when his campaign needs him the most, with little more than a week before

the election. It provides Obama with an opportunity to show leadership in real time. But it also presents risks — and if he’s not careful, Obama could open himself up to criticism that he’s putting politics over safety.

3. EXPANDING THE MAP?: Mindful that he has fewer paths to reach the 270 Electoral College votes needed for victory, Romney advisers are considering sending Romney, running mate Paul Ryan or both to Minnesota. The state hasn’t gone Republican in the presidential race since 1972, but recent poll-ing shows a tighter race there than most anticipated. Obama is seeking to defend historically Democratic turf, dispatching Vice President Joe Biden to campaign Thursday in Pennsylvania.

4. ALL ABOUT OHIO: Polls are showing a tightening race in the all-important battleground state. Obama has a signifi cant edge in the early vote, and has a stronger get-out-the-vote organization than Romney. The president can lose the state and still reach the magic number. It’s hard to see how Rom-

ney wins without Ohio; he’d have to cut into traditionally Democratic territory — where he trails Obama

in polling — to make up for the 18 votes Ohio offers.

5. JOBS REPORT: The fi nal

unemployment rate report comes Friday — just four days before Election Day.

5 things to watch for in the presidential campaign homestretch


By ALYSSA LOFAROContributing Writer

The seventh annual “Get Out of Bed and Shred” ski and snow-board event is getting the UNH community ready for the winter season.

The expo was originally set to take place this Tuesday, Oct. 30, but due to the curtailed operations on campus, has been rescheduled for Thursday Nov. 1 in the Granite State Room at the MUB.

“My favorite part of the event is just getting people stoked for the winter,” said Steven Rubinstein, a first-time participant for GOBS and a student participating in Recreation Management and Policy. “Skiing and snowboarding are pretty popu-lar in this area, and around this time of year everyone is itching to get back on the hill, so I think people get pretty excited for the event.” All those attending the event will have an opportunity to purchase a raffle ticket for prizes, which will be donated by the many ven-dors. All proceeds from the raffle

go to support Northeast Passage at UNH. There will also be videos, music, ski and snowboard equip-ment, lift tickets and more.

Rubinstein is promoting this event to the fullest. “Students should get involved because it will get them even more excited for the coming winter, and if they participate in

the raffle they will be supporting a great cause as well.” Nicole Foster is another stu-dent participating in GOBS through Recreation Management and Poli-cy. Both Rubinstein and Foster are first-timers at the event and both said they are excited to promote winter sports on campus. “It is important

for everyone to try to stay active during the winter,” Foster said. The event is sponsored by the Recreation Society and organized by students in the Recreation Services Program Design class, including Rubinstein and Foster, as well as Will Humphrey, Nelson Brown, Nina

Russem, Ted Gettinger, Jeff Porter and Ben Cayes.

Foster has a positive message for students thinking about attend-ing the event: “If they have any interest in skiing or snowboarding [they should] definitely go check it out,” she said.

UNH to host annual “Get Out of Bed and Shred” expo

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In NH, Obama hits Romney record for gains in governor’s races

By HOLLY RAMERAssoCiAted Press

NASHUA — President Barack Obama tried to sway voters on Sat-urday in the anti-tax state by criti-cizing Republican rival Mitt Rom-ney for backing “cradle-to-grave” tax and fee hikes when he was gov-ernor of Massachusetts.

Obama spoke to about 8,500 people outside a middle school in Nashua, on the Massachusetts border. Pointing out the proxim-ity, Obama said that while Rom-ney promised to fight for jobs and middle-class families when he ran for governor, he ended up pushing through a tax cut that helped the wealthy while raising fees that hurt the middle class to the tune of $750 million.

“There were higher fees to be a barber, higher fees to become a nurse,” he said. “There were higher fees for gas. There were higher fees for milk. There were higher fees for blind people who needed to get a certificate (saying) that they were blind.”

Obama, who has been accused by members of the birther move-ment of being born outside the United States, joked that Romney even “raised fees to get a birth cer-tificate, which would’ve been ex-pensive for me.”

Rounding out the list was a fee on funeral homes, Obama said.

“There were literally cradle-to-grave tax hikes and fees,” he said, adding that during Romney’s time as governor, only three states ranked lower in job creation than Massachusetts.

Romney spokesman Ryan Williams called Obama’s criticism “laughable coming from a president whose only plan for a second term is to recycle the failed policies of

the last four years.” He said Rom-ney cut taxes 19 times as governor and created tens of thousands of new jobs.

“President Obama is the only candidate in this race who has raised taxes on America’s middle class,” he said.

Saturday’s rally was the Dem-ocratic president’s sixth trip to New Hampshire this year and was one of several high-profile campaign events planned for the state in the next few days, though a huge storm barreling toward the East Coast had both campaigns adjusting travel schedules and canceling events.

First lady Michelle Obama had been scheduled to speak at the Uni-versity of New Hampshire on Tues-day but canceled because the school is closing due to the approaching storm.

Romney canceled a rally scheduled in Milford Tuesday night, and another Granite State event with his wife, Ann, Monday.

The activity underscores the degree to which New Hampshire’s four electoral college votes are valued in what is expected to be a close election. A WMUR-TV Gran-ite State poll released Oct. 9 showed Obama with a slight lead over Rom-ney in New Hampshire. A Suffolk University/7 News poll released a week later showed the two tied.

Introducing Obama, U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen tried to rally female voters by again mocking Romney’s recent debate comments that he was given “binders full of women” when he sought to diversify his ad-ministration.

“We don’t need binders full of women. We have ballots full of women,” said Shaheen, the first woman elected governor and the state’s first female U.S. senator.


Preparing for Hurricane

SandyUNH geared up for Hurricane Sandy by curtailing classes for Monday and

Tuesday in an effort to encourage students to leave campus. The MUB

and Holloway Commons closed early on Monday. Paul Dean, executive

director of public safety, also urged students to stay off the roads after 3

p.m. Monday.

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CELINA, Ohio — Republican

presidential candidate Mitt Rom-ney and President Barack Obama frantically sought to close the deal with voters with precious few days left in an incredibly close race as this year’s October surprise — an unprecedented storm menacing the East Coast — wreaked havoc on their best-laid plans.

Ever mindful of his narrow path to the requisite 270 electoral votes, Romney looked to expand his map, weighing an intensifi ed effort in traditionally left-leaning Minnesota. Obama sought to de-fend historically Democratic turf as the race tightened heading into the fi nal week.

Wary of being seen as putting their political pursuits ahead of public safety, the two White House hopefuls reshuffl ed their campaign plans as the storm approached. Both candidates were loath to for-feit face time with voters in battle-ground states like Virginia that are likely to be affl icted when Hurri-cane Sandy, a winter storm and a cold front collide to form a freak hybrid storm.

“The storm will throw havoc into the race,” said Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va.

Before leaving Washington for Florida Sunday, a day early to beat the storm, Obama got an up-date from disaster relief offi cials before speaking by phone to af-

fected governors and mayors.“Anything they need, we will

be there,” Obama said. “And we are going to cut through red tape. We are not going to get bogged down with a lot of rules. We want to make sure that we are anticipat-ing and leaning forward.”

An opportunity for Obama to demonstrate steady leadership in the face of crisis was offset by the risk that the federal government, as in past emergencies, could be faulted for an ineffective response, with the president left to take the fall.

“My fi rst priority has to be making sure that everything is in place” to help those affected by the storm, Obama told campaign workers Sunday in Orlando.

He told the volunteers they would have to “carry the ball” while he was off the campaign trail.

“I hate to put the burden of the entire world on you, but basically it’s all up to you,” he joked.

Obama will hold a rally in Orlando on Monday with former President Bill Clinton, but he canceled campaign stops in Vir-ginia and Ohio on Monday and in Colorado on Tuesday. He planned to return to Ohio on Wednesday with stops in Cincinnati and Ak-ron, followed by a Thursday swing through Springfi eld, Ohio, Boul-der, Colo., and Las Vegas.

Romney nixed three stops in up-for-grabs Virginia on Sun-day, opting instead to campaign

with running mate Paul Ryan in Ohio before heading Monday to Wisconsin, where Romney has chipped away at Obama’s lead.

“I know that right now some people in the country are a little nervous about a storm about to hit the coast, and our thoughts and prayers are with people who will fi nd themselves in harm’s way,” Romney told several hundred sup-porters crowded into a fi eld house at the University of Findlay, the second of three Sunday rallies.

Romney’s campaign con-fi rmed Sunday that he would not travel to New Hampshire on Tues-day as planned. The campaign already canceled a Monday event in New Hampshire featuring Rom-ney’s wife, Ann. Advisers say fur-ther travel changes are likely as they monitor the storm’s progress.

Vice President Joe Biden canceled a Monday event in New Hampshire. “The last thing the president and I want to do is get in the way of anything. The most im-portant thing is health and safety,” Biden said.

Ryan planned to leave Ohio at midday for three stops in Florida. His Tuesday schedule, however, shifted him to stops in Colorado instead of Virginia.

The prospect that bad weather could hinder early voting and get-out-the-vote efforts is vexing to both Obama and Romney.

“Obviously, we want unfet-tered access to the polls, because we think the more people that

come out, the better we’re going to do,” said David Axelrod, a top adviser to Obama’s campaign. “To the extent that it makes it harder, that’s a source of concern.”

In Virginia, one of the most competitive states in the race, elec-tion offi cials eased absentee voting requirements for those affected by the storm.

“The state board of elections is already planning for extended hours in advance for absentee vot-ing, and it’s now a priority, moved up to the same level as hospitals and police stations to have power restored,” said Gov. Bob McDon-nell, a top Romney ally.

Bringing up a safety concern, Virginia Senate candidate Tim Kaine’s campaign urged support-ers to remove their political yard signs. “Due to the potential for strong winds in this storm, the last thing we want is for yard signs to become projectiles,” said cam-paign manager Mike Henry.

Getting voters to the polls — whether early or on Election Day — is one of the few elements of the race still in the candidates’ control.

Although Romney and Obama are in a close contest for the popular vote, the president continues to have the upper hand in the most contested states.

Reince Priebus, the GOP chairman, pointed to recent gains for Romney that have lifted him to a virtual tie in most national polls. “The challenger always wins in a tie race,” he said.

With time running out, both campaigns appeared to be fi ne-tun-ing their map of the states where they’re campaigning the hardest.

A senior Republican offi cial, speaking on the condition of ano-nymity to disclose private deliber-ations, said Sunday that the Rom-ney team was seriously discussing sending Romney, Ryan or both to Minnesota during the fi nal week. The state hasn’t gone Republican in the presidential race since 1972, but recent polling shows a tighter race there than most anticipated.

In a fl ashback to the 2008 race, Obama’s campaign announced that Biden will campaign Thurs-day in Pennsylvania, reprising a visit to his hometown of Scranton that he made during the fi nal week four years ago. Pennsylvania, too, has been Democratic territory in recent years, but Romney has con-tinued to contest the state with an advertising assist from the Repub-lican Party.

Axelrod, Priebus and McDon-nell spoke on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Warner spoke on “Fox News Sunday.”

East Coast storm wreaks havoc on presidential race

The challenger always wins in a tie race.”

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By JIM KUHNHENNASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON — Presi-

dent Barack Obama said Sunday that the storm taking aim at the East Coast is a “serious and big storm” that will be slow-moving and might take time to clear up. The government would “respond big and respond fast” after it hits, he said.

Obama met with federal emergency offi cials for an update on the storm’s path and the dan-ger it poses to the Middle Atlantic States and New England.

“My main message to every-body involved is that we have to take this seriously,” Obama said. He urged people to “listen to your local offi cials.”

The president said emergency offi cials were confi dent that stag-ing for the storm was in place.

Hurricane Sandy was expect-ed to hit the East Coast late Mon-day, then combine with two winter weather systems as it moves in-land, creating a hybrid superstorm. At least four battleground states are likely to be hit: New Hamp-shire, North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia.

Obama traveled the nearly three miles from the White House to the Federal Emergency Man-agement Agency’s headquarters in his motorcade. He made the com-ments after a briefi ng by agency offi cials that was led by FEMA

Administrator Craig Fugate. The group participated in a conference call with governors in states in the storm’s path, including Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylva-nia and New York. The president also spoke with mayors from Washington, Newark, N.J., Balti-more and Philadelphia.

As part of the briefi ng, the president also met with FEMA workers and thanked them.

“My message to the governors as well as to the mayors is anything they need, we will be there, and we will cut through red tape. We are not going to get bogged down with a lot of rules,” he said. “We want to make sure we are anticipating and leaning forward into making sure that we have the best possible response to what is going to be a big and messy system.

Later Sunday the president headed to Florida, where he’s cam-paigning Monday.

“My fi rst priority has to be making sure that everything is in place” to help those affected by the storm, Obama told campaign workers in Orlando. He said the storm meant he would “not be able to campaign quite as much over the next few days.”

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NEW YORK — Gaining strength and threatening 50 million people, Hurricane Sandy chugged north Monday, raking ghost-town cities along the Northeast corridor with rain and wind gusts. Subways and schools were closed, the fl oor of the New York Stock Exchange was deserted, and thousands of people fl ed the low-lying coast.

Forecasters expected the monster hurricane to make a westward lurch and aim for the coast of New Jersey, blowing ashore Monday night or early Tuesday and combining with two other weather systems to create an epic superstorm.

Its projected path put New York City and Long Island in the danger zone for a huge surge of seawater made more fearsome by high tides and a full moon.

“This is the worst-case sce-nario,” said Louis Uccellini, envi-ronmental prediction chief for the National Oceanic and Atmospher-ic Administration.

Because the storm is so big, with tropical storm-force winds extending almost 500 miles from its center, it could upend daily life for days for people from the East Coast to the Great Lakes. As much as 3 feet of snow was forecast for the West Virginia mountains.

Millions of people in the Northeast stayed home from work. Subways, buses and trains shut

down, and more than 7,000 fl ights in and out of the East were can-celed, snarling travel around the globe. Hundreds of thousands of people were under orders to fl ee the coast, including 375,000 in lower Manhattan and other parts of New York City, but authorities warned that the time to get out was short or already past.

“I think this one’s going to do us in,” said Mark Palazzolo, who boarded up his bait-and-tackle shop in Point Pleasant Beach, N.J., with the same wood he used in past storms, crossing out the names of Hurricanes Isaac and Irene and spray-painting “Sandy” next to them.

“I got a call from a friend of mine from Florida last night who said, ‘Mark, get out! If it’s not the storm, it’ll be the aftermath. Peo-ple are going to be fi ghting in the streets over gasoline and food.’”

President Barack Obama declared emergencies in Massa-chusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Is-land, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, authorizing federal relief work to begin well ahead of time. He promised the government would “respond big and respond fast” after the storm hits.

“My message to the gover-nors as well as to the mayors is anything they need, we will be there, and we will cut through red tape,” Obama said. “We are not going to get bogged down with a lot of rules.”

Sandy, a Category 1 hurricane

with sustained winds of 85 mph early Monday, was blamed for 65 deaths in the Caribbean before it began traveling northward, paral-lel to the Eastern Seaboard. As of 8 a.m. Monday, it was centered about 310 miles southeast of New York City, moving to the north at 20 mph, with hurricane-force winds extending an extraordinary 175 miles from its center.

Water was already a foot deep on the streets of Lindenhurst, N.Y., along the southern edge of Long Island, and the canals around the island’s Great South Bay were bulging two hours before high tide. Gale-force winds blew over-night over coastal North Carolina, southeastern Virginia, the Del-marva Peninsula and coastal New Jersey.

Forecasters warned that New York City and Long Island could be on the dangerous northeastern edge of the tempest and bear the worst of the storm surge, a wall of seawater up to 11 feet high that could swamp lower Manhattan, fl ood subway tunnels and cripple the network of electrical and com-munications lines that are vital to the nation’s fi nancial center.

The major American stock exchanges closed for the day, the fi rst unplanned shutdown since the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001. The fl oor of the NYSE, typically bustling with traders on a Monday morn-ing, fell within the city’s manda-tory evacuation zone. The United Nations canceled all meetings at

its New York headquarters.New York called off school

for the city’s 1.1 million students, and the more than 5 million people who depend on its transit network every day were left without a way to get around. Most planned to stay inside anyway.

“If you don’t evacuate, you are not only endangering your life, you are also endangering the lives of the fi rst responders who are go-ing in to rescue you,” Mayor Mi-chael Bloomberg warned. “This is a serious and dangerous storm.”

New Jersey Gov. Chris Chris-tie was typically blunt: “Don’t be stupid. Get out.”

The storm bore down barely a week before the presidential elec-tion. Wary of being seen as putting political pursuits ahead of public safety, Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney reshuffl ed their campaign plans.

In Virginia, one of the most competitive states, election of-fi cials eased absentee voting re-quirements for those affected by the storm. Three other closely contested states, New Hampshire, North Carolina and Ohio, were within Sandy’s reach. Early voting was canceled Monday in Maryland and Washington, D.C., both reli-ably Democratic.

After hooking inland, Sandy was expected to collide with a wintry storm moving in from the west and cold air streaming down from the Arctic. Forecasters said the combination could bring close

to a foot of rain in places, a poten-tially lethal storm surge of 4 to 11 feet across much of the region, and punishing winds that could cause widespread power outages that last for days.

Craig Fugate, chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said FEMA teams were deployed from North Carolina to Maine and as far inland as West Virginia, bringing generators and basic supplies that will be needed in the storm’s aftermath.

“I have not been around long enough to see a hurricane forecast with a snow advisory in it,” Fugate told NBC’s “Today” show.

Pennsylvania’s largest utili-ties brought in hundreds of line-repair and tree-trimming crews. In New Jersey, where utilities were widely criticized last year for slow responses after the remnants of storms Irene and Lee, authorities promised a better performance. Hundreds of homes and business-es were already without electricity early Monday.

About 90 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras, N.C., 17 people abandoned a replica of the 18th-century tall ship made famous in the movie “Mutiny on the Bounty” after the vessel began taking on water, the Coast Guard said.

The Coast Guard was trying to determine whether to use cutters or helicopters to rescue the crew members, who were in two life-boats and wearing survival suits and life jackets.

Hurricane Sandy gains power on path through Northeast

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CONCORD – New Hamp-

shire Guard soldiers were put on active duty and utilities secured crews from Canada and a num-ber of states as they prepared for prolonged power outages and tree damage from Hurricane Sandy on Monday.

Numerous schools were closed and many fl ights were canceled out of Manchester-Boston Regional Airport.

Gov. John Lynch ordered that 100 soldiers be ready ahead of the storm Monday morning, with an-other 100 soldiers on standby. The main impact of the storm is expect-ed to reach New Hampshire mid-day and last through Tuesday.

Maj. Greg Heilshorn said the active duty soldiers are at Plym-outh, Manchester and the Pease Air National Guard base. He said they would organize into 12-man teams who can go out to a com-munity quickly to conduct wellness checks, assist with debris removal, distribute food and water, and other duties.

Two shelters are being set up, at the Keene Recreational Center and at Nashua High School South. Lynch said additional shelters will open, including one in the Seacoast area.

Lynch said his biggest con-cerns are downed trees, power lines and outages.

“I think there will be wide-spread power outages,” he said.

Public Service of New Hamp-

shire, the largest utility in the state, requested an additional 450 line crews in addition to its own. Crews were arriving Monday from

Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. PSNH also has pre-staged 100 tree-trimming crews around the state and has re-

quested more.Unitil Corporation, which

serves customers in the Seacoast area and around Concord, said it

secured over 250 crews from as far away as Michigan, Tennessee and Canada in preparation for the storm.

NH National Guard to help prepare for Hurricane Sandy


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LAND O’LAKES, Fla. —

Juggling politics and storm prep-arations, Mitt Romney dangled a plea for bipartisanship before early voters in Florida on Saturday as Barack Obama worked to nail down tiny New Hampshire’s four electoral votes. Both campaigns scrambled to steer clear of a most unlikely October surprise, a super-storm barreling up the East Coast.

With just 10 days left in an extraordinarily tight race, Hurri-cane Sandy had both campaigns ripping up carefully mapped-out itineraries as they worked to maxi-mize voter turnout and avoid any suggestion that they were putting politics ahead of public safety.

The campaigns pressed every possible angle in search of advan-tage — even paying attention to punctuation.

Obama’s campaign signs for months have said: “Forward.” Now they say: “Forward!”

Romney, who has been strik-ing a more moderate tone as he courts women and independents in the campaign’s homestretch, campaigned across Florida with a pledge to “build bridges” with the other party.

He coupled that message with digs at Obama for “shrinking from the magnitude of the times” and advancing an agenda that lacks vi-sion. Noting that Obama support-ers like to chant “four more years” at the president’s campaign rallies, Romney picked up on his crowd’s own chant at the Pensacola Civic Center and said: “I like ‘10 more days’ a lot better.”

His warm-up act was more biting: Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., told the crowd that Obama was

advancing “the ideas of countries that people come here to get away from.” Pressed later on what coun-tries he was referring to, Rubio said, “any big-government country in the world” and specifically re-ferred to Mexico and Latin Amer-ica.

Obama hauled his campaign to New Hampshire, where he told volunteers at a Teamsters hall in Manchester that: “We don’t know how this thing is going to play out. These four electoral voters right here could make all the difference.”

It takes 270 electoral votes to win the election. Obama is ahead in states and the District of Columbia representing 237 electoral votes; Romney has a comfortable lead in states with 191 electoral votes. The rest lie in nine contested states that are too close to call, New Hamp-shire among them.

The president adjusted his campaign speech at a Nashua rally to appeal to voters in low-tax New Hampshire, hammering Romney for raising taxes and fees as gover-nor of neighboring Massachusetts.

Obama accused Romney of running in Massachusetts on a pledge to lower taxes, then making life more expensive for the middle class after taking office.

“All he’s offering is a big rerun of the same policies,” Obama told a crowd of 8,500 gathered at an outdoor rally on an unseasonably warm October day.

The president said Romney even raised fees in Massachusetts on obtaining a birth certificate, “which would have been expensive for me.” It was a veiled reference to opponents of the president who have incorrectly said he was born outside the United States. Copies of his birth certificate have been in high demand.

The candidates worked to lock down every possible early vote without intruding on emergency preparations as the storm’s expect-ed track looked to affect at least four battleground states: North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio and New Hampshire.

Romney scrapped plans to campaign in Virginia on Sunday, and switched his schedule for the day to Ohio. At a rally in Kissimee, Fla., he urged supporters to keep those in the storm’s path “in your mind and in your hearts.”

“You know how tough hurri-canes can be,” he told the Florid-ians.

Vice President Joe Biden can-celed a Saturday rally in coastal Virginia Beach, Va., to allow local officials there to focus on disaster preparedness and local security concerns.

But he went ahead with an ap-pearance in Lynchburg, which is in-land. Biden said Romney and Ryan are fleeing from their record to ap-pear more moderate than they are. They “are counting on the Ameri-can people to have an overwhelm-ing case of amnesia.”

Plans for Bidne’s son, Beau Biden, the Delaware attorney gen-

eral, to join his father in Virginia were scrapped when he was called up by the National Guard to help with the storm.

Obama canceled Monday ap-pearances in Prince William County, Virginia on Monday, and Colorado Springs, Colo., on Tuesday so he could monitor Hurricane Sandy as it moves ashore. He did move up his planned Monday departure for Florida to Sunday night to beat the storm and planned a Monday stop in Youngstown, Ohio, before returning to the White House.

En route to New Hampshire, Obama held an airborne conference call with administration officials about the federal government’s role in minimizing storm damage and a ensuring speedy recovery effort.

Campaign spokesman Jenni-fer Psaki said the Obama team was continuing to promote early voting as something that provides flexibil-ity for busy families, but she added that with the storm headed for shore, “safety comes first, and that’s the case with early voting as well.”

Romney’s trip to Florida, with three events across the state, was timed to coincide with the first day of in-person early voting in a state that went for Obama four years ago and where 29 electoral votes are up for grabs this time. Both campaigns already have been working furi-ously to gain the advantage in the state’s vote-by-mail program, an area where Republicans typically have been stronger.

“I need you to vote early!” Romney told supporters in Land O’Lakes.

Republican Rep. Paul Ryan worked his way across rainy, chilly Ohio, on a two-day bus trip, with his family in tow. At a factory in New Philadelphia, Ryan stressed the hit that manufacturing indus-

tries have taken over the last four years and promised more coal jobs, natural gas jobs and increased mili-tary spending if Romney is elected.

Speaking to more than 1,000 supporters on the factory floor at Gradall Industries, Ryan told vot-ers: “You know it’s you. You know what you have in front of you. You know your responsibility.”

Campaign 2012 was serious business, with so little time left and the storm complicating the end game, but Ryan’s children helped to lighten the tone. His 7-, 9- and 10-year-olds scampered between parts bins and heavy chains at the factory.

Nine-year-old Charlie waved the peace sign and mugged for cameras, prompting his mother, Janna Ryan, to shake her head and declare, “I don’t know where he gets it. It’s kind of crazy.”

During a later stop at a bakery in Circleville, Ohio, 10-year-old daughter Liz told the bakery clerk that her dad was “sugar-free except for doughnuts and ice cream.”

“And apple-fritters,” Ryan agreed.

Obama, for his part, made a stop at the Common Man Merri-mack, a restaurant where he toasted patrons with a Common Man Ale, saying: “To voting. To America. Doesn’t matter what party.”

The campaigns and their allies kept up a steady stream of TV and radio ads in the battleground states. The right-leaning Americans for Job Security made a rare purchase of Philadelphia airtime, amounting to $1.2 million, for pro-Romney ads. While a few independent groups have tried to make Pennsylvania competitive for Romney, neither Obama nor Romney has devoted ad resources to the state, which is ex-pected to go for Obama.

Romney woos Florida early vote; Obama eyes NH

With just 10 days left in an extraor-dinarily tight race, Hurricane Sandy had both campaigns ripping up carefully mapped-out itiner-aries.

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Two party system has become a burden on U.S.

As this presidential race nears its close and Election Day is just a week away, many

Americans are ready to breathe a sigh of relief. For every fanatic supporter of President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, there is a citizen who is weary from the constant barrage of TV and radio advertisements, the debates that don’t answer any ques-tions and the endless political chatter on cable news.

So what is it that has caused following politics to become such a headache for many people? It is the structure of a two-party system that has allowed for politicians to become so entrenched on one side or the other that a candidate with an inde-pendent viewpoint is often left by the wayside. Democrats and Republicans too often pander to their party bases rather than promoting original ideas. Americans are left to subscribe to one party’s set of ideals or the other.

The problem shines through

in debates, where both candidates often dodged questions. Both would instead criticize the other’s policies or be careful to toe the party line, using responses recycled from their campaign commercials.

The focus after the debate was more on who had the better one-liner instead of who offered more substan-

tial solutions to America’s problems. The current two-party system

in the United States took shape after World War I, when the Democratic party was viewed as the party that represented people and the labor movement, while the Republicans were seen as the party of the rich. Those labels still exist today, more or less, although it is clearly more com-plex than that. But both parties seem more interested in serving their own interests – and the interests of their donors – than in serving the interests of the American people.

The American political system is not broken. But the two-party system has made it diffi cult for candidates to break away from political agendas and try to solve the problems in this country. If voters can break away from these agendas themselves and demand more accountability from politicians, then perhaps politics will become less of a burden on the minds of the American people.

Political migraine

Both parties seem more interested in serving their own interests – and the interests of their do-nors – than in serving the interests of the American people.

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Vote now or never! ... Really?In these days of extreme

political hyperbole, such a stark warning seems more of the same. But I don’t think “Vote Now or Never” is much of an overstate-ment, and I feel every student should be equally concerned about the ability of students to vote in the future.

We think “One person, one vote” is the basis of our democracy, but it wasn’t always so. It wasn’t until 1972 that the United States Supreme Court ruled that every full-time college student in the United States had an absolute con-stitutional right to choose whether to vote either where the student’s home was or where he or she went to college. Until the Voting Rights Act of 1965, African American voters were hampered by various Jim Crow laws, combinations of literacy and comprehension tests, and residency and record-keeping requirements. American women didn’t get full voting privileges until the 19th Amendment was ratified in 1920. And before 1792, there was no country where “uni-versal suffrage” meant anything more than allowing votes from men with sufficient economic property.

This year in New Hampshire, students with a University ID can vote in Durham. (Do bring some proof of citizenship and a dorm or utility receipt). This is essentially how it has been, at least since I joined UNH in 2001. I’ve taken off work every election day to drive students to and from the polls. But two years ago, apathy dominated. I’d drive back and forth to the polls with just one or two students each trip. As a result of the apathy here

and an equivalent lack of concern throughout the state, there was a major reconfiguration of the politi-cal alignment of the New Hamp-shire State House and Senate.

Students this year need to rec-ognize that the current Republican State Legislature has worked hard to restrict student voting by enact-ing a series of thinly veiled modern “Jim-Crow-like” restrictions. If left unchanged after this election, these restrictions will inhibit student vot-ing participation in every subse-quent election.

After two aborted attempts earlier in the legislative session, the State Legislature passed two bills with a sufficient margin to overturn Governor Lynch’s veto. Initially, Senate Bill 289 and now Senate Bill 318 will effectively restrict in-Durham voting rights to

those who have established in-town permanent residency. Those laws are not in effect for next Tuesday’s election only because a Straf-ford County Superior Court judge recently overturned SB 318 for this election.

“No other state singles out students or any other group for special voting residency require-ments,” noted the Brennan Center for Justice at New York Universi-ty’s School of Law. “And for good reason; such a discriminatory rule clearly violates the U.S. Constitu-tion.”

The anti-student bias of the current Legislative leadership was actually caught on tape. The Speaker of the N.H. House told a Tea Party group that he supported the voting restrictions because stu-dents tend to vote Democratic. He said, “The kids [are] coming out of the school and basically doing what I did when I was a kid. Voting as a liberal. You know, that’s what kids do. They don’t have life experience and they just vote their feelings.”

The good news is that the anti-student bias of the current Legis-lature is reversible. I look forward to again spending the day driving students to the polls and fervently hope more of you will take advan-tage of the opportunity than was the case two years ago.

This time, the ability of stu-dents to vote in the future is clearly at stake. And your vote, or failure to vote, will matter.

sRobert S. Woodward, Ph.D, is a McK-

erly Professor of Health Economics at UNH.

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Robert S. Woodward

I look forward to again spending the day driving students to the polls and fer-vently hope more of you will take advan-tage of the oppor-tunity than was the case two years ago.

The climate we ask forAs Americans, we constantly

congratulate ourselves on our spirit of innovation. Yet

we give our government no incen-tive to be forward-thinking about important long-term problems like climate change. Obama and Romney aren’t talking about the environment because we haven’t really asked them to do so.

This contradiction isn’t our fault — democracy just doesn’t always reward anticipation. Politi-cians are accountable to voters whose main concerns generally include how to feed their families and keep their jobs and houses. And it is this combination of preoc-cupied voters and cowardly law-makers that has kept the U.S. from tackling climate change in any sort of comprehensive way.

It’s no surprise that a recent Gallup poll showed 72 percent of Americans thought the econ-omy was today’s most important problem. A mere 2 percent saw pollution and the environment as the most important problem. Yet, the two problems are undoubtedly connected. MIT economist Henry Jacoby predicts, “People will pay … [for inaction on climate change] in taxes, energy prices, insurance premiums, disaster relief, food prices, water bills and changes to our environment that are hard to put a price tag on.”

We’re constantly flooded with startling facts about rising ocean levels and shrinking rainforests. To those who pay attention, climate change is clearly imminent, and it’s approaching the brink of ir-reversibility. Scientists predict a nearly complete lack of wild fish in oceans by 2050. At the beginning of his numerical rundown of the current state of the climate, activist and writer William E. McKibben grimly states, “I can say with some confidence that we’re losing the fight, badly and quickly — losing it because, most of all, we remain in denial about the peril that human civilization is in.”

Denial isn’t the only reason that the situation is stagnant — for those who are thinking short-term, there is a valid economic argument against cutting emissions. The fossil fuel sector certainly isn’t a small deal, and the world economy is invested in the future of drilling. Construction of the southern part of Keystone XL is already underway.

While economic hurdles block a smooth transition from fossil fu-els to cleaner energy, the carbon tax represents a potent economic solu-tion. The Kennedy School’s Joseph Aldy showed his support for the carbon tax in his talk at Harvard Thinks Green 2 last week. A tax on carbon would de-incentivize the purchase of carbon and naturally

force investment in alternative energies. It would provide the eco-nomic impetus currently lacking from the green movement.

Even conservative economist and policy adviser Greg Mankiw expressed his support of a world carbon tax in a 2007 New York Times op-ed, but he doubted that a carbon tax would make it through Washington. Mankiw wrote, “Re-publican consultants advise using the word ‘tax’ only if followed immediately by the word ‘cut.’ Democratic consultants recom-mend the word ‘tax’ be followed by

‘on the rich.’”It would simply be political

suicide for a Republican to support a new tax of any kind, and Demo-crats are too busy trying to get rid of tax breaks for the rich that suggesting a carbon tax right now might very well be too much. Yet, logical thinking would demand that our lawmakers push aside all of those political fears for the sake of doing something that makes pure and total sense.

China’s Communist Party recently released its new five-year plan, a strategic move that will end up investing $315 billion in mea-sures for energy efficiency. And because of the one-party system, China can afford to be aggressive in the way it pursues its alternative energy goals. The National Energy Commission has asked each prov-ince in China to provide a plan for increased solar energy use by Oct. 15. China remains the world’s larg-est coal consumer, but these steps represent a significant effort to re-duce emissions. The United States is the world’s largest consumer of oil, but political polarization and corporate influence would block any clean energy initiatives of a similar scale.

So while China’s alternative en-ergy plans charge forward, the U.S. is stuck with little to no political or economic push for sustainability.

This problem is not unique to the U.S., and it’s why very little has been done in the way of large international agreements. Recent climate discussions have all failed miserably — it’s as if every time someone mentions the words Kyoto, Cop10, or Rio+20, the environmental community emits a collective sigh of frustration.

Our markets are so interde-pendent that changes in energy consumption have global effects, and therefore countries must tackle the issue through a combination of domestic policies and international cooperation. The U.S. could help shape the international debate on climate change, but it chooses not to because U.S. citizens have yet to demand the discussion.

Our government spends billions of dollars each year on defense. We stockpile more weap-ons than we will ever use. But the prospect of entire countries being submerged underwater as a result of large scale flooding is in many ways equally as scary as a nuclear Iran. And just like our found-ing fathers were worried about the political freedoms of every generation to come, should we not be intensely concerned about the safety and welfare of our future generations? And should we not demand from our representatives that same view?

Another View

Jennifer A. GathrightHarvard Crimson

The U.S. could help shape the interna-tional debate on climate change, but it chooses not to because U.S. citizens have yet to demand the discussion.

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STAFF REPORTThe New hampshire

Junior Morgan Thatcher led all players with 22 kills and fresh-

man Tori For-rest posted her fifth straight double-double as the Uni-versity of

New Hampshire volleyball team downed UMBC, 3-2, Sunday after-noon at Lundholm Gymnasium.

This game came after the Wildcats lost to Binghamton on Friday, 3-2.

New Hampshire improved to 14-11 overall and 6-3 in America East, while UMBC drops to 12-14 and 5-4 in conference action.

Forrest racked up 14 kills to pair with 11 digs, while sopho-more Taylor Dunklau also posted a double-double with 45 assists and 12 digs. Senor Jessie Schnepp and sophomore Sam Henke registered 21 and 11 digs, respectively.

New Hampshire opened with a great start in the first set, padding a five-point lead with six unan-swered as a kill by Forrest pushed the Wildcats in front, 18-8. UMBC responded with a 5-1 run, but could not get closer than six as the home

side held on for the 25-16 win. The teams were all knotted

up at 10-10 to kick off the second stanza. From there, the squads swapped points until UNH broke away from a 21-21 tie with four straight as a pair of Thatcher kills sealed the 25-21 victory.

UMBC answered back after the break and padded a two-point advantage with three straight for the 12-7 lead. UNH stormed back and pulled within one at 13-12, but could not even the score as the Re-trievers took the set, 25-16.

The Retrievers cruised to a 25-11 victory in the fourth set. UMBC opened with an 8-5 lead and then rattled off a 12-1 stretch to move in front, 19-6, before clos-ing it out to force a fifth and final set.

In that set, the teams were all evened up at seven points apiece before UNH took advantage of two attack errors and followed with a kill by Forrest for the 10-7 lead. UMBC battled back to within one at 11-10 and again at 13-12 but the Wildcats ended with a kill by Abby Brinkman to take the set, 15-13, and seal the win.

The Wildcats return to action on Sunday, Nov. 4 when they visit Stony Brook at 1 p.m.

UNH 3 UMBC 2

Binghamton 3 UNH 2

VOLLEYBALL

Wildcats upend UMBC


The University of New Hamp-shire women’s ice hockey team fell

to Wisconsin by a score of 5-0 Sunday af-ternoon after losing to the Badgers on Fri-

day, 2-1. The loss drops the Wild-cats to 3-4-0 on the year while the Badgers improve to 5-3-2 overall.

Freshman Alexis Crossley tal-lied the first shot of the game, but was denied in her attempt by Badger goalie Alex Rigsby. Megan Arm-strong and Jessica Jessica Hitch-cock notched back-to-back shots just minutes into the first period. Brianna Decker notched the first goal of the game on a power play at the 8:46 mark in the first period of play. Courtney Burke and Saige Pa-cholok assisted Decker on the play. At the end of the first period, the score was 1-0 in favor of Wisconsin.

New Hampshire outshot Wis-consin in the second period by a margin of 10-9. Courtney Burke tallied the second goal of the game with 12:10 left in the second period while Madison Packer made it 3-0

six minutes later. Jordan Brickner assisted Burke while Pacholok and Katarina Zgraja notched assists on Packer’s goal. UNH netminder Vil-ma Vaattovaara made seven saves in the period.

Decker notched her second goal of the game at 2:20 in the third period on an unassisted play while Karley Sylvester tallied the fifth goal for Wisconsin with 13:29 remaining in the game on a power play. Burke and Decker tallied as-sists on the play. Nicole Gifford tallied a pair of shots-on-goal in the period, but both were defended by Rigsby. At the end of the third pe-riod, the Badgers secured a 5-0 win.

Vaattovaara got the decision in net for the Wildcats after making 27 saves on 32 shots faced. Her record now stands at 3-4-0. Rigsby made saves on all 21 shots she faced from the Wildcat offense. Her record im-proves to 5-3-2. New Hampshire was 0-for-3 on the power play while Wisconsin was 2-for-4 with the ad-vantage. The Badgers outshot the ‘Cats, 32-21.

New Hampshire returns to the ice Friday, Nov. 2 at 7 p.m. when it hosts St. Lawrence for a pair of games at the Whittemore Center Arena.

W HOCKEY

‘Cats lose two against Wisconsin

Wisconsin 5 UNH 0

Wisconsin 2 UNH 1

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University of New Hamp-shire cornerback Dontra Peters (Annapolis, Md.) was named Monday as the CAA Defensive Player of the Week for the second time this season.

Peters notched an intercep-tion and forced a fumble in the Wildcats’ 40-20 victory at Rhode Island on Saturday.

Peters, who previously gar-nered this honor Oct. 1 for his two-interception effort in a Sept. 29 win against Delaware, made his fourth pick of the season – tied for the CAA lead – on Bob Bentsen’s second-down pass in the UNH end zone to halt an eight-minute URI drive and preserve the Wildcats’ 9-6 lead late in the first quarter.

New Hampshire scored on its ensuing drive to build a 16-6 ad-vantage.

Early in the second quar-

ter, the senior co-captain came through again when he jarred the ball loose from Rams running back Assani Mudimbi, tallying

his first career forced fumble that was recovered by Manny Asam (Bloomfield, N.J.) at the UNH 21.

The ‘Cats took advantage of the change of possession by mov-ing down the field and adding a field goal for a 19-6 lead.

Peters leads a defense ranked first in the league with 15 inter-ceptions and rated second in the league with a plus-10 turnover margin.

This is the fourth CAA weekly award for the 5-foot-11, 200-pound Peters, who was named Special Teams Player of the Week twice in 2011.

The No. 11 and CAA-leading Wildcats (7-2, 5-1 CAA) return to Cowell Stadium to take on Wil-liam & Mary (2-6, 1-4) on Satur-day at 12 p.m.

It will be Military Apprecia-tion Day, Legends Day and fans bringing a canned food item for the New Hampshire Food Bank will receive a special ticket rate.

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Senior cornerback Dontra Peters was named CAA Defensive Player of the Week.

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Kellie Joyce scored at 5:53 of overtime to lift the 19th-ranked Uni-

versity of New H a m p s h i r e field hockey team to Sun-day afternoon’s 5-4 non-con-

ference victory against Dartmouth College at Chase Field.

UNH, who also secured a vic-tory on Saturday against Maine with a final score of 2-1, won its fourth consecutive game to improve to 11-7, while Dartmouth, which entered the game with a four-game win streak, is now 10-6.

UNH goalkeeper Carlie Tar-bell, the reigning America East Defensive Player of the Week, made three of her four saves in the second half. DC’s starting goalie Jenna Stearns exited the game with the score tied 3-3 at 66:21; she was credited with seven saves.

Ellen Meyer, who entered the game to face a penalty stroke after Stearns was injured, allowed two

goals and did not make a save.Hannah Richard and Megan

Bozek recorded two goals apiece to lead the Wildcats’ attack while Ja-nine Leger tallied two goals and an assist for Dartmouth.

The Big Green took a 2-0 lead with goals in the 11th and 23rd min-utes. Leger scored an unassisted goal at 10:11 when her shot from the left side sailed under the cross-bar.

Six minutes later, Brooke Van Valkenburg fired a shot off the crossbar from the right wing. Mag-gie Scanlon gathered the rebound in front and also lifted a shot off the crossbar. DC extended the lead to 2-0 at 22:09 when Leger, from the middle of the circle, pushed the ball wide left and Scanlon struck the ball into the cage.

UNH responded with a goal 70 seconds later on a penalty corner to pull within one goal. Emma Er-ler inserted the ball to Joyce as the stick-stop at the top of the circle, and Bozek drilled a low shot inside the right post at 23:19.

The Wildcats generated an-other corner with six minutes re-

maining in the first half. Bozek’s direct shot was stopped by Stearns’ stacked pads and Richard, who cor-ralled the ball on the right side, had a shot blocked by a Big Green de-fender.

New Hampshire leveled the score, 2-2, at 33:18 on another corner. From just left of top of the circle, Casey Pohlmeyer hit a low, hard, diagonal ball towards the far post and Richard, with a diving ef-fort, redirected a high shot inside the post.

With the score tied 2-2 at half-time, UNH had the edge in both shots (9-7) and penalty corners (7-1).

The Wildcats struck again at 37:32 to take a 3-2 lead. Meg Flat-ley penetrated the circle along the right end line and her centering pass eluded Stearns, which allowed Richard to redirect the ball into an open cage.

Dartmouth had a quick re-sponse to tie the score, 3-3, on a corner at 40:12.

Lisa Masini inserted the ball to stick-stop Maya Herm and Liz Blanken’s low drive was redirected

from the middle of the circle inside the right post by Leger.

With 11 minutes remaining in regulation, UNH generated a tran-sition attack and Richard drove a low shot wide of the right post. One minute later, Pohlmeyer struck a dangerous shot through traffic wide of the cage.

In the 66th minute, Flatley stole the ball at midfield and pushed the ball forward to create a 1-on-1 scoring chance. Stearns charged from the goal line and made a slid-ing effort to poke check the ball away. She was injured on the play, however, and UNH was awarded a penalty stroke.

With Meyer now defending the cage, Bozek fired a low shot inside the right post to put New Hampshire back in front, 4-3, at 66:21.

DC replied with immediate pressure and generated a corner that resulted in Blanken’s direct shot be-ing blocked by a UNH defensive player.

The home team continued to press and Eliza Becker, from just outside the top of the circle, slipped a pass forward to Herm, whose low

blast to the left side found the back of the cage to tie the score, 4-4, at 67:47.

The ‘Cats finished the second half with the advantage in both shots (14-7) and corners (9-5) for totals of 23-14 and 16-6, respectively.

UNH earned a corner in the third minute of overtime. Bozek’s low drive on a direct shot was blocked towards the left post, where Erler, who inserted the ball, lifted a shot across the goalmouth wide of the far post.

Joyce ended the game at 75:53 when she maneuvered from the right wing to the top of the circle and utilized a reverse-stick to shoot the ball inside the right post.

New Hampshire, winners of the America East regular-season ti-tle for the third consecutive year, is the top seed and host of the America East Championship.

The Wildcats open the tourna-ment Nov. 2 with a semifinal game against Fairfield University. Game time at Memorial Field is 2 p.m. Second-seeded University at Al-bany battles University of Maine in the later semifinal.

UNH 5 Dartmouth 4

Joyce lifts UNH past Dartmouth in OT win

UNH 2 Maine 1

prior came at Providence on Jan. 11, 2012. He becomes the first UNH net minder to blank the Hus-kies since Kevin Regan did so on Nov. 5, 2005.

Mountain made double-digit saves in all three-regulation peri-ods with 17 in the first, 15 in the second and 10 in the third as well as a pair of saves in the five-minute overtime period.

New Hampshire dominated play in a scoreless first period, out-shooting the Huskies 17-9 and get-

ting the better of chances. The best chance of the period

for the Wildcats came in the final minutes when UNH was killing off a penalty.

Greg Burke deflected a pass that bounced out to an open Kevin Goumas at center ice. He carried the puck in but could not slide his backhander under the pads of NU net minder Bryan Mountain.

Both teams had several great opportunities in a scoreless second period. UNH held a 15-12 shot ad-vantage in the frame. John Henri-on had some of the best chances of the period and registered five shots on goal in the period.

In an even played third period

both team fired 10 shots on net. One of UNH›s best opportunities in the third was a Dalton Speel-man one-timer that was gloved by Mountain with 3:53 left.

In the overtime, Northeast-ern held a 3-2 shot edge with both teams making game-winning bids. However, both net minders were up to the task for all 65 minutes.

UNH was 0-2 on the power play, while Northeastern went 0-1 on its extra man opportunity.

The Wildcats continue this three-game road stretch with games at Massachusetts (Nov. 2 - 7 p.m.) and Maine (Nov. 4 - 4 p.m.) next weekend.

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New Hampshire’s defense turned three Rhode Island turnovers into 21 points.

Mike MacArthur staked UNH to a 3-0 lead by kicking a 28-yard field goal that capped the game’s opening drive with 13:15 remain-ing in the first quarter. Setian began the game with a career-long 44-yard rush to the URI 28. Vailas, who split time at quarterback with Goldrich, ran for an apparent 11-yard TD, but the play was negated by a personal foul penalty and the ‘Cats had to settle for three.

The Ram’s initial drive was thwarted when Jared Smith (two tackles) blocked a 29-yard field goal try by Dylan Smith, but the Rams alertly recovered the ensu-ing fumbled return by Peters at the UNH 16-yard line.

Rhode Island capitalized on that turnover to take a 6-3 lead two plays later on a 12-yard touch-down pass from Bob Bentsen (24-for-38, 266 yards, two INT, TD) to Brandon-Johnson Farrell (nine catches-92 yards, TD) with 10:59 left in the first. Bentsen’s two-point conversion pass attempt fell incom-plete.

The Wildcats came right back with a 10-play, 72-yard drive which culminated in Setian’s two-yard scoring rush with 7:53 remaining in the opening stanza. The failed PAT left UNH’s advantage at 9-6.

Peters atoned for his earlier fumble when he intercepted Bent-sen’s pass in the UNH end zone to snuff out Rhode Island’s 13-play, 75-yard drive that chewed up nearly seven minutes. The pick was Peters’ fourth of the season, which is tied for the most in the CAA.

New Hampshire then covered 80 yards on seven plays, culminat-ing in an 11-yard rushing touch-

down from Nico Steriti (five rush-es-19 yards, TD) for 16-6 lead with 14:36 left in the second quarter.

Peters caused a second Rhode Island turnover deep in UNH ter-ritory to halt the Rams’ following possession when he ripped the ball loose from URI running back As-sani Mudimbi on a rushing play. Manny Asam (six tackles) recov-ered the fumble on the Wildcats’ 21.

UNH parlayed that turnover into more points courtesy of Ma-cArthur’s 31-yard field goal with 8:08 left in the half that staked the Wildcats to a 19-6 advantage.

New Hampshire seized a com-manding 26-6 lead on Goldrich’s nine-yard TD pass to Setian (two catches-25 yards, TD) with seven seconds left in the half.

URI scored on its initial pos-session of the second half when Bentsen scored on a six-yard keeper to trim the deficit to 26-13 at 9:10 of the third.

Vailas got into the scoring ac-tion with a 19-yard TD pass to Jus-tin Mello (two catches-27 yards, TD) with 7:22 left in the third for a 33-13 lead. Mello made a full-ex-tension grab in the far left corner of the end zone for his second scoring reception of the year.

The Wildcats took advantage of favorable field position on their next scoring drive, which began when Alan Buzbee (four tackles) picked off Bentsen’s fourth-down pass and brought it back 12 yards to the URI 35. It was Buzbee’s third interception in the last four games.

It took all of five plays, 33 yards and 53 seconds to score the fifth TD of the day. Goldrich called his own number for a nine-yard score to push the lead to 40-13 with 2:46 left in the third.

The Rams made it 40-20 with 11:05 left on a five-yard keeper by Bentsen.

The Wildcats return to action at home against William & Mary on Saturday, Nov. 3 at 12 p.m.

FOOTBALL continued from page 16

sports The New Hampshirewww.TNHonline.com/sports Tuesday, October 30, 2012

SCORECARD

NORTHEASTERNUNH

Saturday, Kingston, R.I.

MEN’S HOCKEY (4-0-1, 2-0-1)

MEN’S SOCCER (6-7-4, 2-3-1)

UNH BU

1Saturday, Durham, N.H.

0

0

FIELD HOCKEY (11-7, 5-0)

UNH DARTMOUTHSunday, Hanover, N.H.

4

FOOTBALL (7-2, 5-1)

UNH RHODE ISLAND

40 20

Saturday, Boston, Mass.

0

5

WOMEN’S HOCKEY (3-4-0, 1-2-0)

WISCONSIN UNH

5Sunday, Madison, Wis.

0

VOLLEYBALL (14-11. 6-3)

UNH UMBC

3Saturday, Durham, N.H.

2

Also: W, 2-1 vs. Maine

Also: L, 2-1 vs. Wisconsin

Also: W, 4-3 vs. NORTHEASTERN

Also: L, 3-2 vs. Binghamton

SWIMMING & DIVING

UNH NORTHEASTERN

165Saturday, Boston, Mass.

135

MEN’S HOCKEY

FOOTBALL

WILDCATS READY FOR SEASON

With a few weeks to go till the season tips o� , the UNH men’s basketball team was going “Gangam Style” as they and the women’s basketball team held a pep rally on Thursday, Oct. 25.

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Still undefeated

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Junior forward Dalton Speelman and the Wildcats can call this past weekend a success, after UNH was able to edge NU at home on Friday, 4-3, before ending Saturday in a 0-0 tie in what was the ‘Cats’ � rst road test.

STAFF REPORTTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

Casey DeSmith stopped all 34 shots he faced to guide the No. 11 University of New Hampshire men’s hockey team to

Saturday night’s 0-0 scoreless tie against No. 15 Northeastern University at Mat-thews Arena. The Huskies’ senior net-minder Bryan Mountain stopped a career-high 44 shots to record his fi rst collegiate

shutout.UNH fi nishes October unbeaten at 4-0-1 overall and 2-0-

1 in Hockey East. NU moves to 2-2-1 both overall and in the league. The scoreless tie was the fi rst one in the 163-game rivalry dating back to Jan. 10, 1931. It is UNH’s fi rst score-less tie since Jan. 5, 2001 against Maine. The Wildcats, which captured a 4-3 win on Friday night in Durham, earned three points on the weekend and have their best start since the 2007-08 season when they had an identical 4-0-1 mark.

DeSmith, the reigning Hockey East co-Defensive Player of the Week, made double-digit saves in the second (12) and third periods (10) and turned aside nine in the fi rst and three

In � rst road test of the season, UNH ties with Huskies

UNH 0 NU 0

UNH 4 NU 3

M HOCKEY continued on page 15

‘Cats blow out URISTAFF REPORTTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

Dontra Peters forced a fumble and notched an interception that

sparked scor-ing drives, Chris Setian

scored both a rushing and receiv-ing touchdown and the 12th-ranked University of New Hampshire foot-ball team spoiled Saturday’s Home-coming game at Rhode Island by posting a 40-20 CAA victory.

UNH, which recorded its fi fth straight victory, improved to 7-2 overall and maintained at least a share of fi rst place in the CAA with a league mark of 5-1. URI dropped to 0-8, 0-5.

Sean Goldrich completed 17 of 27 passes for 245 yards and a

touchdown while rushing six times for 24 yards and a TD.

R.J. Harris registered his fourth 100-yard receiving game of the season by snaring a team-leading eight catches for 131 yards. Jimmy Giansante collected 55 re-ceiving yards on a career-high-tying four receptions.

Setian was UNH’s leading rusher with four carries for 55 yards, while Andy Vailas added 52 yards on seven rushes.

Matt Evans totaled 12 tackles, eight of the solo variety, for team-high honors. The senior co-captain, with 427 career stops, moved to within seven tackles of UNH all-time leader Steve Doig (434, 1978-81).

UN 40 URI 20

FOOTBALL continued on page 15

The San Francisco Giants swept the Detroit Tigers to win the World Series. Sadly, NH’s Brian Wilson and his famous beard weren’t on the mound.

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