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Students were not nearly as

shocked as those who patrol and serve their town and campus when they found out that the Princeton Review ranked UNH No. 3 in Lots of Beer and No. 4 in Town and Gown Relations Strained for the 2009-2010 school year.

The category Lots of Beer does not mean the same thing as a party school; it simply means the Princ-eton Review found that students at UNH consume more beer per per-son than every school in the nation with the exception of two. The party school category didn’t feature UNH for the second year in a row.

“I’d have to say, over the four years I have been here, the old school party atmosphere has seri-ously fi zzled out over the years,”

Brian Azarian, a fi fth year senior psychology major, said. “It’s almost a completely different campus than it was three years ago.”

Azarian said that the police have cracked down over the years, which has diminished UNH’s party school reputation.

“One of the biggest events of the year is around Halloween at the Greens, and it used to go until midnight or even later,” Azarian said. “Past two years it hasn’t made it past 10 p.m. But its not just the big outdoor parties that are getting nailed, it’s also the house parties.”

The Princeton Review ranks schools based on an 80-question survey, fi lled out by students, that covers 62 categories. The rank-ings were comprised from 122,000 students from the 373 schools the Princeton Review looked at for their book, “The Best 373 Colleges.”

Rob Franek, senior vice presi-dent and author of the book, said he regards UNH as a school in the top 15 percent in the country. Franek

said that the Princeton Review has questions that require written re-sponse, which they then use to go with the quantitative data they re-ceive.

“We divide the student re-sponses up in three major areas: academic experience, student body experience and then personal ex-perience,” Franek said. “Students are the best trumpeters for what a school is doing well.”

According to Franek, the Princeton Review only uses student accounts to determine a school’s ranking in these categories, and doesn’t ask other members of the community to contribute.

“I know a good amount of peo-ple like to drink beer on this cam-pus,” Azarian said. “In fact, every-one I know likes to drink beer, and on the weekends there is no better way to quench a king’s thirst than to empty a few cheap cans.”

Durham Police Chief Dave Kurz said their statistical analysis

As students left campus for summer vacation in May, construc-tion workers remained busy at the Woodside apartment complex.

Twenty-four of the on-campus apartments in buildings P, Q, R, and J have been given a new, contempo-rary face-lift through various reno-vations.

Two years ago, the Department

of Housing began investigating possible renovations through focus groups in which they were able to pinpoint the changes that students felt were most necessary.

According to Nate Hastings, the Woodside apartment manager, the focus groups revealed common complaints of outdated kitchens and an extreme lack of storage space.

The newly renovated apart-

With the rising costs of graduate school, many seniors in the English Teaching program at UNH have found an alterna-tive way to save money while still pursuing their education past an undergraduate degree.

These students are taking part in the early admission pro-cess in UNH’s graduate program, which allows them to apply to graduate school in the fi rst semester of their senior year. If they get accepted, they can take 700/800 level courses in the spring semester of their senior year, earning dual-credits for both their bachelor’s and master’s degrees in one class.

Randy Schroeder is the graduate services coordinator at the UNH Center for Academic Resources. One of his jobs is to help students prepare for their Graduate Record Exams (GREs) and graduate school. Schroeder said that he would recommend early admission to any student in the English Teaching program that is eligible, as it can save both time and money.

“It (early admission) gives seniors who are going into the fi fth year of the teaching education program a huge break,” Schroeder said. “It condenses the program, and it can be a huge indirect source of fi nancial aid because they don’t have to take those credits as a pure graduate student.”

The GRE General Test assesses verbal reasoning, quanti-

Surf’s up at the Elliot Center

RAYA AL-HASHMI/STAFFOver 75 students enjoyed the swells of a giant blue tarp Monday night in the Eliot Alumni Center parking lot. For more photos, see page 12.

Suki SaundersCONTRIBUTING WRITER

PRINCETON continued on page 3 WOODSIDES continued on page 3

ENGLISH continued on page 3

Gregory MeighanSTAFF WRITER

Woodsides receives summer makeover

Beer, town relations prove to be problematic in Princeton Review

English teaching majors fi nd ways to save money

SUKI SAUNDERS/CONTRIBUTORTwenty-four apartments in the Woodsides received renovations over the summer to update kitchens.

In her book to be released in November, UNH professor Jennifer Borda explores the portrayal of women labor activists in fi lms.

The Organic Gardening Club weathered the rain on Friday to sell their recent harvest of tomatoes, squash and peppers to passers by.

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Justin DoubledaySTAFF WRITER

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UNH’s OGC in need of volunteers Small earthquake hits the area

UNH’s Organic Garden Club has been struggling to maintain the workforce needed to tend the organic garden on Spinney Lane.

On Sept. 26, a 3.1-magnitude earthquake originated 10 miles north-west of Concord. Durham was about 40 miles from the epicenter.

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UNH professor Jennifer Borda has written a book that focuses on women laborers in nine fi lms, including “Erin Brockovich.”

The UNH men’s hockey team tied St. Francis Xavier of Nova Scotia, 3-3, this past weekend in an exhibition game at the Whittemore Center.

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Graduate schools around the country, including UNH’s graduate program, use these tests to evalu-ate applicants. The test can be taken only once a month, and no more than fi ve times a year.

There are requirements for ap-plying for early admission to gradu-ate school.

Seniors must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.2 or better to be considered. They also have to fi nish their undergraduate careers as planned while passing graduate courses with a grade of B- or better.

The early admission deadline is Nov. 1 to begin taking graduate courses or dual-courses this spring. Students can earn up to 12 credits toward their graduate degree before completing their undergraduate ca-reer.

Senior English teaching major Guthrie Andres is taking his GRE on Oct. 9 so that he can apply to graduate school early. Andres said that earning grad credits while still completing his undergraduate de-gree could save him thousands of dollars. Along with the classes in the spring, Andres will more than likely take more graduate courses in the summer. This will allow him to fi nish graduate school by attending only one full year, as opposed to the typical two years.

“You can potentially save

$10,000,” Andres said. “So there are some pretty big advantages [to starting grad school early].”

Ryan Hall is another senior English teaching major who will be applying for early admission to graduate school. Hall, like Andres, is looking to save money and time by taking dual courses in the spring. However, he said that applying for early admission does not come without its drawbacks. One of the disadvantages Hall identifi ed is that there are fewer opportunities to do well on the GRE.

Hall said that he has only taken the GRE once, and with the Nov. 1 deadline for early admission quick-ly approaching, he will take the test again in October for the last time before he applies to grad school.

According to both Andres and Hall, preparation for the GRE is similar to that of other standardized tests. Andres said that the acceler-ated admission process has left him with a lot of extra work this semes-ter. Both also said that early admis-sion would be worth it in the long run.

“I think the advantages defi -nitely outweigh the disadvantages, not just because you save a lot of money - you save a lot of time,” Hall said. “There’s peace of mind knowing that if you get in early, you can concentrate on school work and not have that thing [applying to grad school] in the back of your head.”

ments put an end to both of these problems. With new cabinets, coun-ters, appliances and wooden fl oors, the kitchens now have a contempo-rary feel. The storage issue was also addressed with an additional stor-age pantry in the kitchen.

Hastings also said the light-ing within the apartments was a big problem and students were often complaining about how dim they were. In response, the lighting in the apartments was also completely updated.

In addition, the apartments were opened up by removing walls and revamped with new, more en-ergy effi cient fi berglass windows.

According to Michel Williams, assistant director of housing facili-ties and operations, the total cost of the project was $558,000.

However, with all of the new additions, it was important to keep the rare homey feel of the apart-ments alive.

“We wanted to enhance what we already had,” Hastings said.

Michael Saputo, assistant di-rector of apartment living, said that the Department of Housing tries its best to keep up with students’ grow-ing expectation of campus life.

“Times have changed and so have our students,” he said. “We think that the changes we made

have greatly improved the function-ality and attractiveness of the com-mon space within the apartments.”

Saputo said that students have always been interested in the Wood-side apartment complex for its loca-tion next to the Hamel Recreation Center and Dairy Bar, as well as the natural beauty of the woods sur-rounding the buildings.

“We hope the changes that we’ve done continue to keep Wood-side high on the list when students are looking at their housing options for their junior and senior year,” Saputo said.

Current Woodside residents had fi rst dibs on the up-to-date apart-ments after they were advertised last spring, followed by the rest of upperclassmen who were interested in living in on-campus housing.

“They went very quickly,” Hastings said.

Alyssa Colarusso, a senior liv-ing in one of the renovated apart-ments, said she loves the open feel of her apartment with the absence of the wall that once stood between the

living room and kitchen.“It has a lot more space and

looks great,” she said. “It makes the apartment more welcoming and so-cial.”

Colarusso also said that she loves the kitchen and appliances in her apartment. After spending last semester in Florence, Italy, she said the new space is perfect for cooking and trying new recipes she learned while studying abroad.

“The apartments are worth looking in to,” Colarusso said. “We have a comfortable living space without worrying about utilities.”

The current renovations were only the fi rst phase of restoration at the Woodsides.

Phase two will begin next sum-mer, and the total number of apart-ments that will be completed are being determined based upon an-ticipated budget, Williams said.

Kathy Irla-Chesney, the di-rector of housing, said that budget allowing, the plan is to have all of the Woodside apartments renovated within the next two summers.

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If you’ve ever found yourself debating whether you should attend class, you may be interested in a tool called “The Skip Class Calcu-lator.”

The calculator, located on skipclasscalculator.com, asks 10 questions, such as: How many times a week do you have the class? How many days have you already skipped? When is your next test? Can you get notes from a friend in the class?

Hit submit and the decision is made for you.

Each answer is assigned a point value and put through a for-mula, which weighs certain ques-tions more heavily than others.

The value produced by the for-mula will fi t into a range of numbers that correspond to the outcome, ac-cording to the website.

But is the website valid? Ac-cording to the website, “the calcula-tor has been run through dozens of scenarios by multiple testers to en-sure the most logical and accurate outcome.”

But should people take the calculator’s advice seriously? Prob-

ably not, according to the website’s creator Jim Filbert, who said it was only intended to be a joke.

“The response from students is primarily positive,” Filbert said. “I was not surprised by this; I think students get it. They understand it’s humor.”

Some professors disagree.“Any student tempted to en-

gage this calculator should not only skip class, but should drop out of college immediately,” William Briggs, an adjunct statistical sci-ence professor at Cornell U., wrote in his blog.

On the other hand, Filbert said he has gotten some positive feed-back from educators as well.

“Half get it and understand it’s supposed to be humorous,” he said. “They might not approve, but they still get it.”

Steven Stack, a Colorado State U. biology professor, said he wouldn’t go as far as saying ditch-ers should drop out of school, but said students really should want to go to class.

“Students who skip class are clearly wasting their money,” Stack said. “Any student who habitually misses class is only cheating them-selves.”

Mellisa DonahooROCKY MOUNTAIN COLLEGIAN, COLORADO

STATE U.

Website weighs need to attend classes

WOODSIDES: Summer updates improve apartments’ kitchens

ENGLISH: Grad students fi nd ways to save money

“We hope the changes that we’ve done continue to keep Woodside high on the list...for...juniors and seniors.”

Michael Saputoassistant director of apartment living

shows that arrests are much lower than in years past. Kurz said his department arrested 31 people last week- the same week in 2005 yield-ed 65 arrests. Out of the 31 students arrested last week, 14 were UNH students while the other 17 had no affi liation with the university, he said.

“It is not just UNH students we are arresting,” Kurz said. “Roughly 40 percent have nothing to do with UNH.”

In a student poll in a September issue of The New Hampshire, 59 per-cent of students felt that police were being stricter than in years past.

Kurz said with arrests being lower this year than in recent years, you can’t point at the police and say they are being more aggressive.

Deputy police chief of the UNH Police Department Paul Dean agrees with Kurz, crediting the students for a much quieter semester than last year.

“We are not doing anything different then we have been doing for the past 25 years,” Dean said. “Students at UNH over the last de-cade have improved their behavior, and the caliber of student has im-

proved.”Dean said he looks at the

Princeton Review with great skepti-cism and thinks it’s not an accurate survey.

Dean said that the people who generally get into trouble are those who are looking for a party that doesn’t exist.

He agreed with the student verses non-student arrest percentage from Kurz, and said that at times the vast majority of violent crimes involved individuals not affi liated with the university.

“One hundred percent of the violent crimes appear to be indi-viduals not UNH-connected,” Dean said.

Senior Sean Pinette said he feels that the police are being too strict, but he said it is understand-able after the assaults on campus in the past year.

“It seems like when you’re out, everywhere you turn you see a cop, especially downtown,” Pinette said. “I would say that it’s bad, and they could defi nitely loosen up a little bit.”

Pinette said he was not sur-prised by the Princeton Reviews rankings.

Durham itself does not have a store that sells hard alcohol, so there

are fewer options for those confi ned to the town.

“I think that people drink beer because it’s easily available and so-cially acceptable,” Pinette said.

Pinnete said he has not noticed a difference in town-gown relations this year as opposed to others.

“I think that if you’re going to buy property here and live here you got to know what you’re getting into,” Pinette said. “Some residents accept it, and some don’t.”

Todd Selig, administrator for the town of Durham, has lived in town for 10 years and said that the relationship between the school and town is very strong.

“It is better, in fact, than in many other universities and town settings,” Selig said.

Selig said that many students have migrated into more houses and residential areas in the core of Dur-ham, and that has made the town louder.

Durham has enacted a noise ordinance that made quiet hours go from 11 p.m. to 10 p.m., as well as a “disorderly house” ordinance that is designed to make landlords more accountable for tenants who violate laws and rules.

PRINCETON: In review, UNH gets low marks in beer, town lists


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Friday’s rain didn’t dampen the spirits of Organic Garden Club members Conor Fitzgerald, Shane Devanney and Luke Perry.

The three Green Thumbs braved the weather under a small tent to sell their recent harvest to passers by.

“The rain’s good for the gar-den, so we don’t mind,” Devanney, co-president of the club, said.

Peppers, squash, tomatoes and turnips were just some of the week’s offerings.

“It’s been a phenomenal grow-ing season,” Fitzgerald, the garden manager, said.

But while Mother Nature has done her part, the Organic Gar-den Club has been struggling to maintain the workforce necessary to bring their veggies to the com-munity.

“We need volunteers,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s a case where there’s always more work to be done. Improvements can always be made.”

Opportunities to volunteer for

the OGC are diverse. Anyone can work on the garden at any time, which includes tasks like pulling weeds and watering plants. A to-do list for volunteers can be found on a whiteboard inside the door of a wooden shed at the garden. Some-one from the club is also at the gar-den every Tuesday and Thursday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. to supervise volunteers.

The Organic Garden at UNH, which is located on Spinney Lane off Mast Road, is certifi ed organic by the New Hampshire Depart-ment of Agriculture. While this certifi cation gives the group the ability to grow organic produce, it also means more work for the club.

“Maintaining certifi cation basically comes down to a lot of record keeping to prove where our materials come from – keep-ing track of receipts and that sort of thing,” Fitzgerald said. “It also means that the farming itself is more labor intensive. Weeding, pest control, etc. are all done by hand, which helps explain the pre-mium you pay for organic food in

the grocery store.”Those who want to help out

the club in a non-gardening way can volunteer at a community dinner, held every second Friday during the school year at the Way-smeet Center. These dinners pro-vide locally sourced organic food to the community for free. The club tries to gather as much food as possible for these dinners from their garden when possible.

The club also sells veggies ev-ery week at the Campus Activities Board’s open mic night and volun-teers are welcome there as well.

Currently, Fitzgerald, Devan-ney, Perry and the other members of the club are harvesting and pre-paring for the winter. The garden will be planted with winter rye, a nutrient-holding cover crop, which will be tilled back into the soil in the spring. The greenhouse isn’t heated, so there will be no produce grown over the winter. However, the club will stay busy designing and planning the garden for next season.

“You get out of it what you put in,” Devanney said.

Ian FergusonCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Organic Garden Club braves rain for sale

State lawmakers in North Carolina once again gave Erskine Bowles the thumbs up for a tuition rates increase for state universities. The Board of Governors, General Assembly and Gov. Bev Perdue raised tuition back in March. But that increase was not enough.

The state of North Carolina is facing an $800 million revenue shortfall. With unemployment varied between 10 and 18 percent statewide, this means tax revenues will surely plummet. While many believe that education is priceless, state leaders and education admin-istrators have yet another agenda in mind – to tax students. Education is the states newest “sin tax”. Tobacco was once a cash crop and primary export of our state. Today, tobacco is a thing of the past, because of heavy taxes placed on the industry. Our education system may meet the same fate and peril if legislators continue to raise tuition outpacing the economy. At some point parents and students will no longer seek out our state university system because of affordability.

A recent report by the Cen-ter on Budget and Policy Priori-ties shows a nationwide trend to raise tuition as a result of the U.S. Department of Education Recov-ery Act funding. Instead of fi scal responsibility and the fear of tax increases during an election year, state lawmakers and university leaders are increasing the nation-wide load of tapping from Pell and other federal grant funds, which are rapidly running out of money thanks in part to states raising edu-cation costs. With tuition increases nationwide, you don’t need an eco-nomics degree to conclude that we are already on a failed path that will require Congress once again to raise educational funding, funding that lawmakers have said may not be politically feasible.

Generally, most laws or changes have a grace period from six months to a year before they are enacted. This is not the case

with the Bowles increase. It begins on the 11thhour, just as many par-ents and students have committed to fi nancial aid or loans. The best our chancellor says is that students can reapply for aid. Tell that to the federal government or Veterans Ad-ministration when responses or ad-dendums for loan applications can take weeks or months for review.

An old adage goes that it’s not a child’s fault when adults differ. In North Carolina, this is reversed, based on lack of fi scal responsibil-ity by the General Assembly and administrators that instead penal-ize students for their states failed budgets and forecast planning. No one is working to help overbur-dened families for tuition and fees. Not our chancellor. Not our newly elected student leaders. Instead, they congratulated on the tuition increase on recent blog posts.

In an interview last week, UNC-Chapel Hill Student Body President Hogan Medlin said he was surprised the University de-cided to raise tuition by the maxi-mum amount. He said he was not aware of the reasoning and wished the administration had sought more student input. N.C. State Student Body President Kelly Hook said in an e-mail interview, “We have to stay focused on the future and preparing students to face a poten-tially worse battle next year.” That can only mean more increases are on the horizon. I guess the “stay focused” part pertains to our wal-lets. A parent and former alumni at a recent university orientation said, “This is a public university acting more like a private university.”

Our elected student body rep-resentatives must be the voice of students, not the verbatim voice of the administration. And the chan-cellor must be an advocate to state leaders in continuing to recognize that N.C. State is a land grant uni-versity and that his offi ce helps se-cure grants and funding for all the colleges ambitiously and equally. If the students have to do their part in funding the University, the chan-cellor must do his equitable part as well.

Sharing the burden of tuition increases in N.C.

Sam DaughtryTECHNICIAN, NORTH CAROLINA STATE U.

Family and friends of the U. Texas gunman, Colton Tooley, at-tended his funeral services Sunday afternoon.

Funeral services took place at Angel Funeral Homes on South First Street in Austin, Texas.

Tooley, 19, came to campus Tuesday with an AK-47 and fi red several rounds on 21st Street, near

the University Catholic Center, before taking his own life. Police locked down the campus for nearly four hours following the shooting, and no one else was injured.

UT Police Department and the Austin Police Department have not released any new information since the incident, but APD Chief of Staff David Carter will give a briefi ng during the Public Safety Commis-sion’s meeting Monday at 4 p.m.

Funeral held for U. Texas gunman; no further information in case

Aziza MusaDAILY TEXAN, U. TEXAS


Has technology found a func-tional way to keep students from paying high costs for heavy col-lege textbooks?

Maybe. At least it’s a change still in the works.

Apple recently released the Vitalsource Bookshelf applica-tion for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Now, textbooks can be ac-cessed online through integrated download (without needing inter-net access) or from a mobile de-vice. Until this point, E-textbooks were only available on a computer or laptop. With this application, students can access textbooks at any time from their Apple device. They can also write notes or high-light the most important informa-tion, then share these with other students who have the application.

The price is also right. E-textbook companies like CourseS-mart will rent out the digital copy for 180 days for half the price of buying the print version. The on-line versions also offer texts from many of the top textbook publish-ing companies, such as McGraw-Hill and Oxford University Press.

However, some recent re-search shows that this new method of buying textbooks isn’t catching on quickly. According to a study done by Student Watch 2010, 55 percent of four-year college stu-dents didn’t know if their school offered digital textbooks, although 44 percent of students said they would be willing to purchase books through E-textbook if they knew it were available. According to Student Monitor, a group that surveys the college market, digital textbook sales made up only two percent of total textbook sales last year.

Even with this slow start, CourseSmart did announce that their total digital textbook sales in-creased by 400 percent from 2009. And many university bookstores are integrating downloadable text-books in addition to print text-books. The UNH Bookstore offers both versions.

“We’ve had a couple hundred books available as digital copies for the fall semester,” UNH Book-store Manager Sarah Hutz said.

She said that this is the second year that the bookstore has offered

downloadable textbooks, which can be used on any Mac or PC.

“We defi nitely saw an in-creased interest in them this year, which was great,” Hutz said.

Hutz said that the business is happy to accommodate the chang-ing technological world.

“We are willing to help stu-dents get books in any format,” Hutz said.

The Durham Book Exchange declined to comment about the current trend of digital book sales.

If the popularity of E-text-books does pick up and students decide to use them instead of print versions, the classroom environ-ment may change as well. UNH psychology professor Robert Eck-stein said that he has no problem with students bringing their por-table devices to class as a source for the assigned textbook.

“The move towards taking notes on laptops is becoming more popular,” Eckstein said. He said it doesn’t matter whether students are using a laptop or an iPhone to access the reading or notes, but that “it would be polite to ask [the professor] ahead of time” if they are going to be using any electron-ic devices during the class period.

Even though the numbers aren’t quite there yet, download-able textbook sales may be on the rise over the next few years, ac-cording to industry leaders.

Rob Reynolds, director of product design and research for a social network site for sharing re-search called Xplana, produced a fi ve-year projection plan for digi-tal textbook sales. Reynolds es-timates that because of trends in technology, digital textbooks sales in the U.S. will soon account for more than 18 percent of combined textbook sales.

E-textbooks: The end of paper and ink?

Hattie PerkinsCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Even though the numbers aren’t quite there yet, downloadable textbook sales may be on the rise over the next few years.

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It has become blatantly clear over the years that the little guys — that is, you and I — are without a voice in the sporting world.

Sure, we can blog about how much we hate the Dallas Cowboys or how Tiger Woods is a shell of his former self.

We can even comment on ar-ticles written by national sports col-umnists online. In this way, we can cyber-bully professional athletes and writers alike.

Gone are the days when a fan, no matter what their level of income or fame, could meet up with their fa-vorite athlete and have a chat about the game.

In fact, the stories told to me from my elders about meeting “Jol-tin’” Joe DiMaggio in a hotel before a game and having a nice talk with him seem entirely unrealistic and very far-fetched to me.

However, when an athlete does something ignorant or says some-thing mind-boggling, they still need to know that they stepped out of line.

Does LeBron James care that a world of bloggers in Cleveland are calling for his head? Does James even know or read the blogs that trash him on a daily basis?

Do you think Woods reads the racist and hate-fi lled comments sec-tion of an ESPN article, reporting on how well he did in his latest match?

From this day forward, I de-mand that a committee of legends in each sport in the world elects a “sports advocate” for each sport.

In the same way a patient ad-vocate acts as a liaison between pa-tients and health care providers to help maintain standards for patient care, we need famous athletes argu-ing the opinions of the little guys.

An average Joe calling Cow-boys rookie Dez Bryant’s spending habits on dinner for his teammates deplorable is worthless; the Cow-boys’ hall of fame running back Em-mitt Smith criticizing Bryant and his teammates would be noteworthy and respected.

Last week, NBA legend Charles Barkley criticized James’ actions this past summer.

When James played the race card and said that his being black is the reason the world hates him, Bar-kley called him out on it.

Barkley called all of the atten-tion James receives “stupid.” Bark-ley said he believes James is making “stupid” comments about race and

that the only person James has to thank for his hatred is himself.

What a victory this was for the little guy. A respected legend summed up the opinions of an un-fathomable amount of angry fans and let the bratty athlete know that he stepped out of line.

Who knows what kind of amaz-ing progress and maturity a sports advocate’s existence would bring about?

For one thing, having an athlete that you have looked up to all your life criticize you and yell at you like an angry parent is surely a wake-up call.

By having a sports advocate, we weed out all of the hatred, the racism and the uncivilized language before we offi cially address a troubled ath-lete.

Armed with a categorical list of the troubled athlete’s behavior and a well thought out, intelligent speech on hand, a legend has a great chance of getting through the troubled ath-lete’s thick skull.

We need diplomatic, well-spoken people, shooting for jobs as sports advocates’ assistants. The more help the appointed legend gets, the better.

Hopefully, the world realizes that the selfi sh, out-of-touch nature of today’s athlete species needs to die out. Ushering in a new sense of confi dence, humility and gentle-manly (or respectable-womanly) be-havior, the sports advocate will teach today’s athletes a lesson.

The voices of the fans have been silencedJamie Evan Bichelman

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Gone are the days when a fan could meet up with their favorite athlete and have a chat about the game.


Did you feel it? A magnitude 3.1 earthquake shook New Hamp-shire on Sept. 26, causing some complaints of surprise, but no re-ports of damage.

The quake, which occurred at 11:28 p.m., originated 10 miles northwest of Concord in Bosca-wen, N.H. Durham was about 40 miles from the epicenter.

The quake affected central and southern New Hampshire and parts of Vermont, Maine and Mas-sachusetts.

Yet, few people noticed the earthquake.

Tracy Jones, a Durham resi-dent, said that she was outside at a neighborhood block party and no one there felt it.

“We sort of heard some rum-bling,” she said. “But my husband was at home sleeping.”

Laura Haight, another Dur-ham resident, recalled growing up in Vermont where she felt an earth-quake about 30 years ago. She had felt some shaking then, but she slept soundly through this most re-cent quake.

Both women said they were very surprised when they found out about the earthquake. “ A r e we due for a big one?” Haight said.

Preliminary data about the

earthquake was gathered from a seismic station at the Weston Observatory of Boston College, which has been researching earth and environmental sciences for 80 years.

The earthquake occurred 2.1 miles below the surface of the earth and was felt for fi ve to 10 seconds, although John Ebel, di-rector of the Weston Observatory, said that seismograms indicated an additional three to fi ve minutes of trembling.

Ebel said that some people reported hearing a boom during the earthquake. He explained that seismic waves act in the same way as airwaves.

“Waves shake the air like a speaker generates sound, so you can actually hear the waves,” Ebel said. “Near the epicenter, it can sound like an explosion. From fur-ther away, the waves will be more of a rumble.”

He said that there is quite a variance in the way people across a region feel an earthquake be-cause an earthquake is “like a rock thrown into a pond.”

“When you throw a rock in a pond, the waves spread out and get smaller as they move away from where the rock fell,” Ebel said. “It’s the same with an earth-quake. As waves spread out from the epicenter, they get weaker and weaker. They are strongest at the

epicenter.”New Hampshire averages

one earthquake per year, while the New England region averages six earthquakes per year.

This is the second earthquake to affect New Hampshire in 2010. A 5.0-magnitude earthquake cen-tered north of Ottawa, Canada was felt on June 23.

Ebel said that it is essential-ly impossible to predict when an earthquake will occur.

“Seismologists always look for signs after the fact, but there is no evidence for any earthquake in the world,” Ebel said. “There’s no diagnostic technique.”

The area from the Lakes Re-gion to Concord is an active area, as well as Berlin, N.H. However, the earthquakes do not line up along a single fault, Ebel said.

“There is no proof of one crack responsible for the earth-quakes,” he said.

According to Ebel, a fault occurs when pressure in the rock builds up along a crack in the earth.

“When a rock breaks, it is unable to heal,” Ebel said. “The rocks slide in order to release the pressure, which causes an earth-quake.”

Cracks can come to the sur-face, allowing seismologists in California, for example, to map the surface in order to analyze the fault. But in New Hampshire there are no surface cracks, so it is dif-fi cult to determine what is happen-ing under the earth’s surface.

Ebel said that every quake de-tected provides seismologists with useful information.

“Almost every earthquake is signifi cant,” he said.

There are 16 seismic stations set up across New England to mon-itor earthquake activity, including two stations in New Hampshire. One station is located in Franklin Falls and the other at Dartmouth College in Hanover.

The Weston Observatory manages the New England Seis-

mic Network and it can easily de-tect any earthquake in the world that is larger than magnitude 6.0. The observatory is in the process of establishing a seismic station at UNH that would be utilized by the geology program.

The university would become a standard regional seismic station. A seismograph in Durham, which the university is currently attempt-ing to purchase, would detect quakes over the entire globe and transmit data across the Internet.

Margaret Boettcher, UNH as-sistant professor of geophysics, said that when James Hall was built, the basement was set up on bedrock in preparation for a seis-mic station.

The station will provide UNH students with a unique opportunity to study earthquakes and transmit information.

“There will be a stream of data coming in and going out to the national data center,” Boettch-er said. “Students will be able to use the equipment to detect small earthquakes around the world.”

The new seismic station at UNH will serve an important role in allowing seismologists to fi nd out more about earthquakes in New Hampshire.

“Seismicity is more com-mon around here than people may think,” Boettcher said.

Katy SternbergerCONTRIBUTING WRITER

New Hampshire earthquake causes little stir

Disney World is a cornerstone of Central Florida, but few people know how it came to be so – and how it almost never was.

Author Chad Emerson wants to fi x that.

On Sept. 29, Emerson gave a presentation at the U. Central Flor-ida Library on his book, “Project Future: The Inside Story Behind the Creation of Disney World.”

The presentation was open to the community as well as students and faculty, and despite the poor weather, there was a good turnout.

“The story needed to be told about how and why Disney ended up here,” Emerson said. “It is an interesting story, indeed, full of se-cret meetings, broken deals, dummy corporations, and the dream of one man that others worked to fulfi ll even after his death.”

According to Amazon.com, “Project Future” – the code name for the Disney resort in the ’60s – covers how and why Walt Disney

selected Central Florida.Emerson is a professor of law

at Faulkner U., where he specializes in land planning law, intellectual property law and amusement park and leisure law. He began writing an article for a law journal in 2008 about the land acquisition in Central Florida that Disney was involved in and soon found that there was greater potential for this relatively unknown piece of Disney history.

“My wife read the paper and said, ‘You can build on this story – just get rid of the legal jargon,’ ” he said.

After another year of work and research – interviews, archives and, most importantly, documents from legal depositions – Emerson had his book.

“I purposefully did not use the Disney archives or sources,” he said. “I realized this story would be more credibly told if I found research independent of Disney. They didn’t oppose it; people in-formally helped me; big Disney executives wrote testimonials [for the book].

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A study by the American En-terprise Institute for Public Policy Research, entitled “Leisure Col-lege, USA” makes the claim that college students studied about 14 hours a week in 2003 in compari-son to the 24 hours a week students studied in 1961.

The fi ndings of this study also show that this decline has nothing to do with the type of institution a student attends, whether or not they work, or what they choose to study.

The study was written by two professors from U. California, Mindy Marks and Philip Bab-cock. Babcock says the research was inspired by a similar survey that pertained only to students of U. California, “The study-time numbers looked quite low to us, and we wondered if this was true across the nation and if it had al-ways been true.”

The research that followed confi rmed these low numbers in current study time clocked by uni-versity students.

The data collected by Babcock and Marks includes four sets of data coming from the years 1961, 1981, 1987-1989, and 1991-2003, which involves the responses of full-time students to a survey ask-ing the number hours each studied per week. From these surveys the researchers were able to see an ob-vious pattern: Study time had gone down, and drastically at that. Hop-ing to fi nd the cause of the decline, the duo looked at the changes in college culture that occurred over the time span. The two major pos-sible reasons Marks and Babcock cited in their research that may have led to the major decrease in study time were the use of technol-ogy and falling standards in uni-versities all over the country.

The use of technology would surely make tasks that would have taken longer before the widespread use of the Internet, such as writing a paper, quicker and easier to com-plete. However, the study shows that most of the decline took place prior to 1981, a time in which this access to technology was impos-sible. This means that while tech-nology has had an impact on the amount of time students spend studying, the impact is minimal and recent with little relevance to the study’s fi ndings.

What might be causing this trend according to the research? Universities whose standards for students have dropped in recent decades, resulting in students to-day who do not need to work as hard in college as students in 1961. This conclusion is problematic as there is no precise way to test the standards of universities today and so many factors affect student

study time. However those who believe this theory have several explanations such as student desire for leisure time and the catering of universities to such desires in an effort to attract students.

Ben Smith, a freshman here at the University of Massachusetts who plans to major in biology agrees that there are a lot more options available to students in terms extracurricular activities, particularly club sports and other athletics. This would cause study-ing to be less of a priority, as today students need not be a part of their college team to have time commit-ted to sports or almost any other activity.

Similarly, Kathryn Tolley, Phil McGilvary and Kit Dyer, all UMass sophomores say that col-lege standards are not the only things that affect study time.

Tolley said that, with larger numbers of students receiving higher education, it has become the cultural norm to go to a univer-sity and thus those who do “may not be as study-orientated,” but rather may be attending a univer-sity because it is expected of them.McGilvary agrees that the expecta-tions universities have of students may have changed in a not-so-negative way, claiming that today oftentimes students need to go to graduate school to acquire the qualifi cations that were once held by undergraduates in order to com-pete in the job market. This would mean that today the amount of work required of an undergraduate student is similar to what a high

school student needed to accom-plish 40 years ago.

Dyer feels as though she was more prepared for college than students in the past may have been because as she says, “Now when you are in high school the teach-ers are there to teach you primarily how to learn and in college you are there to learn the actual material.”

However, this is all specula-tion and, without more in-depth research, the true reason for the decline in time spent studying by college students would need to be done for a truly accurate explana-tion to be found.

But in the end, no university can be held entirely responsible for the study habits of its students, who are as adults responsible for themselves, according to Professor Blaustein who works in the Center for Neuroendocrine.

“Universities really can’t be harder. Some professors are de-manding; some aren’t,” she said. “Some students rise to the chal-lenge and try to get as much out of college as they can; some don’t. The amount of time students study is determined by the student, not the universities.”

Data suggests that college students are getting lazy

Lucia PanasciMASSACHUSETTS DAILY COLLEGIAN, U.

MASSACHUSETTS- AMHERST

“Some students rise to the challenge and try to get as much out of college as they can; some don’t.”

Professor BlausteinUMass Amherst

A U. Texas psychology profes-sor recently completed a study he says could infl uence the way doc-tors treat some fertility problems.

Robert Josephs’ study, which he led over a two-year period along with Pranjal Mehta, assistant pro-fessor of psychology at U. Oregon, examined the relationship between the stress hormone cortisol and the hormone testosterone. Josephs said testosterone infl uences behaviors including aggression, dominance, leadership and sex.

Results of the research show that high levels of cortisol, released because of stress, limit the effects of testosterone on the body. Jo-sephs said he conducted the study because past research into testoster-one’s effects on behavior gave in-consistent results. Through the lens of his study, however, these incon-sistent results make sense. Josephs said these previous studies ignored an important variable and his study indicated that variable is cortisol.

“When cortisol levels are high — in other words, when we are stressed — testosterone’s infl uence on behavior is blocked. When lev-els are low, testosterone’s infl uence is facilitated,” Josephs said. “Ap-parently, the body understands that when a threat is present, conditions are not safe for reproduction or be-haviors associated with reproduc-tion, which include competition, aggression, dominance and leader-ship — all of which help to defeat one’s rival and increase the likeli-hood of reproducing.”

Because of the link his study establishes between stress and sex, Josephs said the results should in-form doctors’ decisions in treating patients with reproductive diffi -culties. He said for women having trouble getting pregnant, stress re-duction may be more effective than medication because stress-induced cortisol may actually be the main cause of the reproductive problems. Yoga, exercise, meditation and psy-chological therapy can all be used to reduce stress, he said.

Josephs said there is no dif-ference in the body’s response to different types of stress. Whether a person is nervous about an up-coming speech or running from an aggressive animal, their stress re-sponse will be the same, producing the same effects from the release of cortisol.

University of Texas professor discovers effect of stress hormones on fertility

Matthew StottlemyreDAILY TEXAN, U. TEXAS

Yoga, exercise and meditation can all be used to reduce stress.


Sometimes when two people kiss in public it’s diffi cult to look away. When two people are kissing to break a Guinness World Record it’s nearly impossible to ignore.

When Matty Daley, senior English major at The College of New Jersey, and Bobby Canciello, sophomore interactive multimedia major, decided to break the record for the world’s longest kiss, they were fueled by a cause: promoting equality for the LGBTQ communi-ty. That motivation must have sus-tained them, because it was one of the few comforts they were afforded during the span of 32.5 hours, the total length of the record-breaking kiss.

The event, which was streamed live online, attracted viewers from around the world. Viewers from Denmark, South Africa and Brazil vocalized their support for the kiss. According to a witness, the online stream attracted over 500,000 view-ers.

The two friends locked lips at 11:33 a.m. in the Alumni Grove. They stood toe-to-toe, mouths fas-tened and arms on one another’s shoulders for support. The pair fre-quently could be seen doing what looked like a kind of amateur waltz, as they stepped from side-to-side in unison, rotating clockwise in slow circles to ensure blood fl ow.

The Guinness World Record’s rules for the “World’s Longest Kiss” stipulate that the couple must be standing at all times and cannot be propped together by any aids, the couple must be awake at all times, incontinence pads and diapers can-not be worn, couples cannot leave the venue at any time and, of course, the couples’ lips must always be touching. Guinness also required video evidence and two witnesses present at all times.

The kissers stood under the auspices of a makeshift canopy, but that didn’t stop the heat as tempera-tures climbed as high as 84 degrees on Sunday afternoon.

When the icepacks that the boys were using to keep each other cool weren’t enough, a key was used to tear Daley’s shirt safely away from his body without ever breaking the kiss.

Throughout the kiss, the boys sipped water and juice through the corners of their mouths to stay hy-drated. Canciello said that his re-search prior to the kiss led him to Naked Juice’s “Berry Veggie Ma-chine” as a good fuel for the proj-ect. Daley and Canciello also each ingested approximately 2.5 bottles of 5 Hour Energy shots.

The boys wore headphones for portions of the kiss — Daley said he mostly listened to Lady Gaga while Canciello opted for parts of “The Il-liad” and “Great Expectations” on audio.

During the fi nal hours of the kiss, the number of spectators at the College grew rapidly. Students from the College and the local com-munity gathered around the tent waving rainbow colored signs and cheering the names of the kissers to show their support. Passersby made donations for “The Trevor Project,” a national suicide prevention help-line for LGBTQ youth.

The website created for the event by Daley and Canciello ex-plained the signifi cance of the kiss.

“…in an effort of student ac-tivism, and in support of equal rights for every individual regard-less of sexual orientation or gender, with an event that is sure to show the American community, and the world, that a kiss between two men (and women) can be so simple.”

According to Daley, the idea germinated after the two friends watched an episode of “Rob’s Fan-

tasy Factory” on MTV where Rob Dyrdek breaks the world record for the “World’s Largest Skateboard.”

“I told Bobby, we should break a world record for something that means something,” Daley said.

The previous record, set by Nikola Matovic and Kristina Rein-hart in Germany in 2009, was 32 hours and 7 minutes.

The two aren’t romantically involved and Canciello said his boyfriend was supportive of the project.

According to Canciello, the kiss itself was the least diffi cult part of the marathon.

“Just the love that we believe in was what pushed us. After a while it wasn’t even like ‘I’m kissing a boy’ anymore, it was like, ‘holy shit, my feet really hurt right now,’” he said.

Brandon Barney, sophomore English major, didn’t know the boys beforehand, but decided to get involved because of his interest in the cause.

“I fully support gay rights, gay marriage, just anything that really enhances the LGBT movement,” Barney said.

Barney was on scene for much of the event, answering questions on the live stream and making sure things ran smoothly.

Emily Porcelli, a friend of Daley’s, came from Hamilton and spent the last 16 hours watching the kiss.

“I don’t feel that gender should be big on anything, if you love somebody, love them for who they are, not what they are. It doesn’t re-ally matter what gender they are,” Porcelli said.

After the boys’ lips parted for the fi rst time Daley burst into tears as the two took a bow before the gathered audience. A chair was con-jured up from nearby and the two sat down, Canciello fi rst and Daley on his lap.

Two College of New Jersey men break world record with 32.5-hour-long kiss

Todd PettyTCNJ SIGNAL, THE COLLEGE OF NEW JERSEY

Created in 1756, The Onion has 97 trillion readers, completely dominating readership of other publications such as the New York Times and CNN.

A recent poll of journalistic integrity, which the publication made up, puts the witty, satirical newspaper on top.

On Thursday night at U. Florida, Onion staff writer Seth Reiss, and editor-in-chief Joe Randazzo, told a packed house how much easier it is to create news instead of reporting it.

“We make news,” Randazzo said, “That’s why we’re the best at it.”

The Onion is well known for making up news and its writers’ goal is to produce a comedic out-look on political fi gures, sports heroes and other unsuspecting subjects.

Since its real creation in 1988, headlines have announced fake, yet shocking stories like “Al Gore Places Infant Son in Rocket to Escape Dying Planet” and “Florida State University to Phase Out Academic Operations By 2010.”

Unlike its competitors, there is a two-week lag time between pitching a headline and seeing it in print, said Reiss, and not all of the fabricated stories make it to publishing.

“Nation Can’t Wait to Wake-Up and Start Eating Again,” “Re-port: Every 10 Seconds Someone Dies in a Cool Way” and “Pretty Girl Name Remembered” are just some headlines that did not make it to print.

Sections, such as the strong side/weak side portion of the pa-per, are widely popular.

In his 2009 senior year, Tim Tebow was the target of a strong side/weak side segment.

On the strong side, the two joked, Tebow was the fi rst 32-year-old to win a Heisman tro-phy, he can do a 350 pound neck-press and is really good at telling people how much he likes God.

On the weak side, he had one more year before he sucked in the pros.

Tebow was not the only U. Florida joke.

Thursday’s Independent Florida Alligator did not have Reiss and Randazzo featured on the front, but rather in an adver-tisement on the back with sports. And not only was the advertise-ment on the back, they joked, but the picture didn’t even have Reiss or Randazzo in it.

Dane Cook was on the front page of the paper, the comedic duo pointed-out to the largest au-dience they had ever spoken in front of, and he isn’t coming to UF until October.

Had they not been gotten a job at The Onion, both of the comedy writers said they would be neuro-surgeons, adding that their entire staff has medical training.

When asked if they had ever gotten in trouble for any of their shocking, offensive “news,” they agreed that satire laws protect co-medic writers very well.

“Freedom of speech protects you if you do parody,” Randazzo said. “If it’s not an event that ac-tually happened, and no one be-lieves it, it’s ok.”

Fake newspaper employees talk about real paper

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COURTESY / UWIRETwo students at The College of New Jersey lock lips for the LGBTQ community.


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If you’re a Julia Roberts fan, chances are you’ve seen the movie “Erin Brockovich.”

In her new book, “Women Labor Activists in the Movies,” which will be released in Novem-ber, UNH professor Jennifer Borda explores this fi lm and others.

Roberts plays the lead in “Erin Brockovich,” a fi lm based on a true story about a down-on-her-luck single mother who un-covers a company that is poison-ing local residents by illegally dumping waste into a nearby land plot. In an effort to prevent further

illness among the residents in the area, Brockovich takes legal ac-tion against the company, making her a heroine.

In the book, Borda, an asso-ciate professor of communication, explores the portrayal of women labor activists as protagonists in nine fi lms.

The fi lms that Borda discuss-es are both independent and main-stream fi lms, and include “Norma Rae”, “The Pajama Game”, “North Country” and “Erin Brockovich”, among others.

“Each of these fi lms is sig-nifi cant to our understanding of resistance and domination, and

heroism and oppression,” Borda said. “They all, in various ways, draw attention to the cultural and political situations and capacity for activism of those on society’s margins.”

According to Borda, the fi lms invite spectators to think about is-sues of diversity through both the representation of disenfranchised voices and their efforts to chal-lenge or overturn stereotypical constructions of femininity, or misinformed assumptions regard-ing class and ethnicity.

“The independent fi lms are frequently very personal, artistic creations designed to challenge

spectators’ ways of thinking, and possibly provoke them into social action,” Borda said. “In contrast, the fi lms coming out of Hollywood often fall prey to formulaic pat-terns that in many ways undermine the female heroine’s power, there-by satisfying the need to reach a broad spectrum of the fi lm-going public in order to insure commer-cial success.”

The book began as Borda’s dissertation when she was com-pleting her Ph.D. at Penn State University.

While she was studying as a graduate student, Borda had become interested in how fi lms

shape our collective understanding of various social movements. She was primarily interested in femi-nism and had done much research and writing about the portrayal of women in the media.

But Borda had become more interested in issues relating to class and labor.

“I had seen the fi lm ‘Norma Rae’ when I was [younger],” Bor-da said. “Even though I was too young to really understand all of it, the image of Sally Field stand-ing on the factory fl oor holding a union sign had made a lasting im-pression on me.”

Professor’s new book focuses on women laborers in fi lmAriella Coombs

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A new exoskeleton, coined by some as a real-life “Iron Man,” was unveiled at U. Utah last week.

The exoskeleton is the latest robotic development that started at the school under Stephen Jacobsen, a professor in mechanical engineer-ing, who started Sarcos in the early 1980s, said Fraser Smith, vice pres-ident of operations for Raytheon

Sarcos.The robot, known as XOS 2,

is able to lift and carry more weight and uses 50 percent less energy than its predecessor. Researchers aimed to reduce the amount of power con-sumed with the new generation ro-bot.

“XOS 1 was a proof of con-cept,” Smith said, stating that the goal was to determine the capabili-ties of making an exoskeleton like

this.Paramount Home Entertain-

ment and Raytheon Sarcos began making plans about a month ago to collaborate, in hopes of promoting XOS 2 and the DVD and Blu-ray release of “Iron Man 2,” which was released Sept. 28 said Guy Shields, a spokesperson for Raytheon.

Through this collaboration, Clark Gregg, who plays Agent Phil Coulson in the fi lms, was able to

test out XOS 2 during the unveiling of the suit Sept. 23, Shields said.

Iron Man’s suit was intended to help a few people accomplish superhuman feats, the XOS 2 was designed to make a lot of people do many extraordinary things, Smith said.

The exoskeleton enhances a person’s natural ability. Research-ers can control the amount of force applied by the user. For every one

pound of force XOS 2 exerts 17 pounds, making lifting a 50-pound weight feel like three pounds, Smith said.

XOS 2 is capable of lifting 50 pounds, 15 pounds more than XOS 1, and holds the weight with the arms outstretched, which is the hardest position to do, Smith said. It can also bench-press about 200 pounds and carry a 200-pound backpack, he said.

Scientists unveil a real-life ‘Iron Man’ suit at U. UtahDeborah Rafferty

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PHOTO/ COURTESY U WIREThe aim of the ‘XOS 2’ robot is to reduce power consumption.



For fi ve years, the New Eng-land Pilgrimage for Peace Walk has brought people of all different faiths together to recognize the shared belief of peace.

This weekend, the Durham community was able to share in the war and peace conversation that the Peace Walk pilgrims encourage.

In addition to engaging with community members, the pilgrims will also begin their month-long journey across New England on Madbury Road in the heart of Dur-ham.

The group’s goal is 20 miles per day.

The group laced up their walk-ing shoes and took their fi rst steps over to the Community Church of Durham for lunch and conversation on Friday, Oct. 1.

“Every place you go, peo-ple love you,” Eric Swanfeldt, a 78-year-old pilgrim, said.

The beginnings of the pilgrim-age stem from Swanfeldt’s visit to a countryside church in Nicaragua 25 years ago.

Swanfeldt and a group of friends from the United Methodist Church were traveling to Nicaragua to help establish health clinics and build bridges. One day, Swanfeldt approached a small church that was surrounded by people tracing the shape of their own hands on a wooden board. When he saw the sense of community that was estab-lished in the cluster of participants, Swanfeldt came up with the initial idea for the walk.

“It was at that moment when I put my hand on the board that I knew we had to come home and do something,” Swanfeldt said. “I thought, ‘If all these people in Nica-ragua can come together, why can’t we try it in the United States?”

When he returned to New London, Conn. fi ve years ago, Swanfeldt and a group of his friends worked to put his idea into practice.

“We went every place,” Swan-feldt said. “Everybody was just lovely to us. They just wanted to talk.”

For the fi rst year, Swanfeldt and his friends decided to walk and talk for an average of 20 miles per day for 15 days in a row. Each year thereafter, the number of friends has grown and the journeys have lengthened.

Carolyn Cicciu, 64, has par-ticipated in the pilgrimage since the group was formed fi ve years ago. She and the other pilgrims organize the walks themselves, which involves setting up stops at local churches, retirement homes,

schools and community centers for rest, food and conversation. This year, the group received help from the Rev. Mary Westfall, who has been senior minister at Durham’s community church for over 10 years.

“The town has been so wel-coming and enthusiastic,” Cicciu said.

Cicciu said that she was es-pecially pleased with the church’s support and their plan to host peace-related activities all month.

One of these activities includ-ed a dinner held Saturday night at the UNH Waysmeet Center, put on by the Rev. Larry Brickner-Wood. The dinner was open to the public, but only a small handful of students attended.

As the group enjoyed fi nger sandwiches and passed around pitchers of juice, a discussion on thoughts and beliefs about war and peace sparked many other signifi -cant topics among the mixed com-pany. From the meaning of patrio-tism to silly stories of knitting clubs in high school, the fi ve students, three walkers and two Waysmeet board members who had been strangers at the start of dinner were now speaking like old friends.

Tears welled in the eyes of Diane Woods, a good friend of the Waysmeet Center, as she confessed her fear that our world will never see peace.

“I feel discouraged,” she ad-mitted. “A world of peace is a won-derful thing to envision, but when you think of all the wars every-where, it’s so disheartening.”

“The war industry makes a lot of money,” Cicciu said. That won’t change until people change their attitudes about what’s really important in life.”

“It blows your mind to be reminded of how lucky we are,” Swanfeldt said as he described his return home from Nicaragua. “Those people just have the basics, but they are so much more peace-ful and inclusive and accepting of others. Our job is to educate people here so we can be the same.”

A glimmer of hope did surface through the dinner conversation when Larry Brickner-Wood smiled, looked at the students around the table and expressed his hope for the youth of America.

“My hope comes from so many young people choosing ser-vice occupations who see the injus-tice in the world,” Brickner-Wood said. “Kids in this generation are so much more in tune to the suffering of other people.”

The pilgrims agreed. “You young people give us so much hope,” Cicciu exclaimed.

Peace begins at home in Durhamand spreads

Hollie RomaCONTRIBUTING WRITER

An inquiry class is now a re-quirement for fi rst year students at UNH. One particular inquiry class has gotten rave reviews from the students in the class and other uni-versity professors alike.

“It’s a humanities course,” Bill Ross, professor of the class, said. “I’m really trying to get them to look at the literature and really think about how Americans adopted this English nobleman’s sport and turned it into something that’s dis-tinctly American.”

The course, offi cially titled

“Fly Fishing and the American Ex-perience,” is designed to give stu-dents the experience of the sport while learning about biology, litera-ture, the environment and history.

“It’s so hands-on,” Emily Cianchette, who has never fi shed before, said. “I learn really well with that.”

Cianchette signed up for the class because she said she thought the elective sounded interesting.

As part of the hands-on ap-proach, students are required to complete a 10-hour service-learning project, which could be any eco-friendly effort from habitat moni-toring to local organized stream

cleanups.The class will read pieces from

authors Ernest Hemingway, Nor-man Maclean, Tom McGuane and Nick Lyons.

So far, guest fi sherman Bill Cass has taught the students how to tie a fl y. The students have also taken a trip to practice casting a fl y.

After UNH Media Relations sent out a press release, Ross said he had several professors ask for a copy of the syllabus. Since this is his fi rst time ever teaching the course, he is still in the learning process himself, but is eager to share this curriculum with others.

Students excited about new courseChantel McCabe

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Over 75 people showed up for tarp surfi ng held at the Elliot Alumni Center parking lot. Students brought longboards and used the large blue tarps to create ‘waves.’

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Why are you here? Most of us have probably grown up with the assumption that after high school, you go to college. And obviously since we are all here, this assump-tion was correct.

Let’s assume for argument’s sake that all of us attend this fi ne institution of higher learning for somewhat similar reasons: We want to expand our minds and horizons, we want to thrive on acquiring knowledge, we want to gain a deep-er understanding of human nature, we strive to develop insight and enlightenment…or at the very least we are hoping to land a cool, high paying or highly rewarding job.

But college is not for everyone. Having a college degree does not guarantee that a person will get their dream job, make a lot of money or be personally fulfi lled. With the economic hardships of the past two years, we probably all know college graduates who are still looking for jobs, and others who have taken jobs far below their perceived expe-rience or educational level.

What’s worse is that, according to the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, only 55.9 percent of American college freshman who entered in 2002 ended up with an associate’s

or bachelor’s degree by 2008. That means more than 40 percent of said students did not graduate in six years — and I’d bet most of them are still paying off college debt for a degree they never earned.

In an article for the National Association of Scholars, retired U. Wisconsin professor Thomas Reeves said, “Going to college has become a national fad…Is it always a prudent investment, for the indi-vidual and for society, to be sending junior off to the dorm?”

It’s a valid question. Especially when you couple the high rate of col-lege quitters with U.S. government reports that there is a skilled labor shortage. Add that 23 of the 30 jobs projected to grow at the fastest rate in the next 10 years do not require a college degree and one is left to wonder if some students who have grown up with the doctrine, “after high school, I will go to college,” would have preferred never to have started college in the fi rst place.

In a May piece in The New York Times Jacques Steinberg wrote, “A small but infl uential group of econ-omists and educators is pushing an-other pathway: for some students, no college at all. It’s time, they say, to develop credible alternatives for students unlikely to be successful pursuing a higher degree, or who may not be ready to do so.”

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The following arrests were recorded from the University of New Hampshire Department of Police Adult Arrest/Simmons Log from September 30 to October 3.

Sept. 30Daniel Bowie, 18, 25 Main

St., Jericho, VT., 05465, 804 Williamson Hall, unlawful in-toxication, 11:12 p.m.

Oct. 1Nicole Gaudette, 19, 29

Meadowbrook Dr., Nashua, N.H., 03062, Gibbs Hall, unlawful pos-session of alcohol, 11:57 p.m.

Jared Liamos, 20, 29 Spin-dlewicke Dr., Hanover, N.H., 03755, Gibbs Hall, unlawful pos-session, 11:57 p.m.

Mackenzie Burton Williams, 18, 46 Monor Road, Penacook, N.H., 03303, C-Lot, possession of controlled drugs, 12:20 a.m.

Timothy Duhamel, 20, 47 Blue Hills Dr., Rochester, N.H., J House, criminal liability for con-duct of another (warrant), 1:13 a.m.

Sunny LeMire, 18, 45 Bridge St. #23, Pelham, N.H., 03076, DeMeritt Circle, unlaw-ful possession, 6:11 a.m.

Oct. 2Harrison Huston, 18, 838

Winona Rd., Center Harbor, N.H., 03226, Stoke Hall, unlaw-ful intoxication, 10:55 p.m.

Patrick Lorigan, 19, 29 Walker Rd., Atkinson, N.H., 03811, Lot A, sale of controlled drug, 8:11 p.m.

Jonathan Schiavone, 19, 9 Villanova Dr., Westfod, Mass., 01886, E-Lot, possession of drugs, 9:10 p.m.

Joseph Desantis, 18, 14 Her-

itage Ln., Saugus, Mass., 01906, E-Lot, possession of drugs, 9:10 p.m.

Oliver Carpenter, 19, 44 Woodvue Rd., Windham, N.H., 03087, Gables 405 C, possession of drugs, 9:40 p.m.

Kyle Suva, 21, 24 Sadie Ln., Jefferson, N.H., 03583, Garrison & Main, recovering stolen prop-erty, 1:15 a.m.

Ricardo Mejia, 19, 102 Lincoln St., Manchester, N.H., 03103, SERC A, unlawful intoxi-cation, 3:15 a.m.

Oct. 3Justin Brown, 20, 50 Ridge

Rd., Farmington, N.H., 03835, J-House, warrant/theft, 6:30 p.m.

Rachel Wheaton, 18, 60 Tu-dor St., Waltham, Mass., 02451, Scott Hall, unlawful intoxica-tion, 2:00 a.m.

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There may be one more way for young women to avoid dreaded college weight gain — and without any effort on their part.

Contrary to conventional wis-dom, having an overweight college roommate may lead to less than average weight gain and more con-scious health decisions.

A new study by U. Michigan found that college women who are randomly paired with roommates who weigh more than average gain less weight than women with trim-mer roommates.

The study showed that these women gained only half a pound. Typical freshman weight gain is be-tween two and a half to six pounds — substantially less than the “fresh-man 15.”

The study, which was released Sept. 21, explained that heavier roommates are more likely than average-weight women to diet.

Exercising more often and be-ing more likely to use weight loss supplements and purchase college meal plans with limited access to food were among the reasons for the difference in weight gain.

There have been previous stud-ies done suggesting that having an

obese spouse, friend or sibling in-creases the likelihood of becoming obese.

However, unlike roommate pairings, these relationships are not random.

Researchers assessed 144 fe-male college students randomly as-signed to share living quarters dur-ing their fi rst year. At the start of the fall semester, the researchers noted the women’s height and weight and asked about weight management behaviors.

These behaviors included things like whether they had tried to lose weight in the previous year, the average number of times per week they exercised and whether they had signed up for an unlimited col-lege meal plan.

U. Minnesota freshman Kelly O’Neill agreed with the logic be-hind the study but isn’t worried about gaining weight during her fi rst year of school.

“I haven’t gained weight so far, so I’m not concerned,” O’Neill said.

A 2009 Boynton Health Ser-vice study found that more than 40 percent of all females had a body mass index that placed them in the overweight or very obese catego-ries.

Sarah NienaberMINNESOTA DAILY, U. MINNESOTA

Study links roommates to minimized weight gain

A 2010 report by the Lumina Foundation for Education listed West Virginia as the state with the fewest college graduates among residents between the ages of 25 and 64.

Only 11.7 percent of the work-ing population holds a bachelor’s degree, 7 percent hold a graduate or professional degree and 6.8 per-cent hold an associates degree. This translates to only one out of every 4 residents, or 25.5 percent of the population, have post secondary education.

In West Virginia, 19.9 percent of the population attended college but did not graduate, and 54.4 per-cent of the population has earned a high school degree or less.

The most educated counties in the state are Monongalia, Jefferson and Putnam, with residents with two or four year degree rates of 43.4 percent, 37.3 percent and 34.1 percent.

The least educated counties are McDowell, Lincoln and Boone with rates of 10.3 percent, 14.1 percent and 14.1 percent.

Of the states that border West Virginia, only Kentucky, with a de-gree rate of 29.2 percent, ranks in the bottom 10 states for education.

Maryland ranks in the top 10 with 43.9 percent of adults with col-lege degrees, and Virginia is 11th on the list with 43.4 percent of adults with college degrees.

Rob Anderson, senior director of policy and planning at the West

Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission, attributes part of this problem to demographics.

He said census data shows there are fewer high school age students than there used to be, and although the graduation rate has held steady, fewer students are graduating.

Frances S. Hensley, associate vice president for Academic Af-fairs, said in the past year Marshall has been busy getting a number of initiatives underway to aid students in earning their degrees.

Among these initiatives is re-ducing the minimum number of credit hours from 128 to 120 to graduate.

This applies to incoming stu-dents, although returning students can change their course load with the approval of their college dean, Hensley said.

Incoming students no longer take University 101, which has been replaced with a more academically rounded course.

“Students are now taking First Year Seminar,” Hensley said. “In the course, students are getting an academic class with a focus on critical thinking. In the fi rst year seminar, students are introduced to writing intensive as well as multi-cultural and international thinking, plus working with ‘embedded’ li-brarians who help students learn to research.”

Hensley said the reasons stu-dents don’t graduate are varied. Several students are the fi rst in their family to go to college. Some can-not come back for fi nancial reasons,

but the culture of West Virginia may be the biggest obstacle.

“Traditionally, one could get a solid high paying job right out of high school, but that is disappearing quickly,” Hensley said.

Lumina used U.S. Census data to compile its report.

Lumina is a private indepen-dent foundation whose goal is to increase educational access beyond high school.

For the 20 percent of the work-ing population with some college but no degree, the Regents Bach-elors of Arts program helps adults with some credit hours earn degrees within an accelerated and fl exible time frame.

Lumina gave an $800,000 Adult Learner Grant to the West Virginia Higher Education Policy commission to enhance this pro-gram.

“Funds will be used to en-hance academic content as well as enhance campus services as they pertain to adult students,” Anderson said. “These students often must interact with personnel during non-traditional hours due to work sched-ules, and issues such as this one will be addressed.”

Hensley said the benefi ts of education exceed just economic benefi ts, and contribute to people making better choices all around.

The correlation between being the least educated, but also hold-ing the nation’s highest obesity and smoking rates are hard to miss, he said.

2010 Report shows West Virginia residents have lowest percentage of college grads

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Ten times a day, a passenger train stops in Durham. Anyone who has ever taken the Amtrak Downeaster into Boston recognizes the convenience and value of passenger rail. The rest of the country, meanwhile, continues to de-bate the idea, even when decisions to expand have already been made.

An article published yesterday on the New York Times’ website details how many of the nation’s Republican candidates for governor have voiced their opposition to President Obama’s plans to expand passenger rail system, with a particular focus on high-speed lines. These objections, voiced by can-didates in Wisconsin, California, Ohio, and Florida, have the potential to com-pletely derail, or at least severely delay, the country’s largest proposed rail proj-ects.

These are projects that need to move forward, and theirs are objections that don’t have much substance.

First of all, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, more common-ly known as “the stimulus,” included $8 billion specifi cally allotted for vari-ous rail projects across the country. The funds are required to be used for the intended projects; thus, candidates who say they want to put the money toward road projects are making campaign promises that they simply cannot keep.

Candidates like to point out that, while the stimulus provides money for the projects to be built, the respec-tive states could be required to supply

money to operate the trains once the project is completed. However, they fail to realize that every mode of mass transportation is subsidized in Ameri-ca. Nothing is more subsidized than the U.S. highway system, a fact that they ironically bring to light when they state their desire to use funding for rail proj-ects for highway improvements.

The taxes you pay on gasoline and other motor vehicle products fall far short of what the states actually spend on improvements. It is not the free mar-ket system that favors the auto; it is sim-ply what the government subsidizes the most. Don’t decry a system that can’t pay for itself while you openly cham-pion another, less effi cient system, that can’t pay for itself either.

These candidates like to paint the picture of a country united against an improved rail system, yet the De-partment of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration announced in August that it had received 77 ap-plications from 25 states for the most recent round of High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail (HSIPR) grant funding, funding which is separate from the $8 billion already appropriated. Nor is this a liberal-championed cause. No one appears more confused by these candi-dates’ actions than Transportation Sec-retary Roy LaHood, a former Republi-can congressman.

These candidates’ efforts appear to be mostly an effort to pander to the far right. What the public needs to real-

ize is that if these candidates did have their way, their states would lose out on thousands of manufacturing jobs and an improved infrastructure. And the country would lose out on the en-vironmental benefi ts. According to the Environmental Law and Policy Center, high-speed trains are three times as en-ergy effi cient as cars and six times as energy effi cient as planes.

It is the time to embrace the rail. Every other major industrialized nation recognizes the link between high-speed rail and economic growth and mobility. What, pray tell, would make the United States the exception to that pattern? The United State’s rail system may never be as effi cient as Europe’s; our population centers are simply more spread out. But right now, it is among the most pathetic rail systems in the world.

Thankfully, New England politi-cians haven’t made fools of themselves by opposing progress. The stimulus in-cludes money to extend the Downeas-ter’s Boston-to-Portland service by 30 miles to include the cities of Freeport and Brunswick in Maine. Seacoast New Hampshire benefi ts greatly by having an effi cient rail system going through it.

The interstate highway system, designed under President Eisenhower, transformed transportation in America. These rail projects have the potential to do the same. Republican candidates need to get on board. The train is leav-ing the station.

High-speed rail: Republican candidates need to get on board


Letter to the editor

OP-ED

Welcome to the Homecoming bonfi re and fi reworks, welcome to a new tradition. Short of going to hockey games and burning our mouths on DHOP pizza, tradition is not something we have in abun-dance around here. Sure, there are outdoor movies and UNH Dining’s Local Harvest Dinner, but they don’t bring it. They may be fun, but I certainly wouldn’t put them on my collegiate highlight fi lm. They don’t get me pumped to be at UNH as much as our good rivalry with the University of Maine does.

We need an event that rocks, makes a statement and motivates

students to attend it because it is ex-citing, fun and generally awesome, kind of like a UNH-Maine hockey game or an epic backlight dance party in the Gables. Our campus needs something we can call our own. We need an event that no one e l s e can do and something we can all get behind. A race around the Durham 500 has been purposed, but problems with closing the road have stymied it; we have a fl ash dance but so do dozens of other schools. We need something to defi ne us. The Homecoming bonfi re and fi re-works is it.

I don’t want you to come to the Homecoming bonfi re and fi reworks because you already paid for it. I want you to attend because you be-

lieve it is going to be a unique and electrifying event that will defi ne us as Wildcats.

You may be wondering how a bonfi re and fi reworks make us unique, since it seems like anyone could do it. Any celebration of our community and us as students would not be complete without our dislike for Maine. If you have a speck of blue and white in your blood, you should say the same. We all share this sacred “hatred,” sourced from our long a contentious sports histo-ry with Maine that stretches across our great granite state. The Home-coming bonfi re and fi reworks has to include our rivalry with Maine. Something this big cannot be ig-nored. So a 5’4” wooden bear, the

symbol of the University of Maine, will be tossed into the mix. Now you have the tradition only we can have.

The Homecoming bonfi re and fi reworks will be undoubtedly awe-some and we will all have a great time but more importantly we will be ushering in a new tradition celebrating our community, prin-ciples and the place that becomes our home from September to May. Nothing on campus highlights or celebrates these things with the same intensity, this is our opportu-nity as students to use our voice and show we care about our community and each other.

An opportunity for a tradition like this does not come easily or

frequently on this campus. It has required over a year of meetings, planning and convincing by numer-ous people to make the homecom-ing bonfi re a reality. Please keep this in mind for Oct. 8. Let us show that we want this event as students and that we deserve it too. Have a safe Homecoming and I hope you attend the fi rst ever Homecoming bonfi re and fi reworks this Frdiday. Help start the tradition our univer-sity needs.

Jon Fincke is a senior mech-nical engineering major and a co-founder of CommUNHiversity.

CommUNHiversity answering the call for a new UNH traditionJohn Fincke

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Your Left s and RightsYour Left s and RightsMarijuana

The legalization of marijuana has long been fought over in the privacy of one’s own conversations, but has never been seriously debat-ed by decision makers. I’ve always wondered why that was. Do politi-cians know who smokes marijuana? Do they honestly think those smok-ers are harming society? Did they forget how much marijuana they smoked in college?

Neither party has ever had the guts to stand up and fi ght for legal-ization so the usual outline of how both sides of the aisle feel will look quite similar this week.

For the right, the issue is cut and dry. Marijuana is a drug; it is unclean and ruins lives and there-fore should be kept locked away. Many folks on this side of the issue also say marijuana is a “gateway drug,” or that legalizing marijuana would lead to a slippery slope. What drug would be legalized next? The bottom line is that the marijuana is an immoral, mind-altering drug that has no place in the conservative so-ciety.

The left has proven to be a bit more open to legalization, but not at the realm of full legalization. Some liberal politicians believe it should be used for medical pur-poses with a doctor’s prescription. Recreational use is not something most left-leaning politicians are fi ghting for.

Yet that is what every politician should be fi ghting for. I have yet to uncover a topic that would provide more relief to more areas than the legalization of cannabis. I think I’m a pretty smart kid, and I’m fully aware of the fact I am not a genius and not even as smart as most of the people in Washington, but why do I (and a lot of college students) see so many obvious benefi ts to legaliza-tion and my representatives do not? I guess I’ll have to spell it out for them.

It is important to point out that

marijuana is a muscle relaxant that in no way facilitates violent behav-ior unlike alcohol, which is popu-larly used with minimal fuss.

Cannabis could help us with our defi cit problems. First of all, if legalized the government could control the sale of it or at least tax it. Much like New Hampshire has state liquor stores, there could be federal or state cannabis dispen-saries. Even though marijuana is illegal, its use is incredibly wide-spread and its popularity would only grow once legalized. The amount of money this would cre-ate for the government in just tax revenue would be substantial to say the least. Not to mention creating these stores, either private or under government control, would help facilitate economic growth and cre-ate jobs. In a slow economy where our debt is out of control and un-employment continues to be high, don’t our representatives owe it to us to explore every avenue to make things better?

If legalized, we would also be undercutting a major source of revenue for gangs and other violent groups. We all know that cannabis is widely distributed and incredibly easy to get a hold of, but it is all underground. Everything is con-trolled by those willing to commit crimes and potentially be arrested. The larger operations, such as drug cartels in Mexico, are killing peo-

ple at alarming rates in an effort to assert their control over a drug market whose primary customer in the United States. Make no mistake about it: America has the power to end or at least signifi cantly lessen the drug wars in Mexico right now by declaring marijuana legal. This will give the cartels close to nothing to fi ght for and very little money to fi ght it with. So if we are so serious about protecting our borders and ending the violence in Mexico, why hasn’t pot been de-clared legal?

Legalization would also mean relief for our over populated prison system. We spend an enormous amount of money both federally and locally to house prisoners ev-ery year. It seems counterproduc-tive to spend money going after individuals who are taking part in nonviolent, harmless activities and then spend money to house them in a prison. I would rather make room in the budget to hunt down dan-gerous fugitives and lock them up forever, not imprison a Bob Marley protégé. In the midst of a budgetary crisis, why wouldn’t we stop clog-ging our prisons with people who don’t harm anyone and have no in-tention to?

My favorite argument against marijuana is that it is immoral. If this is said in a serious manner, the person arguing that point just ad-mitted to you that have never tried it or have never been around some-one who has, probably both. So for those of you who say it is immoral, here comes the truth: it’s not.

Tyler Goodwin is a junior business administration and justice studies major at UNH. With this column he hopes to show that it is possible to solve major issues with-out being divisive or following the doctrine of specifi c political groups.

I have yet to uncover a topic that would provide more relief to more areas than the legalization of cannabis.

War is a nasty trade. Soldiers need special training to overcome their reticence to kill. That consists of redefi ning the enemy as less than human, whose life and beliefs are to be reviled instead of cherished.

‘Town vs. Gown’ is that kind of setting. Residents feel besieged by a hit-and-run band of drunk snipers, while students are certain that this entrenched tribe of ancient peoples is bound to poison their way of life. And while both of these are true, neither is. It’s the paradox of war.

This isn’t complex at all; it’s about respect, civility and compro-mise. It’s about community. But that’s not possible on the battlefi eld. And in general, the entrenched ones own the ground at the end of the day.

Everybody knows that students are kids just as all were, under giant pressures, with the need to enjoy their last samples of errant plea-sures.

Everybody knows the guerril-las are in the wrong; they ain’t got

no respect. They only give them-selves the right to ignore commu-nity by substituting spirits for chari-table spirit. (But as with all rabble groups, it’s diffi cult to make them accountable. )

Everybody knows the residents are right to be pissed; anyone would be. And everybody knows they will simply become more entrenched and vindictive if they get no relief; battle sucks as a lifestyle.

So how to recreate community from seething chaos?

It’s never too late for leadership; it’s not too late to share. It’s time for students to take responsibility and charge of their own community—to monitor, to counsel, to self-police if necessary. It’s time to reach out as neighbors, not as encampments. It’s time to defuse the bomb.

And it’s time for the residents to put the attack dogs back in the kennel. But this won’t happen with-out heartfelt acts of goodwill.

Where are the brave hearts who will rise to a real challenge?

Dave DayEpping, N.H.

Students, Durham residents at war

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OP-EDThe fi rst month of school al-ways feels empty, like something is missing. That something is UNH hockey. Since my freshman year I have been to almost every home game with the same group of people, and we always sit in the same area. It is our own little tradition, and I would not want it any other way. Needless to say, we were in the same section as always at the Whittemore Center Saturday night to watch UNH tie St. Fran-cis Xavier in an exhibition game. As a lifelong UNH hockey fan, a few things really jumped out at me throughout the course of the game.

Almost immediately after tak-ing our seats, I noticed that the Whitt featured new boards, which I heard were being replaced. No big deal, right? The surprising thing was that the corners are now about three feet shallower, which is strange because the Whit has always been known for its ice size. Although the dimensions are the same, the shallower corners may help the team adjust for smaller rinks at opposing arenas. This could be important because UNH is host-ing NCAA Northeast Regional rounds at the Verizon Wireless Center in Manchester, which has a smaller ice surface.

The next thing that I noticed was the lack of enthusiasm from many student fans, most of whom were probably freshmen. Now, I understand that Saturday night was simply an exhibition game, but standing emotionless, refusing to take part in any cheers or even clap, is down right unacceptable. Attending UNH hockey games is a privilege; nobody is too cool to cheer. Leaving after the fi rst pe-riod? Unforgivable. Say what you want, but UNH is a hockey school; it has been forever and it probably always will be. Hockey games are not social events that you attend to

take self-portraits with your friends. Hockey games are for watching the best college hockey players battle it out for a chance to win a cham-pionship. Hockey games are about passion, tradition and pride for your school.

One of my closest friends goes to Maine (yeah, I know…). Maine also had an exhibition game this weekend. You know what their student section was like? There were students lining up around the building two hours before game time, the section was fully packed and the students treated the game like any other. I am issuing a chal-lenge right now for my fellow UNH students. There should never be an empty seat in the student sec-tion. There should never be a silent moment from the time the puck is dropped until well after the fi nal whistle. We want opposing players to fear the Whit. For the past few years, UNH has led Hockey East in average attendance, but that is not good enough. We need to be loud, rowdy and make the building shake to truly have the best fans in the conference.

If you are asking yourself: “Why should I care about college

sports so much? It’s not like they’re pro.” Then think about this: as a UNH student you are more a part of the “team” then any professional team. Every single full-time UNH undergraduate pays a mandatory “Student Athletics” fee of $882 a year. That fee, which is $300 more than any other mandatory fee, is described on UNH’s website as “admittance to all home games of organized sports at UNH and fi nan-cial support for athletes and athletic teams.” You are, in part, paying for the athlete’s scholarships; you bet-ter cheer for them to do well. Also, it shows that we really do not get free tickets to the home games. UNH home games for all sports are as free as every meal you eat at the dining hall. Just because you don’t pay to enter doesn’t mean you’re getting in for free. Also, it really shows that UNH athletes should be nice to the student fans. We’re paying for you to go here. You’re welcome.

This year’s team has the talent to be a national title contender. With a little time for the lines to gel to-gether and the best home ice advan-tage, UNH could easily win Hockey East. All of the eyes in Hockey East are on the defending NCAA cham-pions Boston College and the high-powered offense of Maine, so UNH has the potential to sneak up on a few teams this season. Any year can be our year; let’s make it one to re-member.

Stay classy, not UMassy,

The New Hampshirite

The New Hampshirite is a mysteri-ous UNH student who entertains

much of the campus with his politically incorrect and realistic

accounts of student life in Durham. You can fi nd his blog at

http://unhblog.com.

Like a Pro: Talking Puck

Now, I understand that Saturday night was simply an exhibition game but refusing to take part in any cheers or even clap is down right unacceptable.

Thumbs up to Homecoming this weekend!

Thumbs down to losing to Maine for the fi rst time in eight years.

Thumbs up to putting your roommate in a box and having her enjoy it.

Thumbs down to all of the skunks on cam-pus.

Thumbs up to pick your own pumpkin!

Thumbs down to biking through puddles in the pouring rain.

Thumbs up to UNH hockey season fi nally being back!

Thumbs down to Tom’s scary puppet col-lection.

Thumbs UpThumbs Down

Not quite feeling like your-self, low energy, feeling tired despite sleeping (sometimes too much), unhappy with yourself and/or your life, not as interested in food or needing to munch all the time, fi nding it hard to get to class or work, not feeling like hanging out with friends or going to the gym, having negative thoughts…. sound familiar? Most of us expe-rience the blues sometime in our lives. The seriousness of depres-sion can range from a few mild symptoms to the devastation of a completed suicide. Milder depres-sions are usually a reaction to a loss or change that is experienced as stressful. Some examples in-clude the break-up of a romantic relationship, feeling left out of your peer group, confl ict with par-ents, and changing schools. If sev-eral of these stressors are present,

depressive symptoms can be very serious.

Chronic stressors like ongoing confl ictual and/or unsafe relation-ships, harassment/bullying/oppres-sion, or severe chronic illness can lead to more pervasive symptoms of depression. Sometimes, how-ever, depression is more insidious and seems to come out of the blue without any change in life events. This type of depression can be due to an individual’s sense of empti-ness within him/her self or may be the result of biological factors.

When depression runs in a particular family, it may be associ-ated with neurotransmitters, like serotonin, that aren’t quite work-ing properly in the body and affect mood, sleep and appetite. Because our minds and bodies are connected and work together, most depres-sions affect both how we feel about ourselves and affect our bodily functioning.

The good news is that with psychotherapy and/or antidepres-sant medication, 80-90 percent of people with depression return to normal functioning in 6-8 weeks and most feel signifi cantly bet-ter within one year. Unfortunately, many people never realize they are struggling with a treatable condition and they never seek help. This was the impetus for creating National Depression Screening Day – to reach millions of people across the country with untreated depression and to save lives.

According to American Psy-chiatric Association’s Healthy Minds website, one out of four young adults will experience a de-pressive episode by age 24. And 9.4 percent of students reported seriously considering attempting suicide at least once in a 12 month period, according to the Fall 2006 National College Health Assess-ment from the American College

Health Association.

The Counseling Center is of-fering free, anonymous online screenings for depression, bipolar illness, generalized anxiety disor-der, post-traumatic stress disorder, and eating disorders all year long. Go to our website and click “online screenings for mental health.” Our website provides additional infor-mation and links on these and other

issues as well. A screening involves answering about 20 questions and receiving results that let you know if you should schedule a follow up meeting with us to further evaluate your symptoms. You can take one or all fi ve screenings.

You don’t have to struggle alone. The Counseling Center is open Monday through Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. We offer intake evaluations by appoint-ment throughout the week. Please call and schedule a time with us if you are worried about yourself or a friend. Please call 862-2090 for more information about National Depression Screening Day and our other services.

Linda Guttman is the associate director-clinical director at the Uni-versity of New Hampshire Counsel-ing Center.

Linda GuttmanGUEST COLUMNIST

Got the blues? Get yourself screened for depression9.4 percent of students reported seriously considering attempting suicide in a 12 month period.


The UNH volleyball team started America East play on the right foot, securing 3-1 wins over both Hartford and Stony Brook this past weekend at Lundholm Gym-nasium. The victories pushed the Wildcats’ conference record to 2-0 and their overall record to 7-10.

Leading UNH in both matches was junior Lauren Laquerre, who continued her impressive play by recording a match-high 18 kills and nine digs against Hartford then adding a team-best 17 kills against Stony Brook.

The Wildcats came out strong in the fi rst set against Hartford, grabbing an early lead and never looking back on their way to a 25-14 win. During the set, UNH man-aged to record 15 kills while hitting at a match-high .367 clip and com-mitting just four errors.

Hartford wouldn’t go down easy, however. In the second set, the Hawks jumped out to an 11-5 lead and seemed poised to build on it. The Wildcats wouldn’t let that happen, using an 8-2 run to knot the game up at 13 apiece. From there it was back-and-forth, until Hartford took the lead for good at 18-17 and held on for a 25-20 win.

Back came the Wildcats in the third set. UNH maintained a slim margin throughout the set until something clicked, turning an 11-10 lead into a 25-12 win.

In the fi nal set, Hartford jumped out to a 19-13 lead. UNH wouldn’t back down, using a 7-1 run to tie the game at 20. It remained that way until the ‘Cats took the lead at 24-23 and closed the match on a block by junior Amy Keding and senior Justine Elliott.

In the second match against Stony Brook, the Wildcats came out with a similarly strong effort.

UNH trailed by two early be-fore rallying to take a 15-10 lead. They pushed the margin to eight and took a commanding 2-0 lead in sets with a 25-17 victory. The set was all about the UNH attack, with the Wildcats hitting at a match-high .536 clip and recording 17 kills. “In the second set, our hitting percent-

age was phenomenal,” head coach Jill Hirschinger said.

After UNH built an early lead in the third set, however, Stony Brook rallied to tie it at 15. From there the Seawolves began to pull away, taking the lead at 20-19 and scoring fi ve out of the fi nal six points for a 25-20 victory.

In the fourth set, the Wildcats eventually managed to take a three-point lead at 16-13 before Stony Brook whittled it down to one. UNH didn’t fold under the pressure, keeping their poise on route to a 25-19 win.

“We have a lot of momentum coming off these two wins,” Laque-rre said. “Everything really jelled this weekend. Our defense has re-ally picked up, and our offense is kicking butt. We have a lot of en-ergy.

“We’re never really letting up and playing the safe game, so that’s really helping us,” she said. “We’re also doing a really good job of not letting the errors build up. If we have one, we’ve been fi nding a way to get a point right after it.”

Hirschinger attributes the suc-cess to the recent adjustments on the team’s offense. “We keep working

on our offense, and the longer our season goes the better we’re going to get at it.”

“We did a really good job [against Stony Brook] of mixing up our shots,” Laquerre said. “They really didn’t know what we were going to do. If we can continue be-ing really tricky, that will help us a lot.”

While UNH may be offen-sively sound, they would like to im-prove their defense and serving. “I think our blocking can get better,” Hirschinger said. “I thought we did a better job [Sunday], but in the past week that’s what we’ve really fo-cused on. If our blocking gets better, then our defense will get better.”

Laquerre believed the team’s service passing could always use some improvement. “When we have a three-point pass, we’re go-ing to get a kill because we have all options,” she said. “If we can consistently have a three-point pass, then we’re always going to be get-ting kills.”

UNH will look to improve their America East record when they travel to face the defending-champion Binghamton University, at 7 p.m. on Friday night.

Ryan HartleySTAFF WRITER

VOLLEYBALL

Wildcats sweep America East weekend matches

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERUNH’s Taylor Dressing is fi red up after serving an ace during one of the Wildcats’ weekend victories at Lundholm Gym.

back Jerron McMillian cut in front of the intended receiver for an inter-ception, Maine’s third of the game.

In overtime, following a UNH timeout, Harvey, who had a PAT blocked in the second quarter, con-nected on his 37-yard fi eld goal at-tempt to end the game.

After MacArthur’s 47-yarder, which bounced off the crossbar and through the uprights, gave New Hampshire a 13-6 lead late in the fourth quarter. Maine responded

with a seven-play, 57-yard drive culminating in a 16-yard touch-down pass from Warren Smith (19 of 28, 253 yards, 2 TD, 2 INT) to Derek Buttles (three catches-48 yards-TD).

The Wildcats then drove 50 yards on fi ve plays, including a 39-yard pass from Toman (26-for-38, 304 yards, TD, 3 INT) to ju-nior tight end Sean Cullen, setting the stage for MacArthur’s attempt with two seconds remaining. Brent Rice blocked the fi eld goal, forcing UNH’s fi rst overtime game since

the two teams met here in 2006.New Hampshire, which trailed

6-3 at halftime, claimed its fi rst lead of the contest by marching 57 yards on seven plays on its initial drive of the third quarter.

After a scoreless fi rst period, Maine struck fi rst with 13:25 re-maining in the second quarter on an 11-yard touchdown pass from Smith to tight end Jeff Falvey. UNH sophomore defensive tackle Jared Smith blocked the extra point, how-ever, keeping the Black Bears’ lead at 6-0.

Greer was the catalyst for New Hampshire’s fi rst points of the game, as the senior registered his fi rst career interception, pick-ing off Smith’s pass at the Wildcats’ 45 and taking it back 15 yards to the Maine 40 with a little over fi ve minutes remaining in the second quarter. Toman then connected with Cullen (career-high fi ve catches-91 yards) for a 17-yard pickup, putting the ball on the Black Bears’ 23-yard line. Four plays later, UNH trimmed the defi cit to 6-3 with 3:10 remain-ing in the fi rst half on MacArthur’s

32-yard fi eld goal.On Maine’s next drive, a 50-

yard pass from Smith to Derek Ses-sion put the ball at the New Hamp-shire 30. Again, the Black Bears came away empty-handed when Harvey’s 46-yard fi eld goal attempt fell short.

The Wildcats return to Cowell Stadium next Saturday, Oct. 9, for the Homecoming game against the University of Richmond at 12 p.m. UNH will be seeking a school-re-cord 12th-straight home victory.


FOOTBALL: Wildcats fall to Maine in overtime, 16-13

tonight.”For DiGirolamo, the chance to

start for the Wildcats is an opportu-nity two years in the making. The junior sat behind former goaltender Brian Foster for his fi rst two years at UNH, playing in only eight games.

The change in goal gives the Wildcats a new look between the pipes. Perhaps the most notice-able difference is the fact that the 5’ 9”, 165-pound DiGirolamo con-siderably smaller than the 6’ 2”, 180-pound Foster, and as a result, his playing style is much differ-ent. The change in methodology is something that DiGirolamo’s team-mates have noticed.

“He’s defi nitely a different style compared to Foster,” senior forward Paul Thompson said. “I see what he does at practice, though, and that gives the team confi dence. He’s going to be good this year.”

DiGirolamo looked at vari-ous schools before choosing UNH, including the University of Massa-chusetts and Maine. He ultimately chose to join the Wildcats due to the program’s strong history of produc-ing goalies (including All-Ameri-cans Ty Conklin and Kevin Regan) and words of support from former players.

Now DiGirolamo has a chance make his mark on the history of the

UNH hockey program when the season offi cially starts Oct. 8, on the road against Miami of Ohio.

DiGirolamo isn’t worried about jumping from the backup role into the starting spot. The goalie said playing sporadically is tough on a goalie, but getting every start will help him establish a rhythm that he can carry from game to game.

Even as that rhythm builds, Di-Girolamo does admit that there will be adversity along the way.

“There are going to be some growing pains,” said DiGirolamo. “I’m ready to climb the mountain and get into things.”

DiGirolamo said he has been given full support from his team-mates, even if they poke fun at the new goaltender. The new netminder wants to reward his teammates for their loyalty by playing to his ut-most potential.

“I still have something to prove to them,” said DiGirolamo. “They don’t think I have to, but I do.”

For now, DiGirolamo and the rest of the Wildcats will practice and review in preparation for their trip to Ohio this Friday. With a full docket of games on the horizon, Di-Girolamo is ready to shake off the rust and lead the Wildcats to suc-cess.

For him, Friday can’t come soon enough.


DIGIROLAMO: Junior ready to fi ll Foster’s shoes

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERMatt DiGirolamo will be UNH’s new starting goaltender this season after backing up Brian Foster for the past two years.


The UNH wom-en’s soccer team captured its fi rst

America East win of the season over the UMBC Retrievers this past Sun-day, winning by a fi nal score of 2-0. Freshman goalkeeper Erica Correa made a career-high nine saves en route to her third shutout of the sea-son. UNH started the game in attack mode, and senior Carole LeBlanc scored just 1:30 into the fi rst half, giving the Wildcats an early lead that they never relinquished.

“Its a big momentum changer when you score fi rst, especially when you score that early,” UNH head coach Michael Jackson said. “But then you have to be careful of backing off, of letting up, but I don’t think we did that.”

UNH grabbed the 1-0 lead when sophomore Chelsea Kuss received the ball on the right fl ank and passed the ball to LeBlanc at the top of the box. LeBlanc took a touch and fi red a shot into the back right corner of the net. LeBlanc also thought the fast start was key in the UNH win.

“One of our goals was to come out with momentum, that’s what we worked on,” LeBlanc said. “The ball got played, we served it in and I just put pressure on it.”

The Wildcats had numer-ous chances to increase their lead throughout the fi rst half, perhaps none better than in the 30th minute. That is when UNH was able to draw a penalty kick off of a held jersey

in the box. Amy Avitable took the PK and tried burying the ball in the right corner, but UMBC’s goalkeep-er Lauren Kadet made a diving save to knock the ball out of bounds

UNH kept the pressure on the Retrievers for the remainder of the half, outshooting UMBC 8-5 in the fi rst 45 minutes. In the 41st minute, sophomore forward Drea Nogueira and Kadet both chased down a loose ball at the top of the box and col-lided. Junior midfi elder Stephanie Gilkenson picked up the loose ball, and calmly shot the ball in the net as Kadet watched helplessly from the ground. The Wildcats took that 2-0 lead into the half.

In the second half, UMBC was able to put some of that pres-sure back on UNH, outshooting the Wildcats 10-5 in the half. The

Wildcat defense locked down on the Retrievers and turned away each chance, preserving the win for the Wildcats. Jackson thinks that while there is always room for improve-ment, his team played a very good game.

“I always thinks that we can do things better, but given the goals that we set for the game, like to score early and to improve some things on team defense, I’m happy with the game. I’m very pleased,” Jackson said.

UNH improved to 5-5-3 on the season, including 1-1 in America East. The Wildcats will travel to Albany on Thursday, Oct. 7, to take on the Great Danes. Game time is scheduled for 3 p.m.

UNH blanks Retrievers 2-0WOMEN’S SOCCER

Justin DoubledaySTAFF WRITER

UNH 2 UMBC 0

Sophomore forward Chelsea Kuss passes the ball in the Wildcats’ win over UMBC. Kuss helped UNH get off to an early start when she assisted on senior midfi elder Carole LeBlanc’s goal just a minute and a half into the game.

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Kara Connolly scored 4:06 into overtime to give

the UNH fi eld hockey team a 2-1 non-conference victory over North-eastern University on Sunday after-noon at Sweeney Field.

UNH, winners of three con-secutive games and fi ve of its last six, improves to 9-3 overall. NU is now 5-6.

Following early pressure by Northeastern in the overtime ses-sion, the Wildcats were awarded a penalty corner at 73:59. Hayley Rausch put the ball into play and the initial shot by Kyle Lyons was blocked by the NU defense. Con-nolly collected the ball, however, and scored off the rebound to end the game, 2-1, at 74:06.

UNH goalkeeper Katherine Nagengast fi nished with two saves in both the fi rst and second halves for a game total of four, as did NU counterpart Lizzie Priest.

NU generated a corner in the third minute and another in the eighth that led to shots by Annie Clayman and Kaela Barker, but both bids went wide.

The home team took a 1-0 lead at 10:16 on Clayman’s fi rst goal of the season – a redirection off a pass from Graham from the left sideline.

UNH kept pressure in the of-fensive zone and received a corner at 12:34. Rausch triggered the ball into play and this time Lyons’ shot was blocked by the NU defense. Casey Pohlmeyer corralled the ball, however, and fi red it into the cage to tie the score, 1-1, at 12:40 with her second goal of the year.

In the scoreless second half, NU recorded a slight edge in shots (6-5). The Wildcats were awarded a penalty corner with just under eight minutes left in regulation, and Bozek’s bid was turned aside by Priest. It led to another corner, how-ever, and Lyons’ shot went wide of the cage.

NU called a timeout and began to regain momentum. Off a penalty corner in the 67th minute, Barker’s shot was blocked away by Nagen-gast, who also denied Carolyn Mal-loy with less than three minutes to play in regulation.

The Huskies created the fi rst scoring opportunity in the extra session when they earned a penalty corner at 71:19. Crystal Poland fi red wide of the cage, however, and then missed the target again in the 73rd minute.

New Hampshire returns to ac-tion at home Wednesday against intrastate rival Dartmouth College. Game time at Memorial Field is 7 p.m.

FIELD HOCKEY

Wildcats score in OT to beat Northeastern

Staff ReportsTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

UNH 2 NU 1

With just seconds left, Paul Thomp-son collected a lose puck in UNH’s zone and carrid it into the offensive zone before dishing it to captain Mike Sislo who fi red a wrist shot that Gillis gloved as time expired, capturing the theme of the entire night.

“There was another play in overtime,” Thompson said. “I had a rebound in front of the net and [Gil-lis] just made a good save. I’d like to have that one back, though.”

Thanks to a game misconduct penalty on St. Francis’ Mark Louis, UNH opened the third with 4:49 re-maining on the fi ve-minute power play, but wasn’t able to light the lamp before a Phil DeSimone high sticking penalty nullifi ed the man advantage 40 seconds early.

The X-Men knotted the game two minutes later, while DeSimone was still in the box, when Jason Bast beat UNH goalie Matt DiGirolamo one-on-one with a fi ve-hole snipe from the left slot.

“He made a couple of key saves but that one probably got away from him,” Umile said.

The Wildcats stormed out of the gate, netting an early goal when Thompson beat Gilis glove side on a wrist shot during his second shift,

just 4:20 in.St. Francis answered four

minutes later when captain Brett Morrison made UNH defenseman Matt Campanale miss with a deke to move in alone with DiGirolamo, who he beat over the left shoulder from the left slot.

After a Kevin Undershute goal gave the X-Men a one-goal advan-tage midway through the second, John Henrion answered with a pret-ty goal, knotting the game at 2-2.

Mike Beck, skating in front of the home team bench, drew a charging penalty before kicking a pass out to Dalton Speelman, who gained the offensive zone while setting up a 3-on-2. Speelman left the puck for Henrion in front of the net, and Henrion buried a wrist shot over Gillis’ left shoulder before get-ting crushed by a lurking defender.

One minute later, Thompson defl ected Blake Kessel’s slap shot from the point to give the Wildcats the temporary goal advantage.

“We need some work on some things, but I wasn’t happy,” Umile said. “I thought the guys did a re-ally good job, especially generating offense.”

The Wildcats begin the regular season with a two-game series at Miami (Ohio) this weekend.

MEN’S HOCKEY: Wildcats earn draw against X-MenContinued from page 20

sportssportsTuesday The New HampshireOctober 5, 2010

Just hours after head coach Dick Umile installed the

gameplan on the fi rst offi cial day the team could practice with coach-es, the UNH men’s hockey team worked to a 3-3 tie with St. Francis Xavier in an exhibition game Satur-day night.

The Wildcats outshot the X-Men, 44-14, but were plagued by good yet inconsistent defense and bad bounces.

“We had a lot of good scoring chances that we didn’t put away,” Umile said. “I told the team it was a good exhibition game because it was good situational practice.”

The Wildcats had a multitude of chances late in the game, but couldn’t convert on some golden opportunities.

In the fi ve-minute overtime pe-riod, UNH outshot St. Francis, 8-0, but couldn’t put one past X-Men goalie Bryan Gillis, who played well for much of the game, stopping 41 shots.

Redshirt fresh-man kicker Mike MacArthur

kicked two fi eld goals, including a career-best 47-yarder that gave the 14th-ranked University of New Hampshire a 13-6 lead with 2:47 remaining in regulation, but the Maine Black Bears blocked his 33-yard, game-winning attempt. Maine also got a 37-yard fi eld goal from Brian Harvey in overtime to post a 16-13 victory over the Wildcats on Saturday night at Alfond Stadium.

The victory allowed the Black Bears (2-3, 1-1 Colonial Athletic Association) to snap a seven-game losing streak against the Wildcats (2-3, 0-2) and take possession of the Brice-Cowell Musket, which goes to the winner of the annual rivalry match-up.

With the score tied 13-13 at the end of regulation, UNH had the opening possession in over-time. Following a one-yard loss on fi rst down, quarterback R.J. Toman lofted a pass towards the left slot for Joey Orlando, but Maine defensive

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FOOTBALL (2-3, 0-2)

UNHMAINESaturday, Orono, Maine

1616 1313MEN’S HOCKEY (0-0, 0-0)

UNH ST. FRANCIS X.Saturday, Whittemore Center, Durham

33 33WOMEN’S SOCCER (5-5-3, 1-1)

UNH UMBCSunday, Lewis Fields, Durham

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FOOTBALL

See FOOTBALL on page 18

Staff ReportsTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

Bad news BearsLate blocked FG, Toman interception in overtime doom ‘Cats in 16-13 loss

Maine DB Jerron McMillian (26) intercepts a pass intended for UNH’s Joey Orlando in overtime to seal the Wildcats’ 16-13 loss on Saturday at Alfond Stadium in Orono.

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Maine 16 UNH 13

‘Cats tie X-Men in exhibitionMEN’S HOCKEY

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERUNH’s Mike Borisenok brings the puck up the ice in the Wildcats’ 3-3 tie with St. Francis Xavier on Saturday.

Chad GraffMANAGING EDITOR

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After long wait, DiGirolamo set for starer’s role

MEN’S HOCKEY

Ryan ChiavettaSTAFF WRITER

After two years of very limited playing time, Matt DiGirolamo is ready to take the ice and make the Whittemore Center his own.

DiGirolamo begins the 2010-11 season as the new starting goalie for the UNH men’s hockey team. He began his campaign in the Whit-temore Center Saturday night in an exhibition game against St. Francis Xavier, which ended in a 3-3 tie.

The new goalie registered 11 saves on 14 shots. DiGirolamo said he felt a lot of pressure entering the game, but felt better as the game progressed as he got into a rhythm.

UNH head coach Dick Umile said that while one did get away from the new goalie, DiGirolamo performed well in the clutch when his team needed him to.

“Part of being a goalie isn’t the kind of saves you make, but when you make them,” said Umile. “He made some saves at the right time

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