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KARINA BARRIGA ALBRINGNews editor
HALEY ERDBRINKequiNox staff
The reason why an individual may commit a crime varies from case to case. However, in regards to property crime in Keene, there is a common factor in most cases: drug abuse, according to Detective James McLaughlin from the Keene Police Department.
Detective McLaughlin runs the detective bureau, which also includes drug enforcement, at the police department in Keene, New Hampshire. The detective spoke about heroin use and crime to a group of students at press conference held in the Media Arts Center at Keene State College Septem-ber 25, 2013.
McLaughlin stated, “The bigger issue that we have is that a lot of our property crime in Keene is associated with drug abuse. And in fact all of the recent robberies [vehicle break-ins] that we’ve had, almost all of them had a direct relationship to heroin abuse.”
Over the past few years, KPD has noticed an increase in drug use within the community of Keene. According to McLaughlin, “We recognize that at lot of these are poly-substance abuse and not abuse of one type of drug,” McLaughlin said.
McLaughlin stated that addiction has lead to a raise in crime. “They [drug users] just walk into the bank because they need that cash now for their addition. A lot of our robbers are in such despera-tion that they don’t even have the decency to use a disguise.” McLaughlin explained that the individ-uals take a great risk when looking for means to continue with using the drug.
In the past weeks, several vehicle break-ins have been reported to KPD. The numbers go “well over ÀIW\�µ�VDLG�.3'�6HUJHDQW�0LNH�.RSFKD��/DVW�ZHHN-end, more than 20 vehicle break-ins were reported, as stated in an article in The Sentinel Monday, Sep-tember 30.
Early September 29, KPD arrested Alexander Mellor for allegedly breaking into a Keene resi-
dent’s vehicle. Sergeant Kopcha said Mellor had heroin on him at the time of his arrest.
“Common sense makes you think most of these break-ins relate to people trying to get money for drugs,” stated Kopcha. He went on, “Crimes related to heroin use are not iso-lated cases in Keene.” He indicated the Drug Task Force [Agency of the N.H. State Police] has made many arrests lately, and
“most of them were related to heroin.”
Kopcha stated heroin use is a fast-growing problem in the community. “In WKH�ÀYH�\HDUV� WKDW� ,�have been working here [KPD], if there is a issue that is raising, that would be heroin, it is a huge problem in the city.
But, what makes heroin so dangerous? “Heroin captures a person,” McLaughlin said, and makes them do things they would not normally do. This happens because of the addictive nature of the sub-stance. “Within hours after the drug effects have decreased, the addict’s body begins to crave more. ,I�KH�GRHV�QRW�JHW�DQRWKHU�À[��KH�ZLOO�EHJLQ�WR�H[SH-rience withdrawal,” stated an article by the non-SURÀW� RUJDQL]DWLRQ� )RXQGDWLRQ� IRU� D� 'UXJ�)UHH�World.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) labels heroin as a schedule I substance, which means they have no accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse. “Schedule I drugs are the most danger-ous drugs of all the drug schedules with poten-tially severe psychological or physical dependence,”
stated the DEA website.
The question remains why heroin has become so popular. According to McLaughlin, price has a lot to do with it. Detective McLaughlin said heroin is a drug that is readily available and cheap.
“It can be ten dollars a bag,” he said. Social aspect was another piece of the puzzle he revealed. “Who you trust, associate and hang-out [with] can be a gateway to become a user.”
KSC sophomore Connor Smith said he found it shocking how accessible heroin is. “Even for people in low standards of income, it’s easy to obtain. It’s sad that it’s becoming on the rise but hopefully someone can help them out and get them off of
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Keene State College’s students experienced a change in scenery when they spent the weekend living at an agricultural fair in Unity, Maine. Six members of the Campus Ecology club attended the Common Ground Fair from September 20 to 22.
“If you’ve ever been to the Fair, you know — and if you haven’t been, anyone who has will tell you — it’s an event like no other, that brings together so many people from so many walks of life, all in the spirit of
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According to a campus-wide email to all Keene State College faculty and staff, as of 7XHVGD\���2FWREHU����ÀYH�.6&�HPSOR\HHV�IDFHG�effects of the U.S. government shutdown.
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that stuff.”McLaughlin said the
majority of people that carry drugs into town come from Fitchburg, Massachusetts, Lowell, or Holyoke. Any major highway from the Keene area can access these locations.
In regards to how to treat a heroin overdose, McLaugh-OLQ� VSHFLÀHG� WKHUH� LV� D� VXE-stance known as a ‘Narconon drug’ that can be used right at the scene and bring some-one back that is dying of a opiate overdose. According to McLaughlin, KPD has used this drug, which is inject-able. However, the detective did not provide details on the outcome of the cases.
A student in the audi-ence asked McLaughlin, “Is it worth spending the money, taxpayers dollars, to have the drug if they did the overdose to themselves?” McLaugh-lin answered, “Yes, because human life is pretty special.”
“You have to almost look at it and think about it as one of your family members and they were in desperation,” said McLaughlin.
McLaughlin indicated WKHUH�ZHUH�QRW�VSHFLÀF�WUHQGV�in heroin users such as age group, certain backgrounds, RU�ÀQDQFLDO�VLWXDWLRQV�� :KHQ�we were looking into these deaths, we had people in the ÀIWLHV� DOO� WKH� ZD\� GRZQ� WR�people in their twenties.” He said most deaths related to heroin are caused because of a default in purity and dosage.
The detective explained that no real background or occupation is to blame for users. McLaughlin gave two examples to prove heroine may attack anyone. First, he UHIHUUHG� WR� D� FHUWLÀHG� ÀUH-ÀJKWHU�� ´+H� VWDUWHG� ZLWK�a back entry and became addicted to prescription pain killers, legitimate prescrip-tion, and then moved onto pain pills and went on to heroin,” McLaughlin stated.
Then he spoke about, “a business owner here in Keene. They had a pretty good busi-ness going,” the detective said.
“It had been over a number of years, and next thing they’re with all the heroin users and they’re sleeping in an ally and now are in jail in Fitchburg.”
Predisposed addiction ZDV� WKH� ÀQDO� FRPSRQHQW�McLaughlin touched upon.
“Those addictive behaviors will strive for those harder drugs while those with a non-addictive personality will start out with marijuana or alcohol,” McLaughlin said.
The last question was asked by Terry Clark, a city councilor that attended the FRQIHUHQFH��DVNHG��´:KDW�VRUW�of thing can these people in this room here do to help?” McLaughlin responded, “It is important to support people that you suspect are using drugs. These typically need the support on a one to one basis.”
McLaughlin stated that drug users will often reject help but later they will feel the alienation they have created for themselves. He encouraged students to keep offering the support because users may turn at any point.
KSC senior Rebecca Browning said she believes in addition to person-to-person support, heroin addicts need a rehab treatment. “To have a serious heroin addiction, it’s not something that is easy to lean off of. They need to be isolated and treated,” Brown-ing stated.
McLaughlin said, “Drug abuse or drug violations in our community-we don’t look at it as a police issue, but a public health issue and we try but we can’t arrest our way out of a social problem.”
Karina Barriga Albring can
be contacted at kbarriga@keene-
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Haley Erdbrink can be con-
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JULIE CONLON
Managing ExEcutivE Editor
Ask Keene State College professor Patrick Dolenc what he wants to be when he grows up and his answer is not a professor of economics. It is not even a professor of anything- instead the DQVZHU� LV� RQH� PDQ\� FROOHJH� VHQLRUV� ÀQG� WKHP-selves clinging to as graduation and the real world looms.´:KDW�,�ZDQW�WR�EH�ZKHQ�,�JURZ�XS�LV�D�FROOHJH�
student forever,” Dolenc stated, “I want to get paid to stay in college and to learn new ideas and interact with other people who are coming across QHZ�LGHDV�IRU�WKH�ÀUVW�WLPH��,�KDYH�WKH�SHUIHFW�MRE�because I don’t pay tuition here but I never stop interacting with new learners, encountering new ideas.”
These are the words of a professor, a student, a lifelong learner and an active player on the KSC ÀHOG��OLYLQJ�WKH�PRWWR�´(QWHU�WR�/HDUQ��*R�)RUWK�to Serve.” Dolenc is the 43rd recipient of KSC’s Distinguished Teacher Award in the year 2013.
According to Patty Farmer, director of alumni and parent relations for KSC, on average, three to seven candidates are considered for the award each year. A committee consisting of faculty, stu-dents and alumni association board representa-WLYHV�DQG�D�UHSUHVHQWDWLYH�RI�WKH�SUHVLGHQW·V�RIÀFH�choose the recipient through the month of May.
In July this past year, Dolenc received a voice-mail from Interim President Dr. Jay Kahn.
Dolenc recalled, “Jay Kahn called me and left a message on my cell phone and said ‘I’m trying WR� ÀQG� \RX�·� ,� WKRXJKW� ,� ZDV� LQ� WURXEOH�� %XW� LQ�July—how much trouble could I get into?”
The award came as a surprise for Dolenc. But
to students, administration and colleagues, Dolenc was the obvious choice.
“If you want an example of what collegial-ity is about, Pat would be one of the people I would pick to say ‘That’s what a colleague is supposed to be,’” Director of the Cohen Center IRU� +RORFDXVW� DQG� *HQRFLGH� 6WXGLHV�� +HQU\�Knight, stated.
Farmer, who facilitates the administration of the actual nomination process, described Dolenc as a professor who demonstrated excep-tional delivery in and outside of the classroom, and not only within his study of econom-ics, but in particular how he relates his study to other disciplines and current events in the world. “He is a passionate, charismatic, viva-cious teacher,” Farmer concluded from read-ing the letters of submission, “I don’t want to just say professor or faculty member. He’s a teacher—He’s a student, and he’s a teacher. It’s D� PXWXDOO\� EHQHÀFLDO� FRQQHFWLRQ� WKDW� KH� KDV�with students and from that it develops more of the learning process so he’s learning the stu-dents are learning. It’s a dynamic relationship.”
KSC junior Sarah Croitoru, a women’s and gender studies major, took an honors politi-cal crisis course with Dolenc. The junior said she appreciated Dolenc’s move within the course to take regular events and expand their discussion to a world impact level, a format Croitoru said is not common. “He made me aware of thinking of the world more broadly
and was also very interested in hearing what we had to say and letting us lead discussions,” she explained. “He didn’t want it all to be taught by him, he wanted us to be involved, teaching him something because he recognizes that while he may have a PhD in economics and be more versed in that, we’re all from different back-grounds and learning different things and we can all teach each other.” Dolenc said he learns from his students, his surroundings and takes every opportunity on the KSC campus to further his engagement and involvement with his com-munity. “How could you not be a student on a college campus, it just seems like an opportunity that’s right there in front of me and I’m going to seize it,” he continued. “I think also the most interesting questions to ask in class are the ones I don’t know the answers to. It seems to me that all of us get to be learners for as long as we want and this is a setting where it would be a really tragic waste to not be seizing that opportunity.”
One way Dolenc is encompassing a lifestyle surrounding the college’s motto is through his involvement in the American Democracy Proj-ect. According to the ADP website, the program is an initiative focusing on preparing the next generation’s role in the community, establishing engaged citizens. Dolenc said becoming involved with ADP became an awakening or event “outlet” for him to assist students in leaving KSC with not just a degree and transcript, but a lifestyle that could further positive engagement in communi-ties.
“The idea behind it is that public colleges are really well situated to provide not just the skills to help you get a good job when you graduate—
but it’s more than that, and in our collegiate expe-riences we have the opportunity to provide you with the content knowledge and with the skills so you can be a better citizen so the various com-munities you are a part of when you graduate.” 'ROHQF� VDLG� DIWHU� SDUWLFLSDWLQJ� LQ� KLV� ÀUVW�$'3�conference, he began to realize he was not just an education and economics major and instead
“began thinking more holistically,” as stu-dent Croitoru experienced. Knight said, “Civic HQJDJHPHQW³WKDW·V�D�ELJ�GHDO��(YHU\WKLQJ�DERXW�how he looks at teaching is an expression of what public liberal arts really can be all about.” Knight said, in his words, this remains why Dolenc is the
“perfect choice” for the award. Farmer stated it is Dolenc’s “dynamic”
between student and faculty members that per-mits Dolenc to transcend beyond traditional textbook teaching and makes him special to the campus. “I don’t know if that’s special about Keene State, but I know that Keene State is spe-cial because of it,” Farmer said, “These are people who emulate the very best of us and there are many that’s why we have so many submissions for our nomination package because for every one of the them there are four more who are striving to be the next distinguished teacher.”
The term “striving” Farmer used to describe Dolenc’s hunger is not just for teaching, but for the path he has created for continuous learning.
Knight, similar to Dolenc, expressed with a smile that he loves to call himself a college stu-dent, in this case “A 36-year freshman,” as Knight liked to call himself. The director said that since he began teaching in 1977, he has felt that each year he has had one more “beginning place”—one more discovery, one more start—continuing the path of the never- ending process of learning.
“I think Pat’s put together the same way,” Knight VDLG��´:H�JHW�SDLG�IRU�EHLQJ�HWHUQDO�VWXGHQWV�µ
Dolenc said that, almost ironically, as he has dedicated his time creating citizens devoted to their communities, he has felt a new presence in the KSC community, stating he has felt “in small ways, and big ways and unaccepted ways just all of this reinforcement of what it means to be a member of the community.”Knight stated, “His FXS·V�DOZD\V�UXQQLQJ�RYHU�DQG�KH�ÀQGV�ZD\V�WR�share it before it spills.”
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Julie Conlon can be contated at
Robert Koolis
Equinox Staff
Head Start, the feder-ally-funded program that provides pre-school and other critical services to underprivileged children and their families, is facing unprecedented budget cuts this year.
Currently, the program serves nearly a million chil-dren and their families every year, by providing an extensive pre-kindergarten curriculum, two meals a day and parent and community involvement. As a result of the sequestration cuts that took place last spring, more than 57,000 pre-schoolers and more than 6,000 babies nationwide will be denied a place in Head Start. The cuts totaled about $400 million from the programs eight bil-lion dollar budget, according to an article in USA Today.
Southwestern Commu-QLW\� 6HUYLFHV�� D� QRQ�SURÀW�community action program, which is 100 percent feder-ally funded, runs the Head Start program in Keene along with six others in southwestern New Hamp-VKLUH�� � (OOD� :HEHU� LV� WKH�Family Services Community Partnership Manager, and .LP� 3DTXHWWH� LV� WKH� (GXFD-tion and Disability Services Manager at the Southwest-ern Community Services (SCS). The program in Keene lost 47 students over the summer. “Last year we had 237 students. This year we KDYH�����µ�VDLG�:HEHU��
She attributed the reduc-tion in students directly to the budget cuts from earlier this year. She did note that they didn’t have to actually
lay off any staff, but hours were cut. One classroom was closed in Keene and one Newport.
“There’s really a big push for kindergarten readiness,” Paquette said. “It’s really unfortunate that our total budget was cut by about eight percent,” Paquette con-tinued.
In addition, “returning students,” were retained, DFFRUGLQJ�WR�:HEHU��DQG�WKH�reduction was due to not taking in new students. She said the cuts have had very negative consequences not only for children, because ´:H�HQUROO� WKH�ZKROH� IDPLO\��Family engagement leads to success.”
According to the National Head Start Foundation, for every dollar invested in Head Start, there is a return on investment ranging from seven to nine dollars. This is because the program decreases the need for ser-vices in schools like special education, and Head Start children are 12 percent less likely to be charged with a crime, and are more likely to have long-term employment.
In addition, children who attend Head Start are more likely to graduate high school and attend college, while they are less likely to repeat a grade, stated the study.
Professor Dottie Bauer DQG� (DUO\� &KLOGKRRG� (GX-cation expert at KSC spoke about the relationship the college has with the Head Start program. “Students [from KSC] go four morn-ings a week and volunteer— It’s a win-win,” she said.
“Students volunteer at two schools in Keene, in
addition to the Head Start program as well, all of which “are nationally recog-nized.” Bauer said that there has been “some longitudi-nal research since the 70s,” with “many indicators, such as high school graduation, staying out of jail, employ-ment,” that would indicate that Head Start is successful.
She went on, “[in America] we’re all about the individ-ual,” and said “ [we’re] not as socially responsible as we should be.”
Bauer said that the gov-ernment “has never given enough money for all those who qualify to begin with. If we don’t deal with invest-ments in education... People
can end up in prison,” Bauer FRQFOXGHG�� � :HEHU� HFKRHG�these sentiments, pointing out that there is a higher suc-cess rate, saying, “It really does give them [students] a head start.”
Robert Koolis can be con-
tacted at rkoolis@keene-equi-
nox.com
CAMPUS SAFETYReport Log
Week of: Sept. 23
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Tuesday, Sept. 24
12:23 a.m. Owl’s Nest 5: Campus Safety is off checking
on a noise complaint coming
from a room on the second
floor.
11:46 p.m. Monadnock Hall: Odor investigation.
Wednesday, Sept. 25
8:06 a.m. TDS Center: Graffiti.
10:01 p.m. TDS Center: Report of a student bleed-
ing from accidental cut from
knife.
10:18 p.m. Randall Hall: Male student cut finger and
was bleeding.
Thursday, Sept. 26
9:55 a.m. Rhodes Hall: Believes someone has been
using office computer at night.
11:17 p.m. Randall Hall: RA
reported male residents bang-
ing on doors. They were asked
to stop and didn’t.
Friday, Sept. 27
12:34 a.m. One Butler Court: Resident asking for
some help to move the people
in front of the building along
as they were being loud.
12:45 a.m. Huntress Hall: RA reported someone urinated
in front of the building and
was still hanging out there.
2:32 a.m. Fiske Hall: Student
hit his head against the stairs,
is bleeding.
8:26 p.m. Holloway Hall: RD Aaron Escobedo called for
assistance.
Saturday, Sept. 28
1:46 a.m. Holloway Hall: Campus Safety assisting KPD
with the apprehension of sus-
pects in fight at Winchester
Court earlier in the evening.
3:10 a.m. Holloway Hall: Three males walk past desk
attendant without showing ID.
10:07 a.m. Owl’s Nest 7: Student reported yelling com-
ing from the first floor of the
building. Not sure if the person
is hurt or just yelling to yell.
10: 21 a.m. One Butler Court: Officer noticed a
female who looked to be
intoxicated walking down
Butler Court and then get in
a vehicle in the Madison Lot
and drive off campus.
Sunday, Sept. 29
12:16 a.m. One Butler Court: Alcohol violation.
1:06 a.m. One Butler Court: Intoxicated subject.
WILLIAM WROBEL/ KSC MARKETING AND COMMUNICATIONS
Patrick Dolenc began the American Democracy
Project at KSC.
ERIN D’ALEO/ EQUINOX STAFF
Distinguished professor of 2013 still student at heart
Head start program cuts funds for 47 children
“Last year we had two-hundred-and-
thirty-seven students. This year we
have one hundred-and-ninety.”
-ELLA WEBERSOUTH WEST COMMUNITY SERVICE
“How could you not be
a student on a college
campus, it just seems
like an opportunity and
I’m going to seize it .”
--PATRICK DOLENCKSC DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF
2013
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KARINA BARRIGA ALBRING
News editor
Student Assembly representatives approved a budget request of $4,921 from the Architecture Club to fund a regional architecture conference to be held in the college. Assembly members decide to allocate the funds for club despetite the UHFRPPHQGDWLRQ�RI� WKH�ÀQDQFH�FRPPLW-tee. The committee had recommended to give $1000 for the conference. KSC senior and member of Assembly Sean Bal-lard said Assembly should approve the budget request “because the conference is a great idea and an event that bring a good reputation for the college [KSC].” The Architecture club will be hosting the conference from Thursday, Oct. 10 to Sunday, Oct. 13. Students from over 50 colleges in the Northeast will attend the conference, accoring to news story in the KSC website. The Architecture Depart-ment of the college will contribute with $1,300 to fund this event.
The assembly also approved a budget request of $4,454.40 for the Ski and Snowboard Club. The Club has had up to 100 members in previous years. The president of the club, KSC student ksjlda l;ajkdl;ka said the club expects to have
“up to 200 members this years.”A bugdet of $356 was unanimously
approved to the Advocates for Heatly Communities Club.
Karina Barriga Albring can be contacted at [email protected]
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TAYLOR ASHER / CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS
Common Ground fair
in Maine promotes a
greener lifestyle.
Health Science students look at drug abuse in the community
celebrating the rural and agricultural tra-ditions of Maine,” the Common Grounds Fair website stated. Eleni Guptil, a junior at KSC, just joined the ecology club this year. She found out about the club and the fair through one of her friends. “I decided to show up to a meeting and had a lot of fun. Then we spent three nights sleeping in D�ÀHOG�� LQ�D� WHQW�µ�*XSWLO� VDLG��*XSWLO� VDLG�since they volunteered, they got into the fair for free.
Campus Ecology President Kelly Mar-chione organized the trip with help from an advisor. Marchione said the fair pro-moted “eating organic food, and just living more eco-friendly.” “We worked in a com-post tent, walking around carrying recy-cling baskets or wheelbarrows and would pick up the trash and bring it back. Most of us were too short to ride these, but they also had really old bikes with baskets on WKH� IURQW� WR� ÀOO� XS� ZLWK� WUDVK� DQG� EULQJ�back to the stations. Or, we’d work at the stations, by helping tell people what waste went into which bins,” Marchione said.
Guptil said the meal was her favorite part of the fair. “The meals we got were worth all the work we had to go through.” She said if one volunteered, they got a free meal pass. Her group always went to dinner.
She said, “It was one of the best meals I have had, [it] felt like Thanksgiving, you can eat as much as you want. It was so delicious, homemade and natu-UDO�µ� 6KH� FRQWLQXHG�� ´7KH�ÀUVW�GD\�ZDV�so hot, like seventy-nine degrees. So hot, the only thing that kept me going was the meal.” Guptil recalled that after their shifts they got to walk around and enjoy the fair. She said it was really fun to see all these animals, little stands of artwork and crafts that people have made. “A woman makes tableware out of pottery, and she got the clay in Maine by herself, and made it up herself, so that was really pretty.”
KSC junior Taylor Asher also attended the fair. This is Ash-HU·V� ÀUVW� \HDU� LQ� WKH� HFRORJ\� FOXE��� About Common Ground, Asher said, “We were really busy the entire time, we volun-teered for the recycling and compost both Friday and Saturday. Basically, [we] volun-teered for four hours each day. We got a free
sh i r t and free meal.
After, we enjoyed the rest of the fair. There were a lot of animals, and all the food was organically grown,” Asher said.
Asher said she saw food at the fair she had never seen before. “There was a lot of food; a lot of vegetables that I’ve never had, like yellow watermelon, so that was weird but really interesting.”
Asher also said the best part of attend-ing the fair was being able to bond with
e ve r y-one while camp-
ing. She said it was nice to go in with a group that enjoyed spending time together and enjoyed getting closer to them. Mary Jensen, Campus Ecology Advi-sor, said that the Common Ground Fair is a solar and harvest-fest show. Even though Jensen did not attend this year’s fair, she referred to Common Ground as a “really marvelous agricultural fair, the best one I’ve ever seen, a lot of information on energy and great component over-all.”
Jensen said almost everything at the fair is produced in Maine. “All food is locally
grown or processed. There’s a lot of information on the art of hunt-
ing, dogs herding the geese or sheep, a kid section; I’ve seen kids sledding down hills on cardboard. You can also buy things kids have made, jewelry and workshops on how to forage for mushrooms, or how to do heat saving,” she said.
The fair is organized with Maine Organic Farmers and Gardener’s Associa-tion. Campus Ecology members go to vol-unteer their time at the fair, Jensen said.
They help pick up litter and other sustain-able items in the community. They go to work by volunteering by cooking, recycling, and helping in the compost waste area she said.
S t u -d e n t s camp in t e n t s outside for three days. Jensen stressed how intense their compost and waste management is there.
“They have one or two percent of their waste that actually turns into trash,” Jensen said.
She also said on campus, the ecology club works on cabling and awareness, part-nering with the Fair Trade Club and the Outing Club on certain local events.
Bethany Riccardi can be contacted at [email protected]
BRITTANY BALLANTYNE
AdmiNistrAtive executive editor
Binge drinking, cocaine and heroine are some of the discus-sion points for a recent project the Keene School District, Keene Board of Education and Keene State College Health Science stu-dents have collaborated on. One of the KSC senior capstone classes for health science majors is a research-based course, made up of ten students who have begun hands-on research with the issue of substance abuse. Marjorie Droppa, KSC health science pro-fessor, is leading the course where KSC students will interview Keene High School students, par-ents, teachers and janitors as well as inmates at the Cheshire County House of Corrections to col-lect data. The issue was brought to Droppa’s attention when she found out about “substance abuse, where Keene High School stu-dents are using some substances at higher rates not only of all high school students of the state, but also in some cases nationally. So the issue is of great concern here,” she said.
'URSSD�ÀUVW�KHDUG�ZRUG�RI�WKLV�problem through the Keene Board of Education, of which she is a part of. The “foundation” of this project, according to Droppa, has to do with awareness and inform-ing those who might not view this type of abuse as an issue at DOO� DERXW� WKH� VHYHULW\� WKH� FRQÁLFW�
holds. Another reason why the project is being conducted is to assist in doing something about the drug and alcohol abuse and learning how to help.
In fact, according to Droppa, the Keene area has a higher drug and alcohol abuse average than the state of New Hampshire’s average. Health Science major Kelsey Bumsted said the point of this project is to teach the Keene community about this issue and ÀQG�RXW�KRZ�LW�LV�WDNLQJ�D�WROO�RQ�the area.
Bumsted said fellow class-mates and herself will be speaking with social workers as well, and said she believes hearing from stu-dents is vital to the project. Bum-stead said she is also interested in what teachers and janitors have to say because they have “per-spectives as outsiders, but also as people who might overhear con-versations or see things in class that students don’t really pick up on when they’re talking.”
Droppa said her students are ÀJXULQJ� RXW� KRZ� WR� ÀQG� VWDWLVWL-FDO�GDWD�WR�LQWHUSUHW�DQG�ÀJXUH�RXW�ZKDW�LVVXHV�.+6�KDV�PRUH�VSHFLÀ-cally. From there, her students will form questions for their recent and upcoming interviews.
KHS students participate in a national survey called the Youth Risk Behavior Survey. The last record of the response KHS stu-dents had to this survey is from 2011. “What we don’t have are the stories behind the numbers and that’s what this project is about,” Droppa said, and added that KHS students are using more heroin and cocaine that the average N.H. high school student is using.
Not only are Droppa’s stu-dents looking for what problems there are, but what the commu-nity feels about the topic. “Do you as a student feel that your families, your parents and the community at large have the rules and expec-tations for you around substance abuse?” Droppa said when speak-ing of the questions her students DUH�WU\LQJ�WR�ÀQG�UHVSRQVHV�WR��
She said this issue is larger than just individual KHS students, and that KSC students are attempt-ing to see what types of roles cul-ture and community play as well. These health science majors are DLPLQJ� WR�ÀQG�ZKDW�FDXVHV� WKHVH�high school students to use these GUXJV�LQ�WKH�ÀUVW�SODFH��%\�DVNLQJ�open-ended questions, KSC stu-GHQWV�ZLOO� WU\� WR�ÀQG�RXW� LI� WKHUH�are places people can go if they
feel upset or need a place to turn to, according to Droppa.
While the studies are related to KHS students who might abuse these substances, the capstone course students are also intrigued by students who aren’t turning to drugs because “we would want to know what are the protective factors that you have that shield you from turning to substances,” Droppa said.
One of the reasons KHS stu-dents might be getting involved in these illegal substances, Bumsted believes, is that there may not be enough to do in the area. Not only could this abuse occur because there aren’t enough sober activi-ties for teenagers to spend time with, but “it’s easy for younger students to see what’s going on and they have a lot of connections here [KSC] and also being so close to Vermont and Massachusetts and being along Route 9,” Bum-sted said, and pointed out that the WUDIÀF�EHWZHHQ� WKHVH�VWDWHV�FRXOG�be a factor.
She explained that this study DOVR�UHÁHFWV�D�EURDGHU�LVVXH�DERXW�how the Keene community views substance abuse and how the media and society reaches out to the younger crowd. While it’s still
early on in her research, Bumsted said she believes there may be VRPH�QHJDWLYH�LQÁXHQFH�IURP�WKH�college on high school students. Since the high school and col-lege are so close in area, Bumsted said “[KSC] students don’t really take into consideration the Keene community outside of our school,” and said high school age students can easily get involved with col-lege level activity being so close by.
As far as KSC students go, Director of the Health and Well-ness Center, Tiffany Mathews, said “in regard to college health, our statistics are very similar to other colleges.”
Mathews said KSC students who have issues with drug and/or alcohol abuse are referred to either the Counseling Center, the Center for Health and Wellness, or both.
The students will continue interviews up until December, when they will make presenta-tions for the Keene Board of Edu-FDWLRQ��DQG�WU\� WR�ÀQG�VRPH�W\SH�of reasoning behind the substance DEXVH�QXPEHUV� WR�ÀQG�D�SRVVLEOH�solution to the problem.
“We really believe that if you’re going to do a research project and people are willing to participate in it, you need to report back to those people and tell them what you found,” she said.
Brittany Ballantyne can be con-tacted at bballantyne@keene-equi-
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“In regard to college health, our statistics [on drug use] are very similar to other colleges.”
-TIFFANY MATHEWSDIRECTOR OF THE HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER AT KSC
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After just a single dose, a rush of euphoria covers the body and creates a restless drowsy state. A state which lasts momentarily until the “mainlining” of heroin presents itself. Different from the popular stimulant “molly,” this white to dark brown sub-stance, also known as dope, continues to fuel much public con-cern, especially in New Hampshire.
Heroin use has been linked to Keene and credited to an increase in recent property crime around the city. So why has heroin made a comeback? Many claim this surge in the use of the “downer” coincides with the economic situation we are cur-rently in. Street heroin is typically less expensive and easier to access than “molly.” The accessibility and cost make it attractive for substance abuse users who cannot afford painkillers like oxy-codone or other substances. However, with the lower cost come the higher risks—death of course being the highest risk. Derived IURP�PRUSKLQH��KHURLQ�PDNHV�LW�YHU\�GLIÀFXOW�WR�GHWHFW�ZKDW�VXE-stances one is injecting. According to DrugFree.org, a dose can be mixed with undetectable matter causing it to be extremely dangerous for the nervous system to intake. A dose of heroin, or MDMA, can be cut with anything—even poisons. For these rea-sons, the user may never know exactly what they are ingesting.
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, heroin tar-gets the brain and interferes with perception of pain and mental IXQFWLRQLQJ��7KLV�PDNHV�EUHDNLQJ�WKH�KDELW�H[WUHPHO\�GLIÀFXOW�DV�the addiction and physical dependence start to develop.
“Molly” has the opposite effects in over-stimulating the body and mind. The increased growth of heroin use continues in the
“live free or die” state. According to a July 2013 article by Jeremy Blackman in the Concord Monitor, heroin was responsible for the most drug overdose-related deaths last year in New Hamp-shire. During that same year New Hampshire received 55 million dollars in Federal Grant Awards to decrease the availability and misuse of the drugs throughout the state.
However, the troubling drug seems more prevalent right now, particularly in Keene. “Molly” and heroin use are surfacing in the news daily. The attention is there. The solution is not.
We believe the increased use and discussion displaced around the drug “molly” has been of higher priority on the Keene State College campus, but New Hampshire and the Keene Police Department have seen an increased issue with the use of heroin in the community. So far it appears KSC students have resisted becoming part of the drug trend and we commend them for that. However, according to Blackman, most heroin-related deaths in New Hampshire are concentrated in the southern half of the state. Our hope is to keep this drug far from our campus. One preven-tative solution may be continued, and prominent steps by the col-lege toward campus education about heroin itself and its impact on our community. For now, we stress that students become well versed in the effects of MDMA and heroin, and remain cautious in the near future towards this seemingly prevalent drug that has found its way to the streets of Keene.
The electronic dance music scene, or EDM, is often associated with drug use, especially now that
“molly”’s popularity has skyrock-eted.
Venues are cancelling shows or events involving this type of music in fear that overdoses may occur. Above&Beyond and Pretty Lights, two popular EDM artists, were sup-posed to be playing at University of Massachusetts Amherst this past weekend. UMASS later announced that they plan on banning the EDM genre.
EDM music and “molly” do not go hand in hand, which is what a lot of people do not realize.
It seems that a majority of the
shows and concerts being cancelled are of this genre, which leaves ded-icated fans unable to experience shows or performances they want to see. This is not the correct way to deal with the situation.
These artists work hard to pro-duce music and are being discrimi-nated against and associated with the use of illegal drugs unfairly. Instead of blaming artists, why not deal with the bigger issue at hand?
The biggest problem with these drug overdoses is that those who do overdose are misinformed, or even completely uninformed, about drug use as a whole, including “molly.” Educating elementary school age children about drugs will not really
do much. At that point, no one is interested in using drugs anyway. Drug education should be presented to students at the high school age, with more information rather than the standard “don’t do drugs.”
Realistically, drugs will always be a part of society.
That is something that will never be under control.
The cancellation of these events will only move the party some-where else, most likely somewhere a lot less safe than a school-run con-cert. Drilling the “don’t do drugs” message into the heads of young adults has proven to be ineffective.
Underage drinking is another illegal activity that many partake
in, and instead of just telling them “don’t drink,” students are educated on what to do if alcohol poisoning may occur.
I do not think that this encour-ages underage drinking, but instead makes it a bit safer for those who do decide to drink.
Just the same, a better educa-tion surrounding drug use and how to identify overdoses would not encourage people who do not want to use drugs to begin using.
Education is an option, but can-celling shows and placing the blame on EDM as a whole is not the answer.
Devon Roberts can be contacted [email protected]
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From molly to heroin, the drug trend continues
BRITTANY MURPHY / OPINIONS EDITOR
Above, a sign hanging in Romy’s on Marlboro Street in Keene warns bypassers of the increased use of heroin in the community.
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STAFF COMMENTARY
During the election year
of 2008, I submitted a small
paragraph to WHDH Chan-
nel 7 News “Viewer Voice”
segment about how privi-
leged I felt to witness such
a pivotal moment in Ameri-
can history. I thought noth-
ing of it until my name was
read in the newscast later
that night. It felt like my face
was just plastered on the
jumbotron at Fenway Park,
and I loved it.
But going to those web-
sites directly and submitting
an email is as old school as
using a Blackberry phone.
We’re in an age where tech-
nology is developing faster
than the Associated Press
wire can spit out news sto-
ULHV��ZKLFK�LV�UDSLG�ÀUH���7KH�iPhone, Android or what
have you is a personal hub
of the latest. It is no longer
necessary to wait until the 5
o’clock newscast to be aware.
Herein lies the problem.
Networks are still experi-
menting with incorporating
the slew of media outlets
into their television, and a
lot of it is proving to be inef-
fective. As a loyal fan of NBC,
I wake up to the beautiful
faces of Matt Lauer, Natalie
Morales, Savannah Guthrie
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instead.
Daly reads submitted
tweets and discusses what’s
trending in the news on
social media among other
half-awake viewers like me.
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cation for that. It’s called
7ZLWWHU�� 6R� ZK\� UHLWHUDWH�what I can see, and have
already seen, for myself?
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are the tweets and posts
from the subject of their sto-
ries. I’d much rather see Daly
deliver what Newark, N.J.
Mayor Cory Booker, tweeted
to a stripper.
Most, if not all, news cor-
porations have some sort of
forum for conversation fol-
lowing each article they post.
Readers and tolls sound off
about their approvals and
disgusts while winning
“likes” from supporters. At
least with the internet, I
have the choice to move on.
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hard to tell if NBC is trying
to stay ahead of the curve,
catch up, or simply kill air
time. While the makeover
of Studio 1A is much more
cozy, the traditional style
contradicts their new focus
on their digital installment
and their newfound desire
to connect with everything
of the second.
It would be most bene-
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email and hone in on a real
news story, because those
who take the time to type
in a web address, click on a
few links, type in a box, and
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Social media
shifts television
Sunday rolls in and it’s time
for the newest episode of Break-
ing Bad. No force on Earth,
whether it be simple commitment
or apparent catastrophe, will
come between the viewer and the
program.
For the unsuspecting audience,
the harmless pleasure slowly
transforms into a serpentine vice
grip, choking away time, commit-
ments, relationships and the like.
But how does this happen? Can
this obsession really be that dan-
gerous to the maturing college
student? Does any of this even
PDWWHU"� 7KH� IDPRXV� 5RPDQWLF�English poet Lord Byron set the
precedent for our fascination of
characters like Walter White (the
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shining character, highlighted by
a moral righteousness unparal-
leled by another human being. It’s
quite the opposite.
Romanticizing the morally
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haps infamy, to the archetypal
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they still seek to do what’s they
believe is good—an attraction
that draws us to delve deeper into
their character.
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drama. Forget the suspense. What
we want isn’t to follow a stun-
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over the wiles of the enemy. What
we want is to understand the
character, to see through their
eyes, to live their lives.
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Walter White, a man facing a
modern remake of the classical
Heinz dilemma. We all remember
Heinz’s situation, right? He was
the man whose wife was dying
of cancer but couldn’t afford the
only cure there was. Should he
steal the cure? Does an unethi-
cal act become valorous in cer-
tain scenarios? So fascinated are
we with this ethical dilemma that
we are willing to devote hours
upon hours rooted in front of a
television or stuck behind a com-
puter screen to follow the lives of
those weaved into our Byronic
hero’s life. His actions become so
important to us that we spurn our
homework, deny spending time
with friends and family, and in
some cases, invest what money
we have to watch another obtain
his money illegally. As this cin-
ematic drama’s venom oozes into
our bloodstream and we melt
away into catatonic silhouettes
of ourselves for a set period time
during a set day. We become the
ones who are programmed, not
the computer nor the television.
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over us may seem overdone (as it
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be getting done if it were not for
our devotion to these programs?
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decrease, empowering us to put
more effort into our work. Per-
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would also decrease, and our
most valuable friends would feel
a little more valuable to us.
We live in a heavily individ-
ualistic society—we either praise
this or talk about its downfalls.
But for every time we gripe about
how much social media has less-
ened our ability of human-to-
human interaction, or every time
our inner existentialist shudders
in the face of our aloneness while
with others, remember how much
we devote to such things.
If we invested in ourselves
and others the way we invest
in our viewing pleasures, what
would be the result?
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tacted at
Should body ink smudge opportunities in the workplace? Stop and think about some-
one you work with. Imagine that
co-worker is told everyday to hide
something of importance to them.
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their innermost feelings in the work-
place.
However, the permanent invest-
ments placed on their skin remain a
potential concern for their employ-
ers. But why? Let’s look at this from
another point of view. Have you ever
taken a good look at someone and
made an immediate negative judg-
ment about their character just from
the tattoos on their body?
Have you then stopped and
thought that this person could actu-
ally be the opposite of your assump-
tions?
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a way of the individual expressing
themselves. Whatever the circum-
stances, one thing doesn’t change -
the tattoo itself.
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planning to get your special design
just the way you want, or after no
prior thought or recollection of get-
ting the tattoo at all.
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to your job search after gradua-
tion?
I don’t believe that a company
should be reluctant to hire you
because of the tattoos you have.
However, a certain demographic
of customers may feel uncomfort-
able with your expressive ink in
the workplace. For example, take a
doctor.
Would you feel comfortable
having a doctor with multiple vis-
ible tattoos consult your health con-
cerns?
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the doctor might be scared by visible
tattoos displaced on their pediatri-
cian.
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have exposed tattoos.
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with people face-to-face may have to
be careful about where their tattoos
are located and what they depict.
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out a given duty?
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etched into someone’s skin will not
make anyone a better employee, nor
will it make them a worse employee.
COMMENTARY
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readability.
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increased usage of Electronic Assis-
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New Hampshire beaches.
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studying abroad and have forgotten
everything about N.H. beaches. So you
decide to Google it.
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in N.H. near me?”
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mel?” to be returned because within the
page or blog a large number of search
words were within the post.
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might be far down on the list, causing
you to search through pages of Google
results as the sun throws everything
it has at you, causing you to faint and
leave Becky to fry in the N.H. July sun.
After Hummingbird:
Same scenario and you go onto
Google to search for those pesky
beaches.
You input “What are the best beaches
in N.H. near me?”. With Hummingbird
now the new algorithm, Google should
be able to focus better on the meaning
behind your words.
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actual location if you chose to share
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more tech nitty-gritty.
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I look at it as a sign of affection and
have become very good friends
with most all of them, give or take
a few of the previously stray, skit-
tish ones.
Last weekend, I made my way
to Puerto Viejo in the Caribbean,
and it truly is beautiful there.
I went with a few of my
friends and we paid 10,000 colo-
nes (approximately 20 American
dollars) for two nights to stay at a
hostel named ‘La Ruka’, which is,
in essence, a cheaper version of a
hotel.
The people that ran the place
truly were great and so outgoing
and accepting but the best part is
we could order drinks right to our
room, as they had a bar right in the
front lobby. The only downside is
that while there, one always feels
dirty because of the sweat-friendly
climate.
Nonetheless, I absolutely
enjoyed my experience swimming
in the crystal blue waters and bask-
ing in the UV rays of Puerto Viejo,
and I get to return when the stu-
dents of CIS head back there for the
included excursion at the end of
October.
There are many programs that
facilitate exchange students into
Veritas University here in Costa
Rica but October is the month
where CIS program students
embark on an excursion every
weekend, and I could not be more
excited for these upcoming trips.
They consist of a tour of a
famous coffee house, climbing
the Irazu and Arenal Volcanoes,
splashing in the hot springs of
Baldi and back to Puerto Viejo.
My departure date back to the
U.S. is December 21, and I have
already spent a month here. I only
have just under three remaining,
and there is so much more in store.
There are many things that
I have yet to do and I intend on
checking them off my mental list
but while I do not want my time
to end here in Costa Rica, I cannot
wait to get back and see all of my
friends and family and enjoy the
second semester of my junior year
at KSC.
Billy Lake can be contacted at [email protected].
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ticular issue is.
“Currently, the state of New
Hampshire allows for the death
penalty, and we currently have
an inmate on death row going
through the appeals process,”
Johnson said.
“This year in the state legisla-
ture there will be a bill introduced
abolishing the death penalty, and
that will be debated in the spring.
If it passes, the governor has indi-
cated that she will sign it,” he con-
tinued.
Johnson said he hoped the
presentation would "encourage
people to think about it, to decide
where they stand on the issue, and
then as engaged citizens to engage
in the political process and inform
their representatives of where they
stand."
Johnson went on to say that
his own stance on the death pen-
alty is that it does not work to deter
murder, as states with the death
penalty enforced often have to
highest murder rates, and that the
morality of the matter is the great-
est issue.
"When the state executes some-
one, they're executing someone who
has been rendered defenseless by
imprisonment" and so "we are kill-
ing a defenseless person,” he said.
“And when the state acts, it is
acting in my name, and I do not
want the state to act in my name to
kill people when other alternatives
are available,’ he continued.
Kim Schmidl-Gagne, a KSC-
faculty member on the discussion
board and a member of the Ameri-
can Democracy Project, explained
that the presentation on Tuesday
was part of a "bigger picture.”
Schmidl-Gagne said "I think that
people either believe that it’s death
penalty or no death penalty, and
that’s certainly a piece of it but it’s a
lot more complex than that.
In New Hampshire, this is the
ÀUVW� WLPH�VLQFH������WKDW�ZH·YH�KDG�anyone on death row so you also
have [the] issue that even if this
person does make it all the way
through the system to get executed,
we don’t have the facilities to do
that."
She then went on to explain that
“there are economic pieces of it obvi-
ously, not just in the cost of putting
someone in jail for the rest of their
life versus death row, there are all
of the other economic costs that go
along with this.”
The ADP has noticed a drop-off
in the activeness of citizens in gov-
ernment and is looking to prepare
the next generation of Americans to
be more hands on in political issues.
Schmidl-Gagne hoped that pre-
sentations such as this one will cause
people to feel less distance between
themselves and this issue, and that
in turn citizens will become more
actively involved in government.
"Part of it is we have gotten dis-
tanced from our government. People
have seen their role as maybe going
out and voting," she explained.
Schmidl-Gagne said that the pro-
active nature of Dow's presentation
emanates what she and the ADP are
hoping that those who attended the
event will take away from it.
"We are pretty good at being in
the trenches, but we should ask
more about why? Why do these con-
ditions exist?” she asked.
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Jortberg said she got four of her tattoos done by a
family friend of hers. The tattoo of the four-leaf clover
on her foot was done here in Keene, according to Jort-
berg. She said she got it done at Secret Lake Tattoo.
Like Jortberg, Amanda Diiulis, also a 20-year-old
junior at KSC, also got one of her tattoos at Secret Lake
Tattoo.
Diiulis has two tattoos herself. She said she has one
RI�D�ÁRZHU�ZLWK�D�TXRWH�DQG�RQH�WKDW�LV�D�´OLQHG�GHVLJQ�of a bear.” Diiulis said her tattoos are for her family and
represent life events. When asked why she got them at
the time she did, Diiulis said, “Because I was at college
and there were a lot of tattoo places around, so I was
like why not?”
6LQFH�$SULO�������6HFUHW�/DNH�7DWWRR�KDV�EHFRPH�(OP�City Tattoo. It is currently being run and managed by
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ness for the last seven years and has been tattooing in
New Hampshire for the last four and a half years. The
company also offers body piercing.
(OP�&LW\�7DWWRR�SLHUFHU��3M�'HOHRQ������KDV�EHHQ�ZLWK�the company since April and has been piercing for the
last four years.
“I like working in Keene. I just moved up to Keene
in January of this year, and I was from Tampa, Flor-
ida. I like the laid back atmosphere of Keene. It’s a busy
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last four years.
Prior to tattooing in Keene, Finch was working at a
tattoo shop in Boston, Massachusetts.
“I like working in Keene better than anywhere else. I
didn’t like Boston as much as I like it here. The people in
Boston are not as into the important parts of tattooing.
,W·V�UHDOO\�DERXW�TXDOLW\��QRW�TXDQWLW\��,Q�%RVWRQ��SHRSOH�don’t really look at it like that,” Finch said.
7KH�(OP�&LW\�7DWWRR�FUHZ�VDLG�WKH\�JHW�DERXW����WR����students in a week for either a piercing or tattoo.
“We get a lot of walk-ins,” Manley said. “I think it
depends on if papers are due or not,” Finch said.
Deleon said this past Sunday he had 20 female stu-
dents come in and they all got pierced.
Finch said this past Tuesday she was working on a
tattoo and four of that client’s friends came in and made
appointments.
“We get a lot of freshmen right around now,” Manley
said. Manley, Deleon and Finch all agree that being
located in a college town has a huge impact on business,
especially since they do piercings as well as tattoos.
According to Finch, some of the most common tattoo
LGHDV�VKH�VHHV�DUH��TXRWHV��LQÀQLW\�V\PEROV�DQG�IHDWKHUV�with bird silhouettes.
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stopper. Why would you go to college and get a job-
stopper tattoo,” Finch said about tattoos that prevent
getting hired.
:KHQ�LW�FRPHV�WR�ZK\����\HDU�ROG�IUHVKPHQ�FROOHJH�students get tattoos, Manley, Deleon and Finch all said
they think it has a little to do with peer pressure.
They said it is not peer pressuring someone to do it
who had no want or intention of getting one, but more
of a push on someone who was considering getting one.
“It’s peer pressure in a good way,” Deleon said.
Diiulis thinks freshmen get tattoos when they get to
college because they have the freedom to.
“They have the money to and they have the freedom
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“The one I got on my ribs I think I just got because I was eighteen and I could go get
a tattoo if I wanted to.”-JESSICA JORTBERG
-KSC JUNIOR
SHANNON FLYNN / SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR
KSC junior, Jessica Jortberg, has a tattoo of a heart behind her ear, as well as a four-leaf clover on the back of her foot. “I have a heart behind my ear and it’s
in my mom’s handwriting. I have a butterfly and my mom also has the same one as that,” Jortberg said.
SHANNON FLYNN / SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR
Junior Amanda Diiulis has a tattoo that reads: “Hope is the dream of a soul awake” on her back.
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ration for this event takes over a month, not to mention cooking preparation takes longer due to dealing with whole products versus already sliced meats and vegeta-bles.
“We try to focus on local as much as we can, especially in-season stuff. But the problem is, for example, Long Wind tomatoes, which you will see at the grill, we will empty every Long Wind tomato that they can produce in half a week if we went with local tomatoes everyday.” KSC Sous Chef Aaron Pouliot said about Localvore being once a semester.
Quirnale added, “It would be great to do it everyday but the meal plan holders would run out of food by prob-ably October.”
However, KSC aims to support locally as much as they can. In the dining commons there is daily access to local yogurt, milk, soy milk, ice cream, bagels and occasional eggs and produce. The sheer volume of a college com-munity’s need for food is far too much for local farms to handle entirely, which is why Localvore is condensed into one day per semester.
“You can go through the dining hall right now and pick out so many campus faces. Not only that, some of them have brought their families. It’s a big deal. It’s not just lunch,“ Pouliot said.
According to Hunt, Localvore feeds about 2,250 people a variety of local meals. Those who are not on a meal plan have heard of Localvore, and continue to come back to see if this year’s local dessert tops the last. There is another reason the dining commons is packed during Localvore.
“All of this brings us closer together,” Pouliot said.According to Pouliot, Localvore is more than “just
lunch,” because as the fresh local food enriches our bodies, our community and minds are enriched as well.
Annelise Kloster can be contacted at [email protected]
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SABRINA LAPOINTE
Equinox Staff
Although 24 hours in a day sometimes does not seem like enough, it is. At least, that’s the response from mul-tiple Keene State College students when asked how they manage to get through their busy days.
Between classes, studying for exams, attending meetings, playing sports at the intramural, club, or var-sity level and maintaining a social life, college tends to overwhelm many and time management skills quickly become a student’s best friend.
When asked how they cope with stress, a common answer among KSC students was very simple: work out.
Breanna Vacca, a senior exercise science major, said VKH�ZRUNV�RXW�ÀYH�WLPHV�D�ZHHN��
Vacca said, “I plan my schedule ahead of time.” She continued, “To me it’s a stress reliever, I don’t
think about anything, I just concentrate on working out. If you’re stressed out with school work, the gym is a good place to be.” If anyone sees what goes on over at WKH�6SDXOGLQJ�*\PQDVLXP�ÀUVWKDQG�� LW·V�%RG\�:RUNV�Manager Christine Miles.
As a manager, much of her time is spent in the gym where she encounters many of the KSC students who DUH�GHGLFDWHG�WR�WKHLU�ÀWQHVV�
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Research indicates that a big predictor of personal happiness is physical health. The correlation between living an active lifestyle and feeling happier is not coin-cidental, according to “The New Science of Happiness” by Claudia Wallis.
Although many KSC students say their time is lim-ited, a vast majority of them said they can at the very PLQLPXP��WDNH�D�VPDOO�SRUWLRQ�RXW�RI�WKHLU�GD\�WR�ÀW�LQ�some kind of workout.
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The biggest motivator seemed to be happiness. Carly Kiernan, a KSC junior and athletic training major said overall working out just makes her happier and feel better.
The notion that working out helps them release any school, work, or social related stress holds true for Kier-nan and Vacca alike.
2QFH� WKLV� VWUHVV� LV� UHOLHYHG�� WKH\� ÀQG� WKHPVHOYHV�happier. In this case, taking time out of a busy day to work out seems worth it. Especially with the aftermath of feeling less stressed and more happy.
KSC sophomore Elton Purvis, an exercise science PDMRU�� LV�HYHQ�DEOH� WR�ÀW�D�ZRUNRXW� LQWR�KLV�EXV\� IRXU�classes-a-day schedule. That’s nearly eight hours worth of class time in one day.
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“There’s always time in your schedule. If you want to JHW�XS�DQG�JR�IRU�WKDW�TXLFN�ÀIWHHQ�PLQXWH�MRJ�RU�JR�WR�the gym real quick do some sprints, something like that.It doesn’t have to be a long workout. Just get up and go because that’s the hardest part,” Purvis said.
The students interviewed said they feel over-whelmed by the amount of homework they have to complete once they get out of class.
However, many of them also shared a common belief that after working out, they are able to concen-trate on their schoolwork more easily.
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When the result is a better ability to focus, and over-all feeling happier about yourself, many students are willing to make the effort.
Sabrina Lapointe can be contacted at [email protected]
For Keene State College students, it’s all about the juggle
MICHELLE LEFEBVRE / EQUINOX STAFF
“It doesn’t have to be a long workout. Just get
up and go because that’s the hardest part.”
-ELTON PURVIS-KSC SOPHOMORE
SAM LEWIS / EQUINOX STAFF
Above left: crates of apples on display during local day in the dining commons. Above right: two large bowls of buffalo chicken dip is served.
“We try to focus on local as much as we can, especially in-season stuff.”
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BILLY LAKECosta RiCa
Costa Rica—the name itself prompts thoughts of exotic land-scapes and wildlife in addition to a potentially awesome experience, and that is precisely why I chose to come here, and to study as well of course.
Being a biology major, Costa Rica offers ecology that is unique in so many aspects that it would be hard to get such an experience from another place such as Keene State College, and so far it has def-initely been an experience to say the least.
It has been a month that I have been here since arriving in the beginning of September.
I have made many new friends, managed to handle a month long, Monday through Friday eight a.m. intensive spanish course, and adapted to the culture and most importantly to me, the food.
I was worried I would not be able to alter my culinary prefer-ences to that of the spanish type, but that thought process was most GHÀQLWHO\� LQDFFXUDWH� DV� ,� KDYH�come to love rice and beans as a daily meal.
The program through which I am studying in Costa Rica is ‘CIS Abroad’ and the normal semes-ter is 12 weeks long. However, in addition, they offer a 16-week pro-gram allowing for students to take an extra four-week course in span-ish before the 12-week semester begins.
I chose this option and am not disappointed but more or less happy for more students to arrive.
The university itself is a bit smaller in comparison to Keene State College of course and even now with just the local students and those of the sixteen-week pro-gram, it feels pretty full so I am interested to see it in its full capac-ity.
I am currently staying in a house with local people (‘Ticos” is what they are called here) and I live just a block away from the school so waking up at eight a.m. hasn’t been too hard considering I don’t have much of a trip ahead of me.
I love the family with which I am living, they are very open to natural American habits and customs and very loving as well, as are most of the people I have encountered on my journey so far.
Oh, how could I forget, I live with 19 cats.
Yeah, that’s right—19 cats. It is not a typo.
Fortunately for me as well as them, I love animals and feel blessed to be surrounded by them at all times, even though their ERGLO\�ÁXLGV�FRPH�LQ�FRQWDFW�ZLWK�my belongings from time to time.
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Once each semester, Keene State College raises the appetite of not only its students, but its faculty and the families of students, as well.
Using the fall harvest from sur-rounding local farms, KSC serves mouth-watering meals. These meals can vary from a juicy bacon-ched-dar cheeseburger, to the creative chocolate apple pizza dessert. It’s no wonder that Localvore, a day dedi-cated to meals being prepared with local ingredients, is a favorite at KSC to many.
Localvore, now reaching its sev-enth year, began at KSC when the need for more local and sustain-able food was requested. Besides the stuffed turkey breast and mashed sweet potatoes all from local farm-ers, Localvore is KSC’s response to the local movement.
“Food is a part of everybody’s
life,” said Rebecca Hunt, KSC dieti-tian and major coordinator of Local-vore. “It is also an education process, educating what local is, ” Josef Quir-inale, DC general manager, said
about the event. During Localvore, suppliers like Black River Produce also do their part on educating the KSC community about the impor-tance of local support.
Two of Black River Produce’s members sliced tender beef raised at Boyden Farm, and told stories of how they contribute to the local movement. “This is truly what local means and what Localvore aims to do,” Hunt added. While students ate slices of duck rasp-berry pizza or fresh wheat berry salad, the appreciation of Local-vore’s importance was clear.
“A lot of college students, like myself, are like ‘I need food now and I’m too busy to think of any-thing else.’ So to give them local options to bring awareness, and it is probably a lot better for you, is a nice treat,” said KSC student Siob-han Roche. “I’d like local day to be every day,” added James Gillum sitting at the same table.
Although the love for Localvore is recognized, the event can only occur once a semester.
Not all students know the prepa-
KSC dining brings people together for local food
Costa Rica is the cat’s ‘meow’
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KSC biology student, Billy Lake, is living in Costa Rica with a host family that has nineteen cats. He is also pictured on stilts in San Jose.
BRENDAN KEENANEquinox staff
Should our culture be more proactive in stopping violent crime before it happens?
This question and the issue of the execution of death row inmates was the focus of last week's TED Talks presentation in the Night Owl Café on Tues-day, September 24.
The TED Talks video fea-tured David R. Dow, a law professor at the University of Houston Law Center.
Through his position at Uni-versity of Houston, Dow and his students have aided over one hundred inmates facing the death penalty.
He founded a program called the Texas Innocence Proj-ect that allows inmates claim-ing innocence to work with university students on substan-tiating their claims.
Dow has authored several books regarding law, and has articles published in a number of well-known publications.
The video, which has been viewed over half a million times, begins with a short anecdote by Dow about how an experi-ence with his son at breakfast prompted him to recollect on a client who faced execution in Texas.
The client was facing the death penalty for a tragic murder he had committed, and had experienced a life of terri-ble and violent domestic condi-tions that started when he was approximately Dow's son's age.
He continues on to say that the best way to achieve this ver-sion is to take a proactive stance on the issue, and work early on to keep people off of the path that will lead them to murder much earlier.
Senior Damian Vacca, who was suggested to this event in a class (Other Ways of Knowing), called the presentation "infor-mative,” despite already know-ing quite a bit about the issue.
When asked about the importance of events like this on campus, Vacca said that the TED Talks are "a great way of introducing subjects that stu-dents may not necessarily get exposure to" and that presenta-tions such as this one should be more frequent.
One of the faculty mem-bers running the event was Ockle Johnson, a member of the Monadnock Citizens Con-cerned about the death penalty, a local group aiming to abolish the death penalty here in New Hampshire.
Johnson also found the video to be very informative and explained what the rele-vance of bringing up this par-
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teenagers look forward to. They are only three years away
from turning the big 21. This is DOVR�WKH�ÀUVW�WLPH�LQ�WKHLU�OLIH�WKH\�are being exposed to new free-doms they once did not have.
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something that they are able to do. It was something they were not able to do up until this point, and they want to do it as a sense of being able to do something on their own without parental con-sent,” Jessica Jortberg, a student at Keene State College said.
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According to Jortberg, some of her tattoos have meanings and others were just because.
“The one I got on my ribs I think I just got because I was eigh-teen and I could go get a tattoo if I wanted to. The one on my foot I got because I’m Irish and it’s a four-leaf clover, and also because my friends and my class got can-celled one day and we were just like, let’s go get tattoos. I have a heart behind my ear and it’s in my mom’s handwriting. I have a but-WHUÁ\� DQG�P\�PRP� DOVR� KDV� WKH�same one as that. And also the ÁRZHU�,�JRW�WKLV�VXPPHU�,�JRW�MXVW�to add on,” Jortberg said.
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Local apples are up for grabs at the KSC Dining Common’s Localvore.
TED Talks brings up touchy topics
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DEANNA CARUSOEquinox Staff
One may think that with nation-als three months away, the Keene State College Dance Team has time to kick back and relax.
But that assumption is wrong. With practice three days a week, choreographing multiple routines, performing at sporting events, com-petitions and fundraising, the dance team has whipped up one busy schedule.
However, the most determined thing on all of their minds is get-ting to nationals and bringing home a trophy.
The team captain, Lisa Garamella said, “Half of our team is new and they all have differ-ent abilities. It is exciting to bring a new, dedicated group t o nationals because we are all deter-mined to win.”
Nationals are held in Orlando,
F lor -ida in Jan-uary from
the 17th to the 21st.
The competi-tion is broken up by
divisions and the com-petitors are from a vari-ety of different colleges
from around the country. On the Friday before
competition, all dancers run through a practice routine, then
all day Saturday dancers compete LQ�WKH�VHPL�ÀQDOV�WR�ÀQG�RXW�ZKR�
makes the top ten. Once the top ten are determined,
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Also held on that Sunday, MGM will shut down part of their amus-ment park and be available for only
the dancers. Team Man-ager Bethany Gordon said,
“It’s exciting that MGM does that, but we would UDWKHU� JR� WR� ÀQDOV� DQG�bring home a trophy.”
With determination to win, the dance team hired and paid out of their student account, a choreographer from Hofstra University to help create their National’s Routine.Gordon said, “I
IHHO� FRQÀGHQW��� that this year we will make the top ten because we have-
really good chore-ography and our
music is much better this
year.” To get to
Nationals, the dance team needs a total of
$14,000.
KSC granted the team a start with supplying $5,900. However, the team still needs a little over $8,000.
To make this money, the team has begun to fund-raise. Just a few weeks ago, they held a car wash and raised $200.
Garamella said, “We are doing a Yankee Candle fun-draiser in the up and coming weeks and we reach out to Keene Alumni and family to raise money for our trip.”
Even though there are 22 girls on the dance team, competition regulations only allow 16 girls to compete at once.
Gordon said, “We usu-ally have either experi-enced dancers or alumni Keene State dancers to come in and watch the girls perform and then the captains and I go over their lists and decide who
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Michelle Green (left) and Rebecca Fracasse (right) flip Shayna Bourque at the dance team’s practice Wednesday evening, Sept. 25. The team preps for nationals in Orlando, Florida with high hopes. The Keene State College dance team will also regularly perform at KSC sporting events’ half-time shows as well as a Halloween-theme performance at the 2013 Pumpkin Festival.
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ERIN SEVERNSContributing WritEr
Two years ago, like many of those around the Keene State College campus, he was just a regular college stu-GHQW� VWXG\LQJ�ÀQDQFH�� DFFRUGLQJ� WR� D�1RYHPEHU� �����Las Vegas Weekly article “Las Vegas Native 3LAU is Finding EDM Success at Young Age.”
After discovering electronic dance music on a vaca-tion to Sweden in 2011, he started producing mash-ups.
Justin “3LAU” Blau went viral in just a year, the Las Vegas Weekly article stated. With over 105,000 Face-book likes and more than 4.75 million YouTube views, the DJ sensation will take over KSC at the fall concert on Nov. 24, 2013.
As students become more and more excited for the highly anticipated DJ, they have Social Activities Coun-cil to thank for putting it all together.
When SAC members found out that Groove Boston wasn’t coming to KSC this year, like it had many years in the past, it was SAC’s Concert Coordinator, Alicia Berry’s idea of going with an electronic DJ theme for this years fall concert.
Berry said, “I e-mailed our agent, Taylor, [with] con-cert ideas and he gave me a list of who’s available at what time or what days so we looked through and nar-rowed it down and [3LAU] was one of the very good ones.”
According to Berry, the $25,000-$30,000 budget that SAC is working with for the fall weekend is a tighter budget than they work with in the spring.
However, it still allows for a fun and enjoyable week-end. With 3LAU costing $17,500, President of Social Activities Council, Meghan Murphy said, “We are still ZRUNLQJ�RQ�>ÀQGLQJ@�DQ�RSHQHU�µ
A lot of people seem to often wonder how SAC comes up with how much the main act for the fall con-cert is going to cost—how much they are willing to spend, how they plan to make that money back and how much tickets will be.
“There is an equation that we use with how much they [the artist] cost, how much we’re going to charge, how popular they seem to be among the campus,” Murphy said.
“We think about it a lot and plan out how we can make that back.”
Murphy and Berry said they are both very excited about 3LAU performing and they expect there to be a good turn out.
Murphy said, “That’s the thing about DJ’s is that you don’t have to know who they are to still enjoy their show. He’s going to do a lot of fun things to make it a dancing atmosphere.”
To add to that, she also said, “I think that Keene State likes dance parties.”
Murphy and Berry both said they agree that many students enjoy that kind of atmosphere.
The two SAC e-board members said they expect to see many students interested in attending 3LAU’s show.
After the decision was made that 3LAU was who SAC wanted to perform at the fall concert, it started the SURFHVV�RI�WU\LQJ�WR�FRQWDFW�DQG�FRQÀUP�D�SHUIRUPDQFH���
It’s not just as easy as telling them what day the con-cert will be with expectations for them to show up.
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Berry explained how after choosing 3LAU, Berry and their agent went through many factors—“how much would tickets be, when’s the start time, when’s the actual event, where is it, how much room will he have,” and more details.
$IWHU�6$&�KDV�ÀJXUHG�RXW�DOO�WKH�GHWDLOV��DQG�QHJR-tiated a price, both parties have to sign the contract for everything to be settled.
3LAU will be performing on Sunday, Nov. 24 in the Mabel Brown Room of the L.P. Young Student Center. Tickets for students will be $5.
Although SAC is not yet sure on pricing for the public, tickets will be available for non-students with a
Social Activities Council presents 3LAU
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Depictions of astrological signs
BRITTANY BALLANTYNEadminiStrativE ExECutivE Editor
Leo: lioness, loud, warm, and at times, overzeal-ous. That’s what my astrological sign says about me, more or less, in every book, magazine and every website I have ever read.
Each sign falls under a different element, or nat-XUDO�IRUFH��$�/HR·V�QDWXUDO�IRUFH�LV�ÀUH��DV�RSSRVHG�to earth, wind and water.
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The month of September is apparently a solid month for those born between July 23 and August 22, or so Astrologyzone.com believed.
The Washington Post’s horoscope section informs Leos that saying something aloud to some-one this month will be a challenge, but will create
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LUKE FLOOD
Equinox Staff
Albany, New York is home to a good deal of music festivals.
From the summer’s weekly ‘Alive at Five’ concerts, to ‘Lark Fest’ and ‘Tulip Fest,’ the city knows how to put on a good show.
But last Saturday’s fourth annual Pearl Palooza, hosted by local radio station 102.7 WEQX, was more excit-ing and entertaining than many had predicted.
Just two weeks before the festival, original headliners The Dirty Heads and Palma Violets were swapped out with Portugal. The Man with Crystal Fighters, a change that many thought was questionable.
Nevertheless, the day had a few bands worth mentioning and a few that would be better left alone.
Gentleman Hall went on at 12 p.m. to open the festival.
By playing songs like “Sail into the Sun” and “All our Love,” the band set the mood on one of fall’s last warm weekends.
But following the upbeat sound, an indie rock group from Boston was a local, dreamy/synth rock band called The Titanics.
Playing on the local stage, the band consisted of only two people; a keyboard/electronic percussionist and an electric guitar player.
As a large crowd gathered to watch, few heads bopped and few smiles were cracked as the band began down a dark, gothic road.
All in all, it was less than enter-taining and brought the mood down a good bit.
But later in the day, good vibes continued when highly anticipated rock band Wild Adriatic took the stage.
Even on the local stage the band managed to draw a larger crowd than many of the day’s main stage bands and were more entertaining than almost every band at that.
Those on the opposite side of the festival could hear the absolute roars from the crowd, as the band
played hit songs like “Bound to Let You Go” and “Letter.”
But when they covered Led Zep-pelin’s “Ramble on,” the crowd went absolutely insane.
The band was the only band aside from the headliners to play an encore, a decision made outside of the day’s original schedule.
Eastbound Jesus was the last band to take the stage before the main acts and was also the only EDQG� QRW� FODVVLÀHG� LQ� WKH� DOWHUQD-tive/indie rock genre.
Even so, the day’s only bluegrass act put on a more entertaining show than some of the previous acts, to the point where people were lining up on their apartment rooftops to see what all the commotion was.
Crystal Fighters, a band that came all the way from Spain, was WKH� ÀUVW� RI� WKH� WZR� KHDGOLQHUV� WR�take the stage.
With upbeat, dance-like music, it was hard to not clap your hands and jump around to almost every song of the bands set.
The lead singer was the most energetic front man of the day, com-bining styles of Edward Sharpe and Mick Jagger.
By the end of the set, the entire crowd, even those who weren’t orig-inally fans of the band, had fallen in love with their music and high energy style of play.
But the main act of the night proved to be the best and most impressive one.
Portugal. The Man has been around for the last decade, but just began its festival run.
The group took off by playing Coachella and Bonaroo this summer.
Becoming most famous, as of lately for their song, “Purple Yellow Red and Blue,” the band began its set with it—at least, some sort of version of it.
:KHQ� WKH\� ÀUVW� EHJDQ� SOD\LQJ�the most desirable song as their opener, many people were in shock.
It was clearly noticeable that the crowd was wondering just how the EDQG�FRXOG�SOD\�WKHLU�EHVW�VRQJ�ÀUVW�
Maybe it was because they wanted to show the crowd that they were more than just the one song that they have become famous for.
But what seemed like the songs original version quickly turned into a 20 minute jam, where the band showed off what they were truly capable of.
Playing majority of the show in a cloud of smoke and with little to no stoppage time at all, the band showed serious signs of being com-parable to Pink Floyd.
But at the very end of their set, the band began to play their hit song
“Purple Yellow Red and Blue” for the second time.
As balloons fell from the sky, it was easy to see what the band was trying to say.
They weren’t saying that they were more than this song, but that they were this song. This was their alma mater.
As the crowd chanted, “All I needed was something to believe in,” the band huddled around the drummer jamming and laughing together.
This song is what brought them to the festival and this song is who they were.
After the band played 35 minutes over their allotted time, the crowd demanded a double encore and waited an extra ten minutes before leaving.
While the band was only allowed to come back out for a brief goodbye, the crowd knew they would have if they could have.
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NICK BUNDARIN
Equinox Staff
An actress’ addictive memoir
This book review is about the memoir, “Guts: The Endless Follies and Tiny Triumphs of a Giant Disaster” by two-time Emmy award-winning actress Kristen Johnston.
,�KDYH�EHFRPH�REVHVVHG�ZLWK�PHPRLUV��0\�ÀUVW�ZDV� 7KH�*ODVV�&DVWOHµ�E\�Jeannette Walls, and from there I have fallen in love with stories about real peoples’ lives. Johnston’s memoir is perhaps one of my favorites so far.
)RU�WKRVH�ZKR�GRQ·W�NQRZ��.ULVWHQ�-RKQVWRQ�LV�DQ�DFWUHVV�RI�ÀOP��VWDJH�DQG�TV who has done many projects.
Her most well-known role is Sally Solomon from the show “3rd Rock from the Sun” sitcom (and one of my personal favorites) “The Exes.”
“Guts” tells the story of Johnston’s dark past with drugs and alcohol, along with her insecurities and dealing with the harder side of being an actress.
Johnston gives the readers a look into her world and the world of addic-tion.
However, do not despair—this isn’t a book that’s all doom, gloom and KRUULG�WXUPRLO��-RKQVWRQ�LV�D�FRPHGLF�DFWUHVV�DQG�LW�UHÁHFWV�LW�LQ�KHU�ZULWLQJ��
The author tells us about her awkward school years and how comedy came into her life.
This is an excellent beginning before the heavy seriousness surfaces. You get the sense that you know her and the way she writes makes you
feel like you’re a friend sitting down and talking to her over a cup of coffee. When it comes to her drug and alcohol abuse, Johnston gives a clear pic-
ture of what the world of the addicts and the lives of the people around them are like.
Yes she uses humor, but that can be seen as a creative buffer so it’s not morbidly dark like “Precious” but still retains its serious nature.
The story can be graphic in some parts, but it’s a good scare tactic to help a reader understand what Johnston is trying to convey.
The Good This book is a fun and witty read despite some of the darker aspects.
There is a strong voice and not once does Johnston trail off or make the nar-ration boring.
It’s like hearing her on TV--just now on paper. It’s also a good book for people with addictions as well as their families.
The book shows a person at their lowest and how they rise up to be a better person. I guarantee it will make you understand the hardships that addiction has and that it is hard to get out of.
The BadThe only thing I can think of and this is with all celebrity biographies: it
helps if you like him or her and their work. However, if the their book is well-written, it could make you interested.
In my opinion, some people get very cynical with celebrities for no reason and forget they’re just as human as the rest of us (Those people, my dear read-ers, are what I call uninformed). Basically the cynics would say the actor or actress is just trying to get attention and make more money through their book.
For those types of people who bash celebs, stay away from books like these, it would be like assigning you to read them.
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higher price, however. SAC has not yet determined when tickets
will be going on sale, but advises students to keep their eyes open for when they do.
As far as student reaction goes, a lot of people seem to agree that 3LAU will have a good turn out. Senior Kim Lynch said even though she has never heard of 3LAU she will probably go check him out.
Juniors Alexis Bly and Ryan O’Hora both said that they most likely won’t go see 3LAU’s performance but they think that he will get a good turn out because he is the type of music that a lot of students here at KSC like and enjoy.
SAC members and KSC students seem to look forward to seeing a fun, energetic, enjoy-able, and memorable performance.
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‘Pearl Palooza’ jams out in New YorkSTAFF COMMENTARY
KSC student travels to home state for music festival
‘Breaking Bad’ ends, but 10 lessons lingerFRAZIER MOORE
aSSociatEd PrESS
NEW YORK (AP) — Sunday’s “Breaking Bad” turned out the lights on one of the darkest shows in television history.
Even as this drama cooked up storylines that celebrated evil and depravity, “Breaking Bad” gleamed with a bright side, too. There were plenty of positive messages for the viewers.
Here are 10 lessons “Breaking Bad” leaves behind:
Stay in school and study hard!
As Walter White dem-onstrated after he ditched teaching for producing crystal meth, you can make millions from a subject like chemistry that far too many youngsters (includ-ing Mr. White’s bored stu-GHQWV�� ÀQG� DQQR\LQJ� DQG�useless. Walt (aka drug
lord Heisenberg) proved otherwise with his storage shed of money.
Chemistry has every-day applications.
The next time you dis-pose of a corpse with K\GURÁXRULF� DFLG�� DOO� \RX�devoted “Breaking Bad” viewers will know not to dissolve the body in a bathtub, but instead in a plastic container. You learned this valuable tip in Season 1, the acid memo-rably dissolved through WKH� EDWKWXE� DQG� ÁRRU� DW�Jesse’s house, leaving a bloody mess in the hall-way downstairs. You won’t make that mistake.
Family is oh, so important.“Breaking Bad” reminds you that entering the drug trade and mess-ing with the wrong people in it can lead to your wife and teenage son despis-ing you. It can also lead to your brother-in-law get-ting brutally murdered.
You would hate that if it happened.
Build a better mouse-trap!
Steve Jobs knew it. Jeff Bezos knows it. Walt White serves as a mythi-cal champion of their kind of acumen: Offer a better product with an obvious advantage, and the world (or, anyway, addicts who loved Walt’s super-potent
“blue sky” crystal meth) will beat a path to your door.
Need a lift? Try a per-sonal makeover.
If you’re stuck in a rut, like Walter White at the start of “Breaking Bad,” consider a new look. Shave your head, grow a tidy, I-mean-business EHDUG�DQG�ÀW�\RXUVHOI�ZLWK�a black pork pie hat. Then come up with a new name. Like Heisenberg. In your new identity, people will fear you and you’re sure to go far.
Keep your personal vehicles, especially your RV, in good running order.
A regular checkup to keep Walt’s rolling meth lab in tip-top shape would have spared him and Jesse inconvenience, not to men-tion mortal danger.
Keep a shrewd lawyer on call, especially if you mean to routinely break the law.
Sure, he may be a sleazebag and a shame-less self-promoter. But a lawyer like Saul Good-man is worth his weight in hundred-dollar bills to a client like Walter White. With his mastery of trade practices — legal and ille-gal — Saul was the most impressive TV lawyer since Perry Mason.
Like it or hate it, Obam-acare might cut down on illegal drug trade (at least on TV).
,I� ÀQDQFLDOO\� VWUDSSHG�schoolteacher Walt White
had had better health care when he got his cancer diagnosis, maybe he wouldn’t have begun cooking meth to help cover his expenses. Mean-while, his long-term prob-lem — leaving his family provided for after his death — might have been a non-issue had teachers in his district been better paid. On the other hand, if Walt had found himself in less of a jam, there would have been no “Breaking Bad.”
Finish what you start.It’s never good to leave
hanging important tasks. Walt is a shining example of a guy determined to tie up loose ends. That was part of why the “Breaking %DGµ�ÀQDOH�ZDV�VR�JRRG�
Follow your bliss (and be willing to forge a dif-ferent path getting there).
Walter White discov-ered this lesson.
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empowerment and necessary change. Thus, according to these outlets, a Leo
must think deeply and speak their mind in order to have had a successful month of Sep-tember. However, aren’t these traits best to have all year long?
Strangely enough, next month, a You-tube channel by Patrick Arundell tells me to “continue to use your [my] mind to every opportunity to articulate your [my] ideas.”
Arundell is a part of Astrology Enter-prises Limited, a company that supplies astrological information to numerous cli-ents including, but not limited to, The Press Association, Life Reader and Proctor and Gamble.
As I listened to him speak about my XSFRPLQJ� PRQWK� IRU� DERXW� ÀYH� PLQXWHV�via Youtube, I could not help but think “of course.”
Of course I want to change some things in my life, Arundell. Who doesn’t? Of course ,�ZLOO�ÀQG�D�ZD\�WR�GHDO�ZLWK�VWUHVV��,�GLG�QRW�need to look up my horoscope to tell me that, however.
Horoscopes can be vague at best, allow-ing hopeful readers to expect a change or cause them to discover an epiphany.
7KHUH� DUH� SOHQW\� RI� EHQHÀWV� IURP� WKHVH�GLVFRYHULHV�� DQG� ÀQGLQJ� LQVSLUDWLRQ� WR�change one’s day, month or even year should be applauded.
But, next month when I pick up a maga-zine and hear the same horoscope for next month as the month of November, I wonder how easy it must be to paraphrase month to month or even day to day.
A number of horoscopes seem far too familiar to what I have read last week or even years ago, when I still received Teen Vogue in the mail.
Now, social media, magazines and newspapers alike are certainly not all to be EODPHG� IRU� ODFN� RI� VSHFLÀFDWLRQ� LQ� DVWURO-ogy. As with any other articles, stories or briefs, the readers themselves choose what to listen to and what news to follow.
I believe I have been a “motivated rea-soner,” or a person who looks for data and information they already agree with,
according to Wikipedia.I think that says something bigger about
readers in general—are we all guilty of UHDGLQJ�WR�ÀQG�ZKDW�ZH�ZDQW"�
When we read astrological sign predic-tions, are we already looking for something we feel, thus hearing exactly what we hope
to hear? Motivated reasoning is a “form of
implicit emotion regulation in which the brain converges on judgements that mini-mize negative and maximize positive affect states associated with threat to or attain-ment of motives,” according to Wikipedia.
Since the astrological prediction on minihoroscope.com says I will be lucky on October 18, does that mean I will automati-cally look for positive outcomes of that day? Perhaps.
For now, I’ll stick to looking at each day as a new beginning, a different day than
yesterday, and that is all. No luck, no alignment of the planets, no
paragraph description of what my life is like at that moment according to a magazine.
Brittany Ballantyne can be reached at
makes the competition team.” Although only 16 dancers
are allowed to compete, all 22 perform at sporting events and Pumpkin Festival.
The team performs differ-ent dances during half-time at KSC sporting events, which are in the hip-hop genre to upbeat, new music.
Captain Garamella and Co-captain Gabby Pacheco work together to create the chore-ography. When creating new dances, Pacheco said, “Some-times it can take from an hour to a couple of days to make up a dance. Lisa will create one dance and I create another and sometimes we try to make up a dance together.”
When choosing the right music, Garamella said, “I like to look for upbeat songs and something the crowd would enjoy, I do the mixing myself by using Garageband or Quick-mix.”
When the dance team per-forms for the 2013 Pumpkin Fest, the girls will be dancing to Halloween theme music and their dress attire will be the theme of The Great Gatsby.
As for the new members who have joined the team, freshman Rebecca Fracasse said she is excited to be danc-ing and competing in a college division.
“It is a little intimidating but more so exciting to be a part of a college team,” Fracasse said.
The girls said the team is ORRNLQJ� IRUZDUG� WR� WKHLU� ÀUVW�performance at the KSC soccer game, which is held on October 12, 2013 at 1 p.m.
Even though Fracasse is just starting her college dancing career, senior Gordon’s nine-teenth year of dancing will be coming to a bittersweet end.
“Dancing is a big part of my life, and the best way to end my career would be to win Nation-als,” she said.
7R� ÀQG� RXW�PRUH� DERXW� WKH�dance team contact Lisa Gara-mella at [email protected] and Gabby Pacheco at [email protected].
Deanna Caruso can be con-tacted at
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The 2013-2014 Keene State College Dance Team’s senior executive board includes Captain Lisa Garamella, Co-captain
Gabby Pacheco, Bethany Gordon as manager and Moriah Ferguson as secretary. Top left: the group of 22 dancers poses
for a photo opportunity at practice. Top right: two dancers perform stunts in preparation for upcoming performances.
Bottom left: captain and senior at KSC Lisa Garamella does a head-spin at the team’s practice. Bottom right: The squad
practices one of their several routines for the upcoming year.
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Colonial Theatre Don’t miss the local upcoming events
90th Anniversary CelebrationEvening of Music, Masks &
MemoriesFriday, Oct. 4, 2013
7:00-10:00 p.m.
Putnam Theatre“The Act of Killing”
Friday, Oct. 4-Wed., Oct. 9Friday & Saturday 7:00 & 9:15 p.m.Sunday-Wednesday 7:00 p.m. only
Saturday & Sunday 2:00 p.m. matinee
Pilobolus Dance TheaterTuesday, Oct. 15
7:30 p.m. in the Main Theater
Debo BandWednesday, Nov. 6
7:30 p.m in the Alumni Recital Hall
Local music nightsFritz the Place to Eat
Folk Soul EnsembleFred Simmons & Leslie Vogel
Friday, Oct. 46:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Rick & the Red HeadFriday, Oct. 11
6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Redfern Arts CenterEvents starting on
Friday, October 4
through November 6
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JONATHAN LANDRUM JR.AssociAted Press
ATLANTA (AP) — Organizers of the electronic dance music festival TomorrowWorld are taking extra precautions to maintain a safe environment for concertgoers this weekend after two drug-related deaths occurred at a similar festival in New York this summer.
“We’re a zero tolerance festival.” said Shawn Kent, the U.S. project director for ID&T, the Belgian company producing TomorrowWorld, a three-day festival that kicks off in subur-ban Atlanta on Friday.
“If you’re caught with an illegal substance, then you’re out,” he continued. “We communicated with our fans very clearly that it’s not acceptable.”
Earlier this month, the last day of the Electric Zoo festival in New York City was canceled after two attendees died and several were hospitalized.
7KH�FLW\·V�PHGLFDO�H[DPLQHU·V�RIÀFH�VDLG�WKH�FRQFHUW�JRHUV�overdosed from MDMA, known as Molly. Now the focus is on TomorrowWorld, which is one of Europe’s largest music festi-
vals to crossover into the United States. The festival started, which started in 2005, marks its debut
in America with Friday’s kickoff. More than 180,000 turned out for Tomorrowland in Boom, Belgium in July.
Organizers said they are estimating 50,000 per day for each of the three days in Georgia, and plan to welcome people from 75 different countries. There will be 3-D elements on stages with exotic decorations all around.
Top EDM acts including Avicii, David Guetta and Diplo are among 300 internationally renowned DJs and performers that will take to eight different stages.
The festival will be held on 500 acres of sprawling farm-land along the Chattahoochee River in an unincorporated area of Fulton County, Ga.
Kent said patrons must be 21 and over to enter the festival. He also said there will be standard body checks, spot checks for cars on arrival, ID checks and undercover security guards patrolling the areas, especially the parts where 30,000 camp-ers will stay.
Kent said they are also working with DanceSafe, an orga-nization that provides information on alcohol consumption,
drugs and safe sex. With nearly 10 years under their belt, he said they are pre-
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“We’ve worked closely with the local hospital,” he said. “We’re setup for anything that happens. In any major event, there could be issues.”
Initially, South Fulton Commissioner William Edwards was skeptical when organizers from TomorrowWorld gave their pitch to bring the popular festival to his small district.
But Edwards believes TomorrowWorld’s goal is to provide a safe and controlled environment to an area that has never had so many people at one time.
He said discussions over safety with organizers have been going on for the last two years.
“When they first came to me, I thought they were out of their mind,” Edwards said.
“But during their pitch, I saw that it’s OK to bring the world to our community. ... They have the right things in place. They were on key. They were upfront. We know what happened at Electric Zoo, but they are prepared to do better.”
DERRIK J. LANGAssociAted Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ozzy Osbourne can’t help himself.
While on a behind-the-scenes trek through a Universal Studios Hollywood attraction based on the recently released Black Sabbath album “13,” Osbourne spots a bloody mannequin corpse reclining on a phony altar. Without hesitating, the grue-somely theatrical Sabbath frontman leans
down and acts like he’s devouring the blood from the decapitated body with his tongue.
Faced with increasingly hardcore rivals and savvy visitors, organizers of such Hal-loween attractions this year have conjured up several new theatrical and technological innovations in hopes of licking the compe-tition, as well as promoting entertainment IDUH� OLNH�KRUURU�ÀOPV�DQG�UHFRUGV��)RU�6DE-EDWK��LW�PDUNV�WKH�ÀUVW�WLPH�WKHLU�WXQHV�KDYH�been turned into a maze.
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do, which is incredible because we’ve been doing it for 45 years,” said Osbourne while standing inside the attraction. “It’s been a UHPDUNDEOH� \HDU� EHFDXVH� ZH� KDG� RXU� ÀUVW�No. 1 album in America — believe it or not
— and now this. I’ve never seen anything like it. I keep thinking I’m going to wake up.”
“Well, don’t wake up in here,” joked Sab-bath bassist and lyricist Geezer Butler next to him.
)RU� WKH� ÀUVW� WLPH� VLQFH� +DOORZHHQ�Horror Nights returned to the Universal Studios backlot in 2007, creative director John Murdy has incorporated video effects into a maze. In a room inspired by the song
“Electric Funeral” within Sabbath’s color-ful 3D realm, monitors made to look like windows broadcast explosive 3D visuals in tandem with a wind machine.
“I just thought it would be cool to have a nuclear bomb go off and our guests be in the middle of that,” said Murdy.
In recent years, Halloween Horror Nights traded warrens based on long-run-ning slash-’em-up franchises like “A Night-mare on Elm Street” for attractions inspired by more contemporary properties, such as the “Hostel” movies, “Silent Hill” video games and “The Walking Dead” television series.
The biggest challenges for Murdy and his team for this year’s six Universal mazes LQFOXGHG� ÀJXULQJ� RXW� KRZ� WR� GHSLFW� WKH�freaked-out kid from “Insidious” constantly shivering in his bed while toy rocking horses galloped by themselves. Also trou-
blesome was how hordes of guests could be vomited on all night long by an “Evil Dead” demon.
“They’re all like little science projects,” said Murdy. “No matter how successful we were the previous year, our philosophy is WR�DOZD\V�WUHDW�LW�OLNH�LW·V�WKH�ÀUVW�\HDU�ZH·UH�back in business.”
Beyond the rotating attractions at Hal-loween Horror Nights, a few celebrities have invested in their own haunted attractions. ´+RVWHOµ� ÀOPPDNHU� (OL� 5RWK� RSHQHG� KLV�year-round maze Goretorium in Las Vegas last year, and Neil Patrick Harris serves as one of the producers of Delusion, an annual theatrical Halloween experience taking place this year in an old Los Angeles church.
Several spooks at this year’s Hallow-een Horror Nights are hyping new releases from the entertainment industry. Besides Sabbath’s “13,” there’s a “scare zone” popu-lated by actors dressed as the nasty Chucky doll from the direct-to-DVD sequel “Curse of Chucky,” and a new maze incorporating supernatural elements from the “Insidious” ÀOPV�
“I think it strengthens the brand,” said Jason Blum, producer of “The Purge,” ‘’Insidious” and “Paranormal Activity” KRUURU�ÁLFNV�� ´%HFDXVH� LW·V� GRQH� VR�ZHOO�� LW�also gives us a little more street cred. In the case of ‘The Purge,’ there’s so much mythol-ogy that wasn’t necessarily included in the ÀUVW� ÀOP�� LW� PDNHV� LW� ZHOO� VXLWHG� WR� D� OLYH�event.”
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both “Insidious” chapters and “The Purge” at Universal Studios, Blum and his Blum-house production company are hosting their own Halloween event that expands on the kill-or-be-killed mythology of “The Purge” in a shuttered theater in downtown LA.
While the event will include a traditional maze in the theater’s basement, “The Purge: Fear the Night” will also invite guests to freely roam around upstairs and interact with more than 40 actors portraying mem-bers of the Founding Fathers group depicted LQ�WKH�ÀOP��6RPH�JXHVWV�ZKR�JLYH�XS�WKHLU�cellphone numbers may also be contacted with clues throughout the evening.
At Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, Calif., the 10 mazes that comprise the 41-year-old Knott’s Scary Farm haunt are based on original storylines, not established franchises. Without such brand equity, the organizers are hoping some new tricks — such as suspending “scare-actors” from the ceiling of a magical maze — will attract vic-tims.
For the second year, Knott’s will also fea-ture a special attraction called “Trapped,” which requires advanced reservations and costs an extra $60 on top of a regular ticket.
Unlike the conga-line labyrinth struc-ture of most haunts, “Trapped” strands no more than six visitors inside fear-inducing environments where they must overcome phobias or solve puzzles, such as eating bugs or escaping a giant rat cage, to prog-ress through the attraction.
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Geezer Butler, left, and Ozzy Osbourne, pose with props at the “Black Sabbath: 13 3D maze at Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights, in Universal City, Calif.
Dance music fest ‘TomorrowWorld’ takes precautions over drugs
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POTISKUM, Nigeria (AP) — Suspected Islamic extremists attacked an agricultural col-lege in the dead of night, gunning down dozens of students as they slept in dormitories and torch-ing classrooms, the school’s provost said — the latest violence in northeastern Nigeria’s ongoing Islamic uprising.
The attack, blamed on the Boko Haram extremist group, came despite a 4 ½-month-old state of emergency covering three states and one-sixth of the country. It and other recent violence have led many to doubt assurances from the gov-ernment and the military that they are winning Nigeria’s war on the extremists.
Provost Molima Idi Mato of Yobe State Col-lege of Agriculture told The Associated Press that there were no security forces protecting the college. Two weeks ago, the state commissioner for education had begged schools and colleges to reopen and promised they would be guarded by soldiers and police.
Idi Mato said as many as 50 students may have been killed in the assault that began at about 1 a.m. Sunday in rural Gujba. “They attacked our students while they were sleeping in their hos-WHOV��7KH\�RSHQHG�ÀUH�DW� WKHP�µ�KH�VDLG��DGGLQJ�that most victims were aged between 18 and 22.
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Two of the wounded later died, said Adamu Usman, a survivor from Gujba who was helping at the hospital.
President Goodluck Jonathan condemned WKH� DWWDFN� LQ� D� WHOHYLVHG� FKDW� ZLWK� WKH� PHGLDµ�Sunday night, and questioned the motives of Boko Haram, which wants to impose Islamic law across Nigeria. He said he wondered whether the victims were Muslim or Christian.
Usman said almost all those killed were Mus-lims, as is the majority of the college’s student
body.Jonathan likened the assault to that on Nai-
robi’s premier shopping mall last week, where Islamic extremists from Somalia’s al-Shabab movement killed 67 civilians — but only after allowing many Muslims to leave. Boko Haram KDV�VDLG�VRPH�RI�LWV�ÀJKWHUV�WUDLQHG�ZLWK�DO�6KD-bab in Somalia.
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such challenges, Jonathan said, accusing the extremists of choosing soft targets to embarrass his government.
Gov. Ibrahim Gaidam of Yobe state, where the killings occurred, indicated that the military crackdown is ineffective.
The extremists rode into the college in two double-cabin pickup all-terrain vehicles and on motorcycles, some dressed in Nigerian military uniforms, a surviving student, Ibrahim Moham-med, told the AP. He said they appeared to know the layout of the college, attacking the four male hostels but avoiding the one hostel reserved for women.
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a protective gesture. Another had hands clasped under the chin, as if in prayer. A third had arms raised in surrender.
Most schools in the area closed after militants on July 6 killed 29 pupils and a teacher, burning some alive in their hostels, at Mamudo outside Damaturu.
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The Islamic extremists have killed at least 30 other civilians in the past week, including a pastor and his son. And the military said it killed more than 100 militants and lost 16 soldiers in an attack on an extremist stronghold Sept. 21-22.
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Saturday, Sept. 21: Nairobi, Kenya Civillians who had been hiding during a gun battle hold their hands in the air as a precautionary measure
before being searched by armed police leading them to safety, inside the Westgate Mall.
Suspected Islamic extremists attack an agricultural college in the dead of the night
NYC Central Park concert theme: artists focus on poverty in U.S.
MESFIN FEKADU
AssociAted Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Stevie Wonder gave an electrifying per-formance at New York’s Central Park in front of thousands of fans and several world leaders Saturday, singing his hits and calling for an end to poverty worldwide at the Global Citizen Festival.
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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s former vice president and democracy advocate Mohammed ElBaradei lashed out Sunday against what KH� FDOOHG� D� IDVFLVWµ� VHFXULW\�RUJD-nized media campaign against him because of his calls for an inclusive political process.
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DEEPTI HAJELA
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NEW YORK (AP) — The par-tial government shutdown that began Tuesday threw into tur-PRLO� WKH� KRXVHKROG� ÀQDQFHV�of some federal workers, with many facing unpaid furloughs or delays in paychecks.
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It stands to reason that at the heart of every sport there should be competition. Two teams should be doing whatever they can to win any given game on any given night.
It’s what is best for the game, the players and the fans. That is why there is understand-able unrest as we approach the beginning of the NBA season on October 29.
People familiar with the league are aware that the upcoming NBA draft class of 2014 is projected to be one of the all-time greats.
Can’t-miss prospects such as Andrew Wiggins (Fr. Kansas), Jabari Parker (Fr. Duke), Marcus Smart (So. Oklahoma State) and Julius Randle (Fr. Kentucky), among others, stand to offer franchise-changing rewards to the teams that probably deserve them the least. The new collective bargaining agree-ment that the NBA put in place after the lock-out-shortened 2011-1012 season attempted to give smaller-market teams an advantage by lowering rookie contracts.
An ugly by-product of that change has been that drafting high is now the easiest way to get talent at low prices.
This gives teams incentive to intention-ally lose, or “tank,” in order to get the high-est possible pick in the draft.
The NBA’s only real attempt at combating such an obvious problem is the use of ping-pong balls to randomize drafting order a bit (although the teams with the most losses still have the best chance of landing the top picks). As it stands today, there appears to be six teams that have a shot at “winning” WKH�ÀUVW�SLFN�LQ�WKH�GUDIW�WKLV�\HDU��&KDUORWWH��Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Sacramento and Boston).
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Teams cannot be faulted for trying to play the system the way they think is most advan-tageous.
Instead it is the system that should be blamed. In no other major sport is tanking such a common practice among teams.
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want the system changed. A recent ESPN poll asked fans if they would want their team tanking for a franchise player and 59 percent of respondents said yes.
Some people may be okay with their teams tanking, but there is no denying it hurts the league. David Stern will be step-ping down as commissioner of the NBA after the season, and his predecessor, Adam Silver, could show fans he is serious about stopping tanking by adopting one of these alternative systems.
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Seattle outlasts Houston to win with a field goal in overtime and preserve their undefeated record
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overtime to give the Seahawks the win. Houston (2-2) failed to score on two possessions in overtime and also lost linebacker Brian Cushing to a concussion. The Seahawks got the win on their second drive in over-time.
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Judging by the front page, you may have assumed that this week’s Athlete of the Week was RQ�WKH�ÀHOG�KRFNH\�WHDP��KRZHYHU�Marisa Lemoine may not have EHHQ�\RXU�ÀUVW�JXHVV���7KH�MXQLRU�IRUZDUG� PDNHV� KHU� ÀUVW� DSSHDU-ance as Athlete of the Week this year after playing three spectac-ular games that saw her tally six shots and net three goals. Lem-oine has given the Lady Owls steady production throughout the season. Her points were also timely; her two goals against Southern Maine proved to be the difference in the game. It’s play-ers like Lemoine who make the WHDP�VR�GLIÀFXOW�WR�SUHSDUH�IRU�
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women’s soccer goalie Victoria Crenson. Crenson continued her lock-down season by allow-ing just one goal in three Lady Owl wins this week. Crenson made 13 of a possible 14 saves in that stretch, which included a 1-0 victory against Johnson & Wales. The team has been able to lean on Crenson all season, as she has given up just one goal or less in eight of their nine games. At just 5’3”, the junior has found a way to ÀOO�WKH�QHW�DQG�NHHS�RSSRVLQJ�IRU-wards guessing.
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The Boston Red Sox were one win away from clinching a playoff berth, and Fenway Park was packed with its biggest crowd of the season.
The fans didn’t just come to this midweek game against Baltimore hoping to celebrate their team’s return to the post-season.
It was also “Dollar Beard Night,” which drew more than 4,000 — with still more turned away — sporting real or phony facial hair to honor the hirsute heroes who turned a last-place and unlovable team into the best in baseball in just one year.
“Werewolves of London” played over the ballpark speakers while the scoreboard video cut from men with long-curated shrubs on their chins to women and children with fake facial hair glued or painted on. Even the team’s mascot, Wally the Green Monster, slapped on some felt to get in on the Whiskers Rebellion.
“The beards are part of the camaraderie. It’s almost intense,” 5HG�6R[�RZQHU� -RKQ�+HQU\� VDLG� VKRUWO\�DIWHU�ÀUVW�EDVHPDQ�Mike Napoli homered to tie the game and set off the now-traditional beard-tugging celebration. “I, for one, underesti-mated — potentially have always underestimated — the effect of camaraderie.”
A throwback to the times when the Red Sox had to hustle to sell tickets, “Dollar Beard Night” also brought back mem-ories of the beloved Boston teams of the not-so-distant past
— the “Dirt Dogs” of the 1990s, the “Cowboy Up” team of 2003 and the “Idiots” who in ‘04 ended the franchise’s 86-year championship drought.
Since then, though, the team fell back into some of its less-celebrated traditions.
The checkbooks were opened for big-name, marketable free agents — without regard for how they would respond in the lineup, the clubhouse, or the Fenway atmosphere.
That strategy collapsed along with the ballclub in Septem-ber of 2011, when the team went 7-20 to blow a nine-game lead in the AL wild-card race.
The following season there was no sudden breakdown: 7KH�5HG�6R[�VWXPEOHG�WR�D���������ODVW�SODFH�ÀQLVK�WKDW�ZDV�LWV�worst in almost half a century.
“It was a 13-month reboot,” Red Sox president and CEO Larry Lucchino said in an interview in his suite this week.
“Thirteen months ago, we were down and out. And maybe something like that can be, in this perverse way, can be a
positive thing for an organization that had a lot of early and sustained success. An opportunity to reassess what we were doing and how we were doing it.”
The opportunity presented itself in the form of the Los Angeles Dodgers, who were willing to take Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez and more than $250 million in future salaries off Boston’s hands — in one transaction cleansing many of the bad feelings, the bad contracts and the bad karma.
Bobby Valentine, who had been brought in to bolster club-house discipline after Terry Francona’s regime ended in the unprecedented collapse, was replaced by former Boston pitch-ing coach John Farrell.
And when the team arrived for spring training this year, it could do more than talk about a fresh start.
Third baseman Will Middlebrooks said players do more WRJHWKHU�RII�WKH�ÀHOG��DQG�LQVWHDG�RI�VLWWLQJ�DURXQG�WKH�FOXE-house drinking beer and eating fried chicken during games, they stick around before and after to talk baseball.
“In no way am I saying there were a lot of bad guys in here. It’s just camaraderie and the way these guys have meshed together is a lot different,” Middlebrooks said.
“I felt like last year it was a bigger group of like superstars and a whole lot of guys that kind of do like their own thing.
Middlebrooks has yet to spend a full season in the major leagues.
“I’m still learning,” he said. “But from what I saw, there were big guys like Adrian and like Carl — big-time guys. They’re great players. They’re on their own program with what they’re doing. Here, everyone’s kind of like working together. I think that’s a lot different than most clubhouses, and ours was last year.
“That was the biggest thing I’ve seen.”Napoli was signed as a free agent, and so was Shane Victo-
rino — a happy-go-lucky sort nicknamed “The Flyin’ Hawai-ian.”
Newcomers Mike Carp, Jonny Gomes and David Ross, along with holdovers Dustin Pedroia and Jarrod Saltalamac-chia, form the nucleus of the beard brigade.´7KH�JX\V�WKH\�JRW�FDUHG�DERXW�ZLQQLQJ�µ�RXWÀHOGHU�'DQLHO�
Nava said, “and they cared about the guy that’s to their left and to their right.”
The Red Sox clinched a playoff berth on Thursday and upgraded it to an AL East title the next night with a 6-3 vic-tory over the Toronto Blue Jays. With 94 wins, they had the best record in baseball.
Did they expect things to turn around this far, this quickly?Not by the hair on their chinny chin chin.Lucchino said he felt the Red Sox should have been better
last year, if not for bad luck and bad health that cost a record number of games to injury.
Henry noted that the team had one of the highest payrolls LQ�EDVHEDOO�LQ������DQG�LV�LQ�WKH�WRS�ÀYH�DJDLQ�WKLV�VHDVRQ�
“To me,” the owner said, “last year was an anomalous year.”But winning at least 94 games was unexpected, even to
Lucchino.Henry credited Farrell and general manager Ben Chering-
ton for bringing a “presence and stability” to a team that had been through a tumultuous 13 months.
Lucchino said that the relationship among the team’s brain trust is also more stable now than it was even during much of the time that Francona and GM Theo Epstein had their mostly successful run in Boston.
And the love affair with the fans is on its way back to where it was a decade ago, when the allegedly accursed team began a sellout streak that lasted through the team’s collapse in Game 7 of the 2003 AL championship series against the New York Yankees and the redemptive World Series victory the next year.
It took them through a second title in 2007 to the Septem-ber collapse of 2011 and Fenway Park’s 100th anniversary last year.
It ended this April, when the good feelings and season WLFNHW�UHQHZDOV�ERUQ�RI�WKH�WZR�WLWOHV�ÀQDOO\�UDQ�RXW�
“The goal here was to change the performance, the per-sonality and the perception of the team,” Lucchino said as he looked out over the crowd of 38,540.
“I think we’ve succeeded in doing that.”
“She has a lot of good games [in practice], a lot of fun drills and just makes the players want to play more. She’s really creative,” she said.
Don’t let her separation from her playing days fool you, however.
7DUDEHOOL� NQRZV� ÀUVW�KDQG�that Boeker is still an athlete.
“Oh she still has it. She will school us if we’re not doing something right,” Tarabelli said. “And she’ll blow right by you.”
Lyons said that Boeker is excellent with the younger players, and with fourteen underclassmen on the team, that is a crucial trait to have.
In her player interviews, she noted how the underclassmen really took a shine to Boeker.
“I like to check in on my players and my freshman and see how they’ve been adapt-ing,” Lyons said.
“And they love the coaches, especially Kristin and I think that’s great. They can really approach her.”
With twelve games left in the season, the team is look-ing to continue its success and players will keep looking to Boeker to help guide them.
“She’s intense but she’s got a great personality,” Tarabelli said.
“She really wants to see you improve, which is nice as a coach.”
Ray Waldron can be contacted at [email protected]
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ZACH WINN / SPORTS EDITOR
Josh DiGiovanna attempts a pass during a practice on Saturday, Sept. 28, on the KSC athletic fields. The team holds practices every Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Ultimate Frisbee is on the rise at Keene State
ZACH WINN
SportS Editor
The sport of Ultimate Frisbee is still young, particularly at Keene State College, where an Ultimate Frisbee Club was started just seven years ago.
But that doesn’t mean it’s not organized, competitive or popular for that matter.
“This is the most people we’ve had in my four years here,” senior captain Josh DiGiovanna said proudly as he watched over practice last week.
“We’ve got a really dynamic group of people this year.”
There are roughly 30 people who come to the club’s practices regularly, which is no small commitment.
“We always have people who peter-out after a while,” senior president Dan Bullard said. “We expect our team here Fridays, Sat-
urdays and Sundays for about three hours each. There’s also a set workout we try to get people to do during the week.” As if devot-ing your weekends to the club wasn’t enough, members are also given playbooks to learn.
These surprisingly complex play-calls fea-ture three end-zone plays, three defensive sets and two offensive sets. “We try to make sure everyone has a good understanding of our plays if they’re going to play,” senior Andrew Wallace said. “A lot of the fresh-man have been picking it up quickly, which is great.”
There are two positions on the team, cut-ters and handlers. Because a player cannot move while in possession of the frisbee, the Handlers focus on distributing the frisbee DURXQG�WKH�ÀHOG��ZKLOH�WKH�&XWWHUV�PRYH�XS�ÀHOG�DQG�WU\�WR�JHW�RSHQ�
“[Ultimate Frisbee] combines a lot of differ-ent types of sports,” DiGiovanna said. “You
see aspects of football, team handball and soccer.”
The team is also taking a trip to a tour-nament called “High Tide” in Georgia this 6SULQJ��WKH�ÀUVW�\HDU�.6&�ZLOO�EH�DWWHQGLQJ�
7KH�WHDP�KDG�WKHLU�ÀUVW�PDWFK�WKLV�ZHHN-end against U-Mass Dartmouth, but Bullard describes the Fall semester as preseason for the spring, when there are more tournaments.
“We’re always looking for more people this time of year,” Bullard said. “Right now we have eight girls, and eventually we’re looking to have an all-girls team to put out there.”
Only 25 people can be on the roster for U.S.A. Ultimate-recognized games. U.S.A. Ultimate, or U.S.A.U., is the governing body of all levels of Ultimate Frisbee which sanc-tions certain tournaments and uses them as TXDOLÀHUV�IRU�WKH�&KDPSLRQVKLS�6HULHV���/LNH�RWKHU� VSRUWV�� WKRVH� TXDOLÀHUV� LQFOXGH� VHF-tional, regional, and national levels. Last year
KSC could not attend regionals after it was rescheduled due to rain.
“We usually get to sectionals and lose to our rivals,” senior and team member Andrew Wallace said. “U-Mass Amherst and Bow-doin College are always pretty good.”
This year expectations are high. “I’m really hopeful we get to regionals this year,” DiGiovanna said. “We’ve had a great start to WKH�\HDU�µ��:KHWKHU�RU�QRW�.6&�ÀQGV�VXFFHVV�this year remains to be seen. However the sport, people seem to think, has nowhere to go but up.
“[Ultimate Frisbee] is one of the fastest growing sports in the country,” Bullard said.
“I definitely think we’ll see it take off more over the next couple of years.”
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some good passes,” Donaruma said.The captain also has another big
role with her senior class on the team: being a role model. Dona-ruma attributed that to the success as well.
“It is really important for us to be good role models and leaders because they’ll follow from our example, and I think we have done a good job at setting the stakes pretty high,” Donaruma said. Sophomore Forward Haylie Dolan said the lead-ership that Donaruma talked about LV� GHÀQLWHO\� QRWLFHG� E\� WKH� XQGHU-classmen.
“They are great leaders for us. 7KH\�DUH� WKHUH�RQ�RU�RII� WKH�ÀHOG� LI�you need them and even the juniors- there are only three of them, and they are motivating everyone,” Donaruma said. Even though the team has gotten off to a fast start, Watson said there is still a lot to work on.
“We’ve got a lot of things to work RQ� WR� JHW� RXU� RIIHQVH� UHDOO\� ÀULQJ�and we are always working on our defense to make sure that is happen-ing, “Watson said.
Watson also noted that the Owls need to work on creating less fouls during the game. The Owls are def-initely motivated to have a strong ÀQLVK�WR�WKH�VHDVRQ��
Dolan talked about last year’s loss in the LEC Championship, how it affected the team and how the team feels that this could be their year.
“It is a different atmosphere, everyone wants to be there and everyone wants to win, we all want to win the LEC because we lost last year and now we are still riding on that and we want payback,” Dolan said.
Dolan also said she believes the Owls can bring home the LEC title this year.
“We have to keep practicing like we want to play, we have to focus during practice and play hard and every game we need to motivate HDFK�RWKHU� WR� FRPH�RXW�RQ�ÀUH� DQG�treat every game like it is the cham-pionship,” Dolan said.
As Watson said, there is still work to be done if they are going to win the LEC.
“Even though we have a winning and successful record so far, they get that we’re not the team we want to be yet and there is still work to be done and jelling and meshing have to happen, ” Watson said.
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Keene State College Field Hockey has been the team to watch at Owl Athletic Complex this season.
The team opened the season with a bang- posting a 7-0 record, their best start since the program has been in the Little East Conference.
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Hartford, Connecticut.Head Coach Amy Watson attributed their fast start
to a number of things, one being the Owl’s schedule. “The way the schedule played out for us, we’ve had ÀYH�RXW�RI�VHYHQ�JDPHV�DW�KRPH��ZKLFK�LV�D�SUHWW\�QLFH�advantage,” Watson said.
Watson said, “We are getting contributions from a lot of different people and we are not relying on one person. That always helps when you can get more people involved and play impact roles, if one’s off then somebody else steps up.”
As for who has stuck out during the streak, Watson can name a lot of players.
“We have strong veteran players who have been doing a nice job and we have a really strong freshman class,” Watson said.
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Keene State Field Hockey dominating early on
Wright to start professional career in ChileZACH WINNSportS Editor
Rashad Wright does not have the kind of basketball talent that sneaks up on you.
As soon as you see the 6 ’10” Agawam, Massachusetts native on the court, it is immediately evident that he has a gift. Maybe that’s why Sportiva Italiana, a team in
the National Basketball League of Chile, wasted no time signing him to a contract last week.
“I knew he could play profes-VLRQDOO\� WKH� ÀUVW� WLPH� ,� VDZ� KLP�µ�Keene State College Basketball Coach Rob Colbert said. “He’s just got great size, a great body and he can really play. He has uncanny athleticism for his size.”
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tunity to play in Chile from his DJHQW� RQ� 6HSWHPEHU� ���� DQG� ÀYH�days later he was on a plane headed for South America.´,W� RQO\� WRRN� DERXW� IRXU� RU� ÀYH�
GD\V� XQWLO� LW� ZDV� RIÀFLDO�µ�:ULJKW�said.
“The season starts in late Octo-ber but there’s training camp and stuff like that soon,” he said.
Teams in the League of Chile, or Chile-Liga Nacional as it is known there, have added international players to round out their rosters in the past. Although last year’s Sportiva Italiana roster featured no U.S.-born players, most teams in the league have one or two Ameri-cans.
But that doesn’t mean it won’t EH�D�GLIÀFXOW�WUDQVLWLRQ�IRU�:ULJKW��who averaged 10.7 points to go along with an impressive 8.4 rebounds and 1.9 blocks as a senior at KSC last year.´2EYLRXVO\� LW� ZLOO� EH� GLIÀ-
cult being away from family and friends and being in a strange envi-ronment,” Colbert said. ´%XW� WKH�PRVW� GLIÀFXOW� WKLQJ� LV�
going to be the level of physical play.”
Former teammate Ryan Martin, no stranger to international play after being signed by a team in the Canadian Basketball League in August, acknowledged the obsta-cles facing Wright, but said he also sees the opportunities.
“It’s a professional league so it’s GHÀQLWHO\�JRLQJ�WR�EH�D�VWHS�XS�DQG�be challenging,” Martin said.
“But it will be great for him because he can get his foot in the door and this will set up more opportunities and hopefully he can keep moving up.”
Wright and Martin have been keeping in touch all summer, and Wright was actually work-ing out for the Canadian Basket-
ball League when he got the call from his agent about the offer from Sportiva Italiana.
Martin admitted it would have been fun to play in the same league as Wright, but is happy for his friend. It’s clear both players are grateful for their experiences at KSC.
“I do miss being at Keene, but I’m at a point now where I’m trying to move on and pursue my career,” Wright said.
“Obviously I’m thankful for the coaching staff.”
Wright also said he learned how to be a better teammate and leader during his time at KSC.
Now Wright’s career begins in a place he conceded he knows little about.
“The only things I know [about Chile] I’ve learned in the past week or so,” Wright said.
He will be battling bigger, more mature players in a longer season and no one is pretending the tran-sition will be easy.
Wright will need to improve his endurance, his free throw shooting and bulk up if he wants to excel in the league.
But the people closest to him know his rare abilities and under-stand what he’s capable of.
“When Rashad plays with energy he’s the best big man in division three,” Martin said. “He’s just got so much potential and upside.”
Coach Colbert seemed to agree. “I think the sky is the limit for
Rashad,” Colbert said. “He’s worked really hard since
he’s been home. I don’t think he was ready to leave the game.”
Thanks to Sportiva Italiana, now he won’t have to.
Zach Winn can be contacted [email protected]
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The KSC Field Hockey team makes winning look easy through their first nine games of the season, out-scoring opponents 44-11, while going 3-0 against teams in the Little Eastern Conference.
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Rashad Wright draws the attention of international scouts from various leagues.
RAY WALDRONEquinox Staff
Eight games into the season, the ZRPHQ·V�VRFFHU�WHDP�LV�ÀQGLQJ�VXF-cess, thanks in no small part to a QHZ�ÀJXUH�RQ�WKH�VLGHOLQHV�
Kristin Boeker, or “KB,” as she’s known around the team, joined the women’s soccer team this fall and has received nothing but rave reviews for her work.
“We’re very lucky to have her come to the area,” said head coach Denise Lyons.
Boeker has come a very long way, and what makes this such a lucky ÀW� IRU� WKH�SURJUDP� LV�KHU�H[WHQVLYH�résumé.
Before coaching, Boeker lived out her playing career with the Divi-sion 1 University of Missouri Tigers, racking up 18 goals and 15 assists and even an appearance on the All-Big 12 Conference second team in 1998.
After her time at Mizzou, Boeker served as an assistant coach at East-ern Illinois University, where she helped steer the Panthers to three consecutive NCAA tournament berths.
Boeker then began her seven-season tenure at the Division 1 Uni-versity of Texas–San Antonio, where she served as head coach since the team started in 2005.
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Boeker and her background are now in Keene, and everyone is per-IHFWO\�ÀQH�ZLWK�WKDW�
Student Assistant Coach Victoria Tarabelli said that Boeker’s arrival was a bit of a welcome surprise.
“We didn’t really know she was coming, and she came in and had an intensity to her that kind of sparked everyone,” Tarabelli said.
Boeker’s impressive soccer
career also comes bundled with a great personality and a passion to win games.
“Kristin has been awesome,” Tarabelli noted. “She comes in early to practice, and girls come in early to work with her, and she gives a whole new level to our team.”
What coach Lyons loves about Boeker coming to the program is how she carries herself around the team.
“She actually jumps into the game during practice…and it’s great for the younger players to see some-one play that well,” Lyons explained.
“I think she’s a great role model.”Lyons is particularly excited to
learn from her new assistant coach. “We work very well together. She
said in one of her interviews that she wants to learn from me, and I want to learn from her. It goes both ways,” Lyons said.
“Trying new things is important for the team, to keep things fresh, DQG�,�WKLQN�VKH·V�ÀWWLQJ�LQ�JUHDW�ULJKW�now.”
Boeker’s experience and creativ-ity in practice is what’s impressed younger players like sophomore PLG�ÀHOGHU�(OOHQ�*UDQDWD���
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