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Black Friday may have come and gone, but the shopping has only just be-gun. An estimated 106.9 million Ameri-cans planned to shop on Cyber Monday, according to a survey conducted by shop.org. The number of people who partake in this ritual has increased enormously over the past fi ve years, from 60 million in 2006.

Although Cyber Monday is a fairly new holiday, having been coined in 2005 by the National Retail Federation, accord-ing to its website, it is a cyber holiday that has grown almost as large as Black Fri-day itself. The National Retail Federation came up with the name to describe “the second-biggest online shopping day of the year”, according to an article on msn.com.

Freshman Kaitlynne Bilodeau said that Cyber Monday is much more con-venient than Black Friday, which she de-scribes as “horrible” because “you have to wake up ridiculously early and wait in huge lines just to buy a few things.”

Bilodeau said that Cyber Monday is great because it allows the user to shop at home.

“You can just sit in the comfort of your home and fi nd cheap deals,” she said. “A lot of places even do free shipping, so it’s just a great way to get what you’re looking for cheap and hassle-free.”

Bildodeau said that she bought a poster during Cyber Monday. Many busi-nesses allow shoppers to sign up for e-mail updates that inform potential buyers about the best deals and when they’re hap-pening. The website cybermonday.com is likely one of the most common cyber shopping websites, but many businesses and retail stores had sales as well, includ-

Durham Marketplace Store Manager Perry Shaw has been receiving around 10 applications per day.

Still, Shaw has kept consistent staff-ing numbers at the DUMP, which is a common trend for businesses in down-

town Durham. “One of the problems of Durham

is there aren’t a lot of retail options, and there is only room for so many employ-ees,” Jesse Gangwer, the owner of Town and Campus, said.

The demand for jobs has been in fl ux with the ebb and fl ow of the national

economy. Gangwer, like Shaw, has no-ticed that more people have been looking for jobs, but he said that he has continued to keep his number of employees at four students working on a part-time basis, from 12 to 16 hours a week.

Small businesses throughout the

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On Sunday, Nov. 21, UNH’s Indian Student Association took over the Granite State Room of the MUB with its annual Diwali celebration.

A new concession stand has found its way onto the UNH campus. Wild Child Express, owned and operated

by the father-son combination of Paul and Dylan Long, features a small but complete menu meant to satisfy the taste buds of UNH students.

“We’re trying to do our thing,” owner Paul said.

The thing to which Long refers is fi nd-ing a fair balance of fresh, healthy options as well as some classic favorites like steak and cheese subs and sweet Italian sausages.

“We’re trying to go both ways, for the people that want to eat healthy and for the people that just want some comfort food,” Paul said.

The food business seems to be in Long’s bloodline, as it is something he’s done almost his entire life. Paul said he went to school for restaurant and hotel manage-ment, which has helped serve him and his business. He has worked with his son for years now, and he lives in Dover.

“I’ve done a lot of different things in my life, but I always come back to cook-ing,” Paul said.

Before their arrival on campus, both Paul and Dylan worked their ‘Sausage Ex-press’ stands at several Home Depots in the Seacoast area. Their Wild Child Express trolley was intended to be a Home Depot stand, but things fell through when new management took over.

“We weren’t comfortable with what they were telling us, so we just pulled the

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Gregory MeighanSTAFF WRITER

Kelly SennottSTAFF WRITER

Peter LukCONTRIBUTING WRITER

RAYA AL-HASHMI/STAFFDylan and Paul Long opened up Wild Child Express in front of Horton Hall. Below, Dylan prepares a sub.

PETER LUK PHOTOS/CONTRIBUTOR

WILD CHILD STROLLS ONTO CAMPUS

New concession stand in it for the ‘Long’ haul

More students looking for jobs, but employers remain consistent

COURTESY PHOTODurham Martketplace has been receiving 10 applications a day, a common trend for local businesses.

Students take advantage of online sales on cyber holiday

A 45-foot high indoor rock-climbing wall in New Hampshire Hall was opened to the public in September, but, despite its prices, hasn’t attracted many students.

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Indian students host Diwali event Rock-climbing wall open to public

On Sunday, Nov. 21, UNH’s Indian Student Association held its an-nual Diwali celebration in the Granite State Room.

The indoor rock-climbing wall in New Hampshire Hall was initially only available to outdoor education majors, but is now open to the public.

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recently published a New England Economic Partnership (NEEP) forecast, providing the suggestion that the New England economy will continue to lag in spite of govern-ment efforts, with Rhode Island having the weakest economy.

Professor provides economic forecast

6Joanne Stella of UNH Student

Legal Services said that students should be aware of the possibility of landlords tweaking their leases to include a ‘fi ne’ system in response to the Disorderly House Ordinance that was passed by the Durham Town Council.

Landlords may alter leases to students

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On Friday, Dec. 3, a conference, “School Bullying: Issues and Strate-gies,” will be held at UNH, and will feature several speakers.

The UNH football team will travel to Daytona Beach, Fla., this Satur-day to take on Bethune-Cookman in fi rst-round FCS playoff action.

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Durham community rely on stu-dents, and one of the biggest stu-dent draws is The Bagelry. Manager Abby Silverman-Claridge said that the 20 to 22 college students she has make up to 75 percent of her total staff.

“We probably got 100 [ap-plications] before I stopped taking them,” Silverman-Claridge said.

She said that her numbers have been consistent with recent years, and she has been able to carry an ex-perienced staff. She said that many students who start working there tend to stay longer than one year.

“I have people that stay with me four years, fi ve years or two years,” Silverman-Claridge said. “Some years I have to hire six to eight people, and some years I have to hire two.”

She said that, like any restau-rant, she staffs according to what she projects business to be like. On occasion she has to cut people’s hours for a day or week, but she has very rarely had to let people go.

The Memorial Union Build-ing employs the largest assembly of

student workers with approximately 120 students working in the various departments. MaryAnne Lustgraaf, MUB director, said on average they receive fi ve to six applicants for ev-ery job. Lustgraaf is grateful for all of the students who keep the build-ing that supports so much campus life running. She said people want to work at the center of it all, and they have never had a hard time get-ting employees.

“We hire in the spring for the fall, that way they have a chance to job shadow,” Lustgraaf said. “We will hire some people on the spot in the fall, but they have to have the skill set and the time schedule.”

Nate Brouwer, a senior electri-cal engineering major, has worked as a building manager for the MUB for four years. Brouwer said that he was lucky because an opening arose when he applied his freshman year.

Brouwer got into the job through the work-study program, which Lustgraaf said makes up any-where between a quarter and a third of the student percentage of the staff in a given year. Lustgraff said that many people apply year after year

because it offers a job in a central lo-cation of campus that is active with student life, and provides leadership experiences that better students for life out of college.

“The MUB is a community,” Brouwer said. “We are there to work, but we are all friends, and we all hang out outside of work, and that makes it a lot more enjoyable.”

When Tahlor Marchi was a freshman, she looked for jobs throughout campus because she did not have a car and didn’t feel like taking a bus to work.

“I worked at Philbrook Dining Hall on the Mongolian Grill making steak and cheese until I decided I needed something bigger and bet-ter,” Marchi said.

Now the senior business admin-istration major is in her third year working at Breaking New Grounds. She said that when she went to apply, they were out of applications, so she took a piece of paper and wrote down her information, strengths, and drew a smiley face for fl are. She has loved working at Breaking New Grounds because of the pride that comes from working at a small local business.

ing Amazon, Toys ‘R’ Us and Barnes & Noble.

At 6:30 p.m., the “hottest product deal” was the HP Pavilion dv6t Select Edition Series Note-

book at $799. Also in the top 10 was the Razor electric scooter, En-tourage Season 5 on DVD, a Marc New York Down Quilted Puffer Coat, and the Disney Princess & Me Belle doll.

plug and canceled altogether,” Dy-lan said.

With that, the Long’s began a search to fi nd a new place to call home, and with a little help from a familiar friend, they were able to do so.

“We’re actually friends with Vinny [Cirasole], and he helped us design the Wild Child Express stand,” Dylan said. “We wanted to do something similar, but didn’t want to step on anyone’s toes.”

Cirasole owns and operates Higher Grounds, a popular conces-sion stand located by the Dimond Library and Hewitt Hall.

And the name “Wild Child Ex-press” is a family thing, according to Paul.

“Dylan’s mother came up with the name,” Paul said. “It just clicked.”

The Long’s may not be step-ping on anyone’s toes, but they are quite close to another popular ven-dor, Ramon’s.

“I don’t mind [Wild Child] be-ing there; I just think he probably would have been better somewhere else rather than being so close,” Ra-mon’s owner Ramon Valdez said. “But there’s nothing I could do about it.”

Paul says Ramon has been nothing but nice since Wild Child

Express’s arrival on campus.“The fi rst day I came here I

went over and talked to [Valdez] be-fore [Wild Child Express] was even set up and said, ‘Look, I’m going to get a placement here, and this is the only place available on campus,’ and I told [Valdez] what I wanted to do, and he was very nice about it,” Paul said. “He said, ‘Yes bring-ing more food to this area would be good.’ His menu was too big any-ways. [Valdez] has been wonderful ever since.”

The Long’s know that Valdez has plenty of loyal clientele, and hope that they too will someday have a regular following.

“[Valdez] knows he has a good thing going,” Dylan said.

When asked about his outlook on the future, Paul remained opti-mistic.

“We’re making little money right now, so you have to really put in the hours in order to create a busi-ness,” Paul said. “But we’re in it for the long haul; this isn’t a frivolous act. I’m bald, and I’m old, and I have to have a job.”

Wild Child Express’s hours of operation are Monday through Sun-day from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. They hope to soon extend their hours to accom-modate a late night crowd. They ac-cept cash and credit cards but do not currently accept Cat’s Cache.

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WILD CHILD: New stand seeks success at UNH

CYBER: Monday online sales spark student interest

JOBS: Students can’t fi nd work


With the uncertain economic future looming overhead it is a won-der when it will get better. UNH pro-fessor Ross Gittell offered his ideas on the economy in a recently pub-lished an New England Economic Partnership (NEEP) forecast. The statement suggested that the New England economy will continue to lag in spite of government efforts.

“The forecast for the region is for the economy to grow slowly for another nine to 12 months and only then to pick up some strength,” Gittell said. “Over the next approxi-mate year, employment growth in the region is expected to be above the U.S. average and then fall below the U.S. average returning to a lon-ger term trend.”

Gittell, who is also the vice president and forecast manager of the NEEP, suggested that it was a hard time to forecast such events. The Bureau of Labor Statistics no longer surveys in the same manner it had done in the past.

“The concern is that BLS has changed their methodology and taken control of the estimates and use of survey data for state employ-ment,” Gittell said. “Prior to this, states were able to correct/adjust the survey data based on other informa-tion and insights at the state level. Now that is not allowed by BLS.”

Despite such changes, Gittell continued to forecast that the stron-gest state economies would remain Massachusetts and New Hamp-shire, while Rhode Island will be the weakest. In addition, regional unemployment is expected to per-sist above eight percent until the second half of 2012.

UNH students offered their in-put regarding the economy.

“I think it will defi nitely affect job opportunities when I get out of college in a year and a half,” 20-year-old English major Colin Pat-rick Hayward said.

The current economy has, in fact, appeared to hurt many liberal arts graduates. As Gittell suggested, students with science, business, technical and engineering degrees will have better job opportunities this year. Within another a year, the job market should improve for other students.

However, even students work-ing to obtain these types of degrees still fear the future.

“I hope to open my own busi-ness one day,” sophomore WSBE student Kara Chisholm said. “And I’m afraid I will fail due to [a large amount of] debt.”

But only time will tell for the anxious students and wondering economists.

“Hopefully [the economy will improve] soon,” Chisholm said. “But the reality is it is going to be while.”

Professor publishes economic forecast for upcoming years

Bronwyn FieldCONTRIBUTING WRITER

“The concern is that BLS has changed their methodology and taken control of the estimates and use of survey data for state employment.”

Ross GittellUNH business professor

MINNEAPOLIS- Two Amer-icans held in Iran on espionage charges told their families during brief phone calls over the week-end that they haven’t had access to their lawyer and do not know what is happening in their cases, their families said Monday.

Both calls came early Satur-day and lasted about fi ve minutes each. Shane Bauer called the cell phone of his mother, Cindy Hickey of Pine City, Minn., at about 6 a.m. Central time. Josh Fattal called his parents’ suburban Philadelphia home about an hour later.

Hickey said her son sounded “strong but frustrated.” Fattal’s mother, Laura Fattal, said it was

“joyous” to hear her son’s voice but that it also underlined her fam-ily’s heartbreak at his continued imprisonment. Both mothers said the men have few details of Iran’s case against them and haven’t been allowed to speak to their Tehran-based attorney for several months.

“He said, ‘I have no idea what’s going on with my case, what’s happening with it,’” Hick-ey said. “I just told him that we’re working on this, to have faith that we’re going to do everything we can to get him home.”

Iran has accused Bauer, Fattal and Bauer’s fi anc√© Sarah Shourd of espionage after they were ar-rested near the country’s border with Iraq in July 2009 during what their families say was an innocent hiking trip. Iran released Shourd

on medical grounds this past Sep-tember, and a trial in Iran is sched-uled for Feb. 6.

Shourd, who lives in the San Francisco area, had arrived at the Fattal home on Friday for a short visit, and was able to speak briefl y to Fattal during his call.

Hickey and Laura Fattal said they believe, based on the calls, that their sons have become even more isolated since Shourd was released. They reported getting less time in the prison’s exercise yard, and that they had been get-ting few of the daily letters from family members after previously receiving most of them. Bauer and Fattal also stopped getting books mailed by their families, the moth-ers said.

Americans being held in Iran make phone calls home to family in US

Patrick CondonASSOCIATED PRESS

Rabbi Mark Sobel, the spiritu-al leader of a Reform-rooted syna-gogue in Burbank, Calif., enjoys “winter” carols come Hanukkah and Christmastime, but this year is a little different.

The Jewish faith’s eight days of candle lighting, prayers, latkes and dreidel fun begins Wednesday, before carolers get in the swing and so soon after Thanksgiving there might just be some leftovers still in the fridge.

Hanukkah’s on the early side - on the Gregorian calendar anyway - along with other major Jewish observances this year.

Some Jews are looking for-ward to a little distance between Hanukkah and the Christmas mad-ness. It helps, they said, in staving off the perception that the Festival of Lights is a Christmas wannabe. Others started panicking before their Thanksgiving bird was de-frosted.

For Sobel, it won’t change the way he celebrates, save a tinge of remorse that non-Jewish neighbors and friends won’t yet be in the hol-iday spirit.

“The feeling of total holiday season is not there,” said Sobel, from the independent Temple Beth Emet.

Jewish festivals and com-memorations begin on different Gregorian dates each year because they’re set by a lunar-based He-brew calendar adjusted to ensure certain ones fall during certain seasons.

Wyckoff, N.J., mom Caryn Kasmanoff, who has two teenag-ers and a nine-year-old, notes that Hanukkah is a very minor holiday, religiously speaking, in relation to Passover and other biblically man-dated observances. It’s nowhere near as important as Christmas is

to Christians, but the comparisons can be harder on Jewish kids when the two holidays stand alone on the calendar, she said.

“As Christmas gets closer and children in school get more excited, their ‘party’ is over,” Kas-manoff said. “So yes, as a parent, it’s easier for the religions to share the festive feeling.”

That can also be true for more secular Jews and interfaith families who will be packing away their menorahs after Hanukkah only to start prepping for Christmas. Or for people who focus on Thanks-giving as the big-deal holiday with barely any time to de-stress before Hanukkah shopping and party planning must be done.

“The world doesn’t stop for Hanukkah,” said Jennifer Prost, who has kids ages 16 and 12 in Montclair, N.J. “My kids still have tests to study for and papers to write. When Hanukkah is closer to Christmas, the kids are off from school, work schedules slow, eve-ning meetings are off the table.”

For the college set, on-cam-pus Hanukkah might mean miss-ing mom’s potato latkes, but their family’s not-home-for-the-holi-days loss could be Ralph Taber’s gain. He’s the director of the Klehr Center for Jewish Life at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa., and a programmer for Hillel, the foundation for Jewish campus life.

“The timing of Hanukkah this year is perfect because it will oc-cur before classes end,” he said. “We know that students will be willing to attend more on-campus Hanukkah events.”

As a parent, Taber is happy for Hanukkah’s quick approach. He’ll be done with shopping and celebrations just as Christmas is crowding stores and yuletide trav-el is clogging roads.

But some sellers of Jewish-re-lated gifts said “early” Hanukkah can mean slow going.

“When it’s close to Christmas, it’s celebrated much more active-ly,” said Gary Rosenthal, who cre-ates menorahs, charity boxes and other Judaica out of metals and fused glass. “When Hanukkah is close to Thanksgiving it’s passed us before we even know what hap-pened. It’s not good or bad. It’s just the way it is.”

Hanukkah rarely begins in November, though it will begin the night before Thanksgiving Day come 2013.

“That’s super early and peo-ple will defi nitely be thrown for a loop,” said Stacy Garnick, a for-mer Hebrew school principal and career Jewish educator with two kids, 8 and 3, in Amherst, N.H.

Thanksgiving followed by an “early” Hanukkah is just fi ne with Sobel.

He said Thanksgiving has a lot in common with the festival of Sukkot, which has similarities with Hanukkah. Both are eight-day celebrations, the former in the fall to commemorate the Jews’ desert wandering after the Exodus from Egypt. Hanukkah marks the rededication of the Holy Temple at the time of the Maccabean re-volt and the miracle of a smidge of found oil lasting eight days.

“Some people think it’s kind of great when Hanukkah’s not anywhere near Christmas because it gets to be its own holiday,” said Nora Rubel, an assistant profes-sor of religion at the University of Rochester in New York.

“Theoretically, Hanukkah is supposed to celebrate triumph over assimilation,” Rubel said, “so the great irony is it has become a Jewish Christmas, which is some-thing that Jews complain about all the time but participate in.”

Leanne ItalieASSOCIATED PRESS

Jewish population looking forward to early Hannukah celebration this year


YORK, Pa.- They lived out-side society, hidden from the world in a squalid row house with no heat, electricity or running water. They had no birth certifi cates, no school-ing, no immunizations or evidence of medical care nothing whatsoever to prove their existence.

Police in this south-central Pennsylvania city are still piecing together how the parents of fi ve children ranging in age from 2 to 13 managed to conceal them for so many years. And why.

“I don’t know what would possess them at all,” said detective Dana Ward Jr., who tracked down the children after a child welfare agency received an anonymous tip about the clandestine family.

Ward charged Louann Bow-ers, 33, and Sinhue Johnson, 45, with fi ve felony counts of child en-dangerment. They are scheduled to be in court Friday, though Bowers’ lawyer said she will waive her right to an arraignment. Both are locked up in York County Prison.

Bowers ran away from “a very chaotic household” when she was 16 and “didn’t want to be found,” attorney Ronald Gross said.

“I think, unfortunately, Mom’s

desire to not be found by her fam-ily impacted the children’s growth,” he said. “She realizes now, ‘I should have done it differently.’”

Johnson’s public defender did not return a phone message seeking comment on the case, which was fi rst reported by The York Dispatch and York Daily Record.

Years of isolation have taken their toll on the siblings. Now liv-ing in foster homes, “some of the children suffer health and vision issues,” Ward wrote in an affi davit. “None of the children are at their expected education levels, and there are possible mental health issues.”

Since their discovery, the chil-dren have been vaccinated and the older ones have been enrolled in school.

York County Children and Youth Services became aware of the family through anonymous tips in 2003 and again in 2007, but police said Johnson refused to cooperate with caseworkers.

The agency got another anony-mous referral in 2009, this time from someone claiming to be a fam-ily member who had seen the chil-dren. The agency contacted Johnson again, but he remained uncoopera-tive, court documents state.

That led caseworkers to obtain a court order granting them permis-

sion to enter the dilapidated house on South Duke Street. By the time they arrived, the family had fl ed.

Ward said it appeared that all seven family members had lived in a single room on the second fl oor. He said all the utilities were shut off. Rainwater came through the leaky roof and was collected in buckets.

Police tracked the family to a hotel outside York. Johnson was gone, but Bowers opened the door, her head concealed by a dark veil. The detective found the children hiding in a bathroom, three girls and two boys. They hadn’t bathed and appeared unkempt. They left with investigators without saying a word and refused to provide any information.

“They did say that they were not permitted to talk about the fam-ily or the living conditions,” Ward said.

The lack of cooperation from either the children or Johnson and

Bowers has stymied investigators’ efforts to learn more about the fam-ily’s circumstances.

The fact that almost no one knew about the children is even more puzzling because of the urban setting in which they lived. Neigh-bors say they never saw them, not even once.

Charlton Shaw, 56, a roofer who lives several doors down, said he was unaware of the children’s existence until Johnson and Bowers were arrested. “I said, holy heck, how did they do that? You never heard a sound. No kids crying, no kids coming or going,” said Shaw, who has lived on the block for 10 years. “How do you mess up the kids’ futures like that?”

Gross disputed the notion that his client was hiding her children but acknowledged the family main-tained a “very close network of in-dividuals.”

Gross said the children were

home-schooled, but Ward said he could fi nd no evidence of it. Par-ents of home-schooled children are required by law to register with the district in which they live, provide evidence of immunizations and fol-low approved curricula.

Gross said Bowers has studied more than 70 religions and adheres to a faith related to Islam.

“She essentially doesn’t show her face, except to her husband,” Gross said. He said the family op-poses vaccinations “based on some beliefs about impurity and pricks of the skin.”

He declined to comment about the apparent lack of birth certifi -cates.

“She understands she had some shortcomings as a parent, but her love and desire to have the children and wanting to be there for her chil-dren has not changed,” Gross said.

Gross said Johnson was in the midst of rehabbing the house on South Duke Street, and that the family spent most of its time in Washington, D.C. But Ward said he could fi nd no evidence the family ever lived in Washington.

“There are still a lot of unan-swered questions from our end,” Ward said, “because no one will talk to us.”

Police: Pa. couple hid 5 children from societyMichael Rubinkam

ASSOCIATED PRESS

“They did say that they were not permitted to talk about the family or the living conditions.”

Dana Ward Jr.detective

MORENCI, Mich.- A father of three missing boys lied about a rela-tionship with a woman he claims to have entrusted with their care, said the Michigan police chief leading the investigation into their disap-pearance.

Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks said Monday that police doubt the story of John Skelton, 39, who told them he handed over his children to a woman named Joann Taylor before attempting suicide Friday. The boys Tanner, 5, Alexan-der, 7, and Andrew, 9 were last seen Thursday in the backyard of their father’s southern Michigan home and are believed to be in danger.

Authorities haven’t named the father as a suspect, but Weeks said they also haven’t ruled him out. The police chief said Monday authori-ties are looking for anyone who saw the three boys in their father’s blue Dodge Caravan on Thursday or Fri-day along the Michigan-Ohio bor-der. The FBI said the vehicle was on the Ohio Turnpike during that time.

“We believe the boys were in the vehicle the morning or evening before” they were reported missing, Weeks said. He said that despite the time since they were last seen, searchers “remain hopeful” they’re still alive.

Police said they have exten-sively searched name records and other sources for Joann Taylor but have yet to fi nd a woman by that name in a relationship with Skel-

ton.Authorities and volunteers

searched Monday afternoon along busy U.S. 20 in northern Ohio high-way for any evidence of the boys.

Cambridge Township fi re chief Scott Damon said he had a crew searching east of Pioneer, Ohio, about 12 miles from the boys’ home in Morenci.

“It’s pretty fl at land. We’re just walking along,” Damon said.

“We’re looking for any type of evidence. My group has not found anything.”

Volunteers have been search-ing around Morenci, about 75 miles southwest of Detroit, for days. Mon-day morning, they checked fi elds, farms and wooded areas along the state boundary based on “informa-tion we’ve collected from a number of sources,” Weeks said.

Police have searched Skelton’s

Morenci home and removed items but declined to identify them.

Weeks said Skelton was be-ing treated at a hospital in Ohio for “mental health issues” after he told police that he tried to hang himself on Friday.

The boys were reported miss-ing Friday by their mother, Tanya Skelton, Weeks said. A family friend said the boys were with their father as part of court-ordered visi-tation and their parents were going through a divorce.

Corey WilliamsASSOCIATED PRESS

Missing Mich. boys’ dad lied about woman entrusted with boys care


Due to the Disorderly House ordinance, students trying to move into apartments in Durham next year may need to be on the lookout for landlords who include a ‘fi ne’ system in their leases.

According to Joanne Stella of UNH Student Legal Services, land-lords may tweak their lease agree-ments in order to compensate for any disorderly conduct among their renters.

“I think the only real affect on students will be landlords who try to pass off fi nes that are targeted at the landlords to their tenants,” Stella said. “If this happens, it will add to

a trend in leases in this community that often have some sort of ‘fi ne’ system.”

Stella warned that students should not sign leases that include a ‘fi ne’ system. She explains that leases are contracts, and contracts

often contain something called ‘liq-uidated damages provisions’, which address the cost associated when one party of the contract violates the agreement and causes economic harm to the other party.

A ‘fi ne’ system looks and sounds similar to liquidated dam-ages; however, these ‘fi nes’ are of-ten not related at all to any actual damages incurred by the landlord, according to Stella.

For example, if a landlord is fi ned under the Disorderly House ordinance, he or she can have the fi ne waived by meeting with the chief of police and coming up with a plan to address the problems at the residence. If the landlord has

the meeting and never pays a fi ne, there is no economic harm. There-fore, charging the tenants would be improper.

Renrick Pesce, a junior cur-rently residing in the dorms, said that he is looking to fi nd an apart-ment for next year. He said he is slightly concerned about the new ordinance and how it will affect him as a new renter.

“I know that there has been a lot of talk between the landlords because the Disorderly House or-dinance makes them more account-able instead of the renters,” he said.

Pesce said that controversy over the new ordinance has made him cautious about fi nding an apart-

ment, and that he is going to pay more attention to the lease agree-ment.

So far, landlords do not appear to be changing their lease agree-ments. Paul Burton of UNH Apart-ments said that he is not thinking about changing anything in the lease agreement. He said that he will just be more careful in manage-ment and keep an eye on his proper-ties to avoid any trouble among his tenants.

“We anticipate our tenants to have a social life,” Burton said.

Burton has been in the rental business for about 25 years and said that he has hardly had any problems with his tenants during that time.

Disorderly House ordinance may be concern for rentersAriella Coombs

STAFF WRITER

“We anticipate our tenants to have a social life.”

Paul BurtonUNH Apartments

GUATEMALA CITY- A livestock truck packed with workers on their way to a Guatemala coffee plantation veered off a winding road and crashed, killing 19 of the pas-sengers and injuring 44, an offi cial said Monday.

Nine of the coffee workers died at the scene Sunday in the town of Zunil, northwest of Guatemala City, and the others were pronounced dead at nearby hospitals, said Ma-rio de Leon, a spokesman for a local fi re department.

Most of the 70 people on the truck were between 12 and 19 years

old and a handful of the passengers were children.

The truck driver, who is re-covering at a hospital, is in police custody after authorities smelled al-cohol on his breath after the crash, De Leon said.

The truck was coming down a road known for its sharp turns when it went off road and crashed into a wall, throwing out some of the pas-sengers, authorities said.

Fifty other coffee workers were traveling the same road in a separate truck.

19 Guatemala coffee workers killed in truck crashIN BRIEF

JACKSON, Wyo.- A 67-foot-tall Englemann spruce from north-west Wyoming is arriving in Wash-ington, D.C., to be this year’s U.S. Capitol Christmas tree.

The tree is scheduled to reach the west entrance of the Capitol Monday morning. It will be deco-rated with ornaments made by Wyo-ming residents, and the lights will be switched on Dec. 7.

It’s the fi rst time the Capitol tree

has come from Wyoming.Wyoming Sen. John Barrasso

applied in 2007 to have Wyoming be the provider. A search began a year ago in the Bridger-Teton National Forest, and the Capitol superinten-dent of grounds made his choice in July.

It was felled in November and loaded on a truck for a winding jour-ney of nearly 5,000 miles with stops for 35 community celebrations.

Wyoming tree arrives in DC to adorn US Capitol

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Blue, green and red lights fl ash as colorfully-clothed danc-ers and fashion models make their way across the stage, while music from various Bollywood movies and traditional songs blast from the speakers.

On Sunday Nov. 21, UNH’s Indian Students Association took over the Granite State Room of the MUB with their annual Diwali celebration.

“Diwali, the Festival of Lights, at UNH is the closest celebration we can do to stay in touch with our

heritage,” said Viral Shah, senior biology major and the president of the Indian Student Association.

Diwali, the Festival of Lights, is a Hindu holiday celebrating the triumphs of good over evil. The event started off with a traditional song in Sanskrit, a sparsely used language, followed by various dance sequences. These dances were set to both traditional songs and songs taken from popular Bol-lywood fi lms. One dance was an entire scene from a Bollywood fi lm that portrayed Holi, a spring holiday celebrated by throwing colorful water or powder at each other – although to spare the GSR the mess, no water or powder was used in the reenactment.

After about two hours of danc-ing and singing, there was an hour break for a four-course Indian din-ner. Tables were called up by twos to wait in line for their dinner as children held up their table’s num-bers in hopes of being called next.

Along the way, the host in-formed the audience about differ-ent Bollywood movies, Hindu hol-idays and how Diwali is celebrated throughout India.

She said that Diwali, like the celebration in the MUB, is fi lled with “social gatherings for family and friends.”

Corinne HolroydCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Indian Student Association brings Diwali to UNH

“Diwali, the Festival of Lights, at UNH is the closest celebration we can do to stay in touch with out heritage.”

Viral ShahPresident, Indian

Student Association

PHOTOS BY AMANDA BELAND / STAFFMembers of the Indian Student Assocation sang, danced and acted at the annual Festival of Lights.

The dances in honor of the HIndu holiday celebrated the triumph of good over evil.


Along with the 2008 reno-vations of New Hampshire Hall, where students take kinesiology and dance courses, there was a very special addition to the building: an indoor rock-climbing wall. The wall was opened to the public on Sept. 7, although it has been avail-able to outdoor education majors before this year through efforts by professors like Nate Fitch. Now, the next step is making people on campus and in the community aware of this opportunity.

“It didn’t sit well with us to not at least give it a try,” Fitch said.

Fitch estimates that on a busy

night, the wall sees about 12 to 15 climbers with variable talent lev-els. He is happy to see the facility being utilized, but he plans to reach more people in a variety of ways. Fitch, his students and other out-door education professors made a Facebook group called ‘UNH Out-door Education Artifi cial Climbing Wall’. They have also created a pamphlet and are currently seek-ing other creative ways to get the word out.

Fitch said that rates are under ‘market price’ so the opportunity is affordable to students. For non-students, faculty and staff, the rates are slightly higher but are still at a reasonable price. Fitch said that

the costs are simply to maintain the facility.

The wall, which is 45 ft. high and 65 ft. wide, is much larger and more user friendly than the boul-dering wall in the Campus Recre-ation Center. The closest wall that is similar in size is located in Dover and beyond that, in Manchester.

Fitch, who said that the main purpose of the wall is for educa-tion, felt the wall shouldn’t be kept exclusively for those in rock climbing courses. He said that he wanted everyone to be able to have an opportunity to practice or at least try the indoor wall when class wasn’t in session. In order to do this, however, the logistics of

making the wall public had to be fi gured out.

From his experience of work-ing with projects for the Kinesiol-ogy Department, Fitch helped lead the way to get plans underway for the grand opening. He and others from the department found people to train inexperienced climbers, as well as arrange for risk manage-ment insurance and the purchasing of equipment. Fitch said that the greatest task now is making people aware of the resource.

“We haven’t talked it up enough,” Fitch said. “We’ve got to get into the marketing. I think it’s still a bit underutilized.”

Greg Coit, who has taken

courses taught by Fitch, said he felt the facility was a great place to learn or practice skills, but it needs to be marketed better.

“I think it’s great that it’s open to students,” Coit said. “It’s kind of a bummer though that students have to pay.”

Coit said that the wall is good for beginners.

“I have talked to many people this semester who have then gone to use it; some for the fi rst time,” Coit said.

The wall is open in the eve-nings Thursday through Sunday every week. The rates for students are $10 for a day pass, which in-cludes equipment.

Chantel McCabeTNH STAFF

Students climbing to new heights at New Hampshire Hall

DALLAS - Former President George W. Bush talked in a relaxed Facebook Live webcast about ev-erything from the joy of spend-ing time with his parents to some of the hard decisions he made as president.

When Facebook founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg asked Bush Monday why he de-cided to appear on Facebook, Bush quipped: “Because you’ve got a lot of people paying attention to us, and I’m trying to sell books.”

In the hour-long chat webcast on Facebook’s live video stream-ing channel, Bush stood by his vow to not criticize the current ad-ministration, but he did respond to a question asking what he thought the Obama administration had handled well. Bush said he thought they’d done well with Afghanistan so far.

Bush’s book, “Decision Points,” was released this month.

George W. Bush appears live on Facebook chat

Jamie StengelASSOCIATED PRESS

FARMINGTON, N.M. - Three friends had just fi nished their shifts at a McDonald’s when prosecutors say they carried out a gruesome attack on a customer: They alleg-edly shaped a coat hanger into a swastika, placed it on a heated stove and branded the symbol on the arm of the mentally disabled Navajo man.

Authorities say they then shaved a swastika on the back of the 22-year-old victim’s head and used markers to scrawl messages and images on his body, including “KKK,” ‘’White Power,” a penta-gram and a graphic image of a pe-nis.

The men have become the fi rst

in the nation to be charged under a new law that makes it easier for the federal government to prosecute people for hate crimes.

The case also marked the latest troubling race-related attack in this New Mexico community, prompt-ing a renewed focus among local leaders on improving relations be-tween Navajos and whites.

The defendants are accused of violating the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act and could face 10 years in prison if convicted. The sentences could be extended to life if the government proves kidnap-ping occurred.

Federal prosecutors say they were able to bring the case because the 2009 law eliminated a require-ment that a victim must be engaged

in a federally protected activity, such as voting or attending school, for hate crime charges to be lev-eled.

The law also expanded civil rights protections to include vio-lence that is based on gender, dis-ability, sexual orientation or gender identity.

The swastika branding has also put the spotlight back on Farming-ton, a predominantly white commu-nity of about 45,000 residents near the Navajo Nation.

Farmington leaders signed a historic agreement earlier this month with the Navajo Nation in which both sides pledged to work

toward improving race relations.The signing ceremony was

held at City Hall and included a blessing by a Navajo medicine man who prayed for a strong, sta-ble and long-running agreement. City offi cials sat cross-legged on the fl oor alongside Navajos during the service.

“Mistreatment of fellow hu-

mans is a learned behavior. The only thing that will address that directly is education,” said Duane “Chili” Yazzie, chairman of the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission and a participant in the signing ceremony.

The signing was signifi cant be-cause it put into writing what both sides have long expressed. Nego-tiations took almost a year as the parties discussed wording and lan-guage.

Navajo and city leaders agree race relations have improved dra-matically since May 1974, when the beaten and burned bodies of three Navajo men were found north of town. Three white high school stu-dents were linked to the crime and sent to reform school, outraging the Navajo community.

Swastika branding case another race issue for N.M. townTim Korte

ASSOCIATED PRESS

“Mistreatment of fellow humans is a learned behavior.”

Duane Yazziechairman, Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission


On Friday, Dec. 3, UNH Pro-fessional Development and Train-ing, in collaboration with the UNH justice studies program, will host a one-day conference called “School Bullying: Issues and Strategies”. The conference will focus on the issues involved with bullying and provide prevention and interven-tion strategies, along with family support.

The conference will feature several speakers, including Ellen Cohn, coordinator of the UNH justice studies program, and a key-note address by Todd DeMitchell, education department chair, who Deborah Connell, from the New Hampshire Department of Educa-tion, labels as “the foremost expert in the state” on bullying.

Linda Conti, UNH media re-lations contact, said the confer-ence will focus on the “active by-stander” program.

According to Donna Perkins, clinical assistant professor of jus-tice studies, the development of the program is geared toward high schools and is meant to motivate bystanders to step in when they see acts of bullying. This program is also emphasized on the UNH campus.

Conti said that while the con-ference is not a direct response to recent news, these tragedies do

lend weight to the importance of hosting such an event.

“In general, school bullying continues to be a great concern, not just among educators and counselors but among law en-forcement professionals,” Conti said. “So how to do that, how to help teachers not only mediate the problem, but present the problem and pinpoint possible areas where it might exist, is really crucial.”

Connell said that amendments were made to RSA 93-F during the 2010 legislative season, resulting in the “Pupil Safety & Violence Prevention Act”.

In a department comment, ef-fective July 1, 2001, the legislation stated that “one of the legislature’s highest priorities is to protect our children from physical, emotional, and psychological violence by ad-dressing the harm caused by bully-ing and cyberbullying in our pub-lic schools.”

The intention of the law is “for schools to protect against and address bullying/cyberbullying.”

According to Connell, it is much more specifi c than previ-ous laws and requires that schools have a way of reporting bullying in all forms. The addition of cyber-bullying is also an important one, as it gives schools the ability to help students outside of the physi-cal institution, where just as much harm can occur.

RSA 193-F requires that “all

school boards and boards of trust-ees of charter schools shall adopt a written policy prohibiting bully-ing and cyberbulling. The written policy…should acknowledge that bullying/cyberbullying can occur both in the school setting and out of school if it interferes with a stu-dent’s educational opportunities or disrupts a school day or event.”

These policies must be in place by Jan. 1, 2011, and must be displayed in a public and acces-sible setting.

Oyster River High School Assistant Principle Mike McCann said that the district is currently in the process of rewriting its law to include cyberbullying, as per RSA 193-F.

McCann said that while bul-lying is not a wide-spread issue at ORHS, “you don’t always know what’s going on outside school. People might not always realize what things qualify as bullying.”

In an effort to promote a safe school atmosphere, McCann said that ORHS recently introduced the program “Rachel’s Challenge” named for Rachel Scott, the fi rst victim of the Columbine High School shooting in 1999. The pro-gram, which also made an appear-ance at UNH two years ago, fo-cuses on helping people to create and nurture a positive environment by initiating a chain of kindness among peers. McCann said that while the program was fairly suc-

cessful, it didn’t have a long-term effect.

“It needed more follow-up from the student side,” he said. “Maybe they didn’t see how it was necessary.”

As such, McCann said that something like the active bystand-er program, which he said would be incredibly helpful in a high school setting, will introduce a way of continuously reinforcing a positive environment.

McCann also mentioned that the district has a specifi c program to deal with bullying in elementary schools, but there is no such formal program at the high school level.

ORHS has introduced several programs, including student advi-sory groups and an arts and com-

munity course dedicated to telling the stories of students who have experienced bullying. McCann emphasized that while there is not much overt physical bullying at ORHS, that “doesn’t mean noth-ing’s happening.”

For more information about RSA 93-F, visit the New Hamp-shire Department of Education’s website under “Technical Assis-tance Advisories.”

For more information on Fri-day’s conference, visit www.learn.unh.edu/bullying. The conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. and costs $199 to register, which includes lunch. The event will take place at 400 Commercial St., Manchester, NH.

Samantha PearsonSTAFF WRITER

Conference on bullying prevention to be held at UNH

MIAMI- The Atlantic hurri-cane season ends Tuesday, going down as one of the busiest on re-cord but blissfully sparing the U.S. coastline a major hurricane for a fi fth straight year.

While extreme tropical weather ravaged Haiti, Mexico and elsewhere, U.S. forecasters are wondering if the nation can make history and extend its luck into 2011. If so, it would be the fi rst time ever that the U.S. escaped a major hurricane for six years.

“That would be a record I would like to break,” said Dennis Feltgen, a spokesman for the Na-tional Hurricane Center in Miami.

All told, 19 named storms formed in the Atlantic, tying with the 1887 and 1995 seasons for third-highest on record. Twelve became hurricanes, tying with the 1969 season for the second-highest on record.

In the U.S., Texas suffered the worst of the tropical weather.

Flooding spurred by Tropical Storm Hermine was blamed for the deaths of at least seven people in Texas. Hurricane Alex damaged or destroyed more than 300 homes in

Texas and caused an estimated $42 million in damage to infrastruc-ture.

Aside from that, Tropical Storm Bonnie sent crews working to stop the fl ow of oil from a blown-out rig in the Gulf of Mexico into a fury. And Hurricane Earl brought fl ooding to North Carolina’s Outer Banks and some rain to Cape Cod, but little damage.

“Fortunately most storms avoided the U.S.,” said Jack Hayes, director of the National Weather Service. “You could say the season was a gentle giant.”

Not so elsewhere, though.Hurricane Tomas killed 14

people in St. Lucia and at least eight in Haiti. Hurricane Alex caused fl ooding that killed 12 people in Mexico. Hurricane Igor knocked out power to half of Ber-muda but spared the country major damage or injuries.

A persistent low-pressure sys-tem through the height of hurricane season is credited with the U.S. es-caping major harm. The western edge of the high-pressure system that drove tropical weather from the coast of Africa was eroded by the low pressure, and ultimately helped propel it away from the U.S. shore.

As season ends, U.S. coast escapes major hurricanes for fi fth consecutive year

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The following arrests were recorded from the University of New Hampshire Department of Police Adult Arrest/ Simmons Log for Nov. 21 to Nov. 24.

Nov. 21

Veronica Eggert, 19, 149 Portland Ave., Dover, N.H.,

03820, UNH Police Department, theft, 12:20 p.m.

Nov. 24

Sean Hanlon, 23, 3 Patriot Drive, E. Hamstead, 03826, N.H., UNH Police Department, harassment, stalking, violent do-mestic pet, 10:05 a.m.

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U.S. says leaks are a crime, threatens prosecution

WASHINGTON- Striking back, the Obama administration branded the WikiLeaks release of more than a quarter-million sensi-tive fi les an attack on the United States Monday and raised the prospect of criminal prosecutions in connection with the exposure. The Pentagon detailed new secu-rity safeguards, including restraints on small computer fl ash drives, to make it harder for any one person to copy and reveal so many secrets.

The young Army Pfc. sus-pected of stealing the diplomatic memos, many of them classifi ed, and feeding them to WikiLeaks may have defeated Pentagon secu-rity systems using little more than a Lady Gaga CD and a portable com-puter memory stick.

The soldier, Bradley Manning has not been charged in the latest release of internal U.S. government

documents. But offi cials said he is the prime suspect partly because of his own description of how he pulled off a staggering heist of clas-sifi ed and restricted material.

“No one suspected a thing,” Manning told a confi dant afterward, according to a log of his computer chat published by Wired.com. “I didn’t even have to hide anything.”

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton asserted Monday that WikiLeaks acted illegally in posting the material. She said the administration was taking “aggres-sive steps to hold responsible those who stole this information.”

Attorney General Eric Holder said the government was mounting a criminal investigation, and the Pentagon was tightening access to information, including restricting the use of computer storage devices such as CDs and fl ash drives.

“This is not saber-rattling,” Holder said. Anyone found to have

broken American law “will be held responsible.”

Holder said the latest disclo-sure, involving classifi ed and sen-sitive State Department documents, jeopardized the security of the na-tion, its diplomats, intelligence as-sets and relationships with foreign governments.

A weary-looking Clinton agreed.

“I want you to know that we are taking aggressive steps to hold responsible those who stole this in-formation,” Clinton said. She spoke in between calls to foreign capitals to make amends for scathing and gossipy memos never meant for foreign eyes.

Manning is charged in mili-tary court with taking other classi-fi ed material later published by the online clearinghouse WikiLeaks. It is not clear whether others such as WikiLeaks executives might be charged separately in civilian courts.

Clinton said the State Depart-ment was adding security protec-tions to prevent another breach. The Pentagon, embarrassed by the ap-parent ease with which secret docu-ments were passed to WikiLeaks, had detailed some of its new pre-cautions Sunday.

Col. Dave Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman, said it was possible that many people could be held account-able if they were found to have ig-nored security protocols or some-how enabled the download without authorization.

A senior Defense Department offi cial, speaking on condition of anonymity because the criminal case against Manning is pending, said he was unaware of any fi rings or other discipline over the secu-rity conditions at Manning’s post in Iraq.

In his Internet chat, Manning described the conditions as lax to the point that he could bring a homemade music CD to work with him, erase the music and replace it

with secrets. He told the computer hacker who would turn him in that he lip-synched along with pop singer Lady Gaga’s hit “Telephone” while making off with “possibly the largest data spillage in American history.”

Wired.com published a partial log of Manning’s discussions with hacker R. Adrian Lamo in June.

“Weak servers, weak logging, weak physical security, weak coun-terintelligence, inattentive signal analysis,” Manning wrote. “A per-fect storm.”

His motive, according to the chat logs: “I want people to see the truth ... because without informa-tion, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.”

By his own admission, Man-ning was apparently able to pull material from outside the Penta-gon, including documents he had little obvious reason to see. He was arrested shortly after those chats last spring. He was moved in July to the Quantico Marine Corps Base in Virginia to await trial on the earlier charges and could face up to 52 years in a military prison if convicted.

There are no new charges, and none are likely at least until after a panel evaluates Manning’s mental fi tness early next year, said Lt. Col. Rob Manning, spokesman for the Military District of Washington. He is no relation to Bradley Manning.

Manning’s civilian lawyer, Da-vid E. Combs, declined comment.

Lapan, the Pentagon spokes-man, said the WikiLeaks experi-ence has encouraged discussion within the military about how better to strike a balance between sharing information with those who need it and protecting it from disclosure.

So far, he said, Pentagon offi -cials are not reviewing who has ac-cess to data but focusing instead on installing technical safeguards.

Since summer, when WikiLeaks fi rst published stolen war logs from the confl icts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Defense De-partment has made it harder for one person acting alone to download material from a classifi ed network and place it on an unclassifi ed one.

Such transfers generally take two people now, what Pentagon offi cials call a “two-man carry.” Users also leave clearer electronic footprints by entering a computer “kiosk,” or central hub, en route to downloading the classifi ed mate-rial.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the WikiLeaks case revealed vulnerable seams in the information-sharing systems used by multiple government agencies. Some of those joint systems were designed to answer another prob-lem: the failure of government agencies to share what they knew before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

“These efforts to give diplo-matic, military, law enforcement and intelligence specialists quicker and easier access to greater amounts of data have had unintended conse-quences,” Whitman said.

Agencies across the U.S. gov-ernment have installed safeguards around the use of fl ash drives and computer network operations, said Navy Rear Adm. Michael Brown, the Department of Homeland Se-curity’s director for cybersecurity coordination.

Like the Pentagon, Homeland Security has laid out policies to en-sure that employees are using the networks correctly, that the classi-fi ed and unclassifi ed networks are properly identifi ed, and that there are detailed procedures for moving information from one network to another.

Dale Meyerrose, former chief information offi cer for the U.S. in-telligence community, said Monday that it will never be possible to com-pletely stop such breaches.

“This is a personnel security issue, more than it is a technical is-sue,” said Meyerrose, now a vice president at Harris Corp. “How can you prevent a pilot from fl ying the airplane into the ground? You can’t. Anybody you give access to can be-come a disgruntled employee or an ideologue that goes bad.”

One offi cial in contact with U.S. military and diplomatic staff in Iraq said they already were see-ing the effect of a tighter collar on information.

The State Department and other agencies are restricting access among the Army and nonmilitary agencies, the offi cial said. The offi -cial spoke on condition of anonym-ity to discuss the sharing of classi-fi ed information.

Former CIA director Michael Hayden warned the latest leak will affect what other governments are willing to share with the U.S. as well as change the way U.S. of-fi cials share information among themselves.

“You’re going to put a lot less in cables now,” he said.

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Fear-mongering in OklahomaIt worked; now to block its eff ects

Missed by the general public post-election day, as media outlets focused on Republicans touting their wave-rid-ing skills, was a bizarre constitutional amendment that voters passed in Okla-homa, one that goes against everything this country stands for.

“State Question 755,” which vot-ers passed with 70 percent of the vote, was to prohibit courts from using inter-national law or Sharia law when mak-ing rulings. On Monday, however, a federal judge granted a preliminary in-junction temporarily blocking the state from putting it into effect following a lawsuit by Muneer Awad, the execu-tive director of the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The judge said that the mea-sure did not appear to pass constitu-tional muster.

Why is that opinion correct? Be-cause the amendment is clearly anti-Islam, a product of a people made para-noid by right-wing fervor.

While the measure includes the phrase “international law,” it spe-cifi cally singles out Sharia Law. The ballot title that voters saw on the bal-lot read: “It [the proposed measure] makes courts rely on federal and state law when deciding cases. It forbids courts from considering or using in-ternational law. It forbids courts from considering or using Sharia Law.”

Further on, to clarify, it reads: Sharia Law is Islamic law. It is based on two principal sources, the Koran and the teaching of Mohammed.” No other religion is singled out. Apparently, it is okay to invoke the New Testament when writing court opinions in Okla-homa.

While the Oklahoma government may not be establishing an offi cial re-ligion with the measure, it certainly is making Muslim subservient to all oth-ers. Ironically, the group most behind the amendment, conservative Chris-tians, are a group highly interested in seeing their religious doctrine become a part of state and national law, particu-larly when it comes to abortion and gay marriage.

The ridiculousness of this measure comes to light when it becomes appar-ent that Sharia law has never been in-voked in Oklahoma courts. Good on the people of Oklahoma to address a plight that is so severely affecting their state. Unfortunately, their measure demon-strates their severe lack of knowledge about the Muslim faith, as the judge agreed with Mr. Awad’s contention that the defi nition of Sharia shifts depend-ing on the country in which a Muslim lives and on each person’s religious beliefs.

It is this latter fact that is most dis-appointing. Nine years after 9/11, the bashing of Muslims—all Muslims—without rhyme or reason continues in America. Somehow, America got drawn into a debate to establish an Islamic Community Center in lower Manhattan earlier this year, a debate that took fl ight when activists decided to invoke the words “mosque” and “Ground Zero” (neither of which really applied to the situation).

Sharia Law will not infi ltrate the courts of Oklahoma, whether or not this amendment exists. Does that mean we can just let it stand? No, it violates the constitutional rights of Muslim-Americans and establishes a tradition of hatred that cannot be allowed to con-tinue. Let’s see the preliminary injunc-tion become permanent.

Why is that opinion correct? Because the amendment is clearly anti-Islam, a product of a people made paranoid by right-wing fervor.

DADT report coming, progress less certain“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” will be in

the news again today, with the Depart-ment of Defense scheduled to hold a press conference discussing the release of a report on the impact of repealing the policy that currently prevents open-ly gay individuals from serving in the U.S. military. The full report is expect-ed to be released on December 1.

We can only hope that the report will usher in a policy change that has been needed for a long time. More than anything else, repealing DADT should be the easiest decision facing Congress at this time.

Unfortunately, Congress doesn’t seem to be aware of that fact. Just two months ago, Senate Republicans voted unanimously against advancing a ma-jor defense policy bill that included a repeal.

We recognize that opinions on gay rights have advanced over time. DADT

was a major victory for the movement when it was passed in 1993. It ac-knowledged that gay individuals serve an important role in our nation’s armed forces. But it’s no longer 1993; the pub-lic’s opinions have further progressed, and it’s time for the next victory, a far more meaningful one.

The fact that the American mili-tary is discharging able-bodied ser-vicemen and women during a time of war doesn’t make sense. One’s sexual orientation has no affect on one’s profi ciency on the battlefi eld, which is theoretically what the military is interested in. The far-right argument against a repeal doesn’t make sense. Repealing DADT should be far less controversial than similar gay rights movements, such as gay marriage, in that it avoids infringing on any reli-gious beliefs.

It will be a signifi cant mark against the Obama administration if it proves unable to repeal the measure after two years with a majority in both the House and the Senate. What’s particularly unfortunate is that the president never took a strong stance on the position, choosing to be a bystander to Congress’ folly instead.

It’s no longer 1993; the public’s opinions have further progressed, and it’s time for the next victory, a far more meaningful one.


Rarely, it seems, does a politi-cian actually look for or care about signals that their constituents send them. If politicians do notice it, their attempt to act on that signal usually ends with empty rhetoric in their promise-fi lled speeches. For a president, this is even rarer because of the over-the-top promises you have to make in order to be elected. President Obama listened to his constituents when they told him they wanted healthcare reform, and then they rewarded him when it was passed by voting for Republicans in this year’s midterm elections…no wonder politicians don’t actually do anything!

President Obama has listened to the American people again. We have been clamoring about the national debt and outrageous gov-ernment spending (and rightfully so) for quite some time now, yet nothing has been done to keep the debt from going anywhere but up. Because of this, Obama announced yesterday that he will propose to Congress a two-year freeze on government wages. Image that- the government listening to the people it represents and not taking a pay raise for it. After the complete backfi re that was healthcare reform, I’m surprised Obama is still putting himself on the line and doing things the American people are telling him they want done. Not surprisingly, everyone doesn’t agree with the wage freeze.

In terms of their political lead-ers (outside of Obama), the left has remained quiet on this issue. How-ever, an intelligent, unbiased au-dience can infer that their silence speaks for itself. In general, liber-als feel that government is the an-swer to society’s problems. Given this sentiment, it’s not hard to see why they would be confused at the reluctance to reward the most important workforce in the nation. While liberal representatives have been mute on the subject so far,

the National Federation of Federal Employees has come out against the measure. While it is their job to advocate for their workers, it both-ers me that the union cannot see how glaringly necessary it is for everyone to tighten up in this time of mounting debt. I’m sure we will hear more from Democratic lead-ership as the days go by, but for right now they are being particu-larly hush-hush.

The right is all for this mea-sure. This is exactly the kind of thing Glenn Beck’s tea baggers have been asking for. With a new Congress and Senate on the way, this proposal by Obama must feel almost like a welcome gift. Conser-vatives’ top priority is to reel in the federal budget and cut down on the debt that will destroy us if we don’t do anything about it. With everyone else’s wages headed down over the past couple years, federal employ-ees have experienced nothing of the sort. According to Republicans, it is time for that trend to end. The fi rst step in bringing our debt down is to even out the generous salaries being paid to federal employees. Some conservatives like Representative Jason Chaffetz of Utah would even like to see pay cuts instead of wage freezes, by as much as 10 percent.

This race isn’t even close. The right has this issue by a coun-try mile. Although freezing federal wages (which, by the way, does

not in-clude military wages) will only save us $60 billion over the next 10 years according to CNN.com, it is a step in the right direction. Freezing federal wages is about more than just the money we will save. This is about the government showing the American people that we are all in this together and that the common folk’s hard time is the government’s hard time, too.

By proposing this bill, Obama has communicated to the American people that the government can and will get our defi cit back to at least a manageable level. We now under-stand that our government under-stands the urgency that needs to be displayed in solving this enormous problem.

Just because this freeze is be-ing proposed does not mean we can let our foot off the gas in terms of getting rid of our debt. For too long, we overspent ourselves in every category possible (yes, liberals, that includes welfare and yes, conserva-tives, that includes the military). We have a very large amount of work to do and a lot more meaning-ful spending cuts to make in order to come close to our ultimate goal. $60 billion is not going to save us from the edge of disaster, but it certainly sends the right message. Obama has to continue these initia-tives on a regular basis to keep this momentum going and really make a difference. We cannot afford to at-tack this problem with anything but the full vigor and enthusiasm we used to get ourselves into it.

Tyler Goodwin is a junior busi-ness administration and justice stud-ies major at UNH. With this column he hopes to show that it is possible to solve major issues without being divisive or following the doctrine of specifi c political groups.

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$60 billion is not going to save us from the edge of disaster, but it certainly sends the right message.

The Winter Parking Ban re-sumes at 12:00 a.m. on Dec. 1 and continues every night until April 1, 2011. During this time after-midnight parking on campus is restricted. Most campus lots, spaces and areas close directly at midnight, every night regardless of weather conditions. These lots remain closed and off-limits until 6:00 a.m. the following morning. If you need to be parked on cam-pus for any amount of time after midnight, you must make use of the following exceptions:

Some lots have a permanent exemption to the WPB: Section 4 of Lot A, the Visitor Center lot

and the West Edge lot remain open all night, whether or not it snows. Anybody can use these exempt lots, however normal permit re-quirements resume in these lots at 6:00 a.m. the following weekday (8:00 a.m. at the Visitor Center Lot). The Gables, Woodside, E/E, S t r a f - ford and Mast road I lots are also exempt, but limited to per-mit-holders only.

Certain lots have a condition-al exemption to the WPB that de-pends on daily decisions regarding

the weather and snow removal op-erations. Lot B and Lot C remain open all night and Lot H and Lot T until 2:00 a.m., unless there is a de-clared “snow emergency”. In the event of a snow emergency, these lots will close directly at midnight, so you must ascertain the correct nightly status before using one of these lots. The nightly status of these lots is posted on signs at

the lot entrances, and on recorded information on the WPB Alert telephone line, 862-1001. Remem-

ber, a conditional lot may remain closed for several nights after the snowfall ends. If the lots are open, anybody can use these conditional lots up to the appointed closure times, however normal permit re-quirements resume at 6:00 a.m. the following weekday.

Other things to note: Enforce-ment for the WPB starts exactly at midnight; vehicles not moved from an area closed to the WPB risk getting a ticket as early as 12:00. Vehicles parked in any lot closed to the WPB during a plowing op-eration will be ticketed and towed. If one exempt or conditionally ex-empt area is full, you must seek available space in one of the other exempt areas; you may not “spill”

into an adjacent lot or area that is not open. You must remember to correctly advise your guests of the WPB restrictions; all visitors are subject to the same enforcement. The WPB Connector operates un-til 2:00 a.m. every night that UNH is open (does not run during shut-down periods).

Expanded information is available online at http://www.unh.edu/transportation and on recorded message at extension 862-1001.

Mark Rubinstein is the Vice President for Student and Aca-demic Services at UNH.

Commuters take note: Winter Parking Ban begins on Dec. 1Mark Rubinstein

GUEST COLUMNIST

Most campus lots, spaces and areas close directly at midnight, every night regardless of weather conditions.

The Oddsmakerchance Nicki Minaj will retaliate against Lil’ Kim.

chance of rain on Wednesday.

chance that UNH Men’s Hockey will win this Sunday against Vermont.

chance that UGG boots are on their way out this season.

chance that Willow Smith will end up in

an open relationship like her parents.

chance that Razor scooters are making a come back on campus.

chance that Comcast will have a second random Internet blackout this school year.

chance that UNH almuni will fund another camera on campus.

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It is that time of year again to register for the next semester’s classes. Some of us have already had the chance to register; some of you are going through the process, while sophomores and freshman still have a few days to go. I can honestly say this is my least favorite time of the year. Not only is it the fi nal push of exams and papers before fi nals, but we also get to schedule appoint-ments with our advisors and worry whether you can get into a class you desperately need. Every semester when I get the email reminder about registration I can’t help but think of one of the nurses from “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest” calling out “Medication time.” Picking classes and meeting with advisors truly can be a mind numbing process. Thank God for open advising sessions and nice department administrators, because I’ve only met with my as-signed advisor twice. Something about our fi rst meeting gave me a bad impression of her. Maybe it was her saying that “she hates being an advisor and it is a waste of her time.” Yeah, that might have been it.

I am a history major, which is a pretty straightforward process. Take this class as a sophomore, take that class as a senior, pick a concentra-tion and take a class in each of these other categories for a total of 10 classes. This is a pretty similar for-mat for most majors, but it made me realize something. To graduate from UNH in four years you need to take four classes a semester that equals 32 classes in those four years. The disturbing part is that only four of those 10 classes can actually be in my concentration without taking extra classes. That means only four out of the 32 classes I take at UNH will be in my desired fi eld of study. I have already taken all four of those and I can honestly say I am nowhere close to being an expert in modern

United States history. I have done well and know more about Ameri-can history than the average student, but this makes me think: What have I (read: mostly my parents) actually been paying for?

I point my fi nger at the gen-eral education system, which might be the biggest waste of time and money for a college student who knows what he or she wants to do from day one. I can only take four classes in my concentration, but I have to take three sciences. Does that really make sense? Especially when those sciences are classes like Germs 101, Making Babies, NR 435 or other classes that might be interesting, but you can get an “A” without opening a book. Some gen-eral education classes can be tough, but in no way do they actually apply to anything I am slightly interested in. I tried taking some classes that can be related to my fi eld like po-litical science, psychology and en-vironmental history, but in the long run general education courses have been very disappointing.

I have taken all of the general education courses I need to gradu-

ate; I’m not sure if a single one of them has made me a more intelli-gent and well-rounded human be-ing. Sure I know arbitrary facts on random topics, but I can get that off Snapple caps or Wikipedia. The new Discovery Program that was initiated for this year’s freshmen sought to revamp the general edu-cation system, but I really don’t see too much of a difference. The whole idea of general education require-ments is to encourage students to have a broader fi eld of study while in college, but doesn’t that backfi re when students just take the easiest classes available? How many stu-dents will take general chemistry if there is another class called “Mak-ing Babies?”

General education courses are just an excuse for a university, which really is just a giant busi-ness, to make more money. If we are forced to take these classes, then we need to pay more to take other classes in our fi eld over the summer, or J-term or as a graduate student. Every semester there are dozens of classes I really want to take within my major, classes I’m truly inter-ested in and would enjoy doing the work for (how appalling that would be!), but instead I’m stuck in a ran-dom general education course that I have no interest in and don’t care about. That is not fair, and that is not right.

Stay classy, not UMassy,The New Hampshirite

The New Hampshirite is a mysterious UNH student who en-tertains much of the campus with his politically incorrect and re-alistic accounts of student life in Durham. You can fi nd his blog at http://unhblog.com.

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I have taken all of the general education courses I need to graduate; I’m not sure if a single one of them has made me a more intelligent and well-rounded human being.

Thumbs up to Thanksgiving dinner, Thanks-giving break and Thanksgiving football games!

Thumbs down to exams so close to fi nals.

Thumbs up to the UNH Sailing team being allowed to move into their newly fi nished boathouse tomorrow!

Thumbs down to no heat in some dorm rooms.

Thumbs up to Christmas time...which means Christmas music and egg nog! (Only 25 days!)

Thumbs down to homework over break. It’s called break for a reason!

Thumbs up to ski season!

Thumbs down to no snow in Durham yet!

Thumbs up the return of Dispatch in 2011!

Thumbs down to fi nal projects worth 50 percent of total grades.

Thumbs up to no fi nals! Only eight more days of class left!

Thumbs down to the rest of this week. Can we say Hell week has begun?

Thumbs up to Andrew Johnson.

Thumbs down to Cortland Finnegan.

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THUMBS UP/THUMBS DOWN ARE THE COLLECTED OPINIONS OF UNH STUDENTS, FACULTY AND STAFF. THEY DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THE OPINIONS OF TNH OR ITS STAFF.

“I will not censor my speech or anything about myself to please others. I’m all for gay rights to the fullest extent and do speak in support of it, but words are just words. People take the phrase, “That’s so gay” to be some sort of assault on gays and lesbians when it really isn’t.”

Anonymous

“I don’t think that being polite and refraining from being offensive is the same thing as censorship. However, I also think that it would be better for the government and these “hateful” people to actually do something like give gay couples equal rights, rather than passing laws against discriminatory speech.”

Anonymous

TNHonline.com comments of the week

These comments were left on “It’s time to recognize the power of words,” a Guest Op-Ed from the Nov. 19, 2010 issue of The New Hampshire.


“[B-CU] is a tremendous of-fensive football team from all in-dications,” UNH head coach Sean McDonnell said. “Forty-one points a game is a pretty good job. They’ve done a great job down there with that program; Brian Jenkins, their coach down there, has done a tre-mendous job restoring it and getting things going.”

B-CU’s quarterback Matt Johnson was the offensive player of the year in the MEAC conference. The senior led his team to several blowout wins, including a 70-10 win on opening day against Edward Waters.

On the other hand, UNH has several of the FCS nation’s best defensive players, including sopho-more linebacker Matt Evans, who in Saturday’s 38-19 beat down of Towson intercepted a pass for a touchdown while recording seven tackles.

The Wildcats fi nished the sea-son 7-4, but their record doesn’t refl ect how hard the team worked to get back in the playoffs for the seventh-straight year. After starting the season 2-3, with tough losses to Rhode Island and Maine, UNH won the necessary games to get back on the right track, going 5-1 in the fi nal

six games. New Hampshire defeated teams like Richmond, James Madi-son, Massachusetts, and Villanova to help secure the postseason spot.

Despite receiving a bye in the fi rst round, New Hampshire’s name wasn’t called until later on in the bracket, which made a few

of the players nervous and question whether they would hear their name called at all. But when the name ap-peared on the screen with Bethune-

Cookman, the team exploded in excitement.

“No I wasn’t cool, I was very nervous,” senior cornerback Dino Vasso said. “You just never know with things like that. It’s out of our hands and there’s no rhyme or rea-son to what they do, so I was a little bit nervous. We’ve had that feeling before when we’re waiting, and then our name pops up, and it’s just a relief.”

UNH’s win on Saturday against Towson was what sealed the deal ultimately for the Wildcats, as a win would have for sure put them on the inside. Junior quarterback Kevin Decker saw the majority of snaps in the game, as senior R.J. Toman went down with an ankle sprain early on. Toman will be good to go, however, in two weeks.

Decker completed 12 of 17 pass attempts for 82 yards and a touchdown. He also had a 20-yard scamper into the endzone for New Hampshire’s 38th and fi nal points.

With two weeks off, McDon-nell gave his team a few days off for the Thanksgiving holiday so players from all over the country could get the opportunity to go home and see family. They returned to the prac-tice fi eld on Sunday and will con-tinue their preparation for Daytona Beach this week.


FOOTBALL: The road to Frisco begins in Daytona Beach for Wildcats; will face Bethune-Cookman on Saturday

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERUNH’s Chris Chandler (6) goes to celebrate with tight end Kyle Auffray (19) after Auffray’s touchdown catch against Towson. The Wildcats beat the Tigers, 38-19, on Nov. 20.

points to go along with 12 rebounds, dominating down on the blocks and scoring the go-ahead basket with just 2.9 seconds remaining in the game on the way to UNH’s 70-66 win.

“Our team did a great job with execution today,” DiLiegro said. “It was a great win.”

The Wildcats outscored Brown, 34-16, in the paint, high-lighting their efforts to get the ball down low and stop taking so many outside shots. UNH shot 15 3-point-ers against Brown, the fi rst time all season the Wildcats had taken less than 20 three’s in a game.

“Coming out of the Sacred Heart and Holy Cross games, we were shooting too many three’s,”

Herrion said following the victory over Brown. “We’ve really worked on trying to get the ball inside and work inside-out.”

Abreu’s deft shooting touch has been missed, as UNH is hitting just 24.1 percent of its 3-pointers in the three games without Abreu. But if the Wildcats can continue to work the ball in the post they can rely on scoring from inside the three-point arc rather than outside of it.

Herrion would also like his pe-rimeter players to focus on getting into the lane rather than shooting outside shots. Co-captain Tyrone Conley, who has shot the most three’s out of any Wildcat this sea-son, led by example on Saturday, shooting just three treys while go-ing hard to the basket and getting to

the line nine times. Fellow guards Chandler Rhoads, Jordon Bronner and forward Ferg Myrick will be counted on to penetrate opposing defenses and get to the rim as well.

“Our perimeter guys [need] to try to put the ball on the fl oor a little bit more,” Herrion said after the Brown game. “We got to the foul line 27 times; that’s great for us.”

After averaging just 60.8 points per game last season, Herrion has high hopes for this year’s squad to put more points on the board, even without Abreu on the fl oor.

“To be 4-1 right now, we like where we’re at, but we got a lot of room to improve,” Herrion said. “I think this team can really, really get better offensively as we move on.”


ABREU: Injury will spur change in gameplan

The UNH men’s basketball team will take on the University of Connecticut (No. 7 AP/No. 9 ESPN-USA) at Gampel Pavilion on Tuesday, Nov. 30 (7:30 p.m.). The game will be televised live on SportsNet New York and aired live on the Wildcat Sports Radio Net-work. Links to live audio and live video, as well as live stats, will be available at www.UNHWildcats.com.

The Wildcats and Huskies

meet for the 116th time in the his-tory of the two programs. UNH has played UConn the fi fth most of any opponent in its 107-year history. UConn has won fi ve straight — all at home — in the series, which has been idol since 2005. The Huskies have won 12 in a row at home over-all. The Wildcats’ last win came in a 76-72 victory at home Jan. 9, 1983, while their last win at UConn was a 76-70 triumph Jan. 3, 1974. UConn handed the Wildcats an 86-44 defeat in the most recent meeting Dec. 18, 2005 at the Hartford Civic Center.

Blagoj Janev scored a career-high 24 points for the Wildcats against the second-ranked Huskies.

Rudy Gay led the Huskies in scoring with 14 points while Janev led the Wildcats with eight points. At the end of the half, Connecticut led 42-15.

Connecticut never lost momen-tum in the second half. Gay poured in a jumper from the top of the key to open the half for the Huskies. Tyrece Gibbs sank two free throws at 18:22 to score New Hampshire’s fi rst points in the half.

Connecticut went up by as many as 43 points with 8:19 re-maining in the game with the score at 73-30. The closest UNH came after that was when Janev sank a 3-pointer from the left wing with 5:33 remaining to cut the lead to 75-37. New Hampshire’s last basket was a 3-pointer from Janev from the left side with 1:31 remaining in the game.

Connecticut, which improved to 8-0 with the win, boasted four players who scored double fi gures and was led in scoring by Gay, who

was 10-for-19 from the fi eld. Ed Nelson registered a double-double for the Huskies with 12 points and 11 rebounds. Connecticut fi nished the game shooting 36-for-70 from the fi eld. They scored 40 points in the paint and scored 28 points off Wildcat turnovers.

Janev was the only player for New Hampshire to reach the double-digit mark with 24 points. Christensen followed with nine points and led New Hampshire with nine rebounds. UNH was 13-for-45 from the fi eld.

Wildcats travel to Storrs to face No. 7 UConnMEN’S BASKETBALL

Staff ReportsTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE


Lindsey Minton, junior goaltender on the University

of New Hampshire women’s ice hockey team, recorded a career-high 37 saves but sixth-ranked Bos-ton College scored three goals in the last 2:48 of regulation to rally for Sunday afternoon’s 3-1 Hockey East victory at the Whittemore Cen-ter.

UNH is now 8-7-0 overall and 2-5-0 in Hockey East while BC im-proved to 10-2-4, 6-1-2.

Minton stopped all nine shots she faced in the fi rst period as well as all eight in the second period to backbone the Wildcats to a 1-0 lead through 40 minutes. She stopped 20 of 22 shots – the Eagles netted an empty-net goal with fi ve seconds on the clock – in the fi nal frame to mark a personal high for a single period.

BC’s Kelli Stack, who entered the game ranked fi fth in the nation in goals per game and 10th in points per game, spearheaded the come-back with her second consecutive two-goal game. Stack corralled the rebound of Meagan Mangene’s shot

along the left boards, skated to the slot and wristed shot into the upper-right corner to tie the score, 1-1, at 17:12. She struck again 46 seconds later off another rebound, this time off the stick of Danielle Welch.

UNH pulled Minton in favor of an extra skater with 40 seconds re-maining but could not sustain pres-sure in the offensive zone. Katelyn Kurth intercepted an attempted dump-in at the blue line and played the puck along the right boards to Mary Restuccia, who, with her back to the net, backhanded a shot into the open net at 19:55 to seal the vic-tory.

BC netminder Molly Schaus was credited with 12 saves.

The Wildcats went on their fi rst of three power-play opportunities at 3:55 of the fi rst period. They eventu-ally were able to get a pass to Kris-tina Lavoie in the slot, but her shot was turned aside by Schaus. UNH maintained possession, however, and set up a low, hard, screened shot from the top of the right circle by Courtney Birchard that Schaus stopped.

Two minutes later, Stack was unmarked in the slot and one-timed a shot that Minton blocked aside.

BC had a dangerous fl urry with three minutes remaining in the opening stanza in which Minton denied Ali-son Szlosek’s initial shot from the right circle and Caitlin Walsh on the rebound in the low slot.

New Hampshire scored 43 sec-onds into the second stanza to take a 1-0 lead. Birchard executed a head-man pass from the defensive zone to Hannah Armstrong in the center

face-off circle. Armstrong quickly backhanded a pass to the right wing and Brittany Skudder skated onto the loose puck. Skudder advanced to the low post and beat Schaus fi ve-hole for the goal, her fi rst of the season.

With BC on its fi fth power play of the game and just over two minutes left in the second period, Restuccia was positioned in the low

slot to redirect a shot on goal that Minton had to make an acrobatic save to preserve the one-goal lead.

The Eagles nearly tied the game on their sixth – and fi nal – power-play opportunity early in the third period when Stack’s initial shot from the left circle was stopped by Minton and Walsh’s bid off the rebound deep on the right side car-omed off the near post.

UNH called time out at the outset of a power play that began at 14:33. One minute later, however, its was Stack that created a danger-ous scoring bid in which her shot from the slot hit Minton and trickled wide of the left post. The Wildcats quickly went on the attack, how-ever, and generated a succession of shots by Birchard, Skudder and Ju-lie Allen that had to be turned aside by Schaus.

BC’s string of goals began 39 seconds after killing of that power play.

The ‘Cats fi nished the game 0-for-3 (fi ve shots) on the power play while the visitors went 0-for-6 (10).

New Hampshire returns to ac-tion Dec. 1 (7 p.m.) at home against Northeastern University.

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERFreshman Hannah Armstrong recorded an assist on UNH’s only goal of the game in the ‘Cats’ 3-1 loss to BC on Sunday.

UNH falls to Eagles despite Minton’s effortsStaff Reports

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

1 lead at 11:53 when Thompson scored his seventh goal of the sea-son. Mike Sislo led a rush down the left side of the slot and dropped a pass diagonally back to Thompson, whose shot from the inner-right cir-cle beat Merrimack goalie Joe Can-nata (25 saves). Matt Campanale was also credited with an assist.

The Warriors called time out with 2:23 remaining and pulled Cannata in favor of an extra skater. They kept pressure in the offensive zone but had two shots blocked and two others stopped by DiGirolamo before the ‘Cats called a timeout with 1:25 to play. MC fi red two shots on goal, including one by Joe Cucci from the slot with one second on the clock.

Merrimack’s best scoring op-portunity in the fi rst period came with 90 seconds on the clock, when Barton was denied in the low slot by DiGirolamo and then Brendan Ellis

followed with a shot that caromed off the left post.

Four minutes into the second period, the Warriors’ Da Costa ma-neuvered around the defense in the left circle to advance to the front doorstep, where he lifted a shot off the crossbar.

Three minutes later, with both teams down a skater due to minor penalties, DeSimone skated behind the defense and rifl ed a shot from the inner-right circle that was turned aside by Cannata.

MC had a couple of dangerous chances in the closing minutes on redirections in front of the net, but DiGirolamo denied both Barton and Ryan Flanigan to keep the Warriors scoreless.

New Hampshire returns to ac-tion Thursday at UMass-Lowell. The Wildcats’ next home game is Sunday against Vermont at the Whittemore Center.

BC 3 UNH 1

Senior Mike Beck and UNH will play at UMass-Lowell on Thursday before returning home to play Vermont on Sunday.

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

HOCKEY: UNH beats Merrimack behind DiGirolamo’s career nightContinued from page 16

defender down, spun towards the baseline and put up a shot from un-der the backboard that hit off the glass and bounced in to give the Wildcats a one-point lead.

UNH led 66-64 with 8.1 sec-onds to play when a pair of Tucker Halpern free throws knotted the game. Sophomore Chandler Rhoads received the inbounds pass and im-mediately pushed the ball up the fl oor, going coast-to-coast before dropping a pass to DiLiegro, who was all alone on the right block. DiLiegro easily layed the ball in off the glass to give his team a 68-66 lead with 2.9 ticks on the clock.

The ensuing inbounds pass was intercepted at half court by Conley, who was then fouled. He sunk both free throws with one second remain-ing to seal the win.

Rhoads added six points and four rebounds, while handing out fi ve assists to go along with zero turnovers.

After a pair of Halpern free throws opened the scoring 16 sec-onds into the contest, a 9-0 run gave the Wildcats a seven-point lead just three minutes in. A Halpern 3-point-er cut it to four before two DiLiegro buckets sandwiched a Conley trey to make it 16-5 with 14:14 to play.

The lead was 25-13 after a De-Andray Buckley tip-in with 6:52 to go, but a 7-2 Brown run sliced the advantage to seven. The Bears pulled within 29-23, but the Wild-cats were able to pull away again be-fore the half. Bronner hit a 3-pointer

as time expired, and UNH went into the locker room leading 36-26.

The Wildcat lead edged to 40-29 just 2:05 into the second half, but seven straight points from the Bears cut their defi cit to four at 15:47. Just 30 seconds later, the ‘Cats stopped the bleeding when Rhoads collected a long rebound, pushed the ball up

the left side of the fl oor and found a streaking Conley for an alley-oop dunk that re-charged the Lundholm crowd.

The Wildcats return to action Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. when they take on the University of Connecti-cut (5-0) at Gampel Pavilion.

BASKETBALL: DiLiegro’s last-second bucket leads UNH to victory over Brown UniversityContinued from page 16

Senior center Dane DiLiegro led the Wildcats to victory over Brown on Saturday, recording 23 points and 12 rebounds.

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sportssportsTuesday The New HampshireNovember 30, 2010

Matt DiGiro-lamo recorded a career-high

41 saves and Paul Thompson tallied a goal and an assist to lift the sixth-ranked UNH men’s hockey team to Saturday night’s 2-1 Hockey East victory against 18th-ranked Mer-

rimack College at the Whittemore Center.

UNH improved to 7-2-4 over-all and 5-1-2 in Hockey East by re-maining unbeaten (3-0-3) at home this season. The Wildcats also ex-tended their league-game unbeaten streak at the Whittemore Center to 24 games (17-0-7). Merrimack, which had defeated seventh-ranked Boston College on Friday to push

its unbeaten streak to fi ve games (3-0-2), is now 5-3-4, 4-3-3.

Following two scoreless peri-ods of play, the Warriors capitalized on a power play to take a 1-0 lead at 4:12 of the third period. Joe Cucci won possession in the left corner and moved the puck to Stephane Da Costa in the lower-left circle. Da Costa quickly threw the puck to the top of the crease and Chris Barton

redirected a shot into the net.That lead was short-lived, how-

ever, as UNH rallied to tie the score at 7:15 on a goal by Damon Kipp, whose shot from the right circle found the upper-right corner of the cage. Thompson, with the pass from the slot to Kipp, and Mike Beck set up the goal.

New Hampshire took a 2-1

The scene was perfect for the Wildcats last Sunday morning as the team erupted in cheers and hugs in the locker room during the FCS Playoff Selection Show. The Wild-cats were selected as one of the teams to play in the postseason, giv-ing them an opportunity to continue their recent success in the regular season.

UNH will take on Bethune-Cookman in Daytona Beach, Fla., on Dec. 4.

B-CU comes in with a 10-1 record, with the team’s only loss coming on the last day of the regu-lar season to Florida A&M. UNH received a bye in the fi rst round in the fi rst season the FCS has imple-mented the new playoff rules and added teams.

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DAY 24With their win over Merrimack on Saturday, the UNH men’s hockey team increased their in-league unbeaten streak at the Whittemore Center to 24 games.

IN THIS ISSUE-Lindsey Minton’s 37 saves weren’t enough to save the women’s hockey team as the ‘Cats fell, 3-1, to BC on Sunday. Page 15

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UNH BROWNSaturday, Lundholm Gym, Durham

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UNH MERRIMACKSaturday, Whittemore Center, Durham

22 11WOMEN’S HOCKEY (8-7, 2-5)

UNHBCSunday, Whittemore Center, Durham

33 11WOMEN’S BASKETBALL (1-3, 0-0)

UNHHOLY CROSSTuesday, Worcester, Mass.

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UNH 70 Brown 66

MEN’S HOCKEY

See FOOTBALL on page 14

‘Cats to take their talents to Daytona BeachFOOTBALL

DiGirolamo gives warrior effort in win

Brandon LawrenceSPORTS EDITOR

Will take on Bethune-Cookman in FCS playoffs Saturday

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERThe UNH football team celebrates after the announcement that they would be traveling to Daytona Beach, Fla. to take on the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats in the FCS playoffs.

UNH 2 Merrimack 1

See HOCKEY on page 15

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Dane does it again


Senior Dane DiL-iegro recorded his 10th-career dou-

ble-double with 23 points and 12 rebounds, and netted the go-ahead basket with 2.8 seconds on the clock as the UNH men’s basketball team pulled out a 70-66 victory against Brown University on Saturday af-ternoon at Lundholm Gymnasium.

The Wildcats improve to 3-0 at home and are now 4-1 overall for the fi rst time since 2004-05. The ‘Cats have won four straight at

Lundholm, and are 15-4 (.789) in their last 19 games at home dating back to 2007-08. The Bears fall to 3-2 on the season.

DiLiegro, the America East Player of the Game, was very effi -cient en route to game highs in both points and rebounds, as he was 8 for 10 from the fi eld and 7 for 8 at the foul line in 34 minutes. Classmate Tyrone Conley poured in 19 points on 5-of-8 shooting from the fl oor and 8 of 9 at the stripe. Ferg Myrick extended his double-digit scoring streak to six games with 12 points in a career-high 36 minutes.

Peter Sullivan led Brown with 20 points, eight boards, two assists, and four steals.

With UNH trailing 62-61 with 1:17 to play, DiLiegro backed his

DiLiegro sinks go-ahead shot as UNH defeats Brown

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Team identity will change in wake of Abreu injury

MEN’S BASKETBALL

In the wake of Alvin Abreu’s season-ending injury, the UNH men’s basketball team has had to fi nd ways to win without its most prolifi c scorer.

A team that had struggled to score even with Abreu in the lineup, the Wildcats have been working on establishing a new identity without their senior shooting guard, from a team that relies on the three-point shot to one that works from the in-side out.

Central to that plan is senior Dane DiLiegro, starting center for the Wildcats. While DiLiegro has always been a defensive presence

and rebounding machine, he has not taken a particularly large role in the UNH offense in his career. Until now, that is.

With Abreu down, UNH head coach Bill Herrion said that the Wildcats will look for DiLiegro down in the post more often in order to generate offense.

“Every day, he’s got to get a little bit better for us offensively,” Herrion said of DiLiegro after the team’s win over Holy Cross on Nov. 20. “He’s a warrior.”

Already, the senior center has responded to more offensive touch-es, most notably in the Wildcats’ last game against Brown University on Saturday. DiLiegro poured in 23

Justin DoubledaySTAFF WRITER

See ABREU on page 14

-The men’s basketball will face their toughest test of the season when they travel to face No. 7 UConn. Page 14

We would give Andre Johnson the game ball too after his awesome P.J. Stock-esque beatdown of Cortland Finnegan on Sunday.

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