The Equinox 2-7-13

Page 1

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black

The Equinox The student voice of Keene State College

VOL. 65, ISSUE #10

THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

[ Keene-­Equinox.com ]

Crime alerts threaten students’ safety

Four KSC students victims of knife-point robbery KARINA BARRIGA ALBRING

NEWS EDITOR

EMMA CONTIC / GRAPHICS EDITOR PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY EMMA CONTIC / GRAPHICS EDITOR

A subject with knife and mask wounded a student early last Saturday in the corner of Water and Willow Streets, about half a mile from KSC.

Liquor violations and fake IDs show up in Keene’s night scene ERIC WALKER

EQUINOX STAFF Last month the New Hampshire Liquor Commission prohibited two Keene establishments from selling alcohol for a three-day period following violations that occurred last September. According to the New Hampshire Liquor Commission’s enforcement division’s records, Cobblestone Ale House, 151 Main St., Keene, N.H., was cited for selling an alcoholic beverage to an individual who was visibly intoxicated or who a reasonable and prudent person would know is intoxicated. The Liquor Commission ÀQHG &REEOHVWRQH ZLWK assessed four points to their liquor license, and suspended their license from Jan. 16 to 19. The Liquor Commission also required Cobblestone employees who were working the night of the incident to attend an alcohol education program. In addition

the commission cited Cobblestone for allowing an employee to consume an alcoholic beverage while on the job, which UHVXOWHG LQ D DGPLQLVWUDWLYH Ă€QH Cobblestone didn’t open for the three-day period that their license was suspended. On their Facebook page and on a sign outside the bar, they stated that they were undergoing renovations. The Sentinel reported Cobblestone owner Jeffrey A. Barden declining to comment on the liquor license suspension, but when asked of the timing of the renovations had to do with the suspension he said, “You could say that.â€? Repeated attempts were made by The Equinox to contact Barden but he chose not to comment. A Cobblestone bartender conĂ€UPHG WKH EDU GLG XQGHUJR UHQRvations, such as the installation of new table tops, but refused to FRPPHQW RQ DQ\ VSHFLĂ€FV RI WKH

Âť Â LIQUOR Â VIOLATIONS, Â A3

EQUINOX STAFF As a result of the shooting in Newtown, Conn. there is an increasing debate about emergency plans all across the nation. Here at Keene State College, there has always been an emergency plan for different scenarios dating back to before the Virginia Tech shooting when the Emergency Operations Plan was PDGH LQ According to Director of Campus Safety Amanda Warman there haven’t been any changes in the emergency procedures. However, there have been some tweaks and follow-up on the current plan. Warman said, “We did post new emergency procedures in the classrooms. We originally posted them LQ EXW , ZDQWHG PDNH VXUH we updated them.â€? In addition to making sure emergency cards were posted, Warman said, “Tabletop training is being done with staff.â€? Warman explained tabletop training is creating a scenario and talking through what to do if there DUH VSHFLĂ€F LQVWDQFHV DQG WKHQ XSGDWH WKH VFHQDULR VR RIĂ€FHUV EHLQJ trained have to respond to it. Warman said Campus Safety is trying to set up a drill at some point with the Keene Police Department

Index >> Section A: Campus News....1-3 Opinions ............4-5 Student Life......6-10

Section B: A&E..................1-4 Nation/World..5-6 Sports.............7-10

and Keene Fire Department in the future to help everyone on campus prepare physically. However, regarding the physiological impact any emergency situation may involve, Warman stated, “I don’t think any campus is ever really ready for the full effect of what a shooter can do to a campus, and I don’t just mean the time that they are shooting. If somebody is really determined and nobody noticed the behavior or reported things they write in a paper or post on Facebook, or anything like those things and that person becomes an active shooter, their intent is to do some damage. No campus is prepared. If one person on your campus is injured, it’s devastating.� One thing Warman pointed out was it might not always be an active shooter situation which creates tension. There are other issues that arise on campus such as someone becoming suicidal, someone suffering from depression or even someone struggling in his or her class. Warman said, “We need to be aware of what is happening around us.� If students or staff see a behavioral problem they can report it to following areas as listed in the MyKSC announcement

Âť Â CAMPUS Â SAFETY, Â A2

Top Headlines >>

- Getting bounced from the bars : A4 - Campus wi-fi goes off-line : A10 - Different strokes for Thorne folks : B1 - New international fish in the water : B10

Âť Â ROBBERY, Â A3

KSC earns five grand

Is Campus Safety prepared for potential emergency situations? BRIAN CLEMMENSON

The good old times when walking around Keene at any time of the day or the night seemed perfectly safe and usual for the college students are now long gone. Since the EHJLQQLQJ RI WZR DUPHG UREberies directly related to the college have been registered and the student body’s sense of safety is certainly disturbed. Keene State College sophomore Molly McCarthy said she feels unsafe in Keene. “You hear about criminal incidents like every week. That is not QRUPDO 7KHUH LV GHĂ€QLWHO\ VRPHthing going on here,â€? McCarthy said. She said she tries to avoid walking DORQH DQG VSHFLĂ€FDOO\ GRHV QRW JR into dark areas. The most disturbing incident so far occurred last weekend. While the KSC Ice Hockey Club team cheered up Friday night with a victory over the University of Southern Maine, criminal activity made the end of the night disturbing and frightening. A knife-point robbery and DVVDXOW RFFXUUHG DURXQG D P RQ Saturday, Feb. 2, about a half-mile away from Keene State College at the intersection of Water Street and Willow Street, reported the Keene Police Department. The four victims were KSC colOHJH VWXGHQWV FRQĂ€UPHG WKH &ROOHJH /LDLVRQ 2IĂ€FHU .DWLH &RUEHWW RQ 6DWXUGD\ DURXQG S P 2QH RI WKH victims was injured with non-life threatening wounds to the throat. Campus Safety informed the student body and faculty members about the incident on Saturday at QRRQ WKURXJK D HPDLO QRWLĂ€FDWLRQ Campus Safety stated students should “use caution and be aware when walking near or around

campus, walk with others and avoid shortcuts and poorly lit areas.â€? According to a press release, in the early hours of Saturday four individuals approached a group of four male students, threatened the victims with a knife and demanded the victims turn over their possessions. According to the police report of the scene, three out of the four suspects wore knitted masks. Police said the wounded student cooperated with the suspects’ demand, yet he was still injured. According to Union Leader, the student was then taken to the Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene, where he was treated. The Keene Police Department stated the suspect who appeared to be the leader took off his mask before the victims ran away. He was described as a white male approxiPDWHO\ Ă€YH IHHW QLQH LQFKHV LQ KHLJKW approximately in his late teens, wore glasses and had blonde hair. Police indicated during the incident he was wearing white “camo-typeâ€? pants with a white sweater and a dark knit mask. KPD informed the State Police and the local police used the department’s K-9 handler to try to locate the suspects. The search provided no further information. In their press release, the police described the event as “random in nature.â€? The Keene State College OLDLVRQ RIĂ€FHU .DWLH &RUEHWW VDLG “we believe it might not have been planned‌ the victims might not have been ‘targeted’ by the attackers.â€? When questioned about the age of the presumed attacker Corbett said on Saturday afternoon,â€?it is difĂ€FXOW WR WHOO LW FRXOG EH VRPHRQH WKDW ZDV Âľ

EMILY FEDORKO / PHOTO EDITOR

Students carved over 1,800 pumpkins on Pumpkin Lobotomy on Oct. 19, 2012.

Hard work during Pumpkin Festival pays LQ FDVK IRU .6& FRPPXQLW\ VHUYLFH RÔ€FH KARINA BARRIGA ALBRING

KSC students and faculty members. NEWS EDITOR However, the last Pumpkin Fest Efforts put in rewarded Keene State Pumpkin Festival have College with much paid off every year. The more than warm graticheerful atmosphere tude. of an entire commuLast Friday, Feb. 1, nity coming together the college received seemed like a priceless D FKHFN IRU IRU reward for many Keene its contribution and residents, including involvement in the

follow us >>

facebook.com/kscequinox @kscequinox

3XPSNLQ )HVWLYDO expressed Maryann Lindberg, vice president for Advancement at KSC. The Equinox reported last semester, the organizers of Pumpkin Festival, Let it Shine Inc. received DOPRVW IURP Discover Card after

Âť Â FIVE Â GRAND, Â A3

Contact Us >> Newsroom: 358-2413 Executive Editor: 358-2414 Advertising/Business: 358-2401 Newsroom: Questions? Contact wcyr@keene-equinox.com or rglavey@ keene-equinox.com

Template 022308 JJP

Black NEWS / A2

CAMPUS SAFETY report  log

Week of: Jan. 27 Monday,  Jan.  28 2:48  a.m.  Owl’s  Nest  9:  Student  with  allergic  reaction  to  medication. 12:42  p.m.  Spaulding  Gym:  Multiple  thefts  from  locker  rooms.  2:22  p.m.  Madison  Lot:  Vehicle  struck  a  parked  car  and  fled.  8:28  p.m.  Carle  Hall:  706  [marijuana] 10:22  p.m.  Carle  Hall:  706  [marijuana]  Tuesday,  Jan.  29 9:22  p.m.  Carle  Hall:  Vandalism,  property  damage.  Wednesday,  Jan.  30 12:04  p.m.  Zorn  Dinning  Commons:  Theft  of  purse.  Thursday,  Jan.  31 10:19  p.m.  Owl’s  Nest  9:  Fire  Alarm. 10:52  p.m.  Hollaway  Hall:  Intoxicated  female. Friday,  Feb.  1 3:30  a.m.  Randall  Hall:  Intoxicated  female  in  lobby. 4:46  a.m.  Holloway:  Student  requested  a  ride  to  Cheshire  Medical  Center.   6:35  a.m.  Heat  plant:  Broken  window.   3:21  p.m.  Carle  Hall:  Female  having  seizure.   Saturday,  Feb.  2 12:06  a.m.  Holloway  Hall:  Intoxicated  subject  banging  on  the  front  door  waiting  to  be  let  in.  12:34  a.m  Owl’s  Nest  8:  Intoxicated  subject 1:12  a.m.  Pondside  3:  Loud  screaming  behind  the  build-­ ing.  06:32  a.m.  Monadnock  Hall:  RA  reported  a  student  with  a  burn  on  her  hand. 10:34  a.m.  Monadnock  Hall:  Older  male  walking  around  the  building.  11:24  p.m.  Holloway  Hall:  Odor  investigation.  Sunday,  Feb.  4 1:26  a.m.  Butler  Court:  Simple,  not  aggravated  assault. 3:30  a.m.  Monadnock  Hall:  Intoxicated  female.  1:59  p.m.  Fiske  Quad:  Suspicious  circumstances 3:22  p.m.  Huntress  Hall:  Theft  from  student’s  room. Â

THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

[ Keene-­Equinox.com ]

Chef and dietitian give KSC students gluten-free answers ERIC WALKER

EQUINOX STAFF For an individual with Celiac Disease ingesting a piece of food that’s come in contact with a gluten-containing item (most breads DQG SURFHVVHG IRRGV FDQ lead to excruciating stomach pains, violent vomiting and other unpleasant symptoms within the hour. Keene State College’s Registered Dietitian Rebecca Briggs and Executive Chef Rich Ducharme hosted two information sessions in the Zorn Dining Commons on Feb. 4 to inform students with gluten-free diets on what the DC has to offer, answer any TXHVWLRQV DQG DGGUHVV DQ\ concerns students may have had. Gluten-free diets have grown in popularity over the past few years with the increased awareness and diagnosis of Celiac Disease. Individuals with Celiac Disease experience intestinal PXFRVDO LQà DPPDWLRQ DQG PXFRVDO LQMXU\ ZKHQ WKH\ encounter the protein gluten, which is found in wheat, rye, and barley, according to the National Institute of Health 1,+ &HOLDF 'LVHDVH DIIHFWV between .5 and 1 percent of the population, also stated by the NIH. With the increased labeling of gluten-free foods on today’s store-shelves, many SHRSOH KDYH IDOVHO\ HTXDWHG the terminology with weightORVV DQG RWKHU KHDOWK EHQHÀWV However, gluten-free diets have not been proven to be EHQHÀFLDO IRU WKRVH ZLWKRXW Celiac Disease or a gluten intolerance. Briggs noted gluten-free forms of foods that usually contain gluten, such as breads and pastas, tend to be calorically higher than their gluten-containing counterparts. There are currently no effective medical treatments for Celiac Disease other than simply abstaining from gluten. The exact amount of gluten that one with the

KARINA BARRIGA ALBRING / NEWS EDIITOR

Valley Vegan station at the dining commons is one of the locations that often offers KSC students gluten-free options for lunch and dinner.

disease can safely consume is hard to say because the severity to which the degree affects people varies, and the regulations on “gluten-free� labeling differ from country to country. In the United States the )'$ UHTXLUHV IRRGV ZLWK such a label to contain less than 20 parts per million of gluten. Ducharme admitted there’s no way to guarantee the gluten-free options in the DC are 100 percent gluten free because of the fact that gluten can ambient and although they take all the proper precautions, it would be impossible to guarantee such, unless they created an entirely separate gluten-free dining establishment and separate the student with the

intolerance. Briggs said the dining staff spent the last few months furthering the expansion of their efforts to provide a variety of foods to students with gluten-free diets, as well as re-educating their employees on how to safely prepare and handle gluten-free foods. During the informational session Ducharme encouraged students to form relationships with the staff to further improve their dining experience. He spoke incredibly highly of the chefs and servers, and persisted that if the students make an effort to inform the staff of their needs, they will not be met with animosity, but rather people who genuinely want to help.

Ducharme said of the dining staff; “They’re receptive to you guys, they’re looking for you guys. If you ask them [about gluten-free foods], they would understand what you’re saying, every one of them.â€? Briggs added, “They’re DVNLQJ TXHVWLRQV WKH\ ZDQW to do this right. They know it’s important; they know how crucial it is to you guys and you staying well.â€? 7KH '& Ă€UVW LQFRUSRUDWHG JOXWHQ IUHH RSWLRQV DERXW Ă€YH years ago, and now offer a gluten-free station, which includes a refrigerator and shelf housing only glutenfree foods, as well as non-gluten-contaminated appliances (toaster, toaster-oven, and PLFURZDYH The gluten-free station

also offers a daily hand-out on what gluten-free foods are available at the other serving stations. Gluten-free foods at the other locations (Elm City (DWHU\ 9DOOH\ 9HJDQ DUH clearly labeled on the nutritional information signs that are placed beside all prepared dishes. Students with gluten-free diets (or any dietary restricWLRQV IRU WKDW PDWWHU QHHG to self-disclose to the staff in order to be fully accommodated. Briggs said the number of gluten-free students she’s currently aware of resides in the mid-20s, but doesn’t know how many of those have Celiac Disease, a gluten LQWROHUDQFH RU MXVW D JOXWHQ free preference. Many students with-

Eric Walker can be contacted at ewalker@keene-equinox.com

STUDENT ASSEMBLY

&$0386 6$)(7<

KSC interim president Jay Kahn announces tuition increases

(Cont. from A1)

from Campus Safety that was posted on Jan. 18. For example, a concern about a staff member or faculty member anyone can contact Human Resources Director Kim Harkness. In addition, a concern about a student can be directed to Counseling Center or the Dean of Students Gail Zimmerman. Finally, any concern can be directed to Campus Safety. All of the Residence Halls are able to be locked in case of an emergency and two thirds of the academic buildings can be locked down. Warman said that Campus Safety and KSC are working on getting the other buildings locked in emergency situations. However, a few students indicated the campus is not doing enough. Senior Mike Murphy said, “I would like to see a little more.â€? He referred to more Campus 6DIHW\ RIĂ€FHUV DURXQG GXULQJ the nighttime hours patrolling after the Nov. 17, 2012, robbery on campus when a student was robbed at gunpoint for his sweatshirt. A student also said, “I think WKDW WKH &DPSXV 6DIHW\ RIĂ€cers should be allowed to carry DURXQG JXQV OLNH UHDO SROLFH RIĂ€cers.â€? Information provided by Associate Director of Campus Safety Ethan Kipnes stated that DOO QHZ RIĂ€FHUV DUH UHTXLUHG WR FRPSOHWH D VLJQLĂ€FDQW DPRXQW RI training as part Campus Safety’s QHZ RIĂ€FHU WUDLQLQJ SURJUDP 2IĂ€FHUV VSHQG KRXUV RI WLPH learning the layout and geography of KSC properties, reviewing college policies and procedures and local ordinances and laws. $OO QHZ RIĂ€FHUV DUH DOVR UHTXLUHG to complete several train-

out gluten-free diets may be unknowingly consuming gluten-free foods in the DC daily. For example, almost HYHU\ VDODG GUHVVLQJ Ă DYRU has been converted to a gluten-free variety. Gluten-free student Caylyn Bowser praised the recent improvements in the availability of prepared gluten-free foods alongside all the other options at the different stations. “It’s so nice to actually be DEOH WR MXVW JR LQ OLQH DQG JHW KRW IRRG MXVW OLNH HYHU\ERG\ else and not have to be the person taking ten minutes MXVW WR JHW WKH IRRG DQG WKHQ JR Ă€QG \RXU IULHQGV ,W¡V MXVW really helpful,â€? she said.

KARINA BARRIGA ALBRING

NEWS EDITOR - Dr. Kahn said out-of-state tuition will increase in three percent while in-state tuition will raise in $245 in the next academic year. - Kahn announced that the presidential search committee will announce the next KSC president by the end of march. - Interim president Kahn encouraged students to attend meetings and get involved in the search for the next president. EMMA CONTIC / GRAPHICS EDITOR

“If a person becomes an active shooter, they intend to do damage. No campus is prepared.â€? -­-­AMANDA WARMAN DIRECTOR OF CAMPUS SAFETY

ing videos and online training modules, including Emergency Response. According to Campus Safety, it takes a minimum of six to eight weeks to complete this before RIÀFHUV DUH UHOHDVHG WR ZRUN RQ their own. In addition, Campus Safety RIÀFHUV DUH UHTXLUHG WR FRPSOHWH D &DPSXV 6DIHW\ RIÀFHUV WUDLQLQJ DFDGHP\ LQ WKHLU ÀUVW \HDU RI employment. According to Kipnes, this is a week-long live-in academy which includes 50 or more hours of classroom and practical training.

Also, in case of medical emergenFLHV RIĂ€FHUV DUH UHTXLUHG WR EH &35 FHUWLĂ€HG DQG OHDUQ KRZ WR use an AED (automated external GHĂ€EULOODWRU ZKLFK GLDJQRVHV and treats several cardiac problems. $IWHU QHZ RIĂ€FHUV JR WKURXJK the six to eight weeks of iniWLDO WUDLQLQJ WKH\ DUH UHTXLUHG regular training on an annual basis. Information also provided by Kipnes states, each summer &DPSXV 6DIHW\ RIĂ€FHUV FRPSOHWH a week of in-service, which generally accounts for an additional 20 to 30 hours of training for each

RIĂ€FHU RQ D YDULHW\ RI WRSLFV 2IĂ€cers also complete a variety of specialized training such as Bike Patrol Training to Emergency Response Training. Kipnes also stated, on average WKH SDVW IHZ \HDUV HDFK RIĂ€FHU has 50 or more hours of additional training each year. Finally, Warman pointed out that Campus Safety is prepared. Also they are ready for the more typical events statistically such DV D Ă€UH VWXGHQWV JHWWLQJ KLW E\ cars, or students dying of alcohol poisoning. Even assaults are something that happen more commonly on a college campus. Warman stated, “We have to be prepared for everything.â€? Brian Clemmenson can be contacted at bclemmenson@ keene-equinox.com

-Kahn stated that former Student Body President Katylin William is still part of the presidential search committee. -Kahn announced that students evaluations will be complied online rather than in paper. -The men’s golf club was recognized as a new student organization on campus. -The geography club will receive $4.500 WR KHOS ÀQDQFH D WULS WR D JHRJUDSK\ FRQference in Los Angeles next April. Only KSC geography seniors will be attend the HYHQW 7KH\ ZLOO SUHVHQW WKHLU ÀQDO SURMect. -The Academic Enrichment Program’s UHTXHVW IRU WR ÀQDQFH D /XQFKHRQ was approved. Karina Barriga Albring can be contacted at kbarriga@keene-equinox.com.

Template 022308 JJP

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

NEWS / A3

[ Keene-­Equinox.com ]

),9( *5$1'

/,4825 9,2/$7,21

(Cont. from A1)

(Cont. from A1)

violation or license suspension. According to the Liquor Commission’s website, servers of alcohol at licensed establishments should be aware of the following visual signs of intoxication: the odor of alcohol, stumbles, falls, staggers, loud, bloodshot eyes, slurred speech, disheveled, loss of coordination, impaired judgment and foul language. If the sale of alcohol to an intoxicated person purposely or recklessly causes bodily injury, the state may make the offense a Class A misdemeanor which could result in a Ă€QH DQG RU RQH \HDU LQ MDLO The Liquor Commission also suspended the liquor license of Romy’s Market, 89 Marlboro St., Keene, N.H., for the same three-day period after it was cited for selling alcohol to someone under the age of 21. Romy’s also faced the same Ă€QH DQG KDG IRXU SRLQWV assessed to its liquor license. The Sentinel reported Romy’s Market owner Yogi Patel said the minor used a fake ID which the employee who was working at the time didn’t realize was a forgery. During the three-day suspension Romy’s Market’s refrigerators and shelves had signs which read, “No sale of alcohol on January 16, 17, 18. Please do not touch any alcohol products. Sorry for the inconvenience.â€? An employee at Romy’s Market who did not want to give his name, but claimed to be Patel’s cousin, said that Patel was currently out of the country, and nobody at the store had anything to say on the matter other than what was published in The Sentinel’s article. As The Equinox reported last March, the use of fake IDs in Keene is no rare occurrence. One bartender who asked to remain anonymous said they see waves of students trying to use fake IDs at the beginning of each semester, and bartenders at some establishments are rewarded with bonuses for spotting them. Cumberland Farms employee

EMMA CONTIC / GRAPHICS EDITOR

Christine Coushaine said she sees fakes “all the time.� Cumberland Farms has an ID scanner which can spot if an ID is valid. However it’s not foolproof and some higher-end fakes are able to pass through. She said all Cumberland Farms workers are educated on how to spot fakes from an instructional book before they start the job. She said

52%%(5< (Cont. from A1)

However, KPD is now investigating two suspects in this case. According to Sergeant Christopher Simonds from KPD, the two suspects allegedly involved in the knife-point robbery are two juvenile males. According to the policeman, the two suspects matched the descriptions given by the college students that were attacked. The young males were found in early hours on Sunday walking on Gilbo Avenue. Simonds said the minors have been turned over to their parents. “We cannot detain them, they are minor and they belong with their parents,â€? Simmons expressed. According to him, the investigation is still open. At the time this issue was submitted for SULQW .3' KDG QRW Ă€OHG FKDUJHV DJDLQVW DQ\ suspect. Simonds stated his department has no information about the two other suspects involved in the robbery. He also said that the police had no other reports regarding criminal activity in Keene over the weekend. Director of Campus Safety Amanda Warman also expressed there had not been any other severe incidents on campus. “Apart from the robbery, we did have any other calls that weekend, except for the usual marijuana and alcohol related calls,â€? Warman said. However, a KSC student said that on the early hours of Sunday, Feb. 5, he had a frightening encounter with two subjects wearing masks. Less than 24 hours after the knife-point robbery that threatened the safety of four KSC students and sent one of them to the hospital,

“I liked the Amy Poehler one, because she is the funniest lady ever.�

and if anything seems suspicious he asks them for their birthday and age to see if they know it right away or need to take time to do the math. Eric Walker can be contacted at ewalker@keene-equinox.com For more information see the Equinox Editorial on page A4.

“We cannot detain them. They are minors, and they belong with their parents.â€? -­-­SERGEANT CHRISTOPHER SIMONDS KEENE POLICE DEPARTMENT

junior Ethan Seaman said he was followed by two male individuals wearing a mask as he went back to his house on Spring Street from a friend’s house. “I was alone,â€? he said and stated he saw a man urinating. “He was wearing a mask, so I thought ‘I am not getting near that dude,’â€? the student explained. Seaman said the masked individual started to follow him and asked him questions. “He kept telling me to stop and talk to him and asked why I didn’t talk to him.â€? According to Seaman, another masked subject approached him as he was walking on Railroad Street toward Main Street. “The both started walking faster and then jogging. I was very scared and started running,â€? he told. The student said the individuals were shouting at him while they followed him. “They were talking nonsense. They said things like that I looked like their brother and that they were looking for their brother.â€? Seaman noted he got the impression that the subjects were not sober. “I don’t think that they ZHUH GUXQN EXW WKHUH ZDV GHĂ€QLWHO\ VRPHWKLQJ in their system; they looked disturbed.â€? Seaman described that he ran on the street until he saw a vehicle and asked for help. He said the subjects kept talking to him while he

SOUNDOFF Ellen Lonsdale Junior Environmental Studies

they take the issue very seriously and if an employee were to sell alcohol to a minor the employee would EH ÀUHG LPPHGLDWHO\ High Street Market cashier David Myre said his employer never required him to attend a fake ID course as some establishments do, but said he always checks every customer buying alcohol or tobacco,

Michael Jensen Junior Communications

was standing by the car. Seaman said he reported this incident to the Keene Police Department later on Sunday morning. He said he disagrees with some actions KPD takes. “I think they should be doing better things than just chasing drunk college students over the weekend,â€? he said. Seaman commented he feels, “the police use a lot of resources to patrol around the college campus and leave other parts of downtown really unattended.â€? Regarding the knife-point robbery, Director of Campus Safety Amanda Warman said that the college has received no further updates about the investigation from the KPD. “We will inform the KSC community through a communication once we get more information,â€? Warman stated. Regarding the actions the college will take following the robbery and in order to insure safety among students, Warman said, “We need to have more information about what happened in order to take action.â€? Warman also expressed that Campus Safety constantly works with KPD and intents to keep the KSC community informed by realizing QRWLĂ€FDWLRQV Karina Barriga Albring can be contacted at kbarriga@keene-equinox.com

winning the challenge “Pumpkin Wars.â€? A dollar was awarded for each jack-o’-lantern Keene collected, making a total of $29,381. The director of Let it Shine Inc. then decided to ask educational organizations that contributed to the success of the festival to submit an application to receive a grant. /LQGEHUJ¡V RIĂ€FH ZDV LQ FKDUJH of submitting the application for the college. “We were awarded one of the largest grants, [$5,000],â€? Lindberg said. The college will use the awarded grant to fund community service initiatives among the student body. Lindberg expressed the detailed budget is still been determined by WKH &RPPXQLW\ 6HUYLFH RIĂ€FH DQG some other departments in Keene State College. Kelly Welch, student body president and KSC sophomore, said she feels very proud of the college involvement in Pumpkin Fest. She said the entire community is excited for the event. KSC freshman Siobhan Fuller said she thinks the college deserves the money. “There is a lot of people involved and lot of effort behind events related to Pumpkin Festival,â€? Fuller expressed. She said she would like to see the college spend the money in initiatives that involve students. Fuller said, “Creating a scholarship or grant might be cool.â€? Lindberg explained the comPXQLW\ VHUYLFH RIĂ€FH ZLOO LQ IDFW intend to enable students to “apply for funding for community outrage and service projects that they have interest in doing.â€? Lindberg mentioned that KSC students regularly did around 75,000 hours of community service last year. Jessica Gagne Cloutier, coordinator of community service, explained part of the plan her RIĂ€FH KDV LV WR GLVWULEXWH WKH PRQH\ in three main sections. “We are hoping to offer some mini-grants that students with service initiatives can apply for this spring and also next fall,â€? Gagne Cloutier said. Some funds will also be saved for the college’s involvement in the festival next year. “We want to make sure that as a campus we are engaged enough in the festival, that we not only go as spectators but that we take part in making it a safe, clean, successful event,â€? Gange Cloutier expressed. 7KH FRPPXQLW\ VHUYLFH RIĂ€FH will also spend part of the $5,000 in funding Community Service Day. According to Gagne Cloutier, her RIĂ€FH KDG WKH Ă€UVW &RPPXQLW\ 6HUvice Day last October. “It was very successful. We had over 200 volunteers from the col-

“By far the majority of incidents do not involve Keene State College students.â€? -­-­MARYANN LINDBERG VICE PRESIDENT FOR AD-­ VANCEMENT AT KSC

lege, and we plan to do it again next fall so we want to keep some money for that,� she said. Jessica Gagne Cloutier said she is excited to see that KSC’s involvement in the Pumpkin Festival is being recognized. “We have so many students and faculty members who are engaged in the service and want to make sure that this keeps happening.� Last year, when asked about KSC’s involvement in Pumpkin Fest, Ruth Sterling, from Let It Shine Inc., recognized the institution’s participation. Sterling said, “The students and administration of the college did more to help Keene Pumpkin Festival that anyone I know.� However, when it comes to what the college should do with the grant received, Sterling mentioned it would be appropriate to invest in alternative options for students to have fun after the festival is over. “I wish it would be go to planning something from nine o’clock on, that engages the students, so that they have something to look forward to after the festival besides getting into trouble,� Sterling said. Lindberg said on behalf of the college that student affairs put a lot of initiatives last year to give students alternatives to the partying downtown and drinking off campus. She expressed she believes that incidents that occur on Pumpkin Festival weekend are not necessarily caused be KSC students. She said that, “While certainly a lot of students are involved and some of them make poor decisions, if you look at the police statistics, by far the majority of incidents do not involve Keene State students, and not necessarily even guests of Keene State students.� Lindberg said a lot of them are, in fact, volunteering to make the festival a good event. “They have done a lot to say ‘we are not all getting into trouble here.’ I would hope that the community recognizes what are students have done both before and after the event,� she concluded. Karina Barriga Albring can be contacted at kbarriga@ keene-equinox.com

EMILY FEDORKO / PHOTO EDITOR

Students cut and carve pumpkins at KSC’s Pumpkin Lobotomy, despite the rainy weather.

“What  was  your  favorite  Super  Bowl  com-­ mercial? Â

Candice Cooper Junior Management

“The baby with the money. I “The Audi commercial for prom, thought it was funny and it kept my because it shows the kid having attention.� the bravery .�

Molly Alderman Junior Environmental Studies

“I liked the Clysdale horse commercial. It was so beautiful, it almost made me cry.�

Compiled  by: Brittany  Murphy Equinox

Jacob Raff Sophomore Communications

“‘The hot girl making out with the fat guy with glasses and curly hair.�

Template 022308 JJP

Opinions Black

229 Main Street Keene, N.H. 03435 wcyr@keene-equinox.com Circulation 2,500 Newsroom: 603-358-2413 Ads/Bus. Office: 603-358-2401 Executive Editor: 603-358-2414 Fax: 603-358-2407

OPINIONS / A4

Mission... The Equinox exists to promote the free flow of information, to protect the First Amendment, to stimulate high standards in the practice of journalism and to foster excellence amongst student journalists.

THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

[Keene-­Equinox.com]

EDITORIAL

Local bars are a little lacking in their security

Being able to go out to drink is a privilege for many upperclassmen. But with this privilege comes responsibility. The phrase, “Where can I get in?â€? is nothing new to 21 year olds, but it’s up to us to say we can’t help. There isn’t one bar in Keene that everyone knows they can get into if they are underage. In fact, the reality is that there is a really good chance they might get in anywhere if they try. Though doesn’t that seem worse? You go out knowing WKDW LI \RX¡UH FRQĂ€GHQW DQG NQRZ \RXU LQIRUPDWLRQ \RX have a good chance of getting into a bar. Although Keene bars don’t suffer from many liquor law violations, they do happen. But much more often than these offenses, we hear about our underage friends getting into a bar over the weekend. So how do things improve? It is up to the older students to deter their younger friends from trying to go out, but it is also the responsibility of the bars and their staff to not be persuaded by any type of person trying to get in when they have suspicions about WKHP :H ZRXOG KRSH WKH VWDII DQG GRRUPHQ IHHO FRQĂ€GHQW in turning away students because that is their main purpose. If their ID looks like a fake, it probably is. They’re not there to bring in more people, they’re present so that the individuals who are age appropriate are allowed to enter. And often regulations will be slacked because the regulars want to get in without their ID, or the doorman’s 20-year-old best friend walks up and the pressure is on. It seems hard to say no, but that’s their job. But the rap isn’t all towards the bouncers watching the door. The message goes to all types of bar staff and owners to ask questions if someone looks too young and keep a close eye over the great party going on in their establishment. If someone has a sketchy ID, why not scan it or ask the police to check it? If their staff has been hanging out with the bar-goers, make sure they haven’t been drinking. Maybe the next step for some popular bars would be to hire more staff to keep up with the number of people coming in to drink and have fun. If more and more 20 year olds are sneaking into bars, how is that going to make the KSC seniors and young adult townspeople feel? Going to a bar isn’t a game or a gamble, it’s a responsible party. And although we all want to be invited, sometimes we need to be told, “You’re just not old enough yet.â€?

To contact the Equinox, e-mail wcyr@keene-equinox.com RYAN GLAVEY Administrative Executive Editor WHITNEY CYR Managing Executive Editor

NEWS EDITOR

COPY EDITORS

Karina Barriga Albring

Jess Lulka Sonya Cheney

OPINIONS EDITOR Lindsey Arceci

MULTIMEDIA DIRECTOR

STUDENT LIFE EDITOR

Kateland Dittig

Julie Conlon

BUSINESS MANAGER

A&E EDITOR

Andrew Ogden

Sam Norton

WEBMASTER

SPORTS EDITOR Michelle Berthiaume

PHOTO EDITOR Emily Fedorko

Corey Austin

GRAPHICS EDITOR Emma Contic

SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR Chelsey Puza

FACULTY ADVISER Rodger Martin, Journalism faculty (rmartin1@keene.edu) and Julio DelSesto, Journalism faculty (jdelsesto@keene.edu)

EMMA CONTIC / GRAPHICS EDITOR

STAFF COMMENTARY

Aquaman can help us understand the Palestine-Israeli conflict This week marked one of those rare occasions when my procrastination actually paid off. Instead of researching the complexities of WKH QHYHU HQGLQJ FRQà LFW EHWZHHQ ,VUDHO DQG Palestine, I was reading a comic book Aquaman. In this particular story a United States weapons test has gone awry and missiles have struck an unsuspecting Atlantean city, killing a handful of innocent civilians. Atlantis strikes EDFN E\ à RRGLQJ HYHU\ PDMRU FLW\ RQ WKH (DVW Coast, killing hundreds. What does this have to do with Palestine and Israel? Hamas, a radical Palestinian group, launched missiles into Israel killing and injuring innocent civilians. Israel responded this past November with operation Pillar of Defense. After days of air strikes the operation claimed more than 160 Palestinians while the Hamas rocket attacks killed six Israelis. According to Abu Rhama of CNN, many of these were civilians. In the pages of Aquaman we saw that AtlanWLV ZDV KLW ÀUVW 7KH\ ORVW LQQRFHQW OLYHV DQG

their people are angry. They have a right to defend themselves. But as Superman and the rest of the Justice League point out, the counterattack was twenty times worse than the original attack. These are two nations with equally valid reasons to wage war on one another. As Superman and Batman debated the morality of Atlantis’ deadly counterattack, I UHDOL]HG WKDW WKH Ă€FWLRQDO FRQYHUVDWLRQ EHWZHHQ these super people perfectly encapsulates the YHU\ UHDO DQG GLIĂ€FXOW PRUDO TXHVWLRQV EHKLQG ,VUDHO DQG 3DOHVWLQH¡V FRQĂ LFW ,V +DPDV WR blame for the initial attacks or do we condemn Israel for their far more damaging retaliation? Should we be taking sides at all? Innocent people suffer the consequences of FRQĂ LFWV WKH\ QHYHU DVNHG IRU :H VHH LW LQ WKHVH volatile Middle Eastern states, just as we see it in the pages of Aquaman. %XW WKLV FRQĂ LFW LQ WKH 0LGGOH (DVW LV QRW D comic book. There hasn’t been true and lasting peace in the region since 1967. In both countries, innocent people suffer every day. There is no Justice League, no band of super powered

do-gooders in spandex to save innocent civilians from harm. Conditions in these warring nations won’t improve until a viable plan for peace is agreed upon by both sides. And even then will the ÀJKWLQJ VWRS" :KDW ZLOO LW WDNH WR GLOXWH SOXV years of bad blood between the Palestinian Authority and the Jewish nation of Israel? In the pages of Aquaman we can safely assume that everything will work out for the best. Aquaman and the rest of the Justice League will leap into action, and a lasting peace with Atlantis will be achieved in the comic book equivalent of a few days. Here in the real world I suspect there will be no perfect conclusion where everyone can live happily ever after. It will take real people working on realistic solutions to resolve this. But after 40 years of violence, the citizens of Israel and Palestine can’t afford to stop taking those steps. Zach Pearson can be contacted at zpearson@ksc.keene.edu

Editorial Policy           The  Equinox  is  a  designated  public  forum.  Student  editors Â

Ads Manager: Alicia Ferraiuolo (603-358-2401) Equinox Staff: Brian Clemmenson, Eric Walker, Zach Pearson, Dylan Morrill, Augustus Stahl, Kattey Ortiz, Morgan Markley, Erin Taylor, Megan Grenier, Rebecca Marsh, Rebecca Farr, Allison Baker, Deanna Caruso, 'DOWRQ &KDUHVW =DFK :LQQ /\QGVD\ .ULVHO :HV 6HUDĂ€QH Jay McAree, Stephen Trinkwald Copyright Š 2012: All rights reserved Reproduction of The Equinox in whole or part in any form written, broadcast or electronic without written permission of The Equinox is prohibited. The Equinox is published each Thursday during the academic year by the editorial board of The Equinox, which is elected every spring by the members of the editorial board and acts as joint publisher of the paper. The Equinox serves as the voice of the students of Keene State College and does not necessarily reflect the opinions of the faculty, the staff and/or the administration. One copy of The Equinox is available free each week. Anyone removing papers in bulk will be prosecuted on theft charges to the fullest extent of the law. Inserting items into printed copies of The Equinox is considered theft of services and will result in prosecution.

have  full  editorial  control  over  the  entire  content  of  the  paper.   All  articles  and  opinion  pieces  are  assigned,  written  and  edited  by  students  without  prior  review  by  administrators,  faculty  or  staff.        The  Equinox  is  published  Thursdays  during  the  academic  year  with  dates  immediately  preceding  and  following  holidays  omitted.   The  advertising  deadline  is  5  p.m.  on  the  Friday  prior  to  publication.   The  Equinox  reserves  the  right  to  refuse  advertising  for  any  reason.   Advertising  is  not  accepted  until  it  appears  in  the  paper.        Letters  to  the  editor  must  be  written  exclusively  to  The  Equinox  and  are  due  by  noon  on  the  Friday  prior  to  publishing.   All  letters  must  include  name  and  phone  number  for  verification.   The  Equinox  reserves  the  right  to  edit  for  style  and  length,  and  refuse  any  letters  to  the  editor.   For  clarification  and  additional  information  on  any  above  policies  call  358-­2414.      The  Equinox  business  office  is  open  Monday-­Friday  from  11  a.m.  to  1:30  p.m.

Template 022308 JJP

Black THURSDAY, JAN. 31, 2013

OPINIONS / A5

[Keene-­Equinox.com]

STAFF COMMENTARY

Are you a grown-up or still growing up? At some point, if it hasn't happened already, you're going to be assaulted by an epiphany. You'll be at a party, you'll break someone's heart, you'll see a friend do a line off the bathroom sink, and you'll realize, you're not young anymore. You'll come into your house and see your friends passing a joint, or shotgunning beers or doing some ostentatiously harder drug, and you'll realize that this is very real. We aren't children. Remember high school? I remember sitting in my basement with my friends, just wishing we were old enough to drive. Driving meant we could do what we wanted, we were totally free. To me, it meant dating. Remember your ÀUVW IHZ JLUOIULHQGV RU ER\IULHQGV ZKDW have you)? Remember how hard it was to actually do anything with them? If you were dating before having a car, forget about it, having your parents driving you two to a movie was a mortifying ordeal. In my mind, a car would change all that. I had images of my cool, mobile self asking out a girl, picking her up, taking her to dinner and then to a movie or something. Cause that's what you did when you were old enough. And I desperately wanted to be old enough. But it didn't stop at driving, being 'old enough' has been a prevailing concept our entire lives. Old enough to have video games, old enough to date, have sex, go to college, move out, start. All that time we were waiting to grow up, we didn't realize what it entailed. I didn't realize all that I had. Dinner was always made, cookies always in the cabinet and cereal always on top of the fridge.

Though I had my freedom, I could go out and see people, do whatever, I had that home to go back to, I had food to eat, a bed and lights and security. But I couldn't see that, I couldn't see past my apathy towards the present and my desire for the future. I've been waiting my whole life to grow up. Now, its different. I'm 20. I'm a second semester junior, I'm a journalism major, I have an apartment, a car, the list goes on and on, the title, earned in the 20 years I've spent here. And growing up is terrifying. I need to EUHDN LQWR D ÀHOG WKDW KDV WRR PDQ\ DSSOLcants as it is, where the physical newspaper is dying out and almost all media is FRQWUROOHG E\ ÀYH SHRSOH I've been single for longer than I care to admit in an article, and I'm assaulted by the choice of starting my life up here with my friends, or losing them all after school when I go back home to New York. The more I learn, the older I get, the farther I feel from home. I'm beginning to fear that I've grown up. But what does that mean? Are we grown up? What does it mean to be an adult? I've been waiting all this time to get to college but once I got here, I feel like I blinked and I'm more than halfway through it. I feel like I've been spun one WRR PDQ\ WLPHV DURXQG DQG à XQJ LQWR OLIH Ever since college started I've been holding onto my childhood as much as I can. I'm not sure I'm ready to grow up. I still love playing video games and Legos and Risk. But at the same time, I am a grown up, and I present myself as such. I think this is where we are as a generation. We're on the cusp of adulthood, but not quite ready to take the plunge.

At the end of my freshman year my good friend Alisa said something that has stuck with me since. She said, “I'm 19, I can't just party all summer, I need to get a job, I need to work. I'm not a kid anymore.â€? Her voice almost quivered when she VDLG LW EHFDXVH LW VHHPHG WR EH DQ DIĂ€UPDtion of a feared conclusion. We couldn’t stop trying to grow up; we had already gotten there. At some point, if you haven't happened already, you're going to grow up. You'll be with someone, you'll write a paper, get a tattoo, get drunk and throw up on everything, and you'll realize it. And there's not much we can do about it. It's pretty permanent. We're going to have to deal with cliPDWH FKDQJH WKH Ă€VFDO FULVLV RLO VKRUWDJHV and here we are afraid to jump into the ZDWHU Ă€UVW 6RPHWLPHV LW MXVW PDNHV PH worry, because I'm just another body huddled on the side of the pool waiting. But it’s okay. Because we're growing up. We're at the time in our lives where everything is open to us. We just have to do it. The pool is warm, life is wonderful. Childhood was the tutorial, each year another step towards who we were going to be. We were waiting all this time to get ROGHU QRZ WKDW ZH DUH ZH KDYH RQH Ă€QDO step to take. We need to accept it. Augustus Stahl can be contacted at gstahl@keene-equinox.com

EMMA CONTIC / GRAPHICS EDITOR

STAFF COMMENTARY

STAFF COMMENTARY

Think before you buy TOMS shoes

Happiness isn’t always defined by the money in your wallet

TOMS, a shoe company that donates a pair of shoes for every pair it sells, is not the innovative pioneer of “philanthropic capitalismâ€? that LW FODLPV WR EH ,W LV MXVW DQRWKHU JHQHULF SURĂ€W driven company that, given its peculiar specialization, can serve as an unfortunate reminder of the breadth of America's attachment to good marketing. If you have never heard of TOMS, here is the EDFNVWRU\ 7206 LW VWDQGV IRU ´VKRHV RI 720RUrow) is the sixth company created by serial-entrepreneur Blake Mycoskie. The company sells canvas slip-on shoes that are made in China, Ethiopia and Argentina. One pair of shoes is donated to “a child in needâ€? for every pair sold. So what is my gripe? TOMS sucks for two reasons. One, It is incredibly likely that TOMS PDNHV D WRQ RI SURĂ€W , VD\ OLNHO\ EHFDXVH 7206 Ă€QDQFLDO UHFRUGV DUH YHU\ SULYDWH $QG two, most importantly, TOMS only gives shoes away because it knows altruism attracts consumHUV VSHFLĂ€FDOO\ \RXQJ DGXOW FRQVXPHUV 7206 LV QRW EHLQJ FRYHUWO\ RU DW OHDVW XQ EODtantly) altruistic like Kroger, Macy’s or Wal-Mart, which together donated over $400 million to charity in 2010 according to Yahoo! Finance. TOMS is altruistic strictly because altruism makes the company a lot of money. If you don’t think it matters why a company is being altruistic, and that altruism is always admirable, regardless of the motive, I encourage you to keep reading. +HUH¡V WKH PRVW DFFXUDWH Ă€QDQFLDO LQIRUPDtion I can give you based on what is available on

the Internet. In 2009, during an appearance at The Clinton School of Public Service, Blake Mycoskie said, “Our [TOMS’] goal is to have a net margin of about 12 percent.â€? According to the company’s website, TOMS has sold over 2 million pairs of shoes since 2006. The average price for a pair of 7206 VKRHV LV WKH\ UDQJH LQ SULFH IURP to $140; $54 is just the mode). So here’s my math based on that information: $54 times 2 million is $108 million. 12 percent of $108 million is $12,960,000. If TOMS has consistently hit its goal of 12 percent, the company has likely pocketed $13 million in six years. That is over $5,000 a day for six years. Keep in mind this is $13 million that Mycoskie can use to buy whatever he wants: fancy wine, holographic Charizards, bounce-houses. This is where it gets really interesting. Despite my investigative tone, Mycoskie has frequently DFNQRZOHGJHG WKDW KH LV ´GRLQJ ZHOOÂľ KLV FKRVHQ H[SUHVVLRQ IRU ´Ă€OWK\ VWLQNLQJ ULFKÂľ :K\ GRHV he do this? Well, Mycoskie has chosen to use his ZHDOWK DV D GHOXVLRQDOO\ F\FOLFDO MXVWLĂ€FDWLRQ IRU simultaneously being rich while actively perSHWXDWLQJ D TXDVL .HURXDFLDQ P\VWLF KH FDOOV KLPVHOI &KLHI 6KRH *LYHU Âľ OLYHV RQ D \DFKW DQG VKDPHOHVVO\ UHIHUV WR 7206 LQWHUQV DV DJHQWV RI FKDQJH TOMS is not “doing well by doing good.â€? 7206 LV GRLQJ ZHOO E\ PDQLSXODWLQJ WKH SXEOLF UHODWLRQV EHQHĂ€WV RI GRLQJ JRRG Âľ ,I WKHUH ZHUH QR EHQHĂ€WV WR ´GRLQJ JRRG Âľ WKH\ ZRXOGQ¡W GR LW Mycoskie’s motive is not altruism--it’s not

HYHQ DV KH VWDWHV WR SLRQHHU VRPH QHZ IRUP RI “philanthropic-capitalism.� He is a used car salesman dressed up as Che Guevara. He doesn’t care if a local shoemaker is put out of business or if the shoe wears out in a few months. Mycoskie based TOMS model on simplicity for the consumer, not the needs of the receiver. I know what you’re thinking right now, “I don’t know a single African kid who wouldn’t be happy getting a free pair of shoes!� And I don’t know a single African kid who wouldn’t be happy getting a free bottle of water. But I’m not going to solve clean water issues by starting a company that donates a bottle of water to a kid with diarrhea for each one we sell. I would only start that company if I wanted to make a ton of money exploiting my generations admirable, but naive fondness for altruism. If I actually wanted to help solve clean water issues I would donate money to Peace Corps volunteers that are currently installing water pumps in Africa. And if I actually wanted to help solve bare-feet issues I would donate to one of the many organizations that are actually working to do that, like Shoe Aid for Africa company that donates a pair of shoes every time someone writes a brief message of support to an impoverished child on their website; no purchase necessary. Dylan Morrill can be contacted at dmorrill@ksc.keene.edu

STAFF COMMENTARY

One student writes to a love-crazy and confusing Taylor Swift Dearest Taylor Swift: In my nearly 21 years of life, about 28 percent of them were spent empathizing with your sad and whiny country songs. I was there when you were riding shotgun with your hair undone. I was on that balcony in summer air. That guy who was so mean to you? What a prick! Your words totally spoke to me. I always found myself asking, “Why would anybody pick Taylor Swift LAST?â€? Well I’ve got to be honest, girlfriend, you’re making it more than evident as to why you guys are never, ever, ever getting back together. And it isn’t him. Gone are the glory days of your Rapunzellike Shirley Temple curls when you still donned cowgirl boots and sundresses. Not only did you do the whole pop-crossover thing, Red proved that you are a sellout. Don’t get me wrong, I’m still bumping your records as much as the next teenie bopper, but it’s not the same. Your newfound hipster persona, for whatever reason, is entailing this bizarre emotional harlot phase and it’s starting to get really old. So, since you spent all those years consoling me through your music, I am returning the IDYRU ZLWK VRPH XQDVNHG DGYLFH %XW Ă€UVW , PXVW let you know of your erroneous actions. Foremost, cut the cougar act. You are 23 years old and have zero business with high school seniors, okay? Conor Kennedy was the ONLY exception because he is of American royalty. But that does not mean you needed to buy a doggone mansion in Cape Cod right next to his family. Was there a moment put aside to ponder

your purchase? Next time you come back to New England, think before you start waving at Conor from your front lawn while sunbathing LQ \RXU DZHVRPH 5D\ %DQV ZLWK \RXU Ă DYRU RI the week. Don’t even get me started on Helmet Harry Styles. Secondly, you are not a born-again virgin after every break-up. Which brings me to my next issue. Being single is like ... normal. God forbid you have to spend a night in with your cat. I do it all the time. But you need to enjoy your fame and fortune with yourself. I don’t know what your excuse is, but I’m living proof of daddy issues and I’m not sure you qualify. Take a break. Your spontaneous relationships were interesting for a while, but things got especially weird when you dated Taylor Lautner. That’s the equivalent of dating someone with your brother’s name: a serious don’t. And how the hell did you manage to blow it with Jake Gyllenhaal? Can you text me his number? Third in line is your new video for “I Knew You Were Trouble.â€? Absolute train wreck. It is a sad, wannabe ripoff of the video for “We Found Loveâ€? by Rihanna. You and I both know that you would not be caught dead at Bonaroo. Oh, and not only did you know that he was trouble, but you pretty much asked for it. Next, it really wouldn’t kill you if you got off your high horse and let someone go on tour with you. Remember when Rascal Flatts did you a favor and let you open for them? Yeah. Time to pay it forward.

7R GDWH \RX¡YH KDG DW OHDVW VL[ KLJK SURĂ€OH relationships within three years, give or take. 7KLV H[FOXGHV ZKDWHYHU UDQGRP Ă LQJV ZH KDYH no knowledge of. You’re just one and done every dang time. An unmerciful and ruthless song is conceived from each one of these nasty breakups, bashing your ex then it’s on to the next. Did it ever occur to you that, oh I don’t know, YOU may be the problem? Your apology in “Back To Decemberâ€? was brilliant. You admitted your mistake, swallowed your pride, and showed that you actually have a heart. But don’t let it stop there. One remorseful song does not cancel out your four DOEXPV VWRS KDWLQJ DQG GR VRPH VHOI UHĂ HFWing. Once you do that, people will see that you can be a respectable young lady who just had some growing up to do. Perhaps older men will take you seriously at this point. But if you touch Ryan Gosling, you will feel our wrath. These seem like incredibly trying times for you. We miss Nashville’s innocent sweetheart. Yes, it is your world and we are living in it. But kicking sand in our faces with your Oxfords forces us to think that you’re just another picture to burn. I hope you at least try to understand where I’m coming from. On behalf of your fans, as much as we love you, we’re just as worried. All the best, Kattey Ortiz PS: Let me know about Jake Gyllenhaal. Kattey Ortiz can be contacted at kortiz@ksc.keene.edu

Money can’t buy happiness. Sorta... They say money can’t buy happiness, and “theyâ€? must be right; after all it’s not just one individual telling me this. It’s “theyâ€?: a body of people who have collectively decided this to be fact. But is it? We all know money isn’t everything, yet money is involved in almost everything. This makes it VRPHZKDW IRROLVK WR VD\ LWV LQĂ Xence doesn’t extend into our happiness, because it does. So far the happiest three minutes of my day took place as I downed a cup of Golden French Toast Coffee with soy milk and honey from the Bean and Bagel this morning after a blisteringly cold walk to campus in four-degree weather. :KHQ WKH Ă€UVW GURS KLW P\ tongue endorphins ran through my brain like Usain Bolt on one of those automatic walkways they have in airports. Do you know how I came to acquire that beverage? I purchased it with United States currency. Perhaps I’m taking the old clichĂŠ too literally. What it might really be trying to get at is that true permaQHQW WUDQTXLOLW\ LI WKHUH LV VXFK D thing) can’t simply be bought and sold as a commodity. This is true. However, that doesn’t mean that money is absent from the equation. Like everything in our world, it’s a grey area. In order for a human WR UHDFK WKDW VWDWH RI QLUYDQD RU as close as they can) money is no doubt going to be involved. Period. There are many types of happiness: for example, eating a Twizzler versus accomplishing a long-term goal. One delights and the other IXOĂ€OOV ERWK DUH PDQLIHVWDWLRQV RI happiness. Money is far more applicable to the small delights in life because they often, like a chewy VWUDZEHUU\ Ă DYRUHG FDQG\ DUH SXUFKDVHG ,W¡V IXOĂ€OOPHQW WKDW VXSports the old proverb. But can you think of one life-long passion that doesn’t involve money in absolutely any way, shape or form? I’m presuming that many people if pressed on the subject would say love is the greatest source of true KDSSLQHVV +RZHYHU ORYH ZKDWHYHU \RX SHUVRQDOO\ GHĂ€QH LW DV doesn’t take you out of our physical world into another dimension where wallets are no longer needed. Most people, I would assume,

have more sources of pleasure in their lives than the affection of others alone. Golf perhaps, Harry Potter books, maybe listening to a favorite band. Albeit given the choice between DOO WKH FKLOGUHQ¡V Ă€FWLRQ DQG YLQ\OV in the world or a loved one, I would say the average non-psychopath PH LQFOXGHG ZRXOG FKRRVH WKH loved one. However that doesn’t mean they couldn’t be happier if they were provided with their leisures alongside their companions. I don’t want to put down the importance of loved ones. On the contrary I think friends and family are some of the richest sources of happiness, but if I can’t earn enough money to attend college where I can spend time with my IULHQGV RU EHFRPH Ă€QDQFLDOO\ VWDEOH enough to take care of my parents when they age, those rich sources wouldn’t be mined to their fullest potential. I’m not saying money should dictate all your life decisions, but pretending that it doesn’t play an important role in your pursuit RI D IXOĂ€OOLQJ H[LVWHQFH LV Ă DW RXW absurd. According to the National Conference of State Legislatures Americans spend about $50 billion on lottery games annually, and it’s not because they love scratching paper with coins. Money allows us to purFKDVH WKLQJV WKDW JLYHQ ZH PDNH wise decisions) can improve our lives. Another old saying comes to mind when discussing this one; money makes the world go ‘round. I suppose we could get by withRXW LW EXW WU\LQJ WR Ă€JXUH RXW KRZ many sheep I should trade my old guitar for seems nonsensical, so I think legal tender was a good thing for our society to regulate. Don’t ignore the people that care about you most to focus on a deadening career that you despise WR HDUQ D VL[ Ă€JXUH VDODU\ WKDW \RX presume will somehow supply you with happiness in the end, but do be smart with your money because it has an undeniably vital role to play in your life, whether you like it or not. Eric Walker can be contacted at ewalker@keene-equinox.com

Template 022308 JJP

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

[Keene-足Equinox.com]

STUDENT LIFE / A6

Template 022308 JJP

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

[Keene-足Equinox.com]

STUDENT LIFE / A7

Template 022308 JJP

Black STUDENT LIFE / A8

THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

[Keene-­Equinox.com]

Students stay on top as they round the corner of second semester The second installment in a series keeping up with one student per grade throughout the year JULIE CONLON

STUDENT LIFE EDITOR

BETH Â ROSENBERG, Â J UNIOR

CO N T R

cD o u Ma t t M

gal

IB U T E D

P H O TO

Wife.’ y O wn m m A s in ‘I perform

MATT Â M CDOUGAL, Â S OPHOMORE

Â

:KHUH WR EHJLQ ZLWK 0DWW 0F'RXJDO" :KHQ ZH ODVW PHW WKH VRSKRPRUH KLV OLIH ZDV DOO RYHU WKH SODFH RU UDWKHU WKH .HHQH 6WDWH &ROOHJH FDPSXV 0F'RXJDO GHVFULEHG KLV ODVW VHPHVWHU¡V WKHDWULFDO YHQWXUHV DV D ´SKHQRPHQDO VXFFHVV Âľ $QG WKLV VHPHVWHU VHHPV DV LI LW ZLOO EH QR GLIIHUHQW 0F'RXJDO VDLG he has spent a great deal of time pondering his next move as his spring VHPHVWHU VRSKRPRUH \HDU EHJLQV ( YHU WKH EXV\ EHH 0F'RXJDO FDQQRW HQMR\ KLV GRZQWLPH IRU ORQJ +H H[SODLQHG WKH VHFRQG KDOI RI KLV Ă€UVW VHPHVWHU ZDVQ¡W DV SURGXFWLYH DV WKH Ă€UVW GXH WR WKH HQGLQJ RI VKRZV ´, PDGH XS IRU WKDW E\ UHDOO\ VHWWLQJ P\VHOI XS IRU WKLV VHPHVWHU , IHHO OLNH ,¡YH GRQH WKDW SUHWW\ VXFFHVVIXOO\ Âľ KH VDLG +RZ \RX DVN" 0F'RXJDO DXGLWLRQHG IRU ´7KH 7HPSHVWÂľ DQG LV QRZ SUDFWLFLQJ WKH UROH RI *RQ]DOR %XW ZK\ ZRXOG 0F'RXJDO RQO\ EH ZRUNLQJ RQ RQH SOD\ WKLV VHPHVWHU ZKHQ KH FRXOG EH SUDFWLFLQJ WZR" 7KH VRSKRPRUH LV DOVR ZRUNLQJ RQ DQRWKHU 6KDNHVSHDUHDQ SURGXFWLRQ WKLV WLPH ZLWK 7KH +RXUJODVV 5HDGHUV D ORFDO FRPPXQLW\ WKHDWHU JURXS $JDLQ ZK\ VWRS WKHUH" 0F'RXJDO FRQWLQXHV KLV ZRUN ZLWK 0HQWRUV LQ 9LROHQFH 3UHYHQWLRQ WKLV VHPHVWHU ´093 UHDOO\ JHWV D ORW PRUH DFWLYH WKLV VHPHVWHU EHFDXVH WKHUH DUH D WRQ RI HYHQWV WKDW DUH JRLQJ WR EH FRPLQJ XS 7KLV VHPHVWHU LV ZKHQ ZH UHDOO\ SLFN XS RXU ZRUN DQG WKURZ RXUVHOYHV RXW WKHUH ZKLFK ,¡P UHDOO\ H[FLWHG WR GR ZLWK P\ SHHUV Âľ KH VDLG ,Q DGGLWLRQ 0F'RXJDO VWLOO UHSUHVHQWV WKH *OREDO (GXFDWLRQ RIĂ€FH DV D *OREDO $PEDVVDGRU +H VDLG KH KRSHV WR Ă€QG WLPH WR VWRS E\ FODVVHV DQG share his experiences and get other students excited about travel abroad RSSRUWXQLWLHV ´,I ,¡P QRW NHHSLQJ P\VHOI EXV\ ,¡P QRW EHLQJ SURGXFWLYH DQG LI ,¡P QRW EHLQJ SURGXFWLYH ,¡P QRW HQMR\LQJ P\VHOI O OLNH WR PDNH VXUH ,¡P DOZD\V NHHSLQJ P\VHOI RQ P\ WRHV DQG PRYLQJ IRUZDUG Âľ FRESHMAN   STUDENT  WAS  UNABLE  TO  PARTICIPATE Â

Beth Rosenberg sat down for ten minutes in the Flag Room of the Young 6WXGHQW &HQWHU IRU ZKDW PD\ KDYH EHHQ WKH Ă€UVW WLPH WKDW GD\ 7KH MXQLRU displayed the same worn out fatigue most of her peers share, though RosenEHUJ ZDVQ¡W WLUHG IURP SDUW\LQJ WKH ZHHNHQG EHIRUH No, Rosenberg owed her yawn and tired smile to the plate she sets EHIRUH KHUVHOI HYHU\ VLQJOH GD\ÂłD SODWH WKDW LV QHDUO\ RYHUĂ RZLQJ 7KH MXQLRU VKDUHG ODVW 6HSWHPEHU WKDW VKH LV D 5HVLGHQWLDO $VVLVWDQW LQ 0RQDGQRFN In addition, Rosenberg continues to take on a second role this semesWHUÂłD WHDFKHU¡V DVVLVWDQW IRU (GXFDWLRQ 7KLV WDNHV XS DERXW WKUHH KRXUV RI KHU ZHHN VKH HVWLPDWHG ´,¡P JODG , KDG WKH RSSRUWXQLW\ WR GR WKLV DJDLQ WKLV VHPHVWHU Âľ VKH VDLG 5RVHQEHUJ VDLG VKH FRQWLQXHV WR IRFXV KHU SURJUDPV DV DQ 5$ RQ WHDFKLQJ KHU UHVLGHQWV WR OLYH D PRUH HQYLURQPHQWDOO\ FRQVFLRXV OLIHVW\OH &RPSDUHG WR ODVW VHPHVWHU ZKHQ ZH ODVW VDZ 5RVHQEHUJ VKH VDLG ´:KDW ,¡P more focused on this semester is my academics and my residence awareQHVV ,¡P WU\LQJ WR SODQ SURJUDPV IRU DZDUHQHVV OLNH RQ KRZ PXFK ZDWHU \RX¡UH ZDVWLQJ :DWHU LV D KXJH LVVXH DQG QRW D ORW RI SHRSOH DUH DZDUH Âľ VKH H[SODLQHG ´7KLV LV RXU IXWXUH LI WKH\¡UH QRW DZDUH RI LW WKHQ QRWKLQJ¡V JRLQJ WR FKDQJH Âľ 7KRXJK 5RVHQEHUJ VDLG VKH LV ´RYHUZKHOPHGÂľ ZLWK WRR PXFK RQ KHU PLQG VKH VDLG VKH VHHV WKH OLJKW DW WKH HQG RI WKH WXQQHO ´1H[W VHPHVWHU LV OLNH P\ ODVW UHDO VHPHVWHU RI FROOHJH Âľ VKH VDLG EHFDXVH DV DQ HGXFDWLRQ PDMRU VKH ZLOO VSHQG WKH VSULQJ VHPHVWHU RI KHU VHQLRU \HDU WHDFKLQJ LQ D FODVVURRP ´,¡P H[FLWHG WR VWXGHQW WHDFK EXW ,¡P DOVR UHDOO\ QHUYRXV ,W¡V H[FLWLQJ EXW LW¡V VFDU\ DW WKH VDPH WLPH MXVW EHFDXVH WKLV LV DOO WKDW ,¡YH NQRZQ IRU IRXU \HDUV Âľ 8QWLO WKHQ VKH FRQWLQXHV WR ORRN DKHDG 6KH VDLG VKH SODQV RQ DSSO\LQJ RQFH DJDLQ WR EH DQ 5$ WKRXJK VKH QRWHG VKH¡G OLNH WR ZRUN ZLWK VRSKRPRUHV ,I WKLV MXQLRU FRXOG MXVW WDNH DQRWKHU WHQ PLQXWHV WR VLW GRZQ DQG UHĂ HFW RQ DOO WKDW VKH¡V DFFRPSOLVKHG DOUHDG\ VKH ZRXOG KDYH QRWKLQJ EXW DQ HDJHU FRQĂ€GHQFH WR EULQJ KHU WKURXJK WKH VHPHVWHU

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Austin Harris leads the KSC Men’s Swimming and Diving team into the final stretch of the season.

AUSTIN  H ARRIS,  S ENIOR 7KH 0HUULDP :HEVWHU GLFWLRQDU\ GHĂ€QHV WKH ZRUG ´FDSWDLQÂľ DV ´WKH FRPPDQGHU RI D XQLW Âľ ´D SHUVRQ RI LPSRUWDQFH RU LQĂ XHQFH LQ D Ă€HOG Âľ 6\QRQ\PRXV WR WKH WHUP DUH ZRUGV VXFK DV ´ERVV Âľ ´KHDG Âľ RU ´FRPPDQGHU Âľ 7KH .HHQH 6WDWH &ROOHJH 0HQ¡V 6ZLPPLQJ DQG 'LYLQJ WHDP FDOOV WKHLU FRPPDQGHU $XVWLQ +DUULV $ WLWOH ZHOO HDUQHG +DUULV VSHQW WKH Ă€UVW PRQWK RI KLV VHQLRU VHDVRQ D Ă€VK RXW RI ZDWHU DIWHU VXIIHULQJ D EURNHQ KDQG /HDGLQJ IURP ODQG +DUULV WUDLQHG DQG UH HQWHUHG WKH SRRO DQG ZLWKLQ GD\V ZDV EDFN LQ QDWLRQDOV TXDOLI\LQJ VKDSH ZKHQ KH TXDOLĂ€HG DJDLQVW 0,7 LQ WKUHH UHOD\V 1RZ +DUULV KDV DSSUR[LPDWHO\ D ZHHN OHIW LQ KLV Ă€QDO UHJXODU VHDVRQ -XVW DV KH VWDWHG ODVW 6HSWHPEHU and anticipated the strength of his team, the senior said he has high hopes for 1DWLRQDOV ´2XU JRDOV IRU UHOD\V LV WR PDNH WRS HLJKW $OO $PHULFDQ Âľ KH VDLG ´, WKLQN WKDW¡V SUHWW\ SRVVLEOH WKLV \HDU Âľ ,QGLYLGXDOO\ +DUULV KDV KLV VLJKWV VHW RQ SHUVRQDO JRDOV WR FORVH KLV VHDVRQ DQG FDUHHU DW .6& 7KH FDSWDLQ SUHGLFWHG KH FRXOG PDNH WRS LQ WKH DQG IUHH ZKLFK ZRXOG JLYH KLP DQ $OO $PHULFDQ PHQWLRQ +DUULV ZKR VDLG KH KDGQ¡W SODQQHG RQ VZLPPLQJ LQ FROOHJH DQG QDPHG KLV FORVXUH WR .6& VZLP ´ELWWHUVZHHW Âľ ´,¡YH HQMR\HG WKH IRXU \HDUV LW¡V EHHQ DQ H[SHULHQFH EXW ,¡P UHDG\ IRU LW WR EH RYHU Âľ :LWK KLV VZLP FDUHHU MXVW ZHHNV VK\ RI HQGLQJ +DUULV WXUQV KLV VLJKW RQFH DJDLQ WR KLV RWKHU FDUHHUÂłDUFKLWHFWXUH +DUULV VKDUHG ODVW IDOO KLV ZRUN ZLWK WKH 7HFKQRORJ\ 'HVLJQ DQG 6DIHW\ FHQWHU RQ FDPSXV 6LQFH WKHQ KLV ZRUN KDV SDLG RII DV DQ $GYDQFHG 6SHFLDO 7RSLFV FODVV ZDV FUHDWHG PHDQLQJ WKH ZRUN +DUULV KDV SXW LQWR WKH FHQWHU LV JDLQLQJ KLP VFKRRO FUHGLW +DUULV said he and his team are currently gathering in preparation to present their SURJUHVV DW WKH $FDGHPLF ([FHOOHQFH &RQIHUHQFH LQ WKH VSULQJ $V LI WKDW ZHUHQ¡W HQRXJK +DUULV FRQWLQXHV KLV ZRUN LQ SURJUHVV SRUWIROLR ZLWK KLV VLJKW VHW RQ JUDG VFKRRO +LV WRS FKRLFH" 9LUJLQLD 7HFK ,Q WKUHH PRQWKV¡ WLPH WKLV VRRQ WR JUDGXDWH VHQLRU¡V GUHDPV PD\ EH KLV UHDOLW\ ´,W¡V D OLWWOH VFDU\ $OO ,¡YH NQRZQ UHDOO\ LV HGXFDWLRQ P\ ZKROH OLIH IURP NLQGHUJDUWHQ ,W¡V D OLWWOH GHSUHVVLQJ WKDW ,¡P OHDYLQJ EHFDXVH DOO , KHDU IURP DGXOWV LV LW¡V WKH EHVW IRXU \HDUV RI P\ OLIH Âľ $QG WKHQ +DUULV VDLG ZKDW ZH¡YH DOO KHDUG 1,000 times, though this time, his words held four years’ weight, four years’ H[SHULHQFH DQG WKH SXUH QDLYHW\ RI WKH XQIRUHVHHQ IXWXUH ´,W JRHV E\ IDVW Âľ

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Rosenberg (far right) with her residents after a program.

:, ),

(Cont. from A10)

,QWHUQHW WKH\ XVXDOO\ JR WR WKH +HOS'HVN ´,¡YH DFWXDOO\ had a student reach out to me in the fall right before break saying she is really having a hard time, it [Internet] kept going down and wouldn’t come back for x DPRXQW RI WLPH Âľ &RWH VDLG WKDW ZKHQ WKHUH DUH ,QWHUQHW LVVXHV LQ WKH OLEUDU\ ´7KH\ >VWXGHQWV@ XVXDOO\ WHOO us that the internet is not working, like, ‘oh thanks we NQRZ ¡ :H KDYH DQ ,7 SHUVRQ KHUH WKDW ZH KDYH WR FDOO DQG WKH\ WU\ DQG IL[ LW 6R EDVLFDOO\ WKH\ DVN ZKDW WKH\ can do and I say basically all you can do is wait until it WXUQV EDFN RQ Âľ Seraichick said she doesn’t get a lot of calls about the ,QWHUQHW QRW ZRUNLQJ ´, ZRXOG VD\ WKDW \RX NQRZ DV we started to flow it and we didn’t see issues that much when we put it [Internet] in the classrooms but when we started going to the res halls that’s where we saw it because students were using it, which is great because that’s what we want that’s what students had asked for, VWXGHQWV ZHUH UHDOO\ GULYLQJ WKLV LQLWLDWLYH Âľ -RH *UDVVR D IUHVKPDQ ZKR OLYHV LQ 0RQDGQRFN VDLG WKDW WKH :L )L LQ WKH GRUPV LV ´VRPHWLPHV SUHWW\ EDG DW FHUWDLQ WLPHV RI WKH QLJKW Âľ +H DOVR VDLG ´,W¡V DOZD\V DW WKH ZRUVW WLPH when you’re trying to find out if your class is cancelled RU LI \RX¡UH GRLQJ UHVHDUFK Âľ +H WKLQNV WKDW WKH ,QWHUQHW LV VORZ DW QLJKW ´EHFDXVH HYHU\RQH LV XVLQJ LW DW WKH

Julie Conlon can be contacted at jconlon@keene-equinox.com VDPH WLPH WR GR ZRUN RU MXVW XVLQJ WKH ,QWHUQHW Âľ 6HUDLFKLFN VDLG ´,W¡V VRPHZKDW RI D OHDUQLQJ FXUYH of saying, okay, do you have enough access points so HYHU\RQH FDQ EH RQ DQG JHW D IDLUO\ JRRG SDQ ZDYH RQ LW" Because the average now is every student comes with OLNH GHYLFHV RU VRPHWKLQJ :H NQRZ WKHVH WKLQJV are always connected and so they’re always on a wireOHVV Âľ 6HUDLFKLFN DOVR VDLG ´:H NQRZ WKDW RXU ZLUHOHVV YHQGRU DOVR GRHV )HQZD\ LQ %RVWRQ 7KH\ KDYH the same problems at Fenway Park because what they originally installed was not enough for all the people who show up there and all the devices that want to conQHFW *ODG WR NQRZ ZH¡UH QRW DORQH DQG JODG WR NQRZ LW¡V )HQZD\ Âľ If students have any trouble with the Internet 6HUDLFKLFN VDLG ´, ZRXOG UHDOO\ HQFRXUDJH WKDW RI DOO student all the time is that if you are experiencing someWKLQJ WKDW \RX VD\ Âś7KLV LVQ¡W ULJKW¡ RU Âś7KLV VKRXOGQ¡W EH KDSSHQLQJ¡ WR FDOO WKH +HOS'HVN DQG ORJ LW WKHUH Âľ ´:H WU\ DQG ZH KDYH WRROV VR WKDW ZH FDQ EH SURDFtive in monitoring and seeing what is happening and causing an issue to people but we also really rely on SHRSOH WR FDOO XV DQG VD\ Âś+H\ WKLV LV QRW TXLWH ULJKW ¡¾ VKH VDLG Morgan Markley can be contacted at mmarkley@keene-equinox.com Erin Taylor can be contacted at etaylor4@keene-equinox.com

Template 022308 JJP

Black THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

STUDENT LIFE / A9

[Keene-­Equinox.com]

Students say KSC dorm life has its perks MORGAN MARKLEY

SENIOR REPORTER When students are applying to colleges they usually looks at what degrees are offered and where the school is located, but when applying, a student might not notice the differences in dorm rules and regulations. Carle Hall on the Keene State College campus houses mostly freshman students. In Carle, there are UHVLGHQW DVVLVWDQWV RQ HYHU\ Ă RRU WKDW ZDWFK RYHU WKH students and make sure no rules are broken. Nearby in Henniker, N.H., New England College has rules that are similar to KSC. Sophomore Heather DeSousa, an RA at NEC, said when a student is caught drinking in a dorm she calls Campus Safety and they take care of it from there. DeSousa also said that if a student is really intoxicated they will put that student in “protective custodyâ€? or, “If it’s severe then we have them taken to Concord Hospital.â€? Alyssa Marginiak, a senior RA at Saint Anselm College, said that they have a wet campus and it depends on the age of student whether they get written up or not. She said, “Our freshmen residence halls are substance free. They automatically get written up whether or not they’re 21 for drinking in their apartment or in residence halls.â€? Associate Director of Residential Life and Housing, Jim Carley said about the dorm rules at KSC, “There’s some things that the college looks at as much more serious violations and obviously those would be drug violations, alcohol violations, sexual assaults, physical assaults, those type of violations. And those are ones which tend to be situations that don’t follow a simple step-by-step level 1, level 2, level 3 thing.â€? Marginiak said at St. Anselm, “If a person was in an apartment and they were 21 and had 21-year-olds that were drinking, it wouldn’t be an issue.â€? At KSC, the dorms on campus are co-ed and DeSousa

said that on the NEC campus the dorms are co-ed as well, but at St. Anselm College, the rules differ. Marginiak said, “The dorms are all gender separated; all the guys are in one building and all the girls in the other. We do have one building...which the top Ă RRU LV JLUOV DQG WKH ERWWRP Ă RRU LV JX\V EXW LQ HDFK RI WKRVH Ă RRUV \RX KDYH WR VZLSH LQ VR LW¡V PRUH VHFXUH LQ that building.â€? Marginiak also said that in order to get a member of the opposite sex into a dorm, “When they [ the guest] got to the front door, they’d have to be buzzed in because

into their dorms. This system isn’t uncommon as NEC and St. Anselm both use cards for entrance into dorms. Marginiak said, “In the traditional housing or regular halls they have an ID that they swipe to get in and then a room code, in the apartments it’s just a room code on the outside of the door.â€? NEC’s dorms do differ from KSC’s because they don’t have desk attendants on duty at the dorms. DeSousa said, “We have two central locations. For the freshman VLGH WKHUH¡V RQH GXW\ RIĂ€FH DQG ZH KDYH RQH GXW\ RIĂ€FH for the upperclassmen...and there’s an RA in there from 7 p.m. to midnight on weekdays and 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. on weekends and a 24-hour, on-call [RA].â€? Marginiak said in the St. Anselm freshman and sophomore dorms there are desk attendants, “From 5 o’clock at night to 2 in the morning that [there are attendants that] check IDs and then at 11 [p.m.] during the week and one on the weekends.â€? Carley said that he thinks KSC is, “More concerned about your health and safety than we are about anything else. I do think the college has a pretty open arms policy. If you’ve gone out and gotten help, if you need to come back, we want you to be successful you are proving that you can be successful you know we want you to stick around here. But if you can’t the issue is not if you should be a student here the issue is that you have a health issue.â€? Carley said that KSC may experiences changes in GRAPHIC BY: JILL TAGUE / EQUINOX STAFF dorm rules by July 1, “We’re doing a thorough review of obviously their card wouldn’t let them in the building, the conduct system. Everything from the policies to the and they would drop their ID card off and say which philosophy to procedures that we follow to engage and room they were going to and who they were visiting... enforce the policies.â€? and then they could go to their room until the time that The possibility of the new changes in KSC dorm we call our parietal hours where they can no longer be rules and regulations would lead to even more differin the residence hall of the opposite sex.â€? ence or similarities amongst New Hampshire colleges. $W .6& KRZHYHU VWXGHQWV KDYH WKH Ă H[LELOLW\ WR have any fellow KSC student in their room at anytime Morgan Markley can be contacted without gender being an issue. at mmarkley@keene-equinox.com Another aspect of dorm life on the KSC campus is the Owl Card. KSC students can use their card to swipe

Where in the world is the owl? York, England, mate!

7KH ÓžUVW HQWU\ LQWR WKH OLYHV RI .6& VWXGHQWV VWXG\LQJ DEURDG 6SULQJ

and rushed over to our new terminal. Just over and asked if I had wanted to go sledgbefore we boarded, I saw the sunset and ing. told Tim to take a picture. 0\ Ă€UVW WKRXJK ZDV ´6OHGJLQJ" &RXOG It was one of those purple, orange-skied either be a violent act with a sledgehammer sunsets. or could possibly be sledding!â€? I chose to I thought to myself just 15 minutes after tag along anyways. I was full of negativity, “This is going to be We went to a few stores looking for a great trip.â€? “sledgesâ€? until we came across a store $IWHU D VKRUW Ă LJKW WR 3KLODGHOSKLD 7LP called, Pound Land, an English dollar store. and I decided to grab some dinner at the We ended up buying turkey roaster trays Junior Jake Miller, York, England airport and watch the Patriots lose their for one pound, running up the far side of playoff game to the Baltimore Ravens. A the hill adjacent to the school, and sliding $V , SDFNHG P\ OLIH LQWR WZR GXIĂ H EDJV couple hours later, we found ourselves down. DQG D EDFNSDFN WZR QLJKWV EHIRUH P\ Ă LJKW ERDUGLQJ RXU Ă LJKW RQZDUG WR 0DQFKHVWHU It was great fun until you hit the bottom. I thought to myself, “I’m going to be living International Airport, U.K. Later that night, my new friends and I went in England for four months.â€? Eight or so hours after that, we were WR WKH 6WXGHQW 8QLRQ RU WKH 68 IRU P\ Ă€UVW It just then hit me that I was about to wheels down in the United Kingdom. A legal drink in England. embark on one of the most coveted jour- few hours bus ride later and we were here. Not knowing any of the brands they neys of my life, studying abroad in a for- <RUN 6W -RKQ 8QLYHUVLW\ 7KH Ă€UVW WKUHH had on tap, I decided to wing it. I asked for eign country. things that popped into my head were, a pint of Strongbow, it sounded cool. I grabbed all of my bags, checked that “I’m exhausted, it’s snowing, and this place It ended up being hard cider, on tap! I had my passport, twice, picked up my looks like Harry Potter.â€? Apparently cider is very popular over here. Canon dSLR, and was on my way. As soon We then hurled our luggage out from A couple of us played some pool. Well as I arrived at the airport, I met up with my underneath the bus and went to settle in it was almost the same as American pool, fellow 93.1 WKNH general manager, Tim our dorms. although they call it Snooker. Gagnon. 0\ Ă€UVW LPSUHVVLRQ RI WKH URRP ZDV The balls are only red and yellow with :H ZHUH ZDLWLQJ IRU RXU Ă€UVW Ă LJKW WR “This is twice the size of a Keene State [Col- a black 8-ball and the pockets are smaller depart to Philadelphia International Air- lege] single.â€? Although the room is set up than the ones in the US. port shortly. differently than rooms in America, obviAfter that I decided to go to sleep and At the terminal we sat, glaring at the ously, nothing about it bothered me. I recover from the last 24 hours. screen above that read “Boston to Philadel- started to unpack when I heard voices in Since then I have gone to various places phia Delayed.â€? the next room over. in the city such as Keystone’s, a pub with a “Great start to the trip,â€? I thought to Usually this would be normal, yes, but JUHDW Ă€VK DQG FKLSV EXUJHU DQG WKH\ DOZD\V myself. we all arrived a week earlier than every- have the soccer game on. I mean, football. As soon as my pessimism was about to one else for orientation. I decided to walk I also stopped in at CafĂŠ Rox, where I kick in, a nice man from the airline asked over and introduce myself. I there met my had the most delicious maple syrup covTim and I if we were supposed to be on the neighbor, Ellie, and her four friends, Pat, HUHG %HOJLDQ ZDIĂ H GHVVHUW SRVWSRQHG Ă LJKW :H DQVZHUHG \HV DV WKH Rob, Alex and Joe. When I wanted to pick up some grocerPDQ WKHQ WROG XV KH FRXOG Ă€W XV RQ DQRWKHU They are all from England and decided ies for the room, I went to a local supermarĂ LJKW OHDYLQJ ULJKW DZD\ to move in early. ket called Sainsbury’s. Tim and I jumped up, thanking the man, As I returned to my room, they came ,¡YH GRQH D ORW RI H[SORULQJ LQ WKH Ă€UVW

0$1)5(' (Cont. from A10)

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Mike Manfred spent this past winter break with his sister, Julie Manfred, working in an orphanage in Port-au-Prince Haiti.

and Chris Nungester, according to their website. They are from the U.S. and retired to Haiti to run the orphanage, and have grown very close with Julie. They, along with 33 full-time staff members, administer three homes with approximately 140 kids with an age range from birth to 16 years old. While some of the children are orphans, many have been abandoned to the home by parents who are unable to provide for them due to extreme poverty. Most of the children come with medical conditions resulting from years of malnutrition, but improve quickly with three nutritious meals a day, vitamins, necessary PHGLFLQHV DQG SXULĂ€HG GULQNLQJ ZDWHU according to their website. Mike noted the orphanage spends about $3,000 every Friday on groceries, including noodles, rice, pasta, toiletries, and the basics. “But the meals are incredible,â€? he said. “They have chicken with rice and beans for dinner. It’s very delicious.â€? The children are spread out across three houses: the baby/toddler house, the girls’ house with an emergency room, and the boys’ house. When Mike visits, he stays in the baby/

JAKE MILLER / CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Jake, center, is studying in York, England, for the spring semester.

two weeks, such as visiting the gargantuan York Minster, but my favorite place so far was called York Chocolate Story. A few of us took a tour there as they took us through how York makes the Kit-Kat bar! They produce anywhere between 3-5 million KitKats per day. We were given samples of all sorts of chocolate and at the end I decided to

indulge in a slice of double chocolate frosted cake with Kit-Kat crust. I am about to take a trip to Liverpool to explore with the rest of the students here that are studying abroad, but I am thoroughly enjoying seeing all of this new architecture and making new friends.

“I’m seeing new things, being able to help the kids and spending time with them. They’re better off at the orphanage, they’re very blessed. They don’t have much, but they’re the happiest kids I’ve ever seen.â€? -­ MIKE MANFRED KSC SENIOR

toddler house. “They wake me up by jumping on top of me and laughing. It’s my favorite place to wake up in the world.� Among the donations of formula on his most recent trip, Mike distributed soccer balls and all of his old hats and bandanas to the boys, which he said they loved. Servicing the orphans of His Home for Children has impacted the Manfred family tremendously. Julie said, “My aunt is 60 years old and she’s never had children. I brought her down to the orphanage and she ended up adopting two teenagers. As a family I think this has brought us closer because of the age difference with Mike and I. I’m 35 and he’s 21. So it’s given us something that we’re able to spend time together and grow closer while we work on it together.� “I highly recommend traveling,� Mike said.

“You get so much more back than you JLYH Âľ +H DGPLWWHG WKDW WKH PRVW IXOĂ€OOLQJ overall was gaining new experiences. “I’m seeing new things, being able to help the kids and spending time with them. They’re better off at the orphanage, they’re very blessed. They don’t have much, but they’re the happiest kids I’ve ever seen.â€?

If you are interested in helping Mike and Julie Manfred in any way, you may email Julie at julie@hishomeforchildren. com or log onto http://www.hishomeforchildren.com and click on the milk carton icon at the bottom of the page that says “Milk Money.� Kattey Ortiz can be contacted at kortiz@keene-equinox.com

Template 022308 JJP

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black

THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

Student Life [Keene-­Equinox.com]

STUDENT LIFE / A10

Wi-Fi: not so fly on Keene State College campus MORGAN MARKLEY

SENIOR REPORTER ERIN TAYLOR

CONTRIBUTING WRITER In a world that depends on Twitter, Facebook and email as the main forms of communication, a strong, reliable Internet connection is crucial. At Keene State College, students rely on Wi-Fi around campus as a means of both social interaction and a way to stay up to date with class schedules, assignments, and research for all of their homework needs.

According to Laura Seraichick, the chief information officer of the Information Technology group, “We’re in the third year of a four-year plan to install wireless end to end on the campus. So that means every building and also that means some of the green spaces on campus. It was a four-year plan and we’re in the third year. The first year the plan was all the classrooms. The second year the plan was res[idence] halls. The third year the plan was the remaining res[idence] halls. So as of now, which is February 1, all the res[idence] halls have wireless in them.� For students who like to surf the web outside, Seraichick said, “We’ll finish up the administrative

buildings and also some of the green spaces. We would want to install access points so we can have a really good strong coverage. Those green spaces obviously the quad, down by the dining commons there’s more green space down there, we haven’t totally decided on all of those.� Seraichick also said to decide where the Internet will be, “We’re hoping to use some of the master planning that’s going on where the students have been identifying where they congregate on campus and outside kinds of spaces and we’ll use that to help influence it and we talk to student assembly.� Junior Brian Cote, a Mason Library student assis-

tant said, “When there’s a lot of people in the library like finals week or something it [Internet] just kicks out. Like it’s not able to handle every person using it.â€? Cote also said, “It is chaotic because everyone comes up and blames us because it’s ‘our fault.’ We do have Ethernet cords that they can rent out but the only issue with that is that upstairs in the cubicles are like the only section that has the capability of plugging them in.â€? Sophomore Olivia Chiacchia said last week her Internet was not working in Owls’ Nest Six and had to go to the library to use the internet there. Seraichick said that when students come with issues with the Âť  WI-­FI,  A  8

Senior races against drugs MEGAN GRENIER

EQUINOX STAFF

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

KATTEY ORTIZ

EQUINOX STAFF In this economy, it is almost too easy to gripe about income (or lack thereof), gas prices and the government. But one .HHQH 6WDWH &ROOHJH VWXGHQW UHDOL]HG ÀUVW hand just how lucky we are to have most of the things we do. Senior Michael Manfred is from Westerly, R.I. He played for the KSC Soccer team until his sophomore year when he made the choice to focus on academics. This lifestyle change not only allowed him to excel in school, but he was able to take a long-awaited trip of a lifetime. This past winter break, Manfred joined his older sister, Julie Manfred, on a volunteer trip to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. With them, they brought over $3,000 worth of baby formula to donate to an orphanage called His Home for Children. %XW WKLV LV QRW KLV ÀUVW WLPH GRLQJ VXFK a charitable act. 0DQIUHG ÀUVW à HZ WR +DLWL GXULQJ

spring break of last year with his sister Julie. “I’ve been wanting to go for so long, but I was never able to because soccer took up a lot of my time,â€? Manfred said. “When , Ă€QDOO\ ZHQW , NQHZ , ZDV JRLQJ EDFN there at some point. It changed my life.â€? Manfred had been wanting to go for so long because of Julie, he said. In 2006, she started the process for adoption and chose to adopt from Haiti. She went to WKH RUSKDQDJH IRU WKH Ă€UVW WLPH LQ $SULO of 2007 to meet with the two children she would adopt. That is how she became familiar with His Home for Children. ´7KH Ă€UVW WLPH WKDW , ZDV WKHUH Âľ -XOLH said, “a mom came to the front gate of the orphanage begging them to take her baby. She was so unhealthy and didn’t have enough nutrients so she wasn’t producing any milk for the baby. They had to turn her away because they have a waiting list

bring 12 bins full of formula weighing 50 pounds each. Each bin contained 13 cans, which he said cost around $20 apiece. In Haiti, each can costs about four times as much as it does in the United of, like, 70 children to get in.â€? States. At that point, she knew her adoption “The majority of the donations we was going to take several years. So she bring cost around $3,600 altogether,â€? decided in the meantime to do whatever Manfred said. she could to help the organization. “We try to bring as many people as we She said, “They told me baby formula can because the more people we bring, would be a big help because then if they the more formula we are able to donate.â€? have enough formula, they wouldn’t have The Manfreds stressed that the donato turn babies away. So that’s kind of how tions they receive are strictly for purchasit started.â€? ing the formula, and they pay for their Since then, Julie has been going about Ă LJKWV RXW RI SRFNHW four times a year bringing donations of In fact, Mike got his ticket booked as a baby formula. Christmas present from his parents. There are more factors than baby for“It’s all I wanted for Christmas, so I’m mula that come into play when accepting happy that I was able to have my parchildren into the orphanage. ents help me out. I had to pay for my trip But the orphanage went from housing during spring break. But it was more than 75 children in 2007 to 140 children today worth it,â€? he said. because of the help from Manfred and his His Home for Children is run by Hal sister. According to Mike, they were able to Âť  MANFRED,  A9

Drug prevention races into the Monadnock community this semester in hopes to decrease substance abuse in Keene, N.H. Keene State College senior Angela Stebbins said she has been working on prevention against drugs in Winchester, N.H. since 2009 and has hopes to bring an aspect of this to the campus. Stebbins began teaching as a uniformed guardsman in schools with a prevention program and wanted to bring this program to the Monadnock region. “I saw when I came here the social norms and the attitudes with the kids and drinking were almost favorable, if not favorable to the kids,â€? she continued, “We were able to bring it here but what happened right after we were able to do that is federal budget cuts.â€? This triggered Stebbins’ latest project. “That’s when I again could still see that there was some light at the end of the tunnel,â€? she said. From there, Stebbins formed her idea of the Race Against Drugs (RAD) program which she has since started at the Winchester Middle School. Stebbins said that she’s taking the Stay On Track curriculum and tying it into the community and in particular to the racetracks due to the Monadnock region’s love for racing. “I think KSC would have a lot of ideas to contribute to RAD and make it a bigger program involving other middle schools in the area,â€? KSC Sophomore and RAD volunteer Lindsey Tatro said. Stebbins said she has creDWHG WKH Ă€UVW HYHU 5DFH $JDLQVW 'UXJV SURJUDP “We’re already being looked at throughout the country as the next big thing in drug prevention,â€? Stebbins said. She previously worked for the Air National Guard in the Counter Drug Task Force where her role was in Drug Demand Reduction. From this she said she was sent to do training in prevention. Stebbins said the Air National Guard placed her in New Hampshire at the Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services where she proceeded to get more training in prevention.“That coupled with the military training really is what sparked the passion and the desire to do this type of work,â€? she explained. Tatro said the lessons compare what they’re learning about race cars to their own bodies. “We compare having to put the right fuel, gasses, oils into a race car for it to function correctly in relation to a person’s body, putting healthy things into your body to make it function to its full ability,â€? Tatro said. Stebbins and her husband Michael are opening up their business to teach the kids how to build a race car. “We’re hoping to have one of them race it at the track,â€? Michael said. Stebbins said other businesses are giving back to the community too. Stebbins said the Monadnock Speedway is teaching the kids to drive a race car and they will know how to race by age 12. TD Bank will teach business banking classes, which will show kids how to budget their money and how to balance a checkbook, Stebbins explained. Liberty Mutual sales representative Lisa Steadman said that they’re teaching safety classes to Winchester students. Steadman said that she worked with Stebbins on an event at the Winchester Speedway educating kids about the consequences of drunk driving. “She’s been really involved in helping students to lead more healthy lives and to make good choices, she puts a lot of her time and effort into things like that through programs throughout Winchester. So that’s what it’s all about, how can we take a drug prevention program and make it part of a whole community,â€? Stebbins said. “After seeing all the hard work she is producing for this program it has made me realize that just one person can make a difference,â€? Tatro VDLG 6WHEELQV DGGHG ´:H GHĂ€QLWHO\ QHHG DOO the help we can get to get this off the ground.â€? Megan Grenier can be contacted at mgrenier@keene-equinox.com

Template 022308 JJP

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black

Arts & Entertainment

THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

A&E / B1

[Keene-­Equinox.com]

GRAPHIC BY: EMMA CONTIC / GRAPHICS EDITOR PHOTOS BY: HANNAH RASCOE / EQUINOX STAFF, JESSIE BERTHIAUME / EQUINOX STAFF

REBECCA FARR

EQUINOX STAFF Senior Bachelor of Fine Arts students at Keene State College don’t get the chance to kick back with “senioritis.â€? The Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery awaits their in-progress work to storm through this coming April. From charcoal to ceramics and sculpture to oil paints, the diversity in students’ work anticipates exhibitions throughout the Thorne. 'XULQJ WKHLU Ă€QDO WZR VHPHVWHUV DW .6& %)$ VWXGHQWV show off their intricate creations for all to see. Seth Kaiser shows his hard work and love for art in ceramics. “There’s an inherent magic, an alchemy if you will, to ceramics,â€? Kaiser said. “The act of taking mud, which is essentially what clay is, and molding or crafting opulent beauty and treasures of it really captivates me.â€? Kaiser explained the goal of his art is to give a complete experience to the viewer. “Visually, sensually, just all over,â€? he said, “There’s a certain energy while creating and you just go with it. I don’t want people to recognize symbols, I’m completely non-objective.â€? From his expressive vases to a salt-glazed abstract vase, Kaiser and BFA students’ work for their exhibition began in the fall 2012 semester, giving 30 weeks to create and complete their debut display. “Depending on what I’m working on, it [one piece] can take from a week to three weeks, and that depends on a lot too,â€? Kaiser said. From this exhibit, Kaiser said he and other students hope to break the idea of a ‘starving artist’ and is hopeful of a good turn out to the end-of-theyear show. While Kaiser’s creative work is “regardless of reason,â€? as he describes it, sculptor Nick King’s work is about animals and the “concept of humans and animals being on an even plane rather than humans being separate,â€? King said. One sculpture King said he started in SepWHPEHU EXW PRVW OLNHO\ ZLOO QRW Ă€QLVK XQWLO WKH VKRZ UROOV around because of its intricacy. “It’s a snake eating its own tail. It’s a symbol used in a lot of different culture,â€? King said, “but in Norse mythology, the giant snake is wrapped around the earth with his tail in his mouth and when the snake lets go, the world ends.â€? King said he is fascinated by the myth that people worshipped the snake. “People don’t worship animals anymore. I wanted to put the snake back in the light of worship and admiration.â€? As King has drawn and painted ever since he had the motor skills to do so, he said he never thought of himVHOI DV D VFXOSWRU XQWLO KLV Ă€UVW VFXOSWXUH FODVV VRSKRPRUH year of college. “I thought it was challenging and interesting,â€? King said, “I just feel like there’s a lot more possibility working in three dimensions rather than two.â€? Moving in a direction different from the molding of pottery and sculpture, Caitlin Stearns portrays her talent through elaborate oil paintings. Whether it is of a boy in aviator sunglasses seemingly deep in thought or a girl laughing with her hands in the air, Stearns’ hard work will also be on display in the Thorne. Stearns’ upcoming showcase is a

series of paintings deriving from photographs, taken by her, of college life. “My work shows what I’m interested in,â€? she said. “Viewers don’t know what my relationship with the people in the photos is, but maybe they can look at the pieces and, to some level, take a look at what it’s been like here [Keene State College] for me,â€? 6WHDUQV VDLG 6WHDUQV SODQV WR KDYH Ă€YH RU VL[ RI KHU IRXU E\ Ă€YH IHHW ZRUNV RI DUW LQ the upcoming exhibit. About ten feet over from Stearns’ VWXGLR VSDFH RQ WKH WKLUG Ă RRU RI WKH Redfern, Emma Fairweather’s 42x55 inch charcoal pieces decorate the right side of the room. “I’m a drawer more than anything,â€? Fairweather said. Fairweather said she was born and raised in Detroit, Mich. and that’s where her inspiration comes from—abandoned parts of the city that people wouldn’t normally convey as beautiful. “In art, people always paint or draw pictures of people or things they see as beautiful, so I didn’t want to be stereotypical,â€? she said. “I love the different walks of life, the rundown, dirty, almost scary things,â€? Fairweather said. “It’s stuff that’s in my memory.â€? Senior Emory Cooper is also creating her exhibit based off of aspects of her life and memory that inspire her most. Cooper said that she will have a total of four pieces featured in the student exhibit--three largescale collages and one sculpture. These large-scale collages are made out of magazine and advertisement pages that are ripped out and then glued onto the canvas. Cooper said she was inspired by spending her time out west in the Teton Mountain Range located in Jackson Hole, Wyo. As these students have been and continue to strive through their artwork, advisors like KSC professor Jon Gitelson have ambitions toward the Ă€QDO GLVSOD\ DW WKH 7KRUQH DV ZHOO ´7KH LGHD LV LW¡V WKH Ă€UVW WLPH WKDW VWXGHQWV KDYH WKH opportunity to really self-design a body of work,â€? he said. For this showcase, the key word is self-design. “I don’t give assignments,â€? Gitelson said. “I just try to guide them without telling them what to do.â€? “For me, working with students one on one is one of the most rewarding things we can do as teachers,â€? Gitelson said. Senior Dana Ward, will also be displaying his work in the student exhibit. Ward’s work primarily focuses on ceramics. But, Ward is just one of the many students whose work is expected to appear in KSC’s Thorne Art Gallery on April 19. Rebecca Farr can be contacted at rfarr@keene-equinox.com

EMILY FEDORKO / PHOTO EDITOR

Top photo: Senior Nick King sculpts his work around the concept of humans and animals being on an even plane.

R A S CO E

O / EQ U IN

X S TA FF

n April allery o G t r A e rn the Tho buting in e d is t hibit tha amics. iser’s ex rt in cer Seth Ka s his love for a ay 19 portr HANNAH

Template 022308 JJP

Black A&E / B2

THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

[Keene-­Equinox.com]

Live Music Friday hits the high notes REBECCA MARSH

EQUINOX STAFF As the music started, the crowd poured into the restaurant to hear the sounds of Fritz’s Live Music Friday. The loud chatter would die down to hear Joe Graveline and Dan Fyffe play the music they love to the audience. The owner of Fritz is Jessica Fuller who said she has always had an interest in live music. Live Music Friday at Fritz has been going on since the restaurant switched locations. Fuller said she thought it would be a good way to bring in customers if she had live musicians playing. There are two kinds of Live Music Friday. The Ă€UVW LV D VSOLW QLJKW WKDW VKRZFDVHV WZR different bands or musicians, and the second is a full set where only one band or musician is booked for a night. $FFRUGLQJ WR )XOOHU VKH Ă€QGV DUWists on YouTube or from music samples RQOLQH ´,I WKH\ GRQ¡W KDYH WKDW ,¡OO XVXally let them have a set on Acoustic 7KXUVGD\V DQG WKHQ ,¡OO JHW VRPH IHHGback from that,â€? Fuller said. One of the performers at Live Music Friday, Feb. 1, was Fuller’s father, Joe Graveline. According to Graveline, he picked up the guitar because of an advertisement in a comic book saying that he would get girls and make friends. Graveline began playing in 1961 and was on the road for 25 years playing at various venues. “About 6 months after , ZDV IRROLQJ DURXQG ZLWK WKH JXLWDU , ZDV LQ D EDQG , VSHQW \HDUV RQ WKH road, played all over the United States.â€? *UDYHOLQH UHFDOOV KLV Ă€UVW WLPH KH played in front of a crowd, “like standLQJ LQ IURQW RI D Ă€ULQJ VTXDG Âľ *UDYeline writes his own lyrics and music, and also does covers of songs such as “Hallelujahâ€? by Leonard Cohen and “Blackbirdâ€? by The Beatles. According to Graveline, his inspirations include Jeff Beck, George Harrison, and Jimi Hendrix. According to

him a space to perform now,â€? Fuller VDLG ´, Ă€QG LW UHDOO\ UHZDUGLQJ Âľ Another performer on this past Live Music Friday is Dan Fyffe. Fyffe began playing the guitar at age 18 by self teaching, but didn’t really start to pick it up until about six or seven years ago. ´$ERXW VL[ RU VHYHQ \HDUV DJR , started singing with a fellow at nursing homes and that went really well,â€? Fyffe said. ´, GR ZHOO ZLWK WKH JXLWDU EXW LW¡V WKH voice and the singing that inspires me the very most,â€? Fyffe said. Fyffe said that when he showed Lyons the recordings he made, Lyons invited him to open for a band at the Colonial Theater. Fyffe remembers his favorite memory of playing. “Opening at the Colonial Theater was quite the half hour of fame,â€? Fyffe said. According to Fyffe, he receives his inspiration “solelyâ€? from John Denver. ´(YHU VLQFH , ZDV D FKLOG , ZRXOG SUDFtice his records,â€? Fyffe said. Fyffe’s wife, Maureen Fyffe, was part of the crowd DW /LYH 0XVLF )ULGD\ ´, HQMR\ OLVWHQLQJ to him practice,â€? Maureen said. Glenn Orkin said he felt very comfortable, also, and agreed that the crowd was “multi-generational.â€? Orkin also mentioned that he feels, “a connection to Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah.’ ,W¡V RQH RI P\ IDYRULWHV Âľ (YHU\ QLJKW LV GLIIHUHQW Âľ *UDYHOLQH VDLG ´,W¡V D VQRZĂ DNH 7KHUH¡V QR WZR VQRZĂ DNHV DOLNH there’s no two performance alike.â€? Fuller said that her favorite part of Live Music Friday is that it supports and promotes the arts in the commuEMILY FEDORKO / PHOTO EDITOR nity. On Friday Feb. 1 Dan Fyffe and Joe Graveline performed at Fritz the Place “Being able to offer and promote to Eat during live music Friday nights. live music is probably one of my favorGraveline, one of his on-stage favorite WR VXSSRUW KLP ´, UHDOO\ OLNH KDYLQJ ite aspects of running this restaurant,â€? memories is playing in Detroit at Cobo the grandkids get to hear it and all,â€? )XOOHU VDLG ´, KRSH LW¡V VRPHWKLQJ WKDW , Hall in front of about 25,000 people. Graveline said. can do continuously for years to come.â€? ´,W ZDV UHDOO\ H[FLWLQJ EXW LW ZDVQ¡W According to Fuller, she enjoys real,â€? Graveline said. He said this is seeing her father perform and rememRebecca Marsh can be contacted at because of the lights on stage not allow- bers seeing him perform when she was rmarsh@keene-equinox.com ing him to see the people. Out in the D FKLOG ´,W¡V DOZD\V IXQ WR ZDWFK KLP audience, Graveline’s family came out SHUIRUP LW¡V UHDOO\ QLFH WKDW , FDQ JLYH

COMMENTARY

Movies prove to be reflective of your personality SAM NORTON

“There’s a psychological link between our personalities and the movies that appeal to us.�

A&E EDITOR

,W¡V EHHQ DUJXHG WKDW PRYLHV DUH SXUHO\ D VRXUFH RI HQWHUWDLQPHQW EXW RWKHUV VD\ WKDW Ă€OPV UHSUHVHQW \RXU SHUVRQDOLW\ ,I WKDW ZHUH WUXH ,¡G EH D *RRQLH ,W¡V QRW WKH VHQVH RI DGYHQWXUH RU HYHQ WKH IULHQG-­EZRA WERB AND RISA WILLIAMS ship dynamics between Chunk, Mikey, Mouth, Data, AUTHORS OF “CINESCOPES: WHAT YOUR FAVORITE MOVIES REVEAL ABOUT YOUâ€? Sloth, Brand, Andy and Stef, that keep me intrigued, rather, it’s “The Goonies’â€? sense of sarcasm and wit DUH TXRWHG VD\LQJ WKDW WKH PRYLHV \RX Ă€QG PRVW vivacious romantic. that keeps me entertained. appealing can do more than entertain you; rather, Each of these types of characters are all present )URP &KXQN¡V LQIDPRXV FRQIHVVLRQ ´,Q WKLUG \RXU Ă€OP VHOHFWLRQ FDQ UHYHDO SOHQW\ DERXW ZKR \RX ZLWKLQ WKH Ă€OPV ZH FKRRVH WR ZDWFK JUDGH , FKHDWHG RQ P\ KLVWRU\ H[DP ,Q IRXUWK JUDGH are. According to the article “What type of Movie , VWROH P\ XQFOH 0D[¡V WRXSHH DQG , JOXHG LW RQ P\ The article states that, “There’s a psychological SHUVRQ DUH \RX" )LQG RXW ZKDW Ă€OP SUHIHUHQFHV VD\ IDFH ZKHQ , ZDV 0RVHV LQ P\ +HEUHZ 6FKRRO SOD\ ,Q link between our personalities and the movies that about you,â€? in Psychology Today, “Film preferences Ă€IWK JUDGH , NQRFNHG P\ VLVWHU (GLH GRZQ WKH VWDLUV DSSHDO WR XV ,W¡V D YHU\ SHUVRQDO WKLQJ DQG ZH FRQ- UHĂ HFW DWWLWXGHV RU HYDOXDWLRQV WKDW KHOS WR RUJDQL]H DQG , EODPHG LW RQ WKH GRJ :KHQ P\ PRP VHQW PH nect with the heroes and themes in the movies we’re and are organized by a wider system of values or to the summer camp for fat kids and then they served drawn to.â€? schemas.â€? OXQFK , JRW QXWV DQG , SLJJHG RXW DQG WKH\ NLFNHG PH +RZHYHU LW LV QRW MXVW WKH JHQUH RI Ă€OP WKDW FDQ EH )RU PDQ\ RI XV Ă€OP LV DQ HDV\ ZD\ WR FRPPXQLRXW %XW WKH ZRUVW WKLQJ , HYHU GRQH , PL[HG D SRW a true representation for your personality, a movie- cate our mood, our thoughts, and even our perspecRI IDNH SXNH DW KRPH DQG WKHQ , ZHQW WR WKLV PRYLH JRHU FDQ DOVR EH GUDZQ WR D Ă€OP EHFDXVH RI WKH FKDU- tives. As a result, your choice in movies can help you theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the DFWHUV LQ LW ,Q :HUE DQG :LOOLDPV¡ ERRN WKH\ IRFXV convey the various dynamics of your personality, EDOFRQ\ DQG WKHQ W W WKHQ , PDGH D QRLVH OLNH WKLV on the individual characters that an audience con- whether you are aware of it or not. KXD KXD KXD KXDDDDDDD DQG WKHQ , GXPSHG LW RYHU nects with. However, Psychology Today states that the “Most the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, ´,I LW¡V WZR FKDUDFWHUV VRPHWLPHV LW¡V WKH G\QDPLF interesting reason for linking personality and movie this was horrible, all the people started getting sick between the two that you’re [the viewer] drawn to.â€? preference is that personality traits may predict why DQG WKURZLQJ XS DOO RYHU HDFK RWKHU , QHYHU IHOW VR Williams says the lists tell about the type of heroes ZH ZDWFK Ă€OPV RU ZKDW ZH XVH PRYLHV IRU 0RUH VSHbad in my entire life,â€? to Brand’s quick-wit responses people like and the themes that resonate with them. FLĂ€FDOO\ WKLV DVVXPHV WKDW D PRYLH ZDWFKLQJ IXOthat ultimately leave you defeated—it’s the type of ´,I \RX¡UH GUDZQ WR URPDQWLF FRPHGLHV \RX FRXOG EH Ă€OOV NH\ SV\FKRORJLFDO IXQFWLRQV ZKLFK YDU\ E IURP Ă€OP WKDW HQFRPSDVVHV D VHQVH RI KXPRU WKDW , FDQ D URPDQWLF ,I \RX OLNH DFWLRQ PRYLHV \RX FRXOG EH SHUVRQ WR SHUVRQ DQG F IURP PRYLH WR PRYLH Âľ relate to. an adventurer at heart,â€? the CBS News article states. Even if you are the chosen adventurer, the rebel%XW Ă€OPV SRUWUD\ PRUH WKDQ MXVW D VHQVH RI Williams and Werb argue that there are 16 differ- lious lover, the courageous detective, or even the humor—from romance, to horror, to adventure and HQW W\SHV RI SHUVRQDOLWLHV WKDW \RXU FKRLFH LQ Ă€OP FDQ OR\DO ZDUULRU³ÀOP HVSHFLDOO\ LQ WRGD\¡V VRFLHW\ LV HYHQ GUDPD Ă€OPV DUH GHVLJQHG WR UHSUHVHQW HYHU\ UHSUHVHQW WKH GHGLFDWHG LGHDOLVW WKH OR\DO ZDUULRU no longer created for the sole purpose of entertaining relatable aspect of life. the passionate maverick, the youthful sage, the char- us—it has been created to help represent the present Authors Ezra Werb and Risa Williams of the book ismatic performer, the chosen adventurer, the coura- and even our past. But then again, Goonies never say ´&LQHVFRSHV :KDW <RXU )DYRULWH 0RYLHV 5HYHDO geous detective, the destined hunter, the determined die. $ERXW <RX Âľ DUJXH WKDW D SHUVRQ¡V Ă€OP SUHIHUHQFH LV D survivor, the enlightened healer, the existential representation of their personality. savior, the invincible optimist, the magical creator, Sam Norton can be contacted at According to the CBS News article “What Your the rebellious lover, the respected champion and the snorton@keene-equinox.com Favorite Movies Say About You,â€? Werb and Williams

KSC organization helps battle addiction with sound ALLISON BAKER

EQUINOX STAFF When asked if they knew anyone with an alcohol or other drug addiction problem, nearly every member of the Chamber Singers raised their hands. Amelie Gooding, a representative for The Phoenix House, didn’t appear surprised. Each year, the Keene State College Chamber Singers select an organization to work with throughout the semester and produce D FRQFHUW WKDW ZLOO EHQHĂ€W WKDW RUJDQL]DWLRQ 7KLV VHPHVWHU they have decided to reach out to The Phoenix House Keene &HQWHU ´:H¡UH WKLV QDWLRQDO QRQ SURĂ€W SUHYHQWLRQ DQG WUHDWment for drugs and alcohol,â€? Gooding, a member of The Phoenix House for 17 and a half years, said. Since 1977, their Victorian house on Roxbury Street has offered treatment programs. An alcohol and drug rehabilitation center didn’t seem a reasonable match for this collaboUDWLRQ ´$W Ă€UVW , JRW WKH HPDLO DQG , SXW LW DVLGH Âľ *RRGLQJ DGPLWWHG ´, GLGQ¡W NQRZ KRZ WKH VLQJLQJ ZDV SDUWLFXODUO\ relevant.â€? However, after a meeting with Dr. Sandra Howard, assistant professor of music, Gooding agreed. “She just really impressed me with why she wanted to do it,â€? Gooding said, “Anything that educates and gets the word out, to me, is great.â€? Lauren Weiner, a sophomore member of the Chamber 6LQJHUV KDG VLPLODU WKRXJKWV RQ WKH SDUWQHUVKLS ´,W¡OO EH LQWHUHVWLQJ ,W¡OO GHĂ€QLWHO\ PDNH SHRSOH XQFRPIRUWDEOH EXW , think we’ll be able to take away a lot from it.â€? The alliance with The Phoenix House has highlighted alcohol and drug awareness for Chamber Singers members. ´$V FROOHJH NLGV ZH¡UH XQGHU D ORW RI SHHU SUHVVXUH ,W¡OO EH LQWHUHVWLQJ WR EH DEOH WR VHH WKRVH SUREOHPV Ă€UVW KDQG and what could happen if we let it go out of hand, and how WKDW ZRXOG DIIHFW RXU IXWXUH Âľ :HLQHU VDLG ´, WKLQN LW ZLOO EH really interesting for our students to know how people strugJOH DQG HPHUJH IURP WKDW Âľ +RZDUG VDLG ´,W ZLOO SXW SHRSOH¡V problems into context.â€? However, this partnership will not only put people’s addictions into context, it will also allow the student Chamber Singer members to understand those affected by drug and alcohol abuse. The college student age group has proved to be popular with admittance to The Phoenix House. “We have a lot of [clients] between the ages of 20 and 26,â€? Gooding said. “This is going to be good in terms of it is going to break down stereotypes and they will probably meet people their own age, who are struggling with some really serious addiction problems,â€? Howard said. But for Weiner, singing was a way to counter alcohol and RWKHU GUXJ DEXVH ´, FRQVLGHU P\VHOI OXFN\ WR EH DEOH WR UHDOize pretty early in my college career that music is my vocation. :H QHHG WR Ă€QG RWKHU RXWOHWV RWKHU WKDQ DEXVLQJ VXEVWDQFHV DQG ,¡YH IRXQG WKDW Âľ Although it wasn’t initially obvious, the Chamber Singers and The Phoenix House had more in common than assumed. “We used to have a music group,â€? Gooding said, “We had DOO GLIIHUHQW LQVWUXPHQWV ,W ZDVQ¡W DERXW FUHDWLQJ EHDXWLIXO sound, but about expressing themselves in that way. You NQRZ ,¡P DPD]HG DW KRZ PDQ\ RI RXU FOLHQWV DUH LQFUHGLEOH DUWLVWV ,W¡V SDUW RI ZKDW ZH ZDQW WR FHOHEUDWH DQG GHYHORS LQ them.â€? Howard said in order to ensure that the concert the Chamber Singers will have later in the semester coincided with The Phoenix House’s mission statement, she selected repertoire from the Renaissance time period. The Chamber Singers will be visiting The Phoenix House to talk with clients in hopes WR FRQQHFW WKURXJK WKDW PXVLFDO H[SUHVVLRQ ´, PLJKW DVN 7KH Chamber Singers to talk about what singing does for them and why they do it,â€? Gooding said, “because that would be inspirational.â€? ´,I WKHUH¡V RQH SHUVRQ ZH FDQ VWHHU DZD\ IURP WKDW WKH LW¡V worth it,â€? Howard said. The concert will be held on April 14, and the Chamber Singers will donate 20 percent of the proceeds to The Phoenix House. Allison Baker can be contacted at abaker@keene-equinox.com Sam Norton also contributed to this story.

EMILY FEDORKO / PHOTO EDITOR

Each semester the Keene State College Chamber Singers partner with a local organization, this year, the Chamber Singers are partnering with the Phoenix House.

THE BEAT OF THE WEEK

Compiled by: Taylor Adolphson / Equinox Staff

(YHU\ ZHHN IRXU VWXGHQWV DUH DVNHG ZKLFK VRQJ WKH\ DUH OLVWHQLQJ WR FUHDWLQJ WKLV ZHHN¡V SOD\OLVW

Ben Helbig Junior Education

´7KULIW 6KRS¾ 0DFNOHPRUH IW 5\DQ /HZLV

/LQGVD\ 6KDSLUR Junior Safety

´*LUO RQ )LUH¾ Alicia Keys

Enea Brotzman Junior Sociology

´+RZ <RX /LNH 0H 1RZ¾ The Heavy

Addie Howard Junior Management

´([SORVLRQV¾ Ellie Goulding

Template 022308 JJP

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

A&E / B3

[Keene-­Equinox.com]

KSC students predict who will win the gold DEANNA CARUSO

EQUINOX STAFF After a year of remarkable movies, from widespread actors and incredible directors, we eagerly count down the days until the Eighty-Fifth Academy Awards will air on 6XQGD\ )HE :LWK ER[ RIĂ€FH VPDVKHV LW seems as if it would be a close race. However, DFFRUGLQJ WR +XIĂ€QJWRQ 3RVW WKH PRYLH “Argoâ€? has a 68.9 percent chance of winning %HVW 3LFWXUH 2QH YRWH LQ IDYRU RI ´$UJRÂľ LV Keene State College junior Melissa Gattilia. “I hope ‘Argo’ wins because this movie is so realistic, and I felt like I was actually in the movie because of how well it was produced,â€? Gattilia said. “Argoâ€? exceeded expectations with the win of a Golden Globe on Jan. 13 IRU %HVW 0RWLRQ 3LFWXUH 0RYLH DQG DOVR D Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award on Jan. 27 IRU 2XWVWDQGLQJ 3HUIRUPDQFH E\ D &DVW LQ D 0RWLRQ 3LFWXUH ,I ´$UJRÂľ GRHV ZLQ WKLV ZLOO EH WKH Ă€UVW 2VFDU IRU %HQ $IĂ HFN DV D director. All nominees for actor in a leading role display the ideal image of “hunk,â€? but these nominees all also delivered outstanding performances. According to freshman Hanna DeSouza, Bradley Cooper from ´6LOYHU /LQLQJV 3OD\ERRNÂľ GHVHUYHV WR ZLQ Best Actor. “Bradley Cooper showed a more emotional side in his recent movie, rather WKDQ KLV XVXDO FRPHG\ Ă€OPV Âľ 'H6RX]D VDLG Junior Jaime Margolis agrees with DeSouza because, “Bradley Cooper is beautiful and any category he is in will always get my vote,â€? Margolis commented. Yet Eonline.com begs to differ and anticipates seeing Daniel Day-Lewis from “Lincolnâ€? winning Best Actor. 7KH Ă€YH QRPLQHHV IRU %HVW $FWUHVV DOO exemplify strong women in their leading roles. For Jessica Chastain, Jennifer Lawrence, Emmanuelle Riva, Naomi Watts and Quvenzhanè Wallis, winning this award ZLOO EH WKH Ă€UVW 2VFDU IRU HDFK RI WKH QRPLnees. Jessica Chastain recalls her experience ZKHQ VKH Ă€UVW KHDUG WKH QHZV RI EHLQJ QRPinated to celebuzz.com, “It was a bittersweet birthday for me because I was on an airplane and I woke up,â€? Chastain told reporters at the Golden Globes. “Then Kathryn Bigelow came over to me and said, ‘Congratulations. <RX JRW QRPLQDWHG IRU DQ 2VFDU ¡ $QG , ZDV so excited I wanted to scream and, like, yelp, but then I was afraid I was going to get ducttaped in my seat by an airline employee.’â€? With the hit movie “Beasts of the Southern Wildâ€? under her belt and the title of the now new youngest nominee for Best Actress in a Leading Role, nine-year-old Quvenzhanè Wallis will be competing with

CHRIS PIZZELLO / AP PHOTO

Steven Spielberg, nominated for directing and best picture for “Lincoln,� arrives at the Eighty-Fifth Academy Awards Nominees Luncheon at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, in Beverly Hills, Calif.

contenders who are triple her age. When asked the question on whether Wallis has a slim or high chance of winning because of her age, junior Stephanie Beach said, “To be nominated at such a young age is an unbelievable achievement. Even if Quvenzhanè does not win, she should be more than proud of herself for being elected.â€? However, Wallis isn’t concerned about winning or losing—when interviewed by Glam Magazine, the only thing Wallis is worried DERXW RQ 2VFDU QLJKW LV PDNLQJ VXUH VKH

doesn’t wear a long dress, “because I might step on it and trip on it, and I don’t want to humiliate myself,â€? Wallis said. While Quvenzhanè Wallis is nervous about stepping on her dress, the Best Director nominees may be nervous competing against three-time Academy Award winner Steven Spielberg. Having former motion SLFWXUHV ´6FKLQGOHU¡V /LVWÂľ DQG ´6DYLQJ 3ULYDWH 5\DQÂľ DV SDVW %HVW 'LUHFWRU 2VFDU ZLQners, junior Nick Stemm said he strongly believes that Spielberg will win his fourth

2VFDU ´6SLHOEHUJ¡V PRYLHV DUH YHU\ FDSWLvating and I know that watching any movie directed by him, it will be amazing,â€? Stemm said. Hosting the award ceremony is Seth MacFarlane, known for his witty humor with his popular television shows “Family Guy,â€? “The Cleveland Show,â€? and “American Dad;â€? MacFarlane has already caused controversy with making a Hitler joke about the movie “Amour,â€? a contender for %HVW 3LFWXUH ,QVWHDG RI DSRORJL]LQJ IRU KLV

comment, he defended it with another joke. MacFarlane will have many jokes up his sleeve during the night of the event either making viewers cringe or laugh. %XW RYHUDOO WKH 2VFDUV ZLOO EH D QLJKW full of glamour, victories, celebrations, and a week’s worth of discussion. Tune in to ABC on the Feb. 24 to see which nominees go home with the gold. Deanna Caruso can be contacted at dcaruso@keene-equinox.com

Green Lantern channels unique power

DANCE, THEATRE AND MUSIC ENLIVEN WINTER AND SPRING SEASONS WES SERAFINE

EQUINOX STAFF

Emily Johnson/Catalyst Dance Niicugni (Listen) Dance Installation Weds., February 13, 7:30 p.m. $20-$13, $5 KSC students

Griffin Theatre in Letters Home Weds., March 20, 7:30 p.m. School Performance Thurs., March 21, 9:30 a.m. $25-$15, KSC students $5

Apple Hill String Quartet with Christine Southworth Classical Music Weds., April 3, 7:30 p.m. $20-$15, KSC students $5

Redfern Arts Center Tickets: 603-358-2168 www.keene.edu/racbp

Each time we’ve looked at “The Green Lantern: New Guardiansâ€? series, we’ve seen Kyle Rayner master a different aspect of the emotional spectrum. The blue healing light of hope, the destructive UHG Ă€UHV RI UDJH DQG WKH GHDGO\ \HOORZ HQHUJ\ RI IHDU Today, Kyle takes on his greatest challenge yet: mastering the orange light of avarice. 7KH 2UDQJH /DQWHUQ SRZHUV DUH WKH PRVW XQLTXH of any of the other colored lanterns because the orange light is powered by greed, it works best when wielded by only one entity. In this case, it’s the insane rat-like cave dwelling DOLHQ FUHDWXUH NQRZQ RQO\ DV /DUĂ HH]H 2QFH D VLPSOH VSDFH SLUDWH /DUĂ HH]H DQG KLV FUHZ GLVFRYHUHG WKH RQO\ H[LVWLQJ 2UDQJH /DQWHUQ SRZHU battery. When they tried to take it for themselves, the power of the lantern poisoned each of their minds DQG IRUFHG WKHP WR Ă€JKW RYHU LW /DUĂ HH]H XOWLPDWHO\ SURYHG WR EH WKH JUHHGLest and was transformed into one of the most feared beings in the entire galaxy. /DUĂ HH]H PD\ EH DORQH DQG QRW H[FHSWLRQDOO\ bright, but he has the deadly ability to capture the identity of any being he kills and turn them into a soulless construct that exists only to serve their insane master. During a catastrophic event known as The BlackHVW 1LJKW /DUĂ HH]H MRLQHG IRUFHV ZLWK UHSUHVHQWDWLYHV of the other colors of the emotional spectrum, but only in exchange for one of the Guardians of the Universe, the founders of the Green Lantern Corps, to act as his slave. Now Kyle Rayner seeks to master the orange light RI DYDULFH DQG /DUĂ HH]H LVQ¡W WKH VKDULQJ W\SH The comic opens with The Third Army, creatures created by the now insane Guardians of the Universe, purging the galaxy of all emotion and independent thought. Later, we see Rayner, the Star Sapphire, Carol )HUULV DQG $UNLOOR WKH <HOORZ /DQWHUQ Ă \LQJ WRZDUGV 2NDDUD /DUĂ HH]H¡V VWURQJKROG .\OH LV UHOXFWDQW DERXW mastering this ability, as he’s never seen himself as a greedy person. /DUĂ HH]H NQRZV ZK\ WKH\ KDYH FRPH EXW KDV QR intention of sharing his power with Rayner. Carol WULHV WR SHUVXDGH /DUĂ HH]H EXW RQO\ PDQDJHV WR DQJHU him, causing him to attack Rayner. Though Rayner

“The Orange Lantern powers are the most unique of any of the other colored lanterns because the orange light is powered by greed, it works best when wielded by only one entity.â€? -­SERAFINE

LV SRZHUIXO /DUĂ HH]H DQG KLV DUP\ RI FRQVWUXFWV manage to overwhelm him. Rayner is on the ropes as The Third Army attacks. +H Ă€QDOO\ SXWV DVLGH KLV GRXEWV DQG UHDFKHV LQWR WKH 2UDQJH /DQWHUQ He gains mastery over its power but in turn succumbs to the intoxicating effects. With Kyle conVXPHG E\ KLV RZQ DPSOLĂ€HG JUHHG WKH 7KLUG $UP\ overwhelms the others. :KHQ WKH PRQVWHUV FRQVXPH 6D\G /DUĂ HH]H¡V guardian slave, Raynor snaps out of it and retreats, swearing to put an end to the evil of the guardians once and for all. This is a good issue of this series, but I would have OLNHG WR VHH D ELW PRUH RI WKH KXPRU /DUĂ HH]H KDV been known for in the past. He’s usually one of those characters who can make you laugh while still being threatening, much like The Joker. Rayner’s reluctance to master avarice is in keeping with his character but still feels a bit forced in my opinion. The artwork in this edition is nothing spectacular. This series has always had problems sticking with a single artist. Despite some slightly washed out colors, the artwork is quite well done, particularly with /DUĂ HH]H :KHQ KH Ă€UVW DSSHDUV KH ORRNV DOPRVW VDWDQLF ZKLFK LV Ă€WWLQJ VLQFH HDUOLHU LQ WKLV VHULHV 5D\QHU DQG KLV DOOLHV HQFRXQWHUHG D SODQHW WKDW EHOLHYHG /DUĂ HH]H to be the Devil of their religion. This is yet another strong entry in this series. The WKUHDW RI WKH 7KLUG $UP\ LV Ă€QDOO\ VWDUWLQJ WR IHHO UHDO and the desperation of Rayner’s struggle is increased. This is a great series that continues to impress. 2YHUDOO 4/5 :HV 6HUDĂ€QH FDQ EH FRQWDFWHG DW ZVHUDĂ€QH#NHHQH HTXLQR[ FRP

Template 022308 JJP

Black A&E / B3

THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

[Keene-­Equinox.com]

Redfern event mixes film and music harmoniously WES SERAFINE

EQUINOX STAFF 0XVLF DQG ÀOP IXVHG WRJHWKHU LQ D QHZ ZD\ WKLV SDVW ZHHN DW .HHQH 6WDWH &ROOHJH 7KH 5HGIHUQ $UWV &HQWHU SOD\HG KRVW WR D YHU\ XQLTXH VFUHHQLQJ RI )ULW] /DQJ·V VLOHQW ÀOP FODVVLF ´0HWURSROLV µ 6HHLQJ WKH UHVWRUHG PRYLH LQ LWV HQWLUHW\ LV LQFUHGLEOH HQRXJK IRU DQ\ DXGLHQFH PHPEHU EXW ZKDW PDGH WKLV VFUHHQLQJ XQLTXH ZDV WKH PXVLFDO DFFRPSDQLPHQW E\ 7KH $OOR\ 2UFKHVWUD D PXVLFDO WULR WKDW FUHDWHV WKHLU RZQ RULJLQDO VFRUHV IRU VLOHQW FODVVLFV DQG SHUIRUPV WKHP GXULQJ OLYH VFUHHQLQJV RI WKH ÀOP 7KH GLUHFWRU RI WKH 5HGIHUQ $UWV &HQWHU 6KDQQRQ 0D\HUV ÀUVW PHW WKH $OOR\ 2UFKHVWUD LQ ZKHQ VKH ZDV SDUW RI D VLOHQW ÀOP IHVWLYDO LQ 1HZ <RUN VKH VDLG ´,W >WKH VLOHQW

ÀOP HUD@ UHDOO\ ZDV DQ LQFUHGLEOH SHULRG RI ÀOPPDNLQJ µ 0D\HUV VDLG 7KH ÀOP LWVHOI LV D IXWXULVWLF WDOH DERXW D EHDXWLIXO XWRSLDQ FLW\ LQ ZKLFK WKH ZHDOWK\ HQMR\ D OLIH RI OX[XU\ DQG FRPIRUW +RZHYHU EHQHDWK WKH 0HWURSROLV OLHV WKH FLW\ RI WKH ZRUNHUV ZKR HYHU\ GD\ ZRUN WKHPVHOYHV QHDUO\ WR GHDWK LQ RUGHU WR NHHS WKH FLW\ IXQFWLRQLQJ )UHGHU WKH VRQ RI WKH FLW\·V DUFKLWHFW GLVFRYHUV WKH XQGHUJURXQG FLW\ DQG ZLWK WKH KHOS RI WKH ZRUNHUV· SHDFHIXO OHDGHU 0DULD VHHNV WR XQLWH WKH ZRUNHUV DQG WKH SHRSOH DERYH 8QIRUWXQDWHO\ DQ HYLO PDG VFLHQWLVW DQG ROG HQHP\ RI )UHGHU·V IDWKHU KDV RWKHU SODQV DQG UHSODFHV 0DULD ZLWK DQ HYLO URERW ZKR VHHNV WR LQFLWH D UHEHOOLRQ DQG WKURZ ERWK FLWLHV LQWR FRPSOHWH FKDRV ,Q YLHZLQJ WKLV ÀOP RQH FDQ VHH WKH PRPHQWV WKDW LQVSLUHG PXOWLSOH ÀOPV WKDW ZH FRQWLQXH WR HQMR\

WRGD\ ´·0HWURSROLV· SDYHG WKH ZD\ IRU VFL- UHFRUG WKDW LPSURYLVDWLRQ DQG WKHQ ZH JR HQFH ÀFWLRQ ÀOPV µ 0D\HUV VDLG 6R PXFK EDFN DQG FRUUHFW LW LPSURYH WKH KDUPRQLHV RI ZKDW )ULW] /DQJ ZDV ZRUNLQJ ZLWK JDYH DQG PHORGLHV µ 5RJHU 0LOOHU SLDQLVW IRU 7KH LGHDV WR ÀOPV VXFK DV ´%ODGH 5XQQHU µ ´6WDU $OOR\ 2UFKHVWUD VDLG ´&RPLQJ XS ZLWK :DUV µ ´7HUPLQDWRU µ ´)ODVK *RUGRQµ DQG WKHPHV LV HDV\ EXW JHWWLQJ LW VR \RX FDQ SOD\ HYHQ VRPH ZHOO NQRZQ VWDSOHV RI WKH FRPLF IRU WZR DQG D KDOI KRXUV VHDPOHVVO\ LV WKH ERRN XQLYHUVH VXFK DV ´9LVLRQ µ WKH URERWLF KDUG SDUW µ 0LOOHU VDLG PHPEHU RI WKH $YHQJHUV RU WKH QDPH RI WKH 7KH $OOR\ 2UFKHVWUD XVXDOO\ VSHQGV FLW\ WKDW 6XSHUPDQ FDOOV KRPH URXJKO\ WZR PRQWKV ZRUNLQJ RQ D FRPSR7KH $OOR\ 2UFKHVWUD KDV VFRUHG VLOHQW VLWLRQ IRU D ÀOP ´3HUIRUPLQJ FRPHV QDWXÀOPV IRU \HDUV ´0HWURSROLVµ EHLQJ WKH UDOO\ WR PH µ 0LOOHU VDLG ´,·P QHYHU HYHU ÀUVW ÀOP WKH\ HYHU VFRUHG 7KH\ FKRRVH QRW QHUYRXV LW GRHVQ·W PDWWHU LI LW·V SHRSOH RU WR OLVWHQ WR WKH RULJLQDO ÀOP VFRUHV ZKHQ LW GRHVQ·W PDWWHU WR PH µ 7KH PXVLFDO ZRUNLQJ RQ RQH RI WKHVH SURMHFWV EXW UDWKHU DFFRPSDQLPHQW E\ WKH EDQG ÀW WKH GDUN DQG FKRRVH WR OHW WKH ÀOP LWVHOI DFW DV WKHLU GLUHF- LQFUHGLEO\ LQWHQVH WRQHV RI WKH ÀOP VHDPWRU 7R FUHDWH WKHLU XQLTXH VRXQG IRU WKH ÀOP OHVVO\ .HHQH 6WDWH &ROOHJH VWXGHQWV .DWLH WKH\ XWLOL]H HYHU\WKLQJ IURP FRQYHQWLRQDO %DUQDE\ DQG 5DFKHO /DQ]D ERWK GHVFULEHG LQVWUXPHQWV WR WLQ FDQV DQG KRUVHVKRHV WKH ÀOP DV ´SKHQRPHQDO µ HVVHQWLDOO\ DQ\WKLQJ WKDW VXLWV WKHLU QHHGV (GGLH +DUULV D .6& ÀOP PDMRU VDLG ´:H LPSURYLVH WR WKH ÀOP DQG WKHQ ZH ´$V D ÀOP PDMRU LQ P\ SUHYLRXV )LOP +LV-

WRU\ FODVV , VDZ WKH EHJLQQLQJ RI WKLV ÀOP DQG TXLWH IUDQNO\ , KDWHG LW +RZHYHU ZLWK HYHU\ VLOHQW ÀOP WKH RQO\ WKLQJ WKH\ KDYH WR ZRUN ZLWK LV WKH PXVLF DQG WKH YLVXDO FRQWHQW WKDW WKH ÀOP SURYLGHV 7KLV ÀOP KDV D YHU\ XQLTXH YLVXDO FRQWHQW LW·V YHU\ VWURQJ WKDW·V WKH ZD\ )ULW] >/DQJ@ ZDQWHG LW ,W·V QRW IRU HYHU\RQH EXW ZKDW KDSSHQHG KHUH WRGD\ , DFWXDOO\ UHDOO\ OLNHG LW ,W ZDV D ELJ VWHS IRU WKH ÀOP EHFDXVH WKH RULJLQDO PXVLF IRU WKH SLHFH ZDV YHU\ GDUN DQG GHVSHUDWH 7KH QHZ PXVLF WKH\ SURYLGHG ZDV PXFK PXFK EHWWHU µ 2YHUDOO WKH ÀOP DQG WKH PXVLF FDPH WRJHWKHU WR IRUP D WUXO\ DZH LQVSLULQJ VKRZ³D PDVWHUSLHFH RI ÀOPPDNLQJ FRPELQHG ZLWK D PDVWHUSLHFH RI PXVLFLDQVKLS :HV 6HUDÀQH FDQ EH FRQWDFWHG DW ZVHUDÀQH#NHHQH HTXLQR[ FRP

The Lumineers ride the folk wave all the way to the Grammy Awards CHRIS TALBOTT

ASSOCIATED PRESS (YHQ WKH PHPEHUV RI 7KH /XPLQHHUV DUH SX]]OHG E\ WKH VXFFHVV RI WKHLU VRQJ ´+R +H\µ DQG WKHLU VXGGHQ ULVH WR IDPH DIWHU \HDUV RQ WKH URDG 7KH VRQJ KDV ORQJ OHJV DQG LV QRW RQO\ JHWWLQJ SOD\HG DORQJVLGH 1LFNL 0LQDM DQG 0DURRQ RQ WKH UDGLR LW·V EHHQ UXOLQJ 6SRWLI\ DQG ZRUNLQJ LWV ZD\ LQWR SRSXODU FXOWXUH $ IHZ \HDUV DJR VLQJHU :HVOH\ 6FKXOW] VDLG KHDULQJ 7KH /XPLQHHUV· EUDQG RI DOO DFRXVWLF IRON URFN RQ D 7RS FRXQWGRZQ ZRXOG KDYH EHHQ SUHWW\ XQWKLQNDEOH 1RZ KLV EDQG·V FDXJKW XS LQ D ZDYH WKDW FRXOG FUHVW DW WKH *UDPP\ $ZDUGV DQG KH VD\V KH·V VWLOO WU\LQJ WR VRUW RXW ZK\ ´, FDQ WHOO \RX WKDW ZKHQ ZH SOD\ OLYH DQG ZKHQ ZH VRPHWLPHV JR RXW LQ WKH DXGLHQFH WKH UHDFWLRQ WR MXVW SOD\LQJ \RXU LQVWUXPHQWV ZLWKRXW DQ\ KHOS ZLWKRXW DQ\ DPSOLÀFDWLRQ RU WULFNV WKDW VXUSULVHV SHRSOH LQ NLQG RI D IXQQ\ ZD\ EHFDXVH \RX·G WKLQN WKDW PRVW SHRSOH ZRXOG DVVXPH \RX FRXOG SOD\ \RXU LQVWUXPHQWV DQG KRZ LW ZRXOG VRXQG µ 6FKXOW] VDLG ´%XW WKH\·UH FDXJKW RII JXDUG , WKLQN 3HRSOH DUH XVHG WR WKLQJV WKDW DUH RYHUSURGXFHG RU VOLFN RU JORVV\ DQG WKLV LVQ·W DQ\ RI WKDW µ ,W·V EHHQ WZR \HDUV VLQFH SURGXFHU .HQ (KUOLFK DQG WKH *UDPP\ $ZDUGV UHLQWURGXFHG WKH ZRUOG WR IRON URFN SDLULQJ WKH GD]]OLQJO\ KDQGVRPH \RXQJ EDQGV 0XPIRUG 6RQV DQG 7KH $YHWW %URWKHUV ZLWK %RE '\ODQ IRU D URFNLQJ UHQGLWLRQ RI ´0DJJLH·V )DUP µ 7KH DFRXVWLF PRYHPHQW ZDV DOZD\V SDUW RI WKH JHQHUDO IDEULF RI PXVLF EXW LW·V PRYHG RXW RI WKH QHLJKERUKRRG SDUN DQG VPDOO FOXE DQG LQWR WKH DUHQD VLQFH WKDW VHJPHQW DLUHG ´7KHUH ZDV D ORW RI PXVLF , ORYHG WKDW \HDU EXW , SDUWLFXODUO\ ORYHG WKH $YHWWV DQG , ORYHG 0XPIRUG DQG ,

DAN HALLMAN / AP PHOTO

This Jan. 18, 2013 photo shows members of the American folk rock band The Lumineers, from left, Wesley Schultz, Neyla Pekarek, and Jeremiah Fraites at the Dream Downtown Hotel in New York.

ZDQWHG D ZD\ WR JHW WKHP RQ µ (KUOLFK VDLG ´$QG WR EH KRQHVW ZLWK \RX QRW PDQ\ SHRSOH NQHZ DERXW HLWKHU RI WKRVH WKLQJV XQWLO ZH SXW WKHP RQ %XW WKH ZD\ , ZDQWHG WR SXW WKHP RQ ZDV WR IUDPH WKHP $JDLQ LW JRHV EDFN WR ZKHUH GLG WKH\ FRPH IURP" 7KH\ FDPH IURP %RE

'\ODQ \RX NQRZ"µ ,W ZDV D ELJ EDQJ PRPHQW PL[LQJ WKH DXWKHQWLFLW\ RI '\ODQ ZLWK WKH VFUXII\ LQWHQVH HDUQHVWQHVV RI WKH \RXQJ DFWV 7KH VKRZ LPPHGLDWHO\ PDGH WKH PXVLF DFFHVVLEOH IRU PLOOLRQV RI IDQV )ODVK IRUZDUG DQG WKH /RQGRQ EDVHG 0XPIRUG

6RQV DUH SODWLQXP VHOOLQJ DUWLVWV ZKR GUDZ DW D SRS DQG DUH DPRQJ WKH VL[ WRS QRPLQHHV DW WKH )HE DZDUGV VKRZ LQ /RV $QJHOHV ZLWK VL[ QRPLQDWLRQV LQFOXGLQJ DOEXP RI WKH \HDU IRU ´%DEHO µ 7KH OLNH PLQGHG /XPLQHHUV ZKRVH VHOI WLWOHG DOEXP VKRW WR 1R ODVW ZHHN RQ WKH %LOOERDUG ³ PRQWKV DIWHU LWV UHOHDVH ³ KDYH WZR QRPLQDWLRQV LQFOXGLQJ D FRYHWHG VSRW RQ WKH EHVW QHZ DUWLVW OLVW DORQJVLGH VSLULWXDO FRXVLQV $ODEDPD 6KDNHV 7KH $YHWWV DUH EDFN LQ WKH $PHULFDQD FDWHJRU\ 7KH &LYLO :DUV 2OG &URZ 0HGLFLQH 6KRZ (GZDUG 6KDUSH DQG WKH 0DJQHWLF =HURV DUH DERDUG WRR DPRQJ RWKHUV &DOO LW IRON &DOO LW URRWV URFN RU $PHULFDQD $OPRVW DQ\ZKHUH \RX JR WKHVH GD\V \RX FDQ KHDU WKH ORQHVRPH VRXQG RI WKH EDQMR ³ HYHQ LQ %URRNO\Q QRZ RYHUFURZGHG ZLWK IRUPHU KLSVWHUV WXUQHG ZRXOG EH SLFNHUV WU\LQJ WR FDWFK D ULGH RQ WKH ZDYH ´7KH ODVW WLPH , ZDV LQ %URRNO\Q VRPHERG\ VDLG ¶+H\ \RX FDQ·W JR WR DQ\ FOXE KHUH ZLWKRXW KHDULQJ WKH EDQMR ·µ 2OG &URZ 0HGLFLQH 6KRZ PDQDJHU 1RUP 3DUHQWHDX VDLG ´6R , KDG WR DSRORJL]H WR WKH ZKROH ERURXJK RI %URRNO\Q ¶6RUU\ LI ZH KDG DQ\WKLQJ WR GR ZLWK EULQJLQJ EDQMRV WR %URRNO\Q ·µ 1R DSRORJLHV QHFHVVDU\ HVSHFLDOO\ ZKHQ LW FRPHV WR 7KH /XPLQHHUV 6FKXOW] DQG ORQJWLPH IULHQG DQG EDQGPDWH -HUHPLDK )UDLWHV ÁHG %URRNO\Q D IHZ \HDUV DJR ´(YHU\ JRRG FKDUDFWHU LQ D PRYLH RU SOD\ LV HLWKHU UXQQLQJ WRZDUG VRPHWKLQJ RU UXQQLQJ IURP VRPHWKLQJ µ 6FKXOW] VDLG ´, WKLQN LW ZDV SUHWW\ DSSDUHQW , ZDV UXQQLQJ IURP 1HZ <RUN , ZDV SUHWW\ XSVHW ZLWK P\ H[SHULHQFH µ 8QDEOH WR IRFXV RQ PXVLF EHFDXVH RI WKH QXPEHU RI RGG MREV LW WRRN WR VXUYLYH LQ WKH FLW\ WKH\ ÁHG WR 'HQYHU ZKHUH WKH\ IRXQG FHOOLVW 1H\OD 3HNDUHN RQ &UDLJVOLVW <HV &UDLJVOLVW $QG LW FRXOGQ·W KDYH ZRUNHG RXW EHWWHU

Don’t miss this week’s upcoming events Putnam Theatre

Colonial Theatre Honky Cats: Dueling Pianos Friday, Feb. 15 8:00 p.m. “Anna Karenina” Plays Saturday and Sunday at 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday 7:00 p.m.

Aikido Studio Brattleboro, VT Community Circle Dance with Mary Koon of Milford, NH Sunday, Feb. 10 3:30 to 5:30

“Holy Motors” Playing from Friday, Feb. 8 to Thursday, Feb. 14 Friday and Saturday 7:00 and 9:15 p.m. Sunday through Thursday 7:00 p.m. Matinees Saturday and Sunday at 2:00 p.m.

Local music nights

Redfern Arts Center Fritz the Place to Eat

The Rap Guide to Evolution by Baba Brinkman Tuesday, Feb. 5 7:30 p.m. Main Theatre

Folksoul Ensemble Friday, Feb. 8 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.

Events starting on Friday, Feb. 9 to Friday, Feb. 15

The Calerpittars Friday, Feb. 15 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.

Template 022308 JJP

Black

Nation & World

NATION / B5

THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

[Keene-­Equinox.com]

French troops to quit Timbuktu BABA AHMED

ASSOCIATED PRESS

,Q D QHZ SKDVH RI WKH 0DOL FRQĂ LFW )UHQFK DLUVWULNHV WDUJHWHG WKH fuel depots and desert hideouts of ,VODPLF H[WUHPLVWV LQ QRUWKHUQ 0DOL overnight Monday, as French forces planned to hand control of Timbuktu to the Malian army this week. After taking control of the key cities of northern Mali, forcing the ,VODPLF UHEHOV WR UHWUHDW LQWR WKH desert, the French military intervention is turning away from the FLWLHV DQG WDUJHWLQJ WKH Ă€JKWHUV¡ remote outposts to prevent them from being used as Saharan launch pads for international terrorism. The French plan to leave the city of Timbuktu on Thursday, Feb. 7, a spokeswoman for the armed forces in the city said Monday. French soldiers took the city last week after ,VODPLF H[WUHPLVWV ZLWKGUHZ 1RZ the French military said it intends to move out of Timbuktu in order to push farther northeast to the strateJLF FLW\ RI *DR ´7KH VROGLHUV FXUUHQWO\ EDVHG in Timbuktu will be heading toward *DR LQ RUGHU WR SXUVXH WKHLU PLVsion,â€? said Capt. Nadia, the spokesZRPDQ ZKR RQO\ SURYLGHG KHU Ă€UVW name in keeping with French military protocol. She said that the force in Timbuktu will be replaced by a small contingent of French soldiers, though she declined to say when they would arrive. 2Q 0RQGD\ )UHQFK WURRSV LQ armored personnel carriers were VWLOO SDWUROOLQJ 7LPEXNWX ,Q WKH FLW\¡V PLOLWDU\ FDPSV QHZO\ DUULYHG Malian troops were cleaning their weapons Monday and holding meetings to prepare to take over the security of the city once the French leave. 7KHUH DUH VLJQV WKDW WKH ,VODPLF rebels are beginning a guerrillaW\SH RI FRQĂ LFW IURP WKHLU GHVHUW UHWUHDWV DV ODQG PLQH H[SORVLRQV have killed four Malian soldiers and two civilians throughout the northern region in recent days. The two civilians died in an H[SORVLRQ IURP D ODQG PLQH RU DQ LPSURYLVHG H[SORVLYH GHYLFH RQ WKH road in northeastern Mali that links .LGDO $QHĂ€V DQG 1RUWK 'DUDQH WKH 8QLWHG 1DWLRQV 2IĂ€FH IRU WKH &RRU-

Conservatives make gun issue new rallying cry STEVE PEOPLES

ASSOCIATED PRESS An immigration debate is raging and a budget crisis looms in Congress, but the conservative activists gathered outside the New Hampshire Statehouse had just one thing on their minds: guns. “The Second Amendment is there to protect us from losing the rest of them,â€? said Adam Brisebois, 34, of Hudson, who cradled his 3-year-old daughter on his right shoulder and D ULĂ H RQ WKH OHIW ´,I ZH GRQ¡W Ă€JKW ZH¡OO ORVH our rights.â€? 7KXUVGD\¡V UDOO\ RUJDQL]HG E\ WHD SDUW\ leaders, drew nearly 500 people, many of them waving signs and carrying loaded weapons, to the state capital. Conservative leaders elsewhere report a wave of similar protests as grassURRWV DFWLYLVWV IURP )ORULGD WR &RORUDGR VHL]H RQ a new rallying cry for a tea party movement, which is trying to recover from a painful 2012 election season. 0DQ\ DFWLYLVWV DUHQ¡W KDSS\ ZLWK WKH *23¡V sudden embrace of more lenient immigration SURSRVDOV DQG WKH\¡UH PRQLWRULQJ WKH DSSURDFKing congressional deadline to avoid massive cuts to military programs. But for now at least, the debate over guns and the perceived threat of losing them tops their list. ,W¡V DQ ´RUJDQLFÂľ PRYHPHQW ZLWK OLWWOH FRRUGLQDWLRQ IURP QDWLRQDO FRQVHUYDWLYH RUJDQL]Dtions, according to Amy Kremer, chairman of WKH 7HD 3DUW\ ([SUHVV ´,W¡V KDSSHQLQJ E\ LWVHOI Âľ she said. ,W GRHVQ¡W PDWWHU WKDW QHLWKHU 3UHVLGHQW %DUDFN 2EDPD QRU FRQJUHVVLRQDO 'HPRFUDWV are calling for a wholesale repeal of gun rights. Tea partyers are enraged by the possibility of DQ\ HURVLRQ RI WKH 6HFRQG $PHQGPHQW¡V ´ULJKW of the people to keep and bear arms.â€? The gun control debate in Washington took center stage after the Newtown, Conn., school PDVVDFUH LQ 'HFHPEHU ZKHQ D JXQPDQ XVHG D VHPL DXWRPDWLF DVVDXOW ULĂ H WR NLOO SHRSOH of them children. 7KH 2EDPD DGPLQLVWUDWLRQ DQG FRQJUHVVLRQDO 'HPRFUDWV KDYH SURPLVHG WR PDNH JXQ UHVWULFWLRQV D OHJLVODWLYH SULRULW\ 2EDPD already has proposed requiring background checks for all gun sales and reviving both an assault weapons ban and a 10-round limit on JIM COLE / ASSOCIATED WKH VL]H RI DPPXQLWLRQ PDJD]LQHV Caleab Spencer of Newmarket, N.H. cheers during a rally to promote the right to bear

Âť Â TIMBUKTU, Â B6

Âť Â GUN Â LAWS, Â B6

PRESS

arms in front of the Statehouse in Concord, N.H. Thursday Jan. 31, 2013.

Danish critic of Islam says gunman shot at him JAN M. OLSEN

ASSOCIATED PRESS $ JXQPDQ WULHG WR VKRRW D 'DQLVK ZULWHU DQG SURPLQHQW FULWLF RI ,VODP RQ 7XHVGD\ EXW PLVVHG DQG Ă HG DIWHU D VFXIĂ H with his intended victim, police and the writer said. Lars Hedegaard, who heads a group that claims press IUHHGRP LV XQGHU WKUHDW IURP ,VODP WROG 7KH $VVRFLDWHG 3UHVV KH ZDV VKDNHQ EXW QRW SK\VLFDOO\ LQMXUHG LQ WKH DWWDFN at his Copenhagen home. 3ROLFH VDLG WKH\ ZHUH VHDUFKLQJ IRU WKH VXVSHFW ZKRP they described as a “foreignâ€? man aged 20-25. Hedegaard, 70, said the gunman rang the doorbell of his

DSDUWPHQW EXLOGLQJ RQ WKH SUHWH[W RI GHOLYHULQJ D SDFNDJH and when Hedegaard opened the front door, the man pulled RXW D JXQ DQG Ă€UHG D VKRW WKDW QDUURZO\ PLVVHG WKH ZULWHU¡V head. ´7KH EXOOHW Ă HZ SDVW P\ ULJKW HDU DIWHU ZKLFK , DWWDFNHG him and punched him in the face, which made him lose the JXQ Âľ +HGHJDDUG WROG $3 +H VDLG WKH JXQPDQ WKHQ Ă HG +HGHJDDUG KHDGV WKH )UHH 3UHVV 6RFLHW\ LQ 'HQPDUN DQG LWV LQWHUQDWLRQDO RIIVKRRW WKH ,QWHUQDWLRQDO )UHH 3UHVV 6RFLHW\ +H LV DOVR DPRQJ WKH SXEOLVKHUV RI D ZHHNO\ DQWL ,VODP newsletter.

,Q KH ZDV FRQYLFWHG RI KDWH VSHHFK DQG Ă€QHG NURQHU IRU PDNLQJ D VHULHV RI LQVXOWLQJ DQG GHJUDGing statements about Muslims. 'HQPDUN¡V 3ULPH 0LQLVWHU +HOOH 7KRUQLQJ 6FKPLGW FRQdemned what she called a “despicableâ€? act. ´,W LV HYHQ ZRUVH LI WKH DWWDFN LV URRWHG LQ DQ DWWHPSW WR SUHYHQW /DUV +HGHJDDUG WR XVH KLV IUHHGRP RI H[SUHVVLRQ Âľ she said. +HGHJDDUG KDV H[SUHVVHG VXSSRUW IRU D UDQJH RI RXWVSRNHQ ,VODP FULWLFV LQ (XURSH LQFOXGLQJ 6ZHGLVK DUWLVW /DUV 9LONV DQG 'XWFK ODZPDNHU *HHUW :LOGHUV

Âť Â DANISH Â CRITIC, Â B6

Beating, torture fuel sense Egypt police unchanged MAGGIE MICHAEL

ASSOCIATED PRESS

AMR NABIL / ASSOCIATED PRESS

Egyptian relatives of Mohammed Saad, a 20-year-old protester who died of wounds sustained during clashes last Friday near the presidential palace, grieve during a funeral procession in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt, Monday, Feb. 4, 2013.

7KH YLGHR RXWUDJHG (J\SWLDQV VKRZing riot police strip and beat a middle-aged man and drag him across the pavement as they cracked down on protesters. The followXS ZDV HYHQ PRUH VWDUWOLQJ ,Q KLV Ă€UVW FRPments afterward, the man insisted the police were just trying to help him. +DPDGD 6DEHU¡V LQLWLDO DFFRXQW JLYHQ RYHU the weekend as he lay in a police-run hospiWDO KDV UDLVHG DFFXVDWLRQV WKDW SROLFH RIĂ€cials intimidated or bribed him in a clumsy attempt to cover up the incident, which was FDSWXUHG E\ $VVRFLDWHG 3UHVV IRRWDJH ZLGHO\ VKRZQ RQ (J\SWLDQ 79 ´+H ZDV WHUULĂ€HG +H ZDV VFDUHG WR VSHDN Âľ 6DEHU¡V VRQ $KPHG WROG 7KH $3 RQ 0RQGD\ H[SODLQLQJ KLV IDWKHU¡V DFFRXQW 6DEHU KLPself recanted his story on Sunday after his own family pushed him to tell the truth and

acknowledged that the police beat him. The incident has fueled an outcry that security forces, which were notorious for corruption, torture and abuse under Hosni Mubarak, have not changed in the nearly two years since his ouster. Activists now accuse 0XEDUDN¡V ,VODPLVW VXFFHVVRU 0RKDPPHG Morsi, of cultivating the same culture of abuse as police crack down on his opponents. The outcry was further heightened Monday by the apparent torture-death of an activist, who colleagues said was taken by police from a Tahrir Square protest on Jan. 27 and held at a Cairo security base known DV 5HG 0RXQWDLQ 0RKDPPHG HO *LQG\¡V body showed marks of electrical shocks on his tongue, wire marks around his neck, smashed ribs, a broken skull and a brain hemorrhage, according to a medical report. Blatant abuses by security forces under Mubarak were one factor that fueled the 2011

Âť Â EQYPT Â POLICE, Â B6

US military expands drug war in Latin America MARTHA MENDOZA

ASSOCIATED PRESS The crew members aboard the USS Underwood could see through their night goggles what was hapSHQLQJ RQ WKH Ă HHLQJ JR IDVW ERDW Someone was dumping bales. When the Navy guided-missile frigate later dropped anchor in 3DQDPDQLDQ ZDWHUV RQ WKDW VXQQ\ $XJXVW PRUQLQJ (QVLJQ &ODULVVD Carpio, a 23-year-old from San FranFLVFR FOLPEHG LQWR WKH LQĂ DWDEOH dinghy with four unarmed sailors DQG WZR &RDVW *XDUG RIĂ€FHUV OLNH herself, carrying light submachine JXQV ,W ZDV KHU Ă€UVW GHSOR\PHQW but Carpio was ready for combat. )LJKWLQJ GUXJ WUDIĂ€FNHUV ZDV SUHFLVHO\ ZKDW VKH¡G WUDLQHG IRU ,Q WKH PRVW H[SHQVLYH LQLWLDWLYH in Latin America since the Cold :DU WKH 8 6 KDV PLOLWDUL]HG WKH EDWWOH DJDLQVW WKH WUDIĂ€FNHUV VSHQGing more than $20 billion in the past decade. U.S. Army troops, Air Force SLORWV DQG 1DY\ VKLSV RXWĂ€WWHG ZLWK &RDVW *XDUG FRXQWHUQDUFRWics teams are routinely deployed to chase, track and capture drug smugglers. The sophistication and violence RI WKH WUDIĂ€FNHUV LV VR JUHDW WKDW WKH U.S. military is training not only law enforcement agents in Latin American nations, but their militaries as ZHOO EXLOGLQJ D QHWZRUN RI H[SHQsive hardware, radar, airplanes, ships, runways and refueling stations to stem the tide of illegal drugs from South America to the U.S. $FFRUGLQJ WR 6WDWH 'HSDUWPHQW DQG 3HQWDJRQ RIĂ€FLDOV VWRSSLQJ GUXJ WUDIĂ€FNLQJ RUJDQL]DWLRQV KDV become a matter of national security because they spread corruption, XQGHUPLQH Ă HGJOLQJ GHPRFUDFLHV DQG FDQ SRWHQWLDOO\ Ă€QDQFH WHUURUists. 8 6 GUXJ F]DU *LO .HUOLNRZVNH pointing to dramatic declines in violence and cocaine production in Colombia, says the strategy works. “The results are historic and have tremendous implications, not just for the United States and the Western Hemisphere, but for the world,â€? he said at a conference on drug policy last year. 7KH $VVRFLDWHG 3UHVV H[DPLQHG 8 6 DUPV H[SRUW DXWKRUL]DWLRQV defense contracts, military aid, and H[HUFLVHV LQ WKH UHJLRQ WUDFNLQJ D drug war strategy that began in &RORPELD PRYHG WR 0H[LFR DQG LV QRZ Ă€QGLQJ IUHVK IRFXV LQ &HQWUDO America, where brutal cartels mark an enemy motivated not by ideology but by cash. 7KH 8 6 DXWKRUL]HG WKH VDOH RI a record $2.8 billion worth of guns, satellites, radar equipment and tear gas to Western Hemisphere nations LQ IRXU WLPHV WKH DXWKRUL]HG sales 10 years ago, according to the ODWHVW 6WDWH 'HSDUWPHQW UHSRUWV 2YHU WKH VDPH GHFDGH GHIHQVH contracts jumped from $119 million WR PLOOLRQ VXSSRUWLQJ HYHU\thing from Kevlar helmets for the 0H[LFDQ DUP\ WR DLUSRUW UXQZD\V in Aruba, according to federal contract data. Last year $830 million, almost $9 out of every $10 of U.S. law enforcement and military aid spent in the region, went toward countering narcotics, up 30 percent in the past decade. Many in the military and other law enforcement agencies — the 'UXJ (QIRUFHPHQW $GPLQLVWUDWLRQ 8 6 ,PPLJUDWLRQ DQG &XVWRPV (QIRUFHPHQW )%, Âł DSSODXG WKH 8 6 VWUDWHJ\ EXW FULWLFV VD\ PLOLWDUL]LQJ the drug war in a region fraught with tender democracies and longcorrupt institutions can stir political instability while barely touching what the U.N. estimates is a $320 billion global illicit drug market. &RQJUHVVPDQ (OLRW (QJHO ' 1 < ZKR FKDLUHG WKH 8 6 House Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere for the past four

Âť Â DRUG Â WAR, Â B6 Template 022308 JJP

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black NATION / B6

THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

[Keene-­Equinox.com]

7,0%8.78

(*<37 32/,&(

(Cont. from B5)

dination of Humanitarian Affairs said in a statement Monday. Four soldiers were killed last week by a land mine explosion in the northeast area near Gossi. The French reported that two other land mines have been found in that vicinity, and early Monday they detonated one of the mines. French airstrikes targeted the Islamic extremists’ desert bases and fuel depots in northern Mali overnight. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on France-Inter radio Monday that the strikes hit the Kidal region, near the border with Algeria, for the second night in a row. The extremists “cannot stay there a long time unless they have ways to get new supplies,â€? he said. French Mirage and Rafale planes also pounded extremist training camps as well as arms and fuel depots from Saturday night into the early hours of Sunday, north of the town of Kidal and in the Tessalit region. France’s Defense Ministry said Monday night that 25 depots and trainLQJ FHQWHUV KDG EHHQ WDUJHWHG E\ Ă€JKWHU jets and attack helicopters. The French intervened in Mali on Jan. 11 to stem the advance of the al-QaidaOLQNHG Ă€JKWHUV ZKR KDG WDNHQ RYHU WKH country’s north, enforced harsh rules on the population and plotted a terrorist attack in neighboring Algeria. The French troops arrived when the Islamic extremists threatened to move farther south. After pushing extremists out of key northern cities, France is now pushing to hand over control of those sites to African forces from a United Nations-authorized force made up of thousands of troops from nearby countries. “In the cities that we are holding we want to be quickly replaced by the African forces,â€? Fabius said Monday. Asked whether the French could pull out of the fabled city of Timbuktu and hand it to African forces as soon as Tuesday, Fabius responded, “Yes, it could happen very fast. We are working on it because our vocation is not to stay in the long term.â€?

*81 /$:6 (Cont. from B5)

There was little mention of the school shooting at the New Hampshire rally, where the crowd focused squarely on the belief that helped lead to the creation of the tea party movement four years ago: that an overbearing government is trampling on the nation’s founding principles. “There is an assault going on on the Constitution. And that is job one of ours

(Cont. from B5)

JEROME DELAY / ASSOCIATED PRESS

A convoy of Malian troops makes a stop to test some of their weapons near Hambori, northern Mali, on the road to Gao, Monday Feb. 4, 2013. French troops launched airstrikes on Islamic militant training camps and arms depots around Kidal and Tessalit in Mali’s far north, defense officials said Sunday, as the first supply convoy of food, fuel and parts to eastern Mali headed across the country.

But it is far from clear that the African forces — much less the weak Malian army —are ready for the withdrawal of thousands of French troops, fighter planes and helicopters which would give the Africans full responsibility against the Islamic extremists, who may strike the cities from their desert hideouts. In Paris, U. S. Vice President Joe Biden praised the French intervention in Mali while meeting with French President Francois Hollande. “We applaud your decisiveness and, I might add, the capability of France’s military forces,� said Biden. “Your decisive action was not only in the interest of France but of the United States and everyone. We agreed on the need to, quickly as possible, establish an African-led mission to Mali and as quickly as prudent transition that mission to the UN.� Also in Paris, the Malian foreign min-

ister Tieman Hubert Coulibaly told The Associated Press that the Malian army will be fighting with French and African troops against the Islamic radicals. “We must continue pushing them (the extremists) north and then over there, there is a real need for a strong military force, air force, to destroy all the implementations around the mountains,� said Coulibaly. “So ultimately, the real objective is to destroy all terrorist presence in northern Mali.� The French have ramped up their troop level to nearly 4,000 — the number France once deployed in Afghanistan — and nearly 3,800 African soldiers were in Mali as of Monday, the French Defense Ministry said. Some 1,800 Chadian soldiers were holding the northern town of Kidal while French troops held the airport. In northern Mali, the price of food

and fuel is rocketing up as a result of the conflict, the international aid organization Oxfam warned Monday. Many market traders of Arab or Tuareg descent fled the area when French troops pushed out the Islamic extremists last week and the traders have not returned for fear of reprisals, said Oxfam, in a statement. “If traders do not come back soon and flows of food into northern Mali remain as limited as they are now, then it is likely that markets will not be properly stocked and prices will stay high — making it very difficult for people to get enough food to feed their families,� said Philippe Conraud, Oxfam’s country director in Mali. “This phase of the war may almost be over, but the battle to build peace and stability has only just begun,� said Conraud.

Âł WR SURWHFW RXU Ă DQN DQG SURWHFW JXQ owners,â€? said Tom Gaitens, a Tampa, Fla.-based tea party leader. “To us, this is the fundamental issue on the founding of our nation.â€? Florida tea party activists already have traveled to Washington to protest new gun restrictions, and conservative leaders in the state are considering a series of gun-related rallies, Gaitens said. Many protesters are hunters, but say access to hunting is not their prime concern — just as a sign hanging behind

the podium at the New Hampshire rally said: “The right to keep arms is not about deer hunting. It is about defending the republic from tyranny.â€? “I don’t have an automatic weapon. I don’t want an automatic weapon. But the citizens need to have guns that are equal to the guns that the government has,â€? said Roger Rist, a 69-year-old business owner from Meredith. “I certainly hope I don’t have to take up arms against the government. Might we have to? Yeah.â€? In Colorado, foes of illegal immigration have been quiet as the Democratcontrolled Legislature has moved to allow illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at state colleges and universities. Similar bills in the past drew dozens of angry witnesses, but only one man from a group opposing illegal LPPLJUDWLRQ WHVWLĂ€HG DJDLQVW LW DW WKH Statehouse this month, compared with a parade of supporters of the bill. In contrast, gun advocates held a spirited rally at the Colorado Statehouse to oppose gun control measures and drew more than 100 people last month. They also held a widely-publicized training recently for teachers and school workers who want to carry guns at the workplace. In Georgia, tea party conservatives have introduced a range of bills that together would effectively allow Georgians to carry weapons anywhere. They also attempt to exempt certain weapons from federal gun control laws.

'$1,6+ &5,7,&

RICK BOWMER / ASSOCIATED PRESS

Gun-rights advocates gather outside the Utah Capitol during the National Gun Appreciation Day Rally Saturday, Jan. 19, 2013, in Salt Lake City.

'58* :$5 (Cont. from B5)

years, says the U.S.-supported crackdown on Mexican cartels only left them “stronger and more violent.â€? He intends to reintroduce a proposal for a Western Hemisphere Drug Policy Commission to evaluate antinarcotics efforts. “Billions upon billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars have been spent over the years to combat the drug trade in Latin America and the Caribbean,â€? he said. “In spite of our efforts, the positive results are few and far between.â€? At any given moment, 4,000 U.S. troops are deployed in Latin America and as many as four U.S. Navy ships DUH SO\LQJ WKH &DULEEHDQ DQG 3DFLĂ€F FRDVWOLQHV RI &HQtral America. U.S. pilots clocked more than 46,400 hours in 2011 Ă \LQJ DQWL GUXJ PLVVLRQV DQG 8 6 DJHQWV IURP DW OHDVW 10 law enforcement agencies spread across the continent.The U.S. trains thousands of Latin American troops, and employs its multibillion dollar radar equipPHQW WR JDWKHU LQWHOOLJHQFH WR LQWHUFHSW WUDIĂ€FNHUV DQG arrest cartel members. These work in organized-crime networks that boast DQ HVWLPDWHG Ă LJKWV DQQXDOO\ DQG KXQGUHGV RI boats and submersibles. They smuggle cocaine from the only place it’s produced, South America, to the land where it is most coveted, the United States. One persistent problem is that in many of the partner nations, police are so institutionally weak or corrupt that governments have turned to their militaries

WR Ă€JKW GUXJ WUDIĂ€FNHUV RIWHQ ZLWK YLROHQW UHVXOWV 0LOLtaries are trained for combat, while police are trained to enforce laws. “It is unfortunate that militaries have to be involved in what are essentially law enforcement engagements,â€? said Frank Mora, the outgoing deputy assistant secretary of defense for Western Hemisphere affairs. But he argues that many governments have little choice. “We are not going to turn our backs on these governments or these institutions because they’ve found themselves in such a situation that they have to use their militaries in this way,â€? Mora said. Mora said the effort is not tantamount to militarizing the war on drugs. He said the Defense Department’s role is limited, by law, to monitoring and detection. Law enforcement agents, from the U.S. Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection or other agencies are in charge of some of the busts, he said. But the U.S. is deploying its own military. Not only LV WKH )RXUWK )OHHW LQ WKH &DULEEHDQ WKH 3DFLĂ€F DQG WKH Atlantic, but the Marines were sent to Guatemala last year and the National Guard is in Honduras. The Obama Administration sees these deployments as important missions with a worthy payoff. Hundreds of thousands of kilograms (pounds) of cocaine are seized en route to the U.S. every year, and the Defense Department estimates about 850 metric tons of cocaine departed South America last year toward the U.S., down 20 percent in just a year. The most recent 8 6 VXUYH\ IRXQG FRFDLQH XVH IHOO VLJQLĂ€FDQWO\ IURP 2.4 million people in 2006 to 1.4 million in 2011.

(Cont. from B5)

“Failed attack on my friend and Islam critic Lars Hedegaard in Denmark this morning. My thoughts are with him. Terrible,â€? Wilders tweeted. The Free Press Society said it was “shaken and angry,â€? but “relieved that the perpetrator did not succeed.â€? Several Scandinavian writers, artists and journalists have been exposed to threats and violence from extremists since the 2005 publication of Danish newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad triggered an uproar in Muslim countries. Many Muslims believe the prophet should not be depicted at all Âł HYHQ LQ D Ă DWWHULQJ ZD\ Âł EHFDXVH it might encourage idolatry In 2010, a Somali man living in Denmark used an ax to break into the home of one of the cartoonists, who escaped unharmed by locking himself into a panic room. Last year, four Swedish residents were convicted of terrorism in Denmark for plotting a shooting spree at WKH QHZVSDSHU WKDW Ă€UVW SXEOLVKHG the Muhammad caricatures. In Sweden, Vilks has lived under police protection after a drawing he made depicting Muhammad as a dog led to death threats from militant Islamists.

Aboard the Underwood, the crew of 260 was clear on the mission. The ship’s bridge wings bear 16 cocaine ´VQRZĂ DNHVÂľ DQG WZR PDULMXDQD ´OHDYHV Âľ DZDUGHG WR the Underwood by the Coast Guard command to be “proudly displayedâ€? for its successful interdictions. Standing on the bridge, Carpio’s team spotted its Ă€UVW EDOH RI FRFDLQH $QG WKHQ DIWHU ZHHNV SO\LQJ WKH &DULEEHDQ LQ VHDUFK RI GUXJ WUDIĂ€FNHUV WKH\ VSRWted another, and then many more. “In all we found 49 bales,â€? Carpio said in an interview aboard the ship. “It was very impressive to see the bales popping along the water in a row.â€? Wrapped in black and white tarp, they were so heavy she could barely pull one out of the water. Later, RIĂ€FLDOV VDLG WKH\¡G FROOHFWHG PLOOLRQ ZRUWK RI cocaine. The current U.S. strategy began in Colombia in 2000, with an eight-year effort that cost more than $7 billion WR VWRS WKH Ă RZ IURP WKH ZRUOG¡V WRS FRFDLQH SURGXFHU During Plan Colombia, the national police force, working closely with dozens of DEA agents, successfully ORFNHG XS WRS GUXJ WUDIĂ€FNHUV But then came “the balloon effect.â€? $V D UHVXOW RI 3ODQ &RORPELD¡V SUHVVXUH WUDIĂ€FNHUV ZHUH IRUFHG WR Ă€QG QHZ FRFD JURZLQJ ODQGV LQ 3HUX DQG %ROLYLD DQG WUDIĂ€FNLQJ URXWHV VKLIWHG DV ZHOO IURP Florida to the U.S.-Mexico border. Thus a $1.6 billion, 4-year Merida Initiative was launched in 2008. Once more, drug kingpins were caught or killed, and as cartels fought to control trafĂ€FNLQJ URXWHV LQFUHDVLQJO\ JUXHVRPH NLOOLQJV WRSSHG 70,000 in six years.

revolt against his rule. The highly public nature of the new cases put new pressure on Morsi, who hails from the Muslim Brotherhood, which was long UHSUHVVHG E\ VHFXULW\ IRUFHV WR KROG VHFXULW\ RIĂ€FLDOV responsible for any abuses. Egypt’s presidency said it is following up on the death of el-Gindy, adding that there will be “no return to violations of citizens’ rights.â€? The Interior Ministry denied on Monday that elGindy was ever held by police. Morsi met Monday ZLWK WRS SROLFH RIĂ€FLDOV EXW WKH VWDWH QHZVSDSHU $O Ahram said his talks did not touch on the beating of Saber or el-Gindy’s death. The paper said Morsi told RIĂ€FHUV KH XQGHUVWDQGV WKH\ RSHUDWH XQGHU ´H[WUHPH pressuresâ€? in the face of protests and that he would work for a political resolution to ease unrest. Morsi’s administration has said it is determined to stop what it calls violent protests that causing instability. Morsi’s prime minister, Hesham Kandil, indirectly warned the opposition and media not to raise SXEOLF RXWFU\ DJDLQVW VHFXULW\ RIĂ€FLDOV ´7KLV VKRXOG QRW EH XVHG DV D PDWFK WR VHW Ă€UH WR WKH QDWLRQ WR demolish the police,â€? he said. Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim warned that if police “collapseâ€? Egypt will become “a militia state like some neighboring nations.â€? Many activists believe Morsi sought a tougher police line when he removed their previous boss, Ahmed Gamal Eddin, and installed Ibrahim as interior minister. $FFRUGLQJ WR RIĂ€FLDOV FORVH WR *DPDO (GGLQ KH ZDV Ă€UHG EHFDXVH VHFXULW\ IRUFHV GLG QRW LQWHUYHQH against anti-Morsi protests outside the presidential palace in Cairo in December. Islamists attacked those protesters, prompting clashes that left around SHRSOH GHDG 7KH RIĂ€FLDOV VSRNH RQ FRQGLWLRQ RI anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject. In contrast, police struck back heavily when sevHUDO Ă€UHERPEV ZHUH WKURZQ LQWR WKH SDODFH JURXQGV during protests outside the compound Friday, part of a wave of nationwide anti-Morsi unrest the past 10 days that left more than 70 dead. Hours of clashes ensued, leaving at least one protester dead and dozens injured. During Friday’s clashes, Saber, a 48-year-old who works as a wall plasterer, was beaten. Footage shows him writing naked in the street. Black-clad riot police yank his pants around his ankles, kick him with their heavy black boots and lean over to hit him with batons. They drag him by the legs across the pavement and bundle him into a police van. But in interviews with Egyptian television from a police hospital the next day, a smiling Saber said it was protesters who had shot him in the leg with birdshot, then stripped and beat him. He said the riot police were only trying to help him afterward. He even blamed himself for any rough police treatment, saying that in his confusion he was resisting them. “I was afraid ... They were telling me: We swear to God we will not harm you, don’t be afraid,â€? Saber said, adding, “I was being very tiresome to the police.â€? His wife also praised the police, telling state TV, “they are giving him good treatmentâ€? at the police hospital. But his children said he was forced to give the story. “There are pressures on my mother to say that he LV Ă€QH Âľ KLV GDXJKWHU 5DQGD WROG LQGHSHQGHQW 'UHDP TV. “The government is the one pressing him.â€? In a statement, the Interior Ministry voiced its “regretâ€? about the assault and vowed to investigate. But Interior Minister Ibrahim echoed Saber’s account and said initial investigation results showed it was protesters who stripped and beat Saber. He said riot police found Saber and tried to get him into the van — “though the way they did it was excessive.â€? On Sunday, Saber told investigators that it was indeed police who beat and stripped him. Speaking to Al-Hayat TV, he said he gave his initial account because was afraid, then broke down in tears as he recounted begging the policemen for mercy. “But no one gave me mercy,â€? he wept. “My whole body was smashed.â€? He has now been moved to a civilian hospital. Rights activists say police intimidation of victims and their families to prevent complaints was rife under Mubarak and continues unabated. In a report last month, the Egyptian Initiative For Personal Rights documented 16 cases of police violence in which 11 people were killed and 10 tortured in police stations. Three died under torture during the Ă€UVW IRXU PRQWKV DIWHU 0RUVL WRRN RIĂ€FH RQ -XQH it said. 7KH ULJKWV JURXS VDLG RIĂ€FHUV LQFUHDVLQJO\ DFW “like a gang taking revenge.â€? In one case it documented, police in the Nile Delta town of Meet Ghamr stormed a cafe and beat up patrons in September. When one woman who was beaten went to the police station to complain, the man accompanying her was arrested and tortured to death, the report said. The sister of the slain man told AP that her brother’s widow was paid the equivalent of around $25,000 to say that he was killed by a rock to his head during a protest. “The main issue is that nothing has changed about the police. No change about accountability. There is just as much impunity as there was under Mubarak,â€? said Heba Morayef of Human Rights Watch. The past two years “we’ve seen an increase in the police’s likelihood to use lethal force ... in the context of regular policing activities.â€? In the case of el-Gindy, the activist who died Monday, fellow activists say he disappeared during the Jan. 27 Tahrir protest and they later learned from people who left the Red Mountain security camp that he was being held there. Soon after, el-Gindy was brought to a hospital in a coma and on Monday he died.

Template 022308 JJP

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

SPORTS / B7

[Keene-­Equinox.com]

l w h t i O w t

p h u g s i m N tea

intramural sports LYNDSAY KRISEL

EQUINOX STAFF With the 2013 spring semester in full swing, there are many new and exciting activities for students to take advantage of around campus. The Keene State College Recreation Department’s Intramural Sports Program in particular recently introduced some new tricks and sticks up their sleeves for their beloved competitors. For any students taken by a good game of pool, the Recreation Department’s Intramural Program has decided to team up with the Night Owl CafĂŠ, to create an intramural billiards league this spring. While most students are familiar with the KSC Recreation Department’s exciting games, ranging from RQ EDVNHWEDOO WR Ă RRU KRFNH\ YROOH\EDOO LQGRRU soccer and even pickle ball, others prefer the laid back style of pool or table tennis, in the game room of the Young Student Center. This new billiards league is an excellent way to incorporate a little competition to some good clean fun, as well as an opportunity for students to strike an 8-ball and win a T-shirt. According to Intramural Sports Coordinator Taylor Tully, the rules of the game are quite basic for any game of pool, shooting stripes and solids into the holes and then competing for the 8-ball. The game also allows students at any playing level to join. Tully mentioned WKDW WKLV ZDV QRW WKH Ă€UVW WLPH LQWUDPXUDO VSRUWV KDV collaborated with the Night Owl Cafe to create some unique games. “We teamed up last semester for a table tennis tournament, as well as an indoor mini triathlon, which was started last spring, and we really liked the collaboration,â€? Tully said.

In terms of playing games, and drawing attention to both the intramural program and game room, collaboration on campus has been a big help. Tully explained, “Because both departments are involved, it does help for collaboration on campus, but also they have the equipment and we have the knowledge of running the team aspect of sports.â€? The man with the story behind this idea lies in the hands of Night Owl CafĂŠ Manager Gino Vallante, who said that he often tries to think of new programs to organize for students on campus every semester. He said, “There’s been a lot of collaboration between what people do in game rooms and student centers and what Intramural Sports does with ping pong tournaments and such, so I said, ‘We should have a billiards league!’â€? Vallante explained that most of the programming that the Young Student Center does is collaborative,

6+$+$5 5(60$1 (Cont. from B10) RYAN GLAVEY

ADMINISTRATIVE EXECUTIVE EDITOR As a jack-of-all-trades for the Keene State College Women’s WUDFN DQG Ă€HOG WHDP WKLV ZHHN¡V $WKOHWH RI WKH :HHN LV -DQHO +DJgerty. The senior showed her versaWLOLW\ E\ FODLPLQJ Ă€UVW SODFH LQ WKH pentathlon at the Tufts Stampede Track Meet. Haggerty won three of the Ă€YH HYHQW FRPSHWLWLRQ E\ SODFLQJ Ă€UVW LQ WKH KLJK MXPS ORQJ MXPS and the 800-meter run. She also placed second in the 60-meter hurdles and sixth in the shot put. Haggerty set the mark for all KSC pentathletes with a school record 3,308-point performance. She currently ranks second in the Division III standings this season. In addition, she beat her previous personal record of 3,139 points. She was also named the LEC Women’s Field Athlete of the :HHN IRU KH WRS Ă€QLVKHV LQ DOO Ă€YH of the events. --7KH Ă€UVW UXQQHU XS WKLV ZHHN is senior forward Eric Fazio of the KSC men’s basketball team. )D]LR KDG D WHDP KLJK SRLQWV UHERXQGV DQG VWHDOV in the Owls’ impressive 110-64 YLFWRU\ RYHU 6W -RVHSK¡V +H NHSW up the effort with 10 points and a game-high 8 rebounds in the team’s 88-80 conference win over Southern Maine. The senior continues to play hard as the Owls gear up for the Ă€QDO VWUHWFK RI WKHLU VFKHGXOH DQG he chases the 1,000-point career milestone. --With a real breakout performance for the women’s basketball team, the second runner-up this week is Courtney Roberts. After her best game as an Owl a year ago, the sophomore forward put up a game and careerKLJK SRLQWV LQ D QDUURZ loss to Southern Maine. Roberts also had 10 rebounds in the game. The Owls have struggled recently, but will attempt to turn WKHLU VHDVRQ DURXQG ZLWK D Ă€QDO series of conference opponents to close out their year. Ryan Glavey can be contacted at rglavey@keene-equinox.com

WDNLQJ D Ă LJKW -DQ VR ZH JRW KLP RYHU KHUH NCAA cleared and the rest is history,â€? Fabian added. -XVW WKUHH PRQWKV DJR 5HVPDQ ZDV Ă€QLVKing up the European Championship in Italy; VZLPPLQJ WKH N DQG N DQG SODFLQJ D ZHOO GHVHUYHG HOHYHQWK LQ WKH N Resman said his niche in swimming has always been in the open water circuit, rather than the pool but long distances and endurance has never been a problem for the Israeli National. During his time in the military after competing throughout his high school career, Resman was able to train but keep an equal balance to his swimming abilities. Unfortunately he said he was never able to improve to the level he wanted to be at, coming up short at the qualifying stages for the 2012 Olympic games in London. “I am ordered so I go six, seven hours a day or maybe I stay two or three days there and do patrols in dangerous places so in my army experience I just try to not get worse and not get better but just stay balanced,â€? Resman said. “I am still in the Army because if something happens I have to go back, if something real bad happened. We stay in the military until we are 40. If something small happened then I don’t know, it’s okay. For example if it’s a big war, I have to go back.â€? In mid-November, the Israeli and Palestine FRQĂ LFW ZDV LQ IXOO VZLQJ DV ERPELQJV IURP ERWK groups took the world by storm. Tensions arose but eventually a compromise brought an end to WKH Ă€JKWLQJ %XW WKH SULFH LQ OLYHV ORVW SURYHG WR be devastating for both sides. The Gaza Strip is just one of the major locations where most displaced Palestinians reside DQG DOVR ZKHUH WKH PDMRULW\ RI URFNHWV ZHUH Ă€UHG ´, OLYHG N > PL@ IURP WKH *D]D 6WULS Âľ Resman said. “Two or three months ago, it was very scary and every day they bombed us and maybe every 30 minutes there were alarms and rockets. It was scary. I know how to live with this because it’s many years I’ve lived this. We have a big, big problem there with the Palestinians and the Israelis.â€? Resman added, “I don’t know if some day it’s going to end but we’re trying and every citizen wants to be in peace. There are days when you can’t go out because you don’t know what’s happening. One second, a bus can explode or alarm and rockets can come but it’s scary. We live it every day so for us it can be scary.â€? Resman said the closest bomb in the barrage hit 100 meters away from Resman’s home where his family resides. “Every rocket, when it explodes, you can hear it and all the building will shake so you feel it,â€? Resman said. Despite the troubles placed onto the region, Resman’s swimming has withstood them and his passion for the sport is undeniable. KSC AthOHWLF 'LUHFWRU -RKQ 5DWOLII VDLG 5HVPDQ¡V DUULYDO is one that can offer a rare and enhanced experience to all KSC swimmers. “I think it’s wonderful,â€? Ratliff said. “Anytime you can bring a different perspective to a group is always educationally enlightening. Not only is he a very good swimmer but he’ll bring diversity and a different international culture and experience to a team that doesn’t have that.â€?

whether they are working with the Student Activities Council, Recreation Center, Pride Club and many other co-sponsored groups. “It’s a great way to combine resources, plan an event, and draw more people,â€? Vallante said. These combined group efforts are not only a great way to promote some fun games, but it is also something to be deeply admired, that these departments have the resources to be able to create something new and original, to keep the interest of students here at Keene. There are several ways to get involved on campus, if VWXGHQWV Ă€QG WKH ZLOO WR GR LW ´2SSRUWXQLWLHV DUH DYDLOable all around campus, you just got to get out there to Ă€QG WKHP Âľ 9DOODQWH FRPPHQWHG Senior Stephan “Drewâ€? Rolfe recently joined the billiards league with some friends of his, and is pretty excited for its turnout this season. He explained that he got into pool after his dad bought a table back home, where they’d have some father-son bonding and compete against each other. “It’ll be some good practice for when I go home to play him,â€? Rolfe said, “maybe I’ll actually win.â€? Rolfe DOVR VXJJHVWHG WKDW D OHDJXH OLNH WKLV FRXOG EHQHĂ€W HYHQ

KSC men’s swimmer and three-time AllAmerican, Drew Ledwith competes in similar races that Resman does. Ledwith was also part of a large group of KSC swimmers who greeted Resman on his arrival at the airport in Boston WKUHH ZHHNV DJR ´,W¡V GHĂ€QLWHO\ D ORW EHWWHU Âľ Ledwith said. ´, Ă€QDOO\ KDYH VRPHRQH WR GR GLVWDQW VHWV ZLWK me and we can race each other. I haven’t had VRPHRQH OLNH WKDW LQ D ZKLOH VR LW GHĂ€QLWHO\ KHOSV Âľ Ledwith gave some insight on how Resman was given the recent nickname of the ‘Israeli Rocket.’ “We didn’t really know if he was ever coming so [Fabian] started calling him ‘the rocket’ just as an incentive for us to go faster so he didn’t come in and beat us,â€? Ledwith said. Resman credited his team because of the support they’ve given him and the training they partake in. Resman has had to adjust to the conGLWLRQV PLOHV DZD\ IURP KLV KRPH “The system over here is different from Israel,â€? Resman said. “I don’t know, it takes time, maybe a half-a-year till I see some results. It’s not something you train today good and tomorrow you swim good. It’s not like that. So you have to be patient. [Fabian] is a really good coach so I trust him.â€? Resman added, “If it’s not going good now, it’s going to be good a year from now. I train with [Ledwith] who is really fast. He is also a really good friend. All the guys are good friends. The girls are a very good help too. They’re a really good team and I like the training here.â€? Resman is a swimmer whose empowerment and passion for the sport is limitless but humble according to his peers. There are few limits for a swimmer who has expectations to be nothing less than great for the next four years. Coach Fabian said he’s along for the ride and fully committed to helping Resman achieve his top goals. “[Resman] is very focused and knows exactly what he wants out of Keene State,â€? Fabian said. “He took the risk of coming here and wants to make the Olympic team. I really want him to make the 2016 Olympic team for Israel. I want all of our training to add up to something that will make him able to do that. He just missed making it for London. When kids come here I want to see them achieve their dreams and that’s his big dream and I want to help him make that,â€? Fabian added. Like all goals, they take time. They take hard work, effort and a tenacity to achieve them. Making the 2016 Olympic team is not only Resman’s goal, but it’s his lifetime dream. He’s just decided to have KSC be another place along his MRXUQH\ )LUVW WKLQJV DOZD\V Ă€UVW WKRXJK DQG that’s his role on the KSC men’s swim team. As the season is coming to an end, Resman has two weeks till to qualify for Nationals in Texas. “I took a big, big step in leaving my counWU\ DQG FDPH KHUH ZLWK QRWKLQJ -XVW P\ VZLPming and my English, which has to get better so it’s a really big change for me but I am patient,â€? Resman said. He added, “I have a race in two weeks and if I do well I go to Nationals in Texas so I’m trying my best just to help the team and myself.â€? Resman said he plans to stay at KSC for four years. Dalton Charest can be contacted at dcharest@keene-equinox.com

further from advertisements where students would see them more, such as the dorms on campus. He said, “If you were to put stuff where [people] ZRXOG DFWXDOO\ VHH LW PRUH , IHHO OLNH LW ZRXOG GHĂ€QLWHO\ catch your eye, because who doesn’t like chilling out with their buddies, watching TV and playing some pool?â€? 2QH RWKHU VSHFLĂ€F GHWDLO 5ROIH SRLQWHG RXW LV WKH “unityâ€? or collaborative efforts put into creating a league such as this. He mentioned, “It shows unity between everything, that our school is very connected and can work together on several different levels, and utilize everything we have.â€? Some other different games to look for this spring include a bowling league, softball tournament and the March Madness Skills Challenge, which according to Tully, is composed of a mix of shoot-out basketball games, that is set to take place after the NCAA selection show this March, so be on the lookout and get involved this semester. Lyndsay Krisel can be contacted at lkrisel@ksc.keene.edu

Ravens beat 49ers in an electric Super Bowl

MATT SLOCUM / AP PHOTO

Baltimore Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco (5) holds the Vince Lombardi Trophy after defeating the San Francisco 49ers 34-31 in the NFL Super Bowl XLVII football game, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, in New Orleans.

5D\ /HZLV¡ œODVW ULGH¡ HQGV RQ KLJK QRWH BARRY WILNER

ASSOCIATED PRESS For a Super Bowl with so many story lines, this game came up with quite a twist. Try a blackout that turned a blowout into a shootout — capped by a brilliant defensive stand. The Baltimore Ravens survived a frenzied comeback by the San Francisco 49ers following a 34-minute delay in the third quarter for a power outage Sunday night, winning their second championVKLS 6XSHU %RZO 093 -RH )ODFFR WKUHZ WKUHH Ă€UVW KDOI WRXFKGRZQ SDVVHV -DFRE\ -RQHV UDQ EDFN WKH VHFRQG KDOI kickoff a record 108 yards for a score, and star linebacker Ray Lewis’ last play Ă€WWLQJO\ ZDV SDUW RI D GHIHQVLYH HIIRUW that saved the victory. “To me, that was one of the most amazing goal-line stands I’ve ever been a part of in my career,â€? said Lewis, who announced a month ago he would retire when the Ravens were done playing. They are done now, with another Vince Lombardi Trophy headed for the display case. “What better way to do it,â€? Lewis said, “than on the Super Bowl stage?â€? That stage already was loaded with plots: —The coaching Harbaughs sibling ULYDOU\ ZRQ E\ ROGHU EURWKHU -RKQ ZKR VDLG WKH SRVWJDPH JUHHWLQJ ZLWK -LP was “painful.â€? —Flacco’s emergence as a top-level

quarterback, and his impending free agency. —Colin Kaepernick’s rapid rise in the last two months as 49ers QB. —The big game’s return to the Big (DV\ IRU WKH Ă€UVW WLPH LQ \HDUV DQG WKH Ă€UVW WLPH VLQFH +XUULFDQH .DWULQD UDYDJHG WKH FLW\ LQ —Lewis’ self-proclaimed “last ride.â€? But when the Superdome lost power, well, that wasn’t in anyone’s scenario. Flacco and the Ravens (14-6) were turning the game into a rout, leading ZKHQ ZLWKRXW HYHQ D Ă LFNHU RI warning, several banks of lights and the scoreboards went dark. Players from both sides stretched and chatted with each other in as bizarre a scene as any Super Bowl has witnessed. “The bad part was we started talking about it,â€? said safety Ed Reed, who had the game’s only interception. “That was mentioned. It was like they were trying to kill our momentum.â€? After power was restored, the 49ers began playing lights out. 6DQ )UDQFLVFR LQ VHDUFK RI LWV sixth Lombardi Trophy in as many tries, got back in the game almost immediately. Michael Crabtree’s 31-yard touchdown reception, on which he broke two tackles, made it 28-13. A few minutes later, Frank Gore’s 6-yard run followed a \DUG SXQW UHWXUQ E\ 7HG *LQQ -U DQG the 49ers were within eight. Ray Rice’s fumble at his 24 led to 'DYLG $NHUV¡ \DUG Ă€HOG JRDO

Template 022308 JJP

Black SPORTS / B8

THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

[Keene-­Equinox.com]

Fabian makes a name for himself and his team JAY MCAREE

EQUINOX STAFF

08/7, 63257 3526 (Cont. from B10)

When you put an unprecedented amount of dedication and passion into what you do, good things tend to happen. It takes only a quick glance at the Keene State College Men’s and Women’s Swimming and Diving teams to see where those attributes stem from. Head Coach Jack Fabian has been with the program for eight years, and in every year, both the men’s and women’s teams have won the LEC Championship. This is one of the strongest athletic programs at KSC and a lot of WKDW UHĂ HFWV WKH SHUVRQDOLW\ DQG work ethic of Fabian. Not only does he coach here at the college, but he is also a member of the USA Swimming National Team coaching staff where he is the personal coach for his daughter, Eva Fabian, a world-class open water swimmer. Coach Fabian travels all across the world with his daughter to compete in World Championship races, most recently in Brazil where she placed second, but also in places such as Hong Kong, Chile, Argentina, Quebec and Dubai. In these races he is given the opportunity to work side-by-side with some of the best coaches in the world. “You learn a lot from the other coaches there,â€? Fabian said. “Just talking to them and thinking about training and about what they’ve done with their athletes I think has GHĂ€QLWHO\ PDGH PH D PXFK EHWWHU coach. It has certainly affected the training with the stuff I do.â€? At just the young age of 19 years old, his daughter Eva Fabian has accomplished a lifetime of achievePHQWV LQFOXGLQJ Ă€UVW SODFH LQ WKH 2010 FINA World Open Water Swimming Champion in the 5K, a silver medal in the 10K at the 2010 3DQ 3DFLĂ€F 6ZLPPLQJ DQG ZLQning in the 2011 USA Swimming National Open Water Swimming 10K Championships. Swimming in open water does not come without some dangers. Coach Fabian named things like current, and temperature of the water as a few. “There’s a lot of safety issues involved so between my daughter and I, we have done a lot of racing

EMILY FEDORKO / PHOTO EDITOR

Keene State College Men’s and Women’s Swim Coach Jack Fabian has won an LEC championship every year since he started coaching at KSC six seasons ago.

so I kind of feel like I have a good idea of things we need to look out for. It’s a big relief for me to actually be there,� Fabian said. He added, “They had us swim in Hong Kong outside the shark net. That’s scary because there’s a reason they have a net there.� Coaching your own daughter offers a different dynamic than coaching a normal athlete and their relationship proves to be a close one. Eva Fabian said, “It’s amazing. My dad was my coach since I was eight. He’s an amazing coach, it’s just fun to be able to travel with my dad and we’ve had some really, really great experiences and done some awesome races together.� She continued, “He’s just an all around very enthusiastic coach with a very good sense of humor on deck.� If the past is any indication, Fabian is also a very good recruiter

DQG KDV D Ă€UP JUDVS RQ WKH W\SHV RI swimmers he wants at his program. “We kind of look for kids who may have been under the radar and who have potential,â€? Coach Fabian said. He added, “That’s why the coaching part here is pretty intense because we get kids that have potential then we have to have them realize their potential which is a lot of work.â€? Finding the right swimmers can happen at anytime, just ask Coach Fabian. While he was in Argentina a couple years ago he met a young man named Shahar Resman who is from Israel and a member of the Israeli National team. Resman now attends KSC and is trying to make the Israeli Olympic Team for 2016. For Fabian, coaching both the men’s and women’s team requires managing a lot of different people

and personalities, “I mean one of the approaches that we try to do is develop team identity,â€? he said. “We do separate practices and than it seems smaller [be]cause you are just dealing with two programs.â€? By holding separate practices, and breaking them down into smaller groups, Fabian is able to be more effective as a coach. Junior swimmer, Emma Fitzhenry said, “He has the pracWLFHV UHDOO\ VSHFLĂ€F WR ZKDW \RX¡UH doing and that gives him more of a chance to focus on technique with you and give you pointers.â€? “His coaching style is extremely unique. I’ve had a lot of coaches and I’ve never had the variety he gives us, he keeps his practices pretty LQWHUHVWLQJ ,¡YH GHĂ€QLWHO\ QHYHU swam under anybody like him.â€? This program didn’t just take off by chance or luck. The swimmers and the coaching staff have

put everything they could possibly muster up into this. Fitzhenry said, “He puts so much work into it, it’s ridiculous, I don’t even think he sleeps actually.� Everything Coach Fabian does is for his swimmers, whether it’s his daughter Eva, or his team here at KSC. “I just feel it’s really important, I just want to give them the best experience for college swimming possible,� Fabian said. “They made a big commitment to come here and really be a part of this program so I feel like I owe them a lot during the season.� Fabian and his men’s and women’s swimming and diving team will face off at the NEISDA championships on Feb. 8, 2013. Jay McAree can be contacted at jmcaree@keene-equinox.com

the color barrier in Major League Baseball, he conquered multiple sports at UCLA, where he attended college. According to an article on UCLABruins.com, Robinson did everything from lead the nation in punt return yards (1939), to win an NCAA WLWOH DW WKH WUDFN ÀHOG FKDPSLRQships for the broad jump (1940) and even led the basketball team in points per game (1940). The article also said that Jackie 5RELQVRQ ZDV WKH ÀUVW HYHU 8&/$ athlete to letter in four varsity sports. Robinson clearly found his home on the baseball diamond but certainly not before dominating nearly every other sport he could possibly play. One of the most amazing multisport athletes has to be Bo Jackson. $FFRUGLQJ WR KLV 1)/ FRP SURÀOH Jackson (RB) was a member of the Los Angeles Raiders for three years. Following his NFL career, Jackson spent eight years in Major League Baseball as a member of the Royals, White Sox and Angels. Jackson was selected as the number one overall pick in the 1986 NFL draft, after winning the Heisman Trophy at Auburn University in 1985. According to an article on ESPN.com, once Jackson was drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, he opted to play baseball instead, for the Kansas City Royals. Because Jackson didn’t sign a contract with the Buccaneers, his name was re-entered into the draft the following season. The Los Angeles Raiders, owned by Al Davis, drafted him in the seventh round. Jackson dropped so far in the 1986 draft due to concerns that the multi-talented athlete would never play football. In 1990, Jackson was selected to the Pro Bowl. The year before that, Jackson was selected to the 1989 MLB All-Star game. -DFNVRQ LV WKH ÀUVW SOD\HU WR HYHU be named to the All-Star game in two different sports. If that isn’t an amazing athletic feat, I really don’t know what would be considered amazing. Michelle Berthiaume can be contacted at mberthiaume@keene-equinox. com

Keene State College athletic team records and schedule Women’s Basketball

Men’s and women’s track and field

OVERALL

CONF.

HOME

AWAY (neutral) STREAK

7-13

2-8

4-6

2-7 (1-0) Lost 4

at UMass-Boston Box score

1 2 Total

Keene State College 28 20 UMass-Boston

29 40

48 69

at Southern Maine 1 2

Total

Keene State College

27 29

Southern Maine

36 22

56 58

Box score

LEC Women’s Basketball top 6 1.

Southern Maine

2. 3.

9-1

Western Connecticut

8-2

Eastern Connecticut

6-4

4. 5.

Rhode Island College

6-4

UMass-Dartmouth

5-5

7.

KEENE STATE COLLEGE

2-8

:RPHQ¡V %DVNHWEDOO $ZD\ DW /DVHOO

Dartmouth College Invitational

Name

Event

Men’s Basketball OVERALL

CONF.

HOME

13-8

7-3

4-5

Marie Whitney

3,000m run

Time 10:13.15

Place 3rd

Maggie Fitter

1 mile run

5:09.78

4th

Jay Borden

1 mile run

4:35.77

23rd

Ben Keach

Shot put

14.76m

2nd

Box score

1

2

800m weight throw

1:57.55

1st

St. Joseph (Vt.)

34

30

12.96m

6th

Keene State College

50

60

Ryan Widzgowski

Whitney Cyr

Men’s and women’s swimming and diving Roger Williams Invitational

Name

Event

Time

vs. St. Joseph (Vt.)

1

2

Keene State College

39

49

88

Southern Maine

46

34

80

2. 3.

Eastern Connecticut

8-2

Southern Maine

7-3

KEENE STATE COLLEGE

7-3

UMass-Boston

3-7

Western Connecticut

3-7

200 butterfly

2:12.98

Drew Ledwith

1650 free

Jenny French

200 free

15:48.31 1:58.39

1st 1st

Jared Hyde

100 bck

59.18

1st

Rich Enders

100 back

54.52

1st

4. 5.

Julie Trodden

1650 free

18:01.6

1st

6.

0HQ¡V DQG :RPHQ¡V 0HQ¡V DQG :RPHQ¡V 7UDFN DQG )LHOG 6ZLPPLQJ DQG 'LYLQJ 1(,6'$ &KDPSLRQVKLSV February 8th-10th, 11 a.m.

0HQ¡V %DVNHWEDOO +RPH YV :HVWHUQ &RQQHFWLFXW Saturday, February 9, 1 p.m.

Saturday, February 16, 11 a.m.

+RPH YV (DVWHUQ &RQQHFWLFXW Tuesday, February 12, 7 p.m.

Saturday, February 9, 1 p.m.

Saturday, February 16, 1 p.m.

64 110

Total

Box score

9-1

1HZ (QJODQG &KDPSLRQVKLSV

+RPH YV 5KRGH ,VODQG &ROOHJH

Total

Rhode Island College

Thursday, February 7, 7 p.m.

+RPH YV :HVWHUQ &RQQHFWLFXW

at Southern Maine

1.

Diana Pimer

Saturday, February 9, 11 a.m.

9-2 Won 2

LEC Men’s Basketball top 6

Place 1st

/LWWOH (DVW &KDPSLRQVKLSV

AWAY (neutral) STREAK

(PDLO PEHUWKLDXPH#NHHQH HTXLQR[ FRP WR VXJJHVW HYHQWV IRU WKH FDOHQGDU

+RPH YV 5KRGH ,VODQG &ROOHJH Saturday, February 16, 1 p.m.

Template 022308 JJP

Black THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

SPORTS / B9

[Keene-­Equinox.com]

&$1 7 %( 67233(' (Cont. from B10)

MICHELLE BERTHIAUME / SPORTS EDITOR

Freshman Kelsey Cognetta brings the ball up the court during a game against Eastern Connecticut State University on Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013 in the Spaulding Gymnasium.

1$7,21$/6 25 %867 (Cont. from B10)

to make Nationals, the team still needs to put out a good performance at the conference championships for most of those swimmers to get there. There’s a six-week layoff between conference championships and Nationals, a layoff that allows for an increase in practice intensity, junior Drew Ledwith said. “We’re almost doing a whole other training cycle, like a six-week training cycle. So I’ll do a couple weeks of distance real hard, then I’ll transfer into a speed week then taper the last two weeks and really rest for it,â€? Ledwith explained. Freshman Cole Hogg said he’s close to qualifying for Nationals and is excited to see how Fabian prepares the team for the big event. “I don’t know how exactly [Fabian] does it but I am excited to see,â€? Hogg said. Ledwith is the only member of either WHDP ZKR KDV DOUHDG\ TXDOLĂ€HG IRU Nationals, causing him to take a different training approach towards NEISDA. While most swimmers are getting some

mornings off, Ledwith is still showing up at the pool every morning putting in hard work, Fabian said. “Everybody had the morning off; [Ledwith] was in at 5 a.m. and went 9,000 yards before class. He did it in a short amount of time; we worked pretty hard this morning. He’ll come in this afternoon and do another 9,000. So he’s putting in a lot of work still, as the other kids are just sort of resting,â€? Fabian said. Ledwith said he’s using the conference championships to see where he is physically and to improve on his times from December. Fabian said Ledwith sets a great example for other swimmers on the team. “He walks in every day and they see what somebody who places second or maybe might win his event at nationals does on a daily basis. So he’s a huge role model for everybody, I would say,â€? Fabian said. While Ledwith is the only one who’s TXDOLĂ€HG WKXV IDU )DELDQ VDLG RWKHUV are expected to qualify at the NEISDA Championships. Although some younger athletes might qualify for the National meet in March, Fabian said freshmen have a tendency to be in over their heads at Nationals. “They think they’re really a big deal,

And so the long rehabilitation process began (an ACL tear is on average a 12 month injury). Cognetta keeping her head up the entire time; refusing to be discouraged, she rebounded from the injury strongly and had a phenomenal senior year. Cognetta even caught the attention of Keith Boucher and coaches everywhere with her unique style of play. Hopeful to make an impact on a college team, things were looking up for Cognetta. That is until a fateful day last spring when she tore her other ACL. Now she was dealing with the prospect of sitting out another year of basketball. Junior guard Vicky Vitale, whose dealing with an ACL injury of her own, is familiar with the pain. “It’s the most frustrating thing in the world,â€? Vitale said. “When your body’s not doing what you want it to, you have to be tough.â€? Cognetta headed to school hoping to help her team late in the season, but quickly realized that William Paterson University wasn’t for her. So she made a call to her high school coach and asked him to send Keene State College a tape of her play. “I got sent a DVD and as soon as I saw it I recognized her,â€? Coach Boucher said. “She has tremendous basketball IQ and she pushes the ball well.â€? So she made the decision to come to KSC this semester and after watching other players on the court for two RI WKH ODVW WKUHH \HDUV VKH¡V Ă€QDOO\ HQMR\LQJ VRPH SOD\-

and they get to the meet and they realize they have a lot of work to do because there’s a lot of good swimmers at that meet,â€? Fabian said. On the other hand, Fabian said he doesn’t expect that sort of thing with Hogg, who has experience at some pretty big events. Fabian went on, “[Hogg] has a little bit more experience‌ [Hogg’s} also been to some higher level meets so he’s used to going and getting his ass kicked a little bit in a big meet format, and probably not as intimidated as some of the freshmen who were high school only swimmers.â€? Fabian said he also has high expectations for the women’s team this year, and that team chemistry is a lot better than years past. Fabian says Stephanie Murray, captain of the women’s team, has done a great job this season dealing with her teammates. “There can be a lot of drama on the women’s team and she has kept that to a minimum,â€? Fabian said. Murray, who was hesitant to talk about teams of years past, said this team’s success can be attributed to swimmers who view swimming as a priority. “I feel like in the past drama has been created because some people have different work ethics than others, and some

ing of her own. “I love the action of the game,â€? Cognetta said. “That fast pace.â€? As Cognetta talked about the game she loves, one could almost picture her rehabbing desperately. 7KDW GHVSHUDWLRQ LV UHĂ HFWHG LQ KHU VW\OH RI SOD\ She doesn’t take anything for granted according to her teammates. She appreciates every game she plays, every moment she’s in, every cut she makes because it’s all been taken away from her before. Take a defensive rebound for instance. Most players are content walking the ball up and running the offensive set the coach calls for them. But Cognetta sees a defense in transition and has other ideas. She knows they’re tired. She knows they’re vulnerable. She attacks. Whizzing by defenders and slicing into the paint OLNH D VSRUWV FDU ZLQGLQJ WKURXJK WUDIĂ€F &RJQHWWD penetrates defenses relentlessly, relishing the chaos as defenders on their heels try in vain to slow her down. “She’s a very up-tempo player,â€? Roberts said. “And she gets excited for big plays, which is a great characteristic.â€? So now the team has found their starting point guard. But at times they still struggle to score. As the playoffs loom, the Lady Owls hold a record of 7-13. They are young and with youth comes inconsistency. But the future is bright for the team and their scrappy new player. Zach Winn can be contacted at zwinn@keene-equinox.com

people look to swimming as more of an important part of their life than others. But I feel like this year especially, everybody is really into swimming and everybody has a great work ethic,� Murray said. Though Murray doesn’t expect to qualify for Nationals herself, she said she will still try to support her team as best she can. “Before our meets we give each other sister gifts; we have sisters on the team and we swap presents and write notes for each other, and we’ll have spaghetti suppers, so probably do something along those lines to send them off with, but I think just showing up at the pool when they’re training even if I’m not,� Murray said. Sophomore Diana Pimer said she expects big things out of the women’s team at the NEISDA championships. She added that the team’s chemistry is encouraging. With one last chance to qualify, all swimmers will be looking to put their best foot forward. And by this time next week, the picture for Nationals will be CHRIS PALERMO / FILE PHOTO painted. The NEISDA meet will start KSC junior and three time All-American, Drew Ledwith on Feb. 8 at the Upper Valley Aquatic competes in a home meet vs. Tufts University on Nov. Center in White River Junction, Vt. Stephen Trinkwald can be contacted at strinkwald@keene-equinox.com

18, 2012. The meet was held at the pool located in the Spaulding Gymnasium. Ledwith is the only Owl to qualify for Nationals, which will be held in Texas, March 20 through the 23.

! " " $ "!&

! $! !" " ) 5' /.(/.

! !' $ "' +/. ! !! " ' 024 # $ # % $' .1223

Template 022308 JJP

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black

Sports

SPORTS / B10

[Keene-­Equinox.com]

DALTON CHAREST

EQUINOX STAFF As modern, developing children, we are typically mandated to learn how to swim. We don’t know why we need to learn how to swim LQ SRROV IXOO RI ÀOWHUHG ZDWHU ODNHV inhabited with biological life or the dark depth ocean waters where unknown creatures exist. We just do it and we swim, like most mammals that are capable of doing so. Whether we pick it up quickly or never even learn how to, we still attempt the action. Some will grow a fear of the water that may, unfortunately, torment them for years down the road. Others, like American swimmer Michael Phelps will try to take their talents all the way to the Olympics. In Ashdod, Israel, it is no different. Shahar Resman has spent every year of his life living in a region, which since the very birth of Israel’s existence 50 years ago, has been on the brink of war. Now, he’s a Keene State College freshman and in the water ready to compete for the KSC Men’s Swimming Team. Three years ago, Resman found himself graduating high school and enlisting for the mandatory

three years of service in the military. Three years of service is required for all male Israeli citizens after their high school graduation. Resman said that even if he had not been required to serve, he would have done it anyway. Israeli women must serve at least two years of service within the military. Though he participated in swim races all his life, Resman is not a typical swimmer. Competing in the World Cup Open Water Swimming Circuit, Resman is part of the Israeli open water swimming national team. He has ventured from as far as Europe to South America just to race. 1RZ WKDW KH ÀQGV KLPVHOI LQ WKH small, quaint town of Keene, N.H., Resman’s travels attribute much to the story of how his talent ended up at a small NCAA Division III swimming program. Head Swim Coach Jack Fabian is part of the U.S. National Open Water Swimming Team’s coaching staff. Fabian’s daughter, Eva, is a member of the US National Open Water Swim Team. About a year ago, Fabian found himself in Argentina for a World Cup race. As luck would have it, Fabian met with Resman after

THURSDAY, FEB. 7, 2013

EMILY FEDORKO / PHOTO EDITOR

seeing him compete and the two began a friendship that would bring them to where they are today. About a year after their Ă€UVW PHHWLQJ 5HVPDQ FRQtacted Fabian, interested in competing for the KSC swim team. “I told him we were DIII, non-scholarship >VFKRRO@ VR , Ă€JXUHG that would be the last we heard from him,â€? Fabian said. “But he contacted the Global Studies Director and Bert Poirier over at admissions and next thing I know he’s applying and getting out of the Army, and he really wanted to start this year,â€? Fabian said. “He had the European Championships in the fall and said he’d be ready when KH JRW KHUH +H Ă€QDOO\ JRW LQ and he was able to handle it Ă€QDQFLDOO\ DQG QH[W WKLQJ I know he told me he’d be

Âť Â SHAHAR Â RESMAN, Â B7

One last Pro athletes: the best of the best No injury too big chance ZACH WINN

STEPHEN TRINKWALD

EQUINOX STAFF

EQUINOX STAFF

With the New England Intercollegiate Swimming & Diving Association (NEISDA) Championships, the regional championships for swimming, quickly approaching, most swimmers are resting up to be at full strength. KSC Swimming and Diving has placed second at the NEISDA championships the past two years. Before that, Coach Fabian led the Owls to WKUHH VWUDLJKW Ă€UVW SODFH YLFWRULHV DW the New England meet. Last season, Jack Fabian brought a handful of swimmers to Nationals. Drew Ledwith, Austin Harris, James Black, Jared Hyde and Jillian Whitaker joined Coach Fabian at the national meet. Ledwith and Whitaker both competed individually, while Harris, Hyde and Black joined Ledwith in the pool for the team relays. Head Coach of Swimming and Diving at KSC Jack Fabian said he hopes the rest will translate to some fast times and maybe even some personal records. “Hopefully the resting helps them to make a super-compensation, they just kind of go faster than they have all season, that’s the goal,â€? Fabian said. Fabian said that along with resting, he tries to eliminate outside stress from his swimmers lives, though it’s not always easy. “We really try to get them to simplify their lives. We try to get them to not do internet or email or anything after like 8 [p.m.], and shut off their phones, and just try to eliminate a lot of stress out of their lives. Some of the kids can do it, some of the kids can’t. Usually the kids that can do that perform better,â€? Fabian said. Fabian said that while there are a couple swimmers in good position

:KHQ \RX Ă€UVW PHHW .6& IUHVKman Kelsey Cognetta, you may underestimate her. Polite and unassuming, she gives the impression that she’s easy-going, maybe even passive. But anyone who’s seen her on the basketball court knows that’s the farthest thing from the truth. This semester, Cognetta transferred from William Paterson UniYHUVLW\ ZLWK D GLIĂ€FXOW VRPH PLJKW have said unrealistic) goal in mind. Despite already missing half the regular season, she intended to play point guard for the Lady Owls. “I was really nervous,â€? Cognetta admits. “Being thrown into a new place and adjusting to everything, it’s tough.â€? So far, she’s made quite the transition, according to teammates. Coming from a place she describes as “pretty much a commuter school,â€? Cognetta has had to adjust to a whole new lifestyle. “She came into an environment that was completely new to her,â€? Head Coach Keith Boucher said. “She has to get used to her teammates, social life, academics, it’s not an easy thing to do.â€? But Cognetta is making it look easy, and her aggressive style of play is a big reason why. “She’s a courageous player,â€? sophomore forward Courtney Roberts said. “She always gives 110 percent on every play.â€? Perhaps the reason she seizes every moment on the court is because she knows what it’s like to be stuck off of it. Cognetta was a three-sport athlete at Stamford High School in Conn., starting for WKH ODFURVVH EDVNHWEDOO DQG Ă€HOG hockey teams. She had high hopes for her junior year before a devastating ACL tear forced her to sit out the entire basketball season.

Âť Â NATIONALS Â OR Â BUST, Â B9

Throughout high school and college athletics, there are many multi-talented athletes that excel RQ PDQ\ GLIIHUHQW ÀHOGV RI SOD\ The natural talent present in these athletes opens the eyes of college recruiters and in some cases even professional scouts. Some professional athletes have been drafted in multiple sports. And some athletes are just absolute freaks of nature. For example, one of the most athletic basketball players to ever play the game, LeBron James, admitted that he could have entered the NFL draft out of high school if he wanted to. According to ESPN. com, King James was an all-state wide receiver in high school. James, DFFRUGLQJ WR KLV 1%$ FRP SURÀOH stands at 6’8�, weighing in at 250 pounds. Calvin Johnson, arguably the best wide receiver in the NFL, stands at 6’5� and weighs 236 pounds. Yet, he is one of the most athletic NFL football players in the game, breaking the all-time record for receiving yards in a season this year (1,964 yards). So imagine if you put LeBron James in football pads. According to NFL.com, Calvin Johnson has a vertical leap of 41 inches. LeBron James: 44 inches. Unfortunately, the chances of seeing James on the gridiron are slim to none. ESPN.com said that James quit football after his junior year at St. Vincent-St. Mary High School to focus on basketball. James still follows the NFL closely and has said before that he thinks he could have been a hybrid tight end/receiver, similar to Atlanta Falcons tight end Tony Gonzalez. Some NFL players simply don’t

TAYLOR CRONQUIST / EQUINOX STAFF

think LeBron James would make it in the NFL. Football is one of the most grueling sports known to man. As George Carlin once said, “In football the object is for the quarWHUEDFN DOVR NQRZQ DV WKH Ă€HOG general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy’s defensive line.â€? In basketball, the object is to weave through defenders to put the ball in a hoop. And if you get fouled, you get to shoot free throws. One NFL player went as far as to tell LeBron James that he couldn’t handle the physical style

of play. In 2009, Cleveland Browns Nose Tackle, Shaun Rogers told ESPN.com, “It’s a punishing game. I just don’t think you can step off the basketball court after not going through this year in and year out and just play football. From that standpoint, I just don’t think it’s possible. You have to weather and condition your body to take this punishment.� I don’t necessarily think that LeBron James couldn’t dominate the NFL. I mean statistically speaking, LeBron should be a dominant athlete had he played in the NFL. But I don’t think it comes to anyone’s surprise that the National Football League is simply too aggressive for the King. King James was never drafted to the NFL, but there have been plenty of athletes in the history of sport that were drafted by different teams in multiple sports.

An article on BleacherReport. com said that the New York Yankees selected NFL quarterback, John Elway in the 1981 MLB draft. Elway was a multi-sport athlete in high school and college, playing ULJKW ÀHOG DQG SLWFKHU DW 6WDQIRUG University. But in 1983, Elway entered the NFL draft. The Denver Broncos selected him with the number one pick in that draft. Elway played the entirety of his career as a Bronco and is now the vice president of football operations in Denver. Jackie Robinson, one of the most historic baseball players to ever step foot on the diamond, was also a multi-sport athlete in high school and college. Robinson’s number, 42, is the only number to ever be retired by every team in Major League Baseball. But before Robinson shattered

  MULTI-­SPORT  PROS,  B8

  CAN’T  BE  STOPPED,  B9

Template 022308 JJP

Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook
Issuu converts static files into: digital portfolios, online yearbooks, online catalogs, digital photo albums and more. Sign up and create your flipbook.