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“What Islamic democracy will look like is a society where all the democratic rights, if there are any, will be for men.” -ROYA HAKAKIAN AUTHOR, POET AND ACTIVIST
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Roya Hakakian is an accomplished author, poet and activist. She spoke at Keene State College as part of the Ewing World Affairs Lecture Series on Oct. 1 to KSC students, faculty and community members.
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admiNistrative executive editor Whether it is through poetry or prose, the power of words has been used as an instrument for change in regard to the Iranian Revolution. On Oct. 1, best-selling author, poet and activist Roya Hakakian spoke in the Mabel Brown Room at Keene State College about her life as a Jewish-Iranian teenage girl caught
in revolutionary Iran. In the audience sat many fans of Hakakian’s popular publication, “Journey from the Land of No: A where I could always turn to in order to feel very strong and Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran.” that was on the page,” Hakakian said. During her speech at KSC, Hakakian recited a passage her life during and after the revolution. “I was writing for as from “Journey from the Land of No” regarding the transition long as I can remember,” Hakakian said, “It’s a story that I to her new s1chool principal and the sudden importance of tell in the book—that I became a writer because there was so wearing a veil in 1982. much that I couldn’t make sense of.” These are the words of the new principal to the girls of “I just kept on writing and it became my strength, it became something that I knew I could do well, and I knew » HAKAKIAN, A2
A faculty member helps the incarcerated find peace News editor Inmates from the Cheshire County Department of Corrections help of a Keene State College faculty member and his meditation program. Thomas Bassarear, an education professor at KSC since 1986, volunteers his time at the Cheshire County jail to instruct a meditation class with interested inmates. Bassarear got involved with the jail after receiving a letter from an inmate three years ago. “He [the inmate] asked a guard to Google ‘meditation in Keene’ and my name came up.” Bassarear added, “At the same time a former student who had been incarcerated when he was in his teens had decided to volunteer at the jail. He was teaching the prisoners skills that they needed once the got out. He also encouraged me to go to the jail,” Bassarear explained. Bassarear said he offers a “dropin meditation.” “I walk in and the guard yells, ‘meditation’ and whoever is interested comes and we meditate,” Bassarear added.
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On Sunday, Oct. 5 a group of students met with three faculty members to participate in the Keene State College Salon Series: Health Care in the USA and Beyond. The forum took place in conference room 309 where 18 students gathered around pizza to discuss health care. The session highlighted the differences between health care systems across the globe, and featured panelists from Canada, Spain and the United States. Carolyn Keller, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology, led the conversation for the salon session. Keller began by explaining, “The KSC Salon Series aims to promote informal and collegial conversations between faculty, students and community members.” Keller opened the conversation with United States health care system. “Based on the most recent data available so from 2010 and 2013, you will see that of those countries the United States comes in overall last.” Keller continued, “Comparatively the United States not only failed at giving health care to everyone equally, but also spends more on health care than any other country.” Keller also explained how the United States scores last in healthy living and in the efficiency of the health care system
Students took advantage of the Graduate School Fair, which took place throughout the week of Sept. 29, to explore postgraduate opportunities. The Grad School Fair at Keene State College utilized a new format this semester. The fair used to be one day every fall semester where students could learn about what different schools had to offer, but this year the fair lasted throughout the week. “The purpose of the Grad Fair is to expose students to grad school programs so they have an idea of what’s out there,” Coordinator of the Graduate School Fair Beverly Behrmann said. Behrmann is a career advisor in the Academic and Career Advising [ACA] Center, who sponsored the event. The fair began on Monday Sept. 29 with the application process. Behrmann gave a talk on how to write a personal statement, research and choose a graduate school based on what a student was looking for. The week continued when graduate schools with more programs in the Arts and
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Humanities area came to the KSC Lloyd P. Young Student Center to discuss with students about the programs they offer. Following the fair, Jeff Strelzin, a prosecutor in N.H., talked with students about law school. On Thursday Oct. 2, the graduate fair week ended with schools pertaining to sciences and medical and health sciences gathering in the student center to talk to students about programs they would be interested in. the graduate fair because there was not enough space in the stube coming to KSC in November. The University of New Hampshire, Western New England University [WENU] and Keene State College were among the 40 schools to attended the fourth annual Graduate Fair. Director of Graduate Admissions at WNEU, Matt Fox, said he wanted to raise awareness of graduate programs. “I think it’s a matter of really building upon their bachelor’s degree,” Fox said, “It’s [grad school] becoming more and more of a necessity.”
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corrupt country called America, where they know not of God, where they live by the rules of Satan, where they drink alcohol instead of water, conmiscuous lives. Where women walk naked in the streets, fornicate in public and conduct orgies in their homes—there the headmasters train their stu-
according to calculations from the wealth Fund is a, “A private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system that achieves better access, improved qual-
stated, “Income taxes in Canada, as well as other taxes are higher as well.” Shortcomings of the United States health care system also include the speed at which services are rendered. “It isn’t perfect, it’s far from perfect. One fault is the speed with which services are provided. If there is an emergency you are taken care of as quickly as you would be in the United States however people wait very long times for non-emergency procedures,” Bendix explained. Bendix also added that the Canadian health care system handles prescription coverage differently than the United States. “Seniors have access to prescription drugs, they are paid the United States and Canada] is that for by the government. When you hit you never really think about cost. You never call anyone to see ‘Is this proce- vincial government cover your predure covered,’” Bendix said. scription drugs, when you are under
preparing you for is a man drill ... If a man were to walk into this room, I, naked as I feel without my veil, would have no choice but to pull the hem of my uniform over my head.” Hakakian explained her own reasoning behind not returning to Iran after she escaped to America with her mother. “I could no longer go to a place and cover my head just because they said to. And so, in order for me to go back … I need to return to an egalitarian place, I need to return to a place where the rights that I have become accustomed to by virtue of becoming an American would not be taken away from me,” she said. After Hakakian’s speech, she answered questions from the audience. One audience member asked how Hakakian felt during the time Americans were taken hostage in 1979 in front of the U.S. Embassy. Hakakian explained why she enjoyed it. “I’m sorry, but I loved it,” Hakakian said. “ I have since apologized to the hostages that I have interviewed since then as a journalist ... but it was great.
to power was made up of the secular, reasonable, western UC Berkeley graduates who had returned from exile to Iran to build a democracy and once the hostage crisis happened, they were so adamantly against it, that they all resigned, and then as a result, the secular forces within the Iranian revolution lost power … And while we all looked at the gates of American Embassy day-in and day-out and tied the yellow ribbons around our trees and focused on the fate of the hostages, what happened was that all of the secular opposition in Iran were arrested, imprisoned, executed or sent into exile in later, it is the good forces in Iran that lost, and it’s that part of Iran that remains in captivity in a way.” Hakakian ended with a plea for the audience to take recognition of the core problem with what is going on in Iran and why it is important for citizens of the world to notice it. “What Islamic democracy will look like is a society where all the democratic rights, if there are any, will be for men. Women can’t go to school, women can’t dress the way they want and women basically can’t do anything. And if you think I’m lying to you, go to the website at Reuters and look at the images that they have. Under the caption of some of the pictures where there are a bunch of boys and men in the water swimming … It says ‘Boys and men swimming’ but I don’t see people, I see men and boys … So I think it’s very important to stop thinking about what’s happening in terms of religious confrontation and think about it in terms of the confrontation of misogynist men who want to hang on to their power against women who want to share power,” Hakakian said, “I think part of the problem thinking about these issues is that they keep thinking about it in terms of religious confrontation, whereas at the end of the day, it becomes about equality of rights, especially gender rights. We really need to think about these issues in those terms ... As citizens of the world who can do something to change this,” Hakakian said. Included in the audience was Iranian dissident
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for society’s most vulnerable, including low-income people, the uninsured, minority Americans, young children, and elderly adults,” according to its website. However the United States is not bad at everything. Keller stated, erally speaking we have more access to high tech capacities. We are also good vival rate is higher in the United States than in the other countries listed.” Keller then introduced William Bendix, assistant political science professor. Bendix said he has lived in both Canada and the United States and was able to compare and contrast the two systems.
we my sisters, daughters of our great revolution, we are not afraid of earthly threats. We fear only one
say ‘Would you want to go demonstrate in front of the American Embassy and skip class today?’ and we would say ‘Yay!’ and we would demonstrate and skip class and it was fun demonstrating. It’s kind of like a minor rock concert. We weren’t really thinking about the people who were hostages we were thinking at the time ... America had such a terrible image in our minds after all the propaganda that we had been exposed to,” Hakakian said. “What we as Americans forget is that it wasn’t about the hostages. It looked like it was about the hostages, but in the long run Iran remains the hostage,” Hakakian said. She explained that it was over the hostages that the secular forces of Iran resigned due to their opposition of the Americans being
“Comparatively, the United States not only failed at giving health care to everyone equally, but also spends more on health care than other country.”
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Roya Kakakian (middle) poses with Iranian Poet Ala Khaki (right) and his fiancee (left).
has in the West. It’s an expressive form of art which is highly revered and encouraged,” Khaki said. Khaki took part in the student democracy movement while attending university in Iran. He explained that his interest in poetry was driven by becoming more politicized. Khaki explained that he witnessed university guards beat up students for simply sitting at a peaceful demonstration.
with which you can rely on the health care system in Canada that doesn’t exist here even when you do have excellent health care coverage through and an accessibility in the Canadian Bendix did admit that the Canadian system has faults as well. Bendix
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low-income families. I found it interesting that we are supposed to be one of the wealthiest nations in the world You may have additional private insur- but we have the crappiest health care.” ance that covers prescription drug cost, or you just pay for it out of pocket,” Bendix said. ing will feature “people will be here from Rwanda to talk about health care Assistant Professor of Modern Lan- in their county,” according to Keller. guages Rafael Ponce-Cordero, who was able to speak about the health care David Walsh can be contacted at system in Spain, where he lived for dwalsh@keene-equinox.com
to that point; it was maybe just a sense of outrage at what I was hearing about lack of freedom,” Khaki revolution was one thing that a lot of poets and writers participated actively in, went to jail for it, got killed for … After the 1979 revolution, the suffocation and repression of the poetic expressions became much more harsh,” Khaki said. Khaki spent a few months in prison because of his participation in this movement. He also said his own poetry was burned. “People couldn’t express themselves any other way,” Khaki said of poetry, “When poetry connected with people, it caught on and when it caught on it inspired for the passion for change. Poetry can become a force for change and in my judgment, I saw that as a very key element in the Iranian revolution,” Khaki said. President of Keene State College, Anne Huot, explained why it is important to expose KSC students to a speaker like Roya Hakakian. “She has had experiences that probably none of our students have had,” Huot said, “She brings a perspective from a culture that very few of our students have experienced, and she writes and talks all over the world. It’s an incredible honor to have someone of her status here to help educate you [students].” For KSC students like Alex Habibi, Hakakian’s story hits close to home. Habibi explained that his
to my dad’s; they were both the same age during the revolution,” Habibi said, “So this is very personal for me.” Habibi added that Hakakian’s lecture was relevant to his studies. “I’m interested in international relations and politics,” Habibi said. English Professor Brinda Charry was on the committee that decided to bring Hakakian to KSC. “It’s a very interesting identity that she represents,” Charry said of Hakakian, “She [Hakakian] was nice when she said that Americans are not that ignorant.” However, Charry added, “I do think there is a certain lack of knowledge and we hope that this lecture will help make people aware that we are part of a larger global community.” Charry added that if a historian was speaking about the history of the Iranian revolution, “Most of us would after learning his name was on a death squad list. have switched off,” but Hakakian “Was able to make it Hakakian and Khaki each had different experia story, and that is a tremendous power.” ences after the fall of the Shah regime in 1979, but their writing. Khaki spoke about the culture of poetry in Iran before the revolution, “Writing poetry and being a poet in Iran has a whole different meaning than it
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Equinox Staff ‘Tis the season for pumpkin everything; with less than a month until the Pumpkin Festival, the Services is preparing Keene State College students for one of the craziest days of the year. For residents living on campus, resident directors and resident assistants have put a few rule changes in place for Pumpkin Fest weekend in an attempt to have as little chaos as possible. The rules are as follows: 1. All residential students are
allowed one guest for no more than two consecutive nights during the Pumpkin Fest weekend, which consists of Thursday, Oct. 16, Friday, Oct. 17 and Saturday, Oct. 18. 2. All residential students need to PRE-REGISTER their one guest online, via the link provided, by Wed. Oct. 15 @ 5:00 p.m.: http:// tinyurl.com/pumpkinfestguest 3. Any residential student who chooses to register their one guest for the Pumpkin Fest weekend inperson on Thursday, Oct. 16, Friday, Oct. 17 or Saturday, Oct. 18 will be charged $25 and will be billed to their student account
4. There will be 24-hour deskattending during the Pumpkin Fest weekend. You are expected to show your student ID and guest pass at all times when entering a residence hall. When entering a residence hall that you do not live in, you need to make sure a resident of that hall comes down to the lobby to let you in. 5. If you are documented at any time during the Pumpkin Fest weekend your guest may be asked to leave, and if your guest is not registered, your student account will be charged $100. These are the most important
rules changes to this year’s Pumpkin Fest, and in my opinion, are a little over board. I can understand the fact that KSC wants to keep the number of guests down because that will lessen the number of people present at Pumpkin Fest, but honestly, this will not stop anyone from coming. For full story see online version at keene-equinox.com Cyrus Lyons can be contacted at clyons@keene-equinox.com
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equinox stAff We are all a part of this digital age where our cell phones may as tips. Walking across the Keene State College campus, it is obvious that our generation has reached the point where our cell phones are a necessity and are never much more than ten feet away from us. Walking to class I have to dodge oncoming walkers, fully engulfed in their phones, while at the Dining Commons I must bite my tongue when friends reach for their phones while eating dinner together. During class time, if the professor gives us a break each student instantly checks his or her cellular device. It is a technological era, and we are living in it. Most of the time incessant phone use is simply socially debilitating, but where I have a genuine problem is when the use of that phone does cially crosses the line over to lifethreatening. Before going any further, I recommend you gain a little perspective by grabbing that cell phone that is in your pocket or on the table in front of you and look up on YouTube “texting and driving.” These prevention commercials are horrifying and the real footage of text-provoked accidents will send chills up your spine while your heart sinks with guilt. When you drive, you should pay attention—you are not only endangering yourself. What about the little brother in the back seat? According to the National Highreport in 2010, driver distraction was the cause of 18 percent of all fatal crashes. That number should scare you. The Federal Communications Commission reports that 11 percent of drivers aged 18 to 20 who were involved in an automobile accident and survived admitted they were sending or receiving texts when they crashed. Is it worth it? Now, I am a nineteen-yearold college student who considers myself to be a skilled cell phone user. I realize how easy it is to get caught up in text conversations, whether I am driving or on foot. I have texted while driving. I realize it seems so simple. Normally, when we break that glance at the cell phone screen and we return to reality, we notice the way that the car is veering this way or that. We see how quickly we can lose control. You cannot claim to be “good at texting and driving”—as a distraction is just that, a distraction. As a human you are not invincible to the repercussions of taking your eyes Perhaps you manage to text and drive successfully today and tomorrow, but when your luck runs out you may be disappointed you did not open your eyes and put the phone away. There are laws to stop you from endangering yourself and others by using your phone while driving. According to textinganddrivingsafety.com, ten states including D.C. prohibit drivers from using handheld phones while driving. Forty-one states including D.C. prohibit all drivers from text-messaging while driving. Like many laws, these restrictions are being breached daily, but addressing that problem starts with your habits. If you are in a car with a friend type the text for them When you are by yourself, notify the people you are talking to via text that you cannot respond for a bit while you are driving. The conversation can wait. Imagine what they did in the old days, before texting—they DROVE! Keep your eyes on the road and both hands on the wheel. Do not be foolish and ruin your life (or someone else’s) by doing ing a text message while you are driving. Arline Votruba can be contacted at avotruba@keene-equinox.com
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opinions editor Anonymity has been taken to a whole new level with a sudden boom in popularity with social media app, Yik Yak. According to an article on FoxNews.com written by Joshua Rhett Miller, “Yik Yak was launched in December by 23-yearton and Tyler Droll, two recent college graduates who designed the app to work like a virtual bulletin board for any 1.5 mile radius.” Yik Yak is an app where users can make posts for anyone within their radius to see. Whoever views these posts has the ability to up-vote or downvote the posts. The most controversial part of it all is that it’s totally anonymous. What’s wrong with that you might wonder? I’d say just about everything. Anonymity allows people the opportunity to hide behind their computers or phone screens and make comments about others quences. This is not to say that everyone who uses the app has bad intentions. Not every post found on Yik Yak is a negative one, however, it only takes a few inappropriate comments before things get blown completely out of proportion. There have been recent incidents at nearby schools where the app was used so inappropriately, the school decided to block the app entirely. Norwich University, located just under two hours away from recently blocked access to the app on campus. The university’s president Richard Schneider had to take the necessary action to block the app to send a message to his students. article written by Wilson Ring, "I just know that it is hurting my students right now," he said, "They are
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feeling awkward, they are feeling hurt, they are feeling threatened." In the case at Norwich, students were using it as a way to cyberbully other students on campus. It was used in a cruel and ruthless manner that put students in such discomfort they didn’t even feel safe in their own school environment. You can bet your bottom dollar this is happening at more schools than just Norwich. Based
at Keene State, you could say that I’m less than impressed with our school and what we have to say about our fellow classmates. Of course there are many people out there who use the app tastefully and say things that are completely harmless. However, it is those select few using it maliciously who ruin it for us all. Unfortunately, I think our generation has relied on technology so much that we pounce on any opportunity to
communicate with people in a virtual way instead of being face-toface. This is not to say that I prefer people to insult others to their face, but I believe that if apps like this didn’t exist, we would not have the amount of bullying that we do. College is a place of learning, growth and self-discovery. It should not be a place where people feel uncomfortable being them-
media website putting them down. As cliché as it sounds, I think we all need to revisit what we learned during our elementary school years. As juvenile as this saying may sound, I have found this to hold so much truth throughout my 20 years of life. We need to refer back to that golden rule we learned so long ago: if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Sabrina Lapointe can be contacted an anonymous post on a social at slapointe@keene-equinoc.com
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Pit bulls heel stereotypes An out of the ordinary birthday wish ANNA GLASSMAN
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equinox stAff Loved by many, October is mainly known for things like Halloween, foliage, apple picking and Pumpkin Fest, of course, for us Keene State College students. What many don’t know about October, however, is that it is National Pit Bull Awareness Month. Having two pit bulls myself, it has always appalled me that so much fear, prejudice and violence is so often associated with this beautiful breed. This being said, since I like to assume the best in people until given a reason to believe otherwise, I try to when it comes to pits. Just assuming they are vicious is not a fair assumption to make. Pit bulls are such a misunderstood breed that it is no wonder there are so many awful stereotypes associated with them. For example, I’m not perfect, and by referring to my family’s dogs as “pit bulls,” I am making one of the most common mistakes. According to the Mid-America Bully Breed Rescue [MABBR] the term “pit bull” is not even a breed, but a type, and there are as many as 25 breeds of dog that are commonly considered “Pit Bulls.” Mine are shelter dogs and though there is no way of knowing their exact breed without getting DNA tests, they are primarily American Staffordshire Terriers. I’m a big fan of the phrase “Judge the deed, not the breed,” because I think it is so true. As children, we grow up being told not to judge a book by its cover. That we should get to know someone’s personality instead of making assumptions based on what they look like. Shouldn’t the same rule apply to dogs? Sure, pits may be big and muscular, but I’ve met Yorkshire Terriers and Chihuahuas more vicious than my dogs. I’m also a strong believer that there are no bad dogs, but bad owners. If a dog is trained well, it will behave. But if a dog is taught to hate, that’s what it will do. Since October is also a month for football, let’s look at Michael Vick. Admittedly, I’m not much of a football
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girl, but I sure do know his name. He is a back-up quarterback for the New York Jets, and a disgusting excuse of a human being. It’s been seven years since Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels was exposed. For those unfamiliar, Bad Newz Kennels was an operation run by Vick and three others in which they bought, housed and trained more than 50 pit and gambled on what the results would be. Dogs who didn’t perform well hung, drowned or tortured. According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, “They killed one dog by slamming it to the ground several times before it died, breaking the dog’s back or neck,” and they, “Thought it was funny to watch the pit bull dogs belonging to Bad Newz Kennels injure or kill other dogs.” Michael Vick was eventually sentenced to 23 months in a federal prison because of his actions, but after 18 he was released to spend the next In December of 2010, after Vick was released and had been back playing in the NFL, he stated that he would like to have a dog again as a family pet. Thankfully, many of the surviving dogs from Vick’s operation were rescued, rehabilitated and given safe, loving homes. But those who were not as lucky should not be forgotten. Pit bulls receive enough hatred and discrimination as it is without the help of monsters like Vick. My dog Spike is the most caring, so thankful that he is an American Staffordshire Terrier, so that he can continue to prove the stereotypes wrong. Rebecca Falk can be contacted at rfalk@keene-equinox.com
Ads director September 4, 2014, was my twentieth birthday. The day was long and full of school and homework, which led me to say up until 1:42 in the morning. The decision to remain awake into the early mornwork. Instead, I was unable to sleep because of the amazing people I have in my life. I walked into my suite in Pondside III, tired and drained. Little did I expect the annual birthday decorations that brighten the birthdays of all of my roommates. The decorations and thoughtful note cards arranged in a large “Two-OH” struck me. Every note card held a message, a message of love from my roommates to me. Some joking, teasing me for “always” being on time, while others described what they love about me, “Genuine friend, never lets you down, my biggest cheerleader.” All of the cards were captivating in a unique way. They initiated my late night of contemplating the traditional dynamic of a birthday. The layout of my birthday schedule and the preceding months were clear. My mom asked me what I would like for gifts so she can slyly pass along the missive to my relatives, who always scramble for ideas for all of our family birthdays. Then the day comes; 12 a.m. hits and it is my birthday. Realistically, on my birthday 20 years ago I hadn’t been born by 12 a.m. My mom wouldn’t push me out for another nine-plus hours. So why do we celebrate the day? Why do we rejoice the day of our birth before the time we were even born? Why do we celebrate at all? Some may say to receive presents and be the “prince or princess” for the day. However, that’s not how I wanted to spend my birthday. This summer I worked with an amazing young woman, Bosmat. She was my Israeli co-worker at Camp Shalom, the Jewish summer camp I have worked at for two years. She enlightened me with together. Her family has a tradition of saying thank you and appreciating the blessings in one’s life rather than focusing on materialistic gains we wish to have. The focus of an American birthday is overwhelmingly materialistic. While focusing on what we want the most, we neglect to appreciate our lives as they are. For that reason, despite my childhood dream of marrying a prince, attaining the status of a royal is not how we should spend our birthdays. My parents are the reason I have this day. I would be nowhere without my mom and my dad, who this past summer graciously reminded me that he did all the work in birthing me. Nice try,
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dad! But the thought of my parents and all they have done and still do to make me successful reinforced my recently formed belief that my birthday is a day for being thankful. As a result, I am writing this article. I am saying thank you to my parents for raising me with so much love. For people I once considered to know nothing nite ways. One thing that truly highlights my parents’ wisdom is the purchase of my father’s uniform. Otherwise known as his “DADD” shirt or “Dads Against Daughters Dating.” Unfortunately, for the sanity of my father, that advice has never really sunk in. However, on a serious note, my parents along with my brothers are the ones who drive me crazy and protect me at the same time; they are my world. My friends, who are kind and eternally accepting, I am thanking them for being accepting of my lateness, weird behaviors, forgetfulness and oftenBeing accepted fully by people who do not have to love me because they are my family, but love me because of honest friendship; that is an amazing feeling. Searching for a group of people who can look at someone and accept them fully is a challenging task. I have those people in my life. I have those friends. I have those amazing relationships. I want to thank them for being a part of my life in that way. I go on from here praying that in a world where negative judgment and cruelty is prevalent, people can be grateful. My hope is that people go forth doing what they can to give other people something to be thankful for. Anna Glassman can be contacted at aglassman@keene-equinox.com
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mary or secondary school systems. Chris Pellati, a senior at KSC, explained that he did not completely agree with the claim. “I don’t think Yik Yak is always a positive people being bullied through it all the time,” Pellati said. “There are always terrible things written about both girls and guys on campus, whether it’s rumors that people hear about them or something they’re wearing that day … It can’t feel too good to see your name on there,” Pellati said. MassLive.com writer Johnson listed just a few of many examples of high schools and colleges that have already experienced prob-
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contacted professors and had a lot of students offer ‘wordof-mouth’ about the event.” Junior Michelle Green, who is studying Spanish at KSC, said she found out about the program from her professors and friends who were planning to attend. Jeremias Campos, another student at KSC, said, “This is quite a good turnout but there are more students who would enjoy it.” Garcia explained, “We had two major goals for tonight, to celebrate Latino heritage month and to encourage students to showcase themselves, to learn and look into their roots. They are someone to be celebrated.” “In the beginning they played a video for everyone, giving an introduction to the Latino culture and explain the purpose for having a get together like this,” Green said. The video presented many different faces of KSC stu-
dents and faculty, who shared their experiences in the Latino culture and why they loved their heritage. Pierre put the video together, turning it into an introduction and good representation of the culture, according to Garcia. “Then, they had performers and live musicians who were incredible. I was a little nervous when the dancing began, but they had videos to help us, and everyone was very welcoming. I love dancing and the style of dance is beautiful,” Green said. She added, “And have you tried the food? It’s amazing!” Campos spent the majority of the night dancing with everyone and encouraging those more shy and unfamiliar to Latino dance to get up and join in. He said, “You don’t have to be Latino to dance and love this culture. That’s what tonight is all about, people joining together and getting out of their comfort zone. It’s all fun.” He then popped right back up and joined in with friends and classmates to dance to “La Negra Tiene
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Tumbao,” a dance video on Youtube that the organizers played on the big screen to help teach everyone the moves, according to Campos. He said, “I learned how to dance just by observing and enjoying it. Others can, too. Without music, it would It really keeps it alive for me.” “I grew up in a culture where any celebration was centered with music. It really brings everyone together,” Garcia said. Garcia added, “There’s a misconception that only those students with Latino heritage are welcome to our events. Everyone is invited, we want as many students here to enjoy the music and help us all celebrate. Hopefully, we plan to have similar night’s like this in the future and that students, from any background or culture, will come and participate.” Eleanor Marshall can be contacted at emarshall@keene-equinox.com
Ludlow High School, Holyoke Community College, Indiana State University and the University of Southern Mississippi have all prompted lock-downs in response to various threats and drug deals that have taken place on their Yik Yak feeds. Yik Yak has been banned as well by a number of school districts in Texas, Illinois and other areas of the country because of the bullying taking place on their forums. According to Johnson, students were being targeted and humiliated for aspects such as social status, weight and derogatory remarks. A junior at KSC, Hanna Desouza, explained how one of her close friends was personally victimized on Yik Yak. “One of my best friends was targeted by over ten different people because of a frivolous drunk mistake. It was sad to see because she was being humiliated and couldn’t do anything about it. Everyone’s anonymous so she couldn’t even confront the people who were talking about her,” DeSouza said. Desouza went on to explain how she believes Yik Yak “shouldn’t be taken too seriously by the people reading.” Gravallese agreed, “I’ve never read anything about me particularly, but I still don’t believe the things I read about other people. I hope others don’t make that unfortunate mistake.” Although the intention of creators Buffington and Droll for their new app may have whole, it seems to the students of Keene State College that their mission has been skewed. Pellati stated that, “College students may just not be mature enough to use the app for its intended purpose.” Aryanah Haydu can be contacted at ahaydu@keene-equinox.com
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Performers dance to the live musicians’ Latin music to celebrate Latino Heritage Month. Inset Photo: Members of the Keene community enjoy the performance.
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Dreams come true for student in ‘Happiest Place On Earth’ CONNOR SMITH
adjustments I had to make when I moved here. I cannot remember the last time I was in ninety-degree 7:00 a.m. on Sept. 2 was the time heat at the end of September before that I had been looking forward to I took this job. The transition from since I got my acceptance into the living in New England my whole Disney College Program back in life to being a cast member for one March of 2014. of the most popular places on Earth I never thought that a day of was not easy. Meeting people along
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boxes could be one of the most exciting days of my life. All of the nerves that had been building up since I applied for the program were out in full force. The morning of my arrival was one of the most nerve-wracking mornings I have ever been through. Not getting a wink of sleep the night before sure didn’t help. 6:30 a.m. was the time that I showed up to one of the four housing complexes that Disney owns. The wait was thirty minutes before me and the other couple hundred of CPs [College Programmers] could even start the check-in process. At check-in I found out where I was living and where I would be working throughout my fourmonth journey being a Walt Disney World Cast Member. After checkin all of the CPs were bussed to the Casting Ce right across from Downmore paper work. The whole checkin process took a total of three hours. that I was going to be living in the “Happiest Place On Earth.” There are a total of four apartment complexes that were donated by Coca-Cola to the Walt Disney World Company. They are used to house all of the Disney College Program workers and International College Program workers. Each of them is different in their own way, just like many of the residential halls at KSC. They range anywhere from one person, one-bedroom apartments to eight person, four-bedroom apartments. The occupants of the apartments come from college students from all over the world. I have met cast members from all over the world. Some from all the way in Japan and others from right here in Orlando. “Connor Keene State College” is what my name tag reads. About three quarters of the guests that I come into contact with ask where Keene State College is. I always give tell them it’s in the southwest part of New Hampshire. I have been here for exactly a month and I have already learned so many life lessons in such a short time One lesson I have learned is that the fall season is not the same unless you are in Keene. The only time you will see a leaf on the ground in Florida is if it rains so hard it knocks them off. This is just one of the many
out. I could not have gotten better roommates than the ones I have right now. Out of the six of us one is from New York, one is from Rhode Island, one is from Pennsylvania, two are from California and myself from just outside of Boston. There is a lot of different culture that comes from all of us, but all have the same sense of humor and personalities. One thing that stands out to me is that everyone that works for Disney has the same friendly and happy personality, which helps making friends that much easier. I started training for my job just about a week after the movein, which gave me some time to relax and enjoy Florida for some time before I started working. During that week my roommates and I went to the amusement parks almost every day, and we also got to know the Orlando area. Living only ten minutes away from all of the parks makes having a day free of work that much more fun. As a cast member we have unlimited access to any of the parks most days of the year and it is all free of charge. We also obtain three guest passes, and each of them can be used up to six times. working for Disney are the discounts that we can get on a lot of the merchandise or even at a hotel if we had a guest visiting. The Walt Disney World Company really CONTRIBUTED PHOTO knows how to take care of their cast Connor Smith, studying with the Disney College Program, enjoys the benefits of living ten minutes from Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla. members. I started my training at the Premier Theater in Disney’s Hollywood Studios, where I am working the “Frozen” sing-a-long show. Every week I put in just about forty hours of work. Every CP has the choice of taking classes or just working. I chose just to work, but if somebody chooses to take classes there are a variety of classes that Disney offers. Some of the choices include; Disney Heritage, how to Draw a Character, Hospitality, Leadership, and Financing. Those are just a few off of a long list that Disney offers. Only a month into this program, and I have already learned more than I thought I would. I cannot wait to see what the next three months will bring. The transition is going to be tough when I return back to KSC in the spring, but I’m sure that all of my brothers in Sigma Pi will help me out. I would be nowhere without the support of each and every one CONTRIBUTED PHOTO of them. The program Connor Smith is a part of is international —Smith’s name tag prompts guests to ask about Keene State College every day.
said that she shared some views with the Republican Party so she began attending the meetings. (Cont. from A10) “The Millennial generation, which includes KSC students, should be involved in politics because it directly impacts their lives,” Stepanek expressed. “I know how at KSC in 2012 during the Obama campaign and said busy being a student can get, but it is important to she decided to get herself involved then. make sure that our voices are heard and our opinions “I was new on campus, just like all the other freshmen, and I walked by the campaign table in the student When asked about current political issues that center early in the year. My roommate and I decided to affect students directly, Stepanek mentioned health volunteer,” Arnell said. care policies, student loans and the increasing national Not sure if she would continue after the Obama debt to be among the many. campaign was over, Arnell said she saw an opportu“I think many students feel insulated from these types of issues,” Stepanek added, “but we are going “I did it in 2012, so I already knew a few things to be feeling the consequences of the decisions made about it,” Arnell explained, “The candidates who I’m today for years to come.” Stepanek also mentioned supporting all care about what they’re running for. how the KSC Republicans are targeting students to They care about college students.” get them involved on campus. “The Cheshire County Arnell was adamant about getting students Republican Committee has been working hard to involved in voting. spread awareness of the upcoming elections in the “We have a table in the student center almost Keene area and frequently hold voter call nights to talk every day and we do something called ‘dorm stormto citizens about voting on November Fourth,” Steing,’ which is where we’re going around the dorms, panek stated, “They also hold door-knocking events knocking on doors and asking people if they’re voting. on the weekends to bring local candidates face to face We’re also asking them to sign a pledge to vote card. It with voters.” Stepanek continued, “The group has doesn’t say that they’re going to vote for any particular been working to help support their efforts. We’ll have candidate, just that you’re going to get your vote out a table at Pumpkin Lobotomy on October seventeenth there,” Arnell said. and we hope that anyone who is interested in getting Arnell noted that students can register to vote on involved will come talk to us.” the day of the elections. Like KSC Democrats, the KSC Republican group is “There will be shuttles taking students to and from composed of students who are passionate about their the polls,” she added. respective views and like to advocate for their beliefs. Arnell continued, “I just think it’s important for The KSC Republicans group meets on Mondays at 5 everyone to vote,” she said, “I know that I’m a member p.m. in room 308 in the Student Center. of KSC Dems, so it’s important to me that these candi“I think it’s important for college-aged students to be dates win, but everyone needs to know who the candiaware so that they can make informed decisions when dates are and what they’re representing. It’s our future voting,” Mandy Black, a KSC alumnus from the Class now.” Cassie Stepanek, a member of the KSC Repubof 2010, said. Black said she continues to follow up on licans group on campus, has different political views politics where she lives in Connecticut. “We need to but similar feelings towards the importance of politics keep in mind that the votes we cast, or don’t cast, will in students’ lives, as well as on campus. impact our futures in one way or another,” Black said. “I initially got involved because a friend of mine, Black recalled the 2008 presidential elections in her Allie Bedell, had started the KSC Republicans and days as a KSC student. “I wasn’t nearly as informed as invited me to join,” Stepanek said of the Republican group on campus. umental the debate was, with Obama running. Every-
one had an opinion that they wanted to share,” Black said. Black stressed the importance of being an active voice in her community. “The outcome of the elections affects everyone, even if you’re not seeing immediate results,” Black said, “Every voice counts and if you don’t stand up for what you want, no one will do it for you.” Black said she is passionate about her opinions and plans on voting in the upcoming elections in Connecticut, where she is a registered voter. Like Black, others are getting prepared for the impending elections. Matt Derrickson, a political science major and a New Hampshire native, is a senior at KSC this year. Derrickson said he’s been interested in politics since he was in high school. “I found out that I was pretty passionate about poliDerrickson said, “It’s been a passion of mine for a long time and it followed me to Keene.” When asked what he thinks are important topics in today’s political debates, Derrickson was able to rattle ing, abortion and the idea of health care being a right very interesting,” Derrickson noted, “I love the comparative aspect of politics.” Derrickson stated that he believes in the importance of getting students to vote, but mentioned that it was more of a numbers game than anything else. “I think that voting counts for our age group, but are going to make the difference, but it does matter in the sense that if enough young people vote, it forces politicians to notice and listen to the group more, because they understand that we’re active and that we vote,” Derrickson said, “When those numbers add up, it’s a critical mass thing. When there’s big numbers of them. I’m not sure what the numbers are, but college voter turnout is pretty abysmal. It’s important, because it lets the system know that you’re there. And that’s the
put your foot down a little bit on an issue.” As far as being aware, Derrickson said he believes it to be a “civic duty.” “I just think it’s important to have somewhat of a sense of what’s going on the world around you, and be able to form an educated opinion,” Derrickson said, “If you’re aware of what’s going on, you can do something about it.” Like Derrickson, Courtney Perron, who is also senior at KSC, said that being a political advocate was a passionate subject for her. Along with Arnell and Barnaby, Perron is an active member of KSC Democrats. Perron said she thinks it’s especially important for college students to start exploring and forming their own views. “I think that especially college students, just coming of the voting age, don’t realize quite how important it is. For the most part, they just got out of their household, where maybe they didn’t really have an opinion that they could voice. But we’re legal adults now. You can have your own opinion. You do have a voice, and it does matter,” Perron said. Being an advocate for her political party, Perron admitted to being very verbal with her beliefs. “I’m very open about my political views, but I try not to push them onto other people,” Perron stated, “I’m just trying to stress the importance of why it’s not only good to vote, but to be an educated voter.” Perron went on to explain the importance of developing an interest in politics early on. “It’s important for students to get involved and know about politics because we’re the younger generation. At some point, it’s going to be us running the government, because that’s just how life goes. If you don’t get interested now, I feel like it’s harder to get interested in it later in life because it becomes more of a habit after a certain point,” Perron explained, “It’s like, why care later if you can care now?” “My one hope,” Perron concluded, “Is that students start to take themselves seriously and realize how Jill Giambruno can be contacted at jgiambruno@keene-equinox.com
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Students fall into the swing of seasonal festivities ROGER WEEKS
Equinox Staff Keene State College students are welcoming the beginning of fall with open arms. “I love the changing leaves, I love the weather and I love apple pie,” KSC junior Nicole Albee said . “There is nothing like pumpkin spice coffee,” junior Samantha Provencher said. “Pumpkin Fest is just around the corner and I could not be anymore excited,” KSC junior Victoria Lorenzi said. Lorenzi continued, “Although it is hard to decide what my favorite part about fall in Keene is, I must admit that I am so excited for Pumpkin Fest.” “Pumpkin Fest” is the annual Pumpkin Festival located in downtown Keene. According to Lorenzi, every year the festival brings thousands of visitors to Keene and two years ago it was featured on “Pumpkin Wars,” an HGTV television show. “We, in Keene, know how to do fall,” Lorenzi said. “My favorite part of fall is being able to sleep with the windows open and huddling up in all of my blankets to get warm,” said Nicole Albee. Albee continued, “Coming dent, I love shooting during this time,” Albee said, “The colors in this region provide a textured and unique look to outdoor shots.” According to Albee, the foliage adds a unique dimension to her “I drink way too much pumpkin spice coffee during the fall,” Provencher said while giggling. Provencher continued, “It makes me feel so cozy and warm and pumpkin being a seasonal for the season.” Provencher explained she is a “You have not lived unless
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- Pocus.” ites for sure—especially in New “I watch it so many times during the season,” she said. She continued to say that she Lorenzi then discussed her loves pouring a warm cup of tea plans for the fall season. of friends. lot of raking leaf piles and jumping in them,” Lorenzi said. friends to go out with me on HalShe said that she has been doing loween as the Sanderson sisters,” it since she was a little kid and she Lorenzi said. does not intend on stopping. “One of the reasons I love fall at
said. Provencher continued, “I feel like fall is the time of year for Keene Albee said she loves everything students to come together and enjoy about fall, especially watching the classic Halloween movie “Hocus
students and visitors from all over and all ingredients used in the food that day are from the local area. “I have a passion for eating clean and local foods, so I always am looking forward to local day,” Lorenzi said. She continued to say that her
Monadnock this weekend,” Provencher said. “The leaves are just so beautiful, and the air is wicked crisp,” she continued, “My friends and I are planning to go this weekend.” “I think that I am going to be going apple picking this weekend,” Lorenzi said, “Making apple pie is one of my favorite things to do.” She said that she is looking for-
and miniature pumpkin pies. According to Provencher, hiking this year. is also a very popular thing to do in “Besides apple picking and said. Keene during the fall. Pumpkin Fest, I am just so ready to According to Lorenzi, during “I am so excited to hike Mount start wearing sweaters again. There
is nothing more cozy and comforting than a sweater,” Lorenzi said. Lorenzi continued to say out of all seasonal clothing lines, fall fashion was what she paid attention to the most. “The fall is the best time of year around here,” Provencher said, “It fect weather, beautiful scenery and amazing food.” Roger Weeks can be contacted at rweeks@keene-equinox.com
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found someone on Craigslist and auditioned,” and once he got chosen, his new band [Tattooed Grin] had a show two weeks later. “At the same time I was starting classes, I was learning songs for the new band and the upcom-
host institution or the normal tuition/fees of their home campus.” NSE students pay room and board to their host institution unless the student lives off campus.
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makes this great option,” Spiegel said, “People often even experienced the different parts of the U.S. and different cultures in their own country.” Spiegel continued, “The Academic experience can be phenomenal because they get to take courses not offered in Keene with different professors at schools of all many different types and sizes.” He also said it gives students looking into graduate schools or moving the chance to try out the area before committing to it.
him experience and opened his eyes to a new potential career path. Colorado Springs in January, to regroup with his band and has since applied for jobs with Edward Jones as a a whole program designed for you to get the best experience you can while seeing another part of the country,
as a chemistry major she had to get classes that would transfer back and because it was affordable.
He continued, “It gives you the opportunity to go somewhere else, learn what the culture is like there and
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money after traveling in Ireland.” When she narrowed down the choices to Hawaii and Alaska she chose Alaska because she said she likes the cold.
she was at KSC, so she applied as a student and has highly recommends NSE, “Our country is so big that excited about it.” attended for the last three years. The lack of sunlight in the winter did throw her off, “I love the campus and the college town,” Asher said, “There are always people around and a lot to do.”
library, which gave her a source of income and helped her meet people who live and work there. In Alaska she took one class for her minor and one she got depressed. attended University of Colorado, Colorado Springs ISP course. The rest were courses she chose to take as a.m. people would go rafting down the river, rock [UCCS] and ended up staying a full year, from August electives for credits. to August.He chose Colorado Springs because his sister lives there. The area was appealing to him because he because its always daylight. Going to bed at noon was wanted to experience the Colorado outdoors, laidback the same as going to bed at midnight.” culture and new opportunities. While at UCCS he took that I now help out at an open rock climb and teach rock classes for his economics major, and they all transferred climbing classes at YMCA.” activities she said she never had the chance to try before Another course she took not offered at KSC was an arctic survival course, and her professor was ex-military such as dog sledding, skijoring, cross country skiing, his courses to transfer back, which he did before his year at UCCS started. with specialization in survival. Although the course is ice climbing, ice skating and other activities. Another KSC student with ties to Alaska had a difrequired for people that go into emergency medical ferent experience with NSE. ferent course catalogue, their classes are three credit personnel and aviation majors, she took it because she Taylor Asher was a student in Anchorage, Alaska, wanted to learn more about the outdoors. when she and a friend decided to study at another school through the NSE program for their sophomore override things.” year. that day she said she built an igloo and learned how “We had a list of criteria for the schools we would go husband, who trains at the Olympic Training Center for to make different types of shelters, learned how to trap to,” Asher said, “We wanted it to be near a city but not shooting, and his teammates. On Tuesday nights in the in a city because we were from such a small town, we wanted it to have a small downtown area but have a big were about 15 to 20, to go bowling with these Olympic matches. on-campus presence, and a few other things.” shooters, which became a weekly activity. Out of 200 schools Keene State College was the only He also got involved with a band while he lived uate school for because of a course she took in Alaska. Now she plans on going for Chemical Oceanography.
Asher planned on attending KSC for a year, but three days before the spring semester was over, she said driving out there he brought his drums and admitted
back from doing NSE because for her, it was cheaper than attending KSC. to have a great time. A lot of people are willing to take you places for free because they want you to experience where they live and what they do.” Spiegel said students who have gone to schools learned about how different these places are. “We have sent students to historically black colleges, schools with big and diverse populations, urban areas, rural areas, and you live in all these places and get to know people and customs of these places.” away and experience somewhere else and get a whole
[at college]. It just makes so much sense.” The deadline to study away for the fall or spring semester of next year through the NSE program is March 1. Taylor Thomas can be contacted at tthomas@keene-equinox.com
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Students emphasize the importance of voting in the midterm elections JILL GIAMBRUNO
Equinox Staff With November around the corner and the 2014 midterm elections on the horizon, Keene State College students are stepping up, getting involved and making their voices heard. The upcoming election, is to be held on Tuesday, Nov. 4, is becoming heated as the date approaches, while Jeanne Shaheen of the Democratic Party and Scott Brown of the Republican Party are running against each other for senator. KSC students across campus each have their own reasons for speaking out as the election gets closer. Katie Barnaby would have been a senior at KSC this fall semester, but has decided to take some time off. “I can’t afford to go to college this semester,” Barnaby explained, “So I was looking for an internship— something to keep my skills sharp while I wasn’t in school.” As a solution, Barnaby decided to intern for the New Hampshire Democratic Party and said she got involved
thanks to an on-campus group called KSC Democrats. “My friend [New Hampshire Democratic Party Campus Organizer] Kay Montplaisir is really passionate about the group. She’s the reason I got involved,” Barnaby said. The KSC Democrats group meets at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays in the Media Arts Center in room 155, but members of the group are active daily. “Kay made me realize the importance of the election. It affects people like me,” Barnaby said, “I can’t afford to go to college, but I have the ability to change that.” Barnaby said she is hopeful for the upcoming election and the possibilities that it offers. “Something needs to change,” Barnaby said, “I want everyone to have the opportunity to go to college without having to pay such ridiculous costs.” Besides the high cost of education, students have other reasons for being involved and passionate about politics. Elizabeth Arnell was a freshman
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New Hampshire Democratic Party Campus Organizer Kay Montplaisir goes door to door in residential halls and off-campus apartments to remind students the importance of voting in the midterm election.
Yik Yak becomes core of campus chatter Multicultural Department celebrates ARYANAH HAYDU
sure that wasn’t exactly the purpose of the app, though,” Gravallese said. The newest form of social media, a phone application called ton and Tyler Droll stated that their goal regarding Yik Yak was “Yik Yak,” has occupied the screens of many Keene State College to “Create an open forum for mobile users to easily communistudents this fall semester. cate, or Yak with one another, providing a virtual bulletin board MassLive.com writer Patrick Johnson describes it as “the
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Users do not have to create a username or password. The app is relatively anonymous other than the user’s cell phone number. The forum works within a mile-and-a-half geographical radius according to the location of your cellular device and acts as a forum for just about anything and everything. When asked if she knew the intent of the creators of the application, Carly Gravallese, a sophomore at Keene State, mentioned a couple of different uses. “Well, it’s really used for gossip on campus. You can read about what people are wearing, where the parties will be at that night and drama within different groups throughout Keene. I’m
application being utilized the way it was intended—students at a southern university have recently used Yik Yak in order to raise money for one of their fellow students suffering from cancer and undergoing chemotherapy. The creators explained on their website that, “While other local users did not personally know this student, Yik Yak created the forum for increased awareness and support among like-minded peers.” nature of the app. They said it refuses to function near any pri-
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Latino Heritage Month at KSC ELEANOR MARSHALL
tion about the Latino culture. Many students from the Spanish studies department, Keene State College students with Latino backand the KSC Multicultural ground, friends and other stuDepartment celebrated Latino dents attended the event and Culture on Thursday, Oct. 3, enjoyed dancing and sharing from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Jessica Pierre, helped orga- the experience with others, Mabel Brown Room. according to Pierre. As a part of Latino Heri- performances, live music, tra- ditional foods and informa» MULTICULTURAL, A7
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ored from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, the group organized a festive dance and food gathering. Sandra Garcia, the coordinator of the Diversity and
Exchange program prompts national exploration TAYLOR THOMAS
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away, either abroad or in the United States, is an option that not as many students take advantage of as they should. “You get to live in different parts of [the] U.S. and the world, make friends, have different professors and take different classes,” Spiegel explained, “You get the opportunity to experience different cultures, not as a tourist but as a student living and studying in that area.” Spiegel said that despite what many students think, studying away doesn’t always mean studying abroad. National Student Exchange is a study away program that gives students the option of studying at 200 colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, Guam, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands,
according to the NSE website. KSC students who have studied away through NSE shared some of their memorable experiences. Courtney Duff is a KSC senior who studied in Ireland for fall semester of her sophomore year, and when she wasn’t ready to come back to KSC, she studied in Fairbanks, Alaska for spring semester through the NSE program. Taylor Asher was a student in Anchorage, Alaska who came to KSC though the NSE program for a year, now she is student at KSC and graduating in May. John DiGeronimo, a KSC student graduating this December, studied in Colorado Springs for a year through NSE and plans on moving there this winter. The NSE website says that it is popular gram. The website states, “The program features a tuition reciprocity system that allows students to attend their host institution by paying either the in-state tuition/fees of their
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genre that people were kind of pushing for in recent ALLIE BAKER
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Alumni quench ‘hunger to make films’
throw a twist at you, but here, there are
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“This one was actually the boring fruit bowl,” Fletcher said. Next to the bowl of apples Fletcher added a Pabst Blue Ribbon beer can and a folded newspaper whose front page is exclaiming about the Boston Red Sox’s cursebreaking game, all of which is atop a red-plaid table cloth. “Wherever the original artist signed, I usually write my name over it so it’s a collaborative thing between the two of us,” Fletcher said. KSC junior Alicia Berry noticed Fletcher’s quirky still-life at Brewbakers Cafe. “The PBR caught my attention,” said Berry, “It’s a typical New England tabletop. It’s hilarious.” Amelia Gallup, KSC junior, said she preferred a depiction of The Colonial Theatre, an original piece by Fletcher for the theater owner. The theater’s banner displays “Coming Soon: Live Free Ah Die Wicked Hahd.” “It was super New Eng-
land,” Gallup said. This year will be the fourth year Fletcher has taught as an adjunct, from semester to semester as opposed to yearly, at Keene State College. She is also teaching preschool through eighth grade at St. Joseph’s Catholic School on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Fletcher said she enjoys the range of students, though it poses challenges. “There’s a lot of enthusiasm from the really young kids, but then there’s so much more clean-up and so many more instructions to give,” Fletcher said. She explained that when she teaches at a college level she works mostly with non-majors. “The idea of teaching a skill and getting rid of this idea of talent is something that I try to bring up a lot,” Fletcher said. Fletcher plans to stick around the area where her inspiration lies. “I love New England,” Fletcher said, “No one’s going to bring a pie to your doorstep when you move into the neighborhood, but we’re also not going to leave you on the side of the road if you need to change a tire.” Allie Baker can be contacted at abaker@keene-equinox.com
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could have made some kind of sense. Hadewych Minis takes over the story after a while, as we see she takes him in because she feels sorry for him. Then, once he starts bringing his friends over, she barely blinks an eye and even starts to enjoy his company. They hint that her dreams are making her paranoid, but they never follow up on it. Having said that, Minis does give a good performance. At times, she reacts like how anybody would react in certain situations. While his charalso does a good job. His outbursts creates condoes something about it. the three children. They barely have a line of dialogue, yet their stone-cold faces easily set the mood. They too go through a transformation and it didn’t bother me, mostly because it kept the mystery alive. What was Borgman’s plan for this family and what was going to happen next? Director Alex van Warmerdam lets this question linger so we could determine for ourselves. Besides creating a unique story with unique characters, he also presented some exquisite cinemapresence to some of the locations. Whenever a shot has to look beautiful, it’s beautiful. Who would of thought dead bodies at the bottom of a lake could look so hauntingly beautiful? “I can come back, but it will have consequences.” After Borgman delivers this line, it sets the tone for what’s to come. Despite some drawbacks, “Borgman” is a disturbing, yet slightly comical look at evil in its most unusual form. Rating: B Matt Bilodeau can be contacted at mbilodeau@keene-equinox.com
Don't miss local upcoming events Events starting April 4 through April 9
Redfern Arts Center “Equus” Tuesday-Saturday October 21-25 7:30 p. m. Wright Theatre
Putnam Theatre “Stage Fright” October 10-15 Friday 7 & 9 p.m. Sunday-Wednesday 7 p.m. Saturday & Sunday 2 p.m. matinee
Colonial Theatre The Step Crew Friday, October 10 8 p.m. “The Trip to Italy” October 11-16 Monday-Friday 7 p.m. Saturday & Sunday 2, 5 & 8 p.m.
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The Place to Eat Off the Cuff Friday, October 10 6:30-9 p.m.
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Court okays gay marriage expansion MARK SHERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court cleared the way Monday for an immediate expansion of same-sex marriage by unexpectedly and tersely turning away appeals hibit gay and lesbian unions. makes gay marriage legal now in 30 states. Without comment, the justices brought to an end delays states— Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin. Chief Justice John Roberts did not say a word about samesex marriage as he began the court's new term. Couples in six other states — Colorado, Kansas, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia and Wyoming — should be able to get married in short order. Those states would be bound by the same appellate rulings that were put on hold pending the Supreme Court's review No other state cases were currently pending with the high court, but the justices stopped short of resolving for now the question of same-sex marriage nationwide. Still, those 11 states would bring to 30 the number of states where same-sex marriage is legal, plus the District of Columbia. Challenges are pending in every other state.Evan Wolfson, president of Freedom to Marry, called on the high court Wolfson said the court's to marry nationwide prolongs the patchwork of state-to-state discrimination and the harms and indignity that the denial too many couples in too many places." Ed Whelan of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, an opponent of same-sex marriage, also chastised the court for its "irresponsible denial of review in the cases." Whelan said it is hard to see how the court could eventually rule in favor of same-sex marriage bans after having allowed so many court decisions striking down those bans to remain changing rapidly Monday in — Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring said marriage licenses could start to be issued to same-sex couples as early as Monday afternoon. — In North Carolina, lawyers for same-sex couples said they planned to ask a judge Monday to overturn the state's gay marriage ban. — In Oklahoma, the clerk in the largest county said he would await a formal order from the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals before he begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. That court had placed its ruling striking down the state ban on hold. Experts and advocates on both sides of the issue had expected the justices to step in and decide gay marriage cases this term. The justices have an obligation to settle an issue of such national importance, not abdicate that responsibility to lower court judges, the advocates said. Opting out of hearing the cases leaves those lower court rulings in place. Two other appeals courts, in Cincinnati and San Francisco, could issue decisions any time in same-sex marriage cases.
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Typhoon washes US airmen out to sea in Japan MARI YAMAGUCHI GRACE GARCES BORDALLO ASSOCIATED PRESS
small island with about 2,500 residents where many buildings are made of concrete. ing were reported Monday morning. But by early afternoon, there were no reports of injuries or major damage anywhere on the islands as the storm moved away from the region. The weather service can-
TOKYO (AP) — A powerful typhoon that washed three American airmen in Okinawa out to sea, killing at least one, slammed central Japan on Monday, stalling trains Ocean.
islands. Tanya King, who was in Sinapolo, one of the population centers on Rota, said via Facebook messenger that she was without electricity and it was still very windy hours after the eye passed. She said a friend living near the ocean had broken windows, "but all is well." The brunt of the storm bypassed Guam, where many residents heeded warnings about high winds
rate typhoon whipped the Mariana Islands, including Guam, with high winds and heavy rain. In Japan, bullet train service was suspended between Tokyo and Osaka because of the heavy raincanceled at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. The trains resumed service later in the day, although with delays. Typhoon Phanfone came ashore near the city of Hamamatsu shortly after 8 a.m., and traveled northward before turning eastward into the Authorities advised more than 2 million people to evacuate, according to Kyodo News service. One of the three U.S. airmen who went missing on Okinawa's northern coast was found dead. The other two were still missing, according to the Air Force and the Japanese coast guard. The Air Force said the search for the missing airmen had been interrupted by rough seas. Their names were being with-
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ture, southwest of Tokyo, where tion in central Japan was suspended people were wading in knee-high Sunday, and did not resume Monday, muddy water, and buildings and because of worries about possible parked cars were sitting in big pools landsides. The Sept. 27 eruption of water. killed at least 51 hikers. showed In the Marianas, the eye of - still missing after a volcanic erup- Typhoon Vongfong skirted Rota, a
designated shelters. As conditions improved, Guam officials shut down the island's storm center, the airport resumed full operations, and government agencies and many businesses began reopening. There was some flooding in low-lying areas, but roads were passable. Typhoon Vongfong had maximum sustained winds of about 195 kilometers (105 miles) per hour, said Roger Edson of the National Weather Service in Guam. Winds on the islands of Guam, Tinian and Saipan were gusting to at least 102 kph (55 mph).
Person with Ebola arrives in Nebraska Wealthy giving less to charity; Utah tops states JOSH FUNK ASSOCIATED PRESS
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An American video journalist who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia has arrived at a Nebraska hospital, where he will be treated for the deadly disease. Ashoka Mukpo, 33, arrived by ambulance Monday at the Nebraska Medical Center, where he will be kept in a
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NEW YORK (AP) — Even as the income gap widens, the wealthiest Americans are giving a smaller share of their income to charity, while poor and middle-income people are donating a larger share, according to an extensive analysis of IRS data conducted by the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The Chronicle, a leading source of news
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Ashoka Mukpo is loaded into an ambulance, Monday Oct. 6, 2014, after arriving in Omaha Neb. Mukpo. MAGS OUT; ALL NEBRASKA LOCAL BROADCAST TELEVISION OUT
this type of illness. Mukpo was working in Liberia as a freelance cam- power Monday before being eraman for NBC News when loaded onto a stretcher for the he became ill last week. He ambulance ride to the hospital. Ebola to return to the U.S. for His parents traveled from treatment during the latest Rhode Island to Nebraska to outbreak, which the World be with Mukpo, but during - his treatment they will have mates has killed more than to rely on a video chat system 3,400 people. in his hospital room to comMeanwhile, a Liberian municate with him. man with Ebola who started Doctors at the isolation showing symptoms while unit — the largest of four visiting the U.S. is in critical in the U.S. — will evaluate condition at a Dallas hospital. Mukpo before determining Mukpo was able to walk how to treat him. They said they will apply
the lessons learned while treating American aid worker Rick Sacra, who was allowed to return home to Massachusetts after three weeks, on Sept. 25. Sacra received an experimental drug called TKMEbola, as well as two blood transfusions from another American aid worker who recovered from Ebola at an Atlanta hospital. The transfusions are believed to help
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report being released Monday that Americans who earned $200,000 or more reduced the share of their income they gave to charity by 4.6 percent from 2006 to 2012. Those earning less than $100,000 donated 4.5 percent more of their income, the report said. The Chronicle's analysis was based on tax deductions, including their charitable gifts. Rankings were compiled for states and metropolitan areas based on the ratio of contributions to adjusted gross income. According to the report, changes in giving patterns were most pronounced in major cities, where the percentage of income that residents donated dropped markedly between 2006 and 2012. In Philadelphia and to charity fell by more than 10 percent; there was a 9 percent drop in Los Angeles, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Washington, D.C. Tami Phillips of the Midnight Mission, a Los Angeles charity serving homeless
people, credited gifts from low- and moderate-income people, for helping sustain its programs during the recession. "It hits closer to home," said Phillips. "Any day, they too could become homeless." The Chronicle's editor, Stacy Palmer, noted that wealthy donors, overall, were more oriented toward support of the arts and higher education than lower-income donors, and less oriented toward support of socialservice charities. At the state level, residents of Utah were the nation's most generous, donating $65.60 to charity for every $1,000 they earned. One factor is Utah's large presence of Mormons, whose church practices call for them to give at least 10 percent of their income to charity. Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee — also with high proportions of loyal churchgoers — were next in the rankings. At the bottom of the list was New Hampshire, where residents gave $17.40 for every $1,000 they earned. Its neighbors, Maine and Vermont, were the next lowest. Palmer suggested that the low rankings for northern New England stemmed in part from low rates of church attendance, but also from residents' "independent streak" and a tradition of self-reliance. Nevada was the state with the fastestgrowing rate of donations as a share of income, jumping nearly 13 percent from 2006 to 2012. Its major metropolis, Las Vegas, was the fastest-growing city in terms of generos-
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Three win medicine Nobel for discovering brain’s GPS KARL RITTER, JILL LAWLESS ASSOCIATED PRESS
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A U.S.British scientist who grew up in the South Bronx and a husband-andwife research team from Norway Monday for discovering the brain's navigation system — the inner GPS world — revelations could lead to
nent of this system in 1971 when he found that a certain type of nerve cell was always activated when a rat was at a certain place in a room. He demonstrated that these place cells were building up a map of the environment, not just registering visual input. Decades later, in 2005, May-Britt and Edvard Moser, married neuroscientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in
us," she said. "We are going to continue and hopefully do even more groundbreaking work in the future." Her 52-year-old husband didn't Max Planck Institute in Munich to demonstrate their research. Edvard Moser only discovered he had won after he landed in Munich, turned emails, text messages and missed calls. "It's a great moment. I am grateful to everyone who has contributed to this, including everyone who is and has been in our lab," he said later Monday. "And it shows that it is possible to create good science, if you do it in the right way. I think it's a big stimulation for science both at home in Norway and throughout the world." The Nobel Assembly said the discoveries marked a shift in scientists' understanding of how special-
The research by John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser of nerve cell — the grid cell — that represents a "paradigm shift" in neu- generates a coordinate system for roscience that could help researchers understand the sometimes ing, the assembly said. Monday's award was the fourth severe spatial memory loss associtime that a married couple has Nobel Assembly said. "This year's Nobel Laureates have time in the medicine category. discovered a positioning system, an 'inner GPS' in the brain, that makes it Britt Moser, 51, told The Associated possible to orient ourselves in space," Press by telephone from Trondheim. "This is such a great honor for all the assembly said. O'Keefe, 74, a dual U.S. and Brit- of us and all the people who have worked with us and supported complex cognitive tasks.
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Joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, Professor John O'Keefe, a dual U.S. and British citizen, speaks as he is interviewed by The Associated Press in an office he uses at the University College London (UCL), in London, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014.
They have also opened new ave"Thanks to our grid and place nues for understanding cognitive cells, we don't have to walk around functions such as memory, thinking and planning.
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New Mexico immigration lockup draws criticism JUAN CARLOS LLORCA ASSOCIATED PRESS
have been set up for a school at a federal immigration detention center in an isolated New Mexico desert town. have been installed. And detainees are pleading their cases over a video link with judges in Denver. ity, billed as a temporary place to house women and children from Central America who were among a wave of immigrants who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally this year, could remain open until next summer. "All of us would love us to see the doors close in Artesia but the reality is the need will probably be there and probably until the end of the high season, probably August next immigration advocates in a recent AP PHOTO / JUAN CARLOS LLORCA
The AP had access to a record- FILE - In this Sept. 10, 2014, file photo, an unidentified Guatemalan woman stands inside a dormitory in the Artesia Family Residential Center, a federal detention facility for undocumented immigrant mothers
whose name or position was not and children in Artesia, N.M. The detainees at the Artesia Family Residential Center, meanwhile, are growing increasingly frustrated that they are being held with no end in sight while earlier border-crossers were released with cials later. "I'm being punished for coming here, they tell us," said Geraldyn by gangs in Guatemala. The center opened as federal summer that the thousands of border-crossers they released had disappeared into the nation's interior and never showed up for any meetings with Immigration and Customs
a federal report by the Citizenship and Immigration Service's asylum unit to activists says only 37.8 peracknowledged that about 70 percent cent of the Artesia detainees pass of the released families vanished. their initial interviews for asylum, compared to the 62.7 percent rights activists that prolonged national average. detention of children and mothers is And for those who are eligible for "not punitive," adding that detention release, bonds have been set as high is not a tool for deterring wouldbe immigrants, many of them who times the national average, accordhave made claims of asylum. ing to immigration lawyer Stephen Instead, he said, "the deterrence Manning, who has volunteered in is that you're not going to come to Artesia. Housing more than 500 the United States and you're auto- women and children at any given matically here and you'll never be time, ICE said, the Artesia location removed." Immigration advocates say that piece in the government's response
adults with children arriving at the southern border. Since the center opened in June, more than 300 women and children, mostly from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, have been deported. About 500 others remain. And since it's opening, conditions have improved for detainees to meet with their lawyers. Over the first few weeks, the only access to legal counsel detainees had were a video presentation about the rights of detainees. ICE is now allowing lawyers to meet with the detainees and allows them to bring in their cellphones and com-
puters, which was forbidden. Civil rights advocates are suing the government, complaining that a lack of access to legal representation has turned the center into a "deportation mill," where bail is set impossibly high and asylum claims are denied at a much higher rate than the rest of the immigrant population. "The government is taking things to an extreme that seems designed to deny people the right to present their case," said immigration lawyer Laura Lichter, one of dozens of attorneys who provide pro-bono services to the detained families. Lichter said bonds should be considered based on factors such as if the person poses a danger to the community and if there is risk of flight. She cited several studies by organizations that deal with asylum cases that show how asylum seekers have a near-perfect court attendance rates. Court dates for people who are released on bond are scheduled up to two or more years into the future, giving asylum seekers more time to prepare their case from home. People in detention are given about two months before appearing in front of a judge. Perez said her husband came to the U.S. a year ago with an asylum claim and was freed on $3,000 bond. With bonds in Artesia going 10 times that amount, she said she will likely remain locked up. After landing in Artesia, Perez said she regrets coming to the US. She did not want to come, she said. "I wanted to live and die in Guatemala. Just not die before my time." She hoped for help in the U.S. But now, she said, "I so regret coming. I had these huge will to come out ahead in this country, but that's gone here. I have nothing left."
High court begins term with case on police actions MARK SHERMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
Court term Monday tests whether there's a double standard when it comes to the police.
that led to the discovery of cocaine. Chief Justice John Roberts is at the start of his 10th year at the head of the high court. Their term could be one for the ages if they decide, as seems likely, to take on the issue of same-sex marriage and settle once and for all whether gay and lesbian couples have a constitutional right to marry. But before they get there, the court has an array of cases involving: -
Details from marathon suspect’s friend DENISE LAVOIE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ecutor told a jury Monday that a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lied repeatedly to the FBI during the investigation into the deadly attack, while the friend's lawyer said he was a frightened 19-year-old whose memory was clouded by heavy marijuana use. The two starkly different descriptions of Robel Phillipos were presented during opening statements at his federal trial. Phillipos is charged with lying to the FBI about being in suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's dorm when two other friends removed Tsarnaev's backpack and other potential evidence. Assistant U.S. Attorney John Capin told the jury that Phillipos "created a fiction" about his movements the night of April 18, 2013, three days after the bombing and hours after the FBI released photos of Tsarnaev and his brother as suspects in the deadly attack. Three people were killed and more than 260 were injured when two bombs exploded near the marathon finish line. Capin said Phillipos and two friends entered Tsarnaev's dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth after the photos were released. He said Phillipos saw the men remove the backpack and later said "Do what you have to do" when one of them said he thought he should get rid of it. Capin said Phillipos told a string of lies to the FBI during several interviews until he finally confessed to being in Tsarnaev's dorm room and seeing the men remove the backpack, which contained fireworks that had been emptied of their explosive powder. "He understood the significance of seeing those in Tsarnaev's dorm room," Capin said. Phillipos' lawyer, Derege Demissie, held a wrapped package in front of the jury and said prosecutors were "attempting to present a neatly packaged case decorated with the tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombing." He said Phillipos never told the FBI he didn't go to Tsarnaev's dorm room.
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postings threatened his estranged wife, an FBI agent and area schools. AP PHOTO / J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE Monday's argument on the police action involves an appeal by Nicholas Heien, whose Ford Escort was pulled over when As the Supreme Court begins its new term this week, pro-life advocates hold a prayer vigil on the plaza of the high court in Washington, Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014.
prisoners' religious rights. More than 40 states already allow beards, with little evidence that inmates have tried to hide prohibited items in them. Last term, the court bitterly divided over the religious rights of family-owned corporations that objected to paying for women's contraceptives under President Barack Obama's health care law. The Gregory Holt case appears likely to unite beards can be used to hide prohibited items, and 18 states are the court, said University of Notre Dame law professor Richsearch a violation of Heien's constitutional rights. A divided backing the state's argument. But groups across the politi- ard Garnett. "I think there's every reason to expect agreement state Supreme Court said the mistake was reasonable enough cal spectrum and the Obama administration say Holt has a among the justices that Arkansas hasn't even come close to right to grow a beard under a federal law aimed at protecting satisfying the burden," Garnett said.
an ensuing search, and Heien was later convicted of drug traf-
The next day, the justices will take up the case of ArkanTypically, evidence found in a car that has been pulled over sas prison inmate Gregory Holt, who says his Muslim beliefs for a valid reason can be used against a defendant. But North cials permit no beards, with the exception of inmates with certain skin conditions, who can have beards a quarter-inch long. light on a car be functioning.
their memory, particularly their spatial memory," (Cont. from B5) he said. David Foster, a neuroscientist at Johns Hopkins time we visit a city, because we have that map in University in Baltimore, said O'Keefe's discovery our head," said Juleen Zierath, chair of the medi- of place cells was controversial in 1971 but became cine prize committee. "I think, without these cells, widely accepted over the next few decades. we would have a really hard time to survive." O'Keefe told the AP he was working at home Joshua Jacobs, who studies place and grid cells in humans at Drexel University in Philadelfrom Sweden who wants to have a word with you." phia, said with further understanding of how the "Before I called him, I took a long, deep breath," internal GPS system works, scientists may be able to develop drugs or devices to help people with College London. Alzheimer's who have lost their ability to navigate. O'Keefe was born in Harlem and raised in the South Bronx. "If you can survive the South Bronx, you can survive anything," he said. All three Nobel laureates won Columbia UniHe moved to England for postdoctoral train- versity's Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize last year for ing and found the place cells in a part of the brain their discoveries. They will split the Nobel prize called the hippocampus. The Mosers, meanwhile, money of 8 million Swedish kronor (about $1.1 milbrain known as the entorhinal cortex. O'Keefe said his work could be used as a basis for investigating Alzheimer's. "So we can not only use brain imaging to see the earliest signs of the disease in this part of the
lion), with half to O'Keefe and the other half to the Mosers. The Nobel awards in physics, chemistry, literature and peace will be announced later this week and the economics prize will be announced next Monday.
the main lab. Sacra was admit(Cont. from B5) ted Saturday to UMass Memorial Medical Center after he came in combecause the survivor's plaining about a cough blood carries antibodies and low-grade fever and for the disease. was put in isolation as a Sacra also received precaution. The hospital supportive care, includ- said weekend test results came back negative for aggressive electrolyte Ebola, and the Centers management. But doctors for Disease Control and have said they can't be sure what helped Sacra that Sacra's symptoms recover because he was were not caused by the receiving multiple treat- virus. ments. After Sacra was In Dallas, another released, the Nebraska man who recently travMedical Center set up a eled to the U.S. from separate lab within the Liberia was listed in critisolation unit, so test ical condition Sunday. results would be avail- Thomas Eric Duncan able more quickly and has been hospitalized at samples wouldn't have to Texas Health Presbytebe sent across campus to rian Hospital since Sept.
28. Dr. Tom Frieden, the CDC's director, said he was aware that Duncan's health had "taken a turn for the worse," but he declined to describe Duncan's condition further. The virus that causes Ebola is not airborne and can only be spread through direct contact blood, sweat, vomit, feces, urine, saliva or semen who is showing symptoms. Duncan arrived in Dallas on Sept. 20 and fell ill a few days later. Officials say 10 people definitely had close contact with Duncan and a further 38 may have been around him when he was showing symptoms of the disease.
ity, rising 21 places since 2006 in a ranking of the country's 50 largest urban areas. North Dakota experienced the biggest decline in giving. Residents reduced the share of income they donated by nearly 16 percent, contributing $24 for every $1,000 earned on average. The Chronicle said that dip could have serious implications, given the increasing demand for social services as newcomers stream in to take advantage of the state's oil boom. Among the 50 largest cities, Salt Lake City had the most generous residents, giving away 5.4 percent of their incomes. It was and Nashville, Tennessee. In sixth place was Jacksonville, Vegas for the biggest growth rate in giving between 2006 and 2012. The report detailed how Jacksonville donors had rallied behind a campaign to improve the region's public schools via a Quality Education for All fund launched in 2005 with a goal of raising $50 million. The effort has borne fruit, with Duval County's graduation rate rising from 53.5 percent in 2008 to 72 percent in 2013, and a new campaign is underway focusing on 37 of the district's historically lowest-performing schools. The cities where residents gave the smallest share of their income to charity were Hartford, Island, and San Jose, California.
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article. If I ruled college football I would make it so if the ball carrier goes down untouched he can get back up and the play would continue. The college football game needs to be more like the NFL so that the NFL gets players who are going to
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go to the professional level ready. If a player goes down with no contact made, they should be able to get up and continue the play. This would make the game not only more entertaining, but harder on the defenses if this rule were to be changed. Mike Miezejeski can be contacted at mmiezejeski@keene-equinox.com
October 9 , 1993 Rindge, N.H. - Men’s soccer lost by two goals in overtime against Franklin Pierce. With the score tied at one-one, Owls player Lou DeLoretto gave the Owls a two-one lead. However, a Franklin Pierce player then scored, equalizing the game and sending the teams into overtime. In overtime, a Franklin Pierce player, Byron Earl, scored the game-winner and teammate Marco Viscariello added an insurance goal in the last minutes. October, 9, 1993 Colchester Vt. - St. Michael’s College posted a two-one lead over the Keene State
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St. Michael’s player Jen Brown scored a halftime goal leading the Knights over the Owls until KSC’s Chrissy Brown scored early in the second period. Knights player Courtney Cann eventually scored the game-winner shortly after, earning St. Michael’s a victory. KSC goalie Sue Smith made seven saves. Courtesy of Sports Information archives.
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Auburn tight end C.J. Uzomah (81) celebrates after scoring a touchdown against LSU during the first half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014, in Auburn, Alabama
CORRECTION The Equinox would like to apologize to the following photographer, Nick Sonsini, in the October 2, Vol. 67, Issue #4. We wrongly credited Kyle Bailey for the photo of men’s soccer player Eddie Mercer on page B9.
Pictured above is an old soccer field painting of “Hootie,” KSC’s mascot.
NBA extends television deals with ESPN and TNT
pensive," ESPN President John Skipper said. "It's hard to imagine." AssociAted Press What was painful to imagine for both companies was life without the NBA. NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA and its television "Each year the playoffs help TNT win nights of telepartners couldn't wait to extend their contracts. vision during all-important May sweeps," said David The league renewed its deals with ESPN and TNT Levy, president of Turner Broadcasting System. even though two seasons remain on the old ones. The basics won't change: The NBA Finals remain on With potential competition from Fox looming, both ABC, ESPN's broadcast partner. ESPN/ABC and TNT networks were willing to pay generously to secure the rights long term. Broadcasting rights fees have been skyrocketing The NBA's annual revenue from the agreements will across all sports as live events become increasingly increase from $930 million to more than $2.6 billion, valuable to advertisers. according to a person familiar with the terms. Few viewers will DVR an NBA game, which means The person spoke on condition of anonymity to The they can't fast-forward through the commercials. Associated Press because the league did not announce "There's never been a better time to be an owner of an NBA franchise — or, frankly, any professional sports "We ultimately made a decision that this was the team," said Washington Wizards owner Ted Leonsis, right time to go," Commissioner Adam Silver said at a chairman of the league's media committee. news conference Monday. "These are extraordinarily Especially after 24-hour sports cable channel Fox Sports 1 launched last year. The contracts will run an additional nine years With so many rights locked up in long deals, the through the 2024-25 season. The previous eight-year NBA was the biggest property coming up in the short agreements end after 2015-16. term. "We believe at the end of the deal it will feel inexThe league has relationships with both Fox and RACHEL CHOEN
Comcast, NBC's parent company, which locally televise its offerings for ESPN International. teams' games on their regional sports networks. If the And then there are the plans for a new service national contract had gone to the open market, NBC for mobile devices that ESPN will run, with the NBA also could have pursued a return to NBA coverage to receiving equity interest. Details on that have yet to be boost its 24-hour sports cable channel, NBCSN. determined. Silver said the league took into consideration the ESPN now owns rights to the NBA, NFL, Major potential interest of tech companies such as Google and League Baseball, college football playoffs and four of Apple that could eventually bid on sports rights and change the model for how fans watch games. the Big Ten contract ends soon among the network's But for the next decade and beyond, the NBA is biggest sports properties. sticking with what works. It will be at least another decade before Fox can try "I don't think we left any money on the table," Silver to put a substantial dent in ESPN's head start. TNT, meanwhile, can't offer its own 24-hour sports opportunity was in the marketplace." channel to the NBA. But it has deep business ties to the For ESPN, the value of the deal goes beyond games, league through managing its digital properties, which though there are more of those, too: ESPN and ABC includes NBA TV and NBA.com. are adding 10 regular-season matchups, bringing their The new deal includes expanded digital rights for total to 100. Bleacher Report, the sports website acquired by Turner, The network also gets expanded rights to air high- TNT's parent company. TNT will televise an additional 12 games with playshows. The goal is to make basketball a year-round off implications over the second half of the season on topic of conversation as the NFL has become on ESPN. nights other than its traditional Thursday, bringing its To that end, the agreement adds the NBA's Summer total to 64. League and its developmental league. The network also TNT will also air a new postseason awards show. extends its WNBA contract through 2025 and increases
Keene State College athletic team records Women’s Soccer
Volleyball Overall.
HOME
AWAY
STREAK
OVERALL
CONF.
HOME
AWAY
STREAK
10-13
2-3
3-4
Lost 1
6-6
2-1
3-1
2-5
Won 1
vs. Salem State 1 Keene State
25
Salem State
21
Men’s Cross Country
2
3
25
25
12
vs. Wheaton
vs. Emerson Set Scores
1
2
3
Total
3
Emerson
25
26
25
1
Keene State College
21
3 0
Total
15
24
22
Field Hockey
vs. Rhode Island College
Goals by Period
1
2
Total
Points by Period
1
2
Total
Keene State College
0
1
1
Rhode Island College
0
0
0
Wheaton
1
2
Keene State College
0
1
1
1
Men’s Soccer
Overall.
HOME
AWAY
STREAK
OVERALL
CONF.
HOME
AWAY
STREAK
7-4
3-2
4-2
Won 3
5-5
1-2
3-3
3-2
Won 1
vs. Plymouth
vs. Western Connecticut
Goals By Period
1
2
Total
Plymouth
0
0
Keene State College
0
1
0 1
Goals By Period West. Connecticut Keene State College
1 0 1
2
Total
1
0 2
0
vs. Castleton
vs. Rhode Island College
Goals by Period
1
2
Keene State College
0
0
5
Keene State College
Castleton
0
0
0
Rhode Island College
Total Points by Period 1
2
Total
0
1
1
1
2
3
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Hayden Patterson
26:36
Ryan Brady
26:46
Philip Parent Ben MacDonald
27:20 27:37
Women’s Cross Country KSC invitational Name
Time
Sam Goldsmith
19:00
Kaitlin Wheeler
19:11
Lindsay Szuch
19:26
Kaley Mientkiewicz
19:36
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“We’re tough on each other because we know what each other can do”
turns into tough love. “We’re tough on each other because we know what each other -REBECCA COSTELLO can do,” Rebecca said. WOMEN’S SOCCER PLAYER That toughness is exactly what makes the two players so dangerous, according to Head Coach Denise her quad hurting her, I think she’s Lyons. “The two of them [Marissa just going to play her game like she always does,” Rebecca said. In addition, Coach Lyons said is just a coach’s dream. I think they play with a toughness that’s so high, that the having both girls on the you can’t teach it. It’s innate … They push and give one-hundred-and-ten percent every single game. In practice, or in games,” Lyons said. Due to an injury that ended Rebecca’s season last year, as well as Marissa’s current injury, the two sisters have not yet been able to play collegiate soccer competitively together since they came to KSC. Rebecca said she has no doubt that when her sister returns, the formidable defender will get back to doing what she does best. I don’t think she’s going to notice
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anticipated. “I’m so excited about it, and I think the crowd is going to like as well,” Lyons said. Despite Marissa’s injury, the Costello twins are looking to take in their college careers this October and aim to help the women’s soccer team repeat their accomplishment last year and win the Little East Conference title. Jacob Barrett can be contacted at jbarrett@keene-equinox.com
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Intramural website goes mobile with new app SKYLER FRAZER
Equinox Staff This year Keene State College’s intramural athletes will have a new tool available to them in the palm of their hands. A new app called REC*IT run by IMLeagues. com has made it easier for KSC students to keep track of their intramural game schedules and statistics. According to Nick D’Amato, coordinator of intramural sports and sports clubs, the school has used IMLeagues.com to display scores and schedules online for people to see. The app then takes this information and generates it for students in an easy-to-use and accessible form. D’Amato said that the recreational sports administrators don’t have to do anything extra to put the information on the app. It’s something that happens directly through the app’s partnership with IMLeagues. The school gives IMLeagues team names, schedules, player names and scores; REC*IT does the rest. All the information is tightlypacked into the app. On the app students can track their results,
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up with live updates from their teams and the college. D’Amato said he’s gotten some good responses from students about REC*IT. D’Amato then said that students have told him the app is a lot quicker and more convenient than the old website students had to use. Senior Nate Wirta, who plays intramural soccer on team Pain Train, already likes what he sees in the app. “I think the app is helpful. The website is very hard to use, especially if you’re trying to use it on your phone,” Wirta said. Wirta explained the old website was hard to use, as it made students continuously sign in and out whenever they used it on their phones. Wirta continued as he said menus were
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to use it. As far as future updates to the REC*IT app, D’Amato said there may be some changes from page-to-page. coming. Wirta and his teammates heard about the “They’re trying to get Google Maps on there app because IMLeagues sent out an email to to show you where to go for games,” D’Amato people with accounts on the website. said. According to Wirta, not everyone downThis would be especially helpful for a school loaded it right away, but some students have since the season started. Students have to cross [or go under] Route 101 to D’Amato said an account with IMLeagues is get to the turf. required when signing up for intramural and Another addition to the app that the website recreational sports. did not feature is a chat option. According to D’Amato, all of KSC’s recreAlthough captains could send out mass-KSC ational and intramural sports teams can be e-mail messages through IMLeagues, the chat found on the app, so potentially many students option provides a quick way to contact team could be using it. members, similar to a texting group chat. He said the IMLeagues website advertises In the app’s existence at KSC, it has already the app on its website and encourages students begun helping players, like those on team Pain
Train, keep track of their sports and scores. Senior Cody Figueiredo, another intramural soccer player on team Pain Train, said he hopes students in the future take advantage of the app. “I wish I had known about it sooner,” Figueiredo said. Since the app provides so many real-time schedules and communication between teams even easier when it’s in the palm of your hand. The clean and organized design of REC*IT, unlike the IMLeagues website which is not mobile-friendly, has students in agreement that using the app is that much more simple. Students can download the app for free in the iTunes Store and on Google Play for Android phones. Skyler Frazer can be contacted at sfrazer@keene-equinox.com
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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, right, smiles toward backup quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo (10) after throwing a touchdown pass to Timothy Wright in the first half of an NFL football game against the Cincinnati Bengals Sunday, Oct. 5, 2014
Patriots make comeback and win 43- 17 HOWARD ULMAN
aSSocatEd PrESS FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — The critics pounced after the secondworst loss in Tom Brady's career. The New England Patriots just went back to work. Their focus resulted in a 43-17 rout of the previously unbeaten Cincinnati Bengals just six days after the Patriots fell apart in a 41-14 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. "We don't sit around listening to what everybody else says," Patriots coach Bill Belichick said. "We try to do the best we can." Brady did well enough in his best game of the season and reached a major milestone. With a season-high 292 yards passing, he became the sixth player to throw for 50,000 yards. His total of 50,232 left him behind John Elway with 51,475 yards. The top four spots are held by Brett Favre, Peyton Manning, Dan Marino and Drew Brees. "I'm a lucky guy," Brady said. "50,000 yards means, you know, I've played in the best place in the league for a long time. "We always talk about what Patriots football is and I think you saw that tonight." The Patriots (3-2) scored on their by Stevan Ridley and a 17-yard pass from Brady to Tim Wright. They led 20-3 at halftime and extended that lead with the help of three of SteThe Bengals (3-1) gave up 41 points after allowing just 33 all season. "You are going to face adversity in the season," Cincinnati coach Marvin Lewis said. "So you aren't going to sit around and be psychologists about that. We've got to play through anything that happens." Just like the Patriots. "We don't pay attention to anything outside of here," defensive tackle Vince Wilfork said in a happy Patriots locker room. "It just goes to
show you we're capable of doing it." Other things we learned as the Patriots snapped out of their seasonlong offensive slump: BALANCED PATRIOTS: Brady completed 23 of 35 passes for 292 yards and the Patriots ran 26 times for 220, led by Ridley's 113 yards. Brady completed passes to eight receivers after spending most of the Edelman and Rob Gronkowski. On Sunday, Gronkowski led the team with six catches and 100 yards receiving and caught his fourth touchdown pass. "The offensive line protected, Tom threw great balls — went through his reads," Wright said, "and the wide receivers ran great routes and he delivered it." DALTON'S DOWN DAY: Andy this season. By the time that happened early in the fourth quarter, the Bengals already were behind 37-17. Dalton completed 15 of 24 passes for 204 yards with no interceptions and scoring passes to Mohamed Sanu and A.J. Green. But Cincinnati lost three fumbles, including one that resulted in a 9-yard touchdown return by Kyle Arrington that put the Patriots ahead 34-10. The Bengals also failed to convert any of their seven third-down plays. "If you turn the ball over and don't make any third downs, you have a chance to have this happen to you," Lewis said. PERFECT NO MORE: The Bengals failed in their attempt at their they were the last unbeaten team in the NFL after the Arizona Cardinals lost to the Denver Broncos 41-20 earlier Sunday. "It doesn't surprise me" to lose the perfect record, offensive tackle Andrew Whitworth said. "I know it was possibly going to happen at some point and we are just going to have to respond."
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Fisk Hennessey are Keene State College alumni. Not only do both these coaches have great accolades beyond the campus, but also they have played on the same ing connection that much stronger. “Every team is a new team … you never have the exact same players that you’ve had before. Year in, year out, every team is a new team. I think that challenge is what makes this job great. It’s what makes this job rewarding,” Coach Hennessey stated. Although being named a head coach is a prestigious title, that is not why these people have accepted the jobs. Coaching is a job that goes beyond the person in charge; it’s a job that is for the athletes. “When you are a coach, your job is not just about you. If you’re coaching well and the team is playing well, you do not need the spotlight—that is for the players—the student-athletes who are out there, working hard and taking advantage of the incredible privilege and responsibility that comes with representing your sport and your school,” Coach Hennessey stated. Just like Scott and Hennessey, the new men’s and women’s cross country coaches are also alumni. However, Ryan Widzgoski and Sarah Titus, the younger coaches, graduated in the past two years. Widzgoski and Titus have even competed with some of the athletes still on the team now. Junior Cara Colotti explained the advantages of having a coach who’s closer in age. “Our coaches are alumni and a lot of us looked up to them as runners and are really happy with our coaches right now,” Colotti said. She continued, “The alumni can run with us and are more active in work out and cheering for us when we’re running.” Acting Head Coach Sarah Titus said that there are both good and bad things about being close in age to the team.
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“I think that I can be a little more perceptive of their needs of what their going through because I was there not that long ago. I have a good feeling of the program and can make the connections and give them solid examples. So I think that is good, since I am closer in age, I do try to establish a line of respect. I don’t treat them like children because they aren’t that much younger than me. So I’m making sure we establish that line. I’ll hear you but you have to hear me too,” Titus said. “Since they are closer to our age, it’s easy to think, ‘What do they know?’” Colotti said. Although cross country is seen as a team sport, each individual person has a different way of training for his or her body and somefrom coaching-style differences, making athletes reluctant to listen. However, Titus said one of the changes she made to the team was making sure that everyone was organized and training with another teammate. “I’m also making sure that we’re respecting peoples time, and making sure we all show up on time because in the past its been a lot looser so that was a big change that the team had to adjust to,” Titus said. Even though the team had already bonded with each other
before Titus and Widzgoski joined the team Colotti said the coaching change never changed the team’s goals or mindsets. “We started the season with the same goal that we have now,” Colotti said. Similar to the cross country runners, team bonding is a huge part of having a successful cheerleading team. With a tumultuous coaching past, new Head Coach Chris Fecteau is moving forward and bringing the team closer to each other and the community. “I was really happy when we found out Chris was going to be our coach. We met him last year and we knew how serious he was about coaching and we needed that after last year,” sophomore cheerleader Kylie Coffey said. “Last year there were so many cliques on the team and now I feel like we are communicating with each other a lot more,” Sophomore Cheerleader Bianca Tauro said. Since Fecteau has been head of the team, the girls go bowling and out to dinner with each other as well as participating in community events like a fall festival in Langdon, N.H. and an upcoming cancer walk in Peterborough, N.H. “I feel like she [Nicole Dick, the previous coach] didn’t have enough effort,” Tauro said.
“With our team it’s really hard to trust a coach after losing two in one year, so giving Chris respect is huge,” Coffey said. Tauro continued to say that she feels much safer as a feel like he knows what he’s doing, especially in stunting. He’s worked at gyms, he’s been on teams and he’s worked with a lot of other teams.” Fecteau agreed that it was his past experience that helped him not only get the job but get the respect from the team. Before moving to the Keene area he coached at allstar cheer gyms in Long Island, N.Y. He also did four summer programs with New England Cheerleaders Association and coached at Nassau Community College in N.Y. He now is in his third season with Northern Lights, a competition team in Keene, and is also going into his fourth football season at Fall Mountain Regional High school. “I’ve established that I’m here to build things and I’ve proved that I stick around,” Fecteau said. Fecteau, like the other coaches has many goals for the season ahead, one is to eventually establish veterans and rookies on the team. However, he said that now he’s still a rookie too. Kendall Pope can be contacted at kpope@keene-equinox.com
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Twins use telepathy to master the field JACOB BARRETT
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“I think I’m playing my hardest; playing with heart; Watch out Little East Con- playing for Keene State,” ference, Keene State Col- Rebecca said. lege women's soccer has a Rebecca continued to dynamic duo—Rebecca and share how she enjoys sharing Marissa Costello. The two strong, 5’4’ identi“I love playing with my cal twin sophomores came to sister … Some say we have KSC last year from Meriden, twin telepathy," Rebecca said. Conn., in the hopes of sharThat “twin telepathy” ing the same uniform as they allows the two to mesh trehave done since a very young age. according to Rebecca, who The Costellos both said said that the two know where that they have a unique chemistry with one another. given time during a game “People say that we work without looking up. like no one else together,” Rebecca made a point to Marissa said. compliment Marissa’s defenMarissa suffered from a sive ability and strength. quad tear sustained during “She doesn’t get knocked a practice before the team’s down—ever. She’s usually season-opener, but said she the one knocking people knows what will be expected down,” Rebecca said. of her when she returns. The twins both describe one-another as tough, hardprove myself,” Marissa said. working players who give it Once Marissa is able to play again, she said she has Each has their own expectations to become a strengths, but both said that spearhead on the KSC team, they learn from one another ”I hope to grow into more of every game. a leader.” Rebecca, a more offenMarissa also praised her sively-driven player who sister, Rebecca. plays center-mid and forMarissa said she admires ward, said that she consults Rebecca’s ball distribution her sister in order to hone her skills, ability to attack and defensive skills when trying her team-oriented style of to get the ball back from an playing. opposing team. “She has the mentality of Marissa, a defensive back ‘As a team, we win,’” Marissa for the team, also noted continued. that Rebecca has helped her Rebecca, who as of Oct. become a bigger threat on 10 has netted one goal this offense even though she is a season along with two assists, » TWINS, B9 said that she gives it her all
College football If I ruled college football, I would change the game so that if the player with possession of the ball falls to the ground untouched, he can get up and resume play like nothing happened. In college football, if a player is running with the ball and goes down untouched then the play is dead. If any part of the body, whether it be knee, elbow, forearm or backside touches the ground with no contact from another player, then that’s it. Imagine you are watching your favorite team play and a wide receiver is wide open
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Identical twins Rebecca Costello (top) is older than Marissa Costello (bottom) by one hour and two minutes.
THE EQUINOX ATHLETE of the WEEK
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NAME: SAMANTHA GOLDSMITH
Sport: croSS country Junior Samantha Goldsmith has been front-runner for the women’s cross country team this season. With a first place win at the KSC Alumni Invitational on Aug. 30, Goldsmith then lead the Owls to a 10th place finish at the Purple Valley Invitational held at Williams College on Sept. 27. Goldsmith even remained a leader in the KSC invitational with a third place finish against 15 other colleges and universities. Goldsmith said her favorite event is the 6K course. “I like 5K’s because I’m comfortable with them, that’s the event I normally run. But I think I like the 6K a little bit more because I’m more of a distance runner and the longer the dis-
tance, the better it is for me,” Goldsmith said. To relax before a big race Goldsmith said she really enjoys talking with teammates to calm her down. “Instead of being all nervous we talk to each other and remember to have fun with it and that helps me out a lot,” Goldsmith said. In addition to eating healthy and strength training, Goldsmith really focuses on being well-rested. “I think it’s important to get a lot of sleep and take care of your body. In cross country, your body is what’s getting you to the finish line. The whole sport is based on how your body is feeling,” Goldsmith said. Kendall Pope can be contacted at kpope@keene-equinox.com
Samantha’s Fun Facts Majors: Elementary Education and Spanish Favorite music: “I really like Spanish music like the band Aventura or folk music like the Lumineers” Favorite food: “Peanut Butter. I put it on everything.” Samantha is studying abroad in : “Ecuador” Something interesting Samantha does in her free time: “I really like yoga, if I had more time I would do more yoga.”
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Players reminded of social media dangers DIANA PIMER
Social Media director On Sunday, Sept. 28, over 250 Keene State College athletes and coaches attended a presentation in the Mabel Brown Room covering social media usage and personal branding. Janet Judge, president at Sports Law Associates LLC in Cumberland Center, Maine, gave the lecture. Judge, a Harvard University varsity soccer player and graduate, travels to Division I, II and III colleges and universities across the country to discuss Title IX, NCAA eligibility, job eligibility, personal branding via social media, sexual and verbal harassment and hazing. “I learned that you have to be smart about social media. I usually am, but it was good to hear it,” sophoJudge spent her time at KSC pointing out that serious NCAA and legal infractions do not only occur at large Division I colleges. She made it clear that anyone can make mistakes, especially if no one has ever been warned of the possible consequences for actions such as hazing or posting a provocative photo on the internet. “I don’t know if I really picked
anything new up but she was a good motivational speaker for athletes in general,” sophomore softball player Aliza Guerrero said. Guerrero continued, “As college students we understand inappropriate behaviors, so in that sense it was good that she reiterated it.” “But I think it should also be targeted to a younger group such as athletes that are in high school that may be playing college sports in the future,” she added. Examples of such behaviors include posting pictures involving underage alcohol consumption, nudity and other inappropriate acts. These actions can prevent students from getting jobs in the future and can also put their season eligibility at risk. A loss of a season can also occur because of bullying or forcing teammates to do tasteless activities. Judge warned athletes that there are many ways to get in trouble and lose the things you love, not to mention the sport you love, when you are an athlete. Diana Pimer can be contacted at dpimer@keene-equinox.com
The quarterback connects with the receiver as time runs out and all your team needs is a touchdown to win the game. The receiver crosses the tenyard line and trips—the game is over and your team loses. You would be pretty upset and probably wishing that the college game had the same rules as the NFL. In the NFL, if a player goes down without being touched that player can get up and continue the play. If they get touched while they are down then the play is over. College football could better-prepare players for the next level if they changed this rule to the same as the NFL. Sometimes a rookie in the NFL will forget that he can get back up when he goes down. They will stay on the ground for a while until a defender runs up to touch them. This frustrates fans and the problem could be easily solved if college football would change the rule. Football is a game that should have maximum excitement. Players give every ounce of energy they have to play the game, but when players are ruled down with no contact made it makes it easier on defenses. Opposing defenses can be nowhere around the player with the ball and if they go down they are off the hook. This does not happen often, but when it does it is extremely frustrating for the offense and a huge relief for the defense. I love college football as much as the next guy, but the fact that the ball carrier cannot get up after going down untouched is one of my biggest pet peeves. It would make the game feel more real and less like it is giving defenses an advantage. Although, they are thinking of implementing new rules that would slow down offenses and try to stop such high-scoring games—but that is for another
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Athletes & coaches weigh in on changes KENDALL POPE
SportS editor This past year, Keene State College has had sigin men’s soccer, men and women’s cross country, softball and cheerleading. For athletes, a coaching change can cause mixed feelings of excitement and skepticism for the season ahead; uncertainty of what a new coach could bring to an already
established team. Even coaches start out with challenges no matter how much experience they have. Long time Assistant Men’s Soccer Coach Rick Scott took the head coach position this year after previous head coach Ron Butcher announced he was no longer coming back after 43 seasons with The Owls. In this case, the coaching transition was easy for most of the upperclassmen
players who had Scott as an assistant, because they already knew him. But it was seeing him in the top position that made players really take him seriously. “Normally the assistant coach is a little more buddybuddy with the players and Coach [Scott] set himself apart as the leader,” junior Eddie Mercer, a forward on the team, said. Mercer said that while Scott was still the assistant
coach in previous seasons, once in a while he would run practices when Butcher wasn’t available. From this experience, the upperclassmen on the team had an idea of how their practices were going to look in the future. “Rick’s style of practice is more sharp and short—when we had Butch, practices used to go a little longer,” Mercer said. Both Scott and Interim Head Softball Coach Carrah
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