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Thursday, sepT. 19, 2013

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KSC connects with Syria KARINA BARRIGA ALBRING

news editor From the tweets of the Syrian rebels opposing Bashar al-Assad’s regimen and the amateur-made Youtube videos of convulsing soldiers and poisoned children, to the CNN reporter requesting Presthe Syrian leader, it’s all out there for the world to see. However, during a series of events to raise awareness and promote critical to question themselves, “What do

the lead over streaming media.

Pictures and sound bites come and go, intense, yet blurry footage overplayed. The crisis has been exposed to the public from different perspectives. However, for award-winning war journalist about Syria is rather limited. “We are not informed about what

sources of information we have are not entirely trustworthy,� said the Lantern Room at KSC September 12, 2013.

Diverse perspectives on the public through the screen every

New bill would require labeling of all GMOs BRITTANY BALLANTYNE

will not be labeled, according to Mann. Other exceptions are still being contemplated.

Wright explained that any GMO’s which They are in a great deal of the foods people animals consume would not be consume, and a majority of citizens of the labeled either. This means United States are in favor of this being public an animal that either proinformation. They are called genetically duces for the food industry or becomes New Hampshire being proposed that will, if the food itself could passed, require such food items to be labeled ingest a genetically as a GMO product. According to N.H. State Representative Maureen Mann, 90 percent ingly, a person may of Americans want foods made with these consume GMO’s indirectly. “People are becoming more and more Mann said crowds aware of what’s happening in their foods. have attended public Now, 70 to 80 percent of our foods are geneti- hearings about the issue cally engineered,� Bonnie Wright, advocate in Concord, N.H. “They for the N.H. Right to Know GMO group, said.

M a n n insisted that the bill is because they’re concerned strictly just for labeling, not ban- about what’s in their food, n i ng.

There are exceptions they’re conwith this bill, however. Medicines, alcohol and restaurant dishes

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their food,� she said.

Both Wright and Mann said this bill will affect anyone who pays attention to how many calories it [food item] is, and some people don’t care. How much trans fat? How much sugar?

Some people are very careful about reading those labels, others don’t care at all,� Wright said.

Elizabeth King, a KSC junior who studies environmental science, said she is concerned about what she eats and said, exactly what they’re eating and what’s in their food.�

those who follow up constantly. “No matter how many hours you

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Greeks say no hazing at KSC REBECCA MARSH

Mann explained that consumers read labels not only for health reasons, but for personal or religious matters, for example Kosher products and vegan foods. Mann pointed out that juices are labeled as either concentrate or tomers that nuts were used in the same facand Wright do not believe GMO labels should be treated any differently.

According to Wright, the bill was intromeetings where expert witnesses come in to give advice and testify.

After these hearings and plenty more meetings, the House of Representatives will cast their vote on the bill in January 2014.

She said a bill similar to the current bill h a s been in N.H. Legislation since 2001. “This is the furthest any of them have gotten along in the process, probably because the demand is here now which it wasn’t in the past,�

Wright said.

Not only is the ing at a proposed GMO bill, but 26 other states are as well, including Washington, according to Wright. She said California had come close in passing its own GMO

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ties and fraternities are busy getting their organizations ready for a new wave of pledges, but the preconceived notion of hazing still lingers.

According to the Keene State hazing is “any public or private inducement that causes a prospective or current member of any student organization, team, or club mental or physical humiliation, harm, embarrassment, or ridicule, or has a profound negative impact on a student’s academic, social, or Director of Student Involvement, Jennifer Ferrell, said this means that hazing can happen anywhere within any organizaproblem. Some forms of hazing, according to the KSC Student ting, nudity, forced consumption of drugs or alcohol, and many others.

According to some alumni from Dartmouth College, hazing has been included in the pledging of some sororities or fraternities.

Ravital Segal, a Dartmouth alum and sister of the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, said she was hazed, according to an editoabout how she had entered the hospital with a 0.399 blood alcohol content because she was made,

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The N.H. legislature will vote for the GMO bill in January 2014. Currently, 26 states throughout the country, including Washington, have proposed their own GMO bills.

GREEN IS WHAT WE EAT

DC plants mystery solved Food Co-op brings healthier options to town BETHANY RICCIARDI

equinox stAff days to grow a carrot; from ing and harvesting them at the right time. Then of course, the carrots go through shipping and delivery.

The Zorn Dining Commons at Keene State College used to show this message through an oversized model of a carrot. It hung above the staircase and students couldn’t miss the site. It

made endless amounts of ment sustainable and ecofriendly. Paul Striffolino, Assistant Vice President of Student Affairs at KSC, came up with an idea to add onto campus at a Sustainability Conference in May this year.

Josef Quirinale, general manager of KSC Dining Services; Chef Rich Ducharme, DC executive chef; local company Beez Kneez and members of the greenhouse, Striffolino helped start a suf-

time, and effort to grow DC. food, but only mindless secThis invention is the onds to swipe leftovers into Green Diamond Aerosysa waste bin. tem. The dining hall has two The KSC campus has

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equinox stAff and bustle of Keene’s lively downtown area is a grocery store very different from most of the big name chains. which opened this past April, is a grocery store featuring locally grown, organic and natural food. “We offer healthy food choices, including products with alternatives to commonly allergenic ingredients. Our purchases support local and organic farmers and socially and environmentally conscious producers whenever possible,� the co-op’s website stated.

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Co-op is different than most grocery stores because it is in many ways owned by its members. Members of the community can become a member of the co-op by paying $200. In exchange the co-op is run democratically, General Manager, Michael Faber said. “The member-owners are the ones who ultimately the store heads and how it is governed and run, so it is the members who elect the board of directors who set the broad policies and goals for the store,� Faber said.

Faber stressed that the main purpose of the co-op is to serve the community.

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The Monadnock Food Co-op is located on 34 Cyprus Street, less than a mile away from KSC.

There was a need in the community that was not being met in years leading up to the opening of the co-op, “People wanted a place

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CAMPUS SAFETY Report Log

Week of: Sept. 9 Monday, Sept. 9 2:23 a.m. Carle Hall: Male ate a brownie that had drugs in it. Keene Fire Department is transporting the student.

4:24 p.m. Randall Hall: Residential Life reported an alleged assault that occurred on Sept. 5.

11:39 p.m. Owl’s Nest 9: Male student called for his roommate who was feeling ill from giving blood. Keene Fire Department is enroute.

Tuesday, Sept. 10 10:42 p.m. Holloway Hall: 706 [marijuana].

11:06 p.m. Randall Hall: 706 [marijuana].

Wednesday, Sept. 11 7:40 p.m. Owl’s Nest 7: 706 [marijuana].

Thursday, Sept. 12 9:55 p.m. Pondside 2: Resident of building called reporting a trespassing male who was hanging out in the parking lot.

11:15 p.m. Carle Hall: RA reported an intoxicated female throwing up in bathroom.

11:51 p.m. Randall Hall: Resident called and reported people in front of Randall smoking 706 [marijuana].

No one in area when officer arrived.

Friday, Sept. 13 10:38 p.m. One Butler Court: Alcohol violation.

10:56 p.m. Randall Hall: 706 [marijuana].

11:50 p.m. Carle Intoxicated male.

Hall:

Saturday, Sept. 14 1:01 a.m. Huntress: Loud noise, maybe fighting inside the room.

1:06 a.m. Carle Hall: 706 [marijuana].

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spend watching the news, no matter how much you read online or in the paper, you will not be able to know what is really going KSC junior Lauren Powers said, “I never really thought about the fact that we weren’t getting enough information. I would always attribute that just to me not putting in the effort. To see that there is still so much that we don’t know was really interesting, yet conThe truth behind the news coverage in Syria, Gutman said, is that, “Western reporters are not going to Syria because of the violence and high risk of kidnapping, so what is currently based outside Syrian borders due to security issues.

Most of the information regarding the ‘#Syria’ is what people are talking about. As Syrian civilians avoid attacks from both the government and the opposition in a constant struggle to survive, they have become the eyes of world and the only ones capable of getting recorded evidence of the events.

Some links and tweets that now register millions of views come from users related to AP PHOTO the rebel forces. The twitter account @RevolutionSyria has more than 100,000 followers A journalist records a Syrian government solider as he aims his weapon, during clashes with Free Syrian Army fighters in Maaloula and the Facebook group ‘The Syrian Revolu- village, northeast of the capital Damascus, Syria Wednesday, Sept. 11, 2013. tion’ has more than 800,000 followers. Both post multimedia and written content on an However, reports by the United Nations indicated recently that the opposition, just like the Syrian government, has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The problem with social media, according

“No matter how many hours you spend watching the news, you will not be able to know what is really going on in Syria.”

-ROY GUTMAN JOURNALIST AND FOREIGN EDITOR CURRENTLY BASED IN ISTANBUL

Gutman has travelled to Syria more than military action should be the very last option. once. He recalled covering how the Syrian “What do we owe each others as citizens when its context can be fact-checked or supported. troops bombed bakeries around the nation. a country is tearing itself apart? We need do Therefore, it may not be considered a reliable “There were at least 100 cases and up 70 civilsource. ians were killed on each attack. The means of “There is an entire box of tools that can be used to handle the situation before even conGutman said. “There is an informational gap Gutman said. and people can’t really know where things “The Syrian government has broken every James Rousmaniere, former editor of the - Keene Sentinel and guest speaker at the event, U.S. government has “a lot more information said, “A lot of people support that the U.S. on what is happening than what they are tellgoes into a war without even imagining how Despite the informational gap, Gutman ing against a very disorganized opposition, Waller suggested increasing humanitarwas able to provide the students a closer view according to Gutman. ian assistance and accessibility to improve Since President Barack Obama said in his conditions for civilians in Syria. Also, he said facts on the issue. Roy Gutman has seen the address that Syria had crossed the ‘red line’ referring Syria to the international criminal war from inside prior to Syria. In 1993, he cov- by using chemical weapons during an attack court, freezing Assad’s assets, and an arms ered the war at Bosnia Herzegovina, becom- on August 21, the debate over the media has embargo equality applied to the government narrowed down to whether the U.S. should and the opposition are options to be conevidence of the concentration camps. He won take military action in Syria or not, and sidered “before we jump to an intervention the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the con- whether a structured plan to have Syria turn in the weapons could be accomplished. journalism.

For Dr. James Waller, professor at KSC KSC student Lauren Powers said she Yet Gutman referred to the situation appreciated being involved in a discussion in Syria as a “very particular case, a story Holocaust and genocide studies, the debate that approached the issue from a differof intense suffering, cruelty and massive has taken the wrong direction. Waller said ent perspective. “It was neat to come here immediate intervention is required, however, and have something other than only should

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by her sorority, to drink massive amounts of alcohol. According to her doctor, 0.4 blood alcohol content leads to coma and/or death.

Segal had come forward with her story because of a fellow alum from Dartmouth College, Andrew Lohse, who was also hazed by his fraternity.

He put his story out in an op-ed in his school newspaper, The Dartmouth.

His story has been featured in Rolling ton Post. Lohse said that his fraternity would make him eat omelettes made with vomit; chug cups of vinegar; swim in a kiddie pool full of vomit, and other hazing techniques.

Many may question why Lohse would agree to be part of such activities. Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram provided an answer in the 1960s. He did a number of experiments using a shock system studying the psyche and its connection to obedience in males. According to Simply

“Hazing is a thing of the past. You can’t really get away with it anymore.”

-STEVE MIGNANO HISTORIAN OF TKE

Psychology website, the result of the studies was, “Ordinary people are likely to follow orders given by an

still have preconceived notions about hazing.

“You’re always afraid of the

According to Ferrell, no hazing accounts have happened at KSC in the

president of Phi Sigma Sigma, said about hazing, “We don’t put our girls in situations that would make them ards, the new member process focuses on bonding and creating relationships with the sisters. Richards said the sorority does not participate in any hazing techniques.

Junior Steven Mignano joined the fraternity Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE), the spring semester of his freshman year. Mignano is the Historian of the fraternity. According to Mignano, he is a communicator between the fraternity and the alumni board for the chapter.

Mignano said that hazing does not happen in TKE. “Honestly, hazing

Senior Kenneth Faria, President of Sigma Pi said, “We have a zero tolerance policy for hazing—Sigma Pi Faria joined Sigma Pi in the fall of 2012. He said he had always wanted to join a fraternity, but did not like the fraternities at KSC until he met some people from Sigma Pi. According to Faria, the bi-laws of the fraternity’s handbook bans hazing.

Faria expressed that he thinks Greek Life is too separate from the college and it’s part of the reason people

2:37 a.m. Carle Hall: RA reported that an intoxicated student may have been carried into the building.

Mignano added that with social media being prominent, it is easy to take out a camera or a phone and take a picture or video.

According to Ferrell, there is a process if someone were to come forward and make allegations about hazing.

Campus Safety and the Vice President of Student Affairs would be involved.

If it became a legal issue, Ferrell said, it would be time to include the Keene Police Department. If hazing were to occur on campus, Ferrell said, the organization’s recognition from the college could be deleted, and the national organization would be noti-

10:47 p.m. Fiske Hall: RA reported someone vomiting in women’s bathroom third floor.

Sunday, Sept. 15 2:37 a.m. Carle Hall: RA reported that an intoxicated student may have been carried into the building.

“I love it here because there’s no negative breakdown among the pledges.

It’s all positive build up, which is

10:47 p.m. Fiske Hall: RA reported someone vomiting in women’s bathroom third floor.

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Greek Life leaders say pledging promotes bonding rather than puts students in uncomfortable situations.

Rebecca Marsh can be contacted at rmarsh@keene-equinox.com

Powers said.

Currently, while updates and news keep changing every minute, from Washington to Moscow and from Genova to Damascus, diplomatic efforts intend to improve the situations. What remains the same is the need for help. “Every organization working in Syria needs aid. They need blankets, they need water, they need shelter and supplies, we can For Waller, seeing more than 250 attend the events on campus is a sign that “good that some of the students that were here Indeed, KSC senior Becca Brady stated during the discussion, “As a campus community, as individuals, what can we do to help, to make the situation better for the innocent for Dr. Waller, is the right question.

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bill, but the pro-label bill side raised $6 million to educate the public whereas the opposition raised $46 million.

“A lot of your major food companies put in a lot of money to stop that bill from named off franchises such as Pepsi and Kelloggs.

Though the bill was defeated by a narrow margin, Wright said it allowed the rest of the country to see what was happening in the food industry.

When asked how N.H. Right to Know gets their money to spread word of the bill, Wright said, “We’re self funded. We go to a library and show a movie and hope that people can make a donation.

changed their labels 20 times over the course of 16 years.

Mann pointed out that each time a consumer sees the label itself can only last for six months. Mann questioned those opposed to the bill and said, “People should ask themselves: What is the reason not to allow people to have transparent information In certain cases, some states are relying on other states to pass their GMO labeling bill in order to enforce theirs.

For example, both Connecticut and Maine have passed their GMO labeling bill but can not enact the bill until another state that touches their borders passes their proposed bill as well. In other words, the Northeast must come together in a uni-

The group rallied in August and sent letters to representatives and the committee working on the bill. N.H. Right to Know held discussion panels and put on movie

order for it to work.

Wright explained that companies such as Campbells Soup will not want to sell to N.H. if they have to create different labels just for the Genetic Roulette, and infor- state, and this concerns her. mational video about GMO’s “The trigger clause, although and the industry. At most of the events, Wright said people Wright said.

Still, she is hopeful. “I were curious about how they could help ensure the bill is hope it will happen in New Hampshire now, I’m doing passed.

Gary Hirshberg of the everything I can humanly do to make that happen and has spoken for the Just Label there are a lot of us that are It campaign in favor of label“Just like we have a right to ing GMO’s and more farmers will be sharing their thoughts know the carbohydrates conon GMO’s in the following tent, the caloric content, we should have the right to know weeks.

According to Mann, a new study showed there was no cost increase for labelBrittany Ballantyne can be ing. Hirshberg had stated the contacted at bballantyne@keeneaverage company changes its equinox.com labels often, including Stony-

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it’s a one stop shopping trip as opposed to trying to go to three stores to get it all together,” Celgrown foods and that their pur- lender said.

Residents of Keene and surers and the local economy here,” rounding areas are not the only community members that the Faber said.

Co-op hopes to meet the needs

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and local farmer said you can expect to pay more at the co-op like to support the local farmers and producers because I know how much work it is, we do it ourselves at our farm at home, so I appreciate the abundance that they have here.”

“You get what you pay for” is a phrase several shoppers mentioned including General Manager Faber.

“Large factory egg producers that have thousands of chickeggs that are cheaper and on the other hand the eggs that we have where the chickens are actually out on grass foraging, those eggs cost more,” Faber said.

The products sold at the co-op are carefully selected on a departmental level. Department heads meet with a variety of local producers to see if what they offer is “We’re going to ask them questions about how the product is raised or grown. We make being sustainable and sustainably produced,” Faber said, “but ultimately it’s the member-owners and the customers who, in their shopping choices, decide on our product selection.”

Long-time shopper and supporter of the Co-op, Melissa Cellender and her family, live on a strict Paleolithic diet. Often referred to just as paleo, this diet

the Keene State College community as an important part of the co-op.

Faber said, “As we say in our advertisements, everyone can shop and anyone can join, so absolutely we want KSC students to come and be a part of this in whatever way they’re comfortable with. If they are interested in becoming a memberowner, that’s great. If they just love our hot food bar and salad bar, that’s great too.”

KSC junior and occasional Co-op shopper, Kelsey Kimball, said she does not believe many students do a full grocery trip at the Co-op, but it is still affecting the college community in a positive way. “[The Co-op] is one of the only grocery stores within walking distance and it’s downtown where people actually hangout. I think students are more into the hot foods, deli and salad bar more than the actual grocery but that’s still good because I know they use a lot of local products for that and it’s better than just eating at McDonalds or something, it’s a healthy local option,” Kimball said.

pasture raised meats, eggs, veg- open and operating, the Co-op etables, fruit and nuts. “There’s a has just under 2,000 members lot more options for us here and and “that number is expected to keep growing,” Faber said.

STUDENT ASSEMBLY Vice President looks to stay in Assembly KARINA BARRIGA ALBRING

News editor Student Body Vice President senior Jackie Efraimson attended assembly and addressed scheduling complications between a class and the time the assembly meets.

As Vice President, Efraimson is expected to attend the assembly, however, Student Body President Eric Grady brought up that, “The constitution doesn’t state that the VP must attend.”

Grady also said that Efraimson has been to every Student Government meeting.

“Jackie has looked at every option she has to make it to the meetings, she never gave up when she was told she might have to drop her position,” former Student Body Vice President Sean Ballard said.

“Jackie has been very active on campus ever since she was a freshman,” Senior Class President Aaron Testa said. He added, “Our class has lost six members of Assembly due to scheduling complications.”

Efraimson said the class was scheduled for a different time when she registered. Assembly didn’t come to a decision on the issue.

In other business, the Assembly approved a budget of $8,000 for KSC Pride, a budget of $5,360 for Circle K and a budget of $11,000 for the international service trip to Panama and Costa Rica.

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whether to add light, more food and Jason checks out how well they have grown and developed as well. This is new to everyone because this machine has never been sold Green Diamond Aerosystem setups growing vegetables, before. Together they helped each other learn the technolplants and other herbs. The machine is a white circular ogy.

KSC has made it a mission of theirs to have a “GO rotating hydroponic system.

Striffolino said the machine completely eliminates the GREEN” campus. The Zorn Dining Commons works with R.O.C.K.S., a recycling club on campus. purpose of soil; the plants are suspended inside the white Members will be going in once a week collecting waste unit. The spray is on a timer and it repeatedly waters the plants directly to their roots. He said the mist is what is to show students how much food goes to waste to raise consciousness. making the plants grow food.

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Quirinale stressed how important it is to have the correct nutrients in the water.

A poster above the machines in the Zorn Dining Commons explains that the aerosystem has the capacity of 120 plants in an area of 16 square feet.

Additional to the Green Diamond Aerosystems, there are nine plant boxes with light material soil with some edible and non-edible plants hanging from some of the windows at the DC. They also take notice to how much light is available to the plants.

The DC staff needs some outside help to “go green.’’ For this, Striffolino said he hired Samantha Strubel, a student who works at the greenhouse at the Science Center building, to help take care of the plants. She gave the rest of the team a good connection with the greenhouse where they started growing the seeds. They then moved them over into the hydroponic machines.

Strubel goes in two to three times a week and checks on the plants and water and keeps a record of changes. Striffolino also mentioned she had experience from working at an organic farm over the summer.

Another important helping member is the owner from Beez Kneez, a local hydroponic company on Emerald Ct. The owner, Jason Burlie, helped them work and develop the machine.

Striffolino said this gave them a nice connection with the town. He said Burlie helps them with any suggestions

SoundoFF “My friend’s name is Molly, so it freaks me out.”

month they are much taller. Some of these plants are herbs, red ivy, rosemary, lettuce, basil, tomatoes and some colAccording to Ducharme, they are trying to expose students to the growing process. It is a microscopic view of how long it takes things to grow, and with these plants you still don’t have enough to feed ten people. ”I’ve already used herbs, and we’ll use more,” Chef Ducharme said.

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locally, buying disposable wear and decomposable products, and eliminating unnecessary wrapping and paper.

Quirinale also said they have been trying to compose everything, including the food in the café and that they don’t have a lot of pre consumer waste. He said just like vegetable trimmings, they all go to the campus compost pile.

His team is in the works of putting together a whole new system where the waste will be taken to a nearby farm, heated and turned into compost, and the waste will be taken care of. “We’ve gotten better, but there’s a thousand new kids on campus we need to help understand,” Quirinale said.

Part of this learning process is the hydroponic aerosystems. “I’ve been sitting next to this lettuce for a month!”

Executive Chef Rich Ducharme said.

Hydroponics has been around for awhile and it is a very curious subject. He said this is pretty much an awareness piece.

He also stressed that these plants don’t offset anything that they buy. They would need acres of greenhouses to supply food for the whole dining commons. This project is all about exposing information to students. “Food doesn’t just appear, there’s a process to it,” Ducharme said.

The plants are growing. Looking back on them last

-PAUL STRIFFOLINO BRITTANY MURPHY/ EQUINOX STAFF ASSISTANT PRESIDENT FOR STUDENT AFFAIRS KSC students enjoy meals at the Zorn Dining Commons while hydroponic herbs sprout around them.

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Emily Francis Senior Geography

The Monadnock Food Co-op opened in May 2013. Currently, it has just under 2000 members. The Co-op offers a variety of deli products (top). Also custumers can enjoy a salad bar (bottom left) and a bakery. Organic vegetables (bottom right) are one of the Co-ops most popular items.

Jacob Tracy Freshman Safety and health

“I think kids should be more responsible and smarter.”

“What do you think about the Mollyrelated deaths registered lately?”

Brian Rogers Junior Environmental Studies

“People just need to be safer.

Molly is not the most dangerous drug like people think.”

Sara Cipot Junior Education

“The recent deaths just make me worry about some people I know on campus.”

Compiled by: Brittany Murphy

Siobhan Roche Junior Graphic Design

“‘I am not sure why it is an issue now and hasn’t been in the past.”

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EDITORIAL

Thursday,sepT. 19, 2013

The ‘Molly’ trend: we’re not buying it

When Madonna took the stage at the 2012 Ultra Music Festival to introduce Avicii, she asked her captive audience, “How many people in this crowd have seen Molly?”

Making headlines across the nation and world for the recent deaths of young adults, the euphoric energy invoking drug formally known as Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is hotter than the sweaty crowds at these electronic dance music festivals. Informally, the drug is referred to as ecstasy, or “Molly.”

On March 29 of this year, rap artist Tyga released his hit single drug.

Maybe Tyga made “Molly” trendy back in March, but it has long been present in the drug world. Why the sudden popularity? According to James McKinley of the New York Times, from the year 2000 to 2011, 43 people died in the United States from MDMA, compared to 4,676 cocaine overdoses and 4,151 heroin overdoses. “Molly” is not the biggest killer. But right now, it is the most popular.

We think, similar to how Miley Cyrus blew up on all social media recently, we are a culture obsessed with tragedy and gossip. It is all too easy to sensationalize anything with easy access to social sights like Twitter and Facebook, even Instagram.

It seems that anyone can make anything look appealing.

Madonna cracks a joke, Tyga raps about it, Kanye raps about it, even Mac Miller and Lady Gaga have gone public and admitted to using the drug. music festivals, two being New Hampshire college students.

We are not blaming celebrities or social media sites for the deaths, but is the sensationalism they are creating turning something potentially fatal into something people think they should Must they “enhance” the experience?

We are all familiar with peer pressure and bullying. It happens daily between classmates, teammates and friends. Now, however, it seems we can expect the same pressure from celebrities as well.

Rusty Payne, a spokesperson for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, released a statement recently where he called the drug “dangerous and deadly” and said that by taking “Molly”, “you are playing Russian roulette.” The spokesperson added that what people think is the drug “Molly” is often partly or completely something else entirely.

We are aware of how trends become mainstream, and even catch on when celebrities and friends join in on the fad.

The Equinox believes this “Molly” trend should no longer be something different.

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COMMENTARY Plenty of students know all about Miley Cyrus.

Some know her MTV Music Video Awards performance by heart. Some jaws dropped and others burst out in laughter while watching the lowed.

As my Facebook newsfeed quickly became cluttered with Buzzfeed links with labels along the lines of “Most Shocking Miley Moments,” I couldn’t help but think of what was more shocking—how rapidly studies and articles surfaced about the controversial show Cyrus put on stage, or how little many people I spoke with cared to know about what was going on in Syria.

Then I wondered, is it just “bad news” people don’t like?

I’ve heard “I don’t pay attention to the news because it’s all sad” countless times, but what frustrates me more than when people choose to

ignore what is happening before their very eyes is feeling like you can’t do anything about the bad news that stares back at you in bold fonts and the big screen.

Have people given up on making a difference? Have readers become immune to their emotions while reading about the numbers of citizens

have a right to take back the news.

We have a right to see or read something we don’t like, and change it.

Young people should feel a sense of responsibility for how the world is going to turn out as we

alike can take is informing themselves about the planet we live on. and forth between the nations of the world? PerNext time you’re about to turn off the news haps readers and reporters alike are desensitized, because the breaking story is upsetting, I urge accustomed to these tragedies. you to think twice and hear the story out.

As Anne-Marie Mallon, an english professor stories of death and inhumanity, then my eyes at KSC once told me, “This is the world. And you darting to something happier as I scroll down can either run from it, or you can learn from it.” webpages.

But what am I gaining when I do that? That closed mindset has held me back from educating Brittany Ballantyne can be contacted at myself on my surroundings. bballantyne@keene-equinox.com As Keene State College students, I believe we

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Cyrus performance outrage unfair No iPhone, STAFF COMMENTARY

no problem COMMENTARY

I recently had one of my most prized possessions taken from me.

Something that now with perspective I realize I rely on for more aspects of my life than I could have known.

I lost my car keys. But I easily went to Home Depot and had duplicates made.

It was not the car keys that woke me in a state of anxiety Saturday morning, but my iPhone.

The point is not how I lost it-the point is I have tracked my missing beauty with the iCloud application for iPhone and have located a small dot, which in this case is a human, who currently roams around Thompson Street in Keene N.H. with a white iPhone 4s in a blue J. Crew phone case.

Well, I say the joke is on them, because the phone’s speaker sound has been ruined since a small Dining Commons lunch table accident and the power button no longer work after too much usage at the beach in Connecticut this summer. Besides, I have a new phone on the way.

But the point is not that I had my phone stolen from me, the point is, I have been living

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Above, Miley Cyrus performs with Robin Thicke at the MTV Music Video Awards in August. Since the performance, Cyrus has been the subject of scrutiny for what many consider provacative and crude behavior.

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Equinox staff It seems as if every week there is a new controversy surrounding former Disney star Miley Cyrus. The 20-year-old pop sensation has been all over the news ever since the debut of her single, “We Can’t Stop.” Some of the lyrics make allusions to drug use and the video showed some questionable imagery, proving to her fans tana anymore. Her performance at MTV’s Video Music Awards in late August stirred up even more negative media attention.

Here she was seen wearing a skintight, shamelessly to Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”, whom she teamed up with for the performance. Negative attention and hateful comments were essentially the only thing that came out of it for her, as it was widely considered inappropriate for the occasion.

Even more recently was the release of

her latest single, “Wrecking Ball”. In the video we see her strip down to nothing and swing back and forth on a wrecking ball. She is also pictured sexually licking a sledgehammer, and crying as she sings about how love has “wrecked” her. The song is based on her relationship with onsworth. But is Cyrus really deserving of all of the scorn and hate she has received?

No, she’s not. She is an adult woman, who should be able to express herself however she may please. Personally, I feel as if most are overreacting. Miley is not formance or music video, as many other famous pop stars (such as Madonna and Lady Gaga) have done before her.

Many resent Cyrus based on where she came from. It is true that she once was

up and moved on. Among the Miley-haters are mothers whose teen girls have idolized Miley from her Disney career.

Many are angry that their children are looking up to someone who is acting out in such a way. They need to understand that Miley is not the problem, but instead the obsession with celebrities that we partake in. Parents are the ones responsible for teaching their daughters how to act, not Miley Cyrus. It is not up to her to teach young girls what is right and what is wrong, even though she is constantly in the public’s eye. Besides, it is not as if anything that Cyrus has done has been too out there. She is often criticized for these acts, but there are other problems with the media that are going almost unnoticed.

Take for example, Robin Thicke. He was Cyrus’ co-performer during the VMAs, is an older married man and took what she does with the rest of her career. place in the same sexual dancing as her partner during their act. However, he is has gotten a plethora of undeserving hate. almost being ignored as she is being conPeople need to realize that she has grown demned for the show they put on. Why

is it that some are so quick to attack her while Thicke gets away with acting the same way? His video for “Blurred Lines” features entirely naked women, objectifying them in a distasteful way, yet Cyrus is being torn apart for appearing naked in her latest video while he is widely praised for his catchy new song. Cyrus being the target for this ridicule is blatant sexism, which is incredibly unfair. It is usually young female stars that are picked apart for every single move that they make, and she is certainly no exception. Miley Cyrus changing her image does not make her any less talented, and absolutely does not make her any less of a person. It is time for people to realize that she is simply is completely okay for people to disagree with the way she chooses to do so, as long as we all understand that it is not okay to hate her for it.

days—and I love it.

I anticipated anxiety and small panic attacks now and then when I couldn’t check my email, receive or send texts, or see who favorites my Tweet.

Turns out, I love not being in contact with the outside world. When people truly need to get a hold of me, they email me.

Or, in some cases that have happened, they literally come to my house and knock on my door. In the middle of a busy day I am no longer annoyed by an incoming text that just says “Hey.” I have non-willingly cut out a lot of unnecesannoyances from my life.

There have been some downsides: I have not talked to my family in several days, and no longer recieve breaking news updates which as a journalism student, I rely on.

I also think my friends are getting tired of having to make an extended effort to communicate with me regularly.

By the time this piece is published I will have a new iPhone and am sure I will be sucked back into the whirlwind life of an iPhone addict.

So for now, I take a deep breath and enjoy my vacation.

Julie Conlon can be contacted at jconlon@keene-equinox.com

Devon Roberts can be contacted at droberts@keene-equinox.com

FIRED UP ABOUT SOMETHING? Write a letter to the editor and we will publish it here! opinions@keene-equinox.com CORRECTION In vol. 66, issue 1 of The Equinox, Melissa Dipalma was not properly credited for her contributed photos for the “R.O.C.K.S. sells to get the semester rolling” story on A10. The Equinox apologizes.

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Keene is Reading invites students and staff to talk diversity KENZIE TRAVERS

Student Life editor As the world evolves around us, so does the idea and respect for diversity here on the campus of Keene State College. A group of faculty and staff members, students and people from the community gathered in the Atrium Conference room in the student center this past Friday to discuss New York Times best-seller and National Book Award Winning author Andrew Solomon’s, “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.”

English Professor William Stroup has been the cocoordinator and coordinator of the Keene is Reading book club since 2004. He has introduced many readings as well as authors such as Denise Rey, Tracy Kidder, Priscilla Gilman and others to the students and the community of Keene. Supporters of the program that was founded in 2001 include the Symposium Commitculturalism, whose theme for the year revolves around “the evolving commons” Stroup said.

“One of the things that struck me when I was trying to think about what the name ‘the evolving commons’ means to me, was the value that we place on diversity, the value we place on trying to be as inclusive a campus as we can and that lead me to think about this extraorthings we will talk about today at the session, where he [Solomon] is saying, what we have, it isn’t that old ‘melting pot’ idea, where it’s the things that we share that we have in common, but what unites us is difference,” Stroup said.

Stroup’s goal for the program this year was to have a book that can be talked about throughout the year “to keep the discussion going,” Stroup said. Solomon’s, “Far From the Tree” covers topics such as homosexuality, autism, deafness, schizophrenia, trans gender, and children of rape. He considers the interrelationships of families and how we accept difference or independence.

“There is an extraordinary range to the chapters of the book and I’m hoping that, whether it’s from your own story or your own identity, or part of your life as a sister, as a brother, as an aunt, uncle as a teacher, as MELISSA PLUMLEY / EQUINOX STAFF a friend, that there is something in the book where Students, faculty and staff gathered on Friday, Sept. 13, to discuss Andrew Solomon’s New York Time’s best-seller, “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity.” Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Sarah Hottinger is on the right.

identity and difference,” Stroup said. In order to motivate the discussions even more, Andrew Solomon will they are in or teaching and “that can be a part of a larger be speaking on campus this upcoming spring semester, campus discussion,” he said.

Sara Hottinger, professor of women and gender are really excited about that,” Stroup said. studies, is two chapters into the book. Hottinger consid- ers it important for not only faculty and staff, but also for students to be a part of the discussion.“It’s an opporpeople who have just heard about the book, but haven’t had a chance to start reading, can learn a little about it. constraints of the classroom,” she said. “Here we can I’m open to the possibility that people who have picked all come together and talk without those and exchange up the book, have had the same reaction I did from the ideas.” Hottinger continued, “I think its great to have faculty, staff, student and community members coming one. I don’t plan at all to lecture. I’m hoping to hear from together to talk about what is clearly an important book, readers and to have real discussion,” he said. The pro- not only here at Keene state but also across the nation. fessor also hopes that the people who leave the program As we’ve seen from the fact that it’s a best-seller and will talk to the people in their residential halls and their the fact that its on everyone’s mind right now, a lot of friends, as well as make connections with the classes people are talking about it and to kind of bring that con-

versation back to our local community and exchange our ideas about it I think is a really important thing that professor Stroup is doing and organizing.”

Hottinger brings up a feminist scholar named Audra Lord who argues that “We live in a culture that teaches all of us to fear difference,” Hottinger said. “I think that Andrew Solomon really gets at that fear.”

She points out that parents hope for independence in their children, and to be their own person, but not too much. I think that at a college campus, where hopefully there is diversity and people who are different, and discover and create better ways to deal with difference. I think that Solomon’s book might help us do that a little bit, by looking at an intimate parent-child relationship where difference is so crucial,” Hottinger

said. She added, “I think Keene State College is pretty homogeneous in many ways, but I think we are working on expanding our diversity in terms of our faculty, staff and student body and as we do that we have to ask more and more questions about ourselves and our level of comfort on campus and what that comfort means.”

Stroup concluded, “To be a completely typical person is not only nearly impossible, or perhaps indeed impossible, but also an experience that is without joy itself in the world somehow.”

Kenzie Travers can be contacted at mtravers@keene-equinox.com Contributions from Julie Conlon jconlon@kene-equinox.com

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Crossfit fad weighs in on KSC students BRITTANY BALLANTYNE

AdministrAtive executive editor Beads of sweat appear on their foreheads, their breathing quickens and their muscles pulse-but they swear it is worth it.

They are the members of the new College and have nothing but positive comments to make about the workout that has been challenging their endurance and stamina since they picked up the routine.

Enter the Spaulding Gymnasium jump-roping and testing their physical abilities any way they can.

Nicole Morano, a junior at KSC who started the group, has been including all types of motions.

Senior Ryan Heil said the workout is not predictable, as there is something new or different to do every day. Heil performs Olympic bar work, uses rings for various types of pull-ups and throws in a bit of a rowing workout. “That’s the nice everything,” Heil said. Morano said workouts of the day, or WOD’s.

Morano explained these workouts last about 15 minutes and could be, for example, three rounds of 10 timers for athletes to watch, “so once you’re done, you can see how long it took you and maybe a month later,

themselves—I want to create a community.”

-NICOLE MORANO KSC JUNIOR

if you still wish to do that work out you can, to see if you’ve improved,” Morano said.

She explained that she hopes to familiarize people with these workouts to “create a healthy environment.” She also hopes to encourage nitely want people to set goals for themselves and obviously with being a club on campus, I want to create a community,” Morano said.

Senior Marc Young said this club will help students not only get in shape, but put a few more dollars back in their pockets. Young said

and do just the big, heavy, weight accomplished something after.” lifting.” She encouraged people Young said each athlete has to put to not to be afraid of the idea, and all of their physical effort into their Young agreed. routine for an extended period of He explained that there is no time. Of course, Young said it is “very experience necessary when getting intense and that’s the hardest thing about it, but that’s the thing I love tailored to anyone and any ability,” about it. That’s the thing that everyYoung said, and pointed out that regardless of what skills one may he said. lack, that person can work towards Being a personal trainer back achieving that skill. at home, Young explained that he “I don’t want people to be afraid of works with various routines and difit,” said Morano.

She understands that some may unique that it stands alone. be concerned with the shape they are Though Young has not performed but upon his arrival back at Keene, cises, but stressed that the point is that is not the point for him. Instead, to get into the shape you want to be too expensive. The student deal at learn mental toughness. is something that will progress even month. “We can’t afford that, no one His favorite part of working out further and improve health nationin college can afford that,” Young is seeing his results. Whether it be said. Caitlin Kelly, a KSC junior who doing more sets or lifting heavier one goal, however, and that is to start weights, he said “you learn to push some of those improvements here at thrilled to be a part of the group and through everything and overcome KSC. save money while doing so. “I can it.” When leaving the gym, Morano Young said, “We’re a good bunch work out and not have to be poor,” said she is tired, but that is how she of people that are accepting, just she said with a giggle. knows she did her workout correctly. trying to help all types of people get more physically active.” can seem intimidating, but said that admitted that she has her own strug“everyone can do the workout. You gles with workouts.

Brittany Ballantyne can be contacted can always modify it to do it to your Though she faces some challenges, at level, you don’t have to go in there Morano said she “want[s] to feel like I bballantyne@keene-equinox.com

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Ryan Heil performs an “X-fit” exercise in the Spaulding Gym.

It takes ‘here, there, and everywhere’ to miss New Hampshire Marissa strong

greeley, colorado

“After spending a lot of the last year traveling, though, I think I’m ready to go back to New Hampshire and enjoy the small state and everything it has to offer.”

-MARISSA STRONG KSC SENIOR

I need to stop taking New Hampshire for “granite.”

I love traveling. It’s been in my blood since I was very young, when my family would take vacations almost every year.

I’ve been here, there and everywhere it seems, but there are still a million places that I would like to see before I die.

There is one place that I know very well and it will forever be a place that I can never spend enough time exploring.

Colorado is a hot travel spot for many people I know.

I can totally understand why; the Rocky Mountains have some of the best hiking and skiing, there are many tourist destinations, it is home to the very popular cities of Denver and Boulder and for the “outdoorsy” type of person, it’s a limitless playground.

But for me, Co. is something more than just a place of beauty.

I was born in Boulder, Co. and I grew up here. As much as I do love New Hampshire and everything about it, I know that Colorado will always have a special place in my heart.

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“You don’t need a drug to experience this music to the full effect. You don’t,” Fraioli said. “This goes for any kind of music. If you give it a chance, and actually listen to it, you’ll realize that you don’t need it,” he continued.

“Come out with me, let me introduce you to my scene, my world, my music and I’ll show you that you don’t need it,“ he continued.

This seems to be the consensus among DJs, as distinguished EDM DJ Kaskade sent out a plea to his fans via multiple Twitter posts. He said that his music is just as great, if not better, sober.

“Give me a night. Just you + me + the lights + the music.

Let me take you there...

That’s my job. I believe 100% it can be life-changing and uplifting when you are 100%

Ever since I moved to New Hampshire, I’ve been missing Co. I’m studying in Greeley, Co. I’m not very close to the Rocky Mountains (I wish I was closer), and the campus always smells like cow poop (thanks to the surrounding farms) but I have never been happier.

Being able to spend a semester back out here before I have to graduate, get a job, and “settle down” is helping me to realize how lucky I am to have lived here and grown up in Co. that I’m not in Keene during this semester of my senior year.

I’m missing out on a lot of things; my friends, the beautiful fall weather, Pumpkin Fest, and when I get back, I’m only going to have a semester left at quicker than I want it to.

But even though I’m going to miss out on a lot of things, being out here has also really opened my eyes to all of the things that I have back in N.H. Sometimes I feel a little claustrophobic in New Hampshire because everything

Marissa Strong ju mps into CO NT RIB study aw UT ED PH ay expe OTO rience in the water durin g her Colorado .

finally see all of the many things that I take for granted. In the past year of me being out of the state, I’ve never been more CONTRIBUTED PHOTO Senior Marissa Strong is studying in Greeley, Colorado for the semester. Above: Strong is homesick for New Hampshire and all of the friends and with the Outdoor Pursuits, an outing club on campus, before they go kayaking. family I have there.

It’s small and sometimes seems to stay the same and it’s living in N.H. kind of a chal- has to offer. so small that everyone knows lenge for me. After spending It’s taken me a while to boring, but there are so many everyone. The fact that I’ve a lot of the last year traveling, realize how lucky I am to live things that I miss about it.

I cannot wait to get back to been traveling all my life and though, I think I’m ready to in N. H. always seeing new things and go back to N.H. and enjoy the Through all of this travel- Keene and the rest of N.H. to meeting new people makes small state and everything it ing and being far from home, I enjoy the little

things that I once thought were boring or uninteresting.

Spending the semester in Co. has been one of the best experiences of my life and I know that this beautiful state will always have a place in my heart, but I have a newfound love for my small state of N.H. and I cannot wait to return.

“I think that now that they cancelled such big shows, people are actually going to start thinking, ‘Okay, I really don’t need to do this to go to one of these shows.”

-CONNER LANE KSC STUDENT

sober,” he wrote on Twitter.

While the deaths stemming from Molly are gut wrenching, it is still very much a wake-up call for everyone in the EDM community.

“I think it’s going to totally change everything,” Lane confessed.

“I think that now that they cancelled such big shows, people are actually going to start thinking, ‘Okay, I really don’t need to

do this to go to one of these shows”he said.

Fraioli said everyone just needs to relay the same message; you DON’T need Molly.

“If more DJs and producers and artists and the scene put out the message, that you don’t need it and you can say no, I think it’ll help.”

Kattey Ortiz can be contacted at kortiz@keene-equinox.com

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Keene State College student is Woman of the Year SABRINA LAPOINTE

Equinox Staff Not every 21-year-old can call herself woman of the year.

Being compared to women double her age and over, Keene State College senior Krista Sullivan proved that young women can, in fact, have an impact on society.

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held by The Keene Sentinel, but will now be held annuKSC STUDENT ally, according to Sullivan.

Sullivan was one of 20 women recognized in greater shared the experience of traveling to Nicaragua with Keene for making a notable difference. After growing her. The two have known each other for nearly three up in Keene for most of her life, Sullivan is no stranger years now. to the community.

“I honestly admire whoever goes to Central America “I was the youngest [recognized] by far, they were cally what I observed about Krista is that she is able to [years],” Sullivan said. manage situations which are very stressful with a lot of Sullivan is a double major in education and woman humor and with a maturity,” Pedroza said. studies, president of the feminist collective, and a On top of her experiences in Nicaragua with Sullimember of the Honors Program. van, Pedroza has also had the opportunity of having Sullivan shared her beliefs about how KSC guided Sullivan in class. her in her many respectable accomplishments.

Through classroom experiences, Pedroza gained a substantial amount of respect for Sullivan and how she probably wouldn’t have gotten at other schools. For conducts herself both in and out of class. my woman’s studies degree we went to a local jail and “As a student she belongs to the honors class which worked with female inmates,” Sullivan said. requires a lot. You need to maintain a high standard in She continued, “Also through the honors program everything so academically she’s smart. But in this case I traveled to Nicaragua in May of 2012. Opportunities I admire that she’s able to balance her academic learnlike that were here.” ing with the strong activism,” Pedroza said.

Although Sullivan does not know who nominated Through her time here at Keene State, Sullivan has her for this Woman of the Year title, she seems to have certainly made her presence known and as a result, she a large fan base that is very supportive of her and her was awarded for it. work.

The professor said, “What I like about this recogOne of her closest friends, KSC senior Johanna nition is usually they recognize ladies that have done DeBari, had no trouble stating why she believes Sulli- things for like 40 years and in this case I’m just so happy van earned such an honorable title. that it’s obvious that they paid attention to somebody “She’s always busy, she needs things to do, she needs who is so young compared to all the community leadto be involved in everything, have a schedule and be ers.” super busy,” she continued, “She’s a go getter for sure.

“It’s very admirable to me that Krista, with her young If she wants something done, she gets it done, but at the age had that impact because all of the other leaders are same time she’s super down to earth,” DeBari said. ahead in the community. I’m just so happy that they recOn top of having a strenuous work load and ognized someone at Keene State College,” Pedroza coninvolving herself in multiple organizations, Sullivan’s tinued. dedication to helping others has inspired both fellow As graduation approaches, Sullivan hopes to make classmates and professors alike. connections between the work she has done here on Debari said, “She is one of the most inspiring people campus and see how it will lead to something in the I have in my life and I tell her that all the time but she’s future to start a new adventure. so modest.”

A piece of advice Sullivan leaves for women is this: She continued, “She has been through a lot in her “Just go for it. Try new things. I think women somelife, she’s struggled through a lot, and the fact that she times sell themselves short and focus on one task and can come out being so strong and independent and doing things really well but I prefer to do like a lot of well-spoken is just amazing to me and I look up to her different things and kind of over book myself but somea lot. I feel really honored to be close to her and have a how get by.”

BRAN CANTORE / PHOTO EDITOR friend like her,” Debari said.

The Keene Sentinel names KSC Senior Krista Sullivan as one of the Extraordinary Women of the Year.

Women and Gender Studies Assistant Professor Sabrina Lapointe can be reached at Sullivan is a double major in education in woman studies, president of the feminist collective and a part Patricia Pedroza is not only Sullivan’s advisor, but also slapointe@keene-equinox.com of the honors program. car, they slapped a ticket on his car as well, costing him approximately $300.

That is twice as much as he paid for his Winchester to the guest passes on the Lot pass for the year. meal plans would help solve “I don’t think they underthat issue. stand how much three hun“I know they have all the dred dollars actually costs to information on their web- someone who is a freshman in college. I think it should sort through,” Kuist said. be one or the other,” Kuist Kuist has had a run-in said.

Hillary Smith and Olivia when his car was towed Mendoza, both seniors at from the parking lot behind KSC, have also had some Fiske Hall. troubles with parking on According to Kuist, “It campus. Mendoza received was all according to policy. a $15 ticket for parking in They weren’t in the wrong the faculty lot behind the to tow me.” gym. “I knew I was doing However, on top of something wrong. I knew I having to pay for his towed (Cont. from A10)

shouldn’t have parked there and I made the conscious decision to keep it there so

grass,” Smith said.

her $250. Although she tried Mendoza said. mately lost.

Smith, on the other hand, “They sent me an e-mail had her car towed from the saying your rebuttal has lot she had a pass for. been denied and you just According to Smith, the have to pay for it,” Smith winter of her freshman said. year she had her car towed Both Smith and Menfrom Winchester Lot, even doza have not heard of or though she had her parking pass, because she techni- Facebook page. Mendoza cally did not park in a spot. said she thinks the park“It was in the winter and they hadn’t plowed the lot out an e-mail to those who so you couldn’t see the lines bought parking passes this for the spaces and I thought year to inform them of the I was parking in the spot page. Smith said she called closest to the bridge, but apparently I parked on the and felt she should have been informed of the Facebook page then.

However, the Facebook page and its information can be found on other campus organizations’ pages.

According to Kellis, the other organizations also post her parking informapage to their Facebook pages as well.

“The res. life has been very cooperative, and they post all my stuff on their Facebook pages and all the RAs as well have been trained,” Kellis said.

For those who do not know of the parking policies, there are a lot. There are 10 types of parking passes that can be purchased through

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Familiarizing students with the parking policies prevents frustrating tickets and problems with parking.

The most common ones are those for the Winchester Street lot, the commuter lots, for those living off campus, and passes for the Pondside II and III lots as well as the Owls Nest lot.

The price for a pass in the Winchester Street lot cost $90 a semester or $150 for the year. Passes for this lot are available to all resident students. Unfortunately, all passes for this lot are sold out.

The price for Pondside II, III, and Owl’s Nest cost $250 for the year. These are made available only to students who reside in these

housing options.

Lastly, a commuter pass cost $75 a semester or $125 for the year. All parking permits can be purchased online at https://keene. thepermitstore.com.

The commuter lots and KSC faculty/staff lots are available from 4 p.m. to midnight Monday through Thursday for any public vehicle, parking pass or not.

However, guests who will be staying overnight during the week need to obtain a visitors pass from the parking or towing of their vehicle.

According to Kellis, she has enforcement staff checking the lots 24 hours a day.

Her staff includes student cers as well as herself.

“We technically can ticket every four hours, but in the spirit of it being a college campus I have trained my staff to be very choosey about when they stack another ticket,” Kellis said.

According to Kellis, cars are only towed once they have been ticketed three times or have shown this behavior before or are ignoring the policies. most issues during “Pumpkinfest with guests and students parking on the lawn in the Winchester Lot along with vehicles being parked in the faculty and commuter lots without permits on regular days, “ Kellis said.

One last piece of advice, “Just make sure you know this stuff because it’s really expensive if you don’t,” Brendan Kuist said.

The full list of KSC’s parking policies can be found at https://www.facebook.com/KSCParking or www.keene.edu/campussafety/parkingrules.cfm.

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when I got back to WLU I am much more prepared to take another community that’s very similar to Keene State College and help them grow and develop as well,” Brown said.

Brown said he will miss most the friendships he has made. He said he will miss “Relationships in general. I’ve had an absolutely great opportunity to work with so many fantastic, passionate students, faculty and staff, who go above and beyond. The student center staff is amazing.” Brown said that it is the people at KSC that have made the difference. “I love the campus, I love the community, but it’s the people that have made the difference.”

Director of Student Involvement, Jennifer Ferrell, is proud of started, she said, “I was hoping to get someone in who would be really interested in growing a lot of our programs and supporting both our Greek organization as well as making a big impact in our leadership programs. Alex has absolutely done that. Probably skills and the way he works with people and students made that so much easier.”

Ferrell continued, “Right off the bat he was doing great things.”

Besides his coworkers, Brown is highly respected by the student community. Senior and President of Delta Phi Epsilon, Stephanie has grown so much since he has been here. We are really sad to see him leave.”

According to Ferrell, the Greek community is twice the size that it was three years ago when Brown arrived. Not only that, but an additional fraternity has been charted on campus, as well as various leadership programs.

“We have a much more thoughtful, thorough leadership development program that comes out of the student center with regular “One of the new things he [Brown] created was the Emerging Leaders Program, that show anyone at any level to be a leader.”

Brown has also brought the well-known Ted Talks to campus. dence has too.

“He [Brown] is really big on motivational speaking and when we have different milestones, he’s really big on promoting what we’re doing and helping us and getting our name out there,“ Senior and Delta Phi Epsilon member Juliann Abraham said.

She continued, “He’s a really big support system for us, when we need help, and its nice that he’s always there for us.”

Ordille added, “He has helped our sisterhood moral,and the positive energy in our sorority and Greek life altogether.”

When asked what she will miss most about Brown, Ferrell said, “I’ll certainly miss his positivity.” She said that Brown usually gives position, Ferrell will be taking over his responsibilities. She hopes that she is able to serve the Greek Life community as Brown has.

“The students are very close to him. I want them to know that I support them too even though I’m not Alex,” she said.

Abraham and Ordille offer some advice for Ferrell. “I know she is really busy, so try not to forget about us,” Ordille said.

Abraham added, “Because she is in charge of other organizations, were willing to help her just as much as shes willing to help us. Its nice to know that Alex has left us in good hands.”

Kenzie Travers can be contacted at mtravers@keene-equinox.com

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The thing with electronic music is the natural energy that the music gives

“Molly” has become a household name as a result of recent high pro-

“The feeling that people have when they’re on these drugs, I feel

All four of their deaths were linked to the use of this drug at festivals showcasing

Fraioli has opened for EDM artists such as Steve Aoki, Avicii, Fedde Le Gran

It is an exponentially growing reality that festival patrons are seeing; people are succumbing in similar situations across the

For seven consecutive years, Fraioli has performed at the notable Ultra Music Festival in Miami, Florida, which is the best EDM festival in the world, according

Now, EDM lovers and even disc jockeys are rising against the new stigma that is folMolly is the purest form of MDMA, an It is known for the euphoric side effects

With hundreds of thousands attending every year, he described it as a privilege and honor to even be playing at the

Electronic dance music can ignite these feelings without the drug, but is said to be

He jumps up and down, throws his hands in the air and sweats whenever he

Junior Conner Lane has been a part of the EDM community since his freshman year at Keene State College when he was introduced to dubstep, a form of electronic

“I’m literally feeling this music and I’m letting my emotions out through the music that I play and the vibe that I wanna give off to the crowd when they

He has attended Identity Festival and seen artists such as Thomas Gold and Swed-

Fraioli said he credits the newfound explosion in EDM to “Top 40” artists who don’t have anything to do with the genre yet incorporate it into their music for a

“The whole show is set up to entertain you,” Lane said, “whether it’s to make you dance, or the lights, there are crazy visuals that are kind of ‘out-of-this-world’, so I think

“The reason why the whole Ecstasy and Molly thing has become so big out of nowhere is because our genre of EDM has

Senior Becca Browning said she considers EDM artist, Pretty Lights her asphyxiation, but enjoys music from Lotus and

music was never really played on com-

As someone who regularly goes to these concerts, she said the circumstances are

“But now since all these commercial artists are incorporating it into their songs, it’s like the people have no choice

encourages people to do any variety of

Lane said he believes the sudden popularity of the genre is a fad among young people who do not appreciate the music

“But I think it’s almost kind of embarrassing because I go to these shows, I spend money on tickets, I travel, and I get hotels

He said, “I don’t like when people go to these shows and do Molly because I don’t feel like they’re really in it for the

It is hard to imagine that every single person of the thousands that convene at EDM shows consume Molly and that is Regardless, big-name artists such as Afrojack and festivals like Electronic Adventure at Six Flags New England have been forced to cancel future shows as a rising number of venues are taking precautionary measures to ensure the safety of their

“They’re just in it for how the drugs don’t dissect the music like I would Fraioli stressed that when people do ERIN D’ALEO / EQUINOX STAFF

Boston DJ Richard Fraioli said, “Come out with me, let me introduce you to my scene, my world, my music and I’ll show you that

Investigators are also looking at the pos- you don’t need it.”

He also added that he does not like sibility of a “bad batch” of Molly being sold how people associate any EDM festival Lane said he genuinely loves the music about is how electronic music is so univerBoston-based DJ Richard Fraioli, who with Molly because “people are going to do has been a professional DJ for nearly eight The tragedy is opening eyes, but the realOne of the main traits he loves about the “So everyone can kind of relate to it ity is hurting the artists as well as EDM fans If they want to do it, he said, they’re going At 27 years old, he said he takes pride who abide by the rules and PLUR: Peace, “One of the big things they always talk in the fact he has never taken Molly or any

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Pay attention to KSC parking Greek Life coordinator bids adieu policies or pay a nasty ticket KENZIE TRAVERS

Student Leadership since and support to create what- and sorority community, as ever we felt was needed to well as the student governhis Masters at the University help advance our programs According to Alex Brown, on both the leadership and “It’s a chance to serve my Keene State College has “The chance to come into the Greek life side,” Brown Keene State and work in a Brown has been the Coor- newly created position, I was Brown will continue dinator of Greek Life and really given a ton of freedom working with the fraternity ured out what I wanted to do, as well as being close to my family and friends,” Brown

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Social MEdia dirEctor

Residential Life, RA’s, and other student orgaThe Facebook page now allows students to

the best it can to create a positive image as well “A lot of the policies that we’ve changed in the last year are customer service focused, which was a big goal of mine, to make the perception

A “QR code” is a barcode you scan into a smartphone and it automatically brings you to

develop programming skills and given him many oppor-

page was created in June 2013 and has approxiKellis has had this title under her belt for a year now and she has made many changes to the parking program to better suit the needs of KSC’s students, faculty and the surrounding

“That autonomy really helped me in a variety of ways to help me develop my programming skills and it helped me to develop phy that UWL helped me

KSC junior Jane Plummer said she has heard Although Plummer no longer has a parking pass due to living off campus, she has had them Plummer never had an issue with parking herself, but she said she knows of a couple of

Some of these changes include: extending organizations on campus, gaining a technologically upgraded system such as creating a Face-

By creating a Facebook page and working with other on-campus organizations, Kellis felt it would make the parking policies better Kellis has had the opportunity to work with

“I think [the tickets] were like fourty dollars,” Brendan Kuist, a sophomore at KSC, also feels that the parking policies should be clearer, In order to relieve some confusion, Kuist said he thinks having guest parking passes similar

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On his last day, Coordinator of Greek Life and Student Leadership Alex Brown poses with KSC Greek Life students.

opportunity to be involved in a lot of different outside opportunities including the professional association I work with, the association of fraternity and sorority advisors, I had a chance to spend this last year as the regional director and so Keene State has been supportive of absolutely all my endeavors

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Music copes with emotions

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Hearing Zaroulis as part of an ensemble, Chesebrough said the drummer “worked very hard to make the ensemble sound good.”

Chesebrough also said that it seemed Zaroulis left school very unexpectedly.

“One day he came up to me and asked if he could miss some of concert band to do an audition for a band,” he said.

“As with all people, we compromised and he was able to go.”

“It seemed like the next day he said, ‘I got the gig, I’m leaving school.’ It [was] such a sudden thing.”

Zaroulis agree agreed.

“I packed up that day and drove home. Four days later I went on tour for two months.”

The Brew travels all over the United States.

“We went all over the US, south to Texas, west to New Mexico. I have been to 38 states in the last two years,” Zaroulis said, “I have just been on and off traveling.”

Zaroulis said that’s when he knew he made the right choice to leave school and that he is fortunate to be so successful at such a young age.

“I’m super lucky,” he said, “I would have regretted not leaving school.”

The Brew just returned form recording a new album in Nashville with Grammy nominee Andreah Pokic. Drouin said The Brew owes a lot of their recent success to Zaroulis.

“The new album is ridiculous and it’s a largely a part to Aaron.

He is just incredible and wicked fun to work with,” Drouin said.

He also said Aaron’s young spirit revitalized the band.

“He is really energetic. He pushed us in all kinds of new directions. That youthful rejuvenation of the band was priceless.”

Drouin said in his view, Zaroulis is the most talented drummer in the area.

“In my opinion he is the greatest drummer on the East Coast and he

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ing feeling. Mac Miller’s “Scoop on Heaven” helps a lot with that.

I can’t change reality and I know Chills go down my spine, the that but that doesn’t always make lyrics circle my head and I can feel it any easier. the music through my mind, body Mac Miller describes how and soul. he envisions heaven; the brightNo matter the feeling—happiness, sadness, excitement, depres- everybody tells the truth and one sion, grief, heart-break, a mellow of my favorite lines is, “You probfeeling, joy or anticipation—I just ably got a Mercedes but always let the music take over. could take the bus.”

If I want to be sad, I can be sad.

When I’m feeling down, I’ll I can blast Drake’s “Hate Sleep- play this and remember the serene ing Alone” and feel sorry for the image that I, too, see heaven as. heartbreak I’ve been through in It’s an uplifting feeling that helps my life. Depending how I’m feel- me through. ing, I just might turn to the classic On the other side of the specTaylor Swift, “Just Another Pic- trum, I, just as anyone else would, ture to Burn.” also sense different forms of hapAfter the untimely loss of my piness. Happiness can range from father, if I want to grieve, I can a laid-back, “no worries” attitude, blast The Police “Every Step You to an excited and ecstatic feeling.

Take,” or the Aaliyah song that The tranquil sounds of Matibecame a tribute to her, “I Miss syahu—especially the song “One You.” Day”—reminds me of a relaxing Music like this can help day by the beach or the pool. through the healing process of The Goo Goo Dolls “Slide” or utter sadness. I can’t help but feel John Mayer’s “Daughters” are that bottling up emotions only soothing sounds to my ear that results in an explosion. So, it’s keep me smiling. good to be sad sometimes—let it “Do you wake up on your own out, cry if you need to. and wonder where you are? You However, in my experience, live with all your faults,” the Goo it seems inevitable to notice that Goo Dolls’ song continues, “I music can truly be a ‘dosage’ of want to wake up where you are, I happy for each and every one of won’t say anything at all.” us.

What can be more relieving?

Like I said, if you want to be The idea that someone, somesad, be sad. Turn up Lana Del Rey where, will accept all of your and feel sorry for yourself, there’s faults. nothing wrong with that.

Not only that—but they want According to a study done by to wake up where you are — the Medill School of Journalism at maybe true love does exist.

Northwestern University, a group The message behind “Daughthat listened to upbeat music ters” by John Mayer is, at times, rather than mellow music con- sad for me to hear. cluded in the result; “it was shown At the same time though, the that listeners experienced a rush words, “Fathers be good to your of the feel-good neurotransmit- daughters and daughters will ter dopamine near this region, as love like you do,” warm my heart well as a rush of dopamine in the to know that I am lucky enough to rear striatum, the brain’s pleasure have been raised by such a comcenter. “ passionate father.

For example, contrasting to Mayer was right. I can truly the grieving, upsetting songs I say my dad’s positive attitude and had mentioned before, sometimes outlook on life shaped me in an missing my dad can be a sooth- inexplicable way.

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The Brew has just recently returned from recording an album in Nashville, TN with Grammy Award nominee Andreah Pokic. Zaroulis left his sophomore year at Keene State College just a bit early to audition for, and quickly become, the drummer for the band.

is twenty-one years old. God knows what a monster he is turning into.”

Drouin’s appreciation for Zaroulis as a drummer seemed to be clear.

“I just love that kid. He is one of the greatest people I have met and I know he is the greatest drummer I have met,” Drouin said.

“I hope to be playing with him for years to come.”

Zaroulis has been playing the drums since the fourth grade but said that he “didn’t start taking the drums seriously” until around freshman year of high school.

Turns out, the years of practice certainly were not a waste of time.

Anna Glassman can be contacted at aglassman@keene-equinox.com

On the other hand, moving away from calm and harmonious sounds, I am brought to Avicii’s “Fade Into Darkness.” The mix of the piano and techno build up to leave the listener with a “feel good” attitude and, very possibly, the urge to dance (for me, at least).

Not only does the catchy beat match the sense of dopamine release in the brain, but the lyrics have an amazing message as well.

“This world can seem cold and gray but you and I are here today and we will fade into darkness,” seems to portray the idea that regardless of the seemingly aloof world some of us live in, we’re here on earth and will let our presence take us to unlimited places—mentally and physically.

With the emerging popularity of techno and electric dance music, the over joy feeling from songs like Avicii’s is not limited to this genre of music-to me, at least.

Keith Urban’s “Day’s Go By” never fails to remind me of the “Fade Into Darkness.”

“Day’s go by, I can feel ‘em in the wind. It’s all we’ve been given, so you better start livin’ right now. ‘Cause days go by.”

The lyrics remind me that in the rush of it all, it’s important to stop and be thankful and joyful of what each and every one of us exists as today. It’s hard to forget pressures of school, work and society. help but agree with Urban and Avicii’s lyrics that it’s crucial to take a step back to love and appreciate the little things.

Regardless of hardships, with tough times comes a sense of pride and power to overcome whatever the tribulation may be.

For me, I feel that pride and power through the sounds of music.

Rebecca Farr can be contacted at rfarr@keene-equinox.com

Queen Latifah has big plans ahead to make noise with new show on CBS LYNN ELBER

AssociAtEd PrEss LOS ANGELES (AP) — Queen Latifah knows a reliable stress reliever to cope with the pressures of launching a daytime show.

“I have a drum set in my dressing room and I go in there and play for a few minutes to relax. They can forget about it being quiet around here — I’m going to bang my drums,” said the singer-songwriter and actress, who’s adding the job of host to her resume.

With Monday’s debut of the syndicated “The Queen Latifah Show” (check local listings for station, time), she intends to make noise in the competitive realm of daytime TV. “I’m naturally a bit edgier than typical daytime, but I kind of want to push things a little bit further, as far as I can respectfully, within the daytime space,” said Latifah.

“I want more out of daytime TV. I want more choices, I want more heart, more humor.” female rapper before expanding into other genres.

Her wish list is varied and includes Coldplay and Kings of Leon, and she’s already got Alicia Keys and Plain White T’s lead singer Tom Higgen-

“She’s just fantastic,” Pinkett Smith told reporters in August. “I just feel like every (day), you have the opportunity to kick it with your girlfriend, for new shows, but Latifah said she was glad to hold off on joining the fray Queen Latifah.” and isn’t presenting herself as a successor: She wants to have Winfrey on as a guest to demonstrate “that I am the current Latifah and she is the current host.

Oprah,” she said, wryly.

The program had an abbreviated run from 1999-2001 but pointed her in the right direction for her new effort from Sony Pictures Television.

“The Secret Life of Bees,” will be part of her audience.

“I learned I really have to be true to myself. ... I want to go out there and But they have many choices, whether celebrity-driven talk shows or do something that feels like me every day and is something I’m comfort- alternatives including “Dr. Phil” and “Dr. Oz.” able with and excited about,” said Latifah.

“She’s coming on at a time when it’s very competitive, but she brings the name recognition and the support of a major studio to launch her show,” said Bill Carroll, a daytime TV expert for Katz Media.

Whether her show can topple reigning queen Ellen DeGeneres or best successful newcomers Katie Couric and Steve Harvey isn’t the point: What’s key is if it betters the ratings of the program it replaced in each market and at least matches the numbers of the one that precedes it, Carroll said.

“The Queen Latifah Show” will air on CBS owned-and-operated stations in major markets and on different channels elsewhere in the country; timing also will vary. In New York, for instance, it comes on in the

Kelly and Michael.”

Other inaugural guests include John Travolta, Sharon Stone, Jamie Foxx, While Latifah is eager to connect with viewers, she doesn’t think that Jake Gyllenhaal and Lisa Kudrow. necessarily includes putting her personal life on display — nearly heretiAlso invited are “regular people who do amazing things” that are inspical, since it’s common for daytime talk-show hosts to use their off-camera rational and who deserve to share the stage with celebrities, Latifah said. world for fodder.

“As much bad news as we see every day, it’s good to see people out there “I’m not trying to throw myself out there to get ratings. I’m really more doing positive things that give you hope. I’m an optimist,” she said. interested in building something that’s entertaining to people,” she said.

Monday’s show will feature a performance by preteen actress-singer “I’ve never had to just share everything about my personal life to AP PHOTO Willow Smith, with dad Will Smith dropping in Tuesday. entertain people.”

If the schedule seems a tad Smith family heavy, it’s with good reason: This undated publicity photo released by Sony Pictures Television Whatever she might discuss on-air “will be a natural thing and depends Latifah and Smith go way back, and he and wife Jada Pinkett Smith are shows Will Smith, left, with Queen Latifah, on “The Queen Latifah on how I build the rapport with my audience,” Latifah added.

Show,” where he also serves as executive producer. among the producers of Latifah’s new venture.

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Dementia.

The elderly puppets are in wheelchairs, which are composed of “a hybrid of baby strollers and crutches,” Murphy said.

One of the two excerpts was of Zeller Bass, puppeteer of the elderly character Rose.

Murphy, the caregiver, brought Rose a drink and she began to reminisce of her dancing days.

On a small rant, it was quickly brought back to Rose’s attention that she was thirsty—even though she had just had a drink.

Her caregiver became just a bit frustrated, but not nearly as much as Rose was when she was informed that she had already had a drink.

The next performance was Falling Under—a dance choreographed

by KSC senior Gabriella Pacheco.

She and two fellow dancers, Jordann Cardinal and Lara pretive-seeming dance.

The dancers were reaching for something, but what?

They had amazing balance yet the dance seemed to be a portrayal of, perhaps, a lack of balance in the world.

Following this routine were two faculty members of the music department, the newly welcomed Daniel Carberg and José Lezcano.

Carberg was the tenor and Lezcano on guitar.

Their pieces revealed a love song, “Boy loves girl and girl has better things to do,” Carberg said.

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by Matthew Janczewski’s Arena Dances.

Janczewski, said their work on “The Main Street Dance Project” represents what can happen to a small town—do we know how to connect with people face to face?

“Does the local Main Street still exist?” He asked. “I go home to Illinois and say, ‘what happened to my hometown?’”

The performance began with just one dancer on stage but soon enough the rest of the Arena Dance crew stormed the stage.

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father, who broke out the video camera just after David had a little bit of pain relief after his visit to the dentist’s gonna last forever?” turned into a YouTube star.

The video was uploaded four years ago and has close to 120,986,000 views.

Shea said that while she thinks Jenna Marbles’ sense of humor is funny, the “accidental” viral videos give an even better laugh.

A new form of video sharing, Vine, has taken over the cell phone world.

A common theme in both YouTube and Vine: humor that people can relate to. (her Vine username).

With more than 674,000 followers, the 17-year-old girl most often Vines about relatable topics.

A difference between her and Jenna Marbles—Vine videos can only be up to six seconds.

For example, a video posted about the phrase,

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“know what I’m saying?” She suggests that it’s one word, “knowhaisayin?”

Posted just last Monday, Sept. 16 the video post has over 47,000 likes and 34,000 revines.

Following the instant popularity of Vine, the “Best Vines” account was created. The account revines— which is similar to a retweet—what many people would classify as hilarious.

A video about “Kid President” was posted nearly a month ago.

A little boy, maybe about six-years-old, dressed in a suit and tie is hugging a globe.

As he continuously alters his positioning and he wraps his arms around the globe, the child asks, “Am I getting everybody? Am I getting everybody?”

His voice squeals, with a little bit of struggle as he tried to hold the globe in its entirety, “Am I getting everybody?!”

Yet again, something the public just might be able to relate to.

Rebecca Farr can be reached at rfarr@keene-equinox.com

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The Pilobolus Dance Theater, famous for performing at the Academy Awards and the Olympics, returns to KSC on Oct. 15. This time with KSC alum Shawn Ahern.

seemed to alter throughout the performance.

Helping each other up, then pushing one another down, they slowly trailed around each other, weaved through one another, with a bold message yet with such gentle and natural movements.

Toward the end of their show, all

With the spotlight on them, a woman explained the capabilities of Facebook.

As she described the social networking website, a man behind her seemed to be mocking her explanations. tionship status,” she said, and he was behind her pretending to take her hand in proposal.

She said, “You can look at their pictures and see if they like cats,” as her comrade swiveled through her feet like a cat would.

While these performances mirrored a few select events, what else Kimmie Allen, Sarah Baumert, Elise can the Keene community expect Erickson, Dustin Haug and Timmy from the Redfern? A whole lot.

Wagner—were on one stage, but the KSC can also look forward to a relationships between each of them collaboration of the KSC Chamber

Singers, the Community Chamber Singers and a German Community Choir who will arrive to Keene on October 4.

From the Pilobolus Dance Theater (including KSC alum Shawn Ahern), to the Debo Band—a former performer at the popular music festival Bonaroo—to Cirque Alfonse and the Sandglass Theater, the Redfern Arts Center at Brickyard Pond has these and several various, traveling acts to offer.

With some returners and some new to the KSC campus, the Redferm anticipates their arrival. taurants are partnered with the Redfern.

Elm City Brewery, McCue’s Billiards and Sports Lounge, Nicola’s Trattoria, The Pub and Ramunto’s Brick Oven Pizza are offering a ten percent discount for Redfern ticket holders on the night of each visiting artists’ performance.

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“Students really want to put in extra time. You don’t even have to say, ‘work hard.’ They are pushing themselves to do it.”

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KSC senior, Max Moran, is the actor for a Production three/four group. Shay Lynch (right), is on crew for the group production titled “The Infamous Rocco Zanzabar.”

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Don’t miss the upcoming local events Colonial Theatre Local music nights Fritz the Place to Eat

Classic Albums Live: Abbey Road Saturday, Sept. 21 8:00 p.m.

The Calerpittars Friday, Sept. 20 6:30-9:00 p.m.

Three for the Taking Friday, Sept. 27 6:30-9:00 p.m.

Putnam Theatre

Thursday, Sept. 19 at 7:00 p.m. ONLY

Redfern Arts Center

Sept. 20-25 Friday & Saturday at 7:00 & 9:15 p.m.

Saturday & Sunday matinee at 2:00 p.m.

Donal Fox Inventions Trio Friday, Sept.20 at 7:30 p.m.

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Colorado evacuees return home, find more heartbreak

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Saturday, September 14, a portion of a road in Boulder, Colorado washses away from severe flooding in the area. Rescuers take advantage of a break in the weather to resume the search for those still stranded.

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gave the few remaining residents, mostly wandering

HYGIENE, Colo. (AP) — Weary Colorado evacuees have begun returning home after days of rain and whelming to some.

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the waters continue to recede and roads are cleared to - allow crews to access more areas. Searchers in the air tems were destroyed. Hundreds of homes around Estes and on the ground scoured isolated areas from the foothills east to homes and communities along waterways downstream.

Syrian helicopter shot down by Turkey DESMOND BUTLER

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Senate lifts restrictions as shooter sought LAURIE KELLMAN

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allowed to leave the buildings but only senators day.

Earlier in the day, Gainer said he had no information to suggest the Senate, its members or staff were in danger but restricted access and caution.

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been at odds with the Syrian gov- have occasionally rained down ernment since early in the counSyrian rebels, while advocating international intervention in the not tolerate any violation of the border by Syrian forces.

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Emergency Response Team arrives to scene where a gunman was reported at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington, on Monday, September 16.

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Big storms hit Mexico on opposite coasts

Drug-resistant bacterias are common killer, studies show MIKE STOBBE LYNDSEY TANNER

MRSA bacteria have been the target of many hospital infection

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live without symptoms on the skin, but also can cause skin or tissue infections, and become more dantime, the government is estimating gerous when they enter the bloodhow many people die from drugSerious, invasive MRSA resistant bacteria each year — more than 23,000, or about as many as declined in all settings for a total of 80,461 infections in 2011, the jourtrol and Prevention released the with health care in people who’d number Monday to spotlight the growing threat of germs that are hard to treat because they’ve 16,000 infections picked up in comFinally estimating the problem munity settings outnumbered the sends “a very powerful message,” 14,000 infections that began in the University

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People stand at the corner of a flooded street caused by heavy rains brought by Tropical Storm Manuel in Acapulco, Mexico, on Monday.

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Protection coordinator, Luis Felipe Puente, told reporters late Sunday that stormy (AP) — The remnants of weather from one or both of Tropical Storm Manuel con- the two systems also caused tinued to deluge Mexico’s three deaths in Hidalgo, - three in Puebla and one in der with dangerous rains Getting hit by a tropiheaded for a Monday land- cal storm and a hurricane at fall on the country’s oppo- the same time “is completely site coast in an unusual atypical” for Mexico, Juan double onslaught that federal authorities said had tor of the country’s National Weather Service, said at The heaviest blow a news conference with Sunday fell on the southern coastal state of Guerrero, where Mexico’s governthe second hurricane of the Atlantic storm season, could reach the mainland by had been killed in land- Monday morning or early slides, drownings in a swol- afternoon, most likely along len river and a truck crash the lightly populated coast on a rain-slickened mounAuthorities in the Gulf

the toll of the 17 most worrisome

have accounted for about 11 percent of MRSA not linked with

Each year, more than 2 million people develop serious infections

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states of Tamaulipas and Early Monday, Manuel’s affected by the storm to than 7,000 people from low- remnants had maximum varying degrees, and 20 lying areas as the hurricane sustained winds of about highways and 12 bridges 30 mph (45 kph) and was had damage, the state’s civil ashore as a tropical storm moving to the northwest at Sunday afternoon near the A bridge collapsed near but quickly began losing kilometers) west of Puerto strength and was downgraded to a tropical depresManuel was expected to sion late Sunday, although dump up to 10 to 15 inches of rain over parts of Guerrero and Michoacan states, with maximums of 25 inches possaid the system dissipated

Sarin gas used in Syrian attack PETER JAMES SPIELMANN

PEOPLE SHOW? The team examAssociAted Press ined 36 survivors of the attack, and found loss of consciousness in 78 percent; shortness of breath Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 61 percent; blurred vision in 42 mation in 22 percent; excessive team on a chemical weapons salivation, or vomiting, in 22 perattack in Syria last month that he

Damascus suburb of Ghouta but did not say who launched the

circumstantial evidence, but the The drugs are considered one of authors said the MRSA link is plauthe greatest advances in the history sible because antibiotics are widely of medicine, and have saved count- used on pig farms and other livestock operations to enhance animal But as decades passed, some growth, and the drugs are found in antibiotics stopped working The study involved nearly 3,000 against the bugs they previously - MRSA cases, about half of them use and misuse have helped make authors estimated that living near

taken, 91 percent tested positive for sarin exposure at one laboratory, and 85 percent tested posiONS?

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strictly limited to evidence-gathering and testing to determine on a “relatively large scale” on if a banned chemical weapon as found evidence of sarin gas on many ground-to-ground rocket gate a March 19 incident at Khan

vicinity of the landing sites were

After protracted negotiations with the United Nations, agreeurine samples taken from victims found sarin poisoning and break- team to check that and two other

of Misantla on Friday, cutting off the area from the A week ago, 13 people died in the state when a landslide buried their homes in heavy rains spawned by Tropical Depression Fer-

But how the germs might spread from pig manure to people Of those, the staph infection with no close animal contact is MRSA, or methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, kills about 11,000, and a new superbug kills person or sharing personal items used by an infected person is the treatment with antibiotics called carbapenems — considered one of the last lines of defense against Vanderbilt University infectious disease specialist, called the report Germs like those have prompted Asked generally about antibisituation gets much worse, it could make doctors reluctant to do sur- Frieden said it’s an important probgery or treat cancer patients if anti- lem, but he added, “Right now the biotics won’t protect their patients most acute problem is in hospitals and the most resistant organisms cine chest will be empty” when

More than 1,000 homes

Afghan president in no rush for US security deal PATRICK QUINN

AssociAted Press KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan’s president said Tuesday that he was in no rush to sign a security deal with the United States, once again dashing American hopes that a pact can be

He added that if by October the United States in Kabul, and we’re hoping the agreement can can’t meet a set of wide-ranging conditions, be reached sometime in October, and we’re reaincluding security guarantees for the country sonably optimistic that it will be,” Dobbins told and pledges for modern weaponry, then they could sign a deal with his successor after the formally handed over control of security for

out his conditions, some of the guarantees are handover paved the way for the departure of The United States wants a deal by October thought to include the security of Afghanistan’s coalition forces — currently numbering about to give American and NATO military planners 100,000 troops from 48 countries, including about enough time to prepare for to keep some troops in the country after a scheduled 2014 withdrawal, to such a condition, as Washington is reluctant By the end of the year, the NATO force will to sign anything that could be read as a pledge to Afghanistan and the United States have since defend Afghan borders against a neighbor such will have left and will be replaced, if approved by last October been negotiating a security deal that the Afghan government, by the smaller force that in Afghanistan after 2014, and also allow it to elders, or Loya Jirga, a national meeting that can withdraw and the Taliban intensify a campaign not sign the deal, it is unlikely that NATO or any of its allies will keep troops in Afghanistan after was no rush for the agreement, but his comments of casualties among Afghan civilians and the came one day after President Barack Obama’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakiwant to shield himself from any possible back- stan, James Dobbins, said Washington was opti- saying that in addition to civilian and governlash from signing a deal that some see as comproment casualties, their own dead and wounded “The talks are underway, they’re taking place -

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of rockets that were 630mm long and 140mm wide, with a small rocket motor on the bottom, a central shaft and a cylindrical war-

“Afghanistan is clearly at a critical juncture with the ongoing political, security and economic transition concluding in 2014, all of which will have an impact on the human rights of its

- was not to assign blame for the while it was at the Ghouta attack site in rebel-held territory, “individuals arrived carrying other suspected munitions indicating that such potential evidence is - being moved and possibly maniplons) of liquid sarin, plus or minus ”Syria has blamed the opposiThe rockets were “variants of the M14 artillery rocket, with sador Samantha Power said after either an original or improvised the rockets used “bore none of the The team was able to trace back hallmarks of improvised weapthe trajectories of two of the rockets and found their path could She said that “The regime have come from a single, multi- possesses sarin, and we have no evidence that the opposition pos-

There have been some distinct human rights achievements during the past 12 years, but they are fragile, and many Afghans are expressing fears that the overall human rights situation is “Afghanistan needs to brace itself to ensure that the tumultuous changes that will take place before the end of 2014 do not trigger a serious deterioration in the human rights of any segments of JENNIFER PELTZ / ASSOCIATED PRESS

destruction, displacement, hunger, greed and

Afghan youths listen to President Hamid Karzai, unseen, as hespeaks at a youth conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, September 17.

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It’s time the NCAA pays college athletes

Seahawks beat rival 49ers with ease TIM BOOTH

AssociAted Press SEATTLE (AP) — Richard Sherman celebrated by dancing with cheerleaders, Marshawn Lynch cut, plowed and strolled his way to three touchdowns, and Pete Carroll got one rousing birthday gift.

The awaited NFC West showdown between the Seattle Seahawks and San Francisco 49ers was a one-sided rout.

Lynch scored on touchdown runs of 14 and two yards, and added a seven-yard TD tered Colin Kaepernick into his worst passing game as a starter, and the Seahawks dominated in a 29-3 win Sunday night.

“Every game we feel like we should dominate, and we did,” Seattle safety Earl Thomas said.

The game was delayed 60 minutes late

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Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel was recently suspended one-half of a game for violating the NCAA’s policy.

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amateur about these athletes who endure average this year. But after accusations two-a-day practices and play in prime- that schools are pushing student-athletes

students devote to their sport makes it no different from any other on-campus job a student might have.

The hypocrisy in modern-day college sports has been pointed out by hundreds of people who have taken the NCAA to court over the past 20 years. The NCAA has punished students for selling the shirt off their back, yet sell the same jersey for $40.00 in souvenir stores. College players are not allowed to inscribe any messages on their clothes or body while competing, yet the NCAA sells spaces on their their athletic programs should give stu- uniforms for corporate logos and slogans. dent-athletes commission on merchandise own likeness, yet the NCAA sells the right sales and television contracts.

For nearly a century the National Collegiate Athletic Association and schools across the country have been cashing in on the marketability of their student-athletes.

Schools make millions every year while only offering students scholarships. Many of those students come from low-class neighborhoods. They cannot afford to go out to eat, get a bus ride home or even buy their own jersey on display at local stores.

Colleges and universities that generate

a slice of the money they are making for the organizations that market them. Currently, the NCAA hides behind the ‘amaas a reason for their free labor. But at the revenue level proposed, there is nothing

described by one reporter as ‘a baloney holes. When asked to address those accusations at a press conference earlier in the

the job of this association,” Emmert said.

It seems no one wants to take responsibility for helping these kids who earn these people so much money.

With ugly scandals constantly breaking about college athletes getting paid by games. native gives students a legal right to the For all this current exploitation, the money they are earning. Players commit NCAA insists that they are preparing so much time and risk so much for their these students for the future. But are they? schools, it is time the schools gave someAfter a long call for academic reform, the thing back.

NCAA recently upgraded its academic Zach Winn can be contacted at more core classes and a higher grade point zwinn@keene-equinox.com

That was the only time the 49ers threatened to score a touchdown.

Kam Chancellor intercepted Kaeperreturning the pick to the San Francisco 2 about 13 minutes remaining. the season by dancing with the Seahawks

was 22-3 with 11:31 left.

“He should probably stay at cornerback,” Seattle wide receiver Golden Tate joked competing, he challenged and won the Seahawks another turnover following

blew through the area.

Seahawks leading by 26.

The highly anticipated matchup was sloppy as opposed to sensational, but yards, one of the worst games in his young Lynch more than did his part. career. Kaepernick was 13 of 28 for 127 yards passing, and he ran for another 87 including 98 yards rushing, to make up yards.

His three interceptions matched his entire season total from 2012. receivers struggling to get open.

Frank Gore was held to just 16 yards on second half gave the Seahawks a 12-0 lead. tured Green Bay last week for 13 catches His TD catch pushed the advantage to 19-3 and 208 yards, was targeted just once in the “We are dedicated to running the ball His only catch came with 9:40 remainand we are going to keep working until we ing.

Boldin was shadowed most of the night

by Sherman. at it,” Carroll said. or execution by either side. There were careless turnovers and untimely penalties.

But that was expected between these nasty rivals and the favorites not just in their division but as potential NFC representatives in the Super Bowl.

And it was the Seahawks getting an early, important advantage over the 49ers.

“We did what we expected to. I think you guys expected something different. I think you guys expected something a little more Kaepernick-y,” Sherman said. guys to play discipline ball.”

Kaepernick failed to get anything going in the passing game, unable to break down

the Seahawks minus their other starting cornerback Brandon Browner.

“I asked Coach for the challenge,” Sherman said.

“I wanted to follow him. There were a lot of things said this week.” and no TDs in a game for the third time since the start of 1979 season. performance,” San Francisco coach Jim Harbaugh said.

second half going to Lynch.

He was intercepted in the end zone in when Seattle faced third-and-12, Wilson scrambled and bought time for Doug BaldDavis.

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Keene State’s new cheerleading coach has big plans ZACH WINN equinox staff

Junior Field Hockey standout Melissa Habelow is our Athlete of the Week. Habelow, originally from Belmont, Massachusetts, is a “back” but has shown a knack low started the week off by scoring two minutes into the game the week with three goals and an assist in just three games. In related news, the Lady Owls won all three games in that stretch, outscoring opponents 16-6. That brings their season record to a perfect 6-0, and although they have only played one game against a Little East Conference team, it’s safe to say that they are in good shape. The team is certainly on pace to improve from

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Coach Haskell works with his team at practice in the Spaulding Gymnasium on Monday, September 16. Haskell says he is prepared to rebuild the KSC team.

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sports editor New Keene State College cheerleading coach Heath Haskell is taking over a program that hasn’t always been in great shape.

“Last year we were supposed to go to Daytona, Florida in March but we never even competed,” senior Trisha Gunning said. “And by the end of the year it kind of fell apart. It was mostly a mess.”

The past few years have certainly tested the team’s resolve.

“People weren’t sure if they wanted to be here or not because the past two years didn’t go very smoothly,” senior Breanna Vacca said.

Vacca and her teammates recalled a season full of miscommunications, disorganized practice schedules and an overall lack of leadership. It was the kind of atmosphere a prospective coach might want to avoid.

But the girls can laugh about it now. They know those days are behind them. “[Coach Haskell] already has a set practice schedule. We are working with the strength

and conditioning coach and we have a tumbling class in Vermont that we have to attend every Thursday,” Vacca said. “So it’s already very organized.”

Throughout the team there seems to be an overwhelming sense that Haskell knows what he’s doing. That makes sense, he’s been coaching a long time.

Growing up in Bellows Falls, V.T. Haskell didn’t cheerlead for much of his childhood.

But after cheerleading for a year in high school, Haskell immediately started coaching at the age of 19. Eighteen years later, he has a good feel for his coaching style.

“When it comes to coaching, I have a more hands-on approach,” Haskell said. “I take initiative when demonstrating a skill, showing girls what to do and have them watch and learn that way.”

Haskell described himself as laid-back, but when it comes to cheerleading he has always had a serious approach. Haskell coached at the college level before with Castleton State and also judges cheerleading on the state and national levels—experience that

should only help the KSC team. “[Coach Haskell] has a lot of knowledgeable information, he is a judge too so he knows the rules and regulations very well,” Gunning said.

That knowledge is why the team has wanted Haskell leading them for the better part of three years. In 2010 the cheerleading team was in the midst of another coaching After a great interview they thought they had found their new coach, but Haskell’s other job was in V.T. and it was decided that the commute would be too much. This time and that made the selection process a breeze.

“It was actually pretty easy. I liked the fact that it wasn’t super over the top,” Haskell said of the job interview.

“I met with the kids who were returning

the year are high.

“Coach has everything planned out for us, he knows a lot about cheerleading and everything,” Gunning said. “He’s already planning our nationals trip in January, he has everything already set up.”

With nationals looming, Haskell is looking toward an ambitious turnover in choreography.

“Nothing is going to stay from when I wasn’t here,” Haskell said. “I feel like with a new coach you need to overhaul it and bring in your own style.”

No matter how quickly the team picks up it’s new style, it’s clear things are headed in the right direction for the KSC cheerleaders once again.

“I’m honestly just really excited to end my ning said. “And I’m so happy we get to go to nationals and have a good team again.”

John Ratliff, because of our prior meetings he knew me already.”

Now after a long summer the season begins. Tryouts occured and expectations for

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respectable 15-9.

-Our runner-up this week is junior soccer goalie Torrie Crenson. Five games into the year the team is sitting at 2-2-1, with Crenson averaging 1.4 goals against per game. In two games this week, Crenson had nine saves, six of which came in an intense home game against Middlebury that ended in a 1-1 tie. The Lady Owls have four goalies on the roster, but Crenson, who played a big role last year as well, has started every game so far. The team faces a tough stretch now, playing four games in the coming week.

-Our second runner up this week is sophomore volleyball player Olivia Broderick. Broderick leads a young team that features 13 underclassmen on the 15-person roster. This week the team, which has struggled with inconsistency for the past two years, went 2-2, getting everything they could ask for from Broderick.

The Middle Blocker accounted for 33.5 points in those four games, featuring a staggering 22 kills. The six-footer from Gilford, N.H. used her size and strength to overpower opponents and give her team much-needed guaranteed points.

After going 20-17 and losing in the LEC championship last year, it’s clear that this team, like Broderick, is on the rise.

Keene State College athletic team records Women’s Soccer

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Keene State College

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Western New England

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Keene State College

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Keene State College

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Endicott

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Time/distance Place

Ryan Widzgowski

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Ryan Brady

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30th

Christopher Plankey

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37th

Brandon Davis-O’Donn

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40th

24th

Women’s Cross Country KSC Alumni Invitationall Name

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Samantha Goldsmith

23:34

59th

Lindsay Szuch

23:40

61st

Elizabeth McGurk

23:50

62nd

Carli Davis

23:56

63rd

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Saturday, Sept. 21, 5 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 5, 11 a.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 24, 6 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 21, 3 p.m.

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he wanted to continue playing bas ketball and wasn’t ready to transi tion into the real world.

Instincts kicked in and he began training, making highlight videos and reaching out to teams when he got a chance to try out with the Brampton A’s.

ranked third in shooting and in the

continue to work on his shot and creating open space on the court.

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The Keene State College Rugby team starts a scrimmage on Saturday, September 14, against Williams on the Joyce Athletic Field.

said.

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is nothing club about us, we work just as hard as the var

they need me to be a shooter that is they get rolling with the season, the captains will take care Family attitude is what the captains want to see in their

ing and constantly practicing his shot. there and shoot against anybody said.

year. Along with enjoying their last season with the Owls, we are really trying to instate team unity. Last year we saw a younger teammates. They are the only players that have men and had never played rugby prior to Keene State. Arm strong said teaching the game is pretty challenging and a lot

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them out. and hard work, and does not only have to do with physical strength. “We don’t want them to think they need to be huge Karina Barriga can be contacted at kbarriga@keene-equinox.com “We just want them to be really into the game, always there at practice, going a hundred percent and just show

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believes to succeed, one must plan ahead.

“You have to make sure you have people lined up

ued. He said that their leadership is the hardest part to replace.

Watson said. practice and everything got done under one time slot, “For example, this year we have six or seven seniors, so we’re going to graduate a big group —you have to think ahead to start grooming people to take their

Watson tends to take an adaptive approach.

“We always try to play based on our personnel, so

seniors does take its toll on the team, however. is the hardest part, but the younger players have to be ready to step up. job throughout the years representing themselves so that people are ready to assume those same responsi

always know that people are going to step up because Losing seniors is never easy, especially when you

that you need to trust your underclassmen when you lose key upperclassmen.

The coaches are not the only ones who experience as hard as the coaches are.

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bert is not going to change his style for an incoming class, With last year in the athletic history books, coaches however. and athletes across Keene State College look ahead to this “I think you tinker season without their seniors from last year. with the X’s and O’s and The Men’s Basketball team, guided by head coach Rob the philosophy to bring out Colbert, parted ways with six seniors from last year’s the best of what you have,” he roster. The loss of these seniors can be tough, but Colbert said, “but you still have an understands the process. over-arching core philoso“We’re sad to see the seniors go. They were very accom- phy of how you think the plished seniors—we had nearly 4,500 points graduate. game should be played.”

That’s a lot of points to graduate,” Colbert said of his Field Hockey head team’s lost offensive production. coach Amy Watson With losing such key players comes a need for a strat- certainly underegy to ensure that you maintain success. stands the struggles of replacing seniors. years out,” Colbert said. “You look at those skill sets that you have as kids are getting older and things that you’re hockey team had no going to need to replace.” seniors. This year, they

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to the way athletes are brought into the program. For example, the basketball team plans on bringing in eight » freshmen, a typically large freshmen class.

With that in mind, the team won’t have to reach so far to pick up more freshmen next season.

Colbert also believes that sophomores and juniors are crucial to the program moving forward when seniors graduate.

“There’s a very different personality—between a senior and a freshman. It’s not that those two don’t get along, they’re just at different stages of their development in their lives,” Colbert said.

“So, you want to have those middle cushion guys, those sophomores and juniors to try and bridge t h o s e g a p s .”

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Rugby: The game that never stops KARINA BARRIGA ALBRING

nEwS Editor While some students skipped class to remain dry and others swam back home soaked to the bones, almost 20 shirtless boys ran down Appian Way, cheering each other on, passing the ball back and forth, laughing. Professor Germana gave a lecture at the Mason Library, while outside it was pouring down. His students were not listening; eyes and ears focused on the ESPN clip that took place on the Fiske Quad. “Keene State Rugby! Keene State Rugby!,” was all they could hear.

Four inches of rain and a thunder storm were not enough to soak the good mood of rugby boys. after a week of school work, not even losing nine starter players to graduation last spring, nothing seems to discourage this team. The KSC Rubgy boys drive on enthusiasm. A rather young, experience-limited KSC Men’s Rugby team looks at the starting season with optimism and big time dreams.

“We always shoot for the top. Three years ago, the team went to nationals. We want to be able to repeat that,” KSC junior Brendan Snyder said, who joined the team second semester of his freshman year.

Expectations are high.

However, there are several challenges coach John Johannesen and his boys need to take on as they set their eyes to the prize. “Our platform is pretty much gone, it is a big rebuilding year,” said Johannesen. The team graduated six forwards and three backs last May and other six starters in Spring 2012.

“At the beginning, I was kind of skeptical of how it was going to be after the seniors left. They were all good players,” junior Jules Moore said, who joined the team a year ago. ing of the club this year, “we had many new kids interested in joining.”

The rugby team currently has around 30 players on the paper, 19 of the team are brand new to the squad.

According to Johannesen, the freshmen are coming in pretty strong and motivated.

Recruiting, however, is not the only challenge coach Johannesen has to face. For pre-season, most teams put on adaptation activities for their new players. This often includes physical training, strength training, resistance and social interaction to promote bonding.

In addition to all this, Johannesen has a responsibility not many coaches at KSC do; he has to teach his recruits how to play the sport, understand the played the game. That is the case of most players,” Synder said.

The truth is, that Johannesen not weeks, we like to teach the game to the new guys. The coach really takes care of them, he makes sure everyone feels comfortable before putting them in a game situation,” said Snyder.

“Practice runs smoothly”, Moore said. “The coach does a great job. He has to balance out teaching the veteran players to play better and make drills with the rookies to teach them the basics.”

“We are trying to compete at a certain level, and it is hard because we have to reteach all the new kids how to play,” Gavin Armstrong, the team’s senior co-captain, said.

“We are quite used to taking players and teaching them all the basics right from the beginning,” Johannesen said. He added, although, that not having assistant coaches makes the job harder. “I have to teach offense, defense and every aspect of the game,” Johannesen stated.

Still, Johannesen has found a different type of coaching support. For him, a great deal of responsibility lays on the veteran players. “I expect from

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Martin makes jump to professional basketball STEPHEN ARUILIO

With Martin on the team the Owls earned a he really took care of himself,” Colbert said. national ranking (21) and a 53-30 record while “He was kind of a shining star.” he was on the roster.

To really get an example of his ambition for He’s the type of athlete you want to see “He could motivate you to play better and success, Colbert told a story of Martin in the succeed because in his sport, he has proved not give up,” Eric Fazio, a former three-year everyone wrong. teammate of Matin’s said.

“Ryan was here [at Spaulding Gymnasium] Ryan Martin, one of Keene State College’s “If you struggled with a drill or wanted in the fall of his sophomore year on a Saturday greatest basketball players, a Gatorade Player extra shots he was always there to help out.” morning at eight in the morning asking for of the Year and a thousand-point scorer, has “Not only does he say it but he does it. He a ball rack and a shooting gun. I get to leave just been drafted to play professional basket- dragged a lot of guys to workout, off the court » MARTIN, B9 ball.

When you look at him you may be surprised.

A member of the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL Canada), the Island Storm drafted Martin, a 5’9 point guard who lead Division I, II, and III in free throw percentage (96.1) in 2010-11, 19th overall.

The CBL, which Martin describes as the “Canadian NBA” features only nine teams but sports plenty of former D-I players, which shows the CBL will have talent.

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the league.

“This league is going to be a really tough league and we’re going to have a lot of competition,” Martin said.

Being drafted didn’t come easy for Martin, but being a two-time state champion in high school helped create a work ethic which Coach Rob Colbert described as “unparalleled”.

“No one worked harder, no one wanted it more, no one dedicated themselves more to excellence than Ryan Martin in my 22 years of coaching,” Colbert said.

Martin played for the University of Maine for two years before looking to make the switch to somewhere he could get more playing time and have a good chance to win. KSC and Coach Colbert would prove to be the place for him.

“I loved the way coach Colbert ran a practice. He seemed like a players’ coach who truly cared about each player and that was completely true,” Martin said. all of his players to go to.”

With his talent and mentality, he proved to be a role model for the rest of his KSC team, which ultimately pushed them to play better.

With Martin playing for the Owls, they FILE PHOTO / CHRIS PALERMO beat number one ranked Middlebury in 2012, Ryan Martin continues to follow his hoop dreams in the National Basketball League of ranked school in history since joining D-III.

Canada.

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