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Heroin overdoses continue to rise
College officials: Vallante investigation ongoing across the New England states JULIE CONLON
mAnAging executive editor
of Keene State College employee Eugene “Gino” Vallante, Media Relations Manager Kelly Ricaurte indicated the college’s internal investigation with McLane Law Firm into Vallante’s alleged misconduct is ongoing. Additionally, Ricuarte stated the separate review of USNH policy for which KSC has retained McLane Law Firm, “has not yet been completed.” She continued, “Only when the review is complete will we know if changes to policies are recommended.”
made, “deliberate, targeted efforts to reach A statement released by the college in - March stated the University System of New Hampshire, “has retained former NH Attorthat the college is working to “gather infor- ney General Michael A. Delaney, a partner in mation from students that may [be] critical to the McLane Law Firm, to conduct a systemthe investigation.” wide review of the policies, procedures and - compliance protocols related to the reporting lege and McLane Law Firm have approached of misconduct for the purpose of ensuring student safety.” Now more than a month later, Ricuarte ments, would have worked alongside Val- stated in an email Delaney continues to, lante during his employment with KSC, “thoroughly review policies in place at USNH Ricaurte responded, “The details that you institutions.” tigation, which is a priority of the college at Julie Conlon can be contacted at this time.” jconlon@keene-equinox.com
Healing starts with speaking BRITTANY BALLANTYNE
AdministrAtive executive editor again. She said she wouldn’t talk about how he told her, “We will keep it our little secret,” or “All good dads do this.” She swore she wouldn’t talk about her family vacations she just wanted to forget, or how he threatened to put an end to their dog’s life if she ever told anyone what he did. Telling someone would mean sexual abuse. Her name
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fusion and anger she dealt with while growing up in a home where her stepfather sexually abused her. At her speech during Breaking the Silence On Sexual Abuse people she couldn’t walk across the hallway in a towel after showering without her stepfather trying to follow her into her room. She also explained to attendees that
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copy editor stepfather committed suicide. The Alumni Recital Hall at the Redfern Arts Center went silent as she told the crowd she felt like it was her fault she went through this, that she was to blame for doing something wrong. “I’ve never met a survivor who didn’t feel like it was their fault,” she said. Bromley is the founder and director of OneVOICE, a group dedicated to “educating and raising awareness according to the group’s website. She is also an author of a number of books — one of which helped a former KSC student start to heal. Melanie Sachs explained, “I was sexually abused when I was twelve, and when I was thirteen-years-old, Sachs said the book came out at the right time and, “Not too long after reading her [Bromley’s] book, I sent her an email knowing that her schedule’s really busy and that I probably wouldn’t get an email back.” About two weeks later, Sachs got a response from Bromley. Since then, she has also broken her silence with what she described as a dark time in her life.
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As the use, abuse and death rates relating to drugs like heroin gain greater concern throughout New England, states are enabling more life-saving strategies. N.H. Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Thomas Andrew, stated drug deaths increase since he entered his position in Andrew explained this dramatic increase occurred some time between tinued to see increases in drug death. We
south central part of the state, to the seacoast area. That’s where most of the activity seems to be concentrated.” Andrew referenced various studies from the Center for Disease Control, which have published supporting statistics. In regard to preventing heroin overdoses, John Finneran, a Keene State College Professor of health science and substance abuse, said, “About ten people in this country die every day of opiate overdoses, and every one of them is preventable — if you get naloxone,” Finneran said. “Naloxone is opiate antagonist. It blocks receptors that heroin would attach too. Not only will it push off an opiate molecule, it will bind and prevent other opiate molecules from attaching,” Finneran said. The state of N.H. does not yet provide
tion] opiates are still the leading class of drugs that are responsible for the drug death — but heroin, illicit street heroin — has emerged as the trend-setter now, instead of prescription drugs.” Dr. Andrew explained. Andrew said this activity is seen “That’s being partly debated here in throughout N.H. but, “The biggest issue New Hampshire. It appears on its surface appears to be this band-like swath that that that’s a sensible thing to do. That’s goes from Keene, in the west, across the
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Women continue fight for equal pay, women’s rights issue passed by executive order ANNA GLASSMAN
Ads director Women exist in all areas of society — women are democrats, republicans and independents. However, on Tuesday, April 8, differences were set aside as a women’s rights issue was passed by executive order through the hand of President Barack Obama. The Keene, New Hampshire American Association of University Women (AAUW) President, Dawn
Andonellis, commented on this legislation. She said the issue that affects women in society is not a partisan issue that prevented it from following the typical legislative process, but instead, it’s a human rights issue. “Women are every demographic, every party, every color, every state,” Andonellis said. Andonellis continued with the idea that partisan ties impede progress of the government. “Why are we making our allegiance to a party more important than a particular part of our society, i.e. women?” Andonel-
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lis said, “So many things don’t get passed and don’t get done.”
ing full-time throughout the year earned 77 percent of the salary of men, according to the National Committee
and secondary education major, Madison Rice, said she even professions that employee primarily female workwas under the impression fair pay was established years ers; women earn less in their occupation. This leaves ago. “I feel like a lot of people think there has been a lot of progressive movement towards women and their salaries. It’s shocking that it has taken this long,” Rice said. According to the National Partnership website in their article, “Pay in New Hampshire, New Hampshire -
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Left, former KSC student Melanie Sachs helps to hand out Nicole Bromley’s (middle) books, one of which helped her speak out for the first time about her sexual assault.
2:09 a.m. Zorn Dining Commons: Medical — Nonemergency. Wednesday, April 9
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President Barack Obama gives two thumbs-up as women’s rights activist Lilly Ledbetter, left, acknowledges him in Washington D.C., Tuesday, April 8, 2014, during an event marking Equal Pay Day
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Younger group of students fill KSC campus during the summer ALISON RANCOURT
many of whom are KSC alums,” Jasmin said. According to Jasmin, each class also has a high school or college student as an assisAlthough most students leave Keene tant. State College when summer rolls around, Murphy said she thinks the experience the campus continues to stay occupied by of being a counselor would be really bensome curious, younger minds. According to Educational Program childhood education major. Coordinator at KSC, Heather Jasmin, this “It would give them [the KSC student] summer will be the ninth year of KSC’s Kids on Campus program. would like to work in,” Murphy said. The half-day or full- day program is open Lydia Price, a student attending Wheeto all children entering grades one through lock College for social work and psychology, eight, Jasmin said. has been a counselor for Kids on Campus Jasmin explained further that Kids on the past two summers. Campus was created nine years ago and She originally found the position offered classes over a two-week period. through her mother Phoebe Price, an acaJasmin said at the beginning, there were demic and career advisor at KSC. only 11 classes offered to about 100 students. Price said her job as a counselor conAccording to Jasmin, the program has sisted of making sure the children transiexpanded over time to now being four tioned from class to class, assisting teachers weeks long with 46 classes to offer. Jasmin and making sure lunch and free-time went said this year, the program anticipates smoothly and safely. about 225 children. “I enjoy working with kids because, espeAccording to the Kids on Campus web- cially during the summer, they are full of site, classes run July 14 to 18, July 21 to 25, energy and seeing their smiling faces and July 28 to August 1 and August 4 to 8. Jasmin excitement to be at camp keeps me going said parents can register their children by [and] makes me just as excited to be there every morning. Children have such big imaginations and I think that if we all took Once a child is enrolled, he or she is a step back and looked into the mind of a involved in one week of classes. Each class child we could all learn something amazis three hours long and is either held in the ing,” Price said. morning from 9 a.m. to noon, or in the afterAlthough Price is not majoring in early noon from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. childhood education, she said she still Depending on what week the child is enjoys being surrounded by the children. enrolled in, there are corresponding lists of “Working with kids has always been a activities to participate in. passion of mine and having the opportuFor example, according to Jasmin, the nity to see the growth and immense amount oldest children may build cars out of LEGO’s of knowledge children have over the years which utilize renewable energy sources. is inspiring to say the least. Watching the The children in grades four through six may campers grow even over one week or the learn about the physics behind roller coast- four weeks of camp is extremely rewarders, and the youngest students may examine ing,” Price said. clues and evidence as they search for a missNow in the ninth year of the program, ing teddy bear. Jasmin said she believes the program is sucKSC student and Early Childhood Edu- cessful. cation major, Meghan Murphy said she “Most kids return year after year, and thinks the program and the activities are the children have so much fun that they are almost never shy, uncomfortable, or homethem. sick,” Jasmin said. “[The program] would be a great way While Price agreed with Jasmin, she said to encourage learning through the long she believed the staff also has a huge part of summer break. It gives children the chance the programs success. to continue growing even when they are “Having a motivated and good group of outside of school. This way, they do not fall counselors and teachers is also what keeps behind on their learning,” Murphy said. the program so successful and thriving, Jasmin said each Kids on Campus class is because without such a great staff the chilmade up of 14 children and is well equipped dren would not stay safe and enjoy their with an experienced teacher. summers as much as they have in the past “They are mostly local school teachers, eight summers,” Price said.
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Above are ‘Kids on Campus.’ The class worked on building a roller coaster that went from the balcony of the Science Center courtyard down to the ground.
As for the future, Jasmin said she hopes extra week into the program. to see the program expand even further. Jasmin also said she would like to proAccording to Jasmin, she would like to vide aide to children who want to expericontinue with all their success but add an ence the fun and learning of the program,
but can’t afford it. “Ideally, we’d have grant money to make it more affordable for children of low incomes,” Jasmin said. Price said she thinks Kids on Campus is such a great program that it can provide as a model for other programs that work with children. “I hope that the program only grows bigger and stronger in the future summers to come!” Price said. Jasmin said she encourages all KSC students that are on campus during the summer to take notice of all the Kids on Campus activities that are scattered around the Brickyard Pond, Appian Way and the Fiske Quad. Alison Rancourt can be contacted at arancourt@keene-equinox.com
MVP members honored at BACCHUS conference for Best Program award DAVID WALSH
Equinox Staff Members of Keene State College’s Mentors for Violence Prevention (MVP) were honored on March 29 at a BACCHUS conference for their “Yes Means Yes: A Guide to Good Sex” orientation program. “Yes Means Yes: A Guide to Good Sex” earned the Best Program award at the BACCHUS Netowork Conference held at Endicott College in Beverly, Mass. According to MVP Peer Educator Emma Bass, MVP had strong competition. “There were programs from Harvard, Sacred Heart, all over New England,” Bass explained. MVP members submitted their program into the conference and a panel selected the program. “Our [executive] board members submitted our program for consideration of the award. They reviewed everyone’s submissions and liked our program,” Bass said. Along with MVP’s award for Best Program, Organization Advisor Forrest Seymour was selected as Best Advisor according to Bass. Bass stated, “We submitted him for best advisor, and he won that.” Yes Means Yes is one of the many program options incoming students can choose from during orientation. Attendance for the program has exceeded expectations, according to MVP members. MVP advisory board member Johanna DeBari said, “The program is designed for the orientation for Keene State. We did it for three-hundred to three-hun-
“It’s a healthy sexuality program. Our main topic is consent, and how to have conversations about having consensual sex and promoting open communication.” -JOHANNA DEBARI MVP ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER
about how they can have safe, consensual sex. “It’s a healthy sexuality program. Our main topic is consent, and how to have conversations about having consensual sex and promoting open communication,” explained program creator, DeBari. The program takes a multimedia approach to explain its tenants, and also aims to make students comfortable with the content by using icebreakers. “We start out the program by playing the penis and vagina game, which is having them scream penis and vagina as loud as they can. The point is that freshmen are already feeling very vulnerable and coming into a program where you talk about sex is very intimidating. It sets the tone that it’s okay, we are creating a safe area for people to say what they want,” said DeBari. DeBari continued, “The main tenant of this program is the ‘active bystander’ approach, giving people the tools to intervene somehow — such as calling the police or Campus Safety. We educate people and make them feel like they have power in their situation and power on their campus related to sexual violence and The two-year-old program educates students crimes on campus. It is a really prominent issue
SoundoFF Kayla Powers Freshman Early Childhood Education
“I think it’s in the Indian Ocean.”
Audrey Boraski Freshman Biology
“I think it crashed in the water.”
on all campuses.” DeBari explained MVP uses video, activities and discussion to educate students about healthy sexuality. BACCHUS is an organization of peer education groups across the country which, “build skills in student leaders to address campus health and safety issues,” according to the BACCHUS website. The acronym BACCHUS stands for Boosting Alcohol Consciousness Concerning the Health of University Students. The New England conference was an opportunity for MVP to compare notes with other peer education groups and learn ways to improve their own program. Bass explained, “We spread out our members across all the seminars so we could all take notes. We listened to all these different people from different schools, and what their take was on all these issues.” “We took away that we needed to utilize more social media. We created a public Facebook group and a Twitter [account] for MVP,” added Bass. MVP earned the award just before Sexual Assault Awareness Month in April. David Walsh can be contacted at dwalsh@keene-equinox.com
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Statistics and information provided in the graphic above can be found on the following websites: CDC, RAINN and NCADV.
“What do you think happened to the Malaysian airplane?”
Joe Piselli Sophomore Film Studies
“I heard they have cloaking technology which is when radar can’t see them.”
Katie Brown Freshman Journalism
“I don’t know, I forgot it happened. ”
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Jay Russell Senior Health Science
“‘It’s underwater somewhere.”
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Thursday, april 17, 2014
No excuse for sexual abuse
It may only take one person to come forward for others to follow. In order to move forward, victims have to come forward. First, we must understand that sexual assault happens. It is a crime. There is no excuse for abuse, and there should be no shame or blame placed on victims. The blame should lie on the abuser. A victim is a victim, regardless of the situation. No judgment should be shown—only compassion. Many take blame and responsibility for what has happened to them during instances they had no say in or intentions of. We are here to tell everyone that it is never the victim’s fault. We must never assume that it is. How could we expect anyone in return to feel comfortable enough telling their stories? Healing requires conversation. Without justice, violent acts continue. In order for justice to be upheld, discussion needs to happen. chain of abuse for other victims. Not only has the victim’s body been violated, but his or her faith also betrayed. There are resources out there. One should never feel that there is nowhere or no one to turn to, including Keene State College students. Throughout the month of April, KSC has participated in Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The various events planned included March and Shout Out Against Sexual Assault. Lastly, Walk-A-Mile in her shoes concludes the mindfulness of the month. Although the campus events come to a close, our attention and support should remain. Help is always around the corner — through 24-hour hotlines, the Monadnock Center for Violence Prevention and the KSC Counseling Center. If you have been sexually assaulted it is important to go to a safe location. The more we break down the stigma that surrounds reporting abuse, the quicker we begin helping others and healing ourselves. We must listen to what they have to say, believe they are telling the truth, respect their feelings, remember it’s not their fault and recognize that person’s courage for sharing their story. Sexual harassment can go unreported for a long time, as The Equinox reported in an earlier issue, “Voices end the silence,” covering allegations against former Night Owl Cafe manager Eugene “Gino” Vallante. Each submission to unwanted attention proves that we must enforce breaking the silence and justify this injustice. Speak up, shout out, tell someone. It’s time to talk. Vow to help end sexual abuse. It’s not only crucial to tell someone, but it’s necessary to keep telling those around you until someone believes you. We choose to believe, even if no one else will listen. Many times, abuse can be swept under the rug and disregarded in family households. Listen and pick up on the signs—we must not let victims go unnoticed. Everyone deserves to feel safe, to feel free from pain and free from terror. We must not let those who abuse win. Everyone needs to play a role in preventing violence. Shout out for every woman and man that has ever been sexually instead of giving up. Walk a mile in her shoes, walk a mile in his shoes, be considerate and acknowledge that these are stories that need to be heard. Do as much as you can to protect yourself. Be aware and careful of who you trust and be conscious of your surroundings. People should not be cast as victims of sexual abuse, but recognized as survivors of sexual abuse.
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National campaign against distracted driving uses scare tactics As repetitive as it is to hear parents, guardians or law enforcers reinforcing the fact that it’s dangerous to text and drive, it’s a very important matter. Unfortunately, the matter is not taken as seriously as it should be by a lot of drivers which explains these powerful advertisements we see all over media outlets. With more than 3,000 people killed annually by distracted drivers, according to the United States Department of Transportation’s National Highway Safety Administration (NHTSA) has launched the tracted driving. It is essential for drivers to
understand the dangers in using mobile devices at the same time as being behind the wheel. The NHTSA’s video proves that texting and driving can be just as dangerous as drinking and driving. While these drivers are not only putting themselves and their passengers at risk, they are putting everyone else on the road at risk too. The $8.5 million campaign includes television, radio and digital advertisements with the theme “U drive. U text. U pay.” The television advertisement runs for 30 seconds and is designed to shock and scare drivers into changing their behaviors. The audience gets a visual of
possible consequences when texting or talking, rather than putting all their attention into driving. The video is graphic and disturbing to watch as it shows a realistic situation to the audience. As the three friends are equally involved in a conversation, it causes distraction for the driver. The driver proceeds to answer a text message as she drives through a stop sign. The vehicle is hit from the side by
wouldn’t have gone through a stop sign and could have been hit. It’s a sad sight to see three young people be in such a tragic car accident, potentially losing their lives, because the driver felt the need to respond to a text instead of waiting. According to NHTSA, studies done in California, Texas, Delaware and New York, combined with law enforcers, have caused hand-held phone use to stop by 30 percent. We can only hope these campaign advertisements help increase drivers knowledge of the dangers The audience is left, not knowing that follow distracted driving. whether the friends survived, but knowing if the driver were paying Jordan Crowley can be contacted at attention to the road, she most likely jcrowley@keene-equinox.com
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The power of love will probably never overcome the love of power comes the love of power, the world -
producing drugs, surgeries, tests and treatments. And, medical treat-
Hendrix. The words love and power caught
potential, however effective, will be discouraged. Even more worrisome are physicians who themselves own the facilities they operate. Doctors owning dialysis centers, for example, have been accused of putting patients on dialysis sooner than necplants that would eliminate the
quote. I recognized what I saw and I had to say it out loud a couple times before I realized its deep meaning.
source of power to begin with. Love is one of the most potent responses a human being can share with someone.
The quote above really said it all for me. Patients are manipulated and aren’t being treated in the right
power — This is where I saw love go from potent to just seriously poisonous. If love is a response of human beings and our love is focused on power, there is no love; there is no connection — just a drive for control and no sympathetic real feel of love. So, after sitting and dwelling on this quote for a while, I realized something. The world does not love its people the way it should. Therefore, we do not live in peace, but instead we watch families live in hunger, die without ever seeing a doctor’s care, or are given a gun and
not a person. These types of people are harming society, but are being encouraged to act this way by higher authorities. How can society be so unethi-
of health care going down and such, but you never see these promises come true. The article continues, “The amount we spend on health care lion in 1980 to nearly $500 billion today. If this rate continues, by the year 2020, we will be spending 40
the love of power is too strong, and the power of love…well, where is it? On Dictionary.com love is described as a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person. Another description is a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child or friend. words, I found someone else had
million people in the United States living without health insurance because they cannot afford it. your left. If there is someone there you love and care for, imagine them gone. They’re gone because the U.S. all persons have a right to live their government controls the system and lives with dignity. Mixing business with medicine will inevitably lead to abuses that violate patient dignity. They’re gone because a doctor A patient is in a vulnerable position, necessarily trusting that the docThey’re gone because the power tor’s decisions about his or her med- of love has not, and probably never ical care will be guided solely by will, overcome the love of power. the patient’s best interests. But in a Bethany Ricciardi can be contacted tors will become subject to the conat trol of lay managers accountable to bricciardi@keene-equinox.com share-holders whose primary aim is ERIN D’ALEO / GRAPHICS EDITOR
Above, Ricciardi compares a Jimi Hendrix quote to the United States of America and the love the government does not show its people.
parents won’t leave their children, or Health One, Assurant Health or any other health insurance company covered by health care or not. doesn’t cover them. Focusing on this nationally, if the U.S. people loved us — if they loved the people. It’s for the power and the 1800’s. Gladstone was right that peace their people, then why is health care control, not the love and care. Claire Andre and Manuel Velasis a blessing. I really wish that quez wrote an article on scu.edu part stayed with Hendrix when he in this country? and told Americans’ stories. reworded it. Peace brings happiness The article read, “In Alameda and mercy and that is exactly what County, a private hospital turned day I will live in a peaceful world — put your dying mother or father on away a woman in labor because the one with no war, maybe one where the list for donors because United hospital’s computer showed that she
to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then
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CEO of Firefox resigns after media scrutiny The CEO of Firefox, Brendan Eich, stepped down from his position after much media scrutiny. Eich reportedly donated $1000 to Proposition 8, a bill that would attempt to re-amend California’s current allowance of gay marriage.
didn’t have insurance. Hours later, her baby was born dead in a county I’m sure that woman loved her baby, and would’ve loved being a mother. not love others enough to let go of the money and power this countrywide company is providing. Andre and Velasquez said in their article, “Further, critics of
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Keene, N.H. ranks first in small town police militarization A recent March 31 article from Alternet.com noted Keene, N.H. Among Keene, also listed were the cities Many are questioning why such quiet small towns with low crime rates and low populations are in need of such militarized weapons. It is time we reevaluate if these vehicles and other weapons are truly necessary. The city of Keene’s Ballistic Engineered Armored
dating website that informed its viewers of Eich’s donation and suggested they use a different browser. The overall incident has gained attention with social media, and it has been debated whether or not the deci-
Nineteen times were for training exercises while the remaining two were for responses to a barricaded person and a person threatening suicide. According to an article in The Equinox from Feband Red Sox Riots were cited in Keene’s grant application as examples for when the BearCat could be used. Surprisingly enough, the BearCat was not used this past year in the riots of Keene State College
was featured in Alternet.com’s article is now worldhow it might impact his career. the controversial BearCat. Even Keene’s First Bapwill be seen by the public eye. Being at that level of a company which so many
On the other hand, I feel that all he really did was express an opinion. He didn’t donate to Prop 8 in the name of Firefox; he donated to it in his own name. His opinion isn’t the same one I have on gay marAP PHOTO
has every right to his own perspective. If he wants to donate to a cause that appeals to that perspective, that is his choice. lars that you spend and what that money goes toward in fact, voting with your dollar seems to be the best way to show input. But Firefox is an internet browser; if anything, it would be the advertisers who would have more concern. brought, most people probably wouldn’t have even
Above is former CEO of Firefox, who has stepped down after reportedly donating to Proposition 8.
“He didn’t donate to Prop 8 in the name of Firefox; he donated to it in his own name.” -ANTHONY MUNOZ EQUINOX STAFF
The Equinox by Karina Barriga Albring. Towns with 20,000 people do not need militaristic
- BearCat for mostly training purposes and not using it ship on April 13, according to the Keene Sentinel Religion Briefs. Police Department has proved that it is not needed. The fact that other countries have noticed Keene’s Alternet.com article, Aaron Contú, states this move- vent communities from buying military hardware, ment of militarized police departments is the result according to an article by New Hampshire Public of the culture wars of the 1960s and a combination of the war on drugs, fear of inner city crime, and anxiet- 13 representatives from North Country voted against ies over the threat of terrorism. bill. he believes it is not a need that drives these small The Concord Monitor stated that Hoell was wortowns but the fear of being left behind. ried about police becoming increasingly militarized. Between 2002 and 2011, the Department of Homeland Security gave out $35 billion in grants to local per year in the early 1980s. Now, there are about and state police for militarized defense, according to 50,000. Investigative journalist and author of “Rise of Economist.com. The Pentagon gives militarized hardware to cent of all towns with 25,000 to 50,000 people had police departments across the nation at almost no teams were originally intended for extremely dan-
Even after the announcement, I wonder how many towards both. people actually made the effort to download Google Of course, technically Eich wasn’t forced to resign— Chrome. according to Mozzilla. He stepped down because of the pressure he was under. intentions were much more political and for publicity In a sense, he is the one who surrendered his voice. than out of genuine concern. If he really wanted to, he could have fought for his position and made an even bigger deal out of it. In the end, maybe this should be a lesson to pay All Eich really did was donate to a bill he believed in, more attention to what we purchase. giving more of his own say to the government. Maybe more people should do the same for their own causes? it’s not much different than researching an employer people probably would not have been aware of what before a date. Eich had donated to had it not been for the publicity; in turn, this leads me to wonder what causes other leaders is supporting causes we strongly oppose, perhaps we are supporting. should consider not buying into it. I honestly couldn’t tell you what the CEOs of Anthony Munoz can be contacted at haps I should before I continue my regular patronage amunoz@keene-equinox.com
America by 2005. In 2012, Keene accepted a grant of $285,933 from militaristic vehicle. According to Contú, this grant was offered through the 1033 program signed into DOD to pass on surplus military gear to local police departments. Although there was great resistance from the residents of Keene, especially at the town
their defense weapons and vehicles by stating these purchases provide invaluable protection to their that these units are not responding to serious high monly used for drug-related cases now. The fears of terrorism and high-crime levels along with the war on drugs have essentially contributed to the militarism of small towns but we need to start being more
2012, the Keene Police Department started to use the BearCat in the Fall of 2012. Keene, a city with a population of about 23,000 and a murder count of three between the years of to larger cities. 1999 and 2012, is now questionably equipped with a It is about time we re-evaluate the actual need for BearCat. Surrounding cities have even signed pacts such programs and grants that result in militarized with Keene to borrow the BearCat when needed, quiet little towns. according to Contú. As of the summer of 2013, the Taylor Howe can be contacted at BearCat had been used 21 times as stated by Contú. thowe@keene-equinox.com
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American Red Cross Blood Drive denies LGBT JENNA LAMBERT
Equinox STaff Keene State College student Jonathan Musci said he recently received a phone call from the American Red Cross requesting his services, however what they didn’t know about him had changed their mind. Musci said a woman from the American Red Cross called to talk to him about the blood drive they would be hosting in Keene, and to ask if he would be interested in donating. He said he answered a few questions and planned to make a donation — until something occurred to him. He said he then asked if gay men were allowed to donate, and the operator then put Musci on hold. He said when she returned, she told him he would not be allowed to donate and according to Musci, she was not able to tell him why. Musci assumption for being denied was based on his sexuality. He said this prompted him to take a stand for others who might be in his position. “When they told me I couldn't give blood, despite the fact that I'm perfectly healthy, and my blood could literally save someone’s life, I felt an intense desire to get into LGBT activism. I’ve always wanted to be involved more, but this really inspired me, because it seemed ridiculous on a number of levels,” Musci said. Musci continued, “After the original burst of anger and protest, I felt somewhat sad and kind of ashamed, even though I shouldn't have. It was a confusing
moment in my life, but in the end I felt proud of how I handled it. I hope to see change somewhere in the future,” Musci said. Alex Davis, resident assistant and KSC student, said he was denied from donating blood to the American Red Cross for the same reason as Musci. Davis said he feels as though Keene is a very safe place for the LGBT community, and he said he has always felt very accepted. Nevertheless, Davis said he feels as though the restrictions on donating blood to the American Red Cross are very outdated and unproductive. “For an organization constantly advertising blood shortage, it seems unintelligent to alienate a percentage of the population from participating,” Davis said. KSC student and Events Coordinator of KSC Pride, Jacob Knehr, called himself a “strong advocate for the LGBT community.” Knehr said he has never tried to donate blood to the American Red Cross, but he does support the cause as he feels like it has the ability to save millions of lives. “I think it is pretty ridiculous that they put these restrictions on the gay community — particularly gay males, to donate blood — the reason being is because HIV/AIDS can be contracted and spread by anyone.” Knehr continued,”Yes, I understand that gay males have a high rate of HIV/AIDS, but they should check everyone's blood for all diseases [and or] viruses before using it. They probably do; or at least I would hope so. So why have a restriction on gay males when you should be checking all blood donations for diseases
[and or] viruses?” Knehr said. He continued, “They should be concerned about all of the blood that is donated and not just from gay males. I guess it's just the stereotypes on the LGBT community that makes it a major concern for society for gay males to donate blood,” Knehr said. Despite repeated attempts both by phone and email to contact a spokesperson from the American Red Cross at the national level, as well as the American Red Cross located in Keene, as of press time, The Equinox had Knehr explained, “In America, there are still many problems dealing with the LGBT community, but I think it is getting a little better now that more and more states are legalizing gay marriage and supporting the employment non-discrimination act. Stereotypes will
get perceptions and judgments from other people just ERIN D’ALEO / GRAPHICS EDITOR based on the fact that I'm gay. They might not be hurtMusci, Knehr and Davis all agreed that Keene, N.H. ful, but they are still stereotypes. I deal with it in my own way and I help other members of the LGBT com- and the KSC campus are extremely open and acceptmunity by giving them support because I know it can ing environments to the LGBT community, and this is why it seemed out of character for a town to host an event with such restrictions. It is the hopes of many that be accepted.” Knehr continued and said his involvement in KSC Musci’s answer of why he is not able to donate may be Pride allows him to help members of the LGBT com- answered in the near future, and people will be able to munity in circumstances as these. “That is why I love donate blood based on their blood, not their sexuality. Jenna Lambert can be contacted at being a part of KSC Pride so much, to help people of the jlambert@keene-equinox.com LGBT community feel accepted and that being apart of the LGBT community is nothing to be ashamed of.”
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Naxir said, “New Orleans has really delicious food and colorful beads.”
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Yasha Naxir is studying at KSC for the spring semester. Naxir visited New Orleans, Louisiana, during Alternative Spring Break and is photographed here at a parade of local people dressed as Native Americans.
We drove to New Orleans, and with the United Saints, which was because it exists below the surface
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cancer as well as those who quiet for this hour, except for are off and we line the track
done with candles, but since
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KSC aims to collect, “8 inch donations of hair or more to make real hair wigs for cancer patients who receive the wigs completely free of charge,” according to the KSC Beautiful Lengths’ Second Annual Donation Day Facebook page.
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Russell, a survivor of cervi
Russell’s husband Michael also attended and
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KSC students stay awake throughout the night for the annual Relay for Life event.
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lot of people who have been Zach Fournier can be contacted at zfournier@keene-equinox.com
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this alternative method and hopes to spread interest. “It’s such a great type of medicine for people to use, and I’m
Recently, a 2,000-year-old practice came back to life in the small town of Keene, N.H., when Cup of Life Healing Center opened on 84 Washington Street. The clinic offers alternative medicine services, including community acupuncture and herbal medicine. According to co-founders Michael and Tricia Hurley ited income, including college students. “I offer acupunc-
acupuncture and the industry,” Hurley said. “I have a lot of hours, all which can be found online. Walk-ins are always welcome. Say you get a cold — if you’re sick, the best thing to do is come in as soon as possible. Many times I can just knock that right out. Same thing for pain, if you twist your ankle or have a headache. There’s a lot of things that people don’t think about because they simply don’t know,” Hurley said. Now that
Hurley said. “Whatever you can afford is what you pay.
students in a positive way. “Everybody’s got aches and pains, and some things
“Everybody’s got aches work for some people and
and pains, and some things some things don’t. It’s
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It is totally honor system. Normally a private acupuncture one-hundred dollars,” Hurley said. Hurley said he is able to offer his services at a lower cost due to the community acupuncture model he uses, which allows for simultaneous patient treatment. According to Hurley, “The community model means that you’re in the same room with other people being treated. I have six recliner chairs. You just sit in the recliner, I come over, I diagnose you, and ask some questions. Then I put the needles in, I cover you up with a blanket, and you can sleep. I encourage people just falling asleep and being very relaxed.” Kaleigh Cyr, a junior social science and secondary education major at Keene State College, said she admitted her lack of knowledge plays a large factor in her apprehension for the practice. “It’s never really crossed my mind. I don’t like needles that much, and based on what I know now, I don’t think I would [consider trying it],” Cyr said. Hurley said he hopes to open the idea of acupuncture to those who may remain skeptical or unsure. Hurley said, “It’s gaining popularity. Once they try it, they get over their fear of the needles. No one really knows about it, it’s not mainstream here — that’s what I’m hoping the community model will do; even just to get people to try it. It gives me a chance to tell people what else it can do.”
something I would encourage people to try. It can really help,” Conlon said. Alexa Ondreicka can be contacted at aodreicka@keene-equinox.com
can help them get over some things that the western community has no explanation for medically,” Hurley said. “It’s really great for stress reduction, which is a huge problem, especially in a college community,” Hurley continued, furthering his presents for college students. “But it’s also really great for any medical condition you have going on. I try and stay really integrative. I don’t tell people not to go to the western doctor, I want them to go to the western doctor. But I want them to come to me in-between. I want to be a part of their health care team,” Hurley said. Katie Conlon, a senior political science major at KSC, said she has tried acupuncture in Burlington, Vt. Conlon said she did not enjoy the treatment, but nating. Conlon said she would recommend the practice of acupuncture to others. “I know it’s worked for some people and I think it’s a really interesting alternative to the normal medicinal treatments people go after. I’ve seen it work for people, just not for me,” Conlon said. Hurley shared a similar admiration for
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Cupcakes symbolize more than a sweet treat for KSC STEPHANIE MCCANN
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just to keep the whole process going smoothly today,
said, “It’s still having the same effect on people.” To raise awareness for Equal Pay Day, Keene Brett Lago, junior, stumbled upon the Equal Pay State College’s Feminist Collective sold cupcakes on Day event when he was on his way to class. Tuesday, April 9, from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. in the L.P. “I was on my way to class, but then I saw this Young Student Center. The cupcakes were sold to event that seemed really interesting,” Lago continwomen for 75 cents, and to men for a dollar to repre- ued, “I’m going to be a senior next year and it’s just sent the inequality in pay between sexes. crazy to hear about how unequal wages are going to Abby Milonas, KSC freshman and member of the Feminist Collective, said she heard the cupcake sale world. It seems really unfair.” was creating buzz on the KSC campus. The Feminist Collective members said the idea “It’s going pretty well today, and I think a lot of was to let KSC students feel the actual impact of the people are talking about it,” Milonas said, “We’ve wage gap’s unfairness. This event was intended to gotten lot of different reactions. Most of the women affect both men and women, according to the group. who we’ve seen today are excited about this because Milonas said, “Some men have been really underit’s such an important issue.” standing of this idea, but we’ve seen a lot of others Many students came to purchase a cupcake and today that are treating it like it’s a myth or just see what the event was all about. another reason for women to complain.” Milonas continued, “It’s such a real issue and we’re hoping at the Feminist Collective’s table set up in the student center when she saw cupcakes, but was partic- something needs to be done.” ularly intrigued by the event’s message. Most students said they were very supportive of “I think this is something really important in the Feminist Collective’s message. today’s society that needs to be talked about more,” “I didn’t really know a lot about this before today,” Smyth said, “It’s just unfair that women make a sigreally start educating themselves on how serious it they’re doing the same job. That doesn’t make sense.” is.” Smyth continued, “Same goes for the idea of me “It’s all about learning about something before paying less than a man to buy the same cupcake. We you feel like you can actually talk about it,” Smyth should all be treated equal.” said, “I’m glad that this event is happening so people The wage gap in the U.S. is 77 cents to every can become more aware of this issue.” dollar that a man makes, according to the InstiSmyth continued, “Who doesn’t like cupcakes? tute for Women’s Policy Research. However, the members of Feminist Collective members said they connect people together.” 75 cents to raise awareness. “The actual wage gap is seventy-seven cents, but
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KSC comes together for a cure
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During the KSC Relay for Life event, Friday, April 11, KSC sophomore and Relay for Life Event Chair Katiee Boyle gets a pie to the face. The event began on Friday at 8 p.m. and continued through Saturday, April 12, at 8 a.m., and raised $17,526, according to Boyle.
Keene community raises $17,526 at Relay for Life ZACHARY FOURNIER
Equinox Staff Keene State College on Friday, April 11, and continued into the following morning in the Spaulding Gymnasium. The fundraiser, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, had a turnout consisting of not only students and members of the town, but some groups from neighboring states. Katiee Boyle, KSC sophomore and Relay for Life event chair said, “We had a great turnout. We had thirty-four teams and four-hundredAccording to Boyle, the event raised $17,526. “We worked so hard to put it together and we
were so happy to see how many students this The fundraiser also included four cerThe event had food, games and activities emonies. The walk commenced with the scheduled according to the KSC Relay for Life opening ceremony, which is the known as Facebook page. Kelly Heinze, a Relay for Life specialist, said “At this time, all cancer survivors at the various games and activities exist for the purpose of keeping the 12-hour event exciting track, celebrating their victory over through the night. Heinze said, “We have these cancer, while being cheered on by the activities to keep people up and moving when it Coinciding with the power of purple The walk, which began at 8 p.m. and contin- lap was the Luminaria Ceremony at 11 ued to 8 a.m. the next morning, took on a dif- p.m. According to RelayforLife.org, ferent theme each hour: Formal wear, country/ this ceremony takes place at every cowboy attire, power of purple (Relay for Life’s Relay event across the nation. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO / MELINDA NOEL “It is held to remember those who KSC students Karalee Jannini and Kelsey Jackson take part in in-the-dark, P.J. party, soulmate, 90s, superhero, have lost the battle to the Relay for Life walk.
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Top photo: Keene State College student Shannon Ridge has her hair cut for KSC’s second annual Pantene Beautiful Lengths. The event gained 116 donors this year, according to event coordinator Allie Bedell. Top right photo: KSC students Kristen Licht and Ally Doyle look at their freshly cut hair at the KSC Pantene Beautiful Lengths event.
incredible. We couldn’t have done it without all of
the event Allison Bedell, 116 donors concluded SaturThe Keene State College community gathered Sat- day’s second Beautiful Lengths. urday, April 12, in the Spaulding Gym with scissors Many students were excited when they got the - opportunity to donate their hair. KSC sophomore dred women donated their own ponytails for KSC’s Marta Morris, who donated her hair, felt that Beautisecond annual Pantene Beautiful Lengths event. ful Lengths is an important cause. The event, which made its debut last year on “It’s important to show that people actually care. I campus, allowed the Keene community members think sometimes college students have a stigma that the chance to cut their hair off so it could be used on charge-free wigs for cancer patients around the coun- said, “We had students up all night at Relay For Life — try. we have other students doing so many other fundraisLast year, 60 donors participated in the event. This year, however, the KSC Beautiful Length’s Facebook Morris continued, “It’s such a good thing we’re page stated the event had reached over 100 willing doing here today. We’re really a great campus with donors — before the event, posting a status that read,
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Keene, N.H., connects with KSC and current ERIC JEDD
Equinox Staff On Saturday, April 12, 2014, the Monadnock International Film Festival featured and awarded the film Watchers of the Sky the Jonathan Daniels Award. It is a film that focuses on the concept of genocide in the past and present, a topic that Keene State College prides itself on for having the only Holocaust and Genocide Studies major in the country. Approximately seven years in the making according to Luis Moreno Ocampo, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and one of the five focus people of the film, the movie examines the life of Raphael Lemkin. The story features Lemkin, a lawyer-turned-refugee from Poland during the Holocaust, who came up with the term “genocide” in an attempt to turn it into an international crime punishable by international law. The film follows Lemkin’s story as well as four other people involved in making genocide punishable by international law; Ocampo’s struggles in the ICC; Samantha Power, author of the book, A Problem From Hell and influential United States Ambassador to the United Nations; Benjamin Ferencz, an inspirational prosecutor from the Nuremberg court cases against the crimes of the Jewish holocaust; and Emmanuel Uwurukundo, a current and devoted United Nations refugee officer who survived the genocide in Uganda while the rest of his family was killed. While examining the struggle Lemkin was faced with surviving as a refugee, the film also magnifies the fact that genocide is still a very real threat to many people of the world today. Ocampo, as well as the director of the film, Edet Belzberg and executive producers of the film Elizabeth Bohart and Amelia Green-Dove, appeared in a panel after the viewing to answer questions mediated by Dr. James Waller, chair of the Holocaust and Genocide Studies program at KSC. One of the questions asked of the panel was what initially led them to create the film. Belzberg stated, “I came to Lemkin’s story from the book, A Problem from Hell. After the third chapter, I knew I had to make the movie.” The author of the book, Samantha Power, was also one of the five people the feature film focused on. When asked by Waller to comment on the problems today with genocide and inaction by multiple world powers, Ocampo said, “There is a conflict between the citizens of the world and the states of the world.” In terms of the United States, Ocampo said, “I don’t think there is any chance the U.S. will help ratify the ICC. I don’t think the U.S. Government will do a lot, but I feel the U.S. citizens will.” According to the film, genocide is not something just left in the history books — the current president of Sudan, Omar alBashir, is at large for his genocide and humanity crimes. The panelists also expressed concern about the conflict in Syria. In an attempt to explain the situations that are happening in the world today concerning genocide and crimes against humanity, Ocampo stated, “Imagine if your daughter is raped and you go to the police and they say, ‘Yes, we raped her and we will do so again tomorrow,’ that is what is happening.” During the question session, one audience member and mother of award-winning director and screenwriter, Haik Kocharian, spoke up. The mother stated, “My English isn’t good, but I would just like to say that I myself am Armenian and would like to thank you for this film.” To recognize the film festival, Ocampo commented on the positive effect that movies have on the world. “Lenkin’s mission in life was to move the nations. We are ignoring the continued genocide. We have a problem and we have to face it, and I think any movie about the subject is a step in the right direction,” said Ocampo. Belzberg also commented on the impact of the film community and said, “We received this invitation [to MONiff] before we received any real recognition for this film. I’m so grateful to everyone, and I can’t wait to come back next year as a viewer.” Waller spoke again at the end of the panel and quoted Arthur Ashe, a famous African American tennis player, in reference to what people can start doing to better the world: “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Also see Equinox reporter Eric Jedd’s commentary piece on films featured in this year’s film festival on B1. Eric Jedd can be contacted at ejedd@keene-equinox.com
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Equinox Staff The Monadnock International Film Festival prides itself on its slogan: Movies Matter. With this theme as the backbone of the event, there is in fact solid proof that not only do movies matter, but the people who appreciate movies matter just as much. In only its second year of implementation, the festival has incorporated film into the community of Keene, N.H. Unfortunately, I cannot explain this film festival in all of its essence in a few simple words in an article. What I experienced this weekend was only a slight feel for what MONiff is even in its infancy. Movie lovers should not be the only ones attending this event, as everyone that has ever even slightly enjoyed a movie can benefit from watching a true art form come together in a beautifully-seamless entertaining package. Viewing two movies during the festival was a treat, as both of them were vastly enjoyable. On Thursday, April 10, the film, Before I Disappear was truly an amazing film to watch. The actress of one of the leading characters in the film, Fatima Ptacek, who was also an actress in the film Curfew and the voice actress for the animated cartoon series, Dora the Explorer, made an appearance during a question and answer
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Elm City Brewing Co.: more than a restaurant customers are able to bring containers to purchase the freshly brewed beer to go. These are sold in half-gallon containers called growlOwner Debra Rivest said all of the ingredients Elm City uses are local and they are very concerned about the environment and the local economy. The restaurant is big on recycling, and the business tries to limit the amount of packaging and transportation that comes into the restaurant. What is great about Elm City also being a brewery is how the beer goes straight from the barrel to the taps; This week, I decided to change things up a bit and there is absolutely no transportation involved, which is move from Main Street onto West Street at Elm City a lot better for the environment. Elm City has a large menu, which includes appeRestaurant and Brewing Co. I’ve been to this restaurant multiple times, and I tizers, burgers, steak, soups, salads, pastas and sandwiches. Rivest said the most popular menu items are Located right in the Colony Mill Marketplace, Elm City is the place to go if you’re looking for a getaway that. Her favorite item to order is a cheeseburger with a from the whole “college town” atmosphere. side of fries. When I went to the Brewery, I decided to try their Elm City is the beautiful outside patio. Bricks make up chicken and cheese tortellini. This meal blew me away. the patio, and there are both tables and booths for customers to sit at. Flowers are set at each table and large The plate included chicken, pasta, garlic, spinach and trees surround the patio for a pleasant outdoor experi- white wine covered in a parmesan cheese sauce. All of these ingredients made this a meal to remember. ence. I’ve also tried the Vermont spinach salad, and it did Umbrellas are also placed at the tables so customers can have shade on those extra hot and sunny summer not let me down. Both meals were portioned, so there days. not too much. There is a fairly large entryway inside the restaurant Elm City is a restaurant that should not be overso if there is a wait, customers will not be crammed into looked when deciding where to grab a bite to eat. a small space. A chalkboard lists all of the beers on tap and the specials of the day. The lighting in the restaurant is fairly is brewed on site, and all the food is purchased locally. Rivest said she hopes that customers leave with a dim, but huge windows along the front of the restaurant allow the sunshine to seep through, creating a very good impression. “I want them to leave feeling not just full, I want soothing ambience. During the summertime, the restaurant seats 180 them to be feeling like they got a good value here. I customers, and the restaurant has booths, regular tables want people to feel good that they spent their money here. They [customers] work hard for their money, and and high top tables for people to sit at. Betty Singleton, a Keene State College and Antioch if they’re going to spend it somewhere, I want them to University alumni said it’s the atmosphere and great walk out the door thinking ‘I’m glad that’s where I put my money,’” Rivest said. service that keeps her coming back to Elm City. She explained she enjoyed, “The décor, and [how] - port students, animal rights and the environment. She said she very much appreciates the customers business and added she is going to make the best and the food was excellent.” According to ElmCityBrewing.com, Elm City opened choices with the money customers spend at Elm City. KARINA BARRIGA ALBRING / SENIOR REPORTER in 1995 as not only a restaurant, but also a brewery that The top photo depicts the outdoor seating area at Elm City Restaurant & Brewing Company, located on Brooke Stall can be contacted at includes a seven-barrel brewing system. West Street in Keene, N.H., in the Colony Mill Marketplace. Bottom photo: a plate of wings served at Elm bstall@keene-equinox.com The beer that Elm City creates is served on site, and City Restaurant & Brewing Company.
Student-run film festival combines creativity and a fun challenge ANTHONY MUNOZ
everybody’s ideas to make it a collaborative
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“We have a group of people who are very unique, and combining everybody together is hilarious,” Jellie continued. everyone was available to shoot proved to “Working with the cast is great. I’ve had - two of the same teammates since my freshdents. man year and the other teammate I had last “People’s schedules created challenges year, so we all know how each other works for sure, as well as the workload as the and this allows us to be as productive as semester comes to a close,” Armbricht said. we can,” Armbricht said. “Trying to capture everything we want Armbricht continued, “Casts consist of within such a short shooting-window
Students worked to create their productions for the 4th Annual 7 Day Film Festival — a competition lead by Keene State Media Productions where participants are given exactly seven days to write, shoot and edit When signing up, participants are given a genre, a prop and line of dialogue instructions on the assignment. two prizes: “Editors’ Choice” and “People’s Choice.” “This year’s genre is reality TV, which has been a breath of fresh air with the variety of directions that we can take it,” said Erik Armbricht, a junior and executive board member of Keene State Media Productions. “We are actually taking aspects from various reality TV shows and compiling them all together,” Armbricht said. “The genre we got is ‘Disaster Chick Flick,’ so we decided to make the disaster something everybody can relate to — the Wi-Fi being out,“ Melissa Jellie, a senior
having us rearrange our idea into a much helping us out.” Albee said her group’s more doable shoot,” Armbricht said. crew played the cast as well, which made - the production’s scheduling much easier to manage. “I hope the audience will get a CONTRIBUTED ART / AARON TESTA The 4th Annual Seven-Day Film Festival screening took place Wednesday, April 16 to shoot everything in a day because we simply didn’t have enough time to do it at lives are actually like,” Albee said. The at 9:30 p.m. at the Putnam Theatre in Keene, New Hampshire. another point in the week,” Albee said. tary’ for the competition,” Nichole Albee, a Participants noted the challenge “I really hope to see more and more stuedited the production, said. brought together students of various dis“We have a girl named Jessikka, who is ciplines. ing in such a fun festival in the upcoming trying to run for prom queen and the Wi-Fi of The Real Housewives. It’s called, The years,” Armbricht said. “It is really a good Reel Film Majors of Keene State, and it’s lit- there are some things that I know about learning experience to be on such a deadline.” with this disaster,” Jellie said. KSC,” Albee explained. necessarily know, so I have to try and comAnthony Munoz can be contacted at “We got the category of ‘mockumenAlbee said she helped write the story, municate those things while still accepting amunoz@keene-equinox.com
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Syrian troops choke off rebels north of Damascus ALBERT AJI
any further rebel advances. The army has focused its strategy on areas around Damascus, seat of Assad’s power, particularly ahead of presidential elections scheduled to be held by summer. Assad appears poised to seek re-
AssociAted Press MAALOULA, Syria (AP) — Syrian troops triumphantly swept through some of the last remaining opposition strongholds north of Damascus, including a much coveted ancient Christian hamlet,
rampages into its fourth year with large parts of the country either in ruins or under opposition control and more than 150,000 people killed. A Syria military statement issued Monday said the successive victories by the Syrian army were in line with the Syrian government’s “determination to win
nearby hills amid an ever tightening noose. The near total collapse of rebels along a key supply route that has long funneled weapons to opposition-held districts around Damascus helps strengthen President Bashar Assad’s hand in and around the capital ahead of presidential elections during which he intends to run for a third term. The dramatic capture of Sarkha, Maaloula and Jibbeh was the fastest series of army successes against rebels in the Qalamoun region since the government launched an offensive in November in the strategic area, a wedge of mountainous territory between the capital and the Lebanese border. The string of military achievements there this year by government forces — often boosted by
Islamic extremists. Syria’s state news agency said forces loyal to Assad captured Sarkha early Monday before also sweeping rebels out of Maaloula. Hours later, troops seized the nearby town of Jibbeh. By Monday afternoon, only the towns of Asal al-Ward, Hawsh Arab and Jbaadin remained in rebel hands, said the commander who spoke to an Associated Press reporter on a government-led tour of the area. He spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations. A pro-rebel activist in Qalamoun who uses the name Amer
another layer of defense for DamasSANA / AP PHOTO cus. In Maaloula, a historic and In this photo released on Sunday, April 13, 2014, by Syrian officials news agency SANA, a Syrian forces tank arrives to take position scenic Christian enclave set into during clashes with Syrian rebels near the town of Rankous, Syria. The seizure of the villages comes a day after Syrian troops backed by the rocky hills that has changed fighters from Lebanon’s Shiite militant Hezbollah group captured by the nearby town of Rankous. the communities. hands several times in the war, they were traveling in came under of Assad, despised by the overHe spoke on condition his full - keep the roads from Damascus to Syrian soldiers jubilantly hoisted tars into the capital. Beirut for themselves, after losing name not be used for fear of retalito topple him. It is also important because of many crossings with Turkey,” Jaber ation. facade of a perched, landmark as reporter Hamza al-Haj Hassan, Maaloula, located some 40 miles Fighters from the group have a highway that links Damascus to said. hotel where rebels had been holed technician Halim Allaw, and cam- traveled to Syria and have been the Mediterranean port of LataSyrian rebels launched an offen- (60 kilometers) northeast of the capup for months. eraman Mohammed Mantash. instrumental in helping Syrian kia and the coast, the heartland of sive in Latakia province last month, ital and home to a large Christian In a sign of the persistent dan- Two of their colleagues were also troops secure areas around the the Alawite sect that Assad and his party in response to the losses population, serves as an important gers, three members of a television wounded, it said. capital. family belong to. in Qalamoun, capturing the last symbolic prize for the government crew working with the HezbollahThe station’s director general, Rebels still hold a few towns “It’s an extremely important border crossing point with Turkey in its quest to be seen as protector owned Al-Manar TV were killed Ibrahim Farhat, said it was not clear and other pockets in Qalamoun. region for the security of Damas- that was still under government of religio us minorities, including when their car came under a hail of Syria’s Christians. Control of the region means control cus,” said Hisham Jaber, a retired control as well as several towns. bullets in the town. Some Maaloula residents still targeted. - Lebanese army general who closely Although the army has been The Lebanese Shiite militant ers to Ghouta, a sprawling oppounable to reverse the rebels’ gains speak a version of Aramaic, the the area when the two-car convoy group Hezbollah is a staunch ally sition area east of Damascus from “The army will do anything to in Latakia, it has managed to stall
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Authorities say hate motivated Kan. shooting French school carries out MARIA SUDEKUM
AssociAted Press OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors have enough evidence to pursue hate-crime charges in the shooting spree that killed three people at a Jewish community center and retirement complex near Kansas City, authorities said Monday, a day after the attack. Frazier Glenn Cross of Aurora, Mo., a known white supremacist, has not been formally charged tion about charges was expected Tuesday. Federal prosecutors were moving to put the case before a grand jury. Police suspect Cross fatally shot two people Sunday afternoon in the parking lot behind the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, then drove to a retirement community where he shot a third person. He was arrested in an elementary school parking lot. “We have unquestionably determined through the work of law enforcement that this was a hate crime,” Overland Park Police Chief John Douglass said, refusing to elaborate on the evidence. Cross, a former Ku Klux Klan leader who was once the subject of a nationwide manhunt, was being held at the Johnson County jail on a pre-
ments to police, “but it’s too early to tell you what he may or may not have said” during the attacks. He also said it was too early in the investigation to determine whether Cross had an anti-Semitic motive. The Jewish festival of Passover begins Monday evening. SITE, a U.S.-based terror monitoring group, described the suspect as a known and vocal antiSemite who frequently calls for genocide against Jews. Police said the attacks happened within minutes. The gunman shot two people in the parking lot behind the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City. He then drove a few blocks to a retirement community, Village Shalom, and gunned down a woman or girl there, Douglass school parking lot soon after. The gunman shot at but missed two other
munity center. All three were Christians. “We want to express our condolences to the families of these poor souls who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time and had the with evil,” U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. Rebecca Sturtevant, a hospital spokeswoman, said family members told her Corporon took his grandson to the community center to try out for a student singing competition. Reat was a high school freshman and an Eagle Scout. Cross is also known as Frazier Glenn Miller. A public records search shows he has used both names, but he refers to himself on his website as Glenn Miller and went by the name Frazier Glenn Miller in 2006 and 2010 campaigns for Cross lives in a small single-story home borKSHB41 ACTION NEWS / AP PHOTO
Authorities respond to the Jewish community center after a shooting in Overland Park, Kan., Sunday, April 13, 2014.
people and never entered any buildings, police dered on three sides with barbed wire fences just - outside the small southwest Missouri town of liam Lewis Corporon, who died at the scene; his Aurora, some 180 miles south of Overland Park. A who died at Overland Park Regional Medical ers was parked outside. Center; and 53-year-old occupational therapist An AP reporter knocked on the front door of Terri LaManno, a Catholic who was visiting her Douglass said the suspect made several state» SHOOTING, B6 mother at the retirement complex near the com-
Rocket leak delays space station delivery launch in Florida MARCIA DUNN
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MDMs, or multiplexer-demultiplexers, used to route computer commands
orbiting lab. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A space station cargo ship will remain The failed one is located outside and therefore will require spacewalkEarthbound for a while longer. ing repairs. With just over an hour remaining, the Space X company called off MonThe Dragon capsule holds a gasket-like material for next week’s comday’s planned launch because of a rocket leak. A new launch date was not puter replacement. This new material was rushed to the launch site over the set; the next opportunity would be Friday. weekend and loaded into the Dragon. NASA astronauts Rick Mastracchio and Steven Swanson will perform rocket forced the postponement. The launch already had been delayed a full month for various reasons. then. Over the weekend, NASA almost postponed the launch because of a It will take several days to get the replacement computer ready for computer outage at the International Space Station. installing, thus the one-week wait before the job, NASA’s Kenny Todd, a But it decided Sunday that everything would be safe for the arrival of station operations manager, said Monday. the Dragon capsule and its 2½ tons of supplies. SpaceX — Space Exploration Technologies Corp. of California — is one The computer, a critical backup, failed outside the space station Friday the space shuttles retired in 2011. Orbital Sciences Corp. of Virginia is the other.
DNA dragnet in rape case LORI HINNANT
France has stringent privacy protections — Google, for example, has come under legal attack for storing user data, as well as for PARIS (AP) — French inves- lapses in images from Street View. tigators began taking DNA samQuestions of criminality are ples Monday from 527 male a different matter — the govstudents and staff at a high school ernment’s DNA database has — including boys as young as 14 — expanded radically since it was as they searched for the assailant who raped a teenage girl on the closed campus. about 3 percent of the population. Testing began Monday at “It’s clearly a situation where Fenelon-Notre Dame high school people do not have a choice,” said in western France. Catherine Bourgain, a genetic All those who received sum- researcher and author of “DNA, monses last week were warned Superstar or Supercop.” that any refusal could land them in police custody, and no one rejected the sweeping request to tion erased.” test the high school’s male popuAuthorities have promised to lation. discard the DNA collected once The testing of students, faculty a donor is eliminated as a suspect, and staff at the school is expected but Bourgain said she hoped that to last through Wednesday, with 40 DNA swabs recovered inside information, which during the two large study halls. usual course of French investigaProsecutor Isabelle Pagenelle tions is computerized and transsaid investigators had exhausted mitted to the database. all other leads in the Sept. 30 rape Police recovered genetic mateof the girl in a dark bathroom at rial from the girl’s clothing but the school. found no matches among current “The choice is simple for me,” “This happened during the wait for a match in what could be several years, or I go looking for Chantal Devaux, the private the match myself.” Roman Catholic school’s director, While there have been other told French media. “The decision situations in which DNA sam- to take such a large sample was ples have been taken en masse, made because it was the only way the case is complicated for France, to advance the investigation.” where acceptance is widespread Summonses went out last for DNA testing and a national week to 475 teenage students, 31 teachers and 21 others — either people detained for even minor staff or males who were on crimes. campus at the time. But children’s civil liberties are considered sacred, especially required parental permission for within schools.
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Ukraine asks for UN peacekeepers in resistive east MARIA DANILOVA PETER LEONARD
AssociAted Press peacekeeping troops to eastern Ukraine, where proRussian gunmen kept up their rampage of storming and a small airport. The request came from a government that has proved powerless to rein in separatists in its eastern and southern regions, where insurgents have seized or barricaded government buildings in at least nine cities, demanding more autonomy from the new government in Kiev and closer ties with Russia. Russia of instigating the unrest and of deploying armed Russian agents in civilian clothing to carry them out. In a telephone call with Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon, acting President Oleksandr Turchynov suggested that an “anti-terrorist operation” be conducted keepers, according to the presidential website. Peacekeepers, however, would have to be authorized Turchynov’s deadline for insurgents to give up their weapons and vacate their homemade barricades passed Monday without any visible action — instead, the violence continued. A pro-Russian mob stormed a UkraiRussian border. Later in the day, armed men in masks also seized control of a small airport outside the city of Slovyansk, also in the Donetsk region bordering Russia. “The Russian Federation is sending special units to the east of our country, which seize administrative buildings with the use of weapons and are putting the lives of hundreds of thousands of our citizens in danger,” Turchynov said, according to the presidential web-site. The events echoed those in Crimea, which was annexed by Russia last month after key regional facilities were seized by Russian troops aided by local militiamen. Dmitry Peskov, the spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying Monday that Putin has received “numerous appeals” from eastern Ukraine “asking him to help and interfere in one way or another.” Peskov added that Putin was “watching the developments in those regions with great concern” but wouldn’t elaborate. The developments came as the European Union’s foreign ministers met in Luxembourg to consider further sanctions against Russia and three days ahead of a Geneva conference seeking ways to defuse tensions. Diplomats from the United States, Russia, the EU, Ukraine and Switzerland were expected at those oneday talks Thursday. Russia has warned the Kiev government not to use force against the armed protesters in the east, saying it could thwart the Geneva conference. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov again denied Monday that Russian agents were operating in eastern Ukraine, saying it would contradict Moscow’s with facts. raid on the police headquarters introduced himself as a
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People gather during a rally in the Independence Square in Kiev, Monday, April 14, 2014. Ukraine’s acting president urged the United Nations on Monday to send peacekeeping troops to eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian gunmen kept up their rampage of storming and occupying local government offices, police stations and a small airport.
lieutenant colonel in the Russian army to a line of police- the country into a loose federal state. Ukraine has said that its giant neighbor has no business telling it what name. In a video posted online, the man, dressed in an type of government to have. After refusing demands for a referendum by sepamen to obey their new chief and to attach St. George’s ratists in the east, Turchynov indicated Monday that ribbons to their uniforms, which have become a symbol holding a nationwide referendum on Ukraine’s status of the pro-Russian protesters. The identity of the man Oleksandr Sapunov, who took part in storming the ment, including the local police chief, and wanted to appoint their own leadership. “The people came to tell him that he is a puppet of the Acting Deputy Interior Minister Mykola Velichcers in eastern regions were switching sides. “In the east we have seen numerous facts of sabotage from the side of police,” Velichkovych told reporters. Ever since Ukraine’s pro-Russian President Viktor demanded that Ukraine change its constitution to turn
know who is behind this.” Vadim Karasyov, a political analyst in Kiev, said the Kremlin was using Ukraine’s ousted president to help foment separatist tensions. “The Kremlin is implementing its scenario in the east, using Yanukovych and his loyalists, while Russian instructors are running the show,” Karasyov said. For the last two months, Russia has also had tens of thousands of troops massed along Ukraine’s eastern would vote against turning the country into a federa- border. Western governments have expressed fears that tion and against its breakup. Moscow might use the violence in the mainly RussianUkraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, who was speaking region as a pretext for an invasion of Ukraine, believed to be Yanukovych’s backer, issued a statement in a repeat of events in Crimea last month. Monday calling for an end to the violence and urging Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin denied Westtalks. The West has accused Moscow of fomenting the ern and Ukrainian claims that Moscow was behind the unrest. “The fact is that many of the armed units that we’ve also accused Ukraine’s interim government of “waging uniforms with insignia removed,” U.S. Ambassador a war against its own people.” “Some people, including in this chamber, do not want session Sunday. “These armed units ... raised Russian to see the real reasons for what is happening in Ukraine and are constantly seeing the hand of Moscow in what called for referendums and union with Russia. We is going on,” Churkin said. “Enough. That is enough.”
In exchange, the Syrian government reportedly released dozens of women from prison. During a government-led tour of the village Monday, the toll of the language of biblical times believed past few months on Maaloula was to have been used by Jesus. clear, including to Christian sites. Rebels had taken the town and It was not clear, however, whether been driven out of it twice before. the wreckage to Christian buildThis latest time, rebels seized the ings was intentional, or whether the village in early December. ancient sites were merely caught in (Cont. from B5)
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people who were eliminated as suspects. “Even if they have the agreement of their parents they could refuse,” Jean-Francois Fountain, La Rochelle’s mayor, told RTL radio. “I’m trying to put a more positive view of things: If you do this, you clear yourself. There are hundreds of people today who will be cleared.” Devaux acknowledged that all the results could still come back negative, sending investigators back to the drawing board. From a legal standpoint, the decision is completely logical, said Christopher Mesnooh, an American lawyer who works in Paris. “Of the 500 or so men there’s really only one who should have any concern,” Mesnooh said. “What you have to do in this kind of case is you have to balance each person’s right to privacy against what happened to this girl.” Such testing has occurred in the past. A small town in rural Australia, Wee Waa, tested the entire rape of a 93-year-old woman. It led to the conviction a farm laborer, Stephen James Boney. English police trying to solve the rape and murder
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ultimately charged, a local grocer, had been tested investigation. vacy rights advocates said they were comfortable with it because it had clear limitations, said JeanOver time, he said, those limits have blurred.
have not been able to be a bit more precise. When you make an inquiry, you have other evidence and other - testimony,” Dubois said. “Otherwise, you could say pling 5,000 men in the earliest days of genetic testing. why only the people in the school? Why not all the Police found the killer, Colin Pitchfork, after he asked inhabitants of the town or the region?” a friend for a substitute blood sample.
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The law center said the suspect has been involved in the whitesupremacist movement for most lina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and was its “grand dragon” in the 1980s. The Army veteran and retired truck driver later founded another white supremacist group, the White Patriot Party, the center said. wide manhunt in 1987 for violating the terms of his bond while appeal-
45, said Cross always seems friendly but that locals are well aware of his racist leanings. “It’s crazy that someone can be so likable but be full of this kind of hate,” she said. The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, said it reached his wife, Marge, by phone and that she said operating a paramilitary camp. The authorities had been to their home. search ended after federal agents
found him and three other men in an Ozark mobile home, which was matic weapons and thousands of
power platform. SITE said Monday that the suspect is a prominent member of the posted thousands of messages — including frequent calls for genopost was Saturday.
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break our season. If the walks continue, I don’t see us competson said. Senior first baseman, catcher in the conference,” Guild said. Guild, like Gummow, said and Tri-Captain Andrew Gummow said the Owls have he has faith in the team. In their potential on the mound. “The pitchers have individual talent land on April 9, KSC issued nine
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have to play to win as opposed to tended to concede to hitters and concede to the other team,” Guild said.
was his most productive, yet as he
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Penn State offensive lineman John Urschel answers questions during the NFL draft combine.
Bruins primed for playoff run
The Boston Celtics held the sixteenth pick in the draft and
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(just behind Hall Of Famer Bruce Matthews) by the Philadelphia career never panned out to what should come from a top-ten pick. sons, but his numbers were what drove Philadelphia fans insane. touchdowns in his career. Three. NFL draft in history scored three touchdowns. His six seasons in Philadelphia yielded a total of ers rushed for more yards than that in one season ten separate -
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said. “These players know what they have to do.” Many of those players were on the team that won the Stanley Cup tain that success.
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Trophy conversation” for MVP.
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“We went into that whole venture to improve our team and we have improved our team. So there’s no real vindication,” Chiarelli said.
If you know hockey, this draft Kaman,
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fourth overall in the draft.
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draft has to make it one of the
ASSociAtEd prESS The Boston Bruins had the NHL’s best record, allowed the second
was dealt to the Memphis Griz- currently second in the NHL in zlies, where he played six total Star, was selected second-to-last all in the draft. This draft seems like it would be impossible to pick all-stars were picked after him, he made the impossible possible. New York picked the hulkman twelfth overall in the draft. nicke and Lee Mazzilli all went eysFuture.com lists that Jessiman and Stearns all were elected to the Hall of Fame, and Roenicke and Mazzilli both have World Series titles.
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Keene State College athletic team records Women’s Lacrosse
Baseball OVERALL
CONF.
HOME
6-13
1-5
1-1 1-6 (4-6) Lost 3
at Western Conn St.
AWAY (neutral)
STREAK
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
2
Keene State College
0 0 1 0 0 0 5 0 0
6
Western Conn. St.
3 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 x
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
Keene State College
0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 1
Western Conn. St.
0 2 0 1 0 2 0 1 x
CONF.
HOME
8-3
3-0
6-0 2-2 (0-1) Won 4
vs Westfield St.
at Western Conn St. Runs by Inning
Runs by Inning
Men’s Outdoor Track
OVERALL
6 8
Softball
AWAY (neutral)
1
2
Westfield St.
4
1
5
Keene State College
7
5
12
Points by Period 1
2
Total
Keene State College
4
9
13
Rhode Island College
6
0
6
Men’s Lacrosse
OVERALL
CONF.
HOME
AWAY (neutral)
10-10
2-4
0-2 5-3 (5-5) Won 1
at Middlebury
STREAK
at Middlebury
Runs by Inning
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total
Keene State College
1 0 1 2 0 0 0
Middlebury
0 0 4 0 3 0 X
4 7
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total
Keene State College
0 5 0 0 0 0 2
Middlebury
0 0 4 2 0 0 0
7 6
CONF.
HOME
4-6
3-0
2-1 2-3 (0-2) Won 3
Goals by Period 1 2 3 4
AWAY (neutral)
Shot Put
Ryan Widzgowski 1500m
Time/distance Place 14.80 m 3:55.39
2nd 1st
Ben Keach
Discus 42.28 m
2nd
Angus Fisher
Discus 40.26 m
4th
STREAK
at Eastern Conn St.
Total Points by Period 1 2 3 4
Western Conn. St.
4
0 0
4
8
Keene State College
9
4
2
23
8
Event
Women’s Outdooor Track
OVERALL
vs Western Conn St.
Runs by Inning
Name Ben Keach
at Rhode Island Col. Total
Goals by Period
Yellow Jacket Invitational
STREAK
Total
Keene State College
3
1 3
4
11
Eastern Conn. St.
0
3 0
3
6
Yellow Jacket Invitational Name
Event
Lucia Martin
Pole Vault
2.90 m
4th
Shot Put
10.87
9th
Sarah DiTonno
Time/distance Place
Friday, April 18, 3 p.m. Saturday, April 19, 4 p.m.
Saturday, April 19, 1 p.m. Saturday, April 19, 11 a.m.
Saturday, April 19, 7 p.m.
Thursday, April 17, 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 22, 3:30 p.m.
Friday, April 18, 5:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 6, 12 p.m.
Saturday, April 26, 11 a.m.
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Keene State athletes overcome injuries
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ship, every student was in Gampel [Pavillion] and we that everyone rushed into the middle of campus and after the championship game it was complete chaos on campus,” Kara Patterson, a UConn sophomore, -
Further, Patterson said the university tried to keep the students in one area, in an attempt to ensure
Similarly, KSC students said they were also condent center because they had ice-cream,” KSC junior
us get bored in one area you could see the cops just While these two campuses had serious damage after the victories, the students who witnessed and participated in the events said that the intent was not
BRIAN CANTORE / PHOTO EDITOR
Julie Trombetta evades a defender in a game against Eastern Connecticut State on April 5, 2014. Trombetta wears a brace to support a previous knee injury.
Just as the KSC students expressed they were
KENDALL POPE
not only his ACL but his MCL, LCL, the medial and laderal meniscus, as well as which would have been right around his patella tendon all at the same time When athletes get injured, some during a rainy game his freshman year, report the worst thoughts always run Reif said he was predicted to be out for my PT (Physical Therapist), my parents, nine months to over a year depending on I be out? Will I ever be able to play again?” how well his physical therapy and rehab Yet for some athletes, injuries that would normally end professional careers Reif explained he was back to running to be one-hundred percent or [not] to inspire them to work hard and get back expect to be where I was and that I would
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Keene State College Athletic Trainer Reif and Trombetta said they are Jason Besse expressed he has seen it all, goal for myself and that goal was to play both required to wear a brace when they from minor ankle sprains and pulled next season, and I think always having play games, and while the brace offers support for their knees, it is a constant he said he has also seen a variety of emo- helped me through the healing process,” reminder of their injury, according to tions and reactions from players once they are told they will be unable to touch But some athletes said this positive down so much that at one point it seemed attitude can sometimes motivate ath- like it was almost doing more harm than letes too much and push them harder good, because I would be pushing myself - further than my brace allowed and that ally returning back to the game not fully healed but determined to play for possireactions come from where a player is in Trombetta explained this after suffering from a torn ACL and meniscus injury the Trombetta said wearing a brace makes going to have years to recover? Or are previous year right before the Little East her feel more secure, because she knows they a senior missing their last season,” she is not performing to her full ability When sophomore Bentley Reif, a ary when she was advised to stay off the spring break trip to Florida it was so nice
my brace because it was a light practice since we had a game the next day and
forgot about my injury because I had Although both Trombetta and Reif noted that a brace can help an athlete return to in a few playoff games or a championship game, Besse said he believed that taking the time to rehab the injury to
proud of our school and everyone on the court,” PatAfter more than 30 arrests and a series of negative utation and keep the focus on the two national chamcame home, there were speeches in the middle of campus so it was good to have that too,” Patterson
kind of walking the line, especially with
I hope our pride in our teams will help us put our
have the ability to give it as long as you
Undergraduate Student Government can help in keeping our positive image strong in the upcoming months,” UConn Student Body President Edward
and have athletes out for much longer playoffs are coming up and you have an athlete who is looking good, feeling good, there are plenty of times when you clear them and it [the injured area] is just not Kendall Pope can be contacted at kpope@keene-equinox.com
a UConn student, not as a representative of the uni-
Diana Pimer can be contacted at dpimer@keene-equinox.com
Michael Phelps comes out of retirement, mulls 2016 games BETH HARRIS
a foundation focused on water safety and appearances on behalf of his
aSSociatEd PrESS Michael Phelps is coming out of retirement, lured back into the pool
Press on Monday that Phelps is entered in three events — the 50- and
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Leddy Gallagher had a successful senior year at KSC, culminating in a goal in the Little Eastern Conference championship game.
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part because I love to be a competi-
ruma and Simula will be walking on being in the coaching side instead of May 10 with the class of 2014, howAs a piece of advice for younger ever they are not leaving the locker room of the Spaulding Gym quite - hard but mostly, really enjoy the ruma and Simula are coming back time you have with your teammates and coaches and friends because it nutrition, said she is interested Still, she said putting the competi-
Karina Barriga Albring can be contacted at kalbring@keene-equinox.com
Besides Phelps, USA Swimming said Olympians Ryan Lochte and Katie Ledecky are among those expected to swim in the Arena Grand
ence on the pool deck will give a boost to USA Swimming, which can Phelps turns 29 in June and is the winningest and most decorated - the goal of growing the sport, and his return to competition will surely known as athletes from far more prominent sports, such as NBA star LeBron James, which is an accomplishment for a swimmer whose sport
less than two years ago, he has stayed busy with a chain of swim schools,
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Rough start has staff looking for answers Slumping Arms 2013
2014
Team Record: 18-23
6-13
K’s Per Game:
6.2
5.4
BB’s Per Game: 3.8
5.1
“The pitchers have individual talent but they have to put it together in the strike zone. We have some good kids, but they just have to stop walking people.” ANDREW GUMMOW BASBEALL TRI-CAPTAIN
thurSday, april 17, 2014
Graduating field hockey players reflect on careers KARINA BARRIGA ALBRING
SEnior rEportEr Just like athletes dread the last minutes of each game, Keene State College seniors are experiencing mixed feelings as graduation day gets closer and closer. “It’s really great to look back at all the good times we’ve had here, and it’s sad to think about leaving,” KSC senior Simula said. The Field Hockey Owls ended their last season on a high note. The team won the Little Eastern Conference and made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament. Coach Amy Watson said winning this year created a special feeling for the team. “Last season we just by one goal, so them being able to come back and do that this season was a very big deal,” Watson said. Watson said the seniors played an important role guiding the younger Owls. “They were all very close and they always reached out and helped the younger players on the team,” Watson said. This year the team is graduating six seniors: Aimee Donaruma, Leddy Gallagher, Stephanie Morse, Julia Forgione, Mary DeMatteo and Katlyn Simula. Watson said all but one of the women came to KSC as freshmen. “They have grown together, they get to be pretty close — we are like a family,” Watson stated. Team captain and senior Donaruma agreed the seniors’ guidance contributed to the team’s chemistry. “We tried to lead by example and we all [the seniors] played a big leadership role. The freshmen had six leaders to look up to. I think that was a big game changer,” Donaruma said. According to senior player Gallagher, these achievements make it tough to think about graduation. “We had a great season, we all worked very hard to earn this, and then it is because it has been such a great time,” Gallagher said. Donaruma agreed, “Our team bonds really
KYLE BAILEY / EQUINOX STAFF
Freshman pitcher Stephen Costello throws a pitch in a home game against Rhode Island College on Saturday, April 12. The Owls would split the day’s doubleheader.
BRIAN CLEMMENSON
EQUINOX STAFF
A free pass here and a free pass there have really been adding up for the Keene State College Baseball team. As of April 11, the Owls’ pitching staff has walked 96 batters in 150 innings pitched. In addition, they have a staff Earned Run Average (ERA) of 5.40. The Owls have allowed 135 runs over 19 games, which averages out to eight runs per game. As of April 14 the Owls have a 6-13 record overall. The team currently sits in the basement of the Little East Conference with an 1-5 record. According to KSC Baseball Head Coach Ken Howe, the Owls are working to cut back the number of walks they are issuing. “We are trying to minimize the amount of
walks. We try to preach, as we always have, throw to early contact,” Howe said. One other issue that has plagued the pitching staff is not going deep into games. “When your starting pitchers are at 100 pitches in the fifth inning there are usually reasons for that,” Howe said. Howe added there are a variety of reasons why that happens. In some cases pitchers might not work ahead in the count, or give hitters a pitch they can put in play, Howe said. “The walks hurt and the defense tends to fall asleep when guys are throwing balls,” Howe said. Senior Pitcher Vinnie Mangiagli said during the team’s six-game losing streak, which dated from games played on March 22 until April 9, pitchers were in their own world. “We weren’t really combined as a staff. I think
First round draft picks make or break teams
across Europe for fresh talent to bring on draft day. The most maddening thing about all this effort and time invested in scouting is that sometimes, as is with any gamble, it doesn’t pay off. Draft busts make fans lose their minds. It especially hurts when your team picks a bust in RAY WALDRON the middle of a really strong draft Equinox Staff class. Let’s look at who the biggest draft busts were in the strongest Entry drafts, in any sport, are draft classes across sports. essentially one of the biggest The 1983 NFL draft is one of gambles a team can take. Front the strongest draft classes in the history of the game. For example, branches of their staff devoted Pro-Football Reference lists this exclusively to scouting future draft featured six future Hall Of talent. The NBA and the NFL take virtually all of their draft round. John Elway, Eric Dickerpicks from college or high school, son, Bruce Matthews, Jim Kelly, so their scouts will rarely travel Dan Marino and Darrell Green it comes to the NHL and the MLB, of this draft, and Hall of Fame that’s when international waters defensive end Richard Dent was often get crossed. MLB scouts will selected in the eighth round. The spend time across South America 1983 draft featured players that changed the scope of the game. their talent. NHL scouts, however, And then there’s Michael cover the most ground by scouting in Canada, Russia and all » LOTTERY PICKS, B8
yesterday [Western New England] changed that. We got a chance to come together as a unit,” Mangiagli said. Mangiagli said the Owls pitchers need to cut down on the walks. “It’s obvious you can’t have them. You need to minimize them as much as possible, it’s literally a free base,” Mangiagli said. Owls sophomore pitcher Keith Simpson said he believes the pitching staff’s struggles have hampered other parts of the team’s game. “If our pitchers get outs, our hitters won’t feel the need to press at the plate and they’ll feel lose,” Simpson said. Simpson also said the expectations for the pitching staff have not been met. “We are on our way, but we still have a long way to go to meet our expectations,” Simp-
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and we all wanted to win.” Simula, Donaruma and Gallagher stated winning the LEC and making the NCAA “Sweet Sixteen” in both their sophomore and senior years was one of their favorite memories of KSC athletics. Donaruma went on, “Being an athlete really changed my college experience. It would have been so much different. I spend all my time with the team. I don’t know what I would have The seniors said leaving KSC after defending the Owls’ colors for four years seems tough yet exciting. “I’ll never forget my time with the team, but I also am excited for new things to come,” Gallagher said. New and great things will come for the know all of them are going to do really well in whatever they decide to do. They are all really hard workers,” Watson stated. Yet, two of these senior Owls will still be part of the team next semester. Seniors Dona-
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Students walk a fine line between appropriate and excessive celebration DIANA PIMER
Equinox Staff On October 27, 2004, a curse was broken: “The Curse of the Bambino.” The Boston Red Sox had failed to win a World Series since 1918. When the Red Sox reversed this curse by winning the 2004 World Series, another began a mere nine years later. To many, this was seen as the curse of excessive celebration which took a victory too far and executed destructive behavior. In the world of sports, victory celebrations have become increasingly dangerous on college campuses as the years go on. On October 30, 2013, the Boston Red Sox won their third World Series title in ten years, further proving that they had broken Bambino’s Curse. On that night, however, students at Keene State College rioted on campus in response to the Boston team’s success. According to Karina Barriga Albring in an article in The Equinox from November 7, 2013, a female student was struck by a rock and injured, and broken glass. Even though these events took place six months ago, the memories of this night still remain with some KSC students, like KSC senior Tyler Tambascio. ERIN D’ALEO / GRAPHICS EDITOR “There were people knocking over trash barrels, ripping sign poles out of the ground, climb- basketball team won the NCAA National Cham“There were parties happening after we [the ing on buildings and cars, and there were cops pionship title. men’s basketball team] got into the Final Four everywhere,” Tambascio said. According to an article by Zach Cox from the and I guess there was a riot after that part. On Similarly, on April 7, 2014, students at the UniMonday night when we got into the championversity of Connecticut rioted after their men’s
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