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Vallante repercussions continue to spread
Lack of action enabled stalking ZACH WINN
sports editor Men’s Basketball Head Coach Robert Colbert was informed of former Keene State College employee Eugene “Gino� Vallante’s reported behaviors nearly on March 5, according to documents obtained by a right-to-know request by The Equinox. allegations he engaged in inappro-
priate behaviors toward KSC athletes and students, worked with Colbert at KSC for eight seasons over the course of two job stints. According to Vallante’s resume, after graduating KSC in 1997, he began working with the men’s basketball team the same year. Coach Colbert was an assistant that season. When Colbert took over as head coach in 1999, Vallante was promoted from assistant coach to associate head coach and director of recruiting — two positions
that did not previously exist. After the 1999-2000 season, Vallante left KSC for the head coaching job at New England College, where he coached for two years. Four former NEC players said their time at NEC in those two seasons was fraught with habitual phone calls from Vallante, who asked them questions about their “private parts,� masturbation and pornography, among other things.
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Admin urged to provide students prompt, sustained response JULIE CONLON
MaNagiNg executive editor Nearly ten years ago, on Sunday, January 23, 2005, a former New England College basketball player emailed NEC Athletic Director Lori Runksmeier, former NEC Interim President John Stevens — and Keene State College Director of Athletics John Ratliff. In the email obtained by The Equinox, the subject line read, “Gino Vallante.� As written, the nine-year-old email states, “...I am disgusted and outraged that Gino Vallante is again allowed to be involved in college athletics...Perhaps I need to remind people of the mental anguish he put current and former members of the NEC men’s bas-
ketball team through. For many of us, our “experienceâ€? with Gino was one of the worst times of our lifes‌.â€? ever opened or read by Ratliff. Because this email was either never read or never from KSC on allegations of sexual misconduct and what KSC students have said reveals that they too were the subject of inappropriate sexual behaviors initiated by Vallante. Then in March 2013, 8 days following KSC’s action to Todd Leach, chancellor to the University System of New Hampshire. In a letter obtained by The Equi-
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Guitarist Soren Hansen from Danish alternative rock band New Politics performs at the spring concert in the Spaulding Gymnasium on Friday, April 25. For Spring Weekend Coverage, see Student Life, A10 and Arts & Entertainment, B1.
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Senator Kelly strives for women’s rights ALISON RANCOURT
equiNox staff As Women’s and Gender Studies grows as a major at Keene State College, doors open for women to speak and aim to inspire developing students. On Monday, April 21, the Women’s and Gender Studies Honor Society welcomed Senator Molly Kelly to speak at Rhodes Hall. The event covered issues such as legislation on abortion, capital punishment, domestic violence and gender equality. Kelly discussed with students what it means to be an engaged citizen to promote activism and take care of the well-being of the community. Kelly, surrounded by a circle of students, spoke about how she made her way to where she is today. As a native of Indiana with ten siblings, Kelly is an alumnus of KSC. While studying history and philosophy, Kelly said she lived in what is now the Tisdale Townhouse complex with three children and three jobs. She mentioned she juggled managing family housing at KSC, waitressing one night a week and working a paper route. Even with her workload, Kelly said her education and time at KSC really changed her life. “I remember sitting in class one day, and I felt that somebody had opened up the windows in my life and that there was fresh air and new air and a whole renewal of my life, and it happened here on this campus,� Kelly said. She later graduated law school from Franklin Pierce Law in Concord, N.H. Having been elected to State Senate four times and senator for eight consecutive years, Kelly told students how she made her decision to run during her work on other campaigns. “One day it occurred to me
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Journalist sheds light on food waste Yogi teaches KSC students about Buddhism DIANA PIMER
equiNox staff On Tuesday, April 22, journalist and food waste expert Jonathan Bloom threw an empty Coca-Cola State College Alumni Center in front of over 50 KSC students, faculty and Keene residents. He did not throw it to be rude or to trash the campus; Bloom threw the can to make a statement. In his lecture, “The Food Not Eaten: Why We Waste Nearly Half of Our Food and Why it Matters,� Bloom explained littering with his Coke can was no different than wasting food. “I brought the parallel between littering and food waste to point out that when we set our minds on affecting change, we’re pretty darn good at it. Not only is food waste a topic worth handling, it is
one that we can really conquer,� Bloom said. Bloom referred to anti-littering and recycling campaigns, where positive change has occurred over the years. Bloom emphasized there have not been any campaigns like this for food waste. “What happens is, when we have behaviors that we deem worth changing, we will create campaigns to change them. But that hasn’t happened with food waste. We haven’t had that kind of campaign since World War Two [II] and it is killing us. Wasting food is normal. It is not only widespread, but also condoned,� Bloom said. He then added facts that support the concern about food waste. According to Bloom, 40 percent of food worldwide is wasted. To see the full story, go to keene-equinox.com Diana Pimer can be contacted at dpimer@keene-equinox.com
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News editor A new face visited Keene State College to assist students in putting theory to practice during a meditaever offered at KSC that teaches Buddhist philosophy. Samuel Hawkes, a communication professor who is teaching the course Buddhist Philosophy 290, explained the class will have guest Lama Gursam visit. Gursam is a yogi from Tibet. Each year he said he visits the Monadnock Mindfulness Prac-
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Above, Lama Gursam visits Monadnock Mindfulness Center in Keene.
tice Center in Keene, and conducts a having Gursam teach a class. meditation session while also giving “I just happened to run into the talks about Buddhism. Hawkes said Dean [of Arts and Humanities], students were fond of the idea of
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Week of: April 21 Monday, April 21 7:40 p.m. Holloway Hall: Suspected 706 [marijuana]. No odor and no contact made. Tuesday, April 22 12:03 a.m. Holloway Hall: Campus Safety officers checking on a female who was seen by dispatcher and seemed to be intoxicated. 1:20 p.m. Owl’s Nest 1: Campus Safety responding to a reported drug call. KPD is en route to assist. 10:18 p.m. Holloway Hall: Possible 706 [marijuana]. Unable to find where the odor was coming from. Wednesday, April 23 12:27 a.m. Pondside 2: Plumber reported hearing a male a female arguing in the area. 8:32 p.m. Randall Hall: RA reported someone outside yelling at someone inside the building. Thursday, April 24 1:25 a.m. Randall Hall: Report of a fight outside of Randall Hall. 10:27 p.m. Winchester Street: Stopped male with possible drugs. Turned out to be snuff. 11:24 p.m. Randall Hall: Officer was sent to speak to residents about the smell of 706 [marijuana] near the room. Residents said they had smoked outside. Friday, April 25 1:08 a.m. Carle Hall: Report of 706 [marijuana]. 6:10 p.m. Zorn Dinning Commons: Staff reported that students in the DC were getting out of control, throwing bottles and yelling ‘Food fight.’ 9:57 p.m. Owl’s Nest 1: RA reported he came across a male passed out in common area and do not know who he is. Male is a resident of the building. Saturday, April 26 5:18 p.m. Off campus: RA reported that student burned his hand with fireworks and is requesting Campus Safety assistance in Carle Hall. 7:18 p.m. Winchester Parking lot: Intoxicated male found on the ground. Sunday, April 27 1:30 a.m. Randall Hall: 706 [marijuana].
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[ Keene-Equinox.com ] ing in there…They [college administration] need to do what they say they’re going to do.” In his time at KSC, Vallante also nox, she encouraged the univerfounded a separately contracted sity system to examine policy in company called Fast Break Broadresponse to, “troubling allegation of casting. sexual misconduct by an employee Mike Miezejeski, a KSC freshwho held a position of trust with man who worked with Vallante for the school.” Fast Break Broadcasting, said he has According to KSC Media Relanot been contacted by any college tions Manager Kelly Ricaurte, evidence from KSC’s internal invesof his former boss, Vallante. Former tigation is still under review by the Fast Break intern and KSC alumnus McLane Law Firm. Ricaurte stated in an email, yet to hear from anyone at the college. Keene State’s next steps.” Though over a month has Ricaurte also indicated McLane passed and some students have Law Firm’s separate review of polimade attempts to move on from the cies at all four USNH schools is still incident, Keene State College Presiunderway — and KSC President dent Anne Huot stated the college Anne Huot indicated there is room continues to make efforts to confor improvement. tact and stay in touch with students At KSC, students are asking for who may have been affected by not answers. only Vallante’s termination, but by Vallante’s alleged misconduct. SOME KSC STUDENTS Huot particularly noted adminSTILL IN “DARK WATERS” istration did contact student workers. “There was active reach-out to KSC Student Body Vice Presi- the NOC that we initiated,” Huot dent and Night Owl Cafe Team said. Leader, Jackie Efraimson, worked Huot also stated college adminwith Vallante in the NOC when istration has been in touch with Vallante managed the NOC and members of the KSC Men’s Baswas program coordinator for the ketball team, who Vallante worked student center. Efraimson said since her former boss Vallante was he was hired 2005. Despite repeated (Cont. from A1)
We have been.” Efraimson said she and other NOC employees heard through a message posted on Facebook. Efraimson said, “We were very disappointed that when the news was released, that we — the employees who were so close to him — found out through Facebook, through the college Facebook. It broke my heart.” Eight weeks later, Efraimson said NOC students are still left in the dark. “When he [Vallante] went on leave, we were all kind of thrown into dark water,” Efraimson said. She said she and other NOC employees met with a counselor from the KSC Counseling Center — not because the administration promoted the use of these services, but because the students asked for counsel themselves. Efraimson said, “It’s been us — we are on our own. To the best of my knowledge, we have not been contacted by the administration of Keene State. We haven’t heard from President Huot, [Dean of Students] Gail Zimmerman — we haven’t heard from anyone...We’re hang-
contacts to 14 players, no current KSC Men’s Basketball players responded to The Equinox for comment by press time. Huot said administration has followed up with student phone calls which originate through the Silent Witness line, a program through KSC Campus Safety that is designed for “reporting crimes/ incidents and/or serious policy violations which may affect the health, safety or welfare of the Keene State College Community,” as stated online on the Keene State College Campus Safety page. tion of “reaching out” and stated, “When I say we’ve reached out — I’m not talking one contact. I’m talking multiple contacts, multiple attempts to reach people.” Huot said, “We have followed up with every student that’s come forward through the silent witness line…all of those that have come in — every student that was named by the New England College people who made the initial allegation have all been followed up with.” The president added the administration also followed up with each student named in articles published in The Equinox on April 3, 2014.
Above is a screenshot of the Silent Witness web page on the Keene State College Campus Safety website.
Taylor James “TJ” Neville, a KSC student featured in two sto- cials follow protocol in a situation ries of the April 3, 2014 edition of such as the Vallante investigation. According to Media Relations heard from the college administra- Manager Kelly Ricaurte, such “protion since then. tocol” is a procedure where, “Keene -
RESOURCES ARE WAITindividuals who may have been ING FOR STUDENTS As for current KSC students, KSC Dean of Students Gail Zimmerman reminded them of resources available at the college. Zimmerman mentioned a “host seling Center and health and wellness center. Zimmerman stated these “avenues of support are there no matter what the situation is,” and these options, “certainly are there for a situation such as what is occurring with the Vallante investigation.”
affected by the case surrounding Gino Vallante….This is an internal practice that is followed.” Further explaining the protocol, Director of Human Resources Kim Harkness stated in an email that “‘usual protocol’ is that when folks ject to inappropriate behaviors, we want them to know what resources are available to them for support.” Harkness continued, “usually there are efforts made to ‘check in’ with the individuals or to provide updates if appropriate. The check ins are more often to assure that
— a year prior to Colbert’s May 2011 email exchange with Lowery. DESPITE WARNINGS, VALThe emails show that on the same day LANTE’S ROLE AT KSC GROWS Three of those team members said playing as Colbert’s response to Lowery, an NEC player whose name is also being withheld Documents also show Vallante’s recruitbasketball for Vallante involved being, “conemailed Colbert. ment payroll rose exponentially between sistently and severely sexually harassed.” the years of 2007 and 2010, before Vallante Vallante left NEC in April of 2002 after [Lowery] said… Furthermore, I can provide stopped recruiting in February of 2011. players on the team said they reported his The records show that between the years behavior to Athletic Director Lori Runks- proof. After our meetings with the NEC meier and former President Ellen Hurwitz. administration re: Gino’s actions I had a of 2007 and 2011, Vallante went on recruitseries of e-mail exchanges with members ing trips to 76 towns spanning six differEmails provided by a former player of NEC’s administration. I still have those ent states on behalf of the men’s basketball show former NEC Vice President for Student Affairs, Joe Petrick, acknowledged e-mails… These emails provide explicit team. Three of the former NEC players told Vallante’s behavior. All four former players details of what we were put through, along with acknowledgement that these things The Equinox they were aware of Vallante said NEC allowed Vallante to resign. took place by the NEC administration.” acting inappropriately to potential NEC The emails show both former NEC play- recruits. EFFORTS TO WARN KSC OFFIers asked Colbert to take the issue “very So far, The Equinox has no information CIALS seriously” — and they also show that Col- regarding inappropriate behavior by Valbert’s May 19, 2011 response to Lowery lante toward high school KSC recruits. Nick Lowery, an NEC basketball player was the last time he ever emailed the two But Vallante’s recruitment was only part from 2001 to 2003, emailed coach Colbert former NEC players, according to right-toof his employment with KSC. According in May of 2011, according to documents know requests. to KSC Director of Human Resources Kim obtained by The Equinox. Other emails The Equinox obtained Harkness, Vallante’s salary as program By that time, Vallante had been Direc- from its right-to-know request show 2011 coordinator of the NOC at the time of his tor of Basketball Operations and had extentermination in 2014 was $40,600. sively recruited for the men’s basketball Brian Schnee, who broadcasted with team. In January of 2005, more than six years Vallante until graduating KSC in 2013, told Vallante was also program coordinator before Colbert’s email exchange, the former The Equinox that Vallante helped many of the Night Owl Café and ran Fast Break NEC player whose name is being withBroadcasting, a company that employed held emailed KSC Director of Athletics “How did athletes get a job in school? many KSC students. John Ratliff and NEC Athletic Director Lori Well, they went to Gino. He was an advisor In the May 7, 2011 email, Lowery wrote Runksmeier. to a lot of these students,” Schnee said. about a recent encounter with a KSC basIn the January 23, 2005 email, the player Nicco DeMasco, who played basketball ketball player. wrote to Ratliff, “I am disgusted and out- for KSC from 2009 until 2012, said Vallante Lowery wrote to Colbert, “Your current raged that Gino is again allowed to be player automatically agreed with every- involved in college athletics” and charache started Facebook messaging DeMasco terized the team’s seasons under Vallante about sexual topics. my teammates and I had with [Vallante] as “the worst times of our lifes.” Documents show many KSC students and what he is currently still doing with The email, which documents indicate reached out to Vallante for jobs at the NOC your players.” neither athletic director responded to, later and Fast Break Broadcasting. Documents show that when Lowery asked, “How long until he gets another Meanwhile, KSC students and employemailed Colbert again twelve days later, coaching job and is allowed to do what he ees continue to assess Vallante’s behaviors “checking in on how everything was going,” did again?” over the last nine years. Colbert responded eight minutes later. The answer to that question would be In a March 13 letter, New Hampshire Colbert wrote, “I have no reason at this 2007, when Vallante began recruiting high Governor Maggie Hassan wrote to Todd time to think that anything has happened school students on behalf of the KSC Men’s Leach, PhD, Chancellor of the University here unless someone comes forward but Basketball team, according to documents System of New Hampshire, and said, “Parwill deal with this when the students return obtained by The Equinox. ticularly concerning [to the governor] are [from summer vacation] I guess. I would In March 2014 when The Equinox allegations made in media reports that listen to anyone who has been affected by requested a comment from Colbert and Keene State College employees may have this alleged behavior at Keene.” Ratliff, KSC Media Relations Manager Kelly previously been alerted to potential misA former KSC basketball player, who Ricaurte responded, “Because our investiconduct.” wishes to remain unnamed, told The Equi- gation is ongoing, John Ratliff and Rob ColZach Winn can be comtacted at nox that he informed Colbert that Vallante bert will not be answering questions.” zwinn@keene-equinox.com was making him feel uncomfortable in 2010 (Cont. from A1)
while the process is underway we want to be sure that a target is not then also subjected to retaliation. But the check-ins can also be a way to assure folks that support is available.”
LASTING EFFECTS Eight years after some NEC students played basketball with Vallante as their head coach, an email was sent to KSC coach Colbert. In an email dated May 19, 2011, Nick Lowery wrote to Colbert and said years later, he and his teammates remain affected by their interaction with Vallante in 2000. “My teammates and I have gotten together and 9 years later we are still disturbed by this and feel it is time we let you know about it.” Another former NEC player
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The growth of Fast Break Broadcasting ZACH WINN
SportS Editor Eugene “Gino” Vallante’s involvement with Keene State College grew in the years after KSC Men’s Basketball Head Coach Robert Colbert’s 2011 email exchange with former New England College players. Fast Break Broadcasting, Vallante’s privately owned broadcasting company, covered a plethora of KSC sports since it’s 2004 conception. The only KSC employee listed on bert. Documents show that Fast Break broadcasted for nine different KSC sports teams, and steadily expanded its role — and payroll — with KSC athletics in the following years. bert’s email exchange with NEC players and three years after a KSC player reportedly complained to Colbert about Vallante’s actions, KSC paid Fast Break $36,125, more than twice The increase in payment coincided with Fast Break’s expanded services: 2013 marked the year the company began making recruitment videos for the KSC men’s and women’s swimming and diving, basketball, women’s lacrosse and softball teams. According to its website, Fast Break employed or provided internships to a number of current and former KSC students. KSC alumnus, Brian Schnee, who worked for Fast Break Broadcasting, said every student had to personally pick up their checks from worked for Fast Break, said Vallante would use his work with students to try to develop a closer relationship. “He would always try to get me to go out with him after broadcasting games over the winter or fall,” Aruilio said. “I always politely declined.” At least one KSC student interning for Fast Break reported Vallante made repeated phone calls at night inquiring about his social life and made sexual comments as recently as early spring 2014 before Vallante’s ouster. Zach Winn can be contacted at zwinn@keene-equinox.com
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that — wow — I am working so hard for their voice to be out there which was important, but I have a voice. And when I realized that I had a voice and I had a voice that I wanted to be heard, was the turning point for me to get involved and actually run,” Kelly said. Students who attended the event were able to interact with the sena-
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Equinox Staff During the Student Assembly meeting on April 29, student representatives approved
session. Kelly discussed with them their interest and involvement with their Women’s and Gender Studies classes while many students related papers they were researching and writing to the discussion. One topic a student spoke about and professors. They spoke of the importance for professors to allow students to have a voice. “When you form your opinion, you may change it again in your life, but you’re forming it now based on not just something you think works for you, so it’s really important. Don’t ever underestimate that based on age. And your imaginations, people get older and BRIAN CANTORE / PHOTO EDITOR our imaginations don’t go as far as yours. Your imaginations are very New Hampshire State Senator and KSC graduate Molly Kelly speaks about Women’s rights in a classroom on April 21. important,” Kelly said. Kelly said while trying to make on a bill herself that would allow And you come and tell the story of González, a professor for Women’s The majority of the group an addition to the Constitution with a mother to breast feed or express how it affects you or what you want and Gender Studies, said she was who attended the event was also Senator David Pierce from Lebanon, milk at work. Kelly told students the to do or why it’s a good bill or not, it happy with the experience and disinvolved in a feminist group on they realized the word ‘men’ in, “All bill is an example of an issue that can change everything,” Kelly said. cussions that took place. - does not only concern women. With all the topics and issues “Clearly she [Kelly] is a strong KSC student, asked Kelly how she “That’s not a women’s issue, that were debated, both Kelly and politician in New Hampshire and I feels each day as a female political Kelly and Pierce decided it that’s a family issue, it’s a healthcare the students said they felt the event like that she approached issues speleader and how she feels about the needed to be changed to the word issue and it’s an economic issue and was a success. climate surrounding her position. “individual.” Kelly said although that’s how I think we have to talk According to Kelly, she was Universities,” González said. Kelly said, “Nobody’s going to their change passed through the about some of these issues as well, impressed with what the students The professor also shed Senate, it failed once it got to the not only that this is about women,” had to say. “They talked about their some light on the Women’s and you have to believe in yourself. And House. Kelly said. research and backed up their argu- Gender Studies major at KSC. it’s not easy in a world where the Some students also discussed She also expressed the value of ments with primary and secondary “It’s a beautiful major. It’s not only marketing is what is and the prem- their recent trip to D.C. and some students being involved in the pro- sources and learned a lot doing that. talking about women but it’s about ise is so strong.” experiences they had there. The cess of passing or not passing a bill. I think that was really important, Kelly then discussed some of the and also when they talked about identities like gender,” González projects she had been working on from students about the process in when we have hearings on a bill, is that, the academic world and what said. throughout the year, including an passing bills. Kelly explained the when people like you come to testify. they are learning gave them a stronAlison Rancourt can be contacted at attempt to change part of the Con- process in which bills are deliber- When the students come, everybody ger voice for themselves,” Kelly said. arancourt@keene-equinox.com stitution. ated and said she had been working drops everything, it’s amazing... In addition, Patricia Pedroza
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jected to Vallante’s alleged misconduct in 2000. He, along with Lowery, also contacted Colbert and KSC Director of Athletics John Ratliff in 2011, in an attempt to warn KSC of Vallante’s past actions so other players would not experience what, to this day, he The former NEC player has urged KSC administration to “constantly reinforce” to students that help is there if they need it. He said KSC needs to do more than just inform students of what is provided to them on campus and said, “They [college administration] need to tell them that there is help available and encourage them to get help — and follow up and follow up and follow up.” The former NEC player said it is not enough for the administration to only let students know there are resources available. “Throwing it out there once — saying, ‘Oh, you know, if anyone wants to talk to anybody…’ and that’s it? That’s not good enough. This is something that takes time for people to come to grips with. Everything that this man [Vallante] was capable of...he certainly took a huge mental toll on a lot of people. It took a long time for me to get over this.” He added, “Keene State, if they want to do the right thing, they need to follow up, they need to ‘follow up’ with people on the program, anyone who admits, even graduates. Follow up and make sure they are getting the help that they need,” he urged, it. They’ll need it eventually, if they went through what this man has put many people through.” Nicco DeMasco, a 2013 KSC graduate who played basketball at KSC, stated he has not heard from the college regarding the initiated conversations similar to the sexually explicit conversations KSC students
shared. DeMasco said while he played basketball for KSC, the Vallante situation was “laughed off,” DeMasco said, “We just kind of dealt with our problems in-house. He affected a couple people.” DeMasco said of the college administration, “They don’t actively pursue students... They should seek out all the players. They need to make up for the stuff they need to do — [be] more proactive than reactive.” With the investigation on-going, president Huot said she thinks the college will learn from the experience. Huot indicated the college may make improvements to ensure that all, “faculty and staff know what their avenues are for reporting, for what their avenues are for helping our students and what their avenues are for following up.” The president said, “I think that we will learn from this experience about ways in which policies are interpreted. I think that in that learning we will be able to continue to make them better, continue to improve them…” Huot emphasized that her primary care in this situation is for the security of KSC students and promised the college will continue to reach out to students. In Governor Hassan’s letter to Chancellor Leach, Hassan stated, “I also encourage the University System to take further, appropriate steps to ensure the safety and well-being of all students, faculty and staff who work and study on your campuses.” Huot similarly stated her attention is on the “security of our students” and said she has “....been personally engaged since the minute this came to my attention.” For President Huot, “I’ve really stayed on top of where we are and I do feel that we’ve reached out. But we can’t force a student to want to come and talk to us. That doesn’t mean that you stop reaching out, it just means that you continue to try and we have and we will.” Julie Conlon can be contacted at jconlon@keene-equinox.com
SoundoFF Angelo Virone Freshman Psychology
“I recycle all my water bottles.”
Finance Committee. Keene State College Student imately $3,583 to fund electronics for the student organization uses, that would come out of the technology account. cally go toward three new chases would be an interactive television with a streaming network, a new cell phone charging station and an iPad. A cook-out for the class of 2017 was also announced for May 3 from three until six p.m. as a celebration of making it through freshman year. The event will be held on the student center lawn and catered by Sodexo and will feature live music. The meeting concluded with some closing remarks from Tyler King, a non-traditional representative, about this year’s Student Assembly experience. “It’s been a really great year. It has been such an awesome journey. Everyone did a great job,” King said. Jenna Lambert can be contacted at jlambert@keene-equinox.com
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Andrew Harris, and told him that I might be interested in teaching a course here [at KSC] if he was interested. It just happened that the head of the philosophy department was on sabbatical this spring and So here I am; I’m teaching a course called Buddhist Philosophy,” Hawkes said. He continued, “He’s [Gursam] going to run the class and hopefully it’s going to be meditation for a while. They call it a guided meditation, where you sit there and he says ‘Okay now you think about this, now you think about this.’ And then he’ll stop and give us the Dharma talk — kind of a sermon — discourse on Buddhism.” A day later, students described their participation in the meditation class as a positive experience. Chris Bernier, a student in the class explained students focused on breathing, and “He [Gursam] had this bell with him and a little mallet. He would ring it at intermittent times and after that he it would make a constant ringing sound. SAMANTHA LEWIS / EQUINOX STAFF It really calms the mind.” Lama Gursam, a yogi from Tibet, comes to the Monadnock Mindfulness Practice Kim Abrams, another student, said Center every year to teach about meditation. after this class she’s really learned to notice what she says. She said it isn’t always easy, but she’s become more polite and now considers others’ feelings more. Aside from the meditation in class, his Buddhist Philosophy 290 is, “What is Buddhism all about?” He explained Buddha had lived 2,500 years ago in what is now Nepal, but was then India. Hawkes shared the story: “He was a prince, very rich. He lived up until he was 26-years-old in just the lap of luxury. He had everything you could possibly want; married, he had a son, he had everything
“If you’re free from your delusions, you’re free from your suffering. All of us, according to Buddhism, are on a road to enlightenment.”
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So he left his kingdom and went out into the woods. And there was a whole group of wandering people back then that they were called Sermanas...[and they] walked around and philosophized, and so he [Buddha] did that for a number of years.”
“What do you do to help the environment?”
Rachel Lanza Sophomore English and Secondary Education
Rachel Norton Freshman Biology and Environmental Studies
“I ride my bike and scooter a lot.”
“I’m a vegetarian.”
Kerrianne Thomas Sophomore Communication
“I eat local products.”
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“I have a reusable water bottle.”
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EDITORIAL
Investigation must lead to future prevention
In 2010, members of the Keene State College Men’s Basketball team wrote a letter with the intention of bringing light to the alleged sexual harassment by Eugene “Gino” Vallante. They indicated they did not know where to send their concerns. In hindsight, the letter could have been sent to men’s basketball head coach Robert Colbert. It could have been sent to Director of Athletics John Ratliff. It could have been sent to former KSC President Helen Giles-Gee. But the letter was never sent. The lesson in this story is clear: For one group of students at one point in time, KSC did not provide adequate resources for them to voice their concerns. Four years after that letter was written, as students are bravely coming forward with accounts of Vallante’s alleged behavior in the midst of KSC’s internal investigation, the college has an opportunity to make right of its past wrongs. KSC must provide students with more information about the details of their investigation. We are not asking for a completely public investigation — withholding important information on a sensitive subject like this is understandable — but if that investigation is going to carry into the summer, then the college has an obligation to update students on its progress and key to students who may have been affected by Vallante’s alleged behavior. And The Equinox is not alone in addressing this concern. The President of Keene State College, the governor of the State of New Hampshire and the President of The United States have also acknowledged the responsibility of institutions to address sexual misconduct on campuses. Keene State College President Anne Huot stated in an interview with The Equinox that the college administration has made active attempts to of Vallante. Huot said the investigation has been a learning experience for college ing policies. Huot suggested a review of policy may strengthen faculty members’ understanding of the procedures already in place for handling reports of harassment. “If there’s something good that can come out of this, I think that’s what it is,” Huot said. New Hampshire Governor Maggie Hassan agreed. In a letter obtained by The Equinox to the University System of New Hampshire Chancellor, Todd Leach, dated March 13, Hassan asks for continued, thorough reviews of the University System’s policies. Hassan wrote, “...I encourage you to direct this investigation to examine more broadly the University System’s policies and procedures for addressing such allegations…” Furthermore, the governor also added, “....I also encourage you to empower the outside investigators to fully review these recent events its end, we want answers, too. On April 29, the President of The United States announced his NotAlone.gov site to provide guidance in preventing sexual assaults against students. While The Equinox is encouraged by President Obama’s, Governor Hassan’s and President Huot’s stances on reviewing policies and procedures, these are still just words — until changes are made. Everyone, students and those in authoritative roles at KSC, must know how to respond to allegations of sexual misconduct that jeopardizes the safety and security of students. There is still much work to be done.
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COMMENTARY
A reflection on staying mindful, finding contentment and transforming fear They say life is what you make it. But are we always trying to escape the reality of what our life consists of? We are constantly moving from one place to another just hoping for a break to catch our breath. This makes staying mindful nearly impossible. Without being conscious of our actions and thoughts we start to fall. We fall harder and harder each time as we dismiss what challenges stand in front of us. Although the challenges only continue, we let these obstacles defeat our morale. Our morale is so
we view it; the mirror to oneself. We can choose to see ourselves as driven and happy or lazy and miserable. Finding contentment in our past allows us to live in the present moment. What we cannot change we must accept. To love, you must love yourself. To trust, you must trust yourself. You don’t need all the money in world to have an abundance of wealth. You don’t need all the power to feel important. You don’t need much of anything but an understanding of who you are. This is innate. However, we forget this When we are negative, negativ- because our insecurities have us ity surrounds us. Just like a magnet, searching for answers we already we attract the energy that we put know from others.
Quit the search outside of yourself. Begin to see what values you have to offer. Begin to believe. When we believe, anything is possible; even the craziest idea to another. Don’t let go of your dreams. Let go of what holds you back from attaining them. Once we do this, the reality of life doesn’t seem so daunting. Instead, passion and love emerge. Bob Marley sang about it. Martin Luther King Jr. preached it. John F. Kennedy embodied it. Passion and and halt fear. Everyone has a choice to open up or remain closed off. When we show what we wish to feel searching for. You can not expect anything to manifest in your life
without the will to do so. The effort can only come from the body your soul resides in. What we sometimes forget to realize is how far we have come. The times that seem the hardest and test our strengths are there for a reason. We all struggle. We all succeed. Whether you choose to view each day as a failure or a success is up to you. The smile that wasn’t there before can exist again but only if you put it there. Remember the bigger picture and don’t sweat the small stuff. Again, life is what you make it. Actions speak louder than words. Take these words and transform. Brittany Murphy can be contacted at bmurphy@keene-equinox.com
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Football coach acquitted of child pornography charges A football coach in Minnesota was wrongly accused of having child pornography on his phone. Coach Todd Hoffner was arrested and charged with using minors in pornographic images and possession of child pornography. However, Hoffner was acquitted of the charges when a closer look at his technology revealed the images were simply of his own children in the bath tub. Although Hoffner’s charges were dismissed, he was suspended and eventually lost his job following the accusations. The situation is tricky. On one hand, you want to address any potential child abuse immediately for the child’s safety and health. Informing authorities of a person possessing or making child pornography is a very important step for the children involved. Especially with recent examples of coaches (such as Jerry Sandusky at Penn State) abusing their positions, it seems that such positions are developing a stigma. With that stigma, though, comes the risk of a dangerous generalization. Any coach or gym teacher at any school can be eyed suspiciously by parents and boards simply because of the position held. While it is true that the position has often been abused, it is not true that every person holding it will do so. With that in mind, I feel that if a person is going to make a charge on someone as implicating as one of child pornography, there should charge on the person. In other words, the person should not be convicted of a crime unless there are no doubts to he or she having convicted it. I can understand wanting to keep an eye on the person to prevent the potential abuse of other children, but until a person is one-hundred percent AP PHOTO / MANKATO FREE PRESS, PAT CHRISTMAN
seem fair to charge them with such crimes; a person’s life could very easily be ruined once he or she are convicted, so before making such decisions I think it’s worth verifying the person actually is guilty. A more thorough look at the photographs on the phone before making such charges would have told the school what they needed to know; once the judge saw Hoffner’s videos he noted they were “playful and silly,” according to TIME. While it is good that the person reporting the photos was initially concerned, and while letting someone with more power know is very admirable, I do question the legal process that went on behind the
Todd Hoffner was reinstated as the Minnesota State-Mankato Head Coach in April 2014 after he was charged with two felonies for having photos of his children in a bath tub. Above, Minnesota State interim football coach Aaron Keen welcomes Hoffner back. Athletic director Kevin Buisman is to the right of Hoffner. In 2012 Hoffner was wrongfully accused of child pornography and fired.
“On one hand, you want to address any potential child abuse immediately for the child’s safety and heath. Informing authorities of a person possessing or making child pornography is a very important step for the children involved.” -ANTHONY MUNOZ EQUINOX STAFF
scenes of the case. It is important for such actions to be swift, but they should also be very careful and verify what they are seeing. In general I feel the situation was a perfect set of events
aligned with the right timing. very easy to mistake, so I don’t parPost-Sandusky’s allegation, the ticularly blame the school for their hype around coaches and gym behavior; their decisions, while teachers has increased; Hoffner is overreacted, were out of good intena coach and had photos of children tions. in a bath tub. The correlation is Overall, I think this might be a
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April eclipse marks more blood moons
lesson for people to be more thor- situation, though, the most imporough in investigations. I also feel tant action to take is to make sure there might be a bit more ease on the action is taken. coaching and gym teaching stereotypes, at least for those who do not Anthony Munoz can be contacted at abuse their positions. In any similar amunoz@keene-equinox.com
COMMENTARY
Choose herbal remedies before prescribed antibiotics Spring is in the air and so is that pesky pollen.
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Night owls and stargazers were rewarded at wee hours of the morning with a total lunar eclipse on Tuesday, April 15. According to a CNN article, NASA said there are about two lunar eclipses per year in roughly sixmonth intervals. Some of them are very noticeable, while others go barely even recognized. Being that they happen so infrequently, dates in which blood moons are expected to occur should be shared through the media and encouraged to look out for. It is important for humans not to take these sort of natural occurrences, like blood moons, for granted in order to recognize the beauty of what’s left of this universe It seems as though there is nothral disasters occurring on Earth today. News channels present more unpleasant updates and less of the
“You know the universe is working the way it should when things like this happen...” -JORDAN CROWLEY EQUINOX STAFF
along with an abundance of pollution. During this event, the full moon Such elements have put a toll on passes through the Earth’s amber the places we live in more than we shadow, resulting in a red-colored are aware of. moon. According to a CNN article by Ben In the event of a blood moon, it is most visible in certain hemispheres began to change color at about 1:58 rather than others, according to CNN. a.m. and slid into the Earth’s shadow NASA said this eclipse was most until it became a blood moon at 3:06 visible to those in the Earth’s Western a.m. The total eclipse portion lasted hemisphere and in Eastern Australia. up to 4:24 a.m. NASA has also noted the last total The majority of watchers say the eclipse in 2011 was most visible from eclipse was barely noticeable. Accord- East Africa, Europe and Asia. ing to the CNN article, “This one is All who take lunar eclipses into - account get to experience the moon’s secutive total lunar eclipses. Within a process during an amazing natuyear-and-a-half, North America will ral event. You know the universe be able to see a blood moon a total of is working the way it should when four times.” things like this happen, so make in this day in age. According to NASA, the three sure not to miss out on the next lunar Unfortunately, as this planet gets blood moons yet to occur will take eclipse in October. older, it’s getting destroyed by factors place on October 8, 2014, April 4, 2015 Jordan Crowley can be contacted at like the excessive rise in technology, and September 28, 2015. jcrowley@keene-equinox.com
doctor and is given a prescription for a pack of antibiotics. One takes the medication as prescribed and will ignore the side effects of antibiotics and continue to take them whether or not symptoms are that bad. I haven’t touched any pharmaceutical medication in over a year — I’ve realized that common medications, even those prescribed by a doctor, have nasty side effects that can cause some serious long-term harm. Antibiotics can do some serious damage that a News in Health reported because antibiotics are one of the most commonly prescribed drugs for people, bacterial diseases such as gonorrhea, staph infections and tuberculosis are becoming more difsary use of antibiotics creates super bugs that adapt to medication. The drugs will no longer be effective in treating various bacteria. There is good news — if one only takes antibiotics for a bacterial infection that needs treating, such as strep throat or certain sexually transmitted infec-
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own. According to the website Organic Gardening, thyme is an expectorant. This means that it helps produce a more “productive” cough. It can help
be brewed as tea or as a bath soak. Licorice root, not to be confused with anise root, is a potent antiviral, according to www.organicliving.com. It can help protect against diseases such as HIV and SARS. The website also said licorice root bacteria won’t grow immune. There have been numerous cases when I felt I can interact with other medications, so speak with was getting really sick and I wanted to break my your practitioner before using. The website also stated that Elderberry extract streak and get some medication to relieve my sinus can also shorten the duration of symptoms. pain and throat soreness. Garlic is a great resource when a cold is almost inevitable as it does a great job at boosting the grabbed some honey and squeezed it onto a spoon. The honey coats the throat and helps soothe the immune system. There are garlic supplements that can be swalpain. Have a warm or hot shower to help loosen up lowed, or chewed as a clove with some honey. The Organic Gardening website states Echinacea is Gargle salt water and sit up straight. Posture helps a lot when you’re feeling sick also a supplement that can be taken with garlic to - shorten the duration of cold symptoms. The website also reported that those allergic to gestion. Herbal supplements are also a great and natural ragweed and pollen may be allergic to Echinacea as - well, so ask a doctor before you begin use. enza symptoms. Reach for these herbal remedies Jennica Martin can be contacted at jmartin@keene-equinox.com Thyme is an herb that is easy to grow on ones
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Supplies that were donated included books and toys, above. The students traveling to Rwanda will hand the items out at a primary school in Butare as well as in a boys and girls orphanage, according to KSC students Mark DiIanni and Kelly Christianson.
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Students held a fundraiser at Spoleto Restaurant in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts where they held a silent auction and raised over $4,000 dollars, according to junior Kelly Christianson. The five students, including Kelly Christianson, Mark DiIanni, Katie Morissette, Alex Habibi and Mariellen Breton, also spoke at the Springfield Rotary Club.
received “tremendous support from people who donated.” “We weren't expecting this amount of support — it’s unbelievable how many people are interested in what we’re doing me it’s a stepping stone into learning about and in Rwanda and how it’s grown and a culture development and how they’ve working through this genocide and rebuildadapted through post genocide times,” ing their country and culture,” ChristianBreton said. son said. Christianson said Vice President of Student Affairs, Andy Robinson, has been very bring over, and pens and pencils and paper,” enthusiastic and supportive throughout the she added. fundraising process for the trip to Rwanda. These supplies will be brought to the “He [Robinson] gave us one-thousand children at a primary school called Friends dollars to put towards our cost and eight- of Butare, as well as boys and girls orphanhundred dollars towards medical supplies ages that the students will be visiting. which we are going to be using to buy a year According to psychology major DiIanni, of health insurance for one hundred people Friends of Butare is a school in Rwanda that from a village [in Rwanda],” Christianson is taking steps and undergoing construction said. She said the cost is $5,000 per student to make a better place for kids in Rwanda to for the trip. receive a better education. The group of students also spoke at the The KSC students will “meet the kids - and distribute toys and books ourselves,”
in the psychology aspect. “I’m really interested in psychology and the psychological construct of hope, and I think that in a country like Rwanda where they have experienced such a trauma, their hope has been destroyed and I want to look at how the process of reconciliation kind of goes hand and hand with hope and how important hope is,” DiIanni said. DiIanni explained this experience will help him complete research partially based on Anthony Scioli’s theory of hope as a “theoretical background and framework” to help him get into graduate school. Habibi said he wanted people to know the group’s goal is to learn from the people of Rwanda. “I think we'll learn more from the Rwandans than they will learn from us in any way,” he said. We’re not going over there with a savior complex. We’re all going over there with very open minds and we'll all come back DiIanni said. very different people,” Habibi said. in East Longmeadow, Mass. to raise money. Christianson added that the school “As much as we’re able to offer material Christianson said they gained over began with a mere 200 students and now support in the form of medical supplies or $4,000 in donations through a silent auction has about 1,200. school supplies because we’re coming from of donated items, as well as received a donaAlthough DiIanni does not have a holotion of books from Scholastic Press. A caust and genocide background like some of as much from the Rwandan students that ccording to Christianson, the group the other students, he said he is interested we’re working with.” Habibi said.
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Habibi continued, “We’re not going over there with a missionary complex — I plan to learn just as much and to absorb from Rwandan culture just as I absorbed a lot culture from South African culture when I studied abroad there, just understanding humanity in a less individualistic way and looking at humanity as a bigger circle and understanding your place and relation to others and as opposed to just being concerned about ‘me me me.’” In terms of the emotional intensity the students may experience while in Rwanda and dealing with a post-genocide culture, the students agreed how important the support of the group members will be. Christianson, who also studied abroad in South Africa and worked in an impover-
I have already experienced, really helped me or will help me with my experience in Rwanda,” Breton said. Morrisette added, “We’re a really strong group and we’ve gotten along really well.” According to Christianson, the students will also be participating in group de-briefs after each memorial and after any other intense experiences they will write in journals, as well as keep a blog. In addition to the few weeks that Habibi, Morissette, Christianson, DiIanni and Breton will be in Rwanda, Christianson will be staying the majority of the summer living with a Rwandan family in Butare and teaching at the school, pursuing her goal of
Christianson spoke for the entire group and said the phenomenal professors and — I think it will be better because there will close-knit program at the Cohen Center for be a group of people that we know, being Holocaust and Genocide Studies has prewith our friends and a professor that we pared them for their trip. trust.” Breton added that her experience visitTo follow the students blog entries during ing Haiti after the earthquake in 2010 will their time in Rwanda, visit http://kscrwanda. help her in being prepared for Rwanda. blogspot.com/. “A lot of people get into a third-world country or a developing country and they're Kenzie Travers can be contacted at not used to culture that is in front of them, mtravers@keene-equinox.com. and by seeing that and it being something
KSC connects with the world; a look at semi-professional freeskier ZACHARY FOURNIER
Equinox Staff Semi-professional freeskier Luke “Lupe” Hagearty stated, “I began the sport around two-years-old. My parents would take me down the hill between their legs.” Hagearty said, “Skiers who inspired me growing up are Phil Casabon, Chris Logan, and Henrik Harlaut.” The rising skier has a range of sponsors “I am sponsored by Nordica Skis, Orage Outerwear, Shred Optics, Studio Clothing, Digit Poles Carinthia Parks at Mount Snow, Suburban Sports, and Inspired Media.” Hagearty said accumulating a fan base has, “been incredibly exciting. It makes me want to keep doing what I am doing.”
He continued, “It’s strange having gone from being someone who was confused about what they were doing on the mountain, to being a person that people come up to for advice.” The Connecticut-born skier recently worked with freeskier Tanner Hall and about the experience said, “The experience was surreal; I grew up watching Hall’s movies. If someone told me at twelve [years old] that I’d be working with him I wouldn't believe them.” The two began collaborating after working together, “After being featured in the same edits, though we didn’t
Iberg is a director and co-founder of continued, “We chose him to represent our Inspired Media Concepts which has pro- was pretty bad, then he started skiing so I brand because he really embodies the free ski movement. I think he is very authentic industry, according to Hagearty. and has a tremendous passion; that made “Iberg is pretty open with letting me do maniac with a wild personality but also him such a great match for us.” what I want with the series.” Said Hagearty. one of the nicest people. Junior year of high He then said, “I would like to see him Hagearty has released two episodes of school we realized he was going to be a pro. his web series titled The Style Files on the He went off on his own living at a house with Inspired Media or whatever he wants. on Mount Snow and got really into the life- Lupe is in his natural environment while episode was released on February 20 with style.” he’s on the mountain, if he wants to create the second following on April 12. “Last year Lupe started helping us out his own project who would we be to stop through his connections. Eight-sixty [860] him.” long-time friend of Hagearty’s, said, “A lot Sophomore Nathaniel Backus said, of people don’t know Lupe can snowboard, tion) wouldn’t be where it is today without “He’s an animal, he’s got guts sending it off in sixth grade he switched to skiing. Since Lupe behind us pushing.” of the jumps he sends it off.” then we’ve been skiing together. I’ve known Shred Optics’ Content Manager, AJ Hagearty continued, “Tanner put me in Avrin, said, “I found Luke in a video for Zachary Fournier can be contacted at touch with Eric Iberg who suggested doing the Superunkown competition on freeskier. zfournier@keene-equinox.com a web series.” com that they had for a magazine.” Avrin
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KSC saves over 400,000 water bottles with bottle-filling stations across campus ALEXA ONDREICKA
“We need to be more thoughtful and careful about the water that we use and how we use it.”
Equinox Staff As April 21 marked the beginning of Earth Week on the Keene State College campus, it also marked the milestone of an achievement for some members of the community. “What we have accomplished is — since they’ve been installed — we’ve averted over 400,000 bottles from being purchased and recycled and all of the energy involved in that,” Diana Duffy, coordinator of energy and administrative services said. The 400,000-plus plastic bottles that have been saved from being purchased are all thanks to the botacross campus, according to Duffy. “I think from a sustainability point of view, [the goal] was to encourage people to use their own bottles; to stop the madness of buying bottled water,” Duffy said. Duffy continued, “So much of bottled water is tap water anyway, that is being shipped and trucked. The energy that we even spend just on moving water when we have pretty good water right here in Keene [is important].”
- MARY JENSEN DIRECTOR OF KSC’S SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM
of 2011, in hopes of creating a lasting legacy on the campus. Jensen said, “They [Campus Ecology] started talking about what their options were, and I was at another school where I saw one of those botthat as a legacy project.”
for by Campus Ecology; a cost that typically runs from $1,000 to $1,200. According to Jensen, many other residential halls have also followed suit, offering to cover the cost in
their own buildings. “I see students coming back from Walmart with cases of bottled water, and it’s ridiculous because the water in Keene is good,” Jensen said. Jensen continued, “I hate bottled water because it’s expensive, it’s not tested as well, it’s bad for the environment and it creates litter.” Bill Rymes, Supervisor of Mary Jensen said she hopes this accomplishment will help to bring Plumbing and Heat Plant Operaawareness of Keene’s own water supply is actually a much better consumption. Jensen said, “I want people to be option than others. Rymes said, “We have great conscious of water in general. You know, we’ve got a huge drought water in Keene. The water that going on in California still, and comes into the campus buildings is we’re using up aquifer water in from the city of Keene. It [the water] other parts of the country quicker comes from two different sources: than it can be replenished. We can underground wells, and a reservoir live without oil — we cannot live in the next town over in Roxbury, without water. We need to be more New Hampshire. The water goes thoughtful and careful about the into a water treatment plant from water that we use and how we use the reservoir. So it goes through this whole process, then it goes in it.” A major step in creating this through all these machines and awareness for those on campus are tion and make sure it’s all good and clean. So, then people are using a campus. Relatively new, these bottle- healthier alternative which is, you know, reusable plastic bottles.” Jensen said she hopes to bring healthier alternative than bottled water, but also reduce the number awareness to students of KSC, an of plastic bottles that are continu- idea supported by many programs in the college. ously hurting the environment. Junior Michelle Luu said her According to Jensen, Campus professor speaks of the college’s green campus often.
“In my class right now [Global Environmental Change] we’ve talked about how they’re [KSC] trying to be aware and conscious of getting organic foods for the D.C.,” Luu said. She continued to note that Keene is a city that makes a conscious effort to be more eco-friendly. She said, “The city does too. We’re talking in class how there’s bad smog in the winter, but Keene is trying to be more eco-friendly and healthier for the environment.” Kristen Hunyadi, a senior political science major, acknowledges KSC’s efforts towards a green environment. “I think we do more than a lot of colleges, I know the TDS building is super eco-friendly. And I think they do a good job at raising awareness,” Hunyadi said. The idea that Keene, and even New England, is a very environmentally sound place to live is one that Jensen hopes students will realize during their years there. Jensen said, “We’re really fortunate here in this part of the country and this part of the world; we have lots of water, so we’re not cautious about our water because we see it everywhere — we’ve got rivers, we’ve got lakes — it feels very rich in water. But you know we do have really good water here, and we want to encourage people to be drinking the water that’s available because it’s less expensive, it’s tested more frequently than bottled water is — drinking water is good for you, it’s a healthy thing to do.” Jensen continued, “But people leave Keene and then go out into the wider world. I always feel like our job, especially in sustainability, is to educate students on what their behaviors are like so that when they go out into the world, they’ve got some know-how into how the rest of the world works.” Alexa Ondreika can be contacted at aondreicka@keene-equinox.com.
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sit back now and look at it all.”
was absolutely hilarious, he connected with the audience well.” Residence Hall Director Casey Wilson commented, “The performance was great, they were the most exciting comedians to come to Keene in a while, and having someone who had been on comedy cen-
into Keene for photography. I was kind of trying to explore what type of art I wanted to do, but then once I got into the graphic design department, I knew I was meant for branding and packaging and
performers but Gina was hysterical.” Wilson added, “It’s amazing that Iglesias can do jokes that people already know the punch line to and still get a great reaction.” KSC sophomore David Dougherty stated, “It was awesome. His [Iglesias] new material is a lot different from his old stuff, but still really funny. You could
where I belonged all along.” Kambrich said she was happy to be front of everyone. “It’s so exciting to be able to stand here today and show people my work. It’s a great feeling. There’s been a lot of families and people related to the other designers, but I’ve also talked with a few people who are looking to hire for their businesses or websites,” Kambrich said, “It’s such an exciting experience.” Senior Zach Kelleher expressed excitement about being able to showcase his portfolio. “You know, everyone is kind of molded by their environment,” Kelleher said, “What I am showing everyone here today is what Keene State’s graphic design program has molded me into while still allowing me to be myself,” Kelleher said. Kelleher, who said he transferred to KSC as a sophomore, said he felt the program allowed him an easy transition process that he was comfortable with. “I started out a little behind, but I definitely wasn’t just thrown into the program,” Kelleher said, “It was easy and painless. They gave me so much guidance here that I didn’t even know I needed. The program really transformed me into who I wanted to be as a graphic designer,” Kelleher said. Kelleher continued, “It showed me my strengths and let me play around with them. It made me realize what I was capable of.” The students who participated in the graphic design major’s portfolio showcase said they felt like KSC’s program
the show to the last twenty minutes when he did his old material.” Sophomore Chad Peterson said, “He [Iglesias] connected well with the audience by opening with jokes about New Hampshire. I also liked how he stayed on stage for almost an extra half-hour, it showed that he really cared.” However, not all students liked this overextension of time. Sophomore Andrew Clark mentioned, “It went a little too long.” Joseph Geis, an employee of the KSC student center technicians said, “Setting up for the event we had all hands on deck to do this as fast as possible in a day, and we needed those hands.” Geis continued, “We were there setting up for the event at ten-thirty a.m. until around two-thirty p.m., we had a team of thirty students in SAC who helped set up. There were
brought in the staging and sound equipment, none of it was owned by the school.” standing ovation. The Equinox was denied an interview from Iglesias’s management after previously scheduling a post-show interview with Iglesias.
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“I feel one-hundred percent more conand having the help I’ve had here,” Nargi said, “It feels so great to be able to show it all off now.”
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Stephanie McCann can be contacted at Friday, April 25, at the Graphic Design Portfolio Showcase. Bottom: smccann@keene-equinox.com. An example of student’s work that was showcased at the review.
“A week after I submitted the application I sent a follow-up email to my contact and they scheduled a phone interview for the next day. About an hour after the interview I got an email saying they narrowed the search down to me and another candidate. A few days later they called and offered me the position,” Stewart recalled. At NOLS, Stewart said he will be able to combine his hobbies of hiking and rock climbing with his graphic design education.
Stewart said, “It will be a great experience and a really good addition to the resume. I would really like to work in the outdoor industry doing design work. It should open up a lot of doors for the types of jobs I’m looking for.” Elizabeth Pockl, a political science major, will be taking a position with the New Hampshire Catholic Charities (NHCC) in Manchester, N.H. She noted that her position is operated through Americorps Vista, and she will be doing a “needs assessment for NHCC.” Pockl said her work will reveal “what kind of innovative ence as part of NHCC’s future endeavors so they are not staying
Zach Fournier can be contacted at zfournier@keene-equinox.com. stagnate and moving forwards their overall goal.” Pockl said aspects of her KSC experience prepared her particularly well for this position. “One thing KSC doesn't get enough credit for is the amount of student involvement. Alternative Spring Break gives you the opportunity to meet a lot of people. I was on the provost search committee as well. I had the opportunity to experience a lot of situations and lot of diverse people at the school. It was one of the greatest learning opportunities,” Pockl said. David Walsh can be contacted at dwalsh@keene-equinox.com.
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Spring Weekend concert brings musical variety to the stage “We started out just writing music and we ended up here by YouTube videos and word of mouth.” -DAVID BOYD NEW POLITICS LEAD VOCALIST
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Spinal Tap, Boyd said the band changed agreed with Curtin and said advertisements their name from The Politics to the New PolThe anticipation for Spring Weekend for Spring Weekend were what prompted itics due to copyright issues. concerts came to an end when New Politics her to listen to the artists. After the band’s release of their recent and Jake Miller hit the stage at Keene State Freshman Olivia Drury has been a album in May 2013, Boyd added their future College. Spring Weekend festivities kicked fan of New Politics longer than the spring is stacked full of tour dates, recording sesweekend posters have been up. Drury said sions, trips across seas and most impor2014, in the Spaulding Gymnasium. she has been listening to New Politics for tantly, for them, song writing. “I came with my friends and it was nice “I really loved performing here because I that for KSC students, the tickets were lowNew Politics member David Boyd said can relate to it. We are all sort of young and the band is more about song writing and love of music rather than being musicians. said. types of music the concert was composed of. “We started out just writing music and Curtin said energy was apparent, adding we ended up here by YouTube videos and that everyone loved the performances. “They kept the entire crowd engaged the dance with Maloy. around four years ago, record labels picked Curtin added, “When we saw the post- the band up from the U.S. and that is when And for New Politics, that was the band’s ers around campus we started listening to the surreal feelings set in. purpose. Boyd said there were millions of
musicians before them, but they love to do what they do in order to make something enjoyable for others. Boyd added, “Whatever resonates with us, we use it. We don’t think too much about if we’re punk, or if we’re pop or we’re reggae. We are just fans of music and we are grate-
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employee of the Young Student Center, said he got to the gymnasium at 7:30 a.m. to start setting up for the concert that night. That process didn’t end until around 2:30 p.m. Jake Miller, the main act of the Spring later that day, he added. Weekend concert denied an interview with “We unloaded the equipment from the The Equinox. trucks with a forklift and we have to break it But, for Miller’s performance, Alicia down tonight because it is being used someBerry, concert coordinator of Social Activities Council, said everyone who watched The work done by Social Activities CounMiller really enjoyed his performance even cil members and student center employees cally. “The crowd had really great energy and Haley Erdbrink can be contacted at people were dancing and smiling the whole herdbrink@keene-equinox.com
Redfern Arts Center displays the annual Evening of Dance
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Oranges, a wolf mask, sounds of a busy city and music from the band Nine Inch Nails, were some of the elements used in this year’s Evening of Dance collaborative. Students and professors were able to showcase their choreography skills at the Main Theatre in the Keene State College Redfern Arts Center from April 23, through April 26. Wednesday night, the Redfern Main Theatre opened to a half-full room with a crowd of enthusiastic friends and family. Kourtney Suliveras, a student at Merrimack College said she enjoyed the performance. “It was really great and
A little rain couldn’t stop the Keene State College community from putting on some live music on Saturday, April 26, when Campus Ecology ran Solarfest, a solar-powered music festival. The event was moved from outdoors on the KSC campus to inside the student center. The dancing and music went from 11 a.m. until around 7 p.m., including bands Flabberghaster, TheColorOrange, Midnight Snack, Roots of Creation, The Country
favorite piece was Where Empty Fills, choreographed by her friend and KSC senior Gabriella Pacheco. Another audience member, Becky Yankowitz, a design and technical theater and occupational health and safety major, expressed her enthusiasm about the performance. “I loved it. I am beyond
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Poulenc, choreographed by Theatre and Dance Faculty Marcia Murdock and William Seigh, is performed above. Pianist: Music Faculty, Maura Glennon. Trio: Gabriella Pacheco, Kendall Platenyk and Taylor Jorgensen. Seated group: Caitlin Sanford, Verity Nichols and Alexandra Bloom. Standing group: Abbie Brown, Camille Ross, Alex Davis and Meghan Quinn.
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But for some bands at this event, it was about more than just getting up on stage and playing music. Boston-based band Midnight Snack consists of, according to their Facebook, Jack Johnson, Zoe Gelinas, Katie Richter, Mike Johnson, Peter Brownlee, Jacob Burnstein, Zack Kardon and Devin D’Amato. This wasn’t Midnight Snack’s
“Solarfest is a super fun event — we’ve played it a couple times. We and keys player Jack Johnson said. Johnson described the genre of the band as, “a blend of psythe band has a “spacey, delayed reverb side to it, and a little electronic-psychedelic sound with a Johnson said, between minimal use of energy, recycling and values the earth-friendly elements idea of solar energy and how it is incorporated into the event. “I think alternative sources of electricity and power in general are important right now. Resources In terms of the solar-energy facet, Johnson said, “We never got too deep into that side of it — when you’re the band that’s playing you’re kind of wrapped up explained how, as a band, it was
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Inuksuit Outdoor Percussion Concert Friday, May 2 2:00 p. m. Around Brickyard Pond
Colonial Theatre Momix: Botanica May 2 @ 8:00 p. m. Comedian Lenny Clarke May 7 @ 8:00 p.m. Met Live in HD: La Cenerentola (Rossini)
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AssociAted Press MINYA, Egypt (AP) — A judge in Egypt on Monday sentenced to death 683 alleged supporters of the country’s ousted Islamist president, including the Muslim Brotherhood’s spiritual leader, the latest in mass trials that have drawn international condemnation and stunned rights groups. The same judge also upheld the death penalty for 37 of 529 defendants sentenced in a similar case in March, though he commuted the rest of the sentences to life imprisonment. Still, the 37 death sentences — which can be appealed in a higher court — remain an extraordinarily high number for Egypt, compared to the dramatic trial in the wake of the 1981 were sentenced to death and executed. Among those convicted and sentenced to death on Monday was Mohamed Badie, the Brotherhood’s spiritual guide. If his leading ideologues, Sayed Qutb, was sentenced and executed in 1966. In announcing the 683 death sentences for violence and the killing of policemen, Judge Said Youssef on Monday also said he was referring his ruling to the Grand Mufti, the nation’s top that is considered a formality. It does, however, give a window of opportunity for a judge to reverse an initial sentence. Both Monday’s and the March trial are linked to deadly riots that erupted in Minya and elsewhere in Egypt after security forces violently disbanded sit-ins held by Brotherhood supporters in Cairo last August. Three policemen and a civilian were killed in those riots. Hundreds were killed as part of a sweeping campaign against supporters of former President Mohammed Morsi, ousted by the military last July. The removal of Morsi — a year after he was elected — came after millions demonstrated against his rule, demanding he step down for abuse of power. After Monday’s ruling, which followed a single session in the case held last month, Sarah Leah Whitson, the executive director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division, said the defendants were not given the chance to properly defend themselves. The proceedings went on without the judge even verifying that the defendants were present,
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Egyptians help a woman overcome by emotion after a judge sentenced to death 683 alleged supporters of the country’s ousted Islamist president over acts of violence and the murder of policemen in the latest mass trial in the southern city of Minya, Egypt, Monday April 28, 2014. Under the law, Monday’s verdicts in Minya have to be referred to Egypt’s Grand Mufti, the top Islamic official, said one of the attorneys, Ahmed Hefni.
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VILONIA, Ark. (AP) — Emerleast eight months to thoroughly search, Australian searching for survivors in the debris left by a powerful tornado that carved an 80-mile path of destruction through suburban Little Rock, killing at least 16 people. The tornado that slammed into Vilonia, about 10 miles west of the state capital, on Sunday evening grew to about half a mile wide and was among a rash of tornadoes and heavy storms that rumbled across the center and south of the country overnight. The National Weather Service warned that the destructive storms — including more tornadoes, damaging winds and very large hail — would continue to strike in parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Louisiana on Monday. Brandon Morris, spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Emergency Management, said crews were sifting through the rubble in the hope of uncovering survivors and to assess the full extent of the destruction. “Right now, the main focus is life safety,” Morris said. “We’re trying to make sure everyone is accounted for.”
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 has been recovered by a massive multinational hunt that began after it disapU.S. NAVY, SPECIALIST 1ST CLASS PETER D. BLAIR / AP PHOTO peared March 8 with 239 people on board. The Bluefin 21 autonomous sub is hoisted back on board the Australian Defense Vessel Ocean
any aircraft debris on the ocean surface. By this stage, Shield after testing in the Indian Ocean. 52 days into the search, most material would have become waterlogged and sunk,” Prime Minister Tony Abbott said. “Therefore, we are moving from the current phase to a phase which is focused on searching the ocean
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said. A meteorologist with the National Weather Service in North Little Rock said he was virtually certain the storm that hit Vilonia and
as the nation’s strongest twister to date this year. “It has the potential to be EF3 or greater,” meteorologist Jeff Hood said. EF3 storms have winds greater volleyball coach, said she sheltered than 136 mph. “Based on some of in the school gymnasium as the the footage we’ve seen from Maystorm approached. After it passed, her husband told her their home state 40, things were wrecked in a was reduced to the slab on which it had sat. “I’m just kind of numb. It’s just ing at the environmental impact. shock that you lost everything. You “Making sure utilities are cut off in don’t understand everything you the area. We don’t want anything have until you realize that all I’ve » TORNADOS, B6 got now is just what I have on,” Ault
spent weeks scouring the initial search area for the plane in the remote Indian Ocean far off Australia’s west coast, but has found no trace of the missing airment that can search a larger patch of seabed for the plane, Abbott said. satellite data show the jet veered far off course
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companies to bring in additional sonar mapping the expanded area at an estimated cost of $60 million, Abbott said.
Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing. The unmanned sub has been creating a three-dimensional sonar map of the nals consistent with airplane black boxes were heard 370’s black boxes. On Monday, he maintained that he
Crews will now begin searching the plane’s entire probable impact zone, an area 700 kilometers (430 miles) long and 80 kilometers (50 miles) wide, Abbott said. That will be a monumental task — and one that will take time, warned Angus Houston, head of the search effort. “If everything goes perfectly, I would say we’ll be doing well if we do it in eight months,” Houston said, adding that weather and technical issues could prolong the search well beyond that estimate.
opened up the possibility that the signals were yet another dead end in a search that has been peppered by them. Abbott also acknowledged it was possible that no debris from the plane would ever be found. “Of course it’s possible, but that would be a terrible outcome because it would leave families with a baf“We are going to do all these things because we do not want this crippling cloud of uncertainty to hang over these families and the wider traveling public,” he said.
The mother, slightly drunk, sits on the edge of a windblown dock and wails. A Buddhist monk approaches and wipes the tears from her face as she pours out her grief and longing for her missing son. He leads her away from the dock’s edge and, as she weeps, chants Buddhist scriptures and sounds a wooden gong in a prayer for her son’s return. “They are really suffering,” said the monk, Bul Il, who came from the southeastern port city of Busan to help the families of the more than 100 still missferry. “It’s painful for me to watch their misery,” he said, his face peeling and red from long chants on a platform facing the sea. Bul Il is one member of an impromptu city that has sprung up at this normally sleepy port for the families of those lost in the disaster. The city runs on the kindness of strangers. A sense of national mourning over a tragedy that will likely result in more than 300 deaths, most of them high school students, has prompted an outpouring of volunteers. More than 16,000 people about half the island’s normal
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like that.” Another twister killed a person in Quapaw, Okla., before crossing into Kansas to the north and ing 25 people in the city of Baxter Springs, according to authorities in Kansas. A suspected tornado struck near Plain Dealing in northwest Louisiana. early Monday. retired sewing machinist in Baxter Springs, said she thought the tornado sirens could spell a false alarm. But then she saw and heard the twister approaching. She said debris home. She hunkered on her knees in her hallway with her head down as the tornado shattered her windows, spraying glass all over her. “I didn’t have one scratch on me Red Cross shelter in the city, where the tornado left a trail of shattered homes, twisted metal and hanging power lines. The Arkansas twister shredded cars, trucks and 18-wheelers Little Rock. After the storm passed, tractor-trailer rigs tried to navigate through the damage as gawkers captured cellphone photos of the destruction. State troopers went vehicle-tovehicle to check on motorists and TULSA WORLD, GARY CROW / AP PHOTO found — with genuine surprise — Quapaw, Okla., residents survey the damage in a residential neighborhood struck by a tornado on Sunday evening, April 27, 2014. A powerful storm system rumbled through the that no one was killed. sedans, pickup trucks — were going through there when the funnel cloud passed over,” said Bill Sadler, a spokesman for the Arkansas State Police. Nearby Conway Regional Medi-
central and southern United States on Sunday, spawning a massive tornado that carved path of destruction through the northern Little Rock suburbs and another twister that killed two people in Okla. and injured others in Kansas.
Mitchell said after surveying what was left of the building. Late Sunday, emergency workers and volunteers went door-to-door checking for victims and survivors. “It turned pitch black,” said Mark Ausbrooks, who was at his parents’
said up to 22 people “packed like sardines” into her storm cellar as the tornado approached. “People were pulling off the highways and were just running in,” said Naylor. people injured in the storm. Men held the cellar doors tight to prevent the tornado from ripping million intermediate school that had arrived. “I ran and got pillows to put them apart. been set to open this fall. over our heads and ... all hell broke “It sounded like a constant roll“There’s just really nothing there loose.” ing, roaring sound,” she said. anymore. We’re probably going to “My parents’ home, it’s gone com“Trees were really bending and have to start all over again,” Vilo- pletely,” he said. the light poles were actually shaknia Schools Superintendent Frank ing and moving. That’s before we
shut the door and we’ve only shut the door to the storm cellar two times.” during an EF-2 tornado that followed nearly the same path and killed at least four people. “This storm was much stronger,” Vilonia Mayor James Firestone told ABC’s “Good Morning America” early Monday. “The devastation was just tremendous.” The Arkansas Department of Emergency Management raised
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families sleep, keeping the amenities practically spotless. A man walks with a huge sign that says “I will wash clothes for you.” They cook huge pots of hot kimchi soup, distribute blankets, towels and toiletries, pick up trash and sweep the grounds. Turkish volunteers offer kebabs, turning on spits. One truck distributes homemade tofu, another pizza. Cab drivAHN YOUNG-JOON / AP PHOTO ers from Ansan, where the high school students Lim Jang-young, 58, volunteer and Japanese restaurant owner, right, ladles out a bowl of traditional beef who make up more than soup to a relative of a passenger aboard the sunken ferry Sewol in Jindo, South Korea.
would normally run up a “It’s time to help those who are mourning. Giving up several days of work is nothing,” driver Ahn Daesoo said. Lim Jang-young, a 58-year-old owner of a Japanese restaurant, came to Jindo from the southern city of Daejeon to cook traditional beef soup for family members, other volunteers and journalists. He temporarily closed his restaurant to come help because he said he can’t focus on his business while he worries about the victims and their families. A man who was eating his soup “showed me a picture of a girl, his daughter, and started crying. I couldn’t resist crying with him,” said Lim, a father of
people in Pulaski County and one in White County. At a news conference in the Philippines, President Barack Obama sent his condolences and promised the government would help in the recovery. “Your country will be there to help you recover and rebuild as long as it takes,” Obama said. Storm ratings for Sunday’s twist-
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population — have come to help. They handle much of the care that relatives of the missing receive in Jindo as they wait for divers to retrieve the bodies of their loved ones from the wreckage of the ferry Sewol. Some scrub toilets and bathroom
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the Arkansas death toll to 16 early ers were not immediately available. Monday — eight adults and two Before Sunday, the country had not
three. Hundreds of people, many from aid groups, private companies, churches and other organizations, mostly wearing green and blue clothing, pack roads lined with white tents near Paengmok port and a gym on the island, offering soup, kimchi, rice, hamburgers, taxi services, cellphone battery charging, laundry services, medicine, energy drinks, psychiatric help and daily necessities like underwear, socks, nail clippers, cotton swabs and toothbrushes. Park Seung-ki, a spokesman for the government task force, said Sunday that
Volunteers say they’re asked to refrain from “provoking” family members and to avoid smiling, taking commemorative photos or starting conversations. Volunteers are also asked to be patient even if victims’ relatives become angry, according to a civic organization tasked with handling volunteers. Lee Sung-tae, secretary general for the civic organization,
are often not allowed to volunteer because of worries they may remind family members, mostly parents of missing high school students, of their own children. Older volunteers who happen to look young are have come on their own given work that keeps - them away from the families of the missing students. items such as food, bottled Lee said his organization is water, blankets and clothes now asking groups to stay have also arrived in Jindo away because there are since the sinking, Park said. already too many volun-
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news programs about search efforts. They eat at long tables and benches 1/2 hours from the southern under tents in near total city of Suncheon to clean silence. The gymnasium toilets and shower rooms holds hundreds of people at a gym where the fami- but is mostly as quiet as a lies, both men and women, library. sleep on mattresses under Sometimes there are howls of anger when a “It’s totally different from when I watched this or cries of agony when a on TV,” said Kim Yong-su, a trailer driver. “I’ve become does not matter to the volreally solemn. I can’t really unteers that the families do express how I’m feeling.” not brim with gratefulness Donated materials in for their work. the gymnasium — peach They want to do more and pink blankets, bright to ease their pain. Ahn, the green jackets and blue cab driver, said the word vests — add color to the “heavy-hearted” is not scene, but it is still a place enough to describe what awash in grief and frustra- it’s like to drive home partion. Exhausted relatives sit ents who have just identiwith shell-shocked expressions, staring blankly at the ever growing list of bodies. driving there’s a complete In tents near the port, silence,” he said. “Who can they sit on blankets and say anything in that situamattresses, watching TV tion?”
she said. “The fact that the death sentences can be appealed provides little solace to hundreds of families that will go to sleep tonight facing the very real prospect that their loves ones could be executed without having an opportunity to present a case in court,” she said. “There is no more serious violation of the most basic right of due process and the right to a fair trial than that.” Badie was not at the hearing in Minya on Monday but in another court, in Cairo, where he faces charges of murder and incitement to murder along with 16 other Brotherhood leaders in a case connected to deadly protests outside the group’s headquarters last June. Once the Mufti reviews Monday’s ruling, the same court will hold As the ruling was announced, an outcry erupted outside the court among the families and relatives of the defendants. Women fainted and wailed as many cried out, “Why? This is unfair!” Samiya, as she screamed in grief. “I have no one but God.” Sitting on the pavement in front of the police cordon, 58-year-old Fatma, who also would not give her second name fearing for her relative on trial, broke into tears and screamed: “This judge is a butcher.” The father of another defendant, Mohammed Hassan Shehata, said his son Mahmoud was arrested in January, six months after the alleged violence he was charged with. “There is no evidence whatsoever,” he said. “If my son is guilty, behead him but if he is innocent, there will be a civil war.” believe her brother and son were sentenced to death. “I swear, they don’t even pray, they don’t go to mosques,” she said. “They are not Muslim Brotherhood.” Lawyer Ali Kamal, said Monday’s hearing lasted only eight minutes. Security forces surrounded the court building and blocked roads, preventing families and media from attending the proceedings. “This is against the spirit of the law,” Kamal said. But in the capital, Cairo, where many are strongly anti-Brotherhood, several residents said they approved of the death sentences. “Even if they sentence a million people to death, so what?” said Sadeek olis. “This is the best ruling in the history of the Egyptian judiciary.” ing good to the country when they ruled.” evidence presented in the trial consisted mostly of footage of the defendants showing them attacking and looting a police station in Cairo and set-
“This is a public opinion case, there must be a swift, deterrent punishwas not authorized to talk to the media. “Yes, the verdict is very harsh, the number of people on trial is shocking, but it’s proportional to the crimes.” If the “Grand Mufti upholds the death sentences for all or recommends reversing them, it won’t mean anything to the judge,” he added. “Only the judge has the right and the power to reverse his earlier decisions.” In the surprise reversal on Monday, the judge commuted the death supporters. The remaining defendants were given life sentences.
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Philadelphia win 4-2 to guarantee game six IRA PODELL
AssociAted press The Philadelphia Flyers have no doubt they will be back at Madison Square Garden one more time with their season on the line. Sure they will have to beat the New York Rangers at home on Tuesday to make Game 7 on Wednesday necessary, but these Flyers have bounced back throughout this season. So what’s one more comeback? after Philadelphia’s 4-2 loss Sunday pushed the Flyers to the brink of elimination. “We are looking forward to getting back home and having a big game there and bringing it back here for Game 7.” Mason faced far fewer shots in Game 5 than he did in Friday night’s 2-1 win in Game 4, and he was far less effective. After aside only 18 of 21 Sunday. Henrik Lundqvist made the difference in this one for the Rangers, stopping 24 shots. “He is one of the best goalies in the league, and we are aware of and put more pucks on net. If you want to beat him you need to have nice shots. He played well.” trimmed to two when the Flyers got their power play to work in the closing seconds of the middle period. But the Rangers kept it together in the third and withstood a late surge. Brad Richards and Dominic Moore scored in the second to make it 3-0.
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and Brian Boyle ended the drama with an empty-net goal with 15 seconds remaining. Moore helped seal the win when he raced up ice to negate an icing call and fed Boyle. New York leads 3-2 in the series in which the teams have alternated wins throughout. “We took back the advantage, and we have to win one now,” Richards said. “We put ourselves in a good position. We were in control for most of the game. They got a little sneaky there at the end.” The Flyers went 0-2 during the season at the Garden and are 1-2 there during this series. “We’re playing well,” Giroux said. “It’s a tough building to play in. Game 6 is going to be huge. We are not looking at it like it’s our last game of the season. We’ve come back all season long
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spring already,” Scott said. “For me, they need to get a better understanding of what hard work is — we’re getting there. They need to get a better understanding of what commitments is, were getting there too.” Scott said one of the main goals of the year is to win the Little East Conference, something the usually-dominant team hasn’t done in three years.
sonable coach to talk to.” But while Scott said the culture of the team has changed, he said the offseason workouts and recruiting transitions have gone smoothly. The coaching staff will also remain largely unchanged under Scott. program. “The attitude of the team has been very good, “I think Rick is going to take this team to high we’ve had some hard working sessions in the
going to do as well if not better than us next year. He’s going to bring in more talent.” dent prediction. “I think we’re going to provide a pretty exciting brand of soccer,” Scott said, “If we work hard we’ll be very competitive, and we’re going to look to provide an attacking brand of soccer, getting the ball forward and just going for it. I’m excited.” Zach Winn can be contacted at zwinn@keene-equinox.com
New York is 13-2 in series it has led 3-2, but the Rangers have lost 11 straight games in which they had a series lead. Philadelphia is 7-10 in Game 6 when trailing 3-2. The Rangers increased their pressure in tight on Mason, a stated objective, and created multiple scoring chances in the second even though they managed only eight shots. “As you go through a series, you have to keep elevating your game because the other side will,” Rangers forward Martin St. Louis said. “I thought we did that, and we got rewarded.” poked in a loose puck in the crease, but the play had been blown dead.
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The Athlete of the Week this week is senior women’s lacrosse goalie Erin Taylor from Brewster, New York. Taylor’s defense in the net has been crucial for women’s lacrosse in remaining undefeated in Little East Conference games. On Saturday April 26, 2014 she saved 11 shots on the goal, only letting in three, while the offense netted 11 goals against Western Connecticut. The win secured their spot in
The regular season wasn’t much of a struggle for the Boston Bruins, playoff series against the Detroit Red Wings. Tuukka Rask made 31 saves Saturday, and the defending Eastern Conference champions eliminated the Red Wings with a 4-2 victory in season with the best record in the NHL, the Bruins advanced to the Montreal Canadiens. “That series was much tougher than maybe the results showed,” said Bruins captain Zdeno Chara, who gave Boston the lead for good with 4 seconds left in the second period. “I think that we handled it well, we came into this series ready and we got the job done.” Loui Eriksson opened the scoring for Boston, and Chara’s goal on a 4-on-3 advantage snapped a 1-1 tie. Milan Lucic also scored, and Jarome Iginla added an empty-netter. Pavel Datsyuk and Henrik Zetterberg scored and Jonas Gustavsson stopped 29 shots for Detroit. The Red Wings scored only six goals
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Portland Trail Blazers’ Damian Lillard passes to LaMarcus Aldridge against Houston Rockets’ Dwight Howard and James Harden during the second half of game four of an NBA basketball first-round playoff series game in Portland Sunday April 27, 2014.
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Kevin McHale said. “It’s a different game than the regular season. You’ve got to be built for the grind.” There was some shouting going on in Portland trailed by as many as 11 points, the Trail Blazers’ locker room after they fell but rallied in the fourth quarter. behind by 10 points at halftime to the Rockets. Mo Williams’ 3-pointer put the Blazers in front 105-104 with 18.9 seconds left. Dorell the Blazers didn’t want to mess up Game 4, especially in front of their hometown fans. making it 106-104 with 8.3 seconds to go. “In the words of Chuck — Charles Barkley Howard dunked off a feed from Harden — we were playing like wussies,” Portland with 3.6 seconds left to tie it and Williams guard Wesley Matthews said. “That was the missed a 3 at the buzzer to send the game into message to each other.” overtime. Whatever was said, the Trail Blazers pulled out of their funk and went on to defeat the foul on Aldridge, who made both free throws Rockets 123-120 in overtime Sunday night to to give the Blazers the lead to start off OT. take a 3-1 advantage in the series that moves Batum scooped up a layup before adding a to Houston on Wednesday. 3-pointer and Damian Lillard made a layup LaMarcus Aldridge had 29 points and 10 to put Portland ahead 117-110. Houston rookie Troy Daniels nailed a 3 in the series, while Nicolas Batum added 25 and Harden landed a jumper to narrow it to points. 119-117, but Lillard made free throws to extend It was the third game in the series decided the lead to four points with 17 seconds left. in overtime. Aldridge missed a pair of free throws and The Blazers haven’t advanced out of the Daniels was fouled by Wright on a 3-point attempt and made all three shots to narrow it Portland also hasn’t held a 3-1 advantage to 121-120 with 8.9 seconds left. After a Portin a series since the 2000 Western Conference land timeout, Mo Williams made free throws
there yet,” said Red Wings coach Mike Babcock, whose team failed to win a playoff series in two of the past three seasons. “The last two years, we battled to get into the playoffs. To me, that’s a measure of where we are. Instead of battling for the Cup, we’re battling to make the playoffs.” It was 1-1 when the Bruins gained a 4-on-3 power play thanks to a holding penalty on Johan Franzen just 22 seconds before Brendan Smith was called for cross-checking. On a faceoff in the Detroit zone, Patrice Bergeron lured two of the three Red Wings defenders toward the corner and then passed it across the ice to Chara, who one-timed it past Gustavsson. Not usually demonstrative, Chara felt this one was worth celebrating. “It was a big game and a big goal,” he said. “So I’m not afraid to show it.”Lucic’s goal with 4:27 gone in the third made it a two-goal game. Detroit made it 3-2 with 3:52 left after Rask made two acrobatic saves but left the puck to the side of the net for Zetterberg, the Red Wings captain who missed two months with back surgery and did not return until Game 4.
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points in the Blazers’ 122-120 overtime victory in Game 1, then followed it up with 43 points in the 112-105 win. The Rockets won the third, 121-116 in overtime on Friday night at the Moda Center. McHale again started Omer Asik in place of Terrence Jones. Asik had success against Aldridge in Game 3, helping to hold Portland’s All-Star to 23 points. The two teams played closely for most of
lead after an 11-4 run highlighted by two straight 3-pointers from Daniels. Daniels, who spent time in the D-League this season and only made his NBA debut on March. 5, was the unlikely hero of Game 3 when he drained a 3 with 11.9 seconds to go in OT that proved to be the winner. Houston led 61-51 at the half, led by Parsons with 19 points. The Rockets maintained the lead through the third quarter and Harden’s jumper from the top of the key stretched it to 92-84 with 8:31 left. Portland got within 94-91 on Batum’s layup with 6:35 left. Lillard’s 3-pointer tied it at 94, but Harden answered with his 3 for the Rockets. won 4-1. “It was tough,” Aldridge said. Aldridge made a layup to put Portland up James Harden had 28 points and Dwight “I thought it was a gut-check by everybody. 102-97, but Howard made three of four free Howard added 25 points and 14 rebounds for I thought our guys took on the challenge.” throws to narrow it before making two big the Rockets. Aldridge opened Portland’s return to the blocks. “The playoffs are a grind,” Houston coach playoffs with a franchise postseason-best 46
all 15 of the regular season games as well as all six of the conference games, saving 127 shots on goal in the regular season and 49 shots on goal in conference games. The soon-to be-graduate and English major will have saved 250 shots in her career as a goalie for KSC. It’s hard to believe that this established goalie once was not a lacrosse player at all and was focused on softball. The senior is getting ready for her last LEC tournament, hoping to end her KSC playing career on a high note. Taylor is one of seven seniors on the veteran Owl team. The experience should serve them well in postseason play. -Our runner-up this week is men’s track runner Ryan Widzgowski, a senior and two-time all–American from Camden, Maine. Year after year Widzgowski has always been a top well as indoor and outdoor track. In 2013 Widzgowski earned all-conference honors as a top outdoor track athlete. He is also a top middle distance runner for Division III track, not to mention that he placed the fourth fastest time in the 1,500-meter event. His hard work and dedication to his sport paid off to complete his senior season with an individual win on April 27, 2014 at UMass Dartmouth during the Little East Conference Championin the 1,500-meter event with a time of 3:59.95. Widzgowski’s contributions helped the Owls land a fourth place England Division III Championship in Massachusetts. Widzgowski looks to add to his decorated KSC running career by participating in the ECAC championships Thursday, May 15, month. Kendall Pope can be contacted at kpope@keene-equinox.com
Keene State College athletic team records Women’s Lacrosse
Baseball OVERALL
CONF.
HOME
9-18
2-10
2-4 3-8 (4-6) Won 1
vs Southern Maine
AWAY (neutral)
STREAK
Men’s Outdoor Track
OVERALL
CONF.
HOME
12-4
6-0
8-1 4-2 (0-1) Won 2
vs New England College
at Daniel Webster
Runs by Inning
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
Runs by Inning
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Total
Southern Maine
4 0 0 0 0 1 0 3 0
8
Keene State College
0 1 0 1 3 0 0 3 1
Keene State College
0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0
3
Daniel Webster
0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
9 2
Softball
AWAY (neutral)
STREAK
1
2
Total
New England College
2
3
5
Keene State College
12
8
20
Points by Period 1
2
Total
Western Conn. St.
3
4
7
Keene State College
11
12
1
Men’s Lacrosse
OVERALL
CONF.
HOME
14-16
6-6
2-2 7-9 (5-5) Won 3
at UMass Boston
AWAY (neutral)
STREAK
at UMass Boston
Runs by Inning
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total
Keene State College
1 0 0 0 0 0 1
UMass Boston
0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 0
Runs by Inning Keene State College
0 0 1 1 4 0 0
UMass Boston
0 0 2 0 2 0 0
6 4
OVERALL
CONF.
HOME
8-6
7-0
4-1 4-3 (0-2) Won 7
Goals by Period 1 2 3 4
AWAY (neutral)
STREAK
vs. Salem St. Total Points by Period 1 2 3 4
4
18
Salem State
3
0 2
1
6
Plymouth St.
1
3
10
Keene State College
9
8 2
2
21
Friday, May 2, 12 p.m.
Friday, May 2, TBA Friday, May 2, 10 a.m.
Friday, May 2, 3 p.m.
TBA
Total
3 10 1 3
Saturday, May 3, 10 a.m.
Time/distance Place
Shot Put
14.78 m
1st
Ryan Widzgowski 1500m 3:59.95
1st
Ryan Brady
3rd
1500m 4:00.42 m
Hayden Patterson 5000m 15:48.20
2nd
LEC/Alliance Conference Championships Name
Event
Samantha Goldsmith 5000m
Keene State College
3
Event
Women’s Outdoor Track
at Plymouth St.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Total
Name Ben Keach
vs Western Conn. St.
Goals by Period
LEC /Alliance Conference Championships
Carli Davis Kaley Mientkiewicz
Time/distance Place 18:09.97
1st
1500m
4:55.94
2nd
Steeplechase
11:35.84
2nd
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Yankees’ pitcher thrown out of Red Sox game after illegal substance found on neck
“How dumb can you possibly be?” A simple question begged by ESPN New York writer Ian O’Connor of righty hurler Michael Pineda. On April 23, Pineda took the mound for his fourth start of the regular season, an early matchup against the Boston Red Sox. Rewind to the last Yanks-Sox series on April 10. Pineda was on the bump for his second start of the season and dealt seven strikeouts through six innings and only allowed one earned run in a 4-1 New York victory. Ask any Sox fan about this game, however, and During the course of the game you could clearly see a streak of some dark substance on his hand. The widelyaccepted train of thought after the game was that it was a splash of pine tar. Pine tar is a wood preservative that is extremely sticky. Rule 8.02 of the MLB rulebook states “the pitcher shall not apply a foreign substance of any kind to the ball.” See: pine tar. It allows pitchers to have exceptional grip on the ball and give pinpoint precision to their pitches, as listed on rantsports.com. Now, nothing short of bellyaching from Red Sox fans came of that April 10th start. But, again, as Ian O’Connor asks, “How dumb can you possibly be?” Fast-forward to April 23, in the second inning of the Yanks-Sox game. Watching the game, you could clearly see a smudge across Pineda’s neck that didn’t look at all like his skin, dirt, sweat or anything ordinary. Pine tar, yet again. Home plate umpire Gerry Davis took all of ten seconds to detect the pine tar and eject Pineda from the ball game for what has to be the dumbest, most egregious use of the substance. According to ESPN, when pressed on why he would ELISE AMENDOLA / AP PHOTO possibly use pine tar in such a ridiculously obvious fashion, Pineda claims he was just looking out for the Yankees’ starting pitcher Michael Pineda throws a pitch before being ejected in an April 23, 2014, game against the Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston. Red Sox batters. Whether it was Whitey Ford using his wedding includes cheating on an egregious level like Pineda, but “I [didn’t] feel the ball,” Pineda said, “and I don’t be the last. But Pineda is now in the category of George ring to scuff up the ball before he pitched, or Derek when MLB managers are admitting that it’s a widely want to hit anybody.” Brett, who famously slathered his bat in pine tar in a Jeter acting like he got hit by a pitch when in all real- accepted fact, that’s when things need to change. ity, the ball bounced off the butt of the bat, it seems like Enough of the, “That’s how it is” mentality. I just tar on April 10. What’s the old adage? “Fool me once, game against, coincidentally, the Yankees in 1983. Down 4-3 in the ninth, Yankees pitcher Goose Gos- every season we hear a new story about some ballplayer want consistency. I’m not saying check every inch of shame on me, fool me twice, shame on you.” Not advocating cheating of any kind here, but if Pineda really sage threw to Kansas City Royals third baseman George edging the rules. What kills me is how it’s just widely every player’s equipment before games, but look out Brett, who hit a two-out two-run home run — presumaccepted, swept under the rug as just a part of the game. for the obvious things like Pineda wiping his wrist, or wanted to pull this stunt again, why do it in your NEXT According to ESPN Boston, Red Sox manager John Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz using his own sweat and start? Seriously, at least wait until the hype over your ably to give the Royals the lead. Coming around from the third base, Yanks’ manager Billy Martin demanded Farrell knows that the pine tar is a problem, but also suntan lotion to grip the ball. last pine tar incident has died down. that Brett’s bat be checked, and it had a large amount of knows it’s widely accepted. Umps need to be on the lookout for these kinds of Pineda has since been suspended for ten games. tip-offs, or else pitchers have the same type of advanFellow Yankee starter Ivan Nova is done for the pine tar on it. The umpire ruled it to be an illegal bat, ruled Brett might be,” Farrell said. “Maybe more of a willingness tage as steroid-using batters. Both have an advantage season after suffering a torn ulnar collateral ligament, and now with Pineda out for ten games, the Yanks’ out and the game ended. So why is it that baseball play- to have our guys checked. But again, I think there’s an that is wildly unfair, and it’s time for that to stop. ers feel that gamesmanship is okay? Obviously Pineda accepted level of some additive used to gain a grip.” pitching staff is down two reliable starters. How long do we let gamesmanship take over games? Ray Waldron can be contacted at But on top of pitching rotation worries, this raises and George Brett aren’t the only players who edge the rules to get ahead. Obviously it’s not like every single game that’s played rwaldron@keene-equinox.com the question of gamesmanship in baseball.
Sterling’s comments bring harsh player reactions Associated Press Issuing about the strongest rebuke that he could, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling for life Tuesday for making racist comments in a recorded con-
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out the rest of the season. “Individually I just want to stay clear mentally and just take everything step by step. I don’t want to look ahead but I also don’t want to overlook the future,” she said. Votto described her goals for the team as a whole to wrap up
forcing a sale of the club and permanently removing Sterling from the league.
just struggling, we don’t really know where. We’re in a little rut but as soon as we get a winning streak going our spirits will be higher. The goal is obviously to make the LEC and NCAA tournaments,” Votto said. Diana Pimer can be contacted at dpimer@keene-equinox.com
million, and again expressed outrage. “I fully expect to get the support I need from the other NBA owners to remove him,” Silver said. Several owners immediately chimed in with support of Silver’s decision. Sterling, the league’s longest-tenured owner and someone with an estimated net worth of immediate comment. The penalties, which were announced only three days after the scandal broke, are the harshest ever issued by the league and among the stiffest punishments ever given to an owner in professional sports. Silver said a league investigation found that Sterling was in fact the person on the audiotapes that were released over the weekend and immediately sent shock waves throughout the game. “We stand together in condemning Mr. Sterling’s views,” Silver said. “They simply have no place in the NBA.” Sterling acknowledged he was the man on the tape, Silver said. Sterling still owns the team, but going forward he is immediately barred from attending any NBA games or practices, being present at ticipating in any business or player personnel decisions involving the team, or being part of any league business. It’s unclear how Sterling will respond. “This league is far bigger than any one owner, any one coach and any one player,” said Silver, who as commissioner has broad powers
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Los Angeles Clippers players listen to the national anthem wearing their warm-up jerseys inside-out to protest alleged racial remarks by team owner Donald Sterling on April 27, 2014.
under what’s typically called the tion,” Silver said. “best interest of the game” clause of “But as I said earlier, I’m outraged the NBA constitution. so I certainly understand other peoBut Silver works for the owners, ple’s outrage. This will take some time and appropriate healing will — if all 30 teams vote, he’ll need 23 be necessary.” on his side — to force Sterling out of After the announcement, the the league completely. Clippers’ website had a simple mes- sage: “We are one,” it read. nizations dedicated to anti-discrim“We wholeheartedly support and ination and tolerance efforts that embrace the decision by the NBA will be jointly selected by the NBA and Commissioner Adam Silver and the Players Association, Silver today. said. Now the healing process begins,” “This has all happened in three the Clippers added in a statement. days, and so I am hopeful there Sterling’s comments were will be no long-term damage to the released over the weekend by league and to the Clippers organiza- TMZ and Deadspin, and numer-
ous NBA owners and players have condemned them. Even President Barack Obama weighed in on the as commissioner. “Commissioner Silver thank you for protecting our beautiful and powerful league!! Great leader!!,” Miami Heat star LeBron James wrote on Twitter. The league’s investigation started Saturday and players immediately began expressing intense displeasure with the situation, even going so far as to ask Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson to get involved on behalf of the players’ union.
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Athletes react to tragedy near athletic fields KENDALL POPE
Equinox Staff On Saturday April 20, 2014, both the Keene State College men’s lacrosse and softball teams were on their way to capture wins against Southern Maine University. Members of both teams said they smelled smoke. Some players said they thought it was probanever once thought that a death had occurred near “One of the grounds crew told me that there was thing else until the athletic director told me that Nate DeMond had been electrocuted,” softball coach Charlie Beach said. trucks driving by, along with the smell of smoke and “We kept asking our coach what was going on and -
ing,” Stephanie Long, a member of the KSC Softball team, said. However, during the fourth inning, the softball coaches were informed of the situation and decided to call the team’s second game. ing parents and basically said, ‘I’m not very good at this but a power line fell and a grounds crewman went to go investigate and stepped on it, and died immediately.’ Right then, our whole team was in shock,” Long said. Because of the tragic incident, the softball team had to call the second game they were scheduled to play. Where they fall in the Little East Conference standings may be affected. Regardless, many players became very emotional when they learned more about DeMond’s family and his two children. “I immediately broke down in tears,” sophomore softball player Catherine Tewell siad. “I had been living with the motto ‘life’s too short’ all last week,
and this happening really brought everything for- important, but it’s not the most important thing in the world. It was a real reality check,” Long said. “We were all really shocked and really sad. Coach “Our team is different than a lot of other teams on told us how nice he was and that he had two kids campus. We all have personal friends on the team, but I really have sixteen close friends who will be Robert Hart said. there to the end. No matter what happens we’re all But players said this unexpected news brought going to be there for each other. When I was crying teams even closer to each other. I had my teammates hugging me and parents were “After the game in the locker room, we had a there telling me everything was going to be okay. I think this brought everyone who was there closer give respect to him since he was a good friend to our together,” Tewell said. coach,” Hart said. Players from both teams said they truly respect the work that the KSC’s Grounds Crew does for them Long said. “My mom always told me ‘life is too short’ and on Saturday April 26, 2014, the lacrosse and soft- and to not worry about the small things. I think this ball as well as baseball teams made a tribute to Nate happening really puts that in perspective for me. You and his work for the teams. don’t know what’s going to happen, so don’t sweat it. Baseball team members painted his name accombracelets with his name and lacrosse wore leg bands. “We all realized that yes, clearly our game was
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Above the Keene State baseball field is painted in memory of former KSC student and employee Nate DeMond. Tragically, DeMond was fatally electrocuted near the Owl Athletic Complex on Saturday, April 19.
Keene State’s newest Two freshman athletes brings success, speed to lineup coach a confident one DIANA PIMER
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outsiders to apply. Scott, who graduated KSC in 1977, said Butcher supported him for the position. The
Replacing a coach that has been for anybody, but new Men’s Soccer Head Coach Rick Scott brings congram. “That doesn’t phase me in the least,” Scott said of following a career like former head coach Keith Butcher’s. “I coached a very successful high school program for eleven years before I got here. I’m around the game all the time, as a player, as a coach. I don’t feel intimidated at all.” Scott was referring to his time as men’s soccer head coach at Keene High School. Under Scott’s reign, KHS won two state championships and produced so many all Americans that he’s lost count. Combine that with a four-year KSC playing career and Scott’s long stint as Butcher’s assistant and you have someone who has devoted his life to the game. “He knows how things run here. He’s got a pretty solid foundation and even though he wants to make a name for himself, he already has a reputation around here and with other coaches,” senior Scott Douglas said. “So he’s more comfortable instead of being at an all new school.” Director of Athletics John Ratliff never opened the position up for
offer in late November. “He’s been handling it well, I think he still refers to Butcher for guidance if he’s unsure, but for the most part I think he’s taken over the team to be his team with his style,” senior Brian Swindell said. Swindell described that style as more “modern” than Butcher’s, and Scott agreed that his style was distinct. “I study the game extensively in Scott said. “So I’m open to different methods, different systems and different styles.” Studying the game has brought Scott all over the world — from South America to the estimated 40 trips to Europe he said he has taken. “He gave little bits and pieces of the modern style to Butch [while assisence,” Swindell said. “Butch is a lot of the American style and Rick adds elements of European style soccer.” Scott’s approach to dealing with players is also different from Butcher’s. “Coach Scott really helped balance out coach Butcher,” Douglas said. “If Butch got mad at me I could -
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helps. We’re also in different parts of the lineup which is a good thing,” Guerrero said. She added, “When she does something good I think, ‘Oh, good for Kayla.’ And then I think ‘Let’s do this freshmen thing and keep building on it.’” “I think they’ve had a really big impact, especially as freshmen, tions that they need to,” sophomore teammate Heather Pelletier said. In particular, the pair has combined for 16 of the team’s total 22 stolen bases for the season. “They’re both good at getting on base, so they have the opportunities to steal bases,” Pelletier explained. Votto said she developed this talent with the help of her father. “When I used to steal, I never really got a good lead. Then my team statistics for batting average, dad told me I needed to get a better stolen bases and home runs. In addition, statistics from the little, you are leaving a little earLittle East Conference website showed they are currently sixth get more stolen bases than I have in and ninth respectively in the bat- the past,” Votto explained, “I have a ting average statistics for the entire good knowledge for the game.” LEC Conference. Guerrero also commented on Only one other freshman in the stealing bases.“I love it, stealing a conference is in the top ten on this base is such a pride thing. Espelist. cially when you’re not getting “It’s kind of cool that we’re both called out, that’s the best part about BRIAN CANTORE / PHOTO EDITOR freshmen and that we play on the it,” she said. Kayla Votto runs to first during in away game against UMass Boston Guerrero credited her success in on April 27. stolen bases and the season in gen-
It is not uncommon for Keene State College to produce successful athletes. Just last year, Janel Haggerty won the women’s pentathlon at the NCAA championship, making a name for herself as a national champion. Further, it is not uncommon for KSC to produce successful freshmen athletes. One thing that may be uncommon for any college, however, is producing two stellar freshmen at the same time, for the same sport. Nonetheless, the KSC Women’s Softball team is looking to change this. According to the KSC athletics website, Owl freshmen Aliza Guerrero and Kayla Votto are currently
the fact that we’re kind of next to on my own has helped me a lot and each other really helps,” Votto said. that’s what I was hoping for so I’m “I think outside of games we def- really happy about that. I also think
it has to do with not really focus- season is helping me,” Guerrero ing on where I go in the season; I’m expressed.Guerrero said she plans to continue this mindset through-
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