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VOL. 65, ISSUE #7

THURSDAY, OCT. 25, 2012

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President calls for budget restoration WHITNEY CYR

is that tuition would rise 2.5 to 3 percent for the Ă€VFDO DQG VFKRRO \HDU ZKLFK LV WKH average percentage tuition increases each year for in-state students. The budget request must be approved by the newly elected governor in January. Kahn said KSC’s highest priority is to maintain a “high value on education and experience. We can’t let that slip,â€? he said. Kahn noted that about half of the matriculated students stay in New Hampshire upon graduation, which is crucial for improving the state’s economy, so the value of KSC’s education is still of utmost importance. “In the passing of the biennial budget, the trustees are asking to invest in the workforce

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According to Interim President Jay Kahn, Keene State College has submitted its budget requests for the 2014 and 2015 school years and the requests have some changes that, if passed, would change the price of student tuition. According to Kahn, if the budget request is passed by the University System of New Hampshire, this new budget would restore the landmark 49 percent budget cut. In return, the University System of New Hampshire would freeze in-state tuition on students and it would also increase aid for those students in need. However, the trade off

needed for the New Hampshire economy,â€? Kahn said. After having 13.3 million dollar in-state appropriation, the 49 percent budget cut reduced WKDW Ă€JXUH WR PLOOLRQ $FFRUGLQJ WR $QG\ 5REinson, the vice president of student affairs, these budget cuts have indirectly affected by the budget cuts in relation to student fees. “The directors are accountable on how to spend student fees,â€? he said. “We had to cut some staff and we’re tightly budgeted now.â€? He said the amount of student fees increase every \HDU E\ WZR RU WKUHH SHUFHQW 5RELQVRQ VDLG KH wasn’t sure if the legislature would buy this new budget proposal.

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Solar panels light up TDS Center, save energy LINDSEY ARCECI

EQUINOX STAFF Thanks to much fundraising, Keene State College can continue to VWULYH WRZDUGV HIĂ€FLHQF\ DQG D ]HUR net energy building with the soonto-be solar panels on top of the Technology, Design, and Safety Building.

According to KSC Interim President Jay Kahn, one of the three main goals of the TDS Building was to have the building produce as much energy as it consumes: zero net energy. He said he knew LW ZRXOG EH GLIĂ€FXOW EXW WKH VFKRRO needed a way for the building to produce energy on site, and solar energy was the best option. “Solar ray was always a part of the original thought to move towards a zero net energy goal,â€? Kahn said. “When we approached the trustees initially with the project we said that we would complete the project without asking for funding and internal bor-

rowing for the solar panels.�

Kahn said those involved, including himself, anticipated that it would require fundraising in order for the photovoltaic system, which uses solar panels to convert sunlight into electricity, to be a part of the building. He said this project moved at a very swift pace. They designed it in one year and constructed it in another year. “The fundraising effort, which began in earnest, in 2012, has now reached a high enough level that we could construct a partial photovoltaic system that covers about half of the roof with the amount of money that’s been raised to date,â€? Kahn said. Although some may be skeptical of the school not completing the project all at once, Kahn said that he VHHV D EHQHĂ€W WR WKH LQFRPSOHWLRQ ´2QH RI WKH EHQHĂ€WV WR QRW FRPpleting the photovoltaic array all

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Author focuses on Holocaust victims in award-winning book PAMELA BUMP

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Keene community sees students as party animals ANNA GLASSMAN

Equinox Staff A beautiful neighborhood lined with nice houses portrays a seemingly relaxed residential area during the day. However, visit Blake Street around midnight on any weekend during the Keene State College academic year and you might come away with a different impression.

Popular music blaring, windows vibrating from the tremendous power of the bass while SHRSOH DUH VKRXWLQJ ÀJKWV DUH HUXSWLQJ DQG people are destroying property: this insanity is a likely scene on the weekends at the offcampus housing. The college students’ freedom leads to sleepless nights and fear of vandalism IRU QHLJKERUV 7KLV LV D GLIÀFXOW UHDOLW\ DQG SHUhaps a misrepresentation of the typical KSC student in the surrounding neighborhoods.

A resident of Blake Street in Keene, N.H., who wished to remain anonymous described the nightlife paradox when she said, “Everyone says my house is so nice, but that is during the day.�

The scene depicted is one experienced by many people who are permanent residents of popular party streets like Blake. The same Blake Street resident described her initial feelLQJV DERXW RII FDPSXV SDUWLHV ´0\ H[SHULHQFH with people throwing and attending the parties is almost always negative. This is because they are after two o’clock, which makes them [college students] unapproachable.�

One encounter with the resident’s neighbors highlights the typical weekend, “There was a WZHQW\ Ă€UVW ELUWKGD\ SDUW\ 7KHLU JXHVWV ZHUH blasting music, the bass was making it hard to VOHHS DQG , KDG Ă€QDOO\ KDG LW Âľ WKH %ODNH 6WUHHW homeowner said. When she went over to ask them to calm the party down the woman found the house in complete disarray, “There was an LQFK RI EHHU RQ WKH JURXQG Âľ VKH VDLG The Blake Street resident said she was treated to very rude behavior when she made a request to turn down the music. “The language ZDV LQWROHUDEOH Âľ 7KH UHVLGHQW RI %ODNH 6WUHHW

faces undeserved disrespect from young adults when she asks to be allowed to sleep, leading her to comment on the lack of respect displayed by many kids who attend parties near her home. “The kids don’t seem to realize, this is my neighborhood. They may graduate this year, but I stay here,� the Blake Street homeowner explained.

When asked if her property had ever been vandalized the Blake Street resident answered with a resounding “Yes. I had a beautiful statue of a goddess resting against a tree in P\ \DUG 0\ KXVEDQG DQG , ZUDSSHG WKH EDVH with reinforcement and looped it underground, but they [the vandals] just ripped her head of.�

The Blake Street resident stated that she did not believe student would act this way if they were not intoxicated. “The students would not have done that if they had not been drinkLQJ Âľ 5HJDUGLQJ WKH UHVSHFW IRU WKHLU QHLJKERUV the Blake Street resident asked, “How can they show respect for elders when they are under the LQĂ XHQFH RI DOFRKRO" 7KH\ FDQ¡W EHFDXVH WKHLU judgment is skewed.â€?

A second Keene homeowner, who wished WR UHPDLQ UHĂ HFWHG RQ WKH GLIĂ€FXOW\ SDUW\ing poses on her family. “Being a family wanting to live in a quieter neighborhood, partying makes things hard for a family with children.â€?

The Pleasant Street resident has a 15-month-old baby, and talked about the trouble her daughter faced this past weekend, “There were some pretty crazy parties over this Pumpkin Fest weekend. It was hard for my daughter to sleep.�

In an attempt to appeal to students’ better MXGJPHQW .6&¡V $OOLVRQ 5LOH\ FRRUGLQDWRU RI WKH 2IĂ€FH RI 6WXGHQW DQG &RPPXQLW\ 5HODWLRQV is developing a “Good Neighborâ€? poster campaign for use throughout the residence halls RQ FDPSXV UHPLQGLQJ VWXGHQWV RI WKH Ă€QHV that could be given to students who venture off campus. If the students do not abide by their neighbors’ requests there are some penalties they should be worried about. Noise violators IDFH WKUHH OHYHOV RI Ă€QHV 7KH Ă€UVW RIIHQVH LQFXUV D Ă€QH WKH VHFRQG RIIHQVH LQFUHDVHV WR and the list tops off with the last offense of up

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WR 2WKHU SRWHQWLDOO\ ÀQHG EHKDYLRUV DUH holding a party that provides drugs and provides for underage drinking leaving the person UHVSRQVLEOH ZLWK ÀQHV XS WR DQG D PLVdemeanor on one’s permanent record. There DUH DOVR WUDVK YLRODWLRQV WKDW PD\ UHVXOW LQ ÀQHV 7KH ÀUVW RIIHQVH LV D ÀQH VHFRQG RIIHQVH LV D ÀQH DQG WKH ODVW RIIHQVH FDQ JR XS WR D ÀQH 5LOH\ HQFRXUDJHV RII FDPSXV VWXGHQWV WR register their parties with KPD. This action provides them with a warning process; they are given a courtesy call if their parties become a disturbance to the neighbors, which provides them with an opportunity to calm the party down. This could help students escape a noise summons from Keene Police Department. However, these punishments belie the true nature of many KSC students.

The true personalities of the college students are not seen when their neighbors witness their late-night state of intoxication. The Blake Street resident saw this day and night difference in the students when she asked two students living near her to assist with heavy lifting in her son’s wedding preparations. She said, “They were happy to help.â€? Partying not only affects neighbors and the neighborhood it also affects the business of real-estate. Diamond 5LYHU 5HDOW\¡V 5XWK 9HQH]LD LQ .HHQH VDLG ´,W¡V a problem I would expect on the lower end of %ODNH FORVHU WR 0DLQ 6WUHHW >WR EH PRUH@ GLIĂ€FXOW to sell to families. I know I wouldn’t want to be woken up at one [a.m.].â€?

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The award-winning book, “Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalinâ€? moves away from the lessons of the usual history book by allowing readers to investigate the time of the Holocaust through its history and the perspectives of the “14 million human beingsâ€? killed in that time and speFLĂ€F DUHD DFFRUGLQJ WR WKH ZRUN¡V DXWKRU 7LPRWK\ 6Q\GHU “I’m starting from the observation that over 14 million human beings died. Not because the other observations are false, but by starting that way we might notice things that we are often to miss otherwise.â€?

Snyder, the Bird White Housum Professor of History at Yale University, VSRNH DW WKH Ă€IWHHQWK DQQXDO +RORFDXVW 0HPRULDO /HFWXUH RQ 0RQGD\ 2FW LQ WKH 0DEHO %URZQ 5RRP DGGUHVVLQJ PDMRU WRSLFV RI KLV PRVW UHFHQW work and studies. Snyder shared that his book explores the history of the Holocaust in the area of the “Bloodlands,â€? the geographical areas made XS RI 6RYLHW 5XVVLD %HODUXV 8NUDLQH DQG DUHDV RI 3RODQG ZKHUH DSSUR[Lmately 14 million people died during the time of 1933 to 1945.

The book explains the policies of Soviets, led by Josef Stalin, and Germans, led by Adolf Hitler, that resulted in the mass killings during the

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CAMPUS Teachers and children rejoice SAFETY over new playground at CDC report  log RYAN GLAVEY

Week of: Oct. 15 Monday,  Oct.  15 3:50  p.m.  Owl’s  Nest  4:  Stolen  bicycle.

3:53  p.m.  Owl’s  Nest  6:  Possible  706  outside  [mari-­ juana].

Tuesday,  Oct.  16 6:38  p.m.  Huntress  Hall:  Professor  called  worried  about  a  student  who  has  seizures.  Student  went  to  her  room  to  get  medicine  but  the  professor  would  like  her  checked  on.  10:13  p.m.  Pondside  3:  706  [marijuana]  students  walked  away  from  officer.

Wednesday,  Oct.  17 1:38  p.m.  Off  Campus:  Faculty/Staff  Member  report-­ ing  a  verbal  dispute  between  two  male  and  a  female  that  is  pushing  a  baby  carriage.  KPD  called  and  checked  the  area  for  those  subjects.

2:43  p.m.  TDS  Center:  Report  from  faculty  mem-­ ber  of  an  Ill  student  needing  an  ambulance.  They  were  advised  to  call  911,  student  transported.

Thursday,  Oct.  18 12:49  a.m.  Randall  Hall:  Caught  students  sneaking  into  window.

3:09  a.m.  Spaulding  Lot:  Subject  sleeping  in  vehicle.

5:11  p.m.  Rhodes  Hall:  Report  of  someone  seen  trying  to  steal  computer  from  smart  cart  in  room.

11:32  p.m.  Sidewalk(s):  Intoxicated  subject  arrested.

Friday,  Oct.  19 12:40  p.m.  Science  Center:  Theft  of  a  laptop.

10:56  p.m.  Sidewalk(s):  Suspicious  male  followed  them  from  off  campus.

Saturday,  Oct.  20 12:44  a.m.  Carle  Hall:  Student  21  with  alcohol  in  room  with  underage  students.

5:14  p.m.  Owl’s  Nest  Lot:  RA  reporting  people  with  open  containers.  RA  called  back  and  reported  students  ran.

5:43  p.m.  Appleton  Street:  Students  harassing  an  USSA  guard.

Sunday,  Oct.  21 2:51  a.m.  Owl’s  Nest  1:  Cigarette  urn  purposely  set  on  fire.

3:18  a.m.  Bushnell  Apartments:  Student  passed  out  in  quad.

ADMINISTRATIVE EXECUTIVE EDITOR With society continually advancing with new technology and everyone trying to be on the cutting edge, the Keene State College Child Development Center is going back to the basics with their new natural playground.

Director of the Child Development Center Ellen Edge said the idea for the new playground was to move away from structures and fuel the imagination. “We want it to be less reliant on equipment, because children want to push the limits of equipment anyway,� Edge said.

She said they wanted to have a more open environment for the children to play and create.Edge said natural playgrounds seem to be the latest trend in playground designs. “The interactive features create a new kind of play,� Edge said. “Children prefer windy paths and places where they can run or peddle.� Edge commented it’s better for children to run around and play on hills and natural elements than to wait in line to jump around on a structure. Edge emphasized the impact Assistant Director of Physical Plant – Grounds, Bud Winsor had on the project. “We didn’t have the funds for the initial plan,�

Edge said. “Then Bud [Winsor] said he could do it.�

Edge commented on how beautiful the KSC campus is and credited Winsor for that. “Bud [Winsor] brought his creative eye, which we were more than happy to have,� Edge said. “So it feels more like our playground we created together with Keene State College.�

Winsor said they took some of the pieces from the original plan, and built

“So it feels more like our playground we created together with Keene State College.�

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it as they went. “The original plan had water features, but that comes with a big price tag,� Winsor said. He commented Frank Lucius, the contractor in-charge of tearing down the former Campus Safety building, Grafton House was a big help.

Lucius contributed time and miscellaneous equipment to the project when they weren’t being used at Grafton House.

Edge said the need for a new playground came out of the CDC’s accreditation process back in 2006. She said a safety inspector found some safety issues with the playground and required modiÀFDWLRQV EH PDGH WR WKH IDFLOLWLHV Edge said she was initially inspired by WKH ZRUN RI 5RELQ 0RRUH ZKLFK VKH ÀUVW saw at a workshop at the University of Massachusetts. Moore is an architecture professor at North Carolina State University, who also works with Studio MLA Architects out of Brookline, Mass.

Edge said she met with various companies, but MLA Architects were the only ones with a background of child development. She said that was the deciding factor to the CDC’s decision to work with the company.

Edge said the original plans have not been fully realized yet, and the playground is still a work in progress. She VDLG WKLV ZDV MXVW WKH Ă€UVW VWDJH DQG WKH\ will be adding to the playground over the next several summers to complete it. “We are going to sit down and review

the architects’ original design, and decide what we want to move forward with,� Edge said. Edge commented the playground not only returns to the basics of nature and imagination, but aligns with the college’s sustainability goals and makes the campus even more beautiful.

Edge said offering the children more opportunities to interact with the natural world, the more they will grow to love nature, and when they grow up they will be more likely to make decision to protect nature. The idea that the children are more free to invent with the more natural play facilities is already seen at KSC. “The kids seem to spread out and create more,â€? Winsor noted. He commented the children have already done things with the new facilities they hadn’t even thought of. “We have at least one thing to be proud of,â€? Winsor said. “We took a step furWKHU ZLWK WKH Ă RZHU EHGV DQG WKH NLGV use them as a maze and chase each other around them.â€?

Winsor said the team working on the SURMHFW RYHU WKH VXPPHU Ă€QLVKHG MXVW LQ time for the start of the new school year, and the results were worth the hard work. “It’s really great to see the kids play on it, so that’s the really the reward,â€?

Winsor said.

Ryan Glavey can be contacted at rglavey@keene-equinox.com

Phone-a-thon raises money for scholarships REBECCA MARSH

EQUINOX STAFF Just as the Keene State College alumnus sits on the couch to read a good book, the phone rings. Who is it?

It’s a Keene State College Phone-a-thon Caller! The job of a phone-a-thon caller is to call the alumni of KSC and update their contact information in the system, update the alumni on what’s happening on campus, and to thank them and ask if they would like to give another gift to the KSC Fund or a department on campus. /LQGVD\ 7DĂ DV DVVLVWDQW director of annual giving, knows all about it. “Primarily the phone-a-thon program is raising money for the KSC Fund. What the KSC Fund is, is an unrestricted fund that, right now this year, is supporting primarily scholarVKLSV DQG Ă€QDQFLDO DLG Âľ She continued, “However if a donor wanted to desigQDWH WKHLU PRQH\ WR D VSHFLĂ€F academic program or department, the donor certainly can do that.â€?

7DĂ DV RYHUVHHV WKH SURgram, as assistant director of annual giving and an alumna. “I operate the phone-a-thon program, I hire the student workers along with my student managers and we train about 25 student callers a VHPHVWHU Âľ 7DĂ DV VDLG According to senior Renee Giles, manager of the Phonea-thon callers, the KSC Fund also goes to scholarships where alumni can donate to a VSHFLĂ€F VFKRODUVKLS 7KHUH LV D

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Students call alumni and ask for donations that will provide scholarships for students.

lot to do as a manager of the phone-a-thon callers. Senior Kaleigh Liupakka, another Phone-a-thon callers manager, said, “My role is to oversee the callers during calling hours, I take attendance, I help with processing paperwork.�

She continued, “I keep track of the statistics for how much money we raise, and help Lindsay with individual caller statistics for when she gives evaluations.�

Liupakka started as a phone-a-thon caller in her sophomore year of college.

There is a process that the phone-a-thon caller goes through. The callers must contact the alumni and update

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“We absorbed the reduction through positional elimination and it also resulted in a large in-state tuition increase in the last two years,� Kahn said. Kahn emphasized KSC is spending 20 percent less than other institutions in New Hampshire, so effective budgeting has been the college’s focus, all while maintaining quality. According to Kahn, 60 percent of every dollar from tuition goes to instruction, saying in-state students pay the fair market price for tuition. The average amount of student debt leaving KSC, however, is $31,000.

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their contact information, such as their address and email, and get to know them, according to Renee Giles. “I make sure they know what’s going on around campus. Just remind them what it is about Keene State that they love,�

Giles said. After that, the callers talk about the KSC Fund and ask for a donation. “We look at their previous gifts and we take it from there.

We always ask at least three times,â€? Giles said. “Sometimes, if they’ve given before, we thank them, Ă€UVW RI DOO IRU WKHLU SUHYLRXV donation and tell them how much it means to us.â€? Alumni can also just give a random

New Hampshire’s student debt rate is $32,450, while Utah’s is $17,250 and according to the Nashua Telegraph, New Hampshire has the highest rate of student debt, so these budget restoration would have a large effect on student tuition, according to Kahn. Robinson said the budget cuts and amount of student debt leaving KSC impacts everyone, in terms of retention and how many students the college brings in. ´)RU WKRVH ZKR KDYH Ă€QDQFLDO DLG that’s the majority of students, that student debt rate is more,â€? he said. The budget request, however, would restore the state appropriation back up to 100 percent, noting New Hampshire is currently giving higher institutions the least amount of money in funding. “Our state appropriation has to increase ten times to vie with the leading states in the country,â€?

Kahn said.

amount and disregard what the phone-a-thon caller asked for. The goal of the phone-athon callers is to make at least 100 calls a night. Each night they help raise about $1,500, DFFRUGLQJ WR /LXSDNND 7DĂ DV said they would like to reach around $100,000 for the year and they have already made about $30,000 so far. Each year they reach anywhere between $80,000 to $100,000. “The ultimate goal is just going to be to raise as much as we can and help current stuGHQWV Âľ 7DĂ DV VDLG Rebecca Marsh can be contacted at rmarsh@keene-equinox. com.

Kahn said the request has gone to the current governor, who is leaving in January. The new governor will have to reconsider this budget request. “To the constituencies that care about higher institutions, they should ask candidates where they stand on funding for higher education,â€? Kahn said. “I’ve written to KSC alums and families asking WKHP WR FRQWDFW WKRVH UXQQLQJ IRU RIĂ€FH to express interest in funding for higher education.â€? “This is an important time for our students, the state and our country to be investing in the future.â€? Karen House, WKH YLFH SUHVLGHQW RI Ă€QDQFH DQG SODQning, could not be reached for comment.

Whitney Cyr can be contacted at wcyr@ keene-equinox.com

THURSDAY, OCT. 25, 2012

Students register early for classes PAMELA BUMP

EQUINOX STAFF As a convenience to Keene State College students DQG IDFXOW\ WKH 5HJLVWUDU¡V 2IÀFH SRVWHG FRXUVH OLVWings a semester in advance and encouraged students to look into different catalog year requirements for both their major and the Integrative Studies Program, as they prepare for future course registration.

Junior Rebecca Pine said she enjoyed this change in the scheduling process as she found scheduling to be stressful in the past. Pine added that having more time to plan classes relieved some of that stress. “I love it. It’s very useful,� Pine stated.

KSC Registrar Tom Richard explained that no policies have changed because of early course listings, except, he noted, that the policy of an 18-credit limit on class registration will not go into effect for the upcoming spring semester. Richard claimed that additional changes outside of course listings will give VWXGHQWV PRUH Ă H[LELOLW\ LQ VFKHGXOLQJ EHWZHHQ WKHLU ISP requirements and the requirements of their major.

Students should also explore different requirements of each catalog year when planning their schedules in advance, according to Richard. ´2QH RI WKH PRVW LPSRUWDQW WKLQJV WKDW ZH ÀQG VWXdents don’t know or understand clearly, is the college’s catalog year policy. The catalog year policy basically says that the student follows particular requirements of a catalog year, starting with the catalog that is in effect at the time they come to Keene State College. It is the student’s option to change catalog year moving forward,� Richard stated.

Richard used new catalog changes as prime examples of why students could look into and possibly benHĂ€W IURP FKDQJLQJ WKHLU FDWDORJ \HDU $FFRUGLQJ WR Richard, “The ISP program went from 44 credits to 40 credits.â€? Richard added, “Beginning with the 2012 catalog, the Bachelor of Science degree students now only have to take 120 credits. Until this year, BS students had to do 124 credits.â€? The four credits removed from the ISP requirement were taken from both the Science and Arts and Humanities requirements. However, one elective of the student’s choice was added as an additional requirement, according to Richard. The Registrar explained that the elective chosen by the student must be an ISP elective from a different discipline than the student’s previously taken ISP courses.

5LFKDUG FODULĂ€HG WKLV FKDQJH E\ XVLQJ DQ H[DPSOH of how a student focusing on Science, rather than Arts or Humanities, could now follow the 2012 catalog and choose a Science elective instead of an elective in the arts. Richard added that this would work similarly for a student interested in Arts and Humanities who is not as interested in the Natural or Social Science.

3LQH ZKR LV FXUUHQWO\ IXOĂ€OOLQJ UHTXLUHPHQWV IRU the 2010 catalog year, said that she did not know it was possible to switch up her catalog year, but would consider it if it meant certain changes to graduation requirements.

Richard said, “It [the new catalog year] provides you with more choice. It provides you with more control.� Regardless of the year a student entered KSC or declared their major, he or she may change the catalog year by moving forward at any time, according to Richard. Richard regarded the change in catalog year as a student’s decision, but also explained that a student may only move forward through catalog years and cannot move back. Therefore, Richard also emphasized the importance of the student’s thought behind the decision. “You have to look at the whole picture. While the major requirements might be advantageous, there might be other things about that catalog year that offset that advantage,� Richard said. Richard mentioned that, although the 2012 catalog removes four credits from the ISP requirement, it also requires 40 credits in upper-level courses. Richard indicated that this change should not be a great issue as students often reach the requirement anyway with upper-level major requirements and their original upper-level ISP requirement combined, but it is something that students should keep in mind when switching their catalog year.

Richard noted that each catalog year may also HQFRXQWHU FKDQJHV LQ VSHFLĂ€F SURJUDPV EXW DGGHG “Faculty tend to encourage students to follow a more recent catalog year, because if they change the curriculum, they feel that they did so for good reason.â€? He added that if students working in different programs, such as dual majors or additional minors, must consider all of their programs before switching their catalog year as, “The requirements that you follow must all be from the same catalog year.â€?

Richard explained students often choose to stick with the catalog year they entered the school with, usually because it is simpler to keep up with the nonchanging requirements or because they aren’t aware that they can change their catalog year. However, Richard added, “You can use it to your advantage, in terms of trying to complete the best available program in the shortest amount of time without doing things that you don’t need to do in order to complete it.�

According to the KSC Academic and Career Advising website, students may use program planning sheets to explore different catalog year requirements.

The MyKSC site also allows students and their advisors to use the “What Ifâ€? tool on their Program EvalXDWLRQ SDJH WR VHOHFW DQG H[SORUH KRZ WKH\ FDQ IXOĂ€OO their course requirements in a different major and cataORJ \HDU DFFRUGLQJ WR WKH 0\.6& ZHEVLWH 7KH RIĂ€FLDO ZHEVLWH IRU WKH 5HJLVWUDU¡V 2IĂ€FH DOVR HQFRXUDJHV VWXdents to use their Program Evaluation tools when planQLQJ WKHLU IXWXUH VFKHGXOH ´:H Ă€QG WKDW ZKHQ PRVW VWXGHQWV Ă€OO RXW WKHLU GHFODUDWLRQ RI PDMRU RU LQWHQW WR graduate form, most students just don’t get it when it comes to catalog year. It’s not common language to them. It’s not something you talk about on the street, - but it’s crucial because it basically determines which set of requirements you’re expected to meet when you graduate,â€? Richard concluded.

Pamela Bump can be contacted at pbump@keene-equinox.com.

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Timothy Snyder discusses the lives of 14 million Holocaust victims in his award-winning book.

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time of the Holocaust. Snyder, who specializes in the history of Central and Eastern Europe shared how he expanded this history by taking a different approach for his book paying extra attention to human rights.

Snyder said, “14 million is a big number... Big numbers are made of little numbers ... Little numbers are made of units of just one.� Portions of “Bloodlands,� seek to explain the time in history using messages and left over artifacts of the individuals who lost their lives. Snyder stressed that while mass numbers were killed, they were a big number of deaths made up of all types of individual, “human beings.�

Snyder also gave the audience a brief description on the “complicated� history of the time period and how the violence began due to a number of many different issues including food, economics and scarcity of resources among many other things. He also explained that he wanted to change the way this time was written about in history books, which usually have taken a “right or left,� approach to reporting on the topic.

Snyder stated, “National history is really good at asking questions. It asks questions like ‘Why were we the victims’ or perhaps on a different level, ‘Why were we the perpe-

trators?’ or the most moral question, ‘Why did we stand by and do nothing?’�

Snyder added, “What it [“Bloodlands�] can’t do is answer those questions... It doesn’t contain the things you need to make an answer.�

Snyder added, “You can know everything there is to know about Ukrainians. That won’t help you explain why there was a famine in 1933.

You can know everything that can be known about Jews and Jewish history up until 1938 or 1939, but that won’t help predict to you that there will be a Holocaust...

The forces that were in play during the Holocaust are greater than the nation itself, which is an uncomfortable thought.�

Snyder explained that many people could not understand the Holocaust, or what the people who lost their lives went through, because they are often never heard from, except in the case of describing death in numbers. “The way that we think about the Holocaust and the way that we think about Soviet terror centers around the camps. This is fundamentally misleading. The vast majority of people who died in the Holocaust never saw a camp.

The ones that we know about saw camps. Why? “Because people survived camps.� He added that many policies at this time ordered half of the killings by shooting and half by gassing in death factories, according

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money and improve the life quality of every citizen. $IWHU WKH Ă€OP WKHUH ZDV D SDQHO GLVFXVsion, which featured experts who exposed some of the health issues within the state DQG GLVFXVVHG FHUWDLQ DVSHFWV WKH Ă€OP FRYered. The panelists were Dr. Don Caruso, from Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene, Barbara Duckett from Home Health care Hospice and Dr. Thomas Connelly, director of the Nursing Program at KSC. Keene State Interim President Jay Kahn said the college “is very engaged in health DQG ZHOOQHVV Ă€HOGV Âľ +H DIĂ€UPHG SHUFHQW RI .6& VWXGHQWV DUH PDMRULQJ LQ WKHVH Ă€HOGV and that it is a growing thing. “We have a new nursing program. We have 80 students in the program and it is growing around WR VWXGHQWV SHU \HDU Âľ .DKQ DIĂ€UPHG having the event at the college “gives exposure to our students to health issues and to health professionalsâ€?. )RU 'DZQ 'H$QJHOLV FKLHI FRQWHQW RIĂ€FHU of NHPTV and event organizer, explained the aim of the event is to get people to think differently. She said, “Instead of thinking well I’m going to vote for someone and they DUH JRLQJ WR Ă€[ WKH SUREOHP WKH\ VKRXOG think about what they can do in their own community.â€?

to Snyder. different study of the Holocaust as, Snyder added, “We have to “He’s [Snyder] focused on the place remember that much of the evi- where the killing happened and the dence we have about the Holocaust recognition that if you ask about often comes from people that sur- WKH KXPDQ EHLQJV Ă€UVW \RX GLVvived. People who survived had, by cover that 14 million human beings GHĂ€QLWLRQ DQ XQXVXDO H[SHULHQFH were killed in the 12-year period I try to begin in places that people before 1933 and 1945 in this rather were actually killed, and that place restricted border land between the is the Bloodlands.â€? outward edges of the Soviet Union Snyder said, “It’s a complicated and the expanding edges of Nazi history and a complicated topic. But, Germany.â€? if you feel like it’s complicated, you Knight claimed, “He challenges might get it.â€? He added, “Once you traditional perspectives and challook at it in a different way, you’ll lenges you to ask if you’ve taken never look at it the same way you account for all of the trauma in the did before.â€? Snyder explained that area. he attempted to avoid the common If you haven’t you’ve missed the history book strategies of explain- complexity of all that has happened. ing a complicated topic by referenc- People living in the same region ing personal diaries, messages and have been traumatized by Stalin other archives left behind by those and Soviet forces as well as Hitler who had lost their lives. and Nazi instigated violence. That Henry Knight of the Holocaust forces you to ask more complicated and Genocide Studies department questions, to recognize that the hison campus shared that the stu- tory is messier and that it’s maybe dents and faculty of the Holocaust even more important to underand Genocide Studies department stand. Even though it was important have been following Snyder’s work, before.â€? books and essays.

As Knight agreed with Snyder Knight explained that the fac- that the subject of the Holocaust was ulty selected Snyder to be the complicated, he stated that the key speaker of Monday’s event as his to understanding the history is by work is known well to the depart- paying attention to different details, ment. Knight added, “What he has such as what Snyder brought up in to say is important, and he says it his lecture. “When you pay attenwith power and clarity. This is just tion to more, you can’t quit paying somebody who should come to our attention to it.� campus.�

Knight expanded by adding that Pamela Bump can be contacted at Snyder is a different speaker with a pbump@keene-equinox.com.

Regarding the way health care has been treated during the campaign for the Presidential elections, DeAngelis said, “I think it has been a political football� and she hopes “after the elections we can see the conversation come back to the community level.�

Kahn agreed that “health care is being looked at as a cost issue and not as a quality of life issue.� He said, “we are losing sight of some of the major goals that the health care act contains, which [is] to try to have a healthier population.�

Panel moderator Ned Helms, from N.H. Institute of Health Policy and PracWLFHV DIĂ€UPHG $PHULFD GRHVQ¡W RQO\ KDYH one health care system, it has many. “There are places in America where health care works‌. we need to replicate the best functioning health systems in our country; we don’t need to become Sweden or France,â€?

Helms said. ´:KHQ \RX ZDWFK WKH ÀOP LW SRUWUDLWV communities all over the country that have different methods of treating people, treating whole communities,� DeAngelis said.

This piece explained how research done at Dartmouth College helped identify some towns that have health care systems that apparently work very well for most people.

According to a publication called “The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care,� Washington state holds two cities that are an example of healthy communities in the country: Seattle

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at one time is that this technology continues to advance,� Kahn added.

He continued, “We might have different technologies or advanced technologies that will perform differently under different climate conditions, and provide even greater educational value to the students over time.�

Even with just one type of photovoltaic system, Kahn said there is a lot students can learn from this system. “Students can monitor its performance under different conditions, meaning the time of year, the height of the sun, and length of the day,� Kahn added.

He said the project takes about nine weeks and will likely go into December to complete. Although the TDS Center’s main source of energy is electricity, Kahn said that over the entire year the photovoltaic array will provide 15 percent of all the electricity consumed within the building.

According to TDS Professor Rick Foley, having zero net energy is the “inâ€? language in architecture in regards to going green. He said WKH 7'6 &HQWHU LV IDLUO\ HIĂ€FLHQW but it will be a challenge to reach net zero energy. “We have a lot of commercial and industrial operations going on,â€? Foley said. “So for a building this size you have to worry about heating, ventilation, air conditioning [no air conditioning yet], plug loads, and light loads.â€?

He explained that the school would not have this kind of struggle with a normal building with just classrooms. Foley said it’s because of all the heavy duty equipment using up so many electrons that PDNH LW GLIÀFXOW WR PDNH WKH EXLOGing a net zero energy space.

During the summer, Foley said the idea is that perhaps the photo-

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cian.â€? He explained that the point is not to “add the cost of the system by implementing primary care‌ it is to spread the cost in a different way.â€?

Caruso questioned American health care regarding economic recognition for different areas of medicine. He said “there is something wrong in our systemâ€? if doctors cannot afford to be primary care physicians because cardiology and neurology H[SHUWV HDUQ Ă€YH WLPHV PRUH 5HJDUGLQJ WKH situation of health care in New Hampshire, 'U &DUXVR FRQĂ€UPHG WKH VWDWH ´KDV VRPH RI the lowest costs in the countryâ€?.

'XFNHWW DIĂ€UPHG SDUW RI WKH JRRG QHZV regarding health care in Keene is home care.

She said, “Right now, we have an active initiative right now to reduce the anti-psychotic medication used in residences, which obviously improves quality of life.�

The voice of KSC in the panel, Dr. Thomas Connelly, referred to the Vision 2020 project. He said that “to make Cheshire County healthier we need to have prepared staff.�

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“A cat singing in a crescent moon.�

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“Right now, we have an active initiative right now to reduce the anti-psychotic medication used in residences, which obviously improves quality of life.�

and Everett. These have around the average number of uninsured inhabitants; however, they have managed to provide good quality health care even to this population.

A critical step to expand health and reduce cost is investing in preventative medicine rather than in expensive equipment to treat patients have already reached a serious condition.

Prenatal care could prevent almost any health issues in children. That’s why in Everett and Seattle, every pregnant woman’s health expenses are covered.

According to doctors in the documentary, investment in medical equipment is not always the best idea. Panelists at KSC agreed. More advanced medical equipment equals more surgeries, and this implies a higher cost. It is important to have the necessary equipment, but “it shall not be the number one priority of health care facilities,�

Caruso said.

He also expressed that there is the necessity to “produce more primary care physi-

voltaics will just about match the electrical needs of the building, and in the winter, maybe supply about 25 percent. He also added that the photovoltaics are designed in a sloping structure so that during the winter months, snow will slide right off the roof.

According to the TDS Chair, Larry McDonald, he said he doesn’t think they will be able to meet the goal of net zero energy this year. “I think it will take some time because the panels won’t provide 100 percent of the electricity, and there is a high use of electricity in this building because of all the machinery that is used in classes,�

McDonald said. He thinks it would require additional panels, besides covering the whole roof, to provide 100 percent net zero energy.

McDonald said panels could be located on different places on campus and still provide energy to the TDS Building.

As far as the actual construction of the panels is concerned, Construction Clerk of the Works, Colin Burdick said they haven’t scheduled the day yet, but many supplies have arrived. He said they’re waiting on steel, which is on its way to campus. He estimates that this project will be done before the start of 2013. Along with what McDonald said about needing more panels, Burdick said that once the roof is covered completely with panels, they would provide about 60 percent of the electricity load. “So there was some talk of maybe having some solar panels on top of some kind of sheltered parking section in the parking lot for the TDS Building, or having SDQHOV RYHU E\ WKH DWKOHWLF Ă€HOGV that send power back to the TDS Building, but those are just some ideas,â€? Burdick added.

Burdick said he thinks the solar energy is almost like free energy, because the school is investing in a renewable resource.

The main aspects that make the places shown in “US. Health care: The Good Newsâ€? different from other communities is that they have reduced costs and better quality services. According to the Ă€OP 'DUWPRXWK H[SHUWV VD\ WKH GRFWRUV are taking simple steps and “doing great things regarding health care.â€?

The movie shows that some of the strategies to lower costs include creating electronic bases to keep patients’ medical records. This saves space, money, and allows doctors to provide patients a more personalized attention.

'RFWRUV LQ WKH ÀOP DGYLVH ORZHULQJ FRVWV by promoting the use of generic medicine over original brands. These are cheaper and have the same components, for instance will have the same effect on the patient as the original brand.

Also, experts from communities shown LQ WKH ÀOP VWURQJO\ VXJJHVW WKDW GRFWRUV DUH required to work under a salary. This guarantees that there will not be preferences at the moment of receiving patients, that staff would provide personalized attention and spend more time with each patient. That way, a closer relation will be build between them, and the doctors will be able to take care of patients better.

Karina Barriga Albring can be contacted at kbarriga@keene-equinox.com

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Fostering communication between students and authorities

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The Equinox has raised the issue of miscommunication between college students and the Keene community in previous issues, with the general opinion that both the college and the town are taking proactive steps in shrinking the gap between these two groups—the clear example of this being the party registration process that was implemented this past summer in the hopes of promoting positive student contact with the Keene Police Department. However, Pumpkin Fest weekend showed that more must be done to create a better communicative environment between students and police.

Respect is a keyword that is thrown around many times—both with college students and authorities. Each side wishes the other would show more respect in the process of communication and interaction. We as college students often expect more respect than we give in terms of police encounters. Police, in turn, often appear unnecessarily hostile given the nature of their job.

It is the responsibility of both parties to foster positive communiFDWLRQ LQ WKH IDFH RI GLIÀFXOW VLWXDWLRQV ,QFLGHQWV VXFK DV VXUURXQGLQJ DQG VKRXWLQJ H[SOHWLYHV DW D SROLFH RIÀFHU GR QRW ERGH ZHOO IRU college students’ reputations as a whole nor does it serve to propel the conversation between young people and authorities forward in a SRVLWLYH GLUHFWLRQ 3ROLFH RIÀFHUV RQ WKH RWKHU KDQG VKRXOG DOZD\V remember that they are the ones in positions of power and must not abuse that power, even in (or perhaps especially in) situations dealing with unruly people.

STAFF COMMENTARY If we look towards fostering a sense of empathy and understanding between college students and community authorities, the two seemingly contesting interests at play—one group’s attempt to “have a good time� and another’s responsibility to the community to provide security—will no longer be seen as polar opposites but as a balancing act No matter where one is in their college career, based on positive communication. there are bound to be levels of stress that some-

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times becomes hard to deal with. Regardless if it is adjusting to living away from home, declaring a major, attempting to pick classes for next semester or a plethora of other things, there are many stresses that keep you on your toes. Stress is completely normal and happens to almost everyone at a few points in their lives. However, if stress gets to be too much or starts to consume your entire life, then something needs to be changed. There are plenty of warning signs, as well as coping methods for when you start to get too stressed out.

One of the greatest warning signs is a complete inability to focus on any one task. Every time I start to get stressed because I have a lot RI ZRUN WR GR RQH RI WKH ÀUVW WKLQJV , GR LV JR online to distract myself, which is quite possibly the worst thing one can do in that situation.

I end up getting nothing done and costing myself about an hour that could be used to actually get work done, or time that could have been VSHQW ÀJXULQJ RXW KRZ WR DWWDFN WKH ZRUNORDG This happens because when there is too much to do, sometimes your brain can’t process all the

work and other stresses it has to deal with and basically looks for anything else to do that isn’t work.

The more stressed out you get, sometimes the less motivated you become.

Another sign of too much stress is cranky or angry behavior. Excessive stress takes a high toll on your mental health, and can cause you to become angry or “snappy� at people even if it has nothing to do with them. You may notice little things you don’t usually even think about will drive you insane. This is one of the reasons stress can be so hard on a person. It affects multiple aspects in life, from mental health to social interaction.

There are many different ways of coping with stress. Personally, I like to go to the DC and eat some food with some friends. It refuels me, lets me talk to some people and get some fresh ideas, and then come back later to my work.

Another thing that works excellently for me is sectioning off my work, and breaking it into SDUWV )RU H[DPSOH VD\ , KDYH WR ZULWH D ÀYH SDJH SDSHU )RU HYHU\ SDJH DQG D KDOI , ÀQLVK ,¡OO JLYH myself 15 minutes to just relax from typing and watch some TV or grab a snack. It helps keep me

focused and allows me to know generally how much I have left, because it gets broken down into sections.

Other people I know have also recommended ways to reduce stress. The most common suggestion was taking a walk. Two of my friends told me when they get overloaded while working they will go take a walk on the bike path behind the Owl’s Nests. The fresh air helps clear their heads.

There are also places on campus to go if you get overstressed. On campus there is the Counseling Center, which is free for students.

They are located on-campus and are available to help make sure students have an outlet for their stress. They are focused on the overall mental health of the student population. The &RXQVHOLQJ &HQWHU LV ORFDWHG RQ WKH WKLUG Ă RRU of the Elliot Center, and open Monday - Friday from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. All visits and conversaWLRQV DUH FRQĂ€GHQWLDO 7KH\ FDQ EH FRQWDFWHG E\ phone at 358-2437.

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Faculty member fires back to defend reputation People have asked me if I miss the college with my recent retirement. I have said “Yes�. I especially miss my colleagues, their rational argumentation, the mutual respect, the use of evidence to defend reasoning, and the relative good sense made by most of my former colleagues.

But then I read Prof. Christopher Cusack’s letter (10/18/12) offering to provide “a safe space� for conservative students who, “are fearful of voicing their principles�, that included an attack on me.

His reference to me was transparently impersonal.

He wrote, “perhaps most egregiously, I’ve heard from students about a recently retired Political Science professor who, before his retirement, would hold up the Equinox in class and skewer the conservative articles ZULWWHQ E\ D Ă€UVW \HDU IHPDOH VWXGHQW Âľ , WDXJKW SROLWLcal science at Keene State for 39 1/2 years and retired in January, 2012. During those 4 decades, I never held up The Equinox in class to make any point, and, certainly, I have never “skeweredâ€? a student journalist at Keene State College.

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ter, when I was the instructor for three courses -ISPOSC 199, Citizenship and Community, Hnrs 290, Global Politics, and POSC 321: United States Foreign Policy and Globalization-during the fall of 2011. I am certain that there are still students at Keene State College who attended these classes.

Please come forward to document Cusack’s charge.

Don’t come to me, but I am sure that Political Science/Economics Chair Prof. Michael Welsh, or Dean Gordon Leversee would be willing to hear about this kind of egregious conduct.

Cusack claims to have heard from students about praise for the occupy movement with no similar appreciation of the tea party; he heard about professors’ tears of joy with Obama’s election; he heard about professors who told students to take the liberal side in writing assignments; and he heard that a professor (me) skewered a student journalist.

These rumors seem much like what we have heard, that Obama was born in Kenya (despite documented refutation); that he is a socialist, despite his conservative/centrist democratic record in several HOHFWHG RIĂ€FHV ZH KDYH KHDUG WKDW JRYHUQRU FDQGL-

date, Hassan, pays no property tax on her $ ½ million house (her husband is the headmaster of Phillips Exeter school-they live in the headmaster’s house).

As a member of the N.H. House Election Law committee, I heard from citizens who claimed to observe actual cases of voter fraud. However, when asked why they didn’t report it at the time, they had no response and “no beef�. Investigations by the Secretary of State and the Atty. Gen. into alleged voter fraud, have found no actionable evidence in the past 12 years. Are Cusack and those individuals, who claim voter fraud, acting more like propagandists than responsible citizens?

A responsible professor might have taken the students with the alleged complaints to talk to the offending instructor about the perceived politics “bleed(ing) into the classroom� and the perceived “fearful� environment. We have seen the damaging likelihood of voter suppression- based on rumors, rather than fact -acted on by Republican majorities. Words have consequences.

Regarding the missing Republicans in the recent KSC debates, several Republicans were invited. Per-

haps it relates more to the extremist nature of the Republican Party platform, especially for college-age voters.

The platform calls for government intervention in matters related to a woman’s privacy, outlaws all abortion (in all cases of rape-even “legitimate�), denying equality before the law with regard to same-sex marriages, and with the repeal of Affordable Care Act, removing gender equality in healthcare, and maintaining the current market-based health-care system that will increase the number of people without health insurance (over 50,000,000 today. If Obamacare is maintained, by 2014 36 million of those will have health coverage).

An open note to Professor Cusack-I’m sorry to go public with this, but I care about my reputation as a professional educator and a legislator. I categorically deny your allegations about me. I wish you best of luck in your career.

Chuck Weed cweed@keene.edu

Keene State College students far from ‘R.O.C.K.S.’ stars

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NICKERSON / GRAPHICS EDITOR

2QH VWXGHQW ZRUNHU¡V DGYLFH WR SURPRWH FRUUHFW UHF\FOLQJ DQG HQYLURQPHQWDO UHVSRQVLELOLW\ After three and a half years of working for Recycling on Campus at Keene State (R.O.C.K.S.) I have come to the conclusion that very few students recycle correctly.

People do not realize that the Recycling Crew is composed of student workers who are working because WKH\ QHHG WR SD\ IRU VFKRRO ,W PDNHV RXU MRE GLIĂ€FXOW when recycling is not done correctly and frankly it is really annoying. I do realize that most of these mistakes are made because people in fact do not know how to recycle correctly. So here are some facts about recycling.

Firstly, boxes such as cereal boxes, breakfast bar boxes, snack boxes, etc. are made out of paper board, NOT cardboard. Cardboard boxes have ridges; everyone has seen a cardboard box before. Therefore put the cereal boxes in the paper recycling bin. It is a pain trying to take paperboard out of cardboard bins, especially the outside recycling receptacles. Every building is guilty of doing this.

Also, please breakdown cardboard boxes and put them in cardboard receptacles. We spend at least 15 minutes at every building trying to break down boxes.

Do not throw boxes on top of your recycling receptacles. If you cannot reach the top we cannot reach to get them down. Carle, Fiske, and Huntress are notorious for throwing boxes on top of their outside recycling receptacle.

While we are on the topic of paper and cardboard I want to mention one more thing: greasy food containers can NOT be recycled; neither can leftover pizza.

When these objects end up in recycling they not only ruin the whole load of paper/cardboard, but they also make the bins reek. It is so nasty when we have to pick out your old moldy pizza and throw it in the trash. The biggest offenders of this would be Randall and Monadnock. Another side note is that “paper� juice jugs and coffee cups are coated with wax and cannot be recycled either.

Secondly, the only plastic objects that can be recy-

cled are objects that contain a recycle symbol. Bottles must be emptied without the cover on them. If bottles have liquid in them, which almost every bottle ends up having, it makes the big bins that we use really heavy to lift and it is a pain to empty the hundreds of bottles we get in the week. Plastic bags, bubble wrap, saran wrap and packaging materials cannot be recycled.

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One of our biggest pet peeves is to have to pick up RYHUà RZHG FDQV DQG ERWWOHV RII RI WKH JURXQG DQG WR put them in other bins. On average there are enough FDQV WR ÀOO XS D ZKROH HPSW\ UHF\FOH ELQ 2Q DQRWKHU note if your recycling bins are full call the recycling RIÀFH RU ZDLW XQWLO WKH\ DUH HPSWLHG DJDLQ %LQV JHW emptied at least twice a week. Owl’s Nest and Tisdale/ Bushnell are the dorms with the most amount of bottle DQG FDQ RYHUà RZ

Fourthly, do not put trash in recycle bins. Let me repeat it: DO NOT PUT TRASH IN RECYCLE BINS. Every time trash is put in recycling bins we have to pull it out. We have seen many nasty things such as used condoms, vomit, rotten food, used tissues, food ZUDSSHUV EDJV DQG HWF :H DUH QRW KDSS\ ZKHQ ZH ÀQG these things. I do not wish to get sick because of items that you all throw in the recycling bins. Also if there is an excessive of trash in our dumpsters the whole load of recyclables is contaminated and cannot be recycled.

2QH ÀQDO SRLQW LI \RX ZDQW WR KHOS ZLWK UHF\cling, buy reusable water bottles and coffee mugs and use them. It will save you money by not having to buy bottled drinks and you get a discount at the bean and bagel when you use reusable mugs! I hope that this article opens your eyes about recycling. Please help us to make sure Keene State College R.O.C.K.S! Jessica Desclos can be contacted at jdesclos@keene-equinox.com

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Discussion, not disengagement, paves way to democracy In his letter to the editor in last week’s Equinox, Prof. Christopher Cusack unfortunately chose to take a sarcastic, unproductive, and frankly offensive approach to an otherwise legitimate issue. Prof.

Cusack has chosen to take what I call the “Fox News approach.� Instead of addressing a valid concern with civil, balanced intellectual clarity, he has chosen a polarizing emotive response that, rather than stimulate genuine discussion, is designed to shut it down.

When Rush Limbaugh and then Fox News rose to national prominence in the late 1980s and early 1990s, they addressed a real problem with the state of reporting and journalism in the United States.

Call it what you will, liberal bias or the decline in network news budgets and journalistic standards, reporting in the “main stream� media had fallen into a sorry state (and hasn’t gotten much better). However, instead of presenting news that was actually “fair and balanced,� which made a genuine effort at objectivity, conservative pundits decided to go as far in the opposite direction as possible and in the process

EHFDPH OLWWOH PRUH WKDQ KLJKO\ SURĂ€Wable) propaganda outlets for the Republican Party.

Likewise, Prof. Cusack’s “solution,â€? too, is to polarize rather than engage. I think this is an important issue, one which I have raised in class as well as in various campus forums (including a recent faculty meaning). I am one of the registered Democrats on the faculty whom Prof. Cusack mentions in his letter, but I am also concerned about how often our conservative students feel marginalized on our campus – by their fellow students, but even more troubling by their professors. I never put FDPSDLJQ VWLFNHUV RU SRVWHUV RQ P\ RIĂ€FH door or walls because I do not want any student, regardless of his or her political views, to feel that they cannot come to me with their questions or concerns. Too often the liberal academic culture that professes tolerance as its highest ideal betrays that ideal in its intolerance of conservative opinions. Our goal as practicing scholars and educators should be to foster critical thinking skills in our students, not to indoctrinate them.

A “safe space� is not a place where one goes in order to avoid being exposed to ideas that you don’t like or happen to disagree with. Safe Spaces are conceived and designed in order to provide an actual safe place for individuals who feel physically threatened, who often have been subject to physical and emotional abuse because of their race, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity.

Sadly, in my opinion Prof. Cusack’s letter is not only unproductive, it is offensive. A “safe space� is not a place where one goes in order to avoid being exposed to ideas that you don’t like or happen to disagree with. Safe Spaces are conceived and designed in order to provide an actual safe place for individuals who feel physically threatened, who often have been subject to physical and emotional abuse because of their race, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity. To compare these students to students with conservative

(or any other) political views is to diminish the experiences of people who have, in many cases, actually been physically and /or sexually assaulted because of who they are. Such a comparison, whatever Prof. Cusack’s intentions, is insulting and doesn’t serve in any way, shape, or form to address an otherwise legitimate concern.

Rather than encourage our students with minority views (e.g. conservatives) to disengage from the rest of the community and cloister themselves in professors’ RIÀFHV ZRXOGQ¡W ZH DOO EH EHWWHU VHUYHG

by working together to organize campus IRUXPV WKDW UHDOO\ GR UHĂ HFW WKH GLYHUVLW\ of views on our campus? Our views on the key issues facing our campus community will undoubtedly vary, but we must remain committed to the vital principle that respectful disagreement is essential to scholarly discourse. We can do better, as scholars and educators.

Dr. Nicholas Germana ngermana@keene.edu

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Student brings change for fellow heroes Keene State College senior initiates Yellow Ribbon program on campus JULIE CONLON

STUDENT LIFE EDITOR Sean Sullivan hunches his broad shoulders and scribbles numbers and letters on three separate lines in a small notebook. “3rd AABN Delta Co, 31st MEU-BLT 2/7 Delta Co, CLB7-TSD. “ For Sullivan, a Keene State College senior, these numbers represent three seven-month periods of active duty in Iraq, Japan and Afghanistan DV D 8QLWHG 6WDWHV 0DULQH 7RGD\ 6XOOLYDQ Ă€QGV KLPVHOI RQ D PLVVLRQ RQ his own college campus. In September, with a mere three months until his graduation, Sullivan took on the challenge to establish KSC as a Yellow Ribbon school.

What is Yellow Ribbon? According to the Department of Veteran Affairs, the Yellow Ribbon Program provides institutions of higher education the ability to voluntarily enter into an agreement with Veterans Affairs (VA) to assist in tuition expenses for war veterans where tuition exceeds the highest public in-state undergraduate tuition rate. Within the agreement, the institution can contribute means up to 50 percent of those expenses, and the VA will match the same amount. Sullivan said, “Say UNH is the highest in-state tuition for NH, but say there’s another in-state school that’s higher,� he explained, “If they weren’t Yellow Ribbon, the student would have to cover the cost. If they were Yellow Ribbon, the school pays half and the government steps in and pays the additional half.� Sullivan, an out-ofstate student from Massachusetts, said he scraped together costs for tuition over the past three semesters.

Sullivan studied safety on and off from 2002-2007 before joining the Marine Corps. “My whole family comes from military,â€? he said, “College wasn’t my forte at the time. It’s just something I felt I needed to do. My brother’s a marine so I followed after him,â€? Sullivan shared. He said he MRLQHG WR GHSOR\ 6XOOLYDQ VDLG KH SODQV WR EHFRPH D Ă€UHĂ€JKWHU LQ %RVWRQ after graduation and expects he can apply what he has learned from the program to his career. Now 30 years old, Sullivan is set to graduate in December. The Yellow Ribbon program will have no effect on his tuition. “My biggest thing is that KSC is the only state [school] with a Safety program on the east coast, and in New England. I look at this program and know that it would help them—it’s kind of similar to the stuff we learn in military,â€? Sullivan said, “They’re being excluded from it because, who’s going to pay for it?â€?

In the fall of 2012, Sullivan contacted Provost Melinda Treadwell with the Yellow Ribbon program. Sullivan knew Treadwell previously when she served as his advisor in the Safety department. Sullivan claimed Treadwell loved the idea when he approached her.

From there, Sullivan scheduled a formal meeting with Treadwell, Vice President of Student Affairs Andy Robinson, and Kent DrakeDeese, director of Residential Life and Housing, and head of the Veterans Advisory Committee. “I explained the program to them and they basically agreed,� Sullivan said. “Literally the meeting was like 15 minutes. I thought I was going to have to sell them on it, but they were like, ‘No, you’re right. We need to do this.’�

Sullivan said KSC’s transformation to a Yellow Ribbon school will JR EH\RQG EHQHĂ€WLQJ WKH RXW RI VWDWH VWXGHQW +H VDLG WKDW WKH DGGLWLRQ of more veterans on campus would enrich the student body. “Keene State College will be able to vast their student body with people from out of state that are veterans who can bring different things to the table—just their life experiences,â€? he explained. “No one can compare to it really. To have those kind of people here, those are really good role models,â€? Sullivan said.

According to Drake-Deese, the idea of Yellow Ribbon had already been circulating with his committee. “That’s part of why we were really open to it,� DrakeDeese explained, “We already had it on our radar. It was two things

happening at the right time. [Sullivan] was surprised.â€? Drake-Deese gave student population because you bring very different perspectives, very props to Sullivan for his initiative and said that his attempt helped speed different views, and then it’s that classroom environment, and up the process. that student life environment. As a college, efforts to focus and “It’s always good to have a champion of the cause out there,â€? Drakeenhance opportunities for students representing different Deese said. Robinson named KSC’s Safety program as one such program Âť  YELLOW  RIBBON,  A7 that may spark interest for war veterans looking at schools.

Robinson said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re coming out of Iraq or coming out of the army and they can look online for Yellow Ribbon schools and look and see what the Yellow Ribbon schools offer, this could be a real draw for KSC and a real effective degree for veterans,â&#x20AC;? Robinson continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a very employerfriendly degree. We know thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the kind of thing that a vet whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s looking DW JRLQJ EDFN WR VFKRRO DQG WKHQ EH HPSOR\HGÂłWKLV LV D SHUIHFW Ă&#x20AC;W Âľ Treadwell commented on the decision to move forward in the Yellow Ribbon plan and explained the move as being part of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;national trendâ&#x20AC;? as schools respond to returning warriors. She commented on the EHQHĂ&#x20AC;WV WKH FROOHJH ZRXOG UHFHLYH E\ DSSO\LQJ IRU <HOORZ 5LEERQ She said she values the diversity of the student population and explained the addition of veterans on campus would enrich that body. Treadwell said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the Yellow Ribbon recognition is just one more step in our many steps towards trying to diversify the

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Phoenix House patients share stories of addiction with KSC 3DWLHQWV WHOO RI URDG WR UHKDELOLWDWLRQ LQ VHFRQG DQQXDO œ7UXH /LIH ,¡P ,Q 5HFRYHU\¡ MEGAN MARKUS

EQUINOX STAFF â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyone who went to the Phoenix House said that the Phoenix House saved their life, but to me, the Phoenix House didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t save my life; it gave me a life that is worth saving and worth living.â&#x20AC;?

These were words of Orion, a former patient of the Phoenix House, as he sat in the Alumni Recital Hall in the Redfern Arts Center at Keene State College Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. The second annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;True Life: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in Recovery,â&#x20AC;? was put on by the Sophomore Success Series, a program created by residential directors last year designed to help sophomores succeed by organizing monthly informative sessions on everything from studying abroad to drug addiction. The students real names were not revealed, but they were given pseudonyms.

The Phoenix House is a drug rehabilitation center in Dublin, N.H. that provides long-term residential treatment for people with substance abuse problems between the ages of 12-18. Treatment is either parent or court ordered and can last anywhere from 28 days to six months.

Orion experienced more hardships than the average 16 year old. According to Orion, he woke up from a blackout at the Phoenix House nearly 11 months ago in complete denial of his drug addiction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I smoked weed, but eventually I got into harder stuff, like towards the end before I went I was doing basically anything I could get my hands on but my main thing was Percocet. I drank basically every day but I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really think that was a drug until I came to Phoenix House,â&#x20AC;? Orion said. Orion will reach his one-year mark of sobriety this month. He was one of the four speakers between the ages of 16-18 from the Phoenix House who came to speak to a large audience of students and faculty. Orion

me feel comfortable in my own skin and then it just progressed and progressed. As long as I got high, I was happy,â&#x20AC;? Tyler said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m grateful for the Phoenix House, because without them, I would either be in jail or dead,â&#x20AC;? he said.

The majority of students in attendance came out of pure interest to hear the stories of the adolescents. Melanie Sachs, a senior, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have a lot of addiction in my family and friends, so I always like hearing the other side of the story â&#x20AC;&#x201C; how it happens, why it happens and these kids I heard it last year and they really inspired me,â&#x20AC;? she continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I actually got to go to the Phoenix House and talk to them and so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m really interested in supporting their recovery and I might want to do something on the side with it later on in life.â&#x20AC;?

Brittany Kunkel is a senior residential assistant passionate about the Phoenix House. Krunkel and advocates to raise awareness for addiction. According to Kunkel this is her second time involved with bringing adolescents over from the Phoenix House to hold the event at KSC. Krunkel said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The program is raw and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s moving and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s absolutely crazy because were ages 18-22 going to college here and these kids are 12-18 and they have crazier life stories than most people here.

So their struggles compared to our daily struggles are completely different and it really helps to put things into perspective.â&#x20AC;? Similarly, David Draper, a sophomore residential assistant, coordinated social media for the BRIAN CANTORE / EQUINOX STAFF event.

The Sophomore Success Series put on its second annual â&#x20AC;&#x153;True Life: Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m in Recoveryâ&#x20AC;? at Keene State â&#x20AC;&#x153;This event could especially be an eye opener for College on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. someone who has an addiction and isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t aware of it and LV WKH RQO\ DGROHVFHQW ZKR Ă&#x20AC;QLVKHG WKH SURJUDP ZKLOH of the adolescents said he was in denial about his addic- they come and see that people are telling their stories it the other three are still working toward recovery. There tion problems until his seventeenth birthday when his could help them realize that thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s them too and it could were three common themes among the speakers: they mother took him to the hospital and objected to taking help them to get help,â&#x20AC;? Draper said. said they started off by smoking marijuana, realized him home. Another panel speaker, Tyler, emphasized their â&#x20AC;&#x153;friendsâ&#x20AC;? werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really their friends, and began how drugs played a major role in his life because he was Megan Markus can be contacted at to fear relapsing once they left the Phoenix House. One D VK\ SHUVRQ ZKR ZDV HDVLO\ LQĂ XHQFHG ´'UXJV PDGH mmarkus@keene-equinox.com

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Student interns for Jay-Zâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Roc Nation Keene State College senior follows passion for music to the Big Apple REBECCA MARSH

EQUINOX STAFF A woman sits by the phone, waiting for it to ring. When it does, it is an employee of a major corporation. The woman is told she has received the space of the internship she has been waiting on for months. The corporation is Roc Nation, and the woman is none other than Colleen Butler.

Butler is a senior communications major and management minor. According to Butler, she wants to be a music manager. Butler interned at Roc Nation in New York City, N.Y. The company is owned by Live Nation and Jay-Z works as management within the company and record label, according to Management Coordinator at Roc Nation, Kelly Cornut, who oversaw Butler for her internship. She worked there at least two days a week for eight hours a day.

As a child, Butler was always around music, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve liked music my whole entire life. My dad has always been playing it for me,â&#x20AC;? Butler said. According to one of Butlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two sisters, Courtney Butler, music has touched the entire family. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something WKDW WKH Ă&#x20AC;YH RI XV DV D IDPLO\ KDYH DOZD\V had in common,â&#x20AC;? Courtney said.

Courtney and Colleen said their family has been attending concerts together for a while, seeing bands ranging from The Dave Matthews Band to the Beach Boys to Kings of Leon. According to Social Activities Council President, senior Erin Zoellick, Butler has a wide range of music on her iPod. Butler explained her father sparked her interest in music with all the music he played and the concerts the family went to. Butler recalls a video of her father playing music for her as a child. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just grew up listening to it,â&#x20AC;? Butler said. According to Courtney, â&#x20AC;&#x153;music is her passion.â&#x20AC;?

Nichole Rusconi, Butlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friend of eight years, agreed that Butler has a devout interest in music. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always really been into music,â&#x20AC;? Rusconi said. She went on to say that whenever she and Butler went to concerts, they would meet the bands. Butler said the news of receiving this internship excited her. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I just kept being persistent,â&#x20AC;? she said. Rusconi recalls, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know she had been working really hard to get in contact with people,â&#x20AC;? she continued and said she was â&#x20AC;&#x153;just thrilledâ&#x20AC;? about getting the internship.

According to Cornut, Butler was the right person for the job. Cornut and Courtney had gone to school together, which helped

Butler contact the right people. According to Cornut, the right person for the job is â&#x20AC;&#x153;someone who wants to be in the industry, who wants to be there.â&#x20AC;? Butler started right away. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You could tell she loves music, she has a great attitude,â&#x20AC;? Cornut said. Cornut manages the artist Melanie Fiona and the band The Ting Tings.

Director of Continuing Education, Robert Baker, assisted Butler through the internship process. Baker said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Colleenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s motivation came very early. She was here as a freshman,â&#x20AC;? he continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The idea that she saw the value of an internship, that was really interested in earning an internship right from the beginning of her college career, was different.â&#x20AC;? Baker also coordinates the internship process for the Communication and Journalism departments.

Butler did various things on her internVKLS UDQJLQJ IURP LWLQHUDU\ Ă LJKW LQIRUPDtion, writing schedules, working the front GHVN DQG HYHQ Ă&#x20AC;OOLQJ ELOOV LQ WKH Ă&#x20AC;QDQFH department. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I did a lot of errands for them.

I got to stop by VH1,â&#x20AC;? Butler said. She also had a chance to visit Universal Studios in New York.

According to Cornut, Butler was always very helpful. Cornut recalls Butler always KHOSLQJ RXW WKH RWKHUV DURXQG WKH RIĂ&#x20AC;FH wherever and whenever she could, and she was always eager to learn new things. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everybody loved her,â&#x20AC;? Cornut said. She continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think she learned a lot. I was able to teach her about contracts.â&#x20AC;? According to Cornut, what she learned at the internship will â&#x20AC;&#x153;supplementâ&#x20AC;? her experience in the Social Activities Council as concert coordinator on the executive board.

According to Butler, having this internship helped to propel her in her career purVXLWV ´,W GHĂ&#x20AC;QLWHO\ KHOSV OHDUQLQJ KRZ WR email people formally and working with artists, so I had experience with how to act around them. It helps give me an idea, a glimpse, of how the music industry works,â&#x20AC;?

Butler said.

She continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted an internship because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more about experience interning because you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really learn what \RX¡UH GRLQJ LQ WKDW Ă&#x20AC;HOG LQ VFKRRO VR , NQHZ i needed something like an internship to get where i wanted to be eventually.â&#x20AC;?

Butler holds the position as concert coordinator on the Social Activities Council executive board. She has held the position for two years both as a junior and a senior.

Zoellick said she does very well in this position. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was an advantage to have her

in that role for two years,â&#x20AC;? Zoellick said. She continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really good with running her committee meetings and getting students involved.â&#x20AC;? Being the concert coordinator for the Social Activities Council has been helpful in proceeding with Butlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career path, according to Zoellick. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She has always had her career in mind and I think that has a huge factor on why she wanted this position because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great practice for the future,â&#x20AC;? Zoellick said.

Butler said she enjoys her experience on the Social Activities Council executive board. %XWOHU VDLG ´6$& GHĂ&#x20AC;QLWHO\ KHOSHG PH DQG thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s [music] the only thing I have ever really been very passionate about so since I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play anything I wanted to work with it.â&#x20AC;?Many other people are very happy for her such as Zoellick, Rusconi, and her sister Courtney. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was so proud that she was able to do that,â&#x20AC;? Zoellick said.

Rusconi said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was very excited to have this opportunity and meet all these new people.â&#x20AC;? Butler is a very kind and caring person according to friends and family. =RHOOLFN VDLG ´6KH¡V GHĂ&#x20AC;QLWHO\ VHULRXV when she needs to be. She is incredibly outgoing and fun.â&#x20AC;? She continues, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bubbly and fun.â&#x20AC;? Zoellick also said that she was very proud that Butler was able to have the internship over the summer.

Butlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s friend, Rusconi, also has words of praise. Her best quality is â&#x20AC;&#x153;her loyalty as a friend. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one of the most caring people I know. She would do anything for anyone. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just a very loving, very loyal friend.â&#x20AC;? Butlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister, Courtney, had words of praise for her little sister. Her best feature is that â&#x20AC;&#x153;she has the ability to adapt to any situation,â&#x20AC;? Courtney said.

She continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so much to her.

Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so dynamic in what she can do. She rises to the occasion time and time again.

Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just my little sister, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my best friend.â&#x20AC;? Butler has accomplished something very interesting not just for her, but also for Keene State College. She is an asset to the college in a way that she is what KSC is all about.

Butler said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No matter what the situation, if you think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not. So just try hard, never give up on your dreams because I never thought that I would have a chance to do something as cool as that.â&#x20AC;?

EMILY FEDORKO / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Rebecca Marsh can be contacted at Keene State College senior Colleen Butler interned with Roc Nation in New York rmarsh@keene-equinox.com City this past summer to advance her career pursuits in music management. Butler serves as the concert coordinator for the Social Activities Council at KSC.

Organizations offer glimpse at post-college possibilities ERIC WALKER

EQUINOX STAFF Whether it be to save up money for student loans, pay for grad school, gain experiHQFH LQ D FKRVHQ Ă&#x20AC;HOG H[SORUH D QHZ Ă&#x20AC;HOG RU country, network with like-minded people or just do some good in the world, a number of organizations are offering opportunities to Keene State College students who have the courage to take advantage.

Representatives from AmeriCorps, Peace Corps, City Year, Student Conservation Association and the American Red Cross took part in a panel discussion last Tuesday.

The majority of the organizations offer programs with a duration of one year and result in education awards that can help pay for student loans or graduate school. One incentive for some students is the opportunity to live in a part of the country they either already love or have always been interested in visiting.

According to Katie Floyd, the panelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s City Year representative, City Year offers 12-month programs in 24 cities in the U.S. While serving, City Year supplies its â&#x20AC;&#x153;core membersâ&#x20AC;? with a stipend for basic living expenses, free health insurance, and an education award of $5,550 upon returning home. City Year is an education based QRQSURĂ&#x20AC;W ZKHUH FRUH PHPEHUV IRFXV RQ tutoring, mentoring and academic coaching off-track students in geographic areas where dropout rates are most concentrated.

City Year has quarterly deadlines for DSSOLFDWLRQV 7KH Ă&#x20AC;UVW RI ZKLFK IRU WKLV \HDU has passed, the next will be Nov. 15, and the last two occur in February and April. City Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website offers listings of all openings and applications are done entirely online.

For students looking to leave the country entirely, the Peace Corpsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; panel member may have opened some doors. Representative Zoe Armstrong said the Corps works in 75 countries and participates in various types of development work. These areas include education, the environment, HIV/ AIDS awareness, youth and community development, agriculture, business and information, communication technology, and more. Becoming a member of the Peace Corps is generally a 27-month commitment.

Once accepted into a chosen program, members spend about three months in extensive culture and language training,

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Students collaborate with a member from American Vista at the Jobs That Make a Difference panel held on Oct. 16, 2012.

and then spend two years as a guest citizen in another country. Armstrong, who spent her time in the Corps in Armenia, said when serving housing, food, and transportation are covered, and upon returning to the states members receive a $7,425 resettlement allowance to get back on their feet.

However there are other options for students who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t interested in donating a year or two of their lives.

Mike Maher, a representative from the Student Conservation Association, spoke at the panel and said his organization offers internships as short as three months. The Student Conservation Association is a QDWLRQDO QRQSURĂ&#x20AC;W ZLWK DQ HQYLURQPHQtal focus. They protect and restore national parks, marine sanctuaries, cultural landmarks and green spaces.

Maher, who also worked for KSC for 13 years as the director of Alumni and Parent Relations, described himself as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;KeeneStater through and through.â&#x20AC;? Mayer met his wife at KSC (both of her parents attended KSC), and both of their daughters are grad-

uates as well. Maher said in addition to offering internships with a range of durations, the SCA also offers internships in a a variety of locations, including something in HYHU\ RQH RI WKH Ă&#x20AC;IW\ VWDWHV 0DKHU FODULĂ&#x20AC;HG that internships with the SCA arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just for as he put it, â&#x20AC;&#x153;tree hugginâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; folks.â&#x20AC;?

He said some of the internships work great with students interested in environmental science, but are also great for students involved in biology, anthropology, archeology, and a variety of other majors.

Maher pointed out that the types of interns many of us are used to seeing on television are not in any way similar to the types of interns that the SCA recruits.

He said the interns are treated as professionals, expected to perform as professionals, and will not only build a resume, but do so while gaining real world experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These are real hands on, learn something, meaningful internships,â&#x20AC;? he said. Maher didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t serve with the SCA, but his eldest daughter did. He told her story of graduatLQJ IURP .6& ZLWKRXW D VSHFLĂ&#x20AC;F FDUHHU SDWK

in mind. She had been an intern in a laboratory while still in school and realized that she hated being cooped up inside all day.

The SCA recruited her for an ecology and natural resources position in a Bandelier National Monument in Los Alamos, N.M. She drove down (mileage covered by the SCA), lived in a three-bedroom house with two other interns, and was given a SCA allowance. At the end of the internship she received an education award to put towards a graduate program, and went on to manage conservation lands in Southern California.

Biology major Nicole Perovensal attended the panel because she was interested in the SCA, which she originally heard about from a professor. She said the SCA representative, who she had a chance to talk to one on one, did a great job of informing her about organization and left her with an even greater desire to join. Perovensal said she hopes to join so that she can help the environment and increase her chances of getting into grad school.

The American Red Cross, a relief agency

involved in emergency response, was represented on the panel as well. Representative Melody Actouka said she would love to tell students that the Red Cross offers a lot of paid internships, but unfortunately that is not the case.

She stood as somewhat of the odd man out of the panel. Unlike all the other organizations, the Red Cross is almost entirely volunteer oriented (97 percent). Although students may not be able to pay off student loans with the help of an internship with the Red Cross, Actouka said the skills and experiences gained through volunteering for the Red Cross are strongly appreciated by future employers.

Laura Villers from KSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Community 6HUYLFH 2IĂ&#x20AC;FH UHSUHVHQWHG $PHULFRUSV RQ the panel.

Americorps, which offers internships in twelve month durations, allows students to serve in just about anything from sheltering the homeless to helping sex offenders reenter society.

Americorps, often deemed the domestic Peace Corps, supplies a â&#x20AC;&#x153;modestâ&#x20AC;? living stipend to cover basic needs during the one-year commitment, and the choice of either $5,500 in the form of an education award, or $1,500 in cash. Villers, originally from Ohio , said her work with Americorps (which focused on elevating poverty) didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t actually align with her professional aspirations. Villers said she wants to go to medical school, but felt the need to take a year to experience something completely different; â&#x20AC;&#x153;a nice sidetrack,â&#x20AC;? as she put it, which also provided a large amount life experience.

KSC senior Hillary Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien said she had been looking into Americorps for a while now, and said it was very helpful to talk to someone who represented the organization and went through it themselves.

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien said she planned on joining the Peace Corps her entire life, but realized that Americorpsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 12-month commitment works better with her life goals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would be good to have a little boost up on my student loans. If I was to go to a graduate school that didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t give me a lot of money, it would be great to have the extra,â&#x20AC;?

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Brien said.

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

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If class registration were an actual class, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d fail

Students and advisors give advice to prepare for the dreaded crunch time BRITTANY BALLANTYNE

SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR With organization and expansion of knowledge over time, students agree that classes and class registration do, in fact, get easier. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Going from high school where they had, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know, ten classes to a hundred, it was a big choice selection,â&#x20AC;? freshman Shayna Bourque said.

Multiple freshmen said they were conIXVHG ZKHQ Ă&#x20AC;UVW UHJLVWHULQJ IRU FODVVHV RYHU the summer. An orientation leader assisted freshman Erica Lin in picking her classes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sure what that was and why I needed to take it, so she helped me look through the courses and I picked one,â&#x20AC;? Lin said about her ITW and IQL courses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought it was a little confusing just because I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know why they were giving me the classes I needed and I knew I had a major, like a set schedule so I was worried that I was taking the wrong classes,â&#x20AC;?

Bourque said.

Senior Torri Haddad recalled her confusion when registering for classes freshman year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had no idea what any of these [courses] meant, these letters and numbers and threehundred [levels] like whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s that?â&#x20AC;&#x153; she said.

Haddad continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;After you do it twice a year every year it just gets easier.â&#x20AC;?

Assistant Professor in the Journalism Department, Chad Nye, has a few tips to make the process easier. He said there are plenty of resources students can use including drop-in advising sessions, outreach programs, speaking with an advisor and using WKH $FDGHPLF DQG &DUHHU $GYLVLQJ 2IĂ&#x20AC;FH He said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Where you really get into trouble is when you start just trying to enroll yourself and you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t consulted your program planning sheet, you havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talked to anybody.â&#x20AC;?

Nye suggested for students to start with WKH $FDGHPLF DQG &DUHHU $GYLVLQJ 2IĂ&#x20AC;FH LI they do not have an advisor yet. If a student is interested in two or three different majors, he advised them to pick up program planning sheets and evaluate what each major requires. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Program planning sheets are really a map to your future,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Freshman Alexa Deluca said she looked

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experiences to come together in a merged way, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a success for us.â&#x20AC;? With Sullivanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s December graduation date approaching, the advancement of this application will have no effect on his tuition as a KSC student. This, Treadwell said, speaks volumes of Sullivan as human being. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the other thing thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uniqueâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bigger than him,â&#x20AC;? Treadwell explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He said to me, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;This isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t about me, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about the fact that I think Keene State College should be recognized in this way, and there are programs at Keene State that are unique in the northeast region, so why arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we accessible to these people?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

The provost continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;He shared with me some of his own experiences, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s true, we often times canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know and appreciate all of this, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why people like Sean are so important, because they remind

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on a website presented by Keene State College that gave step-by-step instructions on how to register. According to Deluca, there was also a Youtube video students could watch for further direction. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought it was easy, I just followed the steps,â&#x20AC;? Deluca said.

Haddad said that even as a senior, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always use my resources when Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure.â&#x20AC;?

Nye warned students to be wary of courses that are only offered in certain semesters or years, so students donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fall victim to missing out on a required course. +H DOVR VDLG LW¡V EHQHĂ&#x20AC;FLDO IRU HYHU\RQH RQ the campus to declare a major as soon as us of all of thisâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a consequence to us not doing some of these things and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re hereâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; To make sure our students get the best access they can.â&#x20AC;?

Treadwell and Drake-Deese both shared their hopes to see KSC an established Yellow Ribbon school as early as next semester.

Drake-Deese and Robinson recognized that the KSC campus is â&#x20AC;&#x153;not particularly veteran friendly,â&#x20AC;? in the sense that the school is in the process of establishing itself as an appealing institution particularly to veterans of war.

According to Deb Clark, a student serYLFH FRRUGLQDWRU ZKR ZRUNV VSHFLĂ&#x20AC;FDOO\ with veterans on the KSC campus, there are approximately 59 war veterans attending KSC. Drake-Deese said Yellow Ribbon would create the draw to the out-of-state student population and help put KSC on the map for veterans.

It took one student, one idea and one scheduled meeting with three faculty

possible. ´:H GRQ¡W KDYH D Ă&#x20AC;UP UHTXLUHPHQW RQ this campus that by X-number of hours you have to be in a program and that trips a lot of people up because they want to play the Ă&#x20AC;HOG IRU D OLWWOH ELW ORQJHU Âľ 1\H VDLG He pointed out that even if a student declares their major and wants to change their major, they arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t â&#x20AC;&#x153;locked inâ&#x20AC;? to their original choice. The later a student changes, however, the harder it is to catch up, he said.

Nye explained that a number of junior students last year declared their majors late.

According to Nye, the departments plan their upper-level courses around the gen-

eral number of which students are enrolled LQ VSHFLĂ&#x20AC;F PDMRUV He said the department had to â&#x20AC;&#x153;scrambleâ&#x20AC;? to get those issues worked around. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They couldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lessened their angst and the lessened the departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s angst if they had declared and you knew they were coming and they were going to be needing those classes. They all got taken care of,â&#x20AC;?

Nye said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When you declare a major, you help us plan our future and your future too,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Another problem students came across was the selection and availability of courses.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like there were not enough [choices] for ITW and IQL. A lot of them got full so there were not many choices, but I heard \RX FDQ VLW LQ WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW GD\ DQG VHH LI \RX FDQ get in and I did get into the one I wanted,â&#x20AC;?

Lin said about the choices she was offered.

Deluca said she was worried about a class becoming a problem. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to change it because I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sure if I was going to like it, and everything was closed, so it was hard,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Deluca also said that although she couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t change her class, she settled into the classwork easily and all is well now.

One aspect each student agreed on was the upperclassmen as a priority when picking classes. Course selection time begins with seniors and freshmen are the last group to choose classes online. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s understandable because as D VHQLRU , ZRXOG ZDQW WR KDYH Ă&#x20AC;UVW FKRLFH Âľ Lin said.

Bourque agreed and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a freshman you have seven more semesters to take the class and they [upperclassmen] have limited semesters, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fair.â&#x20AC;?

Now a senior, Haddad also agrees with this seniority aspect. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a freshman, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still exploring different options and classes you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need or may need to get into certain classes at a certain point and if thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an issue you can do DGG GURS DQG Ă&#x20AC;JXUH DOO WKDW VWXII RXW Âľ VKH said.

When talking about the required second-level (II) courses, Haddad said she was confused as to why she had to explore different kinds of courses to meet requirements. She took a Holocaust and Genocides Studies class and is now enrolled in an African music class which she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t expect to ever learn about. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good idea to broaden your spectrum of learning,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Haddad later said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;sometimes you need classes that suck and you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to go to them or are at weird times and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not anything you want to learn about, but you have to deal with it. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get through it and maybe youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll learn something that you actually like.â&#x20AC;?

Brittany Ballantyne can be contacted at bballantyne@keene-equinox.com

members to create this change.

Treadwell said she hopes students understand that she, along with fellow administration, are here solely for the students, and are willing to sit down with any student to discuss any matter, just as Sullivan did.

Treadwell said she so appreciated Sullivanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to establish something he felt passionate about, even if it ultimately did not affect him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It really wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t about him,â&#x20AC;? Treadwell explained, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was astounding that it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t his own experience necessarily but it was hit by his experience. How could others EHQHĂ&#x20AC;W" , WKLQN WKDW ZDV MXVW D YHU\ WUXH VHOĂ HVV VWDWHPHQW RI KLP +H¡V D JRRG PDQ Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do well no matter what he does.â&#x20AC;?

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

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Sean Sullivan, KSC senior and war veteran, is helping the college establish a â&#x20AC;&#x153;veteran friendlyâ&#x20AC;? reputation through initiation of the Yellow Ribbon program.

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KSC plunges into the Turks and Caicos Islands PAMELA BUMP

EQUINOX STAFF Keene State College students in need of a science course in Biology can literally get their feet wet and a SCUBA Diving CertiĂ&#x20AC;FDWLRQ DV WKH\ OHDUQ DERXW DQG WUDYHO WR study marine biology on the Islands and reefs of Turks and Caicos.

The course, Tropical Marine Biology, is offered annually in the spring by KSC science professor Karen Cangialosi.

The course explores the basics of PDULQH ELRORJ\ DQG LWV FODVVLĂ&#x20AC;FDWLRQV DW D 100 level so that all students can participate. The course is taught with the option of traveling to the Island of Providenciales on the islands of Turks and Caicos in May to explore marine life in person.

Students without SCUBA (Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus) WUDLQLQJ RU FHUWLĂ&#x20AC;FDWLRQ PD\ SD\ DQ H[WUD fee as the trip focuses on studying animals and species of the ocean, according to Cangialosi.

Cangialosi, who oversees a reef on the Turks and Caicos island of Providenciales, has traveled there and offering the Marine Biology course with students since 2008. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We started doing the course in 2001.

Part of it came from a desire of expanding the curriculum and always being into the study of invertebrate biology,â&#x20AC;? Cangialosi explained, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Most invertebrates are marine life, so I thought it would be cool to teach a marine biology class. I started to look for some different locations. I coincidentally talked to a colleague who had worked in Turks and Caicos.â&#x20AC;?

Cangialosi began the reef monitoring program in 2008 after beginning the course in 2001.

Cangialosi and KSC Science Professor Scott Strong make a trip for their researching and monitoring program every September. Cangialosi also mentioned that the professors occasionally take students on their research trips for independent study credits.

Some students who had previously traveled for the course with Cangialosi explained that their trip had a positive

impact on them as they plan to continue diving in the future.

Junior Mike Desjardins and senior Mike Abbott travelled with Cangialosi and have future plans to continue with diving and SCUBA training. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always wanted to go Scuba diving and the opportunity appeared and I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let it go. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m also very interested in Marine Biology,â&#x20AC;? Desjardins said.

Desjardins mentioned that he had seen some very different things under water. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were 60 feet deep and there was a coral wall that just dropped into the abyss of the ocean where sharks would appear,â&#x20AC;?

Desjardins said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was pretty much swimming backwards and watching as sharks would come at me. It was pretty exciting. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really gentle creatures. They have a bad name for no reason.â&#x20AC;?

The students also claimed that they learned many lessons from their trip.

Abbott explained that he bonded with his classmates while also getting to learn more about the issues of development on the Turks and Caicos Island.

Abbott, who took the trip last year, added that he enjoyed seeing sharks.

He also mentioned the group saw a â&#x20AC;&#x153;giant Hawksbill turtle,â&#x20AC;? under the water.

Abbott described Turks and Caicos as â&#x20AC;&#x153;the most beautiful place,â&#x20AC;? heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d ever been to, and explained that he learned a lot of things that he found â&#x20AC;&#x153;sad,â&#x20AC;? about the area and its people.

Cangialosi mentioned that in her time on the Turks Islands, she and her groups have worked with local high school students as she found that many of the high school students are disadvantaged and from many different areas such as Haiti, Jamaica and other countries, in addition to the islands.

Cangialosi also added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the things we emphasize, both on the trip and in the class, is a love for the marine environment and attitudes about conservation. All of the coral reefs of the world are threatened and really in danger of being destroyed.â&#x20AC;?

Abbott explained that once he moved

away from the hotel and developed areas, he saw a different side of the island. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really sad, actually. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve developed some of the island [Providenciales] and rich white people come there and spend lots of money,â&#x20AC;? he explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The poverty is just terrible on the island.

Schools are awful, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s too many kids to the classrooms and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re outdated on everything.â&#x20AC;?

Abbott added that,â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wanted to be a vet before I even went on the trip, but diving completely changed my career path.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a completely different world down there.â&#x20AC;?

He explained that, although the Islands had development issues and poverty, the non-developed areas were among the most beautiful places that he had seen and the people of the Islands were very welcoming.

Cangialosi has recently listed more information for the course under the MyKSC announcements for students. One issue Cangialosi LGHQWLĂ&#x20AC;HG ZLWK WKH FRXUVH DQG WKH trip was that not many students know about, but wish they had. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Students often hear about this trip and ask, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Why did I not hear about this before?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

She added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We would like to create more awareness about this course and trip and we are working on it.â&#x20AC;?

When asked what her favorite experiences on the trips were, Cangialosi also mentioned the sharks and the Hawksbill turtles as well as her time observing the reef, but mentioned, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to pick just one experience as the most memorable.â&#x20AC;?

Desjardins and Abbott similarly shared that they enjoyed their time in the class and on the trip, also both sharing that their trips were â&#x20AC;&#x153;life changing.â&#x20AC;?

Pamela Bump can be contacted at pbump@keene-equinox.com

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Look down for a little pick-me-up SAM TURCOTTE

EQUINOX STAFF â&#x20AC;&#x153;Have you ever had a day where everything just seems so heavy and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really stressed?

When youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re walking to the [Zorn Dining Commons] and you look down and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like the ground is telling you to smile, or somebody loves you...itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just nice to hear... or read in this instance,â&#x20AC;? Laura Hagan, a member of Pride said.

Hagan spoke regarding the annual chalk event hosted by Pride on campus. Pride is a lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender/ queer (LGBTQ)-based organization that â&#x20AC;&#x153;brings people together as a safe place to come,â&#x20AC;? according to Avi Bacchiocchi, KSC Pride president. As an organization that KDV EHHQ DFWLYH IRU WKH SDVW Ă&#x20AC;YH years, Prideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s yearly chalk event is just another way the organization works to bring the Keene State College community together.

According to Bacchiocchi, this is the third annual chalk event on campus.

Done in October every year, positive messages and pictures are drawn around campus in chalk to â&#x20AC;&#x153;show people theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re loved and cared about,â&#x20AC;? Bacchiocchi said.

Bacchiocchi continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t discriminate anyone.â&#x20AC;?

Robin Harris, senior and the Pride PR representative, broke down the meaning of the chalk event.

Harris explained that Prideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s motion to illustrate positive messages on the campus is a response to any negativity directed at anyone in the LGBTQ community, RU DQ\RQH ZKR GRHV QRW GHĂ&#x20AC;QH his or her self with the traditional gender roles.

She explained the chalk messages are meant to be a nice reminder to anyone that may be struggling with any type of emotional distress, bullying, harassPHQW RU DQ\ RWKHU FRQĂ LFW LQ WKHLU life that there is support and that there are reasons to be happy.

Hagan commented, â&#x20AC;&#x153;For the Pride members itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an opportunity to spread the message of tolerance and love to everyone on campus.

Its my favorite program for pride.â&#x20AC;?

But this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just an event for Pride members; the chalk event welcomes anyone on campus to participate in spreading messages

Stress: We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live with it, but we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t live without it â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the very least attempt to maintain a normal routine of sleeping and eating. The physical body needs nourishment.â&#x20AC;?

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KSC Pride displays the 2012 Chalk Love on Appian Way. This is the third annual chalk event Pride has created at KSC.

of positivity.

Prideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s equal opportunistic view is displayed through this event in the way that no one is discriminated against regardless of gender, sexual orientation or race; the event truly promotes the wellbeing of everyone.

Harris spoke about how the event really touches those participants who are struggling with any FRQĂ LFWV LQ WKHLU OLYHV RU DQ\WKLQJ they are suffering from. Prideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chalk event has succeeded in their spreading of hope over the past three years. The event draws attention to passers-by who slow down to read the messages, and are even inclined by the art to take up an interest in the Pride organization. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t members ask about it [after seeing the art] and join us,â&#x20AC;? Bacchiocchi said. ´:KHQ , Ă&#x20AC;UVW VDZ WKH PHVVDJHV I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really sure what they were about,â&#x20AC;? senior Katie Foyle, a student who noticed the art, said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I took the time to stop and read them it was really positive.

I think it lifts the whole vibe on campus.â&#x20AC;?

Foyle said she sees Prideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event as one that can make a difference in the future.

Foyle commented, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I know a lot of people who are unsure of themselves and knowing that the school supports them positively is really awesome to see.â&#x20AC;? Bacchiocchi added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve seen people stop and look and smile so I know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doing itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job.â&#x20AC;? Pride encourages and welcomes all people to join and participate in all of their events and meetings.

Harris, explains how you do not need to be lesbian, gay, or trans*--meaning transgender, how the community prefers it to be written--to be a part of events such as the chalk event; straight allies or anyone who supports equality are always encouraged and the club can never have enough support.

Sam Turcotte can be contacted at sturcotte@keene-equinox.com

You start biting your nails. You snap at your best friend. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sleep even though youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re exhausted.

Maybe your face breaks out; you have a constant hunger ache or youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not even hungry at all.

These are all indicators of being overly stressed.

Stress: anything that poses a challenge or threat to our well-being. For many college students, stress comes in the form of studying for exams, writing research papers, balancing a course load with a workload and even maintaining relationships. For some, there arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough hours in a day to accomplish it all.

According to Time Magazine, there is a national survey conducted annually over the last 25 years of over 200,000 college across the country surveying their mental health. This study reports that over a quarter century ago, 70 percent of freshmen categorized themselves as being in the top 10 percent of mentally stable people in their class.

Now, only 52 percent rate themselves that highly, which is down three points since last year. A 2012 study by the American College Counseling Association (ACCA) found similar and alarming results regarding college studentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mental health. All that stress can be grueling, and it can lead to emotional and mental health problems. A 2012 study by the American College Counseling Association found that 37.4 percent of college students seeking help have severe psychological problems, up from 16 percent in 2000.

Of the 228 counselors surveyed, more than three out RI IRXU UHSRUWHG DQ LQFUHDVH LQ FULVHV LQ WKH SDVW Ă&#x20AC;YH years requiring immediate response, 42 percent noted an increase in self-injury, and 24 percent have seen an increase in eating disorders,â&#x20AC;? the ACCA reported. KSC senior Garrett Beltis said his two jobs and demanding major are what remain the greatest stress in his life.

Beltis stated time management as being his greatest challenge. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never having any time to myself,â&#x20AC;? he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have lots of obligations on my plate.â&#x20AC;? Beltis said he plays the PokĂŠmon card game to relax himself because, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s simple and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something I know.â&#x20AC;? Sophomore Colby :ROI VLPLODUO\ VDLG KHU FRXUVHZRUN DQG MRE PDNH Ă&#x20AC;QGLQJ WLPH IRU KHUVHOI D GLIĂ&#x20AC;FXOW WKLQJ WR GR â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m trying to balance school and work,â&#x20AC;? Wolf said.

She said she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t relax until her work is done.

Walker Barnes, a freshman, said he de-stresses by playing video games. Like the others, Barnes has a job in addition to his classes.

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According to KSC Counselor, Mona Anderson, there are certain symptoms that indicate if a student is struggling with stress: sleep deprivation or sleeping throughout the day, skipping classes, and not having a desire to participate in fun activities, are the most common indicators. However, there are ways to manage your stress

-­MONA ANDERSON KSC COUNSELOR

OHYHOV ´7U\ WR Ă&#x20AC;JXUH RXW KRZ WR PDQDJH ZKDW \RX QHHG to do in your life,â&#x20AC;? Anderson said. Anderson explained that stress is unavoidable, yet there are ways to manage it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t talked to one student who doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t feel overwhelmed.â&#x20AC;? Anderson suggested for students to create a step-by-step plan to achieving their daily tasks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rather than thinking, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I have to do everything within the next hour,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; you have to prioritize,â&#x20AC;? she continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Avoid thinking of everything you have to do, rather think of what you have to do in this moment.â&#x20AC;?

Part of what increases your stress level is constantly being in a state of stress. If you can begin at a lower stress level when something stressful does occur, this will prevent the stress from becoming debilitating. â&#x20AC;&#x153;At the very least attempt to maintain a normal routine of sleeping and eating. The physical body needs nourishment,â&#x20AC;? Anderson commented. When dealing with an overwhelming amount of stress, many ignore the essentials: eating and sleeping, but living without these two components only triggers and enhances your stress level. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to make time to eat, sleep, and go to the gym,â&#x20AC;? Anderson said.

Not doing these things makes you immobilized. You may not think you have enough time to eat before class, but you are more likely to focus during class if you take the time to refuel. Give your mind the break it deserves.

We suggest taking 15 minutes at some point during your day to catch up with your roommates, call a friend, watch television, or listen to music--whatever it is that calms you, take those 15 minutes to do it. :KLOH LW PD\ VWUHVV \RX RXW WR Ă&#x20AC;QG ZD\V WR Ă&#x20AC;W WLPH in between your hectic schedule, by prioritizing and making yourself the number one priority, you will, in the end, be less stressed. Stress will probably remain a constant component of your college life and beyond.

6R Ă&#x20AC;QG ZKDW ZRUNV IRU \RX WR GHDO ZLWK WKRVH SDUWLFXlarly stressful days, whether that be going to the gym or relaxing with friends.

Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take your stress out on your roommates or a ERWWOH RI ZLQH UDWKHU FRQIURQW \RXU VWUHVVRUV DQG Ă&#x20AC;QG ways to deal with them. Establish times in your day to SXW \RXUVHOI Ă&#x20AC;UVW QR PDWWHU KRZ GDXQWLQJ WKDW PD\ seem. At the end of the day, your happiness and wellbeing is what you take with you.

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

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Evolution You say you want an

SAM NORTON

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EQUINOX STAFF The Beatles sang, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You say you want a revolution / Well, you know / We all want to change the world / You tell me that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s evolution,â&#x20AC;? right now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an evolution of music.

Hip-Hop It started in the 1970s with â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sex Machineâ&#x20AC;?â&#x20AC;&#x201D;as a way to â&#x20AC;&#x153;get on up and stay on the scene.â&#x20AC;? It became the foundation of hip-hop, and it all started with one artist: James Brown and his use of the classic breakbeat. Brown helped start a new wave of music that would appeal to a different generation.

By introducing the idea of a breakbeat, Brown was able to revolutionize the idea of hip-hop music. According to senior Jeff Slark, a local musician and DJ, ´7KH Ă&#x20AC;UVW VWXII ZDV PDGH ZKHQ WKH\ ZRXOG WDNH EUHDNEHDWV RU EHDWV WKDW EUHDN dancers would dance to, about 110 to 120 beats per minute and they would rap over it and put a break in the middle of it.â&#x20AC;? It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t until 1975 that Grandmaster Flash used his Clock Theory and Quickmix technique that he was able to mix and blend breakbeats, according to the article â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rap of the Ages,â&#x20AC;? published in Mother Jones.

These breakbeats helped develop the idea of attaching a message to the O\ULFV RI D VRQJÂłDQG IRU 6ODUN *UDQGPDVWHU )ODVK ZDV RQH RI WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW musicians to be able to do so. Grandmaster Flashâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Message,â&#x20AC;? is an example of a song where an artist is able to tell a story with their lyrics and illustrate what they want you to see in their music, Slark said.

However, the idea of a message present in the lyrics of hip-hop music is one that has disappeared with the use of breakbeats. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Once you get LQWR WKH V WKDW LV ZKHQ LW VWDUWV JHWWLQJ LQWR WKH Ă DVK\ VWXII Âľ 6ODUN said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What is hip-hop anymore? You would have to sift through the XQGHUJURXQG VWXII WR Ă&#x20AC;QG RXW Âľ Rather than using their lyrics as a way to portray their strugglesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the focus of the artist has now shifted to the materialistic aspect of the industry. The Notorious B.I.G. said it best: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sometimes your words MXVW K\SQRWL]H PH $QG , MXVW ORYH \RXU Ă DVK\ ZD\V *XHVV WKDW¡V why they broke, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re so paid.â&#x20AC;? The Notorious B.I.G.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1994 debut album, Ready to Die, which instantaneously rose him to fame, is a classic example of music derived from the fundamentals of hip-hop. Slark said that artists such as Tupac and the B.I.G were artists who attached PHDQLQJ WR WKHLU O\ULFV DQG DOVR EHJDQ WR LQFRUSRUDWH WKH ´à DVK\Âľ VLGH RI the music industry into their work.

According to the article, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Moving on Up,â&#x20AC;? by Jeff Chang, â&#x20AC;&#x153;New York rappers Nas and The Notorious B.I.G. borrowed from West Coast â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;gangVWD UDS¡ WKH Ă&#x20AC;JXUH RI WKH KXVWOHU EXW WKH\ IRFXVHG RQ WKH ORZ HQG RI WKH hierarchy, on the kid who could be found â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;grindingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; on the corner day to dayâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;always restless, always endangered, hoping to out wit cops, murderous rivals and turncoat allies to rise above the scrum.â&#x20AC;? And rise above the scrum they did; Nas, The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac, all rose above to help set the benchmark of what hip-hop music should be. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Young hip-hop heads found open doors to formerly exclusive circles,â&#x20AC;?

Chang said in his article. But what has changed about hip-hop music are the subgenres associated with it: rap and R&B. These newer types of hip-hop music appeal to the masses, Slark said.

Now, artists like Jay-Z, Donald Glover â&#x20AC;&#x153;Childish Gambinoâ&#x20AC;? and Kanye West have introduced their own unique take on hip-hop music. They have used the basics and fundamentals to help recreate this genre so it appeals to the current generation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about getting into the psychology of what sounds perfect or most appealing to the masses and promoting the hell out of it,â&#x20AC;? Slark explained. Tim Gagnon, general manager of WKNH, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mainstream artists donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have anything deep to say, but that is what is selling now.â&#x20AC;?

And what typically sounds best to the ear is a rhythm that is catchyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;something that is produced by technology and not breakbeats. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Technology has grown exponentially and that is what music has become. The beats are cool, but they are computer generated now,â&#x20AC;? Slark said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost like comparing fast food to green vegetables. Now people are so addicted to the fast food that when they hear the vegetables they canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take it, they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like it. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost like a muscle that you have to exercise to really appreciate it,â&#x20AC;? Slark explained. For him, the beats that are generated by a computer screen are the fast food of the rap industry.

However, this fast food music of the rap industry is what has brought LQ WKH PRVW VLJQLĂ&#x20AC;FDQW DPRXQW RI LQFRPH $FFRUGLQJ WR WKH DUWLFOH â&#x20AC;&#x153;What is real about â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;keeping it real?â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? by Dipa Basu, â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the late 1970s, UDS PXVLF ZDV SHUFHLYHG WR EH ÂśWRR EODFN WRR VWURQJ ¡³D UHG Ă DJ WR PRVW major record companies, back in the day when rapâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commercial virility didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t produce too many corporate hard-ons. Now the boardrooms are IXOO RI WKHP ,Q UDS PXVLF JHQHUDWHG PLOOLRQ LQ SURĂ&#x20AC;WV ,Q PLOOLRQ ,Q UDS FXOOHG RYHU PLOOLRQ LQ UHYHQXH D VLJQLĂ&#x20AC;FDQW proportion of the record industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gross $12 billion that year. While rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll languishes, hip-hop and R&B are becoming the dominant popular music.â&#x20AC;? But James Brown didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stop at â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sex Machine.â&#x20AC;? He had that feeling as soon as it was born to get it together, right on. Jazz music is what ultimately led to Brownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creation of funk, which later translated into the basics of hip-hop.

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Students sculpt their way onto the campus SAM NORTON

A&E EDITOR Art is not something that can be easily sculptedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it requires a plan of action, one that allows the artist to explore their artistic boundaries. In Assistant Professor of Art Lynn Richardsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sculpture class, oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perception of art is tested.

For the class, students worked in pairs WR FUHDWH D VFXOSWXUH WKDW GHĂ&#x20AC;QHG WKH ZRUG ´VKHOWHU Âľ 6KHOWHU LV GHĂ&#x20AC;QHG DV VRPHWKLQJ that provides cover or protection, or is a refuge or haven. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I gave them the word â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;shelterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and they were supposed to pick anything inside WKDW GHĂ&#x20AC;QLWLRQ RI VKHOWHUÂłVR WKH WH[WERRN GHĂ&#x20AC;QLWLRQ LV VRPHWKLQJ WKDW SURWHFWV RU defends,â&#x20AC;? Richardson said.

The only guideline that the students had to adhere to was that they were not allowed to build something that possessed four sides like a house, Richardson explained.

This allows the students to explore content in a different way, Richardson said.

For senior Andrew Lindner, his job working with the IT department and his computer science major served as his source of inspiration for his piece. Lindner, who worked with Raul Carpenter, created a home of technology. Together, Lindner and Carpenter were able to create a desktop tower that was made from wood, recycled electronics and dry wall.

Richardson said that Lindner and Carpenterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sculpture represents how technology has started to invade our personal space.

The structure, which is four by eight feet, stands next to the Sculpture Studio, located behind the Mason Library.

The students, who began working on their sculpture during the second week of classes, were able to work with donated materials to help sculpt their vision.

However, for some of the students, creating a piece of such a large scale was one of the struggles they encountered throughout the project. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Working on that kind of scale, it takes a lot of work and a few days to cover such a large surface,â&#x20AC;? Richardson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I started with getting the idea of how big we were going to make this,â&#x20AC;? Lindner said.

Once Lindner obtained an idea of the correct dimensions, he was able to piece his sculpture together piece by piece.

For junior Jessica Berthiaume, playing with proportions was what helped her get her start. Berthiaume worked with Ian Frederick to design a hot air ballon.

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Jessica Berthiaume and Ian Frederick designed a sculpture of a hot air balloon to represent oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to escape danger for Professor Lynn Richardsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sculpture I class. Professor Richardson has been assigning this project as part of her Sculpture I class for the past six years.

storming different ideas and one of them was a hot air balloon, so we started with that,â&#x20AC;? Berthiaume said.

The balloon is comprised of metal on the sides, chicken wire on top, while the waves are made out of linoleum pieces, and the bottom is made up of a recycled outdoor rug, Berthiaume explained.

Frederick said that their design of the hot air balloon was a balance of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;homeyâ&#x20AC;? and safe feel that Professor Richardson was searching for.

Getting what they thought was a good proportion to the basket and the circle and

then laying it out to the correct size was the hardest part, Frederick said.

The hot air balloon had to possess the correct, exact measurement, or else it would not be able to suspend from the tree. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a size of four feet and the professor wanted it a lot bigger,â&#x20AC;? Frederick commented. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was hard because we couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stand it up until the end,â&#x20AC;? Berthiaume explained, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It would cave in if we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hang it from the tree.â&#x20AC;?

However, even though this project was time consuming, it was an educational

experience for the students. Berthiaume, who is a graphic design major, is used to drawing in 2-D. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never had a class that is 3-D, all of LW LV GUDZLQJ RU ' ,W LV GHĂ&#x20AC;QLWHO\ GLIIHUHQW but I like it,â&#x20AC;? Berthiaume said.

For these students, this sculpture project not only taught them how to create a piece on a larger scale, but it also taught the students to be aware of the content they are making. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As soon as you build something that goes out on the campus, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the public realm. It teaches them to be responsible for

their content and to be sensitive to certain issues. It is their name that is attached to their artwork so any questions that arise, they are responsible for it,â&#x20AC;? Richardson said.

While this medium of art is one that most students are not familiar working with, it teaches them to dream big and how to sculpt an image that portrays their creativity.

Sam Norton can be contacted at snorton@keene-equinox.com

Opposites attract: the Green Lantern channels the power of red leader of the Red Lantern Corps, whose rage knows no bounds. Atrocitus formed the Red Lantern Corps after his entire planet was destroyed in a massacre staged by the Guardians of the Universe, the founders of the Green Lantern Corps.

The Red Lantern Corps thirst only for rage and vengeance. In order for Kyle to master the Red Fires of Rage, he must learn this as well. We begin with Atrocitus training Kyleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;this consists of breaking him down to the core before he can channel the powers of the color WES SERAFINE UHG 7KURXJKRXW WKH EHDWLQJ .\OH KDV Ă DVKEDFNV WR EQUINOX STAFF his former girlfriend, Alex. For those who do not know, Kyleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s girlfriend was brutally murdered and shoved A month ago, we took a look at the Zero issue of into a fridge by a psychotic super-villain, making these Green Lantern: New Guardians, where Kyle Rayner, scenes very heart-wrenching, especially when we learn one of only a handful of humans to be inducted into the that Atrocitus is torturing Kyle next to her grave.

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Last time, Kyle Rayner returned to Earth after a He takes Kyle to an Arab village where civilians long battle in outer space. Once on Earth, he enlisted are being executed senselessly. Kyle tries to save them, the help of Carol Ferris, member of the Star Sapphires but Atrocitus holds him back and forces him to watch.

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Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll get angry when the situation calls for it, but he is not like Atrocitus. I like how at the end, when he discovers his true rage, he begins to treat Carol in a more agitated mannerâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;comparable to someone who has EHHQ H[SRVHG WR WKH WUXH HYLOV RI WKH ZRUOG IRU WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW WLPH 7KH H[SRVXUH WR WKH UDJH LV .\OH¡V EDSWLVP E\ Ă&#x20AC;UH and he emerges from it as a new man.

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Atrocitus became something of an anti-heroâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a man who was once an innocent scientist who lost his home and his family in a senseless massacre.

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Performance portrays significant part of history SAM NORTON

A&E EDITOR BRITTANY BALLANTYNE

SOCIAL MEDIA DIRECTOR 7KH\ Ă&#x20AC;OHG LQWR SODFHÂłPDUFKLQJ DW D steady pace. They stood in rows, marching for their will of survival rather than their downfall. They stood on stage in sequence with one another, all dressed in the same uniform, no distinction among them. These people--Jewish, homosexual, disabled, African-European--represent a spectrum of people different than the Aryan race. Their appearance, religion and beliefs are what fueled the hunt for their extinction during the Holocaust.

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Junior Gabby Pacheco said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;They took such a historical concept and turned it into an art form,â&#x20AC;? she continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a new perspective because we never see anything like that--choreographers forget about the historical things, they concentrate on being here in this moment rather than the historical aspect.â&#x20AC;? Pacheco said that this perIRUPDQFH ZDV DEOH WR WDNH D VLJQLĂ&#x20AC;FDQW part of history and translate it and apply it to current times by relating it to genocides that are present in society. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They started to talk about how many people were killed in more recent genocides and wars. During the dance class I have, we talk about what we thought about those. :H QHHG WR FKDQJH WKH ZD\ ZH GHĂ&#x20AC;QH JHQRFLGH EHFDXVH WKH ZD\ ZH GHĂ&#x20AC;QH LW LV YHU\ VSHFLĂ&#x20AC;F Âľ 3DFKHFR VDLG Shannon Mayers, director of the Redfern Arts Center, said that the Spectrum Dance was created by many people and created in many lenses, during the discussion before the show.

In order to change the way people GHĂ&#x20AC;QH WKH WHUP JHQRFLGH WKH 6SHFWUXP Dance sought to bring a new meaning to the word. During World War II, these prisoners were forced to perform for the 1D]L RIĂ&#x20AC;FHUV :KLOH WKRVH ZKR ZHUH KHOG captive used music and dance as a way WR PDNH SHRSOH VPLOH WKH 1D]L RIĂ&#x20AC;FHUV used the one thing that could make them

smile against themâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;as a way to torment them, a way to diminish any trace of happiness. Even though these prisoners were against their captors, they were united. The dancers of the SpecWUXP 'DQFH PRYHG LQ XQLĂ&#x20AC;HG PRYHments and motions, together. One by one, these dancers would announce a statistic or fact about the number of people murdered during World War II and the Holocaust. However, a single drop, one that represented more than the rise and IDOO RI WKH 1D]L UHJLPH D GURS WKDW SRUtrayed a life lost, interrupted this march. %XW WKHUH ZDV QR UHFRJQLWLRQ RI WKLV ORVV besides a split second. It all started with the end of someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life. Throughout the performance, the dancers would twist and contort their bodies, and smack the VWDJH¡V Ă RRU UHSUHVHQWLQJ KRZ VNHZHG and twisted the perspectives of the 1D]LV ZHUH 7KH 1D]LV ZRXOG WHDU DSDUW any relationship that existed among the victims. From families to love each relationship was broken up. The Spectrum Dance dancers showcased this notion, by always making sure to pick up their sigQLĂ&#x20AC;FDQW RWKHU ZKHQHYHU WKH\ IHOOÂłQHYHU letting them succumb to the brutality of WKH FRQFHQWUDWLRQ FDPSV ´<RX VLQJ DQG dance for the devil because you will not let them kill you,â&#x20AC;? a dancer said during the performance, quoting one of the victims of the Holocaust.

This quest for survival is what anchored all of the victims of the Holocaust together. These victims of the Holocaust did not have a voice while they were held captive in the concentration camps, however, the Spectrum Dance sought to bring the lost voices to life through this performance. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was very powerful when it went back to the beginning of repeating statistics and reminding people of who passed away.

When the curtain came across the stage, it was only the shadows that the audience could see. That took away the personal effect and made it just about the numbers,â&#x20AC;? Pacheco said.

The performance ended the same way LW VWDUWHG ZLWK GDQFHUV Ă&#x20AC;OLQJ LQWR SODFH and marching at a steady pace. Standing in rows, marching for their will of survival rather than their downfall. They stood side-by-side, bringing statistics of the Holocaust and the victimsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; voices to life. One by one, they said a fact, before shouting eruptedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;symbolizing that even though no one had a voice during the Holocaust, their voice has not gone unheard.

Sam Norton can be contacted at snorton@keene-equinox.com Brittany Ballantyne can be contacted at bballantyne@keene-equinox.com IVAN SINGER / CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

On Oct. 16, 21012 the Spectrum Dance, choreographed by Donald Byrd was performed in the Redfern Arts Center. The performance depicted the lives of those held captive in the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Those imprisoned used music and dance as a way to spread hope to their fellow inmates.

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it is those who popularize it that often get the credit, though common sense dictates it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t end with them, it only begins. A classic philosophical quandary exists in this search; who would Jimi Hendrix have been as a guitarist if not for Link Wray?

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I guess to see some of the original guys that had played with Louis Armstrong and Charlie â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Rollâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Morton and people like that way back to the turn of the century,â&#x20AC;? WakeĂ&#x20AC;HOG VDLG $FFRUGLQJ WR :DNHĂ&#x20AC;HOG QHDUE\ %UDWtleboro, Vt. is one area where jazz is very much alive. The Vermont Jazz Center and the Open Music Collective, both located in %UDWWOHERUR DUH RUJDQL]DWLRQV WKDW SURPRWH the continued growth of Jazz music, providing concerts, education as well as outreach to local musicians. :DNHĂ&#x20AC;HOG VDLG %UDWWOHERUR¡V ORFDWLRQ EHLQJ D VWUDLJKW VKRW XS IURP 1HZ <RUN &LW\ RII 5W LV RQH UHDVRQ WKDW %UDWWOHboro may maintain this Jazz scene. WakeĂ&#x20AC;HOG VDLG WKH ZHVWHUQ 0DVVDFKXVHWWV DUHD IURP :RUFHVWHU WR WKH Ă&#x20AC;YH FROOHJH¡V DUHD LQ the Connecticut River Valley remain areas where Jazz thrives. +RZHYHU :DNHĂ&#x20AC;HOG VDLG .HHQH LV D much different story than these other regional areas, having declined since the V DQG V ZKHQ LW ZDV PRUH SUHYDOHQW â&#x20AC;&#x153;Keene is sort of traditionally dead in a ORW RI ZD\V Âľ <HW WKH ROG WUDGLWLRQV DUHQ¡W ORVW to Slark. Slark said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;People often like what they know, instead of know what they like,â&#x20AC;? adding that he grew up on traditional jazz artists like Duke Ellington. ´7KH Ă&#x20AC;UVW MD]] , HYHU KHDUG ZDVQ¡W DQ\ new-age, modern jazz of our time,â&#x20AC;? Slark said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was the old guys.â&#x20AC;? There is certainly a balance as Slark cited jazz Saxophonist Maceo Parker, one-time member of ERWK -DPHV %URZQ¡V EDQG DQG IXQN LQQRYDtors, Parliament Funkadelic, as one of his favorite jazz artists. Slark said he has seen an increase in students saying they listen to jazz music, which coincides with the recent uptick of interest in vinyl records. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve

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Led Zeppelin, from left, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, and drummer Jason Bonham participate in a press conference ahead of the worldwide theatrical release of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Celebration Dayâ&#x20AC;? Dan Kuhn, vocalist and guitarist for local band the Calerpittars, said that Led Zeppelin helped influence the birth of metal music.

talked to a lot of kids who will get a whole range of records of genres, jazz will be in there,â&#x20AC;? Slark said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve increasingly heard SHRSOH VD\ WKDW WKH\ OLNH MD]] Âľ ´1RZ PRUH than ever music listeners have such an appreciation for every decade and a lot of genres,â&#x20AC;? Gagnon explained.

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tinues to be in style. Dan Kuhn, vocalist and guitarist for local band the Calerpittars, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really enjoy where music is going now. There are so many places where \RX FDQ Ă&#x20AC;W URFN QRZ 0XVLF KDV EHFRPH VR free form.â&#x20AC;? Kuhn said that artists like Little 5LFKDUG DQG &KXFN %HUU\ KHOSHG SXW URFN ÂśQ¡ roll on the map. â&#x20AC;&#x153;His mother told him someday you will be a man / And you would be the leader of D ELJ ROG EDQG Âľ %HUU\ VDQJ %XW UDWKHU WKDQ EHFRPLQJ WKH OHDGHU RI D ELJ ROG EDQG %HUU\ became the leader that helped pioneer rock ÂśQ¡ UROO PXVLF GXULQJ WKH V +LV DELOLW\ to develop rhythm and blues into the disWLQFW IRUP RI URFN PXVLF WKDW KDV LQĂ XHQFHG FRXQWOHVV RI DUWLVWV WRGD\ +RZHYHU %HUU\ ZDV QRW WKH RQO\ DUWLVW WR LQĂ XHQFH URFN music; artists such as Led Zeppelin and The

%HDWOHV DOVR KHOSHG UHYROXWLRQL]H WKH LGHD RI rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll. Kuhn said that Led Zeppelin KHOSHG LQĂ XHQFH WKH ELUWK RI PHWDO PXVLF DQG 7KH %HDWOHV SOD\HG D UROH LQ SRSXODUL]ing pop-rock music. ´, WKLQN LI \RX ORRN DW V SRS DQG VXUI rock music that is really the foundation for mainstream rock music in general because it has catchy verses and the chorus that everyone remembers, that is how pop rock music is made now,â&#x20AC;? Gagnon said. Reynolds said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Led Zeppelin and The RollLQJ 6WRQHV GHĂ&#x20AC;QHG URFN ÂśQ¡ UROO :KHWKHU LW ZDV JRRG RU EDG WKH\ GHĂ&#x20AC;QHG LW Âľ /LNH KLS hop music, rock has evolved to incorporate countless genres today. ´7KH V KDG D ELJ SDUW LQ LQWURGXFing indie music,â&#x20AC;? Kuhn said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;They [musicians] stopped putting out blues, hard rock, and metal.â&#x20AC;? Harry Jones, drummer for the Calerpittars, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Music is a complete representation of whatever time period we are LQ Âľ $QG IRU WKH V URFN ÂśQ¡ UROO PXVLF KDV EHFRPH VLPLODU WR ¡ V PXVLF $FFRUGLQJ WR .XKQ WHFKQRORJ\ LV D ELJ LQĂ XHQFH LQ creating the beats that are present in music WRGD\ÂłVLPLODU WR WKH VRXQGV RI WKH ¡ V Jones said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;People need to reinvest in music as an art form.â&#x20AC;? And what will allow music to become an art form is a compilation of various genres.

Kuhn said that rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll, hip-hop and jazz music all go hand in hand in how they are developing, and this will help change music and alter it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Music always changes and that is the beauty of it,â&#x20AC;? Gagnon said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;It shows the absolute depth of human creativity.â&#x20AC;?

So where will music be in the next ten \HDUV" 1RW NQRZLQJ LV SDUW RI WKH EHDXW\ RI itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but artists are the ones who are making this change occurâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to become honest and true players in the music industry,--â&#x20AC;&#x153;throw your hands in the air if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a true player.â&#x20AC;?

Sam Norton can be contacted at snorton@keene-equinox.com Jake Williams can be contacted at jwilliams@keene-equinox.com

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Latest sequel is a thrill of scares and suspense SONYA CHENEY

COPY EDITOR For the fourth year in a row, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paranormal Activityâ&#x20AC;? franchise serves up another taste of horror.

This time with a child of questionable intent and the return of the perpetually disturbing Katie, the Ă&#x20AC;OP UHSHDWV LWV VXFFHVVIXO IRUPXOD of drawn-out tension, amateur camerawork, and bumps in the night.

Working with its usual brand of suspenseful chills, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paranormal Activity 4â&#x20AC;? continues the story of Katie, this time bringing audiences to her IDOO VWRU\ Ă&#x20AC;YH \HDUV DIWHU WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW Ă&#x20AC;OP WDNHV SODFH 5HFHSWLRQ RI WKH Ă&#x20AC;OP FDQ JR RQH of two ways, depending upon audiencesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; attitudes. For those who are QRW SXW RII E\ D KRUURU Ă&#x20AC;OP VHULHV¡ repeated use of the same formula, like myself, then this addition to the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paranormal Activityâ&#x20AC;? story is a treat.

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continues its use of quick movement, disorienting viewers and surprising them with the villains seemingly coming from nowhere. With quick camera action during these scariHVW SDUWV WKH Ă&#x20AC;OP¡V FDPHUD ZRUN UHĂ HFWV ZHOO ZKDW LV RFFXUULQJ LQ WKH various scenes - action, terror and confusion.

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happens. However, along with this UHSHWLWLRQ RI IRUP FRPHV WKH H[SDQsion of the story as a whole. The use of the creepy child, also seen in last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paranormal Activity 3,â&#x20AC;? is RQFH DJDLQ DQ H[FHSWLRQDO GHWDLO Channeling aspects of both â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Omenâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Poltergeist,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paranormal Activity 4â&#x20AC;? adequately makes use of the creepy child. Coming out ULJKW EHIRUH +DOORZHHQ WKH Ă&#x20AC;OP LV likely to leave the audience wondering just how adorable their visiting trick-or-treaters really are underQHDWK WKHLU FRVWXPHV :KLOH WKH Ă&#x20AC;OP saved much of its truly suspenseful, heart-stopping scares for the very end, it was, as a whole, a thoroughly successful addition to the series.

Despite seemingly beating viewers over the head with this storyline and style, going into it with an open mind can certainly provide both chills and laughs on an otherZLVH GXOO QLJKW RXW 7KH Ă&#x20AC;OP¡V VXFcess, based on the range of screams in the theater around me, proves the old adage that if it ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t broken, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Ă&#x20AC;[ LW AP PHOTO / PARAMOUNT PICTURES

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Actors awarded at Seattle man gets Billy Idol to play at his birthday party early film awards GENE JOHNSON

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Hollywood warmed up for its awards season with a love fest that recognized top actors and direcWRUV IRU Ă&#x20AC;OPV WKDW KDYHQ¡W EHHQ UHOHDVHG \HW Robert De Niro, Bradley Cooper, director David O. Russell and writer-director Quentin Tarantino were among the honorees Monday at the 16th annual HolO\ZRRG )LOP $ZDUGV ZKLFK ELOOV LWVHOI DV ´WKH RIĂ&#x20AC;cial launch of awards season.â&#x20AC;? The event recognizes Ă&#x20AC;OPV WKDW DUH OLNHO\ SRVLWLRQHG DV DZDUGV FRQWHQGHUV such as Tarantinoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s anticipated â&#x20AC;&#x153;Django Unchained.â&#x20AC;?

In accepting his award for screenwriter of the year, Tarantino remarked that it was strange to get DQ DZDUG IRU D Ă&#x20AC;OP KH¡V VWLOO ZRUNLQJ RQ EXW DGGHG that he could use it as ammunition to defend long dialogue scenes during the editing process. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be able to say, hey, you want to take a line out of my AWARD-WINNING screenplay?â&#x20AC;?

Michael Henrichsen has ideas about how he might celebrate his 26th birthday this week. First, Billy Idol rolls up in a limo and tells him to hop in. There are women everywhere. And later, when the British rock icon takes the stage and ULSV LQWR ´5HEHO <HOO ¾ EUDV VWDUW à \LQJ and 1,800 of his closest friends go wild.

Far-fetched? Maybe not. After a twoyear campaign that was part resume stunt, part charity drive and part heartIHOW HIIRUW WR JHW KLV IDU Ă XQJ IULHQGV together for a great time, the irrepressible Seattle man has actually persuaded Idol to play his birthday party Friday night. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is surreal,â&#x20AC;? Henrichsen says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It should not be happening.â&#x20AC;?

So why is it? In his bedroom, surrounded by Cyndi Lauper and Madonna records, a drumstick he picked up at an Idol show two years ago, and rock

SRVWHUV +HQULFKVHQ H[SODLQV ,Q 2FWRber 2010, he had just turned 24 and was having an early life crisis. Friends were getting married and moving away. He was working three jobs and making little progress paying off $40,000 in college loans. Salvation came over the stereo at the Bellevue Square Mallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Billabong clothing store, where he worked.

It was â&#x20AC;&#x153;White Wedding.â&#x20AC;? Henrichsen WXUQHG WR D FRZRUNHU ´:RXOGQ¡W LW EH cool if we got Billy Idol to play at my birthday party?â&#x20AC;?

She laughed. He laughed. No way, right? But he went home and thought about it. He loved the way Idol blended pop and rock. Idol seemed like a fun guy.

Henrichsen loves other music from the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s, but he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see Prince or Duran Duran agreeing. Idol, who lives in Los Angeles, wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even have to leave his time zone. Scoring Idol could also be a major coup for his resume. Henrichsen isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sure what he wants to do for a

career â&#x20AC;&#x201D; something in entertainment or event planning or PR, maybe â&#x20AC;&#x201D; but he thought this could get it started. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m like, how feasible is it?â&#x20AC;? he says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I realized it would cost a lot of money, something I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have, so thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where the creativity came into play. How do you network to convince Billy Idol that it would be a good idea for him to come SOD\ D VKRZ RQ D VSHFLĂ&#x20AC;F GDWH LQ 6HDWWOH"Âľ 7KH Ă&#x20AC;UVW VWHS ZDV JHWWLQJ D IULHQG Jim Stamper, to build him a website, www.playmybirthdaybillyidol.com . â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought it was never gonna work,â&#x20AC;?

Stamper says.

7KH QH[W VWHS ZDV WR JHW SHRSOH WR look at the website. Henrichsen hauled D ERRP ER[ WKURXJK D GHVHUWHG 3LNH Place Market at night, dancing as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mony Monyâ&#x20AC;? blared, then posted a video of it.

He and friends held a banner over Interstate 5. But the site didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t start getting much attention until he decided to collect some celebrity endorsements. Come-

dian Kevin Nealon came to town to do standup, and Henrichsen got him on a 12-second video, telling Idol, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You gotta FRPH WR 6HDWWOH QH[W 2FWREHU WR GR Âľ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Michael,â&#x20AC;? Henrichsen prompts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;... Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s birthday. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gonna be awesome.â&#x20AC;? Endorsements from other BDQG & OLVWHUV IROORZHG PXVLFLDQ 5LFN 6SULQJĂ&#x20AC;HOG IRUPHU 6HDWWOH 0DULQHU -D\ Buhner, porn star Ron Jeremy. Hanging out at book signings and other celebrity appearances became a fourth job. Only 1LNNL 6L[[ IURP 0RWOH\ &UXH DQG FRPHdian Tom Green turned him down.

Local media outlets started to notice.

And the Google news alerts made their way to Idolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s people. They called Henrichsen and told him the campaign was cool, but that they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t promise anyWKLQJ ´:KHQ ZH Ă&#x20AC;UVW EHFDPH DZDUH RI Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s project we were inclined to VHH LW DV MXVW DQRWKHU H[WUHPH LGHD IURP D well-meaning fan,â&#x20AC;? said Idolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s manager, Tony Dimitriades.

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McGovern candidacy a cultural landmark

National Geographic to auction famous art ULA ILNYTZKY

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Abbie Hoffman sobbed that fateful night at the downtown Manhattan apartment of fellow activist Jerry Rubin. So did Rubin and Allen Ginsberg. John Lennon was drunk, and out of control, shouting â&#x20AC;&#x153;Up the Revolution!â&#x20AC;? in mock celebration of a dream defeated.

It was November 1972, and George McGovern had just been whipped in a landslide by Richard Nixon.

McGovern, who died Sunday at age 90, was the earnest son of a minister, raised on a South Dakota farm.

He wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a longhair and he wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t charismatic, not a man youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d expect to win the loyalty of rock stars or win the heart of Hoffman, the Yippie prankster who just four years earlier had suggested a pig run for president and said what America needed was nonstop sex in the streets.

But the candidateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s steady liberal principles, and the timing of his run, made McGovern the first presidential nominee of a major political party to attract a broad and public following from the rebels who had come of age the decade before. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was the first candidate I voted for,â&#x20AC;? says the activist and historian Todd Gitlin, who was in his late 20s at the time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think the support he got was a sign that the era of radical obstinacy was over.â&#x20AC;?

The optimism was understandable. Hubert Humphrey had lost by fewer than 600,000 votes to Nixon in 1968, and the 1972 election was the first presidential campaign since the minimum voting age had been lowered from 21 to 18, potentially adding millions of (presumably) liberal young people to the rolls.

And McGovern, in opposing a war expanded and advocated by Democratic presidents, had shaken the partyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s post-World War II tradition of aggressive anti-Communism. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Humphrey was anathema to us in â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;68, and then we got McGovern and America suddenly seemed like a place where real choices were presented,â&#x20AC;? says historian Jon Wiener, who has written often about the politics and culture of the Cold War era. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I remember election night, 1972, as like the worst night in American politics in my life. Here was this stark choice between war and peace, truth and lies, and the American people rushed to embrace war and lies.â&#x20AC;?

For many, McGovernâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign promised the fulfillment of what Robert Kennedy might have achieved if not for his assassination in June 1968. Kennedy was just 42 at the time, energetic and wavyhaired. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bobby Is Groovy,â&#x20AC;? supportersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; posters had read. His candidacy inspired one of the first presidential fundraising concerts to feature rock stars, when the Byrds played at a May 1968 concert that also included Sonny and Cher and gospel great Mahalia Jackson. (Humphreyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campaign attempted, in vain, to get a song out of Jefferson Airplane.)

When McGovern, aided by party rules he helped revise, became the surprise contender in 1972, the left felt revived. Hoffman and Rubin had mellowed just enough since 1968 to accept the nominee of a mainstream party. Warren Beatty, Jack Nicholson and Julie Christie were among the young Hollywood stars who backed McGovern. Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner was an enthusiastic supporter, and McGovern was the rare candidate regarded sympathetically by the magazineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hell-raising reporter and Robert Kennedy admirer Hunter S. Thompson, who called McGovern â&#x20AC;&#x153;the most honest big-time politician in America.â&#x20AC;?

The rock community gave McGovern the kind of hip cachet that Bill Clinton and Barack Obama

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A gravely wounded Free Syrian Army fighter is helped by his comrades at the entrance to Dar El Shifa hospital in Aleppo, Syria, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012.

Syrian violence spills into Jordan, Lebanon BARBARA SURK

ASSOCIATED PRESS A Jordanian soldier was killed in clashes with armed militants trying to cross the border into Syria on Monday and sectarian clashes overnight in Lebanon left four dead as Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s civil war spilled into neighboring countries.

Jordanian Information Minister Sameeh 0DD\WDK VDLG WKH VROGLHU ZDV WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW PHPEHU of the countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s military to be killed in violence related to Syriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s civil war. He died in clashes with militants trying to illegally enter 6\ULD WR MRLQ UHEHOV Ă&#x20AC;JKWLQJ 3UHVLGHQW %DVKDU Assadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s regime. Maaytah did not say whether WKH PLOLWDQWV ZHUH -RUGDQLDQV RU IRUHLJQ Ă&#x20AC;JKWers trying to jump into the fray in the neighboring country.

A statement by the Jordanian military said the soldier was killed in a shootout with a group of eight suspected militants armed

with pistols and machineguns. Jordanian troops detained the suspected gunmen and authorities are questioning them, the statement said.

In Washington, State Department spokesman Mark Toner blamed Syria, saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;the onus for this kind of violence rests squarely on the Assad regime.â&#x20AC;?

A number of foreign Islamists have been Ă&#x20AC;JKWLQJ LQ 6\ULD DORQJVLGH WKH UHEHOV -RUGDQ¡V EDQQHG 6DODĂ&#x20AC; PRYHPHQW Âł ZKLFK SURPRWHV an ultraconservative brand of Islam â&#x20AC;&#x201D; has VHQW VHYHUDO Ă&#x20AC;JKWHUV WR 6\ULD LQ SDVW PRQWKV and Jordanian border patrols have caught some of them recently.

In Lebanon, troops launched a major security operation to open all roads and force gunmen off the streets, trying to contain an outburst of violence set off by the assassinaWLRQ RI D WRS LQWHOOLJHQFH RIĂ&#x20AC;FLDO ZKR ZDV D powerful opponent of Syria. Sectarian clashes overnight killed at least two people.

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Al-Hassan was a Sunni who challenged Syria and its powerful Lebanese ally, the

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authorities in the wake of a big offensive in 2009 to push out the Taliban.

ASSOCIATED PRESS The valley is in little danger of falling under the militantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; control again 7KH 7DOLEDQ¡V KRUULĂ&#x20AC;F DWWDFN RQ D anytime soon. But the resurgent threat female teenage activist in this scenic raises questions about the armyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability corner of Pakistanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s northwest was to hand over control to civilians in Swat the latest in a series of assassination and other areas of the northwest where attempts by militant sleeper cells in the VROGLHUV DUH Ă&#x20AC;JKWLQJ WKH 7DOLEDQ D IXQarea over the last year, each carried out damental part of the militaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s counterwith targeted shots to the head. terror strategy.

The insurgents activated their netBuilding effective civilian governworks in the Swat Valley to take advan- ment and law enforcement is not only tage of the armyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to reduce its critical so the military can withdraw, presence and accelerate the transition but also to address local grievances of security and governance to civilian related to development and justice that

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In this Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 photo, Pakistani army soldiers patrol Mingora, Swat Valley.

can fuel support for the insurgents.

The Taliban shot and wounded 15-year-old Malala Yousufzai as she was heading home from school in Swatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main town of Mingora on Oct. 9.

The militants targeted the girl because she was an outspoken opponent of the group and promoted â&#x20AC;&#x153;Western thinking,â&#x20AC;? such as girlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; education.

The militants have carried out at least half a dozen other assassination attempts against their opponents in Swat since the end of last year, killing four people and wounding several RWKHUV VDLG VHFXULW\ RIĂ&#x20AC;FLDOV VSHDNLQJ on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.

Haji Zahid Khan, a member of a major tribal council in Swat, was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman in August but managed to survive. Khan criticized the army and police for not taking his case seriously enough, which he believes emboldened the militants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Had they arrested the culprits in my case, the network that was working could have been traced,â&#x20AC;? said Khan. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Malala incident could not have happened.â&#x20AC;?

Investigations into the shootings indicated the attackers came from $IJKDQLVWDQ ZKHUH PDQ\ PLOLWDQWV Ă HG following the army offensive in 2009, said Kamran Rehman Khan, the top JRYHUQPHQW RIĂ&#x20AC;FLDO LQ 6ZDW 7KH PLOLtants worked with networks of sympathizers in Swat who provided weapons, ammunition, cell phones and other

National Geographic Society has chronicled scientific expeditions, explorations, archaeology, wildlife and world cultures for more than 100 years, amassing a collection of 11.5 million photos and original illustrations.

A small selection of that massive archive â&#x20AC;&#x201D; 240 pieces spanning from the late 1800s to the present â&#x20AC;&#x201D; will be sold at Christieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in December at an auction expected to bring about $3 million, the first time any of the institutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s collection has been sold.

Among the items are some of National Geographicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most indelible photographs, including that of an Afghan girl during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a portrait of Admiral Robert Peary at his 1908 expedition to the North Pole, a roaring lion in South Africa and the face of a Papua New Guinea aborigine. Paintings and illustrations include N.C. Wyethâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s historical scene of sword-fighting pirates, Charles Bittingerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s view of Earth as seen from the moon, and Charles Knightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s depictions of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

They are being auctioned â&#x20AC;&#x153;to celebrate our legacy .... and to give people a chance to buy a little part of this great institutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history,â&#x20AC;? said Maura Mulvihill, senior vice president of National Geographicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s image and video archives. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We think of ourselves as the unsung fathers of modern photojournalism,â&#x20AC;? she added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think people are aware of what a massive instructive archive this is.â&#x20AC;?

Proceeds from the Dec. 6 auction, just weeks before National Geographicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 125th anniversary, will go for the promotion and preservation of the archive and â&#x20AC;&#x153;the nurturing of young photographers, artists and explorers ... who are the future of the organization,â&#x20AC;? Mulvihill said.

National Geographic sponsors and funds scientific research and exploration through its official journal, National Geographic Magazine, which reaches 8.8 million people worldwide in 36 countries and in 27 languages. The society reaches millions more through its National Geographic Channel, books and other sources.

While National Geographic is known today for its photography, early magazines were filled with artwork.

Among the fine art being offered is an oil painting by Tom Lovell of Gen. Robert E. Leeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Civil War surrender at Appomattox. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expected to fetch $20,000 to $30,000. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Duel On The Beach,â&#x20AC;? a painting of two pirates by the American artist N.C. Wyeth, is estimated to sell for $800,000 to $1.2 million. Another Wyeth, â&#x20AC;&#x153;James Wolfe at Quebec,â&#x20AC;? was commissioned to accompany a 1949 article on the general taking Quebec from the French general the Marquis de Montcalm.

Penn Museum unwraps mummy mystery KATHY MATHESON

ASSOCIATED PRESS The Penn Museum is unwrapping the mystery of mummy conservation, giving the public an unusual close-up of researchersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; efforts to preserve relics from ancient Egypt.

Human and animal mummies, as well as an intriFDWHO\ LQVFULEHG FRIĂ&#x20AC;Q DUH DPRQJ WKH LWHPV XQGHUJRing treatment and repair at the Philadelphia institutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s newly installed Artifact Lab. Housed in a special gallery, the glass-enclosed workspace lets visitors share in â&#x20AC;&#x153;the thrill of discovery,â&#x20AC;? museum director Julian Siggers said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It demonstrates to you the work thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually being done behind the walls of these galleries,â&#x20AC;? Siggers said.

Visitors can watch staff members use microscopes, brushes and other tools of the trade to inspect, study and preserve items including the mummy of a 5-year-old girl, several human heads, a colorful but damaged sarcophagus, and a painting from a tomb wall. )ODW VFUHHQ PRQLWRUV GLVSOD\ PDJQLĂ&#x20AC;HG YLHZV RI WKH relics as they are being examined. Conservators will also set aside time twice a day to answer questions from the public.

The archaeology and anthropology museum has idenWLĂ&#x20AC;HG REMHFWV IURP LWV SLHFH (J\SWLDQ FROOHFWLRQ to be conserved during the evolving project. Many of the lab items have not been exhibited before because of their poor condition, said conservator Molly Gleeson. $PRQJ *OHHVRQ¡V Ă&#x20AC;UVW SURMHFWV DUH SUHVHUYLQJ WKH mummies of a cat, falcon and ibis.

She described the falconâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s linen wrappings as frayed and powdery, and noted its precariously attached head would need to be stabilized before the mummy could be displayed.

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Release of abuse files: new challenge for Scouts DAVID CRARY AND REBECCA BOONE

ASSOCIATED PRESS True to their motto, the Boys Scouts tried to be prepared. For months, they braced for the backlash sure to IROORZ WKH FRXUW RUGHUHG UHOHDVH RI YROXPLQRXV FRQĂ&#x20AC;GHQWLDO Ă&#x20AC;OHV GHWDLOLQJ GHFDGHV RI DOOHJHG VH[ DEXVH E\ Scout leaders.

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Still, release of 14,500 pages on alleged abusers is an unwelcome development for an organization struggling to halt a decades-long membership drop while incurring relentless criticism for its policy of excluding gays. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It does pose a challenge for the Scouts, whether WKH\¡UH JRLQJ WR EH DEOH WR ZLQ EDFN WKH FRQĂ&#x20AC;GHQFH of the public,â&#x20AC;? said David Finkelhor, director of the &ULPHV $JDLQVW &KLOGUHQ 5HVHDUFK &HQWHU DW WKH 8QLYHUVLW\ RI 1HZ +DPSVKLUH ´,¡P VXUH IRU VRPH SHULRG RI time, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be a concern.â&#x20AC;? ,Q DGYDQFH RI WKH Ă&#x20AC;OHV¡ UHOHDVH WKH 6FRXWV FRPPLVVLRQHG DQ LQWHUQDO UHYLHZ E\ D 8QLYHUVLW\ RI 9LUJLQLD psychiatrist, Dr. Janet Warren, who tallied more than DEXVH YLFWLPV LQ KHU UHYLHZ RI WKH FRQĂ&#x20AC;GHQWLDO records.

She described the rate of abuse with the Scouts as â&#x20AC;&#x153;very lowâ&#x20AC;? compared to the national rate, and suggested boys were safer in the Scouts than elsewhere in their communities.

6LQFH WKH Ă&#x20AC;OHV ZHUH UHOHDVHG Âł WKH FRQVHTXHQFH RI a successful $20 million lawsuit against the Scouts in Portland, Ore. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the BSA has apologized for not following up on some of the allegations that were documented.

It also has stressed the strides made by the organization to improve its youth protection policy.

Among other measures, the Scouts now prohibit one-on-one adult-youth activities, mandate criminal background checks for all staff who work with youth and include an insert for parents about child protection in the handbook issued to new scouts.

All adult volunteers must take child-protection training and also are directed to report suspected child abuse to law enforcement authorities and Scout leaders, even if this would not be required by state law.

However, the Scouts say they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have data to document trends regarding abuse within their ranks, a source of frustration to experts whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to track the impact of the new policies.

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FILE - In this April 13, 2010 file photo, plaintiff Kerry Lewis reacts after the verdict in Portland, Ore., where a jury found the Boy Scouts of America negligent for repeated sexual abuse by an assistant Scoutmaster in the 1980s.

Wayne Perry, the Scoutsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; national president, said heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d welcome any inquiry. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be there,â&#x20AC;? he said Monday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll talk about where we fell short in the past and where we are today and how important it is to protect kids.â&#x20AC;?

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excluding gays while seemingly shielding child abusers in their midst. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a double whammy for the Boy Scouts right now because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re already under the gun because of the gay issue,â&#x20AC;? said Thomas Plante, a professor at Santa &ODUD 8QLYHUVLW\ ZKR UHVHDUFKHG WKH 5RPDQ &DWKROLF &KXUFK¡V FOHUJ\ VH[ DEXVH VFDQGDO

+H QRWHG WKDW ERWK WKH 6FRXWV DQG &DWKROLF KLHUDUchy had disapproving policies toward homosexuality, yet failed to grapple forthrightly with sex abuse. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That contradiction, that hypocrisy, creates that much more of a story,â&#x20AC;? Plante said.

But the Scouts have legions of staunchly loyal supporters, including several of the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major conservative religious denominations who have given no sign of disaffection.

7KH 0RUPRQV¡ &KXUFK RI -HVXV &KULVW RI /DWWHU GD\ Saints charters more than 37,000 Scout troops with a \RXWK PHPEHUVKLS RI PRUH WKDQ 5RPDQ &DWKRlic parishes charter about 8,500 units with about 283,000 members.

Some in the Scoutsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; extended family â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the moms, dads and kids that trek to troop meetings every week, pack up for camp-outs every summer, spend their weekends practicing knot-tying and fire building and flag folding â&#x20AC;&#x201D; were quick to rally in support.

Ken Miller, a first-year assistant scoutmaster with Troop 1085 in the Detroit suburb of Berklee, Mich., said he remains a firm believer in the Scoutsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mission even after reading about the files. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the latest media accounts, I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to have an effect of scaring some people off,â&#x20AC;? Miller said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But in the long run, I think this will all be a benefit because scouting has been under such scrutiny, and the organization has made changes designed to prevent this from happening again.â&#x20AC;?

Patrick Boyle, a journalist who in the early 1990s was among the first to expose efforts by the BSA to hide the extent of sex abuse among Scout leaders, said the files will serve as a valuable tool for other youth groups. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to be blind not to see the patterns of abuse in scouting when you read these files,â&#x20AC;? Boyle said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you ran an after-school program, a sports league, a <0&$ \RX VKRXOG ORRN DW WKHVH WR VHH KRZ DEXVHUV JHW access to these organizations, how they get access to abuse kids.â&#x20AC;?

Indeed, most major youth groups, over the past decade or two, have already instituted protection policies similar to those adopted by the Scouts.

Even as they make collective strides against abuse, many youth groups share with the Scouts the problem of declining membership as sports leagues, academic pressures and the lure of video games divert boys to other afterschool pastimes.

The Scoutsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; membership peaked in 1972 at more WKDQ PLOOLRQ ER\V DQG DGXOW OHDGHUV 1RZ WKHUH DUH million Scouts and 1.1 million adults.

Many of the Scoutsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; critics contend that the organization could boost its membership, and garner good will, by ending its ban on gays and atheists.

But Perry, a Mormon who took over as BSA national president this year, contended that neither the membership policy nor the reports of past sex abuse were the main factors behind the dwindling Scout numbers. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our impediment to growth is that the average young male spends 43 hours a week on electronic media,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our problem is the high quality of video games, and our job is to compete in that kind of space.â&#x20AC;?

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The insurgents activated their networks to take advantage of the armyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to reduce its presence in Swat. The military has decreased the 40 checkpoints it had in the area by almost half in the last year, although the number of troops in the valley has stayed the same, said Khan, the senior JRYHUQPHQW RIĂ&#x20AC;FLDO The army launched its offensive in Swat in the spring of 2009 with about 25,000 troops and originally planned to hand over control to civilian authorities and pull out over a period of about two years. That hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t happened because the civilians havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t proven capable of handling security, say PLOLWDU\ RIĂ&#x20AC;FLDOV The number of police in Swat has more than doubled to about 3,700, said Khan, but police in WKH FRXQWU\ URXWLQHO\ ODFN VXIĂ&#x20AC;FLHQW UHVRXUFHV DQG would likely have trouble keeping the militants at bay.

For this reason, the army still has about 12,500 soldiers in Swat and has plans to build permanent bases for some of them.

The military hopes to reduce the number of troops by 50 percent next year, but experts are doubtful. ´7KH FLYLOLDQV GRQ¡W IHHO FRQĂ&#x20AC;GHQW HQRXJK WR manage the area in the absence of the military, so the military will stay,â&#x20AC;? said Pakistani defense analyst Hasan Askari Rizvi.

The inability to pass the baton to civilians in Swat raises questions about what the military plans to do in the adjacent tribal region, which serves as the main sanctuary for the Taliban in the country and is even less developed than Swat. The DUP\ KDV RYHU WURRSV Ă&#x20AC;JKWLQJ LQ WKH VHPLautonomous region, and the experience in Swat LQGLFDWHV WKH JHQHUDOV ZLOO KDYH GLIĂ&#x20AC;FXOW\ SXOOLQJ them out. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think they will be able to withdraw easily from the tribal areas because they have not been able to control them successfully and there is hardly any civilian structure to hand off to in these areas,â&#x20AC;? said Rizvi.

The military may be more effective at handling security, but there are concerns its long-term presence could fuel resentment that could be exploited by the militants. Human rights organizations have accused the army of rounding up scores of suspected militants in Swat since the 2009 offensive and never producing them in court â&#x20AC;&#x201D; allegations denied by the military. The practice â&#x20AC;&#x153;can create hatred against the army,â&#x20AC;? said Khan, the tribal council member.

But that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily mean residents want the military to leave. Even with the recent attacks, security in Swat is far better than it was a few years ago when the Taliban routinely beheaded people and left them in the streets as a warning.

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Soccer BRIAN SCHNEE

EQUINOX STAFF While the seasons are shifting, with every day delivering a colder nip to the New England air, the Keene State College Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Soccer programs are trying to bring the heat into the postseason.

Both teams boast favorable records in Little East Conference play to date and are pushing forward towards the LEC tournament. With less than a week left in the regular season, the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teams do not know who they will be matched up against in the LEC tournament. However, even with encouraging records in conference play it does not appear ERWK 2ZOV FOXEV ZLOO EH GHDOW D Ă&#x20AC;UVW URXQG home game.

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Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Soccer: The womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program is dominant at Owl Stadium this season with seven wins and only two losses. Assistant Head Coach Sarah Testo said the Owls need to win out and secure a third spot in the tournament to get a home game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want that home game for our fans and especially for our players,â&#x20AC;? Testo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We play well at home.â&#x20AC;?

In addition, Junior Back Kelsie Bailey said she feels the importance of being on her home turf.

However, for Bailey she said that the most important thing for her team to win games down the stretch is giving consistent effort for the full 90 minutes. ´:H¡OO FRPH WRJHWKHU IRU Ă&#x20AC;YH RU WHQ PLQXWHV EXW WKHQ weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll fall apart and the connection wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be there,â&#x20AC;?

Bailey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have to play the full 90 minutes for all games, which is something weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve struggled with.â&#x20AC;? Bailey, who was named to the All-LEC second team last season, said that the team chemistry this season is a plus and there is a lot of faith in some of the younger players to put in ample effort on the Ă&#x20AC;HOG ´:H KDYH IUHVKPHQ WKDW FRPH RXW DQG VWDUW games,â&#x20AC;? Bailey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just seeing the improvement over the course of the season has been really nice.â&#x20AC;?

One freshman indicated by Bailey is defender Jen Wilson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just seeing her now from the beginning of the season is clearly an improvement,â&#x20AC;? Bailey said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seeing her play now, she has gained so much more FRQĂ&#x20AC;GHQFH ZKLFK LV DOZD\V JRRG WR VHH Âľ Wilson has started a majority of games for the Owls this season and said that being home is certainly

a better feeling than being on the road. ´:H NQRZ WKH Ă&#x20AC;HOG EHWWHU Âľ :LOVRQ VDLG ´:H GHĂ&#x20AC;QLWHO\ ORYH KRPH JDPHV Âľ Sophomore goalkeeper Torrie Crenson has been to the LEC postseason but did not get playing time in the tournament behind All-Region and AllLEC goalie Megan Dempsey. Now in the starting role, Crenson clearly understands the importance of winning these crucial games in the postseason. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Obviously we would like to win here at home and most importantly win for the seniors,â&#x20AC;? Crenson said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Coach always tells me to play our game and do what you do best, that has always been my motto.â&#x20AC;?

According to Assistant Coach Sarah Testo, the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team will likely accept a bid to the ECAC tournament if they do not win the Little East Conference and advance to NCAAs. For Owls soccer players, destiny lies at their feet for whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to come for the remainder of the season. Both Owls teams have WR FRPSOHWH WKH Ă&#x20AC;QDO ZHHN RI UHJXODU VHDVRQ SOD\ before their location and opponent is known for the postseason.

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Field Hockey BRANDON CHABOT

EQUINOX STAFF Keene State College Field Hockey is battling rivals UMass-Dartmouth and Bridgewater State for the number one seed in LEC playoffs starting next week.

7KH Ă&#x20AC;HOG KRFNH\ WHDP LV WLHG IRU second place with Bridgewater State.

UMass-Dartmouth is undefeated so far this season, with a 9-0 record. The Owls fell to UMass-Dartmouth, 3-1 on Saturday, Oct. 20.

They now hope to win their games on Oct. 25 against non-conference 6PLWK &ROOHJH DQG WKHLU Ă&#x20AC;QDO JDPH of the regular season against Framingham State, on Saturday, Oct. 27.

After coming off a record-breaking season last year, winning the LEC and continuing onto Nationals, the Owls hope to repeat this again this season. ´:H KDG ZRQ Ă&#x20AC;YH /LWWOH East Conference championships in a row up until 2010, we lost to them [UMassDartmouth] in the conference Ă&#x20AC;QDOV DQG ence and they

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Assistant Coach Carole Kinsella said.

Watson said all the remaining games are important games. â&#x20AC;&#x153;All of those teams are in tournament contention so we really need to take care of all of them,â&#x20AC;? Watson said.

Watson explained they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know who theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be facing in the playoffs, but they are ready for anything. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our number one priority obviously is to win the rest of

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s imperative that we sleep in our own beds come tournament time. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like to go in anyone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house with a highstakes game on the line.â&#x20AC;?

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Cross Country

FIELD Â HOCKEY Â PLAYOFFS, Â B9 STEPHEN TRINKWALD

EQUINOX STAFF Cross Country season is winding down and the Little East Conference championship is on the horizon.

With the conference tournament set to take place on Saturday, Oct. 27, Head Coach Peter Thomas said he isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worried about his teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s endurance, but said he feels speed is a focus area for improvement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re transitioning into more speed work right now, so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the speed phase of our training, hoping to quicken up, stay healthy, and Ă&#x20AC;QLVK WKH \HDU ZLWK D Ă RXULVK Âľ 7KRPDV VDLG Senior Thomas Paquette said as an individual, he feels his speed is a concern. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For me, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have much speed. I could go RQ D PLOH UXQ ULJKW QRZ DQG EH Ă&#x20AC;QH %XW ZKHQ it comes down to that last mile thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where I struggle, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what I have to work on,â&#x20AC;?

Paquette explained.

Thomas, head coach of the program for the past 30 years, also said one of his concerns is overloading his younger players who arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as experienced with balancing college school work with college athletics. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the younger kids you try to make sure that the workload hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t gotten too hard for them, not fatiguing,â&#x20AC;? Thomas said.

Paquette said he tries to relay a message of trust to his younger teammates and to bring the

The Keene State College Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Volleyball team has been exceeding expectations all season to make the playoffs and hope to keep momentum going into the playoffs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s [the season] been going really good,â&#x20AC;? junior hitter Meryl Ragaini said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re all really young players so canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t complain with how theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve played so far,â&#x20AC;?

Ragaini said.

The thirdseeded Owls will play the sixth-seeded team, which is unknown, on Oct. 30 to open postseason play.

The team entered the season with modest expecta-

same mentality to each race. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just always trusting your training, trusting your coach, and trusting yourself, and really just telling the guys â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just another race, stay relaxed and hopefully your training will take over the rest,â&#x20AC;? Paquette said.

Paquette said success starts with the right mind state. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think for the guysâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; team itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just having a good race head, just being mentally tough. I mean all of us are in good shape, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just knowing how to race,â&#x20AC;? Paquette said.

Senior Maggie Fitter said she, along with her training, is relying on her experience to help her against what she said is some of the stiffest competition in the nation. â&#x20AC;&#x153;For myself Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been on the regional team for four years so having that experience itself is very helpful in racing against some of the top girls,â&#x20AC;?

Fitter said.

Fitter added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our region is the hardest region in the country so racing against basically the top girls in the country time and time again GHĂ&#x20AC;QLWHO\ OHWV \RX OHDUQ D ORW DERXW KRZ WR UDFH and how to compete with them and how to train to get as good as them.â&#x20AC;?

Fitter also noted the familiarity of running with her teammates also helps with the comfort level in a big race. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of our girls run together, we race together, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nice having that comfort that you train with the same girls that youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to race with, and they push each other to that good com-

tions. With nine incoming freshmen on their 14-player roster, Head Coach Bob Weiner said this year is a rebuilding one for the team.

But the freshmen have learned to play at the college level faster than anyone could have predicted DQG DUH UHDSLQJ WKH EHQHĂ&#x20AC;WV â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve picked it up so much,â&#x20AC;? freshman starter Angela Silveri said of her teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s improvements. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In the beginning we had a rough start because we were so young, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve worked together to grow and now weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re clicking more and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing a lot better.â&#x20AC;?

Silveri added.

He acknowledged heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s having a lot of fun with this young team. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the greatest thing in the world,â&#x20AC;? Weiner explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The girls donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what its like to be in the playoffs. But they really like to play, they enjoy playing volleyball.â&#x20AC;?

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s easy to have fun when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re winning.

The team is 14-12 overall and has won Ă&#x20AC;YH RI WKHLU ODVW seven games.

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petitive, friendly competitiveness,â&#x20AC;? Fitter said.

Thomas said he has high expectations for both teams, though he said the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team may have more trouble than the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s with winning the event. ´:RPHQ DUH JRLQJ WR EH LQ D FORVH Ă&#x20AC;JKW IRU the championship. Their 12-year reign is in jeopardy,â&#x20AC;? Thomas said. Fitter said that though the team lost some of their best athletes from last year, the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team is deeper than in years past. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year we have a lot more depth and we have a lot more girls that can run, not with the front pact, but right behind it that can stay togetherâ&#x20AC;Ś weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had ten girls be in those topĂ&#x20AC;YH DW GLIIHUHQW SRLQWV ,W¡V D YHU\ FRPSHWLWLYH team and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be hard,â&#x20AC;? Fitter said.

Paquette said though he expects the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s team to win the event, he said they will bring with them a more humble mentality than last year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s [Cross Country] should win. Obviously last year we went in with that same mindset and we lost. So I think this year weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to take it more seriously and hopefully have that not happen again,â&#x20AC;? Paquette said. The LEC &KDPSLRQVKLSV ZLOO EH KHOG DW :HVWĂ&#x20AC;HOG 6WDWH &ROOHJH LQ :HVWĂ&#x20AC;HOG 0DVV RQ 2FW DW D P Stephen Trinkwald can be contacted at strinkwald@keene-equinox.com

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Red and black to red, white and blue JAY MCAREE

RYAN GLAVEY

EQUINOX STAFF It was ten days, four games, three cities and zero regrets for Erin Taylor and Caitlyn Corace, who visited Scotland to play lacrosse this summer.

Both Corace and Taylor played for the Keene State College Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lacrosse team last season. Taylor is a returning junior goalkeeper who will play a pivotal role in the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success this season. Corace graduated last spring after playing four years as a midĂ&#x20AC;HOGHU ZKHUH VKH ZDV DQ RXWVWDQGLQJ JRDO scorer. They were invited by the USA Athletes International Inc. to take part in a trip to Scotland to play lacrosse for a small U.S squad coached by Kristen Malecki.

On June 1, they both packed their bags DQG ERDUGHG D SODQH WR (XURSH IRU WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My friend who plays for Western Connecticut actually went to Germany with the same organization the year before, so around &KULVWPDV WLPH , GHFLGHG WKDW , ZDV GHĂ&#x20AC;QLWHO\ going to go,â&#x20AC;? Taylor said.

She continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We went there with girls from Western Connecticut who we play during the season so I was kind of nervous, but once we got there everyone was in the same situation so you kind of just automatically bonded.â&#x20AC;?

Head Coach of the KSC Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Lacrosse team Katie Arsenault discussed their decision, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I thought it was a great idea! To experience another country, play with different players from the U.S and against players from other countries. To experience another culture, learn their history and meet new people from all over the world, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not to love?â&#x20AC;?

While lacrosse in Scotland is not as prominent as in the states, the sport is starting to catch on. However, there are some noticeable differences in the style of play.

Corace said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;They werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t up to date on the rules that they have in the U.S., and they also donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t wear the same protection as we do such as goggles.â&#x20AC;?

7D\ORU DGGHG ´7KH\ GHĂ&#x20AC;QLWHO\ SOD\ D ORW rougher because it is new over there.â&#x20AC;? Their Ă&#x20AC;UVW JDPH ZDV DJDLQVW D FR HG FOXE WHDP IURP Aberdeen which had playersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; birth years ranging from both the 1990s and 1950s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They said club teams and I was expecting just girls my age, but there was 30-yearROG JX\V JLUOV WKDW ZHUH Ă&#x20AC;IWHHQ DQG HYHQ D woman who was 67,â&#x20AC;? Corace said.

The 67-year-old played goalkeeper and according to Taylor was â&#x20AC;&#x153;just awesome.â&#x20AC;?

Taylor split time with another goalie

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CAITLYN CORACE / CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

Caitlyn Corace (30) and Erin Taylor (0) are pictured with the U.S. 21 national team in Scotland this summer.

during the game and got some experience UXQQLQJ WKH Ă&#x20AC;HOG The team was also given the opportunity to compete against the Scotlandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s U-21 QDWLRQDO WHDP LQ WKHLU Ă&#x20AC;QDO JDPH â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think they thought they were playing the actual United States team so they were intimidated, so when we showed up to play, they were kind of relieved it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t them [the U.S. team],â&#x20AC;? Taylor said.

The games were less competitive than the girls may be used to, but the experience and interactions with the players was worth more than a tight game.

Arsenault said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think they were there to develop as better players, but rather to see another part of the world. They met great people on their own team as well as others, and it seems that is what I would want them to pull away from it.â&#x20AC;?

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offense may be its strong suit, but Silveri said he sees another aspect of the game she thinks her team does well. ´'HĂ&#x20AC;QLWHO\ FRPPXQLFDWLRQ Âľ 6LOYHUL said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We always talk to each other and without that we wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t play well, but were really good communicators in terms of just telling each other whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open and where to go and MXVW WU\ WR EH D SRVLWLYH LQĂ XHQFH Âľ VKH FRQcluded.

The team shared excitement as they anticipate the postsean with high expectations ZKHQ WKH\ PHQWLRQHG WKH Ă&#x20AC;QDOV DV WKHLU GUHDP destination.

It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like this on day one.

In an interview with Weiner a month ago he said it would take time. He recalls his early prediction. ´, Ă&#x20AC;JXUHG IURP WKH EHJLQQLQJ LW ZDV JRLQJ to take about eight weeks to learn each others styles,â&#x20AC;? Weiner said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They just needed some time on the court together and for us we QHHGHG WR Ă&#x20AC;JXUH RXW ZKHUH HYHU\RQH ZDV going to play.â&#x20AC;?

Both girls agreed winning and losing werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the important factors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After every game we went out with one of the teams, they had us back to their clubhouses and they were really welcoming,â&#x20AC;?

Taylor said.

Corace added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You kind of hang out with the teams after and just learning about them and hearing about how they got into lacrosse was really interesting.â&#x20AC;?

Putting lacrosse aside, the team ventured out to tour three different cities during their brief stay in Scotland where they witnessed some breathtaking sights people could only dream of. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Everyday we traveled and did something GLIIHUHQW VR WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW WKLQJ WKDW ZH VDZ ZDV this castle in Aberdeen. It was right on the ocean and the cliffs just dropped down on all sides of it, it was gorgeous. I think all together

Four players who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t start in the beginning of the season are now starting. Five players are currently playing a position they didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t FRPH LQWR WKH \HDU SOD\LQJÂłD VKXIĂ H WKDW KDV made for some learning curves. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a junior, I have no problem giving up playing time to a freshman,â&#x20AC;? Ragaini said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If they deserve to be on the court, they should be on it.â&#x20AC;?

Playing in an unfamiliar role is always easier when you have the support of the team, and the older girls have been extremely helpful this year.

So, after being locked into the third seed, the team plays the waiting game. They have challenges ahead of them, with so little postseason experience.

Health issues have also plagued the team at times this season.

But theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already come so far itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to imagine any outcome being a failure. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve improved so much since the beginning of the season and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really nice to see such a drastic change so early,â&#x20AC;? Silveri said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just knowing we have another four years together makes it that much more fun.â&#x20AC;?

Zach Winn can be contacted at zwinn@keene-equinox.com

we saw four castles,â&#x20AC;? Taylor said.

She continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We went to a whisky distillery and got to experience all the local amenities like the pubs and restaurants.â&#x20AC;?

Corace said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just nice to see things you wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see everyday. We even got to see the William Wallace Monument in Stirling from WKH Ă&#x20AC;OP Âś%UDYHKHDUW ¡¾ The lacrosse season here at KSC will not EHJLQ XQWLO WKH VSULQJ 7D\ORU ZLOO IXOĂ&#x20AC;OO WKH starting goalkeeper role and looks to continue her success after stopping 163 shots last year.

Corace is currently applying for coaching jobs and considering a coaching program in England.

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our games, but then after that, we wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know who we will be paired up against.â&#x20AC;?

Kinsella said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we are at home weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on that fast astro-turf, and if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on the road, all the schools I believe in the conference, one team plays on grass, and everybody HOVH SOD\ RQ D WXUI Ă&#x20AC;HOG Âľ .LQVHOOD FRQWLQued. Kinsella said the girls know whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s at stake. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We just need to take each opponent one game at a time, and play our best, and just keep getting better. We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t peak right now,â&#x20AC;? Coach Watson said.

The Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) joins the /(& LQ Ă&#x20AC;HOG KRFNH\ HYHU\ \HDU 8VXDOO\ the LEC consists of eight teams, but a few of the normal Little East schools donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t KDYH Ă&#x20AC;HOG KRFNH\ DQG VR WKH 0$6&$& schools joined in, bringing the total number of contesting schools to 12. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have 12 teams in our conference and eight of those teams will compete in the conference tournament. It makes for a big tournament,â&#x20AC;? Watson said.

Jay McAree can be contacted at jmcaree@keene-equinox.com

â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of the other sports have like four teams or six teams that go into their conference tournament and we take eight, so at that time of year anything can happen, DQG WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW DQG VHFRQG SODFH WHDPV GRQ¡W get a bye, whereas for some of the other teams, like soccer, and basketball, the top teams get a bye,â&#x20AC;? Watson continued.

Hannah Gage, a junior on the team, is trying to stay focused for the tournament, but said she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get caught up in past or future games.

In the tournament, Gage said not having a bye week because of the MASCAC conference, â&#x20AC;&#x153;might even help XV MXVW EHFDXVH LI ZH ZLQG XS EHLQJ Ă&#x20AC;UVW or even second, you tend to play some of the weaker teams that make playoffs.â&#x20AC;?

Aimee Donaruma, another junior player, said the team is going to continue to practice hard giving 100 percent even in in practices so they are ready for the games ahead. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The worst thing we could do is look ahead to future game. We have to concentrate on whatever game we have next and just try to beat that team and then think about the next team after that,â&#x20AC;?

Donaruma said.

Meaghan Dwyer, a freshman on the team, said thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot more to college Ă&#x20AC;HOG KRFNH\ WKDQ LQ KLJK VFKRRO ´,W¡V

Representing the Keene State College Volleyball team, this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s athlete of the week is Haley Willumsen.

The freshman setter has quickly stepped into her role as the top assister on the team.

Willumsen led the Owls in assists in all of their matches this week. She had 14 assists and 12 digs in KSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3-1 loss to conference-opponent UMass-Boston.

Willumsen followed up that performance with an impressive 30 assists and seven digs against UMass-Dartmouth.

Then, she put up another 22 assists and six digs in KSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s match vs. the University of New England.

Willumsen also posted a service ace in all three matches, including two aces against UMass-Dartmouth.

--Marisa Lemoine of the KSC )LHOG +RFNH\ WHDP LV WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW UXQner-up this week for her goal-scoring abilites.

The forward had a game-high two goals in KSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 6-2 victory over :HVWĂ&#x20AC;HOG 6WDWH The freshman from Berlin, N.H. came off the Owlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; bench to score KSCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only goal in their 3-1 loss to Little East Conference rival UMassDartmouth.

--The second runner-up this week is Kyle Leavitt. The menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s VRFFHU WHDP¡V VHQLRU PLGĂ&#x20AC;HOGHU ZDV the hero in the Owlsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; 1-0 overtime victory over UMass-Dartmouth.

After a scoreless regulation 90 minutes the LEC opponents faced off in overtime.

However, only 22 seconds into the overtime period Leavitt posted his second goal of the season, giving KSC its 1-0 edge.

His goal would be the difference between the teams and brought KSC a 4-1-1 LEC record on the year.

Ryan Glavey can be contacted at rgalvey@keene-equinox.com

kind of tough but as soon as you adjust to it, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of adjusting and a lot of change over a short amount of time,â&#x20AC;? Dwyer said.

Dwyer said the team is going to practice hard for the rest of the regular season and in the playoffs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tough practicing, and continuing what we are doing.

And being well prepared for who we are about to play,â&#x20AC;? Dwyer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Take it day by day.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we win the conference, we get an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, the national tournament, which is 32 teams in the country out of I think 160 schools. Last year we won the conference, went to the national tournament, won WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW URXQG ORVW LQ WKH VHFRQG URXQG to Bowdoin, who the year before I think had won the national championship,â&#x20AC;?

Kinsella said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we win the LEC playoffs, we go onto NCAAs, like we did last year which is the national tournament, and from WKHUH¡V Ă&#x20AC;UVW URXQG VHFRQG URXQG WKLUG URXQG DQG WKHQ VHPLĂ&#x20AC;QDOV DQG WKHQ WKH national champions,â&#x20AC;? Donaruma said.

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From one sport to the next, DeMasco succeeds JAY MCAREE

EQUINOX STAFF Nicco DeMasco is back on the KSC campus, but something about him is different this year. For the Ă&#x20AC;UVW WLPH LQ KLV OLIH 'H0DVFR LV QRW playing basketball.

A three-year player for the KSC Owls Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basketball team, DeMasco is trading his sneakers and the hardwood for a pair of cleats and the outdoors as he tries his luck at rugby this year.

DeMasco is a 22-year-old senior from Richmond, N.H. He was a four-year starter for Monadnock Regional High School and helped that team win a state championship his junior year.

On winning that title DeMasco VDLG ´:H ZRQ LW IRU WKH Ă&#x20AC;UVW WLPH LQ the schoolâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history, that was unreal, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never forget that.â&#x20AC;?

He said he played basketball all through grade school, high school, and three years here at KSC before calling it quits after last season. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of it had to do with time commitment. I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really having fun with it anymore and I had a lot of stuff going on in my life.â&#x20AC;?

DeMasco added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If I worked on my basketball too much, my school work would suffer; if I worked on my school too much, my basketball ZRXOG VXIIHU , FRXOGQ¡W Ă&#x20AC;QG WKDW medium.â&#x20AC;?

Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basketball Coach Rob Colbert said what happened with DeMasco is not as common as some might think. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We lose players a lot of times for different reasons. We lose players who may have lost the love of the game, lose players for academic reasons, but you are talking about a guy who played a lot of minutes for us last year versus a kid who didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. A kid who played that many minutes, to lose him after his junior season is very rare.â&#x20AC;?

DeMasco said towards the end of last season he began to know he was done with basketball. The looming conversation he had to have with Colbert was not something he

looked forward too.

He said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We used to do workouts together. It was one of the hardest conversations iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had in my life.

He had no idea, I just kind of kept it to myself so to have to tell him face to face was really hard.â&#x20AC;? DeMasco continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;This whole things been one of the hardest decisions Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever had to make because basketball has literally been my life. I know that Coach Colbert has my best interest and he wants me to be happy.â&#x20AC;?

Another conversation needed to be had was with his teammates. Colbertâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s expressed his take on how the team reacted to DeMascoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think guys feel very disappointed.

I think some guys feel probably a little bit stronger that heres a guy who they trusted that made a decision to kind of head in a different direction at a critical time, a time where he is going to be a Senior and we are starting to rely on him and use him, he was an important part.â&#x20AC;?

Eric Fazio is a former teammate of DeMasco and is a member of this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s core senior group for the basketball team. About DeMascoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice, he said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We respect it, obviously, but we were a little upset by it.

He is a good player and we would love to have him.â&#x20AC;?

DeMasco said the team was better off without him. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The guys that are there now are the guys who really want to play. It is not fair for me to be on the team if I am not going to give 100 percent to them.â&#x20AC;?

With the basketball chapter of his life coming to an end, DeMasco sought out a new opportunity to do something different, choosing to join the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rugby club team.

Rugby here at KSC is considered D FOXE VSRUW DQG QRW DQ RIĂ&#x20AC;FLDO WHDP but donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let that fool you.

Rugby Club President Teddy Bell said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The biggest thing is that nowhere in the United States is it 1&$$ DIĂ&#x20AC;OLDWHG EXW ZH DUH MXVW DV legitimate as a club as any Division III rugby program around the country is.â&#x20AC;?

DeMasco said about his new

PORTRAIT BY: CHRIS PALERMO / PHOTO EDITOR

Nicco DeMasco is a former member of the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team. DeMasco now plays for the Keene State College Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rugby club.

sport, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I always wanted to play football in high school and never did because of basketball. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pretty close to football and I became good friends with a lot of the rugby players last year. I went to all the games and it seemed like such a fun sport to play.â&#x20AC;?

He continued, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because it was so different, I wanted to test myself and see if I could do it and I love it so far, it is a blast.â&#x20AC;?

There really isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t too much similarity between the sports but he said that some of the foot speed and

boxing out required in basketball are transferring over and helping KLP RXW RQ WKH UXJE\ Ă&#x20AC;HOG Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rugby Coach John Johannesen said it is likely DeMasco will eventually contribute. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He will probably play second row or eight man depending on what his conditioning is, but he is going to start off on B-side just like the rest of them.â&#x20AC;?

DeMasco knows not to expect to VWDUW RU EH WKURZQ LQWR WKH Ă&#x20AC;UH ULJKW away. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is cool because I kind of have to prove myself again. They are

QRW JRLQJ WR MXVW OHW PH RQ WKH Ă&#x20AC;HOG because I played basketball or I am an athlete. I have to prove that I can pick up the sport. Just because it is not a collegiate sport and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a club, doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take it seriously, they live for this.â&#x20AC;?

Now that it is all said and done, does DeMasco have any regrets about the whole situation? â&#x20AC;&#x153;No regrets, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like I just made an overnight decision on this.

Even watching all my former teammates going through their workouts that I have done the last three years,

New position is no problem for Dormio STEPHEN TRINKWALD

EQUINOX STAFF KSC sophomore Sammy Dormio recently moved from libero to outside hitter. With the switch, Dormio doubles her rotations, a move Coach Bob Weiner said was critical to the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s success. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In Sammyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case, we have to have her on the court. She has the highest volleyball IQ of anyone we have. So sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s JRW WR EH RQ WKH Ă RRU Âľ :HLQHU said.

Dormio is short for her position, Weiner said, but her talent level more than makes up for her lack of height. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Of course sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our best outside hitter. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like apples and oranges,â&#x20AC;? he said. Dormio said she adjusted well to her new position.

She said she played outside hitter in high school.

Though Dormio is physically capable of playing the position at a high level, Weiner said the change has put an additional toll on Dormioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s body.

BRIAN CANTORE / EQUINOX STAFF

Dormio is fouth in the LEC in digs per set with a 3.88 average.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Right now, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as good of an outside hitter as anyone in the conference. We know sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s small, we know that it takes a lot of wear and tear on her body to do things that bigger kids do. She jumps better than anybody else, and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stronger physically, but still weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re beating the crap out of her. As long as sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s able to go, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d like to keep her

there,â&#x20AC;? Weiner said. Noelle Dormio, Dormioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, said Dormio is used to the toll volleyball takes on the body. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Actually the college level, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard, but she used to play year round volleyball for her high school and club team, so this is actually kind of a break for her, she gets to rest a little more,â&#x20AC;? she said.

Besides for her physical

talent, Dormio brings experience to a very young KSC team. Dormio said that playing with last yearsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; team gave her a newfound toughness. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had to become a tough person because they were seniors, they wanted to win.

I had to be perfect for them, or it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t good enough, so I ZDV GHĂ&#x20AC;QLWHO\ DEOH WR KDQGOH D lot more pressure than I ever could before,â&#x20AC;? Dormio said.

Dormio said she wants her younger teammates to know that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s okay to make mistakes but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to grow as the season progresses. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This year is a lot different because I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to pressure the freshmen because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re like puppies. You donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to bop them on the nose every time so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot different having them realize how important winning these games are, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also important that they learn that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s okay to make mistakes, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how you learn to get better,â&#x20AC;? Dormio said.

Dormioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to come

I thought I would want to be back into it and get ready, but I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have that drive anymore. I am very happy with the decision.â&#x20AC;?

The menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s basketball team opens up their season Nov. 15 at Husson.

You can look for DeMasco on the UXJE\ Ă&#x20AC;HOG ZKHQ WKH PHQ¡V UXJE\ team travels to Eastern Connecticut State University on Oct. 27 for their VHDVRQ Ă&#x20AC;QDOH Jay McAree can be contacted at jmcaree@keene-equinox.com

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to KSC was a surprise to her mother and herself. An unforgettable recruiting visit and a strong foundation sealed the deal for Dormio. ´, ZDV GHĂ&#x20AC;QLWHO\ QRW ZDQWing to go up north, I wanted to go down south. But, I had the best time of my life up here; it was the best recruit visit,â&#x20AC;? Dormio said. Dormioâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother said Dormio was looking for key elements when choosing her school, and KSC had all of those elements.

Even though other schools had offered Dormio scholarships, she chose KSC because of what it could offer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She actually turned down some money, a lot of money actually for volleyball down south, in South Carolina.

[Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s found a] great coach, great girls, and a great biology departmentâ&#x20AC;Ś Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s found lifelong friends in Keene, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what she was looking for,â&#x20AC;? Noelle Dormio said.

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give the Owls an opportunity WR DW OHDVW KRVW D VHPL Ă&#x20AC;QDO game. All-LEC senior defender Blake Nyman said it has been stressed from the Owls coaching staff since day one to never be overly comfortable playing on an opponentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home turf. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s imperative that we sleep in our own beds come tournament time,â&#x20AC;? Nyman said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like to go in anyone elseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s house with high-stakes games on the line.â&#x20AC;? Junior forward Brian Swindell said he does not play as well away from Owl Stadium due to the possibility of having long travel time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just easier being home and not sitting on a bus for hours at a time,â&#x20AC;? Swindell said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That is when I tend to over think things which is why I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t done as well.â&#x20AC;? Swindell is tied with Scott Douglas with the most goals this season for the Owls. Four of Swindellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s six goals have been scored at home.

For Douglas, he said that the

Stephen Trinkwald can be contacted at strinkwald@keeneequinox.com

LQWHQVLW\ RQ WKH Ă&#x20AC;HOG DQG SRVLtive focus at practice need to be improved if they are going to have a shot at winning the tournament. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Concentration could be a lot better,â&#x20AC;? Douglas said. He added, â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a team we need to collectively come together a little bit better.â&#x20AC;? Head Coach Ron Butcher is no stranger to LEC competition. Butcher, in his forty-second season on the sidelines, has led the Owls to six LEC championships and to the NCAA tournament ten out of the last 15 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Generally speaking the Little East is a very competitive conference,â&#x20AC;? Butcher said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every coach would say the LEC games are what gets you to the NCAA tournament.â&#x20AC;?

The menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s soccer team has six wins with two losses and a tie at home this season, considerably better than their record on the road. According to Coach Butcher, if the Owls are not victorious in the LEC tournament and advance to the NCAAs, they will not accept an ECAC invitation.

Brian Schnee can be contacted at bschnee@keene-equinox.com

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The Chicago Cubs hired Sveum as their manager after he interviewed with both teams.

JANIE MCCAULEY

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NATI HARNKI / AP FILE PHOTO

This 2010, file photo shows Boston Red Sox pitching coach John Farrell. The Red Sox are preparing to announce that John Farrell will be their new manager.

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DAVID J. PHILLIP / AP PHOTO

San Francisco Giants relief pitcher Sergio Romo reacts after the final out in Game 7 of baseballâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s National League championship series against the St. Louis Cardinals Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, in San Francisco.

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