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THE EQUINOX The student voice of Keene State College

Vol. 70, Issue #11 Thursday, November 16, 2017

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POLL RESULTS

Kendall W. Lane - 2,043 votes

Ward Councilors Ward 1 Janis O. Manwaring- 188 votes Ward 2 Mitchell Greenwald- 338 votes Ward 3 Terry M. Clark- 301 votes Ward 4 Maggie M. Rice- 472 votes Ward 5 Philip M. Jones- 417 votes

BALLOT Students face obstacles in city election

Councilors-At-Large George Hansel - 1,694 votes Gary P. Lamoureux - 1,452 votes Randy L. Filiault - 1,400 votes Bettina Chadbourne - 1,378 votes Bart Sapeta - 1,258 votes

ABBY SHEPHERD

Social Media director On Nov. 7, about 16 percent of Keene headed to the polls to vote in the municipal election, a high number for an off-year election. For some, it was as easy as leaving one’s house and walking across the street to cast their ballot. However, between getting a ride from a local, registering, voting and returning back to campus, the entire voting excursion lasted Keene State College sophomore Erin Lynch about 40 minutes.

“That took longer than I thought,” she said as we pulled back into the Zorn Dining Commons (DC) parking lot. Lynch said she wishes more people would turn out to vote, but understands that it’s tough. “I think that making the polls more accessible to the students would help [voter turnout],” she said, as her friends were still registering to vote.

Voter turnout is low across the wards in Keene during municipal elections, regardless if the voters are students or long-time residents. The official results for turnout by ward from last Tuesday have not been released yet online, but according to the City of Keene website, only two percent of registered voters in Ward 1, where on-campus students vote, headed to the polls for the municipal primary back in October. That is slightly lower than the rest of the city, where the voter turnout ranged between five and seven percent that day.

Lynch said she hopes that there is a closer polling location to campus in the future, as the police station is well over a mile from KSC. It would not be a fun walk, especially on that windy and cold November Tuesday. The polling locations for off-campus students is even further away. Residents of the Arcadia Apartments, The Mills of Keene and the Davis Street apartments, where many upperclassmen students live, vote in Ward 5. The Ward 5 polling location is behind Target, about 2.8 miles away from campus.

Ward Moderator Ward 1 Colin R. “Bob” Lyle- 185 votes Ward 2 Linda Collins- 472 votes Ward 3 Lucinda McKeon- 450 votes Ward 4 Barbard E. Bohannon- 495 votes Ward 5 Jim Fay- 545 votes

Ward Clerk Ward 1 Gerry Frederiksen- 187 votes Ward 2 Kelly Cook- 472 votes Ward 3 Kathleen M. Richards- 449 votes Ward 4 Claudette Nicholas 481 votes Ward 5 Marilyn B. Gemmell- 539 votes

Keene City Councilor-at-Large Randy Filiault, who has served in city council for 20 years and was re-elected for another term, believes voting should be made easier for everyone. However, he told me that college students don’t have that many barriers to vote and need to make more of an effort to get to the polls. “If there was a particular bar having a college night that far away, they would find a way to get there,” he said. Filiault said he thinks young people should run for city council, but that he hasn’t seen it over the course of his multiple terms.

Young people are beginning to run in city races, and one of them won on Tuesday. Twenty-three-year-old Maggie Rice, who graduated from KSC in 2015, just won her ward’s city council race.

She will represent Ward 3 for the next few years.

Rice is no stranger to municipal proceedings. She served on the city-college commission as a student liaison during her time at KSC. Rice said that being a Keene resident and a student left her feeling caught in the middle, but she said she enjoyed serving on the commission because she got to see people who cared about mending the relationship between Keene State College and the city, especially after the Pumpkin Festival in 2014.

Rice said she thinks having the polling location for Ward 1 by the police station is an added barrier for students who already do not feel like they have a stake in their community. Rice commuted from home during college, which she said made it easier for her to vote, but she still thinks that it is too difficult for students.

“The general consensus here is that Keene State students don’t vote,” Rice said. “If we can agree that this is a bad thing, why are we not encouraging and making it easier for [KSC students] to vote?”

Abby Shepherd can be contacted at ashepherd@kscequinox.com

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Thursday, November 16, 2017

Nepali partnership is celebrated

Little Sisters Fund provides college opportunities for financially-disadvantaged girls ALEX FLEMING

equiNox staff About 30 people found themselves in KSC Interim President Melinda Treadwell’s living room last Monday. They squeezed in shoulder-to-shoulder and sat on folding chairs, old furniture and piano benches. They confined themselves to claustrophobia to celebrate two young Nepali girls and the partnership they represented between Keene State College and the Little Sisters Fund of Nepal.

KSC Professor Emeritus Len Fleischer is one of the individuals who is responsible for KSC’s partnership with the Nepali Scholarship fund. “We envision an international partnership of reciprocity between our Keene community and the incredibly vital work of this organization,” he said.

Fleischer’s vision began when he was in Nepal during a massive earthquake in April of 2015. The earthquake was devastating. According to The Atlantic, around 9,000 people were killed and more than 600,000 structures were destroyed.

Fleischer said 10,000 of the destroyed buildings were schools, and the destroyed schools led to a rise in an already prominent rate of sex trafficking of Nepali girls.

Fleischer then got in contact with the Little Sisters Fund, a scholarship fund based out of Nepal that helps underprivileged girls go to grade school in the country.

A girl going to school in Nepal is a big deal. Benajil Rai, one of the first KSC Nepali exchange students and direct beneficiary of the Little Sisters Fund, explained in a presentation the pros and cons of Nepal and its culture.

Rai said Nepal is a beautiful country, has diverse people and has hospitable people. “[But] Nepal has some dark facts,” she said.

Rai’s presentation showed that the education system there is oppressive and ignorant. It revealed that there is discrimination, and typically, only boys really go to school.

It said that Nepali girls are viewed as “financial black holes,” people who suck up money without any payoff.

The Little Sister’s Fund seeks to counter those conceptions by educating and empowering young Nepali women.

Rai said she wasn’t going to school when her father founded the Little Sister’s program. Without them, her education may have ended at grade three.

Rai said before she was accepted into the program, she had to go through a background check to make sure her family was financially disadvantaged. The fund does this to make sure it’s giving money to families that actually need it.

KSC Professor of Environmental Studies, Dr. Renate Gebauer, participated in Fleischer’s vision of international partnership by taking honors program students to study in Nepal. She said she has been going to Nepal since 2010 and takes students every two years.

The last time she visited Nepal, she visited one of the schools that the Little Sisters Fund operates out of. According to the Little Sisters Fund website, the organization serves 2,113 girls in the program in 70 schools in 20 school districts in Nepal. There are nine girls studying in the U.S. through the program.

Gebauer said she feels very highly of the school she visited, and that the schools do a lot to strengthen confidence and dignity. “They’re really doing a lot to make a difference,” she said.

She said she likes that they recognize sending a kid to school is not enough. The schools that are run by the Little Sisters Fund goes as far as making sure the children get the right amount of vitamins to stay healthy.

Gebauer also said it is important that the organization is run by Nepali people. She said she thinks it causes less confusion and means more than it would if westerners came in and ran the organization. “Even though I know a lot about Nepal, I think I would make a lot of mistakes, even with good intentions.”

Fleisher and Gebauer said they hope to continue and grow the mutual exchange between the Little Sisters Fund and KSC. “The main reason I do all my work in Nepal,” Gebauer said, “is because we can learn so much. Just because someone is poor doesn’t mean they are uneducated.”

Editors note: Both Benajil Rai and Puja Thapa work as staff photographers for The Equinox.

Alex Fleming can be contacted at afleming@kscequinox.com

PHOTOS IN THIS COLUMN CONTRIBUTED BY PUJA THAPA

In addition to providing young girls with an education, the Little Sisters Fund provides them their basic needs as well, such as vitamins.

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FIRST TWO PHOTOS CONTRIBUTED BY BENAJIL RAI; LAST PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY PUJA THAPA

The Little Sister’s Fund educates and empowers young women.

COLLEGE SENATE

News editor Interim President of Keene State College Dr. Melinda Treadwell made an appearance at this month’s College Senate meeting, and a variety of revisions were made to various majors and minors. The group met on Wednesday, Nov. 8, at 4 p.m. in the Mountain View Room of the L.P. Young Student Center.

During the courtesy period, Treadwell reported the college is ahead in their year-to-date fundraising efforts when compared with last year, and any additional funds the college acquires will go toward scholarships for incoming students in the next academic year.

Additionally, the college is 100 admitted students ahead of where it was at this time last year. Treadwell also announced that throughout this current week, she will be holding meetings with faculty members in order to gather input on how to go about the restructuring of our campus.

On Nov. 28, there will be a campus-wide meeting held in the Redfern Arts Center at 2 p.m..

In terms of the fiscal year 2019 (FY19) budget, she reported there is a larger deficit to close when taking different factors into account, such as yearly raises. The exact number was not said, but the FY19 budget must be drafted and finalized by the second week in January, Treadwell said.

When updating the group on search processes for the Vice President of Financial Affairs position, Treadwell reported there are 35 candidates who have applied for the position, and of that number, 12 were reported as “highly qualified.” Eventually, Treadwell said the pool will be narrowed down to three top candidates.

The Provost search has not yet been posted.

In the Executive Committee report, a conversation was had surrounding the Senate’s program elimination guidelines, which were originally created in 2011 with a different outlook than is had now.

Then, they were designed to help struggling majors recover, and in 2015, minors were included in the description as well.

Now, a new question has been posed: When the only tenure-track faculty member in a department retires, how should the Senate proceed?

The Academic Policy Committee reported that KSC courses with the prefix “KSC” did not undergo curricular review because they aren’t associated with a specific school or department.

It was proposed that these courses be approved by all school curricular committees and the Senate Curriculum Committee.

After some discussion, the proposal was amended, and a new motion was made. Since courses with KSC as a prefix serve the entire campus, these courses should be reviewed by all school curriculum committees,

as well as reviewed and approved by the Senate Curriculum Committee and approved by the College Senate. The amended motion was unanimously approved.

The Curriculum Committee presented the minutes from two of their meetings, which both resulted in a motion to have a variety of courses revised.

There was a motion to revise the following programs/courses: communications & philosophy major, communications minor, philosophy minor, health science major, addictions minor, IIPH 350, IIPH 445, INPH 175, ISPH 285, history major & history honors program, English major, chemistry minor, English writing minor, English professional writing minor, management minor, exercise science major and the physical education major.

Although the revisions to the above programs weren’t explained during Wednesday’s College Senate meeting, all changes were unanimously approved.

No new business was reported.

The meeting adjourned at 5:35 p.m..

Jessica Ricard can be contacted at jricard@kscequinox.com

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Bridging connections with NASA

LAURA ROMANIELLO / ART DIRECTOR

Physics professor presents on effects of space weather COLBY DUDAL

Equinox Staff This past summer, a Keene State College faculty member got the opportunity to go to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to gain more knowledge about weather science.

Physics professor Sarah McGregor was the faculty member to receive this opportunity and said one area of science she learned more about was how the sun affects what is happening on earth, also known as space weather.

The reason that McGregor had the opportunity to go to NASA was because of a grant from KSC’s Faculty Enrichment Committee. Instructional Consultant of the Faculty Enrichment Committee Chris Odato said, “Part of the stipend was to work with NASA. One purpose of the presentation is to bring it into the classroom.” The government page for NASA describes space weather as, “Conditions on the sun, in the solar wind, and within the Earth’s magnetosphere, ionosphere and thermosphere that can influence the performance and reliability of space-borne and ground-based

technological systems and can endanger human life or health.”

McGregor said sun particles are fast, small and they can hurt people by ripping through deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which can result in tumors.

The Earth’s magnetic field shields us as these particles come toward us, but there are still reasons why we should care about energetic particles, said McGregor. “Airplanes go above poles, the military care about it, people that are mining depend on [global positioning system or] GPS to do their job.

Also, oil companies because of corrosion, truckers and construction workers because of power lines. [They] all care about space weather as it could have an affect on their work,” said McGregor.

McGregor said because of the dangers of space weather, NASA has been developing ways to forecast it. Using a coronal model is one way that NASA is predicting space weather, she said. The NASA website stated detecting the phenomenon on the surface of the sun will help to monitor solar activity.

McGregor said that KSC has become the first college in the U.S. to receive the Wang-Sheeley-Arge Semi-Empirical Coronal Model, which is a space weather forecasting model.

Biology major and senior at KSC Ian Lehner said he thought it was interesting that KSC was given the opportunity to have a faculty member go to NASA. “It’s really interesting, but also scary. I had no idea that the physics department had the resources to do that.”

McGregor said that she is hoping that the connection between KSC and NASA continues. “I am hoping to possibly have a student do an internship there over the summer.”

Environmental Studies Professor Thomas Webler said that the lecture was important to him as it is a major threat to today’s world. “As she said, the charges ions can induce electric currents into power lines, large currents that run the length of the power line and blow out the transformer at the end of the wire. These transformers are giant beasts, specially made, and take months or years to replace. That could seriously interfere with our electricity network. Without electricity, so much of our modern society is at risk of failure.”

Colby Dudal can be contacted at cdudal@kscequinox.com

Former traditions to return to KSC ABBYGAIL VASAS

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LAURA ROMANIELLO / ART DIRECTOR

Campus traditions are prevalent across the nation, from Dartmouth College’s annual “Polar Bear Swim” to reinvigorate students for the winter, to Keene State College’s very own “Clap-In” to welcome firstyear students.

What can be seen across all traditions is a promotion of unity on campus and strengthening of ties between members of the college community.

KSC has had many traditions through the years since it was founded in 1909. Some, like the Clap-In, the college still practices.

Others may remember more recent traditions of which we have let go, such as the annual Pumpkin Lobotomy, where students gathered on the quad to carve pumpkins together. KSC senior Olivia Miller participated in the Pumpkin Lobotomy during her first year and still remembers the experience.

Miller said, “I remember walking down Appian Way and seeing Fiske quad filled

STUDENT ASSEMBLY

ABBY SHEPHERD

Social MEdia dirEctor On Nov. 14, Keene State College Student Assembly came together to approve the various elements of the 2019 Fiscal Year (FY19) budget.

They approved the budget increases for Educational Technology, the Student Center and the Parking and Campus Safety Shuttle Services.

All three applied for the maximum increase of 2.5 percent from their allotted budget for FY19.

KSC Chief Information Officer of the Information Technology Group Laura Seraichick asked for a budget increase for Educational Technology.

She requested the increase for new equipment such as wireless projectors for classrooms.

Seraichick said it would be fiscally responsible to update this technology.

The next to present was Director of Student Involvement Jennifer Ferrell, who said the Student Center is asking for an increase in their budget to prevent cutting student work hours for their

employees.

Ferrell said in Fiscal Year 2015, the programmatic dollars were $376,000, while in Fiscal Year 2018 that number decreased to $178,000.

To make up for the gap, Ferrell said they pulled from their reserves, but they will not be able to do that for FY19.

Lastly, Director of Campus Safety and Compliance Jeffrey Maher requested a budget increase for only the Parking Services and Campus Safety Shuttle portion of their department.

The current budget for the shuttle doesn’t completely cover the contract with the shuttle company. Maher and Student Assembly discussed how to reevaluate the effectiveness of the campus shuttle program, considering the amount of riders decreased by 40 percent in 2017.

Student Assembly will not meet next week, but will gather again on Nov. 28.

Abby Shepherd can be contacted at ashepherd@kscequinox.com

with pumpkins.” She said that the event was so important to her because the communal act of carving pumpkins with her peers made for a memorable ordeal. “I think a lot of us have childhood memories of carving pumpkins with our families… and that day, all carving together, made me feel like Keene was my family.”

According to Assistant Archivist and Lecturer Zachary Giroux, our college history is filled with lost traditions dating all the way back to the early years of the college. “A great place to start looking at past traditions would be looking at our collection of yearbooks.”

When flipping through pages of The Kronicle from the early days of the college, one could find the school pledge from when KSC was the Teacher’s College and see that as the college grew, there would be songs, poems and short stories created by members of each class about their time at the school. Around the 1940s and ‘50s, as fraternities, sororities and other student groups started forming, they would host dances

and celebrations throughout the year to bring the campus together.

Elements of the Winter Carnival, an event where students came together to play in the snow and have sculpture-building contests, can still be seen today in the Keene Ice & Snow Festival.

There were numerous traditions surrounding graduation at KSC. One such tradition was called “Rose Night,” which involved the gathering of students, parents, friends and townspeople. The students sang songs together, usually ones written by the students of each class, and then the graduating seniors would march through campus and receive roses from those in attendance. There was also a graduation tradition called the “Planting of the Ivy.” The graduating seniors planted an ivy and present it to the underclassmen. The underclassmen then accepted the ivy, usually in the form of a song or pledge, to preserve the effect the graduating class has left on the campus.

Senior Victoria Sansevero will be gradu-

ating this spring and is excited for the convocation ceremony. When she learned about Rose Night and the Planting of the Ivy, she said, “Those sound beautiful. That would be a wonderful experience to take part in.”

Graduating seniors from the 1950s also got to leave one extra impression on the school: a Class Will. The Will appeared on the last few pages of the yearbook and was filled with one-line remarks from each graduate, such as, “Barbara Roy leaves her baton to future parades,” and “Joe Hanrahan leaves his acting to Parker Hall.”

Others were more comical, like, “Betty Raymond leaves by the skin of her teeth,” and “Jean Mosely leaves her birds to Bob Wing,” immediately followed by, “Bob Wing leaves with the birds.”

What really made an impression on Sansevero, she said, were “the lasting thoughts of those people. They got an opportunity to say their last words.”

Abbygail Vasas can be contacted at avasa@kscequinox.com

Honoring victims of Kristallnacht RACHEL VITELLO

Equinox Staff Remember. Witness. Intervene. These are the words that were reiterated throughout The Colonial Theatre at this year’s Kristallnacht Commemoration.

Author of “Roses in a Forbidden Garden: A Holocaust Love Story,” Elise Garibaldi spoke during the event.

Against all odds, Garibaldi’s grandparents fell in love when they met in a concentration camp.

Garibaldi recounted one of her favorite stories of them. “[Her grandfather] risked his and his friend’s lives just to steal a marigold flower from the Nazi’s garden to give to [her grandmother] as a token of his love.”

Along with the book, Garibaldi also wrote a rock opera for the story of her grandparents.

One of the pieces, titled, “Soon I’ll be There,” was performed.

The choreography was done by MoCo Arts dancers, and the music was done by Keene Middle School students.

The dance was a metaphor for the heartbreaking separation of her grandparents.

The main dancer, who was meant to embody her young grandmother, was wearing the actual Star of David emblem that her grandmother wore during the Holocaust.

The star has been donated to the Cohen Center on behalf of her grandmother.

This annual event honors the memory of those lost in the Holocaust.

The commemoration included speeches from city officials, The Colonial Theatre and the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies rep-

resentatives, as well as Holocaust and genocide studies majors.

There was also a candle lighting for memory and hope and a performance put on by the MoCo Arts Center.

The event began with old black and white photographs of Jewish children during the Holocaust partaking in normal everyday activities like riding bikes and playing outside.

Also shown was video footage of the “Breaking of the Glass” in 1938; “Kristallnacht” means Night of Broken Glass.

This was when synagogues throughout Germany were burned down as acts of hate, and nothing was done by the authority officials to stop the actions.

The theatre fell quiet during the showing of the video.

After the lighting of the ceremonial candles, the entire audience recited Ey-l Malei Rachamim together, a Jewish prayer that honors the souls of the deceased.

The Coordinator of Educational Outreach for the Cohen Center Tom White said, “We resist fear and hate. We support the targets and the victims. We welcome dreamers. We educate ourselves and choose to stay engaged and hopeful.”

An audience member and KSC alumnus George McKenney attended the event with his spouse and talked about the importance of this commemoration, “We are educators, we influence the future. To do that well, we need to be very mindful of the present and the past. Things don’t stop. Bad things can get worse if we don’t remember the past and pay attention to its patterns.”

White had a similar message regarding not repeating the past.

“Denial and accommodation are human

methods of coping or enabling evil to grow and flourish. This event makes certain that our community takes a pause each year to challenge ourselves not to look away.”

The recent acts of white supremacy and antisemitism were noted during the night’s speeches.

KSC Global Fellow from Sarajevo, Bosnia, Hikmet Karčić, said, “There is still too much hate in this world. There have been 1,266 acts of anti-semitic hate in the U.S. this year, and antisemitic acts have risen 86 percent just in the first few months of 2017.”

KSC Associate Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Dottie Morris helped close the commemoration with a hopeful message.

“In this region, we accept all people regardless of religion, race, sexuality or any identity.

Look forward with calmness and reason. May our commitment to the light of Keene light our way forward for all.”

Rachel Vitello can be contacted at rvitello@kscequinox.com

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This event makes certain that our community takes a pause each year to challenge ourselves not to look away.

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Make connections in the world

LAURA ROMANIELLO / ART DIRECTOR

Creating relationships across the globe is beneficial for everyone Keene State College offers many opportunities for cultural engagement ‒ whether it is through clubs or study abroad program ‒ but one opportunity that really shines bright is the partnership KSC has with the Little Sisters Fund.

The Little Sisters Fund’s mission is to “[help] economically disadvantaged Nepalese girls to become empowered leaders through education, mentoring and community support,” according to their website.

Aside from simply just paying for a Nepalese girl’s education, their goal is also to “contribute to the development of a more equitable, just, and prosperous world.”

Currently there are 2,113 Little Sisters studying far away from their Nepal homes, and KSC is blessed to have two of these intelligent girls as our peers. KSC working with the Little Sisters Fund is extremely beneficial on both ends. It serves as a learning opportunity where we get to see what other cultures are like. We get to break down cultural stereotypes and build friendships.

Engaging with different cultures humbles you. It makes you realize what you do have and what you do

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not have. In The United States, many of us are very privileged and have no real concept of what it is like to live in a third world country. Girls over here never have to worry about being sold into sex slavery because their family needs money. Over here, we are given the opportunity to get a full education from elementary school through middle school through high school and even through college if we so desire. It is less common for someone not to get an education in the U.S., but in Nepal, many of the girls do not make it past elementary school education.

And it is not just Nepal where this happens ‒ it happens in many other third world countries.

The problem is, not many people open their eyes to what it is like to live in a third world country. We would rather not think about it.

It is important to be culturally engaged because it reminds us that things like that do happen in these countries and that we are lucky for the opportunities that we are given over here.

By having the Little Sisters Fund work with KSC, students get to learn more about the Nepalese Culture and

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it allows the Nepalese girls to learn more about our culture. It allows us to make connections and since many of us have never been to Nepal or may not go there, we have a lot to learn. Global outreach is so important because it creates opportunities for our students here and those who come visit us.

We are happy that KSC really steps out of their bounds and follows their motto as they “go forth to serve.”

This program provides more of an openness on campus. These learning experiences allow you to become more comfortable with other cultures rather than being ignorant (whether it’s intentional or not).

This program along with all the other programs and resources on campus such as the Diversity and Multiculturalism Office, the Office of Multicultural Support, Alternative Break and Study Abroad give KSC students wonderful learning experiences that they can gain now and take into the future with them.

The Little Sisters Fund is just another step in the right direction with making our campus a little more educated.

Student representation is important for KSC LISA RUSSO

Equinox Staff As of Oct. 25, Delaware Valley (DelVal) University selected a student to be on their Board of Trustees, according to their website. Julia Reynolds is the first student to be on the DeVal trustee board itself.

This is important and a landmark decision for many reasons.

A student being included on how a college spends it’s money is a very smart move because a student is able to speak for other students.

It also is beneficial to the students as a community because now there is someone who is in their age range looking out for their best interests on the campus.

Being a full-time student at Keene State College, I am excited to know that another college is including students on these important boards.

I would like to think that this is the first step to allowing students to connect with people who are financially in power to provide the input to make a university or college desirable to potential students. However, there can be challenges with this.

According to the article, “A Rare Look at What Makes Student Trustees Effective” by Peter Schmidt on the website The Chronicle of Higher Education, it discusses the breakdown of the challenges a student on a board of trustees can experience.

One that stood out to me was the short term the student is given.

It makes you wonder, how can a student truly speak out and accomplish tasks for other students when they are not given that much time to do this effectively.

This is something that would make me weary of being completely overtaken with excitement when the harsh reality is that not everything a student body wants can be achieved in one term.

Although this is a part of the job, it is not the whole job.

A student being on a board of trustees can be an empowering position for students to see someone their age wanting to speak for them and their interests.

It also allows students to reach out to someone they can relate to in order to speak up with concerns or worries they have when it comes to their day to day life on campus.

Another interesting aspect to adding a student on the DelVal Board of Trustees, is the fact that Reynolds is a woman.

This can give identified female students a safer route to go to when advocating for groups that can help other women on campus.

It is also important because a woman is given a powerful position that is held by men.

In a way it is shocking to me that a college chose not only a student, but also a female one.

It’s a message that yes, women can be in powerful positions making decisions that are financial. It is also included under her picture that she is also the president of the university’s student government board as well.

I am hoping that more colleges take an initiative to start having students on their respective trustee boards and not only having students in general, but making sure that whomever they pick speaks up for all students.

Lisa Russo can be contacted at lrusso@kscequinox.com

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Thursday, November 16, 2017

STAFF COMMENTARY

KSC offers good resources to combat stress

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Student reflects on the helpfulness of The Center for Health and Wellness ZOEANN DAY

Equinox Staff Finals are around the corner which can only mean one thing: stress. Students can get particularly stressed as the end of the semester approaches because of final projects, exams and papers that are introduced to our workload. More and more work is being added to our day to day lives and as a result, stress and anxiety can appear. Luckily, there are ways to combat these overwhelming reactions during this stressful time of year.

Feelings like stress can lead to issues that no student wants to experience, including low grades, dropped courses, a disruption in education and others. As finals approach, I’m getting more work from my classes as well as final projects and papers. Stress is something that I experience a lot when it comes to school work

and grades, and the closer the end of the semester gets, the more stressed I get. Fortunately, Keene State College has a lot of resources for stress management for students. Coordinator of Wellness Education Tiffany Mathews said our school offers plenty of help from The Center for Health and Wellness as well as in each residence hall. Mathews also works in Residence Life, and assured that there is no shortage of help available to any student who needs it.

“In the dorms, each Resident Assistant [RA] is trained to work with students and their stress or anxiety and can help them to access the resources that the school offers them,” Mathews said.

The RAs have training in these issues, but are also a resource within themselves. By helping to form a community within their buildings, they already help students get a step closer to lowering their stress. Along

with this, Matthews also said that The Center for Health and Wellness can give students tips to decrease their stress as well. Things like exercise, a better night’s sleep and a healthier diet are all things that can help decrease stress, and The Counseling Center, located on the third floor of KSC’s Elliot Center, can guide students through it all. They even offer access to a nutritionist, who is available to talk to if students feel that a better diet would help them with this stressful time.

KSC has plenty of resources for students when it comes to dealing with anxiety and stress, not only this time of year, but all year round. The Center for Health and Wellness, also located on the third floor of the Elliot Center at KSC, offers an abundance of opportunities for students, including talking to trained counselors about these issues. The Counseling Center specifically is available to help students with stress and anxiety. The

center has a team of mental health clinicians available for KSC students who desire assistance with their emotional, personal, social and developmental questions and problems.

These resources can be accessed through the Keene State College website under The Center of Health and Wellness, as well as over the phone.

I’m very grateful that these resources exist and that they are so accessible to us. Stress isn’t something anyone wants, but it is something that can be dealt with, and KSC can be a huge part of helping to do that.

Zoeann Day can be contacted at zday@kscequinox.com

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We will suffer if we don’t recognize climate change KATHERINE GLOSSER

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Global warming has become a hot topic for many ‒ from the environmental devastation to human impact on our air quality, to the increase in Earth’s global temperature.

While many scientists have proven that climate change is, in fact, man-made, there are still people who do not believe that.

According to the Pew Research Center, while 80 percent of Americans believe in man-made climate change, 20 percent do not. President Donald J. Trump is part of that 20 percent.

Trump has become a fierce and stubborn opponent of combating man-made climate change.

He has taken many actions against climate change, such as opting out of The Paris Agreement, which committed countries to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions.

According to an article in NPR, Trump’s reasoning for opting out of the agreement was because it was “a bad deal for the American people and it’s a bad deal for the environment.”

Trump also pulled back Former President Barack Obama’s policies that took action against climate change and environmental pollution.

Some of these policies Trump rolled back include the freeze of coal leasing on public property and a mandate that calls for federal agencies to acknowledge the issue of the impact greenhouse gas emissions has in their statements involving environment.

According to Snopes, Trump has a long history of saying man-made climate change is a hoax. Trump’s view on climate change is not only wrong, it is also dangerous and could prove to be dangerous for the future of our country and the world.

According to National Aeronautic Space Agency (NASA), 97 percent of climate scientists who actively publish their findings believe climate change is man-made.

Satellites that have orbited Earth found countless information about how much earth has changed over the years.

This satellite data was gathered for years and that data concluded that earth is, in fact, experiencing man-made climate change.

In the nineteenth century, evidence of carbon dioxide and other gases trapping heat was demonstrated.

Not only can you find the evidence in satellite images, you can find the evidence in ice cores.

Consider some of these findings.

Since global temperatures have increased, so has the melting of ice cores and glaciers.

According to NASA, ice cores in Greenland, Antarctica and tropical mountain glaciers showed that greenhouse gas levels have changed their structure.

According to a U.S. report in a NBC news article, the global temperature has risen by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit and sea levels rose by eight inches since 1900.

Many countries have signed The Paris Agreement and have taken some action against climate change.

So why should the U.S. worry about climate change if other countries are already working on the solution?

First we must consider the United States’ contribution to global climate change.

According to the U.S. Greenhouse Gas Inventory Report: 1990-2015, the total amount of greenhouse gases the U.S. emitted in 2015 was over six billion metric tons.

This makes the United States the second biggest in carbon emissions. According to data from The New York Times, despite the U.S. only making up four percent of the world’s population, the country contributes to one-third of the world’s carbon emissions.

So how does our contribution to climate change affect us?

Our health will suffer, if climate change continues to happen. According to the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), some of the health effects are heat-related illnesses, lung and heart illnesses, food, water and vector (parasitic, viral and bacterial) diseases and mental health issues.

Not only is our health impacted, so is our environment. A n increase in wildfires, droughts, floods, heat waves, hurricanes, rising temperatures and ruined ecosystems will continue to increase if we continue on our path to destruction.

It will also impact the U.S. economy negatively.

According to National Geographic, 300 billion dollars in economic losses resulted from wildfires alone.

That is enough to pay for every U.S. student’s tuition.

According to the Economic Case for Climate Action in the United States, within the decade, the different weather conditions combined with health effects caused by climate change will cost the U.S. 360 billion dollars annually.

This, in turn, will cripple the U.S economy’s growth.

Keene, NH, has felt the impact of climate change. According to a report by the City of Keene in 2007, Keene has experienced changes due to climate change.

A change in flooding, annual snowfall, infestation of invasive plant and animal species and an increase in temperature are just a few of the environmental inconveniences Keene is experiencing.

This affects Keene’s economy and social environment.

While the Cities for Climate Protection Committee, a city-based group aimed to combating climate change through sustainable energy use, helped decrease the greenhouse gas emissions, further environmental actions still need to be taken by the rest of our community.

If we continue to turn a blind eye to climate change and take no more action against it, the world as we know it will continue to deteriorate. It is important, however, to not give up hope.

We can still instill change in our habits, propose ideas that can change how our society impacts our environment and continue to denounce Trump’s false statements about the lack of man-made climate change.

The more we take action and educate others, the more we can do something that could help save our planet. Let’s be the change we want to see in the world.

Katherine Glosser can be contacted at kglosser@kscequinox.com

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STAFF COMMENTARY

Band of Private Ryan’s

A Review of Call of Duty: WWII COLIN MEEHAN

Equinox Staff I think that it would be a fair assessment to say that for at least seven years, the Call of Duty franchise has been a joke. In fact, the problems it has had can easily be summarized by the jokes that have been made about it. “Press F to Pay Respects” represents the absurd attempts by the writers to create player emotion, while still giving players something to do. “Call of Duty Dog” was the response to Ghosts running out of interesting ideas for interesting game play by giving the player a robot dog who gets more sympathy from your character when he dies than half of your squad. “Children’s Online Daycare” and the numerous parodies of kill montages show two different sides of the fan base; the children often featured in videos of them raging, and the hard core players who continuously demand more twitch-based game play, to a point that Infinite Warfare was barely accessible to new players.

The announcement of a Call of Duty (COD) that would take place in the Second World War excited many; despite the overabundance of WWII shooters during the 2000s, the franchise released its best games during this era. Titles like Call of Duty 2 and World at War were solid, and incentivized individual excellence and strategy without making the learning curve next to impossible. The single player stories also attempted to tell a story similar to the ones told by actual soldiers, or at least within the limits of a video game. The promise of the setting became associated with a return to engaging game play and a solid story.

Things started off pretty rocky, however. For starters, Sledgehammer Games and Activision got in trouble for good and bad reasons. The announcement that loot boxes would be in the game set off alarms for many observers; its glorified gambling system of paying for a chance at an item startled many.

Other reasons were far less legitimate; the game allows for players to make their character female, which meant that if you customized your character a certain way, you could have a black female Nazi. While I found this funny, and actually looked forward to seeing it, many in the fan base were furious; cries about how the evil “social justice warriors” were ruining video games were heard, and some even wanted to boycott the game on release.

The game also carried the stigma of being a COD game, and for good reason; it will still be the choice of incredibly obnoxious and toxic people of all ages (make no mistake though, it will mostly be white guys).

The infamous memes will also carry over: the comedians at Funhaus documented ridiculous player names like Blunt_Blowerr, xDDEPRAT3Rx, DAT_BOI_DAN, and more, and put sunglasses, energy drink packs and a virtual reality (VR) headset on Lawrence Sonntag, who responded “I’m ready to COD, drop me in.”

Despite all of this, Call of Duty: WWII has been a solid experience; not perfect or without flaws, but a genuinely great time.

First, we have the single player campaign, which is something of a mixed bag. On the one hand, the plot line of the game is nothing original; as Russ Frushtick of Polygon says in his review, “If you’ve seen “Band of Brothers,” “Saving Private Ryan” or frankly any other World War II flick made during the last 30 years, you’ll be trekking over familiar ground in the Call of Duty: WWII campaign.”

The game opens with the Normandy landings and treads ground very similar to the opening of “Saving Private Ryan,” with machine gun fire tearing through American soldiers as they desperately attempt to breach the German line. This pattern con-

tinues throughout the story, with story beats that a very similar, such as a “Band of Brothers” style winter battle against the advancing Wehrmacht in the Battle of the Bulge, and a bell tower sniper battle reminiscent to the end of Ryan. However, this does not make the campaign bad; it’s fine, but it does get predictable, and it only really gets saved by the excellent voice acting. That being said, it is far better than the plots of previous games, with its ridiculous plot twists, embarrassing attempts at philosophical concepts and action sequences that better resemble stunt shows than actual game play. Still, certain parts, such as the portrayal of Germans as “not all bad” is pretty worrying, and a later section dealing with a concentration camp was not disrespectful, just lacking in emotion.

WWII has made most of its improvements in its multi-player mode, and it shows. For starters, the older weapons means that using weapons is a lot simpler than previous titles, which has made the game play more accessible while still not sacrificing core mechanics. Upgrading weapons and classes has also been made better with the introduction of the Divisions system. The system allows for a player to pick a division, which gives you different abilities depending on its play style. For example, the Armored Division specializes in perks that revolve around using light machine guns and explosives, such as extra magazines and the ability to move faster while aiming down the sights of the weapon.

Of course, you can pick a division and use a different class of weapon, and that is a legitimate tactic, but playing to the strengths of your division could be better. This focus on specialization is not unique, but is a welcome addition.

On top of that, the game also added a new mode, called War. In the game, one team fights to complete a series of objectives, while the other team tries to prevent them from completing these objectives.

These objectives can include escorting tanks, building bridges, assaulting enemy positions, etc. The mode adds a lot to the game play, despite sounding so simple. For one, it incentivizes teamwork, by getting players to play off different skills to hold or take a point, while still focusing on individual contribution. The size of the maps also allows for more mobility and movement, allowing for flanking routes and chokepoints that either team can seize and use to their advantage. The game mode is incredibly fun, and is by far the best improvement made to the multi-player.

The final game mode is the “Nazi Zombies” game mode, which I cared about the least. Let me be clear; I think mechanically, for the most part, the mode is fine. It incentivizes teamwork and doing weird challenges to complete an objective, and that’s fine. Two things, however, stood out to me; for one, the loot box system gives you better gear, which means that you could theoretically pay more to do better. Secondly, zombies has always been kind of a boring concept, at least for me; the focus is more on the characters, and there’s only so much you can do with that formula until it just gets worse and worse (case in point, “The Walking Dead” after the first season). So while many will enjoy this, at least for me, it was uninteresting and repetitive.

That being said, even with the controversies and stigma, the game has bounced back into being an enjoyable and addictive experience, with a better campaign and a much improved multi-player experience. Sledgehammer Games still has more work to do, but this is definitely a step in the right direction.

BOARD GAME Cont. From A8

“Mechanics and aesthetics are the keystones in a successful board game,” Miffitt said. “Gamers all have a very very unique taste for aesthetics.”

This upcoming semester, Miffitt will be working again with Hoyt in an independent study to further tabletop game design.

“Since about middle school I’ve always sat down and made up silly little games for me and my friends to play,” Miffitt said. “Under his advising, I’ve learned how to actually produce a game. Though his experience in producing Road Hog, I’ve learned how to produce my game, Blood and Iron.”

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) graphic design major Gavin Schlerf also took the Board Game Design class over the summer, creating one game called Mosh Pit. The game focused on crowd dynamics in a concert, with a player’s

objective to force their way through the crowd to reach the front of the stage.

Schlerf said the process of creating board games can really help a graphic design major learn how to create working designs.

Schlerf said, “I have to say, Randall Hoyt is probably one of the best professors I have had throughout my college career, just because he was able to really critique anyone in anyway possible… that’s really important in the design world.”

Hoyt said his own inspiration for the Road Hog came from his own time spent driving in Connecticut and studying traffic, driving from New Haven to New Hampshire every other weekend.

He originally was going to make a book on passive-aggressive driving, but then just started making it a game instead.

“I learned how to drive like a shark,” Hoyt said.

Hoyt said the game’s reception in Germany was in high regard. In fact, a German man Reme Kramer has taken

it into his own hands to translate the game cards from English to German.

The ideal for Hoyt would be to have the game made in German too.

“To have a player say ‘I’d like to share this with my gaming group.

Can I translate all your cards, please send me images,’” Hoyt said. “That was this morning. By this afternoon he had already translated them.”

Hoyt and Road Hog (then named Turnpike) was featured in a documentary three years ago, where it picked up traction.

Hoyt is also in the process of filming an epilogue on what the processes are like for an already published game, and where Road Hog is heading in the future.

“I wanted to make an experience that was fun to play,” Hoyt said. “My idea is that if you can make something that people hate fun then that’s a big win.”

Meridith King can be contacted at mking@kscequinox.com

PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY RANDALL HOYT

“Ausverkauft” means “sold out” in German. Road Hog sold out in Essen.

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Poems by Isabel Isabel Tisdale is a sociology major who found her love of writing after a fourth grade poetry project. Since then, she spends her time writing poems and creative non-fiction as a way of self- expression.

Her inspirations include Rupi Kaur, Christopher Poindexter and Warsan Shire.

She uses her life experiences to write poetry, with a strong emphasis on the use of motifs,symbols and imagery.

when hunger finally set in, i felt myself grow cold. a black hole formed past my eyes, and i found myself lostexisting in two places at once. form behind my mirror, i could speak in tongues; shrink myself down small enough to fit in the palm of his hands. i learned how to tie knots in cherry stems and worshipped on my knees for those who were brave enough to have me. from my second universe, i would gaze down at my empty body, notice hollow eyes, pray my fingertips would sprout into daisies so they could no longer hurt me. instead i watched weeds writhe from my mouth and freeze overfor my body became too cold for life to thrive.

-it.

French horn and viola players take the stage SEBASTIEN MEHEGAN

MultiMEdia dirEctor

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Holly Webster plays the viola during the recital.

The music program at Keene State College contains many different instrument specialties, but only one French horn player.

Micayla Mahoney is a music education major in her last year at KSC. She has been playing the French horn since fifth grade, but only became serious about it in her junior year of high school.

At first, when Mahoney developed an interest in music she wanted to play the clarinet. She said that when she chose the clarinet her music teacher said there were too many clarinet players in the band.

Mahoney said, “He [said] ‘here play the French horn’, and I said ‘what is this. I don’t know that I want to play this.’”

As Mahoney has progressed through her schooling as a music education major, she found out to her surprise that young music students are not normally taught instruments as challenging as the french horn.

Mahoney said, “When you’re playing it, the intervals on the french horn… are a lot closer together.” Mahoney said compared to a trumpet, the French horn challenges the player more.

In her junior year of high school Mahoney chose to continue her education with a french horn although she had begun to develop an interest in the bass. “My high school band director [said] ‘you know there’s a lot of bass players out there.’ Which is true, you know, there are a lot of bass players out there and not a lot of horn players.”

Mahoney said that her drive for music is pushed by her belief that music impacts everyone in different ways. She wants to share the impact music has had on her life with other people.

When Mahoney came to KSC she had to start thinking about her senior project the minute she declared her major. Many seniors experience the same thing when they begin the music education track.

Mahoney and KSC senior music education major Holly Webster played in the Student Recital Series together.

Mahoney and Webster performed their recital on Saturday, Nov. 4.

Webster said, “I’ve know about it since my freshman year. It’s kind of something we’ve looked forward to.”

Webster said she started working on her music for the recital during the spring semester of 2017. She said, “It’s been roughly a year that I’ve been working on these pieces.”

Webster played the viola during the recital. She has played the viola for 14 years. Webster said, “I stuck with it. I knew back when I was in elementary school. When I heard it I just decided to stick with it.”

Webster said she was inspired to continue with the viola because her teachers and professors took her to many shows.

“I guess it comes down to my love of playing,” Webster said.

During the Student Recital Series, Webster played many classical pieces including “Marchenbilder for Viola and Piano, OP. 113” by Robert Schumann and “Suite No.3 in C Major, BVW 1009” by J.S. Bach.

Webster said, “Sometimes the nerves kick in but sometimes…instead of thinking note to note you have to think, ‘what is the message I’m trying to communicate to the audience.’”

Mahoney said that for her to prepare for the recital she had an easier time with it than others because there are only so many pieces a French horn can play solo. Mahoney played pieces by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “Rondo from the Horn Quintet in Eb Major, K. 407,” and “Concerto No.1 in Eb Major, Opes II” by Richard Strauss.

After the show both Mahoney and Webster expressed their relief to be done with their senior recital. They both felt that it went well.

Audience member and KSC student Adam Jeffrey said, “I felt that the pieces were diverse... And I felt that their performance went perfect.”

Jeffrey said he had seen both performers working on their pieces very hard over the last few semesters and he said they executed them well.

SEBASTIEN MEHEGAN / MULTIMEDIA DIRECTOR

Sebastien Mehegan can be contacted at Micayla Mahoney plays the smehegan@kscequiox.com French horn during the recital.

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Compositions from around the globe KSC Guitar Orchestra and Latin American Ensemble perform diverse selections MERIDITH KING

artS & EntErtainmEnt Editor The Keene State College Latin American Ensemble, Cotopaxi, and the KSC Guitar Orchestra brought a myriad of diverse music and sounds to the stage last Wednesday, Nov. 8, for their performances.

One piece Cotopaxi performed was named “Huasipichay,” a étude for panpipes in the Andean style,

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Andrew Brace preforms in the Guitar Orchestra

composed by KSC Coordinator of Guitar and Latin American Music and Professor Dr. José Lezcano. The purpose of this tune was to introduce students to “the dialogue or interlocking style of panpipes performance” that is typically found in the South Andes. The panpipes themselves traditionally consist of one or two rows of tubes of gradually increasing length, that, when blown into, can create a sound. The instrument used in the performance is native to the Andes.

“Music is a bonding experience for everyone,” Lezcano said.

A first-year music education major, Grant Desmarais, was a part of the performance. He said the class had been preparing for the performance over the course of the whole semester.

“I thought it went very well,” Desmarais said. “I’ve been pan-piping in class very frequently.”

Another first-year music education major Claire Fifield played the saxophone and panpipes for the Latin American Ensembles performance. Both Fifield and Desmarais had never used pan-pipes before, but said they enjoyed the experience of learning to use them.

“As far as I know, nobody in the class had experience with them but the majority were making a sound and doing pretty well,” Fifield said. “There is always room for improvement but overall, I think it was a success.”

Fifield was not a new face in performing with the Music Department, performing previously with Concert Band earlier this month and will be performing with the Jazz Ensemble and Saxophone Ensemble later this year.

After a short intermission, the KSC Guitar Orchestra took to the stage, with an extremely diverse repertoire spanning France, Haiti, Bulgaria, Austria and the United States.

Senior music composition student, Andrew Brace, composed the first piece in the second-half of the performance, the Guitar Duo, as well as performed in the Guitar Orchestra.

“It was just neat to perform my own music,” Brace said.

He also chose the repertoire for the second three movements from composer Ivan Shekov. Brace thought the performance went “really well.”

Brace said, “All the players did a good job, they all

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Members of the KSC Latin American Ensemble, Cotapaxi, preform on the pan-pipes.

work really hard to get the music learned.”

On what drove him to start composing, Brace said, “I think inevitably most players end up writing their own stuff. If you’re not hearing what you want to hear, you have to write it yourself.”

For Lezcano, he said it was great to work with students under different liberal arts disciplines, alongside music majors.

“We’ve got safety majors, exercise science, I have a microbiology student in the group,” Lezcano said. “I teach them to play the panpipes, which is a community instrument played in Andean rituals.”

Many of these interdisciplinary students had not been on stage since junior high, Lezcano said.

“The students grow. They grow through learning

KATHERINE GLOSSER

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Lockmouth is a five piece band that formed in Manchester, NH, in January this year. They played a few shows in the Manchester and Derry, NH, areas over the summer. Since the end of the summer, they’ve been working on a three song release.

Everything was recorded at home other than the drums, which were recorded at Chillhouse Studios in Cambridge, MA, with the drummer’s brother, Dan Seiders. In addition to recording the drums, Dan mixed each song for the EP. After the release, Lockmouth looks forward to playing as many shows as possible and writing new music!

challenging music and developing greater rhythmic acuity,” Lezcano said. “The guitarists are learning how to follow a conductor, which they never have had to do usually.”

Overall, the performances were a “great success” according to Lezcano.

“It’s one of the best groups I have worked with. They really came through,” Lezcano said. “I feel very fortunate.”

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Veteran’s Day is an widely celebrated holiday in the U.S., and Keene is no different. With many people who are either veterans or are people with family members who are going to or were deployed, it can be hard to laugh. That is why comedians PJ Walsh and Benari Poulten, from the comedic group the GI’s of Comedy, travel all around the nation and world to spread laughter.

What distinguishes them from other comedians is that they are veterans.

On Veteran’s Day, the GI’s of Comedy came to Keene State College to do their stand-up routine. Roughly fourteen people showed up to the event held at the Night Owl Cafe in the Young Student Center. The first comedian to arrive at the event was Poulten.

“You guys are the heroes for coming out tonight,” he opened. He went on to reflect on his life as a comedian and veteran, never forgetting to interact with the crowd and bring humor into his stories. The crowd erupted in laughter as he told a story about his time at a New York City bar on Halloween.

“You can be whatever you want to be, but if you are going to dress up as a clown, consider what you’ll look like by the end of the night,” he joked as people laughed and clapped.

He went on to tell an animated story about his obsession with superman when he was three years old and how he wore a superhero outfit under his normal clothes.

Poulten then talked about his humorous experiences while being deployed in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Poulten said his military experience influenced his comedy and helped him become a better comedian.

“My military experience really showed me the value of being able to make people laugh” said Poulten. Poulten said he always wanted to do comedy. He wrote for a few shows on Comedy Central, the Nightly Show with Larry

Wilmore and a sports comedy show called Garbage Time.

After Poulten did his comedy routine, Walsh stepped up to the plate. Walsh opened up by poking fun at the majority of the crowd for being at the back of the room.

He said while the crowd was small he was glad they came. Walsh said he had no audience members at some of his shows.

He did a brief imitation of being a one man show by sitting on one of the empty seats and pretending to be himself acting like an audience member. He also talked about the time when he worked with Bill Clinton at the White House and his time being investigated by the FBI to get clearance before he worked for the White House.

Walsh highlighted the importance of comedy in military settings.

“Somebody told me statistically when comedy comes through, the suicide rate drops,” said Walsh.

Poulten added comedy also boosts the morale of other people. “I feel like if you come out to a show to be entertained, it’s my job to entertain you,” said Poulten.

KSC Sophomore, Emma Johansen who was in the audience said she would see their standup again and would bring her roommate.

“It was really funny, it was nice to come in and join after a long day just to relax and have fun. I got a good laugh,” said Johansen.

Walsh expressed his appreciation. He said loved seeing young people in the crowd.

“You guys make it worth the drive,” he said towards the end of the routine.

Walsh said he admires the millennial generation.

“I believe in your generation, I believe you guys will make so much of a difference in the world and I am excited about that and I apologize for mine” said Walsh.

Katherine Glosser can be contacted at kglosser@kscequinox.com

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ALEXANDERIA SAURMAN / MANAGING EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Photographs from music videos featured in the Music Video Night, from varying film students, alumni & local artists

The Fall 2017 Music Video Night at KSC features 11 films ERIN MCNEMAR

Equinox Staff It is hard to imagine the countless hours that go into making a music video. While the audience only sees a video that is a few minutes long, producers spend days, weeks, even months trying to make their idea a reality. For this reason, we should celebrate all of the hard work put in by these visual composers.

On Thursday, Nov. 10, film producers and students alike gathered in the L.P. Young Student Center’s Mabel Brown Room to witness what some of the Keene State College film major students have been working on this semester. The night showcased 10 videos showing a diverse spectrum of creativity.

To promote the event, a band composed of KSC students, Afterimage, played outside the L.P. Young Student Center encouraging passersby to come to Music Video Night.

One of the band’s members, sophomore Casey Daron, who also cohosted Music Video Night with Nick St. Amour of the band Gray Haven, explained why the event was specifically important to Afterimage.

“I’m a film major, and our band made a music video that we’re presenting tonight,” Daron said.

As well as the band, several other films majors’ works were presented during the event. From first-year student’s Production 1 pieces to veteran video creates, Music Video Night highlighted all different levels of video production. The event also showcased both well-known and local music.

Junior Rachel Blumberg, who created a video for local band Gray Haven, commented on what went into making her video. “It was preplanning and then I have a production company called Rachini Productions.” Blumberg continued to explain that while she had the help of her company, she also hired people to assist her through the film process. “I brought on some production assistants.” Blumberg also commented that she would be using parts of the video for a future project. “I’m making a documentary about music videos right now so that footage will be scene in that,” Blumberg said.

In addition to creating a video of Gray Haven’s song “ruokplz,” Blumberg is also the band’s manager as well as co-coordinator of Music Video Night, along with sophomore Alex Miller Thibault.

Blumberg stated that this was not her first time helping put together

this event.

“I’ve coordinated it two semesters already so this is my third semester.” Blumberg then elaborated on what went into coordinating Music Video Night. “First you got to get the room. Then you got to get the date.”

Blumberg continued to express the importance of advertisement “All the advising, making the word out, chalking up Appian [Way], which we did today. It’s all about advertising.”

The advertising for the event helped bring in many students that did not have a video that was being showcased.

Film major and sophomore Sarah Nickerson, was not presenting a video but came to the event to support the work of others. “I’m part of KSMP [Keene State Media Production] so I’m just supporting the people that put in Music Videos tonight.”

The night concluded with Blumberg’s creation of Gray Haven’s music video leaving the audience members impressed by the talent they saw coming out of the event.

Erin McNemar can be contacted at emcnemar@kscequinox.com

KSC professor brings board game to Germany MERIDITH KING

artS & EntErtainmEnt Editor Monopoly, The Game of Life, Chutes & Ladders and Clue are board games that almost everyone has played before. People always have at least one of them tucked away in their back closet or under their coffee table. However, no one ever wonders how games like these classics came to life.

Keene State College graphic design Professor Randall Hoyt sheds some light on the process of creating, publishing and selling a board game, after recently attending Spiel, the largest board game trade fair in the world, held in Essen, Germany. Over 100,000 people come to the convention to play and learn about different games.

Hoyt brought along his own creation this year, “Road Hog,” a game he started to create

in 2007.

The game centers its focus around literal in and outs of traffic, and breaking the road rules you might have to follow in real life.

There are many white car and truck “traffic” game pieces, five colored player cars, a deck of varying action cards, two die and interchangeable board tiles that create the “road.” Players try to get to the exit first, moving traffic cars to strategically block other players while getting ahead themselves. Between the dice and the differing cards players draw, different actions can be made within the game.

Hoyt said over the course of the four-day convention, he played over 60 games of Road Hog with convention attendees, of all ages, some who did not even speak English. At every convention and event Hoyt has been to and brought the game to, Road Hog has sold out. With over 10,000 copies in circulation

throughout the world, Road Hog has been purchased by people from as far away as Germany, Australia, the UK, even New Caledonia. Before having the game picked up on by a publisher, Hoyt faced a lot of skepticism from peers on whether a game based on traffic would ever be successful.

One of Hoyt’s Advisees and graphic design student Joseph Miffitt took a Board Game Design class with Hoyt over the summer. Miffitt said he is a self-proclaimed board game geek, and knew right away he had to take that class.

“It definitely is the world I want to go into as far as graphic design is considered,” Miffitt said.

The final game created by Miffitt was called “Blood and Iron,” a tank combat simulator game.

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“Road Hog” the board game, created by KSC Professor Randall Hoyt.

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Leading KSC’s Catholic campus ministry

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Courtney Janvrin is the student leader of the campus ministry, KSC’s catholic student organization. The campus ministry meets every Sunday night at The Newman Center on Main Street in Keene.

Senior Courtney Janvrin juggles school and leads the Catholic group on campus KALILA BROOKS

Equinox Staff There are many clubs, organizations and communities at Keene State College for students to join that reflect different aspects of their identity. Several of these organizations exist to serve KSC students’ different religious affiliations. These organizations include CRU, Hillel, Interfaith Community Club and the Catholic Student Organization.

Director of The Newman Center and Campus Minister Cindy Cheshire is available upon invitation to serve KSC students, though she is not directly affiliated with the college. Although Cheshire herself is Catholic, she said that she functions on-campus as a generalist, meaning that she will support any student’s spirituality.

“Everyone has spirituality, whether or not they have religion. It’s just a part of human

development. When I’m on campus… I’m just trying to make sure that people are attending to that spiritual part of themselves,” Cheshire said KSC senior Courtney Janvrin has been involved in the Catholic Student Organization the entire time she has been attending the college. She said she started going to the organization’s meetings as a first year, became the treasurer as sophomore, and then vice president as a junior. Janvrin is currently President of the Catholic Student Organization.

Janvrin said it is really easy to get involved. The organization’s meetings are non-mandatory and everybody’s welcome.

“You don’t have to be Catholic at all. Any religion or non-religion is absolutely welcome,” said Janvrin.

KSC students meet in the L.P. Young Student Center at 6:45 on Sunday nights and

walk over to The Newman Center together, where their meetings are held. Each week, the Catholic Student Organization has a discussion that focuses on a specific topic, a prayer activity, games and time for fellowship.

The Newman Center, which is operated out of St. Bernard Church on Main Street, is open to any community members and has a projector, board games, chess, a pool table, books, a kitchen and plenty of space with couches and bean bags to hang out in. “It’s just a really great space for celebrating community,” Janvrin said.

However, community is not the only goal of campus ministry. Every year, the Catholic Student Organization and Interfaith Community Club work together to host the event Ask a Blank. The organizations brings in representatives from different religious affiliations in hope that students will

ask questions and start conversations. This includes Catholic priests, Jewish rabbis and many others. The tag-line for the event is “Conversation, not conversion.”

The purpose of campus ministry is for students to be able to develop their spiritual identities without feeling alone.

Cheshire said, “College is...a point when you’re moving from the faith of your parents into your own faith. That’s an important step, but it’s also a very tumultuous step. There’s lots of really hard questions, lots of experimenting, lots of stepping out of your comfort zone. The Newman Center is a place where students can go through that together.”

Of course, to get involved with campus ministry, you do need to know about it, which Janvrin said she does not think many students do.

“I don’t think [campus ministry] is super

well-known, because a lot of people don’t talk about faith at... the college age,” said Janvrin. She added that she thinks people who are really looking for a faith based community will be able to find one, because there are many options on-campus.

KSC first year Nathan Houle said he does not know much about campus ministry, but thinks it is a good thing to have here at KSC. “It’s good that [students can] have a place to go for what they believe in, where they can be surrounded by peers who also share those same beliefs,” Houle said.

Kalila Brooks can be contacted at kbrooks@kscequinox.com

Recycling while living in off-campus housing MATTHEW KAHLMAN

Equinox Staff A common problem for off-campus students is recycling. The city of Keene doesn’t have a truck to come around and pick up a house’s bottles and cans for mandatory recycling. Instead of throwing your recycle in the trash people can go to Keene’s Recycling Center.

Keene’s Recycling Center is located off Route 12, at 55 Old Summit Road, Keene, NH. The center is open from Monday-Friday 7:00 to 3:00 P.M. and Saturdays 8:00 A.M. to 1:00 P.M..

According to Keene’s website, items like steel cans, aluminum cans, glass, paper and scrap metals can be recycled for free. Tires, propane tanks, and electronics are items that will have a charge to recycle.

The Coordinator of Student and Community Relations at Keene State College Robin Picard has notice this has been an issue ever since she got her two years ago. Picard said her two goals are to give information and resources to students and upgrade the off campus housing.

“Recycling is an add on for the landlord, meaning people will come pick it up but for a fee,” Picard said. “And a lot of landlords don’t want to pay that extra fee.”

Picard’s thoughts were if the landlord’s notice recycling reduces trash, then maybe they would see it saves them money.

“I believe if students are speaking up than that could lever in making a difference,” Picard said. “There are more students than landlords and we need to do a better job in

being aware of this problem.”

Two KSC seniors, Joseph Gaudette and Hanna Norton got together for their capstone projects on recycling.

Gaudette and Hanna focused on houses on Blake Street for four to five weeks to see which houses recycled and how much. The two students went and talked to each household on recycling and how important it is.

Hanna and Gaudette then gave each house a can crusher to encourage recycling.

When Hanna and Gaudette talked to the landlord about what they were doing, they got a very negative response and decided to stop the project all together.

KSC junior management major Ian Lacey is a resident at the Mills of Keene. The Mills does not provide any sort of recycling according to Lacey. “My roommates and I used to bring our recycle to campus and get rid of it there,” Lacey said. “But that became an inconvenience for us.”

Lacey said that there is a dumpster at The Mills where he throws away all of his trash.

When The Mills were asked about why they do not provide any recycling to residents they said they had no comment.

KSC junior Andrew Norton is a student who faces the struggle of recycling off campus. Andrew lives off campus and said, “It doesn’t make sense for a town like Keene not to have a recycling truck, in this day and age every town should have mandatory recycling.”

Andrew said he and his friends have set up a graveyard of bottles and cans in their basement. Once it fills up, they are going to bring them down to Massachusetts and

exchange them for money.

“I think recycling is really important for the community,” Andrew said. “But it makes it really difficult to recycle when they take away the convenience of door pick up.”

Matthew Kahlman can be contacted at mkahlman@kscequinox.com

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STAFF COMMENTARY

A Day in the Life of a Transwoman

Eating with The Equinox Grammy’s Broccoli Casserole

Love, this isn’t easy for me to say…

VIVIAN VALENGAVICH

Equinox Staff

ALYSSA SALERNO / STUDENT LIFE EDITOR

INGREDIENTS:

DIRECTIONS:

1/4 cup chopped onions

Fry onions in 4 tbsp. butter

6 tbsp. butter

Add flour and water once the onions are slightly browned

2 tsp. flour

When the mixture has thickened add the cheese sauce

1/2 cup water

Combine the broccoli and the sauce

8 oz. jar cheese wiz or sauce

Add in the eggs

2 packages chopped broccoli (thawed and squeezed)

Mix super well so every broccoli is covered in eggs and cheese

3 eggs well beaten

Pour in greased casserole dish

Bread crumbs

Top with bread crumbs mixed with the remaining butter

tips: This is a great side dish but if you want, you can add chicken to it to make it a full on dinner.

This does not last a super long time in the fridge but it can be frozen

Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 45-50 minutes

My love, there is something I must share with you. This isn’t easy, and I’ve put a lot of thought into it but here and now, things are locking up.

I am trans, I want nothing more than to be a woman and I know this might be a shock but it’s just too much for me to bear anymore. I don’t know where it came from or why but it doesn’t matter.

I want you to know that just because my name has changed doesn’t mean my love for you has, there isn’t a day still where I don’t want to be there with you. You’ve said to me before you love me for who I am, and that you’ll always love me, no matter what.

Well, I hope that rings true today, because I hope to love you the way I am. If this is too much, if the change is too great or if you just don’t want to deal with it, I would understand, but I beg of you to give me a chance to show you that everything will be wonderful.

This will involve work, though. My mood will change, my mannerisms and even my voice. I can’t promise that my mood changes will always be positive, and I can’t promise that I’ll always be ladylike no matter how hard I try, and I can’t even promise that people will actually think I’m a woman.

But I know as long as I’m with you we’ll make it through, and it won’t matter what others think of me or of us.

And I promise, through all of this, our life will be wonderful. We’ll shop for a wedding dress to match your tie, I’ll make sure to hold tight so you don’t drop me across the threshold on our wedding night, we’ll live the life we’ve dreamt of living, happier than ever between the two of us.

There’s nothing in this world I want more than to see this through with the love of my life, my soulmate, and my future husband; you.

Dearly, Your Beloved This a gigantic deal to the individual coming out. To tell someone you trust and care about something so personal about yourself can feel monumental, or impossible. The best thing to do for someone, no matter how they do it or when, is to tell them that nothing will change between the two of you, and that you accept them. Even if it’s not a big deal to you, it most likely is to them, and it can mean the world if someone tells them that everything’s okay.

Most importantly, coming out is a choice. If someone doesn’t want to tell others, for whatever reason, that is their decision, and you should never “out” them to people. This step in an individual’s life can change it forever, don’t let it change them for the worse. If you need a place to come and be yourself, the Office of Multicultural Student Support and Success is a wonderful place full of accepting and loving people, located on the second floor of the L.P. Young Student Center past the Mabel Brown Room.

Vivian Valengavich can be contacted at vvalengavich@kscequinox.com

Humans Of KSC What are you thankful for?

“I am thankful for my family, and being a woman who can get an education.”

ANGELIQUE INCHIERA / PHOTO EDITOR

“I’m thankful for my family, and everyone being healthy and getting the medical care they need, and going home for Thanksgiving and seeing everybody.”

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Student sculptures

ALYSSA SALERNO / STUDENT LIFE EDITOR

Students create sculptures in their arts classes and then put them out around the outside of the Sculpture Studio. Students in the sculpture classes spend weeks conceptualizing and fabricating abstract three dimensional designs. Every few weeks, a new set of students sculptures are presented for the appreciation of students faculty and the general public.

Color correction print test for The Equinox

The Equinox is running a color correction print test with the above photos. We are trying to determine what method of editing will result in the best printed photographs for the newspaper. The repetition of these photos is intentional. This is not a stand-alone and does not pertain to the Student Life section of the newspaper. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

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“We were on fire offensively during the game and so many different people found the net. It was a good way to win,” said McCall.

Senior Kendal Brown said that looking back on her college career in field hockey, that there was no better way to end it all than winning the LEC championship.

“The team put in a lot of hard work and put

in the effort, so winning the LECs is just so rewarding and much deserved,” said Brown.

Brown added that the team communication and drive, as well as athleticism that each team member brought to the field was the ultimate thing that brought the team to a successful end for their 2017 season.

The women’s field hockey team ended their season as the 2017 LEC champions, with a record of 14-9, their home record being 9-4.

The women’s team played a total of 23 games and scored a total of 80 goals, nine of those goals pushing them to the LEC cham-

pions title.

After winning the LEC championship, the team traveled to compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), but unfortunately lost in the first round, 1-4 against SUNY Cortland.

“We sort of just fell apart in the second half, but honestly we accomplished everything we set out to achieve. We’re LEC champs and that’s amazing,” said Loseby.

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We’re LEC champs and that’s amazing.

RACHEL FIRST-YEAR FIELD HOCKEY PLAYER

Caroline Perry can be contacted at cperry@kscequinox.com

Midseason Recap CAROLINE PERRY

SportS Editor As the New England Patriot’s come to the midpoint of their season, they hold a 6-2 record, coming out with a win in their recent game against the Los Angeles Chargers.

Throughout the season there have been significant high and low points, with numerous struggles seen through strategy and on field plays, as well as defense.

Looking back on the season we go back to week one.

The Kansas City Chiefs took a 42-27 victory over the Patriots, spoiling New England's Super Bowl LI banner ceremony.

In week two, the Patriots were able to rebound against the New Orleans Saints, winning 36-20.

Quarterback Tom Brady was able to set an National Football League (NFL) record with his 52nd NFL game with at least 300 yards and three touchdowns.

He finished the game 30-of-39 for 447 yards and three touchdowns. It was Brady's 10th 400-yard game.

In week three, the Patriots had a close call with the Houston Texans, snagging a 36-33 victory over them.

Week four came as a disappointment to the Patriots, as they lost 30-33 against the Carolina Panthers.

The Patriots defense forced two turnovers, but failed to hold Carolina quarterback Cam Newton and his targets in check, marking their second home loss.

In week five, the Patriots had another semi close game, winning 19-14 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The Patriots defense was able to make the plays that they needed to make to stop the late-charging.

Quarterback Tom Brady was also able to throw for 303 yards, with one touchdown.

The Patriots faced the New York Jets in week six, taking away a 24-17 victory.

Brady broke a tie with Brett Favre and Peyton Manning for the most regular season wins with 187 and had to rally the Patriots from a 14-point deficit in the first half before holding on for the victory.

Week seven, the Patriots trampled the Atlanta Falcons with a 23-7 lead.

The Patriots defense came to life, stopping the Falcons on three drives inside the New England 20-yard line with a blocked 37-yard field goal attempt by the defensive line.

In week eight, the Patriots most recent game, New England held a 21-13 victory over the Los Angeles Chargers.

Brady passed for 333 yards and a touchdown, and Stephen Gostkowski kicked four field goals to help lead the Patriots to victory.

Coming up on week nine, the Patriots hold a 6-2 midpoint record for the fifth straight season.

Facing the Denver Broncos this past Sunday, the Patriots took a 41-16 victory, moving their record up to 7-2.

With setbacks and struggles, many fans think that it is time to worry about the Patriots ability to win.

However, in past years the Patriots have always displayed the ability to overcome adversity and come out on top.

Caroline Perry can be contacted at cperry@kscequinox.com

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The KSC women’s field hockey poses after their 9-0 victory over Westfield State University (WSU). The team won the 2017 LEC Champions title Saturday, Nov. 4.

Athletes of the Week NINA BRUNO First Year FIELD HOCKEY

First year Nina Bruno earned Keene State Athlete of the Week after the field hockey forward was named the LEC Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player.

CONTRIBUTED BY KSC ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT

HANNAH WOOD First Year WOMEN’S SWIMMING AND DIVING First year Hannah Wood was given the title of Keene State Athlete of the Week after her outstanding performances against Boston College.

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Athletics FUN FACT Did you know that the Little East Conference (LEC) held a pre-season poll for men’s basketball? In a poll of the league coaches, votes went out and the Owls received 49 points, placing them in second place right below Eastern Connecticut State University.

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Volleyball falls short TRIPLE THREAT

Luke’s Kickin’ Column LUKE STERGIOU

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Italy Could Miss Out On Russia 2018

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KSC women’s volleyball loses 0-3 in the LEC finals SIMON MAUCHLY

Equinox Staff As the season ends for the Keene State College’s women’s volleyball team after falling short at the Little Eastern Conference (LEC) Championship, the team believes this season was still a success.

Niamh Dodd, a junior on the team said, “It was a successful season even after losing the championship game, we had the best season in our program history.”

Some team members like Dodd, confessed that they were nervous going into the final game even though they proved to have had a better record than University of Massachusetts (UMass) Boston.

Dodd added, “Records aren’t everything

and we knew UMass Boston was capable of beating us and we had nerves going into the game and we didn’t play as well as we could’ve, but we knew they were a tough team to play.”

During the season, the team battled through injuries especially for sophomore Kelly Hunt, who came back to the court later in the season.

Hunt said, “I worked really hard in practice so I could get back to the court as quick as possible. I spent a ridiculous amount of time in the training room for my ankle. I came back slowly and I personally felt like I made up for the lost time on the court during my injury once I was able to comeback to practice.”

Hunt started practicing again while she was still going to therapy because she knew

she could have made it worse.

Hunt said, having the experience of going to the LEC Championship game the volleyball team goes into next season only losing one senior and the team is ready for the challenge of winning the LEC next season.

First-year and team member Cydnee Morgan is from Colorado and said that the Colorado is very different from New Hampshire.

She chose KSC because she wanted to get that experience playing for a good team and compete in the LEC. Morgan said that her role on the team is a utility and they use her everywhere on the court.

Morgan also said, “My freshman season was a great learning experience. Next season will be an easier dynamic and I know what

Nutritional treats JACEY CHAVEZ

Equinox Staff Keene State College has been a powerhouse in the Division III Little East Conference (LEC).

Over the last 17 years the school has been able to take home 16 Commissioner's Cups, securing its position at the top amongst the other schools in the division.

The powerful stance that this school has athletically is a direct result of the quality of the athletes KSC is able to have compete.

These student athletes are an interesting group of individuals in the sense that they are somehow able to not only attend practices everyday, complete all of their schoolwor, and spend time with friends, they are also able to compete at a level in their sport that has brought KSC to the top of the LEC for over a decade.

However, in order to keep the reign of the Owl’s, the athletes know it will take more than just sheer will power. KSC swim team members Molly O’Connor, a sophomore, and JT Barth, a first-year, spoke on this matter.

Barth said, “[Nutrition] is the way you eat on a daily basis to perform your best in practice and during competition.” “[A good] diet is one that has balanced amount of nutrients to give you enough energy to be the best athlete you can be.”

For athletes their performance is based on what they can achieve athletically with their body and food is the fuel for it, said Barth.

O’Connor added that when you eat smart choices, “you just feel better and it shows in your performance.” When you eat poorly, with what O’Connor described as sugars,

fast food, energy drinks and alcohol, “your health declines and your body doesn’t have the quality energy to feed off of.”

When asking the athletes what the good foods were that they felt should be eaten as well as what they like to eat to give them an energy boost prior to competition, O’Connor said that she preferred pasta, eggs and bananas before meets to give her the energy to compete.

Barth said he favored complex carbohydrates like brown rice or whole wheat bread along with lean proteins to give him energy.

He added that he eats “a balance of various foods for practice and healthy, high carb snacks for competitions,” and he felt greasy foods and alcohol were the worst things to have for athletes and people in general.

For the everyday person who is not in athletic competition, the desire to follow a strict diet and stay away from some foods that may taste better at times can be tough.

For the KSC athletes, it was interesting to see that they had two very strong and similar opinions.

The first was on dieting and that their coaches had spoke about how cutting calories was not the best diet but rather cutting out unhealthy eating choices led to improvement in athleticism.

Barth and O’Connor also believed strongly in drinking water and how much is can do for you.

Barth said that “water should be an athlete's primary drink, it keeps away cramps and helps flush toxins out of the body,” and when he ate healthy he feels more awake and stronger.

These methods for nutrition can be applied to the everyday student

to increase productivity for classes and to make them overall feel better.

Caleb Ledoux, a non-athlete here at KSC, gave some insight about how he went vegetarian for a few months. He said, “It was an eye opening experience that at first was really hard but over time I felt better and better. Mentally I felt better because I was staying away from unhealthier foods and physically my body was responding well.”

Ledoux continued, “It was interesting to be putting good stuff in my body and actually see a difference in how it made me feel.”

Jacey Chavez can be contacted at jchavex@kscequinox.com

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to expect in pre-season to train even harder than I did this past season.”

Dodd who was rewarded captain this previous season as a junior and she said she felt that she took a big leadership role for the younger players and they felt comfortable talking about issues or concerns on and off the court.

After a successful season, the volleyball team goes into the off-season training as hard as they can to compete for the LEC Championship again next season.

Simon Mauchly can be contacted at smauchly@kscequinox.com

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Fall Sports: Success in Owl Nation CAROLINE PERRY

SPortS Editor As the Keene State College fall sports come to an end, it’s important to reflect on the tremendous effort and dedication that each athlete holds for their team and craft.

This season, the KSC athletes performed exceptionally well and proved themselves to be a threat.

KSC men’s soccer finished their season with a 7-5-5 record.

The men’s Little East Conference (LEC) record ended up being 3-2-2.

KSC women’s soccer finished out their season with 11-8-1 overall record, their home record being 8-3. The women’s LEC record came out to be 5-2.

For volleyball and field hockey fans, this season turned out to be especially exciting. The women’s volleyball team had a strong start to their season, holding a 15-0 win streak which set a new record for KSC women’s volleyball. They held a home record of 10-1, their overall record being 24-6.

The women’s volleyball team made a run for the LEC championship, but fell short in the finals, however this year's volleyball team was by far the best it had been in years, said Rachel Lamica and Jennifer Severino.

Women’s field hockey had an extremely successful run as well, said Rachel Loseby and Ally McCall. Their overall record was 14-9, their home record being 9-4.

With strong players and leaders, the women’s field hockey team was able to secure a 9-0 win over Westfield State University (WSU), which made them the 2017 LEC Champions.

They went on to play in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), but lost in the first round 1-4. Women’s and men’s cross country also faced plenty of highs throughout their season, but are still up for races this coming Saturday, Nov. 11, and the following Saturday, Nov. 18.

The women’s team placed sixth out of seven teams in the LEC, while the men’s placed second out of seven.

With so much success in fall sports, Owl Nation can not wait to see what the winter sports hold for KSC. Caroline Perry can be contacted at cperry@kscequinox.com

The Italian National Team are facing elimination from next year’s World Cup after losing 1-0 to Sweden in a World Cup qualifying play-off match on Nov. 10.

Sweden overpowered and dominated against the Italians, as Swedish goalkeeper Robin Olsen only made two saves during the game.

Now Italy is in a very tricky spot now if they don’t defeat Sweden in the second leg, the team will miss out on a first World Cup since 1958.

If Italy doesn't qualify, goalkeeper and Italian team legend Gianluigi Buffon will miss out on his record sixth World Cup appearance.

Sweden won the first leg of the match at the Friends Arena, with the only goal coming from defensive midfielder Jakob Johannson, who drilled a shot past Italy keeper Buffon after it deflected off of Italy defender Daniele De Rossi.

Sweden was the better team in the first-half, even though Italy improved a little bit in the second half, they couldn’t break through Sweden’s defense. The Swedish played with a high energy and tempo, making the attacks aggressive. Swedish striker Marcus Berg was booked within 50 seconds of the game starting, showing the team’s animosity.

The animosity was heightened when Swedish defender Ola Toivonen appeared to elbow Italy defender Leonardo Bonucci in the face, fracturing his nose. Italy go into the second leg without central midfielder Marco Verratti after he picked up a second yellow card after a challenge on Marcus Berg, leaving him suspended.

This match was very significant for keeper Gianluigi Buffon, as he is set to retire at the end of the 20172018 season. So if Italy fail to beat Sweden at the San Siro stadium in the second leg, it could be the italian legend’s last match in between the posts for the Azzurri after 20 years. If the Azzurri defeat Sweden in the second leg, Buffon will appear at his sixth World Cup, a personal record. Buffon was reported saying: “It’s happened so many times in my career that I’ve been in front of important crossroads. It doesn’t change anything concerning my future, what would change is that a win, more than meaning I would continue in the national shirt, would mean so much for all of us and for the footballing movement.” (nbcsports.com) Sweden look to ruin the Italian’s dreams though as the team looks to avenge the loss to Italy in Euro 2016 and qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 2006.

Buffon remains as the only player from Italy’s 2006 World Cup winning squad and looks to make his legacy for Italian football something that should never be forgotten.

For football fans, a World Cup without Italy and Buffon would be disgraceful. Italy fans and non Italy fans alike can all appreciate the spectacular moments that Buffon has graced the beautiful game with.

As a fan of football and Buffon, I’m hoping that Italy can bounce back at home to defeat Sweden and qualify for next year’s World Cup, because I’m sure I’m not the only one who wants to see the Italian legend between the sticks on the international stage just one last time.

Luke Stergiou can be contacted at lstergiou@ksceqinox.com

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The Keene State College women’s field hockey team took a victory over Westfield State University (WSU) to take the title for 2017 Little East Conference (LEC) Champions. The team had a final score of 9-0.

KSC field hockey becomes 2017 LEC Champions CAROLINE PERRY

team celebrated in their glory, taking a large team photo with each member beaming from ear to ear.

First-year and KSC goalie Rachel Loseby said it was The clock ticked down, each second less bringing a surreal moment when the team knew they had won it. the women’s field hockey team closer to their Little East “It was pretty great, especially experiencing that as Conference (LEC) Championship victory. a freshman.” Loseby added that throughout the season Up by nine goals, the moment became surreal as the the seniors had pushed the team and reminded them of clock hit zero, naming Keene State College women’s the importance of the LEC tournament, so that initial field hockey as the 2017 LEC Champions. drive really helped them push their way to their end of With success in their grasp, the women’s field hockey the season success.

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“Going into the championship knowing the importance of it, as well as recognizing all the hard work that the team put in to be there really pushed as a team,” said Loseby.

Sophomore Ally McCall said it felt unbelievable to win the LEC championship, adding that it was her team's goal from the start of the season.

McCall stressed the importance of hard work when searching for success.

“We were definitely the fittest team in the entire LEC,

which helped us be so successful.” McCall said that going into the game was nerve wracking, but exciting all at the same time. “Throughout the season before every game we would say ‘be legendary,’ so I think that was the mindset we had going into the game.”

The depth of the KSC women’s win was surreal, winning 9-0 against a team who had beaten the number one seed. McCall said she had only ever played one other game where her team had scored nine goals.

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Owls stack up LEC awards Six women soccer players receive LEC All-Conference awards CAROLINE PERRY

SportS Editor Six Keene State College athleteswere chosen for Little East Conference (LEC) All-Conference awards, all those athletes being members of the KSC women’s soccer team.

The members included senior Taylor Farland, junior Patricia Norton, sophomore Nicole De Almeida, senior Tori Laires, senior Katie Silegy and senior Julia Pearson.

For junior Patricia Norton, receiving an LEC All-Conference came as a bit of a surprise for her.

Due to an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury [tear] Norton was only able to play in eight games.

Norton said, “I didn’t think it was possible for a player to get it without finishing the season, so I was just very honored to receive it.”

Norton added that she really had her team to thank for her accomplishment.

“My team was a huge part of my success. It takes a whole team to be successful not just one player. It was those around me that helped me achieve what I did,” said Norton.

Senior Taylor Farland also thought that receiving the LEC AllConference award was exciting and something to be proud of.

“It's a really exciting to be recognized by all the coaches that make up the Little East Conference. I think that it's something that all of the girls that received an award should be very proud of their accomplishments.”

Farland added that without her team she would not have been able to accomplish everything that she has.

Every player brings something to the table said Farland, and that every single player has contributed to who she is as an athlete.

“Whether it is their leadership skills, their athletic abilities, or even just their personality; every teammate and coach contributed to making the player that I am today,” said Farland.

Fellow senior Tori Laires said that she had set out to achieve her goal of getting an LEC award back in the summer.

After an injury last year in soccer, Laires said she had extra motivation to play the best she could for senior year.

“You never know what can happen, you can get injured at any moment. So for my senior year I really set a goal to just work as hard as I possibly could,” said Laires.

Receiving her award was “amazing” and Laires said she felt “honored and just proud of myself.”

Laires also said that without her team she wouldn’t have been able to achieve all that she had.

Laires added that her team contributed to level of play primarily.

“We have amazing chemistry, especially since we have 11 seniors. We adapt to each others playing styles to create the most success for our team,” said Laires.

With the KSC soccer season over now, the team looks forward to enjoying some off time and working to improve for next year said Norton.

“Unfortunately due to tearing my ACL for the second time, this will be my final season. I was glad I was able to end my season with this award, it’s truly an honor and a great way to end it all,” said Norton.

The women’s soccer team ended their season with a 11-8-1 record, their home record being 8-3 and their away record being 3-5-1.

The team had 20 games overall and scored a total of 52 goals.

“Just being able to play together made it all worth while, but especially be awarded and LEC AllConference award, that just really made it the perfect ending,” said Farland.

The departing seniors have high hopes for their team in the 2018 season and look forward to seeing KSC accomplish even more said Norton.

Caroline Perry can be contacted at cperry@kscequinox.com

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I was just very honored to receive [the LEC award].

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Six Keene State College women’s soccer players received a Little East Conference Award.

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