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However, Treadwell said, the number is contingent on employee approval and may JESSICA RICARD decrease. nEws Editor It has not been reported whether or not the voluntary separation agreements have Fifty-two employees will be leaving led KSC to reach its financial target of $5.5 Keene State College through voluntary sep- million. aration agreements, Interim President of “I feel very strong that if someone’s going KSC Dr. Melinda Treadwell said in an All through this application process, they’ve

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done long, hard soul-searching, and they believe this is the right thing for them and there are reasons that they’ve come forward.

It’s necessary therefore that I honor them,” Treadwell said in an interview with The Equinox.

Treadwell has been working to restructure KSC since the fall semester of 2017.

“We are doing radical, difficult work and by and large our students are happy and are

feeling the support here,” Treadwell said in the meeting.

In late November, Treadwell announced the voluntary separation program, which would allow faculty employed by the college for six or more years and staff employed by the college for five or more years to depart from the college. If college employees met certain criteria, the agreement would include cash incentives, and, for staff, medi-

cal extensions.

However, only 29 individuals applied -- 25 staff and four faculty -- by the Jan. 12 deadline.

KSC hadn’t reached their target. They reopened applications, but this time to more faculty and staff members. Employees who have worked at KSC for as little as one year were allowed to apply, which expanded the amount of applications from 29 to 52.

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Sustainability has become one of the main focuses of Keene State College, and efforts have been made to keep the college sustainable.

From compost bins in the dining commons to replacing crude heating oil with purified waste vegetable oil, the college has made countless efforts to reduce our carbon footprint.

However, it is one thing for the college to practice sustainability, but it is another thing for students to make sustainability a priority in their lives.

Many people contribute to pollution and global warming without even realizing it.

According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the average U.S. citizen emits 20 tons of carbon dioxide every year, which is five times higher than the global average.

What you eat in the household also contributes to our impact on carbon emissions. The University of Michigan found the average U.S household food consumption emits 8.1 metric tons of carbon dioxide every year.

The emitted carbon dioxide in the air gets trapped in the atmosphere, causing climate change.

Even though humans can have a negative impact on the earth, we can not give up.

Raising awareness about climate change and doing what we can to live a sustainable life is key to having a healthier planet. The first step in doing so is to try and incorporate sustainability into our own lives.

KSC is already taking steps to make sure students will graduate with the skills and mindset of living sustainably.

In 2015, when Director of Sustainability Cary Gaunt first arrived at KSC, five learning outcomes were established, which are the goals and skills the college hopes students will develop by the time they graduate.

The learning outcomes include critical thinking, creative inquiry, intercultural competence, civic engagement and commitment to well-being.

However, a sixth learning outcome was talked about but not yet established: sustainability.

KSC Program Manager for Diversity and Multiculturalism Initiatives, Kimberly Schmidl-Gagne said, at the time the learning outcomes were first developed, the sustainability outcome was discussed, but never implemented. “There are different ways of viewing sustainability, all very important, all very relevant, and we were struggling to come to some consensus about what that outcome might focus on,” Schmidl-Gagne said.

A few years after the idea of sustainability as a learning outcome was scrapped, Gaunt and Geography Professor Jo Beth Mullens teamed up to officially establish it.

Gaunt and Mullens worked with the International Society of Sustainability Professionals and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability. Last semester, Gaunt, Schmidl-Gagne, R.O.C.K.S. and the Eco-Reps worked together in creating the sustainability learning outcome.

“We want people that come to school here to not only live and learn at a sustainable campus, but understand what that means and understand how to carry those values into their lives after Keene State,” Gaunt said.

Schmidl-Gagne said the biggest obstacle was summing up the sustainability outcome in a few sentences.

That’s when Gaunt and Schmidl-Gagne reached out to

students.

KSC Eco-Rep Justin Landry said the EcoReps and R.O.C.K.S. worked together to develop the language of the sustainability learning outcome by brainstorming key concepts through creating a word cloud. Landry said sustainability can be applied to almost every major and course offered at KSC. “I think the learning outcomes, specifically sustainability, are a great idea,” Landry said. “All the learning outcomes and all the things that make up the learning outcomes can be incorporated into any class, and I think that’s especially true of sustainability.

Even classes that are completely unrelated still have some component of sustainability.”

Gaunt said she is hoping the new outcome will be developed by Earth Day on April 22.

Gaunt said either one or two public forums will be possibly held in the beginning of April on the input of the learning outcome draft.

She said there are also focus groups with different majors and stakeholders on campus.

By Earth Day, Gaunt hopes the outcome plan will be “rock solid” and approved by the College Senate.

Schmidl-Gagne said if a student wants to help out with developing the outcome to talk to either Gaunt or Mullens and to keep an eye out for the public forums.

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Students conduct research on sustainable transportation VINCENT MOORE

Equinox Staff With college debt becoming a serious concern for many KSC students, some are looking at different ways to save money: car sharing might be one way, using the bus might be another.

One area where they could cut costs is transportation, as discovered by “Are We There Yet? Sustainable Transportation in Keene and the Monadnock Region,” a 93-page report conducted by KSC geography majors Aimee Krafft and Gabriela Pacheco and now geography alumna Lisa Donnelly.

Professor of Geography Dr. Chris Cusack said he met with the Monadnock Alliance for Sustainable Transportation (MAST) to come up with a project to offer his students

as their senior capstone project, a research project geography seniors must complete in partnership with an external organization.

While MAST did research on the entire Monadnock region, Donnelly, Krafft and Pacheco focused on the Keene area.

The three students worked with representatives from the organization and had to create their own original surveys, disseminate it in the area and do statistical analysis with the results, Cusack said. “That’s what we set out to do. To see what is the interest of the Keene State College student population for these various alternatives,” Cusack said.

The group looked at three methods of transportation, bus and carpooling/carsharing, along with what benefits and challenges each had to offer.

One discovery made by the survey was

that 89 percent of students surveyed don’t ride the City Express bus.

“The bus stops several times around campus, but because the campus is so small, students don’t really need to use it as a campus shuttle, and when they do use it, they use it to go off campus,” Donnelly said.

The survey asked students for places where they would like the bus to stop.

“They offered a lot of off-campus stops that they’d prefer over on-campus stops for the bus,” Krafft said.

The group also looked into the prospects of carsharing.

“Smith College, not too far away in Massachusetts, does have car share... if it works there, it could work here, is what the students found,” Cusack said.

“In order for carsharing to succeed in Keene, there would need to be a pretty large

effort put into educating the public about how carsharing works and doing other kinds of promotional outreach,” Donnelly said.

One interesting fact Krafft said was that students would support having an on-campus parking spot dedicated to ridesharing, despite KSC’s limited amount of parking space.

Ridesharing found itself a high interest level among the students surveyed with 74 percent of respondents reporting that they’ve used a ridesharing app in the past, but also brought major concerns from female students about safety.

In spite of the challenges these three alternative transportation methods face, the findings of the survey indicate that they are options that KSC students are interested in.

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Eco-friendly practices: from Nepal to New Hampshire RACHEL VITELLO

Equinox Staff “Promoting health and the environment through a synergy of man and land.” This is the statement that the Kevin Rohan Memorial Eco Foundation (KRMEF) brands themselves with.

On Tuesday, Jan. 30, the Keene State College Environmental Studies Department hosted a lecture on sustainability and resilience in Nepal. The lecture was given by Krishna Gurung, one of the founders of KRMEF. Gurung founded KRMEF alongside his wife in 2008 in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. According to their website, the organization’s goal is to establish a variety of eco-friendly practices for communities in Nepal in order to create a more sustainable, healthy environment.

The eco-friendly practices that KRMEF brings to Nepali villages was one of the main topics discussed at the lecture. Pictures were shown of houses that had been built out of purely recycled and natural materials, like glass bottles, thatch and bamboo.

There was also an example of sustainable energy production, where cow dung and urine are mixed and stored in a tank that retains off-gassing of methane that can then be used for cooking.

Gurung said, “Agriculture and creating jobs with the local resources is the most important thing.”

Creating local jobs is another goal of KRMEF. “Through KRMEF people can get a job and send their children to school...[Local people] can work and they can think about the community,” Gurung said.

KRMEF also benefits from volunteering. In 2014 and 2016, a group of KSC students traveled to Nepal and volunteered with the organization. Professor of Environmental Studies Dr. Renate Gebauer said, “When we [the student groups] were at the foundation, we’d do projects.

We always do whatever they need help with. It could be from jewelry making to gardening. The first year, we helped with building a Leela café. We worked with the locals to help where it was needed.”

Leela’s Eco Café, according to the KRMEF website, is a café that serves biodynamic and eco-friendly Nepali food for locals. Their proceeds go toward helping the sustainability of the region.

Gebauer is leading another group of KSC honors students from the global engagement class to Nepal again this year. An internship that takes students to Nepal for five weeks is also being developed. “I think that broadening the perspective of how you see the world and sustainability in the environment is so important... We can learn

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Krishna Gurung, one of the founders of the Kevin Rohan Memorial Eco Foundation (KRMEF) spoke about sustainability and resilience in Nepal on Tuesday, Jan. 30.

so much just from the people in Nepal and how they build their communities; cultures can always learn from each other,” Gebauer said on the importance of these trips.

KSC first-year and exchange student from Nepal, Benajil Rai, attended the lecture. Rai is planning on minoring in sustainability and said, “I personally support sustainable living... I really liked seeing how they utilized local resources to make the village sustainable.”

Rai also said that the lecture made her wonder what else can be done to make our living and our environment sustainable.

“Even a small thing can make a big difference, that’s what I found the most interesting part,” Rai said.

Making a difference in the world was a strong message given by this lecture. “The Gurungs are really an example that even if you are in a very difficult situation, you can change the world,” Gebauer said. “Everyone can find their way to make a difference.”

Disclaimer: Benajil Rai works as Multimedia Director for The Equinox.

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State students are most interested in saving money. That was the biggest benefit as opposed to reducing air pollution or vehicle miles traveled,” Cusack said.

Donnelly herself understands how important saving money can be for college students.

“If your transportation options are less expensive and they’re convenient and you use them, there’s a potential there to save a lot of money, and I know on a college student’s budget that might actually be really important sometimes.”

Vincent Moore can be contacted at vmoore@kscequinox.com

STUDENT ASSEMBLY GRACE PECCI

Copy Editor Keene State College’s Student Assembly came together on Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018 at 6:30 p.m.. A funding request for The Equinox for $25,000 was discussed. The Equinox’s Administrative Executive Editor Sebastien Mehegan and Business Manager Puja Thapa went in front of the assembly to explain why they made the request.

Mehegan explained The Equinox was given about $63,000 last year, despite requesting about $85,000. Treasurer of Student Assembly Casey Matthews explained to the assembly that last year after The Equinox’s budget was given, the previous administrative executive editor and business manager appealed the budget. Matthews said at the time, it didn’t make sense to give the extra $10,000 that was requested that could help other clubs. Student Government Advisor Brandon Mathieu said The Equinox was told to come back in the fall with the request.

Mehegan said that when The Equinox requested a budget of about $85,000, it was already a “shoestring budget,” and the budget wouldn’t be enough for this upcoming year.

Thapa explained due to the lack of budget, The Equinox had to cut 50 percent of its color pages, missed this past annual conference they attend where they received a national award and couldn’t fix two computers that need to be replaced.

The request was approved anonymously.

In other business, Matthews said the budget submissions for clubs will open next week. Mathieu said they will be over communicating this year to clubs and that no deadlines have passed yet.

Student Body President Kenadee Cadieux said four to five Provost candidates will be on campus Feb. 12, 19, 23, 26 and Mar. 2.

Grace Pecci can be contacted at gpecci@kscequinox.com

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Service-oriented from the start

Orientation program awarded for outstanding volunteerism MOLLY SPOONER

Equinox Staff Keene State College’s First-Year Orientation program is not just a week to get acclimated to the campus, but also a time to give back to the community.

The Orientation program has received the award for Outstanding Volunteer Group from the Monadnock Center for Violence Prevention (MCVP).

Coordinator of Community Service at KSC Jessica Gagne Cloutier said, “This is an award given annually to a group that supports the work on Monadnock Center for Violence Prevention.”

MCVP is an organization located in Jaffrey, N.H., and their main mission, according the MCVP Board of Directors, is to create a community-based environment where interpersonal violence has been replaced by equality, empowerment and emotional and physical safety.

During the New Student Orientation week, on Community Service Day, over 900 students were assigned different community services projects throughout Keene. One of the service projects that students participated in was building four boardwalks over stream crossings along the Gramwick Trail in Jaffrey.

Additionally, students washed and sanitized all resident wheelchairs at Westwood Center, spent time visiting with children at Keene Day Care and completed beautification along about 15 miles of road. Twenty other projects were completed by various orientation groups during this year’s Community Service Day alone.

KSC is a college that looks to integrate community involvement amongst all the students here, Director of Transitions & Parent Programs Casey Justice said.

“Keene State College is a part of the Keene community. We want new students to exemplify our motto, ‘Enter to Learn, Go Forth to Serve,’ and what better way to do this than by having it be a part of one of the first programs that they participate in,” Justice said. “This past year signified our third year of collaborating with the Community Service Office and the [Keene] community, and we hope to maintain this tradition for many years to come.”

In terms of the award, Justice said, “It is quite an honor for the Keene State College orientation program to win this award. The college works very closely with MCVP in a variety of ways, and this is just one small piece of that community effort that we want new students to be a part of.”

Senior and Orientation Leader Emma Hamilton said, “The orientation program includes community service day because it gives students a chance to give back to the community that they are about to be apart of.”

Hamilton has also served as an orientation leader. “In the past two years, I have stressed to my group about how important it is to give back because you are not only apart of the KSC community, but you have now immersed yourself in something bigger,” Hamilton said.

Hamilton said, “Big or small, our students make an impact.”

Individuals from MCVP were unable to respond for comment.

First-year Orientation Coordinators Bailey St. Laurent and Eric Walsh did not respond for comment.

The second round of applications closed Wednesday, Jan. 31, and applicants were notified of their acceptance Thursday, Feb. 1.

Of the potential 52 employees, nine faculty members will leave KSC at the end of the academic year, and 43 staff members will be leaving Feb. 16, unless extended or delayed departure dates have been otherwise coordinated.

The names of those leaving the college, Treadwell said, will be released in an email early next week. However, employees have the option not to disclose their name.

During the meeting, Professor of Education Dr. Ellen Nuffer said many faculty members are feeling challenged by hearing about different employees leaving, and not knowing for sure who they are.

“I fully appreciate the challenge that you [Treadwell] must have with not wanting to release the names of the people who have taken the voluntary separations,” Nuffer said. “I can think personally about a project that I have in mind that I was going to leverage with XYZ individual, and then we hear through the grapevine, ‘Oh, they’re not even going to be here’...

I just wanted to let you know, just from a personal example, that it’s tough not knowing who I need... to work with in the next week before they leave.”

Staff who opt for the voluntary separation will receive 90 days pay and medical extension; faculty will receive pay equivalent to the cost of the staff package, Treadwell said.

While the last day for staff will be Feb. 16, unless a delayed departure date has been otherwise orga-

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nized, faculty have to wait until after July 1. Treadwell said the purpose of this is to extend the program’s cost over two fiscal years, saving the college money.

The voluntary separation gives the college the opportunity to explore reorganizing the work structure of the campus. Treadwell said positions and departments will be evaluated in terms of needs and responsibilities.

“And if we still have too much capacity in certain service areas and we have individuals or positions that can’t move to help elsewhere, that’s where we may move to further cutting, so that we have some margin to invest in the gaps we still need to fill,” Treadwell said in the interview.

In an interview with The Equinox, Program Manager for Diversity & Multiculturalism Initiatives Kimberly Schmidl-Gagne said before laying off any employee, the college will evaluate other options, such as reducing contracts or hours, job sharing and furlough days. Layoffs would be a last resort.

“None of this is easy,” SchmidlGagne said.

A second All Campus Meeting will be held Feb. 16 at 12:45 p.m. in the Redfern Arts Center.

Additionally, a celebration of “service and community” will be held on Feb. 16 for those who took the voluntary separation, Treadwell said. “[It’s] sad to see [employees] go,” Schmidl-Gagne said. “February 16 will be a really challenging day.”

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Understanding polyamory

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Keep an open mind about everything, even what you’re not used to EQUINOX STAFF

What exactly is polyamory? According to morethantwo.com, “A polyamorous relationship is a romantic relationship where the people in the relationship agree that it’s okay for everyone to be open to or have other romantic partners.” The two people involved in the relationship are compliant with their partner being romantically involved with multiple people.

It is common to confuse polyamory with polygamy because they sound so similar. According to MerriamWebster Dictionary, polygamy is a “marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time.”

People involved in a polyamorous relationship view their partners as more than just a number and do not “collect” spouses.

Polyamorous people are not “cheaters” because each person knows that the other is seeing multiple people aside from them. Without this level of consent, it would not be a polyamorous relationship.

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A common misconception of polyamorous relationships is that they are the same as an open relationship.

An open relationship, as defined by openrelationships. org, is a “committed relationship between two individuals who want to share a life together but agree to a non-monogamous lifestyle.” This means that, although the two people express romantic feelings for each other, they do not want to be totally tied to just one person.

To the average person, these two types of relationships may seem very similar, but to those involved in one of these relationships they are completely different.

While both of these types of relationships require consent from both parties in order to see other people, the emotional connection involved in each relationship is different.

These types of relationships may not be for everyone, but if it works for those involved, they should not be judged.

People who are more old-fashioned or conservative background might be less open and accepting of this type of lifestyle. Polyamorous relationships do not line-

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up with everyone’s ideals. But just because you do not agree mean that people who willingly chose to take part in these kind of relationships love their partners any less.

It is important to understand that people have different beliefs when it comes to relationships and romantic partners. A person’s relationship status, whatever it may be, does not define them.

Communication is extremely important for a successful, strong, healthy relationship.

Education about various relationship types, such as a polyamory, is important in terms of being understanding and accepting of others.

People in a polyamorous relationship connect with multiple people for different reasons just like people connect with friends. You might have one specific friend you go to for emotional support, another for help with school and another to just have fun with. It is essentially the same thing for people in a polyamorous relationship, but in a romantic aspect.

Relationships, like a polyamorous one, put truth and

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honesty above all. This is something that everyone who is currently in, or looking to be in, a serious relationship should follow.

Not all relationships are similar, but they all have the same general idea; to respect and love your partner.

As long as there is good communication from all fronts in a relationship, other people should not judge them.

The most important things for people going into relationships is to understand what they are getting into with their partner. Be sure to discuss what you want out of the relationship so you are not getting into something you cannot handle. If the person you are getting involved with is seeking to be in a polyamorous or open relationship and you cannot handle that, speak up.

Starting off your relationship on the right foot with an open and honest conversation is essential.

Keep in mind that there are people who partake in numerous types of relationships; some people might not feel the same about what you consider “normal” and it is important to be open-minded and accepting of others’ choices.

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STAFF COMMENTARY

Crosswalk Improvements

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Part of the City of Keene’s improvement plan includes adding raised traffic islands for crosswalks and extended curbs at Elliot Street. This is the same location Abbie Sweatt, a former KSC student, was hit by a car in 2016.

Even with Keene’s crosswalk changes, it’s important to pay attention LINDSAY GIBBONS

Equinox Staff In April of 2016, Keene State College senior Abbie Sweatt was hit by a car while crossing the Elliot Street crosswalk. She was taken by helicopter to DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire with serious head injuries. She was able to recover enough to attend her graduation in May. The crash heightened students’ concerns about safety of crosswalks on Elliot Street. Additionally, it prompted students who knew Sweatt to collect signatures for a petition to request the city to do something to improve the safety of these crosswalks.

While the city is starting to make changes in order to make crosswalks safer, including flashing lights to increase visibility and a traffic island for pedestrians to take a brief pause while passing, it will not entirely solve the problem. Kurt D. Blomquist, Keene’s public works director has stated that distracted driving and walking will also play a role into making the crosswalks safe again.

Although distracted driving is a commonly discussed problem, the concept of distracted walking is a relatively new one. Even though it might be funny to laugh at the man who walks into a wall while on the phone or a woman who falls into a fountain while texting, distracted walking is a real and serious problem,

especially among college students.

Incidents and injuries from distracted walking are on the rise. According to federal data on highway fatalities, there were 5,987 pedestrian fatalities in 2016 – the highest number since 1990 – and a nine percent increase from the data collected in 2015.

Using cell phones while walking puts both ourselves and others in danger. Over half of all distracted walking-related injuries occur in familiar areas, proving that we need to stay aware of our surroundings, familiar or not.

It’s not just texting either. Talking, checking e-mail, using social media and even playing games all contribute to injuries associated with distracted walking.

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Voter registration simplified thanks to House Bill 1772 IZZY MANZO

Equinox Staff As a person who enjoys doing the absolute bare minimum, imagine my delight when I found that a Keene lawmaker wants to make it as easy as humanly possible to vote. Representative William A. Pearson is the primary sponsor of House Bill 1772, which would allow people to register to vote online.

The Keene Sentinel reported that 37 states and the District of Columbia have implemented online registration since 2002, and Pearson said that those states see a higher voter turnout and decreased costs for elections. “For me, this is commonsense election law reform that New Hampshire probably should have done years ago,” he said.

Pearson also told The Sentinel that New Hampshire already has a pretty good track record in terms of participation, which he hopes to preserve through HB 1772. “We consistently see some of the highest voter turnout in the country, and we have a unique tradition of being really politically engaged in the state,” he said.

Similar bills have been introduced the past two years by Senator Bette Lasky of Nashua, but both were shot down in the Senate. Pearson, however, still remains optimistic that some form of online voting will be implemented soon, pointing out that the majority of voters he’s spoken with support HB 1772.

It comes at a miraculously convenient time -- New Hampshire has been accused of illegally busing thousands of people here to cast their votes, and although there’s exactly no evidence of that happening, a lot of bills have been aimed at preventing this non-existent voter fraud by limiting voters’ rights. “It really is astonishing that New Hampshire manages to maintain such high voter turnout,” Pearson told the Sentinel. “I’m skeptical we’ll stay in that top bracket unless we start doing some changes that at least many of the other states have already implemented.”

I don’t think I need to stress how important it is to vote, but just in case: it’s really, really important to vote and make your voice heard, even on a smaller scale than presidential elections.

Thankfully, HB 1772 makes it very easy to register.

“But I don’t want to vote,” you say. “There’s no point!”

This is where you’re wrong. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a worse statement in my life, actually. Unless it will somehow actually kill you to register, HB 1772 would make it possible to register without getting out of bed and changing into your pair

Students at KSC are rarely more vulnerable than when they are crossing busy intersections surrounding the college, such as Main Street and Winchester Street, which is why it is so important to pay attention to what is going on around us. While the city is working to make improvements to make crosswalks safer, it will only work if students are paying attention to their surroundings.

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of ‘going out’ sweatpants, which I think is incredible.

It gets even better than this: once you’ve hypothetically registered online, Keene State College has shuttles to take you straight to the polls on election day. It’s like my mildest fantasies are coming true (not wildest, this is pretty awesome but let’s not get carried away).

I know that registering can be a pain: as a creature of procrastination, registering to vote gets filed under “I’ll get around to that later.” You know deep down inside that you should definitely do it, but at the same time it’s something that’s so easy to put off. HB 1772 would give you the power to register whenever it’s convenient for you, and all you need to do is put in minimal effort. It’s awesome.

Izzy Manzo can be contacted at imanzo@kscequinox.com

How to make safe housing choices for living off campus CHLOE GIARRAPUTO

opinionS Editor Safe housing is something all students who are preparing to live off-campus should be thinking of.

With the second semester already in progress, students are making arrangements for that next step.

A lot of preparation goes into planning ahead for another semester, such as putting together your schedule, checking what books you need to buy or figuring out a housing situation.

According to Keene State College’s website, “Keene State College requires all first and second year students to live on campus.”

But once KSC students reach their junior year, they are eligible to live off campus if they choose to do so.

Those who choose not to live in a residence hall after sophomore year are attracted to the freedom of living in an off-campus location.

They can still be in walking distance from campus and downtown, but feel more in control of themselves because they are in their first house or apartment without parental supervision.

But with this freedom comes some major responsibilities.

There is a lot to put into consideration when thinking about moving off-campus.

These things include finding roommates, furnishing the rooms and paying for Wi-Fi. But most importantly, making sure you are moving into a safe location.

If there is one thing to put at the top of your off-campus housing must-haves list, it is safety.

Now, people have different definitions of safety but that does not mean anyone should be too lax about their well-being.

KSC students living in off-campus locations have had their homes broken into in the past and unfortunately, it will likely happen again in the future if the proper precautions are not taken.

If you are planning to live off-campus for your junior or senior year, make sure to check up on your apartment or house before you go home for breaks.

If your thermostat needs to be set at a certain temperature so your pipes do not freeze or burst, do so.

Always remember to scan your home over and make sure all windows and doors are properly locked since these are typically the first way someone who is breaking and entering into a residence will enter.

While viewing various off-campus housing options, ask the landlord about safety protocols such as locks on the doors and windows.

Make sure that the locks are functioning and if they are not, be sure that they will be replaced before you move anything into that location.

Prior to moving off-campus, look up crime reports around the area you are thinking of moving to.

If one option is located in an area with numerous crime reports and safety violations, maybe you should opt for the safer choice.

While there are numerous things students who are thinking about moving offcampus should consider, safety should definitely be a top priority.

Chloe Giarraputo can be contacted at cgiarraputo@ksc.equinox.com

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If there is one thing to put at the top of your off-campus housing must haves list, it is safety.

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Rachel’s Reviews: Band Aid RACHEL BLUMBERG

Equinox Staff Last January, I had the honor to watch as female film actress Zoe Lister-Jones (New Girl, Breaking Upwards) not only made her debut as a director, writer and producer, but began to challenge the perspective of women on Hollywood sets with her all-female crew at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Her raw comedy “Band Aid” (2017) premiered in beautiful Park City, Utah and, since then, has been sweeping the independent film charts with rave reviews from The Hollywood Reporter to The New York Times and more.

The film is about a couple, played

by Lister-Jones and Adam Pally (Dirty Grandpa, The Mindy Project), who can’t stop fighting. After being advised to sort out their quarrels by their therapist, they recall their mutual love for music and decide to start a band. Once their first practice at improvised fight-singing is a success, they decide to take it to the next level, adding weird, next-door neighbor Dave, played by Fred Armisen (SNL, Portlandia), as drummer.

“Band Aid” immediately begins with a shot of a dripping faucet, an instant attention grab, as both the sound and closeup of the drip reels the viewer in. The short montage of the dirty kitchen to establish the scene is then followed by the introduction of the couple and their instant argument about who should have cleaned the sink. This exchange between the two is as witty as it is dark, with their jokes ranging from drug overdosing to the Holocaust.

Yet, this modern dark humour had the entire theater of its premiere in absolute

uproar over the course of the film.

The spirited banter and pristine comic timing found within the film aren’t the only thing that gets critic’s attention, though. Within the one-liners and visual gags, the script also deals with the commonalities of dual-gendered relationships and the idea of the male-female divide.

After the screening, I got the chance to listen in on a Q&A, as Lister-Jones answered questions about her inspiration for the film. She shared, “As a screenwriter, I was thinking about what I’d have the most fun writing and I’ve always had a lot of fun writing songs. Really, the birth of the story was looking for something that could have music as its center.”

Lister-Jones told Vulture in the week after Sundance that she also approached the writing process of “Band Aid” with the question, “If one could accept that we are distinctly different creatures, would that allow us to be in a relationship with more ease?” The couple she wrote about in the film slowly began to realize that the mending of their relationship is less about the lyrics they’re expressing and more about the understanding of one another, an idea that Lister-Jones is personally passionate about to explore in every aspect of her career, including on her own set.

During the Q&A at Sundance, ListerJones began by inviting up all her crew members to stand with her. The whole theater went wild as fifteen of her all female crew stood out of their seats and made their way to the stage to take in the empowering experience.

Lister-Jones’ decision of populating her first directorial experience with all women was sparked by the idea that women are

constantly undermined and underrepresented behind the camera. The choice wasn’t a rejection or denial of men, but a celebration for female power. Lister-Jones shared in Vulture, “These are all women that don’t get the opportunities. To not only be given that opportunity, but to be in this slight universe where everyone has an opportunity and nobody’s being interrupted, it influenced the work we were making. I wanted to be in an environment that would make me my best artist.”

Having women operate mostly male-dominated jobs, such as gaffer, grip and truck driver, it gave the women on set a sense of empowerment over the art they were all helping to create.

Since the work was acquired and distributed by IFC Films last year, Zoe ListerJones has been asked to attend more and more production meetings, and has seen a small, yet present, influx in Hollywood studios wanting to hire female directors.

In response to the question of why all women, she responded to IndieWire, “I don’t really have a moment where I remember making that decision. For some reason, it lived in me for a really long time, that this was something that I want to create in this world: A place where women, in a collective, get to do work that has otherwise been sort of difficult for them to break into.” She continued to explain, “The reality is still very bleak, but I hope more people are inspired to do so and inspired to sort of step outside their comfort zones, so that more changes can be affected”.

Rachel Blumberg can be contacted at rblumberg@kscequinox.com LAURA ROMANIELLO / ART DIRECTOR

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Also on view: February 3 – April 1 Unboxing Bob: A study of artist Robert S. Neuman through objects, images, and ideas

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Public programs: Friday, February 9, 3:30 – 5:30 p.m.

Faculty members Jonathan Gitelson, Zachary P. Stephens, and Miles Warner discuss their work; Randall Hoyt plays his new board game “Road Hog” with visitors Tuesday, March 27, 11 a.m. – noon Faculty member Peter Roos discusses the large gallery installation charting the evolution of his figure drawing over nearly 30 years of teaching Ongoing: The Thorne’s museum education program is currently scheduling spring, summer, and fall 2018 tours for school and other campus and community groups. Customizable tours: days, nights, weekends; curriculum-driven or just for fun.

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The Thorne opens for spring semester ERIN MCNEMAR

Arts & EntErtAinmEnt Editor On Friday, Feb. 2, Keene State College’s ThorneSagendorph Art Gallery had its’ public opening for the 2018 spring season. Community members, students, faculty and staff filled the Thorne to celebrate the opening.

The gallery had its’ 2018 Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition on display, as well as an exhibit called, “Unboxing Bob: A study of artist Robert S. Neuman through objects, images and ideas.”

The exhibit was made in honor of late KSC Art professor, Robert S. Neuman, who passed away in 2015.

As art enthusiasts entered the Thorne, they were met by the display of hundreds of paper cranes. Mia Morin, who works in the Thorne, was one of the employees who spent hours folding the paper birds.

“I probably folded close to about a hundred and five, and, for me, maybe it took about 4 or 5 hours collectively,” Morin said.

When asked the reasoning behind the creation of cranes, Morin said it was the symbolism with the origami.

“The cranes are an embodiment of all our hopes and dreams, and kind of just taking flight in the sense that everyone has their own individual personalities. It’s kind of like our mural of self expression.”

In addition to the paper cranes, arranged artistically going up the wall to the ceiling, the gallery had a number of pieces which required specific presentation.

Preparator of the Thorne, Tim Allen, helped set up the artwork for the exhibits.

“It took about 8 days to set up,” Allen explained. While most pieces could just be hung up, Allen explained that some required extra work.

“Mostly it was just hanging pictures on the walls, which is pretty straight forward. Some of the paper pieces I hung with magnets, and some panels that didn’t have hanging hardware on the back, I used what are called ‘L screws’ to sort of clip them in.”

Allen continued to explain the most difficult piece to display. “The most complicated things were the video

The Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery celebrated its season opening displaying artwork from Keene State College faculty and Staff. illustrations because I had to build shelves that go up on the rafters.”

Although some of the set up for the gallery was challenging, Allen expressed that faculty were enjoyable to collaborate with. “It was great working with the faculty, they were all really cooperative and helpful. It was a fun show to put together.”

The 2018 Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition featured

the artwork of thirteen different faculty members.

First-year Spencer Thibodeau is currently undeclared but is looking to major in graphic design. Thibodeau explained that he attended the exhibit to “see the art,” as well as get some insight on his future professors. “I heard that some of the professors had some pieces in here and I feel like, to get to know the professor that is going to be teaching you art, you kind of got to see some

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of their art.”

Thorne Art Gallery will be displaying the 2018 Art Faculty Biennial Exhibition and Unboxing Bob: A study of Artist Robert S. Neuman through objects, images, and ideas from Feb. 3 until Apr. 1.

Erin McNemar can be contacted at emcnemar@kscequinox.com

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.

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Students are educated to teach music in middle schools ERIN MCNEMAR

hoping they can get it right, you’re giving them a chance to grow themselves.”

From learning how to choose repertoire, to finding ways On Wednesday, Jan. 31, music students brought their to encourage students to join the band, KSC music students instruments into the Alumni Recital Hall for a presentation were given the opportunity to learn first-hand from someone given by Keene Middle School Band Director Sue Hahs. with the degree they are striving for.

Hahs has been teaching at Keene Middle School since 2005, Despite Edwards not being a music education major, he and came to the college to share her knowledge with future still found the presentation helpful for his future career. music teachers.

“For me, although I’m not a music education major, and After opening the presentation by talking about her backI’m not teaching students, it is giving me an idea of leading a ground in music, Hahs explained the importance of middle rehearsal in general and the kind of repertoire that I would schoolers playing, what she referred to as, chamber music. be able to teach kids one day. I know without an education Listed among the benefits she presented was “providing lead- degree I won’t be in schools, however, I will be teaching stuership opportunities,” which was something Hahs demondents along my way.” strated with the audience.

Music Education major Hailley Dufresne is currently stuCreating an environment similar to the one in her classdent-teaching with Hahs at Keene Middle School. room, Hahs asked Keene State students to come up on stage Despite the horror stories that are often surrounded with their instruments. around working with middle school students, Dufresne disOnce the appropriate number of musicians were in place, covered the opposite.

Hahs handed them music and told them to play it without a “I’ve learned that teaching middle school is not as terrifyconductor. ing as it’s made out to be. Student-teaching is an experience.

While the college students quickly worked out a tempo You never really know what you’re going into until you actuand counted themselves in, Hahs explained that this task is ally go into it. Taking everything I got from that [classes] and much harder for middle schoolers to do.

“You just saw three months worth of a middle school band putting it into the field has been a challenge, but definitely a fun one at that,” Dufresne said. recital,” Hahs joked.

For the all the music students in the room, Hahs offered Hahs expressed that she often gives the artistic license to some advice. “Study and trust your professors.The things that her students before she makes corrections as a way of helping they tell you are really true, even though it feels like busy her students become better musicians. work.

Everything that your being asked to do is so that you Music technology and composition major Geoffrey feel prepared when you’re out there,” Hahs said.

Edwards, believed that to be the most important takeaway from the presentation.

“To put trust in the students that you’re teaching; put trust Erin McNemar can be contacted at in the musicians that they want to lead because in this case, emcnemar@kscequinox.com they’re striving to make music,” Edwards continued.

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The annual Keene Ice and Snow Festival featured a variety of ice sculpture displays that could be seen all around the downtown area on Saturday Feb. 3. Spectators could see the carving of some of these sculptors.

The annual Keene Ice and Snow Festival returns to downtown KIANA WRIGHT

Equinox Staff You could say downtown was a little icier than normal on Saturday Feb. 3. Sculptures of all kinds were scattered in downtown Keene for the annual Ice and Snow Festival. Not only were there intensely detailed ice carvings, but there was also live music, dressed up characters, crafts, face painting, train rides, raffles and more.

This event is sponsored each year by multiple organizations and local businesses. A couple of the sponsors this year included City of Keene, Price Chopper, C&S Wholesale Grocers, Renewal by Andersen, Rescom Exteriors Inc., Local Burger, Liberty Mutual, Deep Roots Massage, the Days Inn, Best Western Plus, Fairfield Marriott and Holiday Inn of Keene, Life Is Sweet,

Your Kitchen Store, Hannah Grimes Market Place and Great Eastern Radio, LLC/The Peak. and the chamber of commerce.

The first Keene Ice and Snow Festival was started in 2002 by Bill Jones because of his love for the winter. The Monadnock Travel Council organized the 16th annual celebration this year as well as in the past couple of years.

But the festival has been put on the first Saturday of February annually ever since 2002, with the exception of one year, due to too much snow.

“We do it every year for the children,” Organizer Jim Narkiewicz said. This free event was family-friendly and open to the entire Keene community. The festival started at 10 a.m. and many showed up to see what was offered until it eventually came to an end at 4 p.m.

“We usually get somewhere around 3,000 people

throughout the day,” Narkiewicz said. He added there were so many people involved in putting this together so children and their families could come and enjoy their day with numerous activities and only have to pay for their food.

Mike Rondeau is an ice carver who has been cutting ice for 18 years, six of which have been for Keene’s Ice and Snow Festival.

This year, he made about 50 sculptures; one of which was a fire department collage. “It took me about two and a half hours or so, which is the right time,” Rondeau said, and then went on to explain how he makes these creations. “[I make sculptures] with electric chainsaws and chizzles, stuff like that, just kind of ideas in my head that I’ve done before or different things to try out.”

Kelly Robinson said she came to the festival to enjoy

a day with her daughter and grandson. When talking about the sculptures displayed, Robinson said, “It’s killer, it’s amazing how these people can do this, you sit and watch and you just wonder how.”

She said it is definitely something she would recommend bringing your family to, and she even wants to see more. “It would be nice if there were more.”

Even though it is Robinson’s first time coming to the Keene Ice and Snow Festival, she said she would definitely come back next year. This is an event fun for all ages.

For more information or to become a sponsor for next year, visit https://business.keenechamber.com/ events/details/keene-ice-and-snow-festival-10230.

Kiana Wright can be contacted at kwright@kscequinox.com

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KSC offers resources to Bystander intervention is one of the combat sexual violence best tools to help prevent sexual assault.

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Student Life editor Keene State College and surrounding towns offer several resources to help fight against sexual violence and teach those in the community about the topic.

The Monadnock Center for Violence Prevention is a facility in Keene that has a two-part mission that both helps victims of sexual violence and teaches the public about sexual violence and bring awareness to the issue. Assistant Director Shanna Beckwith said, “We have a 24 hour phone call service, walk-ins and we go to court.

Also, we try to prevent violencw from happening in the community from Kindergarten to college. We teach people all the terms to help to prevent those from being victimised later.” Beckwith said that sometimes victims will rationalize sexual violence and believe that they themself is the one who did something wrong.

Coordinator of Sexual Violence at KSC Forrest Seymour said that in sexual situations, if something feels wrong or makes a person uncomfortable, then the person should trust the feeling in their head.

Seymour said that verbal communication is important during sexual situations. “The principle that we sort of go on is if we’re talking about physically intimate relationships is that we need to get an affirmative yes, a verbal yes. Did he or she say yes and sometimes we can misunderstand how people’s bodies seem to be communicating with us... Having those verbal conversations could be awkward and they’re not necessarily the way we see physical intimacy on TV and in the movies. The image we have of how physical intimacy happens is that it is sort of spontaneous and

there are no words and they are just passionate and into it. In the real world, not in Hollywood, we need to talk about these things.”

Title XI Coordinator Jeff Maher said that there are resources and events available at KSC throughout the year. One resource Maher said is available is an online form that allows KSC students to anonymously or non-anonymously report an incident of sexual violence or assault.

The form can be filled out any time of the day from a phone or computer and the report will be sent to Maher’s office. Maher said that the form can be found on the KSC homepage by typing ‘report’ into the search bar and clicking on the link which will bring up the form. An app called NewSafeUS is another resource Maher said is helpful for reporting incidents that happen. Maher said that people can report something they see happen even if they weren’t the one in the situation itself. Maher said, “Basically what we’re trying to do with bystander intervention is set up a community where people look out for each other and care for one another.

Bystander intervention is one of the best tools to help to prevent sexual assault.”

Seymour said that there are various ways that someone can be an active bystander.

“Any student can help out in a lot of different ways around sexual violence prevention just by being an active bystander and a good neighbor and friend...It is important to remember that the action doesn’t have to be jumping in the middle of some situation. It can be getting someone else to help. It can be distracting people. There’s a lot of different ways where someonecan be active,” Seymour said.

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The many forms of relationships ANGELIQUE INCHIERCA

Photo Editor Starting at a very young age, people develop relationships with their parents, siblings, friends, and significant others, but many struggle to understand what those relationships should look like.

Program Support Assistant for LGBTQ+ Students Hunter Kirschner (pronouns: he, him, his) said, “We learn about relationships from our parents, friends and media. You basically only see monogamous relationships, so you can understand what those look like and what the rules are for that.”

When the societal expectations of monogamous relationships are challenged, confusion and frustration can occur.

KSC sophomore Dreamy Kljajic (pronouns: they, them, their) said, “I mostly heard of it from how society says that if a couple is in an open relationship, that means they’re not happy with each other.”

Dictionary.com defines an open relationship as “a marriage or relationship in which both partners agree that each may have sexual relations with others.”

Kirschner said he hopes that students attending the event will take away the proper skills needed to have a healthy, polyamorous relationship.

“Also, exposure and understanding that these relationships are not of any less value and that they can be done well and that they can be healthy,” Kirschner added.

On Wednesday, Jan. 31, Relationship Therapist and Sex Educator Yana Tallon-Hicks (pronouns: she, her, hers) came to Keene State College to present her “Polyamory and Open Relationships” workshop.

At the presentation, Tallon-Hicks said non-monogamy is a term that umbrellas several others, including polyamory, solo-poly, open relationships (including subcategories: swinging and monogamish), polyfidelity and relationship anarchy (refer to infographic).

Tallon-Hicks defined polyamory as a “multiplicity of emotional and sexual relationships.” She said many students are confused on how this concept works, giving the term and other non-monogamous relationships many misconceptions. A common belief among students is that both polyamory and open relationships are equivalent to one another.

Kirschner said, “I think people use them interchangeably. I think in an open relationship you have a primary partner and you are open to seeing other people, but it’s your relationship that is central. Whereas polyamory can also include multiple primary relationships.”

Tallon-Hicks said that, usually, in polyamorous relationships, each partner fills a different role, but it is very common that everyone is connected to each other. She said one partner may be for sexually intimate relations, while another could be someone for going out on dates with regularly. Another term often confused with polyamory is polygamy.

Kirschner said, “Polygamy refers to just marriage... we associate [it] with the Mormon Religion. I think it’s more the idea of being married to multiple people rather than just being in any other kind of relationship.”

Kirschner said an easy way to understand polyamory is by knowing the common nickname Polycule.

“This idea of individuals having all these different connections, like atoms, to this one thing; like a molecule, but with people. It’s kind of like having a network of people. You may have one primary or not. You may just have multiple relationships with different people that all know you are dating all these people,” he said.

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Polyamory & Open Relationship chart Polyamory

Relationship with multiple partners

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Dating oneself

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Couples who allow partners to have sex with other couples

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Primarily exclusive relationship occasionally includes dating others

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nificant-others, both Kirschner and Tallons-Hicks said that that polyamory and polygamy are two separate classifications.

Kirschner said he believes a huge misconception is that people in non-monogamous relationships are sexually greedy or are afraid of commitment. “There are all of these negative associations with these ideas [of nonmonogamous relationships],” he said.

With greed comes one of the most common debated misconceptions of non-monogamous relationships: cheating. Kirschner said, “If you are in a monogamous relationship and one or both members are cheating, it’s not an open relationship. The cheating part is doing something negative to your relationship. You are going against the terms of your relationship.”

He said that some people who cheat in relationships will claim that they are in an open relationship to make excuses for breaking their agreement. These instances add to the negative stigma around relationships with more than one partner.

Tallons-Hicks added, “[Polyamory and open relationships are] all consensual.”

She said open, non-monogamous relationships take a lot of communication and agreeing with everyone involved. If one member goes back on an agreement, then problems can occur due to the natural human emotion called jealousy.

Tallons-Hicks said, “Jealousy is more like a check

engine light.” She then said that people tend to ignore it the first few times, and then they find themselves in a predicament. Tallon-Hicks said people who are polyamorous or are in open relationships can become jealous because the relationship concerns more people.

“Underneath jealousy may make [people] feel like ‘I am not enough,’” she added. She said she believes that a lot of negative emotions are caused internally.

During her presentation, Tallon-Hicks provided some tips on controlling jealousy. One phrase she said was “catch it, check it, change it.” Meaning that the partner suffering should figure out what is bothering them, and change the thoughts from within rather than try to change the person.“[Compersion is] the opposite of jealousy,” she said.

Tallon-Hicks said she believes that if someone can feel empathy and joy for their partner by seeing them joyful and happy, then jealousy will occur less often.

“It’s kind of scary because non-monogamy takes this idea of being inherently safe and smushes it,” TallonHicks said. “It takes all of the uncertainty in monogamy and puts it right in the middle of your relationship.”

Kljajic said they were previously in a relationship with a Poly but was unfamiliar with the term. “When I first learned the term, I was like ‘I have to unlearn so many things and learn so many things,’” they said.

Although people may not understand the terms fully and could be uncertain of its effectiveness, Tallon-Hicks

said there are a lot of good parts of the non-monogamous lifestyle. Tallon-Hicks said, “An extremely open and honest relationship can develop,” she also added, that if one partner doesn’t like something sexually or share an interest, people who practice polyamory can find someone who does (As long as they still follow the agreements created). “You and your partner can choose together instead of feeling the pressure of some monogamous pressures,” she added.

Tallons-Hicks said that a very important thing in these types of relationships is the agreements and rules created by all involved. “We make sure we are honoring the biggest difference between non-monogamy and cheating, which is communication and consent,” she said.

She added that agreements change over time because the individuals figuring out what works, what does not work, how they feel and what's comfortable for them.

If another person is in a happy, healthy relationship, it's not anyone’s place to question that.Kljajic said they wish more people would be accepting of other relationship types, whether students are comfortable in monogamous relationships or not. “[KSC students] should be more open about [open relationships],” they said.

Angelique Inchierca can be contacted at ainchierca@kscequinox.com

KSC education majors partner with local schools ASHLEY ARNOLD

Equinox Staff Keene State College first-year education majors are acquiring valuable knowledge through hands-on experience working with elementary school students.

The Keene State Education Department has partnered with Project KEEP to give the first-year class an opportunity to enhance their comprehension of a teaching career, according to Darrell Hucks, an education professor at KSC. “Our students are blossoming in ways of understanding that teaching is more than just the academic piece. It’s about being human and connecting,” he explained.

Project KEEP is an after-school program for children ranging in ages from kindergarten to fifth grade.

The program provides a safe school environment with a plethora of activities for the children to take part in; it includes craft projects, homework help and exercise sport games, according to the Keene Community Education website. “We have had a service-learning collaboration with Project KEEP for our freshmen class since fall semester that is continuing in the spring,” said Hucks.

In the fall, first-year students volunteered at Fuller Elementary School, Franklin Elementary School and Symonds Elementary School. Now that the spring semester has arrived, the program has grown and other local schools are beginning to collaborate with the college’s Education Department, explained Tanya Sturtz, another education professor at KSC. She said a collaboration began this semester with Keene Daycare and Saint Joseph’s after-school program.

Sturtz also emphasized the importance of building confidence as an educator. The collaboration the Education Department has with the local schools is essential for future teachers because it enables them to build selfassurance in their abilities, she added. “It forces them out of their comfort zone. It challenges them to have to engage and have to critically look at things and question things and it’s good for them. Having the confidence built not only in the classroom, but out in the field, is going to make their lives much easier,” she said.

This partnership has opened doors for education

majors, providing them with beneficial connections as they venture into their desired care path, continued Sturtz. “Project KEEP has be a very successful partnership, the students have enjoyed it. One of our service learning leaders has actually been hired to work, she is now working at Project KEEP at Franklin. So it creates opportunities for students,” she said.

The time spent at Project KEEP allowed Keene students to take on the role of an educator. Spending time with early elementary school children helps first-year students recognize the different ways in which young minds develop, explained Director of the Keene Community Education Program Janice Barry. “Through interactions and observation they can see how children may be working on their social and emotional skills, such as focus and self-control, perspective-taking and communicating. The KSC volunteers also plan, organize, lead and reflect upon an activity, and, of course, that mirrors the functions of a teacher,” Barry added.

To evaluate the successfulness of the KSC student volunteers, Barry said she relies on teacher responses to give her a fuller understanding of their performances.

Brittany Walker, the Lead Teacher for Project KEEP at the Franklin Elementary School, explained her contentedness with the first-year volunteer students. “The children relate and interact with them and the college students get on their level and have appropriate, interactive conversations. They use appropriate language and are always taking direction and making changes if needed. They are prepared and enjoy planning activities, games and work for the children to do. We love them,” she said.

Hucks and Sturtz both expressed that the collaboration with Project KEEP has been a huge success and the partnership with the program will continue into next year.

Three first-year students were contacted for comment but declined to comment or did not respond to the requests.

Ashley Arnold can be contacted at aarnold@kscequinox.com

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Keene State College students volunteer to work with children as a part of Project KEEP at Symonds School.

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Biology major flatworm research ALYSSA SALERNO

Equinox Staff A group of KSC students are getting closer every day to understanding the complex process involved in the regeneration of planarians, or flatworms.

Flatworms are small organisms that are a part of many aquatic ecosystems. They are known for their uncanny ability to regenerate any part of their body once it has been cut off.

This year, a group of students have been running tests on these worms to see what genes are involved in this regeneration process. Associate Professor of Biology, Jason Pellettieri, along with a group of nearly 15 students were given a $416,000 grant from the National Institute of Health for the project.

Mahad Ahmad, a sophomore biology major working on a similar project with the same flatworms, said, “We are trying to uncover the genetic pathway the causes them to regenerate.”

Through using a set of techniques to turn certain genes on and off, the students are able to tell which ones aid in the regeneration process.

The students then cut off parts of the worm once a gene has been isolated and see if the worm regenerates. This process usually takes a week for the worm to be fully back to its normal grain of rice sized self.

“There’s a lot of questions about regeneration and you know planarians have been studied for a very long time.. But it’s only recently that people have started getting into the modern molecular biology and studying all the genes and the biochemistry and how this stuff works,” Pelletteri said.

“There’s a lot of unanswered questions and there’s a lot we have to learn.”

Haley Zanga, a senior biology major said, “Regeneration is super important for anything. You know if people get their arm chopped off or whatever it won’t grow back, but for a worm if you cut it up every piece grows back. So if we can potentially uncover the mechanism of how they regenerate, it can be important for other scientific problems or medial problems.”

“Because we are trying to identify the genetic pathway, it can be applicable to not only to planarians it’s also applicable to any other genetic pathway,” Ahmad said.

The research being done is this lab is preliminary, said Pelletteri. It is the beginning steps to understanding how

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KSC biology students take part in research showing how the flatworm regeneration process works.

these organisms regenerate and will create a building block different genes play different roles in the body. to sciences understanding of regeneration as a whole.

The purpose of this specific project is to be a model for Alyssa Salerno can be contacted at what can be understood from these creatures, Pellettieri said, asalerno@kscequinox.com so that someday we might be able to apply this knowledge to modern day medicine and scientific understanding into how

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Seymour said that there are many other ways KSC teaches students about the value of consent.

“We do educational activities with first year students in particular.

During welcome days we have No Zebras, No excuses and other things about setting expectations around treating each other well and looking out for each other. Throughout students time at this college we have a lot of different departments and student group who are involved in various different educational and activism kinds of activities that are about helping people understand what consent looks like and what healthy relationships look like. We have the walk-amile event in April, shout out against sexual assault, in the fall there is the Take Back the Night march. We try to do a lot of very public events throughout the year that remind people about recognizing when people are engaging in misconduct and helping them understand what they can do to help the process,” Seymour said.

Beckwith said that the people who come in for help have no fit description and domestic violence is something that could affect any type of person.

“Domestic violence knows no bounds. It can happen to men, women, children, straight, LGBT, black, white, rich or poor.”

“If we have learned anything from the Me Too movement, it is that this behavior isn’t exclusive to college,” Maher said.

Colby Dudal can be contacted at cdudal@kscequinox.com

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Humans of KSC

How do you plan on using your major in the future?

“I plan using my major [secondary education and social studies] by supporting middle school and high school students in academic pursuits. I wanna be a safe place for students with rough households.”

Danielle

“My major is management and my minor is environmental studies, I hope to take my management and love for the environment to stop climate change and help save our environment.”

Lucy

“I’m an elementary education and women and gender studies major. I want to go into under-served communities and elementary schools that need experienced teachers. Those areas are usually less staffed and people are unwilling to serve in under developed locations. But, right after graduation, I want to go into the peace corps.”

Elizabeth

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“I’m an elementary education and psychology major. I hope to go to grad school in Keene for special education. After I graduate, I want to work with special ed students in the school system.”

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Glass etching

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Keene State College students had the opportunity to take part in glass etching on Friday, Feb. 2 in the Student Center. The students etched art such as deer and stars. Some students had previously glass etched in the past and some were new to the art entirely. The event was a part of the After Hours program that puts on events for students every first Friday, second Saturday and Third Thursday of the month.

After Hours is put on by the Office of Student Involvement.

Forget the snow & take a break from that cold winter weather!

We’re going to the islands!

Join us on Thursday, February 15th, 2018 at 4:00 PM in the Zorn Dining Commons for a Caribbean style meal that will transport you to warmer weather!

Don’t forget your sunglasses!

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1981: Peanut shortage “

ABBYGAIL VASAS

Copy Editor/timE CapsulE Editor For weeks, something had been missing.

A staple in just about every living establishment in the nation, whose bountifulness was taken for granted until suddenly, it was gone.

Colleges across the country were searching desperately for any small amount, but were still forced to ration it between their hungry students.

It was mayhem.

It was the peanut butter crisis of 1980.

A massive drought in August caused massive amounts of peanut plants to wither in the fields, causing a huge decline in peanut production for the upcoming year.

That year was the worst farmers had seen in generations, according to “Creamy and Crunchy: and Informal History of Peanut Butter, the All-American Food,” a publication in Columbia Scholarship Online by Jon Krampner. With crops drying in the sun, the lack of moisture gave-way to a new issue: fungus. A carcinogenic mold that can affect peanuts, aflatoxin, thrives in dry weather. This mold spread from the decaying peanuts and infected 15 percent of the surviving crops.

Krampner’s publication reported that Jim Andrews, who grew peanuts on his 400-acre farm in Georgia, could normally har-

vest 900 tons of peanuts from his fields; in 1980, however, his crop was only 100 tons. “I didn’t even make enough peanuts to pay the rent,” he said. Krampner’s publication reported that Andrews was projecting a loss of $300,000 for that year. “It seems like I’m about wiped out,” Andrews said.

it still wasn’t enough, according to Krampner’s publication.

People everywhere in the U.S. We’ll just eat eggs until were affected by the shortage.

The U.S. Department of Agriculthe price goes down. ture switched from peanut butter to cheese for school lunch sandSUE LANOUE wiches.

Regular citizens had to Boston native cut back as well, Krampner quoted 23-year-old Sue Lanoue of Boston saying, “We’ll just eat eggs until the price goes down.” Florence Fabricant, another person quoted in Krampner’s publication, suggested consumers could “extend their precious peanut butter supply by mixing it in a blender with tofu, or by stirring it in with plain yogurt at a ratio of one part yogurt to two parts peanut butter.”

She also suggested mixing creamy peanut butter corn flakes to stretch it out and make it feel like crunchy peanut butter.

A February 1981, publication of The Equinox stated, “Finding peanut butter is a task to stretch the resources and imagination of the most able college food service director these days.” The article also included a statement from Dining Commons Manager Wilillustration by Abbygail Vasas / Time capsule Editor liam Potter. He said that the D.C. The cost of peanuts skyrock- had all but run out, as predicted was only getting two cases a week eted, quadrupling in price from by Peter Rogers, senior vice presi- from its supplier and so servings 30 to 40 cents per pound, to $1.50 dent of Standard Brands' Planters would be rationed and not availper pound. The U.S. peanut crop Peanuts division, in a Washington able at all meals. would eventually reach a 46 Post article from November, 1980.

Abbygail Vasas percent shortage, according to In January, 1981, the U.S. Intercan be contacted at Krampner’s publication. national Trade Commission (ITC) avasas@kscequinox.com By the start of 1981, the had raised the peanut import nation’s supply of peanut butter quota to 400 million pounds, but

Bombs fall on Dresden in controversy ABBYGAIL VASAS

Copy Editor/timE CapsulE Editor During the second world war, the city of Dresden, Germany, did not manufacture weapons or armaments, train soldiers or offer land to the front. It was a refugee city, filled with tens of thousands of civilians trying to protect themselves from the violence that was shredding Europe. On Feb. 13, 1945, Dresden and those who found safety there suddenly became victims of an intense air raid, led by the Allied forces.

Over the course of the war, the Nazi regime would often employ a tactic called “area bombing” or “saturation bombing.”

This method involved dropping explosives not just on factories that manufactured wartime supplies, but on everything in the area, according to History.com. Normally, Allied forces did not use this practice and focused on damaging war-related infrastructure, but they made an acception for Operation Thunderclap.

Operation Thunderclap, where heavy bombers dropped 2,400 tons of high explosives and 1,500 tons of incendiary bombs, led to the deaths of thousands of ordinary citizens, according to the Atlantic.

One member of the British Army, Victor Gregg, who was being held as a Prisoner of

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The city of Dresden, German, after allied forces dropped thousands of tons of explosives on it during “Operation Thunderclap.”

War in Dresden, witnessed the destruction first-hand and has written many accounts and reflections on what happened that night. He explained, in a piece published by the Guardian, that although the air raid sirens had started going off no one took notice because they thought they were safe in a non-militaristic city. However, Gregg was able to see the demise of the people in Dresden and describes it as a war crime. “As the incendiaries fell, the phosphorus clung

to the bodies of those below, turning them into human torches. The screaming of those who were being burned alive was added to the cries of those not yet hit. There was no need for flares to lead the second wave of bombers to their target, as the whole city had become a gigantic torch. It must have been visible to the pilots from a hundred miles away. Dresden had no defences, no anti-aircraft guns, no searchlights, nothing.” Gregg has been quoted numerous

times expressing horror at the actions of the Allied powers. “I insisted that the affair was a war crime at the highest level, a stain upon the name Englishman that only an apology made in full public view would suffice to obliterate.”

Abbygail Vasas can be contacted at avasas@kscequinox.com

1981: David Giveans teaches about gender equality ABBYGAIL VASAS

Copy Editor/timE CapsulE Editor On Feb. 11 and Feb. 12, 1981, author, lecturer and consultant David L. Giveans spoke in Keene, free of charge, about gender equality. On Feb. 11 he gave a presentation titled, “Room to Grow: A Non-Sexist Environment for the 1980s” and on Feb. 12 he gave another, titled, “Children in the Lives of Men.” His visit was sponsored by the Professional Studies Division of Keene State College, the Teacher Corps, the Association of Childhood Educators and Male Early Childhood Educators, and was organized by Hamilton Wood, facilitator of the Child Development Center on campus.

An Equinox article about Giveans quoted him as saying, “I don’t think we should limit our energies necessarily to either the women’s or men’s movement, but rather strive towards a human liberation for people

of all ages.”

In the “Room to Grow” presentation, Giveans educated the public about sexist attitudes and present alternative roles and approaches in terms of both children and adults.

At the “Children in the Lives of Men” presentation, Giveans explored the topic of strong male role models.

He took an in-depth look at how fathers and male teachers being present in the lives of children impacts their development.

The role of men seems to be a common theme throughout Giveans’ work. He was the editor of “Nurturing News: A Quarterly Forum for Nurturing Men,” and had been involved with education on the primary, secondary and university levels. His studies give the impression that he believed strong, positive males could be the key to ending sexism for the upcoming generation.

That sentiment of the genders needing to both be active in the fight

against sexism was widespread at the time.

In a publication by Wikigender about the history of the gender equality movement, it identifies the 1980s as the “third wave” of feminism.

In that era, Feminist Historian Joan W. Scott said, “Gender as a substitute for ‘women’ is also used to suggest that information about women is necessarily information about men, that one implies the study of the other. This usage insists that the world of women is part of the world of men, created in and by it. This usage rejects the interpretive utility of the idea of separate spheres, maintaining that to study women in isolation perpetuates the fiction that one sphere, the experience of one sex, has little or nothing to do with the other.”

Abbygail Vasas can be contacted at avasas@kscequinox.com

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Flu through history ABBYGAIL VASAS

Copy Editor/timE CapsulE Editor Influenza, a common but dangerous virus, has repeatedly left its mark on the history of not only New Hampshire, but the entire world.

From the epidemic that broke out in 1493, after the arrival of Christopher Columbus – which greatly diminished the population of native people in the Americas, according to a Cambridge University Press publication – to the H1N1 pandemic of 2009, millions of people have died from the flu, according to Influenza Virus Net. In 1981, Keene State College had an alarmingly high number of flu cases at the Health Center. According to a 1981 article from the New York Times, a strain of the influenza H3N2, or “A-type Bangkok” was hitting the country hard. In an article released by Informed, a Cuban project for the National Center for Medical Sciences Information, it said from November,1980, to January, 1981, “Mortality due to pneumonia and influenza has exceeded epidemic limits for three consecutive weeks.”

That same strain, H3N2, is what’s currently dominating this year’s flu season.

In a recent Washington Post article, CDC flu expert Daniel Jernigan said, “Of the viruses we hate, we hate H3N2 more than the other ones.” More people are in the hospital with the flu this season than in nearly a decade, the Washington Post article stated.

However, epidemic-levels of influenza occur fairly regularly throughout history.

One particularly famous and extremely lethal outbreak of influenza H1N1, also known as the “Spanish flu pandemic.”

Influenza Virus Net reported, “This pandemic has been described as ‘the greatest medical holocaust in history’ and may have killed as many people as the Black Death.”

Spanish flu is estimated to have killed between 20 to 100 million people globally between 1918 and 1919. Influenza Virus Net also said that the strain was highly contagious and the pandemic is described as “the greatest medical holocaust in history.”

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, the pandemic came in three waves. The first was during World War 1, at a U.S. camp in Kansas. When troops from that base arrived in western Europe, they brought Spanish flu with them. The virus first started at the base in March and had spread all the way to Poland by July.

The second wave came over the summer, starting in August. This involved pneumonia and could kill an infected person in as little as two days. Encyclopædia Britannica reported, “at Camp Devens, Massachusetts, U.S., six days after the first case of influenza was reported, there were 6,674 cases.” The third and final wave stretched from winter to spring.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Spanish flu deaths were most common in children under five years old, healthy adults between ages 20 and 40 and those aged 65 years and up. The CDC reported that the deaths of healthy people was a very distinct aspect of Spanish flu.

Years later, in East Asia, another influenza pandemic occurred from 1957 to 1958.

According to the CDC, influenza H2N2, or “Asian Flu,” began in Singapore in February, spread to Hong Kong by April and came to the United States in the summer. The CDC estimated that Asian Flu killed 1.1 million people worldwide and 116,000 in the U.S. Hong Kong was hit with a flu pandemic again, ten years later. In 1968, H3N2 – the same strain that affected Keene in 1981 and is leading this flu season – killed between one and four million people, according to Encyclopædia Britannica.

In 2009, yet another pandemic occurred.

This strain, known as the H1N1pdm09 virus or “swine flu,” was not protected against by vaccines at that time because it was so different from the other flu strains which had been circulating in recent years, according to the CDC. Very few young people at the time had any natural resistance to swine flu, however, the CDC reported, many people over the age of 60 had antibodies against the virus. The CDC estimated that there were about 60.8 million cases of the virus and hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide; about 80 percent of those deaths were people under 65 years of age.

Abbygail Vasas can be contacted at avasas@kscequinox.com

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Patriots Column

Thursday, Februay 8, 2017

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Facing adversities

Eagles Column ALEXANDRIA SAURMAN

Managing ExEcutivE Editor CAROLINE PERRY

SportS Editor The New England Patriots are known for their comebacks and their extreme ability to tackle the scoreboard as the time ticks down.

However, the Patriots ran out of time this time around, losing Super Bowl LII to the Philadelphia Eagles, 41-33.

The Eagles are NFL champions for the first time in the Super Bowl era, denying Brady his sixth Super Bowl ring.

There was no doubt that each team came ready to play, as the Eagles pushed offensively and the Patriots made key plays in the end zone.

Patriots defense worked to keep their one-on-one defense tight, but faltered, giving the Eagles one particularly well-played touchdown.

The surprise touchdown pass to quarterback Nick Foles had Eagles fans screaming, showing the sheer risk Philadelphia coach, Doug Pederson, was willing to take against the Patriots.

The game was full of back and forth action, as the Patriots won the coin toss and chose to give the ball to the Eagles first, who worked quickly to gain yards and points to the scoreboard.

Touchdowns after touchdowns, each team climbed the ladder, the Patriots pushing to lead above the Eagles the entire game.

The Patriots quickly gained momentum, as the Eagles defense struggled to keep up with Tom Brady’s pace, finally gaining a lead of 33-32 in the fourth quarter of the game.

Gronkowski and Brady were a perfect duo, as they worked together to gain yards. Gronkowski eventually scored two touchdowns, Brady performing his magic when it was needed the most.

The Patriots worked to regain the lead with two minutes to go in the game, but Eagles’ defense crashed, hitting the ball from Brady’s hands before he had time to make the play.

Patriots fans looked on as the Patriots got their first turnover of the game. The stress increased for Patriots fans as the Eagles pushed further on offense.

The Patriots flew home as losers, despite putting up a Super Bowlrecord 613 yards and despite Tom Brady playing one of the games of his life.

A head coach who was a backup NFL quarterback (Pederson) and an offensive coordinator who was a backup NFL quarterback (Reich) and a quarterback who was a backup NFL quarterback (Foles), beat Bill Belichick and Tom Brady.

The Eagles knew the only chance they had at beating the Patriots was to call a top-secret play when it wouldn’t have mattered if the Patriots had 15 players on defense.

This is what it takes to stun the Patriots: a play they’d never seen run by the Eagles, with a passer who’d never thrown an NFL pass, and a receiver who’d never been thrown an NFL pass.

The Eagles had a three-point game, against the best team of the generation, and no doubt if the Patriots had more time, they would have overcome the Eagles score once again.

However, all respect goes towards the Eagles. They were able to beat a team that had made nine trips to the Super Bowl, and who have shown incredable skill and strength for years. Maybe this wasn’t the Patriot’s year, but they will be back.

Caroline Perry can be contacted at cperry@kscequinox.com

Women’s basketball wins after mid-season slump CAROLINE PERRY

SportS Editor The KSC women’s basketball team has faced significant struggles in the 2017-2018 season, resting at a 4-17 record going into the second week of February.

The Owls were able to pick up wins against Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts (MCLA), Plymouth State University (PSU), and

Rhode Island College (RIC).

Facing loses early on, The Owls were stuck in a slump mid-season, however they found their momentum against Plymouth State University.

The team was able to take away their first LEC win against the Panthers, boosting their confidence and rejuvenating their attitude. The Keene State College women’s basketball team used a strong start and hot shooting from three point range to beat PSU 62-49 in

Little East Conference action on Wednesday night at Spaulding Gym. The Owls went 1-7 overall in the conference, but the one win was a much needed boost, causing them to soon after push past RIC with an overall score of 62-50.

With the basketball team being so young this year (one senior, one junior, five sophomores and four first-years), the dynamics of the team have changed. The Owls are facing adjustments and trying to make

that team connection before the season is out. With these recent wins it looks like they are ready to start turning it around. With only four games left before playoffs begin, the women’s basketball team hopes to make a turn around and prove their skill in the games to come, as well as pulling out a few welldeserved wins.

Caroline Perry can be contacted at cperry@kscequinox.com PRIYA GAUTAMCHHETRI / EQUINOX STAFF

The Keene State College women’s basketball team jumps out of their mid-season slump and dominates Plymouth State.

BEHIND THE SCENES

swims before the meet.

McGough said, “Our team has a relatively rigorous practice schedule. As a mid-distance swimmer, I have nine swim practices a week Cont. from B8 and three lift sessions.”

With so much time going into each and every week, McGough said Junior Lauren Arsenault said that mentally preparing yourself for that it's important to focusing on improving personal skills and being meets can at times be difficult, and often that preparation comes from smart about time management. the level of competition that you're facing.

“I think the hardest part is how much time we dedicate to the sport. I Arsenault said she tried to be confident in the pool and remind her- would never trade it for the world, but there is a huge time commitment self how hard she works each day to achieve those goals. that comes with being on the team,” McGough said.

“I think about the little things I need to focus on such as breath control, strong breakouts, turns, and my stroke. Then I just tell myself to go Caroline Perry can be contacted at in and leave it all in the pool,” Arsenault said. cperry@kscequinox.com Physically preparing for a meet occurs on a daily basis, Arsenault said.

“Each day we go into practice and have to push past our limits.

When we are in the pool or weight room we have to constantly push ourselves,” Arsenault added.

Outside of the pool, each person has to be aware of the foods they are eating and the amount of sleep we are getting; all of these things affect our physical readiness for a meet, Arsenault said.

In practice, Arsenault said the team goes through the motions with swimming laps and learning how to push past the fatigue and pain.

Just like Shadeck, Arsenault believes that the hardest aspect of the sport is being mentally tough.

“With any sport, being physically tough is extremely important, but with swimming, mental toughness is a huge part of it,” Arsenault said.

Sophomore Sydney McGough said that she likes to visualize her

“We are the champions, my friends.”

For the first time ever, the Philadelphia Eagles have won a Super Bowl.

Beating five-time Super Bowl champions the New England Patriots wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t something many expected to see.

The Eagles came in as the underdogs, but left on top.

And I, a native of Philadelphia, just so happened do be in the heart of Patriots nation when the game went down.

Being born and raised minutes outside of Philadelphia, I am an Eagles fan through and through.

I memorized the Eagles cheer when I was only four years old, and watched games with my dad whenever I could. I bleed green. My family bleeds green. My city bleeds green.

Watching the game amongst Patriot fans was what I expected -- entertaining and full of humorous arguments. “This doesn’t mean anything,” my friends would yell when the Eagles scored.

“We’re a fourth quarter team!”

However, the Patriots were not a “fourth quarter team” this time.

In the last two minutes of the game, I sat on the floor, my body pumping with adrenaline, and thought to myself, “This is it. We’re gonna win this. We’re gonna go down in history.”

Watching the green and silver confetti fall to the ground of the US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota was a beautiful sight.

We had won.

The Eagles had won their first Super Bowl -- with a second-string quarterback, many injured players and a head coach who’s only been a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) for two years.

The Eagles defied all odds.

As I walked home that night, Keene State College’s campus was silent. No one was cheering; no one was talking; no one was out. It felt dead.

Meanwhile, in Philadelphia, fireworks were set off and fires were started as people swarmed onto the streets and celebrated. Windows were broken; light poles fell over; and street lights were climbed.

Although I wish I was there to witness everything and celebrate with my family, I’m glad I got to spend the night in Patriots nation.

After the game, I received multiple “congrats” texts and handshakes from my friends.

Were they upset their team had lost?

Probably, but nonetheless, we were all respectful of each other.

That’s how it should be.

That’s what sports are meant to be like.

Alexandria Saurman can be contacted at asaurman@kscequinox.com

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my grade so I know them pretty well.”

In preparation for the championship meet, the team is continuing to practice and better themselves. Bisaillon said the track and field team has sprint workouts and heavy lifting on Tuesdays and Thursdays. “As a team we try to avidly take care of ourselves and our bodies,” Bisaillon said.

Looking forward to the championship, the competition is more on the back burner for Bisaillion. She said, “My competition is going to be really tough going into this event, but I’m just excited to have the opportunity to be at such a big meet and compete right there with them.”

Bisaillon stated, “At the end of the day I just want to continue improving myself through our coaches’w training and guidance.”

Coach Nikolas Athanasopoulos was unable to comment on behalf of his team or qualifying athletes.

Julia Eichman can be contacted at jeichman@kscequinox.com

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Ski & Winning an LEC award Slopes BRANDON MOULTON / EQUINOX STAFF

The Short History of Skiing CAROLINE PERRY

Athletes talk about the individual and team perks of recieving an LEC title CAROLINE PERRY

SportS Editor So many KSC athletes receive Little East Conference (LEC) weekly and monthly awards and the feeling of that accomplishment is often lost in the noise of the regular season. These individual accomplishments mean a lot to each and every Owl who receives one and symbolize the great succes that KSC holds within its athletic department.

Senior and women’s volleyball athlete Rachel Lamica said winning an LEC award felt great. “It’s an amazing accomplishment, and it made me believe hard work does pay off,” Lamica said. Lamica added that winning these awards build an athlete’s confidence and makes her personally feel like she has what it takes

to accomplish whatever she set her mind to. “It is fulfilling to be recognized. There were many hours put into training and practicing volleyball my whole life, so it felt great to get an LEC award,” Lamica said. Although winning an LEC award is based on individual success, Lamica said that her team is a big part of her success and support. “My team is incredibly supportive, so they are proud and congratulated me afterward receiving the award,” Lamica added.

Senior and member of the women’s swim and dive team, Hope Walsh, said winning an LEC award was a treat. “You do not expect it, so it is a little surprise that keeps you motivated and reminds you, that what you are doing is working, and being noticed. And in a sport like swimming where it is so mentally draining, it

really helps keep you positive and moving forward,” Walsh said. Walsh said that receiving an LEC inspires her to get faster and motivates her to really push herself in the pool. “Being recognized is always fulfilling. What athlete doesn’t want it? It might not be what we work for, but it is an added perk. It reminds you why you do it, and I am grateful for that,” Walsh added.

Just like Lamica, Walsh said that her team plays a very important role in her individual success. “When one person succeeds we all do, because we couldn’t do it without the support of each other,” said Walsh.

Senior Erica Stauffer and member of the women’s field hockey team said that winning an LEC award is always appreciated and a well-included reward when competing in a college sport. Working everyday and striving to get better becomes that

much easier when being rewarded for the effort you put in, Stauffer said. However, Stauffer added, no individual success can be met without a team and the coaches that lead. “My team supports one another and always encourages one another to get better. We lift each other up in times of success and in times of struggle,” Stauffer said.

Winning LEC awards isa perk to the hard work that goes into each and every sport. But the real success is found in the individual’s drive and ability to motivate themselves to become better. The more work you put into a sport, the more you get out of it. The more dedication you have in a sport, the better you will perform.

Caroline Perry can be contacted at cperry@kscequinox.com

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Keene State College athletes talk about the perks, as well as the confidence boost received after winning a Little East Conference (LEC) award.

Season two of Inside Owl Atheltics

Keene State College begins season two of Owl athletics film series ADRIANA SANCHEZ

Equinox Staff There’s a new show on campus that’s bringing the athletic side more to the light.

For almost two years, Dr. Chad Nye and Dr. Mark Timney, both of whom are journalism professors here at Keene State College, along with Assistant Athletic Director of Sports Information Abe Osheyack, discussed the making of a sports show.

“We in athletics have been looking for a way to digitally showcase our stories a lot more, we had done a little bit but it was half hazard,” said Osheyack, who is the executive producer for Inside Owl Athletics.

“We’d find somebody to do it then they would graduate, we’d find somebody else to do it then they would do it differently, maybe their story-telling was not as good or one of us on staff would do it, but only when we had time to do it. So, this gave us some consistency.”

Inside Owl Athletics’ first season was fall semester of 2017.

It was mainly run by senior Justin Mahan.

Mahan is news media journalism major with a minor in public relations.

“Last semester I was like the sole person for the show, but now we brought on three or four more people,” Mahan said.

Last semester, he would work on the show every day.

This semester, Mahan still works on putting together the rundown, writing scripts, editing scripts and quality-checking the show but now, with the help of others, he only puts in 9-10 hours.

Mahan explained that, at one point in the beginning, two students who were involved in making of the show backed out of the idea, which lead him, with the help of Nye, Timney and Osheyack, to take a majority of the responsibility onto his shoulders.

“I was in awe seeing from the planning process up to that first show when we put it online and

it was all that planning, all those ideas are now finally together,” Mahan said.

He explained how it one of his biggest feats here at KSC. “I think last semester was a huge accomplishment. I mean, having just me solely editing the show, putting together videos, video stories and packages and then editing the show. Doing all of that made me more appreciative of what the show is,” Mahan said.

Mahan had big responsibilities to fulfill. He mainly did everything.

“The main difference is having more people in the show. We went from myself, to lead correspondent, and two game correspondents, editor, graphic designer. So getting all that creativity in the show this semester, makes it a more unique show,” said Mahan.

With the help of co-producers Nye, Timney and Osheyack, he made it work.

“There’s some instances where Dr. Nye or Mark Timney were there when I had a questions about editing or anything to help me guide through that. Abe as well, when I had a question about a statistic or fact right. Or about a team, he was definitely a great help and support system making sure all the facts were correct,” Mahan said.

It being Mahan’s second semester of his senior year, he said he likes how he has taken a step back.

“I like taking that step back to formulate what I’m going to do with my career and everything with that,” Mahan said.

He is looking at a few news stations for after graduation, as well as sports information and public relations jobs.

Co-producer Nye explained how last semester did nothing but exceed his expectations.

“We’re trying to build on that, now we have more talent involved.

We actually have three on-air reporters instead of just one,” Nye said.

He also said they’re trying to build on the content the show has.

Now, with the help of others, the

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show can focus on more weekly highlight stories.

“I will say, losing Justin will have an impact. He’s the type of student who works hard and has a passion for this. Whether you can physically replace a student like that or not, you can’t really replace the desire and the spirit of a student like that,” he said.

“The show will go on, I’m very encouraged by the younger talent we have, Tyler [daRosa] and Pete [Dubois]. I hope we will continue to grow new talent as other younger students come into the TV production class,” Nye said.

With this show, Nye wanted to help students out with more learning opportunities.

He also wanted to make sure students were prepared for the real world.

After this season, the show will have completed a full cycle cover-

ing all of the sports.

Nye hopes with this, it’ll help them know what to do better or improve on.

“This is all about visibility for the college and the athletics and we have opportunities for students and we’ll be true to that,” Nye said.

Inside Owl Athletics has already given students the opportunity to grow.

A junior news media journalism major and student intern for the show, Peter Dubois became involved after asking his advisor for help with an internship.

“I got thrown into the growing team of Inside Owl Athletics team this semester. It’s definitely a well oil[ed] machine,” Dubois said.

He is a sideline reporter who does highlights for women’s basketball games and will be reporting on women’s and men’s lacrosse games when their season starts.

Having Mahan at the games with him has helped Dubois.

“It’s really nice having Justin Mahan at the games because he’s done this before. He helps and guides me on what to say,” Dubois said.

Just like Mahan, Dubois hopes Inside Owl Athletics will help him when it comes time to look for a job.

“I hope this internship can help me build enough experience so I can show employers so that it can help build a better chance for me to get a job,” Dubois explained.

You can catch Inside Owl Athletics every Friday afternoon at keeneowls.com or on their Facebook page, Keene State College Athletics.

Adriana Sanchez can be contacted at asanchex@kscequinox.com

SportS Editor Skiing has been around since the 600 B.C.E. era.

In those days, it was used as a form of transportation over snowcovered terrain, but since then it has evolved immensely.

Skiing is now a way to increase exercise, a way to enjoy the long winters and a sport that simply never gets old.

Rock paintings of skis were preserved and show that hunters and trappers used skis at least 5,000 years ago, but skis are even older than that.

As the glaciers retreated, the Stone Age hunters followed reindeer and elk herds from central Asia's Altai region, moving to the northwest and northeast.

They used skis to do so, covering themselves with fur that worked like modern climbing skins.

Skis thus came to be used across the Eurasian arctic regions.

As time progressed into the modern age, skis were in regularly used by Scandinavian farmers, hunters and warriors throughout the Middle Ages.

By the 18th century, units of the Swedish Army trained and competed on skis (www.skiinghistory. org).

In the 1840s, the cambered ski (a shaped alpine ski with relatively little sidecut and classic camber: the tip and tail touch the snow while the midsection is in the air) was developed by woodcarvers in the province of Telemark, Norway.

The bow-shaped, cambered ski arched up toward the center to distribute the weight of the skier more evenly across the length of the ski.

Before this invention, skis had to be thick to glide without bowing downward and sinking in the snow under the skier’s weight (they were concentrated in the middle).

If a ski is allowed to bow downward this way, the skier finds himself constantly skiing uphill, out of a hole his own weight has made in the snow.

But with this new ski, the skier no longer sank in the snow, but instead glided smoothly across it.

This was the start of the new and ever improving ski (www.skiinghistory.org).

In the 1860s-1900s the ski continued to transform, as new models and ideals were put to the test. Skis were made narrower, the edges were thickened and sharpened, and in the early 1900s skis were laminated, which was the first attempt at waterproof skis.

Lacking good materials though, the glue used to laminate the skis quickly deteriorated due to water, proving useless within a few days (www.skiinghistory.org).

But the inventors and improvers of the ski world never failed to stop improving and that's why we have such good quality skis today.

Looking at old pairs of skis, it’s amazing to think that anyone could even ski on them.

But the sport of skiing proves to be unstoppable in that aspect.

It’s always interesting looking back at where something began.

Skis are impeccable now, with so many designs, lengths and parts that provide safety and fun to the skier.

It’s nice to be a part of that history, even if it’s just a small sliver.

Caroline Perry can be contacted at cperry@kscequinox.com

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Running into the championship Bisaillon and Gravallese qualify for the DIII championship JULIA EICHMAN

Equinox Staff The women’s track and field team for Keene State College qualified two women on Jan. 27, for the upcoming New England Division III Track and Field Championships.

Junior Taylor Bisaillon qualified for shot put for Championships with a personal best of 11.81 meters. After realizing her throw would advance her, Taylor stated,“It was a really exciting moment when I heard what the mark measured at. Last season I would get really frustrated because I was stuck at 9.8 meters for a very long time. It’s awesome knowing the effort that both me and my coaches put into the event paid off,” said Bisaillon.

Facing a few injuries herself this season, she stated that the weather has also impacted training this season.

“This season I’ve had a few issues with some chronic injuries and tightness; but I think the most difficult obstacle being a track athlete at Keene State is our lack of facilities. Not only do we not have a track but we also have no sufficient throwing space for javelin, and no indoor jumping facilities. The weather does affect our training based on whether or not we can be inside or outside but we make due with what we have,” said Bisaillon.

She also ran a few other races and relays. Bisaillon talked about her growth and success so far this season, “So far this season I have run a personal best in everything I’ve raced. I've run the 600, 400, and this year I ran my first open 800 as well. It’s super exciting to be at this point in the season and be exceeding times and throws that I was having at the end of my spring season,” Bisaillon said.

Despite her success, a few things such as the weather and injuries have impacted her training. “This season I’ve had a few issues with some chronic injuries and tightness but I think the most difficult obstacle

being a track athlete at Keene state is our lack of facilities. Not only do we not have a track but we also have no sufficient throwing space for javelin, and no indoor jumping facilities. The weather does affect our training based on whether or not we can be inside or outside but we make due with what we have,” said Bisaillon.

KSC junior Brittany Gravallese qualified for the New England Division III Championships in the 800 meter race. Her season has changed from longer distances races to now doing longer sprints. “At the beginning of the season I did a lot of different events than I was used to. I did the mile a few times and the 1000 meters but my primary race which I qualified in is the 800,” Gravallese said.

Although this is not her first time qualifying for Division III Championships, it is her first time going individually. In all her previous years so far, Gravallese has qualified with her relay team for the 4 by 400. “It definitely felt like a big accomplishment, I felt good in my last race in the beginning and I moved along as each lap went by.

Also I think it is definitely more stressful now because you have to work by yourself instead of with the relay team so it's really working on confidence and individual times,” Gravallese said.

Right now the team has LEC’s coming up on Saturday, Feb. 10, and the following weekend is the championships. Gravallese said, “Now in the season we are focusing more on speed, endurance and getting faster times. I am not too sure what I want to place when I get to the championship meet.

Getting my best time I think is the best goal to go for, I would be happy with that.”

As for her teammates, Gravallese shared her feelings toward her team and fellow qualifiers.

“I am proud of my teammates and the other people that qualified, Jared [Hannon] and Taylor, they are both in

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Keene State College juniors and track & field members Taylor Bisaillon and Brittany Gravallese, punch their tickets for the DIII New England championship. They are the first from their team to qualify.

Behind the scenes of KSC swim and dive All the effort that goes into the pool CAROLINE PERRY

SportS Editor The Keene State College Swim and Dive team is in mid season and already has multiple victories under their belt. The work that goes into each practice and meet can be easily forgotten about, but it is that work that causes such great success for the KSC Owls. Members of the Swim and Dive team gave a little insight to the work that goes into every ounce of success.

Sophomore Kyle Shadeck said that it is all about the work in practice leading up to the meet. Shadeck said, “When I know I have trained hard, it helps give me confidence that I will perform well.” The drills that each athlete focuses on during practice

are also key to individual success, Shadeck added. “As a team, our biggest focus is the underwater dolphin kick outs off each turn. Each practice we take the time to work on our kick and our lung capacity so that we are fast off our turns,” Shadeck said. Being able to dedicate yourself to the entirety of the season can be difficult due to how much time is takes up, but Shadeck said mental strength is key. “Personally I would say the hardest part of the sport is staying mentally tough throughout the year. It can be a very long season, lasting up to six months with up to 13 workouts a week, so the season and wind up being mentally draining in addition to physically draining,” Shadeck said.

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Keene State College swim and dive athletes give insight to the behind the scenes factors that are dealt with in and ouside of the pool, which play a key role in physical and mental improvement.

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