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Vol. 69, Issue #21 Thursday, March 2, 2017

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Academic issues cost students their time Nursing program still on probation ALEXANDRIA SAURMAN

Arts And EntErtAinmEnt Editor Last week, Keene State College President Anne Huot sent out an e-mail which stated the nursing program’s probation has been extended.

“It is my pleasure to update you on the most recent review of the College’s nursing program. Last Friday, … we received notification that the college’s program has received a six-month extension of our ‘approved on probation’ status. This good news allows the college to more fully demonstrate the positive outcomes of our revised curriculum and to prepare our students to take the NCLEX-RN exam,” the e-mail, sent on Tuesday, Feb. 21, read.

KSC’s nursing program has been on probation since February, 2016, according to an editorial in The Keene Sentinel. The reason for the probation was because of the low passing rates of the National Council Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses, or the NCLEXRN. In 2013, only one year after the program began, according to KSC’s nursing section on the school’s website, 77.78 percent of graduates passed the exam.

However, in the following three years, the passing percentage dropped to 48.28 percent, 62.16 percent and 62.50 percent respectively.

Plymouth State University began their nursing program in the fall of 2011, according to an article on their school’s website. Their passing rates from 2013-2016 were 72.41 percent, 65.52 percent, 56.52 percent and 95 percent, respectively.

However, they, too, hold an “approved on probation status,” according to the nursing department section of their website.

Being on probation After e-mailing directly with Dr. Clementine Hinsperger-Rice, the director of nursing at KSC, The Equinox was contacted by Kelly Ricaurte, the director of strategic communications and community relations, and said that an interview could be set up with the Dean of Professional and Graduate Studies, Dr. Karrie Kalich, through her assistant.

Unable to find a time to interview due to scheduling conflicts, The Equinox reached out to Ricaurte, asking for an interview with Rice. Ricaurte was present for the duration of the interview.

“We’re approved, on probation, from the board of nursing in New Hampshire.

We’re accredited nationally from CCNE [The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education],” Rice said.

While on probation, the nursing program is required to send reports to the New Hampshire Board of Nursing, or the NH BON. When contacted by The Equinox, the NH BON’s Program Specialist IV Carol Brody refused to comment.

“So it operates fully like any other nursing program...except that we check in with the board of nursing to let them know our progress,” commented Ricaurte during the interview.

Steps taken With the lowest passing rates in New Hampshire, KSC’s nursing program is taking some additional steps to improve them.

Rice said there are a few ways the nursing program is attempting to improve the passing rate, such as through faculty development, tutoring and test preparation.

“This group of seniors are being offered professional

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Students in the nursing program may have to spend additional time at Keene State College. For students in the nursing program, there have been concerns with passing their state exam. Insufficient results in student’s passing has meant the school will continue to be on probation.

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New rules for Keene State education progam JACOB BARRETT

made sure to put more emphasis on how students are doing with the preparation for the tests, including paying for online study guide subscriptions, flash cards, spending more time in class on test preparation and more.

Junior elementary education major Holly Geno stated that the additional requirement may put additional stress on students.

“I know of a lot of education majors who have had issues passing certain exams and now having this new deadline puts even more pressure on everyone to pass their exams the first time,” Geno stated Based on her experience, Guillemette said not passing the tests does not manifest into an inability to teach in a classroom.

“I think that these tests, they show a different process of teaching and not actually what you are capable of doing in the classroom,” Guillemette said.

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Some education majors have had to deal with an extra requirement before they can student-teach.

The education department implemented a new prerequisite for student teaching, which may have an effect on whether students will be able to graduate on time.

Beginning this academic year, elementary education students (excluding this year’s seniors) have been required to pass the state teaching certification tests, cts Fou such as the Praxis II Multi Subjects and Foundations of II Multi Subje ndat is x ra P Reading, before they can begin student teaching. ions of R This new college requirement is not a state policy, eadi but implemented by the education department to help ng students be better prepared to start teaching once they graduate, according to Education Department Chair Dr. Ellen Nuffer.

As a result, Nuffer said the new requirement has had an impact on elementary education majors in a number More to know of ways.

“Students are having to budget for taking those tests While Nuffer said that it would be a rare occura little earlier than they might have otherwise, and they rence for a cooperating teacher to report that a stuknow that while they are in the program, they have to dent-teacher was ill-prepared or did not know the be thinking about when are they going to take time to teaching material, the new requirement has been put study for those tests, when are they going to take time into place to coincide with state and national concerns. to register and actually do the tests themselves,” Nuffer “It was more a concern on a larger level. On a larger said. state level and on a federal level of the public wanting Nuffer also said that the test demonstrates to stuto be reassured that students really did know the condents that as an elementary school teacher, students tent,” Nuffer said. need to be proficient in a wide variety of topics.

However, Nuffer said that she disagrees with the “Not only do you have to know how to do that, but overall decision by the state to use testing as a meayou have to know the content too, and so this requiresure of a student’s content knowledge, preferring ment to be able to demonstrate that content-specific more of a reliance on professional opinion and recknowledge is a good thing, reminding students that ommendation. rocks and minerals [are] part of what you teach. Math To demonstrate further content knowledge, other [is] part of what you teach. How the American Revolunew requirements include education majors with the tion came about [is] part of what you teach, so you need specific content majors of English, math, modern lanto know all of that,” Nuffer said. guage, sciences, social studies, music and physical SAMANTHA MOORE / ART DIRECTOR Nuffer said that a lot of students would put off the education are now required to maintain a 2.5 GPA in Education majors have to take two state certification exams in order to student teach. Both student tests until after graduation and therefore lose the suptheir declared content major. teaching and the state exams are required to graduate as an education major. port that may have helped them pass.

Early childhood education majors are now “They lose all of that support, so we view it as a Student responses that she has taken the tests a number of times, coming required to maintain at least a 3.0 in their program good thing that we’re now saying, ‘Pay attention to this up short. option and specialization two courses. before you end up leaving us and then you don’t have Due to her seniority this year, KSC senior Emily “It’s a frustrating experience,” Guillemette said. any supports,” Nuffer said.

Guillemette has been able to student-teach, despite not To help students pass the, now more urgent, tests, Jacob Barrett can be contacted at jbarrett@kscequinox.com passing her state certification exams. However, she said Nuffer said that the department and its faculty have

Lloyd’s Marketplace incurs changes GRACE KELLY

Equinox Staff Lloyd’s and Bean & Bagel, located in the Young Student Center of Keene State College, recently increased their preventive measures on theft because of the recent cases of food and beverages being stolen.

Josef Quirinale, the manager of Keene State College’s dining services, said the recent cases of theft are due to the new changes made to dining services this semester.

“Before the break, Bean and Bagel would close at a certain time and, the reason for that is because when Bean and Bagel and Lloyds open at the same time, there needs to be cashiers in both locations. So, our retail manager devised a way we would only have one cashier, which would save us money,” he said.

Quirinale then went on to talk more about the changes his retail manager Kristen Mattheson made to increase production. “When we came back from the winter break, Kristen decided that she would leave Bean and Bagel open later and staff only one cashier, which means there wouldn’t be a cashier on the inside. This means whoever would go inside Lloyds would pay at Bean and Bagel. That’s how it all started,” he said.

Once this change was made, Bean and Bagel employee Pepi Christopherson said that stealing began to occur. “Theft tends to happen during busy times when

we’re under-staffed because we are busy taking care of the paying customers. It’s hard to keep track of everyone,” she said.

Quirinale said he noticed recurring trends of theft at Lloyds especially. “What we found was happening was students were taking beverages and drinking them while their food is being made. Then, they would proceed to leave the empty container in where the beverages are held and it’s happened on a couple occasions where they would take their food they had gotten from either the grill or the deli and put it in their backpack,” he said.

KSC sophomore Chris Pennell claimed he hasn’t seen anything like this. “I haven’t seen anyone steal from Lloyds, but I have heard of people recently stealing,” he said.

However, Christopherson said she has seen this theft take place right in front of her eyes. “If I don’t see anything, I don’t ask questions, but, a couple of weeks ago, a student was eating a box of Pringles waiting in line. Then, when I cashed her out, I asked about the Pringles and she said she forgot and took it out of her backpack to pay. I never have any situations of chasing anyone down because they walk past me,” she said.

This resulted in Quirinale and Mattheson improving preventive measures for grazing, “Kristen put up some signs and stanchions so that students could enter through one way and exit through another.

That way, they would all have to face the register and not go out the second entry way that is always open when we have people working on that side,” said Quirinale.

Christopherson said she also uses a new sticker method to prevent theft to make it easier on herself. “Lately, we’ve been trying to use stickers. If someone buys something, we mark it with a circle sticker that frequently changes colors. This is proof that the customers paid for their meal. With hundreds of customers, there’s no way to keep track of who paid and who didn’t. The stickers help with that,” she said.

Pennell said he barely noticed the changes made this month. “I didn’t really notice any changes Lloyd’s has made to prevent theft. I do sometimes see the barrier on the second opening that shows no entry, but, it doesn’t really affect me either way so it’s not that big of a deal to me,” he said.

Quirinale said this is only done to benefit the students. “I’m not sure if this is well understood by the students, but we’re really trying to save the student’s money. The school doesn’t actually put any money into these programs, so the more theft or grazing that happens, it really just increases the price for everybody,” he said.

Grace Kelly can be contacted at gkelly@kscequinox.com

NURSING

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tutors. We’ve hired professional tutors, which I think they do practically every year anyway,” said Rice.

“And the faculty’s offering tutoring support as well…,” commented Ricaurte.

The exam, offered by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, or the NCSBN, covers all areas of nursing such as “medical surgical, obstetrics, pediatrics…,” as said by Rice, who all described the exam as “...heavy-duty...high stakes…”

Preparation Before students can enter the pre-licensure program, they must pass the TEAS test, or the Test of Essential Academic Skills. Rice says it is “predictive of students and how well they’re going to do in nursing classes.”

Once students have passed and are admitted into the program, they are offered various tests to prepare them for the NCLEX-RN. One of these tests is the Assessment Technologies Institute (ATI), which “offers a wide variety of NCLEX preparation assessments during nursing school. These assessments not only prepare students for the NCLEX, but they also help them gain critical thinking skills and a comprehensive nursing knowledge base needed to be a great nurse,” according to ATI’s During Nursing School section of their website.

“They get lots of extra...opportunities to do that,” said Rice. “Then, we have these predictor exams. Predictor exams, students take them and it tells us what is the...percentage of a chance that they will pass the exam...and they also give the students a feedback that says, you know, you’re really good in this area and you need to work on this area and you may work on that area a little more… it gives them a focused review and we use them a lot because we think the students are more apt to really study if they have exams and they have them after each one of the major courses. Those are called content mastery.”

In addition, the nursing program will hold “a four day, intense review…,” as said by Rice, called Kaplan.

After the seniors graduate, they will return to campus for four days and review for the NCLEX-RN. Student Response

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Lloyd’s Marketplace made some changes to their business after theft became a huge issue. These new changes include actions such as marking each item bought with a sticker and, at certain times only, having one entrance into the area. Sodexo Manager Josef Quirinale said stolen items just increase the cost of items for all students.

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First-year pre-nursing major Sydney McGough commented on the extended probation saying, “I still feel pretty good about [the program]. I feel that the state can’t really see the results until they start sending more classes though because they have made changes to the program, but they’re young changes, so your sophomore class and your [first year] class are the ones where the changes are really being implemented-stricter rules, smaller class sizes--all those things are happening in the younger grades.”

Although junior biology major Haley Zanga is not a nursing major, she’s the president of the pre-med club.

“A lot of the people had to leave and change schools because if they didn’t, then there was a risk of them not being to stay in the nursing program… I think it’s terrible for the people that are spending so much money to come to a program here for nursing and they can’t even get accredited,” she said, speaking on how the one-year probation last year affected some of the students.

One former nursing major is junior Ashley Collins.

Collins, who now studies biology, said she switched majors because she “felt like the program wasn’t going to be… accredited anymore.” She felt that she would have more options as a biology major, and eventually TIM SMITH / PHOTO EDITOR

For the time being, KSC has ranked as one of the lowest schools passing the National Council

Licensure Examination for Registered Nurses, or the NCLEX-RN in New Hampshire. This past year only 62.5 percent of KSC nursing students passed the exam compared to other schools in NH, many of which had rates of high 80s, 90s and 100s. aims to be a pediatric surgeon. She also noted that when nursing students go to transfer to another institution, many of their nursing credits do not transfer.

“I also feel bad for everyone that’s in there… I feel like the directors of the nursing program were kind of sugarcoating everything more than they should have because I’m one of those people that if it’s not working out, tell me about it. Don’t sugarcoat things to make me want to stay when, in reality, you could be screwing up my future,” she said.

Three nursing majors were asked for comment, but all neglected to respond. Another nursing major did not want to talk about the subject.

Alexandria Saurman can be contacted at asaurman@kscequinox.com

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Students look to live in solitude on campus CAMPUS SAFETY report log

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9:34 a.m. Carle Hall: Burglary 6:32 p.m. LLC: Destruction Property / Vandalism

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10:41 p.m. Holloway Hall: Controlled Drug Act Violation // Drug Paraphernalia Possession // - Odor of Drugs Wednesday, February 22 2:22 p.m. LLC: Theft From a Building Thursday, February 23 10:11 a.m. One Butler Court: Harassment 8:13 p.m. LLC: General Assistance 11:10 p.m. Carle Hall: Alcohol - Criminal Violation // - False Identification - Possession of SAMANTHA MOORE / ART DIRECTOR

Student express interest in different housing opportunities KATIE JENSEN

Equinox Staff The college has plenty of room to house students. In recent years however, single rooms have been gaining popularity.

When asked about the alleged difficulties meeting firstyear requests for single rooms, Assistant Director of Residential Life for Housing, Debra Barrett confidently rejected this statement and said, “Yes, historically, single rooms are popular, but we are very confident we will meet every student’s request by the time they move in next year.” Singles are usually meant for students who have certain disabilities, but some individuals persist anyways because they feel they’d be more comfortable without a roommate.

Barrett said that although the Residential Life Office tries to accommodate all requests, Keene State is about fostering a friendly and open community. For first-years and sophomores that are required to live on campus, the Residential Life Office encourages rooming with someone, even if it’s random. “We like them to have that experience; it builds a community and helps kids grow,” she said.

Despite their success, single room requests have been becoming a trend. “It’s becoming more common, even with other college campuses,” Barrett said. She reinforced the fact that Keene State promotes that students should learn to live with each other.

According to a report by the Keene Sentinel released in 2015, Keene State College enrollment has decreased the past few years. The 2015 article reports, “The college’s fall enroll-

“We like them to have that experience (students living together); it builds a community and helps kids grow.”

DEBRA BARRETT ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF RESIDENTIAL LIFE FOR HOUSING

ment is lower than it’s been in more than a decade. Applications were down, too — by about 12 percent.” This could be the result of a variety of factors, such as a low population of New England high school kids and the choice by more students to attend colleges closer to home.

Barrett said she has only been in her position for two years, therefore she has not noted any trends in enrollment; however, she admitted that meeting housing requirements has not been an issue while she’s been working here. Even with the first-year dorm Monadnock Hall closing down and becoming a housing residence for greek life members next year, no new students will be crowding into triples. Barrett referred to the Living Learning Commons dorms when she said, “With the new residence halls, we feel comfortable that

we will be able to place our first-years.”

Barrett also added if an individual requests a single and did not get one, they’ll be put on a waitlist through the summer and results may not come back until the middle of July. Despite how stressful that may seem, Barrett said she assures students, “We have a very high success rate -- we cannot guarantee students will get exactly what they want, but we work very hard in getting students in their preferred housing situations.”

KSC sophomore Lisa Shea said she was ecstatic when she and her friends were placed in Butler for next fall. “I’ll be a junior, but all my friends will be sophomores. I’m so happy we got the spot; Butler is known to go fast,” she said.

Some residential halls have a better reputation than others.

KSC first-year Mary-Kate Cavanaugh said, “Butler and the Pondsides are the upperclass dorms that will be first to go -not so much the Owls Nests.”

However, Barrett affirmed there are always people willing to reserve a spot there.

Sophomore housing requests are open on the Keene State College website for those who know where they’d like to live next year. To ensure that you and your friends will get a spot, stop by the Residential Life Office on campus and ask the housing staff what you can do to get your preferred placement.

Katie Jensen can be contacted at kjensen@kscequinox.com

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Maggie Hassan speaks on student debt at KSC JACOB BARRETT

SEnior rEportEr New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan visited Keene State College on Wednesday, Feb. 24 for the first time since she was elected in November.

Hassan joined faculty, staff and students of KSC for a round table discussion regarding the burden of student debt.

The event began with remarks by KSC Provost William Seigh, followed by Hassan expressing her initial concerns with student debt in the state and the country.

“I really heard throughout my time as governor and saw it first-hand as well, about the impact of student debt on our capacity as a state to grow an economy where we all have opportunity where people can take risks and engage in the professions and the work that they want to and where we can grow an economy where working families have a chance to get ahead and thrive,” Hassan said.

After her initial remarks, Hassan listened as each member of the round table panel went around and spoke of their experience with student debt, some of which totalled above $50,000. Most of the students at the panel work multiple jobs both on and off campus to help pay for school, while also balancing a full course load.

“It’s concerning to me, as it is to all of us on this panel, the amount of the debt that we collectively have…It’s a real concern that after graduation, I may not have a financial basis for myself…” KSC senior and panelist Alex Clark said.

Hassan asked what was currently being done at the college to help students learn to manage their debt.

Also on the panel was KSC Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management Steven Goetsch, who said that as of now, the college offers meetings with stu-

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Senator Maggie Hassan visits Keene State College to speak about student debt. To her left, KSC Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs William Seigh listens in and speaks at a panel made up of students and others from campus. Potential solutions for student debt included decreasing interest rates and lowering the cost of graduate school.

dents to help them plan and figure out what a potential loan payment may be. He also said that the college offers mandated exit counseling. Exit counseling, according to the KSC website is required for students who have received federal and/or institutional loans Additionally, according to the KSC 2016 Factbook, the college provides over $1.4 million in institutional merit or need-based scholarships and grants, along with more dollars allocated for student hourly jobs and other types of financial aid.

As a state, New Hampshire allocates the least

amount of money in the country to public education, which leaves more of the financial burden on colleges and, therefore, students.

Hassan, who froze tuition during her first two years as governor and lowered tuition at the community college level, spoke of what needs to be done in the future to improve student debt.

Possible suggestions for improvements of the student debt problem proposed by Hassan, panelists and audience members were the expansion of the Pell Grant Program, lowering interest rates broadening of loan-for-

giveness programs, lowering the cost of graduate school and more.

Hassan said that she will continue to work to keep the cost of higher education as low as she can, and said she wants citizens to keep educating their elected officials on the issue of student debt.

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No more permit for concealed carry New Hampshire has now joined a number of other states in a controversial move to allow residents the ability to carry concealed guns without any sort of licensure. Last week, New Hampshire passed a law which doesn’t require residents to have a permit to carry a concealed handgun.

What was once permitless open carry is now permitless concealed carry, giving a person the right to conceal a pistol or revolver unless otherwise prohibited by a criminal record.

This, then, allows someone with little to no understanding of gun safety the same opportunity as a gun enthusiast to conceal a handgun in public. When considering this by itself, some may feel a sense of skepticism or intimidation.

Here in New Hampshire, we tend to do things with the “Live Free or Die” state of mind. However, we are not alone. Other New England states, such as Vermont and Maine, also do not require a permit to conceal a handgun in public. According to , “At least 11 states have passed laws allowing the concealed carry of guns without a permit, and 16 states have introduced legislation this year to do the same, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures and the National Rifle Association.” What triggers one person to seek protection with firearms will differ from another, whether that person’s intentions are harmless or not.

We at The Equinox feel the law was just fine the way it was, where individuals had to obtain a permit to conceal handguns. We do not really see an issue if the weapon is visible. However, we do see an issue with having to guess who is and who is not armed when strolling down the sidewalk. This uncertainty may cause some to feel less safe and, perhaps, even intimidated. We see no problem for a regular, law-abiding citizen to go through the permit process and prove they are knowledgeable and trustworthy enough to have concealed carry.

We at The Equinox are fine with having no permit to carry a gun openly. With open carry, a sense of transparency is delivered to others so they know for sure that this person has a gun. We shouldn’t be left to wonder who is or isn’t armed.

We are aware that guns themselves do not kill people, people kill people. However, we also take into account that guns make it a lot easier for people to kill.

The idea that we need to wield a gun to protect ourselves from another individual with a gun could be erased if we just didn’t carry guns around in the first place. If one feels that unsafe that he or she has to have a gun hidden in their purse or pocket to walk down the street in public, then there are bigger issues on a societal level to address.

Guns and the right to bear arms are embedded in our country’s roots.

We at The Equinox are in no way anti-gun. We just feel if an individual feels the need to carry in public, it should be carried openly so the public can see who’s armed. If one wants to play hide-and-go-gun, then store them away secretly in a closet at home, not secretly shoved into a tube sock or something in a public setting.

Although this rule may not apply everywhere on properties where guns are already prohibited, such as a college or university campus, it could still affect those on those properties. Let’s take a look at Keene State’s campus, for example, and its geographical location to downtown.

Main Street runs right at the top of Appian Way. If an individual wanted to conceal his or her gun when walking on the perimeter of campus, they legally could. Yet, if they stepped a foot onto campus, that act would be prohibited. However, the bullet in this individual’s gun could be shot from the sidewalk and travel a long distance down Appian, where guns aren’t tolerated. That person doesn’t need to step foot on campus to cause harm. Yes, someone who’s carrying that same gun openly could do the same thing. The only difference is we’d see them approaching with a gun in a holster on their hip. We could see the event unfold before it happens if we can visibly see the weapon. This is nothing more than a hypothetical “what if” example, but it’s important to keep in mind.

Gun safety starts with gun education so that some of the stigma associated with owning and carrying guns can be lessened or eliminated. We feel that not enough education has soaked into enough minds for each and every one of those minds to consciously be able to decide whether they conceal or keep his or her gun visible in public.

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Endangered Species Act in danger KATHERINE GLOSSER

Equinox Staff The subject of endangered species has been on the forefront for environmentalists and nature enthusiasts’ minds for over 100 years. According to the Smithsonian, in the 1800s, American bison were hunted to near extinction by careless people who slaughtered them for the sake of killing. Near the end of the century, Congress took action to protect bison and other species in their surrounding environment. Today, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List, there are over 30,000 bison roaming freely. There are many success stories similar to the bison, thanks to the effort of conservationists. In 1973, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) was established by Congress, giving 1,600 plant and animal species protection. According to National Geographic, the ESA made it nearly 100 percent successful to prevent them from extinction.

Unfortunately, the ESA is now endangered, thanks to the Trump administration. In a senate hearing last Wednesday, Feb.15, members proposed to “modernize” the ESA by making it more challenging to list a species as endangered or threatened.

One of the excuses the Republicans made for calling to repeal the ESA was that they feared they couldn’t defend the livestock of farmers because the predators responsible for killing them are endangered. In their argument, they cited gray wolves as being the ultimate livestock killer, causing farmers to lose a lot of money. Gray wolves were once endangered, but no longer are. So in essence, there is the fear that predators protected under the Endangered Species Act could cause agricultural problems for farmers. I think that reason is weak and nonsensical, and here’s why.

Two of the species that are taking a hit is the bumblebee and the red wolf. This is not only an injustice to the bumblebee

and the wolf, but it is also destructive.

Every animal contributes to the ecosystem. When a certain species goes extinct, it can put a great stress on the living organisms that heavily rely on them. According to an article on princeton.edu by Navjot S. Sodhi, Barry W. Brook and Corey J. A. Bradshaw, if a pollinator or a predator goes extinct in its environment, it has the most consequences. Bumblebees are pollinators, meaning they are responsible for fertilizing plants, giving them the ability to reproduce. Our crops and vegetables rely on bees. Wolves are predators and they, too, have a strong effect on the ecosystem. Wolves are responsible for population control, which means if they go extinct, the population of its prey would grow abundant, causing more problems for other species.

If the threat to agriculture is the most talked about reason to “modernize” the ESA, then it should not be repealed.

Plenty of protected species do not interfere with agriculture, and even if they did, there are better alternatives to protecting livestock from endangered predators than repealing the ESA. Getting a guardian dog is a solution and so is penning in livestock during the night. You can get a fence to keep predators out. There are even repellents to keep carnivores out.

There are so many solutions a farmer can utilize instead of repealing something that has protected over 1,000 species. Why put every endangered animal needlessly at risk for extinction just because there is a miniscule chance that an endangered animal might threaten livestock?

Katherine Glosser can be contacted at kglosser@kscequinox.com

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Norma McCorvey’s role in the fight for pro-choice MARY CURTIN

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A decline in demand takes a toll on coal MARC APESOS

Equinox Staff President Donald Trump’s promise to revive the dwindling coal industry in the United States will never come to fruition.

Despite Trump’s promises to simply lift regulations off of the dwindling coal industry, it will not be enough to bring the coal industry back to its former glory. Concerns regarding the environment and the decrease in coal demand from neighboring countries, as well as the competition involving the natural-gas industry, are all reasons why Trump is facing an uphill battle in restoring the campaign promises he’s made.

“Get ready to work your asses off,” said Trump to a roaring crowd of supporters in Charleston, West Virginia, during his campaign against Hillary Clinton.

Trump has run a long campaign, convincing rust-belters that Obama’s increase in regulations has been the reason for so much suffering in the region. His strategy very much paid off after winning coal mining states like Ohio and Kentucky. It’s also no wonder Trump won West Virginia by a margin of 44 percent. Trump was also the first Republican candidate to win Pennsylvania since 1988.

For the largely unemployed coal miner who has felt abandoned by Washington for years now, these promises seem pretty enticing, and they made their priorities clear with their candidate of choice.

Trump’s promise consisted of rolling back regulations, offering tax breaks to investments in infrastructure and ending a ban on mining on federal land. Environmentalists warned that these regulations were there to protect rivers and drinking water, and the impact could be devastating.

But these promises may prove to be empty ones or have very little effect on the coal industry. Considering the decrease in regulating oil and the overabundance of cheap natural gas flooding the market, it seems there just simply isn’t a demand for coal that there once was.

Foreign countries are not buying coal like they once were.

Countries like Canada and the Netherlands have made promises to reduce their dependence on coal. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, four of the five countries that buy U.S. coal imports are buying less and less coal every year.

The decline in the Appalachian coal industry has been a long one. Jobs have been declining since the Reagan administration, many people point to Obama’s Clean Energy Bill as the cause of the coal depression, but the reason may simply be that coal doesn’t sell like it once did.

According to the National Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S has lost 191,000 jobs in the mining industry since April of 2014. This is largely because of natural gas being a massive competitor to the coal industry. By making promises to end regulations on both the coal and gas industry simultaneously, there is little reason for coal demand to surge, considering the massive gas shales scattered throughout the U.S. Marc Apesos can be contacted at mapesos@kscequinox.com

Roe v. Wade was just another court ruling for some, but for women in America, this ruling meant having power over our own bodies and the right to choose.

Abortion has been longregarded by many groups of people as evil, bad and murderous, but is it fair to bring a child into this world that cannot be cared for, loved and brought up properly?

Norma McCorvey, the anonymous plaintiff known as “Jane Roe” in Roe v. Wade, died at 69 years old on Feb. 18, 2017.

While McCorvey was seemingly a feminist, she had many flaws, and one was her struggle to pick a side.

She once was a woman who was a loud cry at prochoice rallies and advocated for women’s health, but decided to turn her head from this group, become a born again Christian and head to the pro-life efforts.

With that being said, she absolutely was an important figure because of her court case, and without her, women wouldn’t have the right to choose what they want to do with their bodies when it comes to unwanted, unforeseen or accidental conception.

As a woman and a feminist, I appreciate the fact that she brought her issue to court and proved to women everywhere that we don’t have to be told how to treat our bodies or how to live our lives.

Since the inauguration, there has been much talk about different abortion rulings that could cause a slew of issues.

Most recently, there has been a proposal in Oklahoma that would allow men to have

the final say in whether or not a woman could have an abortion.

This raises the question of why a man would be allowed to tell a woman that she has to go through a nine month pregnancy to give birth to a child she didn’t want or wasn’t expecting to have in the first place.

It’s crazy to think that someone else gets to decide what another person is allowed to do with his or her body.

According to CNN, a new law in Arkansas allows the potential father of the fetus to sue the doctor proctoring the abortion in order to not go through with it.

So not only is a woman being denied the right ot choose what she is doing with her body, but a professional is also being told that he or she is not able to do his or her job.

Roe v. Wade was meant to protect these fundamental human rights to allow a person to choose how her life will be lived, free from the constraints and restrictions from an unwanted situation.

This was incredibly important for women of all ages and was a huge win in the eyes of sexual health and advancement for females.

While I do believe that in some situations, it may not be something that should necessarily be done, I do believe that no matter the situation, a woman should get to decide that for herself.

Without the advocacy for women, there may come a time when it won’t just be the lack of pregnancy rights; it will evolve into a much bigger and more oppressed reality.

Mary Curtin can be contacted at mcurtin@kscequinox.com

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Getting a new wardrobe without going to retail stores

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Clothes at the clothing swap were organized by style and type, but also included accessories and shoes.

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The Campus Ecology club puts on the clothing swap to cut down on consumerism.

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Individuals who attended the swap were able to try on clothes before swapping.

Campus Ecology put on their biannual clothing swap to cut down on consumerism KASSIDY CURR

Equinox Staff The start of the spring season means it is time for a new wardrobe, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you need to break your budget to achieve a new style.

Campus Ecology had their biannual clothing swap Feb. 24-25 in the student center to promote living sustainably in current times.

The Mountain View Room was turned into a thrifting paradise for Keene State students. Tables and racks were lined up neatly with clothes organized by styleand type, and also included accessories and shoes.

KSC senior and Campus Ecology Vice President Seanna Flynn explained the goal for the swap.

“This is important on our campus because it cuts down on consumerism. It brings the community

together because it’s an effort by all kinds of people and anyone can partake. Last year was our first big event and people were blown away by the fact we were doing it. People couldn’t believe it was true, so I would say that’s why we extended it to two days this year, so more people could participate”.

What was the catch? There wasn’t one. While donations were appreciated, they were not mandatory to join in on the action.

KSC senior Emma Smith donated multiple bags of her old clothes and picked up some new items at the swap.

However, for Smith, this is not just because it is a campus event; it is a lifestyle choice she has been upholding for two years now.

“Thrifting is important for sustainability. Buying all new clothes is wasteful and puts money into an indus-

try that is unethical and unsustainable, so I thrift as much as I can and I want to put some of my own stuff into that cycle,” Smith said.

Club secretary and KSC junior James Spineti mentioned that this is just one of the many causes that the organization tries to shed light on.

“Campus Ecology is all about sustainable initiatives for the entire campus, and as long as people aren’t buying new clothes, it really helps. We also try to promote sustainable living with giving away reusable water bottles, trying to ban plastic bags on campus and through Solar Fest each spring.”

This kind of event is powerful in promoting sustainability, but also club visibility.

KSC first-year Daniella Giese said the swap definitely made her take notice of both the cause and the organization. “It’s a great way to raise awareness about

something a lot of students didn’t really think about before. As a [first year] there’s a lot of clubs I don’t know about, so this is a great way for me to find out and get involved as well.”

A future clothing swap with the remaining clothes and additional donations will be held during Solar Fest.

Any clothes left over from the swap in April will be sent to various donation centers.

Flynn reiterated why students should partake in the upcoming swap “Free clothes and spring cleaning are always great things. Who can pass that up?”

Campus Ecology meets every Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. in the Student Center Atrium.

Kassidy Curr can be contacted at kcurr@kscequinox.com

Eating with the Equinox: Berry Kale Smoothie KATE FAULKNER

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Spanish major studies in Ecuador for the semester BRIDGET PIERCE

Study AwAy As a Spanish major, I am required to study abroad for one semester in a Spanish-speaking country, so I have been looking forward to this opportunity since I paid my deposit to KSC. Within a few weeks of my first year, I decided that of the four programs offered, I wanted to study in Quito, Ecuador.

Now here I am, and this experience has been a perfect mixture of adventure, stress, confusion and Venezuelan rum.

In the states, I’m usually buried by work between my three part-time jobs and trying to complete two majors and a minor.

It has been so refreshing to learn more from experience here than simply taking classes and writing papers.

Obviously, standard college work exists here as well, but I enjoy it; I feel myself improving with each assignment.

I am loving being able to get out to experience Ecuador with trips to the cloud forest in Mindo, the natural hot springs of Papallacta or even just walking around the city of Quito.

Exploring museums, the “bohemian” area or the amazing murals on my ride to school add even more beauty to the climate here.

Each day, I interact with a new person who teaches me a little bit more about the culture here- whether that be on the bus that almost never comes to a complete stop, the woman working my favorite food truck, where I buy a pastry the size of my face for 60 cents, or my amazing professors.

An amazing way to grow accustomed to the culture of Ecuador is through its nightlife.

There is a group of Ecuadorians who throw parties and plan trips for “gringos,” such as myself.

There are the normal clubs and bars in an area of Quito called “La Foch,” but it is named “Gringo-landia” by the locals, since it is mostly geared towards foreigners.

I go there occasionally, but when we can, my friends and I try out new bars that aren’t quite as loud and dangerous and also filled with Ecuadorians instead of fellow foreigners.

“Each day, I interact with a new person who teaches me a little bit more about the culture here--whether that be on the bus that almost never comes to a complete stop, the woman working my favorite food truck, where I buy a pastry the size of my face for 60 cents, or my amazing professors.”

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Of course, there are some experiences that haven’t been a dream come true.

Experiences such as riding a bus so packed full of people that we can’t even close the door, taxi drivers making fun of my “gringo” accent or riding in the back of my friend’s car because there wasn’t enough room aren’t necessarily ideal, but I don’t see it as negative.

It’s simply another learning experience that I can share with my students someday, along with pictures of my host family and my adventures, pamphlets I’m collecting and souvenirs I’ll bring back from the artisanal markets.

Through the good days and the bad, the struggling with grammar in Spanish or remembering words I haven’t used in English in a while, I am so incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be here and wouldn’t trade it for anything.

Bridget Pierce can be contacted at bpierce@kscequinox.com

Humans of KSC Out of all the rewarding things LYM has done, which one tops the charts?

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Bridget was able to rock climb within a waterfall in Ecuador.

“Out of everything that we have done for Love Your Melon, the most rewarding thing has been having the opportunity to get all of the kids together that we work with and being able to put a smile on their faces. This is such a hard time in their lives and it is so rewarding that we get to be the ones to bring a little bit of happiness to their lives. During the time we have spent with each child, we have developed a very strong bond with each of the kids and their families.

Just having the opportunity to distract them from these hard times is worth all the effort we put in.”

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Bridget has been able to sightsee in Ecuador and expand her cultural experience.

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Safe space on Keene State campus DOROTHY ENGLAND

News editor Fear and anger have been frequent emotions as of late. A group of Keene State College individuals have been specifically trained to help others and, if need be, provide additional resources to keep them out of harm’s way. Anyone can be trained for or helped by the cooperative program known as Safe Space. It first started in the 2011/2012 academic year and has since seen a boost of support.

According to the KSC website, Safe Space’s mission “is to increase awareness through education about issues related to sexual and gender minorities. Faculty, staff, students and community members are given resources to be active voices for understanding and acceptance.”

Over 350 have signed on as of 2012, according to Program Support Assistant for LGBTQ Students in the Office of Multicultural Student Support Hunter Kirschner. Kirshner helps run the program, but it isn’t under the Office of Multicultural Student Support. It’s a separate organization within the college. The training is volunteer-based. “It’s folks who are taking time out of their job to help out,” he said.

Kirschner said that a recent undergoing was getting professors and faculty who work in the Science Center trained. “We had students saying that there were a lot of faculty who hadn’t been trained and so we made an effort to train a bunch of these folks, so now the Science Center has a bunch of Safe Space trainees,” he said.

Kirschner said there’s a difference between Safe Space training and then the general ideology of a safe space. “Safe space is also just a concept of being in a space that seems a safe place not only to exist, but a safe place to make mistakes and learn and grow...safe spaces

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The Office of Multicultural Student Support is a safe space for the LGBTQ community and for allies while getting an education.

“In a way, we are in this little bubble, but also this bubble exists because of the people here. If I can be here and be myself, then maybe I can take and build a bubble elsewhere until there’s a bubble around the whole world.”

to make folks aware that there is injustice [and] just that awareness can change a lot about how people behave and interact.”

He said that anyone is welcomed to go to a safe space, but if the issue is more severe, recommendations to people in other departments will be made. “We know the lines of reporting and making sure that gets to Jeff Maher, the Title IX coordinator… we don’t have specific training, but there are rites in place to support our students,” he said.

Maher was contacted to answer questions, but was unavailable to do so.

The Safe Space trainings last three and a half hours, however Kirshner said that doesn’t mean they learn JENNA HALL everything since things are always changing. “It’s KSC FIRST-YEAR important to keep up with appropriate terminology, experiences [and] things to be aware of,” he said.

Kirschner continued and said that often, they use certain forms of identity, such as gay or queer, as aren’t just for the LGBTQ community, but also for allies umbrella terms, which can make individuals feel invisand to continue their education,” he explained. ible. “There’s a lot of different experiences for a lot of More than just a place to talk different populations,” he explained, going on to affirm that safe spaces are intended to be for anyone, regardKirschner said that while no one is perfect, even less of their experiences. with training, it’s just the idea of going out and doing He compared the KSC organization Common something to help. “I find safe spaces to be a comfort- Ground Multicultural Club as similar to safe spaces. ing reminder that in the face of systemic injustices and Common Ground works to find mutual areas of interinequities there are people who care and are invested in est with all sorts of individuals, ranging from different doing the work to balance the scales a bit,” he said. “The races, religions and orientations. first step in doing any kind of anti-oppression work is KSC senior and member of Common Ground Sandra

Kayira said similar to safe spaces, Common Ground also provides a confidential place of support and acceptance for anyone who needs it. The difference is that their safe space is an office, while the safe spaces can be found anywhere on campus. However, Kayira said there is almost always someone in their office throughout the day. “We like to have open discussions and learn about each other and our different experiences,” she said. Kayira said she likes the idea of there being safe spaces around campus. “As a woman of color, I like that there are options just in case,” she said.

KSC first-year Emily Sweet said she thinks the college is doing a great thing in providing these options for people on campus. “It’s for people to know specifically which people are there for them,” she said. While Sweet said she personally hasn’t had to go to one, she feels like they really could help anyone. “I think they’re mostly there for people in minority groups, but everyone should feel like they can benefit from it, even if they’re not in a ‘targeted’ group,” she said.

people won’t know how to act around him, so I can help guide them,” she said.

KSC first-year Jenna Hall said the best thing a person can do is ask if they don’t know what to say or how to act. She said she plans to get Safe Space trained in a few weeks. “Generally, someone knows their life better than you do. It sounds so basic, sarcastic even, but people often forget. No one knows what’s best for everyone,” she said.

Hall said that while safe spaces do focus on individuals in the LGBTQ community, the skills acquired can help anyone. “It’s really about taking away assumptions.

You don’t know someone based on how they dress or act, so it’s really about learning how to stop and ask and listen,” she said.

Hall, herself, identifies as a transgender woman.

She said she’s lucky to feel accepted for who she is, especially at Keene State. Hall said she feels like New England is a comparatively more accepting and openminded place than other locations in the United States.

“In a way, we are in this little bubble, but also this bubble exists because of the people here,” she said. “If I can be People involved here and be myself, then maybe I can take and build a bubble elsewhere until there’s a bubble around the One of these people offering options is KSC senior whole world.”

Karen Carrien. Carrien has been a Safe Space trainer since last fall. She said she felt it helped her in her own Dorothy England can be contacted at circle of friends, as well as helping others she doesn’t dengland@kscequinox.com know as well. “I have a good friend who is transgender, and there’s been times where he’ll feel uncomfortable or

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Talent fills the Night Owl Café during open mic night for students KASSIDY CURR

equiNox staff WKNH and Alpha Sigma Phi Fraternity joined forces to give students a relaxing night away from their studies. The groups co-sponsored an open mic night Friday, Feb. 24 in the Night Owl Café (NOC).

WKNH’s Promotions Coordinator, Patrick Regan, explained the celebratory reason the radio station chose to sponsor the event. “WKNH wants to provide opportunities on campus for those who celebrate all things radio!

That includes music, poetry and standup. It’s a great chance for people to talk and get to know others who have the same interests as them, while also giving them a platform to perform.”

KSC junior Collin Coviello discussed how open mic nights help connect creators alike, especially for students new to campus.

“I transferred to Keene State this semester and it’s great that there are spots for musicians to meet and get to connect with each other. To be around other music fans on campus and be able to share the stage with such cool creators; it made for a good night,”Coviello said.

Alpha Sigma brother and KSC senior, Kyle Smith, was working the event and discussed getting involved with WKNH. “As an organization, we are always trying to branch out and work with other organizations arounds campus. A lot of people probably think that we only want to interact with other Greek life, but the reality is that were interested in being active on campus in as many ways and with as many LUKE STERGIOU people as possible. A few of our brothers are musicians in local bands, so Above and below: Open mic night is a chance for students with similar musical interests to come together and perform. we took that opportunity to use that connection and collaborate on this event.”

Chris Sullivan, a WKNH DJ and KSC senior, said co-hosting events is an easy way to get visibility for both organizations.

“Who doesn’t love music? Everyone loves music. It’s a common ground that most people have and there is an immense respect for performing in this area. So due to that commonality more people are likely to get involved with these shows, furthering the reach of people that know about us (Alpha Sig and WKNH).”

Not only is it publicity for groups on campus, but for the artists themselves. Smith says “I think having organized music-themed events gives local musicians the opportunity to play for a more diverse crowd. It’s important to stimulate the local music culture because a lot of people have musical abilities but have not formed bands or explored their interests, so having the opportunity to get on stage lets them get a feel for everything.

I think more events equals more publicity for the musician, which equals more ties to each other in the community.”

Alpha Sigma Phi and WKNH will join forces again Mar. 24 for another open mic night from 7-8 p.m. in the NOC. Kassidy Curr can be contacted at kcurr@kscequinox.com

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How to manage time while in college EMMA HAMILTON

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Time management in college can be difficult for some. Though everyone is here to get an education, several other things in life can distract you from getting academic work done. This can be just about anything, ranging from exercise, being on a sports team, going to social events, spending time with friends or a significant other, as well as something most of us are guilty of: binge watching Netflix. Once you get the hang of being able to manage your time effectively to prevent stressing out about it, things can get a little easier.

30 percent of students reported that stress had negatively affected their academic performance within the past year, and over 85 percent had felt overwhelmed by everything they had to do at some point within the past year.

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Get a planner Writing everything down has always been helpful to me personally. I always write down homework assignments in my daily planner.

As I complete assignments, I cross them off my list, knowing they are done and always have a sense of relief from doing so. When a professor hands out a syllabus at the beginning of the semester, I make sure the dates of projects and exams are in my calendar. By doing this, I am able to be prepared for the short term and long term assignments given in my classes. This also prevents forgetting about anything that pulls a heavy weight on your grade.

Find the balance between personal time and academic time If you spent all of your time going to classes and doing homework for them, you would most likely go insane. You can’t expect yourself to do academic work all the time. Everyone needs a brain break. Break up your homework and study time by doing something you enjoy. Maybe you go and get coffee with a friend, go to the gym or watch an episode of Netflix. Whatever it may be, give yourself that little break you deserve. It will help keep your stress down and even give your mind a reward for completing work.

Turn your technology off Just about everyone is guilty of desiring to look at their phone, especially for a distraction. By turning your phone off or whatever piece of technology that distracts you the most, you’re more likely to get more work done.

Taking a break from your phone will not only make you more productive, but it will also give you the needed break from social media. Many people spend much of their time glued to it and find that time slips away from them; I’ll admit I’m guilty of it.

Keep your work with you I’m not saying you must carry your backpack with you at all times with your books and such, but keep a small piece of work with you. By doing this, if you find down time in your busy day, you might be able to get something done earlier than you planned. If you’re reading a novel for a class, by keeping it with you or in your purse, you might be able to sneak in a few pages between classes or while you’re waiting for a friend who is running late. This will also work well if you make flashcards on your phone. I use the Quizlet app and it has been very helpful because I can keep my study tools on me at all times, simply in my pocket!

Students excessively consume caffeine to get their studies done KASSIDY CURR

equinox Staff With midterms quickly approaching, KSC students kick their caffeine habits into overdrive for late night studying, but is their health worth suffering for good grades?

Researchers with the Mayo Clinic, a non-profit medical practice and research group, have found that on average, a person could drink 300-400 milligrams of coffee a day without adverse effects.

That is equivalent to four cups of coffee. According to a study at the University of Kentucky, 78 percent of college first-years drink more than the recommended dosage of coffee daily.

So why do students drink so much caffeine?

Simple- they feel as though they need the extra boost to get their work load done.

KSC junior Mickayla Johnston said due to her crazy schedule, the only time she has time to do homework is at night.

“Between my full class load and having a job, it’s impossible to get any of my homework done during the day. Usually I’m so tired at night that I don’t have any other option besides caffeine to keep me awake and help me get everything done,” Johnston said.

Coordinator of Wellness Education on campus Tiffany Mathews said she thinks it is important to take a step back and analyze why people are so drawn to caf-

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feine in the first place.

“What is caffeine in replacement of? Sleep? Then we have to think about people’s sleep habits and what is disrupting them from having a full night’s rest. What type of environment are people sleeping in? Do they have artificial lights that [are] decreasing their melatonin? Are they looking at their phones too much? That would decrease their melatonin. These are all things that people don’t think twice about. All of these factors are correlated.”

Unfortunately, since students are drinking coffee to make up for their lack of sleep, they are just furthering the distress on their bodies.

Researchers at Henry Ford Hospital’s Sleep & Research Center and Wayne State University’s School of Medicine found that caffeine consumed anywhere from three to six hours before bed can significantly affect sleep quality and the length of someone’s sleep.

Dr. Michelle Morrow, coordinator for alcohol and other drug prevention, treatment and education services on campus, mentioned that increased serving sizes have a lot to do with the overconsumption of caffeine.

“Over time, our serving sizes have changed dramatically. Years ago, when people would drink a cup of coffee, it was typically eight ounces. Now people are drinking 20 or 32 ounce coffees, so the amount is so much more. From a day-to-day basis if someone is consistently using it, that’s going to have a negative effect

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Some students feel like they don’t have enough time to complete work, so they rely on caffeine.

on their daily functioning.”

Mathews gives advice for all students feeling lagged.

“It’s important to take care of yourself the healthy way and boost your energy though sleep, nutrition and exercise. If people focused on that, there would be much less feelings of needing caffeine.”

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Have a Konversation with Kemal MARY CURTIN

ad dirEctor It can often be difficult for students and administration to find time to connect, which is why Vice President for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management at Keene State College (KSC), Kemal Atkins, is implementing a program to bridge this gap.

“Konversations with Kemal” began on Feb. 24 and Atkins began his first Friday of his sessions.

Atkins said he feels that it is a good way to connect with students. “[It gives me] the opportunity to reserve some time to speak with students more in a more focus[ed] way on topics that they may have on their minds about their experience here at Keene State and give them a chance to tell me some things that they like a lot about being here or some ideas they may have,” Atkins said.

Atkins began at KSC in June 2014 as the VP for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management and brought with him 19 years of experience.

On Feb. 23, Atkins sent out an email regarding his office hours, which stated “Konversations with Kemal are opportunities for you to meet with me to discuss issues that are important to your experience at Keene State College. Individual students, small groups, entire student organizations, and groups of friends, you’re invited to share your ideas, concerns, and solutions that might enhance your KSC experience.”

Eric Walsh, a junior at KSC had the opportunity to meet with Atkins during his first few sessions.

“He took almost an hour out of his day to hear me out and work with me to create a really bright future for myself, and maybe even

“He took almost an hour out of his day to hear me out and work with me to create a really bright future for myself, and maybe [I] even gave him a few ideas for stuff to happen on our own campus and it was awesome.”

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gave him a few ideas for stuff to happen on our own campus and it was awesome,” said Walsh.

Atkins said that if the groups that sign up are large enough, they will even reserve space for the groups in order to be sure that they can all meet.

KSC senior Marissa DePolo said “I see Kemal a lot because I work with Student Government but it would be nice to have that informal setting where I could go and talk to him about budget cuts and student involvement and how in the future we are expected to handle and deal with that and stuff of that nature because that has been a huge issue and a huge change I have seen progress.”

These are the types of topics, among others, are what Atkins said he hopes students will come to him for and anything they may feel is of

concern.

“Things are happening, the landscape of higher education is changing, what students experience is different than what I experienced even though I try to stay as close as I possibly can, I’m not going through it. My daughter just graduated college and even her experience is different and I spend a lot of time with students already I want to broaden the lines of communication more and give more students an opportunity to have a conversation with me,” Atkins said.

Walsh said he felt that it would have been more of an interview and back and forth question and answer, but was pleasantly surprised when Atkins wanted candid ideas from students.

“After going, it was different than what I thought, it was actually more of him wanting to hear my thoughts on things and turned out we had a really good conversation about him giving me advice moving forward after Keene State since I will be graduating in the fall,” Walsh said.

Students will continue to have this opportunity each Friday and can make appointments by clicking on the link and following the steps through the email that was sent to the entire campus.

Atkins said, “I’m looking forward to students reaching out and coming in to chat, I enjoy those conversations and listening to their ideas and things that can enrich their experience and our mission is to educate students inside and outside the classroom for them to be even more successful when they leave.”

Mary Curtin can be contacted at mcurtin@kscequinox.com

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Kemal Atkins is able to catch up and connect with students during his open office hours on Friday’s.

Owls decide what to do once they leave the nest at Keene State JILL GIAMBRUNO

Equinox Staff With May fast-approaching, the reality of “life after college” is becoming all too real for Keene State College seniors. While the idea of an unknown future can be daunting, students are coming to terms with what they want to do and how to achieve those goals.

Three KSC students and one alumnus spoke with The Equinox on how they decided their postgraduate plans. As a first-year in 2014, KSC junior Emma Nelson said she was positive that she would transfer to the University of Massachusetts Lowell and get a degree in audio engineering. The end game for her was making and recording music.

“Plans changed, and so did my passions,” Nelson explained. “Now, I’m planning on pursuing a master’s degree in conducting after getting my degree in music education.”

Nelson is currently enrolled in a conducting class taught by Dr. Chesebrough—a class that really piqued her interested and helped solidify her post-graduate plans. While she was committed to some sort of musical degree from her first year, some students make a much more drastic change of plans.

KSC senior Sara Hickey started her undergraduate degree as an elementary education major. “I wanted more than anything else to become a special education teacher and had planned on doing the one year graduate program at Keene State, post-undergraduate,” Hickey explained. “As I started to gain experience in the classroom, I noticed I was more interested in the student’s behavior, and not as much in the teaching. I fell in love with my second degree, psychology, and I entered into junior year changing my major into psychology with a minor in substance abuse.”

Now, with months until she receives her diploma, Hickey has decided to further her education and obtain a master’s degree in social work after graduating from KSC. “This degree will allow me to work with various populations with a focus on systematic social justice considerations,” Hickey said.

Hickey added that the key to creating a post-graduate plan is not to stress about it.

“Although it may seem like it’s important to have a plan, plans generally have a way of not working out the way we want them to,” Hickey said. “The most important thing is to be open-minded and embrace new interests.”

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lege at the age of 22 and going straight into medical school to become a doctor.

“I was dead-set on being a doctor from ninth grade on. I thought that was exactly what my life would look like,” Lucier said, adding that those plans changed bit by bit with every college course she took.

“I went to a community college for my first two years of college. The more psychology classes I took, the more I realized that I didn’t really want to be a medical doctor,” Lucier said. “I wanted to have a career that I could work one-on-one with people and actually get to know them.”

After graduating from community college in 2011, Lucier took a few years off to travel and work. In 2015, she started her bachelor’s degree at KSC. “My plans have definitely changed from being a [first year] to now.

I realized that I have to pursue a career in something that I love,” Lucier said.

Now, as a 26-year-old KSC senior, Lucier wants to pursue a career in the psychology field and plans on starting her master’s degree next fall.

She stressed that it’s okay to change plans. “The career you wanted in high school might not be the right career for you now. Give yourself the freedom to explore what you are passionate about.”

Andrew Bosco graduated from KSC in 2015 with a bachelor’s of science in biology and a bachelor’s of science in secondary education. Now, almost two years post-graduate, he is employed by Lonza Biologics in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he makes artificial pharmaceutical ingredients.

Recently, he began coaching high school lacrosse as well.

Bosco said that his original postgraduate plan changed during his senior year at KSC, when he realized he didn’t want to teach for the rest of his life.

“I had an epiphany that teaching science without direct application [and] connections is incredibly difficult to relay to students. Therefore, I wanted to have some exposure to ‘real’ science. I know one day that I will return to the classroom as a teacher, but for now, I want to build myself first,” Bosco said.

The key to navigating life after college for Bosco was to make little goals and focus on those. The bigger plans, he said, would fall into place after.

“You never really know what you want to do after you graduate. I still don’t entirely know what I want to ‘do.’ Nevertheless, I had goals to achieve.

I decided on what I would do for a few years after I graduated based on those short-term goals,” Bosco said. “One of my main short-term goals was to achieve financial independence from my parents, which is now achieved. Working at Lonza and coaching fell into place by simply putting myself out there. I spent hours on my Lonza application and applying critiques I learned from the ASPIRE team on how to apply for jobs.”

Bosco stressed the importance of setting goals and trying to meet them.

“It’s a good way to keep yourself in check.”

In addition to that, Bosco offered advice for KSC students stressing about their futures—advice that he is trying to follow himself.

“Do what you love, love what you do. We are all so caught up with earning money that we forget to live. If you do what you love and are happy doing it, then the money will come. Do not be 65 years old with a high paying job, but you live with no purpose. Be happy.”

Jill Giambruno can be contacted at jgiambruno@kscequinox.com

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The Vagina Monologues A group of KSC students performs parts of Eve Ensler’s play focused on women and their vaginas.

OLIVIA BELANGER

AdministrAtive executive editor Call it a cooter, a twat, a coochi snorcher, or simply just a vagina. The diverse set of alternative names used to describe female genitalia range from funny to downright uncomfortable; the same can be said about the individual feminist stories which make up Eve Ensler’s, “The Vagina Monologues,” performed by nine Keene State College students this past weekend.

Contrary to the name, “The Vagina Monologues” spoke more about female empowerment than about the vaginas themselves. First performed as a one-woman-show in 1996 by the play’s author Eve Ensler, the show now involves several women, each with their own monologue.

The feminist theater piece features a series of monologues put together from interviews conducted with real life women. Questions ranged from, “If your vagina got dressed, what would it wear?” to, “If your vagina could talk, what would it say?”

The diversity of content that derived from those interviews has initiated a social and political dialogue on stage that has become so highly regarded that in 2006, The New York Times called the play “probably the most important piece of political theater of the last decade.”

To ease the audience into the content, many of the monologues are laced with humor. KSC senior Kathleen Dougherty was one of several cast members whose witty performance revolved around moaning on stage.

In the monologue, “The Woman Who Loved to Make Vaginas Happy,” Dougherty portrayed a female sex worker, who “found her calling” in giving women pleasure, which included her demonstrating a variety of types of moans.

While Dougherty said it was uncomfortable at first, events like this are too important to let stand in your way. “When we don’t talk about things, they only get more and more and more uncomfortable,” Dougherty said. “I think that having funny and serious and awkward ways of talking about things in a setting like this means that people are going to be talking about it outside of here, and if it’s a conversation starter, then I’m in.”

During the performance, Dougherty hoped to portray someone that both men and women could relate to. “I want people to find something that they really connected with or that they thought was funny,” Dougherty said. “If women are sitting here going, ‘Oh yeah, me too,’ or guys are going, ‘Oh I didn’t know that happens,’ that’s all that I can hope

for.”

While most monologues in the play are based on women, the monologue,“They Beat the Girl out of My Boy...Or So They Tried,” is for those who identify as women, but were not born with a vagina. This monologue was incorporated into the play in 2005 and written from the perspective of transgender women.

KSC sophomore and transgender woman Vivian Valengavich portrayed this role, even with no acting experience prior to the performance.

“During events like these, we have a chance to instill into people’s heads that these messages are important. For example, in my monologue, it’s very direct and very heavy in its message.

It is a very powerful image for people who may know someone who is transgender or just to show people that this is what a trans person goes through on a day-to-day basis. These are really powerful messages that people try to ignore because they’re unsavory or taboo to speak about and things like this [The Vagina Monologues] heavy-handedly explain it so that it sticks with you,” Valenjavich said.

Making sure that these messages are received by the audience was the job of KSC senior and co-director of the performance Sophia Olsen. Olsen said she was a cast member of the show in past years, and when this year’s director fell through, she was asked to fill the roll.

“I’ve directed a few things here and there throughout my acting career and when I got assigned this, I thought, ‘Alright we know the content is supposed to make people feel uncomfortable,’ so I decided it would be best to figure out a way to ease them into it,” Olsen said.

Olsen is also a member of Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP), which is where the profits from the show were donated to. As an active member of MVP and a women’s and gender studies major, Olsen said productions like this need to happen and be discussed.

“I am very much into the idea that once you are aware of something, you really can’t step back,” Olsen said. “These are stories that can relate to anyone and if you see something like this [The Vagina Monologues] and then see something similar happen in real life and you don’t step in, that’s crap. I hope that plays like this get people energized and enabled to step forward and do something or say something.”

Olivia Belanger can be contacted at obelanger@kscequinox.com

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On the road to giving back

A band with local ties donates a portion of their profits to charity ALEXANDRIA SAURMAN

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR While some musicians perform locally, others branch out, traveling to different states in order to do what they love--perform. For one KSC student, driving to Boston is just one thing he does for his band. Senior music major Mark McCarthy is a member of Fordham Road, a band based out of Boston, Massachusetts.

The band’s other members, drummer Tom Shubsda and lead vocals Kristian Veech, attend college at Berklee College of Music, and are both third-year students.

Shubsda and Veech, who lived in the same residence hall their first year, started the band over a year ago.

“Tom had formed a band called ‘From Dawn to Dusk’ with a few other friends and they needed a keyboard player, so he asked me to play some keys for them, which I did. The remnants of that band kind of became Fordham Road,” said Veech.

With creating a new band came the task of finding a new name, something that’s not always easy. Fordham Road’s inspiration came from a coincidence.

“Berklee College of Music actually has a practice facility on Fordham Road... that we practice at… we noticed that nobody had taken the name ‘Fordham Road,’ but we did not decide to name it Fordham Road until I made the connec-

tion that one of my best friends in Syracuse lives on Fordham Road in Syracuse, New York,” Shubsda said.

It was McCarthy’s sister, Amanda, who introduced McCarthy to Shubsda.

About two years ago, Amanda met Shubsda at a gig. The two eventually went to a show together in Syracuse, New York, where McCarthy tagged along.

In the summer of 2016, McCarthy officially joined the progressive-rock band. While Shubsda and Veech’s influence come from a number of progressive rock bands, McCarthy himself draws inspiration from jazz.

“Their biggest influences are Rush, Genesis, Yes, Kansas, Boston...I kind of draw more from a jazz perspective,” said McCarthy.

“We all have the vision of taking progressive music, but making it accessible, so that people who don’t have that background can enjoy the music.”

They also take inspiration from contemporary artists, such as Neutral Milk Hotel and Ed Sheeran, as noted by Veech.

Earlier this month, on Feb. 7, Fordham Road’s first extended play, or EP, was released, according to their website. The EP is titled, “The Gates of Heaven,” and is based off of an event in Shubsda’s life.

“It’s about our drummer’s f[irst year] roommate who died last year and the lyrical content is about that road to recovery from that loss…,” said McCarthy.

Shubsda also commented and said, “The EP release is kind of a personal thing for me,” noting that he and his first-year roommate were best friends.

“A couple months after that happened, I got the idea to… write about it and so Kristian and I talked about it and we came up with an EP that dealt with what

it’s like to go through that type of experience.”

The band decided that they weren’t going to just collect all the profits for themselves. Instead, they came up with an alternative plan. “...that's where the charity comes in, Hope for the Day. It’s a charity aimed at suicide prevention and mental health awareness. And we’ve been donating 60 percent of all our profits to that charity,” said McCarthy.

According to the charity’s website, “Hope For The Day (HFTD) focuses on suicide prevention and mental health education through self-expression platforms to achieve outreach, education and prevention,” with their motto being “It’s ok not to be ok.”

During their EP release show, Fordham Road raised over $400 for the charity.

“It was one of my favorite shows that I’ve ever played,” said Shubsda.

In the future, Shubsda said he hopes to expand their playing region. “I just kind of see us expanding,” he said. “We’re looking to extend out to play in Ohio, Pennsylvania… and then from there I’m going to start looking at festivals and colleges and just kind of more places where we can play more of our original music.”

Fordham Road’s EP can be can be found on Spotify, Apple Music and iTunes.

They also plan on releasing a new album within the next few months.

Alexandria Saurman can be contacted at asaurman@kscequinox.com PATRICK CREAN / CONTRIBUTING PHOTO

Fordham Road, who released their first EP on Feb. 7, members Gianluca Farina, Andy Sepe, Kristian Veech, Joe Everett, Mark McCarthy and Tom Shubsda perform in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Puppet Showplace Theatre pays a visit to KSC ALEXANDRA ENAYAT

using several silhouette-shadowed characters along with their furry chicken friend Henry.

Saturday, Feb. 25 was an afternoon Musician Chris Monti, based in Provifilled with laughs and smiles at the Alumni dence, Rhode Island, performs for children Recital Hall in the Redfern Arts Center. in schools, libraries and hospitals all over The animated duo, Chris Monti and New England. Monti has released three Brad Shur, performed their puppet show by records and toured with country-blues

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Puppeteer and The Puppet Showplace Theatre’s Resident Artist Brad Shur also performs original productions across the region using puppets handmade in his workshop made from wood, paper, plastic, foam and fabric.

The show included tall tales from hun-

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Musician Chris Monti performs alongside puppeteer Brad Shur for the Puppet Showplace Theatre on Feb. 25.

dreds of years ago sung by Monti, who used harmonicas and acoustics to bring the stories to life.

Among these stories was the tale of Alfred Bulltop Stormalong. Stormalong was a giant sailor from Massachusetts who went sailing across the ocean. “One hundred years on the eastern shore ‘Hiyo,’” the crowd sang along as they traveled the ocean with Stormalong.

When Stormalong ran into the crackin, he decided to give up sailing to become a farmer, only to return to Massachusetts.

Another whimsical tale took place in Cheshire, Massachusetts, as Thomas Jefferson became president. The mayor asked his people (and cows) to round up as much milk as they could. After, they curdle the milk until it becomes real life cheese, which is offered to Chris, who respectfully declined the smelly, aged cheese.

One character who does want the cheese, however, is the bare-bottomed bear, who tried on different clothes the color of the audience’s’ choice.

The crowd was filled with children of all ages and their parents, some of which included Keene State College’s faculty and staff.

Of the faculty who attended the event with their children was the Dean of Professional and Graduate Studies, Dr. Karrie Kalich. Kalich said she is always looking to expose her children to the arts, and the puppet show was a great way to incorporate that into a fun Saturday activity.

“We liked the creativity of the show and

how they gave the audience an opportunity to interact with the show,” Kalich said.

Keene local Becca Connolly brought the two kids she babysits to the puppet show as part of their February vacation week activities.

They said their favorite part of the show was watching the mouse puppet eat up all of Chris’ food in his pantry.

After the show, children and parents were invited to participate in a workshop and enjoy refreshments. The workshop gave children the opportunity to express their creative side by making their own puppets.

The Redfern Arts Center Director Shannon Mayers said the Redfern likes to offer family programming like the Puppet Showplace Theatre at least once a year in the season as a fun way to bring the local community to the Redfern. ”We especially love to have the little ones here and that’s why we do shows like Puppet Showplace Theatre, and we always do it during winter break when parents are always looking for somewhere to take their kids to,” Mayers said.

“You don’t see a lot of puppet shows with shadow puppets, so that’s a really cool art that their doing and I think just for the kids to be able to see something like that and to hear music and stories from New England,” Mayers added.

The event was sponsored by the Child Development Center.

Alexandra Enayat can be contacted at aenayat@kscequinox.com

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New movie based on a true story is a ‘tearjerker’ WRITER: MATT BILODEAU POSITION: EQUINOX STAFF

As true stories go, “Lion” was a roaring success, resonating with one’s need to address guilt for past actions, all told through the two spry, yet melancholic performances of Sunny Pawar and Dev Patel.

Based on a true story - At five years old, young

Saroo [Sunny Pawar] is tragically separated from his mother [Priyanka Bose] and brother [Abhishek Bharate] after falling asleep aboard a train.

Thousands of miles from home, he encounters the perils that come with living on the streets.

When all hope seemed lost, Saroo is

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adopted by a loving Australian couple [Nicole Kidman and David Wenham], who show him the same love and affection as if he were one of their own.

Twenty five years later, Saroo [Dev Patel] is all grown up, going to school and wooing the affection of his sweetheart, Lucy [Rooney Mara].

While appreciative of his unintended upbringing, distant memories start to bubble to the surface, prompting him to persevere and find his way back home after all these years.

If my audience’s reaction was any indication, “Lion” is, indeed, “the” tearjerker of the Oscar season.

People love to cry; it’s in our nature to feel empathy for others in need.

Case in point, I was on the verge of shedding a tear, a cry that I would have accepted with open arms.

Due to the heartbreaking subject matter, this film held a special place in one very specific demographic of the theater: mothers.

“Lion” is every mother’s

worst nightmare. Nothing is more distressing than losing a child, especially if their disappearance is wholly unexpected.

It doesn’t help that debut director Garth Davis casted one of the most adorable child actors in recent memory.

When you look upon Pawar’s face, all you see is a big ball of pure innocence; who would dare force a child to confront such harsh realities at a young age?

While it’s easy to exploit children as a means to elicit cheap sympathy, Pawar validates his talent simply beyond having an adorable smile.

Pawar literally carries the first half on his own in a brilliantly understated performance.

A simple hand gesture conveys more than words ever could.

Secluded from the familiar, young Saroo is soon invited to taste the misfortune of slum children, many of which avert looming threats (such as a den of pedophiles) on a daily basis.

While heart-wrenching, many of Saroo’s early predicaments last just long enough to leave a notice-

able impression, but not a tremendous impact.

Contributing an additional 30 minutes to further develop the family dynamic and life on the streets could have greatly expanded upon Saroo’s helplessness.

As it stands, the first half delivers on the sympathy, but it’s the second half in which Dev Patel (who’s grown into one handsome man since “Slumdog Millionaire”) transcends “Lion” to a whole new level with his incredible performance.

By this stage in his life, Saroo confronts his repressed memories, many of which strike a devastating blow upon his entire outlook on life.

Suddenly, the admiration for his newfound amenities disappear as his lingering questions are begging to be answered.

Emotions run high as “Lion” tactfully explores themes of guilt and isolation, the idea that one can feel solely responsible for an act that was out of their control.

We sometimes look back on childhood with fond memories and moments of regret; man, I wish I could have pre-

vented this from happening.

With a situation as dire as Saroo, one could carry that guilt around, despite not knowing any better at such a young age; that’s the tragedy of making mistakes when we can’t fully comprehend the unforeseen consequences.

While it transcends a step above the average biopic, “Lion” is no masterpiece, complete with Dustin O’Halloran’s welltuned, yet incredibly obvious piano melody as the backdrop for nearly every scene.

As the finale approaches, it has no misgivings about pulling on the heartstrings.

It’s manipulative, but, by this point, it’s deserved the right to purposefully do so. Grab your Kleenex; I won’t judge.

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Steinberg Duo performs ‘Music of World War I’ DOROTHY ENGLAND

News editor Audience member Richard Anderson was reminded fondly of his mother upon hearing Steinberg Duo’s rendition of Edward Elgar’s Violin Sonata in E minor on Sunday, February 26.

Once an Englishman himself, Anderson said the musical piece brought back memories of his mother.

She once lived in the same city as Elgar and hearing a piece by the English composer at the Redfern Art Center of Keene State College was a tremendous gift for Anderson.

“The performance was wonderful,” Anderson said.

The performance was a tribute to World War I. Four pieces composed between the years of the war (19141918) were played by Louisa Stonehill on violin and her husband Nicholas Burns on piano.

The couple, known professionally as Steinberg Duo, laughed when asked what is was like to perform together.

“Well we’re married, so I know him pretty well,” Stonehill said, “but it’s incredible to play with him. He’s just wonderful.”

Burns echoed his wife’s praise, but on her account.

“She’s great. We work well together,” he said.

When asked what was their favorite moment of the performance, Burns couldn’t decide. “You try to embrace yourself in every piece you’re playing, so really they all sound great,” he said.

Stonehill said for her, playing this particular event set her back a bit emotionally at one point.

“I was just thinking of all the soldiers who went to war with their instruments. It made me think of our two year old and all these people who fought, many of whom were fathers themselves, or sons, or husbands.”

She continued to say that just during the war, music matters now. “Music speaks where there are no words left. It puts people back into their emotions, when everything else has been ripped away. Music gives one hope,” she said.

That feeling of hope was prevalent in the pieces performed. Burns opened the stage by welcoming the audience and shortly thereafter quoting French composer Claude Debussy.

Debussy had said of WWI that he “[could] ...neither laugh nor weep while so many of our men heroically face death."

He decided to support his troops with music “By creating to the best of my ability a little of that beauty which the enemy is attacking with such fury.”

Steinberg Duo played Debussy’s Violin Sonata (1917), where emotions ranged from sadness to magical wonder to even notes of mischief. Stonehill and Burns accompanied each other through the maze of emotion while notes tumbled onto one another in gratifying pre-

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Nicholas Burns and Louisa Stonehill, also known as the Steinberg Duo, performed a set of songs called ‘Music of World War I’ on Sunday, Feb. 26.

cision and sound.

As the finale came closer, the couple confidentially ended the piece, Stonehill’s bow held triumphantly in the air.

KSC junior Steven Lauture is a student of Stonehill’s.

He volunteered to help out with the performance, ushering people in and out, and video-recording the show.

“I hear her in my lessons, but to hear her on stage, it’s so much more beautiful,” he said. “There’s a lot more feeling; she’s not just playing, she’s expressing music.” Lauture said his favorite piece was the last one

by Edward Elgar. “There’s no comparison. It was just

amazing,” he said.

Prior to the piece being performed, Burns joked with the audience that there was some flirting involved. He described the instruments as portraying when soldiers came home from the war to their beloved darlings. A playfulness between the instruments was noted.

KSC junior Jacob Huggins said he felt Burns did an incredible job of accommodating his wife’s playing.

“He knew when to back off and let the thematic material show through,” he said. As a piano player himself, Huggins knows the difficulty in playing with someone else. “You have to listen to each other and adjust

to them. There’s a whole other personality you have to respect,” he said.

It appeared the crowd of roughly 40 respected the performance. The duo was met with a standing ovation and after the show, audience members shook their hands and some even exchanged hugs with the couple.

Marlborough resident Leif Moore said the piece was very moving. He said, “ I really enjoyed the playfulness between them; it was a great performance.”

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On 113th birthday poltical messages still apply MARY CURTIN

Ads director On March 2, 1904, an iconic author in children’s literature was born.

March 2 is now dubbed as “Read Across America Day,” where nationwide, schools, community centers and libraries take part in bringing people together through the works of literature.

Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as his alias, Dr. Seuss, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1904 and spent his life creating well-known stories that children, adults and teachers of all ages still read and teach today.

However, a lesser-known fact of Dr. Seuss is that he wrote those stories based on very political events and controversial ideas.

While some of his more famous stories such as “The Lorax,” “Horton Hears a Who,” “The Butter Battle Book” and “Yertle the Turtle” may be seen as innocent to the naked eye, there are several messages he put into his books, and many, if not all, are still important in the 21st century.

In “The Lorax,” Seuss presents the idea of deforestation and how it will harm the land and people within this world if nothing is changed.

It is his take on environmentalism and how humans are harming the earth and destroying nature.

“I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues,” Dr. Seuss, “The Lorax.”

This story can be drawn to the current state of the environment, especially in New England.

For example, according to The Boston Globe, Feb. 23 reached 73 degrees in Boston, Massachusetts, the highest temperature ever on record for the city.

Climate change is a hot button topic and is highly debated all over the United States.

In another work by Seuss, “The Butter Battle Book,” a different, but still important issue is discussed.

This story discusses the idea of the Cold War and the ideologies of different aspects and two societies, The Yooks and the Zooks, who do everything differently, but most notably, the way they butter their toast is different.

While this may seem like a trivial piece, it gets into details pertaining to the two sides building weapons because they believe the other society has to be wrong.

The undertone is all about the prejudices and the judgements in the world.

According to the Teach Peace Foundation, “This cautionary Cold War tale has a lot to teach about intolerance and how tit-for-tat violence can quickly get out of hand.”

In recent months, there has been an increase in a lack of tolerance between nations.

Epoch Times wrote, “America must also honor every person who respects our values despite our differences. These differences include race, color, religion, national origin, citizen status, gender, physical or mental disability, age, sexual orientation, ancestry and military status.”

Mary Curtin can be contacted at mcurtin@kscequinox.com

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Dr. Seuss was an iconic author for children’s books and wove many political ideas into his stories. Each year on his birthday, learning centers across the United States celebrate with Read Across America Day.

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Open house tradition for presidents curtailed MARY CURTIN

Ads director March 4, 1829 may seem like an undistinguished day in history for most Americans today, but it marked the day of the continuation of an old American tradition.

It was the day president Andrew Jackson was inaugurated, and he held a White House open house for celebrities, politicians and even citizens.

According to history.com, the crowd became so large, reaching 20,000 people, and these people spent time wandering through the rooms and making a mess on the floor with the copious amounts of food available.

This tradition carried on until there were too many assassination attempts, which amplified the concerns for the safety and security of the guests and the presidents.

In 1885, the tradition eventually stopped when Grover Cleveland came to the conclusion that a parade may be more practical and allow for a safer event.

While many presidents continued this tradition, it became an informal custom in 1977 at Jimmy Carter’s inauguration when he, his wife and their daughter took the route to the White House.

According to The New York Times, “‘The decision whether to walk during the parade is apparently left to the new president, presumably with input from the Secret Service and other advisers,’ Ms. Goodwin noted [Doris Kearns Goodwin, a presidential historian]. The walk’s duration is also largely dictated by weather, security concerns and the politics of the time.”

Many times, the president and his brigade are met

by protestors and encounter some opposition, such as people who do not agree with a specific policy the new president is for.

The past five presidents have all participated in this informal tradition since president Carter.

As with the 1885 inauguration, the security for such an event is heightened, and having a large housewarming party for the president would not be practical.

According to National Public Radio, prior to President Trump’s inauguration, it was expected that, “28,000 officials will be dedicated to security for the inauguration, including Department of Homeland Security personnel from the Secret Service, the Transportation Security Administration and the Coast Guard, as well as police from various departments in Washington, D.C., and from out of town, and some 7,800 National Guard troops.”

Funds for KSC organizations began 52 years ago MARY CURTIN

This motion to receive this money led to the ruling that any organization or individual may request money for trips, conventions, meetings and seminars.

In March of 1965, there was a remarkable change Also in 1965, Roman J. Zorn was the KSC presiat Keene State College regarding the funds for stu- dent, from 1964 to 1969, and the Zorn Dining Comdents, individuals and on-campus organizations. mons is named for former President Zorn.

The year 1965 was one in which the Boston Celtics In 2017, many on-campus organizations are able to won the National Basketball League title, the Green receive funding through following the correct steps Bay Packers won the Super Bowl, Bonanza was the and having each executive member maintain a 2.0 most popular television show and KSC student coun- GPA. cil decided to provide funds for student trips.

Each year, student organizations submit a budget Two students asked the Student Council for $100 request form and connect with student government in order for them to be able to attend the National and student involvement.

Teachers Convention in Denver, Colorado.

This trip would cost the two, along with their biolMary Curtin can be contacted at ogy professor, a total of $600. mcurtin@kscequinox.com

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Plane hits houses in California ASSOCIATED PRESS

Three people died and two were injured when a small plane carrying them home from a cheerleading competition crashed into two Southern California homes and sparked a major fire Monday, authorities said.

A husband, wife and three teenagers were on the plane that had just taken off from Riverside Municipal Airport at 4:40 p.m. intending to return to San Jose after the weekend cheerleading event at Disneyland when it crashed in the residential neighborhood, Riverside Fire Chief Michael Moore said.

One of the teenagers, a girl, was thrown from a back seat of the plane on impact but had only minor injuries, Moore said. Three witnesses told TV stations she crawled from the home asking for help. She was able to talk

to firefighters about what had happened as she was taken to Riverside Community Hospital, Moore said.

Firefighters entered one of the burning houses and pulled out another plane passenger, who was unconscious. That victim underwent surgery at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in San Bernardino and was in critical condition, Moore said.

Three bodies, all from the plane, were found in the combined wreckage of the aircraft and the homes.

“It’s horrible,” Moore said, especially given that they had gone to a cheer competition and it was “supposed to be a happy time.”

Authorities had earlier said four were dead, and that the critically injured victim was a resident of the homes, but later reduced the death toll to three and said all five victims

had been on the plane. They have not given the ages or identities of the victims.

All the residents of the homes have been accounted for, Moore said.

Moore did not give the name of the cheerleading competition, but the Jr. USA Nationals for girls age 15 and under was held at Disney California Adventure Park over the weekend.

The two homes that were hit directly were destroyed, and there was minor damage to some neighboring houses, Moore said.

The plane was broken into hundreds of pieces, its propeller sitting on the roof of a nearby home, and the fire burning with jet fuel was still ablaze several hours after the crash. Firefighters found plane pieces about a half-mile away.

H.L. Reyes, who lives about a quarter-mile

from the crash site, told The Associated Press she felt the ground shake and saw plumes of black smoke.

“I thought it was a possible earthquake, and we heard all the birds just suddenly react outside, too,” Reyes said. “This was just like a nightmare coming true.”

Shannon Flores, a teacher at an elementary school about three blocks away, said she saw the plane out her classroom window. She said it was raining during the crash, though other witnesses said the rain was very light.

“As soon as we saw it fly over, we knew it wasn’t a good thing,” Flores told KABCTV. “We watched it go down very quickly ...

Before we knew it, there was a loud crash and huge plumes of smoke.”

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3 types of genetically engineered potatoes approved in the United States KEITH RIDLER

AssociAted Press U.S. officials say three types of potatoes genetically engineered to resist the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine are safe for the environment and safe to eat.

The approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration late last week gives Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Company permission to plant the potatoes this spring and sell them in the fall.

The company says the potatoes contain a potato gene resistant to late blight.

Late blight is pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine.

Fungicides have been used for decades to prevent the blight.

The genetically engineered potatoes will require half of the fungicide normally used by potato farmers.

The company says the potatoes also have reduced bruising and black spots and enhanced storage capacity.

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Firefighters put out flames after a plane crashed in Riverside, Calif., Monday, Feb. 27, 2017. The deadly crash injured several when a small plane collided with two homes Monday shortly after taking off from a nearby airport, officials said.

Trump opens newest hotel in Vancouver MANUEL VALDES ROB GILLIES

AssociAted Press Protesters planned marches Tuesday in downtown Vancouver as President Donald Trump’s two eldest sons attended the grand opening of their company’s new hotel and condominium tower in a city known for diversity and progressive politics.

Security officers in black suits surrounded the building’s entrance while police gathered on sidewalks at the soaring tower, which has drawn praise for its sleek design but has raised ethical concerns about the business interests of the new U.S. president. Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and other city officials chose not to attend the ceremony in protest of Trump’s policies on immigration and other matters.

“The name Trump has now become synonymous not with luxury and lifestyle, but with racism, sexism and intolerance,” City Councilman Kerry Jang said.

Constable Jason Doucette said Monday that authorities expected “a number of marches” downtown throughout the day and police would ensure things remained under control.

The anti-Trump protests were set to take place outside the building

while brothers Donald Jr. and Eric Trump attend opening events inside.

Early Tuesday morning, several protesters crowded the building’s entrance, including Henry Ho, who brought signs with messages that included “Dump Trump,” ‘’Is it 2020 yet?” and “Love Trumps Hate.”

“I believe a president should be at his core a good person,” the Vancouver resident said. “I don’t feel like that comes from Donald Trump.”

While the Trump-branded tower is a source of anger for many, the new hotel and its namesake do have some support in the region.

“President and hotel owner are two different things. If he can separate the two, all the power to him,” said Joe Taylor, a resident of British Columbia. “At least he’s got the nerve to say what’s on his mind. If people don’t like it, well, they’re not used to that.”

A Trump Organization tweet late Monday said the 69-story tower will be “the first property to open in the city” in over six years. But the city’s former planning director, Brent Toderian, said that wasn’t true.

“I’m the former chief planner for #Vancouver. That’s so far from being true, it’s laughable,” Brent Toderian tweeted.

Located along an upscale six-lane downtown thoroughfare, the tower is the second-tallest in Vancouver and offers majestic mountain and ocean views. A one-bedroom apartment, at 699 square feet, starts around $1 million and the average 1,153-square-foot two-bedroom condo went for $1.7

million but has since gone up. Hotel rooms in the slow season start at around $228 ($300 Canadian).

The building’s Malaysian developer, Joo Kim Tiah, said he was “extremely stressed” after Trump entered politics well after he signed the partnership agreement with the Trump organization.

“I was terrified,” Joo Kim of the Canada-based Holborn Development company told the Associated Press. “The people who ran the city were not happy with me. I was scared, but I think they understand. They understand that I’m trapped into — not trapped, locked into — an agreement.”

The chief White House ethics lawyers under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama have criticized Trump’s turning over control of his business to his sons, saying it does not eliminate potential conflicts of interest.

Legal experts also say Trump’s overseas businesses could violate the “emoluments clause” of the U.S. constitution, which bars public officials from accepting payments or gifts from foreign governments or companies they control without the consent of Congress. A liberal-funded watchdog group has filed a lawsuit against Trump citing the clause.

SpaceX says it will fly 2 people to moon next year MARCIA DUNN

AP AerosPAce Writer SpaceX said Monday it will fly two people to the moon next year, a feat not attempted since NASA’s Apollo heyday close to half a century ago.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk — the company’s founder — announced the surprising news Monday.

Two people who know one another approached the company about sending them on a weeklong flight just beyond the moon, according to Musk. He won’t identify the pair or the price tag. They’ve already paid a “significant” deposit, he noted.

Musk said SpaceX is on track to launch astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA in mid-2018. This moon mission would follow about six months later, by the end of the year under the current schedule, using a Dragon crew capsule and a Falcon heavy rocket.

The moon mission is designed to be autonomous — unless something goes wrong, Musk said.

“I think they are entering this with their eyes open, knowing that there is some risk here,”

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Musk told reporters in a telephone news conference, a day after teasing via Twitter that an announcement of some sort was forthcoming.

“They’re certainly not naive, and we’ll do everything we can to minimize that risk, but it’s not zero. But they’re coming into this with their eyes open,” said Musk, adding that the pair will receive “extensive” training before the flight.

Musk said he does not have permission to release the passengers’ names, and he was hesitant to even say if they were men, women or even pilots. He would only admit, “It’s nobody from Hollywood.”

The passengers would make a long loop around the moon, skimming the lunar surface and then going well beyond, perhaps 300,000 or 400,000 miles distance altogether. The mission won’t involve a lunar landing, according to Musk.

It’s about 240,000 miles to the moon alone, one way.

NASA will have first dibs on a similar mission if it so chooses, Musk said. The space agency learned of his plan at the same time as reporters, and was busy preparing a statement following the announcement.

“This should be a really exciting mission that hopefully gets the world really excited about sending people into deep space again,” he said.

The crew Dragon capsule has not yet flown in space. Neither has a Falcon Heavy rocket, which is essentially a Falcon 9 rocket with two strap-on boosters, according to Musk. He said there will be ample time to test both the spacecraft and the rocket, before the moon mission.

Musk expects to have more moon-mission customers as time goes by.

Just late last week, NASA announced it was studying the possibility of adding crew to the test flight of its megarocket, at the request of the Trump administration. Such a flight to the lunar neighborhood wouldn’t happen before 2019 at best — if, indeed, that option is even implemented.

Musk said anything that advances the space exploration cause is good, no matter who goes first.

“This should be incredibly exciting,” he said.

SpaceX is also working on a so-called Red Dragon, meant to fly to Mars around 2020 with experiments, but no people — and actually land.

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In this Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015 file photo made available by SpaceX, their Dragon capsule sits aboard a ship in the Pacific Ocean west of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula after returning from the International Space Station, carrying about 3,700 lbs of cargo for NASA. SpaceX announced Monday, Feb. 27, 2017 that it would send two paying customers to the moon next year on a private flight aboard its Dragon capsule. The company said the unnamed customers have paid “a significant deposit” for the moon trip.

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Indoor Track & Field DIII New England Championships 400 Meter Run 59.69

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Upcoming Games Women’s Lacrosse Men’s Basketball Saturday, March 4 Friday, March 3 @ Roger Williams @ Mahwah, New Jersey University NCAA

600 Meter Run 1:42.87 600 Meter Run 1:50.54 Men’s Baseball Saturday, March 4 @ The College of New Jersey

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March 6th - 9th is Global Chef Week!

MONDAY, 3/6/17 Student Center Atrium FREE TASTING EVENT 11am - 2pm ● Viennese Schnitzel with Warm Potato Salad ● Cheese Curd Soufflé with Fruit Compote Zorn Dining Commons 11am - 8pm ● Old Viennese Potato Soup Zorn Dining Commons 11am - 2pm ● Styrian Salad with Deep Fried Chicken TUESDAY, 3/7/17 –Zorn Dining Commons LUNCH 11am - 2pm ● Pumpkin Cream Soup with Pumpernickel Croutons GALA DINNER 4pm - 8pm ● Tafelspitz (Boiled beef with Vegetables, Roasted Potatoes, Apple Horseradish and Chive Sauce) ● Tirolean Dumplings ● Sour Sausage with Noodles ● Paprika Chicken with Spätzle ● Schinkenfleckerin (Ham Pasta with Baked Cheese) ● Linzer Torte ● Sachertorte ● Apple Strudel with Vanilla Sauce ● Pretzel bar featuring Liptauer Cheese Spread and Mustard/Beer Cheese Dipping Sauce

WEDNESDAY, 3/8/17–Zorn Dining Commons BREAKFAST 7am - 10:30am ● Tiroler Gröstl (Bacon, Onion & Potatoes) ● Buchtein (Jelly Buns) ALL DAY 11am - 8pm ● Beef Consommé with Sliced Pancakes ● Viennese Schnitzel with Potato Salad THURSDAY, 3/9/17–Zorn Dining Commons DINNER 4pm - 8pm ● Kaiserschmarren with Stewed Prunes ● Flaming Cake with Bacon ● Cheese Curd Soufflé with Fruit Compote

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Please note, the Gala Dinner in the DC will take place TUESDAY evening.

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Introducing CHEF STEPHAN Global Chef Stephan Nagelmaier began his culinary career as an apprentice at the NH Vienna Airport Conference Center in Vienna. From there, his career led from chef positions at Hotel Vienna, Southern Rainers Hotel in Vienna and others. He is currently Sous Chef at the factory restaurant of Baxalta, a Sodexo account in Austria, serving more than 450 meals per day with a minimum of 5 daily menu selections. Chef Stephan looks forward to traveling in the US as a Global Chef, meeting new people, providing insight into the Austrian culture and cuisine and creating an experience to remember here at Keene State.

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Open Season: Men’s Lacrosse kicks off the season 1-1 SHELBY IAVA

SportS Editor The men’s lacrosse team kicked off their season in a game against Western New England University on Feb. 21. The Owls outscored the Bears in the third quarter, leading them to the win, 16-13.

Senior midfielder Tyler Reilly said the game went really well.

“Western New England is always a solid team and has become a bit of a rival of ours since I got here [in 2013],” Reilly said.

The team started off a little slow he said, “but we were able to settle in and put the pieces together to start scoring goals. If you look at the stat lines, the spread of scoring was pretty well-distributed, which I think says a lot about the depth and talent of our team and, of course, our entire defense and goalie,” Reilly said.

Matt Howe is a returning goalie, who Reilly talked highly about. “I can’t say enough about the job they did throughout that game. I think our goals are set pretty high this year,” Reilly said.

The Keene State men’s lacrosse team has been putting up big wins the past few years against 20 teams, but have failed to push deep into the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) tournament, Reilly said. “So I think our mindset is to get over that hump this year, especially with such a senior-heavy class, but that all starts with winning one game at a time, especially early on this time of year. I think the biggest hump for us to accomplish that is to just stay healthy and consistent on both sides of the ball. It’s a long season and we got to make sure we show up to every practice and game to get better,” he said.

The men traveled to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) for a non-conference game on Saturday, Feb. 26. The Owls fell 17-10. Seniors Robert Hart and Bryan Rotatori led the Owls. Hart had a hat trick and Rotatori had two goals, two assists and five ground balls. Junior Frank Bacarella added two and fellow junior Hunter Arnold added one.

The Owls were the first to get on the board with back-to-back goals from Bacarella and Paul Beling before RPI answered back with two goals of their own. Keene State fought back with three straight goals to make it 5-3 in the second quarter. RPI then went on a fourgoal streak, pushing past the Owls 7-5.

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Robert Hart (22) fights to bring the ball up the field in a file photo from a game in the 2016 spring season.

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set right off the bat for next year for him to qualify,” Pyrch said. Divers need to qualify Cont., B10 twice for them make it to the NCAA chamWalsh said. “It’s exactly what I wanted to pionship meet. In order to qualify for the three-meter-dive, a diver would need to do.” receive a score of 440 or more in 11 dives.

Other members of the team with notaDriscoll received 368.70 points, just shy of ble performances included Katie Brandeberry and Sydney McGough, who both the required score.

The members of the KSC swim and dive swam their way into the record book in the 50 free. Brandeberry’s time of 28.65 and team who did qualify for the NCAA chamMcGough’s time of 28.84 were the sixth and eighth fastest times in Keene State history, respectively, according to keeneowls.com. First-year swimmer Sophie Hayes won the 200 fly with a time of 2:12.49, beating out Kylie Herman from Brandeis University by .18 seconds.

For the men, first-year swimmer Kyle Shadeck locked up the eighth best swim in the meet among men, according to collegeswimming.com, swimming the 400 IM in 4:01.76 and earning an NCAA ‘B’ cut. Shadeck, along with Ryan Boraski, Graham Lott and Eric King, earned the top spot in the 400 free relay, finishing in a time of 3:08.32.

On the men’s side, Boraski held four of the top five swims at the meet, according to collegeswimming.com. Boraski’s two best performances occurred in the 100 free (44.10) and the 200 free (1:40.89).

Boraski broke KSC, facility and competition records throughout the meet.

Boraski was contacted for comment, but did not answer before The Equinox’s publication deadline.

Diver Jake Driscoll also earned a win in the three-meter-dive with a score of 368.70. Driscoll, a sophomore from Marblehead, Massachusetts, is the only diver on the men’s team. Head Dive Coach Patrick Pyrch said he has high hopes for Driscoll moving forward.

“He is capable of a lot more. He did qualify once for the NCAA qualifying meet. I think that’s probably a goal well-

pionship meet, will compete in Shenandoah, Texas beginning on March 15. In an e-mail, Pimer described the meet in Texas as, “the biggest meet of the year.”

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Ryan Boraski has qualified for the NCAA championship meet taking place March 15-18.

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Sophomore Jake Driscoll placed first in the three meter dive in the NEISDA championship.

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This is the second year in a row that Keene State College Athletics has done “The Giving Challenge.” The giving challenge is sponsored by the Fenton Family Dealership and donated $2,000 toward athletics. This money will be distributed equally amongst each team. Athletic Director Dr. Kristene Kelly said in essence, they’re trying to raise money for all of the different teams. “For equipment, supplies, travel, uniforms, you name it, but really it’s more so for us to engage our new donor base.

From our Alumni, p a r t ic u l a rly using our alumni and trying to engage them a lot more, as well as trying to engage some new donors just so they keep Keene State fresh on the brain,” Kelly said.

The donations that have been made are 4 percent students, 35 percent alumni, 15 percent parents, 25 percent

friends and 14 percent faculty and staff. “The 25 percent of friends really excites me because those are people who are not Keene State alumni, faculty, staff, or students and the fact that they are giving means that our name is really being put out there,” Kelly said.

Each team and Fenton Family has given $2,000. “It was supposed to be teams competing against each other, but we decided against that and we’re just going to take the $2,000 and spread it amongst each team, but Fenton Family donated $2,000 toward that challenge,“ Kelly said.

Kelly said that their end goal is more about the donor, so it’s more about the amount of people who are donating to the cause rather than the money itself.

The Keene State community, friends and family had 28 days to raise money “because February is the shortest month of the year, so we didn’t have the full 30 days and our teams have really rallied behind. Men’s lacrosse right now is [at] 106 donors and we’ve kind of based it more on donors,” Kelly said.

Kelly went on to discuss the end goal.

“I am very optimistic, and our end goal is $30,000. Right now, we’re at $24,305 and we have two days left. Our goal was 500 donors and we’re at 531, so we’ve hit our goal, but I don’t want to just meet goals, I want to exceed them. I want to smash our goals.

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Chelsea’s Youth System: Beneficial or a waste of time?

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Senior PhotograPher For the past couple decades, English Premier League Clubs have been known for having incredible youth academies and producing some incredible players. Chelsea Football Club is one of the many clubs known for producing amazing young players.

Several players have gone on to graduate from the academy and have become great players in Chelsea’s history, notably players such as John Terry, Peter Bonetti, Bobby Tambling, Peter Osgood, Graeme Le Saux, Carlton Cole and so many more.

But now, it seems as if the youth players of Chelsea’s academy today don’t seem to be getting the playing time they deserve. Instead, most players go out on loan and don’t get more than five appearances for the club.

Is it time for Chelsea to rethink the way they run their academy?

Chelsea’s academy and reserve teams have been proving their potential for many years. Since 2012, the reserve’s side has made it to the Football Association (FA) Youth Cup final, showing their dominance in youth competitions.

These players have shown that they are capable enough of playing in the first team and against other premier league teams. Sadly, they really only get their chance to play in the first team in cup games against lower league opponents.

It’s very rare to see academy players get playing time in the league, and when they do, it’s usually about 45 minutes or less. But every time these players have been given a chance to play in the first team, they’ve shown pure brilliance on the field.

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graduate made it into the first team and stayed in the first team, it was John Terry on Oct. 28, 1998 in a league cup match against Aston Villa.

Since then, he’s made 488 appearances for the first team and has captained the team since the 2004-2005 season.

He’s the academy player from the 21st century who has established himself as a vital player for the club. But now, no first team player has made quite the impact Terry has.

Why is that?

There have been a select few youth players who have made appearances and really have proven that they can play on the first team. Players like Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Nathaniel Chalobah, Ola Aina, Charly Musonda, Dominic Solanke and Nathan Aké have shown that they have the drive and the playing ability to thrive in the first team. Instead, money and big-name players have seemed to become a priority over youth talent.

Granted, these big-name players have delivered on performances, but this also results in about 40 first team players and youth players being sent out on loan to various teams in England and all around Europe.

In my opinion, as a Chelsea fan, I would like to see my team and other teams in England start relying on their youth talent again, instead of relying on money to draw bigname players to the club.

Big-name players can help the club, but I think it’s time that youth and reserve players get the chances they deserve to help build the future of Chelsea Football Club.

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Owls make history as they claim the LEC title

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The Keene State women’s basketball team defeated Eastern Connecticut State University on Sunday, Feb. 26 in the Little East Conference championship. The Owls beat Eastern 71-58.

Keene State women’s basketball team brings home the trophy for the first time in 31 years SHELBY IAVA

SportS Editor For the first time in Keene State history, the women’s basketball team took home the Little East Conference (LEC) championship title.

Sunday, Feb. 26, they returned to Eastern Connecticut State University (ESCU) for the Little East Conference (LEC) championship game.

Keene managed its first tournament title in the 31-year history of the tournament with a 71-58 victory over the twotime defending LEC tournament champion, the Warriors.

Keene was ranked eighth in the NCAA Division III Northeast Region, received the NCAA Division III tournament bid and was awarded

the LEC tournament champion, which gave the program its third NCAA invitation, second as a member of Division III. Ranked fourth in the NCAA Division III Northeast poll, Eastern is in the mix for an NCAA tournament at-large selection.

The Owls outscored the Warriors 16-8 in the first quarter. Stephanie D’Annolfo had 21 points, six rebounds, three assists and one steal.

Sandi Purcell had a teamhigh of 23 points. Purcell is now the 20th women’s basketball player in Keene State history who has made it to 1,000 points.

Eastern hit a three right off the bat, receiving the first points of the game. Keene State had back-to-back baskets

from D’Annolfo, putting the Owls ahead by two. Little did the Owls know, it would be a lead they would never give up. Keene State extended their lead to 13-6 after Amanda Petrow got a rebound and sent it right back up the court to make a basket. The Warriors could only make one basket before the sound of the buzzer went off.

The Warriors brought the lead to two, with a three-point shot. D’Annolfo and Purcell answered back for the Owls.

D’Annolfo hit the final basket before both teams headed to the locker room for the half with the Owls up by eight.

Keene State kept extending their lead even further; they got up to a 14-point lead, as D’Annolfo hit a layup with

6:21 left in the third quarter. Purcell hit a basket from beyond the arc, sustaining the double-digit lead, 51-38 KSC. Eastern managed to dish out a three-point shot in the beginning of the fourth to shorten the lead to seven.

With just eight minutes left in the game, the Owls ignited and went on a 12-2 run, earning their largest lead.

This would take the Owls home and seal the win, 71-58.

The Owls will play Friday, March 3 against the University of Rochester in New York..

Shelby Iava can be contacted at siava@kscequinox.com

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The Keene State women’s basketball team celebrates their first ever Little East Conference title on Feb. 26.

Overtime win sends men’s Men’s basketball receives a second chance club hockey to nationals SHELBY IAVA

SportS Editor For the second year in a row, the Keene State College men’s club ice hockey team will head to the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) national tournament. On Sunday, Feb. 26, the Owls topped Northeastern University (NU) in overtime by a score of 4-3, earning a trip to the National Championships.

Kurt Mitchell buried the first goal of the game with just about five minutes left in the first period. More action took place going both ways, but the first

period came to a close with KSC up 1-0.

Shortly into the second period, the Owls went down a player and conceded, leveling the game at one. Goaltender Carlin Testa made several key saves throughout the second period, but it wasn’t enough to hold off NU, who tallied two more goals before the end of the second period.

KSC entered the third period down by a pair of goals until Cooper Hines scored a goal on the power play to bring the team within one. Over halfway into the third period, Andrew Pierce beat the

NU goaltender to tie the game at 3-3. A strong performance from Testa throughout the game kept the score tied, sending it to overtime.

Northeastern had their chances in the overtime period, getting several shots off, but none of them got past Testa. Minutes later, Tucker Johnson scored the game-winning goal that sent KSC to the ACHA national championship.

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Shelby Iava can be contacted at siava@kscequinox.com

Swim and dive delivers standout performance at NEISDA’s CRAE MESSER

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Equinox Staff In a four-day span from February 16-19, 2017, the Keene State College men’s and women’s swim and dive teams had numerous notable performances at the New England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving (NEISDA) Championship meet. One of those performers, Ryan Boraski, even earned himself a spot in the NCAA Championship meet in Shenan-

doah, Texas, which begins on March 15.

Overall, the women’s team placed third and the men’s team fourth. According to collegeswimming.com, Hope Walsh held KSC’s top swim on the women’s side with a time of 5:03.06 in the 500 free. Walsh’s performance broke the Keene State College record, according to Assistant Coach Diana Pimer. Walsh also won the 1,650 with a time of 17:24.48.

Walsh said her performance was the icing on the cake for her season.

“I’ve been working hard all year long,”

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The Keene State men’s basketball team finished off their season on Saturday, Feb. 25 in the Little East Conference championship. The Owls fell short to Eastern by two points.

The Keene State men’s basketball team will travel to New Jersey for the first round of NCAA’s SHELBY IAVA

SportS Editor The Keene State men’s basketball team fell just two points short of a three-peat. Eastern Connecticut State University took the Little East Conference championship title on Feb. 25 on their home turf. The Owls fell 70-72.

Senior Jeffrey Lunn led the Owls with 18 points and six rebounds, while fellow senior Matthew Ozzella had 15 points and nine rebounds. First-year Jake Collagan sank 13 and Ty Nichols had 11.

The Owls started off strong with an early lead, 12-6. Nichols and senior Lucas Hammel nailed a pair of three-point shots. Collagan also hit a three at 10:43, which just pushed the Owls further in front, 19-14. The Owls continued to widen their lead as Lunn scored inside backto-back possessions, 29-16 with seven minutes left in the half.

Eastern’s Carlos Gonzalez finished 8-for-12 from the field and sank a pair of threes with just about five minutes left in the half. Eastern cut the lead 32-27, but the Owls wouldn’t let them take the lead. The Owls ended

the half 42-33.

Keene State managed to stay on top in the beginning of the second half. Ozzella’s had a break away and hit a three with 12:32 left in the last half, pushing the Owls further, 54-41. The Warrior’s then sparked and outscored the Owls 20-7. The Owls answered back with the next six straight points, keeping the lead to six points, 69-63 KSC. With the last four minutes of the game, Gonzalez led the Warriors to victory. He made three free throws, while Hugh Lindo hit a layup, bringing them within one. Jaquel Edwards tied

the game at 70, but Gonzalez’s reverse layup ended the game with nine seconds left.

Keene State will have a second chance, they have received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament. Keene State will play Amherst on Friday, Mar. 3 in New Jersey. Eastern will receive the LEC automatic bid, and will also be playing MIT… David Munch of D3sports. com said, “We don’t have the usual game, we have more of a creative game.”

Shelby Iava can be contacted at siava@kscequinox.com

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