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Vol. 69, Issue #22 Thursday, March 9, 2017

Feeling the heat Warm weather in February raises concerns at KSC JACOB BARRETT

SEnior rEportEr Recent warm weather has had Keene State College students walking around without jackets and spending time out on the Fiske Quad.

However, while the students have enjoyed the warmth in the late winter months, it could be detrimental to the environment.

KSC senior and president of Eco-reps Victoria Drake said that the warm weather is of concern to her.

“It’s concerning because yes, it’s awesome that it’s warm weather and everyone wants to be outside and that’s great, but I don’t think that everyone else is aware of what it means for our planet and our environment,” Drake said.

In a matter of weeks, the Keene area has seen weather patterns change back and forth drastically, from cold to warm and back again. There has been heavy snowfall and

temperatures in the high 60s, which melted much of the snow away.

According to KSC environmental studies professor Dr. Jill Weiss, these sporadic weather patterns can be explained in part by the heating of the oceans because of the effects of global warming.

“Because of these severe weather patterns, the water in certain places [is] kind of getting super-heated. Not boiling, but eight degrees makes a difference. So, if you get this warm water suddenly going under one of these [weather] oscillations where there’s a big exchange of temperature and moisture, that’s going to send a front of weather across,” she said.

Weiss said that these oscillations above the United States used to have predictable patterns and are becoming less consistent.

Weiss said that weather will be harder to predict and more severe than it normally

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The recent fluctuation in temperature has done more than encourage people to put on sunglasses and look ahead to brighter day. Some worry the unusual heat in typical winter months could have adverse effects such as flooding and more severe weather tendencies.

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KSC student government filling open positions KATHERINE GLOSSER

Equinox Staff It’s a busy time of year at Keene State College and some students are finding they have less time to commit to extra curricular activities.

Student government is no exception to this. Class of 2017 Vice President and Chair of Election for Student Guild Dominique Vaillancourt said that there are vacant positions in student government because the previous people filling those positions had to make time for class or had to study abroad.

There are people running for class of 2020 president, class of 2020 representative and class of 2018 representative, according to Vaillancourt. The only positions that the student government does not have anybody running for are the 2019 representatives, leaving two vacancies. Vaillancourt said that the main job for the representatives is to attend the student assembly. They also have to report back what happened at the student assembly, reach out to anybody in their class and ask for their opinions on things and tell the student government what they found so that they can have a better understanding of the student body’s needs.

“The assembly is made up of all four representatives from each class and then the Vice Presidents. So [in] missing positions, that’s less people on the assembly boards,” said Vaillancourt. “It’s harder for them to make decisions and have more opinions.”

Coordinator of Fraternity and Sorority Life & Student Leadership and Advisor for the Student Government Brandon Mathieu said the positions have had vacancies since the beginning of the spring semester and that one student transferred out of Keene State mid-semester. Mathieu stated in an e-mail interview that it is important

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“It’s very important; it lets the student body communicate with the administration and if you want to see change, [it’s the] best way to get it done.”

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Students work to decrease plastic on campus

A petition to ban plastic water bottles has conflicted responses on campus KATHERINE GLOSSER

Equinox Staff Plastic disposable water bottles have been known to cause environmental issues.

That’s why the Keene State College Eco-Reps started the Ban the Bottle campaign to ban plastic bottles from KSC’s campus. Started by KSC senior Victoria Drake, the Ban the Bottle petition was created with the sole purpose of banning all plastic water bottles on campus.

According to the KSC Eco-Reps website, over 70 colleges in the U.S. have had a complete or partial ban of disposable water bottles.

KSC senior and Eco-Rep Justin Landry said that the Eco-Reps were following the University of Vermont’s example by starting the campaign to ban water bottles.

Landry said he has been working on banning disposable water bottles for three years. Landry said they started off with student petitions and eventually were successful in banning the disposable plastic water bottles. Landry hopes that the Eco Reps could mirror that success by creating a petition.

“You walk everywhere and everybody has a plastic water bottle. You go into Hoot ‘n’ Scoot and they

basically force one on you before you leave if you don’t have a drink. So stuff like that is just outrageous,” said Landry.

“We thought that there was something we could do about it. We figured that would be the easiest thing to do and the best way to get plastic water bottles banned from campus would be through a petition.”

Landry said that the majority of responses he received when he was petitioning for banning disposable water bottles were positive and said that there was only a minority that were against the petition.

KSC first-year student Kendra Mulhall, said she felt banning plastic water bottles would be inconvenient. Mulhall said despite not using disposable water bottles all that often, she felt it would still be inconvenient if she was in a rush and needed a drink.

“I think it (water bottles) provides a convenient way to have drinks like if you’re running to class or something,” said Mulhall. “I don’t think it’s as much of a problem as it could be; they definitely made steps to reduce the plastic that’s in the bottles.”

Biology Lab and Greenhouse Manager Katie Featherston said she is all for the Ban the Bottle petition. Featherston said she has used a reusable water

bottle for years in an effort to reduce the amount of plastic that is disposed of in the environment.

Featherston said that other people in the biology department have made the same effort in reducing disposable plastic water bottles by bringing their own bottles from home.

Featherston said that banning plastic disposable water bottles would make a huge impact. “It would make a huge effect on the amount of trash we generate and some of those bottles get recycled, but I know up here, I look in the trash in our labs and everybody’s throwing these bottles away. They don’t rinse them and put them into the recycling that’s available so a lot of them are not getting recycled.”

Landry said the Eco-Reps are hoping to get enough signatures to bring to the administration and Sodexo. He said, “We are hoping to get as many signatures as possible. We’re not shooting for any particular number, we just want to get as many people to sign the petition as possible.”

“You walk everywhere and everybody has a plastic water bottle. You go into Hoot ‘n’ Scoot and they basically force one on you before you leave if you don’t have a drink. So stuff like that is just outrageous.”

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A petition has been going around on campus trying to ban all plastic water bottles. However, some are concerned this could make it hard to get water on campus.

Monadnock gets approval to become Greek Life housing ADRIANA SANCHEZ

“We’re trying to repurpose Monadnock for the purpose of providing a venue which the Greek community has needed and asking for a long time.”

Equinox Staff Many people have been wondering whether Monadnock will be turning into Greek Life housing or not.

This plan is happening, and it’s happening in the fall of 2018.

“We’re trying to repurpose Monadnock for the purpose of providing a venue which the Greek community has needed and asking for [for] a long time. The building might be repurposed to serve their needs specifically so they can have a defined space to do what it is they do,” Kent Drake-Deese, associate dean of students and director of residential life, said. Drake-Deese noted the idea of making Monadnock into Greek Life housing has been in the air for “not very long, just halfway through the [2016] fall semester,” Drake-Deese said.

There were many other options where this housing could have happened. The Greek community had to vote between Owls Nests, Pondside 2 and Monadnock. “As a community, the Greeks got together [and] weighed out the pros and cons and had good discussions and, as a community, by majority vote, Monadnock was the property that Greeks voted on,” Brandon Mathieu, coordinator of fraternity and sorority life and student leadership said.

When it comes down to figuring out how Monadnock is going to be set up, there is a group of people designated for this. “We have a task force that we created where all of our Greek letter organizations are represented by a student, as well as two chapter advisors. So, we have a sorority chapter advisor and a fraternity chapter advisor who are on the task force with the students and myself,” Mathieu said. He also said how this task force is going to walk through Monadnock

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Monadnock Hall has been a student dorm for many years. However, as new and improved residential housing options are built, such as the LLC, other uses are being looked at for the older dorms. For Monadnock in particular, it will be converted into a Greek Life housing unit.

and visualize how they can bring all the organizations in there and place them throughout the building, considering some chapters are bigger than others. Mathieu explained how this is going to give them a chance to have a place to call their own and be a community.

Mathieu stated how the task force and himself have only met once, so they don’t know who is going to live there or how much funding will be needed. “We haven’t got to that part yet because we are still in the really early beginning phases, so something regarding that will be

in our next step,” Mathieu said.

Mathieu wants to have another meeting as soon as possible with Drake-Deese to reach their deadline they have in mind. “I’m hoping either right before or right after spring break to have a second meeting,” Mathieu said.

Greek Life students are eager for this new change.

Phi Sigma Sigma’s Panhellenic Delegate Diana Coady said, “I think a lot of my sisters were excited at the prospect of getting on-campus Greek housing Gonorrhea is thethat would be a step up from our house right now. The house we have 2ndhouse most now [Phi Sigma Sigma on commonly campus] doesn’t even have laundry or a kitchen and is definitely in rough reported disease. shape, so having the opportunity to get access to those amenities was promising.”

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Parking issues on and off campus GRACE PECCI

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If one looks on a campus map for parking, he or she will find 13 lots for faculty and staff to park in and three lots for commuter students to park in.

Two of the commuter lots for students are found behind the Lloyd P. Young Student Center, and the final one is a smaller parking lot, which is found in the Winchester lot.

Keene State College Parking Office Manager Max Sullivan has been working as the manager since December, but has worked on campus since 2013. When asked if students ever come to the office confused about the hours on the commuter lot signs, he said Campus Safety hasn’t had to deal with people parking during the wrong hours too often within the past years.

The signs on the commuter lots say that permits are required between the hours of Monday at midnight thru 4 p.m. on Friday.

Some students often mistake this as being able to park without a commuter lot pass between the hours of 4 p.m. until midnight, Monday thru Friday.

“During the school year, people who have classes need to be parked first, and on the weekends, we understand that guests come so that’s why we ‘lax’ it,” Sullivan said. He noted that Campus Safety gets more complaints that they are “sold out on...passes when students see that some spots are still open.”

KSC junior Diana Coady is one of many students who has expressed concerns over the limited amount of parking for commuters.

Coady is majoring in communication and is one student who has a pass for the commuter lots found on campus.

“I live across the street basically, so it is not far, but when I do want to drive to campus, I usually have to drive around and if I don’t find anything, [I have] to wait until somebody leaves or drive back home and walk anyways,” Coady said. She said that she often does have difficulty finding parking in the commuter lots on campus and usually just walks.

In terms of obtaining a pass for the lot, Coady said she didn’t have difficulty, but she knows of students who have. “I always buy mine as soon as possible, so there would always be passes left,” Coady said.

When asked if she is ever confused about the hours posted on the commuter lot signs for parking, she said that she didn’t really understand the parking policy. “I get that people can park anywhere on weekends, but I don’t even know when that starts,” Coady

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would be, like the warm front that Keene experienced recently.

According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, eight of the 10 warmest years onrecord have occurred since 1998.

“So it’s more of everything,” Weiss said. “If it’s a warm week, it’s going to be a really warm week. If it’s a cold week, it’s going to be a really cold week,” Weiss said.

These sporadic patterns can cause environmental problems like heavy snowfall followed by a strong warm front, which melts the snow and causes flooding.

The EPA reported that since 1901, total precipitation has increased by 0.08 percent on average over land areas worldwide each decade. Shifting weather patterns have caused droughts in other parts of the world as well.

“Part of the job of the U.S., of New Hampshire [and] of Keene is to be ready for these kinds of things and we have to mitigate and we have to adapt,” Weiss said.

The normally unprecedented weather patterns around the country has caused the emergence of seasons earlier then they normally would be, and with that comes migration of many species of plants

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There are 13 parking lots on campus. Three of them are for commuter students to park in. However, some students find it difficult to find spots and have to resort to off-campus locations. In addition, some students feel it’s unfair to get tickets with such high costs. Some tickets can be priced at $50. Students can get a pass online or at the Campus Safety offices for $180, but for this academic year, they are sold out.

said. “I think [it begins at] 4 p.m. on Friday’s, but during the week, people have told me anyone can park in the lots after 4 p.m., but I don’t know if that’s until midnight or what.”

For students like junior management major Kacey Banuskevich, she does not have the ability to walk to class from her apartment if there are no spots left to park her car.

Banuskevich said she has been a commuter student for a full year. Last year, she was commuting 40 minutes to Keene from Hillsborough, but now she is commuting from Jaffrey. When asked if she found parking difficult in the commuter lot, she laughed and said, “Of course.”

“I have 8 a.m. classes, and parking is easy, but for my 10 a.m. [classes], it’s harder and sometimes I have to find parking on the meters,” Banuskevich said. This can have its consequences, as she said that sometimes she is late for her classes when she is driv-

and animals back to the area early, Weiss explained.

“When you have seasons arriving earlier, it means that the insects are early, the birds are early [and] the plants don’t always catch up,” Weiss said.

She added that when the warmth comes, followed by another drastic cold weather pattern, the birds that come back often don’t have much food to survive after the insects and plants freeze and die. Insects that reproduce in water are also not able to reproduce as the water freezes over again.

Also, Weiss said that if the warm patterns are persistent, it could open the door for invasive species and drive native species out of the area.

KSC senior and president of Campus Ecology at Keene State Seanna Flynn said she has noticed these early arrivals during her time working at the Harris Center For Wildlife Education. She said that wood frogs, who normally migrate in April, have started their migration to find a spot to lay their eggs.

She said that this marks the earliest time of year that they have ever started doing this. She said that the tulip bulbs around campus have already started blooming, which puts them at risk of dying if another frost comes through.

If this trend continues, it could lead to a lack of biodiversity, accord-

ing around looking for spots in the commuter lots and then looking for spots across from Appian Way. Even on her way over to her interview with The Equinox, Banuskevich said she had a hard time finding parking. “There’s the same line of cars going around the [commuter lot] trying to find parking,” Banuskevich stated.

She also noted that she has seen students resort to parking behind the Pub Restaurant or Campus Convenience. Banuskevich said she has seen cars get towed from both lots as a result of students needing to find parking.

Banuskevich herself has had to park in the faculty/staff lots behind the Putnam Science Center and got a $50 ticket. “There have been times that I know I’ve parked where I’m not supposed to and I’ve been late to class and just not cared,” she said.

Banuskevich continued, “It’s very frus-

ing to Weiss.

“You have to wonder how resilient systems will be if this is going to be the new norm,” Weiss said. “If we’re lucky, things will move slowly and species will adapt. If we are not lucky, things will not adapt and we’ll have less things.”

So to help to lower the human contributions to climate change, both Weiss and Flynn said that people need to be more proactive.

“There’s so many things you can do. Most of it has to do with how you play as a consumer,” Flynn said.

Campus Ecology has done things like clothing exchanges to help cut down on the manufacturing of apparel and the waste that goes with it. The group is also circulating a petition for the college to refrain from any new investments in fossil-fuel companies.

Weiss also said that scientists and activists need to find a way to better relay their scientific message and data to other individuals [and] small things, like not using plastic cups, has a real impact on efforts against climate change.

Weiss said, “We have to figure out a way to communicate with the public to make them feel like small things matter.”

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trating, and I have been a student who pays for the parking permit and then you don’t find parking and it’s like, ‘What did I pay for?’” Commuter parking passes are $180 for the year. Banuskevich said that this semester, she didn’t bother buying a parking pass and parks at the meters on Main Street.

Banuskevich’s advice for Campus Safety when it comes commuter students needing to find parking on campus is giving a student a warning first when Campus Safety writes down a student’s license plate number.

She said, “...It’s one thing if you don’t have a permit, but I’ve had a permit and still can’t find parking.”

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Activism club tables for student rights DOROTHY ENGLAND

nEws Editor Raise your fist in the air for a new group on campus: Keene State Activists.

The group just became an official group three weeks ago and has already started tabling in the Student Center. On Tuesday, March 7, members of the club advertised students being able to become an activist in under ten minutes. The group were trying to get students involved with the current controversial transgender bill going into a vote the following day, by having them sign a petition and learn more about who they could contact to have their voices heard. Tomorrow, KSC junior and State Representative Joseph Stallcop will be in Concord fighting for the bill.

In addition, postcards were pre-made for students to sign off on.

These postcards were about bills that would affect students and their voting rights. KSC senior and President of Keene State Activists Maggie Mason said these bills could get rid of students being able to use their student IDs to vote with, or make it more technologically difficult to register. At the end of their tabling, these postcards will be mailed to State legislators by the Keene State Democratic Club.

Mason said it’s vital for students to get involved. “Students really don’t realize how easy it is to become an activist. It literally takes two seconds out a student’s day,” she said.

For now, the group is meeting on Thursday evenings at 7:30 in the Flag Room of the Student Center. However, after break, they hope to have a new location.

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New tool on Canvas offers video and audio chat feature CRAE MESSER

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Chief Information Officer of the IT group Laura The Keene State College Information Technology Seraichick could not comment before The Equinox pub(IT) group recently announced the introduction of a lication deadline. new video and web conferencing tool called Zoom.

There will be three training sessions, open to IT sent an email to the student body as well as students, faculty and staff, to provide an overview of faculty and staff on February 24, outlining the details the ins and outs of the new program. The first session of the new tool. The email describes Zoom as a tool that took place on Tuesday, March 7. The final two train“allows video, audio, chat and screen-sharing capabili- ing sessions will take place on March 17 at 10 a.m. and ties.”

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that these positions get filled.

“It’s important that all positions are full as Student Government is the student voice on campus.

This group of students represents the student body both on and off campus and so having all positions full ensures that all student constituency groups on our campus are represented and have a voice.” said Mathieu.

Mathieu said that if the position does not get filled, the election’s cycle will be re-opened so that any student that is interested can submit a petition to fill that empty spot.

This process will continue until that position will be filled.

Senior class treasurer Joey Hadges said that in the past there was a lack of volunteers for those positions and that sometimes there were not enough applications for the student government. Hadges said he felt these positions have some importance. “It’s very important, it lets the student body communicate with the administration and if you want to see change, [it’s the] best way to get it done.” said Hadges.

KSC junior Mallory Melewski isn’t part of Student Government but said that she felt she would want to know more about the position before getting involved. “I feel like I would want to know more information about it and I feel like it would be a great opportunity to learn more about it and get involved,” said Melewski.

There is a way for students to learn more about the Student Government. Student assembly is held every Tuesday in the Mountain View Room at 6:30 p.m. “I think that everybody is a leader in their own way and whether or not you’re super vocal about it or you’re kind of shy, every opinion matters and every viewpoint is critical when we’re making decisions,” said Vaillancourt.

She continued, “If people are interested, I think that they should do it, it’s a great organization to be a part of. You get to be the voice for your class and help decide things and plan things and get the things that you want since you’re already paying money to go here you might as well take advantage of the opportunities that are here.”

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Balancing fun and safety this spring break

Come the end of this week, KSC students will be starting off their spring break vacations. Whether traveling toward sunshine and sand, sticking around town or heading home for the week, safety should be a priority for all over break.

It’s easy to brush aside the factor of safety in situations, especially one’s own personal safety. After all, the most thrilling stories contain a risk that was taken or some sort of element of danger that’s been overcome. We all can envision some sort of crazy spring break scenario with solo cups spilling beneath the palm trees and the type of scene where young adults dispose of their disappointed parents’ paychecks with each test tube shot thrown back. Although this sort of situation may not

be everyone’s idea of a spring break well spent, some will find themselves consuming excessive amounts of alcohol.

For The Equinox, we see this as an opportunity to not just mention the cliché “know your limits,” but also to know your surroundings and be conscious of those around you and where you are, especially in the case of traveling.

Honestly, we’d recommend drinking water and staying hydrated, regardless of if you’re idling intoxicated on the side of some resort’s pool or soberly watching Scrubs at home. It’s not worth spending your mornings on vacation dry heaving as your kidneys reject your very existence.

Also, if you find yourself hanging out at home, don’t feel like you have to compete with the exaggerated Snapchat stories that took five tries to get right in the corner of a club in Cancun. It’s important not to compare your spring break to others, when you can make the best of your own. You don’t need to drink just as heavily as those selectively framed Snapchats make it seem. Have your own fun, and maybe even work ahead on school work. As lame as that idea sounds for spring break, your future self will greatly appreciate it, and

those still recovering who return to campus, behind on work, will envy your scholarly initiatives.

We at The Equinox take into account that whether of legal age or not, at home or at a resort, people are going to get drunk at the very least this vacation. We just feel it’s important to realize that after a matter of days, we’ll all find our way back to campus and the semester will continue forward. We’d hate to see something that occurred over break hold a student back from moving forward with their spring semester.

Spring break is a time to have a blast, so do so appropriately and don’t let your fun cast a bad light upon you.

When the Sunday night before classes rolls around, you don’t want to be stressing over what occurred the week before.

It’s quite easy to get caught up in the moment, but just bear in mind, it only takes a moment for a grand time to take a turn for the worse. It’s important to avoid putting yourself in situations that pose a greater risk than the joy that’ll come from engaging in it. Also, going off of the idea of not putting yourself in troubling situations, it’s important to stay aware of those around you because awful things can

occur in the nicest of places.

As you should already know by now, different countries have different rules, and the same goes when traveling among the states as well. What you may not know is each state and each country’s own set of laws. So, it may be a good idea to do a bit of research if you are traveling for this vacation just so you know what you can and can’t get away with.

Also, you should research crime rates and what areas to avoid if traveling somewhere new. You don’t want to be that tourist that stumbles down the wrong street. Respect yourselves and respect those around you, wherever you find yourself this vacation.

Whether you’re lying on the couch, working extra hours or partying on the beach, make sure your spring break is a safe one nonetheless.

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Flint, Michigan, forgotten water crisis nearly three years later ELLIOT WELD

Equinox Staff The toxic water problem in Flint, Michigan, gained huge media attention a few years ago when it was first discovered. Then, as it goes with any crisis, the general public became less and less concerned until we all forgot about it. The problem continued to go under the radar and even now is still somewhat unresolved.

The water is still not safe to drink, and several thousand children have been diagnosed with lead poisoning. Bottled water is still being distributed in the city of Flint,which is obviously not cost effective, and yet the public has forgotten all about it.

The good news is some progress has been made. On Jan. 24, the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality reported that the lead levels in the city’s water tested below federal levels. Several city officials who were involved in allowing this crisis have been charged with crimes. Among the charges were conspiracy, misconduct in office and willful neglect of duty.

However, Flint’s lead pipes will have to be completely replaced now, and who knows how long that could take. One key point to take away from all of this is that taking risks such as poisoning a city’s water supply should not be taken simply to cut costs. Even in a town where the budget is stretched thin, water is so valuable in the world today that none can be spared.

How quickly would this problem have been solved if it had taken place in some affluent neighborhood in Long Island, for example? Accusations of systematic racism have even been leveled by the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, as Flint’s population is 56.6 percent African-American. The argument in a crisis such as this is that it would not have occurred in a majority white area.

The Flint water crisis is a symptom of a larger problem: how human beings, Americans in particular, are taking the little clean water left on the planet for granted.

A report in BBC news said half the world’s population will be living in an area of high water stress and we’re still looking to cut costs by possibly poisoning the water supply of an entire town. Slovenia has realized the possible water shortage that may come in

“The Flint water crisis is a symptom of a larger problem: how human beings, Americans in particular, are taking the little clean water left on the planet for granted.”

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future decades and made access to clean water a constitutional right.

Of course, Europe is decades ahead of the U.S. in terms of environmental policy.

I would expect a similar law to grace the United States Constitution at some point in the future, hopefully before it’s too late.

Water has been one of President Trump’s less covered topics, but if I had to guess how concerned he is with clean water, I would guess very little. Trump recently signed an executive order to review the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) water policy. The order will have the EPA and other departments review their water regulations to ensure economic growth.

Regulations from the Clean Water Act of 1970 give the federal government control over main bodies of water. Since the beginning of his campaign, Trump has advocated for less government regulation. He plans to defund the EPA and reverse most of their regulations.

Water is becoming more valuable by the day. Millions die every year as a result of clean water shortages. Trump and other world leaders who have not yet begun thinking about this issue will need to very soon to avoid disaster. California is already experiencing major droughts almost every year.

Eventually, a cheap, cost-effective way to purify water that it is safe for drinking is going to be necessary.

Elliot Weld can be contacted at eweld@kscequinox.com

Taking away from the EPA and giving to defense MARC APESOS

Equinox Staff President Trump is just as obsessed with building shiny new warships and missiles as he is with building tacky buildings with his name on it.

Trump announced that he will be increasing the defense budget by $54 billion, nearly a 10 percent increase in spending.

One of the ways Trump described his increased bloating of the U.S. military is “historic” and a means of “peace through strength.” But in fulfilling his campaign promises of a “beautiful” and “very great military,” he will be destroying other fundamental government programs like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), just as he has been ruining the New York Skyline for the past 30 years.

According to Fox News, the Trump administration has called for a slash in spending in programs that address climate change and improve water and air quality while eliminating thousands of jobs in the agency.

According to a draft of the EPA’s budget proposal that was obtained by the Associated Press, the agencies funding would be reduced by 25 percent and about 20 percent of the agency’s staff would be cut.

We know that Trump appointed Scott Pruitt, a former state attorney, as the head of the EPA. He is a man who has been highly critical of the organization he now runs and has questioned human activity’s role in climate change. The Trump administration is clearly setting up the EPA to be dismantled for his militaristic endeavors.

Trump has also left the state department in the dust

by proposing to cut the department’s spending by 37 percent.

The proposal faced bipartisan resistance in Congress and the Republican Party, and Republican Senator of South Carolina Lindsey Graham said, “This budget destroys soft power, it puts our diplomats at risk and it’s going nowhere.” It’s awfully ironic that Trump, somebody who has been critical of the govern-

ment’s handling of incidents like Benghazi, would put the department further in the dark by cutting their funding.

It is obvious the Trump administration does not care about the EPA and has been setting the agency up to be dismantled for other new, more obnoxious government spending.

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy said that the pro-

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posed budget cut “shows the Trump administration doesn’t hold the same American values for clean air, clean water and healthy land as the vast majority of it’s citizens.”

Marc Apesos can be contacted at mapesos@kscequinox.com

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The Ritalin era: How Adderall and similar drugs can help with concentration NICK TOCCO

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I have had attention deficit disorder (ADD) for my entire life, but I am just admitting it now.

I was born into the “Ritalin era” of the 90s, and, as a result, I was never able to develop an understanding of what ADD or ADHD was until my 23rd birthday.

Ritalin, also known as methylphenidate, is a drug used to treat attention deficit disorder in children.

I’ll never forget being in the first grade and watching another kid in my class lose his mind, jump on tables and scream at the teacher until a couple of janitors escorted him out like he was harassing people at a bar because he had too much to drink.

I would then go home and tell my mother about incidents like that and she would just avoid it, saying something like, “Stay away from those kids, they all need Ritalin.”

But my mother’s baby boy didn’t need Ritalin because he was going to be an astronaut. He doesn’t need that crap. Why would he need Ritalin? So he can become like one of those zombie kids who need to be brainwashed into doing their homework? No way Jose. He doesn’t have ADD. Then I went on to severely struggle with attention to detail, motivation and procrastination for the rest of my academic life,or in other words, ADD. This is something that is affecting me at this very moment. God knows how many times I’ll have to check my phone, get up, talk to someone and sit back down after just writing a paragraph of this column. Not to mention the amount of spelling and grammatical errors I will riddle the first draft with, all because I can’t pay attention.

If I had known in the second grade what I know now, I would have taken the so-called “brainwashing” to help with my ability to focus on tasks at hand.

Maybe that would have kept me out of summer school my junior year of high school-a year in which every student and faculty member said was the most important academic year of my life.

I had a gut feeling all along that I needed help with ADD or ADHD, but I was too afraid to admit that I had it. I was afraid of the “zombification” that would

take place if I ever took a prescription drug to help my defective attention span.

Now I know it was just part of the stigma that I grew up with, and I would bet that I am not alone.

What a whiny move of me to blame my parents. I was a screw up in middle school and high school, so it must have been my parents fault, not mine. Typical millennial. The fact that I am a millennial is part of the issue. Millennials have grown up in the fear of becoming overly dependent on Ritalin, only to become gripped by a different vice: our cell phone’s.

I would much rather take a pill like Adderall and have tunnel vision toward my school work than have tunnel vision towards Instagram, no matter how pleasurable that may be. It is harder today than ever before to be a productive member of society with ADD because there have never been more distractions in the world.

How many times have you heard an adult comment on millennial culture? It’s the worst.

“These damn kids can’t even lift their heads up to have a conversation anymore,” they say. “All they do is look down at their phones!”

I, then, get angry for being marginalized, only to hypocritically rip my phone out of my pocket and rant about it on Twitter. I believe my generation is so engulfed by technology because our short attention spans lend themselves to social media.

According to the Adult Attention Deficit Disorder screening checklist, one of the symptoms of ADD is to be often easily distracted by extraneous or irrelevant stimuli. Finding anything relevant or important to someone’s productivity on social media is nearly impossible, but I would still rather float around on Twitter or YouTube than write this column, which is another symptom.

According to the Adult Attention Deficit Disorder screening checklist, those with ADD “often avoid, dislike, or are reluctant to engage in tasks that require sustained mental effort (such as schoolwork or homework).”

My favorite thing to do on my phone is to go on YouTube and watch comedian and UFC commentator Joe Rogan’s podcast, the Joe Rogan Experience. During this podcast, Rogan will have guests on

his show and have a variety of conversations that are wildly intriguing to me.

The problem is these conversations are, for the most part, irrelevant to improving my productivity and takes no effort to sit and listen to.

I am literally watching two or three people I don’t know personally talk about stuff, and as useless (while entertaining) as the information is, I only retain a fraction of the conversations. It just so happens that another symptom of ADD is difficulty listening when spoken to directly.

The Joe Rogan Experience doesn’t speak to me directly, but I can speak from personal experience that there is a link between my inability to retain information from a podcast and my inability to listen to someone talking to me face-toface.

I am a journalism major, which means I need to interview people to have sources I can attribute information to for articles that I write. Many of the people I have interviewed have had a lot of interesting things to say, hence why I am writing the article in the first place.

Thanks to my ADD, I often conduct interviews putting on a listening face without truly listening. It is not that I don’t care or do not want to listen, I just simply cannot retain certain information from a conversation. If I didn’t record these conversations, there is a good chance I would forget what these people said entirely.

My generation especially has emphasized the use of drugs like Adderall and considered it a miracle pill for a reason.

An NBC article entitled, “Why ADHD Drugs Are the Hottest study Aid on College Campuses,” from Oct. 10, 2016 called drugs like Adderall “smart drugs.” You don’t have to be that smart to understand why these “smart drugs” have been used at an epidemic level by college students trying to gain an edge in the classroom.

It is because many millennials, like myself, have grown up without the treatment they needed for ADD or ADHD and are only discovering it now, when the academic stakes are at their highest.

The only way to start solving a problem is by admitting that there is one in the first place.

Nick Tocco can be contacted at ntocco@kscequinox.com

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Spring Break plans vary for students

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Whether going on vacation or heading home, students are taking a break from school EMMA HAMILTON

through foreign airports.”

Having Spring Break is a nice way to alleviate stress, especially being an upperclassman, according to Barr.

Spring Break has finally come yet again for the Owls Rather than staring at palm trees, first-year student of Keene State and other colleges around the country.

Madison Olsen plans to spend her Spring Break with Plans always range for students- some include trop- students. ical vacations, while others may be in the comfort of Olsen plans to return to her hometown and substitheir own home. tute teach for the week.

As the stress continues to pile, Spring Break gives “It’s nice being able to make money and see my students the opportunity to put it on hold for one short family and friends at home because I miss them terriweek. bly,” Olsen said.

Junior Abbey Barr is able to escape the cold and hit Olsen said she is looking forward to the mental break the beach for the week. of having the week off from her studies and being able Barr is traveling to Punta Cana in the Dominican to come back refreshed and ready to finish the semester.

Republic with four of her closest friends from home.

Traveling as a team over Spring Break is popular at “We planned our trip online and had help from travel Keene State. agents,” Barr said.

The baseball, softball and both men’s and women’s Barr said she and her friends decided to go on the lacrosse teams have the opportunity to go to Florida trip to get away and because they will be celebrating a each year. friend’s birthday together.

The Ultimate Frisbee team is making their way “I’ve never been out of the United States before. As south too, just not as far. far as safety goes, I’m a little concerned about traveling The team will be spending their week together in

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Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Junior Louis Graeve is one team member looking forward to the trip.

“We decided to go on the trip for two main reasons.

One is it is an opportunity to bring the team much closer. They say you don’t really know anyone until you live with them, and it’s the same case for Myrtle Beach.

Everyone also gets so close with one another and are able to bond while building up the chemistry for the spring season,” Graeve said.

He continued, “It’s a great way to kick off the season because players get so much better playing for four days straight. It’s a great practice for the beginning of a competitive journey for our team.”

KSC was able to help the frisbee team figure out the logistics and financial planning of the trip, according to Graeve.

He said it’s a lengthy process that the captains work on, which the team appreciates tremendously.

There are about 20 students and players going on the trip.

Graeve said, “When not playing frisbee, you’ll catch

“It’s nice being able to make money and see my family and friends at home because I miss them terribly.”

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the team playing spike ball on the beach, riding the waves, playing mini golf and most importantly, eating at the Waffle House all the time.”

Whether getting away for the week, returning home, working more hours or traveling with your sports team; Spring Break is an opportunity for a mental break for students to get away from schoolwork.

Emma Hamilton can be contacted at ehamilton@kscequinox.com

Eating with the Equinox: Dark chocolate bark KATE FAULKNER

equinox Staff Ingredients: 1 small bag of dark chocolate (70 percent or higher) 1 cup dried cranberries 1 cup assorted nuts (cashews/ pecans/walnuts) 1/2 crushed pretzels Caramel drizzle (optional)

ing being high in magnesium and iron. It also is rich in antioxidants.

Adding nuts and pretzels adds a salty flavor, which enhances the sweetness. There are many other ingredients you can add to this recipe to make it your own.

EWTE is supported by the Student Nutrition Association at Keene State club (SNAKS).

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Directions: 1. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

2. In a microwave-safe bowl, melt the chocolate for 30 seconds and stir. Microwave longer if necessary, but be careful of burning the chocolate.

3. Add the dried cranberries, whatever nuts and pretzels and mix together. Then, pour out the chocolate onto the baking sheet and spread out.

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Eating Disorder Awareness Week ADAM URQUHART

OpiniOns EditOr Delta Phi Epsilon and Active Minds put on the annual Eating Disorder Awareness Week to bring awareness to the Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD) organization. Last week, the sorority tabled in the Young Student Center, focusing on bringing awareness about eating disorders and embracing positive body image.

According to a statistic included on the ANAD pamphlet that was handed out at their table, “90–95 percent of individuals who suffer from eating disorders are girls.”

KSC junior and double major in in elementary education and psychology with a minor in addictions Rachel Murphy is involved with both organizations.

She joined both organizations during her first year at KSC. She explained that Active Minds is an organization that fights the stigma against mental health.

Murphy said, “We’re big advocates for the eating disorder awareness week.” She explained that she works under the Vice President of Programming in Delta Phi Epsilon. Murphy said, “Basically, we have a table every day [during Eating Disorder Awareness Week], where each day is a different positive body image theme.”

Murphy said, “ANAD is one of our philanthropies.”

KSC sophomore and member of Delta Phi Epsilon Lilian Poulin said the sorority has three philanthropies.

Poulin said, “Our first one is the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, ANAD and the Delta Phi Epsilon Education Foundation. The last one is mainly for sisters who have difficulty paying for school or paying their dues. We would never want to turn someone away just because they can’t afford the cost of joining an organization.”

She explained this week is ANAD Awareness Week, but the sorority does things to benefit that philanthropy throughout the semester.

“The tables are there for anyone and we’re there to give support to anyone,” Poulin said. “We’re selling little goody bags and they come with a purple bracelet that says ANAD awareness and it says healthy is happy on them. They also have a little compact mirror, two chocolates and a little sticker.” She mentioned they sold for two dollars and all the profits go to ANAD. There was also a free benefit concert held where donations were accepted.

Poulin said aside from tabling, they also post sticky notes on the bathroom mirrors across campus with pos-

itive messages and compliments. “Also, at the table we have a board with sticky notes and some have messages and some are blank. You can take or leave one,” Poulin said.

Poulin went on to discuss why she felt the tabling was so successful.

“I think that this tabling in particular is the most beneficial for students that we do throughout the year because this is the one I’ve seen the most outsiders come up to,” Poulin said. “Usually, when it’s a tabling for a Greek Life thing, only Greek Life and friends of people who are sitting at the table will come, but yesterday we had a lot of random strangers coming up and asking what ANAD is. I think that that is beneficial because it shows, at least to me, that we’re getting the word out and that people are noticing and not just walking by a table.”

KSC sophomore and member of Delta Phi Epsilon Casey Lynn Sowle also helped out with the tabling in the student center. “It’s more about the awareness. We obviously love if we can raise money for it, but we just want people to know what ANAD is because it’s such a big issue that plagues so many people our age.” Sowle added, “The whole cause is to give people that place to go and it’s another way to raise that self-image because obviously there’s strength in numbers.” She explained that if you see a bunch of girls sitting at the table and talking about positive image, it can really bring up the mentality all across campus.

“Eating disorders are a touchy subject and a lot of people don’t like to talk about it, but it’s something that’s there and people should be,” Murphy said. “People know about it, but it’s just unspoken.”

Poulin said a family member of hers struggled with anorexia. “I’ve seen kind of first-hand the impact that it has on the individual, but also the family. I wanted to give back and that’s why I joined Delta Phi Epsilon,” Poulin said.

Poulin said, “Obviously, there are all kinds of ridiculous standards that not just women, but also men see every day in the media in celebrities that there’s this standard that we are all supposedly held to to be considered attractive. So, I think it would be fair to say that myself and really anyone who’s seen a magazine probably has struggled or felt badly about themselves at one point in their life.”

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Delta Phi Epsilon posted sticky notes on the bathroom mirrors around campus to encourage loving yourself.

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One component to the sorority’s table included a scale, symbolizing that the number on it doesn’t matter.

Humans of KSC “What drives you to be better at something?”

Delta Phi Epsilon tabled in the Young Student Center for a full week, promoting awareness of the Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD) organization.

Studying in York, England, for the semester LYNNE CARRION

study AwAy I am currently on a train on my way back from visiting a very good friend of mine. My friend Rose Lovett is studying abroad in London and invited me down to spend a day with her. I know for a fact this will be a day I will never forget. Not only did it go from rain and hail to sunny in a matter of 20 minutes, but I got to go back to a place that holds so many memories for me.

I visited the United Kingdom once before with my high school band when I was 17. We went to London for only about four hours. We spent all of our time at the Convent Gardens and watched various performers, made so many jokes and ate at a few cafés just to pass the time.

Today, I was on my way to a tour of London I had signed us up for, when Rose suggested to pop into some shops to grab some tea. It took me a few minutes, but I recognized where I was and all the memories came flooding back. This may be a bit sappy, but I began to get a bit teary eyed because I never thought I would ever return. I never thought I would have the opportunity to relive that day that was so short-lived.

I am currently studying abroad in York, England, and to be completely honest, it’s hard to sum up my time here so far. For the past few weeks, I have spent a majority of my time in York, but I’ve also been to Leeds and London. At this point, this city feels like home to me. I’ve learned things from, ‘Don’t walk around the city for four hours on an empty stomach,’ to, ‘Always fill day trips with fun things and flesh out those fun things so you’re not sitting in a McDonald’s for seven hours waiting for your train to go home.’

With these valuable life lessons, I’ve met some of the most amazing people. I’ve met a group of Spanish mixed with Mexicans, who have really brought me to fully come to understand my identity as an Afro-latina in today’s society. I have never spoken more Spanish in my life than I have here, of all places. It’s safe to say, I’m only a month and a half into this trip and I can feel that things are happening just the way they should be.

I can’t wait to bring all the things I’ve learned and all of my stories back to Keene to share with everyone.

Lynne Carrion can be contacted at lynne.carrion@ksc.keene.edu

“What drives me to do better and to keep working hard is my dance students back home. They encourage me to work hard dancing at school and to set a good example for them. They look up to me and are always excited to hear about my experiences.

Teaching them gives me encouragement to be the best I can be and share as much knowledge as I can with them. Most importantly, they never let me forget my dance studio back home, where my love of dance came from.”

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Students receive grants for summer research GRACE PECCI

Copy Editor Three Keene State College students of 11 applicants have been awarded grants to fund their research projects from the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF).

Interested students were asked to submit an application, a recommendation and a timeline of their project, according to the Center of Creative Inquiry (CCI) Coordinator and History Professor Nick Germana.

The CCI is co-run by Germana, who represents the the School of Arts and Humanities, and Margaret Smith, who represents the School of Professional and Graduate Studies.

What SURF does As a coordinator for the CCI, Germana said he oversees all of the different funding programs geared towards undergraduate research.

The idea of the SURF program is to have “a stipend for students so that for the summer, [they] can engage in some kind of a project or creative endeavor,” Germana said.

Students who win the fellowship are paid $4,000 through the summer, “kind of in installments,” Germana described.

He said the money is given so that students can primarily focus on their research projects for the duration of the summer, rather than having to work a job simultaneously.

After the summer is over, the student then has to provide a report for the following year to explain what they’ve done.

When asked what the board of the SURF program looks for, Germana said, “One thing we do ask in the application is to let us know what they expect to come out of this.”

He continued, “We really do want some product, we don’t tell them what it has to be. They need to tell us in the end what they are going to have.”

Germana said that they also require the winners to present in the Academic Excellence Conference (AEC), taking place in April, and winners are also required to submit a proposal to present at the Council of Liberal Arts Colleges (COLAC).

Germana said this is a great opportunity for students because if their proposals are accepted, they get to travel in the Northeast region for conferences.

The awards for the SURF program are the same for each winner.

Germana said the amount of awards varies from year to year, depending on “how much money is in the Provost’s office.”

For this year’s fellowship, two of the awards are funded by the Provost’s office and one is funded from outside donors, according to Germana.

Germana also discussed the rewarding experiences that come out of the SURF program.

“I think this gives students the opportunity to engage in high level research that they don’t have the opportunity to otherwise... Students, especially students who are very interested in graduate school of some kind, this gives them an opportunity to take.”

He said that the student research is “largely independent work that [they] would be doing in graduate school and it is so much more in depth of what [they] could do in class. [They] are pursuing an interest of [their] own… [and] it’s giving them an intense research experience that they really can’t get any other way...the point is for them to have some sort of project at the end.”

Nick Germana’s colleague, health science professor Margaret Smith, also is a coordinator for the CCI. In an e-mail, Smith stated her role as a CCI coordinator as being “responsible for working together with [her] advisory board to advocate for and advance undergraduate scholarship at Keene State College, to coordinate and integrate the various programs currently supporting undergraduate scholarship and to expand these opportunities for faculty and students.”

She also stated that “each coordinator serves both as an ambassador and a faculty development leader within his/her respective school.”

Smith stated that she believes, “CCI, with the purpose of promoting undergraduate research and creative endeavors, is very beneficial to students.”

Recipient Jessica Vandevord Chemistry and Biology One student who is getting ready to experience that “beneficial” undergraduate research process is KSC junior Jessica Vandevord.

Vandevord is majoring in chemistry and minoring in biology.

She said she is very excited to have the opportunity to work on her research and knew it was a great opportunity to do a research project “over the summer as opposed to having four plus classes and having too much work to do [to get it complete].”

Vandevord’s mentor for her research is Professor Brian Anderson.

She said she picked him because he is her inorganic chemistry professor, her advisor and because she has been doing research with him since the spring of her first year.

“I’ve never had the opportunity to do an extensive research project,” Vandevord said, “because during the semester, I dont have the time to put in eight plus hours of research a week, so we had discussed some of my research options and the SURF [program] came up and it was like, ‘Oh hey would you be interested in helping me with my SURF project,’... [Choosing my mentor] was kind of an easy pick.”

Vandevord said she has already started her preliminary research, but the start of her research is for the AEC in April. For the application, she said it was 12 pages written out with an abstract of what she was going to do, the project goals, background and references.

“I have four or five goals that I would like to get done over the summer through the course of my project,” Vandevord said.

She described her application as an extensive, “‘Here’s what I want to do, this is why I want to do it and this is why it is beneficial to you.’”

Vandevord’s project is focused on optimizing reactions.

“I have a synthesis that I’m doing. I’m trying to make a specific product and I’m trying to make the reaction of product the best that it can be, so I’m trying to get the highest yield with the shortest amount of time. I’m going to apply that to an array of different products, because each product has different biological activities and those biological activities will be tested at the end of my summer project,” Vandevord said.

She said that she will be utilizing a “professor’s” lab in the science center where no other classes are taught.

Vandevord noted that she does plan on going to graduate school for chemistry.

She said she is a little nervous to present at the AEC conference, but is also excited.

“This is the same research I’ve been doing since my [first] year, so my classes in chemistry are starting to meet with the research I am doing, so I’m learning more about it and I’m really excited to have the opportunity to put it into words so that my family can understand it and my friends that aren’t in science understand it and I’m so excited to bring it to other people.”

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“This is the same research I’ve been doing since my [first] year, so my classes in chemistry are starting to meet with the research I am doing, so I’m learning more about it and I’m really excited to have the opportunity to put it into words so that my family can understand it and my friends that aren’t in science understand it and I’m so excited to bring it to other people.”

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position Geoffrey Edwards is another student who won the 2017 fellowship, but his project focuses on music theory.

Edwards said he first learned about the SURF program when he was in a music workshop class last year.

He said he was interested after his teacher described what the program was about, but he missed last year’s application deadline.

He decided to learn more about the program and started planning his project ideas last summer.

His mentor for his research is Dr. Heather Gilligan.

Edwards said Dr. Gilligan gave him “a really good layout and idea about how [he] should be going about the SURF program, ways in which [he] should be organizing [his] time and what [he] should be studying in order to get the exact goal of what [he] want[s] for this.”

Edwards said they felt that they had a perfect lineup and could make a really great project together.

TIM SMITH / PHOTO EDITOR His project will be the analyzation of a few piano sonatas that he has Jessica Vandevord plans to focus her research on chemistry and picked out, “written by earlier composers in the late romantic, classical biology. period, which is roughly around the late 18th [and] early 19th century music,” Edwards said.

He will also be analyzing the modulation and chromatic techniques that these artists use.

“Using what I learned in music theory in school and with the musical seminars I’ve been taking, I’ll be using that to analyze the pieces and I’ll be writing a paper on each one,” Edwards said.

“So after I’ve studied all the pieces that I want to and written about each one, theoretically, I will then be writing my own composition. [It will] probably be a piano sonata and I’m going to...use a little bit of [the 18th and 19th centruy composer’s] approaches to how they piece together their music.”

Edwards said he would like to perform his compositions when he has his composition recital by his final year, but he will also be performing it at academic conferences.

He said he is a little nervous to present and that even as a performer and a music major, he still has anxiety.

The piano is not Edwards’ main instrument; he said his main instrument is first the cello, then piano and he also knows certain chords on the guitar.

Edwards said he will be working on his project from June 1 until the first few weeks of August and then may go home to work, but he plans on spending a majority of his summer in Keene to work on putting his project together.

When asked how he felt about being one of three out of 11 applicants who was chosen for the fellowship, he said he felt very lucky.

“I felt really honored in a sense, the fact that my project was seen as wanted and recommended by professionals to go about and take part in, and it gives me more of a drive now to make it as good as I want it to be, so I’m excited,” Edwards said.

Recipient Lisa Donnelly Geography The final student who received the 2017 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship is Lisa Donnelly, a 38-year-old KSC student majoring in geography with specialization in Geography Information Systems (GIS).

Donnelly’s mentor is Dr. Christopher Brehme, who was the one who brought the idea of participating in the SURF program to her attention.

TIM SMITH / PHOTO “I had seen [the SURF program] on the [KSC] website, but I didn’t really Geoffrey Edwards plans to focus his summer research on music give it much thought,” Donnelly said.

“Then we got together after he got back from the UK for [another schol- technology and composition. arship]. When he got back, we talked about different policies. It’s kind of an extension of what he was doing over there.”

Dr. Brehme is her advisor and helped her with a GIS project that she did last semester, and he is working with her to find her an internship.

For her GIS project, she took the database of old guests from where she works (at the Latchis Hotel in Brattleboro, Vermont), from a period of about three years and put it all into a table based on zip code and used that to map where all of her guests were coming from.

For her SURF project, she said she is focusing on Landscapes Value Mapping.

She described this as almost “community service because we are going to be serving people at Ashuelot River Park and Greater Goose Pond Forest, mapping where people value different areas of the park.”

After this, Donnelly said, “We’re going to take this data, analyze it and map it, and that’s data that town planners can use to kind of decide where certain places need attention or where improvements need to be made…in general what areas need change… and what parts of each park the people really enjoy.”

Donnelly laughed when asked if she was nervous to present at the AEC conference and said yes, though it is something she has gotten used to.

She said that she presents often in the geography department, and for her senior seminar, she has to present with a group at the Annual Meeting of the Association of the American Geographers (AAG).

She said it felt awesome and kind of unexpected when she found out that she was awarded one of the three fellowships for this summer.

“It’s one of those things you kind of hope for, but you know it’s competitive so [receiving the fellowship] was a nice surprise,” Donnelly said.

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Equality for transgender students won’t change at KSC OLIVIA BELANGER

AdministrAtive executive editor The protection of transgender students across the nation is at risk after the Trump administration reversed federal guidance that directed public schools to allow students to use the restroom and locker rooms that correspond to their gender identities.

The move by the Departments of Justice and Education reverses guidance that the Obama administration publicized in May of 2016. The Washington Post reported that in a letter to the nation’s schools, administration officials plan to say they are withdrawing guidance issued by the Obama administration that found denying transgender students the right to use the bathroom of their choice violates federal prohibitions against sexual discrimination.

While this administrative decision puts a focus on transgender rights in high schools and middle schools, it could also alter the level of comfort a transgender student has on their college campus.

At Keene State College, the current discrimination and discriminatory harassment policy safeguards transgender students, allowing them to have equal access to the college’s programs, facilities and employment without regard to their gender identity or expression.

Title IX Discrimination and Harassment Coordinator at KSC Jeffrey Maher stated the campus remains committed to supporting an environment that protects the rights of all students, faculty and staff.

“While the current level of support at the federal level may be in a period of adjustment, Keene State’s level of commitment remains steadfast. This issue is more than bathrooms; it is about equality and unrestrained access to all of the educational and employment opportunities offered by Keene State,” Maher stated.

The equality KSC offers to transgender students has not gone unnoticed, according to KSC sophomore and transgender woman Vivian Valengavich.

Coming out at the beginning of this year, Valengavich said she has never felt anything but safe and comfortable on campus.

When it comes to the reversal of the bathroom bill, Valengavich plans to continue using the bathroom that is reflective of her gender identity, regardless of a federal or state-level policy.

“I am personally going to continue doing it [using the women’s bathroom] because if someone is able to figure out I am not a biological woman, then they are the one that’s the problem, not me,” Valengavich said. “I pass pretty well, so it would have to take some serious looking to figure out if I’m a trans person walking into the women’s [bath]room.”

For Valengavich, this controversy is not about bathrooms, similar to how segregated water fountains were never about the water fountains.

“We all need to use the bathroom; it’s a human necessity. It’s not about whether or not we can use bathrooms, it’s about people trying to control other populations,” Valengavich said.

Program Support Assistant for LGBTQ Students Hunter Kirschner said

“While the current level of support at the federal level may be in a period of adjustment, Keene State’s level of commitment remains steadfast. This issue is more than bathrooms; it is about equality and unrestrained access to all of the educational and employment opportunities offered by Keene State.”

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he agrees with Valengavich, and these protections are only hurting transgender people.

“People go to the bathroom to use the bathroom. These protections and regulations to keep certain people out of the bathrooms is only hurting trans people who are just trying to live,” Kirschner said. “If your intention to go into a bathroom to harass someone or assault someone, you can’t.

We know it is still against the law, but if someone really wants to do that, they’ll do that regardless of what the law says. Assault is not legal because a trans person can use the bathroom.”

Kirschner said he encourages students who are frightened of the Trump administration’s decision to find comfort on the KSC campus. While KSC is in favor of transgender student, faculty and staff rights, Kirschner said he acknowledges that the bathroom which reflects someone’s gender identity is not always a safe place.

A map of all the gender neutral bathrooms on campus has been compiled by Kirschner to make it easier for students to find them on campus.

Kirschner is also currently working on making the signs on the gender neutral bathrooms more consistent and easier to identify.

“We’re doing the same thing we have always done in trying to create structure, practice and policy that ensures the comfort of our trans students,” Kirschner said.

Any transgender student who has any questions or concerns regarding their campus experience can stop by the Office of Multicultural Student Support on the second floor of the student center.

Olivia Belanger can be contacted at obelanger@kscequinox.com

Exploring opportunities outside of the classroom with an internship CRAE MESSER

mAnAging executive editor With the stress of choosing a major combined with the worry of whether or not it’s the right major for you, many students turn to internships to get a better idea of what their future might look like.

On Wednesday, March 1, an Internship Showcase was held in the Putnam Science Center to give students a chance to see how internships may benefit them.

Service Learning and Internship Coordinator Karen Balnis, who is one of the people behind the Internship Showcase, said that internships can have numerous benefits to students, both toward their careers as well as their learning experiences.

“When you’re thinking specifically about career, it gives straightforward experience, something to put on a résumé,” Balnis said.

According to Balnis, an internship that incorporates a faculty member, which requires frequent reflections, ties in your work experience with your learning experience.

The Internship Showcase, consisting of a panel as

well as a poster showing and reception, lasted from 5 p.m.-7 p.m. and featured students who have completed internships in the past.

In the fall of 2016, 147 students participated in internships.

One of those students, Lexy Tiffany, worked as a Marketing Intern at The Colonial Theatre for a semester.

Tiffany said her experience was one-of-a-kind.

“It was way better than taking a class,” Tiffany said.

“I had so much fun.”

Tiffany said she would recommend that everyone complete an internship would even recommend multiple internships if it fits into your schedule because internships can provide so much more hands-on experience.

Another student presenting their experience, Rodney Jean-Marie, ended up traveling a bit further for his internship, but the benefits were all the same. JeanMarie worked as a Safety Coordinator at MercedezBenz Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia.

“I learned a lot more during an internship than I did in the classroom, which is key,” Jean-Marie said.

“I came back [to Keene State College] and was able to

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apply everything that I learned in that internship in the classroom.”

Jean-Marie also said the benefits of his internship weren’t just about the work he was doing.

“It was a good experience to get away from home; I had never been down south,” Jean-Marie said. “It was interesting to see the type of culture down there as well.”

Students weren’t the only ones explaining the perks of internships during the showcase, as there were professors there as well.

Associate Professor of Management at Keene State College (KSC) Linda Hadden said in her experience, most feedback she receives regarding her students in internships has been very good.

“Most of the interns that I’ve placed, it’s been a really good fit,” Hadden said.

Hadden also said that internships can have both short and long-term impacts on the students partaking in them.

“From the short term, it might help them get the first job. It can certainly help them in terms of identifying what they like and don’t like,” Hadden said. “In terms of long term, I think, once again, helping them fine tune

what they want to do. And a lot of times, it gives them that experience because companies are looking for experience.”

According to Hadden, an internship can also provide students with a chance to really get a feel for the work that their potential job consists of, as opposed to reading about the responsibilities in a job description.

While gaining experience is one of the perks of completing an internship, it’s also a common concern among students, according to Balnis, but that there’s no need to worry.

“Many employers are looking to train students themselves,” Balnis said. When asked what kind of advice she would give to a student who was concerned about getting involved with an internship, Balnis said she would tell them not to worry and to dive right in and “do their best.”

Crae Messer can be contacted at cmesser@kscequinox.com

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ICE Conference at Keene State

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President Anne Huot opened the conference and spoke about the value of a public education.

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Students were able to converse with other students and alumni at the conference this past Saturday.

The Epsilon Pi Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi hosts the annual Inspiring Conversations in Education Conference JACOB BARRETT

Senior reporter Keene State College education majors gathered for a conference on campus on March 4.

The Epsilon Pi Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi put together their fifth annual Inspiring Conversations in Education (ICE) conference. According to the conference co-chairs, KSC sophomore Michael Lamarre and KSC junior Savannah Robert, the event took a year to plan and about 100 people attended.

The event started in the Mabel Brown Room, where KSC President Anne Huot spoke about the role of a quality public education. “…I wonder what would have happened if I didn’t have the chance to go to a public school and get a high quality education… it was determined by a community that really understood that education really is the greatequalizer,” Huot said.

After, the keynote speakers, KSC alumni David and Chantel Alcox, gave a presentation on the lasting impact teachers have on their students.

The two, who married shortly after their time at KSC and work as educators in Milford, New Hampshire, said the work that educators do makes a difference for life and gave attendees advice going forward.

“If you go into this profession, and many of you will, you will find out that it’s a way of life, it’s not a job. It’s something that you will do for you your entire life,” David said to the crowd in the Mabel Brown Room From there, aspiring educators spent the day going to presentations in Rhodes and Morrison Halls that were put together by other Keene State

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Participants of the conference listened to presentations throughout the day.

“…I wonder what would have happened if I didn’t have the chance to go to a public school and get a high quality education… it was determined by a community that really understood that education really is the great-equalizer.”

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alumni who became teachers after graduating. Subjects of the sessions included how to find work as a teacher after graduation, post-undergraduate options, teaching techniques and more.

KSC alumni and conference presenters Jessica Boland and Erin Cogan said this was their fourth year presenting at the conference and it’s gotten better every year.

“Every year, I feel like there’s more and more attendees and every year it kind of has a different twist on it,” Cogan said.

Advisor for KDP and KSC elementary education professor Darrell Hucks said the conference has grown considerably since its beginnings five years ago. The reason, he said, has a lot to do with the connections

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The chapter of Kappa Delta Pi has hosted the conference at KSC for the past five years.

that are built during a student’s time at the college, while also giving them an idea of what to expect after graduating.

“This conference was designed to bring alumni together with current students, faculty, alumni… to bring the community together,” Hucks said.

Hucks added that the conference allows faculty to grow as educators as well, while also supporting students after they leave the college.

“Events like this are important because we need to think about and be invested in our students’ success beyond the college experience.” He continued, “Being able to tap into their newer experiences helps to refine the work we do here.”

After the day of three sets of sessions came to a close, junior Ariel Friedman provided musical entertainment, followed by revolving groups of round table discussions between students and the presenters. Prizes were raffled off to those in attendance as well.

Moving forward, both the conference co-chairs and Hucks said that they would like to see the conference expand even larger than it has in the last five years.

Students said that they got a lot out of the conference and that they hope to be able to come back for future conferences.

“I think it was really great to talk to actual teachers with experience as opposed to just kind of [being] thrown into a classroom which is good to, but it was nice to talk to other people who have done it,” first-year attendee Gerty Flagg said.

Jacob Barrett can be contacted at jbarrett@kscequinox.com

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The effects of music on mental health

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Studies regarding music’s effects on the brain are relatively new. Despite the lack of statistical and scientific evidence, individuals have experienced various impacts of music on their mental health.

Listening to and performing music can play a special role in the brain ALEXANDRIA SAURMAN

Arts And EntErtAinmEnt Editor Music can be invigorating, tantalizing, relaxing or even therapeutic. Studies show that music can help reduce pain and overcome fatigue, according to Darlene Oakley’s article on EmpowHER. In addition, PsychCentral reports music can also help combat stress, depression, emotional difficulties and anxiety.

In an interview with the American Psychological Association, neuropsychologist Daniel Levitin said, “Lots of things that we do affect our physiology...

And we’ve seen evidence now that music can alter brain chemistry and even the production of cytokines, immunoglobulin A and other components of a healthy immune system.”

Each of these “components” has a specific job in the body.

Cytokines assists in the communication between immune system cells. When there are many pro-inflammatory cytokines present in the body, the individual faces flu-like symptoms. PsychologyToday said those with depression also see a higher level of pro-inflammatory cytokines.

Immunoglobulin A (IgA) is an antibody, according to MedicineNet. One study found in The European Journal of Psychiatry compared exam stress to the levels of salivary IgA in medical students. They found that “Salivary IgA is reduced in response to exam stress.”

Theories relating to music’s effect on the body are new, but “the evidence for the beneficial effects of music on reward, motivation, pleasure, stress, arousal, immunity and social affiliation is mounting,” according to Mona Lisa Chanda and Levitin’s feature review titled “The neurochemistry of music,” found on daniellevitin. com.

“We consider the evidence to be promising, yet preliminary, due to numerous confounds and limitations of many studies performed to date,” they said.

KSC psychology professor Dr. Larry Welkowitz is also trying to understand the relationship between the brain and music.

“What I think is that music connects to the parts of the brain that are tribalistic. They connect us with groups of people…we then connect with other people who are feeling similarly or have similar responses. So, music can be really connecting,” said Welkowitz.

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KSC theater hosts ‘The Greek Trilogy Project’ In this ETHAN CHALMERS

part of a University System of New PeggyRae Johnson directed Hampshire (USNH) project involv- Keene State’s production of “Antiing Plymouth State University (PSU) gone.”

The Keene State College theater and the University of New Hamp“Oedipus at Colonus,” was staged department presented the Greek shire (UNH) to stage all three plays by UNH and directed by CJ Lewis. play, “Antigone,” by Sophocles as in the “Oedipus Cycle.”

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by Elizabeth Daily.

The Keene State College troupe traveled to UNH in Durham on Feb. 25 to perform “Antigone,” before returning to Keene to perform at the Redfern Arts Center.

On March 8, Keene State will travel to Plymouth State University to, again, perform “Antigone”.

Keene State students Heather Hunt and Kenon Veno performed the title roles of Antigone and Creon, respectively.

PeggyRae Johnson, director of “Antigone” and professor of theatre and dance at KSC, said, “I love working with the students here at Keene State. I find the students here to be really collaborative and take responsibility for their work. They also have a genuine interest in the world around them.”

Regarding KSC students’ dedication to performing theatre, Johnson said, “Theatre is a lot of work Often, students put in 12 to 14 hour days only to get up and do it again. I like that hard work ethic.”

Referring to the unique opportunity for audiences to see the complete “Oedipus Cycle,” Johnson said she hopes “the audience will appreciate the material diversity of the three plays since all productions present the Oedipal myth differently.”

Johnson also emphasized the relevance of the “Oedipus Cycle” in today’s society.

She said, “‘Antigone’ includes a couple of characters who believe there is one way to see things; we live in a society that’s behaving the same way. I hope audience members might hear that and think there’s another way to look at things.”

Professor Johnson also emphasized the educational importance of the project to perform all Oedipus plays. She said, “Ensemble and collaborative work is important to education.”

Ethan Layfield, a first-year at Keene State, attended the performance of “Antigone.” Layfield said, “It was great to watch different play structure. It was a pretty unique performance.”

Cindy Clausen, also a first-year at Keene State, viewed all of the “Oedipus Cycle” performances.

Regarding “Antigone,” Clausen said, “It was really great acting.

It was interesting to see the differences in the three performances.

The costuming was also great [and] very consistent.”

The Greek Project hosted by the USNH schools was hosted by the UNH Department of Classics, Humanities and Italian Studies, John C. Rouman Classical Lecture Series and the University System of New Hampshire Office of the Chancellor.

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Bringing real life to the reels KSC film professor Dr. Ted White creates documentaries ALEXANDRIA SAURMAN

Arts And EntErtAinmEnt Editor Not everyone knows what they want to do with their lives when they’re only a young teenager. This was not the case for Keene State College film lecturer Ted White. Before college, he knew that he wanted to become a filmmaker because of what it encompassed.

“You could either choose [to be a musician, an actor or a writer], or if you became a filmmaker, you could do all those things, and so that really appealed to me cause it was like all the arts are wrapped up into one,” White said.

White, originally from California, worked at the Film Arts Foundation (FAF) in San Francisco. FAF was a place where independent filmmakers had access to equipment, education programs and other resources. While working there, White said that he met many documentarians, or individuals who create documentaries.

White had never been interested in creating documentaries, calling them “boring.” However, his mindset changed when he noticed the creativity creating a documentary involved.

“I think kind of as I grew up a little bit, I felt like, ‘Oh, issues are really important. It’s fun to make up my own stories about who people might be and what things they’re dealing with, feelings they’re dealing with and activites they’re trying to struggle through. Maybe real life is actually pretty worth me learning more about.’”

Eventually, White decided to create his first documentary, which was ultimately a test run. The five minute film was based off of a “demonstration” by bicyclists, who were speaking out against fossil fuel use.

Since, according to White, climate change was not a popular topic back in 1990, the ideas presented by the “rowdy,” “creative and actionoriented” bicyclists were appealing to him. He filmed part of the demonstration while on his own bicycle.

“Wow, this is actually pretty exciting…,” he said. “I just felt like the more I learned about these people, the project branched out.”

After his “test run” was created, he decided to produce another documentary also focused on bicycling. For this documentary, which he titled “Return of the Scorcher,” he traveled across America and the globe. He visited various places such as China and Denmark, calling it a “massive TED WHITE / CONTRIBUTED PHOTO adventure.”

Pictured here is a still photo from White’s newest documentary, “My Beautiful Nightmare,” which focuses on his daughter with Down Syndrome.

The film compares the bicycling cultures of America to the bicycling cultures of Europe and China.

Mass are celebrating the bicycle and, in turn, taking on perhaps the cenWhite’s bicycling films have not only been shown in America, but also The end product was broadcasted and screened. White also sold copies tury’s most sacred cow: the automobile.” worldwide. They have also been translated into many languages. of the documentary.

In his documentary, he referenced the movement as a “critical mass.”

White is currently working on a documentary called, “My Beautiful “Suddenly, I was like, ‘Wow, documentaries are the thing. That’s my deal White said after that, participants in the movement began calling it a criti- Nightmare,” which is focused on his life as a dad to a daughter with Down now.’ Initially, I had no interest, and then once I dived in, it hit me big time,” cal mass.

Syndrome. he said.

“As a filmmaker, you want to impact the world someway, right? You To learn more about the documentary, please visit kscequinox.com for a His next documentary was called “We Are Traffic!” According to want...somehow, there to be something people take away from your film multimedia piece on the subject.

White’s website, “We Are Traffic!” tracks this leaderless, grassroots move- that actually changes the way they think or how they might act, and so that ment from its beginnings in San Francisco in 1992 to its spread across the was really thrilling that one of my films actually reached out into regular Alexandria Saurman can be contacted at globe. With a radical direct-action approach, the participants of Critical culture and touched it,” White said. asaurman@kscequinox.com

Class sculptures adorn campus lawns ALYSSA SALERNO

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Two sculpture class’ worth of work is now displayed outside of the art studio.

Miles Warner, the professor for sculpture one, said, “The project is inspired by the idea of abstraction.”

The nearly 30 pieces of abstract art all vary in shape and size, and while some look like mountains and ice to the people passing by, others are harder to identify.

“The material that they’re looking at for the first project is really just the natural world,” said Warner.

“Whether that’s really macro like a mountain range or really micro like the things that make up a plant cell, it’s really varied.”

Warner said that the act of being able to make a piece of art is not all they learn in the class.

He said it is just as important for students to be able to talk about their pieces if they want to grow and do more with art.

Warner posted pictures of all the pieces to a blog and asked students to comment on each other’s work.

KSC junior Emily Mathieu, a student in the course, decided to bring influences from her home into her project.

“I live in the White Mountains up in North Conway, New Hampshire....Originally, I was thinking more representationally something to do with the Presidential Range, and then I wanted to go a little more abstract and just [thought] of mountains in general, but [kept] in mind the variety and height of mountains.”

Mathieu’s piece is a group of 10 mountains of varying size.

She said that she used a few two

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There are about 30 pieces displayed outside the sculpture studio, located behind the library.

by three planks of wood, some scrap wood and some gray and white paint to make her piece come to life.

Brian Hickey, a student in the class, commented on the blog about Mathieu and another student’s piece.

“The idea of layering multiple pieces to create a large landscape design was really nice.

Both pieces displayed a great sense of depth and, for that, they seemed very strong.”

Other students around campus have been noticing these sculptures, too.

KSC sophomore Casey Lynn Sowle said, “They’ll just catch my eye. I notice different ones ALEXANDRIA SAURMAN / ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR each day.”

The sculpture class is taught by professor Miles Warner.

If you miss seeing the sculptures this time around though, the class’ blog said there will be another set of sculptures coming out in late March.

The blog can be found at kscsculptureone.wordpress.com.

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More sculptures will be on display at the end of March.

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Some Keene State College students have experienced the relationship between music and mental health first-hand.

First-year music education major Will Wright discovered that music was his outlet in middle school when he first faced bouts of anxiety.

“In seventh grade, I got to audition for a district’s band and I was super excited about it,” he said, “but it was my first audition ever and I went in and I got really, really nervous and I got a 49 out of 150.”

After working with his teacher, who prepared him with mock auditions, Wright received the highest score in the district the following year.

During his sophomore year of high school, Wright said he found schooling more difficult.

“I worked hard, but didn’t care about my music at that point because I didn’t care about much...once I started getting back into playing music, I took off again and fell back in love with it after not being able to do it for a while,” he said.

For senior sustainable product design & innovation major Ricky Pelchar, he said music is calming.

Pelchar has been facing anxiety and panic attacks since high school. He found that playing his guitar helped him convey his emotions.

“The best thing to do is just play guitar because there [are] so many emotions you can express through that,” he said. When he’s angry, Pelchar said he plays loud music, turning his distortion pedal on. When he’s calm, he plays acoustic guitar.

Although Welkowitz could not offer a scientific explanation as to why some individuals match their moods to their music choices, he said that people often connect through matching components of a conversation.

“People start to match certain things like how loud they are and how long they pause and the pitch, the rhythm. All of these different aspects start to come together, and when they come together, people feel like they’re connecting,” Welkowitz said.

Pelchar recalled a specific time when music helped him to relax. “...I had a severe anxiety attack on the way to visit my parents and I was just shellshook the whole day while I was seeing them,” said Pelchar. “It kind of sucked, but when I got back, I just went on a walk for a couple hours, just listening to music to get off things and just to zone out and not think

about anything.”

Welkowitz explained a possibility of music’s ability to relax people. “[Music] sparks memories which sparks other thinking networks… it ignites all of these memories and what we call attentional networks. You start to attend to more positive life events so you’re not thinking about, ‘Life sucks,’ ‘The world is terrible,’ ‘My friends don’t like me.’ What gets ignited is a different set of memories and feelings.”

Pelchar also plays guitar and sings for Gray Haven, a local band composed of four KSC students, which he said is “probably the most fun thing [he] do[es] here.”

Pelchar said, “For some reason, the last two times I played in the Mabel Brown Room, I got really--not necessarily nervous-but just kind of [a] queasy feeling before...it goes away right when we start playing.”

First-year women’s and gender studies major Magnolia Bingham has participated in music therapy and uses music for meditation.

“It really helped me get over my trauma and, I don’t know, I think music can be really relaxing. When I meditate, I use... this certain kind of music that the vibrations of it are suppose to help you relax,” Bingham said.

“I think music can have a huge impact on mental stability [and] relaxation,” she added.

KSC Associate Music Professor Dr. James Chesebrough once considered becoming a music therapist.

Although he did not pursue that path, he volunteered at a hospital during his undergraduate years of college.

During that time, Chesebrough saw the effects of music on the patients there.

“In some cases, it made them very happy...

If they got up and moved around to the music it was interesting because they had been really sedentary up until that point, so it caused them to be become that physically active. Many of the time, the people would smile when they were singing and then when they weren’t singing, there was no visible enjoyment.”

In the words of Chanda and Levitin, “... scientific inquiry into the neurochemical effects of music is still in its infancy.”

Even though there is a lack of evidence, some still believe music is beneficial.

“We don’t have any science to support the fact that taking a vacation is a good idea, but we know that it is, so I’d say of course music is good for us,” Welkowitz said.

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Jordan Peele’s new thriller hits theaters WRITER: MATT BILODEAU

POSITION: EQUINOX STAFF REVIEW: Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” is a wildly inventive, chilling and often quite hilarious satire on social injustice.

As with most serious relationships, it’s a tradition to feel a little anxious when meeting a significant other’s parents.

Although, Chris [Daniel Kaluuya] remains worrisome of the reaction he’ll receive to the news that their white daughter, Rose [Allison Williams], is currently dating an African-American man.

She tells him there’s absolutely nothing to worry about, but Chris remains vigilant.

Soon, Chris rendezvous with Rose’s folks [Bradley Whitford and Catherine Keene], accepting their gracious hospitality, albeit with some hesitation.

Over the course of the weekend, things get progressively weirder and weirder, culminating in a shocking revelation that turns everything upside down.

“Get Out” is a prime example of why I take a day or two to gather my

thoughts on a film before writing my review. Upon exiting the theater, I left feeling as if I got my money’s worth, a solid psychological thriller with a timely message about race.

A day later, the themes and concepts have dug deep into my subconscious and simply refuse to leave.

Jordan Peele, you’re a freaking genius.

Unless you live under a rock, the contention of racism in the United States is more heated than ever these days. Gee, I wonder why?

Anyways, Jordan Peele (from the sketch comedy television series “Key & Peele”) makes his directorial debut with a psychological horror film disguised as the subversive social satire America desperately needed.

“Get Out” can best be described as a daunting hybrid of “The Stepford Wives” and “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” with a comedy twist thrown in for good measure.

To elaborate any further seems almost unnecessary, as this film’s greatest weapon is unpredictability. However, I’ll do my damndest to remain as vague as humanly possible.

“It’s not what he said, it’s how he said it,” said the character of Chris, brilliantly played by “Black Mirror” alum Daniel Kaluuya.

As this line indicates, the overarching theme of “Get Out” is the rampant usage of casual racism, unveiling the hypocrisies of white America.

In many cases, the white characters mask their racism through needless pandering and nonsensical inquiries into the stereotypes often associated with African-Americans.

To view “Get Out” from a white perspective made all the difference.

I can’t relate to the protagonist because I have never and will never spend a day in his shoes. No one will inquire about my athletic ability or the size of my magic johnson based on the color of my skin.

Although, whether you’re black or white, what Peele so elegantly does is provide a familiar level of discom-

revelation, but isn’t so gung-ho about spilling all of his dirty little secrets right off the bat.

From “Rosemary’s Baby” to “Under the Skin,” Peele pays tribute to the horror classics of old and new that influenced his startling visuals.

The premise itself garners a few uncomfortable chuckles, but it’s Lil Rel Howery who steals the show as Chris’ superstitious best friend, Rod. He often comes across as the hysterical voice of reason when things go south, embodying the audience surrogate found within nearly every horror crowd.

Never once does this character overstay his welcome, adding much needed levity to offset the sheer absurdity of it all.

For all intents and purposes, “Get Out” was born to play to a crowded theater on opening night.

An audience will initially have a blast with Peele’s well-earned frights and uncomfortable laughs, but the true omnipotence of the film lies in its subversive layerings and sinister implications that’ll drill directly into your subconscious the next time you COURTNEY BETHEL / EQUINOX STAFF happen upon someone of a different fort, allowing the off-kilter scenarios to race. Peele makes his message very clear: for the love of god, just think speak for themselves.

He firmly recognizes that we’re con- before you speak. scious of the dangers of racism and Matt Bilodeau can be contacted preys on our keen sensibilities to fill in at mbilodeau@kscquinoxcom the blanks based on the outcomes of current events.

“Get Out” provides a level of unease that rarely lets up, moving at a slower pace than most mainstream horror releases. Peele teases you with the

RATING: B+

In the booth and the band Keene State student Derek Hall expresses music through WKNH and his band JACOB BARRETT

Senior reporter Derek Hall makes a difference for those he works with, whether it be with the music he plays, his radio shows or other shows he puts on.

Hall, a music production major, works as a DJ and production manager for WKNH. His show, “You Should Be Listening to This” often features local bands in the Keene and New England area.

WKNH General Manager and Hall’s co-host on his radio show Nick Busby said that Hall’s charisma and laid-back attitude works well behind the mic.

“Being a DJ is hard and I think Derek does a good job of being calm on the mic,” Busby said.

Hall’s experience as a production major and as a member of the KSC tech crew has allowed him to set up equipment to have those local bands play live through the radio waves, adding another aspect to the show.

“Since [Hall is] a musician and since he’s a music [production] major, he really knows how to work with musicians and work with technology of that sort. So I think being a musician and working at WKNH kind of goes hand-in-hand,” Busby said.

“Things can go wrong all the time and they tend to,” Hall said.

As WKNH’s production manager, Hall is tasked with troubleshooting technical issues that arise at the station.

Busby told of how Hall drove from his home in Massachusetts to Keene over winter break to fix a problem at the station, all while talking him through troubleshooting techniques.

“He really comes in clutch very last minute with things like that,” Busby said.

Hall said he enjoys WKNH because he is able to contribute to something bigger than him.

“I think I like being a part of the bigger picture of everything,” he said.

Hall is a musician himself, playing both guitar and bass guitar. He, along with a few other musicians on campus, make up the band The Beauti-

ful Girls Club, a pop-funk group both Hall and his bandmate Cole Whitehead said has gained some popularity on campus.

“Everything kind of clicked with them pretty quickly,” Hall said.

Whitehead said the band is starting to come into its own. “…We definitely hit our niche where we’re all on the same page and we’re all constantly improving and tightening up our music,” Whitehead said.

Whitehead attributed much of the ground the band has been able to gain on campus to Hall’s ability to make connections to land regular gigs, his knowledge of production and his skill as a bassist. Hall said he is starting to understand and be able to incorporate his knowledge of production to help improve the way the band actually plays.

“I didn’t really make that connection until recently....It’s making a lot more sense to me now,” Hall said.

He said his passion for music production came while playing in high school bands. He said he hopes that The Beautiful Girls Club will be able to put out its first EP by the end of the semester.

Still, Hall said he isn’t expecting to make it big, but really enjoys when people enjoy the music he makes.

“I’m not trying to make this anything huge, but something like that means so much,” Hall said.

As for WKNH, Hall is unsure of what the future holds. Busby said that when the time comes to be replaced as General Manager (GM), Hall would be a good fit for the job.

“I don’t know if he’ll ever do it, but I think he’d make a pretty good GM. He has the drive and the passion to inspire people to become DJs.” Hall said he hopes to work as a live sound technician for venues after he graduates. He said his love for music in general is why he’s pursuing the path he’s on now.

“I love it. I really do,” he said.

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In addition to playing in his band called The Beautiful Girls Club, which is a pop-funk band, Hall also co-hosts a show on WKNH with General Manager Nick Busby called, “You Should Be Listening To This.”

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TIME CAPSULE A look back at the history of Keene State College and the world around us

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Barbie turns 58 this week MARY CURTIN

Ads director March 9, 1959 marked the day that the first mass-produced toy doll with adult features was put on the shelf.

This toy was 11 inches, had sprawling blonde hair and her name was Barbie.

Barbie’s measurements, first displayed at the American Toy Fair in New York City, were 36-18-36 when converted to a real woman’s measurements, which many argued gave young girls an unrealistic idea of body image.

However, a little known fact is that these dolls were originally marketed as a gag gift for adult men in tobacco shops, but the cofounder of Mattel, Inc., Ruth Handler, found that her daughter was more interested in the Barbie dolls than her own paper dolls, according to history.com.

Handler saw this as an opportunity to market to a new demographic, and soon, Barbie became a global icon with a very recognizable body and accessories.

There was another aspect to this doll that was overlooked though.

The 1950s were a time when women had very defined gender

roles, and Barbie sought to show that women could have careers and professions without oppression.

Barbie was a stewardess, doctor, pilot and even an Olympic athlete and offered a new idea for women in America.

However, after 57 years, Barbie got updated, remodeled and Mattel rolled out several new options.

Within the last two years, Mattel, Inc. has released three new Barbie dolls, curvy, petite and tall.

With new ideas and innovations comes criticism and praise, which was no different for the various Barbie dolls.

The dimensions were converted to real life sizes, and the results were not quite reflective of real women, but were at the very least more indicative of the fact that there is more than one body type.

Not only has the body type changed, but there are also more skin tones to reflect the diversity in the world.

While it took many years for Barbie to become reflective of the modern world, the original idea behind the popularity of Barbie was to teach young girls that they could become anything they wanted to be.

But now, Barbie shows young

girls and boys that they don’t have to look a specific way in order to be seen as beautiful or that the way they look exhibits their success.

According to an article on Fortune.com, “Barbie reflects the world girls see around them,” Mattel President and CEO Richard Dickson said in a statement. “Her ability to evolve and grow with the times, while staying true to her spirit, is central to why Barbie is the number one fashion doll in the world.”

Furthermore, Barbie has become for all children, not just girls.

In a commercial directed by fashion company Moschino to break down and eliminate gender norms, a young boy playing with the doll was featured.

While this was intended as an advertisement for the fashion company, it proposed the idea of imagination and creativity in a young child, boy or girl.

According to this same Fortune article, “We believe we have a responsibility to girls and parents to reflect a broader view of beauty,” said Evelyn Mazzocco, senior vice president and global general manager of Barbie.

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“Barbie reflects the world girls see around them. Her ability to evolve and grow with the times, while staying true to her spirit, is central to why Barbie is the number one fashion doll in the world.”

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Forms of communication have evolved since the invention of the telephone MARY CURTIN

Ads director A telephone was once a way to communicate via speaking into one end of the equipment and getting feedback from the other end.

In 2017, a telephone can do everything that once required several different machines in order to complete simple tasks.

On March 7, 1876, the patent for the telephone was issued to Alexander Graham Bell, and three days later, he spoke the first intelligible words through this device.

The first phone call, according to americaslibrary.gov, was a call to Bell’s assistant, Thomas Watson.

Bell called from New York to Chicago and said, “Mr. Watson, come here- I want to see you.”

When typed out, this phone call was a mere 41 characters, a little less than half the length of an average modern day tweet and a little less than the average 50.9 characters per text message according to researchgate.net.

Years after this phone call, 141 to be exact, technology is something that most people in the United States can more often than not get their hands on.

According to a study done by the Pew Research Center, more than three-quarters of people living in America own a smartphone in some capacity.

Bell originally began constructing his idea for the telephone when he opened a school for the deaf in Boston, Massachusetts. While in Boston, he became a professor at Boston University teaching vocal physiology.

In an article by history.com, he “experimented with a means of transmitting several telegraph messages simultaneously over a single wire and also with various devices to help the deaf learn to speak, including a means of graphically recording sound waves.”

In the article, it said that Bell felt since he could graphically record them, he should be able to transmit them telegraphically as well.

This was the very beginning of the use of technology in America and brought forth all that is known in the 21st century.

According to the same study done by the Pew Research Center, seven in 10 Americans use some sort of social media, and even a majority of people over the age of 65 use social media Texting, the use of the internet, phone calls and computers are just few of the many ways people communicate in the modern world.

Mary Curtin can be contacted at mcurtin@kscequinox.com

1965: House Bill 222 to legislate minimum salary for teachers in New Hampshire MARY CURTIN

Ads director 1965 was the year gas was 31 cents per gallon, the soap opera “Days of our Lives” aired for the first time and this was also the year that the bill to have a state salary law for teachers was proposed.

On March 11, 1965 at Keene State College, House Bill 222 was proposed, which was an act to legislate a minimum salary for all teachers in New Hampshire.

This meant that New Hampshire would no longer be one of six states in the United States that did not have a salary law or provision.

Due to the low salary structures, there was a limited number of people who wanted to enter the professional world of teaching.

According to The Monadnock (The Equinox’s former name), John Barrett, a former teacher at Monadnock Regional High School, said part of the purpose of this bill would be to “attract competent young people into teaching profession and provide incentive for teachers to continue to serve in New Hampshire.”

As of January 21, 2016, the average salary for a teacher in the

Keene School District is $54,710 according to New Hampshire Department of Education, Division of Program Support.

As a college, Keene State offers several different disciplines within the major including, elementary education, early childhood education and secondary education.

According to the Keene State College program page, it states that, “Building on the historical legacy of teacher preparation at Keene State College, the Education program mission is to prepare competent, reflective classroom teachers and other professional school personnel who utilize effective teaching practices and who create developmentally appropriate educational environments for diverse learners.”

There are many ties to the beginning of KSC and its education program due to the fact that KSC began as a teacher’s college.

The motto from the beginning of the teacher preparation program that began in 1909 was “Enter to learn, go forth to serve,” and has been the motto of KSC since.

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The arches that lead onto Appian Way from Main Streer read, “Enter to Learn. Go Forth To Serve.”

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Syrian children suffering ‘toxic stress’ ASSOCIATED PRESS

Syrian children show symptoms of “toxic stress” and are attempting self-harm and suicide in response to prolonged exposure to war, according to a report released Tuesday.

Children do not feel safe at school and are developing speech disorders and incontinence, and some are even losing the capacity to speak, it said.

The report from Save the Children comes as the sixth anniversary of the Syrian war approaches and it calls on all sides to prioritize mental health issues before children develop lasting complications they will carry into adulthood.

“After six years of war, we are at a tipping point, after which the impact on children’s formative years and childhood development may be so great that the damage could be permanent and irreversible,” said Marcia Brophy, a mental health adviser for Save the Children in the Middle East. “The risk of a broken generation, lost to trauma and extreme stress, has never been greater.”

Researchers spoke with 450 children, adolescents and adults in seven of Syria’s 14 governorates.

Adults said the main cause of psychological stress is the constant shelling and bombard-

ment that characterize the war.

Schools and hospitals have been regularly targeted, destroying the very institutions that can support traumatized children when they need it most.

According to the report, 80 percent of those interviewed said children have become more aggressive and 71 percent said children increasingly suffer from frequent bedwetting and involuntary urination — “both common symptoms of toxic stress and post-traumatic stress disorder among children.”

The researchers also found that two-thirds of the children had lost a loved one, had their houses bombed or shelled, or suffered war-related injuries.

Save the Children said the survey was the first focusing on the mental health of children still living in Syria. It said that at least 3 million children are estimated to be living in areas with exposure to high explosive weapons and that at least 3 million youngsters under age 6 know nothing but war.

“We are failing children inside Syria, some of whom are being left to cope with harrowing experiences, from witnessing their parents killed in front of them to the horrors of life under siege, without proper support,” Brophy said.

The New York-based Phy-

sicians for Human Rights has said more than 90 percent of attacks on medical facilities in Syria are carried out by progovernment forces. An earlier report by the group said the Syrian government “systematically violated” the principle of medical neutrality by targeting medical facilities and doctors; detaining patients; and arresting, torturing and executing doctors. It said that has caused medical professionals to flee the country.

Some residents know of just one psychiatrist in regions encompassing more than a million people, the Save the Children report said. One in four children said they have no one to talk to or nowhere to go when they are feeling scared, sad or upset.

The symptoms of toxic stress which overlap with those of post-traumatic stress disorder can disrupt the development of the brain and other organs, and trigger mental health disorders and addiction in adulthood, said Alexandra Chen, a child protection and mental health specialist based at Harvard University.

Child soldiers are especially vulnerable to carrying trauma into adulthood. More than half of the adults interviewed by Save the Children said they

knew of children or adolescents who were recruited into armed groups.

The report said combatants must stop using explosives in populated areas, halt attacks on schools and hospitals and stop recruiting children to fight. It also urged the international community to fund mental health and psychological programs for Syria’s children.

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In this picture taken, Feb. 16, 2017, a child looks out from an abandoned petrol station where he and his family now live. The petrol station, badly damaged by war, is now the home of five families who have returned to Tel Abiad district, Raqqa Governorate, Syria, after fleeing from ISIS two years earlier only to find their homes destroyed. A new report by Save the Children says Syrian children are showing symptoms of ‘toxic stress’ from war exposure, and attempting self-harm and suicide

Bank losses pull US stocks further from record highs MARLEY JAY,

AP MArkets Writer U.S. stocks are falling for the second time in three days as banks return some of their recent gains. They surged last week as interest rates quickly rose. Losses for airlines are pulling industrial companies lower and mining and chemical companies are down after China cut its economic growth forecast. Meat producer Tyson Foods is falling after avian flu was discovered at a supplier’s farm.

KEEPING SCORE: The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 6 points, or 0.3 percent, to 2,376 as of 3:15 p.m. Eastern time. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 32 points, or 0.2 percent, to 20,973. The Nasdaq composite lost 18 points, or 0.3 percent, to 5,852. The Russell 2000 index of smaller-company stocks sank 9 points, or 0.7 percent, to 1,384.

All four indexes reached all-time highs last week, and the S&P 500 and Nasdaq have risen for six weeks in a row. That’s on top of a big surge in November and December.

“We think there’s a reasonable chance at the end of the year we’ll be a little bit lower than we are right now,” said Scott Wren, senior global equity strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.

TYSON SKIDS: Poultry companies slumped after 70,000 chickens were destroyed at a farm because of a bird flu outbreak. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said around 30 poultry farms have been quarantined.

The affected farm is a supplier to Tyson Foods, and while Tyson said the discovery won’t harm its business, for investors it brought back bad memories: in 2015, U.S. poultry producers lost 48 million birds to a different strain of the virus.

Tyson stock gave up $1.48, or 2.3 percent, to $62.12.

Sanderson Farms gave up $1.79, or 1.9 percent, to $92.60 and Pilgrim’s Pride lost 29 cents, or 1.4 percent, to $20.66.

DRIVE IT OFF THE LOT: French automaker PSA Group agreed to buy General Motors’ European business, which hasn’t made a profit for GM since 1999.

Investors were glad to see it go, as GM’s stock jumped almost 5 percent when the talks were disclosed last month. PSA makes Peugeot and Citroen cars, and the addition of the Opel and Vauxhall brands will make it the second-largest automaker in Europe. Its stock rose 2.7 percent.

GM’s stock dipped 39 cents, or 1 percent, to $37.84.

BUMPY LANDING: Airlines fell. Delta Air Lines gave a disappointing revenue projection for the second quarter, saying its business isn’t improving as quickly as it expected. Its stock lost $1.39, or 2.8 percent, to $48.74. United Continental and American Airlines each fell about 4 percent.

DEUTSCHE DOWN: Deutsche Bank said it will raise at least $8.5 billion in capital and sell a stake in its asset management business to shore up its finances.

Deutsche Bank has been struggling to make a profit recently and has cut costs and sold some businesses, but

Massachusetts mom and 4 kids, ages 7 to 15, die in fire; dad, child escape AssociAted Press A woman and her four children, ages 7 to 15, were formally identified Monday as the victims of a weekend house fire, and authorities said her husband and another child escaped from the home with nonlife-threatening injuries.

A medical examiner said Lucinda Seago, 42, and the children were killed when flames swept through their single-family home in Warwick early Saturday, according to the office of the Northwestern district attorney. Seago’s husband, Scott, and a fifth child were treated at a hospital.

“There are no words, really, truly,” said Susan James, Lucinda Seago’s younger sister, in a telephone interview Sunday with the Boston Globe. “She was a wonderful mother of five, including a younger child who was autistic. She was a devout Catholic and a darn good person.”

The cause of the blaze is still being investigated, but authorities said initial indications are that it was

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caused by a wood stove in the kitchen and was accidental in nature.

Over a dozen area fire departments helped battle the fire, but crews were hampered by bitterly low temperatures and the challenges of drawing water to battle a blaze in the rural town of fewer than 800 residents, which has no fire hydrants.

Dozens of churchgoers gathered at the Trinitarian Congregational Church in Warwick on Sunday for an emotional service, the Globe reported.

“You can’t live in a little town like Warwick without being moved by the shock, the grief, of it all,” the Rev. Dr. Gordon Ellis said during the service.

until recently, it said it would not issue new stock. The stock fell 77 cents, or 4 percent, to $18.58. It has tumbled 42 percent over the last two years.

CHINESE CONGRESS: Over the weekend Premier Li Keqiang, China’s top economic official, trimmed the country’s growth target to 6.5 percent and warned of dangers from global pressure for trade controls. China is the second-largest economy in the world, and the prospect of slower growth there hurt mining, packaging and chemical companies and sent the price of copper lower.

THE QUOTE: Stocks plunged in early 2016 because investors were afraid about the state of the Chinese economy. But they’re not as worried about that now.

Strategist Wren said Wall Street now thinks growth in China will slow down gradually.

“The market’s pretty comfortable with this controlled slowdown,” he said. “A lot of that sell-off was due to the fear that Chinese growth was ... basically going to collapse,” he said.

ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude lost 13 cents to $53.20 a barrel in New York. Brent crude, used to price international oils, picked up 11 cents to $56.01 a barrel in London. Natural gas companies rose as futures jumped 2.6 percent to $2.90 per 1,000 cubic feet.

BONDS: Bond prices continued to slip. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.49 percent from 2.48 percent. Bond yields jumped last week as investors grew more certain the Federal Reserve will raise inter-

est rates this month.

Shares of companies that pay big dividends, like real estate investment trusts, fell again. Those stocks are often compared to bonds because of their high yields, and higher bond yields make them less appealing to investors.

OTHER ENERGY TRADING: Wholesale gasoline rose 2 cents to $1.67 a gallon and heating oil picked up 1 cent to $1.60 a gallon.

METALS: Gold fell $1 to $1,225.50 an ounce. Silver rose 3 cents to $17.77 an ounce. Copper lost 4 cents, or 1.7 percent, to $2.65 a pound.

CURRENCIES: The dollar inched down to 113.92 yen from 114.05 yen. The euro dipped to $1.0588 from $1.0605.

OVERSEAS: In Germany the DAX fell 0.6 percent.

France’s CAC 40 slipped 0.5 percent and the FTSE 100 in Britain shed 0.3 percent. Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock index fell 0.5 percent and the South Korean Kospi gained 0.1 percent. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng index added 0.2 percent.

Big hurdles face Texas’ ‘bathroom bill’ ahead of first vote PAUL J. WEBER

AssociAted Press A North Carolina-style “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people faces big hurdles in Texas as Republican supporters stood with church leaders and others Monday to ratchet up political pressure ahead of a first vote this week.

Although the Texas bill is likely to sail through a Senate committee as early as Tuesday, the hotly contested measure faces a tough road ahead. It is opposed by corporate titans such as Facebook, Amazon, Google and American Airlines and celebrities such as Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys and Jen-

nifer Lawrence.

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, a supporter of his state’s bathroom law known as HB2, is among those now enlisted to help brighten the outlook of the Texas bill. Republican state Sen. Lois Kolkhorst also newly defended her bill in an op-ed over the weekend titled “Women’s Rights are Human Rights,” borrowing a phrase Hillary Clinton popularized during a famous 1995 speech in China.

But both are confronting a major obstacle in the Texas House, which Republicans control overwhelmingly but has shown no appetite for a law that would require

people to use public bathrooms that correspond with the sex on their birth certificate. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott also has not taken a clear side despite the national attention and backlash generated by the bill.

“North Carolina was the tip of the spear. We will be next,” Texas Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said. He stood with Forest and religious leaders while announcing what he called “Operation 1 Million Voices” to turn out supporters.

Patrick also insisted that he had 19 of 31 votes in the Senate needed in his chamber. One Democrat, Sen. Eddie Lucio, became the first member in his

party Monday to publicly support the bill.

The Texas bill is similar to a North Carolina law that prompted the NCAA to and NBA to move games elsewhere, PayPal to cancel expansion plans and Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam to cancel concerts.

The NBA and NFL have also warned Texas that passing the bill could cause the leagues to overlook the state when choosing sites for All-Star games and Super Bowls. Abbott slammed the NFL over the league’s criticism but has stopped short of coming out in support of the measure.

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Indoor Track & Field ECAC Championship Katelyn Terry

400 Meter Run 58.88

Alyssa Lombardi

1000 Meter Run 3:14.26

4x200 Relay 1:48.44

Katelyn Terry, Lindsey Terry, Nicole DeAlmedia, Brittany Gravallese

Long Jump 6.69 meters

Jared Hannon Upcoming Games

Men’s Basketball Friday, March 3 vs. Christopher Newport

Men’s Baseball Friday, March 10 vs. Gordon

Women’s Lacrosse Friday, March 10 @ Wheaton

Softball Saturday, March 11 vs. Western New England

Localvore Lunch Thursday, March 23rd featuring…

Local Ingredients, Chinese Flair, Returning Favorites and some New Additions Asian Beef Wrap

Tortilla stuffed with strips of Steak, mixed with Bell Peppers and Bok Choy sautéed in Hoisin and Plum Sauces with Asian Slaw on the side

Clam Fritters

Served on Mesclun Greens with Tartar Sauce and Lemon Wedges

Local Pepperoni Pizza

With Mozzarella and Fire Roasted Tomatoes

Turkey BLT Biggie

Local Turkey, Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato with Mayonnaise

Teriyaki Chicken Salad Flatbread

Bacon Cheeseburgers

Baby Back Rib Plate

Ancho Chicken Lettuce Bites

Teriyaki Chicken, Snow Peas, Red and Green Bell Peppers, Napa Cabbage, and Pineapple on Flatbread drizzled with Asian Sesame Soy Dressing

Baby Back Ribs, Baked Beans, and Corn Bread Muffins with Butter & Honey

Apple Walnut Dessert Pizza

Granny Smith Apples with Local Mascarpone Cheese

Maple Chiffon Spice Cupcakes With Cream Cheese Icing

4oz Patties, Lettuce, Onions, Bacon, Cheddar, Special Sauce on a Bun with fresh hand-cut French Fries, of course.

Chili-seasoned Chicken Breast served in Boston Bibb Lettuce with Cucumber, Red Pepper, Red Onion, Jicama, Cilantro and Pumpkin Seeds.

Bruschetta Snowshoe Pizza

With Local Tomatoes, Basil and Fresh Mozzarella

Apples!

Apple Cider and fresh local Apples

In the spirit of cooperation with our local arts community at the Redfern Arts Center and the Office of Sustainability, the cast from Thursday evening’s performance of the Wakka Wakka production of Made in China will join us for Localvore Lunch. This darkly comic and outrageously funny puppet musical illustrates issues of globalization, consumerism and sustainability, as well as questions of greed, modernization and their projected realities through their performance. Tickets to Thursday’s performance at the RAC are still available! ($25/$12/$5 students)

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Women’s lacrosse kick-starts the season ALEXANDRIA SAURMAN

attempted two shots on goal. KSC senior Kelly Chadnick was the first to score, with an assist by first-year Gabby Smith. Less than three minutes later, a foul was called on the Owls, leading to a free posiMIT tion shot and goal for the Engineer’s first-year Rayna The Keene State College women’s lacrosse team Higuchi.

By halftime, the Owls had managed to score started off their season with a 24-16 loss against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Engi- eight goals, attempting 14. The Engineers attempted neers. The game was played at MIT on Wednesday, 20 goals and made 14.

The Owls also had 23 fouls by the end of the first March 1.

Within the first five minutes, both teams half, while the Engineers only had 10. The Owls

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started off the second half with a goal in the first minute from sophomore Chelsea Lewis.

Five shots were attempted by the Engineers before the sixth one went in. The free position shot was made by sophomore Emily Young.

After that, 17 more fouls came for the Owls, giving them a game total of 46 fouls. The Engineers had 19 fouls. The Owls managed to score eight times in the second half, while the Engineers scored 11.

The last goal of the game came from Chadnick.

The game ended with a score of 24-14.

Lewis was the highest scoring player for the Owls, making seven of her nine shots on goal. Lewis also had five draw controls and two turnovers during the game.

Junior Taylor Farland was the second highest scoring player for the Owls. She had seven shots on goal, scoring four of them. With four draw controls and five turnovers, Farland also had two assists.

Alexandria Saurman can be contacted at asaurman@kscequinox.com

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Roger Williams The Keene State College Owls’ women’s lacrosse team took on their second game of the season against the Roger Williams University (RWU) Hawks. After originally being postponed, the game took place at WRU’s field on Sunday, March 5.

The game started off with possession and an attempt ongoal from the Hawks. After the Owls gained possession of the ball seven separate times, KSC sophomore Chelsea Lewis scored the first goal. The goal was a free position shot.

The second shot of the game came three minutes later from RWU sophomore Emily Stoeppel.

The Hawks managed to score four more goals, all made by RWU junior Kaelin Hogan.

By halftime, the Hawks had 21 fouls, while the Owls only had 13. In addition, the Hawks had 12 shots on goal and five saves in goal. The Owls had 10 shots on goal and four saves.

Although the Hawks started with the ball, the Owls made the first goal of the second half

within the first two minutes. The score was 5-2, in favor of the Hawks.

Less than one minute later, the Hawks responded to the Owls’ goal, attempting and making a goal of their own. Stoeppel made the free position shot, bringing her game total to two goals.

As the game continued, the Owls scored two more shots before the Hawks scored again.

KSC seniors Kelly Chadnick and Chelsea Lewis both scored goals, respectively. Junior Tori Weinstock assisted Chadnick on the goal.

The Hawks scored five more times throughout the game; the Owls scored four additional goals.

The game ended with a score of 11-8, with the Hawks winning the game.

Three out of the Owls’ eight goals came from Chadnick, who also managed to have four shots on goal. Junior Taylor Farland also had four shots on goal. Farland and Lewis both made two goals during the game.

Alexandria Saurman can be contacted at asaurman@kscequinox.com TIM SMITH/ PHOTO EDITOR

File photo from the 2016 women’s lacrosse season.

Never too late to step foot on the field

Non-traditional student takes the opportunity to play with the men’s lacrosse team DOROTHY ENGLAND

nEws Editor Some people run late for everything.

Curt Serafini admits he is one of these people and as a 27-year-old senior at Keene State College, he’s not lying. The Massachusetts native said he had some troubles at his first college of choice, Western New England University (WNE). “It’s more of an engineering and business school and I wanted to major in English,” Serafini said. “Honestly, I went there because their lacrosse team was in the top 10 division three rankings.”

This was 2008. Serafini had just graduated from high-school and was starting a new adventure at WNE, but it soon wasn’t working out for him, especially since the broad-shouldered, six foot two athlete started experiencing some back pains, that put his academics on hold. “I injured my back and blew out the last three or four vertebrae in my lower back region,” he said.

He had back surgery in 2009.

Serafini then stayed at WNE for another year because his parents felt the school was too expensive for him to withdraw from. The following year, Serafini was able to be on the school’s lacrosse team again

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and things were looking up. That is, until the team lost their conference game.

“I didn’t feel like it was worth it then,” Serafini said. So the athlete hung up his backpack and took a year and a half off from college.

“I traveled, visited friends at their schools. I did some construction work for my dad,” he said of the time off. However, something was missing.

“I did play recreational lacrosse and hockey, but it wasn’t the same.

When you leave college, there’s nowhere to play,” he said. “That’s why I came back.”

Why Keene State College?

Serafini said there were multiple factors for why he choose Keene State. He admitted he was relieved to leave WNE. “I felt like it wasn’t a good fit,” he said. He explained that the coach there was tougher than normal too. “He would make us do sprints or flip monster trucks at 8 a.m. if we had gotten caught partying or doing something that looked bad on the team.”

Serafini said he also had a bunch of friends who played lacrosse at KSC and after he was reached out to by an old friend and former goalie

Alec Corliss to look into playing at the college, he decided fill out an application. This was in 2012.

“I was just sick of doing nothing,” he said. Serafini said coming back to school, especially one his parents liked better, was the best choice he had made in a while.

“When I first picked colleges, I was so young and naive. I just thought about lacrosse and my naivety just lead me to a bad school,” he said. “I didn’t think about anything besides lacrosse and now I know there is much more. There are some people who [say] sports revolves around them, but for me, I finally felt ready for more.” He said he knew he was wasting his parents money when he first went to college. “You have to go at your own pace and go to class because you want to. I finally had that yearning to go back,” he said.

However, it was not all easy cradling. Many of Serafini’s credits from WNE didn’t transfer to Keene State because they were three-credit classes verses KSC’s four-credit requirement.

Dorothy England can be contacted at dengland@kscequinox.com

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of exercise on s t c e the f e br e ai T n MARY CURTIN

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While exercise may be good for the heart, the most complex organ in our body benefits from it as well.

The brain is made up of billions of cells called neurons, which are all in charge of the way the body thinks, feels and acts.

According to Harvard Medical School, “Many studies have suggested that the parts of the brain that control thinking and memory (the prefrontal cortex and medial temporal cortex) have greater volume in people who exercise versus people who don’t.”

Not only do exercise and eating wellimprove overall mental health, academic achievement is also linked to a healthy lifestyle.

While there have been many studies on academic achievement and physical health for school-aged children, these numbers do not necessarily reflect that of a college-aged student, and fewer studies have been done on this age group.

One study of school-aged children by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) found that more participation in physical educat ion classes corre-

lated with higher standardized test scores and better classroom behavior along with higher academic achievement.

Coordinator of Wellness Education at Keene State College (KSC) Tiffany Mathews said, “There is a correlation between physical health and mental wellness and the dimensions of wellness and how we should look at students holistically. We realize they are not just a reporter, they’re not just a student; they’re comprised of all of these different pieces of themselves.”

It is recommended that people get at least 30 minutes of exercise on average each day, which can sometimes seem to be a daunting task.

Dr. Jeffrey Timmer, associate professor of human performance and movement sciences at KSC, said he believes that exercise is often undervalued when it comes to mental health.

“I think that more psychologists are starting to prescribe exercise, and I think there have been some recent studies that exercise can have just as good of an effect as medication for depression and because the longer you can stay off of medication, the better,” Timmer said.

Exercise has an effect on the brain and the physical well-being that is difficult to replicate anywhere else.

One common chemical that is released during exercise is endorphins, and this gives a feeling of euphoria or a certain so-called “runner’s high” that makes people feel good after or during exercise and/or physical activity.

“In response to exercise, your body has to make a lot of changes to either continue that exercise or progress, and, more importantly, your body wants to progress, and that’s from head to toe and in addition, you have other things that are released during exercise like endorphins, but they give what some people call a

euphoric e f f e c t ,” Timmer said.

For college students, it can sometimes be difficult to find the time and the balance to live the healthy lifestyle that they want to.

However, Timmer said he feels that people, including students, need to set obtainable goals and not hit hurdles too big, which could cause them not to see the success in their efforts when they may try to do too much at once.

Senior exercise science major Brooke Bennett said, “Exercise is the one way that I can take my mind off of everything and just focus on my workout and clear my head for a while.”

While there is much research out in the world about these specifics, there is a growing plethora of studies that still need to be conducted and completed.

Timmer said, “We want to think we know everything [about exercise], but we don’t; it’s a difficult thing to figure out, but we do know the effects and how it works.”

Some students feel that by studying within this field, they can share what they enjoy about their healthy lifestyles with others.

Bennett said, “Exercising helps me a lot, so it’s cool being able to pass on what I know to other people.”

Mary Curtin can be contacted at mcuurtin@kscequinox.com

“Exercise can have just as good of an effect as medication for depression, and because the longer you can stay off of medication, the better.”

DR. JEFFREY TIMMER ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HUMAN PERFORMANCE AND MOVEMENT SCIENCES

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layup made it a one-point game. Rochester converted two free throws for a three-point lead, but D’Annolfo added one more for the Owls. The Yellowjackets scored six unanswered points to gain a 21-14 lead with five minutes to go before the half. Keene State had two free throws to cut the lead to five. Purcell hit a three from beyond the arc to bring the Owls within two. Rochester continued to extend their lead to six, before the Owls could score back-to-back layups, making it 25-23. The Yellowjackets ended the half with a jumper to make it 27-23, Rochester, D’Annolfo sank two free throws to shorten the gap to two in the begin-

ning of the third. Rochester responded quickly with a 9-0 run. Purcell stopped the run with a three, but the Yellowjackets were able to maintain their lead as the Owls went into the final quarter 49-38, Rochester. Rochester kept sending the ball to the basket as they hit two, extending their lead to 15. A layup from Petrow, a three from Purcell and a layup from D’Annolfo brought the Owls within eight, but they would not come any closer. Rochester extended their lead in the final minutes. The Owls fell 67-55.

The Owls hit the first basket of the second quarter and D’Annolfo’s layup made it a one-point game. Rochester converted two free throws for a threepoint lead, but D’Annolfo added one more for the Owls. The Yellowjackets scored six unanswered points to gain a 21-14 lead with five minutes to go before the half. Keene State had two free throws to cut the lead to five.

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Purcell hit a three from beyond the team finished out their historic season arc to bring the Owls within two. Roch- 21-8, all while caputuring their first ever ester continued to extend their lead to Little East Conference title. six before the Owls could score back-toback layups, making it 25-23. The YelShelby Iava can be contacted at lowjackets ended the half with a jumper siava@kscequinox.com to make it 27-23, Rochester. D’Annolfo sank two free throws to shorten the gap to two in the beginning of the third.

Rochester responded quickly with a 9-0 run. Purcell stopped the run with a three, but the Yellowjackets were able to maintain their lead, as the Owls went into the final quarter 49-38, Rochester.

Rochester kept sending the ball to the basket as they hit two, extending their lead to 15.

A layup from Petrow, a three from Purcell and a layup from D’Annolfo brought the Owls within eight, but SHELBY IAVA/ SPORTS EDITOR would not come any closer. Rochester extended their lead in the final minutes. The Keene State women’s Basketball team fell to the The Owls fell 67-55.

The Keene State women’s basketball University of Rochester 55-67, ending their season.

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The dilemma of being a fan and a photographer LUKE STERGIOU

senior PhotogrAPher For as long as I can remember, I have always been a fan of soccer. I would go out of my way to watch soccer or watch literally any game that was on TV. About the time when I started high school, I started getting serious about photography.

The first thing I started photographing was soccer. It was one of the few things I loved most in life and my friends wanted pictures of them playing soccer. I have love for both soccer and photography, but very early on, I realized that I would struggle with one peculiar aspect: How do I enjoy watching the game, but also take pictures at the same time?

When I first dealt with this, I was unsure of how to handle it. I wanted to celebrate when the team scored or yell in disgust when a wrong call was made.

I had to resist every urge in my body to jump up and celebrate whenever the team scored.

Instead, I just had to sit there and capture these moments. As I started to photograph more, I realized I could turn this struggle and dilemma into something positive.

I realized that I could celebrate and photograph these moments at the same time. My celebrations were captured in the photos I took.

My photos were my celebrations and my varying emotions throughout the game.

The inner fan in me was being brought to life through the medium of photography. The only struggle I deal with now is what end of the field to be on and whether or not I got the shot.

My friend and fellow photographer James Wichert knows this dilemma all too well.

When asked about this dilemma, he said, “The hardest choice of every game is deciding which end you want to shoot at.”

Wichert also added, “The rational part of you wants to go where all the action is, but your inner fan wants to just shoot ‘your team,’ the team that may not be the best,

but you want to capture their moments.” Trey Madara, another friend and fellow photographer who has shot several games for the Philadelphia Union of the Major League Soccer and the United States National teams added, “It definitely makes you impartial to who you shoot.

For example, I barely shot any of the England team during that game.

Same thing for the Copa America Matches.

I spent more time photographing Chile because I had liked them a bit more than the other squads.” James and I have shot several games together and this is all too familiar.

When an incredible goal happens right in front of your eyes, you want jump up in joy and cheer your heart out with your friend.

But instead, we have to get the shot and celebrate after. It’s a weird feeling celebrating after everyone else is done celebrating, but most of the energy from the celebration goes into getting that perfect shot.

On Saturday, March 4, I had the incredible opportunity to shoot the United States Women’s National Soccer Team at Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey.

This dilemma was well and truly present, as I had watched the women’s team play at the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Montreal back in June of 2015.

But being so close to some of my favorite players this time was so surreal. As much as I wanted to get autographs and pictures with the players, I had to remain professional, but being able to photograph these players in action was all I needed to remind myself that this is my celebration.

Despite the U.S. losing in the 90th minute and having to stand in frigid temperatures for about six hours, my inner fanboy reminded me that this dilemma should be celebrated, not dwelled upon.

Luke Stergiou can be contacted at lstergiou@ kscequinoxcom

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Second straight Sweet 16

Nine-yearold record broken at ECAC SHELBY IAVA

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From left to right: Seniors Matthew Ozzella, Lucas Hammel, Ty Nichols, Jaquel Edwards and Jeffrey Lunn led the Owls to the Sweet 16 and will play Friday, March 10 against No. 2 Christopher Newport University at Babson College.

KSC men’s basketball team advances to the Sweet 16 in a rematch against Christopher Newport University SHELBY IAVA

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Round I With two and half seconds left on the clock, Ty Nichols sank a three-point shot and the Owls advanced to the next round of the NCAA tournament.

Amherst College’s Jayde Dawson missed a 10-foot shot, but KSC’s Matthew Ozzella grabbed the board and found Nichols.

Nichols dribbled it the length of the court before hitting the three just as time ran out. Nichols had 19 points, four rebounds, three assists and three steals. Ozzella had 20 points and 16 rebounds, while Jeffrey Lunn had 13 points and seven rebounds.

Both teams went back and forth throughout the entire game, and no team had a lead greater than six.

Lucas Hammel took a pair of free throws, giving the Owls the upper hand, 11-9. Amherst took over in the end of the first half, scoring nine straight points, giving them the lead 25-22. They also made consecutive threes, pulling away from the Owls, 35-31.

KSC’s Jake Collagan found the ball and hit a quick three, putting them on top of Amherst, 32-31. With seven seconds left in

the first half, Amherst hit the net, giving them a two-point advantage, but Nichols knocked in a three just before the sound of the buzzer went off, 35-33, KSC. Amherst came out strong in the second half going on an 8-2 run, giving them the lead, 41-37.

Amherst continued to bring it and sank another three, increasing the lead 48-44 with 12:15 remaining. Nichols converted another three-point play on the Owls’ next possession. Every chance Amherst had to pull away, the Owls were trailing right behind them. Two layups from Amherst gave them a four-point advantage over Keene State, but Ozzella hit five straight points, including a three with 7:26 left in the game, tying it at 56. Ozzella scored again to grab the lead with 5:49 left on the clock.

The two teams continued to shoot back and forth baskets in the last five minutes of the game. Amherst tied the game at 61 with a three-point shot. They continued to excel with a dunk and a free throw, giving them a 64-61 lead. KSC responded right back, gaining a free throw from Ozzella and two more from Hammel to tie the score up yet again. Amherst’s jumper and then two more from Hammel tied the score gain at 66. With just seconds before the buzzer, Nichols’

three would end the game and move them on in the tournament.

The Owls played the following day, March 4, against Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Round II Collagan hit a three-point shot with 45 seconds left to go on the clock, as Keene State College’s men’s basketball team upset Ramapo College and continued on to the Sweet 16.

With three starters fouling out, the Owls survived Ramapo College and continued on to the Sweet 16 for the second year in a row and the fourth time in school history.

Nichols scored a careerhigh of 32 points, with seven rebounds, seven assists and three steals. Ozzella added 22 points and 12 boards. Jaquel Edwards had 16 points and Jimmy Layman came off the bench with eight rebounds.

Ramapo came out of the first half strong, having an 8-0 lead.

Keene State quickly reacted with an 18-2 run.

A pair of free throws from Ozzella continued to lead the Owls 18-12 with 13:32 left in the half. Ramapo responded just as quick, outscoring the Owls 16-6.

Ramapo continued their shots and took a 37-32 lead at the half.

Ramapo continued to increase their lead, pulling away from the Owls. With back-to-back baskets and a pair of free throws, Ramapo was up 51-40 with 14:27 left on the clock. Layman sank a three, igniting the Owls.

Edwards hit a three-pointer of his own, and Ozzella converted a three-point play before hitting a three of his own as well. With less than three minutes to go in the game, the Owls cut the lead to just one. Edwards pushed the Owls into overtime with a layup that fell through the net with just .02 seconds left on the clock.

An extra five minutes was added to the clock for overtime.

Ramapo opened up with two three-point shots, giving them the lead, 91-89, just before Nichols and Collagan ended the game.

Nichols fed the ball to Collagan as he sank his second field goal of the game with 45.6 seconds left in OT. Ramapo missed two shots in the last 30 seconds, while Nichols grabbed the final rebound of the game.

Keene State will match up against the No. 2 Christopher Newport University Friday, March 10 at Babson College.

Shelby Iava can be contacted at siava@kscequinox.com

A nine-year-old Keene State record was broken when Nicole De Almeida, Brittany Gravallese, Katelyn and Lindsey Terry crossed the finish line of the 4x200 relay at the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC). The foursome’s time on Ithaca’s flat track was 1:48:44, which converts to 1:46.79 on a banked track using the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) standard distance conversion between indoor flat and banked tracks.

The original time in 2008 was previously set by a 4x220 yard relay team in a time of 1:48.07 on Harvard’s banked 220 yard oval, which is equivalent to a 4x200 meter relay time of 1:47.45 on a banked track.

All seven of the Owls who competed at the ECAC earned All-ECAC honors in individual and/or relay events. K. Terry finished off her indoor season in the 400 meter dash, finishing in seventh place with a time of 58.88 and received AllECAC honors. She was also named the Little East Conference (LEC) Women’s Indoor Track Athlete of the Year after her performance from her indoor season.

Alyssa Lombardi ran her final 1,000 meter run. She finished with a time of 3:14.26, landing her in 17th place overall. Sophomore Jared Hannon earned a personal best in the long jump with 6.69 meters and took eighth place. His jump also earned him All-ECAC honors.

Returning to the track, in a different order, L. Terry, De Almeida, Gravallese and K. Terry ran the fastest flattrack 4x400m of the season at 4:01.06.

They earned third place overall and All-ECAC accolades.

For their last race, L. Terry and K. Terry teamed up with Lombardi and first-year Lynne Hebert in the 4x800 meter relay. They recorded a season-best time of 9:46.31, placing them in sixth with All-ECAC honors.

Shelby Iava can be contacted at siava@kscequinox.com

Knocked out Women’s basketball fell in first round of NCAA tournament SHELBY IAVA

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Jake Collagan brings the ball to the hoop on Friday, March 3 against Amherst College. The Owls took the 69-66 win in the final seconds of the game, advancing them to the next round.

The Keene State College women’s basketball team fell to the University of Rochester, 67-55, in the first round of the NCAA Division III Tournament. Sandi Purcell led the Owls with 21 points, four rebounds, two assists and two steals. Stephanie D’Annolfo had her eighth double-double of the season with 24 points and 16 rebounds, which tied her career-high. She also had four assists and three blocks. Amanda Petrow added six points and 11 rebounds.

The Owls came out of the first quarter strong with a 5-0 lead, 5:02 remaining on the clock off a three from Purcell and a basket from Petrow. Rochester responded with a 10-5 lead after they converted a three-point play with just three minutes left on the clock. In the remaining 1:35, Lydia Vital grabbed the rebound and ran the ball down the court, sending the ball to Emily McPadden and sank a three to tie the game at 10.

The Owls hit the first basket of the second quarter. D’Annolfo’s

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