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Thursday, April 5, 2018

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located Mason Library expands Funds for senior class hoods JESSICA RICARD

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Cohen family donates for HGS department growth RACHEL VITELLO

equiNox staff The founder of the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the late Charles Hildebrandt, said that the Cohen Center’s purpose is “to remember and to teach” for the sake of a world wounded by the Holocaust. It is to continue in that effort that the Cohen Center and the Holocaust and Genocide Studies (HGS) Department are expanding their territory on the Keene State College campus in the coming months by building an addition to the Cohen Center in the Mason Library.

The addition is possible due to a donation made by Rick and Jan Cohen, whom the Cohen Center is named after.

The donation amount, however, is confidential.

Cohen Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies Dr. James Waller said, “The addition was a legacy gift from Rick and Jan Cohen to ensure that our department, and the Cohen Center, had the physical facilities that would allow our joint programs to continue to grow and flourish at KSC. The HGS program here remains the only one of its kind in the U.S..”

KSC Interim President Melinda Treadwell also said of the Cohens, “They have been long friends of the Cohen Center and long friends of Keene State.”

According to Director of the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Dr. Hank Knight, a committee

has been working on this addition for about 18 months or possibly longer.

The addition will serve to provide more space for both the Cohen Center and the HGS department. This will include a gallery, offices and conference space for the Center. The HGS department will also have a 60-student tiered lecture hall and a smaller seminar/conference room on the second floor of the addition.

Dr. Knight said, “The new facilities will allow for greater collaboration and coordination for the Cohen Center and HGS. It will provide a more public face to both programs and help them be more visibly accessible for students, visitors and other members of the campus and surrounding communities.”

The new addition will also allow for a variety of programs to be hosted by the Cohen Center and the HGS department.

A series of events is being planned on the theme, “36 and Counting,” since the Cohen Center will be celebrating it’s 36th anniversary of it’s presence on the KSC campus in 2019. The number 36 is also significant in the Jewish faith. In Jewish legend, there is a story about 36 individuals, ‘Lamed Vavniks,’ in Hebrew, whose bravery and faith ensures the survival of the world.

Dr. Knight said of the programs, “What they will have in common is the theme that individuals, groups and larger communities all have a stake in building the kinds

of communities that welcome others, respect differences and promote dignity and respect…”

This series of events will kick-off with the Annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture this September. The lecturer this year will be Debórah Dwork, the Rose professor of Holocaust History at Clark University.

Since the addition is being built onto the Mason Library, some disruption in the building can be expected during the construction process.

Dean of Mason Library Celia Rabinowitz said, “We expect some noise and disruption as the addition is built, so we will probably need to move some furniture around and then see how things look once the building is done.

We’ll also work with the builders to restrict access to areas in the library, if that becomes necessary.”

However, Rabinowitz said the library is happy to continue sharing space with the Cohen Center and the HGS department. “We are very proud to share our spaces and to support the Center and the department, and we’re really looking forward to a long and productive time working together,” said Rabinowitz.

The addition to the Cohen Center is expected to be complete by Jan. 2019.

Rachel Vitello can be contacted at rvitello@kscequinox.com

While it was unknown whether the Class of 2018 would be receiving commencement hoods as part of their undergraduate regalia this year due to tradition and budget restraints, it’s now official. Seniors picked up their caps, gowns and hoods at last week’s Commencement Fair in the student center.

KSC is the only college in the University System of New Hampshire (USNH) to include hoods in the graduate regalia. In a previous article by The Equinox titled, “Graduation tradition may come to an end,” KSC Coordinator of College Ceremonies and Events Rebecca Dixon said there had been conversations about getting rid of the hoods this year in order to bring KSC more in line with our sister institutions. The University of New Hampshire and Plymouth State University students don’t wear hoods at their events.

However, in a meeting with the senior class executive board, KSC President Melinda Treadwell said she discovered a large portion of the senior class was sad at the thought of not receiving them at graduation, and this prompted Treadwell to search for the money to fund them for this year’s class. In conversations with Vice President for Finance and Administration Susan LaPanne, Treadwell said she was able to reduce her personal budget and “tighten up” a few other things to make getting the hoods possible.

The total cost of regalia is $35,000, and the cost of hoods totalled about $23,000, according to Treadwell. After a discount from the KSC bookstore, Barnes & Noble, the cost was $15,000 for the hoods.

“I’m so grateful for the senior class being honest with me, the [executive] board, about the fact that there was probably half the class that was feeling really tragically sad about this. There hadn’t been a conversation about why we do this and why we wouldn’t, so we need time for that and it’s worth me doing everything I can to make sure we give the time for that conversation before we change a major tradition,” Treadwell said.

The senior class offered to push back leftover money from their account at the end of the academic year, if they have any, to contribute to the costs, Treadwell said.

Jessica Ricard can be contacted at jricard@kscequinox.com

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Officers seeking help in college’s ongoing vandalism investigation SEBASTIEN MEHEGAN

executive editor Campus Safety officers have opened an investigation in response to instances of criminal mischief spanning back through February.

Security footage Campus Safety reviewed from Feb. 17 showed three participants in the act of spray painting, or tagging, graffiti on the bridge that crosses the Ashuelot River and connects the Keene State College campus to the Winchester Street parking lot.

Director of Campus Safety and Compliance Jeff Maher said this is not the only instance where they have found similar evidence of criminal mischief. “What is happening is there is an individual, or individuals, who have tagged a number of locations around campus with graffiti, specifically with the acronym or symbol of ‘SIN,’” Maher said.

In addition to the evidence Campus Safety has compiled, Maher said he is requesting that members of the community speak up about anything they may know in relation to

these instances to further help the efforts of the investigation. “To that end,” Maher said, “Campus Safety does receive information from a variety of sources. Certainly, somebody is welcome to call us at 603-358-2228 and provide information. However, they can also do so anonymously through the silent witness form, and basically all you need to do is go to the keene.edu website, search for silent witness and that’ll bring you straight to the form.”

Maher added the campus’ beauty is a significant attribute for the community and one the KSC Grounds crew works very hard to maintain. “…So it is troubling to see these acts of mischief occurring in our community,” Maher said. “Not only does that detract from our environment here, but it’s also a significant expense to remove that graffiti. It’s a significant expense in time and resources to bring this campus back to the standard that we like to see.”

Sebastien Mehegan can be contacted at smehegan@kscequinox.com

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Behind the scenes EcoReps in the process of planning spring Solarfest KATHERINE GLOSSER

Equinox Staff It can be easy to take the environment for granted. The Earth is full of many natural resources that give life to all living beings. In a technologically-oriented society, it is easy to forget where our roots began. Every April, people take it as an opportunity to not only celebrate the Earth, but raise awareness on how a person can impact the planet, whether positively or negatively. Earth Day is approaching, and so is Keene State College’s Solarfest. For 23 years, Solarfest has welcomed bands on campus, as well as provided activities and tables where people can get educated about the environment. With the amount of resources it takes to power a stage and band equipment, it can often be ecologically unfriendly. KSC Campus Ecology Vice President Erik Labieniec said this is why Solarfest is powered by two solar panel

trailers.

Labieniec said Solarfest was once more music-focused than environmentally-focused. “In previous years, I think before a lot of the members that are on this eboard were on it, Solarfest focused a lot on music and just being a cool music festival,” Labieniec said. “I felt that it was problematic, so we tried to roll that back and say, ‘How can we make this about environmentalism again? How can we gear this more towards making people environmentally conscious instead of having a good time at a music festival?’”

According to Labieniec, there will be larger bands from the east coast and more activities, vendors, and t-shirts to sell, as well as some surprises. One of the activities is tie-dying t-shirts with organic-fruit based dyes.

KSC WKNH Events Coordinator Coraline Seksinsky said there will also be henna, face-painting and possibly a dog parade. Some of the bands playing

this year are pop-punk band Weakened Friends, rapper Pink Navel, headliner psych-rock band Sun Parade, alternativeindie band Jelani Sei and headliner lo-fi band LVL UP. Seksinsky said not only is Solarfest important for ecological awareness, it is also important for musicians who don’t get many opportunities to rise.

“I think it’s important because it gives the student body a real good and direct link to bands that are up-and-coming bands that might not have the means,” she said.

KSC first-year Camden Merritt is a part of the Fair Trade Club, which will be holding an activity called cornhole, a game where a participant throws bean bags in two boards with holes in them.

Merritt said she is interested in going because of the positive things she has heard about the event. “My club that I’m involved in, Fair Trade, we’re doing something for that. I just heard it’s really fun and I love to go and see what it is,” Merritt said.

KSC Audio Technician Collin Coviello, who is helping with setting up the bands and stage, said he finds Solarfest to be fun and sustainable. “It’s a lot of fun. There’s a lot of different kinds of musicians there, a lot of different kinds of people because we’re all united under the tradition of Earth Day and the tradition of celebrating the natural world and our efforts to help it at Keene State College,” he said. “No matter what kind of social group you’re in, you are impacted by environmental change, like with the air quality and all that stuff. It’s fun to come under a group of like-minded individuals that just all love making music and love the planet.”

Solarfest will be held on April 21 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Oya Hill.

Katherine Glosser can be contacted at kglosser@kscequinox.com

Passport Caravan gives away 50 free student passports

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In conjunction with the Council for International Educational Exchange, the KSC Global Education Office (GEO) gave away 50 passports to students who have never owned one before on March 28 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Flag Room of the L.P. Young Student Center. The opportunity to receive a passport was sent out in an email to all KSC students, and all applications were received in less than 24 hours. Recipients were chosen based on eligibility, such as never having had a passport, not being a graduating senior and financial need.

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Students express concerns over changing KSC passwords every six months VINCENT MOORE

Equinox Staff One of the many experiences that all Keene State College faculty, staff and students share is being forced to change their KSC NetID password every six months.

On Sunday, April 1, the Information Technology (IT) Group HelpDesk sent out an email reminding some KSC users that they have 14 days to change their NetID passwords in order to avoid their accounts from getting locked.

The body of the email gave a list of instructions on how to go about changing the NetID password, along with the reminder that the password is needed to “access technology resources at KSC, UNH, PSU, and/or GSC.” The “NetID and Passwords” webpage on the IT Group’s website states, “The

IT Group requires faculty/staff and students create a new, complex password every six months,” and lists their criteria for passwords, such as being between eight and 16 characters in length and only containing alphanumeric characters. The webpage also gives advice on how to create easy-to-remember complex passwords.

Junior secondary English education major Brandon Patten said he only changes his NetID password because the policy forces him to, but isn’t bothered by it. “Honestly, I think it’s fine what they’re doing. It could be a little bit annoying, but it only takes a few days to get used to the password. The only thing I find annoying is if you don’t change it in time, then you’re locked out of your account.”

Second-year business major Evan McGregor said he was impacted negatively by the policy in the past.

“Last year I got locked out. I went like a week without having access to my email and I didn’t know that I had to change it and that’s why, it’s one of those things you don’t need to do,” McGregor said.

McGregor isn’t sold on the necessity of a mandatory biannual password change either.

“I feel like my email would never be directly compromised. I feel like I can get the spam emails, but I never worry about my email getting exposed, absolutely.”

Second-year occupational safety and health major Hunter Richardson also said the policy is unnecessary. “Honestly, I see it as pretty much a waste of time. I don’t think it’s necessary to be changing passwords all the time like this.”

First-year sustainable product design and innovation major Mark Torselli said he would prefer if the policy was voluntary. “I’d rather them just let you change

it if you want to change it and that’s it.

If you feel like you have something you want to secure, you can change your password if you want to, but I’d rather they didn’t make you.”

McGregor also suggested a voluntary policy. Maybe just advise people to change it instead. You might have more people change their password if you don’t tell people to change it. It might be easier too,” McGregor said.

Despite multiple attempts over the past seven days to contact Laura Seraichick or Elisse Morrissette at IT, neither were available for comment. The Equinox did receive a response from Seraichick at press time indicating she couldn’t “accommodate a request on short notice.”

Seraichick did say she would be willing to respond for next week’s edition.

Vincent Moore can be contacted at vmoore@kscequinox.com

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Cold War Part II: Tensions between the U.S. and Russia grow TAYLOR BEAVEN

Equinox Staff Tensions between the United States and Russia have been growing at a faster rate these past few weeks, and it’s for a number of reasons. However, there are two major ones: Syria and the 2016 U.S. presidential election (which many have seen in the news), but why? More importantly, why should you care?

Here’s the thing, you should care. The Cold War is the closest the world has ever been to complete destruction, and with bigger bombs, faster deliveries and a lot of grudges, it looks like the U.S. may get even closer this time.

On top of that, Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election will have a large impact on how the U.S. will conduct elections, as well as put more funding towards the Cyber-Security Sector.

Let’s start with Syria and discuss what exactly is going on and why we are worrying about a country almost 7,000 miles away.

Starting with protests against the Assad Regime, the Syrian civil war grabbed immediate attention from terrorist organizations. Ex-Al-Qaeda members fled from Iraq and began recruiting people in the war-torn country of Syria. From the ashes of Syria and the Middle East rose the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS).

Later on, the nation took the international spotlight for a long period of time when the Assad Regime used chemical weapons against rebel groups and civilians. Russia joined the conflict in mid-2015 to back the Assad Regime, which is where some of the tensions between the U.S. and the rival began to blossom once again.

Because the U.S. was supplying and eventually training rebels who were fighting against the Assad Regime, tensions rose significantly. The U.S. and Russia agreed not conflict with one another directly, however, Russian mercenaries were killed by U.S. soldier just a few months ago, according to Axios. com.

Having to tiptoe in Syria has been especially difficult with Russia’s involvement. Having Turkey (a U.S. ally and station for NATO nuclear weapons under U.S. control, according to armscontrol.org) on the brink of collapse has only added to the problem.

The cherry on top is the Kurds--a local ethnic group having fought for their independence for a long time--who have announced their departure from assisting the U.S. and are now fighting against Turkey in the Eastern half of Turkey.

The Kurds played a large role in helping the United States combat Al-Qaeda in the mid 2000s, and while this situation, akin to another Vietnam, may seem like the biggest issue, the bigger problem actually lies in the Mueller Probe.

The 2016 presidential election had an outcome very few expected, and it may have been because of the interference of Russia.

The question at this point isn’t, “Did Russia meddle in the election?” Instead, it’s, “Who helped them, and how did they do it?” Robert Mueller was placed at the head of an investigation by the Department of Justice.

The probe is looking into Russia’s meddling with the election and their connections to the Trump campaign and administration. Unfortunately for our President, it’s not looking good.

There’s no way to avoid it; Robert Mueller’s investigation is getting closer and closer to Donald Trump.

In the past 11 months since his appointment, Robert Mueller has charged 19 people and three companies with more than 100 charges, according to The New York Times. Robert Mueller is a former FBI director placed at the head of the investigation into Russian meddling in the election, as well as Donald Trump’s campaign collaborating with them.

The Department of Justice chose him because of his long history of investigative experience, and he is respected on both sides of the aisle and known for his thorough and unbiased research practices, according to CNN. The investigation started in May of 2017, reported The New York Times, and has been slowly picking up more and more steam as Mueller and his team indicts 13 Russian diplomats for election meddling, as well as charging, arresting, and subpoenaing numerous people.

On top of that, three companies have been charged in the case as well. President Trump recently announced the expulsion of 60 Russian Diplomats who are believed to be spies or have meddled with the 2016 Presidential Election.

In response, Russia expelled 60 U.S. diplomats from their country and is closing the U.S. Consulate.

There is a lot more going on between the United States and Russia, but even by just looking at these two events, it’s easy to say that things aren’t friendly between them.

Moreover they’re getting worse and quickly, that is. Only time will tell how the Trump Administration plans to combat both Mueller’s investigation and Russia’s growing opposition.

With each week passing by, it seems as if the United States is pushing further and further away from the rest of the world, and the air between it all is getting colder.

Taylor Beaven can be contacted at tbeaven@kscequinox.com

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New Owls flock to KSC Trinity Nay takes on two Student Center staff roles RACHEL VITELLO

equinox staff There was a personnel change recently in the Lloyd P. Young Student Center at Keene State College. Trinity Nay has become the new Coordinator of Evening Operations in the building. Nay also works as the Technology Coordinator for events in the student center.

Nay began this position after moving here from San Francisco at the end of January. Her positions in the student center require evening and weekend facility and event management, hiring, training, supporting the student technology crew members and the operation and maintenance of audiovisual equipment.

Nay said, “My primary focus is making sure that all of our events go off without a hitch. I’m here not only to sort of support the student staff, but also to support any visitors that are coming in as well.”

As for why Nay was chosen for this position, as opposed to other applicants, Director of Campus Life at KSC Jennifer Ferrell, said, “I needed to fill this position with someone who could hit the ground running and jump into a variety of situations and manage differing expectations...

I knew that she would be able to transition into the technical portions of the role quickly, which is challenging during the middle of the academic year.”

Nay will also eventually be taking over Ferrell’s role of supervising building managers in the student center.

“I’m currently asking Trinity to focus on tech needs, and we’ll transition supervision of building managers from my oversight to her after this semester,” Ferrell said.

KSC junior and communications major Derek Hall works alongside Nay on the tech crew. He said Nay has been helpful in making operations in the student center run more practically and efficiently. “She’s very enthusiastic to figure out all of these issues. She comes from more of a studio background, but she’s using that knowledge to help us revamp everything and figure out new ways and more efficient ways to run things, which is really great,” Hall said.

Hall said that one of the main things Nay and the tech crew have been working on this semester is reworking and updating the technical setups in the student center, including redoing the tech setup of the Night Owl Café.

An event that Nay has helped put on in the student center since her time in this role includes the college’s Admitted Students’ Day. Nay said that she had the opportunity to switch up the way the event has traditionally been put on. “They revamped the way they wanted to do it, and we actually got to do some lighting effects for it.

Students got up and danced on the stage, and I think it got some of the incoming freshmen really excited,” Nay said.

Nay said that juggling the needs of both her positions within the student center is not too complicated because “they so often are one in the same.” She also said that her favorite part of this job is “teaching students stuff they weren’t aware of before, sort of connecting the dots where maybe they know how to do it, but they don’t necessarily know why... filling in those blanks.”

Rachel Vitello can be contacted at rvitello@kscequinox.com

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My primary focus is making sure that all of our events go off without a hitch. I’m here not only to sort of support the student staff, but also to support any visitors that are coming in as well.”

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New position created: Vice President for Finance and Administration JESSICA RICARD

news editor While Keene State College has waved goodbye to some staff members after February’s buyouts, a few new Owls have flocked to campus too. The newest Owl, Vice President of Finance and Administration Susan LaPanne, has been here less than one month, but is determined to make her mark at KSC. With initial aspirations of being an English literature professor, LaPanne studied English literature and psychology as an undergraduate student at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. However, after a year of graduate school at the University of Rhode Island, she went back to Mount Holyoke and discovered her, then unknown, niche in accounting and finance.

She was encouraged to take an accounting class and, after just a few days, said she was hooked. “From that point on, that was just it.” And thinking back to her undergraduate involvement, LaPanne said she recalled always being the treasurer of each group she’s been involved in, more so solidifying that the path she was about to take made sense for her.

“You don’t even notice your own patterns. You’re so immersed in the detail of your life that you don’t see the patterns, and sometimes, it takes somebody [else] who looks at it,” she said.

This paved the way for LaPanne, and she then went on to obtain a master’s degree in accounting from the University of Rhode Island and a doctorate from Capella University.

While she didn’t necessarily anticipate pursuing an accounting degree, she attributed her liberal arts background as well-preparing her

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executive editor On April 3 at 6:30 p.m. Keene State College’s Student Assembly was called to order.

The club Campus Ecology, which is co-organizing Solar Fest 2018, requested a transfer of funds amounting to $2500 from their Travel account to their Supplies account to prepare for the solar fest. The request was made by the club’s president and the treasurer

for whatever she wanted to do. In part due to her liberal arts education, LaPanne said, “I’m not only numbers, I’m also words.”

Following graduation, she took a job as a budget manager at a hospital, and, at the same time, started her own bookkeeping business in effort to learn everything there was to know about a business’ accounting work.

As someone who’s spent a life in accounting, she said she considers herself a translator, one that speaks a numerical “business” language.

“We speak a business language that attempts to make all businesses comparable,” she said. “Money is that language. It may not be pretty and it may not appeal to our sensibilities, but that’s the way it is.”

LaPanne also taught at Bristol Community College until later being asked to apply and work at the Commission of Higher Education in Rhode Island, which she did for about 10 years.

However, when it came down to it, LaPanne said she yearned to be back on a college campus. “There’s a lot of clutter and confusion and noise and excitement, and when you’re in a system office and not on a campus, it’s quiet, it’s really quiet, and I missed it.”

After doing a national job search, LaPanne stumbled upon KSC and said the dedication of everybody she met and the strong sense of community is what drew her here. LaPanne received three job offers, including KSC, but said she knew this was the place she wanted to be.

“I didn’t think twice about it, and it was the warmth of everybody that I met that made me say, ‘You know what? This is the kind of place I’ve always wanted to be in.’ It’s liberal arts, it’s a small institution, it’s a public institution,” she said, “it was basically a no-brainer.”

As far as her responsibilities go, she manages all general accounting at KSC. Additionally, she oversees Institutional Research, Informa-

tion Technology and Plant Services. “That keeps me tied to the student experiences in a different kind of way because it lets me be involved with the physical facility that all [students] experience and that’s really important,” she said. “The grounds are meticulously maintained, and lovingly maintained, and that shows through.”

Director of KSC’s Physical Plant Frank Mazzola participated in the interview process with LaPanne and said she will fit in wonderfully at KSC. “A combination of Susan’s experience and her passion to join a community committed to student success and opportunity was extremely compelling. She is experienced, visionary and committed to Keene State’s core mission. She will be an exceptional addition to the Keene State team.”

Additionally, KSC President Melinda Treadwell said LaPanne has an “incredible vision and commitment to community.” “She is driven by wanting to be a part of helping a campus like ours become not only financially stable,” she said, “she’s incredible.”

While she’s only been at KSC for a few weeks, LaPanne said she sees the Keene community “thriving.”

“My favorite part is that everybody collectively loves this place so much that the enthusiasm ignites when they start talking about it… It’s a tiny little place that does great things and that’s thinking great things for its future, and to the one, I have not met an employee here, not anybody, who is other than that and I love that.”

Jessica Ricard can be contacted at jricard@kscequinox.com

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of the organization. The club now has $820, which is not enough. The organization’s request was approved unanimously.

The Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Club requested for additional funds to fully recover the expenses of bringing Dr. Annamaria Orla-Bukowska to Keene State College. The club is currently about $230 under budget of total expenses. The club is paying Dr. Orla-Bukowska $1000 for speaking, around $215 for her housing in a hotel, and $232 for reimbursing her travel fees. The club is now requesting extra $170 to put on a pre-finals pizza study session. The club requested for a total of $400 which was

approved unanimously.

Co-chair of the Events Commitee Kennedy Cadieux The student assembly requested for transfer- confirmed that all the money will be used for Carniring funds of total $11,420 from the Potential Fund- val, an event which will take place on April 26. ing account; an account whose purpose is to hold money for potential budget changes to be requested

by KSC organizations. These funds were requested to Puja Thapa can be contacted at be placed in the organization’s contingency account, pthapa@kscequinox.com which an emergency account set aside for one-time funding requests.

Sebastien Mehegan can be reached at The student government requested $11,420 from smehegan@kscequinox.com the contingency account for the upcoming Carnival event, which was approved unanimously. On being asked if the total amount will be used for the event,

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LAURA ROMANIELLO / ART DIRECTOR

What students can expect from a liberal arts education “Enter to learn, go forth to serve.” This Margaret Sanger quote is engraved on each side of the Keene State College archways at the end of Appian Way. These words are KSC’s motto for a reason; the students who enter through the arches of the college come here to learn and go forth to serve their community when they graduate. KSC is a college that provides its students with a liberal arts education. But what does being liberal mean to KSC? According to the official website, “liberal implies a broad range of knowledge that covers time-honored skills that are applicable to many disciplines and have been proven to be valuable throughout the course of one’s lifetime, as well as deep expertise in a chosen field or fields.”

Through this interdisciplinary approach of education, KSC students are exposed to courses outside of their immediate area of study. This approach to education is beneficial for students who do not exactly know what they want to study when they come to KSC. For

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an undecided student, a liberal/interdisciplinary path is the best to embark down when it comes to an education. By filling the Integrative Studies Program (ISP) requirements at KSC, students will “develop an understanding of and an appreciation for (and may even develop a passion for) a number of social issues, including diversity, ethics, global issues, and the interplay of the environment and society” according to the KSC website.

While keeping an open mind about ISP courses, students should also ensure that they are getting the most out of their education experience. If the college is facing financial setbacks, students take the brunt of it.

This means there is less faculty available to teach specific courses for certain majors and that leads to less classes offered for students to enroll in. While some buildings are full of equipment for students in their respective areas of study, other buildings, such as the Redfern Arts Center, are in need of some renovations.

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If a liberal arts education provides students with exposure to all areas of study, then all areas of study should be treated equally. It is not fair for some students to have access to thousands of dollars of equipment while other students have to pay thousands of dollars out of their own pockets for supplies they need for their classes. If students are required to take classes in other fields of study, then the college should be required to spend equal amounts of money on each department.

A liberal arts education might not be the best fit for every student, though. It might be a good idea for a student who does not know what kind of path they want to go down to attend a liberal arts school. By going to a school where they are exposed to different subjects, they are also checking off requirements for ISP courses.

But, for a student who has a set plan and career path, a liberal education may not be the best fit. For example, a student who wants to pursue a degree in engineering and knows that this is the major for them will most

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likely attend a school that specializes in that area over a liberal arts institution. That student might find that the ISP courses are slowing down their education process because they are required to take classes that have nothing to do with their field.

On the other hand, some students know what they want to do but do not want to be tied down to one specific field. By attending a liberal arts college, they are able to study in their major as well as gain exposure and insight to other subjects. They are also free to change their mind about their major if they come in thinking they want to do one thing and then realize, after taking an ISP, that they love another subject. No matter what decision a student makes for where they attend school and receive an education, the education opportunities presented to everyone should be equal. KSC needs to ensure that their students are provided with the same opportunities, no matter what career they decide to pursue.

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Student reacts to protest

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On March 24, 2018, members of Keene State College and the Keene community attended the March For Our Lives event in Central Square to advocate for gun control and protest guns on campuses.

Reflecting on the March For Our Lives event in Keene IZZY MANZO

Equinox Staff On March 24, I was able to attend what’s being called one of the largest youth protests in U.S. history since the Vietnam War according to Associated Press: March For Our Lives.

While I wasn’t able to attend the march in Washington, D.C., I went to Keene’s event, which also saw a massive turnout. It was so surreal to see hundreds of people in the community united against gun violence and demanding change because it was almost starting to feel like we as a country had become desensitized and compliant.

Gun reform seemed to come and go in cycles – a mass shooting would happen and national outrage would follow, as it should, but it would slowly die down after a couple of weeks.

I was starting to feel a little hopeless, so I can only

hope that all of this action will amount to actual change.

I understand that gun control legislation is not a simple process by any means, but I feel like people fail to remember that the Second Amendment was written in a time when a gun fired about one bullet per minute.

I understand that people want to keep their guns, but there isn’t really a good reason for someone to own an AR-15, and if someone wants it that bad, it shouldn’t be easy to get one. It needs to be a process; getting a driver’s license shouldn’t be more time-consuming than getting a gun.

The March For Our Lives website states that they’re working towards goals such as universal background checks, high-capacity magazine bans and assault weapon bans. According to ABC News, on the day of the marches, Florida Senator Marco Rubio said that “many other Americans do not support a gun ban,” and “view banning guns as an infringement on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens that ultimately will

not prevent these tragedies.” He’s just proving my point by showing that he doesn’t get it. Those who marched in Keene or D.C. or anywhere else aren’t calling for a ban on all guns; we just want to go to school, the movies, the club and the airport and not have to worry about getting shot at.

Other solutions just won’t work at this point, and I personally don’t think that metal detectors or arming teachers or security guards will prevent a whole lot. It’s awful that we even have to think of these as possible solutions in the first place, but banning assault weapons is really the only rational choice we have left.

I honestly have a lot of faith in this movement because those who organized it are our future. The woman who organized Keene’s march, Hannah Landry, goes to Keene High School, and it’s incredible to see her and so many other millennials make such a statement and get so much traction. Every sibling march was student-led, and there were more than 800 on March 24

according to CNN. The D.C. march alone had 800,000 people in attendance, surpassing the Women’s March that drew 440,000 people to the capital. It’s so incredible to know that students were the backbone of the event.

I’ve never felt this hopeful that reform could actually happen. It previously seemed a nice thought that was out of reach, but I feel like it’s never been this close to becoming reality before. We’re finally speaking up and letting the world know that we have a voice and won’t stop until we can get the change we need.

People who are opposed to us have every right to fear us because we’ve gotten the ball rolling again.

Silence is no longer an option, and we will do everything in our power to make it happen. When there are millions of voices from people who are fed up and are demanding change, nothing can stop them.

Izzy Manzo can be contacted at imanzo@kscequinox.com

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Liberal vs. traditional

Post the logic not the heat

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The only difference between them is the title CHLOE GIARRAPUTO

opinionS Editor A question many Keene State College students might have been asked at least once in their college career is, “What are you going to do with a degree from a liberal arts school?”

While students may not have an answer for this question right off the bat, it is important to reassure them that degrees from liberal arts colleges are not worth any less than a degree from a more standard university.

According to KSC’s official website, “Keene State believes in the value of a liberal arts education — that the best way we can prepare you for the future is to teach you to think critically and creatively, to communicate effectively, and to experience the connections between the different branches of knowledge.” The reason KSC requires their students to take courses not in their specific field of study is to “...develop the skills you need to be proficient in your major, but you’ll also understand how those skills are connected by studying the arts and the sciences.

That way, if the specific skills you learn, or the career you’ve prepared for, become replaced by something new down the road, you’ll have the flexibility and creativity to adapt

to a changing world.” While it may be frustrating at first to have a mandatory requirement of math and science when you’re an art major, or visa versa, taking these courses can be beneficial in the long run.

The Hechinger Report is a website that covers education issues and reports on “new levels of quality, clarity, depth and breadth, to explain why education policy matters and how it’s affecting young people,” according to their website. On this site, there is an article written by Marvin Krislov titled, “The enduring relevance of a liberal arts education.” In this article, Krislov discusses the “relevance, cost and value of a college education,” specifically a liberal arts education.

In this article, Krislov said, “The mission of most liberal-arts colleges is to educate the whole person rather than training graduates to succeed at specific jobs that employers may be seeking to fill at a certain point in time.”

This is exactly the goal of KSC and other liberal arts colleges across the nation. By requiring students to take courses across fields of study that differ from their own, students are exposed to new information, thinking and approaching knowledge.

According to niche.com, “The main difference between liberal arts college majors and

university majors is that liberal arts schools generally offer one expansive area of study, whereas at universities, the same major may be broken into two or more degree tracks.”

Students at a liberal arts college can obtain the same level of knowledge as students at a traditional university with different schools of study. While universities are more specific and broken down, liberal arts schools simply cover a wider area of disciplines. According to dictionary.com, the word interdisciplinary means “combining or involving two or more academic disciplines or fields of study.”

Students attending liberal arts schools will receive an interdisciplinary education, which I think is very beneficial.

Do not let comments about liberal arts degrees being worth less than another university discourage you. Liberal arts degrees are just as effective as “traditional” education from other universities. An interdisciplinary education, in the long run, will expose you to different opportunities and new ways of thinking you might not have received at a non-liberal arts institution.

Chloe Giarraputo can be contacted at cgiarraputo@kscequinox.com

KALILA BROOKS

Equinox Staff Social media platforms like Facebook can be very useful, informative and entertaining. I can scroll through my feed and see recent news stories, memes, pictures of my young cousins and posts about all my friends’ thoughts on national issues.

I love being able to use Instagram and Facebook to keep in touch with my relatives across the country, but some posts are better left unseen – or unposted.

I know many people with extremely strong political views. For example, I’m close friends with a New Hampshire State Representative, who, as his job requires, is very knowledgeable and passionate about politics. He’s a very conservative Republican and has many opinions, many of which I respectfully disagree with.

I have post notifications turned on for him because I don’t want to miss any pictures of his adorable grandchildren, but that means I also don’t miss any of his statements about gun control, transgender rights and marijuana legalization.

When I see such things on Facebook, I remind myself that a public platform is not the place to argue with people I care about.

Unfortunately, not everyone shares that sentiment.

Although I try not to contribute to heated online political debates, it’s all too easy to fall into the rabbit-hole of reading comment threads.

Some posts have comments that are sweet and supportive, but in the realm of politics, that’s often not the case.

A while ago, my politician friend posted something criticizing the #enough movement, a post I read, cringed at and opted to scroll past – then

a comment caught my eye.

Someone had claimed that the shooting in Parkland, Fla. hadn’t actually happened and that it was just a publicity stunt staged by the far left to promote their liberal agenda.

Naturally, I wasn’t too enthused about that statement and neither were the people who responded to him.

I watched as reply after reply popped up. Some of them agreed with the original commenter, some vehemently tearing apart his claim, often resorting to insults in favor of open discussion.

Comment threads like that make me lose a little respect for humanity. That particular one made me so disappointed and disgusted that I uninstalled Facebook from my phone for quite some time.

Political beliefs aside, the reality is that children and teens are dying in a place where they should never have to be concerned about their safety. I have young siblings in school. I plan to be a teacher one day. I want my sisters, brothers and future students to live.

I don’t pretend to know how to make that happen. I’m willing to discuss my thoughts with others and am open to hearing about theirs. Personally, I don’t think a public platform is the place to do that. If someone wants to have a reasonable, respectful discussion on Facebook, so be it, but a heated argument riddled with unfounded accusations and ad hominem attacks? Never.

Social media, like many things in life, is defined by how people use it. It can be an easy way for people to stay caught up with what their loved ones are doing or it can be a place where people get in angry debates and destroy relationships.

It can’t be both.

Kalila Brooks can be contacted at kbrooks@kscequinox.com

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Discussions at the Thorne

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On Thursday, March 29, audiences gathered at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery at Keene State College to listen to artists in residence, Denise Dumas and Randall Merchant give presentations. Dumas worked on video, sculptures and illustration projects during her residency at the Thorne. Merchant is working on creating a large sculpture project to dedicate to his late teacher, KSC professor Robert S. Neuman. The sculpture will also be a public statement on political and social engagement. The artists also discussed concepts, process, challenges and the feeling of satisfaction associated with the creation of large pieces. After the presentation, there was a behind the scenes look at their works in process.

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Peter Roos discusses his work with figure drawing ERIN MCNEMAR

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On Tuesday, March 27, Associate Professor of Art Peter Roos gave a discussion on the large gallery installation of his figure drawings in the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery.

Roos attended Syracuse University as an architecture major, but switched to art after taking his first college class: figure drawing. Roos has been working as a figure artist since 1975.

“The human figure is one of the most complex forms to draw and, yet, is also the most familiar and expressive,” Roos explained. “Drawing the human figure has been a time-honored tradition in an artist’s education.”

His work on display will be the last faculty exhibit at Keene State College because of his upcoming retirement. The exhibits display his figure drawings over the span of 27 years, beginning in 1990. His drawings showcase a wide span of styles, as well as methods, such as pencil, pen, brush and ink and watercolor. However, his art shown currently in the Thorne is only a fraction of his portfolio.

Through his figure drawings over the span of his career, Roos pointed out the progress of his art by saying, “As you change, the things you find important change.”

Down the road, Roos claimed, he has ideas for painting. “Drawings are the start of an idea,” Roos said.

He plans to spend more time creating his own work, after teaching for years. Roos also said he hopes to rediscover himself as an artist.

“I’ve been teaching figure drawing and painting since I started at KSC. But, no matter how many times one draws from the figure, there is always more to learn,” Roos said.

‘Norsemen’

RACHEL BLUMBERG

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Associate Professor Peter Roos showcased his work in figure art in his final faculty exhibit on Tuesday, March 27.

WRIGHT cont. From A8 degree where she started to explore chamber music.

Dr. Wright’s-Ivanova’s performance on Wednesday night was mainly pieces of collaboration, which she explains as, “The art of playing with other people and the art of accompanying other people. What we call collaborate piano.”

To finish her music education career, Dr. Wright-Ivanova graduated with her doctorate degree from Austin, Texas. She then moved to Boston to teach, then to Las Vegas and now she is settled in Keene, NH. At Keene State College, she teaches music classes, mentors students, and performs with students, staff and musicians.

Dr. Wright-Ivanova said that preforming is very important. “There is nothing more important than getting your music out there; both as a composer and an artist,” she said.

As she started performing more professionally, she began to feel that playing the piano was a way to express herself and the music style she was interpreting. Dr. Wright-Ivanova has experience playing with many types of professionals and styles, like the ones she brought to the performance Wednesday night.

In the first part of the recital, Dr. Wright-Ivanova was joined by Andrea Segar playing the violin. Dr. Wright-Ivanova said she asked Segar to perform in her recital because they formerly studied together in Boston. Segar is part of the Lydian String Quartet, and also performed in the second half of the recital.

Following Segar, Dr. Wright-Ivanova began to perform with vocalist Megan Roth.

Dr. Wright-Ivanova played the piano while collaborating with Mezzo-soprano singer Roth, who sang in the first part of the recital. Both musicians alongside each other on this piece showed passion and emotion for the story being told. This dramatic German piece called Frauenliebe und Leben by Robert Schumann is full of love and loss. It follows a woman who meets the man of her dreams, but then he passes on, which makes the woman very heartbroken because one of her greatest loves is now gone, Roth explained.

“It goes through her whole life of loving him, getting married, having a child, then he dies, so presumably her life is over,” Roth said.

The second part of Dr. Wright-Ivanova’s recital included a performance by two violinists, a violist, and cellist that make up the Lydian String Quartet. Along with Segar playing first violin, Joshua Goron plays the cello, Judith Eissenberg, one of the founding members of the Lydian String Quartet, plays the second violin, and Mark Berger plays the viola. Mark Berger

Ever wonder what would happen if Monty Python and Game of Thrones came together? The latest Netflix original series “Norsemen” takes all that is good within both of those series and creates a show full of hilarious, dry English humor within a medieval village.

The comedy, written and directed by Jon Iver Helgaker and Jonas Torgersen, combines the ancient and brutal struggle for survival with present day concerns as it follows Orm and his newlyawarded position as Chieftain.

Orm is in no place to lead, constantly running from his own shadow and repressing his homosexuality, while his wife goes on raids to pillage and plunder.

The first episode begins with a classic establishing shot of a grand Viking ship on the high seas. We then come in closer and see the faces of all the men and vikings on the ship, including Rufus, an English man kidnapped and made a slave, as he lets out a loud and sarcastic yawn.

He then expresses his disappointment with the fact that his former cultural status means nothing to the Vikings and that he’s being treated in such a poor way.

This conversation between him and the head vikings immediately draws the viewer into the satirical comedy that is “Norsemen.”

We then are introduced to Orm as he comes down to the boat to see how the raid went, but gets the cold

shoulder from everyone on the boat, including his wife. Everyone in the village hates him because he’s an explicit know-it-all. Yet, when his brother dies, or rather is killed by Orm, Orm takes his place to leads the village. From this, he orders his village to surrender their weapons and turns Norheim into an art installation, leaving the people full of culture, but without defense.

The concept of this Norwegian series is much like Monty Python and the Holy Grail, where it combines the humor of everyday life with one of the darkest periods of the past. The satirical manner of the show stems from wanting to tell the tale of vikings, but to give them the modern day concerns. For example, the chieftain doesn’t want to be too rough with his slaves because he worries that a fear-driven leadership doesn’t entirely suit him. There are raids and murders, but almost every character delivers his lines in a deadpan and almost apologetic manner.

Initially, I felt the idea was smart, but couldn’t be something that could fill six 30-minute episodes; surprisingly, there is. The season wraps perfectly and leaves it open for possibility of a second season, which, after seeing the first season in its entirety, I hope there is. And we’re in luck; the Norwegian version of the show, “Vikingane” has been shot, so it’s only a matter of time before season two of Norsemen hits Netflix as well.

Rachel Blumberg can be contacted at rblumberg@kscequinox.com

Poems by Isabel they write that love is meant to be golden stringed harps sweet molasses coating your throat ripe peaches and candy floss floating around the metaphors of your mind. but i know it to be red sky in the morning thunder claps with your toes in the water and kneeling on sand. i think of this love and i cry. i cry for the girls who taste like me who see the world through rose tinted glasses even when the world has told them they sky is grey and the stars are just painted on. i cry for the girls who are phoenixes among feathers, who still write about life the way they teach you to write about love KIANA WRIGHT / EQUINOX STAFF

Christina Wright-Ivanova has experience playing many styles of music professionally.

said, “The quartet was actually formed in 1980 at Brandeis University. We are all professors of the practice… so we do a lot of teaching at the school as well as play at concerts and tours.”

Berger said the Quartet usually performs classical music, like at the recital, but they are very open to trying new styles of music. The Lydian String Quartet performance with Dr. Wright brought the faculty recital to an end.

Laurel Mendelsohn, a vocal performance student at KSC, attended Dr. Wright-Ivanova’s recital and said, “I think [the recital was] phe-

nomenal. Dr. Wright-Ivanova is an amazing collaborator and pianist.” Dr. Wright-Ivanova is Mendelsohn’s collaborative pianist for her voice lessons as well as her mentor. Mendelsohn said she is inspired by the pieces that were performed. “I am so blow away by the music, it’s gorgeous, and it’s what I want to be able to create as a musician myself in the future. I work to try to be more like the people I see on stage.”

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

Kiana Wright can be contacted at kwright@kscequinox.com

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The concert experience ERIN MCNEMAR

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The Andrew’s Inn Oral History Project will be on display from March 19 to April 13. The Inn was a LBGTQ friendly community space in Bellows Falls, VT in the 1970s.

Andrew’s Inn oral history tells the stories of the past ERIN MCNEMAR

Arts & EntErtAinmEnt Editor ANGELIQUE INCHIERCA

Photo Editor In small towns, such as Bellows Falls, VT, community is an important concept.

On Wednesday, March 28, the Mason Library held an opening reception for the oral history project, Andrew’s Inn. From 1973-1984, Andrew’s Inn functioned as a LGBTQ friendly disco, bar, hotel and restaurant.

The inn was not only used as a safe space for those in the LGBTQ community, but also as a location for political activists and fellow citizens to meet.

The oral history project began about three years ago, when Green Mountain Crossroads, the Vermont Performance lab and Marlborough College, decided to collaborate after hearing stories about Andrew’s Inn. Program Support Assistant for LGBTQ Students, Hunter Kirschner organized the

project to come to the Mason Library “to showcase the stories and the history that are not too far away from what we have now,” he said.

Kirschner was also motivated to have the project shown at Keene State College because of the proximity of the former meeting hub, as well as the impactfulness of oral history.

Unlike a typical gallery, oral history involves the first-hand accounts of those involved with specific events.

Throughout the gallery, attendants had the opportunity to take out their phones and listen to the stories told by the people that had been to Andrew’s Inn. “In this age, we’re all kind of creators of media in different ways. The internet is an amazing place to create media in ways that, historically, you won’t be able to because of access,” Kirschner explained.

The Executive Director of Green Mountain Crossroads, HB Lozito expressed the importance of providing these first-hand accounts. “I think the most powerful part is being able to hear people’s stories in their

own words,” Lozito said.

Senior and Vice President of KSC Pride, Alexandra Hess attended the event after hearing about it from Kirschner. Hess explained that she had in interest in the presentation due to the proximity of Andrew’s Inn to the college. “I think it’s kind of exciting to see more local history because I know so much about things that are nationwide, or at least only in big cities, but I had no idea that Andrew’s Inn even existed and that it was only like an hour away from here,” Hess said.

Fellow senior and KSC Pride President Sam Whitaker also attended the opening reception for the oral history project. Displayed around the gallery were photographs and newspaper articles about the inn, which Whitaker found to be an interesting way to look at the history. “I thought it was great.

The photos are like windows into these happy moments that I almost feel weird to be stepping into but also really excited,” Whitaker continued. “And the newspaper clippings are really interesting because I always

just like looking at the news of the past and seeing what they were caring and talking about. Also, just seeing the specific articles that were being pulled out and seeing a lot of the conflicts and struggles that were happening then are still happening today in a lot of ways.”

While the project has been presented at several locations for a little less than a year, Lozito said Green Mountain Crossroads isn’t done yet. The group is still continuing to gather stories from people who have visited Andrew’s Inn. “I’m really excited to keep talking to people and recording new material,” Lozito said. They added,“It’s nice to feel like we’re not alone and we aren’t the first people going through this.”

The gallery will be up in the Mason Library from March 19-April 13.

Erin McNemar can be contacted at emcnemar@kscequinox.com Angelique Inchierca can be contacted at ainchierca @kscequinox.com

Christina Wright-Ivanova’s musical journey KIANA WRIGHT

Equinox stAff What do you make of two violinists, a violist, cellist, mezzo-soprano vocalist and a pianist? How about Christina Wright-Ivanova’s faculty recital.

Dr. Wright-Ivanova presented her first faculty show on Wednesday, March 28 starting at 7:30 p.m..

She performed on piano with Lydian String Quartet, violinist Andrea Segar and then separately with mezzo-soprano vocalist, Megan Roth, who sang a German music piece during the first part of the performance. In the second half of the show, Dr. WrightIvanova played the piano accompanying the Lydian String Quartet. Traditional and classical styles were very pronounced within the performances throughout the show.

Dr. Wright-Ivanova came to Keene State College last fall as an assistant professor of music and the coordinator of piano/collaborative piano. She came to KSC to teach as well as perform professionally with students and other musicians.

Dr. Wright-Ivanova started taking piano lessons when she was four and a half years old. Once she turned 12, she and her family moved from Guernsey, an island in the English channel, to Vancouver, Canada.

Within those next few years she began to realize piano was what she wanted to do on a more serious note. “I think at about 13, 14 I really knew I wanted to have piano be a major part of my life,” Dr. WrightIvanova said. Dr. Wright-Ivanova stayed in Canada to get her undergraduate degree in solo piano. After graduating, she moved to Boston to get her master’s SEE WRIGHT, A7

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Christina Wright-Ivanova performed in her faculty recital on Wednesday, March 28 in the Redfern Arts Center.

The lights go out. The crowd livens. You begin to hear the introduction to one of your favorite songs.

As the you see the group’s members begin to walk out on the stage, your heart races with excitement.

Nothing compares to this feeling.

Over the years, I have gone to more concerts than I can count.

From Foo Fighters to Panic! at the Disco, I have seen a wide range of artists in a wide range of venues.

For some, it may seem pointless to stand in a crowded group of people for approximately three hours and listen to music that you could listen to for free online.

However, I don’t see it that way.

When you pay to go to a concert, not only are you paying for the music, but you are paying for the experiences; they’re experiences that will build memories that will last forever.

My favorite band of all time is a pop-punk group called The Wonder Years. I first discovered them at the beginning of my first year of high school.

Walking from one class to another, I would put my headphones in and listen to the band’s album, “The Greatest Generation” on repeat.

In December of that year, I found out the The Wonder Years were going on tour. Immediately, I bought a ticket and began counting down the days until I got to see them.

The night before, I was so excited I could hardly sleep. After school the next day, I headed to the show.

I still remember every detail about the venue. The stairs that ascended to the main floor, the balcony over head. As more people piled into the building, the less people seemed to care about personal space. Standing shoulder to shoulder with complete strangers, I felt my heart almost stop when I heard the first three chords of one of my personal favorite songs, “There, There.”

Suddenly, the hot stickiness of the people standing way too close to me didn’t bother me anymore.

I was just beyond happy to be there. However, nothing compared to when they began to play my favorite song.

After listening to the band for, at that point, six months, one song in particular stuck with me. “The Devil in My Bloodstream” instantly became my favorite song by The Wonder Years, and one of my favorite songs of all time.

When I heard the opening lines of the song, I immediately began crying.

I felt such a connection with every person in that venue as I looked around to see other people crying too. As the song played on, the audience swayed along to the smooth melody, and everyone started to jump once the song picked up into the group’s signature rock style.

I saw crowd surfers coming from every direction and leading towards the stage as if they were bugs being drawn to light. I wanted to be part of it, and before I knew it, I was.

Being carried towards the stage as my favorite song played was unlike anything I have ever experienced.

Looking around at everyone enjoying the music and sharing a common love is extraordinary, and that’s what concerts create – an atmosphere where all kinds of people can be brought together on a common ground, music.

It doesn’t matter your race, gender, sexual orientation, anything.

And that’s what going to a concert provides you with that just listening to the album can’t – a sense of unity.

Erin McNemar can be contacted at emcnemar@kscequinox.com

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2018 research fellowships COLBY DUDAL

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Shown above are two students, Ashley Rolend(left) and Haley Kean(right), who have been awarded a summer research grant.

Two Keene State College students will soon have their creative work displayed to both the college and the community.

Sophomore Ashley Rollend and junior Haley Kean have been awarded the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), which gives a number of students a grant that goes towards research in a student’s specific field.

History Professor Nicholas Germana is the one who decides who receives the awards and said the purpose is “to give students the chance to work intensively on a project and not have to work a job over the summer.”

English writing major Rollend is in the works of creating a work of prose poetry that is focused on the idea of female relationships, from familial, to romantic to platonic. Rollend said that the project will show how we can use abstract writing to understand more in-depth feelings we have.

“I was looking back on some of my old poetry and I noticed this theme of how I explore friendships and relationships through poetry, and I thought it would be really awesome to use this project as a way to build off

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of that,” Rollend said.

Rollend said the type of poetry she is writing is differently structured than other types of poetry because instead of being line specific, prose poetry is in paragraph form. “It’s reads almost like an internal monologue or a diary entry in a sense because it is so personal and nothing is broken up,” Rollend said.

Rollend said what drew her to prose poetry over other types of poetry was that she has the ability to have one train of thought and not break up her writing.

English Professor Jeff Friedman said he is proud of the fact Rollend has received the honor and described the content in her work as “things go on that wouldn’t happen in daily world.”

Friedman said the chapbook, which is a collection of poetry that centers around a particular theme, allows Rollend to speak in ways that she didn’t know she wanted to. Friedman said it is a good thing to see the English department get rewarded in this way as he believes the department has a lot of great writers who write in different and creative ways.

The other recipient of the award, Kean, said she will be creating a series of murals for her project by carving into a

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Shedding light in the night Fire Up the Night promotes healthy conversations about depression ASHLEY ARNOLD

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KSC Habitat for Humanity and Margaritas collaborate COLBY DUDAL

Student Life editor Keene State College’s Habitat For Humanity is partnering with Margaritas for a fundraiser to help the organization raise money for their projects.

On Monday, April 9, anyone who shows the Noche Margarita flyer will have 20 percent of their bill go to the Keene Habitat For Humanity chapter. President of Habitat For Humanity Jordan Clauson said the proceeds from the fundraiser go to Habitat For Humanity at KSC which will then go to a location through a tithe program, which is a program that bridges Habitat For Humanity organizations together from various countries. Each year, Clauson said Habitat For Humanity chooses a different location that has been hit with a disaster to send money to, and in turn, the group in that area builds houses and works on the area. Clauson said this year, the group chose Nepal as the tithing location because they were hit with an earthquake in 2015 that killed about 9,000 people. Clauson said she feels

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Margaritas on Main Street will be the host of a fundraiser with proceeds to Habitat for Humanity.

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The Keene State College campus is bringing light to darkness by teaching students about suicide prevention and sharing hope with those who experience depression.

On Tuesday, April 11, the Fire Up The Night event will be taking place on the L.P. Young Student Center lawn. According to the KSC website, there will be live music, guest speakers and fire dancing from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m..

KSC counselor and co-organizer of the event Brenda McEachern said the fire at the event is used as a representation of positivity seeping through the darkness of the night. “We used the symbolism of the night time as the depression and the darkness and the troubling times, and the light is the hope and we can reach through the darkness and have light,” she explained.

KSC junior and french major Lisa Shea said that she knows people on campus who suffer from mental illness and she sees how it affects them. “I know how depression can affect the success of my friends. I feel like people don’t understand how important it is to support people going through a tough time because having a really solid support system makes a huge difference in the way people perform in school,” she said.

She said mental illness is hard to deal with at college because you lack the support system of your family.

“I think a lot of college students struggle with depression because most people turn to their family when they feel anxious. Not having a support system like that at school is a huge struggle,” she added.

Sophomore communications major and film minor Nolan

Rourke said it’s hard for people to talk about depression because people may be afraid of the judgement they receive. “When I’m going through a hard time, I find it hard to reach out to people because I don’t want to be seen as weak. Once I get over that feeling and vent to someone, my anxiety goes from like a 10 to a three,” he said.

Tables of information and some interactive activities will also be provided for students. Student organizations such as KSC Pride, Common Ground and Active Minds will also set up tables during the event, McEachern added.

Attendees will be offered a chance to pledge to “Share hope.

Save a life. ”This is the third time the Fire Up The Night event has taken place on campus. According to McEachern, the Counseling Center applied for a PepsiCo grant and received $1,400 to fund the event. She said all the money will be used this year to ensure Fire Up The Night is bigger and better than the ones that took place during previous years.

McEachern continued by explaining how the event provides hope for students who are struggling with mental health issues.

At the same time, it educates the community in how to provide hope for those struggling with depression.

“The event reaches out to students who do struggle with mental health and lets them know hope exists… and [it’s] also for people who might be in a healthier state of mind, to empower them to recognize that they have really special roles to be able to offer and provide that hope to the people around them,” she said.

The event encourages students to talk about the uncomfortable subject of depression and suicide,

McEachern said.

Having conversations about mental health allow students to acknowledge that it’s a standard issue many struggle with.

“There’s a stigma about mental health... I hope that people will start talking more about mental health, more about depression, more about suicide. There’s so often that sense of shame and sense to hide it,” she said.

The more that depression and suicide are addressed, the more comfortable students will feel talking about the subject and the more likely it is for people to get help, McEachern added.

It’s important for college students to learn about suicide prevention because “suicide is the second leading cause of death for college students,” McEachern said.

“Certain factors like stress [and] anxiety is a huge factor for college students… that oftentimes increases symptoms of mental health.”

She added that at this age, more serious forms of mental illness begin to show up, like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.

McEachern said she wants this event to help students understand the importance of positive support systems and how it affects the community.

“I hope students can… open themselves up to the concept of how powerful hope is, in providing it and receiving it. We really can save a life,” she said.

Fire Up The Night is sponsored by the KSC Counseling Center and all students are welcome to attend.

Students seeking emotional support can contact the Counseling Center or go to their office on the third floor of the Elliot Center to schedule an appointment.

Ashley Arnold can be contacted at aarnold@kscequinox.com

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French club travels abroad ANGELIQUE INCHIERCA

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Language is often characterized as creating barriers, but Keene State College is determined to build bridges between people and countries.

KSC’s French Club took its annual trip to Montréal, Canada, during this past Easter weekend.

“We’re right in the heart of the Frenchspeaking country, we’re lucky we live so close to the Canadian border,” KSC senior and environmental studies and French double major Ezra Richardson said.

“It was a great time [getting there], driving always brings the best out of people,” he said.

As the club’s president, Richardson was responsible for planning the trip, driving the students to their destination and making sure all the operations moved smoothly.

After about four hours, the group arrived at the Auberge Bishop Hostel, where the students shared quarters with people from all over the world.

Throughout the weekend, the French class explored this part of the French-influenced Québec province and got to exercise their language skills.

“We went to the Fine Arts Museum and this month it was free for people under 30 [years of age], too,” KSC senior and French and secondary education dual major Alexis Lorden said.

The Musée des Beaux Arts has mixed collections of historical and contemporary fine art displays focusing on historical, impressionist and religious-based exhibits.

The museum featured internationally acclaimed artists like Claude Monet and local ceramists like Laurent Craste.

KSC junior and French major and French Club’s vice president Lisa Shea said, “It was really interesting to see so many artists… it was really eye-opening. I had a great time. I think we all did.”

Afterward, the students traveled all over Montréal by the underground Métro system, which can get confusing for non-city dwellers.

With the guidance of Lorden, who had spent a semester in Montréal, the group was able to get used to the above and underground public transit systems without too much hassle.

While free-time was given throughout the weekend, many students traveled to locations like Downtown, Old Port and Chinatown to shop and meet the residents of Montréal.

“Right now I would say [my favorite part] was just walking around, seeing Chinatown, visiting local markets, trying out the food and everything,” Shea said.

“It’s just been really, really fun … [In Chinatown] we saw a bunch of foods like mochi, just like cute little trinkets, lanterns and a bunch of neat stuff like that.”

Before heading back to the hostel, the group stopped by a local-favorite restaurant named La Banquise for the Canadian-classic food, poutine.

The all-day dish in its basic form is french fries, gravy and cheese curds but there are dozens of options to add meats and/or veg-

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The French club at Keene State College took a trip to Montreal over the weekend to learn about and explore the city.

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“We have it in the United States, but it’s just not as good as when you get it here. I just love poutine.” Lorden said.

Richardson said his favorite part of the trip was how the club members came together to eat dinner each night and shared each other’s experiences of the day.

One place was Crêperie Chez Suzette where many students tried classic French dishes such as escargot and (dinner) crepes.

Not afraid to practice a foreign language, the KSC travelers were willing to use menus written in French and speak to the restau-

rants’ waitstaff.

The people of Montréal were supportive of others trying to learn and speak French.

Many restaurant servers and citizens recognized the students’ efforts and would slow down and speak “Franglish” (a mixture of French and English that helps bridge the language barrier) to keep conversations.

They greeted the students with positive smiles and accepting attitudes, making them comfortable in the new location.

Richardson said he hopes the club continues and grows in the following years as he graduates in May.

“I hope that it can gain momentum and gain some new members. I feel really lucky to have some first-years, second-years and third-years on board… the French major is very small in itself, but [having] faculty that support the trips is a very big deal and [is] very important to the club, and having engaging students who are willing to put the time and effort in makes a big difference as well,” he said.

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as though it is important to help places all around the world that have been impacted by disasters. “I think any little difference you can make anywhere is really a big thing because even though it’s not affecting us, it is affecting people like us and it could just as easily be us in that situation,” Clauson said.

Junior Melissa Pierce is a member of Habitat For Humanity who said a major goal of of the organization is to make people aware of situations that others are in. “Not everyone can go build, but anyone can help raise money for a good cause by coming to the fundraiser,” Pierce said. She said that holding a fundraiser is not only a good way to raise money, but it also helps raise awareness for the group on campus and what they do. Pierce said one thing some people may not know about Habitat For Humanity is that it is international which gives the group in Keene the ability to send the proceeds over to the Nepal Habitat For Humanity.

Manager of Margarita’s in Keene Ricki Fish said the restaurant holds fundraisers often and that they are a good way to “give back to the community because giving back is important.”

Fish said any non-profit organization can fill out a form on the Margarita’s website and apply to hold a fundraiser at the restaurant. Clauson said the event at Margarita’s is not the only opportunity the organization is using as a way to raise money.

Clauson said that on April 6, the group will have a bunch of food and carnival games set up on campus and will be open to KSC students for a $4 charge.

“An ideal goal between the two fundraisers would be a collective $500. It may not seem like a big, exciting amount, but it would be more than what the on-campus Habitat For Humanity has done in the past,” Clauson said. Along with the fundraising events being held, Clauson said Habitat For Humanity is currently working on building houses and said it is cool to get to know the people they are building for as they build the house.

Clauson said she first got interested in Habitat For Humanity during her first year at KSC when she joined with friends, and now as a junior, she is the president of the club. “At the time I joined, it it was more of a social thing, but it has turned into so much more than that… it is really fulfilling and rewarding to be able to see the differences you really do make in people’s lives,” Clauson said.

Margarita’s employee and KSC senior Tara Doherty said she sees holding fund-raisers at Margarita’s to be a win-win situation.

“It gives the business money by having more people come and helps the student organization raise money,” Doherty said.

Colby Dudal can be contacted at cdudal@kscequinox.com

Miscommunications in course offerings ABBY SHEPHERD

Social Media director Course registration is an intense time for students, especially rising juniors who are given the last registration slot times.

Contrary to previous years, some sophomores are feeling anxiety paired with limited course offerings for the 2018-2019 school year in their major: communication studies.

The communication major requires students to take required core courses, like Senior Project, a research course and Ethics, but all students also need three electives in the department.

Some underclassmen students are noticing the limited number of electives offered.

Sophomore communication major Mary Winn said her biggest issue with registering for next year’s classes is that there are many choices on Student Planning for communication and philosophy electives, but only two or three will be offered.

She’s also worried that the classes she needs for the major will fill up before she can even register because she has the last registration slot.

Sophomores might be notic-

ing the pinch of a lack of course offerings, but senior Vicky Papadopoulos said she did not have that problem when registering for courses in previous years.

Papadopoulos is a senior communication major who declared in spring of her first year. She said communication electives were easy for her to find. There were even times where she was stuck between a few options of electives to choose from because there were many options.

She said she recommends accessing resources like drop-in advising through the Academic and Career Advising department at KSC and speaking with faculty advisors in the department.

Winn asked her advisor for help, and said they were able to figure out what classes she should take.

However, once she and her advisor planned out her schedule, she looked on Student Planning again and saw that one of the classes she was going to take, Intercultural Communication, wasn’t offered anymore. She said that threw off her classes for the rest of the fall.

Winn plans on meeting with her advisor again, but she is still discouraged. “A lot of the communication classes will be scheduled

at the same time,” she said, “so I can’t even fit what’s offered.”

Winn said she would like the department to offer more of a variety of electives so she could take classes that she’s more interested in. She suggested that they hire more professors, but added, “Since the college is financially struggling, they probably can’t do that.”

Dr. Nigel Malcolm, chair of the communication and philosophy department, understands student frustration. “Just as students notice the lack of electives available, faculty do as well,” he said.

“We want to teach our specialty areas.”

The department finished a selfstudy this year, which noted the lack of faculty needed to teach a variety of courses. Malcolm said that this isn’t a new issue because the self-study in 2006 noted the same thing.

The administration is aware of the shortage, he said, but it is difficult to hire more faculty given the current budgetary situation of the college. Hiring adjuncts has alleviated some of the stress on the department, but adjuncts are hard to retain because they often move on to other jobs.

Malcolm noted that the lack of faculty and course offerings in the communication and philoso-

phy department isn’t “a new problem,” and that it’s a testament to the department that students are just beginning to notice it this year.

Malcolm said the department needs to focus on offering what is necessary for students to graduate, but sometimes that means cutting down the number of electives.

There were seven courses initially cut for the 2018-2019 school year that were offered previously.

Through the hiring of adjuncts, he was able to add back two more courses. He emphasized that the addition of the two classes meant that there were still five missing.

When asked if there were enough classes in the communication major to suit student interest, he said “the honest answer is no.”

The communication studies major is a part of the communication and philosophy department at Keene State College. Students in this department can choose from a major in communication with an option in communication studies or communication with an option in philosophy.

The department also offers minors in communication and philosophy.

Abby Shepherd can be contacted at ashepherd@kscequinox.com

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Student research on food insecurity LUCAS THORS

Equinox Staff Senior health science major Julia Brida has recently invested her time in researching food insecurity and how it affects children’s education.

“It’s much easier to see differences between people’s eating habits in a large town,” Brida said. When she was in elementary school, she said she noticed that some children would eat a lot of junk food with no nutritional value. “As a child especially, you need to eat lots of healthy foods,” Brida said.

Alternatively, Brida said she felt very energized and motivated in school because she had access to “healthy, energy-rich foods.” Brida said if students don’t eat enough healthy food, they cannot focus on their academics because “they are too focused on when they will eat next.”

Brida conducted a number of studies, both in her Health Psychology course and out of class, on children who experience food insecurity, and she found that many of the cases are due to the low income rate of the families. “A lot of these children come from a bad background or their parents don’t have enough money to feed them well,” Brida said.

However, Brida also said that some children and students in general choose to eat in a non-healthy way, even though they have the financial means. “You need to take the initiative to eat well,” Brida said.

“It is easy to call in take-out or substitute snacking for a meal.”

Additionally, some students who need financial assistance from the school or their peers choose not to get help because they are embarrassed to reach out, according to Brida. Brida said she hopes the stigma surrounding food pantries and student charities will eventually be eliminated with the

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Julia Brida has been conducting studies in and out of class about how food insecurity affects children and families.

creation of student-and-faculty-oriented charities like The Hungry Owl, a food pantry on campus.

Brida said that if a student is having a hard time eating well or wants to improve his/her overall diet, there is free nutritional coaching available at the Health and Wellness Center in the Elliot Center. “They will help you eat well, even if you have a strict budget,” Brida said.

Shannon Sweeney is also a health science major at Keene State College. Sweeney knows Brida through classes that they have taken together and is also aware of Brida’s research involving food insecurity. “She is really great with the research she has done,”

Sweeney said. “I am so happy that there is more awareness about food insecurity.”

Moreover, Sweeney said although she has never personally dealt with food insecurity, she is happy that more people are supporting those in need. “I don’t think a lot about it (food insecurity), but when I do, I feel very passionate about it,” Sweeney said.

Sweeney said food pantries like The Hungry Owl will help students who aren’t food-insecure, but don’t have enough time to make or buy food.

“It’s a nice safety net,” Sweeney said.

“The transition from high school to college is a big adjustment, and many students

have trouble making their own food and fending for themselves.”

Finally, Sweeney shared how much she admires Brida for her ambition and compassion. “Julia is very kind and caring. She always wants to help other people, which is a quality that is very synonymous with our major and our occupation,” Sweeney said.

Brida’s advisor, Assistant Professor Margaret Henning, could not be contacted for an interview.

Humans of KSC

Lucas Thors can be contacted at lthors@kscequinox.com

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wood block and printing it. “This process is so old, which is a large contrast compared to my very new subject of technology, and more specifically, social media. I believe the contrast also shows how old gender roles are being enforced in modern society however more advanced we are,” Kean said.

Kean said she felt with access to such a wide audience, she needed to make her project on a social issue and chose feminism, which she said is an important topic to her.

“As a female artist in a profession predominantly occupied by men, I felt the objectification of women on social media was a meaningful subject,” Kean said.

Kean said she wants the project to expose the struggles millennial women face when on social media.

“Social media tends to encourage a very homogenized view of beauty, with the Snapchat filter that makes your eyes bigger with longer eyelashes, lips more tinted and bigger, among other stereotypically ‘feminine’ features,” Kean said. Kean said she feels “blessed” to be getting the chance to create murals that many people will see.

Germana said one objective he had when he began taking a look at undergraduate research was to try to expand on the types of work that were receiving the SURF award.

“Sometimes when people think of research they think of being in a lab… All parts of the school are involved in great research.” Germana said by expanding what type of research can get the award, it is increasing the number of opportunities students have.

Germana said the grant that goes toward student research is from both the Office of the Provost and external donations. Germana said it is important for the public to see what students are currently working on and the different types of research that come out of KSC. Colby Dudal can be contacted at cdudal@kscequinox.com

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“Pretty good, I guess. It’s always kind of stressful just trying to get everything in line. It’s good to always be ahead so I am doing well. I’m already registered but I’m still nervous, but I am still meeting with professors to make sure everything’s going well.”

-Niamh

“I’ll be honest, I haven’t actually looked at my classes or looked to schedule it at all. I usually do it on the day I am supposed to do it because I’ve gotten pretty good at figuring out what I need to take and what I need to take for next semester because a lot of classes I wanted to take this semester I couldn’t because they weren’t offered.”

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“I’ve registered for a couple that I know I need but there are also a couple that I’m not sure what to take. I’m a junior, so a lot of my ISP and Gen ED courses are already done. There is one lingering credit I still have to take, so I have to figure out what I’m going to take.”

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Seniors pick up caps, gowns and hoods

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The Keene State College senior class picked up their caps, gowns and hoods for their upcoming graduation. Students picked up their graduation regalia and made their payments on Wednesday, March 27, in the L.P. Young Student Center. There had previously been discussions that class of 2018 would not be recieving hoods this graduation, but the tradition will continue for at least this year. Graduation for Keene State College will take place on Saturday, May 5, and will take place on the KSC.

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A look back at the history of KSC and the world around us

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Linda Brown and her lasting legacy ABBYGAIL VASAS

Copy Editor/timE CapsulE Editor In times of civil unrest, when adults and children alike are fighting for their rights in an effort to improve their lives and the world around them, it is more important than ever to look back at those who also fought against astounding obstacles.

On March 25, 2018, Linda Brown, the face of the Brown v. Board of Education case, died after 75 years of life. Her, her family’s and her friend’s contributions to the civil rights movement were profound and changed an entire aspect of American society. It’s important to celebrate her life and accomplishments, but also to recognize and use her success as an example for young people today; anyone really can overcome extreme adversity if people believe in the cause and fight hard for it.

Brown’s fight for equal education began when she was forced to attend an all-black elementary school miles away from her home in Topeka, Kansas, when there was a white elementary school a few blocks away.

Her father decided to file a lawsuit, along with 13 other families, against the Board of Education in an effort to fight school segregation.

The Supreme Court unanimously agreed in 1954 that school segregation was unconstitutional and violated the 14th amendment, which guarantees equal rights and equal protection to all born or naturalized U.S. citizens.

The day after Brown’s death, Kansas Governor Jeff Colyer tweeted, “64 years ago a young girl from Topeka brought a case that ended segregation in public schools in America. Linda Brown’s life reminds us that sometimes the most unlikely people can have an incredible impact and that by serving our community we can truly change the world.”

Brown v. Board of Education was one of many examples of how young people rose to the occasion during the civil rights movement. After the Brown v.

Board of Education case went through, the Little Rock Nine took the next step towards school desegregation in 1957. A group of nine black students enrolled in Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, previously an all-white school. On Sept. 4, their first day of school, the Arkansas National Guard was called to prevent the black students from entering the building. Later that month, President Eisenhower had the Little Rock Nine escorted into the building by federal troops.

A few years later, in 1960, a group of four black college students sat at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and asked to be served.

They were declined service and asked to leave the counter. The students didn’t give up and go home or

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People protesting against the Little Rock Nine and the integration of Central High School in Arkansas, which was a result of Brown v Board of Education.

get aggressive which could have been very easy in that situation. Instead, they practiced a very controlled, passive and peaceful resistance to racial inequality. Over the next few months, their movement began to pick up speed – or rather, quite the opposite; more people began to sit. The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History stated that hundreds of students, civil rights organizations, churches and members of the community joined in the passive protest which eventually led to the desegregation of the Woolworth’s lunch counter.

When thinking about the accomplishments of Brown and other civil rights activists over the past few days, a quote from Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, seems relevant. He said this line in his “Last Lecture,” titled “Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams” after he was diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer and was predicted to only have a few months of good

health left. The quote is, “The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something.” The quote is appropriate, not only when thinking about Brown’s case or the Little Rock Nine or the Woolworth’s sit-ins, but also when one hears about new advocates who are trying to improve our world today.

For example, the #MeToo movement and the women, both celebrities and private individuals, who are advocating for themselves – for their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness – are metaphorically breaking down the brick walls which are holding them back from true equality. In the #Enough movement, where people of all ages are fighting to feel safe in their own country, they too are confronting a brick wall they know they must overcome.

Individuals against student activism may think they’re just a bunch of rowdy young people trying to

The successes of Joseph Pulitzer ABBYGAIL VASAS

Copy Editor/timE CapsulE Editor TIME CAPSULE 1847 — Joseph Pulitzer, a famed American newspaper publisher, was born 171 years ago on April 10, 1847, in Mako, Hungary.

Throughout his 20s, Pulitzer began to build a strong reputation as a journalist in Europe and eventually moved to the U.S.. In 1872, at age 25, Pulitzer was offered an executive position at the Westliche-Post, a German language daily newspaper in St. Louis, according to Pulitzer.org. By 1878, he was the owner of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

According to the biography “Joseph Pulitzer and His World” written by James Wyman Barrett, Pulitzer “worked at his desk from early morning until midnight or later, inserting himself in every detail of the paper.”

Pulitzer’s editorial publications had mass appeal; he investigated corrupt politicians and busted gamblers and rich tax-evaders.

The result of Pulitzer’s work was an increase in the Post-Dispatch’s circulation, which had been struggling in recent years.

Pulitzer.org states that in 1883, Pulitzer’s health was beginning to fail and, instead of going on a doctor-ordered vacation to relax, he insisted on meeting with a financier named Jay Gould and purchasing The New York World, which was having some financial issues. Pulitzer built it up with techniques similar to the editorials he would write for the Post-Dispatch, but also employing new tactics such as events and ad campaigns.

According to a publication by the National Parks Service about the Statue of Liberty, The New York World was extremely helpful in the completion of the pedestal on which Lady Liberty stands. In 1884, the statue was completed in France and ready to come to America, but the American Committee for the Statue of Liberty ran out of money for the construction of the pedestal, which was necessary for the statue to be placed once it arrived. However, through one of Pulitzer’s publications in The New York World, the committee received over $100,000 (equivalent to about $2,487,000 in 2018) in six months. Pulitzer’s editorial

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said, “We must raise the money! The World is the people’s paper, and now it appeals to the people to come forward and raise the money.

The $250,000 that the making of the Statue cost was paid in by the masses of the French people- by the working men, the tradesmen, the shop girls, the artisans- by all, irrespective of class or condition. Let us respond in like manner. Let us not wait for the millionaires to give us this money. It is not a gift from the millionaires of France to the millionaires of America, but a gift of the whole people of France to the whole people of America.”

Pulitzer.org stated that, after his health declined even further in 1890, when he was 43, he retreated from the newsroom and directed the newspaper while traveling abroad searching for treatments for his ailments.

But it was not an easy retirement. From 1896 to 1898, Pulitzer got caught up in a heated circulation battle with William Randolph Hearst, a rival newspaper owner and known as the founder of “yellow journalism”

according to biography.com. While Hearst was forming his own newspaper empire, comprised of The San Francisco Examiner and later the Morning Journal and Evening Journal, he developed a dramatic style of journalism which involved speculative and exaggerated stories and punchy headlines.

During the Cuban War of Independence, Hearst used this brand of “yellow journalism” to sell papers with headlines and stories about the war in an effort to beat-out The New York World.

After the war ended, Pulitzer stopped practicing “yellow journalism.” In 1909, The New York World a $40 million fraudulent payment to the French Panama Canal Company from the U.S.. Although Pulitzer was indicted for allegedly libeling President Roosevelt and banker J.P. Morgan, The New York World continued it’s investigation into the payment and the courts eventually dismissed the indictments.

Pulitzer died on his yacht on Oct. 29, 1911, at the age of 64. In the years before his death helped form the Columbia School of Journalism and in his will he donated over a million dollars to fund the school, offer scholarships and awards. One such award became known as the Pulitzer Prize and there are several awarded each year to recognize great achievements in American journalism, literature or music.

Pulitzer.org stated in May, 1904, writing in The North American Review in support of his proposal for the founding of a school of journalism, Pulitzer said, “Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together. An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.”

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foment insurrection, but what it really comes down to is basic human rights. The young people of the 1950s advocated for desegregation and fought to end racial discrimination and, after a lot of hard work and perseverance, their movement has come a long way. It’s time for young people of today to look back and learn from our nation’s history and push forward toward a better, brighter future. The upcoming generation has seen how slow the government acts, so they’re getting a head-start on the change they want to see. They’re being proactive. The silver lining is that, by the time it actually gets to the floor and is ready for a vote, they could probably be in that room as part of the legislature.

Abbygail Vasas can be contacted at avasas@kscequinox.com

1994-Kurt Cobain’s death ABBYGAIL VASAS

Copy Editor/timE CapsulE Editor TIME CAPSULE 1994 — On April 5, 1994, one of the most famous grunge musicians died at the age of 27. Kurt Cobain forever lives on in the hearts of many; his legacy can still be heard in coffee shops and bars or seen on the shelves of music stores.

Kurt Cobain became a memorable and influential rock musician with his band, Nirvana, in the 1990s. According to Biography.com, Cobain was talented and creative from an early age; he was gifted at drawing and learned how to play the piano by ear as well as experimented with a kiddie drum set his parents had gotten for him. However, his parents divorced when he was nine years old and he began to retreat into himself. Through a childhood filled with unhappy family situations, Cobain had one thing that gave his life hope: a guitar given to him by his uncle Chuck.

At the age of 15, Cobain left his father’s house and, according to Biography.com, “bounced around from relative to relative for several months.” He eventually moved in with his mother and attended high school in Aberdeen, Washington. There, Cobain started listening to punk rock and turned to a life of drugs and alcohol after meeting and befriending Buzz Osborne of the Melvins, a local punk band.

By age 17, he was on the streets, couch surfing and even crashing in apartment building hallways and hospital waiting rooms, according to Biography.com.

He was arrested the following year for spray painting buildings. In 1988, when Cobain was 21 years old, the band Nirvana was officially formed and they recorded and released their first single, “Love Buzz,” through Sub Pop Records.

The band quickly became known for their grungy, alternative sound and their first record, “Bleach,” was released the following year.

In 1990, Cobain met Courtney Love and Nirvana toured with Sonic Youth.

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Kurt Cobain, lead singer and a founding member of Nirvana.

A year later they signed on with Geffen Records and released their album “Nevermind.” Biography.com reported that Cobain and Love got married in Feb. 1992 and had a daughter, Frances Bean Cobain, in August of that year. Cobain and Love were both heavy drug users and in 1993 the police were called to their residence during a domestic altercation.

While on a European tour with Nirvana in 1994, Cobain overdosed and fell into a coma for over 20 hours, according to Rolling Stone. After detoxing he checked into the Exodus Recovery Center in Los Angeles on March 30, 1994, but left the next day and went missing.

On April 5, 1994, six days after leaving the rehab facility, Cobain shot and killed himself at his home in Seattle, leaving a suicide note nearby.

Although Cobain died 24 years ago, his memory and his music are still prevalent. He was truly an inspiring musician who forever changed alternative rock and grunge music.

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What motivates KSC coaches to lead athletes JULIA EICHMAN

Equinox Staff Keene State College coaches, assistant coaches and athletic staff have many different reasons as to why they chose their careers, which collectively led them all to choose coaching as part of KSC’s athletic faculty.

For the love of the game, a motto which inspired some of KSC’s coaches to become what they are.

Assistant men’s lacrosse coach Brad Bishop said he loves both the game of lacrosse and being around others who share the same passion.

He said, “I love to teach and mold the minds of the student athletes and see how much each player can take in.” Bishop attended Keene State College as a student from 2004-2008 and also played lacrosse as a student athlete.

Bishop said he had a great high school coach that he always looked up to. After college, Bishop said he coached high school and eventually joined the coaching staff at Rivier College, which led to making the choice to work as a coach at KSC. “I made the decision to take the plunge and join Keene State because of Head Coach Mark Theriault and the players I could get to come to Keene. Keene is well known for their talented lacrosse program and I'm proud to be a part of it again, but as a coach this time around,” Bishop said.

Standing on the other side of the field, Bishop said there is a lot he wants to teach student athletes, but the main lessons would be “responsibility, teamwork and doing something that is for the person next to you

instead of yourself.”

However, Bishop is not the only one passionate about sports.

KSC head coach of men’s basketball Ryan Cain said, “Coaching in basketball in general has always been a passion of mine and basketball has been a huge part of my life, starting at an early age.”

He added that he played throughout middle school, high school and his college career.

“Then I stepped into the real world and got out of my playing days... The logical step for me, given the passion that I have, [was] to transitioning into coaching,” Cain said.

Cain said the most rewarding part of the job, for him, is seeing his athletes grow, mature and become respectable and successful adults after they graduate.

“It's been great to see all the players that you coach transition into the workforce and be successful as people after they graduate and that's why we're all here.

It's not necessarily just basketball, it's preparing students to be successful when they graduate,” Cain said.

Cain’s motivation to work hard as a basketball player originally came from competing with his father.

He said, “My father used to tell me how much he played every day, so I used to try to take that to the extreme. I started to make sure I put a minimum of eight hours a day and track the number of hours that I spent working on it... My father said [he] never did that much when [he] was growing up. That motivated me,” Cain said.

Cain said all of the coaches he had in his basket-

ball career, especially in college, were highly successful and influential to him. He added, “You take pieces that you've learned from a lot of different coaches. That creates your own coaching philosophy.”

KSC women’s head basketball coach Keith Boucher said he had many people he looked up to that supported him as an athlete. “I was fortunate to have so many role models and all the people I admired and learned from: my parents, teachers and coaches. I spent so much time with coaches and I thought, ‘I love this.

This is what I want to do,’” Boucher said.

Boucher said that passion for what you do is important in any career because it makes working seem like it is not a job.

Boucher added, “Your work is a reflection of who you are and if you love what you do, that's going to show. I guess I couldn't imagine doing anything else,” Boucher said.

As a coach, motivation is a huge factor in not only motivating the players, but also helping the players motivating each other and themselves. Boucher added, “Motivation is key... Also, surrounding yourself with positive people and learning that not everyone can be motivated in the same way, everyone is different.”

KSC’s Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Information, Compliance and Operations Abraham Osheyack said he has always been interested in athletics and read about them in newspapers and various news outlets for sports information.

“At 20 years old, I actually wanted to be a sports writer.

As a kid, I used to cut out pictures from the sports sec-

tion of athletes in the New York Times and unfortunately I was growing up at a time when newspapers were on their way out so I knew that wasn't going to be a real viable career path... financially,” Osheyack said.

Osheyack traveled for sports information jobs in many different states around the country and then ended up circling back to New England in 2010.

After coming back, he worked first at Smith College and has been at KSC since 2014. Osheyack said working at KSC has always been a goal of his.

“When I started working here, there were a lot of people who worked here, and there still are today, just less of them, that I kept in touch with over the years; people who helped me along finding my career path when I was younger.”

Not everyone knows what they want to do after graduating college. “The careers you have are not always the ones you plan for, but I’m certainly happy with what I do and how my career has transpired,” Osheyack said.

As the assistant athletic director, Osheyack is able to work with coaches, student athletes, faculty and other students who intern or work for him.

“You learn how to deal with different types of people and different types of personalities. It’s ever-changing conditions. It's always a fluid work environment,” Osheyack said. “There's lots of different people you’re responsible to and responsible for; you have to work to take care of everybody.”

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thinks it is very important to honor alumni because without them, they would not have the connections, the club or the family that they do now.

Honoring Keene State College alumni in one form or another He said, “It is always important to honor them now is something that is very familiar to each KSC athlete and student. and for the future.”

The KSC rugby team really tapped into honoring their alumni “Although this scholarship goes only to a certain by establishing a brand new scholarship. The scholarship honors major, it will be extremely helpful in helping students 2009 KSC and rugby alumni Samuel A. Martin. pay for their education and feel more comfortable Martin passed away last year, which inspired other alumni from taking that leap into college,” Pickett added. the rugby team to create the Samuel ‘09 Memorial Scholarship in Donations or a tribute gift in honor of his honor. This scholarship honors Martin's life and is primarily for Martin and his accomplishments as a rugby safety majors at KSC. player and a safety major can be made at: KSC rugby player Drew Pickett said that the scholarship was htt ps://www.keene.edu/developcreated in appreciation of the former KSC rugby player. ment/online/sam/.

Even though not much information is known about it yet, Pickett said that the scholarship will provide a great opportunity for stuCaroline Perry can be contacted at dents who are safety majors to get a little extra help with paying off cperry@kscequinox.com the debt that a semester can entail.

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Rookie of the Week Tyler Gammie gets an early LEC award to kick off the baseball season JULIA EICHMAN

Equinox Staff The first-year student athletes on Keene State College’s baseball team may be young, but they do not hesitate when it’s time to step up to the plate.

KSC first-year and infielder Tyler Gammie recently has been showing some promise on the field.

On March 26, Gammie was awarded the Little East Conference [LEC] Rookie of the Week award by the league office. Two days prior, Gammie batted 3-for-4 and had an RBI as the Owls designated hitter. The Owls won 6-5 over Johnson & Wales University.

Gammie said that he was proud of himself after hearing the news.

“I was batting ninth in the lineup and getting three hits. That helped my confidence a lot, so hopefully this will carry on throughout the season,” Gammie said.

While the season continues, Gammie said he plans to keep improving everyday. He plans to “get after it everyday” and listen to the advice and help his coaches are giving the team.

As for his thoughts on the team, Gammie said, “I think our lineup is going to kill it this year... It’s been a little bit since we've won an LEC championship, so I think all

of us are aiming for that this year because we know we can do it.”

In the preseason, the baseball team has been practicing and lifting early in the morning during the week.

Gammie said he believes putting in that time has helped the team’s success so far this season.

“Since Jan. 20, we've been waking up at 5:30 in the morning to get after it because that is the only time we can. Going to practice or lifting every day really keeps us in shape and keeps us sharp,” Gammie said.

The season is going well so far for the KSC Owls and Gammie said the team is really happy about where they’re at right now and he thinks the team will keep getting better.

Gammie also attributes the team’s success thus far to good team chemistry, Head Baseball Coach Ken Howe and support of the upperclassmen players. “Right now we’re all getting along, we’re loose, we joke with each other.

I think that's really the only way you can play the game if you want to be successful,” Gammie said.

Adjusting to new coaches can sometimes be difficult, but not for Gammie. When asked about his head coach Gammie said, “He’s a cool guy. He gets us where we

need to be and I think he’s a big part of why we’re doing well so far.”

Gammie also said that the older players on the team are “a great group of guys” and they get the younger players like himself rallied up.

“They get us going. When we are down they keep us up. They are a big part of the team,” Gammie said.

KSC junior outfielder and pitcher David Sevigny said of his Gammie, “He’s a versatile player that can hit the ball.”

Sevigny agrees with Gammie as far as the team’s current standing goes. “The whole year we have been getting better. Whether it’s going to lifts early in the morning, or practices also early in the morning, we feel like we’re in a good spot as a team right now,” Sevigny said.

He added the team’s close bond shows when they are playing together out on the field. “As a team we’re all close and enjoy hanging out with each other outside of baseball. I think it shows on the field how well we get along as a team,” Sevigny said. Their fellow junior teammate Connor Longley was unable to comment about Gammie’s LEC rookie award or his field performance.

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Equinox Staff Keene State College’s men’s rugby team is adding a new member to the team that some people might recognize. Mathew Webber will be the new Assistant Coach.

He’s originally from New Zealand but played professional rugby for the U.S.A. Head coach John Johannesen said being the only coach is difficult. “I don’t have any assistance, but we don’t have any money in our budget [to hire anyone else],” Johannessen said.

For the meantime, Webber will be volunteering his own time to coach.

Johannesen said while he was checking references for Webber, the CEO of USA Rugby spoke highly of him.

“Matt is a very good coach. Hard and direct. He has very strong technical background and is an excellent motivator. The teams he has coached have always been very fit and disciplined. It’s great to hear he’s back east and looking to contribute to the college game. I feel he’d be a very valuable asset to your program,” the CEO said.

Webber is currently in New Zealand for family matters, but he will be in Keene

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Athletes have many different dynamics and environments that they need to adapt to and Shadeck said that by focusing on the meet, the new factors became less strange.

Shadeck faced other problems during his training, such as having to be on campus during spring break.

One of the biggest challenges Shadeck faced was having to be on campus to train.

“Due to the campus being closed, including the dining commons, maintaining a regular and nutritious eating schedule was not easy,” Shadeck said.

The transition into the meet brought forth another challenge: not having his teammates there.

“Usually before my races I like to chat

around April 10.

Although the team only has one coach, it has not stopped them from bringing their best to the field.

The team had a tournament on March 25 and took third place. On March 31, they placed first out of five teams at a tournament held at Wesleyan.

On April 8, the team will be traveling to College of the Holy Cross for a seven-team tournament (seven players against seven players) and then on April 15 they will be hosting a tournament here at home.

This seven-team tournament will decide which two teams will go to Babson College on April 21 to play in the Lighthouse seventeam tournament, which is the Northeast qualifier tournament for the championships.

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and laugh with my teammates to help me relax, so not having them there forced me to try different things to get me to relax,” Shadeck said.

Even though his teammates couldn’t be with him, they still supported him throughout the entire process.

“Before I left a few of them put together a psych box filled with some of my favorite snacks and some notes of encouragement which I appreciated greatly. They also tuned in to the live stream of the meet when I was swimming so they could watch me from home and that meant a lot to me,” the sophomore said.

Fellow teammate and first-year Patrick Doyle said that Shadeck was very fortunate and worked very hard all season to make it to the NCAAs. Doyle added that having strong teammates like Shadeck really helps during prac-

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Farland is on the field, she plays with passion and is oftentimes unstoppable.

Farland always plays with a love for the game, putting her heart into everything on and off the field, Telles said.

“Taylor always capitalizes on her mistakes.

Once she sets her mind to something, she will stop at nothing to succeed. You cannot teach an athlete how to play with their heart. They must have that instilled in them and this cannot be taken away from Taylor,” Telles said.

With so much emotion being put into the game, Farland can at times get caught up in all of it, but Telles said that the team works to uplift one another and push Farland when she is down, trying to redirect her passion into a helpful component on the field.

“She's a very coachable player and she works so hard, this makes supporting her easy for everyone,” Telles said.

Telles said after the game is over, Farland remains humble and strives to keep working in order to better herself so that she can become a better teammate.

“Prior to receiving her 100th career goal award, Taylor focused so strongly on improving her shot accuracy that she was even surprised to have reached 100 goals. That says a lot about Taylor's integrity and character: she is like no other,” Telles said.

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“When you’re at practice and you’re getting tired, wanting to give up, your teammates are the ones to push your through,” Doyle said.

The team tried to be even more supportive of Shadeck, knowing the struggles he would have to face during his training sessions and in the overall meet.

“We all were supportive of his training and how he had to stay here over spring break to train. We continued to just give him support throughout the competition,” Doyle said.

Doyle said that Shadeck remains a go-to teammate, someone you can go to when you need to talk, need advice, or just want to chat with a friend.

No other members of the men’s swim and dive team commented.

Shadeck has faced injuries, setbacks, success and never-ending lessons that will trans-

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player Megan Gorham said that Farland is a determined and self-minded athlete. Not only does Farland know the game of lacrosse, but her level of skill and actions transfer over to everyone in a positive and helpful way, said Gorham. “Her leadership is well respected across her teammates. She always brings a lot of energy to every game and practice which gets everyone pumped up,” Gorham added.

Farland, who is a double-sport athlete, participating in KSC women’s soccer and women’s lacrosse, brings a higher level of play that doesn't go unnoticed, the first-year said.

“Taylor is a multiple-sport athlete and it really stands out on how athletic she is. She is good about seeing the field and knowing what is going on. She adapts to her environment very well,” Gorham said.

Farland’s strong athletic presence on the team has been extremely helpful and inspiring to the younger members of the team, Gorham said.

“It’s a great accomplishment for Taylor to achieve in her four years of playing for the Owls. It’s also inspiring to younger girls to look up to her and want to be able to accomplish something like 100 goals too,” Gorham said.

Reaching 100 points is a milestone that many lacrosse players would like to accomplish and for KSC senior Taylor Farland, that box has been officially checked off.

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However, despite it all, Shadeck said that it has taught him a valuable lesson.

“The most important thing I learned from this season is to never give up. As athletes, we are always going to face obstacles, but if we stay focused and work hard enough, we can overcome them and do great things,” the sophomore said.

Shadeck hopes to become an All-American next season.

“Not many people in this school’s history can say they've done that, so to be able to finish among the top eight finishers in an event and receive those accolades would mean the world to me,” Shadeck said.

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Now that spring is here and the snow is slowly melting away, if not already gone, avid skiers are beginning to make fewer and fewer trips up the mountain.

This winter season in New England was definitely the time to hit the slopes and try out skiing.

With heavy snowfall and inches upon inches of fresh powder, this year was a winter wonderland.

If you tried skiing for the first time this year, kudos to you. Congrats on taking the leap up the mountain, or should I say down?

Having the courage to learn how to ski and push down potential fears is, at times, difficult, but it’s also worth it.

Learning anything is no easy task, but skiing is definitely up on the list of one of the hardest things I had to learn.

There is no easy way to do it and sometimes what a teacher tries to show you doesn’t make much sense at all.

But if you stuck with it and experienced the excitement of that first turn like, then you have a gift that is always giving.

Every year you can go back to the mountain and keep improving upon your own individual skills.

Skiing opens up a lot of opportunities to makes friends and spend time with people.

On top of that, it’s amazing exercise and is a fun way to stay in shape during the long winters. With all these upsides, it’s hard to figure out why people don’t choose to learn and shy away from the slopes.

Learning anything new is an opportunity, so next year if you have the chance to learn, DO IT. Don’t pass up opportunities just because you’re scared and nervous.

You can’t know how to do everything, but by taking that leap you can pick up another skill.

If you already knew how to ski and went a little more this year, then kudos to you as well. If you really enjoy something, keep doing it.

It’s important to do things you’re passionate about and enjoy because if you don’t, you’ll enjoy life a little less.

Skiing gives you a freedom that many people don’t have the opportunity to feel.

When you come down the trail at high speed, it feels like you're flying among the clouds.

The sun makes the mountain beautiful. The views from the peaks stretch like oceans. When looking out on the land, it seems as if the sky and mountains create a whole new dimension.

Skiing gives you the opportunity to get away and escape from the confinements at home. A day of skiing can take away all forms of stress and just leave you content.

Although the skiing season is coming to an end, the snow will return next year with new opportunities.

Be sure to get out there next year and take advantage of what New England has to offer. With such long winters, why not pick up a new hobby to make the long winter season that much better?

Caroline Perry can be contacted at cperry@kscequinox.com

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100 points Senior Farland reaches her 100th career goal CAROLINE PERRY

SportS Editor There comes a point in every athlete’s career when they are defined by determination, hard work and success. For Keene State College senior Taylor Farland, all these factors went into her accomplishment of reaching her 100th career goal in KSC women’s lacrosse.

Farland scored her 100th career point in lacrosse on March 24 at Emerson College. The senior put in two goals in the second half of the game and the second one hit the 100th point mark.

Farland said that it is really exciting to have reached this goal.

“I remember watching attack players that were older than me get their 100th goal and I was so excited to see them make that accomplishment and never really saw myself getting that many goals in my career,” Farland said.

Despite this accomplishment, Farland never really considered getting 100 points a goal for herself. “A lot of the goals that I set are team goals that consist of doing well in our conference and making it to the NCAA. The individual goals from each player when put all together help us to achieve the team goals that I am more focused on,” Farland said.

Even though scoring goals is necessary to win games, Farland said the statistics such as defender caused turnovers, draw controls from midfielders and goalie save percentages are just as important, but often overlooked.

On top of the importance of each position, the work that goes into being a student athlete also contributes greatly to a player’s success. “Even with the label of being a student athlete and focusing on being a student first, it still takes a lot of work to keep up with the athletic aspect of the title. It takes a lot of work during the off season to stay in shape and keep up with my stick skills to be able to come into season ready to work hard,” Farland said.

That ability to see the value of each player’s position has also transformed her love for the sport and the way the sport impacts her, personally. “Lacrosse has had a huge impact on my life through creating strong friendships that I will always have, as well as skills that I will be able to apply to in life,” Farland said.

Those strong connections have led to a supportive team that fully shares Farland’s joy in the accomplishment. “My team has been very supportive and encouraging. It was really nice to even see how many alumni reached out and had congratulated me as well. It’s really nice to see even the first-year players being really supportive especially because some of them will probably reach this goal as well based off how well they have been doing in their first season,” Farland said.

KSC senior Cora Telles said that Farland is an extremely strong player, teammate and leader. “Taylor stands out in every aspect. Not only is she an incredible athlete, but she is a crucial part of our leadership on this team. Leading by example, Taylor always gives her best effort and our teammates look up to her immensely,” Telles said. On top of that, Telles said that when

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The NCAA swimming experience CAROLINE PERRY

SportS Editor Diving into the pool with the big leagues is a dream that most swimmers hope to accomplish but don’t always have the opportunity to do so.

For Keene State College sophomore Kyle Shadeck, that hope of qualifying for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III men’s Swimming and Diving Championship became a reality.

Shadeck, a KSC swimmer who broke 2014 graduate Drew Ledwith’s meet record (1:51.50) and 2016 graduate Cole Hogg’s school record (1:51.41) for the 200 yard butterfly with a time of 1:49.18 this season, continued his success on a larger stage.

After some success that wrapped up his regular season, Shadeck was put on a waitlist for the NCAAs. Soon after, he found out that he qualified and would be traveling to Indianapolis, IN, from March 21-24.

Shadeck, the only athlete on the KSC

men’s swim and dive team to go through the NCAA experience, reflected on the opportunity he was presented with.

Shadeck said that the NCAAs were a great experience.

“Being able to compete on the highest stage in Division III athletics was truly a humbling experience and it was incredible to see so many fast swimmers and to be treated as a high level athlete,” Shadeck said.

Competing on that high of a level drew out many positive lessons and skills that

Shadeck said he was glad he was able to experience.

“Some of the positive things that I took away from this trip was learning how to deal with the pressures that come at highlevel competition meets such as this so that I will be more prepared for my next few years of collegiate swimming,” Shadeck said.

However, there were still some adversities before and during the championship that Shadeck had to overcome.

Being the only one to represent KSC at

a national level was both strange and cool, Shadeck said.

“On one hand, it was kind of a cool feeling to know that I would be the sole representative of the team at that meet, but on the other hand it was weird being the only one at practice leading up to the meet. I have always gone to meets with other teammates, so to be on my own like that was definitely different for me,” Shadeck said.

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