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Vol. 69, Issue #25 Thursday, April 6, 2017

Filling the gap at Keene State

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Holocaust and genocide studies hosts annual lecture JACOB BARRETT

sEniOr rEpOrtEr The Keene State College (KSC) Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies hosted its 2017 Genocide Awareness Lecture on Apr. 3.

The Honorable Patricia Whalen gave a talk titled Why Justice Matters.

KSC senior Kathleen Dougherty said before the event that the lecture is an opportunity to tell others about the program.

“It’s about bringing awareness to the Holocaust and Genocide program,” she said. She said as KSC is the only school to offer the program as a major, it means a lot that they do these sort of presentations. “The more awareness, the better, because it shows that this major does matter,” she said.

Whalen, who has been a judge for over 20 years and currently acts as a Special Advisor to the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina and served as an international judge in the War Crimes chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2007 to 2012, spoke to an audience in the Mabel Brown Room about her experiences as a judge presiding over cases of war crimes committed during the Geno-

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A presentation on salary negotiaton was given for students, focusing on miniority groups and especially women. According to the American Association of University Women, a 2015 report showed on average, men working full-time make $56,525 yearly compared to women at $43,172. There are other attributes that can hurt a person’s chance of making a fair salary including disability, race and age.

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Presentation on salary negotiation intended to prepare students DOROTHY ENGLAND

nEws EditOr The idea that women make 79 cents to that of their male peers is a complicated one.

According to the online platform for employers to connect with potential employees Hired, men were offered higher salaries 69 percent of the time. “...on average companies offer women 3 [percent] less than men for the same roles, with some companies offering as low as 30 [percent] less,” the website

reports.

However, for women of color, there’s even more variation. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) reports, “Asian American women’s salaries show the smallest gender pay gap, at 85 percent of white men’s earnings. The gap was largest for Hispanic and Latina women, who were paid only 54 percent of what white men were paid in 2015.”

In New Hampshire alone, women make nearly a quarter less than men. The AAUW stated in a 2015 report that on average men

working full-time make $56,525 yearly compared to women at $43,172.

Due to these statistics and others, a day dedicated to raising awareness on inequality this has been made: Equal Pay Day held on April 4 this year. This day is based on the exact day when white women make the same money as a white man does in a typical year period.

A presentation on salary negotiation was given at Keene State College in efforts to help close the gender gap. Organizers of the event

said it’s a two-way street of the employers offering equal opportunities and employees negotiating a fair wage.

Negotiation 101 There were four steps presented at the event, starting with knowing one’s value.

Participants were asked to write their skills and accomplishments based on experience and education.

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T-shirts sold to raise funds for Costa’s children ADAM URQUHART

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Bulldog Design printed two t-shirt designs and a sticker memorializing the untimely passing of the former Keene Police Chief Brian Costa.

Two women came to Bulldog Design with their ideas for logos to remember Costa by.

According to The Keene Sentinel, Dianne Wright had the idea for the shirt reading the number “23” and Jennifer English worked up the idea for the logo reading “111.”

Owner of Bulldog Design Joe Tolman said, “It all came to us; it wasn’t something we spearheaded at all.” He explained, “We do know Brian personally because we do a lot of stuff for the police department, whether it is engraving or shirts and stuff like that. As far as the fundraiser goes, that was brought to us.”

Tolman explained that one of the people who came to him about the designs was Wright, a parent of one of the players on the Keene High School’s hockey team.

Tolman said, “They were in the state championship game two days after his death, so one of the mothers wanted to

make shirts as a memorial kind of thing for him for that game.” Tolman mentioned that they didn’t even have time to order shirts in.

He said, “She actually went out and bought shirts herself and brought them into us.” Tolman’s sister, Mary, designed the t-shirt with the logo “23” on it and he said they sold out of the shirts very quickly at the game.

Tolman said, “We kind of figured that’s what would happen, so we also set up an online store that we can offer for people who didn’t get the shirts, but that wanted them.”

The shirts and stickers can be purchased at https://khs4costa.

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Keeping the doors open 24/7

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Students have been frustrated that the Media Arts Center (MAC) isn’t open 24/7. Many find that with all the coursework they have, it’s hard to fit it all in during the open hours at the MAC, meaning they can’t always give it their full effort. Currently, the MAC is open from 7 a.m. to midnight during weekdays and noon to midnight on weekends.

A petition has been made. However, there are concerns about the MAC’s longer hours making it easier for others to break in, damage equipment or be a safety hazard to students.

Petition made to keep the MAC open later JACOB BARRETT

Senior reporter Students who rely on the Media Arts Center (MAC) to complete their coursework are circulating a petition to give them 24-hour access to the building.

The MAC, which is currently open from 7 a.m. to midnight during weekdays and noon to midnight on weekends, contains labs scattered throughout the building for students to utilize computer programs and other resources needed to complete coursework. However, some labs double as classrooms or are locked and are only available for predesignated periods of time throughout the day which are decided by the various departments in the MAC. KSC seniors and graphic design majors Andrea Cuzzupe and Jenny Dalrymple co-created the petition and said the lab hours available to students often make it difficult to produce high-quality work when also finding time for other classes and coursework.

“For years, we’ve been trying to get the MAC open for 24 hours, mainly because our days are completely full of classes and we have projects that they assign for the next class,” Cuzzupe said.

“It’s basically impossible to be able to get all of those projects completed to the high-caliber that we expect them to be,” Dalrymple said.

had a great response from his fellow faculty.

“My responses from the faculty are overwhelmingly positive. All of our students are suffering under the same draconian rule where they can’t access the building after midnight,” Hoyt said.

While the lab hours allotted to students in some majors is manageable, granting round-the-clock access is still supported, according to KSC senior and journalism major Joseph Barbesco. “Obviously, being a journalism major, it’s affected me a lot because I basically live there… if it were 24/7, that would be ideal because you would have more time to shape your day around that,” Barbesco said.

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a big safety concern for our department, but also for the community in and of itself…If somebody is alone, it could really put them at risk if they’re inside of a building and somebody enters that doesn’t belong there or has bad intentions.”

Crossman added that some security measures could help, such as giving access through a student’s Owl card, something he said is fairly regularly granted to students in various buildings with the proper permissions.

Film Department Chair Debra White-Stanley declined to comment for this story. However, contract lecturer in the film department Teresa Podlesney said she thinks the petition is a great idea and that students should have more access. She also addressed concerns about student responsibility while in the MAC. “I think that if there are fears that somehow students aren’t going to take care of their shared resources...then it’s important to have students encourage each other to share stewardship, right? It is a privilege to be able to access the facilities 24 hours a day, and so I think that our students are adults that will understand that responsibility and hopefully if students see other folks not treating the place respectfully then they’ll mention it,” Podlesney said.

Journalism, Multimedia and Public Relations Department Chair Dr. Rose Kundanis said the department will remain neutral on the matter.

“Our perspective is that we don’t need 24-hour access.

That the journalism students have an extensive availability for equipment and for time in the lab and have access, especially the upper-level TV students, to a very extended time because of their combination access. So we don’t really get a lot of pressure or even requests from journalism students,” A growing movement Kundanis said.

Kundanis also said the lab hours offered by her departAs of April 4, Cuzzupe stated that the petition has 152 sigment keep shifting because they are not being used. She natures out of a goal of 200, Once the goal is reached, Cuzzupe Other’s opinions added that if 24-hour access to the MAC is granted, access to stated that the petition will be presented to Associate Dean in resources provided by her department would remain avail- the School of Arts and Humanities, Dr. Sara Hottinger.

Associate Professor of Art and Graphic Design Randall able only during specified hours as it is now.

Once she receives the petition, Hottinger said that she Hoyt said students who work in the MAC should have more will consider the needs of the students outlined in the petiaccess to the resources that they pay for.

The issue of safety tion, review current KSC building access policies and consult “We’re talking about students that work really hard and the appropriate faculty and staff to determine if the request they’re being locked out of facilities they’re paying for,” Hoyt According to Assistant Director of Campus Safety Leon- is a viable option before making a decision on the matter. If said. “We’re talking about majors who want to work on their ard Crossman, 24-hour access could result in higher security the request made by the petition is not able to be fulfilled, she projects when they can, which is at night, so I fully support and safety risks for the students and equipment late at night said that a compromise may be able to be reached, such as this. And I’ve been working with the students for a long time, when there may not be as much oversight of the MAC. opening the MAC earlier on Sundays. since I’ve been here for four years, and I think that we have “...It could potentially lead to an increase in property loss or Updates to the story will be provided as more information enough critical mass now and I think it might be the time to damage if somebody’s in there that has ill intentions,” Cross- becomes available. make some changes to policy.” man said. “Late at night, you never know who is going into a Hoyt, who said he assisted students in creating the peti- building and if someone is going into a building that is secure Jacob Barrett can be contacted tion and been trying to build support for it, added that he has where they can’t call for help or anything like that, it creates at jbarrett@kscequinox.com

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cide there in the 1990s.

Whalen gave a brief history of the prosecution of war crimes and how the Nuremberg Trials following WWII set guidelines for future trials. “Nuremberg gave us clear principles that stand true today,” Whalen said.

She talked about how trials and prosecution of war crimes help to create a platform and a record containing the stories of the witnesses of war crimes.

“One of the basic tasks of the court is to find facts and judges are not historians, but we do contribute to the historical record,” Whalen said. ”…We are there as well to bear witness and to receive the stories of the ones who lived.”

She showed the audience pictures of the court where she heard these witnesses as well as more pictures showing the locations such as the site of a mass grave and memorials for the victims of the genocide and the court where the cases of war crimes are tried.

KSC sophomore and Holocaust and genocide studies major Randii Elie gave her thoughts on the talk afterward.

“I thought it was fairly thought provoking.” She continued, “I think it was a chance to consider what justice actually is and if we’re actually obtaining any sort of form of justice through our trial situation,” After the talk, Whalen said that she wants people to know the impact they can have on those affected by genocide.

“I guess I want them to know that their actions matter,” She said. “…If

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Academic and Career Advisor and co-organizer of the event Louise Ewing said people should specify their resume and cover letter to the specific job they’re applying for.

The next step was about benchmarking a salary and benefits. This included researching the job of choice and setting a resistance point (the lowest one would go for) and a bolstering range (taking one’s optimal salary and increasing it).

Ewing said a good rule of thumb was to increase it by 15 to 20 percent depending on the level of education and experience included. Budgeting was also brought up as an essential thing to look at when figuring out one’s optimal salary. Ewing said a helpful formula included 50 percent of a budget going to needs, 20 percent going to savings and debts and 30 percent going to wants.

The third point brought up was knowing one’s strategy. Participants of the event were told to remember to stay “positive and flexible.” This was especially reinforced when a potential employee being asked what they wanted as a salary. Some responses given at the presentation included “I would hope and expect I would get paid fairly for what I can bring to the table,” or “What does the budget look like for this kind of position?”

However, Ewing said if someone absolutely had to give a number, they should give a range. “Give them the bolstering range,” she said.

She reminded participants to also always ask for everything discussed in writing. “I’ve learned my lesson of not doing that,” she admitted.

Lastly, participants were encouraged to practice. “Practice with a friend,” Ewing said.

KSC senior Lindsy Avritch was one of the participants at the event.

She said she came because she’s a senior and wanted to understand the art of negotiation better. “I know a little, but I want to understand it better for my profession,” she said.

Avritch also said she didn’t want to get duped by an employer and given less than she deserved. “I think I’m very strong, but there’s still a lot to learn,” she said. She said she had negotiated in the past. “I had one internship without pay, so for my next one, I asked to be paid.

I got around $500 a month, which wasn’t a lot, but it was something.”

Avritch said she thinks there’s more work to be done to close the gap, but for living in New England, she feels it’s better than most places.

“I think we have lot going for us on the Eastern Coast,” she said.

Speaking on a passionate cause Ewing said the presentation was for everyone, but mostly geared towards people in minority groups, especially women, but also included people of color as well as people in the LGBTQA community and especially women.

Ewing continued that often women don’t negotiate because they don’t know they can or they’re worried they’ll be seen as aggressive if they try to stand up for themselves.

“Being assertive can be seen as not being ‘likeable,’” she said.

She said this presentation is intended to give people to let people know what they can do in a respectful manner to themselves and the company. “Our goal is to educate people on the nuts and bolts: how do you begin the obstructive research,

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nothing else, we have to figure out some way that we can be present to these conflicts. You know, we might not be able to change them but we shouldn’t ignore them either.”

Whalen will be joining Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies Director Dr. Hank Knight and others for a trip to Bosnia and Herzegovina in May where they will tour the country, bear witness to the genocide committed there and meet with leaders in the area.

April is Genocide Awareness Month in the state of NH. The Cohen Center will be holding an awards ceremony on April 23 at 2 p.m. in the recital hall of the Redfern Arts Center.

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Jacob Barrett can be contacted The Honorable Patrica Whalen speaks to the college community as part of the 2017 Genocide at jbarrett@kscequinox.com Awareness Lecture. This event is held annually at the college. This year’s topic was “Why Justice

Matters.” Whalen has been a judge for over 20 years and served as an international judge for five years.

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Heroin use in the state calls for action KATHERINE GLOSSER

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Week of: March 27 Monday, March 27 1:03 p.m. All campus: Timely Warning / Emergency Notification 11:28 p.m. Monadnock Hall: Drug Paraphernalia Possession

Responses in Keene In Keene, there are no safe stations for the time being.

But, Keene is one of the many towns in New Hampshire that has been hit hard by the heroin epidemic. In 2016, the Keene Fire Department responded to 81 incidents involving the use of NARCAN, a drug used to reverse drug overdoses.

According to a press release by the Keene Fire Department, since January of 2017, there was one opioid-related death and 11 incidents that involved the use of NARCAN. In response to the ongoing issue in Keene, the mayor requested action to be taken against the opioid epidemic.

Within the past year, a program called the Cheshire County Addiction Assistance Recovery Initiative, or ChAARI, was established.

Keene Fire Chief Mark Howard said people struggling with addiction can go to the fire department, police stations and the hospital with this service. ChAARI provides a 24/7 helpline for people struggling with addiction. Howard said it isn’t the same as the safe spaces in Nashua and Manchester because of a few differences. “The program that we were looking for was a county-wide initiative, not just Keene,” said Howard.

Once a person makes contact with someone from call support, they are set up with a recovery coach who is dispatched to the Cheshire Medical Center emergency room. They then will begin to create a recovery program that will work with the person’s individual needs. “When we started this, we wanted every police department [and] every fire department to sign on with us as the leads,” Howard said.

11:38 p.m. Monadnock Hall: Odor of Drugs Tuesday, March 28 2:24 a.m. Trestle: Destruction Property / Vandalism Wednesday, March 29 10:36 a.m. Carle Hall: Stalking Thursday, March 30 5:31 p.m. Off campus: Noise Complaint 6:29 p.m. Summer Joyce Field: Controlled Drug Act Violation 11:33 p.m. Carle Hall: Destruction Property / Vandalism

Heroin use in Keene Howard said there were six to seven opioid-related deaths in the last year. Howard said that while he isn’t aware of any opioid overdoses occurring at Keene State College and other schools in Keene, he said opioid overdoses can happen anywhere.

Howard said the Fire Department responded to calls of opiate overdose at least twice at the Keene Public Library. Each overdose in the library happened in the common area where the public gather to read and check out books. Howard also said the Fire Department responded to overdose incidents at playgrounds, Dunkin Donuts, rail beds and street corners.

Howard said there is no particular place where people overdose and said the overdose locations are spread out evenly. Howard said there was one overdose at a rail bed right near Keene State College that resulted in death.

Ages from people that have overdosed in Keene range from 18 to 72-years-old. According to Howard, the common age range of overdose victims are between the ages of 51 and 60 years old, however, people between the ages of 21 and 40 have seen an increase within the last year.

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itemorder.com.

Tolman explained that once word got out that shirts were sold at the game, they were contacted again for another design in Costa’s memory.

He said, “That’s where the other shirt came in with the silhouette of the dog with the blue line and the sticker. We then just added that to the same online store to make it easier for people to get either shirt.” Tolman explained that the store will remain open as long as

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Opioid addiction can be a difficult and dangerous affliction and New Hampshire is no stranger to it.

According to an article in the Union Leader, in 2015 more than 13 million doses of painkillers involved in the opioid epidemic were released in New Hampshire pharmacies in a three month period. Data from the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services said in 2015, more than 400 people in New Hampshire died as a result from a drug overdose.

Right now, action has been taken in response to the opioid epidemic in New Hampshire. Fire stations in Manchester and Nashua have established “safe spaces,” or places people struggling with opioid addiction go to get support. These safe spaces are located in fire stations in both of these towns.

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tion in people who start using opioids. “I personally [have] seen people take that three-to-five year plunge of the young.

They’re beautiful male or female, attractive, got the world going for them and in three-to-five years, you don’t see them anymore,” said Howard.

the idea of safe stations, however, he said they have room for improvement.

“While the idea behind safe stations at fire stations is great, there is still no place for the individuals to go for treatment because safe stations do not have contracts with rehabs and detoxes,” said Diffendale.

Responses at KSC Diffendale said that while Keene has made progress on cracking down on the opioid epidemic, there are still improveKSC sophomore and substance abuse minor Dante Diffen- ments to be made. “There is no one solution. There needs to be dale has had a personal experience with substance abuse. He a myriad of services offered,” said Diffendale. struggled with substance abuse such as opiates and was able ChAARI was contacted but could not be reached for comto recover from it. At age nine, he started using drugs and by ment. Jessica White, founder of Keene Hates Heroin, was conage 16, he went to his first treatment center. tacted but could not be reached for comment.

During the end of his addiction, he was in a medically induced coma for 16 days. Diffendale is now raising awareness Katherine Glosser can be contacted on opiates, has spoken at local high schools regarding opiate at kglosser@kscequinox.com awareness and is a recovery coach. Diffendale said he likes

there’s interest in it.

He said, “In order to make it feasible for us to do it affordably, we have to have kind of [order] like a bulk.

So once it gets down to maybe one or two orders in a week, then we’ll probably discontinue it at that point.

But if there’s continued interest in it, we’ll keep it open.”

The 23 represents Costa’s involvement with sports outside of work and the 111 relates to work.

Tolman said, “He was pretty much a pillar of the community as a leader for the police department and the movement against drugs.” He said that Costa had a big part and was very visual in trying to curb the

heroin epidemic in town.

Tolman said, “In that regard, he was very visible as he should have been as being the chief of police, but then otherwise, he was very active with youth sports and stuff. And that’s where his impact made a bigger impact with the youth and children of the community.”

He mentioned that was a big part of who he was.

Lieutenant Steve Tenney had the opportunity to get to know Costa. Tenney said, “He was a co-worker, a friend and a boss. I’ve known him for quite a while, probably 20 years.”

He mentioned that 111 was Costa’s badge number

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from the police department. He explained that following Costa’s death, “There was quite an outpouring of support which kind of just speaks to the character that he was and what he had done for the community.

He continued, “I think they came together pretty nicely.” He reflected upon Costa’s community involvement.

Tenney said, “He was a great guy. He was very passionate about the community, which I think everybody knew. It showed in his involvement both out of work and inside of work, whether it was coaching or what he got involved with as police chief here.”

Both t-shirt designs are available for $15 each and the stickers sell for $8. All the money from the sales will go toward a college fund for Costa’s three children, but people can make additional donations to their orders as well.

The Keene Sentinel reported, “According to Costa’s obituary, donations can also be made for his children directly to the Brian C. Costa Memorial Fund through the Savings Bank of Walpole, P.O. Box 744, Keene, or at any branch location.”

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“He was a great guy. He was very passionate about the community, which I think everybody knew. It showed in his involvement both out of work and inside of work, whether it was coaching or what he got involved with as police chief here.”

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Two local women approached Bulldog Design, wanting to make shirts in memory of former Police Chief Brian Costa. Costa passed away in early March of this year. Funds from the selling of the shirts, as well other donations will be donated to Costa’s three children for their college education.

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Dividing the sexes with wage gaps Women earn less for the same amount of work A person’s annual pay shouldn’t be set based off of their sex/gender.

Equal Pay day occurred this past Tuesday, April 4, highlighting a problem many women across our nation face, wage gaps.

According to the AAUW website, “In 2015, women working full time in the United States typically were paid just 80 percent of what men were paid, a gap of 20 percent.” New Hampshire is no exception. According to the National Partnership for Women and Families website /, “Women in New Hampshire are paid 76 cents for every dollar paid to men.” This then means women in New Hampshire working full-time on average are making 24 percent less than what their male co-workers earn.

Referring back to the AAUW website,data on Median Annual Earning and Earning Ratio for Full-Time, Year-Round Workers, by State and Gender for 2015 New Hampshire ranked 38 out of all the states including the District of Columbia, having a higher wage gap than the national median.

According to their median data, NH men made just over $55 grand a year while NH women made under $45 grand a year. Many employers claim to be equal opportunity yet aren’t always offering equal pay. Women in general make less than men but this is even more so true for those women among minority groups.

A person should be hired based off of their qualifications and what they bring to the table as a potential employee. A woman isn’t entitled to make the same amount as her male co-worker if he has a doctorate and she’s fresh out of college with just a BA in hand and vice versa for a man. However, if they’re both applying for the same job with the same qualifications then they should be paid equally. We at The Equinox just wants to emphasize that qualification has nothing to do with sex, and annual pay shouldn’t be set based off of that. A person’s ethnicity or sex/gender shouldn’t give them a leg up when applying for jobs.

While some employers offer equal employment to all applicants, the wording on job applications may leave some feeling otherwise. For example, on some job applications under the section for race, often times it will group ethnicities all under the same race. This restricts those individuals and groups them together as being all part of the same group, rather than identifying them for coming from the unique culture they actually make up. Honestly, race shouldn’t even be a relevant question to job applications.

Race or ethnicity has nothing to do with job performance.

People, especially women, should be able to formulate a general gage of their worth and how they can benefit the company when applying for a job.

Also, there’s more to it than just salary alone. Benefits and insurance should also be taken into account. No one should have to settle for anything less than they feel they are worth. It’s not right to settle and let an employer take advantage of you. However, we at The Equinox also feel it’s equally important to have valid reasons to back up why you feel you deserve to earn that number in the first place. We feel students should know how to appropriately and effectively negotiate their salaries and annual pay when the question comes up during job interviews.

There are resources out there that are available online where you can compare annual salaries between similar jobs and career fields. It would be a good idea to research ahead of time so you know what to expect. If you’re a woman and you’re offered less than what appears to be the median pay than you especially should negotiate to get a fair salary.

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Trump teeing up Florida business not up to par PABLO FLORES

equiNox staff Due to President Trump’s frequent visits to his Mar-aLago Club in Palm Beach, Florida Democrats are pushing for new legislation to be passed that requires President Trump to inform the congress who is meeting in Mar-a-Lago. I think we should know what the president is up to at all times when it comes down to official business.

We all pay taxes, so I don’t want the president using those tax dollars to go play a nice game of golf at his privately-owned golf resort while conducting business that may change the United States with people who remain a mystery to us. I believe we have the right to know who the president meets with when it comes down to matters of official business; however the president does deserve his privacy when it comes to personal matters.

I just don’t appreciate how our president is treating his job like a joke. The name of this new legislation has been dubbed the Mar-a-Lago, short for “Making Access Records Available to Lead American Government Openness Act.” An article from the Washington post says this act was first brought to the table by Senator Tom Udall of New Mexico, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Tom Carper of Delaware and Representative Mike Quigley of Illinois. Not only does this legislation require President Trump to list who he meets in Mar-a-Lago, but also in any other location where the President does official business on a regular basis.

Many people are split on this issue. Should we respect the president’s privacy or should we have him be transparent and more accountable for what he does while conducting official business away from the White House?One simply just don’t go to a golf course and drink fine wine while discussing important policies.

As a side note, dear President Trump has played more golf than Obama has in his entire time in office and he has only been in office for 70 days.

Trump even complained that he thought Obama was playing too much golf during his 2016 campaign trail saying, “I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have time to play golf.”

Well Mr. President, it seems like you made the time to play more golf than Obama did in his eight years in office.

Trump has moved the White House to any location that he desires, which I find frustrating, but I’m not the only one. Richard Painter, the former ethics lawyer for the George W. Bush administration, voiced his own problems with Trump’s whimsical way of conducting official business.

He said, “Under those circumstances, in which taxpayers are paying for you to do government work and for your Secret Service protection, they’re entitled to know what private parties are moving in and out of there.” I couldn’t agree more with Mr. Painter on that.

Transparency is important between a nation and their President, and if the President isn’t transparent, people will begin to feel even more untrusting of the American government.

Now, in this time of uncertainty, doubt and suspicion, these are the last things the American people need to feel towards their government.

Pablo Flores can be contacted at pflores@kscequinox.com

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Cracking controversial jokes NICK TOCCO

equiNox staff Once again, during the era of the overly offended, another stand-up comedian is being put on internet trial for supposedly marginalizing a group of people. After releasing his two-part Netflix classic, comedian Dave Chappelle is being branded as homophobic and transphobic for some of the things he said during his special. The people making these claims are completely undermining the creative liberties a performer is supposed to have on stage.

My opinion that Chappelle’s performance was genius is exactly that, my opinion, and I won’t announce it to the world as a fact. As an aspiring journalist and amateur standup comedian, I appreciate and understand first amendment rights. I also appreciate the amount of hard work it takes to assemble a full hour of standup comedy material and perform it in front of millions of people, thanks to the platform Netflix provides. To say the comedy special wasn’t funny to you is one thing, but to say the performance was marginalizing or prejudiced in anyway is not only outrageous, it’s impossible.

If a journalist, for example, were to make similar comments to what Chapelle said, the case for that journalist being homophobic or transphobic could be made because a journalist isn’t in the entertainment business. But a performer, such as a comedian, cannot be held accountable for performing material as if they truly believe every word they say, and an audience member has no right to claim how their material is supposed to be interpreted by the rest of the audience. To say Chappelle is a homophobe or a transphobe is like saying Larry the Cable Guy is an actual cable guy.

Anyone who claims Chappelle’s words were discriminatory are selectively taking words from a comedic bit literally.

I never thought I would see the day where a comedian like Chapelle is being reprimanded for being hateful and marginalizing, when in the same comedy special, Chappelle talked about idolizing the Care Bears. Think about how crazy that is.

The outraged blogger community tells people to believe that Chappelle finds transgendered progress at the expense of the black community in America, but never mentioned when he said, “Dave Chappelle the American” pointed out how great it was that the media and the nation heavily supported Caitlyn Jenner and transgender progress. Most critics have only focused on Dave Chappelle’s comments on behalf of “Dave Chappelle the black american” during his routine.

But any mentioning of change being weird in society is

a cause for outrage these days, right? All Chappelle did was point out that it was kind of crazy that one of the greatest American male athletes of all time decided to change his sex.

Sue him for pointing that out. Actually, please don’t. That would be too predictable.

I hate being the one to make the classic sticks and stones argument, but I am just left no choice. Chappelle became a comedy icon by making hilarious commentary of societal and political events. As a performing public figure, it is his right to make fun of or comment on any group of people.

I found Chappelle’s performance to be as fair and balanced as they come and to me, it was a comedic masterpiece that had me laughing from beginning to end. But that is my opinion because Chappelle is one of my stand-up idols. If you don’t find him funny, it is your right to believe that and voice that belief, especially if you paid money for the performance.

But to interject claims of marginalizing groups of people is just unnecessary.

I am not a big fan of Drake and I voice that opinion constantly, but I don’t add claims of misogynistic language to my argument. I just think he sucks. But music, like standup comedy, is an art form in which the quality of work is completely subjective. So, everyone can complain as much as they want; just be careful of how much you expect it to matter because Dave Chappelle has 60 million reasons why he doesn’t need to change his material.

Nick Tocco can be contacted at ntocco@kscequinox.com

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Finding a balance between work and school DOROTHY ENGLAND

News editor My brain is buzzing as I push open the doors. I’ve just come from work and now I’m en route to class. I walk through the student center while mentally checking off my to-do list. After class, it’s back to work again and then back to school. It’s Monday, my busiest day.

There are a few other students like me, those whose car keys are visible in clenched hands, whose strides are intentional, those who don’t have many friends on campus, but more so have friendly acquaintances. The truth is, we don’t have much free time or money to spend with friends. We are cyclers.

We go to work, get paid, then put that money into our education, so that, in the future, we can go to work and get paid better.

We are typically the type of students who don’t miss a class before spring break and the ones who don’t go bananas over break either because we’re working instead. We’re the ones who love a good snow day because it’s most likely our only day off, and that’s only if we had classes that day.

Without these spontaneous breaks to tie us over, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Professors don’t always understand that after working until midnight and then only getting five hours of sleep, you forgot to do the assignment. Employers don’t always understand that sometimes you must take off work for academic events or you’ll go down a grade point. The struggle to do well and be responsible to everyone and everything is real.

So, here are some ways to manage.

First, there’s the obvious: manage your time. But what a lot of people, including myself, tend to forget is to pencil in free time. It wasn’t until recently that I allotted myself some free time during the day instead of embracing it at the end of the day with exhausted arms.

It’s easy for busy people to feel lazy when they’re doing nothing. The truth is, for busy people, that nothing is something. It’s a pause, a breath of fresh air, a reset button.

This semester, I’m taking more classes than I was last semester and I’m working more hours, but I also have more scheduled free time. Somehow with all that extra time being eaten away, I’m less stressed than last semester. The key? Scheduled free time I don’t feel guilty about.

Another thing to schedule is fun time.

This acts as a sort of glimmering glimpse at the end of the tunnel. Obviously, they’re not the end goal, but they should be exciting enough to tide you over. Even if it’s something as simple as getting drinks with your friends, mark it in your calendar and count down the days until that victory lap is there and you’ve almost made it to a small but important celebration.

In the meantime, slack off every once in a while. The key is to find these tasty moments where you can and not to make a habit of it.

If you know your next 8 a.m. is just going over material you already understand, skip it and sleep in. If you know you can get away with taking a Friday off from work and you don’t need the money, take the day off. If you know you’ll still have an A even if you miss that assignment, don’t complete it. But don’t fret about it or apologize for it. Just let it go and remind yourself that in a month, in a year or in a lifetime, no one will remember.

Lastly, take time to appreciate what you have.

It’s hard to appreciate anything when life is all going to chaos, but hey, it wouldn’t be heading in that direction if you didn’t have the opportunities you do. Bask in gratitude. Go backwards with your stress and figure out why you have it. Ask

yourself if this is something you truly don’t have to deal with it for just a little bit longer. want to deal with.

For example, I get stressed about my TV Dorothy England can be contacted at class, but I’m taking that class to get my major dengland@kscequinox.com in journalism. I’m getting my major so I can get a better job. I want to get a better job so I can satisfactorily sustain a desired lifestyle.

When you break it down like that, it comes to one of two things: you either are living your life for somebody else or you’re exactly where you need to be and you just

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Procrastination as the semester closes

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Students struggle with a busy schedule and the large work load with a few weeks left JILL GIAMBRUNO

equinox Staff With the arrival of warm weather and a countdown to graduation in the back of everyone’s minds, the final stretch of the spring semester is adding stress to most Keene State College students’ lives.

An increased workload, coupled with procrastination, is a recipe for disaster that KSC students know all too well.

KSC junior Nathaniel Wolf said while he procrastinates on most assignments, he can’t really pinpoint a reason as to why he does it.

“I guess at this point, it’s just force of habit,” Wolf said. “I actually find when I’m working under the pressure of time, I produce better work as I know I can’t get any more distracted so I guess it’s beneficial in that instance.”

Wolf said procrastination doesn’t typically lead to

stress until the end of the semester, when more assignments are due and deadlines are fast approaching.

KSC junior Nick Stapleton added, “The end of the semester is when scholarships have to be filled out and classes have to be registered for,” in addition to final papers, projects and exams.

Stapleton noted that a real problem for him is how the increased workload at school interferes with his work schedule.

“I need the money to pay for my education, but it subtracts more from the time I need to do work on projects, forcing me to procrastinate in a way,” Stapleton said.

Stapleton is no stranger to procrastination. “[Sometimes] I get so overloaded with work that when I’m nearly caught up, I need time to blow off steam and relax. Usually instead of doing my work, I’ll catch up on sleep, read a book or hangout with some friends. Sometimes, I’ll go for a run or a bike ride,” Stapleton said. “I tend to keep my procrastination under control so that it doesn’t impact my grades or school work, although it

can put me under immense stress.”

Stapleton added that at the end of the semester, there’s less time for him to procrastinate, though that’s when he feels like he needs to most.

KSC senior Will Hadden said that while he doesn’t procrastinate with everything, when he does, he usually underestimates how long something will take.

“I occasionally will procrastinate to the point where things become an emergency and must be taken care of immediately,” Hadden said. “And generally, when I’m not doing the work that I should be, I’m watching Netflix or trying to find something good to eat.”

Hadden said the key to combating procrastination is motivation.

“I often need the motivation that comes with deadlines. Deadlines appear most frequently during the end of the semester,” Hadden said. “Toward the end of the semester, I reach a peak in my level of motivation.”

Dakota Umbro, a KSC junior, said she typically procrastinates on things that she has the option of putting

off.

Umbro said, “I think I procrastinate because I know that what I am putting off could be done at another time. But whatever I am doing in the moment is the most important.”

When she’s procrastinating, Umbro said she’s often doing other assignments she put off, but that the key is prioritizing.

“I think toward the end of the semester, more things are due and there are more things to do, specifically with projects or extracurriculars,” Umbro said. “I think the spring semester each year is pretty stressful, especially if you are a junior or a senior. Life really starts to hit you in the face.”

Jill Giambruno can be contacted at jgiambruno@kscequinox.com

Cell phone addiction among college students EMMA HAMILTON

Student Life editor It’s an impulse to look at it. Being connected is a driving force. The small piece of technology able to fit in her pocket helps Dakota Umbro avoid awkward situations.

Keene State College (KSC) junior Umbro considers herself to depend on her phone. “I always have it on me and check it too many times a day,” Umbro said. Her cell phone is nothing but a distraction at work and school, according to Umbro. When it goes off in her pocket, it’s “instinct” to check it right away, or rather a habit. She finds herself on it, often ignoring the assignments she should be doing.

Most think of addiction relating to drugs, but it applies to much more than just that. The American Society of Addiction Medicine defines addiction as being, “characterized by inability to consistently abstain, impairment in behavioral control, craving, diminished recognition of significant problems with one’s behaviors and interpersonal relationships, and a dysfunctional emotional response.”

Psychology major at KSC Eric Davis believes that everyone will consider the excessive use of cellphones as an addiction in the near future because most do not believe it to be an addiction currently.

Director of the Center for Internet Technology Dr. David Greenfield said around 90 percent of Americans overuse, abuse or misuse their cell phone.

The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction (CITA) serves as one of the world’s preeminent resources for neurobiological and psychological research into internet and technology addiction, dependency and abuse.

According to the PEW Research Center, “67 percent of smartphone owners have admitted to checking their phone for calls or messages when their phone hasn’t vibrated or made any noise. This is one major sign of cell phone dependence and should serve as a warning to cell phone owners.”

The PEW Research Center provides information on social issues, public opinion and demographic trends shaping the United States and the world.

Science News for Students reported college students use their cellphone around nine hours per day. Science News for Students is an award-winning online publication dedicated to providing age-appropriate, topical science news to learners, parents and educators.

KSC first-year student Katherine Flight said she spends much more than just nine hours a day on her phone, but probably most of her day attached to it.

Flight said, “I feel the need to stay connected to my friends and family at all times.” She said she finds herself aimlessly scrolling through social media for hours to know what everyone is up to.

While in classes, Flight spends most of the hour and 45 minutes absorbed in it. She said she knows it’s a big distraction when it comes to her academic work.

Not only do both Umbro and Flight spend a number of hours on their phones throughout the day, they are sleeping with their phones too.

Luckily for them, sleeping with their phones just got healthier. Psychologists World reported on “the new update for Apple products, including iPhone and iPads have a feature called, ‘Night Shift.’ This feature adjusts the tint of the colors on your screen to reduce exposure to the blue light that illuminates from your phone. The tint of color changes to a warmer hue, which is supposed to minimize the disruption to the sleep-wake cycle.”

Both Umbro and Flight use their cell phones for more than just a phone.

They use it as an alarm clock too. Umbro said, “I find myself scrolling through social media before falling asleep and I tend to stay on my phone if I, ‘can’t sleep.’” Flight said almost every night she falls asleep while using her cell phone.

The blue light that illuminates from cell phones has a negative effect on your melatonin levels because the light tells our bodies to stay awake and alert, according to the Sleep Institute. The Sleep Institute helps people who suffer from snoring and sleep apnea.

Even with the dependency that individuals have on cellphones, day and

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night, when the piece of technology dies or breaks, there’s a feeling of relief.

Flight said she usually always has her phone charged, but if it does die and she doesn’t have a charger, she goes about her day without it. With it, she’s attached and without it she doesn’t mind not having it.

Umbro said without her phone, “It is a very nice break. I feel like I am underground and nothing really matters outside of my present life.”

Being glued to cell phones lessens face-to-face interaction. Look around at a restaurant and chances are you’ll see individuals sucked into their cell phones rather than enjoying time with one another. Addiction Tips said people have a higher value on staying current with what’s going on in the social media world. Addiction Tips is an online resource for everything addiction related. They have a team of writers that includes addiction specialists, as well as recovering addicts. Medical Daily said taking out your phone at the dinner table could be an indicator of addictive behavior. Medical Daily covers health and science news that matters most to the current generation.

Umbro said, “I feel as though the vast cellphone use is breaking down the ability to have verbal conversations.” She also said that she tries to be conscious about being on her phone while she’s with her significant other

and family. During meals, she said she tries more to engage with whomever she is with, rather than being on her phone because she feels that it is rude to be on your phone while eating.

Flight said her parents become upset when she is on her phone at the dinner table texting rather than visiting with them.

Though these KSC students are using the handheld technology several hours throughout the day, they are still trying to use it less and less.

Flight said she is trying to use her phone less because she finds herself on it for hours while she could be doing other more productive things such as homework, going to the gym or spending time with friends. Umbro said lately, she is trying to be mindful about how much she is using her cell phone.

Davis said, “I have definitely been trying to use my phone less. It’s a distraction and I found when I use social media less, I feel overall better and less anxious.”

Emma Hamilton can be contacted at ehamilton@kscequinox.com

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KSC student explores and studies in Poland LAUREL FARR

Study away I’ve been studying at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, since Feb. 19.

The initial transition into life in Poland, though exciting, was not easy.

You would be surprised how difficult it is to find essential things, such as a towel.

The first week was spent mostly trying to figure out how to navigate the city and get the supplies we needed before classes started.

Krakow is one of the most beautiful cities I have ever been to.

It was not bombed in World War II, so it still has all of the historic buildings and streets to explore.

The first weekend I arrived, our program took all of the students on a weekend integration trip to Warsaw, Poland.

I am studying with five other Keene State College students, so I already had a small safety net of friends, but I am extremely grateful for the other friends I made that weekend and have now.

I have begun to understand that I need to appreciate every moment I have because studying abroad does not last forever.

Most of the friends I have made are from the East Coast, but they range from New England to Wisconsin to California.

In the short time I have known the students in my program, I know that I’ve already created friendships that will last a lifetime, and to me that is a huge part of this experience of studying abroad.

The way our classes here work is basically a majority of the students from our group have every class together, in the same classroom, all afternoon.

We got to know each other quickly because of the set up and when we have free time, we are always looking for new places to eat.

I live only a 10-minute walk from Old Town, which

“Each day when I walk around to go to class or to grab food quickly, I walk through the largest medieval square in Europe in Old Town as if it was Appian way.”

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is full of restaurants, museums and shops.

Each day, when I walk around to go to class or to grab food quickly, I walk through the largest medieval PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY LAUREL FARR square in Europe in Old Town as if it was Appian Way. While being abroad, Farr has been able to sightsee plenty of Poland.

Krakow has no shortage of beauty.

Every side street I turn down, I am impressed with something new.

Compared to other study abroad programs at KSC, my semester is not even half over.

I do not return to the states for another three months and I have so many other locations to travel to with the new friends I have made.

Overall, my experiences so far in Poland have been incredible; I have had the opportunity to travel to other countries in Europe up until now and plan to explore even more.

I miss KSC and my friends back home, but I know I made the right choice to spend my semester abroad in Krakow.

I cannot wait to continue to learn here and bring these experiences back home to the States with me this summer.

PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY LAUREL FARR Laurel Farr can be contacted at laurel.farr@ksc.keene.edu Farr has been able to get closer with her KSC friends and meet new friends since living and studying in Europe.

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Eating with the Equinox: Kale chips KATE FAULKNER

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3. Line cookie sheet with parchment paper.

4. Toss kale in olive oil and spread out on paper.

5. Bake for 10-15 minutes until edges are brown.

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Sigma Puppies

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KSC’s Fraternity Sigma Pi put on the event Sigma Puppies last Thursday afternoon. The event was apart of the Altruistic Campus Experience [ACE] that the chapter is affiliated with. Kyle Hastabacka, ACE project chairman said the fraternity decided to bring therapy dogs to campus to raise awareness about college depression. Sigma Pi is required to host one event a year that benefits the campus community.

According to Healthline, one out of four college students suffer from some form of mental illness, including depression.

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Spending the day in a city that never sleeps MARY CURTIN

Ads director A 3:30 a.m. alarm woke me from my half-sleep and I stumbled out of bed, turned on my coffee pot and began my day.

I was on campus by 5 a.m. Friday morning to board a bus to New York City (NYC) for a career tour of Condé Nast (home of Teen Vogue) and of Orion Worldwide, both companies headed by Keene State College alumni.

This event was put together by Sara Barrett, who is part of the Alumni Relations for KSC. A total of 32 communication, management and journalism students took part in the trip and were able to ask questions and be a part of the excitement for the afternoon.

According to an e-mail sent by Barrett, career tours “connect faculty and student groups with successful alumni who are willing to host a career tour of their company to provide students with exposure to a range of occupations, companies and industries; to share their career path and career expertise; and to create informal networking opportunities with alumni and students.”

The ride to the city was stuffy, rainy and I was in and out of sleep for those six hours confined to the inside of a bus.

When we finally arrived at our first destination, a tour of Teen Vogue at One World Trade Center, the rain was coming down, we hustled for two blocks and went through the tough security to finally make it in.

When we arrived, we were greeted by Mary Leonard, the assistant to KSC alumna from Class of 1997 Amy Oelkers, who is Head of Revenue at Teen Vogue.

We were taken to the conference room, where there were piles of New York bagels and a glorious view of the city, where we could spot the yellow taxi cabs lining the streets of NYC. Here, we were able to hear different stories about Oelker’s experiences when she was at KSC and learn a little bit about how candidates are chosen to be part of the Teen Vogue company.

After this, we got a tour of the fashion rooms and were taken to the 64th floor of One World Trade Center, where we could see a 360 degree view of the city.

It was here that I decided I would definitely be able to live in a city of that caliber; the hustle and bustle of cities excite me anyway.

I was even able to get some face time with Oelkers and talk about what her favorite part of working at Teen Vogue and working in NYC. “My favorite part of New York is just the city and the difference of it every day, nothing is the same. My favorite part about Teen Vogue is what we stand for, standing for the next generation of strong girls, women, feminists who are going to have a seat at the table, and it’s completely bad-ass,” Oelkers said.

Oelkers really hit the nail on the head with that one.

The next stop in NYC was Orion Worldwide, which is headed by class of 1984, Brian McMahon.

McMahon is the Chief Executive Officer of Orion Worldwide and he gave some helpful hints to the students on the trip about following our dreams.

PHOTO CONTRIBUTED BY JOCELYN His number one tip? “Be unafraid.”

Students from the communication, management and journalism Mary Curtin can be contacted at department had the opportunity to visit Teen Vogue last Friday. mcurtin@kscequinox.com

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Active Minds brings awareness of mental health

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Active Minds is an organization on campus that has a goal of fighting the stigma around mental health.

Those who struggle with mental health speak out in a discussion panel to fight the stigma EMMA HAMILTON

Student Life editor The organization Active Minds held a mental health discussion panel on Wednesday, March 29.

The panel consisted of various individuals with various stories about their experiences with mental illness. These people ranged from students here at the college to KSC graduates.

According to the Active Minds club, “Active Minds at KSC is a chapter from the non-profit organization that focuses on fighting the stigma, and spreading awareness, of mental illness.” The non-profit organization is national and works to increase the understanding of mental illnesses and fight the negative stigma that surrounds them.

Active Minds on campus puts on events such as the panel to promote the awareness of the social stigma that is associated with mental illness.

The counseling center was present for support of students in the audience along with the Monadnock Area Peer Support Agency.

One student who shared her story was first-year Mackenzie Donovan.

There’s a good chance you have seen her on campus with her service dog, Rue. “Mental illness has been a huge part of my life from birth. My entire family suffers from it in one way or another,” Donovan said.

When Donovan was 10-years-old, tourette syndrome, OCD and anxiety started to impact her, and it took her family a long time to realize that mental illness is real. Donovan describes herself as not being depressed during this time, but very lonely.

“My OCD drove me to do intense stuff. I won’t go into details, but I completely tore myself apart. When I was 12, I started having delusions and I believed the government was after me,” Donovan said.

This lead to three suicide attempts before the age of 16, according to Donovan. Recently, she has just told her family about the government delusions and came out of it over winter break.

Donovan said her delusions stemmed from wanting someone to want her because she said she doesn’t have many friends. Rue is trained to miti-

gate her delusions to allow her to function day to day. Donovan said it is unbelievable to her that she lived and believed in her delusions for so long and just recently told others about it.

“Coming to college was a very big thing for me, and as I was slipping out of the delusions...I began to come back to reality and realize how important college and a career is. Due to my OCD, when my professor posts something on Canvas that isn’t due until the end of the semester, I will do it right away. I’ll sit on my computer and continually refresh the page in case there’s a new assignment,” Donovan said.

As much as Donovan loves Rue, she is working to learn how to manage herself on her own so she, one day, doesn’t need a service dog. She said, “As much as I love having her [Rue], people are just so disrespectful. Rue is the reason I am here today.”

Another student, junior Heather Fougere, spoke out about her struggles with her mental illness. “[To my friends] I’m classified as a mother hen because I like taking care of my flock, but I take care of flock better than I take care of myself,” Fougere said.

Fougere has to continuously fight the various stigmas in her life. She said, “I suffer from depression and anxiety. I am high functioning, but on the inside I’m not doing so hot. Recently is when I have had to focus on myself rather than other people, but I really like focusing on other people more.”

Recently, Fougere got an emotional support animal that she finds helpful in her life. Her cat, Olive, lives in her residence hall with her.

Fougere didn’t realize she had anxiety because she thought the things she was thinking were normal for everyone to be thinking about all the time. She said she is lucky to have a doctor who is very aware of who she is and they were very helpful in identifying her anxiety.

Something Fougere recently came to terms with is PTSD. Her father was in a very bad car accident that paralyzed him. It has stayed with her longer than she thought it would and getting into cars is very scary for her.

“Last year, I got to the point that if I didn’t have a commitment to go to I would be in my room in the dark and just staring out my window. Just because I do so many things on campus doesn’t mean I can’t suffer from

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“Last year, I got to the point that if I didn’t have a commitment to go to, I would be in my room in the dark and just staring out my window. Just because I do so many things on campus doesn’t mean I can’t suffer from this struggle. I thought taking medication is the worst thing ever; it took a long time for me to come to terms with,” HEATHER FOUGERE KSC STUDENT

this struggle. I thought taking medication is the worst thing ever; it took a long time for me to come to terms with,” Fougere said.

Fougere wanted to remind people, “Everything is temporary. Keep that in mind; it can always get better, even if it gets worse first.”

Lastly, 33-year-old sophomore Dante Diffendale was there to speak out about the experiences within his life. Diffendale is a transgender male and said having to hide who he really was all these years as impacted his mental illness.

“Everything bad that you can think about that can happen to a little girl happened to me. I grew up in a really crappy household. I have parents that suffered from substance misuse disorders. I was taken away from my birth family and put in a foster home. That was the first time that I felt like I didn’t fit into my surroundings,” Diffendale said.

He continued, “My adoptive father is an alcoholic and is still very active in his addiction. My adoptive mom is my warrior and my cheerleader in life.”

Diffendale is recovering not only from addiction, but other things as well such as physical and sexual abuse, self harm and injury, negative selfinjury and eating disorders.

Diffendale has gone through 19 suicide attempts and three overdoses.

Diffendale said he finds it interesting that everyone on the panel had talked about being bullied. “I am going to echo the same thing. I was bullied all the way through high school until I graduated,” Diffendale said.

He continued, “If I had one penny for every time someone either directly to my face or indirectly talking to someone else called me a bad name or said something bad about me, I could probably pay for the rest of my school and probably half of your school too.”

Diffendale describes his life as “climbing hurdles.” He said, “I have done a lot of physical activity because being busy and having something to do cuts down on my brain being able to negatively talk to me.”

Taking the step to come to college wasn’t easy for Diffendale. “When I came to Keene State, the stigma I faced and what society told me was that I wasn’t going to have friends, be able to do anything and I was going to live the life of being miserable. My mental illness proves to me that these thoughts are so far off,” he said.

Though he is 33-years-old, Diffendale believes he is really just starting his true life. He claimed he gets to dictate how society sees himself, but even more so how he sees himself.

As Diffendale has been in the process of transitioning, he said naming yourself isn’t as easy as you would think it would be. “I spent three weeks looking through names and I could not find something that felt right. So I reached out to friends and we researched names. Having supportive friends helps in every aspect of my life. It’s an amazing feeling to have people who completely support who I am,” DIffendale said.

He continued, “Dante has rich history. In the poem ‘Dante’s Inferno,’ he walked through the gates of hell and came out a new person.”

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Student Life, A10 Thursday, April 6, 2017

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Keene State comes together to fight cancer

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Several organizations Relay for Life Hair donations for Beautiful Lengths ALYSSA SALERNO

Equinox Staff On April 1, despite a storm coming through Keene the night before, dropping several inches of snow, Relay for Life hosted nearly 300 people in the Spaulding Gymnasium, where light strips and streamers led teams in the right direction for the long walk.

Relay for Life is an event held all around the world to raise money and awareness for cancer. According to their website, it was started by Dr. Gordon Klatt in 1985 in Tacoma, Washington. Klatt was the only person to walk the first year, but he went the full 24 hours. The first event raised $27,000 for the American Cancer Society. Every year since then, it has been a group fundraiser, where team members take turns walking around a track to signify how cancer never sleeps, and at least for one night, neither will the people walking and fighting it. Events range from six to 24 hours, but the event held at KSC was from 12 p.m. to 12 a.m.

KSC senior Elizabeth Truesdell, who is on her second year as the event chair for Relay for Life, said she didn’t think the snow would affect attendance, considering most participants were students. Truesdell said, “The theme this year was game boards. We have a bunch of life-sized games we’re playing, so lifesized Tic Tac Toe, life-sized Hungry Hungry Hippos, we have a Mr. and Ms. Relay competition [and] really just games to get everyone involved.”

Not only were there games, but the gym also had a speaker system that played music to get everyone excited and keep them walking toward their goal.

There were also banners and streamers for participants to take pictures with. A monopoly-style jail was off to the back half of the gym and was a popular photo destination for walkers.

KSC senior Brittany Junkins said this is her third year walking with Relay for Life. She is a part of Delta Xi Phi and said, “The American Cancer Society is my sorority’s philanthropy. So every year, this is our big event we raise a lot of money for and we walk the full 12 hours.”

Sarah Olson, a senior with the KSC dance team, has walked with the team all of her four years here. She said she was excited because this year, the dance team would be performing during Relay. She was really passionate about Relay’s cause and while she was excited that her and her team were getting to perform, she also stressed the importance of why everyone took the time to come out and were spending their day walking around a gym. She said, “We walk for our family members and friends who have battled cancer and we’re here to support our college and our community.”

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Equinox Staff On April 1, twenty KSC students and Keene community members donated hair to make wigs for people who are fighting cancer to have access to free wigs.

Beautiful Lengths was at the same as Relay for Life.

Molly Mulrennan, a KSC sophomore, was at the event and said she was really excited to donate her hair.

Mulrennan said, “It’s something I do all the time, well not all the time, but I grow out my hair for the reason of donating it.”

She said she has probably donated her hair seven or eight times before.

Aimee Krafft is a sophomore and helped to coordinate the event.

She said she was really excited about how the event turned out.

Originally, the Beautiful Lengths event was planned on the same day as Relay for Life because Kraftt was not sure if they would have enough people interested to do their own event, but as the day progressed, Krafft said she was pleasantly surprised by how many people attended.

Krafft said, “Originally we had 13 people sign up, but we had a few more come at the door, so we had twenty in all.”

Jennifer Brown-Bassle, the store manager of Supercuts, said she and the other stylists at Supercuts love to

come to KSC to do the event every year as their way of giving back to the community.

Beautiful Lengths is a program, started by Pantene, that has donated over 42,000 real-hair wigs to the national American Cancer Society Wig Bank.

The event took place in several parts. First, all the participants went down into the gymnasium for the “first cuts.”

Many Relay for Life participants surrounded them as friends and other people running the event cut off eight to 10 inches of hair off of every donor’s head. “The hair is cut off and we give the person who’s donating a good quality style. Then, the donations get sent out to Beautiful Lengths, where they make wigs for people in need,” said Brown-Bassle.

She said there are a few things that a person needs to have to be eligible to donate hair. “It needs to be eight inches or longer and they (Beautiful Lengths) prefer no color-treated hair and for it to be in good quality.”

Supercuts will cut hair any time of year for Beautiful Lengths. It may not be free in the salon, but the hair will still go to a person in need. Supercuts is located in the Walmart plaza, less than a ten-minute walk from the college.

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Students walked around the gym for 12 hours in support of finding a cure for cancer.

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Students donated their hair to make wigs for cancer patients.

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From New Hampshire to New York

Twelve KSC students take a trip to the American College Dance Association OLIVIA BELANGER ADMINISTRATIVE EXECUTIVE EDITOR

The discipline of dance requires strenuous work involving the mind, body and soul. For members of the Keene State College dance department, this work does not go unnoticed. On March 22 through 26, 12 dancers traveled to The State University of New York (SUNY) Potsdam to perform at the American College Dance Association (ACDA).

Each year, the dance department chooses two student-choreographed and performed pieces to bring to ACDA. The dances then receive feedback from prestigious dancers and choreographers in order to improve. When the dances are performed, the adjudicators are unaware if the piece is student or faculty-choreographed in an attempt to keep feedback unbiased.

One of the dances chosen entitled, “Boiled Frogs,” was choreographed by KSC senior Makayla Ferrick. “All semester, we’re working on these pieces, developing them and casting dancers,” Ferrick said.

“The main purpose [of going to ACDA] is further exploration. There’s three people who will give us feedback on our work based on choreography, performance, hair, makeup and costumes, and then we use that information to practice because we have a show, ‘Evening of Dance,’ where the pieces will be shown again.” Ferrick has performed at ACDA for three years now, and the past two years her choreography has been chosen.

“When I first went, I didn’t have a full understanding of what it was. I was used to high school competitions and so when I first went, I was all nervous, but it really is just a way for other people to see your work,” Ferrick said.

Even though Ferrick has been to ACDA before, she said she still gets a lot out of the experience. “For me, going to ACDA helps me with my own dancing and my own movement. There are a lot of master classes there that pushed me to try different types of things outside of the box that we don’t get at Keene,” Ferrick said.

The other piece chosen, entitled “ab origine,” was choreographed by KSC junior Bethany Peterson. Ferrick said

both pieces were rehearsed twice a week for a total of four hours all semester and more rehearsals would be added if she or Peterson saw fit. Ferrick’s piece was an octet, while Peterson’s was a trio. Choosing the works to go to ACDA is discussed by faculty. Among those is KSC contract lecturer Cynthia McLaughlin.

“It involves choosing students that will have the most to gain from being a part of the conference and there is some seniority if it is their last chance to go,” McLaughlin said.

McLaughlin was responsible for the “nitty gritty,” of the trip, such as travel expenses. However, she said ACDA is important for dance students and she said she was more than happy to plan it this year.

“They had exposure to a lot of philosophies, approaches and genres of dance and also get to perform in front of their peers. There are 40 works presented, so they are able to see 38 other works,” McLaughlin said.

“Afterwards, there is really fruitful feedback sessions and the adjudicators were able to enter right into the environment of the work and discuss it and pick it apart and

find ways for you to rethink the work, both for the choreographers and the performers. By the end of every day, they are incredibly exhausted, but it’s well worth it.”

The student choreographers benefit from the feedback in order to rethink the work, but the dancers in the piece benefit as well. KSC sophomore Jordan Pierce danced in both works and she said watching other works helped her own performance.

“When you come to Keene, it’s mostly modern, ballet and jazz, so it is a really good opportunity for the dance department to go and experience things that they can’t experience here,” Pierce said.

The two student works, among many others, will be performed April 12-15 during “An Evening of Dance,” in the Redfern Arts Center Main Theatre.

Olivia Belanger can be contacted at obelanger@kscequinox.com

“...it is a really good opportunity for the dance department to go and experience things that they can’t experience here.”

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Twelve Keene State students spent five days in Potsdam, New York, performing student-choreographed dances by Makayla Ferrick and Bethany Peterson.

Dopplegänger Dance Collective comes to KSC NICK CHASSE

Equinox Staff On Thursday, March 30, Keene State College’s Redfern Arts Center welcomed the Doppelgänger Dance Collective (DDC).

The collective started when the duo, cofounders Shura Baryshnikov and Danielle Davidson, both attended a technique class at a community arts center in Providence, Rhode Island, held by Heidi Henderson.

When the two realized their compatible artistic chemistry, they approached Henderson and requested a dance that would be made specifically for them.

Realizing the issue of only possessing one dance, they then commissioned four dances from four different choreographers, leading to the start of their first season together.

Over the course of the night, the duo performed five dances. When asked about the

choreography, the performers later stated part of their focus was to highlight the duality of the two in a way that played heavily with the contrast and symmetry between the dancers.

This could be seen in the wardrobe as Baryshnikov and Davidson were clad in primarily black and white pieces outfits.

Sticking with the theme of duality, the overall tone of the play fluctuated between darker and lighter choreography between the dances.

When asked what inspired the choreography behind darker routines such as “Underwear, Nowhere,” Baryshnikov responded, “The characters that we essentially play are devised by looking at imagery from this collage by this woman named Hannah Höch, an artist who worked primarily in collages, usually images taken from daily publications… we were work-

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Sorrow and Solace

Keene Vocal Consort performs at Saint Bernard Church ETHAN CHALMERS

EQUINOX STAFF On April 2 the Keene State College Music Department presented the “Sorrow and Solace” concert program performed by the Keene Vocal Consort under the direction of Keene State faculty member, Matthew Leese.

The event was hosted at the Saint Bernard Church in downtown Keene.

The Keene Vocal Consort presented a program featuring many 16th century early music examples including a work by Henry Purcell and Richard Farrant.

Keene State students Matthew McGinnis, Emma Nelson, Tyler Martin, Daniel Carberg, Cari Caswell, Sam Bellemore and Becca Wilber were featured as vocal soloists in selections of the program.

The “Sorrow and Solace” concert idea was centered around Victoria’s “Passion According to John” which is one of the most popular settings of the Passion story and is performed at many Catholic, Anglican, and Episcopal churches during Holy Week.

The Vocal Consort opted to perform the piece in English to make

the story more interesting and easier for listeners to comprehend.

Traditional chants, anthems, and motets were also included in the program for the purpose of “meditation.”

Keene State College Professor of Music, Dr. James Chesebrough, attended the Vocal Consort concert.

Chesebrough remarked, “it was performed in just a wonderful acoustic setting. I have never heard a better performance by the [Vocal] Consort. It had a perfect blend and balance.”

Keene State College student, Amy Buonpane, mimicked Dr. Chesebrough’s remarks and said, “This was the best concert the Vocal Consort has ever performed. The singers were fantastically blended.

The performance really told a story.”

Callie Carmosino, also a Keene State College student, said that she thoroughly enjoyed the concert.

Carmosino said, “I thought it was an incredible performance-best concert.”

Ethan Chalmers can be cotacted at echalmers@kscequinox.com

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“This was the best concert the Vocal Consort has ever performed.”

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Keene to host fifth annual MONIFF ALEXANDRIA SAURMAN

Arts And EntErtAinmEnt Editor In a few weeks, the Monadnock International Film Festival (MONIFF) will be coming to The Colonial Theatre in downtown Keene once again.

The fifth-annual event will be hosted Thursday, April 20 through Saturday, April 22.

MONIFF’s goal is, per their website, “[t]o celebrate independent films that will engage, enlighten and educate audiences with compelling stories from around the world and here at home.”

11 feature films in the form of nine documentaries and three dramas will be shown this year.

In addition, 16 short films, seven dramas, seven documentaries and two animations will also be shown in a series of three Shorts Programs.

Keene State College’s ThorneSagendorph Art Gallery will serve as the venue for the opening night’s reception.

KSC will also be presenting two of the films: “Big Sonia,” a documentary about Holocaust survivor Sonia Warshawski, and “Contemporary Color,” a documentary about 10 color guards’ performances to original music.

Since 2013, MONIFF has given out five Jonathan Daniels Awards.

This award is “given to a filmmaker whose work fuses social and/or political awareness with artistic excellence, and encompasses Jonathan Daniels’ courage by telling stories of hope, redemption and the triumph of the human spirit,” according to the Learn section of the MONIFF website.

Daniels, a native of Keene, participated in the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s.

This year, the award was given to Beth Murphy for her documentary, “What Tomorrow Brings,” which will be the last film shown during the festival.

Individuals can buy one-day film passes for Friday or Saturday for $30 or can purchase a pass for the whole festival, currently on sale, for $60. VIP passes are also currently on sale for $90 and “includes [a]ll films, panels, and parties, [p]riority seating, [a]ccess to Filmmaker Lounge, [f]arewell Filmmaker Brunch [and a] [c]omplimentary swag bag.”

Passes are sold under the “Attend” section of the MONIFF website, moniff.org.

Alexandria Saurman can be contacted at asaurman@kscequinox.com

One Night of Queen at The Colonial Theatre

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New adaptation of anime ‘nowhere near as captivating’ as original WRITER: MATT BILODEAU

POSITION: EQUINOX STAFF REVIEW: While nowhere near as captivating as the anime of a thousand influences, “Ghost in the Shell” contains enough striking visuals and fluent action sequences to warrant a moderate recommendation even though it can’t escape the inevitable stench of controversy.

Based on the highly influential manga, in the near future, the line between humanity and technology seems to blur more and more each passing day.

Among the vast progressional leaps in technological augmentation, Major [Scarlett Johansson] becomes the first of her kind, a cyber-enhanced human who still regains her initial consciousness, often referred to as a ghost.

Alongside her partner, Batou [Pilou Asbæk], Major applies her newfound abilities to track down dangerous criminals for Section 9, an anti-terrorism bureau headed

by the calculating Chief Aramaki [Takeshi Kitano].

As she finds herself entangled within the investigation of a cyber criminal, Major uncovers a devastating truth about her past, a secret that threatens to shift her entire outlook on life itself.

“Ghost in the Shell” has been acquiring quite the headlines, and not for the best.

With accusations of whitewashing and racial feature enhancements, the live-action adaptation of Mamoru Oshii’s animated feature has not had the greatest publicity campaign.

With greater demands for racially diverse casting on the rise, it should have come as no surprise to Paramount that the backlash would be fierce and unforgiving in casting a white actress as a predominantly Japanese character.

The criticism had rose to such an extreme that my curiosity had piqued tenfold.

How could such a doomed production dig itself out of the mess it created for itself? “Ghost in the Shell” is heavily flawed, but I have to admit that as a clearly westernized adaptation of a Japanese property, I found enjoyment within Rupert Sanders’ dazzling effects show.

Before reaching the matter of Scarlett Johansson, I have to praise Sanders’ visual aesthetic alone, a “Blade Runner”-esque cyberpunk future in which skyscraper-level

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holograms canvas a large portion of the city.

In ditching the bleak color correction of modern Blockbusters, the dynamic colors leap off the screen, allowing the vibrancy of the extravagant city to stand out.

While “Ghost in the Shell’s” immaculate production design clearly resembles the anime, Sanders rarely finds himself beholden to the source material; rather, he faithfully pays homage to Oshii’s vision a la the iconic shelling sequence that precedes the film.

Those familiar with the anime

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ing with these very specific images of characters and then we built this piece around those characters.”

Henderson, who was also responsible for wardrobe, stated that Höch was also a huge inspiration in the design of the costumes.

Despite possessing a serious tone during some moments of the performance, the night was not entirely void of humor, as the performers utilized the use of ping pong balls to bring laughter to an otherwise grim moment.

When looking at the relationship between movement and humor in the choreography, Henderson left off on a lighter note by stating, “I just happen to be funny, even when

will recognize familiar beats that permeate the narrative, but this adaptation gearshifts the Major’s journey in a completely different direction than many will be expecting.

Whether offended or indifferent to the adjustment of the Major’s ethnicity, I believe it’s best to judge Johansson’s performance as is.

She bears resemblance to the standard demeanor of her animated counterpart, often speaking in a procedural manner without much emotion.

However, the key difference

between the two performances lies within her journey.

In the anime, the Major consistently questions her humanity, often pushing herself well beyond her shell’s limitations.

Johansson’s Major is not too far off, but with the glaring omission of an inner identity crisis, she’s more or less the typical Western action hero out for revenge for past injustices.

There’s a beautiful moment where the Major walks the streets in search of another human to touch, to stroke the human skin she so misses; it’s a quiet, intimate moment that rewards the audience with a brief glimpse into her psyche.

Unfortunately, occasions such as these are few and far between.

For a story that claims to explore the essence of humanity in a digital age, Johansson rarely evolves beyond most action protagonist archetypes.

“Ghost in the Shell” often flows best when focused on either Batou or Chief Aramaki.

Batou is the typical movie partner who, even in his most dire moments, can’t help but make a wisecrack on behalf of the Major; he’s an overall delightful figure.

Meanwhile, Aramaki is on the opposite side of the spectrum, hard-set on getting the job done correctly and without error, often going to extreme lengths, a rare adjustment that improves upon

the anime.

The greatest missed opportunity in “Ghost in the Shell” resides in how easily they could have flipped the controversy on its head.

Before the Major inhabits her new form, the character is of Japanese descent.

The transferring of a Japanese consciousness into the body of a white woman is ripe for deconstructing the very notion of whitewashing.

However, such an idea doesn’t stretch beyond a quickly forgotten off-the-cuff remark.

The best way to view Sanders’ “Ghost in the Shell” is with very low expectations. As a stylistic action film, it has enough visual flair to entertain those looking for simple entertainment.

I would say that I’m disappointed in being unable to experience Scarlett Johansson as an entity who assumes the form of an alternate body and questions the state of her humanity, but then I remembered I have Jonathan Glazer’s masterful “Under the Skin.” No harm, no foul.

Matt Bilodeau can be contacted at mbilodeau@kscquinoxcom

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I’m not trying to be funny.”

When coming up with an idea, Henderson said she often begins with the movement prior to coming up with an idea, allowing it to take her where it may.

Following the end of the event, a reception was hosted in the lobby of the Redfern Arts Center.

Both of the dancers spoke and addressed the audience members who remained.

Fellow KSC first year perspective theater and dance major and audience member Sung-Ki Carty stated that, “As a beginner in this style of dance, though I expected a high level of talent in what Doppelgänger can do with their bodies, I was astounded by their ability as storytellers.”

‘An Evening of Dance’ to return ALEXANDRIA SAURMAN

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Nick Chasse can be contacted at TIM SMITH / PHOTO EDITOR nchasse@kscequinox.com Five different dances were performed.

On Wednesday April 12, the Keene State College Theater and Dance Department will perform their 42nd “An Evening of Dance.”

This four-day event is directed

by KSC Theater and Dance resident artist Marcia Murdock and features 10 original dances.

Doppelgänger Dance Collective (DDC), an outside dance duo, will perform “The Head or the Hair.”

DDC performed at KSC on Thursday, March 30.

Three of the dances, “Because You Get There,” “Phantom Spaces” and “It’s a Question” are choreographed by KSC Theater and Dance faculty Murdock, Contract Lecturer Cynthia McLaughlin and Lecturer Shaina Cantino, with her dancers, respectively.

In addition, KSC students senior Makayla Ferrick, senior Brittany Powers, junior Bethany Peterson, junior Emily Posner, junior Jennifer Riley and junior Amanda Untracht choreographed their own dances that will be performed during the event.

Two of the pieces, Ferrick’s “Boiled Frogs” and Peterson’s “ab origine,” were recently performed at the American College Dance Association (ACDA).

The event runs from Wednesday, April 12 to Saturday April 15 and begins at 7:30 p.m. each night in the Redfern’s Main Theatre.

Tickets are $5 for KSC students with a student ID and range from $5-$10 for others, per the Redfern’s website.

Alexandria Saurman can be contacted at asaurman@kscequinox.com

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

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First modern-day Olympic Games held

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Long-lost tradition of ancient Greece was finally reborn after 121 years MARY CURTIN

ADS DIRECTOR/ TIME CAPSULE EDITOR April 6, 1896 marked the first modern Olympic Games.

The Olympics are a long lost tradition of ancient Greece and were finally reborn after nearly 1,500 years of being dormant. They were banned by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I. At the opening of the new modern-day Olympics in Athens, King Georgios I of Greece and a crowd of 60,000 spectators welcomed athletes from 14 nations to the international competition, according to history.com.

There were a total of 243 athletes and 43 events that they participated in that lasted until April 15.

The nations with the largest number of athletes

included Greece, Germany, France and Great Britain, according to olympic.org.

“On 6 April 1896, the American James Connolly won the triple jump to become the first Olympic champion in more than 1,500 years. He also finished second in the high jump and third in the long jump,” according to olympic.org.

The mission behind the Olympic games is to contribute to building a better world through peace and educating the youth that sports should be practiced without discrimination.

“Olympism is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example

and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles,” Olympic Charter, Fundamental principles, paragraph 1.

For some time, Boston, Massachusetts, was a candidate for the Olympic Games, but there are some crucial ways that a city goes from being a candidate to actually becoming a host city.

It takes around 10 years for a city to reach host city status, with a long process that requires much planning.

Along with this planning comes the following, according to olympic.org: “Olympic Agenda 2020 has highlighted the need for a shift in the candidature process in order to accommodate different solutions to meet Games needs within different cities’ contexts. To enable this, the I[nternational] O[lympic] C[ommittee] has placed even further emphasis on sustainability and

legacy. In addition, the IOC has carried out a thorough review of Games’ needs in order to reinforce alignment between a city’s long-term development plans and the Games, enabling cities to pursue the promotion of sustainable Games solutions and feasible long-term impacts which meet their needs.”

The next summer Olympic games will be in 2020 in Tokyo, Japan and the next Winter Olympic games will be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea in 2018.

According to olympic.org, “The Olympic Movement encompasses organisations, athletes and other persons who agree to be guided by the principles of the Olympic Charter.”

Mary Curtin can be contacted at mcurtin@kscequinox.com

This Week in KSC History This week in national history MARY CURTIN

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Complaining about living expenses is a tale as old as time, as are many Keene State College traditions.

In fact, in 1971, The Monadnock (The Equinox’s former name), reported that there would be a $100 increase in rent for on-campus room rentals.

This was meant to be so that money could be raised for the principal on Carle Hall.

In addition, there were married student dorms at this time that would also see this same increase, according to the article by The Monadnock.

This same year, on April 7, The Social Council announced the plans for spring weekend.

The spring weekend plans for that year were kicked off by a carnival on the Saturday of spring weekend during the afternoon and a concert that evening by the rock

group “The Youngbloods.”

Also on that Saturday was a ribbon cutting ceremony with the former mayor of Keene that would close off traffic down Appian Way for that day.

Closing off Appian Way meant that different student groups were able to set up booths and have different contests. These contests consisted of balloon shaving, egg catching, wishing wells and dart throwing.

The prizes for these contests were provided by local Keene businesses and all of the proceeds from the booth were donated to Hotline in Keene.

The paper reported that the highlight of the weekend would be the concert, where students could purchase tickets for two dollars.

Also in this weekend would be a dance for KSC students and a bike race, as well as the “Chalk Talk,” which is still tradition at KSC. While much has changed since 1971 on KSC’s campus, one long-

standing tradition is the spring concert and different weekends that have been dubbed by most students on campus as “Spring Weekend”.

These weekends generally consist of the Chalk Talk, the carnival, the spring concert, Solar Fest and several other activities put on by different student groups on campus.

A new tradition that the senior class of 2017 began this spring is the masquerade ball in lieu of a class trip.

This is meant to be a more inclusive event so that more students can participate and spend more time with their friends and classmates.

As KSC has evolved, so has its traditions, while still keeping some of the same festivities alive.

Mary Curtin can be contacted at mcurtin@kscequinox.com

MARY CURTIN

I’ve been to the mountaintop…And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you.

In 1968, the first McDonald’s Big Mac was intro- But I want you to know tonight that we, as a people, duced, 60 minutes debuted on CBS and The Beatles will get to the promised land.” released “Hey Jude”.

However, everything was not quite as cheery in Mary Curtin can be contacted at 1968. mcurtin@kscequinox.com On April 4, 1968, just after 6 p.m., civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. was fatally shot.

He was standing on the balcony outside of his second-story motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, when it happened.

King was 39 years old when he was rushed to the Memphis Hospital and pronounced dead.

Not long before his death, King was concerned with the pay inequality and gap between economic equality in America.

It was then that he developed and organized “Poor People’s Campaign,” which focused on this issue.

This entailed, “an interracial poor people’s march on Washington, and in March 1968, King traveled to Memphis in support of poorly treated African-American sanitation workers. On March 28, a workers’ protest march led by King ended in violence and the death of an African-American teenager. King left the city but vowed to return in early April to lead another demonstration,“ according to history.com.

The day before his assassination, he gave what would unknowingly be his last sermon.

During this, he said, “We’ve got some difficult days Martin Luther King Jr. waves to a crowd of ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because supporters in Washington, D.C.

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This week in Pop Culture: Red Sox Opening Day 4/3/2017.

2013- 15 people, including nine children, are killed by an air strike on Aleppo by the Syrian Air Force.

1947- Henry Ford, American industrialist and auto maker (Ford Model T), dies at 83.

1977- Businessman Donald Trump (30) weds his first wife Czech model Ivana Zelníčková (28) at the Marble Collegiate Church in Manhattan, New York.

1915- Billie Holiday, [Eleanora Fagan], jazz singer (Lady Sings the Blues), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1928 James Garner, American actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick), born in Norman Oklahoma, (d. 2014).

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Death toll in Colombia tops 200 ALBA TOBELLA

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Townspeople desperately searched their ruined homes and the local hospital for loved ones Sunday after a torrent of water, mud and debris swept through a city in southern Colombia, causing more than 200 deaths, many of them children, and leaving hundreds more missing and injured.

Neighborhoods were left strewn with rocks, wooden planks, tree limbs and brown muck after heavy rain caused the three rivers that surround Mocoa to rise up and surge through the city of 40,000 Friday night and early Saturday as people slept. The deluge smashed houses, tore trees out by the roots and washed cars and trucks away.

Search-and-rescue teams combed through the debris and helped people who had been desperately clawing at huge mounds of mud by hand. Many had little left to search.

“People went to their houses and found nothing but the floor,” said Gilma Diaz, a 42-year-old woman from another town who came to search for a cousin.

President Juan Manuel Santos, who visited Mocoa for a second straight day Sunday, declared the area a disaster zone and said the death toll stood at 210. But that could still rise because authorities said there were more than 200 injured, some in critical condition and people were continuing to locate remains in the debris. The president said on Twitter that 170 of the dead had been identified.

Dozens stood in the door of a hospital, hoping for news of family members who were not on the list of those confirmed dead or injured. Others frantically knocked on relatives’ doors, hoping to find someone with information about their loved ones.

The disaster seemed to hit young people particularly hard.

Santos said more than 40 of the dead identified so far were under 18, perhaps because youngsters were already in bed when the floodwaters struck.

Maria Cordoba, a 52-year-old resident who was trying to wash her belongings in a river, said two of her nephews, ages 6 and 11, were killed when their house was destroyed. “The mother as well was totally beaten up” but managed to save her 18-month-old baby, she said.

A rescue worker in an orange jumpsuit emerged from one search area with the body of an infant wrapped in a towel.

Not far away, Abelardo Solarte, a 48-year-old resident of Mocoa, held a child’s shoe as he helped clear debris.

“You have no idea how many kids there are around here,” Solarte said.

Jair Echarri, who came from a nearby town to help, also struggled to comprehend the loss of so many children. “I feel an enormous sadness because it’s filled with kids’ things, toys, clothes, school books,” he said. “I am a father and this breaks my heart.”

Santos said the avalanche of water and debris also

knocked out power in half of the province of Putumayo, where Mocoa is located, and destroyed the area’s fresh water network, creating dangerous and unsanitary conditions.

Mocoa is vulnerable to flooding. It is surrounded by the three rivers in a natural basin created by the surrounding mountains.

The danger has grown worse in recent years because of deforestation, which eliminates some protection from runoff, and because many people built their homes close to the water.

But the triggering event was rainfall of more than 5 inches (130 millimeters) that began late Friday.

A 1989 hydrology report for the Agricultural Ministry warned that just such a disaster could happen unless steps were taken to reinforce the riverbanks, channel water away from the town and restore some of the forest. It was not immediately clear why those steps had not been taken.

Juan Chanchi de Ruiz, 74, said the noise of the surging flood woke her up and gave her enough time to get to higher ground. Her house wasn’t damaged, but several neighbors’ homes were heavily damaged and many people fled with some of their belongings.

“Around here, there’s nobody. Everybody left,” she said.

Colombian officials pledged aid to rebuild homes, and the attorney general launched an investigation into whether local and national authorities responded adequately to the disaster.

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Firefighters and neighbors stop their work as they found the body of a woman in Mocoa, Colombia, Sunday, April 2, 2017. Colombia’s Presi dent Juan Manuel Santos, who has declared Mocoa a disaster area, said that at least 207 were killed but that the death toll was changing “every moment.” Authorities said another 200 people, many of them children, were injured and just as many were unaccounted for amid the destruction

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Girl injured by snow sliding off roof ASSOCIATED PRESS

A 4-year-old girl was buried by 5 feet (1.5 meters) of snow in an Alaska town after snow slid off a roof, seriously injuring the child, authorities said.

Emergency workers went to the home in the Fairbanks suburb of North Pole after a woman said Saturday afternoon that she could not find her granddaughter after snow slid off the metal roof, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported (http://bit.ly/2oqlLhd).

North Star Volunteer Fire Department Battalion Chief Robert Wells told the newspaper that the child was buried for eight minutes.

“The fortunate part is we were kind of in the neighborhood finishing a call and we were able to get there — crews got there immediately,” Wells said Sunday.

Shortly after 1 p.m., the family was about to leave the house together and the child went outside first, he said. The parents then heard the snow crashing down from the metal roof, Wells told the News-Miner.

The storm door leading to the back porch area opens outward and the door was jammed because of the snow, he said.

“They had to kick out the glass (of the storm door) to get outside,” Wells told the newspaper. “Calling 911 without delaying really helped . We had a huge area we were searching. The whole deck — the whole back side of the house — was buried. It was a large area to search. This would be similar to an avalanche. The father actually located the child’s hand.”

The child had no pulse and was not breathing when she was found.

But she was revived, he said.

The girl was flown from a hospital in Fairbanks to Anchorage.

People who live in houses with metal roofs should make sure that an excessive amount of snow doesn’t accumulate atop their homes, Wells said.

“With the weather, a word of caution to the people with metal roofs,” he said. “With this kind of weather, this is going to happen.

We had a lot of snow this year.”

Trump says US ready to act in North Korea CATHERINE LUCEY

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POTOMAC FALLS, Va. (AP) — President Donald Trump says that the United States is prepared to act alone if China does not take a tougher stand against North Korea’s nuclear program.

Trump’s comments in an interview with the Financial Times come just days before he is set to host Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago estate in South Florida.

The two are expected to discuss a number of issues, including North Korea, trade and territorial disputes in the South China Sea during their meeting on Thursday and Friday.

“Yes, we will talk about North Korea,” Trump told the newspaper for a story that appeared Sunday on its website. “And China has great influence over North Korea. And China will either decide to help us with North Korea, or they won’t.

And if they do that will be very good for China, and if they don’t it won’t be good for anyone.”

Trump said trade was the incentive for China to work with the

United States. Still, he said the United States could “totally” handle the situation in North Korea without China’s help.

Asked how he would tackle North Korea, Trump said: “I’m not going to tell you. You know, I am not the United States of the past where we tell you where we are going to hit in the Middle East.”

While China provides diplomatic and economic support to its neighbor, it claims that its influence over Kim Jong Un’s government is limited.

The relationship between the United States and China has been uncertain since Trump’s election.

During his campaign he accused China of unfair trade practices and threatened to raise import taxes on Chinese goods and declare Beijing a currency manipulator, though it is unclear whether Trump will follow through with either threat.

Trump told the newspaper that he doesn’t “want to talk about tariffs yet, perhaps the next time we meet.”

Trump’s ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, also offered tough talk on China, saying on ABC’s “This Week” that the U.S. is pressing China to take a firmer stand

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regarding North Korea’s nuclear program.

U.N. resolutions have failed so far to deter North Korea from conducting nuclear and missile tests.

Last year, the North conducted two nuclear tests and two dozen tests of ballistic missiles.

“They need to show us how concerned they are,” Haley said. “They need to put pressure on North Korea.

The only country that can stop North Korea is China, and they know that.”

Asked what the U.S. would do if China doesn’t cooperate, Haley said: “China has to cooperate.”

Former Defense Secretary Ash Carter, however, said he doubted that Beijing will cooperate.

“I’ve been working on the North Korea problem since 1994,” Carter said on ABC. “And we have consistently asked Chinese leaders ... because they uniquely have the historical and the economic relationship with North Korea to make a difference.

“They haven’t used that influence, ASSOCIATED PRESS and so it’s hard for me to be optimisIn this Tuesday, March 28, 2017, file photo, President Donald Trump listens during a meeting with the tic with that,” he said.

Fraternal Order of Police, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Trump says that the United States is prepared to act alone if China does not take a tougher stand against North Korea’s nuclear program.

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Men’s lacrosse tops Colby College and UMass Dartmouth SHELBY IAVA

team. We took 71 shots the week before Wiedenfeld to bring the score to 5-3. against Bates and they just didn’t fall, so The Owls continued to widen their we knew we had to just focus on our fin- lead in the beginning of the second, ishing and we would be all set. We got the first four goals would be Keene Colby College great play out of our second line of mid- State goals from Rotatori, Reilly, junior Senior Tyler Reilly led the Keene fielders Jake Genest, David Wiedenfeld Hunter Arnold and junior Jon Nassif for State men’s lacrosse team with five goals and Anthony Marcella and I think their a six-point lead.

UMass Dartmouth answered with a and one assist in a win against Colby contributions kept the offense fresh and dynamic,” Reilly said. goal from Jordan Torres with 6:24 to go.

College, 17-10 on March 29 at the Owl Back-to-back goals from both teams Athletic Complex. ended the second quarter, with the UMass Dartmouth Keene State gained an early lead as Owls holding their 10-5 lead at the half. senior Bryan Rotatori connected with UMass Dartmouth would only come The Keene State Owls men’s lacrosse Reilly for the first goal of the game.

Colby College responded quickly, find- team was led by seniors Robert Hart and as close to four in the last half of the Tyler Reilly with both five goals each game, but KSC extended their lead to ing the back of the net themselves.

Both teams went back and forth with against UMass Dartmouth on April 3. double-digits in the fourth quarter. A goals to finish the quarter, but the Owls The Owls excelled passed the Corsairs final goal from Reilly gave the owls a 19-9 advantage and their biggest lead of 19-10. remained on top 3-2 at the end of one. the game.

UMass Dartmouth was the first to Colby College received the first goal Keene State will continue LEC play of the second half to tie the score at three get on the board with back-to-back goals before Keene State netted three goals in with 12:18 remaining in the first quarter. when the Owls host Salem State on SatKeene State fired a 4-0 run. Senior urday, April 8 at 1 p.m. under 30 seconds to maintain their lead Bryan Rotatori started the run and with 11 minutes left on the clock.

Colby, with back-to-back goals, grabbed a 4-2 lead.

Shelby Iava can be contacted at UMass Dartmouth would only gain brought them within one, but Rotatori siava@kscequinox.com passed the ball up to senior Robert Hart one more goal in the quarter, but the and junior Jon Nassif to connect with Owls maintained their two-point advanjunior Hunter Arnold to close out the tage at the end of the first. Hart found quarter and bring the Owls back to their the net off of a pass from first-year David three-point lead going into the half.

The Owls pushed their advantage “It was a big win for the team...we knew into double digits between the third and fourth quarters by scoring seven goals. we had to just focus on our finishing...”

First-year Anthony Marcella shot a goal with 11:22 left in the game.

TYLER REILLY Colby outscored Keene State 5-2 in KSC MEN’S LACROSSE the last minutes, but the Owls took home the victory 17-10. “It was a big win for the

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Tyler Reilly led the Keene State men’s lacrosse team with five goals and one assist in their game against Colby College on March 29 at the Owl Athletic Complex.

Keene State women’s lacrosse brings home two wins in busy week SHELBY IAVA

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Westfield State University Junior Taylor Farland led the Keene State College (KSC) women’s lacrosse team to victory as she had her career-high on Tuesday, March 28 at the Owl Athletic Complex. The Owls picked up the first win of the season over Westfield State, 14-8.

Westfield scored and was the first team to get points up on the board with an unassisted goal from Sam Coyle. First-year Gabby Smith quickly reacted with a wrap around goal for KSC with 22:32 left in the first half. Farland gave KSC a onepoint advantage when she found the back of the net just three minutes later.

Westfield’s Marissa Nimeskern connected a pass from Alexa Tonelli to even the score. Farland converted back-to-back free position chances to give the Owls a two-point lead, right before KSC first-year Tess Masci put away a bobble in the box. Smith sent the ball to sophomore Chelsea Lewis who shot the ball to the back of the net, increasing Keene State’s lead

Owls suffer loss against Trinity College SHELBY IAVA

SportS Editor Trinity College took a 16-2 win over Keene State College in a nonconference game Tuesday March 28.

The Owls grabbed an early lead in the second inning when Connor Walsh doubled, moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on Devin Springfields’ sacrifice fly.

After Tom Meucci walked, Zach Rollins tripled to bring him all the way home.

Trinity batted in the bottom of the third, getting a 2-RBI hit and taking advantage of a pair of KSC errors to score six times in the inning. Trinity added three runs in each of the fourth and fifth innings and scored four more times in the top of the seventh.

Rollins and John Tarascio both had two hits for the Owls, while Nate Rossi and Walsh both had one.

Keene State started Alan Schiff (0-1) took the loss, allowing seven runs (four earned) in 3.1 innings of work. While, Tim Coppinger, Nate Pedersen, Brian Vieira, Evan McGregor and Noah Rizio all saw time out of the bullpen.

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by four, 6-2. Westfield cut the lead to three when Coyle shot past KSC in the last minute of the half. As the two teams went into the break, Keene State remained on top 6-3.

Back-and-forth goals opened up the second half of the game with Keene State maintaining a threepoint lead, bringing the score to 9-6.

Smith found the back of the net that lit up KSC’s offense. Keene State had a 5-0 run with three from Lewis, pushing Keene State’s lead to eight.

Westfield scored twice in the final minute of the game for a final score of 14-8, KSC.

Western Connecticut State University The Keene State women’s lacrosse team coasted to a Little East Conference (LEC) victory over Western Connecticut State University on Saturday, April 1 at the Owl Athletic Complex.

Both teams were tied at one for the opening 10 minutes of the game.

KSC grabbed a two-point advantage after senior Taylor Graf found the net with an assist from junior Taylor Farland. Junior Tori Weinstock scored her first goal of the game off a pass

from first-year Gabby Smith. The Colonials quickly reacted with a goal from Lauren Bradshaw to get them within one.

Keene State shot back-to-back goals from Graf and sophomore Chelsea Lewis to extend the KSC lead to three with 5:51 left on the clock. Western struck in the final seconds, leaving Keene State in the lead by two at the half.

Western came out scoring the first goal of the second half, right before Keene State ignited a 4-1 run with a hat-trick from Farland and a goal from senior Kelly Chadnick to maintain their lead 9-5, KSC. Western scored another goal, getting them close before Keene State had three unanswered goals from Weinstock, Farland and Chadnick, giving the Owls their greatest advantage, 12-6 with 7:19 left in the game.

Western would only shoot one more free position goal from Amber Andrews, as Farland scored the final goal to seal the win for the Keene State Owls.

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The Keene State women’s lacrosse team overcame Westfield State University 14-8 on Tuesday, March 28 at the Owl Athletic Complex.

Owls baseball splits in Little East Conference opener against RIC SHELBY IAVA

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Game 1 Senior pitcher Michael Crimi came out strong, giving the Keene State baseball team a split of a Little East Conference (LEC) doubleheader against Rhode Island College. The Owls claimed the win 11-1 before falling to RIC 9-8 in 12 innings in the days game.

Every Keene State player who started had at least one hit, including a number of 3-for-4 games from John Tarascio, Connor Longley, Connor Walsh, Devin Springfield and Zach Rollins.

Walsh finished with three RBIs, while Springfield and Tom Meucci both had two runs each.

Crimi stuck out seven in seven innings, allowing four hits and one earned run to improve to 3-0.

Keene State took a 2-0 lead in the first when Nate Rossi reached on a dropped fly by RIC and moved to third on a wild pitch and a single from Longley. Walsh’s double out left-center brought Rossi home and Christian Bourgea hit a fly to center to bring Longley home as well.

RIC finally ended the shutout in the bottom of the fourth when Austin Barry walked and scored on a sacrifice fly from Mike Webb.

Longley got another run with a sacrifice fly to center in the fifth. Two more came around in the sixth due to an error from RIC and an RBI from Springfield.

The Owls scored six times in the seventh inning for an 11-1 lead. Walsh had a pair of

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runs and Meucci tripled home two more. stop that allowed pinch runner Sam Czel to Struthers popped up to short to leave him Crimi retired the final 10 batters of the game, come home, tying the score at eight. stuck on second. including setting RIC down in order to end Rollins singled and stole second to open Coppinger, again, got Webb to fly out to the game in mercy rule. the ninth. RIC singled with one out in the center with the winning run on third, but bottom of the ninth, but Tim Coppinger got RIC won the game in the 12th when they hit Webb to ground into a 1-6-3 double-play to a lead-off single and scored on Nate DonoGame 2 send the game into extra innings. van’s double to right.

In the 11th, Meucci drew a one-out walk Keene State scored six times in the either Shelby Iava can be contacted at to force extra innings, but RIC got the walk- and moved into scoring position on a wild pitch, but Rollins flew out to right field and siava@kscequinox.com off hits in the bottom of the 12th, claiming the win. Rollins was 3-for-6 with four RBIs, while Longley, Walsh and Springfield each had two more hits.

The Owls, again, grabbed the first run of the game when Springfield walked, stole second and came around on Rollins’ single to left field. RIC went in front of the bottom of the third inning with a two-run double.

RIC added to their lead in the sixth with a RBI singles, taking the advantage off of another KSC error to make it 5-1.

Mac Struthers reached on an error to open the seventh and eventually score on a single to center field from Walsh. RIC made it 7-2 when they landed a two-run homer to right field in the bottom of the inning. RIC added another RBI single to make it 8-2.

In the top of the eighth, Springfield and Meucci singled to set Rollins up, who clubbed his first career home run over the fence in the left center for a three-run shot, bringing the game to 8-5.

Michael Webb moved from third to the mound, but began by walking Struthers, and an error allowed Rossi to reach home.

Walsh stuck a single to left field to bring CONTRIBUTING PHOTO/ KSC BASEBALL home Struthers and another error from RIC Zach Rollins recorded his first career home run in the double header against allowed Longley to score.

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everything they could to keep the game on. “Our student-athletes took matters into their own hands and said, ‘We really want to play, we’re going to go out here and do this,’ and that’s basically what happened. I apologized to all of our student-athletes because I definitely did not want them out there doing that, especially given the fact that they’re getting ready to play.

That is not their job to take care of the fields,” Kelly said.

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Thursday, April 6, 2017 sight that they thought could help clear the field.

“We were going to just take whatever we could find; we had chairs, we had hurdles from underneath the bleachers, we had a table at one point [and] we were just doing whatever we could to clear the field,” Farland said.

Farland said she doesn’t think that this “miscommunication” will ever happen again. “Shoveling was definitely not something we planned on doing before a game and not something that will ever happen again because it’s never happened in the past,” Farland said.

Kelly confirmed that there would be a plan in place for the next time weather is an issue.

“I have already been in con-

“We were going to just take whatever we could find; we had chairs, we had hurdles from underneath the bleachers, we had a table at one point [and] we were just doing whatever we could to clear the field.”

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tact with our grounds crew, so we have a contingency plan in place.

So every Monday from here on out we’re going to let them know all of our games for the week because of course with spring sports, there’s all kinds of inclement weather and all types of changes,” Kelly said.

After the fields were completely cleared off, the Owls were finally able to tip off against Wheaton College. The Owls took a loss they thought they wouldn’t.

“I think that we went in with the mindset of, ‘This game has to be ours. We just shoveled that field for a reason and we’re not going to come out with a loss,’ so in our minds, we had it and thought we were going to do well. We were winning at halftime, we were positive and staying up, but I don’t know if just being at halftime slowed us down a little or what it was,” Farland said.

She continued, “The other team played really well. They had things that we couldn’t capitalize on and their defense did a really good job at stopping our drives and feeds so it was tough, but I don’t know if it would change the outcome of the game. It would’ve been nicer if we weren’t all as drained after it. It would’ve been nice to have all that energy, but I don’t know if it would have changed the outcome.”

Shelby Iava can be contacted at siava@kscequinox.com

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The Keene State women’s lacrosse team finally took the field after they finished shoveling it on March 25 in their game against Wheaton College.

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The international break: Is there more to it?

LUKE STERGIOU

Senior PhotograPher The international break just ended and club football has returned.

The international break is when leagues take a break to let international teams play world cup qualifiers, friendlies, etc. This break causes many fans to be angry, as it takes time away from club competitions and they see the matches as unecessary.

But not every fan looks at these games with the same viewpoint.

Often times, these games are vital for some countries. With the 2018 World Cup in Russia getting closer, international teams are fighting to secure a spot in this tournament. For fans of smaller nations, these games mean everything to them. Qualifying for a World Cup could be so important to that nation and often times can help bring the nation together.

Premier League fans are often the angriest with the international break, seeing it as boring and unnecessary. They argue that it’s just time taken away from club competition, which in their eyes is much more entertaining than the international fixtures. Even Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho was quoted saying: “…But mid-season friendly matches mixed with qualification matches, I don’t think that makes sense,” (Independent). But what most fans and managers fail to realize is that these games can be just as entertaining as club matches.

Smaller nations all across the world who just want a chance to play in the World Cup are fighting their way through qualification matches.

For the bigger and more popular nations in Europe, these qualifiers don’t really mean much to them. But for smaller nations in Europe, South

America and even Asia, these qualifiers mean absolutely everything to them. Especially in South America, fans go crazy for international qualifiers, showing that it seems to mean more for the South American countries than the European countries.

Even in Europe and Asia, smaller nations such as Iceland, Bosnia, Herzegovina and even Montenegro are fighting to prove they can compete with the giants on the international level. Iceland shocked the world when they qualified for the Euro 2016 tournament and made a run all the way to the quarter finals. Now, the team is trying to shock the world once again by qualifying for next year’s World Cup. Bosnia and Herzegovina qualified for their first ever World Cup back in 2014. This accomplishment meant so much to the entire balkan nation and their president deemed that day the second most important day, next to their independence.

Now, they’re trying to qualify for Russia next year with the mighty support of their fans.

Even Syria looks to qualify for their first ever World Cup, as they look to possibly write another football cinderella story. Qualifying for next year’s World Cup would be incredibly important for the country, since the country has suffered so much turmoil in the past few years.

Overall, international qualifiers should not be overlooked. Yes, they take away from the club season, but it’s only for two weeks. And for me, football is football.

We shouldn’t bash these games just because we deem them as boring without even watching them.

Maybe we should see how much these games truly mean to some countries.

Luke Stergiou can be contacted at lstergiou@kscequinox.com

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Recreational Sports sponsored the annual Indoor Triathlon Challenge on Friday, March 31.

The event was free for all KSC students and employees. Heats were run from 1-5 p.m. and individuals were able to sign up for a specific heat when they registered.

The challenge included a 10 minute swim, 20 minute biking (spin cycles) and a 15 run/walk on a treadmill. Prizes will be awarded to the female and male participants with the greatest distance accumulated in all three events.

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the comeback kid After having Tommy John surgery junior Melissa Wydra returns to throwing javelin seven months later SHELBY IAVA

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Equinox Staff Keene State College (KSC) junior Melissa Wydra wasn’t going to let Tommy John surgery end her career of being a student-athlete.

About seven months ago, Wydra tore her UCL (Ulnar Collateral Ligament).

Wydra is a thrower on the track and field team. She throws javelin, discus, hammer, shot put and she throws weights only during the indoor season. She has scored the top five in the Little East Conference (LEC) every year. She was born and raised in Enfield, Connecticut. She started her career when she was in sixth grade, but javelin was her main concentration, starting her junior year of high school. Her junior and senior year, she won big conference meets and she won the state championship her senior year.

Tommy John surgery is a surgical operation in which a ligament in the medial elbow is replaced with a tendon from elsewhere in the body (often from the forearm, hamstring or foot of the patient). The procedure was developed by Dr. Frank Jobe in 1974 for pitcher Tommy John, for whom the surgery is named.

Last year in the first weekend of April is when she got injured during a meet. “I felt a pain that I never felt before. My arm swelled to the size of a tennis ball around my elbow and it was just throbbing. My hand and forearm went completely numb,” Wydra said.

She first went to a surgeon, who told her she needed the Tommy John surgery. Just for a second opinion, she went to another surgeon.

This surgeon recommended physical therapy, but after three months of physical therapy with no change, she had to get surgery.

Wydra got the Tommy John surgery in the first weekend of September.

“I was apprehensive about the surgery at first.

That’s why I went and got a second opinion and saw pictures of people who’ve gone through the surgery. Even though there’s more positives than negatives, I always put myself in the negative category,”Wydra said.

Wydra’s teammate Alex Magoon, who is also a thrower for KSC, met her when he was a sophomore and Wydra was a first-year joining the team.

When describing Wydra, he said, “She is a positive influence on everyone on the team. She also is always willing to help a teammate in

need and put herself second if it means bettering someone else’s performance,” said Magoon.

Even with her being injured, Magoon explained that she still comes to the meets post-injury for team support and he said it means a lot.

The average recovery time from the surgery is eight to 10 months, but Wydra is on her seventh month and she’s already back on the field practicing. “The hardest part for me was realizing that I couldn’t throw at 100 percent and that I wasn’t going to be PR-ing every throw like I used to. Taking it slow and staying focused and hoping that I could continue to contribute to the success of the team has been my main goal. Keeping my new elbow healthy, while also understanding that I’m fixed now has been a big mental challenge for me that my coaches and teammates have really helped me through,” Wydra said.

After Wydra went through with the surgery, she explained it was a learning experience for her. “It was more of a learning experience for me because I want to be surgeon one day. They answered so many questions for me and let me watch a lot,” she said. She now goes to physical therapy with the athletic trainers here and she’s in there only twice a week now. “They’ve been absolutely amazing,” Wydra said.

Head cross country and track and field coach Tom Pickering did not respond to multiple requests to comment.

Shelby Iava can be contacted at siava@kscequinox.com Adriana Sanchez can be contacted at asanchez@kscequinox.com

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Melissa Wydra returns to throwing just seven months after she had Tommy John surgery.

Miscommunication causes Owls to come together Parents, staff and other student-athletes help shovel snow off the turf fields at the Owl Athletic Complex The Keene State College women’s lacrosse team was forced to clear snow off the fields themselves in order to play their rescheduled game against Wheaton College on March 25.

Before the game, athletes, parents and students joined the women on the field to help them shovel the snow off before the game could start. A lack of communication was to blame for the athletes having to plow the fields before they could play.

Parents, staff and other student-athletes accompanied the Owls on the field to clear the snow off as quickly as possible, while Wheaton sat back and watched.

“No one is to blame,” Athletic Director Dr. Kristene Kelly said. “What happened was that particular game was a reschedule from a game that was scheduled before, and even though we make all of our changes on our website, there was a miscommunication between our ground folks not knowing there was a game because had they known, they would’ve been out

there to do it.”

Junior midfielder Taylor Farland said it wasn’t the “ideal situation,” but they made the best of it. “It was very sticky snow so it just covered the field really fast and this was already a game that was rescheduled so we didn’t want to have to go back and schedule it again or cancel it,” Farland said.

She continued, “We all just started grabbing shovels and started to clear the fields and it was fun; it was fun for the time we did it, I just wish it wasn’t the day of a game. It was tiring because it was the entire field that we had to clear, but some parents came and helped, a few guys on the lacrosse team came, Kristine Kelly was actually there helping us shovel, our coaches were shoveling and it probably took us two hours to get the field pretty much cleared off.”

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The Keene State women’s lacrosse team shovels off the Owl Athletic Complex field on March 25 before their game against Wheaton College.

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