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Second annual Teach-In EMMA HAMILTON

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The second annual Teach-In on Tuesday, Sept. 26, gave students and faculty the time to pause every day routines and have conversations that don’t always fit into the daily classroom schedule.

This years’ theme was titled, “Insider/Outsider Dilemma,” and presentations throughout the day were based around this.

The all-day event began in the morning in the Flag Room with opening remarks from the Coordinator of the Office of Multicultural Student Support and Success Rocio Mora, Interim President Dr. Melinda Treadwell and Student Body Vice President Sarah Dugas.

Mora was a part of the planning committee for the Teach-In. “I have been a part of the committee since we initially thought of this idea and it has just been a joy to be a part of it. It’s really the entire community; it’s not just one or two professors or a couple staff members, it’s everyone,” Mora said.

She said the committee puts in a lot of thought about dates when planning this event, making it possible for the majority of campus to be able to attend.

Mora said, “Trying to make sure we steer clear of midterms, finals, any holidays, but clearly it’s not going to happen on the first day of school, but really what we feel would be best for the community. We pick a date based on that and then we just kind of fly with it and then we decide on a specific topic that is also general enough that really lets people be really creative in the type of sessions that they give.”

Mora said compared to last year, the committee has more program proposals than they did the previous year, which she considers “phenomenal.”

She added the programs are all varied and cover the whole spectrum.

“It’s just great, it shows how much this community is just wanting to get together and have these types of conversations in a safe way and knowing that, ‘Okay, yeah you might be complete opposite of me, you might hate everything I stand for, but we can still stand here and talk to each other and be very respectful of one another and still break brand. We can still breathe the same air and be in the same room.’

There’s so much difference in this world, why do we have to contain it?” Mora said.

Mora said she sees the importance of having the Teach-In on campus.

She said, “I think Keene State is really setting itself up for a great future in how the Teach-In is going to impact campus life. There’s going to be more students wanting to present, more faculty members wanting to jump in and say, ‘Hey I have this great idea.’ That’s what we want.”

Mora continued, “Of course, we would love for this to be a cancel all classes and we have 300 sessions going on; that would be incredibly insane for us, but that would be amazing at the same time. It’s giving people the space...to have that opportunity to say what is on their mind.”

Senior secondary education and English major Heather Bilodeau attended the Teach-In last year and decided to go again this year.

“As a future teacher, it’s really important to be a part of the community of teachers, I think. We have so many intelligent and very wellversed professors on campus; it’s important to go and listen to what

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KSC faculty and students gave presentations throughout the entire day on Tuesday, Sept. 26. These presentations were based around the theme of Insider/Outsider Dilemma.

Campus reacts to new fiscal year budgets JESSICA RICARD

SENIOR REPORTER/COPY EDITOR/TIME CAPSULE ALEXANDRIA SAURMAN

MANAGING EXECUTIVE EDITOR With the loading of campus-wide budgets, faculty and staff have come to react in different ways; although many departments expected to see a massive decrease in funds, the impact was not nearly as detrimental as expected.

Although most departments faced a decrease in funds, some have had to make more significant cuts than others.

The Lloyd P. Young Student Center’s budget for Fiscal Year 18 (FY18) has decreased 4.11 percent from Fiscal Year 17’s (FY17) budget.

Director of Student Involvement Jen Ferrell said that they are trying to avoid making cuts that will drastically affect students.

“You may not have noticed some of the ways we were challenged because of the way we're doing things,” Ferrell said.

Ferrell said a few areas being reduced because of the decreased budget include

student labor dollars, Night Owl Cafe hours and Student Center Administrative Office Suite hours.

“These are ways that we’ve been really thoughtful and creative at managing the decrease in funds in order to still provide the key services that students need while figuring out how to sort of make up for those differences,” Ferrell said.

While the Young Student Center has made cuts in hours and labor dollars, the journalism department at KSC is making most of their cuts in repairing and replacing their necessary technology.

Department Chair of Journalism, Multimedia and Public Relations Dr. Chad Nye said it won’t be a problem in the short term, but if this same budget continues a few years down the road, the technological equipment students use will need to be repaired or recycled out, which would be difficult to do given the funds we currently have.

“The college supplies the computers in our lab, but we have to, as a department, pay for whatever software we want to put

on there [such as Adobe Creative Cloud]... and our cameras, and any improvements we want to make to studio equipment,” Nye said.

From FY18 to FY17, the journalism department’s budget decreased by 18 percent, according to Nye, and at the end of FY17, the department had about 10 percent of their money left over.

“So we felt like in 2017, we were a very fiscally responsible department. We had X numbers of dollars; we spent all but about nine to 10 percent of that, so we technically gave money back to the institution,” Nye said. “So based on what we actually did spend and then to have that reduced about 18 percent, that’s not an insignificant number.”

On a more positive note, Nye said the department is still able to offer all the courses they need to and will have the ability to fix minor breaks and losses in equipment.

“We should be able to cover it [minor repairs in equipment] based on past practices, but it’s not going to leave us much

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wiggle room for anything else,” Nye said.

While trimming budgets can be a burden, Dean of the School of Sciences and Social Sciences Dr. Gordon Leversee said he enjoys finding creative ways to do things.

The target this year, he said, was to reduce about three percent of what they spent last year.

“We’ve done that,” Leversee said, “and we’ve got a budget that comes in where it needs to come in and I think probably there are some additional savings in there if we are careful.”

In the sciences, Leversee said they have about half a million dollars in the National Institute of Health (NIH) Research Training grant that they can rely on to fund student research opportunities.

Additionally, Leversee said the school has been sharing resources across different departments to save money.

“We’re talking to each other, so I know there was one department that needed some of these laboratory gloves that they use in the lab, and while we were waiting for the budget to be loaded, it was hard to

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process the purchase orders, it turned out another department had a lot of gloves. So they decided to just share those gloves,” Leversee said. “I think people are probably going to find ways to help each other out.”

Have the departmental budgets been cut evenly though? Leversee believes the departmental budgets have been cut “pretty proportionately.”

Leversee explained, “I think we’ve tried to be sure that everybody experiences some reductions so it feels equitable, but clearly some departments have a little more that they could contribute to the savings than others….I think it’s like a diet, you know, with any kind of budget, you have to tighten your belt a little bit.”

Although all departments are facing cuts of their own, the Dean of the School of Professional and Graduate Studies (PGS) Dr. Karrie Kalich said they aren’t fully feeling the affects.

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receives Potential new program in safety Huot severance pay ABBYGAIL VASAS

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Imagine working at a company that supplies clothes to department stores. Everything is going smoothly until, suddenly, one of your coworkers makes a mistake, and now instead of sending 200 shirts to a local outlet, they’re actually sending 2,000. They become so distressed by their mistake they have a heart attack and die right there in their cubicle. This may sound absurd to most people, but when it comes to construction, even a small mistake could mean the difference between life and death.

According to a report by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), 20 percent of worker fatalities in 2015 were in the field of construction. That may not sound like much, but as the Bureau of Labor Statistics discovered, when compared to other industries, the private construction sector had the most fatal injuries of that year.

Both OSHA and the Bureau of Labor Statistics agree that construction is one of the most dangerous occupations a person can have today, so what is being done to make it safer?

KSC Associate Professor, WorkWiseNH Project Manager and faculty to the Safety & Occupational Health Applied Sciences (SOHAS) Program, Wayne Hartz is submitting a new program for approval that is aimed to keep construction workers safe. The proposed program, Construction Safety Sciences, will have many core concepts in common with the current SOHAS Program, but there will also be many new and exciting changes.

As of fall 2016, the SOHAS Program was the second largest department at the school with 1,020 graduate and undergraduate students enrolled. When commenting on the size of the program, Hartz said, “Our program and classes grew so fast that we lost some of the things that are important in teaching.” Those lost things, which he is hoping to reintroduce with this new program, are rigor and accountability.

To design this program, Hartz teamed up with an advisory committee comprised of KSC faculty and active members of the construction and construction safety industry to create something to best prepare students for the reality of

the workplace.

The most noticeable change is the creation of nine new courses specifically dealing with construction safety and additional required courses, such as Elementary Spanish. These changes brought the major requirement from 44 credits to 100 credits. Although there is more content, the program is designed to be completed in three years by utilizing two required summer sessions and two construction internships.

Brady Keene, who completed his undergraduate degree at KSC and is now working for WorkWiseNH doing construction safety, thinks the rigor of the new program will put our students ahead of the curve. “The program will be focused towards that student that’s willing to put in that 110 percent effort,” said Keene. “We’ll be the first ones in the country to introduce a program that really produces high quality construction safety students, someone that’s ready to go right when they get in the field.” According to Keene, this new program will better prepare construction students for future job sites, both mentally and physically.

There are a number of requirements that students would have to meet to remain in the new program. Those requirements include maintaining an average GPA of 2.80, honoring KSC’s Code of Conduct, joining the student chapter of the American Society of Safety Professionals and joining Rho Kappa Sigma, the National Safety Honor Society. That may sound like a lot, but KSC graduate student Nate Stitchell thinks it would be good for upcoming construction safety students. “Not everyone’s an athlete, so not everyone’s a part of something bigger than just that course,” said Stitchell, “so being able to be part of a group that actually means something and can improve not just your education but others, I think, is huge.”

So what needs to happen for this program to become a reality?

The main obstacle is money. If the program obtains 25 new students per year for the first three years, the program will be costneutral. However, the initial startup cost for those first three years still has to be paid and it’s difficult to get companies to invest in a program that has yet to be approved by the College and Senate curriculum committees. However, the Associated General Contractors Education

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Students in the safety program work in the simulation lab throughout their time at KSC.

Resource Fund (AGCERF) is willing to support the program on a financial level and has begun fundraising by accepting donations and pledges, but there is still a long way to go before they get what they need.

The program proposal has been drafted and was sent to Dean of Professional and Graduate Stud-

ies Dr. Karrie Kalich for approval Safety Sciences hopes to be made this week. From there, it must go available by fall 2018. to the School Curriculum Committee for an evaluation and approval Abbygail Vasas can be contacted at of its content. If it is approved, the avasas@kscequinox.com Senate Curriculum Committee will then review and analyze the academic value of the program. If it has all three approvals, Construction

Last week, The Keene Sentinel published an article reporting the severance pay for former Keene State College President Anne Huot.

Huot received $327,225 after she resigned from her position, according to the article.

The money was distributed to Huot on July 15 and Aug. 15.

Huot was employed at KSC for four years as the president, with June 30, 2013, being her official start date, according to the employee agreement between The University System of New Hampshire (USNH) and Huot.

Her resignation was effective July 31, 2017, according to the USNH press release. On July 19, Dr. Melinda Treadwell was named the Interim President for the college, effective July 31, according to another USNH press release.

“President Huot will spend the coming academic year on an unpaid leave of absence preparing to return to her faculty position as a full professor in the Biology Department,” the release read.

The employee agreement outlines what Huot was to receive had she ever decided to resign.

“In the event that the President resigns her position as President, then the University System shall pay the President: (i) the Base Salary through the date of separation of employment, (ii) any vested benefits under the then-current employee benefit plans of the University System through the date of separation of employment as President, and (iii) any other benefits and compensation, if any, as required by law. In no event shall the President be entitled to the Severance Payment after notice of her resignation is given,” section 8b reads.

In 2014, Huot made $245,000, and in 2015, that number increased by more than 10 percent to $271,000, according to the USNH Salary Book. As of 2016, Huot received a base salary of $278,000.

The $327,225 was taken out of the college’s fiscal year 2017 (FY17) budget.

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Randall Mikkelsen comes to KSC to discuss the definition of fake news JESSICA RICARD

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Randall Mikkelsen presented about his definition of fake news to the KSC campus community.

Fake news: a concept that’s been around for more than 200 years. Whether it’s floating around on your Facebook timeline or being shared with you via Twitter, it’s everywhere and many don’t even know what to believe anymore.

As someone who’s covered the White House, Justice Department, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other organizations in Washington, as well as covered economic and general news from postings in Philadelphia and Stockholm, Sweden, North American Managing Editor of Thomson Reuters Randall Mikkelsen knows fake news when he sees it.

On Wednesday, Sept. 20, the University of Minnesota graduate shared his knowledge of the topic to a crowd in the Mountain View Room of the L.P. Young Student Center in observance of Constitution Day, and all the seats were nearly filled.

On Sept. 17, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention assembled in Philadelphia and signed the U.S. Constitution; all educational institutions receiving federal funding are supposed to have an observance of the document, and inviting Mikkelsen to KSC was the perfect way to do so.

Journalism, Multimedia and Public Relations (JMPR) Department Chair and Associate Professor Chad Nye said, “The freedoms of speech and of the press established in the First Amendment are at the heart of what our JMPR students do and what our JMPR faculty teach every day...They are also vital to our future as a nation. Constitution Day is a wonderful vehicle for doing that.”

Now, the question many are asking themselves and others: what really is fake news?

Mikkelsen defines it as information that is biased, misleading, deliberately false, typically spread via social media and does not just relate to politics; fake news can be portrayed in any number of subjects. But what about news that’s deliberately misleading, but technically not false?

It’s all a part of the same phenomenon, Mikkelsen said.

The award-winning journalist highlighted one 18-year-old teen from the Republic of Macedonia who told NBC News of his own fake news ploy, where he made thousands of dollars every month for “cranking out fake news stories for a site.”

Dimitri, who asked NBC news not to use his real name, comes from a small town where the average annual wage is about $4,800, according to NBC News. In the past six months, he’s made just about $60,000, more than his own parents, all by posting “sensationalist and often baseless articles” to Facebook, earning him loads of cash.

The method behind the madness? Clickbait advertising, which Mikkelsen said consists of phrases such as, “Wow,” “Oh my god” and “Breaking News” and often appear in capital letters in headlines of articles.

These are often what you see on your newsfeed on most social media sites, and when it comes to social media engagement, Dimitri said, “Nothing can beat Trump’s supporters….So that’s why we stick with Trump.”

However, in addition to clickbait advertising, there are many other sources of fake news. Mikkelsen highlighted hype, which is when the same news company takes two different angles on a story.

For example, The Liberal Society published an article with the headline, “White House FINALLY Gives Kellyanne Conway The Boot, Are You Glad?” Then, on the conservative side, Conservative101 published an article with the headline, “White House Just Gave Conway The Boot, Prepare To Be Infuriated.” Mikkelsen said this type of news’ purpose is to stir different reactions, play with people’s emotions and look for a reaction.

Yet, avoiding these types of articles tends to be difficult. By using internal logic, Mikkelsen said, and reading through and digesting these articles all the way up until the end, there are ways to tell whether the news is real or fake.

Some questions he recommends asking yourself when reading articles from various news sources include: Is it the original story? How are the facts attributed? Is it written in correct news

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I don’t think there’s a perfect news source out there. So my response to fake news is to read a lot, listen a lot, [refer to] multiple sources and use my mind.

Stephen Clark Associate Professor of Psychology style? Does it acknowledge multiple viewpoints?

Additionally, he recommended using fact checkers, such as Snopes and Politifact to ensure what you’re reading is accurate and complete.

Before attending the presentation, senior John Piatelli said his definition of fake news was a news organization of some kind displaying a sort of false reality. After though, he said his personal definition hasn’t really changed. “It’s made me think more about the different variations that it comes in,” Piatelli said.

Junior Stefan Lazaro agreed, and said he didn’t realize how in depth and realistic you can get with it.

Although fake news is very real, Mikkelsen said what people really need to watch out for is people calling something fake news when it’s something they disagree with; there’s a difference.

Associate Professor of Psychology at KSC Stephen Clark said while he doesn’t believe anybody’s news outlet is completely free of bias, he does think some are more biased than others.

“What I do is read a variety of news,” Clark said.

“I don’t think there’s a perfect news source out there. So my response to fake news is to read a lot, listen a lot, [refer to] multiple sources and use my mind.”

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Climate change impacts winter sports ZOEANN DAY

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Skiing and snowboarding are sports adored by many, especially people who live in northern states like Vermont and New Hampshire.

Those who participate in these sports don’t shy away from snow or cold weather, but welcome it, as with snow comes the season they’re excited for.

But the earth is changing. Ice caps are melting, sea levels are going up and the climate is getting warmer.

With climate change upon us, the abundance of snow that thousands of people look forward to every winter, might not be a reality in the future.

According to KSC Professor of Environmental Studies Timothy Allen, climate change has been happening over the past 100 years, and there’s scientific evidence to prove it.

Glaciers, sea level, tree rings and oxygen isotopes are all proof of temperature adjustment over time, and they all point to climate change.

The temperature of the earth is rising, which can have a huge effect on ski resorts and businesses.

“Ski resorts require two criteria to stay in business.” said Allen.

These criteria include the likelihood of snow between Christmas and New Years and the likelihood of being able to stay open for at least 100 days out of the season.

Climate change is affecting resorts’ ability to meet these criteria, and it’s hurting the ski industry.

Granite Gorge, located in Roxbury, New Hampshire, experiences this problem, and has been actively combating climate change since the beginning.

Fred Baybutt, co-owner of the mountain, said since it was founded, they have been attempting to lower their carbon footprint by using environmentally friendly equipment.

“We started the mountain from scratch and, right away, wanted to use environmentally friendly systems in order to fight the climate change problem,” Baybutt said.

Baybutt said Granite Gorge prioritizes the mitigation of climate change, and they are doing everything they can to help the cause.

Baybutt said the mountain now uses variable speed engines in order to cut down the amount of power needed, as well as electric snowmaking equipment,

instead of diesel, in an attempt to decrease the amount of carbon dioxide that goes into the atmosphere.

According to research by Powder Magazine, in as little as 70 years, the ski season will considerably decrease in duration due to climate change, no matter the efforts to stop it in the near future.

Resorts will not be able to open early enough because there will be no snow, and they’ll close too early because the snow that does come will melt too quickly.

And it’s not just the natural snow that’s the problem.

According to Allen, temperatures will increase as well, meaning it will be warmer and harder for mountains to make artificial snow.

The economic pressure that the effects of climate change will put on ski resorts will put most of them out of business because of a decrease in ticket sales.

Julie Brown from Powder Magazine writes, “If nothing is done to stop global warming and our planet continues to burn greenhouse gases as we do now, the ski industry will be a shadow of what it is today.”

Environmental studies student at KSC, Tom Wolters said, “The relationship between climate change and winter sports is a pretty unique and confusing one... the effects climate change has had on the sport has been hard to predict over the past couple years.”

Wolters added that the effects that climate change will have on ski resorts won’t be very measurable within the next couple years, but will hurt them in the long run.

Things like an increase in rain storms during the month of February will be huge blows to ski resorts in New England in the future if climate change continues to progress the way it is.

“It just comes down to self-awareness,” said Wolters.

“The things we do have implications elsewhere, and it’s just important to respect each other and respect everything around us.”

Climate change has been affecting our world for years. Electric cars and LED light bulbs are both ways you can be more environmentally friendly and keep winter sports alive for future generations.

Zoeann Day can be contacted at zday@kscequinox.com

Students take advantage of management specializations EMMA HAMILTON

NEWS EDITOR The Management Department at KSC launched two new specializations last fall, and they are now both growing. Within the major, students also have the opportunity to major in marketing and/or human resources.

Assistant Professor of Management Dudley Blossom said the conversation of these specializations was going on at the college when he began two years ago. He teaches the courses in marketing and said the department let students know the specializations were coming about six months before to provide the opportunity for them to adjust schedules where needed.

“A lot of students have been deciding to do the marketing specialization. We graduated some of the students last year [and] they were able to switch into it their senior year. Before I came, there was an alumni survey done within the department that showed a very large percentage of students who came out of management [and] went into marketing related fields, including sales and client service, things like that. It was a pretty natural move for a lot of students just to say, ‘I know that’s where I’m going anyways,’ so it was just a new declaration for their major,” Blossom said.

He explained that students have different choices of electives within the major and must take two prescribed classes with having three to choose from. These classes include integrative marketing, market research and advertising and promotion.

Blossom said, “The marketing specialization is very much consumer marketing oriented, so more, ‘How do people buy?’ rather than, ‘How do I manage marketing

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their experiences are and what they have to say. They know so much more than we do and we can learn so much,” Bilodeau said.

Bilodeau went to a presentation by Emily Sharpe last year and planned to do so again this year.

“It makes you really think about your identity as a student on campus and also just in the world in general. It was kind of an outsiders within perspective and is what she is kind of aiming towards in this session as well and maybe a furthering of it. She is a Canadian immigrant, so she talked about immigrants and she is also Jewish, so she kind of has the double edge sword if you will or being sort of a foreigner in the country,” Bilodeau said.

Bilodeau said she believes it’s important we have the Teach-In because of the diversity Keene State has on it’s campus.

She said, “we need to be aware and welcoming and if there are going to be more people that come on to campus whether they be a refugee or an immigrant or someone just traveling we should learn to be welcoming.”

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directly?’ It’s much more about people and much less about process.”

Blossom continued and said the classes he is teaching currently are full and students are truly taking advantage of this opportunity. He explained that both specializations are structured the same in the amount of classes students must be taking to complete them.

“Just because of the way the curriculum process works, we are being fairly flexible with that list (electives) so if someone comes forward [with], say a journalism class, and says, ‘I’m doing this journalism class, it fits really well will you review and approve it?’ We are trying to be flexible with that because the curriculum across campus changes every year and it’s hard to keep up with in advance,” Blossom said.

He further explained that it was important for the major to implement these specializations because management “doesn’t describe any of them.” Blossom said, “From my perspective, a lot of it came down to helping people pick electives, but also really helping them walk out the door better able to explain what they did here.

Management is a terrific major, but it’s fairly broad; there’s management in everything. To have people say, ‘Well, I really want to be in this field,’ and it actually shows up as their major I think helps. It also helps our department organize a little bit. We have a lot of students in the department so it’s helpful to say, ‘Well, we can put them into clusters.’”

Blossom expects the specialization to continue to grow. “I think there’s a fair amount of demand. It’s growing and the demand for it is growing. As a result, the course options are increasing, which is nice, but it’s a little hard to make sure we are offering enough. We have also tried to adjust prerequisites to make it more

was able to be here for her first Teach-In at Keene State.

“For me, what’s exciting about it is, as I said in the introduction, is it’s the chance like with the topic insider outsider, it’s the chance for us to extend our classroom and to engage our students in real open conversation of topics you might not get in a class. It’s the chance to make our classroom walls fall apart, disappear and students actually getting conversation in a different way. That’s what I like about it and I’m hoping I can get to some sessions today,” Treadwell said.

She added she was very excited for the day ahead.

Treadwell said, “The topics look great, they’re all connected, but they just go deeper on topics like white supremacy [and] stereotypes; it’s just really exciting.”

In years to come, Treadwell has hopes this continues on campus.

“Our students love it from everything I am hearing. If it’s as strong for students as it is for me and my staff and faculty, then I definitely want it to keep happening,” Treadwell said.

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accessible to people outside the major. One of the issues I had was prerequisites within the major really restrict some of these upper level electives to just management students and it doesn’t need to be that way,” Blossom said.

He continued, “We have really, at least within marketing, have been trying really hard to adjust prerequisites that really aren’t necessary; they are useful but not necessary. I’d like to see us reaching out more and bring in a wider range of people from other majors.”

Junior management major and marketing specialization Jennifer Carlson said the specialization is helpful for her future plans.

“When I was deciding on a major, I was looking into [Public Relations] originally because that was the closest to marketing that Keene offered. Then, Phoebe [Price] in Academic and Career Advising informed me of the change in the management major. I had considered minoring in management because I would be allowed to take the couple of marketing classes that were offered, but once the specialization was announced, I was very excited and registered for the intro class that I needed and declared management marketing specialization as my major. I want to get into sales or merchandising, or digital and social media marketing, so having that specialization gives me the edge I need in such a competitive field,” Carlson said.

Assistant Professor of Management Dave Beaudry teaches within the other option for a specialization in management, human resources. “It’s for students interested in that aspect of work. With the classes, there’s one course that is actually called Human Resources Management, so that deals with going through all the way from strategies of hiring, performance management

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we look at the programmatic side of the house as I think when you hear the total number. There’s no secret of the fact that we’ve had a decline in our enrollment, so that also decreases the work a bit,” Kalich said. “I mean certainly we would rather have more students and a higher budget, but I think I have no concerns that we are going to be able to deliver a quality experience for our students.”

At the end of last year, 11 faculty and staff in PGS retired from the program.

However, PGS only hired back four of those positions.

With decreased enrollment this year, Kalich said there is no need for all the positions to be filled. This will save PGS some money.

“I would say in many ways, we’ve been able to keep our department budgets, when you look at their

supplies and equipment budgets, they’ve really stayed untouched. It’s really been in our staffing lines in that when people leave, we don’t hire as many back and there’s a lot of savings,” Kalich said.

The Interim Dean of Arts and Humanities Dr. Kirsti A. Sandy was contacted by The Equinox for an interview, but did not respond.

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and many different aspects to human resources. There’s compensation aspects, the employee conflict aspect and things along that nature,” Beaudry said.

He said the management major decided to adopt these specializations because of previous graduates.

Beaudry said, “It was some of the fields they went into.

Some of the things they wanted to go into and wished that they could say when they graduated they had also specialized in human resource management, so that when they were starting up their careers, they could also show more experience and knowledge in the area.”

He also added that human resources is a growing field. Beaudry said when you look statistically, the growth is around five to eight percent. “If we think of organizations and we look at them from eight to 10 years ago to now, they’ve evolved in the way we do business or management and organization is different. The human aspect of it is continuing to evolve,” Beaudry said.

Agreeing with Blossom, Beaudry sees the specialization growing. In it’s growth, the department is making new connections. “One of the things we are also doing is we’ve connected to the local chapter for the Society of Human Resources Management. We’re starting to develop some engagement that way,” Beaudry said.

Beaudry has hopes more students will become interested in joining the major. He said, “I think it’s an excellent career opportunity for people.”

Emma Hamilton can be contacted at ehamilton@kscequinox.com

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SENIOR REPORTER/COPY EDITOR/TIME CAPSULE EDITOR Student Assembly members met on Sept. 26, 2017 and discussed a variety of topics, from Senate Elections to a future appearance by Interim President Dr. Melinda Treadwell.

First on the agenda was the election of two Senate members. KSC Class of 2019 President Briae Robillard ran for the Academic Standards committee within the Senate, and Courtney Sheehy ran for the Academic Policy committee. Both were unanimously elected.

Student Trustee Adam Geddis announced the Board of Trustees meeting will be at KSC on Oct. 19 and 20.

Student Body President Kenadee Cadieux and Student Body Vice President Sarah Dugas said they’re in the process of planning a Get to Know You event with President Treadwell in early November to give campus members the opportunity to meet and interact with the higher-up figures on campus.

In other news, the Class of 2021 elections will be sent out tomorrow, Sept. 27, and will remain open from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m.

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Players should be able to express themselves There was once a time when the National Football League (NFL) meant spending Sunday afternoons on the couch, relaxing with family and just simply enjoying the game.

Football used to be something that could unify viewers, despite their race, orientation, religious views or political stance. However, recently the media has exploded over the recent trend among many NFL players who now kneel for the flag during the National Anthem.

It all started when the 49er’s quarterback Colin Kaepernick refused to stand for the anthem to protest against police brutality and the wrongdoings towards people of color in this country. His actions not only sparked a movement among many NFL players, it also sparked outrage from many fans and people all across the country. However, Kaepernick told the NFL media he was not doing this to be disrespectful, but rather to stand up for what he feels is right.

We at The Equinox feel that this issue has gotten blown out of proportion. We feel that a player kneeling during the anthem isn’t disrespectful. We would like to compare this kneeling to the same type of kneeling that happens in sports games when a player gets injured. The other team kneels out of respect. Kneeling during the anthem isn’t necessarily disrespectful. What football fans and other viewers need to realize is that every football player who kneels has his own motives for why, just like every football player who stands. People also need to keep in mind that every team does different things during the national anthem. For example some may link arms, like the New York Jets last Sunday in their game against the Miami Dolphins, while others may have their hands over their chests. Many teams, like the New England Patriots, have some players who stand and some who kneel. What a player does during the National Anthem is a personal preference. In fact, there is no rule in the NFL handbook that claims players must stand during the anthem. The NFL released a statement shortly after Colin Kaepernick first kneeled stating players are “encouraged but not required to stand during the playing of the national anthem.”

The official Keene State College

Department of Athletic’s stance on the current situation is, “Keene State values free expression, social justice, equity in our community and open discussion of differing perspectives and opinions… an athlete’s choice to take a knee during the National Anthem is a personal expression. It does not represent the views of the college, the department of athletics or other student athletes.”

We at the Equinox agree with this, in the sense that each athlete should be able to express his/herself as he/she wants. What we do not agree with is what the Steelers did during their game against The Chicago Bears on Sunday night. While the National Anthem played, all but one player, former veteran Alejando Villanueva, stayed in the locker room. We feel that players have the right to express themselves, but they should at least be on the field.

We feel that it was disrespectful on their part because they are not even acknowledging the flag.

What we’ve noticed from this issue is that no matter who does what, someone is always wrong in someone else’s eyes. People argue that U.S. veterans fought for our rights and that it is extremely disrespectful to kneel. Yet others argue that U.S. veterans fought for our rights to do what we want during the National Anthem.

President Abraham Lincoln once said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” and this couldn’t be anymore true. It seems as though many Americans can’t even have a simple conversation anymore or reach a resolution on anything. It’s easier for people to bash each other in the comments section on Facebook than to sit down face-to-face and actually listen to someone else’s opinion without immediately jumping down their throat.

All in all, we feel that this country needs to come together again.

We are sick of how divided this country is on every single thing that happens. Players should be able to kneel if they want without risk of being called names or being booed.

We need to remember that everyone has a right to their opinion; it’s their First Amendment and we really just need to learn to respect each other.

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What we’ve noticed from this issue is that no matter who does what, someone is always wrong in someone else’s eyes.

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DeVos sends a confusing message

Gender pay gap is slowly closing

KATHERINE GLOSSER

Equinox Staff Sexual assault and misconduct is a major problem occurring on college campuses.

While there are many resources for victims and the education system has become more aggressive on sexual assault cases in college than they were decades ago, it still happens.

According to Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network or RAINN, every 98 seconds someone becomes a victim of sexual abuse in the U.S..

That means 570 Americans become victims of sexual assault every day. Female college-aged students between the ages of 18 and 24 are at an elevated risk of sexual violence.

Male college-aged students are 78 percent more likely to experience sexual assault than non-students in the same age group.

Recently, Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education, made an announcement she wanted to make changes in how schools handle sexual assault victims. DeVos called to revise rules the Obama administration put out regarding school sexual assault.

While DeVos did not go into full detail about what specific changes she is going to make, she did express the changes she wanted to see happen. In a speech she gave at George Mason University, she expressed the need to have a balance of how schools handle sexual assault with both the reporting party and the accused.

She emphasized the need to protect the rights of the accused and to make sure they receive the due process of law. In her speech, she also mentioned the first amendment, saying punishing free speech by labeling it as harassment is unfair. She also criticized Obama’s approach to handling sexual assaults and protecting victims “went too far.”

While I do agree with her that both the victim and the accused need to be heard out and put through a fair trial, I think DeVos “went too far” with her approach to protecting the accused.

First and foremost, most of the people accused of sexual assault and sexual misconduct were actually guilty of it.

According to a decade-long study done by Violence Against Women, between two and 10 percent of the people reported for sexual assault were falsely accused. While it would be great to have no victims of false sexual assault accusations, making an effort to protect the two to 10 percent by making it harder for victims to get justice is not the way to go.

Doing so only protects the majority of the accused who have actually committed the acts and only creates more obstacles for the victims.

Her statement about free speech was also out of line. While it is okay to express your opinion on a matter, whether you agree or disagree with it, verbal sexual harassment is never okay. Saying sexual innuendos to a victim or referring to a person in a sexually derogative way should not be compared to free speech.

According to psychiatrists from Harvard University, a report suggests verbal abuse, whether sexual or otherwise, can be just as harmful as physical and sexual abuse.

The report published in the Harvard Mental Health Letter suggests that when verbal abuse is constant and severe, it increases the risk of someone getting post traumatic stress disorder.

It also increases the risk factor for other mental illnesses such as “depression, angerhostility, and dissociation disorders.”

When it makes a person feel uncomfortable and vulnerable sexually, it should be dealt with to prevent future traumas.

No type of sexual abuse or harassment is okay. If DeVos plans to rescind some of Obama’s sexual assault policies, it will affect student victims everywhere, including Keene State College.

The best way to combat DeVos’ unfair approach is for students to express their frustration for this proposal.

Writing to DeVos, speaking up and educating the public about school sexual assault is a powerful way to prevent these changes from happening.

For KSC students who want to learn more about sexual violence and how to prevent it, Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) and Sexual Assault and Violence Education (SAVE) are great resources.

A KSC student who has experienced or witnessed sexual violence and abuse can go to the Counseling Center, talk with MCVP or the Monadnock Center for Violence Prevention, Campus Safety, the Title IX coordinator or contact your resident director or resident assistant.

Katherine Glosser can be contacted at kglosser@kscequinox.com

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Student feels the process should be quicker ERIN MCNEMAR

Equinox Staff When you are living in a country that was built on the idea of equality for all, it seems bizarre that we are still having a hard time figuring out what that means over 240 years later. Since America declared its independence back in 1776, there has been a continuous problem with ensuring that women get the same opportunities as men. One of the most vocalized issues in modern days is the gender pay gap.

One of the most widely-known statistic about the pay gap is that women are paid only 76 cents for every dollar a man makes according to Payscale’s most recent data. While the 24 cent difference doesn’t really seem like the end of the world, it can add up to a substantial amount of money that you are not earning just because of your gender.

According to Payscale, the reason for this substantial pay gap is due to what they are calling the “opportunity gap.” Their research claims that at the beginning of their career, men and women tend to work similar level jobs.

However, men are more likely to move up the ranks more

quickly than women.

In fact, by the age of 60, women are more than 15 percent more likely to be working on the same level they started at than men. People in higher positions are known to make more money than those beneath them. With that in mind, it is clear to see how the lack of equal opportunities for women is affecting the pay gap.

Actress Jennifer Lawrence has been a known advocate for equal pay in Hollywood. In 2015 when Lawrence found out that she was paid significantly less than her male costar in the movie American Hustle, she published an essay for Lenny Letter Newsletter titled, “Why Do I Make Less Than My Male Co-Stars?”

More recently, BBC released an interview talking to Lawrence about her new movie “Mother!” During the interview, Lawrence was asked if she still believes Hollywood treats women unfairly.

“It think there is still a lot of unfairness. We are making changes, the gap is very slowly closing. But there is still work to be done,” Lawrence expressed.

And good news ladies, she isn’t wrong. The Census Bureau reported that women are slowly but surely clos-

ing up the pay gap, and saw the biggest income growth since 2007.

But that’s not all. Financier Steven Rattner reported that the female-male earnings ratio reached an all time high last year of 80.5 percent. which essentially means the average man earned $51,640 last year, while the average women earned $41,554.

However, this isn’t the case for all women. When the data is broken down by race, it shows that it is only White and Asian women that are thriving.

Annual wages for Hispanic women have shown no improvement, and African American women’s income has shown a decline according to the Census Bureau.

While the pay gap is closing, it is important that we keep pushing to insure that everyone, no matter what gender or race, is earning what they deserve.

We live in a country that is supposed function on the principle of equality, not just for some people, but for all.

Erin McNemar can be contacted at emcnemar@kscequinox.com

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No more monitoring cell phone use COLIN MEEHAN

Equinox Staff Imagine that there exists a group of people so terrified of the liberating potentials of technology that they will throw money at those who choose to ignore it.

They conjure up an apocalyptic vision of the world, dominated by the screen, but cushion their vision with language and incentive, to make it seem more humane.

This is not satire, but reality. Diana Smith, the principal of Washington Latin Public Charter School, had offered $100 out of her pocket to any student who goes every Tuesday of the summer without using electronics - so no phone, television, computers or video games.

Now, before I go on, let me be very clear: I am not ignorant to what horrors technology can create - my blood boils just as much when I hear of the bizarre pseudophilosophical, self aggrandizing tycoons of Silicon Valley who get glamorous profiles in this or that newspaper. Furthermore, screen usage can have side effects, like headaches from overuse or, in the most extreme cases, seizures from flashing and random lights. However, there is only one thing worse than the pretentiousness of these CEO’s, and that’s the plan of enforced ignorance by high-ranking individuals.

The real problem with this scheme is not that it won’t work; according to the Washington Post, many students took up the offer, and were paid handsomely as a

result. The problem is actually best stated by the Post’s motto: “Democracy Dies in Darkness,” Technology, when used by social structures aimed at benefiting all of humanity, is nothing less than a net positive. It acts as a way for ordinary people to, at the very least, have living conditions that are not miserable and dull, and at it’s height, liberates the creative passions of the masses. The screen, in a way, is an illuminator; it gives light and meaning in the lives of many, through communication, expression or just dumb fun.

But what do these primitivists believe?

Why do they go to such lengths to stop the tides of progress?

In order to understand this, let’s go back a bit. In 1934, American composer Cole Porter wrote a song called “Anything Goes” for his play of the same name. The song is, as to be expected, hilariously dated, with lyrics like “In olden days, a glimpse of stocking was look on as something shocking; but now, God knows, anything goes.”

Of course, it’s not that the song is absolutely wrong, but considering that this was a time period where the Nazi Party has just climbed to the top of the German government, and that Japan was making advances on the Chinese mainland, this was the least of our concerns.

But apparently, it isn’t. Now the fear of Cole Porter’s character’s are shared with many high-ranking people. In the Washington Post article, Smith is quoted as saying that she “has become increasingly uncomfortable with the ubiquity of the phones in their lives.” Now, I would even understand where she was coming from if she was referring specifically to people not paying attention in class; that is perfectly

understandable. It’s rude not to pay attention to someone when they’re talking, but this isn’t her point; cell phone use in general is bad, according to her.

This isn’t a legitimate concern about health side effects or security; this is someone being so judgemental and rude that they have to tell other people how much their lives suck, and how if they do this and that, then it will get better. This is what the anti-progress faction always has their arguments boil down to. They can’t stand the ways other people choose to spend their time, and feel as though that they must do whatever they can in order to stop it.

So, what should we do in response?

After all, if this plan has worked, then this needs to be addressed.

To put it very simply, Keene State College is already doing the right thing. In most classes, unless advised, it’s considered rude to use your phone in class, especially when a teacher is talking, and students will be told to put the phone away.

Outside of class, however, individuals can use their free time to do what they want; if they want to use a screen, fine; if they don’t, that’s equally fine. Keene, and many other schools like it, have much bigger concerns than cell phones and binge-watching. We don’t need to waste out-of-pocket money on telling other people how they should think and feel. The Cole Porter mentality will not benefit the students of this school, or any other.

Colin Meehan can be contacted at cmeehan@kscequinox.com

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mAnAging ExEcutivE Editor It is not often that people in the arts get to work with true masters of their crafts.

Keene State College recently got to welcome world-renowned Colombian-Spanish soprano Dr. Patricia Caicedo.

As a trained classical singer, musician and musicologist, Caicedo offers unique and valuable insight on tools and techniques to help singers reach their fullest potential.

Masterclass Caicedo recently lent her skills to a masterclass for KSC students, not only educating them on Latin American and Iberian composers and arrangements, but was able to focus on four students and work through their chosen Latin-American Art Songs.

“I think it was really illuminating being up there,” Kelly Uselton, sophomore music performance major, said, “because she [Caicedo] was having me emote more and be more expressive and pointing out that while I may have thought that I was being expressive that it may not have translated exactly to the audience, especially on stage, so that was really valuable.” Uselton performed Cancion composed by Manuel de Falla.

KSC sophomore music performance major Laurel Mendelsohn said she really appreciated the style in which Caicedo conducted her masterclass.

Mendelsohn performed Preludios, also

by Manuel de Falla.

“I’ve done a couple master classes before, but she’s definitely a lot more down to business,” Mendelsohn said. “It was a lot more intense than I expected, especially just getting up there [ on stage].”

Also noting the direct approach Caicedo takes in her master class workshops, KSC senior piano performance major Jake Hug-

gins said Caicedo was particular about the way words sounded, and helped the students learn how to pronounce them properly.

“She has so much knowledge that she brought here and she, in the master class specifically, definitely didn’t hold back at all,” Huggins said.

“You just get so much insight because she’s from somewhere totally different and you just get that much more experience with what she knows and then bringing it here.”

At the end of the 4:00 p.m. hour, the duo exited the stage, completing their set with “Engenho Novo,” arranged by Laurindo Almeida.

However, Caicedo and Lezcano surprised the audience with a final song before

the recital officially ended.

Huggins was also one of the audience members at the rectial.

“I think both José [Lezcano] and [Caicedo] did very well,” Huggins said. “Overall, I thought it was very well done, very well put

together too.”

Meridith King can be contacted at mking@kscequinox.com Alexandria Saurman can be contacted at asaurman@kscequinox.com

Recital In addition to teaching master classes, Caicedo also performed a recital with KSC Coordinator of Guitar and Latin American Music and twice Grammy-Nominated Cuban American Guitarist, Composer, Folklorist Dr. José Lezcano, entitled “Spanish Nights & Songs of Absence”.

The event was held on Sunday, Sept. 24, in the Redfern Arts Center’s Alumni Recital Hall, and attracted an audience of about 40 people.

The duo began their set with two Sephardic songs, arranged by Manuel Vallis.

According to the event’s program, “Caicedo is a leading interpreter of the Latin American and Iberian vocal repertory” and is known as “The Voice of the Latin American and Iberian Art Song.” She has also published 5 books and 8 CDs that are within the field.

A portion of the recital contained an arrangement of poetry written by Caicedo and music composed afterwards by Lezcano. He and Caicedo worked together to tell Caicedo’s sort of cathartic tale of an imperfect romance, as she explained prior to the performance of the songs.

When asked on his experience performing with Caicedo, Lezcano said “I love it, because I have a great time and I always learn so much.”

CONTRIBUTED PHOTO BY MUSIC DEPARTMENT Lezcano learned a new repertoire for Columbian-Spanish soprano Dr. Patricia Caicedo and Coordinator of Guitar and Latin American Music José Lezcano perform these most recent recitals with Caicedo. together in the faculty recital, “Spanish Nights & Songs of Absence.”

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The Bandstand Jake McKelvie & the Countertops Our Bio: In 2011, I had made my first attempt at a semi-official musical release with “The Golden Voice of Jacob C. McKelvie EP.” After hearing that, Nick, our bass player and a friend of mine since middle school, began urging me to try those songs with a backing band. He was in the music program at Keene State so he enlisted our first drummer, Jeff, and the three of us started playing those songs. We played some shows around campus and beyond for a year or so, then Jeff fell off the face of the earth (Where’s Jeff?) and our current drummer Matt joined the band. Since then, we’ve averaged 100+ shows a year and have toured all around the country performing for literal dozens of people (cumulatively).

Members: Jake McKelvie - guitar/vocals Nick Votruba - bass Matt Bacon - drums

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Keene, New Hampshire

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Indie-rock, post-punk, pre-???

Upcoming events:

Sept. 29 at Psychic Readings in Providence, Rhode Island with Lady Queen Paradise and SweetPea Pumpkin.

Oct. 5 at The Shaskeen in Manchester, New Hampshire with New English, Giant in the Lighthouse and Dwarf Cannon.

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Solo cross-country tour in early November, then full band east coast tour in late November. Dates forthcoming!

We’ll start working on our third full-length album….soon? Yes, soon. Probably. No, we really will.

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Diversity wins at the Emmy’s

The digital death of the concept album

ABBY SHEPHERD

Social Media director The Emmy’s last Sunday night were a stunning reminder of how television reflects real life, or maybe the real life that society wishes it could have.

The Hollywood elite watched host Stephen Colbert comfortably deliver the opening monologue with the politically charged wit and charm he’s been portraying so far on “The Late Show.”

The monologue featured a songand-dance number, but with a surprise guest tacked on at the finale: former Press Secretary Sean Spicer.

The audience tried to fight their shock with amusement, but it was a challenge for some on-screen stars.

Keeping up with the evening’s theme of political satire, Saturday Night Live (SNL) won the most Emmy’s this year, taking home nine. Kate McKinnon and Alec Baldwin, who played Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump last season, both won Emmy’s for their portrayal of the candidates.

Baldwin, who skewered Trump all season, drew the highest ratings for SNL since the mid-1990s, said, “I suppose I should say: at long last, Mr. President, here is your Emmy.”

However, the evening wasn’t just about poking fun at President Trump. It was also about celebrating the people who are disenfranchised by this administration.

There were many “firsts” in the list of winners, as well as topically relevant speeches that spoke to social issues, especially about race and gender.

“The things that make us different-those are our superpowers,” Lena Waithe said, as she accepted her award for Outstanding Comedy Writing (Netflix’s “Master of None”), the first Black woman to do so. Donald Glover was the first Black man to win an Emmy for comedy directing (FX’s “Atlanta”). As far as the television

dramas, Hulu’s “Handmaid’s Tale” took home eight awards, including Outstanding Drama Directing, awarded to Reed Morano. Morano is the first woman to win that award since 1995.

The acting awards showed diversity as well. Sterling K. Brown won Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (NBC’s “This Is Us”), the first Black man to win the award in twenty years.

Actor and activist Riz Ahmed was the first South Asian man to win Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited TV Series (HBO’s “The Night Of”).

“This show has shone a light on some of the prejudice in our societies, Islamophobia, some of the injustice in our justice system, then maybe that is something,”

he told the crowd when receiving the award.

Although television viewership was the second-lowest in history (narrowly defeating 2016’s numbers), the Emmy’s were not ignored.

Many of the award show’s moments were trending on Twitter and Facebook that same night. For example, Waithe’s speech, shared on Refinery29’s Facebook, has 2.2 million views in just a few days.

For the third year in a row, the Emmy’s are more diverse than the last. Now, television viewers at home are now able to see the diversity of off-screen America being shown and awarded on-screen.

Abby Shepherd can be contacted at ashepherd@kscequinox.com

ALEX FLEMING

equinox Staff The way people consume music has changed.

People threw out their tapes, records and CDs long ago and traded them for digital notes produced by an iPod. iPods and MP3 players have their benefits. They can hold thousands of songs without making their owner look like a hoarder. You don’t have to get up off your bum and change the album every time you want to listen to a different artist. You don’t even have to buy an entire album. You can just buy your favorite song for a buck and listen to it over and over and over, or until you never want to hear it again. Consuming music this way is easy, cheap and very profitable for those who make it.

The digital music market is a godsend for one-hit wonders and overnight successes. These marketplaces are set up to profit the most from singles. Why risk spending $19.99 on an album that might be vomitinducing when you can spend .99 cents on one song that you know is good? It’s a low-risk investment, so spend away. One-hit wonder, Soulja Boy, made five million dollars off his hit single “Crank That.” I’m going to say that again. Five million dollars off of one song. Digital music is great for consumers and producers, but there are virtues in the old ways of consumption.

I used to have an iPod loaded exclusively with singles on my hip. Vinyl changed that. My co-worker’s boyfriend was about to move. He couldn’t take his record player with him, so he decided to bequeath it to

me. I accepted his offer and started to build a meager record collection. I would walk down Main Street to Keene’s local record store, Turn It Up, after work and buy what I knew, a few The Who albums and some Dad Rock I knew I’d enjoy. One day I walked in and saw a used copy of “Abbey Road” by The Beatles for $20.

I used to hate The Beatles. I actually felt more like meh towards them; their happy tin can guitar licks had no place in my dark, angst-ridden, music elitist teenage brain. I decided to give the album a chance; how could I pass up one of the most iconic records of all time? I took it home, and after listening to it in its entirety, I had a whole new outlook on the pioneers of pop. “Abbey Road” is more than “Here Comes the Sun” and “Come Together;” it’s one long, intertwined, beautiful song.

Listening to albums all the way through allowed me to fall in love with Eminem, Jay Reatard, Green Day, Queen, Gorillaz, Pixies, The Violent Femmes and countless other artists.

Masterpieces known as concept albums can be lost in digital consumption. “The Wall” by Pink Floyd and “Quadrophenia” by The Who cannot be understood or appreciated in one or two songs off the albums.

An artist’s hits or singles are like the first sketches of their Mona Lisa; it’ll look nice, you may walk away pleased and impressed, but if you don’t listen to their albums in their entirety, you’re never going to see what the whole picture has to offer.

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artS & EntErtainmEnt Editor Legwarmers were dusted off, tutus fluffed and shoulder pads made to be as sharp as ever at the Let’s Dance: 80s Edition dance party, hosted by the Neoteric Dance Collaborative and the Redfern Arts Center, this past Friday in the Mabel Brown Room.

Upon entering the room, attendees were handed a program in the form of a “cootie catcher,” outlining when group dance lessons and dance performances by the Neoteric Dance Collaborative would be taking place throughout the night.

Neon lights illuminated the room and the disco ball, and party-goers took to the dance floor to boogie along to the likes of Prince, Bowie, Janet Jackson, Devo and more, ‘spun’ by DJ James 808.

Every half-hour or so, the dancers of the Neoteric Dance Collaborative cleared the dancefloor to perform original choreography for the attendees to popular 80’s music, starting off these performances with an interactive group dance lesson that everyone would perform for the finale dance number.

First-years James Yates and Shelby Orifice both were drawn to the event because of their love of 80s music and their love to dance.

Yates did admit to liking more of the

80s “metal” music variety, citing Ozzy Osbourne, Slayer and Van Halen as some of his favorites, while Orifice prefered rock groups more like The Smiths.

Coordinator of Energy and Administrative Services at the Physical Plant at Keene State College Diana Duffy, was also seen busting out some dance moves on Friday.

“When I was in highschool we used to have 50s dances, it was this nostalgic alien period that we reached back for. This is now where we are, and we are reaching back to the 80s, so for most people it’s this sort of foreign alien time that had people dressed up funny with a lot of hair, etc, so it’s something to commemorate , in a way,” Duffy said on students today reacting to the 80s era at the event.

Having gone through college in the 80’s, Duffy recounted on the times of a student run disco that ran six nights a week, where she jokingly said she got a “summa cum in disco”.

Her dance moves remain as energetic as ever.

KSC students Umutoni Nyiramugisha and Claudine Umurutasate appreciated the performances put on by the Neoteric Dance Collaborative, first hesitating then finding themselves on the dance floor for a majority of the night .

“They all are very good at it [dancing]” Umurutasate said on the dancers. Both said

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Members of the Neoteric Dance collaborative perform during the event Lets Dance: 80s Edition.

they would go to an event like this again.

“I was really thinking about this for stuDirector of the Redfern Arts Center dents” Mayers said, “Having something fun Shannon Mayers, had happened upon the on a Friday that is fun and safe”.

Neoteric Dance Collaborative and their Let’s Founder of the Neoteric Dance CollaborDance: 80s Edition event by chance, stating ative Sarah Duclos, begun the group while that she was drawn to the dance party vibes in college in order to push herself and other that Neoteric Dance Collaborative brings. student dancers further in the dancing/choreography realm.

The group has developed Let’s Dance: Soul Edition and Let’s Dance: 80s Edition dance parties, events that take anywhere from three to nine months to put together.

“We have another version of this show, Let’s Dance: Soul Edition, and we created that first and that was sort of our next big thing,” Duclos said.

“There was a real call for it [the 80s Editon]. Everyone loved the Soul [Edition] but everyone was like ‘You should really do an 80s party’”.

An an 80s Dance party they certainly did.

From start to finish, Let’s Dance: 80s Edition had people continuously on the dance floor.

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Students and community members boogie on the dance floor at Let’s Dance : 80s Edition, hosted by the Neoteric Dance Collaborative and the Redfern Arts Center.

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Diana Duffy was on the dance floor for most of the night at the Let’s Dance: 80s Edition event.

Thorne celebrates a colorful opening ANGELIQUE INCHIERCA

Equinox Staff “Art” is one word that holds dozens of meanings. Whether you are a musician, a dancer, an actor, or anything in between, an artist shares their story in their own unique way.

This past weekend, on Friday, Sept. 22, Keene State College’s Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery, or the Thorne for short, held their first gallery showing. Teachers and former art students came from all

around to see the “Bob Neuman ‘Impulse and Discipline’” event in remembrance of Keene’s local artist and former Keene State College Professor, Robert S. Neuman.

Neuman, born in 1926, had been drafted from Idaho, attended art school in California and traveled to Spain and Germany before settling down here in the Keene area and even teaching at the college before retiring.

The Thorne Art Gallery’s Director Brian Wallace explained how the gallery started for the community of

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Scott Mullet plays the saxophone with the Scott Mullet Trio at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery opening this past Friday.

Keene and keeps its original roots by staying connected with the locals around. One way of doing this was to showcase a beloved mentor and friend’s artwork after his passing.

For many, this event acted as the first impressions made to people who had never known Neuman or the Thorne Art Gallery before.

“This is my first time learning about him [Neuman],” Swanzey resident Shane Maxfield said. Most students shared the same unknowingness about Neuman, but said they were not disappointed in what they saw.

Keene State sophomore Olivia Cattabriga described his work as “super expressive and energetic,” while Emma Johansen, a sophomore, said, “I love the colors, it’s so bright.”

A lot of students expressed that when viewing Neuman’s work, each piece caught your eye for a different reason than the last.

Keene State Alumna Taryn Heon explained it as “very alive and diverse.”

Similar to Heon, Wallace said, “He [Neuman] had a really diverse way of thinking about things.”

When walking through the gallery, Neuman’s history was displayed throughout. Wallace explained that the gallery showcased each decade in its own section.

“He [Neuman] kept evolving into new styles,” Wallace said. With each

new decade came a new experience, which changed his style of art.

This explains the wide range of emotions and descriptions that students said they felt were given to them while walking through the layout.

Keene State sophomore Emma Johansen described the artwork to be “all so different, but also the same because of the abstract.”

While walking through Neuman’s story, each person was able to create their own line to add to his existing page.

“You see it and interpret what you want from it,” said Jackie Aubuchon, a first-year at Keene State College.

Fans of Neuman’s abstract and geometric art can be looking forward to events similar in the near future. Wallace announced that the family and friends at the Thorne Gallery that night would be coming together again on Oct. 13 to finish shooting a video documentary about Robert S. Neuman, and again in November for a book session on Neuman’s larger impact on art history.

Outside of these events, Wallace said he urges Keene State College students to visit the Thorne whenever they find free time to stop in.

Cattabriga said, “I think that if they [KSC students] have the slightest interest in art, they should visit.

I mean, I wouldn’t go to a math gallery, but if they have the slightest

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Attendees of the Thorne-Sagendorph season kick-off party admire some of Robert S. Neuman’s iconic artwork.

interest, they should.” see more students use the ThorneJosh Farr, a gallery director from Sagendorph Art Gallery to their a neighboring town, helped set up advantage as a free activity. this exhibit and explained the pleasure it gives gallery workers to see Angelique Inchierca art appreciated by people from all can be contacted at sorts of different backgrounds. ainchierca@kscequinox.com Wallace invites campus students by saying “If the doors are open, we’re open,” and said he hopes to

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I wouldn’t really know that most of these events were going on if it wasn’t for the app; it definitely helps students be more aware of what’s going on here at campus.

Megan Marcotte KSC first year

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Student uses the new and improved Hootie’s Rewards app (previously Code Red) to find out about events on campus and win points to get free school swag. The app is available for free in the app store.

Hootie’s Rewards replaces the Code Red app and allows for more opportunities for students to win points MATT KAHLMAN

Equinox Staff Have you ever wondered what time the KSC basketball game started? Or what building the art festival is in? Since its launch in 2015, Hootie’s Rewards at Keene State College has been helping students get more involved with campus life.

“This app is the only thing like this on campus,” Megan Marcotte, a first-year student, said. “I wouldn’t really know that most of these events were going on if it wasn’t for the app; it definitely helps students be more aware of what’s going on here at campus.” Marcotte said she likes the app because of how many different types of events are posted, not just athletics.

KSC’s Assistant Athletic Director for Sports Information Compliance and Operations Abe Osheyack, is one of the primary administrators for the app. Osheyack said at first, Hootie’s Rewards was titled Code Red. “We have had some versions of the app on campus for two-and-a-half years, and in the summer of 2017, we branded the app to call it Hootie’s Rewards.”

Osheyack wanted to make the name sound more campus-friendly.

“We kept getting feedback saying Code Red sounds more like a lifealert type of health scare, so we went along with changing the name to gain more recognition.”

He also said he wants to see the app expand more into a campus-

wide app. Osheyack said he wanted to open up the app to more events than just athletics to get more students involved. “We’ve done Paws to Play, study nights, all sorts of things where students can go be a part of campus life and be rewarded for it.

Osheyack said he didn’t expect the app to become a massive calendar for college events. Over the few years, he said he hopes to see an increase in the apps user base.

The Coordinator of Wellness Education at KSC Tiffany Mathews is one of the main contributors to the changes made to the app. She approached Osheyack in the spring of 2017 and asked if she could help rethink and redevelop the app. Mat-

thews decided one of the things to change first was the name of the app, which eventually led to the new name Hootie’s Rewards.

“I wanted to try and find a way to encourage students to attend oncampus events.” Mathews said she wanted to find a way to get more students involved with the app, so she came up with the idea of adding student wellness-based events like academic fairs and student fairs to the app.

Students can go to events, check in, get points and redeem them for swag, from art kits, head massagers, to phone holders, along with sports prizes.

She formed a group called the Campus Wellness Partners, who

are people from different organizations and departments that send Mathews event info. She is always asking people to send her events.

She also searches the internet and asks the people hosting if she can promote them on the app.

Mathews said she wanted to make it easier for students to find all the wellness events and athletics events in one place.

She also said that the app helps the RAs on campus with figuring out where the on-campus events are for their programming requirement.

Mathews said, “There really isn’t any other place where you can see where all the events are.” She said there are already over 3,000 students who have attended Live Well

KSC tagged events, and this year more students have downloaded the app than in other years.

Mathews said this is something that all of us on campus can collaborate on. “The whole thing about Live Well KSC and the app itself is to help connect the students with the resources we have right here on campus, which will hopefully help them become successful in life.”

Matt Kahlman can be contacted at mkahlman@kscequinox.com

Alternative Break applications are now available online Community service trips to communities all around the U.S. and Nicaragua are filling up fast ALYSSA SALERNO

StudEnt LifE Editor Applications for Alternative Breaks were opened for Keene State College students to apply last week.

Spots are limited, but there are ten week-long and two weekend trips happening throughout the 2017-2018 school year.

Alternative Break is a program that focuses on getting students out on community service driven trips. Each trip focuses on a different social justice issue and gives students the chance to help people in different communities in the country and even internationally. Applications can be found and submitted online on the alternative break page on the KSC website. Most of the destinations are kept secret, however, there is a description of what the group will be doing during each trip so students can pick trips based off of their interests on social justice issues and not where they will be going.

The trips this year will focus on youth development, hunger and homelessness, food security and sustainable living, pediatric healthcare, animal rights, community building, sustainable living and addiction and homelessness.

KSC senior Casey Sault will be leading the hunger and homelessness trip. Sault said, “In the morning times, half of our day will be spent doing food packaging and working in a soup kitchen and the other half of our day will be education, so it will be learning about people who have experienced hunger and homelessness and how it’s affecting that city.”

The Alternative Break program is more than just going away to do community service on spring break; for many students, it really changes their

lives.

KSC senior Monica Doorley is leading a trip this year. She started going on alternative break trips when she was a sophomore and she said those experiences really had a profound impact on her.

“I went to Kentucky the first year and I learned a lot about the coal mining industry and about environmental justice issues in general and how it was such a big picture type of thing and it made me change my way of life,” said Doorley. “I was just way more aware of my impact on the world and my environment.”

Trips range anywhere from $100 to $900, which includes lodging and food for the entire stay. The Coordinator of Community Service at KSC Jessica Gagne Cloutier said, “I think [the program] opens up so many opportunities for learning for our students that align with our values, whether that be preparing students for a rapidly changing world.”

She said it also gives students that chance to help others while getting to visit new places and meet new people. She said she even sees students continue to have relationships with people they met on trips years ago.

Gagne Cloutier said, “Helping our students be more sensitive to diversity and able to work with people who are different from themselves, confident and bold enough to try new foods and new tasks and it aligns with our goals of sustainability and I think it really gives students critical thinking skills and helping them solve some of the toughest challenges that we’re facing. It works on a lot of levels.”

Alyssa Salerno can be contacted at PHOTO FILE CONTRIBUTED asalerno@kscequinox.com KSC alumna Dre Cuzzupe paints homes on a community rebuilding trip during the spring of 2016.

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Study and get free food at the library Changes to student organizations A new system is being implemented to help organize student groups on campus OLIVIA BELANGER

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Top and Right: Students do homework and chat at one of the library’s study nights

Study nights at KSC library help students

catch up on homework and snack KALILA BROOKS

equinox stAff Once every week on alternating Mondays and Tuesdays from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., an average of about two dozen students gather in room 104 of the Mason Library for studying, food and trivia.

Educational counselor from the Aspire program, Mark SchmidlGagne said in addition to getting real work done, students have an opportunity to goof around and talk. “It provides a wonderful community,” said Schmidl-Gagne. “It provides that connection [between] staff members and faculty members [and] the students who may not be finding it out on the intramural field or within a student organization. To find that here within an academic pursuit is really cool.”

Students feel they get much more work done in this community atmosphere. Keene State senior Sarah McVey said, “I’m definitely more apt to be productive [at study

night] because I feel less comfortable watching my Netflix with everyone to see it too, so I have less distractions.”

Other students go to study night for different reasons. KSC sophomore Katelynn Kaimi said, “I still have the same distractions; I watch Netflix or whatever. I come for the food. I’m still as productive, I can work kind of anywhere, but they feed me, so that’s great.”

On Tuesday, Sept. 19, Kaimi and other students enjoyed Chinese take-out as they worked on assignments.

“We always have some level of food or snack here,” SchmidlGagne said.

In addition to the food, Kaimi added that she appreciates the atmosphere. “It’s pleasant. Everyone’s nice and... willing to help you.

[The faculty is] always there to help with whatever problems you have, and so it’s super helpful,” Kaimi said.

McVey added to Kaimi’s state-

ment and said, “Even if it’s not like a study night question, even if it’s not homework, you can just go up and talk to them. They’re really helpful. Really, any point that you could possibly get to, you always know that they’re there. So if you ever have any questions, then you can just pop into study night. It’s really chill. It’s very nice.”

Schmidl-Gagne said he feels that many other students who frequent study nights share McVey’s sentiment. “The fact that [a group of students] chose that tonight’s [trivia] question would be about ‘How many ties does Mark have?’ tells me that they recognize sort of who I am and what I am and that we have that connection.”

The student who guessed closest to the number of neck ties Schmidl-

Gagne owned won a $5 gift card to Cumberland Farms, which, Schmidl-Gagne said laughingly, “Ought to be attraction enough [to come to study night].”

The number of students attending study nights are tracked and, as a result, so is the approximate number of hours spent studying.

According to Schmidl-Gagne, there were about four hundred thirty-six (436) students tracked during the 2017 spring semester, and a total of over five hundred (500) hours of studying.

Upcoming study nights are Tuesday, Oct. 3, and Monday, Oct. 9.

Schmidl-Gagne said he encourages all students to come.

Kalila Brooks can be contacted at kbrooks@kscequinox.com

CALLIE CARMOSINO

AssociAtion (AcdA)

We are a student chapter of the national ACDA. The mission of ACDA is to inspire excellence in choral music through education, performance, composition and advocacy (acda.org). Our primary goal is to advocate and support choral music educators. We attend conferences in the fall and spring focusing on choral music education and sponsor guest lectures on choral education. We meet Thursday nights at 8 p.m. in

the Redfern Arts Center. We meet as a chapter and discuss what is coming up for us.

These past few weeks, we have been talking about how to become a member, preparing for a conference in October and talking about the Cantate! Choral Festival that the music Department hosts every fall. We also encourage members to reach out to us if they have any idea of what they would want to do for an advocacy project or group activity. I like to think of this chapter as a family; we meet and we have fun and we promote something that we all love: music. Personally, I am a instrumental music performance major but ACDA has my heart, I really try to show people that

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The finances for student organizations at Keene State College are under more stringent guidelines for fiscal year 2018 (FY18).

Following the retirement of the Student Involvement Support Assistant Deborah Edwards, who was responsible for student organization finances, the Office of Student Involvement was required to divvy up Edwards’ previous responsibilities.

KSC Coordinator of Student Organizations and Activities Britany Gallagher said her fellow colleagues, along with herself, have needed to figure out a way to allow student organizations to continue thriving while also making the work manageable for all the employees within the Office of Student Involvement.

Being in her third academic year at KSC, Gallagher said this year, she has been able to find ways to improve the quality of the student organizations.

“In the absence of some people, it’s actually helped me learn a lot more a lot faster out of necessity, but it’s also a good thing because it’s allowing me to see gaps of information that are happening,” Gallagher said.

The goal for FY18 is to make sure all information related to student organizations is being consolidated, according to Gallagher, and

the information is not only being kept by the different student organizations, but also being updated on a regular basis by the Office of Student Involvement.

Gallagher added there will likely be a new annual registration process starting in the spring semester to help with consolidation.

She said what she is currently working on is keeping all organizations and its members on the same page.

“One of the gaps that I’ve found in the last year or so is student leaders are not always communicating things to other members on their [executive board], or maybe they’re not communicating things to their advisers, so as much as I can prevent that from happening from the get-go, I want to be able to do that,” Gallagher said.

“Whenever issues or challenges come up throughout the year, it’s not just that one person on [editorial board] who has been given that information, it’s also the treasurer, that president or co-president, and it’s also all of the advisers, that way they can help to support each other as best as they can.”

Gallagher added the Office of Student Involvement is currently working with the Human Resource department in order to find a replacement for Edwards.

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you don’t have to be a Choral Music Education major to be a part of this organization; we welcome everyone! Our Facebook page is KSC ACDA and we are also putting on our annual Scores Project this fall. “No child should be denied sheet music due to financial needs, because MUSIC MATTERS! The Keene State College Chapter of ACDA will donate money to a high school music program in need. Our goal is to raise $300...Supporting local choral Programs by bringing Communities together.” What is important to ACDA is that we try for $1 from 300 people, not $300 from 1 person!

Film Studies Open House Media Arts Center • 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Saturday 9/30 Pisgah-Keene Connector Trail Hike, Horatio Colony Preserve, Daniels Hill Road • 10:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Affordable Art Sale, Keene Public Library • 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Community Drum Circle, The Serenity Center, 36 Carpenter St. • 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

Monday 10/2 Crafternoon L.P. Young Student Center - Office of Multicultural Student Support and Success • 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Open Classroom Days- October 2 - October 13 Tuesday 10/3 Career Speaker Series - Hypertherm Rhodes S203 • 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

Game Night Young Student Center - Office of Multicultural Student Support and Success • 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.

KSC Study Night Mason Library - Lab 104, | Mason Library • 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Wednesday 10/4 Google Educator Training Series - Session One 4:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

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A Day in the Life of a Transman

Humans Of KSC What makes you smile?

“Yes, this is the men’s room.”

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Equinox Staff “Oh, um hmmmm,” he looked at the sign on the door and then back at me. “Yes, this is the men’s room,” I said to the confused man staring back at me as I wiped my hands. “Oh, um cool,” he waits for me to leave before he goes about his business.

I am relieved he didn’t ask any other questions, but I feel ashamed for not passing as well as I normally do, for my chest binder was in the wash.

I hang my head down and the wave of shame and displeasure in my own body falls over me.

I try not to let it bother me while I sit in class, but that’s never an easy task. As I sit, letting my mind wander to dark places, I am reminded of the time I first used the men’s room, in the worst possible place I could have chosen: WalMart.

My girlfriend and I went there as we normally did when there wasn’t much to do, and being a human, I had to use the bathroom. I walked up and parted ways with my love and did my thing.

As I came out, an older man stopped me at the door and wouldn’t really let me pass. He looked at me closely. I, feeling uncomfortable, looked away.

“You know this is the men’s room, right?” he said in a rude and degrading tone. I was already feeling incredibly self-conscious and vulnerable for using the men’s room for the first time, so I just looked at the man. “Aren’t you a girl?” he said to me.

“Yes, this is the men’s room,” I finally said and moved around the man and met back up with my girl. I nearly had tears in my eyes. I didn’t ever want to use the men’s room again. I would rather go through the awkwardness and pain of using the women’s room than be asked if I was a girl.

Asking if I was a girl is like being stabbed in the heart for someone like me; it just breaks down everything you have worked for.

A few months later, it was plastered all over the internet: “The Bathroom Bill!” This was when something as simple as bathroom usage hit the national government.

If someone is lucky enough not to know what this is, it was a bill that made it illegal for transgender people to use the bathroom of their gender; every person had to use the bathroom of their sex on their birth certificate.

So, not only was it scary to start using a bathroom of the gender you identify with, but now you could get arrested for it in some places.

Being the rule-breaker that I am, I still used the men’s room. I am a man after all, I shouldn’t be in the women’s rooms anyway.

I was never afraid of being caught or arrested for using the bathroom, but I knew if someone against me found out, I could be screamed at or even harmed for simply using the bathroom.

Luckily, the bill never fully passed and I can use whatever room I please, but it still comes with the threat of punishment of peeing.

Being at a school so welcoming and inclusive as Keene State College, I don’t have to worry about which bathroom or locker room I choose to use.

I get to use the men’s room because I identify as a man and my transgender girlfriend gets to use the women’s room because she is a woman. We are both lucky enough to go to a school that allows us to use gendered places as we feel necessary, based on our gender identities.

Some people aren’t as lucky and are forced to use the wrong bathroom, and that can really make that individual uncomfortable and not want to attend. All over the country, people are fighting for the right to use the proper bathroom.

It may seem small, but every time you use the proper bathroom, remember there is someone out there being hurt because they can’t or ridiculed because they were caught.

Keene State has a list of all the gender-neutral bathrooms and their locations. You can find this list at https://www.keene.edu/campus/diversity/bathroom-map/. These bathrooms are made for anyone and everyone, regardless of gender identity.

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My friends and my animals can always make me smile, be it thinking of times with them or seeing them in person. There is no easier way to get me to crack a smile than seeing one of my chickens or cats exist and just be adorable.

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I smile when I am surrounded by my friends and those who accept me for who I am.

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Eating with The Equinox Apple Crisp Five or six delicious looking apples-- I picked mine from Mayfair Farm in Harrisville, New Hampshire 1 cup brown sugar 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon 2 tablespoons white sugar 3/4 cup old-fashioned oats 3/4 cup flour 1/2 cup butter (do not soften) Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees Toss apples in white sugar and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon.

Place mixture in a large baking dish.

Mix brown sugar, the other teaspoon of cinnamon, oats, flour and butter. The best way to do this is taking a fork and mashing the butter. It might take a little time, keep working it until it is crumbly.

Spread over the top of the apples.

Bake until the top is golden brown and the sides are bubbly.

Pro Tips: Get ice cream or whipped cream to put on top when you serve.

I doubled the amount of topping I put on my crisp because I was using a lot of apples and then you never have a bite without topping.

Put a couple tablespoons of butter on the top when the crisp has about 10 minutes left in the oven-- it adds a little flavor to the topping and there’s no such thing as too much butter.

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Simpson found not guilty after 252-day trial JESSICA RICARD

Senior reporter/Copy editor/time CapSule editor A winner of the Heisman Trophy, a running back with the Buffalo Bills, a TV star and a murderer, Orenthal James (O.J.) Simpson was acquitted of murder after a 252-day trial on Oct. 3, 1995.

After the brutal murder of Nicole Brown Simpson, his wife, and Ronald Goldman, her friend, in Brentwood, Los Angeles, California, O.J. Simpson pleaded not guilty in front of the judge.

Simpson married Brown in 1985, and reportedly regularly abused her throughout the length of their relationship, stated history.com.

To a charge of spousal battery in 1989, he pleaded no contest, and in 1992, Brown left him and filed for divorce. On June 12, 1994, however, Brown and Goldman were both stabbed and slashed to death in Simpson’s front yard. Just five days later, police charged him with both murders.

In the 40 minutes following the murders, history. com stated, a limousine driver, who was scheduled to take Simpson to the airport, witnessed a man in dark attire running toward Simpson’s home; a few minutes after the person in dark clothing made it into the home, the limousine driver was let in via gate phone.

But when the driver had tried to call the house in the minutes before he arrived there, nobody had answered.

During the time frame in which the murders occurred, Simpson had no alibi, and all evidence was leading to him.

A leather glove found outside his house matched another found at the crime scene, and blood on it was proven to have come from both himself and the two victims of the murders.

Additionally, a pair of socks found at Simpson’s home matched the blood of Brown, and the coroner concluded the killer had used a “Stiletto” knife to commit both murders, which Simpson had just recently purchased.

Shoe prints in the blood at his home matched his shoe size and were later shown to match shoes he owned as well, although the knife and shoes weren’t found by police, according to history.com. A warrant was put out for Simpson’s arrest on June 17, but that evening, he was located by police. Being driven around by Al Cowlings, Simpson’s friend and former teammate, police spotted

Simpson’s white Ford Bronco; over the phone, Cowlings told them he was suicidal and had a gun to his head.

Because of this, police did not forcefully stop the vehicle.

While police were chasing the car, Los Angeles news stations began televising the events as they were unfolding.

The car eventually turned into Simpson’s home and, after over an hour of negotiations, he finally got out of the vehicle and surrendered.

With him was a travel bag consisting of his passport, a disguise kit (fake mustache and beard) and a revolver, and when brought to court, he pleaded guilty in front of a judge.

Simpson’s trial was the longest trial ever held in the state of California, and much of the proceedings in the courtroom were caught on camera.

Simpson’s team of attorneys made cases that he was being framed by racist police officers, and the DNA evidence was attacked for many weeks.

The jury, which was made up nine African-Americans, two whites and one Hispanic, came to a conclusion in just four hours that Simpson was not guilty on both murder charges.

When this was released on Oct. 3, 1995, over 140 million Americans tuned in to watch or listen.

However, he was found liable for many charges related to the murder, according to history.com, and was forced to pay $33.5 million to the victims’ families of the murder, but avoided it because of the length and complexity of his trial.

In 2007, Simpson was arrested, once again, but this time for breaking into a hotel room in Las Vegas and stealing sports memorabilia that was stolen from him, he claimed.

On Oct. 3 of 2008, he was found guilty of 12 charges relating to this incident: armed robbery, kidnapping and sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison.

Thus far, Simpson has spent about nine years in prison and is preparing for release this October after being granted parole in July, reported the Chicago Tribune on July 20, 2017.

By Oct. 1, he would have served his minimum sentence of nine years, making him eligible for release.

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The jury... came to a conclusion in just four hours that Simpson was not guilty on both murder charges. When this was released on Oct. 3, 1995, over 140 million Americans tuned in to watch or listen.

Jessica Ricard

Senior Reporter/Copy Editor/Time Capsule Editor

On Oct. 3, 1995, O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murder. He fatally stabbed both his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

Williams becomes last player to hit .400 average in MLB history JESSICA RICARD

Senior reporter/Copy editor/time CapSule editor As of now, the Boston Red Sox currently have the top spot in the American League standings (91-65), but not many players have a top spot in all of baseball history. On Sept.

28, 1941, Red Sox player Ted Williams became the last player to hit a .400 batting average in baseball history.

On this day, Williams cracked six hits of his eight chances at bat against the Philadelphia Athletics, which boosted his batting average to .406. This allowed him to become the first baseball player to hit .400 since Bill Terry of the original New York Giants in 1930.

Williams began and ended his career with the Boston Red Sox, beginning in 1939 and ending in 1960, and no major league player has hit .400 since he did. Contrary to being a baseball phenomenon, he served in World War II and the Korean War as a pilot in the Marine Corps, missing five total base-

ball seasons.

Nicknamed “The Splendid Splinter” and “The Thumper, he led the league with 37 home runs, 135 runs, a slugging average of .735 and an on-base percentage of .553, according to history.com. His on-base percentage was a record that was left unbroken for 61 years, but was broken by Barry Bonds in 2002 when he earned a percentage of .582.

Additionally, Williams achieved a total of 521 home runs throughout his baseball career, hitting his final ball out of the park his last time at bat on Sept. 28, 1960.

Williams won the American League Triple Crown in 1942, a title given when a player leads a league in three categories, usually in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in (RBI) within the same season. He had the Triple Crown honor both in 1942 and 1947, and was named the American League’s Most Valuable Player in 1946 and 1949. Also, he was named to the All-Star team 17 times and was the fourth player in history to hit 500 home runs.

Once he retired in 1960, he left his mark on baseball with a lifetime batting average of .344, a .483 career on-base percentage and a total of 2,654 hits, according to history.com.

He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1966 and the Boston Red Sox retired his number (nine) in 1984.

After managing the Washington Senators, now called the Texas Rangers, from 1969 to 1972, he died of cardiac arrest at 83-years-old.

Since Ted Williams hit a .400 batting average in 1941, other players have been close to hitting the same goal. To name a few, Tony Gwynn of the San Diego Padres hit a .394 in 1994, Kansas City Royal George Brett hit a .390 in 1980 and Rod Carew of the Minnesota Twins hit a .388 in 1977, as reported by ESPN. Both a veteran and an accomplished baseball player, he made history in many ways, especially in our home city of Boston, Massachusetts.

Jessica Ricard can be contacted at jricard@kscequinox.com

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Keene State College sweeps athletics in 1982 JESSICA RICARD

Senior reporter/Copy editor/time CapSule editor Whether it be tennis, field hockey, or intramural sports, Keene State athletics were a triumphant success in the Sept.

28, 1982 edition of The Equinox at Keene State College.

While tennis and field hockey were doing quite well, the same could not be said about the men’s soccer team at the time. After playing Plymouth State College, now Plymouth State University, and losing, KSC Head Coach Ron Butcher said he was unhappy with the team’s performance so far throughout the year.

Instead of getting excited when goals were scored, said Butcher, team members appeared smug and dissatisfied with their accomplishments.

In reference to the game, Butcher said, “We played very bad, downright lousy….

To lose and play well is one thing, but to lose and be humiliated is another thing….We have players with the ability to win big games, but you can’t win games with an attitude of selfishness and big egos. That’s where Keene soccer is right now.”

After the game, Butcher relieved the team captains and reassigned roles based on previous games’ performances.

Oppositely, KSC women’s tennis team remained undefeated and the victories from the weekend had improved their record to 3-0.

Tennis Coach Buddy Walsh said he was “pleased by this team’s determination and noted that Keene State ‘dug deeper and pushed harder, when it counted, to come out on top,’” as stated

in The Equinox in 1982.

Additionally, Walsh praised his athletes for their “hard serving, constant pressure and aggressive net play” during their performances.

Although Keene State doesn’t currently have a tennis team, there are tennis courts available for use on the Joyce Fields at the college.

The KSC field hockey team excelled as well, sweeping four games during the week and holding a record of 7-1.

In addition to a successful tennis and field hockey team, 1982 was the year KSC’s Intramural Sports program became so big that the on-campus facilities couldn’t handle it any longer and neither could the budget.

Intramural/Recreational Sports Director Paul Keenan said overgrowth was the biggest problem the program was facing at the time; with 1,800 intramural sports entries in 1981, he suspected approximately 2,000 in 1982.

Reason for the growth, he suspected, was because of the introduction of three new programs: softball, frisbee golf and a “Hot Shot” competition, which was created to replace one-on-one basketball.

To solve the overgrowth problem, the college purchased a 103-acre portion of land, what is now the Owl Athletic Complex, which was meant to remedy field scheduling issues, Keenan said.

Throughout the 2017 fall season, KSC athletics statistics can be found on keeneowls.com.

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The Owls triumph over the Colonials Caroline Perry Sports Editor The KSC men’s soccer team took on Western Connecticut State University last Saturday, Sept. 23.

The Colonials were able to get a one up on the Owls within four minutes of the first half when Chauncey Allers had a one-on-one with the Keene State goalie Jason Smith.

Allers slotted the ball into the bottom right corner of the net, giving the Colonials a one goal advantage.

However, Keene State was able to quickly even out the scoreboard in the 10th minute of the game.

Senior Promise Kpee received a pass at full sprint from senior Riley Steele, firing a shot over the Colonials’ goalie.

The goalie created a slight deflection with his glove, but Kpee’s momentum behind the kick ensured a tying goal for the Owls.

In the 31st minute of the first half, Keene State was able to get one more goal in.

Steele set a middle ball, which was received once again by Kpee, who found the left side netting, giving the Owls a 2-1 lead in just the first half.

The second half had little promising chances for scoring, but no actual goals.

In the 47th minute, the Colonials fired a hard shot.

But Keene State goalie Smith swiftly picked the ball up.

As the game wound down to its final minutes, the Owls made another attempt at the net. In the 72nd minute, first-year Brandon Castor tried to catch a long pass sent out for a break away.

However the opportunity was picked up by the Colonials’ goalie.

Despite multiple set-ups and opportunities, neither team could increase their score.

The Owls will play Saturday, Oct. 7 against Plymouth State at 1 p.m.

Caroline Perry can be contacted at cperry@kscequinox.com LUKE STERGIOU / SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Senior Promise Kpee strikes a ball past Colonial defenders in last Saturday’s game against Western Connecticut State University. The Owls pulled out the win and increase their record to 4-2-2.

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Cross country takes on UMass Dartmouth Invitational CAROLINE PERRY

sports editor The KSC men and women’s cross country team traveled to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth to participate in the UMass Dartmouth Invitational on Sept. 16.

With each meet being more staggered, or spread out, the season has been a gradual rise for each runner, both teams showing performance skills connected to times.

The women’s cross country team placed 14th out of 40 scored teams.

The leader of the pack was Katharine Lynch, a senior and environmental studies major here at Keene State.

Lynch placed 43rd out of 299 runners, her 5k time being 19:36, with an average mile of 6:19.

The next Owl to place was Caroline Sarro, a first-year and nutrition major. Sarro was able to place 51st with a time of 19:45, each mile averagingabout 6:22.

The women’s cross country team’s total time was 1:41:36, which placed them in the 14th spot.

The men’s cross country team also found success at the invitational.

They placed 13th out of 40 scored teams.

First-year and safety studies major Cam Giordano stepped up and finished first for the Owls.

Giordano placed 61st out of 315 runners, his time for the 8k being 26:56, each mile averaging out to 5:26. Next to finish was senior and communications major Matt Dudley.

Coming in 69th place, Dudley scored a time of 27:08, with each mile averaging to 5:28.

The men’s cross country team’s total time was 2:17:26, placing the in the 13th spot.

With the season beginning to gain momentum, times are expected to improve.

The Owls will host the Keene State Invitational on Saturday, Sept. 30, at 11:00 a.m.

Caroline Perry can be contacted at cperry@kscequinox.com

STAFF COMMENTARY

PATRIOTS ROOT SAINTS AT HOME PAUL BEAN equinox staff

After a bismol and disappointing start to the Patriots season vs. the Chiefs, the Patriots got off on the right foot against Drew Brees and his Saints, beating them 36-20.

Tom Brady had one of his best starts.

Brady threw three touchdowns in the first quarter, that being something he has never done before. After a week where Brady did not manage to throw a single touchdown, he finished by going 30-39, with 447 passing yards, and a QBR

(total quarterback rating) of 139.6.

He also was named the American Football Conference (AFC) offensive player of the week.

Not to mention, he broke the record for most games with three plus passing yards and no interceptions.

This was a record previously held by none other than Peyton Manning with 51 games and now Brady with 52 games. All last week, there were questions as to whether Brady had what it takes to be an elite quarterback at age 40.

Brady proved all his doubters wrong, as he usually does, and went out and displayed why his team is still a force to be reckoned with.

Not only did Brady have a good game, but Rob Gronkowski (Gronk) went out and showed, again, why he is an elite at his position.

He finished with 116 receiving yards and a season highlight of a 53-yard touchdown, featuring broken tackles and the speed of Gronk.

Gronk left the game in the second half with a minor groin injury.

Drew Brees, who is also considered one of the best quarterbacks in the league, could not keep up with the Patriots’ offense.

He was 27 of 45 for 356 yards and two touchdowns. The Saints spent the entire game trying to keep up with the Patriots’ offense and it showed;

on fourth down in the second quarter with 2:27 left on the clock, the Saints decided to go for the first down, despite being in field goal range.

Brees and Brady are two of the most elite quarterbacks of their era and hold much respect around the league.

Between the two of them, they have combined for 992 touchdowns and 128,251 passing yards.

Gronk’s injury proved to be nothing serious, so everyone in Patriots Nation can let out a sigh of relief after fears of whether he may have hurt his back again because of the abnormal tackle he sustained. He later told reporters that right away, he knew it was nothing serious or anything for him to be worried about, but out of safety concerns, it was smart to take him out of the game.

In addition to Gronk's groin injury, Rex Burkhead left the game in the first half with a rib injury, and defensive back Eric Rowe was treated for a groin injury.

After all is said and done, the Patriots got on the right foot, and to keep up in this competitive league, they must play on the same level against rookie quarterback Deshaun Watson and the Houston Texans.

Paul Bean can be contacted at pbean@kscequinox.com JAKE PAQUIN / PHOTO EDITOR

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Lamica’s Grand success

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Jay Heaps is Out After Six Years

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Rachel Lamica succeeds in striking her 1000th career kill in women’s volleyball on Thursday, Sept. 14. The Owls played against Trinity College.

Senior Rachel Lamica gets her 1000th kill ISABELLA HARRIS

Equinox Staff The countdown started from 10. “You’re almost there, you have one more, one more!” chanted teammates.

On Thursday, Sept. 14, the Keene State College volleyball team played Trinity College away. In the second set of the game, Rachel Lamica made the accomplishment only four other KSC volleyball players can say they have earned.

“I hit it down the line, and it kind of just flew off of her arms,” said Rachel. That exact point is when she became the fifth volleyball player in history at Keene State College to get 1000 kills.

Rachel said it was intimidating walking into the gym at Trinity College because she had knowledge of that team being prompt on blocking, and all the girls were very tall. “I’m going to get my 1000th kill today, whether it’s easy or difficult,” she said.

When it happened, Coach Bob Weiner called a time-out, and everyone congratulated her, said Rachel.

“We all ran off the court and we were cheering,” said sophomore Jennifer Severino.

“The other team was so confused and didn’t

know what was going on; they were all just shocked we ran off the court,” Severino said.

Rachel’s parents were away in Kentucky the date of the game, but they tuned in online to watch the game live.

“We called as a family in Kentucky and shouted out a great accomplishment; Rachel was very emotional about it and so were we all as a family,” said Rachel’s father, Larry Lamica.

Throughout Rachel’s volleyball career in middle school and high school, Larry said they had to “...reach out to the horizons to get her to get better,” because they were from such a small town.

Getting one thousand kills has been one of her goals from the beginning of her career, and now after four years of playing for KSC, she can finally say she accomplished it. “It marks my career here at Keene State,” she said.

Angela Silveri ranks third in all-time kills here at Keene State, with a total of 1,313 kills.

Silveri was an outside hitter when Rachel was a first-year. She said she looked up to Silveri.

Early in her volleyball career, Rachel said she thought, “She’s [Silveri] so good there’s no way I can get to where she’s got.” Now it is possible for her to end her season’s total kills ranking close to Silveri.

As the tables turn, current sophomore Sev- power behind you; it’s where you place the erino looks up to Rachel. “She has great verti- ball and trying to trick the opponent.” cal [and] she inspires me to jump higher,” said Serverino.

Isabella Harris can be contacted at Rachel still has more goals to accomplish iharris@kscequinox.com before the end of the season. “The next goal is winning [the Little East Conference], staying undefeated and putting the ball to the floor as many times as I can until then,” she said.

Weiner described Rachel as “intense, focused and determined.”

With over 180 kills so far this season, Weiner said she has more kills this season than she did overall as a first-year.

Rachel had a total of 175 kills her first year, and Weiner said he expects her to reach the mid 400’s by the end of the season.

When she came in for preseason in 2014, Rachel Lamica Weiner said, “We were all aware she was the KSC senior pick of the litter.”

He continued, “The thing we don’t know is how is she going to take that skill set and become a college volleyball player, and a leader, and a good teammate and that’s the part I’m so happy about; she’s grown as a person,” said Weiner.

To any player who is looking to achieve this same goal, Rachel said, “Just swing hard, try to be smart and it’s not always about the

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It marks my career here at Keene State

After six years as manager of the New England Revolution, it was announced on Tuesday, Sept.

19 that the club was relieving Jay Heaps of his managerial duties.

This was mainly due to the poor performance of the team for the majority of the season.

Assistant Coach Tom Soehn will take over as interim head coach for the last five games of the 2017 Major League Soccer (MLS) season.

After an abysmal away trip to play Atlanta United and Sporting Kansas City respectively, the New England Revolution decided to part ways with Heaps after the team was outscored 10-1 in both games.

The Revolution lost 7-0 against Atlanta United and 3-1 against Sporting Kansas City.

The General Manager of the New England Revolution Mike Burns said in a MLS club statement, “Jay has done a great deal for the club over the years and had considerable achievements.

I have great respect for him and wish him well in the next steps of his career. This decision has not been taken lightly, however, we need to do better than the results have shown from the last couple of seasons and this season left us convinced we need to go in a different direction.”

Despite the team looking great on paper, with superstars like Lee Nguyen, Kei Kamara, Juan Agudelo, and recently acquired Krisztián Németh, the team just did not perform as well as they were expected to.

Perhaps Heap’s most memorable moment was when he guided the team to a MLS Cup final in 2014, where the Revolution unfortunately lost 2-1 to the Los Angeles Galaxy. Ever since then, the team has not been able to replicate that form.

The fans were skeptical at first when the Revolution hired Jay Heaps back in 2011, considering he was a former Revolution player and he had little managerial experience.

Even though fans have not been too happy with the way he has conducted the team this season, it’s hard to deny that he did great things for the club.

As for Tom Soehn, it will be interesting to see how he conducts the team during these last five games of the 2017 MLS Season.

They won’t be able to make the playoffs, as they currently sit in eighth place with 32 points in the Eastern Conference.

But things are starting to look up as they defeated Eastern Conference leaders Toronto FC 2-1.

The Revolution do have a tough schedule, as they face Orlando City FC away on Sept.

27, then play Atlanta United three days later at home.

We will just have to wait and see how Stoehn carries this team through the last games of the 2017 MLS season.

Luke Stergiou can be contacted at lstergiou@kscequinox.com

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Women’s field hockey coach Amy Watson achieves her 400th career-win against Fitchburg State University on Saturday, Sept. 16. Watson has coached 31 full seasons at Keene State College.

Field Hockey Coach Amy Watson gets her 400th career-win Matthew holderMan Equinox Staff As the seconds ticked down to under one minute remaining on Fitchburg State University’s scoreboard, Keene State College Field Hockey Coach Amy Watson and her players looked on, hoping for a last second goal to give them not only a much needed road victory, but also a milestone in Watson’s career. ​With​​ ​just​​ ​10​​ ​seconds​​ ​left,​​ ​first-year​​ ​Nina​​ ​Bruno​​ ​took​​ a shot at the net and scored, the sidelines erupted in celebration, as this win was the 400th of Coach Amy Watson’s career at Keene State College.

Watson is now only the eighth Division III coach in the​​​history​​​of​​​t he​​​NCAA​​​to​​​win​​​400​games,​​​which​​​is​​​by​​ no means a small accomplishment. ​She​​ ​began​​ ​coaching​​ ​field​​ ​hockey​​ ​for​ Keene​​ ​State​​​ back in the fall of 1986, 31 full seasons ago.

“It​​ ​was​​ ​a​ ​lot​​ ​different,”​​ ​Watson​​ ​said,​​ ​when​​ ​asked​​​ about what coaching was like in the 1980s. ​​“We​​ ​were​​ ​Division​​ ​II,​​ ​and​​ ​field​​ ​hockey​​ ​was​​ ​a​ ​nonscholarship​​​sport.​​​It​​​was​​​really​​​a​​part-time​​​job.”​ In the closing moments of the big game, Coach Watson explained that the thought of win number 400

actually wasn’t on her mind at all. ​“It​​ ​didn’t​​ ​really​​ ​register,​​ ​because​​ ​it​​ ​was​​ ​tied​​ ​0-0​and​​​ there was less than a minute left to go, so I was thinking about​​​overtime,”​​ Watson reminisced. “It wasn’t really until after we won and we were walking out to congratulate the other team that somebody said to me, ‘Hey, that was 400,’ and I​​​was​​​like,​​​‘Oh​​​my​​​gosh,​​​you’re​right,’” Watson explained what winning 400 games meant to her personally. ​ “It’s​​ ​k ind​​ ​of​​ ​cool,”​​ ​she​​ ​said,​​ ​smiling.​​ ​“I​​ ​remember​​​ when​​ ​I​ ​first​​ ​got​​ ​into​​ ​coaching​​ ​and​heard​​ ​about​​ ​people​​​ reaching​​ ​100,​​ ​200,​​ ​300​-win​​ ​milestones,​​ ​t hinking,​​ ​‘Wow,​​ they’ve been doing this for a long time, they must be doing something right. It’s kind of neat to feel like you’ve​reached​​​something​​​like​​​t hat,”​​​she​​​said.​ Despite it being a great achievement, Watson said she​​​was​​​glad​​​to​​​get​​​t he​​​monkey​off​​​of​​​her​​​back.​​​ “I’m​​​glad​​​it’s​​​over​​​with,​​​it​​​was​​​k ind​​​of​​​hanging​​​t here,”​​ she explained.

“I knew it was going to happen this year, I just didn’t know when. Good that it’s over, because we need to focus​​​on​​​t he​​​bigger​​​picture.”​ Coach Watson wasn’t the only one excited about reaching lucky win number 400, however.

​Seniors​​ ​Kendal​​ ​Brown​​ ​and​​ ​Casi​​ ​Smith,​​ ​both​​ ​multi- outh State University on Tuesday, Sept. 19. year​​ ​members​​ ​of​​ ​Keene​​ ​State’s​​ ​field​hockey​​ ​team,​​ ​were​​​ With the season not even halfway over yet, here’s to thrilled for their coach as well. many more wins, and possibly even more milestones on “She​​ ​deserved​​ ​t hat​​ ​win,”​​ ​Brown​​ ​said​ ​proudly.​​ ​“We​​​ the road ahead. were trying to win Coach [Watson]’s 400th for a few games now, and once that goal went in, we were all Matthew Holderman can be contacted at relieved.” mholderman@kscequinox.com Smith backed this up, stating, “We had been trying to get that milestone for Coach [Watson] for a few games at that point. We were so happy and proud that we​​​could​​​get​​​our​​​coach​​​to​​​t hat​​​number​of​​​wins.”​ For​​ ​Brown​​ ​and​​ ​Smith​​ ​however,​​ ​Watson​​ ​has​​ ​always​​​ been a little more than just their coach.

“She has always been very supportive and understanding,”​​ ​Smith​​ ​commented.​​ ​“I​​ ​k now​ that​​ ​if​​ ​I​ ​ever​​​ need​​​anything,​​​I​​can​​​go​​​in​and​​​she​​​definitely​​​has​​​made​​​ me more motivated towards my academic goals. Coach [Watson]​​​is​​​a​​really​​​reliable​​​person,”​​​Brown​​​explained.

“She has always kept me, personally, and a lot of my teammates on track with school and workouts. She honestly is one of the main reasons I’ve made it this far in Amy Watson college.”​ KSC field hockey coach The​​ ​field​​ ​hockey​​ ​team​​ ​now​​ ​has​​ ​an​​ ​overall​​ ​record​​​ of​​ ​4-4​​ ​for​​ ​t he​​ ​year,​​ ​and​​ ​Watson’s​​ ​win​ count​​ ​has​​ ​since​​​ passed 400, when win number 401 came against Plym-

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It wasn’t really until after we won, and we were walking out to congratulate the other team that somebody said to me, ‘Hey, that was 400,’ and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, you’re right.’

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