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The Paul College of Business and Economics added two new concentrations to the hospitality major.

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Laura McHoul reached her 100-point career milestone on Saturday against Binghamton.

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Suspicious package was a ‘false alarm’

By MELISSA PROULX STAFF WRITER

A suspicious FedEx package left on an outside mailbox at the University of New Hamshire’s Forestry Building on Tuesday, April 22 turned out to be nothing more than a false alarm.

A little before 8:30 a.m. that morning, the university’s police department dispatch center received a call from a worker in the building saying that the questionable package was left outside the building in a manner that was not typical for the delivery service.

“Further investigation revealed the package tracking number was never registered with FedEx, and there was no record of the delivery. The packaging label also had some errors,” said UNH’s Executive Director of Safety and police Chief Paul Dean.

Though located on the university’s campus on Mast Road, the building belongs to the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service and is used as their Northern research station. The 30 people inside

the building were evacuated. The State Police Bomb Squad was brought in, along with the Durham Police and Fire Departments, to assist the UNHPD. Dean also said that the FBI was notified of the event.

“With [New Hampshire’s U.S.] Senator Jeanne Shaheen speaking at the facility for earth day, and building management having no information about the package, it was determined the best course of action was to render the package safe,” Dean said.

After running the package through the squad’s portable x-ray machine, the attending officials found that the box only contained a phone headset inside and did not pose a threat. The squad cleared the package and scene, though the building was still inspected afterwards by bomb sniffing dogs as a precautionary measure.

“It’s not what’s inside that makes it suspicious, but the events surrounding it that had caused the concern,” Dean said.

“UNH Police later determined that a part-time

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Police were called to investigate a suspicious package outside UNH’s Forestry Building on Tuesday, but it was a false alarm.

Arts faculty respond to Dimond dump ‘Real Food’ responds to questions about money

By NICK STOICO EXECUTIVE EDITOR

The process of weeding out books from Dimond Library has been put on hold due to an outcry from students and faculty, as well as some dumpsterdiving art professors.

Before Jennifer Moses walked into work at the Paul Creative Arts Center Tuesday morning, she already knew that there was something going on.

University of New Hampshire Professor of Art History Patricia Emison had sent out an email Monday night alerting the department faculty that thousands of art history books were being discarded into

a dumpster outside Dimond Library.

The email read, “Many art history books are being dumped from Dimond Library, literally into a dumpster. Please write or call the library to object!”

Emison appeared on WMUR-TV Monday night expressing her disapproval of the dumpster filling with what she viewed as perfectly good books.

Tuesday morning, the art department was buzzing with conversation amongst the faculty about the books and what was to come of them.

Moses, the chair of the department of art and art history, decided she had heard enough and some-

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Members of the Art Department saved some books thrown away by Dimond. Senior and Photography Fellow Forrest Elliot said they “were never informed that these books were being taken away.”

By MIRANDA WILDER CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Real Food Challenge has been an ongoing project at the University of New Hampshire for the past three years, and yesterday afternoon Slow Food President Katy Allen made arrangements to finalize the agreement after much debate over the financial implications it may or may not cause.

Real Food Challenge is a countrywide movement to get university dining halls involved with fair trade and humanely raised food while maintaining an ecologically sound environment. The goal is to get at least 20 percent of dining hall food from sustainable sources.

“What they want to get rid of is oppression and poverty,” Allen said.

“Countrywide we want to shift 20 percent of purchasing to real food.”

Although Real Food has not been officially approved, Slow Food and UNH Dining have agreed to fully support the movement and create a more reasonable timeline for achieving the full 20 percent of sustainable food in dining halls rather than rush — and potentially fail — by 2020.

As a student organization, Slow Food is hoping to start a movement that will not only impact universities, but small business owners, farmers, fishermen and the community as a whole.

“I think making the commitment and being part of this movement while the spotlight is on it is important,” said Annie Steeves, a member of Slow Food. “We’re setting a precedent . . . I feel like it’s such a huge moment to grasp onto this.”

The problem with committing to Real Food, however, is figuring out how to make it financially feasible for students, Dining and the university’s overall budget.

“I’m skeptical,” said Rick MacDonald, assistant director of UNH dining. “I’m very skeptical . . . We’re really trying to live up to the promises we made, but there are some concerns. Getting to that place may be expensive.”

Allen makes it very clear that this is a commitment and not a contract, something they are working towards to benefit students and the community alike, particularly small farmers or fishermen, and on an even wider

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INDEX

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Contents

The New Hampshire

Stand Against Silence

Hydration stations

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4 58 hydration stations around campus are serving as a sustainability source.

Active Minds at UNH held their annual Stand Against Silence vigil Wednesday.

Inspiring healthy choices

UNH hires women’s hockey coach

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10 SPIN shares recipes that will spark healthier eating habits among students.

Hilary Witt brings experience from Northeastern, Yale and USA Hockey.

This Week in Durham

Carol Shea-Porter attends URC

April 25

April 26

• Off the Clef’s Spring Show, • Cultural Connections: ReflecGranite State Room, 7-8:30 tion of an International Student, p.m.

MUB 18, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

• UNH Theater and Dance Pres- • UNH Theater and Dance Presents: Next to Normal, Henents: Next to Normal, Hennessy Theatre, 7 p.m. nessy Theatre, 7 p.m.

• EDMC Summer Send-Off, • Dancing with the Wildcats, Wildcat Den, 9-11:45 p.m.

Granite State Room, 7-10:30 p.m.

• Not Too Sharp Spring Show, Strafford Room, 8-9:30 p.m.

April 27

• UNH Theater and Dance Presents: Next to Normal, Hennessy Theatre, 7 p.m.

• MUB Movie: American Hustle, MUB Theater II, 6:15-8:45 and 9-11:30 p.m.

• MUB Movie: Delivery Man, MUB Theater I, 7-8:30 and 9:15-10:45 p.m.

April 28

• Careers with Impact Panel, MUB Theater I, 4:30-8:30 p.m.

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Corrections

In the article titled “Dimond discards thousands of books in dumpster” in the April 22, 2014 issue of The New Hampshire, the number of books being recycled was stated as 51,000, whereas it was actually 36,000 with 15,000 planned for storage in the library.

If you believe that we have made an error, or if you have questions about The New Hampshire’s journalistic standards and practices, you may contact Executive Editor Nick Stoico by phone at 603-862-4076 or by email at tnh.editor@unh.edu.

The next issue of The New Hampshire will be on Tuesday, April 29, 2014

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thing had to be done.

Accompanied by Associate Professor of Art Julee Holcombe, Professor of Art History and Humanities Eleanor Hight, and Art Lecturer Rebecca Karo, Moses headed straight for Dimond Library. UNH senior and Photography Fellow Forrest Elliot tagged along when he caught wind of what was happening.

“We were never informed that these books were being taken away,” Elliot said.

Once they arrived, Moses, Karo and Holcombe climbed into the dumpster, retrieving as many books as they could and setting them on the sidewalk. Hight pulled around the corner in her black Honda Civic and the group filled the sedan with every book they could salvage.

When Hight first saw the dumpster filled to the brim with the old books, she got on the phone hoping to find someone who could answer her questions.

“I called Dean [of the College of Liberal Arts Kenneth] Fuld, I called the head of library, I called Provost [Lisa] MacFarlane,” Hight said. “Everyone was in meetings.”

A couple students joined in the effort to retrieve the wasted books.

Any art history books found went to the art faculty and Elliot, while the students held some books to their own liking as well.

Amidst stowing books in the Honda, a Waste Management truck arrived to empty the trash bin. To the relief of the faculty and students

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scale, people living in poverty.

The university currently spends $9.4 million on food a year, and the Dining program estimates that a commitment to Real Food would add an extra $800,000 onto that statement.

“If we do a whole salad bar, that would be a big deal,” Director of the Dining program Jon Plodzik said. “Any adjustment we make can have a huge impact.”

The cost of inflation, labor costs and items take up 70 percent of the Dining program’s budget.

With the inclusion of taxes, about 85 percent of the budget is used.

That does not leave much room for extra expenditures.

“There’s some flaws to begin with from the outside,” Plodzik said. “We are in a lot of financial pressure within dining. We’re in a balancing act right now and there’s a strain on it.”

These are valid concerns, as this could mean raising the cost of meal plans for students, but Slow Food is optimistic that this will not necessarily be the case, and if it is, it will not be as dramatic a change as the dining program anticipates.

In recent years, a survey was conducted asking students if they would be willing to pay $5 more for their meal plans. Many students were unconcerned with this small additional fee.

at the scene, the truck had no interest in taking the books.

Two library employees came out of the building to confront book-retrievers, telling them they had to leave. Holcombe said the two library staffers were aggressive in their tone and told the group to get out of the dumpster on the basis of safety concerns.

Moses gave the names of the two staffers to The New Hampshire, but library administrators could not confirm the information. Neither of the two could be reached for comment on Thursday.

The two library employees went back inside and within a few minutes, a campus police officer arrived. Neither library administrators nor Moses could confirm who called the police.

According to a dispatch log sent by the UNH Police Department, a call was made to their center 9:38 a.m. on Tuesday requesting their presence at Dimond Library.

The report also informs that there was no action taken by the police at the scene.

Once Elliot heard the police were coming, he and some of the faculty returned to the PCAC. “I booked it,” Elliot said.

Moses was the only faculty who stayed, asking to speak with a library administrator about the books in the dumpster.

She was eventually able to

speak with Interim Dean of the University Library Annie Donahue.

Regarding safety and liability, Moses said they were willing to sign a waiver to dumpster-dive so they could come back later and get more books.

Moses said that almost immediately after leaving, she got an email from Donahue saying the weeding out was being halted.

As of Thursday, Hight’s office was filled with shopping bags stuffed with books. Hight said the plan is to keep the books in the art department.

For Hight and the other professors, it was worth the dive to get those books.

“We have a certain challenge as teachers because students think they can just get everything online,” Hight said. “Having the skills to have an open mind to go in and learn everything about the topic from every source you can get — it’s part of the experience.”

Hight said it is worth storing the books, but that she would prefer they be held in the library.

“It’s not our job to be the librarians,” Hight said. “We are teaching students how to use the library, not running the library.”

For now, the books will stay in the dumpster covered with a tarp for protection from the weather while the process is put on hold.

The dumpster was moved away from the library and its current location would not be released.

Faculty members are asking for better communication during this process and they might get it.

Donahue said nothing would happen until further discussions, in which the faculty will be included.

“I think the library will not be doing this again,” Moses said.

Even so, this brings up some concerns from the dining program.

There are currently 10,300 students enrolled in the meal plan program.

David Hill, one of Holloway Commons’ area managers, fears that the number will decrease if there is any sort of upward change in price.

In comparison, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst charges students $800 more for their meal plans. This is what the dining staff fears will happen to UNH students.

“There’s a reason we have more students on the meal plan than any other school,” Plodzik said.

Steeves, also student ambassador of UNH’s Sustainability Institute, disagrees.

“We can say no,” she said.

“We can say no, we are not going to raise our prices.” She feels that it isn’t necessary to raise the prices in order to be in full support of the movement.

Allen suggested that instead of raising the cost of meal plans, they spend more time researching how to limit the amount of waste.

“The reason it could stay the same price,” she said, “is us analyzing and recognizing where they have a lot of waste . . . When they’re saying that it’s definitely going to raise prices, that’s not necessarily true. Student [researchers and interns] will come in and do audits of what food is being wasted and what students aren’t eating.”

Of course, there’s no way to tell for sure that it won’t affect students, but Slow Food sees ways around an automatic increase in their prices.

“It’s got to come from some-

where,” Plodzik said. “Whether people, budget, the program.

There’s no magic pill, so to speak.”

So far, 21 universities of the 150 chapters involved with the Real Food Challenge have committed to the movement. Eleven of the 21 schools that have signed are located in New England, including the University of Vermont and University of Massachusetts-Amherst. The University of Maine, like UNH, is also close to approval.

“It’s going to benefit the world,” Allen said. “It’s not just for UNH, it’s not just for the country.

It’s targeting the whole world food system . . . The food system right now is based around oppression, and that’s where poverty comes in.”

As Allen puts it, the Real Food Challenge encompasses much more than just local food. It would not be as beneficial for certain schools depending on their location, because obviously not every university is located right next to a local farm or fishery and may not have as easy access. If the movement was based on local-only food, it would leave some regions stuck eating pure high fructose corn syrup or other foods produced in the area.

Instead, Real Food looks to broaden connections and form relationships with other universities involved in the program, which is one of the reasons Slow Food finds it so crucial to get it approved.

“We’re lucky here because we have local stuff, like a wide variety of vegetables,” Allen said.

The movement aims to integrate itself even further into

“ I think the library

will not be doing this again.”

Jennifer Moses

Art Department Chair

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employee, who was sending the headset back to the company, mistakenly put the FedEx labeled box in the UPS delivery container and some unknown person took it out of the UPS container and placed it on top of another outside mailbox,” Dean said later in an email. “Since FedEx never picked up the box, there was no record of it in their system.”

Senator Shaheen was expected

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to host an Earth Day roundtable discussion at 11:00 a.m. in the building. The talk was not delayed due to the investigation, and none of the activities on campus were disrupted.

Though the package did not turn out to be a danger to anyone in the building, the various departments that were involved did not downplay the threat.

“Taking these types of precautions is now common place and necessary,” Dean said. “The safety of the campus community is paramount to me, and taking this extra step is department policy and essential to the well-being of campus community.”

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The FedEx box had been mistakenly put in the UPS delivery container.

TNH Serving UNH since 1911 communities, expanding beyond universities. The more real food university dining halls purchase, the better it is for low working class members, and Slow Food sees this a way to begin improving the diets of people living in poverty everywhere.

“People who are poor are put in the worst situation,” Allen said.

“They’re in a cyclical relationship with their food. All they can afford is unhealthy food. Even though the food is cheap, it’s artificially cheap.”

The cyclical relationship that Allen talks about is a constant cycle of poor families only being able to afford cheap, unhealthy food, therefore leading to possible health problems in the future.

“They end up paying for it later when they’re sick from the really unhealthy food that they’re eating,” said Erin Fitzpatrick, also a member of Slow Food. “They’ll have to pay for it in medical bills.”

Not only that, but Allen finds that many of the poor end up working for farms that do not have much interest in the well-being of their employees.

“Workers who are in poverty don’t have any option but to work for these farms that treat them [poorly],” she said. “It’s perpetuated by the industrial food model.”

Charlie Reid, a local farmer, can see both viewpoints regarding Real Food’s approval.

“As a farmer,” he said, “I can understand where they’re coming from. The amount of food that is grown in this state — that small

amount of food wouldn’t do anything to what UNH needs. I can see their point why they don’t want to move forward with this . . . Peppers from Mexico or California or something like that, the farm land is absolutely huge out there . . . we don’t have anything like that around here.”

Despite not being the most abundant area for crops and plantations, he has noticed an increase in competition at local farmers markets, particularly in Portsmouth.

Reid thinks that if some of those farmers were to be informed about Real Food, they would be more than happy to provide UNH with produce.

“My money that I have invested in this institution,” Steeves said tearfully, “I want my money to be going to a society that I want to live in. We are teaching people what our society is, [about] the systemic oppression of our population in our capitalist society. You said you don’t want to mislead the population–the population is being misled. Let’s acknowledge the corrupt practices of this distribution. It’s all about institutional transparency . . . Are we getting our money from investing in a better future, or is are money going towards screwing people over?”

Steeves vented passionately to her peers and the faculty members present at a round table discussion, her voice cracking as she choked back tears and receiving a quietlyawed applause from some of her fellow Slow Food members.

“It’s not going to fail,” she said.

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Hydration stations achieving sustainability across campus

By COLE CAVISTON staff writer

They may resemble the traditional water bubblers found in the hallways of high school, but the “hydration stations” across campus are helping serve as a source for achieving greater sustainability.

Widely used by students and faculty alike, these stations have been found to be an effective way for students to fill bottles with filtered water and reuse their bottles instead of recycling or throwing them away, an effort that has helped reduce the need for purchased water on campus.

The idea behind implementing the project did not originate in a single department, but was the combined effort made by several departments and university groups working together.

“It was a very grassroots effort through many departments,” said Jacqueline Cullen, a program support assistant for the Sustainability Institute.

Nora Molloy, the Memorial Union Building assistant director, said that the idea behind the implementation was to cut down on the use of bottled water and provide other alternatives. But Molloy is quick to add that this decision did not require a change of habit for the university.

“For conservation, the culture

already existed on campus because people were used to bringing … their water in coffee mugs,” Molloy said. “The stations were just an extension of that culture.”

The campus-wide installation first began in late 2010 and continued into the next year. According to MUB Director MaryAnne Lustgraaf, the MUB, which now has seven stations, had their first station installed in 2009, two years before the rest of the building was converted.

“We put them in to have a filtered alternative and to accommodate the water bottles,” Lustgraaf said. “Our first one went in two years before we installed them building wide.”

The process included UNH Housing, the MUB and the Sustainability Institute, which included a number of affiliated organizations, such as the Ecosystem Task Force and the Student Environmental Action Coalition (SEAC), involved in the Sustainability Institute’s biodiversity initiative.

According to the Campus Journal in 2010, each station was estimated to cost about $3,000, which included the expenses of installation and equipment.

Dwain Lozier, the contract manager for the Housing Department, says that the university has installed about 58 stations in resident halls and apartment complex-

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There are about 58 hydration stations scattered in buildings around campus, all serving as a great source of sustainability for UNH.

es, in addition to libraries and the Hamel Recreation Center.

“Every housing building has at least one,” Lozier said. “We are constantly assessing where to add more and how many is enough.”

Housing installed the stations in the place of where the old water fountains once were. On the Sustainability Institute website, Lozier defined the old water bubbler sys-

tem as “inefficient” and that the old system being replaced by the hydration stations was “the smart thing to do.”

Cullen described the system for the hydration stations as “decentralized,” as there aren’t any departments tasked solely with their management.

“There’s no one person that oversees the hydration station system,” Cullen said. “If a group wants a hydration station in their building, they must fund it and schedule the installation through [Housing] Facilities themselves.”

While popular, the effectiveness of the hydration stations has been difficult to track. The Sustainability Institute does not have a total report of how many water bottles have been saved because of the stations.

“The counters on the hydration stations reset anytime a filter is changed or anytime there is a maintenance issue,” Cullen said.

“No one has been able to track all of the stations on campus to get a total savings number.”

There are currently no plans to increase the number hydration stations on campus.

Word of the stations has spread widely across the collegiate system. In 2012, a regional conference for the Association of College Unions International brought outside spectators who were im-

pressed with the hydration stations.

“Many colleges had never seen them before,” Molloy said.

“After the conference, I received requests for specs and information on the stations from about six or seven colleges.”

Molloy believes that for those outside of the UNH community, the stations have a certain novelty attached to them.

“People on campus are used to seeing them at this point,” Molloy said, “but when we have admission tours or different conferences that bring in high schools or just people who are not a part of the regular community, you can hear them remarking ‘oh, that’s really cool.’”

“Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.”

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Hospitality Program adds Congresswoman Shea-Porter Attends two new specializations Undergraduate Research Conference

By Ben Maroon Contributing Writer

The Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics has just released a new curriculum for the undergraduate students in the Hospitality Management program.

Starting in the Fall Semester of 2014, Hospitality Management majors can choose from three different specializations: lodging and resort management, food and beverage management and event management.

“The Department of Hospitality Management is pleased to be able to offer three new specializations to our students,” said Professor Clayton Barrows, chair of the Hospitality Management Department. “These specializations came as a result of input and suggestions from various constituents including alumni, faculty, current students and prospective students.”

“ With the addi-

tion of these new features, enrollment numbers are expected to increase for the business school’s smallest program.“

Clayton Barrows

Chair of the Hospitality Management Department.

These concentrations add to the coursework of the Hospitality Management major, which is sometimes known to be rigorous by students who dedicate their time to manage special events outside normal class hours.

“The premise behind the change is that students entering college are searching for the ability to not only get a well-rounded education in hospitality management, but

to concentrate their time and efforts in areas that are of special interest to them,” Barrows said.

Each of these new specializations will require a total of four additional courses, which students can choose from a pre-approved list.

The basic Hospitality curriculum prepares students to step into industry roles upon graduation. Now with the added specializations, students can get a jump-start on their dream jobs.

Many students seem to enjoy the enhanced curriculum as well.

Rebecca Bonder, a junior Hospitality Management major, seems eager to see the new specializations.

“I’m very happy to see my major expand like this,” Bonder said.

“I’m very excited to start on my concentration of event management because that is what I would ideally like to do in the future.”

Bonder’s reaction is exactly the kind of interest Barrows hopes to see in the future.

“Our department expects that by introducing the new specializations, interest will increase in the major,” Barrows said. “We also believe that having a specialization will enhance student marketability when they enter the job market.”

While the department just added these new specializations, Barrows said the expansion doesn’t stop here.

“Finally, we are currently engaged in the planning process to add additional specializations in the future,” Barrows said. “With the addition of these new features, enrollment numbers are expected to increase for the business school’s smallest program.“ Founded in 1926, The Department of Hospitality Management is the second oldest hospitality program in the country and was recently named as one of the top 25 hospitality programs in the country.

The Hospitality program is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Programs in Hospitality (ACPHA), which is the leading accreditor for Hospitality programs.

NH Briefs Plane sinks in Winnipesaukee; pilot rescued

ALTON — Officials say a pilot has been rescued after a small plane crashed and sank in New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee.

New Hampshire State Police say the pilot, who was found submerged in water and clinging to the plane, was the only occupant.

Fifty-nine-year-old Vadim Gayshan of Sudbury, Mass., was rescued by boat and transported to the hospital. Police say he was suf-

fering from cold water immersion.

He radioed for help just after noon Tuesday.

He told investigators that he had taken off in Fitchburg, Mass., and was looking at ice conditions on the lake and doing touch-andgo landings when he misjudged his elevation. The plane’s pontoon caught on the water and caused the plane to crash nose-first.

Police say the plane is submerged in about 105 feet of water.

Police say teens borrow, flee with cell phones

MANCHESTER — New Hampshire police are warning pedestrians to think twice before lending their cell phones to strangers.

Manchester police say they responded to two incidents Monday in which a teenage boy asked a bystander to borrow her cell

phone, then fled with the phone.

Police say the first incident happened about 2:30 p.m. on Central Street. The second incident happened at about 7 p.m. on Hanover Street. The victims of both thefts were women.

Police are urging pedestrians to hold onto their cell phones.

By Logan Hill Staff Writer

Congresswoman Carol SheaPorter dropped by the Whittemore Center Arena on Wednesday to experience the Undergraduate Research Conference.

The conference, which runs for two weeks, crosses all of the schools and colleges at the University with presentations of research from students in almost every major on campus. Wednesday’s event was the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering Symposium, where the Whittemore Center became host to an array of scientific research conducted by students from a wide range of fields.

Shea-Porter flies back and forth to and from D.C. every week to take care of her community at home. Upon arriving at this event, she looked down into the arena and said, “I see some women down there – that’s great to see ... when I was a kid, boys did science and girls did home-ec.”

Shea-Porter continued to remark on the fact that only 18.5 percent of the U.S. House of Representatives are women. She made her first stop to the Society of Women Engineers to encourage and congratulate them for their efforts and make a small donation to the Six Flags Raffle that the organization was doing as a fundraiser.

Shea-Porter, a University of New Hampshire alumna, said the event was “really, really exciting,” “I’m really proud. I love to see how UNH has grown and how they outreach to the community,” she said before pausing to mention that the bright young minds presenting their findings and displaying their diligence are the future of our country.

Shea-Porter left the event ... renewed in her belief in our youth and students as the force that builds a better future, and praising science and technology.

“We can’t allow the world to out-compete us; we need to stay at the forefront [of industry],” SheaPorter said, noting that the field of science holds endless possibilities and saying, “The American way is to innovate – to look ahead, say ‘what if?’ and to look at all the possibilities.”

As the congresswoman toured the student presentations asking

questions and getting to know the students, she kept saying how important it is to invest in our young people, comparing our country’s support of higher education and students to the rest of the world and saying that “we’re falling behind.”

The congresswoman also mentioned an upcoming bill she’s introducing that increases the availability of grants to science and science education, and remarked that she believes investing in science is the primary way to move this country forward at the same pace as the rest of the world.

Stopping at a student project that involved a mechanical buoysystem that generated hydro-power, Shea-Porter said she’s “a great believer in renewable energy – we got to the moon and didn’t think it would be possible, we need to do the same thing now.” She also highlighted her service on the Natural Resource Committee, where energy was always a recurring topic.

Shea-Porter left the event full of excitement and enthusiasm for America’s future, renewed in her belief in our youth and students as the force that builds a better future, and praising science and technology as the evolving field that will help shape industry in this country in a way that will provide more opportunity and development despite the ever-competitive global economy.

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UNH Professors, local citizens bring the Marathon back

By BRIAN MALNATI Contributing Writer

As people awoke on the morning of Patriots Day in Boston, many lined the streets from Hopkinton to Boston. Kids sat on their parents’ shoulders anxious to see what awaited, while runners got into the mindset of determination and honor.

Presidents Day in Boston had the schools shut down, people got the day off from work and the city came together for two traditions people love: the Red Sox at Fenway Park in the late morning and the runners in the first heats of their 26.2-mile journey.

A year after the horrific bombings that shook the city of Boston, 36,000 runners from all around the world set out to run as one.

“I am so very honored and so happy to be part of this marathon; no matter what happens I am very proud to be there, it is going to be very emotional,” said UNH Professor Sinthy Kounlasa of Dover, N.H., who ran in her 12th Boston Marathon on Monday.

Monday may have been Kounlasa’s 12th Boston Marathon, but it was also her 92nd marathon in total.

After all those marathons, Kounlasa said there is no other marathon better than Boston’s. As long as she keeps qualifying for the Boston Marathon, she will keep running for many years to come.

“I feel like everybody will feel the same way with nerves when you turn the corner onto Boylston because that is where most people stand and I know security is very tight this year. You can not pick a

spot and you cannot live in fear,” Kounlasa said.

The turnout at this years marathon was one of the highest it has been in years, but it also had the tightest security due to last year’s bombings. As a result, no backpacks were allowed on Boylston Street.

Runners were treated no differently. Previously, runners used to be able to bring their backpacks to Athletes’ Village in Hopkinton, Mass., and then it would be shipped back to them when the race was done via a bus. However, runners must wear throw-away clothes if they need to take off any layers.

UNH Professor Summer Cook of Madbury, N.H., ran her fourth Boston Marathon Monday. She said that this year changed drastically due to security and runner restric-

Ostriker shares opinions on Holocaust

By GREG LAUDANI Staff Writer

An older gentleman stood up slowly after leaning on a rickety, wooden chair for balance.

“I do not have words to describe how much you have moved me,” the man said while holding back tears.

He sat in the front row of the Murkland Hall auditorium Wednesday night to see Alicia Ostriker, a poet, critic and activist, speak about her opinions on post-Holocaust literature.

Ostriker stood tall on the green tile floor in front of a crowded audience of students, parents and faculty. She spiritedly discussed conflicting opinions about whether writing poetry about the Holocaust, an inhumanely cruel event in history, is appropriate or not.

“Poetry, fiction and drama can deal with trauma and evil in a way that history and sociology can’t,” Ostriker said, “because it can use metaphor that goes more deeply into reality.”

Ostriker also spoke about Nazi Germany’s rise to power leading up to World War II, in addition to the unspeakable cruelty Jews faced. She did not even need a microphone. Once she started speaking, her contagious energy echoed throughout the room.

“Her vivid language painted a picture of what victims went through,” sophomore Tyler Boutil-

ier said, who attended the event. “It showed her passion for the subject matter.”

The lecture’s origin stems from talks to honor Hans Heilbronner, a former University of New Hampshire professor and Holocaust survivor, who passed away in 2011.

“ I think everything

should be written about. I feel that very strongly.”

Alicia Ostriker

Poet, critic, and activist

Heilbronner lectured at UNH for 37 years, joining the university in 1954 and retiring in 1991. He collected several teaching awards and was selected twice as chairman of Faculty Council at the University.

He was born a Jewish boy in Memmingen, Germany in 1926 and lived through the persecution of Nazi Germany from 1932 to 1939.

His brother and him escaped from Germany to Switzerland in March of 1939. After his father was freed from the Dachau Concentration Camp, (the first Nazi torture facility opened in Germany) they moved to England.

However, they arrived only one day before the start of World War II. The Heilbronners finally

arrived in the United States in the spring of 1940, where Hans peacefully lived the rest of his life.

Twice a national book award finalist and author of 14 poetry books and eight works of literary criticism, Ostriker does not believe in silence after tragedy. She continues writing to help readers “recognize the struggle” that Jews like Heilbronner endured during the Holocaust.

“To stay silent is to surrender to it,” Ostriker said, holding her fist tightly in the air. “You must have joy and beauty after these horrors.”

Most Holocaust poetry is from the victims’ perspectives, Ostriker mentioned. However, Ostriker and her family were not personally impacted by the Holocaust.

“I think because nobody in my family was traumatized, there must be a difference in that the suffering and pain in my poems is different than those who had to endure it themselves,” Ostriker said.

Even though she did not experience the tragedy, Ostriker is still able to portray its events with elegant metaphor and detail.

“You can have suffered and be a great artist,” Ostriker said. “You could not have suffered and be a great artist as well.”

Ostriker uses her ability to write about the Holocaust to send a motivational message to young writers.

“I think everything should be written about,” Ostriker said. “I feel that very strongly.”

NH Brief 150 doctors charged with fraud in NH, Vt. CONCORD — New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen has asked the Secret Service and Internal Revenue Service to investigate reports of tax fraud affecting more than 150 doctors and health care providers in the state and in Vermont.

The medical societies in

both states say Social Security numbers have been stolen and used to file fraudulent federal tax returns. At least several hospitals and some private providers have been targeted.

Rick Adams, a spokesman for Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, tells the Valley News about 50 doctors and other employees who work at the hospital have been affected.

Scott Colby of the New Hampshire Medical Society says

similar cases have been reported in other states, such as Maine, Connecticut and Massachusetts.

Shaheen is asking for a joint investigation between the Secret Service and IRS. “We must act swiftly to stop any fraudulent activity, bring the perpetrators to justice and ensure that physicians and providers have the information they need to protect themselves,” Shaheen said Wednesday.

tions. While it changed with security, Cook said her reasons for running changed as well.

“There is a lot more meaning to this one,” Cook said. “I don’t feel like this is about me anymore, but I have my goals and standards, but I am just glad to be apart of this ‘Take Back the Marathon’ like you hear on the news. Just to be apart of that will feel good to me.”

Both UNH professors shared the same goal for Monday: To finish the 118th Boston Marathon.

Summer Cook cruised the course with an official time of 3:22:03 setting pace with 0:07:43 per mile. Shortly after, Sinthy Kounlasa crossed the finish line with an official time of 4:03:45, having a pace of 0:09:18 mile.

The 118th Boston Marathon had 9,000 more runners this year

than last year.

“I think that people now have the courage to get back out there and run for the city as well as themselves,” said Bobby Hartwell of Bedford, Mass. “This marathon is such a feel good moment for the people who run this race knowing they stand together as one.”

Meb Keflezighi of California was crowned the first American man to win the Men’s Division since 1983, coming across the finish line with a time of 2:08:37.

While on the other side, Rita Jeptoo of Kenya won her second consecutive marathon in the Women’s Division recording a staggering 2:18:57.

“Just to be there and be able to run with all of these runners,” Kounlasa said, “especially after what happened last year, there is no way I was missing this year.”

Deal reached in TSA breast-milk lawsuit

By TERRY TANG Associated Press

PHOENIX — A Southern California woman who was held at a Phoenix airport four years ago after refusing to have her breast milk X-rayed said Wednesday she has reached a tentative settlement with the Transportation Security Administration.

Stacey Armato, who filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, said TSA officials have tentatively offered her $75,000, along with promises to retrain agents and clarify its guidelines on screening breast milk.

The reassurances about revised training and rules were more important than the monetary compensation, she said.

She also said officers would not let her retrieve a printout she had of the TSA rules regarding breast milk.

“We had been waiting for them to really kind of confirm that they would be retraining everybody and making these policy updates,” Armato said. “When we finally got confirmation of that, that was really reassuring.”

TSA spokesman Ross Feinstein declined to comment on a “pending matter.” He confirmed that current TSA regulations classify breast milk as liquid medication. As a result, parents are permitted to bring an amount larger than the 3 ounces normally allotted for liquids.

According to the agency’s website, officers now use a bottled liquid scanner system in most airports to screen medically necessary liquids for explosives or other threats. The system uses lasers, infrared or electromagnetic resonance, rather than X-rays.

That was not an option at the

time for Armato, who said she was accustomed to having a visual inspection for breast milk when traveling.

Armato, of Hermosa Beach, said she asked for an alternate screening of her breast milk at a security checkpoint at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Feb. 1, 2010. She cited concerns about exposing the milk to radiation.

According to a 2013 complaint from Armato, agents denied her request and then detained her in a glass enclosure for 40 minutes. Armato, who was traveling alone, alleged their action was partly retaliation for a complaint she filed over a similar incident a week earlier.

She also said officers would not let her retrieve a printout she had of the TSA rules regarding breast milk.

“It was so surreal. To have so many people of authority there acting in concert, kind of watching me stand there and cry,” Armato said. “It was just completely mindboggling. You just feel completely helpless.”

In her complaint, Armato said the Phoenix police were called and an officer told her to do whatever was asked to avoid arrest. After an alleged “intrusive physical body inspection” and a secondary screening of the milk, Armato said she was released but missed her flight.

Rob Mosier, Armato’s attorney, said they plan to make sure the agency follows through with updates to its website.

“As far as internal procedures, I have to take them at their word that they will do that,” Mosier said.

Armato said any money she receives will go toward attorney fees and a Los Angeles nonprofit that promotes breastfeeding. The mother of two said the past four years have been “absolutely worth it” if it means other breastfeeding moms won’t be intimidated to travel with breast milk.

“My kids are 4 1/2 and 3,” Armato said. “Hopefully one day we’ll have another one, and I’ll be breastfeeding, and these changes will benefit my future travels and also for other breastfeeding moms.”

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Wellness programs grow more popular with employers

By CATHERINE LUCEY Associated Press

That little voice nagging you to put down the cake and lace up the running shoes is increasingly coming from your employer and is likely to grow louder with a looming change under the federal health care overhaul.

More companies are starting or expanding wellness programs that aim to reduce their medical costs by improving their employees’ health. They’re asking workers to take physical exams, complete detailed health assessments and focus on controlling conditions such as diabetes. Along with that, many companies also are dangling the threat of higher monthly insurance premiums to prod workers into action.

The Affordable Care Act is one reason the programs are spreading.

The federal law calls for a 40 percent tax on expensive benefit plans starting in 2018, and many companies that offer employer-based coverage already have begun looking for ways to lower costs and avoid that tax.

“It is a very powerful ... visible wake-up call to all employers,” said Helen Darling, chief executive of the National Business Group on Health, a nonprofit organization that represents large employers on health care issues.

Having an outside business run the wellness program is a common way for companies to counter privacy concerns.

Businesses see wellness programs as a win for themselves and their workers. But studies have shown that the programs have a limited ability to reduce costs. They also raise concerns about privacy and discrimination against older workers or those who are more likely to have chronic conditions.

Penalties also can hit lowerwage workers harder than they would executives because premiums already consume a larger portion of those workers’ paychecks.

“The top-line concern is that it has a huge potential to be discriminatory,” said Lydia Mitts, a health policy analyst with the nonprofit Families USA. Benefits consultants say federal regulations help guard against that. Companies can be penalized under the overhaul for offering coverage that is considered unaffordable.

Businesses also are required to

offer alternatives that help workers avoid penalties like a higher premium because they can’t meet a wellness program goal.

Despite employee concerns, the idea of prevention as a way to reduce health care costs has been largely embraced by employers who provide the most common form of health insurance in the U.S. For years, they have offered gift cards, cash and other rewards to employees who agree to get physical exams, fill out health assessments or take other steps to monitor their health. The goal is to at least make workers more aware of their health, and it worked for Roy Simmons, a 55-year-old nuclear power plant manager for energy provider Dominion Resources Inc. Dominion started offering a $400 premium credit a couple of years ago for employees who agreed to have a health assessment, so Simmons had basics such as his weight and cholesterol measured.

He then forgot about the numbers until a reminder arrived last year.

Another physical told him he had gained 40 pounds and his cholesterol was up.

“That was a bit of a wake-up call for me,” said Simmons, who manages a Dominion plant near Williamsburg, Va. “I didn’t know it had happened to me. I know that sounds stupid, but I wasn’t paying attention to it, and it just snuck up on me.”

Simmons cut junk food from his diet and asked his college football-playing son to become a workout partner over the summer. He has since dropped the weight.

Benefits experts say companies haven’t seen enough cases like Simmons’, in which an incentive helps nudge an employee to participate in a wellness program, so some employers have started using penalties.

These penalties most often stick employees who do not participate with larger premiums or deductibles, but they also can come in the form of a straight monthly surcharge deducted from paychecks.

A survey of nearly 600 large U.S. companies by benefits consultant Towers Watson found that 22 percent of companies that use financial incentives to encourage wellness program participation structured them as penalties. That’s up from 18 percent last year.

“There’s going to be more of your skin in the game,” said Michael Wood, a Towers Watson senior consultant. “If you help us control costs, use the system wisely, you will be rewarded.”

Companies also are moving beyond rewarding or penalizing employees simply for participating. More are requiring workers to reach a health goal such as im-

proved blood pressure, said Beth Umland, director of health and benefits research for the benefits consultant Mercer.

Whether the various versions of wellness programs are achieving their intended effect — reducing a company’s health costs — is a matter of debate.

But programs that simply tried to make employees live a healthier lifestyle did not, and the researchers said companies should not assume those programs will lower costs.

At the same time, the programs have begun generating a backlash from employees.

“ They asked about pregnancy, they asked if men were doing testicular exams, they asked about depression, they asked about violence in the home. It was an incredible invasion of privacy.”

Matthew Woessner

Professor of political science The average annual premium for employer-sponsored family health coverage topped $16,000 last year, according to the nonprofit Kaiser Family Foundation, which studies health care issues. Employers, who pay most of that bill, have watched that figure climb faster than inflation for years, and it has more than doubled since 2002.

Rand Corp. researchers studied several years of data from a PepsiCo wellness program to determine how it affected health care costs. They reported in the January issue of Health Affairs that disease management programs, which helped people with chronic conditions, reduced hospital admissions and lowered costs.

Last fall, faculty and staff at Penn State University objected to new wellness requirements that the university was eventually forced to modify. After significant pushback, the university said it would not institute a $100 monthly charge for people who failed to complete a series of activities, including a detailed online questionnaire.

“They asked about pregnancy, they asked if men were doing testicular exams, they asked about depression, they asked about violence in the home,” said Matthew Woessner, a professor of political science at the Harrisburg campus. “It was an incredible invasion of privacy.”

CVS Caremark Corp. employee Roberta Watterson has filed

a lawsuit in California against her company over a wellness program that offers a $600 annual premium break for participants.

The cashier’s lawsuit accuses the company of asking personal questions in its survey, including whether its employees are sexually active. Watterson also alleged that blood work performed in the exam is used to flag employees who are at risk for certain conditions. She declined to comment on her case.

CVS spokeswoman Carolyn Castel said the company offers a lower premium for employees who complete a health assessment and screening. She said an outside company designed the questionnaire her company uses, and CVS had asked it to “remove certain questions” before Watterson filed her complaint.

She also said CVS management cannot see employee-specific information compiled in the wellness exams.

Having an outside business run the wellness program is a common way for companies to counter privacy concerns. The vendor can tell a company about trends, such as whether it has a lot of employees with high blood pressure, so the employer can implement programs to address that. But it is not supposed to share details about individual employees.

State and federal laws are designed to prevent employers from seeing employees’ specific responses or health statistics.

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Annual Stand Against Silence Vigil UNH going gluten-free

By AMANDA COTE

AMANDA COTE/STAFF

This was the sight in front of Thompson Hall on Wednesday, with 1,100 chairs representing the amount of college students who commit suicide each year.

By LINDSAY GROSS

DESIGN EDITOR

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

On April 23, 2014, Active Minds at UNH held a vigil as part of their annual Stand Against Silence demonstration on the Great Lawn. The purpose was to honor the one in four college students that struggle with mental illness and commemorate the 1,100 that die by suicide each year.

“These chairs represent the 1,100 college students that commit suicide each year,” was written across a banner displayed in the front row of the mass of empty blue folding chairs, which were set up early that morning to serve as a reminder to anyone who passed the Great Lawn that day. Upon seeing the sheer amount of space taken up by these chairs and what they represented, several students expressed how sobering the sight was.

That night, there was a vigil held in front of Thompson Hall.

Students stood around the flagpole holding small candles listening to those who had chosen to speak on the matter. Among those in attendance were Chaplain Larry Brickner-Wood, who shared his thoughts on the importance of talking through these types of situations to prevent more tragedies in the future. Near the end of the candlelight vigil, Mary Jacquelyn sang a few songs to honor those who had passed, including “Amazing Grace.”

Students who suffer from celiac disease and other gluten intolerances are finding more options than ever at all three University of New Hampshire dining halls.

Gluten is a protein that is found in wheat, rye and barley. It is what keeps pizza dough stretchy and bread dough soft.

According to the National Institutes of Health, celiac disease is one of the most well known gluten intolerances and affects one in every 141 people in the United States. When someone who has celiac disease consumes gluten, it causes an immune response that can damage their intestines and causes problems when trying to absorb nutrients.

According to the National Institutes of Health, scientists have recently been studying another type of gluten intolerance. There are people who are having similar symptoms to celiac disease when they consume gluten, except they are not having the damaging intestine inflammation.

With gluten-free food gaining popularity and being a specialized food, the price is rising.

With celiac disease and other gluten intolerances on the rise, UNH was tasked with figuring out ways to keep their students who have an inability to digest gluten safe while eating at the dining halls.

“We started offering glutenfree items in spring of 2006,” said Rochelle L’Italien, a registered dietitian. “Two students with celiac came to talk to me about options.

We had the little mini dorm fridges in the dining halls with a few products, but back then there wasn’t as big as a demand.”

Since 2006, UNH Dining has added many more products, special equipment, full size fridges and even an online ordering system for students and staff who have a gluten intolerance.

UNH has started offering the option of using separate pans and utensils at the stir-fry and omelette stations. This is to help prevent cross contamination of gluten getting onto the plate of someone who has an intolerance.

“We have recently expanded our gluten friendly stations,” L’Italien said. “We now have fully stocked refrigerators with assortments of gluten-free products. We also have dedicated equipment like a panini grill, toaster, knife

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and a cutting board.”

Some of the products that are found at the gluten friendly stations are dry cereals, granola, pasta, muffins, breads, crackers, desserts, individually portioned peanut butter, cream cheese, jelly, maple syrup, salad dressings and more.

“Peanut butter is a glutenfree item on its own but when we are dealing with a student who has an allergy, we have to take many precautions,” L’Italien said.

“Someone who doesn’t have an allergy and wants a peanut butter sandwich would spread the peanut butter on their piece of wheat bread causing cross contamination for students with allergies. It’s the small things we have to watch for.”

To help make decisions about food, people can utilize an online dining menu via the UNH Dining website. The daily menus are uploaded every morning and have all the information someone with allergies or intolerances would need.

Next to every food item, it lists what potential allergens it has or doesn’t have, and there is also an option to click on the food and see a full list of ingredients from the company.

UNH is also offering a meal ordering system for students and staff. People with allergies and intolerances can call in orders for lunch and dinner and pick them up when they enter the dining halls.

Students and staff have the choice of picking what they want in their meals online. An example meal could be grilled chicken, rice and a type of vegetable.

“When someone places their order, everyone gets it,” L’Italien said. “We make sure that management, the chefs and others get the order so everyone knows to use designated equipment.”

Some of the gluten-free brands that UNH uses are Udi’s, Annie’s and Vans. While there may be many brands to choose from, UNH Dining constantly has to watch the cost of the food.

According to Cheryl Krantz, UNH Dining assistant manager, 80 loaves of regular multigrain bread cost $1.55 per loaf while for Udi’s gluten-free bread, six to 10 loaves cost $7.44 per loaf.

With gluten-free food gaining popularity and being a specialized food, the price is rising.

According to the National Foundation for Celiac Awareness, gluten-free sales reached more than $2.6 billion by the end of 2010 and are now expected to exceed more than $5 billion by 2015.

In the future, UNH Dining hopes to have even more glutenfree options in the dining halls and wants to try to stop the problem of cross-contamination. The university also hopes to have more gluten-free options in the cafés and the bookstore.

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Behind the scenes of Boston’s biggest music festival Mike Snow explains the process of creating what no one else dared to do

By CHARLIE WEINMANN

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ARTS EDITOR

he idea of landing two giant stages in the middle of downtown plaza may have seemed slightly far-fetched to Bostonians. Mike Snow didn’t think so. In the past year Boston Calling has become a ‘must see’ on the list of popular music festivals nationwide. The festival will rock the North End for a third time May 23 through the 25.

Building a brand in the music industry is no easy task. The rise of music festivals around the country has solidified a demand for live music and, indeed, many of the major U.S. cities have their own festival. Yet Boston had somehow remained out of the circuit. An opportunity was waiting to be taken advantage of, and a University of New Hampshire graduate was ready to make a move.

Snow graduated from UNH in 2003 with a degree in communications. As a member of the UNH marching band, as well as WUNH, the university’s student-run radio station, Snow was an active member of the musical community on campus.

“My main focus was to be on the radio,” Snow said.

After graduating, Snow began his radio career at WFNX, an alternative radio station in Boston, Mass. He spent the next nine years planning events for the station; spending long hours going through the details of various radio events.

“It was always a big rush,” Snow said, recalling the feeling of planning his first big events.

“Hundreds of people enjoying their favorite band – [and thinking,] I was able to put this on. It’s

a rewarding experience. I got to see all these people having such a great time at our events.”

He remembers the struggle of renting out VFW halls and church basements in the late 90s for events he planned earlier in his career.

Nine years at WFNX provided Snow with lots of time for thinking. Eventually, he decided that it was time to move on to something bigger and better.

“It was extremely difficult to leave the station,” Snow said.

“Everybody has parents - ‘is this the decision you want to make?’

We had a great team put together operationally [for Boston Calling] but it was a leap.”

That leap has since paid off.

After leaving the comfort of his job in radio, he teamed up with colleague, Brian Appel, to create what would become Boston’s first major music festival.

Together, Snow and Appel founded Crashline Productions, an event management business based in Boston. Crashline Productions is responsible for the city’s new music festival, along with smaller events, such as outdoor 500 person block parties.

Now with two very successful Boston Callings under their belt, Snow and Appel are gearing up for number three, which will happen May 23 through 25 of 2014.

Originally, Boston Calling’s debut had no mention of it ever happening again, but Snow was well prepared and already thinking about the future. He and Appel had envisioned at least a five-year plan before the first festival even happened. In other words, they saw Boston Calling as a longterm, and even permanent attribute to Boston’s appeal.

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Founders of Boston Calling music festival, Brian Appel and Mike Snow, have revolutionized the way Boston music fans are able to experience live music.

“This is doable, this is going to work,” Snow said, explaining his thought process of pre-festival planning. “It was easier to see the response of the first festival, and then roll out the rest of the festival dates. We are extremely humbled to say this was our idea.”

When asked if we could expect anything new at Boston Calling number three, Snow’s philosophy for the time being is ‘if it isn’t broken don’t fix it.’ Other than adjusting layouts to make amenities more accessible for the audience, fans can expect the same great quality festival they have now come to know.

Although much of the festival’s success is attributed to Snow

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The first Boston Calling attracted upwards ten thousands ecstatic fans. The National and fun. were among the headlining bands.

and Appel, they did not work alone. Aaron Dessner, guitarist for the widely acclaimed indie rock band, The National, was instrumental in curating the festival’s lineup.

“ ... This is doable, this is going to work.”

Mike Snow

Founder of Boston Calling

“Aaron was a mutual friend,” Snow said. “He had done some work in New York City with festivals, and I think he has a great ear to the ground for up and coming bands. Having someone like Aaron who can look at ten bands in a row, and can understand how an audience will react to them is really great.”

Rolling Stone quoted Dessner in an article written about the first Boston Calling in May of 2013: “It’s a fantastic mix of people, and if there’s a thread that runs through it, it’s song craft,” Dessner said.

Dessner chooses to be involved with festivals that feature great songwriting and musicianship . “[Boston Calling] is a great mix of underground and very

much not-so-underground music,” Dessner said.

By the second Boston Calling, Snow and Appel had come up with a few new ideas to add to allure of the show. Sonicbids is an online resume style platform for unsigned artists and musicians.

The idea is, that for a membership fee, artists are able to literally search and submit their electronic press kit to festivals and smaller events, then wait to be selected to play by the managers of said event.

Snow decided that using Sonicbids for Boston Calling would be and interesting way to choose one of the acts.

“I like their platform,” Snow said. “As an artist your getting good connections all in one spot.

These [Sonicbids] artists earned that slot at [Boston Calling.]”

Snow has a positive insight on the future of Boston Calling, and rightfully so. The first two festivals were major successes, packing downtown plaza from end to end with happy fans.

Nate Ruess, lead singer of the band FUN, even said that it was his favorite show he had played to date.

“Boston is a city that leaves a mark on so many people,” Snow said. “People come here and have good experiences; their ears kind of perk up … agents took a chance on our festival, and we are thankful that the festival has stood up to expectations.”

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SPIN ON HOCO!

Written by the Health Services Peer Education Group, SPIN (Students Promoting Information about Nutrition.)

The “Well-Balanced Wildcat Wrap”

By ALANA DAVIDSON and BROOKE WALSH

Do you lack culinary creativity in Holloway Commons? Do you eat the same generic meals every day? Spice up your life and try something new. It can be difficult to make a healthy and delicious meal in the dining hall, especially if you are unaware of the variety of foods available, and where to find them. A simple and healthy wrap is a great first step in becoming more independent and innovative. Here are three simple steps to creating a delicious “Well Balanced Wildcat Wrap.”

Ingredients: • Whole wheat wrap • Turkey (optional) • Hummus • Black beans • Spinach • Feta cheese • Red & green bell peppers • Onions • Any other veggies you want to add!

First, you will want to begin at the sandwich station and grab a wholewheat wrap for the added fiber. Put on a slice of turkey, a good source of lean protein for those carnivores out there.

However, pay attention to how much processed meats you consume because they tend to be very high in sodium.

Spread the hummus over the turkey and finish it off by adding a scoop of black beans. These great sources of protein will help keep you full throughout the day, especially because the hummus and black beans have fiber.

The hummus is also a great alternative to mayonnaise because it is filled with healthy fats and is very flavorful.

Next, you will want to head over

to the salad bar area where you can get really creative. Add whatever veggies you want. Some prefer to use spinach, because it has countless nutrients, such as iron and vitamin K. However, if you prefer other greens, such as romaine lettuce, that will work too. Some also add bell peppers, onions, and feta cheese. Feta cheese is a great option because it is a good source of protein, calcium and vitamin B12, and has a really great bold taste.

Finally, after you add all of your desired components, you just need to wrap it up and put it in the panini press. Leave it in the press for one to two minutes, so that the wrap browns a little. Once you take it out, you’re

ready to enjoy.

This wrap makes for a great lunch or dinner, especially when paired with a variety of veggies. It is also an easy option for a vegetarian, because all you have to do is omit the turkey meat. You can easily make the wrap at home, and instead of using the panini press, you can use a toaster oven. So try it out!

You can view an instructional video of how to make the “Well-Balanced Wildcat Wrap” and other Hoco meals by visiting www.youtube.com/ unhhealth or our website, www.unh. edu/healthservices/spin.

Illmatic still relevant after 20 years

By JUSTIN LORING SPORTS EDITOR

On April 19, 1994, at the age of 21, Nas released his debut album “Illmatic.” Now, 20 years later, the album remains just as influential as it was when it was released. The critically acclaimed masterpiece tackles many themes: gang life, death, drug abuse and religion, to name a few. His narrative style combined with deep story-telling lyrics and rhythmic beats exemplifies life in Queensbridge, New York.

At the time of its release, “Illmatic” sold 59,000 copies in the first week. After the release of the 20th Anniversary Edition, album sales rose 844 percent (1,500 sold last week to 14,987 sold this week) reaching over 1.5 million copies total.

The album opens on the track “The Genesis,” a reference to the first book in the Bible. The 1 minute, 45-second track uses a sample of the 1983 hip hop film “Wild Style,” showing the culture of the streets and hip hop at the time.

“N.Y. State of Mind” is the most influential track on the album, with an instantly recognizable beat and legendary hook. “I never sleep/’cuz sleep is the cousin of death” may be the most popular and well-known line in the history of rap. The song touches on all the major themes of drug dealing, gang violence (“Hand me a nine and I’ll defeat foes”) and difficulty of life on the streets (“Life is parallel to hell but I must maintain”). Ending with “Nothing’s equivalent to the New York state of mind” shows that despite the struggles, he wouldn’t change his lifestyle.

“Memory Lane (Sittin’ in Da Park)” serves as homage to those he’s lost in his neighborhood, but also reflecting on positive memories. Using multisyllabic compounded rhymes — rhymes with two or more syllables in a single line — like “Grew up in trife life, the times of white lines/The hype pipes, murderous nighttimes and knife fights invite crimes,” Nas delivers a story of loss and violence.

Nas starts the song “Represent” with the line “Any day could be your last in the jungle/Getting murdered for a humble,” referencing how easily someone can be killed over a minor offense. The last line of the second verse,“Now I’m into fat chains, sex and tecs/Fly new chicks and new kicks, Heine’s and Beck’s,” epitomizes the culture of what rappers hold true even to this day.

At 39:51, the album is very short but packs a powerful message. Nas’ beats and hooks have been used by countless other artists, with entire songs being written off of single lines (Ex: Strike Back by Army of Pharaohs).

His rhythmic style and story-driven lyrics influenced a new wave of artists and influenced artists like Kendrick Lamar and Curren$y. After 20 years, “Illmatic” remains immortal and will forever have a place in the Parthenon of Rap.

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Professor by day, tea alchemist by night

By Danielle LeBlanc Staff Writer

Walking into room 156 in James Hall, it was not surprising to find Professor Jennifer Purrenhage pouring a cup of tea. Samples of teas sat upon her shelf.

Some were in oval shaped containers and some in large square containers. One of her teas was named Starry Night.

Purrenhage is a lecturer in the Department of Natural Resources and the Environment here at the University of New Hampshire.

However, not many are aware that she runs her own tea company as well, called The Tea Alchemist.

Her tea company is basically an online store, and that is how she primarily does her business.

Purrenhage sends tea to people all across the United States, Canada and France.

Purrenhage teaches International Affairs 401 and Natural Resources 435. She is a conservation biologist. In her classes, she teaches about contemporary conservation issues and environmental awareness along with global environmental science.

Purrenhage said that she first got interested in her field of work while growing up because of her parents.

“I think I got interested in it the same way a lot of people get interested in this field,” she said, “which is just growing up outside.”

According to Purrenhage, her father is a naturalist. He was always going for hikes and going camping.

However, her mother was not like that at all. She used to teach English early in her career. Purrenhage said that her mother was really into the romantic transcendentalists, such as Emerson and Thoreau.

“A lot of their writings are really all about spiritual connection with nature,” she said. “So I was just kind of steeped in that growing up.”

Purrenhage had a lot of interests growing up, however she kept gravitating back towards the sciences. Originally, Purrenhage was a psychology major at the University of Wisconsin.

“I completed all the core courses,” Purrenhage said, “but I was always taking environmental science on the side for fun because it was what I loved.”

According to Purrenhage, one day her roommate confronted her about how she was always so excited coming home from her science classes and how that should be her major. Purrenhage’s school did not have a major for environ-

mental science; however, they did offer a major in conservation biology and wildlife ecology.

“That afternoon she was driving me home from class and we stopped by the dean’s office and I changed my major,” Purrenhage said. “And I never looked back.”

However, along with her love for science, Purrenhage also has an affection for tea.

“I’ve always loved tea,” Purrenhage said. “My mom and I grew up just drinking tea all the time.”

Purrenhage said that tea has always been how she grounded herself. Whenever she was feeling overwhelmed, nervous about something or feeling sick, tea was always how she brought herself back.

“I’ll just sit down and have a cup of tea and it’s just calming and warm,” Purrenhage said. “It’s a nice experience.”

While in graduate school, Purrenhage was also a certified yoga instructor and a holistic health coach on the side. She was working with people who were stressed.

“Meditation is hard for a lot of people,” Purrenhage said, “but it was really easy for people to think about sitting down and having a cup of tea.”

It was not long until Purrenhage started using tea as a practice with her clients. She eventually started to make her own tea.

In the past, Purrenhage had made her own tea for fun. However, she later began to share them with her clients.

“I just started realizing that that’s what I was really enjoying,” Purrenhage said, “making the tea and sharing that message with people.”

Purrenhage’s message was that tea is something anyone can do -- really simply in the middle of the busy day -- to keep focused, calm, energized, inspired or whatever he or she was looking for.

Purrenhage soon got the idea to start and run her own tea company. The company had another name previously that originated from the coaching Purrenhage was doing. However, it eventually turned into The Tea Alchemist.

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Professor Jennifer Purrenhage has always been in love with tea, so much that she has decided to make her own tea company online. alchemist blending the idea of science and a methodical approach with this creative, aesthetic feeling.

“So that’s where the new name came from,” Purrenhage said.

Purrenhage started her business about three years ago. According to Purrenhage, she does not have employees that she pays but rather dedicated friends and family who volunteer to lend a hand.

“They essentially get paid in tea,” Purrenhage said.

Her tea company is basically an online store and that is how she primarily does her business.

Purrenhage sends tea to people all across the United States, Canada and France.

“Just people that I’m connected with, it’s so word-of-mouth,” Purrenhage said. “Somebody that I know knows someone that lives in Panama and wants tea.”

Purrenhage’s teas are available to drink locally as well. Book and Bar in Portsmouth has been

“ I am not much of a tea drinker, but her

blends had delicious proportions of ingredients.”

Lizzie Gill

Student of Purrenhage “I was part of a women’s entrepreneur group,” she said. “They often said, ‘We love your tea, but part of what we love about it is that you’re a scientist who makes tea.’”

Purrenhage admitted that the way she approaches making tea is kind of a nerdy process. She writes a formula down and does a bunch of testing and tasting to figure out what works and what does not.

“I’m taking these nerdy notes because of my training,” Purrenhage said. “And they love that, they thought that was really fun.”

Her group came up with the idea that her company was like an

serving Purrenhage’s tea for over a year now. Customers can go in and buy a cup of her tea and drink it there.

Purrenhage makes custom teas as well.

“If there’s another business owner who has clients and wants to do client gifts and has a tea that represents that person, I’ll make a custom tea for them.”

Purrenhage’s teas all have names that are kind of intentions, such as Be Joyful, Simplify, and Nirvana. Her customers choose their teas based on the feeling they want.

“I’m not trying to be the tea brand that’s on the shelf in every Hannaford,” she said. “It’s a very different kind of thing … and some people connect with that.”

However, Purrenhage has what she calls tribute teas as well.

She claimed that the idea is paying tribute to different creative mediums such as Natural Mystic for Bob Marley or Starry Night as a tribute to Vincent Van Gogh.

Purrenhage explained that she makes sure her sources have certifications in fair trade and organic products.

“I use their certifications to have confidence in the products I’m creating,” she said.

In terms of other herbs, Purrenhage uses flowers as well; some are even grown locally. She is currently working on creating a local blend with different mints and possibly some calendula flowers.

However, Purrenhage admitted that it can be very challenging balancing her job as a professor and running her tea company.

It was especially challenging in the beginning when she first started and had to figure out how to balance these two parts of her life.

“It’s hard,” Purrenhage said.

“That’s one of the reasons it’s nice that, in my role as a lecturer, I have the summer mostly free.”

Purrenhage explained that with the summer open, it gives her more time to put a lot of energy into her business. With the extra time in the summer, The Tea Alchemist can be sustained throughout the rest of the year with less effort, Purrenhage said.

“It’s also great to have help,” she said. “Because sometimes it can by challenging to get it all together, to be preparing lectures and Book and Bar wants a different tea.”

However, Purrenhage admitted that she actually really enjoys her two different jobs. She explained that for her, they exercise

“ It can be really challenging, but it’s also incredibly rewarding.”

Jennifer Purrenhage

Owner of The Tea Alchemist Purrenhage said that any of her students would probably attest that she never goes through a class without a tea mug firmly in her hand. Some of her students are aware of her tea company and a few have even sampled her teas.

“She generously gave me some of her teas to sample,” Lizzie Gill, a student of Purrenhage, said.

“They were both delicious.”

Gill explained that one was a relaxing tea made with rose petal.

The other was a more exciting zinger tea made with hibiscus.

“I am not much of a tea drinker,” Gill said, “but her blends had delicious proportions of ingredients.”

Purrenhage said she feels strongly about the ingredients that are used in her tea. “I use mostly one company,” Purrenhage said.

“I wanted to find a place that has organic, fair trade and really high quality.”

Purrenhage explained that by organic, she means no pesticides are being used on the tealeaves.

“That’s not necessarily the true meaning of organic,” Purrenhage said, “but that’s what I mean when I’m talking about tea.”

According to Purrenhage she doesn’t add oils or anything like that. “You can see every ingredient that’s in the tea,” she said.

very different parts of her brain.

She enjoys the highly creative “hands in herbs” job verses the academic, sitting at a computer and preparing lectures, being-in-aclassroom job. She even feels that both jobs help with the other.

“It can be really challenging, but it’s also incredibly rewarding,” Purrenhage said, “much more so if I were just doing one or the other.”

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California bill reignites affirmative action fight

By JULIET WILLIAMS Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Nearly 20 years after California became the first state to ban the use of race and ethnicity in college admissions, a proposal to reinstate affirmative action has sparked a backlash that is forging a new divide in the state’s powerful Democratic Party and creating opportunity for conservatives.

The debate is unfolding in the nation’s most populous and most ethnically diverse state as an unrelated U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholds voters’ rights to decide whether racial considerations should factor into university selections.

The California proposal would allow voters to rescind their state’s affirmative action ban, but unexpected pushback from families of Asian descent who mobilized through Chinese-language media, staged rallies and organized letter-writing campaigns has all but killed the measure this year.

“I was surprised,” said Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-Covina, the author of the bill. “I didn’t expect it.”

Asian-American students are enrolled at many of California’s top schools in numbers far greater than their proportion of the state’s population. Critics of Hernandez’s plan worry that qualified students would be dismissed simply because of their ethnicity.

The ensuing debate has reopened an old fissure over the role of race in college admissions, divided Democrats along racial lines and created an opportunity for the California GOP. California voters were the first in the nation to ban the use of affirmative action in university admissions in 1996. Hernandez’s proposal was his fourth attempt to undo that action, which he says harms black and Latino students.

A similar voter-approved ban in Michigan was upheld by the nation’s highest court Tuesday, but that ruling is not expected to change the discussion in California, where the prohibition is likely to remain in place independent of the court decision.

Hernandez’s proposal sailed through the state Senate in January on a Democratic Party-line vote. Legislative leaders, however, pulled the bill before it could be debated in the Assembly after the harsh reaction.

The controversy highlights the complexity of racial politics in California, where the public school system has struggled for decades to improve achievement. Critics of the affirmative action ban say it’s part of a school system that fails black and Latino students.

Blacks and Latinos are more likely to attend the state’s lowestperforming schools than their white or Asian counterparts, affecting their ability to be accepted

In Brief FedEx sued over deadly California bus crash LOS ANGELES — The mother of a 17-year-old honors student who was among 10 people killed in a fiery Northern California bus crash sued FedEx on Tuesday, alleging that its trucks have a history of catching fire.

The negligence suit that seeks $100 million in damages is the first filed in connection with the April 10 freeway crash in Orland, said A. King Aminpour, the attorney for the plaintiffs.

The suit was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court on behalf of Rosa Rivera, mother of Jennifer Bonilla of Los Angeles.

The Dorsey High School student had earned a college scholarship. She and other teens were heading north for a free tour of Humboldt State University when the bus was struck head-on by a FedEx truck.

Dozens escaped through windows before the bus exploded into towering flames, but five students, three adult chaperones and both drivers died.

“She had her whole future before her,” Aminpour said of Bonilla. “She was the first in her family to ever go to college.”

The California Highway Patrol has not determined the cause of the crash 100 miles north of Sacramento.

Some witnesses reported that the FedEx truck was on fire before the crash, and the lawsuit alleges that FedEx trucks have a history of catching fire from mechanical problems, driver error or improper cargo loading.

“Our heartfelt condolences remain with everyone affected by this tragic accident,” Memphis, Tenn.-based FedEx Corp. said in a statement. “We remain focused on providing support to those affected and cooperating with the authorities as they conduct their investigation. This is not the time for us to discuss potential litigation.”

The suit also names the estate of the FedEx driver and the bus owner, Silverado Stages, as defendants. The bus lacked adequate exit doors that would have allowed passengers to escape after the crash, the lawsuit contends.

A message seeking comment from a Silverado Stages executive after hours Tuesday was not immediately returned.

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into four-year universities, where they are underrepresented.

Rather than debate Hernandez’s proposal, lawmakers now plan to hold hearings about affirmative action and other aspects of campus equality.

The state’s governing party has split along racial lines. Three Asian-American senators, all Democrats who were seeking higher office at the time, withdrew their support of the bill after being bombarded by public criticism.

Six black and Latino lawmakers have since withdrawn their endorsements of Sen. Ted Lieu, who is Chinese-American, in a Los Angeles-area congressional race where he faces another Democrat in the primary. And some black and Latino Assembly members this month withheld votes from unrelated legislation about the state’s carpool program by Assemblyman Al Muratsutchi, D-Torrance, who is Japanese-American.

The Senate’s Democratic leader, President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, acknowledged the animosity. He said in a statement that he wanted “a serious and sober examination” of affirmative action, adding “I am deeply concerned anytime one ethnic group turns on another.”

In recent statistics, the University of California system said 36 percent of its in-state freshman admissions offers for fall 2014 are to Asian-American students, 29

percent are for Latino students, 27 percent are for white students and 4 percent of offers are to black students.

At some campuses, including UC San Diego and UC Irvine, Asian-American students accounted for more than 45 percent of admitted freshmen last year.

Hispanics have slightly overtaken whites as the largest ethnic group in California, although both groups represent about 39 percent of the population. Asian-Americans — a population that includes Filipinos, Chinese, Indians, Japanese, Vietnamese, Laotians and others — comprise about 13 percent. Blacks are less than 6 percent.

Hernandez said nothing in his proposal would impose quotas based on ethnicity, which have been ruled unconstitutional. He said race, ethnicity and gender would be added to a list of factors college admissions officers already consider, such as extracurricular activities and family income.

“Rather than create a wedge, my idea is to have a real public debate about this,” he said. “What’s wrong with talking about race?”

Asian voters are a rising political force in California, said Karthick Ramakrishnan, a political science professor at the University of California, Riverside and director of the National Asian American Survey.

While they typically lean Democratic, the voting bloc is not

strongly loyal to either party, meaning “if you’re trying to either win or defeat a statewide proposition, you ignore Asian-American voters at your peril,” Ramakrishnan said.

Republicans have struggled to attract younger and non-white voters since 1994, when Republican Gov. Pete Wilson supported Proposition 187, a proposal that banned immigrants in the country illegally from access to most social services, and the constitutional amendment that prohibited the use of racial considerations in education, state hiring and contracting, Proposition 209 in 1996. Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Oklahoma and Washington subsequently adopted similar bans.

Republicans are now capitalizing on the controversy by targeting upwardly mobile AsianAmericans. Peter Kuo, a Republican candidate for state Senate, has been outspoken on the issue during his campaign for an eastern San Francisco Bay Area district that is 40 percent Asian-American.

“The Democratic Party is the party using the name of equality and diversity to lower the standard and preventing us from going into higher education,” said Kuo, who came with his family from Taiwan when he was 14.

“I can’t go and tell my kids, ‘Hey, because you’re Asian you can’t get into the school you want,’” he said.

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Gun carry rights expanded in Ga. under new law

By CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY Associated Press

ELLIJAY, Ga. — Criticized by one group as the “guns everywhere” bill, Georgia took a big step Wednesday toward expanding where licensed carriers can take their weapons, with the governor signing a law that allows them in bars without restriction and in some churches, schools and government buildings under certain circumstances.

Following mass shootings in recent years, some states have pursued stronger limits on guns while others like Georgia have taken the opposite path, with advocates arguing that people should be allowed to carry weapons as an issue of public safety. Republicans control large majorities in the Georgia General Assembly, and the bill passed overwhelming despite objections from some religious leaders and local government officials.

A few hundred gun rights supporters gathered at an outdoor pavilion along a river in north Georgia in the town of Ellijay for the bill signing by Gov. Nathan Deal and a barbecue. Many sported “Stop Gun Control” buttons and several had weapons holstered at their side. House Speaker David Ralston offered a thinly veiled critique of those who might oppose the bill while describing the people of his district.

“This is the apple capital of Georgia. And, yes, it’s a community where we cling to our religion and our guns,” Ralston said, drawing big applause in referencing a past comment made by President Barack Obama.

The bill makes several changes to state law and takes effect July 1. Besides in bars without restric-

tions, guns could be brought into some government buildings that don’t have certain security measures, such as metal detectors or security guards screening visitors.

Religious leaders would have the final say as to whether guns can be carried into their place of worship.

And school districts would now be able, if they choose, to allow some employees to carry a firearm on school grounds under certain conditions.

“This bill is about the good guys, you guys,” bill sponsor Rep. Rick Jasperse, R-Jasper, told the crowd. “Amid all the misinformation and emotions, one must remember that this bill isn’t about irresponsibly arming the masses. This is a bill about safety and responsibility.”

“ House Bill 60 will protect law-abiding

citizens by expanding the number of places that they can carry their guns without penalty, while at the same time this bill respects the rights of private property owners who still set the rules for their land and their buildings.”

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Governor of Georgia Opponents, however, include Americans for Responsible Solutions, a group co-founded by former Democratic Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who survived a shooting in 2011 and started a nationwide campaign on gun control. The group’s executive director Pia Carusone on its website said, “the bill is extremism in

Tunisia divided over Jews’ use of Israel passports

By BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA Associated Press

TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia’s elected assembly accepted a petition Wednesday to question the tourism minister over a decision allowing Israelis to use their passports to enter the country for an annual religious pilgrimage.

While Israelis and Jews long have traveled to Tunisia for an annual pilgrimage to the Ghriba synagogue on the island of Djerba, this is the first year that Israelis have been allowed to use their passports rather than a special document issued by Tunisian embassies.

Tunisia does not have diplomatic relations with Israel.

Some 85 of the 217 members of the assembly signed the petition summoning Tourism Minister Amel Karboul to explain her actions to the parliament, said spokeswoman Karima Souid.

The protesting lawmakers argue that recognizing Israeli passports amounts to recognition of the Jewish state.

“Our problem is not with our Jewish brothers who come for the pilgrimage but with the Zionist en-

action; it moves Georgia out of the mainstream.”

The Georgia Municipal Association also was among those raising concerns, sending a letter to Deal arguing local governments couldn’t afford to increase security.

Deal, in his remarks, argued the bill empowers local decisions.

“House Bill 60 will protect law-abiding citizens by expanding the number of places that they can carry their guns without penalty, while at the same time this bill respects the rights of private property owners who still set the rules for their land and their buildings,” Deal said.

That would include bar owners, who could post that firearms are not permitted in their establishments.

tity that occupies Palestinian territories,” said the head of the center leftist Democratic Alliance Mohammed Hamdi.

In remarks Tuesday, Tunisia’s interim prime minister, Mehdi Jomaa, defended the new policy as part of efforts to revive the country’s key tourism sector, which accounts for 7 percent of the GDP and employs 400,000 people.

“We must dispense with these political arguments focus on the essential,” he said. “All the previous government authorized Jews from Israel to come to Tunisia for the annual pilgrimage; we just decided to do it in total transparence.”

At its peak in 2000, about 8,000 Jews came — many from Israel, Italy and France, where they or their forebears had moved over the years.

Such crowds haven’t returned since an al-Qaida-linked militant detonated a truck bomb at the synagogue in 2002, killing 21 people, mostly German tourists — and badly jolting the now-tiny Jewish community.

The pilgrimage was called off in 2011 in the wake of Tunisia’s revolution, when major street protests ousted longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. Only a few hundred came in the past two years.

In Vienna, a city of about 4,000 residents south of Macon, it would cost $60,000 annually to increase security at city buildings, said Mayor Pro Tem Beth English. English, president of the Georgia Municipal Association, said she supports gun rights and has a carry permit but worries the added security costs will force the city to increase taxes.

“Do we raise taxes to provide the police protection or do we take the risk of potential injury to our public?” English said, noting emotions sometimes run high at city hall.

Some religious leaders also opposed the law, saying it will increase confusion. Under it, the assumption is still that guns aren’t allowed unless otherwise noted. The law adds a provision, however, that those in violation cannot be arrested or fined more than $100 if they have a valid permit.

“This is the gun lobby foisting their agenda on churches, and I think it’s a tragic violation of church and state,” said the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock of Ebenezer Baptist Church.

It’s unclear whether any school districts plan to take advantage of the new law, but proponents hope it will deter violence.

“Schools have been gun-free zones for some time and those have been where some of the biggest instances of violence have occurred,” said Gary Holland, a retired firefighter from Dawsonville who attended the bill signing. “If I’m a criminal, I would select a target where I know guns are not allowed because it would make the pickings easier.”

The bill passed largely along party lines in the House and Senate. The most prominent Democrat to back the bill was state Sen. Jason Carter, who is running for governor.

Carter, the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter, reiterated his support for the Second Amendment and noted he had worked to improve the bill to “ensure that places of worship have a real choice on whether to allow guns on their properties.”

Putin calls Internet a ‘CIA project’

By NATALIYA VASILYEVA Associated Press

MOSCOW — President Vladimir Putin on Thursday called the Internet a CIA project and made comments about Russia’s biggest search engine Yandex, sending the company’s shares plummeting.

The Kremlin has been anxious to exert greater control over the Internet, which opposition activists — barred from national television — have used to promote their ideas and organize protests.

Russia’s parliament this week passed a law requiring social media websites to keep their servers in Russia and save all information about their users for at least half a year. Also, businessmen close to Putin now control Russia’s leading social media network, VKontakte.

Speaking Thursday at a media forum in St. Petersburg, Putin said that the Internet originally was a “CIA project” and “is still developing as such.”

To resist that influence, Putin said, Russia needs to “fight for its interests” online.

A Russian blogger complained to Putin that foreign websites and Yandex, the web search engine which is bigger in Russia than Google, are storing information on servers abroad, which could be undermining Russia’s security.

In his reply, Putin mentioned unspecified pressure that was exerted on Yandex in its early years and chided the company for its registration in the Netherlands “not only for tax reasons but for other considerations, too.”

Although Putin’s comments didn’t include any specific threats to Yandex, one of Russia’s most successful tech companies, its shares plunged by 5 percent at the Nasdaq’s opening on Thursday.

In a statement Thursday, Yandex said the company got registered in the Netherlands “solely due to the specifics of corporate law,” not because of the low taxes there and added that its core business is based in Russia and “practically all the taxes are paid in Russia.”

Reacting to Putin’s claims that Yandex was under “pressure,” the company said it got its first investments from international funds and investors, “which is the usual practice for any online start-up in any country.”

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In Brief Red light district pot shops may be banned AMSTERDAM — Amsterdam has won court permission to ban marijuana cafes in its famous Red Light district, stepping up a crackdown on the city’s freewheeling lifestyle.

Marijuana is technically illegal in the Netherlands, but possession of small amounts is not prosecuted and it is sold openly in “coffee shops.” Prostitution is legal. But Mayor Eberhard van der Laan argues the district’s brothels and coffee shops generate criminality, and he has sought to have many closed.

Coffee shop owners argued that laws were being selectively enforced against them.

In a ruling published Wednesday, the Amsterdam District Court sided with the mayor, saying he “has the freedom to carry out policies he considers desirable to protect public order.”

The city has shuttered 192 out of 482 brothels where prostitutes work behind windows in the Red Light district since 2006, or around 40 percent of the total — after winning court support for its argument that the high concentration of brothels made them hard to regulate. The plan for coffee shops is to close 26 out of the 76 now in business.

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Postal workers unions protest Staples program

By RIK STEVENS Associated Press

CONCORD — Postal workers in cities large and small protested in front of Staples stores on Thursday, objecting to the U.S. Postal Service’s pilot program to open counters in stores, staffed with retail employees.

Rallies were planned at 50 locations in 27 states. In Concord, N.H., more than 100 boisterous workers donned bright blue shirts and lined a busy commercial road near a Staples store.

“Union busting, we say no,” they chanted, “the Staples deal has got to go.”

In New York, about 100 workers marched from the main office on 8th Avenue to a Staples store about five blocks away, carrying signs and chanting while in Washington, D.C., more than 200 people gathered at a Staples, drumming on buckets and holding signs that read: “Stop Staples. The U.S. Mail is Not for Sale.”

One of them, postal service maintenance mechanic Robert Black, called the pilot program “a

back-door way of privatizing the post office” and taking away jobs from postal workers.

“It seems as though they are doing whatever they can to break down the union,” he said.

John Hegarty, president of the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, which represents about 45,000 mail handlers, said the outsourcing endangers the sanctity and security of the mail.

“ While the majority of postal workers are

honest, it enlarges the pool of people who can take private, personal information. You have, in essence, doubled the pool of people who can steal your mail.”

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Last year, Framingham, Mass.based Staples Inc. began offering postal services under a pilot program that now includes some 80 stores. The American Postal Workers Union objects, because it says well-paid union workers have been replaced by low-wage nonunion workers. (A union spokesman said postal workers make $25 an hour on average, far more than retail clerks.)

The union also worries it will lead to post office closures.

“We are highly trained, skilled postal employees and they want to give it to employees who really don’t know anything about the mail,” he said.

Staples customer Jon Lenzner in Washington agreed that security was a concern.

“While the majority of postal workers are honest, it enlarges the pool of people who can take private, personal information,” said Lenzner, a prosecutor. “You have, in

essence, doubled the pool of people who can steal your mail.”

Mark Dimondstein, president of the American Postal Workers Union representing 200,000 employees, called the Staples partnership “a dirty deal.”

“It represents a shift of good, living-wage jobs to low-wage jobs,” Dimondstein said.

Staples spokesman Mark Cautela would not address the workers’ concerns, only saying the store is always testing new ways to serve its customers.

The dispute comes as the financially struggling Postal Service looks to cut costs and boost revenues.

Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe has said the Staples program has nothing to do with privatization. Rather, it’s a “direct response to the changing expectations of customers who demand greater convenience and a one-stop shopping experience.” It’s also an opportunity “to grow the business,” the Postal Service said in a statement Thursday.

Janice Kelble, a 40-year postal service employee and legislative di-

rector for the Manchester, N.H., local of the American Postal Workers union, said the workers are all for convenience as long as the counters are staffed with trained workers.

Aside from Staples, the Postal Service has roughly 65,000 other retail partner locations around the country — such as CVS pharmacies and Wal-Mart stores that sell postal products. The Staples program, however, allows customers to buy stamps, send packages and use priority and certified mail.

The service lost $5 billion in the 2013 fiscal year and has been trying to get Congress to pass legislation to help with its financial woes, including an end to Saturday mail delivery and reduced payments on retiree health benefits. It lost $15.9 billion in the 2012 budget year.

U.S. Rep. Xavier Becerra, DCalif., joined postal workers at a rally in Los Angeles.

“What you want to do is have as efficient an operation as possible but you shouldn’t have to sacrifice efficiency and universal service just because somebody says you have to tighten your belt,” Becerra told The Associated Press.

Kidnapper turns self in to FBI Energy chief on New

By KATE BRUMBACK Associated Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — As the kidnappers pulled into a quiet, upscale golf course community, they thought they were about to abduct an assistant district attorney who sent a high-ranking gang member to prison for life, authorities said.

But they had the wrong address and when the prosecutor’s father answered the door, they took him instead.

For five days, authorities said the kidnappers held 63-year-old Frank Janssen captive in an Atlanta apartment, tormenting his family by sending text messages threatening to cut him into pieces if police were called or their demands weren’t met. They even sent a photo of him tied up in a chair.

On Tuesday, an indictment charged nine people in Janssen’s abduction, including 49-year-old Bloods member Kelvin Melton, who authorities said was calling the shots by cellphone from his North Carolina prison cell. Janssen’s daughter, Wake Forest assistant district attorney Colleen Janssen, prosecuted Melton in 2012 for his role in the shooting of his exgirlfriend’s new boyfriend.

Court records show Melton has a long record of felony convictions in New York, the first being a 1979 robbery committed when he was 14. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter and robbery in 1998 and served more than 13 years in New York prisons before being released in August 2011.

His conviction in North Carolina sent him to prison for life. Authorities said he wanted revenge.

At first, Melton wanted the kidnappers to travel to Louisiana to abduct a family member of his court-appointed attorney from his 2012 trial. He arranged in March

for each member of that kidnapping team to receive about $10,000, according to the indictment, but at some point, for reasons not explained in court documents, they called it off.

In late March or early April, Melton called again. This time he wanted a team assembled to “kidnap the ADA,” who was identified in the indictment as a “Wake County Assistant District Attorney.”

One of the team members used the Internet to look up Colleen Janssen’s address but actually found her father’s home in Wake Forest, about 15 miles north of Raleigh.

Early on April 5, four of the kidnappers left the Atlanta area for North Carolina. Melton called them several times while they were on the road, at one point asking to be put on speaker phone to give them specific instructions. He told them to wear khakis and collared shirts, so they stopped at a WalMart to buy clothes.

When they got to Janssen’s home, three of the kidnappers went to the door while another waited in the car, according to the indictment. When Frank Janssen cracked the door, the kidnappers forced their way in, hit him with a stun gun several times and pistolwhipped him.

As they drove back to Atlanta, Janssen was forced to lie on the floorboard of the back seat of a rental car. They put handcuffs on him and used the stun gun on him dozens of times.

The indictment doesn’t say what happened when Melton discovered they kidnapped Janssen’s father instead of the prosecutor, but two days after he was taken, Janssen’s wife started receiving the threatening text messages.

Each one seemed to grow more urgent. On April 9, Janssen’s wife received a photo of him tied

up in a chair along with a message: “Tomorrow we call you again an (sic) if you can not tell me where my things are at tomorrow i will start torchering.”

The indictment said that while Janssen was in the Atlanta apartment, he was taped to a chair in a closet, and some of the kidnappers stood watch. Melton sent instructions to one member to assist in the killing and disposal of Janssen if Melton’s demands weren’t met or if the team lost contact with Melton for three days. The specific demands have not been released by authorities.

Around 8 p.m. on April 9, Melton received a text saying, “We got car, spot, and shovel.” A few minutes later, Melton called the kidnappers and told them to kill Janssen and gave specific instructions not to leave any DNA behind, court documents said.

By that night, authorities had determined Melton had orchestrated the scheme and was still calling the shots behind bars. When corrections officers tried entering his cell, he smashed the phone.

Authorities pinpointed Janssen’s location and stormed the apartment just before midnight April 9. A short while later, three of the nine people charged were caught in a Chevy Tahoe that had two shovels, a pick and a gun inside.

Melton was indicted along with Quantavious Thompson, Jakym Tibbs, Tianna Maynard, Clifton Roberts, Jenna Martin, Jevante Price, Michael Gooden and Patricia Kramer. All face a federal conspiracy charge related to the abduction, and all but Kramer are charged with kidnapping.

Kramer was the only one who wasn’t in custody when the indictment was filed Tuesday. She turned herself in to the FBI in Atlanta on Wednesday.

England energy issues

By STEPHEN SINGER Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. — The nation’s top energy official delivered a blunt message Monday to a Connecticut audience of energy executives, regulators, environmentalists and others who already know that fuel heating and cooling homes and businesses and running power plants in New England is among the costliest in the nation.

Ernest Moniz, U.S. secretary of energy, stopping in Providence, R.I., and Hartford in a months-long federal review of energy issues, said New England doesn’t share the good news developing in the field of energy with the rest of the country.

“Out there, in much of the country the talk is about the energy revolution, the abundance of energy that we have, the way that we are in fact drawing upon new resources ... promoting renewables, at the same time reducing carbon emissions,” he said.

“But yet if we come here, it’s not a discussion of abundance. It’s a discussion of, in particular, infrastructure constraints,” he said.

Speaking to an audience of about 150 in Hartford, Moniz said that in New England, piping in natural gas and otherwise delivering heat or electricity is limited by a lack of delivery systems.

During the severe winter, natural gas prices soared to more than $120 per million British thermal units from about $5 in the summer.

The spike was blamed on strong demand, a lack of pipeline systems, limited regional liquefied natural gas deliveries and inadequate storage.

Energy prices in New England often are “very volatile and much higher than other parts of the coun-

try,” Moniz said.

Moniz knows New England. A physicist and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Moniz said even when fuel is available, it cannot be moved in emergencies, such as Superstorm Sandy in October and November 2012, because of power outages.

New England governors announced a plan in January to expand natural gas use. The governors of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont asked the region’s grid operator for technical help to seek proposals to build transmission equipment and public works to deliver enough electricity to serve 1.2 million to 3.6 million homes. The states also asked the system operator, ISO-New England, to devise a way to finance the project.

Gordon van Welie, ISO president, said Monday that because many non-gas-fired plants are to be retired beginning this year and public works improvements are scheduled to start years from now, New England’s power system will be in a “precarious position” for a few years.

Anthony Buxton, general counsel for the Industrial Energy Consumer Group, a trade association of industrial facilities, said he told Moniz in his visit to Providence that two billion cubic feet per day of more pipeline capacity into New England is needed to tame natural gas price spikes.

Connecticut director William Dornbos of Environment Northeast, an advocacy group, urged Moniz and state policymakers to seek ways to cut demand via greater energy efficiency and to avoid major capital projects such as interstate natural gas pipelines or electric transmission lines.

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Affirmative action or not, equality is critical

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n Tuesday, the Supreme Court upheld a constitutional amendment in the state of Michigan that bans affirmative action in the admissions process to the public universities in the state. Thus, the Supreme Court established that having affirmative action in admissions for college is a decision left up to the states.

For one thing, it is good to see the states gain more right to make decisions independent of the federal government. On the other hand, affirmative action – or something to the effect of it – is something that is still necessary in the admission for higher education. This can be seen by the drop in minorities enrolled in college in Michigan since the ban took effect in 2006. According to an article published in Bloomberg on Wednesday, the enrollment of black students dropped 33 percent at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor from 2006 to 2012.

Perhaps the focus should not be on racial inequality, but rather on socioeconomic inequality. Bloomberg also pointed out that seven of 10 universities in states where affirmative action is banned were able “to maintain or increase the proportion of black and Hispanic students among their ranks by targeting socioeconomic inequality.” Whether

it be through affirmative action or socioeconomic standing, minorities will have greater opportunities to access higher education.

As the college degree continues to develop into the new high school diploma in regards to the job market assuring equal opportunity for all potential college students is critical.

If a state votes to ban affirmative action, state universities should turn their attention to socioeconomic trends instead. Utilizing either one method or the other is necessary as the price tag on a college education continues to increase.

An education should not only be within the reach of the wealthy, regardless of race. This is not to say racism is irrelevant in the United States; to say that it is would be naïve.

Focusing on socioeconomic

inequality in college admissions would not takeaway from diversity on university campuses. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, “American Indians and Alaska Natives” held the highest national poverty rate from 2007 to 2011 at 27 percent.

The second highest poverty rate in that time period was held by “Blacks or African Americans” with 25.8 percent. Looking at socieconomics would continue to foster a diverse body of students, not only based on race and ethnicity but on economic background as well. After all, isn’t the point of this discussion to find ways to create equal opportunity a college education?

Overall, the trend of black and Hispanic students graduating from high school and enrolling in college is increasing, according to statistics from The Wall Street Journal that extend through 2012. The gap between white and minority students is closing.

New Hampshire is among the eight states that are without affirmative action, ending it in 2011. Most recently, Oklahoma ended affirmative action in 2012.

As the college degree continues to develop into the new high school diploma in regards to the job market, assuring equal opportunity for all potential college students is critical.

 Letters to the editor To The Editor I recently received an email from my boss “encouraging all my male colleagues to consider taking this pledge” and support something called UNHWRC. My boss received it from her boss, who received it from her boss, all the way up starting with Vice President Mark Rubinstein.

When I clicked on the link it led to a page that included the list of signees, open to anyone to see who had signed and, by default, those who had not signed.

I appreciate that SHARPP and high-level administrators wanted to get the word out regarding a cause they felt was important. However, personally sending emails to subordinates was a completely improper way to accomplish this.

It is highly inappropriate to

receive a communication from one’s boss “encouraging” you to publicly support any cause, no matter how benign or worthy it may be deemed to be. Now my boss – and all my colleagues (as the email sent to the entire departments) – can visit this website and see if I signed this petition.

The pledge was to “never commit, condone, nor remain silent about violence against women.” Because I personally may not wish to publically add my name to such a list, will my boss, colleagues and high-level administrators think that I will now “commit, condone and remain silent about violence against women?”

I felt extremely intimidated receiving such an email from my boss.

This is the very definition of workplace bullying (a topic all UNH staff was recently surveyed about). And now I am left to wonder how will my decision affect future discussions of

merit if my boss knows I didn’t sign this pledge at her behest?

This was not merely an informational email. It was an email from my boss “encouraging me to take a very public action. The fact that Vice President Rubinstein and other very high-level administrators initiated and advanced such an endeavor and were not sensitive to how inappropriate this was is rather astonishing and dismaying. I just wonder what the next “cause” my boss will “encourage me to support” publically and then actually be able to check and see if I took that “pledge?”

I call on all high-level administrators that participated in this to send a new email to all their subordinates apologizing for this solicitation and pledge to not engage in such blatant workplace bullying behavior in the future.

Anonymous Male UNH Staff Member

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We need to overcome transphobia, fatphobia and homophobia

n the past generation, incredible gains have been made in areas pertaining to gender equality and same-sex rights. While we’ve generally come to the conclusion that women and men are equal and that gay relationships are just as valuable as straight ones, there is still a lot of work to be done. Homophobia still exists, and we do not all have full legal equality. Transgender-transsexual individuals are still denied access to necessary medical care and face disproportionate levels of violent oppression, and weight has been turned into a political issue wherein “thin” people view “fat” people as objects with less value.

It doesn’t matter what someone’s weight is, whom they love or what organs sit between their legs: every human being is infinitely precious and it’s time that the United States recognizes that all individuals – not just those that are cisgendered, heterosexual and white - deserve the exact same legal and political rights as everyone else.

The fight for gender, weight and sexual equality – and against the socially-constructed, compartmentalizing concepts of “gender” and “sexual orientation” themselves – is the great civil rights struggle of our time. Yes, the LGB’t community scored a major win last spring when the Supreme Court ruled that a section of the Defense of Marriage Act (which stated that, for federal purposes, only opposite-sex couple marriages would be recognized) was unconstitutional, but it did not declare that marriage is a fundamental right for all couples. As Hillary Clinton put it recently, “human rights are gay rights, and gay rights are human rights.” Yet we should not focus our activism entirely on gay equality: We must not forget our transgender comrades who have had to deal with violent oppression in ways that the mainstream LGB’t community cannot even think of.

This is why I always make sure to write LGB’t instead of LGBT in all of my works – it shows that there is a profound difference between nonheterosexual and transgendered individuals, and that the equality movement led by the transphobic Human “Rights” Campaign often caters to the political wants of rich, white, cisgendered gay elites rather than the human needs of our trans

From the Left Dan Fournier brothers and sisters. Too often, equal-rights groups only care about the equality of a certain group of people and forget about others.

To have a non-heterosexual sexual orientation is certainly against the grains of America’s viscously patriarchal society, but to actually be transgender puts one on a whole different level. Name changes, gender-reassignment surgery, systemic legal oppression, economic classism, difficulty accessing adequate medical care – the trans community has had to face persecution and brutality in a way that no other minority has ever had to.

I cannot imagine the struggles that my trans friends have to go through, but the fact that they do – and that they persevere and come out stronger – makes me indescribably proud of them. They deserve the utmost respect and support and are a source of constant inspiration.

An issue that does not receive nearly enough attention is the issue of fatphobia: too often we conform to radically totalitarian narratives of what is “good,” “bad,” “attractive” and “socially acceptable” – and by doing so, we label those that do not as less valuable than those that do. We need to stop this oppression notion of equating a person’s value with their weight.

The size of a person’s waistline is only one aspect of them, and it’s so superficial that it says nothing about their personality, intelligence, character, or beliefs. To use a cliché, you cannot judge a book by its cover, and one certainly should not judge a person based upon what their body looks like.

Fighting fatphobia has nothing to do with making up an excuse to justify being obese; it is a legitimate social justice issue focused on rejecting the idea that capitalist, patriarchal power structures have the authority to politicize our bodies and define one as valuable based upon that. The word “obese” is viscously oppressive. It medicalizes

weight so that a certain patriarchal notion of value becomes incorporated into the clinical establishment, thus giving the system the right to hand out orders, mandates, and dictates about how one should or should not run their life. An example of this includes the bodymass index (BMI) measurement, which is an antiquated method of categorizing cadavers by their total body mass used by French biologists in the 1800s. It has nothing to do with modern medical research, and it certainly isn’t grounded in any of the revolutionary breakthroughs in biology or chemistry in the past decades.

I say run your life whichever way you want, and feel free to creatively express yourself in any way that you desire – live freely and consciously live independent of hegemonic narratives. The reclaiming of the word “fat” by the anti-fatphobia movement (similar to the LGB’t community taking back the word “queer”) is a step in the right direction.

We need to change our language so that we recognize the universal value of all people, instead of subtly policing ourselves with linguistic microaggressions. There are social pressures to change one’s body so that one isn’t fat, and this is wrong: we live in a profoundly sick society when social narratives police us into being radical conformists.

We should not allow anything to control our behaviour, bodies or the ways that we express ourselves, except what our hearts say is right.

We need to relegate homophobia, fatphobia and transphobia to the dustbin of history. All three of these are social constructs that were designed, and are encouraged, by hegemonic power systems that have a vested interest in controlling us because doing so furthers their political and economic agendas.

They do nothing other than estrange us from one another, and we need to abolish all of them in order to expand human freedom and live in a genuinely accepting and cooperative society.

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Dan Fournier is a pre-medical undergraduate majoring in evolutionary biology. He is both a libertarian socialist and an active member of the peace and labor movements.

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Thumbs up to the last weekends of the school year.

Thumbs down to not having time for friends the last weekends of school.

Thumbs up to Bruins going up 3-1 in their series against the Red Wings.

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Thumbs up to Alex Preston making the top five.

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Thumbs up to “thumbs up, thumbs down.”

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SPORTS

Friday, April 25, 2014

FOOTBALL

Freshman phenom makes his presence felt

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Dalton Crossan (27) made an immediate impact in his first season, amassing 930 total all-purpose yards.

By SAM DONNELLY Staff WRITER

“I always knew I wanted to play football.”

Freshman tailback Dalton Crossan is a good athlete. So good he could play Division I football and lacrosse.

In his mind that didn’t matter.

What drove Crossan was knowing what he wanted, which is ultimately why he landed at UNH. Crossan grew up on Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y., in a family of four consisting of his parents and younger brother. Since he was 5 years old, Crossan has played both football and a Long Island trademark, lacrosse.

“Lacrosse is all-year round in Long Island,” Crossan said. “I like lacrosse, but I kind of got sick of it.”

When Crossan reached Sachem North High School, it was clear that he was going to be a superior athlete.

As a football player, Crossan carried the ball a total of 208 times, compiling 2,016 yards. That led to an average of 10.4 yards per carry, good for fifth all-time at Sachem North. In addition, he scored 72 touchdowns, which ranks fifth alltime in Long Island history.

On the lacrosse field, Crossan excelled. He became nationally ranked as a junior while also ranking second in scoring on Long Island. The interest in Crossan as a lacrosse player became big. From the NCAA powerhouse Notre Dame toup-and-coming Michigan, Crossan had plenty of offers. What he didn’t let the lacrosse recruiters know is that his mind was already made up.

“I had to entertain the idea to play lacrosse because a lot of good schools were recruiting me, I had to keep my doors open,” Crossan said.

Then, the football schools began to call. After being granted the Hansen Award as the top football player in Long Island his senior year, Crossan received offers from Syracuse, Buffalo, and other CIAA schools who compete on the Division I stage. For most kids from New York, an offer to Syracuse is a no-brainer, but Crossan knew what he wanted.

“Syracuse wanted me to play slot receiver,” Crossan said. “I wanted to play running back. I didn’t really like the campus. There were just a whole bunch of things I didn’t like.”

When Crossan visited UNH for the first time, he knew it was where he wanted to be. After head coach Sean McDonnell invited him for an official visit, Crossan was ready to make his decision.

“I fell in love with the place. I knew I wanted to be here,” Crossan said. “I committed up here on my official visit.”

After just one season, Crossan has gained an immense amount of experience. He was part of last year’s Wildcat team that reached the FCS semifinal, the furthest the team has ever gone in the NCAA playoffs.

Crossan was a big part of the Wildcat’s success last year, compiling a total of 930 all-purpose yards, which was fifth on the team. He also finished with six touchdowns and was CAA Rookie of the week on November 18.

Although his stats were strong

after just one season, Crossan is out for more. “[I want] to just continue to improve upon my numbers,” Crossan said. “I work on getting better and doing everything I can to help our team.”

With the experience gained as one of three talented running backs last season, the other two being junior Nico Steriti and graduating senior Chris Setian, Crossan is confident he has a chance this season to receive more touches on the offensive side of the ball.

“I think being a year older and having a year more of experience will give me more opportunities,” Crossan said. “I’m looking forward to this season.”

UNH will take the field May 3 at 12 p.m. at Cowell Stadium for the annual Blue-White game.

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Crossan will have an increased role in 2014 with the graduation on running back Nico Steriti.

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LOGUE

continued from page 20 there it was determined that she had a concussion. Later that night, she went to dinner with her parents and felt so sick that she could barely look at her food, running to the bathroom several times.

Logue wasn’t out for long, getting back to working out with the team by the end of May. She played the entire 2013 season, scoring a decisive goal in the team’s win at Harvard on Sept. 11.

Then, on Feb. 1 of this year, in an indoor practice scrimmage with the team, Logue was elbowed in the head during a scrum that resulted from a corner kick. Logue felt funny, but she powered through the rest of practice and the day’s subsequent lift, paying no mind to what she thought was a mild headache. It wasn’t until she got home that night and laid down did the pain she knew last spring set in again.

The next day, she went to class and struggled to focus. “[I] woke up and went to class early, and sitting in class trying to focus, I was like, ‘I probably have another one,’” Logue said.

Having dealt with a concussion before, Logue said that she wasn’t so much scared or nervous when she was elbowed in the head in practice that day, but frustrated, knowing she’d need to take several weeks off.

Luckily for her, her communications major does not require her to sit in front of a computer screen all day like some do, but she was limited to doing nothing strenuous for the first weeks of recovery.

“I literally couldn’t do anything but just rest,” Logue said. “I don’t like doing that.”

It also crossed her mind that she could fall behind her teammates as they prepared for the coming season. A month away from the practice field meant falling out of shape. She didn’t want to stress about making up time lost while she was resting.

Logue said it hurt to stand on the sideline while the team played well in the spring season. As the Wildcats showed signs of offensive improvement, she and Prario watched from the sideline.

“When we were standing there, obviously, it was hard to watch practices and stuff,” Logue said.

“We both felt like we were getting behind.”

After the first three weeks, Logue began jogging and using the bike machine 20 minutes at a time.

Some days, her symptoms would be minor while the next day they would be much more severe. The ups and downs of concussion recovery were frustrating.

“With concussions, every day can be different,” Logue said. “You can feel good one day and the next you can feel like absolute [expletive] because when you feel good, you kind of want to do more, and when

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Junior Jordan Logue made her first appearance this spring after suffering multiple concussions. you do that, it kind of messes up the next day, so it’s kind of when you personally recover and how much time you can take to rest.”

Despite her concern over fitting back in with the team, she said the team has been supportive of her and the other two teammates with concussions as they’ve recovered.

“ When we were

standing there, obviously, it was hard to watch practices ...

We both felt like we were getting behind.”

Jordan Logue

Junior Backer

“Our team is very supportive, and everyone wants you to get back and is constantly asking you how you’re doing and when you think you’re going to be back,” Logue said. “It’s very comfortable.”

Logue has been back practicing with the team for about a month.

Last week in the days leading up to the SNHU game, she took some head balls in practice and felt fine.

As soon as she hit the field, she said she felt confident again.

The back said that she doesn’t expect to be gun-shy after two concussions in the past year.

“I usually don’t go into a game trying to be scared,” Logue said.

“Obviously a little nervous, but, I mean, I just play my game, and I don’t really worry about it.”

Now that she has a game under her belt since recovering, Logue is excited to play in one more match this Saturday against Boston University. It is the last game on the spring schedule.

“I’m very excited,” Logue said.

“I’m looking forward to the fall. We only have one game left, which is this Saturday against BU, and I’m excited for that because they’re going to be good competition and I’ll be able to get some time on the field again.

“I’m excited to just be back. It feels good.”

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The New Hampshire ATHLETICS

Athletics dept. makes website for new complex donations

By JAMES HATZIBIROS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The University of New Hampshire delighted its students when it launched its website to promote its effort to build a new football stadium on March 26. The website provides valuable confirmation that the project will not only be financially viable but also integral to the growth of the student athletic program at UNH. “UNHStadium.com was created in order to share, communicate and educate UNH alumni, students, fans and friends about the project details and distribute this information in a way that reaches a wide range of constituents,” associate athletic director for communications Mike Murphy said.

According to Murphy, the idea for Stadium Central was developed by the department of athletics. With their concept of raising awareness of the new football stadium in place, they handed development to Pack Network, a Boston-based company specializing in web services, graphic design and video solution.

The website offers information through FAQs, a PDF viewbook with pictures and a tab for updates on the project. The FAQ and viewbook both note that no state dollars will be used for the project and the university will leverage approximately $20 million in internal borrowing for the project on top of at least $5 million they hope to raise through private support.

Through the use of a microsite that can be accessed by a link on the stadium central homepage, anyone who is interested in supporting UNH athletics can make

McHoul

continued from page 20 March 8) and was voted America East co-rookie of the year at the end of the season, alongside Albany’s Rachel Bowles. This season, she was named offensive player of the week on March 24. Despite the accolades, McHoul felt her biggest weakness was playing up to the level of her opponents. “[I was] intimidated by other teams,” McHoul said. “It [was] hard to play last year not like a freshman, being scared, but I think I came in and did my best.”

When asked about her thoughts when she came into UNH, McHoul was quick to bring up the welcoming attitude the team had cultivated.

“The upperclassmen never make you feel like a freshman,” McHoul said. “It definitely makes it easier to come in and play.”

This season’s success hasn’t come as a surprise, as McHoul has been able to work with talented players like Puccia and Kayleigh Hinkle. The week before McHoul scored 100 points, Puccia tallied her 100th career goal and Hinkle also reached her own 100-point milestone against Binghamton.

a secure transaction to support the fundraising effort. Donors receive exclusive privileges such as access to the Stadium Founders Club Lounge, a personal plaque, and naming rights to a specific section of the stadium.

The website has already increased awareness and prompted philanthropic support, according to Murphy.

“The website provides a convenient way for individuals to make a secure online gift to the project as well as providing contact information for those individuals and corporations who wish to learn more about supporting the project and getting involved,” Murphy said, “UNHStadium.com has increased awareness, and we have received philanthropic gifts for the stadium project as a result.”

The social features and userfriendliness of the website are instrumental components of keeping Wildcats fans involved and informed in the process of constructing the new stadium. The share button brings visitors to a page designed to spread the word to other Wildcats’ fans via Twitter and Facebook. Visitors can also sign up for an update newsletter.

Stadium central plans to add a stronger visual presence in the future. Virtual tours, staff testimonials and videos of the progress of construction are all planned features of the site according to Murphy.

“I support the ongoing efforts to raise the $5 million necessary to move the project forward,” president Mark Huddleston said. “I am eager to see what role the website plays in generating excitement and raising money.”

“The coaches [are] backing you up and pushing you harder to try new things, make mistakes and learn new things,” McHoul said. “A win over Albany would be great and give us more confidence going into [the] conference [tournament].”

The team currently has five seniors on the roster, but the entire starting attack will return next season for the Wildcats (McHoul, Hinkle, Grote). The three combine for 253 career points.

“Having our whole attack will be great,” McHoul said. “[We’ll] be comfortable with one another and can improve.”

The Wildcats will host Albany on April 26, looking for their first non-losing season since 2010.

UNH has been within a game of .500 in two of the last three seasons, which includes two America East semifinal appearances. Albany is currently ranked No. 19 in the nation with a 12-2 record and second in America East standings (3-1).

Sam Rabuck also contributed to this article.

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continued from page 20 “I wanted the job before I interviewed,” Witt said. “I didn’t come up here to interview just to have a new job. I came here because I wanted this job … because of the history and because I feel like it has the bones to be fantastic every year.”

Witt has 14 years of coaching experience, including being an assistant coach and team scout for USA Hockey since 2012. She became head coach of the Yale women’s hockey team in 2003 after just one year as an assistant, followed by assistant coaching jobs at her alma mater and USA Hockey.

That first year at the helm, Witt was named ECAC Coach of the Year.

By 2005, she had taken a team with a 9-19-3 record and helped them win 16 games.

Witt cited her time at Yale when asked if she’d ever been faced with a challenge like the one handed to her with the Wildcats.

UNH had a record of 9-23-2 this past year.

“I worked at Yale for nine years and took over a program there that really struggled, and we had more success there than they had ever had,” Witt said. “The great part about this program is it’s only had a couple years where it’s kind of gone off track a little bit.”

After the controversial departure of former head coach Brian McCloskey this past December, the UNH players are relieved that the team has finally found a coach to move forward with.

“I think we’ve been waiting for this day for a very long time,” junior forward Hannah Armstrong said. “We’re all in there celebrating in the dressing room right now. It’s a great, heavy burden lifted off of our shoulders.”

Armstrong said it seemed like the right time to introduce a new

Friday, April 25, 2014 coaching system. The Wildcats won 19 games the year before Armstrong arrived. Since she’s arrived to Durham, the team has been below .500 every year, the worst of them being last year’s nine win season. She said she’s ready to help implement a new system to turn the team around.

“ I came here be-

cause I wanted this job.”

Hilary Witt

Head Coach

“This is going to be my fifth year … and I think from my freshman to my senior year, it’s just been the same thing and the same struggle from the four years that I’ve been here,” Armstrong said.

“This past last half [of the season] really went downhill, and I think honestly a new coach, a new coaching philosophy, the start of a new program is just what we needed.”

An unknown number of women’s hockey players have been rumored to be transferring out of UNH after this year. Armstrong said she and the other players do not hold any animosity towards those leaving the team.

“People, I think, are leaving just based on that uncertainty that we didn’t know who our coach was going to be,” Armstrong said.

“I think people left just knowing a certain future of going everywhere else, and we don’t have anything against that. We love every single one of our teammates and they still are our teammates.”

Armstrong and freshman Cassandra Vilgrain, who was also present at the press conference, said that they never thought about leaving.

“It never really crossed my mind [to leave] until I had heard rumors about other people leaving,

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really,” Vilgrain said. “I think it’s a pretty big honor to be able to be a part of a program that you can turn around, be in the building process.

I think that would be a great feeling to be successful from that, so no, not really, I wasn’t going to leave at all.”

“Neither was I,” Armstrong said. “I love UNH, and I’ve never not loved UNH, so I’m sticking for five years, and I want more, so no, it’s never crossed my mind to ever leave.”

Witt said she sees strong character in her new players based on what they went through last season with the loss of their coach.

“I know the passion the kids played with, and I know that they had a really hard year,” Witt said.

“To do what they did, it’s almost amazing.”

Witt recalled her time as a player with the Huskies and how intimidating playing in Durham could be. There were the tough Wildcat players, the Durham home crowd that could be less than friendly, and, of course, the Whittemore Center’s Olympic-sized rink. The Whitt features the only Olympic-sized hockey rink in Hockey East.

“Well, the corners have changed in the building a little bit,” Witt said, “but when I first came up here, the corners were huge, and it felt like you were playing on a lake, not a hockey rink.”

The new coach said she is passionate about bringing UNH back to the national stage in part because the school’s history. They began their existence with a 73-0-1 record, won a national championship in 1998, have produced incredible players and, until recently, have been perennial contenders.

“The amount of championships here, the national championship in 1998, you know, those were the teams that were amazing here,” Witt said. “They had teams to go onto the NCAA championships, to the Frozen four, and that’s what we want going to the future.”

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Hilary Witt was a member of Northeastern’s team from 1997-2000 and played on the U.S. national team.

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Friday, April 25, 2014

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

UNH hires head coach Former NU player, Yale head coach Hilary Witt takes the helm of women’s hockey

The New Hampshire

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Logue returning to lineup after second concussion

By MAX SULLIVAN SPORTS EDITOR

Junior center back Jordan Logue rejoined the UNH women’s soccer team last Friday in its 4-0 win over Southern New Hampshire after two and a half months of recovering from her second concussion in less than a year.

“It felt great,” Logue said. “It’s been a while since I’ve been back out and it felt really good to contribute to that win.”

Logue’s only concern Friday was her ability to keep up with her teammates after being away for the majority of the semester. The Wildcats had already played three games this spring. She felt great in her first game back, though. She particularly felt comfortable when making long crosses from her end of the pitch to the front of the offense. She’s known for having a “big leg,” team-

mate Meghan Ledwith said earlier this spring, able to get the ball to the forwards from the backfield.

Logue is one of three Wildcats to deal with concussions this past year, the other two being Cassandra Prario, who suffered hers shortly after Logue this spring, and Missy Gloekler, who has been recovering from on that she suffered last fall.

Logue is the first of the three to step back on the field.

The incoming senior suffered her first concussion last season in the team’s final spring game against Maine. A Black Bear midfielder took a hard shot at the net, and Logue jumped up to stop it, hitting her hard on the right side of her head. When she reached the sideline five minutes later, she started seeing dots and felt nauseous. She visited with the trainer after the game, and LOGUE continued on Page 18

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Hannah Armstrong (right) and Cassandra Vilgrain welcomed Hilary Witt in a press conference Wednesday.

By MAX SULLIVAN SPORTS EDITOR

The University of New Hampshire’s athletic department held a press conference Wednesday for newly hired women’s hockey coach Hilary Witt, the fourth head coach in the team’s 37-year history.

“We are very excited to welcome Hilary to the UNH family,” UNH athletic director Marty

Scarano said in a press release.

“She is one of the brightest young coaches in the nation, has a fabulous understanding of the game and her recruiting ties will have an immediate impact on our program.

Furthermore Hilary is one of the all-time great players in women’s hockey and knows exactly what it takes to succeed at this level. We look forward to her leadership in rebuilding UNH into once again a

national contender.”

Witt, a native of Canton, Mass., played women’s hockey at Northeastern from 1997-2000 and with the U.S. national team. Witt said she was not only was she excited to be working in Hockey East again, but also that she had been set on chasing the job in Durham this year.

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Backer Jordan Logue notched her only goal against Harvard last year.

LACROSSE

Sophomore McHoul thrives on talented line, showing promise

By JUSTIN LORING SPORTS EDITOR

TNH STAFF/ February 2013 FILE PHOTO

Laura McHoul (left) reached the 100-point milestone with her third of five assists on Saturday, April 19.

On April 19, Laura McHoul made history for the University of New Hampshire: She became the first sophomore since 2004 to reach the 100-point milestone. Entering the game, McHoul was sitting at 97 career points and notched a season-high five assists in the game to set the record.

“I think it’s flattering that my teammates just trust me to handle the ball this much, especially since I’m just a sophomore,” McHoul said. “I love the team. Everything is going well. On attack, we’re clicking more and having those returners back from last year … gives us more time to work together.

“I know what [Laura] Puccia and Nicole [Grote] like to do, and knowing your teammates [allows you to] set them up better,” McHoul said.

McHoul made an immediate impact her first season in Durham. As a freshman in 2013, she started in all 16 games and totaled 49 points (16g, 33a). McHoul was twice named America East rookie of the week (Feb. McHOUL continued on Page 19