Main Street Magazine Fall 2011 Issue 1

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Fall

FROM THE ROAD

WILD BEASTS

GIVE THE RUNDOWN OF THEIR US TOUR EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH

@PrezHuddleston CONFESSIONS FROM THE STUDY CUBICLE:

STUDENTS ON ADDERRALL HOW TO GET HIRED TALKING HEADS:

2012 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

KURT:

INSIDE THE LUNCHBOX

PLUS • LOCAL BAR DEALS • NEW ENGLAND’S BEST BREWERIES

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Editor’s Note:

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What is better than fall? The season for tailgating, apple picking, flannel sheets, changing leaves, candy corn, wearing sweaters, and eating anything and everything pumpkin flavored is back.

In Issue 1 of this year Main Street magazine provides you with a sample of our autumn favorites from farmers’ markets (p.13) to the best New England brewery tours (p.14). We also have our standard fare of reviews, satire, campus spotlights, and a gorgeous photo spread (p.18).

Featured in this issue are articles focusing on subjects that are relevant to you, from students’ use and abuse of “Adderall: A Risky Study Buddy” (p.34), to steps on “How to Get Hired” straight out of college (p.36). The content is hyperlocal and offers a little something for everyone. You may not have known that UNH was just rated gold in sustainability operations or that a brand new Dance Club was recently formed by a student org, but we have all the details here to get you up to speed.

With Halloween and homecoming soon approaching, we bring you the man that put the two together in the infamous hybrid now known as #Hallowcoming. In an exclusive interview, twitter sensation @PrezHuddleston talks #Hallowcoming and unveiling his true identity with MSM (p.28).

The music section lives up to what you’ve grown to know and love in an interview with some campus favorites who prove Mac Miller isn’t the only young talent on the scene, UNH rappers The Cave Boys (p.22). MSM also caught up with Brit rock band the Wild Beasts while in Boston on their tour of the East Coast - check out the Q&A (p.24).

Whether you read this magazine to go out and get vintage at Newmarket’s Concetta’s Closet (p. 20) or take the local bars up on their deals (p.11), all in all there’s a lot to love about our fall issue.

X Eliza Mackintosh

Editor-in-Chief: Eliza Mackintosh Senior Editor: Alexandra Churchill Editors: Ian Ferguson, Kary McCafferty, Michelle Tremblay Photo Editor: Tynan DeBold Design Editors: Ella Nilsen, Brian Morin Contributing Writers: Alexandra Churchill, Sarah Cotton, Mickey Fisher, Victoria Hanson, Travis Harsin, Taylor Lawrence, Eliza Mackintosh, Kary McCafferty, Ella Nilsen, Emily Reny, Brandon Somogie, Michelle Tremblay, Olivia Whitton Contributing Photographers: Shannon Robertson Contributing Designers: Arly Maulana, Kimberlee Meserve, Linda Chardon, Mike Howe, Paige Smith Business Manager: Kelley Stenberg Printed by our friends at unh printing services, 10 West Edge Drive, Durham, NH The opinions expressed within Main Street are solely the opinions of the attributed writers and are not necessarily shared by Main Street magazine, Student Press Organization, SAFC, the University of New Hampshire, or anyone else, for that matter.

Main Street magazine is funded entirely by your student activity fee and we would like to thank SAFC for continuing to fund this publication. www.unh.edu/mainstreet

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REVIEWS

FEATURES

REGULAR SUSPECTS

6 Film & Book 7 Restaurants 8 Music 11 Local Bar Deals

26 Kurt’s: Inside the Lunchbox 28 @PrezHuddleston: Twitter

4 Staff Picks 5 Hot-o-meter: Hallowcoming

FOOD

14 Gluten Free 15 Farmers’ Markets 12 Best of the Best Brewery Tours

SATIRE

16 Durham Restaurant Obituaries 17 Facebook Relationsh*t

ARTS & STYLE

personality talks #Hallowcoming and unveiling his true identity

30 Food Day Hits UNH 31 On Top of the World: NH climber summits the second highest unclimbed mountain in the world

Who is on the cover of MSM? While the man with the pumpkin head will remain a mystery, this issue we bring you our mascot for fall. Happy Hallowcoming!

34 Adderall: How UNH students use and abuse the study drug

POLITICS & BIZ 36 How to Get Hired:

20 Dancer’s Club 21 Concetta’s Vintage Closet 22 The Cave Boys: These UNH rap-

In today’s tough economy

pers aren’t just Rugrats

Republican Presidential Candidates

24 From the Road: Wild Beasts

42 Sustainability Academy:

rundown their US tour

UNH receives gold rating

PHOTOSPREAD

ON THE COVER

38 Behind the Budget Cuts 40 Talking Heads: 2012

43 Student Spotlight: Nick Murray

18 Amsterdam A Rainy Day in Black & White Issue One

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Staff Picks Things MSM Staff Loves Right Now The Coffee Station (The Shack) in Newmarket.

The little drive-thru “shack” off of North Main Street in Newmarket has everything from Peppermint Iced Coffee to Almond Joy. It’s the most delicious and affordable coffee around.

My regular order is a “Dirty Chai.”

--Eliza I don’t care what derogatory slam you think she looks like; this bitch is hilarious.

Jenna Mourey, AKA Jenna Marbles, is a comedic Internet sensation that mainly makes ridiculous videos mocking biddies and imitating pop icons like Nicki Minaj. My favorites are instructional videos like “How to Trick People into Thinking You’re Good Looking.” She’s sassy, sarcastic and based out of Boston, which makes her a hot ticket in my book.

--Michelle

Musictonic is an awesome website.

It combines music videos from YouTube with related artist from last.fm., displayed in one easy to use interface. You don’t need a profile, there is no need to sign up for anything, and there are hardly any ads. I’ve found new artists through it already. Try it out.

--Tynan T-Shirt Costumes.

I recently discovered my new found love of racquetball while at the Whittemore gym with two other friends. We had absolutely no idea what we were doing, and I spent the majority of the time running away from the ball screaming - much to the amusement of anyone who walked by. Tooling around in the Whit’s racquetball court is BOMB. --Kary

This Halloween, when all the biddies are dressed in their skanky best, I’m going to be sporting a baggy t-shirt with the biggest pair of boobs you have ever seen on it.

PSYCH. I can be comfy and scandalous with just one piece of decidedly unsexy clothing.

--Ella

Mmm. Sweet and spicy like pumpkin pie with hints of brown sugar and cloves. I could just smell Shipyard Pumpkinhead all day without even drinking it and be satisfied. And don’t forget the cinnamon on the rim! It’s delicious and my favorite part of Thirsty Thursdays this fall semester.

--Allie

Evolution Earpollution Headphones don’t get tangled.

It’s some kind of witchcraft or just a cord designed to be tangle free.

They come in some fly colors too, you hipsters.

--Brian

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Corduroy pants. Rediscovered the comfort and versatility of a good pair of brown cords this fall, probably won’t take ’em off until spring.

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--Ian

#Hallowcoming Sexy Pizza Delivery Boy Justin Timberlake has nothing on this dick in a box.

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Hot

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Hallowcoming Bonfire

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Friday Oct. 28, 6 p.m. at Boulder Field. Join President Huddleston for some fireworks afterwards.

Thanks, Mark.

Tailgating In Costume

Shipyard Pumpkinhead

There’s no better time to get drunk with Gnarlz and Wild E. Cat and look good doing it.

Drink enough of these and you may actually end up riding a horse with a pumpkin on your head.

Keystone Light

Homecoming Promo Video

Hallowcoming is only happening once, so try spending more than 50 cents on a beer. Also, Keith Stone is a bad costume idea.

Everybody’s going.

Are you? Fucking right I am. vimeo.com/29392014

Sexy Nurses Vomiting Charlie Sheen Mask Reportedly, Charlie is the #1 costume this Halloween. Too much #TigerBlood.

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If you dress as a sexy nurse and projectile vomit at a party, don’t expect any help. Nurses should be able to take care of themselves.

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MOVIE REVIEW:

The new movie Drive is somewhat of a contradiction: a slowed-down car chase thriller.

Let’s make things clear– do not expect The Transporter. Helicopters won’t be shot out of the sky, there will be no martial arts battles, and no trying to catch a plane driving a car. The focus of Drive isn’t on the action so much as on the characters, Gosling in particular.

Ryan Gosling plays an unnamed,

BOOK BOOKREVIEW: REVIEW:

I’ll admit, I’m a sucker for chick lit. It’s entertaining and easy to read, especially when I’m stuck reading things from the 17th century that might as well be in another language the way I don’t understand them. So, I’ll be the first to tell you that one of my favorite things is finding a new book with a plot line I can follow and some characters who I’d fit right in with.

Jennifer Close’s debut novel Girls In White Dresses is perfect. It’s funny, smart and pretty spot-on when it comes to the complexities of the female mind.

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Drive strong-and-silent type getaway driver who is on the cusp of a career in stock car racing, funded by two seedy criminal bosses, Bernie and Nino (Albert Brooks and Ron Perlman) who are both despicable and great. He falls for his neighbor Irene (Carey Mulligan), but we soon learn that Irene’s husband is fresh out of prison and in need of a good getaway driver to help him pull off a heist.

Gosling barely speaks, but instead conveys his emotions through his actions and facial expressions. At times it makes his conversations with other characters very uncomfortable (like his first meeting with Irene’s husband), but you can tell that this is the way Director Nicolas Winding Refn wants you to feel. At other times his silence exudes pure warmth, like any speech from him would ruin the moment.

And at the most impressive times, it makes his menace all the more terrifying.

There’s a scene in a diner where through his sparse speech and silence I realized just how dangerous Gosling’s character could be.

Don’t think that there’s no action in this film just because it’s not a mile-a-

minute thriller. The action here is done well, balanced out along the course of the movie. This isn’t the kind of movie that refuses to kill off characters, either. People die; actually, a lot of them. As a necessity, some scenes get extremely gory, more so than you might expect from what at first glance appears to be an art film. The surprisingly few actual car chases are well done and the cinematography is amazing.

The main reason I wanted to see Drive in the first place was because of the beautiful shots in the trailer– it is a visual feast.

The soundtrack is 80s inspired, which is kind of odd, but it seems to fit the film well, especially during the opening credits.

The greatness behind Drive is that it stands in spite of its own thriller flick stereotype: see it if you don’t like your movies dumbed-down.

-Mickey Fisher

Girls in White Dresses Dresses follows a group of young women around New York City and the country as they fly here and there for the latest nuptials being exchanged by one of their girlfriends.

Close leads us fearlessly through the girls’ experiences with first shitty studio apartments, first grown-up jobs, first postcollege relationships and, as per the title, first weddings of those girlfriends who always promised each other that they didn’t need men to make them happy.

As we venture in and out of the weddings with our characters, we learn a lot of things along the way. The first is this, “You never want to be the first one of your friends to get married.” For this unlucky bride, her supposed-to-betasteful-and-perfect wedding turned into a mess of drunken bridesmaids and vomiting groomsmen until the father of the bride demanded that the bartender stop serving drinks.

Through the main character Isabella’s eyes, we learn that hanging mirrors on the walls of your first apartment (which is probably smaller than the dorm room you live in now) makes Main Street Magazine

it look bigger, but that it also confuses pigeons, causing them to mistake your windowsill’s reflection across the room for the actual windowsill. Another character, Lauren teaches us that it’s okay to forget where you meant to end up the whole time you were in school, even if it means ending up waitressing at the type of restaurant that attracts sleazy corporates with cufflinks for a while. And Mary, Isabella’s best friend and one-time roommate, teaches us that Gertrude is not an acceptable name for a newborn baby or anything for that matter.

The biggest and best thing that Girls In White Dresses teaches us, though, is that as long as you’re willing to laugh at yourself and stick with your best friends through guys who dress like they’re spirit animals, parents that steal exotic birds from the neighbors, and disastrous blind dates, you’ll probably end up alright.

If you’re a college student on the verge of “real life,” a married adult, or at all intrigued by the very silly references I made in this article, go buy this book. And prepare to stay up all night reading it.

-Olivia Whitton

Restaurant Reviews

by Victoria Hanson

The bulk of us have returned to campus this semester to a handful of changes that have surprised or maybe even confused us. The new traffic pattern downtown probably didn’t ease the stress of move-in day, and those of you who were looking forward to raspberry lemonade at Panache got a rude awakening when you visited the MUB. Change can be overwhelming, but let us take some of the mystery out of the unknown by giving you a heads up about the newest editions to downtown dining.

Clemento’s Pizzeria and Brew

Make room on your fridge for another magnet—Durham has added yet another pizza joint to the list. Clemento’s Pizzeria and Brew is located on Jenkins Court right across from where Wings Your Way once was. Perhaps what sets this pizzeria apart from the others is its large bar and open atmosphere. Clean and crisp with warm accents and multiple large televisions, Clemento’s is a good place to meet up with some friends on a Friday night for a quick bite to eat.

The restaurant offers both in house service and takeout.

The menu consists of appetizers like chicken wings, and broadens out to your typical specialty pizzas, slices, calzones, pastas, salads, and subs made with Boar’s Head meat, along with a selection of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. The pizza is thin-crust and made from hand tossed dough cooked on stone.

The service is friendly enough, and there is

This cozy little soup shop is located on Jenkins Court, right next to Clemento’s plenty of space for a group to sit comfortably and Pizzeria and Brew. The interior is simple with white walls, stainless steel accents and chat. A pool table and dance room add a little bit cleanly framed photos of fresh produce. Though seating is limited and the space is of flare to the place, as well as their DJ on Friday small, that initial aroma of homemade soup that hits you when you walk through the and Saturday nights. Most nights they are open door is just a taste of what is yet to come. late, varying between 10:30 p.m. and 1:00 a.m.—

What a Crock serves up a total of eight different types of homemade soups sometimes later on game nights. They also offer daily a day. Their chicken noodle (“Doc in a Crock”), Creamy Tomato, and Seafood Chowder specials, which they encourage customers to call and are constantly served along with five other specials that change daily. There are ask about at (603) 397-5365. always vegetarian and gluten free options available. Their menu can be found online

Though it may be difficult to compare to our at www.whatacrockhomemadesoups.com, as well as on the front door to the shop. beloved DHOP, Clemento’s adds a new and unique Recommendations? Try the Ham and Barley, Cream of Asparagus, or the Seafood atmosphere to the downtown area. The next time Chowder. All three were given two thumbs up by your local classmates Amy Tilton and you’re up for something different on game night, Kim Buchwald. or are just looking for a new place to try with your

A choice of fresh bread comes along with a 12 or 15 ounce cup of soup, but friends, it’s definitely worth a stop by. is also sold by the quart if you’d like to take some home.

Salads, cookies, local milks, sodas, and seltzer are also available to be purchased. The day that we stopped in for lunch they had a basket of freshly picked apples for sale

This fun little restaurant adds some Mexican flare to the Mill Plaza. In as well! case you haven’t noticed since your last trip to the Durham Market Place, La Paz

The service is extremely friendly and the soups Taqueria has planted itself, along with its unique outdoor seating, right next to Rite are savory and fresh. All entrees are under $10 (a 12 Aid. Its bright orange, red, and turquoise walls are accented by fun colored lights and ounce cup between $4 or $5, depending on the soup) decorative sconces which are sure to energize your mood. and are perfect on a chilly fall day. Hours are Monday

Their menu offers both dine-in and takeout options and is equipped with through Friday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday 11 a.m. to a wide array of different foods. Whether you are looking for salads or tacos, nachos 4 p.m. Don’t forget to ask about their punch cards! After or burritos, they are sure to have it. For those of you who choose to dine in, there filling one up you receive a free cup of soup.s are appetizers, entrees, desserts, and a selection of both alcoholic and non-alcoholic

What a Crock Homemade Soup

La Paz Taqueria

beverages.

Prices are a little high, with entrees ranging from $7 to $18. However, the starters are a little less, and would still make a great lunch if need be. Hours are Monday through Saturday, opening at 11:30 a.m. The kitchen closes at 9:30 p.m., but their bar is open until 11 p.m. Monday through Wednesday, and midnight Thursday through Saturday. They also offer something known as “Hours of Happiness” from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. to 10 p.m.

The next time you develop a taste for some Mexican food, take a quick trip to La Paz and try out their outdoor seating during a beautiful fall afternoon, or take an enchilada to go! For more information and a full in-house and takeout menu, visit their website at www.lapaztaqueria.com or their Facebook page.

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MUSICREVIEWS {albums} {songs} {EDM} {Childish Gambino} {by Michelle Tremblay, Eliza Mackintosh, Ella Nilsen, and Travis Harsin}

Leslie Feist, the multifaceted indie pop-rock Canadian songstress, better known as simply Feist and sometime member of Broken Social Scene, Wilco, and Peaches, has released her fourth album Metals.

With the chanting chorus “Woooaah / Bring them all back to life,” accompanied by thumping drums, clashing cymbals, horns, and strings, “Graveyard” opens Metals with the building momentum of a pseudo funeral procession. The album carries on the same soaring vocals Feist has become known for in “How Come You Never Go There,” the first single off the album. With the memorable hook and “whoa ohs,” it is one of the catchier tracks, but fails to hit the same pop magic of songs like “1234” off The Reminder, which took off after being featured in an iPod nano commercial.

The strength of Metals comes in understated and reflective ballads like “The Circle Married the Line,” “Caught a Long Wind,” “Bittersweet Melodies.” These tracks have that shimmery quality of Feist’s sometime shrill, but often soothing pitch.

Feist

“Metals” Interscope/Cherrytree Records

All in all, the record is a mix of Feist’s velvety vocals with a smattering of shouts and yells. The resulting tracks are refreshing, but together border on a repetitiveness that causes the album to sound monotonous at times. {E.M.}

A lot of girls rock hard nowadays, but no one does it with quite the same weird bravado of St. Vincent’s Annie Clark. Clark’s two previous albums have been somewhat of a mixed bag; her debut Marry Me was classified by some critics as too cutesy, while her sophomore disc Actor often came off as Disney music with razorblades. Clark mixes her clear, uber-feminine with sometimes creepy, aggressive lyrics, and spasmodic, fuzzed out guitar. The vocals and instrumentals are always complete opposites, yet somehow it all works very well.

St. Vincent

“Strange Mercy” Interscope/Cherrytree Records

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Strange Mercy is a bipolar pop album with palpable moodswings. As Clark herself puts it on the subtle, beautiful “Champagne Year,” “It’s not a perfect plan…but it’s the one we got.” The rest of the album follows suit, with Clark’s gorgeous voice and spastic guitar thrusting the listener through a truly impressive modern rock album. Notable songs include the abrupt, hard-rocking “Northern Lights,” defiant “Year of the Tiger,” and spiraling, chaotic “Surgeon.” There’s enough craziness on Strange Mercy to keep any and all hard-rocking girls (and guys) happy. {E.N.}

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With a name like Grouplove, I first assumed another jam band was surfacing in smoking circles around the nation’s college campuses. But, after relentlessly giving the band’s music a listen, I was pleasantly surprised with its Pixies-influenced alternative sound.

The indie-rockers’ first album, Never Trust a Happy Song, was released last month. New to the scene (they formed as a band only two years back), the quintet presents fairly unadventurous instrumentals but, remains easy to like, thanks to a quirky front man and catchy assembled melodies. Lead vocalist, Christian Zucconi, emits an unpolished sound comparable to that of Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock or Neutral Milk Hotel’s Jeff Mangum. Guitars, keyboards, drums, and other basic rock instruments account for the rest of the band’s composition, performed in a sing-song fashion; the combination of the band’s somewhat standard instrumental sounds accompanied by Zucconi’s unfamiliar vocals are what make the band teeter just between standing out and fitting in.

It seems like Grouplove is still getting Grouplove its footing as far as defining a unique “Never Trust a Happy Song” sound. It’s apparent Atlantic Records that the members 1/2 are pulling from diverse musical inspirations, throughout Never Trust a Happy Song’s 12 tracks. The album’s single, “Colours,” is twang-y, bass-y and unrefined while the first track, “Itchin’ on a Photograph,” is pitchy, poppy and lighthearted. I find the band on the whole to be rather endearing – almost in an innocent and prospective way. I’d like to see what will come of Grouplove in the future, when the ensemble’s sound becomes more distinct and daring. For now, I’m leaning more toward Grouplike. {M.T.}

Alternative rock/funk trio Primus makes a welcome comeback to the music world with their seventh studio release, Green Naugahyde. The album features 13 tracks, including the single, “Tragedy’s a Comin’.”

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“Green Naugahyde” Interscope/Cherrytree Records

Most of the songs examine at least one unflattering aspect of American culture from celebrity gossip and politics to environmental woes.

“Tragedy’s” satirizes the current primary season and features impressive guitar licks from guitarist Larry LaLonde. Two other stand-out tracks that shine are “Last Salmon Man” with Les Claypool’s catchy bass lines and “Eternal Consumption Machine,” which points out how “everything now-a-days is made in China!”

Compared to other artists out there, Primus is a breath of fresh air. Fans of the band will probably be used to their zany style, but more casual listeners might be shocked or driven away. If you’re in the mood for something a bit different or have a penchant for the unusual, definitely give this album a spin. {T.H.} Issue One

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Electronic Becomes (Pop)ular

by Eliza Mackintosh

The genre of electronic dance music (EDM) has had a continuous rise in today’s mainstream music scene and resulted in an almost indistinguishable merge of house and hip hop.

With recent releases of pop hits sampling instrumentals from club tracks, it leaves you wondering if they’ve become one and the same.

The electronic boom can be attributed to a few main figures that dominate the scene and have now become household names. Music producer David Guetta has been all over today’s billboards with hits like Akon’s “Sexy Bitch” and Kid Cudi’s “Memories,” but he started playing in clubs in the 80s at age 17. Now in his 40s, Guetta has played with the likes of Snoop Dogg, Nikki Minaj, Usher, Kelly Rowland, and Will.i.am, just to name a few. He has made the transition from spinning at clubs in Paris to having his songs played worldwide.

Now other DJs like Swedish House Mafia, Deadmau5, Afrojack and Avicii have made the same jump from house music to mainstream. Swedish House Mafia has dominated charts with collaborations on “Miami 2 Ibiza” with rap artist Tinie Tempah and “One (Your Name)” with Pharrell.

Pop mega stars the Black Eyed Peas worked with Dutch music producer and DJ Afrojack on their song “The Time (the dirty bit).” And the list goes on.

With all of the various terminologies embedded in the EDM genre: techno, trance, minimal, progressive, drum and bass, house and dubstep, it’s hard to discern what’s what.

Dub seems like a whole different beast, with its wobbling bass and drops, but it’s no less popular. That is being proven by artists like Katy B, who hails from the homeland of dubstep – London. A graduate of the BRIT performing-arts school, which has produced artists like Adele and Amy Winehouse, Katy B’s U.S. debut in New York City this September was greeted with lots of hype, proving that all forms of EDM are created equal.

It is undeniable how popular the genre has become with the sound of nightclubs now taking to the streets and the radio.

Artist Jason Derulo, who is notorious for singing over well-known back tracks, recently came out with “Don’t Wanna Go Home,” which samples the hit house dance anthem of the 90s “Show Me Love” by Robin S. Another artist who has done the same is Beyoncé on “Run the World (Girls).” The pop diva has been criticized in the EDM blogosphere for lazy dance sampling of “Pon de Floor,” a song off Diplo’s Major Lazer project. Although this was a joint project, it still shows how far electronic has reached into the pop scene.

Recently Rihanna’s new housed-up single, “We Found Love,” has cranked the volume further into the dance music stratosphere reaffirming how artists are using club cool to keep their place in today’s charts.

This hybrid might be the natural progression from hip-hop to electronic or maybe an entirely new genre. Either way, the result is something that resembles a new house of pop.

Many of these artists don’t like the term “DJ,” like Deadmau5 who has claimed that he is not about “being a DJ” and he was not raised on the EDM scene. But, what else can his music really be other than electronic dance music? Maybe today the answer is simply: popular music.

Not that he would necessarily like that phraseology either.

top SONG PICKS: {well,

hello there UNH. let’s dance.} by Ella Nilsen

Childish Gambino - “Bonfire” It’s official… now that the VMA’s and Tyler happened, looks like you all have a new rapper craze to piss yourselves over. Google and go wild, kids.

Foster the People “Pumped Up Kicks” Just a few months ago, you were high off your ass at some beach bonfire, swaying back and forth to this with a cold beer in hand. Here’s to the (admittedly, hazy) memory of Summer 2011.

R.I.P.

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Kap Slap – “E.T. Feels Starry Eyed (Ellie Goulding vs. Katy Perry vs.

Empire of the Sun vs. Chris Brown vs. Passion Pit…… I could go on)” Don’t know who Kap Slap is? Don’t worry. You will soon. This song contains some serious ingredients. Put together, it’s a musical experience nothing short of complete bliss and burst eardrums.

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Lana Del Rey “Blue Jeans (PatrickReza Dubstep Remix)” I don’t know who Patrick Reza is. But his combination of sultry singer Lana Del Rey with some serious bass droppage makes me seriously crazy.

Lets Make a

DEAL

by Michelle Tremblay

Attention

all readers age 21 or older: Are you tired of your budget limiting you to endless 30 racks of tasteless light beer and cases of boxed wine? Are you sick of forfeiting time after time at the bars with your friends because you “can’t afford it”? Below are some of the area’s best bar deals, seven days a week, for those of us who strictly limit our alcohol intake to days that end in “y”:

Scorpion’s Bar & Grill (Durham)

Central Wave (Dover)

• Tuesday: Kick the Keg – $1 pitchers and $2 wells until the keg kicks, $3 domestic pitchers and $2 wells from then until 11 p.m.

• Wednesday: $3 wells from 8 p.m.-midnight, $4 Bacardi cocktails from 8 p.m.-midnight, $6 domestic pitchers from 8 p.m.-midnight • Thursday: $1 wells and domestic drafts from 8-10 p.m., $2 wells and domestic drafts from 10-11 p.m., $3 Jager bombs from 8-11 p.m.

• Friday: Beat the clock – $1 drinks from 8-9 p.m., $2 drinks from 9-10 p.m., $3 drinks from 10-11 p.m., $2 kamikaze shots • Saturday: $2 wells and domestic drafts from 8-10 p.m., $1 wells and domestic drafts from 10-11 p.m., $3 Jager bombs from 8-11 p.m.

• Monday-Thursday: Happy hour from 4-7 p.m. – $2 wells and select beers • Friday-Saturday: Beat the Clock – $1 drinks from 9-10 p.m., $2 drinks from 10-11 p.m.

• Daily: $2 Budweiser drafts

The Dover Brick House (Dover)

• Monday: $2.99 drafts • Tuesday: $2 select beers • Wednesday: Cash is King – ½ off all drinks if you pay with cash from 4-10 p.m.

• Thursday: $2.50 Twisted Tea Light bottles • Friday & Saturday: $3 select drafts • Sunday: Specials on all drafts after 9 p.m.

Libby’s Bar & Grill (Durham)

• Tuesday & Saturday: Beat the Clock – $1 well liquors (wells) from 8-9 p.m., $2 wells from 9-10 p.m., $3 wells from 10-11 p.m., $4 wells from 11 p.m.-midnight • Thursday: $1 wells from 8-10 p.m., $3 wells and all draft beers (drafts) from 10-11 p.m., $2 Coors Light bottles all night • Friday: 2 for 1 well drinks from 8-11 p.m., $2 Coors Light and Bud Light bottles from 8 p.m.-close, $3 Smuttynose pints from 9 p.m.-midnight

Kelley’s Row (Dover)

• Monday-Friday: Happy hour – half price drafts and wells from 3-5:30 p.m.

• Wednesday: Tijuana Wednesday – call heads or tails on your coin toss at the bar and pay half price on any drink (if you guess right) from 7-10 p.m.

• Thursday: Ladies’ Night – drink specials from 7-11 p.m.

• Sundays: Sausage Sunday – Happy hour specials for men

The Stone Church (NEWMARKET)

• Monday: $4 margaritas • Tuesday: $2 PBRs • Wednesday: Grateful Dead specials • Thursday: Coin Toss – flip a coin for your [well] drink and if you guess heads or tails correctly, pay only $1 • Daily: Happy hour – half off all drafts from 5-7 p.m.

Ballard’s Restaurant (Durham)

• Monday: $5 pitchers • Tuesday: $3 margaritas, $2 “Blind Bartender” bottles, and $10 mixed buckets from 8 p.m.-close • Wednesday: $3 Ballard’s punch and $2 draft of the night from 8 p.m.-close • Thursday: Beat the Clock: $1 well liquors (wells) and draft beers (drafts) from 7-9 p.m., $2 wells and drafts from 9-11 p.m., $3 wells and drafts from 11 p.m.-close • Friday: $4 Long Island iced teas and Grateful Deads from 8 p.m.-close, $2 drafts from 8 p.m.-close • Saturday: $2 drafts and $3 cocktail of the night from 8 p.m.close • Sunday: $5 pitchers all day

The Lamprey River Tavern (Newmarket) • Thursday: $2.50 margaritas

Krave (Dover)

• Monday-Friday: Happy hour from 4-6 p.m. – $2.50 drafts, $2 domestic bottles, $3 imported bottles and wells, $4 house wine, $6 martinis • Sunday: Various football specials

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It’s Not Easy Being Gluten Free

by Sara Cotton

Eat this. “...But what do you eat?”

My friend stares incredulously at me across our table at Breaking New Grounds. I crack a little smile and play with the lid on my latté. I vaguely wonder whether I can even be drinking it, with all those hidden ingredients in flavorings. I decide I don’t care and take a big sip.

Any other day, I would pitch him a line like, “Oh it’s really not bad,” or “I actually eat healthier, lots of fresh foods,” but today I’m just not feeling it. Because, truth be told, it sucks to be gluten-free.

Gluten is a protein, and it’s found in wheat, rye, and barley. Celiac Disease is more than just an allergy. It’s an autoimmune disease, which means that my body thinks gluten is an invading foreign substance and wants it DOA. When I drunkenly eat two huge slices of pizza, the evil gluten monster attacks the lining of my small intestine, destroying the structures that allow me to absorb vitamins and minerals like iron and calcium.

So how did I become officially cursed with the disease? After spending a glorious semester in London, traversing Europe and drinking ridiculous amounts of beer (which contain ridiculous amounts of gluten – barley, remember?), I started to feel pretty crummy i.e. sharp, stabbing stomach pains; little to no energy; lightheaded and dizzy even when sitting down.

After a couple of weeks, I got pretty tired of almost fainting every time I stood up, so to the doctor I went. Fast forward through an endoscopy, stomach biopsy, and too many blood tests to remember – a letter in the mail sealed my fate: “Symptoms compatible with Celiac Disease. Begin a gluten-free diet. Follow-up biopsy in six months.”

Suffice it to say, my DHOP days are over.

Obviously I understand that changing my diet has made me healthier and given my body the chance to heal, and blah blah blah. But if I hear one more person tell me that, “They make a

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Not this. gluten-free version of that!” I might throw a blunt object at their head, and I’ll tell you why.

I am a human being and therefore, I enjoy eating food. Gluten-free “food” is not food. Bagels, breads, muffins, pasta, cookies, crackers, pizza - gluten is that magical ingredient that makes these things taste like your delicious childhood. Doughy bagels and bread. Moist muffins and brownies. Without it, for some reason, these foods turn to sand. Cardboard.

Construction paper. You can smother your gluten-free sandwich with mustard and mayonnaise and Frank’s Red Hot, but it will still resemble a dry, crumbling piece of Styrofoam.

“So...you just can’t eat pasta and stuff?”

Oh. It is so much more than that. Did you know there is wheat in soy sauce? Salad dressings, sauces, soups, even chicken broth can contain gluten. Even if they don’t, they could be “manufactured in a facility that processes wheat,” which is also a no-no. I actually have to use my own toaster so that the normal breadcrumbs don’t contaminate my gluten-free breadcrumbs. Seriously. It’s that obnoxious.

I was at HoCo the other day, grumbling to myself over the pasta shells, eggplant parm bites, and cheesy bread that I couldn’t eat, when I saw a girl at the gluten-free station. Did you know that we have those in every dining hall?

They’re actually kind of hard to miss, with their huge red STOP signs and torturous threats to anyone unaffected by Celiac who dares stand near with their contaminated food. But I digress...

My smile, brought on by the knowledge that I was not alone under this wretched curse, faded while I assessed the scene. This poor girl was attempting to slice an “English muffin” with a bagel cutter. The girl’s fingers were covered in white crumby chunks, as was the 6-inch radius around her. My stomach sank as I remembered myself attempting this same fruitless feat months before. She turned to me, her eyes wide in desperation, clutching the remnants of the mangled product in her hands. “Just...throw it away,” I said, shaking my

Or that. head. “Throw it away and don’t look back.”

I tried making a sandwich that day. I knew it was a risk, but I was feeling particularly dangerous, near invincible actually. The grilled chicken on my plate smelled damn good, and daydreams of mustard, lettuce, and tomato danced through my mind. Mmmm. I think I was smiling as I dug through the stainless steel freezer for the pink bag of Brown Rice Bread.

My two pieces were a bit chilly, but I thought, ah, screw it, I’ll just load these puppies with mustard and they won’t be so crumbly.

Fast forward 5 minutes later to me sitting upstairs, away from all the HoCommotion, cutting up my mustard-stained lettuce, tomatoes, and chicken with a fork and knife. Four pieces of “bread,” painted yellow and broken in halves, sat on my napkin, as far from my sight as possible.

My friends thought I was exaggerating. One day they each tried a bite for themselves. I only wish I could have photographed the horror on their faces as they chugged their drinks.

“There is no moisture in my mouth.” “I think I’m going to choke.” “That’s actually disgusting.” “How do you eat that crap?”

Of course, someone has a sense of humor, and because it’s not enough that the crap I have to buy now tastes like bland, gritty cardboard, it also costs about twice as much. A loaf of gluten-free bread, each slice the size of my palm, is $6.26. Compare that to your $2 loaf of Wonder Bread.

“I think it’ll get easier. Over time you’ll find more things you can eat,” offers one of my well-meaning but obviously-mistaken friends.

No. No, I don’t think so. I’ve learned to make about 37 variations of your standard salad. I can eat sushi until my mercury levels reach new and dangerous heights. Yogurt and I have a particularly special bond. But all I want, coming back to campus this fall, for my senior year, is a bucket of Bud at Ballards and the greasiest $1.50 slice of DHOP to ever grace this campus.

Farmers’ Markets

No matter how old you are, heading to your local farm and picking out the perfect pumpkin on a fall afternoon never seems to get old. There’s no doubt about the fact that the best thing about the peak of every season is its fresh produce. This fall instead of heading to your supermarket to pick up those seasonal fruits or veggies, why not extend that tradition of pumpkin picking and attend one of the many local farmers’ markets?

Farmers’ markets have been around since farming first began. It was a good way to sell off extra produce and it steadily grew into a community-centered event carried into today.

Although over the years farming has flown under the radar, the recent demand for fresh and organic foods has slowly brought farmers’ markets back into the limelight. The markets still serve their initial purpose of gathering the community together to purchase locally grown foods and flowers, and much like the ebb and flow of the seasons, are constantly changing based on which produce is at its peak.

The Seacoast area is scattered with many different towns that host these farmers’ markets. Durham, Dover, Portsmouth, Exeter, and Hampton are all local areas that hold an event once a week where people can walk around and visit the many booths. The atmosphere is buzzing with colors, textures, and friendly faces, making it hard to pass up the array of foods and flowers around you. Durham hosts their farmers’ market every Monday afternoon from 2:15 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Pettee Brook Lane and is full of local contributors such as Applecrest Farm Orchards, Lee Farmworks/Emerson Farm, and the Hollister Family Farm.

Jeannette Fones and her family from Madbury have been contributing to the farmers’ markets for years. Her parents,

Caroline and Tom Ramsbotham, have participated in the Seacoast area’s markets, as well as others such as Manchester, Bedford, Kingston and Rollinsford for 19 years (you can visit their farm’s website at www. riverviewfarm.com). Jeannette reminds us just how much time and dedication it takes to maintain a working farm, explaining that it takes a full year of preparation to get the produce and flowers ready for the markets.

In the fall, her parents begin cleaning and preparing the fields, planting winter rye in the soil to help enrich it with nutrients. Specialtycut flowers and vegetables are planted in the early spring around March inside of the greenhouses to begin the growing process.

Once the weather is better, the growing seeds are moved from the greenhouses into the newly tilled and irrigated fields.

Black plastic is laid to help with weeds and aid the growing process. Jeanette explains that “most of the plants are planted in the plastic, though [her mother] keeps delicate bulbs in the greenhouse. During the growing season they are fertilized and weeded.” Around July her parents harvest the vegetables and begin to cut the flowers.

The night before and the morning of the scheduled market, the Fones and Ramsbothams go through a series of preparations. The flowers are cut and their leaves are removed so that they can be bundled together for selling. The veggies are weighed and sorted by pound. One hour before the farmers’ market opens, the canopies are set up with the product.

Jeannette explains that the farmers must pay so much each week to keep their place and help contribute to the operation of the market.

All items must be priced before the market opens and the price may not be changed

by Victoria Hanson once the event has started. There are also rules that apply to the produce that is being sold. Jeannette and her parents, for example, sell eggs that “have to be labeled by strict regulations” Area inspectors come to some of the markets to check on this. There are different regulations for meats and Portsmouth has its own involving chicken– stating that no chicken can be sold unless it is slaughtered at a U.S. certified inspection slaughter house. All farmers who participate in the selling of meat must have a yearly test and freezer license.

There are no government regulations at the farmers’ markets, but they are trying to push a product identification system on vegetables and meat. Though the intentions might be good, Jeannette explains that “for the small farmer, this would be a nightmare,” making the process even more difficult. What seems like such a simple change can really affect the farms that contribute and put so much time and effort into the growing process.

It is important to remember how much work is done to provide these foods that are available to us all.

The seacoast farmers’ markets have a website with some great resources, such as a list of what is in season, a newsletter sign up to receive updates, and other information about health benefits of certain products, along with different ways to prepare them for eating.

You can find all of this information at www. seacoastgrowers.org. So the next beautiful autumn afternoon you find yourself with nothing to do, be sure to stop by a farmers’ market and pick up some fresh and seasonal foods. Not only will you be supporting local farming, but you can enjoy the simple and delicious pleasure of homegrown produce.

“Not only will you be supporting local farming, but you can enjoy the simple and delicious pleasure of homegrown produce.”

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BRE W E R Y T O U R S Brewery tours are a loophole of fun.

and summery, with the zest of citrus and the You get inside access to what is essentially smoothness of coriander. Next up was the ESB, an adults’ Willy Wonka Chocolate Factory, Redhook’s take on England’s pub beers. It is bitter, but with a sweet and zingy aftertaste are informed and entertained for about that lingers nicely between each sip. When 45 minutes, and then given the chance Byron attempted to pour the IPA for our third to sample a bunch of delicious beers. and final sample, nothing happened. The keg How much would you pay for the golden was kicked. “You guys are so lucky, because ticket? How about nothing? this means you get to try the Barleywine!”

Byron exclaimed. The barleywine is a specialty Yup, that’s right, brewery tours are almost Redhook ale reserved for festivals that has been ageing in oak casks for over a year, fermenting always free. Some have a “suggested donation” of $1 or $2, but that counts as until its alcohol content is roughly 12 percent.

It’s a big beer. We poured the dark golden liquid free in this economy. with anticipation and took a sip - delicious.

The malted barley taste is right up front, and it While all brewery tours are a good deal, mellows nicely into caramel and fruity flavors. some are better than others, depending After the sampling, Byron offered some free on what you’re looking for. Some provide hops to us homebrewers. I walked out into the rain with slight warmth from the alcohol, a free more free beer, while others provide glass, and free hops. a more informative tour. Some are

just awesome all around. I toured six breweries in the Seacoast area, so here’s my guide for where to go and why.

REDHOOK BREWERY, PORTSMOUTH, NH Nearby Redhook Brewery is a great place to start your tour of brewery tours. For $1 you get a fun tour, three cups of great beer, and a free Redhook tasting glass.

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samples and filling orders to give me much of a tour. I walked around by myself, and every now and then asked Annette about a piece of equipment as she ran back and forth to get kegs. A former environmental engineer, Annette designed the brew house herself, including a brilliant electrical switchboard that organizes the power supply. She explained that the mash tun, hot liquor tank, and kettle (the big stainless steel tanks you see in every brewery) were obtained from an old candy flavoring factory and re-purposed for brewing, which helps explain the “Throwback” title.

Nicole and Annette made up for the lack of a tour with the quality of their samples. I tried the Hog-Happy Hefeweizen, Campfire Smoked Porter, Hopstruck Red IPA, and Spicy Bohemian Jalapeño Pilsner before purchasing a growler full of the Hefeweizen. All the samples I tried were delicious, and two were unlike anything I had ever tasted. The Campfire Smoked Porter literally tasted like a mesquite BBQ with a smoky aftertaste, and the Jalapeño Pilsner was like drinking jalapeños (heat included). The small crowd gathered for the tasting was decidedly middle-aged: husbands and wives, some with kids, all dressed business casual. Everyone was friendly and happy to be there.

TUCKERMAN BREWERY, CONWAY, NH

The Redhook tour guide, Byron, looked like a German Deadhead who is fond of beer and wandering through the Alps. Byron spoke loudly and chuckled heartily at his ample, goofy narrative. The brewery itself is modern, spacious, and clean.

It’s also bigger than any other brewery in New Hampshire. Byron led us out to a walkway over the enormous bottling facility. “If you’ll notice the large white structure to our right, that’s the largest fridge in New Hampshire,” he said.

“It’s big enough to drive a car around in. I know, because I did. I got away with it, too, so don’t rat me out.”

Tuckerman Brewery is my hometown beer, and I’d always wanted to check out their operation. On the day I went, the usual tour guide was at owner/founder Kirsten THROWBACK BREWERY, Neve’s birthday party, so I got to hang out with NORTH HAMPTON, NH Todd, who has been working in the brew house for about a year now. I could tell Todd wasn’t If you’re a homebrewer considering the leap to used to addressing crowds and conducting commercial brewing, check out the operation tours, but he was knowledgeable about the at Throwback. Considered a nano-brewery, they brewing process, answered all questions well, occupy the niche between the homebrewer and brought the six of us on the tour through and the full-scale craft brewery. Located in every aspect of the brewery. He was also an a small warehouse unit in North Hampton, excellent bartender: we sampled beer before Throwback fills growlers out of their brew and after the tour, drinking full pints, which he house and supplies kegs to a few select local offered to refill as soon as they were empty.

After the tour, we gathered around a small establishments. Their small scale allows them Tuckerman gets the award for most generous oak bar overlooking the brewery. Byron to experiment with flavors and produce small, with their samples. still commanded the room, giving historical high-quality batches. Annette Lee and Nicole background and tasting notes on Redhook’s fine Carrier run the entire operation by themselves, We drank the Tuckerman Pale Ale, an archetype ales as we sampled from our half-pint Redhook which means they are extremely busy. During of the highly drinkable, balanced, American Pale glasses. First was the Belgian Wit beer: light visiting hours, they were too busy pouring Ale, and the Headwall Alt, a darker, German

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style brown ale. Both are tremendous beers – nothing fancy. Tuckerman is my go-to six-pack when I want quality, not flash.

If you are looking to drink a lot of beer for free, go on this tour and sit at the table in the back corner. I got this helpful hint from a friend who had done it a week before. Matt pulled off I caught up with owner and founder Nic Stanciu, pitcher after pitcher of samples and sent them into the crowd to be passed around the room. who was hard at work in the brew house and looking forward to his wife and partner’s Every pitcher made its way back to my table at least half full, where it stayed until it was empty birthday party. He told me Tuckerman is doing or we had drunk enough. “I call that table well, having recently expanded its distribution tornado alley, because everyone who sits there to Maine and Massachusetts. Founded during gets twisted by the end of the tasting,” Matt the brewery boom of the late 90s, Tuckerman said. Decorum dictated that I didn’t slam every was fit enough to survive the inevitable washout that closed so many inferior breweries. pitcher down, but had I occupied the whole table with a group of friends, I’ve no doubt we He said we are now in the midst of another boom, and that many of the newest breweries all would have gotten drunk. For free. In Boston. would probably not survive. “It’s a competitive As it was, I had a healthy buzz walking out of the tour, and a jolly T-ride back to Medford business,” he said. where I was staying with friends.

SAMUEL ADAMS BREWERY, BOSTON, MA

HOW TO TOUR BREWERIES AND NOT LOOK LIKE A BEER NOVICE:

If you are in Boston, just hop on the Orange Line outbound to Stony-Brook Station. You won’t -When given a sample, don’t just drink it. want to miss this tour.

First, raise it to the light and note the color and clarity. Note the head (foam) – it should Before you even enter the building, the folks last awhile and stick to the side of the glass at Sam Adams hit you with two samples, when swirled. Then smell the beer, noting the conceptual beers that need your input to decide aroma. Then sip it, swirl it around your mouth, if they’re good enough for production. Matt, a and swallow, noting the first, middle, and final young, bearded lad who resembles a less-fat flavors. Nod appreciatively. Finally, chug that Jonah Hill in appearance and demeanor, then beer down. Don’t leave beer in your glass; it gathers the 50-some-odd tour goers at the insults the beer gods. entrance: an old glass-lined brewery tank that has been laid flat to form a tunnel. The tour -Know the four ingredients to any beer: malted was a blur of history, information, and crowd/ barley, hops, yeast, and water. guide interaction, throughout which Matt had a pint in his hand. The tour took place in the -Be respectful of the tour guide and look experimental brewery, where new brews are interested. You can learn a lot if you pay dreamed up and concocted. Even this small part attention and it makes his or her job a lot easier of the massive Samuel Adams brewery is bigger if everyone isn’t chatting in the background than most of the other breweries I toured. during the tour narrative.

After 20 minutes exploring the brewery floor, we were given a tasting glass and led into the -Most importantly, have a good time and enjoy tasting room. it! Laugh at the jokes, take in the sights, and savor that free, delicious beer.

Corpse Reviver In honor of Hallowcoming, we picked this drink to revive the party when the celebratory weekend is dying down.

Serves 1: 4-6 cracked ice cubes 2 measures brandy 1 measure apple brandy 1 measure sweet vermouth

Put the cracked ice into a mixing glass. Pour the brandy, apple brandy, and vermouth over the ice. Stir gently to mix.

Strain into your cocktail glass of choice.

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R.I.P. Campus food favorites

by Emily Reny

Is it just me, or did some of UNH’s most loved restaurants mysteriously disappear over the summer? The tragic and sudden deaths of Wings Your Way, Panache, and Stats Place hit hard upon my arrival in August. As a tribute to these losses, I would like to take a few moments to reflect.

Panache, 8 Years MEMORIAL UNION BUILDING – Panache of the MUB was kidnapped and annihilated this past summer, leaving fellow students and me in complete and utter shock. Foster’s Daily Democrat initially leaked the news, explaining that UNH’s Business Affairs department was considering replacing it with something else. I knew I would have to see it to believe it. Sure enough, I burst through the MUB’s front doors in August only to face disappointment. A white Dunkin’ Donuts “Coming Soon” banner wavered as I shook the metal bars encasing the area once known as Panache. I was heartbroken.

Panache provided many different memories and associations for UNH students. To me, Panache meant ordering a giant slice of red velvet cake and sharing it with my friends during our weekly movie nights. To UNH junior Susan Navilliat, Panache meant tradition. Since the beginning of her freshman year, Navilliat and her friends met at Panache every Wednesday to celebrate the middle of the week. This sudden disappearance left her with sadness. “It is a serious disappointment that it is no longer there and throws off the atmosphere of the MUB,” she said. From Cookie Monster cupcakes to chocolate cheesecake, Panache was its own unique breed of a local café. I can guarantee that a food chain such as Dunkin’ Donuts is incapable of offering memories nearly as precious. Unfortunately, it’s official: UNH “runs on Dunkin’.” That’s a scary thought.

Stats Place, 11 Years MADBURY ROAD – Stats Place, AKA “Stats,” of Madbury Road in Durham is yet another campus favorite that entered food heaven over the summer. I remember driving by Stats’ pitiful wreckage back in July. The scene was almost too depressing to view, yet the on looking traffic and I slowed to survey the damage anyway. The death of Stats is the most mysterious of all, but it’s too late for questions. UNH sophomore Sam Ackerman was sad to see one of her favorite downtown eateries go. “I loved Stats—it was the perfect college place,” Ackerman said. Complete with the Hangover Club Menu, delicious ice cream and exceptionally good chicken fingers, they had it all. Having grown up in Durham, it was clear to Ackerman that Stats was “total college dining.” Popular among students and locals alike, Stats Place will remain in our hearts for years to come.

Wings Your Way, 6 Years JENKINS COURT – Wings Your Way, AKA “Wings,” of Jenkins Court in Durham died a slow and painful death last March. Wings’ temporary closing provided customers with false hope, as they ultimately ended up kicking the bucket a couple weeks later. On March 22nd, 2011, the Facebook spokesperson for Wings announced that, “health and financial reasons have forced us to shut down.” Although they were named “Best of New Hampshire” for four consecutive years, it wasn’t enough to keep those icy pitchers flowing and wings from being consumed.

I’ll never forget the line of students and alumni out the door last homecoming weekend. How could such a well-liked restaurant close? UNH alumni Beth and Jason Rice were just as confused. “Wings Your Way was one of our favorite places. Even though it wasn’t on campus all that long, it really was a ‘go-to’ for the class of ’09,” they said. You were too young to die, Wings—we want you back! All good things must come to an end, I guess.

Now that Wings’ spirit is upon us, I should pay my respects to the “Eminem Rap”—this sandwich wrap is not only an entrée with a clever title, but a sensational combination of honey barbeque tenders and ranch dressing. To top it all off, the last time my friends ventured to Wings for Super Bowl munchies, they forgot my order. I still haven’t forgiven them. The worst part is that I never got to say goodbye. Sniff.

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Health issues and budget cuts aside, we must remember the good moments and happy memories. From outthe-door lines to midweek traditions with friends, these fine eating establishments will always have a special place in our hearts. I give my deepest condolences to the class of 2015 and beyond, for they will never experience the deliciousness that I once did. Who will the silent killer go after next? It’s hard to tell . Until then, I will remember not to take my favorites for granted: here one day, gone the next.

Panache, Stats and Wings, will never forget you. You will be greatly missed!

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facebook Relationsh*t Status

By Taylor Lawrence In college, relationships are about as unclear as the memories from last Thursday night. The terms “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” have become brands, which are permanencies tip-toed around in with fear. Affection is often blamed on the a-a-a-alcohol, and walks on the beach are exchanged for walks of shame. This vagueness has brought the term “it’s complicated” to a whole new level and has lessened faith in Facebook’s drop-down options for a “relationship” or lack thereof. So since “talking,” “hooking up,” and “drunken soul mates” are not yet available as relationship statuses, what do the selections people make between the few black and white options tell us?

For the average college student, one of the most mini-feed shattering declarations on Facebook is “in a relationship.” The magnitude of one simple click to this announcement shoots a pink heart to hundreds of so-called friends. Some fear it. Scott Lamay, a UNH junior, likens it to a “trapping sensation” accompanied by “additional pressure put on the couple.”

Others celebrate the respect it shows one another. Junior, James Blouin so gracefully describes the assertion as, “showing it isn’t just two drunk sh*theads, hooking up on the reg.”

Junior Mike Demasco proclaims, “Nothing says ‘I love you’ like being F.B.O. (Facebook official).”

Allie Caplin, a junior and self-proclaimed authority on Facebook, explains the significance associated with such a controversial cyber move labeling it as a “serious and public commitment.”

Meanwhile, just across campus sophomore Charlotte Caldwell describes making herself in a relationship with her cat just because, “it’s funny.”

However differently everyone may view this controversial cyber move, most can usually agree with junior Melissa Woodbury that “it’s not official unless it’s Facebook official.”

So how do the other options between “single” and “in a relationship,” “in an open relationship,” “it’s complicated,” etc, describe each of our cyber intentions? A resounding amount of students I interviewed answered, “attention, attention, attention.” Junior Dani Dubois explained that “the only reason to post ‘it’s complicated’ on Facebook was to gain attention,” and she as well as several other UNH students expressed total disgust with the thought of seriously putting “in an open relationship.”

Senior Adam Hartford goes as far to say, “any change to relationship sh*t is to gain attention.”

So when these selections are no longer enough and Facebook’s status question changes from “what’s on your mind” to “who’s in your bed,” I asked how will you define your relationship? This is what some of the student body had to say…

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AMSTERDAM

A rainy impression of blurred contrast in a city of canals, cannabis, and lazy weekends. by: Tynan DeBold

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UNH Dance Club By kARY mCcAFFERTY

W

hen sophomore Kim Buchwald came to UNH, she wanted to learn a variety of dance styles and missed choreographing pieces. This gave her the idea to pair up with junior Devan Collins and sophomore Bailey Lonergan to create a new student organization dedicated to dance.

Though it officially obtained recognition last semester, the UNH Dance Club made its official debut this fall, September 4, to 20 attendees.

According to the club’s president Kim Buchwald, there was a need for a dance club on campus. The club fills a void that was missing from the other dance-related organizations at UNH. “Dance team is good if you like a more competitive cheerleading type of dance and then there’s dance company which is primarily for people who are dance majors and minors,” she said. “I knew a lot of people that wanted to dance but didn’t necessarily want to put the commitment into either of those two things.”

At this point the club primarily consists of a warm-up followed by learning a combination of choreography. Anyone is welcome to step up and teach something if they want. From modern to break dancing, all styles are also welcome. Even forms that are not necessarily considered dance will work, like yoga or an acrojazz class that any gymnasts involved can lead.

The group’s leaders plan to create a schedule of what types of dance will be explored each week. For any Sunday that is free, a

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member can fill in what they are interested in teaching, or if they have something in particular they want to work on.

“We want to make it a club where you can interact and share you own ideas,” said vice president Devan Collins.

The creators are also open to spending specific days to work on technique points that members want to work on like turns.

Most people in attendance have spent the majority of their lives dancing but haven’t had the chance to while in college. Beginners are also more than welcome so don’t be shy!

According to secretary Bailey Lonergan, the club is meant to be a welcoming place for everyone to feel comfortable.

“It’s easygoing, fun, uplifting,” she said.

In the future, the group is looking to start performing as well.

These opportunities will likely be open to interested members outside of the regular weekly meetings. Plans include a flash mob and potentially putting on a UNH Dance Club show. Buchwald, Collins and Lonergan are interested in having their own show that would benefit a charity.

For the end of this semester, Devan Collins is putting on a piece in the Theatre & Dance Department’s Dance Showcase. The modern/contemporary piece will be a tribute to Megan Scanlon, a UNH student who passed away last summer. This dance has been opened up to members of the UNH Dance Club who are interested in performing.

Thus far, the club has gotten a lot of support from interested parties. On Facebook there are over 50 members on the group’s page, filled with ideas from attendees.

“It’s really awesome to get this much passion for what we want to do with it and everybody’s putting in all this different input and giving us great ideas,” said Buchwald. “We’re excited to see it grow.”

Dance club meets on Sundays in the MUB’s WildCat Den from 4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

You can check out UNH Dance Club on Facebook for more information.

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Concetta’s Closet

by Sam Ueda

If you haven’t noticed that vintage clothing is taking over, you’re living under a rock. If you have noticed and are looking for a place to buy some, a short bus ride will take you to downtown Newmarket, where you will find Concetta’s Closet, a peek into the rich history and rebirth of vintage clothes in a modern setting.

Concetta’s Closet is owned and operated by 35-year-old Newmarket resident Dana Hanson. Once a New Yorker working for MTV, she ditched the Big Apple hustle three years ago and started some New Hampshire noise a year and a half later. Now, Concetta’s Closet is well established and selling some seriously cool stuff. I met with Dana to talk about how she got her start, vintage terminology, and what you should be checking out for your fall and winter wardrobe!

Give me the when, why and how of this store.

It’s not a long story, but a funny one. I moved here from New York, had the online media experience, couldn’t find a job for two years doing anything even closely related to that without traveling to Boston and having to commute that hellish ride. So, I went to my attic and realized that I had boxes of vintage clothing, from when I was a kid up until now.

A lot of the stuff didn’t fit me (two kids later, the whole nine yards) so I started selling it on Etsy, which is a platform to sell vintage clothing as well as crafty items. It took off, so I did that for about 8 months. Then my husband had the great idea about finding me a spot. I was petrified of actually opening up a brick and mortar store because it’s a huge endeavor. It’s a lot of responsibility. I’ve never been an entrepreneur, I’ve never owned my own company, I’ve always worked for big corporate conglomerate companies, but it does run in my blood. My father owned a business for 25 years, so I dug deep down inside and found the willpower to actually sign a lease and get it started. And here I am, almost exactly a year later.

On a national and local scale, what do you attribute to the rise of popularity of vintage clothing?

It’s really more of a global scale. My number one customer is Australia. There are boxes upon boxes that go out every day. Number two is the U.K. Vintage fashion has always been trendy to me, but I tend to think that it’s shows like Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire or Pan Am that are starting to let people know that vintage style and clothing is not for costumes and special occasions, that it can be worn every day.

What do people like to buy around here?

UNH students come here a lot and there is a huge range of girls that I sell to, in terms of their style. I have the hipster crew who love 80s rompers and 70s secretary blouses, flirty floral skirts from the 70s and 80s.

The younger crowd tends to lean more towards styles in the 90s.

You sell 90s?

I don’t, I refuse to. I graduated high school in 1994. I couldn’t tell you what I would hand select to sell as vintage just because I wore vintage clothes in the 90s.

What about the men’s section?

(Laughs) the ever-dwindling section of men’s. We have one shelf of ties and hats. There are a few really cool guy’s shirts. The reason I don’t do men’s clothes so much is that if you are not super into vintage clothes, and wear the suits and button down shirts and slacks, men’s vintage clothes will come off as costume-y. When I think of men’s clothes, I think of Ron Burgundy. It’s polyester suits, bell-bottoms and funky shirts. And not to mention, men sometimes like to wear their clothes until they’re falling apart, so when I do receive men’s clothes, they are very old and worn out.

What’s the difference between vintage, consignment and thrifting?

In my eyes, consignment clothing is a store where the owner does not own the clothing; people off the street and in the neighborhood will bring them their clothing, which encompasses all types of modern and vintage clothing, new or used, to resell. The owner takes a cut of the price, and so does the owner of the clothing.

Thrifting is a new term that has become a complete buzzword as of the last two years I think. Thrifting is going to a store that takes donated clothes – usually used, sometimes new, sometimes vintage, usually not washed or taken care of. I will say that finding vintage clothing in thrift stores is not what it used to be. People that own these thrift stores know that there are people looking for vintage clothes, and it drives the prices up. Everybody’s looking to make money. For those thrift stores that are charities, if they want to find vintage clothing and sell it on their own platform, that’s fine, but sometimes I think, especially sometimes the younger crowd, can get confused about the difference between vintage and thrift clothing.

A vintage clothing boutique, in my definition, is a curated collection of clothing of past eras. The reason I say curated is because anyone can open up a vintage store, buy bags of bulk vintage clothing, sell them all, and not care about what they look like or what story it tells. I guess I may be different than some other vintage boutiques because I care a lot about where my clothes come from. I am constantly washing and sewing, bringing things to the dry cleaners… these clothes matter to me because 90% of the pieces I get in are from private sales. I basically know from who and where each piece of clothing in this store comes from. The best part about what I do is actually meeting people who were related to the people who owned the clothing, and I can let that person’s memory live on through another young lady. There are so many beautiful dresses to be worn and enjoyed for decades to come.

Why throw things out?

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the cave boys

by Olivia Whitton

E

ver had the feeling that you’re in on something that’s about to take off? I have. When I interviewed Elliot Tousley and Tony Fiel, more commonly known as The Cave Boys, I had a feeling in the back of my mind that I was sitting in the presence of future superstars. When I addressed that feeling with Elliot and Tony, they laughed it off and continued telling me their story: how The Cave Boys formed and, more importantly, where The Cave Boys are going.

“He was it, he was the rapper,” Elliot says, pointing to Tony.

Tony laughs, “I don’t know if you could call it rap. It was more like a big joke.” The “joke” in question was Tony’s endeavor as a rap artist, beginning when he was still a student at Keene High School. After hearing Tony’s recordings, Elliot became interested in collaborating and possibly turning the rhymes into something not so laughable.

“The first song we started to take seriously was either ‘Airplanes’ or ‘Learn to Fly,’” Tony says. Both songs speak to that transition, and it is apparent in their lyrics that Elliot and Tony knew that The Cave Boys were no longer a group of kids messing around in their parents’ basement.

“I’m dreamin’ ’bout a place that nobody gotta die/And happiness would be the only reason people cry,” is just one example of the more mature concepts that Elliot and Tony were

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going for on ‘Airplanes.’

Since recording ‘Airplanes’ and ‘Learn to Fly,’ The Cave Boys, have released a full-length album, Now Boarding, full of catchy and real songs. ‘Life’s Good (The Rugrat Song)’ is decidedly the most popular of Now Boarding’s songs, and has spurred several reenactments, music videos and fan responses on YouTube and around The Cave Boy community. After 20,000 YouTube views, though, Elliot and Tony found themselves in a rut. “It kind of got in our head, you know, let’s try to make something like this,” Elliot says, referring to the success of their single. “So we were doing that instead of just screwing around and being us, which is what we were good at.”

“We were definitely trying way too hard,” Tony adds.

But, almost a full year after ‘Life’s Good’ blew up, the guys realized what they needed to do to create the kind of laid-back, fun music that propelled them to success in the first place. Simply put, they needed to stop trying so hard.

“When you’re trying so hard, you’re being fake,” Elliot says.

“Music shouldn’t be so trying, it should just be natural,” Tony adds.

And so came ‘My Way,’ ‘Emma Watson,’ an inspired music video for ‘Change the World,’ and a handful of other tracks that have garnered well over 40,000 hits on YouTube and Facebook.

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And, for Elliot and Tony, it feels “so much better” to be out of the slump.

Curious about how their success translates into everyday life as college students at UNH, I asked whether or not people recognize Elliot and Tony around campus.

“I try to say no, but occasionally people do,” Elliot tells me.

“During the week, no one says a word, but on Saturday and Sunday it’s like ‘Hey, you guys are The Cave Boys!’” Tony says.

But does it ever get awkward?

“If I’m in a room with 10 people and, you know, three of them know who I am and I don’t know anyone, then it gets strange,” Elliot says. “But once someone acknowledges the fact, then it’s cool and we just chill.”

Anyone who listens to their music could probably get the impression that The Cave Boys are two very relaxed, very downto-earth guys (see “I’m just as happy now as I would be winning the lottery” or just about any other rhyme in “Life’s Good” for proof). And after hanging out with them for an hour, I can confirm that fact. Elliot and Tony are genuinely nice and very, very funny, exactly the type of guys that you’d want to hang out with on the weekend. And it appears that their grounded demeanor is in it for the long haul - partly because that’s just who they are, and partly because they keep each other in check.

“I think the fact that we’re a pair, and not only are we artists who work together, but we’re friends who live together, we keep each other in check,” Elliot says.

In a generation where people can broadcast their every thought and put anything and everything on display, it’s helpful to know where you stand, and to have people around you that can keep you in line. Speaking to this idea, Elliot goes on to mention all of the artists who don’t have friends or collaborators to help them out with this. “They end up saying dumb things that they probably shouldn’t.”

After spending time with Elliot and Tony, it is clear to me that that type of reckless rapping and arrogance is not likely to interfere with The Cave Boys.

“When I write something, a verse or a line, I’m always thinking

‘is this how I want to be portrayed?’” Tony says. So, it’s safe to say that we shouldn’t expect any unrealistic rhymes or over the top songs from The Cave Boys anytime soon. That fact alone is precisely what keeps people interested in their music and begging for them to release another album.

So, what about another album? Or at least a few new tracks to hold their loyal fan base over until they perfect their latest project? “We don’t want to rush it,” Elliot says. “It could be two months from now, it could be two years from now. We really want to make a really, really good album.”

While we wait for the new album, almost certainly titled Now What? Elliot and Tony have given us “Like That,” the newest track to be uploaded to their Facebook page. And according to the page, once another 25 people click the “Like” button effectively putting them at 4,000 “likes,” a new single will be released. While the anticipation grows more and more intense, Elliot and Tony will be recording, shooting a few videos, and perfecting their sound.

Elliot puts it perfectly when he describes The Cave Boys’ game plan: “We’re not at the point where we can put out a song a month and have it do anything. You know, if you throw a bunch of little rocks in a lake, you’re not gonna make a big splash. If you take a big-ass boulder and chuck it in the lake you’re gonna get a huge splash.”

Tony and I laugh as he continues the metaphor, “The ripples are gonna go way further than if you just toss in a song here, a song there. No, no. We want a CD, some music videos, great songs, we’re gonna wrap it all up into a huge ball and chuck it in there.”

“We want the big splash,” Tony concludes.

So while we wait for that splash, let’s all bask in the catchy excellence that is “Like That” and the rest of the The Cave Boys earlier hits, and don’t forget to tell your friends about that “Like” button.

The Cave Boys are about the blow up and that lake should brace itself for one big-ass boulder.

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Wild Beasts

Back to Basics

by Ella Nilsen

England is the birthplace of secret and misplaced passions, but native sons Wild Beasts are anything but buttoned up. The passions are there, but they are balls out– all there. Hailing from the small town of Kendal in the U.K.’s Lake District (think Keira Knightley standing on the cliffs in Pride and Prejudice), the band has taken the alternative music scene by storm with their distinct style, boosted by singer Hayden Thorpe’s incredible falsetto. Their first album, 2008’s Limbo, Panto, was a boisterous masterpiece of loud, unruly teenage lust that catapulted them into the spotlight. In 2010, the band’s second album, Two Dancers, was nominated for a Mercury Prize (the British version of the Grammy). They are currently on the road promoting their third full-length album, Smother, which is a decided departure from the loud bravado of their earlier albums. Main Street recently talked to drummer Chris Talbot about an exceptionally rainy tour, and the difference between them and Lady Gaga, among other things.

Main Street Magazine: So first of all, you guys are in the middle of another American tour. How’s it going so far?

still, 10 times more vocal than what we get in England. It’s amazing really.

Chris Talbot: Yeah, it’s good. It’s kind of like going back to basics for us, because we’re driving around in a small van with only two crewmembers, and obviously, we get quite molly-coddled back home, where we have seven people working for us. It’s quite refreshing in a way to have to be lifting all our gear. And the receptions have been really sweet. I mean, there’s been slightly smaller crowds, but there’s people coming from 6-7 hours away, which is…I mean it’s amazing for us that people are traveling that far to come and see us. It’s ridiculous. But wherever we go at the moment we seem to bring the rain; it’s literally rained every single day we’ve played.

MSM: This tour, you guys are promoting your third album, Smother, but you’ve constantly been recording and touring since your first album came out in 2008. That’s a lot of work. How does it feel?

MSM: Does playing in the U.S. feel different to you guys as opposed to playing in the U.K. or playing in Europe?

It feels natural to keep on going and not stopping…I think we get along as well, if not better than any band we’ve ever met, and we remain very good friends, but we’ve also got to protect relationships. It’s not natural to spend this amount of time with three other boys, so I think we will have a bit of time off next year, for the first time in four or five years.

I’m looking forward to it.

CT: Well last night, we had just shy of a hundred people at our show, because Fleet Foxes were in town. But the crowd made a louder noise than five hundred English people did. So it was a smaller crowd, but

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CT: It’s felt natural, to a point. I think that it’s only about now that we can afford to take our foot off the gas a little. When Two Dancers, our second album, came out, we were broke. We were all getting jobs.

There was no promise that the band was going to be a financially viable option at that point. And luckily, things did pick up pretty much everywhere, so we can now afford to do music full-time.

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MSM: You guys have all known each other since you were very young.

What was it like in the early years of the band? Has the dynamic changed?

CT: Hayden and Ben started first writing together when they were 15, 16…and I joined when I was probably 17, 18. And it was just the three of us rehearsing in a little room in our hometown of Kendal. It was very much a similar sort of process back then. When Tom joined in 2005, it was fresh emphasis on our creative process. But it’s always been very democratic and open…not being offended by what people have to say.

MSM: Do you have any memorable first gigs from the early years or any particularly memorable shows you’ve played?

CT: It’s weird; the good ones are the ones that you always forget. It’s the bad ones that you remember, and we’ve had some really, really terrible gigs. One in Brussels, right when we were about to start releasing Two Dancers, we came straight out of the studio without having rehearsed live at all, thinking we could do it, and yeah, there were all sorts of troubles going on. We were forgetting songs…yeah…it was pretty bad.

MSM: As the band has progressed, certainly your albums and songs have gotten slower and somewhat quieter; more subtle. How has this affected your live performances? Do you prefer one style to the other?

CT: The Fuck Buttons, they’re good; they’re a big band. We saw the xx slowly grow over the course of 2009 and 2010, and that was quite exciting to play a small part in that, doing shows with them across the world.

Over in the U.S. we have a band called Bobby that’s supporting us over here, they’re making great sounds and it’s quite exciting to watch them every night. They all met in school in Vermont.

MSM: Have you guys had a chance at some of the festivals you’ve played at, to see other bands perform?

CT: To be honest with you, no, because when you’re touring so heavily, you kind of get…it’s horrible, but you get sick of music, and you kind of go back to what you like. The music you like, it’s a safe-haven…I mean, I’m speaking for myself here, but you don’t feel terribly adventurous, you’re in a vegetable sort of state, you just want to keep yourself happy.

You get a lot more selfish when you’re on tour. We did stop by New Orleans, which was obviously great, a great music town, but we got there at 11 p.m. at night, and it was three days after landing in the U.S. We were so jet-lagged; we couldn’t go out, which was just a shame. It’s hard, when you have a night off; you really want to take the night off.

MSM: What is your favorite Wild Beasts song?

CT: Mine personally would be “Fun Powder Plot,” off of Two Dancers, “Loop the Loop” off Smother, and Limbo, Panto, I’d probably go with “Vigil for a Fuddy Duddy.” Yeah, those are the ones. We’re not playing two of those right now, but we want to play some of the songs we haven’t played in the last two years soon.

That will be quite exciting.

CT: I don’t want to say we’ve mellowed, but live, certainly I think we like to think of ourselves as a band that keeps the tempo up…maybe we do push things a little bit more. And also, the more quiet, introspective songs on this album, they kind of allow a bit of breathing space and make the other songs more impactful when we do drop them. I think it makes for quite a good show.

MSM: A lot of your lyrics are very sexual, and a critic in the Guardian even dubbed the band “obsessed with sex.” What have responses been to your lyrics? Have you

MSM: When you were making Smother, which is more of an electro-synth album, did you use electronic drum kits at all, or did you still use traditional?

encountered any controversy over it?

CT: It was still traditional. We programmed a few beats on it, and there were also a lot of sounds that we made off a keyboard pulse with different pedals. We held off on electronic drum kits on this record; maybe we will next time. I think we still like to have that human element of drums that always sound like they’re on the verge of collapse. It sounds mighty enormous, you know?

MSM: Two Dancers was nominated for a Mercury prize (British equivalent of a Grammy) last year. Have you noticed a difference in your audience/fan base pre-and-post Mercury nomination?

CT: I mean, the crowds certainly grow in Europe, but it didn’t really upset the demographic that we’ve played to. It’s always been all sorts of different people turning up to gigs…so it’s certainly brought more people in, but whether it’s people that wouldn’t be listening to our music otherwise, I don’t know.

MSM: Your band has a really distinct sound, and I think is part of a wave of very unique bands that are coming out of the U.K. right now.

What are some of you favorite contemporaries?

CT: No, no…no controversy. I dunno, I think it’s something that’s kind of celebrated. Most places that we go, we go because I think a lot of popular music these days…the sex that’s sold in music these days is low grade, almost comedy…like Katy Perry, Lady Gaga…it’s not really intimate. And that’s been sold to young girls across the world, which isn’t…the idea is probably more sellable than what we’re doing. I think what we do is in a way that’s tasteful and expositive…and I don’t think it’s crude.

MSM: I know it’s been a very busy tour, but any basic new song ideas?

Anything in the works?

CT: No. I mean, I think we’re obviously always going to be inspired by the environment we’re in, and what we’re listening to and what we’re reading, but we haven’t actually got our heads together and started putting together an album yet. We’ve certainly got our minds on it, but a quiet workspace in London is like a designated ‘ideas factory,’ if you will. But it’s dangerous to write on the road, because it’s not real life, it’s not a real world. I think that the last thing that people want to hear is a record about touring.

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Eliza Wood

“It’s an honest buck, that’s what I really like about doing this,” Kurt Barnard declares over the gurgle of frying potatoes. He smiles, gazing down into the bubbling oil. “And it’s cash!” he laughs.

It’s after midnight and people are piling up outside Kurt’s Lunchbox.

French fry orders come in one after another, each one shouted out by the customers beyond the glow of Kurt’s traveling truck’s small kitchen.

Behind the counter, the man himself fills one order at a time. Returning to the window and yet another customer, he expertly pops out two trays and rips a sheet of parchment paper in half to cover each one, anticipating another double order of fries. This time it’s cheese fries, one of Kurt’s most popular menu items. Though the line grows longer by the minute, Kurt remains unfazed. What size line does stress him out?

None. No matter how long it gets, he says, it doesn’t really bother him.

Situated behind the Mills Hall dormitory, Kurt’s Lunchbox operates in a central location on the University of New Hampshire campus, so when it rolls up on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights around 11 p.m., it receives plenty of business. No more than a medium-sized truck housing a basic kitchen, the outfit has clearly served countless customers over the years. It came to bear Kurt’s name over a decade ago, when a friend of his noticed it for sale on the side of the road and suggested that he and Kurt open a food business. Initially, the two intended to run the business out of Pease International Tradeport in Portsmouth, but they were unable to obtain the rights to operate there. Turning to plan B, they decided to open up at UNH, and Kurt’s Lunchbox settled comfortably into its new home. Since then, the Lunchbox has become a nighttime eating institution, and Kurt a beloved figure to scores of students on campus.

“Can I have a snotty?!” a girl shouts over the din of the crowd gathered outside the Lunchbox. As Kurt quickly but carefully assembles another

“Kurt!” someone calls out from the back of the line.

“Kuuurrrrrrt!” some others join in. No one is actually addressing Kurt or even trying to get his attention. Caught up in the excitement of coming to the Lunchbox, their cries sound celebratory and maybe a little drunk.

A regular reaches the front of the line.

“My man! Can we get some chili cheese fries? Sorry I don’t have a beer for you, man.”

Smiling but making no reply to the beer comment, Kurt whips up the order. When the customer pays, he leaves a generous tip, and in return, Kurt raps a bell hanging above the window hard with his fist. The loud clang signals the tipping event to everyone within hearing distance, and in response customers in line increase their volume to match it.

As people mill about, waiting for their turn at the window, the mood outside Kurt’s Lunchbox is high-energy, loud, and hungry.

Inside the Lunchbox, Kurt maintains a calmer atmosphere. Only muffled noises from beyond the truck penetrate its interior, and heat from the fryer warms up the small kitchen to a pleasant temperature. The heating lamps used for keeping fries hot serve as the only light, casting a soft glow on Kurt’s workspaces. The scent of frying oil permeates the air, but instead of smelling heavy and overpoweringly greasy, it smells light and delicious.

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batch of cheese fries, he explains that the term “snotty” is a holdover from earlier days at UNH. From the mid 1960s to the late 1990s, another fried food joint run by a man named Carl dominated the university’s late night scene. At Carl’s, snotty was the accepted word to use when ordering cheese fries, and, though Carl is long gone, Kurt carries on his tradition.

“Yes! How cool would that be? Kurt as a roommate!!” she squeals as all her friends laugh. Kurt just chuckles in response as they walk away with their fries. Another customer takes their place, and orders pizza fries.

While many associate Kurt only with his Lunchbox, his daytime occupation has nothing to do with running a food business. Working full time as a paraprofessional at Portsmouth High School, Kurt spends his time in the classroom, working with students in groups, and doing oneon-one tutoring. Though many of the students at PHS know nothing of the nights Kurt spends moonlighting as the owner and operator of Kurt’s Lunchbox, he is well known for other reasons. In addition to being a teacher, at different points he has taken responsibility for the school’s recycling program as well as supervising and coaching the school’s first Ultimate Frisbee team. In 2007, Kurt received the school yearbook dedication in which he was given the title “The Man, The Myth, The Legend.” The dedication also described Kurt as having “selflessly left behind his devout life seeking Buddhist enlightenment to come to the USA and dedicate this life to recycling and philosophizing.” Clearly, Kurt has left a lasting impression on many of the students at Portsmouth High School.

“I like makin’ pizza fries,” Kurt says, smiling. The pizza fries are of his own invention, and involve more ingredients than most of the other menu options. With careful precision, Kurt assembles a concoction of fries, cheese, tomato sauce and shredded mozzarella. He hands them to the hungry-looking young man who pays and tips. Kurt rings the customary tip bell.

“I love it when he rings that fuckin’ bell!!” the guy calls out before disappearing beyond the light cast by the Lunchbox. He’s not the only one. Many customers appear to tip not only out of generosity but also for the satisfaction of hearing Kurt punch the bell. It is one of the many things that keep students coming back to the Lunchbox. Of course, what really keeps them coming back is more than just the bell, the atmosphere, or the hot quality fries that Kurt has to offer—it’s Kurt himself. Something about his quiet, affable nature appeals to all who meet him, and the Lunchbox has many loyal customers. When asked how he feels about the fact that so many people clearly respect him, Kurt makes only a modest comment.

“It’s nice to know your neighbors,” he says quietly.

During the academic year, Kurt has his plate full teaching by day and feeding multitudes of hungry students by night. But when school is not in session, he takes advantage of his free time. Last summer, Kurt cycled from Hanoi, Vietnam to Bangkok, Thailand. Averaging about a hundred kilometers a day, he managed to successfully go the distance in time to make it home for school. Kurt has also traveled by bike from Shanghai to Hanoi, throughout Europe, and around Mexico. He began making the long-distance trips in his early 20s along with a good friend, but more recently he has struck out on his own, undertaking the international treks solo. When asked what he thinks about during those long, solitary rides, Kurt considers the question briefly.

“Ya know, I don’t even know,” he says, looking thoughtful. After a moment, he goes on to confess that he once found himself debating at length whether or not Mr. and Mrs. Brady had been widowed or divorced prior to their marriage and successful TV program (they were in fact a widow and widower, as Kurt would later discover). Mostly though, Kurt says he spends much of the time on his bicycle thinking about only a few things.

“Shelter and food—that’s all you’re looking for,” he explains, pointing out that these are the top priorities when every day’s plan is unpredictable, as it is on his trips.

“It’s kinda Buddhist, you know. You’re at that center, living in the moment,” Kurt remarks, referring to the Portsmouth High rumor that he practices Buddhism. As a matter of fact, Kurt says he does not consider himself a Buddhist, though his calm disposition and ability to handle the stresses of both a high school atmosphere and a fast-paced food business so serenely almost suggest otherwise.

Though many might find Kurt’s uncertain nature of travel daunting, Kurt is comfortable with it. On more than one occasion, he hasn’t even brought a bicycle to travel with, choosing instead to pick one up after he has landed in a foreign country. And just like long lines outside the Lunchbox, those kinds of things don’t stress him out. It’s hard to imagine anything that could.

How long will Kurt be rolling up regularly to sell his fries to those out on late nights? As far as he’s concerned, it’ll be a while yet before he quits.

According to Kurt:

As the hour gets later, business picks up, and Kurt moves with a steady pace. Many customers chat with him as they wait for their food.

“I think the truck’ll go before I would.”

“Would you live in my Mills room with me next year?!” one girl asks him. “I keep my bathroom real clean…”

At first Kurt makes no reply, but the girl is persistent. She really wants to know the answer to her question. Finally, Kurt says maybe it could work.

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A Tweeting Q&A With...

@PrezHuddleston Are you sick of hearing Nickelback play over the radio in HoCo? Feeling bummed about the loss of Panache? And what’s going on with that new business school?

PrezHuddleston understands your sentiments and he’s tweeting about it. No, we’re not talking about Mark Huddleston in his house on Main Street. He’s the fake President Huddleston and he’s taking the Twittersphere by storm, tweeting all things #UNH. At 774 followers and 624 tweets to date, this anonymous satirical tweeter has been spotlighted by national media such as USA Today and Her Campus.

Main Street magazine chatted with @PrezHuddleston on everything #UNH from partying to budget cuts, Twitter groupies and #Hallowcoming.

Are you a UNH student?

I’m a senior at UNH. I’m a guy. I would estimate that I’ve directly told about 30 UNH students of my Twitter alter ego, a man I like to call PHudd.

Where did you first get the idea to make a fake account imitating President Huddleston?

There’s tons of fake accounts on Twitter, and I guess they inspired me. I just felt the need for a UNH-related fake account, and the president of the university was the obvious person to parody. I started the account at about 2 a.m. on March 8, 2011. At that time, I had no idea how much material I’d have to work with over the next few months – from that no confidence thing in April to the budget cuts to end all budget cuts in May. It’s been fun.

Where’s your favorite spot to hang out on campus?

The MUB is my place for everything, including thinking up PHudd’s tweets.

Has anything crazy happened to you since starting this account?

Well, on April 18, a month and a half after I started the account, the fake account was the focal point of a long article that appeared in USA Today, the nation’s second-largest newspaper (So no offense, MSM, but I’ve clearly taken a top-down approach to media attention). That was huge; that was the moment I knew I made it.

Honestly, I get surprised by something related to the account every week. I’ve had girls direct message me their cell number (okay, that only happened once, but there’s plenty of time to make that a plural thing) and guys offering to buy me drinks. HerCampus.com just named me a campus celebrity. The fake account is sponsoring a Facebook event with over 650 people attending. The response from the UNH crowd – even staff – has been awesome and is what keeps the account going – I think it’s good for the community to unite around something.

What’s your favorite place to party in the Dirty Durham? Favorite bar, maybe?

I usually end up at off-campus apartments, largely because that was an age-related necessity until fairly recently. I’m down to start a bidding war to find the official bar of @PrezHuddleston though.

Who’s your favorite person to follow on Twitter?

Ummm...how can I say anything but the real @MarkHuddleston? Seriously, fake accounts that don’t get to interact with their real counterpart are only having half the fun.

Do you know The New Hampshirite or read his blog? What do you think of it? You guys are sort of similar...

Doesn’t that guy realize that blogging is so 2008? I’ve got as much influence as him, and I never write more than two sentences at a time.

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What’s it like tweeting with the real President Huddleston?

Mark Huddleston was on top of his game enough to follow his fake counterpart within hours of my starting it on March 8. My UNH-related one-liners may get the retweets, but I think my followers enjoy my back-and-forths with the real prez more than anything. They like to see that he can take – and make – a joke. That’s the awesome part of Twitter; it’s removing barriers.

And if you could tweet one thing to President Huddleston, what would it be? @MarkHuddleston: Freedom of speech is awesome, no?

Have an opinion about the budget cuts? Or other collegiate presidential things?

I follow UNH-related news because I try to keep the account topical. Honestly, I think we’re in a pretty critical stage for the university, and that the future is uncertain to the degree that we’re uncertain if there will be a future. That strikes me as pretty sad.

So tell me about #Hallowcoming and how you got that started.

I fired off a couple satirical tweets when I heard the announcement that Homecoming and Halloween would be within days of each other this year – something about Harold Camping having a new date for the apocalypse – but I knew I hadn’t hit the nail on the head. Then on my way to work the next morning the name “Hallowcoming” hit me. My followers turned it into a hashtag and the name took. We’ve got hundreds attending the Facebook event right now, and hopefully that will climb as we get closer. It’s gotta be big.

So do you have any future plans for the account? How long do you think you’ll keep it up?

I’ve got some big plans for this semester that I’m excited to pull off. I’ll keep the account going through spring semester, with the exact date of ending it depending on the next bit. Definitely no tweets after graduation.

Will you ever reveal your true identity in the Twittersphere?

I’ve planned to reveal myself sometime during this upcoming spring semester ever since I started the account. I’m not sure exactly when and how it will happen – I just know it’s gotta be big.

What are some of your all-time favorite tweets?

Here’s a few of my favorite one-liners:

PrezHuddleston Fake Mark Huddleston

PrezHuddleston Fake Mark Huddleston

Guys, you’ll never be a top party school if you all go home for Easter. #UNH #fail

Yo @TigerWoods, it’s not quite prostitution if you decide to give us a little cash for those UNH girls you love. #justsayin #pimpin

PrezHuddleston Fake Mark Huddleston

PrezHuddleston Fake Mark Huddleston

The union is mad because I run this place like a club. I mean, business. I run this place like a business. #UNH

Thought I might be coming down with a cold, so I went to #UNH Health Services. Their diagnosis: Pregnant. #samethingeverytime

I also enjoy live-tweeting things from time to time, from hockey games to graduation to the time that coach was on Man v. Food Nation on the Travel Channel. I’m also proud to have been the first person (according to Google) to use the phrase “like white on a New Hampshire resident” and to use the #replacetextbookwithbiddie hashtag.

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FOOD DAY: a personal account from an organic foodie

By Brandon Somogie

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n October 24, the University of New Hampshire will be making history in participating in the nation’s first Food Day. “We are launching the ‘Get Real’ campaign at UNH in conjunction with hundreds of other colleges and universities across America,” Evan Girard, one of the UNH Food Day coordinators said. “We’ve recognized the urgency of creating a more sustainable food system, in which individual citizens and communities recognize their supporting roles. Here at UNH, we intend to increase awareness of the importance of having a more sustainable learning community with food at its forefront.”

“It’s time to eat real, America,” hails the Food Day movement. It seeks to bring people together to increase awareness and action for a more sustainable food future. Food Day’s aim is to help people better understand what they’re eating and why what they’re eating matters.

Students in partnership with the Sustainability Academy have started a movement to educate

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our community by “placing food at the forefront,” with UNH’s own Food Day organization. Their many organized events started September 21, with UNH’s annual Local Harvest Feast and will culminate on October 24, with a celebration of food citizenship in the Memorial Union Building.

Why even have a Food Day? The problem is that the food many people are eating today is so bad that there is an urgent need for drastic changes. Many Americans have diets composed of over-processed, pre-packaged food high in salt and saturated fats, high-calorie sugary sodas, fast-food meals of French fries and fatty factory-farmed meat.

These uninhibited food habits are contributing to early deaths from stroke, diabetes, and heart attacks.

We need help. We live in a society that wants immediate fixes, which is why fast food has become so popular. Profit at the fore means health in the rear, as described in the 2008 film Food Matters.

Food Day’s goal is to transform the American diet by helping people realize the power they can have over the food supply. More and more people are realizing what a drastic change our diet has taken over the last 50 years.

In the process of this change over a million family farms have gone under and health conditions have deteriorated significantly. This change to packaged meals and processed food is detrimental to both America and the world.

Food Day also works to reduce ignorance surrounding the origins of the produce you purchase.

Many people have no idea where their food actually comes from.

Food Day’s self-proclaimed mission is to “Reduce diet-related disease by promoting safe, healthy foods.” In addition to this Food Day pledges to minimize market-

ing junk food products to children, which has been proven to lower IQ ratings.

The Food Day campaigners at UNH are taking this to the next level by doing some food education presentations at local schools.

“We are trying to educate children in our community about our food system,” said UNH Food Day representative Annie Steeves.

“We are going out to the elementary schools in the area and group members are talking with the kids in a fun way about the food they’re eating and how to be healthy. We’ve been pleasantly surprised with the knowledge some of them already know.”

But, this is only one piece of the puzzle. According to figures from United Farm Workers Association, the conditions of our farms today are unsustainable and the average lifespan of a U.S. farm worker is only 49 years, compared to 73 for an average U.S. citizen. The workers and the livestock on farms run by big agricultural business are subject to very poor conditions. These circumstances are not only unhealthy for farmers, but also for consumers.

Consumers are more likely to get sick from this produce, which in addition is also less nourishing.

Educating the masses about farming conditions and making efforts to support fair conditions for animals and workers is a huge part of Food Day’s mission. Limiting the government subsidies to big agri�������������� cultural businesses should help significantly, and this can happen when people are informed and can form cooperative alliances aimed at change.

Every day you are voting (each dollar spent is a vote of sorts) for what kind of body you want to have, what kind of farmers you support and what world that will create. What kind of life you will

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live is determined by where you spend your dollar on the food you consume.

People are starting to wake up to the need for a Food Day. Knowledge is power. Let’s take back our health and our food supply. You are what you eat.

For more information on what events will be taking place and where, check out sustainableunh. unh.edu/fooddday.

PEAK BAGGING

by Ian Ferguson Steve Swenson’s condition was becoming dire. After fighting a sinus infection for a month on a glacier at 20,000 feet, he had joined his two teammates, Freddie Wilkinson and Mark Richey, in their attempt to summit the second highest unclimbed mountain in the world, Saser Kangri II, in the Karakoram Range of the Himalayas in Northern India. The team started up the 24,700-foot-high mountain August 21, summited, and descended in a single five-day push.

Now, three hours after arriving back at advanced base camp, Swenson was exhibiting signs of high-altitude pulmonary edema, a potentially fatal lung condition that plagues the nightmares of every alpinist. Over 50 miles from the nearest human outpost, Swenson was struggling with every breath.

“He was writing notes to us on paper, because he couldn’t talk,” Wilkinson said. Wilkinson and Richey administered dexamethazone, a steroid used to treat cerebral edema, to buy time. Around 6 a.m., on August 26, Wilkinson and Richey initiated the process of getting a helicopter out to the glacier.

So began a 10-hour marathon of international phone calls, cutting through red tape, and waiting with fingers crossed.

“Pretty much what you’d expect from a bureauctratic government,” said Janet Bergman, fellow alpinist and Wilkinson’s wife.

Bergman had been with the expedition in India a week before, but was now back home in New Hampshire coordinating the rescue effort with help from Global Rescue in Boston, and Teresa Richey in Leh, India.

Around 4 p.m. an Indian Army high-altitude Llama helicopter crested the shoulder of Sol Kangri to the southeast, executed a fly-by, and landed on a giant H Wilkinson had stamped out on the snow of the glacier. Swenson was led out to the helicopter and given an oxygen mask. In less than an hour he was in the Leh hospital, where he swiftly recovered.

The rescue was the dramatic climax of what was otherwise an idyllic and productive summer-long adventure for six American mountain climbers.

Bergman, now 31, graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2002. She and her husband, Wilkinson, 32, live in my hometown of Madison, N.H. They are badass professional alpinists, great human beings, and my personal heroes. This is the story of their summer.

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ergman and Wilkinson met in September of 2002. Janet, who had graduated from UNH’s Outdoor Leadership program that spring, was living in her car and climbing the hallowed granite of Yosemite Valley, CA. Freddie was passing through with some mutual friends. They met, they climbed, and a year later they were dating.

At first, the couple refrained from doing big climbs together. “The intensity of being in a relationship, and dependant on each other, on top of the hazards of serious mountain climbing, made me not able to be bold,” Janet said. “We’ve only done a few serious mountain climbs together.”

“We’re getting better at it,” Freddie said.

In 2008 they climbed a spire in India, called simply “Peak 5,394 m,” as part of a four-person American team that also included Pat Goodman and Ben Ditto. Executed without porters or sherpas, the four climbers approached for two days, climbed for two days, and bagged the firstascent after a cold bivouac (alpine camp-out) at 16,400 ft., during which the four climbers shared two sleeping bags.

Two years later, Wilkinson and Bergman pursued separate avenues that landed them both in the same remote, unexplored glacier in Northern India this past summer.

Steve Swenson and Mark Richey first approached Wilkinson about climbing Saser Kangri II (SK2) in early 2010. Swenson, 57, from Seattle, and Richey, 53, from Mass., are fixtures in the American climbing community. The two veteran climbers attempted to climb SK2 in 2009 with Coloradoan Mark Wilford and Englishman Jim Lowther. That 2009 expedition was plagued by the cumbersome size of the four-person team. The route is a constant, steep pitch that offers little ledge space upon which to pitch a tent. The 2009 team exhausted much of its energy finding and kicking out a bivouac site, and was turned back by weather at 6,500m.

For their 2011 SK2 attempt, Richey and Swenson decided to cut the team size to three, and opted to include Wilkinson based on his strength and experience. “Freddie was an obvious choice,” Richey said in an interview over the phone a few months before the expedition.

A graduate of Dartmouth College, Wilkinson started rock climbing in sixth grade. At Dartmouth he was involved in the Mountaineering Club. “I climbed as much as possible, and probably didn’t study as much as I should have,” he said.

He has made numerous first ascents on difficult peaks in Alaska, Patagonia, and the Himalayas. In 2007 he was awarded the Robert Hicks Bates award for outstanding accomplishment by a young climber from the American Alpine Club. Mark Richey was the club’s president at the time (Swenson is the current president).

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Soon after Wilkinson signed on to the SK2 expedition, Bergman applied for a Polartec Challenge grant with two other female climbers, Kirsten Kremer and Zoe Hart. The Polartec Challenge Grant funds various types of adventures, from intercontinental ecosystem studies via bicycle, to Arctic ski exploration, to the type of alpine exploration Bergman’s team proposed.

Their proposal was to climb a 6,135 m unnamed peak on the border of Pakistan and India. Richey had shown Bergman pictures of the unexplored peak that he took on his 2009 expedition to SK2. Bergman teamed up with strong climbers Kremer and Hart to become an all-female, first-ascent team. Due to a tumultuous spring involving a head injury, a sick fiancé, and an eventual marriage, Zoe Hart had to bow out of the expedition. Emilie Drinkwater, whom Janet had met at climbing competitions, was a natural replacement based on her strength and skill as a climber. The ladies’ plans coincided harmoniously with the men’s plans: the two expeditions would share an initial base camp on the same glacier before branching off towards separate advanced base camps to tackle their respective objectives.

On July 3, the expedition met up in Delhi. Their journey from Delhi took them over the highest motorable pass in the world, at 5,000m, to the town of Leh in the remote Nubra Valley.

The trek to base camp took three days, after which they set up base camp on “a lovely grassy meadow at 5,000 meters,” according to Bergman. This base camp lay between the parties’ objective peaks.

There they spent about a month acclimating, the physiological process by which the human body adapts to high altitude conditions. It was “a lot of nights going to bed with headaches,” Bergman said. But over the course of a month, the climbers’ bodies adapted to the thinner air.

Towards the end of July, the men and women parted ways, with their objective peaks on different glaciers.

The women set up their advanced base camp and made forays towards their unexplored peak. The pictures they had seen were taken from over a mile away. Upon close inspection, it became obvious that the mountain was too dangerous, sending massive rockslides and avalanches down its sides regularly. They knew that unclimbed peaks surrounded the South Shukpa Kungchang Glacier, where the men had set up their advanced base camp. They decided to break down their advanced base camp and join the men at theirs.

“We were just honestly relieved that there were other mountains to try to climb, and that our permits allowed us to do that,” Bergman said.

“There’s a part of me that was a little bit disappointed that it wasn’t just the girls on our own. I think that, as a woman there’s always a need to prove that we’re not dependent on the guys […] At the same time, Freddie’s my husband, Mark is one of my best friends, Steve was a ton of fun, so we were really psyched to be able to spend more time with them. You know, the more the merrier. It was just a big party on the glacier.”

“I’ve always really enjoyed the camaraderie of having a good crew of people,” Freddie added. “A lot of times on an expedition, if it’s a long trip, and it’s just you and two partners, you know, and you’re all dudes, it’s pretty easy to just get a little surly… so it was fun to have the girls.

We also really wanted to just go peak bagging for a couple weeks […] it turned out to be the perfect opportunity for that,” Wilkinson said.

Bag peaks they did. The team collectively climbed five mountains, all of them over 6,000 meters, all of them previously unclimbed. First to go was 6,585 m Tsok Kangri, climbed by Swenson, Richey, and Wilkinson. A vertical line of pure ice climbing, Swenson called it, “one of the most compelling ice lines in the Karakoram.” Next was Pumo Kangri, 6,440 m, climbed by Drinkwater and Kremer. Bergman missed what was supposed to be the women’s team climb due to a 24-hour stomach bug.

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She bounced back in an astounding display of toughness and resilience.

After being severely sick, vomiting “10 times in 8 hours, disgusting,” according to Bergman, she woke up and decided to try climbing.

Without eating a meal, because she couldn’t hold anything down, Bergman headed up Saser Linga IV, a 6,200m virgin peak, with her husband. Out on the glacier, Bergman and Wilkinson high-fived Drinkwater and Kremer who were heading back to base camp after their successful ascent of Pumo Kangri. They sent a fantastic technical route up 800 feet of glacier and 700 feet of near vertical rock. The couple from New Hampshire was on the summit by 2 p.m. They hung out for an hour, and rappelled back down to the glacier. Bergman then ate her first meal of the day.

A week after the Saser Ling IV and Pumo Kangri climbs, Richey, Wilkinson, Bergman, Drinkwater, and Kremer bagged the first ascent of 6,670m peak they dubbed “Stegosaurus,” because of rock formations resembling fins leading up a ridge to the summit. After an easy climb, the party skied down the ridge on “beautiful corn snow,” said Bergman.

“When we were living in base-camp, and in our day-to-day, we were our own little country,” Bergman said. “Your goals for the day, and your long-term strategy, are very simplified. […] It’s life on a basic level. I love that, and I’d like to actually model my life after that here.” Bergman shared these sentiments as we sat in her and Freddie’s small wood cabin on a hillside in Madison. Looking around at the simple interior and rugged woods outside, it wasn’t hard to imagine their home as some sort of alpine base camp.

Swenson missed out on much of the base camp experience and peak bagging adventures because of a sinus infection that came on during his descent from Tsok Kangri. He decided to hike back to Leh for medical treatment. He was prescribed antibiotics at the Leh hospital. He rested his body at the lower altitude for a week, and then hiked back to advanced base camp to join his partners for the summit attempt on SK2.

The decision to rest at a lower altitude allowed him to recover from his sinus infection, but it meant that Swenson missed out on some crucial time acclimating at altitude.

After climbing Stegosaurus, the ladies left for home, leaving the men to their final objective: Saser Kangri II. At 7,513m, it was the second highest unclimbed mountain in the world. The only higher unclimbed mountain lies in the kingdom of Bhutan, where alpine exploration above 6,000 meters is forbidden for religious reasons.

Wilkinson, Swenson, and Richey climbed SK2 alpine style, making this one of the longest alpine-style first ascents. The alternative is expedition style: camps are established ever higher on a mountain over the course of weeks, with climbers ferrying supplies and stashing them in tents before retreating to base camp on ropes fixed to the rocks. On the final summit push, the team starts out from high up on the mountain, with easily reachable camps in a line of descent all the way down to base camp. Alpine style, the accepted modern form of mountain climbing, is much more committing. Teams climb the mountain in a single push from base to summit, carrying all their supplies on their backs, and not fixing any ropes to the cliff.

The objective dangers of serious mountain climbing include: falling rocks and ice, avalanches, weather exposure, falling off a cliff, and various types of altitude sickness, and the thousand little things that can go wrong in an extreme environment. These dangers are compounded in alpine style, where, “there is no easy line of retreat, should something go wrong,” Wilkinson said.

On August 21, the trio set out from advanced base camp and climbed eight hundred feet to the first bivouac site, a rare flat spot on the face they dubbed “the launch pad.” The next day, they simul-climbed the Great Couloir, a nearly vertical, concave snowfield, to 6,500 meters. Simul-climbing means they were climbing at the same time, placing minimal protection in the ice along the way to prevent a fall down the whole face.

Wilkinson made the decision to stay on route while searching for a bivouac site instead of going off-route to find a suitable ledge. This turned out to be a good decision, as no effort was wasted and a suitable spot was found further up the route.

The second bivy site was far from ideal, but Richey had a clutch solution in his backpack, which he invented himself. Called the “Ice Hammock,” it is a rectangle of nylon, which is attached to a steep rock face and filled with snow to provide a flat section on which to pitch a tent. The Ice Hammock worked like a charm, though the team’s Black Diamond ElDorado two-person tent was still a little too big for the ledge.

“It was crowded, it was definitely crowded,” Wilkinson said. When asked who was big spoon, he laughed and said, “It changed around.”

The next day they entered a band of rocks, at the top of which was a feature they called the Escape Hatch, “a key piece of the puzzle,” according to Wilkinson. Angling up and to the left towards the summit ridge, it was the only workable route out of the rock band. The team had scoped it out through binoculars in advanced base camp.

They crested the escape hatch, and found a bivouac spot within 500m of the summit. Steve’s condition at that point was beginning to deteriorate. After an uneasy night’s sleep the three climbers set out for the top.

Steve kept up with his partners, but was unable to lead climbs or chop ice ledges in his weakened state. “He was digging deep,” Wilkinson said. “There were some ‘Chariots of Fire’ moments getting to the summit.”

But they got there.

After an hour on the summit, the team hiked down to the same bivy-spot of the night before, and camped out in preparation for a long day of descent. Swenson spent a hard night hacking up phlegm. The three of them considered the possibility of having to lower Swenson down the thirty rappels to the glacier.

Fortunately that didn’t have to happen. Swenson made it down under his own steam, and the rescue commenced three hours after the exhausted, triumphant team of American mountain climbers made it back to advanced base camp.

In his Huffington Post Blog, “The Nameless Creature,” Wilkinson explains the title using a quote from Polish Climber Voytek Kurtyka that’s starts: “It’s amazing how beauty, once touched, turns to pain.”

I asked him about this, and asked both he and Janet, more generally, “Why do you climb?”

“I’d kind of soften that quote and say, when you get down from a climb, and you’re really tired and really worked, but you’ve gotten down safely, it’s just…you’re really…it’s such a peaceful feeling of satisfaction,” Wilkinson said.

“It is those moments,” Bergman added. “And it’s not just after a big multi-day alpine push that you get it. I remember sending Ride the Lightning in Pawtuckaway Park. I don’t even remember the climb itself, but I remember sitting on top of the boulder with a simultaneous feeling of elation, and disappointment because it’s gone, it’s done…but it’s done! So that’s what climbing is for me.”

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Adderall: a Risky

Study Buddy

By Alexandra Churchill

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bby* was a freshman at the University of New Hampshire when she met “Addy.” She had never heard of the drug, officially prescribed as Adderall, before college, but she knew her roommate was routinely purchasing handfuls of the little orange pills from a friend who had the prescription for it.

“She told me it was the best study drug because it helped you focus and kept you awake,” Abby* recalls.

Flash-forward to October: it was midterms week and Abby* was pulling a string of all-nighters. A hoard of textbooks was mounted on her desk and she was staring at blank computer screen with glazed eyes. She was realizing that the caffeinated perk from her 7 p.m. coffee was wearing off and she was facing the daunting task of typing out the rest of her 70-page paper for her honors-designated English course and cramming for two exams, one in Latin American studies and one in art history, all within the span of 12 hours. It was a seemingly impossible academic feat.

But sometime around midnight, after hours of studying, her roommate stopped by with a pocketful of pills and, again, offered her one.

• Abby* popped a 25-milligram capsule of Adderall into her mouth and thought nothing of it.

• By 10 a.m. the next day, she had typed out an A-grade research paper and aced her midterm exams.

• Now, as a senior English honors student applying to law schools, Abby* jokingly refers to her stash of pills as her study buddy.

“It helps you concentrate on what you’re studying. You get this deeper understanding of everything. I’ll study for hours like it’s nothing,” Abby* says. “I don’t just take it for help. I need it now. Addy’s going to be my study buddy for the LSATS.”

So what is the appeal to Adderall? Are there any real risks of using Adderall without a prescription? And if so, why are many college students studying exam after exam, acing class after class by relying on the new study buddy, “Addy”?

What exactly is Adderall?

Adderall, a brand of amphetamine-dextroamphetamine, is a stimulant that’s generally prescribed to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and similar conditions. But on college campuses everywhere, students without prescriptions are using it to enhance their study habits.

Students describe the sensation as a kind of tunnel vision, where menial distractions and urges to procrastinate fall to the wayside.

“It basically makes you feel focused,” says senior Sarah*. “When I’ve taken Adderall, I can focus on the reading in front of me. I’m studying for my class, instead of neurotically checking Facebook every five minutes. That’s why I use it – that, and it’s extremely easy to get.”

What are the risks?

But health service centers have been tightening their regulations to crack down on this problem. At UNH, Health Services has made the process of receiving an Adderall prescription purposefully difficult.

This strict process involves a sit-down evaluation with a doctor who then determines whether the student actually has ADD or ADHD. If the doctor feels that the student’s reported behavior is congruent with symptoms, the student must fill out an Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale.

The doctor then has the final say in writing a prescription to a drug like Adderall as long as the student fills out the ADD Medication Information Agreement, which alerts them to the legal issues of selling or otherwise misusing drugs.

There are no hard statistics on exactly how many college students abuse Adderall, but what is becoming a concern for health experts is the booming popularity of these pills.

As many as one-in-four college students have misused ADHD medications, like Adderall, according to a nationwide survey reported in the journal, Addiction. Anecdotal evidence suggests an even higher number– most students interviewed said they guessed that about a quarter of students on their campus had at least experimented with the drug.

Not to mention, Adderall sales in the U.S. soared by more than 3,100 percent between 2002 and 2005. Bootlegged at about $3 to $5 per pill, Adderall is both inexpensive and accessible, and therefore, dangerous.

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Regardless, this doesn’t stop students from trying to beat the system.

“How many students, would you say, buy from you?”

Dr. Gerald Collins, a clinical services physician at UNH Health Services, describes more than one occasion where a student has come into his office asking for a prescription for Adderall. “If taken without a prescription, it can be harmful,” Collins says in an interview.

“I don’t really count… but in a week, I pull in at least $100.”

“Why do you sell pills?” I asked. “Are you ever worried about getting in trouble with the law?”

“Not really,” he says. “It’s an easy way to get paid, right?”

For the majority of people, Adderall in small doses will only result in minor side effects. But drugs, by prescription or over the counter, are safe only when used at the dosage and frequency directed on the label. It’s difficult to know your personal health risks – as Adderall is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular problems, uncontrolled shaking, dizziness, vomiting and hallucinations. Not to mention, using prescription medications without a prescription is illegal and punishable by jail time.

“If someone possesses Adderall without a prescription it is a Class B Felony. The penalty can be 3.5 to 7 years in state prison and or a $2,000 fine,” says UNH Deputy Chief of Police Paul Dean. “If a person sells Adderall they can face a Class A Felony, The penalty can be 7 years to 15 years in state prison and or a $2,000 fine. Again, this is the maximum.”

So is Adderall worth it? Despite health hazards, the ethical debate, and risking criminal record – the answer among an overwhelming number of college students seems to be, “yes.”

It’s the new alternate substance and it’s hitting college campuses harder than it did in the past 10 years. No, it’s not alcohol. No red cups or shot glasses need apply. You only need a few dollars and maybe know who to ask. It’s a pill-sized substance that fits in the palm of your hand– it’s “Addy” and she’s being swapped as the best study buddy on college campuses more than you may think. *NAMES HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO PROTECT IDENTITIES.

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Despite these risks – both health and legal – students seem to have accepted the study drug as part of the stereotypical collegiate culture.

According to statistics, prescription medicines are the number one most abused substances among young adults, other than marijuana. Some claim that the intentional misuse of prescription medications like Adderall is now as widespread as binge drinking on today’s college campuses.

As college students, we’ve all had those days when we’re stressed to the max. It might be because of pre-med classes, internships or part-time jobs. It might be because being the captain of your varsity team leaves you with a little less time to breathe. Either way, anything that enhances productivity holds great appeal for multi-tasking college students. And with the competition for acceptance to grad school becoming increasingly cutthroat and the job market looking dismal, more and more students are looking to gain the advantage over their classmates. And Adderall might be just that edge they were so desperate for.

Some students swear by it.

“It’s not like I’m cheating, because it’s not like a cheat sheet where you have all the answers to a test. I’m not just some druggie slacker. I work hard. I’m a straight-A student and applying to get my M.B.A.,” says junior WSBE student Jason*. “And honestly in this kind of economy, if it comes down to between me and some other applicant to the job I want, I’m going to get the advantage.”

“A ton of people in my dorm have prescriptions, so no, it’s not that hard to find,” said Brad*, a junior engineering major. “I know that if I wanted some, there’s more than one friend I could go to and they usually give it to me for just a couple bucks.”

I decided to test this out for myself. As part of this investigation, I recently visited Dimond Library with Brad’s* reference to meet with the student he buys pills from. Five minutes into my visit and it didn’t take long to score some pills with this dealing student who agreed to be interviewed under the condition that he would remain unidentified.

“I hear that you have Adderall,” I said. “Do you have any here with you?”

“Yeah.”

“How much for a pill?”

“Two bucks for 25 milligrams,” he answered.

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Getting Hired

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by Eliza Mackintosh

For college students, the tough job market might seem like a distant dilemma reserved for adults and to be dealt with after graduation. It might appear premature to be job-hunting now, but as adjunct professor at the University of New Hampshire and founder of Sales Protocol International Catherine Blake says, it’s never too early to start.

The premise of “Selling Yourself in a Difficult Economy” is the apt title of Blake’s course, which she teaches through UNH’s Whittemore School of Business. The class is designed to teach students the ins and outs of landing their dream job.

The key to Blake’s strategy is all in branding and marketing your identity, because contrary to what many financial analysts are saying, Blake reports that there is hope for graduates looking for jobs.

“I am seeing students getting hired, so I’m always the optimist,” Blake said.

She found that three-quarters of her pilot class were hired within six months of graduating, which are heartening statistics for undergraduates.

Blake suggests working the back channel to get the job that you want. She encourages students to target organizations that they want to work for and find a way in. Finding avenues to do this is easy, even if you don’t think you have connections.

“Everyone has connections,” Blake said. “Your first connections are each other because everyone here in your dorms, and your student clubs, in your classrooms, your peers that you’re interacting with are not only in internships, but their parents work for companies and they might have grown up with someone working for a company that you want to work for.”

Other great resources for finding jobs are the alumni association, student organizations, and reaching out into the community through volunteering.

The reason that social media is essential in helping you get a job is because you need to be visible online, which Blake equates with developing your “brand identity.” Use technology to serve as a platform to talk about who you are and what your brand is, i.e. what you do.

A good way of developing your brand identity is by putting your LinkedIn account on your Twitter profile to intertwine what you’re saying with who you are.

“You want to make sure that you have a voice, a presence, and a brand, which is spinning yourself as a particular entity,” Blake said.

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What is your thing?

What is your desire?

How do you want to be known?

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Whatever the answer is, Blake said, “You want to build up brand equity in that topic area. One of the best ways to do that is through internships.”

In today’s digital world a major advantage in making connections is through social networks like LinkedIn. Blake is a huge advocate of marketing yourself online.

“If you start using LinkedIn now and building your network, you would be amazed at how many people, one or two degrees away, are working for the company or organization that you want to work for,” Blake said.

For free you can join LinkedIn and start to build your profile.

Blake suggests starting by posting a professional photograph of yourself. You can then start to connect with other students, your professors, and different alums that you meet at events - anyone that you meet is a connection.

Blake even suggests using Facebook to make these connections. The minute that a potential employer is interested in you, Blake explains, they’re going to Google your name and all of your online activity is going to pop up.

“I urge people to use Facebook intentionally, which is scary for students, but what I’m suggesting is that you can leverage it for your brand if you’re serious about getting a career,” Blake said.

The idea is that you can use Facebook to your advantage.

Employers want to get on your Facebook more than anything because they’ll know that they will really figure out who you are.

Blake suggests that if you’re smart, you can come up with a way to market yourself on Facebook intentionally for a prospective employer.

Post things that are for everyone, a piece of your life that you are willing to share with the rest of the world. For example, post pictures of yourself travelling while studying abroad or participating in a community outreach activity that you’re a part of like operation spring break challenge. DON’T post pictures of partying and doing keg stands.

Internships have become synonymous for many students with a summer job, but their worth is really invaluable and they are essential to gaining contacts and recommendations. In addition, by volunteering for organizations like the American Red Cross you can meet a whole new group of people that can now be a part of your network.

“The students I see landing jobs are the ones who are prepared, they have taken the time to brand themselves, made sure that their resumes are really buttoned up and their cover letters super targeted,” Blake said.

All of this boils down to working behind the scenes of the application process on a series of steps that can be broken down to a formula for success. The following are Blake’s tips on the holy grail of job applications: the resume, the cover letter, and the interview.

The cover letter is one of the number one pieces to the application puzzle. The formula for success is detailed and specific. Blake explains that the first paragraph should focus on the organization or the person you are writing to, highlighting what impresses you by complimenting them on their accolades. The second paragraph is an explanation of one or two of your strengths and a description of how those strengths can contribute to the potential employer. Next, in the third paragraph, the cover letter should show an example of your strengths in action that could relate to the employer. And last, but not least, you should describe what your next steps will be and what your plan is for your future career.

THE RESUME The purpose of the resume is to tell your

story. “Each and every person has a completely different story and part of the art of putting a resume together is to make sure that their story is being told,” Blake said.

Blake describes the top three things that employers look for as experience, leadership, and drive. Prospective employers are looking for a resume that lists experience like an internship. Next on the list is leadership, which could be a student government experience on campus, being president of a club, or orchestrating a fundraising initiative. Lastly, Blake said employers are looking for drive and vision.

“I want somebody who’s not thinking about the job today, but someone who is thinking about their career, their long term objective, their career vision,” Blake said.

Also, try to avoid the cookie-cutter student resume. When applicants list their career objective as working at the company they are applying to work for it comes across as being short sighted and insincere.

THE INTERVIEW

For Blake, the interview is a tight process based on the consultative selling process that includes six steps. In descending order the interview process Blake teaches is as follows: connect, value proposition, ask questions, make recommendation, request feedback, and close. The aim of consultative interviewing is to connect with the interviewer and share the promise of your value or worth. By asking questions you can collaborate to suggest solutions. This allows the interviewee to establish a dialogue and rapport with the interviewer that makes the process into a constructive conversation.

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The Aftermath: UNH in the Wake of the State Budget Cuts Mickey Fisher

IF YOU DIDN’T KNOW ANY BETTER, YOU MIGHT think that UNH is soldiering on as usual. You might think that nothing has really changed, in spite of the budget cuts that rocked the school this summer.

If that’s what you think, then you can thank David Proulx, the Assistant Vice President for Financial Planning and Budgeting.

“Our goal was to make sure the students didn’t notice anything,” he explained to me in a recent interview, where he let me in on the facts about the cuts and how they’ve affected UNH so far.

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Truth is, hard times have fallen on UNH. Last spring, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted through a bill that would cut funding to the University System of New Hampshire by 45 percent.

Recently, the system has paid out $100 million to the four colleges under its control (UNH, Plymouth State, Keene State, and Granite State) and of that $100 million, UNH was granted $67 million. Governor John Lynch called for a much more reasonable 5 percent cut and there were hopes that the Senate would keep this in mind when the bill came to them.

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Instead, they amended the bill to be a 48 percent cut and passed it as such. So the University System of New Hampshire lost out on $48 million, $33 million of which was supposed to go to UNH. It takes around $550 million to run UNH every year, so this was a significant blow to the school.

So how does UNH go about making up that missing $33 million of state funding? Firstly, through planning. Different scenarios were drawn up for how UNH would react financially, based on the amount of money that they expected to lose from the state.

When the cuts finally came, there was already a plan in place to deal with the school losing the amount of money that it did. “Our primary focus was to reduce costs and go to tuition increases as a very last resort,” Proulx clarified, which meant salary and hiring freezes. Previously unoccupied teaching positions were left unfilled and no employee could get a raise. As of now there are between 50 and 60 unfilled positions at UNH, as well as 15 layoffs. Professors who met specific criteria (being at least 59 years old and having taught at UNH for at least 10 years) were offered Separation Incentive Plans (SIPs) to retire early and cut down on the cost of employing them. Medical and retirement benefits have also been reduced for certain employees.

The cost of maintaining UNH has also taken a big hit, although you might not be able to tell that either, due to the large amount of construction going on every day around campus. The area across the street from Stoke Hall is being cleared for a new business college, paid for with money from various donors.

This undertaking was not impacted by the budget cuts, but the rest of the construction across campus has been. The renovations seen around Main Street are the bare minimum of what needed to get done.

Normally UNH has around $13 million set aside every year for construction and maintenance, but it was nowhere near enough this year. It also puts off repairs on halls that have needed attention for years; Hamilton-Smith being the first one to come to mind.

The last resort for coming up with the remainder of the $33 million dollars this year was to raise tuition. But when all was said and done, there was still $10 million unaccounted for. UNH decided to pay $5 million out of their own savings and raise the

last $5 million through tuition. This amounted to an extra $650 on every in-state student’s fall bill. To poor college students $650 is a lot of money and there’s no reason to expect more aid to come from the state next year.

Luckily, UNH has not only been cutting costs, but finding new ways to generate revenue streams for the years ahead. They plan on holding more fundraisers than they have in the past as well as trying to increase the amount of private donations that alumni send back to the school. One of these ways has been partnerships like Navitas and J-Term. Some of the extra money generated comes from more unusual sources, such as through royalties made on patents in horticultural areas.

UNH is also developing a number of new plans to keep them above water in the future. One such plan is a “3+3 program” in the law school, which would allow students three years in an undergraduate program and three years to get their law degree. Outside of the law school, there are attempts to create a three year undergraduate program to give students an accelerated option in their quest for education.

There are also attempts to commercialize some of the innovations that are being made in UNH’s research departments.

Although times are hard now, Proulx has faith that UNH will find ways to pull through the cuts. He urged concerned students to do just that – show concern for not only their school, but their UNH experience as well. “There’s going to be a breaking point for students, and a lot of students have already gotten past that breaking point, and can’t afford to come here. That’s not the model we want to have, or should have,” he said, aware of the challenges ahead but hopeful of our ability as a university to overcome them. For now, UNH is finding ways to stop students from having to face that breaking point, but it will take more sacrifice and more innovation to maintain our school’s status as a premiere university.

Deepest thanks go out to David Proulx for this interview and the information included in this article.

If you feel the need to discuss the budget cuts and what you can do about them, you can contact him at his office in Thompson Hall.

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Talking Heads

Newt Gingrich

Mitt Romney

The Yawn

The Winner???

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h Newt, when will you learn? Embarrassing revelations about extra-marital affairs? Zero charisma?

Campaign staff dropping left and right? Nothing deters you...absolutely nothing.

Okay, okay, we get it, he has plenty of political experience.

But with mounting setbacks, it’s becoming clear that that’s the only thing going for him. And last we checked, funds and supporters were pretty crucial parts to getting elected.

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itt Romney has been seen as the race’s front-runner since day one.

Largely seen as a moderate alternative to Perry and Bachmann, the former Massachusetts governor has been dogged by his Mormon faith and signing Commonwealth Care into law in 2006 (read: the healthcare model that Obamacare is based on.

Note all of the angry riots in Massachusetts over this dreaded form of socialism...)

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Ron Paul

Jon Huntsman

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ormerly President Obama’s ambassador to China, Huntsman is a fiscal conservative who believes in global warming and has voiced support of civil unions in his home state of Utah. He is easily the most moderate candidate in the field, and will probably spend most of his campaign trying to shake off the fact that his former boss is the most powerful Democrat in the country.

The Economy: Candidates are all critical of the Federal Reserve (Rick Perry has gone so far as to call it a “treasonous” organization). Most candidates support spending cuts, lowered financial regulation, and tax cuts for both small businesses and large corporations. Only Ron Paul disapproves of tax cuts for corporations or corporate leaders (he supports tax cuts for small businesses).

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he ultimate libertarian, Paul has been called “the intellectual godfather” of the Tea Party. That being said, he seriously embarrasses the GOP elite/media, who are trying their very best to ignore him completely, thus dampening his election chances. Probably because libertarianism and conservatism are two very different things, and Paul does not follow talking points very well.

Foreign Policy and Wars: Candidates largely support bolstering the nation’s defense program and America’s involvement overseas. They are somewhat divided on President Obama’s timetable for withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. Most have expressed their desire to bring the troops home, but disagree on what the date of withdrawal should be.

2012: the presidential race of partisanship, polarization, and unnaturally photogenic candidates. Looking at this field of contenders, it’s extremely difficult to be objective. Nevertheless, here they are…the shining eight! With a healthy dose of sarcasm, we give you a breakdown of who they are, how they are doing, and what their stances are on important issues.

Rick Santorum

Herman Cain

Michele Bachmann

The Mis-step The MAN’S Man

The Vitriol

The Zealot

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he senator from Pennsylvania is fiscally and socially conservative and known for his crazy and selfdamaging political moves, like equating homosexuality to pedophilia and bestiality. This particular incident earned him a severe Google-bomb from gay writer/activist Dan Savage (Google ‘Santorum’ if you want to find out what it is...but there’s a big gross out factor. Oh, and there’s also no chance he’s winning the primary.)

Rick Perry

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hat hair! That smile! The former Texas governor is 110% American and is not going to let you forget it. Sure, he’s better looking than Dubya, but some are already questioning whether his initial hype can carry him to the nomination. With slipping poll numbers and poor debate performances, we’ll have to wait and see if Perry’s hype fizzles or translates to a solid candidacy.

Social Issues: Again, we have a consensus.

All candidates except Paul, (the erstwhile libertarian), oppose gay marriage, but they run the gamut from comparing homosexuality to alcholism (Perry), to supporting civil unions (Huntsman). Abortion is a no-go, and many candidates support defunding Planned Parenthood.

ain, a former CEO and businessman, is running a campaign based on fiscal conservatism and apparent fear of Muslims. Cain has been quoted saying he would not appoint a Muslim to his cabinet because he is afraid Sharia law would set in soon after. However, Cain recently bested Rick Perry in the Florida Straw Poll and has also won voters choice awards. Possible upset in the works?

Global Warming and Energy: Only two candidates - Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman, believe that global warming is real, caused by human activity, and have expressed supporting alternative energies (in addition to gas, coal, etc). Many of the rest dispute that global warming even exists. Drill, baby, drill.

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achmann is Christian to her core. Religion dominates her on every front.

Evolution? Nope. Global warming? Doesn’t exist. Gay rights? Homosexuality is obviously a choice. A former tax attorney for the IRS (note the dreaded ‘T’ word...), Bachmann has a terrifying record that mixes religious zealotry and conspiracy theories with a vast pool of ignorance.

Healthcare: Repealing Obamacare is universal with Republicans. The alternatives they’re proposing? A privatized, market-based healthcare system where each state controls the options. On the issue of repealing popular programs Medicare and Medicaid, however, candidates are treading far more lightly.

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UNH Sustainability Gets Gold

by Ella Nilsen

“You go to a school that’s been doing sustainability longer and better than pretty much anybody around,” says Sara Cleaves, Sustainability Academy Associate Director. And she’s right.

A lot of people don’t think of UNH and sustainability in the same sentence. Maybe hockey, maybe Hallowcoming or great dining halls. But with the oldest endowed sustainability program in the nation, and multiple programs leading the way in the field, UNH recently achieved a gold rating from independent organization STARS. STARS, a highly regarded and widely used program, has set the standard for sustainability in higher education. Out of 286 schools that have been registered and ranked by the program, UNH is one of 24 that have made gold. It’s official; we are really good.

But even with such a record, the university still has a lot of work to do.

“There’s room for UNH to improve,” says Cleaves, “we need to keep upping the ante.” Cleaves emphasizes student involvement to help UNH at the front of other schools.

“To have a STARS Gold rating, means that you’re part of a place where the opportunities for you to really make UNH and the world a better place…they’re here,” Cleaves says. “You don’t have to create stuff from scratch. So take advantage of it.”

Interested in getting involved? Take your pick of the area you’re interested in, whether it is food, climate, or energy.

Take some classes, talk to your professors, and get involved!

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Energy:

85% of UNH is powered by clean energy that is converted from methane from the Rochester landfill, the first university in the nation to do so. Ever wonder what the big white smokestack with no smog coming out of it is? Exactly.

Transportation:

Did you know? UNH has the largest transportation system in the state. Furthermore, 85% of our diesel fleet run on biodiesel, and the university compressed natural gas provides cleaner fuel to even more university vehicles. Check out the free CatCycles bike rental program or get out of town with ZipCar, Amtrak, or C&J Buses!

Food and Dining:

UNH’s highly ranked dining program buys 22 percent of its food from local growers. Dining composts all of the food waste generated at UNH’s Kingman Farm, composting between 25,000-40,000 pounds of food each month.

Student Involvement:

Student groups on campus include UNH CAN, SEAC, Trash2Treasure, the Energy Club, Ecological Advocates, and Slow Food. Get involved, or just turn off your lights, unplug appliances and chargers when not in use, and recycle! Everything counts!

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Student Spotlight:

Nick Murray

By Travis Harsin

With primary season in full swing and Republican candidates making headlines daily, political fervor in New Hampshire is kicking into high gear. Among those who are getting involved is UNH senior Nick Murray.

Among his many titles, the 20-year-old is currently the Seacoast Field Coordinator and NH College Coordinator for former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson’s presidential campaign.

“It’s going pretty well, but there’s definitely a lot of work that needs to get done,” he said about the campaign.

“Most candidates are outspending us three to one. It’s a challenging aspect, but its base-level politics at its most basic level,” he said.

Murray served as the New Hampshire state chair for Young Americans for Liberty, the libertarian student political group on campus, and last February, he helped bring both Gov. Johnson and fellow presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul to campus for open forum discussions with Durham residents. He’s also one of the founders of UNH’s National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), a student political group that was awarded “Best New Organization” by Student Organization Services in 2010.

Originally from Scotch Plains, NJ, Nick Murray has been involved with the world of politics since his years in high school.

Despite his friendly demeanor, he isn’t one to hold back his opinions when it comes to discussing politics and his true passion: marijuana reform.

“I feel that more people should be willing to be up front about their marijuana use,” Murray said.

“I’m obviously a motivated person and I’m working to make a career out of my passion, and this happens to be my passion.”

His involvement on campus has not only granted him opportunities in the political world, but has also led to some close friendships. Evan West, a freshman associate member of Lambda Ki Alpha and a member of NORML, describes Murray as “a workhorse.” The two met through NORML and started to spend time together outside the organization. “(Nick) really throws himself head-on into whatever he’s doing, and that’s something I’ve noticed about him from the start,” West said. “He definitely possesses leadership qualities, but is also more than happy to give others a chance to shine.”

Jennifer Hall, another member of NORML and the YAL, is a close friend of Murray and helped him manage both groups. The two bonded through similar political beliefs, a love for the same kinds of music, and being Boston Red Sox fans.

“Nicholas is my boy,” Hall wrote in an e-mail response. “We work really well together and he is quick to help me out if I am pressed for time. He is really fun to hang out with and really likes to dance. He is hard working and is the man who can get things done on campus.”

With such strong leadership skills, it’s not surprising that Murray is handling two campaign positions at the same time. As the Seacoast Field Coordinator for Johnson’s campaign, he seeks out and organizes volunteers for local events, parties, and other gatherings. As College Coordinator, he attempts to start student groups supporting Gov. Johnson at various colleges around the state. UNH is one of those colleges and has recently founded its own supporter group.

“I’ve been doing all this stuff for the past two years, meeting all these people, and this was pretty much what I was going for,” he said.

Gov. Johnson is one of the lesser-known Republican presidential candidates. Because of this, he is often omitted from the national political scene, including popularity polls conducted by big-time networks such as CNN and Fox News. Despite this fact however, Murray isn’t bothered.

“Not many people are motivated to go beyond the standard set to them,” Murray said. “If you set that bar high as a leader, you’re challenging everybody else to pick themselves up. You can’t learn anything if you just win all the time.”

After primary season is over, Murray plans to return to UNH next semester to finish his undergraduate studies. He hopes that more students become involved in primary season as the big day comes closer.

“If you voted for (President) Obama in ’08, if you were rooting for the Democrats in 2010, you need to pay attention,” he said. “If you’re a Republican or a conservative, you need to pay attention to these primaries because it’s going to set the tone for a lot of things later on. You can’t be so sure that the president is going to win. He’s going to have a challenge and it’s going to depend on who the Republicans pick.”

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