Volume 92, Issue 9 | November 16, 2011
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No. 7 Chargers Soar Past Hawks, NE-10 Champions
MANCHESTER, N.H. - The nationally ranked No. 7 University of New Haven football team defeated Saint Anselm College 59-17 Saturday afternoon at Grappone Stadium. With the win, the Chargers wrap up a perfect Division II and North-
quarterback Ryan Osiecki (Seymour, Conn./Seymour / Univ. of Louisville). The Seymour, Conn. native connected on 21of-30 attempts for 391 yards and five touchdowns with one interception. Osiecki also ran for another touchdown for a total of six on the day. His top receiver was Jason Thompson (Stuart, Fla./South Fork ) that totaled 163 yards and two touchdowns
east-10 Conference season with a 10-1 overall record and an 8-0 NE-10 record. New Haven finished with a 10-0 record in Division II as well. The Hawks fell to 1-9 overall and 1-7 in the Northeast-10. The Chargers threw for 421 yards and ran for another 166 to total 587 offensive yards in the win. UNH’s passing game was led by a stellar performance by
on five catches. Kameel Lashley (Boston, Mass./Boston Comm. Leadership Academy) also enjoyed over 100-yards receiving with 128 yards and two touchdowns on five receptions. Quarterback Ronnie Nelson (Stuart, Fla./South Fork ) led the Chargers’ rushing game with 107 yards on 10 carries, while Mike DeCaro (Weston, Fla./Cypress Bay ) added 36 yards and one
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touchdown on 10 carries. Defensively, Desmond Anderson (Jacksonville, Fla./Edward H. White / Becker College) led the Chargers with nine tackles and one interception. J.D. Chalifoux (Mansfield, Mass./ Mansfield) added two interceptions and three tackles in the win. Rob Hill (Suffield, Conn./ Suffield / Dean Junior College) also played a great game from his defensive end position, totaling two pass breakups and two tackles-for-loss, including one sack. Tom Herd (Sparta, N.J./Sparta ) and Ahmet Baki Basci (Fair Lawn, N.J./Fair Lawn) added two tackles-for-loss as well. New Haven won the toss and chose to defer to the second half, starting on defense. After forcing the Hawks to got three-and-out, New Haven marched the ball down the field on three plays, including a 42-yard pass and catch from Osiecki to Thompson to open the drive. On the fourth play, the Chargers were on the Saint Anselm eight yard line, but could not punch it in and Chris Scifo (Coral Springs, Fla./St. Thomas Aquinas / Central Connecticut State University) came
By ISAAK KIFLE STAFF WRITER
–––––––––––––––––––––––––– On Thursday, November 10, the Music Department and Honors Program organized a trip to the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. A bus packed with students, led by Music Chair Michael Kaloyanides and Honors Program Coordinator Lynne Resnick, went to Woolsey Hall in New Haven to watch a concert titled Kavafian Plays Mozart, featuring violinist Ani Kavafian. Before the concert started, students had the chance to go to Yale University’s Oral History of American Music a short walk away from Woolsey to listen to a brief lecture by Libby Van Cleve, the director. Cleve spoke on Charles Ives, the composer of The Unanswered Question (1906), one of the other pieces included in the concert. Adding to the lecture were several recordings by close friends and associates of Ives, who gave insight into Ives’ brilliant and quirky personality, which helped give the audience a better understanding of his piece when it was heard later that night. Following the lecture, students preceded into Woolsey
Hall for the concert. It began with Music Director and Concert Composer William Boughton giving a brief introduction and overview of the concert, then beginning with the first piece of the night: Le tombeau de Couperin (1914-17) by Maurice Ravel. Despite the title (referring to Baroque composer Francois Couperin) translating to “Couperin’s grave,” the four-movement piece seemed to dance off the page and possess a very whimsical yet elegant presence in the concert hall. The second and primary performance of the concert was Mozart’s Violin Concerto no. 1 in B-flat Major, K.207. This three movement piece featured soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician Ani Kavafian, who has performed with the New York Philharmonic and the symphony orchestras of Philadelphia and San Francisco, among many of America’s other leading orchestras. The audience burst into applause the moment Kavafian walked onto stage, yet was mesmerized with silence once the performance began. Kavafian’s performance on her violin was stunning and the accompaniment consisting of the other strings See KAVAFIAN page 6
“Hostage Situations in New York City”
By ANA ABRAHAM STAFF WRITER
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Last Tuesday, November 8, a small group gathered in the quiet third floor of the Marvin K. Peterson Library to listen to the latest Friends of the UNH Library speech. Dr. David Schroeder, an assistant professor of Criminal Justice and also an Assistant Dean of the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences here at UNH, gave a talk entitled “Hostage Situations in New York City”. Dr. Schroeder explained that there is a surprising lack of research into what works and what doesn’t in terms of hostage situations. So, Dr. Schroeder has been doing research with the NYPD’s Hostage Negotiation Team (or HNT). He explained the difference between hostage and barricade situations, and the differences between real life occurrences and media portrayal. A barricade situation is usually a one-person situation, and a hostage situation, by definition, begins the moment a suspect takes another person under control and subjects that person to the risk of bodily harm in order to further criminal actions or in order to facilitate escape. Hollywood, Dr. Schroeder stated, depicts hostage situations as occurring for one of three reasons: to aid in the release of prisoners, for money, or for their own escape. He says that in real life, See NE-10 CHAMPIONS page 12 hostage takers are people who generally have no greater criminal aspirations. Generally speaking, they’re just people who have “had enough and snap.”
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They often take out their aggression on whoever happens to be around, and that can possibly explain why many hostage situations involve family members. Dr. Schroeder described the HNT as a group of ordinary police officers in New York City who are situated throughout the boroughs, but have specialized training in the art of Hostage Negotiation. He said that not everyone is cut out to be a negotiator and that the NYPD and the federal government have different methods of negotiation. The NYPD is much more patient. They will talk to a suspect for as long as the suspect keeps talking. The idea that somewhere, a clock is ticking is a moot point to this elite team, because they will continue to negotiate until they either achieve the favorable outcome, where no one is hurt, or until they are no longer able to. If the situation turns violent, then and only then will a tactical team go in like they do in the movies. Dr. Schroeder also presented some interesting facts that his research with the NYPD brought up. In New York City, the most likely day of the week for an incident to occur that calls for the HNT is a Tuesday. Also, hostage situations tend to favor no season. Hostage situations also include intimate partner or family situations, although the majority of hostage takers are men. The NYPD HNT responds to an average of four situations weekly. This is why Dr. Schroeder stressed the need for research in this field, and thus an abundance of possible careers related to such research.
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UNH Professor Explores Chinese Art in a Changing Culture the sometimes conflicted culture of that country. –––––––––––––––––––––––––– Chinese society is one of the oldest on the planet, but that hisWhile UNH Philosophy Pro- tory has been challenged several fessor David Brubaker was in times in the last century. The China this October to speak at first was by Communist dictator
and replace them with newly modernized ones. The Communist regime has significantly moderated since that time, and China has opened up in many ways, including to its own past. In the past two decades, though, increasing globalization and economic growth has presented a new set of challenges. Brubaker had been to China three times prior to his most recent trip, but said that the explosive growth was immediately apparent in the congestion on city roads. “The traffic is fierce,” he said. “There are many, many more cars.” A driver picked Brubaker up at the airport and took him to a hoThis oil-drum dragon by Qiu Zhijie guards the Cafa Biennale art exhibition in Beijing. In tratel 40 minutes from ditional Chinese culture, dragons are benevolent guardians that rule the waters. The use of oil where drums suggests a tension between the natural and modern worlds – a theme that is highly preva- downtown lent in contemporary Chinese art, according to Professor of Philosophy David Brubaker. he would be staying PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID BRUBAKER. for the first event, called the Songtwo events celebrating Chinese Mao Ze Dong, whose famed cul- zhuang Art Festival Academic art, he got a first-hand look at the tural revolution actively sought Forum. Songzhuang is a vilways in which artists represent to destroy all old institutions lage on the edge of Beijing that By BRANDON T. BISCEGLIA STAFF WRITER
See CHINESE ART page 5