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November 7, 2014 • Vol. 60, Issue 5•
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Online Party Programming All the Rage
Students fuel FinnaRage and Smack College, but what's in it for them? Matthew Ormsbee Editor in Chief business cannot thrive without A a viable product. For some, that product is parties, and students
are supplying it for free. FinnaRage and Smack College are two businesses like this, and they have been portrayed by many, including the media, as exploitive and harmful to students.
These popular websites built followings online by supplying videos, pictures, and stories from sex and alcohol-fueled parties. The content comes from the followers and fans of the sites themselves. Most recently, FinnaRage was at Keene State College for the community’s annual Pumpkin Fest. The site claims to provide live entertainment and night life, chronicling the events with photos and videos, which later get posted to their site. The attention
mostly goes to pictures of scantly clad women, known as #RageBabes. The site, which welcomes visitors to “Experience the Rage,” is more a vessel to house numerous links to social media accounts affiliated with the site. Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat are all being used to deliver a glimpse into the party life. Last year, Smack College visited Plymouth State University to video parties on campus in hopes of editing them together to create a viral
sensation. Smack College, which frequently posts content submitted by Plymouth State students, had a successful trip. “We were welcomed very well by the PSU community,” said Sal Listro, the Twitter Director, College Community Lead, and Account Manager for Smack College. “As expected, we had no issues with the police.” Smack College came to Plymouth and recorded numerous parties at off-campus houses and the late-night
scene at Club Phop (now American Pie). “I was at Omega the night Smack College was on campus. Apparently that was the first party they went to,” said an alum who appeared in the video and asked to remain anonymous. “The night that Smack College came to campus was a pretty crazy night. The house was full of a bunch of happy, crazy college students,” said senior Tyler McShinksy, who appeared in the video. Continued on pg 3
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Life Sessions hree teachers at Plymouth State have shaped T the way I’m going to live my life. The first is Michael Fischler. I have never taken
one of his classes. I have interviewed him three times for The Clock. The second interview with him I will remember. I was talking with him about a lecture he had given. It was about the way he changed the way he lived when he was a little older than I am right now. Three things he chose to instill in his life, and three things I will instill in mine: cultivate gratitude and love in life, develop a quiet mind, and always give 100%. “There’s no reason to half-ass anything,” he told me that day. The second is Mark Fischler. He told the whole class to be safe and he loved them after every class. He meant it. I try and hug him every time I see him. Truly caring about others, and by others I mean everyone, is something he has cultivated in me. The third teacher is Terri Dautcher. I talked with her about the FinnaRage and Smack College article. She went off on one of her self-titled “Terri Tangents.” To paraphrase: It is ignorant to walk around blind to everything going on around us. We are being influenced by so many outside factors: parents, friends, media, teachers, etc. about what is right and wrong. The only person who can decide that for myself is me. It’s my judgment that I have to trust. So, from all three, this is how my life will go. Cultivate love and gratitude for everyone around me. Develop a quiet and aware mind. Always give 100%. Make judgments based on my own moral compass. Lastly, never stop learning. I’ve learned from these three, and the thing that’s funny is that the most important things they taught me all happened outside of class. When I graduate, I won’t be ready for a job. I’ll be ready to live. Matthew Ormsbee Editor in Chief
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Students fuel FinnaRage and Smack College, but what's in it for them? Continued from pg 1 The Smack College produced video filmed in Plymouth (none of the venues were on Plymouth State University’s campus), showed partiers drinking, making out, screaming, dancing, and smashing beer cans and bottles over their head. “I was with all my friends dancing, drinking, and just having a good time. Smack College made it a night to remember,” said McShinksy. FinnaRage markets itself as a live entertainment, New England nightlife college tour. It travels to campuses across the region to sponsor and record parties. It recently found itself in headlines because it was present during the riots that transpired in Keene earlier this fall. Pumpkin Fest was an ideal venue for FinnaRage. The event brings in thousands of people and students from across the region, and students on campus routinely throw large parties Pumpkin Fest weekend whether an Internet site will be there or not. “Finnarage is huge on [social media]. They have campus representatives. You can be a campus rep, and help coordinate parties….there were too many factors, it was the perfect weekend for it to happen,” said Vanessa Alander, an adjunct English professor at PSU. Alander believes that the riots, while not caused by FinnaRage, were associated with the extra two to three hundred students that came to the area with the intent to “rage.” When they “rage” got shut down, the situation escalated. “The cops came in and broke the parties up. And then when you shove 300 kids out into the streets what happens? They get mad,” said Alander. “You have 300 kids in a house partying, they’re drunk, they’re pissed that the party is shut down, and now they’re on the streets. There’s nothing else for them to do.” FinnaRage sent out numerous tweets that they had not come to Keene to cause riots. In the video it published of the Keene riots, there is a disclaimer stating: “’What you are about to witness was NOT a FinnaRage Event, nor did we condone
or instigate any of the actions that took place on October 18th-19th 2014, it was all caught on tape’ – Trevor Finney.” Trevor Finney is the owner and founder of FinnaRage Entertainment. He declined to comment when contacted. Melanie Plenda recently wrote an article titled “FinnaRage Wants You to Its Parties. So What if It Ends Up a Riot?” for The Daily Beast. The article outlined the Keene Riots and the heightened energy level that having FinnaRage there influenced. McShinksy highlighted this same idea when talking about the night Smack College was here. “The place was packed and everyone was going nuts because [Smack College] was there and shooting a video. [Smack College] just made the night more fun,” he said. Parties ignited by alcohol and music only get more fuel thrown onto them by the presence of these live entertainment/party websites. Sometimes just the fact that one of these websites will be in an area garners regional attention, drawing college-age people from across the Northeast to a specific campus with the sole intention of partying hard. One of these plagues of partiers was rumored to be on its way to PSU over Halloween. Through FinnaRage’s Twitter account, Plymouth State University was set as its target location for the holiday weekend. Administration responded, asking for heightened police presence and sending out an email to students reminding them about the student code of conduct and stating: It is important for all students to be aware that negative behaviors or violations of local, state, or federal law either on- or off-campus, in or out of town, are a violation of University policy. Students are also responsible for the actions of their guests. Certain violations may result in suspension and/or expulsion. While the majority of students understand and abide by the behavioral expectations that are in place, some choose otherwise. Please use the influence that you have as a peer to remind your fellow students of our community expectations.
Let your own behavior be a positive model for others. Do not let anybody discredit the quality and integrity of your education or PSU. The state of New Hampshire also answered to the riots in Keene and the planned FinnaRage visit to PSU. “The Attorney General’s Office is in contact with the Department of Safety and local officials as they closely monitor the situation,” said William Hinkle, press secretary for Hassan, in an interview with The Union Leader. “Governor Hassan continues to work with law enforcement, higher education and local communities to learn from the irresponsible, terrible actions in Keene and help minimize these events in the future.” Nothing of note occurred over Halloween weekend, and FinnaRage never showed up. When asked over Twitter why they had decided not come to Plymouth, the official FinnaRage Twitter account replied, “because the media has twisted our image, and does not condone our live entertainment.” This claim from FinnaRage isn’t farfetched. The discussions about these party entertainment websites, through both word of mouth and the media, have negative connotations attached to them. Numerous people feel that these websites exploit students. Neither McShinksy nor the anonymous alum received compensation for appearing in the Smack College video, nor did any students who appeared in the FinnaRage Keene video. Moreover, some students who appeared in the FinnaRage video faced consequences for their recorded activities. Neither McShinksy nor the anonymous alum faced consequences for appearing in the Smack College video. These businesses use students to generate their content. Smack College, which was founded in January, has close to 600,000 daily readers/ followers, gets 70 million views per week, and 80, interactions per day. “Our goal is to post real content from college students while moderating any content that we feel oversteps the bounds of reason and directly targets
PSU Hosts NH Young Women’s Conference Debbie Grotheer For the Clock he President’s Commission on T the Status of Women hosted the second NH Young Women’s Con-
ference this past Sat., Oct. 24. This half-day session, led by Plymouth State students, was well attended by
local teens who joined together for workshops on body image, creative expression, and building strong, healthy relationships. “Today is all about you,” said Jessica Dutille, Chair of the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, in an opening message to the group gathered in PSU’s HUB Hage room.
Plymouth State’s President Sara Jayne Steen was present to impart a few words of wisdom on the young women. “My life was transformed [by education],” said President Steen, stressing the importance of education. “You are going to change the world,” she told the young participants.
individuals,” said Listro. One hundred percent of their content is studentsubmitted, and all Listro and Smack College’s team of Giuseppe Stuto, co-founder and business & product lead; Frank Iudiciani, co-founder and marketing & operations lead; Anthony Lopez, Twitter director, high school community lead, and account manager; and Rachel Connor, Smack College New England account manager do is “screen for content that they feel may inappropriately target an individual and refrain from posting such content. If some content is deemed inappropriate due to it being reported to our attention, they immediately remove the content” according to Listro. This is not an uncommon practice for online businesses. “I think it’s just important to remember the business model behind it, and the business model needs to be transparent,” said Terri Dautcher, a contract faculty member who teaches marketing classes. “The business model, like lots of good web businesses, has figured out ways to have consumers generate content. That consumer generated content is what drives traffic.” Yes, students are being exploited by these websites, but they are doing so voluntarily. “Facebook is a good example. Facebook has grown into a multibillion dollar industry by having people share content with each other voluntarily. That allows [Facebook] to sell advertising,” said Dautcher. Smack College currently does not generate any revenue from their site. “Though we do get several offers to advertise on a daily basis, we want to be extra careful that we do not disrupt the user experience, especially during this stage of rapid countrywide growth,” said Listro. The students who appear in these video also don’t mind that they are feeding the sites with content. “It was a fun night with my friends, and I would do it all over again,” said McShinksy. “I think I would do it again, skipping the part where I was in the video. Although it’s hard to tell it was me unless you know me, you still never know who could come across it
and how it could affect your image. However, I did have a lot of fun…I don’t regret it,” said the anonymous alum. Students have this right. They can choose not to care about where their image winds up, and even though the two PSU students have not faced consequences for appearing in the Smack College video, some students from the Keene riots have gotten into trouble for appearing in online videos. “I think there could be long term consequences that I hope students are aware of before they participate in things like that,” said Dautcher. Though, she does feel that students have the right to choose what they participate in. “I think that anybody has the right to choose with awareness to share [their image]. I don’t just think in [these] case[s] some of these businesses haven’t been transparent in how they are doing it. I think it has bit some students at Keene, and I know it has bit some of my students in the past,” she said. “There’s a sense of really wanting to set people up to do activities that have real media appeal….bust out of the normative behavior kind of thing.” What Dautcher stresses, though, isn’t the students’ actions, but the lack of mindfulness they possess, and not even specifically with Smack College or FinnaRage. “Everything in life is buyer, and it’s up to us to think about our world around us,” she said. Students make choices every day, and Dautcher hopes that students are using their own moral compass when navigating through their life. She also hopes that the direction is coming from within students, not influenced by others, herself, Smack College, and FinnaRage included. “The only thing I care about as a teacher is that students are mindful of what they are doing, and that they are using their power and their potential in the way that serves them best in their opinion,” she said. FinnaRage and Smack College have been portrayed by many as exploitive and harmful to students, but that’s up for them to decide.
Alisha Poisant, a 19-year-old student at Lakes Region Community College and a member of the LRCC Student Senate, came to the conference from Laconia, NH. “I am hoping to gather information on empowerment of young women and bring it back to my school and friends to teach others. I was here two years ago and learned so much,” she said. Attendees were given an “I am Beautiful – 30 Day Challenge” by PSU students senior Monica McKeon Saia, graduate student Samantha Diemand, and senior Kendra Makos. The three hosted a seminar on “Redefining Beauty,” a discussion forum about media’s portrayal of beauty standards
which noted the importance of discussion around the media. “When you teach others, you learn yourself,” said Saia. Diemand explained the reason she participates in these events. “The girls look up to us,” she said. “As a woman, it is our job to empower other women,” said Makos. The event ended with a display of Plymouth State’s female talent. PSU’s all-female a capella group, “Mixed Emotion,” serenaded the girls with two powerful songs, “Summer Breeze” and “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough,” leaving the girls empowered and ready to take on the world.
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Pumpkin Painting with PAW Sarah Liebowitz For the Clock
tudents emS braced their inner two-year-old on
Thur. Oct. 23 as they got down into some hardcore Halloween arts and crafts. Pumpkin painting, the less violent cousin of pumpkin carving, still proved a festive and creative activity. Miniature pumpkins the size of grapefruits were transformed into cats, jack-o’-lanterns, skeletons, and
pink balls of glitter. “My favorite thing about Halloween is carving pumpkins with my family,” said Jen Tepper, a junior at Plymouth State University. She created a black cat with pipe cleaner ears. “I’m going to put it in my apartment. I’m going to have all my roommates see it, and I’m going to keep it until it rots.” Freshman Meredith Ryan is going to give her pumpkin to a friend. She
was attracted to this activity because she “wanted to get the whole college experience. And by college experience, I mean painting pumpkins on Thirsty Thursday,” she said. Sophomore Silmegy Vega wanted to try something new. “I barely carve or do anything with pumpkins. That’s why I did this,” she said. “Last time I carved pumpkins was five or six years ago. Nobody really saw them because I was on a mountain.”
When Sophomore Elizabeth Taper finished painting her bloody pumpkin, she passed the time by rubbing paintbrushes on her face. “I like the feel of paint brushes,” she said. When the pumpkins ran out, PAW gave out wooden birdhouses. There were also a variety of muffins to snack on while the paint dried. By the time the event was over at 11p.m., a number of students had beautifully decorated produce to bring home and brighten their living quarters with.
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The First Fire is More Than Just a Tradition Jessie Stevens For the Clock ast Wednesday, the First Fire L of the year took place in the HUB’s Fireplace Lounge. First Fire is
an event that has been a part of Plymouth State University’s history for the past four years and was presented by Student Life. Coffee, donuts and mugs were all present to bring the PSU community together. People crowded around the fireplace, talking about the latest news. As a bystander listening, all that was heard was a bunch of noise as well as anticipation for the first fire of the year. Mugs were waiting to be taken, a keepsake that would help students remember their first or last fire for years and years to come. Acting as a way to bring the PSU community together on a cold and rainy day, this was the perfect day
for a fire to be lit. Old and young, people gathered around to witness an event that has become a tradition in such a short amount of time here at PSU. Music started to play and people started to talk louder to be heard over the music. The mugs from all four years were displayed on the podium. All around, people began to quiet down as the lighting of the first fire began. The beauty of it was captured by a poem being read aloud. The lighting of the fire symbolized a community coming together and being able to enjoy each other’s company. It was the perfect way to start conversation with strangers with the smell of coffee and donuts in the air. When talking with another student about the first fire of the year, there was a lot to be said. Mickayla Damon, a freshman at PSU, was asked a few questions and answered them with
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honesty. There is a lot to be said about tradition and community building. As a first year student what did you think of your first First Fire event?
It was interesting to see a tradition, and to be a part of it. What did you love most about the event? The hot drinks and free mugs.
Do you think this tradition should be kept, and why? Yes, because it symbolizes more than just a fire. It brings together people and the PSU community.
A Gift of Art Kelly Goodwin Production Manager lymouth State University had P the pleasure of accepting quite a gift from quite the character. For-
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mer student Ted Ellis from Bridgewater, NH decided to donate his collection of artwork and books that he acquired throughout his travels as a Merchant Marine to the university. Ellis visited PSU with his canine friend named Wolf to drop off all of the items he was donating. At the end of his visit, he told stories about his experiences and memories of some of the artists and artwork he was donating. At 84-years old, he had a spectacular collection of not only artwork, but also incredible stories from his travels. “He revealed to us that he chose us because of the wonderful experience he had while attending Plymouth
State for a couple of years in the 1940s,” said Elanie Allard, Interim Dean of Library and Academic Support Services. Ted Ellis spent two years at PSU in the late 1940s as an undergraduate before finishing his education at the University of New Hampshire. His time here at Plymouth was full of fond memories. “My best educational experience was with this institution…here, it all felt like a small town I belonged in. I thought the best place for me to give the artwork was here. People can share it with all your students,” said Ellis. He later became a very adept Merchant Marine, guiding cargo ships throughout oceans in all different parts of the world for more than 50 years. Gaining different perspectives of the world around him, Ellis has always pursued his hobby of collecting artwork. Throughout his travels with the Merchant Marines, he has collected an array of pieces from several well-known artists such as
David Hockney, Thomas Nason, and Rockwell Kent. Some pieces are even signed by the artists, making them that much more special. The collection also includes a couple of local artists, such as Herbert Waters and Christopher Morse, who was a PSU graduate. Most of the pieces are beautifully done woodcuts and engravings. Ellis’s generous contribution of nearly 60 pieces of art and several interesting books is much appreciated by students and faculty of PSU. “We are very honored to receive the collection of art from Mr. Ellis,” said Allard. “His wish is to make sure students can view and enjoy the collection. We appreciate his donation and generosity and look forward to exhibiting these pieces.” There is an exhibit to honor Ted Ellis’s kind gift and to show some of the marvelous artwork he has donated. The exhibit is located on the main floor of Lamson Library.
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Ladies of The Clock Emmett Warren News Editor ggy Pop is playing on Kelly I Goodwin’s computer, Nina Weinstein is working with her team of photographers to take pictures for our cover, and Libby Barden is learning how to layout the paper. I’m in the office at 8 p.m. tonight, it’s chaotic, but also exciting. Everyone is working hard to meet this week’s deadline. With the bustle of bodies in motion, I’m noticing for the first time how many young women actually work here. My amazing assistant Nichole Currier has looked through pages of articles, finding the small details that will often go over my head. And then there’s Rachel Perelli, our managing editor, running in and
out as she juggles her busy schedule of tutoring, homework, and singing in her a Capella group Mixed Emotions. Even our weekly contributors Sarah Liebowitz and Cassie Pearson are here helping out wherever they are needed. The difference between The Clock and every other organization on campus is how much time every member spends working in the office every week. Editors are in here until 3 a.m., reading off bright screens and printed pages. The fact that we have so many women in executive positions is a testament to campus organizations, not only in Plymouth but across the nation. Kelly spends an average of seven hours staring at a computer screen on print week nights, making this paper look clean and organized every issue. “I wanted it to look nice this week,” I hear her say. I laugh, because even
on our worst weeks when the stories are boring and the errors are aplenty, the one thing I know we continue to do right is design the paper. This is all done by Kelly, who keeps calm despite a rowdy office and missed deadlines. I admire how hard this woman has worked for the past year, but I have never fully appreciated it until this semester, seeing her commitment to her passion during these late hours. She even wrote her first article for the paper this week. If you take one thing away from this column, it’s that Kelly cares. Libby is in a field of her own as well. Working as a CA in the White Mountain apartments, a feat unto itself, she somehow finds time to write and edit stories every week. An ambitious student who took a mind-opening trip to India this past summer, she helped teach English to children and adults spanning from 1 to 32 years old. Academically, she’s on
pace to graduate a year early. You go Glen Coco. Nichole has to win some sort of award. I must fire her at least ten times each week, but she keeps coming back. She writes articles that I hardly need to edit, and edits articles that are hardly written. I can say without doubt that she impresses me week in and week out. Cassie and Sarah remind me a little bit of myself when I first started. They remain passionate about the job despite the uncertainties they face each week. Words aren’t enough to express how proud I am of all their work. I can only say that wherever they end up in life, the time they spend here will not be for nothing. Not only are they taking skills out of this experience, but I hope they know I won’t forget all they have put in to this paper as well. Lastly, Geneva Sambor, who means more to me than she may ever know. Geneva writes our comics, and even the occasional article. Her constant encouragement and friendship are a breath of fresh air every day, and I can’t imagine getting through this
semester without her. I’m proud of this organization, I’m proud of all the hard work we’ve done for the past 60 years, and tonight, I’m proud of the women in this office who have capitalized on their opportunities.
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Emily E. Lavoie For the Clock any Plymouth State stuM dents have been asking why personal meal swipes are prohibited
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for guests. Other colleges, such as University of New Hampshire and Bentley University, allow students this option. It has been a concern for many students who wish to treat their guest without having to break open their wallet. According to Assistant Vice Principal of Student Affairs, Frank Cocchiarella, the current plan is cheaper and more accommodating to the students. In past years, Plymouth State offered the option to use personal swipes on guests. “People from outside of Plymouth State used to stand in front of Prospect asking students for guest swipes,” said Cocchiarella. He states that, if this plan were intact,
the students would be required to pay more. According to Cocchiarella, the University and Student Affairs create the meal plans, not Sodexo. That being said, since Sodexo provides and runs the operations they do not get a percentage for meals. The university takes the risk for all cost fluctuations. Since some students do not use all of their meals, PSU would end up charging more for fewer utilities. Information was recorded in the recent Student Senate meeting, held on Sep. 28, regarding the concern of using meal swipes for guests. “When changes are needed for the meal plans the board of trustees puts a cap on the dollar figures, so to meet that amount the guest passes needed to be deleted. But, we can and will look into adding this again for the next school year. The only concern is that this will become a non-issue with the addition of using cards downtown,” said Chris Mongeon, a representative
from dining services. As of last month, Student Affairs configured a plan with several downtown businesses that would allow students to use their personal flex cash off campus at specific locations along Main Street. These businesses include Chase St Market, Subway, Mandarin Taste, Biedermans Deli, Café Monte Alto, and Burrito Me. Cocchiarella said that this option is a better and cheaper alternative since it does not cost anyone extra money. According to Cocchiarella, a company called C-Board pays for the banking equipment that accepts flex-cash and charges a percentage of each sale. Cocchiarella and Mongeon said that the option of using flex-cash down town would decrease any issues for students who wish to dine with their guest. Ultimately, this option brings great opportunity and revenue to the downtown businesses that are now a part of the flex-cash plan.
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Trick or Treat at PSU Nichole Currier Assistant News Editor
itches, ghouls, and plenty W of Elsas were seen Tuesday, Oct. 28, when Plymouth State Uni-
versity held its annual Halloween festivities for children in the Plymouth area. Many children showed up to enjoy the pumpkin carving, games, face painting, and of course, the free candy. The children, ranging from infants to young teens, sported a variety of costumes. Everything from homemade minions to very elaborate princess dresses were seen going to and from the different residence buildings. A few children were even willing to talk about the upcoming Halloween holiday. Alexi and Addy, each six years old, came to Geneva Smith Hall to enjoy the pre-Halloween activities. Each girl was dressed in full costume. Alexi was wearing a wonderfully homemade sandwich costume and Addy was dressed as Ana from the Disney movie Frozen. When asked what each girl was most excited about for Halloween, they were eager to give their answers. “I’m most excited to be a sandwich with a bleeding tooth
at school and a ninja turtle at home,” Alexi said. Alexi was not wearing her outfit that night, but was excited to try it out. “I’m most excited about my dress,” Addy said, showing off her long, glimmering Ana dress. The girls debated their favorite candy during the Halloween time, finally agreeing on chocolate. “I like chocolate because I like to have Minecraft,” Alexi said, referring to the video game that has become very popular among younger kids, and has nothing to do with chocolate. “I like chocolate because it’s so chocolaty,” said Addy, showing her robust vocabulary. Addy was looking more than eager to get her hands on some this Halloween. With these girls was ten-year-old Spencer, who sported a very elaborate costume inspired, once again, by Minecraft. His costume consisted of a large head that resembled one of the main characters from the game, giving the wearer the same boxy and pixilated look that the game consists of. When asked about his costume, Spencer explained its relation to Minecraft. “I’m also being Dead Pool,” he said, who is a character from the very popular Marvel comic book series. When asked about his favorite candy, Spencer said, “My favorite candy is Reese’s, probably because
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they have peanut butter in them.” Also attending the festivities were Jadyn, age eight, and Jolene, age seven. “I’m a witch,” said Jadyn, when asked about her costume, “because I got new nails.” Jolene explained that Jadyn was not wearing her new nails at the moment, who chose to leave them at home, and then explained her own costume. “I’m a mannequin, but Mom’s holding my mask. It’s from my favorite movie, Dr. Who.” Each girl showed off their favorite candy that they had received thus far, pulling
out mini bags of pretzels, Airheads, and Whoppers from their buckets. “Pretzels and Airheads are my favorite because they’re fun,” Jadyn said. Both girls said they were looking forward to trick or treating on Halloween night and dressing up for the occasion. Among the big kids were some younger ones who refused to be left out of the Halloween fun. One of these children was five-year-old Giovanna, who agreed to answer a few questions. “I’m a fairy princess,” she said. Giovanna said her favorite
part of Halloween is candy, lollipops being her favorite. Kids of all ages were able to come together to enjoy the activities of the night, leaving with candy, painted faces, and anticipation for the actual night of Halloween. Residential Life puts on the Halloween event every year, and they are often in need of helping hands. Students can contact the office during the Halloween time next year to see if there is any need for extra help.
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Elections Wrap-Up Emmett Warren News Editor ep. Elect Travis Bennett stood R outside Plymouth Elementary School on Tuesday, Nov. 4, campaign-
ing even through polling hours. Students, teachers, parents, and many other members throughout the Holderness community filed in to cast their votes for the 2014 state elections. Democrats took a majority of the seats, as most political experts predicted. However, many of the polls were much closer than the predictions showed. For US Senate, Democrat Jeanne Shaheen narrowly defeated Republican Scott Brown, winning 52 percent of the vote. For the two House seats, Republicans and Democrats split the polls with Republican Marilinda Garcia losing to Democrat Ann Kuster (56 percent), and Republican Frank Guinta slipping by Democrat Carol SheaPorter (52 percent). The race for governor was another captivating contest, with incumbent Democrat Maggie Hassan defeating Republican nominee Walt Havenstein. Four new State Senators were elected as well. Democrats and Republicans split the results with Democrat Jeff Woodburn handily defeating Republican Mark Evans (61 percent) and Democrat David
Watters defeating Republican Eddie Edwards (56 percent). Republicans Jeb Bradley and Jeanie Forrester both won in landslides against Democrats John White (65 percent) and Carolyn Mello (64 percent), respectively. Republicans remain in control of the State Senate 14 to 10. The first student representative, junior Travis Bennett, beat out his Republican opponents alongside Mary Cooney and Suzanne Smith for State Representatives. Travis Bennett will be continuing his year at Plymouth State University, studying political science. Voting was held at the Plymouth Elementary School from eight in the morning until seven o’clock that evening. Several members of the county were in attendance, causing morning traffic to last throughout the afternoon. Various community members spent the day encouraging their fellow citizens to utilize their right to vote, putting out informative signs with the times and locations of the elections. Some students went so far as to spend their afternoon outside, conversing with their peers regarding the importance and necessity of voting. Surely enough, the voices of PSU and the rest of the state were heard by the end of the day. The political climate will continue to heat up over the next two years as American citizens gear up to vote for their country’s next president in November 2016. CLOCK PHOTO/NINA WEINSTEIN
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Student Spotlight Cassidy Spencer Elizabeth Barden Features Editor What year are you and what is your major? I am a junior Social Studies Education major. What makes you different from anyone else (hidden talent, travel experiences, etc.) I think this is a really weird thing, but it’s definitely different [laughs]. One of my friends started an Instagram account last year called “candidcassidy” and it’s just random pictures of me when I’m not paying attention or doing weird things. It’s weird because it started out as a joke between our friend group and then it turned into this huge thing with more than 800 followers. I’ve had a couple people actually stop me and ask if I’m the girl from the Instagram account and I’m like, yep that’s me! I know you are involved in
a lot of things on campus, can you tell me about a few of those activities? I am definitely involved in a lot on campus! I’m a CA in Grafton, part of the Ultimate Frisbee Club, a member of Tau Omega sorority, and I’m a coordinator for Alternative Spring Break. Ultimate Frisbee is super fun, and it’s the club where I met a lot of my current friends. ASB is another really awesome group. ASB is a community service group and we travel during spring break to volunteer in places outside of New England. Since I’m a coordinator this year, I’m leading a group to Lake Barkley State Resort Park in Kentucky. It’s going to be a really fun trip and I’m super excited! You mentioned that you’re in a sorority, how is the Greek life? I am! Tau Omega is a sorority rec-
ognized by Plymouth State and we’re a community service based sorority. The Greek life here at Plymouth is pretty muted, but we’re trying to get people more excited about it. We’re working on teaming up with the other two recognized sororities to do some bigger events for the school. Any advice you would want to give first-year students? I think the most important thing to know is that life is hard. College is hard. Making friends is hard. People are going to judge you, there’s going to be days when you want to quit, but you can’t. Life, especially when you’re in college, throws things at you left and right but that’s what it’s about. You learn from all the difficult things and that’s when you figure out who you are. That’s what college is for, learning how to take the difficult things and grow from them.
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Skate Park Hopes to Complete Fundraising Luke Giacopelli For the Clock ucked behind Main Street T in Plymouth, there is a place where local skateboarders visit to let
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loose, go fast, and ride their skateboards on the concrete jungle called The Skate Park of Plymouth. On any sunny afternoon, over a dozen PSU students can be seen cruising around the park. Some are trying to learn new tricks on the flat rail while a friend captures it on film. Some are a bit more mellow, carelessly carving through the transition in the 7-foot bowl. Regardless of what their intentions are, the skate park contains a tightknit group of people who all share the same love for skateboarding. “It’s a community up here. It’s so easy to make friends with kids that have the same passion for something as you do,” said first-year skateboarder, Shea Beando. The skate park gives people a place to go and be themselves. Despite how incredible the skate park is, there is just one problem. It is not finished. In fact, it is not even half finished. For the past six years, there has been a push from members of the town and members of the Plymouth State Snowboard Club to get a skate park in town. After years of fundraising from
events like skate jams, golf tournaments, dinners, high school dances, and raffles, the first phase of the park was paid for and the concrete started pouring. The park also received help from local donors such as professional snowboarder and local legend Pat Moore, who donated $10,000 to the movement. Alex Ray, the owner and founder of The Common Man family of restaurants, owns the land the skate park is on and leases it to the Skate Park Committee for free. Local business owner, Rich Gowen, has saved the non-profit organization over $40,000 by doing the entire earthwork around the park. What has Plymouth State University done to help with the skate park? “They have been supportive, but can do more. They don’t do much to market it,” said President of the Skate Park Committee, Mike Currier. “They haven’t stood in the way, but they also haven’t done a whole lot. I think they could do a little more considering how many students use the park.” PSU has been a hotbed for snowboarders and skateboarders alike for the past two decades. There are many students who come to this school specifically for the boarding. “There’s more skateboarders here at PSU than any other school. I feel like a part of something,” said Beando. Considering the amount of students who use
the park, it would make sense for the school to be more involved with the skate park and the push to complete the project. As of now, Mike Currier and The Skate Park of Plymouth Committee have raised roughly $120,000. It’s still not enough to build a complete skate park. It cost $65,000 to build the part of the park that is standing now. Insurance alone costs $10,000 a year. The most recent estimate says the park will cost $130,000 to finish. “We plan on making the skate park in pieces. If we have raised enough money, we plan on putting in a half pipe with a horseshoe back this spring,” said Currier. This fall, there has been a huge push to get the skate park completed. Members of the PSU Snowboard Club have been actively involved in the movement. There are more skateboarders here at PSU than ever before, and that number is only growing. The underlying factor that drives what skateboarders do is passion. There is so much passion going into all of the fundraising efforts. Take a drive down Railroad Square and check out the park. See all the skateboarders enjoying the park that has had so much effort put into it. Watch how much fun these skateboarders are having. They are very grateful to have somewhere to skateboard, but more can be done.
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Caffeine Addiction Confessions Benjamin Hunton Assistant Features Editor
ome Plymouth State University S students are morning people. They are able to wake up at seven o’clock on any day, get ready for class at eight o’clock and just go. Other students however, need that extra “get up and go” to survive the slog through those first few Monday morning classes. That’s where their best friend, Mr. Coffee comes in. Ask a lot of avid coffee drinkers and they will more than likely say that they started to get into the habit of drinking it every day when they started college. Plymouth State University, with its large variety of on and off campus cafés, shops, restaurants and other eating establishments, certainly doesn’t leave coffee drinkers with a lack of places to get their morning pick-me-up. But is there such a thing as too much coffee?
Are there students on campus that literally cannot get through the day without it? Can it turn into an addiction? Some students shared their thoughts on what their average day at PSU with coffee entails: “I drink at least one large coffee a day. Sometimes more.” Said Chelsey LaPierre, a PSU Senior. “I do feel like I need coffee to get through the day. It’s one of the first things I think about when I wake up!” Some students will argue that drinking too much coffee is bad for you, but coffee drinkers will justify their large amounts by saying that it is necessary just so they can get by academically. “In the morning I make a 4-cup pot of coffee and put the entire thing in my huge travel mug, and that’s gone by the time my first class is over.” Said Maria Boudreau, a PSU Senior. “Later in the day I’ll have a slightly smaller cup of coffee to keep me going while I’m at work or doing homework or just trying to stay awake so I can function.”
Several people in the medical field and in the general public have questioned whether or not this kind of “coffee addiction” can be harmful to someone’s health. Since caffeine can be an addictive substance, some students choose not to bother beginning to drink coffee in the first place. For students like LaPierre and Boudreau however, the “addiction” may have already set in. “I believe my addiction started in the ninth grade when I started watching Gilmore Girls.” Said LaPierre. “I get headaches without it, I’m cranky without it. It’s terrible! But I guess it’s better than being addicted to other things. "I am most definitely addicted, though it’s to the caffeine, not the coffee itself.” Said Boudreau. “If I don’t have a cup of coffee by ten o’clock in the morning, by noon I’ll have a terrible headache, but as soon as I start drinking something with caffeine it’s gone.” Not only is this need for coffee a struggle physically for the students,
but it can have a financial impact as well. “It sucks cause it means I have to spend all this money just to make it through the day awake and without pain.” Said Boudreau. “But I only have myself to blame. One too many Starbucks lattes I guess.” While there are some students like Boudreau and LaPierre who say they need coffee to make it through a day, there are other coffee drinkers who simply drink it for the enjoyment. “I consider myself to be a coffee
connoisseur more than an addict.” Said PSU first-year, Gavin Morgan. “I don’t feel the need to drink coffee, I just enjoy a nice cup of Java. If Plymouth didn’t have anywhere to get coffee, I would be terribly distraught.” Thankfully, for these three students, and all the other coffee drinkers on campus, whether it’s for waking up, studying or relaxing, PSU will always have places where students can
write in our journals, and hang out with each other. It was then that I realized that coming to Australia would not be the only thing to change me, but that my relationships with these people would change me as well. We continued to travel through many small towns, stopping along the way to meet townspeople and take photos. We traveled to Wilpena lived in a hostel together, and learned Pound and St. Mary’s Peak, the great all about our upcoming travels. It walls at Mungo National Park, Muwas interesting to see how different tawiintji in New South Wales, and we all were, but none of us were re- Broken Hill. Some of these places ally comfortable with each other yet. were so untouched and eerie, like the We tread carefully in our conversa- ghost town of Silverton at golden hour tions of photography and where we (my favorite place to shoot), and some were from, and most of us kept to were ancient preserved aboriginal ourselves. sites. At these sites we learned from Our second week together, that Peter, our aboriginal guide, about the all changed. We traveled to Flinder’s history of the aborigine people and Ranges, also known as the middle their devotion to the land. His culture of absolutely nowhere. We stayed in is one that truly touched me because sheep shearer’s quarters with no heat of their passion for historic preseror hot water in close to zero degree vation and honoring the past. Some weather. There was no cell phone of the places we went were places service or access to the Internet. All that most Australian natives have there was to do was take pictures, ne ver been! To be physically there was a true gift. I couldn’t believe that what I was experiencing was all around me; that it was real and that I was in places most people cannot say they have been. For one of the first times in my life, I felt truly special, and truly grateful. As we continued to travel, my friends and I grew even closer. I COURTESY PHOTO/ NINA WEINSTEIN began to un-
derstand that we would have an exclusive bond that few others would be able to understand. For example, my friends from home know me as Nina: the spinach-eating, cat-loving girl from New Hampshire. But my Aussie family knows me as Nina: the girl alongside them while we hiked through red dirt, photographed the stars, saw the curvature of the Earth, and ate kangaroo (which by the way, tastes amazing…but I cannot say the same for Vegemite). My Aussie family (a term traditionally used every year during the trip) got to learn about me while I learned about them. Simultaneously, I was learning about myself. My home seemed so far away while in Australia, and now that I am home, Australia feels like a faraway dream I once had. I have to remind myself every day of the amazing mountains, cities, wildlife, art, and people I experienced. I was so proud of the art I created while I was there, but also of my dedication to be there and be present, despite my persistent nerves. My habit of feeling stuck combined with my fear of traveling had vanquished and I had emerged, victorious. To this day, my photographs from Australia are illustrative reminders of the wonder one can experience by simply taking that first gigantic leap. One famous Australian aborigine saying goes, “We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love... and then we return home.” The most important thing I have taken away from my experience is that none of us belong in one place. Home is all around us, because home is where we find ourselves. All that is needed is a bit of gusto, some hiking shoes, and the willingness to see what has the possibility to truly change us. If you are a PSU student interested in studying abroad, please visit the Global Education Office at the Bagley House on campus.
My Time Abroad: Photography in Australia Nina Weinstein Photography Editor printing through the LAX airS port with my heavy carry-on bag and bulky Doc Martens was one
of the many reasons I had been so utterly terrified to leave the country. I wanted to cancel my plans and go home, and my fears almost got the best of me. But with every stomp of my feet on the airport floor, I got closer and closer to the most exhilarating and life-changing adventure I have had thus far. My mindset leading up to my departure had been one of great ignorance. In the months leading up to it, I pushed the thought of preparing for my trip from my mind entirely. While a small part of me was excited, I was mostly nervous. I had never been outside of the country, and I had never traveled alone. All of my anxiety caught up to me a few days before my trip and I almost decided that it wasn’t worth it to go at all. But the small voice in my head that had pushed me to apply for the Edge of the Outback program in the first place propelled me forward. After weeks of imagining how it would be, I was finally on my way. I was sweating and exhausted and anxious. But looking back, these were small prices to pay in exchange for what I would get to experience and understand about a new culture, and most importantly, about myself. The Edge of the Outback program is a photography course taught each
American summer at La Trobe University in Mildura, Australia. Students from all over the US travel across the world to participate. The course begins with a week in the classroom learning about composition, exposure, and travel writing, followed by a week of photographing and traveling through small towns, the country, and finally, the edge of the outback. The third week consists of editing and exploring and concludes with a gallery show where our prints were exhibited to the public in a local gallery in downtown Mildura. Upon arrival at the Melbourne airport, I was still in shock that I had made it that far. Meeting the rest of the students in the lobby was interesting because I could tell upon first sight that we were all ver y different from each other; in dress, in conversation, and as I would soon find out, in photographic styles. The first week we spent together consisted of attempting to learn about each other. We traveled from Melbourne to Mildura on an 8-hour bus ride,
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The Clock Takes on Philadelphia This semester, eight members of The Clock staff were chosen to participate in the 93rd Annual Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Association’s National College Media Convention held in Philadelphia from Oct. 29 to Nov. 2, 2015. This is the Features Editor and Features Assistant Editor’s take on the experience.
Elizabeth Barden Features Editor ur adventure ranged from having O intellectual conversations in our hotel room after going to the day’s conference sessions to our Assistant Photo Editor, Colby Aubut, giving us a show with his new nunchucks he bought in Philadelphia’s Chinatown. The trip was hands down, the most eye opening experience I have had in awhile. I’ve traveled and seen different parts of the world, but this conference allowed me to see different parts of myself that I didn’t know existed. There was one session in particular that really hit me and made me think about myself rather than my future career plans, or lack thereof sometimes. It was a session called, “Turn Your Passion into a Career in Journalism Before You Leave College.” At first I was a little skeptical because I’m not sure if journalism is even something I want to go into professionally but I decided to attend anyway. I was shocked to find that this presentation wasn’t tailored to journalists, but it was tailored to anyone with a passion. Here’s what I took away: There are three steps you must take in order to turn your passion into a career. Step one, focus
on what works for you, not on what just works. If you’re going on to do something that will only give you a paycheck and little fulfillment, you’ll be truly miserable. Step two, if you are already working toward a career figure out if you like what you’re doing. If so, do that, but if not do something else. There is no step three, simply because two steps is all it really takes. It’s that easy. If writing is what you like to do, do it in public place but do not do it for the public. Actually, that goes for anything you do. Own everything you do and create a place where people can find it. Invest in a domain if you can afford it ($10 a year, so do it). Networking should also be your best friend, so build relationships and put your full effort in creating those connections. From there, just keep doing your thing and don’t be afraid of failure because it will only help you advance. If it weren’t for the opportunity to go to Philadelphia, I would have never known how much I do love what I do for The Clock and how important it is in building my future. My passion is reporting and capturing experiences in ways not many people can. [Unfortunately for my bank account] I’m making my way to graduate school!
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Benjamin Hunton Assistant Features Editor he City of Brotherly Love was T everything I liked about all of my favorite cities without any of the less
desirable parts. It had the street layout of NYC, so it was easy to find your way around. It had the cleanliness of Ottawa, Canada so you didn’t feel dirty just walking on the streets, and it had the amazing buildings and statues that you would have to buy tickets to view up close in DC. Our group’s hotel was situated right across the street from the almost castlelike City Hall. We had an amazing view of the building’s clock tower right outside our fifteenth floor window, and we were surrounded by all kinds of different restaurants, so we weren’t lacking for a variety of food to eat for our meals. Of course, the majority of us got Philly cheesesteaks. While the city itself was nice, and the experience of being somewhere new was fresh and exciting, the real growing experience came from the conference. The 93rd Annual Associated Collegiate Press and College Media Association’s National College Media Convention (yeah, it’s a mouthful) proved to be one of the greatest learning experiences of my life. For three
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days I had the privilege of going to sessions and hearing from experts in the media field on everything from how to land a job at the New York Times and build a resume, to tips on how to fine-tune your journalism skills. Now, I could go on forever about all of the things I learned on from these sessions, but instead I want to share a lesson that I learned that applies to everyone, not just journalists. This lesson was presented to me at a session called “But I Don’t Want To Be A Journalist.” Here we learned about all our transferable skills. That is to say, skills that we, as newspaper journalists, learn that can be used in any field we choose to go into. If there is one takeaway that I feel I absolutely need to share with all of you, it is this: You may be in a major or an organization just because you don’t know what else you want to do. You may be in a club because you are trying to find your niche in school. There are plenty of us who do not know what we want to do with our lives yet, and to those people I just want to say, stick with what you’re doing now. What you are doing now may not be what you want to do for the rest of your life, but it’s giving you the experience and skills that you need in order to be successful at the thing that you are passionate about. That isn’t something you should take lightly. Take chances and experiment with different things, only then can you be prepared to do the one thing you love.
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Pardon the Spins to Release EP: “Where Your Soul Goes” Nina Weinstein Photography Editor rom Biederman’s to the Lucky F Dog to PSU’s own Spring Fling concert, Pardon the Spins has played
almost everywhere in town for the eager ears of their dedicated fans. Now the time has finally come. On Tue., Nov. 11, Plymouth’s beloved funk band "Pardon the Spins" is releasing their very first EP album, Where Your Soul Goes. It all started three years ago in a music theory class and during jazz band rehearsals here at PSU. Brendan Gill, guitarist and vocalist, was writing a lot of original material at the time and soon asked Evan Thorne, bassist, to play music with him. When the two connected with guitarist Jake Stevens, they instantly knew they had “a definite musical connection.” The next step was to find a drummer. “Without a doubt in my mind, I can say we made the right call by asking Ben [Chappell] to jam with us,” said Gill. “Sooner than we knew, we found ourselves making music every chance we could.” At the end of that semester, the Spins made it official by participating in PSU’s Battle of the Bands. With the additions of Alex Heinrich on keyboards, Chris Alberi on saxophone, Adam Tangerone on trombone, and Sam Fortier on trumpet, the band was finally fully formed and ready to compete. Not only did they compete that year, but they also won. “We’ve won Battle of the Bands two out of three years, warming the crowd up for Deer Tick and Walk The Moon as they went on directly after our sets. We’ve opened for Mac Miller, Smashmouth, Mayday Parade, E-603 and Barefoot Truth,” said Gill.
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The band has certainly gone through a few changes throughout the years as a result of members graduating or transferring schools. The current members are Gill, Thorne, Chappell, Alberi, Tangerone, Greg Scherer on keyboards, Ben Michon on trumpet, and DJ DePasquale on guitar. Despite the replacement of old
members, the band is just as vivacious and electric as they were when they first began. The gang has since played as the opening act for Smashmouth at last year’s spring fling, at local bars, and even at off campus apartments. “Going from a big stage to playing an intimate/rowdy house show in a barn off campus is the life we live. The barn
shows couldn’t be more fun and a great way to connect personally with our student fans,” said Gill. An important part of the dynamic of the Spins is their ability to loosen up the crowd and get their audience immersed in their sound. “We want our music to be what you pull out when you want to be put in a good
mood. A guaranteed good time when you see us live! We want you to sing and dance and feel the music,” said Gill. The Spins has undoubtedly made its mark here in the town of Plymouth. Gill expressed his gratitude for his surroundings. “Plymouth is a beautiful town with a great community that we’re proud to be from. We get endless support from local businesses that book us to play their venues as well as students asking us to play in their apartments for parties. We’ve gained a large fan base in Plymouth,” he said. Not only do the Spins succeed as a talented and passionate musical group, but also as a close-knit family. “The guys in PTS are my best friends and we always have a great time together both on and off stage. That, and we can communicate musically pretty effortlessly. Its like we’re Jim and Pam from The Office, but a group of seven dudes,” said Alberi. Chappell also adds, “I love it because of how diverse our styles and musical interests are but mostly because those guys are like brothers to me and we always have a good time.” But what happens when the band graduates? What will this mean for their dedicated fans at Plymouth State? Gill reassures us that the Spins will go on. “We hope our music falls into the right hands and hopefully we’ll be playing our music to people all over the country. Until then we’ll start with spreading out all over New England. You can certainly count on a full length CD in the future,” said Gill. Where Your Soul Goes will be released and available for download on Tue., Nov. 11 on their website, pardonthespins.bandcamp.com.
Popular Mobile Hit Storms Campus Ryan Wimble Assistant A&E Editor lash of Clans is the most reC cent app to receive a lot of attention. Clans is an app where
players buy resources of gold and elixir to pay for defenses and build walls and war camps to make the ultimate village. Players can attack others' villages around this world through the app, and seek revenge on those who have attacked their villages after watching how they broke through all of their defenses. The heart of the game, however, is the clan attribute. The clan attribute is a castle-like building
where players can ask to join clans and use clans of up to 50 other players to donate troops, directly message other clans, and go to war against other clans online. Clan warfare is even more interesting when players get a day to donate troops to fellow clan members and then a second day to attack individuals from the opposing clan. Now, of course Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither are the villages in Clash of Clans. Players are given two builders to start off with and from there can upgrade or build buildings. The higher the upgrade or the better the building, the longer it takes to complete. Players have the ability to
hurry up tasks, or buy more builders with gems. However, many choose not to since gems are the most valuable currency in the game and thus very hard to come by. Overall, the majority of the game is spent waiting on builders, preparing armies, rearranging villages, and attacking other villages. On TV, there are many Clash of Clans commercials that give a little personality to the warriors that players can use in the game, like the infamous hog riders, wizards and archers. While the ad may not be accurate to the gameplay experience, it is proof that Clash of Clans is an international success. COURTESY PHOTO/ CLASHOFCLANSANDRIOD.INFO
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Kyle Rainville and Joshua Butler Ryan Wimble Assistant A&E Editor hen Kyle Rainville and W Joshua Butler met, it seemed like fate that they would co-host a
radio show together. After finding that they shared similar interests, the duo proceeded to create Manics on the Radio, their radio show that airs Fridays from 11-1 a.m. on 91.7 WPCR. The purpose of their show is to inform and educate the people of Plymouth on music that doesn’t show up in the top 40 and is geared towards helping listeners broaden their musical horizons. At the end of
the day though, the two agreed that they are, as they put it, “Just here to have a great time.” This is Rainville and Butler’s second semester doing Manics on the Radio, and they are having a great time doing it. Not only do they co-host a show together, they are also roommates with a strong bond and members of the WPCR Radio Station’s Executive board, as Programming Director and Production Manager respectively. When asked if they want to pursue a career as radio show hosts, they said they were interested, but would only do it if they were able to host with each other. Rainville and Butler have a tradi-
tion of playing Faster by Manic Street Preachers, the song that inspired their show’s name, at least once every show. In the end, the message Rainville and Butler have to share is to try out new music, mix up genres, and don’t be afraid to look for the diamonds in the rough. Many stations tend to overplay the same playlists, but on Manics on the Radio, the point is to change it up with every show and keep exploring the music world from unknown oldies to future classics. WPCR meets every Wednesday night at 9 p.m. in Memorial Hall. Manics on the Radio airs every Friday night from 11pm to 1 a.m. on 91.7 WPCR and online at www.wpcr.org
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Marvel Madness
Tim Waugh A&E Editor ull disclosure: it’s taking evF ery fiber of my being to not write this entire column in all caps
with exclamation points at the end of every sentence. Why am I so excited? Obviously because Marvel Studios has finally revealed their entire, long-rumored slate of movies for phase three. For those who don’t know, Marvel operates a little differently than most film studios considering that all of their films are connected in a universe similar to the comics they are based on. Their productions are broken into years spanning “phases”, with phase one beginning with Iron Man and finishing with The Avengers, and phase two kicking off with 2013’s Iron Man 3 and continuing into next summer with the highly anticipated,Avengers Age of Ultron and Ant Man (well, that last one’s highly anticipated by me at least). Phase three, however, has been shrouded in mystery for a while until just last week when all the films were officially revealed. Let’s get the logistics out of the way: Phase three kicks off in 2016 with Captain America: Civil War and Doctor Strange. 2017 continues with Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Thor:
Ragnarok, and Black Panther. 2018 will introduce us to the film adaptations of Captain Marvel and Inhumans. The real kicker here though, is that the third Avengers film will be titled Avengers: Infinity War and be split into two parts, releasing in May 2018 and May 2019. While GOTG 2 is exciting, it was also all but confirmed to exist when the first film was one of the highest grossing releases of this past summer. The same goes for Captain America as well, but the subtitle Civil War is enticing. No, Steve Rogers won’t be teleporting into the 1880’s and battling through Gettysburg as shot by Ken Burns. The subtitle is taken from a 2006 Marvel Comic’s event of the same name. It’s interesting to see that instead of a releasing an fourth Iron Man with phase three, Tony Stark will be featured in this film instead. This shows that Marvel has confidence in their other characters, but we would probably be seeing fourth Iron Man if GOTG and Winter Soldier hadn’t done so well. Easily one of the most exciting aspects of phase three to me, however, is the inclusion of more diversity in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Yeah, we already have Black Widow, Falcon and War Machine/Iron Patriot, but they were all players in an ensemble cast. With Black Panther, however, Marvel Studios is releasing
their first movie lead by an African American, and with Captain Marvel, the first female-driven superhero film since Catwoman bombed. It seems weird that this would even be a big deal, but think about it: excluding Wonder Woman, just about every popular or culturally relevant superhero is a white guy. This will probably always be the case in some ways but it stands to reason that the real world’s diversity should be reflected in the fantasy worlds we love so much. There have been rumors for a while now about a Captain Marvel movie happening, but it’s great to see Marvel put their insane amounts of money where their mouth is. I’m sure there will be some resentment of this news from “old school” comic fans who hate change, but that will always happen and they will always be in the minority. They’re the same guys who flipped out when Thor was replaced by a woman this past summer, so Marvel is smart to not listen to them anyway. This may seem like rambling, from hyping all the new Marvel Studios movies to discussing the role of diversity in superheroes, but it’s important that Marvel is taking a chance with these characters for the sake of shaking up their cultural pot. It’s just stupid that this news has to be considered a big deal in the first place and not just the norm.
Sunset Overdrive: Welcome to the Awesomepocalypse
Nathaniel Smyth For The Clock unset Overdrive is, without a S doubt, one of the craziest, most action-packed, wise-crack-filled
games to come out in quite a while. It doesn’t waste any time trying to take itself too seriously. It's a breath of fresh air from some of the dark, gritty games that have been coming out lately. Overdrive opens with a huge party. The company, Fizzco, has just released their new energy drink, OverCharge, to a small group of people as a promotion for when they launch nationally. The main character is tasked with being a janitor at the party. Picking up cans, cleaning stuff up, it's a real dead-end job. Everything is going normally until one of the partygoers grotesquely transforms into a disfigured mutant, who are later known as the OD, short for Overcharge Drinkers. Fizzco didn’t test their product well, and now their drink is turning everyone into mutants. The main character narrowly escapes with his life, but rather than being upset or depressed, he’s pretty happy. No more working, no responsibilities, no rules. Every single mission, story related or otherwise, is always over-the-top action, hysterical dialogue, and pop-culture reference packed. Not to mention the fact that the game is constantly breaking the
fourth wall in the best way possible. Insomniac Games didn’t pull any punches when they were making Sunset Overdrive, they wanted everyone to know that this game is freaking awesome, and they delivered. Sunset City is big, colorful, vibrant, and full of life, with a huge array of weapons, add-ons in the form of “amps,” and an endless supply of enemies. There’s never a dull moment even when just moving between mission objectives. Sunset Overdrive’s gameplay is a little different from some shooters because it focuses greatly on movement and style. Everything in the game can either be swung, grinded, or bounced on. The character can run
along walls, and boost through the air, but if he stops moving the character becomes the most vulnerable and weak. A style meter will constantly fill the more the character grinds and bounces on objects. When segments of that meter fill, different amps will activate. Different types of amps include melee upgrades, which result in things like having fireballs or tornadoes shoot out of the weapon when swung and other such ridiculous things. Weapon amps can be equipped to different weapons to apply effects such as bullets being electrified, exploding ammo, and a 1/1000 chance that a bullet will be a miniature nuke.
The player can also unlock style amps that affect bouncing and grinding. This includes causing a giant explosion on everything you bounce on, flares shooting off while the character grinds, and lightning striking with every bounce. Simply running on the ground and pumping bullets into enemies won’t get players very far. While that doesn’t sound very fun, Insomniac actually makes dying in Sunset Overdrive fun (and funny). Whenever the character respawns, he doesn’t simply reappear, no, he might get dropped off by an alien saucer, come through a magical telephone booth, or even use a portal gun from the Portal games to
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make an appearance. It never gets old. Chaos Squad, the game’s 8-player co-op multiplayer, is just as fun as the single-player campaign. 8 players work their way through various missions, racking up chaos points, culminating in a final night defense, where players set traps and work together to defend their base from waves of enemies. It gets pretty crazy having 8 people bouncing around and flipping everywhere, launching exploding teddy bears, bowling balls, and freeze bombs into hordes of mutants. Players can also unlock new amps and weapons in this mode to bring back to your single-player game, so there’s plenty of incentive to mix it up between single and multiplayer modes. Sunset Overdrive is an awesome game that really doesn’t have much in terms of negatives. The game runs smoothly and the controls are great. Traversing the environment in style doesn’t take long to get used to, and blowing up groups of enemies with exploding teddy bears never gets old, either. The story is fun to get into, the characters are memorable, especially your own. The dialogue is pure comedy gold, and there’s plenty of extra missions and collectibles to keep to entertainment going for quite a while. Sunset Overdrive may be a tad repetitive in some mission types, but as long as there are bad guys to kill, it can usually be overlooked because this game is just way too fun.
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ome may consider them archaic, but to those in the know, silent films belong in their own realm of entertainment that is closer to live theatre than film itself. Composer, Jeff Rapsis, has built a career creating improvised soundtracks for live showings of silent films at venues across New England and the country, including Plymouth’s own Flying Monkey. Here he talks about how he got into this field, the challenges in scoring for a live audience, and what people today can get out of watching silent films. What came first, your interest in silent films or film composing? I was interested in both as far back as junior high in Nashua, New Hampshire. I think it was partly because my music teacher was also kind of a silent film guy as well, so I got to know silent film as a teenager back in the 1970’s. At the same time I was studying piano so they have both kind of been with me all along, but it’s only been in the past ten years where I’ve started doing what I do now which is doing live music for silent film screenings in performance. It’s two things I really love, music is something I’ve always had a passion for. Playing keyboard, and older films, and putting them together was like chocolate and peanut butter. What really draws you into improvising the scores as opposed to playing sheet music for a film? All of your performances are improvised on the spot without
sheet music. Therefore, each performance is always a little bit different, so what interests you in improvising the music? Well, I think it stems probably from chronic attention deficit disorder first of all [laughs]. There’s a little bit of truth to that because, as a piano student, when you take piano lessons as a kid, a large part of that is learning to play different pieces as you go through and I could never finish learning any pieces because I’d always kind of go off in my own direction and want to do my own stuff. I really am an undisciplined student and so this has sort of been the way I’ve always approached music. I like to have it happen right there in front of me and make it up right there rather than work with something that’s been written long ago or lay it out and try to recreate that. I prefer to make it up on the spot. It’s not something that’s unusual, for literally centuries musicians have always been able to produce music on the spot. Beethoven and Mozart would have to do that, only in our lifetime have we gotten away from that where we always study the printed sheet music and work from that. Improv has always been part of music, I just kind of specialize in it. I’m drawn to it I think because silent film at its best is about those big emotions that we all feel no matter what era we live in. Love and revenge and joy and hate, these really big emotions we all feel because we’re human and music really feeds into that. Music can help amplify those emotions. I get a kind of satisfaction from the silent film experience, but it just isn’t available anywhere else which is why I’m drawn to it and making the music to go with it is what I like to do so I can hear these big emotions with a new audience seeing these films today.
We don’t realize that with silent films, music is as much a part of them as with films today. By doing live music with the films it adds a new layer to the experience.
hen Kent Anderson Butler W gave an artist’s talk in the Draper & Maynard Building on Nov. 4, he opened it by taking off his shirt. “If you see my work, it’s about my body,” he said, “You get to see me just like this.”
Butler is an L.A. based artist who works with photography, performance, and video installation. His work focuses on humans, their inner struggles, and how they fit into their environment. He also incorporates ideas about the role of the artist. Butler often uses himself in his works. His body is a way of communicating with the viewer, but there is also a personal connection. Butler was born three months premature and underwent 20 different surgeries before he turned 16. “I kind of had
ferent from any art form. It’s not just a primitive movie it’s like a whole different way of telling a story without dialogue. It’s part pantomime, it’s part ballet, it’s part music. It’s really different and it really still works and I think it will continue to work because we can put music to it that fits what people expect in any given age. I do music that’s not 1920’s music. I do music that’s like a contemporary thriller or a John Williams. That helps these movies kind of reach across the
decades to have people respond to them today, and fifty years from now it may be totally different music that helps these films connect. They’re really solid and they’re built to really work with big crowds and if you can get it all together like we do at The Monkey you can be surprised at how much entertainment and sophistication these films have. It’s never going to be mass entertainment like it was when it was new but it has a lot to offer still.
The live audience is also a big part of the experience. You can see these films on video so easily now. It used to be hard to find them but it’s kind of a golden age. You can see them on YouTube, but the thing is to really understand why these things really got people to really fall in love with the movies way back then was that the audience was part of the experience. When the people that made these films factored that in and paced for a big audience reaction, they still work when you put them on in front of a large group of people because people are still people. So with the live music, I’m not just accompanying the movie, I’m also playing to the audience’s reaction as it happens and that’s always different as well. Sometimes people react very differently to a film and I go with that. The music can really help or it can also step on it really badly. If it’s a comedy and I’m playing loud or fast and no one can hear everybody laughing around them, that great big spontaneous laughter never gets going, so I have to be careful to not over do it and the audience can hear itself react. That’s part of the magic of it all, I think. Is there anything you’d like to comment on in regards to silent films? Most people my age or younger, just sort of all along have this prejudice against early film. “It’s so primitive, why would anyone be interested?” If you do see it you almost treat it like a joke. The surprise is that if you can put it all together like we try to do at the Flying Monkey, it can be a really compelling experience. It’s very dif-
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this love-hate relationship with my body,” he said. A noteworthy aspect of his videos is their relationship with time and space. Most are continuous shots taken from a single angle, giving them the feel of a live performance. The angle of the camera and the physical shape of the landscape play a huge role in his pieces. He also allows actions to go on for longer than the viewer would expect. If it takes three full minutes for people to drag
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his body off screen, he will include those three minutes without worrying about the viewer’s attention span. He slows things down and makes the audience wait, something television would never dare to do. Also in his pieces “There’s a sense of play,” said Butler, “and I think, sometimes as we get older, we lose that.” His work, instead of being meticulous and sterile, emits a spontaneous, playful feeling, as if the sight of an object or a location inspired creation. How the pieces are shown can be as important as the film itself. One video, “Submergence”, is ideally shown projected onto a floor covered in baking flour. Installation art, Butler explained, is about the whole sensory experience: smelling the flour, seeing the texture. “It’s very experience oriented, it’s about the space and the
location and the relationship between [the two],” he said. Butler was introduced to this kind of art in school. “When I was in college, I was studying painting.” Then he took a class about using performance art and video installation as visual art forms, and it changed his life. He has been using performance and video for his art ever since. From Nov. 20-30, Butler will present an exhibition of photographs in the Collins Gallery. His videos and photographs can be also be viewed on his website www. kentanderson-butler.com. Visit www.plymouth.edu/gallery for more information on the Karl Drerup Art Gallery.
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’ve written more words in this issue of The Clock than I ever have before. I am not really too sure as to why I am kicking off this column saying that, but it was an easy way to start this week’s edition of Real Sports Talk with E$. The reason behind all of the words is not only to get you, the reader, interested in the sports around Plymouth, but to also show the coaches and players alike that I am extremely passionate about something they are also passionate about (or at least they should be). Within this issue, there are also more sports feature stories than usual, and I think that it added a completely new element to what has been brought to the sports section since I’ve been here. I take a
hell of a lot of pride (more than I probably should) in having all of the sports articles in the paper about Plymouth State sports, because that’s what people are going to read The Clock for, but also it is nice getting to know the people who dedicate so much time of their collegiate careers to something that means so much to them. Some people realize this, and they come up to me and say, “Hey, thanks for supporting us. We really appreciate it.” Since I said that, I gotta give specific examples of people that consistently do that. Those people include, but aren’t limited to: Kristin Tracy, Ashley Kilstein, Tieg Alward, and Nick Allard. Having all of these people come up to me after taking pictures, or creating previews,
or even just showing up to games/ practices means a lot to me. I am not going to doing this stuff takes anywhere near as much time as their coaching/practicing/etc., but getting that “Thanks E-Money!” means so much to me. Anyway, I just felt like I needed/wanted to get that out there, and I feel a hell of a lot better (for whatever that is worth). I’m still getting crap from people for my New Orleans Saints/Indianapolis Colts Super Bowl prediction, and it looked pretty bleak at the beginning of the season. Despite getting criticism from everyone and their grandmother, I still stand by those picks. The Saints appear to have turned a corner upon beating the Green Bay Packers two weeks ago, while the Colts have gone toe-to-toe with some of the best teams within the NFL. Regardless, it is still relatively early in the season to see how these predictions will end up playing out. One thing is for sure, and that is that the AFC is drastically better than that of the NFC. Within the AFC, the Colts, Denver Broncos, San Diego Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs, New England Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins, and all four teams in the AFC North have shown over the past few weeks that they are playoff teams. Only six of them will end up making it into the playoffs, and there should be some great games to be played as the regular season draws to an close. In other Irrelevant (though I find interesting) sports news: -Like the AFC in the NFL, the Western Conference in the NBA is STACKED. Arguments could be made for six or seven teams in that they could make the NBA Finals, while the East can only make claim to two or three teams. One day, hopefully the NBA will allow the subpar teams from the East to be kicked out of the playoffs to teams that are much better out West. -The World Series being over
means that Joe Buck is going back to commentating games in the NFL. Buck and Troy Aikman might be the worse duo to commentate games within the NFL. I will never understand why they are looked at as the #1 commentating team for FOX. -My prediction of the Colorado Avalanche making the Stanley Cup Finals is looking absolutely brilliant (they are 13th of 14 teams in the West at the moment). -The NCAA thought they were giving everyone what they wanted by creating a four-team playoff. Instead, think about how many team you could probably put in the 3rd and 4th spots. If the whole fourteam playoff didn’t exist, and this was still the BCS format, Florida State and Mississippi State would be in the driver seat to the championship game. -How tough is it to be a New York Jets fan, especially with Mark Sanchez doing well in Philadelphia? Non-Sports Info of the Week -Rest in Peace Paul DiIorio. You were one of the best pure athletes Sachem East has ever had, and an even better person. Rant of the Week- When will people on this campus ever learn to stop vandalizing the school and the surrounding area? Some kicked in the window of an Inter-Lakes apartment, and of course ran. Have some respect for your school and surroundings, you bunch of idiots. If anyone ever did that to something I lived in/owned, I would literally kick their ass on the spot. -I want it to be known that I created the ad for Inter-Lakes Properties, so the fact that it was put into the newspaper is 100% on me, and not through the decision of them. -Whenever I end up writing these articles, I feel like I am always listening to country music, and today is no different. -Have you ever just sat in a chair,
and watch people/the world go by? Where are those people going? Where will they be in 10, 20, 50 years? Watching students/faculty walk past The Clock office outside always allows me to ponder this. -Only one more Clock issue until Thanksgiving. That blows my mind. -Glad to see that Orgsync works fantastically for me with trying to pick a mountain for PSU this season. Who decided that Orgsync is a good thing anyway? -Pretty happy Election Day is now behind, so that I don’t get bombarded to vote/see campaign ads anymore. -Colder weather means that ski season is at least right around the corner!! -One day, my roommates will understand that they need to shut off the lights behind them/clean up after themselves. Hopefully writing this helps that cause. -I wonder if Conor Davis and myself will ever actually watch a Sunday of football together. Hopefully, he actually shaves in November (sorry, man). -Starting to think that putting another advertisement in the paper to go on a date might be a good idea. -If you get nothing else out of this column, I just hope that I put a smile on your face from something I said within this. -12:47 A.M. and I am listening to “Toes” by Zac Brown Band. Real Talk with Eric- If you want something, go out and get it, because there isn’t much in life that is handed to you. I thought that I would have people help me out to get an internship, but relying on those people got me nowhere. Taking the bull by the horns to get what you want will get you where you want. ‘Til two weeks from now, I’m outta here………
Plymouth State Football Doused by Worcester State Justin Siewierski For The Clock
t’s been a rough season so far I for the football Panthers, and last Saturday proved no different as
Worcester State handed Plymouth their sixth conference loss, 36-3. WSU junior Kemani Jones (Milton, MA) put up some huge numbers on the ground, scoring two touchdowns and rushing for 170 yards on 15 carries. Senior Pat Viencek (Bernardston, MA) threw for 178 yards and four touchdowns. Plymouth State scored the first touch down of the game early on, when senior Rob Gilles (Derry, N.H.)
put a 40 yard field goal through the uprights after the Plymouth State defense forced a fumble during the opening kickoff. The lead wouldn’t last long, as WSU scored three touchdowns before the halftime whistle. WSU showed up defensively, only allowing 157 yards of offense and less than 50 yards through the air. For Plymouth, Freshman Blair Zentek (Simsbury, CT) played yet another great game, recording eight solo tackles and blocking two PAT attempts. Sophomore Will Perotti (E. Canaan, CT) also picked up the game defensively with a pair of interceptions, but it still wouldn’t be enough. Each one of the scoring drives by Worcester State lasted less than three minutes. “Against [Worcester], we missed some tackles that led to
some big plays by them,” said Coach Paul Castonia. One of those big plays happened to be a 72-yard rush by WSU’s Jones that would seal the win for WSU with 6:56 to go in the fourth. “Offensively, we have not been able to finish any drives. We had numerous drives going and just did not finish. Finishing each attempt will be our point of emphasis this week. Mass Maritime is a good team despite their record,” said Castonia. He went on to say that Kyle Wilson, Blair Zentec, and Joe Esposito all played well against WSU. “We plan to continue to work hard and correct our mistakes,” said Castonia. Hopefully they can turn things around, as kickoff against Mass Maritime is scheduled for noon here at Plymouth State on Sat., Nov. 8.
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Men’s Hockey: Looking to Capture the MASCAC Eric Brill Sports Editor 14-11-2 overall record for the A Plymouth State Men’s Hockey team is how the Panthers finished last
season, in which their last game was a 6-1 loss to Salem State University back in March. Despite what most teams would classify as a successful season, since they were able to advance to their conference championship game, this team is different. They expect more than that. By getting off to a slow start in the beginning of last season, the Panthers weren’t able to host the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) championship game in front of their home crowd at Hanaway Arena. Knowing how crucial it is to get off to a good start this season, the team has gone through a much more rigorous off season work-out session, in which there were a number of Captains’ practices, weight training, and agility sessions. “We’ve had a way tougher preseason than last year,” said sophomore forward Mike Economos (Crystal Lake, IL). Since losing only five members from last year’s team, everyone on the Panthers knows they have the ability to be a team with a great opportunity to win the MASCAC championship.
Forwards Key Returners- Ian McGilvrey, Mike Economos, Josh Woody, Dan Dupell, Andrew Wigg, Mike Freitag, Chad Barthelmess, Tieg Alward Who’s New- Chris Zuccaro, Dylan Giberson On last year’s team, seven of the top eight leaders in points on the team were forwards. Of those seven, six are back on this year’s team. McGilvrey, who led the team with 31 points last season, will lead a line that will mainly have Economos and Wigg (Lantz, Nova Scotia) on it. McGilvrey and Wigg are smaller, yet quicker players who have the ability to create a shot off of a broken play, while Economos, who is listed at a generous 200 lbs., brings the physicality to the first line. Freitag (Westmont, IL) is the team’s active leader in career points (65), while Alward (Vail, CO) was the first person Russell mentioned when asked which player looked the most improved from last season. Dan Dupell (Collegeville, PA) and Chad Barthelmess are two rugged forwards for PSU that bring a certain aggression to the team. Against Norwich, Barthelmess blocked a shot that not only broke his stick, but also gave the team a big boost. Under the radar players, Riley Flanagan (Weymouth, MA) and Ryan Callahan (Londonderry, N.H.), are two players who will have increased roles this season upon completing their freshman year in 2013-2014. It will be tough for Zuccaro (Hudson, N.H.) and Giberson (Chesterville, Ontario) to get into the line-up, but both players have the potential to contribute this season.
One member of the team that was able to put a positive spin on last year’s loss is another sophomore, Ian McGilvrey (Omaha, NE). “Having 14 freshman last year, and losing, was a learning experience,” said McGilvrey. “It gives us an extra incentive.” Those freshmen were able to experience a little bit of success last year, but they are now a year older, and more mature and improved. “The biggest thing coming back is the experience that the guys were able to grow last year,“ said Head Coach Craig Russell. “The freshman class of last year grew so much last year. They progressed as much as two years in one year,” Russell said. That maturity and growth is evident when watching this team play, as there are a number of sophomores,
including Economos (who was voted an Alternate Captain), Erik Strom (Gothenburg, Sweden), Matt Vermillion (South Lyon, MI), and Ryan Callahan (Londonderry, N.H.). These players have the ability to talk to the team as a whole, and get respect back, earning it with their play and attitude last season. Respect is something that the Panthers are going to have to earn this season, as they were picked to finish second in the MASCAC this season to Salem State. The team hasn’t discussed this, and Coach Russell said it best. “It is a preseason poll, and I really don’t care. We were picked to be #1 last season with 14 freshmen…. [Salem State] earned it, and they are the defending champs,” Russell said.
Taking it one game at a time is what Russell, along with all of his players, stressed, as they don’t want to overlook any opponent. Aside from the 18 MASCAC games the team has, Russell has assembled a tough out-ofconference schedule to truly see what the make-up of his team is. Some of these games include Norwich University (which defeated PSU last week), Nichols College, and Babson College, all of whom made the NCAA tournament last season. There aren’t many teams who would be able to handle a schedule this tough, and as the season progresses, it will be extremely interesting to see how this team does when they face adversity. As far as how the team looks this season, the Panthers didn’t lose many
players from last season. Last year’s Captain David Walters graduated, as did Alternate Captain Phil Arnone, but Arnone comes back this season as an assistant coach. Tyler Ingerson, who started eight games in net last season graduated as well. While these players will not be easy to replace both on the ice and in the locker room, the Panthers will look for a new set of captains to step up this year. Former Alternate Captain Zach Sarig (Reading, PA) is now the new Captain for the Panthers, and he has Economos, Chad Barthelmess (Norristown, PA) and Kyle Brumfield (Bowie, MD) to help him this season as Alternate Captains. So, who are some of the key players this season?
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Defense Key Returners- Zach Sarig, Matt Vermillion, Kyle Brumfield, Tommy Dowell, Erik Strom, Tord Thoresen, Colt Smelstor, Ryan Cigle Staying healthy for this unit will be a big key for this team to having success this season. Brumfield and Colt Smelstor (Fairfax, VT) are coming off of surgeries, with Smelstor hoping to be back as soon as possible (Brumfield played against Norwich). Erik Strom (Gothenburg, Sweden) separated his shoulder in the Norwich game, but hopes to be back after the holiday break. Sarig is a big body defender that is coming off of being named to the MASCAC first-team for the second consecutive season, and is a threat on the offensive side, as he had 25 points last season. For both Thoresen (Oppegard, Norway) and Vermillion, they are coming off of playing the last 11 straight games for the Panthers, and will become extremely reliable. Dowell (Olathe, KS) came on strong during the back half of last season, and was able to play in the last 17 games of the season. Cigle (Canton, MI) come into the season having played in only six games last season, but played well against Norwich last week. With the injuries that have occurred to the defense, Cigle, and all of the other defenders, will have to play at the top of their game to show Russell that they should stay in the line-up once Smelstor and Strom come back from their injuries.
Goalies Key Returners- Zac Enstrom, Gordon Ceasar Who’s new- Mac Haight Gordon Ceasar (Oak Park, CA) comes off of a stellar 2014 season upon transferring from Utica College during the middle of the season. Upon putting the Panther jersey on, Ceasar had a 1.86 Goals Against Average and four shutouts. Enstrom (South Windsor, CT) had offseason back surgery, but has performed extremely well in practice. “He had the surgery, and has improved, and is playing so much better,” said McGilvrey about the senior Enstrom. Mac Haight (Sammamish, WA) comes in from UMass Amherst, and brings Division I experience with him. Having three goalies constantly pushing each other has allowed the unit to become a lot better, and allows for Russell to switch players if the starter isn’t performing well in a game. “Having that goalie that you can trust, takes so much more pressure off of you,” said Tieg Alward. “Our goalies, collectively, as a whole, are a lot better this year,” said Riley Flanagan. Both forwards were quick to praise how well each of the goalies had been playing, whether it be the proven ability of Ceasar last season, or the other two during the preseason this year. Watch for all three goalies to get a decent amount of playing time this season, so that each of them are fresh and healthy for the duration of the season.
What to think for the 2014-2015 season Losing against Norwich University last week was not easy for this team to accept, especially with it being the team’s first game this season. The first three teams that the Panthers face this season all made the NCAA tournament last season (Norwich, Nichols, and Salem State). Having this tough of a schedule to kick off the 2014-2015 season will show the team, as well as the Plymouth community, how they will play this season. “The first goal is to make the playoffs, and then after that, win a championship in the MASCAC, and then go on to have success in the NCAA tournament,” said Ryan Callahan about his eagerness to have some postseason success. Taking it a game at a time was something that Callahan, Economos, Coach Russell, and all of the other Panthers have stressed, and is what they believe in. Looking ahead to games down the road becomes irrelevant, as teams will be looking to slow down the success the Panthers have been able to have over the past few years. The homeice advantage the Panthers have had since Hanaway Rink opened back in 2010, has allowed for PSU to become one of the most successful Division III teams within the NCAA. Watch for this team to have a success 20142015 season, and make some noise in both the MASCAC and NCAA.
Prediction Fitchburg State (3) over Worcester State (6) 5-2 Westfield State (5) over UMass Dartmouth (4) 3-2 (Overtime) Plymouth State (1) over Fitchburg State (3) 4-2 Westfield State (5) over Salem State (2) 5-4 (Overtime) Plymouth State (1) over Westfield State (5) 3-0 Plymouth State over Bowdoin College 4-2 Oswego State over Plymouth State 6-3
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Players 1 . Z a r a Ja k u b a s , Te n n i s (Ranked 1st last issue): It is as simple as this: there is no way you could be more dominant in your sport than Jakubas was this fall. She led her team to an undefeated overall record, and was able to go undefeated in both singles and doubles play (14-0 with each). Watch for her to make noise when the tennis team gets back on the court in May. 2.Sunny Jakubas (Ranked 2rd last issue): The younger Jakubas is finally able to crack the top two upon being her usual dominant self throughout the duration of the Little East Conference postseason tournament. Sunny went 13-1 in singles play this year, with the only loss coming in her first collegiate match. 3.Nikki Garvey, Field Hockey (Unranked last issue): Despite falling to the University of Southern Maine earlier this week, Garvey was able to find the back of the net for her 18th goal of the season. Garvey was also named to the prestigious North/ South Senior game that will take place around Thanksgiving. 4.Kate Banys, Women’s Hockey (Unranked last issue): Banys has started off the 2014-2015 in great form, as she scored three goals total in the Panther’s first two games. The senior Alternate Captain scored what was the tying goal in a 3-3 tie against Stevenson University in PSU’s first ever tournament held at Plymouth State University. 5.Mike Economos, Men’s Hockey (Unranked last issue): The sophomore Alternate Captain was able to found the back of the net in both of PSU’s games. Watch for this team to rebound from two tough losses to start this season, as Economos has become a big leader for the Panthers.
Teams 1.Tennis (14-0 record, last issue 1st): This team was able to advance to the NCAA tournament that will take place in May upon going undefeated during both the regular season, as well as in the Little East conference tournament. 2.Field Hockey (12-5, last issue 2nd): A tough loss to the University of Southern Maine ended this team’s chances of capturing the Little East Conference postseason championship. Fortunately for the Panthers, they could still play in the ECAC post-season tournament, as they will find out on Monday if they will participate. 3.Volleyball (13-19, last issue 4th): Against ECSU, this team showed a lot of heart by almost pulling the upset over the 3rd seed. The Panthers were able to pull ahead two sets to one, but ultimately came up short in the game. 4.Women’s Hockey (0-1-1, Unranked last issue): This team was able to do something that had yet to be done at Hanaway Arena last weekend, as they hosted the first PSU Tournament in school history. PSU was able to tie Buffalo State after coming back from a 3-0 deficit behind three different goal scorers. 5.Men’s Cross Country (Unranked last issue): As the Fall season has progressed, the Panthers have been improving their times by shaving seconds and minutes off of their times. A number of runners have improved their time as the season progressed, including Evan Gaudette (Nashua, N.H.) and Nat Smyth (Plymouth, N.H.)
Ceasar’s Crown Eric Brill Sports Editor
The cage that Ceasar has this season isn’t different from what he had last season, but he was able to put his number, 30 on his helmet.
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lymouth State University startP ing goalie Gordon Ceasar (Oak Park, CA) enters the 2014-2015 season with 16 games under his belt in the green and white. Ceasar transferred from Utica College during the middle of the season, and wasn’t able to have Plymouth colors for his helmet and pads. Fast-forward to this season, and Ceasar was able to create his own design this year, thanks to designer Patrick Briand and the company that he works for, PBKreations. Briand has created a few of the goalie’s helmets over the past few years for the Panthers.
The claw on this side of Ceasar’s helmet represents that of a Panther, which is PSU’s mascot. Under this claw, the “HOLLYWOOD” sign represents where Ceasar is from, as his hometown of Oak Hill, California is only about 80 miles away from Hollywood, California. Another feature that can be seen on Ceasar’s helmet are the small Panther heads that are above the claw. CLOCK PHOTO/ERIC BRILL
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This side of the helmet represents the “now” for Ceasar, as he has the seal of Plymouth State University under the Panther claw. Small Panther heads are also seen on this side of the helmet.
(Back of the helmet) Ceasar’s Palace is the nickname that the junior received last season when he made saves in net that resulted in a face-off. Chants of “Ceasar’s Palace” at Hanaway Rink wasn’t the first time that Ceasar has heard these chants, but coming from the crowd that shows up to the games, it was appropriate for this chant to come about. CLOCK PHOTO/ERIC BRILL
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What does it feel like to come out onto the ice and hear the crowd at Plymouth going crazy?
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Mike Economos, Sophomore:
“One of my favorite things is when I come out on to the ice, and I see everyone going crazy. It makes me feel honored to be out there.“
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Ryan Callahan, Sophomore:
Riley Flanagan, Sophomore
“Putting the Plymouth sweater on, and representing your school is pretty neat. The support is unreal.“
“You know when you score, it is only going to get louder, and more fun. What else could you ask for?!?”
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TiegAlward, Junior:
“It is probably the highest point of the game, besides the feeling after we win. You get into that zone where you feel untouchable as a player.”
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Welcome to the living room of 49A Langdon Street, where you will find PSU Men’s Hockey Players, Riley Flanagan (pictured, with laptop), Tieg Alward (pictured to the right), Mike Freitag and Josh Woody. This is just a glimpse of what their house, which is owned by InterLakes Properties, looks like. There are a number of interesting things in this living room. For starters, “Why is there a 49ers flag there?” Since these kids live at 49 Langdon Street, they found it appropriate to have a flag that compliments their house number. Another cool feature of this room are the jerseys from the junior days of the players. From left to right: Freitag, Woody, Walters, Alward, and Flanagan all have their jerseys hanging. The Walters jersey comes from former captain Dave Walters, who lived in this apartment prior to graduating last spring, but the legend that is Dave Walters continues on. There are also a couple of posters of some of the guys' favorite NHL players of all-time, including Pavel Datsyuk and Paul Kariya. When these four aren’t at the arena, you can usually see them at night watching various NHL games taking place around North America.
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This is where junior forward Tieg Alward calls his home when he is at Plymouth State University. Of the four members of this apartment, Alward has the most colorful room with various hangings on the walls. There are a number of unique things in this room, such as the Colorado state flag (which is where he is from), a Detroit Red Wings flag (who is his favorite team in the NHL), and a Michigan State University flag (which a number of his family members attended). There are also some jerseys that Alward has played in on his wall, as they represent where he has come from throughout the duration of his hockey career. As far as the Phoenix Coyotes flag goes, Alward was able to win it his sophomore year of high school. Needless to say, Alward has a room that represents where he has come from throughout the duration of his life, and hockey career. Do you and your teammates have a cool/unique house, and want to show Plymouth? Send Eric Brill an e-mail (at edbrill@plymouth.edu) to have your apartment featured in The Clock!
a win against Eastern Connecticut, but settled for a double OT draw in a game that was hard fought until the final whistle. Plymouth State finished 5th in the conference, having an overall record of 5-10-2 overall and 3-2-2 in conference play. The last four games of the season, in order, were against the toughest four teams PSU could have faced. Tufts and Middlebury, two out-of-conference games, were seeded first and fourth in the NESCAC conference and nationally ranked amongst other DIII schools around the country. In their own Little East Conference, PSU suffered a 2-0 loss to the top ranked UMass Boston Beacons. Needing a win last Saturday, the Panthers fell short of a win against the 4th ranked Eastern Connecticut
Warriors. The game was scoreless through the first half before junior forward Alex Herbert (Lexington, MA) shot a screamer from just outside the 18 yard line that scraped the crossbar and found the back of the net. With just 11 minutes to go in the game, Eastern Connecticut junior forward Zane Lombardo (Portland, CT) put in the goal that would keep Plymouth from playoff contention. With only four minutes of play since entering the game, Lombardo finished a play started by a beautiful ball off the head of freshman midfielder, Adam Traxler (Newburyport, MA) that was directed towards the back post. Plymouth State had a couple of chances in overtime, but Eastern sophomore keeper, Greg Walton (Brunswick, ME) made a handful of beautiful saves to keep them out of reach. Plymouth suffers four graduation losses in Aaron Smith (Loudon, N.H.), Christian Bua (Gilford, N.H.), Ryan Curtin (Waterford, N.Y.), and Felderson Thelusma (Somersworth, N.H.).
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Women’s Hockey Looks to Make Noise in the ECAC Eric Brill Sports Editor ast season, the Women’s hockey L team, led by Head Coach Ashley Kilstein, was able to capture the
seventh seed in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) East Division post-season tournament. Despite capturing the highest seed that this team has had in the short history of the program, Salve Regina was able to defeat the Panthers in the first round. This year, despite being picked to finish 10th in the ECAC, the culture is different, and expectations are high. “We have a whole new team, and a whole new culture, and we are pushing for a better spot this year,” said senior Captain Courtney Sollows (West Barnstable, MA). There are only 13 players who were on last year’s team that are coming back to play for the Panthers this season, as 11 players were lost due to graduation. Having only approxi-
Forwards Key Returners- Kate Banys, Marisa Zamrock, Kelsey Lynch, Frederike Lalonde, Kelsey Cosby, Olivia Leon, Emily Auby Who’s new- Alivia Bates, Jaime Carpenter, Taylor Shrode Returning for the Panthers are a number of their top scorers from last season, including Cosby, Kelsey Lynch (Collegeville, PA) and Kate Banys (Newburyport, MA), who were all named as an Alternate Captains this season. Banys has started off the season strong, as she already has three goals this season, while Cosby has a goal and Lynch has a goal and five assists combined through two games. Last season’s top scorer, Marisa Zamrock (Lewiston, ME) comes back this season hoping to exceed her marks of five goals and assists last season. Zamrock, who broke her collarbone during a game back in January, will look to show that she can still be a force on the offensive side of the ice. For the newcomers, Alivia Bates (Pennsauken, N.J.) has yet to play a game yet due to being on the field hockey team, but brings a certain emotion and passion to the game that should allow her to fit in extremely well. Carpenter (Jardenville, New Brunswick) found the back of the net in her first collegiate game against Buffalo, while Shrode (Craig, CO) “Will be a great asset for us,” Cosby said. Overall, this group looks improved, and Kilstein might have said it best when she said that, “They are moving the puck really well.” With having a number of players who pose a legitimate threat with the puck, it will be tough for opponents to be able to zone in on one specific player.
mately half of your team back allows for a new identity to be formed for PSU, and they want to develop a winning culture, as Sollows mentioned. “I’ve seen them evolve so much,” Coach Kilstein said. “I’ve seen them crush through glass ceilings. They achieve a goal, and they are like ‘Alright, what’s next!’” Kilstein said about her returning players. With this being Kilstein’s fourth year as the Head Coach of the Women’s hockey team, all of the players on her team are ones that she recruited to come to Plymouth State University. That may not sound like a big deal, but being able to choose what players you want to play for you allows everyone to buy into the system that a coach is presenting. Upon attending a practice a few weeks ago, it became obvious relatively quickly that everyone was buying into Kilstein’s philosophies, and were able to mesh extremely well. Passes were on target, players were communicating well with each other and moving around to where they needed to be on a given set play. Something that means a lot to Defense Key Returners- Courtney Sollows, Haley Branovan, Sara Huff, Gracie Shewell Who’s New- Courtney Evans, Carolyn Simonis This is an extremely young unit, as Sollows is the only defensive player that isn’t either a sophomore or a first-year. Sollows was quick to point out that Courtney Evans (Fairbanks, AK) “Is an awesome defenseman, that has confidence in her play. She has really stepped up,” said Sollows. Haley Branovan (Wexford, PA) and Gracie Shewell (Hanover, MD) come into their sophomore years having played in 22 of 26 games last season, so they will use their experience to their benefit for the 2014-2015 season. Sara Huff (Frisco, TX) played in the first two games this season, and will see an increase in playing time this season, as she is a sophomore as well. Like Evans, Carolyn Simonis (Victoria, British Columbia) comes into her freshman year with the ability to get a lot of playing time, and also played in the first two games of the season. Having Sollows able to mentor the younger players on defense should allow for improvement as the year progresses. Goalie Who’s New- Alyssa Altschuler, Erika Laurence, Mariah Trupp The biggest loss to graduation last season was Goalie, Ali Ponte, bar none. Ponte had a .912 save percentage last season, and that was coming off of a .914 save percentage in 20122013. These are the “new” Panthers, though, and they aren’t living in the past. Altschuler (Cheshire, CT) brings college hockey experience with her,
the development of the program was Kilstein’s ability to host the first ever PSU Tournament last weekend. In-conference rival, Nichols State, came up to PSU for the tournament, but so did Stevenson University (from Maryland), as well as Buffalo State. “Hosting a tournament is a big deal,” Alternate Captain, Kelsey Cosby (Walpole, MA), said. Kilstein agrees, saying, “We admit confidence, because we bring you to our house.” For the PSU Tournament, Plymouth ended up with a loss as well as a tie, but played much better than the score indicated, especially with the loss. PSU was down 3-0 upon the completion of the second period in both games, but they were able to score three goals to tie Buffalo State, and fell to Stevenson 3-2. In years past, this team would have lain down to play another day, but coming back in these games shows how much this team has grown mentally. So what players will be looked at to step up this year, and prove to the ECAC East Division that they are a team to be reckoned with?
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as she transferred over from SUNY Canton. Despite not playing a lot of her sophomore season at Canton, Altschuler was able to capture seven wins to go along with a .876 save percentage her freshman year. In her first two games as a Panther, Mariah Trupp (Topeka, KS) stopped 37 and 27 shots, respectively, and has a .914 save percentage to start off the season. Last season, Erika Laurence (Vancouver, British Columbia) had seven wins in ten starts, three of which were shut-outs, on the team that she played on last season. All three goalies have proven themselves, and it looks to be a great competition for the duration of the year. What to Expect this Season “We are well-rounded, for once,” Coach Kilstein said. A statement both Sollows and Cosby agreed with. This team is focused on the task ahead of them, and look to make noise this season. “Playing every game to win, as well as hard work,” was what Sollows said her expectations of this season include. “Hard work is what got us to this point, and now we have talent to mix, so it will be a really exciting thing to see,” said Sollows. The seniors of this team are looking to make sure that their mark will be left on the both the team, as well as the ECAC this season. Having the talent around to compliment the hard work that has gone into the off-season will allow the Panthers to achieve their most successful season this year. Look for this team to capture the home playoff game that they desire, and to improve themselves from the pre-season 10th spot that they were given.
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pionship, as well as the New England Alliance Championships last weekend, down in Williamstown, MA. The men’s team was able to capture 5 th place within the LEC, while placing 10th in the NEAC. Leading the way for the Panthers was David Martino (Laconia, N.H.), who was able to complete the eight kilometer (or just under 5 miles) run in 28:19, which was just off his fastest time of the year (a 28:06 at the University of New England Invitational). Martino was able to finish 16th overall, and sophomore Nat Smyth (Plymouth, N.H.) wasn’t too far behind, as he finished with a time of 29:30, good for 28 th. Shawn Miller (Atkinson, N.H.), Tim Lindberg (Jericho, VT) and Evan Gaudette (Nashua, N.H.) rounded out the top five finishers for PSU. For the women’s Sarah Uhlman (Ashland, N.H.) completed the 5K in 21:28, while Rileigh Goulette (St. Albans, VT) finished in 22:41. Both teams have regional championships coming up, as the ECAC Division III Championships will take place over in Westfield, MA, and the following weekend (Nov. 15), and the NCAA Regional Championships will take place back at the same course that PSU just ran on, in Williamstown, MA. Watch for both Uhlman and Martino to continue their strong efforts as the year comes to a close. Receiving the 2nd seed in the Little East Conference tournament resulted in the field hockey team facing a tough draw in the 7th seeded University of Southern Maine. Early in the season, the Panthers were able to capture a 4-3 overtime win, but this past Tue., Nov. 3, PSU fell to the Huskies 4-1 to bring their overall record to 12-5. Early in the match, senior Nikki Garvey (Canaan, N.H.) was able to find the back of the net for her 18th goal of the season, nine minutes into
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the game. Unfortunately for Plymouth, USM scored twice going into halftime, to go up 2-1. The Panthers were able to keep the score at 2-1 for the first 20 minutes of the second half, but two goals by USM in under a three-minute span put the game out of reach. Panther goalie Alivia Bates (Pennsauken, N.J.) had five saves in the contest. For the game, Plymouth was able to out-shoot USM 19-12, but they had a tough time getting the ball past the USM goalie. Despite the loss, Garvey had a tremendous season and career, as her 44 points this season allowed her to finish her career as the second highest point scorer in PSU Women’s Field Hockey history. Her success as a Panther will allow her to compete in the prestigious North vs. South Division III Senior game down in Virginia later on in November. For the Panthers, there is still a chance that they might play a few more games this season, as they have participated in the ECAC New England Tournament the past few seasons. If Plymouth is able to compete in this tournament watch for them to be a team to beat. Last year, the only PSU team that was able to get to the NCAA playoffs was the women’s lacrosse team. This season, the tennis team has already captured a spot in the NCAA tournament, as they defeated Rhode Island
College last Friday, 5 sets to 2. This is the third time in school history that PSU has advanced to the NCAA tournament, but the first time that they have since 2006. Unfortunately for PSU, they will have to wait to compete in the Division III National Championship, as they take place in May 2015. The 14-0 mark for the Panthers is the first undefeated tennis team since the inception of the team back in 1968! Zara and Sunny Jakubas (Califon, N.J.) are larger contributors to the success of the team, as they were able to win their individual matches and doubles matches to give PSU three of the five sets necessary to win. Zara Jakubas, who was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, as well as the LEC Rookie and Player of the Year, went undefeated in both singles and doubles play this season. Cassidy Wells (Colchester, VT) was able to win her singles match, while the combination of Wells and Rosalie DiRado (Gansevoort, N.Y.) won their doubles match. Coming into the season, the Panthers were picked to finish 5th, but Head Coach Barbara Rawlsky-Willett was able to lead her team to an undefeated regular and LEC tournament. RawlskyWillett was named LEC Coach of the Year in the process to the team’s most successful season, ever. Despite waiting until May to be able to compete for a national championship, the Panthers have a lot of time and practice to prepare for what could be an extremely exciting time for the team. The Plymouth State Volleyball team’s season came to an abrupt end,
as they fell to Eastern Connecticut State University on Tues. (Nov. 4) night. The three sets to two loss brings the team’s final record to 13-19. The Panthers were able to put up a much better performance against the Warriors this time around, compared to when they played East Conn a few weeks ago (in which they lost three sets to none). PSU was able to capture the second and third sets, respectively, after dropping the first set. In the fourth set, with Plymouth going for the upset (PSU was a six seed, while ECSU is a 3), they were able to go up 14-11 and appeared to be on their way for the upset. Unfortunately for the Panthers, East Conn was able to rally, and go on a 10-1 lead to go up 21-15. Eastern ended up winning the fourth set by a score of 25-18 to tie the match up at two sets a piece. In the fifth and final set, Eastern was able to ride the wave of momentum from winning the fourth set, and jumped out to a quick 6-1 lead. PSU was never able to rebound, and lost the fifth set 15-7. For the match, senior Jana Nieman (Fair Lawn, N.J.) had a team-high 18 kills, and sophomore outside hitter Katie Sylvia (Lee, N.H.) served six aces in the match. PSU should be able to come back strong when the calendar rolls back around to Fall 2015, as they are going to only graduate one senior, in Nieman (who was a captain this season). With a young roster for next year’s team, watch for PSU to look to improve their seed for next year’s tournament. An Emily Bell (Derry, N.H.) goal was able to cut the deficit to a goal,
but the Women’s soccer team fell to Eastern Connecticut State University, 3-1. This loss brings the Panther’s final record to 5-13, as this was a Little East Conference quarterfinal match-up, with PSU being the 6th seed and ECSU being the 3rd seed. Eastern Connecticut was able to get on the board early in the game, as they scored just over five minutes into the game. The score stayed 1-0 in ECSU’s favor for the next 54 minutes until the Warriors were able to go up 2-0. Bell scored her goal just 42 seconds later after sophomore midfielder Hannah Kallis (Sanford, ME) set up the senior Bell for the goal. Unfortunately for the Panthers, ECSU added their third goal about 15 minutes later to close out the game. Sophomore Keeper Annaliese Schmidt (Newmarket, N.H.) had 10 saves for the duration of the contest. Like a few other Fall sports teams for Plymouth, the Women’s soccer team is young, as they will only have four players graduate in May. Aside from Bell, Courtney Barker (Yarmouth, ME), Brittany Terra (Bristol, R.I.), and Danielle Ehrgott (Concord, N.H.) are the seniors that have played their last game in the green and white for PSU. With Schmidt coming back next season as a junior, Plymouth has the ability to develop into one of the better teams in the Little East Conference. Schmidt led the Little East Conference in save percentage, and has shown over the past two seasons that the future is very bright for the Women’s Soccer team.
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With Kyle Brumfield Eric Brill Sports Editor ne of the qualifications of being featured in “:10 Seconds” is to show that you have a lot of heart and show extra effort. After O senior Alternate Captain Kyle Brumfield hurt his knee in December last season, he was absolutely crushed that his season was over, and knew that it would be a grueling task to recover from a torn ACL, MCL, and meniscus. Upon getting surgery, he had to keep
his “leg remained in full extension for 4 weeks, followed with limited movement for another 8 weeks,” said Brumfield over the summer. Little things, such as being able to do leg extensions, as well as going for runs, allowed Brumfield to slowly build his body back up to the condition he is in today. Fast-forward to a Men’s Ice Hockey practice about two weeks ago. Upon finishing the various drills the team did, the team was split into groups of four, where they had to do suicide sprints. Most players on the team would be lucky to touch the line they were instructed to skate to, but Brumfield was going well beyond the point he had to go to, going “that extra mile.” Little things like that do not go unnoticed, and it’s what secured Brumfield’s place in this installment of “:10 Seconds.”
1. How long have you been playing hockey? I got a late start playing hockey, and didn’t step on the ice until I was 13. 2. How does the hockey team look for the 2014-2015 season? With only two freshmen, one sophomore transfer, and a strong sophomore class with a few games under their belt, we took up right where we left off from last season, and will start the season rolling. 3.What is your most memorable moment in your hockey career? My most memorable moment in hockey is winning the MASCAC Championship over Salem State in double overtime freshman year. This is a memory that gives me chills every game day, and I plan to repeat that memory in March. 4. Do you have any superstitions on game day? The night before every game my roommates and I make chicken parmesan. Then on game day, when I put my suit and tie on I make sure to wear the same tie as long as we keep winning. 5. What was the “Welcome to Hockey” moment in your career? My first year of playing contact hockey, I came off the bench and the puck came right to me. I immediately turned and shot the puck on my own net. Luckily, our goalie made an unreal save and fired the puck to the far blue line to our forward for a break away, and I got an assist on the play! 6. If I were to look at you iPod/ iTunes/etc., what would be the five most played songs? Florida Georgia Line—Sippin’
on Fire G. Eazy—Almost Famous Grand Funk Railroad—I’m Your Captain Deorro—5 Hours XX—The intro 7. You’ve battled injuries throughout the duration of your career, and worked your ass off during the off-season to make sure that this year is different. What did you do during the offseason to prevent an injury from occurring, and what kept you going during those long days of rehab? There is no better time to make huge gains in one’s performance than the off-season. It’s the time for the player to get stronger and improve their skills for the season ahead. “Players” improve during the offseason; “teams” improve during the regular season. I have always worked hard during the offseason, but this summer was different. I am now in my senior year, and this will be my last year of playing competitive hockey. I want this to be my best year ever, so I worked especially hard this summer to be in the best shape that I’ve ever been. On those long days of rehab I would think how fortunate I was to be on the MASCAC championship team in 2012. Our team unfortunately lost the championship game the last two years, but it won’t happen this year. This will be the last opportunity I get to play in an NCAA tournament, and I plan to do whatever I can to help my team get there. 8. To follow that up, you have mentioned before how Phil Arnone was your biggest supporter during the offseason. What does it mean to you to have him around as a coach this year? Phil Arnone has been by far, and continues to be, my biggest supporter. Last season Phil knew how hard it
was for me to stand on the other side of the glass at each game and watch my team and not be able to play. As my roommate, he would come into my room every morning and tell me that everything will be all right, and that I will come back next season better than ever. Even now that I am well into my recovery process, Phil periodically sends me a text stating, “The Harn is just checking in to see how the knee is feeling.” I am happy to say that Phil will be returning this season to assist on the bench. He is a great motivator to all of us both on and off the ice. 9. Being a biotechnology major, the classes that you take aren’t exactly easy. How are you able to balance hockey and school work during the season? I came to Plymouth freshman year with 20 credits that I took while playing junior hockey in upstate New York, which has given me the ability to take a one less class each semester. Both hockey and school are very demanding, and one thing that I have learned over the years is to manage my time wisely and work ahead whenever I can. 10. The first home game is on Nov. 15 against UMass Dartmouth. When you come out onto the ice to hear Hanaway Arena going nuts, how much does that get you and the team going? Does the crowd truly give the team that big of a home-ice advantage? Plymouth has one of the best student bodies I have ever seen, having the crowd behind the boys truly does provide a huge advantage. They keep us going when we are leading and pick us up when we need momentum. The majority of teams that come to visit us are not used to playing in a rowdy environment and it allows us to have the most competitive home ice in the league. CLOCK PHOTO/ERIC BRILL