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The Chase Ocean Engineering Lab held Ocean Discovery Day on Saturday.

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The men’s soccer team beat Grand Canyon University 1-0 in overtime on Saturday.

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Philbrook launches innovative allergy-free station

Schools look to UNH model for inspiration

By CATIE HALL STAFF WRITER

Staff in Philbrook Dining Hall decided they wanted to be the best when it came to offering allergy-free foods. So far, the new allergy-free station is the first of its kind in the nation.

The prepared foods do not contain the eight most common food allergies: milk, eggs, fish, shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soybean. It also excludes gluten.

Not only is the station the first of its kind in the nation, but it is also attracting attention

Students with milk, egg, fish, shellfish, tree nut, peanut, wheat and soybean allergies now have access to fresh, hot meals every day.

from other institutions that are curious. Brandon Crosby, Philbrook area manager, said that he is getting calls from San Diego State University.

“Some colleges are doing this sort of thing,” Rochelle L’Italien, UNH dietitian, said. “There’s one in particular that’s getting a lot of press. What they’re doing – they have their own station but what we do differently is [we exclude red meat] and they also serve fish, but we’re like, we can do that. We can do that better. We can do all eight allergens and

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RED BULL GIVES WILDCATS WINGS

UNH alumni compete in ‘flying’ competition

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By PHOEBE McPHERSON DESIGN EDITOR

group of recent graduates attempted to fly up to the Greek gods this past weekend. Far from a joke, five UNH alumni banded together to represent the state of New Hampshire at the National Red Bull FlugTag event in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 21.

The team of UNH grads: Matt Golde (‘11, ‘13), Eric Doe (‘11), Chris Wood (‘10, ‘12), Kit Quay (‘11, ‘13) and Tom Zakarron (‘11, ‘13), adopted the name “Zero to Hero,” inspired by the Disney movie, “Hercules.”

The German word, FlugTag (pronounced flooh-tahg) originally translated to “flying day,” but is now synonymous with a worldwide event hosted by RedBull. The first event was held in Austria in 1992.

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Former engineering students constructed a plane for the National Red Bull FlugTag event on Sept. 21.

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Film festival promotes foreign language experience Viewers take advantage of international film screenings

By OLIVIA MARPLE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The distinct, crisp echo of spoken German carried throughout the hallways of the Memorial Union Building this past Saturday. The noise came from two mothers gabbing away as their tiny children tugged at their sleeves, anxious to get into MUB Theater II to watch Emil Und Die Detektive, the story of a

boy-sleuth from Berlin.

While not a typical MUB movie, this German children’s flick was just one of the many featured at the inaugural One World Language School International Film Festival this Saturday, Sept. 21 and Sunday, Sept. 22.

“My child is three and she already knows German and English,” one of the mothers and a current teacher at the One World Language School, Nicole

Jordan, said about her daughter Isabella, between spouts of Deutsch. “So I figured this is a great way for us to see a movie on the big screen. We also saw a Chinese film, which had everything Isabella liked because it had singing, dancing, fighting and a monkey. And all of that’s international; every kid likes that.”

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People of all ages enjoyed films from countries like Germany and China during this weekend’s festival.

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Contents

Men’s Soccer edges Grand Canyon

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Cowell Stadium renovations

19 Jesus Tudela was the savior in UNH’s 1-0 overtime victory.

20 UNH looks to add lights for the upcoming 2014 football season.

Durham Day

Ocean Discovery Day

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7 The town held its annual Durham Day celebration at Wagon Hill Farm this weekend.

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• Visiting Artist Lecture: Brigham Dimick, PCAC A218, 12:40-2 p.m.

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This weekend’s event at the Chase Ocean Engineering Lab gave visitors a look at ocean-related research being done at the university.

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Entitled study A new UNH study reveals fasinating facts about people who view themselves as more entitled than others, especially in the workplace.

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• Body Language in the Classroom and Beyond, MUB 203, 10-11 a.m.

• A Series of Alumni & Faculty Talks: Emily Leonard Trenholm, PCAC A204, 6-7:30 p.m.

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The FlugTag participants performed in a choreographed dance before launching their creation, which they referred to as ‘Pegasus.’

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continued from page 1 More than 20 years after the original day of flight in Vienna, teams from across the country are attempting to soar through the air as they push their craft and chosen pilot 150 feet down a runway.

Crafts can be any sort of mechanisms that teams choose to build. The only guidelines are that the wingspans be 28 feet, and that the craft not exceed 400 pounds, pilot included.

While preparing for the event, the team of UNH alumni was apprehensive, but seemed ready.

“The wings [of Pegasus] really work,” Golde said. “We think we’ll get a good float for a second.” “[We’re] more excited than nervous,” he said in the days leading up to the event.

“My goal [for the craft] is 20 feet of flight,” Wood said.

Golde’s goal was a little more extraneous. “[My goal is] not having it completely explode before we get to the end of the runway,” Golde said. “Again, it’s call a craft because there’s so many options and variations to what people build.

Some people build planes, some people build horses.”

Before pushing Pegasus down the runway, the team was supposed to perform a small skit or dance on the runway. Zero to Hero dressed in ancient Greek attire.

“We made up our dance the night before, in our hotel room,” Golde said.

Quay was dressed as Hercules, the other four men as the singing choir.

“We just made up some dance moves, and practiced it maybe ten times,” Golde said.

It was from there that Zero to Hero muscled its Mount Olympus craft, the combination of a 28-footwingspan Pegasus and Gizapyramid-esque wheeled “mountain,” down a 150-foot runway at National Harbor.

“Alright, they’re ready to do a Herculean flight,” the announcer said.

And then they fell: 30 feet

down into the National Harbor.

More precisely, Quay and the craft nose-dove into the water. Like many of their competitors, their craft “failed” to fly and crashed.

“I didn’t know what had happened,” Quay said. She had been sitting atop Pegasus as the sole pilot. The other four teammates were the manpower (no pun intended). “Seeing the video was just like oh my god … that’s what we did.”

“[My goal is] not

having it completely explode before we get to the end of the runway.”

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“I believe in the flying business that’s what they call a teetertotter,” the male announcer said.

According to RedBull’s official event videos, Zero to Hero’s performance was less than spectacular points-wise, their craft “flying” between approximately 30 and 40 feet.

“They’re not meant to go far,” Wood said.

In fact, the record for FlugTag is 150 feet of flight. Regardless, teams’ crafts range in creativity from flying animals and planes to more obscure structures.

Golde said that one year a team built a boxing ring and boxed while going off the edge of the runway.

After the exhibition, Zero to Hero’s craft was hoisted up via a giant crane and thrown into a trash compactor. Months of work burned in the incinerator.

“It wasn’t too sad,” Quay said. “If it flew really well then I think I would have been more upset, but since it crashed it was good riddance.”

The reason for pursuing such an odd challenge?

“We’re engineers,” Golde said. “It’s in our blood to build things.”

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gluten.”

Crosby explained that there are several reasons why the station is unlike anything else.

“What kind of makes it one of the first of its kind is not only is it gluten plus the eight allergens,” Crosby said, “but it’s open to the public, meaning it’s not in a closed room.”

L’Italien said that most people predicted an allergy-free station would have abnormal foods in it.

But, she said, the station offers food that looks like it would come from home.

“Most of the recipes were designed to have less than five or six ingredients,” David Hill, area manager for Holloway Commons, said.

“So, it’s more of a ‘made-fromscratch’ kind of concept where food is narrowly more healthful; it doesn’t have a lot of additives, preservatives, that kind of thing, as well.”

Based on a report from L’Italien, the station offers whole food items: a protein entrée, vegetable, grain, a soup, vegetarian chili and two salads.

According to Hill, there are a growing number of allergy concerns on campus. Catering to one special diet does not mean another person will be able to eat the same foods.

Crosby learned that from a dining guest.

“We’re one of the top schools in the country for gluten-free,” Crosby said. “And that’s wonderful, and when I was first here, a mother yelled at me. She said, ‘You know, it’s great what you do for glutenfree, but if my son has a nut, he’s going to die.’ And that’s really stuck with me.”

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continued from page 1 This idea of accessibility to other cultures through a relatable movie experience is just what the organizers of the film festival had in mind when they set up this two-day event featuring movies not only in German, but also Chinese, Spanish and French.

“Not everyone has the time or interest to learn another language,” Julie Reece, co-founder and director of the One World Language School, said, “but they might be interested in seeing some high-quality international films. We hope that this will be an educational and enriching experience for the Seacoast community.”

Reece explained that the One World Language School was established in 2003 with the purpose of providing “after-school language classes to children ages three to 14 in many local school districts.”

Reece said that she and CoFounder and Director Brigitte Herz decided to put on the film showing because the parents of children attending the school “are always looking for ways to enrich their child’s language education outside of the classroom, and one of the things [they] recommend is movies, and in particular movies made in the target-language country. This way the children get not only a language experience but also an authentic

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Crosby explained that there is an online order form for students with allergies to submit so that they can have a prepared meal of their choice. The program was initially for gluten-free students, but people with different allergies have used the program over the years.

However, Crosby says that in general, he finds students are happy with the allergy-free station.

“Ordering off the allergy-free guide is nice but it reduces that flexibility that students have,” Crosby said. “We get a lot of orders on the website still, but I’m finding more and more are just happy with the allergy stations because [they] don’t have to wait for someone to bring [them] a plate. You know, so it doesn’t keep it anonymous but less of a fuss.”

At the end of May, Executive Chef Todd Sweet joined the team in time for the allergy-free station implementation. Before Sweet came to UNH, he worked at the Portsmouth Brewery, where he worked with specialty diets such as vegan and gluten-free.

Sweet worked alongside Hill this past summer to get ideas about what the new station would offer people.

“Todd and I had a very stressful summer writing recipes,” Hill said.

Sweet and Hill were not sure how many people would be interested in the station after the summer, but Sweet says the demand has steadily increased.

According to feedback attained by UNH dietetics interns, Kathryn Nelson and Jessica Geist, all types of students enjoy the new station. “[It’s] phenomenal,” Taylor Warren, a student with celiac disease, said. “[There’s a] fresh meal waiting for you every day that you

don’t have to order.”

The allergy-free station replaced the vegan station, but Eyob Demeke, a vegan, does not seem to mind.

“I like the station better this year than last year even though it was vegan last year,” Demeke said.

Vegan foods are still offered in the station, and Crosby added an extra vegan entrée in another section of the dining hall.

To avoid cross-contamination, Crosby purchased a few items to prepare for the fall 2013 semester.

“I bought all new equipment for that station to make sure there were no remnants from allergens,” Crosby said. “New steamer, new stoves, grill.”

Sweet, Hill, Crosby and L’Italien agreed it is essential to avoid cross-contamination. To do so, the station requires that students use a clean plate before taking food. The staff at the station guides the diners.

“And the station is different from the others,” Sweet said, “in that everything is prepared there as opposed to the main line where they’re calling down on a walkie-talkie to the production kitchen saying, ‘Hey, send me up three more cans of such-and-such.’

These folks here see the food and prepare the food themselves, and then they are able to serve it to the guests, and so they can answer any question that has to be answered.”

Right now, the allergy-free station is only offered in Philbrook, but that is not where the journey ends.

“The station is presently a prototype and will be adjusted as needed during the semester,” according to L’Italien’s report. “The vision is to eventually expand to have such stations at every dining hall.”

cultural experience.”

Jill Sears, another parent who took her son, Ben, to see Copito de Nieve, a part-animated, part-live-action Spanish-language romp about an albino gorilla in the Barcelona zoo, agreed that enjoying movies such as these is vital to her son’s acquisition of Spanish and wished there were more opportunities to raise awareness of bilingual education.

“It’s great because Ben can follow the story line through the pictures and begin to make connections between what he hears and what he sees,” Sears said.

The festival was geared towards adults in the Seacoast community as well as kids. At 12 p.m.

MUB Theater I featured Couleur de Peu: Miel, an R-rated flick in French with an older audience that contrasted with the many families filing in to watch Emil Und Die Detektive in MUB Theater II at the same time.

John O’Mahony, a UNH student who got up for the 10:15 a.m. showing of Copito de Nieve, described the children’s movie as “fantastic” and is proof people of all ages took advantage of the films offered this weekend.

“I’m not normally up at this hour,” O’Mahony said, “and I was about 10 years older or 50 years younger than everyone else in the audience, but I’m a student majoring in Spanish and I take any chance I can to hear the language.”

The One World Language School hosted the film festival in the MUB on Saturday and Sunday.

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Career Center, job fair helps students prepare for careers

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SHARPP, located at Wolff House, hosted its annual open house last Thursday, inviting the public to come enjoy free food and fun while getting educated about sexual violence, abuse and stalking.

SHARPP hosts third annual open house

By JENNIFER GAGNON contributing writer

On Thursday, Sept. 19, SHARPP, the Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program, welcomed the public to its third-annual open house.

The Wolff House opened its doors from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and entertained and educated members of the community with free food, music, raffles and activities. SHARPP advocates and staff informed the public about prevention and provided information regarding sexual violence, relationship abuse and stalking.

SHARPP was established in June of 1988, making the University of New Hampshire the first campus in the nation to have such a program.

SHARPP’s mission, according to the program’s website, is to “eliminate sexual and intimate partner violence.” SHARPP is on campus to support, help and empower the students of UNH, as well as members of the general public.

“We do more than sexual harassment and rape prevention,” SHARPP Services Coordinator Amy Culp said. “Our programs vary. Any uncomfortable situations, anything at all, we are here to help.”

SHARPP offers numerous free, confidential programs to accommodate individual needs. The program collaborates with students to arrange medical appointments, legal accompaniments, academic interventions, referrals and resources, and debriefing consultations.

“We work with the Counseling Center, professors and additional professional resources to overcome any sort of problem to get you back on track,” Culp said.

At the open house, SHARPP advocates educated the public about two campaigns that will be occurring in October, namely the Clothesline Project and Relationship Awareness Month. The Clothesline Project is a campaign giving survivors and their

friends and families an opportunity to take a stand and speak out against sexual violence. The open house displayed many different colored T-shirts on clotheslines; each shirt was unique, and many featured bold messages. One read, “Equal love,” and another said, “Put through hell, but I am still beautiful, powerful, strong, resilient, courageous and awesome.”

The Clothesline Project is a nationwide campaign that occurs at UNH twice a year, once in October and then again in April. Many residence halls will be displaying the clotheslines with T-shirts that were created throughout the years, as well as those made this year by students, friends, family, faculty and staff.

There will be a T-shirt workshop on Thursday, Oct. 3, from 12:40 p.m. to 2 p.m. in room 302 in the Memorial Union Building.

Relationship Awareness Month is a campaign organized by the university in honor of the nationally recognized Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Relationship abuse can consist of any repetitive action that a person does to achieve power and exercise control over another individual.

The actual abuse can occur in the form of physical, sexual, emotional, economic and/or psychological actions or threats. Such actions cause fear, intimidation, humiliation, manipulation and even injury to the individual being targeted.

Purple ribbons are worn throughout the month of October to support victims and to help raise awareness.

SHARPP is also seeking quotes about the characteristics of healthy relationships. Students can send their quotes in via email or submit them in-person at the Wolff House; they will be displayed throughout the month of October.

SHARPP is located at the Wolff House and is open Monday to Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. A 24-hour help-line can be reached at 603-862-SAFE (7233).

Internships, job interviews, résumés: it can all be a little overwhelming. Students have heard about the UNH Career Center, but do they really know about all it has to offer?

“I’m a career advisor with seniors and young alumni,” Jason Whitney, internship coordinator at the UNH Career Center said. “I help them with their job search.”

However, 90 percent of what Whitney does is helping undergraduates, mainly sophomores and juniors, with internships,.

Whitney has been working at the Career Center for eight years.

He first started off as a hall director and then transitioned into the UNH Career Center.

“I love helping students follow their dreams,” Whitney said.

According to Whitney, the UNH Career Center provides students resources and services that help them compete for internships and jobs. Students come most often for résumé and cover letter help. Networking is also something the Career Center helps with.

“We also help students with learning how to talk to people such as in job interviews,” Whitney said.

Senior Kellen Busby is one student who has benefitted from the UNH Career Center. Busby has completed two internships at Liberty Mutual. Busby first visited the Career Center as a sophomore as a requirement for his fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi. At the Career Center, Busby received help with his résumé revamping and mock interviews.

“The Career Center was very helpful with revamping my résumé and mock interviews,” Busby said.

While interning at Liberty Mutual, Busby received a job offer from them. As he was considering the job offer, Busby claimed that one of the staff members, Riana Sarvaiya, was extremely helpful in negotiating the job offer.

“Riana was very helpful in talking me through in accepting the job offer,” Busby said. “I came to her wondering if I should negotiate the offer, she was helpful in talking me through how to, and what I needed to do.”

Busby said that it was nice to have someone experienced and someone who knew what internships were looking for.

“The Career Center was great in explaining how to approach an interview, and were really helpful

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Travis Begin is another student who has benefited from the UNH Career Center.

Like Busby, Begin is also a senior and has completed an internship at Liberty Mutual.

“The Career Cen-

ter was very helpful with revamping my résumé and mock interviews.”

Kellen Busby Senior

“The Career Center helped me in all my internships,” Begin said.

“Usually in attaining professional skills and communication skills.”

Begin agreed with Busby that the Career Center was very helpful with the construction of résumés and with writing cover letters.

“It helped me with my interview skills and gaining confidence,” Begin said.

Begin said that the UNH Career Center isn’t just for undergraduate students, but also for graduate students looking to go to the next level. Within the last year

the Career Center has hired four new people. This makes five advisors in all. Along with hiring new staff, the UNH Career Center is also modernizing and updating all of its resources and services.

However, one of the biggest things the Career Center has to offer is the Career Fair, Whitney said.

“The Career Fair is our biggest event,” he said. “It’s open to all majors.”

About 140 companies came last March. Whitney is expecting at least that many in this semester’s upcoming Career Fair, which will be on Oct. 22.

“It’s a way to meet and connect with employers,” Whitney said, “and it’s free for students.”

According to Whitney, many companies are willing to hire students of all majors.

“We’re expecting 1,200 to 1,300 students,” Whitney said.

Students can make appointments for the Career Center on Wildcat Careers. UNH Career Center is also on Facebook and Twitter. Events and information will be posted on Facebook as well. Mock Interview Day, for example, is on Oct. 1.

“We ask questions like, ‘What can I help you with?’ then we go from there,” Whitney said.

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It Gets Better video seeks to promote equality, support for LGBTQ community at UNH

By KATIE GARDiNER Staff Writer

The word “gay” means happy. It is used to characterize a cheerful and light-hearted person.

This is what anyone would see if they were looking in a dictionary.

Looking at a gay person can be much different though. With some members of the LGBTQ community suffering from depression or having thoughts of suicide, the It Gets Better campaign is looking to spread hope. Now that campaign has come to UNH. Last semester, senior Ari Schaaff was interning with Health Services when she decided to bring the national It Gets Better campaign to UNH, and make a video here on campus.

The campaign was started in 2010, and is a series of videos that intends to give hope to members of the LGBTQ community and tell them to not give up when times get hard.

Being a member of this community herself, Schaaff wanted to bring the project to UNH to help students, as well as to help create more allies.

allies, would record their personal stories or their messages of hope and advice.

Peter Welch, a health educator and counselor at Health Services, supported Schaaff with the project and hopes that it’ll spread a positive message around campus.

“It’s important for LGBT students to know that there is hope around the corner,” Welch said.

He said that this is the main message of the film, but that this should also inspire students who aren’t members of the LGBTQ community to go watch it as well.

Welch said that, even if a person isn’t an ally now, that it is inevitable that everyone will eventually know someone, whether it’s a friend or family member, who is LGBTQ and that it’s important to know how to give them support.

Sophomore Rob RichardSnipes, who is in the film and helped with advertising, also believes that showing support for the community is a key goal of the film.

He said that students need to know that UNH is an accepting place.

“Especially with first-year

“Especially with first-year kids, it’s difficult

adjusting to a new place, kids need to know that it’s alright to be who you are.”

Rob Richard-Snipes Sophomore

“UNH is a welcoming place,” Schaaff said. “But there’s always room to improve.”

Last semester, Schaaff, with the help of Health Services and her friends, began holding filming sessions on-campus where people could record themselves for the movie.

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kids, it’s difficult adjusting to a new place,” Richard-Snipes said.

“Kids need to know that it’s alright to be who you are.”

Joelle Ryan, a professor in the women’s studies department, was also interviewed in the film, during which she shared her personal story of struggling as a person of the transgender community.

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anyone experiencing a similar struggle and she wants UNH students to realize that the LGBTQ community needs their support.

“I think we need to create a community that values all of its members and realizes our equality,” Ryan said.

Schaaff said that just through the filming of the It Gets Better movie, the support of allies has already been overwhelming.

She has spoken to and filmed professors, college deans, President Mark Huddleston, several athletic teams and numerous students.

“What really resonated with me was the willingness and excitement of people who were a part of it,” Schaaff said.

Schaaff herself also speaks in the film, although she admitted that she found it hard to put all of her thoughts into words once the camera started rolling.

“There’s so much to say and so much to convey,” she said. “It’s hard to condense it into a short clip.”

The film, which premieres Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 6 p.m., will be approximately 30 minutes long, with a panel speaking afterwards.

The panel will feature Schaaff, Richard-Snipes, Ryan and Jen Clayton, another student who helped create the film. Welch will facilitate the panel, asking questions about the film and being part of the LGBTQ community, and then will open up the discussion to allow questions from the audience.

The whole event will take place in MUB Theater II, which is a location change due to the large number of expected attendees.

Despite the positive outlook of hope surrounding the film, Schaaff, as well as the others involved, know that this is a community that suffers.

Schaaff said that, although she wants to help people, the LGBTQ community members and allies need to put in hard work together if they want to see change.

“It gets better when we make it better,” she said. “It’s not something that’s magically going to happen. It takes effort.”

Welch believes that this change is possible though, and he wants young people who are struggling with their sexuality to believe this as well.

“I don’t want it to sound like a cliché, but it’s true,” Welch said.

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A band plays music in the grass on Sept. 21, Durham Day. The event’s origin is unknown but reportedly draws larger crowds each and every year.

Durham celebrates longstanding tradition at Wagon Hill Farm

By JARED HORNSBY Contributing Writer

Who knows how long the Durham, N.H., community has been putting on its increasingly popular “Durham Day,” celebration? It’s been a long time.

So long in fact, the answer even eluded the festival coordinator and Parks and Recreation Director, Stephanie Frazee.

“This has been going on now for many, many years. Long before my time, so long that I can’t be sure when it started here in the community,” Frazee said. “It seems to draw larger and larger crowds every year.”

This year, Durham Day took place on Sept. 21 from 12:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. Held each year at Wagon Hill Farm just off Route 4, the town of Durham and its surrounding community brave the half-mile walk from the parking lot to the fair grounds to enjoy kayak and boat tours on Great Bay, storytelling, live music by local band Bliss and, of course, a great cheeseburger.

According to Frazee, much of the day’s success is due to the beauty of Wagon Hill Farm and because of its perfect location.

UNH class of 1958 graduate and life-long Durham resident Steve Roberts has been present at the Durham Day festivities every year since his graduation.

These days, he takes more of a spectator role, but there is something for everyone at Wagon Hill, from the young and adventurous to the older and less daring.

With its relatively far distance from the roadside, Roberts called

Durham Day “a true hidden gem.”

“For the longest time, few people knew exactly what was offered here, and once they took the time to walk back, they couldn’t believe it,” Roberts said.

Roberts then pointed out the best burger in Durham, made during Durham Day’s marathon barbeque, which was equipped with four compost stations labeled from forks to napkins.

“For the longest

time, few people knew exactly what was offered here, and once they took the time to walk back, they couldn’t believe it.”

Stephen Roberts Durham Resident

Informational booths, from the Durham Parks and Recreation Department to the Agricultural Commission, lined the festival grounds.

Event-goers could learn, share and even get involved, all on-site.

There was also a kid’s section with games, activities and crafts available for younger attendees.

As Frazee had expected, 2013’s edition of Durham Day, now more than ever, was truly “a celebration of the community and its significant contributions to the region.”

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Burger King launching lower-calorie french fry

By CANDICE CHOI ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Burger King wants people to feel less guilty about gobbling up its french fries.

The world’s No. 2 hamburger chain is launching a new crinklecut french fry on Tuesday that it says has 20 percent fewer calories than its regular french fries.

The chain says a small order of the new “Satisfries” clocks in at 270 calories because of a new batter that doesn’t absorb as much oil. By comparison, a small order of its regular fries, sans crinkles, has 350 calories.

The concept of taking an indulgent food and removing some of the guilt isn’t new, of course.

Supermarkets are filled with baked Lay’s potato chips, 100-calorie packs of Oreos and other less fattening versions of popular treats.

Such creations play on people’s inability to give up their food vices, even as they struggle to eat better.

The idea is to create something that skimps on calories, but not on taste.

Burger King executives say people won’t be able to tell that Satisfries are lower in calories.

It says they use exactly the same ingredients as its regular fries — potatoes, oil and batter. To keep kitchen operations simple, they’re even made in the same fryers and cooked for the same amount of time as regular fries.

The difference, Burger King says, is that it adjusts the proportions of different ingredients for the batter to block out more oil. The company declined to be more specific. Another difference, the crinkle-cut shape, is in part so workers will be able to easily distinguish them from the regular fries when they’re deep frying them together.

“You need to make things as simple as possible,” says Eric Hirschorn, Burger King’s chief marketing officer.

As per capita consumption of french fries has declined over the years, frozen potato suppliers have been working on ways to reduce fat and calories in french fries, said Maureen Storey, president and CEO of the Alliance for Potato Research & Education, an industry group.

“It’s actually not an easy thing to do to because consumers want the same taste and the same tex-

ture,” she said.

Alex Macedo, head of North American operations at Burger King, said the chain worked with one of its potato suppliers, McCain Foods, to develop the lower-calorie fries. He said McCain can’t sell the fries to other fast-food clients and that different suppliers might have a tough time imitating them.

The chain says a small order of the new “Satisfries” clocks in at 270 calories because of a new batter that doesn’t absorb as much oil.

Burger King took great pains keep the launch of Satisfries under wraps. Last week, reporters were invited to preview a “top secret new product” at a New York City hotel, where they were asked to sign non-disclosure agreements.

Attendees were each served a carton of the fries on a plate that looked and tasted like any other

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fries, even leaving the familiar grease stains in their paper cartons.

Burger King led off its presentation by comparing the fries to the “leading french fries,” which are made by rival McDonald’s. On a pound-for-pound basis, executives noted that the new fries have 30 percent fewer calories than those served at the Golden Arches.

The comparison to McDonald’s may prove to be confusing for some, since fast-food chains each have their own definitions of what qualifies as a small, medium or large.

A small serving at McDonald’s, for example, weighs considerably less than a small order at Burger King. As a result, a small order of McDonald’s fries has 230 calories — which is still less than the 270 calories for a small serving of Burger King’s Satisfries.

A “value” order of Satisfries at Burger King — which is closer in weight to the small size at McDonald’s — has 190 calories.

Satisfries is the latest gambit

by Burger King Worldwide Inc. to revive its image after a series of ownership changes in recent years.

3G Capital, the Brazilian private investment firm that bought the

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chain and took it private in 2010, kicked off a campaign last spring with a revamped menu and starstudded ad campaign.

The splashy moves came just before 3G announced a deal to take Burger King public again.

The deal was structured in a way that let 3G more than recoup the $3.26 billion it paid for the chain, while still maintaining a majority stake. Burger King’s stock price is up 37 percent over the past year and trading close to $20 per share.

The company has continued to press ahead with new menu items in hopes of pushing up soft sales, but the efforts haven’t yet yielded results. For its second quarter, sales at restaurants open at least a year slipped 0.5 percent in the U.S. and Canada, where it has about 7,200 locations. The metric is a key gauge of health because it strips out the volatility of newly opened and closed locations.

Still, Burger King is betting Satisfries will be so popular that people will even be willing fork over more money for them. The suggested price for a small order of Satisfries is $1.89, compared with $1.59 for regular fries. That’s a 19 percent markup.

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McLEAN, Va. — A week ago, Rollie Chance was working the phones, worried that some of his friends at the Washington Navy Yard may have been killed in a mass shooting there.

In the middle of that, he received a call that he thought was a prank: a news organization telling him that he had been identified as the shooter.

Chance’s name was reported Sept. 16 by two network news organizations as the shooter in an apparent mix-up involving his long-discarded Navy Yard identification badge. NBC reporters tweeted Chance’s name as the shooter, while CBS used Chance’s name in tweets and in a radio broadcast.

Both networks retracted their reports within minutes of misidentifying him as the shooter.

Chance, a Stafford, Va., resident, has reluctantly spoken with reporters in recent days because he hopes getting stories out about the mix-up will crowd out archived versions of stories on the Internet that misidentify him as the Navy Yard shooter. He also says he wants to ensure that others don’t go through what he did.

“It was a very emotionally draining week,” Chance said Monday in a phone interview.

On the day of the shooting, Chance was also dealing with the shootings on a personal level. He had worked at the Navy Yard for years, first as a U.S. Navy sailor and later as a civilian in engineering, specifically modernization and maintenance.

He knew one of the victims

fairly well; their families met and spent time together at a Christmas party a few years back. Chance declined to identify the person, concerned that bringing the victim’s name into the public eye could cause the family pain.

Chance said he had not received a phone call from NBC or CBS. NBC News said in a statement Monday, “We received misinformation from reliable sources and immediately corrected.”

Sonya McNair, senior vice president of communications for CBS News, issued a similar statement: “We reported what we learned from law enforcement sources and it was corrected within minutes.”

The first call he received on the day of the shootings was from ABC, asking if he knew Rollie Chance had been identified as the Navy Yard shooter. Chance thought it was a bad joke. Still, he holds no ill will toward ABC or other news agencies that called trying to get the story straight and that withheld his name from publication.

“They verified before they vilified,” Chance said.

He first learned for certain that news outlets had identified him as the shooter from FBI agents who visited his home that day. They were trying to figure out why Chance’s badge was found at the scene.

Chance said he still has no idea how his badge got mixed up in the case. He retired in October from his civilian Navy job and turned in his badge as a matter of routine. He said multiple people, including his boss, were there when he did so. He didn’t give the badge a second thought between then and the day of the shootings.

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UNH scientists help discover change in interstellar winds

By MICHAEL A. PASTORE contributing writer

Interstellar gas particles streaming into the solar system have seemingly changed direction, according to a recent finding by scientists working as part of NASA’s Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission.

The shifting direction of the winds gives people on Earth a greater understanding of the planet’s place in the known universe, specifically in terms of how these complex interstellar clouds work and the role that our sun’s heliosphere plays amidst the turbulent activity.

The clouds moving against each other create this turbulence, which is thought to be responsible for the winds changing direction.

The results were published in a scientific article titled “DecadesLong Changes of the Interstellar Wind Through Our Solar System.”

Researchers who contributed to the piece include IBEX members from the University of New Hampshire, the University of Chicago, Southwest Research Institute, and several other colleges and research institutions. IBEX is led by the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas.

“The discovery was really surprising to us, since nobody had expected any changes in the interstellar gas particles anytime soon, because the typical size of these clouds that surround us are more than a couple of light-years,” Eberhard Möbius, UNH’s primary scientist on the IBEX mission and co-author of the aforementioned article, said.

In the 1990s, the Ulysses spacecraft did not detect the slightest indication of a directional shift; experts believe this was because Ulysses was the first mission to provide a direct measurement of the

gas flow direction, and at least two measurements separated in time are needed to see a change.

the sun’s gravity. The closer you are to the sun, the more it gets deflected. And we use that deflection

“ The discovery was really surprising to us,

since nobody had expected any changes in the interstellar gas particles anytime soon.”

Eberhard Möbius

UNH IBEX Mission scientist Ulysses was also at a further distance from the sun, making it less sensitive to the flow measurements. The IBEX team proceeded to compare its measurements with 11 other spacecrafts’ results from research conducted from 1972 to 2011. IBEX, with its more advanced instrumentation and flexibility in its operation, may provide more data in the future that can show an ongoing shift.

“The wind gets deflected by

to determine the speed,” Möbius said. “The more the winds are deflected, the more accurate the measurement is.”

Three different methods of measuring the winds were used to find these results; the first involves measuring sunlight reflected by the interstellar gas.

The second pertains to pick-up ions, which can be easily measured after the sun’s conversion of the neutral interstellar wind particles to

electrically charged ions. The pickup ions are then picked up by the sun’s magnetic field and the wind brushes them out of the solar system. Patterns of the pick-up ions around the sun are then used to measure the flow direction of the wind with relative ease.

The last method is direct measurement using collimators, which are the optics of the IBEX camera.

The camera is aligned with a starsensor, allowing light from the stars to be measured, which facilitates a precise determination of interstellar wind directions.

The star-sensor for IBEX was tested and calibrated by two former UNH physics undergraduate students, Morgan O’Neil and George Clark. O’Neil is currently pursuing her doctorate at MIT’s Hurricane Center, and Clark is working on his doctorate at the Southwest Research Institute, studying the physics of the Earth’s magnetosphere.

Marathon suspect’s lawyers ask for more time

By DENISE LAVOIE Associated Press

BOSTON— Federal authorities plan to recommend whether to seek the death penalty against Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev by the end of next month and expect U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to decide early next year whether to pursue it, prosecutors said Monday.

But Tsarnaev’s lawyers objected to the timetable and asked a judge for more time to make their case against the death penalty.

During a status conference in U.S. District Court, Tsarnaev’s lawyers said they have not received key evidence from prosecutors yet — including interviews or grand jury testimony of Tsarnaev’s family — and have not had enough time to submit a proposal arguing that Tsarnaev does not deserve the death penalty.

Assistant U.S. Attorney William Weinreb argued that the defense has had almost six months since the bombing. He said federal prosecutors plan to make a recommendation to Holder by Oct. 31.

He will have the ultimate say on whether to seek the death penalty; his decision is expected by Jan. 31, Weinreb said.

Twin bombings at the April 15 marathon killed three people and injured more than 260. Tsarnaev, 20, and his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, built two pressure cooker bombs and placed them near the finish line of the marathon, prosecutors allege. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died following a shootout with police days later.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged in a 30-count federal indictment, including 17 charges that carry the possibility of the death penalty. He has pleaded not guilty.

Weinreb said prosecutors originally asked Tsarnaev’s lawyers to submit their arguments by Aug. 23 but agreed to extend that deadline to October at their request. He said prosecutors are not

required by law to wait for input from the defense before submitting their recommendation to Holder.

“We think that six months is a reasonable time,” he said.

But Judy Clarke, one of Tsarnaev’s lawyers, said “it’s a matter of fairness” and asked the judge to delay the date for their submission at least until they get the evidence they are seeking.

“ We think that six

months is a reasonable time.”

William Weinreb

Assistant U.S. Attorney “It’s pretty stunning to say they can make a decision based

on what they know without some defense input,” said Clarke, a San Diego lawyer who has won life sentences instead of the death penalty for high-profile clients, including the Unabomber and the gunman in the rampage that wounded former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona.

Judge George O’Toole Jr. took no immediate action on the request but agreed to allow the defense to submit arguments on whether the court has the authority to reset any deadlines.

Prosecutors say Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen from Russia, wrote about his motivation for the bombing on the inside of the boat, scrawling that the U.S. government was “killing our innocent civilians.”

Massachusetts does not have a state death penalty.

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In this file photo, police and volunteers respond to the chaos and destruction caused by the explosion of two pressure cooker bombs placed near the finish line of the Boston Marathon last April.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev now may face the death penalty for his role in these bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260.

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Crowds gather for Ocean Discovery Day at UNH

By CATIE HALL Staff Writer

Families, students and staff disappeared into billowing white tents as they toured the inside of the Chase Engineering Lab to discover new technologies, sea-floor mapping and the curriculum that students are studying as part of Ocean Discovery Day. On Saturday, Sept. 21, people were scattered about the Chase Ocean Engineering Lab on the UNH campus, as well as the Jackson Estuarine Laboratory five miles from campus.

While children could engage in fish printing, experience 3-D sandbox topography or look at horseshoe crabs in the Chase Ocean Engineering Lab, Lesley Gardener, marine docent, saw an even bigger picture.

“We try to do a lot of education with real fish,” Gardener said.

Gardener stood at the fish printing station, helping small children paint fish and then apply their prints to T-shirts. The children could use molds or use real flounder for their prints.

“Education with real fish” is exactly what Ocean Discovery Day gave its audience. Guests were allowed to tour inside the lab, look at WindVis2 weather viewer screens, see a 20-foot-deep water tank for testing engineered machines, and experience a telepresence room.

“We host Ocean Discovery Day so that, not only does it give us a chance to show off and celebrate all of the exciting research that we’re doing here at UNH, but also to introduce the students to all of the oceanrelated careers that may await them,” Tara Hicks-Johnson, outreach specialist, said. “There’s a lot going on in the ocean sciences, and we’re excited to share it with everyone.”

Undergraduate students, doctorate students and staff set up informational booths outside of the lab and answered questions from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Sarah Tierney is a senior environmental conservation and sustainability major. She sat next to a poster and what appeared to be a clear container of a lump of soil with yellow sticks jutting into it.

“I’m doing an independent research project with professor Dave Burdick through the Jackson lab at Adam’s Point,” Tierney said. “I’m studying salt marshes and how climate change is affecting them.

I monitored various long-term monitoring sites throughout New

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Hampshire and Maine and measure them either with a SET [Surface Elevation Table model] or by putting a marker horizon in using Feldspar.”

Graduate student Matt Coyle is interested in an entirely different topic: bacteria.

Coyle sat at his table with a small 3-D diagram of glowing bacteria with gold plastic beads and a stuffed-animal squid for his younger audience members. But when it came to his older audiences, Coyle was able to eloquently explain his research, as he just finished his first year towards his doctorate degree.

“When these bacteria get together, they make light in the same way that a firefly would make light,” Coyle said.

Together, the bacteria find a home on the underside of a squid to form a symbiotic – or mutually beneficial – relationship. Consequently, the nocturnal squid is protected from predators that look for its shadow because the light-forming bacteria effectively remove said shadow.

“I’m specifically interested in the evolutionary process of the symbiosis,” Coyle said. “Most of the time we associate bacteria as problems and causes of disease and that’s usually not the case. … I’m really interested in why certain bacteria partner up and what limits them in partnerships, how they could potentially develop new partnerships.”

If one ventured inside the lab on Ocean Discovery Day, he or she would find signs that guided him or her to different stations, including a station with weather mapping.

At the end of one hallway, there was what appeared to be an average classroom, save for the monitors and computers covering the walls.

According to Adam Skarke, a physical scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, the purpose of the telepresence room is to connect to ships at sea. It provides an opportunity to get live feed from the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) on the ship and to speak to people on board. In essence, it’s like being on the ship.

At NOAA, Skarke coordinates ship expeditions and works on seafloor mapping.

“The mission of these ships is to go out where no one’s been before and find out what’s there,” Skarke said.

On an expedition, the crew might stop the ship if they think

ereign Bank.

He was accused of conspiring to defraud several Latin American customers of Goss International Americas Corp., a Durham manufacturer of commercial printing presses.

The U.S. attorney’s office says the 49-year-old Bender arranged for the bank to purchase loans extended to customers and formed shell companies to defraud businesses.

The customers were sent fraudulent invoices charging them for loan underwriting services that

they’ve found something interesting. Then, they can send down a ROV that has movie-quality cameras and mechanical arms to pick things up. From there, the ship receives live feed from the ROV camera, Skarke said.

The feed gets transmitted from the bottom of the ocean, to the ship, to a satellite and then to the telepresence room.

“When I go out to sea and lead an expedition, I’ve got 19 bunks, and that’s all I’ve got,” Skarke said. “… So the problem is, if we’re going somewhere we’ve never been before, we don’t know what we’re going to find. We don’t have enough bunks to bring an expert for everything we find.”

Therefore, the telepresence room can pick up the feed from the bottom of the ocean, and when the ship calls in and asks for an expert in a certain field – physics, for example – the expert can enter the telepresence room and explain the significance of the footage.

The feed can also be accessed by the public. Skarke claimed that scientists in space, on trains and on airplanes have been able to log on and give their feedback as they watched the ROV’s live camera feed.

The room is also used to allow researchers who are not able to board the ship to remain connected.

“As a woman, I was not allowed to go on an expedition because I was pregnant,” Hicks-Johnson said. “So, that was a way for me to still stay connected.”

Over 1,000 students and homeschool families attended a similar event on Friday. Hicks-Johnson got good feedback from teachers.

“It really makes the kids realize how cool it is to get to do this type of work for a living, and that the people who do this type of work actually live here in their neighborhood,” Hicks-Johnson said. “It certainly makes the whole field of marine science much more attainable when you can see it happen and be a part of it.”

Daniel Tauriello is a UNH undergraduate student who attended the event on Saturday. Tauriello studies ocean engineering and explored multiple stations at Ocean Discovery Day. He said there is a huge disconnect between the scientific community and the general public.

“I think the cool part about ocean discovery is to tell the community what we’re doing,” Tauriello said. “It validates the everyday work.”

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Mall fire causes power outage at hospital Police: Driver in fatal LEBANON— Officials say crash had no license

no one was hurt when an overheated power transformer started a small fire at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, that knocked out power to parts of the hospital.

The fire also affected the hospital’s communication system.

HAMPTON— Police said the woman who hit and killed two cyclists did not have a license and had been stopped hours earlier for speeding.

Hampton Deputy Police Chief Richard Sawyer tells the

2 1. UNH senior Sarah Turney’s salt marsh display helps people understand the effects of climate change on salt marshes. Turney, with the help of professor Dave Burdick, has been studying these effects as part of an independent research project. 2. A WindVis2 weather viewer screen shows the anticipated precipitation levels and cloud coverage throughout the country. 3. A tri-fold poster teaches viewers about salt marshes. 4. A 20-foot-deep pool in the lab is used to test engineered ocean equipment. 5. Photographs of various expeditions are on display in the teleprescence room, a place that connects to ships at sea via a Remotely Operated Vehicle. Ships use this technology to connect to experts or fellow researchers while on an expedition.

5 Portsmouth Herald that 20-yearold Darriean Hess, of Seabrook, was stopped at 12:46 a.m. Saturday for speeding in the same area where the crash happened eight hours later.

He said she didn’t have a license.

She was ticketed and ordered her to wait for a friend to drive her car away.

Police said Hess was driving again around 8:30 a.m. onSaturday when her vehicle crossed the centerline and hit four cyclists participating in a 100-mile ride.

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Rising immigrant deaths put burden on Texas county

By CHRISTOPHER SHERMAN Associated Press

FALFURRIAS, Texas— By the time the woman perished, she had probably slogged 25 miles through dry ranch lands in her quest to enter the United States. She was found just feet from a highway where she might have been picked up and taken to Houston with other migrants making the same journey.

Not long ago, her body would have been taken to a funeral home for a cursory attempt at identification, then buried in this town an hour north of the Mexico border under a sign reading “unknown female.”

Her death, probably from hyperthermia, is part of a mounting body count that has overwhelmed sparsely populated Brooks County, providing further evidence that immigrants are shifting their migration routes away from the wellworn paths into Arizona and instead crossing into deep southern Texas. The changing patterns have put an extra burden on local governments with limited experience in such matters and even fewer financial resources.

“There are some counties that have the economic wherewithal to take on these issues, and there are other counties that just don’t have any money, so that puts them into a real bad bind,” said Raquel Rubio Goldsmith, coordinator of the Binational Migration Institute at the University of Arizona, which researches immigration issues.

But Brooks County is trying to step up to the challenge. Now, all newly recovered bodies and skeletal remains of suspected immigrants will travel 90 miles to nearby Webb County for autopsies, DNA sampling and more intense efforts at identification.

It’s a monumental step for Brooks County, population just over 7,100, where on a recent morning the chief deputy mopped the floors of the sheriff’s office himself. He will also be making the weekly trips to deliver corpses to the medical examiner in Laredo.

The county handled 129 bod-

ies last year, which Judge Raul Ramirez, the county’s top administrator, says blew a hole in the budget. And even though he and most other local officials see illegal immigration as a federal problem, federal money has not followed.

Last year, Brooks County trailed only Pima County, Ariz., in the number of immigrant bodies recovered and they already have 76 this year. Nearly a million people live in Pima County, and the 171 bodies found in 2012 were consistent with annual totals dating back to 2004, according to a report by the migration institute.

In the past, unidentified immigrants were crammed into the local cemetery without DNA samples being taken.

Brooks County, on the other hand, averaged 50 to 60 dead before last year, but Border Patrol apprehensions in the area have soared.

The number of immigrants detained in South Texas’ Rio Grande Valley border sector outpaced the historic leader, the Tucson sector, by more than 30,000. Those numbers are an imperfect measure of the overall flow of migrants, but most of the growth has involved Central American immigrants, who often take the more direct route to the U.S. through Texas.

Immigrants typically die in Brooks County trying to circumvent a Border Patrol checkpoint. They’re usually dropped off with guides south of the checkpoint and forced to hike for two or three days to a pickup spot north of the checkpoint.

In the past, unidentified immigrants were crammed into the local cemetery without DNA samples being taken. The cemetery did not even have accurate records for the dead. In May, Lori Baker, a Baylor University anthropologist, led a team to Falfurrias to exhume unidentified immigrants’ graves.

Baker identified 54 marked

graves but found 63 burials. In some cases, the team opened a body bag expecting to find one person and found four other bags of remains.

Some of the remains carried tags indicating they came from a neighboring county.

She plans to return for more exhumations next year, and she’s encouraged by the county’s progress, noting that the short-staffed sheriff’s office is going to start taking DNA samples from family members who come looking for missing loved ones.

Three days before the woman was found on the El Tule Ranch, ranch manager Lavoyger Durham proudly showed off his personal contribution to addressing the problem: a 55-gallon blue plastic drum holding one-gallon water jugs. The water station is topped with a 30foot pole and a large blue flag.

Durham said it was the first water station in Brooks County, and he has plans for several more. He would prefer for the government to erect a double-layer border fence.

But in the meantime, the 68-year-old doesn’t want to see people continue to die on the ranch. He estimates he’s found 25 bodies on the property in the past 23 years.

“I’m trying to expose the killing fields of Brooks County,” Durham said. “If dead human beings don’t catch your attention, what the hell else is going to? We’re just trying to be human about it.”

Dr. Corinne Stern, the Webb County medical examiner, puts her office’s identification rate on nonskeletal remains at 65 to 70 percent.

But the woman from the ranch remains a Jane Doe for now. Found on Aug. 26, she was already in an advanced stage of decomposition.

There are clues, though. She was wearing earrings and a ring on the middle finger of her left hand.

She wore a Gold’s Gym T-shirt and pink Converse sneakers with pink laces. She carried several phone numbers, which haven’t turned up anything yet.

Tucked into one pocket of her shorts was a photo of a boy about age five. He’s wearing a suit and what appears to be a graduation cap.

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CNN Money also listed Amherst, Mass., as one of the top places to live for young adults.

Durham ranked second top place to live for “20-somethings” in U.S.

By CAMERON BIELSKI Contributing Writer

To the students and alumni of UNH, the small-town charm of Durham is no secret. A tightly knit community set in picturesque Southeastern New Hampshire, Durham combines a sense of culture and entertainment with natural beauty and a friendly, small-town feel.

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and sexually assaulted near the Dartmouth College campus.

Police said the 37-year-old woman told police Saturday night she had been walking on College Street when the man grabbed her and dragged into some bushes before assaulting her. She said she fought back and the man fled. Efforts to find him were not immediately successful.

These features make Durham the perfect home for young adults; in fact, according to a poll featured in CNN Money, Durham was recently voted the second best place to live in America for “20-Somethings”.

20-year-old Hallie Miller, a lifelong Durham resident and current junior at UNH, is intimately

familiar with the best that Durham has to offer.

“Everybody knows everybody here,” Miller said. “It was a great place to grow up as a little kid, the community is so close and friendly.

Transitioning into adolescence and then into college, I started to become more aware of how entertaining Durham could be, especially as a college student. Durham and UNH do a great job at working with one another to make Durham a fun, safe community”.

Durham is much more than just a seasonal college town. Its downtown area is home to many restaurants and bars that cater to UNH students and Durham residents alike.

Durham and UNH work together to put on a wide variety of concerts and festivals, adding a great sense of culture to Durham’s community.

Todd Selig, Durham’s town administrator, is particularly excited about Durham’s recent accolades and promising future.

“Durham is a terrific place to live and work no matter what age you are,” he said.

Selig praised Durham for “working hard in recent years to broaden its tax base, hold down local property taxes, expand downtown business opportunities and partner with the University of New Hampshire in new and creative ways for the benefit of the entire community.”

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New study shows entitlement-minded workers leads to negative consequences

By MELISSA PROULX Contributing Writer

Since 2010, UNH associate professor of organizational behavior Paul Harvey, along with a team of research colleagues, has been studying entitlement-minded workers and the effects that they can have on the workplace.

Recently, the researchers found that entitlement-minded workers, who they define as people with high amounts of unjustified self-worth, are more likely to report abuse by their supervisors.

In their first study, in 2010, the researchers used a similar surveying system and found that entitled workers are also less likely to be satisfied with their jobs and are less likely to accept criticism that might lead them to more efficiency in the workplace.

“From the 2010 study, we found that entitled employees were a lot less happy at work,” Harvey said. “We looked to see if more feedback might offset that a little bit but found the opposite of that. More interaction seems to make it worse.”

“Things like psychological entitlement

involve cognitive processes that operate the same way in just about everyone. … It’s a powerful perception that can have some serious consequences.”

Paul Harey

UNH Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior They arrived at this conclusion after analyzing the results of a month- long survey conducted in the Southeast and Midwest.

The group of people who participated in the study consisted of 81 pairs of employees and coworkers who had the same supervisor and worked together for an average of more than 20 hours a week.

Harvey first came up with the idea to research self-entitlement in 2001, while he was working in finance as a business recruiter.

“I noticed this sort of entitlement attitude in the hiring process,” Harvey said.

“The people who seemed to have it the most didn’t usually have anything to back it up.

When I got into studying

workplace behavior and switched into my academic career, I decided to [continue to follow my interest].”

After analyzing the study results, Harvey said that he believes that this sense of entitlement can be found in almost everyone.

“Entitlement works at every age group and we study [it] at all levels,” he said. “Things like psychological entitlement involve cognitive processes that operate the same way in just about everyone. … It’s a powerful perception that can have some serious consequences.”

Harvey said that he plans to continue his research on the subject and hopes that, in the future, the results will help to produce effective techniques that supervisors can utilize with entitled employees.

“This is something that is an important contemporary issue, since New Hampshire is trying to create laws to prevent employee abuse,” Harvey said. “Potential laws [based on the complaints of entitled workers] could really make a mess of things.

Harvey also has hopes that his studies might be an eye-opener for those guilty of this false sense of self-righteousness.

“Everyone has a little bit of a sense of entitlement,” he said. “[Hearing about this study might] make them look in the mirror and ask if they are being realistic.”

Child poverty no longer lowest in US, wake-up call for state

By RIK STEVENS Associated Press

CONCORD— The percentage of New Hampshire children living in poverty rose faster than any other state from 2011 to 2012, knocking the state from its 10year perch with the nation’s lowest child poverty rate, according to census data analyzed by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire.

The analysis of numbers released last week shows the rate of children younger than 18 living in poverty in New Hampshire rose from 12 percent in 2011 to 15.6 percent last year.

Compared to 2007, before the Great Recession, the rate is 75 percent higher.

New Hampshire now ranks 11th in child poverty; North Dakota has the lowest rate at 13.15 while Mississippi’s rate of 34.69 is the highest.

Nationally, the rate was at 22.6 percent, or 16.4 million children, according to data from the American Community Survey.

“This is a wake-up call for our state,” said Ellen Fineberg, executive director of the nonprofit advocacy group, Children’s Alliance of New Hampshire.

“Children are the future health

and well-being of our state.”

The reasons aren’t immediately clear, but experts said the state, responding to economic pressures during its last budget, made changes to two safety net programs that may have pushed more people below the poverty line:

fell by 25 percent.

Terry Smith, director of the state’s Division of Family Assistance, said the effects of more children in poverty could be devastating.

“Poverty is one of the stressors that impact cognitive functioning long term, especially for

Poverty has been growing in the state for a decade. State statistics show 58,229 families received food stamp assistance in January, an 85 percent increase since June 2008.

— It stopped using the loss of a job by the household’s primary earner as a qualification for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families. That meant 250 families didn’t get the TANF benefit.

— It started using Supplemental Security Income when calculating a family’s total income, disqualifying 1,200 households from getting food stamps and reducing the benefit for 420 other households.

Poverty has been growing in the state for a decade. State statistics show 58,229 families received food stamp assistance in January, an 85 percent increase since June 2008.

At the same time, the number of families getting TANF benefits

younger children,” he said. “The other stressors, like abuse of children and homelessness, those things increase in parallel with an increase in poverty.”

Fineberg, Smith and Marybeth Mattingly, director of research on vulnerable families for the Carsey Institute, agree it would get worse if Congress approves a farm bill that further cuts the Supplement Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. “The national story and the New Hampshire story highlight that a lot of kids are in families that are still really struggling to make ends meet,” Mattingly said.

“Now is not the time to reduce the safety net.”

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NH Briefs Fire at Laconia building causes $1M in damage LACONIA— A fire has caused over $1 million in damage to a 27,000-square-foot building in Laconia, N.H., that houses several businesses.

The fire at the former Skate Escape/Aubuchon Hardware building happened early Sunday.

No one was hurt and the firefighters are investigating the cause.

Current tenants at the building include LRGHealthcare’s laundry facility, Little Ceasars Pizza and Northeast Electrical Solutions.

Officials say the front part of the building was to be torn down to help make way for an Advanced Auto Parts Store that is in the early stages of construction in the southwest corner of the lot.

1 dead, 3 hurt in NH collision, driver charged WALPOLE— One person has died and three people have been hospitalized — one of them charged with negligent homicide — following a two-vehicle collision in Walpole, N.H. New Hampshire State Police say an SUV was heading north on Route 12 about 2 p.m. Sunday when the driver crossed the center line and went into the southbound lane.

The driver of a southbound SUV tried to pull over to the break-

down lane before both vehicles collided.

The northbound driver, 25-year-old Matthew Flynn, and one of his passengers, 21-year-old Gerard Flynn, both of Nashua, were taken to different hospitals. A second passenger died; that person’s name has not been released.

The other driver also was hospitalized. She is 64-year-old Marguerite Lucas of Springfield, Vt. Police have charged Matthew Flynn with negligent homicide.

Gas prices fall 3.5 cents in past week CONCORD— Gas prices in New Hampshire have fallen 3.5 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.56.

The website Gasbuddy.com says that’s still higher than the national average, which fell 4.5 cents in the last week to $3.49 a gallon.

But New Hampshire prices on Sunday were 29.4 cents per gal-

lon lower than the same a year ago and 5 cents per gallon lower than a month ago.

The price is based on a daily survey of 875 gas outlets in New Hampshire.

The national average decreased 7.3 cents per gallon in the last month and stands 32.1 cents per gallon lower than a year ago.

Medical marijuana advisory panel meeting CONCORD— Three months after New Hampshire lawmakers voted to allow seriously ill people to possess and use marijuana for medical reasons, an advisory committee charged with helping implement the law is holding its first meeting.

The 15-member panel established by the law will meet Thursday in Concord to organize.

The panel’s charge is help the state write rules to implement the law, track how the law works, recommend changes to lawmakers and issue a report in five years on whether the law should be continued or repealed.

The law allows patients diagnosed with cancer, Crohn’s disease and other conditions to possess up

to 2 ounces of marijuana obtained from dispensaries.

To qualify for medical marijuana, a person has to be a patient of the prescribing doctor for at least 90 days, have tried other remedies and have exhibited certain symptoms. Only New Hampshire residents qualify.

The law also allows establishment of four medical marijuana dispensaries.

Gov. Maggie Hassan signed the law after lawmakers agreed to drop a provision allowing the patients to grow marijuana at home.

The compromise also dropped post-traumatic stress disorder as a qualifying condition.

Police: driver fired gun at jogger in Salem SALEM— Police say a driver is accused of shooting a gun at a jogger in the New Hampshire town of Salem in what police are calling a case of road rage.

Authorities say the driver of the car approached an intersection at a high rate of speed, stopped abruptly and then pulled forward almost hitting the jogger Thursday night.

The driver and the jogger got

into an argument and the jogger is accused of spitting on the driver’s car, which he denies.

Police say the driver then pulled out a gun and fired it.

The jogger ran home and called police.

WMUR-TV reports that police were able to track down the driver who turned the gun over to police.

Police say both men could face charges.

Person seriously injured in Conway explosion CONWAY— New Hampshire authorities say a person has been seriously injured in an explosion in Conway.

Television station WMUR says it’s believed the explosion occurred in a propane tank, but says officials

were still investigating as of Monday evening.

The blast was reported shortly after 4 p.m. The explosion was said to have lifted a building off its foundation. The state Fire Marshall’s Office was called to the scene.

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In Brief Anti-social Dallas Zoo gorilla being shown door DALLAS — There will be no rose ceremony for a 430-pound bachelor gorilla that failed to form any meaningful relationships with fellow apes during an 18-year stay at the Dallas Zoo. Patrick, the 23-year-old Western lowland gorilla known for being gregarious with zoo staff and the public, while being ambivalent toward his female counterparts, has been handed his walking papers. The silverback will be transferred to the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Columbia, S.C. where he’ll be allowed more solitude, according to a statement issued Monday by the Dallas Zoo. “It’s become clear that he prefers to live a solitary life,” said Dr. Lynn Kramer, head veterinarian at the Dallas Zoo. “This move will allow Patrick to continue to thrive while creating an opportunity for our four remaining males to form a cohesive bachelor group.”

Patrick was born at the Bronx Zoo in New York City in April 1990, but maternal neglect forced him to be moved to the Toronto Zoo where he was handraised with another male his own age.

Both gorillas arrived in Dallas at age 5 and were integrated into a small troop of one silverback and two females, before being removed to form a bachelor group together.

Despite his affability with humans and his popularity in zoo presentations about gorillas, zoo officials said Patrick’s reaction toward female apes has ranged from indifference to aggression.

No move date was announced for Patrick, a gorilla Kramer described as extremely intelligent and adept at using tools. A two-day bon-voyage celebration at the Dallas Zoo will be held Saturday and Sunday.

Patrick’s departure will leave the Dallas Zoo with six gorillas.

Boston police Commissioner Ed Davis stepping down BOSTON — Boston Police Commissioner Edward Davis, who led his department’s response to the Boston Marathon bombing, is stepping down, a department spokeswoman said Sunday.

Davis gave his resignation to Mayor Thomas Menino and will hold a news conference Monday to discuss his future plans, police spokeswoman

Cheryl Fiandaca said.

The decision by Davis to step down is perhaps not surprising. Boston is poised to have a new mayor for the first time in two decades after Menino opted not to seek another term.

A statement from Menino’s office thanked Davis for his “tremendous work over the past seven years” and promised to work with Davis to ensure a smooth transition when the mayor finds a permanent successor.

Davis was thrust into the national spotlight on April 15 when twin explosions near the marathon finish line killed three people and wounded more than 260.

Along with Menino and Gov. Deval Patrick, Davis ordered a daylong, city-wide lockdown after the two bombing suspects were involved in a shootout with police.

Once suspect died following the gun battle, a second was later taken into custody and is awaiting trial. Delivering the commencement address at the University of Massachusetts Lowell a month later, Davis said the bombing taught him much about police work — and the resiliency of human beings.

“I learned to think the unthinkable,” Davis said. “I learned that the most horrific of circumstances can produce the most inspirational and heroic of actions, not just by one single person, but by hundreds of them.”

Davis, 57, was appointed Boston’s top cop by Menino in 2006. He previously served as the Lowell, Mass., superintendent of police.

Davis’ departure comes just as the race to replace Menino kicks into high gear.

A preliminary election on Tuesday will whittle a dozen candidates down to two for the Nov. 5 election.

Maine man charged with assaulting couple PORTSMOUTH— Police in Portsmouth have arrested a Maine man on charges of breaking into a home and assaulting two people and their dog.

Police said 47-year-old Terrence Hartley of Clinton, Maine, was arrested Sunday. Police were called to the home at about 1:30 a.m. and were told a man struck a dog with a club or pipe, in addition to assaulting a man and woman there. The couple were treated and released from the hospital.

Hartley also was charged with cocaine possession. He was held on $125,000 bail and was scheduled to be arraigned in Portsmouth District Court on Monday. It wasn’t immediately known if he had a lawyer.

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Professor set to speak later in semester on importance of water in the world

By KEN JOHNSON Staff Writer

On Nov. 12, research professor Paul Kirshen will be moderating a panel on water management as part of UNH’s “Water, Water Everywhere?: A University Dialogue on the World’s Most Critical Resource” series in MUB 338-340 at 12:40 p.m. This central question serves as the theme for the 20132014 University Dialogue, and will be revisited throughout the year.

The panel will be about integrated water resources management, a discipline that examines the water problem from social, economic and environmental points of view to find a solution that cuts across all issues.

The panel will discuss how this can be done. There will also be discussions on climate change, managing local water resources and water and public health.

Integrated water resources management isn’t Kirshen’s only area of interest; he is also interested in climate change issues. “[Climate change is a] pressing problem that the world is facing,” Kirshen said.

Kirshen’s background in civil engineering caused him to realize that everything built is sensitive to climate change, and he became interested in the effect on infrastructure.

Kirshen has been working on

climate change issues since 1998, when he was a professor at Tufts University in Medford, Mass.

He has worked for the Union of Concerned Scientists, an organization that works to solve the planet’s problems. It was established in 1969 as a collaboration between students and faculty at MIT.

Harbor and to provide access to the public, through projects like the walkway that runs along the harbor.

Kirshen became involved with the BHA due to his expertise on climate change and his knowledge of Boston Harbor.

Three years ago, he participated in a forum put on by the

The forum was meant to motivate both the public and the government, and was attended by federal, state and local officials as well as non-governmental organizations and private citizens.

In 2005, Kirshen worked on a project through the Union of Concerned Scientists with UNH Research Scientist Cameron Wake.

It was through Wake that Kirshen learned about UNH’s research; Kirshen has now been working at the university for two years in the Department of Civil Engineering, EOS (Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space) and the Carsey Institute.

For the last three years, Kirshen has been working with the Boston Harbor Association (BHA) studying the impact of climate change and the effects on the harbor. BHA is a non-profit organization that works to protect Boston

BHA about the impact of climate change.

The forum was meant to motivate both the public and the government, and was attended by federal, state and local officials as well as non-governmental organizations and private citizens.

In the spring of 2013, he presented research about the ways in which the harbor was impacted by climate change.

Kirshen is currently working on projects for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the city of Boston, the city of Cambridge and Mass Port on the impacts on infrastructure around Boston Harbor due to coastal rising.

Guinta tries to win back seat in House of Representatives

By STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press

BOSTON — Less than a year after losing his seat, former U.S. Rep Frank Guinta is launching another bid for Congress.

The Republican posted a video on his campaign website Monday in which he formally declared his intention to run again in 2014 in the eastern New Hampshire district that stretches from the coast to Manchester and up into the White Mountains.

“more interested in fighting than making tough decisions.”

“It’s so disappointing. But you know what? We can find common ground without sacrificing our principles.

It just requires working together for the same goal,” he said, adding that he worked with Republicans and Democrats as mayor of Manchester.

The video also features Guinta’s wife, who calls him a “super dad” and a great listener.

Guinta served one term in

“ It’s so disappointing. But you know what?

We can find common ground without sacrificing our principles. It just requires working together for the same goal.”

Frank Guinta

Former U.S. Republican Striking a distinctly bipartisan tone, Guinta said he’s running because he wants to bring people together to solve problems.

He said that politicians in both parties in Washington seem

Washington before being defeated

by Democratic Rep. Carol SheaPorter in 2012.

Despite the recent loss, Guinta is considered a top recruit for the GOP.

He’s running in a district that’s generally more favorable for Republicans, and polling suggests that Shea-Porter is vulnerable.

After a painful 2012 election cycle, Republicans don’t hold a single U.S. House seat in New England.

U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan recently announced plans to visit New Hampshire next month to campaign for Guinta.

The pair served on the House Budget Committee together.

Democrats wasted no time in attacking Guinta. The House Democrats’ campaign arm in Washington linked him to Ryan’s budget plans to transform Medicare into a voucher-like system.

A spokesman for the New Hampshire Democratic party, meanwhile, declared that “Guinta’s notoriety as a rubber stamp for the far right wing and national Republicans cost him his seat last fall.”

The spokesman, Harrell Kirstein, added: “He shouldn’t be surprised when New Hampshire voters reject him again for the very same reasons next year.”

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Obama admin. nears upper-level talks with Iran

By JULIE PACE Associated Press

NEW YORK— The Obama administration edged close to direct, high-level talks with Iran’s new government on Monday, with Secretary of State John Kerry slated to meet his Iranian counterpart this week and the White House weighing the risks and rewards of an encounter between President Barack Obama and Iran’s president, Hasan Rouhani.

An Obama-Rouhani exchange on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly would mark the first meeting at that high level for the two nations in more than 30 years.

Such talks could signal a turning point in U.S.-Iranian relations — but also could be seen as a premature endorsement for a new Iranian government that has yet to answer key questions about the future of its disputed nuclear program.

Obama advisers said no meeting was scheduled. But they added that the U.S. planned to take advantage of diplomatic opportunities while in New York and indicated they were not leaving a possible encounter between Obama and Rouhani to chance.

“I don’t think that anything would happen by happenstance on a relationship and an issue that is this important,” Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser,

told reporters traveling with the president to New York.

The election of Rouhani, a moderate cleric, has led to speculation about possible progress on Iran’s nuclear impasse with the U.S. Particularly intriguing to American officials are Rouhani’s assertions that his government has “complete authority” in nuclear negotiations. That would be a marked change from previous governments and their relationship with Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The U.S. and its allies have long suspected that Iran is trying to produce a nuclear weapon, though Tehran insists its nuclear activities are only for producing energy and for medical research.

American officials say Rouhani’s change in tone is driven by the Iranian public’s frustration with crippling economic sanctions levied by the U.S. But it is still unclear whether Iran is willing to take the steps the U.S. is seeking in order to ease the sanctions, including curbing uranium enrichment and shutting down the underground Fordo nuclear facility.

State Department officials said Kerry would seek to answer that question on Thursday when new Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif joins nuclear talks between the U.S. and five other world powers. Zarif’s participation, which

was announced Monday, sets up the first meeting in six years between an American secretary of state and an Iranian foreign minister, though it’s unclear whether the two men will break off from the group and hold separate one-on-one talks.

Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s foreign policy chief, told reporters after meeting with Zarif that she saw “energy and determination” for talks to move ahead with the U.S., Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany.

On Twitter, the U.S.-educated Zarif called his meeting with Ashton “positive,” and he added, “Need new start under new circumstances.”

The prospect of bilateral talks between Kerry and Zarif did little to tamp down speculation about a meeting between the U.S. and Iranian presidents, who both arrived in New York on Monday. The most obvious opportunity for a direct exchange appears to be at a U.N. leaders’ lunch both are scheduled to attend on Tuesday.

But a lunch meeting would put Obama in the risky position of engaging Rouhani before knowing what the Iranian leader will say during his highly anticipated address to the U.N. General Assembly. Rouhani is scheduled to speak late Tuesday afternoon, while the U.S. president will address the U.N. in the morning.

No American president has met with an Iranian leader since the 1979 Islamic revolution that led to the ouster of the pro-American Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

However, U.S. secretaries of state and Iranian foreign ministers have had occasional encounters. The most recent was in 2007, when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice exchanged pleasantries with Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki during a meeting in Egypt.

Suzanne Maloney, a former State Department official, said Obama should be wary of making a bold diplomatic gesture with so much about Rouhani’s intentions still unknown.

“They have to be clear that this is someone they wouldn’t need to dissociate themselves from shortly after,” said Maloney, now a Middle East fellow at the Brookings Institution. “When you’re talking about Iran, I think that’s almost impossible to do.”

Anthony Cordesman, a foreign policy analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, agreed that a leaders meeting does come with risks. But he urged the White House to consider the positive message it would send to Iranian moderates if Obama extended a hand to their newly elected leader.

“It’s absolutely vital that you take this window of opportunity,” Cordesman said. “Rebuffing Rou-

Abercrombie & Fitch settles lawsuit over hijabs

By PAUL ELIAS Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO— Trendy clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has agreed to make religious accommodations and allow workers to wear head scarves as part of a settlement of discrimination lawsuits filed in California, lawyers announced Monday.

The retailer will now allow hijabs, the traditional head scarves worn by many Muslim women when in public.

One judge determined the Ohio-based company fired a Muslim worker from a California store, while another judge said it refused to hire another woman in the state

because of their refusal to remove their hijabs during work.

The rulings came after the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed lawsuits on behalf of both women.

In court papers filed Friday, Abercrombie agreed to pay the women a combined $71,000 and unspecified attorney fees. Additionally, it has established an appeals process for workers who believe they were denied religious accommodations.

“Abercrombie & Fitch does not discriminate based on religion, and we grant reasonable religious accommodations when they are requested,” the company said in a statement. “With respect to hi-

jabs, in particular, we determined three years ago to institute policy changes that would allow such headwear.”

Abercrombie will pay Hani Khan $48,000 after firing her four months after she began working in the company’s San Mateo store in 2009. She had been allowed to wear a hijab that matched the company’s colors until a district manager visited the store in February 2010 and saw her for the first time in a hijab.

Khan was fired soon after when the company determined hijabs violated the company’s “look policy” and detracted from its brand, the lawsuit stated.

“It wasn’t about the money,”

Khan, 23, said at a San Francisco news conference. “It was a matter of principle.”

Khan recently graduated from college and is looking for work.

Halla Banafa will receive $23,000 to settle her lawsuit that alleged Abercrombie discriminated by refusing to give her a job at its Milpitas store in 2008 when she was 18. Banafa didn’t attend the press conference Monday.

Khan’s trial had been scheduled to begin in Oakland on Sept.

30. A judge previously found that Abercrombie was liable for discrimination and all that was left for jurors to decide was how much Abercrombie should pay and what it needed to do to rectify the policy.

NH shares lessons from hepatitis C outbreak

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press

CONCORD— After spending a year investigating the hepatitis C outbreak at Exeter Hospital, New Hampshire’s public health department is working with two advocacy groups to share its recommendations.

Chris Adamski of the state Department of Health and Human Services said Monday her office is committed to working with all partners to promote better prevention and detection of drug diversion.

Those partners now include the Maryland-based National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators and a patient advocacy group called Hepatitis Outbreaks

National Organization for Reform, or HONOReform, Nebraska.

Steve Langan, director of HONOReform, said the three groups plan to send a letter to federal health officials and press for changes, including increased regulation of medical technicians like David Kwiatkowski, who pleaded guilty in August to stealing painkiller syringes from Exeter Hospital and replacing them with saline tainted with his blood.

Before he was hired at Exeter Hospital in New Hampshire in 2011, Kwiatkowski worked as a cardiac technologist in 18 hospitals in seven states, moving from job to job despite being fired at least four times over allegations of drug use and theft.

Forty-six people in four states

have been diagnosed with the same strain of hepatitis C he carries.

Langan’s group was founded by one of the 99 cancer patients who were infected with hepatitis C at a Nebraska clinic in 2002.

A doctor and nurse lost their licenses in that case, which involved syringes and a saline bag that had been used on an infected patient being reused on other patients.

Langan was in New Hampshire on Monday to attend the annual meeting of the New Hampshire Hospital Association, which created a committee last year to bring together hospitals, pharmacists, lawmakers and others to explore previous drug diversion incidents and ways to address the problem.

The issue is complicated, he said, but a good starting point would be creating a national database for medical technicians.

“Think about it from the point of view of the staffing agencies that repeatedly hired David Kwiatkowski,” he said.

“They may have seen red flags, but without having any national or even state level database, they’re on the line too.”

In its report issued in June, the state health department’s recommendations focus on three main areas: the creation of comprehensive systems to prevent and detect drug diversion, increased regulation of medical technicians and other health care workers and improved communication between hospitals and state officials.

hani without actually listening to him is scarcely going to empower moderates in Iran.”

In Tehran, meanwhile, Iran said Monday it had freed 80 prisoners arrested in political crackdowns.

That could offer another diplomatic boost for the country’s new president as he arrives for the U.N. meeting.

The announcement of the mass release came just hours after Hasan Rouhani departed for New York for the annual U.N. General Assembly, where he is expected to seek Western pledges to restart stalled negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program.

Back in Washington, senators urged Obama to reaffirm at the U.N. that, despite Rouhani’s recent overtures, the U.S. will not accept a nuclear-capable Iran. In two separate letters, top Democrats and Republicans also called on the president to make clear that the U.S. will continue tough sanctions against Tehran.

“Now is not the time to let up on this pressure,” Sens. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and John McCain, R-Ariz., wrote in one letter to Obama. “Removal of any existing sanctions must depend on Iran’s halting of its nuclear program. Conversely, the continuation or expansion of its nuclear activities will only lead to more sanctions led by the United States and our friends and allies.”

NH Brief Energy Dept. holds hearings on Northern Pass CONCORD— The U.S. Department of Energy is holding four hearings in New Hampshire this week on the proposed 187-mile Northern Pass transmission line project.

The first hearing will be from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord on Monday.

Hearings also will be held Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m. at Plymouth State University, Wednesday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Mountain View Grand Resort in Whitefield and Thursday from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Colebrook Elementary School.

The $1.4 billion project would transmit 1,200 megawatts of Canadian hydroelectric power, enough to serve 1.2 million homes, from Hydro-Quebec into New England.

The project has stirred intense criticism in the North Country, with opponents arguing that transmission towers would damage the environment, lower property values and hurt tourism.

Supporters say the power would reduce carbon emissions.

The privately financed project announced a new route in June, which project officials say takes into account concerns that were raised about an earlier plan.

The new proposed route is east of the original plan and calls for burying about eight miles of lines along state and town roads in Stewartstown and Clarksville and under the Connecticut River.

Critics argue not enough of the line would be buried to preserve New Hampshire’s scenic vistas.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

Kenyan mall siege enters final stage

By JASON STRAZIUSO Associated Press

NAIROBI, Kenya— Kenyan security forces were in the final stages of flushing out Islamic extremist terrorists from a besieged shopping mall, the vice president said late Monday, two days after the upscale mall was seized by members of a Somali group linked to al-Qaida.

It is unlikely that any more hostages remained inside Westgate Mall, said another official.

But similar claims of a quick resolution were made by Kenyan officials on Sunday and the siege has continued for another day. It is not possible to independently verify their assertions.

Three attackers were killed in the fighting Monday, officials said, and more than 10 suspects arrested. Eleven Kenyan soldiers were wounded in the running gun battles.

By evening, Kenyan security officials claimed the upper hand.

“Taken control of all the floors.

We’re not here to feed the attackers with pastries but to finish and punish them,” Police Inspector General David Kimaiyo said on Twitter.

Kenya’s interior minister said the evacuation of hostages “has gone very, very well” and that Kenyan officials are “very certain” that there are few if any hostages left in the building.

Vice President William Ruto landed in Kenya late Monday after International Criminal Court officials in The Hague gave him permission to return to Kenya. Ruto is on trial for crimes against humanity charges over allegations he helped orchestrate Kenya’s 2007-08 postelection violence.

Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku revised the death toll to 62.

Kenyan officials earlier said 59 people have died since the siege on Westgate Mall began on Saturday, while the Red Cross had put the toll at 68, then in a tweet lowered it to 62, saying some bodies had been counted twice.

Earlier witness reports had indicated that a woman was among the estimated 10 to 15 attackers. Lenku said that instead some male attackers had dressed up like women.

Dark plumes of smoke rose from the mall for more than an hour Monday afternoon after four large explosions rocked the upscale Westlands neighborhood. A person with knowledge of the rescue operation told The Associated Press that the smoke was rising up and out of a large skylight inside the mall’s main department and grocery store, Nakumatt, where goods like mattresses may have been lit on fire.

The four explosions were followed by volleys of gunfire, then a thick, dark column of smoke that burned for roughly 90 minutes.

Military and police helicopters and one plane circled over the Nairobi mall, giving the upscale neighborhood the feel of a war zone.

Kenyan forces were in charge of all floors inside the mall, though terrorists could still be hiding inside, said Kenya Chief of Defense forces Gen. Julius Karangi.

Fighters from an array of nations participated in the attack claimed by al-Shabab, said Karangi.

“We have an idea who these people are and they are clearly a multinational collection from all over the world,” he said.

In the United States, the FBI is looking into whether Americans were involved in the Kenya mall attack, said FBI spokesman Paul

Bresson.

On Sunday Kenyan officials announced that “most” hostages had been rescued. But no numbers were given. Kenya’s Red Cross said in a statement, citing police, that 49 people had been reported missing.

Kenyan officials have never said how many hostages they thought the attackers had, but have said preserving the hostages’ lives is a top priority.

tion. The feed said that Kenya’s government would be responsible for any loss of hostages’ lives.

As the crisis passed the 48hour mark, a video emerged that was taken by someone inside the mall’s main department store when the assault began. The video showed frightened and unsure shoppers crouching as long and loud volleys of gunfire could be heard.

The al-Shabab extremists

“ Dark plumes of smoke rose from the mall for more than an hour Monday afternoon after four large explosions rocked the upscale Westlands neighborhood.”

Kenyans and foreigners were among those confirmed dead, including British, French, Canadians, Indians, a Ghanaian, a South African and a Chinese woman. The UK Foreign Office said Monday it has confirmed the deaths of four British nationals.

From neighboring Somalia, spokesman Sheik Ali Mohamud Rage for al-Shabab — the militant group that claimed responsibility for the attack — said in an audio file posted on a website that the hostage takers had been ordered to “take punitive action against the hostages” if force was used to try to rescue them.

At the Oshwal Centre next to the mall, the Red Cross was using a squat concrete structure that houses a Hindu temple as a triage center.

Medical workers attended to at least two wounded Kenyan soldiers there on Monday.

Al-Shabab said on a Twitter feed, an account that unlike some others appears to be genuine, that the attackers had lots of ammuni-

stormed the mall on Saturday from two sides, throwing grenades and firing on civilians.

Al-Shabab said the attack, targeting non-Muslims, was in retribution for Kenyan forces’ 2011 push into neighboring Somalia.

Al-Shabab is an extremist Islamic terrorist force that grew out of the anarchy that crippled Somalia after warlords ousted a longtime dictator in 1991. Its name means “The Youth” in Arabic, and it was a splinter youth wing of a weak Islamic Courts Union government created in 2006 to establish a fundamentalist Islamic state in the East African nation.

Al-Shabab is estimated to have several thousand fighters, including a few hundred foreign fighters.

Some of the insurgents’ foreign fighters are from the Middle East with experience in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. Others are young, raw recruits from Somali communities in the United States and Europe.

Catholics cheer pope’s remarks on gays, abortion

By KAREN MATTHEWS Associated Press

NEW YORK— Catholics attending Sunday services around the globe said they were heartened by Pope Francis’ recent remarks that the church has become too focused on “small-minded rules” on hot-button issues like homosexuality, abortion and contraceptives.

Worshippers applauded what they heard as a message of inclusion from the man who assumed the papacy just six months ago.

“I think he’s spot on,” said Shirley Holzknecht, 77, a retired school principal attending services in Little Rock, Ark. “As Catholic Christians, we do need to be more welcoming.”

In Havana, Cuba, Irene Delgado said the church needs to adapt to modern times.

“The world evolves, and I believe that the Catholic Church is seeing that it is being left behind, and that is not good,” said Delgado, 57.

“So I think that they chose this Pope Francis because he is progressive, has to change things.”

Francis, in an interview published Thursday in 16 Jesuit journals worldwide, called the church’s focus on abortion, marriage and contracep-

tion narrow and said it was driving people away.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the pope’s words were welcome.

“He’s captured the world’s imagination,” Dolan said after Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. “Like Jesus, he’s always saying, ‘Hate the sin, love the sinner.’”

But Dolan said Francis’ change in tone didn’t signal a change in doctrine.

“He knows that his highest and most sacred responsibility is to pass on the timeless teaching of the church,” Dolan said. “What he’s saying is, we’ve got to think of a bit more effective way to do it. Because if the church comes off as a scold, it’s counterproductive.”

In Brasilia, Brazil, the capital of the country with the largest Catholic population in the world, 22-year-old student Maria das Gracas Lemos said Francis was “bringing the church up to date.”

She said children of divorced parents used to be barred from some schools in Brazil. “All that has changed. In Brazil, people are no longer rejected because they are divorced,” Lemos said. “The church

has to catch up with changes in society, even if it still doesn’t admit divorce.”

Isaias Miguel Ortiz, a teacher at a private university in the Dominican Republic, took a similar view of Pope Francis’ statements on gays.

Although he believes the church will never accept homosexuality, Ortiz said Francis is “getting closer to more people.”

“All the people should be accepted the way they are,” he said.

The pope didn’t say he accepted abortion or homosexuality, noted Martha Fabiola Rojas Lerma, 76, of Mexico City. Rather, he said he wasn’t going to stress those issues.

“It was very correctly wellspoken,” she said. “There’s a lot of injustice. Instead, we should work so that everyone has the basics, shelter, food, clothing.”

In Philadelphia, churchgoer Irene Fedin said priests “should be more focused on helping the person gain a spiritual connection to God instead of just condemning people because of certain actions that they believe are wrong.”

Outside a church in Coral Gables, Fla., Frank Recio said he was grateful that the pope is trying to shift the church’s tone.

“I’m a devout Catholic, always have been. I think the Catholic Church had gotten out of touch with the way the world was evolving,” said Recio, 69, who’s retired from a career in the technology industry.

Recio said he would support changes like allowing priests to marry. “It’s a natural state in life, for men and women to have a partner,” said Recio.

In Boston, Evelyn Martinez, 26, said she agrees with Francis that compassion should be one of the church’s main priorities.

“I don’t believe that someone’s sexuality should keep them away from any religion,” said Martinez, a graduate student at Emerson College who attended Mass on Saturday night.

Jose Baltazar, a 74-year-old vice president of an insurance company and longtime church volunteer in Manila, in the Philippines, said the pope has set his priorities mindful of stark realities.

“We have to give priority in working to bring those who have gone astray back to the fold,” Baltazar said. “We pray for them. Why did they go astray? What’s our shortcoming? What’s the shortcoming of the Catholic Church?”

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Police Log Sept. 20

Nicholas Albano, 17, 32 Old Planters Road, Beverly, Mass., 01915, Rosemary Lane, unlawful possession of alcohol, 10:40 p.m.

Connor Grogan, 19, 3 Parkside Drive, Boston, Mass., 02130, Garrison Ave., unlawful possession of alcohol, 11:30 p.m.

Cody Knapp, 18, 11 Bear Path Lane, Hudson, N.H., 03051, unlawful possession of alcohol, 11:55 p.m.

Katherine Rollins, 23 Hazel Ave., Nashua, N.H., 03062, McLaughlin Hall, unlawful possession of alcohol, 11:46 p.m.

Sept. 21 Emily Desautels, 19, 461 Williams Hill Road, Richmond, Vt., 05477, Gables Way, unlawful possession of alcohol, 12:49 a.m.

Carlin Keating, 19, 60 Sandlewood Drive, Madison, Conn., 06443, Gables B Tower, possession of drugs, 1:03 a.m.

Evan Wilson, 18, 77 Meadows Drive, Shrewsbury, NJ, 07702, Williamson, Unlawful Possession of Alcohol, 1:11 a.m.

Shelley Kingsley, 18, 10 Bruce St., Hudson, N.H., 03051, Gables A, unlawful intoxication, 11:58 p.m.

Kelly McColugh, 20, 54 Sunnyside Drive, Greenland, N.H., 03840, Gables C Tower, possession of drugs, 11:46 p.m.

Sept. 22 Andrew Albers, 19, 4913 Sycamore Drive, Eagan, Mass., 55123, Pettee Brook—Health Services Area, unlawful possession of alcohol, 2:44 a.m.

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he UNH community was struck with a troubling piece of news last week when the UNH Police Department asked for help in locating a missing student, Jonathan Zygmont. Students, friends and community members spread the word immediately, sharing the photo of Zygmont’s smiling face on Facebook and Twitter, with the story spreading nationally not long after the news broke.

Despite the fact that Zygmont is a first-year student who recently arrived to Durham and likely knows only a small proportion of the UNH student body, students shared messages of hope, prayers and wellwishes on social media sites for the young student whose safety police feared for.

In times of concern, it is remarkable to see a student body of over 12,000 undergraduate students come together for the good of one individual. While it is a reflection of the sense of the community that develops in our small college town, it is also an unfortuante reminder of a similar situation that UNH experienced just under a year ago.

It was on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2012, that Elizabeth “Lizzi” Marriott was last seen. After following leads and reasonable evidence, police searched the water off of Portsmouth. The case quickly went from a search for

a missing student to a recovery of Marriott’s body.

Zygmont’s disappearance and search has been all too reminiscent of last year’s, with police searching for him in Portsmouth, where he was last seen a week ago. To think that the university is facing a similarly concerning situation within the span of a year is a painful reality.

In times of concern, it is remarkable to see a student body of over 12,000 undergraduate students come together for the good of one individual.

However, hope remains for a safe return of Zygmont, both for his family in Windham and his new community in Durham. On Friday, police suspended the active search for the 19-year-old, which had been ongoing in the Prescott Park area.

Zygmont’s mother, Lynne Zygmont Clay, said that he is an “experienced outdoorsman” and is possibly hiking or camping without being aware of the active search for him.

Police have not given up on Zygmont, as they are reported to be continuing with leads. As contradictory as it seems, a suspension of the search is an indication of hope, signifying that Zygmont is believed to be well. UNH Police Chief Paul Dean affirmed this idea in a statement, saying that Zygmont could have traveled to western areas of the U.S., a desire that he had previously expressed.

But it is at times like this – times of hope and optimism – that the positives in our community should be highlighted. The thousands of students on this campus – busy with class, work, organizations, sports and more – could easily bypass this piece of information, but most of them did not. As a community, we should care about each other, but are not obligated to do so.

However, UNH students have shown that they care; Marriott was remembered last fall at a vigil attended by hundreds who never had a chance to meet the vibrant young woman. And almost a year later, she has not been forgotten, as the trial of her alleged murderer is to be held in the spring.

Likewise, Zygmont should not be forgotten about while police follow leads to a happy resolution, giving him the opportunity to rejoin his community.

 Letters to the editor To The Student Body The University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees held their annual retreat Sept. 8 to 10.

This year’s retreat yielded great conversation about the Board’s past, present and future. The University System’s Presidents from each of the four institutions (University of New Hampshire, Keene State College, Plymouth State University and Granite State College) presented their strategic visions for the short and long term.

The University of New Hampshire has set their strategic vision for the next several years with an emphasis on five objectives: enrollment, research, branding, fundraising

and the concept of choice. Choice refers to the school’s approach to providing options that will allow every qualified student flexibility to manage their educational experience. Options would include online classes, part-time education for those who work, J-term classes, summer classes, you name it. The administration has put a strong emphasis on making sure that the school can provide an educational product for all prospective students with an aptitude for higher education.

The board concluded their retreat with a conversation on how they can shape their long term strategy to align with the changing New Hampshire economic environment.

If anyone is interested in learning more, I share regular updates every Sunday at the Student Senate Meet-

ings in Paul College room 165 at 6 p.m.

The Student Senate leadership would like to remind students that our authority is derived from the Student Body. We are here to advocate and to communicate for students.

Please bring your concerns, desires, and thoughts to our attention. To be effective in achieving our mission we must get feedback from students.

Kind Regards, Timothy Quinney University System of New Hampshire, Board of Trustees Undergraduate Student Representative

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The Constitution lest we forget

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onday morning, first class of the day. It’s an 8 a.m. and I make my way through the halls of Horton up to the second floor. Out pops the notebook, pencil and pocket copy of the U.S. Constitution, as the rest of the class settles in. Soon, Professor Siggelakis enters excitedly, ready to the review the founding document once more. Her book hits the podium and the 50 minute adventure begins. Understanding, and at times deciphering, what is found in the Constitution beginning with the words, “We the people of the United States…”

In an average Political Science course, the U.S. Constitution will be reviewed, acknowledged and studied ad nauseam. A scrutinizing of the Article I and all the expressed powers of the legislature until one is blue in the face. An analyzing of each Bill of Rights, underlining every word, marking up every turn of phrase, all the while the questions start bubbling in one’s head: What for? Why care about what a bunch of dead guys wrote? Who cares what’s in the Constitution?

Surely, all this constitutional study can be tedious, uneventful, exasperating, and at times fun in the strongest, sarcastic sense of the word…and yet for all that, I still love it! Reading what some may call an outdated document is never tiresome and never a bore.

For what was said over 200 years ago by the likes of James Madison

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and John Adams matters today.

What is written in our Constitution not only affects those in government, or those who bother to read it. The lives of every American, living past, present and future are touched by the Constitution.

The document is more than some simple amendments, and more than mere words and phrases. The document is we the people.

The document, in its short nature started the greatest experiment in self-government the world has ever seen. It forged the belief that government could come not from the ruling class, but from the consent of the people. A belief that government in its most basic form

Have we come a long way from the founding of our country? Absolutely! But because times change, that shouldn’t mean fundamental principles change. is: For, by and of the people.

In honor of Constitution Week, (which began on Sept. 17, marking the official ratification date of the document) it is imperative to

From the Right Phil Boynton educate, to speak on the importance of this document, which at times many of us tend to overlook.

The Constitution, it would seem, is seen as an historic artifact, cased in glass as a showpiece, not the working blueprint for government in the United States. In this age of iOS 7, Miley exploits, Candy Crush and the rigors of day-to-day life, it is easy to overlook the basic American ideas; or to at least see them as passé. Yet, a document so enshrined in the concept of government being: For, by and of the people, is a document that must be preserved and protected, by our leaders in Washington, and all citizens across this country. Simply, it’s our duty.

Vigilance is crucial. Once the guard is dropped and the Constitution is left to serve as a dust collector, then who we are as a society and as a people instantly crumbles, and all of our aspirations and principles are irrevocably undone.

To know what the Constitution says, not only for the sake of an exam, but to really know it makes all the difference. Each word, on every page, had special meaning for the framers. Nothing in that document is by accident.

The framers were scholars. They were students of history. They studied how governments rise and fall and saw first hand how governments can betray their fundamental principles and their very own citizens.

The U.S. Constitution establishes a government of limited means, one that must draw its consent from the governed. The three separate branches are a concerted effort to divide government and leave power in a system of checks and balances. America in their eyes would be ruled not by a king, but instead governed with the people’s consent, by vesting power in three individual branches: Legislative, Executive and Judicial.

Have we come a long way from the founding of our country?

Absolutely! But because times change, that shouldn’t mean fundamental principles change.

Principles endure because they are fundamental. The pillars on which a society rests won’t falter, because the grounds shakes. A nation in tune with itself shall not falter and shall never fail. Even for shortsighted gain, the principles that made this country what it is must never alter, and the document which tells who

we are as people must never become a mere relic of the past.

The Constitution works. For over two centuries it has guided this nation through civil war, depression, war, reconstruction, prosperity and peace. Have lines been blurred?

Have words been stretched? Yes, and yes, but the documents still works. The belief that we could be a self-governing people is as true today as it was when the ink dried from the framer’s quill pens.

So, let us recommit ourselves to the founding. Let us rediscover this document and understand the work started by the framers to form a more perfect union. So that we too can carry on the tradition of perfecting our sacred union.

Nine o’clock tolls. Class is done until Wednesday and sure as summer turns to autumn we’ll be back discussing the Constitution again. Some sigh, others scratch their heads, still pondering the merit to the discussions, but as I walk out the door I am reminded of something eloquently put by George Washington, “The Constitution is the guide which I will never abandon.”

Let that serve as a reminder to us all.

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Phil Boynton is a senior Political Science major, and President of the College Republicans.

Back to school: The return to Durham

emember just last week when you were swimming and catching some rays at that family friend’s lake or beach house, or making bank working 50 hours a week or doing whatever else you did this past summer?

Really? That wasn’t all just last week? I guess it’s hard for me to grasp that classes started almost a month ago.

(As a disclaimer, this write up continues to get sort of depressing, so stop now or continue to recollect with me and begin longing for last June).

By now, you might have finally purchased all of your overpriced and perhaps completely unneeded textbooks; you might already have a decent grasp on which of your professors is going to be “the crazy one” and which is going to be that one who you “actually enjoy listening to lecture.” And you most likely have reaped the benefits of our mostly summer-like weekend weather in one way or another via Hampton Beach, downtown Portsmouth, Young Drive festivities, or a UNH dorm building’s lawn.

In any event, the school year is most certainly underway and it feels, well, weird.

It’s pretty cool that things sort of just pick right back up where they left off after a homecoming to Durham. The UNH student body wastes no time when it comes to getting back into practices like reviving student clubs and organizations from last year, filling open UNH job positions, congregating on T-Hall lawn in honor of a fallen fellow Wildcat, and simply living up to that very “college-like” reputation (for better or for worse).

There’s just something about the way that a university operates in an autopilot-like manner; it’s so interesting.

This campus is really just one huge scientific, psychology case study. We get recognized for achievement, reprimanded for partying, praised for involvement, arrested for stumbling, and chirped at by strangers out of high windows for recreation.

It’s really great to be back in that environment (for the most part) but I would be lying to myself if I

The Durham 500 Greg Gottlieb didn’t admit that I could have used an additional one or two weeks of summer. And I bet you would too…

You know that mental to-do list with miscellaneous things you wanted to buy, projects you wanted to complete, places you wanted to go, or people you wanted to visit over the summer? You probably began creating it around the end of last May when you were pulling your hair out over finals and you were wicked excited to finish up school and start knocking things off the list. (You New Englanders have me saying “wicked” now and I don’t hate it).

Sorry, but it’s too late for all of that.

Or is it?

Do you ever find yourself getting too caught up in being a “college student” and forgetting that you’re a real person too? Being here for a college education doesn’t mean that one must forfeit their “personal agenda.”

Here’s what I mean: Don’t let your four classes a week get in the way of being just a person. Sure, you are foremost a student and chances are you or someone you love is paying a lot of money for you to be here. But get out and do whatever makes you happy as long as you can rest your head at the end of the day knowing that you put all that you could into the “work hard” half of the “work hard, play hard” mentality. Why not reward a hard day’s work with a spontaneous road trip to a cheap Portsmouth eatery? Or better yet, allot some of your weekly agenda to a local community service project. Did you know that being a Wildcat Youth Mentor takes up only one hour of your week? There is so much that

this university, Durham, and the greater Boston area have to offer; you owe it to yourself to get out there and explore it beyond just Fox Run Mall.

Amidst my jam-packed academic, extracurricular and personal agendas, I will be contributing to this great UNH publication with my thoughts and feelings on hot topics around campus. So sorry, in advance, for any boring I may do, ruffled feathers I may cause, or otherwise uninteresting words I may have to offer. If you keep up with my writing, you’ll learn a few things about me (i.e. I don’t like a lot of people, I’m a really nice guy, I contradict myself a lot and I love parentheses).

Until next time, get out and enjoy these last few weeks of decent weather and good luck with the semester.

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Greg Gottlieb is a junior hospitality management major, student senator, and member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity who will share his opinions on Durham’s hot topics.

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Flately hits game-winner Cross country successful at Maine

Junior Chelsey Serrano took first place overall as the UNH women’s cross country team placed first at Maine Friday afternoon. Serrano finished with a time of 17:51.2.

Freshman Sarah Keiran finished in second place as she ran the 5K course in a time of 18:05. Sophomore Amy Short finished two seconds behind Keiran in second place with a time of 18:07 while freshman Hannah Kimball took bronze with a time of 18:09.

Amanda Szymanski rounded out the top-five UNH finishers as she came in sixth place to a time of 18:24.

Senior Kent Harlow was the top finisher for the UNH men’s cross country team as he finished in third place Friday afternoon. Harlow completed the course with a time of 25:41.

Junior Aidan Kimball took seventh place overall as he finished with a time of 26:23. Freshman Ryan Chiesa was hot on Kimball’s heels as he came in eighth place with a time of 26:24. Senior Louis Saviano and Thomas Salamone kept the trend going as they finished with times of 26:25 and 26:26, respectively.

Both teams return to action Friday, Sept. 27, at Franklin Park, Mass., for the Boston College Invitational. The race begins at 3:30 p.m. for the women’s team and 4:15 p.m. for the men’s team.

Men’s hockey 13th in USA Today poll

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The Wildcats have taken three of their last four games to improve their record to 3-4.

By JUSTIN LORING Staff Writer

The UNH field hockey team picked up an important win this weekend when it beat Central UNH 2 Michigan, 2-1, on Saturday afternoon. The CMU 1 win puts UNH at a record of 3-4, with its three wins coming in their last four contests.

Megan Bozek scored her fourth goal of the season just 1:02 into the first half off of a penalty corner to give the Wildcats a 1-0 lead. Casey Pohlmeyer was credited with an assist on the play.

The Chippewas’ Bailey McKeon scored the tying goal at the 16-minute mark, tying the game off a penalty corner.

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Delaney Dameron led the Wildcats on offense, tallying a season-high 11 kills and accumulated a hitting percentage of .400 in the match against the Rams. Taylor Dunklau registered 29 assists while Madison Lightfoot scored 15 digs.

Forrest earned her fourth career double-double, posting 13 kills and 11 digs in the loss against Dartmouth.

Morgan Thatcher chipped in on offense, registering 11 kills.

Dunklau orchestrated the attack, dishing out 44 assists. Lightfoot and Dunklau each accumulated 13 digs. Katie Sattora also reached

The UNH men’s hockey team debuted in the USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Preseason Men’s College Hockey Poll as the 13th-ranked team in the nation. The Wildcats garnered 116 points, just six points behind 12thranked Union College.

The Wildcats finished the 2012-13 season ranked 11th in the nation following a trip to the NCAA Northeast Regional final. Hockey East rival UMass Lowell is the nation’s top-ranked team, garnering 20 of 34 firstplace votes.

UNH opens the 2013-14 season Oct. 5 at 7:00 p.m. in an exhibition game against Acadia University. The Wildcats open the season at the Ice Breaker Tournament in Minneapolis, Minn., against ECAC-foe Clarkson University on Oct. 11 at 5:00 p.m.

Casey Pohlmeyer sets up win for ‘Cats

“I was very pleased with our play,” head coach Robin Balducci said. “We just weren’t finishing (at the net). Their goalie [Sadie Reynolds] stood on her head, she did a great job. She was tough, it wasn’t as if [our offense] didn’t set things up to give ourselves an opportunity.”

UNH dominated the second half, out shooting Central Michigan 15-3 and owning a 7-1 advantage in penalty corners.

“It would have been unfortunate had we gone to overtime considering how much we possessed the ball and were in control of the game,” Balducci said.

Meg Flatley scored the gamewinning goal with just 1:32 remaining on the clock. Casey Pohlmeyer

got another assist on the goal, giving her a team-best four assists on the season. Flatley leads the team in points with twelve (5g, 2a).

“I was pleased with how we possessed the ball and the fact that we scored two corner goals. I was a little disappointed with all our possession time in the first half, we didn’t draw enough corners (just two in the first half), but we settled in in the second [half].”

“That [offensive] consistency is what we’re looking for at this point in the season.”

UNH will travel to Amherst this Friday to take on the No. 7 Minutemen of UMass. This will be the third match up of the season against a ranked team for the Wildcats.

Casey Pohlmeyer, a senior from Millersville, Md., set up a goal 62 seconds into the game and another with 92 seconds remaining to lift the UNH field hockey team to a 2-1 victory against Central Michigan University in a neutral-site game (at Maine) on Sept. 21.

The two assists tied her career high, and the captain, who plays on both penalty corner units, also tallied a team-high five shots against the Chippewas. Pohlmeyer’s midfield play helped the Wildcats record a decisive advantage in both shots (22-5) and penalty corners (9-3).

In seven games this season, Pohlmeyer has recorded four points, all on assists; she leads the team in assists. She opened the season with an assist in consecutive games against Maryland and Ohio State.

Pohlmeyer was named to the America East All-Conference First Team last year as a junior, when she led the team in assists (nine) and ranked fourth in both goals (five) and points (19). With those numbers, she was third in America East in assists per game.

Pohlmeyer has started all 70 games the past four seasons and has compiled 42 points on 13 goals and 16 assists. Her other accolades include America East Academic Honor Roll (2010-11-12), All-Rookie Team (2010) and All-Championship Team (2012)

double-digit digs, tallying 11.

Against the Rams, the ‘Cats fell behind early, 10-3. Kills from Dameron, Forrest and Sattora rallied UNH back within three, forcing a Rhode Island timeout. New Hampshire kept it close, staying within three in the latter portion of the opening set. However, URI earned four of the last five points, taking the first set 25-18.

New Hampshire opened the second set, bolting out to an 11-4 lead. Destiny Tolliver struck backto-back kills while both Dunklau and Sam Henke each had service aces in the run. The Rams rallied back, eventually tying the set at 22 all. The Wildcats pushed the Rams to set point as Tolliver posted a kill followed by an assisted block. Despite the ‘Cats efforts, Rhode prevailed in the set, 27-25.

The Wildcats looked to re-

bound in the third set, holding a 5-3 advantage early. Rhode Island responded, stringing together seven straight points and 10-of 11, opening a 14-6 lead. Demi Muses aided UNH to cut the deficit to five, posting a kill and a solo block. The Rams however extended their lead again to 10, the largest of the third stanza. Despite three kills from Thatcher late in the set, Rhode Island prevailed in the deciding set, 25-16.

Competing against Dartmouth, the ‘Cats dashed out to a 6-0 lead as Dunklau served up two aces, forcing an early timeout for the home side. The Big Green chipped away at the Wildcats’ lead, trailing by one at 17-16. However, UNH created separation, posting a pair of kills from Abby Brinkman and Tolliver. Forrest capped off the opening set with a kill of her own

as New Hampshire won the set, 25-22.

The Big Green put together five consecutive points to open the second set. Despite kills from Brinkman, Forrest and Thatcher, UNH still trailed by five midway in the second stanza. Dartmouth’s early lead was too much for New Hampshire to overcome as the Big Green leveled the match and took set two, 25-19.

New Hampshire dropped the first three points to begin the third set. However, UNH rallied quickly, registering five kills and a block to take the lead 8-4. Following a Dartmouth timeout, the Big Green scored eight of the next 12 points, bringing the set score tied at 12. Each side exchanged points, as Dartmouth and UNH were tied at 23. Thatcher struck a kill forcing set point for the Big Green.

However, the Big Green answered back, tallying a trio of kills to edge out the ‘Cats in the third set, 26-24.

Both sides remained close to open the fourth set as Dartmouth and UNH were locked at eight all. The Wildcats tried to regroup, taking a timeout and trailing 11-8.

New Hampshire clawed back, as Forrest and Thatcher tallied a trio of kills to narrow the Big Green lead to one at 20-19. New Hampshire tried to extend the match to a fifth set as Tolliver tallied a pair of points to level the score at 21.

Dartmouth thwarted the ‘Cats comeback, taking the last four points in the decisive set, 25-21.

New Hampshire will conclude their non-conference portion of the schedule, as Harvard will welcome the Wildcats to Durham. The Crimson and ‘Cats clash on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

FOOTBALL

Cowell Stadium to get lights

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Cowell Stadium will have lights in time for the fall season in 2014. Construction begins in February.

By MATT FANNING CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The University of New Hampshire’s Cowell Stadium is set to undergo major upgrades that will include adding lights as well as replacing general-admission seats and remodeling concrete stadium seating and aisles. These changes will take place for six to eight months starting in February of 2014 and will be finished in time for the start of the 2014 season.

Senator and former UNH football player Lou D’Allesandro was instrumental in getting $1.5 million of funds to be used for the renovation.

“It’s a first-class university and it deserves first-class facilities,” D’Allesandro said. “Those Cowell

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continued from page 20 keeper Kaylan Conrad stopped all six shots faced. UNH freshman keeper Mimi Borkan stopped five of seven.

“The game started and we didn’t really bring the type of energy, the attitude or the effort to really compete against a team whose style is built around trying to outwork your opponent,” Lopes said.

“And when you don’t match or exceed that, you’ve got to be really good on the ball, and we were neither unfortunately.”

Lopes acknowledged the trouble that can come from a nine-day layoff, as UNH had prior to the Bryant game. Despite the emotional high that came after defeating what Lopes called “a quality opponent,” the Wildcats did not carry that momentum over into the game a week later.

“Quite honestly, it was the one concern going into the game,” Lopes said. “That the lay off would be too big, too long and it was going to take a little bit to get into that game.”

Stadium facilities aren’t any better than when I played over 50 years ago. This is a step in the right direction. We’ve got to do more for that university.”

Cowell Stadium was built in 1936 and has never hosted to a night game in its 77 years of existence.

“We’re awful excited about getting lights and getting all those kind of things, but I’m just more excited about playing in Durham and The Dungeon,” football head coach Sean McDonnell said. “It’s a pretty good place.”

The stadium lights will also provide a better chance to host NCAA playoff football games.

UNH football has made the FCS postseason nine consecutive years but has hosted just two playoff

games that were back in 2005 as the No. 1 seed in the country.

“I think it’s going to give us a heck of chance of getting the playoffs here,” UNH Athletic Director Marty Scarano said. “Sean and those guys deserve that.”

There are also plans to expand upon the usage of the stadium by hosting NHIAA state championships as well as other events. It already hosts the Special Olympics and the CHAD All-Star High School Football Game.

“It isn’t just a football facility, it’s a multipurpose facility,” Scarano said. “We want people to think about the outdoor venue in Durham as the go-to, flagship outdoor venue in the state. That was never going to happen without lights.”

Consensus among the players is that the team lacked focus for much of the game.

“We could have showed up a lot more mentally for the game,” Borkan said. “We need to improve as a team … just get together and figure it out, how to bring 110 percent every game and not give it all for 20 minutes but not the whole 90.”

“We could have been more mentally engaged,” sophomore Kirsten O’Neil said. “Just mentally, emotionally and physically engaged. I think if all three components, if we do all of those three things, then we’ll be successful.”

Lopes said last week that Bryant’s aggressive style might make them a more difficult opponent than Harvard for his players. Combined with the grass field (UNH plays on turf) and the week away from a soccer field, UNH struggled early.

Part of the game’s result had to do with Borkan’s decision to break from the coach’s advice on the penalty kick. Initially, Lopes gave Borkan a tip from a scouting report on Shana Follette, the Bryant player she was facing in the penalty kick.

When Follette went in for the kick, Borkan thought that she had tipped

off the direction she was going.

Concerned that she’d blown her original intention, she decided to stay where she was. Unfortunately for Borkan, Follette shot the ball right past her, using the path predicted by Lopes in the first place.

Lopes defended Borkan, saying that she acted on the instincts that kick in during live play. On top of that, he pointed out the unlikeliness that the goalkeeper will make a save on a given penalty kick. He cited Borkan’s penalty kick save against Harvard, pointing out just how miraculous that play was at the time.

“To Mimi’s defense, she tried making a soccer decision, thinking she was going to go one way,” Lopes said. “And at the end of the day, the attacking player is supposed to score the PK. There’s too much that’s got to go right for her to make that save, so you can’t fault Mimi for not making the save.”

UNH goes to Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. this Wednesday.

Lopes said he expects a tough game from Holy Cross, considering the momentum its likely to be riding after its 1-0 win against Loyola on Saturday. Kickoff is at 7 p.m.

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New Hampshire is running hot right now as it heads into next week with a 5-2 overall record and have won four of its last five games. It has shutout the opposing team four times during that span. Defense has been the team’s strongest point this season and has been the most disciplined area of focus in head coach Rob Thompson’s reign.

A good defense is critical to any team’s success, and it all starts with a solid goalkeeper. Travis Worra, a junior and starting goalkeeper for the Wildcats is an example of a consistent goalkeeper and has put on a great display as of late that contributes to the successful run.

“For us to go out, work hard and grind out a win is perfect. Its UNH-style soccer,” Worra said.

“The game was a hard-fought battle. They were a lot better than we anticipated, but any Division 1 college soccer team is going to be tough. To grind out in overtime, win, get another shutout doing the things we do well tonight, it’s good to get the win.”

With one game left before conference play, Worra and the rest of the team look to continue their momentum.

“This is the most important game so far this season even though every game is important, but it’s always a huge game right before conference play starts,” Worra said.

“It’s going to be tough down in Hofstra, but if we can come back with a win it will be a huge momentum gain heading into conference play.”

Thompson was happy with the outcome of the game.

“I thought Grand Canyon was pretty good to be honest,” Thomp-

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son said. “They are a good, passing team, have good quickness, and caused some problems tactically for us. I felt like it was a good game; close and competitive.”

In the first half, the opposing Antelopes kept disrupting the passing lanes and were always on the heels of their opponents, causing a struggle for the Wildcats to move the ball efficiently.

“I just didn’t like us in the first half,” Thompson said. “We didn’t have any idea what was going [on] and couldn’t establish a tempo to move the ball well, because we kept moving it side to side. We tried to get more vertical up and down in the second half, and the players implemented right away. We were deserving of a goal in the second half, but we got it in overtime.”

New Hampshire has depth all around, and the freshmen class has contributed to it by having two of the three top offensive leaders on the team.

“We have a team that has a collective attitude,” Thompson said. “We have good depth; we don’t have to rely on anyone to pull through for us. We are a team and that’s important our team is winning, and not focusing on one person.”

Heading into its next game, New Hampshire will polish the things that need work and keep doing the things they are doing well.

“We need to continue to reemphasize the things we do and stay away from the things we are not good at,” Thompson said. “It’s important to do things well, and Hofstra is a good team, which will be a tough game on the road because it’s not an easy place to play at. The goal is to put out a product out there that does well.”

The squad returns to action when it travels to Hofstra on Saturday, Sept. 28, for an afternoon match. Kickoff is set for 2 p.m.

MEN’S SOCCER

Tudela settling into system at UNH

By JENNIFER GAGNON CONTRIBUTING WRITER

UNH sophomore Jesus Tudela came up big in Saturday’s game against Grand Canyon University, as he stepped up and scored the game-winning goal for the Wildcats to contribute to the 1-0 victory.

With 7:06 left on the clock, Tudela found an opening in the left corner of box, as he ripped it past Grand Canyon’s goalkeeper, Joshua Zehring for the game winning goal, Tudela’s consecutive game winning goal this season.

“I wanted to make a good touch. I knew how essential it was to score, and if I made a good touch, I knew it would go in. That’s all I had on my mind,” Tudela said.

Tudela’s winning goal was assisted by UNH junior David Schlatter. Schlatter set up on the outside of the box, as he looked for an open player. Tudela played within good reach of the net and received a solid pass from Schlatter.

“I saw Schlatter was passing,

and it was a great pass from him,” Tudela said.

With no hesitation, Tudela took the shot.

“It felt good to make the game-winning goal. It felt really good,” Tudela said.

Tudela, originally from Zaragoza, Spain, has had to make a few adjustments with the transition from not only high school to college but also getting accustomed to a different country and brand new playing style.

“Playing soccer in Spain compared to here in the U.S., at the University of New Hampshire, is totally different,” Tudela said. “It is a lot more physical. I feel like I am getting used to the pace, and I am not as tired as much.”

Tudela seemed to be adapting fairly quickly, as he has significantly added to UNH’s success so far.

“It was a good game. The team came together and played as one; like a union,” UNH head coach Rob Thompson said.

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MEN’S SOCCER

Tudela lifts UNH in OT

SCORE CARD MEN’S SOCCER (5-2)

1 0 UNH

GRAND CANYON

Saturday, Durham, N.H.

FIELD HOCKEY (3-4)

2 1 UNH

CENTRAL MICH.

Saturday, Orno, Maine

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3 1 DARTMOUTH

UNH

Saturday, Hanover, N.H.

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The Wildcats shut out the Grand Canyon Antelopes on Saturday in Durham. Jesus Tudula (9) scored the lone goal of the game in overtime.

By ROBERT WILSON STAFF WRITER

It took 97 minutes for the first and only goal to be scored at Bremner Field Saturday night as the University of New Hampshire men’s soccer team won in exciting overtime UNH 1 fashion, 1-0, against visiting Grand GCU 0 Canyon University.

At the 7:06 mark of the overtime frame, sophomore standout Jesus Tudela lifted UNH to victory with his second goal of the season and

second in as many games.

David Schlatter, a junior forward played the ball in from outside the box and found teammate Tudela not far from the goal. Tudela then turned and ripped a shot to the low right corner past Grand Canyon goalkeeper Joshua Zehring to seal the deal.

Tudela was all cheers as he sprinted towards the middle of the field to meet a rush of teammates as the New Hampshire bench cleared in excitement.

“It’s always good to make a good touch and

I know when I do make a good touch it’s going in,” Tudela said. “I saw the opening, secured the ball and took the shot. Happy it went in.”

It has been a big step for Tudela from last season that didn’t see much playing time, but has been one of the team’s biggest impacts this year as he leads the team in scoring with two goals and two assists for six points.

“I’m getting a lot of playing time, and it feels good. I’m not tired when I am out there, so I’m feeling great right now,” Tudela said.

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VOLLEYBALL

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Wildcats continue skid, lose seventh straight

‘Cats struggle to keep up

STAFF REPORT

By MAX SULLIVAN STAFF WRITER

Sophomore outside hitter Tori Forrest combined for 20 kills and 16 digs in the second day of the Dartmouth Duel. However, the University of New Hampshire volleyball Dartmouth 3 team fell to the Rams and Big UNH 1 Green by scores of 0-3 and 1-3 respectively at Leede Arena Saturday afternoon.

In the match against Rhode Island (6-6, 0-0 Atlantic 10), the line score was 18-25, 25-27 and 16-25. Against Dartmouth (7-3, 0-0 Ivy), the Wildcats took the first set 25-22 but dropped the following sets by scores of 19-25, 24-26 and 2125.

The Wildcats lost to Bryant University on the road last Friday afternoon, going down 2-0 after more than a week off and bringing their record to 2-5-1, despite their previBryant 2 ous win at Harvard.

UNH 0 From the beginning, UNH had trouble keeping up with what coach Sam Lopes had said was a “fiery” team. Nine minutes into the first half, a series of close calls off the post resulted in a goal off the rebound by Bryant’s Katy Biagi. In the 50th minute, Bryant drew a penalty off of a throw in and scored on a penalty kick, making the score 2-0.

UNH returned from intermission with urgency, but their efforts were in vain as Bryant went on to shutout the Wildcats. Bryant goal-

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The UNH field hockey team tied their seasonhigh with 22 shots on goal on Saturday

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Kelsi O’Neil has started in seven of the eight games this season.

- Sophomore Meg Flatley delivered the 2-1 win for the Wildcats on Saturday.

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