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Battle of the brands

SENIOR COLUMNS TNH seniors say farewell and reflect on their experiences at UNH. Page 18

Mixed responses to UNH dining’s change in yogurt brand causes an uproar on Twitter.

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It’s been a tough battle for sophomore defenseman Richard Boyd. Take a look at Boyd’s journey skating with Crohn’s disease. Page 24

Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity officially unrecognized

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The home of the Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike) Fraternity’s Gamma Mu chapter, now an unrecognized organization at UNH, on Strafford Avenue. By ZERINA BAJRAMOVIC STAFF WRITER

The Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike) Fraternity has been officially unrecognized by UNH. Once a fraternity or sorority is unrecognized, it no longer receives any form of support, oversight or advisement for its members from the school. Pike will be suspended from the university for a three-year period. According to Erika Mantz, director of UNH Media Relations,

the Gamma Mu chapter of Pike exhausted its right to appeal and was notified of the decision by UNH on April 8. Mantz stated that the fraternity has “demonstrated a pattern of violating university policies and had numerous troublesome interactions with the UNH and Durham police departments.” “Members of the University’s Greek system are expected to adhere to the university’s rights, rules, and responsibilities

as well as specific Greek policies around social events and hazing,” Mantz said. “A variety of policy violations have been addressed through the office of student life and the university conduct system over a period of several years.” In addition, Mantz noted that members of the fraternity have been given multiple opportunities to work with university officials

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The Works Bakery took 21% off purchases made by women on ‘National Equal Pay Day’ By ZOE CULLEN

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

By KYLE KITTREDGE STAFF WRITER

Battle lines are being drawn between two groups of UNH students, as a highly debated issue has erupted on campus: the brand of yogurt being served in the UNH dining halls. Recently, UNH switched from serving Stonyfield yogurt to Sunrise Farms yogurt. In the aftermath of the change, the conflict between those

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On Tuesday, April 12, The Works Bakery in downtown Durham had a 21 percent discount off all items on its menu for paying female customers. The Works did this in honor of National Equal Pay Day. By 12:30 p.m., the line for The Works was out the door and consisted of mostly female customers. The general manager of this location, Dawn Drew, explained that The Works saw not only an increase in business, but also that the customers were predominantly female. “It was a great day. It compared to a graduation day at UNH, that’s how big of a day it was,” Drew said. The Works was filled with local residents, students and faculty. Among the customers was a member of the New Hampshire Women’s Foundation, Amy Sterndale, who was out to lunch with friends in honor of the discount. “This is the saddest day of the year,” Sterndale said. “It represents how far into the year women must work to earn what men earned in the previous year.” “It’s been a problem that’s been around for a re-

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A discounted receipt from The Works. ally long time, decades I would say,” Don Bruegge-

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INDEX

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Contents

‘Spotlight’ investigator visits

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Funniest person on campus

4 Boston Globe Editor and former Spotlight lead investigator Walter V. Robinson visited UNH to discuss investigative reporting while answering questions from the public.

Let’s Make it Clare

8 Communication and women’s studies student Carolyn Riley wa s dubbed the funniest person on campus. Riley will perform on April 23 in the MUB’s Entertainment Center.

Streak snapped

23 As Kobe Bryant says goodbye to basketball, what will be people’s lasting memory of him? Daniel Clare breaks it down in his column.

The Wildcats’ win streak ends at three after suffering a loss to Boston University on the road.

This Week in Durham

Shakespeare remembered

April 14 • Wildcat Workout Project, Field House, Jerry Azumah Strength Center, 12 - 1 p.m. • The Forgotten Deported: Towards a New Declaration of Rights Lecture, Horton 307, 5 - 6:30 p.m. • The Music of Shakespeare, Dimond Library, 5:30 p.m.

April 16

• Yoga Class, Memorial Union Building, Wildcat’s Den, 12 - 1 p.m. • Hospitality Gourmet Dining Series, Paul College, 5 p.m. • Opera Workshop, Johnson Theatre, 8 - 10 p.m.

April 15

• Wildcat Workout Project, Field House, Jerry Azumah Strength Center, 6:30 7:30 a.m. • Yoga Class, MUB Wildcat’s Den, 12 - 1 p.m. • Hogan Distinguished Lecture Series, MUB Strafford Room, 2 p.m. • Hospitality Gourmet Dining Series, Paul College, 5 p.m.

April 17 • Hospitality Gourmet Dining Series, Peter T. Paul College, 5 p.m. • Dinner Around the World, Memorial Union Building, Strafford Room, 5 - 7 p.m.

7 Stay Connected:

400 years after his death, students, and community reflect and remember fond memories they have of William Shakespeare.

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 to address member behavior. Pike’s national headquarters has also suspended the chapter. National affiliation provides fraternities and sororities with liability insurance and often oversight policies. These policies include: risk management, hazing and sexual harassment incidents. Without national affiliations, the avail-

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 who favor the old yogurt and the new yogurt is heating up, and the evidence is all over Twitter. One account, @unhyogurt, which is anti-new yogurt, has retweeted students who have complained about it, and posted about changing the yogurt back to Stonyfield. “I had yogurt the other day, it was dairyyyyy good!!! (Get it like very?), and then they changed the yogurt brand and it’s pretty bad now,” @unhyogurt tweeted on April 6. The account already has 94 followers and has even tweeted at UNH Dining. Its most recent tweet to UNH Dining on April 10 said, “@UNHDining: still mad @ you.” The old yogurt’s rival Twitter account, @KeepUNHYogurt, which advocates in support of the new yogurt and has nine followers, replied, saying, “We want nutritious and delicious yogurt! Not sugar saturated Stonyfield! #stopwhining.” “The battle for our yogurt has never been more important! Our enemies (though dim) will never get in our way of ultimate yogurt glory!!!!!” @KeepUNHYogurt also tweeted on April 11. Other students have joined the battle over the brand of yogurt served by UNH dining, voicing their opinions, like sophomore Allison Grann. “The new yogurt seriously is not as good as the old yogurt, in my opinion,” Grann said. “This broke my heart, to say the least, as a consistent yogurt consumer in HoCo, this has changed my diet in a multitude of ways,” Grann continued. “I no longer have the sweet, satisfying yet healthy snack that I always looked forward to with Stonyfield yogurt. This new Sunrise Farms yogurt is far too tart, and my peers have reported that it is grainy and the texture is similar to eating ‘sand.’” Grann looked at the differ-

ences in the nutritional content of the two yogurts and acknowledged that Sunrise Farms is a healthier alternative, but was willing to sacrifice health for taste in this situation. In one tweet by @unhyogurt to UNH Dining, the old yogurt account stated, “No chill….listen to the people and what we want [sic],” accompanied by a screenshot of a tweet by @KeepUNHyogurt to UNH Dining that said “No problems exist! The yogurt is great! #keepUNHyogurt,” which UNH Dining favorited. “We love our UNH Students & as a community we hold a high regard to sustainability, locally sourced, & enhanced nutrition content,.” UNH Dining replied to the old yogurt account. Jon Plodzik, the director of dining at UNH, gave some perspective as to why the yogurt was changed, citing a number of reasons. For one, Sunrise Farms is hyper-local, as it is made in Brentwood, which is roughly 10 miles away from campus and Stonyfield Yogurt is now part of the large Dannon yogurt portfolio. Secondly, Sunrise Farms yogurt “has better nutritional attributes over Stonyfield, such as it contains roughly half the sugar, is organic made from real local milk, contains half the sodium and offers 40 percent less calories per serving,” Plodzik said. Lastly, Sunrise Farms comes in a more sustainable packaging. “Previously we generated over 40,000 plastic quart containers because of Stonyfield’s packaging,” Plodzik said, “our new yogurt comes in a larger vessel, only generating 16,000 containers,” and “the larger packaging yields more usable product.” Plodzik said guests might be noticing the less sugar and sodium in Sunrise Farms yogurt compared to Stonyfield. As advice, Plodzik mentioned to “try mixing in some fruit or our organic granola from Grandy Oats until your taste buds adjust to the healthy change.”

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 mann, manager of The Works in Concord told New Hampshire Public Radio. “And I think many of us thought it would kind of work itself out but it has been very persistent over the years. We’re feeling like this is a way to highlight that issue.” Representative Jackie Cilley, who has worked both in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and Senate was also present for the event. Cilley is currently serving her second year in a fouryear term as a representative for New Hampshire. Cilley’s work as a representative has been focused mainly on the wage gap and creating a livable wage for workers. Cilley expresses that events like these

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ability and effectiveness of this is put into question. The UNH Fraternity and Sorority Life website clearly outlines recognized groups, unrecognized groups, and what these terms mean. Reinstatement could be considered in 2019 if the chapter does not operate as an unrecognized group. If they were to return as a recognized fraternity in 2019, the chapter would maintain probationary status until Sept. 1, 2021. Erin Courville, coordinator of fraternity and sorority life,

was approached to comment on the decision, but she affirmed that Mantz would be handling all inquiries regarding Pike. Members of the fraternity declined to make a comment about the situation. “The university plays an active role in supporting, overseeing, and advising its fraternities and sororities. However, the health, safety, and well-being of our students is and must always be our number one priority,” Mantz said.

are important because they spread awareness. “It calls attention to it. When people understand an issue they begin to mobilize. It puts the focus squarely on the fact that this is occurring,” Cilley said. Cilley said the economy would boom across the board if people championed more for equal pay, and that many don’t realize what the consequences of this gap are. “The implications are massive. White women lose somewhere around half a million a year, Black women workers closer to 800,000, and for Hispanic women it is over a million,” Cilley said. Cilley said The Works is an organization dedicated to this movement, and that this discount is not just an attempt to gain more customers.

“This company is dedicated to payment equality,” Cilley said. “This is not just a publicity stunt for The Works. It’s how they live. It’s how they run their business.” Drew confirmed this sentiment explaining that the owners of the bakery prove their loyalty in standing for equal pay in the way they hire both their workers and their managers. “The owners wanted to get involved to show their support,” Drew said. “It’s an issue they’re very passionate about.” One male student, Christian Tortora, who was in attendance with a female friend, wasn’t angry that the discount didn’t apply to him. “It’s great for women and their advancement,” Tortora said. “It proves that the fight can start at something like a local business such as this one.”

Journalism Alumni

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Alumni of the UNH Journalism department visited UNH to attend Walter V. Robinson’s talk on the award winning movie “Spotlight” Tuesday afternoon. (Left to right) Katie McAuliffe, Meg Heckman, Ali J. Westcott, Nik Beimler, Breanna Edelstein, Lisa Miller, Ella Nilsen and Sue Hertz. Other alumni not pictured also attended the event.

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‘Spotlight’ on Walter Robinson: Boston Globe editor visits UNH By HADLEY BARNDOLLAR STAFF WRITER

Actor Michael Keaton is now one of Walter Robinson’s “BFFs.” Robinson mentioned his relationship with the actor, who played him in “Spotlight,” to a UNH audience on Tuesday evening. The highly acclaimed, Oscar-winning film depicts the true story of the Boston Globe reporting team that uncovered the scandal of systemic child sex abuse in the Catholic Church. Robinson, who led the Globe’s coverage of the scandal starting in 2001, spoke to a jampacked audience about the future of investigative journalism and his life post-movie. “It’s been a life up-ending experience,” Robinson said. “It’s a little bit like getting struck by lightning, and finding out it feels pretty good.” UNH journalism professor Meg Heckman, who introduced Robinson as “Robby,” led the question and answer session. In Heckman’s summary of Robinson’s work, she mentioned he’d covered the White House, the first Gulf War and four presidential campaigns. He’s been at the Globe since 1972. “Nowadays, there’s so much pressure on journalists to be on social media,” Robinson said. “It

takes time away from the kind of reporting we did back then. The internet has happened to hollow out most newsrooms. But there are many more tools for reporters to use today. You can do investigative reporting more accurately.” Robinson spoke on how the Catholic Church scandal was “one of the first major investigative stories of the internet age.” At the end of the investigation in 2003, the Globe had published around 600 stories involving the topic. According to Robinson, the movie fast-forwarded the reporting process. He compared investigative reporting to watching a sausage being made: “incredibly boring.” When asked about something the Globe did differently in the early 2000s, Robinson said, “We knocked on doors.” “It doesn’t matter how much information you get from databases,” he said. “The most important part of any story is talking to people.” An audience member, whose son attends Phillips Exeter Academy, asked Robinson why the reporting on the school’s recent sex abuse scandal has been “so skeletal.” Robinson said he didn’t disagree, but chalked it up to a lack of staff. “In 2001, we had 550 people in the newsroom,” he said. “Now,

there’s just over 300.” To end the talk, Heckman brought it back to why investigative journalism is essential to a functioning society. “Investigative reporting is at the top. At the Globe, I thought it was sports, but no,” Robinson laughed. He said investigative journalism is about giving the public a chance to make informed decisions. “If we can’t get access to the records of government, how can any of us make informed decisions when we go to vote?” Lisa Miller, head of the UNH journalism department, said having Robinson let students see the “real side.” “It was important to bring him because he’s the real side of the story, not the movie side,” she said. “I hope [students] take away how crucial investigative reporting is and how we should be doing more.” Robinson closed with a piece of advice from a fellow Spotlight team member. “My colleague Sacha Pfeiffer, or Rachel McAdams, always tells people, ‘Please, buy a newspaper.’ ”

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UNH Health Services holds 7th annual Peeps Show By RACHEL DEBERARDINIS

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

UNH students experienced a different approach to fitness this past Tuesday at the seventh annual UNH Peeps Show. At this event, numerous demonstrations of active marshmallow Peeps participating in a slew of fitness activities were showcased in the Strafford Room of the MUB. Both student organizations and faculty members were invited to participate by creating a scene of active Peeps that would exemplify what it means to embody a healthy lifestyle at UNH.

occupational, physical, environmental, intellectual and emotional. This year, the event had asimilar number of participants as in past years. Such participants included two departments, students, and a class project contribution by the students in class OT 610, on occupational therapy course. Jennifer Pribble, a coordinator for communication and information at Health Services, discussed her excitement for the event. “It takes a lot of effort to make (the dioramas),” she said, “and people use the creativ-

“ It’s nice to get everyone thinking about wellness in a fun way.”

Jane Shannon

An employee at Health Services in the Office of Education and Promotion Health Services provided a large share of the inspiration for this event, as it aims to promote the benefits of living a healthy lifestyle at UNH. The staff at Health Services created and inspired the event by trying to get students to think about the eight dimensions of the wellness wheel: spiritual, social, financial,

ity to relax and have fun.” She remarked that her favorite part about the show is seeing the use of creativity anwas thoughtfulness in the scenes by UNH students. In addition to the Peeps scenes, the event featured promotion for the Counseling Center, Sexual Harassment and Rape

Prevention Program (SHARPP) and Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA), linking them to the positive influence of fitness in everyday life. The dioramas consisted of either a few or many Peeps screening their activities in many different ways. Attendants were all given a ballot slip to vote for their two favorite Peeps dioramas. There were also a few prizes up for grabs. Students travelled from scene to scene, often commenting on how creative each one was. Jess Rosenthal, a work-study student and Special Ops worker at SHARPP, is also a community advocate for Safe UNH. She remarked that she enjoyed the show, while having a front row seat at her table setup. “Peeps have been a big part of my day-to-day life lately,” Rosenthal said. “We had a lot of fun making dem Peeps.” All together, she enjoyed the event and seemed very enthusiastic about the response it created. Health Services also provided visitors with coffee and assorted donuts from Dunkin’ Donuts, as well as stress relieving activities, including coloring and sweet smelling hand-sized cloth bags. Jane Shannon, an employee at Health Services in the Office of Education and Promotion, declared her favorite part of the

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Health Services hosted the 7th annual Peeps Show in the GSR. Students and faculty made displays to get students to think about the eight dimensions of the wellness wheel: spiritual, social, financial, occupational, physical, environmental, intellectual and emotional. show was the influence the dioramas had on the students at UNH. “I like creativity…” she said, “It’s nice to get everyone thinking about wellness in a fun way.”

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Commencement Fair ushers in graduation season By ETHAN HOGAN STAFF WRITER

The Granite State Room (GSR) was filled with excitement on Tuesday, April 12 as the annual Commencement Fair ushered in graduation season on campus. Doors opened at 11 a.m. and seniors who had already ordered their caps and gowns actually outnumbered those who hadn’t. Lines formed where students stood alphabetically waiting for their supposedly more convenient online order pickup. However, students who didn’t order online could walk right up to the tables and get their graduation materials without the hassle of lines.

“ It is kind of sad to

leave this beautiful campus, but I had a very rich experience so I should be proud of it.” Melika Nouri

a graduate student

Some people enjoyed the free food offered at the event, which included apples, mozzarella sticks and bags of chips, while others shopped for class rings. Jasmine Yang and Heather Orphanos were two of the stu-

dents exploring the GSR after getting their caps and gowns. Yang expressed the love she has for the university. “Awful. Really really really bad because UNH is the best place in the world, ” said Yang about her mental state, adding, that the school is “better than Disney world.” Both business majors, Yang and Orphanos have jobs to look forward to after graduation but are still holding on to their college memories. “We don’t want to leave,” Orphanos said, “I’m kind of sad, it’s bitter sweet. I’m going to bawl my eyes out.” After picking up their caps and gowns, students could also grab a selfie with the Wildcat mascot or give a shout out to their parents in a class video. Rebecca Wuorio and friends shouted into the camera, “Thanks mom and dad.” Jessica Downing and Abby Peterson had not given graduation much thought until Tuesday. “It kind of hit me [then], when I got my gown,” Peterson said. “I still feel like a freshman,” Downing said. According to Downing, only honors program students will actually walk but it will be during a ceremony held the night before the general ceremony. “They should let everybody walk, not just honors people. I want to walk; it’s pride, to show

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(From the left) Abby Peterson and Jessica Downing take a selfie with Wild E. Cat during the annual Commencement Fair in the Granite State Room Tuesday. your accomplishments,” Downing said. It wasn’t just undergrads picking up their caps and gowns on Tuesday. Graduate students also attended. Melika Nouri is a graduate student getting her masters in linguistics. Nouri is from Iran and is grateful for her time at UNH. “UNH is awesome,” she said. Nouri was offered enroll-

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ment in a PhD program in Ohio, and is strongly considering it as her next step after graduation. “It is kind of sad to leave this beautiful campus, but I had a very rich experience so I should be proud of it,” Nouri said. One booth let students get their pictures taken and printed onto a mock magazine cover. The booth attendant, Tia Miller, felt the energy in the room and had advice for students at this impor-

tant stage in their lives. “I think they are pretty typical of people at this age going through college, everybody is full of excitement and hope,” Miller said. Miller said that it is important to go with your gut feeling with anything you do in life. For Miller, however, personal growth came more after college. “It is not over, it is never over,” Miller said.

NH Brief Hollowed grenade found in donation box HUDSON — Authorities say a New Hampshire Goodwill store had to be evacuated after an employee found what appeared to be a grenade in a donation box. Police say the Nashua bomb squad was called to the Hudson store on Monday night after an employee found

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6 and that it contains “very serious allegations.” Attorney Joel Androphy claims that his clients were victims of “extreme abuse and misuse of police power and authority” that included libel, slander, harassment and infliction of emotional duress at the hands of Portsmouth officers. Former Deputy Chief Corey MacDonald called the demand letter “absolutely and completely baseless.” This story has been corrected to show the lawyer’s last name is Androphy, not Andophy.

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400 years later, Shakespeare’s legacy still strong By BRI DOHERTY CONTRIBUTING WRITER

As April 23, the day that marks the 400th anniversary of the day of William Shakespeare’s death approaches, students, faculty, and community members around UNH reminisce on their earliest memories regarding the birth of their love for Shakespeare. Since January, many events, such as the UNH Shakespeare Festival and the film showing of “Shakespeare Behind Bars,” have been hosted by UNH to partake in the global celebration of the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death—an anniversary that has excited and united the arts community around the world, bringing together Shakespearian fanatics with a common inspiration to commemorate a man who is said to be one of history’s greatest writers. Rachel Trubowitz, English professor and English department chair for UNH, states that she found her love for Shakespeare through the connection between his plays, Russian novels, and the opera. “For some reason King Lear and Russian novels’ connected with me,” Trubowitz said, “and I always think of the speeches in his plays as a solo in the opera.” Trubowitz grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey, and when she was about 16 years old she would continually sneak into the Met-

ropolitan Opera House with her friend, Beth Handler to watch the operas. Handler knew the ushers at the Opera House and was able to sneak both women through the back door right before the curtain drew. “It was so much fun and really glamorous,” Trubowitz said, expressing her excited emotions while reminiscing on her teenage antics. “If you love the theatre, just going into that theatre is like, AH!” “I just love the play,” Trubowitz said, speaking of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear,’ “I think it’s the most beautiful, evocative, lovely, haunting piece. The weird combination of utter complexity and simplicity just grabs me…everything is in it. The whole world is in that play.” Mary Grace Elliot, a 31-yearold graduate student studying early modern pedagogy in the works of Milton and Shakespeare, explains that her love for Shakespeare started when she was just seven years old. According to Elliot, her father was extremely interested in Shakespeare, and would make her and her sister, Elizabeth, sit on his lap and read ‘King Lear’ aloud. “It was really hard. And ridiculous. Afterwards, my dad would say ‘Which of Lear’s daughters are you? And we would go Cordelia!’” Elliot said. “I liked Twelfth Night as a kid, and I understood it whereas other people didn’t, so I felt cool,” she said.

When asked about the first time she knew that she loved Shakespeare, Lisa Miller answered immediately, with no hesitation or contemplation, “Tenth grade, Mrs. Mahoney’s English class.” “We read ‘The Merchant of Venice’ and I had to memorize a speech from the play that starts with the line ‘All that glisters is not gold,’” said Miller, “I just fell in love with the language.”

“ It was incredible

to see it live. Finally seeing it with emotion and zeal— when people would laugh in the right spots, it made sense to me.”

Delaney Todd UNH student

Miller is an associate professor of English at UNH and the director of New Hampshire Literacy Institutes. She continues to praise the images and connections present in Shakespeare’s plays, and applauds the events at UNH surrounding this milestone celebrating 400 years of Shakespeare. “These are wonderful ways

for students to be introduced to Shakespeare.” The love for Shakespeare on the UNH campus does not span solely across the arts faculty. Delaney Todd, a 19-year-old freshman student studying environmental science, discovered her admiration for Shakespeare when she saw her first Shakespeare play live. Todd is from San Diego, California—a long way away from New Hampshire. Her mother and sister would drive every summer to the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego to see the live performances of various Shakespeare plays. “I read a lot of Shakespeare in high school, but I wasn’t really interested. Then one play sounded interesting, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Todd said. Todd appreciated the language of Shakespeare, but never fully enjoyed it when reading aloud in class, for her classmates were monotone in their readings, whereas Shakespeare is supposed to be dramatically performed. Then, in the summer of her sophomore year of high school, her mother finally convinced her to go see a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Old Globe theatre. “It was incredible to see it live,” Todd said. “Finally seeing it with emotion and zeal— when people would laugh in the right spots, it made sense to me.” Todd explained how this theater gave her the full experience of how the play would have origi-

nally been performed 400 years ago. “I love how his writing is so old, but the humor is still the same,” Todd said. “You wouldn’t expect that kind of vulgar humor to be in something so old.” With April 23, the date of William Shakespeare’s passing, mere weeks away, the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death continues to spark interest in how the works of this man have been kept alive for four centuries. “I have to say that I don’t like framing the question as a matter of ‘keeping Shakespeare alive,’ as if he’s on life-support with scholars keeping him going long after we should have pulled the plug,” said english professor Douglas Lanier, who focuses on early modern English drama, poetry, modern performances and re-workings of Shakespeare’s works. Just as UNH is hosting a variety of events, such as the UNH Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Behind Bars, and The Music of Shakespeare, to appeal to the interests of people who already love Shakespeare, the university also works each year to promote depth and understanding of his works. “We do our modest part in introducing students to the joys and challenges of engaging with Shakespeare,” Lanier said. “We plant seeds that…grow and give students pleasures all their lives.”

NH Brief Woman survives spending 9 days in forest TUCSON, Ariz. — An Arizona woman lost in the wilderness for nine days says she became desperate but stayed alive because of her survival skills. Ann Rodgers said Wednesday that she slept in her car the first night and wore several layers of clothing to keep warm. The 72-year-old hiked through the forest for days, leaving notes behind that would help rescuers find her.

She survived on plants, pond water and at one point, a turtle. Rodgers says she took a survival course and studied techniques for years. Rodgers was traveling from Tucson to Phoenix to visit her grandchildren when she took a wrong turn. Her car ran out of gas, and she left it to look for help. Rodgers is in good health and even spent Monday hiking.

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NEW YORK — Donald Trump met with Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly on Wednesday, who he has been bad-mouthing on social media since he was angered by a question she asked him last summer. Fox says the meeting, in New York’s Trump Tower, will be discussed on Kelly’s Fox show Wednesday night. Trump skipped a Fox-televised debate in January after Fox refused to remove Kelly as a moderator. He was upset

with Kelly for asking him in an August debate about statements that he had made about women. While Kelly recently criticized both CNN and her Fox colleague, Bill O’Reilly, for not being more supportive after Trump pulled out of the debate, she said Trump is welcome on her show. Fox said that its chief executive, Roger Ailes, has been trying to get Trump to appear on a prime-time special Kelly is hosting on the Fox broadcasting network on May 23. A Trump representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Carolyn Riley is the ‘funniest person on campus’ By MICHAEL VALOTTO CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Carolyn Riley, a communication and women’s studies student here at UNH won the title “funniest person” by competing in the Campus Activities Board (CAB), hosted event, “Funniest Person on Campus,” in the Strafford room of the MUB on Saturday April 9.

“ I think there is

kind of a stereotype that people who become comics are the crazy hyperactive kids or kids always cracking jokes.”

Carolyn Riley

UNH student and winner of ‘Funniest Person on Campus’ “I was kinda surprised,” Riley said. There were six other

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students competing in the event that night.” Riley went on to say, “contests are unpredictable.” Riley began standup comedy almost a year ago, having worked venues including The Stone Church in Newmarket, high schools, and gazebos on the beach. Before actually performing stand up for the first time a year ago, most of her jokes were actually compiled into a notebook. “I think there is kind of a stereotype that people who become comics are the crazy hyperactive kids or kids always cracking jokes,” Riley said. “I have ten minutes of comedy I could do right now,” Riley said. Her iconic “nose job” joke, the first joke she came up with, highlights her past high school experience of snooty kids showing off their sweet sixteen birthday presents. In a nutshell, she leads the audience to believe that instead of a nice new fancy car, or a grand lavish gift, Daddy bought her a new nose. With all jokes aside, Riley said, “I grew up watching comedy.” Her uncle, Dave Rattigan, a standup comedian as well the PORTLAND — The U.S. Coast Guard has stopped searching for a possible missing boat near the Isle of Shoals. The Coast Guard called off the search

head of Scamps Comedy Productions and key figure in the Boston comedy scene helped influence her aspiring career. Riley said comedy “is not something you can do as a full time job,” especially when you are first starting out. She plans on moving to Boston to set up shop after school. Not only aspiring to build a following of fans and future shows directly with standup, but Riley is avid in writing her humor on paper and went on to say The Onion would be an ideal example of just that. Riley looks up to Aziz Ansari and applauds his subject matter. Subject matter “is what I really care about,” she said. But do not ever compare her to Amy Schumer even though Riley likes what she represents. After Schumer got big last year, Riley said “everyone would be like, oh my god, you remind me of Amy Schumer, and I was like, I don’t think I do, I think I’m just a woman in comedy and she’s a woman in comedy.” Riley, who is known for her deadpan, sarcastic, and autobiographical humor, will be performing Saturday, April 23 in the MUB’s Entertainment Center.

around noon on Monday, less than a day after someone aboard a boat named the Whiskey Rose sent a distress signal. Officials say no sign of the boat was found.

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Authorities say a person gave the name of the vessel and said it was taking on water before the transmission was lost. No other information was given.

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Selections from the Sea Holloway Commons hosts annual Sustainable Seafood Dinner

ABIGAEL SLEEPER ARTS EDITOR

Holloway Commons hosted their annual Sustainable Seafood Dinner last night. The menu included lobster pizza, fresh seafood ceviche, and grilled scallops on creamy cornmeal polenta, all made with local, sustainable ingredients. Students enjoyed festive decor and ocean-themed desserts along with friendly and welcoming service provided by the HoCo staff.

April drizzle brings “Shakespeare on the Quad” indoors

7 Stages Shakespeare Company Founder

grads, alumni, staff and faculty, headed by UNH theatre professors Deb Kinghorn and David Richman brought a comedic performance to all those willing to catch a little Shakespearian action in-between classes. Liam Tanner, a sophomore theatre student who performed in the production, said “It’s live, it’s in the moment, it makes it real,” when asked about the importance of theatre. “When you see it, you see the difference from simply reading Shakespeare. Performing really brings it home.” Along with the preview performance held at UNH, Seven Stages Shakespeare Company, founded by UNH alumni, wanted to celebrate the 400th year anniversary of Shakespeare’s death by staging performances in taverns and pubs around the area of Portsmouth, Durham and neighboring towns for the month. “We want people who think

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By CARLOS MARTENS CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Spring showers did little to dampen the spirits of UNH’s theatre students, as they relocated their performance of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” from Thompson Hall’s Quad to the MUB Theatre on Tuesday.

“ We want people who think they don’t like Shakespeare to witness and be entertained by our merry mirth.”

Kevin Condardo

CARLOS MARTENS/ CONTRIBUTING

(From left to right) CJ Lewis, David Kaye, Kevin Condardo, Izzy Beagan and Liam Tanner perform an excerpt from “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in the MUB Theater on Tuesday. The performance was inspired by the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, which is being celebrated throughout the state this month.

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Birdseye Lounge hosts country music night By GABRIELLE LAMONTAGNE STAFF WRITER

A few weeks ago, the Birdseye Lounge of Portsmouth held a country music night organized by Harbor Agency. Most of the performers involved were contacted and hired by the New England to Tennessee (or New England to Nashville) organization.

“ I hear a lot that the live music scene is dead. It’s nice to be a part of proving those people wrong. ”

Colin Axxxwell

Musician

The headliner of the event was Tom Dixon, but there were about 10 other artists and bands that performed that evening. A few of the other artists were Haley Chioccariello, Martin & Kelly, Colin Axxxwell, Ashley Dawn, Kevin Herchen, and Andrew Merzi. The first performances were done in a round, with three or four artists on stage at once, taking turns to play original songs. Jilly Martin and Ryan Brooks Kelly of the Martin and

Kelly band said, “The writers’ rounds let each performer showcase their writing talents and tell the stories of the song. It’s a great platform for original music. It’s something you don’t see as much in New England, but it’s cool to see the interest for it growing here.” “All shows are different. It’s good to switch it up from time to time. The rounds are cool because the artists can interact and fool around on stage. It makes it fun,” Colin Axxxwell said. Axxxwell has lived in many different parts of the world at one time or another, and said, “Professionally, it’s going on two years [that I’ve been performing], and it’s definitely country.” “I don’t mind the round style but I prefer being able to play my songs one after another. I feel like it’s easier to warm up myself and the crowd that way,” Merzi said. Merzi, originally from Massachussetts and now of New Hampshire said, “I have been playing music in public for eight years. I consider my genre alt-country/folk-rock.” “The round style performance is the Nashville style and it makes for a more interesting listening experience because of the constant variety,” Herchen said. “We’ve both been playing music since we were little. It was all around both of our houses growing up,” said Martin of

Chelmsford, Massachusetts and Kelly of Hudson, New Hampshire. “I have been playing public gigs and Country music for over 10 years. I consider my music in the Rock Country genre,” Herchen said. “Personally, I love the round style performance,” Dawn, originally of Methuen, Massachusetts said. “I love having other musicians on stage with me to play off of, joke with, join in with, etc.” “I have been playing professionally for almost 10 years. I consider country music a huge influence of mine, but my own music is more pop/blues/folk,” Dawn said. Everyone seemed to have a lot of fun at the show, including the musicians. “We have Harbor Agency do some of our shows but we do use a host of different groups to assist with shows in order to have a nice variety of entertainment,” said Michael Behrmann of the Birdseye Lounge. “I liked the Birdseye Lounge,” Herchen said. “The layout of the room and the stage made it very conducive to that type of show.” “The crowd had an awesome energy. I felt supported by not only the people who came to see me play, but by folks who I had never met before and had not heard my music prior to the show,” Dawn said. “From the stage, we could tell they were genuinely interested in listening

to our stories brought to life by music. That feeling is magic.”

GABRIELLE LAMONTAGNE/STAFF

Several country music artists perform at the Birdseye Lounge in Portsmouth. The show was performed in a “round” style, with several musicians on stage at once. “It was great to perform in NH again, I have recently moved from Nashville and it was good to perform in front of my friends and family again,” Merzi said. “They were a captive audience,” Axxxwell said. “A lot of times you play to drunk people who just want to dance to a beat... it’s nice to have people just sit and listen to what you are actually trying to say with your writing.” “I had a great time and it’s so nice to have an event based on original music,” Herchen said. “I had a blast up on stage alongside some other amazing

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Dawn said. Axxxwell said, “I hear a lot that the live music scene is dead. It’s nice to be a part of proving those people wrong.” “Sure, the venue was set up for this type of show, but also the owner seems like a good guy and the place had a good vibe,” Axxxwell said. “It really is more about the people/staff than the venue a lot of times.” The event sold out, which is encouraging for those in the New England area who love Country Music and live performances, but are less able to travel all the way to Nashville, Tennessee.

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TNH Test Kitchen: Healthy No-Bake Cookies By ELIZABETH HAAS FORMER STAFF WRITER

The semester is beginning to ramp up with the Undergraduate Research Conference (URC) underway and only a month left before finals. You need more than Cheetos and pre-packaged peanut butter crackers to fuel you during long study sessions and on days when you simply can’t find the time to make it to HoCo for lunch. These easy “No-Bake” cookies are ready in 10 minutes, and like the name suggests, you don’t even have to put them in the oven! They also contain all your macronutrients—healthy fats and protein from nut butter and healthy whole grain carbohydrates, along with antioxidants and vitamins from pure maple syrup and dried fruit—to keep you fueled on busy days. Toss a few in your bag and enjoy a healthy, yet delicious treat. Because come on, who doesn’t like cookies?

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they don’t like Shakespeare to witness, and be entertained by our merry mirth,” said founder of 7 Stages Shakespeare Company, Kevin Condardo. “Shakespeare can be funny, and there is no greater applause than appreciative laughter from the crowd.” The idea of performing in taverns is simple, people are drinking, and people who are drinking come by laughs more easily. A common misconception made by those who are not familiar with Shakespeare is that it carries a serious demeanor, and this theatre group wanted to nullify this. With the exaggerated body movements and flair of the actors, ripples of laughter spread through the crowd. With every dramatic line ushered from distinct facial expressions, it was easy to see the joy and fun reflecting off the performers and onto the crowd. Before and after the show, the performers can be found joking and poking humor at one another, showcasing the loving and happy-go-lucky nature of the production company, a testimony of the players’ good-willed demeanor and passion for their art form.

“When watching theatre, you are able to take a step back as if looking through a window to observe life,” said another Shakespeare performer, Izzy Beagen, in regard to the benefits of theatre over other forms of literature. “The reason why Shakespeare works is because of the emotion and realness conveyed by the performers, and the intimacy of performing in front of a living, breathing crowd is intoxicating.”

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1. Combine applesauce, maple syrup, milk and salt in a medium saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil for one minute then remove from heat. 2. Stir in nut butter and vanilla until smooth. Then stir in oats until completely coated. 3. Drop mixture by the spoonful (about 2-3 tablespoons at a time) onto parchment-lined baking sheets and allow to cool until firm. Your cookies will last for up to two weeks in the refrigerator should you have that much self control.

Optional: add one cup of dried fruit (raisins, craisins, whatever sounds good with your nut butter of choice), chocolate chips, your favorite nuts or seeds, or a combo of the above!

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Scientists research ‘camouflaging’ molecule found in squids By ADAM COOK STAFF WRITER

A group of scientists at UNH is trying to figure out the molecular mechanism that makes cephalopods, such as squid and octopi, camouflage themselves with their surroundings. The research group is being led by Leila Deravi, an assistant professor of chemistry and material science, at UNH, with the assistance of two graduate students, Tom Williams and Chris DiBona. “During my junior year at UNH I read about [Deravi’s] research and was immediately curious. I joined her lab in Fall 2014 to work on this study as a part of my senior thesis,” DiBona said. “I stayed on with the group to get my master’s in chemistry and to further explore the pigments’ electrical properties.” DiBona, originally from

Southern New Hampshire, received his Bachelor of Science in chemistry in 2015 from UNH. DiBona teamed up with Deravi’s group in the Spring 2016 semester while pursuing his master’s degree in chemistry.

from Maine and is working to receive his PhD in analytical chemistry. Williams received his bachelor’s degree from Colby College in 2013. “This study appealed to me because it combines aspects of

“We adapted an extraction technique that was used to isolate pigments from butterflies. This involved dissecting the pigment granules from the animals,” DiBona said regarding the experiments the group performed. Tom Williams, another graduate student that helped Deravi with her study, is originally

pure and applied science. On the one hand, I can contribute to the understanding of a complex biological system using my experience in chemistry,” Williams said. “On the other, we are working towards creating useful synthetic devices that incorporate this understanding.” DiBona and Williams said

that the research has taken approximately a little more than a year to complete. There were six people working on the published study, but overall a lot of other people were involved when it came down to the experiments. “The pigment alone doesn’t have much use, but if we can create an artificial chromatophore using the pigment, this could be used to make camouflage that actively mimics its surrounding,” Williams said. “Traditional camouflage can make a soldier harder to see in a single environment. Adaptive camouflage could provide cover as a soldier crosses between significantly different environments.” DiBona agreed that camouflage would be the most important use of the experiments’ results. “Achieving the level of a squid’s adaptivity would ultimately make this ‘invisible man’

and kidnapping indictment. Authorities learned of the assault when an out-of-state friend of the accused woman saw the images, Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said. Marina Lonina and Raymond Gates, 29, were charged with rape, kidnapping, sexual battery and pandering sexual matter involving a minor. The rape charge involved

intercourse by force and was not related to the 17-year-old’s age, O’Brien said. Lonina was also charged with illegal use of a minor in a nudity-oriented performance. Lonina and the victim were socializing with Gates at a home in Columbus on Feb. 27 when Gates raped the 17-year-old, O’Brien said. Lonina had also

livestreamed pictures of the girl in the nude the night before at Lonina’s house, he said. Lonina “categorically denies these charges,” said her attorney Josh Bedtelyon. Gates is scheduled for arraignment Friday. Court records don’t list an attorney for him who could comment on the charges They each face up to 40

“ This study appealed to me because it

combines aspects of pure and applied science.”

Tom Williams

UNH graduate student a part of research group

fiction a reality. I could also see this pigment being used in color changing paints, because who wouldn’t want nails that change colors?” DiBona said. “Two of the pigments have been confirmed to be Xanthommatin and decarboxy-Xanthommatin, pigments which have been studied in insects and spiders, but which hadn’t been positively identified in cephalopods,” Williams said about the findings. When asked about where the work will be going from this stage, Williams and DiBona said that they would be looking into the electrical capabilities of the pigments. “[We are] trying to build synthetic nanostructures similar to those in cephalopods,” DiBona said. This will help the research group further understand its findings and how squids work.

years in prison, if convicted. O’Brien said the motive for the livestreaming was unclear, but he said alcohol was a factor. Gates, Lonina and the victim had all been drinking, he said. “People need to know and understand that the use of smartphone video events can constitute serious felony crimes,” O’Brien said.

18-year-old woman charged with livestreaming alleged rape of teenage friend By ANDREW WELSHHUGGINS ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A 17-year-old was raped by a man with whom she had been drinking and her female friend livestreamed the attack on the social media app Periscope, a prosecutor said Wednesday in announcing a rape

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Student’s mother shares family’s experience with the Holocaust By DOUG RODOSKI CONTRIBUTING WRITER

With the help of STAND, the UNH student anti-genocide coalition, UNH senior Isabelle Molle was able to illustrate one family’s challenges as they immigrated to the U.S. during the time of the Holocaust, this past Tuesday in the MUB Theater I. The special guest speaker who gave depth and detail to the discussion was Molle’s mother, Nicole Berglas. With the aid of family photographs and maps, Berglas told the story of her mother, Gretel Dreyfuss, who was born in 1924. The daughter of Ludwig and Friedl Dreyfuss, Gretel lived in the German town of Crailsheim. Life was simple there. The three-generation house in which they lived had a department store that was the family business and a nice garden in the back. The town’s synagogue served the religious needs of the Jewish residents. Prior to World War II, the town had a closely connected Jewish population. Berglas related to her children that her mother became aware of antiSemitism in her German elementary school. “My mother had a childhood friend named Irene,” Berglas said. “Ironically, my mother was Jewish but had classic Aryan looks: blonde hair and green eyes. Her friend Irene, though not Jewish, had the Nazi stereotype of Jewish physical traits. My mother recounted that one day at school, the German SS officers were talk-

ing to the children, and went to shake my mother’s hand. When she introduced herself as Gretel Dreyfuss- the soldiers recoiled. Dreyfuss was a common Jewish name,” said Berglas. This singular event inspired Gretel afterwards. In the words of Berglas, “My mother was determined to always reach out and connect with others throughout her life. She was also opposed to any bullying and taunting,” said Berglas. Before she passed away in 1997, Gretel shared with her family how tension was ramped up in the 1930s. “My mother spoke of men, including her grandfather, being forcibly taken from their homes, and transported to Dachau concentration camp before the atrocities began,” explained Berglas. “Her grandfather was later released. When the atrocities began, my mother’s parents moved the family to Stuttgart. Then in 1939, my grandfather decided to make the move to the States,” said Berglas Berglas went on to show photos of her mother’s immigration documents, including her mother’s passport; the ones for Gretel and her family were stamped with a large “J,” classifying them as Jews. “My mother and her family left Germany just three days before the Gestapo raided their home,” said Berglas. Relocated to Washington Heights, a predominantly Ger-

man-Jewish part of New York City without speaking a word of English, Ludwig found work as a janitor and Gretel attended high school. Gretel’s mother made hand-crafted dress gloves. Berglas had samples of her grandmother’s craft at the presentation. “My grandmother even sent a pair to Eleanor Roosevelt,” Berglas said. Berglas described how she never knew antisemitism as she grew up in Great Neck, New York, a predominantly Jewish suburb outside of NYC. Berglas shared that many of her parent’s friends were also survivors and there was always an inherent respect. “My memory of my mother is that she was fun-loving, kind, a wonderful listener and enjoyed her time with the family; like when we would all go to the beach,” Berglas said. “Also, I truly believe that my mother’s revenge on her past was to enjoy life here to the fullest.” There were times of dark reminders, however. “Although my mother never held anything against her childhood friend Irene, a letter from Irene to Gretel in the early ‘70s seemed to be a disturbing reminder of Gretel’s past,” said Berglas. When Berglas found her mother’s passport and family documents, it created a great deal of angst for her mother as this was not something on which she dwelled. Berglas went on to state that her mother’s message was to “do

DOUG RODOSKI/CONTRIBUTOR

Speaker Nicole Berglas (left) and daughter (right) Isabelle Molle. the right thing.” “Her story is my story,” Berglas said. She went on to speak of the importance of keeping history alive. “It’s so important to have second and third generations keep these stories alive. The generation of Holocaust survivors is rapidly decreasing in number, and it is so important that we never forget the atrocities.” Berglas’s daughter, Molle, an English major who is graduating next month, is taking a course entitled “Literary Responses to the Holocaust.” “My grandmother illustrated how important it is to show respect and kindness to others,” Molle said. Amanda Magier, one of the students attending the presentation, was clearly moved by the talk. She related her own connection to the Holocaust afterwards. “My grandfather, on my dad’s side, was taken from his city, Bedzin, Poland, and brought to a number of Nazi labor camps

where he was forced to do masonry work, lay railroad tracks and work on the V2 rocket. He eventually arrived at Auschwitz where he was reunited with his younger brother who had already been taken to the death camp when the Bedzin Ghetto was liquidated in 1943. They and their oldest brother survived and came to the States in 1948,” Magier said. She went on to speak of the importance of keeping history alive. “The number of Holocaust survivors who witnessed the atrocities first hand is rapidly decreasing, so now it’s the responsibility of second and third generation survivors to keep these stories alive. It is so important we never forget, and make sure this never happens again.” Maggie Stroud and Haley Currie of STAND emphasized how important it is to relate tales of the Holocaust. “It’s so important to maintain a lineage of all the personal stories, over time,” Currie said.

New penguin habitat at Detroit Zoo, shown off as world’s best By MIKE HOUSEHOLDER ASSOCIATED PRESS

ROYAL OAK, Mich. — A new penguin habitat that the Detroit Zoo calls the world’s largest such facility offers its 80-plus residents new rocks for climbing, waves, snow and better ice conditions, while allowing visitors to come nose-to-beak with the stately birds. A preview Wednesday showed off the $30 million Polk Penguin Conservation Center, which features an underwater gallery and two acrylic tunnels where visitors can watch four species of penguins swim above, around and below them. Zoo officials say it’s designed to simulate the penguins’ native habitat, including optimal air and water temperatures. Zoo CEO Ron Kagan, who made multiple research trips to Antarctica, says the penguins can “do the polar plunge” in the 25-foot-deep aquatic area. “This is so new, they’re still learning this new environment,” Kagan said in an interview. “They’ve never been able to dive this kind of depth. They’ve never had this kind of opportunity for ice and snow.” Sixty-nine penguins — gentoos, macaronis and rockhoppers — have marched over to their new home, which opens to the public on Monday. Fourteen king penguins will arrive in a bit.

The 33,000-square-foot Polk Center is situated on two acres. In addition to the 326,000-gallon swimming pool, the new inhabitants also have the option of spending time chilling in their spacious above-ground abode that includes expansive windows that allow visitors to see in — and the penguins to see out. The environment is intended to encourage the same kind of behavior as in the wild, from leaping in and out of the water to nesting and rearing young. “We’ve had penguins at the Detroit Zoo for many years, so we know how to feed penguins and keep them healthy,” said Scott Carter, the zoo’s chief life sciences officer. “What we wanted to make sure we could do here was make sure that we could create an environment in which penguins could really be happy, in which penguins could thrive.” The center’s design, inspired by the harsh climate of Antarctica, features an exterior that resembles a towering iceberg with a crevasse and waterfall. It’s “the biggest project that the Detroit Zoo has ever undertaken” Kagan said. A $10 million donation from the Polk Family Fund is the largest gift in the zoo’s 88-year history. The center is free with Detroit Zoo admission, but requires timed-entry passes that are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

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CDC: Zika definitely causes severe birth defects By MIKE STOBBE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — Confirming the worst fears of many pregnant women in the United States and Latin America, U.S. health officials said Wednesday there is no longer any doubt the Zika virus causes babies to be born with abnormally small heads and other severe brain defects. Since last year, doctors in Brazil have been linking Zika infections in pregnant women to a rise in newborns with microcephaly, or an unusually small skull. Most experts were cautious about drawing a firm connection. But now the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says enough evidence is in. “There is no longer any doubt that Zika causes microcephaly,” CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden said. Among the evidence that clinched the case: Signs of the Zika virus, which is spread primarily through mosquito bites but

can also be transmitted through sex, have been found in the brain tissue, spinal fluid and amniotic fluid of microcephaly babies. The CDC and other health agencies have been operating for months on the assumption that Zika causes brain defects, and they have been warning pregnant women to use mosquito repellent, avoid travel to Zika-stricken regions and either abstain from sex or rely on condoms. Those guidelines will not change. But the new finding should help officials make a more convincing case to the public for taking precautions. Some officials hope the Zika report will change public thinking about Zika the way the 1964 surgeon general’s report convinced many Americans that smoking causes lung cancer. “We’ve been very careful over the last few months to say, ‘It’s linked to, it’s associated with.’ We’ve been careful to say it’s not the cause of,” said the CDC’s Dr. Sonja A. Rasmussen. “I think our messages will now be more di-

rect.” The CDC announced its conclusion in a report published online by the New England Journal of Medicine. The World Health Organization has made similar statements recently. A WHO official applauded the CDC’s report. “We feel it’s time to move from precautionary language to more forceful language to get people to take action,” said Dr. Bruce Aylward, who is leading WHO’s Zika response. Zika has been sweeping through Latin America and the Caribbean in recent months, and the fear is that it will only get worse there and in the U.S. with the onset of mosquito season this spring and summer. The virus causes only a mild and brief illness, at worst, in most people. But in the last year, infections in pregnant women have been strongly linked to fetal deaths and devastating birth defects, mostly in Brazil, where the Health Ministry said Tuesday

that 1,113 cases of microcephaly have been confirmed since October. So far, there have been no documented Zika infections in the U.S. caught from mosquitoes. Nearly 350 illnesses in the 50 states were reported as of last week, all linked to travel to Zika outbreak regions. The report comes at a time when health officials have been begging Congress to approve an emergency request for $1.9 billion in supplemental funding to fight Zika internationally and prepare in case mosquitoes spread the virus here. Earlier on Wednesday, top House Republicans said they will probably grant a portion of that request, but probably not until September. As the microcephaly cases rose in Latin America, a number of alternative theories circulated through the public. Some claimed the cause was a vaccine given to pregnant women. Some suspected a mosquito-killing

larvicide, and others wondered whether genetically modified mosquitoes were to blame. Investigators gradually cast these theories aside and found more and more circumstantial evidence implicating Zika. CDC officials relied on a checklist developed by a retired University of Washington professor, Dr. Thomas Shepard. He listed seven criteria for establishing if something can be called a cause of birth defects. They still don’t have some of the evidence they hope for. So far, for example, there have been no published studies demonstrating Zika causes such birth defects in animals. There’s also a scarcity of high-quality studies that have systematically examined large numbers of women and babies in a Zika outbreak area. “The purist will say that all the evidence isn’t in yet, and they’re right but this is public health and we need to act,” the WHO’s Aylward said.

again.” He said he was told his mother and father had broken up and he knew she lived somewhere else. “I never questioned it any further because I didn’t really care. My father was there and he was all I ever needed,” Julian said. “Even if other people can’t, I forgive him.” Bobby Hernandez, wearing an orange jail uniform and his wrists cuffed, cried as Julian spoke. The two hadn’t seen each other or even spoken since a judge issued a no-contact order in December. Hernandez struggled to control his emotions when he spoke just before his sentence was announced. He told Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Cassandra Collier-Williams that he took “full responsibility” for what he’d done and apologized to his son and to the teen’s mother. By all accounts, Hernandez

was a model father who pushed and supported Julian, an honor student, in his studies and pursuit of the martial arts. Julian still lives in his father’s Cleveland home with Hernandez’s fiancé, her three children and a 3-year-old step-sister. “Whenever I needed something, he made it happen,” Julian told Collier-Williams. His mother was not as forgiving. In a statement read on her behalf by celebrity attorney Gloria Allred, she said not knowing where Julian was or whether he was safe had a physical and emotional toll. She didn’t ask that Hernandez receive a specific sentence, which Allred said after the hearing was done out of respect for Julian. Julian’s mother, who asked not to be identified, still lives in the Birmingham, Alabama, area where Julian was abducted. The day Julian was abducted, August 28, 2002, remains the

worst day of her life, and in her “darkest moments,” she contemplated suicide, she said. But she also never stopped looking for her son and left his room untouched for years. “As the weeks went by, I felt completely and utterly alone,” Julian’s mother said. “I didn’t know if he was gone forever.” Allred also read statements from Julian’s maternal grandparents that detailed how they chased false leads about Julian’s whereabouts across the South. The grandmother said she’d buy a Christmas ornament every year for Julian while awaiting his return. Julian visited his mother and her family in Alabama at Thanksgiving and at Christmas after his father’s arrest last November. Allred said after the hearing that Julian and his mother are building a relationship. Most details surrounding the abduction and lives of Julian and

his father in Cleveland remain unknown. Prosecutors continue to refuse to provide any details about how Hernandez managed to pull off his deceptions. What was revealed Wednesday was how the FBI became involved in the case. After Julian discovered a discrepancy with his Social Security number while starting the college application process, he told a school guidance counselor that he’d been kidnapped. It’s unclear how he learned of that. The guidance counselor contacted the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, which had listed Julian as missing since 2002. Bobby Hernandez’s legal travails may not be over. An Alabama prosecutor, Shawn Allen, has said authorities would meet with Julian’s relatives to determine whether to extradite the father to Jefferson County, where he could face prison time for interfering with custody

many lawsuits filed around the country by women who accuse him of sexual assault or defamation. But the judges questioned that strategy, too. The other courts “don’t have to necessarily follow us. We can’t control them,” Circuit Judge Thomas L. Ambro said. Cosby gave the testimony in 2005 as part of a lawsuit brought against him by Andrea Constand, a Temple University employee who said he drugged and molested her at his home. She later settled for an undisclosed sum, and sensitive documents in the file remained sealed. In the nearly 1,000-page deposition, the comic known as “America’s Dad” admitted to several extramarital affairs and said he obtained quaaludes to give to women he hoped to seduce.

The documents were released last year on a request by The Associated Press. U.S. District Judge Eduardo Robreno found the public had a right to Cosby’s testimony because of his role as a self-appointed “public moralist” and because he had denied accusations he drugged and molested women. In court papers, Cosby’s lawyers argue that the comedian had been assured confidentiality and that the “private and embarrassing testimony” would cause serious injury to the TV star, “who relies upon his reputation for his livelihood.” Faced with a skeptical panel of judges, Cosby lawyer George Gowen argued Wednesday that there may yet be more toothpaste in the tube. But Ambro said it was already spit out and “down the drain.”

“You’re asking us to put it back, and we just can’t do it,” Ambro said. Gayle C. Sproul, a lawyer for the AP, argued against resealing the documents, saying that Cosby had not only spoken out on issues of marriage and morality, but had profited from them through books, TV shows and advertising. The appeals court panel, though, debated whether entertainers who speak out on issues are really public figures under the law, with a lesser right to privacy. The judges have a number of options: They could find the issue moot and let the unsealing stand; find it moot but still reject the lower court’s “public moralist” reasoning; or rule in Cosby’s favor and reseal the documents, even if they could still be found online. The judges gave no indica-

tion of when they would rule. The former TV star’s lawyers say a ruling in their favor would allow Cosby to argue in the other cases against him that the testimony should never have been made public in the first place and should not be admitted as evidence. The release of the deposition led prosecutors in suburban Philadelphia to revisit Constand’s 2005 police complaint and charge Cosby in December with sexual assault. Cosby, 78, is free on $1 million bail while a state appeals court considers whether a former prosecutor had made a binding promise that the star would never be charged in the Constand case.

Father of boy taken from mom in 2002 gets 4 years in prison By MARK GILLISPIE ASSOCIATED PRESS

CLEVELAND — A teenager who learned last fall while applying for college that his life had been based on lies and deceit asked a judge in Cleveland on Wednesday to not send his father to prison for abducting him from his mother’s Alabama home in 2002 when he was 5. The father, 53-year-old Bobby Hernandez, received four years, but his sentence could have stretched for decades. He pleaded guilty last month to kidnapping and other charges for taking Julian, now a high school senior, to Cleveland where he created new lives and new identities for them both. With his mother sitting in the courtroom, Julian Hernandez acknowledged that growing up without her in his life was painful, but taking away his father would be “doing the same thing all over

Cosby asks court to reseal testimony about affairs, drugs By MARYCLAIRE DALE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PHILADELPHIA — Bill Cosby’s lawyers urged an appeals court Wednesday to reseal the comedian’s lurid, decade-old testimony about his womanizing, but the panel of judges seemed to think the request was pointless, since the deposition has already made headlines around the world. Members of the three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit of Appeals reeled off a list of “the toothpaste’s out of the tube”-type metaphors to suggest that any damage to Cosby’s reputation from the release of the testimony has already been done. Cosby’s attorneys hope a ruling in their favor could help them keep the documents from being used in the criminal case against him in Pennsylvania and in the

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t’s that time of year again. The New Hampshire staff will be under new leadership as outgoing executive editor Sam Rabuck and his staff will be relieved of their duties on Friday, April 15 at 12:01 a.m. Just like TNH has been doing since 1911, we will seamlessly transition from one staff to another as incoming executive editor Allison Bellucci will head up the 2016-2017 season of UNH’s student-run newspaper. Some of the 2015-2016 editors and staff writers will be back, but many will be graduating in May. See their farewell columns on pages 18-21. Nonetheless, one thing is going to stay the same—TNH will continue to be the independent voice of the student body, which is something we, as a collective publication, pride ourselves on. Many people are under the impression that we are a direct extension of the university. We are not. It’s true that The New Hampshire is funded by the student activity fee, which is the $100 that all undergraduate students are required to pay. However, TNH maintains journalistic independence notwithstanding. Let us be crystal clear that we are not an extension of the university and have no interest in promot-

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Z:The final letter Farewell Column Sam Rabuck

Finding your inner beast

ife is hard. Then you die. Then they throw dirt on your face. Then the worms eat you. Be glad it happens in that order.” Those hilarious—but painfully accurate—words come from American writer David Gerrold. Why open with that quote? It’s not that I’m a cynic. Rather, I’m a realist. I don’t think my life is necessarily harder than anyone else’s, but that’s just it: We all have our own struggles, and they’re not easy. They’re hard. If nothing else, I’ve learned in my 21 short years on this planet that nothing worth buying is cheap, nobody worth knowing is simple and nothing worth doing is easy. The fact that I passed high school physics is a miracle. However, I do remember one thing from Mr. Flemming’s lecture on circuits. In a circuit, electricity travels through the path of least resistance. The explanation is long and complicated, but I’m an English major. So it’s only fitting that I take something I can’t exactly explain scientifically or mathematically and use it as a metaphor to explain the way I see the world. Ready? Here it goes: In the circuit of life, I have found that we humans, who are governed by the same laws of physics as electrons, tend to take the paths of least resistance. It’s natural. Oddly enough, I encourage you to do the opposite, to be unnatural. Don’t take the path of least resistance. One of the greatest writers of all time, Samuel Johnson, so beautifully wrote, “…For he who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.” In context, Johnson was referring to indulging in alcohol. However, I am encouraging you to indulge in your dreams as a way of survival. In everything you do, make a beast of yourself. You have one life, and the path of least resistance is no way to spend it. When someone claims you can’t do something, it’s based off their experiences with humans. But if you can learn how to unleash your inner beast, you will find yourself wildly successful in everything you do. A regular-old human might have a terribly difficult time balancing academics, work, play and that ever-elusive good night’s sleep, but a beast can do it all. Humans get discouraged after

failure. A beast pushes on. Humans are lazy. Beasts are disciplined. Humans are cruel and hold grudges. A beast finds the power within to forgive, to love and to be compassionate and kind. I’m certainly not a full-time beast, but I’ve been fortunate enough to have glimpses of my inner-beast come out when I’ve needed it. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t want to be a normal human. I want to be a full-blown beast. If accomplishing your dreams, whatever they may be, is something you’d like to have come to fruition, I highly advise working toward becoming one.

Oddly enough, I encourage you to do the opposite, to be unnatural. Don’t take the path of least resistance. With that, I encourage all UNH students to relentlessly pursue their dreams, and to be especially persistent of the ones that seem terrifying or impossible; the ones you’re told will never become reality. But bear in mind that a college degree is not what it used to be. The labor force is saturated, and it’s going to take more than a diploma from this school to get much of anything done. Those who have found success know exactly what I’m talking about. You’re going to have to outthink, outsmart, outmaneuver and outwork the competition to be successful in pursuit of making your vision a reality. Fortunately, it can be done. I’ll leave you with a quote from my favorite writer, Ayn Rand, whose inspiring novel Atlas Shrugged changed my life for the better. “Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.” Rand was right, you just have to become a beast.

Farewell Column

Tom Z. Spencer

bandon all hope, ye who enter here. That was the first piece of advice I got about journalism. It came shortly after I had switched my major from biomedical science to English. The wording of it was closer to this: “Journalism? You must be out of your [freaking] mind! I was a journalist for 30 years. Now all my friends are jobless. Or dead.” He was an old, fat guy whose moustache made him look like a dusty walrus. He was a stranger who had just overheard me when I was chatting with friends in Castro’s cigar lounge in Concord about my recent life choices. I asked him questions about the field (clearly he had a wealth of experience) but his bloodshot eyes glazed over with boredom and regret. The conversation, he implied by his silence, was over. I left comprehending the possibility of a future in which I wind up like that guy, and wondering if I had made a mistake. I was unfamiliar with the journalism department at the time. Would I find more oracles of doom crying out across rocky shores that nothing lies inland but fallow fields and graveyards?

I left comprehending the possibility of a future in which I wind up like that guy, and wondering if I had made a mistake. I was unfamiliar with the journalism department at the time. I did not. What I found instead were professors who showed me that storytelling has not died, but changed. It’s faster. It’s more democratic. If you have a laptop, WiFi, and a great story, there’s no limit to the number of people you can reach. This does not mean the work has become easier. It means there’s that much more static to cut through, and noise to shout over. I want to thank a few people who

helped me begin to learn how to do that. First on the list has to be the staff of The New Hampshire. What I learned from competing with my great friends and co-writers as a reporter, watching the editors, and finally sitting at the content editor’s desk will stay with me forever. We told a lot of stories, and we had a lot of laughs. I’ll never regret the hours of sleep I lost with you. They were certainly well worth it. I would like to thank Meg Heckman, who illuminated the world of digital journalism to me over the course of many semesters, and always pushed our class to think entrepreneurially.

I would like to thank Meg Heckman, who illuminated the world of digital journalism to me over the course of many semesters, and always pushed our class to think entrepreneurially. I wish I could tell you all that I have a beautiful, secure job in journalism sewn up immediately after graduation, but I’d be lying. I’m still searching, which means that somewhere, walrus man is cackling through his moustache. For now. On top of friends I will never forget, what I will be leaving with is a writing portfolio that includes two award-wining plays, and about 100 articles published in campus magazines and TNH, two in the Union Leader, and dozens more online. And I already have my next nonfiction project planned. This isn’t the end of the story. What I’ve been trying to say is simple: If some old walrus-looking guy tells you to abandon your goals in life, don’t listen. Follow them anyway. Do it. But don’t expect it to be easy. Fine, I’ll admit it: I’ll miss the people I became close to here. Till we meet again.

Good luck to the graduating TNH seniors and the entire Class of 2016!

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Thursday, April 14, 2016

Senior farewell columns continued...

A lasting impression

Farewell Column Lia Windt

Farewell Column

Michaela Burke

fter picking up my cap and gown this past Tuesday, looking around seeing all my fellow soon-to-be grads, the idea of graduation officially sunk in… I couldn’t help but feel overcome with emotion… thinking about all of the connections I’ve made in the past four years, knowing how much I’ve grown as a person. I wondered if I had an impact on the people I’ve met or helped shaped this community in any way. While reflecting on the past, I started thinking about all my beloved firsts: my first moving day, my first friends, my first sporting event, my first homecoming, my first apartment, the first day I joined TNH. On top of these experiences, I endured the spontaneity that is dorm-life, the crazy college nights (and the not so pleasant mornings), the all-nighters, the rush of acing an exam, writing that perfect paper…and finally being of legal age to get into the bars without consequence. I was struck with an overwhelming sense of community and closeness and more empowering, the feeling of being young, innocent and free. But in spite of all my good memories, I couldn’t help but think of the bad ones too—not for their negative implications, but rather, for how they’ve shaped me and made me the person I am today. Lamentably, throughout my college career, I incessantly rehashed the past, rethinking my decisions, regretting my choices, constantly wanting to go back. I was plagued by FOMO (fear of missing out). I felt pressured by and jealous of others: what they were doing, how they were acting, the kinds of pictures they were posting, the amount of likes they were getting…I felt, in a way, trapped, and UNH—filled with all the same kind of people, who thought all the same kind of thoughts, and did the same kind of things—was the fence holding me back. I felt that if I didn’t dress like everyone, or talk like everyone, or act like everyone, I wasn’t good enough, and therefore wasn’t normal. I didn’t understand why no one else felt this way; I didn’t understand why it seemingly was just me. All this over-analysis of every little transpired moment altered me and I started becoming a worse version of myself. I started nit-picking everything I did and every word I said. I reworked every situation, as if reviewing it would lead to a better solution or at least knowledge of what to do if it were to happen again. Too many times I wrestled with finding the answer, trying to be someone I wasn’t or trying to look the part, trying to please everyone. My relentless self-ridicule began eating away at the happy-go-lucky person I used to be. This vortex of negativity was invading my life and I began losing my sense of self along the way. I kept these sentiments to myself which ended up doing me more harm than good. By not reaching out, I wound up reaching in—becoming isolated. My scrutiny turned deep and dark and I permitted thoughts of self-loathing and anger to enter. With these moods thickening, I began skipping class and resenting my friends. I stayed out later, stopped working, stopped working out and started drinking more. Overall, I stopped appreciating living and stopped appreciating who I was. I became depressed. Fortunately, because of important people in my life, I was able to learn how to deal with this negativity and rid it almost completely. Instead of defining myself through clothes, social media outlets and bad choices, I successfully rediscovered, through various forms of ‘help,’ what it meant to be me. Once I constructively searched within, I started discerning what I really liked, who I really liked,

what I was really interested in and what truly motivated me. Not only was this hard to do and took a full four years to master, but is something that I do not take for granted. Subjugating negativity is something that takes practice. Too many young people, especially those in college, often have feelings of not fitting in or feelings of being unwanted. Students struggle to find their identity because of the abundance of opportunities presented to them. Somewhere along the way, in this amazingly puzzling time frame, true selves can get lost in the mix. It happened to me. Negative thoughts can devour a person, co-habiting inside the mind, rejecting acceptance, making one sick. Dwelling on them can ultimately destroy your life. I wasn’t accustomed to entertaining these notions at first. I tried avoiding them at all costs. I thought avoidance meant conquest, but I found I only subdued them. The memories I was running away from ended up catching up to me, hitting me like a freight train and, in the process, utterly consuming me. By learning to confront my demons I built a stronger, better, me. The practice of appropriately examining bad circumstances and moving on in order to resolve them wasn’t something I realized early on in my college career, or even something I picked up in the next two succeeding years. Rather, it was something I achieved via my four amalgamated years of experiences… By taking all situations—good and bad—and making them a part of my life, I’ve learned a whole lot about who I am and how I work, which is the greatest gift I could ask for. No more holding onto bad thoughts or resentments. Embrace who I am. I’m choosing to talk about this now because I realize, as my time here at UNH comes to a close, self-acceptance is vital. It is the topic I reflect on most, because dealing with the lack of it has shaped who I am. Now I know what you may be thinking, “what a dreary senior column,” and I bet you more than anything Andrew Yourell’s is 100x funnier, but I chose this subject in hopes to make a lasting impression on at least one person and somehow leave an impact on the UNH community. I suppose I could have talked about how I’ll miss the ringing of the T-Hall bell, or the sound of the football announcer echoing through campus. I guess I could have talked about how much certain teachers have influenced me and how I’ll miss the newsroom dearly. But happiness through self-acceptance is the most important thing and it’s something that should be continually encouraged and celebrated here at UNH. “Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” -Stacey Charter Unfortunately, I had to wade through waters of despair before I came to really know myself, believe in myself and find happiness. Without UNH and the people I’ve met along the way, I’m not sure I would have been able to achieve this goal. So thank you to the UNH community, to the students, to my peers, to the teachers, to my advisors, to my editorial staff; because without any of you I would not be standing where I am today, a part of the 2016 graduating class from the University of New Hampshire. So I end with this; go out, live life, be happy, and most importantly, don’t be afraid to be yourself.

My 3 cents

t’s a bit curious that what I wish to write today results from what I have learned this past semester rather than my whole college track, but it is still, nonetheless, very useful and can certainly apply to the past and what I want to achieve in the future. I can reflect on my past experiences both from Denison University and UNH, but I think it would be more useful to give my learned guidance to the open-minded reader. So without further hesitation, here are my 3 cents to underclassmen and graduates alike (and I say 3 instead of two because of the three points I wish to make; I am not placing more value on my tips than anyone else’s, although I like to think that this information is indeed valuable). First, I want to say that it seems like our generation is not genuinely happy. Why does it seem like our theme sounds more like twenty one pilots’ “Stressed Out” instead of Sia’s “Titanium”? Somewhere along the way we started feeling nostalgic; we want to live in the past when life was easier, simpler. Somewhere along the way we stopped feeling invincible and instead became worried, vacant. Obviously we all have our best and worst days, but I can’t help but feel like, as a whole, we’re very neutral instead of excited or opportunistic. Is it the economy? The unemployment rate isn’t the best, but it has been decreasing steadily for some time now, and it’s fairly low compared to other countries. I know there are discouraged workers out there, but the reason we fall is so that we can learn to pick ourselves up (and yes, I did just quote Batman). There could be any number of reasons, but either way, nothing should be powerful enough to bring down an entire generation’s mood, unless it was, say, an apocalyptic event; that would probably bum out a solid two generations, at least, or what’s left of them. My first cent: We need to see the good in difficult situations, and for all the bad that happens we must stand up and fight. Second, we are so obsessed with finding our “passion” that we forget to be passionate with each other. Careers seem to surpass our need to be with the ones that we love. And I don’t mean that one meaning of love (limits of the English language.) The Greeks have three words for love: eros, which is the romantic kind of love, but also refers to

the aesthetic and eternal beauty with it; philia, which is the affection felt amongst friends; and agape, which is more than the previous two loves. Agape is good will to everyone, and it is a love that reaches out without asking for anything in return. It certainly puts things into perspective when there is more than one word for love. We’re so concerned with making connections that we forget to love the ones we hold dearest. Instead of finding new love we try so hard to give the impression that we don’t care what happens in a relationship; the one who cares less is the one that wins. Why is it a competition? Love is all about being vulnerable, because it makes the experience that much more beautiful. My second cent: pursue a genuine love between peers, and do not be afraid to fall in love.

First, I want to say that it seems like our generation is not genuinely happy. Lastly, we are way too analytical. So we create art still, sure, but we don’t always apply creativity in our lives. One time I read about how one guy supposedly experienced death, and he described his ordeal as “a dreamless nap.” In essence, when we die, we simply stop existing. It hit a nerve; how sad! How heart-breaking! I didn’t expect to be greeted at pearly gates on the other side, but I didn’t think it was as dark as he depicted it to be. Seeing it written down made so much more of an impact, and it feels so tragic. I suppose that would add more value to our lives now and it is certainly a good incentive to live life to the fullest. But then I read something else; it is a short story written by one of my favorite authors, Andy Weir. This is “The Egg,” and I suggest you Google it when you get the chance. It suggests that each and every life is lived to make a contribution to the human intellect as a whole, and with each death there is a new life of the same mind. Eventually, we will become something more than human, and it is one of the most beautiful stories I have come across. My third and final cent: live creatively and fully. 1: King, Jr., Martin Luther. A Testament of Hope.

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Senior farewell columns continued... A warm tip of the cap

Many thanks to many folks

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Andrew Yourell

s my four years at UNH wind down, I find myself looking back over my career here and realizing that there are far too many people that I’d need to thank to ever adequately do so. But with my last production night behind me, I figured I’d give a quick shout out to those people that made the last year and a half at The New Hampshire possible. As always, I have to start by thanking my parents. Dad, you’ve done so much to ensure that I’ve never wanted for anything, and no words could ever do justice to how much I appreciate all the hard work you’ve put in to provide for our family. Mom, I know I don’t always show it, but you’re the strongest person I’ve ever known and you’ve been my biggest supporter from day one. I love you both and I hope that I’ve made you as proud to be my parents as I’ve been to be your son. Next, I’d like to thank Nick Stoico, Justin Loring, Josh Sullivan, and, of course, Sam Rabuck. I didn’t know a thing about journalism when I first showed up, and the four of you spent some quality time making sure that I was ready to take over this year. I know firsthand how much time and effort went into each and every story and paper, and I hope that I’ve been worth the chance you took on me.

Mom, I know I don’t always show it, but you’re the strongest person I’ve ever known and you’ve been my biggest supporter from day one. I have to give a huge thank you to a group of guys that don’t get nearly the credit they deserve. Mike Murphy, Doug Poole, Alex Comeau, Taylor Sievers, Ben Gilbert, Jon Luszcz and all of the athletic communications interns—you all put in so much work behind the scenes to make UNH athletics successful, and you bailed me and this paper out more times than I can count. Thank you guys so much

for making this a memorable and enjoyable ride. To the coaches and athletes here at UNH, thank you for spending the time to sit down with me and my staff and to let us get to know you. I hope that the stories we’ve run this year have done all your hard work and talent justice. I’d like to give an extra shoutout to UNH volleyball, head coach Jill Hirschinger, Stacy Barnett, Morgan Thatcher and the entire team, who always went above and beyond to make me feel welcome. Your title run this year was one of the highlights of my time here at UNH, and I can’t wait to come back and watch you chase four straight next season. I’d also like to thank the members of the swimming and diving program over the last two years, especially KathyD, Sav, Hailee and Jess. I spent far too many hours at the Swase, but it paid off getting to know you all. You made the endless lifeguarding shifts a bit more fun, and I’ll let next year’s guards know to have the music playing. Lastly, I want to thank the great people I’ve worked with day and night at TNH. Sam Donnelly and Greg Laudani, you guys busted your butts during the early season to make sure that every sport got covered, and I would’ve lost my mind without your help. Brian, I’m proud to call you a brother and I know the paper’s in good hands for the next two years. Mark, I still can’t believe I credited you as “Gambino” on your first story, but I’m glad you came back and made me remember your name by writing some absolutely fantastic stories. Ryan, I don’t know where you came from, but you bailed me out by coming in to write track this year. Keep up the hard work. Sam Rogers, you’ve been contributing since your early days at UNH, which included putting up with me during my early days as an editor. You’re going to make a great addition to staff. And to my fellow editors, I don’t have anything to say now that I haven’t yelled a thousand times during our late production nights. Thank you all for an incredible run here at TNH, and for four amazing years. On to the next great adventure.

Opposite of loneliness Part II

’m feeling a pressure from the universe. But before I explain, let me revisit someone’s words that came before mine. In 2014, I read a book called “The Opposite of Loneliness” by an aspiring young writer, Marina Keegan. The book was a compilation of her extensive collegiate writing career. Keegan died in a car accident in 2012, just five days after her Yale University graduation. The title essay, which was published in the Yale Daily News, explores a discovery in which Keegan made during her time at Yale; the opposite of loneliness. And because Keegan’s words hit such a chord, there’s something in me saying that there is no better way to describe what I’ve found here, at UNH. I’m feeling pressure, with a month and a half until graduation, to write something momentous. To write something that screams how I feel about this place. Something that describes the copious amounts of different people I’ve crossed paths with, shared a beer with or simply passed on a sidewalk. To write something that declares my youth in the burning state it’s in, the way it glows. I’m feeling pressured to show my cards and say “I am here” and “we are here.” We existed in this beautiful time and place. And in it, we loved, we wrote, we sobbed, we ran, we celebrated, we screamed because our lungs were on fire with freedom and promise. We did all of these things. In quiet rooms, on Main Street, in classrooms, in basements, in green grass and blue skies. I’m feeling pressured, to document it all now. I can never forget this feeling, this place. I’m here, tell me you hear me. Tell me I can write what this all means.   I went from being starry-eyed in a dusty basement lit with neon to slaving on my writing at 1 a.m. in a library cubicle, hoping to make a wave in the universe. Our progressions are elemental, and we’ve all had them here. To me, this place is golden. This place represents every nerve in my body in love with life and in love with the process of living. Sharing stories, laughs, successes, loss. I am forever grateful. Perhaps in my pursuit to write about this place perfectly, I’ll come to the conclusion that this perfection resides in my memories. As Keegan says in her essay, she is scared that she will wake up the day after graduation and lose this feeling. Similarly, I’m scared that once the caps are thrown and the champagne bubbles have gone flat, that my voice won’t be as loud. I’m scared that a one-bedroom city apartment may feel like the loneliest place in the world and I’ll constantly long to feel a breeze in front of Thompson Hall. Is it silly of me to feel this way? I’m scared to fall out of love with life, or at least, feel less love than I do right now. There are times when I swear I blinked and suddenly this was all over. There are certain memories from freshman year I can explain to you like they happened yesterday. Even down to the smells and the sounds, or the exact words of the people around me. I thought it would never end. But it does. And I’m coming to grips with the fact that life does not pause for anyone and even our most valued years do not go by slowly. In October, I captioned a photo of Thompson Hall with, “I hope this is the longest year of my life.” And while ironically it’s been the fastest and what feels like the shortest, it has been the most rich. I’ve had uncountable moments when the world moved slowly, I resonated and knew that no matter what happened to me for the rest of my life, I would remember every last detail of this moment. This has happened many times during my time at UNH. And it’s been beautiful. Here’s when I call upon my classmates to never forget these moments. Don’t forget about each other, don’t forget about the magic that floats in the air of Durham, New Hampshire. This is home. And it always will be. Keegan was right. Sometimes, life can be summed up quite simply. I am here. We are here. And that feeling is what I found at UNH. The opposite of loneliness.

Farewell Column

Sam Donnelly

am thankful for my four years at TNH and all the people I have had the chance to cross paths with. The newspaper has helped me build my own journalistic foundation and begin to build my brand. I am, however, only a product of those who came before me and those who affect me currently. So instead of saying goodbye, I am just going to say thank you. Thank you Arjuna Ramgopal for taking the time to teach me how to write a proper story when I was a freshman and had zero idea what I was doing. Your kindness during that process helped me learn to love journalism.

Thank you Arjuna Ramgopal for taking the time to teach me how to write a proper story when I was a freshman and had zero idea what I was doing. Your kindness during that process helped me learn to love journalism. Thank you Nick Stoico, Josh Sullivan, and Justin Loring for your guidance and friendship. You all made a young journalist feel welcome and important to the newspaper. I grew immensely as a writer due to your attention to details. Thank you to Meg Heckman, Tom Haines, Lisa Miller, and David Cateneo. You brought unparalleled enthusiasm to the class room every day and pushed me outside my comfort-zone time and time again. You gave me confidence, not only in my abilities as a journalist, but also in myself as a person. Thank you to Sam Rabuck and Andrew Yourell. Despite our friendship outside of TNH, you two allowed me to run with my crazy columns and gave me plenty of latitude to run with my ideas. I am beyond lucky to call you both friends. I will never forget where my career began. Journalism matters now more than ever. Thank you TNH.

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...And the final farewell columns Well, it’s about that time

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Goodbye from the science guy

Kyle Kittredge

ver these past four years this university has made me feel at home. From the late nights to frantically studying for tests, I feel like I’ve learned my fair share of knowledge that has helped prepare me for wherever my future takes me. I began my college career as a psychology major and quickly found out that it wasn’t what I wanted to be doing for the rest of my life. From there I switched my major to biology and that only lasted a semester when I found out math wasn’t my forte, but the passion I have for science has stuck around ever since. Both of these disasters lead me to do something that I truly care about and love doing every day. I became a journalism major. Writing has always come really easy to me and with the help of The New Hampshire I got to focus on writing most of the science articles. Since coming to school and being able to take discovery classes I have found that science, especially astronomy, really peaks my interest. The idea of being small in comparison to the world and the thought of other life out there is just fascinating. Focusing mostly on science writing I have been able to talk to a lot of scientists here at UNH and have been able to learn about things and see things that the average student wouldn’t have been able to. One of my fondest memories was being able to cover the satellite that UNH helped produce. Being able to talk to Professor Mobius about the findings was incredible. Being a journalism major really broke me out of my shell and let me have experiences I’ll never forget here at school. I’ve made friends and got to experience events that I would never have gone to if I didn’t join the paper. As I look back on all of the memorable and some forgettable nights I’ve had at school I can say I don’t regret any of it. I’m going to miss being able to hang out at school and have minimal responsibilities but all good things must come to an end. I can happily say I’m ready for the next chapter in my life.

Being a journalism major really broke me out of my shell and let me have experiences I’ll never forget here at school. I’ve made friends and got to experience events that I would never have gone to if I didn’t join the paper. No matter where this road takes me I will always be grateful for what I’ve learned at the university and what I’ve been able to achieve with The New Hampshire. Everyone here has made me feel not only at home but ready for whatever lies ahead. It may sound cliché but, being at UNH and writing for The New Hampshire has helped me find out who I am and what my interests are. And for that I am grateful.

ime is something that I’m always worrying about. I always want more; more time to spend with friends; more time to sleep in; more time to be able to learn more in classes; more time to be at UNH, and mostly, more time to finish an article. I feel that I can always do better if I just had more time. But, to quote Dazed and Confused, “I want to look back and say that I did I the best I could while I was stuck in this place. Had as much fun as I could while I was stuck in this place. Played as hard as I could while I was stuck in this place…” I won’t include the rest but all you need to know is: I need to do the best I can with the time I’m given. Freshman year I was an introverted kid. I didn’t have a clue what to major in either. I liked writing, reading and stories of all kinds. So I decided to major in biology starting my sophomore year, fall semester. How idiotic right? I liked nature, animals, environmentalism and my biology classes in high school. Also I thought ‘it won’t be so hard.’ But I was so wrong. I could not keep up with anything in those awful courses that every COLSA freshman takes. So after that semester I was at a loss. But I had also taken an intro communication course. That communication course (which ended up saving my GPA from being completely awful) gave me a realization. The discussions didn’t put me to sleep and I even engaged in class. I didn’t like just discussing media, but creating it was appealing to me. I enjoyed it. So I decided to pursue it. Hence, I became an English/journalism major at the beginning of my junior year. I went to my first TNH meeting that semester and I was completely nervous about writing an article although, I was a bit eager. I saw the staff was joking the whole time during the meeting. It felt welcoming. I went up to the executive editor explaining this was my first article ever and he even gave me an extension on the deadline. But I was still wicked nervous. The article was about a professor at UNH who rode his bike to work everyday, even in the winter. So I set up an interview, walked into his office and got ready to talk. I started out simple and asked why he rode his bike to work everyday and it took off from there. It flowed just like a normal conversation. I took lots of messy notes, but it felt like a good messy. You know that feeling of a switch in your head going off for the first time? That’s what I felt and it’s stayed on since. So I continued to contribute to TNH. When I took my first news writing class I went to almost every meeting. Mostly because I couldn’t come up with story ideas but also to get a chance to publish stories and work in an environment with a close resemblance to a real-world job. Coming back to time, I’ve reflected back on my time as a Staff Writer during my senior year and I wish I had started much sooner, but felt I did the best I could with my time. I’ve learned a lot. I won’t lie either, the stories I’ve written have all been hard work and stressful when writing stories on deadline, wondering if your article wrote would get complaints, or even trying to come up with quotes to have a good story. But it’s made me a better writer to remember how to get through those problems after experiencing them. TNH also gave me the ability to talk to people. After the hundredth interview you conduct, questions just come naturally and your curiosity grows. I’m grateful for my time and to have been a part of this awesome team of students that produces vibrant, interesting, and informative stories. I looked forward to the compliments that my friends, editors and others would give to me about my stories. I loved seeing them in the paper and picking up a copy. I’d also be lying if I said it didn’t give my ego a boost. I looked forward to those Monday meetings. However, I’m definitely not the introvert I was back in my freshman year and I thank TNH for helping me achieve that.

Ethan Hogan

A collision with journalism

ou should probably write for the paper,” my dad tells me as we drive home from UNH. It’s the drive home from the spring semester of my junior year. I have only just declared journalism after several regrettable attempts at other majors. “Yeah, I’m sure we’ll talk about that in one of my classes” I say. At this point I hadn’t done any real journalism and didn’t know what it meant to write a story. I got into journalism in part because of time constraints and also just coincidence. Professor Howland told me to take intro to journalism before I ever thought of declaring. Before I knew it I was in writing and reporting the news with Meg Heckman and waist deep in the major. Fortunately, I really like to talk to people and I like to write even more. It’s one of those things you don’t see coming until you’re in it. A year prior and I might have told you how much I hated school and how I felt like I was getting ripped off. “You should stick to this. You’re, like, really easy to talk to.” That’s what a woman told me while interviewing her for the paper. I thanked her. At that point I had worked my way up to being a staff writer at the paper after contributing for a semester. What she said has really had an impact on me. I could tell she was at ease talking to me and I started to notice I had the same effect on others. And I think there’s a different between “being a good listener” and being easy to talk to. I think the difference is that talking is a conversation, talking is being engaged and, I was so happy to hear I was good at that. Writing a story a week, it also struck me whenever someone would tell me they liked my article. Writing news is so factual and straightforward, for the most part, that it’s funny to hear that someone got something out of it. Of course it’s informative but the way people said they liked my article always surprised me.

Fortunately, I really like to talk to people and I like to write even more. It’s one of those things you don’t see coming until you’re in it. I personally get so much out of the experience of writing a story. I’m talking with people and hearing their stories, seeing things I wouldn’t otherwise get to see, taking photos of those things, talking to important people, meeting someone with a common view. It might be a small story but those connections you make stay with you. And, it’s impossible to unlearn things that people teach you along the way. Writing for a university paper is nice because living on a campus is like living in a small city. Every event and every person you’ll need to get in contact with is usually somewhere across campus so my feet are my primarily mode of transportation when I’m reporting. It feels like I’m an actor playing the roll of a journalist; I’ve got my pen, my note pad and my recorder. Lisa Miller’s intro to journalism class that I took the spring semester before that ride home with my dad was a great class because she showed us the textures of journalism. I remember we watched movies that showed the grit of writing the news. News is this intangible thing that you create with facts and quotes and pictures. I like how, before something is written, it doesn’t really exist in the same way as it does as an idea out in the world. In a way it is creating something from nothing. I’ll end with something I wrote for my non-fiction class with Leah Williams. I have caught myself trying to believe that there is something inherently wrong with me, and I know other people do this too. It’s not something physical or even mental really, just this idea that I won’t be able to accomplish something because I’m me. It’s nonsensical and really debilitating. It must be some kind of psychological complex and I think it borders on the egotistical. Because, to think that there is something inherently anything about yourself, pretty much means that you think you’re special. Even if it is in a negative light, you still believe you are different for some cosmic reason. So I have tried to catch myself thinking, “oh, I wont be able to do that” and instead telling myself I can.

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BOYD

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 24 but not for Boyd. His drive and determination only grew. He attended Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, over a thousand miles from his home in Florida. His hockey career got serious, and his performance on the ice while at Cushing Academy would determine if he would play in college. His medications would improve his health and help him obtain success. Boyd was prescribed low-doses of steroids and a pill form of chemotherapy to keep his Crohn’s disease symptoms at bay while he focused on hockey. A balanced and bland diet, along with his medications, helped Boyd regain weight and strength. His athletic talent and reputable character scored him a spot on the UNH men’s hockey roster in 2014. Two weeks prior to his arrival in Durham, Boyd had a severe flare-up and was hospitalized once again. Boyd explained that this was a nerve-racking experience for him. “I was nervous going into UNH because I didn’t feel good enough or strong enough to compete at the Division I level,” he said. He lost 20 pounds of fat and muscle that he had worked hard to gain. “If the athlete is experiencing an exacerbation or has not found the right treatment yet, it could affect their ability not only to compete but also to attend school,” said UNH community health nurse Judy Stevens about the potential risks. Though this is a scary reality for Crohn’s patients, Boyd slowly went on another strict diet and attempted to regain the weight he lost. “I only ate really plain foods, no red sauces, nothing spicy, no dairy,” Boyd said. His 2014 hockey season began after months of training. Boyd had regained his endurance and power with the help of his doctors, teammates and coaches. The

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 24 season, and leads the team with 39 points. BU answered with pressure of its own, scoring three unanswered goals. The two teams repeatedly traded goals through the first 20 minutes, with UNH holding a 4-3 edge. The Terriers then took control of the game by scoring five straight goals to end the first half, taking an 8-4 lead and never looking back. BU kept UNH from getting back into the game, adding another six goals in the second half to UNH’s three. The Terriers held a 32-16 shot advantage in the game. However, UNH goalkeeper Kate Clancy made nine saves. Despite the loss, Albrecht’s message to her team remains the same as it has all season long. “We need to execute the fundamentals, want to compete,

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In two years with the program, Richard Boyd has played in 43 games overall. He has seven points total including five assists. defenseman hasn’t slowed down or let Crohn’s hold him back ever since. He has accelerated on the ice and gained the respect of his entire team. “He is extremely committed both on the ice and in our community,” said UNH head coach Dick Umile. “It has not stopped him from competing at a very high level as a Division I hockey and bounce back from our mistakes within the game,” she said. “If we believe in ourselves, then we can compete, but if we don’t bring that energy then we can’t. It’s that simple.” The Wildcats will be back in action on Saturday when they head to Stony Brook University. The Seawolves currently sit atop America East with a 9-3 overall record, and will be a tough task for the ‘Cats. Albrecht wants to see a better effort out of her team as the season nears its end. “We need to focus on our work ethic and execution of fundamentals,” she said. “It’s been the same message all season no matter who we play. Better teams will punish you more for the lack of confidence and work ethic. That is our singular focus right now.” For more information on UNH women’s lacrosse, follow sports editor Brian Dunn on twitter @bdunny17 or visit the UNH athletics website at unhwildcats. com

player.” Teammate Adam Clark agreed that Boyd is a crucial aspect of the team. “[Boyd] is the glue guy. He does all those little things that people in the stands might not notice, but make a difference to the game itself. His plays and defense keep the game together and the puck moving away from our net,”

Clark said. Boyd’s outgoing personality and endless amounts of hard work in times of adversity have proved he is a true Wildcat. “There is always the opportunity of a flare-up, and that can be caused by something like the stress of an upcoming exam or game, and you never know when its going to happen, but all I can

do is keep playing,” Boyd said. Despite his health obstacles, Boyd’s resiliency has proven he has what it takes to lace up the skates for UNH hockey.

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In Brief

Perrodin earns America East Performer of the Week FROM STAFF REPORTS COURTESY OF UNH ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS Senior Lauren Perrodin of the University of New Hampshire women’s track and field team was named America East Women’s Track Performer of the Week by the conference on Wednesday. Perrodin recorded two firstplace finishes last weekend at the first home meet of the 2016 outdoor season againt the University of Maine, University of Massachusetts Lowell and the College of Holy Cross. In the 100-meter run, the senior ran a 12.09 second time which is the second fastest time against all conference members this season. She also compet-

ed in the 4x100-meter relay as the second leg as the team finished the race in 48.76 seconds for the win. Perrodin also competed in the 200-meter run and finished 14th overall (27.12 seconds). Perrodin was influential in the team’s first-place score of 191.50 points in the quad meet. The Florida native looks for her first conference title in her final season at UNH. The Wildcats are set to host a second straight meet at the Reggie Atkins Track and Field Facility this Saturday, April 16 (11 a.m.) against Maine and Bates College, while some members of the team will compete at Providence College on Friday, April 15 (5 p.m.)

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Thursday, April 14, 2016

The Kobe Bryant farewell column As this year’s NBA regular season winds down, the game will say goodbye to one of its all-time greats. Kobe Bryant will retire at the end of this season after 20 years playing for the Los Angeles Lakers. It marks the end of one of the most productive and incredible careers in recent memory. But as I begin to think back on Bryant’s career, I wonder what his lasting legacy will be after he leaves the game for good. I believe that as time passes on, Bryant’s career will not age well. What I mean is that when the shine wears off, Bryant’s career will seem like an example of what could have been. He could have accomplished more than Michael Jordan, but failed to do so. At the end of the day, he is a fringe top-10 greatest player. When I think of Kobe Bryant I think of the 81 points, the five championships and the influence. However, I also think of

the relationship with Shaquille O’Neal, the selfishness and unfortunately, Colorado. I’m going to break it down into the good and the bad. I’ll start with the good first. To start off, five NBA championships is nothing to scoff at. Kobe Bryant has more championships than Larry Bird, Dwayne Wade and Shaquille O’Neal. The only people that have more than Bryant is Michael Jordan and Bill Russell. Some players would dream to have just one like Charles Barkley and Allen Iverson. It shows that championships are not a guarantee in basketball. His impact on the game is also worth mentioning. Not since Jordan himself have I seen a player impact the game of basketball quite like Bryant. Whenever there is a Jordan comparison, Kobe’s name is always brought up as one of the closest comparisons to him. When I was growing up, kids

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Daniel Clare wanted be as good as Kobe. His impact around the globe is as big as Jordan during his playing days. In China, he is bigger than Yao Ming. Watch any interview of people of this generation that plays basketball and nine times out of 10 they will say that Bryant was the player they looked up to. He has become a national and global ambassador to the game and set an example of what

people want to be when they play the game. Now it is time for the bad and it all centers on his personality. The one glaring negative on Bryant’s career is that he was a selfish player. Look at his relationship with Shaquille O’Neal. Before the two parted ways, they came off of three consecutive NBA championships, and were poised to win even more. But Kobe wanted to be the man and forced O’Neal out of town and it would be six years until he would win another. If Kobe had sacrificed his own ego for championships, he would have had one or maybe even two more to add to his legacy. Just look at the whole thing with Dwight Howard. Say what you want about Howard but he would been as good as O’Neal if he and Bryant had worked. But like before, Bryant still wanted to be the man and essentially forced out Howard after one sea-

son. Bryant’s selfishness has hurt his legacy. He chased individual stats and boosting his own ego instead of sacrificing all of this in order to get more rings. At the end of the day, Bryant will be a Hall of Famer and will be regarded as one of the greats. But in retrospect, he could have accomplished more. No this is not coming from a Celtics fan that hates Bryant (I’m a Heat fan by the way), this is coming from a fan that thinks he could have been equal or even better than Jordan. Championships aside, what makes him any different than Carmelo Anthony? Similar style of play, same mentality and they both played on a bad team, but Carmelo has no rings. Dan is a junior majoring in English Journalism. For more sport takes from Daniel, be sure to follow him on twitter @DanielEliasNH or tune into 91.3 FM WUNH Durham to hear Daniel’s takes on “Wildchats.”

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Chi Alpha Sigma honor society announces class of 2016

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Forty-eight students were inducted at the Watkins Center for Student-Athlete Excellence last Friday.

The University of New Hampshire and the National College Honor Society, Chi Alpha Sigma, announced Monday that 48 student-athletes were inducted into the honor society. The ceremony was held at the Watkins Center for Student-Athlete Excellence at the UNH Fieldhouse on Friday, April 8. The class of 2016 consists of junior and senior studentathletes that span a wide range of sports and majors. In order to recieve the distinction, one must recieve a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher, acheived at least junior standing academically and be of good moral character. The purposes of this organization are to: 1. Encourage and reward high academic scholarship of college athletes at four-year accredited colleges 2. Recognize outstanding

academic achievements made by intercollegiate varsity sport student athletes. 3. Encourage good citizenship, moral character and friendship among the high academic achievers in college athletics. 4. Recognize and honor the individual athlete, his/her team sport, athletic department and university. 5. Mentor and provide leadership to other athletes. The Chi Alpha Sigma National College Honor Society was founded at DePauw University in 1996 as the studentathlete honor society. Its purpose was to recognize high academic achievers and sport letterwinners at the collegiate level. For more information on the Chi Alpha Sigma National College Honor Society and UNH student-athletes, visit the UNH atheltics website at unhwildcats. com.

Class of 2016 Honors SocIety -Lexie Arbour -Samantha Blais -Brianna Broden -Olivia Bogaczyk -Mimi Borkan -Abby Brinkman -Caitlin Bucksbaum -Sara Carlson -Meg Carroll -Bettina Caspersen

-Cassidy Croci -Laura Rose Donegan -Mitchell Dutton -Riley Ellis -Katherine Estep -Tori Forrest -Eirik Fosnaes -Alex Giese -Chandler Giese -Lizzie Gill

-Raleigh Goessling -McKenzie Haney -Kayli Igoe -Cassy Izzo -Abigail Kaplan -Sarah Keiran -Hannah Kimball -Jennifer King -Cassie Kruse -Emily Larson

-Katrin Larusson -Amy LeBel -Madison Lightfoot -Collin MacDonald -Nick Marino -Brendan McCarthy -Charles McConville -Alyson Messina -Shannon Nadeau -Jay Ogle

-Elinor Purrier -Harry Quast -Amber Short -Morgan Smith -Stephanie Spoto -Will Szostkiewicz -Vilma Vaattovaara -Chris Wingate

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On Wednesday, the Celtics completed a 24-point comeback win over the Miami Heat in order to secure the No.5 seed in the Eastern Conference.

Thursday, April 14, 2016

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Up for the challenge

MEN’S HOCKEY

By KARA MACRI

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

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Richard Boyd made his first appearance on the ice for UNH on October 17, 2014 with a matchup against the University of Michigan.

While the rest of the UNH men’s hockey team laces up their skates and prepares to take the ice, one player is chewing on Tums and calming his nerves. Sophomore defenseman Richard Boyd has Crohn’s disease and must take certain precautions before games to prevent flare-ups. “It’s all just a part of the game for me now,” Boyd said. Crohn’s is a disease that causes the lining of the digestive tract to inflame, and it can cause severe symptoms. Boyd was diagnosed in the summer of 2009 and has been adapting to the disease ever since. “It made me feel really uneasy because I didn’t know what was happening to my body,” Boyd explained. Although the 19 year-old from Delray Beach, Florida has played a good two seasons with UNH, the future of his hockey career didn’t always look so bright. After his initial diagnosis, Boyd suffered from severe symptoms of Crohn’s disease, including abdominal pain and fatigue. He took over a month off from school and hockey. During this time period he was in and out of the hospital and lost a total of 25 pounds. This may have been a scary enough experience to cause some players to pack up their skates for good, BOYD continued on Page 22

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

BU snaps the winning streak By MARK GARBINO STAFF WRITER

The Wildcats’ three-game win streak was snapped as the Boston University Terriers handed them a 14-7 loss Wednesday night in Boston, Massachusetts. UNH’s overall record drops to 6-7 with just three games remaining in the regular season. “I think we beat ourselves this game,” said head coach Sarah Albrecht. “We didn’t come out with the same energy and work ethic that we have had in the past few games. We have to continuously work hard through practice and the games to be able to compete in games. When you don’t bring that consistency then you have a game like we did against BU.” Sophomore midfielder Carly Wooters notched two goals in the contest, increasing her team-leading total to 23. The White Plains, N.Y. native has scored in every game this season, and now has six multi-goal games. The ‘Cats opened up the game with two quick strikes, with goals coming from senior attacker Laura McHoul and sophomore attacker Krissy Schafer. McHoul has recorded at least a point in every game this WLAX continued on Page 22

ASHLYN CORREIA/STAFF

Carly Wooters scored two goals on five shots in Wednesday’s loss to Boston University.