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Vol. 103, No. 47

The Alpha Phi sorority held their second annual “Move Your Phi’t” 5k philanthropy event on Saturday.

Volleyball team set to defend conference championship with two new captains named.

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Alpha Xi Delta installs lifesaving AED Sister’s story prompts safety precautions

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By MELISSA PROULX STAFF WRITER

o one could have known what was going on during dinner conversations that night when Andrea Karpinksi and Dave Blatchford ended up at the same table, but everyone knew afterwards that Andrea Karpinski’s incredible story was going to end in triumph.

The two may have been randomly placed at the same table that night but for Blatchford, the story Karpinski told him was one that he would never forget.

It all started in November 2011, when Karpinski first met Blatchford, a Durham fire fighter and member of the Durham fire fighter’s union, at a community outreach dinner at the Alpha Xi Delta sorority house.

Karpinski, a junior double major in finance and economics at the time, told

Blatchford about the heart condition that had taken the lives of both her mother and older sister when she was only 15 years old. The two had died three months apart from each other and for Karpinski, as she wrote later in a letter to Blatchford, her life “was turned upside down” during this time.

But her emotional battle did not end there. Only six months prior to the dinner, Karpinski went into ventricular fibrillation, a form of cardiac arrest in which the muscles of the heart twitch rather than contract fully, while running on a treadmill.

“I lost consciousness and was without oxygen for nine minutes before help arrived,” Karpinski wrote in her letter.

Paramedics quickly arrived to the scene, regulating her heartbeat once again.

Karpinski made a full recovery after the incident and chose to have an Implantable

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MELISSA PROULX/STAFF

The sorority Alpha Xi Delta recently welcomed a new addition to their house — an AED. Member Andrea Karpinski was inspired to get one after a health scare in 2011.

UNHPD: There’s an app for that Women’s hockey players transfer

By MELISSA PROULX STAFF WRITER

When it comes to improving safety conditions on campus for students, the University of New Hampshire Police Department can now proudly say that there’s an app for that.

Designed by LiveSafe, Inc., the department’s new mobile app is available for free download in both the iTunes and Google Play stores. Though designed for use by different colleges all around the nation, students are able to choose their university or college in order to gain full access to the resources of their particular on-campus department.

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The new LiveSafe app for the UNH Police Department can be downloaded on iTunes and Google Play.

The app allows students to report nonemergency tips with video, photos or audio. They can send messages to the department and notify others of crimes in the area through the use of a map feature. These tips can be made through a registered profile or anonymously, which allows the individual to choose what would make them feel most comfortable in the situation.

“It’s a great resource for students,” said Kristina Anderson, chief evangelist and co-founder of LiveSafe, who is traveling around from school to school to help with the app’s implementation on campus. “But parents, faculty and staff are encouraged to download it as well.”

Though the primary features of the app do not greatly differ from the department’s previous Crime Push app, one small detail is expected to make all the difference: Officers and students have the ability to have a twoway conversation.

“We found that … students — in order to be really engaged in using the app — had to hear back from the officers. Getting a response is really, really important to users,” Anderson said.

She also said that this has also proved valuable in cases where the dispatcher doesn’t get all of the necessary information at first. The dispatcher can then contact whoever sent the tip more easily, allowing whatever the case may be to be solved quicker.

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By MAX SULLIVAN SPORTS EDITOR

Former University of New Hampshire women’s hockey players Megan Armstrong and Alexis Crossley will be transferring from Durham as a result of the firing of their former head coach, Brian McCloskey.

Crossley, of Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, will be going to Boston University, while Armstrong, of Edina, Minn., is going to St. Lawrence University. Both are entering their junior year.

The former Wildcat defensemen said that the aftermath of McCloskey’s firing led to their decision. They were eager for a fresh start at a new school with a more stable environment than the one in Durham. Until last week, the team still did not have a head coach.

Crossley said she’d been considering a transfer since the end of the season. She committed to BU within the last two weeks.

“After the season, I thought that I should explore my options,” Crossley said. “Not necessarily thinking about leaving, but just seeing what else is out there after the confusions and unknowns that happened after and throughout the season.”

Armstrong said that she left because she specifically had a problem with how the athletic department handled the follow-up to McCloskey’s termination. She said the time it took for them to hire a new coach gave her doubts about her future.

“They didn’t really treat us as we should

be treated as athletes,” Armstrong said. “They often times would say their women’s team is like one of their better teams here on campus.

Well, we weren’t treated that way, and the uncertainty of that whole thing was just really nerve wracking for me, and I needed to go to a situation that was more stable.

“We just didn’t feel like we were supported by our athletic department.”

As a result, she began looking at different schools. Megan Armstrong St. Lawrence head coach Chris Wells personally came to Durham earlier this year to court her. “[Wells] just kind of explained that they run their program a little bit differently than the way that it was run Alexis Crossley after coach McCloskey was gone,” Armstrong said. “It’s more of a stable environment than there was this year, and I think just a new start for me will be the best idea. … I wasn’t promised any playing time or

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Contents

The New Hampshire

Rainy May Day

Funniest guy on campus

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4 Scott Cavanaugh, junior member of Improv Anonymous and Resident Advisor in Stoke Hall, has been named the funniest guy on campus by CAB.

Despite the rain, students gathered at C Lot and Quad Way for the annual May Day carnival.

Volleyball captains selected

Lacrosse senior day

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14 Torri Forrest and Katie Sattora lead 14 returning players from a conference championship team into 2014.

Seniors Molly Gaffey, Jamie DePetris, Ally Stager, Cori Rees, Cara Dowdle and Megan Bozek were honored in their final regular season game as Wildcats.

This Week in Durham

Philosophy professor feature

April 29

April 30

• Leadership Camp Movie, MUB Theater I, 1-2 p.m.

• Pariah Movie Screening, MUB Theater I, 4-6 p.m.

• The Last Survivor, MUB Theater I, 7:15-10 p.m.

• IdentityFest, Granite State Room, 4:30-6 p.m.

• Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Atrocity with Dr. James Walker, MUB Theater I, 8-10 p.m.

• LGBTQ & Ally Athletes Video, MUB Theater I, 6:30-7:30 p.m.

May 1

• Skating Social, MUB 207, 7-8:30 p.m.

• MUSO Movie: Out of the Furnace, MUB Theater I, 6:45-8:45 and 9:15-11:15 p.m.

• MUSO Movie: The Lego Movie (3D), MUB Theater II, 7-8:45 and 9-11 p.m.

May 2

• Haiku Contest, MUB 237, 121:45 p.m.

• HSMO Chili Cookoff, Granite State Room, 5-8 p.m.

• Grind Concert Series, Strafford Room, 8-11 p.m.

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AED

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Cardioverter Defibrillator (ICD) surgically placed in her chest.

The ICD is a tiny device that uses electric pulses or shocks to control heart arrhythmias.

After her recovery, Karpinski decided to embark on a mission that could literally save a life.

“I now have a little electronic paramedic in my chest; however, the people I love, especially my sorority sisters, do not,” she wrote in her letter to Blatchford. “ ... it is my goal to get an AED device for our sorority house ... by graduation in May of 2013. I would also like every member of my chapter to participate in CPR and AED training so they feel comfortable using this device or performing CPR in an emergency situation.”

“I looked at her and I told her, ‘If you want it in the house, we’ll get it done’,” Blatchford said. “If you know anything about fire fighters, we start things instantly.”

And thus, another battle began.

Karpinski, an already longtime volunteer and advocate for the American Heart Association, began telling her story to her sisters in order to show them that there was work to be done and lives to be saved. The many who heard it needed little convincing, especially Liz Lieblein, now a

senior who was Karpinski’s family tree “twin” while she was in the sorority.

“I knew there were things going on, but I didn’t know all the pieces of the puzzle until she talked to the chapter,” Lieblein said. “It’s emotional to know someone you care about is so vulnerable.”

Blatchford and his team of fire fighters from Durham N.H.’s Fire Department began thinking of ways to help the sorority raise money for the life-saving device, deciding finally to sell T-shirts.

Featuring the defining symbols of the sorority, fire department, and even the UNH Wildcat itself, baby blue crew neck, short-sleeved tees featured and sold for $20 each, a price that was a little more expensive than usual but a way to ensure the group would raise the money faster.

The sorority was able to quickly sell all 82 of their Tshirts, enough to cover the cost of the AED and then some. “[When it comes to being a sorority,] we have T-shirts for everything,” said current AZD President, Alyssa Howard. “But with this one, I’ve never seen so many people willing to buy three or four at once.”

But even after the AED was purchased, the end was still not in sight. The group had to cut through the red tape of the sorority’s national housing organization, which was concerned that the device might be improperly used, thus making it a liability.

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Sisters of AZD sport their baby blue tees, created to raise money for the new AED. All 82 shirts quickly sold out at $20 a piece and sport symbols of the sorority, fire department and UNH. “At my very first executive meeting, Dave asked to come and he held up this packet of 100 pages (that showed it wasn’t dangerous and should be allowed in the house),” Howard said. “When you think about it, it’s really no different from having a fire extinguisher in the house.”

After hours of debate and piles of paperwork, the device’s installation was finally approved and it was placed in it’s box right next to the front door of AZD’s Strafford Avenue house on Friday, April 25 at a special celebration and ceremony.

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Though Karpinski was unable to attend the ceremony due to an unexpected extension of a business trip, that did not stop the handful members from Durham’s fire department and the dozens of sisters who attended the event that proved to be the perfect end to the years long struggle.

“I can’t believe this is finally happening,” Howard said in a speech to the attendees. “Even though (Karpinski) has left, we did this all for her.”

Alpha Phi, another sorority on campus, is expected to have an AED installed in their house soon.

Blatchford said that his team hopes to have one placed in every Greek Life house on campus, though he is not sure how long it will take to achieve the goal.

Howard says AZD plans to do their part of paying it forward as well by donating the leftover money from what they raised to the next house’s fund.

“We’ve worked so hard on this because when we promise something, we stick with it,” Blatchford said. “And now there will be two AED’s on Strafford, two good things that came out of one conversation.”

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Dartmouth ‘Phiesta’ fundraiser goes online It is this feature that made the app fit for the UNH community.

“The LiveSafe application is a cutting edge public safety tool that helps bridge the communication between the campus community and the UNH Police,” said Paul Dean, executive director of public safety and UNH police chief, in an email.

“This technology is essential for our overall campus public safety communications strategy and compliments other apps the police department deploys to communicate to the campus community such as Facebook, Twitter, ping4alerts and UNH alerts,” Dean said.

The LiveSafe app is currently being used at 10 other colleges around the U.S., with UNH the first in New Hampshire to add it to its tool belt. The features of the app are the exact same for all, though the branding of the app changes from school to school.

“It has their unique school colors, their mascot, their logos and the custom resources that the police add in for them,” Anderson explained.

Anderson said that she and her team of developers hope to continue to make the app a more social experience in the future in order to not just to increase it’s popularity, but to increase safety on campus.

“We want to make it almost like a virtual discussion board,” she said.

LiveSafe, Inc. was started in

HANOVER — Dartmouth College fraternity and sorority leaders say they agreed to change a charity fundraiser dubbed “Phiesta” to address concerns about racial insensitivity but that administrators told them to cancel it instead.

Phi Delta Alpha and Alpha Phi canceled Saturday’s event, which was to feature a local band, nonalcoholic tropical drinks and “globally inspired” burritos, after multiple students complained to campus officials.

Phi Delta Alpha president Taylor Cathcart and Alpha Pi president Courtney Wong said the event, which combined the Greek letter Phi with the word “fiesta” and was co-sponsored by 11 other fraternities and sororities, was not meant to be a Mexican-themed party and that costumes were explicitly discouraged.

The students said they were contacted by administrators Thurs-

day afternoon and told that multiple students had complained. They agreed to make changes, but a few hours later, an administrator forwarded to them an email from another official saying, “They need to cancel it and send out the apology.”

“Our priority was on fundraising, not the event itself, so out of an abundance of caution we complied with the administration’s request,” said Cathcart and Wong, who moved the fundraiser online Sunday night and had raised $5,000 for a cardiac health charity by Monday afternoon. They also held a discussion about improving communication between diverse groups on campus and wrote a letter to the student newspaper about the original plans for the fundraiser and the cancellation.

Administrators did not immediately respond to requests for comment, nor did one of the students who complained.

Bill establishes state paint disposal program Courtesy photo

The LiveSafe app offers a feature not previously found in UNHPD apps: the ability for officers to respond to comments.

2012. Its co-founder, Eman Pahlavani, is an alumnus of UNH’s Law School and Dean, one of the six police advisors for the company, has been working with LiveSafe since its founding.

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CONCORD — The Senate is considering establishing a paint disposal program funded by a fee on paint sold in New Hampshire.

The Senate votes Thursday whether to back the program which could mean an increase in the price of paint.

Supporters say it would give consumers a way to empty garages and basements of old paint cans at free drop-off sites.

The bill came under fire in

the House from Republicans who argued the fee amounted to a tax on paint.

Under the House-approved bill, manufacturers would charge participating retailers 75 cents per gallon of paint to cover the disposal cost. The fee would be 35 cents for smaller amounts and $1.60 for cans larger than a gallon. A nonprofit organization designated by the state would run the program.

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Cavanaugh named funniest person on campus

By TOM SPENCER STAFF WRITER

Who is the funniest person you know?

The Campus Activities Board have decided that it is Scott Cavanaugh. Twice.

Cavanaugh is well known around campus, both as a member of Improv Anonymous and as a Residential Assistant in Stoke hall.

He is also a two-time winner of the CAB’s Funniest Person on Campus contest.

David Zamansky, Nate Hastings and CAB members judged the competition. Zamansky acts as the assistant director of the Memorial Union Building Inolvement and Leadership, and Hastings is the coordinator of leadership and student organization services.

“He was by far the funniest person in the competition,” Zamansky said about Cavanaugh in an email. “And to be honest, he did not have his best night … he is that good. I feel like he is just as good if not better than most of the comics we have brought over the years.”

“The cool thing is that everyone was funny that night,” Zamansky continued. “Scott is just on another level.”

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Business by day, comedy by night is the dream. It’s probably not going to happen exactly the way I plan it, though.”

Scott Cavanaugh

Resident Assistant and member of Improv Anonymous

Cavanaugh is a junior accounting major, “…which is awkward,” Cavanaugh said. “I say [I’m an accounting major] and people are like ‘why, that doesn’t fit you at all?’ I think it’s the part of business that I’m bad at, so it’s good to round things out.”

He got involved with Improv Anonymous after being an orientation leader for incoming freshman.

His friends suggested he try improvisational comedy. He had not done any previous stage or theater work.

“They said that they wouldn’t be my friends anymore if I didn’t try out,” Cavanaugh said. “I really had no idea what to do on stage [when I began.] I just worked.”

Cavanaugh describes his own comedic style as awkward and self-deprecating.

“I think that’s the best because you’re not offending anyone, people can just laugh at you,” he said.

“I hope people can relate to it.”

Cavanaugh’s friends from Improv Anonymous convinced him to write a set for CAB’s Funniest Person on Campus competition in 2013. The first time Cavanaugh won, he opened for Jay Pharoah, of Saturday Night Live, and the sec-

ond time he opened for Carly Aquilino and Jessimae Peluso of MTV’s Girl Code in April 2014. “[The show] went really well, [tons] of people … come up to me around campus saying ‘you did great,’” Cavanaugh said.

While balancing school, work and student organizations is always challenging, Cavanaugh has found that Stoke’s large staff and Improv Anonymous’ flexible schedule help keep things manageable.

Man tries to run off with 8-month-old SALEM — Police say a man in Salem, N.H., grabbed a stroller containing an 8-monthold baby and tried to run away before the parent was able to take the child back.

The incident happened Thursday in the woods near Zachary’s Crossing and Route 111 on the edge of the Windham Town Forest.

Police said a caller reported a white male between 20 and 30 years old, 5-foot-10 with black hair grabbed and ran away with the stroller. The parent and child had been on a path. The man was wearing a black sweater with hood and tan cargo pants.

Police said the parent was able to take control of the baby and the man fled on a path into Windham. He has not been found.

Cavanaugh has a talent for interacting on stage with fellow members of the Improv Anonymous troupe.

“I love working on a big staff, because someone is always able to switch with you,” Cavanaugh said.

Though Cavanaugh doesn’t mind acting absurdly in public, it is interesting to pick up the responsibilities of an RA after being ridiculous on stage. “[My residents attend my shows] a lot, which is nice. They think it’s cool their RA is [doing improv.] I hope they still take me seriously, that could always be a problem,” Cavanaugh said. “That doesn’t just go for residents, that goes for anyone I’ve ever had to be serious with, but I think I’m pretty good at balancing that.”

Cavanaugh has a talent for interacting on stage with fellow members of the Improv Anonymous troupe.

“Working with Scott is always a pleasure because he is very clever and quick on his feet,” said Dan Shine, a senior English and theater major and member of Improv Anonymous. “He has the inherent gift to take what you give him and turn it into something hilarious.

He’s one of my favorite people to work with on stage because he is always adapting and feeding his scene partners.”

As for the future, Cavanaugh wants to keep doing comedy.

He plans to put his accounting degree to use in a city, where he can continue with comedy in his spare time. His ultimate dream job would be to host a late-night talk show.

“Business by day, comedy by night is the dream,” Cavanaugh said. “It’s probably not going to happen exactly the way I plan it, though.”

He and his friend Dylan Palmer, Cavanaugh’s RA from freshman year, plan to start a show of their own.

“Scott and I are putting a show together that goes far beyond just comedy,” said Palmer, who graduated from UNH in 2013 with a degree in psychology. “[Our show will] consist of stand up, song parody, mentalism and participation from the spectators. We are calling it The Scotty D Show,” Palmer said.

“I think Scott is a great comedian and see success in his future,” Shine said.

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Scott Cavanaugh, member of Improv Anonymous and Resident Assistant in Stoke Hall, has been named the funniest person on campus twice by the Campus Activities Board.

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injures Tom Shapiro fights racial wealth gap SUV 6, kills 1 at ice

By MIRANDA WILDER Contributing Writer

Over the past 25 years, the racial wealth gap has nearly tripled in size for a number of reasons, causing great discrepancy in the total income primarily between white and black families.

Thomas Shapiro, professor at Brandeis University and director of the Institute on Assets and Social policy, spoke yesterday afternoon about his ongoing research into the matter.

about the racial wealth gap before 1995; his search produced one valid article.

“Now you’ll find 1,000 for the past week,” he said.

This is just an example of how increasingly prevalent this issue has become.

“Something happened,” Shapiro continued. “Everybody has an opinion, everybody knows why.”

Shapiro has often published with various news organizations, including CNN, BBC, New York Times and Washington Post. In

“ It has to do with prime institutional dy-

namics, not necessarily individual achievement.”

Tom Shapiro

Professor at Brandeis University and director of the Institute on Assets and Social policy “Up until the mid-1990s, the standard measuring stick was comparing incomes between groups,” Shapiro said. “White-black. WhiteHispanic. Male-female. The typical. We thought that painted a good picture, but it left out the story of history; it leaves out the story of family legacy.”

Shapiro and his colleagues have been working to unfold the reasons behind such a huge gap, and from there develop strategies within policy that will hopefully lessen that gap.

“The assets and disadvantages can be passed on from one generation to another,” Shapiro explained.

He has published many works on his research, but two of his more prominent pieces have been “The Hidden Cost of Being African American” and “Black Wealth / White Wealth: A New Perspective on Racial Inequality.”

“Professor Shapiro is wellknown in the field of asset development and equality,” said Sally Ward, professor of sociology at the Carsey Institute. “[He] has a good strategy for interacting with policy makers.”

The first time people really began to question the racial wealth gap was in 1984, when the difference between white and black families was $85,000. In 2009, the gap had increased nearly three times that amount to $236,000.

At one point, Shapiro did a Google search for news stories

his earlier days of research, he once made the mistake of scrolling through the reader’s comments. He recalls one of the first comments he came across, which said, “We all know why the racial wealth gap exists–it’s because black people have children before they are married.”

This is where Shapiro’s research comes in. He puts statistical and factual evidence in to play to provide answers and potential solutions to the questionable subject that is the racial wealth gap.

According to his research, the largest area that contributes to this gap is actually homeownership, which can account for about 27 percent of the overall discrepancy.

“It’s part of the dominant narrative,” he said. “Dropping out of school, bad public schools in urban areas. Why is it widening?”

According to Shapiro, the average black American purchases his/her first house eight years later than the average white American.

The average home costs $300,000.

“Not many people have $60,000 in cash to put down a down payment,” Shapiro explained.

Another large and possibly more obvious factor is the difference in household income.

“Income is really critical,” Shapiro said. “For the same dollar increase in income, that dollar returns far more wealth to the typical white community than the typical African-American community.”

The unemployment rate in 2013 was around eight percent.

As for the difference in unemployment between races, it can typically be doubled for black Americans, scaling back over the past 25 years.

“It has to do with prime institutional dynamics,” Shapiro said, “not necessarily individual achievement.”

In other words, much of the reason for such a wide gap is merely policy, or administrative rules that have the ability to make unevenly distributed cutoffs and determinations, particularly in regards to homeownership.

Marriage also plays a minimal role, but it is not the role that many may assume, according to Shapiro.

“Yes, marriage plays a role,” he said. “In the white wealth growth line, marriage does have a statistically significant impact for whites, but it does not for AfricanAmericans. If your wealth profile is low to begin with, you typically marry people similar to yourselves.”

This basically means that marriage does affect the wealth of white Americans, whereas it ultimately has no effect on black Americans, as it appears to be more typical for white Americans to marry into families of different wealth.

is to make the arcane tax code, as he puts it, more understandable to the common American.

One of these potential policy changes is in mortgage interest deduction.

“An interesting secret,” Shapiro said, “is that the federal government literally subsidizes homeownership for those who can afford it.”

For the wealthy, around 36 percent can be taken off taxes because they are paying higher taxes for more expensive homes and can therefore receive more on tax returns.

“If you’re only paying 10 or 15 [percent], you can’t take off as much money,” Shapiro said simply.

Tax returns cost people $800 billion per year; 72 percent of which goes to the top 10 wealthiest percent of Americans. Only $35 billion of federal funding is spent on public housing, which may indicate a necessary change in prioritizing yearly government expenditures.

“The whole area is right for reform,” Shapiro said. “Something, I don’t know what, I don’t have that crystal ball, but we want to be in a position to change it. We want to level [the mortgage interest deduction] so everybody gets the same, or do away with it entirely.”

According to Shapiro, the Asset Funders Network has been working on a variety of solutions to this countrywide issue.

On average, about 60 percent of black families’ total wealth lies within their home equity, whereas for white families, the median is 50 percent. Both are higher than they should be, according to Shapiro.

“When over two-thirds of the wealth is not in their savings accounts but in their homes,” Shapiro said, “then we’re talking about a fundamental phenomenon.”

Even though homeownership may be the largest issue and currently attracts the most attention, it is not the only thing to consider when creating policies to help lessen the racial wealth gap. Work employment dynamic, the education system, current tax codes and other institutions play a factor.

According to Shapiro, the Asset Funders Network has been working on a variety of solutions to this countrywide issue. Their goal

Other simple suggestions he made were to disallow second homes, or make it so homes cannot receive tax returns over $1 million. This way there would be a cap on the amount of money someone can receive back, and it would be distributed at least somewhat more evenly.

Shapiro and his colleagues have created a strategic tool; the Racial Wealth Audit is designed to determine “sweet spots,” or circumstances that will both decrease the highest amount of debt and lower the racial wealth gap. In other words, this tool provides a filter for what will help the most.

“It’s a piece of work that starts when there’s zero on the table,” he said. “Then it comes to a point where it’s in public consciousness and then us continuing to move it forward.”

Algeria’s ailing president sworn in for 4th term

By AOMAR OUALI Associated Press

ALGIERS, Algeria — Facing an increasingly united opposition calling for political changes, Algeria’s president promised national reconciliation as he took his oath of office for a fourth term from his wheelchair on Monday.

Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 77, who suffered from a stroke last year and rarely appears in public, recited the oath in a hoarse voice and briefly thanked voters. In a speech handed out to journalists, however, he promised to continue democratic

reforms and efforts at national reconciliation.

The president, in power since 1999, received more than 81 percent of the vote in the April 17 election in this key North African energy producer. Turnout at the election was 51 percent.

With Algeria facing dwindling oil reserves, high youth unemployment and the threat of al-Qaida in the southern desert, there has been worry about the president’s ability to govern in light of his health problems.

The expectation is that Bouteflika’s fourth term, most likely his

final one, will see an effort by the powerful military and intelligence generals that hold much of the power in Algeria to find a successor.

Opposition parties, most of whom did not attend the ceremony, maintained the results were marked by fraud and are mobilizing against the government.

The parties that boycotted the election have united into one front and are calling for a national conference on May 17 to discuss a political transition. Such a transition would include changes to the constitution such as imposing term limits, increasing parliamentary power and

strengthening the judiciary.

The runner-up in the election, former Prime Minister Ali Benflis, has formed his own opposition party and has been in talks with the rest of the opposition for a common platform.

“It is an excellent initiative to see the parties and politicians of different ideologies meeting and discussing a consensual political solution,” said Algerian political analyst Mohammed Saidj. “But I fear the rise of the leadership problem, which has always prevented the opposition from becoming a solid credible force.”

cream shop STAFF REPORT The Associated Press

BUENA PARK, Calif. —An SUV driven by an elderly motorist plowed into a group of people waiting to enter an Orange County ice cream parlor Friday evening, killing a 73-year-old woman and injuring six others, authorities said.

The SUV rammed into people outside Farrell’s Ice Cream Parlour shortly after 6 p.m., Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Steve Concialdi said. The restaurant in is Buena Park, about 20 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles.

Witnesses said the SUV surged forward, hitting a small fence and running into those sitting and standing between the vehicle and the restaurant.

“It looked like the guy put his foot on the gas pedal instead of the brake,” Daniel Long, who was eating with his family inside, told KCAL-TV. “There were three people sitting on that bench —he just went straight into them and crushed them up against the window.”

Television news reports showed a silver Suzuki XL7 halfway in a parking space in front of the building, with its front end shoved over the fence onto a walkway.

The 73-year-old-woman was critically injured and died at a hospital, authorities said.

Two other people were hospitalized with moderate injuries, three with minor injuries and a sixth person was treated at the scene for minor injuries, Concialdi said.

One of the injured was a teenage girl, police Cpl. Andy Luong said.

The SUV driver and a female passenger, both elderly, were not hurt, Luong said.

Police questioned the driver, who cooperated and was not immediately cited, Luong said.

The cause of the crash remained under investigation.

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Philosophy professor talks of past experiences meatloaf.

“This place is Club Med for students,” the professor said, speaking of the current fortune he has with food he calls “fantastic.”

Whittier buys 150 meal-swipes every semester and buys more “the minute” he runs out. Whether it is at HoCo or Philbrook, he eats all of his meals on campus.

Many students see Whittier but do not know anything about the professor; they are interested in finding out more about him.

“I don’t think many people know who he is when they see him, but a lot of us recognize him from seeing him so often,” freshman Miranda Claar said.

After growing up in Lebanon, N.H., Whittier earned his undergraduate degree in psychology at UNH in 1950. He went on to receive his master’s and Ph.D. at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign in 1952 and 1961, respectively.

He returned home to New Hampshire in 1967 after teaching at both Penn State and University of Illinois and has not left since.

Now nearing the end of his 47th year teaching at UNH, the professor marches to the beat of his own drum.

Whittier does not own a television. Defying the popular culture of being entertained by a flashing screen, he has yet to convert.

If he happens to be near a TV,

By GREG LAUDANI STAFF WRITER

Longtime philosophy professor Duane Whittier was quite used to meatloaf and mashed potatoes in his time studying at the University of New Hampshire. It was one of the few dinner options available when he arrived to Durham in 1946.

Meatloaf and mashed potatoes were a typical 1940s dinner at Huddleston Hall, UNH’s dining hall nearly 40 years before Holloway Commons was built in 2003.

The professor does not spend time watching reality shows or SportsCenter.

Huddleston was not open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. like HoCo is. The former dining hall was only open two hours for breakfast, two hours for lunch and two hours for dinner.

“You didn’t serve yourself,” Whittier said. “The people working at the dining hall would just throw the food on your plate.”

Now the 85-year-old professor can be seen sitting near HoCo’s Sizzle Bar — one of the dining hall’s popular food stations. Whittier takes full advantage of the vastly improved food since his days eating

Whittier will only watch either the History Channel or Military Channel (now the American Heroes Channel). But he claims he has seen most of the programs multiple times and that the same episodes are “recycled,” or repeated over and over.

“Television is boring,” Whittier said. “Some of it is stupid, but a lot of it is boring.”

The professor does not spend time watching reality shows or SportsCenter. He lives and breathes philosophy. Whether it is reading philosophy books or writing about his own beliefs, Whittier keeps a narrow focus on his work.

“ God has blessed

me. I have been paid a salary to do my hobby all my life long.”

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“I do philosophy 14 hours a day, seven days a week,” Whittier said. “I’m addicted to it.”

His passion for reading began while growing up in Lebanon. As a kid, Whittier would ride his bike seven miles from Lebanon to Hanover, the site of Dartmouth College. And after his father gave him a membership card to Dartmouth’s

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library, Whittier said he would fill both baskets of his bike with “loads of books.”

The professor has loved reading ever since. To go along with his passion for reading, teaching at UNH has developed another one of Whittier’s interests: music.

Although students would not have seen Whittier at the Nelly concert, the long-time professor enjoys going to on-campus concerts every week.

“One of the things I am most impressed with here is the quality of music that the students make,” Whittier said. “Outstanding.”

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Eighty-five year old philosophy professor, Duane Whittier, reminisces about his time as a UNH student, TNH music critic and philosophy professor.

He said he enjoys watching concerts by students’ jazz bands, symphony orchestra, concert bands and choir concerts among others.

The professor’s love of current students’ music goes back to his time as a Wildcat.

Whittier was the music critic for The New Hampshire when he was an undergraduate. Reviewing student concerts that he continued to attend years later, he was the only person to ever hold such a position at the student newspaper.

More aspects of Whittier’s life stand out against some of today’s modern students. ‘Thirsty Thursday’ did not exist when he attended UNH. Whittier followed a six-day a week schedule with only Sundays off.

Nearly half of his peers attended UNH under the GI Bill, which gave returning World War II veterans the opportunity to go to college. Their adverse experience in combat made many of them mature students.

“There was no horsing around,” Whittier said. “It was a chem-free campus back then.”

Approaching his 58th year of college teaching in total, many of his former colleagues question why Whittier has not retired yet. The answer is simple — the man loves teaching and he loves UNH. “God has blessed me,” Whittier said. “I have been paid a salary to do my hobby all my life long.”

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April showers bring May Day flowers

By BRITTANY SCHAEFER STAFF WRITER

On April 26 from 1 to 9 p.m., the University of New Hampshire Campus Activities Board held the fifth annual May Day Carnival in the C Lot parking lot. The unfortunate turnout this year was a rainy Saturday, but that didn’t stop the many from taking advantage of this free event.

Amusement rides, games, live music, food, prizes and a petting zoo were available to students and the surrounding community at the May Day Carnival.

Around the area, some dorm residents could hear the screams of attendees as they climbed aboard rides when the rain died down.

Live music filtered into the sky as different bands played to cheers from May Day—goers.

While the rain didn’t stop students from going out to the event, many booths took precaution against the rain and set up tents.

The sheltered cotton candy stand proved to be popular, as it drew many students to its sticky-sweetness with its free price tag.

“Twirling cotton candy is much more difficult than it looks,” said freshman Michaela Butler, one of four students running the stand.

“We all volunteered for student involvement purposes, and we definitely have a popular booth.”

Another popular place to be was under the tents with the farm animals. Ducks, rabbits, goats and chickens were among the many animals students could pick up and pet at the petting zoo.

“Although it’s wetter than the last two years, they came up with great new ideas,” said UNH junior Ryan Bottesini as he was holding a duck. “I love the petting zoo; since we are in college, we don’t get to be around a lot of animals so it’s nice.”

“I love the petting

zoo; since we are in college, we don’t get to be around a lot of animals so it’s nice.”

Ryan Bottesini

Junior

Bottesini was also excited about the amusement park rides, the lines were short unlike previous years. There were five attractions at the carnival. Kim Smiley was one of the men operating the rides brought by Miller Amusements.

“I have been doing this for 20 years,” Smiley said. “We have traveled to Keene and all over New England. My favorite part is meet-

ing kids; they are always so happy about trying each ride.”

One of the goals of the carnival was to raise money for philanthropy. Sigma Phi Epsilon, Chi Omega and Tau Kappa Epsilon were some of the Greek life organizations present at the carnival.

Sigma Phi Epsilon raised quite the crowd with their fundraiser supporting St. Baldrick’s for childhood cancer, as volunteers offered to shave their heads.

Over 55 people volunteered to go bald, bringing a big crowd of people to watch.

The goal was to raise $500.

But Sigma Phi Epsilon’s efforts have been more lofty between May Day and a month of fundraising.

Brothers in the fraternity called family and friends to ask for donations; they raised much more money than was expected. Gabe Lee, vice president of Sigma Phi Epsilon, said that they raised $12,500 for St. Baldrick’s.

“This fundraiser was much more successful than any of us imagined,” sophomore Conor Langille said.

Although May Day ended up on a rainy day, students and community members dawned their rain boots and rain jackets — decorating the gray light of the day with greens, oranges and blue jackets and boots — to make the best out of the day.

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Alpha Phi holds second annual 5k

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Due to the positive outcome of last year’s walk, Alpha Phi decided to continue the event for another year.

“I had heard of other chapters doing Move Your Phi’t, and I thought it was a wonderful event,” McVerry said. “I thought it would be a really cool opportunity to mix my two passions of philanthropy and physical activity.”

The Move Your Phi’t 5k is a walk around campus that begins and ends at the Alpha Phi chapter house on Strafford Avenue in Durham, N.H. Tickets were $5 per person and included games, raffle

Safety vests for Sea World trainers

By MIKE SCHNEIDER

By KRISTEN CHARBONNEAU While Saturday’s rain canceled most outdoor activities, the sisters of the Alpha Phi sorority kept their spirits high, as they held their second annual Move Your Phi’t 5k, raising $4,000 for Women’s Heart Health Alpha Phi’s international philanthropy.

Alpha Phi established the Alpha Phi Foundation in order to raise money to improve the lives of women with heart disease. Every Alpha Phi chapter across the country is encouraged to promote awareness.

For Sarah McVerry, who is the former vice-president of marketing for Alpha Phi as well as a physical education major, this meant revamping their annual event and trying something different.

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Trainers at Sea World’s marine parks began wearing inflatable safety vests Monday whenever they work near killer whales, yet another safety measure implemented after the 2010 death of a trainer who was dragged into a pool by an orca.

“ It’s one of many

changes that Sea World has made in the last four years.”

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Last Saturday, UNH’s chapter of Alpha Phi hosted their second annual Move Your Phi’t 5k supporting Women’s Heart Health. They raised $4,000 for the cause. prizes and refreshments.

Prior to the Move Your Phi’t 5k, the Eta Alpha chapter had put on the annual Eat Your Heart Out eating competition for over 10 years, which raised about $2,000 annually. With the first ever UNH Move Your Phi’t event last year, Alpha Phi raised double that.

Half of the proceeds went to the Alpha Phi Foundation for Women’s Heart Health, but the Eta Alpha Chapter wanted to do more.

“Last year we found out that the local hospital, WentworthDouglass, runs a camp for children with heart disease called Camp Meridian,” said Lainey Bernfeld, the current vice president of marketing. “We donate the other half of the proceeds to that.”

Due to the positive outcome of last year’s walk, Alpha Phi decided to continue the event for another year.

“Even though it did rain on

the day of the walk, we knew that the success of the event last year would bring people back,” said sophomore Alpha Phi sister Mia Burnes.

According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, one-in-four women die from heart disease in the United States. With so many women being affected by heart disease, the sisters wanted to bring together the UNH community as a whole to spread awareness.

“No matter what organization we are apart of or what letters we wear, we all have the opportunity to come together and do amazing things,” Burnes said. “The greatest thing about UNH is our ability to support one another and make all of our events a success.”

Alpha Phi plans to continue on making their Move Your Phi’t event for Women’s Heart Health a successful tradition by doing a third walk in April of 2015.

Kelly Flaherty Clark

Sea World’s animal training curator

The five-pound nylon vests can be inflated like an airplane life jacket and have a tube connecting to a small oxygen tank that fits in a pouch in the back, said Kelly Flaherty Clark, Sea World’s curator of animal training. The vests took more than three years to develop with input from trainers, engineers and safety experts.

On Feb. 24, 2010, trainer Dawn Brancheau was interacting with Tilikum, a killer whale, in front of visitors in a pool at Shamu Stadium in Orlando when Tilikum grabbed her and pulled her off a platform into the pool, then refused to release her. Since Brancheau’s death, trainers have been unable to get into the water with killer whales amid calls for new safety measures.

The 22 trainers who work at Shamu Stadium have been trained in the use of the vests, which could buy a trainer time to be rescued if

the trainer fell into a pool.

“It’s easy to use,” Flaherty Clark said. “It’s one of many changes that Sea World has made in the last four years.”

Other changes include remotely controlled pool gates, new walkways around Shamu Stadium and an additional raised platform in an orca pool that could be used to lift a whale out of the water should a trainer fall in. But the vests are probably the most visible change that park visitors will notice, she said.

The start of using the vests had nothing to do with an appellate court’s recent decision upholding a ruling that Sea World had violated a federal workplace safety law, Flaherty Clark added.

Earlier this month, that appellate court in Washington upheld a regulatory safety finding against Sea World by the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission following an investigation into Brancheau’s drowning. The court said Sea World had exposed trainers to recognized hazards when working in close contact with killer whales during performances.

Tilikum subsequently became the focus of the 2013 documentary film “Blackfish,” which explores what may have caused Tilikum to kill Brancheau. The documentary argues that killer whales, when in captivity, become more aggressive to humans and each other. Since the documentary, several entertainers have pulled out of planned performances at SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. parks.

“The two things happened in completely different silos,” Flaherty Clark said of the ruling and the use of the vests. “The team was close to complete before the ruling.”

In Brief Officials mum on school stabbing case MILFORD, Conn. —Prosecutors and defense lawyers say they are not releasing any information Monday on the status of a Connecticut teenager charged as a juvenile offender with killing a classmate hours before their junior prom.

The teen’s case had been expected to go before a state Juvenile Court judge in New Haven on Monday. It’s not clear whether that happened.

The boy is charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of 16-year-old Maren Sanchez Friday at Jonathan Law High School in Milford. His case automatically will be transferred to adult court under state law.

Police haven’t identified the teen, but people who saw him taken into custody said he was Sanchez’s friend, Chris Plaskon.

Sanchez’s family and friends are preparing for a candlelight vigil in her memory Monday evening at the school.

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Ukraine mayor shot; US makes new sanctions

By MARIA DANILOVA Associated Press

KIEV, Ukraine — The mayor of Ukraine’s second-largest city was shot in the back Monday and hundreds of men attacked a peaceful pro-Ukraine rally with batons, bricks and stun grenades, wounding dozens as tensions soared in Ukraine’s volatile east.

One presidential candidate said the mayor was deliberately targeted in an effort to destabilize the entire city of Kharkiv, a hub of 1.5 million people.

Armed insurgents tacitly backed by Moscow are seeking more autonomy in eastern Ukraine — and possibly even independence or annexation with Russia.

Ukraine’s acting government and the West have accused Russia of orchestrating the unrest, which they fear Moscow could use as a pretext for an invasion.

by the ambassadors to the EU’s 28 nations, was being formally confirmed by the EU’s governments, officials told The Associated Press.

In the eastern city of Donetsk, about 1,000 demonstrators carrying Ukrainian flags marched through the streets to hold a pro-Ukrainian rally Monday night. They were attacked by several hundred armed men shouting “Russia!”

Police attempted to hold the pro-Russia men back but then largely stood aside as dozens of protesters were battered.

Hennady Kernes, the mayor of Kharkiv, was shot in the back Monday morning while cycling on the outskirts of the city, his office said. He underwent surgery and was reported by the hospital to be in “grave but stable” condition.

Officials have not commented on who could be behind the attack on the mayor — but Kernes was a man who could have angered both

“ If you want to know my opinion, they

were shooting not at Kernes, but at Kharkiv.”

Mykhailo Dobkin

Former Kharkiv governor Ratcheting up the pressure, President Barack Obama’s government levied new sanctions on seven Russian officials and 17 companies with links to President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle. The U.S. also revoked licenses for some high-tech items that could be used by the Russian military.

In Brussels, the European Union moved to add 15 more officials to its Russian sanctions list to protest Moscow’s meddling in Ukraine. That decision, reached

sides.

Kernes’ friend and former Kharkiv governor, Mykhailo Dobkin, told journalists the attackers had aimed at Kernes’ heart and wanted to kill him to destabilize the city.

“If you want to know my opinion, they were shooting not at Kernes, but at Kharkiv,” he said.

Dobkin is among several candidates running in Ukraine’s May 25 presidential election, which the interim government says Russia is

trying to derail.

Kernes was a staunch opponent of the pro-West Maidan movement that toppled President Viktor Yanukovych in February and was widely viewed as the organizer who sent activists from eastern Ukraine to harass demonstrators in Kiev.

But he has softened his stance toward the new Kiev government.

At a meeting of eastern Ukrainian leaders and acting Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk earlier this month, Kernes insisted he does not support the armed pro-Russia insurgents and backed a united Ukraine.

Kharkiv is in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russia gunmen have seized government buildings and police stations and set up roadblocks to demand greater autonomy or even annexation by Russia.

But unlike the neighboring Donetsk region, Kharkiv had been largely unaffected by the insurgency — something Kernes has been credited with. Its administration building was briefly seized earlier this month but promptly cleared of pro-Russia protesters.

The Russian Foreign Ministry said the attack on Kernes, along with other events, “indicates that it isn’t possible to speak of any ‘peaceful’ pre-election campaign in Ukraine.”

Elsewhere in the east, proRussia militants wearing masks gained another foothold, seizing a city hall building and police station in the city of Kostyantynivka, 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the Russian border. The city is 35 kilometers (22 miles) south of Slovyansk, a major city that has been in the hands of insurgents for more than three weeks.

Tech CEO convicted of domestic violence fired

By TERRY COLLINS Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — A wealthy Internet entrepreneur recently convicted of domestic violence has been terminated as CEO of a San Francisco startup online advertising company.

RadiumOne said in a statement that its board of directors decided Saturday night to fire CEO and Chairman Gurbaksh Chahal.

Chahal, 31, pleaded guilty earlier this month to battery and domestic violence battery, both misdemeanors, in the August 2013 beating of his girlfriend.

On Friday, the Democratic National Committee said it returned Chahal’s $20,000 donation in the wake of his conviction. RadiumOne made no mention of Chahal’s conviction when announcing his ouster late Saturday.

But Chahal said in a blog post Monday that he was fired when he told board members he wouldn’t resign.

“In that special board meeting, they asked for my resignation as Chairman and CEO, when I declined to do (it), they fired me. Even though, I only accepted this misdemeanor plea under their guidance,” Chahal wrote. “Is this what venture

capitalism is about?”

A RadiumOne spokeswoman did not immediately return a call seeking comment.

Chahal also blamed social media for becoming the “court of public opinion” in his case.

The San Francisco district attorney’s office charged Chahal with 45 felonies for allegedly punching and kicking his girlfriend more than 100 times and attempting to smother her with a pillow in his penthouse after he learned she had cheated on him with a man during a trip to Las Vegas, according to court documents.

The alleged attack was caught on home-surveillance footage, authorities said. Chahal initially pleaded not guilty to all charges and posted $1 million bail. He also hired former federal prosecutor Jim Lassart, who said prosecutors were blowing out of proportion an argument between Chahal and his girlfriend.

Chahal’s girlfriend then stopped cooperating with the investigation and asked prosecutors to drop the charges. But prosecutors said they would proceed even if she wouldn’t testify.

Earlier this month, a San Francisco judge ruled the surveillance video in Chahal’s home was unlaw-

fully seized by police, despite prosecutors’ claims that they worried the video would have been erased.

After pleading guilty to the misdemeanors, Chahal was sentenced to three years’ probation and ordered to take domestic-violence classes without serving any jail time.

Chahal wrote in a blog post Sunday that he lost his temper but accepted full responsibility. He apologized in the blog but added, “I didn’t hit her 117 times.”

Chahal wrote Monday that he intended to be exonerated of the felonies that he thought likely would go to trial. “But, I ended up taking one for the team and accepted the DA’s proposal and settling this case,” Chahal said.

Before leading RadiumOne, Chahal founded and sold two Internet companies for nearly $300 million.

His status as a wealthy entrepreneur landed him an appearance on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” a role on Fox’s “Secret Millionaire” series and a mention as one of America’s most eligible bachelors on the entertainment television program “Extra.”

RadiumOne has said Chief Operating Officer Bill Lonergan will take over as CEO.

After the seizure, about 15 armed men guarded the city hall building. Some posed for pictures with residents while others distributed St. George’s ribbons, the symbol of the pro-Russia movement.

The United States also slammed the detentions, with State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki saying it was “imperative for senior officials in Moscow to condemn the abduction and demand

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Kimoon strongly condemned the capture of the military observers, demanded their immediate release and urged any U.N. members with influence to work to help end their detention.

Moscow has repeatedly pushed for a referendum on federal autonomy in Ukraine, but Kiev and its Western allies have refused, accusing Russia of fomenting separatist sentiment to foil the May presidential vote.

However, Justice Minister Petro Petrenko said the parliament in Kiev will hold a debate Tuesday on the idea of a referendum, Interfax news agency reported.

The increasingly ruthless proRussia insurgency, meanwhile, is turning to an ominous new tactic: kidnapping. About 40 people are being held hostage in makeshift jails in Slovyansk — including journalists, pro-Ukraine activists and seven military observers from the Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe, Ukraine’s Security Service said Monday.

United Nations SecretaryGeneral Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned the capture of the military observers, demanded their immediate release and urged any U.N. members with influence to work to help end their detention.

the team’s immediate release.”

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said he urged Russia during a phone call with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov Monday to “calm the situation” in eastern Ukraine.

Speaking during a visit to Norway, Steinmeier said Lavrov told him Moscow was “completely behind” the diplomatic agreement reached in Geneva earlier this month and has “encouraged all parties in Ukraine to lay down their arms.”

Russia’s Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, called Ukraine’s efforts to detain pro-Russia activists the “mass persecution of dissenters.” It also said Ukraine was building large temporary detention centers to hold these prisoners.

“Those structures being constructed very much remind one of fascist concentration camps,” the Russian statement said.

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Tornadoes strike central, southern U.S., killing 12

By CHRISTINA HUYNH Associated Press

MAYFLOWER, Ark. — A broad tornado sliced through Little Rock’s suburbs Sunday, killing at least 11 people and leaving behind a miles-long path of destruction as a powerful system rumbling off the Plains provided a violent kick-start to the nation’s tornado season.

The scene was the same in town after town, with emergency workers and volunteers going door-to-door to check for victims.

State troopers performed the same task among the damaged and toppled 18-wheelers, cars and trucks on a two-mile stretch of Interstate 40, a major thoroughfare in and out of Arkansas’ capital city.

“It turned pitch black,” said Mark Ausbrooks, who was at his parents’ home in Mayflower when the storm arrived. “I ran and got pillows to put over our heads and ... all hell broke loose.”

“My parents’ home, it’s gone completely,” he said.

Forecasters had warned for days that violent weather would strike this weekend, ending an unusually calm weather pattern. A morning storm forced a delay at the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon and by afternoon the weather system had grown deadly, spawning a tornado that killed a person in Quapaw, Okla., before moving north into Kansas.

When it reached Baxter

Springs, a Kansas community of roughly 4,200 residents just across the border from Quapaw, the twister was estimated to be three blocks wide said Cherokee County emergency manager Jason Allison.

It destroyed 60 to 70 homes and another 20 to 25 businesses in the city, he said.

lar doors shut while the tornado did its best to pull them open.

“It sounded like a constant rolling, roaring sound,” she said.

“Trees were really bending and the light poles were actually shaking and moving. That’s before we shut the door and we’ve only shut the door to the storm cellar two times.”

“ Looks like about half of town got exten-

sive damage as well as the fire department.”

Joe Dan Morgan

Ottawa County Emergency Management director The twister injured 25 people in Baxter Springs and one person also died there, but it wasn’t clear if the death was related to the storm, said Kari West, a spokeswoman for the Southeast Kansas Incident Management Team.

More storms are expected Monday in the South and Mississippi Valley.

Becky Naylor, of Mayflower, said she and her family went to their storm cellar after hearing that tornado debris was falling in nearby Morgan. Naylor, 57, said there were between 20 and 22 people in the cellar and they were “packed like sardines.”

“Everyone is welcome to come into it,” she said. “In fact, people were pulling off the highways and were just running in.”

She said the men held the cel-

Matt DeCample, a spokesman for Gov. Mike Beebe, put the Arkansas death toll at 11 —five each in Faulkner and Pulaski counties and one in White County. He said Beebe’s office was relying on reports confirmed through the state Department of Emergency Management.

Pulaski County Sheriff’s Lt. Carl Minden said three people died at a home on the Pulaski/Saline county line about 10 miles west of Little Rock. Minden said several others were injured at the scene.

“I’m standing on the foundation of the house now. It’s totally gone,” Minden told The Associated Press by phone.

In Mayflower, Jacci Juniel was caught away from her home after leaving to find her son as the storm approached. Her 96-year-old

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“We had to climb over trees and power lines and underneath trees. I was just trying to get home to my mom,” Juniel said.

Nearby Vilonia was hit hard for the second time in three years.

Four people were killed in a 2011 storm.

“Homes and businesses are destroyed,” DeCample said. “The size of the path sounds like a halfmile to three-quarters of a mile wide when it went through.”

The Arkansas storm, which was on the ground off-and-on for nearly 80 miles, was one of several tornadoes that touched down Sunday as a large storm system moved through parts of the Plains, Midwest and South.

Less than two hours before the Arkansas tornado struck, the twister hit Quapaw, a community of about 900 residents in northeastern Oklahoma near its border with Kansas and Missouri. Ottawa County sheriff’s dispatcher Kelli Soechs said it killed one person, not two, as her office erroneously reported earlier in the evening.

Soechs declined to explain the discrepancy.

Five of the six injured in Quapaw were treated and released from Baptist Regional Health Center in Miami, Okla., said hospital spokeswoman Kristie Wallace.

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Ottawa County Emergency Management director Joe Dan Morgan said Quapaw was heavily damaged by the tornado.

“Looks like about half of town got extensive damage as well as the fire department,” Morgan said.

Storm ratings for Sunday’s twisters were not immediately available. Before Sunday, the country had not had a tornado rated EF3 or higher —with winds above 136 mph —since Nov. 17. The 160day streak is the fourth-longest on record. Sunday also would be the latest date for a year’s first storm rated EF3 or higher. The previous latest first big storm was March 31, 2002.

Tornadoes also touched down Sunday in Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri. One touched down northwest of Joplin, Mo., where a massive tornado in May 2011 killed 161 people, injured many others and leveled a large swath of the city. Sunday’s twister didn’t hit Joplin.

Sunday was the third anniversary of a 122-tornado day, which struck parts of Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia and killed 316 people.

Meanwhile, authorities in North Carolina said earlier Sunday that an 11-month-old boy who was injured by a tornado on Friday died Sunday at a hospital. His home was destroyed by one of eight tornadoes that hit the state that day.

HARTFORD, Conn. — A 16-year-old girl stabbed at her high school on the day of her junior prom died of wounds to her torso and neck, Connecticut’s chief medical examiner said Sunday.

The medical examiner’s office ruled that Maren Sanchez’s death was a homicide.

A 16-year-old male classmate is charged with murder as a juvenile in the stabbing at Jonathan Law High School in Milford. The attack occurred Friday morning, hours before the school’s prom, and authorities are investigating whether Sanchez was stabbed after turning down the boy’s invitation to the dance.

Police haven’t released the suspect’s name, but people who saw him taken into custody identified him as Chris Plaskon, a friend of the victim’s and an athlete described as genial and respectful.

Plaskon’s attorney, Richard Meehan, says his client is being held in a hospital under psychiatric evaluation. Plaskon will not appear at an arraignment scheduled for Monday in New Haven, the attorney said.

Meehan has said he expects his client to eventually be charged as an adult and that the suspect’s family is reeling from the attack.

“His family is devastated not only for him, but the youngster who was killed. It’s a terrible situation all the way around,” Meehan said.

Mark Robinson, a technical education teacher who saw the suspect being taken out of the school in handcuffs, said Plaskon is the third of five brothers and has a good sense of humor. His family has deep roots in the community, Robinson said.

“There’s no reason to suspect he would have done this. I think that’s what makes it harder,” Robinson said.

Classmate Imani Langston, who saw Plaskon being read his rights and taken away in a police car, said Sanchez and the boy were just friends and had never dated.

Sanchez, a member of the National Honor Society who was active in drama and other school activities, had been focused on prom in the days before her death. She had posted a photograph on Facebook of her blue prom dress and was looking forward to attending with a new boyfriend.

Milford Alderwoman Greta Stanford said the school would remain closed Monday.

A memorial service is scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday on the school’s football field. Organizers are seeking donations so the junior class can buy a memorial bench in Sanchez’s honor.

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Saudi Arabia studying YouTube regulation

By AYA BATRAWY

April 23

Associated Press

Taylor Picard, 20, 42 Pasture Lane, Bedford, NH, 03110, UNH Police Department, EBW — $500 cash paid, 3:15 p.m.

April 25 Adam M. Hershman, 18, 10 Truman Drive, N. Easton, MA, 02356, Richardson House, unlawful possession of alcohol, 12:05 a.m.

Andrew B. D. Restiano, 19, 46 Endicott Ave., Revere, MA, 02151, Richardson House, possession of drugs, 12:05 a.m.

Michael Hyde, 20, 8 Fourth St., Nashua, NH, 03060, Stoke Hall, internal possession and license prohibitions, 11:07 p.m.

April 26 Ryan J. Kelly, 19, 336 Madison St., Wrentham, MA, 02093, Holloway Commons, disorderly actions and resisting arrest, 12:10 a.m.

Murphy T. Crowell, 20, 141 Dry hill Road, Rochester, NH, 03867, Main Street Traffic Circle, possession of alcohol, internal possession and possession of cocaine, 12:11 a.m.

Ryan D. Grover, 20, 66 Queens Road, Keene, NH, 03431, A Lot, criminal trespassing, 12:33 a.m.

Troy D. Ellis, 22, 19 Meeting Hill Road, Hillsboro, NH, 03244, Gables Lot, possession of drugs, 12:50 a.m.

Sarah Baker, 19, 13005 Heil Manor Drive, Reisterstown, MD, 21136, E Lot, unlawful intoxication, 1:06 a.m.

April 27 Alexander Guarnotta, 19, 62 Orange St., Reading, MA, 01867, Stoke Hall, illegal possession of alcohol, 12:02 a.m.

Matthew Robinson, 18, 25 Christopher Lane, Scituate, MA, 02066, Stoke Hall, possession and false identification, 12:02 a.m.

Jacob Hatch, 17, 1654 Wakefield Road, Sanbornville, NH, 03872, Main Street traffic circle, transport of alcohol by minor, 12:20 a.m.

April 28 Gregory Allen, 20, 175 Seabreeze Drive, North Kingstown, RI, 02852, simple assault, criminal trespassing and criminal threatening, 3 a.m.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Saudi Arabia is studying ways to regulate locally-produced YouTube content, including the possibility of requiring government-issued licenses for some users, said an official on Sunday.

Riyadh Najm, the president of The General Authority for Audiovisual Media, said his agency is still trying to figure out which type of YouTube content-producers would be affected and how the government agency would apply new regulations.

“ A society that

does not laugh about itself cannot progress. It’s very difficult to regulate online activity.”

Khaled Al-Maeena Editor of Saudi Gazette

“We do not have a clear way yet implement to this,” Najm told The Associated Press. “It is not clear who will be asked of this ... it is all under study.”

YouTube’s parent company, Google, said it had no comment on the matter.

The kingdom has taken other steps recently to regulate online media, ordering dozens of Internet news outlets to stop operating for not having the required licenses.

Najm says the aim of studying new regulations is to find ways to better manage the explosion of YouTube content coming out of the kingdom and to ensure users respect the country’s conservative Muslim norms. He says his agency, which operates under the Ministry of Culture and Information, is not seeking to stifle online creativity or expression.

Mohamed Amine Merah, cofounder of Vizyon Creative Media in Saudi Arabia, said he was not aware of plans by the kingdom to regulate YouTube. As with several other YouTube accounts in Saudi Arabia, Vizyon already has a government-issued license as a production house.

Several monetized YouTube production houses such as UTURN, Masameer and Telfaz 11 have millions of YouTube subscribers and are wildly popular among young Saudis.

“The goal is not to pressure them, but to elevate their quality and make sure the production is up to standard,” Najm said. “At the same time, for them to be aware of the boundaries of society and to not exceed those boundaries.”

Najm explained that there are “widely accepted” norms in Saudi society against insulting another person or groups of people. Public

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criticism of the king, for example, is strictly prohibited.

More than a dozen Saudis in the past weeks have posted video statements on YouTube sharply criticizing the royal family and demanding change. At least three of those who appeared in videos have since been arrested, along with seven others connected to the videos, security officials have told the AP. More recently a Saudi sports journalist was sentenced to three months prison and 50 lashes for defaming presidents of two Saudi soccer clubs on Twitter. He was also banned from Twitter for three months, according to local Saudi state media reports.

Rafid Fatani, a consultant to the U.N. on Internet governance and founder of SASIconsult, which stands for Saudi Arabian Strategic Internet consultancy, said the problem with creating regulations on social media is that often these rules cannot be implemented and adhered to.

He said people end up using virtual private networks (VPN) to get around bans, making “the government look bad.”

“All you are doing is limiting artistic talent and talent creation in the country and that’s the danger,” he said. “Let them produce what they produce, and if society does not like what they see then no one will watch them.”

Examples of past regulatory efforts that flopped include a 2004 Saudi government ban on camera-

equipped phones, from which officials backed off because cameras had become a feature in most phones. There were similar efforts to block Bluetooth technology on mobile phones.

Many young Saudis are flocking to YouTube because content creators in traditional media, such as television and newspapers, are heavily regulated. Fatani says traditional media is simply not responding to the younger generation’s needs and taste.

YouTube says that users in Saudi Arabia are among the most active in the world, and that Saudi users watch more YouTube content per capita than any other country. While Google does not release exact figures for Saudi Arabia, the company says that the average internet user in the kingdom watched three times as many videos per day in October as their counterparts in the U.S. Google says that people in the Middle East and North Africa watch 14.5 million hours of YouTube every day.

Khaled Al-Maeena, editor at large for the daily Saudi Gazette newspaper, cautions against too much regulation of media. He says that socially responsible, popular Saudi satirical shows on YouTube that poke fun at society should be not be removed or censored.

“A society that does not laugh about itself cannot progress,” he said. “It’s very difficult to regulate online activity. We don’t want to be like China.”

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Participants followed the 6.2-mile course between the police departments in Greenland and Stratham on Sunday for the Chief Michael Maloney Unity Run. Maloney was shot on April 12, 2012, while trying to help four drug task officers who were wounded. The home’s occupant, Cullen Mutrie, and a female companion from Maine, died in a murder-suicide.

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t is the latest chapter in the downfall and rebirth of the UNH women’s hockey program. According to our story featured on page one, two former UNH defensemen — Megan Armstrong and Alexis Crossley — have opted to transfer to St. Lawrence and Boston University, respectively.

Crossley and Armstrong have had enough.

Following the firing of former women’s hockey coach Brian McCloskey in December, only the most opaque — and often misleading — information was released regarding the reason for his dismissal. Rumors were abundant and the athletic department made little to no effort to clear things up while their ambiguity raked away at McCloskey’s reputation. As time continued, the attention turned away from McCloskey and to the athletic department, which had become incapable of being transparent with the community that supports it. Athletes were silenced and the governors of Wildcat Country pushed forward, trying to put the whole thing in the past and out of mind.

And they were successful, until these two athletes separated them-

selves from UNH athletics. Crossley and Armstrong have removed the shackles that have restrained them since December and taken action in

For the sake of UNH women’s hockey, an esteemed program despite its recent stagnation, we hope the departure of these two athletes is the last of the adversity this team must face. the only way they can: getting out.

Often in college athletics, an athlete will come to a university to play for a certain coach. For Armstrong, making the decision to leave UNH was not solely based on the absence of the coach she came to play for. Armstrong felt the department failed in its procedure of properly firing a coach and replacing him in a timely manner.

“We just didn’t feel like we were supported by our athletic department,” Armstrong said.

Make no mistake, the hiring of Hilary Witt as the new head coach tends the wound inflicted on the program by its own department. For the sake of UNH women’s hockey, an esteemed program despite its recent stagnation, we hope the departure of these two athletes is the last of the adversity this team must face.

Whether more skaters will follow in their footsteps is yet to be seen.

It’s time for UNH athletics and athletic director Marty Scarano to reflect on this past academic year.

The department received a firestorm of bad press, including a feature story in The Boston Globe on McCloskey, which was less than flattering to UNH. In the story, which was highlighted on the front page of arguably the most-read newspaper in New England, then-team captain Nicole Gifford ripped the athletics department, calling its effort in handling the McCloskey situation “pretty pathetic.”

As for Crossley and Armstrong, their sights are set on the future while UNH cleans up the past.

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Any real librarian recognizes that books in the arts, English Literature, history, and philosophy never become dated as materials in the empirical sciences can become.

Works of inferior scholarship can only be spotted by faculty within a given discipline, not by librarians who are admittedly impressively gifted at the logistics of moving books.

The library uses the term “recycle” — they mean the way books are recycled to become brown

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In my 47 years on the UNH faculty this is the most disturbing thing that has ever happened.

With deep concern, Duane H. Whittier Professor of Philosophy

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Visiting May 1-2.

Sivagami (Shiva) Subbaraman, Founding Director, LGBTQ Resource Center. Georgetown University. Visiting May 5-6.

Brian Corpening, Assistant Provost for Diversity and Community Partnerships. University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center.

Visiting May 8-9.

The open fora are scheduled for May 1, May 5, and May 8 from 3:00 – 4:30 p.m. in rooms 334/336 MUB. Circle seating will be offered.

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Final thoughts: Republicans winning

o my fellow Republicans on campus and to my fellow Republicans everywhere: We must be bold and daring, unafraid of tethers that may hold us back. For us to be a successful governing party again, we must raise a banner that is clear and in contrast to the Democrats.

The goal for the party is to not be Republicans in Democrat’s clothing, contorting into the proverbial pretzel. Instead, to be a party that is understood and mainstream.

Simply put, we must be the party of freedom.

Any good brand needs adapting and modification, but it does not mean it needs a new product.

We must be better communicators who present a clear and unified message, not a muddled, mixed message. Throughout history there are distinct points where it was unquestioned where Republican Party stood and it was unanimous.

- The Era of Lincoln: Ending slavery.

- The Era of Theodore Roosevelt: Looking out for the little guy.

- The Era of Coolidge: Limited Government.

- The Era of Eisenhower: Peace and Prosperity.

- The Era of Reagan: Government is not the solution … hard-

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

he food and sustainability community has been buzzing this past month, ever since the Inaugural UNH Sustainability Summit four weeks ago on Friday, April 4. My work as the Student Ambassador to the Sustainability Institute’s Food Systems Task Force has focused on the Real Food Challenge Campaign, a national movement of college students working toward more— defined as local and community based, fairly traded, ecologically sound and humanely raised.

I have been working on this movement for the past three years.

It has honestly been quite overwhelming to witness the attention our campaign is receiving lately.

Amidst this commotion, it seems as though assumptions have been made that I would like to address.

We must remember that revolutionary change such as a change in the food system does not happen immediately. Changes happen gradually and build on one another.

I can speak to how this campaign has snowballed here at UNH, starting with a very small group of passionate students.

A critical characteristic of this movement is the age of key stakeholders. The national campaign is made up of students across the nation. This is significant. The industrial food and farming industry was born around the 1950s. Let us not forget that our grandparents remember a society before supermarkets existed as they do today.

Estefanía Narváez, the Northeast Coordinator of the Real Food Challenge, has had the opportunity

line against communism.

- The Era of Bush: Compassionate conservatism and war on terror.

- The Republican Party of Today: The Party of No. The Republican Party has been leaders throughout out history and it was always easy to know where the Republican Party stood, and throughout each of those eras it has always been under the umbrella of a limited government and maximizing freedom. There is no foreign or extreme about these principles. There are uniquely American, for they are the very basis for the country’s existence.

A rebranded party waves a bright banner that is seen by all and welcoming to all will be embraced by all.

Today Republicans are regarded as obstructionist and Neanderthal. Both are untrue, but as a party we’ve become timid. Afraid to standup and embrace and fight for what is really important. In essence, we’ve forgotten who we are as Republicans.

From the Right Phil Boynton This is the party, which ended slavery. The party which gave women the right to vote. A party dedicated to the idea that maximizing freedom for all Americans is a good thing. Today, as a party it is not about being moderate conservative or establishment or Tea Party, libertarian or conservative – but simply being Republicans.

Republicans have always stood as the guardians of the people’s freedom, protectors of liberty against an ever-expanding government and as deliverers of more freedom. We must be more than stewards; we must be champions. Champions of freedom not stewards of the status quo.

A rebranded party waves a bright banner that is seen by all and welcoming to all will be embraced by all.

I’m very optimistic about the Republican Party and its future, and not just because I am one or because I’m merely putting words down in this farewell column. I’m optimistic because this party is it. We are the barrier between a big government that encroaches in every aspect of our lives or a government that lets us live our lives. We are the party to stand up for freedom. We are the party to say no to big government and yes to freedom.

So say yes. Say yes to being the Republican Party we’ve always been, but for a new time and a new era. Today, we find ourselves mired in a quagmire, but tomorrow we can be leaders once again.

We can be leaders communicating a platform that is predicated on freedom. A government big enough to give you every wish and demand is a government big enough to take away every hope and dream. We reject this view and instead stand up for limited government which—at the very heart and soul of it—is freedom.

Let us as a party agree to disagree on certain issues, but be united on the issues that matter, on issues important to all Americans and affecting all Americans.

Let us start yelling at each other and start talking to America. We

must reach out in ways we haven’t in the past. We must be ready to tackle the challenges of a new generation, but realizing that our platform is still strong, still resolute and still the best hope for this country.

An unstable party, which waffles, instead of leads will lose.

For a while we’ve stood on rocky ground and the Democrats win by the default, by merely being an alternative to nothing. Let us no longer be the party of nothing. Let us reassert ourselves with what we stand for and who we and then we’ll be winning again—because we’ll be a true alternative and not one by default.

The task of reshaping the party lies not in Washington or in the halls of the Republican National Committee, but from us, we the people. A groundswell of support, from sea to shining sea will make the Republican Party what it once was and what it can be again: The Party that will always preserve and maximize freedom for the United States of America.

With that I say thank you and let’s get to work.

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Phil Boynton is a senior political science major and president of the UNH College Republicans.

Always better when we’re together to attend many conferences about food and sustainability in our region. She speaks of the age gap at these events, where there is often a 30-year age difference between her and her peers. Estefanía speaks of the importance of having young people involved in this movement.

This is the movement of our generation. It is imperative that young people seize this opportunity. We are told to impact our future and to change the world, but no one teaches us how to do so. Today presents a moment that must be grasped: to engage ourselves in the food system. The Center for Rural Affairs presents alarming information: Half of all farmers are likely to retire in the next decade.

U.S. farmers over age 55 control more than half the country’s farmland.

The number of entry-level farmers has fallen by 30 percent since 1987.

New farmers make up only 10 percent of farmers and ranchers.

Last week’s article mentioned my feelings toward the University of New Hampshire leading the population. Our institution is one of the largest food purchasers in the state. If we want to make changes in the food system, we must work from institutional structures. Our institution has a choice to be a leader in a very uncertain world. We have no choice but to partner in this effort. Luckily, we are situated in the heart of tenacious willpower in this movement.

Dining Service providers are not alone in this effort; we have a cohort of students dedicated to

Op-Ed Ann Jolie Steeves pursuing this mission here at UNH and nationally. Additionally, we have an international board of experts on our Advisory Board who support us, including Michael Pollan, Vandana Shiva, and our very own Dr. Tom Kelly, founding director of the UNH Sustainability Institute.

This is the movement of our generation.

It is imperative that young people seize this opportunity. We are told to impact our future and to change the world, but no one teaches us how to do so.

A beautiful detail of the Real Food Challenge is the acknowledgement of shared strength. Real Food Challenge leadership recognizes that we are stronger when we act in solidarity together. We want as many people at our table as possible. We recognize that everyone has something to offer and we must respect and lend an ear to different people of different roles and identities if we want a flourishing

future.

Last Thursday’s meeting was incredibly stimulating, thanks in part to the individuals who sat around the table. We had Katy Allen, sophomore philosophy and ecogastronomy dual major, and current president of Slow Food UNH; Jon Plodzik, director of UNH Dining; Rick MacDonald, director for UNH Business Affairs; Bryan Merrill, junior undergraduate and UNH Student Body president; David Hill, assistant director of UNH Dining; Sara McKinstry (formerly Sara Cleaves), associate director of the UNH Sustainability Institute; Griffin Sinclair-Wingate, first-year undergraduate and president of the UNH Peace and Justice League; Charlie Reid, founding advisor of the Organic Garden Club, area farmer for nearly 50 years; Lena Romaldini, sophomore undergraduate and current president of the UNH Organic Garden Club; Shanti Scott, senior women’s studies/dual minor in nutrition and psychology undergraduate and a senior Slow Food member; Maxwell Brown, sophomore environmental science and conservation major and aspiring farmer; and Erin Fitzpatrick, sophomore sustainable agriculture and Food Systems undergraduate and future leader of Slow Food UNH. Miranda Wilder, junior journalism undergraduate student and reporter for TNH provided media coverage.

This incredible group sustained a round table discussion in the Piscataqua Room of Holloway Commons for an hour and a half last Thursday, April 24, 2014.

We left the meeting with a shared understanding of our university’s privilege to act as a leader in our community, our state, our nation and our world. I am encouraged by the genuine honesty demonstrated by each individual in this group.

UNH Dining administrators want to approach this undertaking in the most responsible way. They are concerned about the fiscal reality of our institution, as we are the least-funded public university in the nation. The good news is that we are not alone. In the Northeast alone, there are 11 universities who have signed on to the Real Food Campus Commitment and who are exploring and discovering new ways to approach the question of cost. At the same time, we are building on the accumulated best practices of Farm-to-Institution experts who have worked generations to figure out how to make this happen. This inspiring group clearly demonstrates that the Real Food Movement is here and a Real Food Future is imminent. UNH has a choice to be a leader in an uncertain world or to wait for others to figure it out.

I am confident that UNH Dining will continue to make good progress, but it seems like in this case, working in coordination with other institutions will be better.

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Ann Jolie Steeves is a Health Management and Policy/EcoGastronomy dual major and the Student Ambassador to the Sustainability Institute’s Food Systems Task Force.

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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

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TRACK & FIELD

Sattora, Forrest named 4x800 relay places seventh at Penn Relays captains for 2014 season

By MAX SULLIVAN SPORTS EDITOR

By MAX SULLIVAN SPORTS EDITOR

Virtually the same volleyball team that won a conference championship last season will take the court in 2014. Only two players are graduating with the senior class.

Not to say the Wildcats didn’t gain much from seniors and co-captains Morgan Thatcher and Destiny Tolliver. Both stand tall at 6-foot2. The duo possessed the only left hand shots on the team. Finally, both finished the season well decorated. Thatcher was a first team allAmerica East player and Tolliver a second teamer.

As a result of losing the seniors, the team was determined to find an identity for the coming fall.

“We relied heavily this past year on Morgan and Destiny as leaders, on and off the court, just setting such a great example. They’ve really kept the tone for our fall season this past year,” sophomore Madison Lightfoot said. “So, this spring was really important for us to figure out, ‘Okay, who’s going to step up, who’s going to take on which role, what identity are we going to take on this next year?’”

The answers lie in 14 returning players from the 2013 conference champion team, a number head coach Jill Hirschinger said was unusually high. Sometimes she only has seven players to work with.

This year, she has more than enough depth to find the right players.

Among the returning players, many were near the top of the conference in various statistics. Sophomore Tori Forrest was fourth in the conference in kills per set with 2.91.

Junior Taylor Dunklau was fourth in assists per set with 9.54 and sixth in service aces per set with .31. Lightfoot was third in the conference in digs with 4.51.

“It’s a whole team thing, so all of us have our roles,” Dunklau said. “Everyone has their own personality, a cog in the machine. We all work together, so I think [the seniors] definitely helped, but it was a team thing.”

The two exiting captains gained a reputation for being the yin to the other’s yang, Tolliver’s reservation to Thatcher’s outspoken nature. Likewise, incoming co-

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continued from page 16 first half, Albany scored nine goals in the second half, including seven unanswered.

McHoul tallied her 39th assist of the year, setting the UNH record for assists in a single season.

The players did not want to end their season, but they acknowledged that it’s not the worst thing for them to take a loss before going into the playoffs.

Cori Rees recalled their loss to Lehigh this season. It was their

captains Katie Sattora and Forrest effectively compliment each other, their teammates said.

Forrest maintains an all-business demeanor. She knows what she wants her team to do, and she’s willing to do what it takes to accomplish it, even if it means showing some grit. “[Some] people need someone to be in their face and say, ‘Hey, you need to step it up, we need to get this done,’ and I think Tori has more of that type of leadership,” Lightfoot said.

In contrast to Forrest’s seriousness, Sattora tends to be upbeat and relaxed.

“Katie’s just lighthearted and fun, and she can put a positive spin on anything,” Lightfoot said. “And when some people on our team are down, they need that.”

“They’re a good match,” Thatcher said. “Torri wants to be business and wants to win another championship, whereas Katie is like, ‘Well, I want to win another championship, but I want everyone to smile while we’re doing it.’”

Lightfoot said she thinks it’s important that two captains be on different ends of the leadership spectrum, like Sattora and Forrest are.

“They complement each other perfectly,” Lightfoot said. “If we had two captains that were exactly the same, it would be redundant, and it wouldn’t be necessary to have two, but I think that it’s amazing how they both bring something different to the table.”

Hirschinger has confidence in her newest leaders, elected by the team to their positions. She said that, “Both of them have shown great leadership.”

Hirschinger sends her captains to leadership development programs run by Dr. Karen Collins, the athletic department’s sports psychologist who teaches Kinesiology at the university. In addition, she has her players apply to leadership camps, in which they go through a week-long leadership training.

“We try to look for different avenues where you can develop leadership, and all of my captains have gone through the leadership development program,” Hirschinger said.

third straight loss, and it made for an emotional turning point in the season. The next week, they beat Connecticut 11-7.

“We really wanted to turn it around for Lehigh, and that was a disappointing loss so I think that it fueled our fire for the chance to give it all we could,” Rees said. “So I think that this is a situation where we’re disappointed that our senior year day we didn’t really come out as ready to play as we could have and just given us more motivation for the playoffs.”

The Wildcats take on Stony Brook this Saturday in the America East Semifinal.

The University of New Hampshire track teams sent their best athletes to the prestigious Penn Relays at University of Pennsylvania’s Franklin Field, while some of the younger athletes got a chance to compete in the Wildcat Invitational II in Durham Saturday afternoon.

The Penn Relays, held since 1922, make for a big stage. The event was seen more as an exciting opportunity than a chance to compete for a win.

“Penn is more of an experience,” sophomore Lauren Perrodin said. “I didn’t really go with any expectation that we would win, so it was really fun; it was a nice team bonding experience, it was good weekend.”

In Pennsylvania, the men’s 4x800 team placed seventh. John Prizzi, Eric Stys, Christopher Poggi and Drew Piazza completed a time of 7:34.13, making for the only topeight finish for the men in the event.

In the distance medley, Prizzi, junior Isaiah Penn, Poggi and Jeffrey Moretti ran a time of 10:06.74 to take 18th. Tyler Mulcahy, Seth Sheridan, Joseph Lemay and D’mahl McFadden ran the 4x400 to complete a time of 3:21.14 to finish in 54th-place. In the 4x100, Sheridan, Ryan Maney, Chris DeCarlo and Dylan Pelletier took 62nd with a time of 43.18.

For the women, senior Rosemary Read placed fifth in the hammer throw with a 173-foot, 11-inch toss.

Women’s coach Casey Carroll was happy with Read’s weekend.

She also threw on Saturday at the home meet, hitting a mark of 179 feet, eight inches; her second best throw in her career.

“Rosey [Read] had a great week,” Carroll said. “She went to Penn and finished in the hammer throw, and she came back on Saturday and won the meet in the hammer throw and threw her second best throw ever.”

Carroll said the senior has done well in her four years.

“I’d say she’s had a good progression over the four years,” Carroll said. “Particularly in the bigger meets.”

Read’s counterpart on the men’s side, George Jumpp, did not have as successful of a day. After winning his event back-to-back weeks, Jumpp failed to place at Penn. He was disappointed, considereing the magnitude of the event.

“It was probably the biggest meet of my life, and I think I was a little nervous,” Jumpp said. “I just couldn’t pull it together.”

Jumpp hopes he can find the problem this week in the film room.

He and his coaches will compare his performance at Penn with the

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Lauren Perrodin set two personal records last week and ran the 100-meter dash in 12.30 seconds on Saturday in the Penn Relays. personal record he set in Durham earlier this month.

“We’re going to see what the difference is between the two meets between what I’m doing wrong and just make some minor adjustments, see if it’s anything major,” Jumpp said. “I think I’m going to be ready.”

“ Penn is more of an

experience ... It was a good weekend.”

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Jumpp holds dual citizenship in the US and Jamaica, having been born there and lived the first six years of his life there. That said, he had a great time talking to the Jamaican athletes who competed in the Penn Relays. Their high school athletes are renounced as some of the best in the world.

In Durham on Saturday, the women took second place with 133 points, 55 behind UMass-Amherst in first. The men took sixth with 62.50 points, some of their best competitors at the Penn Relays that day.

Perrodin took first in the 100-meter dash with a time of 12.30. The sophomore set a personal record in consecutive weeks prior to this meet, but she was just two-tenths of a second behind that record.

“I wasn’t expecting to do that well, only because I had raced earlier in the week,” Perrodin said. “I wasn’t necessarily happy about the time, but I wasn’t upset about it.”

Alison Brehm took second place in the 200-meter dash. When asked about her performance, Carroll said she could have finished stronger. Despite a strong beginning, her strides became shorter, affecting her time.

“She had a great start, and then at the end, she tightened,” Carroll said. “That hasn’t been an issue all season. In fact, she had really great indoor season with the 200 [meter], I think it’s a matter of learning and relearning redistribution.”

One younger athlete who did well for the women was Alyson Messina, a freshman walk-on who won the 400-meter hurdles.

Carroll said there is usually one walk-on who makes an impression, and he thinks Messina has the building blocks for a solid collegiate career. “[Messina] really started to come along at the end of indoor set a personal best indoors. I think that was a good stepping stone to now being a competitive college runner,” Carroll said. “Still young, not a lot of collegiate racing experience.”

For the men, Michael Shanahan made an impression with a third place finish in both the shot put and hammer throw.

Boulanger said that the walkon Shanahan benefits from his natural strength as well as his natural sense of rhythm.

It doesn’t hurt that he plays drums in the UNH marching band.

“Hammer’s got rhythm,” Boulanger said. “His ability to be an outstanding drummer, you know I asked him to go to a 3-beat, and he can make three turns, so I think it’s all together with different things that he’s done.”

Jumpp is impressed with what he’s seen from Shanahan. He’s worked with the freshman this year in practice, and he sees great potential in him.

“He’s probably the best freshman that we have ever had, he works really hard, he’s a really big and strong guy, so throwing is perfect for him, but he just really enjoys throwing.”

The Wildcats start their championship season this coming weekend at Burlington, Vt., in the America East conference championship.

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anything. I was just promised that I would have a team that would support me in anything, so that’s kind of what I needed at this point in time.”

According to Armstrong, athletic director Marty Scarano also told the players that he would be meeting with the players in the weeks leading up to the hiring of the new coach. Armstrong said that he did not hold these meetings, which bothered the sophomore.

“There was just some stuff we were told, and stuff never got done by the athletic department,” Armstrong said. “The way that we were told that we would have class meetings with Marty Scarano … He never did it … we were told that, and it never was done.”

Scarano was contacted for comment, but did not reply immediately.

Crossley said that she started thinking about her transfer after the season had ended. When McCloskey was fired in December, it didn’t occur to Crossley, an alternate captain, to consider other options.

“Honestly during the season I hadn’t really considered it,” Crossley said. “I just kind of went through the motions, stuck with the team and went on like everything was normal, but I think at the end of the season when we still didn’t have a new coach, and not sure of the whole process and that sort of thing, I think that it kind of forced me to open my eyes a little bit and start looking around.”

Before college, Crossley was recruited by BU. She took a trip down earlier this spring to spend a weekend there, visiting high school friend and Terrier forward Rebecca Russo. The visit ultimately led to her decision this month to leave UNH. Armstrong and Crossley did

not plan their transfers together. It wasn’t until they’d both considered it on their own that they learned of each other intentions. Once rumors of players transferring began floating around the locker room, the two happened to talk about it. Crossley said she was thinking about it, and Armstrong replied that she was seriously considering a transfer.

“We actually were very secretive about it at first,” Armstrong said. “We didn’t know what we wanted to do and then one day we kind of started talking about it … we, you know, didn’t step on each other’s toes, did it all in the situation we were looking at different schools and everything so we definitely didn’t decide this together.”

Crossley also had a strong relationship with McCloskey, but she did not harbor biased feelings about his firing.

“Honestly, I think that I’m kind of impartial,” Crossley said.

“I loved him as a coach, but I can understand the reasoning behind the fact that his contract had to be terminated.”

The two parting players said that the decision to leave had nothing to do with their former teammates and that they maintain close friendships with the other Wildcats.

“It’s 100 percent separate from my friendships,” Crossley said.

“That’s something that I really appreciate about all the girls that I’ve gotten to spend the last two years with, is that they’re so supportive of me wanting to find something new and different, and I’m really happy that they’re able to put the hockey part aside of it, and they’re happy for me.”

Crossley is excited to make the transition from small-town Durham to the big city next fall, especially considering the conference title banners hanging in the rafters of Agganis Arena. The Terriers have won three women’s Hockey East tournaments and appeared in two Frozen Four finals in the past four years.

“I’m thrilled. I’m really excited,” Crossley said. “I mean, BU

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Alternate captain and defenseman Alexis Crossley tallied 8 points (four goals, four assists) on the season. obviously has a great program after winning Hockey East the past few years, and I just think it will be something new and exciting for me.”

Likewise, Armstrong is happy to make a move to Canton, N.Y., to play at St. Lawrence.

“It’s more of a stable environment than there was this year,” Armstrong said. “A new start for me will be the best idea.”

After McCloskey was fired on Dec. 5 for “inappropriate physical contact with a player on the bench” during a home game against Ohio State on Nov. 30, the Wildcats went 3-13, losing the last ten games on their schedule. In the Hockey East tournament, they lost 8-1 to be Boston College. Despite this drop in performance, Crossley said the team felt united after los-

ing their coach.

“Honestly as a team and as a whole, I think it brought us together more than ever before,” Crossley said. “I think that was just because everyone knew that in order to keep the season going in a direction that we’d want and hope for that, we all had to put things aside and bring each other together and get stronger.”

Armstrong and Crossley said it wasn’t too strange to be spending their last days in Durham. Armstrong is simply putting her head down and focusing on school.

“I love Durham. I’m going to miss it,” Armstrong said. “But at the same time, I just need to get good grades and get out of here and start fresh up there.”

Crossley called her final months at UNH “bittersweet.”

“It’s hard knowing that at the end of the semester I won’t be here,” Crossley said. “But I can assure you that I will be back a handful of times on campus next year, and one thing I keep hearing from my teammates is that once you’re a Wildcat, you’re always a Wildcat and that’s really nice to know.”

She recorded 23 points in her freshman season, the second-most on the team. In her sophomore season, she was named an alternate captain. She missed time in the fall due to collarbone surgery and ended her season with eight points in 25 games. She played point on the power play for much of her time as a Wildcat.

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made her return to the lineup on April 19 after suffering a concussion on Feb. 1 in a team scrimmage.

Logue was back in form for Saturday’s game, leading the defense with smart passing and powerful clears.

“Jordan brings a different element than a Kennedy [Nickerson], the ultimate goal will be to have Jordan play as a center back more often so Kennedy can be a central midfielder … Jordan is a very good ball-winner, so she’s able to win those 50-50 balls. She’s able to play out of the back and can play direct

[looking for open passes] because she has good vision and plays a very big ball.”

The Wildcats finished the spring season with a record of 4-1, with wins over Stonehill College, Brown, St. Anselm College and Southern New Hampshire University. Pinhancos will be at the helm next season, alongside co-head coach Kyle Bak.

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four games until today. I think that BU was the better team on the day.

“These girls have been phenomenal every single day of the week, pushing themselves to be as good as they can be. I think every weekend has shown that, so even with today’s loss, I don’t think there’s been a down all spring.”

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‘Cats come up short in season finale versus Albany

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Not only did the UNH lacrosse team lose to No. 20 Albany in their home Saturday afternoon, but it also downpoured on the Wildcats as they swallowed a 19-5 loss.

That didn’t take away from an emotional senior day.

“Definitely emotional moment,” senior Cara Dowdle said. “I mean, when we went into the locker room, me and Molly [Gaffey] initially started crying because it kind of hit us that this was our last game at UNH, and our lacrosse career is ultimately ending, because this team has basically become a family, and a lot of these girls, I won’t be able to see them.”

On the grassy slope that lay in front of the Whittemore Center, the seniors’ numbers were painted in large print. After the game, the seniors’ names were called out over the sound system, their bio’s briefly told as they walked out to meet their families in the middle of the field, all in spite of the pouring rain.

“I think it’s a celebration of what the seniors have accomplished in their four years, so I think it’s a positive day in that sense,” head

coach Sarah Albrecht said.

On the field, the Great Danes outplayed the Wildcats, with UNH’s record slipping to 7-9 at the hands of a team who had only lost two games all season.

“You know, they’re a good squad,” Albrecht said. “They have a lot of weapons and they were able to use their weapons to their advantage. It was a matter of us really baring down an grinding it out and unfortunately we didn’t do that.”

The Wildcats were down 9-3 with 4:34 to play in the first half when Laura Puccia notched her 39th goal of the season, bringing UNH within five. In the play that followed, Albany took three shots on net and missed. It appeared that the Wildcats were going to be able to take advantage and bring the play back their way. However, Albany’s Allie Phelan received a pass and moved swiftly into the front of the net. She took a hard shot that Huwitz couldn’t react to, making the score 10-4 at the half.

The Great Danes ran away with the game in the second half.

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Kayleigh Hinkle (14), Laura Puccia (3) and Nicole Grote (17) combined to score just two goals on Saturday.

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UNH wraps up spring season, falls to BU

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Mimi Borkan will return as the UNH starting goalkeeper next season.

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On a rainy Saturday night, the UNH women’s soccer team wrapped up its spring season against Boston University. The terriers managed the lone goal on the night, coming off the foot of forward Ana BU 1 Cuffia late in the second half. Despite the UNH 0 loss, co-head coach Carlos Pinhancos felt confident in his team’s play: “In the first half, possession-wise, our numbers showed that we had more possessions than they did. We had a couple of opportunities that we capitalized on, but I think we can do a better job of making the best of our chances, especially against a team like BU who is very, very good defensively.”

After a back-and-forth first half, the teams slowed the game down in the second frame to develop more scoring chances. BU’s midfielders fed the forwards with long lead passes to stretch the UNH defense and develop crosses from the wing. Their first opportunity of the second half came after the ‘Cats cleared out the

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initial cross, but backer Lauren McLellan found the ball outside the box. McLellan fired a shot on net and goalkeeper Mimi Borkan made a diving effort but it sailed over the bar.

“BU’s been a nationally-ranked program, year in and year out,” Pinhancos said. “They’re an NCAA [tournament] team ... I know they have a majority kids from the fall [season] here, so they do have a young team and a lot of bodies.

“It’s good to play against a team of that caliber; I think we’re right there with them in certain components. I think we’ll be at that level soon.”

Early in the spring season, coach Sam Lopes stepped down to return closer to home. Many teams might let this affect them, but Pinhancos believed it made the team stronger.

“To be 100 percent honest with you, I don’t think our team has had any ‘ups-and-downs,’” Pinhancos said. “I feel like it’s been full-steam ahead, even into this game against BU. We’ve been the better team in all

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Laura McHoul set the UNH single-season record for assists on Saturday against Albany.