Issue 50

Senior Bryan Wallace was able to cross something off his UNH bucket list recently - attempt the infamous slap shot at JP’s Eatery.

Students worked for six hours to build four garden beds to grow fresh vegetables for the Cornucopia food pantry.

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Fortieth anniversary of school-wide strike today Victoria Adewumi CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Today marks the fortieth anniversary of the 1970 universitywide strike in which both students and faculty refused to participate in the last three weeks of classes and effectively shut down the school until the end of the spring semester.

The Strike Rally, as it eventually came to be know, consisted of the arrival of and the speeches given by three of the Chicago 8, the infamous group of anti-war activists who had been charged with conspiracy and inciting a riot during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago for the protest they helped to lead against the

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Vietnam War. The legacy of this peaceful protest has been social and political awareness that still exists on the UNH campus today.

“I think this strike was a great opportunity to encourage a dialogue between the administration and the students,” Gulsun Cavusoglu, the co-leader of Wildacts, said. “Once students are motivated to act, it’s really amazing the kinds of change that they can bring to the university.”

In 1970, UNH Student Body President Mark Wefers asked Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin and David Dellinger of the Chicago 8 to come to the UNH EMELIE BUELL/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

STRIKE RALLY continued on page 5

Singer Andrew VanWyngarden and MGMT entertained thousands Friday night in the Field House.

MGMT entertains packed crowd at the Field House Michael Roberto CONTRIBUTING WRITER

MEGAN BREENE/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Professor Richard Aliano is a fixture outside Horton Hall.

Poli-Sci professor inspiring... just don’t touch his hat Brittney Murray STAFF WRITER

The man walks into class with his beige trench coat, sunglasses despite the overcast day, a fedora hat and a half-smoked, unlit cigar in the corner of his mouth.

He is late again.

As students stare, he slides off the fedora to reveal his sleekblack, full head of hair. He removes the cigar, brushes it with his forefinger, and drops it in the pocket of his button-up shirt.

“Hello-o-o. As many of you

may already know, my name is Professor Aliano. I only have a couple rules in my classroom.

Number one, don’t touch my hat.

Number two, don’t touch my cigar. If you follow these rules we’ll get along just fine.”

He is political science professor Richard Aliano, who hasn’t just brought his thick New York accent to the University of New Hampshire campus, but his casual attitude, raw humor and his fastthinking abilities that come from years in a courtroom.

ALIANO continued on page 5

Five members of MGMT took to the stage Friday evening with smiles on their faces. They seemed to be even more excited than the crowd that packed the Field House.

With new tracks off ‘Congratulations’ basically alternating with hits from their debut album, ‘Oracular Spectacular,’ MGMT pleased their fans and made believers out of the doubters.

According to SCOPE publicity director Krysty Pringle, the concert was close to perfect in many people’s eyes.

“It was one of the smoothest concerts we ever had,” Pringle said.

“This crowd was awesome. People who were there were there because they really enjoy the music. The energy was incredible.”

EMELIE BUELL/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER MGMT played at the Field House Friday night in what one student called the “best atmosphere...at a college concert.”

Through the mug and sweat of the crowd, there was an electrifying feel, without being able to create the synth pop sound that could turn off some album listeners. MGMT brought a twist and shout rock feel that had everyone’s hands clapping and feet stomping. They devised a

set list that had everyone bumping when they wanted to and slowed things down when it was necessary.

Many students agreed that SCOPE got this one right.

“It was the best atmosphere MGMT continued on page X

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Contents Prof. contributes to book on Torah

• Good Morning Commuters 7:30 a.m. A Lot • Tai Chi 1 p.m. Great Lawn • Musical Theatre 7 p.m. PCAC

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Nobel Prize winner discusses space

4 UNH professor Marla Brettschneider made contributions to the new book “Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible.”

Volunteers plant garden at Waysmeet

10 The 2004 Nobel Prize winner in science, Frank Wilczek, gave his lecture “What is Space” last Thursday in MUB Theatre II.

Men’s lax falls to BC in 2 OT

• Emily Roberts noon DeMeritt 240 • Yoga Class noon Wildcat Den • Jazz Band 8 p.m.

PCAC

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• N.H. International Seminar 12:40 p.m.

MUB Theatre I • Live Music 5 p.m.

Acorns Cafe • Symphonic Band 8 p.m. PCAC

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• Yoga Class noon Wildcat Den • Chemistry Department Poster Exhibition 3 p.m. Parsons • Girl Talk 7 p.m.

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12 On Saturday, May 1, volunteers helped plant a garden in the backyard of the Waysmeet Center that will help supply the Cornucopia food pantry.

UNH alumnus revels in shoe business UNH alumnus Doug Clark, CEO and founding partner of New England Footwear, has made a career for himself by turning the construction of shoes upside down.

Clark’s shoes have soft insoles as opposed to thick rubber, which he said offers greater stability.

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Joe Gardiner fights for the ball in UNH’s 10-9 double overtime loss to BC in the Pioneer Collegiate Lacrosse League Championship.

Senior attempts Slapshot Challenge Senior Bryan Wallace attempted the infamous Slapshot Challenge at JP’s Eatery in downtown Durham on Friday, April 23. Wallace came close, but ultimately couldn’t complete the challenge, leaving seven sliders behind on his plate.

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KYLE LAFLEUR/STAFF UNH student Bryan Wallace attempted the JP Eatery’s “Slapshot Challenge” last Friday.

ACROSS 3. Live free or die 9. The Granite State 10. Concord

DOWN 1. Emblem 2. Largest city 4. Bird 5. Tree 6. Governor 7. Flower 8. Highest peak

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TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Sophomore Max Hoddwells duels with a Maine sprinter in the men’s 110-meter hurdles at the America East track & field championships this past weekend.

EMELIE BUELL/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER UNH students flocked to the MGMT concert held at the Field House Friday.

JOSH SMALL/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Students helped plant gardens for the Cornucopia food pantry.

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UNH professor ALIANO: NY native making mark in New Hampshire as professor adds to book on Hebrew Bible Continued from page 1

Dustin Luca STAFF WRITER

For thousands of years, the Torah – the Hebrew Bible – has been read throughout the Hebrew year, with each week focusing on a single section of that Bible. Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible is a new book engaging the weekly readings of the Hebrew Bible through a “bent lens” of queer scholarship, and among the 50 authors who contributed to the project is UNH’s own Marla Brettschneider, professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies.

“My goal was to combine both feminist theory and queer theory, and I do think I achieved it,” Brettschneider said. “I think that’s what was fun and challenging in my particular goal in the project.”

According to Brettschneider, the entirety of the Torah is broken down into 54 distinct portions, and throughout the Hebrew year one section is read and studied every week. Torah Queeries takes these portions and comments on them individually, taking the same structure as the Torah itself, while also offering commentary on a number of Jewish holidays as well.

“A lot of books are not intended to be that extensive and exhaustive,” Brettschneider said. “This actually has an entry for every one of the weeks of the Jewish year. It’s a pretty grand undertaking.”

What makes Torah Queeries unique amongst a body of Torah scholarship is that it interprets the Hebrew Bible through a “bent lens,” which also makes Brettschneider’s contribution to the project stand out among the large number of projects that the faculty of the UNH community contributes to regularly.

“UNH faculty contribute to works and are part of this kind of stuff all the time,” Brettschneider said. “The scope of this project is pretty wonderful, and it’s bringing together queer scholars in the field. It’s great because, in the fact of American anti-Semitism, people don’t realize that there’s world-class queer scholars of religion.

“A lot of times, when people think of it, they think it’s a ghetto where queer people are openly talking to queer people,” Brettschneider

added. “I think what’s nice for some people is there’s a way in which it demonstrates that queer scholarship is one of many kinds of scholarship.”

Brettschneider was the only member of the UNH community who contributed to the project. Her work is joined by the interpretations and contributions of roughly 50 others spread around the world. Brettschneider’s contribution focused on the Tetzaveh, the eighth section of Shemot, which is the second book known more commonly as Exodus.

The Tetzaveh documents the creation of the three priestly castes – Cohen, Levi and Israel – and gets into very thorough detail surrounding the creation of those castes.

“I was given the kind of section that most people hate, a very detailed section,” Brettschneider said. “If you presume that the project is meaningful, meaning to engage in Torah study is meaningful in contemporary society, you’re challenged to be able to say that one specific part is not meaningful. I was given one of the parts that people tend to shy away from. I took on that part and really had a lot of fun with it, to really try to show how it speaks to us today and how we can speak to the text.”

Brettschneider’s involvement with the project started when the editors of the collection – Gregg Drinkwater, executive director at Jewish Mosaic, the National Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity; Joshua Lesser, founder of the Rainbow Center, an organization supporting LGBQT people and their families; and David Shneer, director of the Program in Jewish Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder – contacted her and asked if she would be interested in contributing to it. From there, she joined an array of rabbis, scholars and writers from around the world.

“It’s trend-setting,” Brettschneider said. “People around the world who aren’t queer are participating with the project as well. It’s an odd thing over there, but they don’t know the life of Jewish biblical scholarship.”

Torah Queeries: Weekly Commentaries on the Hebrew Bible is available now through www.Amazon.com.

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Before class, Aliano can be found, cigar in mouth, under the large Oak tree in front of Horton Hall – a recognizable image that has made him the center of speculation since his arrival at the university in January 2002.

Since the age of 10, Aliano’s parents had brought him to New England to vacation. The fresh air, lack of traffic and tall mountains intrigued him, but it was the state motto that sold him on New Hampshire.

“Do I want to go to Vacationland? Nah, I want to go to live free or die,” Aliano said about his decision to move to the Granite State.

“I’ve always loved northern New England and I always knew that eventually I’d move here.”

In class, with his blunt, citymannered, lawyerly humor, Aliano jokes about being divorced, about the “knuckleheads out there” whom he has encountered in the New York court system and gives plenty of outrageous examples of cases he’s worked on or heard of, “so the students will hopefully remember better,” said Aliano, who is teaching Law and Society, Politics and Society and Courts and Public Policy this semester.

He paces the stage in room 218 of the Paul Creative Arts Center – occasionally placing his hand in his pocket, or, when he’s riled, in the air. His casual self-assurance and lawyerly lecture convey the feeling of a courtroom instead of a classroom.

As part of his classroom tactics, during a recent discussion about marriage, divorce and custody in his Law and Society class, Aliano offered up an example of law at its finest, he said, an extreme case he knew students wouldn’t easily forget.

“There was this case, where a 12-year-old boy, a 12-year-old boy folks, had relations with his babysitter, who was 16 at the time.

He gets her pregnant – and the court awards her child support. He can’t even work yet, but you can bet, as soon as he can, it’ll all be going to her,” Aliano said, his voice booming, arms in the air before warning the men in the classroom, “if you choose to play, you will pay gentlemen. Trust me.”

Although New Hampshire was where he wanted to be, work opportunities and family kept him in the city. The adversary life of a lawyer, he said, was never what he wanted.

In fact, it was the easygoing career of a country professor that kept him motivated.

“I can be someone in front of a classroom that I’m not,” Aliano said. “My friends who know me in my private life wouldn’t believe the way I am in a classroom. In my private life I’m very shy and quiet.

When I teach, I try not to be boring.

I’m more outgoing.”

It was his father, Albert Aliano,

who instilled the need for a good education. Growing up in Little Italy in 1920’s New York, the 13th of 14 children, Albert had to help support the family. He never completed the eighth grade.

Albert, who worked as a butcher most of his life, raised his three sons on 61st Road in Queens, N.Y. He was always telling his boys if they didn’t get their education and work with their minds, they’d have to work with their hands, recalls Aliano, who learned the lesson firsthand during a college summer break.

“I remember while I was in college I worked with an air-condition repairman during school breaks, and we would have to lug heavy equipment up tiny stairwells in downtown New York in 100 degree weather,” Aliano said. “And I remember one time we were working on this rich guy’s air-conditioner – and by rich guy I mean he was well-educated and doing well, living in downtown Manhattan – and I remember looking at his hands. They were wellmanicured and clean looking. He had never had to work a hard day in his life. Then I looked at my hands and there was dirt under my fingernails and they were grimy looking and that’s when I said to myself, ‘which set of hands do I want?’”

After completing his Ph.D at the age of 26, Aliano wrote two books before the age of 30: “American Defense Policy from Eisenhower to Kennedy: The Politics of Changing Military Requirements, 1957-1961,” published in 1975 and “The Crime of World Power: Politics without Government in the International System,” published in 1978.

While practicing law in New York, Aliano specialized in medical malpractice cases. He had never planned on the profession but after getting his Ph.D in political science from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York he was offered a law fellowship at St. John’s University; and with two brothers already practicing law “I thought: why not? At least you can make money,” he said.

In 1990, he joined his brothers and opened Aliano, Aliano & Aliano law firm on Broadway in New York.

Anthony, Richard and Robert practiced law for nearly a year together, and “had a blast,” Aliano said, before Anthony, the eldest, was diagnosed with oral cancer.

“It was hard on both of us. It was like we had to watch him die,” said Robert, who said had his older brother been a doctor, “we all would’ve been doctors.”

In February 1992, Anthony Aliano died at the age of 51.

The combination of the death of his brother and his desire to move to New Hampshire, motivated Aliano to leave New York City and return to his “first love” – teaching.

Prior to UNH, Aliano taught political science at Queens College, Dowling College and Adelphi University. And although he doesn’t

like people, he said, he loves his students.

“I’ve been disappointed by a lot of people throughout my lifetime. With the students, they hopefully get something out of me and I get something out of them; it’s a nice relationship,” Aliano said.

His animated, skit-like teaching style has made Aliano a favorite for students and faculty alike. For Liz Aleo, a senior, who had Aliano when she was a freshman, he’s one of the professors she sees herself remembering after graduation.

“He’s really memorable. I had him three years ago and I can still remember his class and some of the examples he used,” Aleo, who had Aliano for the honors section of Law and Society, said. “I remember seeing him outside of Horton smoking and he’s just super mysterious, it’s like part of his persona, and then you get in class and he’s really funny. He can talk straight through an hour and a half lecture without ever looking at his notes. You can tell he really knows what he’s talking about.”

The characters Aliano is compared to are countless, some say he reminds them of an investigator, others a former CIA agent, but for Kirsten Bibbiani, she can only think of one particular 1990s film.

“He reminds me of Al Pacino in ‘A Scent of a Woman,’” Bibbiani said. “In the movie Al Pacino has a very captivating presence, when he speaks people listen. He is well respected and speaks his mind. I feel that Aliano has all of these qualities.

He’s not intimidating like Al Pacino is in the movie but he exudes an air of confidence and intelligence.”

Mystery in all, for Ted Kirkpatrick, dean of the College of Liberal Arts at UNH, Aliano is invaluable to the university.

“Professor Aliano came to UNH as a seasoned scholar and lawyer.

He brings a unique blend of theory and praxis to the study of politics, law and justice,” Kirkpatrick said in a recent e-mail. “He is a fabulous teacher in the classroom and lecture hall, dynamic and thoughtful, and consistently earns high praise from the students he teaches.”

Aliano’s experience as a lawyer is what he said makes him a good teacher.

“You have to teach a jury. You have to explain to them the ins and outs of the case in a way they can understand,” Aliano said. “It certainly made me a better teacher than what I was when I first started.”

Aliano moved to Wolfeboro, N.H in 2002. The serenity of the Lake Winnipesaukee region captured Aliano’s New York heart at an early age and provided a place of escape from the busy bustle of the city – a place he said he was born into but not where he ever wanted to live.

“I love it here. The people actually hold the door for you here. In New York they slam it in your face,” said Aliano, that he said, could ruin his day – not to mention his cigar.

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Strike Rally: Forty years ago, faculty and students went on strike at UNH Continued from page 1

EMELIE BUELL/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER MGMT played at the Field House Friday night in a show that SCOPE Executive Director Jared Dobson said “was one of their (MGMT’s) best college shows.”

MGMT: Five-person group rocks the Field House over the weekend, with songs from sophomore album Continued from page 1

I’ve ever been involved with at a college concert,” junior Kevin Decker said. “Usually these acts entail the studio version playing over a radio and the artist throwing in the occasional ‘put your hands up,’ but MGMT was live and had the crowd in a frenzy.”

The band kicked the night off with a new hit called ‘Flash Delirium.’

They were clearly feeling the packed crowd as they thanked them for going nuts in the beginning and continued to tell them they were awesome all night.

‘Flash Delirium,’ the opener, set the tone for the rest of the performance.

Some artists would be upset by getting hit with a pair of glowing glasses during a song. Now Andrew VanWyngarden. He smiled, put them back together and wore them for the next song.

‘The Handshake’ is a favorite for MGMT junkies and according to the crowds reaction, the performance did not disappoint. With an extended version of the chanting at the end, the guitar ripped and the band grooved.

After an equally crowd-inspiring performance of ‘Weekend Wars’

the group continued on with new songs such as ‘It’s Working,’ ‘Song for Dan Treacy’, ‘Someone’s Missing’’ and ‘I Found a Whistle.’ They also rocked ‘Of Moons, Birds & Monsters,’ ‘Pieces Of What’ and ‘The Youth’ from ‘Oracular Spectacular.’

MGMT had people bouncing off each other when they went into ‘Time To Pretend’ and ‘Electric Feel.’ Adding more guitar and live rock feel for both songs, these versions had students raving.

After proclaiming ‘Brian Eno’ would be their last song, they rocked out, thanked the crowd and exited stage left. However, everyone knew there was at least one more crowd pleaser left and that they weren’t done.

“Does this mean you like us?” Ben Goldwasser asked as he walked back on stage, happy to see UNH loved them.

To start the encore off, they played ‘Destrokk’ from their ‘Time To Pretend EP.’ This song is a mix of deep lyrics and melody, but is relatively unknown.

After, they slowed things down with ‘Congratulations,’ the last song and title track off their sophomore album. The lighters were out, sway-

ing back and forth with a crowd that was seemed caught in the moment. As the song ended, the band members released themselves from their instruments and came to the front of the stage.

VanWyngarden, once again, proclaimed the next song would be their last.

The famous melody from ‘Kids’ started playing from a recorded track as the band joined the crowd in dancing to the song. The energy in the building could not be ignored, and MGMT seemed to notice.

“The tour crew said it was one of their best college shows,” SCOPE’s Executive Director Jared Dobson said. “We do months of planning. So many people worked hard for those few hours of bliss for those students in the crowd. Everyone pulls together and it’s was just a great feeling to see the outcome.”

The band was dancing just as the crowd did, with those grins even wider than when they walked onto the stage. These smiles, though, were different. These were ‘job well done’ smiles. They took a break from their instruments to soak it all in and watch the controlled chaos they created from four feet above.

campus, and speak out against U.S. policies on the Vietnam War. What followed landed Wefers in court, and brought an anti-war response to UNH that would make history.

The day before the Chicago 8 members were scheduled to take to the Field House stage, the Kent State massacre occurred.

The event, in which National Guardsmen killed four students on the Kent State campus, was a protest against the expansion of the war, and specifically Nixon’s decision to invade Cambodia rocked the nation.

Fear and concern that the arrival of the Chicago 3 would inspire similar riots lead the Board of Trustees to petition the U.S. District Court in Concord to prevent the event from happening, or at least from happening at night.

Wefers had scheduled the rally to take place at 7 p.m., and the Trustees felt the possibility of rioting would be more likely later in the evening.

After much debate, the court decided that the event would be allowed take place, but it had to be held between 2:30 and 5:30 p.m.

Despite this directive, the Chicago 3 and Wefers himself, refused to obey the court order.

On May 5 at 7:30 p.m. with National Guardsmen patrolling the area, 4,500 students packed the Field House to hear the protesters speak, with another 3,000 standing outside to listen.

Overnight, UNH had become a leading campus in the U.S. anti-war movement.

The UNH administration was ultimately unable to prevent the

campus from galvanizing around the Kent State Massacre and the anti-war rally, and the UNH community began to strike the next day, along with 350 campuses across the country.

Mark Wefers was charged with willful violation of a court order in which he was sentenced to 20 days in jail and had to pay a $500 fine. The sentence was later revoked.

“Not many students know that his happened at UNH,” Joe Lavoie, a Peace and Justice League member, said. “I think that this event gives us the chance to learn from each other in a major way.”

“This anniversary gives us an opportunity to learn what was possible then,” Peace and Justice League President Alex Freid said.

“I would say that is an important history.”

The Peace and Justice League will be holding an event this evening to remember and celebrate the events of those weeks in the history of UNH. At 6 p.m. in Horton room 4, they will be screening “Mayflowers,” a documentary directed by alumnus Gary Anderson. Afterward, there will be a panel that will include Mark Wefers and other student activists from that time.

“The situation [in the 70’s] is very similar to the situation we have today, students not having a voice on campus; it all still exists,” Lavoie said. “It’s an event like this that really peaked people out of their apathy. It showed that people need to wake up and start taking back their freedom.”

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UNH right to opt out of U.S. News’ survey; others should follow An article published Monday in the Washington Post discusses the growing number of college presidents that are boycotting the now-common practice of sending glossy promotional material to peer institutions in an attempt to lobby for a higher spot in the annual rankings of colleges and universities compiled by U.S. News & World Report.

While many of the factors that go into the “Best Colleges” rankings are based on objective facts such as a school’s rate of admission or its average class size, the reputation survey, in which college leaders are asked to rank other institutions, depends solely on opinion. The results of the reputation survey makes up 25 percent of a school’s ranking.

The movement against the reputation survey stems from a letter signed in May of 2007 by 12 college presidents and sent to hundreds of others.

It asked them to refuse to fill out the reputation survey and to refrain from referring to the rankings as an indication of the quality of their college or university.

That letter has since been signed

by President Huddleston, along with 53 more college presidents. We can only hope that even more college presidents will follow his example, and applaud his efforts to address the problems associated with the reputation survey.

First of all, having college presidents rank other colleges, when they’re clearly going to be most concerned

with their own institution’s ranking, is ridiculous. Think they’re too professional for that? In June, the Washington Post reported, a Clemson University official admitted at a public gathering that her administrators gave low marks to competitors on the survey to make the school look better. By making the reputation survey part of their rankings, U.S. News & World Report taints the objectivity of their annual feature.

Having college presidents rank other colleges, when they’re clearly going to be most concerned with their own institution’s ranking, is ridiculous.

Second, why exactly should a college president be expected to be an expert on the goings-on at other colleges and universities? We imagine that most college presidents have enough to do when it comes to dealing with their own institutions. But administrators in the “national university” category are expected to rank the 260 schools that fall into that category. There’s no way they can have the background neces-

sary to report on 260 schools, no matter how much promotional material they’re sent, which makes you wonder where their numbers are coming from.

Third, there are much better uses of school funds than sending promotional material to administrators of other colleges. Wooing high school students is necessary to keep enrollment numbers up. Wooing fellow administrators crosses over into vanity. Save the money and concentrate on education, even if you don’t get a pat on the back for it.

There’s an issue that lurks behind this story, and that’s the notion of the rankings themselves. The idea that colleges can truly be ranked is foolish; the ideal school for an individual will always be a personal choice. Not to mention that within each college and university are a host of departments and majors that deserve their own ranking.

Some schools have clear specialties that may not translate to overall rankings.

That being said, it’s hard to deny the influence that these rankings have, however unfortunate it may be. We don’t expect the U.S. News & World Report rankings to cease overnight, but we would like to see some reforms in the rankings. College presidents should continue to sign on to this movement, send a message to the magazine, and spend their money where it really matters. And prospective students should continue to be the rational ones and realize that there’s way more to college than numbers.

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Like a Pro: Goodbye, for now Seeing as this is my last column of the school year, it would be fitting for you to listen to Green Day’s “Good Riddance” on repeat as you read. Why? Because cheesy is awesome, just ask Kurt.

I know a lot of you are probably on edge about what my plans are for the future. I have heard the rumors about me leaving school to turn professional and I would like to address those rumors now. It was not an easy decision and I took the weekend to talk with my family, friends and advisors. I have decided that it would be best for me to turn down Barstool’s contract offer to go “pro” meaning that I will return to UNH next fall. I really feel that finishing my education needs to be my top priority. This decision is final.

I have already started brainstorming new ideas and directions to go in. When I started, I can honestly say that I had no idea where this column would take me, and as it turned out I ended up having a post on Barstool Sports make fun of me. In all honesty, I actually had a feeling that column would find its way to Barstool. That was probably the proudest moment of my life. Through this column I have made many friends, and apparently many enemies. I enraged the director of UNH Dining, was reported to UNH’s Office of Conduct and Mediation, infuriated RAs, and hurt little El Pres’ feelings. Despite that, this really has been the best year of my life.

It wouldn’t be right for me to continue without thanking those who helped me get to this position.

Towards the end of last summer and into the beginning of the school year

then TNH editors Cameron Kittle and Keeley Smith convinced me to give the newspaper a shot, and for that I am forever thankful to them.

Another thanks goes to the current executive editor Thomas Gounley – and his staff – for not firing me the second he took over.

Coming up on the blog there will be an award “ceremony” to look back on some of the most nonsensical happenings of the year, but I would like to use the remainder of this post to highlight of few things.

My favorite “overheard” of the year took place a few weeks ago at DHOP. It was probably around one in the morning and I’m sitting at a table with a few buddies. From across the dining area I hear a girl say quite loudly to her male friend, “Please, just sit on my face.” Short, simple and to the point. Classic. I really wish I could have heard more of the conversation, because I feel as though I do not have enough information to fully understand the context of that quote.

The next category is the best “text from last night” message received. Choosing the best newspaper-appropriate text was very hard.

For one reason or another, I always get the most hilarious drunk texts. I think that “I’m on LSD my phone is sinking,” which was sent via my roommate following the MGMT concert tops the list. It may have made me laugh harder than anything I’ve read all year.

My best “Hangover” moment took place back in February when I awoke with my pants inside out, my dorm room full of balloons and my roommate’s couch upside-down.

No, there wasn’t a tiger or a baby,

and sadly I never found $80,000, but it was fun trying to recall what happened.

Students, mostly freshmen, often debate which fraternity throws the best parties. It is not really a necessary debate because they are all pretty much the same. I am not real big on the frat party scene, but I will say that the best frat party I attended this year was at Pike.

This has been a great year, and I’d like to say thank you to all my loyal readers. I know there are few students who actually read this on purpose and that is awesome. I can really say that I am happy that I have two more years at UNH because these last two have been really special, and I am terrified of trying to find a job with a history degree and a writing minor. Well UNH, I guess this is where I leave you for now. To those graduating, congratulations and good luck out there. To those returning, have a great summer break and I look forward to another great year with you. To incoming freshman, when I applied to UNH I never imagined I would have a column in the school paper. Welcome and don’t be afraid to try something new, because at UNH new opportunities will arise.

Stay classy not Umassy,

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Thumbs up UNH’s rowing program ranking 3rd overall at the New England Rowing Championship this past weekend!

Thumbs down to high humidity in May.

Thumbs up to Marc Savard’s overtime goal in Game 1. Good to have you back, Savvy!

Thumbs down to C+’s as overall grades.

Thumbs up to having only four days of classes left!

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Thumbs down to MGMT’s opening band.

comic entitled, “They Both Seem Nice,” by Colin Hayward. I would just like to say that a comic is just a comic. Was it an offensive comic?

Yes, the joke was meant to be offensive, but it was merely a joke and a quite funny one if you refrained from over-analyzing its content.

The premise of this comic strip was two gentlemen discussing their sexual fantasies. One says to the other that he would like to have sexual intercourse with Cindy Lou Who from Dr. Seuss’ story, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.” The second gentleman describes his disgust towards his friend but then states that he would like to have sexual intercourse with Ms. Swan, a popular character from MAD TV. The premise of this comic strip is so utterly ridiculous that no one should even try to take it seriously.

In no way did this comic strip “undermine” the efforts of SHARPP. Three panels of illustration could not possibly undermine the work of an organization that does as much good for the community as SHARPP.

Thumbs down to residence halls that still have the heat on, or no air whatsoever. It’s time for air conditioning!

Thumbs up to Cape Wind getting one step closer to construction!

LetterS to the editor At odds with “At odds with at odds with The Oddsmaker” In response to Mr. Brunelle, I still do not consider the words of Mr. Amrikee a threat. Mr. Amrikee was criticizing the producers’ stupidity, in the same sense that if someone called the police to say their marijuana was stolen, one would say that person is stupid and probably won’t receive police assistance. Whether Mr. Amrikee was being logical is another question.

In terms of describing the organization as terrorist, I will consider the definition of terrorism to be the intentional targeting of civilians to advance political objectives. Since the organization has not engaged in any attack, the group cannot be described as terrorist. At most, one could argue that the organization is sympathetic to terrorists, but it is not a terrorist organization itself.

Finally, Mr. Brunelle brings up an important discussion about free speech. It must be understood that in the U.S. there is no such thing as unlimited free speech. The Constitution prohibits slander, libel, the expression of fighting words, and any speech representing a “clear

and present danger.” If South Park’s speech would not have violated the Constitution, then there is no legal reason they should have censored the episode. If they decided to censor for other reasons, that is their own prerogative.

One could argue free speech today is too often limited by reasons unrelated to the Constitution, such the concern for public relations. If Mr. Brunelle is upset about South Park for these reasons unrelated to the Constitution, then he should be similarly outraged about Don Imus being fired for his “nappy-headed hoes” comment a few years ago, as well as Mel Gibson being forced to apologize for saying “the Jews are responsible for all of the wars in the world,” as well as a plethora or other examples. Yet, this is the reality of free speech regulation in American society today.

Ideally, people’s respect for others would limit their speech without the need for laws, formal or informal.

Faris Al-Hashmi Class of 2011 Political Science

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UNH history alum gains new respect for shoes Matt Benham

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

At 22, newly armed with a degree in history from UNH, Doug Clark took the best job he could find: product development at Exeter’s Blue Ribbon Sports—later to become Nike Footwear. It wasn’t until several years later, however, while working with industry newcomer Reebok, that Clark realized how his seemingly unlikely education benefited him uniquely.

“It was at Reebok when I realized I had insights that typical shoe designers and developers didn’t have,” Clark said. “Everything I had learned in the Nike lab had practical applications that I felt uniquely capable of implementing in new footwear designs.”

Today, Clark is the CEO and founding partner of New England Footwear, a Newmarket-based startup that has used its foresight and innovative design to edge its way into the competitive footwear industry. The son of a UNH history professor and a nearly lifelong resident of Durham, Clark said his history education gave him a valuable, albeit unorthodox, approach to product design and development.

Using historical precedents and fashion trends, Clark and his team work to tailor their products to the needs and wants of their customers—hopefully staying one step ahead of the competition. Sales in athletic footwear, he said, move in 12-year cycles, though globalization in the past couple of decades has begun to narrow this cycle to, maybe, 10 years. He knows; he’s done the math.

“As a history major, I can tell you that it’s fascinating to me how many people in the consumer goods markets want to think about what to

do next season by going shopping today,” Clark said, laughing slightly.

“The only thing I can promise you is that what’s selling today won’t sell tomorrow.”

Clark said that while his foresight has become an essential part of his business plan, it’s not something that can come naturally; he does a huge amount of research. Clark knows precisely what percentage of his parents’ generation will sustain injury from falling. He’s building a shoe to provide them stability.

He knows, on average, how many degrees a runner’s ankle wobbles when his foot strikes the ground.

That remedy’s already on the market. Though he seems relaxed and at ease in the company’s expansive conference room, it’s apparent that Clark is always considering ways to improve his products.

Sitting forward, almost conspiratorially, Clark says that this research, coupled with knowledge of a wide range of historical trends and a penchant for product innovation, has helped his company to take off. He gets excited, setting down his coffee cup and waving his arms about, as he outlines a history of American footwear trends. He is almost breathless as he finishes, concluding, of course, that the company’s shoes fill a void in the emerging market trend.

“It’s been 12 years,” he said with a shrug.

Going to a display rack of shoes in the corner, he explains that by analyzing the physical needs of each generation of consumers, he and his design team are creating shoes for every consumer. He cradles each shoe gently, even lovingly, and introduces them one by one, as if they were his children.

“Every company I’ve worked for says ‘we’re going to make shoes

for 18 to 24 year olds’ and when I was 19 or 24 that was a fine thing for me,” Clark said. “Eventually, you’re 25.”

Or 53, in Clark’s case. Realizing that his own generation was the most affluent generation in history, as he puts it, Clark decided there was a big business to be had in creating shoes for himself and his peers.

Clark explained how the company has used proprietary technology that literally turns the construction of their shoes upside down.

Picking up a rock and piece of green foam—the same type his outsoles are made of—Clark demonstrates how soft outsoles give far greater stability than the thick rubber to which we’re accustomed. Already, he said, New England Footwear has used this concept in marketing their GoLite trail running shoes, and in the future they’ll offer the same stability in a walking shoe aimed toward elderly buyers.

Conversely, he displays the rounded heel on his own pair of New England Footwear’s Z7 loaf-

ers, a design that mimics walking on cobblestones. Studies have shown this to strengthen the leg muscles— precisely the wellness he and boomer generation peers are seeking.

Not only has Clark’s unconventional education benefited him in footwear design, but he credits it with helping him crack into the business.

“The guy who hired me loved the idea of a liberal arts major,” Clark said. “Because I was the guy who could kind of take care of the technical things and still write reports up that designers and developers—artsy people—could understand.”

In 1980, Clark’s college friend Tom Montgomery had landed an internship with Blue Ribbon Sports and encouraged Clark to apply.

Though Clark chose not to follow Nike when the company moved to Oregon in 1985, the two reunited while working for Timberland in the mid-1990s, and Montgomery joined New England Footwear in 2008 as the company’s COO. “I think when Doug gets pas-

sionate about something, it’s primarily about product and product concepts,” Montgomery said. “The other aspects of business are somewhat looked upon as necessary evils, I think. He really gets passionate and excited when it comes to product ideas, product innovation, anything related to the product itself.”

Clark is readily willing to admit this avoidance of typical corporate duties.

“We tend to stick to our specialties,” he said, of himself and his two partners. “My passion is innovation and always trying to make something different and better.”

This innovation is worthless if it doesn’t reach consumers in a product they’re willing to buy, he said. Luckily for him, Clark is pretty certain what his customers are looking for.

“You can’t predict tomorrow by looking at today,” Clark said, “But you can predict tomorrow by looking at the cycle and where it’s headed and with that, I believe you can predict the future.”

New England shrimp fishermen experience solid season CLARKE CANFIELD ASSOCIATED PRESS

PORTLAND, Maine- The combination of a healthy shrimp population, favorable weather and

stable markets have made for solid shrimp fishing in New England - so solid, in fact, that the season is closing early because fishermen have caught so many of the small, sweet crustaceans.

So far they’ve caught nearly 11 million pounds. That’s the biggest seasonal harvest since 1997.

Because the harvest has exceeded the recommended maximum catch, regulators are closing the season Wednesday, more than three weeks earlier than originally planned.

Even so, the shrimp markets have rebounded from last year when the global recession dampened demand, said John Norton, CEO and president of Cozy Harbor Seafood Inc., a seafood processing company

in Portland. Last year’s shrimp season began just two months after the financial markets collapsed in October 2008, causing seafood buyers to pull back on their purchases, he said.

“The market was certainly able to handle more volume at a higher price than last year,” Norton said.

This season, which began Dec. 1, marked the continued rebound of the markets for New England shrimp since they collapsed nearly a decade ago after fishing seasons were cut back sharply because of weak shrimp populations.

Northern, or pink, shrimp are found in the cold waters of the Gulf of Maine and provide an alternative winter and spring fishery for scores

of New England fishing boats that normally fish for haddock, flounder and other so-called “groundfish” that live near the ocean bottom.

Boats from Maine typically pull in around 90 percent of the catch, with vessels from New Hampshire and Massachusetts taking the rest.

The shrimp are smaller than warm-water shrimp caught in the Gulf of Mexico or grown in shrimp farms worldwide.

The New England shrimp industry, however, won’t benefit from the oil spill in the Gulf, where fishing has been shut down in a swath of waters off Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida affected by the spill.

Gulf shrimp serves different

markets than the smaller cold-water shrimp caught in New England. Gulf fishermen typically harvest more than 200 million pounds a year, with another 1.2 billion pounds of warm-water shrimp being imported from shrimp farms in Thailand, Indonesia, Ecuador, Vietnam, China and elsewhere.

Norton said New England is just a blip in the cold-water shrimp market. Cold-water shrimp are found in waters from Norway to New England and along the west coast from northern California to Alaska.

“Maine this year will be just 10 to 12 million pounds out of a 1 billion pound industry,” he said.

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WSBE senior attempts JP’s Slapshot Contest Kyle LaFleur STAFF WRITER

Bryan Wallace is not that much different from any other member of the WSBE Class of 2010. He is wrapping up his four years at UNH with business courses, several shifts at Union Court and free social time with friends.

Like many seniors, Wallace has also used his time at UNH to cross off experiences from his Durham bucket list. Recently, there has been one set goal, which has occupied his list’s top spot: the JP’s Eatery Slapshot Challenge.

Located at 38 Main Street in downtown Durham, JP’s Eatery is the quintessential college town restaurant with an array of subs, fried favorites and affordable drinks.

Each day, they offer a special discounted menu item, and they even stay open late on weekend nights to feed hungry students.

The restaurant’s mirrored walls are lined with photos of the many brave souls willing to undergo the establishment’s year-and-a-half old Slapshot Challenge. A few photos display the satisfied faces and empty trays of those who overcame the pile of food, while most show only the sad and full expressions of those who came up short.

With the Slapshot, JP’s asks contestants to finish fifteen slider

burgers, a large French fry and a large milkshake of their choice in less than thirty minutes. Winners receive the honor of being posted on the wall of fame and are given a free t-shirt and ten dollar gift certificate to JP’s. Those who leave behind food get their picture on the wall of shame and a $22 check.

It was with this information that Wallace decided to take up the challenge. According to Wallace, his reasons for taking part in this feat of digestive strength were that he had never been in a competitive eating contest before, and he loves cheeseburgers. His plan of attack included putting the French fries into the burgers and letting his chocolate milk shake melt so that it would be easier to drink at the end.

Wallace entered JP’s on Friday, April 23 with the excitement of Adam Richman and the drive of Takeru Kobayashi. He ordered the beastly meal around 7:00 p.m. and sat down at a booth by the window to prepare to chow. The milkshake was at the top of his list of concerns, but he still believed he could power through all the food.

“Man your battle stations,” Wallace said.

The tray weighed down by the various fast food items was brought to the table with a mixture of gasps and laughter. The amount of food

was much larger then Wallace had expected, but he was still optimistic as the waitress pulled out the timer and reminded him of his thirtyminute limit. The competition had begun.

His reasons for taking part in this feat of digestive strength were that he had never been in a competitive eating contest before, and he loves cheeseburgers.

Wallace started off by attacking a mixture of fries and burgers.

Within five minutes, he had taken down a good handful of fries and three sliders. Things were going at a good pace as several friends and patrons looked on.

“These are honestly like two White Castles,” he said, when asked how they compared. He kept

to his technique of letting the milk shake liquify as he mixed burgers and fries generously. His girlfriend brought him water to keep him hydrated, which he took little sips of in-between bites.

“My strategy is to constantly have my mouth full,” he said.

Mid-contest, Wallace hit a wall, and he was in much need of a second wind. He left the burgers to the side and decided to focus his efforts on the fries. According to Wallace, the main difficulty was a lack of saliva to aid in the chewing and swallowing process.

“I don’t feel full,” he said. “It just won’t go down.”

With ten minutes left, the senior competitor had taken care of the fries but still had nine burgers and a large chocolate milkshake to go. The time was flying as Wallace struggled to get the thick mini burgers down. He made steady work on two burgers but found that the thirty minute limit was catching up with him too fast.

The waitress returned to the table with a few minutes left on her stop watch as Wallace turned his full attention to the milk shake.

He drank and scooped the remaining chocolate concoction down as she counted out three, two, one.

He placed the empty cup on the table and let out a sigh of sadness and relief as on-lookers con-

Nobel Prize recipient speaks at UNH Luke Bella-Spooner CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Frank Wilczek, professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, appeared in the MUB Theatre II this past Thursday. The winner of a 2004 Nobel Prize gave a lecture entitled, “What is space?” describing his new findings and views on what space is made of and how it works to a full crowd.

Wilczek described the theory of space as having conflicting ideas.

He focused on his modern point of view: the primary ingredient of reality of which particles are a secondary manifestation. More easily understood, space was described as “the grid,” like a computer grid.

Properties of the grid include its quantum activity, which is spontaneous and unpredictable, and that has material parts (condensates materials that can bend, stretch, and create energy).

“We are like fish that have suddenly realized we live in water,” Wilczek said about this new theory.

Professor Wilczek continued his lecture to describe “what appears to be empty space” as “filled with quark and antiquark material that vibrates.”

Quarks and antiquarks are building-blocks of particles like

protons or neutrons and their antiparticles. From a deeper perspective, quarks and gluons are excited states of the space-filling grid.

A small clip was shown to the crowd to describe the activity in “the grid” and thus space. Almost like a small lava lamp, the clip showed particles moving and vibrating in space and time, which create small, stable patterns of disturbance in “the grid.” Although these fluctua-

“These are very specific and mathematical ideas. It is not fantasy, but reality.”

Frank Wilczek MIT physics professor tions happen, as humans we can’t see them with our limited vision of sight.

All these findings have been proven through mathematical equations. Professor Wilczek, along with Professor David Gross at Princeton University, figured out equations for strong force and used this to make predictions for the theory of space, work that received the 2004 Nobel Prize.

“These are very specific and mathematical ideas,” Wilczek said.

“It is not fantasy, but reality.”

The lecture began as Professor Wilczek mentioned that his wife received her undergraduate degree in Biology at UNH. The packed MUB theatre erupted in laughs when Wilczek started off his lecture with a little humor.

“I think it [UNH] improved her a lot,” Wilczek said.

Attendees at the lecture were able to learn of the history of space theories, and how they have evolved to the modern day theory. Wilczek’s lecture was designed to get his new theory on space to the world, and allow people to understand its properties and ideals.

Professor Wilczek said he though the lecture went very well, noting that the room was filled to the brim, with some guests forced to sit on the steps.

However, some were not as happy with the lecture. Senior Brian Collins, majoring in both physics and mathematics, said bluntly that he’d learned nothing from the lecture.

“I had basically learned it all before in my undergraduate classes,” Collins said. “The lecture was designed for the layman, but it was doubtful for anyone to believe him without the equations. The lecture was rather boring to be frank.”

The lecture contained a vast

history of physics including the theories of Aristotle and Isaac Newton, and some descriptions, but no solid mathematical equations of the theories proposed by Wilczek.

One layman who made his way to the lecture was sophomore Sam Rafter.

A biochemistry major, Rafter entered the packed house with a skateboard under his arm and found the only empty seat in the theatre… the stairs. “[I went] to obtain further understanding of the universe,” Rafter said. “Everything interested me. Space is something that I wish to have a further understanding of.”

Despite differing opinions, Professor Wilczek performed his theories with an excited demeanor and passion.

“I’ve always been interested in questions that traditionally have been considered part of philosophy, or even religion,” he said. “Recently, I had the occasion to re-read some of Bertrand Russell and Herman Weyl’s books, that I first read as a teenager,” Wilczek said. “These heroes brought the science of their time to bear on philosophical questions, and in particular the issue of what space is.”

“But a lot has happened since then, and we have got some deep and very surprising solutions to the old problems,” Wilczek said.

KYLE LAFLEUR/ STAFF WRITER Bryan Wallace begins his adventure to attempt the “Slap Shot Contest.”

gratulated him for how far he had come.

When all was said and done, he had eaten the entire large fry, demolished eight slider burgers and sucked down the large milk shake.

As he left, Wallace thought that a better strategy would have been to eat as many of the burgers as he could before his digestive system knew what hit him.

“My advice to anyone who would want to do this is to turn around and walk out the door,” he said.

Texas man pleads guilty in kids’ drowing deaths Juan A. Lozano ASSOCIATED PRESS

HOUSTON- A 33-year-old father pleaded guilty Monday in the drunken driving deaths of five children, including three of his own, who drowned after he lost control of his car and veered into a rainswollen ditch.

Chanton Jenkins, of Houston, pleaded guilty to five counts of intoxication manslaughter just before his trial was set to start.

Jenkins’ attorney, Lott Brooks III, said his client pleaded guilty to spare his family from having to go through a trial, and that the decision was not part of a deal with prosecutors.

“His feeling was, ‘My children are dead. What else could happen to me,’” Brooks said.

Police say Jenkins was driving drunk and using his cell phone on the afternoon of April 18, 2009, when he lost control of his car, which was carrying seven passengers. The vehicle veered off the road and into the ditch, which had been turned into a raging river by heavy rains that day.

Jenkins, his brother and Jenkins’ 10-year-old daughter were able to escape. But five children drowned, including three of Jenkins’ children‚ Devin Jenkins, 4, Hallie Jenkins, 4, and Karrinton Jenkins, 1‚ and brothers Dreton Thompson, 11, and Malik Barlow, 7.

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UNH students to embark on summer research Amanda Cripps

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

This summer, while some students will be working at home for extra cash, traveling or taking summer courses to get ahead for the fall, a number of their highly focused and curious peers will be SURFing.

These students won’t be hitting the waves. They will be participating in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships, or SURF for short. SURF’s are awarded to a number of students wishing to conduct research over the summer months, and they are part of the University of New Hampshire’s extensive research program. A $3,500 stipend is allocated to each student selected to participate, along with some money to fund their research, which may be on any topic from the expression of genes in a plant undergoing stress, researched by Dan Turai in 2004, to using the arts in AIDS education, researched by Talia Connery in 2006.

Elyssa Barrick, a junior psychology major, will be studying the effects of microstimulation in the different stages of working memory (a part of short-term memory that is involved in attention), in

one of the department’s animal research labs over the summer. Two graduate students that she had been working with on research projects last fall introduced Barrick to the SURF program.

“I work in a neuroscience lab in the psychology department, and the grad students I work with suggested I apply for one,” Barrick said. “It seemed like a good opportunity to get experience in the field I want to go into.”

Barrick felt a strong connection with psychology at a young age. As a child she was surrounded by various mental disorders in her family, and she continues to be connected to people suffering from disorders today. She hopes that her research might provide some insight into helping people with working memory loss.

“I’m interested in this topic because working memory loss is a problem seen in many neurological and psychological disorders,” Barrick said. “I have always had an interest in psychiatric disorders, and the research aspect seems like a good way to help people.”

George Adams, a sophomore in the music department, will be studying beat-class modulation in the music of Steve Reich this summer.

Conn. man gets 10 years in fatal hit-and-run accident Stephan Singer ASSOCIATED PRESS

HARTFORD, Conn. - A Connecticut man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday for a hit-and-run accident that sparked outrage because video showed bystanders ignoring the 78-yearold victim.

Luis Negron was sentenced in Hartford Superior Court on what would have been the 80th birthday of the victim, Angel Arce Torres. Negron was chasing another motorist in a dispute over money in May 2008 when he struck Torres, who died from his injuries a year later.

Negron, 34, was arrested within days of Torres’ death, and he pleaded guilty in February to manslaughter and leaving the scene of an accident. He received a 10-year sentence on each of the charges, to be served at the same time.

Surveillance video showed cars and trucks driving past Torres as he lay injured in the street and bystanders appearing to do nothing, although some did call 911.

Superior Court Judge David P. Gold acknowledged that the punishment he meted out would not satisfy Torres family members who packed the courtroom.

“I’ve agonized over it,” he said.

The state recommended a sentence of 12 years and the victim’s family sought 15 years.

Torres’ son, Angel Arce,

spoke for more than an hour about his father and his importance to the family. He showed slides of his father as a strong, fit man and others of him after he was knocked down by Negron’s car, paralyzed and confined to a hospital bed.

“The streets don’t belong to people who are recklessly driving,” Arce said. “This family, all it wants is justice.”

Negron told Gold he was sorry for causing Torres’ death and insisted he did not try to evade responsibility by failing to stop and help Torres or surrender to police.

“I was scared of this. I never meant to hurt anyone,” he said. “I apologize to the family.”

But Gold dismissed Negron’s comments.

“Mr. Negron, you ignored not only the efforts by the police trying to solve this crime, but you ignored the pleas of a grieving family,” the judge said.

Still, he said he has a duty to impose what he believes is a fair sentence that is consistent with prison terms handed down by other judges in comparable cases.

Negron’s lawyer, Gerald Klein, told reporters after the hearing that similar cases involving drunken driving typically draw prison terms of between three and five years. The longer term for his client is because he was at-large for a year and reflects the Torres family’s suffering.

“He does not think it’s unfair,” Klein said.

Beat-class modulation is a rhythmic phenomenon involving repeated patterns that are built up, varied and combined polyphonically that first appeared in Reich’s phase-shifting music. Adams developed an affinity for Reich’s music during his freshman year, and is looking forward to exposing peers to his work.

“I have always had an interest in psychiatric disorders, and the research aspect seems like a good way to help people.”

Elyssa Barrick SURF participant “Reich’s music has affected me deeply since I first heard Music for 18 Musicians during my freshman year,” Adams said. “I can honestly say it is my favorite piece since Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Unfortunately, not very many music scholars share the same apprecia-

tion of his music. I hope that by furthering the theoretical development and understanding of Reich’s music, more people will come to appreciate it the way I do.”

Adams plans to conduct his research by analyzing scores of Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians and Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboards and identifying instances of beat-class modulation.

He decided to apply for SURF to study this topic after hearing about the prospective summer research of some of his peers.

“I had heard of fellow students doing SURF projects and I also received a few e-mails starting last year,” Adams said. “As I became more interested in doing research in pursuit of my career goals, I decided that applying for a SURF grant would be the best way to take another step.”

Adams has loved music since he was a child, and can distinctly remember carrying around his portable tape player, listening to a copy of the Beatles’ Yellow Submarine soundtrack. He plays the viola, violin, bass, guitar, and a bit of piano, and a few of his favorite composers are Philip Glass, John Cage, and Igor Stravinsky.

The research that Adams, Barrick and their fellow SURFers will be conducting this summer is made possible by UNH’s Hamel Center for Undergraduate Research. As a major research university, UNH strives to provide these opportunities for its students. The center has helped support over 2000 students in completing research projects since its inception in 1987.

The Hamel Center now offers a number of research opportunities on campus, across the country and around the world through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program and International Research Opportunities Program.

Funding for these programs is made possible through support from the university administration, parents association, state and federal funding, as well as the generosity of private benefactors.

When she’s not in the lab running animals, Barrick will be studying chemistry. She’s taking a twopart summer course to get ahead for the fall semester. Adams plans on relaxing at home.

“I’ll be riding my bike, reading, enjoying the nice weather and cooking and eating lots of falafel,” he said.

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UNH student pursues musical career despite physical setback Bridget Harris

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Her piano teacher remembers the first time she heard her play.

She was in awe of the girl’s musical touch, even though at the time she didn’t know the student’s name.

Only later did she discover that the young pianist, Valerie Peters, only has seven fingers – a challenge that has made it very difficult to play piano music.

“She played so well the first time I heard her that I had no idea,” Professor Arlene Kies, Peters’ piano teacher, said.

Kies visited Peters’ high school, Pinkerton Academy, when Peters was a junior. Kies conducted a master class, or a group lesson, and heard Peters play for the first time.

Peters, who is pursuing her bachelor’s degree in music education at UNH, is already considered to be a very accomplished pianist by her peers as well as her teachers.

“I was really worried all she’d see me as was someone with seven fingers,” Peters said.

But that was not the case. Kies asked Peters to play a certain line for her, then tried it as well, also only using seven of her fingers.

“No one had ever done that for me before,” Peters said.

Peters said she was touched deeply by Kies’ empathy, and from that meeting onward was set on coming to UNH for music.

“I knew I wanted to study with Arlene,” Peters said.

Peters, who was born with an atypical cleft hand, only has her thumb and pinky on her right hand.

The condition, which is not genetic, occurs during days twelve to sixteen of pregnancy, according to Peters.

“She’s had a hard time believing me, but we’re all missing something,” Kies said. “No person has every single thing.”

Playing piano with only seven fingers is no easy accomplishment.

Peters has had to invent fingering techniques in order to learn the music, such as crossing hands and playing two notes with her right thumb.

“It’s forced me to be creative,” Peters said.

Kies says when Peters first began studying with her she would try to give her finger patterns, or routes to reach different notes, but Peters has flourished quickly and now is normally able to discover finger patterns on her own.

Being creative hasn’t always been easy, however.

“I’ve always felt I’ve needed to do everything better than everyone else,” Peters said. “I needed to make it so obvious that my hand didn’t matter.”

Peters practices piano for approximately three hours a day, every single day.

During her sophomore year, she said she used to practice six hours a day, sometimes even putting off sleep in order to squeeze in extra hours of practicing.

Peters also gets frustrated on occasion because she feels that she cannot do justice to the music.

“I’ve always been hard on myself,” said Peters. “It’s just that good enough is such a relative term.”

Peters isn’t her only tough critic. She has had many teachers, including family members, who have doubted her ability to ever be able to learn advanced piano music.

“She plays with intense emotion and pulls the audience right into the music with her through her precise attention to detail.”

Luke Miller, graduate of the UNH music program Most of the audience at her senior recital, however, didn’t notice anything different at all. Instead, they were simply awed by her playing.

“Val’s senior recital was one of the best, if not the best, that I have been to at UNH,” fellow musician and long-time friend Luke Miller said. “The recital hall was packed for the performance.”

Miller, also a graduate of the music program at UNH, has known Peters for over 10 years.

Peters recently played her senior recital in the Bratton room of the PCAC. She performed for a crowded room of friends and family who became teary-eyed as she gave thanks following the recital.

“She plays with intense emotion and pulls the audience right into the music with her through her precise attention to detail,” Miller said.

Her piano teacher agrees as well. Kies said that many students lack a developed musicality, tone or a certain technique. Not Peters.

“She doesn’t lack anything else [when she plays]. Everything else is there,” Kies said.

Peters’ love for music expands outside of school as well. Peters is very involved in a support group for children with upper limb differences called the Helping Hands Foundation.

Helping Hands meets semiannually for a weekend of fun and support.

In the past few years, Peters has organized chamber ensembles for some of the children who also play instruments.

“It’s an adorable disaster,” Peters said. “But the parents love it.”

Peters said that every year she gets calls from parents asking if their children will be alright, and what the kids will and won’t be able to do as they mature.

“It means a lot to me to be able to tell parents that their kid is going to be able to tie their shoes,” Peters said.

Peters has put so much into Helping Hands that she has become the youngest person ever to join the board of directors for the New Hampshire division of the foundation.

“I didn’t want the name sevenfingered pianist, but if I can use it to be a role model I will,” Peters said.

Peters is not only a role model for children with hand disabilities, but to her fellow classmates as well.

Kies said at times she has to struggle to not become frustrated with her other students who do not work as hard as Peters.

“She works very hard,” Kies said. “I think she’ll have a career in music. I have no worries for her.”

Peters hopes to continue teaching piano privately when she graduates from college. First, however, she wants to take a year off from school to live in Germany and teach English to German students.

“She’s excellent at German,” classmate Nicole Labbe, a junior, said.

Despite her other talents, Peters’ true love lies in music. She hopes to attend graduate school in conducting upon her return to the United States.

“I tell my students to do something besides piano [for graduate school],” Kies said. “She’d be an ace piano teacher because she has good social and communication skills and is so empathetic.”

Kies has also suggested that Peters pursue a career in vocal coaching. Since Peters is accomplished in German as well as English, learning the signing language of IPA (a system for being able to pronounce German, French and Italian) should come easily to her.

As a vocal coach, Peters would be able to accompany singers on piano while helping them with their phrasing and pronunciation.

“Beginning singers all the way to professional singers on the road use vocal coaches,” Kies said.

Although Peters is not sure exactly what she wants to do besides continuing to teach piano privately, she knows she wants to continue in music.

Currently she teaches piano to a boy who also has a hand difference.

“Half the time I think, ‘Why does this poor kid want to play piano?’” Peters said. But then she looks at herself. “I don’t know if I’ll ever just perform [for a living], but I do want to keep practicing.”

JOSH SMALL/ CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Eighteen volunteers gathered at the Waysmeet Center to plant fruits and vegetables for the Cornucopia Food Pantry.

Volunteers plant garden at Waysmeet Center for food pantry Josh Small

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Cornucopia food pantry will no longer have bare shelves where vegetables and fruits should be.

Eighteen volunteers gathered at the Waysmeet Center on Saturday, May 1, to plant a 160-square-foot garden in the backyard.

“We have a bunch of people who know what to do, and we just have to get it done,” sophomore Krystal Antoniuk said.

The volunteers started at 11 a.m. and worked until 5 p.m., constructing five garden beds: four 4’ x 8’ beds and one 6’ x 6’ bed. There is also a compost area cleared for residents that will be used to maintain the future of the garden.

“I volunteered at the food pantry last summer,” senior Kayla Timmons said. “There were hardly ever any fresh vegetables.”

Cathie Plante, an intern at the food pantry, believes it will be easier to grow tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and eggplants at first.

“Plants are being grown in a greenhouse and will be done around May 20,” Plante said. “Just keeping it small and basic for now. Maybe in a couple of years we could have pumpkins or blueberries. Tomatoes and cucumbers are easy for people to cook.”

Graduate student Natalie Magnatta volunteered because she enjoys the community aspect.

“I like the idea of being part of the community,” Magnatta said.

“From an agricultural point of view, more projects like this need to happen.”

Plante posted flyers around Thompson School and gave a few to some teachers to hand out in classes.

“I was wicked excited and pumped about the turnout,” Plante said. “I could not have asked for bet-

ter volunteers. Everyone who came put their all into the project and worked extremely hard. When they finished for the day, I felt that there was no way to express how thankful I was.”

“Just keeping it small and basic for now...

Tomatoes and cucumbers are easy for people to cook.”

Cathie Plante, intern at Cornucopia Food Pantry The $1,463.44 cost of the garden was funded by a grant that Cornucopia received from the Parents Association in March. The grant covered expenses of seeds, tools and lumber for the garden beds.

Up next for Waysmeet will be a thank you/celebration dinner on May 14 for the volunteers. Planting day will be on May 20.

Plante has been in contact with student volunteers that have expressed interest in caring for the garden over the summer. The garden will also be listed on a new website that was launched May 1, called the Seacoast Community Garden Network.

Plante will be graduating in May, but she plans to help at the Waysmeet Center in the future.

“I hope to help however I can at the Waysmeet Center after I leave,” Plante said. “I would love to keep working with the Cornucopia Food Pantry and develop more outreach programs like the garden that address the issue of hunger in the Seacoast/Durham community and bring people together to solve local problems.”

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Study finds college hookups are not that common Ryan Hartley STAFF WRITER

Popular culture holds that “hooking up” is far more common in college today than it used to be.

However, a new study proposes that the trend in college hookups really hasn’t varied that much over the years.

Researchers at Duke University recently randomly surveyed 1,500 students on the Durham, N.C. campus, and found that only about one-third of them had actually had a hookup in college.

Sociology professor S. Philip Morgan, associate research professor in the Department of Sociology Suzanne Shanahan and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology Wendy Brynildsen led the study.

They surveyed 732 freshmen and 723 seniors, and found that of the one-third in each grade that had a hookup, less than half involved oral sex or vaginal intercourse.

So, why does society today make it seem as if everybody is “hooking up” in college? One reason may be that the term’s definition is unclear, with actions ranging anywhere from kissing to sexual intercourse qualifying to some.

“There are strong generational differences in the way that ‘sex’ and ‘sexual abstinence’ are defined and practiced,” Dr. Jean Elson, a sociology professor at UNH, said. “I think that there is a consensus that American society is hyper-sexual-

ized and that teenagers and young adults are particularly influenced by media images asserting that being ‘sexy’ and ‘having sex’ are important life goals.”

Sophomore Megan Mantell agrees.

“The term ‘hookup’ is very broad nowadays,” she said. “And due to today’s popular culture, it has almost become a necessity to teenagers and college students.”

In fact, there is even an analogy regarding the affect of popular culture on college students in the report of the Duke University study.

The report claims that “the hookup is to college what the prom is to high school: everyone does it and everyone does it all the time.”

It also says that the popular magazine, Rolling Stone, depicts college life as being controlled by a “booze-fueled culture of the neverending hookup.”

With a sexually dominated culture surrounding them, it’s hard for college students to not feel pressured into having sex. This can be even harder if their friends are having sex, too.

Dr. Elson has done her own personal research regarding the matter, and she found that many people do feel compelled to have sex in college and before they are married.

In 2006 and 2007, she conducted research regarding the definitions of abstinence on the UNH campus.

Her study found that approximately 94 percent of survey participants

did not agree that either females or males should remain sexually abstinent prior to marriage, and all respondents gave the same responses for both females and males. The ages at which respondents thought it was appropriate to begin sexual activity ranged from 15 to 18 for both girls and boys.

“You go out with the pre-existing knowledge that when you drink, you’re probably going to hook up.”

Claire Addley, UNH Sophomore Compared to the study done at Duke, Dr. Elson’s research included a survey of 486 UNH students, as well as 42 focus groups of two to three students each and several indepth interviews with students who were currently, or had been, voluntarily sexually abstinent.

She presented her findings at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University in April 2007, which conducts research in the fields of sex, gender and reproduction, as well as in a presentation here on campus.

Besides Dr. Elson’s research,

only one other study like it has been conducted here at UNH, and it was done by a UNH graduate student about 10 to 15 years prior. There are currently no other studies on the topic being conducted at UNH. Despite seeing all the numbers and the research, freshman Chris McKinley still thinks that hookups are more frequent today than they used to be.

“From what I’ve seen on the weekends and sometimes the weekdays, people are hooking up as much, if not more, than popular culture suggests,” he said. “But I think that sometimes both guys and girls lie about having hookups. Guys sometimes say they hook up more than they do because they want to seem cooler to their buddies. Girls, on the other hand, sometimes say that they have fewer hookups than they do to seem less promiscuous to their friends.”

Sophomore Claire Addley feels the same way.

“When most people go out, they have the expectation that they’re going to bring someone home,” she said. “You go out with the pre-existing knowledge that when you drink, you’re probably going to hook up.”

Since it’s become so loosely defined, “hooking up” has just become a part of everyday college life.

“Basically, it’s no big deal now,” Addley said.

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Authorities: Woman stabs 4 in Calif. Target store WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - A woman who stabbed and wounded four people in a busy Target store Monday afternoon was arrested when an off-duty sheriff’s deputy pulled his gun and ordered the woman to the ground as screaming shoppers ran from the building, authorities said.

Layla Trawick started randomly stabbing people with a blade about the size of a kitchen knife at about 12:45 p.m., Los Angeles sheriff’s Sgt. Josh Mankini said. The 35-year-old Antioch woman was arrested with the help of private security guards and booked on suspicion of attempted murder.

Several shoppers who saw offduty deputy Clay Grant pull out his weapon feared he was a gunman and began running and screaming, adding to the sense of panic, Mankini said.

“If he wasn’t there, who knows? Someone would be dead right now,” Mankini said. “He had no communication with outside law enforcement. He’s just some guy doing his shopping. We’re pretty proud of him.”

Three women and a man were stabbed and taken to area hospitals, Mankini said. One of the victims was stabbed in the neck and shoulder.

Los Angeles County Fire Inspector Frederick Stowers said one victim was in critical condition. Authorities did not immediately know the conditions of the others.

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UNH club emphasizes a different way to eat Julia Miller STAFF WRITER

ERICA SIVER/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Jon Forti showed participants how to eat food grown in New Hampshire ten months of the year at the Slow Food and Seacoast Slow Food potluck dinner.

UNH Slow Food and Seacoast Slow Food joined together on Sunday, May 2, for a potluck at the Thompson School. The evening began with a demonstration and workshop on herb growing lead by John Forti, co-leader of Seacoast Slow Food, herbalist and curator.

According to senior UNH Slow Food member Alisha Dimasi, the demonstration was amazing.

Forti showed participants how to eat food grown in New Hampshire ten months out of the year.

Forti pointed out plants and herbs and told the students what they were and each plant’s history.

This all took place right in front of the Thompson School. Forti pointed out dandelions, which are great to eat before they flower. Wild apples, angelica, chives, sage, majoram, lovage, sweet cicely, and tarragon

are among some of the edible plants and herbs that grow wild on the UNH campus.

“There is no more local than your own backyard,” Forti said.

The motto of Slow Food is to promote food that is good, clean and fair. The organization defines good food as something that has a good taste and is good for your health which is also produced in a healthy way, but also supports fair producers buying locally and having a direct relationship with farmers.

UNH Slow Food is still a relatively new club; it began two years ago. Although it has taken a while for the club to get running and gain new members, the recent connection with the Thompson School and their well-equipped kitchen has made a huge difference for the future of the club.

Sarah Jacobson, president of UNH Slow Food, said that the club hopes to make eating an occasion

to enjoy good food and good company.

“We want to get people excited about cooking and eating. Hopefully along the way they will learn about the impact of food and where it comes from,” Jacobson said.

Many people think of Slow Food as the opposite of fast food.

Carlo Petrini started Slow Food in Italy in protest of McDonalds. In 2006, the UNH Office of Sustainability brought Petrini here when the new ecogastronomy major was just beginning.

“Most of our culture is very fast-paced; we don’t often take time to have a home-cooked meal and sit down with our families,” Jacobson said.

Sunday was the last big event held by UNH Slow Food for the semester. The group is looking to expand. According to members, students should expect bigger campuswide potlucks in the future.

UNH student adapts to new life after the Army but misses the battlefield Melanie Grey

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The son of two Air Force majors, Jon Shallow followed closely in his parents’ footsteps when he joined the Army at age 17. Born on Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany, the 23-year-old lived the military life long before he chose to.

However, Shallow said his upbringing did not influence his decision to join the Army. Instead, after getting into trouble with the law, Shallow decided he could either go to jail or join the military.

“I was the class clown,” he said. “Whatever I felt like doing, I did. I didn’t really care what other people thought.”

Now a sophomore at the University of New Hampshire, Shallow says that though he still likes to go out and have a good time, he is aware that his actions affect not only his image, but also the image of the Army.

“To some people, it’s just a flag, but to me, it’s a symbol for everything I stand for.”

Jon Shallow, UNH student “I’m more respectful to people, in some aspects, as long as they respect me first,” he said. “Now I actually think about how my actions affect other people.”

Once a month, as a member

of the Army National Guard, he reports for drill in Strafford. But Shallow said he misses his four and a half years of active duty.

“It’s the biggest adrenaline rush,” he said, picking up his guitar, which he learned to play four months ago. “Every time I see a fire fight on TV, it brings me back.

Once you’ve experienced that feeling, nothing could ever match it.

It’s definitely scary as hell when it’s happening, but the second it’s over, you just want to go back and do it again.”

Shallow was stationed in Baghdad, Iraq, from June 2006 until September 2007.

When he returned from his tour, Shallow said it was difficult to adjust, and for the first two months he was home, he had nightmares once a week. Today, the only one thing bothers him—loud, sudden noises.

“I was driving down the road the other day, and something exploded behind the trees,” he said. “I started sweating, and I was like, ‘I gotta get out of here.’”

Despite his extraordinary stories, his college friends say that he’s just like any other student.

“He’s really outgoing and outspoken,” Laura Bradshaw, who became friends with Shallow a little over a year ago when he first started at UNH, said. “He’ll talk to anyone, and he really doesn’t care what people think of him.”

While his friends at UNH say that he doesn’t talk about his time in Iraq often, Shallow said that he’s not opposed to it.

“It’s not that I don’t want to talk about it,” he said. “It’s that the

majority of people wouldn’t understand what I’m talking about. If you weren’t there, it just wouldn’t make much sense to you.”

“Once you’ve experienced that feeling, nothing could ever match it.“ Jon Shallow, UNH student Though his unit is currently deployed, Shallow remains in touch with most of his team members.

“All my friends I went with are there right now,” he said. “If I didn’t go to school and wasn’t going through the Guard for flight school, I’d be back in Iraq right now.”

In September, Shallow honored five members of his team who lost their lives; he had a tattoo painted on his ribs that read, “Brother Forever, Never Forgotten.” It was followed by each of their names and the date that each died.

“I get thanked by WWII vets, and it blows my mind,” he said.

“They lost more guys in a day than we lost in a year and a half there, and they still thank us.”

His deployment also gave him a great appreciation for the American flag.

“It’s an awesome symbol of America,” Shallow, who now has an American flag patch sewn onto his snowboarding jacket, said. “To some people, it’s just a flag, but to me, it’s a symbol for everything I stand for.”

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Local bands take to the stage at May Day Festival Andy Gilbert

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The amplified music of electric guitars, rapidly beaten drums and energetic singers welcomed May with steady rhythms as their sounds echoed throughout the northeast part of campus.

Their cries were the tell tale sign that Saturday’s May Day Festival was in full swing.

Performing throughout the day were a mix of bands, including Old Crow and the 45’s, Against All Gravity, Project Mayhem and the Deathcard Basics, Red Sky Mary and the Fifth Band Trio.

With the exception of Against All Gravity, whose members came from a local high school, all of the bands featured members from UNH. Behind the stage, Owen Kennett could be seen directing band members and moving their equipment on and off the stage.

Kennett was in charge of the bands, which he had recruited for the festival to play pro bono. He wanted to give them a chance to shine.

“I think it’s good for UNH students to be aware of the music around here, instead of outsourcing all of our music,” he said.

The May Day Festival was paid for with the Student Activities

Fee and was put together by a committee mostly made up of Campus Activitites Board members, such as Kennett.

While this year’s performances were almost exclusively local, Kennett doesn’t object to out of town bands. He just wanted the festival to be centered on local music.

“I just want the ratio tipped a little in their favor,” Kennett said.

All the bands seemed appreciative to have the limelight.

Mike Curley, lead singer of Project Mayhem and the Deathcard Basics, said it was a great experience.

“This is my first time performing my own music,” he said. “It was nerve racking, honestly.”

Curley, a junior, is also working on a solo project.

“This is the first time I’ve ever sat down and ever written anything,” Curley said, in regard to the project.

His concept album, “As Evidence,” can be found at www.asevidence. bandcamp.com.

Although both Project Mayhem and the Deathcard Basics and Against All Gravity’s performances were debuts, most of the bands that performed, like Red Sky Mary, formerly known as The Remedy, had plenty of experience.

Red Sky Mary, which consists of Barrett Goeman, Mike Kalempa,

Tom Broise and Sam Vlasich, gave a very energetic show as the day slowly became night.

The band’s members have been together for a year, mostly performing at charity concerts and private events. Broise, a sophomore, met Kennet at the The Grind, an open Mic night that is held once a month at the Memorial Union Building.

Red Sky Mary’s singles: “Heart of Stone,” “Still Standing” and “Let Down Your Hair,” feature classic rhythms similar to bands such as AC/DC. However, their lyrics and music are completely original.

“We’re a regular rock band trying to bring back hardcore music,” Sam Vlasich, lead singer of the band, said. “What you see is what you get.”

They plan on releasing their first album sometime next year.

Their singles can be found at myspace.com/redskymary.

The band will also be performing at the Dover Brick House on May 26, and they said that they can’t wait, though they were just as pleased to perform at the May Day Festival.

“Someone said the best they’ve ever heard [us] was tonight,” Vlasich said. “I take that as a compliment.”

ANDY GILBERT PHOTOS/ CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Top: Red Sky Mary’s lead singer Sam Vlasich, right, performs alongside bass player Mike Kalempa, left.

Bottom: Project Mayhem and the Deathcard Basics’s Mike Curley, left, and Tom Broise, right, perform on Saturday.

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Weekly Sports Guide Wildcats vs.

TRACK & FIELD

Men and women both earn third at America East Championships Staff Reports

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE

Saturday May 8, 12:30 p.m.

Football Blue/White Scrimmage Cowell Stadium

OTHER EVENTS Thursday- MAY 6 Women’s Lacrosse v. Boston U. @ Albany, N.Y. America East Semifinal

3:30 p.m.

This Weekend’s Results SATURDAY - MAY 1 Women’s Lacrosse (10-6), (4-2) @ Vermont

W, 18-10

Sunday - MAY 2 Men’s Lacrosse (11-3), (4-1) v. Boston College

L, 10-9, 2OT

Junior Brice Paey won an individual title on the final day to the lead the UNH men’s outdoor track & field team to a third-place finish at the America East Championships at UNH’s Reggie F. Atkins Track & Field Facility on Sunday.

The Wildcats finished with 127 points to place behind the University at Albany (190) and Binghamton University (139).

Paey captured his third-straight title in the shot put with an IC4Aqualifying throw of 18.10m. Graduate student Jeff Kaste and freshman Cameron Lyle placed third and sixth, respectively, with marks of 15.33m and 15.07m The Wildcats’ 4x800-meter relay team of seniors Ben Jenkins, Matt O’Connor and Marc Ouellette, as well as freshman Corey Duchemin, finished sixth in a time

of 7:49.67.

On the women’s side, juniors Erica Jesseman, Camille Quarles and Kaitlyn Dugan, as well as the 4x800-meter relay team, all submitted second-place finishes on the final day to lead the UNH women’s outdoor track & field team to a third-place finish at the America East Championships on Sunday.

The Wildcats finished with 133 points, to place behind the University at Albany (197.50) and the University of Maine (172).

Jesseman finished second in the 5,000m in a time of 17:33.74.

Quarles placed second in the triple jump with an ECAC-qualifying leap of 12.15m. Quarles was fourth in the long jump on day one with a mark of 5.60m.

In the heptathlon, Dugan placed second with 4,547. Dugan was also fifth in the high jump with a mark of 1.58m.

The Wildcats’ 4x800-meter

relay team of senior Tracy Howell, freshman Darcy James, junior Jennifer Racine, and junior Allison Letourneau placed second in an ECAC-qualifying time of 9:08.52.

The 4x400 squad of juniors Chelsey Canavan and Megan Donohue, as well as sophomores Kaitlin Kwiecien and Brittany Verville finished in an ECAC-qualifying time of 3:51.06.

Senior Ashlee Lathrop finished third in the discus throw with a toss of 41.24m. Lathrop won her secondconsecutive hammer throw title on day one with an ECAC-qualifying toss of 54.67m Donohue finished third in the 400-meter hurdles in a time of 1:02.34. Donohue was also fifth in the long jump on day one with a mark of 5.50m.

Both the men and women return to action May 7-8 at the New England Championships on the campus of Northeastern University.

MEN’S LAX: Wildcats’ comeback spoiled by Eagles in double OT Continued from page 20

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to level the score, 5-5.

The Wildcats scored four consecutive goals to build a 9-5 advantage. Kaplan scored just off the left post at 9:04 to give the visiting ‘Cats a lead they would not relinquish.

A ground ball by Curro then set up a UNH transition attack in which Keagins scored an unassisted goal on a low, sidearm shot from the right wing at 6:24.

Bratton scored on a high shot at the left doorstep to give the Wildcats an 8-5 lead at 2:02. Rausch then scored a free-position goal at 1:05 to extend the advantage to four goals.

UVM scored twice in the final 20 seconds of the first half to lift the Catamounts within 9-7 heading into halftime.

UNH scored the initial nine goals of the second half, and held the home team scoreless for 28 minutes to break the game open.

Curro scored consecutive goals at 27:57 and 23:21, and then Keagins netted back-to-back goals at 18:17 and 14:29 to give UNH at 13-7 lead.

Jenny Simpson converted Ka-

plan’s pass into a goal at 11:00, then Bratton and Kaplan scored 42 seconds apart - at 8:56 and 8:14 - to push the advantage to 16-7.

Rausch scored off a feed from Kaplan at 6:48 to give the Wildcats a double-digit lead, 17-7, and Dale netted a goal off a pass from Keagins at 3:15.

Vermont scored three goals in the final 1:59 of the game to close the scoring. UNH recorded a 42-22 shot advantage that included a 25-4 second-half margin. The Wildcats also had the edge in ground balls (15-8) and draw controls (16-14), and committed fewer turnovers (11-18).

Kaplan climbed into sixth place on UNH’s career points leaderboard with her six-point performance. She now has 106 goals and 78 assists for 184 points.

Keagins recorded her 50th career point with the fourth of her nine points.

New Hampshire will begin postseason play at the America East Women’s Lacrosse Championship tournament next week. The thirdseeded Wildcats will play Boston University in a May 6 semifinal game.

-ing able to backdoor them a little bit we were able to create a little more offense.”

That may be a bit of an understatement. The Wildcats exploded for six goals in the third quarter, peppering Shea with 15 shots and regaining the offensive production that they lacked in the first half.

Senior Mike Maloney netted the first on a leaping goal from the left side to cut the lead to 5-2. Gardiner then recorded his second goal of the day with a looping shot that floated over the shoulder of Shea.

A BC holding penalty led to a man-up advantage for UNH, and the Wildcats capitalized, with Gardiner hitting James Rubio to cut the deficit to one.

After a defensive lapse allowed BC’s Mike Racanelli to race the length of the field and beat Katz to make it 6-4, Gardiner fed Rubio again from behind the net for Rubio’s second of the day.

“James Rubio had two excellent backdoor cuts and stuck it top corner,” Sullivan said. “He had a hell of a game. It’s the way a senior should go out.”

Freshman Garrett Buckley then tied the game on a snipe that hit the netting just inside of the crossbar.

After two Buckley shots missed wide of the net on UNH’s next possession to give the ball back to BC, a turnover at midfield set up a UNH breakaway. Sophomore Evan Flower sprinted unopposed to the BC net then beat Shea one-on-one to give the Wildcats their first lead of the game and send the crowd into a frenzy.

“Our motto all yeah has been to pretty much chill and our coach just

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Freshman Garrett Buckley lines up a shot in Sunday’s game.

said to keep our composure,” Maloney said. “They went [up] 5-1 in the first half and I think we went 6-1 in the third quarter, so it was huge.”

Gardiner and Rubio hooked up again to start the fourth quarter, this time Rubio taking possession in the UNH end and bringing up the right sideline before feeding Gardiner in front of the net for the score.

The Eagles then mounted a comeback of their own. Racanelli took advantage of a man-up situation with a goal from the left slot, and then Donald Conway tied the score with another agonizingly slow roller that Katz initially saved but was unable to hold on to.

A BC slashing penalty led to man-up goal by Flower, off an assist by junior Dan Milano, to give the Wildcats a 9-8 lead with under five minutes remaining, but BC’s Tom Luckey netted the equalizer with two minutes left to send the game into overtime.

After both teams were held

scoreless in the first five-minute extra session, BC slipped the gamewinner past Katz three minutes into the second overtime to give the Eagles a 10-9 win.

Fatigue seemed to set in for the Wildcats in overtime, as they were repeatedly unable to clear it out of their zone and managed only one shot in the extra periods.

Temperatures on the new turf also approached 90 degrees late in the game.

“A couple of tough penalties there let them knot it up, and then that’s the reason you play the game is for overtime,” Sullivan said. “It was an exciting game, the last ball just didn’t bounce our way.”

Gardiner led all scorers with three goals and two assists, while Rubio tallied a goal and two assists and Flower netted two goals.

Maloney and Buckley had one goal apiece, and Milano and sophomore Steven Eurieck each tallied an assist.

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TNH Sports Pictures of the Year 2009-2010

MIKE RALPH SEPTEMBER 26: UNH players celebrate a TD in the Wildcats’ 44-14 win over Dartmouth.

TYLER MCDERMOTT JANUARY 27: Freshman Ferg Myrick drives to the basket in UNH’s 75-56 win over Vermont.

MIKE RALPH FEBRUARY 19: Senior captain Bobby Butler skates in on Vermont goalie Rob Madore in UNH’s 5-4 overtime win.

TYLER MCDERMOTT FEBRUARY 28: Senior Colbey Santos celebrates after hitting a threepointer in the Wildcats’ 77-55 win over Stony Brook on Senior Day.

MIKE RALPH SEPTEMBER 5: Junior running back Sean Jellison leaves a St. Francis (Pa.) defender in the dust in the Wildcats’ 24-14 win.

MIKE RALPH OCTOBER 24: Junior Greg Manz celebrates after scoring a goal in UNH’s 5-2 win over Maine on White Out The Whit night.

Check out page 19 to see our selections for TNH Sports Pictures of the Year.

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Tuesday

May 4, 2010 WOMEN’S LACROSSE

‘Cats down UVM in regular-season finale Staff Reports

THE NEW HAMPSHIRE

Kate Keagins recorded five goals and four assists to lift the University of New Hampshire women’s lacrosse team to Saturday afternoon’s 18-10 America East victory against the University of Vermont in both teams’ regular-season finale at MoultonWinder Field.

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UVM

Saturday, Moulton-Winder Field, Burlington, Vt.

UNH improved to 10-6 overall and 4-2 in America East under first-year head coach Michael Daly. This marks the sixth time in the last seven years that the Wildcats have reached double digits in wins. UVM ends the season at 4-11, 1-5.

Keagins, whose four assists also marked a personal best, was named UNH’s America East Player of the Game, and led a

total of seven Wildcats who recorded multiple points. Shaunna Kaplan tallied three goals and three assists for six points. She also contributed two ground balls, two caused turnovers and one draw control. JoJo Curro (four goals), Hayley Rausch (two goals, two assists) and Ilana Cohen (four assists) all finished with four points apiece. Cohen’s four assists are a career high and the four points match her personal best. Allie Bratton (two goals) and Deb Dale (goal, assist) both had two points.

Kathleen O’Keefe was credited with four saves – all in the first half – as well as two caused turnovers and one ground ball.

Allie Duclos finished with a team-high four ground balls and also tallied three draw controls, as well as two caused turnovers.

UVM took a 1-0 lead at 26:42 when Samantha Stern scored on a shot from the middle of the fan inside the right post.

The Wildcats responded with three goals in a 59-second span to take a 3-1 lead. Keagins ignited the spurt on a drive down

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the middle of the fan in which she scored on a bounce shot to tie the score, 1-1, at 25:59.

Moments later, a stick check

by Kaplan forced a turnover in which she corralled the ground ball to create a 1-on-1 breakaway.

She attacked down the middle, hesitated to beat the defender and scored from close range at 25:28 to give the Wildcats their first lead.

Curro then curled from behind the net to the right post and continued across the goalmouth before depositing a shot inside the left post for a 3-1 lead at 25:00.

Curro scored with just under twenty minutes remaining in the half when she one-timed Rausch’s feed from the left wing under the crossbar to reestablish a two-goal cushion of 4-2.

After a UVM goal, New Hampshire pushed the lead to 5-3 at 15:58 when Cohen’s pass from behind the net found Keagins cutting down the middle, who scored on a high shot.

UVM scored goals 51 seconds apart – at 10:38 and 9:47 –

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Third-place for ‘Cats at AE Champs

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The men’s and women’s track & field teams both placed third at the America East Championships this past weekend at the Reggie F. Atkins Track. See the full story on page 18.

See WOMEN’S LAX on page 18

MEN’S CLUB LACROSSE

UNH battles back, but falls in 2OT Zack Cox

SPORTS EDITOR

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Junior midfielder Mark Cochrane tangles with a Boston College defender in Sunday’s 10-9 double overtime loss in the PCLL championship. UNH finished the season 11-3 overall.

They fought their way back and clawed with everything they had, but in the end it just was just not enough.

After erasing a 5-1 halftime deficit, the UNH men’s club lacrosse team fell to Boston College, 10-9, in double overtime in the Pioneer Collegiate Lacrosse League Championship Sunday afternoon at Outer Field in Durham.

With the win, BC earned the PCLL’s automatic bid to the MCLA National Tournament in Denver, while the Wildcats’ season is now over.

“We showed a lot of character, being down the way that we were at half,” UNH head coach Jake Sullivan said. “We came back and clawed right back into that game.”

After winning the opening faceoff, the Eagles appeared to be in complete control in the early going. BC midfielder Mike McCarthy struck first two minutes in to give the Eagles a 1-0 lead, and Christian Falco scored less that a minute later when his shot hit the right post

but trickled into the net past diving UNH goalie Jake Katz.

The loss overshadowed a stellar performance by Katz, who finished with 24 saves, 14 of them coming in the second half and overtime.

BC would add two more goals in the second quarter before the Wildcats finally got on the board when freshman Joe Gardiner fought through a penalty hit to the head to beat BC goalie Nick Shea and close the deficit to 4-1.

From the outset, the physical nature of the game was evident.

Both teams battled hard for ground balls, while multiple players were sent to the turf by strong open-field hits. The Wildcats could not find a way to pick the lock that was the BC defense, as the Eagle long sticks continuously pounded Gardiner and the rest of the UNH attackers.

Trailing 5-1 to start the second half, however, the Wildcats came out with a newfound fire.

“We switched over to an open set [in the second half], we tried to take guys off the crease,” Sullivan said. “By switching over… and beSee MEN’S LAX on page 18