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UNH delays decision to ban sale of energy drinks on campus

An attempt at the world’s largest game of UNO took place in the Stra� ord Room on Friday, but it fell short of the record.

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The UNH football team won another barnburner this weekend, defeating No. 5 Richmond, 45-43, on Saturday.

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An announced ban of energy drinks at on-campus locations was later delayed Monday night due to con� icting data and student reaction.

VIEW FROM THE TOP

A look inside UNH’s most iconic building

PHOTOS BY RAYA AL-HASHMI/STAFF

Tours of the Thompson Hall clock tower o� er unique views of campus and the surrounding area, and are open to the public.

By ELLEN STUARTNEWS EDITOR

Guy Eaton does a job that is invis-ible to most people, but he works inside the most visible landmark

on campus: the Thompson Hall clock tower.

“This is the side of T-hall that people don’t see,” said Eaton, UNH communications and information coordi-nator, as he stood inside the clock tower of Thompson Hall. “People see it from the outside every day, but not many usu-ally see it like this.”

The unfi nished wooden walls inside the clock tower are covered with signa-tures from UNH students and others who have visited the clock tower over the course of Thompson Hall’s long history at the heart of the UNH campus. Eaton said he is not sure when the tradition of signing the walls took off, but that the oldest signature on the walls dates back to 1895.

President Mark Huddleston’s signature is visible inside the room that houses the clock movement, as are the signatures of Eaton’s wife, daughter and son. The signatures inside the tower are a part of many other families’ history as well.

“I had a woman from Lee email me a few weeks ago to set up a time to come see [the clock tower],” Eaton said. “She has family members coming in from all

By JULIA MILLERSTAFF WRITER

Community building is the number one goal of the student senate this semester, which in-cludes the coming-together of student organizations, university departments and offi ces, both on campus and online.

Student body President A.J. Coukos, a senior political science major, and student body Vice Pres-ident Jessica Fruchtman, a senior

health management and policy major, are both hoping to increase spirit and pride on campus, both aesthetically and through commu-nication dynamics within the uni-versity.

The two recently succeeded in adding a UNH fl ag on the fl ag-pole outside the Memorial Union Building. Coukos and Fruchtman are hoping to have similar banners hung on Main Street.

Plaque in Portsmouth commemorates America’s

� rst alien abduction

Coukos, Fruchtman stress online connectedness, medical amnesty at student senate meeting

By CONNOR CLERKINCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Sept. 19 marked the 50th an-niversary of the fi rst widely report-ed alien abduction in the United States, which allegedly occurred somewhere in the White Moun-tains while a couple was returning home from a vacation in Canada to their home in Portsmouth.

Though there previously had been many reported UFO sight-ings, this was the fi rst reported

abduction. Betty, a University of New Hampshire graduate, and Barney Hill were on the road Sept. 19, 1961, when they began to see a large white light in the sky moving erratically.

They stopped the car and briefl y got out. Barney retrieved a pistol from the trunk of the car while Betty attempted to observe what she then thought was some sort of aircraft with a pair of bin-

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By ZACK COXMANAGING EDITOR

After originally announcing Monday night that UNH would dis-continue sales of energy drinks in all on-campus locations and vend-ing machines beginning in 2012, UNH President Mark Huddleston has decided to delay the decision until further data can be collected.

In a press release, Huddleston cited inconsistent research on the dangers of energy drink consump-tion, as well as a harsh student back-lash to the ban as primary reasons

for the delay. “I respect the efforts of the

staff in UNH Dining to present the healthiest possible choices in our food service and vending locations,” Huddleston said. “In this case, I am personally aware of confl icting re-ports about the caffeine and sugar content of some of these beverages, and I want to be sure we respect our students’ ability to make informed choices about what they consume. I have asked my colleagues to de-fer implementation of the intended ban until we can further explore the relevant facts and involve students

more directly in our decision.”UNH Dining’s original deci-

sion to ban the sale of energy drinks was based primarily on the dangers of students mixing the drinks with alcohol, as well as the inherent risks of excessive caffeine consumption.

Last spring’s New Hampshire Higher Education Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Survey found that 20 percent of students surveyed re-ported mixing energy drinks with alcohol in the past month.

Red Bull, the most prominent

Con� icting research, student response cited as reasons for delay

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SHARPP promoted its new location at a block party, joined by Health Services representatives, the UNH Counseling Center and local authorities.

Rev. Peter Anthony Libasci will serve as the head of New Hampshire’s Catholic Church starting Dec. 8.

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energy drink manufacturer with over 4 billion cans sold worldwide in 2010, released a statement de-fending its product shortly after the original ban was first announced.

“[Our] drinks have a similar caffeine content as coffee and do not contain alcohol,” the company wrote in a release to the Associated Press. “Since it would not be right to ban the sale of soda, coffee, or tea on a college campus, it’s also inap-propriate and unwarranted to single out and restrict the sale of energy drinks. We are working with the

University of New Hampshire to find a resolution.”

Even if the ban does eventu-ally come into effect, some students doubt whether it will have a notice-able impact on drinking habits.

“Well, I’m sure [students] are going to do it anyway,” junior com-munication major Peter Hoffman said. “If they want to drink [alco-hol] with Red Bull they’ll go down to a convenience store like CampCo or Store 24. It’s cheaper there any-way, so I’m sure they will be going other places.”

Huddleston stated that further research into the subject is required before a final decision on the ban can be made.

oculars. Later, while under hypnotic

therapy, she claimed, “It was turn-ing. It was rotating, and it would go along and fly in a straight line for a short distance, and then it would tip over on its side and go straight up.”

The couple got back into their car and attempted to evade the craft, but they were later forced to stop. They reported that the car then be-gan to vibrate and finally was taken up into the craft by the vehicle’s eight to 11 occupants, who were apparently humanoid in appearance and clothed in some sort of gar-ments.

According to the Hills, the be-ings then conducted various medi-cal examinations on them both, taking samples and scrapings from multiple parts of their bodies. Bar-ney heard them speaking to each other in some unidentified language, while they communicated with him via a form of telepathy. Betty was shown a three-dimensional map of a star system that included what she was told were “trade routes.”

Finally, they were taken from the ship and escorted back to their car without any real physical harm. Betty escaped the incident with a torn dress and broken binocular

strap, while Barney had a scraped shoe.

The next day the two called in to Pease Airforce Base and told them what little they had remem-bered, that they had “lost” two hours of time from their memory and that some form of aircraft had pursued them. The remainder of the description of the incident comes from a number of hypnotic therapy sessions the couple underwent af-terwards. The story was kept fairly quiet for a while, but became wide-spread after being reported in the Boston Herald in 1965.

The university library holds a special collection of documents regarding this event, including correspondence, news clippings, various notebooks, the Air Force intelligence report, and even the transcripts from the hypnosis ses-sions as well as the results of their polygraph tests.

Recently, the state of New Hampshire has placed a plaque on the New Hampshire Highway to commemorate the event. The plaque summarizes the events that occurred that night, though it sticks to the orig-inal report rather than using informa-tion from the hypnosis sessions.

Betty later claimed to see many more UFOs throughout the course of her life. She died in 2004 of can-cer. Barney died in 1969 of a cere-bral hemorrhage.

While the banners are intended to serve as a symbol of UNH pride and community, what Coukos and Fruchtman are really striving for behind the scenes is a sense of in-clusiveness - to draw in transfer students, commuters and non-tra-ditional students, making every stu-dent feel more connected.

Extending Connection Online

This year, the sensation of be-ing connected may extend from on campus to online. Student senate is advocating for UNH to adopt Col-legiate Link, an online outlet for student organizations to spread the word on what they are doing.

“It will be the go-to resource for all things out of the classroom,” Fruchtman said.

The pair has already met with the vice president of Student and Academic Services, Mark Rubin-stein. He is an advocate of Col-legiate Link because it provides ongoing tools for assessment and allows for the opportunity to create co-curricular transcripts that will let both students and the university to record and track student devel-opment, experiential learning and leadership opportunities.

Collegiate Link is currently awaiting final approvals before it

becomes active for UNH students. “The sooner it is up and run-

ning, the sooner we will see the benefits,” Coukos said.

Medical Amnesty

Currently medical amnesty is up for review. It is still a pilot pro-gram and is not yet a policy. Frucht-man said there are still areas of the medical amnesty policy that need to be discussed. Senate is looking to distribute a survey to students to see how they feel about the program. Coukos and Fruchtman are working to increase knowledge and aware-ness about medical amnesty while gathering data that will aid the re-evaluation process come spring.

Increasing Collaboration

Coukos noted the importance of collaboration amongst student organizations. If organizations work together and pool their resources, they will have more money avail-able for better programming and activities.

Merging University Departments Coukos would like to see the

university merge departments and offices for the sake of the budget, which, according to Rubinstein, was cut by $32 million. An example Coukos offered about the merging of the university offices and de-

partments would be the merging of the Office of Residential Life and Housing.

According to Coukos, a merger like this would increase efficiency and save resources. The merging of Housing and Residential Life is just a model, and is not actually in effect.

“The current hiring freeze is challenging us to be more effi-cient and creative, and highlights that there are opportunities for ef-ficiency, but we can’t lose sight of the commitment to quality for our students and for our alumni whose degrees, no matter when earned, are associated with the quality of what we do today,” Rubinstein said.

A Sustainable Community

Coukos believes it is impor-tant for the university to maintain sustainability initiatives, such as green and renewable energy. A stu-dent senate council recently passed an initiative that would limit the number of refrigerators per dorm room. Student senate also supports the Energy Challenge and Trash 2 Treasure.

Crucial to the sustainability of the entire UNH community is com-munication. Fruchtman and Coukos want to hear from students.

“We would love to have stu-dents talk to us. It makes our job easier to know what the people want,” Fruchtman said.

over the country and they want to go up and see their grandfather’s name.”

During his time as a UNH stu-dent, the grandfather was respon-sible for the care of the clock. On the outside of the clock room, Eaton points out the signature in question - dated 1917. But what about Eaton’s own name?

“I signed it, but honestly I don’t remember where,” Eaton admitted.

Eaton has been involved with the care and keeping of the clock tower since he became the night housekeeping supervisor of Thomp-son Hall in 1977.

“There was another guy who did most of the work at the time, but he said to me, ‘if you’re going to be my boss you’d better see what I do, because I take vacations and the clock is your job while I’m gone.’” Eaton recalled.

The clock was constructed in 1892 by the E. Howard Clock Com-pany of Boston, which is still in op-eration today.

“Before the renovations in 2006, the clock was wound by hand. All the upkeep and maintenance was done by hand,” Eaton said.

The clock had a “seven-day wind,” but Eaton said that typical-ly it was wound more than once a week because winding it for seven days at a time required so much work.

During the 2006 renovations, the clock faces were taken out and refurbished, and the system of weights that was used to wind the clock was removed and replaced with a celestial clock. So how much work does it take to keep the clock running today? “Zip,” Eaton said with a smile.

Today, Eaton works mainly in

university operations and the clock needs almost no maintenance - but it was once a “real chore” to wind the clock, he said. The weights that were used to wind the clock weighed around 75 pounds. Eaton said that once many years ago the ropes holding the weights snapped and sent the 75-pound slabs of metal plummeting through T-hall. “They wiped out a lab that was lo-cated in the basement,” Eaton said.

Up in the bell tower there’s something that might surprise any-one who hears the T-Hall bells ev-eryday - the bells we hear are not bells at all. There is a bell inside the tower, but according to Eaton it has not been rung since the dedication of the Downeaster train in Durham about 10 years ago. Instead, there are eight speakers that “ring” ev-ery half hour. The speakers play a recording that is controlled from the Elliott Alumni Center.

The bell can still be rung once by manually striking the clapper against the bell, but the pulley sys-tem once used to ring it is no longer in use, and the bell is now station-ary.

On a clear day it is possible to see as far as the Memorial Bridge

in Portsmouth from the top of the tower. The clock tower is also vis-ible from the other direction; during WWII, the tower was fitted with blackout panels to prevent German submarines off the coast from using the tower as a beacon.

“There were German subs that came as far as Portsmouth Harbor, “ Eaton said. “And [at night, when the tower was lit up] they would have been able to use the tower as a bea-con to triangulate their position.”

Those interested in visiting the tower can contact Eaton at guy.eaton@unh.edu. Eaton is planning some tours to coincide with Home-coming at the end of October, but he said that the final schedule has yet to be solidified.

For Eaton, who graduated from UNH in 1976 and grew up nearby in Dover, the clock is not only a part of UNH’s history, but part of his own as well.

“I’ve brought people up on occasion over the last 30 years,” he said. “My son and my daugh-ter [now UNH alums] both had a chance to wind the clock, once they were old enough to come up. It’s definitely something special.”

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raya al-hashmi/staffSignatures adorn the signage inside the Thompson Hall clock tower.

brandon lawrence/staffThe decision to ban all energy drinks, such as Red Bull and Moxie, from campus stores was delayed Monday night.

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By OLIVER THOMASContributing Writer

The University of New Hamp-shire is one of the most expensive public schools in the nation. Da-vid Proulx, the school’s associate vice president of finance, said the substantial decline in state support is the primary reason for the price hikes.

“We have gone from $67 mil-lion in funding from the state to about $34 million this year. We had to replace $33 million in rev-enue that was cut by the state with expense cuts and tuition increas-es,” Proulx said.

Over the past six years, the university’s tuition has risen 35 percent. This fall, in-state students at UNH are paying $24,402 in tu-ition, room, board, and fees. Over-all, tuition has climbed 12 percent since last year.

With the state budget cutting $31 million in funds to UNH, how is the void filled? Proulx explained

that 70 percent of the money to repair the deficit was made from reducing expenses through salary freezes for employees, the elimi-nation of 150 jobs, a hiring freeze, a separation incentive program, and reductions in employee ben-efits.

“Another 15 percent was achieved using savings we had built up and the remaining 15 per-cent was funded from New Hamp-shire student tuition increases, which was a last resort but neces-sary to balance the budget,” Proulx said.

Like most students, UNH sophomore Chris Champagne is not happy with the state’s cuts in funding education.

“The state hardly funded us to begin with, which is the complete opposite of every other state who funds their state schools extremely well. Champagne said, “Then they drop cigarette prices and cut fund-ing to UNH, even though we are New Hampshire’s biggest univer-sity and we do so much for the state.”

UNH is looking more and more like a public school with a private school price tag. Out of state tuition is becoming less fea-sible each year.

“UNH is among the most ex-pensive public schools in the na-tion - not where we want to be,” Proulx said. “However, our cost of attendance for New Hamp-shire residents at almost $25,000 is substantially lower than most private schools, many of which are over $50,000 per year. We are concerned with our price point for non-resident students, which is about $38,000, and that it is reach-ing private institution levels.”

Another culprit for tuition in-creases is the expanding costs for financial aid.

“Our students and students nationally require more financial aid than ever to attend college. We spent about $3 million in financial aid for New Hampshire students in 2001, and in 2011 we are spending over $22 million,” Proulx said.

The size and population of a school like UNH requires a great deal of money to support. The cost of maintaining the beautiful cam-pus and its buildings adds up fast.

“The cost of operating an in-stitution with 15,000 students, over 3,000 faculty and staff and six mil-lion square feet of space spread among over 300 buildings requires annual investment to keep our stu-dent experience consistently good,” Proulx said.

Last year’s financial report shows that UNH earned $509.4 million in revenue, but also spent $496.4 million, for a net gain of $13 million.

In a message to the UNH community prior to the state fund-ing cuts last April, UNH President Mark Huddleston urged students and faculty to maintain faith in the school’s stability.

“I want to assure you that I have full confidence that the bud-get task force, the university ad-ministration, and the university community can, and will, work together to address our fiscal chal-lenges with openness, fairness, ingenuity, and compassion,” Hud-dleston said.

Many may wonder how UNH stacks up financially against its fellow state schools - Keene State College and Plymouth State Uni-versity.

“Keene and Plymouth are all part of the same university system, and we have all been hit hard by the reduction,” Proulx said. “We are all working very hard to main-tain high quality experiences for our students while adjusting to the new normal.”

Rising tuition due to slashed budget affects entire UNH community

Out of state tuition is becoming less fea-sible each year.

By LYNNE TUOHYAssoCiAted Press

STEWARTSTOWN, N.H. - In the small New Hampshire town where a missing 11-year-old girl’s

body was found two months ago, time has stoked more than intrigue and uneasiness. Cynicism and sus-picion are setting in.

The state attorney general’s office this week declared Celina

Cass’ death a homicide but did not reveal how she was killed. The declaration of homicide came as no surprise to residents.

“I think everybody knew that for weeks,” schools Superinten-

dent Robert Mills said Friday. The mood in town is one of “eager an-ticipation” that someone will be brought to justice so the healing can begin.

But even that hope is fading.“Either they’ve got enough

evidence or they don’t,” said Shannon Towle, owner of the con-venience store and gas station that are the hub of Stewartstown. “And I don’t think they do.”

Celina’s body was pulled from the Connecticut River within walking distance from her home on Aug. 1, a week after she disap-peared.

The grim discovery ended an intensive search by more than 100 investigators who turned a local school into their base camp and temporarily brought cell phone service to this burg across the Con-necticut from Vermont and a mile from Canada.

The passage of two months should not suggest the case is at a dead end, Senior Assistant At-torney General Jane Young, who heads the investigation, said Fri-day.

“Unfortunately, it’s not un-usual,” she said. “We are continu-ing to work this as diligently today as the day we found her.”

The FBI remains involved, tips continue to come in and in-terviews are ongoing. A reward fund for information leading to the prosecution of the killer has topped $30,000.

“There are a number of cases that are solved quickly,” Young said. “But in this case we continue to ask for the public’s help - any-one who may have seen anything, heard anything.”

Celina’s mother, Luisia, and 13-year-old sister, Kayla, were briefed for two hours by investi-gators Thursday on details of the investigation. They declined to comment when they left the Coos County Attorney’s office in Lan-caster.

Since the discovery of Ce-lina’s body, Luisia Cass has sepa-rated from her husband of a year,

Wendell Noyes, who has a history of psychological problems.

Noyes, 47, was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and was committed to a state psychiat-ric hospital in 2003 after breaking into the home of an ex-girlfriend and threatening to harm her. He has been in and out of hospitals since Celina disappeared.

Luisia hasn’t filed for divorce only because she cannot afford the court fees, said the woman’s friend and employer, Jeannine Brady.

Brady said she saw Noyes smash a picture of Celina with his fist at a hotel in Canaan, Vt., where the family was staying while police searched their Stewartstown apart-ment.

Police have not named any potential suspects in the girl’s dis-appearance. Efforts by The Associ-ated Press to locate a phone number for Noyes have been unsuccessful, and his family members have de-clined in the past to comment.

On the night of July 25, Ce-lina watched her favorite televi-sion show, “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” with her mother, Brady said. Luisia kissed her goodnight around 9 p.m. as Ce-lina toyed with a computer in the living room of their apartment.

Celina’s 13-year-old sister, Kayla, with whom she shared a room, was sleeping over at a friend’s house that night.

Luisia and Kayla wear crosses containing some of Celina’s ashes; the rest of the ashes are buried with her maternal grandmother in Groveton.

They have moved to an apart-ment in Vermont, not far from where Kayla attends school in Canaan. Like everyone else who knew Celina, they wait for an-swers.

“The community needs some finality,” Brady said. “It’s unnerv-ing.”

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SIC’em held its annual UNO Tournament on Friday, Sept. 23, in the MUB Strafford Room at 9 p.m. Although the original goal of this tournament was to break the UNO Tournament World Record of 350 people , UNH did not quite make the cut.

The event attracted close to 100 people, according to Dave Zaman-sky, assistant director for student leadership.

“We were hoping for 200,” he said, adding that the heavy rain may have reduced student turnout.

“It defi nitely seems to have grown since last year,” said SIC’em member Sarah McCullagh, a sopho-more.

The fi rst UNO Tournament was held last spring, during Easter week-end; only about 30 students attended. This year’s tournament has “been in the works since last year’s UNO event,” said Alex Bieniek, a SIC’em staff member.

Neither students nor staff, how-ever, were discouraged that they were unable to surpass the record Friday night. SIC’em members have high hopes for next year’s tourna-ment.

“It’s going to be an annual thing,” Bieniek said.

SIC’em members hope that the

event will continue to grow each year until the UNO Tournament World Record is offi cially broken.

Despite the turnout, Bieniek considered the event a success. “The whole idea of SIC’em is to give al-ternative events to students,” he said.

While students found the op-portunity to break the world record appealing, most did not consider it the main reason to attend the event. Sophomores Caitlin Allaire and Em-ily Pelletier attended the UNO tour-nament more for the fun of the game than to break the record.

Enthusiasm from students was evident from the start of the eve-ning. After the rules were explained and the prizes were announced, Za-mansky asked, “Are you ready to play?” In response, a student shout-ed, “Bring it!” and game play com-menced.

The prizes of the tournament

were reason enough to be enthusias-tic. Students could win tickets to the Colonial Clash football game, tickets to the Frozen Fenway hockey game, a Kindle, an iPad 2, and various oth-er prizes.

This year’s winners included

Hannah DeBenedictis, junior; Laura Higgins, freshman; and Kelly Dona-hue, senior. DeBenedictis chose the iPad 2 for her prize and Donahue chose the Colonial Clash tickets.

SIC’em is responsible for many on-campus events throughout the year.

“We are always looking to add more events,” Bieniek said.

Next weekend, SIC’em is spon-soring Dueling Pianos on Friday, Sept. 30, at 9 p.m., and comedian juggler Mark Nizer on Saturday, Oct. 1, at 4:30 p.m. A complete listing of SIC’em events can be found on the MUB website.

SIC’em UNO tournament draws bigger crowd than last year, fails to beat record

While students found the opportunity to break the world record appealing, most did not consider it the main reason to attend the event. Sophomores Caitlin Allaire and Emily Pelletier attended the UNO tourna-ment more for the fun of the game than to break the record.

By LAURA WIDES-MUNOZASSOCIATED PRESS

MIAMI - When Latin pop star Juanes announced plans for a 2009 concert in Havana, the powerful Cuban exile community in the U.S. met his proposal with jeers and anger. But a small group of young Cuban-Americans helped make it happen, publicly sup-porting Juanes and spreading the word for the “peace concert” that became the communist island’s largest non-government led event in decades.

That concert put Roots of Hope - Raices de Esperanza - on the map, and the Miami-based nonprofi t has since become a symbol of a new generation of Cuban-Americans looking to help shape the future of U.S. relations with the island.

Hundreds of thousands of people turned out for the concert in Havana’s iconic Plaza of the Revo-lution, where Fidel Castro gave some of his most famous speeches. And although the event was billed as non-political, Juanes called for people on both sides of the Florida Straits to turn hate into love. Orga-nizers thwarted last-minute Cuban government attempts to control en-try to the concert, particularly close to the stage and cameras, even as the government heavily promoted the event.

Roots of Hope has maintained it is apolitical since its inception in 2003. It has morphed from a group of idealistic teens into a combina-

tion of students and professionals whose alumni have access to some of the nation’s top elected leaders, including Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a Cuban-American from Florida. Earlier this month, co-founder Felice Gorordo, 28, was named one of 15 White House fel-lows.

Today, Roots of Hope is send-ing cell phones to teens on the is-land so they can better communi-cate through calls, text messages and photos. About 1.1 million land lines and 1.1 million cell phones exist in Cuba for a population of more than 11 million, according to the Cuban government. Internet ac-cess is limited, and the government controls most other forms of com-munication.

Cell phones remain expensive for many Cubans, who on average make a $20 a month. While calls to the U.S. are also pricey at about $3 a minute, receiving international texts are free, said Roots co-chair Tony Jimenez, 29. Some youths use their cell phones more like pagers, checking the caller ID or ring and then calling back from a land line, added Jimenez.

Donated phones are exchanged for refurbished phones, more than 500 of which have been sent to Cuba in the past year, according to Roots.

U.S.-Cuba relations have been icy for decades, and the U.S.-im-posed embargo remains in effect. But as the Obama administration relaxes travel restrictions on cultur-

al, educational and other trips, the group also is promoting its guide for responsible travel to the island. And it has created a fund to pro-mote travel there by young Cuban-Americans, an effort modeled after programs encouraging Jewish teens to visit Israel.

The idea is to create meaning-ful exchanges - more than simply vacations or casual conversations, but dialogue about ways to improve the realities in Cuba, Jimenez said.

Georgetown University soph-omore Ben Tyler, whose mother’s family is from Cuba, said that non-political focus is why he got in-volved.

“I used to think about Cuba as just political issue I couldn’t do anything about,” he said. “Now I see you can work around the poli-tics, and that’s where you can get things done.”

Roots of Hope began at Harvard and Georgetown uni-versities. Many of the founders grew up in Miami’s large Cu-ban community and didn’t think much about their history beyond the stories they heard from their grandparents. Then they went to college and discovered they knew very little about their ori-gins.

“A lot of friends who were Latino had a tie to where they were from, and I didn’t,” Goror-do said of his freshman year at Georgetown. “I knew Cuba only through my parents and black-and-white photos.”

Miami-based nonpro� t organization plants seed for future apolitical US-Cuba relations

SARAH COTTON/CONTRIBUTINGImprov Anonymous teamed up with Alpha Delta Phi society to host a bene� t show for First Book, a charity organization.

By ADAM J. BABINATCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Recently, the University of New Hampshire saw two student organizations team up for a good cause, as UNH’s Improv Anony-mous joined with the Alpha Delta Phi in an effort to help raise funds for the charity First Book.

First Book is a nonprofi t or-ganization that donates school supplies to underprivileged kids in both the United States and Can-ada. Its goal as an organization is to have every child have his or her own fi rst book. Both groups were extremely excited to work with one another in an effort to support First Book.

“Alpha Delta Phi came to us asking us if we could do benefi ts, and we agreed because we love any opportunity we have at help-

ing the community,” said Sydney Bilodeau of Improv Anonymous.

“As a group we always en-joyed Improv Anonymous, and fi gured they were a little better known than us, therefore allow-ing us to further advertise for this cause and make the event a suc-cess,” said a representative for Al-pha Delta Phi.

The show itself was sensa-tional, as Improv Anonymous showcased its comedic abilities in an effort that sent many members of the audience home happy.

“If opportunity arises we are up to doing more benefi t shows,” commented Bilodeau on the pros-pect of doing more benefi t events.

“I would love to do stuff like that again,” said Zack Duda after the event.

For more information on First Book, go to fi rstbook.org.

Two student organizations collaborate for a good cause

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By SUSAN DOUCETContributing Writer

On Thursday, Sept. 22, SHARPP held its first “Party on the Block” event at Wolff House, the program’s new location. SHARPP, the Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program, or-ganized this event to promote its newly-renovated location and to spread awareness to students.

SHARPP was joined at this event by representatives from Health Services, the UNH Coun-seling Center, the UNH Police Department, and the Durham Fire Department.

Dawn Zitney, the media out-reach coordinator for SHARPP, explained that the org. was joined by these other organizations at the event to “involve all of our neigh-bors that we work with.”

The “Party on the Block” was organized by Zitney and Maggie Wells, the outreach coordinator for SHARPP.

The event featured a live DJ, information tables, a raffle, and tours of Wolff House. Tents set up

on the front lawn covered tables sponsored by Health Services and the UNH Counseling Center, along with free snacks for visitors. Stu-dents, faculty and staff all showed up for the event, although turnout may have been slightly diminished by the rain.

Zitney said that the purpose of the event was to “encourage people to visit our new space.” SHARPP’s new location, Wolff House, is the former home of CFAR, the Center for Academic Resources; CFAR has since relocated to Smith Hall.

Previously located in Verrette House, SHARPP moved to its new space as a result of the construc-tion of the new Peter T. Paul Col-lege of Business and Economics. Its former location was less than ideal, with offices located on the first and third floors, separated by unrelated offices on the second floor.

“To be able to gather in [a] continuous space is something we’ve always wished for,” said Mary Mayhew, the program direc-tor of SHARPP.

The new location has a bet-

ter flow and is a big improvement over the previous office space, ac-cording to Wells.

Renovations to Wolff House began last winter, allowing SHARPP to move last spring. Ac-cording to Mayhew, the renova-tions were mostly cosmetic work. The carpet was stripped, revealing hardwood floors, and the walls were painted.

SHARPP’s objective for the event was to make students more aware of where it is now located and that its new home is a comfort-able, welcoming atmosphere. Each staff member’s office is a warm, personalized environment; and most include couches and relaxed sitting areas.

Mayhew wants students to know that “we’re here, we’re wel-coming.”

Along with personal, wel-coming offices, SHARPP’s new

home includes a conference room on the second floor and the advo-cate room on the first floor. The ad-vocate room is a living room style room where students can comfort-ably sit and speak with SHARPP staff members. Located at the rear of the building, the advocate room includes a back door through which students can leave if they feel uncomfortable exiting through

the front entrance.The conference room is a new

feature that SHARPP did not have at Verrette House, and is part of its plan to be “as accessible as pos-sible,” Mayhew said.

SHARPP’s goal is to elimi-nate sexual and intimate partner violence by providing free and confidential advocacy and direct services to all survivors and their allies, and by offering culturally competent awareness and preven-tion programs to the University of

New Hampshire community, ac-cording to SHARPP’s website.

Mayhew wants students to know that “we’re not just a scary place to go when you’re in crisis.” SHARPP just started its own You-Tube channel and has “a live chat room about healthy relationships,” Mayhew said.

SHARPP staff member are enthusiastic about helping stu-dents and informing them of their programs and resources. Ashley Fowler, who recently joined the SHARPP staff on Tuesday, Sept. 20, is the new AmeriCorps victim assistant. Like the other SHARPP staff members, Fowler wants stu-dents to know that SHARPP is al-ways accessible to them.

When students go to SHARPP with a question or a problem, “we don’t judge people, there is no right or wrong answer, [and] we help them figure out what is [a] better [solution] for them,” May-hew said.

SHARPP’s hours are from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, at Wolff House.

SHARPP promotes new location at block party

SHARPP’s objective for the event was to make students more aware of where it is.

By MICHAEL GRACZYKAssoCiAted Press

HOUSTON - A former Texas inmate who cooked the final meals for hundreds of condemned prison-ers is offering to start doing it again at no cost to the state now that of-ficials have ended the practice of al-lowing the special last requests.

Brian Price, who wrote a cook-book called “Meals to Die For,” about his former duties and now runs a restaurant on Houston County Lake in East Texas, said Monday the move by prison officials was “cold-hearted.” If it’s tax dollars people are worried about, he said, he’ll make a last meal for free for any condemned inmate in Texas.

“I am offering to prepare, and or pay for, all of the last meal re-quests from this day forward,” he said. “Taxpayers will be out noth-ing.”

Officials who oversee the country’s busiest death chamber stopped the practice of giving spe-cial final meals last week after a prominent state senator complained about an extensive request from a man being executed for his role in a notorious hate-crime dragging death. The prison agency quickly said condemned prisoners will now get the same dinner that other in-mates eat that day.

Department of Criminal Jus-tice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons called Price’s proposal “a kind of-fer.”

“It’s not the cost but rather the concept we’re moving away from,” she said.

The meal flap erupted after Lawrence Russell Brewer was ex-ecuted for the hate crime slaying of James Byrd Jr. in Jasper more than

a decade ago. Brewer, a white su-premacist gang member, was con-victed of chaining Byrd, 49, to the back of a pickup truck and dragging him to his death along a bumpy road in a case shocked the nation for its brutality.

For his final meal, Brewer asked for two chicken fried steaks, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, fried okra, a pound of barbecue, three fajitas, a meat lover’s pizza, a pint of ice cream and a slab of pea-nut butter fudge with crushed pea-nuts. Prison officials said Brewer didn’t eat any of it.

The request raised the ire of Sen. John Whitmire, who is chair-man of the Texas Senate’s criminal justice committee. He called the tradition of offering a special last meal ridiculous and illogical.

Since Texas resumed carrying out executions in 1982, the state correction agency’s practice has been to fill a condemned inmate’s request as long as the items, or food similar to what was requested, were readily available from the prison kitchen supplies.

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New Hampshire will soon have a new public face of Catholi-cism, as starting on Dec. 8, Rev.

Peter Anthony Libasci will be tak-ing the place of the retiring Bishop John McCormack. McCormack served as the head of New Hamp-shire’s Catholic Church since 1988, through scandals and other challenges.

Libasci, 59, will be the 10th bishop of the Diocese of Manches-ter. This task won’t be unfamiliar to him, as he most recently served as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Center in New York for the past four years.

At a press conference last week, Libasci expressed his grati-tude to lead Catholics in the Gran-ite State.

“I hope to carry on as succes-sor with an open heart, an open door and many, many opportuni-ties to talk and to hear,” Libasci said.

Libasci is a New York City na-tive who was ordained as a priest in 1978. Although he has plenty of experience qualifying him for the job, he will still face some chal-lenges and adjustments.

After details surfaced in the early 2000s that the Archdiocese

of Boston had secretly kept pedo-philic priests in active ministries, McCormack, who was previously an aide to Cardinal Bernard Law at the Boston Archdiocese, was pres-sured to resign. This scandal cast the Church in a negative light for Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Labasci will have to face lingering frustration from this scandal.

“It’s a stressful job, and it can’t be an easy time to be a bish-op, if there ever is an easy time,” said Michele Dillon, a scholar of Catholicism and professor of so-ciology at UNH. “One of the con-sequences has been for all of the bishops to realize they have to be more open and transparent and accountable for decisions. They want to show they [the Church] can serve the people, not the other way around.”

How will Libasci be able to help restore faith? People are giving mixed responses. While his primary duties are to teach the Catholic faith and govern the diocese, this can be interpreted in many ways.

“Every time there’s a change

in a leader, it opens the possi-bilities,” Dillon said. “It gives a chance for the Church to reassess its goals. You can expect a certain amount of change.”

“I don’t think the bishop has the option to change things, but

he may be different in style, in the way he addresses his new respon-sibilities,” said James M. Farrell, a Catholic and professor of com-munication at UNH. “It’s not like a political administration where he comes in and changes policy. What matters is what he can do to strengthen the faith.”

However he approaches his new position, McCormack has confidence in Libasci’s ability to lead and set a positive example.

“He’s like the New Hamp-shire person; unpretentious, unas-suming, feet on the ground, very real,” McCormack told WMUR. “He’s also very loving and very thoughtful and sensitive; he’s a grateful spirit. Those are great traits for a leader and a shepherd.”

He’s like the New Hampshire person; unpretentious, unas-suming, feet on the ground, very real.”

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By TENZIN YESHI Contributing Writer

Researchers at UNH’s Space Science Center have been arranged by the Federal Defense Threat Re-duction Agency (DTRA) to collabo-rate with the Michigan Aerospace Corporation to build a device that will allegedly “detect illicit radio-active materials” accurately from a safe distance.

The DTRA is the U.S. Depart-ment of Defense’s official com-bat support agency for countering weapons of mass destruction. This device will be used to detect pos-sible deposition of radioactive mate-rial in train stations, shipping ports, truck shops, and warehouses. The radioactive material could be used to make “dirty bombs,” explosive weapons containing radioactive ma-terial and explosives mainly used to

infect the surrounding area with ra-dioactive material. This is a one-year contract amounting to $303,000 and will include a field test in 2012.

The instrument, called a “Por-table Neutron Spectroscope,” or NSPECT, will be built in UNH’s Space Science Center, and will be adapted from previously designed models. This device is expected to detect, capture and sketch, and mainly identify hazardous nuclear materials, as these are similar to the radiation emitted from space.

The device is expected to be useful for monitoring and deterring increases of these radioactive ma-terials and distinguishing nuclear waste.

To date there is no device that is able to detect the source of radio-active material in the manner the NSPECT is predicted to do. Accord-ing to lead scientist James Ryan of

the UNH Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space and the department of physics, authorities have in the past had difficulty locat-ing the source of the nuclear mate-rial in a given building or container, but with the expertise gained by re-searchers in the space program over the span of many years, locating the source of radioactive material will become easier.

Dominique Fourguette, a chief technology officer at Michigan Aerospace, said that the funding from DTRA enables the corpora-tion to “significantly advance the NSPECT technology and accelerate its deployment.” She said that one of the corporation’s primary goals is to produce a “robust instrument” that will be used soon.

UNH is using its 40 years of experience in the space program detecting neutron and gamma rays

and its university scientists and en-gineers to build NSPECT. Michigan Aerospace is providing the engi-neering capability that will turn the instrument into a usable device with a graphical user interface and live video imaging capability.

NSPECT will have the capa-bility to detect both neutron and gamma rays, but detecting neutrons will be most important for DTRA. Neutron emissions, unlike those of gamma rays, are more difficult to detect due to their natural resistance to detection. Even if detected, gain-ing meaningful information from about the neutron particle is a dif-ficult task.

This is where NSPECT comes in. Compared to similar devices like the Geiger counter, which simply clicks when at an area with high deposition of radioactive material and cannot differentiate from the

background radiation, NSPECT re-cords every neutron that interacts with the device and places them in ‘buckets’ that are later emptied with a software developed by SSC, which focuses the neutrons into a picture where they can be detected.

Ryan predicts that when the de-vice detects neutrons, it will be able to construct images of the emission pattern and report the neutron spec-trum, which later will allow the team to determine the type of nuclear ma-terial. This will allow the right people to assess and manage the issue.

UNH scientists developing device to detect dirty bombs

By RYAN J. FOLEYassoCiated Press

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa -

Eclipsed by Rick Perry, Republi-can presidential candidate Michele Bachmann dismissed concerns on Monday about the strength of her campaign and told supporters that she alone has the best conservative credentials to be president.

“I’ve got the complete skill set to do this job,” she told roughly 35 people in a half-full hotel ball-room on a rainy day.

Bachmann repeatedly urged people not to settle on a moder-ate candidate who is seen as better able to cobble together the diverse coalition of voters needed to beat President Barack Obama.

“This message has to be driven home by conservatives: We can’t settle. We can’t settle. We have to have a candidate who has it all,” she said. “Who is a fiscal conservative, and I am. Who is a

national security - peace through strength conservative - like Ron-ald Reagan was. And I am. And we have to have someone who is a social conservative, who believes in the family. And I do. And we need a tea party conservative, and I am.”

While she didn’t name any of her rivals, she suggested some of them could not be trusted to repeal Obama’s health care law. She also suggested they did not understand foreign policy as well as she does and that they were compromised because they had done favors for political donors, comments appar-ently directed at Perry, the Texas governor competing with her for voters in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses next year.

The three-term Minnesota congresswoman has struggled since winning the Iowa straw poll in August - the same day that Per-ry got into the race and took away

some of her support among con-servatives. She once sat atop na-tional public opinion polls but now only registers single-digit support.

Bachmann thanked the people who showed up and seemed to try to justify the relatively light atten-dance.

“I know it was short notice,” she said, “it’s in the middle of the day, everyone’s at work, it’s a rainy day, there’s a lot of places you can be.” She shook nearly every hand in the room and signed autographs.

She dismissed suggestions that her campaign was flounder-ing, saying voters would pick the nominee, not the news media. And she said she believes she is “positioned perfectly right now” to compete for the nomination because conservatives are look-ing for someone with her fiery message and record of opposing Obama.

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By JASON STRAZIUSOAssociAted Press

NAIROBI, Kenya - Kenya’s former president called her a mad woman. Seen as a threat to the rich and powerful, Wangari Maathai was beaten, arrested and vilified for the simple act of planting a tree, a natu-ral wonder Maathai believed could reduce poverty and conflict.

Former elementary students who planted saplings alongside her, world leaders charmed by her message and African visionaries on Monday remembered a woman some called the Tree Mother of Af-rica. Maathai, Africa’s first female winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, died late Sunday in a Nairobi hos-pital following a battle with cancer. She was 71.

Maathai believed that a healthy environment helped improve lives by providing clean water and fire-wood for cooking, thereby decreas-ing conflict. The Kenyan organiza-tion she founded planted 30 million trees in hopes of improving the chances for peace, a triumph for na-ture that inspired the U.N. to launch a worldwide campaign that resulted in 11 billion trees planted.

Maathai, a university professor with a warm smile and college de-grees from the United States, staged popular protests that bedeviled for-mer President Daniel arap Moi, a repressive and autocratic ruler who called her “a mad woman” who was a threat to the security of Kenya.

In the summer of 1998, the Ke-nyan government was giving land to political allies in a protected for-est on Nairobi’s outskirts. Maathai began a campaign to reclaim the land, culminating in a confronta-tion with 200 hired thugs armed with machetes and bows and ar-rows. When Maathai tried to plant a tree, she and her cohorts were attacked with whips, clubs and stones. Maathai received a bloody gash on her head.

“Many said, ‘She is just plant-ing trees.’ But that was important, not only from an environmental perspective, to stop the desert from spreading, but also as a way to ac-tivate women and fight the Daniel arap Moi regime,” said Geir Lun-destad, director of the Nobel Insti-tute, which awarded Maathai the peace prize in 2004.

“Wangari Maathai combined the protection of the environment, with the struggle for women’s rights and fight for democracy,” he said.

Maathai said during her 2004 Peace Prize acceptance speech that the inspiration for her life’s work came from her childhood experi-ences in rural Kenya. There she wit-

nessed forests being cleared and re-placed by commercial plantations, which destroyed biodiversity and the capacity of forests to conserve water.

After arap Moi left govern-ment, Maathai served as an assistant minister for the environment and natural resources ministry.

Although the tree-planting campaign launched by her group, the Green Belt Movement, did not initially address the issues of peace and democracy, Maathai said it be-came clear over time that responsi-ble governance of the environment was not possible without democ-racy.

“Therefore, the tree became a symbol for the democratic struggle in Kenya. Citizens were mobilized to challenge widespread abuses of power, corruption and environmen-

tal mismanagement,” Maathai said.Maathai’s work was quickly

recognized by groups and govern-ments the world over, winning awards, accolades and partnerships with powerful organizations. Mean-while, her dedication to nature remained, as could be seen in her role in a movie called “Dirt! The Movie,” where Maathai narrated the story of a hummingbird carrying one drop of water at a time to fight a forest fire, even as animals like the elephant asked why the humming-bird was wasting his energy.

“It turns to them and tells them, ‘I’m doing the best I can.’ And that to me is what all of us should do. We should always feel like a hum-mingbird,” she said. “I certainly don’t want to be like the animals watching as the planet goes down the drain. I will be a hummingbird. I will do the best I can.”

Recognizing that never-say-die attitude, Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga said Maathai’s death “strikes at the core of our nation’s heart.” Odinga said Maathai died just as the causes she fought for were getting the attention they de-serve.

The United Nations Environ-ment Program called Maathai one of Africa’s foremost environmen-tal campaigners and recalled that Maathai was the inspiration behind UNEP’s 2006 Billion Tree Cam-paign. More than 11 billion trees have been planted so far.

“Wangari Maathai was a force of nature. While others deployed their power and life force to dam-age, degrade and extract short term profit from the environment, she used hers to stand in their way, mo-bilize communities and to argue for conservation and sustainable de-velopment over destruction,” said Achim Steiner, the executive direc-tor of UNEP.

Tributes poured out for Maathai online, including from Ke-nyans who remember planting trees alongside her as schoolchildren. One popular Twitter posting noted that Maathai’s knees always seemed to be dirty from showing VIPs how to plant trees. Another poster, not-ing Nairobi’s cloudy skies Monday, said: “No wonder the sun is not shining today.”

Her quest to see fewer trees felled and more planted saw her face off against Kenya’s powerful elite. At least three times during her activist years she was physically at-tacked, including being clubbed un-conscious by police during a hunger strike in 1992.

Maathai was the first woman to earn a doctorate in East Africa - in 1971 from the University of Nairobi, where she later was an as-sociate professor in the department of veterinary anatomy. She previ-ously earned degrees from Mount St. Scholastica College - now Benedictine College - in Atchison, Kansas and the University of Pitts-burgh.

The Green Belt Movement said on its website that Maathai’s death was a great loss to those who “admired her determination to make the world a more peaceful, healthier and better place.” Edward Wageni, the group’s deputy execu-tive director, said Maathai died in a Nairobi hospital late Sunday. Maathai had been in and out of the hospital since the beginning of the year, he said.

Maathai is survived by three children. Funeral arrangements were to be announced soon, the Green Belt Movement said.

First African woman to win Nobel Peace Prize dies

By TERENCE CHEAAssociAted Press

SAN FRANCISCO - A Re-publican group at the University of California, Berkeley has cooked up controversy with a plan to hold an “Increase Diversity Bake Sale” as a satirical way to oppose leg-islation that would allow public colleges to consider race and other factors in student admissions.

Students at the Berkeley Col-lege Republicans’ event set for Tuesday will be charged differ-ent prices based on race, gender and ethnicity, with white students charged the most, Native Ameri-cans the least, and women receiv-ing a 25 percent discount, accord-ing to the Facebook event posting.

“If you don’t come, you’re a racist!” the post declares. The group’s website contains a link to the Facebook page.

In response to the sale, the Associated Students of the Uni-versity of California unanimously approved a resolution Sunday that “condemns the use of discrimina-tion whether it is in satire or in seriousness by any student group.”

The Berkeley event is aimed at opposing a bill on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk that would allow the University of California and Cali-fornia State University systems to consider race, ethnicity and gender while deciding admissions.

California previously banned affirmative action in public college

admissions, hiring and contracting when voters approved Proposition 209 in 1996.

The bake sale on the famously liberal Berkeley campus was orga-nized to counter the student asso-ciation’s plan to sponsor a call-in booth where students can urge the governor to sign SB185, the bill authored by Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-West Covina.

Members of the Republican group say the bake sale illustrates that affirmative action policies are a form of discrimination.

“Measuring any admit’s merit based on race is intrinsically rac-ist,” according to the event post-ing. “The pricing structure of the baked goods is meant to be satiri-cal, while urging students to think more critically about the implica-tions of this policy.”

Joey Freeman, a spokesman for the student body association, said campus Republicans have the right to organize against the leg-islation and the campus phone-in effort, but he’s disappointed in the tactics.

“The bake sale planned for Tuesday is an offensive event that has deeply hurt and insulted mem-bers of our campus family,” Free-man said in a statement.

UC Berkeley students condemn ‘diversity bake sale’

By DAVID McFADDENAssociAted Press

KINGSTON, Jamaica - Ja-maica’s departing prime minister met privately with his Cabinet colleagues Monday as the Carib-bean country’s governing party looked for a new chief to lead them into next year’s general elections.

Prime Minister Bruce Gold-ing has made no public com-ments since he and the Jamaica Labor Party announced Sunday that he is stepping down after four years in office. They said Golding would formally resign once a new party leader is cho-sen in an internal election ex-pected in November.

Golding has suffered from anemic public backing because of his handling of the 2009 U.S. extradition request for Jamaican drug kingpin Christopher “Du-dus” Coke. But his announce-ment still surprised many people in Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean, a region where em-battled politicians have a history of trying to cling to power.

In a Monday editorial, the newspaper Jamaica Gleaner said the 63-year-old prime minister’s resignation is unprecedented in the island’s political history - if it is not a political ploy to rally his supporters.

“Taking the prime minister at his word, we are truly encour-aged by something which would amount to a substantial act of pa-triotism,” the editorial said.

Labor Party chairman Mike Henry raised that issue himself by saying that the party’s central committee hoped to persuade Golding to reconsider, although Information Minister Daryl Vaz said the decision was final.

Golding, whose Parlia-ment district included Coke’s West Kingston slum stronghold, resisted extradition for nine months, arguing the U.S. in-dictment on gun- and drug-traf-ficking charges relied on illegal wiretap evidence. The stance led Washington to question Jamai-ca’s reliability as an ally in the fight against drug trafficking.

When Golding finally agreed to send Coke to the U.S., a hunt for the fugitive led to days of fighting in May 2010 that killed at least 73 civilians and three security officers. Coke was captured about a month later and extradited. He has since pleaded guilty to racketeering and assault charges, admitting his was leader of the brutal Shower Posse gang.

Golding has been Jamaica’s prime minister since 2007, when he returned the Labor Party to power after 18 years in opposi-tion.

Jamaica’s departing PM meets with Cabinet members

Many said, ‘She is just planting trees.’ But that was impor-tant, not only from an environmental perspective, to stop the desert from spreading, but also as a way to activate women and fight the Daniel arap Moi regime.”

Gier LundestadDirector of Nobel Instistute

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CONCORD, N.H. - New Hampshire’s Department of Trans-portation says it will plow all roads as usual this winter, despite budget cuts.

Earlier this year, the depart-ment had considered looking at re-

duced plowing because it faced cuts in highway maintenance.

The Concord Monitor reports the department submitted a letter this week to the House Finance Commit-tee saying it won’t modify its winter maintenance plan based on feedback

it has received from the public, busi-nesses and the Legislature.

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With potential benefi ts such as reduced stress, increased concen-tration and a better night’s sleep, Health Service’s Biofeedback pro-gram could be a godsend for UNH students made over-stressed and overtired by fi rst exams, intramurals and a punishing schedule.

According to the Health Ser-vices Biofeedback page, the com-puter-based program “uses elec-tronic equipment to measure and monitor changes in one’s internal physiological state while teaching breathing, relaxation and medita-tion exercises.” The program is free to UNH students who have paid their health fee, and making an ap-pointment is as easy as signing on to the Health Services website.

Arrive at the Offi ce of Health Education and Promotion 15 min-utes before your appointment. Once you’ve checked in, someone will lead you down the hall to the room that houses the computer. You can turn off the lights in the room, and then pull the privacy curtains around the computer shut. Get comfortable in your seat, put on the provided headphones (or bring your own) and attach the three electronic sensors to the middle fi ngers of your non-mouse clicking hand.

The computer program con-tains step-by-step directions with

each session divided into four stages. There is an inspirational message, guided training session one, guided training session two, and then an exercise period to prac-tice the skill that you’ve learned in that session. Session one is entitled “Quiet Your Mind,” and the instruc-tional voiceovers are provided by mental health professionals whose names and photos accompany their voices on the screen.

The best feature of the program is the ability to view your “Iom Graph,” which displays three charts based on the data coming from your electronic fi nger sensors. The sen-sors are there to monitor your breath rate, body perspiration, tempera-ture, and heart rate. One chart al-lows you to simply track your heart rate, while on another chart chang-ing color blocks indicate your level of “coherence,” so you can actually see the colors change as you slip further into a relaxed state. While viewing your “Iom Graph,” you can click an icon on the screen to read explanations of all three charts.

If you enjoy your fi rst session and decide to continue onto a sec-ond, you can pick up where you left off by signing back in under the same username. There is no rush to complete the program, with Health Services noting that the program can be completed over the span of several weeks. Your account is also password protected to respect your

privacy.The graphics are certainly

a touch 90s, but the instrumen-tal soundtrack, easy-to-follow voiceovers and dim room quickly combine to put you at ease and let you slip into a relaxed state. And if the cheesy graphics aren’t your style, the program is designed so that keeping your eyes closed has no effect on your ability to follow along.

It is recommended that you en-gage in all 15 sessions to see opti-mal benefi ts, complete a maximum of one session per day and progress through the sessions in the order provided. With each session con-suming a maximum of 30 minutes of your time, it is easy to sneak appointments in between classes. If you manage to learn some tech-niques to achieve a better night’s sleep, suffer less exam stress and beef up your immune system to get through fl u season, you just might think Biofeedback was the best 30 minutes you spent all day.

Health Services Biofeedback program serves to alleviate stress

By LOLITA C. BALDORASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON - The num-ber of American military trainers in Afghanistan will increase by 800 by next March, a jump of nearly 25 percent in the U.S. commitment there, the top commander in charge of training said Monday.

Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, who heads NATO’s training mis-sion in Afghanistan, told Pentagon reporters that even as the number of combat troops begins to drop, more trainers are needed. Afghan security forces are slated to take the lead in their country’s security by the end of 2014, when interna-tional combat troops are scheduled to leave.

There have been ongoing concerns about the pace and effec-tiveness of the Afghan training, as commanders deal with persistent attrition problems, high illiteracy rates, low pay and diffi cult work-ing conditions. But over the past week, U.S. defense offi cials have expressed optimism that the rag-tag Afghan forces are improving, including a steady increase in their ability to read.

At the same time, there have been recurring problems with members of the Afghan Army or police turning against coalition forces.

Lt. Gen. Robert Neller, di-rector of operations for the Joint

Chiefs of Staff, told Congress last week that the problem is not al-ways Taliban related. At times it can be triggered by stress or other working conditions. He said there has been an increasing ef-fort to screen out potential threats, through an eight-step process that includes biometrics, references and other testing.

For the fi rst time, he said, the Afghans did not meet their recruit-ment goal in June because they dis-qualifi ed so many people who were trying to join the Army.

Caldwell said that he has been impressed with some of the reac-tion of the Afghan forces in recent attacks. While there continue to be problems, he said they are learning from each incident, and are using more formal command and control procedures for their responses.

He said the additional train-ers will help the Afghans develop specialized skills in maintenance, logistics and medical systems - things they now need the U.S. to do for them.

According to military offi -cials, there are currently 3,300 U.S. trainers in Afghanistan, and anoth-er 1,800 international trainers.

Caldwell says just two Afghan battalions can operate independent-ly now, but still rely on coalition forces for medical evacuation, lo-gistics and intelligence support. He says another 124 Afghan battalions can operate with minimal support.

More US trainers heading to Afghanistan

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Bekele Liz, 20, 108 Becker St., Manchester, N.H., 03104, Hud-dleston Quad, unlawful intoxica-tion, 12:52 a.m.

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In BriefHealth Services is offering its

annual flu clinic on Wednesday, Oct. 5, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Granite State Room of the MUB. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recom-mending that everyone six months and older receive this vaccine.

The 2011 Seasonal Flu Vac-cine provides protection against the seasonal flu and the H1N1 virus. Vaccine charge is $20 for students who have paid their health fee, and $25 for faculty/staff and students who have not paid the health fee.

This year there will be an ex-press line for those with cash. Pay-ment can be made using credit card (MasterCard/Visa), check, cash, or CATS Cache.

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By DAVID SHARPAssociAted Press

NORTH BERWICK, Maine - A New Hampshire trucker hauling a load of trash was distracted and speeding before his tractor-trailer skidded more than 200 feet into the path of an Amtrak train, caus-ing a fiery collision that killed him and injured several others in July, investigators concluded.

Peter Barnum, 35, of Farm-ington, N.H., took a five-minute phone call from his employer just before the collision and his truck was traveling 20 mph faster than the posted speed limit when he hit the brakes, according to a re-port by the North Berwick Police Department. A motorist following Barnum reported that the truck had been weaving on the road.

Barnum was distracted, pos-sibly by his cellphone, and “didn’t see the crossing until it was too late,” Police Chief Stephen Peas-ley said Monday.

Investigators cannot say with absolute certainty whether Bar-num was on the phone at the mo-ment of impact on July 11. A con-versation between Barnum and his boss ended at about the same time as the accident, though the boss insisted that the call ended before the collision, Peasley said.

The Amtrak Downeaster train, which operates between Portland and Boston, was travel-ing at about 70 mph with 112 pas-sengers aboard when it collided with Barnum’s tractor-trailer.

Witnesses said the impact, which separated the burning lo-comotive from the other cars, sent flames three stories high, followed by a hail of trash scattered from the trailer. Barnum’s body landed 350 feet away in a grassy ditch, ac-cording to the report. Four passen-gers and two Amtrak crew mem-bers were injured, none seriously.

Investigators examined Bar-num’s cellphone records, GPS and other electronic equipment.

The complete report, made available to the public for the first time on Monday, indicates his truck had passed inspections and passed through a weigh station in Eliot just minutes before the crash. It also said the train operator blew a whistle and that the flashing lights and the gates were operating properly.

A driver who was follow-ing the truck, Greg Daigneault of North Berwick, told investigators that Barnum was driving errati-cally and didn’t slow down when the speed limit dropped.

“It appeared to me that the truck driver was distracted or

tired,” Daigneault told police. “He crossed the center line at least twice and steered into the break-down lane at least twice, also.”

GPS data from the truck in-dicated Barnum had been stick-ing close to the speed limit, but he didn’t slow down when the limit dropped from 55 mph to 40 mph and then 30 mph, Peasley said.

The state police reconstruc-tion report is not complete, but Peasley said state police told him the report will indicate the truck was traveling at about 50 mph, or 20 mph above the limit at the crossing.

The collision happened dur-ing Barnum’s second job of the day for Triumvirate Environmen-tal Inc. of Somerville, Mass., ac-cording to the report. After report-ing to work at 6 a.m., Barnum dropped off a container at Ports-mouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery. He then picked up a load of trash in Kittery to take it to the Maine

Energy Recovery Co. incinerator in Biddeford, the report said.

Cellphone records indicate there were 14 incoming and out-going calls between 7:37 a.m. and the time of the crash. The report indicates the last call came from his employer at 11 a.m. and ended at 11:05 a.m., the same time police received the first 911 calls, the re-

port said.Stephen Foye of Triumvi-

rate Environmental told police he couldn’t remember what the two discussed in that last call but said it ended before the crash, accord-ing to the report.

Officials from Triumvirate Environmental did not immediate-ly return a call seeking comment from The Associated Press.

Police: Trucker distracted before Amtrak crash

Cellphone records indicate there were 14 incoming and outgoing calls between 7:37 a.m. and the time of the crash. The report indicates the last call came from his em-ployer at 11 a.m. and ended at 11:05 a.m., the same time police received the first 911 calls, the report said.

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By HALEY WHITEContributing Writer

The ‘Talk Test’ is a gauge com-monly used in order to measure the intensity of an exercise workout. Theory states that if someone can barely speak during a workout, then he or she is working too hard. But if it is really easy to speak during a workout, then the person is not working out hard enough.

Ideally, a person should be able to carry on a conversation but still feel winded. Ways to increase inten-sity include going faster or increas-ing resistance.

The University of New Hamp-

shire exercise scientists decided to test how accurate the Talk Test real-ly is. Timothy Quinn, a UNH asso-ciate professor of kinesiology, and Benjamin Coons, a former student of Quinn’s, conducted the experi-ment by having healthy adults re-cite the Pledge of Allegiance while exercising. The adults exercised at different intensities and recorded how easy it was for them to speak.

Results showed that the Talk

Test is indeed effective.“If you can still talk comfort-

ably, you’re exercising in a zone that’s appropriate for improving fit-ness in individuals beginning an ex-ercise program,” Quinn said. “The

Talk Test is a good tool, and it’s easy to use.”

Alternative ways to measure the intensity of a workout are by heart rate or lactate levels, the latter of which requires blood samples to be taken, and is said to be the more accurate of the two. The lactate test works because your muscles always produce lactate. When you exercise, lactate levels increase.

This study has made news be-cause it is the first study to compare the Talk Test with both lactate val-ues and heart rates. Before this, the Talk Test had only been compared with heart rate measurements.

The Talk Test can be useful for both beginning exercisers as well as experienced athletes. It has appeal because it costs no money and is an easy test to conduct.

“If you are beginning an exer-cise program and can still talk while you’re exercising, you’re doing OK,” Quinn said. “But if you really want to improve, you’ve got to push a little bit harder.”

Their study was recently pub-lished in the Journal of Sports Sci-ences.

UNH study deems ‘Talk Test’ an easy, effective measure of exercise intensity

If you can still talk comfortably, you’re exercising in a zone that’s appropriate for improving fitness in individuals beginning an exercise program. The Talk Test is a good tool, and it’s easy to use.”

Timothy QuinnUNH associate professor of kinesiology

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NH BriefsUNH gets grant to study African national parks

MANCHESTER – Twenty-eight people are homeless as a re-sult of a fire in a Manchester, N.H., apartment building.

WMUR-TV says emergency crews found a fire in the center of the common cellar shooting up to-wards the second floor when they arrived early Sunday. All of the residents got out safely.

Firefighters say they were able

to get the fire under control by a little after 3 a.m. Authorities say the building is uninhabitable until repairs can be done to the structure and utilities. Investigators say the cause of the fire is currently unde-termined and under investigation.

The damage to the three-story, nine-unit building is estimated at $75,000 to $100,000.

DOVER – Police in Dover, N.H., say they’ve seen an increase in burglaries, especially in jewelry thefts, and they think the unstable economy is a factor.

Foster’s Daily Democrat re-ports since the start of the year, police have received 53 burglary reports, 40 of those from homes and 13 from non-residential or busi-nesses. During the same period last year, police received 41 burglary calls - 27 residential burglaries and

14 non-residential.The majority of burglaries re-

ported have been electronics, in-cluding televisions, cell phones and video game consoles. Jewelry thefts including ones with valuable metal, such as copper, have resulted in 26 percent of thefts.

Police said they have been seeing many people selling stolen items through pawn shops, second-hand gold sellers and online.

DURHAM – A University of New Hampshire study has found that leg strength and power of overweight older women is sig-nificantly less than that of normal-weight older women, increasing the risk for disability and loss of independence.

Lead author Dain LaRoche, assistant professor of kinesiol-ogy at UNH, tells Foster’s Daily Democrat the study contradicts the conventional wisdom that thinner elderly women are at greatest risk of becoming disabled due to loss

of muscle mass.The study was published in

the Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology.

LaRoche measured the impact of excess weight on subjects’ leg strength, walking speed, and pow-er. He found little difference in the absolute strength of the over-weight and normal-weight partici-pants, but when their strength-to-weight ratio was calculated, the overweight women had an average of 24 percent lower strength.

BERLIN – Several northern New Hampshire organizations are hosting an energy fair to help people create more energy-efficient homes and businesses.

The North Country Energy Fair is being held Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at White Mountains Community College in Berlin.

Topics cover construction waste management, building dura-bility, solar water systems, weath-erization, energy audits, and other topics.

Peter Yost of BuildingGreen LLC in Brattleboro, Vt., headlines the roster of speakers.

CONCORD – The Univer-sity of New Hampshire has won a federal grant to study the impact of population growth and climate change around seven national parks in Africa.

Assistant geography professor Joel Hartter is the principal investi-gator on the project, which is part of a National Science Foundation program. He says while others have

looked at deforestation, population growth and climate change in vari-ous parts of Africa, there has been little effort to integrate their find-ings.

The new project builds on Hartter’s previous work examining the relationships between people and parks outside Kibale National Park in Uganda.

UNH study sheds light on elderly leg strength

Dover seeing increase in burglaries

Northern groups hold energy fair

NH fire displaces 28 Manchester residents

SANDWICH – Two police departments in New Hampshire are being honored for their emphasis on community policing.

The International Association of Chiefs of Police is recognizing the departments in Sandwich and Lin-

coln next month at its annual confer-ence in Chicago.

The Citizen reports the associa-tion’s Community Policing Commit-tee had chosen the towns as runners-up for the award for communities with populations under 20,000.

State police honored by international group

By MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER

AssoCiAted Press

TOPEKA, Kan. - Environmen-talists told officials from the U.S. State Department on Monday they opposed the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline, claiming it would move a “dirtier” and “environmentally devastating form of energy” from Canada through Kansas and other states to the Texas coast.

Rabbi Moti Rieber, coordina-tor of the Kansas Interfaith Power & Light, said he and others in his coalition disagreed with the State Department’s report, which said there are unlikely to be any seri-ous environmental problems with the proposed 1,700-mile pipeline. Rieber said he strongly opposed the pipeline, which he called a “direct threat” to the Kansas environment.

“Exploring tar sands will keep us hooked on this form of oil for an-other 50 years,” Rieber said. “The Keystone XL pipeline represents not energy independence but a new dependence on an even dirtier en-vironmentally devastating form of energy.

“An energy policy that moves the nation toward an even dirtier form of oil and involves such devas-tation of God’s creation represents a profound moral failure,” he said.

Republican Gov. Sam Brown-back kicked off the meeting, attend-ed by about 200 supporters and op-ponents. Brownback said that while he supports exploring alternative energy sources like wind and solar, he also supports building the $7 bil-lion Keystone XL pipeline because “for the foreseeable future we’re going to need oil.”

“I think this is an important security for the United States,” Brownback said. “I have been at the front end and the back end of this pipeline. I have been where the oil

sands are developed and processed in Canada, and I’ve been to oil re-fineries in Kansas where they use the oil sands,” he said.

“The idea of us being able ... to have that oil source from a friendly nation that’s next door rather than shipping oil in tankers from half way around the world in a many times unstable environment is a good thing for us. It’s a good thing for America, a good thing for Kan-sas.”

About 40 protesters organized by the National Wildlife Federation marched outside the hall during a break in the meeting. They chant-ed and carried signs saying, “Stop Keystone XL.” About a dozen sup-porters also gathered with signs that read: “We support Keystone XL.”

David Barnett, financial secre-tary for the Pipeliners Union 798, of Tulsa, Okla., said losing the pipeline would cost his members “up in the millions of dollars” in paychecks.

“If common sense prevails it should get approved,” Barnett said before the three-hour meeting began. “We have the world’s best welders, pipefitters ... ready to build this project, and I think this project will start literally the next day once they decide.”

Several other members of la-bor unions, citing high unemploy-ment figures and tough economy, also said they want to see the proj-ect move forward.

The pipeline would move tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, and hook up to Calgary-based Trans-Canada’s existing pipelines and move oil to Oklahoma and the Gulf of Mexico.

The meetings Monday in To-peka and Port Arthur, Texas, kick off this week’s series of hearings on the Keystone XL pipeline with meetings Monday in Topeka, Kan., and Port Arthur, Texas.

Officials from the State De-

partment said they don’t plan to an-swer any questions, reserving most of the time for comments from the public.

Other meetings have been scheduled this week in Montana, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Ne-braska. Even in that deeply con-servative state there is growing concern about the pipeline’s ef-fect on the Ogallala Aquifer, a vast subterranean reservoir that spans a large swath of the Great Plains and provides water to much of Nebraska and seven other states.

The State Department, which has to approve the pipeline because it would cross the U.S.-Canada bor-der, is expected to decide by the end of the year. The sessions are likely to focus on the department’s final draft of its environmental impact statement on the pipeline, which found that special conditions put on the pipeline would result in a proj-ect with a “degree of safety greater than any typically constructed do-mestic oil pipeline system under current regulations.”

TransCanada and its supporters say the pipeline would mean tens of thousands of U.S. jobs and more en-ergy security for the country.

“If the activists feel that they’re facing an uphill battle, it’s because the facts don’t support their overheated rhetoric,” Trans-Canada spokesman Shawn Howard said earlier. “It has been shown that the outrageous claims these groups have made aren’t true.”

State Dept. hears from Kan., Texas on oil pipeline

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University of New Hampshire Dining announced Monday that it would halt the sale of

energy drinks in its retail and vending machines in January as part of its mission to make UNH the healthiest campus by 2020, and to keep stu-dents safe from the dangers presented when mixing alcohol and caffeine.

Shortly after 8 p.m., though, President Mark Huddleston inter-vened – thankfully.

Huddleston cited confl icting evidence about the health effects of consuming the beverages, as well as student reactions in announcing his decision.

“I respect the efforts of the staff in UNH Dining to present the healthiest possible choices in our food service and vending locations,” Huddleston said. “I want to be sure we respect our students’ ability to make informed choices about what they consume.”

Students can thank him for pre-venting a foolish move by Dining.

And he did it for the right rea-son. Students deserve the ability to make their own choices.

If UNH wants to be the healthi-est campus, it needs to educate its students on the dangers of unhealthy eating and drinking habits – not just remove unhealthy beverages.

We’re on board with the uni-versity’s goal and would like to see

it work. But the school was about to approach it the wrong way.

If the university wants to be the healthiest campus, it should help its students understand what it would take to get there.

Instead, it seems as if it was a combination of reaching a goal and overreacting to incidents of combin-ing alcohol and caffeine.

“Just recently there was an incident on campus involving energy drinks that helped send a student to the hospital,” David May, assistant vice president for Business Affairs, said before Huddleston’s announce-ment.

We understand the dangers of combining alcohol and caffeine, and encourage students to better under-stand those dangers.

But removing energy drinks from UNH shelves because of that would be an overreaction.

May also said that the move was made to support the university’s initiative to make UNH the healthiest campus in the nation.

In the fi rst press release, which announced the move, UNH cited a survey which stated that energy drinks could contain 300 times as much caffeine as soft drinks.

True. But UNH doesn’t sell any energy drinks that contain that amount of caffeine. Red Bull (around 100 mg of caffeine), Full Throttle

(around 150 mg of caffeine), and NOS (around 250 mg of caffeine) contain slightly more caffeine than Coca-Cola (around 50 mg) and about the same amount as coffee (around 150 mg).

Red Bull echoed similar thoughts in a statement, calling UNH’s prospective move “inappro-priate and unwarranted.”

Regardless of Huddleston’s intervention, UNH Dining is sending mixed messages.

As they tried to tell students that energy drinks would be removed to ensure a healthier campus, they were fi nalizing the move-in of Dunkin’ Donuts in to the MUB.

It’s a hypocritical move.We would have no problem with

Dining bringing Dunkin’ Donuts to UNH – if they’re going to be consistent.

Right now, though, they’re not.Dining tried removing energy

drinks from shelves to become a healthier campus. But they were ready to turn their heads the other way as Dunkin’ Donuts and its 770-calorie tuna melt sandwich moves in.

There is a problem with that.Huddleston did the right thing

in delaying the move. We hope he continues to do so by shelving this hypocritical rule.

Dining’s hypocritical move� ankfully, Huddleston delayed irrational energy drink rule

ONLINE poll

Are your parentscoming to UNH forfamily weekend?TNH responds: It seems as if the lure of family weekend wears o� for students and parents after fresh-man year. That said, if UNH can get 30 percent of students (or 4,000) to have some family members in Dur-ham this weekend, that would have to be considered a success.

TODAY’S QUESTIONHow often do you have energy drinks?

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Kudos for not buckling under the pressure

Bravo to The New Hamp-shire’s editorial staff for not buck-ling under the pressure from the Professoriate, particularly Professor Andrew Merton’s. It is the role of our journalists to act as society’s white blood cells, driving out in-flection and what ever else weakens and destroys a society’s immune system. The common good must be defended at great cost. The common good does not live within Ed Larkin. This is not an-other case of Sweezy v. New Hamp-shire. This is not about academic freedom. Larkin is not the victim. The common good resides in a mother and her child targeted by Professor Larkin for his sexual gratification and his need to domi-nate, intimidate others. Ed Larkin abused his social status. Larkin’s continued presence is an affront to women everywhere. It is also a stain on the honor of my alma mater. That so many of the profes-soriate would defend such an indi-

vidual. If Professor Larkin had any decency left, he would resign, seek treatment, and begin a new life elsewhere. He has caused untold damage to the UNH community. It is time for him to lower himself over the transom.

Hon. Steven W Lindsey State Rep

Keene

UNH should hold Dunkin’ Donuts to higher standards

I would like to thank Julia Miller for voicing her concerns regarding Dunkin’ Donuts and sus-tainability. They are being echoed across campus. I appreciated the insight provided in Ms. Miller’s interview with David May, though many of his comments upset me and made me question UNH’s said commitment to sustainability. May discusses the “risk of being more sustainable” in these economic times. I would like to point out the

risk of being less sustainable, of adding literally tons of virtually non-biodegradable styrofoam trash to landfills. May also says, “We wouldn’t have a Dunkin’ Donuts if we forced them to adhere to our sustainability standards.”

The fact that we will have a Dunkin’ Donuts that is only “looking at” the use of paper cups over styrofoam makes me question the existence of standards at all. Perhaps we have a sustainability double standard, to which entities on campus adhere only if it makes financial sense.

In my understanding, a com-mitment is full-time. The university cannot boast commitment and lead-ership in sustainability if it only comes into play when convenient.

The MUB is equipped with composting bins, and I wonder why, with a new facility, we must take “baby steps” and not one giant leap we can be proud of from the get-go, with compostable cups, lids and napkins, not just straws. There are plenty of flourishing coffee shops in the Seacoast area already employing these technologies.

I respect the sustainability measures already in place across all corners of this campus. However, I believe that as an institution we have not only the ability, but also the responsibility, to do more. In-sisting on compostables at Dunkin’ Donuts is a place to start.

Sara GassmanEnvironmental Conservation

Studies, 2012

Avoiding acts of hateStudents, as you settle into the

routine of daily life, I wanted to call an important issue to your attention and ask for your help in making sure that UNH is a safe and welcoming place for everyone, especially those persons in protected categories.

Some common themes emerged last year about which I wanted you to know. First, while the incidents did not begin around issues stemming from race or racism, they evolved quickly when white students used hateful language in the presence of persons of color. Second, violence or the

threat of violence emerged at times upon exchange of words. Finally, witnesses played some kind of role, whether it was to calm the situa-tions or exacerbate tensions.

This community has no toler-ance for any act of hate or preju-dice, and when they are reported, action is always taken. For more information about programming opportunities throughout the year, check out various offices like Office of Multi-Cultural Student Affairs (OMSA) at 603.862.2050, Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program (SHARPP) at 603.862.3494, Offices of Resi-dential Life (603.862.2268) and Housing (603.862.2120), Diversity Support Coalition (603.862.3550), Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Inclusive Excellence at 603.862.3290, and Health Services (603) 862.1530.

Every one of us, individually, contributes to this environment and we all have a part to play.

Sincerely,Anne Lawing

Dean of Students

During my four years at UNH, I have noticed that many people on this campus,

including faculty, the administration and the general employees do not al-ways have their priorities quite right and they often contradict themselves and one another. I believe that it has become apparent that there is not enough communication between the different levels of school employ-ees. Often times decisions are made without asking the students opinion, or more problematic, too small of a survey sample.

The priorities and contradic-tions that surround people at this school are often quite mind-bog-gling. We have a few current exam-ples that prove my very point. Take UNH Dining for example. I know I pick on them a lot, but some of it is deserved. Ever since I’ve been here they have tried to promote healthy eating. They even went so far as to remove all the salt shakers from the tables at the dining halls and replacing them with expensive salt

and pepper mills. Yet, this semester we returned to campus only to see that possibly the healthiest food source on campus, Panache, had been replaced with a Dunkin’ Do-nuts. Personally, I don’t mind this, I love their iced coffee, but it seems like a bit of a contradiction. No salt for you! But have all the Boston Creams you want. Then more news came out that effective in January all UNH Dining services will no longer serve energy drinks. Thank-fully, President Mark Huddleston intervened and put the rule on hold.

I have two predictions if the rule is put into effect: It will cause the entire university’s GPA to drop a full point and the number of students falling asleep in class will skyrocket. Dining, let me get this straight, salt and energy drinks are bad for us, but it is okay to put a Dunkin’ Donuts in the middle of our student center located in the heart of campus? Stick to your guns about healthy eating, sustainability and local support or don’t bother. Seriously, UNH dining

flip-flops more than Mitt Romney. Here is another example that

deals with the faculty and adminis-tration. By now we all know about the Professor Larkin situation. He exposed himself to a teenage girl and her mother in a Market Basket parking lot and was given a three year probationary period where he won’t be able to teach and only do research. I wonder if a male student were to be caught doing the same thing what the outcome would be? Probation? Expulsion? Would faculty members support a male student who pulled something like this, or would it be different? We have many student organiza-tions and student support groups on this campus that completely focus on eliminating problems like this, but many of our professors portray Larkin as the victim.

UNH Housing doesn’t stray from the pack either. For the first two years of my college career I lived in the regular dorms. I was a proud resident of Williamson Hall as a freshman and as a sophomore I was in Devine Hall. Last year and this year I have been lucky to live in the Gables. When I made the transition housing said that living in the Gables you have more freedom, more privacy and personal responsibility. Then what do they do? Move quiet hours up to be the same as the dorms. This does a few things. Here is my hypothetical prediction. This will drive more of the “party” students off campus. Personally, if I knew about the change ahead of time, I would have avoided Gables and got an apartment this year. That extra hour makes a huge difference on the weekends. I also believe more students could potentially lose housing do to quiet hour violations that lead to alcohol and other more serious violations. It’s the student’s

own fault, but midnight comes fast on a Friday night. Again this could lead to more students moving off campus and into Durham and the surrounding towns who already de-spise students living in residential neighborhoods. Durham and UNH relations are already tense and they have been for years and this could potentially add fuel to the fire.

UNH has so many different departments and levels of authority that it would be nearly impossible for them to not contradict them-selves or one another. I believe there is going to be a greater need of cooperation and communication especially when the budget cuts be-gin having an even greater impact.

Stay classy, not UMassy,The New Hampshirite s

The New Hampshirite is an anonymous UNH student who entertains much of the campus with his politically incorrect and

realistic accounts of student life in Durham. Read his blog at unhblog.com.

Faculty, administration need to get priorities straight

The New HampshireTuesday, September 27, 201114 SPORTS

STAFF REPORTthe new hampshire

Senior Lauren Laquerre racked up a match-high

22 kills and added five blocks to lead the University of New Hampshire volleyball team past the Univer-sity of Hartford, 3-2, in the America East opener Saturday afternoon at the Reich Family Pavilion.

With the win, the Wildcats improve to 2-15 overall and 1-0 in conference play while the Hawks drop to 9-8 on the season and 0-1 in the league. Set scores in the match were 25-21, 25-27, 26-24, 17-25 and 15-12.

In addition to Laquerre, se-nior Amy Keding added 15 kills and sophomore Morgan Thatcher recorded 14 kills for a .323 attack percentage. Senior Jessy Dick led the way with a .438 attack percent-

age while junior Jansan Falcusan posted a team-high 58 assists. De-fensively, sophomore Destiny Toll-iver registered a match-high seven blocks, while freshman Sam Henke and junior Jessie Schnepp recorded double-digit digs with 19 and 11, respectively.

In the first set, the Wildcats opened with a 9-2 lead to pave the way for an eventual 24-17 advan-tage. The Hawks made it interesting with four straight points but UNH put it away at 25-21 for the early 1-0 match lead.

The teams were tightly con-tested in the second set as seven lead changes led up to a 24-24 even score. After trading points, the Hawks scored two straight to take the set at 27-25 and even the match at 1-1. Despite the set loss, the Wildcats recorded 19 kills and hit at a .400 clip.

New Hampshire answered

back by taking the third set in an-other close contest. Hartford broke a 12-12 tie with four straight for the 16-12 lead, but the Wildcats roared back to even it up again at 18-18. After back-and-forth action the rest of the way, the teams were once again tied at 24-24, but this time the Wildcats took the final two points for the 26-24 victory.

In the fourth set, the squads were even at 14-14 but the Hawks ended the stanza with an 11-3 run to capture the set, 25-17, and force a deciding fifth set.

In that set, the Hawks jumped out to a 12-9 advantage, but the Wildcats ended the set with six straight to capture the 15-12 win and seal the victory.

The Wildcats return to action on Friday, Sept. 30 when they visit conference foe Providence College at 7 p.m.

UNH picks up first AE win of yearVOLLEYBALL

UNH 3 Hartford 2

STAFF REPORTthe new hampshire

Freshman for-ward Meghan Ledwith scored

a goal late in the second frame, but it wasn’t enough, as the University of New Hampshire women’s soccer team fell to Harvard University, 4-1, Sunday afternoon at Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium.

The loss drops the Wildcats to 2-7-1 on the season, while the Crimson move to 5-4.

Alyssa Michel ignited UNH’s lone goal, sending a ball into the box on a corner kick, where Led-with connected with the pass, firing a shot that found its way into the back of the net from 10 yards out at 52:35.

The goal was too little too late for the ‘Cats, as the Crimson con-trolled the action to that point, hold-ing a 4-0 lead in the contest prior to UNH’s goal. Harvard held the ad-vantage in shots (22-10) and corner kicks (8-1) in the contest. Chelsea Kuss and Drea Nogueira led the Wildcats with two shots apiece.

Harvard struck first at 8:55 when Aisha Price sent a pass toward

the right sideline, finding Erika Gar-cia. Garcia picked up the ball and dribbled it deep into the box and buried a shot past Erica Correa and into the net, putting Harvard up 1-0.

The Crimson would double their lead when Peyton Johnson sent a ball into the box, where Mai Le tipped it back into the air and Catherine Coppinger got position in front of the net and headed it into the goal to put the home team up 2-0 at 44:22.

Harvard extended its lead to 3-0 when Melanie Baskind bounced a pass from the right side to Eliza-beth Weisman, who sent a shot over the head of Erin Jackson and into the goal at 49:13.

Less than three minutes later the Crimson were at it again, as Baskind assisted on another tally, finding Meg Casscells-Hamby in front of the net, as Harvard made it a 4-0 contest at 51:55.

Jackson and Correa split time in net for the Wildcats, both tallying three saves.

The Wildcats are back in action when they kick off their conference slate Thursday, Sept. 29 against Al-bany (3:30 p.m.) at Lewis Fields.

Harvard 4 UNH 1

Wildcats fall to HarvardWOMEN’S SOCCER

New Hampshire leveled the score, 1-1, at 31:19 when Rausch scored her team-leading 15th goal of the season. Kellie Joyce made the pass from the right post across the goalmouth to Rausch.

The teams entered halftime tied 1-1 with UNH holding a 5-4 shot advantage and Louisville gen-erating the 2-1 edge in penalty cor-ners.

The Cardinals regained the lead at 38:06. UNH goalie Kath-erine Nagengast made the initial stop against Paige Monsen – it was one of Nagengast’s six saves in the game – but Soucy scored off the re-bound.

Haley Jurich scored an unas-

sisted goal minutes later to extend the advantage to 3-1, and the ‘Cats recorded just three shots – two on goal – the rest of the way as Lou-isville kept the potent UNH attack at bay.

On Saturday, Whitney Frates scored two goals and Nagengast made a season-high seven saves, but UNH was defeated 5-4 by Northwestern University.

NU scored the first two goals of the game – Maria Kovalchuk at 4:59 and Claire Thompson at 7:43 – to build an early 2-0 lead. Frates scored off her own rebound at 17:03 to lift UNH within 2-1.

Northwestern reestablished a two-goal advantage, 3-1, on Koval-chuk’s second goal of the game at 13:24, but Rausch scored 45 sec-onds later on a shot into the upper-left side of the cage to once again trim the difference to one, 3-2, at

24:30. Erler was credited with her team-leading seventh assist of the season on Rausch’s team-best 14th tally.

NU took that 3-2 lead into half-time with a 9-5 shot advantage and 3-2 edge in penalty corners.

New Hampshire capitalized on a penalty corner to level the score, 3-3, at 39:26.

Thompson scored her second goal of the game 20 seconds later and Regan Mooney struck 80 sec-onds later (at 41:06) to give North-western its third two-goal lead of the game.

Frates’ 10th goal of the season came on a shot from the right door-step lifted UNH within 5-4 at 49:10.

New Hampshire returns to ac-tion Sept. 30 at home for its Amer-ica East conference opener against Fairfield University. Game time at Memorial Field is 3 p.m.

F HOCKEYcoNtiNUed from page 16

Sports BriefsClub golf team wins Wildcat Invitational

The UNH club golf team captured a victory in the Wildcat Invitational at Pease Golf Club in Portsmouth this past Sunday. Both the UNH A and B teams competed, as well as BU, Stonehill, Northeastern, Maine, Vermont and WPI. UNH senior Kurt Eddins’ 71 was the low score of the day for all teams. UNH’s top four golfers combined for a score of 293, beating out second-place BU’s combined 326.

Harris, Peters win CAA weekly awardsCAA Football announced Monday that University of New Hampshire

wide receiver R.J. Harris is the CAA Football Rookie of the Week and Wildcat kick returner Dontra Peters is the CAA Football Special Teams Player of the Week.

Harris, a redshirt freshman, logged accolades after setting career highs with 12 receptions, 120 receiving yards and two touchdowns in the then 11th-ranked Wildcats’ 45-43 triumph over then-No.5/No. 7 Richmond on Saturday. Harris’ first TD grab, a 19-yard reception from Kevin Decker, got UNH on the scoreboard with 14:12 left in the second quarter, reducing the Spiders’ lead to 10-7. His second scoring reception was a 47-yard hookup with Decker that proved to be the difference in the contest, as the ‘Cats claimed a 45-36 advantage with 2:45 left in the fourth quarter.

Peters totaled 261 all-purpose yards, including 141 yards on eight kickoff returns. The junior returned the opening kick of the second half a career-best 70 yards, setting up a Wildcat touchdown drive. He added a team-leading 64 rushing yards on nine carries, eclipsing the 1,000-yard rushing mark for his career, and pulled in four catches for 56 yards – both career highs.

Women’s cross-country No. 9 in NortheastThe University of New Hampshire women’s cross country team held

strong at No. 9 in this week’s Northeast Regional Poll that was released Monday by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Associa-tion.

UNH, which entered the season unranked and moved up from No. 10 to No. 9 last week, most recently finished first at a tri-meet on Sept. 23, edg-ing out the University of Maine and Husson University in Orono, Maine. Freshman Marina Slavin placed third overall as she ran the 5-k course in 18:53, while Anne Twombly and Chelsey Serrano placed fourth and fifth, respectively, in times of 19:03 and 19:07. Freshman Meagan Boucher fin-ished sixth with a time of 19:18, while junior Erin Phillips came in ninth as she ran the course in 19:30.

The Wildcats return to action on Friday, Sept. 30 when they take part in the Paul Short Invitational on the campus of Lehigh University.

The New Hampshire SPORTS Tuesday, September 27, 2011 15

It was a case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde on Sunday afternoon. The Patriots were playing some

excellent football for the fi rst quar-ter and a half, and then things went horribly wrong.

Tom Brady had three touch-downs, the defense had two interceptions and had allowed zero points. Then, with a minute and 56 seconds remaining in the half, the Bills scored their fi rst touchdown. Despite the lengthy drive, the Patriots two-minute offense roared right back. It look like they were poised to go up 28-7, but an off throw by Brady bounced off Danny Woodhead and into the hands of Bills safety Bryan Scott.

The Bills scored a fi eld goal and made it 21-10 going into the half. The damage was done, how-ever, as the interception had sent the crowd into a frenzy. The Bills had the momentum from there, and the rest, as they say, is history.

The potent Patriots offense looked sloppy the second half. New England got some yards but either stalled, settled or turned the ball over. Outside of its last drive, which resulted in the tying TD, the offense could only muster a fi eld goal.

It would be easy to blame Brady, who was off after the fi rst quarter and threw four intercep-tions, but everyone had their fair share of blunders. The running game couldn’t get the yards when needed, specifi cally Ben Jarvus Green-Ellis. The offensive line seemed to struggle, especially Nate Solder. Deion Branch was also surprisingly quiet after two monster games to begin the season.

Chad Ochocinco, of course, had a tough day. He continued his streak of mediocrity with two catches for 28 yards. He made headlines, however, for the two catches he did not make. The fi rst came on a crossing pattern where Brady threw and Bills cornerback Leodis McKelvin (who can be remembered for infamously run-ning back a deep kickoff two years ago and fumbling it, setting up the Patriots game-winning TD in that game) undercut the route and picked off Brady.

From these amateur eyes, it was a bad pass from Brady and not all can be blamed on Ochocinco. The wideout should have, however, tried to muscle the ball away as it was catchable by both men. He seemed to allow McKelvin to catch it pretty easily.

The other non-catch was what would have been a 41-yard TD pass. While they scored anyway, it was a whole fi ve minutes later, which resulted in the Bills driving

down and easily milking the clock away, giving the Patriots no chance to tie the game up at the end.

And that brings us to the defense. The two picks early were nice, but it all fell apart afterwards and things are not looking promis-ing. The defense, at this point, is worse than last year’s, which lived off of turnovers and excelled with a lead. It’s still early, but early returns are not promising.

The poor play at safety from Josh Barrett and Sergio Brown can-not go unnoticed. Both youngsters had key negative plays: Barrett with a missed tackle on Fred Jack-son that set up the game winning fi eld goal, and Brown with a pass interference penalty that negated a Ryan Fitzpatrick interception. Obviously Patrick Chung’s absence hurt, but I am starting to second-guess Bill Belichick’s decision

to cut Brandon Meriweather and James Sanders.

There were positives, how-ever, including Welker’s career day. Gronkowski is a monster and cannot be covered. Arrington had a nice day with the two picks, and punter Zoltan Mesko looked strong despite the knee injury that many thought would not allow him to play.

There is a lot of a games left to play. A complete team meltdown doesn’t leave fans with a very hap-py feeling inside. Don’t fret, how-ever. The important game comes next Sunday, at Oakland. How these Patriots respond will tell us what kind of team we have. If they come out fi ghting, and with heart, then they will be fi ne. If there’s more of the same, however, and no sense of urgency, then it might be time to hit the panic button.

Patriots Notebook

Arjuna Ramgopal

Patriots shine, then implode in loss at Bu� alo

FOOTBALL

COURTESY PHOTO

Bills running back Fred Jackson had 74 yards rushing and 87 receiving in Bu� alo’s win against the Pats on Sunday.

-tinue his hot play of late, as the team’s next game is its America East opener against Stony Brook this Friday. The Wildcats were 2-3-2 in conference play last season be-fore making its run to the America East fi nals in the playoffs.

With the familiarity that comes with playing in the same confer-ence, Thompson said the upcoming America East games will be tough, as each team has thoroughly scout-ed each other.

“Everyone knows person-nel, everyone knows personalities, there’s a lot more on the line; it’s diffi cult,” Thompson said. “These last games have been close. I’m happy to win them, but I’m more happy that the games are close and tight. Hopefully we’ve learned how these conference games are going to be.”

UNH plays Stony Brook at 3:30 p.m. on Friday at Lewis Field.

M SOCCERCONTINUED FROM PAGE 16

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFFJunior mid� elder Charlie Roche goes up to head the ball during UNH’s 1-0 win over Hartwick on Sunday afternoon. The win clinched a victory for the Wildcats in the Nike Fall Classic, which UNH hosted.

Aaron Corp completed 35 of 50 passes for 351 yards and two touchdowns in the losing effort. Corp was sacked four times and sur-rendered two interceptions, which were both returned for touchdowns.

The Wildcats, who fell behind 10-0 after one quarter, rallied back to seize their fi rst lead with 11:03 left in the fi rst half when Vines inter-cepted a defl ected pass and jaunted 60 yards untouched for a TD, stak-ing the ‘Cats to a 14-10 advantage after the PAT from Mike MacAr-thur. Despite being held on the play, Brian McNally (one tackle, two QB hurries) pressured Spiders quarter-back Aaron Corp, whose pass was batted out of the air by Alan Buzbee (nine tackles) to Vines. It marked Vines’ second career pick-six; he previously returned an INT 30 yards for a score against Central Connect-icut State on Sept. 4, 2010.

UNH forced another turnover on the following kickoff when Chris Setian jarred the ball loose from re-turn man Tremayne Graham and Chris Houston (four tackles) recov-ered the fumble on the Spiders’ 31. Three players later, Decker called his own number on a play-action fake and zipped inside left tackle for an 18-yard TD run, pushing New Hampshire’s lead to 21-10 with 10:23 left in the half.

Richmond drew closer when Will Kamin matched a career high by drilling a 45-yard fi eld goal with 7:31 remaining before the intermis-sion, slicing UNH’s lead to 21-13.

The Wildcats registered their second pick-six of the afternoon when a rushing McNally forced an errant throw from Corp that was nabbed by Evans and returned 31 yards with 5:54 left in the second, allowing UNH to reclaim a 15-point lead, 28-13. It was the second career INT return for a score by Evans, who tallied a 25-yarder versus Tow-son on Nov. 20, 2010.

Richmond’s fi nal scoring drive of the fi rst half was ignited by a 76-yard kickoff return from Wayne Pettus to the UNH 13. Facing a 4th-and-3 from the six on the sub-sequent drive, the Spiders lined up

for a fi eld goal, only to direct snap to Gaskins, who sprinted around the right end for a TD. The PAT made the score 28-20 with 4:02 left in the half.

Peters took the opening kick-off of the second half 70 yards, a career high, to the Richmond 26. The Wildcats capitalized on the short fi eld when Decker rushed for his second score of the contest, tak-ing a keeper in from 12 yards out to build UNH’s advantage to 35-20 with 13:33 left in the third.

Kamin once again drew the home team closer by connecting for his third fi eld goal of the game, a 37-yard kick with 6:42 to go in the third, trimming the Wildcats’ lead to 35-23.

New Hampshire reclaimed a 15-point cushion, 38-23, after en-gineering a 14-play, 70-yard drive that chewed 6:45 off the clock be-fore MacArthur hit a 23-yard fi eld goal on the fi rst play of the fourth quarter.

Richmond’s response was an 11-play, 75-yard drive punctuated by Gaskins’ second rushing TD of the game, a 13-yard carry with 10:45 left in the game that narrowed the gap to 38-29. The PAT failed.

The Spiders drew to within 38-36 with 6:20 remaining in the game

when Corp found Ben Edwards on a crossing pattern in the back of the end zone to cap a six-play, 78-yard drive.

Trailing 10-0, UNH got on the board with 14:12 left in the second quarter when Decker lofted a 19-yard touchdown pass to Harris in the left corner of the end zone to conclude a nine-play, 90-yard drive. Decker accounted for all 90 yards, completing 6 of 7 passes for 79 yards and rushing once for 11 yards. MacArthur’s PAT trimmed Rich-mond’s advantage to 10-7.

Graham returned the open-ing kickoff 39 yards to give Rich-mond possession at its own 47. Corp then proceeded to go 5-for-5 for 53 yards, giving the Spiders the lead with a one-yard touchdown pass to Stephen Barnette. Kamin’s PAT gave Richmond a 7-0 lead with 12:47 remaining in the fi rst.

Kamin would make it a 10-0 Spiders’ lead with 2:44 left in the opening period on a 36-yard fi eld goal that wrapped up a 10-play, 48-yard drive.

The Wildcats welcome Holy Cross to Cowell Stadium for the home opener next Saturday, Oct. 1, at 12 p.m.

FOOTBALLCONTINUED FROM PAGE 16

UNH football in the pollsUNH rose to No. 7 in The Sports Network/Fathead.com FCS Top-

25 College Football Poll after its win against Richmond. Following is a list of the top ten ranked programs in the FCS.

Team (First-place votes) Record Previous Rank

1. Georgia Southern (124) 3-0 1

2. Northern Iowa (17) 2-1 2

3. Appalachian State (8) 3-1 3

4. Montana State (2) 3-1 4

5. North Dakota State (8) 3-0 8

6. Delaware (1) 3-1 7

7. New Hampshire 2-1 11

8. Wo� ord 2-1 9

9. James Madison 3-1 12

10. Richmond 3-1 5

sports The New Hampshirewww.TNHonline.com/sports Tuesday, September 27, 2011

FOOTBALL

Hanging on by a threadUNH holds o� Spiders by slimmest of margins

STAFF REPORTTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

R.J. Harris hauled in 12 catches for 120 yards and two touch-downs, including a 47-yard re-

ception late in the fourth quarter, to help the 11th-ranked University of New Hampshire football team hold off No. 5/7 Richmond, 45-43, on Saturday at Robins Sta-dium in the CAA opener for both schools.

UNH improved its record to 2-1, 1-0 in the CAA, by earning its fi rst victory in Richmond since 1994. The Spiders fell to 3-1, 0-1 in the league.

Kevin Decker threw for two touchdowns and ran for two more, completing 22 of 32 passes for 239 yards and rushing for 48 yards on nine carries.

Dontra Peters accumulated 261 all-purpose yards (64 rushing, 56 receiving, 141 kick return).

Matt Evans and Randi Vines each returned an inter-ception for a touchdown, and Chris Beranger amassed a career-high 17 tackles.

Decker hit Harris on a post pattern for a 47-yard TD –the longest pass play of the season- to stake the Wildcats to a 45-36 lead with 2:45 left in the contest.

Richmond running back Kendall Gaskins (16 rushes-81 yards-3 TD) scored on a one-yard rush for his third touchdown of the game with 28 seconds remain-ing, cutting the defi cit to 45-43, but Chris Chandler suc-cessfully recovered the ensuing onside kick to preserve the victory.

Tre Gray collected 16 receptions for 194 yards, and

SCORECARD

IN THIS ISSUE-The UNH volleyball team won its � rst conference game on Saturday. Page 14

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DAY 38The UNH football team is averaging 38.3 points per game so far this season, tied for the most in the CAA.

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UNH 45 Richmond 43

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Wildcats su� er � rst two losses of 2011 season

STAFF REPORTTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

Hayley Rausch extended her goal-scoring streak to eight games with a fi rst-half goal, but the seventh-ranked

University of New Hampshire fi eld hockey team was defeated by 19th-ranked University of Louisville, 3-1, Sunday afternoon at Trager Stadium.

UNH, which entered the week-end with an 8-0 record, is now 8-2; the Wildcats lost 5-4 to 15th-ranked Northwestern University (also at Trager Stadium) on Saturday. Lou-isville improved to 7-3.

The Cardinals took an early 1-0 lead when Katlyn Soucy, posi-tioned in front of the cage, fi nished a feed from Elizabeth Vance for a goal at 10:53. The Wildcats nearly pulled even when Emma Erler beat U of L goalkeeper Erin Conrad (fi ve saves) at 11:32, but Alyssa Voelmle was in position to turn aside the shot and preserve the home team’s one-goal advantage.

FIELD HOCKEY

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NU 5 UNH 4

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Quarterback Kevin Decker (14) scores over Richmond defender Tremayne Graham (23) during the � rst half of UNH’s 45-43 win over the Spiders on Saturday afternoon.

Wildcats take home Nike Fall ClassicMEN’S SOCCER

By JUSTIN DOUBLEDAYSPORTS EDITOR

The UNH men’s soccer team won the Nike Fall Clas-sic with some strong defense

– and a little help from its opponent. Hartwick scored an own goal

Sunday afternoon, giving the Wild-cats a 1-0 lead that they would not relinquish in the fi nal game of the Fall Classic. Out of the four teams competing (UNH, Hartwick, CCSU, Air Force), UNH was the only to win both its games during the weekend, as the Wildcats de-feated Air Force Academy, 1-0, Fri-day night.

“I’m not sure we played our best soccer, but you have to fi nd a way to win, and I think we did that in both matches,” UNH head coach Rob Thompson said.

UNH’s goal came off a Brad Hilton free kick 13 minutes into the second half. Taking the kick from the left sideline, Hilton sent the ball across the face of the Hartwick net. A Hawk defender attempted to clear the ball away, but it defl ected off of him instead and into the back of the net. The mistake was the only

offense UNH would need, as the Wildcat defense locked down Hart-wick for the rest of the game.

The Wildcats had seven shots, four on goal, in the game. While the chances weren’t there on Sunday, Thompson said that he thinks his team has done a good job of gener-ating goal-scoring opportunities so far this season.

“I think that hasn’t been a problem, today it was, but it hasn’t been a problem before,” Thompson said of the lack of shots. “This was probably our game that we created the least amount of opportunities, but we still won; that’s what it’s all about.”

Freshman goalkeeper Travis Worra picked up his third straight shutout in UNH’s win over Hart-wick. Worra had three saves, while corralling any ball sent into the box by the Hawks. The freshman gave a lot of credit to his defense for not allowing many shots on net.

“We’ve been blocking a lot of shots defensively, guys are fl ying out to shots,” Worra said. “It’s not all me. I have to make a few saves here and there, but everybody’s do-ing their job and doing it quickly.”

Worra’s talents were on full display Sunday. When Hartwick’s Cleyon Brown had a breakaway

on net early in the fi rst half, Worra came out to meet the attacker before making a diving save on Brown’s shot, keeping the score tied at 0-0. For his efforts over the weekend, Worra earned his second straight America East Rookie of the Week award.

Worra has started since the be-ginning of the season, beating out two other freshmen for the starting job. He has some big shoes to fi ll, as Worra replaced Colin O’Donnell,

a senior last year whose 21 career shutouts is tied for second all-time in UNH history.

“I can’t lie, I was a little bit nervous,” Worra said of taking over the goalkeeping job as a freshman. “It started off a little slow, but now it’s starting to look better and feel better defi nitely, and the results show that.”

UNH will need Worra to con-

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Freshman goalkeeper Travis Worra punts the ball during UNH’s 1-0 win over Hartwick. The game was Worra’s third straight shutout.

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