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The New Hampshire NEWS Friday, November 1, 2013 3 candy hunt. Though it’s now a class re- quirement for Carol Fisher’s stu- dents to attend Spooky Stories, Fisher, a theater and dance depart- ment professor, said it didn’t start that way. “It started from my puppetry class,” Fisher said, “and my class wanted to share their puppets that were Halloween-bas ed.” Fisher started Spooky Stories in 2003. Ten years later, it is not just her puppetry class that par- ticipates, but also her storytelling class and her creative drama class. About 20 of her students partici- pated this year, and over 15 fami- lies came to partake in the fun. “We do a lot for children and youth because we have these youth drama programs,” Nancy Pearson, director of marketing and commu- nications for UNH’s theater and dance program, said. “We try to, as much as possible, open it up to the community.” And open it they did. Some children waddled around the theater in their Winnie the Pooh costumes while others bounded with see-through fairy wings into their parent’s waiting embrace. Small ngers groped game stations for candy and priz- es, and UNH students seemed to smile through it all. “I think it’s really awesome,” UNH junior Hannah Whalen said. Whalen sat at a fortuneteller game station wearing gold jewelry, a bandana over her hair and a pat- terned shawl covering her shoul- ders. Whalen studies environmen- tal conservation and international affairs but participated in the event as a requirement for Fisher’s cre- ative drama class. She saw the assignment as an enjoyable way to interact with the Durham com- munity. “It’s fun to see all the kids in the community coming,” Whalen said, smiling as another child left her station with a prize clutched in his hands. At Whalen’s station, children picked their fortunes from a pile of handmade cards and drawn im- ages. Whalen drew the image they chose, perhaps a black cat, on their hand with washable marker and let them reach into an orange bucket for prize-picking. “I think we need more [com- munity interaction],” Whalen said. “That’s what I miss most about be- ing home, I think.” Meanwhile, Molly McGov- ern sat with her hands in a box of leaves. She wore a annel shirt, rain boots, a straw hat and had did it for her creative drama class without any outward resentment towards the requirement. “It’s awesome,” McGov- ern said, her eyes on the toddlers reaching into the box of leaves to pull out prizes. Whenever a child drew close to McGovern’s station, one could hear her say, “I need help harvest- ing my crop,” with the same en- thusiastic inection for each child, no matter how many times she’d already repeated the phrase. After the game stations were cleared off the stage, Fisher invit- ed children to sit on the stage for storytelling and puppetry. Twenty- two sat as close as they could with- out sitting on Fisher’s feet. Spooky Stories was set up so that puppet shows and storytelling alternated. The third pair of UNH storytelling students made an ef- fort to involve the children in their story. To do so, they inserted the children’s costumes into the story lines. One of them was a unicorn. “Four timid ghosts in a haunt- ed house, and a witch moved in and wanted them out,” one of the storytellers said, clad in her witch’s hat and dark clothing. “One [timid ghost] saw a uni- corn and was as scared as could be,” the other storyteller said. “One ew to the woods, and then there were three.” Some children were initially distracted during storytelling, busy with crumpled candy bags and running to parents. However, the “Ten Pumpkins” puppet show arrested their atten- tion with background music, nar- ration via microphone and shadow puppets that included a skeleton, a ship and a ghost that came to take pumpkins. The following puppet shows had a similar mesmerizing effect on the children, demonstrat- ing that the students’ creative ef- forts did not go to waste. While the storytelling, pup- petry and creative drama students presented the evening’s entertain- ment, other students had to serve as ushers on the sidelines. Howev- er, even those students who were not directly involved with the chil- dren found enjoyment in their in- teractions with the community. UNH junior Samantha Gertz was receiving Introduction to The- ater class credit for being one of the ushers. “I think it’s good for the col- lege students to interact with peo- ple other than college students,” Gertz said as she watched a family come down the stairs towards the Hennessy. “Good UNH promo- tion.” Emma Hansen, a UNH fresh- man, didn’t seem to mind giving up part of her Monday night to take tickets, either. “I think it’s adorable,” Han- sen said. “I think it’s a good thing for parents. I don’t know, when I was little I wish I had a college to go to for something like this.” SPOOKY CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Want to advertise in TNH? CONTACT THE AD DEPARTMENT SOX CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Police lined up and approached the crowd of students after multiple warnings to disperse. Officers dispensed pepper balls and pepper spray at the crowd in an attempt to break up the large gathering blocking Main Street. CAMERON JOHNSON/ phrase that has become so engrained in the minds of citizens, was being celebrated along with the love for baseball. Ninety-ve years after the Red Sox last won the Worlds Series at Fenway, fans across the region had reason to celebrate, and students at UNH were not about to call it an early night. As students congregated on Main Street, it sounded like a small army had marched its way into downtown Durham. An estimated 1,000 people gathered downtown upon the third World Series Cham- pionship win for the Red Sox in 10 years, quickly gaining another 2,000 people, as reported in the press re- lease. It wasn’t long after the crowd of then about 3,000 had formed that blue- ashing lights could be seen racing over the hill towards Main Street, surrounding the students on both sides. Students loudly chant- ed, “Let’s go Red Sox,” “Yankees suck,” and other popular cheers of victory. Fireworks exploded in the air periodically – some seeming to come from the middle of the group gathered in front of Durham House of Pizza – followed by the thunder- ous approval of the crowd below. Champagne could be seen spraying out of the mass, soaking the cheer- ing fans and the sound of glass shat- tering on the pavement could be heard. The scene started getting out of hand and evolved past mere celebra- tion when students began climbing street lamps and trees and jumping on top of a car parked outside of Durham House of Pizza. As the energy grew to higher in- tensity, more blue-ashing lights ap - peared on both ends of Main Street. A group of police ofcers lined up across Main Street just before the Main Street and Madbury Road in- tersection. The ofcers, dressed in riot uniforms, shields raised, waited a few minutes before slowly ad- vancing toward the loud crowd. Students were reportedly rst asked to disperse before police ap- proached. The press release said that, “police verbally requested mul- tiple times that the crowd disperse in order for the street to reopen.” When students did not react to that request, police used pepper spray and pepper balls to break up the gatherings. Students could be seen coughing and running away from the crowds once the police be- gan using these tactics. In addition to UNH and Dur- ham police, ofcers from Laconia, Dover, the Strafford County Sher- iff’s Ofce, New Hampshire State Police, and the state Liquor Com- mission were also present. Students had mixed reactions to the night’s events, some feeling as though the police acted inappro- priately towards what was supposed to be a harmless celebrati on. “Their objective was under- standable but their means of accom- plishing it might have been unnec- essary,” senior Travis Nason said. “I feel like the crowd quickly switched from being a reason to celebrate the Sox to an excuse to be rowdy on Main Street.” “I nd it interesting that on homecoming there is a large, con- tained area where kids are drinking and partying loudly, and cops are chill about it. It should have been the same with Main Street,” junior Shema Rubdi said. “It feels like there is a lack of respect, or trust (for the students.)” According to the press release, “Students were warned prior to the game that any student arrested dur- ing a time where there was a crowd gathered would be suspended on an interim basis and be subject to the court and UNH conduct systems.” The ve students arrested Wednesday were: Michael J. Mc- Gillicuddy, 20, of Rockport, Mass.; Marisa A. Hardy, 21, of Nashua; Evan R. Orlando, 22, of Manseld, Mass.; Justin Pimentel, 18, of Pel- ham; and Robert Lougee, 18, of Bow. A letter was distributed by Anne Lawing, dean of students, David Kurz, chief of the town of Durham Police Department, and Paul Dean, executive director of public safety/ UNH Police chief after the Red Sox won the American League Champi- onship on Oct. 19, sending the team to the World Series. The letter urged students to be safe if celebrating Halloween or a World Series win, adding, “As the Series winds down and Halloween approaches, you will notice an increased police presence on campus and in Durham.” Some students felt as though the media has been overly dramatic in describing the events that took place on Main Street in Durham on Wednesday. “It wasn’t as bad as some other New Hampshire schools,” senior Cassie Stever said. However, the events of Wednesday night that carried into Thursday morning were reminiscent of past years when UNH had issues with student rioters. According to an article on Boston.com from Oct. 29, 2007, “Several thousand students gath- ered on Durham’s Main Street … many waving brooms and chant- ing “sweep, sweep, sweep,” after the Sox beat the Colorado Rockies. The site also states, “In 2003, about 2,500 people rushed onto Durham’s streets after the Red Sox lost a play- off game to the Yankees. Students and others aimed bottles, rocks and paintball guns at police. Seven people, including six students, were arrested.” An article published in The New Hampshir e on Oct. 30, 2007 – following the last Red Sox Worl d Series win – cited that a group of about 3,000 students gathered in downtown Durham, resulting in no arrests and two reported dumpster res. In 2012, UNH Assistant Di- rector of Housing Michael Saputo issued a statement addressed to residents of Babcock Hall, Adams Tower, and the Gables and Wood- side apartments regarding student celebration after the Super Bowl game between the Patriots and the Giants. According to the Feb. 3, 2012 issue of The New Hampshire , “Saputo requested that students ‘stay at their respective residences and away from the Main Street area. Students will not be permitted to gather downtown,’ he added.” More recently, a similar situ- ation unfolded on campus in the spring. A party of about 500 people drew attention, and police respond- ed with pepper balls and pepper spray, as reported in the April 30, 2013 issue of The New Hampshire . An ofcer was reportedly hit in the head with a bottle. This year’s letter from Lawing, Kurz, and Dean expressed a similar message to Saputo’s 2012 message: “At no time will crowds be allowed to congregate in public roads or on public sidewalks.” The University of New Hamp- shire police department did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Thursday about Wednesday night’s events. It started from my puppet ry cla ss and my class wanted to share their puppets that were Hallow- een-based.” Carol Fisher Professor “
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candy hunt. Though its now a class re-
quirement for Carol Fishers stu-dents to attend Spooky Stories, Fisher, a theater and dance depart-ment professor, said it didnt start that way.
It started from my puppetry class, Fisher said, and my class wanted to share their puppets that were Halloween-based.
Fisher started Spooky Stories in 2003. Ten years later, it is not just her puppetry class that par-ticipates, but also her storytelling class and her creative drama class. About 20 of her students partici-pated this year, and over 15 fami-lies came to partake in the fun.
We do a lot for children and youth because we have these youth drama programs, Nancy Pearson, director of marketing and commu-nications for UNHs theater and dance program, said. We try to, as much as possible, open it up to the community.
And open it they did.
Some children waddled around the theater in their Winnie the Pooh costumes while others bounded with see-through fairy wings into their parents waiting embrace. Small fingers groped game stations for candy and priz-es, and UNH students seemed to smile through it all.
I think its really awesome, UNH junior Hannah Whalen said. Whalen sat at a fortuneteller game station wearing gold jewelry, a bandana over her hair and a pat-terned shawl covering her shoul-ders.
Whalen studies environmen-tal conservation and international affairs but participated in the event as a requirement for Fishers cre-ative drama class. She saw the assignment as an enjoyable way to interact with the Durham com-munity.
Its fun to see all the kids in the community coming, Whalen said, smiling as another child left her station with a prize clutched in his hands.
At Whalens station, children picked their fortunes from a pile of handmade cards and drawn im-ages. Whalen drew the image they chose, perhaps a black cat, on their hand with washable marker and let them reach into an orange bucket for prize-picking.
I think we need more [com-munity interaction], Whalen said. Thats what I miss most about be-ing home, I think.
Meanwhile, Molly McGov-ern sat with her hands in a box of leaves. She wore a flannel shirt, rain boots, a straw hat and had her hair braided for her scarecrow character. The UNH sophomore
did it for her creative drama class without any outward resentment towards the requirement.
Its awesome, McGov-ern said, her eyes on the toddlers reaching into the box of leaves to pull out prizes.
Whenever a child drew close to McGoverns station, one could hear her say, I need help harvest-ing my crop, with the same en-thusiastic inflection for each child, no matter how many times shed already repeated the phrase.
After the game stations were cleared off the stage, Fisher invit-ed children to sit on the stage for storytelling and puppetry. Twenty-two sat as close as they could with-out sitting on Fishers feet.
Spooky Stories was set up so that puppet shows and storytelling alternated. The third pair of UNH storytelling students made an ef-fort to involve the children in their story. To do so, they inserted the childrens costumes into the story lines. One of them was a unicorn.
Four timid ghosts in a haunt-ed house, and a witch moved in and wanted them out, one of the storytellers said, clad in her witchs hat and dark clothing.
One [timid ghost] saw a uni-corn and was as scared as could be, the other storyteller said. One flew to the woods, and then there were three.
Some children were initially distracted during storytelling, busy with crumpled candy bags and running to parents.
However, the Ten Pumpkins puppet show arrested their atten-tion with background music, nar-ration via microphone and shadow puppets that included a skeleton, a ship and a ghost that came to take pumpkins. The following puppet shows had a similar mesmerizing effect on the children, demonstrat-ing that the students creative ef-forts did not go to waste.
While the storytelling, pup-petry and creative drama students presented the evenings entertain-ment, other students had to serve as ushers on the sidelines. Howev-er, even those students who were not directly involved with the chil-dren found enjoyment in their in-teractions with the community.
UNH junior Samantha Gertz was receiving Introduction to The-ater class credit for being one of the ushers.
I think its good for the col-lege students to interact with peo-ple other than college students, Gertz said as she watched a family come down the stairs towards the Hennessy. Good UNH promo-tion.
Emma Hansen, a UNH fresh-man, didnt seem to mind giving up part of her Monday night to take tickets, either.
I think its adorable, Han-sen said. I think its a good thing for parents. I dont know, when I was little I wish I had a college to go to for something like this.
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Police lined up and approached the crowd of students after multiple warnings to disperse. Officers dispensed pepper balls and pepper spray at the crowd in an attempt to break up the large gathering blocking Main Street.
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phrase that has become so engrained in the minds of citizens, was being celebrated along with the love for baseball. Ninety-five years after the Red Sox last won the Worlds Series at Fenway, fans across the region had reason to celebrate, and students at UNH were not about to call it an early night.
As students congregated on Main Street, it sounded like a small army had marched its way into downtown Durham. An estimated 1,000 people gathered downtown upon the third World Series Cham-pionship win for the Red Sox in 10 years, quickly gaining another 2,000 people, as reported in the press re-lease.
It wasnt long after the crowd of then about 3,000 had formed that blue- flashing lights could be seen racing over the hill towards Main Street, surrounding the students on both sides. Students loudly chant-ed, Lets go Red Sox, Yankees suck, and other popular cheers of victory.
Fireworks exploded in the air periodically some seeming to come from the middle of the group gathered in front of Durham House of Pizza followed by the thunder-ous approval of the crowd below. Champagne could be seen spraying out of the mass, soaking the cheer-ing fans and the sound of glass shat-tering on the pavement could be heard.
The scene started getting out of hand and evolved past mere celebra-tion when students began climbing street lamps and trees and jumping on top of a car parked outside of Durham House of Pizza.
As the energy grew to higher in-tensity, more blue-flashing lights ap-peared on both ends of Main Street. A group of police officers lined up across Main Street just before the Main Street and Madbury Road in-tersection. The officers, dressed in riot uniforms, shields raised, waited a few minutes before slowly ad-vancing toward the loud crowd.
Students were reportedly first asked to disperse before police ap-proached. The press release said that, police verbally requested mul-tiple times that the crowd disperse in order for the street to reopen.
When students did not react to that request, police used pepper
spray and pepper balls to break up the gatherings. Students could be seen coughing and running away from the crowds once the police be-gan using these tactics.
In addition to UNH and Dur-ham police, officers from Laconia, Dover, the Strafford County Sher-iffs Office, New Hampshire State Police, and the state Liquor Com-mission were also present.
Students had mixed reactions to the nights events, some feeling as though the police acted inappro-priately towards what was supposed to be a harmless celebration.
Their objective was under-standable but their means of accom-plishing it might have been unnec-essary, senior Travis Nason said. I feel like the crowd quickly switched from being a reason to celebrate the Sox to an excuse to be rowdy on Main Street.
I find it interesting that on homecoming there is a large, con-tained area where kids are drinking and partying loudly, and cops are chill about it. It should have been the same with Main Street, junior Shema Rubdi said. It feels like there is a lack of respect, or trust (for the students.)
According to the press release, Students were warned prior to the game that any student arrested dur-ing a time where there was a crowd gathered would be suspended on an interim basis and be subject to the court and UNH conduct systems.
The five students arrested Wednesday were: Michael J. Mc-Gillicuddy, 20, of Rockport, Mass.; Marisa A. Hardy, 21, of Nashua; Evan R. Orlando, 22, of Mansfield, Mass.; Justin Pimentel, 18, of Pel-ham; and Robert Lougee, 18, of Bow.
A letter was distributed by Anne Lawing, dean of students, David Kurz, chief of the town of Durham Police Department, and Paul Dean, executive director of public safety/UNH Police chief after the Red Sox won the American League Champi-onship on Oct. 19, sending the team to the World Series. The letter urged students to be safe if celebrating Halloween or a World Series win, adding, As the Series winds down and Halloween approaches, you will notice an increased police presence on campus and in Durham.
Some students felt as though the media has been overly dramatic in describing the events that took place on Main Street in Durham on
Wednesday.It wasnt as bad as some other
New Hampshire schools, senior Cassie Stever said.
However, the events of Wednesday night that carried into Thursday morning were reminiscent of past years when UNH had issues with student rioters.
According to an article on Boston.com from Oct. 29, 2007, Several thousand students gath-ered on Durhams Main Street many waving brooms and chant-ing sweep, sweep, sweep, after the Sox beat the Colorado Rockies. The site also states, In 2003, about 2,500 people rushed onto Durhams streets after the Red Sox lost a play-off game to the Yankees. Students and others aimed bottles, rocks and paintball guns at police. Seven people, including six students, were arrested.
An article published in The New Hampshire on Oct. 30, 2007 following the last Red Sox World Series win cited that a group of about 3,000 students gathered in downtown Durham, resulting in no arrests and two reported dumpster fires.
In 2012, UNH Assistant Di-rector of Housing Michael Saputo issued a statement addressed to residents of Babcock Hall, Adams Tower, and the Gables and Wood-side apartments regarding student celebration after the Super Bowl game between the Patriots and the Giants. According to the Feb. 3, 2012 issue of The New Hampshire, Saputo requested that students stay at their respective residences and away from the Main Street area. Students will not be permitted to gather downtown, he added.
More recently, a similar situ-ation unfolded on campus in the spring. A party of about 500 people drew attention, and police respond-ed with pepper balls and pepper spray, as reported in the April 30, 2013 issue of The New Hampshire. An officer was reportedly hit in the head with a bottle.
This years letter from Lawing, Kurz, and Dean expressed a similar message to Saputos 2012 message: At no time will crowds be allowed to congregate in public roads or on public sidewalks.
The University of New Hamp-shire police department did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Thursday about Wednesday nights events.
It started from my puppetry class and my class wanted to share their puppets that were Hallow-een-based.
Carol FisherProfessor
