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SPORTS

The men’s hockey team swept bitter rival Maine in the annual White out the Whitt.

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By RYAN CHIAVETTASTAFF WRITER

After being on the air for more than 50 years, New Hampshire Public Televi-sion could be facing a lot of trouble due to a bill recently introduced in the N.H. House of Representatives that could po-tentially cripple the local station.

House Bill 113 would prohibit the state from giving funds to New Hamp-shire Public Broadcasting. The bill cre-ates great concern for NHPTV, as state funding makes up 31 percent of its total budget, or $2.7 million annually.

NHPTV is trying to protest the exis-tence of House Bill 113 on its website by explaining why it believes the bill would be harmful to the citizens of New Hamp-shire.

“The repercussions of NHPTV los-ing 100 percent of its state funding are far-reaching, and would impact all of New Hampshire’s citizens,” Peter Frid, president and CEO of NHPTV, said in a released statement on the organization’s website.

In the same statement, Frid adds that NHPTV knows that the state’s budget doesn’t look good, but that there is a difference be-tween having the funding cut through the state’s appropriations process and having the state funding completely

SPORTIN’ A SCARF

MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERThe Wildcat Statue outside of the Whittemore Center was mysteriously wearing a blue

and white scarf yesterday, a day after the men’s hockey team swept arch-rival Maine.

HB 113 could pose major problem for NHPTV

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By ALEXANDRA CHURCHILLSTAFF WRITER

Megan Murray was 14 years old when she fi rst boarded an airplane headed for Haiti. She looked out her window and caught her fi rst glimpse of the small is-land nation.

“The fi rst thing that you notice is the roofs,” she said.

Grouped together, glinting in the sun, were the 6-by-6 square-foot tin roofs of Haiti’s poverty-stricken slums.

Murray, now a junior at UNH majoring in environ-mental conservation studies with a minor in political

science, has been volunteering to make a difference, traveling between Guatemala and Haiti on and off for years. Since her fi rst trip, Murray has traveled to Haiti and Guatemala four times each.

She became involved in the humanitarian projects put on by the non-profi t organization called Partners in Development. Partners in Development, Inc. (PID), now in its 21st year, was founded by James and Gale Hull of Ipswich, Mass. Committed to the whole life improvement and economic advancement of developing countries, PID works in direct partnership with those living in extreme poverty.

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By DANIELLE CURTISNEWS EDITOR

For many, the name Dave Coulier evokes mem-ories of Bullwinkel and Yogi Bear impressions and Joey Gladstone’s signature phrase: “Cut it out!”

For students at UNH, however, Coulier will soon be famous for more than just his role as Uncle Joey on the iconic sitcom, “Full House.”

According to his website, Coulier is booked to perform at UNH on April 16 as part of his nation-wide comedy tour. On Monday, members of the uni-versity’s Campus Activities Board (CAB) confi rmed that Coulier will perform this spring in the Granite State Room.

According to CAB Director Brittany Guil-lemette, the show has been in the works since last summer, and after many talks with his agents, Cou-lier was booked in October.

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CAB books former “Full House” starComedian Coulier set for April 16 show

NEWS

UNH professor Charles Simic was awarded the prestigious Robert Frost Medal.

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UNH and the Peace Corps Men’s hockey sweeps Maine

UNH ranks 25th nationally among medium-sized universities in al-ums that serve in the Peace Corps. According to Peace Corps volunteers,

the experience is a life changing one.

It was a big weekend for Kevin Goumas and the rest of the UNH hockey team, as the Wildcats completed a two-game sweep of interstate

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Each year PID hosts trips to Guatemala and Haiti. Volunteers like Murray travel overseas to the neediest sections of the Caribbean and Central American nation to construct homes, work in medical clinics and run the child sponsor-ship program. The services are aimed at those in poverty-stricken areas, particularly in slums like Cité Soleil and the small village of Blanchard, where Murray volun-teers in Haiti.

These weeklong trips have forever changed Murray’s cultural perspective on poverty.

Murray recalls being invited over to a dinner of rice and beans by a sponsor family of eight to nine people living in a single two-room duplex hut, in metropolitan slums where trash litters the street and there is no waste removal.

“You can’t imagine what that’s

like,” Murray said. “Everyone’s living on top of each other. It’s hor-rible conditions.”

Murray says the sponsor families that work in partnership with PID are extremely poor, living on a meager income of $2 a day. Over the course of its mission, PID has built and provided 50 houses in Haiti and another 50 in Guatemala.

“You wonder to yourself, how could I do this every day?” Murray said.

After years of political unrest and the earthquake that rocked the small island nation last year, evidence of ruin is still present in the toppled two-story buildings and the smaller things: the people and places that Murray said are no longer there.

“It’s hard,” Murray said. “There are things that you don’t see anymore.”

One thing that hasn’t changed, Murray said, is the people.

“Everyone is so friendly,” Murray said. “You defi nitely sense

a lot of pride in them.”PID began its mission by of-

fering a child sponsorship pro-gram. They have expanded from sponsoring a dozen children at the program’s beginning, to sending hundreds of children to school.

Murray said she has befriend-ed countless Haitians and Guate-malans in her years overseas. One girl, a 14-year-old named Edeline, has been a sponsor child of the program for 10 years. Murray said she has watched Edeline grow up since she was four years old, and they keep in touch.

“Just $25 feeds her and her family,” Murray said. “It makes a world of difference to them.”

Murray intends to go back to these countries, in the missionary strive of the organization, to make a difference in the lives of those who are in need.

“It’s a cool thing to get into if you’re interested,” Murray said. “It’s an experience.”

wiped out.NHPTV is the only locally

owned and operated statewide television network in New Hamp-shire, and can be viewed by 98 percent of the state. NHPTV’s website states that one million people watch the network each month, a number that includes more than 90,000 children.

The station has started a cam-paign on its website that allows viewers to write to their legisla-tors to offer their thoughts on the bill. Viewers have also sent in encouraging words to the station, offering support against the dam-aging bill.

Grace Lessner, the director of Creative Services and Integrated Media at NHPTV, said that people have been calling and writing e-mails expressing their support for the work that the station has done, and to compliment the types of programs that the station shows.

An important message that NHPTV is trying to send to New Hampshire residents is that the station wants its viewers to see all that it has to offer.

NHPTV works with many

different community organiza-tions and provides national edu-cation workshops all around New Hampshire. Lessner said it is those programs that New Hamp-shire is in danger of losing if the bill is passed.

“What we want people to un-derstand is that we are much more than TV,” Lessner said.

The bill is one of the station’s top priorities, and its existence is prompting NHPTV to make it its mission to show off its valuable assets.

“We are all taking it very se-riously,” Lessner said. “It’s just encouraging us to let people know what we do.”

The bill still has a long way to go before it is taken into law. House Bill 113 fi rst has to go to vote at the House Finance Com-mittee. If it passes, it will then be sent to the full N.H. House of Representatives. The bill would take effect 60 days after it’s passed into law.

Lessner said that the bill is gaining momentum in the state house, but for now all they can do is what they have been doing all along and make sure residents know what they would be losing if the bill were to be voted into law.

Guillemette and CAB Come-dian Chair Morgan Hilow said they expect the GSR, which can seat up to 700 people, to be fi lled to capac-ity.

“I defi nitely think he’s pretty huge for our generation,” Hilow said. “We all grew up with ‘Full House.’”

Coulier began his comedy ca-reer long before he became famous for his role on “Full House,” mov-ing from his native Detroit to L.A. in 1979 to pursue his dream of work-ing in the entertainment industry.

“All my friends went to college and I went to L.A.,” Coulier said in a phone interview last week.

Coulier described his stand-up act as eclectic - featuring impres-sions, sound effects, observational humor, and funny stories.

While this kind of stand-up may not be unique in the world of comedy, one aspect of Coulier’s act is that audiences can see his show with their grandmothers without blushing.

Coulier refrains from using any dirty language or dirty jokes during his show.

“I think funny is funny, and I

don’t necessarily think you need to have fi lthy language to make it funnier,” Coulier said. “I think a lot of times it’s tougher to be clean and fun-ny than it is to be swearing.”

Cou l i e r said it was longtime “To-night Show” host Jay Leno who fi rst encouraged him to be a clean comedian, telling him, “If you work clean you’ll work every-where.”

While his G-rated comedy may differ from that of many comedians popular with college students, Cou-lier said he is confi dent his act will entertain a crowd at UNH.

“I love playing colleges be-cause the college students all grew up watching ‘Full House,’” Cou-lier said. “I think they really enjoy seeing someone from their genera-tion.”

When Coulier comes to UNH in April, it will not only be his fi rst show at the university, but also his fi rst performance ever in New Hampshire.

Still, don’t expect him to spend hours preparing for his fi rst show in the state.

“I would never think, ‘How am I going to ride this bike?’” Coulier said. “I just get on and start ped-dling … similarly, I like to walk right from the car, walk onto the stage and right to the microphone.”

Tickets for Coulier’s UNH show will go on sale in March, al-though an exact date has not yet been determined.

Student tickets will cost $3, and non-student tickets will cost $7.

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Megan Murray, a junior at UNH, has taken nine combined weeklong trips to Haiti and Guatemala with the

non-profi t organization Partners in Development.

COULIER

““I love playing col-leges because the college students all grew up watching ‘Full House.’”

Dave CoulierComedian; former actor

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Au-thorities in the nation’s largest port complex seized phony iPods, iP-hones and other electronics in an investigation of a major counterfeit-ing ring, port police said Monday.

Counterfeit goods with an es-timated street value of more than $1.4 million were seized in Decem-ber and January, along with about $2.5 million in stolen electronics, toys, and blankets.

Also seized were bank account receipts indicating the operation took in more than $7 million, Port of Los Angeles spokesman Phillip Sanfi eld said.

“The bank receipts indicated that they were doing a robust busi-

ness,” he said.The items included fake Apple

iPods, iPhones and Sony electronic gear, Sanfi eld said.

The phony devices were shipped from Asia in the form of generic-looking parts then assem-bled, labeled and packaged in Los Angeles warehouses, he said.

“It may be that the goods came in legally as electronics but once they got to these warehouses in L.A., there was an elaborate coun-terfeit operation there with pack-aging, boxes, and labels that made these goods almost indistinguish-able from Apple products,” Sanfi eld said.

The products had limited ca-

pability. For example, the phones worked but were unable to down-load from iTunes.

The fakes may have been sold at swap meets, small downtown shops and possibly over the Internet for about half the going retail cost of the real items.

Brothers Bahram Zahab, 45, and Edward Zahab, 40, both of Los Angeles, were arrested on suspicion of selling counterfeit goods. Both pleaded not guilty on Feb. 3 to coun-terfeiting goods, district attorney’s spokeswoman Jane Robison said.

Robison and Sanfi eld did not know if the men had obtained attor-neys. They remained free pending future hearings.

Fake iPhones seized in LA Port probe

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By KERRY FELTNERSTAFF WRITER

March 1, 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps, a program started by President John F. Kennedy to promote community service. More than 200,000 Ameri-cans have become volunteers, pro-moting ideals of peace and friend-ship to 139 host countries.

Currently, 8,655 volunteers are serving in 77 host countries throughout the world.

Charlie French, a UNH exten-sion associate professor in commu-nity and economic development, served as a volunteer for two years.

“I served as a Peace Corps vol-unteer in Panama from 1995–1997,” French said. “My primary role was to teach conservation principles to school-aged youth and sustainable agriculture to rural farmers, but I ended up working on a variety of projects that focused on building the community’s capacity in ar-eas such as marketing and sales of food crops, aquaculture, appropriate

technologies for reducing reliance on fuel wood, [such as] solar ovens and high-effi ciency cook stoves.”

Volunteers are selected from a variety of schools categorized into small, medium and large-sized schools.

UNH falls into the medium-sized school category, and has re-cently been ranked 25th out of 30 schools, tying for the spot with Bowling Green State University, Brown University, Duke University, Marquette University, and Tulane University.

UNH currently has 21 under-graduate alumni volunteers serving throughout the country.

“UNH is unique all across the board,” Ally Snell, the regional Peace Corps recruiter for New England, and Peace Corps alum, said. “UNH tends to produce students with more forestry and agricultural knowl-edge, and currently and historically, UNH students have been present in every sector of the Peace Corps.” Dartmouth College is the only other school in New Hampshire that

is ranked, placing 18th on the list in the small colleges category.

A minimum of 27 months is required for a volunteer. Training is a major component of the program, and it is helpful for students to be profi cient in a language, although it is not required.

Success as a volunteer is de-termined upon a person’s ability to integrate into a community, accord-ing to Snell, who worked with about 1,000 to 2,000 people in a remote village in Guatemala. Snell said the experience opened a lot of doors for her, personally and professionally.

The Durham community may help UNH applicants get accepted to the Peace Corps, Snell said.

“The community of Durham also plays a role as it is a giving community with many service op-portunities,” Snell said. “It seems that a lot of organizations on cam-pus cater to help others.”

The community atmosphere of the UNH campus is also appealing for recruiters, who will take into ac-count a students ability to interact

within a tight-knit community.“I think UNH has the type of

school culture that challenges stu-dents to look beyond the classroom and outside of Durham,” Snell said. “[The school atmosphere] encour-ages students to see where they fi t in in the scheme of things, to learn and to see issues around them, and to step outside and experience an-other culture.”

One of the main attractions for students in the application process to the program is the fact that they get to have experiences outside of their comfort zones.

“The ability to see the world is feasible for a lot of people be-cause it is paid for and it expands upon the skills of students right out of college,” Snell said. “An ideal volunteer has a combination of commitment to service, education, experience, and motivation. Now is the time to do it when students are not tied down.”

Raised in Goffstown, N.H., Snell was longing to see new areas of the world.

“I, like some students, spent four years itching to do something and hungry for an abroad experi-ence,” Snell said. “The Peace Corps is attractive for that reason, that abil-ity to experience another culture.”

For French, his experience as a volunteer was life changing.

“Many people asked how was it that I was able to give up two years of my life to join the Peace Corps,” French said. “My response is that those were the two most meaning-ful years of my life. They were the

two most formative years in terms of infl uencing my current values, professional focus, and community-based philosophy.”

For future volunteer hopefuls, French stressed that the student should have the right motivations.

“I always tell [interested stu-dents] that it will be one of the most moving experiences in their lives, should they take it on, and that there will be good times and diffi -cult times during the two years of service, but the potential rewards to one’s self and to society-at-large are great,” French said. “I always ask what their motivations are, as well. If a student applies to Peace Corps mainly out of a desire to build their resume, then I would say that is not a valid reason.

“But if they say that they want to do it because they desire a new experience and out of a commitment to humanity, then I say go for it.”

French’s experience has been incorporated into his current ca-reer, and he hopes it will affect his future endeavors as well.

“My current role, community and economic development spe-cialist with UNH’s cooperative ex-tension, feels much like an exten-sion of the Peace Corps,” French said. “My role is to build com-munity’s capacity to enhance their economic, social and environmen-tal futures. The only difference is that I am not doing the work abroad. I love the work of making positive community change hap-pen.”

UNH receives national Peace Corps recognition

By MICHAEL R. BLOODASSOCIATED PRESS

SANTA BARBARA, Ca-

lif. - Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday called Egyp-tian President Hosni Mubarak a good friend and U.S. ally, and he urged the Obama administration to move cautiously as turmoil contin-ued to shake that nation’s govern-ment.

Cheney’s comments came a day after President Barack Obama pressed Mubarak to consider his legacy and exit offi ce in a way that would give his country the best chance for peace and democracy.

Cheney said the U.S. should take measured steps in public, and suggested that too much pressure could backfi re.

“There is a reason why a lot of diplomacy is conducted in secret. There are good reasons for there to be confi dentiality in some of those communications. And I think Presi-dent Mubarak needs to be treated as he deserved over the years, because he has been a good friend,” Cheney said at an event commemorating the centennial of President Ronald Rea-gan’s birth.

Cheney noted it can be diffi cult for some foreign leaders to act on

U.S. advice “in a visible way” with-out appearing compromised in their own countries.

“The bottom line is, in the end, whatever comes next in Egypt is go-ing to be determined by the people of Egypt,” Cheney added.

Cheney, looking markedly thinner than during his days in Washington and sitting throughout his remarks, said Mubarak helped the U.S. get military aircraft into the region in the 1991 Gulf War, and committed troops to fi ght alongside U.S. forces in the liberation of Ku-wait.

“He’s been a good man, a good friend and ally to the United States,” Cheney said. “We need to remember that.”

As huge protests continued Friday, Obama said discussions have begun in Egypt on a turnover of the government, and he called for a “transition period that begins now.”

“We want to see this moment of turmoil turned into a moment of opportunity,” Obama said in Wash-ington. He did not explicitly call for Mubarak to step down immedi-ately, but U.S. offi cials said the ad-ministration has made a judgment that Mubarak has to go soon if the crisis is to end peacefully.

Cheney calls Mubarak a good friend amidst Egypt’s turmoil

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By ARIELLA COOMBSSTAFF WRITER

What were originally devel-oped as online social tools have crossed the line into media useful-ness in promoting businesses. Fa-cebook and Twitter have emerged onto the promotional scene.

Facebook is currently one of the most popular websites on the in-ternet. What started as a socializing website for college students quickly turned into a networking tool for businesses.

With more than 500 million active users, Facebook quickly be-came the easiest way on the web to share news and information. Re-cords show that more than 50 per-cent of active users log onto their Facebook accounts everyday. The website’s records also show that the average Facebook user is con-nected to more than 80 community groups, pages and events, and that more than 30 billion web links, news posts, blog entries, photo al-bums, and notes are shared each month.

Based on these records, why wouldn’t someone use Facebook

and Twitter to promote something? In an effort to help local busi-

ness owners get on their feet, The New Hampshire Small Business Development Center created a new online course to teach N.H. entre-preneurs how to use social media to the fullest advantage.

The course, “Social Media for Small Businesses,” is available online, at no cost, at www.nhsbdc.org. It is a beginner-level course in social media and social media tools, according to Heidi Dunn, educational program coordinator. The course is one of more than 20 online courses offered on the website, and is geared toward N.H. entrepreneurs, both for student and adult education, for those who want to learn and build their skills.

“Social media is now an ac-cepted part of marketing a business,” Dunn said. “So entrepreneurs need to know about the opportunities and process more now than ever.”

Dunn said that they chose to launch the e-course now because social media has become an impor-tant part of many business market-ing strategies, since it can reach so many people and be informative,

interactive and customer service-oriented.

The fi rst part of the course makes the case for why a business should consider using social media. It describes the importance of de-veloping a marketing plan for your social media activities. The course is also a how-to; it shows you how to set up a Facebook account, Twit-ter account, YouTube account, and a blog.

People can just go online and register (a two-minute process) and take the course at no charge. It is one and a half hours long, and can be saved or taken all at once.

According to Janice Gregory, associate state director, this is also the fi rst of two courses. The next one is going to be “Advanced Social

Media Tools and Tactics for Small Businesses.”

Businesses throughout N.H. are fi nding ways to utilize the new so-cial media trend to their advantage. Local entrepreneur, Michael Grosse of Newmarket, N.H., said that the use of social media in business is necessary in this day and age.

Grosse, who recently created a fencing reality television show called “Bladework,” said that Fa-

cebook has helped him promote his business, and has allowed him to network easily. He said that from a business perspective, Facebook is an extremely useful tool. The news-feed feature allows him to share any news, updates and promotional information with several people at one time.

“If I can get someone’s atten-tion for a few minutes, then I can keep them coming back,” Grosse said.

Larger businesses have decid-ed to take the plunge into the social media world as well. Christiana Amesquita, head of public relations for the Remick Country Doctor Farm and Museum in Tamworth, N.H., said that using social media has been an extremely useful tool for the business.

“As a non-profi t, it’s great to have free tools to utilize so we can promote an upcoming event or pro-gram,” Amesquita said. “The less we have to spend on marketing means that money can be focused on our programs or operations costs.”

Amesquita said that she had taken a course on social media in order to reap the full benefi ts for the museum, and said that she recom-mends anyone interested in promot-ing his or her business should do the same.

“I think it’s important to keep up on what’s new and what tools are out there for our disposal,” she said.

Social media is now an accepted part of marketing a business. So entrepreneurs need to know about the opportunities and process more now than ever.”

Heidi DunnEducational Program Coordinator

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Social media a part of business life; class now available online

By JAMIE STENGLEASSOCIATED PRESS

DALLAS - New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning expects all the talk about Dallas’ chilly weather to be old news come Su-per Bowl Sunday.

Temperatures were mostly hovering in the 40s when Manning and other celebrities hit the sand Saturday for a fl ag football game in Dallas, where the sun was fi nal-ly shining after a week of ice and snow. Manning predicted an excit-ing “down to the wire” matchup between the Green Bay Packers and Pittsburgh Steelers.

“After the game, no one will be talking about the weather,” said Manning, who served as a coach during the DirecTV Celebrity Beach Bowl.

The game was played on a sand-covered fi eld in a heated tent, a welcomed bonus for some of the actors, professional athletes and other celebrities who turned out for the game. But actress Hayden Panettiere may have been too ner-vous to notice the outdoor temper-ature, noting the crowd inside the specially constructed 10,000-seat stadium.

“This is a lot of pressure - it’s a big crowd,” she said.

Chord Overstreet of the tele-vision show “Glee” acknowledged it was warming up, but arrived wearing a stocking cap and coat over his shorts and jersey.

Colt McCoy, the former University of Texas quarterback who now plays for the Cleveland Browns, was surprised the icy weather lasted so long.

“I’ve lived in Texas my whole

life and I’ve never seen anything consistent like this,” said McCoy, who also served as a coach.

Matt Bomer of TV’s “White Collar” said he grew up just out-side Houston and was “a little weary” when he fl ew into Dallas “because I know they only have so many snow plows.”

But a little snow didn’t bother actor Kevin Dillon of “Entourage,” who said: “It’s not too bad. I’m a

New Yorker.”Others participating in the

Beach Bowl included Hall of Fam-er and former Detroit Lions run-ning back Barry Sanders, “Gossip Girl” stars Chace Crawford and Jessica Szohr, New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez and Josh Duhamel of “Life as We Know It,” who will be watching his wife, Fergie per-form as part of the Black Eyed Peas during Sunday’s halftime show.

Chilly weather greets celebrities, players and fans in Dallas at Super Bowl XLV

By JEFF WILSONASSOCIATED PRESS

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. - The Ronald Reagan centennial endow-ment campaign surpassed its $100 million goal Saturday, hours before the Gipper’s 100th birthday.

The nonprofi t Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation told The Associated Press that the milestone was reached about two years after the foundation set its $100 million endowment goal.

Foundation board chairman Frederick Ryan said achieving the steep milestone for the nation’s 40th chief executive, and the tim-ing, were remarkable.

“We couldn’t have asked for a better present on President Reagan’s 100th birthday,” Ryan said during private reunion of Reagan associ-ates at the Ventura County library some 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles. “Just over two years ago,

we set a steep goal of raising $100 million for an endowment that will ensure the Reagan Foundation and its work will live on in perpetuity.”

The endowment means Rea-gan’s legacy will be preserved and promoted, Ryan said. The endow-ment also maintains and expands the foundation and the Ronald Rea-gan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.

Reagan was 93 when he died on June 5, 2004, after a 10-year bat-tle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Library executive director John Heubusch said the founda-tion’s mission is “ensuring that our next generation of leaders has the opportunity to learn about President Reagan and his impact on U.S. and world history.”

“As President Reagan himself once said to America’s youth, ‘We need you, we need your youth, your strength, and your idealism,’” Heu-busch said.

Reagan centennial endowment reaches $100 million goal

WASHINGTON - Offi cials say a fi re broke out at a building near the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, emitting a plume of black smoke and closing area streets.

Smithsonian spokeswoman Linda St. Thomas says a building detached from the museum that contains the facility’s cooling tower caught fi re early Monday. She says it appears the fi re started while a

contractor was working in the me-chanical building.

No smoke entered the main building, where millions of artifacts and specimens are housed. The mu-seum opened to visitors Monday shortly after its regular opening of 10 a.m.

D.C. Deputy Fire Chief Ken Crosswhite says the fi re did not pose a risk to the museum. No inju-ries were reported.

Natural History Museum in DC reopens after fi re

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The New HampshireTuesday, February 8, 20116 NEWS

By KERRY FELTNERSTAFF WRITER

The 2011 recipient of the Po-etry Society of America’s Robert Frost Medal is none other than UNH’s Charles Simic, professor emeritus in the College of Liberal Arts.

The award is presented for a “lifetime achievement in poetry,” and Simic joins a prestigious circle of past winners, including Wallace Stevens, Allen Ginsberg, Mari-anne Moore, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Lucille Clifton.

“The Frost Medal is certain-ly one of the great moments of recognition that can come to an American poet,” David Rivard, UNH professor of English, said. “The poets who win it are masters, with signifi cant achievements, and Charlie’s work is among the best we have.”

Just four years ago, Simic earned the honor of U.S. Poet Lau-reate, and has also received a Mac-Arthur Genius Grant, Guggenheim Foundation and National Endow-ment for the Arts fellowships, the Edgar Allen Poe Award, and the 2007 Wallace Stevens Award. In 2000, he accepted the position of Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

“The College [of Liberal Arts] is extremely proud of Professor Simic,” Susan Dumais, communi-cations coordinator of C.O.L.A., said. “He has garnered the highest critical acclaim for his poetry for quite some time now, and this is

more proof of his talent. Not only does he produce poetry at a pro-digious rate, but also at a level of excellence that is truly a force to contend with.”

More than 60 collections of poetry have been published by Simic, who won the 1990 Pulit-zer Prize for “The World Doesn’t End.” His collections include “Un-ending Blues” (1986), “Walking the Black Cat” (1996) and “Jack-straws” (1999).

“The thing that impresses me is that the poetry he’s writing now is among his strongest - his recent-ly published book, ‘The Master of Disguises,’ is just terrifi c,” Rivard said. “We’re all delighted for him, and happy to bask in his refl ected glory.”

Through Simic’s success, UNH’s College of Liberal Arts rises in stature as well.

“The spotlight on Professor Simic can’t help but spill over onto the college to highlight the talent of our faculty generally,” Dumais said. “And, although Professor Simic is emeritus faculty now, he continues to teach graduate poetry workshops, so our students contin-ue to benefi t from his craft and he continues to be a draw for students considering UNH.”

Simic will offi cially receive the award this April at the National Arts Club in New York City. Re-cipients traditionally deliver the Frost Lecture upon their accep-tance of the award.

“The Frost Medal is yet an-other, and a very prestigious one at that, in an impressive collection of honors that have been bestowed upon Professor Simic,” Kenneth Fuld, dean of the UNH College of Liberal Arts, said. “UNH is fortu-nate to have many talented and ac-complished faculty members, and Professor Simic has shown once again that he is one of a select few who rise to the top of the best.”

Simic’s success highlights the many accomplishments of UNH faculty members.

“We place a high premium on teaching at UNH, as we should,” Dumais said. “But we are also a re-search university, and faculty need the support to pursue their scholar-ship, whether it be research in the social sciences and humanities, or creative work in writing or the fi ne and performing arts. An accom-plished faculty has much to bring to the students it works with.”

UNH professor emeri-tus honored with pres-tigous poetry award

The Frost Medal is certainly one of the great moments of recognition that can come to an American poet. The poets who win it are masters, with signifi -cant achievements, and Charlie’s work is among the best we have.”

David RivardUNH Professor of English

By MICHAEL R. BLOODASSOCIATED PRESS

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.

- America is on a “road to ruin” because of misguided policies in Washington and needs to get back in step with the values of Ronald Reagan, Sarah Palin said at an event honoring the former presi-dent’s legacy.

The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee delivered a stinging critique of Washington during her speech Friday, part of the national celebration marking the centennial of Reagan’s birth on Feb. 6.

Revisiting themes familiar from her 2008 campaign, she said the nation was being shackled by high debt and taxes, dense govern-ment regulation and rising spend-ing, often for programs that don’t work. She said a rush toward green energy was overlooking the na-tion’s oil and natural gas reserves, a choice that will cost jobs and drive up pump prices.

She blamed Washington lead-ers - an apparent reference to the Obama administration - for do-ing “everything in their power to stymie responsible domestic drill-ing.”

“This is dangerous. This is insane,” she said. “This is not the road to national greatness, it is the road to ruin.”

She alluded to President Ba-rack Obama’s State of the Union address last month, saying it amounted to a statement that “the

era of big government is here to stay.”

Palin was asked to talk about Reagan’s 1964 speech, “A Time for Choosing,” which he gave on behalf of then-Republican presi-dential candidate Barry Goldwa-ter. In it, he talks at length about the dangers of high taxes and en-croaching big government, as well as the necessity of strong national security.

She said the decisions the na-tion faces are not unlike those Rea-gan talked of in the 1960s, only the economy of today is worse, from home foreclosures to high unem-ployment.

“This is a time for choosing again, and the vision we outline here is just as stark as it was in 1964. But we must look over the horizon, as Reagan did. We must see where these unsound policies will ultimately end, and that’s in decline and defeat,” she said.

She said Reagan saw the dan-ger of President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society programs, and “he refused to sit down and be silent as our liberties were eroded by an out of control, centralized government that overtaxed and overreached in utter disregard of constitutional limits.”

“We could choose one di-rection or the other, socialism or freedom and free markets,” Palin said.

Palin received a roaring ova-tion, but Reagan’s son told The Associated Press in an interview that he doesn’t see anything in common between his dad and the former Alaska governor, who was invited to speak by the event’s sponsor, the conservative Young America’s Foundation.

“Sarah Palin is a soap opera, basically. She’s doing mostly what she does to make money and keep her name in the news,” Ron Rea-gan said.

“She is not a serious candidate for president and never has been,” said Reagan, a political indepen-

dent whose politics lean left.But former Reagan speech-

writer Kenneth Khachigian praised the choice of Palin to discuss Rea-gan’s legacy.

Palin was a teenager when Reagan took offi ce in 1981 and like many young people “their lives and philosophy and political fortunes were shaped by the Rea-gan era,” Khachigian says. “She can refl ect on that as well as any-one could.”

Palin was introduced to the nation at the Republican Nation-al Convention in 2008, and her folksy, wisecracking style some-times earned her comparisons to Reagan, who was known for his wit and appeal beyond the tradi-tional Republican base, especially with blue-collar Democrats. She frequently referred to Reagan on the campaign trail, and in her debate with Vice President Joe Biden reprised Reagan’s famous rejoinder from his 1980 debate with Jimmy Carter, “There you go again.”

If she is making in any prepa-rations to run for the presidency in 2012, she made no mention of it in her remarks.

Palin, who now is closely aligned with the tea party move-ment, has become for some a po-larizing political fi gure.

Tea partiers rail against soar-ing public debt and sprawling government programs like Social Security and Medicare. But public debt roughly tripled on Reagan’s watch and he did not attempt to dismantle Social Security or Medi-care during his term, says Reagan biographer Lou Cannon.

“He was no tea partier,” Can-non says.

The Young America’s Foun-dation was founded in the 1960s to promote conservative ideas on col-lege campuses, and it purchased Reagan’s former ranch in 1998. The foundation is not connected with the Reagan Presidential Li-brary in Simi Valley.

Palin: America out of step with Reagan’s values

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The New Hampshire NEWS Tuesday, February 8, 2011 7

GRAB YOUR SKATES, THE WAIT IS OVER!

FILE PHOTOThe ice rink built on Scott Hall lawn is now open to students, faculty and the public. On Wednesday at

4 p.m., the UNH Alumni Assciation will offi cialy open the rink with hot chocolate and cookies.

Grab your skates, because on Wednesday at 4 p.m., the UNH Campus Recreation Department will offi cially open the outdoor skating rink on Scott Hall lawn.

The rink has been under construction since temperatures dropped to freezing, and is now open to students, faculty and the public.

The rink was fi nished over the weekend, and is already open to skaters, but the Alumni Associ-ation will be there on Wednesday as part of a “soft opening” for the fi rst-ever outdoor rink at UNH.

The Alumni Association will provide hot chocolate and cookies

to those who show up on Wednes-day for the offi cial opening of the rink.

Unlike open ice at the Whit-temore Center, the outdoor rink on Scott Hall lawn is open at all times to those who own their own pair of skates. For those who don’t, rental skates are available on the ground fl oor of the Hamel Rec. Center.

The opening of the rink was delayed in recent weeks after mul-tiple snowstorms forced the Whit-temore Center operations crew to remove snow off of the surface. In the case of a future winter storm, the Whitt. crew will be called on

again to remove the snow.Students in recent years have

expressed interest in an outdoor skating rink, and the popular lo-cation presented was always the outdoor pool just outside the Rec. Center on Edgewood Road. But according to the Campus Rec. Department, the outdoor pool’s water levels fall during the win-ter season, which would cause an air pocket beneath the top layer of ice. It wasn’t a safe location for an outdoor option.

So for students eager to uti-lize the outdoor skating rink, the wait is fi nally over.

–Brandon Lawrence

By TIM KORTEASSOCIATED PRESS

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - The

killers were ruthless.They showed up at the Las

Cruces Bowl shortly before it was scheduled to open at 8 a.m. on a qui-et Saturday, just an ordinary sleepy weekend in a laid-back college town about 40 miles north of the Mexican border.

After stepping through an un-locked door, the two men herded a snack bar cook, Ida Holguin, bowl-ing alley manager Stephanie Senac, her 12-year-old daughter, Melissia Repass, and the girl’s 13-year-old friend, Amy Hauser, into a corner offi ce.

Making no effort to conceal their identities, they brandished a small-caliber pistol and grabbed as much as $5,000 from a safe.

Bowling alley mechanic Steve Teran reported for work and walked in on the crime, along with his 6-year-old daughter, Paula Holguin, and 2-year-old daughter, Valerie Teran, because he didn’t have a babysitter that day. Repass and Hauser were there that morning to supervise the nursery.

The assailants lined up all seven victims on the fl oor in the cramped offi ce, shooting each in the head multiple times at close range. Killed in the rampage were Hauser, Teran and both of his young girls.

The killers set fi re to the offi ce and fl ed.

It happened Feb. 10, 1990, a day that will always be remembered for what quickly became known as the Las Cruces bowling alley massacre, the worst mass murder in the history of this southern New Mexico city.

Despite intense efforts by au-thorities, the murderers’ identities remain a mystery 21 years later.

“Some people just do all the right things before, during and after a crime to elude capture,” said po-lice detective Mark Myers, who has worked the case since 2002. “Any-time you have a high-profi le crime like this, believe me, everything you can imagine has been thrown at this case.”

Repass and Senac survived the shooting, although Senac died a few years ago.

Survivor Ida Holguin, the cook, who is unrelated to Paula Holguin, told police the gunmen seemed star-tled by the number of people they encountered.

Police say they took $4,000 to $5,000 but, strangely, left behind an undisclosed amount of cash.

Frustrated investigators are still chasing leads, still working to keep the case in the headlines in a desper-ate hope that someone will come for-ward with a tip that breaks it open. It’s an agonizingly long time for the victims’ families to have no resolu-tion.

“You wait and wait and wait,” Audrey Teran, who lost her hus-band and daughters, told The As-sociated Press last week. “The fi rst few years, maybe the fi rst 12 years, there was always a lot of anxiety. I was always very antsy and wanting to know more. But after that, I had to put it aside and deal with my anxiety. We’ve gotten to a point where we just don’t get any answers.”

Despite being critically injured, Repass, the 12-year-old, managed to call 911 from the burning offi ce.

“They told us all to get down. They shot me fi ve times,” she is heard saying on a scratchy audio re-play of the call.

A dispatcher assured her that help was coming and asked how many people were shot.

“One, two, three, four, fi ve, six, seven,” she counted.

Repass told the dispatcher about the fi re and said, “Please hurry. There’s a bullet in my head.”

From the beginning, the case presented major problems for inves-tigators.

For starters, police offi cers were confronted by fl ames that were con-suming the offi ce and destroying evidence.

Firefi ghters wiped out more clues when they opened their hoses. And of course, the fi rst-responders had to tend to the gunshot victims.

By the time those issues were addressed and the victims en route for medical treatment, Myers said responding offi cers fi nally com-prehended the enormity of the site - a bowling alley - and realized the building hadn’t been secured during the rush to save survivors and douse the fi re.

“It was a very complicated crime scene,” Myers said, adding that what police have confi rmed only substantiates his belief that the act was premeditated.

“They lit the offi ce on fi re,” he said. “That’s a clear indication they were thinking about destroying evidence they had left behind. They weren’t going to leave any witness-es, no matter how young. I have no doubt when they left, they thought everyone in there was dead.”

Another major issue: Forensics of the time focused on gathering fi n-gerprints, a primitive measure com-pared with high-tech crime solving approaches seen today.

Las Cruces, New Mexico murders still a mystery aft er 21 years

They weren’t go-ing to leave any witnesses, no matter how young. I have no doubt when they left, they thought ev-eryone in there was dead.”

Mark MyersPolice Detective

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The New HampshireTuesday, February 8, 20118 NEWS

By GENE JOHNSONASSOCIATED PRESS

SEATTLE - A superstar do-nor of President Barack Obama’s last campaign, who later became ambassador to Luxembourg, said Saturday that she has fi led a rebut-tal to an internal State Department review that found her tenure to be a disaster.

Cynthia Stroum told The Asso-ciated Press that she did not know whether she could release details of the rebuttal publicly.

“I’ve been caught off guard,” she said. “I want to be helpful and I want to get my side out, but wheth-er that’s something I can release or not, I don’t know.”

The State Department re-port released Thursday said her 14 months in Luxembourg were fraught with personality confl icts, verbal abuse and questionable ex-penditures on travel, wine and li-quor. It said things were so bad that some staff requested transfers to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Well-documented manage-ment problems have troubled the

embassy for a decade, Stroum said, and certain problems cited in the report were due to vacant senior staff positions.

The internal memo took some of that into account.

“The current Ambassador is not responsible for the manage-ment cuts in 2008 that crippled general services operations before her arrival,” it said. “However, the bulk of the mission’s internal prob-lems are linked to her leadership defi ciencies, the most damaging of which is an abusive management style.”

But Stroum said she was proud of the work she did, reiterat-ing a statement fi rst released to The Seattle Times in which she said she focused on initiatives that were in the best interest of U.S.-Luxem-bourg relations. She said she was proud of the links she helped create between companies in Luxembourg and Washington state.

“Serving as the U.S. Ambassa-dor to Luxembourg has been a true privilege,” she said in an e-mail. “I have new-found respect for the hard

work done by the diplomatic corps around the world and applaud all of those who serve their country.”

Stroum, 60, is the daughter of the late Sam Stroum, a Seattle phi-lanthropist who made a fortune as an investor in the Schuck’s Auto Supply.

Sam Stroum was credited with saving the Seattle Symphony from bankruptcy and pushing the construction of Benaroya Hall, the symphony’s home. He also served as president of the University of Washington Board of Regents, The Times reported

Cynthia Stroum is an investor in Washington state-based compa-nies, including Starbucks. She es-

tablished two foundations focusing on cancer research and served on the board of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

She was also a producer on the Broadway revival of “A Raisin in the Sun,” which received a Tony nomination in 2004.

Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., had vouched for Stroum at her con-fi rmation hearing, saying that “she will be an outstanding representa-tive for our country.”

As a fundraiser, Stroum ginned up at least $500,000 for Obama, putting her near the top of the cam-paign’s money generators. Stroum also donated at least $13,800 to the campaigns of Cantwell and Sen.

Patty Murray since 2000, accord-ing to the Center for Responsive Politics.

The State Department report said Stroum stressed to embassy staffers “the importance she at-taches to the perquisites of” being an ambassador. As such, she was particularly concerned about the state of the ambassador’s residence, which was being renovated, it said.

Embassy offi cials spent weeks trying to fi nd her appropriate tem-porary housing, screening hundreds of properties. They found four that met her criteria, and she rejected all of them before fi nally settling on a residence.

The report also found that she inappropriately spent $2,400 on a trip to Switzerland; that the em-bassy bought $3,400 in liquor and wine to use up its entertainment budget even though such year-end sprees are barred; and that Stroum was reimbursed for buying a new queen-sized bed, even though she had been provided with a king-sized one.

Luxembourg ambassador says she fi led rebutt al

I have new-found respect for the hard work done by the diplomatic corps around the world and applaud all of those who serve their country.”

Cynthia StroumWashington Investor

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

ARCADIA, Ohio - Several tanker cars carrying volatile chemi-cals continued to burn Sunday eve-ning after a freight train derailed and caused an explosion in north-west Ohio, a fi re offi cial said.

Some residents who earlier had been forced to evacuate have returned to their homes.

No injuries were reported af-ter about half the cars on the 62-car train derailed in a rural area about 50 miles south of Toledo, said Capt. Jim Breyman of the Arcadia Fire Department. He estimated about eight cars - each carrying more than 30,000 gallons of ethanol - ex-ploded and caught fi re early Sunday morning. In all, 28 cars were burned in the fi re, he said.

The train was headed from Chicago to North Carolina, and was loaded with ethanol, said Norfolk Southern spokesman Rudy Hus-band. He said he had no information on what caused the derailment.

The fi re was subsiding, and most of the ethanol was expected to be burned off. Breyman said three or four cars were still burning, but those were expected to be out as soon as early Monday morning.

Breyman initially said he thought the fi re would take longer to go out, but he said the railroad com-pany’s crews are hoping to get the burned cars off the track so they can work to get trains moving through there again.

The railroad company has started removing some of the burned cars from the track, he said. The cars not involved in the derail-ment have already been taken away from the area.

“I feel pretty safe that things are getting a lot better,” Breyman said.

The U.S. Environmental Pro-tection Agency is monitoring the air quality in the area.

Some ethanol got into the mouth of a nearby creek, but was being contained, Breyman said. He said he did not know how much had gotten into the water.

Carol Hester, a spokeswoman for the Ohio EPA, said absorbent

materials have been placed into the water to keep the ethanol from mov-ing in the stream. She said the agen-cy was monitoring the waterway.

Authorities were called to an intense and dramatic scene at about 2:15 a.m.

“We’re talking fi reballs,” Brey-man said of the explosion. “When they went thousands of feet in the air, they could be seen from 20-plus miles away.”

About 20 homes had been evacuated in the area about two miles west of the village of Arcadia. At least six houses were still evacu-ated by mid-afternoon Sunday, Breyman said.

Arcadia, Ohio tanker car train fi re contained aft er explosion

The New Hampshire NEWS Tuesday, February 8, 2011 9

By MICHAEL RUBINKAMASSOCIATED PRESS

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - Kids in Luzerne County had a powerful in-centive to stay out of the courtroom of Mark Ciavarella, a fearsome, zero-tolerance judge who tossed youths into juvenile detention, even when their crimes didn’t warrant it.

Ciavarella ordered a 13-year-old boy to spend 48 terrifying days in a private jail for throwing a piece of steak at his mother’s boyfriend during an argument. An honor roll student who had never been in trou-ble before was sent to the same jail, PA Child Care, because she gave the middle fi nger to a police offi cer. A girl who accidentally set her house ablaze while playing with a lighter languished in PA Child Care for more than a month - forced to show-er naked in front of male guards, she says, and prohibited from hugging her family during rare visits.

She was only 10 years old.PA Child Care’s beds were

fi lled with young offenders who didn’t belong there, prosecutors al-lege, because its owner was paying kickbacks to Ciavarella. On Mon-day, the disgraced former judge will stand trial in one of the biggest courtroom scandals in U.S. his-tory - a $2.8 million bribery scheme known as “kids for cash.”

A state panel that investigated the scandal called Ciavarella “Dick-ensian” in his treatment of juvenile offenders, and said that he reigned over juvenile court in a “harsh, au-tocratic and arbitrary” manner. The ex-judge has said he didn’t believe he was breaking the law.

Hillary Transue, 19, plans to watch the trial from afar.

Now a college sophomore in New Hampshire, Transue appeared in Ciavarella’s courtroom in 2007 and spent a month in a wilderness camp for building a MySpace page that lampooned her assistant prin-cipal. She did not have an attorney when she went before Ciavarella, nor was she told of her right to one.

Whatever Ciavarella’s fate, she said, the important thing is that he no longer wields any power. Ciava-rella and another implicated judge, Michael Conahan, left the bench shortly after being charged in Janu-ary 2009.

“I don’t care if he’s away for seven minutes or seven years,” she said. “The man’s reputation is de-stroyed, and he’s never going to do this to children again.”

Ciavarella’s attorney declined comment.

Court documents outline a scheme in which Conahan, then Luzerne County’s president judge, forced the county-run juvenile de-tention center to close in 2002 and helped PA Child Care LLC, a com-pany owned by his friend, secure contracts worth tens of millions of dollars to house youth offenders at its new facility outside Wilkes-Barre.

Ciavarella, who presided over juvenile court, sent youths to PA Child Care and to a sister facility in western Pa. while he was taking payments from the owner and the builder of the facilities, prosecu-tors said. He ran his courtroom with “complete disregard for the consti-tutional rights of the juveniles,” in the words of the Pennsylvania Su-preme Court, including the right to legal counsel and the right to intel-ligently enter a plea.

Megan, whose last name is being withheld by The Associated Press, was perhaps the youngest defendant to appear in Ciavarella’s courtroom. At age 10, she had set fi re to a piece of paper in her bed-room. She thought she put it out, but the paper smoldered and even-tually set her room ablaze. No one was hurt.

Though the landlord didn’t want to press charges and Megan had no history of delinquency, Cia-varella claimed she committed ar-son and sent her to PA Child Care. She left the courtroom in handcuffs and shackles.

In an interview with AP, Me-

gan said she was forced to shower naked in front of two or three men her fi rst morning at the facility. She said she assumed they were guards. She said they told her it was a “one-time” requirement.

“It made me feel really uncom-fortable and nervous and shaking because I didn’t want anybody to see me naked, and I was really shy,” she said.

Megan cried herself to sleep almost every night she was in the detention center. After she got out, classmates teased her mercilessly. She dropped out of school and en-rolled in a cyberschool.

The trauma has turned a nor-mal, quiet 10-year-old into an angry and withdrawn young woman of 16 going on 17. She’s been diagnosed with anorexia. She has also cut her-self, as recently as two months ago.

Megan said she wants Ciava-rella to be sent to prison.

“He deserves it. Because now my life, I can’t describe it. I’ve be-come really depressed all the time. I do things I really shouldn’t be do-ing,” she said. “I just want a good therapist, but there are none around there. I’m always so sad.”

Ciavarella has vigorously de-nied the allegation that he sent chil-dren to PA Child Care in exchange for money.

Testifying in 2009 in an unre-lated proceeding, he said he consid-ered the payments he took to be a “fi nder’s fee” for helping to secure county business for PA Child Care.

“I did not consider what I did to be illegal,” Ciavarella said. “I was told it was legal money. I was told it was something that I was en-titled to. And for that reason, I did not have a problem with where that money went or how it came to me.”

Ciavarella and Conahan initial-ly pleaded guilty in February 2009 to honest services fraud and tax evasion in a deal with federal pros-

ecutors that called for a sentence of 87 months in prison. But their plea deals were rejected by Senior U.S. District Judge Edward M. Kosik, who ruled they had failed to accept responsibility for their actions.

A federal grand jury in Har-risburg subsequently returned a 48-count racketeering indictment against the judges. Conahan plead-ed guilty to a single racketeering charge last year and awaits sentenc-ing.

The scandal sent shockwaves through Pennsylvania’s court sys-tem. The Supreme Court overturned thousands of juvenile convictions issued by Ciavarella.

The Interbranch Commission on Juvenile Justice, a panel cre-ated by then-Gov. Ed Rendell and the Legislature to investigate the scandal, uncovered a breakdown of state oversight and “serious and chronic malfunction” within Lu-zerne County’s juvenile court sys-tem. The commission issued dozens of recommendations last May, from reforming the board that disciplines wayward judges to ensuring that

juveniles have access to lawyers to reducing or eliminating the use of shackling in juvenile courtrooms.

But change has been slow.A bill that would have man-

dated legal counsel for juvenile de-fendants passed the Senate last year but died in the House. The sponsor, Republican Sen. Lisa Baker, plans to reintroduce the legislation as part of a broader package of juvenile justice reforms.

“We need to put these protec-tions into law. I don’t want us to fall into the trap that the crisis is passed and that this isn’t going to happen again,” she said.

Youth advocates accuse the Legislature of dragging its feet.

“There was an implicit prom-ise that the state was committed to reforming the system and certainly addressing the specifi c issues that gave rise to the scandal in Luzerne,” said Marsha Levick, co-founder and chief counsel of the Philadelphia-based Juvenile Law Center, which blew the whistle on Ciavarella’s harsh treatment of juveniles years before he was charged. “In terms of things the Legislature had a fi rm ability to control, there’s been no forward movement.”

The Pennsylvania court sys-tem, meanwhile, is working on pro-cedural changes that would presume all juveniles to be indigent for pur-poses of appointing counsel; reduce the use of courtroom shackling; clarify the role of prosecutors in ju-venile courts; and enhance victims’ rights. The Supreme Court must ap-prove the new rules.

John Cleland, a semi-retired state appeals judge who chaired the now-defunct interbranch commis-sion, said he’s satisfi ed that progress is being made.

“I wouldn’t go so far as to say that anything we’ve done would pre-vent a person with a criminal bent from manipulating the system,” he said. “But I think it’s also true that the safeguards have been enhanced. They’re not foolproof, but they are better.”

Former Pa. judge to go on trial in kickbacks case

I did not consider what I did to be illegal. I was told it was legal money. I was told it was something that I was entitled to. And for that reason, I did not have a problem with where that money went or how it came to me.”

Mark CiavarellaAccused Judge

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By ALAN SAYREASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW ORLEANS - Hundreds calling for the departure of Egypt’s president peacefully demonstrated in several U.S. cities on Saturday, showing solidarity with the large, anti-government throngs that have taken over a sprawling public square in Cairo.

About 150 people gathered outside the New Orleans federal building to demand that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak step down. Meanwhile, about 180 people demonstrated in Atlanta outside the headquarters of CNN. In Washing-ton, more than 100 marched from the Egyptian Embassy to the White House, following protests in that city on Tuesday and last Saturday. Rallies were also held in New York and Seattle and near Detroit.

At the New Orleans demon-

stration, the group waved signs and Egyptian fl ags and chanted “Get up, stand up! Stand up for your rights.”

“That’s a drop in the bucket,” Egypt native Reda Bakeer, a 57-year-old engineer, said of the pro-test he joined. “I have friends who are dying. We have joined a party here.”

Some protesters expressed con-cern about the increasingly danger-ous situation in the country, where anti-government protesters and Mubarak supporters have clashed in the streets.

Bakeer, a naturalized U.S. citizen since 1991, said he was con-cerned about family members in Egypt, including his elderly mother. But he added: “It’s bigger than my family.”

Ahmed Bayoumi, a 42-year-old engineer who came to the United States to study in 1999, said

the Egyptian dissidents have taken to the streets for the same reason he left the country - a lack of op-portunity. He said that the Mubarak regime had “corrupted the souls of Egyptians.”

“It has been pushing the thought that if you’re well-connect-ed and have money, you will have prosperity,” he said.

In Washington, the rally had mostly concluded by early eve-ning, but some protesters said they planned to stay overnight at Lafay-ette Square across from the White House, in solidarity with the thou-sands in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

Earlier in the day, an organizer with a megaphone led the sign-car-rying group in chants that included “Hey Mubarak, pack your stuff!”

Some protesters came from far beyond Washington. The Flint Journal newspaper reports about 50

people in Michigan boarded a bus Friday to join the protest, picking up others in Detroit and Toledo, Ohio.

In Seattle, about 200 people gathered carrying signs that said “step down now” and “free Egypt” to show their solidarity with anti-government protesters.

Many of the protesters at Se-attle’s Westlake Park were of Egyp-tian descent and called for Mubarak

to step down.Egyptian immigrant Ghada El-

lithy, of Bellevue, Wash., attended the demonstration with her 14-year-old daughter and 20-year-old son. She carried a handmade paper Egyptian fl ag that said “Go Egypt,” and said she was showing support for her mother and brother, among those who have gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square.

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By MICHAEL J. CRUMBASSOCIATED PRESS

DES MOINES, Iowa - Con-tamination of organic and tradi-tional crops by recently deregu-lated, genetically modifi ed alfalfa is inevitable, agriculture experts said, despite Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack’s recent assurances the fed-eral government would take steps to prevent such a problem.

Many farmers had been push-ing the U.S. Department of Agricul-ture to approve the use of genetically modifi ed alfalfa. Monsanto devel-oped the seed to resist the weed-killer Roundup, allowing farmers to use the two together to save time and labor on weeding. Supporters also say the use of the genetically modifi ed seeds lets farmers grow more alfalfa on each acre and helps keep food prices low.

Opponents, many of them organic farmers, say widespread planting of genetically modifi ed al-falfa will result in pollen from those plants contaminating organic and traditional crops, destroying their value. While alfalfa is mostly used

as hay for cattle, some consumers don’t want to eat foods, such as milk or beef, from animals that have con-sumed genetically modifi ed plants.

Alfalfa is grown on about 20 million acres in almost every state in the U.S. and is the fourth-largest fi eld crop behind corn, soybeans and wheat.

The U.S. Department of Ag-riculture’s decision late last month to deregulate genetically modifi ed alfalfa was the latest step in a long court fi ght over its use. A federal court barred its planting in 2007, saying the USDA had not given enough consideration to the effects it could have on the environment and human health. The U.S. Su-preme Court lifted the ban last year, saying the lower court’s decision had gone too far. It kicked the mat-ter back to the USDA.

In announcing the agency’s de-cision, Vilsack said steps would be taken to ensure genetically modi-fi ed alfalfa wouldn’t cross-pollinate with organic and unmodifi ed crops. USDA offi cials declined to answer questions about what those steps would entail, pointing to a document

posted on the agency’s website.The text of Vilsack’s an-

nouncement says the agency’s plans include expanding a program in Washington state to produce more unmodifi ed alfalfa seed and main-tain a pure supply.

It also says crop geneticists have been told to identify ways to protect unmodifi ed alfalfa from ge-netically engineered varieties, like they are doing for corn. And, Vil-sack has proposed research to im-prove detection of modifi ed genes in alfalfa and hay. He also promised $1 million for research on the fl ow of pollen to better determine how big buffer zones between modifi ed and unmodifi ed fi elds must be to prevent contamination.

None of that will be enough to prevent contamination, said Jeff Wolt, an agronomist with Iowa State University’s Seed Science Center.

“Some degree of cross-polli-nation will occur regardless of what mechanism is going to be put in place,” he predicted.

A perennial, alfalfa doesn’t need to be planted every year, but the plants are typically rotated with

other crops every few years. Al-falfa’s pollination process is more complex than in crops such as corn, with insects playing a big role. But even if insects don’t carry pollen from modifi ed to unmodifi ed plants, contamination could still happen if seed stock was accidentally mixed or a genetically modifi ed plant popped up in a fi eld that had been replanted with something else, Wolt said.

The main thing for consumers to remember, he said, is that ge-netically modifi ed alfalfa doesn’t present a threat to human health. Instead, the problem for farmers is that some buyers might not accept a contaminated crop.

Unmodifi ed corn, soybeans, canola and rice all suffered contam-ination after genetically engineered varieties were introduced, said Kristina Hubbard, director of advo-cacy for the Organic Seed Alliance in Washington. She said measures to protect unmodifi ed and organic crops should have been in place be-fore genetically engineered alfalfa was deregulated.

“It seems backward to initiate those measures after the decision has been made,” Hubbard said.

Her group’s biggest concern now is making sure farmers who plant organic or non-modifi ed crops don’t lose money because of con-tamination. It believes the compa-nies that develop and promote the seeds should be held liable for any damages resulting from contamina-tion, Hubbard said.

Monsanto spokesman Tom Helscher said farmers and seed companies successfully co-existed “long before the introduction of biotech crops and continue to do so today.”

“Since the advent of biotech crops, both biotech and organic production have fl ourished,” Hel-scher said. “We have no reason to think that will not continue to be the case.”

Todd Streif, who grows alfalfa in northeast Iowa, said the fi ght over genetically engineered alfalfa has been a “waste of time and money.”

“I think (the USDA) was prob-ably wrong for not doing the envi-ronmental study in the fi rst place, but in the end what did it prove?” said Streif, who farms near West Union. “It wasted years of produc-tion for everybody and a lot of mon-ey spent arguing it in court.”

Streif said 60 of the 300 acres of alfalfa he plants this spring will be genetically modifi ed. He doesn’t grow any organic alfalfa and said he wasn’t worried about cross-pollination between his modifi ed and unmodifi ed plants. The nearest organic farm is several miles away.

Fred Kirschenmann, who man-ages a farm near Jamestown, N.D., but works at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, said he gave up growing organic canola in the late 1990s after Roundup-resistant canola seeds were introduced.

There needed to be two miles between fi elds to reduce the risk of cross-pollination and “so much Roundup Ready came into the area, there was no way to fi nd a way to put in a fi eld that was at least two miles from a fi eld with the GMO crop,” Kirschenmann said.

He still raises other organic crops, including alfalfa, and said he’s worried about how genetically engineered alfalfa will affect it.

“There are so many avenues for contamination to happen,” Kirschenmann said. “It has to be managed extremely carefully, but in the long-term I think there’s go-ing to be a problem.”

Experts: Contamination from GM alfalfa certain

Some degree of cross-pollination will occur regardless of what mechanism is going to be put in place.”

Jeff WoltAgronomist, Iowa State

University’s Seed Science Center

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By OSKAR GARCIAASSOCIATED PRESS

LAS VEGAS - A tipster told Las Vegas police that Anthony Michael Carleo had mused about robbing the posh Bellagio casino of high-value chips three days before the dramatic stickup, saying he would get away with it by selling some chips and slowly gambling the others. accord-ing to a police report.

Instead, the son of a judge quickly gambled and talked his way into jail, the report states.

Carleo, 29, made his fi rst court appearance Monday since being tak-en into custody. He spoke only twice and was not asked to enter pleas on six charges, including armed rob-

bery, assault, burglary, and carrying a concealed weapon.

“I did, your honor,” Carleo said when Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Ann Zimmerman asked if he under-stood the charges.

Carleo, shackled and dressed in a blue jail uniform, also said he preferred to use the last name Carleo instead of the last name of his father, Las Vegas Municipal Court Judge George Assad.

Carleo’s lawyer, William Terry, declined to comment after the hear-ing. Another hearing was scheduled for Feb. 23.

Surveillance video from the Dec. 14 heist shows a motorcycle helmet-wearing robber waving a gun as he ran from the Bellagio.

Police: Las Vegas man caught aft er bragging about robbing casino

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By BETH DeFALCOASSOCIATED PRESS

NEWARK, N.J. - Amtrak and

New Jersey’s two U.S. senators think they have a way to add a rail link to New York City that will spread the cost around and prove more popular, among commut-ers and politicians alike, than the project Gov. Chris Christie killed last year.

Sens. Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez and railroad of-fi cials on Monday proposed two tunnels under the Hudson River as a $13.5 billion alternative to the “Access to the Region’s Core” plan, which Christie refused to approve because his state would have been on the hook for cost overruns.

“New Jersey is facing a trans-portation crisis,” Lautenberg said. “When the ARC tunnel was can-celed, it was clear to me that we couldn’t just throw up our hands and wait years to fi nd another so-lution.”

Amtrak had been looking to build a second tunnel to increase

capacity beyond one built in 1911 and to allow for a higher-speed line along the Northeast Corridor - but not for decades. When Christie killed the ARC tunnel in October, it began looking to speed up those plans.

The main rail link between New York and New Jersey carries 62 trains a day; the new proposal would raise the number of daily trains to 92. Underscoring conges-tion problems, an Amtrak derail-ment Monday afternoon near a tunnel under the East River, on the other side of Manhattan, stymied the evening rush hour.

The “Gateway Project” pro-posed Monday calls for the new Hudson River tunnel to open in 2020, two years later than the scrapped ARC tunnel. It would follow the same basic nine-mile path from Secaucus to New York that had been proposed for the other tunnel.

There are signifi cant differ-ences, though.

The ARC tunnel would have ended short of New York’s Penn Station, which serves Amtrak in

addition to Long Island Rail Road and NJ Transit commuter trains. The proposed one would connect directly to new tracks at Penn Sta-tion, rather than end far beneath the Macy’s store at West 34th Street, and save commuters a few blocks of walking.

Unlike the ARC project, Amtrak would also have use of the tunnels, so it would not increase capacity as much for NJ Transit riders. But it may be a cheaper project for the state in the long run because of partnerships.

Amtrak President and CEO Joe Boardman and Tony Coscia from the Amtrak Board of Direc-

tors joined Lautenberg and Menen-dez in announcing the proposal. Amtrak will ask the federal gov-ernment for $50 million on prelim-inary engineering and design, said Boardman, who called the project “essential to the future growth and economic development of the en-

tire Northeast region.”Amtrak, a government-owned

corporation whose board members are appointed by the president, said it would look for contribu-tions from New Jersey, New York and government agencies to cover the cost of construction.

Christie did not rule out mak-ing a future contribution to the

project but said there is no money for a tunnel now. He also said any future contribution from the state would depend on a review of the project’s merits.

Christie said the new proposal contains components he supports but the ARC tunnel plan lacked. For example, the new proposal has the tunnel ending at a renovated Penn Station, a project already un-der way, rather than under Macy’s. He also said it contained mecha-nisms to control cost overruns and had the federal government taking the lead, instead of New Jersey.

The proposal was heartening to New Yorkers, too.

“The fact that even Amtrak is working to make this happen shows how important it is to the region’s job growth and economic future,” Sen. Charles Schumer of New York said in a statement.

Christie killed the plans to build a second tunnel in late Oc-tober. At an estimated $9 billion to $14 billion, it would have been the nation’s biggest public works proj-ect - a title the new proposal will hold if it moves forward.

Amtrak, N.J. senators propose new Hudson rail tunnel

New Jersey is facing a transportation crisis. When the ARC tunnel was canceled, it was clear to me that we couldn’t just throw up our hands and wait years to fi nd another solution.”

Frank LautenbergSenator

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ORLANDO, Fla. - A 77-year-old woman collapsed and died at Walt Disney World in December af-ter riding a carousel.

The Orlando Sentinel said Sun-day that Disney reported the death as part of a quarterly injury report. Florida’s big theme parks have an

agreement with the state to report guest injuries in exchange for avoid-ing state ride-safety regulation.

The report indicated the wom-an had a pre-existing heart condition before she rode the Prince Charming Regal Carousel.

Walt Disney World reported

two other injuries in the fourth quar-ter of last year. A 71-year-old woman broke a hip and shoulder after riding the carousel and a 76-year-old wom-an injured her leg after falling on a moving platform for another ride.

No other parks reported injuries in the quarter.

Disney World reports 1 death in Fla. state update

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RALEIGH, N.C. - On your marks, get set, stuff your face.

About 7,500 people took part in Saturday’s annual Krispy Kreme Challenge in Raleigh. The rules are simple and stomach-churning: run for two miles, eat a dozen Krispy Kreme doughnuts and then run back along the same two miles.

That’s four miles of running to burn off about 2,400 calories.

It’s for a good cause, though. The race is operated by students at North Carolina State University, and it raises money for the North Carolina Children’s Hospital. Last year, the event took in more than $55,000.

The race began in 2004 as a dare among friends. Only a handful of runners took part in the begin-ning, but it’s grown steadily since then.

Runners dash 2 miles,

scarf doughnuts,

sprint back

WASHINGTON - Two Demo-cratic leadership aides say Demo-cratic Rep. Jane Harman of Califor-nia is resigning from the House.

The 65-year-old Harman rep-resents a Democratic-safe district is suburban Los Angeles. She was fi rst elected to the House is 1992. After losing a race for governor, she re-gained the seat in 2000.

Harman is a leading voice for Democrats on intelligence and homeland security issues.

The Democratic aides spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the matter.

California lawmaker to

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By WILL WEISSERTASSOCIATED PRESS

EL PASO, Texas - U.S. au-thorities never searched the yacht they say carried an ex-CIA agent illegally from Mexico to Miami in 2005, and they have no photo-graphs or other physical evidence that he was ever aboard, a federal investigator acknowledged Mon-day.

Steven Ussher, an Immigra-tion and Customs Enforcement special criminal investor, told a West Texas jury he was in charge of the case against anti-commu-nist militant Luis Posada Carriles beginning in April 2006. He said investigators never thought to ob-tain a search warrant so the vessel in question, a converted shrimper called “The Santrina,” could un-dergo forensic analysis.

Posada, 82, is accused of ly-ing under oath to federal offi cials during immigration hearings in El Paso and faces 11 counts of per-jury, obstruction and immigration fraud. He said under oath that he paid a people smuggler to drive him from Central America over the Texas border and then to Hous-ton. Prosecutors say he actually sailed aboard the Santrina from the Mexican resort of Isla Mujeres to Miami, where he slipped ashore at a waterfront restaurant in March 2005.

While little known in most of the U.S., Posada is considered a hero among some Cuban-Ameri-can exiles and is public enemy No. 1 in his native Cuba, where he is viewed as former President Fidel Castro’s personal nemesis.

Other charges against him stem from his failing to acknowl-edge planning a series of bombs that exploded in hotels and a top tourist restaurant in Havana in 1997, killing an Italian tourist. Posada admitted responsibility in a 1998 interview with the New York Times, saying the attacks were meant to hurt Cuban tourism - but has since recanted that.

The trial began Jan. 10 and featured testimony from the Sant-rina’s mechanic, Gilberto Abascal, a government informant. Abascal testifi ed that Posada sailed to Flor-ida aboard the yacht and showed a photograph of Posada getting a haircut at a barbershop in Isla Mu-jeres.

But when pressed by Posada defense attorney Arturo Hernan-dez, Ussher said authorities have relied only on Abascal and don’t have evidence placing the defen-dant aboard the boat, or any pic-tures of him actually on it.

“Why didn’t you get a court order or a search warrant to search the Santrina?” Hernandez asked Monday.

“I never requested one,” Ussher responded.

Another key element in the case has been a Guatemalan pass-port under the name of Manuel En-rique Castillo Lopez, but featuring a photo of Posada. Prosecutors say Posada used it to travel to Mexico and make contact with the Sant-rina.

Hernandez asked Ussher about fi ngerprints contained in an application for the passport, which the Guatemalan government sent to U.S. investigators. The attorney wanted to know if investigators ever checked the prints in that ap-plication against Posada’s real fi n-gerprints.

“We wanted to have the fi n-gerprints checked but we were waiting for them to send us a better copy,” Ussher said. He said more legible copies of the prints in the application did eventually arrive, but that he did not know if they were ever compared to Posada’s real ones.

Posada participated indirectly in the Bay of Pigs invasion, then remained on the CIA payroll for years afterward. He later moved to Venezuela and served as head of intelligence there. He was arrested for planning the 1976 bombing of a Cuban airliner that killed 73 people, many of them teens from the island’s national fencing team. A military court ruled there wasn’t suffi cient evidence and dismissed the charges, but Posada escaped from prison before a civilian trial against him was completed.

In the 1980s, he helped Wash-ington provide aid to anti-Sandini-sta, Contra rebels in Nicaragua. In 2000, he was arrested in Panama in connection with a plot to kill Castro during a regional summit there. He was pardoned in 2004 and turned up in the U.S. the fol-lowing March, seeking American citizenship, and prompting the im-migration hearings that led to the current charges against him.

Posada was held in an immi-gration detention center in El Paso for about two years but released in 2007 and has been living in Miami. Cuba and Venezuela would like to try him for the 1976 airliner bomb-ing and the 1997 hotel attacks, but a U.S. immigration judge has pre-viously ruled Posada can’t be sent to either country for fear he could be tortured.

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By DAVID K. RANDALLASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK - Several big acquisitions and a strong earnings report from Loews Corp. pushed stocks higher Monday.

Pride International Inc. jumped 16 percent after Ensco PLC, a Lon-don-based oil rig operator, said it would buy the offshore driller for $7.3 billion.

Beckman Coulter Inc. gained 10 percent after Danaher Corp. said it plans to buy the manufacturer of medical diagnostic tests for $5.8 billion.

Loews Corp. rose 4 percent. The company, which owns Loews hotels and the property insurer CNA Financial Corp., said falling costs helped earnings rise 16 per-cent even as revenue slipped slight-ly. The results were higher than analysts were expecting and helped push fi nancial companies higher.

Joseph Saluzzi, co-head of equity trading at Themis Trading, said that with no major economic reports due out this week, mergers and earnings reports will continue to drive stocks higher. Anything that can be construed as good news is likely to give investors a reason

to buy stocks, he said.“The path of least resistance

right now is up,” Saluzzi said. “People are beginning to assume the market is going higher. It’s momentum.”

The Dow Jones industrial av-

erage rose 69.48 points, or 0.6 per-cent, to 12,161.63. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 8.18, or 0.6 percent, to 1,319.05. The Nas-daq composite gained 14.69, or 0.5 percent, to 2,783.99.

Financial companies rose 1.5 percent, the largest gain of any of the 10 company groups that make

up the S&P index.Lorillard Inc. rose 2 percent

after the company, which makes Newport and Maverick cigarettes, said it increased both sales and prices of its products.

AOL Inc. dropped 3.4 percent after saying it would buy the Huff-ington Post, a news and opinion website, for $315 million. Arianna Huffi ngton, the site’s co-founder and political pundit, will join AOL’s management team.

Toy maker Hasbro Inc. rose 1.8 percent after reporting earn-ings that were lower but still beat analysts’ expectations.

Bond prices fell slightly, send-ing their yields higher. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.65 percent from 3.64 percent late Friday.

Monday was the fi rst day of trading since the company that owns the Nasdaq exchange admit-ted Saturday it had been hacked late last year. The problem did not affect any trades, the company said.

Two stocks rose for every one that fell on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume came to 880 million shares.

Deal news, strong earnings push stocks up higher on Wall Street

The path of least resistance right now is up. People are beginning to assume the market is going higher. It’s momen-tum.”

Joseph SaluzziCo-Head of Equity Trading,

Themis Trading

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By JEFF KAROUBASSOCIATED PRESS

DETROIT - To a pulsating beat, hip-hop star Eminem drives a sleek Chrysler through the streets of Detroit, proudly cruising by the city’s landmarks, towering sky-scrapers and the hopeful faces of its people. His journey ends with an unapologetic message: “This is the Motor City, and this is what we do.”

A day after it aired, one of the most-talked about Super Bowl ads sent shivers of pride through the battered city, which hopes car buyers are willing to look past Chrysler’s billion-dollar bailout and embrace the idea that if a ve-hicle is “Imported from Detroit,” that’s reason enough to buy it.

“It’s like an anthem or rally-ing cry for Detroit,” Aaron Morri-son of Mason City, Iowa, told The Associated Press via Facebook. “It makes me want to buy my next car made in America.”

Morrison, a photographer, said the ad even inspired him to consider moving to Detroit to work for Chrysler.

The two-minute ad was un-usual for its length, airing during a broadcast in which a 30-second spot costs $3 million. And it framed the gritty urban images, including vacant factories, with an attitude that embraced the city’s past and its survival instinct.

“What does this city know about luxury, huh?” the narrator asks. “What does a town that’s been to hell and back know about the fi ner things in life? Well, I’ll tell you - more than most. You see, it’s the hottest fi res that make the hardest steel.”

“Because when it comes to luxury, it’s as much about where it’s from as who it’s for. Now, we’re from America, but this isn’t New York City or the Windy City or Sin City, and we’re certainly no one’s Emerald City.”

The Chrysler ad was “the big story of the night,” according to NM Incite, a Nielsen/McKinsey Co. that tracks online buzz. Con-sumers repeated the “Imported from Detroit” slogan in online comments, the company said.

For Chrysler, which emerged from bankruptcy in June 2009 - right before General Motors - the commercial kicked off an advertis-ing campaign that it hopes draws

buyers back to showrooms and re-vives the brand.

“Detroit’s ascendancy mirrors Eminem’s own struggles and ac-complishments,” Chrysler brand CEO and President Olivier Fran-cois said in a statement. “This is not simply yet another celebrity in a TV spot. It has meaning. Like his music and story, the new Chrysler is ‘Imported from Detroit’ with pride.”

Of course, the tagline is not without some irony: Italian auto-maker Fiat Group SpA now owns 25 percent of Chrysler, and the ad was produced by Wieden + Ken-nedy, a Portland, Ore.-based agen-cy known for its work with Nike. Chrysler switched after its previ-ous advertising agency, a famous

fi rm called BBDO, closed its De-troit offi ce.

Still, Chrysler said, the entire commercial was shot in Detroit with a local cast and crew, and the voiceover work was done by Kev-in Yon, who is from Michigan.

The out-of-state involvement did not bother Matt Clayson, 30, who is undertaking a Motor City turnaround of his own. In 2007, he and his wife bought a large but uninhabitable foreclosed home in Detroit’s West Indian Village - a mix of stately older houses close to the Detroit River.

“It’s interesting that it took an outside eye . to really kind of cut to some of the core basics of what is a city and what is a place,” said Clayson, an attorney and director of the Detroit Creative Corridor, a nonprofi t that aims to establish the city as a global center for creative innovation.

“They did something right, defi nitely. I’m not an expert, but I think they really summed up kind of where we’ve been and where we are as a city.”

The stirring ad painted a pic-ture that the outside world doesn’t often see, said one retiree from suburban Detroit who was walking through downtown on Monday.

“It was very touching. It gave me goose bumps,” said Mario Suc-curro, 64, from Plymouth. “People don’t know the city of Detroit. . And there’s some problems over here, of course. . Detroit is coming back. We’re down because of au-tos, but it doesn’t mean that we’re dead.”

While Fiat took over manage-

ment of Chrysler, the automaker still owes around $7 billion to the U.S. and Canadian governments from its 2009 bailout. It intends to pay that money back through an initial public offering of shares, which could come by the end of this year.

But the government-led bail-out has been a sore point for some critics of the auto industry, and the commercial served to renew the debate.

Rep. Dennis Ross, a Florida Republican, tweeted, “Imported from Detroit” ... “borrowed from China.”

In an e-mail Monday, Ross’ chief of staff, Fredrick Piccolo Jr., described his boss’ Twitter post as a “tongue in cheek commentary on the irony of Chrysler touting its ‘American made’ ideal, with the reality that it survives because of money borrowed on the backs of the taxpayer, from China.”

Ross “has consistently op-posed the auto bailouts, TARP, and others, and would just stand by his past opposition to taxpayer-fi nanced bailouts of any private industry,” Piccolo said.

Ross is from Lakeland, Fla., longtime spring-training home of the Detroit Tigers. He’s also a regu-lar at preseason games and “knows there are many great things about Detroit, including automakers that did not take bailouts.”

The real test of the ad will be whether it stirs consumers to re-consider Chrysler - and by exten-sion the town that put the world on wheels.

“I think it is a defi ning mo-ment for the auto industry. It really was good for the all the carmak-ers,” said Bob Kolt, an instructor at Michigan State University in the advertising, public relations and retailing department. Kolt and his colleagues have been tracking and rating Super Bowl ads for 14 years. The Chrysler ad drew high praise, although the top two rank-ings went to Volkswagen AG ads.

“Will it work? I don’t know. We’ll probably know soon,” he said. “It really sort of tried to re-defi ne Chrysler, and it did that ef-fectively.”

Brenda Harvill, 60, said the commercial gave Detroit “a new image as a comeback city.”

“We were down for a while,” she acknowledged. “But guess what? We’re back.”

Super Bowl car ad sends shivers through Motor City

Detroit’s ascendancy mirrors Eminem’s own struggles and accomplishments. This is not simply yet another celebrity in a TV spot. It has meaning. Like his music and story, the new Chrysler is ‘Imported from Detroit’ with pride.”

Olivier FrancoisChrysler CEO and President

I think it is a defi n-ing moment for the auto industry. It re-ally was good for the all the carmakers.”

Bob KoltInstructor, Michigan State

University

By PATRICK CONDONASSOCIATED PRESS

ST. PAUL, Minn. - The fami-lies of two Americans charged with spying in Iran said Monday they’re glad that Shane Bauer and Josh Fat-tal were able to proclaim their inno-cence in a court in Tehran and that they hope the case is nearing an end.

Bauer and Fattal pleaded not guilty Sunday at the fi ve-hour hear-ing, which was closed to the public and media. A third American, Sarah Shourd, was released last September and pleaded not guilty in absentia.

“Now that the Court has heard their testimony fi rsthand, we hope and pray that truth and justice will at long last prevail,” the Bauer and Fat-tal families said in a statement.

Bauer’s mother and Fattal’s mother and brother did not imme-diately return phone calls seeking further comment. Shourd did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.

Masoud Shafi ei, the attorney for the Americans, said the judge decided there would be at least one more session in Tehran Revolution-ary Court. The families said Shafi ei told them he was not allowed to meet with Bauer and Fattal immedi-ately before or after the hearing, but that he sat next to them in court and they appeared to be in good health. Shafi ei’s access to the men has been limited all along.

The three Americans were hik-ing in northern Iraq near the Iranian border in July 2009 when Iranian forces took them into custody. Ira-nian offi cials have accused them of spying for the U.S. but the Ameri-cans and their families insist it was an innocent hike and that the espio-nage charges are untrue. They have been held for 18 months.

Mohsen Milani, chairman of the Department of Government and International Affairs at the Univer-

sity of South Florida and an expert on Iranian politics, said any action in the case is a good sign.

“They are moving, which is positive for the accused,” said Milani, a native of Iran.

He said the closed hearing was also a cause for hope.

“It gives greater room for the judiciary to do as it wishes,” he said. “You could say they have left themselves wiggle room in terms of bringing the case to resolution on a quick basis.”

The hikers’ case has high-lighted ongoing tensions between the U.S. and Iranian governments over the Middle Eastern country’s nuclear program. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has asked for leniency for the Americans, but also has linked their plight to those of Iranian prisoners in the U.S., rais-ing the possibility that Tehran wants to use the detainees as bargaining chips with Washington.

State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said at a press brief-ing Monday that the department is aware the trial is proceeding and that Sunday’s appearance ended in a continuance.

“We continue to call on the gov-ernment of Iran to release the two hikers,” Crowley said. “They have been in custody for far too long.”

Crowley said Swiss diplomats in Iran, who represent U.S. interests in the absence of an offi cial rela-tionship between Washington and Tehran, are trying to fi nd out exactly where the case is at after Sunday’s hearing.

Shourd, who is Bauer’s fi ance, was released on $500,000 bail ar-ranged through the Gulf nation of Oman, which has close ties to the West and Iran. Iranian offi cials or-dered Shourd back for the trial but she did not respond to the request, meaning the bail will likely be for-feited.

Families of accused US hikers hope case nearing resolution

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By BRIAN WITTEASSOCIATED PRESS

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - The Pen-

tagon should foot more of the bill for fi xing traffi c problems around military bases that are receiving thousands of new workers under a national realignment plan, a report commissioned by Congress said Monday.

Worsening traffi c around some of the bases could be harmful to the military, which has previously left local and state governments to pay for most off-base transportation improvements, according to recom-mendations in the report by the Na-tional Research Council’s Transpor-tation Research Board.

The report looked at six large bases: Fort Meade and the National Naval Medical Center in Maryland, Fort Belvoir in Virginia, Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington, Florida’s Eglin Air Force Base, and Fort Bliss, Texas.

They are among 18 domestic bases slotted to expand as others are closed or reduced in size under the periodic realignment. The current plan was approved by Congress in 2005 and is gradually being imple-mented.

The report warned that realign-ment and other sources of military growth, including troops returning from two wars, are already causing “severe” transportation problems at most of the six facilities studied.

“The resulting traffi c delays will impose substantial costs on surrounding communities and may even be harmful to the military,” the report said.

But the Defense Department considers its responsibilities for off-base transportation needs to be lim-ited, the report said.

To help ease congestion, the re-port recommended that the Defense

Department expand its only pro-gram to help pay for transportation infrastructure off-base. The Defense Access Roads program currently re-quires that traffi c double due to base expansion for a metropolitan area to be eligible.

The Pentagon largely leaves local and state authorities respon-sible for off-base transportation needs, even if decisions by the Pen-tagon increase congestion, the panel found.

“This policy is unrealistic,” it said.

Communities that benefi t eco-nomically from the military should pay their fair share, and the military and local communities should im-prove communication in planning infrastructure improvements, the report said. The report also noted that the recession has reduced tax revenues far below levels needed to maintain roads for growth unrelated to the military.

Congress should consider a special appropriation or reallocation of federal stimulus money to pay for near-term improvements in the communities most severely affected by base realignment, the report rec-ommended.

The report calls particular at-tention to the Washington, D.C., area, where three of the six bases in the case studies are located. The report describes the metropolitan area as the second-worst for travel delays nationwide.

At Fort Meade, at least 5,700 additional workers are expected to arrive by September because of base realignment, with up to 13,300 others arriving due to growth at the National Security Agency and in-creased contractor presence at the base. The report cited $786 million in needed highway improvements that do not have funding around Fort Meade.

Robert Leib, special assistant for base realignment with Anne Arundel County in Maryland, said county offi cials have long known there is not enough money or time for needed improvements.

“It’s going to be a very intense experience driving around Fort Meade for a while,” Leib said.

He said there already are de-lays as long as 30 minutes to enter the facility, and he hopes the new report will catch federal offi cials’ attention.

U.S. Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., said traffi c congestion and overwhelmed mass transit threaten the effectiveness of the base re-alignment process.

“The consequences of inaction would gridlock our national secu-rity, as well as affected urban and metropolitan areas,” Cardin said.

In Washington state, The drive past Joint Base Lewis-McChord has long been a headache for com-muters on the stretch of Interstate 5 between Tacoma and Olympia. But it has worsened noticeably in recent years.

In the Florida Panhandle, roads surrounding Eglin Air Force Base are already being widened and re-routed in response to the arrival of thousands of newly assigned Army and Air Force members. The Army’s 7th Special Forces Group from Fort Bragg, N.C. is relocating to the sprawling Florida base. Training for the Joint Strike Fighter F-35 stealth jet will also take place on the base.

“We are excited about this spurring real-estate and housing construction, about all of the poten-tial economic impact,” said Oka-loosa County Commissioner Dave Parisot, a retired Air Force major.

Parisot said the military is pay-ing for some roadwork that is de-signed to ease congestion near the bases.

Pentagon should help foot the bill of traffi c at bases

By JACQUES BILLEAUDASSOCIATED PRESS

PHOENIX - Arizona lawmak-ers give their fi rst hearing Monday to a bill that challenges automatic U.S. citizenship for children of il-legal immigrants, the state’s latest foray into the national debate over illegal immigration.

The bill to be heard Monday by the Senate judiciary committee seeks a court interpretation on an element of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees citizenship to people born in the U.S. who are “subject to the jurisdiction” of this country.

Supporters of the bill say the amendment doesn’t apply to the children of illegal immigrants be-cause such families don’t owe sole allegiance to the U.S.

The bill’s sponsors say the goal is to force a court to rule that a child born in the U.S. is a citizen only if either parent is a U.S. citizen or a legal immigrant. Similar proposals have been introduced by lawmak-ers in Indiana, Mississippi, Texas,

Oklahoma and South Dakota.Opponents of the bill - and

constitutional scholars - predict such state efforts will be declared unconstitutional. Opponents say the proposal is mean-spirited toward immigrants and won’t make a dent in the state’s immigration woes,

An accompanying proposal is an interstate compact that defi nes who is a U.S. citizen and asks states to issue separate birth certifi cates for those who are U.S. citizens and those who are not. Such a compact would have to be approved by Con-gress, but would not require the president’s signature.

The proposal comes after Ari-zona last year enacted one of the na-tion’s toughest local laws targeting illegal immigration. A federal judge put the most controversial parts of that law on hold.

In previous years, the state has passed laws denying government benefi ts to illegal immigrants, de-nying bail to immigrants arrested for serious crimes, and creating the state crime of immigration smug-gling.

Ariz. lawmakers mull au-tomatic citizenship bill

By MARY FOSTERASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW ORLEANS - Chief Howard Miller knows cameras will start clicking next month when his Creole Wild West Mardi Gras In-dians take to the streets with their elaborately beaded and feathered costumes.

Now they and members of the city’s other tribes are working to get a slice of the profi ts when photos of the towering outfi ts they have spent the year crafting end up in books and on posters and T-shirts.

“It’s not about people taking pictures for themselves, but a lot of times people take pictures and sell them,” Miller said. “For years people have been reaping the ben-efi ts from the pictures they take of the Mardi Gras Indians.”

Intellectual property law dat-ing back to the nation’s founding

dictates that apparel and costumes cannot be copyrighted, but Tulane University adjunct law professor Ashlye Keaton has found a way around that by classifying them as something else.

“Their suits and crowns, their regalia, are certainly unique works of art,” Keaton said. “They are en-titled to protect that art work.”

Keaton got to know many of the Indians through another Tulane program, the Entertainment Law Legal Assistance Project.

She was intrigued by their art, more so after she saw photos sold at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and at local galleries, ap-parently without their permission. Pictures of the Indians sell online for up to $500 each, and books and T-shirts are also available.

The fi rst test for the Indians who have copyrighted the new cos-tumes they will wear this year will

come at Mardi Gras. The Indians revamp or completely remake their suits every year, and the copyright takes effect at the fi rst public show-ing, said Ryan Vacca, an assistant professor of law at the University of Akron School of Law.

Keaton started working this past year with the club members to help preserve intellectual rights to their costumes.

Once the costumes are copy-righted, which can be done online for $40, the Indians can either sue people who sell photos of them or try to negotiate licensing fees with photographers either before or af-ter the pictures are taken.

“They would be in a good po-sition to negotiate a fl at fee or per-centage of the sale, something like that,” said Vacca.

Andrew Langsam, a New York lawyer who has been prac-ticing intellectual property law for more than 30 years, also suggested the Indians fi nd a way to notify photographers their costumes were copyrighted - perhaps carrying a sign saying so - and try to fi nd a way to negotiate use of their im-ages before hand.

The Mardi Gras Indians have a long and colorful history in New Orleans. Since the end of the 19th century, black men have been mak-

ing their own version of Indian dress and banding together for informal street parading at Mardi Gras. Lo-cal lore holds the tradition sprouted from runaway slaves’ admiration for Native Americans who harbored them from slave hunters before the Civil War.

Mostly the Mardi Gras Indians come from working-class neighbor-hoods, so their costume investment can take up much of their dispos-able income.

There is no accurate count of the groups, but about 35 are be-lieved active, many with colorful names such as the Wild Tchoupitou-las, Black Seminoles, Fi-Yi-Yi, 7th Ward Hard Head Hunters and Cre-ole Osceola. Each is led by a chief.

Each Indian makes a new suit every year, and over the decades they have become much more glitzy and elaborate. Some cost thousands of dollars.

Mardi Gras Indians work to copyright elaborate costumes

It’s not about people taking pic-tures for themselves, but a lot of times people take pictures and sell them.”

Howard MillerCheif of Creole Indians

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OpinionUNH New Hampshire The Nation The World

It’s not Ronald McDonald’s faultOrganization seeks scapegoat for obesity

A nationwide “Retire Ronald” campaign calling for the banishment of McDonald’s well-known mascot appeals to our innate desire to fi nd a scapegoat for our problems.

What it doesn’t do is accomplish much of anything.

According to the New Hampshire Union Leader, Corporate Accountabil-ity International, which refers to itself on its website as “a grassroots corpo-rate watchdog organization,” planned to deliver petitions with hundreds of signatures to several McDonald’s restaurants around the country late last week, including one in Portsmouth. The company argues that the mascot

is contributing to the nation’s obesity epidemic by marketing junk food to children.

Obesity is undoubtedly a signifi -cant problem that faces our country, as a healthy populace is essential to a nation’s survival and effectiveness. However, the idea that Ronald Mc-Donald is the best target to combat that problem is a deluded one.

The real responsibility for our nation’s childrens will always sit with parents, who control the choices of their children far more than any color-ful corporate clown. And the answers are usually more simple than they seem. Too many companies market-

ing to your children on television? Have them watch less television. Find yourself in McDonald’s every couple of days? It probably has more to do with the time you have to devote to creating meals than it does to Ronald McDonald.

Ultimately, it’s far more satisfying and, in the long-term, effective when actions are infl uenced through educa-tion. Educating our nation’s youth about healthy choices is more likely to make a difference than the sudden disappearance of Ronald McDonald. How far do we really want to go into limiting people’s abilities to choose what they consume?

A tale of two gun bills

N.H. House legislators currently have the pick of two competing bills before them that would prompt radi-cal change in the state’s gun laws if passed.

Neither of them are good ideas. Nor are they radically different. But House Republicans are acting as if they area.

House Bill 576, which was intro-duced last week by freshman Rep. J.R. Hoell (R-Merrimack), the bill proposes that any person in the state, with the exception of those incarcerated, “shall have the natural right to possess or carry, whether openly or concealed, or use, acquire, purchase, inherit, sell, give, dispose of, or receive any fi rearm without a license, permit, or restriction of any kind from or by any govern-ment agency.”

You read that right. No permitting process. Of any kind.

The bill has proven to be so radical that even House Republican leaders have denounced it. “This bill would make New Hampshire less safe and would create an unacceptable risk for our citizens,” House Speaker Wil-liam O’Brien (R- Hillsborough) said in a statement. He has asked Rep. Hoell to withdraw the bill, to no avail. House Majority Leader D.J. Bettencourt said in a statement that HB 536 would “undermine public safety in New Hampshire.”

However, despite these strong words against HB 576, House Repub-lican leaders can’t say enough about

another proposed gun bill. Betten-court’s statement went on to say: “In-stead, leadership will support House Bill 330, a responsible ‘constitutional carry’ legislation that falls within the New Hampshire tradition of protecting the 2nd Amendment.”

Just what is the text of this “re-sponsible” legislation that the leader-ship is getting behind?

HB 330 “permits any person to carry a fi rearm, openly or concealed, loaded or unloaded, on or about their person or upon or in a vehicle, whether or not such person possesses a license, permit, or other authorization to carry a fi rearm.” It would also remove the requirement that nonresidents obtain a license to possess a fi rearm while in

the state.It might be helpful to read over

that a couple times. Try and spot the differences, because they’re diffi cult to pick out. Both of their bills allow anyone to carry a fi rearm, openly or concealed, loaded or unloaded, with or without a license. And that’s enough to turn off the average educated citizen.

That’s an understatement, to be sure. Currently, the state requires residents and nonresidents to obtain a permit to carry a concealed gun. The permitting process isn’t hindering anyone’s right to bear arms, given that all those suitable for gun ownership are given a license.

That permitting process is vital. Few applicants are denied, because the majority of applicants have the ability to be responsible gun own-ers. But that list will never include anyone. No one is going to argue that guns are dangerous in the wrong hands. For the sake of society, it is necessary for the government to have a hand in the process. Even the biggest fan of the National Rifl e As-sociation and the largest proponent of small government should be able to recognize that.

What’s baffl ing is that while one bill has earned derision from House Republican leaders, that other has earned praise. The bills aren’t far enough apart in their intent for such wildly different reactions to be merited.

Republican leaders have bizarre love/hate relationship

For the sake of society, it is necessary for the government to have a hand in the gun per-mitting process. Even the biggest fan of the National Rifl e Associa-tion and the largest proponent of small government should be able to recognize that.

The New HampshireTuesday, February 4, 201116 OPINION

OP-EDBoth sides can’t be right in

Congress’ eternal jobs debateJobs, jobs, jobs. Have we

heard anything else from our politi-cians lately? With the unemploy-ment rate still slightly higher than nine percent, I’m not surprised that’s what they’re focusing on. In true realist (some may mistakenly call it cynical) fashion, I’m here to tell you that jobs are not on the horizon. Please don’t shoot the messenger.

This is one of the great-est philosophical divides in our government between liberals and conservatives. Liberals maintain that jobs and economic growth happen through the hand of the government itself, while con-servatives assert that the private sector is where jobs are cre-ated and the economy picks up. Unfortunately for us, there is no way to marry these two differing opinions. You simply cannot have both. Therefore, the Senate, Con-gress and the President can have as much dialogue as they wish on the subject, but eventually one side will win out over the other. There will be no compromise not because of an unwillingness to do so (although that is the case, too), rather because of the impossibility of the mixing and matching of pri-vate sector versus governmental growth. Oil and water will never come together.

Since the New Deal, it has become the modus operandi of liberals to believe in creating jobs through government programs. They can put people to work “re-building America” or be employed more permanently in a Social Security offi ce for example. Both of these options deliver paychecks to families who may have been without one for a considerable amount of time. An effort to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure would also have obvious benefi ts (it’s always good to know the bridge you’re going over won’t cave in while you’re driving over it).

Conservatives who read that last paragraph most likely had a

severe allergic reaction as a result. They would argue that the afore-mentioned options are socialist (what a naughty word) and against the wishes of our founding fathers and our principles as capitalists. Conservatives want to cut taxes in order to give businesses, both small and large, the capital they need to expand. They argue that business expansion inevitably leads to the creation of more jobs. This notion is better known by the names Reaganomics or “the trickle down effect.”

The reason why these two op-tions cannot be married is because one relies on high taxes to fund and the other requires low taxes for businesses to fl ourish. The only way to implement both would be to drag ourselves into a mountain of debt by lowering the tax rates and expanding government. Oh wait, I think we already did that. I suppose I should amend my argument to say that there is no responsible and sustainable way to marry these two philosophies.

Although both sides have arguments that contain merit, there is a right answer in all of this, and the conservatives have it. The reason why their answer is right is twofold. First off, the vast major-ity of Americans don’t wish to pay taxes at the rates our European friends do. Even Democrats who support expanding social programs to create jobs will tell you they are all set with paying the 50 percent income tax rate it would require to

properly fund their ambitions. It all sounds good on paper to put people to work through government char-ity, but in reality no politician is persuasive enough to get his or her constituents to pay tax rates that are far higher than we are used to.

Secondly, economic growth through the government is not sustainable in the long run. Putting people to work on infrastructure has an end in sight. Eventually their work will be done and those individuals will go back to being unemployed. All we are doing is putting off the problem for another year or so. If a private sector job is created, odds are it will stick around longer than the temporary government one.

There are a couple disclaim-ers I would like to add to the conservative standpoint, however. Private sector jobs are by no means guaranteed to last forever. There are such things as layoffs, but that happens when the businesses do not have enough money to expand their business the way they envi-sioned. If their taxes weren’t high, they could use that extra money to not lay people off.

When I talk about businesses and being taxed, I’m speaking of the taxes levied on businesses, not the personal income tax. In order for the trickle down effect to work, corporate taxes and other business income taxes should be as low as possible. This will allow people a way into the private market and a chance to create their own success rather than having a false sense of temporary charity bestowed on them by the government.

Tyler Goodwin is a junior his-tory major with a business minor. With this column he hopes to show that it is possible to solve major is-sues without being divisive or fol-lowing the doctrine of specifi c politi-cal groups.

Your Lefts and Rights

Tyler Goodwin

In Friday’s TNH editorial (“Scared clueless: UNH fails to communicate police presence,” Feb. 4, 2011), “the administration” is taken to task for the lack of com-munication regarding the secu-rity in and around the MUB that surrounded last Thursday’s MLK events with Morris Dees and Tom Martinez. The visible contingent of law enforcement offi cers and vehicles - beyond the typical UNH and Durham police personnel and cruisers - did cause legitimate con-cern and, without timely and clear information, that concern translated to confusion for some and fear for others.

We should have done better.For those members of the

university community who were here when we hosted former Presidents Bush and Clinton as commencement speakers in 2007, you might recall the security that surrounded that event. Even for those whose affi liation with UNH is more recent, you might recall visits by virtually every candidate seeking the presidency in 2008 (including now-President Obama). In those instances, you would have

seen similar (or potentially greater) security measures, but in retro-spect, the need and the logic for those efforts would have been more apparent to most people than they were yesterday. We should have realized that.

Going forward, we will inform the community about similar situ-ations, particularly as we move into the next round of candidate visits for the 2012 election. When the relevant event is a public one, and when such notifi cation will not undermine the effi cacy of the security plan, we will try to provide communication about the event and the expected security presence that people will see. In this era - which is not just post-9/11, but is also post-Virginia Tech and, most re-cently, post-Arizona - we recognize the legitimate concerns that were expressed in the editorial, and will communicate more effectively to promote awareness of our efforts to ensure campus safety.

Public safety work has always been complicated and potentially dangerous, and in the recent past we have seen evidence that college campuses are not immune. We are fortunate to have dedicated and well-trained offi cers and staff serving the UNH campus and surrounding community, and for partnerships in the state and region that contribute to their efforts. Still, public safety is not solely the responsibility of those in uniform, but requires shared commitment and support from the community. We recognize that better communi-cation is part of our responsibility to earn that commitment.

We will do better.

Mark Rubinstein is the Vice President of Student & Academic Services

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responds to Friday TNH editorial

We recognize the legitimate concerns that were expressed in the editorial, and will communicate more eff ectively to promote awareness of our eff orts to en-sure campus safety.

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OP-EDThis past weekend I did something that many people may have thought was impossible. I brokered peace between UNH and Maine hockey fans, for an entire weekend, nonetheless. Not since the Camp David Accords in 1978 have two hated opposing sides with years of tension between them been joined so wonderfully. Jimmy Carter would be proud. It was not nearly as hard of a task as I thought it might be. All it took was a couple handles of Canadian Hunter whiskey, a couple 30 racks of PBR and some good music and the Mainers seemed to fi t right in at UNH. Now, before you call me a traitor or weak for not only allowing up to fi ve Mainers in my apartment, but also actually invit-ing them, let me explain myself.

One of my best friends from high school is a student up at UMaine. Many of you may know him as the commenter, “The Maine Guy.” He and a couple of his friends bought tickets for the two hockey games and I offered my couches for them to crash on, which they happily accepted. I feel that while there is so much history of hate between the two teams and our fan bases, there is also a feeling of mutual respect for each other. UNH and Maine fans aren’t made, we’re born. No one is born a Duke basketball fan and that is why I have absolutely no respect at all for those rich, spoiled elitists. It might be hard as a fan or student of one of the schools to realize it, but Wildcat and Black Bear fans are not so different after all.

For the most part we are from small rural towns from blue collar families, are smart about our teams and the game, but most impor-tantly we love hockey. I grew up waiting for the day that I could stand in the UNH student section, and I know for a fact many Maine

fans were the same. It is a passion that is inside of us, in our blood, and through good times and bad, our love for our respected teams never fades. Do not get me wrong, I am not saying I like Maine or its fans as a whole, but I do respect them. I respect their traditions and their crowd and atmosphere. I love that they play in that old barn- style arena, which does actually have replay board. The fans have character, and whether you like them or not, you have to respect their passion.

After several whiskey and Cokes we were able to come to the conclusion that BU and BC fans are so much worse, and best of all – and this came directly from a Maine fan born in that state – that UMass is the worst when it comes to its fan base. I don’t care if we couldn’t agree on one thing, but that right there was enough for me to think they weren’t so bad after all.

Of course there were a few U-N-H chants throughout both nights, and the rivalry carried over to the Beirut table, with yours truly defending UNH’s glory. We also made sure to bring some thunder sticks back to the apartment, and

we broke them out around mid-night for one fi nal jab. By Sunday morning not one comment had gone too fan or was there anything close to a physical altercation. Well, unless you count me trying to hurdle the kitchen sink and counter and completely eating it, but that was on my own. Not my proudest moment.

Of course, I probably wouldn’t be writing this if UNH didn’t sweep the series. The Black Bears didn’t give their fans too much to cheer about. I have never seen anything like the fi rst period of the fi rst game, or the third period of the second game. Those are two of the best hockey games I have ever been to. Last year’s 5-5 tie against Miami where the teams combined for nine second-period goals was pretty crazy, but that doesn’t compare to this week-end’s series. I mean, probably one of the best pro prospects in the country, Maine’s Gustav Nyquist, missed an empty-netter, and UNH came back with Paul Thompson banking in a backhand shot from behind the net. And when I say Paul Thompson, I mean future Hobey Baker winner Paul Thomp-son. It’s time for the nation to show him some respect. Paul Thompson for the Hobey Baker. Let’s do this.

Stay classy, not UMassy.The New Hampshirite

The New Hampshirite is a mysterious UNH student who entertains much of the campus with his politically incorrect and realistic ac-counts of student life in Dur-ham. You can fi nd his blog at http://unhblog.com.

Like a Pro: Finding common ground with Maine

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As a child, I feel as though I was asked 100 times what I wanted to be when I grew up. My peers always replied with dream careers like dentists or professional foot-ball players. Not me. Each time I had the same answer — “Uhhh…I don’t know.”

This indecisiveness stuck with me throughout high school. Some of my friends knew what they wanted to study when they went into college. I had no idea. It was a little concerning, but the real world was still an abstract concept and growing up wasn’t a huge concern.

My fi rst year of college was more of the same. I started as an English major with a business mi-nor. Then I changed to a business

major with a French minor.I quickly realized that none

of these combinations were right for me. I felt completely adrift and feared I would never fi nd an area of study that suited me.

Imagine my elation when I found a major that not only inter-ested me, but also had a clear direc-tion of a career path after gradua-tion — elementary education.

I could get a degree and be-come a teacher. This idea gave me a sense of comfort.

Until last Tuesday.It started just like every

other Tuesday. I woke up about 15 minutes later than I should have in order to make it to my 9:30 a.m. math class.

This left me with little time to spend on picking out a cute outfi t or doing my hair. So, I wore gym

clothes and my hair went up in a ponytail.

I made it to class on time, sat in my seat, and pulled out my notebook. I’m not a very talkative person, so I observed the people

around me. I looked around and for the fi rst time, noticed some girls who were, very clearly, destined to be teachers.

Their pre-class discussions were based on some of the teach-ing techniques they planned to use in their classrooms one day. They fi nished their homework days in advance so they could come to class with any questions. Their notebooks were hyper-organized with different colored pens to highlight different mathematical ideas.

I looked down at my half-assed appearance and my one-tone notebook and started to feel claus-trophobic.

Oh my God. Did I pick the wrong major? Was I on the road to getting a degree for something that was going to make me miserable

for the rest of my life?Would I even be good at this?With the help of my friends and

family, I recovered from my panic attacks. They assured me that my concerns were completely normal. But more importantly, I was putting too much pressure on myself.

An undergraduate degree shows that you are able to problem solve and take responsibility. It shows possible employers that you are educated and have the basic knowledge needed to undergo the training that you are going to have to have when you get your fi rst job.

Your major will not be the determining factor for the rest of your life. Whether you want to or not, you will need to continue to work and learn long after college is over.

By KATIE GARNERNEVADA SAGEBRUSH

Don’t dwell on college major, take time to explore options

Your major will not be the determining factor for the rest of your life. Whether you want to or not, you will need to con-tinue to work and learn long after col-lege is over.

When I say Paul Thompson, I mean future Hobey Baker winner Paul Thomp-son. It’s time for the nation to show him some respect. Paul Thompson for the Hobey Baker. Let’s do this.

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important than the one he made 19 seconds after his Wildcats took a 5-3 lead.

Gustav Nyquist, a fi nalist for last year’s Hobey Baker Award, blocked a shot in his own zone, gathered the puck and skated in alone on Di Girolamo. The Sweden native seeking his fourth goal of the game tried to beat Di Girolamo fi ve-hole, but the 5-foot-9, 160 pound goalie was there and turned aside a shot that would have brought the Black Bears within one goal and given them the momentum.

“That was a big save,” Maine head coach Tim Whitehead said. “He made a couple of those.”

Paul Thompson netted his sec-ond goal of the night to give UNH the 5-3 lead before Di Girolamo’s big save midway through the third period.

Nyquist (three power-play goals) and Thompson (two goals), widely regarded as two of the best forwards in the nation, battled all

night in front of the net and were a big part of a wild fi rst period.

“They’re really good,” UNH head coach Dick Umile said. “Paul is having a really good year. And Nyquist showed what he can do last year. He’s dangerous plus he fi nds people.”

Thompson, a Derry, N.H. na-tive, started off the fi rst by record-ing his 100th career point as a Wild-cat by tapping in a pretty feed from linemate Phil DeSimone. The goal gave Thompson 50 goals and 50 as-sists for his career.

“That’s really good for him,” UNH captain Mike Sislo, who joined the century club last week-end, said. “He got the assist on my 100th and I got an assist on his.”

His milestone was short lived, however.

Nyquist put his team on the board two minutes later, burying a similar shot at the doorstep off a feed from Tanner House.

The big Swede swapped goals with UNH’s Austin Block a minute later.

“He’s been snake-bitten a bit recently. He’s hit a lot of crossbars

and posts,” Whitehead said of Ny-quist. “I’m really happy for Gus. He works so hard and never quits. I’m happy to see him get the hat trick against such a good team.”

Dalton Speelman put home a rebound and Kevin Goumas scored his fi rst career goal on a one-timer that squeaked through Martin Ouel-lette’s (19 saves) pads and gave the Wildcats a two-goal lead after the fi rst.

Nyquist netted a goal earlier in the second to shrink the defi cit to one. His Black Bears dominated the frame, outshooting UNH 16-7, but weren’t able to put another one home largely thanks to Di Girola-mo’s efforts.

Nyquist and House both had multiple chances off rebounds in front of the net, but weren’t able to sneak one past the quick Wildcat goaltender.

“Matty was the story of the second period,” Umile said. “He had the great save on Nyquist, but the ones that he had at the end of the second were just as important.”

quist missed an empty net which would’ve given the Black Bears the lead with less than a minute to go.

“I just threw it on net,” Thomp-son said. “I didn’t see it go in. But I saw the place go pretty nuts. That’s when I knew it was in.”

Thompson, now tied for the most goals in the nation, gained control of the puck in the neutral zone after Maine’s Kyle Beattie fell and lost possession. Thompson then carried the puck into the zone and made a move toward the net. But when he realized he wasn’t going to be able to cut in front of Sirman, he skated beyond the goalie and threw it off his shoulder backhanded as he was crushed by a defender.

The puck slowly trickled into the back of the net and Thompson rose to his knees with both arms raised above his head in front of the student section which led the eruption of the standing-room only crowd of 6,501.

“Thompson’s such a great goal scorer,” Maine head coach Tim Whitehead said. “That’s an incred-ible play. He can score every pos-sible way.”

Thompson’s heroics came just 30 seconds after Nyquist, who had a hat trick Friday and a goal in the fi rst period Saturday, rang a shot off the post on a wide open net.

The Sweden native skated in alone on a loose puck in the UNH defensive zone on a breakaway heading for UNH goalie Matt Di Girolamo (28 saves). Di Girolamo bolted from the net and dove at the puck in an attempt to beat Nyquist to it, but the Maine forward made a move around the goalie and, as he was falling down, threw the puck off the left post of the open net.

The Maine follow-up attempt failed, setting up Thompson’s late winner.

“They don’t get any better than that,” UNH head coach Dick Umile said. “It was a tremendous hockey game and a crazy fi nish. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a fi nish like that. [Thompson] knows what he’s doing. He’s done that before.”

What a fi nish it was.Arguably the nation’s best

player netted the game-winner from a negative angle, while another of

the nation’s greatest player missed an open net.

“I was just hoping he was go-ing to get to the puck,” Umile said of Di Girolamo’s play. “Then Ny-quist lost his balance skating around Di Gi’s and hit pipe. Thank God. I thought it was over.”

Maine’s Will O’Neill knotted the game at 4-4 with less than seven minutes to go, tapping in a pretty tic-tac-toe play on a 3-on-2.

Five minutes before that, Mike Borisenok and Beattie swapped goals on wrist shots from the slot to begin the roller-coaster third pe-riod.

With the two wins during the “White Out the Whitt” weekend, the Wildcats swept the regular sea-son over border-rival Maine.

In addition, UNH took sole pos-session of fi rst place in the Hockey East with 32 points. Boston College sits at second with 30 points and has played one more game than the Wildcats.

“It feels good,” Umile said. “That was a crazy game.”

John Henrion got the scor-ing started with a pretty wrist shot from the top of the slot on a faceoff play that sailed over Sirman’s right shoulder.

The Black Bears responded with two goals, one from Nyquist and one from Beattie, in the fi rst, but Henrion responded with his sec-ond of the period with just 40 sec-onds to go.

The sophomore, who is second on the team in goals after the week-end, put home a long rebound with another lethal wrist shot, this time beating Sirman fi ve-hole.

Kevin Goumas scored the sec-ond period’s lone goal on an impres-sive shift from the second-liners. The group forechecked well, keep-ing the puck in their offensive zone, before Goumas lit the lamp for the second time in his career with a re-bound goal.

“That line played really well,” Thompson said. “The three of us (linemates Thompson, Mike Sislo and Phil DeSimone) didn’t have our best game. Everybody else played awesome.”

But when the game was on the line, it was the Hockey East’s lead-ing scorer with the awesome move.

“I’m looking forward to his graduation from the University of New Hampshire,” Whitehead said with a smile.

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The student section, armed with ThunderStix for Saturday’s game,

fi lled up an hour and a half before game time on both nights.

Player of the Game, was 8 for 11 from the fl oor, 4 of 5 from behind the arc and 2-for-2 at the line. The co-captain also tallied fi ve rebounds, a block and a steal in 35 minutes. DiLiegro was 6-for-7 from the fi eld and 2 of 3 at the stripe. Sophomore Chandler Rhoads also netted 14 points on 4 of 10 shooting to go along with three rebounds, two as-sists and a steal in 39 minutes.

Moussa Camara, Mahamoud Jabbi and Greer Wright led the Bearcats with 13, 12 and 10 points, respectively. Camara added four boards to earn America East Player of the Game honors for Bingham-ton.

UNH shot a season-high 52.3 percent (23-44) from the fi eld, in-cluding 41.2 percent (7-17) from long distance.

Tied at fi ve early on, the Wild-

cats went on an 11-1 run – sparked by a 3-pointer from junior Brian Benson and capped with a fero-cious two-handed Benson dunk off a nice feed from DiLiegro – to take a 16-6 lead with 13:33 remaining in the opening half. A pair of Conley 3-pointers on the next two UNH possessions pushed the lead to 22-10, the largest of the game.

The Wildcats still led by 12, 27-15, at the third media timeout with 7:59 remaining in the half, and were 11 for 14 (78.6%) from the fl oor and 5 of 6 (83.3%) from 3 at that point.

Binghamton stormed back, however, ripping off a 14-3 run – with seven points from Chretien Lukusa – to slice the halftime defi -cit to one at 30-29. UNH, which improved to 9-4 when leading at the break, shot 54.5 percent (12-22) from the fl oor, including 45.5 per-cent (5-11) from deep.

A baseline slam by DiLiegro and a layup by Rhoads pushed the

UNH lead to fi ve to kick off the second half, but six straight points from Camara gave Binghamton its only lead of the game at 35-34 with just under 13 minutes to play.

The Wildcats led 39-38 when a jump hook in the lane from DiL-iegro and a 3-pointer, followed by a jumper, from Conley pushed the ad-vantage to eight at 46-38 with 8:29 left. Five straight points from Bing-hamton cut its defi cit to three, but a pair of baskets from DiLiegro and a tip-in and a straightaway 3 from senior James Valladares gave UNH a commanding 55-45 lead with 1:43 remaining.

A 9-2 run over the next minute brought the Bearcats to within three at 57-54. The margin was still three at 59-56 with 32 seconds remaining, but the Wildcats knocked down 6 of 8 at the line down the stretch to seal the win.

Valladares chipped in with eight points on 3 of 4 shooting, including 2 of 3 from deep, while Benson posted fi ve points and seven boards.

Binghamton shot 40 percent (18-45) from the fi eld and 38.5 percent (5-13) from behind the arc. Rebounding was even at 30 apiece, while UNH turned the ball over 10 times and forced 11 Bearcat turn-overs.

Conley fi nished the night with 1,199 career points and moved past Jim Rich (1,180) and Greg Steele (1,187) for 11th place on UNH’s all-time scoring list.UNH improved to 8-4 when scor-ing fi rst, 6-1 when outscoring its opponent in the paint and 9-2 when holding its opponent to 60 points or less.

The Wildcats return to action Wednesday, Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. when they play host to Stony Brook Uni-versity at Lundholm Gymnasium.

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By RYAN CHIAVETTASTAFF WRITER

The UNH gymnas t i cs team put up a

strong effort, but came up just short against the Michigan Wolverines on Saturday afternoon at Lundholm Gymnasium, falling 196 to 195.

Sporting pink uniforms for breast cancer awareness, the Wild-cats hit a season high in total points, but were outpaced by a tremendous performance from the Wolverines.

“To beat Michigan, they either had to make mistakes or we had to really be clean with all the details,” UNH coach Gail Goodspeed said. “And we didn’t do that.”

UNH started their day off strong performing well on the vault, as each Wildcat scored a 9.65 or higher, including a team leading 9.825 from Austyn Fobes. During Michigan’s turn at the vault, four of the fi ve Wolverines scored 9.8 or higher, including a 9.9 from Natalie Beilstein.

After struggling on the un-even bars last week in their victory against the University of Bridge-port, the Wildcats responded with a much more consistent performance from their gymnasts, with each ath-lete scoring a 9.7 or higher.

UNH’s improvement on bars was one that the Wildcats were proud of after having such a tough run during their previous meet.

“It was about being a team on bars,” senior Chelsea Steinberg, UNH’s top performer on the day, said. “There were six girls up and we spoke to each other before and were like, we can do this lets have fun, and I think it was a drastic im-provement.”

Next up for UNH was the bal-ance beam, and the Wildcats once again put up solid numbers. Katie Lawrence put up a 9.85, and Stein-berg scored a 9.875, which was the highest score that the Wildcats scored on any event during the meet.

While the Wildcats put up strong numbers on their trip to the

beam, Michigan’s numbers were even better, with four gymnasts scoring in the 9.8 range or higher, including two scores of 9.9.

UNH wrapped up its day with the fl oor exercise, which was its highest scoring event on the day. Steinberg and Fobes both scored 9.85s as the Wildcats ended their day on a high note.

As was the story for most of the day, when the Wildcats had high scores, the Wolverines were there to match them. Michigan also had their best numbers on the fl oor as they posted two scores of 9.9, includ-ing a meet-high 9.950 from Kylee Botterman, who was the highest scoring gymnast of the day.

After the meet, the Wildcats had nothing but praise for one of the best gymnastics teams in the coun-try.

“[The Wolverines] are very tal-ented athletes and a great program,” Goodspeed said. “It’s good to go against the best. It brings out our best.”

Even though they came up short on Saturday, the Wildcats feel good about the progress they have made in the past couple of weeks, and look forward to improving over the next couple of months.

“We have a great team,” Fobes said. “We have a lot of young com-petitors, but I feel like we will go very far this year.”

Goodspeed said that her team has been shooting for the 195 as its goal, and if they continue to work on their details, the Wildcats can be hitting that mark week after week.

“I think that this team is a 195 plus team,” Goodspeed said. “And I hope that we can score 195 plus all the way through the rest of the season.”

Next week the Lundholm Gymnasium will play host to the an-nual UNH invitation next Saturday night at 7 p.m. The Wildcats will compete against Brown, Alaska and Michigan State.

Wolverines upend UNH Michigan 196 UNH 195

GYMNASTICS

Junior Danielle Reibold competes on the balance beam in UNH’s 196-

195 loss to Michigan on Saturday afternoon at Lundholm.

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STAFF REPORTSTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

D e n i s e Be l iveau s c o r e d

a team-high 11 points and pulled down 11 rebounds for her eighth double-double of the season, but the UNH women’s basketball team was defeated by Binghamton Univer-sity, 59-50, on Sunday afternoon at Lundholm Gymnasium

UNH falls to 7-16 overall and 4-7 in America East play, while Binghamton improves to 16-8 on the season and 9-2 in league action.

Beliveau was selected as the America East Player of the Game for New Hampshire, notching double-digit points for the second time in the last three games. She has registered 11 double-doubles in her career, including a season-best eight this year.

Viive Rebane took home player of the game honors for Binghamton, registering a game-high 22 points on 10-of-19 shooting from the fl oor. She also tallied 11 rebounds, two assists and one steal.

Holmes chipped in with 20 points, seven rebounds, two assists and one steal for the Bearcats.

Kelsey Hogan, Lauren Wells and Cari Reed all fi nished with nine points, while Kate Early scored sev-en points and tallied a season-high nine rebounds.

The Wildcats jumped out to a 5-0 lead on a put-back from Reed and a Wells 3-pointer, but the Bearcats responded by scoring the next 10 points, including eight consecutive points from Holmes to seize a 10-5 advantage at 15:06.

Hogan tallied four points dur-ing a 6-0 spurt that allowed New Hampshire to reclaim the lead, 12-10, with 13:44 remaining in the fi rst frame.

The teams were tied twice and

exchanged the lead fi ve times in the fi rst half, with UNH building anoth-er fi ve-point lead at 24-19 courtesy of two straight buckets from Early. However, Binghamton closed out the half on a 10-2 run, as Rebane scored the fi nal six points of the half, giving the Bearcats a 29-26 halftime lead.

The Bearcats stretched their lead back to fi ve points, 33-28, on two more Rebane baskets early in the second half to wrap up a 14-4 run, before UNH rattled off seven straight points on a Hogan three and buckets by Reed and Beliveau for a 35-33 lead with 15:48 remaining.

Despite the offensive surge, Binghamton held the advantage the rest of the way, as the Bearcats pieced together a 14-6 scoring run to claim a 47-41 edge with 4:48 re-maining.

Jackie Ward polished off the run with a layup, but on the ensuing possession Reed delivered a much needed bucket for the ‘Cats, drop-ping in a layup at 4:40 to cut the defi cit down to fi ve.

Following Reed’s basket, Sinead O’Reilly and Rebane tal-lied buckets on back-to-back pos-sessions, igniting an 8-0 run by the Bearcats to close out the contest and secure the win.

The Wildcats shot just 30 per-cent from the fi eld, including 3-20 (15 percent) from behind the arc.

Binghamton managed to hit 40 percent of their fi eld goals, but just 3-13 (23.1 percent) from three-point land.

The Bearcats outrebounded UNH 43-37, while also outscoring the Wildcats in the paint, 32-22.

UNH takes to the road with a game against Stony Brook Univer-sity on Wednesday at 7 p.m. The Wildcats’ next home game will take place Sunday, Feb. 13, at 1 p.m. against UMBC.

Binghamton 59 UNH 50

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record-breaking performance of her own in the 200-yard breaststroke, notching the pool record in 2:18.47.

The Wildcats kicked off the night with a fi rst-place fi nish in the 200-yard medley relay, as Little, Al-lison Nahin, Jenna Bull and Shelli Reed touched down at 1:49.60.

UNH kept up its strong start, taking the top three spots in the 200-yard freestyle, as Keirsten Wol-lenzien (1:53.63), Lauren McCand-less (1:56.65) and Sydney Tribou (1:57.42) fi nished fi rst, second and third, respectively.

Kelsey Gillespie helped keep up the pace, taking the top spot in the 50-yard freestyle, fi nishing in 25.36. Reed (2:10.92) and Nahin (2:13.04) followed up claiming fi rst

and second place in the 200-yard IM, respectively.

The Wildcats notched fi rst and second place fi nishes in three of the next four events, helping the home team build a sizable advantage mid-way through the night. McCandless and Bull ignited the stretch, fi nish-ing fi rst (58.94) and second (59.54) in the 100-yard butterfl y, respec-tively.

The ‘Cats followed up by earn-ing the top two spots in the 100-yard freestyle, as Perrault took fi rst place with a time of 52.91 and Wollenzien claimed second place clocking in at 53.63. In the ensuing event, Bull raced to a fi rst-place fi nish in the 100-yard backstroke with a time of 1:00.77. Little was close behind her teammate, notching second place with a time of 1:01.04.

During UNH’s streak of fi rst and second place fi nishes, Ellen

Pelletier notched the top spot in the 1-meter dive with a score of 251.62.

New Hampshire got a huge lift late in the action, as Reed, Tribou

and Jessica Perry took the top three spots in the 500-yard freestyle. Reed led the way, clocking in at 5:09.03, while Tribou and Perry fi nished in 5:11.97 and 5:21.05, respectively.

The Wildcats will begin the America East Championships on Thursday, Feb. 27. All events will take place at Germantown Indoor Swim Center in Boyds, Md.

TYLER MCDERMOTT/ STAFFSenior Allison Nahin helped lead the Wildcats to a 126-90 victory over Maine Friday night at Swasey Pool.

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By STAFF REPORTSTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

Senior Ty-rone Con-ley scored a

game-high 22 points and classmate

Dane DiLiegro recorded his fi fth double-double of the season with 14 points and 10 rebounds as the UNH men’s basketball team earned a 65-59 victory against Binghamton University on Saturday evening at the Events Center.

The Wildcats won for the third time in four games, including their second straight and fi rst America East road contest of the season, to improve to 11-13, including 5-7 in the conference. They also beat Binghamton for the second time in

their last three meetings, but the fi rst time in the last four contests at the Events Center. Binghamton drops their eighth straight to fall to 6-18 overall and 3-8 in the conference.

Conley, UNH’s America East

By CHAD GRAFFMANAGING EDITOR

Paul Thompson didn’t know where the puck was when

he landed hard on the ice. Then the crowd erupted.

That’s when he knew.

Thompson fl icked the game-winning goal off the back of goalie Shawn Sirman with 15 seconds left to give No. 6 New Hampshire a thrilling 5-4 win over archrival Maine on Saturday just seconds after All-American Gustav Ny-

By CHAD GRAFFMANAGING EDITOR

UNH men’s hockey head coach Dick Umile often tells his

goalies that it’s not the saves they make that are important, but when they make them.

Apparently, Matt Di Girolamo took notice.

The junior goaltender made 37 saves in No. 6 New Hampshire’s closer-than-it-sounds 6-3 win over bitter rival No. 15 Maine. None of those saves, though, were more

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“He’s been snake-bitten a bit recently. He’s hit a lot of crossbars and posts.”

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UNH 6 Maine 3

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-Maine coach Tim Whitehead on Black Bears’ forward Gustav Nyquist after Friday’s game.

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Conley stays hot, ‘Cats prevail in Binghamton

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By STAFF REPORTSTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

The UNH wom-en’s swimming and diving team

broke a pair of pool records and

claimed fi rst place in every event on its way to earning a 126-90 victory over the University of Maine Friday night at Swasey Pool.

The win is UNH’s second in as many meets, as the Wildcats round out the regular season with

a 7-1 record. The win also marks the last regular season contest for seniors Kelsey Gillespie, Allison Nahin, Amy Perrault, Jessica Perry, Whitney Powers and Kiersten Wol-lenzien.

Amy Perrault notched the fi rst

pool record of the day for New Hampshire, claiming fi rst place in the 200-yard backstroke with a time of two minutes and 1.26 seconds. Jessica Little followed up with a

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‘Cats net four in fi rst, double up Maine on Friday night

Nyquist whiff s, Th ompson capitalizes in Saturday thriller

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF UNH’s (from left) Austin Block, John Henrion and Connor Hardowa celebrate after the fi rst of Henrion’s two goals in Saturday’s 5-4 win over

Maine at the Whittemore Center. The Wildcats also won Friday’s contest, 6-3, to sweep the season series with their northern rivals.

Greg Jennings scored two touchdowns in the Super Bowl. He put the team on his back. They couldn’t staaahp him.