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Kevin Decker was one of three Wildcat football players to showcase his skills to NFL scouts at UNH’s pro day on Tuesday.

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Kevin Decker was one of three Wildcat football players to showcase his skills to NFL scouts at UNH’s pro day on Tuesday.

By JOEL KOSTSTAFF WRITER

Smartphone owners can use their phones to make restau-rant reservations, identify songs on the radio and even set their thermostats. Thanks to a new free app, smartphones can now be used to fi ght crime as well.

Created by UNH School of Law and Daniel Webster Schol-ar honors student Eman Pahl-evani, Crime Push, a free app for iPhone and Android devices, allows the user to send photo, video and audio evidence of a crime directly to local police with a simple push of a button. It is a new and innovative way to give authorities the evidence they need.

Beginning with a team of just three people, the Crime Push development team now has 22 full-time members work-ing on the app.

“We were thinking about incidents that happened at Vir-ginia Tech and school shootings in general, and we just wanted to come up with a way to open up channels of communications be-tween the public and the police,” Pahlevani said.

School shootings, along with sexual assaults, were among the original crimes that inspired the creation of Crime Push. However, accommodating to those who are afraid to call authorities was the main infl u-ence and led to the addition of an anonymous feature on the ap-plication.

“Keeping that anonymous feature was key because a lot of people don’t want the police to know who they are,” Pahlevani

By JULIA MILLERSTAFF WRITER

Brittany Zorn is a women’s studies major at the University of New Hamp-shire. She sets an alarm on her phone at a convenient time each day, just like many other college women. Hers goes

off at 11 a.m., reminding her that it’s time to take her birth control.

Zorn is among the 80 percent of American women who have used oral contraceptives at one point in their lives. But despite how socially accept-able it is to use birth control today in the United States, the topic of contra-

ceptives has become an issue for debate both in Washington and here in New Hampshire.

Luckily for students who are cov-ered by University of New Hampshire insurance, potential changes in con-

UNH-insured students won’t lose contraception coverage

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FIGHTING FOR A PLACE IN SPACE Student-created crime-� ghting mobile app may be used by campus PD

Screenshots from the Crime Push smartphone app created by UNH law student Eman Pahlevani.

By HOLLY RAMER ASSOCIATED PRESS

CONCORD —The University of New Hampshire has laid off 21 employees in 10 departments as it grap-ples with state budget cuts.

The university, which has about 2,900 faculty and staff members, has been trying to save money after the Legislature cut its state funding by $32.5 million – nearly in half – last year. Since then, the university

has frozen salaries and hiring, scaled back benefi ts, and offered buyout packages to faculty and staff.

Last fall, President Mark Huddleston estimated that 150 positions would be eliminated, most of them through attrition, the buyout packages, and the hiring freeze. He said at the time that fewer than 10 percent were expected to come through layoffs.

Employees had until Feb. 1 to accept the buyouts.

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UNH lays o� 21 employees amid budget cuts

Alum one of � ve � nalists for trip to space

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UNH graduate John Herman has emerged from a pool of nearly 50,000 applicants to become one of � ve � nalists in the Space Race 2012 contest. The winner of the competition will win a trip to outer space.

By CONNOR CLERKINSTAFF WRITER

A UNH alum could soon be on his way to space. John Herman, class of 2000, is among fi ve fi nalists in a contest the Seattle

Space Needle is sponsoring to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The grand prize: a trip to space.

The Space Race 2012 contest was announced in August 2011, and had an initial applicant pool

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SPACE RACE: BYtheNUMBERS

50,000 original applicants for the Space Race 2012 contest.

1,000 applicants randomly picked to advance to round two.

20 applicants selected for round three based o� short video submissions.

5 � nalists selected by voters to travel to Seattle for � nal testing before one will be chosen.

It’s been a consistent attack on women’s access to health services.”

Jeanne ShaheenU.S. senator (NH-R)

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• Fourteenth Biannual Boul-dering Competition, Hamel Recreation Center, 7 p.m. - 10 p.m.

• MCBS Visiting Scholar - Dr. Congfen He, Spaulding G70, 4:10 p.m. - 5 p.m.

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said. “A lot of people are afraid to call the cops. It just allows for a new, discreet avenue to send infor-mation to police.”

When the app is opened, the user has the option to report one of nine different crimes along with video, photo and audio evidence; all of the information is sent to the lo-cal police station’s email.

“It takes about four to eight seconds for the dispatcher to re-ceive the email,” Pahlevani said. “That’s close to a 911 call.”

While the application can give local authorities more evidence of a crime scene and takes the same amount of time as a phone call, Pahlevani made it clear that it is not meant to replace 911; Crime Push is simply an alternative to it.

Having the ability to send pho-to, video and audio files to police at any time presents a large risk factor for fake reports, and the develop-ment team behind Crime Push is

fully aware of this. To counteract the threat of fake

reports, Crime Push implemented a GPS system into the app. This means that police will be able see where the user sent the report from, and if it matches up to the alleged crime.

As the app becomes more popular, Pahlevani expects that these kinds of problems will pres-ent themselves, but he claimed they have not had any issues thus far.

Since its creation in early Feb-ruary, the app has been downloaded over 50,000 times. It is currently being used and tested in states in-cluding Texas, Illinois, California, New Hampshire, and various uni-versities, giving 2.2 million people

access to Crime Push.UNH will soon be one of the

universities that will have access to the app. Paul Dean, UNH execu-tive director of public safety, stated that reporting a crime in a timely manner is essential in successfully enforcing the law, and expressed great interest in using Crime Push on campus.

“If there is technology avail-able that will improve the safety of the campus community and increase the reporting of crime then I want to test and evaluate it,” Dean said.

In order for a county or univer-sity to use Crime Push, the local po-lice station must be integrated with the app, which is a two- to three-week process. The decision to add UNH to the growing list of users was just recently made, so there is no set date as to when students will be able to download it. However, as the school year comes to a close, Dean wants to get UNH Crime Push up and running as soon as possible.

“It’s going to start to get busy really quick with this warm weath-er,” Dean said. “We want to get this rolling as soon as we can.”

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According to UNH spokes-woman Erika Mantz, 82 staff mem-bers and 28 faculty members took the packages, freeing up $11.3 mil-lion. The 21 layoffs save another $1.6 million, she said.

The university’s Cooperative Extension office took the hardest hit, with eight layoffs. The office serves as a link between the univer-sity and the rest of the state, with programs aimed at conserving land, water and open space, strengthening the agricultural, forest and marine industries and assisting individuals, families and communities through various education programs.

Four staff members in the Col-lege of Life Sciences and Agricul-ture also have been laid off, along with two UNH Police employees. One position in each in the follow-ing departments or offices also has been eliminated: College of Liberal Arts, Whittemore School of Busi-ness and Economics, the office of

Inclusive Excellence, campus din-ing, transportation, the veterinary diagnostic lab, and the alumni as-sociation.

State funding amounts to 7 percent of the university’s $419 million operating budget for the current fiscal year, down from 13 percent the previous year. Dur-ing his state of the university ad-dress in September, Huddleston said lawmakers are “determined to transform us from a state-support-ed university to one that is simply state-located.”

Since then, lawmakers have taken further steps to reduce fund-ing. The House is considering a bill that would eliminate the chancel-lor’s office that oversees UNH and the state’s other public colleges. Proponents say the office, with its roughly 70 employees, is an un-necessary layer of bureaucracy and that savings could be used to keep tuition rates in check.

At UNH, the total cost for in-state students, including room and board, will increase 6 percent, to just over $26,000 for the next aca-demic year.

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of roughly 50,000. From this pool, 1,000 were randomly selected to enter videos detailing why they deserve to win. Out of these, the 20 best were selected to have their videos put on Facebook for voting.

Herman, a Newmarket resi-dent, is one of these 20. On Mon-day he discovered he was going to be one of five flown to Seattle for a series of mental and physical tests. The overall winner who will be sent

to space will be selected based off the tests and performances in Se-attle.

Herman initially applied for the contest on a whim.

“I saw an ad online and submit-ted my name and email,” he said. “I had forgotten about it when I got the notice a few months later that I had made the next round.”

A writer, teacher and social media aficionado, Herman said in his video submission that the main reason he wants to go into space is because, “I want to keep instilling in [my son] that fantastic notion that our world is filled with limitless op-

portunity.” He later added, “Also, it’s space.”

Herman has participated in various events for charity in recent years, such as shaving his head and beard to raise money for St. Bal-drick’s Foundation, which helps fund research for children’s cancer. He uses social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ to bring attention to such events, and believes that social media was the biggest help to his campaign for support during the voting period.

“It was very humbling to see people so excited,” Herman said. “It was surreal and strange.”

He was also excited about his selection by voters to be in the top five candidates. The candidates have not been told what the Seattle tests will entail, but Herman said that because there is no age require-ment for candidates, the tests have to be fair. In other words, they will have to be equally challenging for a 20- or 60-year-old contestant. This means that there is no clear path for preparation, according to Herman. He has started running, though, and a local karate studio offered to train him for the tests.

Although the adventure has worked out so far, Herman almost

didn’t submit a video for the last part of the contest.

His video did not rely on flashy CGI or animation, but rather simple shots of him reading to his son and playing with him outside while a voiceover spoke about the contest. The approach clearly appealed to voters, and now Herman, who when younger pictured himself travel-ing through space in science fiction scenarios, will travel to Seattle to compete in a filmed series of tests to determine which lucky winner will be going into space.

“I thought there was no chance I’d win,” he said.

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in contraceptive policy will not af-fect them, according to Kathleen Grace-Bishop, director of education and promotion at UNH Health Ser-vices.

Earlier this month in Washing-ton, an amendment was proposed by Senator Roy Blunt, a Missouri Republican, that would expand conscience exemptions to the Obama administration’s new birth control coverage rule, which states that only churches are fully exempt from providing contraceptive cov-erage through insurance plans for employees. However, organizations such as Catholic charities, schools, universities, and hospitals can re-fuse to provide contraceptive cov-erage through their insurance plans for employees, the Washington Post reported.

The U.S. Senate rejected the Blunt amendment a motion that would have allowed religious groups and any employer with re-ligious objections to opt out of not only contraceptive coverage, but also any health service required by the 2010 health care law.

Jeanne Shaheen, U.S. Senator for New Hampshire, sees the pro-posed extension of religious ex-emptions, along with the fact that Republican presidential candi-dates have made the issue of birth control a key part of their recent

speeches as not only an assault on women’s health care, but as a po-litical play.

“Election year politics have been at work here, which is why the House has taken up the issue in state,” Shaheen said. “It’s been a consistent attack on women’s ac-cess to health services.”

Shaheen voted against the Blunt Amendment. She said it would have opened a Pandora’s box, affecting women, families and children, and that it would be det-rimental to the health care system.

Changes in the health care law have potential to affect over a mil-lion college and graduate students. More than 80,000 students in the U.S. are covered by school health care plans that are mandated by the health care law, which includes the birth control rule, according to the Washington Post.

At UNH, the Student Health Benefit Plan is not mandated to conform to Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act guidelines, which assure Americans quality ac-cess to affordable health care under the health care law. However, the SHBP design for the 2012-2013 year will cover contraceptives at no cost to the student, according to Cindy McGahey, director of fi-nance and administration at UNH Health Services.

Currently, students who are covered by the UNH SHBP pay a co-payment for birth control. They are at no risk for discontinued con-traceptive coverage, regardless of

the political climate in Washing-ton, and contraceptives will remain available to all students at UNH, Grace-Bishop said.

This month in Concord, the House voted to allow employers with religious objections to exclude contraceptive coverage from their health plans, the Associated Press reported.

Shaheen was not surprised by the vote because the House is Re-publican-controlled.

Republican House Speaker William O’Brien, a Catholic, began championing the exemption after the federal government issued a rule requiring health insurance compa-nies to provide contraceptives to employees of religious organiza-tions, according to the Associated Press.

The law requires contraceptive coverage under insurers’ prescrip-tion drug policies. When the state decided the law in 1999, it passed with broad bipartisan support and little objection from the Catholic Church, who, along with other reli-gious organizations, would not have to bear the cost. It would be covered by the insurance companies, who would rather pay to prevent preg-nancy than cover the cost to support a child for 18 years, Shaheen said.

“I think the concerns about religious liberty have already been addressed,” she said. “It should be based on what’s good for women and families, not politics.”

Shaheen said that women need access to family planning and wom-

en’s health care that is not limited to birth control.

“Last year, the House tried, for the first time in the history, to list Planned Parenthood as an organi-zation that should not get funded,” she said. “Sixteen thousand women in New Hampshire get care from Planned Parenthood.”

Zorn shares many of Shaheen’s sentiments regarding women’s health.

“On a national scale, there is a misunderstanding,” Zorn said. “The country has this impression that birth control is for people who want to have frivolous sex and not have babies. Obviously that’s not the case.”

She said that it’s not just about preventing pregnancies, and that she sympathizes with Sandra Fluke, a law student at Georgetown Uni-versity who spoke out about wom-en’s access to birth control, and in return was called a slut by Rush Limbaugh, a conservative media personality.

“It’s misogynistic, woman-hating and voyeuristic,” Zorn said.

Nearly 40 percent of female college students are on the pill, ac-cording to the American College Health Association; and according to the National Survey of Family Growth, 14 percent of women us-ing oral contraceptives do so for reasons other than preventing preg-nancy.

“I have a hard time believing that birth control is going to be ef-fective in treating health problems,”

Ryan Burke, UNH student and member of Christian Impact, said.

He believes that it’s a woman’s choice whether or not to use contra-ception, but would rather not pay for something he does not support.

“With the New Hampshire spirit, ‘Live Free or Die,’ I don’t believe the government should be placing mandates on people as to what they can or can’t do or what they have to provide as an em-ployer,” Burke said. “I don’t think we should be mandating people to pay for someone else’s contracep-tion.”

Burke also sees it as an excuse that allows people to avoid taking responsibility for their actions and does not think contraceptive cover-age is a human right.

“Contraception in and of itself isn’t wrong,” he said. “But it doesn’t hold people accountable for their actions. We live in an age where people don’t have discipline.”

Burke is concerned that the government is taking away his right to decide how to spend his money by taxing him for contraceptive coverage, but Shaheen thinks that if the government does not mandate contraceptive coverage, they would be taking away a woman’s right to affordable health care.

“I think it’s about making sure all women have access to health care regardless of who they are, where they live, their insurance,” she said. “It is a personal decision to be made by women, not by the government.”

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It takes four to eight seconds for the dispatch-er to receive the email. That’s close to a 911 call.”

Eman PahlevaniCreator of Crime Push

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By JIM HADDAINFoster’s Daily Democrat

PORTSMOUTH — Cuts to higher education and public schools were among the concerns raised Wednesday by New Hamp-shire Gov. John Lynch during his final address to the Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce.

Lynch, who is finishing the final year of his fourth term in of-fice, called attention to diminish-ing support for public education in the Legislature during a breakfast

gathering at the Sheraton Ports-mouth Harborside Hotel on Mar-ket Street.

Lynch said he’s encouraging lawmakers to give deeper con-sideration before changing long-standing programs in the state, moves that threaten to move New Hampshire backward.

“We have a strategy,” he said, “a strategy here in New Hampshire that works, just like you and your businesses.”

Recapitulating themes from

his statewide address in January, Lynch called on the Legislature to find funding for the state uni-versity system, and for lawmak-ers to work toward restoring civil discourse in the State House. The Democratic governor also re-newed his call for the Legislature to reach compromise on a consti-tutional amendment that will allow lawmakers to target aid for public school districts based on need.

After seven years in office, Lynch enjoys high approval rat-ings, and the Democratic gover-nor ticked off a list of positive economic markers, such as a rela-tively low state unemployment rate, compared with the rest of the country.

He also noted that the state has an average dropout rate of only 1 percent. He credited the success, in part, to a recent regu-latory change that increased the dropout age from 16 to 18. Lynch said on a local level, teachers and administrators are crafting innova-tive programs, and career techni-cal education is on the rise.

Lynch said a recent 50 per-cent cut to the university system makes higher education less ac-cessible and less affordable for New Hampshire students. UNH students graduate with an average debt load of more than $30,000, the governor said - a higher fig-ure than students who graduate from nearby schools, such as Bos-ton College, Boston University, Northeastern University, and Dart-

mouth College.“To me, education is basi-

cally about opportunity,” Lynch said. “... The opportunity that we offer to our children to have bet-ter lives; the opportunity that we offer to them to get good jobs, to go on to higher education if that’s what they choose to do; to be able to provide for themselves and their families. And I certainly believe that in New Hampshire, all of our children deserve the opportunity to get a better education, regardless of where they live, regardless of their economic background.”

Lynch also devoted a portion of his remarks Wednesday to the state’s job-creation efforts, which include training approximately 12,000 workers through education programs and grants.

The state has also attracted a major company — Albany Inter-national — to set up operations in Rochester. Last year, Albany Engi-neered Composites, a subsidiary of Albany International, announced it will expand its present facility on Airport Drive, adding more than 500 new jobs over the next several years and relocating its corporate headquarters from Albany, N.Y., to Rochester.

Lynch also highlighted Green Launching Pad, an initiative that connects entrepreneurs with UNH students and staff who have ex-pertise in technical, scientific and business fields, in hopes of helping start-up companies grow. The pro-gram also aims to link new compa-nies with private equity firms and investors. The companies assisted by the Launching Pad program have a track record of adding jobs, Lynch said.

To assist the state’s approxi-mately 30,000 unemployed work-ers, the governor said the state has created a program that allows peo-ple to work in six-week temporary positions, to get a foot in the door

and make the case they’d be valu-able employees.

“We’re doing a lot, in terms of trying to get people back to work, trying to keep our unemployment rate down,” he said. “And that’s what our focus, by the way, should be. We should be talking about jobs and the economy.”

Lynch also highlighted a slate of highway, turnpike and bridge work completed or under way in the region, including the replace-ment of Memorial Bridge, the widening of Spaulding Turnpike and the construction of a new Lit-tle Bay Bridge span, on track for completion in 2013.

Lynch said newly installed open-road tolling in Hampton, which allows drivers with electronic transponders to zip through tolls, has proved one of the most popular im-provements undertaken in the area.

Lynch called on the Legisla-ture to consider options for funding the $365 million needed to com-plete the widening of Interstate 93 north of Exit 3 to Manchester. Lynch said he supported the state’s prior $30 surcharge on automobile registrations and renewals, which was discontinued last year. Lynch said he’s expressed a willingness to sit down and talk about other options with Legislature, but has received little reciprocation.

“I think they’d like to see the widening of Interstate 93, but don’t want to pay for it,” he said. “And you, in the business world, know that can’t happen.”

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Governor John Lynch gives his State of the State Address at a Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce breakfast held at the Sheraton Harborside Hotel Wednesday morning.

To me, education is basically about op-portunity.”

John LynchGovernor

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Not only does UNH President Mark Huddleston oversee the in-stitution while on campus, but he also travels around the country and, most recently, the world, to main-tain and enhance the quality of the university.

“A large part of presidency is being the face of the university and reaching out and connecting with people, whether they be alumni, lo-cal and state governments, or other higher education organizations,” Huddleston said.

While Huddleston served as president at Ohio Wesleyan Uni-versity (2004-2007), he travelled an estimated 40 percent of the time. Here at UNH, he travels an estimat-ed 15 - 20 percent of the time, and he aims to increase this trend.

Huddleston explained that the other institutions in the Uni-versity System of New Hampshire (USNH) - Plymouth State, Keene State and Granite State College - often hold meetings in Concord to coordinate travel and budgets and the like. Huddleston feels, how-ever, that it is important to increase his travel time.

“I think that my traveling is more valuable to UNH than spend-ing time in Concord,” Huddleston said.

Erika Mantz, UNH director of media relations, also connects Pres-ident Huddleston, and thus UNH, to local media outlets such as Foster’s Daily Democrat, The Nashua Tele-graph, The Portsmouth Herald, The Union Leader, and others.

Huddleston met with the news station WMUR in Manchester to discuss the research being done by the university.

Though reaching out to the local media is essential, travel is as well. Three of the main reasons that Huddleston travels, most re-cently to Australia and New Zea-land, were to foster university ad-vancement, research study abroad and recruitment initiatives, and to investigate UNH’s premiere study abroad program, EcoQuest.

“University advancement,” as Huddleston called it, entails fund-raising endeavors, alumni commu-nications and visiting prospective donors, both old and new.

Another main concern of ad-ministration is increasing both domestic and international diver-sity, an endeavor that is being as-sisted by partnership with Navi-tas, a global educational company based in Australia that works with schools to recruit diversity and provide a bridge program for in-ternational students. Recruited stu-dents are nurtured in small class-rooms, their math and language

skills are cultivated and are then able to more seamlessly transfer into their second year at UNH.

Currently about 70 interna-tional students study at the uni-versity, and Huddleston estimates that with the help of Navitas and other such companies, that num-ber could ultimately increase to a 10 percent international student population.

“The main reason as to the lack of international diversity is that it hasn’t been a part of the con-versation here,” Huddleston said. “We have a fair number of inter-national graduate students, but as far as undergraduates go, we have a few hockey players from Canada and that is about it.”

Mantz commented that one of the other obstacles in increasing international diversity is in finding and recruiting international stu-dents.

“That’s why we partner with programs like Navitas, and have a solid system in place that operates cost effectively and intelligently,” Mantz said.

Huddleston set out to dis-cover ways in which to increase the amount of diversity. He vis-ited many Australian universities (mainly those in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne), such as Mac-quarie University - one of the top 10 schools in the country, and a

longtime partner of Navitas. Hud-dleston returned from his investi-gative look at Navitas’ programs “ecstatic.”

“I came back with complete confidence that this is a solid cor-poration with which to partner,” he said.

As for the lack of domestic diversity, Huddleston attributes it to the largely homogenous popu-lation in New Hampshire and the surrounding New England states.

“We’ve made some improve-ment, but we still have a long way to go,” he said. “We do have clear goals and a solid institutional com-mitment to advancement.”

Huddleston, Mantz and the rest of the administration are also committed to encouraging and enabling UNH students to study abroad.

EcoQuest, an environmental

program based in New Zealand, is one such way that UNH stu-dents can do so. There were about 24 students involved this past se-mester, many from UNH, and also from other schools such as the University of Virginia, University of Michigan and Cornell Univer-sity.

EcoQuest is a program that, in Huddleston’s opinion, deserves more recognition due to the valu-able experience it provides stu-dents. There are many issues that overlap in both New Zealand and New Hampshire, such as a com-mitment to sustainability, and Huddleston is “keen to see how it’s possible to enrich and deepen these relationships.”

“Central to our strategic plan is to make the campus more inter-national, global and cosmopoli-tan,” he said.

Where in the world is Mark Huddleston?Huddleston goes abroad to research diversity initiatives for UNH

By WILSON RINGaSSociated PreSS

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - A 93-year-old anti-nuclear activist was among scores of protesters ar-rested at the corporate headquar-ters of the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant Thursday, the first day of the plant’s operation after the ex-piration of its 40-year license.

Frances Crowe, of Northamp-ton, Mass., said she wants Vermont Yankee to cease operations because she feels it’s a threat to the people who live nearby.

“As I was walking down, all I could think of was Fukushima and the suffering of all the people, and I don’t want that to happen to New England,” said Crowe in referring to the Japanese nuclear reactor damaged last year after an earth-quake and tsunami.

When asked how many times she’d been arrested, she answered: “Not enough.”

A heavy police presence and ropes blocked off access to the of-fices in Brattleboro. The arrests were made calmly and without any confrontation, with obvious signs that protesters and police had worked out the logistics before-hand. A company spokesman said work continued as normal at the plant 10 miles south in Vernon.

“We greatly appreciate the backing of our supporters and re-spect the rights of opponents to peacefully protest,” said a state-

ment issued by company spokes-man Larry Smith. “Inside the gates, our employees will not be distract-ed. As it is every day, their focus on safety will be laser sharp.”

A crowd estimated at more than 1,000 gathered in a down-town Brattleboro park before they marched the 3 miles to the head-quarters. Some marched on stilts. Others with painted faces carried signs that read “hell no, we won’t glow.” Many chanted: “Shut it down.”

Gov. Peter Shumlin was sym-pathetic to the protesters.

“I am very supportive of the peaceful protesters gathered today in Brattleboro to express their - and my - frustration that this ag-ing plant remains open after its agreed-upon license has expired,” he said.

In a coordinated action in New Orleans, the headquarters of Vermont Yankee’s parent compa-ny, Entergy Nuclear, another group of seven activists were arrested af-ter they went into the building and refused to leave, police said. The Journal News reported that five others also were arrested at En-tergy offices in White Plains, N.Y.

Loyola University law pro-fessor Bill Quigley said the New Orleans protesters live near the Vermont plant and traveled to Loui-siana to request a meeting with En-tergy CEO J. Wayne Leonard. They didn’t get that meeting before they were arrested.

Scores arrested in Vermont Yankee power plant protest

The New HampshireFriday, March 23, 20126 NEWS

Learn How to Become a certified organic farmer!Seeds to Sale: An apprenticeship opportunity is being held

at a local farm only 7 miles from campus in the months March thru May. Credits towards UNH are available from

this class under Plant Biology 600 Field Experience, or Environmental Conservation majors can complete their Internships or Practicum hours for credit.

a workshop describing this class will be held in mUB 203 on tUesday, marcH 27tH, from 6:30-7:30

Classes will be held up to 7 days a week. Structure your own class schedule, the more time spent on the farms, the more you will learn. Classes will cover: purchasing seeds, greenhouse work and construction, managing fields, farmers markets (which start May 5th), crop production and storage, garden layout, crop rotation, companion planting, how to be USDA Certified Organic, chicken farming for egg and meat birds, how to operate and care for tractors and equipment, season extension techniques, and

more! The apprenticeship will be taught by Charlie Reid who has been growing veggies without chemicals since 1968, and helped

put together the UNH Organic Garden Club in 2003. The cost per student is $500. This class is available as a non-credit class and also students can work off the $500 fee at $8 per hour spent working as

an internship at both farms.

for more info contact by email or phone; charliereid@ttlc.net or 679-8101

By CORINNE HOLROYDStaff Writer

Some students might ease into their freshman year by perusing different clubs and

organizations on campus. First-year senator Bryan Merrill is not one of those students. He started working toward becoming part of student senate as soon as he could.

“I looked right into it. I looked up senate because I was very interested in it and right from the start I chose trying to be a first-year senator,” Merrill said. “It’s kind of a prestigious position among first years because it’s an elected position.”

Merrill, a political science major adding the international affairs dual major next year, ex-plained that his high school student government was not as active, and he wants students to have more of a say in what happens to the university.

To start this, he has proposed many of the resolutions student senate has made this year.

“I want to make sure stu-dents have a voice on this cam-

pus, and one of the reasons that a lot of those resolutions were really wide-reaching is because they’re to increase the power of students,” he said. “When you create those connections you’re getting your voice out. From that you get a lot of respect and a lot of exposure, and once you have respect, exposure and connec-tions, that’s where you really get political power.”

The resolutions Merrill helped pass include the Larkin Resolution, in which senate called on professor Edward Larkin to resign.

Larkin was arrested for inde-cent exposure in 2009 for exposing himself to a mother and her daugh-ter in a Market Basket parking lot in Milford.

Merrill explained that the incident not only damaged the university’s reputation, but affected donations and endowments coming into the school.

He also put forward the sen-

ate’s resolution to oppose House Bill 1264, which – according to Merrill and the New Hampshire House Judiciary Committee – could have allowed potential

discrimination against same-sex couples and other groups based on religious belief.

“It’s poorly written and discriminatory in many different ways,” Merrill said. “Afterwards it was killed in the House, so they did go on our side.”

Over spring break, Merrill testified against House Bill 1692, which would, as stated in the bill, “[eliminate] the office of the chan-cellor of the University System of New Hampshire and [transfer] all powers and duties of the chancel-lor to the board of trustees of the University System of New Hamp-shire.” The bill would also reduce the number of student trustees on the board.

“This is the big thing I was advocating against: it reduces the amount of student reps on the board of trustees, which is a powerhouse of making big deci-

sions,” Merrill said. “There’s a lot of issues with [the bill] that would make it so that [University System of New Hampshire] administrative jobs would have to go to individual universities and there wouldn’t be as much cooperation, and it would financially cost us through reduction of bond ratings, loss of efficiency and replication of decen-tralized positions.”

Merrill wants to continue working on social justice and diversity issues over the next few years, and has started to work to make changes.

“I’m working on adding in that student senators have diversity experience, so that they can better address the student needs of the more minority groups along with the rest of their constituents,” he said.

Merrill also said that he is planning on running for the Student

Activity Fee Committee chair, which has roles both in SAFC and in student senate.

Eventually Merrill wants to take his experience to an interna-tional level.

“I actually want to be an am-bassador, so I’m just getting a lot of experience in trying to improve institutions I’m involved with along the way, not only for experi-ence but for everyone’s benefit,” he said.

Merrill is currently working on making student senate a more influential force for the students and the university.

“There’s not really that much of a student voice and because of that there’s no connect. External groups see UNH only as an entity. They don’t realize that there’s 15,000 people – students – here, and decisions they make affect all of us.”

Freshman student senator wastes no time taking action

I want to make sure students have a voice on this campus and one of the reasons that a lot of those resolutions were really wide-reaching is because they’re to increase the power of students.”

Bryan MerrillFreshman student senator

“

COURTESY

Bryan Merrill (third from the right) is a first-year student senator and has already started working on numerous proposals and resolutions.

NH Brief

CONCORD, N.H. - The New Hampshire Senate has approved exploring leasing ski operations to a private vendor at the state-owned Cannon Mountain.

The Senate voted by voice Wednesday to pass a bill requiring the Department of Resources and Economic Development to develop a master plan for Cannon Mountain

and Franconia State Park.If passed, it must include plans

for natural preservation, increas-ing park access and increasing rev-enue. The process would have to include a discussion about leasing Cannon’s ski operations, and the department would have to make a plan for Cannon Mountain to be-come self-sufficient.

Senate orders master plan from Cannon MountainaSSociated PreSS

CONCORD, N.H. - A database to track the prescribing and dispens-ing of certain pharmaceuticals has passed the New Hampshire Senate

in an effort to combat prescription drug abuse.

The database would track when often abused drugs like Ritalin, Ad-derall or Vicodin are prescribed and distributed, and to whom. Support-

ers say tracking these substances will allow doctors to see if a patient has been “shopping” around the area to acquire or fill prescriptions for the same medication.

NH prescription tracking database approved

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By LYNNE TUOHYASSOCIATED PRESS

MANCHESTER, N.H. - A judge set bail at $1 million on Thursday for a 22-year-old man charged with attempted murder in the shooting of a police offi cer in Manchester.

Police said Myles Webster of Litchfi eld is accused of shooting Offi cer Daniel Doherty, who was on duty Wednesday night, with a handgun on the city’s West Side. Prosecutors said Doherty was in-volved in a foot chase around 6:30 p.m., and shortly thereafter, police received reports of shots fi red and that Doherty had been hit.

Prosecutor Maureen O’Neil said 15 rounds were fi red, and that Webster “essentially emptied his weapon.” Doherty, 25, suffered multiple gunshot wounds - fi ve in the legs and torso - and remained in serious, but stable condition at Catholic Medical Center, where he underwent surgery.

Doherty’s parents and scores

of police offi cers attended Web-ster’s arraignment. In January, Doherty and another offi cer were given an Honorable Service Award by the police department for pre-venting an armed robbery in No-vember.

“Anybody that knows him knows he is a very strong young man,” Manchester Police Chief Da-vid Mara said at a news conference Thursday afternoon.

Mara described Doherty as a well-liked, hard-working offi cer. He declined to discuss Doherty’s condition other than to say it hadn’t changed.

“He has his family gathered around him. He has his Manches-ter Police Department family gath-ered around him,” Mara said.

A police spokeswoman said Doherty’s family did not want to comment following the arraign-ment. Doherty joined the depart-ment three years ago. He is a na-tive of Allston, Mass.

“My thoughts and prayers, and those of my wife Susan, are

with Offi cer Doherty and his en-tire family at this time,” Gov. John Lynch said in a statement. “We pray for his quick and full recov-ery.”

Defense attorney John New-man said the bail was excessive and he is prepared to challenge that at an April 4 hearing for Webster. Judge Gregory Michael agreed to the state’s bail request based on Webster’s criminal record and na-ture of the current offense.

According to federal court records, Webster pleaded guilty in October 2010 to a charge of con-spiracy to make a false statement

during a fi rearms purchase and was sentenced to 13 months in federal prison, plus six months in a half-way house. Police said he tried to pay others to buy guns for him at Riley’s Sport Shop in Hooksett and from Great Northern Sports Center in Derry.

In June 2011, he was accused of walking away from a residential re-entry center in Boston. He was sentenced in October to six months in prison. He was released from federal prison on Jan. 5, six months after he was arrested for leaving the halfway house.

In 2008, he was charged with an armed robbery in Manches-ter, but a Corrections Department spokesman said he had no back-ground on the case.

Wednesday’s shooting was the fi rst shooting of an offi cer in the city since Michael Briggs was killed in the line of duty in 2006. In that case, Michael Addison was found guilty of fi rst-degree murder in 2008 and was sentenced to death. His sentence is being appealed.

TNH “THE TNH” IS REDUNDANT

Bail set at $1M for man in NH o� cer shooting

Prosecutor Maureen O’Neil said 15 rounds were � red, and that Webster “essentially emptied his weap-on.”

By WILL WEISSERTASSOCIATED PRESS

SAN ANTONIO - Presiden-

tial candidate Rick Santorum on Thursday said Republicans should give President Barack Obama an-other term if Santorum isn’t the GOP nominee and for a second day compared rival Mitt Romney to an Etch A Sketch toy.

Santorum reiterated an argu-ment he has made before: The for-mer Massachusetts governor is not conservative enough to offer vot-ers a clear choice in the fall elec-tion and that only he can provide that contrast.

“You win by giving people a choice,” Santorum said during a campaign stop in Texas. “You win by giving people the opportunity to see a different vision for our country, not someone who’s just going to be a little different than the person in there.”

Santorum added: “If they’re going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk of what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate for the future.”

Santorum was referencing Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom’s comment Wednesday that “every-thing changes” for the fall cam-paign. “It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch,” he said on CNN. “You can kind of shake it up and we start all over again.”

The remark reignited criti-cism of Romney as the type of pol-itician who will say or do anything to win.

Romney, who made no public appearances Thursday, issued a statement expressing disappoint-

ment “that Rick Santorum would rather have Barack Obama as pres-ident than a Republican.”

“This election is more im-portant than any one person. It is about the future of America,” he said. “Any of the Republicans run-

ning would be better than Presi-dent Obama and his record of fail-ure.”

Rival Newt Gingrich tweeted: “Rick Santorum is dead wrong. Any GOP nominee will be better than Obama.”

Santorum: Might as well vote for Obama over Romney in 2012 presidential election

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Members of Dover Youth to Youth protest tobacco use on Thompson Hall on Wednesday. From right are Nick Schloth-Martinez, Dylan Haus, Nate Stewart, Josh Stenson and Zack Marsh.

Middle schoolers protest against tobacco

By JAMIE STENGLEAssociAted Press

DALLAS - At least five high-ranking executives with the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity have resigned in the after-math of the organization’s decision to eliminate its funding for Planned Parenthood.

The departures include three officials from Komen’s Dallas head-quarters, as well as CEOs of affili-ate groups in Oregon and New York City. The chairman of the founda-tion also stepped down from his post, though he will remain on the board. Although some cited person-al reasons, the resignations suggest that Komen is still in turmoil, even after reversing course and restoring the money to Planned Parenthood.

Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun said she could not speak to individuals’ reasons for leaving but acknowledged the effects of the con-troversy among supporters.

“Obviously, we know some folks are upset. We’ve certainly seen that,” Aun said. “We know people have been upset by recent events, but most really do recognize the im-portance of our work.”

The resignations began about a month ago. Chris McDonald, ex-ecutive director and chief execu-tive of the organization’s Oregon and southwest Washington affili-ate, announced that she’ll leave at the end of April. She said her deci-sion wasn’t “predicated by any one event,” but that actions by national headquarters affected her thinking.

“Despite our deep frustration about the distraction that our organi-zation headquarters’ actions caused, I was proud that our affiliate took a strong stand against the politiciza-tion of the fight to improve women’s health,” McDonald said in a Feb. 25 statement posted on the organiza-tion’s website.

One board member for Mc-Donald’s affiliate, Portland attor-ney Jennifer Williamson, rejoined the board after stepping down last month to put pressure on the nation-al organization. She couldn’t walk away from the local Komen work to expand access to women’s health care, she said.

“As a local affiliate we could push back on them but we couldn’t do anything about it,” said William-son, who is also on the Planned Par-enthood board and is a Democratic candidate for the state Legislature. “I did what I had the ability to do, which was resign from the board. But to support the mission ... I re-joined the board.”

News emerged in late January that Komen had decided to stop giv-ing money to Planned Parenthood for breast-screening services be-cause Planned Parenthood was the focus of a congressional investiga-tion launched at the urging of anti-abortion activists. After a three-day firestorm of criticism, Komen de-cided to restore the money.

Some Komen affiliates, in-cluding McDonald’s, were among those that publicly opposed the policy change that cut off grants for Planned Parenthood.

In the days after the reversal, Komen policy chief Karen Handel resigned. She had opposed abor-tion as a Republican candidate for Georgia governor and had become a target of those angry about the decision to halt funding to Planned Parenthood.

In Dallas, the three resignations were Katrina McGhee, executive vice president and chief market-ing officer; Nancy Macgregor, vice president of global networks; and Joanna Newcomb, director of affili-ate strategy and planning.

McGhee announced in Febru-ary that she would be leaving May 4 “for personal reasons” and because

it was “time to make a change.”McGregor will leave in June,

and Newcomb departed at the end of February. The Associated Press left messages Thursday for McGhee and Macgregor. Newcomb declined to comment.

Dr. LaSalle D. Leffall Jr. also will step down from his post as chairman of the foundation’s board of directors as of March 31, but he will remain on the board, Aun said. His decision, which was finalized at a Thursday board meeting, comes as he is “stepping back a bit” from the board due to his responsibili-ties is his role as provost at Howard University, she said. Leffall did not immediately return messages from the AP.

Dr. Dara Richardson-Heron, CEO of Komen’s New York City affiliate, said Tuesday that she will leave April 27. Her affiliate was also critical of the Planned Parenthood decision, but she did not cite that in a letter posted on the website, saying only that she wanted to pursue “new career opportunities” and that leav-ing “was not an easy decision.”

Vern Calhoun, a spokesman for the New York affiliate, said Rich-ardson-Heron was not speaking to reporters.

Supporters of the affiliate called, emailed, tweeted and posted updates on Facebook about their concerns during those first days of February. But, Calhoun said, “things have quieted down considerably” since the decision was reversed.

Nevertheless, the office de-cided to postpone two spring fun-draising events because organizers were not certain of their ability to get donations in the “near term.” In their place, the New York opera-tion planned to hold a free breakfast event for grant recipients, support-ers, volunteers and sponsors, Cal-houn said.

Other Komen groups expect to

carry on with business as usual.The Los Angeles County af-

filiate will hold its annual race this weekend. Executive Director Mark Pilon said participation numbers are steady.

“We’re tracking right what we did last year and our corporate spon-sorship is up,” said Pilon, who took the job only a month ago.

Pilon replaced Deb Anthony, who resigned last fall. She told Los Angeles television station KNBC in February that she submitted her res-ignation notice in December “for a variety of reasons.” She said it was a coincidence that it came around the time Komen was in the spotlight.

“There are several decisions that Komen has made in the past year that have led me to decide that my skills and talents no longer fit their model,” she said in an email to KCBS television. The AP left a mes-sage Thursday seeking comment from Anthony.

Komen did not publicly an-nounce its decision to halt the grants but conveyed the news to its 100-plus U.S. affiliates. The head of Planned Parenthood has said she was informed of the decision in De-cember.

Sandra Miniutti, vice president for Charity Navigator, said that the controversy is likely to affect Ko-men’s ability to raise money. Al-though Komen is in good financial shape, the charity may have to spend considerably more money to achieve the same amount as in the past.

Her organization allows people to review charities on its website. Before the controversy erupted, there were fewer than 100 reviews of Komen. But afterward, that num-ber grew to about 700, many of them negative, she said.

Because of the way the organi-zation “flip-flopped” on its decision, it angered people on both sides of the controversy, she said.

Several executives leave Komen after controversy

By COLLEEN SLEVINAssociAted Press

DENVER - This goat-doping scandal has a happy ending - and an enduring mystery.

Two siblings, whose prize-winning goats were disqualified at the 2011 Colorado State Fair after testing positive for a banned growth stimulant, can participate in the competition this year, state fair general manager Chris Wise-man ruled Thursday.

Ben Weinroth, a minor, can compete “pursuant to his status as a member in good standing with the Colorado 4-H,” Wiseman said in a statement. Ben’s 19-year-old sister, Maggie, also was reinstated - though she’s now too old to par-ticipate in the fair’s junior compe-tition, Wiseman added.

What led to the doping of goats 501 and 507, however, re-mains a whodunit.

Ben’s goat won first place in the lightweight division, and Mag-gie’s animal was named grand

champion at the fair’s junior live-stock auction in August. But in October, the state announced that the siblings’ goats had tested posi-tive for ractopamine, a drug that promotes muscle growth.

Disqualification meant Mag-gie wouldn’t get the $5,500 her goat netted at the state fair auc-tion, and Ben wouldn’t get the $1,300 sale price for his goat. Both were barred from future livestock events at the fair.

The Weinroth family ap-pealed, insisting the goats’ feed may have been tampered with the first night of the fair. Sue Wein-roth, the siblings’ mother, said the goats got sick after eating the feed and that the fair veterinarian was called twice to care for the ani-mals.

She said her children’s names were cleared after mediation with fair officials - but that they were stunned as news of the doping scandal spread around the world.

“All you did was show up and show a goat,” she recalled saying to Ben.

Colo. fair lifts ban on boy with doped goat

In Brief

CONCORD, N.H. - The New Hampshire Senate has voted to cre-ate a commission to study a defined contribution pension plan for public employees.

Opponents to a proposed plan in February had urged legislators to study the idea further before acting, saying it would dilute public em-ployee pensions.

Unlike the current pension sys-tem that usually provides a guaran-teed amount based on years of ser-vice, the proposed plan would have operated like a 401(k) by investing employer and employee contribu-tions. The payout would be vari-able.

The bill received preliminary support in the Senate on Wednes-day. It now goes to the Finance Committee before returning to the Senate for a final vote.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP’s earlier story is below.

NH Senate orders study of public pension system

CONCORD, N.H. - A two-year moratorium on school build-ing aid may soon be lifted after a vote in the New Hampshire Senate to support a plan to focus aid on the neediest districts.

Under the proposal approved Wednesday, the state would con-tinue paying down current proj-ects, but would award new projects funding based on a priority list.

Funding would come as lump sums at the start and end of con-struction and would be paid out as available aid allowed.

NH Senate debates new school building aid plan

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By SARAH COTTONEDITORIAL ASSISTANT

What happens when you com-bine sweet, childlike guitar melo-dies with alternative hip-hop and abstract lyrics, and inject it all with raw, breathy vocals? You get Thun-der Thighs, Kimya Dawson’s new-est album, featuring Aesop Rock. It all seems like a strange mix, as most Kimya fans associate her with the bubbly, mellow sounds of the Juno movie soundtrack. But Dawson is thrilled with the collaboration.

“People thought Aesop and I wouldn’t go, wouldn’t mesh well,” Dawson said, adding that really, the two just have fun playing together.

So when Aesop and fellow hip-hop artist Rob Sonic mentioned booking a show at UNH in March, Dawson jumped at the chance to perform with her friends.

Though on the surface, their musical stylings seem starkly dif-ferent, Dawson fi nds that the trio’s songwriting methods are the same. She describes them all, including herself, as “neurotically lyrical and anxious” people.

“I write in my head, so it’s just like this constant demonic pos-session,” Dawson said, her bubbly laugh echoing off the walls of the UNH Dairy Bar. “We’re just being eaten up by words all the time. Be-tween the three of us, we’re a mile

a minute. It’s really nice to feel like, ‘Ahh, I’m not an alien,’ like I’ve found my people.”

Thunder Thighs is Dawson’s seventh album, and each song feels pretty different from the next. The singer rants about Twitter on “Mi-ami Advice,” croons about the un-certainties of being a mother on “All I Could Do,” and even sings alongside her six year-old daughter, Panda, on “I Like My Bike.” Panda makes a few appearances through-out the album, and she – along with motherhood in general – has been a major infl uence on Dawson’s work.

“The fi rst song on [Thunder Thighs], I wrote when I was preg-nant, so it was six years ago, and then songs were written right up until we were in the studio,” Daw-son said. “I feel like [Panda’s] part in my life affected how I perceive things and changes in my percep-tions. ‘Driving, Driving, Driving’ is all about seeing the world in a dif-ferent way, through Mom’s eyes.”

So how does this hip mama fi nd balance between motherhood and musicianship?

“I guess I just don’t really separate them,” she said, shrugging and tugging on the strings of her sunshine yellow hoodie. “Being a parent is totally exhausting, but you just modify and adapt.”

The same goes for Panda, who seems to have no problem adapting

to mom’s hectic touring schedule. She often travels with Dawson, and they’ve been to 14 countries to-gether, including Estonia, Australia, and New Zealand, and almost every state in the U.S.

“She’s just been around music

her whole life, and her dad’s a musi-cian,” Dawson said. “I was a super shy kid when it came to music. I never sang in front of people until I was in my 20s.”

With tattooed hands and arms sticking out of her sweatshirt, a pol-

ka dotted skirt paired with rainbow socks, and double lip rings fram-ing a wide smile, Dawson doesn’t seem like a person who could fade into the background. Her colorful personality has rubbed off on her

Kimya Dawson: beyond the Juno soundtrackOn her � rst visit to New Hampshire, the singer-songwriter talked to TNH about how music, love, and life have changed since she became a mom

COURTESY PHOTO

Kimya Dawson, pictured here with daughter Panda, performed in the Granite State Room two weeks ago.

KIMYA continued on page 10

By EJ LEECONTRIBUTING WRITER

For anyone who hasn’t heard of it, “Community” is a sitcom on NBC. It’s about a study group at a community college called Green-dale, and it’s mainly focused on the friendships that the study group slowly forms over two and a half seasons (it’s halfway through sea-son three right now). I’m going to give you a few reasons why you should check it out.

The “Community” setup is far from the average sitcom structure. Like the rest of the Thursday night lineup on NBC, there is no audience or laugh-track, and the jokes are fast-paced and intelligent. If you miss something funny, they don’t wait around for the viewer to get it; they’re already saying the next joke. You should literally watch each episode at least twice to catch everything. The humor is often

pop-culture based and at times very meta, but there is still something for everyone, because each of the main characters are so different from each other.

Because the show takes place at a community college, they are able to have main characters of all ages and backgrounds. In the pilot, the show focuses around Jeff Wing-er (Joel McHale) who is a former lawyer who was caught with a fake law degree, so he’s back at school to earn a legitimate one. Jeff is nar-cissistic, arrogant, very intelligent, and, as we slowly fi nd out, extreme-ly insecure. He forms a Spanish study group in an attempt to sleep with a girl in his class, Britta, who in any other sitcom would be a typi-cal blonde, lead female character who would have a “will they, won’t they” relationship with Jeff. Not on this show. Britta is smart and opin-ionated but very fl awed, as are the rest of the characters who join the

study group.Troy (Donald Glover), a for-

mer football star who doesn’t know who he is beyond his high school success, Annie (Alison Brie), a success-obsessed former pill addict, Shirley (Yvette Nicole Brown), a Christian with deep seated rage is-sues, Abed (Danny Pudi), who has Asperger’s and can only relate to people through movie and TV ref-erences, and Pierce (Chevy Chase), a lonely, insecure older man who is desperate to be liked and included. Sounds like a pretty unlikely group of friends, right? The show knows that, and patiently allows their friendship to develop naturally over the seasons.

Now, in season three, we’ve gotten to the point where we’re tru-ly getting to know each character’s nature and how they relate to each other. Troy and Abed now have probably the best friendship of any-one on TV. Jeff has begun to care

for people other than himself for the fi rst time in his life. I won’t go into the others, because you should re-ally just watch it for yourself.

The remarkable thing about the group is that every character is as fl awed as any real person. They’re selfi sh, manipulative, and make mistakes. That’s why it’s so easy for

the audience to relate. We all know a Jeff, or an Abed, or a Britta. I see myself in the characters and so for me the show and the fanbase be-came its own real community, as it has for many other viewers. For all its jokes and ridiculous secondary

“Community”: Six seasons and a movie

COURTESY PHOTONew episodes of “Community” air every Thursday at 8 p.m. on NBC.

COMMUNITY continued on page 11

The New HampshireFriday, March 23, 201210 ARTS

daughter, it seems. Panda already has a great ear for music, Dawson said, so it’s no wonder that she hopped in the studio to record some tracks with Mom.

But after working with family and friends from all over the mu-sical spectrum, who would be the other half of Dawson’s dream duet?

“Sadly, Whitney Houston was always my answer to that question,” Dawson said. “Maybe Dolly Parton, someone sassy like that. Or Diana Ross I love. It’s weird because all the people, the ladies that I love are vocalists, divas, but maybe that would work.”

It’s true that Dawson’s distinc-tive voice is somewhat timid, yet raw and emotive, like she’s reading pages from her diary aloud in her room. But her sounds of innocence are paired with lyrics of experience, which add a depth to her songs that hits you like a punch and sticks in your head long after the last chord fades.

So what is in store for the art-ist?

“I have no idea,” Dawson said. “I never make plans.”

She and Aesop have another album coming out in the winter, but Dawson is content to go with the fl ow, rather than pushing toward fame and fortune.

“It’s hard making music and thinking about music as a busi-ness,” she said. “The pressure that goes along with art is kind of self-defeating in some ways. I would so much rather just play a free show in a park” than worry about money-making venues and fi lling quotas.

When you have managers and booking agents who make their liv-ing off of your living, she said, there is a lot of pressure to grow and ex-pand in a way that is not always true to her.

“I’ll play for 75, I’ll play for 7,500 – I don’t care,” Dawson said. “I go into every show imag-ining that 12 people are coming ... If there’s more than 12, I’m like, ‘Cool, there’s 15 people here,’” she said with a laugh.

Her advice for young artists who worry about their future in a creative fi eld?

“Don’t think about it. ... Do what you love ... but do art.”

KIMYAcontinued from page 9

By ERIN FRICKCONTRIBUTING WRITER

When you meet someone for the fi rst time, what is your standard greeting? This isn’t something you probably spend excess time think-ing about, but if you plan on trav-eling abroad, you should. Speaking for myself, usually a hand wave—or a handshake if it’s a professional setting—is suffi cient for an intro-duction to a new person.

As time goes by, depending on if it’s a new male or female friend,

we may upgrade to a high fi ve or fi st bump. Then weeks or so later, when we become really good friends, a quick hug serves as hello. For most guys out there, the steps leading up to a “bro-hug” (the hand clasp, pull in to smack on the back, and re-lease) can take even longer. When you think about it, most greetings here at home aren’t too personal, so naturally when I was living abroad a simple social norm like saying hello to a new person was completely dif-ferent.

Most of my Spaniard friends

laughed a bit at the way we say hello, without any physical contact. A standard greeting in Spain and in most other European countries (in my experience) is for each person to introduce himself or herself, hug and kiss both cheeks. Personally I am not a big touchy-feely person, so this kind of greeting was a huge adjustment for me. Even when I met a whole group of people at once, I was expected to hug and kiss the cheeks of every single indi-vidual. The largest group I ever had to introduce myself to was 15-20 people! This greeting applies when you meet up with your friends later on as well; it’s not just a fi rst time meeting custom.

After a few weeks, I became used to the greeting but it’s just fun-ny how many personal space bound-aries exist in our culture as opposed when you are abroad, where your personal space is not something sacred to you, and people are more intimate with each other in every-day greetings. Whether or not one way has more advantages or disad-vantages than the other I cannot say, but it does serve as an interesting and funny distinction between our cultures.

Americans aren’t the only ones who experience this change. If you get the chance, search “teaching American greetings to abroad stu-dents” on YouTube. This video is of a class of international students who are going to study abroad in America being taught the Ameri-can greeting methods. It’s hysteri-cal to watch and see our greetings from this point of view, because you wouldn’t think something simple as saying hello could take on so many different roles. The only differing factor is where you are in the world at any given time, and just go along with the culture!

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Every culture has its own standards for greeting each other, whether you’re just meeting someone or you’ve known them for years. In America, people are very reserved about their personal space, but that isn’t always true of other cultures. The important thing is to observe and adjust when you’re abroad.

Taking things abroad: Hello!

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characters, the show truly has heart; it’s obvious how much the cast and crew love the world they’ve cre-ated, and that’s what makes it such an enjoyable watch.

The cleverness of the story-lines and the unbelievable detail are unparalleled. The viewers have a dialogue with the writers thanks to the magic of the Internet, and that helps create the feeling that we, the fans, are a part of this show.

In December, the show was taken off the air and put on an in-definite hiatus. They finished mak-

ing the final half of the season, and thanks to the enormous support of the fans (who used techniques like the #SixSeasonsandaMovie hashtag on Twitter to rally behind the show), NBC put it back on the air last week.

The show is still in danger of not being renewed for a fourth sea-son (which the writers have said will be the final one, as it fits with the normal four year college time-line), and only through the viewer-ship and support of the fans will that be possible.

So, I am here to ask, will you give “Community” a try? Catch it Thursday nights at 8 p.m. on NBC (channel 7), or even on Hulu the next day.

COMMUNITYcontinued from page 9

Dueling reviews: Retreat is too strangeThe psycho-thriller is available on Redbox for just $1, but is it worth the price?

By COURTNEY MILLScontributing writer

Retreat, available at Redbox, is a psychological thriller that will keep you just as paranoid as its characters. Mar-tin (Cillian Murphy) and Kate (Thandie Newton) travel to a secluded island to save their marriage. Jack (Jamie Bell) washes ashore and warns them of a deadly airborne virus spreading rapidly across the globe. Martin and Kate don’t know if they can believe him, but it mat-ters little when they become prisoners in their cottage.

As the movie progresses, Jack be-comes more aggressive and dangerous, and Martin and Kate change their own ways of communicating with Jack. By the end of the psychological journey you’re not sure what to believe, but the climax is both suspenseful and heart-breaking.

Set almost entirely in the cottage, the 90-minute film relies entirely on its talented cast. Murphy and Newton give stunning emotional performances, but it is Bell who steals the show. I have loved his acting since The Chumscrub-ber (2005), in which he plays an angsty drugged-out teen. As Jack, Bell delivers an intense performance portraying a ter-

rifying yet fragile ex-soldier. A downside of the film is that there’s

little to no emotional connection be-tween the audience and the characters. I watched the film with my good friend and fellow reviewer Arjuna Ramgopal and a few others. The others were an-noyed with Kate, who is distrustful of Jack and emotional nearly the whole of the film.

None of the characters are par-ticularly likeable, but you sympathize with their situation anyway. They’re all flawed, with grimy pasts that surface through the course of the film. There’s no established hero and arguably no vil-lain; after the dust of the twists and turns settles, the ambivalence toward the char-acters sets in.

Truth and moral ambiguity are vis-ible themes that will make you wonder what you would have done in this situa-tion and if there’s even a moral solution to be found.

Overall, Retreat is a well-crafted tragic thriller that’ll make you think. De-spite its flaws, the film is well-acted and unpredictable, suspenseful from begin-ning to end.

Final score: 3 out of 4 stars

By ARJUNA RAMGOPALstaff writer

Cillian Murphy, Jamie Bell and Thandie Newton are three gifted actors that bring their talents together in the 2011 British psycho-thriller Retreat. Un-fortunately, their talents are squandered in this 90-minute drama.

The plot is simple enough. A couple is on a small remote island off the coast of Scotland vacationing together. Things are rocky between the couple and they’re try-ing to move forward in their lives. Early in the movie a strange man, played by Ja-mie Bell, shows up on the island.

From there things get weird as he claims odd things and insists that they board up the house. There are some de-cent twists and turns along the way, but they feel manufactured and have so little set up that they feel almost random.

The characters are another bizarre part in the movie. They’re all extremely unlikeable and all have flimsy, unrealistic motivation. They come off as whiny, an-noying and almost unbelievable. I asked myself “why?” and “really?” multiple times throughout the movie.

Another pet peeve is that the movie tries to introduce all of these character complexities without any follow-through.

Only a few of them are really addressed and resolved throughout the movie, while others disappear and are never explained at all. It ties in with the characters’ moti-vations as what they do and what they say don’t always seem to match up.

The cinematography and editing techniques are different and interesting. However, sometimes the audio seemed to be a little low, no matter how much you turned the television up, and we actually had to put on subtitles to understand what the characters were saying.

I would put this in a B-movie rating. It’s not the worst thing in the world, but it’s not very good.

Shaky plot execution and weak char-acters turn an interesting premise into a bi-zarre screaming match. It might be worth a watch if the movie’s on television, but otherwise spend your hard earned money on something else.

Final score: 2 out of 4 stars

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Retreat, a 2011 British psycho-thriller, features an all-star cast: from left to right, Thandie Newton, Cillian Murphy and Jamie Bell play the three main characters. Despite the great casting choices, however, the film is strange and lacking in depth, making it a difficult film to relate to or fully enjoy. Both of TNH’s reviewers found the film unsatisfying.

The New HampshireFriday, March 23, 201212 ARTS

The Kitchenette: A Mediterranean breeze

By ERICA SIVERstaff

Oftentimes people think that there is a magical diet that will help you lose weight and be healthy. As a nutrition major, I have learned that health and weight loss are due to developing a lasting healthy life-style. There is no short magic bullet. However, many researchers believe the Mediterranean lifestyle to have one of the best diets in the world. So that is believed to be as close as you can get to a perfect diet.

What is the Mediterranean diet, you ask? It is not the diet of Greeks and Italians today, but their diet from the 1950s. During this time af-ter the war, people needed to make

do with what was available to them. So they ate seasonally, locally, and in moderation. The foods available to them were rich in nutrients and almost never processed. They had certainly never read a label and seen high fructose corn syrup or dex-trose, and they were better for it.

The main foods of the Medi-terranean diet are citrus fruits, veg-etables like eggplant, peppers, and tomatoes, lean vegetarian proteins like beans and eggs, whole grains like bulgur and whole wheat bread, small amounts of dairy, fish, wine, and lots of olive oil. Many of the health benefits are believed to come from the healthy fats in the olive oil. However, it is also understood that the benefits come from the whole

diet, not just one component.Another important area of this

diet that differs from the Western diet is the lean protein. In America, we often eat lots of red meat. The Mediterranean diet focuses mainly on beans and fish for sources of protein. These proteins are lower in saturated fats and higher in healthy fats. It is believed that the healthy fats in the diet give its follow-ers cardio-protective benefits. The fruits, vegetables, and wine provide nutrient density and antioxidants that protect against diseases like cancer.

Now onto the good part: what to do with these healthy ingredi-ents! Another aspect of the Medi-terranean diet that I think is often

overlooked is the fact that they cook and eat together. There are so many proven health benefits in taking the time to prepare a meal from scratch and savor it over conversation with people you love. The way Mediter-ranean food is prepared is also why it is so healthy. They often slow cook and don’t use much salt. The spices and herbs they use usually define each region’s food. Spices and herbs are a no-calorie way to add flavor to your food.

Simply roasting vegetables and eating them with whole-wheat pas-ta, olive oil, and a bit of Parmesan can count as Mediterranean. There are also classic recipes like bouilla-baisse, or tagine. A common dessert would be yogurt and fruit, or bak-lava for special occasions.

Try to eat more beans and fish, cook with olive oil, and eat fruits and vegetables with every meal. If you do, you’ll be on your way to be-ing more Mediterranean. Please try the Ratatouille recipe below. It is so delicious and simple!

Chickpea Salad with Lemon, Parmesan, and Fresh Herbs (Bon Appetit)

Ingredients 1 15- to 15 1/2-ounce can

chickpeas (garbanzo beans), rinsed, drained

2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil

2 tablespoons chopped fresh Italian parsley

2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

4 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil

1 small garlic clove, pressed1/3 cup (packed) freshly grated

Parmesan cheeseCoarse kosher salt

PreparationCombine rinsed and drained

chickpeas, chopped fresh basil, chopped Italian parsley, fresh lem-on juice, extra-virgin olive oil, and pressed garlic clove in medium bowl. Add grated Parmesan cheese and toss gently to blend all ingre-dients thoroughly. Season chickpea salad to taste with coarse kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Chickpea salad can be made 4 hours ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Serve salad chilled or at room tem-perature

Alice Water’s Ratatouille (The Art of Simple Food)

Ingredients1 medium or 2 small eggplant,

cut into 1/2-inch dice4 tablespoons olive oil, divid-

ed, plus more to taste2 medium onions, cut into 1/2-

inch dice4 to 6 garlic cloves, chopped1/2 bunch of basil, tied in a

bouquet with kitchen twine + 6 ba-sil leaves, chopped

pinch of dried chile flakes2 sweet peppers, cut into 1/2-

inch dice3 medium summer squash, cut

into 1/2-inch dice3 ripe medium tomatoes, cut

into 1/2-inch diceSalt to taste

PreparationToss the eggplant cubes with a

teaspoon or so of salt. Set the cubes in a colander to drain for about 20 minutes.

Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in a heavy-bottomed pot. Pat the eggplant dry, add to the pan, and cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until golden. Add a bit more oil if the eggplant absorbs all the oil and sticks to the bottom of the pan. Remove the eggplant when done and set aside.

In the same pot, pour in 2 more tablespoons olive oil. Add onions and cook for about 7 minutes, or until soft and translucent. Add the garlic, basil bouquet, dried chile flakes, and a bit more salt.

Cook for 2 or 3 minutes, then stir in peppers. Cook for a few more minutes, then stir in summer squash. Cook for a few more min-utes, then stir in tomatoes.

Cook for 10 minutes longer, then stir in eggplant and cook for 10 to 15 minutes more, until all the vegetables are soft. Remove the bouquet of basil, pressing on it to extract all its flavors, and adjust the seasoning with salt.

Stir in the chopped basil leaves and more extra virgin olive oil, to taste. Serve warm or cold.

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The Mediterranean diet of the 1950s was seasonal, local, and moderated, making it the ideal diet for anyone. Food was fresh and cooked using fresh herbs and spices, with little salt. Lean meats and healthy fats are major marks of this traditional eating style, as well as grains, wine, lots of vegetables and citrus fruits. And don’t forget the olive oil!

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By ANDREA BULFINCHFoster’s Daily Democrat

New board members were welcomed by fellow members and the public Wednesday evening as they took seats for the first time as part of the Oyster River Coopera-tive School District school board.

Maria Barth, representing Lee, was elected to serve as chair-woman of the board as she has ex-perience from her six years serv-ing with the Kittery, Maine Town Council.

“I’m here to work with the board in a positive manner,” she said as she introduced herself at the meeting. Barth said she be-lieves in conducting an orderly meeting and will do so as chair. She also said she wished to not re-hash the past in the past and, like those who spoke during public comments, a portion of the meet-ing which is now moved closer to the start of board meetings, she in-tends for the board and community to push ahead together.

“I only have one gear, and that’s moving forward,” she said.

Tom Newkirk, a UNH pro-fessor taking an at-large seat, was elected to serve as vice chairman for the board and said he would like to encourage a positive culture within the district.

“I think my strength is educa-tion,” he said and noted that build-ing connections with staff and teachers of the district is key to promoting a positive environment.

Al Howland, new member holding the Durham seat, ac-knowledged some of the chal-lenges the board has faced over recent years.

“It’s been a really rugged couple of years we’ve had here,” he said, saying that some of the is-sues that have been raised to the board have come out in explosive dialogue.

“What’s happened is I think a lot of concern or questions that people have had have been allowed to fester over time,” he said. When those concerns are raised during the public comments portion of board meetings, their expression escalates. Howland said he would like to see more forums and com-munity discussions held so topics may be raised more frequently, rather than at board meetings only.

Doing so would also allow for is-sues to be addressed and resolved more quickly, he said.

School board orientation including training on numer-ous policies, boardsmanship and the Right To Know Law is scheduled for March 26 as a special meeting open to the pub-lic, and will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Novice school board members, including prof, welcomed to first meeting in Durham

I’m here to work with the board in a positive manner.”

Maria BarthLee’s reresentative

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By JOHN SEEWERassociateD Press

TOLEDO, Ohio - In an ex-treme case of sibling rivalry, a teenage basketball player who’s the only boy among a set of qua-druplets was hoping to match the feat pulled off last week by his three sisters, who led their high school to its first state champion-ship.

But there was no Hollywood ending for the basketball-playing quadruplets.

Arlington High School, led by Thayne Recker, lost Thursday 46-37 in a state semifinal game to Ber-lin Hiland. Recker was the team’s leading scorer all season - and in the loss, finishing with 14 points.

Nonetheless, the quadruplets had already made history at their small, rural school in northwest Ohio.

Last week, Amelia, Alivia and Anessa Recker led Arlington High to its first state championship in basketball. It was also the first time the boys had gone that far.

Mom Deidre Recker - who also has basketball in her bones - and her husband had jokingly sug-gested to their son that he needed to win a state title just to keep peace in the family.

“For the next 50 years, we don’t want to hear at Christmas and Thanksgiving from the girls that we won state and you didn’t,” Deidre Recker said she told her

son.But they’re taking the boys’

loss in stride.“They’re just so happy they

made it; just to go to state is a big accomplishment,” said Deidre Recker, who played college bas-ketball at Heidelberg University in Ohio.

The quads grew up playing basketball together in Arlington, a town about 50 miles south of To-ledo. They were hooked on hoops at an early age.

“They’ve always been in the backyard pounding on each oth-er,” their mother said Wednesday. “I’ve seen them draw blood and hit each other. One would come in the house crying. But at the end of the day, they’ve always had each other’s backs.”

The rivalry among the siblings has taken a backseat their senior year as the four have pulled for one another to get to the state tour-nament in Columbus. Earlier this season, Amelia scored her 1,000th career point, and three weeks later her brother scored his 1,000th.

Amelia was the state’s Divi-sion IV co-player of the year this season, while Thayne was second-team All-Ohio.

“On the outside there’s that ri-valry there, but deep down they’re all really pulling for each other,” their father, Scott Recker, said before Thursday’s outcome. “The girls are probably more excited than anybody that the boys made it.”

Alivia, who scored 11 points in the girls’ state title victory Sat-urday, said years of playing with her siblings made for a natural ri-valry.

“I remember the bloody noses and cut lips,” she said. “It made us better.”

The girls rarely miss one of their brother’s games, so it was es-pecially tough last week for them when they were at the state tour-nament and he was playing for a chance to get there. They ended up listening to the game on their coach’s laptop at a hotel.

“I was more nervous for him listening on the radio, and even during the whole tournament, than I was before my games,” Alivia said.

Quadruplet Ohio cagers lead record-setting seasons

I’ve seen them draw blood and hit each other. One would come in the house crying. But at the end of the day, they’ve always had each other’s backs.”

Deidre ReckerMother

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In Brief

CONCORD, N.H. - The New Hampshire Senate has voted to cre-ate a commission to study a defined contribution pension plan for public employees.

Opponents to a proposed plan in February had urged legislators to study the idea further before acting, saying it would dilute public em-ployee pensions.

Unlike the current pension sys-

tem that usually provides a guaran-teed amount based on years of ser-vice, the proposed plan would have operated like a 401(k) by investing employer and employee contribu-tions. The payout would be variable.

The bill received preliminary support in the Senate on Wednesday. It now goes to the Finance Commit-tee before returning to the Senate for a final vote.

NH Senate orders study of public pension system

WAKEFIELD, N.H. - An eighth-grade girl has been accused of stabbing other students with a sharp object on a New Hampshire school bus.

Wakefield police tell WMUR-TV no one was seriously injured, but they said the girl and another student could face criminal charg-es.

Police said that after school

Thursday, the girl, who is a student at the Paul School, used a pointed object to scratch and wound three other students on the bus. Police said a second student might have encouraged the girl.

Police wouldn’t say what kind of object was used, but they said it wasn’t a knife. The bus has video surveillance, and police said they would review the tape.

NH 8th grader accused of hurting students on bus

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. - Court documents say a Vermont man ac-cused of shooting his estranged wife’s boyfriend had stalked and harassed him for weeks.

The Caledonian Record reports documents regarding 35-year-old Omar Rodriguez of St. Johnsbury were unsealed in U.S. District court.

Rodriguez is charged with

shooting and wounding Steve Rodi-mon of Woodsville, N.H., in a park-ing lot on March 6 as Rodimon was leaving work. Police say he then forced Tina Evans, who was leav-ing work with Rodimon, to drive all three in Rodimon’s vehicle. Police followed them into New Hampshire before arresting Rodriguez in Wells River.

Documents: Vt. man had stalked victim for weeks

The New HampshireFriday, March 23, 201214 NEWS

By DAVID ANDERSONContributing Writer

With literally tons of litter be-ing left behind on New Hampshire’s beaches, there is a real need for lo-cal volunteers to help clean up after the over 1 million people who visit popular seacoast destinations like Hampton Beach each year.

That’s why two local eco-minded entrepreneurs, Johnmark O’Brien of the York Harbor-based Green Maids and Nathan Johnson of Visions Kitchens and Design in Hampton, plan to celebrate Earth Day a bit early this year by orga-nizing a beach cleanup at Hamp-ton Beach on Sun., April 15, 2012. They invite local residents and visi-tors alike to come out and volunteer from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

“I take my dog for walks on these beaches and am always pick-ing up trash as we go,” O’Brien said. “It just seemed like a good idea to do more to help keep our beaches free of pollution.”

“Plus, keeping our beaches clean helps to keep our oceans clean, and we all know how important our oceans are,” added Johnson.

The duo is reaching out to lo-cal green groups like the Green Alliance and Blue Ocean Society, both headquartered in Portsmouth, to help make the beach cleanup a success.

Last September, over 1,000 volunteers turned out to pick up more than 8,000 pounds of trash as part of the annual New Hampshire Coastal Cleanup organized by the Blue Ocean Society. The tally in-cluded a mindboggling 28,109 ciga-rette butts and filters. Recognizing that success, Johnson and O’Brien plan to donate $1 to the Blue Ocean Society for each person who shows up to volunteer at their beach clean-up on April 15th, up to $500.

“Clean beaches play a big role in our local economy. I read one study that found visitors to Hamp-ton Beach spent around $175 mil-lion in a single year,” said Sarah Brown, director of the Green Alli-ance. “We’re inviting all our mem-bers to join our friends at Green Maids and Visions Kitchens as they

clean up this iconic beach.” O’Brien has plenty of experi-

ence with cleaning. Started in 2009, his company Green Maids provides residential and commercial cleaning services with a sustainable twist.

“Many of today’s traditional household cleaning products release harmful chemicals into the environ-ment,” O’Brien explained. “These chemicals often find their way into our air, water and soil when we wash them down our drains. They

can deplete the ozone layer and be damaging to plants, animals and hu-mans.”

“We only use products that are all-natural, biodegradable, non-toxic, earth friendly and safe for the environment,” he said. “These products are derived from things that you’d find naturally, such as

plants, corn, and coconut, and also contain essential lemon oils.”

Since launching Visions Kitch-ens & Design in 2010, Johnson and his business partner Ernest Proper have been working to green custom-ers’ kitchens by using eco-friendly building materials like bamboo, reclaimed wood and recycled coun-tertops. They specialize in design techniques that can help customers achieve LEED certification.

“We offer clean and safe wa-ter based finishes on our cabinets,” Johnson said. “We also use cabinet and counter companies who recycle 100 percent of the water they use.”

Friends for several years now, Johnson and O’Brien are both busi-ness partners in the Green Alliance, and first met at one of the organi-zation’s networking events for lo-cal entrepreneurs. While they come from different industries, both share an interest in doing business in a way that is eco-friendly.

“We both find importance in keeping the Earth clean and making sure the products we use limit our impact on the environment,” John-son said.

“Nathan and I have been try-ing to think of creative ways to give back to the community and environ-ment for some time now,” O’Brien said. “We’re both excited to make some new friends as we clean up Hampton Beach on April 15.”

Local green businesses, Green Maids and Visions Kitchens, partner for beach clean up

We only use products that are all-natural, biodegradable, non-toxic, earth friendly and safe for the environment. These products are derived from things that you’d find natu-rally, such as plants, corn, and coconut, and also contain essential lemon oils.”

Johnmark O’BrienEntrepreneur

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By NORMA LOVEAssoCiAted Press

CONCORD, N.H. - The House may have killed a bill to repeal New Hampshire’s gay marriage law, yet the results of the November guber-natorial election could breathe new life into the effort.

Voters on both sides of the issue will have a choice: the two Democrats support gay marriage while the two Republicans support traditional marriage.

Democrats Jackie Cilley and Maggie Hassan are two former state senators who voted for the law in 2009. Both reiterated their sup-port for it after the House killed a bill Wednesday that would have re-pealed the law and replaced it with civil unions.

“I strongly oppose any repeal of marriage equality,” Hassan said in a statement issued after the vote.

“In my mind it is a settled is-sue,” Cilley agreed Thursday.

On the other hand, Repub-licans Kevin Smith and Ovide Lamontagne support marriage be-ing between a man and a woman.

“I support traditional marriage and if the Legislature were to put a bill on my desk to support that defi-nition, I would sign it,” Smith said Thursday. “That being said, it is not my agenda as governor.”

Smith said he would hope a re-peal bill would restore civil unions, which the state had in 2008 and 2009, and ensure existing same-sex marriages remained valid. New Hampshire’s gay marriage law took effect in 2010 and more than 1,900

gay couples have wed since.At a rally last month for the

repeal bill, Lamontagne also said if he was elected he would sign legis-lation repealing gay marriage.

State Rep. David Bates, the Windham Republican who spon-sored the repeal bill, said the issue didn’t die with Wednesday’s defeat of his bill.

“If we have a governor in place more favorable to traditional marriage that will change the dy-namic considerably,” he said.

If the House had passed the repeal measure, it would have gone to the Senate; both houses are con-trolled by Republicans. Democratic Gov. John Lynch had promised to veto the bill if it had reached his desk. Supporters would have need-ed a two-thirds majority to override the veto - a high hurdle and one Bates said would not be needed if a governor willing to sign a repeal bill is elected.

“Winning a majority vote is well within the realm of possibili-ties,” he said.

Though Republicans hold a 189-seat advantage in the House, Bates’ bill failed to get a major-ity. The amendment with the best chance of passing died 162-188 with 96 Republicans voting against it.

Both sides expect money to flow into New Hampshire to sup-port their candidates.

The National Organization for Marriage has pledged to spend $250,000 to help lawmakers run-ning for re-election who support re-pealing the law. On the other side,

the New Hampshire Republicans of Freedom and Equality PAC is raising money to back Republicans who vote to retain it.

NOM president Brian Brown said in a statement Thursday that the money has not been spent, but will be to support candidates who support repealing the law.

“Because of the vote, we now have a target list. Both Ovide Lamontagne and Kevin Smith sup-port traditional marriage. We will be very involved in the general election,” Brown said.

Sean Owen, chair of the New Hampshire Republicans of Free-dom and Equality PAC, said Thurs-day his group will be working to counter NOM’s financial impact.

“We are working to help law-makers who stood up in support of

freedom and equality and in sup-port of all families,” he said in a statement.

Andy Smith, director of the University of New Hampshire Sur-vey Center, said state polls have showed for years that gay marriage is not a major issue for residents. The most recent poll last October found 50 percent strongly oppose the law’s repeal and 12 percent somewhat opposed repeal.

Smith believes the issue could galvanize Democrats to participate in the election, but the economy will dominate reasons why voters choose their candidates.

“The political winds are in the Democrats’ face right now. When the economy is bad, you and your party take the heat,” he said.

Same-sex marriage is legal in New York, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maryland, Washington and the District of Columbia. New Jersey lawmakers recently passed a gay marriage bill, but the governor vetoed it. An override vote could come as late as January 2014.

Since 1998, 31 states have had ballot measures related to same-sex marriage, and opponents have pre-vailed in every state. Those states include Maine, where voters in 2009 rejected the state’s gay-mar-riage law.

Last month, a federal appeals court declared California’s same-sex marriage ban to be unconstitu-tional. The ruling could mean the bitterly contested, voter-approved law will be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Gay marriage will be issue in NH’s fall elections

I support tradition-al marriage and if the Legislature were to put a bill on my desk to support that definition, I would sign it. That being said, it is not my agenda as governor.”

Kevin SmithRepublican gubernatorial

candidate

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In Brief

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - Ver-mont authorities say more people are suspected of taking part in a burglary ring that has been linked to multiple break-ins.

The Brattleboro Reformer re-ports warrants have been issued for three men believed to be involved in the burglaries.

All three are currently jailed in New Hampshire. They are 20-year-olds Cody Loewe and Dillon Lange and 22-year-old Logan Critchfield. Loewe has been charged with 41 counts of burglary, attempted bur-glary and unlawful mischief. Lange was charged with 21 related crimes and Critchfield is accused of seven.

Last week, three people who were arrested back in February pleaded not guilty to burglary-related charges. They are 20-year-old Travis Noyes of Saxtons River; 18-year-old Lance Thomas of Rock-ingham; and 18-year-old Christo-pher Goldschmidt of Athens.

Police say mostly small busi-nesses were targeted.

More charges in Vt. bur-glary ring investigation

DERRY, N.H. - Police say a 16-foot trailer containing musical equipment and other items stored by a New Hampshire church has been stolen.

The Lifeway Community Church of Derry doesn’t have a building yet, so it has been storing its belongings in the trailer.

The Rev. Juan Saa tells WMUR-TV $30,000 worth of property, including the sound and recording system, screens, pianos, Bibles and other materials were in the trailer. He said it has been parked behind the Calvary Bible Church for nearly two years.

Saa said he has been heartened by the outpouring of support from other churches. He said donations have been coming in.

Several hundred people who are members of the church attend weekend services in the gym at the Hood Middle School in Derry.

NH church group’s storage trailer stolen

MANCHESTER, N.H. - New Hampshire police say a 74-year-old Stratham man has died of injuries suffered when he lost control of his motorcycle on Route 293 in Man-chester and crashed down an em-bankment.

State police say Richard Roll-ins apparently went off the shoulder and lost control of his 2011 Harley Davidson just after entering Route 293 northbound from I-93.

The accident occurred just af-ter 10 a.m. Wednesday.

Police say Rollins was not wearing a helmet. He died later Wednesday at Elliot Hospital in Manchester.

State police say speed and al-cohol do not appear to have factored into the crash.

NH man dies of injuries from motorcycle crash

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CONCORD, N.H. - The state Senate is giving preliminary ap-proval to a business-funded schol-arship program to send students to private or out-of-district public schools.

The Senate voted 15-9 in favor of the program, which would give businesses a tax credit equal to 85 percent of their donations.

The money would be funneled through scholarship organizations, which would provide scholarships averaging below a $2,500 limit to start but would be adjusted annu-ally. Home-schooled children could receive one-fourth of that limit for educational expenses.

Sponsor Jim Forsythe, a Straf-ford Republican, said his focus was on creating choice and educational opportunities.

“I support public education, and I think all of us do. But I sup-port education - period - no matter how it’s delivered, and this bill does

that,” Forsythe said Wednesday.Unlike voucher programs,

which take money directly out of a school district to be used for tuition elsewhere, the tax credits would af-fect revenue before it reaches state coffers.

The total amount of tax cred-its for businesses could not exceed $6.8 million the first year, but after years when at least 80 percent of available credits had been used the limit would increase by 25 percent.

Forsythe said the loss of this revenue would be offset by savings in the students’ district from having fewer students and a decrease in the number of state adequate education grants.

The bill also attempts to target low- and middle-income students for the scholarships, unlike a similar bill in the House.

Opponents questioned the pro-posal’s constitutionality and cost, but Forsythe contended similar pro-grams were working well in eight other states.

State Sen. Molly Kelly, a

Keene Democrat, said she believed the tax credit program could be construed as using state funds to pay for parochial schools, which the state constitution forbids. Kelly dismissed Forsythe’s citation of an Arizona ruling on the subject, say-ing other states’ decisions were not germane to New Hampshire.

“That’s what we’re talking about, New Hampshire law and New Hampshire education,” Kelly said.

The bill now heads to the Fi-nance Committee before returning to the Senate for a final vote.

NH Senate approves tax credits for scholarships

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SALEM, N.H. - New Hamp-shire police say a Derry mother was significantly impaired when she picked up her 3-year-old daughter from daycare.

Salem police charged 26-year-old Sarah Kelly with driving under the influence, ag-gravated driving under the influ-ence and endangering the welfare of a child.

Police say they got a call from the child’s daycare staff

Tuesday afternoon saying they thought Kelly might be impaired. The staff tried in vain to keep her from leaving with her daughter.

While police were looking for Kelly, they got a call about a driver operating erratically on Rockingham Park Boulevard. Sa-lem and state police pulled her over. They say she was impaired by a mix of several prescription drugs. Her daughter was turned over to a family member.

Police say impaired mom picked up 3-year-old

CONCORD, N.H. - The House has voted to allow a for-profit cancer center to bypass New Hampshire licensing require-ments.

The House voted 198-161 to send a bill to the Senate Wednes-day that would let the Cancer Treatment Centers of America open a small New Hampshire fa-cility without proving its services are needed and undergoing the same review other hospitals face.

The bill covers hospitals with 50 or fewer beds. The bill calls for 65 percent of their patients to come from other states, but there are no penalties for not complying.

The bill also would direct the state to ask the federal government to exempt the facilities from a hos-pital services tax.

Last week, the House voted to repeal the licensing review pro-cess that approves new hospitals and expansions of existing ones.

NH House passes private cancer center proposal

ATLANTIC, Va. - NASA is again rescheduling the launch of five rockets from Virginia due to bad weather.

The rockets are part of a study of the jet stream.

The launch had been set for Thursday at NASA’s space center on Wallops Island but has now been pushed back to early Friday. Bad weather has postponed the launch several times.

The Anomalous Transport Rocket Experiment (ATREX) will help scientists understand the jet stream, which is located 60 to 65 miles above Earth’s surface.

The rockets will release a chemi-cal tracer to form white clouds that al-low scientists and the public to visu-alize the winds. Residents from South Carolina to southern New Hampshire and Vermont might be able to see the clouds for up to 20 minutes.

NASA reschedules Va. suborbital rocket launches

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For now, equality prevailsSame-sex marriage will continue to be issue

Wednesday was both a reas-suring sign for the gay and lesbian community and a reminder that New Hampshire could lose its progressive stance on rights for same-sex couples at any time.

The New Hampshire legislature voted 211-116 to repeal same-sex marriage in the state and replace it with civil unions. The vote ended a standoff in which Governor John Lynch pledged to veto any such bill that reached his desk, meaning the bill needed to pass with a sizeable margin to override a veto.

Republicans dominate the House, holding 293 seats to the Democrats’ 105. In the senate, they hold a 19-5 majority, which would have been enough to override a veto if necessary.

Same-sex marriage became legal in the state on Jan. 1, 2010. Nearly 2,000 couples have wed in the state since it was legalized. Given the state’s “Live Free or Die” motto, it is unfortunate that we have to revisit the subject. But we’ll probably be hearing a lot more about the subject, and not that long from now.

Republicans have already indi-cated this is an issue they’re inter-ested in campaigning about when it comes to the November gubernato-rial elections. As the Boston Globe

reported yesterday, both Democratic candidates for governor support same-sex marriage, while both Re-publican candidates supported H.B. 437 and would favor civil unions over same-sex marriage.

In doing so, they’ll be taking a signifi cant political risk. Polls have shown that 59 percent of New Hamp-shire citizens were against repealing same-sex marriage. In another poll, 44 percent of those surveyed say they would be more likely to vote against a candidate in favor of repealing it, compared to just 14 percent who said they would be more likely to vote against someone opposed to repeal-ing it.

Public opinions on gay mar-riage are becoming more favorable nationwide, and New Hampshire has the advantage of being ahead of that trend, as the polls show.

Even the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), one of the most outspoken groups when it comes to opposing gay marriage, has had to soften its views as it faces the fact that the message it is promoting has less and less of an audience.

NOM’s support of New Hamp-shire House Bill 437 marked the fi rst time in the organization’s history that it supported civil unions for same-sex couples. In the past, the organization has opposed civil unions as much as it opposed same-sex marriages, call-ing them a “direct threat” to marriage just last year in Illinois.

There’s no direct threat to mar-riage, of course. Just a little thing some people refer to as “equality.”

It’s reassuring to see a Repub-lican-dominated legislature soundly defeat a bill that would repeal same-sex marriage. We wish this was the end of the notion, but it likely won’t be. But we’re confi dent voters will continue to make their voices heard, and New Hampshire will be able to maintain its progressive reputa-tion in the realm of gay and lesbian rights.

It’s reassuring to see a Republican-dom-inated legislature soundly defeat a bill that would repeal same-sex marriage. We wish this was the end of the notion, but it likely won’t be.

The New Hampshire OPINION Friday, March 23, 2012 17

Wednesday marked an im-portant day for LGTBQ rights, especially in New

Hampshire, as the state House of Representatives voted against a bill that would repeal the gay mar-riage law in the state.

Clearly this is not the end-all, be-all for those fighting the struggle for equality amongst the LGTBQ community. Lawmakers on both sides of the argument have pledged to continue to fight for their respective sides, indicating that this is not the last we will see of this Republican-led legislation.

What it does represent, however, is a solid first step, and hopefully it is a step that resonates nationwide as we continue to draw closer and closer to an election season. Hopefully it is an indicator

for lawmakers, both here in New Hampshire as well as nationwide, that there is still a large segment of the population who understands and is aware what is going on to the LGTBQ community is unjust and immoral. Which means that fi-nally we can hopefully start to see actual positive steps being taken to remove laws or legislation, such as H.B. 1264, that actively discrimi-nate against a specific population.

Now I am fully aware that rejecting this bill is not nearly a significant historical event, like when the gay marriage law was passed. If anything, the fact that this bill was up for debate in the first place is a sad reminder of some of the uninformed individu-als out there in our country who

are seemingly unaware that the LGTBQ community are actu-ally people, and that this is not a religious state whatsoever.

I am fully aware that the struggle may only intensify as other states that have passed gay marriage laws try to get those re-pealed. After all, as a native Iowan (a state which is also struggling with Republican legislators who are actively trying to rid the state of its gay marriage law), I realize that this is an extremely divisive issue, not only on the national stage but as well as the state level.

Yet, for some reason, I can’t help but feel optimistic after this latest decision by the N.H. House. After years of fighting and strug-gling, a (albeit small) group of individuals is finally opening up its ears and realizing that even if gay marriage may go against their personal beliefs, we are dealing with the civil rights of citizens of the United States. And that, I believe, is cause for celebration.

sAdam J. Babinat is a freshman journalism major who left Iowa for the first time to

attend UNH. Email him at ajz222@unh.edu

An important day for LGTBQ rights

The Kernel

Adam J. Babinat

Clearly this is not the end-all, be-all for those fighting the struggle for equality amongst the LGTBQ community.

There is no instance of a country having ben-efited from prolonged

warfare.”This quotation is attributed

to Sun Tzu, who wrote the most influential treatise on warfare in history, “The Art of War.” That tome is more than two millennia old and is still as important today as it was two-and-a-half thousand years ago.

And yet here in the United States, the most advanced and powerful empire in world history, our leaders are still unable to un-derstand this simple and eloquent passage.

American military forces have been involved in the war in Afghanistan for more than a decade. And what do we have to show for it? There is still little resembling democracy; the Afghan police force is still ill-trained, ill-equipped and unprepared to handle the country once we (if ever) leave Afghanistan; and the Taliban is simply waiting in the shadows. Throw in a corrupt president who happens to be the brother of an opium drug lord, and you have got yourself a wonderful mix just wait-ing for collapse.

Recent events have only fur-ther cemented the notion that the war in Afghanistan is going dread-fully awry. These events point toward at best carelessness and, at worst, downright incompetence.

First, five American troops were “disciplined” for the acci-dental burning of a pile of Qurans, which led to riots and heightened tension between Afghan and Amer-ican military officials. According to the inquiry, the Muslim holy

books were mistaken for garbage and taken to a landfill to be burned.

The riots that took place in response to the burning within Afghanistan saw 30 Afghan and six American military personnel deaths that were directly related.

The second event, which was by all accounts atrocious, was the unprovoked slaughter of civilians in which an American soldier went into an Afghan village, shooting and killing 16, then setting several of their corpses aflame.

There should be no reason for this ever happening in warfare. If the soldier was in need of psychological help, there is no logical reason that he should be on a military base, able to procure weaponry so easily and do what he did. With the immense budget the U.S. armed forces have, certainly there is treatment available for soldiers in that kind of condition.

This event led to the Taliban turning its backs on negotiations of any kind with America, a situa-tion that will certainly hinder any attempts at a successful withdraw-al from Afghanistan.

These two incidents, while hard to stomach, are merely two more in a nearly endless line of in-cidents that seek to prove that the war effort in Afghanistan is lost. From drones killing civilians and videos of Marines urinating on dead Taliban soldiers to purpose-driven death squads and torture of

Afghan civilians at Bagram, these recent extreme cases hardly seem anecdotal anymore.

At this point, after more than a decade at war, after countless casualties of both belligerents and civilians, it is this author’s opinion that America cannot achieve a graceful exit from Afghanistan. Afghanistan has been dubbed the “Graveyard of Empires” for a reason. It successfully resisted British occupation in the 19th century, and the Soviet Union was horrifyingly unable to occupy the country during the 1980s, playing a crucial role in the collapse of the USSR in 1991.

So what is to be done? With increasing international pressure for America to leave Afghanistan, the targeted withdrawal date is by the end of 2014, which will mean we will have been at war with [enter enemy here] for 13 years.

Perpetual warfare has always been feared by intellectuals throughout the ages. The current case of the Afghanistan war is no different. An entire generation of youth has never seen an America at peace. And with the war drums sounding again with Iran, it is un-likely that America will see peace again for perhaps another genera-tion, if both Afghanistan and Iraq are to be used as guides.

These same freedoms, such as the right to protest peacefully, the right to be protected from unwar-ranted searches and seizures, the right to be protected from cruel and unusual punishment and the right of habeas corpus, have been chipped away at over the last de-cade by the very people who told us to support the war: Congress.

Another View

Jacob WitteIowa State Daily

Afghanistan and the U.S. tendency to perpetual warfare

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Thumbs up to the beach! We went there right, um, after we got out of class. Yeah. Definitely.

Thumbs up to more March Madness this weekend! No doubt our brackets will get even further screwed up.

Thumbs up to brewery tours! You have to love cheap ways to get alcohol.

Thumbs up to sunbathing! Now if only we could avoid hitting the sunburn stage...

Thumbs up to Fanny Wang for making some sweet, sweet headphones.

Thumbs up to the Hunger Games and the odds being ever in your favor!

Thumbs up to Games of Thrones next week!

Thumbs up to the return of some awe-some television!

Thumbs down to not being able to go to the beach because of classes you can’t skip.

Thumbs down to Tim Tebow going to the Jets and the media circus following.

Thumbs down to how trashy Hampton Beach gets when it’s nice out.

Thumbs down to going back to typical March/April weather next week.

Thumbs down to the fact that Fanny Wang is the most awkward name ever.

Thumbs down to research papers. It’s hard to get motivated post-spring break.

Thumbs down to people who refuse to drink hot coffee.

Thumbs down to no Parks & Recre-ation Thursday.

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Sports Briefs

15 gymnasts make EAGL All-Academic Team

The University of New Hampshire gymnastics team placed an East Atlantic Gymnastics League-leading 15 members and 79 percent of its roster on the EAGL All-Academic Team, the league announced Mon-day night. Awards will be presented to the honorees at the 2012 EAGL Championship Banquet on Friday, March 23, in Pittsburgh, Pa.

In order to be named to the EAGL All-Academic Team, student-athletes must have a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or higher. Freshmen are eligible if they earned a GPA of 3.0 or higher in the fall semester.

Senior Danielle Reibold, a biomedical science major, garnered all-academic honors for the fourth time in her career.

Three-time honorees include senior co-captain Ali Carr, a kinesiol-ogy: sport studies major, classmate Kate McGeever, who is majoring in biochemistry, and junior co-captain Courtney Connors, a business ad-ministration major.

Two-time all-academic members include juniors Jen Aucoin, a nu-trition major, and Jannelle Minichiello, a psychology major, along with sophomores Hannah Barile (kinesiology), Jillian Hudson (nutrition), Di-anna Kurowyckyj (economics), Erin Machado (biomedical science) and Carly Stote (exercise science).

Senior Tasia Percevecz, who is majoring in biology, headlines the list of first-time feted Wildcats. She is joined by freshmen Kayla Gray (exercise science), Adrienne Hill (civil engineering) and Erika Rudiger (kinesiology: sport studies).

Rutgers tied UNH with 15 members of the EAGL All-Academic Team.

The Wildcats (12-5, 4-1 EAGL) will compete in the 2012 EAGL Championship, hosted by the University of Pittsburgh, on Saturday, March 24, starting at 2 p.m.

Paey, ‘Cats selected fourth in preseason poll

The University of New Hampshire men’s outdoor track & field team was picked to finish fourth in the 2012 America East Preseason Coaches’ Poll that was released Wednesday by the league office.

The Wildcats collected 41 total points, while seven-time defend-ing champion University of Albany received eight of nine first-place votes, and totaled 64 points, to solidify the top spot. Boston U. claimed the remaining first-place vote and totaled 56 total points for the second spot, while Binghamton (50), UMBC (39), the University of Maine (29), Stony Brook University (18), the University of Vermont (17), and the University of Hartford (10) round out the nine-team poll.

UNH finished fifth at last year’s outdoor championships and will look to a strong veteran group this spring after losing two all-conference performers from last season’s team.

Senior Brice Paey returns to outdoor action after red-shirting 2011 and appears to be in good form after claiming the 2012 indoor shot put title this past winter.

Senior distance runner Daniel DeCrescenzo, who took third in the 10,000-meter run, and junior Matthew Guarente, the reigning outdoor high jump champion, will look to pick up right where they left off last season.

UNH will also look to the emergence of freshman D’mahl McFad-den, who has made an immediate impact for the Wildcats after he took silver in the 60-meter hurdles at the indoor conference championships.

The Wildcats open the 2012 campaign on Saturday, March 31st when they take on the University of Maine at the Beckett Track & Field Complex in Orono, Maine.

Preseason poll has women’s T&F in fourth

The University of New Hampshire women’s outdoor track & field team was picked to finish fourth in the 2012 America East Preseason Coaches’ Poll that was released Wednesday by the league office.

The Wildcats racked up 40 total points, while Boston University was selected to finish first with five first-place votes and 61 total points to edge out three-time champion University at Albany, which received four first-place votes and 60 points. UMBC earned the third spot with 42 points, while Vermont (37), Binghamton (30), Maine (26), Stony Brook (19) and Hartford (9) round out the nine-team field.

UNH turned-in a strong third-place finish at last year’s outdoor con-ference championships, including a first-place standing after day one, and will look to build off that showing this spring.

The Wildcats boast a trio of the conference’s top distance runners in junior Keely Maguire, senior Sydney Fitzpatrick and graduate student Allison Letourneau. Fitzpatrick won the 10,000-meter run in 2011 while Maguire and Letourneau finished fifth in the 5,000 and 1,500 meter runs, respectively.

The Wildcats will also count on junior Rosemary Read, who is the defending silver medalist in the hammer throw and enjoyed an impres-sive indoor campaign.

The Wildcats open the 2012 campaign on Saturday, March 31st when they take on the University of Maine at the Beckett Track & Field Complex in Orono, Maine.

STAFF REPORTTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

Courtney Birchard, a former standout on the University of New Hampshire women’s ice hockey team, was named the 2012 Rookie of the Year by the Canadian Wom-en’s Hockey League on Wednesday.

Birchard recorded three goals and 13 assists, as well as a plus/minus rating of +13 in 25 games for the Brampton Hockey Club. The defenseman’s other stats in-cluded two game-winning goals and one power-play goal. Birchard closed the season with a three-point weekend at Alberta in which she recorded two assists in the March 18 regular-season finale. She tallied five points with a +5 rating in the last four games.

Birchard and her Brampton teammates placed third in the CWHL regular-season standings and will face off against the Bos-ton Blades in the opening game of the round robin Clarkson Cup playoffs.

Birchard, who graduated from UNH in May 2011 with a degree in Education, is one of the Wildcats’ all-time top point producers among defensemen as she tallied 81 points (34 goals, 47 assists) in 117 games spanning the 2008-11 seasons. The 34 goals are fifth among blue liners and she is 12th on the points list. Birchard ranked third on the 2011 team in both points and goals and tied for third in plus/minus en route

to garnering Hockey East First Team All-Star honors for the second consecutive year.

The Mississauga, Ontario native garnered AWCHA All-America Sec-ond Team recognition in 2010, when she ranked fifth in the nation in de-fensemen scoring, 16th in game-win-ning goals and 17th in power-play goals. Birchard led New Hampshire to three consecutive NCAA tour-nament appearances that included advancement to the Frozen Four in 2008.

During her senior season at

UNH, Birchard won a gold medal in two tournaments as a representa-tive of Hockey Canada. In Novem-ber 2010, she skated for the National Team at the Four Nations Cup and then in January 2011 she competed as a member of the Women’s Nation-al Under-22 Team at the MLP Cup. Birchard earned a silver medal with Canada’s National Women’s Team at the 2011 IIHF 8 Nations Women’s Tournament in August 2011 and will participate in Canada’s upcoming National Women’s Team Selection Camp (March 26-April 1).

Former Wildcat captain named CWHL Rookie of the Year

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Courtney Birchard was a former captain for the UNH women’s hockey team, her career for the Wildcats spanning from 2008-2011.

ARJUNA RAMGOPALSTAFF WRITER

When time expired in the America East quarterfinal women’s basketball game between No. 4 seed UNH and No. 5 seed UMBC on March 2, the final score read 59-57. Unfortunately for the Wildcats, UNH was on the short end of the stick.

“Losing the way we did was tough,” head coach Maureen Magarity said. “I think it was tough for the seniors. We left it all there, and that’s why the girls are upset. It was a tough locker room after-wards.”

“We fought back at the end,” sophomore Kelsey Hogan added. “It came down to the last two plays. It was a hard loss. Everyone was re-ally down and upset for losing the way we did.”

“That was a heartbreaker,” senior Denise Beliveau said. “We didn’t play our best basketball that game but we never gave up. … To have it end the way it did with 1.3 seconds left, it was really demoral-izing for the team. But what came out of it was a postseason tourna-ment bid to WBI.”

The early exit from the Amer-ica East playoffs gave the Wild-cats an opportunity to go to an-other postseason tournament. The Women’s Basketball Invitational is a similar tournament to the better-known men’s National Invitational Tournament. Both tournaments al-low teams that don’t earn a berth into the NCAA tournament another chance to compete.

This is the third year of exis-tence for the WBI, and it’s the first time UNH has received an invita-tion for the event. The tournament has two regionals, the East and the West, each with sixteen seeds. UNH was the No. 5-seed in the East Re-gion.

On Thursday, March 15, the Wildcats took on No. 4-seed Holy Cross. The Wildcats got off to a slow start and though they rallied late in the game, they ended up los-ing 63-59.

“We had two weeks off and were not in game shape,” Beliveau said. “There’s a difference between being in running shape and live ac-tion game shape. We got down early but, as we always did, we fought back and it came right down to the wire.”

Magarity, Beliveau, and Hogan all said the loss at the WBI wasn’t

as heartbreaking as the loss in the America East tournament, but that it was more fun as the team had an-other two weeks to be around each other and play together.

“We didn’t give up, and that was the theme throughout the sea-son,” Magarity said. “There were certain games throughout the sea-son where we were down by eight or nine with four minutes to go and it didn’t look like things weren’t go-ing to go our way and somehow we always managed to come back. I’m really proud of what this team did this year.”

With the season over, the play-ing careers of the seniors Beliveau, Abigail LaRosa, Lauren Wells and Kelly Flynn have ended as well. While it is tough for the Wildcats to accept that they fell short of their goals, the remaining players are ex-cited for the future.

‘Cats season represents hard work

UNH looks to build on this season’s success with its returning squad.

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confidence heading into an op-portunity such as competing in the Olympic Trials.

“I feel like this training I have done has been [of higher] quality, and I feel that since the results of the America East I kind of sur-prised myself,” Mann said. “I feel like the training that I have done this year has given me that oppor-tunity [to compete at the Olympics Trials].”

To the swimming and div-ing program here at UNH, having two more Olympic Trial qualifiers in Durham will only continue to add more prestige to the program, which has produced multiple quali-fiers in recent years. According to Willman this goes a long way in re-gards to recruitment, as it provides

an international draw to the swim-ming and diving program at UNH.

As for Mann and Cooper, each of them goes into their respective events with different mindsets. Mann looks to achieve some per-

sonal goals, such as improving her personal best times, which she says have not improved in a few years. For Cooper, the plan is to come in with an open mind and come in with no expectations other than do-

ing her very best.For each though, the prospect

of being named onto the Olympic squad for their respective country is an exciting one.

“To make the Olympics is a

huge honor for anyone to repre-sent their country,” Cooper said. “For me it is something that I have dreamed of for a long time. To reach that goal, it’s just such a huge accomplishment.”

Prince George, B.C., Canada

- City Population: 71,030

- Time zone: Pacific Coast

- Largest city in northern British Columbia

- National symbol: Maple leaf

- National holiday: Canada Day, July 1

- Most popular sport: Hockey

- Distance from Durham: 2432 miles

Johannesburg, South Africa

- City Population: 3.6 million

- Time Zone: South African Standard

- Largest city in South Africa

- National symbol: Sprinbok Antelope

- National holiday: Freedom Day, April 27

- Most popular sport: Soccer

- Distance from Durham: 7765 miles

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in the game, so I just have to wait and see,” Decker said.

Decker said that he is hoping to get an invitation to Ford Field in Detroit, Mich. for the Super Regional Combine on March 30. Invites to the Super Regional are based on how prospects performed in the regionals.

Jenkins and McNally, mean-while, completed linebacker drills at the pro day, despite the fact that both played defensive end for UNH. They also did typical com-bine tests such as the 40-yard dash, the pro agility drill and the vertical and broad jumps.

“I think there’s things I did pretty well and things I can im-prove on,” McNally said of his per-formance.

McNally was a fearsome sight for any opposing quarterback dur-ing his college career. His 13.5 sacks in 2010 is a UNH single-season record. As a senior, he led UNH again with 7.5 sacks, earn-ing himself spots on the CAA All-Conference First Team and the FCS All-New England Team.

At 6-foot-3, McNally still may have the size to play defensive end professionally, but said he would be willing to play linebacker as well. What position he plays would de-pend on the team and its needs.

The 6-foot-1 Jenkins, mean-while, would be undersized as a defensive end.

“For the NFL or any other pro-fessional league, they see me more as a linebacker,” Jenkins said.

Playing on the opposite side of McNally on the defensive line, Jenkins racked up 45 tackles and 3.5 sacks in 2011. He said that he’s been working hard for the past three months get into the best shape possible for pre-draft workouts like Tuesday’s.

“I was anxious, but it was a good feeling to finally get a chance to actually perform in front of them with all the hard work that I’ve been doing these past few months,” Jenkins said.

Jenkins, McNally and Decker all said that it was comfortable be-ing able to perform on the familiar turf at Cowell.

“Whenever your surrounded

by your teammates and coaches, and then to be at Cowell Stadium, it’s like a second home, so I felt very comfortable out here,” Mc-Nally said.

Jenkins, who graduated in De-cember, shared similar sentiments.

“It felt right at home,” he said. “This is home to me still even though I graduated, it felt right to do it here rather than any place else.”

In addition to the familiarity of playing in Durham, Decker said

that the warm weather on Tuesday allowed for most of the pro day to be held outside, as opposed to past pro days, when the late March weather isn’t as cooperative. The nice weather also brought out some unexpected support for the pros-pects.

“One of the coolest thing was the underclassmen coming out, standing along the fence, watching us to support us,” Decker said. “It was pretty awesome.”

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the club this year to get more seri-ous about competing,” Companion said. “They both bested last year’s scores by a significant margin, and they continue to improve the more that they shoot.”

Wilkin and Tremblay are the first UNH archers to ever bring home the national title.

When asked how it feels to be a national champion, Tremblay said, “It’s just becoming reality for me. This achievement in my life is something I will never forget in-cluding all those that have support-ed me from my coaches, friends and family. It is only the beginning for things I hope to achieve in not

only my archery career but for the important things in my life.”

Archery is a mental sport where focus is a must. A 10 ring is about the size of a penny and the archers are shooting from 60 feet out.

“Archery has become a form of meditation for me,” said Wilkin. “So once I zoned in and relaxed, my shot became my only focus. It’s all about your mental focus. If you have any insecurity with your shot, or think about it too much, odds are pretty strong that you won’t hit that 10.”

Friends often do things togeth-er. In this case, two friends became national champions together.

“Their friendship does drive their competitive spirit,” Compan-ion said.

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STAFF REPORTthe new hampshire

The University of New Hamp-shire women’s lacrosse program an-nounces a special Kids’ Night Out event on Saturday, April 14, in con-junction with its America East con-ference game against the University at Albany.

The Wildcats battle the Great Danes at one o’clock that Saturday afternoon at Memorial Field and the Kids’ Night Out will be held at UNH’s Paul Sweet Oval (the Field House’s indoor track) from 6-10 p.m.

Kids ages five to 13 are in-vited to perform lacrosse skills with instruction and supervision from members of the UNH lacrosse

team at the Kids’ Night Out while also enjoying movies, games, pizza and photo opportunities with the Wildcats. If you want to participate in lacrosse skills, bring your stick, goggles, mouth guard and sneakers (no cleats).

Kids’ Night Out, a fundraiser for the UNH lacrosse program, costs $25 per child or $40 for two or more children from the same fam-ily.

For more information on this special event, contact Meg Reddy via phone (603-862-4731) or e-mail (meghan.reddy@unh.edu) or down-load a registration form online at www.unhwildcats.com. There is no admission fee for the UNH game vs. Albany.

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James Jenkins (above) and Kevin Decker (below) performed at UNH’s pro day for scouts from eight NFL teams, including the Patriots.

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Seniors perform for scouts at UNH pro dayBy JUSTIN DOUBLEDAY

sports editor

Scouts from eight NFL teams, including the New England Patriots, were on hand to watch college pros-pects perform at Cowell Stadium on Tuesday in UNH’s pro day. Seniors Kevin Decker, Brian McNally and James Jenkins all worked out for the scouts, as did former UNH foot-ball players Hugo Souza and Kyle Auffray. Four prospects from Dart-mouth and one from St. Anselm College also participated in the pro day.

In addition to a Patriots repre-sentative, scouts from the Chiefs, Raiders, Panthers, Chargers, Lions, 49ers and Cardinals were in atten-dance on Tuesday.

The 2011 Colonial Athletic Association Offensive Player of the Year as UNH’s quarterback, the 6-foot-2 Decker threw for the scouts, showing off an arm that passed for 3,272 yards and 22 touchdowns last season.

“Performing for them while they’re watching and evaluating you is pretty exciting, because it’s the next step, the next goal to get to

the next level, so that was a thrill,” Decker said in a phone interview on Wednesday.

Decker tweaked a hamstring at a regional combine in Cleveland, Ohio last weekend, so he did not participate in any strength, speed or agility drills. Nonetheless, he said that representatives from the Pan-thers, Chargers and Lions have all expressed interest in him.

“They said they like the way I throw the ball, but they’re not really going to play too much at this point

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Defensive end Brian McNally participated in UNH pro day on Tuesday at Cowell Stadium, hoping to impress the NFL scouts in attendance. PRO DAY continued on page 19

By NICK STOICOcontributing writer

On the UNH archery club, it is common knowledge that senior Joe Wilkin and junior Seth Tremblay are fierce competi-

tors as well as close friends. The two are simi-larly skilled in the sport of archery, but no one realized how similar until now.

In a regional archery competition held March 3-4 at the UNH Field House, Wilkin and Tremblay put up the exact same score, some-thing that is completely unheard of in the sport.

With a score of 1144 out of a possible 2000, Wilkin and Tremblay not only had the best scores in the region, but tied for first place in the U.S. Collegiate Archery National Indoor Championships.

“Once we compared scores, both of us were shocked,” Tremblay said. “It was a hard thing to believe that after shooting 120 arrows that our score was exactly the same. It was also even more shocking to know that we also scored the same number of 10’s, 9’s and 8’s.”

Because Wilkin and Tremblay both scored identical 10’s, 9’s and 8’s and are from the same university, there were no tiebreakers and both were crowned national champions in the bow-hunter division.

“Seth and I were pretty confident that one

of us would win the region,” said Wilkin. “But when we tied for the national title, I felt better than I would have if I won by myself. It feels great to win the championship with my best friend.”

Head coach Carla Companion, who has been associated with the UNH archery club since 2000 when she was a member, was also very surprised by the identical score.

“I laughed,” Companion said. “It just made me very proud of them both.”

Wilkin and Tremblay began competing early in their college careers, joining the club as a sophomore and a freshman, respectively. From their first days on the club to the championship title, these two athletes have become products of the club’s coaching staff.

“The coaches Carla Companion, Mike Lauter, and Mark Olson, along with my fresh-man coach Pat O’Brien, molded me into the archer I am today,” Tremblay said. “Each and every one has helped me in their areas of exper-tise to [help improve my] mental, physical, and technical parts of what make a good archer.”

Companion has watched them make their way to this level, and feels that they have earned it and deserve it for putting in the work.

“They have done a lot of work in and out of

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Archers shoot same score to tie for national title

Pair of Wildcats to compete in upcoming Olympic Trials

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Junior Seth Tremblay (left) and senior Joe Wilkin (right) tied for first place in the U.S. Collegiate Archery National Indoor Championships in early March.

SWIMMING & DIVING

By ADAM J. BABINATstaff writer

The University of New Hamp-shire’s swimming and diving team could potentially see two of its own head off to London this summer for the Olympic games, as freshmen Katie Mann and Oneida Cooper look to compete in the Olympic Tri-als for their respective countries.

Mann, a native of Prince George, Canada, will be heading to Montreal, Quebec, for the Ca-nadian Olympic Trials from March 27-April 1. She will be competing

in the 200- and 400-meter individu-al medley and the 100- and 200-me-ter breaststroke events.

Cooper, a native of Johannes-burg, South Africa, will be heading to Durban, South Africa, from April 16-22 in order to compete in the 100-meter butterfly, 100-meter free-style, 200-meter individual medley, and 100- and 200-meter backstroke events.

For these two competitors, this is not anything new, as both Mann and Cooper have had previous ex-perience when it comes to com-peting in the Olympic Trials. For

Cooper, get-ting a chance to come back a few years older is ben-eficial for her because she possesses a greater under-standing of what it means to receive this opportunity.

“To make the Olympic Trial cuts is a big thing,” Cooper said. “I have made it once before, so I am much older this time, so I kind of know what it means to make it.”

Each will be arriving at the their r e s p e c t i v e Olympic Tri-als after suc-cessful sea-sons at UNH, which for Mann makes it even more special realizing her chances of making the cut are much more significant than in the past.

“I’m pretty excited. I mean I did it in 2008 too but this time I feel like more of a contender, so I

am pretty excited to go,” Mann said.Until they get a chance to com-

pete, both Mann and Cooper will continue to train with their coaches here at UNH, a group which has won the America East Coaching Staff of the Year award for its third straight season. Part of that training, according to swimming and diving head coach Josh Willman, has been extra time in the pool in Durham, particularly over spring break.

All of that training, according to Katie Mann, has given her great

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Watching Tim Tebow play in New York City for the Jets will be fun for a num-ber of reasons. Word is still out, how-ever, on if the highly religious Tebow is uncomfortable with head coach Rex Ryan’s purported foot fetish.