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Citing safety, Co� ages cancels weekend bus

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The Cottages have canceled its weekend bus route after The Cottages’ o� ce said multiple safety concerns arose.

IT’S ALL ABOUT THE U (DAY)

JULE FORTIN/ STAFFMore than 200 groups were represented at Thursday’s annual University Day held in front of Thompson Hall. Dining halls shut down as burgers, hot dogs and ice cream were served at the three-hour event.

A� er two years, AAUP, admins � nalize contractBy ALYSSA TALIAFERRO

STAFF WRITER

The American Association of Professors and University of New Hampshire profes-sors have fi nalized a contract after nearly two years of negotiations.

Professors were unable to devise a con-

tract with agreeable terms on two fact-fi nder reports after their contract expired back in 2010. The contract had only been in effect for one year.

The university’s Board of Trustees voted to accept the new contract on June 19 with UNH President Mark Huddleston’s compli-ance.

“After a long and diffi cult round of nego-tiations, I was very pleased both sides agreed to compromise and accept the recommenda-tions of the fact-fi nder,” Huddleston said. “We will have to work hard to balance the budget given the 48 percent cut in support from the

Trustees ask state to restore funding

By ABBY KESSLERSTAFF WRITER

When New Hampshire legisla-tures slashed funding last year due to the poor economic climate, the uni-versity felt the state tightening its belt through a 48 per-cent reduction in funding. The uni-versity scrambled to slash spend-ing through hiring freezes, offering early retirement incentives, cutting $10 million in benefi ts to staff, and let-ting non-faculty personnel go. As a fi -nal resort, the university began increas-ing student tuition.

At a meeting in Portsmouth on Tuesday, the University of New Hamp-shire Board of Trustees unanimously proposed to freeze in-state tuition for the next two years, only if the state re-stores funding to its previous levels.

By SUSAN DOUCETNEWS EDITOR

Effective Thursday, Sept. 13, The Cottages Connector weekend bus route was permanently canceled. The route previously ran Thursday, Friday and Sat-urday nights from 10 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. between the University of New Hamp-shire and The Cottages of Durham de-velopment.

Service was ended midway through Friday night’s route and was offi cially canceled on Monday.

“The decision to end late-night ser-vice was made by The Cottages Monday, Sept. 10,” said David Mays, associate

vice president of business affairs. “They contracted service with UTS (University Transportation Services) to provide The Cottages Connector, and UTS informed The Cottages that it would no longer pro-vide the late-night service due to safety issues.”

Cain Conner, property manager for The Cottages of Durham, said that the safety of the bus drivers and of the pas-sengers on the bus played a factor in the decision to eliminate the weekend route.

“Although we contracted the bus service to provide transportation to and from The Cottages, it is illegal to enforce

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Andy Vailas will make his � rst collegiate start Saturday afternoon as he leads the 1-1 Wildcats into the home opener.

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A UNH freshman attended last week’s Democratic National Convention as a page to the New Hampshire delegation.

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USNH o� ers to freeze tuition

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If approved by the legislature, $100 mil-lion would be infused back into higher edu-cation over the next two years, restoring the public university to 2010 levels.

“At UNH, we recognize that these are tough economic times, but we also know how essential it is to provide world-class education to our students,” Mark Huddleston, president of UNH, said in an email sent to the student body. The email asked members of the com-munity to stand behind the pledge.

UNH trustees said although the universi-ty was able to absorb the deep cuts efficiently, the funding is vital to providing an affordable education for New Hampshire residents and keeping the workforce strong.

The pledge must be submitted to the gov-ernor’s office by Sept. 21, where legislators will evaluate the budget and examine the re-quests feasibility.

“In general, I am not big on signing pledges,” said Nancy Stiles, a New Hamp-shire state senator. “But I am in favor of this one and will advocate for restoring the budget to higher education. I know how important it is to have an educated workforce for the state in New Hampshire, and investing in that is critical for our future.”

According to Huddleston, a recently re-leased economic impact study showed that UNH contributes $1.4 billion to the state’s economy each year through workforce devel-opment, direct expenditures and employment.

“That’s an extraordinary return on the state’s investment of less than $40 million,” Huddleston said in the school-wide email.

Even though the school is adding large

sums of money to the state’s economy, New Hampshire continues to have one of the low-est rates in per capita funding. Currently, the state’s funding for higher education is $63 per capita, well below New England’s $188 aver-age.

USNH chancellors are optimistic that they will argue a strong case for the restora-tion of funding, although the decision is de-pendent on a number of variant factors.

Stiles noted that legislators will have to review the state’s revenue and examine cer-tain factors of the economy before making a decision on the pledge.

“We will have to look at the revenue coming in and certain factors of the econo-my,” she said. “For example, we will have to see if we are continuing to reduce unemploy-ment rates and examine if people are getting back to work.”

This is only one factor that could deter-mine the fate of the pledge to restore funding.

“We ended the budget with a surplus,” Stiles said. “In August, the numbers were, unfortunately, down again. So, we are not on solid ground yet, but we are optimistic about the future of the state.”

For the state’s four public colleges and universities, the coming weeks will be a wait-ing game to see if funding will be restored after historically large financial cuts. In the meantime, the higher education institutes will work together to spread the word across the Granite State.

“If you want to keep UNH strong and help make UNH as affordable as possible, I ask you to join me in conversation with our elected officials,” Huddleston said. “I know that every time tuition goes up, it hurts New Hampshire families and makes their chil-dren’s futures less secure.”

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from the state and the increased financial im-plications of the contract, but I am confident we can overcome the challenges because we must.”

The AAUP obtained salaries that will keep UNH faculty members competitive with their peers. In this round of negotia-tions, the university and the Faculty Union accepted the recommendations of a neutral fact-finder.

“Like all contract settlements, it is a compromise,” said Dale Barkey, chief nego-tiator for the AAUP-UNH chapter and profes-sor of chemical engineering. “The university obtained some, if not all, of the benefits con-cessions it was seeking.”

The issues with the first contract had been proposed salary increases, cuts to ben-efits and alterations that would make it easier to fire employees who failed to abide by uni-versity rules.

Wages will remain frozen under the new contract during its first year, and gradual growth among these wages will begin to ap-pear in fiscal year 2012.

Former UNH lead negotiator Candace Corvey is certain all involved are particularly pleased that the contract covers a five-year period through June 30, 2015.

“I believe the final outcome represents as fair a compromise as was possible,” Corvey said. “It leaves UNH well-positioned with re-spect to its ability to continue to recruit and retain high quality faculty, while honoring the fact that there are many other legitimate com-peting demands on UNH’s extremely limited resources.”

In regard to faculty salaries offered at comparable schools, the average UNH fac-ulty salary is 2.3 percent lower, according to the university. Among these schools are the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Uni-versity of Maine and University of Vermont.

In spite of this, however, President of the AAUP-UNH Deanna Wood said the faculty fared better than most other competitors in New England and the Middle Atlantic, main-

taining steady improvement in salary and benefits.

The goal for the new contract, which was to finalize a decision that would recog-nize and value the role of faculty on campus, never wavered.

“There is no greater priority than the in-vestment needed to attract and retain the high-est quality faculty and staff so our students continue to receive the best possible educa-tion,” Huddleston said.

Faculty members will still face cuts to health benefits while health-care costs con-tinue to rise. Wood said the reason for this rise was due to the nation’s inefficient and frag-mented health-care system.

“Health care is particularly expensive in New Hampshire,” Wood said.

The university is represented by the vice president for finance and administration and one of the deans of the colleges here at UNH. There is no proposal, suggestion or idea that can be considered without the response of the Board.

“The weakest part of the process was the absence of all the principles at the bargaining table,” Wood said. “The Board of Trustees is represented by a chief negotiator who is hired to bring their positions to the table.”

Wood said that the process of having to go through the Board for every minor detail was too time-consuming.

This last Collective Bargaining Agree-ment between the University System of New Hampshire (USNH) Board of Trustees and the UNH Chapter of the AAUP was the result of over two years of discussion, mediation and fact-finding.

In Wood’s opinion, the completed con-tract represents the best efforts of all who are concerned.

“Both sides made gains and both sides suffered some losses primarily because of the current economic conditions and the aversion of the State of New Hampshire to fund public higher education,” she said.

“All in all, I believe we negotiated a good contract for the faculty. The full participation of the Board of Trustees, however, could have saved significant time, university resources and a lot of frustration.”

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a ‘resident riders only’ policy because the bus itself was purchased by Wildcat Tran-sit with federal grant money,” Conner said. “Because of so many non-residents attempt-ing to ride the bus from downtown, it be-came apparent that the bus was not utilized as intended and the safety goals were not being met.”

“The intention of the late-night bus was to provide residents of The Cottages a safe ride to and from town late at night. What it ended up doing was bringing large numbers of people out to the Cottages,” Mays said. “This resulted in unsafe conditions for the bus driver, passengers, vehicle traffic and pedestrians. Due to multiple incidents from both weekends, the management at The Cot-tages and the police shut the bus down last weekend.”

Students also expressed safety con-cerns. Their concerns, however, were about a lack of transportation for students and resi-dents and also about what could result from the decision.

Joelle Quimby, a resident of The Cot-tages, said that she disagreed with the deci-sion to cancel the bus service.

“Someone’s gonna get hurt eventually by it,” Quimby said, referring to the possi-bility of students driving under the influence and of walking to and from The Cottages at night. “I just think it’s dumb.”

“I don’t think it’s a good thing,” Sam Mannai, another resident of The Cottages, said of the cancellation. “(There’s a) high-er chance that kids are gonna drive drunk now.”

Mannai proposed as a solution to safety concerns for bus drivers and passengers that

The Cottages place a security guard on the bus to monitor passengers.

“Operating a vehicle while under the influence is clearly a concern regardless of the situation or circumstance,” Conner said. “Be it on or off our properties, one of our goals has always been the safety of our resi-dents, and we will continue to look for ways to ensure that.”

There were also complaints from stu-dents about the fact that Safe Rides, a pro-gram also provided by University Transpor-tation Services, would not pick up students from The Cottages last weekend.

Mays said that in the future, Safe Rides will service students at The Cottages, but with an exception.

“They will be dropped off or picked up on Technology Drive only,” he said. “Due to the unsafe conditions caused by the num-bers of people riding the buses to the Cot-tages, it was decided that Safe Rides would not service The Cottages this past weekend. Going forward, we have serious concerns for the safety of our bus drivers and passen-gers going to and from The Cottages.”

While The Cottages Connector week-end route is permanently canceled, “The Cottages are free to provide an alternate method going forward,” Mays said.

“We are in the midst of evaluating what options we have for providing safe trans-portation for all our students at all times,” Conner said.

An email was sent out Thursday by UTS to all university Housing residents to notify them of the cancellation of the bus route and why the decision was made.

The weekday hours for The Cot-tages Connector bus route will remain un-changed. The hours for the route are now only Monday through Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

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After deliberations, the Cottages canceled its weekend bus route. However, officials said Safe Rides will now stop at Technology Drive near The Cottages.

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Across the nation, Tuesday Sept. 11 marked a day of remem-brance, but in New Hampshire, it also marked the primary election, which decided the official nominees for the upcoming gubernatorial race. UNH students participated in the election through both absentee bal-lots and by traveling to local voting sites.

The Republican and Democrat tickets were won by Ovide Lamon-tagne and Maggie Hassan, respec-tively. For the Democratic ticket, Hassan defeated Jackie Cilley and Bill Kennedy. For the Republican ticket, Lamontagne defeated Kevin Smith and Robert Tarr.

Hassan, the Democratic win-ner, is from Exeter and believes in the power of fighting down the Tea Party. She has held a Senate seat since 2005 and served as the major-ity leader from 2008 to 2010. Ac-cording to maggiehassan.com, her recent accomplishments include helping to legalize gay marriage in New Hampshire, raising the school dropout age to 18, and helping to

“lead the way to pass universal kin-dergarten.”

In the future, she said she hopes to delve into a limited expansion of gambling, and to continue to devel-op her “Innovate New Hampshire” plan. She also strongly believes in women’s rights and recently “stood with Sen. Dem. Leader Sylvia Lars-en and Rep. Cindy Rosenwald to defend women’s health care against outrageous attacks by the O’Brien legislature,” according to her web-site.

The Republican winner, Lamon-tagne, lives in Manchester and was named “Conservative of the Year” in 2011 for his efforts. He is a lawyer by trade, and is running for election after two failed attempts in 1996 (guberna-torial) and 2010 (Senate). He has laid out a plan to cut spending and further a free market press.

According to his campaign site, ovide2012.com, “The ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach, as embodied in ObamaCare, will not fit what is in the best interest of New Hampshire citizens,” and he hopes to create a health-care policy that is efficient, reformed and has a redesigned in-surance policy.

According to a recent article from the Union Leader, both can-didates vowed to veto an income or sales tax.

Around campus, students were able to get out and go to the polling locations to cast their vote.

Democrat Mike Casazza, a for-mer member of College Democrats, was one of those student voters.

“Yes, I voted,” he said. “(I vot-ed for) Maggie. ... The real reason is that I just looked (at the pamphlet) they gave me before I went in.”

In accordance to the National Election, Casazza said he will be voting a straight ticket — again for Democrats, with President Barack Obama. “I usually do research on

(those) elections,” Casazza said. “I like health care and what he says he’s doing with student loans.”

Some students, such as fel-low Democrat Brianna Hartford, researched issues beforehand, just as she would have for the National Election.

“I voted for Maggie Hassan,” Hartford said. She agreed with Has-san on multiple platforms, including education. “I support her plans to put a tuition freeze on New Hamp-shire universities in order to make

college more affordable.”She said, however, that she

thinks students do not know enough about the candidates.

“(The number of) informed voters is low,” Hartford said. “I know so many people my age who do no research and just vote for who their parents are voting for.”

Some students refrained from voting in the primaries, thinking that they couldn’t vote because Durham is only their temporary residence. Kelty Nicoll, one such student, said

she would have voted if she had known she could.

Lauren Percy said she felt strongly about the election, having previously been a part of it.

“I have worked for the Maggie Hassan campaign,” she said. “So, I was super excited to get out and vote for the very first time.”

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Gubernatorial candidates Maggie Hassan (D) and Ovide Lamontagne (R) accepted their primary victories. The two will face off for the governor’s seat on Nov. 6.

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By NICOLE BEAUDETContributing Writer

Roam Secure and CrimePush are common tools for many UNH students who are concerned with campus crime, but the UNH Police Department is stepping up its game against crime with a new mobile application. Ping4 is a mobile app that allows users to receive updates from police based on their location and supplies relevant in-the-mo-ment information.

Initially built as a marketing app, Ping4 has developed into a tool against crime. Police departments in New Hampshire cities such as Nashua and Manchester have al-ready implemented this tool. Ping4 allows the police department to send out alerts concerning criminal activ-ity, and can also be used for alerts in case of a severe weather warning or traffic delays.

“The tool allows our dispatch-ers to identify exactly who needs to receive information,” said UNH Executive Director of Public Safety Paul Dean in a Campus Journal release. “If something happens specific to a residence hall, we can elect to only notify residents of that

building. It also allows the depart-ment to proactively provide safety tips and public service announce-ments.”

Ping4 was originally created as a marketing device and still car-ries that option. It provides deals from local merchants in the area but users have the option to opt out of that service. The owner of Ping4, Jim Bender, is from Nashua and ran in the U.S. Senate race in 2010.

Based on the user’s location, Ping4 will send alerts, which allow the tool to be extremely versatile. Ping4 is also able to send warn-ings and alerts from school delays to other important crime related events, like prison breaks.

“Students can send us infor-mation anonymously with this tool, but it allows us to pinpoint where the message came from within five feet using Google maps,” Dean said.

CrimeWatch is also a mobile app that allows students to send text or video messages to authori-ties who are then able to pinpoint the location of the sender. The app was made by a UNH student and all messages that are sent are anony-mous.

“New technology allows us to offer our community a variety of tools for keeping them and the campus safe,” Dean said.

The app can be downloaded for free on any smartphone, as can CrimeWatch. The apps are not a re-placement for the university’s main warning system, Roam Secure. To register to receive updates via text message and/or email from Roam Secure, sign up at https://alert.unh.edu/register.php. Roam Secure is a great way to stay updated with warnings in the UNH area, especial-ly if you do not have a smartphone.

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AURORA, Colo. — Colo-rado Gov. John Hickenlooper should take a $5.2 million vic-tims’ fund away from a private group so that assistance can more quickly be distributed, family members of many of those killed or wounded in the Aurora mass shooting said Thursday.

Several relatives of vic-tims expressed frustration with Community First Foundation at a news conference. They urged the governor to appoint an inde-pendent arbitrator to oversee the donations.

“Victims are paralyzed, fac-ing multiple and painful surger-ies, unable to walk, to work and pay their rent, food and medical bills,” said Tom Teves, whose son, Alex, was one of the 12 peo-ple killed. “Some have no medi-cal insurance at all.”

Hickenlooper’s office didn’t have an immediate comment.

Thursday’s news conference was the second time victims have criticized the charity that has overseen public donations for the July 20 theater shooting victims and their families.

In August, Teves and others demanded a say in how the mon-ey raised by the charity is spent.

“There have been two trag-edies in Aurora,” Teves said. “The first was the theater shoot-ing, where I lost my son. The sec-ond is how the victims have been treated by the powers that be.”

The foundation says it has collected $5.2 million and has so far given $5,000 each to the fami-lies of the 12 people killed and 58 wounded — a total of $350,000 — to meet their immediate finan-cial needs.

It’s also given $100,000 to 10 nonprofit groups, including several mental health organiza-

tions, highlighted on its website soon after the shooting.

To do the greatest good, the money needs to be distributed through an agency experienced at evaluating victims’ needs, said David Borochoff, president of Chicago-based CharityWatch, a watchdog group.

That process may seem de-meaning to victims — but it sometimes is necessary to avoid misspending funds, Borochoff said.

Teves, of Phoenix, said he was speaking for 10 families of those slain as well as at least 12 of the 58 people wounded in the shooting. He said victims also want public funds to pay for med-ical bills, including mental health treatment.

Among other grievances, Teves said family members were told last week that Giving First, a charity that works with Commu-nity First, would have final say over the donations it received. Relatives initially were told vic-tims would have the final say, Teves said.

Teves also complained that victims initially were told the funds would be disbursed within weeks but were told last week they won’t learn how the money will be handled until November.

Rich Audsley, an adviser to Community First’s 7/20 Recov-ery Committee that will recom-mend how the money will be distributed, said decisions about how that will happen haven’t been made. Audsley said the ex-ecutive committee that will make recommendations currently has nine members but could grow to as many as 15 to include victim family members.

“Those families paid the ulti-mate price and we understand that but we also, because of our re-sponsibility as a committee that’s putting together the recommenda-tions, we don’t want to overlook the lifelong needs of those indi-viduals that will never be the same again physically,” he said.

The committee hasn’t decid-ed whether the money raised will be used to cover mental health fees, he said, adding that a federal grant could cover those expenses.

Also, interest made on the money raised will be distributed to victims, Audsley said. Earlier Thursday, Teves said he believed that Giving First could keep inter-est earned on the donations.

Audsley, a former Mile High United Way executive, was the lead staff member for the Colum-bine Healing Fund.

Meanwhile, families have been working behind the scenes to help one another, Teves said. He said they reached out to Habitat for Humanity to build a handi-capped-accessible house for Ash-ley Moser. Her family has said Moser would be paralyzed as a result of her wounds.

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By KATIE GARDNERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Starting off at UNH, most students don’t have a lot of expe-rience in their major. With that in mind, imagine being a freshman political science major and attend-ing the recent Democratic Nation-al Convention as a page to the New Hampshire delegation. Also imag-ine working on President Obama’s campaign this past summer, or giving a speech at the New Hamp-shire Democratic state convention and meeting the president himself. It sounds impossible for someone just starting his or her college ca-reer, but it is exactly what UNH freshman Emily Gold did.

Gold, who is originally from Manchester, fi rst became inter-ested in politics when President Obama spoke at her high school last November.

“I was not very interested in politics before that, but his speech inspired me to get involved,” Gold said. “I signed up to volunteer with the campaign and started doing so in December.”

Then, this past February, she was given the opportunity to intro-duce Sen. Jeanne Shaheen during Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to New Hampshire. While at the event, Raymond Buckley, state chairman for the New Hampshire Democratic party, took notice of Gold and asked if she would be in-terested in attending the DNC. She said she happily accepted.

“I was unbelievably excited,” Gold said. “By that time, I was interested in eventually pursuing a career in politics. Having the opportunity to go to the DNC not only as a guest, but as a creden-

tialed member of the delegation is like a political science major’s version of Willy Wonka’s golden ticket,” she said.

As page to the N.H. Delega-tion, Gold assisted the event in any way they needed. She was able to attend committee meetings and participate in other conven-tion activities. She also got to be immersed in what she loves and experience politics and democracy fi rsthand.

“The most memorable part about going to the DNC was the energy on the fl oor,” Gold said. “I not only got to hear many amazing speeches in person, but I was also able to stand and cheer with thou-sands of other people who are just as enthusiastic about politics as I am. I saw democracy in action, and it was one of the most beauti-ful things I have ever been able to witness.”

Gold was also given the op-portunity to meet Obama earlier this summer when he visited Dur-ham.

“It was a surreal experience,” she said. “Even though he is one of the most powerful men in the world, he was so down-to-earth

and genuine.” Gold said she supports Obama

for many reasons, including his views on health-care reform. She said she believes that Obama has America’s best interests in mind and that he truly cares about the welfare of the country.

Gold said there are many fac-tors driving her passion for poli-tics.

“My favorite part about poli-tics is being able to exercise a right that some people can only dream of,” Gold said. “I am able to pub-licize my opinion and speak my mind in the hopes of re-electing the president. Some people in other countries are not even able to vote, let alone exercise free speech. I make sure not to take my rights as an American citizen for granted.”

Gold said she wishes that more young people would take an interest in politics and get in-volved, especially now with the presidential election coming up. She is a strong believer in the idea that every vote counts and that stu-dents have the power to choose the direction that our country will go in. She said it has been a great ex-perience for her and she believes others would feel the same in her position.

“Personally, advocating for President Obama’s re-election has been a life-changing experience,” Gold said. “It has made me realize my true calling.”

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I saw democracy in action, and it was one of the most beautiful things I have ever been able to witness.”

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NEW YORK – New York City

cracked down on the sale of super-sized sodas and other sugary drinks Thursday in what was celebrated by some as a groundbreaking attempt to curb obesity, but condemned by others as a blatant intrusion into people’s lives by a busybody mayor.

Public health experts around the nation – and the restaurant and soft-drink industry – will be watch-ing closely to see how it goes over among New Yorkers, a famously disputatious bunch. Barring any court action, the measure will take effect in March.

The regulations, approved easily by the city Board of Health, apply to any establishment with a food-service license, including fast-food places, delis, movie and Broadway theaters, the concession stands at Yankee Stadium and the pizzerias of Little Italy. They will be barred from serving sugary bev-erages in cups or bottles larger than 16 ounces.

No other U.S. city has gone so far as to restrict portion sizes at res-taurants to fi ght weight gain.

“We cannot continue to have our kids come down with diabe-tes at age 6,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The mayor rejected sugges-tions that the rule constitutes an as-sault on personal liberty. “Nobody is banning anything,” he said, not-ing that restaurant customers can still buy as much soda as they want, as long as they are willing to carry it in multiple containers.

He said the inconvenience is well worth the potential pub-lic health benefi t, and likened the city’s actions to measures taken decades ago to phase out lead in household paint.

Others, though, likened the ban to Prohibition. A New York Times poll last month showed that six in 10 New Yorkers opposed the restrictions.

“It’s a slippery slope. When does it stop? What comes next?” said Sebastian Lopez, a college student from Queens. He added: “This is my life. I should be able to do what I want.”

The restrictions do not apply to supermarkets or most conve-nience stores, because such estab-lishments are not subject to Board of Health regulation. And there are exceptions for beverages made mostly of milk or unsweetened fruit juice.

(Because convenience stores are exempt, the rules don’t even apply to 7-Eleven’s Big Gulp, even though the belly-busting serving of soda has become Exhibit A in the debate over Americans’ eating habits.)

Some health experts said it isn’t clear whether the ban will have any effect on obesity. But they said it might help usher in a change in attitude toward overeating, in the same way that many Americans have come to regard smoking as in-considerate.

The regulations follow other ambitious health moves on Bloom-berg’s watch, many of which were

attacked as a push toward a “nanny state.”

Yet some have proved to be national trendsetters, such as mak-ing chain restaurants post calories on their menus. The city has also barred artifi cial trans fats in french fries and other restaurant food, cracked down on smoking and pro-moted breast-feeding over formula.

The Board of Health ap-proved the big-soda ban 8-0, with one member, Dr. Sixto R. Caro, abstaining. Caro, a doctor of inter-nal medicine, said the plan wasn’t comprehensive enough.

Others spoke forcefully of the need for action to deal with an obesity crisis.

“I feel to not act would really be criminal,” said board member Susan Klitzman, director of the Urban Public Health Program at Hunter College. City Health Commissioner Dr. Thomas Farley called the rule “a historic step to address a major health problem of our time.”

The restaurant and beverage industries complained that the city is exaggerating the role sugary beverages have played in making Americans fat.

“This is a political solution and not a health solution,” said Eliot Hoff, a spokesman for an industry-sponsored group called New York-ers for Beverage Choices, which claims to have gathered more than 250,000 signatures on petitions against the plan.

He said the group is consider-ing suing to block the rule.

“We will continue to voice our opposition to this ban and fi ght for the right of New Yorkers to make their own choices. And we will stand with the business owners who will be hurt by these arbitrary limi-tations,” Hoff said in a statement.

Enforcement will be carried out by New York City’s restaurant inspectors. Violations will carry a $200 fi ne.

NYC bans serving large sugary drinks at restaurants

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By BEN FELLERASSOCIATED PRESS

FAIRFAX, Va. — Republi-

can Mitt Romney accused Presi-dent Barack Obama on Thursday of “failing American workers” by ignoring Chinese trade violations, and seized on new Federal Reserve attempts to boost the economy as proof the administration’s policies are not working.

Obama campaigned as com-mander in chief after the violent deaths of four U.S. offi cials at a diplomatic post in Libya. “No act of terror will go unpunished ... no act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America,” he said.

The president spoke in Colo-rado while Romney spoke in Vir-ginia with less than eight weeks remaining in a close campaign for the White House in tough econom-ic times. The two states are among a handful likely to settle the race, and most polls rate Obama a shaky favorite.

With campaign costs mount-ing, Romney and Obama com-peted for the most innovative fun-draising appeal.

The Republican challenger’s campaign urged people in an email to make a $15 donation for a chance to join “Mitt on board the campaign plane for an excit-ing day on the campaign trail — at 30,000 feet!”

Singer and actress Beyonce Knowles and hip-hop-artist-hubby Jay Z countered for the president. “Jay and I will be meeting up with President Obama for an evening in NYC sometime soon,” she wrote. “And we want you to be there.” As with a day aboard Romney’s char-tered jet, a donation was requested for a chance to win.

Only the fi ne print of both fundraising appeals made clear that no contribution was necessary to win.

Romney’s focus on the econ-omy followed a one-day campaign detour into a foreign-policy thicket that left him bruised and his quarry largely unscathed. He made little mention during the day of the events in Egypt and Libya that he had cited Tuesday as evidence of national security weakness on the president’s part.

The issue intruded, though, when a heckler at Romney’s rally yelled out, “Why are you politiciz-ing Libya?” The crowd responded with chants of “U-S-A” and sup-porters tried to place a Romney/Ryan placard in front of the heck-ler’s face.

“We’re going to crack down on China,” the former Massachu-setts governor vowed in an ap-pearance in the Virginia suburbs around Washington, D.C. He spoke after his campaign unveiled a television commercial claiming that China has outpaced the United

States in new manufacturing jobs since the president took offi ce. “Seven times Obama could have stopped China’s cheating. Seven times he refused,” it says.

The president pushed back.White House spokesman Jay

Carney told reporters that all the actions the administration has initiated at the World Trade Or-ganization to rein in China have been successful. The president’s campaign said Obama has brought as many cases challenging China trade policies in three years as for-mer President George W. Bush did in eight.

Inevitably, the Fed’s new at-tempt to intervene in the economy became enmeshed in the campaign.

The nation’s central bank said it will spend $40 billion a month to buy mortgage bonds for as long as it deems necessary to make home buying more affordable. It plans to keep short-term interest rates at record lows through mid-2015 — six months longer than previously

planned — and made clear it’s ready to try other measures to stimulate the economy if hiring doesn’t improve.

“The idea is to quicken the recovery,” said Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke at a news conference where he announced the latest at-tempts to jolt a slow-growth econ-omy that has left joblessness at 8.1 percent.

Carney, the White House press secretary, declined to comment, cit-ing a long-standing policy when it comes to Fed actions.

But Romney, in an interview for ABC’s “Good Morning Ameri-ca,” summarized the central bank’s

moves as an admission of the failure of the president’s own steps to re-store robust economic growth. “And now the Federal Reserve, it says, ‘Look, this economy is not going well. ... They’re going to print more money.”

He added: “The president’s saying the economy’s making prog-ress, coming back. Bernanke’s say-ing, ‘No, it’s not. I’ve got to print

more money.”Romney has said previously

that he opposes more measures along the lines that Bernanke an-nounced during the day, and said in the interview he thought they would not succeed in boosting the economy.

For his part, Obama vowed to do “whatever is necessary” to pro-tect Americans serving abroad.

“We are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice,” he said in Golden, Colo. as two U.S. warships head for the Libyan coast.

Halfway around the world, anti-American protests spread to Yemen.

Obama said the United Status would not consider Egypt an ally, “but we don’t consider them an en-emy.”

The government in Cairo re-ceives roughly $1.5 billion in U.S. aid annually, most of it for the mili-tary.

The president said in an in-terview with the Spanish-language network Telemundo that Egypt is a “new government that is trying to fi nd its way.” And he warned that if the Egyptian government takes actions showing “they’re not taking responsibility,” then it would “be a real big problem.”

Administration offi cials later said the president was not trying to downgrade the relationship be-tween the United States and Egypt.

Romney returns to criticizing Obama on economy

The president’s saying the economy’s making progress, coming back. Bernanke’s saying, ‘No, it’s not. I’ve got to print more money.”

Mitt RomneyRepublican presidential nominee

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By DAVE GRAMASSOCIATED PRESS

MONTPELIER, Vt. – The

Vermont Yankee nuclear plant on Tuesday fi led a lawsuit against the state over taxes on the plant that the Legislature passed this year.

Vermont Yankee had already won a round in federal court over the state’s efforts to close the re-actor in Vernon, 120 miles south of Montpelier. That case is now on appeal at the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in New York.

The new lawsuit, by New Or-leans-based plant owner Entergy Corp., targets taxes that increase the reactor’s annual state tax levy from about $5 million to about $12.8 million, according to a state-ment released by Entergy.

Supporters of the new taxes said they were designed to replace money the plant paid the state un-der agreements in 2003 and 2005 that saw the state drop its opposi-tion to the plant boosting its power output by 20 percent and to the plant’s plan for storage of more highly radioactive nuclear waste on its grounds.

Those agreements lasted until March 21, the end of the plant’s initial 40-year operating license. The Nuclear Regulatory Commis-sion approved a 20-year license extension last year.

Rep. Tony Klein, D-East Montpelier and chairman of the House Natural Resources and En-ergy Committee, said Tuesday the state’s intent was for Vermont Yan-

kee to shut down.But Entergy, after winning

its new federal license last year, sued the state in a bid to stay open, which the plant has succeeded in doing.

U.S. District Court Judge J. Garvan Murtha ruled in January that federal law pre-empted the state from trying to shut its lone reactor down, located in the south-east corner of the state, near Mas-sachusetts and New Hampshire, which both receive power from it. Lawmakers responded by issuing the new tax to make up for the rev-enue lost when the earlier agree-ments expired.

“If they are continuing to operate then they ought to oper-ate under the same conditions that they operated under before,” Klein said Tuesday.

Vermont Yankee, in the law-suit, argued that it had fulfi lled its obligations under the power boost and waste storage agreements and should be free to operate without paying more to the state.

Gov. Peter Shumlin said En-tergy’s decision to challenge the tax was “disappointing.”

“I fi rmly believe the tax is rea-sonable, it is less than the equiva-lent tax on wind projects, and it is comparable to the generating tax on nuclear plants in Connecti-cut,” he said Tuesday night in a statement. “Nevertheless, Entergy clearly prefers to sue the state of Vermont, consistent with its his-tory.”

Vermont Yankee nuke plant sues over new state tax

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Blogger turns entries into paperback novelBy OLIVIA MORLEY

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

What if your favorite blog were turned into a book? You wouldn’t have to pull out your phone or lap-top to search for something creative, inspirational or just funny. It would be a lot more convenient to glance at a book in your spare time and take in one or two simple stories.

Lance Manion didn’t write a novel. He spent fi ve years blogging from his website, lancemanion.com, and fi nally decided to take all of those blog entries and compile them into an easy-to-read and enter-taining paperback book.

The title is Merciful Flush, and it is a published compendium of blog entries. The book includes random, humorous and often bi-zarre short stories. Manion ties the knot between your favorite online blog and your favorite book with this hilarious read.

Each small story that makes up the book is fi lled with dark sa-tirical humor, and the stories in Merciful Flush are morbidly addict-ing. Some will make you want to laugh out loud. While others will inspire you to do something cre-ative, or think about things in a new way. One or two might even make you question your sanity (and your sense of humor).

Almost every story gives the reader a few ponder-worthy quotes. You may fi nd yourself wondering if some stories make any sense at all. You may be puzzled by a story titled, “The Amazing Spider-Man,” which is composed of the one-ended dialogue between a man and a spider. By the end of the story, you may fi nd yourself doubled over in laughter because the nature of the blog entry is so strange, but you will also have an appreciation of the book because you won’t fi nd another like it.

So who is Lance Manion, and how much does his voice leak through in the text? In Manion’s words he looks, “exactly how you want him to look.” In essence, “Lance Manion,” does not exist. The name is simply an alias that he uses in order to keep the public from knowing who he really is.

He also prefers not to disclose any personal details about himself for two main reasons — his strong desire to draw out creativity in his fans and force them to imagine the facts that surround him, and his views on the limelight that sur-rounds celebrities.

“It’s a reaction to my deep-seated dislike to celebrities and the infatuation with the celebrity life-style,” Manion said, “and so even though I am completely unknown,

I don’t think it’s relevant.”Manion is quick on his feet,

and knows exactly what to say to provoke laughter and shock from all who hear him speak or read his sto-ries. He likes the aspect of shock-value, which is why many of his stories are unconventional and often morbid. Manion’s going is getting a reaction from people.

“I don’t mean to offend a sin-gle group of people,” Manion said. “I aim to offend everyone.”

Manion is certainly creative. His stories are not just for fun, though; he often puts emphasis on developing underlying meanings.

“I try to put a lot of subtext in the story,” Manion said. “I like to have at least two underlying themes going for each one.”

So will we ever hear Manion on campus? While he is not against publicly speaking, he is very skepti-cal about it.

“It’s not like I am a hunchback. I have nothing to hide,” Manion said. “I am just painfully sick of people selling themselves. If I come up, I’ll do a book signing, and a col-lege radio interview.”

What Manion is against is be-ing glorifi ed. He is not interested in being a celebrity, and he does not worry about what anyone thinks. He just wants to inspire and enter-tain.

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Two nights of comedy and magic entertain UNHBy ROBERT WILSON

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

UNH students fl ocked to the Granite State Room on the nights of Friday Sept. 7 and Saturday Sept. 8 to enjoy the “Spring into Fall” entertainment. The entertainment, held on both nights, succeeded ev-eryone’s expectations. Crowds of people started to take shape two hours before the show on Friday, as SIC’em hosted Double Comedy Night with Chad Daniels and Arvin Mitchell.

“It was worth the wait,” one student said after the show.

Chad Daniels was the fi rst to start off the night. A Minnesota, Daniels has received many achieve-ments throughout his career. Daniels was named “Artist of the Year” in comedy by City Pages in 2009, has been seen numerous times on “The Bob and Tom Television program,” performed at the Aspen Comedy Festival for Rooftop Comedy, was given the award Comic’s Comic, was voted No. 5 of all time in 2010 in Comedy Central Presents.

Daniels has the honor as being one of 13 comedians to be on the Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien. To add on to his credibility as a co-median, he won the Gilda’s Laugh-

fest Competition, performed on Conan’s new show, and released a free one-hour special called “As Is” on the Internet.

Daniels “deferential” person-ality was able to push the bound-aries of the audience. Whether it was making fun of the state of New Hampshire or bringing up touchy subjects like abortion, religion or racism, it did not stop the audience from laughing hysterically.

It was not just the stretching of boundaries that made Daniels so funny; it was also his honesty to certain situations.

“Babies are miracles. Think about it. When they’re born their feet are tiny. Yet, they can somehow step on all your hopes and dreams,” Daniels said.

After Daniels, Arvin Mitch-ell hit the center stage to wrap up the night. Mitchell holds a strong account of his own. He became a proclaimed comedian entering the comedic scene in 2003 where he fi nished as a runner-up on BET’s “Coming to the Stage.”

His runner-up status sparked himself as a force to be reckoned with in the comedy world, attract-ing many people of all ages to en-joy a good laugh. Mitchell brought a clean-comedic style to the UNH

audience while adding various im-pressions to get the crowd buzzing with non-stop laughter.

“I hate phone-junkies. Every time I turn around I see someone on the phone. I saw this guy get hit by a car and he was still on the phone,” Mitchell said.

The talk about everyday life and the ridiculousness of society fu-eled the fi re to Mitchell’s comedic stand leaving people breathless with overwhelming laughter. The talents of Daniels and Mitchell proved Double Comedy Night a real sensa-tion.

It seemed like nothing could match up to the entertainment value from the night before, but the Co-median, Magician and Smartass Michael Kent matched it on Satur-day night. Michael Kent has been nominated for multiple Campus Activities Awards including “Best New Rising Star,” “Best Small Venue Artist,” and 2012 Entertainer of the Year by Campus Activities Magazine.

Kent invited the huge, yet an-ticipated audience to laugh at the absurdity of the today’s magician. Not only was he hitting the come-dic sides of people and the “wow” of his magic tricks, but also endured the audience with his sarcastic side.

Through his mind-blowing magic tricks, such as making things appear in the audience and his in-sane card tricks, he managed to make the audience come to a com-plete standstill in applause at the end of his show.

His unique style to entertain colleges throughout the United States and other areas around the globe makes him at the top of the entertainment market. Many people after the show simply said it will be “the best” show of the year here at UNH. COURTESY PHOTO

Chad Daniels, one of the comedians who performed at the MUB on Friday, has won numerous awards throughout his comedic career. He performed with Arvin Mitchell, another highly acclaimed comedian.

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September 17-20

By CHARLIE WEINMANNcontributing writer

In their new album, Away From the World, The Dave Mat-thews Band displays many of their signature qualities, while Matthews reveals exactly what is going on in-side his busy mind. Themes of hope and promise for a better tomor-row contrast with a darkness that has always inhabited Matthews’s thoughts and lyrics.

In the sparse, then explosive song “The Riff,” he sings: “Funny how time slips away/Looking at the cracks creeping across my face/No I don’t know the man that’s living in my head/If I don’t know the woman sleeping in my bed.”

The band has matured musi-cally since their last album, Big Whisky and the Groo Grux King, a more introspective and rock and roll-oriented album. In Away From the World there is a familiar, quiet composure about some of the tracks that is reminiscent of the band’s ear-lier work. The band, along with pro-ducer Steve Lillywhite (producer of the band’s first three studio albums), took a step back and looked at some unfinished material the band was working on before their beloved sax player, Leroi Moore, passed away in 2008.

Though even with a calmer approach, those notorious DMB jams are certainly still present in the new album, and are as funky as ever. Dave commented passionately

about the band’s reunion with Lilly-white in the studio: “It was like old friends coming together … He’s as crazy as a loon.”

One of the most notable as-pects of the album is the date the band chose for the album’s release: Sept. 11. A day of reflection, re-membrance and unity for our coun-try, it seems fitting to introduce an album that calls for those very val-ues in such a dark time. Matthews seems to have shifted from singing about personal concerns to more global issues and how he hopes we can fix them by working together as one world.

In the album’s last song, a 10-minute epic called “Drunken Soldier” the band incorporates a small tribute to Pink Floyd and their 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon. Social values and the global consciousness were changing dras-tically at that point in time, and its obvious that DMB feels that there should be a similar change in to-day’s world, and the way we live in it.

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Dueling reviews: � e Five-Year Engagement disappointsBy COURTNEY MILLS

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Judd Apatow produces yet an-other rom-com with The Five Year Engagement. Only this time, the com takes backseat to the nonstop drama that engulfs the two hour be-hemoth.

Tom Solomon (Jason Segel) and Violet Barnes (Emily Blunt) are a cheery young couple living in San Francisco. Tom is a successful chef, and Violet is waiting to hear if she is accepted to Berkley for post-doctor-ate research in psychology. They get engaged, but their wedding is put on the back burner when Violet is ac-cepted into the University of Michi-gan for her post-doc work. Tom wants Violet to follow her dreams, so he quits his job and moves to Michigan with Violet. Violet is wrapped up in her research, while Tom cannot fi nd work and settles for a job at a local sandwich joint.

This becomes a source of con-tention; Violet is convinced that it’s okay to be selfi sh about her career, while Tom is bitter about his new

life and unimpressive job. Spoilers: the couple is put to the test when Vi-olet’s mentor, Winton Childs (Rhys Ifans), kisses her. Tom’s subsequent retaliation is the coup de grâce, and their relationship ends. They spend time apart and date other people, but they eventually get back together and marry.

The overarching message is apparent: “the one” doesn’t exist, and no relationship is perfect. With that said, when a couple chooses to be together, they should strive to work through their problems.

It’s refreshing to see a rom-com that accurately portrays rela-tionships and the realistic factors that can strain them (e.g. career goals). Although these qualities add depth, they aren’t enough to save the fi lm. It relies too much on the eccentric personalities of the char-acters rather than actual jokes. In addition, the awkward jokes feel forced rather than organic, and they drag out the skits until they are not amusing any longer (e.g. the Elmo and Cookie Monster scene). Alto-gether, it’s good and bad qualities

make it an average fl ick. A consequence of a fi lm this

average is that it’s forgettable. The situations and jokes are hard to re-call shortly after its viewing, and its poignancy does not make up for its fl aws. It’s also predictable, which is a shame for a fi lm that illustrates realistic relationship problems. In the end, The Five Year Engagement is just your average rom-com. If you’re going to see a movie in the MUB this weekend, opt out of The Five Year Engagement for The Cab-in in the Woods.

Final Score: 2 out of 4 stars

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By ARJUNA RAMGOPALSTAFF WRITER

The Five-Year Engagement, starring Jason Segal and Emily Blunt, is a romantic comedy that warms the heart and breaks away from some of the stereotypes of rom-com, but also feels overly long and awkward at points.

Without giving up much of the plot, the fi lm starts out introducing the main characters, Tom (Segal) and Violet (Blunt), and their fairly awkward, yet amusing proposal. The fi lm, as the title suggests, shows their impeding engagement and planning for a wedding that constantly gets pushed back.

The fi lm itself is actually quite long for a comedy: over two hours. While the pacing of the fi lm is quite balanced throughout, there are spe-cifi c scenes that drag on much too long. The comedy itself is OK, but not extremely witty. While the cast from top to bottom does a remark-able job, especially Blunt and Se-gal, their jokes are based more on awkwardness that is hit-or-miss throughout.

The awkward comedy is the more modern comedic style used in fi lms now, but this fi lm gener-ally makes these awkward-comedic scenes run a little too long. The ac-

tors themselves seem to be lost at these points as well.

The fi lm also gets surprisingly dark and depressing at points. While this adds more of a realistic element to the fi lm, furthering itself from the stereotypes of rom-com, it also cre-ates moments that are completely unexpected and leave the viewer scratching his or her head.

The cinematography is fairly straightforward: nothing too fancy or unique. The score of the fi lm is quite mellow throughout and there were large portions of the movie, generally the dramatic parts, that had no music. That element certain-ly added to the intensity, but also aided in making scenes feel longer.

The overall message of the fi lm was quite touching. While there is a happy ending to The Five-Year Engagement, the scenes leading up to the climax are refreshing and are really the heart and soul of the fi lm.

The Five-Year Engagement is defi nitely worth a watch. While it is long and cringe-worthy at some points, the strong chemistry be-tween the cast, and a different take on a re-hashed fi lm genre, make it all worth it.

Final Score: 2.5 out of 4 stars

Imagine Dragons: Night VisionsBy CHARLIE WEINMANN

CONRIBUTING WRITER

Imagine Dragons fi nally re-leased their fi rst studio album titled Night Visions. After three years of being together, the band has re-leased several EPs, and now their work has fi nally culminated into a full album. Night Visions debuted at No. 1 on iTunes in its release week.

Imagine Dragons takes ad-vantage of new wave music trends by incorporating styles that are reminiscent of genres like dub step, dance, and folk rock. The albums diversity in style gives the listener an interesting take on contemporary music.

The song “Radioactive,” a heavy, fi erce song with a thick beat and synthesizers, is one of the most popular songs on the record. Skip to the third track, and you’ll fi nd that the song “It’s Time” begins with a mandolin picking a cheerful tune,

which turns into a sing-along in the chorus.

This band is the perfect ex-ample of what is becoming more and more popular in todays music scene. Take some passionate lyrics, a synth, a drumbeat that is dance-able and a catchy riff, and you have yourself a No. 1 record. Of course it’s not that simple in reality, but Imagine Dragons, being talented musicians and crafty innovators have taken advantage of this golden formula.

They are fi nding that they are becoming more successful than they ever could have dreamed. The band was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award for the “Best rock video” category. In an inter-view before the awards, the band was asked what they thought of its nomination. Member D Wayne Sermon answered, “Uh wow. Zero percent chance for us. That’s what we thought.”

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By GILLIAN FLACCUSAssociAted Press

HEMET, Calif. — The public face for the anti-Muslim film in-flaming the Middle East is not the filmmaker, but an insurance agent and Vietnam War veteran whose unabashed and outspoken hatred of radical Muslims has drawn the at-tention of civil libertarians, who say he’s a hate monger.

With the Coptic Christian film-maker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula in hiding, film promoter Steve Klein has taken center stage in the unfold-ing international drama. He’s given a stream of interviews about the film and the man he says he knew only as Sam Bacile, and is using the atten-tion to talk about his own political views.

Nakoula, who used Bacile spelled multiple ways as a pseud-onym, contacted Klein months ago for advice about the limits of Ameri-can free speech and asked for help vetting the movie’s script, Klein said in an interview with The As-sociated Press. The filmmaker asked the 61-year-old grandfather if he would act as a spokesman if the film “caught on,” and he agreed.

The role dovetailed with Klein’s relentless pursuit of radi-cal Muslims in America, an activ-ity he says he began after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. It took on more meaning in 2007, when his son, a 32-year-old Army staff sergeant, was seriously injured in Iraq in 2007. Matthew Klein, a medic, was awarded the Bronze Star for brav-ery and a Purple Heart for injuries he suffered in the attack by a suicide bomber, according to the Army Hu-man Resources Command.

“What do I get out of this? I get to die one of these days hoping my granddaughters and my grandsons will be safe from these monsters,” Klein said while sipping a beer on the front porch of his home.

He claimed to have visited “ev-ery mosque in California” and iden-tified “500 to 750 of these people

who are future suicide bombers and murderers.”

“Those are the guys I’m look-ing for. I’m not interested in mom and pop running a pizza store or run-ning a smoky shop, a hookah shop,” he said.

Klein works with his wife as an insurance agent out of a small office on the second floor of a downtrod-den business complex in Hemet, a small city in the shadows of the San Jacinto Mountains about 90 miles southeast of Los Angeles. He de-scribes himself as a failed real estate investor who lost 20 properties in the recession. In 2002, he was the American Independent Party’s can-didate for state insurance commis-sioner in 2002, receiving 2 percent of the vote.

The Southern Poverty Law Center says they have been tracking Klein for several years and have la-beled two of the organizations he is affiliated with as hate groups.

Klein founded Courageous Christians United, which conducts protests outside abortion clinics, Mormon temples and mosques, and started Concerned Citizens for the First Amendment, which preaches against Muslims and publishes vol-umes of anti-Muslim propaganda that Klein distributes. He also has helped train paramilitary militias at the church of Kaweah near Three Rivers, about an hour southeast of Fresno, to prepare for what they believe is a coming holy war with Muslim sleeper cells, according to the law center.

“It’s extreme, ugly, violent rhetoric and the fact that he’s in-volved in that weapons training at that church, when you combine things like weapons training with hatred of a people, that’s very con-cerning to us. Those are the kind of things that lead to hate crimes,” said Heidi Beirich, director of the cen-ter’s Intelligence Project.

Beirich said her group has not linked Klein to any violence. A re-view of California court records shows only two minor traffic cases

for Klein.Klein is not affiliated with the

church of Kaweah, Pastor Warren Mark said. He was invited to speak about Islam and hasn’t been back in more than a year.

Klein dismissed the concerns of his critics, angrily calling them “the wife-beaters and the pedophiles.”

“Those people are screwballs. End of comment,” he said.

What Klein has been eager to discuss in the days since his name became publicly linked to Nakoula is his role in the film’s creation and his own political views.

Klein said he recognized paral-lels between what he saw in Viet-nam, where he says he infiltrated Viet Cong cells, and “Muslim sleep-er cells” he began finding after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. He visits mosques and confronts young Mus-lim men who “dress up like Osama bin Laden and Yasser Arafat.”

Military records obtained by the AP from the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis show he served in the Marine Corps from 1968 to 1977 on active duty and re-ceived a service star for participat-ing in the campaign in Vietnam. He also received a good conduct medal and a combat action medal before retiring in 1980 with the rank of first lieutenant.

“I’m kind of an unsophisticat-ed James Bond operative. I want to piss this guy off, I want to find out, Why does he want to kill me?” he said. “Why does he want to capture my daughter and granddaughter and rape them? Why does this guy want to act this way?”

That work indirectly led him to his affiliation with Nakoula, an

Egyptian Christian living outside Los Angeles, who contacted him about making an anti-Muslim mov-ie.

Klein reviewed the script and then the man disappeared, only to resurface months later with a com-plete film ready to show at a movie theater in Hollywood.

The filmmaker’s idea was to give the film a title that would draw in “hardcore Muslims” and then trick them into watching a movie that bashed Islam in the hopes that they would give up their faith, Klein said.

Nakoula papered Southern California mosques with flyers about the “Innocence of Mus-lims,” but not one ticket was sold, said Klein, who said Nakoula was crushed.

The AP has tried without suc-cess to find a copy of the entire film.

Later, a 14-minute trailer showed up on YouTube and has been blamed for inflaming mobs that attacked U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya this week as well as U.S. Embassy in Yemen on Thursday. U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens was one of four Americans killed Tuesday in an attack in Libya.

Klein said he had no regrets about participating in the movie’s creation.

“Do I have blood on my hands? No. Did I kill this guy? No,” he said. “Do I feel guilty that these people were incited? Guess what? I didn’t incite them. They’re pre-incited, they’re pre-programmed to do this.”

Anti-Muslim film promoter outspoken on Islam

President’s Distinguished Speaker Series

Cameron Johnson/staff

Harold Irving Grousbeck, managing partner of the Boston Celtics, spoke at the Strafford Room on Thursday as part of President Huddleston’s Distinguished Speaker Series.

Do I have blood on my hands? No. Did I kill this guy? No.”

Steve KleinFilm Promoter

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TNHWe have Issues

HAMPTON – A New Hamp-shire police chief who was killed in the line of duty has been honored with a Medal of Valor at an annual gathering of New England law en-forcement officers.

Michael Maloney, the police chief in Greenland, was killed in April when he and several other of-ficers came under fire while carrying out a search warrant. Four other of-ficers were injured.

On Wednesday, his father, John Maloney, accepted the medal from the New England Association of Chiefs of Police. The ceremony was in Hampton.

The award is given to one po-lice officer in New England every year. WMUR-TV reports members of the association said they chose Maloney because of his heroic ac-tions when he and several other of-ficers came under fire.

“If you look at the circumstanc-es, he was involved in actually sav-ing other officers’ lives,” said Robert Campbell, police chief in Agawam, Mass. “Somebody who’s willing to give their life for the safety of their other officers is certainly the ulti-mate sacrifice.”

Fallen Greenlandpolice chief honored

By DAVID SHARPAssociAted Press

PORTLAND, Maine – Am-

trak’s Downeaster is ready to roll northward to Freeport and Bruns-wick with the service kicking off on Nov. 1, ahead of Thanksgiving travel and holiday shopping, offi-cials said Wednesday.

Banners announcing the new service and schedule adjustments were installed in stations along the route on Wednesday, said Patricia Quinn, executive director of the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority. Tickets for the new service go on sale on Oct. 1.

“It’s a huge milestone,” Quinn said Wednesday. “Really, the ser-vice expanding to Freeport and Brunswick was always part of the plan. When we inaugurated the service in 2001, it was supposed to happen in a couple of years. To make it finally happen is pretty ex-

citing.”The Downeaster is coming off

a record year with 528,292 passen-gers.

Initially, two of the five daily roundtrips between Portland and Boston will travel to Brunswick. The expanded service is expected to add 36,000 more passengers each year, Quinn said.

Amtrak President and Chief Executive Officer Joe Boardman said the expanded rail service “co-incides with record ridership de-mand on both the Downeaster and rail travel throughout the country.”

Expanding the Downeaster northward to Freeport, home to L.L. Bean’s flagship store and out-let shopping, and Brunswick, home of Bowdoin College, required im-provements to more than 30 miles of rail, rehabilitation of 36 crossings and construction of two station plat-forms. Remaining track work will be completed in weeks.

Amtrak Downeaster rolls to Brunswick

NH Briefs

CONCORD – John McCain, the 2008 GOP nominee for presi-dent, will visit New Hampshire next week to campaign for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

McCain will be in Nashua, Franklin and Portsmouth on Mon-day. He’s expected to speak and take questions in town hall-style forums at Veterans of Foreign Wars halls.

He’s scheduled to be in Nashua at 10 a.m., Franklin at 1 p.m. and Portsmouth at 4:30 p.m.

McCain to stump for Romney in Concord

The New HampshireFriday, September 14, 201214 NEWS

By ANDREA BULFINCHFoster’s Daily Democrat

It was the quick reaction of students Tuesday afternoon at Oyster River High School that helped a teacher who collapsed during shop class get the appro-priate care, according to Principal Todd Allen.

At about 1:30 p.m., Dur-ham Fire and Rescue responded to a call from the high school for an unresponsive man possibly having seizures and who, at one point, went into cardiac arrest, Fire Chief Corey Landry said. The teacher was transported by McGregor Memorial EMS to Wentworth-Douglass Hospital in Dover.

Students, who are all trained in CPR through their physical education and health classes, rushed to get the school nurse, who brought an automated exter-nal defibrillator; a physical educa-tion teacher assisted by providing CPR.

“The students just han-dled the situation extremely well,” Allen said. “They im-mediately went and got help.” While the name of the teacher is not being released, Allen said he believed the shop teacher had been at ORHS for about 16 years. He said all indications at this point regarding the man’s condi-tion are that things are going well.

According to Allen, stu-dents and staff members are both trained in CPR.

“One of the things I’m par-ticularly pleased with is that we’ve made it an initiative to have everyone CPR trained,” he said. Training is offered every two years for certification.

On Tuesday, that prepa-ration was put into action. “We had a lot of trained people doing what they needed to be do-ing,” he said.

Landry said he gives those who responded so quickly “all the credit in the world” for making a difference in administering care. Allen said since instances like these can happen any time, “you never know who will need to re-spond.”

Having everyone at the school trained in life sav-ing measures helps to pro-vide a safe environment. “These are definitely kids we can be proud of. They really stepped up to the plate,” he said.

By NANCY BENACassociateD Press

WASHINGTON – Barack

Obama goes airborne in a doozy of a bear hug with a pizza guy in Florida. Joe Biden cozies up with a biker chick in Ohio. Paul Ryan encircles a campaign supporter in North Carolina in a double-armed embrace. Even the more reserved Mitt Romney seems to be loosen-ing up some with people he meets on the campaign trail.

Kissing babies and slapping backs are so yesterday.

The 2012 candidates are put-ting their all into the campaign cli-che of pressing the flesh.

“America’s become more touchy-feely,” says Lillian Glass, a body language expert based in Los Angeles. “That’s what they want in their candidates, and that’s what they’re getting.”

When 74-year-old Jan Queen locked on to Biden for a hug and kiss in Jackson, Ohio, on Saturday, she didn’t budge for a minute or so.

“I told him he was so hand-some, so good-looking, that I was not going to let go of him,” Queen reported afterward.

“Will you write a note to my wife and tell her that?” Biden asked with a grin.

It was just another friendly campaign schmooze for Biden, the most natural people-person among the four top candidates.

But the vice president raised eyebrows Sunday when he bud-died up next to a bandana-and-leather-clad biker at a diner in Seaman, Ohio. In photos of the encounter, it almost looks as if the woman is sitting on Biden’s lap, but her chair was just pulled up close to the vice president, who leaned in behind her and put both hands on her shoulders.

The photo and accompany-ing stories soon went viral as the public and campaign partisans dis-sected the propriety of the pose.

Plenty of people also were taken aback by images of Obama being hoisted well off the floor

when 46-year-old Scott Van Duzer enfolded him in a chest-to-chest bear hug on Sunday.

Obama had stopped in at Van Duzer’s pizza place in Fort Pierce, Fla., during a weekend bus trip across the state, and spoke admir-ingly of the owner’s big “guns.” It was a reference to the impressive arm muscles on the 6-foot-3 res-taurateur, who decided to demon-strate what he – or they – could do by powerlifting the president.

Van Duzer, a Republican, said he voted for Obama in 2008 and will vote for him again this November, adding, “I do feel ex-tremely comfortable with him.”

And that’s what all this touch-ing and feeling is about – making voters comfortable with the candi-dates.

The candidates are “going af-ter personal likability,” says Glass. “We love genuineness in our poli-ticians, we love that warmth, and we love somebody that we can re-late to.”

Politicians have always tried to connect with voters. Kissing babies has long been a campaign requirement. People like to see passion in their candidates.

Al Gore’s long smooch with wife Tipper after his nomination acceptance speech at the Demo-cratic National Convention in 2000 led some people to look at him in a new light.

Romney, for his part, deliv-ered a more standard bye-honey-

see-you-tonight kiss on his wife’s lips on his convention stage this year.

But he does seem more at ease now than back during the prima-ries, when he rather awkwardly pretended that a waitress at a New Hampshire diner had goosed him.

Gerald Shuster, a professor of political communication at the University of Pittsburgh, says the GOP nominee seems more spon-taneous in his recent interactions with voters. “And that’s something he needs to do,” says Shuster, “to take away the rap on him that he’s cold and aloof from the audience.”

Romney’s running mate is a more physical campaigner.

When Ryan is announced to a crowd, he often shakes hands and gives high-fives and quick hugs to folks who press up against the waist-high metal barriers that hold back the audience. After events, he lingers, posing for pictures, hug-ging anyone who wants his em-brace, often using both hands to touch the crowd.

Obama, at times, comes across more as the recipient of campaign love than the dispenser.

In July, he began an appear-ance in West Palm Beach, Fla., by remarking that he’d just received “the most kisses I’ve gotten at any campaign event.” And when a phone went off during his remarks, Obama speculated that it was his wife, Michelle.

“She heard all those women were kissing me,” he joked. “She got a little nervous. She’s feeling a little jealous.”

Of course, Michelle Obama has her own reputation as a liberal dispenser of hugs wherever she goes.

The barriers between presi-dential candidates and the public gradually have gotten higher in the years since the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the attempts on the lives of Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan.

Former President Bill Clinton chafed at the restrictions and still managed to maintain plenty of contact with people.

But Shuster says the restric-tions aren’t necessarily a bad thing in the view of many candidates, who don’t always want to chat up every voter in sight.

“I honestly feel like they like the fact that the Secret Service has not permitted them to do things like that,” he says. “It could go on forever.”

John McCain, the GOP nomi-nee in 2008, was known to dis-creetly pump some hand sanitizer after making contact with voters. Secret Service agents carried some for Clinton, too. Candidates want the public’s votes, not their germs.

In the case of Van Duzer’s powerlift of the president, the piz-za man said Secret Service agents told him he “was all right as long as I didn’t take him away.”

Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said that when candi-dates are out in public, agents “are constantly making assessments on the appropriateness of the behav-ior of the people” around them. He added that in this case, the agents “felt that the behavior was appro-priate and was consistent with the event.”

After Van Duzer brought the president back down to earth, Obama diplomatically declared, “Look at that!”

But Glass, the body language expert, says Obama didn’t look all that pleased.

“That was a little overboard,” she says.

Van Duzer said Wednesday he’s gotten a crush of supportive calls and visits since critics online pounced on him for his bear hug – and support of Obama. He said he’d be happy to campaign for the president if asked.

As for Biden, he proffers both one-armers and two-arm hugs, and high-fives and kisses and shoulder rubs of people of all ages and both genders. And of course he slaps a few backs, too.

“He wants to fit in so badly, it’s kind of a like a puppy that just wants to belong,” says Glass. “He’s overshooting the mark.”

Students ‘step up’ when teacher collapses

Bear hugs, biker babe: Campaign 2012 gets physical

America’s become more touchy-feely. That’s what they want in their can-didates, and that’s what they’re get-ting.”

Lillian GlassBody language expert

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By HOLLY RAMERassociateD Press

CONCORD – Two advocacy

groups sued the state Wednesday over a new law that effectively blocks out-of-state students from voting in New Hampshire unless they establish legal residency in the state.

The state chapters of the League of Women Voters and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a petition in Strafford County Superior Court on behalf of four out-of-state students who attend the University of New Hampshire, Southern New Hampshire Uni-versity and Keene State College. They argue that the law freezes out eligible voters from participating in the upcoming state and federal elec-tions and asked a judge to block the law’s enforcement.

The law, which was passed over Gov. John Lynch’s veto, re-quires people registering to vote to sign a statement saying they declare

New Hampshire their domicile and are subject to laws that apply to all residents, including laws requir-ing drivers to register cars and get a New Hampshire driver’s license.

In the past, students could make New Hampshire their do-micile for voting purposes while maintaining legal residency in other states. While that is still technically true – the new law doesn’t require them to be “residents” – it makes them subject to all of the approxi-mately 600 laws that go along with residency.

“Students are left with either signing a statement that doesn’t reflect New Hampshire laws or be-ing forced to give up their constitu-tional right to vote,” said Joan Ash-well, election law specialist for the League of Women Voters of New Hampshire.

Claire Ebel, director of the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union, compared the new law to an unconstitutional poll tax, saying it

would discriminate against students who couldn’t afford to register their cars and pay driver’s license fees.

“You cannot single out catego-ries of people and then discriminate among them,” she said.

The law’s backers, however, argued that it simply clarified that people should vote where they live.

“A fundamental premise of having elections that reflect the will of the citizens of a communi-ty or a state is that those who vote should be those who live in the city or town, and certainly the state, in which they are voting,” House Speaker William O’Brien, R-Mont Vernon, said last week when the U.S. Justice Department ruled that the law did not discriminate against racial minorities.

New Hampshire is among a group of states, including Missis-sippi, Louisiana and Alabama, that are required under the Voting Rights Act of 1964 to submit any election law changes to the Department of

Justice to determine whether they would result in racial discrimina-tion. The state came under the act’s purview because of poor voter turn-out in 10 towns in the 1968 presi-dential election and because it still had a literacy test on the books at the time.

A hearing is set for Sept. 19 on the court petition. In the meantime, the groups are deciding whether to also challenge the state’s new vot-er identification law.

Under that law, voters will be required to show photo identifica-tion or sign an affidavit beginning in November’s general election. A wide range of identification, including student IDs, will be ac-cepted this year, but after that only driver’s licenses, state-issued non-driver’s identification cards, pass-ports or military IDs will allowed. Someone without photo identifica-tion would sign an affidavit and be photographed by an election offi-cial.

NH voter registration law challenged in court

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MANCHESTER – The New Hampshire Institute of Politics and Political Library is teaming with the online tool TurboVote to help some Saint Anselm College students register to vote.

Out-of-state students can register online and receive an absentee ballot to vote in the November election using Tur-boVote. TurboVote is available to Saint Anselm students dur-ing September. Student-assisted sign-up sessions will be held on campus this week.

New Hampshire students must register locally due to spe-cific in-statwe regulations.

By JOHN SEEWERAssociAted Press

CLEVELAND – Jurors

have ended their first day of de-liberations without a verdict in the trial of 16 people accused of hate crimes in hair- and beard-cutting attacks against fellow Amish in Ohio.

The jury began consider-ing charges Thursday morning in U.S. District Court in Cleve-land.

The members of a break-away Amish settlement are ac-cused of hate crimes in what federal prosecutors say were attacks motivated by religious differences. They say the de-fendants cut off Amish men’s beards and women’s hair be-cause the hair carries spiritual significance in their faith.

Day 1 of deliberating in Amish case ends

In BriefNH institute helps state students register to vote

BOSTON – The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is opening an ex-hibit of the first U.S. manned space capsule.

Freedom 7, going on display Wednesday, was piloted by Alan Shepard. The New Hampshire native made a 15-minute subor-bital flight in 1961.

The capsule weighs 2,422 pounds and is about 6 feet in di-ameter and 9 feet, 5 inches tall. It’s on loan from the Smithsonian Institution.

Three students from Pinker-ton Academy in Derry, N.H., where Shepard went to school, will be on hand for the opening. They’re bringing a banner of their school mascot, the Astros.

Shepard commanded the 1971 Apollo 14 mission. He hit a golf ball on the moon.

Shepard died in 1998 at age 74.

The exhibit marks the 50th an-niversary of Kennedy’s speech on America’s manned space program at Rice University in Houston.

JFK Library to display Shepard’s space capsule

By JIMMY GOLENAssociAted Press

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – The ivy crawling up the red brick col-umns of Harvard’s Murr Center has begun to wither and brown as fall approaches, and with it the start of this year’s sports seasons.

Inside the athletic department headquarters, coaches prepared for upcoming games and students lift-ed in the weight room. Workmen repaired the Harvard Stadium con-crete to get it ready for the school’s 139th football opener against San Diego, and players headed into the Dillon Field House to change for practice.

However, some of them might not make it to Saturday’s kickoff.

The Harvard College Admin-istrative Board is investigating whether as many as 125 students may have shared answers or plagia-rized on an open-book, take-home final exam for a single class, report-edly “Introduction to Congress.” Although the school, citing federal privacy laws, would not identify the class or individual students in-volved, reports say the senior co-captains of the basketball team and several football and baseball play-ers are among those implicated.

“It really is a university matter and the athletic department is just one component of the university,” Harvard sports information director Kurt Svoboda said on Wednesday. “I cannot speculate on how this re-cent news might affect any univer-sity program or department.”

Football coach Tim Murphy also declined to comment on spe-cifics, and basketball coach Tommy Amaker was unavailable for com-ment. No one has been removed from the football or basketball rosters, which are posted on the athletic department website, and the football coaching staff signed off on a depth chart for Saturday’s game, Svoboda said.

“All of our 24 projected start-

ers are in good academic standing,” said Murphy, who missed Wednes-day’s football media luncheon for what Svoboda said was a previous-ly scheduled, all-coach admissions meeting.

Long considered one of the best academic institutions in the world, Harvard has been improv-ing in athletics as well, winning the Ivy League title in football last year and reaching the NCAA basketball tournament for the first time in 46 years.

But the unprecedented cheat-ing scandal and the reported link to some of the school’s top athletes raises the question of whether suc-cess in sports has required academic compromise at the institution that, on the list released Wednesday, placed first in the annual U.S. News & World Report college rankings for the fifth consecutive year.

Harvard President Drew Faust was not immediately available for comment Wednesday. But she said last week that the yet-unproven al-legations, “represent totally unac-ceptable behavior that betrays the trust upon which intellectual in-quiry at Harvard depends.” Faust also alluded to the scandal in last week’s convocation for the incom-ing freshman, quoting a letter sent to them by undergraduate dean Jay Harris that said, “Without integrity, there can be no genuine achieve-ment.”

“That is what each of us owes to Harvard,” she told the students when she welcomed the Class of 2016 to campus. “But, far more im-portantly, it is what each of us owes to ourselves.”

In confirming the investiga-tion, Harvard officials stressed that the school has not yet determined whether any students cheated on the exam, which allowed them to use books, notes and the Internet but also said, according to a copy of the test obtained by The Harvard Crimson, “Students may not dis-cuss the exam with others.”

Even so, the school newspaper reported on Wednesday, an assistant professor noted similarities among the exams turned in by students, including a typo – an extraneous space in the number “22, 500” – that was present in two exams.

Harris said that the Admin-istrative Board could exonerate students or hand out punishments ranging from admonishment to re-quiring them to take a year off. But the delay in resolving the cases is especially troublesome for athletes trying to navigate NCAA and Ivy League eligibility rules while wait-ing to learn their punishment – or whether they will be punished at all by the secretive Harvard disciplin-ary panel known and feared by stu-dents as the “Ad Board.”

The Crimson obtained an email from John Ellison, the Ad Board’s secretary, advising athletes to weigh potential Ivy League eligi-bility issues when deciding whether or not to remain on campus for the fall term. “Fall-term athletes may also want to consider taking (a leave) before their first game,” El-lison wrote, according to the paper.

Sports Illustrated first reported on its website that Kyle Casey, the leading scorer on last year’s Ivy League champion basketball team, had decided to withdraw from school rather than risk losing his

final year of eligibility; the Bos-ton Herald reported that his fellow captain, Brandyn Curry, also was expected to withdraw from classes. NCAA rules would dock the play-ers, both seniors, their final year of eligibility if they withdrew af-ter beginning classes or competing against another school.

For other sports, it’s already too late.

Field hockey played its first game on Sept. 1. Men’s and wom-en’s soccer have also started their seasons already, meaning any play-ers who are asked to take a year off would forfeit a full year of eligibil-ity. (Decisions from the Ad Board could come at any time, but the unprecedented investigation is ex-pected to take weeks or months.)

Stopped outside the field house Wednesday, running back Treavor Scales declined to com-ment, saying he knew little about the scandal. Across the river, where some students hurried to classes and others suntanned on a grassy quad between the upperclass hous-es and Harvard Square, few were willing to discuss the events with a reporter.

“Everyone here’s pretty busy. We’re all getting ready for our own classes,” said Will Dingee, a soph-omore majoring in Classics. “Per-haps professors are talking about academic integrity a little more than they regularly would.”

Dingee said he didn’t know anyone who had taken Government 1310, an upper-level class that would probably have been filled with juniors that are now seniors and seniors who have since gradu-ated. Although the cheating scandal dominated discussion when stu-dents first returned to campus, he said most are more worried now about the death of a junior who killed himself at his New Hamp-shire home last week.

“That has taken over what is concerning the student body right now,” Dingee said.

Academic cheating scandal taints Harvard opener

The Harvard Col-lege Administrative Board is investigat-ing whether as many as 125 students may have shared answers or plagiarized on an open-book, take-home final exam.

By BEN FELLERAssociAted Press

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Re-

publican Mitt Romney slammed the Obama administration’s handling of foreign affairs after attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions in Egypt and Libya as foreign policy pushed to the front of the presidential cam-paign.

Romney branded the admin-istration’s early response to the at-tacks as “disgraceful” in a statement the former Massachusetts governor released before confirmation that the American ambassador had been killed.

Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt said the campaign was “shocked that, at a time when the United States of America is confronting the tragic death of one of our diplomat-ic officers in Libya, Gov. Romney would choose to launch a political attack.” The president planned to make a statement Wednesday morn-ing in a White House Rose Garden appearance with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.

U.S. ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three American

members of his staff were killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi. Libyan officials said the attack was carried out by protesters angry over an ob-scure film by a California filmmak-er that ridiculed Islam’s Prophet Muhammad.

Romney pounced on the news of the attacks, trying to seize an opportunity to criticize President Barack Obama on an area where voters see him as a stronger lead-er. Polling shows Americans trust Obama more on foreign policy and national security – areas where Re-publicans traditionally have an edge in public opinion. An appearance scheduled Wednesday morning before his Jacksonville, Fla., cam-paign office was quickly changed, with supporters gathered to hear the candidate speak quickly ushered out so Romney could take questions from reporters in response to the Libyan developments.

But voters – and Romney’s campaign – have been more fo-cused on the economy than security in this election. And Romney gave Obama an opening for criticism

when he didn’t offer a salute to the troops or reference the war in Af-ghanistan during his speech to the Republican National Convention two weeks ago.

The question has been whether a crisis in Iran or Syria could create a campaign issue for Obama, but instead, the attacks sparked by the film has brought an unexpected crisis. Romney jumped on the development to argue Obama isn’t leading on for-eign policy. It’s unclear whether the ambassador’s death will catch the attention of voters rather than the war in Afghanistan or Obama’s leadership in the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

Obama was more cautious in responding to the attacks as the sit-uation evolved. The White House says Obama was informed of the Libya attacks Tuesday afternoon during his weekly meeting with Pentagon leaders and told later in the evening that Stevens was unac-counted for. Obama learned of the ambassador’s death Wednesday morning, the White House said.

The situation threatened to

get worse, with U.S. embassies in the Libyan border nations of Alge-ria and Tunisia warning Americans to avoid crowded places where even peaceful protests planned for Wednesday could turn violent.

On Capitol Hill, House and Senate Republicans mostly steered clear of the political criticism that Romney leveled at Obama over foreign policy, focusing on the lives lost in the Egyptian and Libyan attacks and imploring the two governments to condemn the incidents and protect American diplomatic missions.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a member of the Foreign Relations Committee who has traveled to Libya and met with Stevens, said: “The Libyan and Egyptian people should understand that the U.S. shares their commitment to build-ing more hopeful and prosper-ous nations. However, if left un-checked, violent attacks like these against our embassies and diplo-mats will lead Libya and Egypt down a dark path and rob them of their hopes of a more prosperous and democratic future.”

Romney criticizes Obama in wake of Libyan embassy attacks

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Freedom of tweets

It is truly a sign of the times when a newspaper editorial board is giving its opinion on a contro-

versial Twitter account. But that is where we stand now, as the account, @unh_d, is under investigation by the University of New Hampshire police for posting potentially harmful tweets.

The account was deactivated on Thursday, Sept. 6, but it has since reappeared with a different handle (@UNHDICK). It has kept the name “UNH_D” and currently has over 1,000 followers.

As reported in the Tuesday, Sept. 11 issue of The New Hampshire, detractors of the account were con-cerned that @unh_d was advocating rape and creating an unsafe environ-ment for women on campus.

Before it was originally deacti-vated, @unh_d’s tweets mostly de-scribed situations in which a woman would want to engage in sexual activity with a man. One tweet, for example, read, “If anything she’s wearing involves glitter, she wants the D.”

There is no doubt that the ac-

count’s tweets were and are juvenile, lewd and, in some cases, moronic. But that does not exclude it from being protected under the First

Amendment. Freedom of speech is one of our

most basic and inalienable rights. We live in a country that allows anyone, no matter his or her social status, to speak out about anything. It allows us to criticize government, religion and other institutions without fear of being arrested.

It also allows for humor that is both controversial and offensive.

But the other side of this story is that those criticizing the account are exercising their fi rst amend-ment rights as well. There is nothing wrong with denouncing @unh-d and calling for a boycott of the account. If they feel that the account is pro-moting something that is potentially dangerous, they have every right to express that as well. It is all a part of the public forum.

What is not acceptable, however, is taking legal action against some-one who has not broken any law. The creator of the @unh_d account did not personally or directly attack any individual or any group. Everything else is up to interpretation.

As Dean of Students Anne Lawing said in Tuesday’s front page story, “there was nothing on [@unh_d’s] page that violated the boundary of protected speech.”

It is dangerous to draw a line in the sand when it comes to free speech. Either everything is protected or nothing is safe from censorship. Even a Twitter account that makes crude jokes should be protected by the First Amendment.

It is dangerous to draw a line in the sand when it comes to free speech. Either everything is protect-ed or nothing is safe from censorship.

Legislature must listen to USNH proposal

USNH Trustees voted unani-mously on Thursday to pro-pose a deal in which in-state

tuition will freeze for the next two years if the state restores the massive funding cuts it made to the university system in 2011. It is a plea to the N.H. state legislature to prioritize higher education instead of margin-alizing it. And it is a motion that we fully support.

The Granite State’s univer-sity system was already one of the lowest-funded systems in the nation before the 2011 budget cuts. Then, the state legislature slashed nearly 50 percent of USNH’s budget, a historic cut to higher education.

The university was forced to lay off hundreds of workers and institute a hiring freeze in order to absorb 80 percent of the cuts. Raising tuition made up for the fi nal 20 percent.

UNH has done its best to remain affordable in tough economic times. But these budget cuts will force the university to invariably raise tuition, for both in-state and out-of-state

students, in the near future. That can be avoided if the state

government recognizes that this uni-versity is an invaluable part of New Hampshire’s economy. UNH is not just an institution that leeches state

funding and gives nothing in return. As university President Mark

Huddleston pointed out in an email to the UNH student body on Thurs-day, a recent study found that UNH contributes $1.4 billion to the state’s economy. But it only receives $40 million in return in state funding.

It may seem unlikely that the state legislature will even consider the trustees’ proposal. After all, the statehouse is still dominated by Republicans who supported these budget cuts in the fi rst place. But UNH must do its part to make them listen.

In his email to the student body, President Huddleston urged students to “join [him] in conversation with our elected offi cials.” This is perhaps the most vital part of USNH’s pro-posal. It means nothing if the state legislature does not hear from the people these budget cuts affect the most: the students.

We urge the student body to contact state representatives. Contact our state senators. Contact New Hampshire’s gubernatorial candidates, Ovide Lamontagne and Maggie Hassan. Let them know that a strong university helps create a strong state. And the only way that it can continue to do so is if it remains affordable.

It is a plea to the N.H. state legislature to prioritize higher edu-cation instead of marginalizing it. And it is a motion that we fully support.

Controversial Twi� er account should not be censored

The New Hampshire OPINION Friday, September 14, 2012 17

The value of my opinionHello fellow liberals. I am

calling you that for two reasons. Firstly, you have

the basic literacy required to read this, and secondly, you are choos-ing to read this.

The initial potshot aside, I ac-tually am struck by the gravitation of a large portion of the public to-ward opinion-based media. Worse the fact that the public generally leans toward sources that just con-firm what they already believe.

I’ve got to stop it right here. I don’t want to risk losing you forever. In many situations there is value to opinion (especially mine), and I want you to see when and where that is.

Opinion is extremely valuable as a complement to the traditional unbiased news story. Straight news reporting is not just found in the papers, but does dominate this medium. Alternatively, on stations such as Fox News and MSNBC, you are faced with opinion-only “journalism” pretty much all after-noon and evening.

Getting hammered by your own opinions is not healthy. People get pleasure out of hear-ing their world views confirmed. But knowledge takes a back seat and hearing how persecuted your side is all day will put you in a corner. Like any animal, people are aggressive and irrational when cornered.

Newspapers allow you to choose the story you read at any given time. You also choose when to read the opinion section, and are much more likely to read an op-posing position such as mine every week or two than to ever watch something as infuriating as Fox.

When you read the work of an ideological opponent, you gain un-

derstanding of his or her opinion, and he or she sometimes seems less threatening.

Because this is a newspaper, I was probably wrong to assume or jest that none of my readers are conservative. A newspaper or website that does not have an institutionally mandated bias is a breeding ground for discussion

because both liberals and conser-vatives will feel comfortable as part of it.

If only one opinion or side is presented, there is no competition. Ideas stagnate when there is no discussion, only agreement.

When members of either side of the divide are only hearing things that they like, they will be so unused to being challenged that they can no longer compromise. Fox News and MSNBC have af-fected our government’s ability to accomplish anything.

When newspapers were the dominant source of news, more laws were passed and greater things were achieved.

I don’t expect physical news-papers to become that dominant again, but online editions would do the job.

Fox and MSNBC are designed to entertain to some extent, which leaves the less-biased and perhaps more boring CNN out of the pic-ture. In general, choosing a news source for entertainment value is flawed, except when the source is not hiding it.

Choose news for efficiency and for its value as news. Read opinion to gain a better perspec-tive on issues and to see how they affect you. Don’t only read your opinion. Read me if you’re a con-servative and read the other guy if you’re a liberal.

Do I believe a column is likely to completely change some-one from conservative to liberal or vice versa? Not really, or at least not very often. I would love to turn you all into left-wingers but will settle for changing minds on specific issues and making any conservative readers just a tad less crazy.

sMiles Brady is a junior English major.

He is a running enthusiast, a sports fan and very liberal on most issues. He also likes to think that he is very rational.

From the Left

Miles Brady

Thumbs UpThumbs Down

Thumbs up to stocking up on free stuff at U-Day.

Thumbs down to looking like an idiot dodging bees at U-Day.

Thumbs up to UNH’s home opener this Saturday. It’s good to have you back, football.

Thumbs down to drafting a terriblefantasy football team.

Thumbs up fall drinks: apple cider, pumpkin coffee and, of course, Shipyard Pumpkinhead.

Thumbs down to extended summer weather when you have no AC.

Thumbs up to zoning out during syllabus week.

Thumbs down to the first wave of exams and papers that will soon be upon us all.

To the undergraduate student body

We, Dylan Palmer and Al-exandra Eicher, want to officially introduce ourselves as your new student body president and vice president. We are extremely excited about this year and are already working on new projects that we hope will greatly benefit you.

One of our main goals this year is to provide better transpar-ency and communication between our office and the students. To do this, we plan to visit each of the hall councils and stop by as many organizational meetings and events as we can.

We will also hold weekly office hours specifically designed for you to stop in and talk about any concerns you have with the university or any ideas you have to improve it! Our office is located on the first floor of the MUB in the Student Government Com-plex right by the back ramp; it is number 119F. Dylan’s office hours are Monday and Wednesday from 2-3 p.m. and Tuesday and Thurs-day from 1-3 p.m.; Alex’s office hours are Monday and Wednesday from 1:30-3 p.m. and Tuesday, and

Thursday from 11:10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. We have an open-door policy so if you see our door open please stop in and say hi!

Also, feel free to talk to us if you see us walking around campus; we are here to be your voice, so anytime you want to talk to us we want to be there to listen! Dylan’s email is ddj8@wildcats.unh.edu and his phone number is 603-991-8398. Alex’s email is akk26@wildcats.unh.edu and her phone number is 937-760-1899. We want to hear what you have to say!

Wishing you the best of luck in your academics and a fun-filled school year,

Dylan Palmer and Alexandra Eicher

Making transitions and adjusting to change: The Counsel-ing Center can help

A friend of mine says he likes working an academic schedule because the time off in the summer

helps him to prepare for all the changes that come every fall. He is both excited and nervous about all that the autumn promises. The start of a new school year triggers that experience in many of us, whether first-year students, transfer students, upperclassmen, or even staff and faculty.

If UNH is new to you, you may arrive with a mix of hope and anxiety. You may hope that UNH will meet your social and academic expectations. And you might be anxious about leaving the familiar-ity of home, trying someplace new, making new connections, taking risks and making Durham your home away from home. For some of you, your academic and social expectations will fall into place, for others, it will take more effort to create what you want for yourself here.

It can be difficult to take risks when you are out of your comfort zone. Some students cope by hold-ing on to the familiar, and make frequent calls and visits to family and friends that sustain them. Oth-ers relish the opportunity to try new experiences and form new relationships. Whatever your style, know that the adjustment to being new here takes at least a semester

and this can be complicated by unexpected events like a relation-ship break-up, an untimely death of a significant other, or a traumatic experience like a sexual assault. These experiences would rock the veterans on campus as well as the newcomers.

Upperclassmen have a dif-ferent set of adjustments to make. While most are more settled in their social and academic paths, they are beginning to think about the “real world,” i.e. life after UNH, and what they need to do to be ready to function as a profes-sional and independent person in the community. This often brings up questions like, “Who are my real friends?” and “Am I ready to live on my own?” These are all important and normal questions to reflect on.

So, adjustments come in dif-ferent shapes and sizes. Some are external, like getting used to living in a dorm; others are internal, like “Do I want to get closer?” Fall is a time for change and the staff at the Counseling Center is here to sup-port you in making those adjust-ments to life here at UNH.

We are located on the third floor of Smith Hall (corner of Main and Garrison) and provide indi-

vidual and group counseling, crisis intervention, outreach and consul-tation to the University community. Our goal is to support students in succeeding academically, socially, and as community members. If you find yourself struggling with adjustment issues or other mental health concerns, come over and check us out or call and schedule an In-take appointment (862-2090). We look forward to meeting you.

The Counseling Center Staff

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Choose news for ef-ficiency and for its value as news. Read opinion to gain a better perspective on issues and to see how they affect you. Don’t only read your opinion.

The New HampshireFriday, September 14, 201218 SPORTS

than their last visit.The Blue Devils are a team that

likes to run the ball, and McDonnell noted that run defense is one aspect in particular that has to improve. The Gophers ran over the Wildcats on Saturday with 240 rushing yards.

Watch for junior quarterback Andrew Clemens who rushed for 103 yards on 15 carries against Stony Brook. In that game, Clem-ens also completed 8 of 11 passes for 64 yards.

Sophomore running back Rob Hollomon rushed for 111 yards on 23 carries against No. 13 Lehigh.

The Wildcat’s run defense must step up against this double-headed run threat.

NotesMcDonnell said the team

struggled the most on special teams in Minnesota, in particular on punt and kick coverage. Mc-Donnell said they have addressed those shortcomings in practice.

sMatt Evans is eight tackles

away from holding the second-most career tackles in UNH foot-ball history. He currently has 352. Steve Doig (1978-81) holds the number one spot with 434 tackles.

sChris Houston and Nico Ster-

iti both expressed their excitement to be back in “the dungeon” (Cow-ell Stadium) on Saturday in front of family, friends and alumni.

Houston noted that the team is “ready to make a statement.”

sMcDonnell is 10-3 in home

openers and is on a seven-game home-opener win streak.

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UNH, ranked currently at No. 18, is in its 115th straight week of being ranked in The Sports Net-work FCS Top-25 College Foot-ball Poll. This is the second lon-gest streak in the nation behind Montana, which is at 195 weeks.

By ARJUNA RAMGOPALSTAFF WRITER

The University of New Hamp-shire volleyball team will take on Harvard Tuesday, Sept. 18 before hosting Providence Saturday. Sept. 22 for their first conference game. The team is currently in Washing-ton, D.C. for the George Washing-ton Invitational, sporting a 5-6 over-all record.

Harvard, with a 2-4 overall record, is facing-off with Connecti-cut Friday night. The Wildcats will serve as Harvard’s final tune up

game before the start of their con-ference play at Dartmouth Saturday, Sept. 22.

The Harvard Crimson defeated the UNH Wildcats 3-2, on Sept. 13, 2011 at Harvard. Morgan Thatcher, named Eastern Conference Athletic Conference Division I player of the week, had 14 kills, while Jansan Falcusan, a captain two years run-ning, had 60 assists.

The Wildcats were 2-15 in non-conference games last year. This year’s squad has already best that mark with a 5-6 start to the sea-

son, despite a young team. The Wildcats have seven fresh-

men out of their 15 players. Four other members are sophomores, with just two juniors, Thatcher and Destiny Tolliver, and two seniors, Falcusan and Jessie Schnepp.

The Wildcats have one other non-conference match, which will be played against Dartmouth on Sunday, Sept. 23, the day after the Providence game. Dartmouth and UNH did not play each other last year. Dartmouth currently stands at 1-5.

Wildcats busy prepping for HarvardVOLLEYBALL Sports Briefs

Cross country to host AE Pre-Conference MeetThe University of New Hampshire cross country teams return to action

on Friday afternoon when the Wildcats host the America East Pre-Con-ference Meet at College Woods. The meet will serve as a prelude to next month’s conference championships, also held at the College Woods course.

Friday’s meet will feature five teams from the America East, includ-ing UNH, Maine, Vermont, Albany and Boston University. The women’s 5K race will open the event at 1:30 p.m., followed by the men’s 8K race at 2:15 p.m.

The women’s squad was recently ranked 13th in this week’s Northeast Region Poll that was released by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). New Hampshire tied for second at the America East Championships last season followed by a 12th-place finish at the NCAA Northeast Regional meet. On the men’s side, the Wildcats placed seventh at the 2011 America East Championships and went on to finish 21st at the NCAA Northeast Regional meet.

New Hampshire will play host to the 2012 America East Cross Coun-try Championships on Saturday, Oct. 27 at College Woods, located behind the UNH Field House. The women’s 5K race begins at 10 a.m., followed by the men’s 8K race at 11 a.m.

Women’s ice hockey to hold mini golf tourneyThe University of New Hampshire women’s ice hockey team has an-

nounced the first ever Wildcats Mini Golf Tournament will be held Sunday, Sept. 30 at Captain’s Cove Mini Golf Course (Hampton, N.H.) with a 10 a.m. shotgun start. This event is a fundraiser for the UNH women’s ice hockey program and is open to all.

The entry fee is $20 per adult and $15 for children (under 12), or $70 per foursome. Sponsorship opportunities available include Hole Sponsor ($250) and Tournament Title Sponsor ($1000).

To register to play or become a sponsor, please contact Todd Smith at fowhmembership@gmail.com. Registration forms will also be available at the team’s Sept. 24 (2 p.m.) exhibition game against Ontario Hockey Acad-emy at the Whittemore Center.

Prizes – a four-pack of 2012-13 UNH women’s ice hockey season tickets (1st place), four 2012-13 Friends of Women’s Hockey memberships (2nd) and dinner (provided by sponsor; 3rd) – will be awarded to the top three teams. In addition, any player scoring a hat trick (three holes in one) will receive a prize.

The Mini Golf Tournament will be followed by a complimentary bar-becue lunch.

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Interested in editing?ContaCt adam j. BaBinat and niCk stoiCo at

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FOOTBALLcontinued from page 20

there, New Hampshire used an 8-5 run to stretch its lead to 17-10. The teams then traded points before the Wildcats ended with a 7-4 stretch, capped off by a Dunklau service ace to take the set at 25-18.

In the fourth set, the teams were even at 7-7 but the Wildcats used a 9-3 stretch to establish a comfortable 16-10 advantage. It was all New Hampshire the rest of the way as the visitors ended with a 9-2 stretch to take the set, 25-13, and seal the victory.

The Wildcats return to action Sept. 14-15 when they take part in the George Washington Invita-tional. UNH first takes on BYU on Friday, Sept. 14 at 5 p.m.

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Morgan Thatcher helped lead the volleyball team to victory against Bryant on Tuesday, recording 12 kills to go with 12 digs in the game.

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R.J. Harris and the Wildcat offense look to light up a Central Connecticut State defense that has had trouble stopping the pass.

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Wildcat gameday No. 18 UNH vs. CCSU

Saturday at noon; Cowell StadiumUNH is 1-1 overall; CCSU is 0-2

Key match-up: vs. CCSU rushing o� enseUNH rush defense

After starting off the 2012 football season on the road for the fi rst two weeks, the Wildcats come home to face Central Connecticut State Blue Devils for the team’s fi rst home game of the season.

When the Blue Devils arrive in Cow-ell Stadium on Saturday, they will bring with them an impressive rushing attack that has averaged 173 yards per game over the course of CCSU’s fi rst two games.

This attack is led by the trio of sopho-more running back Rob Hollomon, junior Chris Tolbert and junior quarterback An-drew Clements. Hollomon – who leads the Blue Devils with 149 yards – ran for 111 yards on 23 carries last week in CCSU’s loss to No. 13 Lehigh, while Clements ran for 103 yards on 15 carries in the team’s loss against Stony Brook on opening weekend.

Stopping this running attack will be crucial for UNH, as the Blue Devils would then have to rely on a passing game that has averaged 75.5 yards per game this season.

If Wildcat the defensive line and linebackers can stuff the running game, it could be a long day for Clements and Central Connecticut State.

Justin Doubleday, Executive Editor: 35-13, UNHAdam J. Babinat, Sports Editor: 31-10, UNHNick Stoico, Sports Editor: 28-10, UNHChad Gra� , Managing Editor: 34-20, UNH

Four QuartersWhen UNH runs the football

The Wildcats rushing attack has been a potent part of the teams offense so far during the 2012 campaign. Led by sophomore running back Nico Steriti and junior running back Chris Setian, UNH has averaged 173.5 yards per game over the course of the team’s fi rst two games. However after running for just 68 yards last week against Minnesota, the team will need to improve on its rushing attack this week against Central Connecticut State.

When UNH passes the footballDespite making his fi rst start of the season this

Saturday, the Wildcat faithful have been given a brief glimpse of what Andy Vailas can do. Last week against Minnesota, Vailas passed for 158 yards and threw an interception in relief for Sean Goldrich, but he did play well in limited action against Holy Cross. The suc-cess of Vailas this week against the Blue Devils will be critical to the team’s success in this week’s home opener.

When CCSU runs the footballAs we mentioned in the key matchup, CCSU has

been extremely successful on the ground this year, carrying the team’s offense this season with an impres-sive 173 yards per game. Stopping this attack will be a good test for the UNH defense, which allowed 240 rushing yards last week against Minnesota. The Wild-cats front seven will need to be on its game in order to shut down this potent rushing game and make the Blue Devils one-dimensional.

When CCSU passes the footballBlue Devils quarterback Andrew Clements really

has yet to do much in the air so far during the 2012 season, having yet to eclipse the 100 yard mark during the teams fi rst two games. Despite that though Clements has been effi cient this year when he does throw the football, completing 64.3 percent of his passes. It will be up to the UNH defense to force him to throw more though and ap-ply pressure on CCSU’s offensive line, which has allowed fi ve sacks this year.

Predictions #TNHpicks

They said it:

X-factor: Chris Setian

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If Chris Setian and Nico Steriti can pick up the running game and play like they did against Holy Cross, the Wildcats will have no problem picking up the win this weekend.

It’s good to be back in the dungeon.”Running back Nico Steriti

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“ We are ready to make a statement.”Cornerback Chris Houston

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sports The New Hampshirewww.TNHonline.com/sports Friday, September 14, 2012

FOOTBALL

By NICK STOICOSPORTS EDITOR

As the weekend approaches, the University of New Hampshire football program gears up for its home opener against Central Con-necticut State University. The game will take place at Cowell Stadium on Saturday at noon.

Sophomore Andy Vailas will be starting at the quarterback posi-tion in place of redshirt-freshman Sean Goldrich who, according to head coach Sean McDonnell, suf-fered a “slight separation of his AC joint” in his right (throwing) shoul-der on the second offensive play of last Saturday’s crushing loss to Minnesota, 44-7.

Saturday will be Vailas’ fi rst start in collegiate football. Vailas is from Bedford, N.H. and went to Bishop Guertin, where he was an all-state QB his senior year, as well as an all-state split-end his junior year. As a senior, he led the Car-dinals to victory in the D-II state championship.

Vailas said he is excited to start and feels as prepared as any other week.

Goldrich is expected to be out for two to three weeks.

“You can never tell how quick people heal,” McDonnell said in his midweek talk with the media. “He took a pretty good shot there from watching the tape … now we got to go to work with Vailas and Brady. Next guy in.”

Goldrich suffered the same in-jury in a high school all-star game before beginning his freshman year at UNH.

Goldrich was injured as he car-ried the ball up the middle of line and was hit by a defender.

“The more you run the quarter-back, the higher the risk of him get-ting hurt,” McDonnell said.

Vailas took over in the Minne-sota game and completed 18 of 34 passes for 158 yards. He also threw one interception and was sacked four times.

“Andy is a terrifi c athlete,” McDonnell said. “He can really get going when he is on the perimeter.”

Vailas had one series in the Holy Cross game where he com-pleted four out of four passes for 59 yards and a touchdown.

Getting called into the game so suddenly shocked Vailas at fi rst, who was on the sideline with back-up senior QB James Brady giving the signals to the offense.

Vailas described the situation, saying that he did not realize that Goldrich was hurt, and the next thing he knew he was on the fi eld.

“I didn’t even have my helmet on and someone said I was going in and I said alright and then (wide re-ceiver) Tim Farina handed me my helmet,” Vailas said.

Brady is next up if Vailas comes off the fi eld on Saturday. Brady has dealt with tendinitis in his right shoulder that took him out

of the QB competition in the sum-mer, but McDonnell said that Brady has been practicing well and is ready to go.

“James knows what he’s do-ing and that will really help us if we have to get to him on Saturday,” McDonnell said. “It’s a tough situa-tion to be in sometimes because you have three quarterbacks, but now it’s a good situation to be in because you’ve got kids that know the of-fense and have been in the offense.”

Brady is expected to play at least one series Saturday.

The last time UNH and CCSU met was on Sept. 4, 2010. UNH came out on top 33-3. Two years later, the Blue Devils returned to Durham hoping for a better out-

SCORECARD

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DAY 8UNH linebacker Matt Evans is eight tackles away from owning the second most career tackles in the history of UNH football. He currently has 352 career tackles.

IN THIS ISSUE- Check inside for a full preview of UNH and CCSU football including match-ups and predictions. Page 19

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Vailas to start in home openerSophomore QB to get start in place of injured Sean Goldrich

Looking ahead

Junior Casey Pohlmeyer and the Wildcats will play the University of the Paci� c on Friday, followed by a matchup with Northeastern on Saturday. Each game will be played at Memorial Field.

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� atcher, Dunklau lead ‘Cats to win over Bryant Bulldogs

AP PHOTOAndy Vailas played the majority of last week’s loss to Minnesota after Sean Goldrich left with a shoulder injury. Vailas will make his � rst collegiate start on Saturday against Central Connecticut State University.

FOOTBALL continued on page 18

STAFF REPORTTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

Junior Mor-gan Thatch-er and sopho-

more Taylor Dunklau each posted a double-double to lead the Uni-versity of New Hampshire vol-leyball team past Bryant, 3-1, Tuesday night at Chace Athletic Center.

New Hampshire has won four of its last fi ve matches and stands at 5-6 on the season. Set scores in the match were 23-25, 25-20, 25-18 and 25-13.

Thatcher recorded 12 kills to pair with 12 digs, while Dunklau registered 10 digs and 40 assists to go along with fi ve blocks. Fresh-man Abby Brinkman led all play-ers with a career-high 14 kills and

hit at a .278 clip. Senior Jessie Schnepp racked up a match-high 26 digs.

In the opening set, the teams were all tied up at 11-11 before the Bulldogs netted six straight to move out in front, 17-11. Down by fi ve at 22-17, the Wildcats used a 5-1 run to trim the defi cit to one at 23-22, but Bryant held on for the 25-23 victory.

After seven lead changes to open the second set, the two teams were even at 17-17 before UNH reeled off three straight for the 20-17 advantage. Bryant did not get closer in the set as the Wildcats went on to capture the stanza, 25-20, and even the match at 1-1.

In the third set, UNH jumped out to a 7-2 lead until Bryant

UNH 3 Bryant 1

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After 40 years of coaching NCAA basketball, Jim Calhoun is hanging up the whistle for good. The 70-year-old led the UConn Huskies to three NCAA Championships.