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Finding a way to payA ghost in the eyes of the university until two days ago, Natasha Leuchanka will fi nally get credit for this semester’s work.

Editor’s note: This is part two of a series looking at parking issues at UNH. This article focuses on the Winter Parking Ban regulations.

Contract negotiations between the University of New Hampshire and the UNH chapter of the American Associa-tion of University Professors (AAUP), which represents UNH’s approximately 630 faculty members, have stalled.

Wednesday morning, UNH offi cials announced an impasse, meaning that the two sides failed to reach an agreement. The next step will be seeking help from an outside mediator.

UNH’s most recent offer was for a one-year contract with a 1.5 percent salary increase: one percent across the board and the other half percent for mer-it. The proposal was contingent on two factors: the union approving the contract by June 30, 2010, and no change in the state’s funding to UNH.

Countering their offer was the AAUP’s proposal, which called for a one-year contract with a 3.2 percent sal-ary increase across the board, in addition to a $470 fl at salary increase across the board. The proposal also called for the creation of a $180,000 pool that would be distributed to faculty based on merit. These factors combined, the salary raise for faculty would have been approxi-mately 4 percent.

Both proposed contracts would have been effective January 1, 2010 and run until the end of June, so even though they were one-year contracts, the amount actually given out would have been half the raises called for.

Both sides defend their fi nal offer.“The university believes it is a very

fair offer in this economic climate,” said

Candance Corvey, the chief negotiator for the UNH administration.

Corvey noted that the offer contains a lower raise than recent settlements, as well as a shorter contract period, but at-tributed both these factors to the current economic climate.

“The university is affected in nu-merous ways by the poor economy,” Corvey said.

Corvey said that the recession has decreased the value of the endowment, which used to support operations and fund fi nancial aid, for which there has been an increased demand because of the effect of the recession on students and their families.

Corvey also said that the cost of pro-viding health benefi ts to faculty and staff is increasing, and that budgetary prob-lems at the state level threaten the state’s level of support to the university, which is current $68 million a year.

In the past year, UNH has gone though staff reductions and implemented a salary freeze for non-union employees making more than $40,000 annually.

Dale Barkey, chief negotiator for the UNH chapter of the AAUP, said that the faculty just wants to have similar contracts to UNH’s eight comparator schools. The comparator schools are similarly sized state institutions such as the University of Vermont, and were agreed upon previously by UNH and the AAUP.

“If we were to take the most recent offer from the university, we would defi nitely fall behind” faculty wages at UNH’s comparators, said Barkey.

UNH, professors contract negotiations at an impasse

Thomas GounleySTAFF WRITER

IMPASSE continued on page 4

“By the way, I’m still not enrolled in class,” Natasha Leuchanka said to her professor on Oct. 24, “but here’s my fi -nal.”

Leuchanka fi nished a three-credit class called Field Description of Soils, and, at that point, in the eyes of the uni-versity, her effort did not count.

“It’s almost like I’m a ghost,” she said.

Leuchanka – an immigrant from Belarus who moved to the United States shortly before her 11th birthday– was unenrolled shortly after classes began because she was unable to secure the necessary loans to cover her out-of-state tuition.

She is still attending class and doing all the work so that, hopefully, when she secures the funds to pay this semester, she won’t have an insurmountable pile of work.

Within the past three academic years, students have increasingly indicated with-drawal for fi nancial reason: 27 fi nancial withdrawals during the 06-07 academic year; 47 for the 07-08 year; and 72 for the 08-09 years.

These numbers account for all bach-elor students that were enrolled during the academic year stated, but were not enrolled or did not complete the follow-ing semester.

The university catalogs the reasons for student withdrawal; however, the

Phil HecklerNEWS EDITOR

STUDENT continued on page 4

COURTESY OF NATASHA LEUCHANKAAfter an 11-hour hike, climbing the last 400 feet on cables, Natasha Leuchanka arrived at the top of the Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, which is 8,800 feet above sea level. The cliff drops about 5,000 feet to the Yosemite Valley fl oor below.

When University of New Hampshire commuter Bethany Murphy worked at Wild-catessen near Stoke Hall, she asked the park-ing and transportation department if she could get a parking permit for her third shift at work.

She was told she couldn’t, and after re-

ceiving three tickets for parking at work, she fi gured her best option was to park in A-Lot.

“I’d have to walk at 2 a.m. in February from the Wildcatessen to A-Lot every night I worked,” said Murphy, a junior. “I felt un-safe.”

Parking at UNH is an oft-discussed issue. Next month, the winter parking ban will be in effect, and many students are scrambling to read up on the department regulations in or-der to avoid ticketing and towing during the winter months.

Some, like junior Wyatt Thurston, have already received parking tickets in the past because of their confusion about certain regu-lations.

Thurston parked in the wrong section of PARKING continued on page 4

UNH students pay big bucks for parking tickets

The town of Durham recently approved plans to open a new mexican restaurant in Mill Plaza this spring.

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On to the next oneAs the holiday season nears, students begin the registration process for spring semester classes next week.

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Mallory BakerSTAFF WRITER

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Star Wars: In Concert Ingredients of a twinkie

UNH’s Concert Choir performed with Britain’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra at Boston’s TD Garden in Star Wars: In Concert. The show was sold out.

Steve Ettlinger discussed the ingredients in one of America’s favor-ite Hostess snacks, the twinkie, in his speach “Twinkie, deconstructed” on Wednesday.

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A new class, Communications 798, gives students an opportunity to work on community service stra-degies, which they will then be able to put into action in Nicaragua dur-ing a two week service trip at the end of the semester. The course is open to all students and is taught by Professor Pamela Broido.

Class will travel to Nicaragua

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be opened in the space next to Rite Aid in Mill Plaza. Plans for the La Paz Mexican Grill have recently been passed by the Durham Plan-ning Board, and efforts into eventu-ally creating an outside sitting area are still in the works.

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Pictures of the WeekTop Right: Freshman Kristina Lavoie helps the Wildcats tie Harvard 1-1 Wednesday night.

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The most recent settlement at each university has been sig-nifi cantly higher than UNH’s latest offer, according to Bar-key. Faculty at the University of Delaware received a 4 percent raise in their most recently ne-gotiated contract. Those at the University of Vermont got a 5 percent raise, and at the Univer-sity of Rhode Island a 3 percent raise.

In a press release, the uni-versity stated that seven of UNH’s eight comparators have contracts in place for fi scal year 2010, but “most of them were settled before the crash of the economy.”

Barkey disagreed.“The recession started in

December 2007,” he said. “A lot of these contracts were ne-gotiated a lot more recently than that.”

Barkey pointed to the Uni-versity of Vermont as an exam-ple. Vermont’s contract gives faculty 5 percent raises annu-ally for three years, and was “certainly negotiated during the recession.”

The press release goes on to say that the most recently settled contracts were at the University of Massachusetts (1.5 percent raise) and the University of Connecticut (0 percent).

Barkey said that UNH is not suffering as much fi nancially as these other schools.

“UNH is in relatively good shape,” he said.

Barkey said that UNH’s tu-ition and enrollment continue to increase, and that the assets of the University System of New Hampshire (USNH) have steadily increased over the past few years. However, he said the AAUP is open to negotiation.

“We’re ready to bargain,” he said. “We certainly haven’t put a take-it-or-leave-it offer on the table.”

The AAUP has already re-

jected one higher offer. Prior to the fi nal offer, UNH offered a two-year contract with a 2 per-cent salary increase: 1 percent across the board and 1 percent merit. The association was told that they could accept the of-fer or it would be taken off the table.

“We can’t give in to a threat like that, so we said no,” Bar-key said.

The next step in the process is to bring in an outside media-tor, which could happen as early as December.

“Typically, a mediation ses-sion is a day-long event where the mediator moves between the two teams, each situated in near-by rooms, and tries to identify new areas of common ground and opportunities to move the parties closer together and even to settle,” Corvey said.

If mediation fails, the two sides will move on to the fact-fi nding stage, when another outside party analyzes the facts and the two arguments and is-sues a formal report containing recommendations for a settle-ment. The report is not bind-ing, but can sometimes produce a breakthrough, according to Corvey.

UNH and the AAUP have been at impasse before, most recently in January of 2008, which was actually the second impasse in that round of con-tract negotiations.

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numbers don’t always indicate the real reasons for a withdraw-al, said University Registrar Kathryn Forbes.

“We only get very generic information about the reason a student is leaving,” Forbes said. Students often indicate “trans-fer,” but don’t enroll at another university; or, students are asked to leave and don’t bother to fi ll out any paperwork, Forbes said.

“As I’m sure you are aware, just numbers don’t mean much,” Forbes said.

For Leuchanka, though, it all came down to numbers, just not statistics.

In past semesters, Leuch-anka’s mother cosigned for her student loans. However, this se-mester, her mother’s credit score wouldn’t support another round of student loans, due to losing her job and relocating to Brook-lyn from the Albany, New York.

Also in past semesters, Leuchanka was a community assistant in the Woodsides apart-ments, which covered her room and board, but she still needed to come up with the roughly $26,000 for out-of-state tuition.

When Leuchanka’s loans fell through she contacted the Financial Aid offi ce to try to fi g-ure out a different way to pay for school.

She outlined her situation to the man she spoke with over the phone.

She is not a citizen of the United States, but she is a per-manent resident. She is not an international student that is en-rolled in a foreign university and just visiting for a semester. She has previously paid for her education with both personal loans and federal fi nancial aid, but her mother was rejected as a cosigner.

The fi nancial aid offi cer’s answer was simple – Leuchanka does not go to school this semes-ter.

Suzy Allen, director of Fi-nancial Aid, said that one of their fi rst suggestions is to fi nd a different cosigner, usually an aunt or uncle with a different line of credit.

Leuchanka’s advisor quick-ly offered his assistance.

“I volunteered almost imme-diately,” he said, of volunteering to cosign for Leuchanka’s loan, stating that she is just asking for his credit and not a direct hand-out.

Leuchanka’s advisor was concerned about being named as her benefactor, fearing that other students would seek him or other faculty members for handouts.

“I like to think of the aca-demic community as support-ive,” he said. “But it’s hard to see it come down to this – either you’re a student or you’re not.”

He also quickly points out that Leuchanka is a particularly driven and levelheaded student. He and Leuchanka’s path fi rst crossed in the introductory-level International Affairs class.

“She stood out because she asked good questions, smart questions,” he said. In a class of 45 students there can be a lot of dead air, he said, and a student that asks intelligent questions and thoughtfulness stands out.

Even with her advisor’s signature, Leuchanka’s fi nan-cial aid problem would only be solved for this semester. Since each semester offers a clean fi -nancial slate, therefore her advi-sor worried what effect cosign-ing for Leuchanka will have.

“Is this helping or hurting her,” he asked. “Will this situ-ation present itself next semes-ter?”

The Financial Aid offi ce – whose offi cial goal is make sure

students can afford an education at UNH – is limited by a couple of factors, Allen said.

The largest factor that limits Financial Aid’s ability to help students, both incoming and al-ready enrolled, sometimes asks for more money than credit in-stitutions are willing to lend.

“In so many ways our hands are tied,” Allen said. We can’t tell banks to lend money to students. It’s their money, not ours.”

With the tightening credit market, students like Leuchanka are becoming more common.

“We don’t see them all,” Al-len said. “Sometimes they with-draw or fi nd other ways to pay for school.”

Allen stresses that students should fi rst visit Financial Aid, then seek other sources of fund-ing, such as private lenders that might have higher interest rates.

On Nov. 5, Leuchanka got some good news.

Her advisor was able to pro-vide all the necessary fi nancial data that would approve him as Leuchanka’s cosigner.

On Nov. 12 Leuchanka’s petition to be re-enrolled into the College of Life Sciences and Agricultulture was accepted.

On Nov. 17, Leuchanka was offi cially re-enrolled as a stu-dent at the University of New Hampshire.

Throughout this ordeal, Leuchanka was not willing to accept Business Services’ origi-nal answer – the student does not go to school this semester.

“I feel like it’s not an option to say this is not the school for me,” Leuchanka said. “I could have chosen a school in my state, but UNH has so many op-portunities for me.”


COURTESY OF NATASHA LEUCHANKA

“I like to think of the academic community as supportive. But it’s hard to see it come down to this – either you’re a student or you’re not.”

Natasha Leuchanka‘s academic advisor and

benefactor

Natasha Leuchanka (left) and Jennifer Smith-Lee (right), director of the Tahoe-Baikal Institute, were interviewed by a Tahoe radio station about their work on monitoring and restoration of the Upper Truckee River. The radio station wanted to interview Natasha because she is tied to each place, both Belarus – which is formerly part of Russia – and the United States

STUDENT: Financial woes resolved for “ghost” student

“We’re ready to bargain. We certainly haven’t put a take-it-or-leave-it offer on the table.”

Dale BarkeyChief Negotiator, UNH AAUP

IMPASSE: University, union talks at standstill

PLYMOUTH, N.H. - A new project is under way to help northern New Hampshire com-munities save money and the environment.

The goal is to create a road-map for communities seeking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through wood biomass heating systems. Several groups, includ-ing Plymouth State University’s Center for Rural Partnerships and North Country Resource Conservation and Development

hope to develop a decision mak-ing tool to guide municipalities, housing developers, educational institutions and others through the process of implementing a new heating system.

Offi cials say the technology is there, but communities and consumers are overwhelmed by information. They’re seeking proposals from consultants in-terested in creating the decision making tool.

Proposals sought for northern NH heating project


The Winter Parking Ban (WPB) resumes at 12 a.m. on December 1 and continues every night until April 1. During this time after-midnight parking on campus is restricted. Most campus lots, spaces, and ar-eas close directly at midnight, every night regardless of weather condi-tions. These lots remained closed and off-limits until 6 a.m. the fol-lowing morning. If you need to be parked on campus for any amount of time after midnight, you must make use of the following exemptions:

Some lots have a permanent exemption to the WPB: Section 4 of Lot A, the Visitor Center Lot, and the West Edge Lot remain open all night, whether or not it snows. Anybody can use these exempt lots, however normal permit require-ments resume in these lots at 6 a.m. the following weekday (8 a.m. at the Visitor Center lot). The Gables, Woodside, E/E1 and Mast Road I lots are also exempt, but limited to permit-holders only.

Certain lots have a conditional exemption to the WPB that depends on daily decisions regarding the weather and snow removal opera-tions. Lot B and Lot C remain open all night and Lot H and Lot T until 2:00 a.m., unless there is a declared “snow emergency”. In the event of a snow emergency, these lots will

close directly at midnight, so you MUST ascertain the correct nightly status before using one of these lots. The nightly status of these lots is posted on signs at the lot entrances, and on recorded information on the WPB Alert telephone line, 862-1001. Remember, a conditional lot may remain closed for several nights after the snowfall ends. If the lots are open, anybody can use these conditional lots up to the appointed closure times, however normal per-mit requirements resume at 6 the following weekday.

Other things to note: Enforce-ment for the WPB starts exactly at midnight; vehicles not moved from an area closed to the WPB risk get-ting a ticket as early as 12. Vehicles parked in any lot closed to the WPB during a plowing operation will be ticketed and towed. If one exempt or conditionally exempt area is full, you must seek available space in one of the other exempt areas; you may not “spill” into an adjacent lot or area that is not open. You must remember to correctly advise your guests of the WPB restrictions; all visitors are subject to the same en-forcement. The WPB Connector operates until 2 a.m. every night that UNH is open (does not run during shut-down periods).

Expanded information is avail-able online at http://www.unh.edu/transportation and on recorded mes-sage at extension 862-1001.

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Winter Parking Ban to further limit parking

A-Lot, part of which is blocked off from the beginning of December until the end of March in anticipa-tion of snowfall and subsequent plowing.

Senior Amanda Chasse had a similar experience when she left her car in the lot, and wishes that the rules had been made clearer.

“It’s a little frustrating,” she said.

Others, like senior Crystal Cobb, simply avoided the rules al-together, but for what Cobb called a “humanitarian cause.”

When Cobb was leaving cam-pus to pick up a van designated for UNH’s annual Alternative Break Challenge, she parked her car ille-gally and paid the price.

Some students, like Thurston, reported paying $75 for their viola-tion of the winter parking ban.

The frustration for some who use UNH parking lots, like Chris-tian Impact intern Emily Guirguis, does not come in the form of park-ing tickets, but in actually fi nding a space to park.

“If you get [to A-Lot] before 9:30 a.m., you can usually fi nd a spot,” said Guirguis. “Afterwards it’s like the mall before Christmas.”

For others, like sophomore Cameron Borgal, parking is ample, but the bus system needs to be ad-

justed.Later in the evening, said Bor-

gal, the Mast Road and West Edge buses combine, and a traveler must wait at least 20 minutes for the next ride to or from campus.

But parking is easier for some members of the UNH community, namely faculty and staff, who are able to park at the majority of the lots on campus.

Murphy, who worked on cam-pus over the summer, was given a faculty/staff pass for her vehicle, and was pleasantly surprised with the amount of designated spaces.

However, some students, like senior Katie Jennings, said that transportation services can be “a

little strict” about enforcing regula-tions.

“[UNH parking] drives me up the wall,” she said. “But if you’re perfect, you won’t have a prob-lem.”

Thurston and Murphy agreed, but said that memorizing all of the parking regulations and following them without any leeway seemed a little unrealistic for most students.

According to Thurston, UNH transportation offi cials should “at least give you fi ve or 10 minutes” to get to your car before they write the ticket or call for the tow.

“It’s almost not fair,” said Mur-phy. “They really don’t make any exceptions.”


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PARKING: Students struggle to fi nd a spot


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Yes1. No2.

Go to TNHonline.com and vote on this poll question. Results will be printed in a future issue of TNH.

Does UNH need to change its registration process?

TODAY’S QUESTION

TNHONLINE POLL

Should the university invest money to pro-vide a larger gym or more athletic facili-ties for students?TNH responds: While we weren’t surprised that the yays outweighed the nays, the rela-tively small margin of victory was interesting.

Perhaps some people think the current gym for non-varsity students is adequate, but we’re guessing that most people who voted “No” did so because the university’s most pressing needs are not investing more money in athletics.

However, as you may have read in the past issue, we’re strongly for the idea of building a new gym for students.

It makes sense to put more important things in front of a new gym, but when it can be used as a key recruiting tool as well as a huge morale booster, we don’t see too many things rising above a new gym on the university’s priorities list.

OUT OF 116 RESPONSES

41%No

59%Yes

UNH professors and administra-tors are clamoring about salaries again. The administration proposed a 1.5 percent raise, but the UNH chapter of the American Association of Univer-sity Professors (AAUP) turned that down and is instead asking for almost a 4 percent raise. Their avarice is shocking.

At UNH, the dire situation has already been presented. This summer, the administration announced $8.3 million in budget cuts, 31 percent of which will come from not fi lling 27 faculty and staff positions and reduc-ing 40 positions from full-time to part-time. Non-unionized employees making more than $40,000 per year were even thrown into a salary freeze.

Most professors make more than $40,000; we think they should ap-preciate their good fortune to avoid the same fate and thank their lucky stars that they were allowed to not only keep their jobs, but also be paid more for doing them.

It’s true that many of the coun-try’s educators are not paid enough and deserve every cent they earn and more, but college professors hardly fall into that category.

In 2008-2009, the average salaries for UNH faculty was anywhere from

$68,500 for female assistant profes-sors to $117,000 for full-time male professors, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. If those numbers aren’t ridiculous enough for a job with a summer vacation, these professors have turned down a raise in the worst economic climate since the Great Depression. How is their position even defensible?

The chief negotiator for the faculty members said some of the most recently settled contracts at compara-tive universities have been signifi -cantly higher than the 1.5 percent raise the administration proposed, including a 3 percent raise at the University of Rhode Island, a 4 percent raise at the University of Delaware and a 5 percent raise at the University of Vermont.

The problem with that logic is that all of those schools are dealing with different situations and budgets, regardless of how “comparative” they may be. Sometimes the money just isn’t there. And if these schools are so similar to UNH, why were the two most recent contracts signed by comparator schools – at the University of Massachusetts and the University of Connecticut – raises of only 1.5 percent and 0 percent, respectively?

Professors have health care in a time when one in six U.S. adults do not. They have solidifi ed positions at a reputable university when 10.2 percent of the country is unemployed. And they’re sitting here whining about not getting enough of a raise for a poten-tial one-year contract? Greedy seems almost too nice an adjective.

An online commenter on the Union Leader’s website who claimed to be an employee of UNH said he was disgusted with the faculty’s position: “If you are really team players and not money motivated, you would play with the rest of the university and take no raise.” He couldn’t be more right; almost everyone at the university is hanging on for dear life through an economic tornado, and professors are sticking their nose up at a raise?

Maybe it’s really not about the money; these professors could be standing on principal, only trying to stay even with the competition. And there’s a time for that. There’s a time to stand up to your boss and say, “I deserve better,” even when the offer presented is already a good one. But now is not that time. Now, it’s time to tuck your tail between your legs, snatch up the 1.5-percent raise and try again next year.

Faculty members need a wake-up call


Forum

BY PHIL HECKLER AND CHRISTINE HAWKINS

What class would you teach? “Badassery 556.”

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“Social work, human development.”Carla Joseph, sophomore, social work

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“Pottery making.” Bridget Harris, sophomore, English

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TNH picks the NFL: Week 11

Washington at Dallas

Cleveland at Detroit

San Francisco at Green Bay

Pittsburgh at Kansas City

Atlanta at New York (N)

New Orleans at Tampa Bay

Buffalo at Jacksonville

Indianapolis at Baltimore

Seattle at Minnesota

Arizona at St. Louis

New York (A) at New England

Cincinnati at Oakland

San Diego at Denver

Philadelphia at Chicago

Tennessee at Houston

TNH (Wins-Losses) this season : 91-50

“Stop sneering at me. Stop ask-ing me questions that you think you already know the answer to. Why have you already made judgments be-fore considering things from a differ-ent angle?” I love this sentiment, this mindset. Why do I love it? Because I have heard those same questions from “believers,” “non-believers,” and “in-betweeners” alike. I’m con-vinced that, for the most part, people want to live freely and without being judged. Far too often, though, we get to thinking that we know what is right; we get comfortable and, ulti-mately, we get afraid.

So we have to ask ourselves, what are we afraid of? What is it about spirituality or religion that scares us into denying that they are a part of the human experience? My answer, a year and a half ago, was that “religion” was dangerous, because it gave people the idea that they were right and others were wrong, and because it had led to “bad” things in the past. How did I know? I had studied it. I had talked to people. I had learned about the past sins of re-ligions through history classes.

One thing I didn’t grasp was that if you want to like something, you are going to look for things that you like about it. If you want to hate it, you’ll look for things you dislike.

At some point along my line of thinking, I must have realized that I was not giving “religion” a fair shot, so I started being more open to ex-ploring that which I had been afraid to go into. I changed my defensive mindset. I owe this to friends that, despite knowing a lot about me and about the shameful things I have done, still loved me. A lot of those friends lived faith-led lives. They were members of InterVarsity (Chris-tian Fellowship), of Christian Impact or of local area churches.

So I started talking about reli-gious concepts, trying to understand people. As I asked people about their passions, about their coping mecha-nisms for suffering, about what makes them happy, I found myself running into this question: “Do you believe in God?” My confi rmation

day was haunting me.I had been on a roll the past

two years—still comfortably agnos-tic, openly discussing religion, even cracking open a Bible once in a while. I was reading CS Lewis, Thank God for Evolution by Rev. Michael Dowd, Mitch Albom books, The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho, and many more books, all of which attempted to get at the “meaning” of life, books that challenged me to dig deeper.

I never left UNH to do all of this.

Another theory that I have stum-bled upon: you cannot come to know “God” without having put yourself in the position to experience Him. You will never get to know what faith can do for you by sitting in a library read-ing a book, by watching a movie, by reading the news, or even by con-versing with friends. These environ-ments are far too comfortable for us. It is from these comforts that we can make an intellectual (often subcon-scious) decision and then look for the things we like or dislike in a faith or religion.

Then my friends asked me to go with them on this spring break trip—Katrina Relief Urban Plunge (or KRUP)—down to New Orleans. It was an alternative trip organized and run by InterVarsity. The deal was, they said, I could go for cheap (friends of IV members get a dis-count), and I would be helping to re-build New Orleans for a whole week. Not only that, but we would be dig-ging deeper into the work we were doing, processing the suffering and hope that we saw, the injustice right here on American soil, as well.

An internal UFC match ensued. Part of me screamed out that I should be relaxing during my spring break. I had worked so hard for so long, I de-served the break. Or maybe I should head to the beaches, do an extrava-gant trip with friends, party it up. Or what about the high school friends I hadn’t been able to keep in touch with?

Another part of me—the part that ended up winning—jumped at the opportunity to do something I

had always wanted to do: Habitat for Humanity. Helping out people for free who needed it more than I did.

Here is why this part ended up winning: through my discussions with people, through my readings, through my growing understanding of what a true Christian was sup-posed to look like, at least one per-tinent fact stood out. No matter how you interpret the Bible, whoever this Jesus guy was, He certainly cried out for us to help those in need rather than selfi shly help ourselves (Use Google, search for “What does the Bible say about helping those in need?”).

All of my other thoughts about how to spend spring break were self-ishly motivated. I wanted to at least understand what it was supposed to be like to live a “good” life. I wanted to see if God truly was to be found in the broken places, as I had often heard. But I could not do that from my dorm room. I could not do that from my house. I could not do that in reading the news or a book.

I had to get out. I had to experi-ence it for myself.

You cannot ever hope to “fi nd God” through intellectual processes. It will not work. I am not saying that you shouldn’t try to understand your experiences, or to make sense of the world. Humans have the capacity to reason; we should use it. But we rea-son with our experiences, and if we never put ourselves into the position where others feel “God” moving, how could we ever deny their belief?

Things suck in this world. Plain and simple. Come and see how people deal with that. Come to New Orleans. Try doing things for oth-ers. Then keep asking questions, and keep digging out those fears. Seek, and you will fi nd something worth-while.

Sean Matthews is a senior philoso-phy major who found religion to be a helpful part of his life in college. In this column, he explores the idea of how religion can fi t into a college student’s life, and he shares his story in hopes that you’ll fi nd a connec-

tion with your own experience.

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On Friday the UNH Peace and Justice League will begin a day-long car ride to Fort Benning, Georgia to participate in a nonviolent demon-stration against the United States’ training school for foreign soldiers.

Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation – more commonly referred to by its former name, the School of the Americas (SOA) – trains soldiers and police offi cers from Latin American coun-tries.

The protest, which has oc-curred annually for the past three decades, is organized by the School of the Americas Watch (SOAW), an organization dedicated to closing the training facility.

According to the SOAW, many of the soldiers and security offi cers trained at the school have returned to their home countries and partici-pated in terrible crimes, including the murder of civilians.

The SOAW website describes the goal of the protest at Fort Ben-ning is the closing the SOA. The organization is confi dent that with a Democratic president in offi ce the closing may actually become a real-ity.

According to Peace and Justice League Keeper of Peace, Bekah Hawley, a sophomore at UNH, the SOA protest is very important to the organization, as the SOA represents

many of the things Peace and Jus-tice League try to work against.

“We’re a non-violent, non-hierarchical group,” Hawley said. “We advocate non-violent means for providing peace. The SOA is all about forcing, coercing, and dehumanizing people, which is the exact opposite of what we’re trying to do.”

Another member of the Peace and Justice League, UNH junior Joe Lavoie, agreed that the goals of the SOA in training foreign soldiers go against the non-violent ideals of the Peace and Justice League.

“There is awful violence [at the SOA],” Lavoie said. “It is a failed means to establish peace. It’s just trying to put a U.S. infl uence in oth-er countries.”

According to Hawley, by par-ticipating in the protest, Peace and Justice League members are doing something tangible to work towards their goals.

“We’re talking about issues and why we want to change them,” Hawley said. “But now we’re also taking an active role.”

Thirteen members of the Peace and Justice League, including a majority of fi rst-year students, will leave Friday to drive to the protest in Georgia, where they will join thousands of other people.

According to Hawley, how-ever, this event is more than just a protest.

“There is a week of speakers beforehand, peace-keeping semi-nars, training on legislation,” Haw-ley said.

Lavoie said that for a young person wanting to go into activism, this protest, with its many seminars and activists, is a great learning ex-perience.

“I hope to learn tools to put my beliefs into action,” Lavoie said. “And it’s a great way to network. If you want to be an activist [this pro-test] is the fi rst place to go.”

According to Hawley, the real value of this event is the informa-tion it will provide for Peace and Justice League to bring back to the campus and community.

“We hope to bring back every-thing we learn and get other students to realize that this isn’t right,” Haw-ley said. “We’re bringing a speaker in December who is an active mem-ber of the SOAW, and I would also like students who went to the protest to talk about their experiences.”

For those members of the UNH Peace and Justice League who are unable to go to the protest, as well as any student or member of the Durham community, a prayer ser-vice to remember the victims of the SOA will be held Friday night at 6 p.m. at Saint Thomas More Church on Madbury Road.

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The University of New Hamp-shire Concert Choir was held in a place of honor this past week, per-forming at Boston’s TD Garden with Britain’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Star Wars: In Concert. The international hit show is wildly popular across the United States, Canada and even Europe.

The show consists of an origi-nal fi lm montage from all six epi-sodes put together by Lucasfi lm and set to John Williams’ music. Throughout the performance, actor Anthony Daniels, the voice of C3-PO, narrates the epic story of the Star Wars saga. The show sold out this past weekend with tickets sell-ing for around $75 a piece.

“I’ve seen some presentations of, you know, live orchestras with Star Wars clips, and that sort of thing, but this is so much more than that … it really is quite powerful,” said George Lucas in a CNN inter-view this past October.

The choir performed alongside the orchestra that even included a few members of the London Sym-

phony Orchestra, the original Star Wars orchestra. UNH sang the chill-ing vocal parts of John Williams’ masterpiece sound track.

“It’s kind of epic,” said fresh-man UNH choir member Matthew Casazza. “This is an unrivaled ex-perience, to play with professional musicians.”

“It means that we’re doing the right thing,” said choir director Dr. William Kempster. The UNH Con-cert Choir normally performs for large venues, but this one is the big-gest yet. Dr. Kempster explained that South Carolina based Star Wars: In Concert promoters invited the choir to perform with the orchestra.

“It is unreal,” said sophomore Taylor Bradbury. “I mean, I just saw C-3PO in the elevator.”

The audience went crazy for the performance, with booming ap-plause after every piece.

“It makes me feel important,” said freshman Carter Bascom. The choir expressed their love for “the roar of the crowd.”

For more information on Star Wars: In Concert go online to www.starwarsinconcert.com.

Matthew LaurionCONTRIBUTING WRITER

The UNH Concert Choir performed “Star Wars: In Concert” in Boston this past weekend.

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Friday 11/20

Metric @ House of Blues, Boston MA, All Ages, $20Devendra Banhart @ Berklee Per-formance Center, Boston MA, All Ages, $25Cassavettes @ Cafe 939, Boston MA, All Ages, $20Gold Star Morning @ Th e Middle East Upstairs, Boston MA, 18+, $10

Saturday 11/21

Th e Aggrolites @ Harpers Ferry, Allston MA, 18+, $16Baroness @ Th e Middle East Downstairs, Boston MA, 18+, $12Pablo Francisco @ Wilbur Th eatre, Boston MA, All Ages, $20-$32

Sunday 11/22

Sonic Youth @ Wilbur Th eatre, Boston MA, All Ages, $30Cave In @ Th e Middle East Down-stairs, Boston MA, 18+, $13

Sunday 11/22 (cont.)

Joshua Radin @ House of Blues, Boston MA, All Ages, $20Attack the City @ Harpers Ferry, Allston MA, 18+, $8

Monday 11/23

Sonic Youth @ Wilbur Th eatre, Boston MA, All Ages, $30

Tuesday 11/24

Who’s Bad - Th e Ultimate Michael Jackson Tribute @ House of Blues, Boston MA, All Ages, $20

Wednesday 11/25

311 @ Cumberland County Civic Center, Portland ME, All Ages, $40Fuck Buttons @ Great Scott, All-ston MA, 18+, $12

“Twinkie, Deconstructed” dissects a classic snack

As part of the MUB lecture series, Steve Ettlinger, who admits to having eaten over 30 Twinkies as part of research for his most recent book, deconstructed the ingredients of one of America’s classic Hostess snacks, the Twinkie.

As he traveled across America, he visited factories, plants and even mines in order to track down all of the ingredients of the “golden cake with vanilla crème fi lling.”

“I just think it’s really, really interesting,” said Ettlinger, whose book “Twinkie, Deconstructed” came out in March 2007. “I had been thinking about doing a book on the exploration of ingredients of processed foods for a while, and the Twinkie has a little bit of every-thing.”

Speaking to a crowd of about 200 on Wednesday, Ettlinger ex-plained the origins of some of the 39 ingredients found in Twinkies. One ingredient, Phosphate is mined out

of Silver Springs, Idaho, which Et-tlinger visited as part of his research for his book.

Ettlinger wasn’t the only one fascinated by the ingredients. UNH freshman, Ashley Heim, couldn’t believe all the steps that went into making a Twinkie.

“It’s just really amazing,” said Heim. “Not that we eat it everyday, but it’s something to think about.”

UNH professor of organic chemistry, Richard Johnson, was less impressed with the science be-hind Ettlinger’s book, but still said he wouldn’t be eating a Twinkie anytime soon.

“I worry students will come away from this and be afraid to eat [a Twinkie],” said Johnson, who said the human body contains some Phosphorus anyhow. “It’s impor-tant to look at the ingredients, but just because it’s a big word doesn’t make it bad.”

In addition to exposing the in-gredients of the Twinkie, Ettlinger looked at the process by which those ingredients were gathered. An

open-ended question he has is what the carbon footprint, or the sum of the greenhouse gases used to make a product, of the Twinkie is.

“It’s unappetizing to think of food as part of the industrial world,” said Ettlinger. “Th e carbon foot-print of the Twinkie is immense, I imagine.”

Th e book, which Ettlinger was inspired to write after his daughter asked him what Polysorbate 60 was as they were looking at the ingre-dients in packaged ice cream, has caused him to buy more local, whole foods - but he won’t discourage the occasional eating of the Twinkie.

“One’s not going to kill you,” said Ettlinger. “It’s if you eat a lot of it.”

And if he had to describe what the Twinkie tastes like, for Ettlinger, it’s nothing like the ingredients.

“It tastes like vanilla and but-ter,” said Ettlinger, “Neither of which are in it.”

For more information on the Twinkie go to www.twinkiedecon-structed.com.

[Brittney Murray]verb wordsmith

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The Twinkie Deconstructed Ever wonder what’s in a Twinkie? Here’s the list of ingredients in case you were wondering: Wheat Flour, Bleach, Ferrous Sulfate, Niacin, Thiamine Mononitrate (B1), Ribofl avin (B2), Folic Acid, Sugar, Corn Sweeteners, Corn Syrup, Dextrose, Glucose, and High Fructose Corn SyrupCornstarch, Modifi ed Cornstarch, Corn Dextrins, Corn Flour, Water, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable and/or Animal Shortening, Soy Lecithin, and Soy Protein Isolate, Eggs, Cellulose Gum, Whey, Leavening, Baking Soda, Sodium acid pyrophosphate and monocalcium phosphate, Salt, Mono and Diglycerides, Natural and Artifi cial Flavors, Sodium, Stearoyl Lactylate, Sodium and Calcium, Caseinate, Calcium Sulfate, Sorbic Acid, Color (FD & C Yellow 5, Red 40)

REVIEW Movies are like people. Th ere are those you like and those you hate. Some are en-joyable enough, but you wouldn’t care to see them again. Every so often, however, there comes along one that you really and truly love. With that in mind, “500 Days of Summer” just might be your soul-mate.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who is quickly becoming the most un-derrated actor in Hollywood, stars as Tom Hanson, a greeting card writer who falls head-over-heals for the new copy girl, Summer (Zooey Deschanel). It is the basic story of boy meets girl but, as the movie’s narrator informs us from the very beginning of the fi lm, it is

not a love story. As soon as we see Tom and Summer’s romance blos-som, the fi lm skips ahead to their break up. From that moment on, “500 Days of Summer” establishes that it is no ordinary romantic comedy.

Th e fi lm doesn’t contain a plot so much as it contains an idea. Tom and Summer’s rela-tionship, such as it is, is organic, constantly growing and chang-ing. Th e fi lm jumps around to and from any given point in their time together, be it day 10 or day 410. We learn about their relationship just as we would learn of an old friend’s: through bits and pieces of information, fragments of joy and sorrow seemingly inseparable from one another.

Th e problem with Tom and Summer is not their commitment or faithfulness to each other, as it would be in so many other mov-ies. Rather, these are two smart, interesting characters who care about each other very much, but simply have diff erent defi nitions of what it means to be “together.” Tom is a hopeless romantic, a sup-porter of true love and the belief

that there’s someone out there for everybody. Summer, on the other hand, doesn’t believe in love, fate or romance. She only believes in Summer.

Th e fi lm’s two principle actors go a long way to making the mov-ie what it is. Gordon-Levitt has always been charming and pos-sessed good comic timing, but here he is allowed to express both the highest highs and lowest lows of human emotion literally from one scene to the next. Likewise, Zooey Deschanel is eff ortless, as always, in having that sort of goofy charm that makes you just melt for her. We could watch these characters go shopping and be content. As a matter of fact, we do.

But more than just because of its actors, the fi lm achieves heights that most movies only dream of. Not only is it sincere and heart-felt, with honest and unfl inching insights on relationships, but the fi lm is whimsical and extraordi-narily entertaining. It blends every genre, walks every line, and does so in a way that makes you smile not

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Let the chaos of holiday shopping begin. Look no further than “500 Days of Summer” for a great gift. If you need a bit of convincing, this review should help. The DVD will release on Dec. 22.

10 The New Hampshire • November 20, 2009

MUSO Presents….

Movies for the Week of November 6-10

Inglourious Basterds

Thursday, November 19 6:30PM 9:30 PMFriday, November 20 6:30 PM 9:30 PMSaturday, November 21 6:30 PM 9:30 PMSunday, November 22 6:30 PM 9:30 PM

The Time Travelers Wife

Thursday, November 12 9:00 PMFriday, November 13 7:00 PM 9:00 PMSaturday, November 14 7:00 PM 9:00 PMSunday, November 15 7:00 PM 9:00 PM

Tickets are $2 for students with ID and $4 for others.

Tickets go on sale 1 hour before showtime. Cat’s Cache and Cash are the ONLY forms of payment

accepted.

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only at the audacity of the attempt, but the unbridled achievement of its success. What else can one say about a movie in which characters have bitter, familiar arguments in one instant and then engage in a musical number the next?

Credit must go to fi rst time director Marc Webb for his won-derful pacing and confi dence in the material. But the real shin-ing star is the screenplay, written by Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber. Creating a work as original as “500 Days of Summer” is noth-ing short of a triumph, and if they do not receive Oscar nominations for the screenplay, then what’s the point in even having the catego-ry?

Th is movie spoke to me, and

I’m sure it will to most anyone who sees it. Behind its characters, their humor, and their heartache,

there is a very real joy which in-spires hope and happiness. Th is is why I go to the movies.

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Joesph Gordon-Levitt plays Tom Hanson, a boy who falls in love with

Summer Finn, played by Zoey Deschanel.

arts in briefTom Cruise in Austria’s Salzburg for fi lm shoot

VIENNA — Tom Cruise has arrived in the Austrian city of Salzburg to shoot scenes for the new action comedy “Knight & Day.”

Cruise, wearing sunglasses and a casual shirt, waved as he got off a private jet at the local airport Th ursday afternoon.

Austrian broadcaster ORF re-ports that Cameron Diaz, Cruise’s co-star, has been in Salzburg since Tuesday.

“Knight & Day” is directed by James Mangold and is due to be released next summer.

Kate Moss criticized after skinny-is-good remark

LONDON — Eating disor-der experts criticized Kate Moss on Th ursday after the supermodel cited as her motto a phrase used on Web sites that encourage girls to avoid eating.

In an interview with the fash-ion Web site WWD, Moss said one of her mottos was “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.”

Th e same slogan is posted on Web sites encouraging girls not to eat.

Mary George of British eating-disorder charity Beat called Moss’s words “very unfortunate.”

“Comments like this make it even more diffi cult” for young people

struggling with an eating disorder,” she said.

Model Katie Green, who is campaigning to stop the use of ul-tra-thin “size zero” models, told Th e Sun newspaper the comments were “shocking and irresponsible.”

Moss, 35, is famous for her waif-like look, which helped spur a trend for super-thin models in the 1990s.

Moss’s modeling agency, Storm, said her words had been misinter-preted.

“Th is was part of a longer an-swer Kate gave during a wider-ranging interview, which has unfor-tunately been taken out of context and completely misrepresented,” the agency said in a statement. “For the record, Kate does not support this as a lifestyle choice.”

11The New Hampshire • November 20, 2009

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ARTS 551—Photography—is a man-datory class for BFA candidates at UNH. But for Julie Hamel, what began as a pre-requisite soon became a passion. Now, as a senior, she is pursuing a dual BFA in Draw-ing and Photography.

“It’s so great to develop your own pho-tos. From point A to point B you control the entire spectrum of the process,” she said.

Her fascination with the art form was so strong, Hamel committed every Wednes-day from 6 to 9 PM to volunteer in the de-partment.

Her hard work and commitment didn’t go unnoticed. She was awarded a photog-raphy fellowship for the 2009-2010 school

year. Th e fellowship covers tuition for a full year and gives her the opportunity to work closely with and for the photography pro-fessor, Julie Holcombe, and the students currently taking the class.

“It’s the best job in the world,” she said.

If it isn’t clear she how much loves her job as ‘[Professor Holcombe’s] right-hand man,’ get this: Hamel says she once received a call at 2 AM from a student in the PCAC darkroom who was having a problem devel-oping their photos.

“I jumped out of bed and went over to help them,” Hamel said. “I never get tired because it’s so fun and interesting.”

Of course, focusing on her own pho-tography is a priority. She says her work fo-cuses on fi gures and landscapes, or fi gures

in their environment. Hopelessness and loneliness are two major themes within her photos.

In January 2009, Hamel was given an opportunity to photograph one of the truest forms of isolation: prison. She met and took pictures of 22-year old Elise Estes, who was charged with negligent homocide for driving while intoxicated and killing a 76-year old man. Her work was featured in an exhibit—A Prison Nation: Unlocking the Stories—during UNH’s MLK Celebration.

Beyond the prison exhibit, her work has been auctioned off and featured at in-vitational galleries. Despite the prestige, it’s UNH she loves. When asked if she would ever want to stay on campus and become a photography professor, she said, “I couldn’t want anything more. I love it here.”

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Students with the travel bug and an urge to serve are in luck. With registration just around the corner, all students have the op-portunity to sign up for Commu-nications 798, a service-learning course that takes students to Ni-caragua for two weeks.

Nicaragua, which is located in Central America, has the sec-ond lowest per capita income in the western hemisphere, and al-most half of its population lives below the poverty line. Through the course, students are able to design service projects to help make a difference using their skills. The projects vary accord-ing to the students’ skills and in-terests.

“They’re really in the driv-er’s seat,” said Pamela Broido, American Sign Language coor-dinator, and professor for Com-munications 798

Broido has been traveling to Latin America since 2006. She fi rst went to Belize, then to Ni-caragua, where she formulated the goal to start a program that would bring students to the area to do service work.

“I like to feel like I’m mak-ing a positive effect in the world,” she said.

She went on a trip to Ni-caragua’s capital of Managua through the New Hampshire-based nonprofi t Compas de Nicaragua, which translates to “Friends of Nicaragua.” The group was formed in the 1990s with the goal to promote cultural exchange while improving lives through service. Broido decided to work with them to organize trips twice a year for UNH stu-dents. As the affi liation grew stronger, she decided to write a

course to go along with the trip. This fall semester was the

fi rst time the course had been offered, and 12 students are par-ticipating. Students meet once a month to prepare for the two week trip this January and plan projects.

So far, students have cre-ated an informational blog based on the class, a sports activity for Nicaraguan children, and an in-troductory Spanish book to help themselves learn the language.

The course also covers dif-ferent perspectives on the coun-try, from history to culture to health. It’s open to students of any major and any year, although familiarity with Spanish helps, and students who are familiar with American Sign Language will have service opportunities to apply their skills. There is a fee of $800 plus airfare for the trip. Students also have the op-tion of taking the trip without the class. The spring semester class will make the trip this August.

Students perform a variety of service work, including work-

Students at UNH will soon be picking their classes for the spring 2010 semester and I have decided to give some advice on the gen-eral education courses I have tak-en. Please remember that classes may differ depending on the pro-fessor, but usually the level of dif-fi culty remains the same.

MATH 420 (Finite Math): If you took discrete math in high school this class will be very easy. Most of the grade is based on three exams, with quizzes and homework making up a smaller portion. The homework usually doesn’t take more than 15-25 minutes and the quizzes are easy if you attend the lectures. The exams can be hard be-cause they cover a lot, but attending lectures and doing the homework will keep you from having to stay up all night studying.

PSYCH 401 (Intro to Psychol-ogy): I was in 200-person lecture that was based on four exams (20 percent each) attendance (15 per-cent) and the last 5 percent was for participation in an out of class study by a psych major. The lectures ba-sically outline the book chapter by chapter, and they are actually pretty interesting. This class is easy as long as you take decent notes and attend the lectures.

POLT 401 (Politics and Soci-ety): This is by far the worse class I have ever taken in my entire life. It revolves around reading political philosophy including Plato, So-crates, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Hob-bes, Locke, Rousseau, among oth-ers. The three exams make up most of the overall grade so one poor score can be hard to recover from. I had Professor Haight who was very enthusiastic but was not that clear when interpreting the readings during the lectures. I taught myself more the day before the fi nal by us-ing online resources (Wikipedia and

Spark Notes) than I learned all se-mester. I would not recommend this to a non-major.

HIST 406 (Modern US His-tory): I actually really enjoyed this class. It started out slow but once we got to the 1920s and beyond that, it became really interesting. My class had three two-page papers with a third larger paper on a his-torical novel plus the midterm and fi nal. There was also a 10 percent attendance grade so if you’re one to skip classes I would not recom-mend this class. If you can write de-cent essays, this class should be an easy B or higher.

HIST 421 (Ancient Civiliza-tions Pre 16th Century): I had Pro-fessor Couser who described this class as being an “easy C with a few Bs and fewer As.” In my sec-tion we didn’t take one test or quiz and it was completely based on essays and participation in discus-sions. Even the midterm and fi nal were take-home essays and if you use notes from the lectures they are actually pretty easy. If you’re good at writing solid analysis papers in three to fi ve pages, this class should be a breeze.

MIRC 407 (Germs 101): Germs is a highly requested class here at UNH because it is very easy and it can actually be quite interesting. This class does involve some “busy work,” especially the group proj-ects, which feel like a huge waste of time. I would recommend this class because it defi nitely helps out the old GPA. Germs in a nutshell: wash your hands. Did I mention there are no exams?

NR 435 (Contemporary Con-servation Issues): Professor Bill Mautz, who is arguably one of the best professors on campus, teaches this class. NR 435 is a very easy en-vironmental science class that basi-cally covers everything, including

Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvenient Truth” and much more. Although the lectures can be boring and the exams are hard, one-page essays and blackboard quizzes that can be retaken make for an easy A.

ESCI 501 (Intro to Oceanogra-phy): This class revolves around four exams worth 20 percent each and a lab grade worth 20 percent. The exams are not too hard and the labs are pretty easy. Plus you get to go on a boat, but compared to other science general education courses this class can be more challenging. I found oceanography to be the most interesting science I have taken, but compared to Germs and NR it was also the hardest.

MUSI 401 (Intro to Music): This class is boring, but should fi ll up your fi ne arts general educa-tion requirement without too much trouble. As long as you keep track of the quiz dates this a great class to take if you like to skip class. Most of the quizzes are identifying cer-tain songs that are found on CDs that come with the book. Professor Urquhart is very enthusiastic about this subject, but it seems as though he would prefer to be teaching mu-sic majors.

LATIN 401/402 (Intro to Lat-in): If you are required to take a lan-guage I highly recommend Latin. All three of the intro professors are very helpful. The best thing about Latin is that it is not spoken, so you do not have to worry about perform-ing in front of your classmates.

Stay classy, not UMassy,The New Hampshirite

The New Hampshirite is a mysterious UNH student who entertains much of

the campus with his politically incorrect and realistic accounts of student life in

Durham. You can fi nd his blog at http://unhblog.com.

Gen-Ed RecommendationsThe New Hampshirite’s... Communications class

offers travel opportunity

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Pamela Broido, pictured here with her Nicaraguan family, visits the country twice every year for community service projects.

Amanda FlitterSTAFF WRITER

TRAVEL continued on page 13


TNH Favorite Classes

TNH Least Favorite Classes

AMST 444B - • New Orleans: Place, Meaning and ContextARTS 525 - • WoodworkingARTS 532 - Intro-• ductory DrawingNURS 450 - Mak-• ing BabiesENGL 501 - Cre-• ative Non-fi ctionENGL 526 - Fic-• tion WritingENGL 711 - Edit-• ingENGL 784 - Eng-• lish Novel of the 19th Century

EREC 409 - Ca-• tastrophe and Ter-rorismITAL 525 - Italian • CinemaKIN 444B - • Hockey: A His-toryKIN 562 - Sports • Media RelationsNR 401 - Intro to • Natural ResourcesNR 435 - Con-• temporary Con-servation IssuesSPAN 648 - • Reading Current Periodicals

ADMN 410 - • Management and Information Sys-temsADMN 420 - • Business StatisticsARTS 572 - Arts • of the Ancient HumanismCHEM 405 - • General Chemis-tryCS 410 - Intro • to Scientifi c Pro-grammingENGL 609 - Eth-• nicity in AmericaFSF 525 - Family • Studies

HIST 405 - Early • American HistoryHIST 654 - His-• tory of ScienceKIN 718 - Career • Preparation and Athletic TrainingLING 405 - Intro • to LinguisticsOT 513 - Stressed • OutPHIL 424 - Phi-• losophy of Sci-ence and Technol-ogyPHYS 407 - Gen-• eral Physics ISOC 515 - Intro • to Criminology

ing at an area hospital, visiting a deaf-blind school, and work-ing with a group called Women in Action, which helps women achieve their business and per-sonal goals.

During their stay, they live with local families.

“When you live with a fam-ily you get the full-blown, nit-ty-gritty, this is how you live,” Broido said.

She said students will ex-perience a world of cold show-ers, no running water, no fl ush toilets, and repetitive meals of beans and rice.

“This is outside the realm of any UNH student,” she said. “All of us have had such privilege.”

Broido also emphasized that this is how two-thirds of the world lives, meaning Americans

are in the minority.“We don’t realize what a

great life we have,” she said.Despite the lack of modern

amenities, Broido said the Ni-caraguan people are happy and very community-centered.

“It’s just so interesting,” she said. “Materially they have noth-ing, but they’re culturally and spiritually rich.”

Broido said she hopes the trip leaves a lasting impression on students.

“I really want students to be touched and moved and in-spired,” she said.

One student who was im-pacted by the trip is Kara Kelly-Martin, a senior communications sciences and disorders major. She is not currently enrolled in the class but made the trip last January. During her two weeks,

she helped dig ditches for a bio-gas system, which would use methane gas from horse manure to generate electricity for the small village of La Paz. She also worked with Women in Action.

She called the experience “humbling” and “inspiring,” and said she remembers the people the most. She said it taught her the mentality of working hard without expecting a reward, which helped boost her work ethic in school. She hopes to go back to do more service work one day, and recommends the trip to students.

“The people there are just amazing—very hardworking and loyal to their country and their families,” she said.

For more information about the class, contact Pamela Broido at [email protected].

TRAVEL: Students take service trips to Nicaragua in new class, COMM 798Continued from page 12

The Masters of Fine Arts in Writing program here at UNH was recently ranked 42nd in Poets and Writers magazine with its nonfi ction program in seventh place, a rare ac-complishment for a program that is just shy of four years old.

In a guide written by Seth Abramson, the meaning of the rank-ing is described in greater detail: “Because there are 140 full-resi-dency MFA programs in the United States, any school whose numerical ranking is in the top 50 in any of the ranked categories – the overall rankings; rankings in the poetry, fi ction, or nonfi ction genres; or the rankings by funding, selectivity, and postgraduate placement – should be considered exceptional in that cat-egory.”

UNH was ranked 39th for the category of poetry and 40th place for the fi ction category.

The UNH English depart-ment’s MFA program is composed of 48 credit hours in fi ction, non-fi ction, and poetry. Candidates for the program are required to write a book-length thesis to complete the program. Students with teaching as-sistantship are able to complete the program in three years. However, students without the assistantship can complete it in just two years.

Thirty years prior to the MFA program, UNH had a master’s pro-gram in English/Writing, but in 2003 the department recognized the need to change that program to the Master’s of Fine Arts program as it is the terminal degree in the writing fi eld.

“Each of the 140 schools that were ranked has a unique personal-ity,” said Associate Professor and Writing Director of the MFA pro-gram Sue Hertz. “UNH’s strength is in its size. We have a small pro-gram of 45 students in three genres, which enables students to get a lot of attention from their professors. It

fosters a strong sense of community among writing students.”

Andrew Merton, chair of the English Department believes the pro-gram is headed in the right direction.

“We have made some adjust-ments in terms of fl exibility,” Mer-ton said. “We have encountered some diffi culties with the leave of three staff members. “

He went on to say he thought the program was in good shape.

“Given that the program is so young, it is nice to be recognized,” Merton said.

The program enables students to learn not only in their personal writing sphere, but in the other genres as well through various writ-ing workshops and interaction with other members in the program.

“We allow and encourage our students to try other genres because they all borrow from each other,” Hertz said. “Content, structure, and imagery are some examples of as-pects that cover each genre. I think it’s good to have an appreciation of the other genres.”

“I feel as if the MFA at UNH was a fantastic place to study cre-ative writing,” said alumnus Mark Gosztyla, who is now a poetry instructor at Tufts University. “I studied poetry specifi cally, and be-tween Professors Simic, McBride, and Rivard, I felt like I received the best tutelage I possibly could. They are supportive beyond belief. They believe in their students and do all they can to help hone their craft.”

Mike Mangan, a full-time fac-ulty member from the psychology department, found the MFA pro-gram to be a perfect fi t, allowing him to chip away part time.

“Most of the classes are very small with a lot of workshops,” Mangan said. “You really get plenty of feedback from both your peers and faculty members.”

“There’s also a high amount of accountability for individual ef-fort,” Mangan said. “The program

is designed for those students who are focused and genuinely passion-ate about writing.”

“When a program does well, it is good for the university,” Hertz said. “We have three new faculty members – Ann Joslin Williams, David Rivard, and Thomas Payne – all who have been great additions to the program.”

A strength of the program is re-fl ected in its staff members. “I think the main strength of the program is the faculty,” said Gosztyla. “In my experience, they all genuinely want the students to succeed in their writ-ing pursuits. When I was pursuing an opportunity to write a series of true crime articles for Foster’s Daily Democrat, I was encouraged and ad-vised on the project by Sue Hertz and Meredith Hall who teach non-fi ction, as well as Mekeel McBride, who teaches poetry. Without their help, I wouldn’t have been able to see the project through to completion.”

Currently one of the weak-nesses of the program is its fi nancial foundation in terms of supporting incoming students to the program with scholarships or grants.

“Our one real weakness is that we don’t have a lot of fi nancial aid to offer students,” Hertz said. “We don’t have the luxury to increase the amount of fi nancial spending or grants to attract all the highly quali-fi ed students who may decide to go to other schools that better support them fi nancially.”

Ken Fuld, the interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts is an avid supporter of the program.

“We are delighted that UNH’s MFA in writing program has gained such recognition in such a short period of time,” Fuld said. “It is a refl ection of the high quality of our faculty in writing and the Eng-lish department’s ability to provide a well functioning graduate pro-gram.”

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MFA program ranked 42nd in countryKerry Feltner

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The University of New Hamp-shire ROTC is preparing for its big-gest training of the semester, and for this class’s fi nal, the last thing one would want to forget is to prepare.

“It’s going to be intense and they’re going to get frustrated, but we want to see how they react,” said Lt. Col. Paul Webber, Professor of Military Science. “But they have seen all of this before. Now, it’ll be taking what they’ve learned and ap-plying it to real combat situations.”

Although Webber said all of the training the ROTC does throughout the year is created to be as real as possible, Friday’s training will take place at a commercial paintball fa-cility and will include the use of paintball guns in order to simulate enemy and return fi re. The training, which is being held at OSG Paint-ball in Center Barnstead, N.H., will place cadets in challenging scenar-ios ranging from mock improvised explosive devices and prisoner of wars to snipers and civilians, all while dealing with challenging leadership situations, like making sure everyone’s accounted for.

The training scenarios, which were created by the ROTC seniors, include three separate missions that will be carried out by three different platoons of cadets. Junior ROTC

members act as the offi cers, taking charge of the sophomore and fresh-man cadets.

“It’s one of the more memorable trainings,” said senior Kevin Park, who said for the past three years the training was held at an abandoned prison in Bousquin, N.H. “They’re going to have to act quick on their feet and adapt to overcome.”

And although the large, end of the year training is usually fun for cadets, it’s important they’re learn-ing, said Webber, who has been in the Army for 22 years.

“We’re in a serious business,” said Webber, who said Friday’s training would include 100 ROTC members. “Most of these cadets will go on to combat and they need to know how to get all of their men back safe. I get concerned when

they think it’s all fun, and they think it’s a game.”

In order to keep training as con-temporary and relevant as possible, the Army rotates in combat veterans to help explain and set up missions re-lated to the two wars going on now.

“We want to get through to them what’s current but also what’s basic, like leadership abilities and know-ing where everyone is,” said Web-ber. “We practice tactics being used in Iraq and Afghanistan. There’s al-ways a realism to our training.”

After Friday’s training the Army ROTC will have one lab left for the semester - a battalion-train-ing event on Dec. 4, which will in-clude water-related exercises.

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ROTC prepares for simulated warfareBrittney Murray

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COURTESY PHOTOA UNH Army ROTC cadet instructes his team on room clearing techniques.

“The moods of the American soldiers in Iraq can be described as gleefully bitter and enthusiasti-cally cynical,” said photojournalist Nathan Webster this past Tuesday. “These guys that have been de-ployed three to four times now are long past the point of being inter-ested.”

The MUB lecture “Can’t Give This War Away: Three Iraqi Summers of Change and Confl ict” served as a platform for Webster to detail his experience and share his photos from the time he spent in Iraq between 2007 and 2009.

Webster, a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing pro-gram here at UNH is a veteran of the Persian Gulf War and a photo-journalist who applied the process of “embedded reporting” in order to portray the troops. His purpose in Iraq was to chronicle the activi-ties of the soldiers in an attempt to sell the photos to major newspapers and increase awareness of the cur-rent war effort, which at times can be pushed to the wayside by the American public. Currently he is working on a book entitled “Can’t Give This War Away,” about his ex-periences abroad.

“I believe the United States’ in-volvement in Iraq is the single most important ongoing event in the last 10 years,” said Webster. “We can’t give this war away as a country. We are trying to give control back to Iraq as if we can just wash our hands of it, but we as a country don’t get to spend a trillion dollars on something and then just put it behind us.”

Webster noted the lack of press or media coverage in Iraq while he was over there, as he never saw re-porters from any of the major news-papers. He thought that he would never get approved to go over to Iraq, so it came as quite a surprise when his application was accepted and he was told to purchase protec-tive gear and to head over immedi-ately.

“As soon as the application was actually approved I thought to myself-what have I done?” Webster said. “I didn’t realize it would be

so easy, I didn’t have any problems getting there.”

Webster discussed missions that he accompanied the troops on, as well as vital meetings be-tween the U.S. and the Iraqis back in 2007 that have set the foundation for the current Iraq 2009 relations. The infantrymen referred to these meetings as “tea parties,” as those participating would often drink chai during discussions.

The discussion ended with a four-minute slideshow of pictures, each shedding some light and per-sonality on the anonymity of sol-diers that is often portrayed in a war.

“My goal with these images is to show these men and women in a different light,” Webster said.

The images involved soldiers smoking, on their computer in their sleeping quarters, joking around with one another, and talking to some Iraqi children.

When the pictures with the chil-dren were shown, the aspect of trust was addressed in the discussion.

“When you are over there you trust nobody... situations are almost always safer than they look, but you never really know,” Webster said.

Another issue that was brought up was the disconnect the soldiers experienced in order to survive and function in Iraq.

“You have to disconnect your-self and focus on right now, the present tense,” Webster said. “You don’t worry about the future be-cause it may not happen, and the past doesn’t matter anymore. The soldiers put their lives at home be-hind them, they just worry about the present.”

Responses to the event were positive.

“As a veteran myself, it was an interesting lecture,” said commu-nity member Richard Sweeney. “It was enlightening, but it defi nitely was not what I expected. I thought he would be against the war, but he wasn’t.”

“It’s really unusual to get a fi rst-hand report of the war,” said com-munity member Gretchen Forbes. “You’d think by now it would be our duty to have major news organi-zations over there to write about the war...that really surprises me. I feel like it’s the media’s responsibility.”

Community member Betty Nordgren was also dismayed by the lack of news coverage.

“I am always interested in hearing about the war and the im-ages were great to see, but I think that the news organizations are in trouble if they don’t start covering this war more thoroughly,” said Nordgren.

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Through “embedded reporting,”UNH alum and photojournalist gets inside look at Iraq

Kerry FeltnerSTAFF WRITER

“I believe the United States’ involvement in Iraq is the single most important event in the last 10 years.”

Nathan WebsterPhotojournalist


A Mexican restaurant has been approved by the Durham Planning Board to move into the Mill Plaza in the space next to Rite Aid, which was previ-ously occupied by the Movie Stop. Douglas Greene, the res-taurant’s future manager said he is shooting for a springtime opening and also plans to have a liquor license.

Greene applied for three phases of construction of La Paz Mexican Grill.

The fi rst phase entails cre-ating the restaurant, which will seat about 50 people, while adding additional bathrooms and storage space as well as an alternate side entry. The second phase includes installing an out-door patio to provide outdoor seating for about 30 people. The fi nal phase, which Greene con-siders to be three or four years away, would be to build an ad-ditional dining room or outdoor seating space along the side of the building, which could ac-commodate another 55 people.

When phase two of the construction commences, seven parking spots that are currently on the side of the building will be removed.

In order to create the patio’s outdoor seating in front of the restaurant, the expansion would creep into the fi re land in front of Rite Aid and the future Mexi-can Restaurant. There was some concern amongst board mem-bers as well as residents about the safety issues of eliminating this fi re lane.

Board member Kevin Gardener said that there have always been problems with people driving too fast in front of those stores, which include Durham Market Place, Kalei-doscoop, and Rite Aid, because of the curve in the road.

However, Greene said he reviewed the proposal with the fi re department, members of which said that expanding the patio into the fi re lane was okay because it was not a necessary fi re lane.

Gardner also said that the positive of expanding the res-

taurant into the fi re lane was that it would then be even with Kaleidoscoop, which juts out into the fi re lane as well.

“We’re trying to get Dur-ham to be a place that is more walkable,” said Gardner. “This might actually help.”

Traffi c circulation in the Mill Plaza parking lot in gen-eral was a concern of many at the meeting.

“I think this a great plan, and I look forward to eating at this restaurant,” said Durham resident, Peter Anderson. “My one concern is the people com-ing out of the restaurant who have consumed alcohol and may not be paying attention coming out of the parking lot.”

Anderson said that this spe-cifi c intersection was already an unsafe one, as last December a 73-year-old woman was struck by a truck and killed in the cross walk next to this intersection.

Some students remarked that currently there aren’t many places to eat in Durham.

Sophomore Liana New-combe, who doesn’t have a meal

plan, said that she doesn’t usu-ally go out to eat in Durham.

“Being a student I don’t have a lot of money, so I don’t go out to eat a lot. But when I do, I usually go to Dover or Portsmouth,” said Newcombe.

A few students eating lunch in the MUB Union Court said they would welcome a Mexican restaurant as an addition to Mill Plaza.

“Mexican equals great,” said sophomore Cameron Bor-gal. “I hadn’t heard about this before, but when they open I will go defi nitely go there to eat.”

Another student, sopho-more Raymond Jones, said he occasionally eats downtown in Durham but not very often.

“I don’t go out to eat very often, but if it was there I’d go,” said Jones.

Margaritas on Main St: New Mexican restaurant plans to open in the spring

Michaela ChristensenSTAFF WRITER

New restaurant, La Paz Mexican Grill, is set to open this Spring in Mill Plaza next to Rite-Aid.

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No way Jose: UNH dining and concerned students facilitate discussion on inclusion

Amanda BelandSTAFF WRITER

Last week, the Diversity Sup-port Coalition, along with con-cerned students and UNH dining, participated in a facilitated discus-sion about inclusion in response to a racist napkin note posted at Holloway Commons.

Elizabeth Bain, a member of Mosaico, and her friend Jackie Lewis found the note after having dinner at Holloway. When Bain fi rst saw the note, she was shocked that anyone would write it.

“Well, we weren’t sure what to do with it at fi rst,” said Bain. “I think we were all pretty shocked that it had been written, but we decided to take it down.”

The note was fi lled with phrases like, “1, 2, 3, 27 Mexi-cans! 27 Mexicans came out of that tiny little car!” Bain dis-cussed the note with Lewis and their other friends before deciding to tear down the note.

They brought the note to the attention of Mosaico, a subgroup of the DSC, since the note target-ed the Latino and Latina popula-tions. Michael Vidal, the chair of Mosaico, was shocked when he read the note.

“My quick thoughts are fi rstly, this has nothing to do with

food,” said Vidal. “Secondly, why is it assumed that these people who came out of the car were Mexican? Is there some kind of radar that points out who is Mexi-can?”

When Vidal and Bain showed the note to Mosaico, the group suggested that Bain report the note to the bias response team through the online application ReportIt! ReportIt! is a system that allows individuals who have experienced a bias incident to submit a form online that will be sent, once submitted, to multiple

sources including the Offi ce of Multicultural Affairs (OMSA) and the UNH Police Department, who are able to adequately deal with the bias incident.

Bain submitted the note through this system, and within weeks the bias report team had set up a time for concerned students and UNH dining to talk about the incident.

“The fact that it was up there in a public forum, and with such a weak response, it’s almost like condoning it,” said Bain.

The discussion was moder-ated by Anne Lawing, Dean of Students, and was attended by a representative from Mosaico and the DSC, representatives from OMSA, Chief Nicolas Halias from UNH Police Department, representatives from UNH din-ing, as well as concerned students including Bain and Lewis.

The discussion began with a review of how the napkin note was found, what it said, and what had been done about the note so far.

Then, Lawing opened the fl oor for comments from all the attendees on the incident and what could’ve been done differently.

David Hill, one of the rep-resentatives from UNH dining, spoke about fi nding the note

originally and having a debate on whether to publish the note on the wall. He knew that the note

shouldn’t just be thrown away and ignored, but he also didn’t know how to handle the situation if he

were to post it on the wall. After much internal debate, he posted the note

“And I thought, I should not respond, I should just throw it away,” said Hill. “But that’s not appropriate either, to just ignore something like that.”

Lewis suggested that instead of posting the actual offensive note or ignoring it, that UNH din-ing print a separate note recogniz-ing the existence of the original one.

Hill agreed that Lewis’ sug-gestion was more proactive than the original action. He suggested that UNH dining would use her advice in future incidents if they were to occur.

“That way, people don’t have to read a hateful comment, but still know that it was received,” said Lewis.

“The fact that it was up there in a public forum, and with such a weak response, it’s almost like condoning it.”

Elizabeth BainMosaico Member

Diversity

“That way, people don’t have to read a hateful comment, but still know that it was received.”

Jackie LewisFriend of Elizabeth Bain


UNH’s Center for Ocean Re-newable Energy (CORE) will re-ceive $700,000 in federal stimulus funds to develop and test a fl oating wind turbine in the Gulf of Maine and determine its wind energy capa-bilities.

The grant, which begins in January, is part of the $8 million awarded to the University of Maine-based DeepCWind consortium, of which UNH is a member along with several marine and maritime-related industries. The funding is being used to develop three deepwater wind en-ergy test sites.

At UNH, the money will be used to put a fl oating platform with a 10-kilowatt wind turbine out in the Gulf of Maine, just south of the Isle of Shoals.

“We have a lot of experience with our aquaculture program of

putting projects in the water,” said CORE Director Ken Baldwin, pro-fessor of ocean and mechanical en-gineering.

The funding runs for two years, which means CORE will have to work quickly starting in January to build the test bed, position it in the Gulf, and allow time to collect data.

“We’re hoping by this time next year to have had the device in the water for long enough to have acquired data for our purposes,” said Baldwin. “It will be a busy time.”

Once the data is collected, it will be compared to data compared by the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL).

“NREL has a complex model of how the platform should behave,” said Baldwin.

If the platform behaves dif-ferently from the model, the team will work to make changes to the numerical model, which could be used to design larger structures

upon completion. The design of the platform will be infl uenced by past research by undergraduate students in the mechanical engineering de-partments.

The University of Maine will be doing a similar project on a larger scale with their portion of the fund-ing, using a larger 100-kilowatt tur-bine. The smaller size of the UNH test platform makes it easier to ad-just if needed.

UNH’s platform will be put in the water fi rst so modifi cations can be made before the larger platform is fi nished.

Deepwater wind energy proj-ects represent a shift in the method of offshore wind energy collection. Traditional projects consist of wind turbines mounted on shafts sunk into the ocean fl oor, and are tradi-tionally confi ned to relatively shal-low water.

Deepwater wind energy proj-ects consist of fl oating turbines an-chored to the ocean fl oor in much deeper areas. Additionally, winds are generally stronger further out to sea than they are close to the shore.

Deepwater wind projects would also be outside the “view shed,” meaning they don’t negatively af-fect an area’s scenic value.

The Gulf of Maine has the po-tential to be a hotspot for offshore wind energy. Baldwin said that there are fairly sustainable class seven

winds 50 miles offshore, which could produce energy equivalent to that generated by 10 to 20 power plants. The Gulf of Maine location will be the second deepwater wind energy facility in the world. The only other one is in Norway.

UNH is only about 15 miles from where the platforms will be placed, making it a natural choice for performing research.

“Nobody else has resources like that,” Baldwin said.

The grant was one of three wind energy research projects funded by the American Recovery and Rein-vestment Act, and the only offshore project. The U.S. Department of En-ergy estimates that wind energy has the potential to supply 20 percent of the nation’s electricity needs.

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UNH Center for Ocean Renewable Energy to receive $700,000 in federal stimulus funds

Thomas GounleySTAFF WRITER

Science and Sustainability

“We have a lot of experience with our aquaculture program of putting projects in the water.”

Ken BaldwinDirector, UNH CORE

When John Jones enlisted in the United States Air Force, it was more out of boredom than anything else.

“The Air Force sounded like an interesting lifestyle,” Jones said. “At the time, I wasn’t interested in a col-lege education.”

Andrew Cullen left for Marine Corps basic training fresh from high school graduation, putting a college degree on hold in order to follow in familial footsteps.

Now, both are student veterans at the University of New Hampshire; each benefi t from the newly amend-ed G.I. Bill and are working towards bachelor’s degrees. While time over-seas has offered veterans like Cul-len and Jones a unique experience, a soldier’s return to the states often presents new challenges.

According to both students, tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Ko-rea altered their analysis of U.S. involvement and changed their per-ception of civilian life.

After a year of learning Pa-shtu for a series of reconnaissance missions in Afghanistan, Jones was “gung-ho” about his deployment. But during the second of his three two-month tours, Jones realized that his career in the Air Force wasn’t one he would continue.

“After my fi rst deployment, I had serious questions about how we were doing things,” Jones said. “I felt like what I was doing may have been hurting us and putting us in more danger. It was a very different perspective that I ended up with.”

However, according to both Cullen and Jones, this perspective was something gained after return

to the states; specifi c duties and mis-sions during deployment prevented a focus on the bigger picture of war-fare.

“On a daily basis, even if you’re not in combat, your safety is really paramount,” said Cullen. “It’s not only your safety – it’s also the guys to the left and right of you. Constant-ly, you’ve got to be concerned about that. The outside world doesn’t re-ally factor into your everyday prob-lems.”

For Jones, the “everyday prob-lems” he faced were directly con-nected to the livelihood of the sol-diers in combat.

“I was protecting American lives and helping them to be success-ful in their contact with the enemy. That was my job,” he said.

Cullen’s duties varied according to mission and location of deploy-ment; he completed tours in Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan for between three and seven months each. Upon return to U.S after each deployment, Cullen was surprised by the slow pace of civilian life.

“It’s sort of laid back and kind of slow,” he said. “Everybody’s just going along, whereas my experience in the military was very high-paced, running around getting the mission done, whatever that entailed, and then going out and having off-time or leisure time. It was a little diffi cult to kind of not care so much about everything.”

Jones agreed.“You get into this rhythm out

there,” he said. “You’re busy with a lot of tasks, and when you come back to [the U.S.] and have a month off, it’s tough to come back and not have anything to do.”

For Cullen, returning to civilian life enabled him to think differently about the military lifestyle.

“It wasn’t until I detached my-self from the military industrial com-plex that I gained more of a critique of the military at large and specifi c plans of action,” he said.

According to Jones, the civilian population is unable to critique U.S. military involvement because of they’re disconnected from the war, as well as severely limited media coverage. Much of the U.S. popula-tion, he said, suffers from a lack of compassion for the loss of American lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“I see stories about guys getting killed [overseas] and we are so de-sensitized,” Jones said. “To me that’s a really frustrating thing. At Fort Hood, everyone said, ‘Oh my God, guys got shot at an army base,’ but if they died in Afghanistan, no one would have blinked an eye.”

According to Brian Hawthorne, the legislative director of Student Veterans of America, one of the most signifi cant issues student veter-

ans face upon return to the states is the inability of their peers to relate to their experiences in combat.

“I think a lot of the diffi culty comes from a lack of knowledge of what military service is and what it means to be a vet,” Hawthorne said.

Student Veterans of America, which includes member chapters at universities across the country, ad-vocates for these veterans on both the national and state levels, and pro-vides resources and networking con-nections for them so that they can adapt more easily to civilian life.

At times however, Hawthorne said, the goals of student veteran organizations do not coincide with those of the university.

“When vets are asking for a seat at the table and they’re asking to be able to advocate for themselves or asking for awareness about the new G.I. Bill or what have you, and the schools don’t give them the time of day,” Hawthorne said. “Well, we don’t really settle for that.”

But for Jones, who is consider-ing rallying the support of his fellow veterans and starting a member chap-ter of Student Veterans of America at UNH, what student veterans need most isn’t support from their admin-istration – it’s recognition from their fellow students.

“I just wish someone would ask me what the experience was like,” Jones said. “I’d love to talk about it. I think it’s something a lot of veter-ans would be willing to do. People don’t know what it’s like, and they should.”

Nathan Webster, a veteran and UNH graduate, is a freelance writer and photojournalist who spent the past three summers documenting the

experiences of the Alpha and Charlie Companies, U.S. Army platoons sta-tioned in Iraq.

There, he was able to do what most mainstream media outlets are unable to: chronicle the day-to-day lives of infantrymen, fostering re-lationships with them and gaining their trust.

“If you go to Baghdad, like a lot of the big-time news reporters do, with your production crew, your pro-ducer, your cameraman, your sound guy – they can’t put you in a place like where I was,” he said. “Just me and my camera, they don’t care. It’s like if you want to go there, fi ne. Here’s a cot for you, here’s a meal, have fun. That’s kind of the advan-tage.”

Recent New York Times head-lines concerning the Iraq war include details on Iraq’s election and econo-my, as well as security issues and in-formation about the prospective end of the war. CBS News chronicles a death toll, and Reuters’ headlines discuss a potential reconciliation plan between Iraq and Kuwait.

According to Webster, the me-dia covers the general logistics of the warfront well, focusing on the strategic measures of high-ranking military offi cials. However, he said that they lack the kind of specifi c, unedited coverage he was able to ex-tract from his time in Iraq, and that is a kind of coverage they have no reason not to get.

“They have the money, and people would read the stories if you provide it to them,” Webster said. “If you provide people with information about the war, they’ll want to hear about it.”

Mallory Baker STAFF WRITER

Coming Home: Student veterans discuss differences in civilian and military mindset

“I was protecting American lives and helping them to be successful in their contact with the enemy. That was my job.”

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Kellogg Co. says there will be a nationwide shortage of its popular Eggo frozen waffl es until next sum-mer because of interruptions in pro-duction at two of the four plants that make them.

The company’s Atlanta plant was shut down for an undisclosed period by a September storm that dumped historic amounts of rain in the area. Meanwhile, several production lines at its largest bak-ery in Rossville, Tenn., are closed indefi nitely for repairs, company spokeswoman Kris Charles said in an e-mail.

It will take until the middle of 2010 before shelves around the country are stocked at pre-shutdown levels, Charles said.

Already customers are notic-

ing near-empty Eggo shelves on the freezer aisle at many grocery stores.

Stay-at-home mom Joey Res-ciniti says she bought one of the last two boxes of Eggos at a Walmart in Cranberry Township, Pa., on Mon-day. The frozen waffl es are a favor-ite of her 4-year-old daughter, Julia.

“We have eight of them, and if we ration those - maybe have half an Eggo in one sitting - then it’ll last longer,” said Resciniti, who blogs about being a mother. “I told my husband that maybe I need to put them on eBay.”

Charles didn’t know how long the Atlanta plant was shut down, but said that it’s back at full production now.

The existing stock of Eggos will be distributed nationally based on stores’ sales histories of the waf-

fl es, Charles said.“We are working around the

clock to restore Eggo store invento-ries to normal levels as quickly as possible,” she wrote in the e-mail.

Eggo fi rst hit the shelves in 1960, and its cult following grew in the following years. Kellogg start-ed using the famed slogan “Leggo my Eggo” in 1972. For years, the waffl es have been a staple for busy moms and college students looking for a quick breakfast.

This week, news of the short-age spread quickly on Twitter as shoppers reported not being able to fi nd the breakfast food. Fans of Eg-gos lamented their scarcity on the waffl e’s Facebook page, which has more than 400 members.

Eggos are also made at plants in San Jose, Calif., and Blue An-chor, N.J.

Leggo my Eggo! Kellogg fi ghts waffl e shortageDorie TurnerASSOCIATED PRESS

BRENTWOOD, N.H. - A New Hampshire jury is expected to con-tinue deliberations in the trial of a man accused of helping his father plot a 2005 murder.

The case of 32-year-old Jesse Brooks went to the jury on Wednes-day, but it did not reach a verdict. Deliberations are expected to con-

tinue on Thursday.Prosecutors say Brooks was

seeking revenge when he and his father planned the murder-for-hire killing of a mover they blamed for the theft of family valuables.

Jesse Brooks is accused of re-cruiting friends for the killing and making payoffs to a person who

took part in the slaying of Jack Reid of Derry.

Defense lawyer William Ket-tlewell told jurors the case against his client was guilt by association.

Brooks’ father, John, is serving life in prison.

NH jury to deliberate murder-for-hire trial


Weekend Sports GuideWildcats vs.

OTHER EVENTS

FRIDAY - NOV 20Volleyball 7:00 p.m.v. Binghamton @ Albany

Men’s Basketball 8:00 p.m.@ Maryland

Women’s Basketball 7:00 p.m.v. UMass

SATURDAY - NOV 21Women’s Ice Hockey 5:00 p.m.v. Rensselaer

Men’s Hockey 7:00 p.m.@ Boston U.

This Week’s Results

WEDNESDAY - NOV 18 Women’s Hockey (8-1-4), (4-0-1) T, 1-1@ Harvard

Tune in to WUNH 91.3 FM for live broadcats.And don’t forget to check out WildChats,

Thursday’s from 6-8 p.m.

Friday, 7:00 p.m.Men’s Hockeyv. Boston U.

Whittemore Center

Saturday, 12:00 p.m.Footballv. Maine

Cowell Stadium

the same emphasis as every other contest they’ve had this year.

“We’re going to approach this game like every game and try to create turnovers like we do each week,” Ware said. “They ran a lot of screen passes [against Rhode Is-land] and they had success on all of them. Their quarterback was 39 for 45 passing with over 400 yards, so he’s doing something right.”

Ware said that the thought of possibly playing his last game at home is a scary thought, but it’s starting to sink in. He said that there will be a lot of added emotion in the contest on Saturday among all of the seniors on the team.

For the Wildcats, who are com-ing off a hard-fought loss to Wil-liam & Mary, the key is to rebound and stop the success of whoever the Bears select as their starting quar-terback. Offensively, UNH must establish a running game again after playing one of the best defenses in the CAA last weekend. Junior quar-terback R.J. Toman said that it will be key for the offense to come out and execute their assignments on Saturday against a defense that is young, but has proven they can shut down opponents.

“They’re very physical and very tough,” Toman said. “It’s a pretty typical Maine defense where they rise to the occasion every Sat-urday, and they love to come out and play. It’s going to be another hard-fought game against a very good defense. It’s going to take out A-game to win this week.”

In order to get back to their dominant running game form, coach McDonnell said that the offense needs to stay on their blocks, but also mix a good amount of passes into the offensive scheme to throw the defense off.

“We’ve got to do a great job of mixing run, play action and pass to get them off balance,” McDonnell said. “We’re not going to go out and look to run the ball 45 or 50 times a game and rush for 250 yards; it’s just not going to happen. I think we’re most effective when we’re doing all three things pretty well.”

The fi nal game of the regular season will determine where the Wildcats will end up in the post-season bracket, which will be an-nounced on Sunday at 3 p.m. Game time for Saturday at Cowell stadium is scheduled for 12 p.m.

of sophomore goaltender Kieran Millan, who posted an unthinkable 1.94 GAA as a freshman last sea-son.

The Terriers only returned one forward from last season’s top two lines (Bonino) and may be lacking depth after losing Ryan Ruikka for the season.

Bonino played in his fi rst game of the season last Saturday and re-corded two assists in the game.

“Make no mistake, this will be a tough weekend,” Umile said. “They’re a good team.”

In the Terriers most recnet game, they picked up their fi rst Hockey East win of the season, taking down Merrimack after two straight losses to the Warriors.

Last season, in its run to the na-tional title game, BU had essembled one of the greatest college hockey team of all time.

UNH, however, may be ready for a breakout after splitting the road series with tenth-ranked UM-ass and mixing up lines.

Peter Leblanc is expected to play with Stevie Moses and Mike Sislo on the fi rst line, while Umile said Butler has played well with Paul Thompson and Phil DeSimone on the second line.

“We may not be able to prove it right now,” Umile said. “But I think we’re going to be a good team. I think we are ready (for a break-out).”

The puck is slated to drop at 7 p.m. tonight in the annual Blue-out against BU.

Fans are encouraged to sport their UNH blue tonight and have the opportunity to watch the Wild-cats take on the Terriers in Boston tomorrow night on NESN.

FOOTBALL: Wildcats, Black Bears face off in fi nal regular season game

MIKE RALPH/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Dick Umile and his Wildcats hope to extend their one-game winning streak this weekend with two games against the Terriers, who currently hold a 2-5 record.

BU: ‘Cats face defending champs this weekendContinued from page 20


TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERJunior QB R.J. Toman threw for 199 yards and two touchdowns in last weekend’s loss to William & Mary


Senior guard Amy Simpson scored 11 points and tallied sev-en assists, but it was not enough to propel the UNH women’s basketball team to its second-straight victory as they fell to the 21st-ranked University of Maryland, 63-43, Monday night at the Comcast Center.

The Terrapins set the tone early in the contest as they started off the game with a 20-9 run.

Leading the way during the scoring stretch was Diandra Tchatchouang and Dara Taylor, both of which tallied fi ve points during the run.

Despite the hot start, the Wildcats clawed their way right back into the action, as they answered Maryland’s run with an 11-3 scoring stretch of their own, slashing the home team’s

lead down to just three points, with the score tied up at 23-20 with 4:21 left in the fi rst half.

Freshman Diamon Beckford sparked the run with a jumper at 7:44, leading the way for the Wildcats during the stretch, to-taling fi ve points.

However, the late charge was not enough to give New Hampshire the lead at intermis-sion, as Maryland closed out the half with a 26-20 advantage.

For the fi rst few minutes of the second half the Wildcats and Terrapins would trade baskets, until Maryland caught fi re just three minutes into the period, going on a 10-2 run to build their lead to 44-30 at 11:55.

Tianna Hawkins and Taylor each posted four points apiece during the stretch.

Beckford would answer the call once again for UNH as she nailed a jump shot at 11:31.

For the next three minutes,

the two teams traded blows, un-til Maryland began to widen the gap on New Hampshire, lead-ing by as many as 22 points at one point and fi nishing out the night with a 7-2 run to secure the win.

Sophomore guard Lauren Wells fi nished with nine points, three assists and two boards. Beckford notched seven points, seven rebounds all while re-cording one block.

Tchatchouang led the way for the Terps, as she fi nished with 17 points, while pulling down seven rebounds.

Lynetta Kizer chipped in for Maryland with 11 points and eight boards.

The Wildcats return to ac-tion on tonight at 7 p.m. when they host a 1-1 Massachusetts team at the Lundholm Gym-nasium, who defeated Boston University in its season opener.

Sophomore goalie Lindsey Minton recorded a season-high 27 saves and senior Micaela Long scored a shorthanded goal to lead the fourth-ranked UNH women’s ice hockey team to Wednesday night’s 1-1 tie against Harvard University at the Bright Hockey Center.

UNH extended its unbeaten streak to six games (3-0-3) to move to 8-1-4 overall, while Harvard is now 3-3-1.

Each of the last three games, and four of the last fi ve meetings, in this series have gone into overtime; UNH prevailed 3-2 last year at Har-vard and the teams skated to a 1-1 tie last December at the Whittemore Center.

The Wildcats are now 6-0-3 in the last nine games vs. the Crim-son.

Minton made 10 saves in the third period and two in overtime as she kept the Crimson scoreless for the fi nal 59:39 of the game.

HU goalie Christina Kessler fi nished with 24 saves, including two in the fi ve minute extra ses-sion.

Harvard recorded a 10-6 shot advantage and 1-0 lead in the fi rst period.

Katharine Chute intercepted a pass in the offensive zone, skated in from the left circle towards the net in a 2-0 rush with only Minton to beat. She kept the puck and wristed

a shot into the upper-right corner of the net for the game’s fi rst goal at 5:21.

UNH netted the only goal of the second stanza with a 10-6 edge in shots.

The Crimson opened the pe-riod with 48 seconds remaining on a power play, but the Wildcats re-corded their fi rst shorthanded goal of the season at 41 seconds to level the score, 1-1.

Long fought for possession of the puck behind the net and circled around the right post to the top of the crease and, while fending off a pair of Harvard skaters, fi red a backhander that eluded Kessler.

The Wildcats continued the pressure and went on the power play at 1:44. In the opening sec-onds, a slap shot by junior Courtney Birchard from the right point was redirected by Long at the near post, but Kessler was in position to block aside the shot.

UNH cycled the puck to the left circle, where senior Kelly Pa-ton wristed a shot that caromed off the crossbar. Moments later, an-other Birchard slap shot from the right point was snared by Kessler’s glove.

In the fi fth minute, Raylen Dziengelewski made a tape-to-tape pass from the defensive zone that sent Kristine Horn on a rush up the slot. From the hashmarks, Horn snapped a shot just high of the up-per-right corner of the cage.

One of Harvard’s most dan-gerous scoring opportunities in the second period occurred midway through the frame, when Anna Mc-Donald’s shot from the left circle caromed off the right post.

In the scoreless third period, UNH’s best pressure came in the last four minutes when Julie Allen’s shot off a rebound was saved by Kessler. The Wildcats went on the power play with 1:35 remaining in regula-

tion and Kessler twice denied Horn at the left post in the last minute.

The ‘Cats carried the power play for 25 seconds into the over-time session, but could not generate pressure.

Harvard went on its fi fth power play of the night at 3:31, but UNH’s penalty kill prevented the Crimson from generating an attack the rest of the way.

UNH is 0-0-4 in four overtime

games this season, and the Wildcats are unbeaten in their last 21 over-time games (5-0-16) dating back to the 2006 season.

The Wildcats return to action at home Nov. 21 (5 p.m.) against Rensselaer. The Whittemore Center will then be the site of an exhibition game between the Women’s Hockey East All-Stars and the 2009-10 U.S. Women’s National Team on Nov. 22 at 1 p.m.



WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

UNH battles to 1-1 tie against Harvard

‘Cats mount comeback but fall to No. 21 Maryland in College Park

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

The fourth ranked Wildcats moved to 8-1-4 overall with a tie against Harvard on Wednesday, thanks to a shorthanded goal from Micaela Long and Lindsey Minton’s 27 saves.

INTRAMURAL

Students compete for intramural championships

JUSTIN DOUBLEDAY/CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

The Hakuna Mattatas (pictured above) are the co-rec minor champions of the intramural indoor soccer season.

The UNH intramural soccer championships took place last night in the Hamel Rec center. There were fi ve different divisions, with one champion from each.

In the Co-Rec minor division, the Hakuna Mattatas won it all. Go Big Blue came out on top in the Co-Rec major division. Toidi won the championship in the Women’s ma-jor division. As for the Men’s major division, Ruse Del Manto came out on top, and in the Men’s minor divi-sion, Pike 1 took home the champi-onship.

Senior Supervisor Bryan

Mazakia said he is pleased with how intramural sports have gone so far this year.

“Overall, the intramural pro-gram has done very well this year,” Mazakia said. “We have defi nitely seen increased enrollment over the past four to fi ve years. Overall we’ve been very successful.”

Mazakia attributes the pro-gram’s success to both the par-ticipants and the staff who run the show.

“A lot of the students like the competitive nature of the program,” Mazakia said. “We can contribute a lot of the success to the full time staff, supervisors and the offi cials who all make it happen.”

Justin DoubledaySTAFF WRITER

sportssportsFriday The New HampshireNovember 20, 2009

For the UNH football team, this Saturday’s game against Maine means two things; win, and the playoffs are almost certain. Lose, and they have to wonder anxiously until Sunday whether or not they will be playing in the postseason.

With the last regular season game at Cowell Stadium, it could possibly be the fi nal time any of the current seniors will step onto the home fi eld.

The administration had placed a bid for a home game in the fi rst round of CAA playoff action, but depending on the outcome of Satur-day’s game, that luxury could very well elude the Wildcats once again.

But the game this weekend is something that the Wildcats cannot overlook if they want a playoff spot. Maine has given teams trouble this year, including UMass, the team that handed UNH their fi rst loss. Maine won that game in Orono, 19-9.

The Black Bears have had to overcome a tough schedule this sea-son, playing top CAA teams such as Delaware, Richmond and James Madison University, as well as the FBS Syracuse Orange.

UNH head coach Sean Mc-Donnell said that he was impressed with Maine sophomore quarterback Chris Triester, who made his fi rst collegiate start against Rhode Island this past weekend, passing for 465 yards and fi ve touchdowns.

“He threw the ball about as effi ciently as any guy could throw it, whether it be the fi rst, middle or last start,” McDonnell said. “Their receivers worked their routes and precision, and it was pretty impres-sive what they did to Rhode Island. He threw every kind of ball, and he ran the draw pretty well. It was as good of a performance out of a kid starting his fi rst college game that I’ve seen in this league.”

One thing that Maine doesn’t lack is depth at their quarterback position. They run a “quarterback by committee” offense, with senior Mike Brusklo and sophomore War-ren Smith each seeing a lot of action this season, now joined by Triester.

The Maine rushing attack is led by sophomore Derek Session, who has carried the ball 119 times this season for 479 yards and three touchdowns. Senior linebacker and captain Sean Ware said that the de-fense is looking at this game with

FOOTBALL

Brandon LawrenceSPORTS EDITOR

See FOOTBALL on page 18

It’s hard to imagine a must-win hockey game in the middle of No-vember, but that’s what the Wildcats were faced with last Saturday, after falling to 2-6-2 the night before in a game in which they outshoot UM-ass by 14.

“It was a must-win,” said se-nior captain Bobby Butler, whose Wildcats doubled up UMass on Sat-urday, 4-2. “It was very important to leave with those two points and we were very excited when we did.”

But now, UNH’s attention shifts to the team that needed an overtime goal to defeat the Wildcats in last year’s Northeast Regional fi nal, en route to a national cham-pionship.

Boston University visits Dur-ham tonight in an unfamiliar situ-ation. The Terriers enter the Whit-temore Center sporting a 2-6 record in Hockey East play and have struggled to fi nd the back of the net all season, averaging just over two goals per game.

The Terriers have looked like anything but a team that lost just six games last season – the same amount they’ve dropped in nine

games so far this season.BU returns dominant forwards

Chris Connolly and 50-point scor-er Nick Bonino. Connolly shared Hockey East Player of the Week

honors with Butler this week after recording four points in a two game series with Merrimack.

“They’re always a skilled team,” Butler said. “We just need to

play team defense and we should be fi ne.”

Saturdays win was UNH’s fi rst in fi ve games, their last coming Oct. 24 over Maine. But according to

UNH head coach Dick Umile, the team had played well enough to win before Saturday.

“Friday night was as well as we’ve played all year,” he said.

Sometimes, you just get un-lucky.

The week prior, Umile and his coaching staff had been working on skaters blocking shots in the defen-sive zone. Butler did just that in the fi nal seconds of regulation, block-ing a shot but ricocheting it right to a wide-open Casey Wellman, who put the puck in the net.

“It took a crazy bounce right to a kid standing alone,” Umile said. “That was a tough loss to take be-cause we played extremely well.”

UNH will be playing without freshman Greg Burke (separated shoulder) and Nick Krates (high ankle sprain).

“We’ve done a nice job having guys step in when we’ve had inju-ries,” Umile said.

The forwards will need to be on top of their game, however, for the Wildcats to emerge with a win. BU, despite losing Hobey Baker Award winner Matt Gilroy, remains solid on defense, thanks to the play

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Junior wide receiver Kevon Mason pulls in this 46-yard catch over URI’s Robinson Alexis in UNH’s 55-42 win two weeks ago. The Wildcats host Maine on Saturday at Cowell Stadium.

MEN’S HOCKEY

MIKE RALPH/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERSophomore Stevie Moses scored a goal and an assist in last weekend’s series split at UMass. UNH returns home tonight for the fi rst game of a home and home series with BU.

UNH hosts Black Bears on Senior Day

Tournament rematch tonight in DurhamChad GraffSTAFF WRITER

See BU on page 18

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