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Since 1983, Smith Hall has been home to scores of internation-al students, many of whom consider the residence building to be the

strongest sense of community they experience in their time at UNH.

By the beginning of the fall 2010 semester, however, the build-ing will be repurposed to contain a number of offi ces that includes the

universitys Admissions Depart-ment, while residents that would return to the hall will be living else-where on campus.

According to Mark Rubinstein,

Smith Hall to be repurposed

The SCAN TV sign is back. According to SCAN TV general manager Guthrie An-dres, its here to stay.

The sign, which was stolen from outside the SCAN TV of-fi ce on Nov. 14, was recovered by Athletic Grounds Supervi-sor Ron Lavoie last Tuesday.

Lavoie said he found the sign outside the fi eld house, leaning up against the wall next to a couple of trash cans.

SCAN TV members got word from senior Abby Tobin that the sign was spotted near the football fi eld. She said she was riding by the Field House on her bike Tuesday when she noticed that the misplaced sign was in plain sight.

After learning of the dis-covery, SCAN TV executives contacted Lavoie immediately. Lavoie said when he found the sign he didnt realize it was stolen property.

When I saw it I didnt think anything of it, Lavoie said. I just picked it up and put it in the paint room.

The sign was not damaged when he found it.

Andres said that on Mon-day morning the sign was bolt-ed back to the wall it was taken from much more securely than it was previously.

SCAN TV offi ce manager David Murcko, who was alone

in the offi ce when the sign was taken, recently sat down with UNH police and reviewed footage taped outside the MUB mail room the day the sign was stolen.

Murcko believed he rec-ognized one of the possible thieves on the tape and fi led a report.

UNH police sergeant Ste-ven Lee said no suspects have been identifi ed yet. If the thieves are found, they would most likely be charged with theft by unauthorized taking or criminal mischief, he said.

The SCAN TV staff has mixed feelings about punish-ing the offenders.

We have the sign back so I guess thats all the matters, Murcko said.

Andres believes that jus-tice should be served.

Im glad to get the sign back, Andres said. But I want them to know that what they did was wrong.

Andres said he and other SCAN TV staff made a tape chronicling the theft and recov-ery of the sign, which should air on SCAN TV soon.

On retrieving the sign, Andre said, They must have found out that it meant a little bit more to us than it did to them.

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Dustin LucaSTAFF WRITER

In 1993, Robin had graduated as an adult college student with honors and married her current husband.

A year later, she was diagnosed with AIDS. Just after a series of life-time accomplishments, she found herself dealing with one of the big-gest struggles of her life.

Robin is one of 40 Americans portrayed in Focus on Living: Por-traits of Americans living with HIV and AIDS, a national traveling pho-to exhibit that stops today at UNH for the fi rst time since its inception.

The photo exhibit consists of 15 20 black and white portraits of individuals, as well as excerpts from those individuals, featured in the book, Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans living with HIV and AIDS, by author Roslyn Banish.

But having this disease makes me feel very isolated, said Robin in a quote from the book printed un-derneath her picture. Most people would never suspect someone like me to be HIV positive because I dont fi t the image people have in their minds I want to be recognized for who I am. I think people need to see the other faces of AIDS.

According to the preface of the book, Banish set out to fi nd people living with HIV after attending a

workshop at her childrens high school, which featured a panel of four young people living with AIDS.

Banish didnt have a specifi c image of the people she wanted to chronicle in mind when she started the project, though according to the introduction, she wanted the group to be diverse in order to show that the disease didnt pick certain eth-nicities or genders.

My aim was to include as di-verse a group of individuals as pos-sible, Banish said in the introduc-tion to the book. People of different sexual orientations, different ages, and from many ethnic and economic backgrounds. As one woman told me, This is the ultimate nondis-criminatory virus. It doesnt care what color your skin is, it doesnt care how much money your mommy makes, where you live, how old you are.

The exhibit was brought to UNH through a dual partnership between the Kiddler Fund and the Offi ce of Health Education and Pro-motion. The Kiddler Fund is a fund that was established by a past, HIV positive, Associate Dean of Stu-dents, Bill Kiddler, to sponsor stu-dent scholarships and educational & AIDS awareness programs.

Peter Welch, a health educa-tor through Health Services, helped

book the exhibit last December. I thought is was a beautiful

representation of people living with HIV, said Welch.

Exhibit shows AIDS knows no boundariesAmanda Beland

STAFF WRITER

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The UNH Ski Club hosted the fi lm tour of the most recent Teton Gravity Research ski and snowboard DVD on Sunday.

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UNHs Alternative Spring Break Challenge chapter held their fi rst informational session Monday night in the MUB.

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Smith Hall will be the new home for the UNH Admissions Department, relocating the international community.

AMANDA BELAND/STAFF

The National AIDS Day art exhibition in the Strafford Room will continue today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

AIDS continued on page 4

NATE BATCHELDER/STAFF

The SCAN TV sign is back in its place on the fi rst fl oor of the MUB after it was found only a few days before Thanksgiving.

Im glad to get the sign back, but I want them to know that what they did was wrong.

Guthrie AndresSCAN General Manager

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CorrectionsIn the articled titled Nursing majors bond over classes, clinicals, it was incorrectly stated that there were only 70 students in the nursing program when there are ac-tually an estimated 260. Also in the article, the prices of stethoscopes and uniforms were incorrectly stated to be $75 and $70 when they are actually $100 and $200.

Namesake visited UNH on Nov. 17 UNH prof researches injustice

Benefactor and Hamilton Smith Hall namesake Reverend Congreve Hamilton Quinby visited campus with his wife, Connie Congreve whos name sits Congreve Hall, and toured the buildings which the helped fund.

UNH history professor J. William Harris writes a novel detailing the accounts of Thomas Jeremiah, a rich African American who was falsely ac-cused nad put to death for spurring revolts among slaves.

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UNHs club ski team hosted a fi lm tour last Sunday night, showing Teton Gravity Researchs latest fi lm re:SESSION. Present at the event was featured skier Dylan Hood. Students enjoyed loud reggae music and tons of free equipment given by Tetons sponsors such as The North Face, Rossignol, Volkl, Powder Mag, and Alaska Heli-skiing.

Ski Club Hosts Worldwide Film Tour

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been declared National Hug your RA (resident assistant) Day. An idea started by a student at Utah State who joked around with her RA about whether or not she liked hugs, was spread quickly through a Facebook group, which now has 85,746 confi rmed participants.

Hug Your RA Day

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UNH Wind Sym- phony Johnson Theatre 8 p.m. Army Offi cer- ship Informational Presentation MUB Theatre II, 7 p.m. Focusing on Living: Portraits of Ameri-cans with HIV and AIDS MUB Strafford Room 11 a.m.

Gallery Talk Paul Creative Arts Cen-ter 12 p.m. Tintypes! A Musical Review Hennessy Theatre 7 p.m.

Environmental Sciences Fall 2009 Seminar Series De-Meritt hall 3:30 p.m. Power Lunch for Women MUB Room 302 1 p.m. Evergreen Fair MUB Granite State Room 10 a.m.

Mens hockey vs. Lowell 7 p.m. Light up Durham - Wine and Cheese Party Three Chim-neys Inn 4:30 p.m.

Chuck Martin, UNH professor and CEO of NFI Research, will be teaching a new marketing class this coming winter during J-term.

Senior Ryan Hinds (26) had seven tackles in UNHs 49-13 win over McNeese State in the teams FCS fi rst-round playoff game.

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Lessons in social media UNH beats McNeese St. 49-13

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Pictures of the Week

Guthrie Andres, general manager of SCAN TV, stands with his beloved sign just days after its return.Though the sign was returned, Andres still hopes to discover who stole it.

A juggler participates in a weekly Juggling Club meeting in the MUB. The Juggling Club meets every Monday at 7p.m. in MUB 330.

A student observes photos as part of the exhibit, Focus on Life: Portraits of Americains Living with HIV and AIDS, a national touring photo exhibit to help commemorate World AIDS day

Brian Foster holds his guard last Saturday night as UNH defeated Merrimack College 5-4.

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The Reverend Congreve Hamilton Quinby is the proud heir to a rich genealogy of students and benefactors of the University of New Hampshire.

There have been many, many benefactors over the years on both sides of the family, Quinby said, as quoted from the Campus Jour-nal. Its a good history to have.

On Nov. 17, Rev. Congreve Hamilton Quinby and his wife Connie toured the family name-sake buildings with Doug Bencks, UNH architect and director of Campus Planning.

His great grandfather Ham-ilton B. Smith and great grand-mother Alice Congreve Hamilton Smith were both benefactors of the university. Today, the buildings of Hamilton Smith, Congreve Hall and Smith Hall are all standing tes-taments to the familys generosity.

Hamilton Smith is the seventh oldest currently standing building on campus. According to univer-sity archives, the state, the Carn-egie Corporation, and a generous donation of $10,000 by Hamilton B. Smith provided funding for the building. When construction was completed on June 3, 1907, the building was unveiled as Ham-ilton Smith Hall, dedicated to its generous benefactor, Hamilton B. Smith. The building was used as the university library until 1933.

A portrait of the buildings namesake hangs in the hall. Be-neath it is a bronze plaque that reads, Hamilton Smith Hall, named in memory of Hamilton B. Smith, 1840 1900, a gener-

ous benefactor of his adopted alma mater who achieved international distinction as a mining engineer and business executive.

The man himself graduated from the Durham Academy in 1854 and went to Cannelton, Indi-ana to work in his fathers compa-ny, the Cannelton Coal Mines as a mining engineer. He married Alice Congreve in 1886 and the couple moved back to Durham in 1889 following Smiths retirement.

His wife Alice also proved to be a very generous benefac-tor to the university. She donated $16,000 to fund the 1908 construc-tion of Smith Hall, the universitys fi rst girls-only dormitory. The dor-mitory known as Congreve Hall was dedicated to her in 1920.

Nowadays, the Hamilton Smith building serves as an aca-demic building called home by COLA students, and both Con-greve and Smith Hall are residen-tial halls.

Alexandra ChurchillCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Hamilton Smith building namesake visits university

There have been many, many benefactors over the years on both sides of the family. Its a good history to have.

Reverend Congreve Hamilton Quinby

Welch said he pushed for the exhibit to makes its presence in or-der to help remind students that they arent invincible when it comes to these diseases. He noted the higher risk for sexually transmitted diseas-es, including HIV, in college-aged students.

College students are vulner-able to lots of sexually transmitted diseases, but the danger is that they

think they arent, said Welch. I think its [the exhibit] another way to humanize the epidemic, and bring it a little closer to home.

The exhibit will be on display today in the MUB Strafford Room from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The exhibit is free and open to the UNH com-munity.

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AIDS: National awareness day enlightens onlookers

The dramatic irony in the story of Thomas Jeremiah is what led J. William Harris, professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, in his travels to pursue an important historical reconstruction - from Eng-land to South Carolina.

Harris book, The Hanging of Thomas Jeremiah: A Free Black Mans Encounter with Liberty, details the trial and execution of Thomas Jeremiah, one of fewer than 500 Free Negros in South Caro-lina in 1775, and possibly the richest person of African descent in British North America. Jeremiah was falsely accused by whites of spurring revolt among slaves at the behest of the British.

His story highlights contradic-tion between a nation founded on freedom that then denied it to others through the institution of slavery. His chief accuser, Henry Laurens, was Charlestons leading patriot, a slave owner and former slave trader, who

would later become the president of the Continental Congress. On con-trary, Lord William Campbell, royal governor of the colony, passionately believed that Jeremiah was innocent and tried in vain to save his life. Though a free man, Jeremiah was tried in a slave court and sentenced to death. In August 1775, he was hanged and his body burned.

Professor Harris explained that the American colonists accused the British of tyranny, complaining loudly The British are trying to en-slave us. However, they were slave owners themselves and, in the case of Thomas Jeremiah, tried a free man in a court with no appeals or defense attorneys something we consider to be a basic part of liberty.

Harris said that the legacy of slavery has decreased in importance in the public eye after all, America has elected its fi rst Black president. However, the fear for personal safe-ty that allegedly inspired Jeremiahs unjust trial is still prominent today. Harris pointed out that we detain prisoners in Guantanamo Bay with-

out trial for this exact reason.One of the few that Harris gave

a preliminary draft of his work to for revisions was his colleague Jef-frey Bolster, UNH associate profes-sor of history, who described it as an extraordinary accomplishment. Bolster said that it challenged Harris to make connections between what was happening with white rebels in South Carolina, royal governors, and Negroes at the time; Harris has truly recovered an important aspect of life at the time.

Bolster, author of Blackjacks: African American Seaman in the Age of Sail, explained that Jeremi-ah earned his wealth through being a handy seaman. He was best known for being a harbor pilot. Charleston harbor pilots would temporarily re-lieve captains of visiting ships to guide them through the tricky, dan-gerous harbor; it was a highly skilled profession that was not for the faint of heart. With his book, Harris has truly captured the story of a success-ful, upstanding man victimized by the prejudices of his time.

Krista MacomberCONTRIBUTING WRITER

UNH professor highlights irony of American Revolution in new book

vice president of Student and Aca-demic Services, the process through which this transition will happen has yet to be fully determined, given that the decision to repurpose the build-ing came as the university returned from Thanksgiving break. As the areas that will occupy Smith Hall move into it, the exiting community will be given a new home that could provide at the least the same sense of community that Smith Hall has for international students over the years.

We are unequivocal about our plans to sustain a residential pro-gram that emphasizes international community, Rubinstein said. In fact, the universitys long-term vi-sion for growth in the number of international students educated at UNH and our interest in providing U.S.-born students with exposure to broader, more global perspectives effectively obligate us to consider a larger space than Smith Hall to host this program in the future.

The decision to move the de-partment into the historic building, which is the oldest residence hall on campus, comes less than a month after administration fi rst started discussing plans to possibly move Admissions from the Grant House to its future location. Since discus-sion on the topic started, according to Smith Hall Director Taras Fer-encevych, there has been next to no dialogue on the matter with interna-tional students.

Anybody who advocates for the international community hasnt

been involved in this decision, Fer-encevych said. Two weeks ago, I was told this is being considered and thats it.

Following a spreading rumor that Smith Hall would soon be re-purposed, a Facebook group was formed by students calling to retain the halls current purpose. Many members of the group posted about the sense of community that they felt was an essential part of their university experience.

But for Ferencevych, the deci-sion to move Admissions into the hall accomplishes more than dis-placing a community of internation-al students: it damages that commu-nity, placing the members of it into a new location that would likely not foster its growth as well as that of Smith Hall.

People leave their computers out in the lounges, Ferencevych said. They feel really safe here. They do not feel that their stuff will be stolen or will disappear. Unless you are getting something compa-rable or an upgrade, you are getting screwed.

In support of his claim, Fer-encevych alluded to a kitchen that the hall installed years ago to ac-commodate several international clubs and communities on campus, some of whom often dont even live in the hall.

Some of the traditions that we have that are facilitated here, there is no other residence hall that has a kitchen like that, Ferencevych said. A lot of the students hang out here who are not offi cially residents [in

this hall], but they are from under-represented orgs. This is not just 100 students. There is a lot more involved.

Smith Hall is not the fi rst hall on campus to serve one purpose and then be designated to serve another, however. As an example, Hamilton Smith Hall was a library for several decades before it became the home of the English and Philosophy de-partments, and even Thompson Hall held a number of classes and a womans gymnasium at one point. These buildings, over time, were also repurposed in order to foster growth of the entire university com-munity.

[Smith Hall] is the oldest residence hall, but that alone shouldnt preclude us from consid-ering other uses that would make good use for the building, Doug Bencks, director of Campus Plan-ning, said. There are several examples of buildings being re-purposed Hamilton Smith from library to academic building, Hud-dleston Hall from dining and stu-dent union to academic building, Snively Arena from hockey arena to recreation, and now the New Eng-land Center.

In determining the future home of Admissions, Hood House was also considered as a prospective home for the department, according to Bencks. Ultimately, repurposing this building would require much more around the campus to change, which could have included another residence hall having to be repur-posed in the process.

There is no question that [Smith Hall] has signifi cant tradi-tions as a long time womens resi-dence hall and since the 1980s as the international residence hall, Bencks said. These are issues that we take very seriously, but we are also trying to fi nd the best fi t for Admissions as it moves out of Grant House. Smith Hall provides the setting, the types of spaces and the presence that would work very well for Admissions.

Admissions is one of the most critical functions on campus, and we want to make sure we provide them with a place that will help them to be very successful in all that they do, Bencks added.

While the university has voiced its reasons for supporting this deci-sion, however, no opposing voice has been included in discussions, according to Ferencevych.

Theres nobody advocating for students in this decision-mak-ing process, and that is so strange that the student voice is disenfran-chised, Ferencevych said. I think, a lot of the time, because of the way that the university is structured, some important voices arent heard and because they dont come in and talk to the people in these buildings, they think that they can just give them something that is the same and that it would work.

The repurposing of Smith Hall from international residence to Ad-missions is also not the fi rst instance of residences for the international community being reduced in size. In the past, another international

community known as Forest Park, currently located behind Kings-bury Hall, was at one time a large international community that has since been reduced in size. Repur-posing Smith Hall further damages an international community that is considered by many to be severely underrepresented, according to Fer-encevych.

I have really strong philo-sophical beliefs about education, and their education should lead to their empowerment, not their disen-franchisement, Ferencevych said. You saw what happened with For-est Park. These kinds of decisions will have a ripple effect. The more of these decisions they make, even-tually it will catch up to them.

However, with an impend-ing strategic plan about to be an-nounced, administration can only say that there are bigger things to come for the international commu-nity.

The long-term vision behind this decision is predicated on serving students and the academic mission of the university, Rubinstein said. Within the next several weeks, as the universitys new strategic plan begins to unfold, you are likely to see that the objectives served by this move and related moves that could follow are very consistent with the efforts to create a better university experience for students and fac-ulty.

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Letter to the editorBias Response Core Team to hold open forum Dec. 3

We all share a responsibility

to promote a safe and welcoming community for all persons. One such initiative in this effort is the Bias Response Protocol. It defi nes severity levels of reported bias and hate incidents that guide intervention action steps and communication de-cisions to stakeholder groups and the university community at large. You can fi nd a summary of our protocol by visiting the following websites:

http://www.unh.edu/vpsas http://www.unh.edu/student- senatehttp://www.unh.edu/affi rmativeaction/policies.html

There are many ways to report an act of hate, bias or prejudice. One such way is to go to http://www.unh.edu/affi rmativeaction/index.html. Check out the Report it! link.

On Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009 from 12:45-2:00 p.m. in the Wildcat Den, MUB members of the Bias Response Core Team will facilitate an open meeting for members of our community who wish to share their thoughts and perspectives about issues of climate and inclusion. We recommend that everyone look at the data available on Blackboard. These data are based on reported incidents of bias and hate on campus and are regularly updated. After you log in, just go to the MyUNH Resources page and scroll down until you see UNH-Bias Response Protocol Information.

Core Team members are Nicho-

las Halias, UNH Police (862-1427); Kevin Linton, Diversity Support Coalition (862-3550) and Student Senate; Sean McGhee, Offi ce of Multicultural Student Affairs (862-2050); Anne Lawing, Student and Academic Services (862-2053); Shannon Marthouse, Offi ce of Residential Life, and Donna Marie Sorrentino, Affi rmative Action and Equity (862-2930 V/TTY).

We hope to see you on Dec. 3.

Sincerely,

The Bias Response TeamNicholas HaliasAnne LawingKevin LintonShannon MarthouseSean McGheeDonna Marie Sorrentino

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TODAYS QUESTION

TNHONLINE POLLWould a $2,000 reward persuade you to come forward about an assault?TNH responds: Two thou-sand dollars is quite a lot of money for an anonymous donor to give to anyone with information about the assault that occurred over Hallow-een weekend, but we think its a great cause and should result in an arrest.

If you are a student who wit-nessed the Halloween assault and have yet to come forward about it, the $2,000 reward from UNH police should be more than enough to get you talking. Make the call.

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Smith Hall and Admissions a good matchDrop the pitchforks; douse those

torches. The quickly forming mob of students, faculty and staff angry about the idea of Smith Hall becoming the new Admissions building needs to chill out for a second here: the move is a good thing.

First of all, think of the future. The new Peter T. Paul Business School is going right on top of where Admis-sions is now, so the move needs to be made soon anyway. And secondly, the administration isnt getting rid of the longstanding tradition of Smith Hall; theyre showcasing it.

Think of how the only times youve been in Grant House, the cur-

rent Admissions building on campus located right across from Sawyer Hall. In all likelihood, you were a freshman and you werent all that impressed.

Most colleges have gorgeous admissions buildings that are sure to recruit a few freshmen students, and when Smith Hall is repurposed, UNH will have be able to use that landmark for all incoming freshmen to see. Its the oldest and most historic hall on campus, so why not show it off to ev-ery young mind hoping to study here?

Of course, it cant be overlooked that Smith has been the home for so many past and present interna-tional students at UNH. The image

of multicultural fl ags hanging outside student windows is a popular memory among alumni, but whats wrong with changing that memorys location to another dorm on campus? Its not like the foreign students traveling to study in Durham wont have a place to stay, it just wont be in Smith Hall.

We understand that change isnt always embraced, especially when that change is coming to one of the oldest buildings on campus, but we dont think repurposing Smith Hall is such a big deal. Until the administration proposes the building to be torn down altogether, keep the pitchforks at bay.


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Thumbs down to endless Christmas music. We love it, but it starts earlier every year and youre sick of it by the time its actually rel-evant.

Thumbs up to The Blind Side. Good book and a good movie.

Thumbs down to two weeks of crazy amounts of work before winter break hits.

Thumbs up to three weeks (or less) until Christmas break!

Thumbs down to Charlie Weis and Notre Dame.

Thumbs up to UNH athletics being ranked second in the nation among public institu-tions in graduation success rates.

Thumbs down to Tiger Woods not talking to police about his accident. Anything to hide Eldrick?

Thumbs up to UNH football winning in the FCS playoffs! Keep it up this weekend boys.

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Thumbs down to oral exams.

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Just a few months ago Saint Anselm junior and New Hampshire State Representative Brian Pozn-anski, D-Hillsborough, proposed the Good Samaritan Law. This law would protect underage and intoxicated students who need medical assistance from an im-mediate arrest. The idea behind this piece of legislature would be that students would be less fearful of the law when they, or a friend, had a few too many alcoholic drinks. The bill had begun to build steam as more representatives began to sponsor it in order to protect students across the state. However, all of this changed on Oct. 30. The emergency brakes where thrown on and the bill screeched to a halt. It died faster than McNeese States defense did against UNHs spread offense last Saturday. All of the progress that had been made was lost because of the ignorance of the one person the bill most heavily relied on: Brian Poznanski.

You see, Representative Pozn-anski is just 20 years old and on that night he was arrested for un-derage drinking. Yes, Mr. Trebek, Ill take the defi nition of irony for 1000, please. His arrest forced him to be dropped as the sponsor of the bill, which will not be brought before state legislature in January as it had previously been planned. The bill is still being pursued by the New Hampshire College Democrats, who are looking for a new sponsor for next fall. The Dartmouth College Democrats, who had worked with Poznanski

on the bill, has been supported by various student organizations from nearly every college in the state, including UNH.

I ask you today to help make this bill a reality. Writing to your state representative can make a difference. Every weekend college students face the debate of Should I call an ambulance, or will they be all right? If I call an ambulance they will be arrested, but they could actually be in fi ne health. Most of the time the student is okay after some time goes by, but alcohol poi-soning can also be a quick death. Students should not have to make this decision, because second-guessing yourself for just three seconds could be the difference of life and death. Life is already a gamble as it is; this added decision does not help anyone. I think that it is terrible that students would be afraid to call for help, but it is the truth. Of course being alive is more important than having an under-age drinking arrest on your record, but it is not that easy. It is a scary situation to be in. No one wants to be the kid who got their roommate arrested when they were going to be fi ne, or to have the worst happen without making a call.

This passing of this bill could save a life of a young college stu-dent. It is a travesty that because of the poor decision of one person, the rest of our states college students have to face the consequences. Before you call me a hypocrite be-cause I have admitted to underage drinking, also remember that I am

not a state representative. I am not trying to pass a piece of legisla-ture that would, indirectly, create amnesty for underage drinkers. It is important for college students to explore everything that a university has to offer, including new social opportunities.

I have said it before and I will say it again, it is time for every-one to face the fact that college students drink alcohol. UNH health services have advertised around campus that 27 percent of students do not drink alcohol. Using simple subtraction it can be said that 73 percent of the students do drink, which is a huge majority. Why not make it a safer campus and make this bill a priority? Alcohol, when not consumed responsibly, is a dangerous substance and the result of this bill could mean life or death for our future students. I know there will be doubters out there, but what happens when a student dies of alcohol poisoning? What if that student is your friend? Or your brother or your sister? Or son or daughter? Would you say that he shouldnt have been drinking in the fi rst place if he was your son?

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The Center for Humanities has developed a summer study abroad program at the University of Ghana in Legon, Ghana, an affl uent suburb located in West Africa.

Currently the Ghana program is just a summer program. However, UNH is in the process of building connections with the University of Ghana in hopes of developing pro-grams for the academic year.

The current program offers a new approach for a summer study abroad option. Students can choose to take part in one or two of the three different course options offered dif-ferent times during the week.

Choosing to study in Ghana will help those students who wish to minor in Africana and African American Studies. Courses in Gha-na are six credits, and Burt Feintuch, who is a professor of folklore and English, said that it would be likely for students to include an indepen-dent study with their course, which would give them eight credits for one course.

The cost of studying in Ghana for the summer is comparable to studying at UNH for the summer while staying in campus housing. The cost of the program includes housing, but students will have to

pay for their plane tickets and per-sonal expenses.

Two UNH faculty groups have traveled to Ghana and are very ex-cited about the development of this program.

While in Ghana, Feintuch said the faculty felt safe and well re-ceived. Feintuch also said there was a sense of being overwhelmed while in Ghana - but not over-whelming in the sense of feeling un-safe. He felt it was more like being overwhelmed about how much one doesnt know about other cultures until they experience it.

Due to the fact that this pro-gram is so new, students who wish to study in Ghana will have to pe-tition the Center for International Education. This means that this program is not currently managed by UNH, that it is not an exchange or approved UNH study abroad pro-gram. The petition is available to students who meet the UNH study abroad eligibility requirements and an academic advisor should support petitions. Petitions are reviewed based on academic needs of the stu-dent.

A representative from the study abroad program said the Center for International Education is willing to work with students who are in-terested in studying in Ghana, and

also excited about the program that will hopefully someday be managed be UNH.

Humanities helps develop Ghana study abroad program

Gail WinsorCONTRIBUTING WRITER

To complete a study abroad pe-tition students must:

- Attend a study abroad informa-tion session

- Make an appointment and meet with a study abroad advisor

- Complete and submit a study abroad one-time approval peti-tion with all required documen-tation (study abroad one-time ap-proval form, academic rationale, program information, study-away eligibility form, study abroad one-time approval consent and agreement form)

- Have the petition form signed by an academic advisor, and sub-mit the completed form to the study abroad offi ce

Courses being offered in Ghana include:

- ARCH 417 (Ethnographic Field Methods and Techniques)

- TADR 003 (The Performing Arts in Traditional African Cul-tures)

- ARCH (Archaeological Field Methods and Techniques).

Last Sunday nights fi lm tour opened to loud reggae music and a slide show full of airborne ski-ers. The kickoff was for a screen-ing of Teton Gravity Researchs latest ski and snowboard fl ick, re:SESSION, held in the Memo-rial Union Buildings Granite State Room on November 22.

The chance to meet Dylan Hooda featured skier in the fi lmwas one of the many reasons students paid the $10 entrance fee to get into the Granite State Room.

The UNH Ski Club hosted and publicized the event, though it was actually planned by Teton, their part-ners, and their sponsors. The press release billed it as a one night only super-show, but it was also an ex-hibit in entrepreneurial cooperation.

Hood spent the beginning of the night signing autographs. The posters had a Volkl logo in the cor-ner, advertising for the premiere ski manufacturer, and a photo of a man wearing Volkl skis as well.

After everyone had asked for autographs, Hood and Tetons Di-rector of Tours and Business, David Hudacsko, began giving away thou-sands of dollars worth of free gear. The free equipment came from Tetons sponsors, which include The North Face, Rossignol, Volkl, Pow-der Mag, and Alaska Heli-skiing.

The tour would be impossible

without the sponsors, said Hudac-sko.

The man who set Sunday nights screening in motion is Charles Lodi, a UNH alumnus and owner of Command Events.

Lodi started the business on campus in 2003, a year before he graduated. His fi rst jobs consisted of planning events for the student council. Now he licenses fi lms for Teton and plans tour dates.

Lodi has been working with Teton for two years now, and said that the fi lms are successively better.

Hood agreed, saying that re:SESSION contains his best skiing, and also that it was the best fi lm hes been a part of.

One reason the fi lms go bigger every year is because of this coop-eration between businesses.

Chris Germains company, GT Skins, was among the smallest sponsors of the tour.

It was slow to start, for sure, he said of building his own business. But, he said, venues like these allow him to reach his target audience. His product: prints of extreme skiers in action that adhere to the front of a mini-fridge. Like many of the other sponsors, he also lent a few freebies to the raffl e.

The fi lmboth during and post-productionprovides expo-sure for smaller businesses as well.

Sponsor Alaska Heli-Skiing also contributed, as they help the

athletes reach some of the fi ercest peaks in the state, and much of the fi lm chronicled these Alaskan ad-ventures. Being a part of a major production provides visibility, and working with professionals gives them some credibility, as well, ac-cording to Hudacsko; they also pro-vided the grand prize for the tour-wide raffl ea heli-skiing vacation for two in the countrys 49th state.

Jack Fagone, captain of the ski club, said these events spark interest in their organization, gesturing to a list with names and emails of inter-ested students.

The ski club plans on making nine trips this winter, to Loon and Sunday River, both of which are on the All New England Pass.

Elisa Giangiulio Brendan Nesheim, also co-captains, said the numbers have been increasing steadily. While this screening re-quired a paid ticket, the team also shows other fi lms that are free and open to the public, which bring in new members and help support the ski industry.

Pat Scanlon, a UNH freshman, enjoyed the fi lm but said he was still a little disappointed.

There were supposed to be fi ve skiers, and Dylan was the only one that showed up, he said.

Yet, despite expecting a bigger brush with celebrity, he left with a smile on his face and pile of free merchandise.

UNH Ski Club hosts fi lm tourTyler Britton

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

WINDERMERE, Fla. - Mo-ments after pulling out of his drive-way in the middle of the night, Ti-ger Woods drove his SUV over a fi re hydrant and into a tree, causing injuries that sent him to the hospital to be treated.

The investigation of that mys-terious crash has moved much more slowly.

Woods added to the suspense Saturday when for the second straight day, the worlds No.1 golfer was unavailable to speak to the Flor-ida Highway Patrol. State troopers are looking for answers about the accident in which the Windermere police chief said Woods wife, Elin, used a golf club to smash out a rear window and help him get out.

Police fi rst went to his $2.4 mil-lion house inside the gates of Isle-worth on Friday, only for Woods

wife to ask if they could return the next day because he was sleeping.

As they headed to Woods house Saturday afternoon, FHP dispatch put through a phone call to troopers from Woods agent, in-forming them that Woods and his wife would be unavailable to talk until Sunday.

I dont know what was said, Sgt. Kim Montes, the patrol spokes-woman, said Saturday. I mean, (Friday) we understood, and thats kind of normal. It is unusual that we havent gotten a statement. This just delays us to getting closer to the completion of the investigation.

Woods agent, Mark Steinberg, did not respond to a text message asking why Woods was unavailable.

Sunday could deliver two bits of information - what Woods has to say about the accident or perhaps the 911 tapes that FHP said it would release once authorities have re-viewed the call.

The waiting continues with Tiger Woods investigation

Fred GoodallASSOCIATED PRESS


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Hes one of the top three fol-lowed marketing professors on Twitter, has written eight business books and is currently proposing his ninth. He, Chuck Martin, professor at UNH and CEO of NFI Research, will be teaching a new marketing class that will be offered in the fi rst trial run of UNHs fi rst J-term.

MKTG 598, Topics/ Social Media in Marketing, will explore the dramatic growth and usage of social media in marketing in busi-ness today and also the impact of social networking on media, spend-ing, and marketing to shoppers. The class will be held Monday and Wednesdays from 4-7 p.m. and is worth two credits for its three week duration.

Were going to go through all the social media platforms, said Martin, such as Linked In and Youtube, and also how to develop a marketing strategy using social net-working.

Dr. Peter Lane, Chair and As-

sociate Professor of Strategic Man-agement and Technology at UNH, said that the course is the latest in a series of new electives with the purpose to offer UNH students the most up to date set of skills that they need to be successful.

At the same time, said Lane, the course is also open to anyone who may have an interest in marketing, starting their own business, work-ing with student organizations and non profi t organizations, or anyone looking to learn about social media.

Martin also said the fact that anyone from the community can take

the class is an advantage. There is a huge market for people who have experience and understanding of so-cial media, said Martin.

Martin said that the course was created for the J-term because there are no other social media courses, and also said it is probable that the class will become a summer course and then part of the fall 2010 course list.

Social media is really, re-ally big in business right now, said Martin. Even if the business doesnt want to do anything in so-cial media they have to because their clients and customers are con-necting in these ways.

Because social media is im-pacting all aspects of business and all kinds of business, said Martin, anybody in marketing needs to un-derstand social media.

They dont need to like it, but understand it, said Martin.

Senior Joe Shartzer, a Busi-ness Administration major with a dual option in Management and Marketing, is considering taking the

j-term marketing class. According to Shartzer, he has discussed social media often in marketing classes, including in his current M a r k e t i n g R e s e a r c h class with Martin, but has never taken a class f o -cused solely on social media. The initial thing that in-terested me about the class was the new-ness of it all, said Shartzer.

Despite the huge increase in social media usage, said Shartzer, there are few classes or seminars on it, and textbooks dont really exist on the matter because its so recent.

Shartzer said he is not com-pletely sure if he will take the class due to limited time and fi nancial constraints.

Like many students, Im not sure I can afford another class in a new term, said Shartzer. I am looking at getting the class spon-sored by a company I might work for.

According to Shartzer, any students who are interested in social media or market research could greatly benefi t from taking a course with Martin.

Chuck is clearly an innovator and leader in the fi eld -- his insight on the future of social media is extremely, extremely valu-able, said Shartzer.

Shartzers relationship with Martin has even opened up job op-portunities that would not exist oth-erwise.

He is just really, really good. Credentials speak better than I ever could, said Shartzer.

Lane said he also has confi -dence in Martins placement as pro-fessor of MKTG 598.

Professor Martin is a real valu-able member of our department, said Lane. Hes a great person to help us kick off this course.

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New J-term class teaches networking in an era of Twitter and Facebook

There is a huge market for people who have experience and understanding of social media.Professor Chuck Martin

The Bottom Line

Like a cautionary notice about the side effects of prescription drugs, do not partake in Black Fri-day if you have a heart condition, high blood pressure or are pregnant. Do not get this day confused. It is no retail joke.

Historically, the day after Thanksgiving acquired the tagline Black Friday because it was the day many major retailers claimed profi ts for the fi scal year.

Nowadays, companies see yearlong profi ts, though the day is still highly anticipated for both pro-ducers and consumers alike. And in the economic ruins the retail indus-try faced last year amid the credit crisis the day has been probed more than ever as an indicator of consum-ers willingness to spend.

Between the problem facing consumers and the focus on retail sales companies have offered sig-nifi cantly more door buster deals than ever before. The response to the incentives left a Wal-Mart em-ployee in Valley Stream, New York dead last year trampled to death by frantic shoppers looking to save some money.

While Wal-Mart and other major retailers beefed up their se-curity measures to prevent future issues last Friday the crowds only increased from the previous year.

The New York Times reported that an estimated 195 million con-sumers visited stores and websites over the weekend, up from 172 mil-lion last year, according to the Na-tional Retail Federation. However, average spending fell to $343.31 per person from $372.57 a year ago.

So the silver lining with the numbers is pretty clear. In this economy consumers are becoming smarter shoppers, theyre taking ad-vantage of the best deals and getting the most with the money they have.

Not only are consumers more apt to fi nd a deal, but also will go to great lengths to make the deal. I know people who cut their Thanks-giving dinner short to wait over-night in the rain at their local Wal-Mart retailer to save a few extra bucks on iPods and laptops. How feasible was that a few years ago? In a surging economy Im willing to bet more people would be likely to hit the snooze button Friday morn-ing.

The big picture behind this whole conundrum is that the state of the U.S. economy is far from recovered. While many consider stock indices as a major indictor of market health there are many more comprehensive indicators that have yet to be restored.

From the Gross Domestic Prod-

Black Friday beware, people respond to incentives


NEW YORK - After shoppers gave retailers a somewhat encour-aging start to the holiday shopping season, stores now turn their atten-tion to the online promotions known as Cyber Monday and bringing back customers the rest of the season.

The good news is that holiday shopping held steady through the Thanksgiving weekend after retail-ers saw a huge crowd of bargain shoppers for early morning deals Friday.

But economic worries about jobs were still apparent as shoppers mostly stuck to their lists and focused on practical items for themselves and for their loved ones. The big worry is that consumers may not return until the fi nal hours before Dec. 25.

According to preliminary fi g-ures released Saturday by Shop-perTrak, a research fi rm that tracks more than 50,000 outlets, sales rose 0.5 percent to $10.66 billion Friday, compared with a year ago. That was on top of a 3 percent increase last year.

Online sales Thursday and Friday, however, rose 11 percent to $913 million, according to data released Sunday by comScore, an Internet research fi rm. Online busi-

ness got a big boost as stores pushed online promotions the week leading into the Thanksgiving weekend.

The National Retail Federation trade group said Sunday its sticking to its forecast for holiday sales to de-cline 1 percent from last year.

A year after suffering the big-gest sales decline in four decades, the nations merchants pulled out all the stops in stores and online to keep the momentum going for the holiday weekend, further blurring the lines between their Web-based and land-based businesses.

Major merchants including

J.C. Penney Co. and Sears Holdings Corp. broke new ground by making many of their Black Friday specials available on their Web sites at the same time.

The heavy online push could steal some thunder from sales on Cyber Monday, the day when sellers unveil another raft of discounts on-line to lure shoppers looking in after returning to work.

Marketing gurus have started calling the season a Twitter Christ-mas as merchants have been tweet-ing deals and previewing discounts on Facebook pages.

Sears tweeted its bargains through the weekend, spokesman Tom Aiello noted Sunday.

Forget Black Friday for bricks and Cyber Monday for clicks - this year its all about making it easy for customers to satisfy their shopping fi x ... wherever and whenever, said John Long, a retail strategist at Kurt Salmon Associates.

Long, however, noted that were still seeing cautious spend-ing. The pie isnt increasing whether you decide to buy in the stores or online.

Laura Gurski, a partner in the retail practice at A.T. Kearney, a global management consultant, be-lieves the weekends results offered signals that consumers, many of

whom had cut spending all year to bare-bones necessities, had saved up for the holidays and were opening their wallets - even if just a little.

Shoppers cautious mood was evident.

Allentown, Pa. resident Jamie Sandrock, 27, who was visiting New York City on Saturday and was out-side toy store FAO Schwarz, said she got up at 7 a.m. Friday and took ad-vantage of online deals on Amazon.com, American Eagle Outfi tters and Sephora.

Thats a big change from the Black Fridays of years past, when Sandrock would get up at 3:30 a.m. to head to Target or Best Buy.

Last year, I was part of the stampede, she said. This year, I didnt have to shower. I didnt have to get dressed. All I had to do was click.

But Sandrock, who has been try-ing to fi nd a job in nursing since she graduated from college in May, said shes slashing her holiday spending to $350 from last years $500.

Michelle Nuanez of Rio Ran-cho, N.M., who was checking out toys at Target in Albuquerque on Saturday, said she thought about waking up before dawn and heading to Walmart Friday. Then she thought better of it.

You might save a couple of

dollars here or there, but so far I havent seen anything thats a re-ally good deal as far as toys go, she said.

Nevertheless, reports Sunday from malls and stores were comfort-ing and different from last year when stores had a decent Black Friday be-fore sales tanked the rest of the sea-son.

The Mall of America in Minne-apolis, saw 325,000 visitors Friday and Saturday, the most in 17 years. Spokeswoman Bridget Jewell said traffi c remained steady through the weekend and said shes fairly con-fi dent that weekend sales will rise from last year.

Taubman Centers, which oper-ates 24 malls, said sales Friday were up anywhere from mid-single dig-its to double digits compared with a year ago, according to spokes-woman Karen MacDonald. On Sat-urday, sales were anywhere from unchanged to up slightly.

Shoppers bought about half the items sold for themselves, she said, but the buying was focused on basics like denim, fl eece jackets and boots, as well as electronics.

A more complete sales picture wont be known until Thursday, when the nations retailers report November sales.

Anne DInnocenzioASSOCIATED PRESS

Holiday shopping off to mildly encouraging start

uct (GDP), employment rates, and the housing market, the fact that the stock market has rebounded so well without the same response from fundamental indicators is more of a cautionary tale than a positive.

Without the fundamental in-dicators to show for itself the U.S. stock markets appear less likely to sustain long-term growth than many optimists are anticipating.

Im not saying I know where or when the markets are going to turn, if I did, Id probably be writing to a much wider audience. The take

home message here is that keep-ing everything relative the United States has made great strides in recent months, but a full-fl edged recovery is still on the horizon and consumers are more willing than ever to take advantage of a bargain wherever and whenever they spring up.

Be weary, be sensible and shop til you drop or at least when prices do.

Nate BatchelderManaging Editor

BOTTOM LINE: Economic indicators provide less indication

Forget Black Friday for bricks and Cyber Monday for clicks - this year its all about making it easy for customers to satisfy their shopping fi x ... wherever and whenever.

John Long Retail strategist


PHILADELPHIA (AP) General Electric Co.s agree-ment to buy out the rest of NBC Universal paves the way for it to sell control of the TV and movie company to Comcast Corp. in a deal that promises to reshape the entertainment industry.

GE will pay slightly less than the $6 billion that French media conglomerate Vivendi SA hoped to command for its 20 percent stake in NBC Universal, a person with knowledge of the talks said late Monday. The per-son spoke on condition of ano-nymity because the negotiations

were private and the companies agreement has not yet been for-malized.

The news lessens the uncer-tainty surrounding GEs planned sale of a 51 percent stake in NBC Universal to Comcast, the largest U.S. cable provider. That deal, valued at $30 billion, would make Philadelphia-based Comcast one of the nations largest entertain-ment companies rivaling the heft of its former takeover target, The Walt Disney Co.

An agreement was supposed to have been announced weeks ago, but GEs talks with Vivendi have been taking longer than ex-pected.

Deborah YaoASSOCIATED PRESS

GE, Vivendi deal paves way for NBC sale to Comcast


UNHs Alternative Break Challenge (ABC) held an informa-tion session Monday night to dis-cuss the application process for this years spring break trips with new and returning students.

ABC provides alternative spring break trips for 119 UNH stu-dents looking to volunteer in com-munities in need throughout the United States. The trips give stu-dents the opportunity to work with services such as Habitat for Hu-manity and US Forest Services on a variety of projects including every-thing from painting and gardening a fi nished house to roofi ng and dry walling a house in progress.

There are 17 trips being of-fered this semester, including nine trips in partnership with Habitat for Humanity, and three in partnership with Katrina Relief in Waveland, Miss. The trip costs $260 this year, which includes gas, food while on the trip, an ABC T-shirt and van rental fees. Students are only re-sponsible for paying for food on

the van ride down to the volunteer location, as well as extra spending money on the trip itself.

Students attending spring break trips are also required to take a defensive driving course online or through UNH Transportation. This course allows the student to drive the rented vans to trip locations. ABC estimates that students will be driving between 18 26 hours, depending on the destination of the trip.

Alisha DeGregory is a senior Communications, Sciences and Dis-orders major, and a trip leader for this years spring trips. DeGregory got involved in ABC her sophomore year through a trip to Birmingham, Ala.

This year, DeGregory chose to lead a trip with Habitat for Human-ity to Vero Beach, F.L. DeGregory said she loves ABC because not only is it a different experience than the normal college spring break, but also it is one of the best experiences of her life.

Seriously, who wouldnt want to go on a road trip and come home with tons of memories and new friends? Just talking about it gets me excited, DeGregory said.

Applications for the 2010 ABC spring trips are now available online at their website, (ww.unhabc.webs.com), but wont be accepted until January 26, 2010. ABC advises get-ting applications in early since spots fi ll quickly.

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Jude Blake grew up watching her father, a man capable of living the high-life of fi nancial success, keep grounded and give back to his community. His philanthropic spirit passed on to her through years of witnessing the differences he made for those around him.

After climbing the marketing and fi nance ladder Blake held marketing executive positions at both General Mills and Pepsi Cola she left the cut-throat world of corporate business and followed her fathers footsteps into the world of philanthropy.

Her community and educa-tional focused work earned her, as University of New Hampshire alumna of 1977, the Northeastern New England Chapter of the Asso-ciation of Fundraising Profession-als 2009 Outstanding Philanthro-pist of the Year award. The award was presented to her on Nov. 15.

What I realized is that I really needed a personal life goal, Blake said. My goal was to do what I do really well for organizations and people who couldnt afford me for my talent. So when I had the op-portunity to give back, I started to do that.

She now sits on a handful of boards at UNH, including the UNH Foundations Board of Directors, the Board of Trustees for the Uni-versity System of New Hampshire, and the Whittemore School of Business and Economics Advisory Board and Executive Committee. The time and interaction with stu-dents both there and in the class-roomshe teaches one course per semester, this semester on the wine of Californiais where she fi nds the most gratifi cation.

I most passionately serve UNH and the university system, Blake said. Thats what I like the most, and thats what I like to spend my time doing. No, Im not com-pensated for most of it but I do it because I care and I love it.

True philanthropy, according to Blake, isnt simply giving mon-ey, but involves giving up oneself. She said in that, as opposed to her career in business fi nance and mar-keting, she felt the satisfaction of reaching that personal life goal.

Lauren Moye, a member of the National Philanthropy Day Awards Committee that reviewed Blakes nomination, immediately recog-nized the good that Blakes com-munity had been feeling for years.

We on the committee all felt that she is an energetic supporter, philanthropist, and volunteer, and we were thrilled to recognize her contributions, Moye said.

Blakes passion and energy, manifested in her choice of person-al heroBenjamin Franklin, who founded the fi rst public university

in the country, the University of Pennsylvania, where she got her masters degree in fi nancepushed her in the philanthropic direction of education and community.

Blakes business savvy ways not only helps bring in money, but helps community organizations make the best fi nancial maneuvers with it. Some of the organizations shes helped this way include the Childrens Museum of Dover, Cross Roads House, an organization that battles homelessness, Families First Health and Support Center, and the Music Hall of Portsmouth.

Im a marketer and Im a stra-tegic thinker, and I like to think about ways that they can leverage my gift to raise more money, Blake said.

For example, her background in fi nance and marketing told her that the money she gave to Share Our Strengths, an organization that works to end childhood hunger, would be best used at their most recent fundraiser, Taste of the Sea-coast, which she helped make much stronger.

Blake is especially energetic about the kind of investments that will continue to be benefi cialbrick and mortar projects, she calls them.

Capital projects usually in-volve large sums of money and in-frastructure-type construction, and are important because, according to Blake, its diffi cult to run functional programs without well-built facili-ties. She was instrumental in both the funding of and the push behind the Music Halls renovation of a part of the facility in which they run the childrens programs.

Despite the good shes facili-tated, Blake insists that the true phi-lanthropists are those who work ev-ery day at bringing in fundsdoing the grunt work, the work that gets hands dirty and makes backs sore.

I think that the people of the Foundation staff at UNH and all the development people who are raising money for not-for-profi ts in our community, I think the tribute should be for them, Blake said. Because its really about the work they do that keeps people like me engaged.

Sarah Gnerre, director of the Peter T. Paul Challenge at the UNH Foundationnow referred to as the offi ce of University Ad-vancementis a staff member of the fundraising community that has what is, according to Blake, a thankless job.

But Gnerre is the one handing out thanks when it comes to Blake.

People like Jude make our fundraising work very meaningful and very fulfi lling, Gnerre said. I feel like the luckiest person in the world to get to call on a person like Jude. Shes a very energetic and enthusiastic supporter of the uni-versity.

Julie LoosigianCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Amanda BelandSTAFF WRITER

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HOUSTON - A convicted sex offender sentenced to life in prison pulled a gun on two guards during a prison transfer Monday and held them hostage temporarily before fl eeing on foot in one of the guards uniforms, authorities said.

At the time of the escape, the inmate was in a wheelchair, which he claimed he needed to help move him around, offi cials said.

The guards were transferring Arcade Joseph Comeaux Jr. from a prison in Huntsville, north of Houston, to one in Beaumont, in southeast Texas, when he pulled out a gun and told the guards to stop the vehicle, said Michelle Lyons, a spokeswoman for the Texas Depart-ment of Criminal Justice.

Comeaux took control of the transport van at 6:30 a.m., nearly two hours into the trip, as the ve-hicle was going through Conroe, just north of Houston. He told the guards to continue driving until they reached Baytown, a refi nery town east of Houston, offi cials said.

At some point he brandished a fi rearm. We do not know how he was able to obtain that fi rearm and ordered offi cers to pull off to the side of the road, Lyons said.

At the time, Comeaux was shackled and was in a wheelchair, which he had claimed was needed for mobility, Lyons said.

Comeaux, 49, took the offi -cers weapons and handcuffed them

together in the back of the vehicle before fl eeing on foot at around 9 a.m., Lyons said.

The offi cers were later found unharmed about an hour later.

Comeaux was wearing one of the offi cers gray uniforms and black boots and took the guards weapons, a shotgun and two semi-automatic pistols, Lyons said. He left his own weapon behind.

There were several uncon-fi rmed sightings of Comeaux in the Baytown area, said Lisa Block, a spokeswoman for the Texas Depart-ment of Public Safety.

State troopers, the Texas Rang-ers and a Department of Public Safety helicopter were helping search for Comeaux, Block said.

The 6-foot, 200-pound Comeaux has been in and out of the Texas prison system for the last 30 years, Lyons said.

He was serving a life sentence after being convicted in June 1998 of aggravated sexual assault out of Brazos County, located northwest of Houston.

He was fi rst sentenced to prison in 1979 on three 10-year sentences for rape of a child, aggravated rape of a child and burglary of a build-ing, all out of Harris County, where Houston is located. He was paroled four years later, Lyons said.

His parole was revoked and he returned to prison in 1984 to serve a 20-year sentence on a new charge of indecency with a child out of Harris County. He was paroled in 1991 but was in and out of prison for parole violations until 1996.

Texas inmate pulls gun on guards, takes off

Juan A. LozanoASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

National Hug your RA Day: Inspired by Facebook group

Erin CavanaughCONTRIBUTING WRITER

According to a Facebook group created by Utah State undergraduate student, Trisha Deem, this Wednes-day, Dec. 2 is National Hug your RA (resident assistant) Day. The event time is from 12 a.m. to 11:55 p.m., and the location of the event is at college campuses all over the world!

The idea for this event original-ly started because of a joke between Deem and her RA at Utah State.

Deem was stalling on some schoolwork one day, fi lling out a social interview questionnaire about her RA, and came across the question Does Becca Dupaix like hugs?

I answered, of course she likes hugs, who doesnt like hugs, Deem said. But since she does like hugs then I must be slacking off because I never hug her.

Dupaix replied, jokingly, say-ing that she should start by a Hug your RA Day. Deem took the idea and ran with it, starting a group and inviting a few friends.

By only inviting a few friends, Deem was astonished at how well the group has taken off. There are currently 85,746 con-fi rmed participants in the group, in-cluding at least one person from ev-ery state in the United States. There are also participants from Canada, Lithuania and Australia.

I am actually surprised by the huge number of people who have RSVPed as attending this event,

she said. It has gotten way bigger than I have ever expected.

Deem is currently not an RA, though she is applying to be one next year. Because of her RA, she said she has developed a strong pas-sion and appreciation for the job. She said that her RA makes a big ef-fort to be involved in the residents lives by attending basketball games and baking brownies with them.

I think that often times RAs arent appreciated because we just see them as people who make you turn your music down or fail you at cleaning checks, said Deem. I think we fail to remember that RAs in general do actually know and care about their residents and they are trying to do their best for their residents.

UNH sophomore RA, Mike Germaske, had a similar response.

I think that National Hug Your RA Day is a nice subtle ap-preciation for RAs because we arent just out to get you, like most residents think, Germaske said. We are really there to support and help you.

Germaske said that although being an RA does involve a sig-nifi cant amount of work, there are a lot of benefi ts that come with it as well.

UNH RA, Jason LeBranch, agreed. He said that a good amount of work comes with being an RA especially towards the beginning of the year but you get to broaden your horizon by meeting a lot of new people that you wouldnt have

necessarily met before. LeBranch, however, fi nds Na-

tional Hug Your RA Day to be a little strange.

Why do you have to hug them to show that you appreciate them, he asked. It would be nice for stu-dents to acknowledge what you do throughout the year not only on one designated day.

Deem was also inspired to create this event by the television show, Dorm Life. She said that this show is hilarious and is similar to The Offi ce, but for dorms. The picture for the Facebook event is of two of the Dorm Life characters. The male character Marshall Ad-ams I actually has a Facebook and RSVPed to Deems event.

That was pretty cool for me, she said.

One other character from the series, ironically the RA in the show, has also RSVPed as attending the event.

Deem said that she moderates the event page frequently, reading all of the comments that people post and monitoring all of the pictures and links posted.

A lot of people seem to be re-ally excited for this event, she said. I think that it will be as success-ful as any random event such as this can be.

In the end, I think it is impor-tant to remember that RAs are stu-dents as well as being RAs, Deem said. They are going through the same stresses that we are, plus be-ing an RA.


NORFOLK, Va. - Growing up on Cape Cod, explorer Barry Clifford was fascinated by the ro-mantic tale of Black Sam Bel-lamy. Sailing to Massachusetts to rendezvous with his mistress, the pirate encountered a noreaster that sent him, most of his crew, and tons of gold, silver and jewels to the oceans bottom.

The lore launched Clifford on a life of treasure-hunting - in-cluding the discovery in 1984 of the Whydah, Bellamys treasure-laden three-master, which sank off of Wellfl eet, Mass., on April 26, 1717.

I was looking for treasure, and I found it, Clifford, 64, said. More treasure than I could have ever imagined. The whole bottom was layered with it.

A sliver of Cliffords discovery is on display through April 4, 2010, at Nauticus, a marine science mu-seum perched on the Norfolk wa-terfront. Real Pirates: The Untold Story of the Whydah from Slave Ship to Pirate Ship, organized by National Geographic, includes thousands of gold and silver coins and hundreds of other displays in a 16,000-square-foot interactive ex-hibition.

They include treasure chests, painstakingly restored cannons, pistols and swords, slabs of weath-ered timber from the shipwreck and a bell inscribed with the ships name - cementing Cliffords claim that the Whydah is the worlds only fully authenticated pirate ship to be discovered.

The Norfolk exhibit taps into a growing fascination with pirates. Examples include the extraordinari-ly popular Pirates of the Caribbe-

an franchise starring Johnny Depp and a growing re-enactor commu-nity as passionate as the Civil War fans who stage famous battles, munch on hardtack and dress in scratchy wool uniforms. One popu-lar Web forum, Ye Pirate Brethren, claims hundreds of members who discuss topic ranging from pirate wear (Pantalones and Stockings) to food (Grubniks & Schluessel).

Another manifestation of the pirate craze is the pirate festival, with dozens held around the coun-try. The Portland Pirate Festival in Oregon is awaiting Guinness World Record certifi cation for the largest number of dressed-up pirates in one place - 1,651 last September. Tam-pa, Fla., has one of the oldest pirate events, the Gasparilla Pirate Fest, which started in 1904 and typically attracts some 250,000 people, with the next event scheduled for Jan. 30. Pirates have become popular subjects for museums, too, with a permanent exhibit on Blackbeards life at the North Carolina Maritime Museum and a proposal for a pirate museum in Atlanta under consider-ation.

International Talk Like a Pirate Day has grown from a joke between a couple of friends to a craze with apps for iPhones and Facebook. For generalists, Michael Crichtons Pi-rate Latitudes, just published post-humously, also takes on the subject in a fi ctional setting.

The Nauticus display also ar-rives at a time when pirates are being redefi ned. It turns out, they werent all bad, though they were far from good.

Clifford is among those who believe pirates have gotten some bad press over the centuries. He notes, for instance, that the so-called golden age of piracy - an era generally defi ned as from 1650 until 1720 - offered opportunities to all in a period when birth and social standing often predestined a per-sons life. Fully one-third of pirates were of African origin, and many Indians were among pirate crews, he said.

Make no mistake, these peo-ple were outlaws but there were few choices for them, Clifford said during a visit to Nauticus in November for the shows opening.

The former slave ships origi-nal purpose is refl ected in its name, which is based on the West Afri-can trading town of Ouidah (pro-nounced WIH-dah).

A new book, The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates, casts pirates and piracy as downright progressive, politically and economically. They embraced democracy, for instance, and were quite tolerant of racial and sexual differences, as Depps Jack Spar-row might suggest. They even created an early form of workers compensation and health care.

Author Peter T. Leeson, him-self hooked on piracy from an early age after a family trip to Disney World and a spin on the ride Pi-rates of the Caribbean, casts an economists eye on piracy and fi nds their business practices sound. They were no Robin Hoods, hes quick to add.

The key thing to recognize is that its not because pirates were inherently nice guys or progressive in their thinking, Leeson said of crew-friendly initiatives. Its profi t maximizing and thats why they did it.

The Whydah was carrying the cargoes of 50 ships when it sank.

Thousands and thousands of artifacts have yet to see the light of day, Clifford said in an interview. Estimates put the haul of silver and gold at 5 to 10 tons plus a casket of egg-sized jewels, he said.

Centuries after Bellamy sailed the seas, its the pirate glitter that still enthralls. Clifford was fas-cinated by the coins the Whydah would give up occasionally. Cape Cod beachcombers would scoop them up, and Cliffords not averse to using the same bait when a group of schoolchildren came to Nauticus to get a peek at the exhibit.

Pirate exhibit in Norfolk taps into pirate craze

Steve SzkotakASSOCIATED PRESS

New Hampshire BriefsPolice seek man who invaded Peterborough home

PETERBOROUGH, N.H. - Po-lice are seeking a suspect who broke in a Peterborough womans home and threatened her with a knife.

The New Hampshire Union Leader says the woman was sleep-ing in her Hunt Road home when

the man entered the bedroom short-ly before 2 a.m. Sunday, fl ashed a knife and threatened her.

Police say the woman refused to follow the mans orders and he fl ed.

The woman was not injured.

Bus driver accused of soliciting student

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - A

Portsmouth school bus driver has been charged with soliciting a 13-year-old student for sex.

Sixty-year-old Quentin E. McKenney of Rochester, was ar-rested on Nov. 25. The Portsmouth Herald is reporting that the arrest wasnt made public until Monday because of a related police investi-gation.

McKenney drove bus number P3 for the First Student Bus Com-pany.

Thousands and thousands of artifacts have yet to see the light of day.

Barry CliffordExplorer

Its profi t maximizing and thats why they did it.

Peter T. LeesonAuthor

LYNDON, Kan. - A former Missouri city offi cial previously accused of assaulting his wife was charged Monday with capital mur-der in the shootings of her and their two teenage daughters in eastern Kansas.

James Kraig Kahler, 46, also was charged with one count of at-tempted fi rst-degree murder in the shooting of his estranged wifes 89-year-old grandmother and one count of aggravated burglary. Au-thorities suspect he broke into the grandmothers home near Topeka, where the shootings occurred.

During Kahlers fi rst appear-ance in Osage County District Court, Judge Phillip Fromme set bail at $10 million and scheduled another hearing for Dec. 10.

Kahler, who often went by his middle name Kraig, declined to comment as sheriffs deputies es-corted him in handcuffs from jail to the courthouse. He had been sched-uled to appear in court in Columbia, Mo., on Wednesday on a domestic assault charge stemming from an altercation with his wife in March that led to the loss of his job as di-rector of Columbias Water & Light Department.

A divorce trial for Kahler and his 44-year-old wife, Karen, was scheduled to start Dec. 21, but a settlement hearing was planned for Friday. Court records showed that he complained of fi nancial pres-

sures and the couple had been spar-ring over their children.

The Kahlers daughters, Emily, 18, and Lauren, 16, were killed Sat-urday, along with their mother. His wifes grandmother, Dorothy Wight, 89, was wounded. The couples 10-year-old son, Sean, was at Wights house south of Burlingame on Sat-urday but was uninjured.

Wight remained in critical condition at a Topeka hospital, said Ashley Anstaett, spokeswoman for the attorney generals offi ce. She declined to say where the boy was staying.

Dan Pingelton, a Columbia at-torney representing Karen Kahler in the divorce, described her husband as controlling.

From the facts I heard, I think he was a misogynist, Pingelton said.

He said Kahler refused to see his daughters. Emily attended the St. Louis College of Pharmacy and Lauren was an honors student at a Columbia high school.

Pingelton said Kahler set up a visit with his son over the Thanks-giving holiday.

He never was interested in his daughters - only his son, Pingelton said. And I think that is the reason that little boy is alive today.

A single capital murder count covers the three killings; Kansas law allows the death penalty for multiple murders arising from a sin-gle scheme or course of conduct.

But the Kansas attorney gener-als offi ce also fi led three alternative charges of premeditated fi rst-degree murder in what Deputy Attorney General Barry Disney called a fallback position should jurors fail to convict Kahler of the capital charge.

Man charged with capital murder in three Kan. deaths

John HannaASSOCIATED PRESS

From the facts I heard, I think he was a misogynist.

Dan PingeltonAttorney

He never was interested in his daughters - only his son. And I think that is the reason that little boy is alive today.

Dan PingeltonAttorney


SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Til death do us part? The vow would re-ally hold true in California if a Sac-ramento Web designer gets his way.

In a movement that seems ripped from the pages of Comedy Channel writers, John Marcotte wants to put a measure on the ballot next year to ban divorce in California.

The effort is meant to be a sa-tirical statement after California voters outlawed gay marriage in 2008, largely on the argument that a ban is needed to protect the sanctity of traditional marriage. If thats the case, then Marcotte reasons voters should have no problem banning divorce.

Since California has decided to protect traditional marriage, I think it would be hypocritical of us not to sacrifi ce some of our own rights to protect traditional marriage even more, the 38-year-old mar-ried father of two said.

Marcotte said he has collected dozens of signatures, including one from his wife of seven years. The initiatives Facebook fans have swelled to more than 11,000. Volun-teers that include gay activists and members of a local comedy troupe

have signed on to help.Marcotte is looking into

whether he can gather signatures online, as proponents are doing for another proposed 2010 initiative to repeal the gay marriage ban. But the odds are stacked against a campaign funded primarily by the sale of $12 T-shirts featuring bride and groom stick fi gures chained at the wrists.

Marcotte needs 694,354 valid signatures by March 22, a high hur-dle in a state where the typical peti-tion drive costs millions of dollars. Even if his proposed constitutional amendment made next years bal-lot, its not clear how voters would react.

Nationwide, about half of all marriages end in divorce.

Not surprisingly, Marcottes campaign to make divorce in Cali-fornia illegal has divided those in-volved in last years campaign for and against Proposition 8.

As much as everyone would like to see fewer divorces, making it illegal would be impractical, said Ron Prentice, the executive direc-tor of the California Family Coun-cil who led a coalition of religious and conservative groups to qualify Proposition 8.

No other state bans divorce, and only a few countries, includ-

ing the Philippines and Malta, do. The Roman Catholic Church also prohibits divorce but allows an-nulments. The California proposal would amend the state constitution to eliminate the ability of married cou

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