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Bombing at the Boston Marathon

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(Above) Medical workers and volunteers, including UNH alum Brandon Hall (top left), rush to the aid of those injured in an explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday. The blasts left three dead and over 100 injured. (Below) The first explosion took place at 2:50 p.m. About 13 seconds later, the second explosion went off about 550 feet away.

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Peter T. Paul celebrates the official opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony of the Peter. T Paul College of Business and Economics on Friday, April 13.

RIBBON CUTTING Student Senate pushes professors to use Blackboard for classes

By PHOEBE McPHERSON and BRIAN WARD

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Two powerful explosions detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, leaving three dead and over 100 injured. The first explosion occurred at approximately 2:50 p.m., right at the race’s end on Boylston St., while the sec-ond occurred 13 seconds later and half a

block away from the finish line. According to The Boston Globe, at

least 140 people were treated in seven in-stitutions, including multiple people who were in critical condition as of 11 p.m. Monday night. An eight-year-old boy was one of the three killed by the explosions.

Hundreds of thousands of cheering spectators had lined up along the streets to watch this year’s marathon when the bombs went off. According to CBS News,

nearly 27,000 runners were registered to run in the Boston Marathon this year. Of those registered to run, 17,584 finished be-fore the explosion.

UNH senior Johanna Pedersen’s cousin ran the marathon and was crossing the finish line when the explosions went off. Pedersen was in class when she re-ceived a call from her aunt with the news

Obama vows to use the “full weight of justice” in address

By KATIE GARDNERSTaff WriTer

With only 51 percent of UNH undergraduate courses utilizing Blackboard, Student Senate has passed a resolution that would require professors to use it for every class.

The resolution, which was passed on Sunday, was written by the Academic Student Policy Council in hopes of making Blackboard, as well as the posting of the course syllabus, a requirement for every class. If the college deans and academic faculty implement the resolution, it will go into effect in the fall semes-ter.

The council said that it has received a lot of posi-tive feedback from students but is expecting backlash from professors, especially the older ones. The coun-cil said that technically Blackboard is already set up for every class and professors only have to register it.

“It’s really just one quick step,” council member Tim Mitsopoulos said. “As soon as they realize how easy it is they’ll be OK with it.”

The council said that many professors do not like to use Blackboard because they find it hard to use and understand. There are also many professors who use alternative websites to communicate with students and post class information.

The council finds this to be a problem. As stat-ed in the resolution, “the use of unaffiliated course sites by professors is unnecessary, inconvenient, and creates a complicated learning environment for stu-dents.”

Professors will also be required to post the course syllabus on Blackboard so that students can have continuous access to it in case they lose their hard copy. Not only will this make it so they can eas-

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CorrectionsIn an April 12 article titled “BSU’s sixth annual fashion show brings runway to UNH,” the Delta Phi Multicultural Sorority was mistakenly identifi ed as the Delta Xi Multicultural Sorority. It was also mistakenly reported that the show ended with a moment of silence in the remembrance of “a young boy shot and for poverty.” The moment of silence was in remembrance of a six-month-old girl who was shot and killed. The Black Student Union is a part of the Diversity Support Coalition. The org’s meetings are on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. in MUB 145, the DSU offi ce. All are welcome to attend.If you believe that we have made an error, or if you have questions about The New Hampshire’s journalistic standards and practices, you may contact Content Editor Adam Babinat by phone at 603-862-4076 or by email at tnh.news@unh.edu.

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• The Gourmet Dinner: A trib-ute, Stillings Hall, 5-8 p.m.

• Relay for Life Benefi t Concert, MUB Granite State Room, 7:30-11 p.m.

• Good Earth, Good Food, Good Future, Young’s Restaurant, 5:30-7:30 p.m.

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• Carnival Night, MUB Granite State Room, 6:30-10 p.m.

The Dominican Republic Clean Water Project has become an opportunity for engineers at UNH to travel to foreign countries and design systems for

clean water.

The dining committee held their end-of-year meeting in order to hear stu-dent feedback and discuss options on how to progress for coming semesters.

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that her cousin had been injured and was in Massachusetts General Hos-pital.

“I left class and drove down to Boston, which was a bit of a night-mare,” she said.

Pedersen said that when she walked into Mass General Hospital she immediately saw multiple peo-ple who were missing limbs. She overcame her shock and grabbed a nurse, asking if she could donate blood.

“I figured that if this were to happen to me I would want people to help me in that aspect,” Pedersen said. “I’m an able-bodied person, so there was no reason for me not to.”

As of 10 p.m. on Monday night, Pedersen said that her cousin was still in critical condition.

UNH freshman Brooke Mc-Mullen ran in this year’s marathon. However, she was unable to com-plete the race after straining a quad-ricep muscle around mile nine of the race. Her teammate, Craig Welton, then carried her for a mile, at which point her family met the pair in or-der to transport McMullen to the hospital.

“I’m just thankful,” she said. “The exact timing (of when I would have crossed the finish line) was when the explosions when off.”

Her family stopped at a rest-room to reevaluate her condition and whether or not to continue to the finish line. She quickly found out this was not an option after unsuc-cessfully trying to walk.

“I’m really worried about my team,” she said.

McMullen was running the race in order to raise money for Best Buddies, a non-profit organization that works with individuals with intellectual and developmental dis-abilities. At the time of interview, she had not heard from her 10-15 other teammates. She watched the explosion on live news from the hospital.

“I was just so shaken up, so dis-gusted,” McMullen said.

Stephanie Bramlett is the di-rector of the CONNECT program, an organization aimed at promoting multiculturalism and diversity on campus. Bramlett ran in the Boston Marathon and crossed the finished line at 2:04, 46 minutes before the bombs went off.

“I had just reunited with my family when my mother-in-law heard a boom but didn’t think any-thing of it,” she said.

It was through Twitter that she found out about the explosions.

“On our way to the car we started getting tweets about the ex-plosion and then heard the sirens,” Bramlett said. “We got out of the

city as fast as possible.” Josh Crary is a UNH alumnus

and legally blind. He was running the race for his second time in sup-port of the Dana-Faber Cancer Insti-tute. Crary was at the 30-kilometer marker when the bombs went off at the finish line.

“My guide runner and I, Cait-lyn, stopped dead in our tracks around mile 20,” Crary said. “A wonderful family brought us into their home.”

His sister had been waiting for him at the finish line.

“My sister was at the finish line and called me as soon as the explo-sions went down,” Crary said. “She said there were two explosions, si-rens and people running away.”

Curry College freshman John Imparato was near the explosion, by the river way.

“First thing, I’m okay,” he said. “(I) really wanted to know what was going on.”

Imparato reported seeing mass-es of people crying immediately fol-lowing the explosions, along with glass shattering.

“There was a lot of police go-ing in (to the scene) while we were being told to go out,” he said. “Ev-eryone was being evacuated.”

Devan Schroeder attends a high school in Boston and said that he was in the school common area when the he first heard the news.

“A bunch of people were just freaked out, others took it as normal. They were sad but they acted like it was normal,” Schroeder said.

Eric Mason is a resident of Durham who works for Aspen Tech, a software company based out of Burlington, Mass., just outside of Boston. Mason was at work when

he heard the news. “Really just shock, just seemed

like an odd place to make a state-ment, but for obvious reasons you’ve got a captive audience,” he said.

Mason rides the Amtrak train to and from Boston as part of his commute. Mason said that while he didn’t get to see the reaction of the Boston public, the bombings had a big impact on his co-workers.

“Generally speaking people were shocked, horrified, went down to the gym to look at it on the TV. There was just general disbelief,“ Mason said.

At 6:10 p.m. on Monday, Presi-dent Barack Obama gave a state-ment on the bombings from the White House. He called for the American people to band together behind Boston in prayer and hon-ored the Boston police officers, firefighters and National Guard who “responded heroically.”

“We salute all those who assist-ed so quickly and professionally,” he said.

According to the NBC Sports Network, there were reports of marathon runners who crossed the finish line and ran directly to Mass General Hospital to donate blood for victims.

Obama reminded the American people not to jump to conclusions before all of the facts have been gathered. Currently they are in an investigation stage.

“We will find out who did this,” he said. “They will feel the full weight of justice.”

Staff writer Katie Gardner con-tributed to the reporting of this story.

ily look up the class schedule, but most professors also list their con-tact information at the top of their syllabi. This will make it convenient for when students need to get in touch with their professors or teach-ing assistants.

Beyond the posting of the syl-labus, professors will not have to use Blackboard for anything else if they don’t want to. Students will still be able to access all of its fea-tures, though, such as the discussion boards and a list of other classmates’ emails. The council is hoping that having to use Blackboard will en-courage professors to use all of its features, such as Tegrity and facili-tated testing.

The council said that it hopes professors will realize how simple this will be for them to do.

“The aim is to educate them about how easy it is,” council mem-ber Kevin McAleese said.

Another reason the council be-lieves UNH professors should be using Blackboard more is that stu-dents are already paying for it. As stated in the resolution, “Blackboard is a service provided to UNH stu-dents through the cost of the Student Technology Fee, and therefore it is a resource that should be utilized to its full extent.”

Ellie Richardson, the chair of the council, said she does not un-derstand why UNH would not use something that students have to pay for.

“We’re already paying for it, so why not use it to its full potential?” she said.

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By THEO BROWN CONTRIBUTING WRITER

It was 1982 when Martin Shore graduated from UNH, and after he did – with nothing more than a busi-ness administration degree, a minor in communications and the clothes he could fi t in his car – Shore left the East Coast behind and headed out to California. Since then, he has toured the world with the likes of Bo Diddley and Mick Taylor, produced numerous feature fi lms and movie soundtracks “Hood of Horror,” “Tell Tale,” founded his own multi-media company (Social Capital Entertainment), become incredibly successful in real estate, worked on the Xbox Kinect tech-nology, and even been nominated for a Grammy.

However, Shore came back to his old stomping grounds in Dur-ham last week to talk to students and offer them professional insight into our increasingly competitive world.

Shore talked with The New Hampshire about the glory days

when he was still a student at UNH. “I really enjoyed the fact that

people at UNH liked to have a good time,” he said. “I can say that the social gathering were always mem-orable.”

Shore then spoke about the struggles he faced out of college, which brought one quick reply: “money.” He even let The New Hampshire in on the spark that set fl ame to his love for music: he was in fi rst grade and saw a third grader walking around with drumsticks in his back pocket.

But what Shore was most ex-cited about was his new project, “The Memphians,” a charity-based documentary tribute to music and musicians alike, both old and young. The fi lm has been more than two years in the making. It chronicles a number of recorded jam sessions between prominent and rising musicians, all of which are done old school: live, in one take, without auto-tune or any other digital enhancer.

According to Shore, “The Memphians” is “a chance for me to

take you, the viewer, on a musical journey to your roots. It discovers your roots; where your music came from.” The fi lm emphasizes the im-portance of collaboration as well as the history and signifi cance behind Memphis’ role in modern music.

“The Mississippi Delta and Memphis area are responsible for many genres,” Shore said. “The birth of rock and roll, blues, funk, gospel, hip-hop – it’s all from this one tiny area. The world’s music, as we know it today, the popular mu-sic, was infl uenced and inspired by the foundation that was built in this one tiny little place.”

On Thursday, April 11, Shore gave a talk in the new Paul College titled “The Journey to Success,” of-fering advice and stories to a group of students. He started by telling

them, “Everything is possible when you follow your passion, because life – in the end – is short, and you want to be where you’re enjoying yourself as much as possible.”

He stressed three other impor-tant points: the creation of a net-work (the more people you know the better), the attainment of men-tors along with pupils for you to mentor, and the ability to commu-nicate, collaborate and cooperate effectively.

All three points can be eas-ily applied to “The Memphians.” Shore needed a diverse and expan-sive network in order to recruit as many renowned musicians as he did, he said. As a musician him-self, they all served as his mentors, and he as theirs because he was the leader of the project. Lastly, with-

out communication, collaboration and cooperation, any project would have great diffi culty achieving its goal, especially when that project involves artistic talent and team-work. Shore abides by the code he preaches, and that code appears to be working, for he is nothing short of successful.

Before concluding his semi-nar, Shore left students with one last word of advice: “It wont be easy, but it will be fun,” he said – an optimistic approach to the inevi-table hardships that come with our journey through life.

“The Memphians” is sched-uled to release sometime next year, but Shore is still working on other projects, including 3D interactive vending machines and Microsoft’s new SmartGlass.

By BRENNAN MULLINCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Strafford Avenue will be trans-formed for a morning of community fun and charity on Saturday, April 27, as Alpha Phi brings a new event to Durham: Move Your Phi’t; Alpha Phi’s inaugural 5K walk.

The sisters of the UNH chapter of Alpha Phi Sorority are inviting the UNH and Durham community to take part in the 5K walk and aim to provide a fun charity opportunity that brings together the university and local community.

“It’s not a typical event,” said Sarah McVerry, vice president of marketing for Alpha Phi. “It’s com-pletely different from anything we’ve done before.”

McVerry said she hopes the novelty and timing of the event will bring participation from individuals across campus and town.

The event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. at 8 Strafford Ave. In addi-tion to the 5K walk, participants can expect a disc jockey, activity table challenges, refreshments and a raf-fl e. Raffl e prizes range from Boston Red Sox tickets to a night in a hotel in Boston to Durham House of Pizza gift certifi cates. Tickets for the event are available at the MUB Ticket Of-fi ce, or through the MUB online for $5. Tickets will also be available for purchase on the morning of the event. McVerry is hoping for at least 300 participants, she said.

The sisters have been speaking to different sororities, fraternities, teams and groups around campus and town in hopes of more commu-nity involvement.

The sisters at Alpha Phi are par-ticularly excited for the two chari-ties they are donating to. Half of the proceeds will go to Women’s Heart Health through the Alpha Phi Foun-dation.

The remaining half will be do-nated to Camp Meridian through the Cardiac Care Unit at Wentworth Douglas Hospital.

Camp Meridian is a nonprofi t camp for children living with chron-ic heart disease that allows them to “realize their untapped potential,” according to their mission statement.

Upon hearing of this camp, McVerry said she immediately thought it would be a great fi t to do-nate to, based on the cause and the locality.

“I’m in school to be a teacher, so it is so special to be able to donate to children and benefi t our cause,” McVerry said.

Several campers and counselors from Camp Meridian will be present and participating in the walk, which Alpha Phi is looking forward to.

“You don’t always get to see the people, the faces you’re donating to,” McVerry said.

As April 27 quickly approaches, the sisters of Alpha Phi are working on fi nal details to ensure the event’s success.

McVerry noted the group’s hard work and excitement to be imple-menting a new event this year, in ad-dition to creating an opportunity for the community to come together.

“I want to do something really meaningful that’s more than just a walk,” McVerry said enthusiastical-ly. “I’m really hoping it will continue and grow in the coming years.”

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By JIM HADDADINFOSTER’S DAILY DEMOCRAT

GREENLAND — When Portsmouth attorney Stephen Jef-fco thinks back on the evening of April 12, 2012, two words come to his mind: “Terrible waste.”It was shortly before 7 p.m. that night when Jeffco fi rst learned about the situation developing at the home of one of his clients, a 29-year-old named Cullen Mutrie.

At the time, Jeffco was defend-ing Mutrie against charges alleging police found a trove of steroids in his possession. Greenland offi cers said they discovered the drugs in-side Mutrie’s coffee table about two years earlier while they were search-ing for guns in his house. On April 12, 2012, one of Mutrie’s family members called Jeffco to convey that Mutrie was in trouble. About 30 minutes earlier, Mutrie had un-loaded a handgun on a team of Drug Task Force offi cers who were com-ing to search his house for narcotics. Four were hit. Mutrie then fl ed to the

basement, where he shot and killed Greenland’s police chief through a basement window.

A year has passed since that night, and few explanations have been offered for what took place inside Cullen Mutrie’s mind before he started fi ring. A former Hampton Falls fi refi ghter, Mutrie forfeited the prospect of continuing to work in public safety as a result of his criminal past. He was also hit hard by the death of his father in 2010, according to an uncle in Massachu-setts. One acquaintance who was interviewed by police in the wake of the shooting speculated that he might have suffered from a mental health condition. Another suggested he might have had bipolar disorder.

Jeffco is, perhaps, one of the only people who can now shed light on Mutrie’s actions that night. Jef-fco reached Mutrie on the phone after the shootings and offered to help police negotiate with him to exit the house. Jeffco refused to dis-close what he talked about with his client, but Jeffco said he is confi dent

he knows “exactly what happened” when Mutrie opened fi re.

And in the year since the shoot-ing, Jeffco has maintained one con-sistent opinion about the events in Greenland: Cullen Mutrie wouldn’t have shot at the six men outside his door if he knew they were police of-fi cers. In its review of the Greenland shootings, the attorney general’s offi ce has enumerated multiple fac-tors that should have tipped Mut-rie off that police were outside his house. To begin with, there was a marked police cruiser parked right outside his front porch. Two uni-formed Greenland police offi cers also knocked on his door for be-tween two and fi ve minutes before the Drug Task Force team moved in.

Task force members also shout-ed a warning that they were police offi cers as they breached the front door and smashed open a window with a battering ram, according to New Hampshire Attorney General Michael Delaney. The DTF mem-bers were also wearing clothing that identifi ed them as police offi cers.

In an interview with Fos-ter’s last week, Jeffco was asked to explain how Mutrie could have been ignorant to the fact the men were law enforcement offi cers. He pointed out that all six were wear-ing face masks that night to protect their identities. He also offered a hypothetical to explain how Mutrie was able to not hear the men shout-ing “police”: Is it possible, he asked, that Mutrie was asleep at the outset of the operation?

“There’s no allegation that he was even selling (drugs),” Jeffco said, pointing out that it was Brit-tany Tibbetts, Mutrie’s friend, who was going to be arrested that night for allegedly dealing 10 pain pills to a confi dential informant earlier in the year.

“You’re talking about a nickel-dime drug case, and realistically, how much time does someone get for that?” he said. “Does it make common sense that you’re going to engage in a shootout with the cops?”

Jeffco said some of his other clients have expressed they were terrifi ed when the Drug Task Force arrived at their homes to execute warrants.

“The thing is that, you know, for years, that’s been the M.O. of the task force,” he said. “And you know, it’s, it’s sad. I mean, it’s really sad. You see someone banging on your door with a mask on, most people get a little upset, especially if they’re not able to either see anything that indicates police or hear anything.”

After the initial volley of gun-fi re at Mutrie’s front door, about 10 minutes passed before Mutrie fi red another two rounds from a base-ment window, striking Greenland Chief Michael Maloney in the head. In the intervening moments, at least one DTF member continued to an-nounce that he was a police offi cer, according to witness statements compiled by New Hampshire State Police.

Wouldn’t it then be improbable that Mutrie would remain unaware that police were outside his home?

Jeffco declined to speculate on why Mutrie opened fi re once again

while he was barricaded in his base-ment. Instead, he offered another hy-pothetical: Is it possible that Mutrie didn’t intend to hit the police chief?

“Do you realize that the shot that killed Maloney, do you have any idea what a fl uke that was?” he asked. “It was just luck, and when I say luck, bad luck — on everyone’s part. I mean, the angle of the shot is next to impossible. It’s probably ba-sically through a casement window in a basement, and a casement win-dow — I forget what the height of it was. Somebody would basically have to hold a gun over their head to shoot there.”

Maloney was standing be-hind his police cruiser when he was struck. The cruiser was parked by the side of the road, aligned di-rectly with the ground-level window through which Mutrie fi red. After Maloney was struck, the offi cers at the scene scrambled to fi nd cover, fearing that Mutrie was fi ring at them not with a handgun, but with a high-powered sniper rifl e. Jeffco said he traveled to the home while an independent review commission was studying the shootings. A state police trooper who was about the same stature as Mutrie was asked to demonstrate how Mutrie would have fi red the gun through the window. Jeffco said the trooper expressed the opinion that the window was so high above the fl oor that trying to aim the gun would have been extremely dif-fi cult. The angle of the shot would have been “happenstance,” Jeffco said.

Still, why shoot out the window at all after you’ve been warned that a team of police offi cers is coming to detain you?

“Who knows?” Jeffco respond-ed.

He pointed out that Mutrie had sustained an apparent gunshot wound to the arm during the deadly encounter. Jeffco said anyone who was not inside the home that eve-ning could never fully understand what transpired.

And he maintains the tragedy that unfolded in Greenland should never have occurred.

A year later, the Greenland investigation continues

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By ANDREA BULFINCHFOSTER’S DAILY DEMOCRAT

Members of Beat 4 will go on to a local recording studio after earning the most votes during the Teens Rock Rochester Battle of the Bands held at the Rochester Opera House Sunday afternoon.

They’ll go on to record music at Rocking Horse Studio and per-form a show at the Dover Brick House.

Inspired by the sounds of Guns N’ Roses, Jimi Hendrix, Slash, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Avenged Sevenfold, the young rockers were fi lled with excitement Sunday after playing before a crowd of more than 100.

They landed on the classic rock genre after playing Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Down on The Corner” together, according to lead guitarist Andrew Dziuba, 13, of Nottingham.

He said it was his mother who initially asked if he wanted to start a band and he asked some friends to join.

The rest is history for Beat 4, which is composed of three other band members: Max Breault, 13, of Nottingham who plays rhythm gui-tar and vocals; drummer Addison Craven, 11, of Strafford; and bass guitarist and vocalist Ben Breault, 13, of Nottingham, who is Max’s brother.

Playing for the crowd at the Opera House was nothing new to the boys, who said they weren’t ner-vous to take the stage at all.

“We’ve done it too many times,” Andrew said of the number of gigs Beat 4 has played together for an audience.

“It was pretty fun,” Addison said of being on stage at the Opera House.

Asked what would happen if they won the competition, which featured four other local bands, they all smiled and said that in addition to having time in the recording stu-dio they would be thrilled.

“We’re going to be very hap-py,” Max said.

“We’re very excited and very grateful for the people who voted for us,” Andrew added.

Music from Mumford and Sons, the Lumineers and Gotye was just some of the sound emanat-ing from the building. Songs from Metallica, Aerosmith and the Foo Fighters erupted from the stage from some of the bands at the start of the show.

Jam Patrol, Then There’s Us, Poo Poo Platters and Delightful Abode were also contenders in the show.

Playing one of their original songs, Jam Patrol, who said their genre is classic rock, said they’ve been together since last January.

“We’ve really just progressed from there,” said Nico Karatzas, 12, of Madbury. He’s a vocalist and lead guitarist for the band.

Though the band admitted they were nervous to go on stage at the competition, Nico said they just keep in mind that it’s all a lot of fun.

“It was a good experience. We all love being on stage,” he said.

And the response to the show was positive, too.

“They should defi nitely do it again,” usher Joyce White said of the event.

Organized by volunteer Linette Miles, the battle of the bands was also sponsored by Eastern Propane and Oil and Foster’s Daily Demo-crat.

Miles does theater at the Opera House, and when she learned the organization wanted to host a band show there she jumped to the chal-lenge of putting one together since her son is also in a band.

She said she contacted local schools, music departments and music stores in the area and gath-ered fi ve great local bands to battle against one another.

“It was actually a little harder than I thought it would be,” she said of the task.

But the effort paid off in great performances and experience for the youth involved.

Emma Gelinas, 15, of Farm-ington, vocalist for Then There’s Us, a folk rock band, said she’s been singing for about eight years and fi nds the practice endearing.

“It’s always been a passion for me,” she said.

Some of her inspirations in-clude Adele, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Wild Child and Oval O’s.

She said she’s performed well over 100 times as a singer and does not get nervous.

“It’s just really enjoyable and it’s good energy,” she said.

Beat 4 wins Ba� le of the Bands, recounts experience

Playing for the crowd at the Opera House was nothing new to the boys, who said they weren’t nervous to take the stage at all.

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By AUSTIN SORETTE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

An Arizona native and law-yer by training, Clay Mitchell, 44, launched Revolution Energy in 2008, aspiring to change how large-scale alternative energy products are managed.

As a result, Revolution offers innovative fi nancial packages that help reduce the up-front investment costs of alternative energy systems. The fi nancing model, at least on its face, gave its competitors an infec-tious case of “why didn’t I think of that?”

Instead of being hassled with having to shell out 100 percent of the cost for a state-of-the-art solar array up front, now businesses and other entities can “go green” and only have to worry about paying the monthly bill. The whole arrange-ment – called a power-purchase agreement – makes what was once a Holy Grail status of luxury, for only the most economically blessed clients, accessible to anyone.

“It’s funny, we get this ques-tion all the time when we talk to people about what we do,” Mitchell said. “They say, ‘Why isn’t every-one doing this?’ And our only real answer is, ‘We don’t know!’ It’s truly baffl ing.”

In late 2009, Revolution di-rected its expertise to help fi nance

and install one of the state’s largest solar array systems at Exeter High School. The system also hosts one of the fi rst micro-turbine instal-lations in the state, which uses a Capstone unit (a brand of turbine). Since then, Revolution has tackled a number of similar projects in both New Hampshire and Massachu-setts. Also in 2009, Revolution was awarded a stipend through Green Launching Pad, a grant consortium that includes UNH, the state of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire Climate Change Action Plan.

AS: What do you like most about your job?

CM: I get to work with Mike Behrmann. That and I am optimally challenged. I’m not bored. Every day I’m confronted with new chal-lenges, and for the most part there is some kind of reward. It’s challeng-ing mentally; fi nishing a project in our fi eld is only temporary. Every-thing is in the past. We always have to innovate; we always have to cre-ate something new.

AS: Where did you go to col-lege? Does your college education help with your current job? What skills from college most prepared you for the work you do now?

CM: I did my undergrad years at the University of Arizona. Then I did law school at Vermont Law

and ended my college career with a Ph.D. at UNH. I apply the infor-mation every minute of every day. Although Arizona was pretty much archeology for me, I apply the so-cial skills that I learned there every day. Arizona has a lot of suburban complexes and neighborhoods, so you really get a feel for effi cient communication. My research skills were developed at law school and in writing. Being able to write con-cisely and clearly is the most impor-tant thing now. You don’t see a lot of that these days.

AS: What do you look for in an employee in this fi eld?

CM: Somebody who is self-motivated, willing to be innovative and has no preconceptions about how things are supposed to be. Everyone that we have hired has interned or worked with us on a project. They’ve created their own jobs. We didn’t know we needed these people until they came along. It is both consistent and persistent; things change so fast that nobody has a model. Otherwise, you’re stagnant.

AS: What made you inte-grate sustainability into your business/go into a green industry?

CM: It’s virtually impossible to do what I do and not be into sus-tainability. It’s one of the best parts

about what we do. The sustainable portion is just there; it’s not some-thing you have to focus on. It’s sim-ply the core of what we have to do. Again, I’ve seen this kind of growth in Arizona; its progress is unparal-leled to any other communities be-cause they are always developing. Once you see nature kind of con-sumed in the way we utilize energy, it awakens something in you.

AS: What are you most

proud of in your business as re-lates to sustainability?

CM: I like going to see the ar-rays and systems we’ve installed. It’s fun knowing that we’re push-ing power into the grid that’s clean. That and the fact that my son wants to do what I want to do.

Austin Sorette is a junior Eng-

lish major at UNH and a writer for the Green Alliance.

Clay Mitchell helps with a solar panel construction. His company, Revolution Energy is dedicated to reducing the costs of investing in alternative energy sources.

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By CATIE HALLSTAFF WRITER

At the end-of-the-year Dining Committee meeting, dining area and retail managers on campus sought feedback from students on Wildcatessen hours, coffee options on campus and seating availability.

Jon Plodzik, director of din-ing at UNH, guided the meeting on Tuesday, April 9, in the Lamprey Room at Holloway Commons.

Richard LeHoullier, Deborah Scanlon, Brandon Crosby and An-drew Porter, area managers for Still-ings, Holloway, Philbrook and retail areas such as Wildcatessen, also at-tended. The meeting had roughly 15 people, including Student Senate members and other students, doling out ideas and suggestions for im-provements.

Plodzik sat with a notebook open, scribbling down suggestions and topics of concern throughout the hour-long meeting.

The discussion was open and friendly along the polished wood-en table that claimed the center of the room. Laughter fi ltered itself throughout the more serious aspects of discussion.

A serious issue that Porter, re-tail area manager, brought up was Wildcatessen late-night hours and safety for staff. Next fall, Porter said, he hopes to revisit Wildcates-sen hours for tweaking.

“More and more we have shift-ed away from the documentable police problems,” Porter said. “But, we’re still dealing with … really poor behavior towards our staff and poor behavior towards our custom-ers.”

On the weekend of April 6, po-lice were called because one Wild-catessen customer was pushing an-other, Porter said.

Dining area managers are looking for ways to contain the is-sues at Wildcatessen while being fair to other customers.

Porter and Student Senate members complained of post-party crowds being too rowdy.

“One of the struggles is what we have to have in place to handle these folks,” Porter said. “But when they get abusive and when they get loud, it ruins the experience for ev-erybody.”

Aside from safety concerns within retail on campus, there was also feedback about theme nights, such as Harry Potter Night and Ital-

ian Night at Holloway Commons. Student Senate members spoke

highly of theme nights. One mem-ber suggested bringing Harry Potter Night back again. Plodzik was on board with the idea.

“Yeah, we got a lot of good feedback on Harry Potter,” Plodzik said. “We’ll try to make that an an-nual pilgrimage.”

On the other hand, Samantha Cunic, health and wellness chair-person for Student Senate, said people expected more from Italian Night.

“There was a lot of great things,” Cunic said. “But…people were waiting for spaghetti and big meatballs.”

Seating availability also made its way into the conversation.

Meeting members were in agreement that more seating is needed at Holloway Commons. Cunic also mentioned that Stillings is bombarded with Paul College students now, crowding the dining space.

Plodzik said he knows he needs more seats. He apologized for events, such as open houses, when UNH students are asked to eat at Philbrook or Stillings to avoid crowds at Holloway. He also apolo-gized that Stillings is not always available.

“Taking (Stillings) offl ine on Fridays is not necessarily something we like to do, particularly when we have open houses,” he said. “But I’m also trying to use your money wisely.”

Student Senate kept rolling out ideas about how to utilize space and keep everyone comfortable for open houses, theme nights and rush hour mealtimes. Area managers were re-ceptive to the ideas, but also recog-nized that – at the moment – there is no quick fi x.

“We wish we had another 400 seats here at Holloway,” he said. “Just so we could do these events and do them well.”

Plodzik also wanted feedback on smaller aspects of the dining community, such as coffee choices in the dining halls.

There were ideas fl oating around to change the coffee from a local brand to offering Dunkin’ Do-nuts or Green Mountain Coffee. Talk around the table was in favor of a change, but the issue seemed to settle with local coffee for now. Scanlon, area manager at Holloway Com-

mons, said she tries to steer people toward coffee choices that they will like while she’s in the dining halls.

“What I say to people now is if you like Dunkin’ Donuts, have the breakfast blend,” Scanlon said. “If you like Starbucks, have the so-prano.”

At the end of the meeting, Plodzik’s expression softened with gratitude. He said he was grateful to have feedback; it helps him serve his community.

“It’s about the dialogue,” Plodzik said. “It’s about the rela-tionship for me… I know that over time, your preferences are going to drive my program.”

CATIE HALL/STAFF

Members of the dining hall committee sit and review the year in terms of dining. Members of Student Senate brought up issues concerning co� ee brands and whether to change to Green Mountain Co� ee or Dunkin’ Donuts.

At end-of-year dining meeting, possible changes to seating, co� ee in future

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Peter T. Paul ceremoniously cut the ribbon to “open” the new academic building named in his honor after a sizeable donation Friday. The event took place in front of the building.

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By KEN JOHNSONStaff Writer

Next year, waiting for a wash-er or dryer in UNH campus laun-dry rooms will be an activity of the past.

Shawn Kretchmar, manager of housing systems, said that over the summer UNH will be install-ing LaundryView into all dorms on campus.

LaundryView is a system of-fered through Mat-Grey, which has been licensed by Blackboard and operates the point of sale read-ers at the laundry machines.

LaundryView allows students to check using their computers or smartphones which washers and dryers are currently open, how long they have been open for, and when those that are in use will be finished.

“Students can find out if a ma-chine is available without making the trip,” Kretchmar said.

Students can also have a text message sent to them when their load of laundry is done in the washer or dryer.

The problem with students being able to get a washer or dryer

isn’t a lack of washers and dryers on campus. Kretchmar said that UNH tries to have one washer and dryer for every 20 students in a building.

Sometimes that doesn’t work out due to space, drainage or other problems.

Kretchmar said there are no dorms that have more than 40 stu-dents per washer and dryer. The problem is that students tend to all do laundry at the same time.

The need for such a system came from resident hall council meetings. Every year the housing systems department goes to hall council meetings.

“They overwhelmingly want-ed LaundryView,” Kretchmar said.

The housing systems depart-ment has already completed phase one, which was signing the con-tract and getting the equipment.

Their plan is to install the sys-tem campus-wide over the summer break, to be ready for students in the fall.

The resident hall councils al-low students to communicate what they need on campus.

“We listen to students,” Kretchmar said.

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Established three years ago by UNH students, the Dominican Re-public Clean Water Project allows students from engineering majors to travel to countries with poor sanita-tion systems design and build safer, cleaner water systems.

The project began as a senior capstone idea that was developed by a group of three students in 2011 who were researching the water system in a specifi c school in the Dominican Republic and later pro-duced reports on their fi ndings and proposed a preliminary design for improvement.

In the successive year, another group of senior students success-fully installed a drinking water system through tap as a pilot study that ensured safe and clean drinking water to the school children, prior to which the children’s only source of clean water was through small packets. The school lacked the clean water systems in bathrooms and classrooms that the students in the United States enjoy.

“It is such a basic necessity that these people should have, but they don’t,” Lucie Worthen, one of fi ve project managers, said.

This year’s group completed the third phase of the project, which developed an underground piping system for the Escuela Juan Pablo Duarte Elementary School in Cu-mayasa, Dominican Republic.

Led by advisor James Malley, this year’s team was a fi ve-person group of civil and environmental engineering senior students: proj-ect managers Worthen, Jihyon Im, Matthew Pearsall, Stephen Harrison and Bodhi Piedmont-Fleischmann.

According to Malley, their involvement in the project came from former participant Miguel Mi-randa’s connection to Cumayasa, La Romana. Miranda’s connection to the school eased the relationship between the UNH group and the lo-cal village and made their transition into the site easier.

Since the project spanned eight days, the students worked 10 to 12 hours per day on the developments.

Although the earlier phase of this year’s project, in 2012, seems to be similar to the improvements made by this year’s project, the main difference lies in the way that clean water was made accessible to the school. More emphasis was given to making sure the systems established there were “compatible with the environment and simple to ensure the least amount of reliance on electricity,” Pearsall said.

Cumayasa, a developing vil-lage, has variable electricity, and water supplies are heavily depen-dent on the city’s supplies.

“We had the aesthetics in mind – it’s a functional school, so we did

not want to do anything to disrupt what was already there,” Pearsall said.

The group spent the fi rst se-mester fundraising for the trip and gathered sponsor support while also developing the preliminary designs.

“We needed to consider many different factors when we went to the site, and we did face some interesting challenges that made sometimes made it diffi cult,” Im said. “When we began the project and started the digging process, we discovered some electrical systems and pipes that we did not antici-pate.”

However, the team broke through and dealt with these chal-lenges, incorporating what they learned in their classes about on-site remodeling and their advisor’s suggestions.

“It defi nitely taught us how to deal with things differently and how to navigate around the challenges to come up with a resolution,” Im said.

“Getting to be involved in both phases of project – designing in the classroom and then implement-ing our designs at the site – was so much different than just doing the fi rst step in a classroom setting,” Pearsall said.

The third phase, in 2013, was a continuation as well as a modifi ca-tion of the previous year’s develop-ments in clean water accessibility. The new infrastructure built in this specifi c school included sinks in the offi ce and kitchen, allowing for fl exibility in water use for the staff and students. Another development was made to the bathroom facilities by building a “chlorine disinfection system that would work to prevent the spread of pathogens,” Im said.

Leaving the country, the group had the satisfaction of knowing they contributed to the town’s accessibil-ity to clean water and lessened the prevalence of water-borne illnesses in the area for both staff and stu-dents. The group said that the ex-perience was humbling despite the stress of completing the project in eight days.

“It was an educational, social and cultural experience,” Im said.

“I hope more advisors in the other engineering fi elds will take on projects like this, as Dr. Malley is planning to continue with his in-volvement so that other rising engi-neers will get the similar opportuni-ties as we did,” Worthen said.

According to the sources from the site, Malley commented that the “improvements made by UNH students projects have reduced the incidence of cholera and dengue fever in this community relative to its neighboring communities.”

“It was a humbling experi-ence that made me realize many of the advantages we have here,” Worthen said.

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UNH students Jihyon Im and Matt Pearsall pose with local school children. The team worked 10-12 hours a day in order to make clean water available for school children.

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The book “Letters to Jackie:

Condolences from a Grieving Na-tion,” written by Ellen Fitzpatrick, Ph.D., a carpenter professor of history at UNH, is undergoing a movie adaptation by the TLC net-work.

The movie will focus on a se-lection of the 800,000 condolence letters Mrs. Kennedy received in the seven weeks following her husband’s assassination.

The letters will be dictated by popular celebrities including Zooey Deschanel, Kirsten Dunst, Anne Hathaway, Mark Ruffalo, Betty White and Michelle Wil-liams, according to the Huffi ngton Post.

The movie is expected to air this fall, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of John Fitzgerald Kennedy’s assassination on Nov. 22, 1963.

“The nation has changed pro-foundly [since Kennedy’s death],”

Fitzpatrick said in an email. “And yet for many Americans a fi lament of recollection easily brings back the incandescence of the early 1960s, when the nation appeared in some ways as bright and as full of promise as its handsome presi-dent.”

While only a “fi lament” may bring those old enough to remem-ber back to that Dallas afternoon, Fitzpatrick presents a reel of 250 letters, still only a fraction of the 15,000 she culled through while researching her book.

“The letters provided … a snapshot of the country … at a mo-ment of profound grief, as well as

uncertainty about the future of the country,” Fitzpatrick explained of the research for her book.

The book balances in a dual narrative between Fitzpatrick and the letters’ authors (including Af-rican Americans, young children, grieving housewives, prisoners and

others), a process that she described as “prov(ing) much more challeng-ing…than I would have ever imag-ined.”

Though Fitzpatrick was unable to elaborate on the fi lm adaption of her novel for legal reasons, her book shows immense promise for the movie.

The patchwork of different let-

ters photocopied into the pages is like a quilt of mourning – one can both hear and see 1960s America crying in chorus. Considering the letters were written by everyday Americans, they are strikingly po-etic.

It’s easy to wonder while read-ing them whether this poetry is driven by the actual words of the authors, or the event that moved them to words – perhaps a confl u-ence of the two.

“Every letter selected for the book evoked a strong response in me,” Fitzpatrick said of her selec-tion process. “One favorite is a let-ter from an inmate named Stephen Hanrahan. Mr. Hanrahan, known as inmate 85255 at the Atlanta Georgia Federal Penitentiary, wrote a pow-erful letter that to only paraphrase would be to neuter its melancholic brilliance.”

Having no knowledge – and no way of knowing – what the movie adaptation will do with the material from “Letters to Jackie,” one can only hope and speculate that what makes the book work so well is not lost in the movie.

Much of the book’s power comes from being able to see some of the tangible letters themselves.

The different handwriting and

paper imbue authenticity to the condolences that is lost in type-written words; scrawled-on letters seem to still quake with the anxi-ety of the hand that wrote them, and others still cradle the vestige of a tear smudge that, for reasons unknown, one feels compelled to touch.

Writing of her own personal connection to JFK, Fitzpatrick told a story of Kennedy coming to her hometown of Amherst when she was 11 years old to dedicate the Robert Frost Library and again af-ter Frost’s death in January, 1963, one month before he was assassi-nated.

“As every local schoolchild knew, Frost had once lived in Am-herst, and it was easy to imagine that he had our small town in mind when he wrote about the New England landscape,” Fitzpatrick wrote.

She continued to cite a spe-cifi c poem of Frosts, “The Gift Outright,” that he read at JFK’s inauguration.

“The land was ours before we were the land’s,” Frost writes, unknowingly foreshadowing the too-soon death of President Ken-nedy, reclaimed by the land in the Arlington hillside.

Kennedy:I wish to extend to you and the children my condolences. Children

increase the cares of life but they do help to mitigate the remembrance of death.

We are told that a good key is necessary to enter paradise. The President, following the guidelines of his church, possessed this key. Heaven, it seems, calls its favorites early.

In the President, I felt that I had known a whole man. It is a rare experience but always an illuminating and ennobling one. It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price.

The lights of the prison have gone out now. In this, the quiet time, I can’t help but feel that my thoughts and the thoughts of my coun-trymen will ever reach out to that light on an Arlington hillside for sustenance.

How far that little light throws his beam. Sincerely Stephen J. Hanrahan 85255

The patchwork of di� erent letters pho-tocopied into the pages is like a quilt of mourning – one can both hear and see 1960s America crying in chorus.

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CONCORD — New Hamp-shire State Police are now using an “eTicket” system that issues traf-fic tickets by computer from the trooper’s cruiser and automatically transmits the data to state agen-cies. The ticket information is sent to the Department of Safety, Divi-sion of Motor Vehicles, where in-formation is then sent electronically to the judicial branch case manage-ment system.

A similar eTicket process, us-ing different software technology, is now being tested by police de-partments in Salem, Pelham and Windham and could be available to 140 local law enforcement agen-cies within the next six months. The eTicket system has been used suc-cessfully by state police for the past year. Officials said it’s the first step toward establishing a central data bank that would also include eTick-

eting by more than 200 local police departments that now issue traffic tickets manually.

All DMV data on contested traffic violations from eTickets is-sued by state police on the scene or from paper tickets issued by local police is now sent electronically to the circuit courts. Electronic trans-mission from DMV eliminates the need for court staff to re-enter data from paper tickets into the court’s case management system.

More than 54,000 tickets for traffic violations are handled in the circuit courts annually.

“Every effort made to stream-line the data collection process, so that information is entered once into a shared system decreases the potential for errors and creates ef-ficiencies that allow our court staff more time to process cases and serve the public,” said Edwin Kelly, administrative judge of the Circuit Court.

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LEBANON— The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is plan-ning to construct a $116.5 million medical research center.

The idea is to bring research from Dartmouth’s medical school closer to the doctors who can use it to treat patients.

The Valley News reports offi-cials expect to break ground by June on the Williamson Translational Re-search Building.

Duane Compton, senior as-sociate dean for research at Dart-mouth’s Geisel School of Medi-cine, says the goal is to use the building for translating discoveries made in research laboratories into things that go to better and safer care for patients.

Lessons learned in the hospital can be fed back to the laboratories.

“It’s actually been demonstrat-ed that physical proximity has a lot

to do with what sort of discoveries get made and how they get made,” Compton said. “If you’re physically separating your basic scientists from your clinical activity, you’re cre-ating a boundary. We’re trying to overcome that boundary by putting a building out there that’s going to have direct access to the clinicians, to the basic science that’s going on, to create that sort of proximity ef-fect, to generate those new discov-eries.”

The center is being named for Peter Williamson of Lyme, a 1958 Dartmouth College graduate and neurologist and epilepsy expert who died from cancer in 2008.

Compton said cancer research will be a focus at the center, as well as neuroscience, inflamma-tion and infectious disease and computational medical sciences.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock’s pa-thology lab also is expanding onto a floor in the new building.

New research center planned at Dartmouth-Hitchcock

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CONCORD — A new plan

for fixing New Hampshire’s frag-mented system for helping children with mental health and substance abuse conditions recommends get-ting families more involved and better integrating the current maze of services.

The New Hampshire Chil-dren’s Behavioral Health Collab-orative was created in 2010 and brought together more than 50 or-ganizations.

The plan it released Monday includes nine core goals, includ-ing getting families and children more involved in the planning and delivery of service and minimizing barriers between the many agencies and institutions that provide those services.

An estimated 1 in 5 children in New Hampshire has an emotional disorder that affects their daily func-tioning, but most who need help aren’t getting it, said Kim Firth, program director at the Endowment for Health, which funded the plan’s development along with the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation. She called the plan a roadmap to creating a comprehensive system that better serves children and their families.

“It calls for an individualized approach that puts families and youth in the driver’s seat. It identi-fies the need for a broader array of services and supports, and it high-lights strategies to ensure we have a prepared and adequate workforce,” said Firth.

While the collaborative be-lieves that the current system is underfunded, Firth said implement-ing the plan won’t necessarily cost more money. Instead, it’s a matter of using limited resources more ef-fectively and efficiently, she said.

“We have a lot of mechanisms

in place to pay for services. ... It’s just that we don’t have a consumer-friendly front door so the needs and strengths of families can be aligned with the services that exist,” she said. “Now, you walk in the juvenile justice door, you get this array of services. You go in the child protec-tive services door, you get this ar-ray of services. What we’re saying is let’s break down those artificial barriers ... and use the existing the resources we have, both financial resources, workforce resources, to individualize care.”

Heidi Matthews of Strafford said she would have welcomed that kind of approach years ago, when she struggled to find help for her son. Now 18, he was diagnosed with bipolar disorder when he was eight and Asperger’s syndrome when he was 16 and was placed in four different out-of-town schools before finding the right fit, she said.

Matthews said she was so des-perate to get her son help that she often enrolled him in programs that didn’t quite address his problems. She also wasted a lot of time chasing down recommendations that didn’t pan out because he didn’t qualify. To help develop the plan released Monday, Matthews also conducted focus groups of family members of children who are served by the ex-isting system of care.

“Probably the most common word I heard throughout this was ‘frustration,’” she said.

Others involved in the proj-ect said they were optimistic that key elements of the plan would be implemented. The state commis-sioners of education and health and human services are on board, and some efforts already are underway. For example, the state recently got a grant to explore creating an entity that would serve as a centralized hub for managing services, costs and care, Firth said.

Kids behavioral health plan calls for structure

NH Brief

HUDSON— The Nashua Telegraph says it will have a new publisher later this month for the first time in nearly 19 years.

Publisher Terrence Williams will not return to the newspaper when it formally transfers own-ership to Ogden Newspapers, a family-owned company with about 40 daily papers in 13 states.

The Telegraph says the own-ership change will formally take effect April 22.

Williams, a Vermont native, arrived in Nashua in 1988. Af-ter reporting and editing stints at Foster’s Daily Democrat and the Lowell Sun, he initially joined The Telegraph as assistant metro editor.

With sale, newspaper publisher to step down

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DENVER — Thousands of people are expected to join an un-offi cial counterculture holiday cel-ebrating marijuana in Colorado and Washington this coming weekend, including out-of staters and even packaged tours. The events and

crowds will test the limits of new laws permitting pot use by adults. More than 50,000 are expected to light up outdoors in Denver’s Civic Center Park on April 20 to celebrate marijuana legalization. Thousands more are headed here for the na-tion’s fi rst open-to-all Cannabis Cup, April 20-21, a domestic ver-sion of an annual marijuana contest and celebration in Amsterdam. Ex-pected guests at the Cannabis Cup, a ticketed event taking place inside the Denver Convention Center, in-clude Snoop Lion, the new reggae- and marijuana-loving persona for the rapper better known as Snoop Dogg.

Marijuana activists from New York to San Francisco consider April 20 a day to celebrate the drug and push for broader legalization. The origins of the number “420” as a code for pot are murky, but the drug’s users have for decades marked the date 4/20 as a day to use pot together.

Marijuana remains illegal un-der federal law, and its sale without a doctor’s recommendation isn’t allowed yet in Colorado or Wash-ington. Neither state allows open and public use of the drug. But au-thorities largely look the other way at public pot-smoking, especially at festivals and concerts, and entre-preneurs are fi nding creative ways to capitalize on new marijuana laws. One of them is Matt Brown, co-owner of Denver’s new “My 420 Tours,” which gives traveling pot users everything but the drug. Brown has sold 160 tour packages to visiting pot smokers for the April 20 weekend. Prices start at $499, not including hotel or air.

The tour sends cannabis tour guides to pick up marijuana tourists at the airport in limousines, escort them to Cannabis Cup and other Denver-area marijuana celebrations and deposit them at a hotel where smoking — tobacco or reefer — is permitted on room patios.

Marijuana tourists on Brown’s tour can add extra days of touring medical marijuana dispensaries and commercial growing operations. A cannabis cooking class is another option. Five-day tours run $649 to $849.

Brown, a medical marijuana patient who is new to the travel business, says his tours will en-able sharing of pot but not selling it. Eighty percent of his clients are coming from outside Colorado — meaning it’s illegal for them to bring marijuana from home. And because commercial pot sales in Colorado don’t start until January, out-of-state visitors can’t yet buy pot at Colorado’s 500-plus dispen-saries.

Despite the legal barriers, Brown said his tours quickly fi lled to capacity and he had to turn away would-be cannabis tourists. He’s hoping to book future pot-themed weekends if the April 20 weekend does well.

“People are fascinated by what’s happening here, and they want to see it up close,” Brown said. “We want to make sure people don’t come here, land at the airport, rent a car and drive around stoned all weekend.”

Legal pot draws tourists to Colo., Wash., for plant’s holiday

Police Log April 11

Christopher Ziegenhagen, 22, 44 Cider Mill Road, Bedford, N.H. 03110, Evergreen Drive, OAS, 8:15 a.m.

April 12 Samuel Rice, 21, 7 Durham

Point Road, Durham, N.H. 03824, Gables, criminal mischief, 2:20 a.m.

Daniel W. Duvall, 21, 338 Lee Hook Road, Durham, N.H. 03824, A Lot, criminal mischief and resisting arrest, 2:22 a.m.

Connor Marc Mcshera, 19, 133 Chopteague Ln. Marston Mills, M.A. 02648, Garrison at Main Street, unlawful transport by minor, 9:26 p.m.

Jacob Christian Palmer, 17, 111 Lornrops Ln. W. Barnstable, M.A. 02668, Garrison at Main Street, unlawful possession, 9:31 p.m.

Brooke C Willis, 19, 1066 Gorham Pond Road, Durham, N.H 03824, Adams Tower, un-lawful intoxication, 11:02 p.m.

Sarah P. Allard, 18, 139 Wil-son’s Crossing Rd., Auburn, N.H. 03032, Garrison Avenue, unlaw-ful intoxication, 8:16 p.m.

Jake Bascomb, 19, 1290 Island Pond Road, Manchester, N.H. 03109, Adams Tower, un-lawful intoxication, 11:34 p.m.

Jarell Mejia, 18, 14 1/2 Groove Street, Dover, N.H 03820, Academic Drive, unlawful trans-portation, 12:38 a.m.

April 13Nicholas P. Strangie, 19, 3

Crestline Circle Danvers, M.A. 01923, Williamson, theft and re-sisting arrest, 1:02 a.m.

Jason P. Aqnew, 20, 2 Crest-wood Lane, Milford, N.H. 03033, Gables Way, Gables C. building, internal possession, 11:30 p.m.

April 14Omer Jbisevic, 20, 23 Dalene

Street, Manchester, N.H. 03103, 5 Madbury Rd., criminal mischief, 12:51 a.m.

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For student body, Merrill and McKernan the right choice

As the academic year at UNH is approaching an end, students have a reason to be

optimistic heading into the following year. The New Hampshire legislature appears to be looking to restore some of the money previously cut from the University System of New Hamp-shire, which will provide some relief to a university system that saw its budget get cut nearly a year ago.

At the same time, there is more that is needed from UNH alum and students alike to help maintain UNH’s dual paths of fiscal responsi-bility and campaigning in Concord.

On Wednesday and Thursday, students have the chance to vote for their next student body president and vice president by registering on the WildcatLink website. After review-ing the candidates and their respec-tive platforms, The New Hampshire is formally endorsing sophomores Bryan Merrill and Will McKernan for student body president and vice president, respectively.

Among a tight race of candi-dates, all of who are equally qualified in different ways, Merrill, who has spent the last year as the chair of the Student Activity Fee Committee that oversees $1.2 million in funds, and McKernan, who served as the busi-ness manager for the UNH Student Senate, stand out among the pack.

A big reason for that has to do with the connections Merrill and McKernan already have from their work with administrators and state lawmakers.

Over the past year, Merrill and McKernan have invested countless hours not only working on issues here in Durham, but putting forth the legwork in Concord to help restore funding to UNH. At one point in an interview with TNH’s editorial board, Merrill even pointed out an instance where he skipped classes in order to speak in front of the New Hampshire legislature.

It is that sort of dedication, as well as those sorts of connections, that the UNH student body could uti-lize as it continues to fight for more funding from the state.

These connections could be beneficial for Student Senate, as Mer-rill and McKernan would be able to lend their contacts to help expand the group’s voice.

An expansion of Student Senate’s outreach is, in fact, what Merrill and McKernan hope to work on as they look to bridge the gap between the students and Student Senate. In the interview with this editorial board, McKernan acknowl-edged that a lot of senators do not fully do their job as far as reaching out to their constituents. Both Merrill and McKernan find this frustrating and hope to push for more initiative from senators to reach out to the student body.

That goes for Merrill and McKernan themselves, who intend to reach out to a variety of groups on campus in order to gauge their opinions and needs on campus.

One way that the pair has

already done this is with their “UNH Please Complain Campaign,” where students can submit issues that they have with the university so that the duo can address them if elected.

What hits most UNH students closest to home, however, would be the issue of affordability of UNH. According to Merrill and McKernan, they have invested over 1,000 hours working on student finances and finding ways to reduce the financial burden on students.

“Our biggest thing is making sure, both fee-wise and financial-wise, students can afford to go to UNH and they can get their value out of UNH,” Merrill said in an ar-ticle in the April 2 issue of The New Hampshire.

Out of all of the candidates run-ning in this year’s election, it would seem that Merrill and McKernan have the most experience to make some headway in relieving students financially.

This is critical in a time when the cost of attending college is making headlines nationwide, as the amount of debt students are graduat-ing with continues to increase.

With work already being done in Concord to help address New Hampshire’s student debt problem, the very worst in the country as 2011 graduates left school with an average of $32,440 in loan debt, Merrill and McKernan represent the best option for the students here at UNH to be heard not only by administrators, but by state officials as well.

The New HampshireTuesday, April 16, 201316 OPINION

From the editor’s desk: A hello from the new executive editorWhen I arrived at UNH in

the fall of 2010, I was an undeclared liberal arts

student who did not know which direction she was headed in. A year later, I had figured out that I would let my passion for writing guide me, as I declared a major in Eng-lish/Journalism and found myself attending writer’s meetings for The New Hampshire.

Now, less than two years later, it is difficult to remember a time when journalism and TNH were not an integral part of my life, which is why I am so happy and proud to take on an even bigger role in this organization as the executive editor for the upcoming year.

I have always been proud to stand behind the work that TNH has produced, and I am looking forward to maintaining the high

level of journalism for which TNH has become known and respected. Over this next year I hope to not only maintain this level of journal-istic excellence, but also to help it grow. As the journalism industry is constantly changing, The New Hampshire should be as well. Without losing any of the quality of traditional print journalism, we will work to improve in the field of digital journalism over the next year. From social media to mul-timedia reporting to an improved tnhonline.com, these are all aspects of TNH that you can expect devel-opment from in the coming year.

This issue is the first produced by next year’s staff, which I am proud to entrust with producing the last seven issues of the year while I finish my semester abroad in France as part of my International Affairs dual major. While I regret

that I cannot be working alongside the rest of the staff at the moment, I am communicating as often as possible from Dijon, France to Durham, N.H. In the meantime, Adam Babinat, the new content editor, and Julie Fortin, our manag-ing editor, will lead The New Hampshire for the remainder of the semester until my return.

Providing tUNH with the best quality journalism while improv-ing the methods through which it is shared is what the staff of The New Hampshire and myself will be dedicated to during the upcoming year. In the meantime, enjoy the remainder of your spring semes-ter, UNH, while I look forward to returning to Durham and The New Hampshire in the fall.

Susan Doucet

Executive Editor

Major corporations call on Congress to enact

climate policy

In a society where you can’t have your cake and eat it too, America’s partisan black and

white politics assumes that we must focus on either the economy or the environment, but not both. It’s time to dispel this belief. Tack-ling climate change is America’s greatest economic opportunity of the 21st century. But who is going to take my word for it? I’m just some crunchy-granola college student with limited knowledge of politics and economics. Would major corporations, including Nike, Starbucks, The North Face and Ben & Jerry’s convince you? On the heels of President Barack Obama’s unveiling of his $3.77 trillion budget proposal, 33 compa-nies joined together last Wednes-day to sign the Climate Declara-tion. The declaration, initiated by Businesses for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy, is a call to action directed at policymakers to encourage them to address the growing risk of climate change. Its goal is to make the business case for federal climate policy.

According to the declara-tion, these businesses believe that they must respond to climate change because it is, at once, an opportunity for America to lead by example, while also being a moral imperative. Collectively, the corporate signatories create jobs for approximately 475,000 people

across the U.S. while generat-ing nearly $450 billion in annual global revenue. It’s hard to argue with those numbers – these busi-nesses play a significant role in today’s economy.

The signatories are calling on Congress to address climate change by promoting clean energy, boosting efficiency and limiting carbon emissions. When asked why Ben & Jerry’s is involved with this effort, activism man-ager Chris Miller commented by saying, “If it’s melted, it’s ruined. That’s true for ice cream and the planet.” Ben & Jerry’s realizes the implications of climate change for their business and their customers leading them to invest in energy-efficient technology. They even send dairy waste from their Ver-mont ice cream plants back to the supply farms where it is put into methane digesters to generate en-ergy to power the farm. That is just one of the hundreds of ways that these businesses are already reduc-ing their environmental impact.

But it’s not just businesses that are addressing climate change. In the past 12 months, about one in three Americans have rewarded companies that are taking steps to reduce global warming by buying their products. Without consum-ers exercising their buying power, these businesses simply would not survive. Local UNH-based non-profit Climatecounts.org rates the world’s largest companies on their commitment to corporate climate responsibility. They said, “When consumers take action and raise their voices on issues that matter to them, businesses pay attention.” As more companies move toward addressing climate change, perhaps Congress will begin taking action as well.

sSusan Torman is a junior at UNH

majoring in environmental conservation tudies and ecogastronomy. She is also a communications intern at Climatecounts.org. For more information on the Climate Declaration, visit: www.climatedeclaration.us.

The Scoop On Sustainability

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To the student bodyIs it election week already?

Just this time last year I was run-ning around making new friends and trying to convince people why I should be the next student body president. This time around, I want to express to you who I believe is best qualified to be your next student body president and vice president.

First, let me start off by saying that without the current student body vice president, Alexandra Eicher, I wouldn’t have gotten half as far as I did in Student Senate. I had no Senate experience coming in as SBP, and Alex has been in Senate her whole college career. She has held multiple leadership positions in Senate before she became SBVP. Point being, Alex had multiple years of experience in Senate and understood how it worked.

This is the reason why I am strongly endorsing Bryan Merrill and William McKernan for next year’s SBP and SBVP. They both have been in Senate their entire time here at UNH, and each of them have held respected leader-ship positions in Senate. Also, they

are extremely qualified student leaders outside of Senate and are well respected by their constituents.

Through Wildcat Link, on this Wednesday and Thursday YOU will be able to vote for whom you believe is best qualified for SBP and SBVP. Do yourself a favor and vote for the best candidate and have a great rest of the year!

Dylan PalmerStudent Body President

To the student bodyAs the current elected student

representative on the University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees, I endorse Bryan Mer-rill and William McKernan for student body president and student body vice president. I have had the pleasure of working with these two student leaders for the past two years and feel that their combined experience and “can do” work at-titude makes them ideal candidates for SBP and SBVP.

Both have been instrumental in key initiatives that students, as well as administrators, have

undertaken to make the lives of all students here on campus better. Additionally, they above all else possess the knowledge and readily accessible tools in order to ac-complish what is truly needed for all undergraduate students here at UNH: an improved quality of life, student services and academics – all at an affordable price. When considering the rapidly changing environment of higher education, in congruence with tighter state budgets, it is of vital importance that leaders at all levels truly un-derstand the needs of students and how to prioritize these needs, given the increasingly strained financial situations that these institutions of higher education face.

With this being said, I unequivocally believe that these two individuals will make excep-tional leaders for the undergraduate student body here at UNH and will be receiving my vote for the role of student body president and student body vice president.

Peter DuffieldUndergraduate Representative to the USNH Board of Trustees

As more companies move toward ad-dressing climate change, perhaps Congress will begin taking action as well.

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Columnists can write about a variety of subjects. Poli-

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US-UN sanctions created the North Korea disaster

From the LeftDan Fournier

Thumbs Up Thumbs Down

Thumbs up to the last day of finals being one month away.

Thumbs down to roommates who never leave the room.

Thumbs up to watching a movie for a homework assignment.

Thumbs down to not being able to find the damn movie.

Thumbs up to fro yo, especially with the warm weather coming.

Thumbs down to the Westboro Baptist Church.

Thumbs up to day drinking weather.

Thumbs down to missing the Ballard’s patio every time day drinking weather comes around.

Thumbs up to never having to take an elective again.

Thumbs down to the fire alarm going off at Libby’s late on Saturday night.

Thumbs up to meeting new people.

Thumbs down to running low on cash near the end of the semester.

Thumbs up to landing a summer job.

Thumbs down to having zero motiva-tion. Senioritis is an epidemic at this point in the year.

Thumbs up to motivational speeches.

Thumbs down to end-of-the-semester project deadlines creeping up.

If North Korea really does have nuclear capabilities, and if it uses them in any capacity,

there are two possible outcomes. Firstly, the reactionaries who are in bed with the military-industrial complex could retaliate by carpet bombing and drone striking their entire country in order to secure the United States’ global hegemony. Alternatively, it could violently destabilize the North Korean gov-ernment and collapse its economy through crippling sanctions, remov-ing them as an international threat completely.

It doesn’t matter which path is taken. Innocent lives will be lost, and the average, working-class citizen will be the victim of an international power-play.

The countless economic sanc-tions that the world powers have thrown at North Korea are not dis-suading it; the endless cease-and-desist orders are ineffective. No matter what we do, its ruling elite and the military junta are going to have all their material needs met – they will have all of their luxury and food desires met satisfactorily. What we are doing to them only hurts their working class; the nor-mal citizen is the one that is taking the brunt of our sanctions.

How can we continue to call ourselves the pinnacle of “free-dom” and “democracy” when our entire foreign policy is to cause the direct immiseration of working-class people overseas? How can we say that we defend “human rights” abroad when our tactics strip them of food and water, subject them to drone strikes and pillaging, and occupy their nations with endless waves of troops? If we turn the entire international community against another country simply for ideological differences, how can we not expect them to say and to do things back to us in direct retali-ation?

The slew of threats coming from North Korea is because we have worked consistently, for more than a generation, to undermine their economy and government. They have every right to hate us. Rather than say that we will re-spond to their threats with military

force and crippling economic sanc-tions, we should be removing bar-riers to trade, establishing mutual embassies, engaging in diplomatic talks and removing each and every sanction that we have put on them that hurts their citizens.

The number of bombs that we had, and still maintain, is mind-blowing. Physicist Julius Op-penheimer, the director of the Los Alamos nuclear research facility that developed the first atomic bomb, admitted in 1953 that the U.S. had already stockpiled over twenty thousand varying bombs in case of an open hot war with the Soviet Union, and that it had every intention of continuing to make more. In 1963, after another decade of U.S. bomb-building, the Soviet Union only had 42 inter-continental ballistic missiles. Of course, 42 ICBMs is still a large number, especially when one takes into account that six of them could carry a three-megaton warhead and the other 36 could carry up to six-megatons.

To help understand this con-cept, take note of the fact that the Hiroshima bomb was approximate-ly 15 megatons and the Nagasaki bomb was nearly 21 megatons. The bombs that were used in Japan were much larger than those owned by the Soviets, but they still gave the USSR the power to level a city.

The exact number of nuclear weapons owned by the United States and the Soviet Union at the

height of the Cold War is highly classified, but partial declassifica-tion vis-a-vis the Freedom of Infor-mation Act has put the estimation around 11,000 active nuclear war-heads. The USSR was estimated to have just over 2,000, scattered sporadically across Soviet-allied states.

The discrepancy between U.S. and USSR military power could not have been wider. If the Cold War did turn into a hot war, the So-viets would have been obliterated. Their budding economies, barely starting to enter a quasi-industrial revolution, were completely unable to match us, even though they were pumping a majority of their gross GDP into the creation of national war machines.

Despite the nuclear threats from the Soviets, the Middle East and now North Korea, the U.S. has prevailed. If we could survive de-cades of Soviet-American tension, open animosity, and borderline nuclear war, then we can surely survive threats from North Korea, a single small, angsty, economically-backwards, isolationist nation does not present a threat anywhere near the level that the mainstream media portrays it as.

I am not afraid of North Ko-rea, and you should not be either. Even if they decide to launch their barely-functional missiles at us, the international community is so allied against them that they would be swatted out of the air like so many flies. Their Korean-nationalist version of Marxist-Leninism (or, what we in the West refer to as “Stalinism”), Juche, is simply a push for radical autarky. If we would just stop this vitriolic rhetoric and instead work produc-tively with them like we do with so many other countries, then many of the problems that we face would evaporate.

sDan Fournier is a pre-medical under-

graduate majoring in evolutionary biology. He is both a libertarian socialist and an active member in the peace movement.

I am not afraid of North Korea, and you should not be either.

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The New HampshireTuesday, April 16, 201318 SPORTS

In Brief

UNH claims first at Wildcat InvitationalThe University of New Hampshire men’s track and field squad took

first place at the Wildcat Invitational Saturday, finishing with 256 points.The Wildcats finished ahead of Maine (156 points), Bowdoin (143),

Bentley (77), Colby-Sawyer (39) Fitchburg St. (32) and Babson (29).Isaiah Penn gave New Hampshire its first top finish of the day in the

400-meter dash. Penn broke the tape with a time of 50.16. Kevin Greene fol-lowed suit with a gold medal in the next event, the 800-meter run. Greene finished with a time of 1:52.34.

Tyler Mulcahy leapt his way to first place in the 400-meter hurdles, crossing the line at 55.89. In the 4x400-meter relay, Seth Sheridan, Nicho-las Sullivan, Penn and Joseph Lemay collectively took first with a time of 3:25.22.

Matthew Guarente took the high jump for the third-consecutive week, clearing a height of 1.98 meters. Jason Guarente also cleared a height of 1.98 meters.

Senior Max Hoddwells collected a first-place finish in the long jump, leaping to a distance of 6.90 meters. In the following event, the triple jump, Hoddwells took first with a distance of 14.77 meters.

Christopher Dupuis recorded first place in the hammer throw. His final distance was 51.08 meters.

The women’s track and field team also topped the competition at the invitational, recording 271.50 points.

The Wildcats finished ahead of Maine (156 points), Bowdoin (115.50), Bentley (58), Fitchburg State (55), Babson (37), and Colby-Sawyer (19).

Joya Helander opened up the meet with a first-place finish in the first event, the 100-meter dash. Helander broke the tape with a time of 12.54, just edging out fellow Wildcat Lauren Perrodin, who clocked in at 12.55.

Helander took gold in the next event, the 200-meter dash, for her sec-ond consecutive victory. She crossed the line to a time of 25.28. Elise Beat-tie claimed the 1,500-meter run title, crossing the line at 4:34.45.

Keely Maguire victorious in the 3,000-meter run. She broke the tape at 10:03.45. Laura Rose Donegan claimed victory in the 3,000-meter steeple-chase. She finished the event with a time of 11:18.93.

Perrodin, Helander, Sydney Kay and Natalie Bilynsky combined for a first place finish in the 4x100 relay. The quartet clocked in at 48.69.

Abigail Huntress took gold in the shot put, throwing to a distance of 11.77 meters. Stephanie Walsh won the discus throw. She hit a mark of 39.33 meters.

Andrea Turteltaub claimed first place in the javelin throw after hitting a distance of 36.67 meters.

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and take it to the net.” It looked to be a repeat pe-

riod when Stony Brook scored at the beginning of the second half at 28:35, but the Wildcats worked to fight back and take control. The change in pace was noticeable on the field.

“I think we definitely started to move in the right direction,” Al-brecht said.

At 18:52 Kayleigh Hinkle was able to show Stony Brook that the Wildcats still had something left with a solo, unassisted goal. The team would place three more into Stony Brook’s net, for a total of four

goals in the second half. “We kind of had the mental-

ity of we have nothing to lose and there’s no reason not to play our (butts) off,” said Molly Gaffey, who assisted Puccia in the game ending goal. “It always feels good to do something at the end of the game.”

The women’s lacrosse team last home game is slated for Wednesday, Apr. 17, at 4 p.m. against Boston University at Cowell Stadium. The Terriers will be coming off of a two-game winning streak. The Wildcats know they have mistakes to review and work on, but remain confident.

“New team, new slate,” Gaffey said.

Phoebe McPherson can be reached on Twitter @phoebeemcp

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE

McHoul plays above freshman labelBy ADAM VANIERcontributing writer

As a freshman stepping into the University of New Hampshire women’s lacrosse team, attack Laura McHoul has had no problem contributing right away. With 34 points (16 goals, 18 assists) through 11 games, McHoul has proved to be an integral part of the Wildcat’s of-fense.

Her 12-point week, includ-ing a two goal, seven assist come from behind 13-12 victory over conference foe Binghamton earned McHoul America East Rookie of the Week for the second time this year. Her seven assists are the most for a Wildcat since March 1996.

UNH Head Coach Sarah Al-brecht had high praise for McHoul. “I think she has got some great one-on-one ability to get around defend-ers and put herself in the correct po-sition as a crease player,” Albrecht said. “She has a lot of potential as a player.”

McHoul first showed interest in lacrosse in the fourth grade. Hav-ing played softball beforehand, her high school coach brought her into a club team. When the time came to choose between the two, McHoul chose lacrosse, and the rest is his-tory.

As a 2012 graduate of West-wood High School in Westwood, Mass., McHoul totaled 453 ca-

reer points (210 goals, 243 assists) where she won the Division 1 state championship three times. As a senior captain, McHoul tallied 75 goals and 96 assists and was named Miss Massachusetts Lacrosse, Bos-ton Globe and Boston Herald Player of the Year, and Tri Valley League MVP, all while leading her team to a state title.

McHoul owes much of her success to high school coach Leslie Frank.

“She influenced me the most and got me to love the game,” McHoul said. “She taught me ev-erything I know.”

Starting every game so far for the Wildcats, McHoul has devel-oped solid chemistry with senior captain and fellow attack Jenny Simpson.

“She’s really jelling well with the other attackers on and off the field,” Simpson said. “She’s a tre-mendous feeder and does a good job finishing shots and working off the ball. She’s surpassed the fresh-man status, and I’m excited to see her grow over the next three years.”

McHoul discovered the gruel-ing difficulty of the collegiate game in an 18-9 loss to UMass in Febru-ary.

“The level of competition was eye-opening to the level of skill in the college game,” McHoul said. “With the speed of the game, you have to adapt on the fly to what they bring at you.”

While McHoul has already seen success, both she and Albrecht agree that there is plenty of room for growth.

“Deception will come with ex-perience, and the ability to attack from different areas of the field is always a good thing to have in your arsenal,” Albrecht said.

McHoul stressed that she wants to improve upon every game.

“I never want to settle for any-thing,” McHoul said. “I want to make the teammates around me bet-ter, not just myself.”

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MEN’S HOCKEY

van Riemsdyk honored with selectionSTAFF REPORTtHe new HAMPSHire

Sophomore defenseman Trev-or van Riemsdyk of the University of New Hampshire men’s hockey team was named as an America Hockey Coaches Association (AHCA)/CCM Hockey Division I All-America first team selection for the 2012-13 season. He be-comes the first Wildcat blueliner to be named an All-American first team selection since Blake Kessel did so in 2011.

Skating in all 39 games, van Riemsdyk had a career year. A Hockey East first team honoree, he totaled 33 points on eight goals and 25 assists, recording 11 multiple-point games. He paced all Wildcat defensemen in assists as well as points. van Riemsdyk also ranked fourth in plus/minus (+8), tied for third in power-play goals (3), tied for second in game-winning goals (2), and fifth in shots (96) in team rankings. He ranked first in the Hockey East in defensemen scor-ing per game and third in the coun-try in the same category (0.85).

Against Merrimack (Jan. 26) van Riemsdyk registered a career-high four points, stemming from four assists in UNH’s 6-2 victory at the Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester. At the same venue in the NCAA Northeastern Region-al’s (Mar. 30) against Denver he notched two points on a goal and an assist to help lift the Wildcats to the quarterfinals in the NCAA tournament and was named to the All-Tournament team.

The Wildcats finished the season last Saturday against first- seeded and second-ranked UMass Lowell in the Northeast Regional Final game in a 2-0 loss. UNH

reached the NCAA’s this year for the 11th time in the last 12 years. The team finished with a 20-12-7 overall record, and a mark of 13-8-6 in Hockey East.

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Trevor van Riemsdyk was named an AHCA/CCM All-American.

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Moving down the order, we come to two younger receivers on the team that have stood out: Mike DeTroia and Jared Allison.

DeTroia spent last season as a redshirt, focusing on crafting his style and honing his skill while adapting to the UNH playbook.

Jared Allison will be enter-ing his second year of eligibility. Last season, Allison had a few op-portunities on the field, pulling in three receptions for 50 yards and six rushes for 51 yards. It was his first season since redshirting, and he played well.

“Jared has had a very good

spring,” McDonnell said. “(He is) very dialed-in and very sure of him-self and how he is doing things. He has been very productive for us, and it is a very good thing for us to see.”

How will this all shape up? Hopefully Harris’ spring rehab con-tinues to progress, and McDonnell said he will not see the field this spring.

“We just want (R.J.) to be healthy,” McDonnell said.

With a fully healthy Harris, ex-pect to see big numbers from him once again. Even last season, when he was heavily covered by the op-posing defenses, Harris managed to be one of the leaders among confer-ence receivers.

As I said before, Mello will most likely have an increased role, along with some of the younger

guys filling in throughout the sea-son at the No. 3 spot (don’t forget how the offense loves going to tight end Harold Spears). Watch for Alli-son to get more opportunities along with Kyon Taylor, a freshman who redshirted last season.

Receiving should be strong for the Wildcats, just as the running game should be, as well. We are now in week three of spring prac-tice and a few weeks away from the Blue-White game.

“Our main goal in the fall is winning a national championship,” Harris said. “That is what we are fo-cused on and it all starts right now in the spring.”

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R.J. Harris (15) led the Wildcats in receiving yards with 1059 and had nine receiving touchdowns last season. Currently, the junior is rehabbing his right knee after having surgery on it in early February.

a great leader, vocal, showing it on the field, doing a little bit of every-thing, whatever this team needs and showing the other players how it’s done.”

Jenny has also been a supe-rior athlete in the classroom, being named to the America East All-Academic Team in 2012 and 2011, the America East Academic Honor Roll in 2012 and 2010, and America East Commissioner’s Honor Roll in 2011.

“She has a lot of drive to pre-pare herself academically and in the games,” Albrecht said. “She has hard work and discipline, and has really been able to show that this year.”

Jenny’s scoring has also been consistent, scoring in all but seven of 46 games over the past three sea-sons. This consistency stems from an intense practice ethic, one that co-captain Doyle fears.

“I hate going against her in practice,” Doyle said. “She’s so good that I never want to go against her because I’m normally going to lose.”

Jenny’s strength comes from her teammates, who have been rocks in her playing career, espe-cially her co-captains.

“I have such great co-captains and such a great team. I think we all just help each other and are a real cohesive unit,” Simpson said.

Simpson, Doyle and goalie Kathleen O’Keefe make up the trio of captains for the team, all offering differing styles that complements each other.

“I’m the loudmouth, bubbly one,” Doyle said. “Kathleen is the stern one, and Jenny just leads by example on and off the field. She just does whatever the team needs.”

Despite the accolades and lofty compliments from teammates, the senior captain is only looking to help her team make the postseason.

“I love lacrosse and I just try to be the very best I can be for myself and for my team,” Simpson said.

“The new coaching staff is great, and I’m excited for what they’re bringing to the team in the coming years. I wish I could be a part of it.”

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Joya Helander of the women’s track & field team and Isaiah Penn of the men’s track and field team are featured in this week’s Service Credit Union Student-Athlete Spot-light. This information and more can be found in the Wildcat Weekly Roundup.

Helander, a freshman from Madison, Connecticut, won two in-dividual events and was part of the winning 4x100-meter relay to help lead the UNH women’s track and field team to victory at the Wildcat Invitational on April 15.

Helander sprinted to victory in both the 100-meter dash (12.54 sec-onds) and 200-meter (25.28). She also ran the second leg on the win-ning 4x100-meter relay squad that was clocked in 48.69 seconds.

She opened the outdoor sea-son March 30 at Maine with a first-place finish in the 400-meter dash (1:01.0). One week later in a non-scoring meet against Maine and Holy Cross, Helander won the 200-meter (27.03) and ran to a sec-ond-place finish in the 100-meter (12.20). She also ran on the second-place 4x100-meter relay team at both of those meets.

Penn capped the 2012-13 in-door track and field season with a seventh-place finish in the 200-me-ter at the America East Champion-ship. Earlier in the year, she swept the 200-meter and 400-meter in a dual meet against the University of Maine.

Penn, a sophomore from

Boston, raced to first place in the 400-meter dash and ran a leg on the winning 4x400-meter relay team to lead the UNH men’s track & field team to victory at the Wildcat In-vitational on April 15.

P e n n bested a field of 19 runners in the 400-me-ter with a winning time of 50.16 sec-onds. Later in the meet, he ran the third leg of the victorious 4x400-meter relay that crossed the finish line in a time of 3:25.22.

It marked the second consecu t ive f i r s t - p l a c e finish in the 400-meter for Penn. Last week in a non-scoring dual meet against Maine and Holy Cross, he recorded a winning time of 52.26 seconds.

Penn concluded the 2012-13 indoor track & field season with a seventh-place finish in the 400-me-ter at the America East Champion-ships with a time of 49.90 seconds. His other season highlights includ-ed second place in the 400-meter and third place in the 200-meter at the Joe Donahue Games, as well as fifth in the 400-meter at the Jay Ca-risella Invitational.

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16 6 Jenny Simpson’s 12-game goal scoring streak came to an end on Saturday against Stony Brook.

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WOMEN’S LACROSSE (4-9, 1-3) IN THIS ISSUE

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The UNH women’s lacrosse team was overpowered Saturday by No. 10 Stony Brook 16-6. This was

their second home-field defeat, fol-

lowing their overtime loss to Bos-ton College on April 10.

“They needed to just let loose a little and be able to feel the need to fi ght back,” Head Coach Sarah Albrecht said.

The game held a nostalgic aura, with the team’s seniors being honored for senior day on their sec-ond to last home game, their last on Memorial Field.

“They’ve had a lot of heart throughout the entire season,” Al-brecht said. “(They’ve been) fi ght-ing their hardest.”

The team’s seniors are Amber Casiano, Jenny Simpson, Casey Doyle, Casey Cyester and Kathleen O’Keefe. O’Keefe, regardless of the game’s result, was in good spirits.

“(It is) defi nitely very sad. I love lacrosse, (and I’m) very sad to be ending my career,” O’Keefe said. “I couldn’t have asked for a better team, better group of people

to be with.”Within the fi rst two minutes

of regulation, O’Keefe had already been shot on twice. O’Keefe let in 16 goals but made eight saves; she

played the entire game.“It’s hard when you go down

early to stay mentally tough,” she said.

It was a grim outlook for the

Wildcats until Casiano landed the Wildcats on the scoreboard with a free position goal at 11:11. She scored two goals, tying with Laura Puccia for goals scored for the Wildcats. Puccia scored soon after Casiano at 8:45.

The team would struggle to score again until after the half.

“We just wanted to go out and fi ght a lot harder,” Casiano said.

Simpson, despite having sur-passed the 100-goal milestone, made no shots on goal.

Stony Brook dominated the rest of the fi rst period with 20 shots and 12 goals by the time of the buzzer.

Stony Brook’s Demmianne Cook scored fi ve goals, adding to her career high of 65 goals on the season.

“She’s defi nitely one of the most athletic girls we’ve played against,” O’Keefe said. “She’s got some good size, so she’s going to just come straight down the fi eld

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FOOTBALL

Receivers bring versatility to o� ense

The offensive side of the UNH football team is a story of continuity carried over from

last season (except for on the offen-sive line, but that is for next week). As we discussed last week, it will be the same committee running at halfback, but now let’s shift our fo-cus over to the receivers and what we can expect to see from them in the fall.

When it comes to UNH wide receivers, the fi rst name that comes to mind will usually be R.J. Harris. The junior led the team with 1059 passing yards on 84 receptions, with senior Joey Orlando behind him with 586 yards.

He may be the undisputed No. 1 receiver for the Wildcats, but Harris has yet to see the fi eld in the spring. In early February Harris had microfracture surgery on his right knee, and he has now been walking without crutches for about a month. He expects to start jogging in the coming days.

Throughout spring, Harris

has been joined on the sidelines by fellow junior and wide receiver Jimmy Giansante. With these two guys sitting out, others in the re-ceiver group, such as seniors Justin Mello and Tim Farina, have had more opportunity for reps.

“They’re stepping up huge,” Harris said. “They’re veterans in the receiver corps, and so they know what needs to be done and they just go out and set the stan-dard high. All the younger receiv-ers are hopping on and following

their lead.”Mello’s role on the team saw

a signifi cant increase last season as he fi lled in both at the X and Z positions (Harris is the go-to Y receiver). Mello impressed the coaches and saw more balls be-ing thrown his way as the season continued, tallying up a total of 21 receptions for 215 yards.

“I expect Justin Mello to pick it up a lot where he left off,” Head Coach Sean McDonnell said.

Mello has had a great spring so far and will most likely see an increased role if he can stay healthy, which is something Farina was unable to do last spring. A broken collarbone kept Farina in a very limited role, and he was unable to record any receiving statistics last season.

This spring, though, has been good to Farina. He has looked good in practice, reeling in catches and getting positive feedback from the coaches.

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Wildcats fail to overcome � rst half strugglesWOMEN’S LACROSSE

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Kathleen O’Keefe (29) and Casey Doyle (8) are two seniors on the women’s lacrosse team, which fell to the Stony Brook Seawolves on Saturday 16-6. It was Senior Day for the Wildcats at Memorial Field.

WOMEN’S LACROSSE

Simpson unfazed by 100-goal milestoneBy ARJUNA RAMGOPAL

SPORTS EDITOR

Smart, athletic and a consis-tent force, Jenny Simpson does it all for the UNH women’s lacrosse team. Simpson’s hard work culmi-nated in her 100th goal on April 6 in a match against Binghamton.

“I didn’t even realize I scored the 100th goal,” Simpson said. “I was just so focused on the game. I remember the last goal more than anything.”

Jenny is now in her fourth and fi nal year with UNH. She has gotten better with every season, scoring 17 goals her freshman year, 27 her sophomore year and 24 her junior year. Simpson currently sits at 35 goals this year.

“She’s really been able to im-prove her game this year, especially with her shots,” Head Coach Sarah Albrecht said. “She’s been able to put it in against some really good

goalies this year.”Co-captain Casey Doyle has

been with Simpson since their freshman year, forging a close friendship and admiration for her.

“She gives 100 percent every day,” Doyle said. “It’s inspiring to have someone like that on your team. She picks everybody up here, those below her grade, in her grade, everyone.”

The Connecticut native recorded her 100th point (goals and assists) earlier in the season on March 6 at the University of Con-necticut, where she also recorded a career high six goals in that game. Coach Albrecht believes that Jenny’s passion is a big reason for her personal and team success.

“She’s a very passionate player and her teammates see that,” Coach Albrecht said. “She cares about how this team is doing. She’s

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