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The New HampshireVol. 99, No. 36 March 2, 2010 Serving the University of New Hampshire since 1911Tuesday

Cleaning up the remnants

Charles Rees of Lee woke up early Friday morning to see a 20-foot-long pine tree stretched across his front lawn and collapsed in his living room ceiling.

“I said, ‘Oh good morning!’ like any good neighbor would I guess,” he said.

Rees and his wife Marion, are in high spirits considering their unlucky circumstances. They are just two out of the approximately 260 New Hampshire residents who came to the University of New Hampshire Hamel Recreation Cen-ter in the Whittemore Center this past weekend for electrical power, coffee, and a warm place to stay.

Thursday night’s wind storm, with record-setting 91 mph winds and torrential downpours, left

fl ooded streets and fallen trees in its wake. A state-wide blackout swept the northeast power grid, leaving hundreds of thousands of people in the dark over the weekend.

According to a town-by-town report, Public Service of New Hampshire (PSNH) estimated that more than 330,000 New Hamp-shire residents were lacking elec-tricity at the peak of power outages over the weekend. Out of 486,604 utility customers, 41,427 custom-ers were still left without power as of 5 a.m. Monday morning.

The storm prompted New Hampshire Governor John Lynch to declare a state of emergency on Friday.

“Our top priority is ensuring the safety of our citizens as these power outages continue,” Lynch said in a press release. “I ask any-

Storm transforms Hamel Rec into Red Cross Shelter

Newmarket residents embrace power outage

Alexandra ChurchillSTAFF WRITER

SHELTER continued on page 9

AMANDA BELAND/TNH STAFF

Wildcat Fitness A recent promotional campaign has business booming at the local gym.

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UNH alum Sandi Moon recently recorded an album in Dover and sat down with TNH to talk about her passion for music and what the future holds.

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Yesterday morning, Durham residents shared outlets in the Bagelry, charging their laptops, cell phones and iPods while jug-gling young kids who had the day off from school.

It was just one of many such scenes that played out again and again over the weekend. Both the university and the town have been working to clean up after Thurs-day night’s windstorm, which reached a maximum wind of 91 mph near Portsmouth, N.H.

The storm caused the second largest power outage in the area since the ice storm in December 2008. The Public Service Com-pany of New Hampshire (PSNH) reported that as of yesterday eve-ning 40 percent of Durham was still without power, and estimated that these residents could be with-out power until Wednesday.

The whole UNH campus lost power Thursday night at approxi-mately 10 p.m. and a UNH cam-pus alert stated that there were rolling black outs at that time. Power on campus was completely restored by noon on Friday. The university was closed Friday.

The Town of Durham re-

leased a press statement that stated that 81 roads in Durham were still without power including Bagdad, Durham Point, Mill and Oyster River Road as of 1 p.m. yester-day. Sunnyside, School House Lane and Emerson Roads were completely or partially closed as of 1 p.m. yesterday.

Two of the university and town’s water tanks located on Beech Hill Road and Foss Farm Road are still without water, put-ting stress on water distribution.

PSNH estimated yesterday that 27,000 customers in New Hampshire are still without pow-er.

Thomas Gounley,Michaela Christensen and

Geoff CunninghamSTAFF WRITERS

CLEANUP continued on page 8

Krista Diamond had every in-tention of going to Libby’s before she lost power last Thursday night. But when she walked into her apart-ment and saw her roommates hud-dled around a candle, drinking beer, she willingly changed her plans.

“It was actually pretty nice sit-ting in the dark with my friends just having a conversation instead of watching TV or listening to bad mu-sic at Libby’s,” said Diamond.

Diamond and her roommates, of Main Street in Newmarket, were part of the estimated 330,000 Public

Amanda BelandNEWS EDITOR

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LAUREN HOWLAND/CONTRIBUTOR

A farm off of Route 108 experienced severe fl ooding.

University crews working to repair damage and restore power

DurhamDurhamLeeLeeNewmarketNewmarketMadburyMadburyDoverDoverPortsmouthPortsmouth

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This road sign near Congreve Hall was only one sign of damage left by the massive storm that rolled through the state last Thursday night. An estimated 330,000 people in New Hampshire are still without power.

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Wildcat Fitness new initiatives Bone marrow drive hosted in Whitt

Wildcat Fitness has recently promoted their gym by offering students a “Spring Break ‘situation.’” The offer brings students getting in shape for their vacation to the gym, with 99 days of membership for $99.

Giovanni’s team hosted its annual bone marrow drive this year in the lobby of the Whitt during Saturday night’s men’s hockey game. The drive recruited 320 new donors.

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A survey released by the UNH Police Department showed the pub-lic as perceiving a rise of crime on campus, despite statistics which prove otherwise. This survey is meant to gauge comfort levels in the community.

Crime survey

11Acupuncture, Shaman, hypno-

sis, and meditation are all alternative ways of fi nding health and staying healthy. In Portsmouth, profession-als practice these forms of medicine and fi nd them more successful, as they clear the body and mind.

Alternative medical practices

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UNH Symphonic • Band and Wind Symphony Johnson Theatre 8 p.m. Farming - A Ro-• mantic Perspective James Hall 3:10 p.m.Materials Science • Seminar DeMeritt Hall 1:10 p.m.

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Indie singer and UNH alumnus Sandi Moon performed in the MUB Friday night despite the blackout.

Lone senior Colbey Santos scored 12 points in UNH’s 77-55 upset win over Stony Brook on Sunday.

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Sandi Moon plays in MUB ‘Cats pull upset on Senior Day

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Crossword: Countries

Across:

2. They produce marathon runners.6. Where Dracula is from.7. This country is owned by Denmark.8. Their symbol is a leaf.9. Home of the Great Sphinx.

Down:

1. They have a canal (thanks to us).3. Portuguese-speaking country that isn’t Portugal.4. This is also a tasty bird.5. They have kilts.7. Also the name of a U.S. state.

Made with the help of:http://www.puzzle-maker.com/CW/

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Answers:Across:

2. Kenya

6. Romania

7. Greenland

8. Canada

9. Egypt

Down:

1. Panama

3. Brazil

4. Turkey

5. Scotland

7. Georgia

ANDREW GILBERT/CONTRIBUTINGPieces of tree trunks lie scattered across campus as a result of last week’s wind storm that left over 300,000 Seacoast residents without power.

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFFUNH’s Connor Hardowa fi ghts for the puck along the boards in the Wildcats’ 3-1 win over Northeastern on Saturday night.


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I consider this column to primar-ily be a means to ensure that music industry stays relevant and rich during the Internet piracy age. I want to ensure that 50-year-old dudes who know nothing about music will keep their beach homes and magical, fl ying cars. With that in mind, let’s talk about Gorillaz.

The Gorillaz concept has to be one of the most interesting musical projects of the past 20 years. The band is made up of cartoon characters with personalities that toe the line between rock star urban-myth and ridiculous (their guitarist Noodle was discovered by the band when she was 10 years old after she appeared on the band’s doorstep in a FedEx box and only spoke one word of English. Noodle). Gorillaz are very unique sound wise as well. Their sound could be described as alternative trip-hop, which has to be the coolest name for a genre besides “dub step” or “David Bowie.” Yes, David Bowie is a genre.

What best exemplifi es how different Gorillaz are from all other bands though is their website.

Since their inception, Gorillaz has had an interactive websites created to coincide with the releases of their albums. By interactive, I don’t mean that the icons make noises when you scroll over them. I mean you can travel through the world Gorillaz has created and fi nd stuff. Their self-titled debut (which was the fi rst album I ever bought with my own money) had a website that allowed for a tour of Kong Studios, the fi ctional home and studio of Gorillaz. This website would be considered big by today’s stan-dards, but back in 2001, this website was a monolith. Nearly every room in the studio had a character in it with something to say or something to look at. For example, if you were to go into lead singer 2-D’s room, you’d fi nd his dog, a plethora of keyboards, and a computer where you can check his e-mail. The CD itself was enhanced and it unlocked even more things in-cluding bassist and Satanist Murdoc’s Winnebago. It was a dirty place, but you were immersed in Gorillaz. The music was good enough that you became interested in these characters and the website allowed you to be a

part of their reality. Their second album, Demon

Days, took the Kong Studios website design and injected it with steroids. They added games to play in the studio such as traditional favorites like bowl-ing and darts and some other original games to boot. Also, they added a few more rooms to check out and explore.

Recently, Kong Studios was replaced with the namesake of their upcoming album, Plastic Beach, which will be released March 9. Plastic Beach itself is a trash-covered island with a plateau topped off with a huge house creating a combina-tion that would make Captain Planet throw up. The idea of this island is that all the trash and plastic washed collected here and formed land. One can tour the island and solve puzzles in an adventure game that has you do everything from dislodge a wrench (or “spanner,” the Gorillaz are both cartoons and British who are like our own real life cartoon characters if you think about it) from a pelican’s mouth while a disenfranchised seagull makes sarcastic comments all the while, to fi xing an elevator that is being guarded by Tattoo from Fantasy Island. While this new website is fun like all the older ones, this site has an actual message to convey and doesn’t depend on being just awesome. Scores of bands have some sort of message concerning climate change or pollu-tion or what have you but no band does it the way the Gorillaz do and that is because no other current band can.

Gorillaz are the only band able to have these immersive websites for two reasons. The fi rst reason is that the band members who make up Gorillaz are cartoons so we all ready perceive them to be in another dimension. Cartoons are a great means of escape since anything is possible within their constraints; even the creation of an alternate world. Other bands have this going against them since they are part of our dimension. Even someone like Lady Gaga couldn’t pull it off and she seems like she is most certainly from another dimension. The closest thing that a real human band or musician could feasibly do to match Gorillaz on is have a “The Sims” like re-creation of their own band house or studio, but

that sounds more creepy than fun.The second reason is that every

other band can’t match the story Gorillaz created around them. All those back-stories as to how Russell ended up with the group or why 2-D appears to have no eyeballs were man-ifested through imagination. Other bands have the same basic story where a bunch of dudes bought instruments, met each other, they jammed, and they formed a band. It is automatically assumed by a person gazing upon Gorillaz the fi rst time that the band must have a different back-story then everyone else since they are not like any of us. There is nothing to relate to, so thus it creates a mystery. How did they get here? Why are they all so different from each other? Seriously, what’s up with 2-D’s eyes? These questions are created so the answers will be pursued. Bands can have mys-terious questions around them but the answers have to be possible, whereas Gorillaz don’t have to do anything even relating to possible.

What the thousands of record executives who read my columns need to understand is that they should never create anything like this for any bands hailing from the world we all know and comprehend. It would cost too much money and it would be wasting everyone’s time. You could have an interactive story that follows the album’s trajectory but anything more than that is playing with fi re. I am not saying bands shouldn’t have cool interesting websites, but what we have with Gorillaz is a venue where this works. Bands that are on a level of celebrity not approached by other bands like The Beatles or Led Zep-pelin could get away with grandiose websites with bells and whistles but that is because those bands were larger than life and they also seem to inhabit a different universe than ours. Unless the band is on a level where they are out of this world or seemingly out of this world, the crazy adventures involving the band should probably be left to our own imaginations instead.

Corey Nachman is a pop-culture columnist for TNH and he contributes his creative writing and stellar humor weekly for the Forum or Arts sections.

Gorillaz breaks ground with album-specifi c websites

NHL should send players back to 2014 OlympicsThe Winter Olympics in Van-

couver wrapped up on Sunday with a rousing gold-medal hockey game between the United States and Canada, which Canada unfortunately won in thrilling fashion when Sidney Crosby scored in overtime.

More than 80 percent of the Canadian population tuned in to watch the game at some point and nearly 35 million Americans were watching when Zach Parise scored the tying goal for the United States in the last 30 seconds of the third period.

It was the most watched hockey game since the “Miracle on Ice” game between the U.S. and the Soviet Union at the 1980 Olympics, and it’s reason

enough to send NHL players to the Winter Olympics again in 2014 in Sochi, Russia.

Some hockey fans and experts have called for the Olympic tourna-ment to go back to using amateur players, as it did up until the 1998 games in Nagano, in order to avoid a two-week break in the NHL season and possibly recreate the fantasy situ-ation of the “Miracle” games in Lake Placid. But what they fail to realize is that without the world’s best players, the tournament would fall fl at.

Amateur and college players aren’t as polished as professionals. Sure, college hockey can be more fun to watch than most NHL games, but

much of that comes from the rowdy atmosphere and connection to the school. Competition is most entertain-ing when talent is at a premium.

While the fantastic Olympic hockey tournament will likely fail to attract more viewers to the NHL – fewer than 5 million viewers watched last year’s seven-game Stanley Cup Final series between Detroit and Pitts-burgh on average – the big numbers from the gold-medal game show the country’s interest in world hockey when national pride is on the line. It’s an interest that can’t be matched by amateurs, and the NHL should not hesitate to send its players back for another go in 2014.


ForumThe other night I found my-self at a party at a friend’s apart-ment. Everyone was is a good mood, having fun and enjoying the college lifestyle. There was no Ke$ha or Miley Cyrus to be heard; all was good. Epic battles of Beirut were going down in the kitchen and on the living room table a game of kings was being played. Other people stood around sharing tales of their glory days of high school sports and other general con-versational topics from classes to internships. Then came the knock on the door.

The knock came from two RAs because it was after the 1 a.m. quiet hours. Earlier, one of the residents had asked every-one to keep it down, but unfor-tunately that didn’t last too long. One RA spoke and said some-thing along the lines of “You guys are being too loud. Unless you are sleeping here you all have to leave. Form a single fi le line and have your IDs ready so we can take down your names and ask a few questions.” That was it. No warning. Nothing. It was your typical power-tripping “I got picked on in high school so I became an RA,” the worst type of RA. While the two RAs talked with one of the residents, I grabbed my backpack and started the line out the door. I went fi rst because I was feeling confi dent and knew others might need a little more time to collect themselves.

I handed over my ID, gave them my date of birth and informed them that I had not been drinking. I was free to go. I

waited outside for a few friends and to make sure everyone was leaving OK. Despite the fact that the music was turned down low, the amount of conversa-tions and laughing was ap-parently loud enough to call attention to the apartment. As I stood outside, I wondered if they would bust the party next door too; and the one that was above us, and the one in the next building over. Noise violations are always the easiest way to get written up by an RA or CA and if you are not prepared they can lead to more serious violations, which could attract the police.

When it comes to dealing with RAs it is very important to know ahead of time what type of RA they are, and this is a lot easier if you live in a dorm com-pared to the Gables or Wood-sides. There are really two main classifi cations that RAs fi t into; there is the power hungry kind and the “I need free housing” kind. Those in the fi rst group are going to use all that power they have to make themselves feel better by ruining the night of fellow students who are just looking to have a good time. They, like many of Durham and UNH’s fi nest, are on a massive power trip and love the fact that they get to tell people what to do. Sure they are just doing their jobs, but a verbal warning is always nice. The best RAs are the ones who just want the free housing; as long as you are not rude to them they will usually let you off with a warning. They aren’t there to just bust people or make themselves feel impor-

tant, they just want to get free housing.

Despite a few verbal warn-ings, I have never been written up for anything, not even a noise violation. It is all about preparation, showing courtesy and obeying quiet hours. If you are in a regular dorm room, and under 21, make sure that nothing is visible from the door if there is a knock. That means having a place to quickly stash all your “Gatorade” and “Moun-tain Dew.” Try to avoid using anything that will emit curious odors. Also, if you are playing Beirut, always use water cups. It is way easier to hide one drink each than all those cups. Plus, it is more sanitary; trust me, I aced Germs.

If you are hosting a gather-ing be sure to keep the volume as a reasonable level and don’t be afraid to ask people to leave if they can’t settle down. As a guest always do what the host asks and respect their rules. The bottom line is when you have to deal with RAs or CAs, as pain-ful as it may sound, is to be re-spectful because it is better than having to deal with the police.

Stay classy, not UMassy,

The New Hampshirite

The New Hampshirite is a mysterious UNH student who entertains much of the campus with his politically incor-rect and realistic accounts of student life in Durham. You can fi nd his blog

at http://unhblog.com.

Like a Pro: Dealing with RA s

Liberals not less war prone than conservatives

Mr. Goodwin has the right

message in is “Afghanistan War” column, however I am sad to think of the high hopes he placed on Mr. Obama to end the war. To say one is surprised of Mr. Obama’s troop escala-tion because of his “liberal background” is naïve when considering the history of US foreign policy after WWII. I would challenge someone to fi nd a U.S. president (includ-ing Mr. Kennedy- Vietnam and Cuba and Mr. Carter- Iran) that did not have an intervention-ist foreign policy during that period—regardless of his party.

To say liberals are less war-prone than Republicans is like saying one is healthier for drinking Diet Coke instead of regular—in the end they’ll both rot your teeth. One should not have expected different from Mr. Obama—for dur-ing the presidential campaign he and the Democrats clung to the theme of Iraq as the

‘unjust war’ and Afghanistan as the ‘just war.’ Only Dennis Kucinich and Republican Ron Paul were ever serious about ending U.S. hegemony.

Faris Al-HashmiClass of 2011, Political Science

Former UNH prof speaks out against AAUP ad

The recent announcement by the UNH chapter of AAUP of a proposed boycott of sum-mer school, and what amounts to a request that students do the same, is simply the latest reminder that a true academic community and organized labor are fundamentally incompat-ible.

During my working years, I twice opposed the introduc-tion of collective bargaining for the UNH faculty. The fi rst time I was on the winning side. The second time, obviously, I wasn’t. My reasons had to do with the assault on profession-alism and dangers to the com-munity involved, but more than

anything they looked forward with fear to the almost inevi-table use by the union of some kind of weapon. Unlike the case in the employer-employee relationship in an industrial setting, where strikes and other sanctions can properly and sometimes successfully be di-rected against corporate heads whose own economic interests are affected, sanctions by a faculty can do direct damage to only one party. That party is the students, with whom the faculty is supposed to be engaged in the common enterprise of learn-ing. One might add the parents who pay the bills.

I am glad I retired before being subjected to compulsory fi nancial support of the collec-tive bargaining unit. Its most recent threat has only rein-forced my continued belief that unionism is a destructive force on the campus.

Perhaps it is time for an-other faculty vote.

Charles E. ClarkProfessor Emeritus of History

Letters to the editor

Thumbs up to a great gold medal game be-tween the U.S. and Canada on Sunday.

Thumbs down to Canada winning the gold and Sidney Crosby, of all people, scoring the winner in overtime.

Thumbs up to March. Spring break is two weeks away!

Thumbs down to no sun in the forecast until Friday.

Thumbs up to UNH sports and conference tournament time!

Thumbs down to about 40 percent of Dur-ham residents still without power.

Thumbs up to Friday’s 8 a.m. classes can-celled due to power outages.

Thumbs down to weathermen getting paid despite constantly being wrong.

Thumbs up to the blackout and getting un-plugged from all that consuming technology.

Thumbs down to Obama’s cholesterol (good luck with giving up smoking though!)

Thumbs up to the return of the NHL and the playoff race to come.

Thumbs down to the constant gridlock in Congress. Let’s just get something done!

Thumbs up to Ryan Miller winning the Olympic MVP in the hockey tournament.

Thumbs down to “The Marriage Ref” on NBC. Really?

Thumbs UpThumbs Down

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The only community gym in Durham, Wildcat Fitness, opened in the midst of a recession during the summer of 2008. Nineteen months later, the gym has retained a steady fl ow of members from the commu-nity and more students are begin-ning to join the gym.

General Manager, Ashley Chamberlain, said that the business has taken on two initiatives, which have contributed, to their success: a push for more students and commu-nity involvement.

Wildcat Fitness’ most recent student promotion had a Jersey Shore theme, based off the MTV show that has become popular in the last couple of months. The pro-motion offers students a chance to buy 99 days at the gym for $99 to get in shape for spring break. They advertised for the deal with the say-ing, “We have a spring break ‘situ-ation…’” and are selling t-shirts in the gym with the acronym “GTL.” The letters stand for the saying on the show: gym, tan and laundry.

“Even if students don’t take advantage of the offer, I hope they at least laugh at our Jersey Shore idea and remember Wildcat Fitness for it,” said Chamberlain.

Chamberlain said they would continue to do the deal for students

until March 29, when they will change the promotion to 50 days for $60. She said this is especially aimed towards seniors who will be graduating soon.

Senior Ally Eley, who lives off campus, has been a member of the gym since last year and she said she prefers Wildcat Fitness to UNH’s gym.

“There were just always a lot of people at the UNH gym,” said Eley as she sat down to a leg exten-sion machine in the Wildcat Fitness gym. “Then I came here and there were less people, better machines and I liked the environment a lot better.”

Eley said she’s been noticing that recently more of her friends have been opting for memberships at Wildcat Fitness because of the crowds at the UNH gym. She said the gym is “geared towards stu-dents.” On breaks, the Wildcat Fit-ness freezes her membership fee.

However, co-owner, Ken Entz, said that the clientele at Wildcat Fitness is probably only 30 percent students, the other 70 percent being local residents.

“We are really trying to make an effort to be a part of the Durham community,” said Entz. “We also want people to feel comfortable coming here.”

Entz said over the weekend

when the majority of Durham residents were without electricity, he sent out an email inviting local people to come to Wildcat Fitness to take showers. He said a number of people took advantage, members and non-members.

Chamberlain said the business is also involved in a community fundraiser at least once every two months. Their most recent fundrais-ing initiatives include The Seventh Annual Todd’s Trot 5k Toad Race and the St. Baldrick’s: Cut for a Cure event, which benefi ts research for children’s cancer.

Wildcat Fitness is also a regis-tration site for the 5k road race on April 10. All staff members are vol-unteering at the race, which will be held at Oyster River High School.

Chamberlain said all of the staff members would be volunteer-ing at the St. Baldrick’s event as well on April 11 at Scorpions Bar and Grill. Sponsors pay for people to shave their heads and local bar-bers donate their time. Five Wild-cat Fitness staff members are hav-ing their heads shaved. Entz said the group is hoping to raise over $14,000 this year.

Entz said that Wildcat Fitness has recently formed a partnership with The Inn at Spruce Wood, a se-nior living community in Durham. Wildcat fi tness will be offering fi ve

new fi tness classes at this facility, for members and non-members. Entz said he hopes seniors at the facility will participate in the yoga classes.

Lee resident Kirk Block who became a member at the gym three months ago, said the staff of Wild-cat Fitness is very involved in edu-cating their patrons.

“I have been in gyms all my life,” said Block, “but this is really the nicest one, with the best ser-vice.”

Block said the staff tries to ed-

ucate people about the equipment, fi tness and nutrition. Entz said they have a personal trainer on staff.

Chamberlain commented about Wildcat Fitness’s community involvement initiative.

“We’re fortunate to be up and running especially because we opened during a recession,” said Chamberlain. “Therefore we think it’s important to give back.”

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Wildcat Fitness looks to gain students, become involvedMichaela Christensen

STAFF WRITER

MICHAELA CHRISTENSEN/TNH STAFFIn an effort to increase membership, local gym Wildcat Fitness offered a 99-day for $99 promotional campaign themed from the MTV hit TV series “Jersey Shore.”

John Pietlicki is a big fan of UNH hockey. On Saturday night, as he often does, the Dover resi-dent and information technologist at UNH attended the men’s ice hockey game between the Wild-cats and the Northeastern Hus-kies.

At this game, however, he did something a little different. He registered to become a poten-tial bone marrow donor, without hesitation.

“I think it’s a great cause,” said Pietlicki. “I like when stu-dents are enthusiastic about a cause.”

Giovanni’s Team, the student organization that hosted the bone marrow drive last year that result-ed in fi nding a donor in a UNH ju-nior, hosted the drive in the lobby of the Whittemore Center before, during, and after the game Sat-urday night. It was the fi rst time something like this was attempted, and the result was 320 new poten-tial donors, adding to the 500 the group had already registered in its eight previous drives.

The drive began at 5:30 p.m., an hour and a half before the game began, with a steady stream of people willing to go through the simple fi ve minute process that could potentially save a life. The potential donors fi lled out a one

page form and then swabbed both of their own cheeks.

Marianne Fortescue, faculty advisor to Giovanni’s Team, said during the drive that she couldn’t stand still due to her excitement while witnessing the dedication and support the drive was receiv-ing.

“I am in awe,” said Fortescue. “There has been a steady stream of people signing up.”

According to Fortescue, a drive such as this wouldn’t have been possible without the support of volunteers and in particular, the athletic department.

“The athletic department has been awesome,” she said. “I’ve never seen this type of co-operation and collaboration. It’s amazing.”

Members of the co-ed fra-ternity Alpha Phi Omega volun-teered at the drive as a way to give back to the community, ushering in people at the door and urging them to become potential donors, which all of the fraternity mem-bers did. Emily Coe said the event was a great way for her fraternity to help out in the community.

“We heard about this event and wanted to get involved,” said Coe. “I think it’s incredible.”

Lynette Boutin, a junior and co-founder of Giovanni’s Team, said she was surprised by the out-pouring of support from the sur-rounding communities.

“We’re reaching out to the surrounding communities,” said Boutin. “I didn’t expect them to come out like this.”

The goal for Giovanni’s Team was to register 1,000 new potential donors at the drive. Al-though that goal was not reached, Fortescue said the event was the team’s biggest and most success-ful so far.

“You set a goal and you work toward it,” said Fortescue. “I think it was a great number. It went very well.”

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Geoffrey CunninghamSTAFF WRITER

Giovanni’s Team hosts bone marrow drive at UNH

PHOTOS BY: GEOFFREY CUNNINGHAM/TNH STAFFAbove: Members of Alpha Phi Omega, Nicole Frey, Melissa Stilian, Emily Coe, and Caitlin Parke, volunteered at the bone marrow drive. Below: A cheek swabbing station was set up in the Whittemore Center on Saturday night.


UNH’s Dimond Library escaped damage from Thursday night’s wind storm, only to encounter problems of its own just a day later. A water pipe burst in the Dimond Library early Saturday morning, and the facility was closed Saturday and Sunday. Al-though the upper three fl oors of the library reopened yesterday morning, the lower fl oors likely will not open until Thursday or Friday.

Sherry Vellucci, Dean of the University Library, said a rusted out pipe near the Periodicals Room burst at approximately 2:30 a.m. Saturday morning, prompting large amounts of water to gush out of it. The prob-lem was not found until 50 minutes later, by which time the water had leaked down to the buildings fi rst and ground fl oors as well.

By 3:30 a.m., the Durham and Rochester Fire Departments were on the scene and began covering things in plastic to protect them, particular-ly in the Special Collections Room on the fi rst fl oor.

“They really helped save a lot of stuff,” said Vellucci.

Library staff, along with univer-sity faculty and staff members, also began arriving to assist in the early morning clean-up efforts. They were soon joined by UNH’s Department of Facilities Operations and Mainte-nance, which already had experience working with the library’s HVAC system. By 5 a.m., SERVPRO, a nationwide company which special-

izes in the cleanup and restoration of residential and commercial property after fi re, smoke, or water damage, and which has a contract with UNH for these types of situations, had ar-rived as well.

Despite the chaos, Vellucci de-scribed the combination as “a won-derful group of people” and said she was thankful for their hard work.

“Their total focus was ‘We’ve got to have this place up and running for the students,’” she said.

Vellucci said that some library staff members worked from 3:30 a.m. until 7 p.m. on Saturday, and some even stayed overnight.

SERVPRO spent the weekend replacing carpeting and drywall, pri-marily on the fi rst fl oor. They also pulled the baseboards off and drilled holes in the drywall to air out the wall. Devices known as air scrub-bers were installed in the library to fi lter the air.

Vellucci said the damage to the library’s collection was minimal. Some government documents on the lower shelves of the lower fl oors got wet, and were being dried out.

In an effort to make up for Di-mond’s absence, branch libraries extended their hours over the week-end, and group study rooms were reserved in the MUB for students. Library hours returned to normal Monday with the reopening of Di-mond Library.

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Water pipe bursts, forces library to close for two days

Governor John Lynch came to Durham yesterday afternoon to meet with town and UNH offi cials regarding power outages to assess if more state help is needed.

The Oyster River School was shut down yesterday and is set to resume session today.

More than 200 residents took advantage of the warming center set up in the Whittemore Center this weekend. The center includ-ed comforts such as wireless ac-cess, showers and at least 20 cots for the community’s use.

Thomas Byron, grounds and events manager said that approxi-mately 50 trees fell down across the UNH campus. His crews were at work starting at 2:30 a.m. Fri-day morning. Their fi rst priority was to clear the campus’ roads and walkways.

“We try to take care of all the hazards fi rst so students can move safely,” said Byron.

Their efforts were complicat-ed when snow began to fall Sat-urday morning, as the department is responsible for snow removal as well.

“We had to stop what we were doing with the trees and take care of the snow,” said Byron.

“The only thing it compares to is the ice storm,” said Byron. “The ice storm we had more branches down, whereas with this storm we had more trees down.”

Byron estimated that it would take two more weeks for his crew of 22 men to fi nish the clean-up process.

“I’ve had all my crew out,” said Byron. “We’ve just been having at it everyday.”

Stan Dodier, Dining Facili-ties Manager, said that the base-ments of Stillings and the New England Center were fl ooded and they had to pump them out.

Some students on campus used their time in the dark to bond.

Kathlyn Garvey, a sopho-more, said there was a nerf gun fi ght in Devine.

“We had a pow wow in the dorm,” said Garvey.

Senior Bryan Noonan had a different stance. He said that he

expected there would be a quick-er response in clean up since last year’s storm.

“It sucks that it happened twice in two years,” said Noo-nan.

But for many students who live off campus the power outage is a continued inconvenience.

Senior Katie Hogan lives on Edgewood Drive and has been in-formed that she will not get power back until next weekend. Hogan has been alternating staying with a friend who lives on campus and staying with her parents.

Because Hogan and her roommate were away when the storm hit, she returned to fi nd $200 worth of food gone bad in her refrigerator. Her landlord tex-ted her to tell her not to go to the house because it was unsafe; there were multiple trees down around her house.

“I should have gone to school in Florida,” she said.

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one using a generator or alternative heating source to use extreme cau-tion, and those without alternative heating should seek shelter or other accommodations.”

As of Sunday afternoon, per request of Governor Lynch, the Red Cross had established four re-gional shelters in Keene, Concord, Manchester, and Rochester. Other current local shelters include the Newington Town Hall, Newmarket Community Center, Dover Baptist Church, and Brentwood Fire Sta-tion.

The Hamel Recreation Center, a 24-hour shelter, was the closest available to Durham residents.

Senior Nicki Hallissey, who

works the front desk at the Hamel Recreation Center, recalled her evening shift the night of the storm.

“I had already left my fi ve o’ clock shift when the power went out,” Hallissey said. “They called me back in to help, but there was no way I was getting back in that storm.”

Jordan Anderson, also a se-nior, works at the front desk of the Hamel Recreation Center and counted almost 90 families having signed into the shelter on Sunday afternoon.

“It’s been mostly people get-ting showers,” he said.

Denny Byrne, director of Campus Recreation, estimated that 260 people have signed in to the Hamel Recreation Center since it opened as a shelter Thursday night and speculated more overnight us-ers in nights to follow as the tem-perature drops and “people get sick of sleeping in the cold.”

Byrne lost power at his home over the weekend and has been taking advantage of the warmth and electrical power of his offi ce with his wife Deb.

The staff at the Hamel Recre-ation Center said that the facility would be offered as a shelter that is open to all community members on a day-to-day basis.

“We’ve been taking it a day at a time,” Hallissey said. “We just got the phone call around three o’ clock from the state saying to keep

the shelter open another night so now we have to fi nd people to take over the 3 to 6 a.m. shift.”

Amenities at the shelter in-clude wireless Internet access, television, showers in the locker rooms, and at least 20 cots for overnight stay in Studios 1 and 2. Sandwiches and coffee have been provided daily by UNH Dining and cots provided by emergency services out of Lee.

Local residents cluster here and there throughout the Center, watching television or charging cell phones to call friends and family in the lounge, taking warm showers in the locker rooms, or browsing the gym facilities of the Hamel Recreation Shelter.

John Bordeleau of Durham brought his wife and three toddler boys to the shelter for quick show-ers.

“A couple of trees fell in our neighbor’s yard,” he said. “We have to head back now to clean up

the mess.”Kathryn Clausey and her teen-

age son Adrien of Dover lost power in their downtown apartment over the weekend and came down to the Hamel Rec Shelter simply for a lack of anything better to do.

“It’s a big pain,” she said while watching television in the lounge. “It’s a pain to not have power, because then you’ve got nothing to do.”

Neighbors Ann Nieves and Doris Packers both lost power in their Madbury homes Friday night. They decided to come down to the Hamel Rec Shelter together for hot coffee and warm showers.

“I would consider ourselves

lucky,” Nieves said. “I feel for those poor, poor people who have lost their houses and whatnot.”

The Hamel Recreation Cen-ter in the Whittemore Center will remain open as a 24-hour shel-ter resource for the benefi t of the community until further notice. Parking is available at the Depot Road Parking Lot or Lot A and ani-mals are not allowed in the facility. You can call the Hamel Recreation Center for more information at 603-862-2031. For more informa-tion about emergency shelters in New Hampshire, dial 211.

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ALEXANDRA CHURCHILL/TNH STAFFThe Hamel Recreational Center opened its doors to people in need of a nice warm bed and a hot shower after the wind storm in New Hampshire last Thursday.

“Our top priority is ensuring the safety of our citizens as these power outages continue.”

John LynchNew Hampshire Governor

“We just got the phone call around three o’ clock from the state saying to keep the shelter open another night so now we have to fi nd people to take over the 3 to 6 a.m. shift.”

Nicki HallisseyHamel Recreation Center

front desk employee


Service of New Hampshire (PSNH) customers, who lost power due to last week’s storm. Newmarket, how-ever, was one of the hardest towns hit by the storm, which left its en-tire population, about 9,000 people, without power, according to Mark Pelczar, dispatch supervisor for the Newmarket Police Department.

Instead of worrying about fall-ing trees and spoiling food, Diamond and others in Newmarket embraced the blackout by making necessary accommodations. She said they even enjoyed the lack of technology.

Diamond, a senior English major who doesn’t have heat in her apartment otherwise, spent the fi rst night of the blackout explor-ing Newmarket in the dark with her roommates.

“Our generation is so reliant on technology that we get distracted by computers and TV,” said Diamond. “We forget what it’s like to just be with each other.”

Diamond did say she missed her computer, though she somewhat enjoyed not having to worry about homework as a result.

“This semester has been aca-demically stressful, and the lack of power gave us all an excuse to re-lax,” said Diamond.

Craig Kowalchuk, a resident of Newmarket, spent his fi rst night without power huddled around can-dles and a fi replace in his apartment. Kowalchuk, a senior history major, had been watching a movie with his roommates when the power went out.

“I turned back on the T.V. and just as I pressed play everything went out again, this time for good,” said Kowalchuk.

The outage, however, forced Kowalchuk to fi nish his homework on campus, instead of sleeping in his apartment, which he said he usually does, and watch the U.S. vs. Canada Olympic gold medal championship game on Sunday at Durham House Of Pizza (DHOP) with other blacked out families.

“I felt much more patriotic cheering on the players in a local pizza shop as opposed to sitting in my living room watching it with my roommates,” said Kowalchuk. “It was dismal outside but the smell

of fresh pizza and sense of camara-derie between everyone there was a pleasant change to the woes of the weekend.”

Chris Simonton, a senior Eng-lish major, also spent his fi rst night in Newmarket without power huddled together with his roommates, but in-stead of basking in the warmth of a fi re place, they savored the sounds of their own instruments.

“Fortunately, it doesn’t take electricity to bang on drums, strum an acoustic guitar or jam on a banjo, so we entertained ourselves by mak-ing music in the dark,” said Simon-ton, of Main Street in Newmarket.

Simonton, like Diamond, ex-plored Newmarket in the dark and saw the power outage as an adven-ture.

“Honestly, though, we were all pretty content without electricity,” said Simonton. “We whipped out our headlamps and just had an adventure in the storm, walking around in the wind, scoping out downed trees and fl ooded waters.”

Simonton didn’t have to look far to fi nd fl ooded waters. By the end of the storm, Simonton esti-

mated that seven or so inches of rain water was “creeping up the stairs.” Him and his roommates didn’t keep much of anything in their basement, except for their furnace, which ran out of oil before the storm,

“Newmarket does, for the most part have electricity back, but this doesn’t really mean much for me,” said Simonton. “We still have no heat and it’s possible that our fur-nace sustained some damage sit-

ting in half a foot of water for two days.”

While Simonton’s and Dia-mond’s power was restored, there are still 1,781 Newmarket PSNH customers without power, as of 11 a.m., Monday morning. For some residents who are a part of this num-ber, like Kowalchuk, a warm show-er and adequate heat may be as far away as Wednesday, according to the PSNH website.


OUTAGES: No power? No problem

AMANDA BELAND/TNH STAFFExtreme fl ooding during Thursday’s storm caused fi rst fl oors of many buildings to be evacuated.

The following arrests were re-corded from the University of New Hampshire Department of Police Adult Arrest/Summons Log for Feb-ruary 22 to February 28.

February 22

Adam R. Brodeur, 22, 13 Jen-

nifer Drive, Concord, N.H., Janetos House, willful concealment, 6:00 p.m.

February 28

Alexander M. Freid, 18, 1 Depot Lane, Lee, N.H., SERC C, unlawful possession, 11:00 p.m.

Police Log

RAYMOND, N.H. - Police say the body of a Salem, N.H., woman presumed drowned after a canoeing accident on the Exeter River has been found.

Police say 21-year-old Cassan-dra Ray was found Monday a short

distance from where her canoe cap-sized. Crews searched by land, boat and helicopter.

Ray was paddling with two others who were able to swim to shore. None of the three was wear-ing a life vest.

Body of NH woman found after boating accident


Crime on campus is not on the rise, but more information has led to an increased public awareness, ac-cording to a study released by the University of New Hampshire Police Department.

The goal of the survey, required of the police department to retain ac-creditation with the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA), is to gauge the community’s perceptions and comfort level throughout the campus com-pared to 2006, when the last survey was done.

It found an increased perception among students as well as faculty and staff that crime is on the rise on cam-pus despite a decrease in the number of arrests. Fifty-fi ve percent of stu-dents and 52 percent of faculty/staff surveyed reported an increased per-ception of crime on campus, up from 7 percent of student and 7 percent of faculty/staff in 2006.

According to University Police Chief Nicholas Halias, this is directly related to the implementation of a campus alert system in 2007. Halias said that last semester, when the sur-vey was conducted, police issued eight campus alerts including updates, all of which resulted in multiple calls to the department. The October 2009 arrest of a Manchester man for an as-sault outside Stoke Hall was the direct

result of a tip generated from the cam-pus alert as was the timely apprehen-sion of a man seen walking towards downtown with a fi rearm in his coat pocket.

“Overall, crime is not on the rise on campus,” said Halias. “We’ve used the campus alert system proactively to get information to our community in a timely manner, information they wouldn’t have had access to three years ago when the last survey was done.”

“While this has resulted in an in-creased perception that there is more crime taking place on campus, we believe giving people the information they need to stay safe is more impor-tant. The safety of every member of our campus community as well as our visitors is our top priority.”

Notable areas of concern for both student and faculty/staff survey participants involved vandalism to cars and having cars stolen. The third increased area of concern was being assaulted on campus, which police at-tribute to the high-profi le Halloween assault. Halias said police regularly look at the deployment of offi cers to address these concerns.

“I don’t think there’s an excess of crime on campus,” said Ben Goodrich, a UNH freshman. “There’s not a lot of fi ghts and stuff, at least not this semes-ter that I’ve heard of. I think there is a good amount of theft though. I work a lot of weekend nights at the Wildca-

tessen and I see a lot of little crimes there. Like someone stole the mayon-naise pump a couple weeks ago.”

Paul Dean, Deputy Chief of Po-lice and Director of Emergency Man-agement at the university, said that part of sustaining a healthy commu-nity is public safety.

“The information from the sur-vey will aid in updating our strategic initiatives to improve our training and to deploy offi cers to address the com-munity concerns,” said Dean. “For example, if the community identifi es a specifi c crime as an issue, the de-partment will enhance the training of offi cers in that specifi c area as well as deploy more offi cers to resolve those specifi c type of crimes.”

According to Halias, the De-partment will use survey results to make changes. For example, lighting on campus is constantly reviewed and upgraded. Approximately 80 “blue lights” are strategically located around campus, which allow help to be summoned directly to dispatch just by pushing a red button. Students are encouraged to call police at any time to request a free escort anywhere on campus. The department has increased its visibility in and around residence halls. In addition, it continues to of-fer popular education and prevention programs such as its Citizens’ Police Academy, alcohol and drug aware-ness education, as well as R.A.D., a self-defense program for women.

Survey shows altered perceptions of campus crimeKrista Macomber

STAFF WRITER

Police, Fire, and Safety

Many know the feeling of sit-ting in a doctor’s offi ce waiting for what seems like hours to speak with a man or woman in a white lab coat for only a few minutes. Most times these long waits result in receiving a piece of paper with a prescription on it or the name of a specialist who could help them instead. For many, the frustration that ensues seems to almost outweigh the knowledge of their diagnosis and the piece of pa-per with its scribbled answer.

Below are the practices of four alternative medical practitioners who stray outside this stereotype and their advice to living a healthier lifestyle. In the Seacoast area, including the cam-pus of the University of New Hamp-shire, there is a wide variety of these practitioners and ideas on medicine and health that one may never hear of from their traditional doctor. These practitioners and their work are placed into the category of alternative medi-cine, which is broadly defi ned as any-thing that does not fall into the realm of conventional western medicine. For many that means spending hours with their patients to try to help them achieve optimum health.

The Acupuncturist Beth Ann Shmit’s practice is

located in the back of an old yellow house on Portsmouth Ave in Green-land. Her offi ce smells of incense and fl owers and three comfy chairs are set facing each other to the right of the reception desk. These chairs are where patients spend their fi rst visit—up to two hours—going over past mental and physical health, diet, work and home life, and eventually the health problems or disharmonies

they are experiencing. Acupuncture has been traced

back to the year 1023 in China. Us-ing this ancient technique, Shmit inserts needles into different places in the body to help remove stagna-tion or blocked energy, which in acu-puncture is known as the “chi.” This blockage of energy, or chi, results in disease, stress, or pain in the body. She also uses a technique called cup-ping, which is done by placing cups on different parts of the body and by using heat, pulling the skin up un-derneath. This process also results in a more free fl owing movement of the Chi and relaxation. As a patient’s problems start to resolve they don’t need to come back as much, yet many continue because they fi nd it to be so worthwhile. Shmi t explained that just taking better care of oneself could prevent many medi-cal issues in the future.

“Breathe! A lot of people don’t get good deep breaths. In our society we tend to overdo it. If we are tired we don’t rest, we drink coffee. The body is intelligent; learn to pay more attention to it,” said Shmit.

The Shaman According to Ann Sousa, her

goal and specialty is “bringing har-monic balance to all levels of one’s being, utilizing the spirits of Fire, Water, Mineral, and Earth.” Her back-ground in mental health work in un-deniably solid—she has a degree in mental health and science, worked as a grieving counselor for 25 years, traveled with a Peruvian shaman, is a Reiki and Shamballa (a Tibetan spiri-tual teaching) master, currently prac-tices with Malidoma Some—a west African Shaman, and is a midwife.

Sousa spends up to three hours

in the fi rst meeting with a patient and will do long distance healing if neces-sary. People from all around the Unit-ed States have contacted Sousa, who works out of Dover, to ask for help with stress, anxiety, disease, sickness, and depression. She uses Shamanic healing and “root cause analysis” (working on the cause of the problem, not the effects) to help bring people into a place of peace and continuous health. Using Divinations, she con-tacts her subject’s bloodline ancestors to heal pain and suffering that took place in past generations.

“People ask, well why do I want to go back into my blood line ances-try? Well, because what’s happening in this westerner way of living is that we carry out a lot of patterns and be-haviors that we cant quite shed, its like gum on our shoes, we cant fi g-ure out why we cant quite shed them and it’s because they go back and back and back,” said Sousa.

Recently she met with the CEO of the Portsmouth Regional Hospi-tal for Planning and Development to bring integrative health medicine into the hospital. In the past she has been the Shaman in the O.R. for a sigmoid colon removal and a partial mastectomy.

Sousa says that every day we can work on making ourselves healthy and whole.

“Get yourself out in nature and around the fl ow of water. I have treat-ed people with dehydrated brains; people that are constantly working their brains on overdrive and you need to slow that down. Embrace the process you are in now. That’s where the gold is. It’s the journey,” said Sousa.

The Hypnotist

In Dr. Phil Collins’ last year of school at Boston University he was able to do an independent study and by chance, he chose to do his on hypnosis and its effects on helping people quit smoking. From there, Dr. Collins has kept with his inter-est and currently offers hypnosis at UNH Health Services.

“Hypnosis is not sleep. I think of it as enhanced relaxation,” said Collins.

While people are in the trance Dr. Collins speaks calmly and clear-ly to the patient about breaking the habit that controls their life. This can be quitting smoking, overeating, having panic attacks, or other vari-ous detrimental habits people have problems with.

Although Collins believes that hypnosis can work for people he stressed that it is just one way of trying.

“Whatever works, great. Every-one is different and hypnosis is just one part of the treatment,” said Collins.

Yet, in many circumstances doctors don’t have enough time to spend with each individual patient to really go over what will work best for them.

“Alternative healers spend a lot of time with [their patients], It’s almost like seeing a therapist. With Western Medicine you’re lucky if you get 15 minutes,” said Collins.

When it comes to preemptive care, Collins explained the most ba-sic step is practicing simple breath-ing techniques.

“A lot of people allow anxiety to snowball, and it gets bad,” said Collins. “We’re looking for ways to go, go, go and we need to just step back and slow down.”

The Wellness Counselor and

Mediation TeacherPeter Welch’s offi ce is located

on the upper fl oor of Health Services in the Health and Wellness Educa-tion Center. Appointments are eas-ily made and he will speak with a person as many times as necessary to relieve whatever problem they are facing. When asked what exactly he does he explained,

“I offer a loving spirit, someone who treats people with respect and who appreciates the inherent wis-dom in each person,” said Welch.

In addition, Welch teaches med-itation which helps to quiet chatter, teaches compassion for oneself and others, helps a person to be present in the moment, and empowers ones self. Meditation revolves around quieting the mind through breath-ing techniques, and this process has physiological effects on the body.

“It induces a relaxation re-sponse in the body that releases posi-tive hormones called endorphins that make us feel happy and content,” said Welch. “Instead of a pill doing all that work for you, you’re having your brain do the work.”

Yet, Welch pointed out that not everyone has the opportunity to seek out alternative care.

“Pills are more accessible. In-surance will pay for a visit to a doc-tor to get medicine, but not for a massage. It becomes a fi nancial de-cision,” said Welch.

For Welch, one step in taking better care of our health and ourselves is using less technology. “We have become slaves to it now and that over-exposure is not good for us. It also cuts us from human interaction,” said Welch. “We need to be touched. We are touched deprived culture.”

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“Trees, they are so strong. The winds can blow, the earth can shake and they don’t fall. I am envious of the thing that made what I wrote this song on. I do not want to break your heart, but I am not a tree and I can move on…” The deep, soulful voice of Sandi Moon resonates through the MUB Food Court, accentuated by the melodic plunking of piano keys and the deep, emotional moan of a cello.

Even after two weeks of persis-tent cold, Thursday night’s blackout and the university’s curtailed opera-tions that threatened her show, the in-die singer and songwriter took to the microphone before a live audience on Friday night.

It was all to commemorate the release of her new album, “Trees” on which all nine songs were recorded at the local 1.1D Studios by Flyrock Records in Dover.

Moon’s fi ngers nimbly played the piano keys as she sang original songs such as the dark, mournful “Trees” and “On Fire,” to the poi-gnant and playful “Upstairs” and “Bread Boy.”

After the show, Sandi Moon sat down for a more in-depth interview to discuss everything from her music to her passions, her past relation-ships, and her personal journey from humble beginnings as a sophomore music major on the UNH campus to becoming a record-selling indie mu-sician.

Alexandra Churchill: Tell me about your personal background.Sandi Moon: I’m a Music Education major. I started taking piano lessons in fi rst grade and all through high school. I don’t really practice that

much though, but it defi nitely helped so much in writing songs. Even in el-ementary school when I started tak-ing piano lessons, I would write out little tunes. I grew up singing all the time. So it’s been my lifelong dream and ambition to be a songwriter. I’ve always loved music. I’d rather be happy and not make as much money than do a job just for the money and not be as happy.

AC: How would you describe your music style?SM: I call myself indie/folk/pop.

AC: Where do you draw inspiration for your songwriting?SM: Most of the time it’s from re-lationships. I know that so many of my songs are about breakups or lik-ing a guy, but that’s what inspires me. Inspiration from people too, I guess. Sometimes I will write about other people’s situations I hear about, like one of the songs, “Potential,” I wrote the fi rst week I was at UNH. The lyric says, “Why can’t they see I’m happy right where I am sing-ing?” It was talking about that I’m a music major like you want be to be stronger, wiser, bigger, and brighter but I’m happy as I am. What I really I want to have songs that people can relate to.

My song “Mr. Goodbye” is very personal to me. My friend listened to that one and got sad because he had just broken up with his girlfriend. It’s sad that my songs can make people feel sad and rethink themselves but it also makes me happy because I know that my songs are the ones that people can relate to.

You love listening to song be-cause you feel the same way the per-son writing it felt. So if people can relate to my songs, then that’s a great

compliment to me.

AC: Are there any artists that par-ticularly inspire you?SM: Yes, my idol right now is Ingrid Michaelson. She didn’t get signed and she ended up making her own record company. Now she’s one of the top-selling artists right now and she did it all on her own. She’s a role model because she didn’t give up when she didn’t get signed.

AC: How did you go about recording your new album, “Trees”?SM: Over winter break, I told my-self I was going to record a new CD. My friend mentioned a new studio in Dover that opened up and I thought I would record a song there. I ended up recording three on my laptop, six in the studio so that was a big step that was really exciting. It went from a mediocre CD off my laptop to a re-cording studio and professional CD. It never crossed my mind that a nor-mal person could get that done.

AC: Tell me about your two albums “On Fire” and “Trees.”SM: My old CD, “On Fire” is mostly just piano and voice without extra instruments. It was written over the span of four years during high school and my voice has improved since then. Some of the old lyrics I wrote from early years in high school. I would say the songs on my new al-bum are more mature.

As for the future, Sandi hopes to play at Panache in the MUB.

Learn more about Sandi Moon and upcoming events at www.sandi-moonmusic.com. You can check out her music on the web via Facebook, Myspace, iTunes, CDBaby, and Am-azon.

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Weekly Sports GuideWildcats vs.

OTHER EVENTS

SATURDAY - MAR 6Women’s Hockey 3:00 p.m.v. Boston U. @ Providence

This Weekend’s Results

FRIDAY - FEB 24Men’s Hockey (16-10-6), (15-5-5) T, 4-4@ Northeastern

SATURDAY - FEB 27Men’s Hockey (16-10-6), (15-5-5) W, 3-1v. Northeastern

Women’s Lacrosse (2-0), (0-0) W, 9-8v. Dartmouth

SUNDAY - FEB 28Women’s Basketball (8-21), (3-13) L, 79-65@ Boston U.

Men’s Basketball (12-16), (6-10) W, 77-55v. Stony Brook

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Thursdays from 6-8 p.m.

Friday, 7:30 p.m.Men’s Hockey

v. Boston CollegeWhittemore Center

Saturday, 12:00 p.m.Women’s Lacrosse

v. ColgateMemorial Field

‘where’s our defense?’ Because we’ve been a very, very good defen-sive team all year. I’ve been strug-gling with, ‘where did that go?’”

After the contest on Sunday, Herrion’s questions were answered. UNH forced 16 Stony Brook turn-overs, and held a team usually knows for their outside shooting to a mere 20 percent from beyond the arc.

Stony Brook’s Muhammad El-Amin got the ball rolling in the fi rst half, burying a fade away jumper from the right corner. DiLiegro an-swered with a layup on the other end, and the back-and-forth battle began, lasting for about 10 minutes. DiLiegro, who played just four min-utes in the second half of Wednes-

day’s loss to UMBC, came alive of-fensively on Sunday, going 5-for-6 from the fl oor.

Then the perimeter game that UNH basketball is known for fi nal-ly caught fi re.

With over seven minutes re-maining in the fi rst half, Santos buried a 3-pointer, giving the Wild-cats a 20-13 lead. Later in the half, it was Abreu’s turn to rain the deep shots. An Abreu three with just over three minutes remaining dropped through, and then again with three seconds left in the half. The Wild-cats went into the halftime with a commanding 35-21 lead.

But for future games, the ques-tion has now been raised: can the Wildcats still win if the deep shots aren’t falling?

“That’s stressful for you to have to rely on your offense and your three-point shot. That’s a way you really don’t want to go,” Abreu said after the game. “I think we can though [without relying on three’s], because our defense is something we can control. Coach Herrion re-ally sold that on us, and when we buy into it, we’re really tough de-fensively.”

Another thing the Wildcats have really bought into this year is teamwork, and that together they can accomplish their goals. On Sun-day, the players not only showed that with their 16 team assists and quick passing game, but later on in the second half as well. When Santos went down awkwardly after attempting to block a Stony Brook

shot and needed assistance getting off the fl oor, every player on the bench sprinted over underneath the basket to help him walk off. That chemistry will need to be dis-played again come Saturday, when the Wildcats play their fi rst-round matchup.

Before the injury, Santos and the Wildcats buried 3-pointer after 3-pointer to dig the Seawolves into a deeper hole. The Wildcat lead with over 12 minutes remaining had eclipsed 20 points, and would remain that way for the rest of the contest.

Myrick led the way for UNH down the fi nal stretch, accounting for the last six points for the Wild-cats. As the fi nal seconds ticked away, the Lundholm crowd of 1,136

rose in applause, celebrating UNH’s 77-55 victory and the end of another regular season.

“I’m very pleased with the way we fi nished today,” Herrion said. “But now it’s a one-game season; you’ve got to win Saturday to even have a chance. So you take it one game at a time. But a very good win for us today.”

UNH is scheduled to play this Saturday against Maine at Hart-ford’s Chase Arena. As the sixth seed, UNH will play the third-seed-ed Black Bears in the fi rst round of the America East tournament. All tournament games will be at the Chase Arena in Hartford, except for the championship game, which is played at the home of the higher-seeded team. Game time is TBD.


MEN’S HOOP: Myrick scores 21 as Wildcats upset Stony Brook in regular season fi nale

Wildcats won the ensuing draw and were able to run out the clock to seal the victory.

“It was great, the team just came out with a lot of energy and never let up,” UNH head coach Michael Daly said. “We battled all over the fi eld, and that was what re-ally won the game was the battle.”

After Dartmouth’s Abigail Holden and UNH’s Shaunna Ka-plan traded goals to open the scor-ing, Curro scored a man-up goal off an assist from Hayley Rausch to give the ‘Cats a 2-1 lead. The Big Green responded with a man-down tally to again tie the score before Kaplan found Curro in front of the net, who shook off a defender and bounced a shot past Dartmouth net-minder Julie Wadland.

UNH’s defense then took over, holding the Big Green scoreless in the last 23:56 of the fi rst half. Wild-cat defenders continuously disrupt-

ed the Dartmouth attack, forcing 20 turnovers and collecting 14 ground balls.

“People were in the passing lanes, helping each other on de-fense,” Daly said. “We were on every loose ball, we were sending numbers after every loose ball.”

Goals by Kate Keagins (from Rausch) and Allie Duclos (from Curro) gave the Wildcats a 5-2 lead heading into halftime.

Dartmouth scored fi ve minutes into the second period, and again with 10 minutes remaining, but both were answered by Rausch with goals of her own, both unassisted. Rausch, who was named America East Player of the Week, stressed the importance of playing their own game and not being intimidated by the Wildcats’ history against Dart-mouth.

“We’ve played them in the past; we played them in the fall,” she said. “We knew what they were

going to bring and we just counter-acted it by playing our game and it paid off.”

Curro’s third and fourth goals of the game, sandwiched around Hillary Smith’s second of the game for Dartmouth, rounded out the scoring for UNH and set the scene for the furious fi nish.

“[JoJo’s] a really smart player,” Daly said. “In a game like that you have to read the opportunity right and take advantage of it when it’s there, and she did.”

Curro led the scoring for the ‘Cats with fi ve points (4g, 1a), while Rausch recorded four (2g, 2a), and Kaplan and Duclos had a goal and an assist apiece. Gunts fi nished with fi ve saves in net for UNH.

The Wildcats, now 2-0 on the season, travel to UMass on Wednes-day at 3 p.m. before returning home to face Colgate Saturday at 12 p.m. at Memorial Field.


it on net, but we’ll take those. You can’t score if you don’t put it on net,” Umile said. “It’s a crazy game sometimes but we’ll take it. I’m happy.”

Saturday’s game could have gotten out of hand quickly had UNH goalie Brian Foster not regained his composure early in the game.

Just 38 seconds in, on the fi rst shot of the game, Kyle Kraemer sent a wrist shot from in front of the net over Foster’s shoulder. Thankfully for the Wildcats, Foster stepped up for the remainder of the game, stop-ping 12 shots in that fi rst period on

his way to 24 saves overall.“That should’ve been a 4-0

game after two periods, and it wasn’t,” Northeastern head coach Greg Cronin said. “Foster was un-believable.”

Senior captain Peter LeBlanc’s empty-netter with 47 seconds re-maining sealed the win for the Wildcats.

“In the third period, we battled back and found a way to win,” Um-ile said.

On Friday, the Huskies explod-ed to a 3-0 lead before the Wildcats slowly clawed back and Blake Kes-sel fi red home a rebound to tie the

game with 13.3 seconds remain-ing. Kessel’s goal game after UNH pulled Foster in favor of an extra skater.

UNH littered 40 shots on net, but it was the success of the second line that fueled the comeback.

The unit featuring Stevie Mo-ses, Mike Sislo and LeBlanc ac-counted for three goals and eight total points.

“LeBlanc, Sislo and Moses had a great game tonight,” Umile said. “They played very, very well. And that’s what we need. We can’t rely on Bobby Butler’s line every single night.”


LAX: ‘Cats break streak with win

HOCKEY: ‘Cats get three big points in series with Huskies


The UNH women’s gymnas-tics team defeated EAGL rival Maryland 195.000-194.350 in their “pink” meet on Saturday in Lund-holm Gymnasium to improve to 10-2 on the season.

The score of 195.000 matched a season-high for the Wildcats, which they also scored on Jan. 17 at the UNH Invitational.

In the fi rst event, the Wildcats recorded a team score of 49.025 Leading the team were juniors Chel-sea Steinberg and Katie Caliendo, along with senior Helena Diodati, who all tied for second place overall with a score of 9.825.

UNH took their lead into the bars event, where Diodati and junior Katie Lawrence both performed well, tying for fi rst place with a score of 9.8. Sophomore Alison Carr also stood out, taking fourth place with a 9.725.

After two events, UNH led Maryland by a score of 97.425-97.200.

On beam, the Wildcats had

the top two fi nishers in the event as Steinberg and senior Taryn LaFoun-tain tied for fi rst overall with a score of 9.85.

Going into the fi nal of the four events, however, they trailed Mary-land, 146.100-146.075.

But the Wildcats didn’t panic, especially since their fi nal event was the fl oor exercise, their great-est strength, while Maryland was on beam. Advantage Wildcats.

Led by LaFountain and senior Julie Sauchuk, who both scored a 9.85 to tie for second place overall, the Wildcats came from behind to win the meet on fl oor by topping Maryland’s beam score, 48.925-48.250.

According to head coach Gail Goodspeed, the team was confi dent heading into the fl oor exercise.

“We knew we had the edge since it’s easier to score higher in fl oor then it is in beam,” she said. “Plus, fl oor is one of our best events.”

As seen by the slim margin of victory, UNH and Maryland were neck and neck with each other all afternoon.

“We are both two very equal

teams,” Goodspeed said. “This had the feel of an EAGL Championship meet.”

Besides the competition, Satur-day’s meet was about breast cancer awareness.

In order to support the cause, the Wildcats sported black leotards with pink designs on them along with pink bows in their hair.

For Helena Diodati and her teammates, the “pink” meet was about having fun and not worrying too much.

“I told the team to have fun no matter what and keep going after mistakes,” Diodati said. “Many of the girls on the team have been af-fected by breast cancer one way or another, so it was important for us to go out there and have fun sup-porting a good cause.”

Their next UNH gymnastics meet is at George Washington Uni-versity this Sunday at 2 p.m., where they will travel to meet the hosts as well as William & Mary. Their fi nal home meet, which is Senior Day, is on Friday, March 12, at 7 p.m. vs. the North Carolina State Wolfpack.

The University of New Hamp-shire women’s swimming and div-ing team took fi rst place in eight of 18 events, earning third place at the America East Swimming and Div-ing Championships held at Boston University last weekend.

UNH’s eight fi rst-place fi n-ishes were the most by any America East team at the championships. On the weekend, the Wildcats broke eight school and seven conference records, while also qualifying for NCAA provisional time standards in six swims.

Amy Perrault captured three in-dividual titles on the weekend, earn-ing the Women’s Most Outstanding Swimmer of the Meet award.

In addition, UNH earned Amer-ica East Coaching Staff of the Year for the 10th time in Josh Willman’s 17-year tenure as New Hampshire’s head coach.

The fi rst day of competition was highlighted with UNH breaking two conference and pool records, as it claimed the top spot in the fi eld, notching an impressive 80 points.

The Wildcats opened up the meet setting a new pool and Ameri-ca East record in the 800-yard free-style relay with a time of 7:11.21. The impressive time was also a school record for New Hampshire.

New Hampshire kept up its hot pace on day two of the champion-ships, as Perrault led a 1-2 sweep of the 200-yard individual medley, capturing fi rst place in the event, fi nishing day two in second place with 239 points.

Perrault took the top spot with a time of 2:02.71, while Jessica Lit-tle was quick to follow her Wildcat teammate, notching second place, touching in at 2:04.09.

Mallory Morrell broke an America East Championship record with her lead off swim (23.07) in the 200-yard freestyle relay clock-ing in at 1:35.40, as she helped pro-pel UNH to a third-place fi nish.

On day three of competition, Perrault was at it again, claiming fi rst place in the 100-yard back, as New Hampshire rounded out the day in third place with 406 points.

Perrault fi nished the event with a time of 54.74 seconds. However, she was even more impressive in the preliminary race, as she quali-fi ed for an NCAA provisional cut and set an America East record with a time of 54.67. She has won the event for three consecutive years.

The fi nal event of the evening was the 400-yard medley relay, which UNH won last year and pre-viously held the America East re-cord. The Wildcats earned another record-setting fi rst-place fi nish in the event this year with a time of

3:44.72, breaking its own record by almost two seconds. The relay con-sisted of Perrault (55.01), Allison Nahin (1:02.55), Reed (56.69) and Morrell (50.47).

Nahin claimed New Hamp-shire’s fi rst medal of the day, notch-ing a fi rst-place fi nish in the 100-yard breaststroke.

During the fi nal day of com-petition, Perrault earned her third individual title on the weekend, claiming fi rst place in the 200-yard backstroke in an America East and UNH record time of 1:58.59. Her impressive time also qualifi es as an NCAA provisional cut.

The ‘Cats notched another fi rst place fi nish in the 200-yard breaststroke, as Little touched in at an NCAA provisional cut time of 2:16.70. Nahin also added a fi fth place fi nish in the event, with a time of 2:21.47.

New Hampshire rounded out the day going neck-and-neck with Boston University in the 400-yard freestyle relay, as both teams broke the pool record, but the Terriers fi nished just a shade ahead of the Wildcats in fi rst place with a time of 3:23.53.

New Hampshire took second place in the event with an NCAA provisional time of 3:24.08, as Ki-ersten Wollenzien, Morrell, Perrault and Reed led the way for the Wild-cats.

GYMNASTICS

WOMEN’S BASKETBALLSWIMMING & DIVING

Ryan HartleySTAFF WRITER

Staff ReportsTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

Staff ReportsTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

Taryn LaFountain competes on the beam during UNH’s 195.000-194.350 win over Maryland on Saturday.

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Swimmers take fi rst in eight of 18 events on way to third-place fi nish

UNH comes from behind to nip Maryland

Denise Beliveau dropped in a team-high 15 points, but the UNH women’s basketball team fell to Boston University, 79-65, on Sun-day afternoon at Case Gymnasium.

With the loss, the Wildcats fell to 8-21 and 3-13 in America East play, while the Terriers improved to 15-13 and 11-5 in conference play.

Beliveau was chosen as UNH’s America East Player of the Game, rounding out the afternoon with nine rebounds and two steals. Alex Young earned Player of the Game honors for BU, registering a game-high 27 points, paired with four as-sists and three boards.

Candace Williams notched her fourth double-double of the season, tallying 11 points and a game-high 10 rebounds, along with two blocks and two steals. Lauren Wells scored a career-high 15 points and collect-ed three rebounds.

UNH fell behing early, but didn’t go down easily in the closing moments of the fi rst half, however, as a Jill McDonald jumper sparked a 9-4 run by the Wildcats to close out the frame. Williams fi nished off the run with a jumper at the buzzer to bring the score to 42-33 at the in-termission.

The Terriers started the second half with seven unanswered points as Young kicked things off with a 3-pointer, helping BU build its lead to 16 with 18:44 remaining.

Even with the quick start, Wells ignited the ‘Cats, knocking down three consecutive jumpers on three straight trips up the fl oor. Beliveau fi nished off the string of points with a 3-pointer at 15:36, cutting the UNH defecit to eight.

Caroline Stewart broke up the run, netting three points the old-fashioned way, but UNH kept up the heat, with a 7-2 scoring stretch that got the ‘Cats within six points with 12:54 to play.

However, that was as close as the Wildcats came the rest of the way, as the Terriers came back with a 23-10 run that lasted just over nine minutes, eliminating any chance of a UNH comeback.

Chantell Alford tallied 13 points, nine assists and three steals in the contest for the Terriers. Stewart also registered 13 points while pull-ing in a game-high 10 rebounds.

The ninth-seeded Wildcats re-turn to action on Thursday at 6 p.m. when they take on eighth-seeded Maine in the fi rst round of the America East Women’s Basketball Championships at Hartford’s Chase Arena.

Beliveau’s 15 points not enough as Wildcats fall to talented Terriers on road

Wildcats trailed going into fi nal event before fl oor exercise gave UNH the win

sportssportsTuesday The New HampshireMarch 2, 2010

If the UNH men’s basketball team needed any sort of confi dence booster heading into the America East tournament later this week, they were reassured on Sunday against conference-leading Stony Brook.

The Seawolves, who came into Sunday’s matchup on a 10-game winning streak and a 13-2 record in the conference, couldn’t seem to fi nd any kind of rhythm. The Wild-cats dismantled the top-ranked AE team, 77-55, and will once again head into the conference tourna-ment with some momentum.

On Senior Day, Colbey San-tos, the lone senior for the Wild-cats, made his presence felt with 12

points, all on 3-pointers. He joined three other UNH players who re-corded double-digits in points, as freshman Ferg Myrick netted 21 while juniors Alvin Abreu and Dane DiLiegro had 15 and 11 points, re-spectively.

UNH was without fresh-man guard Chandler Rhoads, who missed Sunday’s game because of a broken hand that he suffered in practice on Saturday. He will miss the remainder of the season.

The Wildcats shot an impres-sive 50 percent from the fl oor, in-cluding 45 percent from behind the three-point arc. But, as UNH head coach Bill Herrion has said all year long, the main emphasis for this team is on the defensive end, and their hard work has showed for the majority of the season.

“When you shoot the ball like that, it makes you look good,” Herrion said. “What I was more pleased with, though, was our effort on the defensive end, especially in the fi rst half. I’ve been really, re-ally struggling the last two weeks with ‘where’s our fi ght been,’ and


MEN’S BASKETBALL

‘Cats stun Seawolves on Senior DayWildcat senior Colbey Santos scores 12 in regular season fi nale

Brandon LawrenceSPORTS EDITOR

Senior Colbey Santos, above, gets fi red up after knocking down a 3-pointer in Sunday’s 77-55 victory over conference-leading Stony Brook University. The Wildcats end the regular season at 12-16 overall, 6-10 in AE, and will face Maine in fi rst round tourney action.

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MEN’S HOCKEY WOMEN’S LACROSSE


Junior Allie Bratton fi res a shot on net in Saturday’s 9-8 win over Dartmouth. The win was UNH’s fi rst over the Big Green in 15 meetings, dating back to the 1991 season.

UNH survives Dartmouth comeback, defeats Big Green

JoJo Curro netted four goals as the UNH women’s lacrosse team survived a furious comeback at-tempt to defeat in-state rival Dart-mouth College, 9-8, Saturday after-noon at Memorial Field. The win marked the Wildcats’ fi rst over the Big Green since the 1991 season, breaking a streak of 15 straight loss-es in the series.

Holding a 9-5 lead with just over four minutes remaining in the second half, the Wildcats withstood a barrage of Big Green offense in the fi nal minutes. Sarah Parks made a nifty move in front of the net to put the ball past UNH goalie Kate Gunts to cut the lead to three with 4:06 remaining, and a Dartmouth free position goal less than a minute later made it 9-7.

After a UNH timeout, Greta Meyer forced a Gunts turnover and scored on the empty net to bring the defi cit to one with 2:04 remain-ing. Not to be denied, however, the

Zack CoxSPORTS EDITOR

See LAX on page 14

Despite not being able to take a lead after more than 120 minutes, the UNH men’s hockey team man-aged three of four points in a crucial series against Northeastern over the weekend.

Friday’s 4-4 tie, coupled with a dramatic come-from-behind victory on Saturday leaves the Wildcats three points ahead of second-place Boston College heading into a huge home-and-home series with the Ea-gles this weekend to close out the regular season.

On Saturday, UNH played without energy and appeared to be going through the motions for near-ly three full periods.

In a matter of 12 seconds, how-ever, everything changed.

The Wildcats scored three times in the game’s fi nal 5:02 – including twice in a span of 12 seconds – en route to a crucial 3-2 victory over Northeastern.

“It was a long battle all night,” UNH head coach Dick Umile said.

“We were horrendous in the fi rst. We slowly started playing better. It’s a huge win for us.”

Fourth-line freshman Dalton Speelman headed back to the bench with minutes remaining in the game before Umile waved the group back on the ice with a faceoff play to run.

Mike Borisenok won the fa-ceoff back to John Henrion, whose shot was defl ected in front of the net and slid right to Speelman’s stick.

He sent a wrist shot ricocheting off the post, but gathered his own rebound and sent it past Northeast-ern’s Chris Rawlings (20 saves).

“I was about ready to change,” Speelman said. “[Then] I was like, ‘Okay. I’ll stay out. That’s fi ne with me’.”

Just 12 seconds later, Paul Thompson wrapped around the net and sent a weak backhand on net from the right circle that somehow skidded past Rawlings and gave UNH its fi rst lead of the weekend series.

“Thompson just blindly threw

Hockey ties, beats NU in crucial HE series

Chad GraffSTAFF WRITER

See HOCKEY on page 14

It was hard to watch Crosby and the Canadians celebrate the gold, but it was still an awesome game...eh?

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