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Nicole Gi� ord notched her � rst career hat trick to lead the UNH women’s hockey team past Princeton, 3-1.

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Saturday � re on Edgewood Drive ruled accidental by police

By KAITLIN JOSEPHCONTRIBUTING WRITER

This week, a new type of martial arts, a combina-tion of karate and yoga, will be offered in the Wildcat Den.

Meditative Karate is a new class for UNH students and faculty. The class will be a beginner’s course, of-fering a basic introduction to different karate concepts and techniques. It will also include basic yoga breath-ing and stretching.

Michael Saputo, the class’s instructor, has been a devoted student of the martial arts for more than 15 years. Currently, he holds the title of a black belt.

“I thought it would be a way to give back to the community and also to expose people to something that I believe has a lot to offer,” Saputo said. “It’s a

very inexpensive way to learn karate, and it is a great total body workout.”

The class started yesterday, on Monday, Nov. 28, and is scheduled to take place every Monday from now on from 12-1 p.m. in the MUB Wildcat Den. The class will be offered free of charge.

“It just seems that exposing others to any meth-od or technique to reduce stress and stay physically fi t should be free,” Saputo said. “It’s a way of giving back and sharing in the intellectual community that is UNH.”

Saputo said that since this class is aimed at begin-ners, he will be focusing on maintaining a slow pace.

“In the Monday noon class, I’ve set it up to have about one-third of the class as stretching, one-third

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UNH’s Meditative Karate classes o� er students unique blend of karate, yoga

By ANDREA BULFINCHFOSTER’S DAILY DEMOCRAT

Fire offi cials have determined the cause of a two-alarm fi re that broke out late Satur-day evening rendering the home of three Uni-versity of New Hampshire students unlivable, to be accidental.

According to Fire Chief Corey Landry, one of the occupants of the home located at

16 Edgewood Dr. had been using a fi ve-outlet multi-plug unit with an extension cord and had the device tightly wedged between a bed and a dresser in one of the four bedrooms of the home, giving the unit no air to disperse any heat emitted.

The multi-outlet caught fi re fi rst to the students bed and dresser and ultimately de-stroyed the entire room. That occupant lost all the belongings in that room as a result,

Landry reported.One of the items plugged into the unit

was a space heater, though it was unknown whether it had been turned on at the time. With the space heater hooked up to it, the multi-outlet plug was receiving more wattage than it could handle.

While it should be possible to utilize all of the outlets on the multi-plug, Landry said this one appeared to be one of the less

expensive models and did not have a breaker switch.

He also said that even if the space heat-er was not being used at the time, having it plugged in to the multi-outlet device kept it powered to the wall.

The house had two smoke detectors, only half the number of what a four-bedroom resi-

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The 1,301 residents of the Gables apartments have racked up almost $9,000 in combined damage bills so far this semester.

By MAIREAD DUNPHYCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Residents of the Gables have to pay for all damages done to their community throughout the semes-ter, and the bill is constantly grow-ing.

The Gables buildings, North Tower, South Tower, A Tower, B Tower, and C Tower, have racked up a col-lective damage bill of $8,724.22 in the period be-tween Aug. 28 and Oct. 19. Last year within the same dates, the total was $8,491.71.

Currently, 1,301 students re-side in the towers, and each is sepa-rately charged based on the tower, fl oor and room where the damage occurred. Damages such as the de-struction of exit signs, bodily fl uids in the hallways, stairs, elevators,

and trash are all repeated offenses on the bill.

“It does vary from year to year, and some cost more this year and others cost less than last year,” said Michael Saputo, the assistant direc-tor of UNH’s Department of Hous-

ing. “It’s still too early to compare, and we’ll know more at the end of the semester.”

South Tower houses 249 stu-dents, and is the largest building in the Gables. It also has the highest damage

bill, which is divided among the residents in the tower. For example, according to the damages bill, any time a bodily fl uid is found in South, no matter what type it is, the tower is charged a $100 fee for clean up. This $100 is then split up among the

Damage bills in Gables on pace for record highs

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GABLES DAMAGE BILLS

Fall 2010: $8,491.71Fall 2011: $8,724.22

Results taken from Aug. 28-Oct. 19 of each year

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dence should have, and both were non-working. One was located in the basement, which would not have activated for the fire raging upstairs.

“This would have been a dead-ly fire,” Landry said.

The house’s common area sustained severe damage. One bed-room had heavy smoke damage but was salvageable. Two other rooms of the home had closed doors and sustained smoke damage only. The door to the room where the fire be-gan was also closed, however the fire burned through a wall and into another bedroom.

All four students have been displaced at this time, Landry said.

The Durham fire department responded to an 11:45 p.m. call reporting the fire and according to Landry, heavy fire came from the rear of the building as crews battled the blaze.

No one was home when the fire began. One resident was nearby at a neighbor’s home at the time.

The state fire marshal assisted the Durham Fire Department with the investigation on Sunday.

There were no injuries from the fire and Landry said about seven dif-ferent towns responded to the scene.

As the cause was accidental, there are no charges being filed.

Landry does hope this event will remind people to maintain an adequate number of working smoke detectors in their homes, one per bedroom, and to be cautious with the use of multi-outlet devices as well.

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residents, making it a $.40 charge for each student any time someone spits in the hallway.

“Some people, when they are drunk, vandalize their own build-ings, but I feel like it is mostly kids that don’t live in Gables doing most of the damage because they don’t care about the expenses,” said Ol-ivia Smith, a junior and resident in the Gables community.

Smith’s hallway also had a broken exit sign last week, with live wires hanging down for about a day after the sign was taken.

“There is no way for housing to find out who did the damage un-less someone confesses to it, so we all have to pay for it,” Smith said.

“Damages in the Gables are in-sane. It seems like every weekend the same things get damaged or bro-ken and I hate knowing that it was most likely done by somebody who doesn’t live here,” said Alex Rich, a

junior and Gables resident.The elevator in Rich’s building

had both spit and tobacco chew in it within the past month, as well as exit signs stolen from his hallway.

“What I really want students to know is that what guests do in our complex is the residents’ re-sponsibility,” said Gables Apart-ment Manager Victoria Wilson. “It is not fair for visitors to cause dam-age at the Gables, and that charge is assessed to the students who live here. Unfortunately, unless individual(s) take responsibility for damage, this is the only way that the funds can be recouped.”

According to the damages bill, exit signs alone cost anywhere from $150 to $200 to replace and reinstall in the buildings. Housing has no control over the guests that stay in the Gables and where they stay, so damages caused by guests are hard to properly distinguish. Saputo said that he wishes there was a way to stop people from damaging Gables property.

“We hope to build a tight com-munity at the apartments and that

people would care about where they live,” Saputo said. “It only hurts ev-eryone to have this type of damage. We do recover the costs of the dam-age through community damage charges on student accounts, but it is the fact that people have to put up with the broken items for days sometimes before we can get parts ordered to fix things. This just isn’t right.”

The other on-campus apart-ment complex, the Woodsides, continues to have little damage or vandalism. Saputo explained that this was partly due to the fact there are no hallways in Woodsides, and the population is smaller and older than in the Gables. Any student with sophomore standing or higher can live in Gables.

“Damage billing is a seri-ous issue that the apartment staff deals with every day, and although we have put together focus groups, a res council, and this is a topic that housing addresses frequently, it is not easy to understand why students or guests damage Gables property,” Wilson said.

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the class as slow meditative move-ment including blocks, strikes and kicks. These involve a lot of balance and strength, although they might look simple. Then the last one-third of the class is slowed down kata,” Saputo said.

Saputo explained that kata are “detailed, choreographed patterns of defensive and offensive moves against imaginary opponents. There are about 30 of them in the style of karate [Shotokan] that I practice.

“In the Monday noon class for those that have never taken karate be-fore, we do kata [at] about one-tenth speed. In the regular ka-rate classes, we do this at full speed,” he said.

Aside from his new class, Saputo teaches at the Hamel Rec Center through the UNH Karate Club on Friday nights.

“UNH students and staff mem-bers may join the club, and it’s actu-ally how I got started years ago as a white belt,” Saputo said.

Saputo said that the history of karate, in its modern form, dates back to the 1930s in Japan, but has roots much earlier in Okinawan and Chinese martial arts.

The class not only offers as-pects of karate, but is also partly focused on some aspects of yoga as

well. “In my opinion, yoga should

be incorporated in all aspects of life,” Saputo said. “Our teacher from Japan, Hirokazu Kanazawa, incorporates yoga and tai chi into his training classes.”

Saputo explained that adding yoga was due to the “belief that it makes for a more well-rounded and balanced life.”

Yoga has become an important part of Saputo’s life, and he wishes to share that in his classes.

“I was exposed to both yoga and tai chi years ago when I broke my arm in karate and couldn’t train for several months. I found both

interesting, but yoga stayed in my life,” Saputo said. “It has had a very calming and peaceful af-fect on who I have become as an adult.”

S a p u t o said he thinks his classes will benefit the UNH community.

“I hope stu-dents will begin to see some real

benefits, both physically and men-tally, from taking the classes,” he said. “I believe that many of the eastern practices like yoga, tai-chi or the martial arts have great ben-efits for all of us.”

He added that it’s only about an hour out of his week, and he thinks he’s getting more of a benefit than any of the students who come.

“After all, it gets me to slow down, stop and appreciate being in the moment, and isn’t that what life is all about?”

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By CHRISTINE ARMARIOAssociAted Press

LITHONIA, Ga. - Robert Champion fell in love with music at about age 6 when he saw a march-ing band at a parade in downtown Atlanta. So mesmerized by the fes-tivities, he came home, took out pots and pans and started banging away like a little drummer.

His passion led him to march-ing bands from middle school through college. He was a drum major for the famed Marching 100 band of Florida A&M University, a group that has performed at Super Bowls, the Grammys and presi-dential inaugurations. The prestige brought along a “culture of hazing” and a secret world that played a role in Champion’s death, his family said Monday.

“It needs to stop. The whole purpose is to put this out there and let people know there has to be a change,” Champion’s mother, Pam, said at a news conference.

On Nov. 19, after the school’s football team lost an away game to rival Bethune-Cookman, Cham-pion collapsed on a bus parked outside an Orlando, Fla., hotel. The 26-year-old junior had been vom-iting and complained he couldn’t breathe shortly before he became unconscious.

When authorities arrived about 9:45 p.m., Champion was unrespon-sive. He died at a nearby hospital.

Authorities have not released any more details, except to say haz-ing played a role. An attorney rep-resenting Champion’s family also refused to talk specifics.

“We are confident from what we’ve learned that hazing was a part of his death. We’ve got to ex-pose this culture and eradicate it,” Christopher Chestnut said. “There’s a pattern and practice of covering up this culture.”

Since Champion’s death, the

school has shuttered the marching band and the rest of the music de-partment’s performances. The long-time band director, Julian White, was fired.

The college also announced an independent review led by a former state attorney general and an ex-local police chief in Tallahassee, where the historically black college is based.

White, who believes he was unfairly dismissed, said Monday he had suspended 26 band members for hazing two weeks before Cham-pion died. He took heat for the de-cision, particularly from the parents of band members, and said the pun-ishments were like suspending star football players.

“And so the band members were apprehensive. ‘Doc, you think we can go without 19 trombone players?’” White said. “And other folks. ‘Doc, do you thing you can do it without them?’ My comment was, it doesn’t matter, I am not go-ing to sacrifice the performance for the principle.”

Hazing has a long history in marching bands, particularly at historically black colleges, where a spot in the band is coveted for its tradition and prominence. Band per-formances are sometimes revered as much as the school’s sports teams.

FAMU has been at the center of some of the worst cases. In 2001, former FAMU band member Mar-cus Parker suffered kidney damage because of a beating with a paddle. Three years earlier, Ivery Luckey, a clarinet player, said he was paddled around 300 times and had to go to the hospital.

Champion’s parents said their son never spoke of hazing. Robert Champion Sr. said he talked to his son just a few days before his death and everything was fine.

“I wanted to believe stuff like that wouldn’t happen,” he said. “I would ask my son questions. ‘Is

there anything you need to tell me? Let me know.’ He told me, ‘Dad everything is going OK. I’m work-ing, trying to go to school and prac-tice.’”

His first instrument was the clarinet, which he learned to play in the fifth grade. A middle school teacher recognized his talent and he was tapped to lead the school’s or-chestra and perform with the South-west DeKalb High School band as an eighth grader. He could also sing and play keyboards.

Chapel Hill Middle School band director Natalie Brown said she’ll never forget his outgoing per-sonality and phenomenal musician-ship.

“He was always smiling. He never gave me a hard time,” she said. “If class was about to start, he’d get everyone quiet and start the warm-up process. He had the drum major mentality way back then.”

He was so enthusiastic about performing that his mother would call him “Mr. Band.”

At times he struggled with his schoolwork and he didn’t immedi-ately go to Florida A&M after high school. But he eventually enrolled, balancing a job with school and his band commitments. In late 2010, he was named drum major.

“His experience in the band was, in his words, great. Robert was happy,” his mother said. “He loved the band and everything that went with it. He loved performing. That was his life. You couldn’t take him out of it.”

The family’s attorney said they hoped a lawsuit would lead to changes at the school and prod other hazing victims to come forward.

“We want to eradicate a cul-ture of hazing so this doesn’t hap-pen again,” said Chestnut. “Hazing is a culture of, ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell.’ The family’s message today is: ‘Please tell.’”

Fla. A&M drum major killed in Nov. 19 hazing incident

I hope students will begin to see some real benefits, both physically and mentally, from taking the class.”

Michael SaputoMedatative Karate instructor

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PORTSMOUTH - New Hamp-shire will be holding its first race next year in conjunction with a global group dedicated to fighting breast cancer.

The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure is scheduled to take place on May 12, 2012, in Portsmouth’s Strawbery Banke.

The national group has raised and invested more than $1.9 billion in the fight to eliminate breast can-

cer.An affiliate started in Vermont

in 1993. It then became the Ver-mont-New Hampshire affiliate in 2003. Manchester, Vt., is celebrat-ing its 20th annual Race for the Cure next year.

The affiliate has raised more than $7.5 million since 1993. Of that amount, more than $5.7 mil-lion directly benefited breast cancer education, screening and treatment in the two states and more than $1.8 million supported Komen’s Grants research program.

Komen breast cancer walk coming to NH

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By DAVID ANDERSONContributing Writer

Studies have shown that local businesses tend to be more sup-portive of local nonprofits than big box stores and retail chains, a fact demonstrated by the growing rela-tionship between the New Hamp-shire Coastal Protection Partner-ship (N.H. Coast) and the Green Alliance.

In 2008, a group of citizens came together to form N.H. Coast out of a shared concern about de-clining water quality in the Great Bay estuary. That same year, the Green Alliance was launched by local journalist Sarah Brown and business partner Andrew Kel-lar, then the owner and founder of Simply Green Biofuels, to promote local green businesses and foster the growth of a green economy in southern New Hampshire and Maine.

Over the years, the two orga-nizations have developed a natural friendship based on a shared desire to restore the clean water and thriv-ing ecosystems that have defined quality of life on the Seacoast for generations. Green Alliance busi-ness partners have donated thou-

sands of dollars to help support N.H. Coast’s nonprofit mission to combine sound science with educa-tion, collaboration and advocacy to protect the natural resources of the Granite State’s coastal watershed.

Nowhere is the impact of this support more evident than in the success of N.H. Coast’s popular Rain Barrel Program. Donations from Green Alliance Business Partners like Altus Engineering, Cornerstone Treecare, Ecomove-ment, Greenovations, Jewett Farms & Co., and ReVision have played a big role in enabling N.H. Coast to distribute more than 100 energy and water-saving rain barrels to Seacoast residents at local farmers’ markets, community events, and workshops – many of them free of charge.

In keeping with the green spir-it that defines both organizations, N.H. Coast staff and volunteers hand craft each rain barrel from reclaimed plastic drums purchased from a local recycler in Northwood, helping to reduce the amount of waste destined for local landfills. Each rain barrel installed by a local homeowner helps to take a small chunk out of the storm water run-off that contributes to over 80 per-

cent of surface water impairments in New Hampshire, while also con-serving water, saving energy and reducing carbon footprints.

Of course, donations are just one way to support a local non-profit, and Green Alliance Busi-ness Partners are going beyond the call of duty by doing their part to protect the local environment even outside of regular business hours. ReVision Energy sponsored and played host to one of N.H. Coast’s popular “Make your own rain bar-rel” workshops at its new solar showroom and workshop in Exeter on a Saturday morning in April.

Jewett Farms & Co. and Gree-novations hosted a dockside party to benefit N.H. Coast on board the Isles of Shoals Steamship Com-pany’s M/V Thomas Layton this summer. Ecomovement’s Rian Be-dard installed multiple N.H. Coast rain barrels at his home to save water.

Now, the Green Alliance and N.H. Coast are partnering up to of-fer Seacoasters a special combined membership for $50, $20 off the usual cost of joining both of these eco-minded organizations.

To learn more about N.H. Coast, visit www.greenalliance.biz.

Green Alliance and NH Coast partner to improve water quality in Seacoast area

By HOLLY RAMERAssoCiAted Press

CONCORD, N.H. - Video game consoles, princess castles and panini presses were big sell-ers on Cyber Monday, but a New Hampshire CEO who was tracking online shopping trends said con-sumers weren’t necessarily getting the best deals.

Robert Wilkins of Peterbor-ough heads FreePriceAlerts, a web browser plug-in and mobile appli-cation that notifies shoppers when another site is offering a lower price on the item they’re viewing online. He said about 60 percent of the more than 100 retailers the app monitors started raising their prices before Black Friday - the day after Thanksgiving - and then dropped them in the last few days to make it look like they were of-fering steep discounts.

“The prices that they dropped to weren’t that much better - may-be 2 or 3 percent better - than they were a week or two ago,” he said.

In some product categories, prices were actually higher on Cyber Monday, which was started in 2005 by a retail trade group to encourage Americans to shop on-line the Monday after Thanksgiv-

ing. Wilkins said power tools and kitchen items were not bargains Monday.

“If you’re shopping for mix-ers, or plates, knives - anything in the home goods area - we’re not seeing price declines. We’re actu-ally seeing a rise of 10-15 percent from two weeks ago,” he said. “So you might be shopping and say, ‘This is the best price I can get to-day,’ but from a couple of weeks ago, it’s actually up.”

By early afternoon, top sell-ers included the Wii video game console bundled with a Mario Kart game, the Disney Princess Royal Castle and the Breville nonstick panini press. J.C. Penney, Macy’s, and Wal-Mart were among the busiest sites, Wilkins said, with traffic up more than 50 percent from 30 days ago. He said Over-stock.com, Home Depot and Radio Shack were among the sites that weren’t seeing as much traffic as he expected.

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By LEANNE ITALIEAssoCiAted Press

NEW YORK - Kids can video chat with Santa, follow him on Twitter or enlist NORAD to track his every move online. And yet in many ways, technology may be making it harder for parents to keep their children believing in the jolly old elf.

At nearly every turn, the In-ternet threatens to blow the fat man’s cover.

Practically any schoolchild can type “Is Santa real?” into Google. And just a few clicks can bring youngsters to websites that sell customized letters from the North Pole or offer advice on how Mom and Dad can fool the kids into believing in old St. Nick.

“I have a love-hate relation-ship with technology and Santa,” said Kristi Kovalak, a mom in St. Louis. “The beauty of Santa is the not knowing. Technology is all about knowing, and knowing this instant. I swear, Google is the nemesis of the North Pole.”

She embraces digital life daily but stays far away from cyber-San-ta for her two boys, ages 5 and 11.

“We don’t do robo-calls. We don’t submit lists to Santa online. I don’t have tracking apps on my phone,” she said. “Too much proof means you then have to explain away when the next crazy thing contradicts it.”

Kevin Grout and his wife had a close call recently while watch-ing a Santa Claus parade on TV with their children, ages 6, 4 and 5 months. A commercial came on for a website that creates email greet-ings from Santa. They switched channels just in time.

“We’re definitely in this boat,

primarily with our oldest. She’s a smart cookie,” said Grout, of St. Catharines, Ontario. “It was clear to me a poor strategy to run it dur-ing a Santa Claus parade when many kids would be tuned in.”

Santa sites can easily be found by any kid with an iPad.

Igco.com, for example, screams: “Discover our acclaimed letter from Santa, phone call from Santa, Santa evidence kits and of-ficial good list certificate. Make your children’s eyes pop out of their heads this Christmas!” (Par-ents might have fun explaining away the Santa boot print kit, com-plete with a plastic template and a shaker full of snow crystals, for $15.99.)

Over at Santa.com is a menu of prices for letters from Santa. There’s a fancy one on a scroll for $19.99 and a simple postcard for nearly $3. (Mommy, why does Santa charge?)

Enter the search query “Is San-ta real?” and up comes an entry on a psychology site about the dreaded question itself and how parents who are trying to keep the Santa secret live in fear this time of year.

Kyla Kelim of Fairhope, Ala., caught her oldest, a 9-year-old boy, on her iPad playing Santa sleuth a week or so ago.

“We’re so close with him this year, not believing,” she said. “He was Googling ‘Santa,’ and I saw him type the word ‘myth’ when I grabbed it and said no electron-ics. I’m constantly having to fol-low my phone and iPad and stuff around right now. We’re trying not to debunk Santa for our 7-year-old.”

Not all parents are worried technology will destroy the magic.

Is tech friend or foe to Santa Claus?

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The New HampshireTuesday, November 29, 20116 NEWS

By ASHLEIGH McGRANEContributing Writer

The Green Launching Pad program at UNH took off on Feb. 3, 2010, with support from both UNH President Mark Huddleston and New Hampshire Governor John Lynch, and with high hopes of successfully taking advantage of economic opportunities in New Hampshire from the emerging green economy.

According to the Green Launching Pad website, the mis-sion of the program was to create a “green” energy technology com-mercialization program, available to New Hampshire businesses, entrepreneurs and innovators. Each and every project funded by the Green Launching Pad (GLP) would address issues of energy efficiency, energy conservation, renewable energy, and sustainable energy projects.

A year after the programs started, Ross Gittell, a UNH pro-fessor who works with the GLP, said that in the program’s short life, it has helped launch 11 new green companies, increased em-ployment in the state and is still continuing to grow and pursue more projects.

Each firm that wins funding from the GLP receives $90,000 in funding, which comes from the U.S. Department of Energy,

as well as other agencies invested with the program.

Once the teams receive the funding, the company will begin to grow, using the green ideals and strategies the program believes in.

The GLP has helped increase New Hampshire’s economy, and all of the newly launched environ-mental firms are producing lower carbon emissions, Gittell said.

Gittell wanted to get involved with the program because of the GLP being “well-positioned to help both the environment and local businesses.” Gittell also be-lieves in the program’s importance in reducing carbon emissions, and benefit to the state economy com-ing out of a recession.

Gittell stressed the impor-tance of the student interns with this program.

“There is a lot of student in-terest in the GLP and students find it exciting, important and reward-ing,” Gittell said.

Gittell went on to say that the GLP interns were selected through a highly competitive program, and all have different backgrounds ranging from environmental en-gineering to communication and political science majors.

Joe VanGombos, a senior political science major at UNH, was competitively selected as one of the GLP’s eight interns. The interns serve as both a tool for

the GLP as well as an important resource for each of the GLP’s launched companies.

Right now, VanGombos is working on a video marketing project with two other interns to create short videos of interviews with the presidents of each compa-ny. The video can be used by each company for marketing purposes, and the GLP will use them to pro-vide feedback on its website for future interested companies.

VanGombos is also work-ing to create an event called “A Greener Taste of Durham,” which will take place in February. The purpose of the event is to bring together all kinds of local restau-rants, both green and not, into the Granite State Room of the MUB at UNH. The event will give stu-dents a taste of all of the local restaurants, and will hopefully en-courage restaurants not practicing green techniques to do so.

VanGombos said his favorite part of working for the GLP “has been working directly with com-panies, and also getting to meet entrepreneurs with strong perspec-tives and ideas to make a reality.”

Gittell is excited about the program’s future and said that the program is still really focused on the 11 firms recently launched, but that the program looks forward to launching two or three new firms in January.

UNH program launches almost a dozen ‘green’ companies within a year

NH Briefs

By STEVE PEOPLESAssoCiAted Press

EXETER, N.H. - Republican presidential contender Jon Hunts-man has released a plan to break up the nation’s biggest banks.

The former Utah governor says officials haven’t done enough to protect against future taxpayer bailouts. He says too many banks are still considered “too big to fail.”

Huntsman plans to discuss his financial overhaul plan with New

Hampshire voters Monday night. Along with capping the size of banks, he wants larger financial in-stitutions to pay fees to help cover any future bailouts.

Fearing a global financial melt-down, federal officials sent billions of dollars to large banks during the financial crisis.

Huntsman also wants to shut mortgage giants Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae and repeal the law, known as Dodd-Frank, that over-hauled the financial system.

CONCORD, N.H. - A New Hampshire program aims to con-vince Berlin homeowners to switch from fossil fuels to wood pellets to heat their homes.

Officials for the Model Neigh-borhood Project say they hope to convince up to 40 homeowners to

sign on to better the environment and the local economy.

Subsidies could cover up to 75 percent of the cost of converting to wood pellet heat. Officials say homeowners who convert could see savings of 40-50 percent on their heating bills.

Huntsman hopes to break up big banks

Program promotes wood pellet heat in Berlin

By LYNNE TUOHYAssoCiAted Press

CONCORD, N.H. - Manches-

ter Republican Rep. Phil Greazzo believes if one murderer can face the death penalty in New Hamp-shire, all should be eligible for that punishment.

If it’s not an option for every-one, he reasons, why have it? So he has proposed legislation to expand the state’s death penalty law to in-clude any intentional murder.

“If it’s going to be too expen-sive to prosecute and execute ev-ery murderer, it shouldn’t apply to anyone,” Greazzo said. “Everyone should be treated equally under the law, even murderers.”

State law currently allows prosecutors to seek the death pen-alty under seven circumstances. Those include the murder of an on-duty law enforcement officer or judge; murder for hire; murder com-mitted in connection with a rape or kidnapping; murder committed dur-ing certain drug offenses; murder committed while the defendant is already serving a life sentence and murder during a burglary or home invasion.

The bill - passed by the Crimi-nal Justice and Public Safety Com-mittee 11-6 last month - does not re-quire prosecutors to pursue a death sentence. The House is expected to vote on the measure in January.

Richard Dieter, executive

director of the Death Penalty In-formation Center, said the kind of expansion Greazzo’s bill calls for probably would be unconstitutional.

“The Supreme Court has said this is supposed to be a winnowing process of getting to the worst of the worst,” Dieter said.

Dieter said the bill runs counter to a trend nationally of states back-ing away from capital punishment. Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber last week declared a moratorium on all executions, just weeks before the scheduled execution of killer Gary Haugen. Illinois earlier this year banned executions.

“I think the states have slowed down in their expansion efforts,” Dieter said. “The death penalty is no longer a political plus for people.”

Greazzo, who is also a Man-chester alderman, said he thinks it’s appropriate that Michael Addison was sentenced to death in 2008 for killing Manchester Police Officer Michael Briggs five years ago. But he hastened to add that if Addison had missed Briggs and fatally shot a bystander he should have faced the death penalty.

Addison is the only convict on New Hampshire’s death row. He would be the first person executed in New Hampshire since 1939. In its 380-year history, New Hamp-shire has executed 24 people.

The only other death penalty prosecution in the state in decades was that of wealthy businessman

John Brooks, also in 2008. The jury that convicted him of contract murder opted for a life sentence for Brooks, who had plotted the killing of a handyman.

Gov. John Lynch in June signed legislation expanding the death penalty to killings that occur during home invasions. The “Kim-berly Cates Law” - named for the woman hacked to death in a 2009 machete and knife attack that also maimed her 11-year-old daugh-ter - marked the first expansion of the state’s death penalty law in 17 years. The killing of a judge was added to the list of eligible crimes in 1994.

Lynch spokesman Colin Man-ning said the governor supports the death penalty statute as it now stands. He did not respond directly to the question of making all mur-ders death penalty-eligible.

State Rep. Stephen Shurtleff, a Concord Democrat and retired po-lice officer, voted against the bill. Shurtleff served on the 22-member commission that spent eight months studying the state’s death penalty. The committee voted 12-10 last year to retain the death penalty. Shurtleff said the committee concluded unan-imously that the capital murder law should not be expanded.

Shurtleff said he is in favor of the death penalty for certain crimes, “but this bill goes beyond the pale.” He said the cost of capital cases factors into his opinion.

Greazzo proposal makes all intentional murder suspects death penalty eligible

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By SCOTT SZYCHERContributing Writer

The holiday season means holiday parties for business own-ers and employees. These parties are a great reward for workers for a hard year’s effort in a tight economy.

“A good holiday party can re-ally improve morale,” said Jenni-fer Jarvis, owner of the Riverworks Restaurant and Tavern in down-town Newmarket. The Riverworks hosts holiday parties of up to 65 guests in its upstairs dining rooms before 5 p.m., including weekends, and hosts get-togethers in private rooms or in its dining room for evening parties.

“For some companies, the hol-iday party is one of the few times that people from different depart-ments get to socialize with each other, so it acts as a great team-building opportunity,” Jarvis said. “And serving fresh, creative food is something that employees really appreciate.”

Jarvis and her staff at the Riv-erworks know a lot about satisfy-ing a variety of palettes affordably. She will typically ask a business manager for a budget, and then come up with a menu accordingly. Or, businesses can choose from Riverworks’ catering menu, or even its regular menu, and the res-taurant will come up with a price

that won’t have the business owner reaching for the Alka-Seltzer.

Either way, there is no fee for groups wishing to make use of Riv-erworks’ dining room or private ar-eas.

“It’s our way of trying to ac-commodate businesses that want to celebrate the holidays, but have to closely watch their expenses,” Jar-vis said, whose restaurant offers a mobile catering service that raises the bar for offsite food quality. “We cater or deliver our homemade food for small and large compa-nies, complete with tablecloths and a buffet line, and it’s a nice, conve-nient treat for the staff.”

For groups looking to hold a holiday party at one of the nicer

spots in eastern New England, Clay Hill Farm Restaurant in Cape Neddick, Maine, is an extraordi-nary spot for a holiday party. It is the first restaurant in the country to be certified by the World Wild-life Federation as a natural wildlife habitat and bird sanctuary, and has since been deemed an environmen-tal leader in the state of Maine. Pri-vate evening events for 30 or more can take full advantage of Clay Hill Farm’s party menu - complete with salad, an entrée and dessert – while smaller groups can gather by the fireplace, and enjoy the use of Clay Hill Farm’s gorgeous rooms, and its award-winning food and service while ordering from the regular

menu. Clay Hill Farm owner Jennifer

McShera encourages companies to consider a co-op holiday party.

“Our ‘little-big’ party concept of smaller businesses combining their resources to share entertain-ment and hors d’oeuvres allows businesses to reward the staff with not only a locally-sourced dinner, but also networking and socializ-ing opportunities,” McShera said. “It’s tempting for small businesses to save a little money in the short term, but it’s important to show appreciation to hard-working em-ployees.”

Two other holiday party venues that pride themselves on corporate social responsibil-ity and environmental steward-ship are Robert’s Maine Grill in Kittery, and Two Ceres Street in downtown Portsmouth. With an upstairs dining room overlook-ing scenic Spruce Creek, Robert’s Maine Grill offers party organizers the ability to create a specialized menu and atmosphere. It’s also a supremely green restaurant, as its developed an extensive storm wa-ter-treatment program to minimize contaminant flow into the Spruce Creek, and has reduced its waste by 95 percent through a compre-hensive single-stream recycling

program. And Two Ceres Street Restau-

rant – considered by many to be downtown Portsmouth’s premier martini bar – is no slouch when it comes to hosting elegant holiday parties. Featuring a beautiful fire-place, exposed beams, reclaimed wood artwork on the walls, and an inviting bar area, Two Ceres Street is rapidly becoming known as the spot in downtown Portsmouth to host a company or personal gath-ering that will have guests gushing about their experience.

Riverworks, Clay Hill Farm Restaurant, Robert’s Maine Grill, and Two Ceres Street are all mem-bers of the Green Alliance, which connect local green businesses with burgeoning eco-conscious commercial and residential com-munities in New Hampshire, Maine and Massachusetts. Green Alliance members get discounts ranging from 10 percent to 20 per-cent off food (and in some cases, alcohol) from nightly menus at all of these restaurants, as well as 90 other businesses across the region.

Local businesses have many options for holiday parties

For some companies, the holiday party is one of the few times that people from differ-ent departments get to socialize with each other, so it acts as a great team-building opportunity. “

Jennifer JarvisRiverworks Resturant and Tavern Onwer

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By KEN THOMASAssoCiAted Press

WASHINGTON - Democrats are using humor to try to under-mine Republican Mitt Romney, pushing a movie trailer-style ad that portrays his candidacy as a “the story of two men trapped in one body.”

The new ad released Monday is part of an aggressive effort by Democrats to portray Romney as being inconsistent on a number of issues important to conserva-tive voters as he seeks to challenge President Barack Obama next year. Democrats are trying to slow the former Massachusetts governor’s progress with six weeks remaining before Republican primary voters begin picking their nominee.

The Democratic National Committee ad, called “Mitt ver-sus Mitt,” argues that Romney has changed his views on health care and abortion rights, showing contradictory clips of Romney on

the issues. “From the creator of ‘I’m running for office for Pete’s sake,’ comes the story of two men trapped in one body,” the ad says.

The DNC is airing the adver-tisement in Albuquerque, N.M., Raleigh, N.C., Columbus, Ohio, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, and Wash-ington. It directs viewers to a web-site, www.MittvMitt.com, with a longer version.

Romney has blasted Obama’s handling of the economy and his campaign has accused the presi-dent of saying anything to hold onto power. Romney has tried to position himself as the Republican best positioned to take on Obama. Last week, his campaign aired an ad in New Hampshire challenging the president on the economy.

Democrats are trying to un-dercut Romney’s standing in the GOP primary as he tries to fend off a large field of his fellow Re-publicans, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and busi-nessman Herman Cain.

DNC ad targets Romney over flip-flops

The New HampshireTuesday, November 29, 20118 NEWS

By PHILIP ELLIOTTAssociAted Press

WASHINGTON - The New

Hampshire Union Leader endorsed former House Speaker Newt Gin-grich in Sunday editions, signal-ing that rival Mitt Romney isn’t the universal favorite and that the state’s largest newspaper could re-set the contest there with six weeks to go before voters cast their bal-lots.

“We are in critical need of the innovative, forward-looking strat-egy and positive leadership that Gingrich has shown he is capable of providing,” the newspaper wrote in an editorial that was as much a promotion of Gingrich as a discreet rebuke of Romney.

“We don’t back candidates based on popularity polls or big-shot backers. We look for conser-vatives of courage and conviction who are independent-minded, grounded in their core beliefs about this nation and its people, and best equipped for the job,” the newspa-

per continued.Romney enjoys a solid lead in

New Hampshire polls and remains at the front of the pack nationally. A poll released last week showed him with 42 percent support among likely Republican primary vot-ers in New Hampshire. Gingrich followed with 15 percent in the WMUR-University of New Hamp-shire Granite State poll.

Rep. Ron Paul of Texas posted 12 percent support and former Utah Gov. John Huntsman found 8 per-cent support in that respected sur-vey.

Those numbers could shift based on the backing of The Union Leader, a newspaper with a conser-vative editorial page that proudly works to influence elections in the politically savvy state, from school boards to the White House.

“We don’t have to agree with them on every issue,” the newspa-per wrote in an editorial that ran across the width of the front page. “We would rather back someone with whom we may sometimes dis-

agree than one who tells us what he thinks we want to hear.”

While Romney enjoys solid support in national polls, a sizeable pack of Republicans have shifted all year from candidate to candi-date in search of an alternative to the former Massachusetts governor. That led to the rise - and fall - of potential candidates such as Hunts-man, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Texas Gov. Rick Perry.

Yet with six weeks until New Hampshire voters cast their bal-lots, the Union Leader’s move could shuffle the race there and give Gingrich another boost. In re-cent weeks, he has seen a surge in some polls as Republicans start to ask themselves: which candidate is best positioned to take on President Barack Obama?

As the public started tuning in, Gingrich kept posting solid de-bate performances and he found his stride on a national stage, the former Georgia lawmaker began rebuild-ing his campaign. In New Hamp-

shire, he brought on respected tea party leader Andrew Hemingway to lead his efforts and his team has been contacting almost 1,000 vot-ers each day.

Hemingway’s team of eight paid staffers in New Hampshire has been adding more than 100 volun-teers each day, campaign officials said. Gingrich’s team already has lined up leaders in the major cities and has started identifying repre-sentatives in each ward in the state.

Gingrich also has opened three offices in New Hampshire - in Manchester, the state’s biggest city; in Dover in the eastern part of the state; and in the North Country’s Littleton - and plans two more.

Gingrich hasn’t yet begun tele-vision advertising and fastidiously refused to go negative on his op-ponents.

Yet the Union Leader’s back-ing could give him a nudge in New Hampshire and provide a steady stream of criticism.

Four years earlier, the newspa-per threw its support to Sen. John

McCain’s bid and used Page One opinion columns and editorials to boost him - and criticize Romney. In the time since, Romney has worked to court Union Leader Publisher Joe McQuaid, who often publishes columns on the newspaper’s front page under his signature.

“The Union Leader’s style is we don’t just endorse once,” Mc-Quaid told The Washington Post in 1999. “We endorse every damn day. We started endorsing Reagan in 1975 and never stopped.”

Romney and his wife, Ann, had dinner with the McQuaids at the Bedford Village Inn near Man-chester, hoping to reset the relation-ship earlier this year. Yet it didn’t prove enough and McQuaid’s newspaper seemed not to appreci-ate the outreach.

“Newt Gingrich is by no means the perfect candidate,” the editorial said. “But Republican primary vot-ers too often make the mistake of preferring an unattainable ideal to the best candidate who is actually running.”

New Hampshire Union Leader backs Gingrich for 2012

By CLARKE CANFIELDAssociAted Press

PORTLAND, Maine - Gam-

blers have been able to play slot ma-chines in Maine for six years. In a matter of months, they’ll be placing

bets on blackjack, poker and craps as casino table games arrive.

Hollywood Slots in Bangor plans to add 14 table games in the spring, possibly as early as March. There’ll be six tables for blackjack,

four for Texas Hold ‘Em poker and one each for let-it-ride poker, three-card poker, craps and roulette.

A casino under construction in Oxford that’s slated to open in June plans to have at least 10 table

games, but the exact number and type of games has yet to be deter-mined.

Marty Arbo is looking forward to playing blackjack and poker in Bangor. The arrival of table games will draw Mainers, as well as ca-sino-goers from New Hampshire and Massachusetts, who now go to Foxwoods casino in Connecticut, he said.

“Instead of all of us driving to Foxwoods, it’ll be in our backyard,” said Arbo, 55, who lives in Patten, 90 miles north of Bangor.

The arrival of table games is expected to boost the number of employees at the casinos. At Hol-lywood Slots, 14 table games may not sound like much, but it will add 89 jobs paying $4 million in salaries and benefits, said John Osborne, general manager.

The jobs include card deal-ers, pit bosses and others directly linked to the table games, as well as surveillance workers, cashiers, ser-vice personnel, and others who will need to be hired.

With poker competitions popu-lar on TV, the casino industry has seen people in the 25-to-35-year-old range drawn to poker and other casino table games, Osborne said.

The table games will comple-ment Hollywood Slots’ 1,000 slot machines and its pari-mutuel wager-ing room where customers can watch and bet on horse races at a number of horse tracks around the country, he said. To reflect the change in the offerings, the casino is changing its name to Hollywood Casino Bangor early next year.

Hollywood Slots has had slot machines since it opened in Novem-ber 2005. But it was prohibited from having table games until voters in Pe-nobscot County gave their approval in a countywide vote on Nov. 8.

“People had presumed when the vote came in that we would open table games the very next day,” Os-borne said. “They are definitely excited about the prospect of table games coming to Bangor.”

The casino in Oxford, which

hasn’t been named yet, was approved by referendum in 2010, with voters approving both slots and table games. Final decisions on the number of slot machines and tables games have yet to be made, but having table games is an important part of the casino’s business model, said spokesman Scott Smith.

“The larger portion of rev-enues comes from slots,” he said. “But when you look at having a full complement of gaming choices, you bring in people interested in table games and they bring in somebody who plays the slots. It rounds out your offerings.”

The Maine Gambling Control Board still has to sign off on table games rules that will be incorporated into the state’s existing slot machine regulations, said Executive Director Patrick Fleming.

Fleming has been developing standards for things such as sur-veillance over table games, how the money is handled and how it’s accounted for. Regulations will in-clude details such as how big the dice are, what shape they have to be and how they are configured - with the six spot on the opposite side of the one, the five and two spots on opposite sides, and the three and four spots on opposite sides. The cards used for poker and blackjack must have the logo of the casino on the back and a white border at least 3/16 of an inch wide.

The board is expected to vote on the final rules at its Dec. 20 meeting.

“We have a lot of work to do and not a lot of time to do it,” Flem-ing said.

Maine casinos get ready for table games, employment opportunities

Instead of all of us driving to Foxwoods, it’ll be in our back-yard.”

Marty ArboMaine resident

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The New Hampshire NEWS Tuesday, November 29, 2011 9

NEWINGTON, N.H. - A New Hampshire veterinarian runs a pet ambulance service out of his prac-tice, responding to calls such as incapacitated dogs and cats hit by cars.

Chris D’Orazio of Newington said the service helps give animals a shot at survival.

D’Orazio told the Portsmouth Herald he started the ambulance service in 2001 when he was work-

ing at a small veterinary practice in Massachusetts.

He said a case in which he was unable to fully treat a dog and rec-ommended that the owner take the pet to an animal hospital convinced him of the need. The owner kept getting lost and was unable to make it to the hospital before his dog died.

He bought a van from a fire department and converted it for ani-mal use.

NH veterinarian offers pet ambulance service

CONCORD, N.H. - New Hampshire’s Public Utilities Com-mission is reviewing utilities’ re-sponse and preparedness for the pre-Halloween snowstorm that caused over 300,000 power out-ages.

As part of its review, the com-mission is seeking public comment on how the utilities responded. Comments may be filed through the commission’s website or be submit-ted in writing.

Commission Executive Direc-

tor Debra Howland said Monday the commission will use the results as the starting point for determining whether a utility’s preparedness or response calls for the imposition of any penalties as part of annual storm cost recovery proceedings next year. The commission is using its review of the December 2008 ice storm as a benchmark.

Gov. John Lynch and the Exec-utive Council are meeting with util-ity representatives on Wednesday to discuss their response to the storm.

NH utilities commission reviewing October storm

NH Briefs

CONCORD, N.H. - The New Hampshire Division of Economic Development encouraged residents to shop at smaller stores in support of local businesses for its Small Business Saturday promotion.

Small Business Saturday is in its second year and came a day after Black Friday, when shoppers swarmed big-box stores and malls in search of Christmas shopping bargains.

Economic development of-ficials say Granite Staters should shop at their local stores and at the “N.H. Made” stores promoting the products of local artisans and farm-ers statewide.

Small Business Administration Director Karen Mills says the theme day is a good opportunity to support the entrepreneurs who help local economies thrive.

NH shopping promotion promoted local retailers

CONCORD, N.H. - Freshman Republican Sen. Ray White is not running for re-election to the New Hampshire Senate.

White, of Bedford, announced Monday he will not be on the 2012 ballot. White said he will continue to work hard next year, but cannot make the same time commitment

after that. White, a certified finan-cial planner, said it would not be fair to his family and business to run for another term.

This year, White served as vice chairman of the Commerce Committee and was a member of the Executive Departments and Ad-ministration Committee.

White: Not running for NH Senate in 2012

By LILY O’GARAContributing Writer

Durham is the quintessential New England college town. In many ways, the town’s population is homogenous, as is the Univer-sity of New Hampshire. Approxi-mately 84 percent of undergradu-ate students and 90 percent of the town’s population is white, and 95 percent of students hail from the Northeastern United States (New England and the Mid-Atlantic states). And, in terms of median family income, Durham ranks as the fifth wealthiest town in the wealthiest state in the country. It is due to these overarching trends that poverty within the Durham community and within UNH’s student population often goes un-detected.

However, at the Waysmeet Center, located on Mill Road, pov-erty is certainly not invisible. The Cornucopia Food Pantry, a branch of the center, serves Durham and the surrounding towns. For the holidays, 450 baskets are prepared - baskets that ultimately feed more than 1,000 people. Each week, ap-proximately 160 people utilize the pantry. Here, the illusion of total affluence is shattered. The reality that over 119 families in Durham and the surrounding towns of Lee and Madbury are at or below the income thresholds ($41,348 annu-ally, for a family of four) needed to qualify them to receive financial assistance is acknowledged.

Larry Brickner-Wood has been the director of the Waysmeet Center for 12 years and, as a result, he has witnessed the underlying poverty firsthand.

“Often, what can happen in these communities is that poverty becomes even more invisible,” he said. “Poverty is harder to see in Durham. There is a lack of hous-ing complexes, people choose not to see it, and no one wants to iden-tify themselves as poor in a rich community.”

As a result, those families that do require assistance go undetect-ed, which in turn perpetuates the belief that everyone is wealthy.

There are several direct causes of poverty, but the main cause is the cost of living. The cost of living in Durham is extremely high; the January 2011 cost of liv-ing index in the town was 137.3 index points, whereas the national average is only 100 points. This high cost of living is fueled in part by steep property taxes, which the state relies on because there is neither a sales nor an income tax in New Hampshire. Many times, costs force people to move to the outskirts of the town or to the less expensive towns of Dover or Bar-rington.

In regards to the struggling population, the answer is multi-faceted. Brickner-Wood catego-rized the pantry as a “working person’s food pantry.” Few citi-zens are chronically homeless, but rather require assistance to get back on their feet after being laid off. Many of the people are Uni-versity of New Hampshire staff, who are paid more than minimum wage, but not paid the living wage required to sustain a family of four, especially in the expensive Seacoast area. Most have been im-pacted in some way by the recent economic turbulence.

Town residents are not the only population visiting the food pantry, and in fact the pantry serves many UNH students. Some students, particularly graduate stu-

dents, have no income while they are in school, and several also have children to support. When they need to cut expenses, they are often forced to cut the cost of food.

The international student pop-ulation also struggles because it is sometimes difficult to obtain green cards, and must therefore work for subsistence wages because of their visas. Many of the less afflu-ent students live in Forest Park, a community of apartment complex-es located near the SERCs, where rent is $770-$1,030 per month for students, and $814-$1,079 a month for non-students (staff). Brickner-Wood said that 70-80 percent of Forest Park residents’ income goes back to the university.

Undergraduates, too, strug-

gle to pay the tuition and room and board for the school that, de-pending upon residency, can cost students between $20,000 and $36,000 a year.

“Among UNH students, more than one-quarter are Pell-eligible, which is the Federal government’s primary grant assistance program,” said Mark Rubinstein, UNH’s vice president of Student and Academic Services. “This would suggest that many of our students are facing significant financial hardships, too.”

While Durham residents and UNH students are generally well off, there is certainly no lack of poverty in either population. Pov-erty in Durham is less visible than in other communities, but no less real.

Durham’s ‘invisible’ poverty goes undetected due to wealthy appearance

Poverty is harder to see in Durham. There is a lack of housing complexes, people choose not to see it, and no one wants to identify themselves as poor in a rich community.”

Larry Brickner-WoodDirector, Waysmeet Center

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By CHET BROKAWAssoCiAted Press

PIERRE, S.D. - A bar owner already charged with raping three girls, including a 12-year-old, after plying them with drinks last month, faces fresh charges, after police said they found 11 minors at the bar dur-ing a weekend compliance check.

Werner Fajardo, of Sioux Falls, had been out on $10,000 bond on the rape charges that were filed earlier this month. Police then arrested him Saturday night following a check on his bar in Huron, a town about 120 miles northwest of Sioux Falls. Dur-ing a brief court hearing Monday on the new charges, furnishing alcohol to minors and maintaining an alco-hol nuisance, Circuit Judge Jon R. Erickson of Huron set a new bond of $150,000.

Fajardo, 34, hasn’t entered pleas to any of the charges he faces, and he hasn’t publicly addressed the allegations. Fajardo was not ac-companied by a lawyer at Monday’s

hearing, and he asked the judge to appoint one for him at county ex-pense. The judge will rule on that request later.

Fajardo’s next court hearing is set for Dec. 14.

There were no publicly listed phone numbers in Huron or Sioux Falls for Fajardo or his business, El Cuervo Bar.

Michael R. Moore, Beadle County’s state’s attorney, said Fajar-do apparently knew the three girls, a 12-year-old and two 14-year-olds.

In an affidavit that accom-panied the Nov. 18 criminal com-plaint filed in the rape case, police said Fajardo drove the girls to his bar in the early morning hours of Oct. 30.

“The bar was closed, but the defendant started mixing drinks for the girls,” police said.

The girls told an officer they passed out or became incapacitated and felt as if they could not move. One girl said Fajardo touched her inappropriately. A second reported

waking up with pain that led her to believe she had been raped. The third said she remembers Fajardo having sex with her.

Moore said one of the girls reported the alleged rapes on Nov. 11, and the girls were then exam-ined by Child’s Voice, a Sioux Falls organization that conducts exami-nations and interviews of children in such cases. No testing could be done to determine if the girls had been drugged because too much time had passed since the alleged attacks, he said.

Fajardo is charged with first-degree rape for the alleged attack on the younger girl, and two counts of third-degree rape for the alleged attacks on the 14-year-old girls. If convicted of first-degree rape, he could be sentenced to up to life in prison.

He also faces lesser charges, in-cluding furnishing alcohol to those younger than 18, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and serving alcohol after hours.

South Dakota bar owner charged with raping three girls

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BERLIN, N.H. - Officials in the North Country are holding a se-ries of information sessions about jobs at the federal prison in Berlin, N.H., now that funding has been granted to open the building.

Seven free sessions have been scheduled over the next two weeks to learn about the timeframe for the hiring process.

This week’s sessions are sched-uled for Monday at White Moun-tains Community College in Berlin;

Tuesday at Colebrook Elementary School; Wednesday at the Littleton Learning Center; Thursday at the Lancaster Elementary School; Sat-urday at the White Mountains Com-munity College.

Next week’s sessions are sched-uled for Monday, Dec. 5 at Conway Technology Village; and Tuesday, Dec. 6 at Bethlehem Library.

All sessions except Lancaster’s are scheduled to start at 6 p.m. The Lancaster one is at 6:30 p.m.

LACONIA, N.H. - A capital improvements committee in Laco-nia, N.H., is recommending the city should pay $7.3 million for the next fiscal year, with most of the money going toward street and road repairs.

Other recommended projects are construction of the Weirs Com-munity Park; a new fire engine;

sewer upgrades and testing; and other improvements.

The Citizen reports items would be funded through several sources, including direct appropria-tions, bonding, grants and a city services fund.

The City Council has final say on what would be funded.

NH biz group holding energy seminarMANCHESTER, N.H. - The

Business and Industry Associa-tion of New Hampshire is holding a half-day seminar on energy use, conservation and regulation.

The event will be from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Dec. 2. Session top-

ics will include a snapshot of the regional and New Hampshire en-ergy market, the 2012 legislative outlook, the impact of customer mi-gration on rates and an independent study of energy policy issues.

Sessions scheduled on jobs at federal prison

NH town committee looks at money for roads

CONCORD, N.H. - The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Cen-ter in Concord is making it easier for people with hearing loss to en-joy its planetarium shows.

The discovery center recently worked with the New Hampshire Academy of Audiology and a hear-ing aid manufacturer to install a magnetic loop between the plan-etarium theater’s floor and carpet-ing. The low-frequency tape sends

signals that are picked up by pa-trons wearing certain types of hear-ing aids, enabling them to hear the shows more clearly.

Katie Harrington, an audiolo-gist and founder of a new nonprofit group called Loop New Hampshire, says such technology is commonly used in Europe but is still gaining ground in the United States. The discovery center installation is the first of its kind in New Hampshire.

MANCHESTER, N.H. - A 42-year-old New Hampshire man has been found guilty of aggravated felonious sexual assault stemming from an encounter with a woman following a party.

Prosecutors said Paul Nault of Dunbarton and his wife attended a party at a house in Manchester in 2010. After the party, the couple stayed the night in a spare bedroom. Prosecutors said Nault went into the woman’s bedroom and sexually as-

saulted her. The woman testified she awoke to find him assaulting her and cried out.

Prosecutors said Nault was get-ting out of the bed when his wife found him naked in the room. The woman reported she was assaulted to police.

At his trial, Nault and his wife said he was intoxicated and he did not know what he was doing.

Nault awaits sentencing.

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Washington - Ahead of a meeting Friday between President Barack Obama and hundreds of Native American leaders, the ad-ministration unveiled new rules for tribal lands that officials say will expedite home building and energy development.

The proposed changes - the first of its kind in 50 years - would open the door to badly-needed housing development on reserva-tions, and for wind and solar en-ergy projects that tribes have been eager to launch.

The plan gives Obama anoth-er boasting point for this week’s meeting with leaders of the 565 federally-recognized tribes at the White House.

“We have for three years worked very hard to change the relationship between the admin-istration and the nation’s first Americans,” Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said Monday. He said Obama tasked him with changing the federal government’s relation-ship with tribes “in a very com-plete way.”

Obama has been winning high praise among Native Ameri-cans. The president has appointed Native Americans to high level positions in his administration, signed laws to improve health care and law enforcement for Native Americans and resolved a long running lawsuit over royalties for minerals on tribal lands. In Febru-ary, Obama nominated Arvo Mik-kanen to serve as a federal judge. If confirmed, he would be the only Native American actively serving on the federal bench.

“We’ve had more access to federal officials to speak about

these important issues in Indian Country,” said Mellor Willie, a Navajo tribe member and execu-tive director of the National Amer-ican Indian Housing Council.

That was the case on the land leasing rules. Willie said the council asked the administration to consider reforming the rules during the transition between the Bush and Obama administrations. He said the Obama administration has held a number of meetings with tribes on the subject and pro-vided draft proposals to leaders as the rules were being rewritten.

Land on American Indian res-ervations cannot be bought and sold because it is held in trust by the federal government on behalf of the tribes. If a tribe or tribe member wants to build a house on it or use it for multifamily hous-ing, a business or industry, the In-terior Department must approve a “lease” of the land or mortgages.

The proposed changes would set time limits for the Bureau of Indian Affairs to approve such leases. Residential leases, subleas-es and mortgages would have to be approved in 30 days; leases for commercial or industrial develop-ment must be approved in 60 days. If the bureau does not meet the deadlines, leases would automati-cally be approved. Currently, there are no time limits.

The proposed rules apply only to land development and not to oil and gas and mining leases.

Larry Echo Hawk, the Interior Department’s assistant secretary for Indian affairs, said the current rules, which date back to 1961, are paternalistic. The federal govern-ment through the proposed chang-es is no longer trying to exercise as much federal authority over the leasing process, he said.

Although tribes have been leasing property for years for ag-ricultural and other reasons, the process has become slow and cum-bersome.

“It is not unusual to hear tribes talk about waiting two or three years for approval of a lease,” said John Dossett, attorney for the Na-tional Congress of American Indi-ans.

In recent years, Dossett said, it has been particularly frustrat-ing for tribes applying for more complex leases like those for wind farms, which can take two to three years to review. “By that time, the tribes lose the deal. The business partner doesn’t want to wait that long,” Dossett said.

The administration has been pushing for renewable energy projects and working to advance solar and wind projects on public lands. It gave priority to 18 proj-ects for this year, including the Moapa Solar Project, which will be built mostly on Moapa Band of Paiutes tribal lands in Nevada.

Developing wind and solar energy projects has drawn inter-est from tribes around the country, Dossett said. Tribes can partner with companies and sell the energy produced back to power grids.

Willie said the changes should also help tribal members get mort-gages more quickly. Under the cur-rent rules, government approval of mortgages can take two months to two years. With that kind of delay, getting the banking industry to see tribal members as a profitable mar-ket can be difficult, Willie said.

The rules will be open for public comment for 60 days be-ginning Tuesday. The administra-tion also plans additional meet-ings with tribes on the proposed changes.

Administration unveils new rules for tribal reservation land development

By DAVID KLEPPERAssociAted Press

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - New mothers in Rhode Island will no longer leave the hospital with a free goody bag of infant formula.

To encourage breastfeeding, the state’s seven birthing hospitals stopped formula giveaways this fall, apparently making it the first state to end the widespread prac-tice.

State health officials hailed the decision, noting that breastfeeding has been proved healthier than for-mula for both infants and mothers. Stephanie Chafee, a nurse and the wife of Gov. Lincoln Chafee, called the decision a critical step toward increasing breastfeeding rates.

“As the first ‘bag-free’ state in the nation, Rhode Island will have healthier children, healthier moth-ers, and a healthier population as a whole,” Chafee said. “This is a tre-mendous accomplishment.”

Formula will still be available to new mothers who experience dif-ficulties with breastfeeding.

The new policy isn’t intend-ed to force women into nursing their children, according to Denise

Laprade, a labor and delivery nurse and lactation consultant at Woon-socket’s Landmark Medical Center, which eliminated free formula dis-tribution last month. She said the focus is instead on parental educa-tion and helping mothers decide what’s best for their child.

“We never make any woman feel guilty about her decision,” Laprade said. She said she has re-ceived few complaints from parents about the new policy, though she said the older nurses needed a little time to adjust.

Thirty-eight percent of Rhode Island mothers nurse their babies six months after birth, compared with 44 percent nationally, accord-ing to a report issued this year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

State Health Director Michael Fine said the state hopes to raise the percentage of Rhode Island mothers nursing at six months to 60 percent by 2020.

Public health officials in Mas-sachusetts endorsed a ban on free formula samples in 2005, but the regulation was rescinded by then-Gov. Mitt Romney before it took ef-fect. Getting the new policy in place

in small Rhode Island was easier, since it’s not a law or regulation and required the agreement of only seven hospitals.

Nationally, about 540 of the na-tion’s 3,300 birthing hospitals have stopped the formula giveaways, ac-cording to Marsha Walker, a regis-tered nurse in Massachusetts and co-chairwoman of “Ban the Bags,” a campaign to eliminate formula giveaways at maternity hospitals.

Walker said the bags given to new mothers - typically contain-ing a few days’ worth of formula - amount to a sophisticated market-ing campaign by formula manufac-turers.

“Hospitals should market health and nothing else,” she said. “When hospitals give these out, it looks like an endorsement of a commercial product.”

The International Formula Council, a trade group represent-ing formula manufacturers, oppos-es the end of free formula samples. A spokeswoman for the group did not return messages, but a state-ment on the council’s website notes that the sample bags also in-clude “key educational materials” on how to use and store formula.

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By JUAN CARLOS LLORCAAssociAted Press

EL PASO, Texas - The class-room falls silent as the teacher explains that victims of violence go through specific psychological stages in the aftermath of an attack. Most of these students, though, don’t need a lecture to understand the lesson. It’s part of their every-day lives.

Many of the teens came to the U.S. seeking refuge from Mexico’s drug war, which made violence a constant companion since child-hood.

“I’ve been through all three stages: impact, recoil, reorganiza-tion of my life,” 17-year-old Alan Garcia told the class before break-ing down in tears. “My mom goes in and out of recoil stage.”

As the war enters its sixth year, it’s bringing a new problem to Tex-as schools: Thousands of students suffering from emotional troubles not unlike those endured by soldiers returning from battle. In response, some districts have started offering the type of classes and counseling more common to the military.

“What you see happening in Iraq or Afghanistan is the same that’s happening here in the bor-der. This is not a war like those, but still you have people fleeing their country,” said Clara Contreras, co-ordinator of the Safe and Drug-Free School and Communities program at the Texas Education Agency in Edinburg, Texas.

Many of the students were mugged or witnessed a shootout. Others have had family members kidnapped, or they have been ex-torted by gangs that run rampant in Juarez, a city of 1.3 million di-rectly across the Rio Grande from El Paso.

As Garcia speaks, the class nods. Nearly all of the 17 kids with ties to Juarez have experienced the

same anguish.Kathy Ortega, director of

counseling for the El Paso district, said officials do not keep track of how many students traumatized by border violence seek help, but the number includes both kids who have moved to Texas and others who still live in border cities but cross into the U.S. for school.

“Many of the families, because of the fear factor, won’t reach out to us,” Ortega said. Families are afraid that if their children speak with counselors, they could be identified by the people they escaped from.

Since the Mexican government launched an offensive on drug car-tels in December 2006, more than 35,000 people have been killed in drug-related violence. The cartels’ terror tactics include hanging peo-ple from bridges, beheading ene-mies and dissolving victims in acid.

Over that time, teachers and counselors on the Texas border have seen scores of traumatized children and teens.

The emotional difficulties af-fect them “in many areas of aca-demic performance,” said Alma Leal, professor of counseling at the University of Texas at Brownsville and coordinator for counseling and guidance of the Brownsville Inde-

pendent School District. They suf-fer from poor discipline, lack any sense of security and fear losing loved ones.

Richard Barajas, a former chief justice for the Eighth District Court of Appeals, is director of ad-vanced studies at Cathedral High School, where Garcia’s class meets. He started teaching “Principles of Victimology” last year after two students were killed in Juarez.

The focus of the course is to teach students how to help victims, how to understand the process of victimization and how to talk about their experiences.

Mabel Avalos and other El Paso-area counselors have used skills they originally learned to help children of military personnel from nearby Fort Bliss.

Children fleeing from the cross-border violence and those whose parents have been in com-bat share issues like separation or loss of a parent, she said. But un-like military children, those coming from Mexico have sometimes been exposed to violence or been victims themselves.

“We tackle the problem, but we are not solving it,” Avalos said. “I don’t see the community realiz-ing it’s a problem.”

She still has difficulty talking about how she had to explain to two siblings who had bullets lodged in-side them why doctors refused to take out the slugs and instead wait-ed for their bodies to push them out.

In Leal’s district, counselors talk about how children fear for the safety of their relatives across the border in Mexico.

“I know of a teenager that crosses every day to see if his grandparents are still alive in Mat-amoros,” just across the border from Brownsville, she said.

Susana Jones, a counselor in the El Paso area, said students who have been exposed to violence ex-press their anger by fighting in

school and talking back to teachers.“After my brother escaped an

attempted kidnapping, he started having anger issues. He would talk back to his teachers and eventually got expelled,” recalls Carlos Gallar-do, who graduated from Cathedral last summer.

When the two Cathedral stu-dents were gunned down in Febru-ary, the slayings brought the cost of war back to the classroom.

“One of them sat right behind me, and it felt really weird whenev-er I’d look back and see the empty desk,” said Carlos Gomez, a student who founded a group called Hope Without Borders, which focuses on raising awareness about violence affecting children and teenagers in general.

Many of the children were already struggling with poverty and now must confront “the over-whelming experiences of their worst nightmares and fears coming true,” said Steven Marans, director of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence at the Yale Child Study Center.

In the long term, if the children do not get help, victims can turn into victimizers.

“If you can’t concentrate, and you can’t do well in school, you can’t find mastery in academics, so they find mastery using their strength” upon others, Marans said.

Victims in the drug war are of-ten stigmatized by people who be-lieve they had something to do with the drug trade.

In reality, said Laura Olague, executive director at the Children’s Grief Center in El Paso, some of them were targeted for not paying extortion or got caught in the cross-fire.

According to a study by the Ge-neva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, about 115,000 Mexicans have taken refuge in the United States since violence spiked in their country in 2006.

Drug war sends emotionally troubled kids to Texas

I know of a teen-ager that crosses every day to see if his grandparents are still alive in Matam-oros.” Alma Leals

Professor of Counseling, University of Texas at

Brownsville

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By HOLLY RAMERAssociAted Press

MANCHESTER, N.H. - At Mitt Romney’s New Hampshire headquarters, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie played a time-worn shtick for the cameras, picking up a telephone alongside volunteers who were dialing undecided voters on behalf of the candidate they sup-port.

Christie actually called Rom-ney and the two chatted about an upcoming debate.

“Be yourself,” Christie ad-vised, as he accomplished what he needed to while a dozen reporters watched: He generated positive media attention for a candidate who was elsewhere at the time.

When they can’t be in New Hampshire, Iowa and other early voting states, presidential hopefuls traditionally have sent others in their stead.

But this campaign season, sur-rogates such as Christie have been scarce, in large part because the field of candidates was so slow to develop. Christie, for example, thought of jumping in until Octo-

ber.“In the past, you would have

had full campaign staffs for all the candidates six to eight months out at least, and some campaigns here are still just starting to put boots on the ground,” said South Carolina political consultant Luke Byars.

He said aside from the candi-dates’ wives and adult children, no stand-ins have spoken in his state, though he expects activity will pick up.

“I still think that’s going to happen, it’s just a question of time,” he said. “It takes resources and staff to make that happen.”

In Iowa, Rick Perry’s wife, Anita, has campaigned and one of Romney’s sons Josh, filled in for his father this month at the Iowa Republican Party’s Ronald Reagan dinner in Des Moines. But that’s nothing compared with 2008, when Romney’s five sons traveled the country in a Winnebago that be-came known as the “Five Brothers Bus,” while Josh Romney drove through all 99 Iowa counties.

New Hampshire has seen a bit more activity beyond politicians’ family members. In addition to

Christie making pitches for Rom-ney, former Homeland Security Secretary and Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge has campaigned for Jon Huntsman. But otherwise traffic has been light.

Tom Rath, a veteran New Hampshire political operative who has advised Romney’s presidential campaigns in 2008 and this year, said surrogates are of limited use in states where voters are accustomed to close encounters with the candi-dates.

“Frankly, New Hampshire doesn’t take kindly to surrogates. We like the candidate. We’re spoiled. We see the candidate a lot. We expect to see the candidate. So you have to be very careful,” he said. “You can’t do them a lot here.”

He does consider Christie the ideal type of surrogate, someone who can bring independent valida-tion of a candidate’s message and explain clearly how he came to his endorsement.

That’s exactly what Christie did recently when he attended an evening house party for more than 100 people in Nashua. He empha-sized what he said were Romney’s

strengths, criticized Obama and described why he decided to back Romney. He threw in the requisite local references, praising former Gov. John H. Sununu and Sen. Kel-ly Ayotte, though he mispronounced the latter’s last name (AY’-aht).

He finished with a blunt line that drew laughter.

“If there are any of you here tonight who are not yet committed, you better be committed by the time I come back the next time,” he said. “I’ve been real nice to you tonight, and I will not be the next time if you are still on the fence.”

In the audience, Paul Laflamme of Nashua said he remained un-decided but enjoyed hearing from Christie.

“I wouldn’t make a decision. I wouldn’t commit, without meeting the candidate themselves,” he said. “However, Gov. Christie is incred-ibly smart, someone whose opinion I would respect and take into con-sideration. And hearing what his thought process was very helpful.”

Laflamme said he’s looking to be inspired by a candidate. Romney is his second choice, but he doesn’t have a first one yet.

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MANCHESTER, N.H. - The Roman Catholic church in New Hampshire has started an online child safety program to help train employees and volunteers in the diocese.

The “Not on My Watch” pro-gram helps trainees learn how to recognize and report suspected child abuse. All new clergy, em-ployees and volunteers in the Man-chester diocese who regularly work with minors, as well as those who haven’t had training in three years, will be required to complete it.

The program replaces a 10-year-old training program on child abuse awareness called “Pro-tecting God’s Children.”

NH diocese starts online child safety training

MANCHESTER, N.H. - Police in Manchester, N.H., say a woman tracked down her stolen iPhone by using an app, leading to an arrest.

The 30-year-old woman said her purse was stolen with her iPhone inside while shopping at a supermarket in Bedford on Sunday. Police said her fiance tracked down that phone at the Wal-Mart in Man-chester using an app.

He called police as the woman went to that Wal-Mart, where she spotted a woman she had seen at the supermarket. She monitored the woman with a Wal-Mart employee until a police officer arrived.

The officer later arrested 37-year-old Loretta Costa of Man-chester. The iPhone was inside the car, plus gift cards and a computer purchased with the woman’s credit card.

Costa was charged with reck-less conduct, receiving stolen prop-erty, and other charges.

NH woman tracks down stolen iPhone

GOFFSTOWN, N.H. - Police in Goffstown, N.H. are hoping a hooded sweatshirt with a collage of photos on it will help them make an arrest in a convenience store rob-bery.

Authorities say the suspect wanted in connection with the rob-bery at the Sunoco on Mast Road on Saturday night was wearing the sweatshirt. Surveillance video showed him climbing onto the counter and demanding cash. Police think the photos may be of Martin Luther King.

Sgt. David Rivard told WMUR-TV the suspect ripped open the register drawer after the store cashier said she didn’t know how to open it.

Police say he told the cashier he had a knife.

Police look for suspect in NH gas station robbery

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TNH responds: Tough to say that any of these are a bad choice. It’s a little surprising to see seeing friends/family and dinner ran away – not because they aren’t good options, but because the other three seem pretty good as well.

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As the Jan. 10 primary elec-tion date approaches and state newspapers make their

endorsements, New Hampshire be-comes a major player in the national political scale.

Conservative candidates have been visiting the Granite State to make their case for the GOP nod for months. That all gets ratcheted up another notch in the next five weeks.

Candidates will be making more frequent stops. The state is going to serve as the headquarters for a number of GOP candidates. Even President Barack Obama was in the state recently.

And yet none have scheduled stops at UNH and only one (a minor candidate, Jon Huntsman) has made a campus appearance.

There is something wrong with that.

UNH is the flagship university in the state with the greatest politi-cal influence. And yet the university has still had a tough time attracting

candidates.Perhaps candidates are eyeing

a different crowd – an older crowd – and that’s why visits have been nearly non-existent. Or perhaps stu-dent organizations and the university aren’t doing enough to attract these candidates.

It’s tough to tell which. But it would be devastating if it were the latter.

Four years ago, a number of candidates visited UNH, including Obama.

It would be embarrassing if can-didates skip out on Durham leading into the 2012 elections. Unfortunate-ly, it appears they’ve already chosen to skip out on UNH leading to the

primaries. Students are leaving for winter break in just a few weeks and its unlikely that a candidate would visit after that.

Is it possible that an organiza-tion like the Young Republicans have something planned? Certainly. Is it possible that they had plans to bring a candidate earlier and something fell through, preventing a visit? Of course.

But regardless of excuses, it’s disappointing that the university hasn’t been able to welcome a candi-date. UNH should be fertile grounds for candidates – a collection of bright minds eager to engage in discussion and listen to a candidate’s positions.

It’s our hope that student organi-zations and the university will make a stronger effort to attract candidates in 2012. During the spring semester and early in the fall semester of 2012, UNH should be a common stomping ground for candidates. But it won’t be without a little work.

Let’s hope that work is put in.

Candidates ignoring UNHSchool hasn’t been popular stop on

campaign trail – that needs to change

UNH should be a common stomping ground for candidates.

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Monday morning the new UNH Twitter account, @UofNH, submitted the

following tweet: “Attn #UNH Se-niors! What would you like to leave as your Senior Gift? Let us know your ideas! Please use hashtag #UNHSeniorGift.” UNH Class of 2012, this is our chance to leave our mark on this fine institution.

For the past four years, or more for the super and super, super seniors, UNH has provided us with an education to be successful in this devastating and depressing economy. Or at least they have convinced us that we can find jobs out there.

Personally, I’m not so sure. But hey, that’s what graduate school is for, right? Delaying the inevitable for another couple years – or however long it takes. There’s always mom and dad’s basement and managerial positions at McDonalds. How do you say “would you like fries with that” in

Spanish?Anyway, back on topic: The

2012 UNH senior gift. Personally, I don’t want to be remembered for a little granite bench or simply contributing to the new Peter T. Paul business school.

I’m a dreamer and I want our gift to be something that we can be proud of, that our state can be proud of and that the university can be proud of. Of course, that might be tough. The state obviously isn’t very proud of us at all – I mean, they already cut our funding in half, and I’m willing to bet that the largest newspaper in the state has never written a positive article on UNH.

So what are the major things that UNH is known for? Well, if you read the papers we’re known for being a party school, buying lots of beer, having high ar-rest numbers, disruptive concert crowds, not getting along well with the town of Durham, having

poor diversity and race relations, a Greek system that loses a charter seemingly every week, and we have a pretty decent hockey team.

Out of all of those things that UNH is known for, our hockey team and particularly the state-of-the-art Whittemore Center, which is one of the very few Olympic sized rinks in the country, is some-thing to truly be proud of. Howev-er, for the Whitt to be truly labeled “state-of-the-art” I believe that it is missing one key feature: a video replay scoreboard. I mean even the decrepit old Alfond Arena up in Orono, Maine, has a video board. Think of how much easier it will be to harass our favorite referees like the Hanson brothers when we have video evidence on our side.

Listen, the orange light bright scoreboard is unique to the Whitt, but it just doesn’t do a good enough job. Sure the stick figures are entertaining, but player pictures are basically undecipherable and its technology sophistication is that of a 5-year-old’s play toy.

You’re probably thinking to yourself, how would this benefit the university as a whole? Well, let me put it this way: what other aspect of UNH draws more at-tention? The hockey program is nationally known, regularly sells out home games, makes TV appearances, and draws students from across the country as well as internationally. And while a video board may be expensive, it’s a heck of a lot cheaper than a new football stadium. A replay board could also serve as a visual component to con-certs, trade shows and other events held at the Whittemore Center.

If you’re not yet sold on the idea of a video replay board there

are many other options for the class of 2012’s senior gift. This is our chance to come together and give something back to the community for a change. Another common idea could be setting up a scholar-ship fund for future students from tough economic backgrounds – in this economy and with rising tuition costs, cases like that will only become more likely. Other ideas could be murals, memorials, database subscriptions, specific renovations, and sustainability upgrades such as solar panels.

Bike racks and benches have been done numerous times – lets leave a gift unique to UNH and unique to the class of 2012.

Stay classy, not UMassy,The New Hampshirite

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UNH student who entertains much of the campus with his politically incorrect and

realistic accounts of student life in Durham.

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Currently, lawmakers in New Hampshire are considering a bill that would strip the

University of New Hampshire of its current power to ban guns on campus. The belief held by State Representative Mark Proulx (R-Manchester), who has come out in support of the bill, is that “gun-free zones become killing zones.”

At first, I was not sure of whether this bill should be passed. I can see both sides to the argu-ment, and each side has some valid points.

Some individuals may feel uncomfortable knowing that the individual next to them in class could be packing heat. On the other side of the argument, studies have shown that crime has actually gone up significantly since 1990 while gun sales have risen.

After much internal debate, however, the idea of students hav-ing the ability to carry arms with them at all times makes me uneasy. While it may seem like a good idea to allow students, or anybody on campus for that matter, to walk on campus with a gun, there are a number of different issues that arise

that could end up being problem-atic.

The issue that really concerns me, and the issue that ultimately decided this one for me, is the confusion that it could ultimately lead to. Under the current rules, if a student has a gun on campus and is spotted with one it is immediately a red flag that foul play may be coming.

No questions asked, if you see a gun you are instantly able to make the assumption that some-thing bad could potentially take place. This, clearly, would not be the case if firearms were permit-ted off campus. In that instance, one could potentially spot a couple

of people with firearms walking around campus and never be one hundred percent sure whether they should be wary or not.

It is that the sort of protection that forbidding guns on college campuses provides. It requires those who own firearms to be responsible about them, storing them in a location which they are still permitted to use them, yet keeps others on campus feeling safe.

That is what this should ultimately come down to. I am all for people to have the right to bear arms, but when there is a chance that people, both current and prospective students, no longer feel comfortable walking around campus then I feel that is an issue that needs to be addressed.

After all, we all have a right to feel safe from harm here at UNH, and I feel the best way to go about that is to avoid having guns being carried around on campus.

sAdam J. Babinat is a freshman journalism

major who left Iowa for the first time to at-tend UNH. Email him at ajz222@unh.edu

Best way to ensure feeling of safety is to avoid guns on campus

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The New HampshireTuesday, November 29, 201114 SPORTS

STAFF REPORTthe new hampshire

Brittany Dough-erty recorded a goal and an assist

to lead the University of Maine women’s ice hockey team to Fri-day night’s 3-0 victory against the University of New Hampshire in Hockey East action at the Whitte-more Center.

UNH dropped to 4-9-2 over-all and 0-5-1 in Hockey East with its fifth consecutive loss. Maine extended its unbeaten streak to six games (3-0-3) to improve to 9-5-4, 4-3-1.

In her first career start – fol-lowing a relief appearance each of the previous three games – UNH freshman goaltender Moe Bradley made 18 saves, including eight in the first period.

Maine goaltender Brittany Ott recorded double-digit saves all three periods with 10 in both the first and third as well as 12 in the second to finish with 32 overall. It was Ott’s second shutout of the season and marked the fourth time this year the Black Bears shut out an opponent.

UNH went on the power play just 1:06 into the game, but the visi-tors were the ones who netted an early goal to take a 1-0 lead. Dough-erty blocked a pass high in Maine’s defensive zone and skated along the right dashers into the offensive zone, where her shot from the top of the circle sailed into the upper-right corner of the net at 1:28.

The Wildcats had a break-away opportunity in the sixth min-ute when Arielle O’Neill threaded

a pass through the neutral zone to Kristina Lavoie at the opposite blue line. Lavoie maneuvered down the slot and shifted to the right, but her lifted backhanded shot was snared by Ott.

New Hampshire, which en-tered the game ranked No. 11 in the country on the power play, went on its third power-play opportunity of the game at 15:40 of the opening stanza. Once again it was Maine, ranked second-to-last nationally in penalty kill, that scored to build a 2-0 lead. Myriam Croussette col-lected Dougherty’s pass in the left circle and charged the net. Bradley stopped that point-blank shot, but the puck carried into the crease and ricocheted off Croussette’s skate into the open net at 16:19.

UNH gained a two-skater ad-vantage for 56 seconds at 16:45, but Ott turned aside shots by O’Neill and Maggie Hunt to preserve the Black Bears’ two-goal advantage and Maine’s defense did not allow a shot through the remainder of the Wildcats’ extended power play that ended at 18:45.

The ‘Cats controlled play early in the second period. Emma Clark led a rush down the right wing and saucered a centering pass to Jess Ryan, whose wrister was stopped by Ott.

In the third minute, Kristine Horn advanced down the slot and lifted a shot from the hashmarks off the crossbar. She corralled the rebound at the left post and circled back through the slot before firing a high backhander towards the upper-right corner that Ott caught with her glove.

One minute later, Kayla Mork was positioned at the top of the crease and denied twice by Ott.

With 1:30 remaining in the second period, Horn won a battle for the puck in front of the Maine bench and chipped a pass forward to Lavoie. She carried the puck into the top of the left circle and back-handed a pass to the slot, where Caroline Broderick snapped a hard shot wide right of the cage.

Maine quickly counterattacked and Tori Pasquariello converted Missy Denk’s pass into a goal – and 3-0 lead for the visitors – at 19:00.

Dougherty nearly extended the advantage to four goals at 8:20 of the third period when a low shot from the high slot beat Bradley but caromed off the left post.

UNH’s best scoring opportuni-ty of the final frame occurred during a power play with 6:45 remaining in the game. Jenna Lascelle fired a shot from close range that was mis-handled by Ott, who then covered up the shot that was chipped to-wards the net by Heather Kashman at the top of the crease.

The Wildcats finished the game with a 32-21 shot advantage and 0-for-6 on the power play with two shorthanded goals against. Maine did not score on three power-play chances.

New Hampshire continues its four-game homestand Nov. 26 (2:05 p.m.) against Princeton University. The game will be broadcast live on WBIN-TV. The Wildcats conclude a stretch of three games in five days Nov. 29 (7 p.m.) against Union Col-lege.

Jenn Gilligan recorded 24 saves, including 13 in the third peri-od when the Wildcats were whistled for six minor penalties. Princeton counterpart Rachel Weber stopped 23 shots, including 10 in the first period.

Princeton was whistled for a penalty 55 seconds into the game, but it was the shorthanded Tigers who nearly scored 35 seconds later on an odd-man rush, but Gilligan slid across the crease to stop Paula Romanchuk’s one-timer at the left doorstep.

The Tigers took a 1-0 lead at 7:40 when Charissa Stadnyk’s shot from the right dashers was redirect-ed by Sally Butler past Gilligan into the net. Olivia Mucha, who won control of the puck in the right cor-ner and pushed the puck along the boards to Stadnyk, was also cred-ited with an assist.

UNH converted its third power-play opportunity of the first period into a goal to tie the score, 1-1, at 17:29. Hunt swung the puck from the high slot to Gifford and her screened shot from the inner-right circle sailed into the net. Horn initi-ated the sequence with a pass from the left corner to Hunt.

The Wildcats also capitalized on their next power play to take a

2-1 lead at 9:06 of the second pe-riod. Horn moved the puck from the left circle back to Hunt, who quickly sent a pass to the slot and Gifford snapped a shot inside the right post for her second goal of the game.

Gifford struck again at 11:55 to complete the hat trick and ex-tend the advantage to 3-1. Brynja Bogan won the battle for the puck in the corner to Gilligan’s right and chipped the puck forward to Gifford. She carried the puck through the neutral zone and her initial shot was stopped by Weber, but the rebound went to Gifford’s stick and she lifted a backhander into the net.

Princeton was whistled for another minor penalty with 11 sec-onds remaining in the second pe-riod. UNH controlled the ensuing faceoff to set up Hunt’s hard wrister from the slot and Weber scurried to the left post off the rebound to also deny Arielle O’Neill.

The Tigers went on their fourth power play of the game at 2:33 of the final frame, but Gilligan turned aside all three shots she faced in the next two minutes. After another successful kill that ended at 7:58, the ‘Cats were whistled for two more penalties at 8:22 and 8:45 to give the visitors a two-skater advan-tage for 97 seconds.

Princeton called time out at that point, but UNH’s penalty kill limited the Tigers to two shots dur-

ing the two-skater advantage – Gil-ligan denied Butler’s one-timer from the left circle – and did not al-low a shot in the remaining 23 sec-onds of the extended power-play opportunity.

Princeton went on its fifth power play of the period – eighth of the game – at 12:08 and was able to sustain pressure, but Gilligan pre-served the lead by stopping all five shots she faced during that success-ful penalty kill.

Weber was pulled in favor of an extra skater with 1:57 remaining and UNH was sent to the penalty box with 45 seconds on the clock to give the visitors another extended two-skater advantage. The Wild-cats’ penalty kill did not yield a shot the rest of the way, however, to pre-serve the victory.

UNH finished with a 26-25 shot advantage despite being out-shot 13-4 in the third period, when the ‘Cats were shorthanded for more than half the period (10 min-utes, 46 seconds). The Wildcats were 2-for-6 on the power play, while Princeton did not score on nine power plays.

New Hampshire continues its four-game homestand Nov. 29 against Union College. Game time at the Whittemore Center is 7 p.m. The homestand concludes Dec. 3 (2 p.m.) against Northeastern Uni-versity; that game is part of UNH’s annual Toy Drive.

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Maine owns battle of rivalsWildcats remain winless in Hockey East play

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Maine 3 UNH 0

Sports Briefs

Moses named HE co-Player of the WeekSenior forward Stevie Moses of the University of New Hampshire

men’s hockey team was named Hockey East co-Player of the Week. The announcement was made Monday by the league office. Moses earns the award for the first time this season and becomes the first Wildcat since Mike Sislo (March 28, 2011) to win this award.

Moses scored five goals in the week including a career high four-goal performance on Saturday night against Alabama Huntsville. Moses had 10 shots on net and was a +3 on the week. He became the first UNH player to score four goals in a game since Bobby Butler did so on Febru-ary 12, 2010 versus Providence. Moses is tied for the league lead in goals with 10 and ranks fourth with 17 points in 14 games this season.

Moses and New Hampshire returns to action Dec. 2 at UMass-Lowell. The Wildcats’ next home game is Dec. 3 against those River Hawks to con-clude the home-and-home series. Both games begin at 7 p.m.

Women’s hockey prepares for UnionThe University of New Hampshire women’s ice hockey team faces

off against ECAC foe Union College on Tuesday, Nov. 29 (7 p.m.) at the Whittemore Center in the third game of a four-game homestand. The game will be broadcast live on The Wildcat Sports Radio Network.

UNH and Union met for the first time last October and the Wild-cats prevailed 4-1 at the Dutchwomen’s Messa Rink (Schenectady, N.Y.). Then-freshman Arielle O’Neill recorded career highs in both as-sists (two) and points (three) while classmate Hannah Armstrong tallied a personal best of two points with a goal and an assist.

The Wildcats generated a 21-2 shot advantage in the first period to take a 1-0 lead into the first intermission and the ‘Cats extended the advantage to 3-0 with a pair of second-period goals. Union spoiled Lind-sey Minton’s shutout bid with 2:22 remaining in the third period and O’Neill scored an empty-net goal with one second on the clock to close the scoring.

Student-Athlete Spotlight of the weekNicole Gifford of the women’s ice hockey team and Stevie Moses

of the men’s ice hockey team are featured in this week’s Service Cred-it Union Student-Athlete Spotlight. This information and more can be found in the Wildcat Weekly Roundup.

Gifford, a sophomore forward from Ennismore, Ontario, recorded her first career hat trick with three goals to lead the UNH women’s ice hockey team to a 3-1 victory against Princeton University on Nov 26. The three points also marked a career high.

In that game, she helped the Wildcats overcome a 1-0 first-period deficit with power-play goals at 17:20 of the first period and 9:06 of the second stanza.

Gifford opened recorded an assist each of the first four games of the season and has tallied a point in 9 of 16 games with three multiple-point efforts. She tallied a career-high two assists at fifth-ranked Boston University (Nov. 12).

Moses, a senior forward from Leominster, Massachusetts, recorded his first career hat trick with a career-high four goals in UNH’s 9-1 victory against the University of Alabama-Huntsville on Nov. 26. The four points also marked a personal best. Earlier in the week, he scored a goal at Harvard University (7-6 loss on Nov. 22).

He scored the game-winning goal against Alabama-Huntsville by giv-ing the Wildcats a 2-0 first-period lead. Stevie netted a power-play goal at 5:50 of the second period to extend UNH’s lead to 4-1, completed the hat trick of 12:44 of the middle stanza and struck again at 14:40 of the third period.

The assistant captain has a team-high 10 goals – and 65 shots – and ranks second on the squad in both points (17) and power-play goals (three) as well as tied for fourth in assists (seven). Moses has recorded a point in 11 of 14 games with four multiple-point efforts, including a three-point game (one goal, two assists) at Vermont.

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Patriots Notebook

Arjuna Ramgopal

Familiar formula helps Pats � y in Philly

FOOTBALL

Down 10-0 early in the fi rst quarter in Philadelphia, it looked like the New England Patriots would be in for a long day against the Eagles.

Big plays by Vince Young – the backup quarterback in Philly – coupled with offensive defi ciencies had many nodding in agreement that Philly would be upsetting New England on Sunday. Except, we had seen this all before.

Last Monday night, the Chiefs got up 3-0 on the Patriots. Brady was being pressured up the middle and couldn’t complete a pass, leading to the offense producing nothing. Finally, the team got it together during the second half and won 34-3.

Two weeks ago, the Patriots started off slow against a hot New York Jets team. The teams traded blows until the third quarter, when the Pats pulled away. They won that game 37-16.

Sunday saw much of the same. The Eagles scored quickly, and the offense didn’t get it going until their second drive. In fact, the Patriots fi rst quarter offensive touchdown was their fi rst in the last fi ve games.

It was a sign of good things as the Patriots stepped it up and outplayed the Eagles the rest of the game.

Tom Brady was electric, and back to his usual self. After a two-month period of some question-able throws, Brady was making throws he was making at the beginning of the season. It was also nice to see him without that pesky compression sleeve over his elbow.

The running game was good, despite what the numbers say. BenJarvus Green-Ellis ran hard to start the game, and his

hard tone opened up the fi eld and made the no-huddle offense effective.

What’s surprising, but in all honesty shouldn’t be, is that the Eagles defense started off well. Brady was on his back a lot, and as history has shown, that is the way to beat Brady. Or is it?

In the past three games, the Eagles, Chiefs and Jets have all been able to pressure Brady, rattle him, and make him look bad to begin the game. But instead of crumbling under pressure, the Pats were able to make the adjustments and win.

What differs between the three weeks is the way they did it. The Jets and Chiefs game saw more of a six-man offensive line, with rookie tackle Nate Solder coming in to solidify the line.

The Philly game saw Brady actually leave the pocket more and make a few plays with his legs (fi ve rushes for 28 yards) and arm (63-yard pass to Deion Branch).

What is notable to me are the adjustments. We all know the Jets were able to rattle Brady early in the playoffs last year and he wasn’t the same. Perhaps it is a blessing that the offensive line play has been inconsistent, as the team has had to adjust to various pressure situations.

The Patriots have to feel good after this win. It’s another game in a long list of games this season that show they are a team that doesn’t quit.

This team isn’t the most talented, and it is dealing with too many injuries to count, but this team is one of the most hard-working teams I have ever seen. Who knows, maybe it’s that fi ght that gets them a ticket to the Super Bowl.

game with 14 saves and UNH lead-ing 7-1 with 10:36 remaining in the third period. Casey DeSmith stopped all six shots he faced dur-ing his relief appearance. Chargers’ goalie C.J. Groh was credited with 28 saves.

Greg Burke gave the Wildcats a 1-0 lead at 13:33 of the fi rst pe-riod. Downing sent a pass across the slot to Henrion, whose shot from the left circle sailed wide of the near post. The rebound caromed off the end boards to the right post, where Burke lifted a shot into the open near side.

Moses scored nearly two min-utes later – at 15:42 – to extend the advantage to 2-0. Moses collected the centering pass off Norkin’s stick of in the low slot, settled the puck and wristed a shot into the net. Goumas was also credited with an assist.

UNH went on the fi rst power play of the game at 18:04 of the fi rst period, but the Chargers’ Sebastian Geoffrion netted an unassisted shorthanded goal at 18:36 when he blocked an entry pass at the blue line to create a breakaway down the slot before pulling the puck left and tucking a backhand inside the post to trim the defi cit to 2-1.

The Wildcats broke the game open with four second-period goals. Damon Kipp scored on a screened slap shot from the high slot at 3:11. Sorkin, with the diago-nal outlet pass through the neutral zone, and Goumas, who slid the puck from the left point to Kipp, set up the tally.

Moses struck again with a power-play goal at 5:50 to extend the lead to 4-1. From the right door-step, Goumas passed the puck back to the high slot for van Riemsdyk,

who found Moses alone at the left post.

Connor Hardowa scored his fi rst goal of the season, a power-play tally, at 9:47 to give New Hampshire a 5-1 lead. Sorkin initi-ated the sequence with a pass from the right wing to van Riemsdyk at the right point. He sent the puck across the high slot and Hardowa blasted a low shot through traffi c into the net.

Moses completed his hat trick less than three minutes later at 12:44. Sorkin won the faceoff to Moses, who returned the puck to Sorkin and his shot was stopped by Groh. Moses controlled the puck off the rebound, circled from the left wing to the slot and fi red a low shot inside the left post.

UNH scored three goals within

a fi ve-minute span in the third peri-od. Austin Block, positioned at the right post, scored off a pass from Casey Thrush and Jeff Silengo was also credited with an assist on the goal at 9:24.

Moses scored his fourth goal of the game – team-leading 10th goal of the season – at 14:40 and Downing completed the scoring 27 seconds later. Sorkin and Gou-mas once again combined to set up Moses’ goal. van Riemsdyk, with a pass from the right dashers, and Henrion assisted on Downing’s tally.

New Hampshire returns to ac-tion Dec. 2 at UMass-Lowell. The Wildcats’ next home game is Dec. 3 against those River Hawks to con-clude the home-and-home series. Both games begin at 7 p.m.

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Matt Di Girolamo needed to make just 14 saves against Alabama-Huntsville in UNH’s 9-1 win over the Chargers on Saturday.

Wildcats lose lead, fall to HarvardMEN’S HOCKEY

STAFF REPORTTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

Harvard Uni-versity scored seven goals in

the fi nal two periods to erase a 4-0 defi cit and capture a 7-6 win over the University of New Hampshire men’s hockey team on Nov. 22 in non-conference action at Bright Hockey Center.

Grayson Downing (two goals, two assists), John Henrion (four as-sists), Trevor van Riemsdyk (one goal, one assist), Greg Burke (two assists) and Kevin Goumas (two goals) all registered multiple-point efforts on the night for New Hamp-shire.

With UNH holding a 5-4 lead heading into the third period, Har-vard tied the game at 6:51 of the third as Colin Blackwell scored with assists from David Valek and Ryan Grimshaw.

The Crimson took its fi rst lead of the game at 12:02 when Colin Blackwell redirected a shot from the point for his second of the night with assists from Dan Ford and Danny Fick. David Valek scored the eventual game-winner on an empty-net goal that trickled down the length of the ice with an assist

from Luke Greiner at 18:35. Trailing 7-5, UNH scored an

extra-attacker goal at 19:57 as Ste-vie Moses tapped in a rebound of a Henrion wrister. Downing fought for the loose puck in the corner and slid the puck to Henrion for the one-timer. UNH held a 9-8 shot edge in the period for a 34-30.

The Wildcats netted four fi rst period goals to jump out of the gate to a 4-0 lead at the fi rst intermis-sion. New Hampshire got on the board just 1:23 into the fi rst period as Downing scored from the right slot on the rebound of a Henrion wrister, Burke also assisted on the goal.

The ‘Cats second goal came on the power play as Goumas tapped in a centering pass from Nick Sor-kin and Connor Hardowa also had a helper on the tally at 5:20.

Downing scored his second of the night as he redirected in a Burke shot from the left shot at 8:18. Hen-rion picked up his second assist of the night on the goal. The Wild-cats closed out fi rst period scoring when Trevor van Riemsdyk fi red a slapshot from the left point that went top shelf into the Crimson net at 11:56.

Downing and Henrion assisted on the goal. UNH held a 13-9 shot

advantage in the period and went 1-2 on the power play in the period.

The Crimson cut into the New Hampshire lead outscoring the ‘Cats 4-1 in the second period to make it 5-4 UNH heading into the second intermission. Harvard scored goals at 6:50 and 8:21. The fi rst goal came as Alex Killorn scored a power play goal from Mar-shall Everson and Danny Biega, while Eric Kroshus netted the sec-ond goal with assists from Patrick McNally and Tommy O’Regan.

New Hampshire added to its lead with a shorthanded goal by Goumas at 14:14 with a helper from van Riemsdyk. Harvard scored the fi nal two goals of the frame 18:00 and 19:55, respectively.

The fi rst of those goals came from Alex Fallstrom and Killorn, while Killorn scored Harvard’s fourth goal with assists from Fall-strom and McNally in the whining seconds of the period. The Crimson held a slim 13-12 shot edge in the period.

New Hampshire was 1-3 on the power play, while Harvard went 1-4 in its extra-skater opportunities.

Matt Di Girolamo stopped 23 shots including nine in the fi rst two periods.

Harvard 7 UNH 6

The teams opened the contest with even scoring for the fi rst fi ve minutes, until a put-back basket by Beliveau sparked a 6-0 run for UNH, giving the visitors a 16-12 lead at the 14:13 mark. The Blue Devils responded with a pair of buckets over the next 3:13 to tie up the score at 16 apiece.

After the teams traded baskets, the Blue Devils ended the half on a 24-4 run in eight minutes of action for a 42-22 advantage at halftime. UNH was paced by the play of Ho-gan in the opening 20 minutes, who had seven points, while Beliveau added six points and two steals. Central’s Jaclyn Babe led all play-ers with 13 points on 4-of-5 shoot-

ing from the fl oor.The teams opened the second

frame with tightly contested play as Hogan netted four points and se-nior Abigail LaRosa followed with a short jumper, but the Blue Devils kept pace, maintaining a 48-28 lead at the 16:30 mark.

Central Connecticut would open up a 10-4 run over the next 2:20 for a 57-30 advantage with just over 14 minutes left to play. The Wildcats pulled within 23 on a basket by freshman Ariel Gaston and a pair of free throws by sopho-more Sarah-Marie Frankenberger, but could not get closer, as the Blue Devils went on to claim the victory.

The Wildcats conclude their three-game road stretch on Wednes-day, Nov. 30 when they visit Dart-mouth at 7 p.m.

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Moses leads the wayUNH routs Alabama-Huntsville, 9-1, behind Moses’ four goals

STAFF REPORTTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

Stevie Moses scored four goals, Nick Sorkin re-

corded fi ve assists and Kevin Gou-mas tallied four assists to lead the University of New Hampshire men’s hockey team to Saturday night’s 9-1 non-conference victory against the University of Alabama-Huntsville at the Whittemore Cen-ter.

UNH won its sixth consecu-tive home game to improve to 6-6-2 overall and keep the Chargers win-less through 15 games (0-14-1).

The four goals and four points both marked personal bests for Moses. Sorkin and Goumas both

fi nished with career highs in as-sists and points, as did Trevor van Riemsdyk, who tallied three points, all on assists. Grayson Downing (one goal, one assist) and John Henrion (two assists) also recorded multiple points, and six other ‘Cats had one point.

The last time UNH scored nine goals in a game was March 17, 2006 against Boston Univer-sity (9-2 win). Moses recorded the fi rst hat trick by a Wildcat since Paul Thompson on Jan. 7, 2011 (vs. UMass-Lowell) and Sorkin marked the highest assist total by a ‘Cat since Dec. 5, 2010 (Mike Sislo vs. Vermont).

Matt Di Girolamo exited the

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Senior Stevie Moses scored a career-high four goals in a 9-1 win over Alabama-Hunstville at the Whitt on Saturday night. M HOCKEY continued on page 15

Wildcats can’t keep up with Blue Devils

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

STAFF REPORTTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

S o p h o m o r e Kelsey Hogan netted a team-

high 11 points, but it wasn’t enough as the University of New Hamp-shire women’s basketball team fell at Central Connecticut State Uni-versity, 83-44, Sunday afternoon at Detrick Gymnasium.

With the loss, the Wildcats dip to 2-2 on the season, while the Blue Devil improve to 3-1 overall.

Hogan, who notched her third double-fi gure scoring effort of the young season, shot 4-of-8 from the fl oor, while senior Denise Be-liveau fi nished with eight points, three steals and a team-high seven rebounds.

Jaclyn Babe led the Blue Dev-ils offensively with a game-high 22 points, while Kirsten Daamen and Brooke Bailey also scored in double-fi gures with 18 and 14, re-spectively.

UNH 9 UAH 1

CCSU 83 UNH 44

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Gi� ord’s three scores give UNH win over Princeton

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Nicole Gi� ord netted her � rst career hat trick against Princeton.

STAFF REPORTTHE NEW HAMPSHIRE

Nicole Gif-ford scored three goals to

record her fi rst career hat trick and lift the University of New Hamp-shire women’s ice hockey team to Saturday afternoon’s 3-1 non-con-ference victory against Princeton University at the Whittemore Cen-ter.

UNH improved to 5-9-2 over-

all and 38-5-2 lifetime against Princeton, which is now 4-7-1. Both teams entered the game with a fi ve-game losing streak.

Gifford, who did not have a multiple-goal game in 46 previous career games, also fi nished with a career-high three points with the three-goal performance. Maggie Hunt recorded a personal best of two assists and Kristine Horn also tallied two assists to match her ca-reer high.

UNH 3 Princeton 1

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Kelsey Hogan had 11 points in a losing e� ort for UNH against CCSU this past Sunday.

The UNH men’s hockey team has yet to win a game on the road in seven tries thus far this season (0-5-2). The Wildcats travel to UMass-Lowell for a Hockey East contest this Friday night.

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-The UNH women’s hock-ey team was shut out at home, 3-0, by rival Maine on Friday night. Page 14

The NBA is back (tentatively, at least) and Celtics fans will get a Christmas treat when Boston takes on the Knicks for the fi rst game of the season on Dec. 25 at Madison Square Garden.