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The New HampshireVol. 99, No. 40 March 30, 2010 Serving the University of New Hampshire since 1911Tuesday

New Hampshire Congress-woman Carol Shea-Porter ex-plained her pro-environment voting record in the House of Rep-resentatives as voting for future generations when she accepted an award from Environment New Hampshire yesterday at noon in the Memorial Union Building.

“As I was listening to the comments, I was thinking about how she said I voted for the envi-ronment,” said Shea-Porter. “And I did. But I also voted for my chil-dren, and for the next generation and generation after that.”

Shea-Porter was awarded the title of “Environmental Champi-on” for voting for the environment “nearly 100 percent” of the time, according to Jessica O’Hare, pro-gram associate for Environment New Hampshire, which released its annual scorecard of elected of-fi cials back in December.

“She received one of the highest scores and joins the ranks of other members of congress who have put the environment ahead of public interest,” said O’Hare.

O’Hare specifi cally cited Shea-Porter’s support of a bill in-vesting $80 billion in clean ener-gy and her vote to protect the Wild Sky Wilderness area in Washing-ton state.

“While many other elected offi cials have voted against the environment, she joins a growing number of environmental champi-

ons,” said O’Hare.Diane Carroll, Chair of the

Durham Town Council, thanked Shea-Porter for the work she has done to benefi t the town.

“Many of the policies that you stand for resonate with many

Durham residents, and the work you do in Washington is benefi t-ing us in Durham,” said Carroll.

Shea-Porter spoke of travel-ing with her children when they were young and seeing the coun-

Thomas GounleySTAFF WRITER

Carol Shea-Porter accepts environmental award in MUB

Stoolapalooza brings Sam Adams to UNH

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Victoria Lewis NEWS EDITOR

Founder of ‘Life is Good’ to be Class of 2010 commencement speaker

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New Hampshire Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter was awarded the title of “Environmental Champion” from Environment New Hampshire yesterday afternoon in the MUB.

Kerry Feltner STAFF WRITER

BarstoolSports.com will collaborate with UNH fraternity Alpha Sigma Phi and Boston rapper Sam Adams to hold Stoolapalooza in the Granite State Room of the MUB on May 7.

You’ve seen the words “Life is Good” on everything from mugs to t-shirts, the stick fi gure beck-oning to you at storefronts from Portsmouth to Boston. The man behind the brand, Bert Jacobs, the co-founder of the company “Life is Good,” will be the commencement speaker for the UNH graduating class of 2010, coming to campus on May 22.

Jacobs, along with his broth-er John began their now widely popular clothing business in 1989,

fi rst selling t-shirts and gradually expanding to other items such as backpacks and mugs. Based out of New England, the brothers began selling their shirts on the streets of Boston and their business took off from there, according to their web-site.

Their trademark logo is “Jake” a smiling stick fi gure who graces almost every item with the optimis-tic message “Life is good.” Jake is usually doing a variety of activities including sports or leisure activities but also is depicted in other ways such as relaxing with a friendly ca-

nine. While the Jacobs’ design and message are simple, many have em-braced their business across the na-tion, according to lifeisgood.com.

“I think it is kind of cool to have Bert Jacobs speak here,” said senior James Marcille. “I haven’t heard too much about him but ob-viously his business has been suc-cessful. I think his company has a good optimistic message and it could be benefi cial to recent grads to hear what he has to say.”

The goal of this year’s com-mencement is to “celebrate the stu-

After much back and forth, the up and coming artist Sam Adams (Wiz) has been booked to play at UNH this spring as part of Stoolapa-looza, a tour consisting of six con-certs at various New England col-leges. The mission of the tour is to promote the blog “by the common man, for the common man,” Bar-stoolsports.com.

“Starting the tour at UNH was kind of a no brainer,” said president of barstoolsports.com, David Port-noy. “I think we have a pretty big following there and it’s a big New England school. It was the fi rst place we thought of.”

Adams, 22, was raised in Cam-bridge, Massachusetts. A current senior at Trinity College, Adams earned fame through his remix of Asher Roth’s “I Love College,” la-beled “I Hate College Remix.” Since then, Adams has landed in itunes top 100 playlist with “Driving Me Cra-zy” and “Boston’s Boy.” Partnered with barstoolsports.com, a blog fo-cused on New England sports cul-ture and known for it’s showcasing of local “smokeshows,” Adams will visit Providence, New Haven, URI, and UMass universities.

The event will be held May 7, with time and place still to be deter-mined. Students will be charged $20 for tickets, while Barstoolsports will pick up the rest of the expenses.

Unlike any recent show of this

magnitude, Barstoolsports will not be going through SCOPE for venue arrangements or event preparations. Alpha Sigma Phi has taken on orga-nizing the event.

“I saw on the website that UNH was dangerously close to getting the concert pulled,” said junior Alpha Sigma Phi brother Ryan O’Connor. “I contacted [Portnoy], and the next day we booked the GSR.”

As of yesterday, the fi nal loca-tion of the event was still being de-bated. While Alpha Sigma Phi has a hold on the Granite State Room for the proposed date, they are hoping to secure the Ludholm Gymnasium that day in order to accommodate a larger number of students. Accord-ing to O’Connor, the GSR holds a maximum of 860 students.

The event was initially pro-posed to SCOPE who discussed the details and declined the request said Krysty Pringle, publicity director of SCOPE.

“It got a little convoluted,” Portnoy said. “We reached out to SCOPE and essentially what hap-pened with them was they have no budget left, which is fi ne. We are paying for everything basically, but we needed to charge ticket prices.”

However, Portnoy was mis-informed. While executives at the organization believed charging $20 for student tickets went against their mission statement, which states they will bring students entertain-

The Whittemore Center hosted the Seacoast’s annual Home and Garden show last Saturday for eager and avid gardeners.

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Restaurant Week in Portsmouth Open Greenhouse

Portsmouth’s biannual Restaurant Week began March 26. With fi xed, three-course meals at 37 downtown restaurants, the event gives locals and students a chance to explore the city’s dining.

UNH’s Greenhouse Open House last Friday and Saturday, a free annu-al event, brought knowledgable crowds to examine and discuss poinsettias, a variety of strawberries, and the intracacies of growing sweet potatoes.

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a campaign this February to edu-cate Veterans in their GI Bill needs, UNH has recieved a “Hip-Pocket Guide” to help veterans who are looking to continue their education. The pamphlets and posters help raise awareness and guide veterans toward better decisions.

G.I. Bill helps vets at UNH

8UNH’s Health Services now

offers the Human Papillomavirus, the most common sexually trans-mitted disease, vaccine to male students. Previously only offered to women, the vaccine, Gardasil, was approved by the Center of Disease Control and Prevention for males ages nine to 26.

First for women, now men

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UNH Dance Com-• pany Concert Double Bill Johnson Theatre 7 p.m. Contraceptive Curi-• osities MUB Theatre I 1 p.m.

Great Chef Series • Brings Mary Ann Esposito to Campus 11 a.m. Eagle Pond: Word & • Image Special Col-lections, Dimond Library 4:30 p.m.

Musical Student Re-• cital Bratton Recital Hall 1 p.m. Stacey’s Express • Cole Hall 11:30 a.m.

Theatre/Dance Cap-• stones Hennessy Theatre 7 p.m. Cultural Connec-• tions - Myths of Mauritius MUB En-tertainment Center 3:30 p.m. Marine Biology Spe-• cial Lecture Kings-bury Hall 12 p.m.

In its 16th-annual event in the Whitt, Seacoast Home and Garden Show was host to returning venues, yet low attendance.

The UNH men’s hockey team dropped a heartbreaking 6-2 contest with fourth-seeded RIT in the NCAA tournament on Saturday.

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Professor Suzanne Schireson was incorrectly re-ferred to as Suzanne Schierson in Ellen Stuart’s ar-ticle, “‘C.I.A. brings professors, young artists together,” which ran in the March 25 edition of TNH.

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Pictures of the Week

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Freshman Ally Stager fi ghts through a Fairfi eld defender in UNH’s 14-10 win on Sunday at Memorial Field.

Community members browse the plant sale at Saturday’s Greenhouse Open House at the UNH Greenhouses.


It takes Lonn Sattler, the University of New Hampshire’s Veteran’s Coordinator, roughly 45 minutes to counsel a new vet-eran – and in that time he could save them thousands toward their education.

But veterans don’t always go to representatives like Sattler, and that’s why the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA) kicked off a nationwide advertising cam-paign late last month to better educate veterans about the bene-fi ts available to them, specifi cally through the Post-9/11 GI Bill.

“It’s extremely important for veterans to understand what they’re doing, so they pick the GI Bill they get the most money from,” said Sattler, who said as of now there are 135 veterans at UNH using GI Bills. “It’s a com-plicated process.”

The Chapter 33, or the Post-9/11 GI Bill, is for those who served at least 90 days after September 11, 2001 or 30 days and were discharged due to ser-vice related illness or injury. The Post-9/11 GI Bill, which began disbursement of fi rst payments in August 2009, provides sepa-rate stipends for living expenses, tuition and books. Unlike the Montgomery GI Bill, which is

for active duty members only, the Post-9/11 GI Bill can be used by the National Guard and reserv-ists.

Veterans and servicemem-bers can receive other benefi ts by means of other chapters, waivers and kickers – and that’s where Sattler comes in.

“You have to determine their education goals and their Nation-al Guard and reservist goals and determine which GI Bill will give them the most,” said Sattler. “It’s a case by case basis which bill is best. It’s almost like doing your taxes. You have to take your time and go through everything.”

In order to help clarify ben-efi ts to those interested in con-tinuing their education after their service, the VA kicked off their two-month long advertising cam-paign on Feb. 23. The campaign includes ads on college campus-es, in college publications and on sites like Facebook and Google, with the specifi c goal of educat-ing and assisting veterans and servicemembers with their GI Bill needs.

UNH has since received the “Hip-Pocket Guide” and check-list for those going through the GI Bill application process. There are also posters and infor-mational pamphlets available in the registrar’s offi ce.

Advertising efforts such as

these are crucial, according to Sattler.

“In the military you learn to suck it up and not have prob-lems,” said Sattler, a retired Navy chief. “Veterans are more prone not to announce themselves than to announce themselves and it’s important for them to know this GI Bill is out there and every-thing is covered for them.”

And many do: since its be-ginning last fall, about $1.9 bil-lion in Post-9/11 GI Bill ben-efi t payments were made and 209,490 people were put through

school by the bill, according to the VA.

Among those is David Tay-lor, an Army National Guard vet-eran who returned from Baghdad, Iraq in 2008. Originally he was using the Chapter 1607, which is for National Guardsmen and re-servists who have deployed, until Sattler informed him about the benefi ts available to him through the Post-9/11 GI Bill.

“I was still trying to fi gure out the ins and outs when I met with Lonn,” said Taylor, 22, a sophomore sociology major. “Advertising is defi nitely good because I’m still fi nding now that people I served with, especially older generation soldiers, don’t have all the information they need.”

Colonel Paul Webber, pro-fessor of Military Science Com-mander at UNH, has on average 5-10 veterans participating in ROTC at any given time and for him, any information about ben-efi ts for veterans is nice to see, because they’ve earned them.

“GI Bills is one of several incentives about the Army,” said Webber, who currently has three ROTC members using the Post-9/11 GI Bill. “There’s enough confusion and enough unknown to prompt an advertising cam-paign such as this. It’s money well spent.”

And confusion there was – because of the overload of stu-dent veterans and servicemem-bers applying for the Post-9/11 GI Bill, the VA had to issue ad-vanced payments of $3,000, the fi rst time in history, for those who had yet to receive their sti-pends last fall. As of last week, one student from UNH has still yet to receive their tuition stipend for the fall semester.

“It was a horror story,” re-calls Sattler, who said since the mishap the VA has hired 1,200 new employees. “There was a backup of veterans since 2001 trying to go to school. There were huge delays.”

Taylor was one of the veter-ans who received the advanced payment, although he’s regret-ting it now because repayments of the $3,000 start at the end of this week and come out of his living expenses stipend. Still, he sais all in all he’s glad he made the switch between GI Bills.

“It’s like a full ride schol-arship, and I don’t have any monthly bills,” said Taylor, who added that if he doesn’t have to work but does for extra spend-ing money. “You get paid to go to school.”

For more information on GI Bills and what benefi ts are avail-able, go to www.gibills.va.gov

Brittney MurraySTAFF WRITER

Advertising educates vets on G.I. Bill aid at UNH and nationwide

“Veterans are more prone not to announce themselves than to announce themselves and it’s important for them to know this GI Bill is out there and everything is covered for them.”

Lonn SattlerUNH Veteran’s Coordinator

try’s beauty, while also witnessing the initial stresses on its resources. Those experiences made conser-vation a priority for her when she was elected in 2006.

“When I get to vote for the country, and for New Hampshire, there really isn’t a better feeling,” she said.

Shea-Porter is a member of the House Armed Services Com-mittee, the Committee on Educa-tion and Labor and the Natural Resources Committee. She said that the environment plays a role in all three positions, not only the last one.

“On the armed services com-mittee, we talk frequently with the Department of Defense about their concerns about energy…what would we do if something went wrong and we had a problem and our oil supply was shut off,” said Porter, who said the United States is “dangerously dependent” on foreign oil.

Shea-Porter specifi cally re-quested to be on the Natural Re-sources Committee because she

felt that New Hampshire was un-der-represented in the area.

“We may have a small coast-line, but you and I know we have the best in the country,” she told the small group gathered yester-day.

She went on to address some of the environmental challenges that she said currently face the state.

“A couple of weeks ago, I met with stakeholders from the Great Bay to talk about the estu-ary and ways to reduce the nitro-gen,” she said, referring to the es-tuary’s increasing eutrophication, which has attracted the attention of the U.S. Environmental Protec-tion Agency.

She ended her brief address by turning the tables and thanking Environment New Hampshire for their watchdog role.

“Thank you for standing up for the environment. I’m very, very honored to receive this.” Shea-Porter said.

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ment productions “at a rate less than that offered to the general public if charges apply,” they also declined the offer for non-monetary reasons.

“[Portnoy] is not a promoter, he doesn’t do shows,” said Pringle. “We have a reputation to protect, our name to protect. There’s more to it than ‘SCOPE wont do the show.’”

SCOPE is currently busy book-ing an opener for MGMT as well as a second spring concert, which they already have a pending offer to an artist for. The organization is also looking to showcase different mu-sical genres at their events in order to please the wide array of musical tastes present in UNH’s 11,845 un-dergraduate students.

While not having SCOPE han-dle arrangements raises concern for some students about the quality of the show, Adams is simply excited to play in front of his fans.

“I’m excited,” said Adams. “ I’ve had a lot of fans from UNH that have contacted me and that want to see me live. I could care less what building I’m in. Wherever there’s a stage and a mic. ”

And the brothers of Alpha Sig-ma Phi are confi dent that the concert will be a hit regardless of the venue.

“I wanted our frat to get good

recognition off this,” said Ryan O’Connor. “No other Greek house has brought in someone this big. And I wanted to give back to the student body and they wanted Sam Adams here. It will be a great show.”

SCOPE is also encouraging

other organizations to book artists and shows if they are not able to.

“For us, the bad outweighed the good and we’re just happy someone else could do it,” said Pringle.


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STOOLAPALOOZA:Alpha Sigma Phi reserves GSR for event

“ I’ve had a lot of fans from UNH that have contacted me and that want to see me live. I could care less what building I’m in. Wherever there’s a stage and a mic. ”

Sam AdamsRapper out of Boston

dents’ hard work with all the pomp and circumstance and academic protocol befi tting their inspiring, cumulative level of achievement,” said UNH Director of Presidential Events and Programs, Susan Entz.

“I’m so excited for him to come here,” said senior Amanda Purrington. “He seems pretty laid-back, I’ve heard he doesn’t wear suits and is pretty mellow overall.”

For each commencement cer-emony, the Department of Presi-dential Events and Programs asks for nominations by undergrads, grad students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of the university for potential speakers. The Honorary Degrees and Granite State Awards Committee then review the submis-sions. Submissions are accepted until Oct. 31 and Jacobs was cho-sen based upon this current system.

“I think that there have been better people in the past,” said se-nior Lisa Gutermuth. “I don’t know if he is the greatest representative for a commencement ceremony be-cause he represents the business as-pect of things which is really only a fraction of our education at UNH.”

UNH does not have funding to pay for expensive commencement speakers, therefore the speakers who present usually have a UNH connection that appeal to his/her willingness to speak to the students. There is a small honorarium that is paid to the speaker’s charity of choice, however and the amount is on a case-by-case basis, according

to Director Susan Entz.“I’d rather have someone who

is a scholar, or who has done some-thing for social change,” said Gu-termuth. “We have such a huge lib-eral arts population here and I just think it should be represented more by a commencement speaker.”

The focus of commencement regardless of the speaker is to rec-ognize the hard work of the stu-dents. “It’s truly a university-wide effort to honor our students and give them a send off to remember,” said Entz.

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COURTESY PHOTOCo-founder of retail brand Life is Good, Bert Jacobs was selected from a list of nominations by the Honorary Degrees and Granite State Awards Committee to deliver the UNH class of 2010 commencement speech on May 22.

SPEECH: Bert Jacobs to honor students’ accomplishments in 2010 graduation ceremony

“I think his company has a good optimistic message and it could be benefi cial to recent grads to hear what he has to say.”

James MarcilleUNH Senior


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Why no Day of Action in New Hampshire?You missed it.March 4, 2010 was designated

a Day of Action to Defend Educa-tion by the California Coordinating Committee and an ad-hoc body comprised of students, workers and other activists from many states. The grassroots movement brought together students, faculty and oth-ers to address the “current crisis” in higher education. That has a dif-ferent meaning to different people, but nearly all defi nitions focus on rising costs.

Although the public universi-ties in California were the hotspot for Day of Action activity, there were reportedly 100 events in 32 states dedicated to the movement (not all, but most, at the college level), ranging from protests to ral-lies to forums to sit-ins.

But there was nothing in New Hampshire.

According to the Project on Student Debt, an initiative of the Institute for College Access and Success, the average debt for graduates of public four-year institutions and private non-profi t

four-year institutions in the state of New Hampshire is $25,785. That gives us a nationwide ranking in the top fi ve (another ranking puts New Hampshire at No. 2, trailing only Iowa).

And what about California, where March 4 brought numer-ous protests and arrests? The same project shows that graduates of California schools have an average debt of $17,795. That’s 43rd high-est in the nation, way down at the bottom. Granted, these numbers are from 2008, and we know college costs in California have increased signifi cantly since then. But they go up every year here, too.

As the state’s fl agship state university, UNH undoubtedly contributes greatly to New Hamp-shire’s average. Why then, does nobody seem to care? Why then, did the day pass like any other at UNH and at other state universities in Plymouth and Keene? This is something that should be on every student’s mind, whether they’re racking up debt or not. An edu-cated workforce is what drives this

country’s economy and what will keep us competitive against foreign markets in the coming years. But colleges, even state institutions, are becoming less and less affordable and increasingly pricing out the middle class.

To his credit, President Hud-dleston addressed this trend in February when he presented his strategic plan envisioning the university in 2020, referring to the pace of tuition increases as “unsus-tainable” (paradoxically though, the same plan includes a great deal of construction and renovation projects that undoubtedly would be quite costly). But why aren’t students more involved, given that this problem affects them and their families far more than it does our university president?

This isn’t a call for chaos. We don’t need people smashing in car windows, as was the case on March 4 at UC-Santa Cruz, or to have students take over and force the closure of a freeway, as they did in Oakland. But we should care, shouldn’t we?

Average Student Debt Levels by State for Class of 2008

Iowa, Connecticut, New York, New Hampshire, and Minnesota rank as the top fi ve states in the country for highest average debt for graduating college students that attend their state universities. The state with the lowest average debt is Utah, pictured at the end. For the full list, look up The Project on Student Debt online at projectonstudentdebt.org.

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New Hampshire ranks in top fi ve, according to the Project on Student Debt


ForumThumbs up to another great season of UNH men’s and women’s hockey!

Thumbs down to another NCAA playoff disappointment for men’s hockey.

Thumbs up to TNH talking with a member of Congress. Makes us feel good.

Thumbs down to rainy days.

Thumbs up to Bobby Butler signing with the Ottawa Senators!

Thumbs down to terrible referees and early whistles in the Miami (OH) vs. Michigan game Sunday night. Boo.

Thumbs up to fi nding random light bright kits that still light up!

Thumbs down to singer Erykah Badu, who stripped naked by JFK’s assasination site for her new music video. Lady’s crazy!

Thumbs up to Jon Stewart for his spot-on impression of Glenn Beck a couple weeks ago. Way to stick it to him, Jon.

Thumbs down to reading too much into great books. Not everything has a message, high school English teachers.

Thumbs up to She’s Out of My League. It’s better than you expect, we promise.

Thumbs down to Sarah Palin and her newly planned reality show. Can a bear please grab her and go hibernate in Alaska for eternity?

Thumbs up to the Red Wings! Yes, the shameless editorializing is back.

Thumbs down to Cindy Crosby. Why? Bet-ter question: Why not?

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Like a Pro: Comin’ Down the HomestretchMy fellow UNH students,

today is March 30, which means two things. First, it is the one-year anniversary of my blog – ap-proximately 364 days more than I thought it would last – but more importantly there are only 40 days until fi nals week. That means that there are only six weekends left to study and prepare for exams. And by “study and prepare” you should very well know by now that I mean weekends left to party. This is college, the weather is getting nice in Durham and soon it will be summer vacation.

To me, summer vacation means that I’ll be waking up three hours earlier every day and working outside in hot and humid weather. Don’t get me wrong, I love that I get to work outside, but I rather enjoy being at UNH. If you ask me, I am already on vacation because I get to sleep in every day of the week and hangout and relax almost every night. Sure, I go to classes during the day and I have a lot of homework, but with proper time-management college is actually not too bad. Although I am writing this at midnight on a Sunday because I watched cartoons all day, that is not the point. Be-cause I forgot what the point of this column was halfway through that paragraph. Is it possible to catch ADD this late in life?

Let me try and get back on track. You know that old saying, “There is a time and a place for that and it is called college”? Well, we are in college, so that time and place is right now. Have fun. Enjoy yourselves now because before you know it, you’ll be in the real world with infi nitely more responsibilities.

Speaking of having fun, what could be more fun than eating a burrito at two in the morning? Well you are in luck because Irie Taco has started its late-night hours. I’m taking credit for it because I recommended this to the owner the fi rst time I went and he said he would think about it. You welcome, UNH. Their chicken burrito could very well rival Kurt’s cheesy fries and D-Hop slices as my top choice for third-dinner. Irie Taco is located at the loop next to the Mills and behind Huddleston Hall.

Speaking of the name Hud-dleston, thanks to Twitter I have a whole new appreciation for our university’s president. I call them Huddletweets. His tweets really show how much time goes into running UNH from attending meetings to giving lectures to mid-morning runs to IHOP. So really, apart from attending lectures and meetings, we aren’t so different.

I would also like to take this opportunity to make a few quick announcements. On Tuesday and Thursday of this week there will be a table in the MUB from 12:40 to 2:00 p.m. looking for student signatures in support of a Good Samaritan policy at UNH. This is something that really could make a difference on campus in regards to the safety of students so please take a moment this week to sign the petition.

While on the topic of politics, the past few years there has been a terribly low voter turnout for stu-dent senate elections. These are the students who help make changes for the better of the student body. So if you’re like me and you really support a cause on campus, such

as a Good Samaritan or medical amnesty policy, this year’s voting may be more important then ever before. So make sure you remem-ber to vote on April 20. Wait, what? Yes, that’s right, this year’s student senate elections are on 4/20. To the people who don’t see the problem with that date, thank you in advance for remembering to vote. Although, this could be a giant conspiracy: I mean if only 5 percent of campus votes, will the winners actually get elected? We need to fi nd out who decided on this date and check to see if they are on the ballot. Something smells funny here and it isn’t the room down the hall blasting Bob Marley.

Lastly, on Friday, May 7, Bar-stoolpalooza is coming to UNH, featuring Sam Adams in the Gran-ite State Room thanks to Alpha Sigma Phi. Even though I am not a fan of Sam Adams and I am much more excited for MGMT, I think that it is awesome that a non-enter-tainment organization stepped up to the plate when others couldn’t pull the trigger. I hope this will lead to more organizations putting on small concerts with semi-local and semi-well known acts. Hopefully this could lead to more up-and-coming acts here at UNH.

Stay classy, not UMassy,

The New Hampshirite

The New Hampshirite is a mysteri-ous UNH student who entertains

much of the campus with his politically incorrect and realistic

accounts of student life in Durham. You can fi nd his blog at

http://unhblog.com.

Letter to the editor

Student speaks out to support Planned Parenthood

For months on end, Planned Parenthood has been determined to not only fi ll the gaps of a broken health system but to change the lives of billions of Americans, by achieving health equality for es-sentially, everyone.

And fi nally, on March 22, American women and men could fi nally start seeing the light to the end of a long health care battle, where the access to quality and affordable health care is easier and assured.

Although there is still much controversy over the benefi ts and costs of the health care reform,

and even though we understand that the health care reform will not end with the passage of this bill, it is still a major step towards the extension of health care coverage to millions of women, enabling ac-cessibility to affordable and quality life saving screenings for cervical cancer, breast cancer and other seri-ous women health issues.

Planned Parenthood, like myself, is dedicated to the advo-cacy of sexual and reproductive health care and is a leading health care provider to millions of women and families across the nation. The organization advocates for women’s reproductive justices and rights, and believes every woman has the right to decide if they want to give birth. It is thanks to millions of American women who share the same beliefs and values, who also understand that they own this

right – they have helped stop the Stupak ban on abortions. Without the choice to have a safe abortion, women are very often forced to give up this right as a female – and it is very often due to the fact that they cannot afford or access safe and reliable services for educated and resourceful family planning.

With the passing of the bill and the rejection of the Stupak ban, women in America are one step closer to a healthy and vibrant health care system, where they have the resources for educat-ing themselves about their health rights, and furthermore, being able to access the safe, affordable and quality health services for a better future.

Ting ChinClass of 2010


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Human papillomavirus, or HPV, is one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S, and affects both men and women. Up until recently, the two vaccines that exist for the disease were available to women only. A few months ago, however, the Cen-ter for Disease Control and Preven-tion approved the use of Gardasil for men ages nine to 26, and UNH Health Services now offers the vac-cine for male students on campus.

According to the CDC’s web site, HPV is so common in the U.S. that 50 percent of sexually active people will have HPV at some point

in their lives. There are over 100 types of HPV, which can cause a number of medical conditions such as cervical cancer, genital warts and penile and anal cancer.

Dr. Lessa Brill, a women’s health doctor at Health Services, said that HPV is very prevalent in today’s society.

“I think of it as a marker for sexual activity,” said Brill. “If there’s going to be genital to geni-tal contact, unless both partners haven’t had any other partners be-fore, there’s a really good chance that there’ll be HPV around.”

Kathleen Grace-Bishop, direc-tor of Education and Promotion at Health Services, said in an email

that she is happy with the new offer.“I think that it is great that

the HPV vaccine, which has now been approved for both males and females (ages 9-26) is available through Health Services,” said Grace-Bishop. “It provides access to students around an important op-tion for females and males to help them care for themselves and their partners.”

The Gardasil vaccine involves three doses, given through shots, over a period of six months. For students who have paid the health fee, the cost of the vaccine is $151 per dose. For those students who haven’t paid the health fee, it costs $165 per dose. A student’s health

insurance may cover the cost of the vaccine. UNH insurance does not cover the vaccine.

“There is also the issue of cost and whether or not insurance will cover the cost of the vaccine wheth-er it is provided here or through a outside health care provider,” said Grace-Bishop.

Brill said that for men, HPV is implicated in 88 percent of anal can-cers and 80 percent of penile cancer. But in many cases, people are not aware that they have HPV because symptoms are not visible and may not even affect them, she said.

“Most people will get it,” said Brill. “But most people will never ever know and it will never cause

them any trouble.”Brill said that male students

had come to Health Services asking for the vaccine before it was even approved.

“It’s not huge,” said Brill. “But there’s defi nitely a demand for it.”

Grace-Bishop said that the key to getting more people vaccinated is education.

“The availability of the vaccine to males is very new and informa-tion and education on HPV, risk and the vaccine itself will need to occur and it will take time to get the word out to males,” Grace-Bishop said.

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HPV vaccine not just for women anymoreGeoffrey Cunningham

STAFF WRITER

Health Services

Tennessee man cites boredom after arrest on streaking charge

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (AP) — A man who has been charged with making a naked dash through a Tennessee supermar-ket told police he was “bored and didn’t have anything else to do.”

The Kingsport Times-News reports that a man entered an

IGA store Friday night, wearing nothing but a face mask, and ran around the aisles.

A police report says offi cers found the suspect in the bath-room of a nearby Hardee’s res-taurant.

New Hampshire judge reprimand kept quiet?

NEWMARKET, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire newspaper

says a committee that disciplines judges took steps to keep the public from fi nding out about a public reprimand against a Dis-trict Court special justice last year.

The Sunday News in Man-chester says Portsmouth District Court special justice Sharon DeVries received the reprimand from the Judicial Conduct Com-mittee in January 2009 for call-ing another judge about a pend-ing case.

Nationwide briefs

Police LogThe following arrests were re-

corded from the University of New Hampshire Department of Police Adult Arrest/Summons Log for March 19 to March 28

March 19

Kyle S. Rillahan, 19, 12 Stoneybrook Circle, Andover, Mass. 01810, Rice House, theft of services, 9:30 a.m.

March 23

Edward R. Smith, 18, 24 Yar-mouth Road, Norwood, Mass., 02062, Christiansen 623, possession of drugs, unlawful possession of al-cohol, 10:26 p.m.

March 24

Kyle S. Pcoerzans, 19, 7 Brin-ton Drive, Nashua, N.H., 03064, Janetos House, riot, 3:23 p.m.

Wilbert L. Horne, 19, 48 Haines St., Nashua, N.H., 03060, Janetos House, riot, 3:23 p.m.

James T. Cassinoreed, 18, 95 Becuillew Ave., Nashua, N.H., 03064, Janetos House, riot, 4:21 p.m.

Shaun Mancin, 18, 252 Wood-crest Court, Manchester, N.H., 03109, Rice House, riot, 6:00 p.m.

March 25

Shane Faria, 18, 7 Irene St. Burlington, Mass., 01805, warrant, Janetos House, theft of services, 3:15 p.m.

Jason Metzenroth, 18, 64 West

Halbe Lane, Cape May Courthouse, R.I., 08210, warrant, Janetos House, theft of services, 3:15 p.m.

Kevin Cronin, 19, 11 Gloria Circle, Burlington, Mass., 01803, Rice House, theft by taking, theft of services, 6:40 p.m.

March 26

Kevin W. Peters, 23, 1000 Church St., Pleasantville, N.J., 08232-4274, Main St., DWI, 2:04 a.m.

Nathan A. Roe, 19, 55 Nason Road, Hampton Falls, N.H., 03844, SERC B 123, unlawful intoxication, 3:09 a.m.

Emil Joshua Locke, 20, 21 pond Parish Road, Amherst, N.H., 03031, Pette Brooke meter lot, transporta-tion of alcohol, 8:17 p.m.

March 27

Robert Edward Degregory Jr., 20, 39 Greenough Road, Plaistow N.H., 03865, Wildcatessen, shoplift-ing, 1:01 a.m.

Sean D, Woods, 18, 1 Hamlet Circle, Merrimack, N.H., 03054, College Road, transportation of al-cohol, 1:34 a.m.

Tyler S. Willette, 19, 70 Os-sipee Mtn Road, Ossipee, N.H., 03514, Wildcatessen, theft of ser-vices, 1:40 a.m.

Miles Frederick ELA, 50 Cov-entry Road, Concord, N.H., 03301, Wildcatssen, possession of drugs, unlawful intoxication, 2:58 a.m.

Jamie Christopher Aimes, 21, 35 Harrad Lane, Bedford, N.H., 03110, Wildcatessen, shoplifting,

1:01 a.m.

March 28

Stephen Nask, 19, 9 Damon Ave., Nashua, N.H. 03064, William-son loading dock, criminal trespass-ing, possession of drugs, 4:44 a.m.

John DeMichaelis, 19, 112 Lilah Lane, Reading, Mass., 01867, Williamson loading dock, criminal trespassing, 4:44 a.m.

Malie Collins, 18, 59 Belle Lane, Lee N.H., 03824, Wildcates-sen, unlawful intoxication, 1:00 a.m.

Mackenzie S McNamara, 18, 157 Mountain Road, Sandwich, N.H., 03227, Wildcatessen, unlaw-ful intoxication, 1:42 a.m.

James Conklin, 18, 5 Chadd-arin Lane, Plymouth, N.H., 03264, Wildcatessen, unlawful intoxica-tion, 1:42 a.m.

Chelsea Kozikis, 18, 8 March Road, Sharon, Mass., 02067, Wild-catessen, unlawful intoxication, 1:42 a.m.

Todd Walker, 19, 431 Winslow Road, Edwards, C.O., 81632, Health Services, loitering, prowling, resist-ing arrest, 1:47 a.m.

Eranis P. Vizlaino, 19, 30 Union St., Lynn Mass., 01902, Main St./Garrison Ave., unlawful posses-sion, 1:55 a.m.

Aribel Henriquez, 19, 9 Logan St., Lawrence, Mass., 01841, Main St./Garrison Ave., unlawful posses-sion, 1:55 a.m.

Macczla M. Cruz, 19, 244 West Manchester St., Lowell, Mass., 01852, Main St./Garrison Ave., un-lawful possession, 1:55 a.m.


THE NEW HAMPSHIRE

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Twice a year, Portsmouth res-taurants put on an event that all Sea-coast restaurant-goers hunger for.

The biannual Restaurant Week in Portsmouth began Friday, March 26 and runs until Saturday, April 3. Each meal is a special three-course prix fi xe designed by each partici-pating restaurant and cost $16.95 per person for lunch and $29.95 per person for dinner.

Bridgette Desmond has been the marketing coordinator for the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce for six months and has seen an increase in the number of restaurants participating as well as an increase in people dining.

“The inaugural Restau-rant Week Portsmouth in No-vember 2008 included 18restaurants and drew over 3,000 diners,” said Desmond. “The March 2009 event featured 30restaurants which drew over 6,000 diners. This past November’s event included 35 restaurants and drew over 8,000 diners. We anticipate an even bigger turnout this year.”

This year’s event features 37

restaurants that have higher expec-tations than ever before.

“We try to pick weeks that are in the off-season for the restau-rants,” said Desmond in an email. “To help give them a push, we do the weeks in March and Novem-ber.”

“Volume has been very good,” said Deb Weeks, owner of The Green Monkey and Brazo, in refer-ence to the amount of business she has received so far in the third Res-taurant Week her restaurants have participated in.

But Weeks also expressed that there was not a signifi cant change in the amount of college-aged students dining in her facilities.

UNH senior Alexandra Coak-ley has not attended a Restaurant Week in the past because of the price for a meal. This year, how-ever, she plans to indulge present despite the price.

“I am close to the area and like to go out to new places but have a budget,” said Coakley. “And the restaurant with good deals I am more likely to dine at with my friends.”

Shane Bieber graduated from UNH in 2007 and has not dined

in any of the restaurants located in Portsmouth because of the prices, but feels that Restaurant Week is the perfect excuse to explore them.

“It would be a great change from the food I eat now,” said Bie-ber. “I defi nitely want to check out some of these places, especially with the prices set lower than usual.”

Jessie French is a UNH gradu-ate student and has participated in Restaurant Week festivities both as a worker in the fi ne dining business and as a customer.

“I think it’s important to cel-ebrate local people with local busi-nesses,” said French. “Portsmouth features a combination of fi ne din-ing and an atmosphere unique to our community; it’s very diffi cult to fi nd restaurants of this caliber without having to travel to a city like Boston or Portland.”

Reservations are recommended by the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce. Information can be obtained at the website www.res-taurantweekportsmouth.com or by calling the Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce at (603) 610-5510. There is also a Facebook page for Restaurant Week Ports-mouth.

Portsmouth Restaurants kick off fourth Restaurant WeekJosh Small

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

Participating Restaurants include:Acorns, Agave, Anneke Jans, BG’s Boat House, Black Trumpet, Blue Mermaid, Bonta, Brazo, Cafe Mediterraneo, The Carriage House, Cava, Common Man, Dolphin Striker, Four Restaurant, Green Monkey, Great American Grill At The Hilton Garden Inn, Harbor’s Edge, Jumpin’ Jay’s, The Library, The Oar House, Orchard Street Chop Shop, Pesce Italian Kitchen & Bar, Portsmouth Brewery, Portsmouth Gas Light & Co., Radici’s, RedHook Brewery, Rira, Ristorante Massimo, River House, Robert’s Maine Grill, Rudi’s Portsmouth, Stage Neck Inn, Three Chimney’s Inn, The Union Grill at Union Bluff, The Wellington Room, Wentworth By The Sea, York Harbor Inn.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Confi dence is growing that the economic recovery won’t fi zzle out. Consumers kept cash regis-ters humming last month at a de-cent pace, pointing to modest and steady economic gains ahead.

The Commerce Department reported Monday that consum-ers boosted their spending by 0.3 percent in February, marking the fi fth straight monthly gain.

Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight, called it “an encouraging sign of consumer revival.”

The pickup in spending was a tad slower than the 0.4 percent increase registered in January and marked the smallest increase since September. Nonetheless, the spending gain was consid-ered decent, especially given the snowstorms that slammed the East Coast and kept some people away from the malls.

“Households are starting to ease up on their tight grip on their wallets, though it would be nice if they had more money to spend,” observed Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors.

Americans’ incomes didn’t

budge.Incomes were stagnant in

February, as the bad weather forced employers to trim work-ers’ hours. That followed a solid 0.3 percent gain in January and marked the weakest showing since July, when incomes actually shrank. Income growth is the fuel for future spending. February’s fl at-line reading suggests shop-pers will be cautious in coming months.

Spending growth in February matched economists’ expecta-tions. The reading on income was a bit weaker than forecast.

Both the spending and in-come fi gures in Monday’s report point to a modest economic re-covery.

That cheered Wall Street in-vestors. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 46 points to close at 10,896. The Dow hasn’t traded above that level since September 2008.

Many analysts predict the economy slowed in the fi rst three months of this year after logging a big growth spurt at the end of 2009.

The economy will expand at a 2.5 percent to 3 percent pace

Shoppers keep registers humming

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in the January-to-March quarter, analysts predict. That’s roughly half the 5.6 percent pace seen in the fi nal quarter of last year.

In normal times, growth in the 3 percent range would be considered respectable. But the nation is emerging from the worst recession since the 1930s. Sizzling growth in the 5 percent range would be needed for an en-tire year to drive down the unem-ployment rate, now 9.7 percent, by just 1 percentage point.

Unlike past recoveries, where consumer spending led the way, this one is hinging more on the spending of businesses and foreigners.

High unemployment, slug-gish wage gains, hard-to-get credit and record-high home foreclosures are all expected to deter consumers from going on a spending spree — one of the main reasons why the pace of the recovery will be more subdued than in the past.

With spending outpacing in-come growth, Americans’ savings dipped in February.

Americans saved 3.1 percent

of their disposable income, down from 3.4 percent in January. It was the lowest reading on the savings rate since October 2008 and sug-gested that people have more of an appetite to spend.

Consumers increased their spending on “nondurable” goods, such as food and clothing, by 0.7 percent in February. That was down from a 1.7 percent increase in January. They boosted spend-ing on services by 0.3 percent, up from a 0.2 percent rise in January. But they cut spending on “dura-ble” goods, such as cars and ap-pliances, by 0.4 percent, not as deep as the 1.4 percent reduction in January.

Consumer spending accounts for the single-biggest slice of overall economic activity. That’s why it is so closely watched by investors and economists.

So far in the current quarter, consumer spending is shaping up to be better than it was at the end of last year.

“U.S. consumers board re-covery train,” said Sal Guatieri, economist at BMO Capital Mar-kets Economics.

For the entire January-to-

March quarter, analysts think consumer spending will grow at a pace of around 3 percent. That would mark an improvement from the 1.6 percent growth rate logged in the fi nal quarter of last year and would be the biggest in-crease in three years.

Analysts are growing more confi dent that consumers will keep spending suffi ciently into the coming months as the job market heals.

Economists predict that em-ployers added around 190,000 jobs in March, in what they hope will be the start of consistent payroll gains. If they are right, it would mark the biggest jobs gain in three years. The unemployment rate is expected to stay at 9.7 per-cent for the third straight month.

The expected turnaround in job-creation would be welcome, but many economists say it will take at least until the middle of this decade for the situation to get back to normal, meaning a job-less rate of 5.5 percent to 6 per-cent. And, it will also take years for the economy to recover the 8.4 million jobs wiped out by the recession.


CONSUMPTION: Economic outlook up as consumers boost spending The madness of money in March

The Bottom Line

After watching my NCAA men’s basketball bracket slowly deteriorate round after round over the past few weeks, it’s safe to say I will be accruing losses across the board for my time spent researching how the tour-nament would play out.

With over nine trillion pos-sible combinations, it’s safe to say not many people had But-ler making their way out of the Western bracket. Regardless, investing time and money in the tournament each March is far from what anyone would call re-sponsible personal fi nance; that is, of course, unless you’re on the sidelines.

The NCAA has set strict rules against players receiving any monetary benefi ts from their respective programs, which begs the question, where does all the money go? If as the saying goes, the NBA is a players’ game, then college hoops belongs to the coaches. The labor market in col-lege basketball is so skewed in the coaches’ favor that their fi nancial leverage is more than most cor-porate executives.

For example, if University of Kentucky coach John Calipari was able to complete the Wild-cats’ run for a national champi-onship, he would have received an additional $650,000 on top of his $3.7 million in guaranteed compensation this year. While this clause in a coach’s contract is commonplace for most Divi-sion-1 schools, a strong run in the tournament almost always guar-antees a more lucrative contract extension for the head coach. University of Kansas head coach Bill Self saw his $1.6 million per year contract increase to a $30 million, 10-year extension after cutting down the nets in 2008.

And the opportunities for college coaches don’t end there. Over the past few decades, coaches have contracted compa-nies such as Nike and Reebok to outfi t their players. While pay-ments in the 1970s were a mere $10,000, by the mid 90s compa-nies were shelling out upwards of $200,000. These days’ companies sign school-wide agreements that cover all the varsity teams’ gear

with large sums of that money being dispersed amongst the schools’ top programs.

On top of endorsement deals, there are summer basket-ball camps. Duke Coach Mike Kryzyzewski’s “K Academy,” has adults shovel $10,000 for fi ve days to play basketball and learn team-building techniques. Coach Kryzyzewski’s legacy is in high demand off the basketball court as well, making corporate speeches upwards of $100,000 a pop.

So why do universities who are seeing increasing budgetary constraints pay these astronomi-cal salaries? For some schools with on-campus arenas that hold more than 20,000 – such as the University of North Carolina – ticket sales, concessions and sponsorship deals bring in sub-stantial revenues. Many univer-sity presidents will also point out that money generated from basketball programs helps cover expenses for less lucrative varsity sports like cross-country and vol-leyball.

And it cannot be denied that a well-known varsity athletic pro-gram can help market any univer-sity in the increasingly competi-tive secondary education market. And while basketball is statisti-cally less profi table than compa-rable football programs, the costs that are tied to recruiting entire football teams including scholar-ships, facilities, and coaches, are not viable for smaller schools like Gonzaga and Xavier who have consistently been a threat on the college basketball scene.

March Madness generates the second most betting revenue annually, second only to the Su-per Bowl. Yet the odds of prevail-ing are stacked so highly against the participants, most enter the month of April with more red ink than they would have hoped. So next time you’re yelling at Sher-ron Collins on your TV for going 4-21 from the fi eld and busting your bracket, don’t forget about the guy standing on the sidelines; he’s the only one getting paid to be there.

Nate BatchelderManaging Editor

NASHUA, N.H. — Some small towns in New Hampshire have begun contract negotiations with their police forces but have not gotten too far.

Town offi cials have used the words “too rich” before turning down proposals and failing to reach an agreement.

The Nashua Telegraph re-ports that Amherst, Hollis and Milford are at a stalemate with their local unions after voters shot

down proposals. In Hudson, an eleventh-hour vote by selectmen led to a new proposal that the po-lice union approved, but voters then shot it down.

Hudson Police Sgt. Mike Gosselin, the local union presi-dent, says he doesn’t know why taxpayers rejected it. The deal did not include a wage increase for police next fi scal year. It called for a 3 percent increase each year for fi scal 2011 and 2012.

Some NH towns, police forces talk contracts

Associated Press


The UNH greenhouses were a good place to escape from the early morning chill Saturday morning, and not just because the glass walls and roof captured the morning’s abundant sunshine. The dozens of people milling about for the open house helped to raise the tempera-ture indoors a bit too.

The free annual event, which ran from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday, is the bigger event of the two times the UNH greenhouses are open to the gen-eral public, the other being in early December to showcase the season’s crop of poinsettias. And avid gar-deners from throughout the seacoast region arrived by the car load.

It was a knowledgeable, spe-cialized crowd—the kind of place where posters bearing titles such as “Did you realize wilting is not always a symptom of under water-ing?” stopped visitors dead in their tracks. The 10:30 a.m. greenhouse tour, led by greenhouse manager David Goudreault, was as much a Q&A session as it was a tour.

Thirty two people squeezed into the greenhouses’ narrow walk-ways for the tour, making it seem nearly impossible that approxi-mately 100 people had joined the fi rst tour on Friday morning.

Goudreault led the crowd through the work being done by UNH researchers in each green-

house. The contents of the third greenhouse, full of tables groaning with endless pots of strawberry va-rieties from around the world, elic-ited a good deal of attention.

“It’s basically a strawberry ge-netics program,” said Goudreault, going on to explain that the goals of the research being done by UNH professor Tom Davis are to map the chromosomes of the strawberry and discern the plant’s place of origin (current indicators point to Japan).

But while Goudreault fi elded questions ranging from the best type of compost (worm compost) to what vegetables can be grown in greenhouses year-round (not many, in New Hampshire), his twice-daily tour was only one component of the event.

In the narrow hallway adjoin-ing the greenhouses, UNH Coop-erative Extension and other repre-sentatives manned brochure-laden tables, offering information on top-ics ranging from the nutritional ben-efi ts of micro greens to the logistics of growing sweet potatoes in New Hampshire. The aforementioned posters-- prepared by horticulture technology students from UNH’s Thompson School of Applied Sci-ence—lined the walls. With the popularity of the event, the hardest thing was navigating from one end of the building to the other.

“There have been full hallways the entire time,” said Scott Flewel-ling, a landscape operations major and president of the UNH Horticul-ture Club, who manned a table sell-

ing raffl e tickets to support the club. “Yesterday we were swamped.”

The narrow greenhouse at the rear of the building was full of plants for sale, the majority going for fi ve to nine dollars, with color-ful names ranging from Delphinium to Fern Golden Mist. Posters be-hind the plants offered a picture of the mature plant, along with a brief description and vital information about maximum height and zones that it grows in.

“The students do a nice job with the plants,” said Bob Deshar-nais, a Barrington resident who was shopping for new additions to his garden with his wife. “It’s obvious they put a lot of time and effort into this.”

It was a sentiment that orna-mental horticulture student Paul Drag had been hearing a lot over the course of the event.

“They’re impressed with the plant quality,” said Drag.

Flewelling noted that the event offered a great deal of value, rang-ing from the free lectures in nearby Putnam Hall to the experts on hands to answer questions.

“A lot of the people that come here have been doing it for years, and they love it,” said Scott Flewel-ling, a landscape operations major and president of the UNH Horticul-ture Club.

One repeat visitor was Laco-nia resident Phyllis Mecheski, who tagged along for Goudreault’s tour.

“I thought it was interesting

enough several years ago to come again and drag a friend with me,” said Mecheski.

The open house was sponsored by the New Hampshire Agricul-tural Experiment Station, the UNH biological sciences and horticul-ture academic programs, Thomp-son School of Applied Sciences horticulture department, and UNH Cooperative Extension. The event was held in conjunction with the Seacoast Flower, Home and Gar-den show, which was held at the Whittemore Center from Friday to Sunday.

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Open House plays to the enthusiastic gardener

THOMAS GOUNLEY/STAFFGardeners fl ocked to the UNH greenhouses for their annual Open House event last Friday and Saturday.

Thomas GounleySTAFF WRITER

Science and Sustainability


Amidst the veteran vendors at the Seacoast Home and Gar-den Show this past weekend was a newcomer with some old-fash-ioned secrets.

Leslie Breen of Swampscott, Mass., who wrote and self-pub-lished two books, “Growing up with Doris and Still Alive to Tell the Tale” and “Cooking with Do-ris B,” debuted her mom’s “secret” recipes on Friday at the 16th annual show held at the Whittemore Cen-ter – and she couldn’t have been more proud.

“I work on this every day, every night, every weekend,” said Breen, who works as a nurse prac-titioner for her primary source of income. “It was good to be here. It’s a learning experience and we had a lot of fun.”

Breen along with 85-year-old “Doris B” Silva were featured as part of the Meet the Chefs cooking series, which is in its fi fth year at the show. The series exhibits re-gional chefs who share their culi-nary secrets and recipes as part of a cooking demonstration.

In her Massachusetts dialect and accompanied with her sing-ing and dancing stuffed mouse “Giuseppe,” Silva often forgets to dictate as she cooks, but Breen was there to remind her of her au-dience.

“Everyone just loved Do-

ris,” said Karla Ficker, co-owner of Dickson and McGonigle Inc. who puts on the Home and Garden Show every year. “She’s a pistol.”

Breen’s daughter and Silva’s granddaughter, Megan, is a senior at UNH and did all of the illustra-tions and photo restorations for the books. For her, the show allowed her to share her charismatic “Vo-voa” and the food she’s loved since she was young.

“She did at least four laps (around the Whittemore Center) every day,” said Megan, whose fa-vorite Doris B recipe is “fellos” or Portuguese donuts. “She talked to everyone and literally by the time she left everyone knew her.”

Despite the new and return-ing vendors at the show, attendance was low this year. However, Ficker noticed something unique about

those who did come.“The economy, as everything,

has affected the show. But what we’ve noticed is the quality of the attendee has risen this year,” said Ficker, who said last year’s con-sumerism at the show was very low. “The people who are here are very interested and educated about what they want to buy. They’re talking to the vendors and asking the right questions.”

Among the exhibitors to do well this year was Sauna Bob’s, a manufacturer of saunas out of Milwaukee, WI who has a distribu-tor in Portland, ME. As of Sunday afternoon they had sold 10 saunas, averaging $2,000 each.

“For a large ticket item we did well,” said Jeff Anderson of Sauna Bob’s. “The economy hasn’t af-fected us too much because nine out of 10 people who buy a sauna do it because they’re concerned with their health. It’s not a luxury item, like say a hot tub.”

Another vendor who did well was Joan Pelkey of Mulberry Tree in Kittery, Maine, who’s been com-ing to the show for longer than she can remember. Her table, spread with homemade dips to taste-test, was a must-stop for many, includ-ing Ficker, who could only de-scribe the dips with a “mmmmmm, they’re so good.”

“It was slower this year but I still did really well,” said Pelkey, whose packets of herbs and spices

can be mixed with creamed cheese, mayonnaise or sour cream. “I have my regular customers that come back every year to see me and that didn’t change this year.”

The artisans, or vendors, that were featured on the top fl oor of the Whittemore Center included baked goods, wooden-carved signs, jew-elry, paintings and candle makers, including one, Kittredge Candles out of Andover, Mass. that had a beer scented UNH candle.

The ice arena of the Whitte-more Center was transformed into bathrooms, kitchens and patios for the weekend – with exhibits fea-turing everything from hot tubs to cabinetry to invisible electrical

fences for pets. The focus this year, according

to Ficker, was affordable energy-effi cient upgrades and remodeling solutions. Among those looking for helpful tips and products were Boone Kuffman and Diane Cum-mings, who just moved from Hilo, HI to Londonderry.

“We’re here getting ideas for the things we want to do to our new home,” said Cummings. “Like trying to fi gure out insulation and home heating – it’s something we’ve never had to do before.”

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Home Garden Show blooms despite economyBrittney Murray

STAFF WRITER

BRITTNEY MURRAY/TNH STAFFLeslie Breen, far right, “Vovoa” Doris B, center, and Megan Breen, far left, participated in the Seacoast’s Home and Garden show this past weekend.

“I have my regular customers that come back every year to see me and that didn’t change this year.”

Joan PelkeyMullberry Tree employee

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police in a northern Califor-nia town thought they had an open-and-shut case when they seized more than two pounds of marijuana from a couple’s home, even though doctors authorized the pair to use pot for medical purposes.

San Francisco police thought the same with a father and son team they suspected of abusing the state’s medical marijuana law by allegedly operating an illegal traffi cking operation.

But both cases were tossed out along with many other mari-juana possession cases in recent weeks because of a California Supreme Court ruling that has police, prosecutors and defense attorneys scrambling to make sense of a gray legal area: What is the maximum amount of can-nabis a medical marijuana pa-tient can possess?

No one can say for sure how many dismissals and acquittals have been prompted by the rul-ing, but the numbers are stacking up since the Supreme Court on Jan. 21 tossed out Patrick Kelly’s marijuana possession convic-tion.

The high court struck down a 7-year-old state law that imposed

an 8-ounce limit on the amount of pot medical users of marijua-na could possess. The court said patients are entitled to a “reason-able” amount of the drug to treat their ailments.

Law enforcement offi cials say the ruling has made the murky legal landscape of mari-juana policy in California even more challenging to enforce.

Since California voters legal-ized medical marijuana in 1996, there has been tension between local law enforcement offi cials and federal authorities, who view marijuana as absolutely illegal.

That tension is expected to become even more pronounced if the state’s voters approve a No-vember ballot measure legalizing possession of small amounts of marijuana.

“The way the law is now it puts law enforcement between a rock and a hard place,” said Mar-tin J. Mayer, a lawyer who rep-resents California State Sheriff’s Association, California Police Chief’s Association and Cali-fornia Peace Offi cers’ Associa-tion. “The measure, if it passes, will make it even more diffi cult. They just don’t like being in the middle.”

Prosecutors are backing away from some cases fi led be-fore the court ruling.

“Gray is not a good color

for the law,” said Shasta County District Attorney Gerald Benito, who dismissed a case earlier this month and is considering drop-ping several more because of the ruling. “It makes it very diffi cult for us to enforce the law — I think everyone is crying out for a clear line.”

Benito cited the Supreme Court ruling in dropping charges on March 5 against James Brad-ley Hall, who was arrested in Oc-tober and charged with growing 40 marijuana plants.

The next week, a San Fran-cisco jury acquitted a father and son charged with growing three dozen plants. The lawyers for Thomas Chang, 62, and his son, Errol Chang, 30, based their de-fense on the Kelly case, arguing that the men needed that much pot to treat their medical condi-

tions.In Vacaville, located be-

tween San Francisco and Sacra-mento, prosecutors in February dropped their two-year pursuit of Johanna and Joe Azevedo, a husband and wife charged with possessing about two pounds of marijuana. Both sides agreed to put the Azevedo case on hold until the Supreme Court decided the Kelly case.

“Fighting this pretty well drained what little money we had,” Johanna Azevedo said of her legal fi ght with Solano Coun-ty prosecutors. “But it was a very happy day when the Kelly case was announced.”

Still, not all defense attor-neys and marijuana advocates are as content with the ruling as the Azevedos and others who had their criminal cases dropped.

Some argue that clear-cut limits actually would shield med-ical marijuana patients from law enforcement offi cials who have a strict interpretation of what con-stitutes a “reasonable” amount.

“I wish there was a bright line,” said Bruce Margolin, one of the nation’s most renowned marijuana defense attorneys. “It’s the only protection against arrest.”

A closely-watched Sacra-mento case was expected to help clarify what a reasonable amount

of medical marijuana is. But it further muddied the question.

The jury acquitted Matthew Zugsberger of a felony posses-sion charge but convicted him of a felony charge of marijuana transportation for trying to take three pounds of marijuana from the Sacramento airport to New Orleans in 2008. The jury, which deliberated for more than three days, also convicted Zugsberger of a misdemeanor possession charge. In the end, nothing was solved.

“The jury was absolutely confused,” said his attorney Grant Pegg. “What is reasonable is an absolutely gray area.”

Despite the confusion, there does not appear to be a politi-cal push to develop guidelines, which the Supreme Court said must be done by voters.

Law enforcement lobbying arms, such as the California Dis-trict Attorney Association, steer clear of most medical marijuana issues because of the wide vari-ety of views of the law.

“It is different than a lot of areas in criminal law where there is a consensus,” said W. Scott Thorpe, chief executive of the district attorney’s association. “There are varying approaches from county to county in the way law enforcement is dealing with medical marijuana laws.”

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“The jury was absolutely confused. What is reasonable is an absolutely gray area.”

Grant PeggZugsberger’s attorney

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BOSTON (AP) — Nervous residents along the sodden East Coast watched rivers rise Mon-day as they braced for a new round of fl ooding — and the wettest March on record in some areas.

The National Weather Service posted fl ood warnings and advi-sories from Maine to the Caro-linas as forecasts called for as much as 5 to 7 inches of rain over the next three days. The storm threatened to push already-swol-len rivers over their banks and add to the misery of homeowners still struggling to bail out fl ood-ed basements from other recent storms in the Northeast.

Ted Les, 76, and his wife, Blanche, 69, worried what would happen if rains caused any more damage to their home of 40 years in Clinton, Mass.

In the event of more damage, “we can’t live here anymore,” Les said. “We don’t know where we are going to go.”

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick declared a state of emer-gency Monday and mobilized as many as 1,000 National Guards-men to assist in the event of ma-jor fl ooding.

“Residents of fl ood zones should closely monitor the storm

and prepare for the possibility of evacuating quickly,” should wa-ters rise, Patrick said.

Meteorologists warned of a possible “life-threatening” situ-ation along the Pawtuxet River in Rhode Island, which was ex-pected to reach fl ood stage later Monday, with heavy fl ooding by Tuesday afternoon.

“We have a very serious prob-lem. This is turning out to be a nightmare,” said Steve Kass, spokesman for the Rhode Island Emergency Management Agen-cy.

The storm hit as the North-east continued to recover from a storm March 13-15 that dropped as much as much as 10 inches of rain, causing several rivers to rise and fl ooding basements through-out the region.

The rainiest March on re-cord in Boston was 1953, when 11 inches fell during the month; nearly 10 inches had already fallen before the start of the lat-est storm.

New York City was within 3 inches of the March record of 10.54 inches set in 1983, and forecasters said the storm could easily eclipse that mark.

“Our ground is so wet it’s like pouring water into an already saturated sponge,” said Tony Sut-ton, commissioner of Emergency

Services for Westchester County, N.Y., north of the city. “Thank God we’re not expecting real strong winds. That’s a break.”

Coastal fl ooding from rain and high tides was a concern on Long Island beaches. Work-ers were busy Monday trucking tons of sand to the eastern end of the popular Robert Moses State Park to battle erosion, state parks spokesman George Gorman said.

Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell opened the state’s emer-gency operations center Monday as fl ood warnings were posted along many rivers and streams throughout the state.

Road closures were reported Monday in several states, includ-ing New Jersey. Up to 2 inches of rain fell overnight on the state, and fl ood warnings were posted for urban areas and small streams in several counties.

Violent weather from the same system, including at least one tornado, was blamed for in-juries to several people and dam-age to more than 30 homes Sun-day night in the Carolinas. Two teenagers in North Carolina died after their car slid off a rain-slick road into a swollen creek.

The rain was tapering off in the Carolinas on Monday, but some fl ood watches remained.

Heavy rain threatens totopple records in East

Bob SalsbergASSOCIATED PRESS

ATLANTA (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education has picked Delaware and Tennessee for the first round of its “Race to the Top” competition, giving part of an unprecedented $4.35 bil-lion to the states, a source said on Monday.

The states, selected from 16 finalists announced earlier this month, received hundreds of mil-lions in grants designed to encour-age the use of innovative programs to improve student performance and transform struggling schools.

It wasn’t immediately known exactly how much money the two states would receive, but officials in Tennessee said they applied for $500 million and their counter-parts in Delaware asked for $100 million.

The source declined to be identified because not all finalists had been yet contacted.

The winners beat out: Colo-rado, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Ken-tucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and South Carolina.

U.S. Department of Educa-tion officials are expected to hold a press conference later Monday to talk about the winners. Educa-tion Secretary Arne Duncan was

making calls to each finalist Mon-day morning to let them know the results.

The money is part of President Barack Obama’s economic stimu-lus law, which provided a stagger-ing $100 billion for schools. The $4.35 billion is part of that larger allocation.

The Education Department asked states to concentrate their proposals on four areas: adopt-ing standards and assessments to better prepare students for careers and college; getting high-quality teachers into classroom; turning around low-performing schools; and creating data systems to track performance.

Federal officials will collect a second round of applications for the highly selective grant program in June. The states that were not picked this time can reapply for grants then.

More than 40 states applied for the grants, scrambling to wid-en charter school laws and enact performance pay for teachers to prove that they deserved part of the money.

Some education observers have criticized the “Race to the Top” competition, saying the ad-ministration is out of touch be-cause it is pushing reform at a time when states can barely afford basic necessities and are laying off teachers by the hundreds.

Feds pick Delaware,Tennessee for grants

Dorie TurnerASSOCIATED PRESS

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Three environmental groups an-nounced Monday they intend to sue the Interior Department for not protecting sage grouse as an endan-gered or threatened species.

The Center for Biological Di-versity, Desert Survivors and West-ern Watersheds Project said the de-partment violated the Endangered Species Act by classifying sage grouse not as threatened or endan-gered but merely as candidates for such protection.

Some of the roughly 250 spe-cies considered candidates for pro-tection have been on the candidate species list for decades. The groups pointed out in an intent-to-sue letter Monday to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar that relatively few species in recent years have been gaining protection under the Endangered Species Act.

The average during the Clin-ton administration was 65 a year, the groups wrote, while the aver-age since 2005 has been just three a year.

At that rate, they wrote, sage grouse are unlikely to be protected any time soon.

“This is an agency dragging its feet,” said Rob Mrowka, an ecolo-

gist in Las Vegas for the Center for Biological Diversity.

An Interior spokeswoman de-clined to comment, citing depart-ment policy for matters in litiga-tion.

Sage grouse are a mottled brown, football-sized bird found in Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Ne-vada, California, Colorado, Utah, Washington, Oregon, South Dakota, North Dakota and Canada.

Wyoming is believed to host about half of the birds but much of their sagebrush habitat in the state’s vast basins also is prime country for oil and gas drilling. In Nevada, sage grouse are threatened by cheatgrass, an invasive species prone to wild-fi res that burn native sagebrush.

The Interior Department an-nounced March 5 that protection for sage grouse is warranted but precluded by higher priorities — other species deemed in greater need of protection. The department announced the same fi nding for the distinct Mono Basin sage grouse population along the California-Nevada line.

The oil and gas, wind and ranching industries greatly feared an endangered or threatened listing, which would have restricted many activities on public land across the West.

The Fish and Wildlife Service assigns each candidate species a priority number between one and 12, with lower numbers being high-er priorities for protection. The sage grouse across its 11-state range was assigned a number eight. The Mono Basin population got a three.

About half of all candidate species are ones and twos, meaning even the Mono Basin sage grouse are halfway down the priority list, said Noah Greenwald, endangered species program coordinator for the Center for Biological Diversity.

Sage grouse are in “a purgato-ry that could last literally decades,” Greenwald said.

Sixty days’ notice is required ahead of fi ling a lawsuit under the Endangered Species Act. Western Watersheds Project already has fi led a complaint over sage grouse, a case in Boise, Idaho, that led to the can-didate species fi nding.

Western Watersheds Project contested the candidate species fi nding three weeks ago by fi ling a supplemental complaint in its case. Executive Director Jon Marvel sug-gested the other groups could join Western Watersheds Project lawsuit or fi le elsewhere.

Mrowka said the groups haven’t decided where they might sue.

Mead GruverASSOCIATED PRESS

Environmental groups vow to sue due to unprotected sage grouse in Wyoming


DETROIT — Nine alleged members of a Christian militia group that was girding for battle with the Antichrist were charged Monday with plotting to kill a po-lice offi cer and slaughter scores more by bombing the funeral — all in hopes of touching off an uprising against the U.S. government.

Seven men and one woman believed to be part of the Michigan-based Hutaree were arrested over the weekend in raids in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, and another was still being sought.

FBI agents moved quickly against Hutaree because its mem-bers were planning an attack some-time in April, prosecutors said. Au-thorities seized guns in the raids but would not say whether they found any explosives.

The arrests have dealt “a se-vere blow to a dangerous organi-zation that today stands accused of conspiring to levy war against the United States,” Attorney General Eric Holder said.

Authorities said the arrests underscored the dangers of home-grown right-wing extremism of the sort seen in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people.

In an indictment unsealed Monday, prosecutors said the group began military-style training in the

Michigan woods in 2008, learning how to shoot guns and make and set off bombs.

David Brian Stone, 44, of Clayton, Mich., and one of his sons were identifi ed as the ringleaders of the group. Stone, who was known as “Captain Hutaree,” organized the group in paramilitary fashion and members were assigned secret names, prosecutors said. Ranks ranged from “radoks” to “gunners,” according to the group’s Web site.

“It started out as a Christian thing,” Stone’s ex-wife, Donna Stone, told The Associated Press. “You go to church. You pray. You take care of your family. I think Da-vid started to take it a little too far.”

Donna Stone said her ex-hus-band pulled her son into the move-ment. Another of Stone’s sons also was charged and still was being sought.

FBI and police surrounded a ru-ral area Monday about 30 miles from the site of raid in Michigan and were using a nearby church as a staging area, but wouldn’t say whether their search was related to the weekend raids. Authorities arrived at Wheat-land Church on Sunday night and were focusing on a trailer about a mile away, said Irene Wonders, wife of the church’s pastor.

Prosecutors said David Stone had identifi ed certain law enforce-ment offi cers near his home as po-tential targets. He and other mem-bers discussed setting off bombs at

a police funeral, using a fake 911 call to lure an offi cer to his death, killing an offi cer after a traffi c stop, or attacking the family of an offi cer, according to the indictment.

After such attacks, the group allegedly planned to retreat to “rally points” protected by trip-wired ex-plosives for a violent standoff with the law.

“It is believed by the Hutaree that this engagement would then serve as a catalyst for a more wide-spread uprising against the govern-ment,” the indictment said.

The charges against the eight include seditious conspiracy — plotting to levy war against the U.S. — possessing a fi rearm during a crime of violence, teaching the use of explosives, and attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction — homemade bombs. The defendants were jailed, awaiting bail hearings Wednesday.

Hutaree says on its Web site its name means “Christian warrior” and describes the word as part of a secret language that few are privi-leged to know. The group quotes several Bible passages and declares: “We believe that one day, as prophe-cy says, there will be an Anti-Christ. ... Jesus wanted us to be ready to de-fend ourselves using the sword and stay alive using equipment.”

The nature of the organiza-tion’s alleged grudge against law enforcement and the government was unclear. The Web site does not

list any specifi c grievances.The site features a picture of 17

men in camoufl age, all holding large guns, and includes videos of armed men running through the woods. Each wears a shoulder patch that bears a cross and two red spears.

David Cid, executive director of the Oklahoma City-based Me-morial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism, said there has been a resurgence in the past year or two of “domestic militancy” similar to what was seen before the Oklahoma City bombing.

“It’s issues like eminent domain and immigration, and apparently na-tional health care in some quarters,” said Cid, a former FBI counterter-rorism agent. “It’s increasing these people’s ire and their discomfort with their own government.”

The wife of one of the defen-dants described Hutaree as a small group of patriotic, Christian bud-dies who were just doing survival training.

“It consisted of a dad and two of his sons and I think just a couple other close friends of theirs,” said Kelly Sickles, who husband, Kris-topher, was among those charged. “It was supposed to be a Christian group. Christ-like, right, so why would you think that’s something wrong with that, right?”

Sickles said she came home Saturday night to fi nd her house in Sandusky, Ohio, in disarray. Agents seized the guns her husband col-

lected as a hobby and searched for bomb-making materials, she said, but added: “He doesn’t even know how to make a bomb. We had no bomb material here.”

She said she couldn’t believe her 27-year-old husband could be involved in anything violent.

“It was just survival skills,” she said. “That’s what they were learn-ing. And it’s just patriotism. It’s in our Constitution.”

One of the defendants ex-pressed anti-tax views during his Monday court hearing.

Thomas W. Piatek, a truck driver from Whiting, Ind., told a federal judge he could not afford an attorney because he was “getting raped on property taxes.”

The mother of another defen-dant, 33-year-old Jacob Ward, told police in Huron, Ohio, last summer that family members took away his two guns — an AK-47 rifl e and a semiautomatic pistol — because she thought he needed mental health treatment.

Ward told police that he need-ed to protect himself from members of a crime family that was keeping him from his girlfried, according to Huron police records obtained by the AP. He also said he was going to meet with the CIA.

Seven of the defendants in court in Michigan asked to be rep-resented by public defenders. The eighth had a public defender ap-pointed in Indiana.

Christian militia accused of plotting to kill copsCorey Williams and Devlin

BarrettASSOCIATED PRESS

CONCORD, N.H. — A New Hampshire man was charged Monday with fatally shooting his sister in the head in the house they shared in Amherst.

Robert Leonard, 25, was ar-raigned in Milford District Court on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of 27-year-old Trina Leonard. Her body was found Sunday night. An autopsy determined that she died of two gunshot wounds to the head.

Robert Leonard was being held without bail. Prosecutors gave no possible motive at the ar-raignment for the slaying and court documents on the case have been sealed for 60 days, according to the court clerk’s offi ce. A hearing has been scheduled for April 7.

The public defender’s offi ce in Nashua was appointed to handle his case. Attempts to call the offi ce late Monday afternoon were met by a busy signal.

“I really have no comment because I really don’t know ex-actly what went on,” said Susan Hague, Trina and Robert Leon-ard’s mother.

Trina Leonard had a son and a daughter, said Kitty Larochelle, director of The Growing Years day

care center in Manchester, where Leonard had worked several years ago. Her children attended the day care at the time; Larochelle said she believed the children would be eight and six now.

“They were defi nitely her pri-ority, which just adds to the trag-edy,” Larochelle said. She said Trina Leonard had stopped by the center occasionally but that she hadn’t seen her in a while.

Trina Leonard had been work-ing at Ezenia, a software business in Nashua, chief fi nancial offi cer Tom McCann said.

“We’re obviously shocked at what has happened and we’re still trying to come to terms with it,” he said.

Brother charged with killing N.H. woman

Kathy McCormackASSOCIATED PRESS

“We’re obviously shocked at what has happened and we’re still trying to come to terms with it.”

Tom McCannVictim’s Employer


VENTURA, Calif. — The arrest of a man dubbed Mexico’s “king of heroin” has disrupted a $10 million-a-month operation that smuggled tons of heroin a year into the United States, authorities said Monday.

A regional task force in Ven-tura County spent more than two years working its way up a chain of drug dealers that led to Jose Antonio Medina, who was arrested last week in Mexico, prosecutors and law en-forcement offi cials said at a news conference. Wiretaps and surveil-lance led to two midlevel dealers in Downey and Oxnard who allegedly got the drug from Medina, and the seizure of more than 130 pounds of heroin in Ventura County.

Plastic-wrapped bricks of the tar heroin, along with 28 pounds of methamphetamine and more than $215,000 in cash were displayed for reporters.

Medina, 36, who was nick-named “Don Pepe,” was arrested Wednesday in the western state of Michoacan. Ventura County prose-cutors plan to request his extradition in the next few days, Senior Deputy District Attorney Ryan Wright said.

“I have every reason to believe that he will be extradited” but the process could take weeks or even months, Wright said.

Mexican offi cials are coop-erating, but the paperwork must be translated into Spanish and re-viewed by authorities and a judge in

that country, he said.When he arrives, Medina will be

held on $750,000 bail, Wright said. He is charged with conspiracy to transport narcotics for sale from non-contiguous counties, with a special allegation that the drugs exceeded 40 kilograms, according to a criminal complaint fi led in January 2009.

He could face up to 29 years in state prison if convicted. It was un-known if Medina had an attorney.

Medina is believed to have shipped 440 pounds of heroin a month across the border in cars with hidden compartments, authorities said. Most of the profi t went back to Mexico the same way.

The heroin had a street value of $60 to $80 a gram, meaning the shipments were worth more than $10 million a month, Ventura Coun-ty Sheriff Bob Brooks said.

The drug was sold from San Diego to San Jose, authorities said.

“It was being supplied in mas-sive quantities out into the streets,” Wright said. He added that “doz-ens of people” who got their drugs through Medina’s network already have been prosecuted.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A gay teenager in upstate New York who had claimed he was relentlessly bullied by classmates while school administrators stood by settled his lawsuit Monday against the school district.

Jacob — who is identifi ed as “J.L.” in the lawsuit and doesn’t want his name revealed — sued the Mohawk Central School District in federal court last summer with help from the New York Civil Liberties Union. Now 15, he said school of-fi cials did virtually nothing to stop bullies who picked on him because he acted differently from other boys.

The U.S. Department of Justice had sought to intervene, citing the “important issues” it raised in enforcing federal civil rights laws.

Under the settlement fi led in federal court, the district agreed to implement changes to protect stu-dents from harassment, including additional staff training. The district will report on its progress to the Civil Liberties Union and federal justice offi cials.

The district also agreed to pay $50,000 to Jacob’s family and to reimburse them for counseling ser-

vices. The district didn’t admit to any wrongdoing under the settle-ment.

Jacob has since moved to a neighboring district, where he said he is much happier. Jacob’s father, Robert Sullivan, who has a differ-ent last name, said the money “is for Jacob’s future” and hopes that the settlement inspires other districts to change.

“Maybe this can be a door-opener for other schools,” Sullivan said.

Mohawk superintendent Joyce Caputo said in a prepared state-ment that district staff would never knowingly discriminate or tolerate bullying and remain committed to fostering a culture of tolerance and respect.

“We recognize there is always room to learn and improve — and we intend to do just that,” she said.

Calif. offi cials seek to extradite “heroin king”

Jeff WilsonASSOCIATED PRESS

“I have every reason to believe that he will be extradited.”

Ryan WrightSenior Deputy District

Attorney

Gay student settles lawsuit against districtMichael HillASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK — U.S. transit agencies beefed up security as a precaution Monday after the double suicide bombing in Moscow’s sub-way system, sending more police into stations and offi cers to conduct random inspections of rail yards.

In New York, caravans of po-lice vehicles were dispatched to transit hubs, and offi cers assigned to subways overnight were held in place so they overlapped with the day tour. Special units distinguished by their special black uniforms, hel-mets and body armor also were as-signed to transit facilities.

In Washington, D.C., Metro po-lice conducted random inspections of stations and rail yards, offi cials said. Atlanta’s public transit system said its police department increased the number of offi cers and patrols throughout the system.

Russian authorities said two women blew themselves up in Mos-cow on Monday in a subway jam-packed with rush-hour passengers, killing more than 35 people. They blamed the carnage on rebels from the Caucasus region.

The federal government did not immediately make any recom-mendations for increased security at mass transit systems, but authori-ties were monitoring the situation, a U.S. offi cial said. The offi cial spoke on condition of anonymity to dis-cuss internal deliberations.

Caucasus Islamic separatists tend to be focused on targets in the region, primarily Russia, and are not generally considered a threat to U.S. domestic interests.

“The actual Chechen rebels generally don’t care about the U.S. one way or the other,” said Jeffrey Mankoff, an adjunct fellow for Rus-

sian Studies at the Council on For-eign Relations in New York. “They are mainly interested in what’s hap-pening in Russia.”

Subways have been an attrac-tive target for terrorists, supplying them with many victims in a tight space and fairly limited security measures, he said.

London and Madrid have ex-perienced terrorist attacks on their transit systems. Last month, Colo-rado resident and Afghan immigrant Najibullah Zazi pleaded guilty as the leader of a plot to bomb the New York subway system.

“The next frontier of Homeland Security will be on how you can tighten up rail security like airline security is tightened,” said Raymond Tanter, who teaches “Terrorism and Proliferation” at Georgetown Uni-versity. Volume is one of the biggest problems, he said; the Moscow sub-way system carries about 7 million passengers on an average work day, making it diffi cult to examine each passenger.

Some U.S. cities took extra precautions in reaction to the Mos-cow bombing. Others were confi -dent their existing security was suf-fi cient.

In Chicago, police and transit workers watched closely for any suspicious activity or behavior, said transit authority spokeswom-an Kim Myles. Representatives of transit agencies in Boston and Philadelphia said they believed their normal security practices were vigilant enough to protect the riding public.

The New York Police Depart-ment issued a statement saying it was increasing coverage of the city’s subway system as a precau-tion “in response to the Moscow bombings.”

The city’s Metropolitan Trans-

portation Authority acknowledged heightened security but declined to provide details. The agency is in charge of New York City buses and subways, as well as suburban trains, and bridges and tunnels.

New York City “did ramp up our coverage a little bit this morn-ing” after offi cials learned of the Moscow bombing, said Mayor Mi-chael Bloomberg.

“We change it every day, and for security reasons obviously we’re not going to tell anybody what we’re doing,” Bloomberg said. “But you can rest assured we have great interest in what goes on around the world.”

In Manhattan, where the public has grown accustomed to increased security after the 2001 terror at-tacks, many people said they hadn’t even noticed the added measures.

“I don’t think it poses a threat here now,” said Carlos Rivera, 44, of Newark, N.J., who commutes to New York City daily and works in sales.

“Every day, I see the NYPD out here. I see the dogs. I can’t let it affect my life right now,” said Ri-vera. “I don’t think about terrorism. I only think about it when I hear about it. Other than that, it never en-ters my mind.”

Andrew Davis, 24, who was catching a train home to Morris-town, N.J., said he feels safe and didn’t notice any increased secu-rity.

John Villegas, who said he used to work near the World Trade Center, did sense the heightened se-curity.

“I’m a little wary,” Villegas, 48, said at Pennsylvania Station as he waited for a train home to Woodbridge, N.J. “I do not feel safe right now. It’s a little scary.”

US transit security beefed up after Moscow blast

Megan K. ScottASSOCIATED PRESS

“We recognize there is always room to learn and improve — and we intend to do just that.”

Joyce CaputaDistrict Superintendent


NEW YORK (AP) — With a lectern fl own in from France and his fi ngers fi rmly entwined with those of his smiling wife, French Presi-dent Nicolas Sarkozy made a splash Monday even before he opened his mouth for a no-holds-barred speech at Columbia University.

Amid blogger reports of strains in their marriage, Sarkozy and ex-supermodel Carla Bruni-Sarkozy made every effort to appear the happy couple, walking closely to-gether and clasping hands as they mounted a staircase into an audito-rium packed with students, faculty and other spectators.

The French fi rst lady, elegant in a swept-up chignon and form-fi tting black top with gray skirt, at times threatened to upstage her husband, who scolded his American hosts about health care and for not paying enough attention to the rest of the world.

French Web sites immediately picked up on the message. “Carla Bruni et Nicolas Sarkozy amoureux a New York” read a headline on the online site of entertainment maga-zine Voici, which mentioned the “electric atmosphere” of the Big Apple and its effects on the French presidential couple.

Sarkozy is in hot water at home. His poll ratings are at re-

cord lows of around 30 percent and there are widening cracks in his conservative party. In New York, though, he basked in the rapt attention of hundreds of Columbia students and even jettisoned a pre-pared speech.

“Speeches kill off creativity,” he said. “I’m going to speak from the heart.”

And he did.“Welcome to the club of states

who don’t turn their back on the sick and the poor,” Sarkozy said, refer-ring to the U.S. health care overhaul signed by President Barack Obama last week.

From the European perspec-tive, he said, “when we look at the American debate on reforming

health care, it’s diffi cult to believe.”“The very fact that there should

have been such a violent debate simply on the fact that the poorest of Americans should not be left out in the streets without a cent to look after them ... is something astonish-ing to us.”

Then to hearty applause, he added: “If you come to France and something happens to you, you won’t be asked for your credit card before you’re rushed to the hospi-tal.”

Despite the strident words, the mood was celebratory — and Bru-ni-Sarkozy held the spotlight, with more than 100 members of the me-dia focusing on her every move.

Columbia President Lee Bol-linger introduced Sarkozy, but be-fore the French leader could utter a single word, Bollinger asked the au-dience to give the French fi rst lady “a special welcome.”

Hundreds of students, profes-sors and members of the public obliged, giving Bruni-Sarkozy a rousing ovation, which she ac-knowledged by rising, turning to-ward the audience and smiling.

She then listened to her hus-band speak, nodding supportively in the front row as Sarkozy called on the audience to “refl ect on what it means to be the world’s No. 1 power.”

“The world needs an open America, a generous America, an America that shows the way,

an America that listens,” he said, calling on the U.S. to champion fi rm regulations of fi nancial sys-tems, from tax havens to hedge funds.

Columbia organizers said the French provided their own white lectern and light gray rug for the speech, and also requested a special espresso machine.

The podium and rug comple-mented the color-coordinated French fi rst couple — including his black suit and white tie and her wraparound black top, gray skirt and black-and-white umbrella.

In a change from the usual protocol, Sarkozy entered the Low Library by walking up the middle of the grand staircase that faces the Columbia campus, instead of from behind a gold curtain like most oth-er speakers.

After arriving in New York on Sunday, the presidential couple left their hotel with arms wrapped around one another, smiling for cameras and kissing before going to lunch at the Boathouse restaurant in Central Park with Sarkozy’s son from his second marriage, 12-year-old Louis, who goes to school in New York.

After meeting later Monday with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, Sarkozy and the fi rst lady will join the Obamas for a private dinner in the White House on Tuesday.

French president takes on New YorkAngela Charlton and Verena

DobnikASSOCIATED PRESS

“If you come to France and something happens to you, you won’t be asked for your credit card before you’re rushed to the hospital.”

Nicholas SarkozyFrench President

KINGSPORT, Tenn. — A man who has been charged with mak-ing a naked dash through a Tennes-see supermarket told police he was “bored and didn’t have anything else to do.”

The Kingsport Times-News reports that a man entered an IGA store Friday night, wearing nothing but a face mask, and ran around the aisles.

A police report says offi cers found the suspect in the bathroom of a nearby Hardee’s restaurant. Employees say he entered the fast food outlet wearing nothing but an orange hooded sweat shirt and asked if anyone could lend him clothes. An employee gave him a pair of athletic shorts.

Kingsport police arrested 22-year-old Daniel R. Lee of Church Hill and have charged him with in-decent exposure.

Man cites boredom after arrest for streaking

LOW AND BURBANK’s GRANT, N.H. (AP) — Authori-ties say a Colorado man hiking on New Hampshire’s Mount Adams is safe after rescuers helped him walk off the mountain.

The New Hampshire Union Leader says a nine-member rescue team and Douglas Soholt made it off the mountain at about 1 a.m. Monday as bad weather closed in.

Offi cials say Soholt fell about 1,500-feet into King Ravine on the Gulfside Trail.

Colorado man off NH’s Mount Adams after fall

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Spring has sprung in northern New England — and that’s bad news for maple syrup makers, who say warm weather is stunting sugaring season in some places.

“The weather affects every single season in a different way,” said Peter Thomson, president of the New Hampshire Maple Produc-ers Association. “Each season has its own personality. I don’t know where they got the personality this year, but it’s not cooperating.”

The season in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine typically begins in late February and ex-tends into late March or early April, with maple trees yielding their sweet, clear sap as daytime temperatures rise into the 40s and then plunge back down into the 20s after dark.

“We just didn’t get that this year,” said Greg Hanson, a National Weather Service meteorologist. “The daytime temperatures were normal or a little above, but what’s happened is that the nighttime lows haven’t cooled down as much.”

Last year, the nation’s sugar makers produced 2.3 million gal-lons, an all-time high. Vermont is

by far the biggest producer, with 920,000 gallons in 2009.

But this year, maple production has been spotty in places.

While much of the Northeast was coping with massive snowfalls, upper New England was enjoying one of the mildest winters in recent memory. February and March have been particularly warm, with aver-age temperatures above normal ev-ery day this month — sometimes by double digits.

Catherine Stevens, market-ing director for the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Association, says a handful of sugar makers in southern Vermont have reported shortened seasons because of the weather, but that the northern part of the state — where the bulk of Vermont’s maple syrup crop comes from — appar-ently hasn’t suffered, with some producers expecting a full crop.

“I’ve heard no cries of doom and gloom from Franklin or Orleans or Caledonia (counties),” she said. “It’s too soon to throw our hands up,” said Stevens.

She says it will be three weeks before the annual crop can be ac-curately measured and the warm weather’s impact fully known.

“It’s not going to be a banner year for everyone, that’s for sure,” she said.

Balmy spring shortens maple syrup season

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LONDON (AP) — Europe had its first year without ex-ecutions in 2009, human rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday. But the London-based organization said the spell was recently broken by the execution of two men in Belarus — an indication of the challenges the group faces as it fights to abolish capital pun-ishment.

Amnesty International has been tracking executions internationally since 1980, al-though their figures don’t in-clude extra-judicial killings or the casualties of war. Western European countries such as France, Britain and Germany abolished the death penalties in the years following World War II, and abolition spread rapidly through Eastern Eu-rope with the collapse of Iron Curtain.

Many former Soviet sat-ellites banned capital punish-ment in the 1980s and ‘90s. Russia and Ukraine have not executed anyone more than a decade. Amnesty said that Be-larus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan have executed about 130 people between them over the past 10 years, but since 2006 Belarus has been the only European state to carry out death sentences.

The death penalty is “on its way out,” according to Am-nesty’s interim Secretary Gen-eral Claudio Cordone, before acknowledging that countries such as Belarus were a “hard core” where the practice would likely linger for some time.

Amnesty said Belarus ex-ecuted two convicts just un-der two weeks ago. Death row prisoners in the authoritarian country are only given a few moments’ notice before they’re killed. They’re then shot in the back of the head and their bodies are buried secretly, the group said.

Worldwide, the total num-ber of officially state-sanc-tioned executions is as uncer-tain as ever — in large part because China, the world’s largest executioner, refuses to say how many prisoners it puts to death.

Unusually, Amnesty said it would refuse to put a figure to the scale of Chinese execu-tions, saying that previous es-timates — based on publicly available data — have been far too low. In 2008, Amnesty put the minimum figure of people put to death at 1,718.

The group said the true number is somewhere in the thousands, and has publicly challenged the Chinese gov-ernment to publish the full number of people killed by the state — a move Amnesty’s sec-retary general said was made after the rights group failed to persuade the government to release the figures.

“We want the Chinese government to lift the veil of secrecy,” Cordone said. “The Chinese authorities claim that fewer executions are taking place. If this is true, why won’t they tell the world how many people the state put to death?”

A Chinese Foreign Minis-try duty officer reached after hours in Beijing had no imme-diate comment. While there’s no indication that China plans to make its execution figures public, the country’s highest court issued new guidelines last month said the death pen-alty should be limited to a small number of “extremely serious” cases.

Amnesty has also tracked a spike in executions in Iraq. The group put the number of Iraqi executions in 2006 at 65. Minimum figures for 2007 and 2008 were 33 and 34 re-spectively. In 2009, the figure jumped to 120.

Cordone said the pace of executions had picked up as the government took efforts to crack down on terrorism, something he said was “ab-surd” given that many Iraqi terrorist seemed happy to die for their cause.

“It’s not an answer to sui-cide bombing,” he said. “As a deterrent it’s not going to work.”

Iraq’s neighbor, Iran, con-tinues to be the Middle East’s biggest executioner, according to Amnesty, which said that the Islamic Republic put 388 people to death in 2009 — in-cluding at least 112 people killed in the two months fol-lowing the country’s disputed elections.

The group also noted that the United States remains — as it has for years — the only state in the Americas to con-sistently carry out executions. Fifty-two people were put to death in the United States in 2009, Amnesty said. It said more than 100 people were sentenced to death over the same period.

___Associated Press Writer

Anita Chang in Beijing con-tributed to this report.

Raphael G. SatterASSOCIATED PRESS

Yearlong execution-free streak broken in Europe

Two Belarusians deadCONWAY, N.H. (AP) — A

committee of the New Hamp-shire Interscholastic Athletic Association is meeting soon to determine if any sanctions will be taken after a brawl during a high school playoff hockey playoff game in Conway.

Both Kennett and Ports-mouth high schools adminis-

tered self-imposed sanctions on their hockey programs af-ter the March 6 game. A fight broke out on the ice in the last minute as Kennett was leading 6-0.

Two Portsmouth players were immediately disqualified, and the school has since taken action against others involved.

Kennett, which went on to win its second straight state cham-pionship March 13, suspended one of its players for both the semifinal and title game.

Pat Corbin, executive di-rector of the association, tells the Conway Daily Sun the committee will meet as early as next week.

Decision pending after hockey melee


particular event. Leading UNH in the vault was

senior Helena Diodati, who came in third place overall with a 9.875. Three other Wildcats, junior Chelsea Steinberg, freshman Courtney Con-nors and freshman Austyn Fobes, also posted impressive scores on vault, placing eighth overall with identical scores of 9.825.

The ‘Cats continued their strong performance on bars, post-ing a team score of 49.025, good for the third best total in that event. Just like in vault, Diodati led her team on bars, tying for fourth overall with a 9.85. Not far behind her were senior Diane Grey and junior Katie Law-rence, who tied for seventh place overall with scores of 9.825.

By the sixth rotation, the Wild-cats had battled their way to fi rst place overall with a score of 146.900 with only one more event left to go. Unfortunately for UNH, however, they couldn’t hold their lead.

In normally one of their stron-ger events, the ‘Cats struggled on beam. As a team, they scored a 47.800, noticeably below their usu-al average on the event. They also fell twice on beam, being forced to count one of the falls in their scores.

Steinberg seemed to be the only gymnast who stood out on beam, earning second place overall by scoring a 9.85. She also placed 14th in the all-around competition with a 38.6.

Head coach Gail Goodspeed attributes the team’s subpar perfor-mance in beam to nerves.

“We were in the lead, but I think we got over the top going into the last event,” she said. “It seemed

as if we wanted to win instead of just performing and hitting our sets like we always do.

“It’s tough to fi nish on beam, but our performance today wasn’t normal,” Goodspeed added. “We are usually a very confi dent beam team, but for some reason, beam caused us problems today.”

Assistant coach Lindsey Bruck seemed to agree.

“We started strong and per-formed consistently on fl oor,” she said. “Normally, in practice, we are 6-for-6 on beam routines. We just didn’t attack today.”

As far as fi nishing fourth goes, the Wildcats are satisfi ed with it.

“We didn’t have a goal going into the meet,” Steinberg said. “We know we could’ve done much bet-

ter, especially on beam, but we have to move on.”

Going forward, UNH remains confi dent, especially knowing now that they have earned a bid to the NCAA Regional Championships. Even though they are ranked low (35th out of 36 teams) they know that they can defi nitely improve as a team.

“We have a lot of potential on this team,” Lawrence said. “We are really excited for regionals. Each practice that we have is one closer to the NCAA’s.”

The Wildcats won’t return to action again until Saturday, April 10th, when they will travel to Penn State to compete in the NCAA Re-gional Championships. The meet is scheduled to start at 6:00 p.m.

Weekly Sports GuideWildcats vs.

OTHER EVENTS

WEDNESDAY - MAR 31Women’s Lacrosse 4:00 p.m.@ Yale

SATURDAY - APRIL 3Men’s and Women’s Track and Field 11:00 a.m.v. Holy Cross, Maine, Northeastern

This Weekend’s Results

FRIDAY - MAR 26Men’s Hockey W, 6-2v. Cornell

SATURDAY - MAR 27Men’s Hockey L, 6-2v. RIT

Gymnastics 4th placeEAGL Championships

SUNDAY - MAR 28Women’s Lacrosse W, 14-10v. Fairfi eld

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two minutes, three goals. It was tough.”

Tough to say the least, as the Wildcats never recovered from the scoring frenzy, only adding a late goal off the stick of Blake Kessel.

After Chris Haltigin gave the Tigers an early one goal lead, junior forward Phil DeSimone put a pretty defl ection past RIT goalie Jared Demichiel with 59 seconds remain-ing in the period.

“The further you go, the more it hurts,” DeSimone said after the loss.

The night before, UNH pulled off an upset over the second seed in the east region, Cornell, 6-2.

Hobey Baker hopeful Bobby Butler scored two goals and record-ed an assist, while Mike Sislo and Paul Thompson each lit the lamp twice.

Again in that game, the Wild-cats dug a one-goal hole for them-selves, but in Friday’s contest, they clawed their way out, this time scor-ing back-to-back in 26 seconds.

Butler started the scoring when he sent a wrist shot through the net (yes, you read that right). The play went under review, but it was clear that his powerful shot traveled over fellow Hobey Baker candidate and Cornell goalie Ben Scrivens’ shoul-der and through the netting inside the post.

Sislo wasn’t to be outdone though, unleashing a powerful wrister of his own shortly after to give the Wildcats the 2-1. They never looked back.

“Once we got the one, our con-fi dence gained that we could start piling them on,” Thompson said.

And did they ever.Thompson, Butler and Sislo

took turns scoring in the third be-fore Thompson added an empty netter when he looked to pass to Butler to give him a hat trick. The puck bounced off a Cornell defen-semen’s stick and went in.

Unfortunately for UNH the of-fensive production didn’t continue in the regional fi nal game.

“We didn’t execute some of the things we wanted to execute,” DeS-imone said after the loss. “That’s frustrating.”

RIT outshot the Wildcats 33-26, including an 18-6 advantage in the middle stanza. UNH held a four shot advantage in the fi nal frame, but couldn’t muster more than one goal.

“We came back a couple of times in the third period this season and we were trying to get that go-ing,” senior captain Peter LeBlanc said after his last game in a UNH

jersey. “Unfortunately, that didn’t happen.”

With the loss, UNH fi nishes

the season at 18-14-7, snapping a streak of 13 straight 20-win sea-sons.


RIT: Wildcats’ second-round exit ends Frozen Four hopes

STEVE JACOBS/AP PHOTOSenior goalie Brian Foster had 27 saves allowed fi ve goals in Saturday’s loss to RIT. The Tigers kept the Wildcats from their eighth Frozen Four appearance, and fi rst since 2003.

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Freshman Courtney Connors competes on the fl oor exercise in Saturday’s EAGL Championships at the Lundholm Gymnasium. The Wildcats placed fourth out of eight teams.


EAGL: Wildcats place fourth at conference championships, will travel to Penn State for Regionals on April 10


After struggling through a three-game losing streak, the UNH women’s lacrosse team returned to their winning ways against Fairfi eld University last Sunday with a 14-10 victory at Memorial Field.

Led by freshman Jenny Simp-son’s career-high fi ve goals, the Wildcats got back on track and im-proved their season record to 5-3.

“It feels good to win,” UNH head coach Michael Daly said with a sigh of relief. “We needed that, we needed to bounce back.”

UNH jumped out to a com-manding 6-0 lead in the fi rst half.

Simpson started the scoring after she snuck in from behind the goal and found the back of the net unassisted with 27:13 left in the half. Less than two minutes later, Simpson scored again to put UNH up 2-0.

“I was just playing to win, playing hard, and my teammates did a great job setting me up,” Simpson said of her stellar day.

Goals by junior Allie Bratton and sophomore Hayley Rausch ex-tended the lead to 4-0.

After a long scoring drought between 21:24 and 12:46 of the fi rst half, sophomore Kate Keagins scored her ninth goal of the season. Minutes later, sophomore Ilana Cohen tallied her fi fth goal of the season on a free position shot to put the Wildcats up 6-0, their largest lead of the game.

Fairfi eld fi nally ended their scoring woes when they scored three times in the fi nal seven min-utes of the fi rst half.

With the 7-3 halftime lead, UNH came out fl at in the second

half, and Fairfi eld took advantage. The Stags scored two goals in the fi rst two minutes of the second half to cut the UNH lead to 7-5.

After Simpson scored her third goal of the game at the 26:03 mark, Fairfi eld ripped off two more goals on free position shots to reduce the Wildcat lead to one.

“We probably played a little too aggressive at times, and those fouls let the other team back into the game,” Daly said, as Fairfi eld was 4-7 on free position shots.

Cohen and Simpson were able to extend the lead to 10-7 on back-to-back goals at 15:14 and 13:13, respectively.

Fairfi eld responded with two goals of their own before Cohen scored yet again to leave the New Hampshire lead at 11-9 at the 9:45 mark of the second half.

Senior Shaunna Kaplan scored her fi rst goal of the game with 3:38 remaining. Simpson then recorded her fi fth goal with 2:07 remaining to give UNH a 13-10 lead, before Bratton scored again, leaving the fi nal score at 14-10.

“We were so fi red up to come out and win,” Simpson said. “We played our hearts out today.”

Complimenting the offense’s effort was the stellar play on the defensive end of the fi eld, most no-tably freshman Kathleen O’Keefe’s play in goal.

Heading into the game, Fair-fi eld was 12th in the nation in scor-ing, but UNH held the Stags below their season average of 14.71 goals-per-game. It was O’Keefe’s fi rst ca-reer win.

The Wildcats’ next matchup is at Yale tomorrow at 4 p.m.

Bobby Butler missed out on winning a national championship when his chances ended after a loss to RIT Saturday. Two days later, he has a chance to win a Stanley Cup.

The former UNH forward trad-ed in UNH blue for the Ottawa Sen-ators red and black yesterday, ink-ing a two-year deal with the NHL squad where he’ll play in some of the Sens’ six remaining regular sea-son games. He won’t be eligible, though, for the playoffs this season.

“I’m pretty pumped up,” But-ler told his hometown paper. “I can’t wait to get back out on the ice. It stinks that we couldn’t make it to Frozen Four like we were hoping to, but this is a pretty good ending to the weekend.”

The 6-foot, 185 pound sniper fl ew to the nation’s capital yester-day where he signed the contract and met his teammates. Tonight the Senators take on Alexander Ovech-kin and his Eastern Conference lead-ing Washington Capitals. Ottawa’s coach Cory Clouston will announce the lineup for that game after the morning skate at 11:30 a.m.

In a nine-hour process, Butler and his father John made the deci-sion. They said a dozen teams were interested in him, while six made formal offers.

While neither would say who the teams were, it’s reported that the teams most serious in his services were the Senators, Pittsburgh Pen-guins, New Jersey Devils and Van-couver Canucks.

“They were very interested and it seemed like it was a perfect fi t for me,” Butler said. “It was prob-ably the best opportunity for me to play right now. They said they re-ally liked me and they could see me helping them in the future.”

After training camp next sea-son, he’ll be reevaluated and either sent to Hershey to play with the AHL squad or he’ll stick with the NHL team.

Ottawa’s assistant captain Mike Fisher wears number 12 on the back of his jerseys – the same number Butler wore at UNH.

In an e-mail reply to The New Hampshire, the Senators Vice President of Communications Phil Legault said he’s not sure what But-ler’s new number will be, but said he thinks it will be 16.

Senator’s general manager Bryan Murray told reporters in Ot-tawa that he thinks Butler can be a special player, and that he watched him play in the NCAA tournament. He added that Butler could see ac-tion in “at least a couple games” before the Senators close out the regular season.

“It’ll give him a chance to see what he needs to do over the sum-mer, and we get a chance to see him at this level,” Murray said. “(He’s) a guy who has the potential to be a goal scorer in the National Hockey League. He’s got good hands ... and looks like a guy that has a chance to play. We know that giving him a little taste (of the NHL) now will be important for him.”

The 22-year-old leaves quite the legacy at UNH after record-ing over 100 points, including an NCAA-leading 29 goals his senior year.

He’s still in the running for college hockey’s most prestigious award, the Hobey Baker. The fi nal three nominees will be announced tomorrow.

Butler has one course to com-plete to earn a health management degree through the school, but said he has plans to fi nish the course over the summer.

WOMEN’S LACROSSEMEN’S HOCKEY

Justin DoubledaySTAFF WRITER

Chad GraffSTAFF WRITER

Former UNH captain Butler inks two-year deal with Senators

Lax ends losing streak

Shaunna Kaplan brings the ball upfi eld in UNH’s 14-10 win over Fairfi eld University on Sunday. UNH moves to 5-3.

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Wrap-up: Tourney was just like regular seasonat the Division I level, and their fi rst NCAA tournament. After stunning Denver (ranked second overall) in the opening round, the Tigers went into the regional fi nal matchup with UNH looking for their fi rst trip to the Frozen Four.

The Wildcats seemed to have that same early advantage they did against Vermont after a Phil DeSi-mone defl ection at the end of the fi rst period gave UNH the momen-tum and tied the game.

In the next two games of the conference tournament with Ver-mont, of course, the Wildcats pro-duced very few scoring chances, and even less goals. Zero, in fact, as

they were shut out in the fi nal two games en route to the fi rst-round Hockey East exit.

After the Wildcats tied their second-round game with RIT, the Tigers went off for three goals in 94 seconds. They went on to add two more while UNH’s offense struggled, mustering few scoring chances on the way to a loss. Sound familiar?

And that’s the way the Wild-cats’ season ended. Just the way the regular season did.

Granted, this was a UNH team that largely overachieved after be-ing picked to fi nish fourth in the Hockey East at the beginning of the season.


sportssportsTuesday The New HampshireMarch 30, 2010

MEN’S HOCKEY


See RIT on page 18

Just when it started looking like the men’s hockey team was going to advance to its fi rst Frozen Four since 2003, things changed all too quickly for the Wildcats. Nine-ty-four seconds too quickly, to be exact, as UNH was bounced in the second round of the NCAA tourna-ment for a second straight year, fall-ing Saturday to RIT, 6-2.

After scoring at the end of the fi rst period to knot the game at one, the Wildcats gave up three goals to the Tigers in just over a minute and a half. The PA announcer didn’t even have time to credit RIT on its second goal before they scored the third – 13 seconds later. And just like that, the season ended.

“It happens fast,” UNH head coach Dick Umile said. “Things were going fi ne. It was 1-1 and in

Ninety-four secondsAfter upset rout of Cornell, ‘Cats cower against RIT, fall 6-2

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STEVE JACOBS/AP PHOTO STEVE JACOBS/AP PHOTOThe Wildcats were shocked by the RIT Tigers in the East Regional fi nals, falling one game short of the Frozen Four for the second-straight season. Senior goalie Brian Foster (left) stands dejected in net after allowing three goals in 94 seconds. RIT players (both right) celebrate after Chris Haltigan’s goal in the fi rst period.

GYMNASTICSMEN’S HOCKEY

The 2009-2010 men’s hockey team ended its roller coaster season Saturday after an eventful NCAA tournament that closely mirrored the entire Wildcats’ season.

At the very beginning, the Wildcats started slow.

They opened the regular season at 2-6-2, including two beat downs at the hands of Wisconsin that per-haps served as a wake-up call. They opened their fi rst-round tourney matchup with Cornell by giving up the fi rst goal.

As the season and tournament progressed, however, things be-gan to change for UNH, who went 10-1-2 throughout November and January, just when no one thought they would.

Similarly, in Friday’s game against Cornell, things started to turn around when nobody – includ-ing the referees – thought UNH had scored. Bobby Butler sent a wrist

shot that actually went through the netting on the inside of the goal on a play that was originally not ruled a goal. After offi cial review, however, it was determined that the puck did cross the goal line and the goal was awarded.

From there, UNH played well, both in the season and the tourna-ment.

They closed out the regular season, locking up the top spot in the conference after a thrilling tie against Hockey East rival Boston College. Similarly, they closed out Cornell with ease, taking them down by four goals.

In the conference tournament, UNH had an early advantage, win-ning game one of its three-game set with Vermont. The Wildcats were heavily favored in that series. Sound familiar?

UNH entered its meeting with RIT (the 15th seed in a 16-team tournament) heavily favored. In fact, this is only RIT’s fi fth season

NCAA tournament eerily similar to regular season


See WRAP-UP on page 19

The UNH women’s gymnas-tics team came in fourth place out of eight teams overall in the East At-lantic Gymnastics League Champi-onship meet on Saturday afternoon at Lundholm gymnasium.

The North Carolina Tar Heels won the meet, posting an impres-sive 196.025, followed by North Carolina State (195.700), West Vir-ginia (195.075), UNH (194.700), Pittsburgh (194.400), Maryland (194.200), George Washington (193.575), and fi nally Rutgers with a score of 187.850. UNC’s victory Saturday marked their fourth EAGL title.

The Wildcats started off well on the fl oor exercises, recording a team score of 48.725, good for third place overall. They carried that suc-cess over to vault, where they post-ed a team total of 49.15, the highest score of any team in the meet in that

Ryan HartleySTAFF WRITER

‘Cats place fourth at EAGL Championships at Lundholm

TYLER MCDERMOTT/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERSenior Julie Sauchuk competes on balance beam during the EAGL Championships on Saturday at the Lundholm Gym. See EAGL on page 19

After calling out a paper bag-wearing fan, the Nets CEO has invited the fan to lunch. The lunch will be broadcast live, so Nets fans will have something some-what exciting to watch.

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