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Hogwarts at Hoco

DURHAM ABLAZEA magical meal for Muggles

By KATIE GARDNERSTAFF WRITER

The highly anticipated Harry Potter-themed dinner is being held at Holloway Commons this Wednesday, Feb. 6. It is expected to attract up to 4,000 people and will run from 4:30 to 9 p.m.

A member of the Student Senate Din-ing Committee thought of the idea for this themed dinner in December, and it has since grown into a major event. Deborah Scanlon, the area manager of Holloway Commons, said that it has taken much elaborate planning to get to where they are now.

“As it started to grow, we have decid-ed to do more and more things,” she said.

The whole dining hall will be trans-formed on the night of the event, with decorations of all sorts taking over the area. There will be a fl ying car, the goblet of fi re, the Daily Prophet, and countless other decorations. The Holloway staff will also be dressed as various characters, with one member going as Dobby the house elf.

Dining brings Harry Po� er to Holloway

15 Main St.; 1:08 a.m. 20 Main St.; 2:44 a.m.4 Smith Park Lane; 3:30 a.m.

JUSTIN DOUBLEDAY/STAFF

A barn located behind Durham Community Church was engulfed in � ames, destroying most of the building this weekend. The Durham Fire Department is currently working with the police department to determine the causes of the � res.

� ree downtown buildings catch � re

Advocates lobby for tuition freeze in budget ba� leBy CATIE HALL

CONTRIBUTING WRITER

For in-state students, a collective sigh of relief brews—the budget process is underway to obtain a two-year tuition freeze for students from the Granite State. The University Sys-tem of New Hampshire works with the major colleges in New Hampshire to make college more affordable for students. Four schools are part of the system: Keene State College,

Granite State College, Plymouth State Univer-sity, and UNH. Every year, USNH contributes $2 million to the economy in support of the workforce, i.e., for graduates. The goal is to create opportunities for students and to keep the schools, students and state economically prosperous.

Supporters of a tuition freeze have formed advocacy councils for UNH students. Mica Stark, special assistant to the president for Government Relations and Strategic Ini-

tiatives at UNH, works with the UNH Works Advocacy Council “to build support for our efforts to restore state funding to 2010 levels and freeze tuition for our in-state students.” According to Stark, over 1,300 alumni, par-ents, and students have signed up to support UNH Works.

Lawmakers cut funding to UNH by 49 percent in 2011, the single largest state budget

The above graphic details the locations of the three � res, which took place in close proximity to one another early Saturday morning in downtown Durham.

Hoco will be brewing up authentic

Butterbeer, a drink mixed with butter-

scotch and cream soda

There will be acostume contest with a chance to win the ‘Magical

Mystery Prize’

The different food sta-tions will be set up like places in the book, like the Daily Prophet and

‘The Three Broom-sticks’

Senior captain Ferg Myrick leads the men’s basketball team as the highest scorer.

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NH lawmakers are weighing whether or not elderly drivers will have to take road tests to renew their licenses.

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By RACHEL FOLLENDERSTAFF WRITER

After a fi re left a gaping hole in Evan Orlando’s bedroom wall early Saturday morning, he and his room-mate will be walking to their classes this week from the Durham Holiday Inn, where they are currently residing.

“I was in my apartment sitting on the couch and smelled burning,” Orlando said. “I was shocked, I didn’t understand how a fi re started.”

The fi re at Orlando’s 20 Main St. apartment was the second of three fi res that occurred in Durham early Saturday morning, all within extreme-ly close proximity. Offi cials were dis-patched to 15 Main St. at 1:08 a.m., where a mattress fi re had been report-

ed. Fire Chief Corey Landry said that no one was injured.

At 2:49 a.m., the Durham Fire Department received Orlando’s emer-gency phone call that his apartment had caught fi re. Shortly after, other residents in the building were evacu-ated and the fl ames were put out.

The fi re started on the outside of the rear end of the house and burned through the wall into the bedroom, according to the Durham Fire Depart-ment. Orlando said that his apartment still smells heavily of smoke but that, for now, he enjoys staying at the Holi-day Inn.

“We will be staying here for sev-eral more days,” he said.

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“The Lotus Files” Zapoteca Restaurante y Tequileria

A UNH alumna recently published a memoir titled “The Lotus Files,” detailing her mother’s battle with breast cancer and how the author coped

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Zapoteca Restaurante y Tequileria will open a second restaurant this March on Jenkins Court in Durham.

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Student actors dressed in the roles of different Harry Pot-ter characters will also attend the event. They will act out a few scenes from the movies and per-form a few musical numbers in-spired by “A Very Potter Musical.” The 14 students will perform one group number, a duet and four scenes in a few different Holloway locations.

Sophomore theater design and technology major Janielle Mc-Cosh first thought of incorporating scenes into the event. McCosh and other students have been working hard and rehearsing for about two weeks.

“It’s definitely gonna be fun. It’s gonna be crazy, but worth it,” she said.

Other students, not just the actors, are also encouraged to dress up for the dinner. There will be a contest for best costume, and the winner will receive tickets for “Harry Potter: The Exhibition” in New York City, as well as Amtrak Travel Certificates to get there. A photographer will also be present at the dinner to take pictures of those whom dress up.

Another contest regarding the dinner has already taken place, and the winners were notified Monday morning. UNH Dining Services put forward a question asking stu-dents what they would do to sit at the VIP table, and 24 people were chosen as winners. On the night of the dinner, two special tables will be reserved for these guests. The food will be served to them family-style, and dining will also do something a little extra special just for them.

As for everyone else, the food will be separated by theme around Holloway. The Euro sec-

tion will have a Quidditch theme and feature foods such as roast beef, turkey and potatoes. The grill will be the newsroom and will be decorated with the Daily Prophet while serving burgers, wings and more. The pizza section will be the post office and will have piz-za and macaroni and cheese. The soup section will be The Three Broomsticks Pub and have vari-ous soups and stews. The stir-fry will be transformed into a potions section complete with dry ice. The salad bar will have the theme of Ollivander’s Wand Shop.

A large portion of the food will be dessert. There will be Ber-tie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans, cupcakes, pastries, and the infa-mous chocolate frogs. The Hollo-way kitchen staff began preparing the frogs three weeks ago and are working hard to make sure that there will be enough for every-body who wants one. There will also be a large cake made to look like Hogwarts.

The entire menu can be found at www.unh.edu/dining.

Students are getting very ex-cited for the event, and Scanlon said she is happy to see the re-sponse the event has received so far. Past graduates have even been calling and asking if they are al-lowed to attend the dinner. Scan-lon said that dining is thrilled to be pleasing the students, both old and new. She knows that Harry Potter is very special to many people on campus and is glad that they are able to put on an event like this.

“I think that this is the gen-eration of Harry Potter,” Scanlon said. “Students read the books and saw the movies.”

As the preparations continue and the staff keeps working hard, Scanlon is looking forward to see-ing the whole event come together.

“I hope that it will be truly magical,” she said.

cut to higher education in American history. New Hampshire support for higher education has never been strong; New Hampshire was already last in per capita state support before the budget cut.

Doug and Stella Scamman, ac-tive in the UNH community for 50 years, are former legislators. Stella has served as a trustee and Doug Scamman has been a member of the Alumni Advisory Board. The Scam-mans remarked in a phone interview that the ultimate goal of the project is to “work together, stay organized and get the message across.”

“We want to be efficient,” Doug Scamman said. “We’re trying to pull UNH alum and advocates together to support what we’re after. The people who are on the council and who are working together—we’re asking them to reach out to Concord.”

The governor and budget offic-es are preparing to deliver the mes-sage to legislators by Feb. 15.

“The results of this process will help determine if future tuitions can be kept at the current rate,” Doug Scamman said. “The governor is working on her proposal now. After her presentation, the house will write and pass a budget to the Senate with her proposal. This will be after much work by the Finance Committee. Then the Senate goes through the same process. All three of these enti-ties must listen and consider all the requests from all of the departments in the state.”

Parts of the state economy may change to support the project. The governor may have to increase other taxes such as taxes on tobacco products. For those who crinkle their brow at the mention of higher taxes, Doug Scamman said there would not be sales or income taxes anytime soon, as adopting those particular taxes would kill the economy and push people out of the state.

Peter Powell, a member of the Advocacy Council who supports and helps enhance funds for the project, said that the need for tu-ition adjustments affects the entire state economy. When colleges in New Hampshire aren’t affordable, there is an “exodus of young people, lack of opportunity, and the state has problems to attract employment and

commerce.” “We need to strengthen the

environment for young people by providing higher education,” Powell said. “Young people will go where they can find the greatest opportunity and experience.”

For the many students who at-tend four-year colleges, a two-year freeze would help their financial situations.

“Our goal is to keep UNH af-fordable and accessible, as well as preserve our role in driving the state’s economy and developing the talent, research and innovation that benefit all in New Hampshire,” Stark said. “We think a two-year tuition freeze is a realistic goal. We have taken major steps to control costs and raise revenue, but legislative de-cisions directly impact the prices that New Hampshire families pay.”

Annually, UNH brings $1.4 billion to the state’s economy. Stark said that “through its partnerships with private businesses, (UNH) cre-ates or saves hundreds of jobs each year and helps thousands of small businesses get started, meet payroll and succeed.”

“We need students to be en-gaged in this effort, to contact their state lawmakers,” Stark said.

Those who want to know more about UNH Works or to sign up to be an advocate can go to www.unh.edu/works.

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TuITIONcontinued from page 1

Our goal is to keep UNH affordable and accessible.”

Peter PowellMember, Advocacy Council

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NH Brief

STODDARD — A 39-year-old Stoddard man has been fatally in-jured by a falling tree.

New Hampshire State Police

say Shannon Sarcione was one of two men cutting trees when one fell on him at about 1:50 p.m. Monday. He was pronounced dead at the

scene. The other man was not in-jured.

Police say the accident appears to have been an act of nature.

Stoddard man fatally injured after tree falls on him

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Residents at 4 Smith Park Lane have been relocated as well due to a third and much larger fire at the apartment that occurred less than an hour after officials arrived at 20 Main St. Durham Fire De-partment units were still operating at 20 Main St. when they received the third emergency dispatch at 3:30 a.m.

Loud explosions were heard as the fire fully engulfed a barn, which caused it to collapse, ac-cording to the Durham Fire De-

partment. Landry said that no one was injured in the fire.

“The barn burned off and people lived in the connecting apartments,” Landry said. “There was at least one person home, but everybody got out safely.”

All three fires are currently under investigation, but there have not yet been any suspects brought in for questioning. Orlando said that he believes the circumstances are suspicious.

“I think it was arson because there is no way those fires started naturally,” Orlando said. “It was too cold and wet outside.”

Landry said that as of now there is not enough information to determine the cause of the fires, but that the close proximity of the three fires raises questions.

“It absolutely raises a red flag, but we are treating them as individ-ual fires right now,” he said. “We have to look at it from all aspects.”

Landry said that the Durham Fire Department is working with the Durham Police Department on the investigation, which could take days or even weeks to thoroughly complete.

It absolutely raises a red flag, but we are treating them as individual fires right now.”

Corey LandryFire Chief

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After UNH graduate Larissa Walters lost her mother to breast cancer in 2010, she put her grief toward helping others by writing a memoir about the year that fol-lowed. “The Lotus Files,” which was published in June 2012, is a book that not only helped Walters find acceptance but has helped countless others achieve the same, as well.

Walters’ mother, Brenda Car-ol Walters, had been battling breast cancer on and off for nine years before passing away on March 24, 2010. A couple of months prior, in January, when her mother’s prog-nosis was getting worse, Walters, who graduated from UNH in 1999, turned to the Internet and created a blog where she was able to express herself.

“I would go there and cry and release my opinions,” she said.

After her mother passed, the blog then became Walters’ inspira-tion to write a book. She had read many books on grief, but none were as personal as she would have liked, so she decided to write her own. She wanted to help peo-ple by sharing what she had gone through.

“There was a part of me that wanted to help someone else with this experience,” she said.

The desire to help others is something that Walters got from her mother, and she said she hopes that this book will help her mother live on. Walters spoke strongly of how her mother always wanted to be remembered for helping others. She said she is happy that her book is helping her do this.

“When I get those emails or messages, it takes away the sales component, the business compo-nent, and reminds me what this is all about,” she said.

Walters also has a scholar-ship set up at her mother’s alma mater, Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, N.Y. The scholarship was set up in 2011, and $20, 000 must be raised by March 2014 in order for a permanent scholarship to be set in place. So far, $14,000

has been raised through donations and the money made by the book, and Walters said she is confident that it will hit the mark. The schol-arship will be awarded each year to breast cancer survivors.

The book has also helped Walters personally, and she said it has been very influential in her healing process.

“I’m not sure if I’m in total

acceptance, but I’m closer than be-fore,” she said.

Walter’s state of mind relates closely with the title of the book, which was named for the lotus flower and the way that it travels up through dark water and blooms into a beautiful flower on top of the water.

As Walters looks back to how she got to where she is today, her mother is an obvious role model, but she credits a lot of her success to her time at UNH. She recieved her Bachelor of Science from the Whittemore School of Business and Economics and played a major role in many extracurricular activi-ties. As a black student, she was a member of the Diversity Support Coalition and believed that college was a unique experience for her.

“I made the best of my situa-tion and experience,” she said.

She also was one of the founders of Sisters in Step, a dance group that is still present at UNH. Walters also won a couple of awards and was the first recipi-ent of the Class of 1899 award. Everything she learned at UNH, whether it was academic, cultural, or a hobby, has helped turn Wal-ters into who she is now, fourteen years after graduation, she said.

“I’ve been able to take my experiences at UNH with me,” she said.

Walters now resides in Balti-more, Md., where she works full-time in sales as a wine and liquor distributor. She said that she is at a good place in her life right now

and is looking forward to the fu-ture. She hopes to continue to heal and that others will use her book to help themselves, too.

“Unfortunately, a lot of us are going to go through this, and to know you’re not alone is a great comfort,” she said.

I’m not sure if I’m in total acceptance, but I’m closer than before.”

Larissa WaltersUNH alumna

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‘The Lotus Files’ helps to bring acceptance to UNH alumna

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Larissa Walters, a 1999 UNH gradute, wrote a memoir titled ‘The Lotus Files’ which was published in June 2012.

In BriefBreach investigated at northern New England cafes

BRATTLEBORO, Vt. — A northern New England cafe chain is working with authorities in an investigation of a possible data breach involving the theft of cus-tomers’ debit and credit card infor-mation.

The Brattleboro Savings & Loan warns on its website that it’s seen a sharp increase in fraudulent debit card transactions and believes there’s been a breach at The Works Bakery Cafe. The bank says ac-

counts may be compromised if cus-tomers have used debit cards at any of The Works’ locations.

According to its website, The Works is based in Keene, N.H., and has eateries in Brattleboro and Manchester, Vt.; Keene, Ports-mouth, Durham and Concord, N.H.; and Portland, Maine.

Company President Richard French told the Brattleboro Re-former that it’s cooperating with authorities in an investigation.

The Agriculture Department is proposing new nutritional rules that would apply to most all foods sold in schools.

The rule would apply to “a la carte” lines in school cafete-rias, vending machines, snack bars and any other food sold regularly on campus. It wouldn’t apply to fundraisers, after-school conces-sion stands, class parties or foods

brought from home.Most every food sold in school

would be subject to fat, calorie, sugar and sodium limits. Snack foods would have to be under 200 calories and have some nutri-tional value. Drinks would be lim-ited to 12-ounce portions in middle schools and 8-ounce portions in el-ementary schools.

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Two weeks from now, UNH’s Transportation Services will add a new Wildcat Transit bus route to Rochester. The route will be operational by Feb. 18, allowing students and faculty to commute between campus and the city.

The Rochester line is an ex-press route with limited stops along the way. The route will start in Durham, with stops at Sullivan Tire in Lee, the Lee Market Bas-ket plaza, and the intersection of Route 125 and Route 9 before end-ing at the Rochester Home Depot. The service runs from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays and will not run on weekends.

“This was a route that we had over 20 years ago. It was a suc-cessful route, but due to budget cuts that route (was) eliminated,” Transportation Services Manager Beverly Cray said. Cray indicated that Transportation Services re-ceived a grant that helped fund the new route.

“This grant gave us the op-portunity to look at this corridor again, because the traffi c on Route 4 at the traffi c circle and on Route 125 is so heavy,” she said.

Cray has been working on get-ting the new route up and running.

UTS recieved its funding through a Congestion Mitigation Air Qual-ity (CMAQ) grant. CMAQ grants are focused on improving air quality by making transportation more effi cient. According to Cray, the route will lower emissions by helping the 900 UNH students and faculty who live in the Rochester area commute to campus.

“The grant we received in-cluded funding for a new bus to support this service. The drivers are looking forward to having a new route to drive,” Cray said.

Kate Dusinberre is a graduate student in math education and has been driving buses for UTS for the

last eight years. According to her, the bus staff isn’t worried about adding the new route and will be all set when it starts in two weeks.

“It’s just a new route to learn,” she said. “Some more training.”

According to Dusinberre, the route is primarily geared toward commuting and is funded for the next three years. People have been asking UTS for this route for a while, looking to make the com-mute from Rochester to Durham easier. After the three years are up, UTS will examine how the route is doing and decide if they should continue it.

“This run is for a lot of UNH faculty and students who can’t take the other buses, so this helps them out,” Dusinberre said.

Feelings about the new route are mixed amongst students. Many UNH students said they don’t know what is in Rochester outside of housing. For some, it means a decided lack of interest in visiting a place that has nothing to draw them there, while others are will-ing to try it at least once to see what the route has to offer.

Ally Breton is a resident at the Gables and relies on the bus system to get to and from class. Breton said that she fi nds the UNH bus system to be very convenient.

“I don’t like how after 7 the bus only comes every 20 minutes, particularly in winter,” Breton said. “But overall it’s very good.”

Breton said she didn’t know what Rochester has to offer but was willing to go on the new route to see what’s there.

“I don’t really know what’s over there, but it’s good that they have routes that go to places other than campus,” Breton said.

Upon hearing that the new route will stop at the Lee Mar-ket Basket plaza, Breton said she would defi nitely use the new route.

While some are willing to try the route out of curiosity, many students have opinions similar to Sham Zuidema. Zuidema lives in Dover and uses the buses to com-mute to campus.

“About 90 percent of the time I get to campus on the bus,” Zuide-ma said.

Shrugging, Zuidema said he doesn’t go to Rochester often and probably won’t use the new route when it opens.

“It’s nice to have, but I typi-cally just take the bus from Do-ver,” Zuidema said.

UTS to add a new bus route to Rochester in two weeks

COURTESY PHOTO

Wildcat Transit, a crucial mode of transportation for many at UNH, will be expanding its service in mid- February to include Rochester.

This run is for a lot of UNH faculty and students who can’t take the other buses, so this helps them out.”

Kate DusinberreWildcat Transportation

Driver

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

— Supersonic skydiver Felix Baumgartner was faster than he or anyone else thought during his record-setting jump last October from 24 miles up high.

The Austrian parachutist known as “Fearless Felix” reached 843.6 mph, according to offi cial numbers released Monday. That’s equivalent to Mach 1.25, or 1.25 times the speed of sound.

His top speed initially was estimated at 10 mph slower at 834 mph, or Mach 1.24.

Either way, he became the fi rst human to break the sound bar-rier with only his body. He wore a pressurized suit and hopped from a capsule hoisted by a giant helium balloon over New Mexico.

Baumgartner was supersonic for a half-minute — “quite remark-able,” according to Brian Utley, the record-keeping offi cial who was present for the Oct. 14 feat.

The 43-year-old’s heart rate remained below 185 beats a min-ute, and his breathing was fairly steady.

The leap was from an altitude of 127,852 feet. That’s 248 feet lower than original estimates, but still stratospheric.

“He jumped from a little bit lower, but he actually went a little bit faster, which was pretty excit-ing,” said Art Thompson, technical project director for the Red Bull-sponsored project.

“It’s fun for us to see reaching Mach speeds and proving out a lot of the safety systems,” Thompson

said in a phone interview from his aerospace company in Lancaster, Calif.

Thompson said everything pretty much unfolded as antici-pated, with no big surprises in the fi nal report. The updated records were provided by Utley, offi cial observer for the National Aeronau-tic Association’s contest and re-cords board. Utley was in Roswell, N.M., for Baumgartner’s grand fi -nale following two test jumps.

Based on all the data col-lected from sensors on Baumgart-ner’s suit, Utley determined that Baumgartner was 34 seconds into his jump when he reached Mach 1. The speed for breaking the sound barrier depends on the temperature at a given altitude; for Baumgart-ner, that came together just shy of 110,000 feet.

He reached peak speed by the time he was at 91,300 feet, 50 sec-onds into the jump, and was back to subsonic by 75,300 feet, give or take, 64 seconds into his free fall.

His entire free fall lasted four minutes, 20 seconds. He used a parachute to cover the fi nal 5,000 feet, landing on his feet in the des-ert outside Roswell.

Not everything went well.Baumgartner went into a

dreaded fl at spin while still super-sonic. He spun for 13 seconds at approximately 60 revolutions per minute, making 14 to 16 spins be-fore using his body to regain con-trol, Thompson said. The skydiver was well within safety limits the entire time, he noted. Baumgart-ner’s brain remained under 2G, or two times the force of gravity, dur-ing the spin.

Skydiver reached 844 mph in record jump


PORTSMOUTH, — A transportation offi cial said a lift bridge connecting New Hamp-shire and Maine that was out of commission for a few days last month is deteriorating at a steady pace.

Douglas Gosling, director of bridge maintenance for the New Hampshire Department of Trans-portation, told the Portsmouth Herald the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge should last until its re-placement is completed in 2017. But he said he can’t guarantee that.

The 73-year-old bridge connecting Portsmouth, to Kit-tery, Maine, was shut down last month after its center span got stuck during a routine test.

Gosling said the center span isn’t the biggest problem — it’s the rusting fl oor beams and sup-ports.

The bridge carries the Route 1 Bypass over the Piscataqua River. In 2010, the governors of New Hampshire and Maine recognized the need to upgrade the bridge. Renovations are planned, but the funding is not entirely in place yet. New Hampshire offi cials say it is the state’s top red-listed bridge.

The bridge, as well as the Interstate 95 bridge over the Pis-cataqua, have been getting more traffi c as workers build a replace-ment Memorial Bridge, the third one connecting Kittery and Ports-mouth. The Memorial Bridge is expected to open in the summer.

Rusting beams cause problems for bridge bordering Maine

NH Briefs

MANCHESTER — A piglet born without the use of its rear legs is getting wheels thanks to a New Hampshire donor.

WMUR-TV says the piglet, named Chris P. Bacon, was born on Jan. 13. Since then, thousands have watched him ride around in a make-shift wheelchair online.

The owner, veterinarian Len Lucero of Clermont, Fla., said Bacon was born with a congenital defect that makes its hind legs non-

functional.Lucero, who adopted the

pig, met Lisa-Marie Mulkern of the Nashua-based website handi-cappedpets.com at a veterinary conference in Florida. The web-site’s specialty is making handi-capped pets mobile again.

Mulkern donated a new wheel-chair to the pig. Mulkern said it is the fi rst time her company used a wheelchair on a piglet.

GILFORD — An explosion at a shack used for ice fi shing on Lake Winnepesaukee has sent two men to the hospital with burns.

WMUR-TV reports that emer-gency crews responded to a 911 call early Sunday in Gilford. Crews ar-rived at Smith Cove and found the injured men and melted debris from the so-called bob-house.

The victims told crews the explosion occurred when one was

lighting a gas heater inside the house. The explosion blew off one wall of the bob-house. The wall landed nearly 15 feet away.

One victim had signifi cant burns to his forearms, legs, lips, and forehead. He was taken to a Boston hospital for treatment.

The other victim had minor burns to his head and face. He was treated at Lakes Region General Hospital.

WINDHAM — School offi -cials in Windham, are working with state health department offi cials af-ter a high school student was diag-nosed with bacterial meningitis.

Students at Windham High School started their day Monday with a meeting on the matter.

WMUR-TV reports Windham High School Principal Tom Murphy said crews sanitized the building over the weekend.

The student has been hospital-ized and is taking antibiotics. Super-intendent H.E. LaBranche said the student has been removed from the intensive care unit and is expected to be released by the hospital by the end of the week.

Murphy said in a letter ad-dressed to parents that the Health Department is reaching out to those who were in close contact with the infected student.

DURHAM — The Confucius Institute at the University of New Hampshire is celebrating the Chi-nese New Year with singing, danc-ing, musical performances and mar-tial arts demonstrations.

The institute is a partnership with China’s Chengdu University

and was created in 2010 to provide UNH students with access to Chi-nese language, culture and business classes.

Monday evening’s sold-out celebration in Durham includes sev-en performers from Chengdu Uni-versity and local artists from China.

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shire builders, subcontractors and interior designers are once again looking to rally hundreds of vol-unteers to give one lucky nonprofi t organization a makeover.

The Building on Hope proj-ect takes on a new challenge every two years. Nonprofi t organizations, camps, schools and religious groups that want to be considered have un-

til March 15 to apply for the next challenge, which will be completed in May 2014.

Last year, the project in-volved renovating a former church that houses the Manchester Girls Center, run by Girls Inc. In 2010, Building on Hope renovated a resi-dential treatment facility for young boys run by Easter Seals NH.

PORTSMOUTH — Fire offi -cials are investigating a fi ve-alarm fi re at an upscale waterfront con-dominium complex in Portsmouth that caused more than $1 million in damages.

A fi re that broke out around 6:30 p.m. Friday sent fl ames through the third fl oor of the brick condominium building on Bow Street, destroying the center portion of the roof and causing extensive

damage throughout. Nobody was injured in the fi re.

Assistant Fire Chief Steve Achilles told the Portsmouth Her-ald that because each unit in the complex is valued at more than $600,000, damages in all likelihood will exceed $1 million. He said of the building’s 18 units, at least six were left uninhabitable.

He said the fi re started in a chimney and spread from there.

MANCHESTER — A New Hampshire Army National Guard unit is mobilizing soon in support of combat operations in Afghani-stan.

A deployment ceremony for the 237th Military Police Compa-ny is scheduled for 6 p.m. Friday at the Southern New Hampshire Field House in Manchester.

The unit made up of 110 soldiers will train at Fort Bliss, Texas, for two months before de-parting to Khost Province where it mentor Afghan National Police and conduct joint patrols to locate and defeat enemy insurgents.

The company is divided among armories in Concord, Leb-anon and Plymouth.

NEWPORT — Newport, New Hampshire’s 97th Annual Winter Carnival kicks off Sunday, but once again organizers are vexed by un-seasonable winter weather.

The fi rst event of the week-long carnival — a snow blower 100-yard dash — has been can-celled. Newport Recreation Direc-tor P.J. Lovely sais the ski jumping event is jeopardized, as well.

The snow blower dash was go-ing to be a new event. It replaced

the last year’s attempt to set a re-cord for making snowmen, which also had to be scrapped for lack of snow.

Last year’s theme — “Winter Wonderland” — proved to be any-thing but, with the absence of both snow and ice on the common for skating.

This year’s theme— “Vegas” — is more apropos, with organiz-ers gambling on an array of snow-dependent events.

DOVER — A U.S. Navy admi-ral says new cost-control measures will impact Portsmouth Naval Ship-yard.

Foster’s Daily Democrat said Adm. Jonathan Greenert, chief of naval operations, wrote in a Jan. 25 memo that the Navy is looking to reduce “base operating support” by 10 percent in the coming year. A recent report from the Navy Times said the cuts will reduce the Navy’s shipyard workforce by an estimated 3,000 employees.

The cost controls are part of a package being put in place by the Navy to address an “immedi-ate budget shortfall” in fi scal 2013. They could translate into a civilian hiring freeze and termination of temporary workers at the Kittery, Maine, sub-repair installation.

With no new defense budget, the Navy is continuing to receive the same funding as it did last year.

CONCORD — New Hamp-shire’s House is again considering whether to require a supermajority in the Legislature to pass tax or fee increases or to approve borrowing.

The House will vote on the proposed constitutional amendment Wednesday. The House Ways and Means Committee is recommend-ing killing the measure as a limit on lawmakers’ ability to write budgets.

Supporters argue it will pro-mote consensus if a three-fi fths vote is needed to raise money.

The Legislature considered the amendment last year, but it died in the House.

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By BRITTANY SCHAEFERCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Many restaurants have taken residence in downtown Durham over the past few years, and on March 4, a new, authentic Mexican restaurant will join the diverse ar-ray of downtown eateries. Zapoteca Restaurante y Tequileria is opening on Jenkins Court, across from Jen-kins Quality Goods.

According to its Twitter page, the traditional Mexican restaurant has “bold fl avors with a rustic, mod-ern fl air.”

The restaurant, which will serve lunch, brunch and dinner, originally opened in Portland, Maine. Durham will be the restau-rant’s second location.

“Our traditional cuisine is un-like any other Mexican restaurant you have eaten at,” said restaurant manager Sergio Ramos. “We use

fresh ingredients from many local farms and cook as if we were serv-ing in Mexico.”

A fan-favorite dish is the En-chiladas de Puerco, which is oven roasted enchiladas with adobo glazed pork, sweet caramelized onions and local artisan Monterey Jack cheese with a tomato habañ ero sauce, Mexican crema, Yucatan pickled red onions, black beans, and salad. The restaurant has a large menu, which features dishes from slow roasted ribs to fresh green sal-ads.

Its unique signature cocktails are also something to pay atten-tion to. It has the largest selection of tequila in Maine, only serving 10 percent certifi ed blue agave te-quila. Also an interesting drink to sip would be its el pepino, a cool and spicy drink with silver tequila, premium orange liqueur, cucumber slices, and jalapeños.

When asked how Zapoteca would appeal to students, Ramos said, “It’s traditional, a fun atmo-sphere, accessible, and priced wise-ly.”

“I’m excited for the opening of Zapoteca because we don’t re-ally have authentic Mexican food around,” said UNH sophomore Katelyn Monroe. “I want to try the ensalada de avocado frita, because I’m a vegetarian and the avocado and cilantro sound delicious.”

With the restaurant opening on March 4, Jenkins Court and the rest of Durham will be able to try a taste of Mexico.

Zapoteca Restaurante y Tequilería set to open in Durham

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Right: Zapoteca Restaurante y Tequilería will be opening its second location in Durham next month. Currently, it has one location in Portland, Maine.

By ANGELA K. BROWNASSOCIATED PRESS

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Iraq War veteran charged with kill-ing a former Navy SEAL sniper and his friend on a Texas shooting range had to be shocked with a stun gun and restrained in his jail cell over-night after becoming aggressive, a sheriff said Monday.

Eddie Ray Routh, 25, is on sui-cide watch in the Erath County Jail, where he’s being held on $3 million bond, Sheriff Tommy Bryant said. Routh is charged with one count of capital murder and two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of Chris Kyle, author of the best-sell-ing book “American Sniper,” and his friend Chad Littlefi eld at a shoot-ing range Saturday in Glen Rose.

Routh, a member of the Ma-rines Corps Reserve, appeared ready to assault jailers Sunday night when they entered his solitary confi ne-ment cell because he refused to re-turn his food tray, Bryant said. After warnings, jailers used a stun gun once and then put Routh in a chair that restrains his arms and legs, Bry-ant said.

Bryant said he has an attorney but hasn’t met with him at the jail in Stephenville, about 75 miles south-west of Fort Worth, and he has not said anything to investigators.

Authorities say the three men arrived at the sprawling Rough Creek Lodge on Saturday afternoon, and a hunting guide discovered the bodies of Kyle and Littlefi eld about two hours later and called 911. Bry-ant said Sunday that Kyle and Little-fi eld were shot more than once.

Routh then drove Kyle’s pick-up to his sister’s house in Midlo-thian and told her that he killed two people, and she called police, Erath County Sheriff’s Capt. Jason Up-shaw said Monday. Routh was ar-rested after a short police pursuit in Lancaster, near his home.

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By ELLIE HAYESCONTRIBUTING WRITER

Late last summer, a 100-year-old man backed out of a parking lot near an elementary school in Los Angeles, plowing into 11 people, including nine children. Fortu-nately, nobody was killed, but such recklessness highlights the chal-lenge that aging drivers and their families face in deciding when it’s time to get off the road. But are instances like those enough to convince lawmakers in Concord to require elderly drivers to take road tests before renewing their driver’s licenses?

New Hampshire is the only state without a law requiring seat belts for adults or drivers to be in-sured. With these liberalities about driver safety in mind, requiring a road test for elderly drivers is con-sidered by some unorthodox in the “live free or die” state.

The House Transportation Committee heard testimony on a bill

Tuesday that would require testing for older drivers. Bette Champney told the committee that her hus-band, Gary Champney, and another man were killed by an 87-year-old driver while on their motorcycles.

“He would be here today if it wasn’t for that elderly driver who overreached and overdrove straight into Gary,” Champney said.

This crash and others have sparked a renewed debate over whether older drivers should be road-tested based solely on their age. Representative Tara Sad of the Committee stated that she thinks age 85 might be a good starting point for the testing.

As stated by UNH occupation-al therapy professor Sajay Arthanat, “aging takes a toll on skills across the board that are critical to driving: attention, judgment and response time.” He further stated, “I think it’s important that they get tested before their renewal, for the safety of the public. It’s not an outright denial of their rights, it’s just them

going through a screening for the public safety. I do believe that older people need to be independent and sustain their access to community resources.”

Due to the aging population of baby boomers, the number of Americans 65 and older will jump from 39 million in 2010 to 69 mil-lion in 2030, according to Census projections. With this increase in elderly drivers, offi cials are looking for solutions to predicted dangers.

The AAA Foundation for Traf-fi c Safety found that the rate of deaths involving drivers 75 to 84 is about three per million miles driven – on par with teen drivers. After the age of 75, the risk of driver fatal-ity increases sharply due to poor judgment in making left-hand turns, drifting within the traffi c lane and slowed responses to unexpected or rapidly-changing situations. After age 85, vehicular fatality rates jump to nearly four times that of teens and nine times higher than that of drivers ages 25 to 69.

Elderly drivers: live free or die

By STEPHEN SINGERASSOCIATED PRESS

HARTFORD, Conn. — Some-

time last summer, Andrew Beck says he stopped looking for work, stymied as he got nowhere in his job search.

The Wethersfi eld resident was laid off in March 2009 as a vice president of marketing and com-munications at a health care system. After more than three years of un-successfully looking for a job, Beck, 61, said he believed he was repeat-edly passed over by employers hir-ing younger workers who had not been jobless for years.

“It is very frustrating. It is very disheartening,” he said. “It’s not what I planned to do.”

Beck is one of more than 47,000 unemployed people in Connecticut who have stopped looking for work, surrendering to a labor market that is failing to produce enough jobs.

Every month, Connecticut’s stubbornly high unemployment rate gets much of the attention when the state releases labor data. But what’s causing alarm among economists is the steadily shrinking state labor force as workers drop out, giving up their job search.

In a trend across New England, the drop in Connecticut’s labor force is the largest. Economists in the six states cited reasons including an ag-ing workforce in Rhode Island, a slow-growing population in New Hampshire and a “pent-up demand” to retire in Vermont. But in Connect-icut, they’re stumped.

Whatever the cause there, “the suddenness is like nothing we’ve seen before,” said Andy Condon, di-rector of research at the Connecticut Department of Labor.

The state’s labor force contract-ed in each of the last six months of 2012, with about 2.5 percent exiting between 2010 and 2012, a steeper drop than elsewhere in New Eng-land or nationally, according to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. Those who quit looking affect the unemployment rate because the government only counts as unem-ployed those actively searching for work.

The startling statistic prompted Condon to call a meeting in De-cember for other economists from around the state to consider what might be happening.

The experts have rejected sev-eral theories, such as workers taking early retirement. Those quitting are 40 to 60 years old, too young to re-tire, Condon said. Statisticians also haven’t seen evidence that workers are leaving Connecticut, he said.

Even with the smaller labor force, Connecticut’s unemployment rate in December was 8.6 percent, above the U.S. rate of 7.8 percent. Condon expects revisions in March will add several thousand jobs, but that would not affect the number of workers who quit the labor force.

“We can’t fi nd any reason why Connecticut should be this phenom-

enon of a labor force declining,” he said. “We’re just not different enough.”

Nationally, the share of work-ers participating in the labor force fell from 66 percent before the start of the recession to less than 64 per-cent as millions of workers quit looking for jobs.

In New England, only Ver-mont’s declining labor force partici-pation comes close to Connecticut. The workforce there shrunk about 1 percent between 2008 and 2012.

The drop in Vermont’s labor force is the result of “pent-up de-mand” to retire, said Mathew Bare-wicz, economic and labor market information chief at the Vermont Department of Labor. He said the la-bor force expanded during the reces-sion as older workers stayed on the job longer to boost retirement ac-counts or young people found work and put off college.

In Rhode Island, with an un-employment rate of 10.2 percent in December, the highest in the region and tied with Nevada for No. 1 in the United States, the labor force shrank just 0.4 percent, according to federal data.

Rhode Island’s older workers are dropping out of the labor force and, if able, living off savings or incomes of spouses, said Edward Mazze, distinguished university professor of business administration at the University of Rhode Island. In addition, many Rhode Island work-ers are employed in businesses bor-dering Connecticut and Massachu-setts and are counted in the states where they work, he said.

In Massachusetts, home to the region’s largest economy, the labor force contracted only 0.1 percent since the recession. Rena Kottcamp, director of economic research for the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance, said the state has benefi ted from “some re-covery” as data show an increase in the number of people seeking work.

New Hampshire’s workforce declined by fewer than 4,000 work-ers, or a half-percent, between 2008 and 2012. It’s still a concern, said Bruce DeMay, director of the eco-nomic and labor market information bureau at the state’s Employment Security offi ce.

He attributed the loss of work-ers to a slow-growing population in the state. Discouraged workers who have quit seeking a job are few, amounting to about 3,000, he said.

“Most people, if they’re unem-ployed, are out there looking,” De-May said.

Maine’s labor force has re-mained largely unchanged.

Connecticut’s labor force de-cline, if it holds after a possible federal revision, spells trouble for years, said Donald Klepper-Smith, an economic adviser to former Re-publican Gov. M. Jodi Rell.

“The labor force represents economic vitality and to the extent we lose workers, we lose economic growth down the road,” he said.

Shrinking labor force a trend across New England

By MARY CLARE JALONICK

ASSOCIATED PRESS

The Agriculture Department is proposing new nutritional rules that would apply to most all foods sold in schools. The rule would ap-ply to “a la carte” lines in school cafeterias, vending machines, snack bars and any other food sold regu-

larly on campus. It wouldn’t apply to fundraisers, after-school conces-sion stands, class parties or foods brought from home.

Most every food sold in school would be subject to fat, calorie, sugar and sodium limits. Snack foods would have to be under 200 calories and have some nutritional value. Drinks would be limited to 12-ounce portions in middle schools

and 8-ounce portions in elementary schools.

What school foods are in and what foods are out

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By PHOEBE MCPHERSON DESIGN EDITOR

For the past two years, a group of medical-bound UNH students has traveled to Honduras during their winter break to give basic health care over a four-day brigade. This past January, a group of 10 health-care professionals and 35 UNH students traveled south, seeing over 800 villagers through-out their stay.

The basis of the clinic was to give basic health care to the Hon-duran people over the extent of the brigade.

The Global Medical Brigades of New Hampshire is a group of doctors, medical professionals and UNH students who travel with medical supplies and set up pop-up clinics in third-world countries.

The group works under the umbrella of Global Brigades, a holistic development program in 2004, which is now the largest stu-dent-run health and sustainable de-velopment program in the world. In addition to the medical fi eld, there are eight other brigades: ar-chitecture, business, dental, envi-ronmental, human rights, microfi -nance, public health, and water.

“Medical brigades prides it-self on being the largest… sustain-able brigade,” said Ben Claxton, co-president of the organization. He is a junior biochemistry, mo-lecular and cellular biology major. Elizabeth Burgess, a senior study-ing genetics, is the other co-pres-ident.

“Ben and I were part of the executive board and then took over the chapter in April 2012,” Burgess said.

Hannah Eldred and Liz Eden,

two former UNH students, started the New Hampshire chapter of Global Medical Brigades of New Hampshire. It has no affi liation with the university.

“The only UNH connection is the students,” Claxton said. Honduras is currently on a list of “dangerous” countries to travel to, making the organization unable to receive university affi liation at this time.

While in Honduras, the group spends its time rotating through clinic stations. The breakdown is as follows: intake, triage, data informatics, consultation, dental, prescription drop-off, and pre-scription pick-up. Through these different stations, patients are treated for basic medical problems and, if they want, given dental care.

“Most of it is run-of-the-mill,” Claxton said. “It is primary care in the most basic form. It’s what most needed.”

While waiting for prescrip-tions, the Hondurans attend char-las, a Spanish word meaning “speeches.” The charla is an area where both adults and children are given basic medical educa-tion. The adult charla is for family values, sanitation and “things that Americans grow up knowing,” Claxton said.

The child charla gives chil-dren dental information. “I or-ganized the ‘children’s charla,’ which teaches kids the importance of how to brush and fl oss their teeth and shows them how to prop-erly do so,” Burgess said.

Once they’ve completed their charlas and picked up their pre-scriptions, they leave.

“They are always so grateful

and appreciative, even if they’ve been waiting in line for hours,” Burgess said. “Sometimes you’ll get a kiss on the cheek or a hug.”

For each new brigade, the group participates in two types of fundraising: personal and group.

“We come back fall semester (and we) fundraise, fundraise, fun-draise,” Claxton said. “We’re in the reset phase now.”

The group will put on benefi t concerts and other events in and around the Durham area in order to raise money.

Past events have included grilled cheese nights at The Knot on Main Street and a donations table set-up outside of the Durham Marketplace. Passers-by would be able to donate over-the-counter medications.

“It is defi nitely a challenge (to fundraise), especially where we are not a recognized organization, so we can’t hold any fundraising events on campus,” Burgess said.

Global Brigades of New Hampshire is looking into a sec-ond brigade to Ghana in May,

“right after graduation,” Claxton said. Also, a few members of the medical brigade have begun the process of setting up a Water Bri-gades of New Hampshire.

The week preceding spring break, Global Medical Brigades of New Hampshire will hold infor-mation sessions for anyone inter-ested in the brigade.

“I just hope that our organi-zation continues to grow and ex-pand,” Claxton said. “I hope to keep making a lasting impact each year.”

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Brigaders from January’s trip to Honduras pose for a group picture. More than three dozen UNH students traveled down to help the less fortunate practicing medicine in pop-up clinics.

UNH students bring health care to Honduras

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CONCORD — New Hamp-shire’s House is considering tightening the laws on registering vehicles for people who write a bad check for the registration of one vehicle and then want to register a different vehicle.

The proposal would let the state suspend someone’s ability to register vehicles until they clear the bad check.

Current law allows the state to suspend the specifi c registration paid for with the bad check, but it does not stop the person from registering a different vehicle. The House Transportation Committee is recommending passing the bill as a way to close the loophole.

The House votes on the bill Wednesday.

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BOZEMAN, Mont. — Mon-tana State football coach Rob Ash has named former Florida International offensive coordinator Tim Cramsey as offensive coordinator and quarter-backs coach for the Bobcats.

Cramsey played quarterback at New Hampshire from 1995-98 and was an assistant coach there from 2003-2011, the last three years as of-fensive coordinator. New Hampshire competed in the playoffs for eight seasons while Cramsey was an as-sistant.

His last game with the Wildcats was a 26-25 playoff loss at Montana .State on Dec. 3, 2011. He coached one season at FIU before the head coach was relieved of his duties.

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By GENE JOHNSONAssociAted Press

SEATTLE — An effort is building in Congress to change U.S. marijuana laws, including moves to legalize the industrial production of hemp and establish a hefty federal pot tax.

While passage this year could be a longshot, lawmakers from both parties have been quietly working on several bills, the first of which Democratic Reps. Earl Blumenauer of Oregon and Jared Polis of Colo-rado plan to introduce Tuesday, Blumenauer told The Associated Press.

Polis’ measure would regulate marijuana the way the federal gov-ernment handles alcohol: In states that legalize pot, growers would have to obtain a federal permit.

Oversight of marijuana would be removed from the Drug En-forcement Administration and giv-en to the newly renamed Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Marijuana and Firearms, and it would remain il-legal to bring marijuana from a state where it’s legal to one where it isn’t.

The bill is based on a legaliza-tion measure previously pushed by former Reps. Barney Frank of Mas-sachusetts and Ron Paul of Texas.

Blumenauer’s bill would cre-ate a federal marijuana excise tax of 50 percent on the “first sale” of marijuana — typically, from a grower to a processor or retailer.

It also would tax pot producers or importers $1,000 annually and other marijuana businesses $500.

His office said Monday it doesn’t yet have an estimate of how much the taxes might bring in. But a policy paper Blumenauer and Po-

lis are releasing this week suggests, based on admittedly vague esti-mates, that a federal tax of $50 per ounce could raise $20 billion a year. They call for directing the money to law enforcement, substance abuse treatment and the national debt.

Last fall’s votes in Colorado and Washington state to legal-ize recreational marijuana should push Congress to end the 75-year federal pot prohibition, Blume-nauer said.

Washington state officials have estimated that its legal mari-juana market could bring in about half a billion dollars a year in state taxes.

“You folks in Washington and my friends in Colorado really upset the apple cart,” Blumenauer said. “We’re still arresting two-thirds of a million people for use of a substance that a majority feel should be legal. ... It’s past time for us to step in and try to sort this stuff out.”

Advocates who are work-ing with the lawmakers acknowl-edge it could take years for any changes to get through Congress, but they’re encouraged by recent developments. Senate Minor-ity Leader Mitch McConnell last week came out in support of ef-forts to legalize hemp in his home state of Kentucky, and U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., is

expected to introduce legislation allowing states to set their own policy on marijuana.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has indicat-ed he plans to hold a hearing on the conflict between state and fed-eral marijuana laws and has urged an end to federal “mandatory min-imum” sentences that lead to long prison stints for drug crimes.

“We’re seeing enormous po-litical momentum to undo the drug

war failings of the past 40 years,” said Bill Piper, director of national affairs for the Drug Policy Alli-ance, who has been working with lawmakers on marijuana-related bills. “For the first time, the wind is behind our back.”

The Justice Department hasn’t said how it plans to respond to the votes in Washington and Colorado. It could sue to block the states from issuing licenses to marijuana grow-ers, processors and retail stores, on the grounds that doing so would conflict with federal drug law.

Blumenauer and Polis’ paper urges a number of changes, includ-ing altering tax codes to let mari-juana dispensaries deduct business expenses on federal taxes, and making it easier for marijuana-related businesses to get bank ac-counts. Many operate on a cash basis because federally insured banks won’t work with them, they

noted.Blumenauer said he expects

to introduce the tax-code legisla-tion as well as a bill that would reschedule marijuana under the Controlled Substances Act, al-lowing states to enact medical marijuana laws without fear that federal authorities will continue raiding dispensaries or prosecut-ing providers.

It makes no sense that mari-juana is a Schedule I drug, in the same category as heroin and a more restrictive category than co-caine, Blumenauer said. The mea-sures have little chance of passing, said Kevin Sabet, a former White House drug policy adviser.

Sabet recently joined former Rhode Island Rep. Patrick Ken-nedy and former President George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum in forming a group called Project SAM — for “smart approaches to marijuana” — to counter the growing legalization movement. Sabet noted that previous federal legalization measures have always failed.

“These are really extreme so-lutions to the marijuana problem we have in this country,” Sabet said. “The marijuana problem we have is a problem of addiction among kids, and stigma of people who have a criminal record for marijuana crimes.

“There are a lot more people in Congress who think that mari-juana should be illegal but treated as a public health problem, than think it should be legal.”

Project SAM suggests people shouldn’t get criminal records for small-time marijuana offenses, but instead could face probation or treatment.

Marijuana laws making progress in Congress

By JOSHUA BERLINGERAssociAted Press

JUNEAU, Alaska — The Alas-

kan Brewing Co. is going green, but instead of looking to solar and wind energy, it has turned to a very famil-iar source: beer.

The Juneau-based beer maker has installed a unique boiler system in order to cut its fuel costs. It pur-chased a $1.8 million furnace that burns the company’s spent grain — the waste accumulated from the brewing process — into steam which powers the majority of the brewery’s operations.

Company officials now joke they are now serving “beer-pow-ered beer.”

What to do with spent grain was seemingly solved decades ago by breweries operating in the Low-er 48. Most send the used grain, a good source of protein, to nearby farms and ranches to be used as ani-mal feed.

But there are only 37 farms in southeast Alaska and 680 in the en-tire state as of 2011, and the prob-lem of what to do with the excess spent grain — made up of the re-sidual malt and barley — became more problematic after the brewery expanded in 1995.

The Alaskan Brewing Co. had to resort to shipping its spent grain to buyers in the Lower 48. Ship-ping costs for Juneau businesses are especially high because there are no roads leading in or out of the city; everything has to be flown or shipped in. However, the grain is a relatively wet byproduct of the brewing process, so it needs to be dried before it is shipped -- another heat-intensive and expensive pro-cess.

“We had to be a little more in-novative just so that we could do what we love to do, but do it where we’re located,” Alaskan Brewing co-founder Geoff Larson said.

But the company was barely turning a profit by selling its spent grain. Alaskan Brewery gets $60 for every ton of it sent to farms in the Lower 48, but it costs them $30 to ship each ton.

So, four years ago, officials at the Alaskan Brewing Co. started looking at whether it could use spent grain as an in-house, renew-able energy source and reduce costs at the same time.

While breweries around the world use spent grain as a co-fuel in energy recovery systems, “no-body was burning spent grain as a sole fuel source for an energy re-covery system, for a steam boiler,”

said Brandon Smith, the company’s brewing operations and engineering manager.

It contracted with a North Da-kota company to build the special boiler system after the project was awarded nearly $500,000 in a grant from the federal Rural Energy for America Program.

The craft brewery is expect-ing big savings once the system is fully operational in about a month’s time. Smith estimates that the spent grain steam boiler will offset the company’s yearly energy costs by 70 percent, which amounts to about $450,000 a year.

Alaskan Brewing Co. makes about 150,000 barrels of beer a year. The beer is distributed in 14 states after recent entries into the Texas, Wisconsin and Minnesota markets. It brews several varieties of beer but is best-known for its Alaskan Am-ber, an alt-style beer.

The company is also known for its distinctive beer labels, in-cluding featuring a polar bear on its Alaskan White Belgian-style ale.

When asked which beer’s spent grain burns the best, Smith joked, “we’re still trying to figure that out. We have our suspicions.”

Smith said he hasn’t been con-tacted by other breweries regarding implementing the project, but “ab-

solutely” believes the system could be applied at other, bigger breweries that dry their spent grain.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s largest brewer, has been re-purposing its spent grain for the past century, selling it to local farmers.

Mike Beck, director of utilities support at Anheuser-Busch InBev, told The Associated Press in an email that spent grains are not cur-rently a viable energy source for its breweries.

However, Beck noted that the company regularly investigates new technologies to see if they could be applicable to its operations.

Anheuser-Busch InBev does employ bio-energy recovery sys-tems, which turn wastewater into biogas, in most of its U.S. brewer-ies. That provides up to 9 percent of the fuel needed in its boilers, he said.

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By TAMI ABDOLLAHAssociAted Press

YUCAIPA, Calif. — A run-

away bus careened down a moun-tain road without brakes and the driver called out to passengers to phone 911 before a violent crash with two other vehicles that killed eight people and injured dozens of others, a surviving passenger said Monday.

However, the pleas by the driv-er were futile because no one had cellphone reception in the rugged area, passenger Gerardo Barrientos, 28, told The Associated Press.

The bus was carrying a group from Tijuana, Mexico, and head-ing home from a snow trip to the Big Bear Lake area of the San Ber-nardino Mountains 80 miles east of Los Angeles when it crashed into a sedan and pickup truck around 6:30 p.m. Sunday.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

Records showed the company that operated the bus had failed more than a third of federal vehicle safety inspections in the past two years.

The bus involved in the crash recorded 22 safety violations in about a year’s time, including prob-lems with brakes, the windshield and tires, according to inspection reports posted by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Brake issues were noted in at least three inspections since Octo-ber 2011.

Barrientos and girlfriend Llu-

via Ramirez, who both work at a government hospital in Tijuana, spoke to the AP as they waited out-side an emergency room at Loma Linda University Medical Center for word on a friend who suffered a broken neck.

Barrientos believed the bus reached speeds of 60 mph during the descent down the mountain that he estimated lasted five minutes be-fore the collision.

“I saw many people dead. There are very, very horrendous im-ages in my head, things I don’t want to think about,” he said.

Barrientos said he was un-injured and immediately began searching for Ramirez and the other friend, whom were both ejected. After he moved them away from the bus to safety, he assisted the bus driver.

Ramirez suffered bruises and a hairline vertebra fracture.

“I was overwhelmed,” she said. “I’m a surgical resident and I usu-ally know how to react, but I was so in shock I didn’t know what to do. I just stayed with my friend.”

The crash left State Route 38 littered with body parts and debris, and the bus sideways across both lanes with its windows blown out, front end crushed and part of the roof peeled back like a tin can.

The bus was going slowly down the hill and being passed by other vehicles when it suddenly sped up for an unknown reason, ac-cording to a person involved in the investigation who requested ano-nymity because the probe was on-going.

The bus struck a Saturn se-dan — one of the vehicles that had passed it — then spun and rolled, hitting the pickup truck that was heading up the hill.

Smoke was coming from the back of the bus, witnesses said. The bus eventually struck something on the side of the road that righted it and it came to a stop.

The bus traveled about a mile from the point it struck the Saturn until it came to a stop, said Califor-nia Highway Patrol Officer Leon Lopez.

Investigators will determine if mechanical failure or driver er-ror was to blame. The bus driver, who survived but was injured, told investigators the vehicle had brake problems.

“It appears speed was a factor in this collision,” Lopez said.

The National Transportation Safety Board was sending a team to the scene.

Lettering on the 1996 bus showed it was operated by Scapadas Magicas LLC, based in National City, Calif.

Federal transportation records show the company is licensed to carry passengers for interstate travel and that it had no crashes in the past two years.

Stephen Keppler of the Com-mercial Vehicle Safety Alliance, a group with industry and government members, said buses and trucks av-erage about two violations for each inspection.

Records show the bus involved in the crash was flagged eight times for maintenance problems as recent-

ly as October.Overall, buses operated by the

firm flunked 36 percent of random inspections, the records indicate. That’s higher than the national aver-age for similar companies — a 21 percent failure rate.

The California company had an overall “satisfactory” rating from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration — but records show three-quarters of similar companies had better safety records.

No one answered the door at the Scapadas Magicas office in a sprawling complex that houses more than 1,300 storage lockers and about 30 small offices.

Greg Etter, general manager of Acropolis Space Center, said the company didn’t run buses out of the facility. He declined to comment further on the tenant.

The bus was carrying dozens of men, women and children who had spent Sunday at a winter recreation area, authorities said.

Crews worked through the night to recover the dead, but one body remained aboard the bus early Monday, said Rocky Shaw, a San Bernardino County coroner’s inves-tigator.

Officials hadn’t been able to retrieve the body because the front end of the bus was dangling over the edge of the roadside.

Investigators were trying to pick up any personal property to help identify victims.

More than three dozen people were injured, and at least 17 were still hospitalized, including at least five in critical condition. One is a

girl.The pickup driver was in ex-

tremely serious condition, said Peter Brierty, assistant county fire chief. Three people were in the Saturn.

Rocky Shaw, San Bernardino County coroner’s investigation, said one of the dead victims was a 13-year-old boy. The boy’s fam-ily from Tijuana was meeting with Mexican Consulate officials after spending the night going from hos-pital to hospital looking for him.

Jordi Garcia, marketing direc-tor of Interbus, said his company rented the bus from Scapadas Magi-cas, which supplied the driver.

Interbus offers Mexicans near-daily bus tours to the western United States from Tijuana. Its office in a Tijuana strip mall displays photo-graphs of some of its destinations, including Hollywood, the Las Vegas Strip and the San Diego Zoo.

There were 38 people aboard the bus that crashed, including the driver and a tour guide, Garcia said. The bus left Tijuana at 5 a.m. Sun-day, with the itinerary calling for a return late that night.

“Everything points to faulty brakes,” Garcia said.

He said he spoke briefly with his tour guide, who suffered bruises. She told him she heard a loud pop before the crash.

Garcia said he believed all passengers were Mexican citizens and that there were no U.S. citizens aboard.

Big Bear Lake sits at an eleva-tion of 6,750 feet, and the area has ski resorts and other snow play ar-eas.

Bus passenger describes terror before vehicle crash

By MIKE HOUSEHOLDERAssociAted Press

DEARBORN, Mich. — Hun-

dreds of people, including some of Michigan’s political elite, gathered Monday to celebrate the late Rosa Parks on what would have been her 100th birthday by unveiling a postage stamp in her honor steps from the Alabama bus on which she stared down segregation nearly 60 years ago.

Parks, who died in 2005, be-came one of the enduring figures of the Civil Rights movement when she refused to cede her seat in the colored section of the Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white man after the whites-only section filled up. Her defiance and the ensuing black boy-cott of the city bus system helped the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. rise to national prominence.

“This is being done in sight of the bus where future generations can sit in a seat where Rosa Parks sat and refused to budge and in a seat where the world was changed,” U.S. Sen. Carl Levin said before he and U.S. Rep. John Conyers, a fellow Democrat, pulled the curtain to re-veal the Rosa Parks Forever Stamp, which bears her 1950’s likeness.

The stamp ceremony was part of a 12-hour event at The Henry

Ford in celebration of the 100th an-niversary of Parks’ birth that also featured speeches and live music.

At one point, officials cleared the vehicle and allowed Deputy Postmaster General Ronald Stro-man — who as a young lawyer worked on Conyers’ staff while Parks worked at Conyers’ Detroit office — to sit on the bus by him-self.

Stroman looked around the bus and gathered his thoughts be-fore saying: “It’s such a powerful experience to be actually in the seat that Rosa Parks sat in. It’s almost emotional — very over-whelming to be here.”

The Parks stamp is the second in a set of civil rights stamps being issued this year by the U.S. Postal Service.

USPS launched the series Jan. 1 with the Emancipation Procla-mation Forever Stamp, which was issued at The National Archives in Washington. In August, the series will culminate with the dedication of a stamp recognizing the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington.

The value of a Forever Stamp is the domestic First-Class Mail letter price in effect on the day of use. They always are sold at the same price as a regular First-Class Mail stamp.

Forever Stamps currently are being sold for 46 cents.

The Parks stamp went on sale Monday at post offices nationwide and at The Henry Ford, where dozens of people lined up to buy it, and nearby where collectors gathered to get their new stamps and other collectables stamped — or officially “canceled” — by a postal service employee.

Avid collector David Malhal-ab was one of the first in line to get stamps, pamphlets and other items canceled.

“Today is the Super Bowl or the championship game for stamp collectors,” he said, seated at a table surrounded by his various stamped collectibles.

President Barack Obama is-sued a proclamation that was read at Monday’s event by Detroit-area Democratic U.S. Rep. Gary Peters.

“As we mark the 100th an-niversary of Rosa Parks’ birth, we celebrate the life of a genuine American hero and remind our-selves that although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-ex-ecuting,” the proclamation reads.

“I call upon all Americans to observe this day with appropriate service, community and education programs to honor Rosa Parks’ en-during legacy.”

Hundreds gather for Postal Service honoring of Rosa Parks FORT MEADE, Md. — A

military judge at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba is order-ing a mental health examination for a prisoner accused of orches-trating the attack on the USS Cole.

Army Col. James Pohl issued the order Monday for an exam to determine whether Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is mentally competent to participate in his defense.

Prosecutors sought the exam. Al-Nashiri’s lawyers say it should be done with sensitivity to his his-tory of being waterboarded and threatened with a gun and power drill while he was being held by the CIA in a series of secret pris-ons.

Pohl says he’ll hear expert testimony Tuesday or Wednesday before crafting his order.

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NEW YORK — Former Pres-ident Bill Clinton says his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, has undergone more medical tests but is “doing much better.”

He made the remarks Monday to New York Congressman Peter King. The two men spoke in front of reporters outside the funeral of former New York City Mayor Ed Koch.

Clinton said his wife had five hours of tests on Sunday and was told to “take it easy for another month.”

He said if her progress contin-ues, “she’ll be completely recov-ered.”

Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines said Sunday’s tests com-prised a long-scheduled, routine follow-up. He said Hillary Clinton

is in good condition but wouldn’t provide further details.

She suffered a concussion in December, at which point doctors found a blood clot.

The former secretary of state has a new website called http://hill-aryclintonoffice.com/ that allows the public to contact her office with scheduling requests, media inqui-ries or other requests.

Her old campaign web site, http://www.hillaryclinton.com/ , directs viewers to the new office website.

Hillary Clinton has more tests, ‘is much better’

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Driving tests for elderly a no-brainer

Forgive us for stating the obvi-ous when we, a student edito-rial staff, support a bill that

would require elderly drivers to take driving tests to renew their licenses in New Hampshire. But there is op-position to this potential law and we feel the need to point out its merits.

The bill would help prevent future accidents like what happened to 31-year-old fi refi ghter Jeff Lewis of Weare. Lewis was directing traffi c in early January when a 91-year-old woman struck him with her car. She was charged with vehicular assault and reckless operation, while Lewis was taken to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Up until two years ago, New Hampshire law required those over the age of 75 to take a driving test in order to renew their licenses. But in August of 2011, the New Hampshire Senate passed House Bill 549, which ended that requirement. Drivers over the age of 75 can now renew their licenses online.

When passing that bill, Sen. Sylvia Larsen (D-Concord) said that a case could be made that older

drivers are amongst the safest of all motor vehicle operators. That case, however, could not possibly be backed by facts.

A 2007 report from the U.S. Government Accountability Offi ce found that those aged 75 and older are more likely to be involved in a fatal crash than any other age group. According to a 2012 report from the AAA Foundation for Traffi c Safety, people older than the age of 85 have a 10 times greater chance to die in a car accident than those aged 40 to 49. Preventing car accidents involv-ing the elderly is not just necessary to protect others; it will protect the

elderly themselves. Slowing of the refl exes and

worsening eyesight are also scientifi -cally proven to occur as people age. Unfortunately, many lawmakers do not take science as seriously as they should when making policy deci-sions.

The argument that testing the elderly is age discrimination does not hold up either when considering that teenage drivers are held to tighter regulations than other age groups.

Senior citizens who believe they are fi t to drive well into their 80s and beyond have every right to stay on the roads, so long as they can prove that they are still capable drivers. If a law is passed again in New Hamp-shire to test elderly drivers, those se-nior citizens who retain their licenses can drive without facing the stigma of being labeled “too old” to drive based on their appearance. And their fellow drivers, pedestrians, crossing guards and others can go about their day on the roads feeling a little bit safer as well.

Safer roads for all

Unfortunately, many lawmakers do not take science as seri-ously as they should when making policy decisions.

The New Hampshire OPINION Tuesday, February 5, 2013 13

Capitalism is killing our humanityIf people judged capitalism by

the same standards with which they judged socialism, they

would have declared it a failure generations ago. The rampant intellectual dishonesty amongst the anti-Left crowd is astounding – the mere idea that anyone would vo-cally support a system that is able to sustain itself by the plundering of under-developing countries reeks of soullessness and an utter disregard for human welfare. The parasitic relationship between First World nations and their Third World subjugates serves only to treat those in developing countries as tools, as completely com-moditized machines whose only purpose is to continue their forced labor for the mass-production of super-cheap imports.

It is even more unbelievable that people continue to equate so-cialism – real, genuine, unfettered socialism – with the atrocities com-mitted by Stalin and his Marxist-Leninist allies. Anyone who has taken the time to sit down and read legitimate socialist literature will most likely find a deeper hatred for centralized State bureaucracies like the former Soviet Union than for capitalist nations. It’s also incred-ibly amusing that the right-wing radicals that rail against President Obama’s alleged European-style “socialist” tendencies or the

Soviets’ Marxist-Leninism are, in reality, woefully uneducated on the subject and choose to regurgitate the racist nationalism of Fox News instead of deciding to pick up a book on proper socialist theory.

When the ruling class apologizes to the working class for: pre-emptive war, colonialism, the 14-hour work day, child labor, the Massacre of the Paris Commune, apartheid, international war, de-forestation, Exxon Valdez, and the military suppression of democratic movements in Latin America and the replacement of their elected leaders with CIA-backed fascist dictators for the sake of economic interests, then – and only then – will I even consider apologizing for the errors committed in the name of “socialist” countries.

The capitalist mode of produc-tion does nothing to expand “lib-erty” or raise the standard of living for the people that live under it. In reality, a capitalist nation commod-ifies the workers, turning them into cogs in the profit-making machine without their awareness or consent of it. The “high standard of living” that the far right often evokes is only sustained by the outrageously parasitic behavior that we continue to exhibit.

A system that dispropor-tionately redistributes all wealth upwards while reducing aid for the

working class is not sustainable. Capitalism is not something that can last indefinitely; it is a cancer that needs to stretch its malignant tendrils abroad in neocolonial, imperialist war in order to seize natural resources and exploit cheap labor. One day, when this cancer has no more resources to draw upon, it is going to collapse in upon itself, and the working class will be left to pick up the pieces of the world that the corporate aristoc-racy’s greed had destroyed, and will have to built a new one from the ashes of the old.

But to even talk about the possibility of having an economic system other than capitalism is her-esy in the United States. Capitalism has been intricately tied to “liberty” and “freedom” by the right-wing nationalists, who throw the words around at every possible chance they have, draining them of any

real meaning and using “liberty” to justify unfettered corporatism.

The burden for the recession should not be placed on the backs of the workers, of the citizens who spent their entire lives playing by the rules only to have the programs that they paid into their entire lives be slashed in order to continue the budget-busting tax cuts with which we shower the ultra-wealthy. Some rebuke this by saying that we have the highest corporate tax rate in the world; however, that 35 percent tax is so riddled with loopholes that the effective tax rate for corpora-tions hovers just below 9 percent. In reality, we have one of the most lax tax systems on the entire planet. The Bush-era tax cuts (which, thankfully, have been repealed for individuals making $400,000 or more, and for households making $450,000 or more a year) cost this nation a staggering $100.2 billion a year. In the past decade, that amounts to over a trillion dollars in handouts to the top 1 percent.

The idea that slashing the federal budget in the hopes that re-duced aid for special education, the handicapped, and our seniors will somehow create limitless prosper-ity for all is not simply foolish – it is downright cruel. The proposed changes to Social Security would save approximately $10 billion a year (which is barely a drop in the

bucket in comparison to our over-16-trillion dollar deficit), and it would do so by tweaking the Con-sumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers, what is generally referred to as the CPI, so that the benefits that are based on inflation would be calculated differently. If put into practice, it would mean that Social Security benefits would become much less comprehensive – a senior citizen who lives on Social Security col-lects just under $15,000 a year in total pay, and the affect of the CPI “tweak” would cost them $650 a year. As inflation continues and the market fluctuates, the cumula-tive effects of the CPI change will result in American senior citizens being stripped of $1,000 or more.

The fact that we allow such a system to exist is mind-boggling. The complete disregard that some people have for our fellow brothers and sisters in this world is heart-breaking; the absence of human solidarity is disheartening. I look forward to the day when our coun-try enters cultural modernity and we decide to work together for a system that puts human well being over short-term profit.

sDan Fournier is a pre-medical under-

graduate majoring in evolutionary biology. He considers himself to be a left-wing progressive and liberty-minded individual.

From the Left

Dan Fournier

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Thumbs up to Beyonce, no matter who you are.

Thumbs down to pens that don’t work.

Thumbs up to Harry Potter-themed din-ners.

Thumbs down to below freezing temps and wind.

Thumbs up to second semester, senior year.

Thumbs down to stomach bugs. If you’re sick, stay home kids.

Thumbs up to being rid of Ray Lewis the player.

Thumbs down to getting Ray Lewis as an ESPN analyst.

The unspoken epidemicToday 180 million people

around the globe are infected with Hepatitis C. In the

United States, 3.2 million are infected with the virus—1.6 per-cent of the American population. Compare this to the prevalence of HIV/AIDS today, and you will see that the difference is colossal: 34 million people are infected with HIV/AIDS globally and 1.2 million people domestically. More people are dying today of Hepatitis C than of HIV/AIDS, a fact that is widely unknown.

While the numbers for HIV/AIDS are still high, they have dropped dramatically since the 1980s and ’90s. Due to an uprising of powerful activists groups and community advocacy, HIV/AIDS was brought to the forefront of political and social issues. Mean-while, Hepatitis C is on the op-posite side of the spectrum. It has lacked a community of concerned individuals and has consequently had very little attention since 1989, when it was first discovered. Advo-cacy for Hepatitis C is practically dismal, especially compared to HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis B. Fund-ing for Hepatitis C research and resources is virtually negligible. This is due to the fact that Hepatitis C is not only an unspoken topic, but it is also an incredibly complex topic.

Hepatitis C is a slow-progressing, sometimes deadly blood-borne virus that attacks the liver. Of all people with the Hepa-titis C virus, up to 85 percent will develop chronic hepatitis. Of this 85 percent, 70 percent will develop chronic liver disease, nearly 20

percent will develop cirrhosis, an incurable disease that results in scarring of the liver, and up to five percent will die of cirrhosis or liver cancer.

What many people are not aware of is that there is now a cure for Hepatitis C. A person with Hepatitis C can be free of the virus within 24 weeks if he or she fol-lows a prescribed treatment plan. However, the virus is asymptom-atic, which means that people who are infected are not aware of their status unless they are tested—and Hepatitis C testing is not a com-monplace or encouraged proce-dure among medical institutions. The virus is also most commonly transmitted through injection drugs, contributing to the fact that Hepati-tis C is most prevalent among poor, urban, and marginalized popula-tions (especially drug users), many of whom are incapable of or not receptive to seeking out treatment.

This is for reasons such as a lack of motivation, a lack of peer, social, and community support, failure to recognize the long-lasting impact of not seeking treatment, lack of education about the illness, the attached stigmatization of infection, and an under-recognition of the condition (especially due to the fact that one could live 20 years without experiencing any symp-toms). In addition, retention rates for those who actually seek treat-ment are incredibly low because

the side effects are highly physi-cally, financially, and emotionally debilitating.

Research has found that Hepa-titis C is also most prevalent among the baby-boomer generation, the generation that lived through the “Summer of Love,” when experimentation with Schedule I drugs was especially high. Today, individuals who lived during that era have an HCV prevalence rate of more than double the national aver-age. Targeting this generation is our best bet at drastically dampening the epidemic.

However, the “hippie” genera-tion should not be our only focus. New statistics have shown that Hepatitis C is on the rise among American youth. In Massachu-setts alone, HCV prevalence has risen from 65 cases per 100,000 between the ages of 15 and 24 in 2002 to 113 cases per 100,000 in 2009. This has been caused by to an increase in injection drug usage among America’s youth.

What the fight against Hepa-titis C needs is both attention and money, and a lot of it. Specifically, it needs funding for programs such as the Division for Viral Hepatitis of the Centers for Disease Control, needle exchange sites, surveillance programs that value both casework and harm-reduction approaches, Hepatitis C education in com-munities and secondary schools, research funding for the develop-ment of a Hepatitis C vaccination, and more. But these needs cannot be met, let alone be requested, until our communities are educated and aware of the gravity and urgency of this issue. The time to act is now.

Another View

India Perez-UrbanoThe Harvard Crimson

The New HampshireTuesday, February 5, 201314 SPORTS

GYMNASTICS

Barile, UNH take first at meetSTAFF REPORT The New hampshire

Hannah Barile tied for first place on floor exercise and placed second on vault Sunday to lead the University of New Hampshire gymnastics team to its second consecutive tri-meet victory with a score of 195.425, which bested George Washington (194.750) and Yale (191.225) at Lundholm Gym-nasium.

The Wildcats improved their record to 6-1 and 3-0 in the East Atlantic Gymnastics League (EAGL) competition by topping the Colonials (5-5, 1-2 EAGL) and the Bulldogs (0-6).

Barile, who received the Ka-tie Baldwin Expression Award for her performance, guided the Wild-cats to a strong lead in the first ro-tation by recording a personal best 9.825 on vault to finish behind GW’s Elena Corcoran (9.850). Austyn Fobes and Courtney Con-nors registered matching scores of 9.800 to share third place. The team amassed 48.725 in its first event of the day.

Jen Aucoin and Fobes tied with an event-best score of 9.825 on uneven bars to highlight the

second rotation. Erika Rudiger followed the pair with a score of 9.775 for third place, as the ‘Cats amassed a team mark of 48.775.

Kayla Gray paced New Hampshire on balance beam with a meet-high score of 9.875, tying her season high. Fobes notched a 9.800 for third place, followed by Elissa Solomon, who set a person-al best with a 9.775 for a share of fourth place. The Wildcats regis-tered a total of 48.875 in their only runner-up placement of the meet; the Colonials posted a 48.900.

In the final rotation, Fobes and Barile registered equal marks of 9.850 on floor exercise to share the event victory.

Gray followed the duo by re-cording a score of 9.825 for fourth place, Rudiger claimed a share of fifth place with a 9.775 and Jan-nelle Minichiello tied her personal best with a score of 9.750 to finish in a deadlock for seventh place. Erin Machado rounded out the Wildcat scoring with a 9.675 for a team total of 49.050.

Fobes, the reigning EAGL co-Gymnast of the Week, made it back-to-back first-place scores in all-around with a 39.275 to edge GW’s Stephanie Stoicovy (39.000).

The Wildcats return to action when they travel to 15th-ranked Maryland for an all-EAGL tri-meet against the Terrapins, Towson and 24th-ranked North Carolina State on Friday, Feb. 8 (7 p.m.).

UNH will return to Lundholm Gymnasium to take on Towson, Yale and Brown in the annual UNH Invitational on Saturday, March 2, at 4 p.m. That will be the Senior Day meet for Aucoin, Con-nors, Fobes and Becca Marrama.

WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

STAFF REPORTThe New hampshire

Cari Reed recorded 14 points and six rebounds in the Univer-sity of New Hampshire women’s

basketbal l team’s 60-47 America

East conference loss to Stony Brook University at Pritchard Gymnasium on Saturday afternoon.

UNH’s two-game winning streak ended as the Wildcats moved to 8-13 overall and 3-6 in America East. SBU, which built an 11-point halftime lead on the strength of 56.7 percent shooting from the floor in the first half, improved to 12-10, 4-5 by sweeping the season series against UNH.

Reed, who went 5 of 5 from the foul line, also tallied three assists, three steals and one block to garner UNH’s America East Player of the Game. Morgan Frame was the only other Wildcat in double digits with 10 points.

Sabre Proctor (17 points), Chikilra Goodman (11 pts, six re-bounds) and Jessica Previlon (nine pts, eight rebs) led the Seawolves, who committed just 10 turnovers in comparison to UNH’s 22.

Frame’s layup on the right blocks off a feed from Reed lev-eled the score, 2-2, at 18:22 but that proved to be the only tie of the game. The Seawolves went on a 7-0

run the next 3:30 before Reed fin-ished an Elizabeth Belanger (Acton, Mass.; eight rebounds) pass for a la-yup at 14:45 and Stephanie Spoto converted an offensive rebound into a layup on the right blocks to lift the Wildcats within 11-6.

Reed’s three-point play off the inbounds pass from Jilliane Friel made the score 13-9 at 13:17, but the ‘Cats called time out at 10:10 when Previlon’s basket in the paint gave the Seawolves a double-digit lead of 19-9.

UNH responded with a jumper by Kelsey Hogan, who had missed the previous five games, at 9:52 and Hogan’s dish to Spoto for a layup at 9:04 to trim the deficit to 21-13. Back-to-back buckets by Proctor and Sam Landers gave SBU its larg-est lead of the first half – 12 points – at 25-13.

Frame’s putback off her own miss and her layup on the left blocks lifted New Hampshire with-in 25-17, then Friel’s 3-pointer from the right wing made it 25-20 at 6:14. SBU answered with a Previlon la-yup and Kani Klupenger 3-pointer to reestablish a 10-point lead one minute later.

Kendall Martenet and Reed both hit a pair of free throws to lift the ‘Cats within 33-26 at 2:18. Tea-sha Harris and Proctor buried jump-ers to give the home team a 37-26 lead heading into halftime.

Reed’s runner off the glass

opened the second-half scoring and trimmed the deficit to single figures, 37-28, at 18:58 but Previlon’s layup and two Brittany Snow foul shots made it 41-28 one minute later, and Snow’s layup at 13:07 gave SBU its largest lead of the game, 45-31.

UNH trailed 46-33 when Reed and Lauren Wells hit consecutive 3-pointers to trim the margin to seven points at 9:38. The Seawolves once again quickly countered, this time with Harris’ 3-pointer and Goodman’s layup to create a 51-39 lead at 8:34.

The Wildcats went on a 6-0 spurt the next 3:30 to close the gap to six points, 51-45.

Hogan hit both ends of the 1-and-1 at the foul line to begin the run, which continued with a drive down the middle of the lane by Frame and then she corralled an offensive rebound and scored in the paint at 3:54.

Frame then pulled down a de-fensive rebound at the other end of the court to give the ‘Cats a chance to get closer than six points, but UNH turned the ball over and Goodman took the ball to the bas-ket for a fastbreak layup that pushed the score to 53-45 at 2:33. SBU out-scored UNH 7-2 the rest of the way to secure the victory.

New Hampshire returns to ac-tion Feb. 6 at home against the Uni-versity of Vermont. Game time at Lundholm Gym is 7 p.m.

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Reed, ‘Cats fall short on the roadIn Brief

UNH places fifth at Nordic 10K classicLiz Guiney headlined the University of New Hampshire skiing

team’s efforts for the second straight day by placing fifth in the women’s Nordic 10K classic, helping the Wildcats finish third at the Vermont Car-nival on Sunday at Trapp Family Lodge.

UNH compiled 744 points to finish behind carnival winner and host school Vermont (868 points), which edged Dartmouth (860).

Guiney clocked in at 32 minutes, 54.6 points to register 39 of UNH’s 98 team points. Annika Taylor posted a ninth-place time of 33:26.2 for 30 points, and Elizabeth Izzo finished in 14th place in 33:57.3 to ac-cumulate 28 points. Dartmouth scored a 120 to win the women’s 10K classic, followed by Middlebury (113), UVM (109) and the fourth-place Wildcats.

The UNH men’s Nordic team took third place in the 10K classic by virtue of an 87-point total. Erik Lindgren led the way with a ninth-place time of 28:45.9 for 33 points. Per Lindgren (Pitea, Sweden) placed 14th in 29:01.2 for 28 points, and Sam Reed notched 26 points in a 17th-place time of 29:10.3. The Big Green amassed a team score of 130 points to win the race, followed by the Catamounts (119) and the ‘Cats.

The Wildcats return to EISA skiing action at the Dartmouth Carni-val Feb. 8-9, with alpine racing at Dartmouth Skiway and Nordic races scheduled for Oak Hill.

Greene earns track and field victorySenior Kevin Greene earned his fourth straight individual victory

to lead the University of New Hampshire men’s indoor track and field team to a runner-up finish at the URI Coaches Tribute Invitational on Saturday afternoon.

The Wildcats totaled 83.5 points, while host Rhode Island won the meet with 193 points.

Greene captured his fourth individual victory in as many races as he won the 800 meters in an IC4A-qualifying time of 1:54.71. Sophomore James Anderson placed third in the event and also qualified for IC4As in a time of 1:55.90.

Senior Victor Adejuyigbe took second in the 60-meter dash, cross-ing the finish line in a New England-qualifying time of 7.08.

Sophomore Nicholas Sullivan finished fifth overall in the 200 me-ters in a time of 23.05 to qualify for the New England Championships. He also qualified for New Englands in the 400 meters as he finished fifth in a time of 51.01.

Senior Cory Sinotte finished fifth in the 1,000 meters as he crossed the finish line in a time of 2:33.80, while junior Eric Stys placed sixth in the 500 meters in a time of 1:08.38.

Sophomore John Prizzi added a seventh-place finish in the mile with a time of 4:20.65.

The Wildcats’ distance medley relay team of Sinotte, Prizzi, Ander-son and Nathaniel Hathaway finished runner-up in an IC4A-qualifying time of 10:22.69.

Senior Matthew Guarente placed fifth overall in the high jump with a cleared height of 6-6.25 to qualify for New Englands in the event.

In the shot put, seniors Cameron Lyle and Chris Dupuis placed fourth and fifth, respectively, with tosses of 47-6.5 and 46-7.25. Lyle also took fifth in the weight throw with a New England-qualifying toss of 5-4.25, while senior George Jumpp took sixth and qualified for New Englands at 52-8.

The Wildcats next compete at the America East Championships on Feb. 11-12 at the Reggie Lewis Center.

Women’s track and field finishes fourthJuniors Anne Twombly and Elise Beattie both captured individual

victories to lead the University of New Hampshire women’s track & field team to a fourth-place finish at the URI Coaches Tribute Invitational on Saturday afternoon.

The Wildcats racked up 73 points, while host Rhode Island won the meet with 160 points.

Twombly captured the 800 meters in an ECAC-qualifying time of 2:14.29, while senior Meagan Boucher finished third and qualified for New Englands in a time of 2:18.45.

Beattie was victorious in the mile as she crossed the finish line in a New England-qualifying time of 5:03.47.

Freshman Lauren Perrodin was runner-up in the 60-meter dash in a New England-qualifying time of 7.81, while fellow rookie Natalie Bilyn-sky took sixth and also qualified for New Englands at 7.93.

Freshman Joya Helander finished fourth in the 200 meters in a New England-qualifying time of 26.25, while Bilynsky took fifth at 26.52.

Junior Brenna McLaughlin added a fourth-place finish in the 3,000 meters, crossing the finish line in a time of 10:45.90, while Virginia La-vallee was sixth in the 60-meter hurdles in a New England-qualifying time of 9.17.

In the field, sophomore Jessica Salley was third overall with a cleared height of 5-5, while senior Keyla Salazar placed sixth in the weight throw with a toss of 48-3.50.

The Wildcats next compete at the America East Championships on Feb. 11-12 at the Reggie Lewis Center.

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day night, holding the Huskies to one goal in a 3-1 victory for New Hampshire.

The UNH loss on Saturday has the Wildcats’ overall record drop to 16-7-2, while falling to 11-6-1 in Hockey East action. For the Warriors, the win moves their overall record move up to 12-10-5 while increasing their record in Hockey East action to 10-6-2.

The nail in the coffin for the Wildcats came 18:41 into the third period, when Merrimack’s Mike Collins netted an empty net goal to push the Warriors lead up to three.

Until that point, despite what the scoreboard said, New Hamp-shire was in as much control as a losing team could have been.

After a close first period – which saw the Warriors come out with a 1-0 lead after a defensive breakdown allowed MC’s Shawn Bates to get a shot past UNH goal-tender Casey DeSmith – the Wild-cats took over the game, keeping Merrimack away from the puck while trying to penetrate Marotta and the Warriors’ defense.

In the second period and third period UNH produced 40 of its 52 shots, while also holding Merri-mack to just 16.

“You can’t always go by the number of shots, but I thought we had plenty of Grade A chances,” UNH head coach Dick Umile said after the game. “Their goalie played well. We couldn’t get it by him.”

The Wildcats’ only goal came off the stick of Jeff Silengo, who tipped in Scott Pavelski’s shot to cut Merrimack’s lead – which had increased to two after Bates was able to tally his second of the night after another UNH defensive breakdown – to just one, with the score 2-1 12:52 into the second period.

From there it seemed as if UNH was going to make it a game, as the Wildcats continued to con-trol the puck for much of the sec-ond period.

But 16:02 into the second pe-riod Vinny Scotti netted a power-play goal that increased the War-riors’ lead to two once again.

Dalton Speelman had a cou-ple of good opportunities for New Hampshire, but came up empty.

One such chance bounced off the crossbar from an unusual an-gle, hitting the line before bounc-ing out of the goal. The play was reviewed by the officials, but was confirmed as a no goal.

“I didn’t get a great handle on [the puck] but I took the shot,” he said. “I think it hit the corner of the post. It came off at a weird angle. I didn’t really see it after I took the shot. I was off-balance. It came out kind of funny.”

Another solid chance came in the closing seconds of the second period, but Marotta stopped Speel-man as a Merrimack player pulled Speelman to the ice. No penalty was called on the play.

Saturday’s loss also makes things tighter in the Hockey East standings, as just a point separates four of the top five teams.

“Just makes everything even closer now,” Umile said after the loss.

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Rhoads, ‘Cats fall short to SeawolvesSTAFF REPORTThe New hampshire

Senior Chandler Rhoads scored 12 points to go along with seven rebounds and three assists, but the

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men’s basketball team dropped a 56-54 decision to Stony Brook in Saturday’s America East contest at Lundholm Gymnasium.

New Hampshire fell to 6-15 overall and 2-7 in conference ac-tion, while Stony Brook improved to 17-5 on the season and 8-1 in league play.

Rhoads was named the Amer-ica East Player of the Game, while fellow senior Ferg Myrick added 10 points, four assists, two blocks and two steals.

Dave Coley led Stony Brook with 13 points and eight rebounds, while Anthony Jackson and Jameel Warney added 11 points apiece.

New Hampshire shot 33.9 percent (19-56) from the floor and outrebounded the Seawolves, 36-35. Stony Brook shot 39.9 percent (19-48) from the field.

Stony Brook opened the con-test with a 7-2 run before Myrick slashed to the basket for a layup and drew the foul to set up the eventual three-point play. Rhoads followed with a jumper a little over a minute later to even the score at 7-7.

After the teams swapped bas-kets, Anthony Mayo pushed SBU on top with a jumper, but Rhoads and junior Patrick Konan answered with back-to-back 3-pointers for the 15-13 lead at 8:49. Jackson broke up the stretch with a free throw, before the Wildcats tallied ten unanswered points as juniors Scott Morris and Jordon Bronner capped off the run with consecutive treys to push the home side on top, 25-14, at 5:04.

Nevertheless, the Seawolves used an 11-2 run over the final five minutes of the first half to pull with-in two, 27-25, at halftime.

Stony Brook kicked off the second half with a 10-2 run for the 35-29 lead just three minutes into the stanza. UNH responded with an 8-1 stretch, highlighted by a three-point play from senior Chris Ma-

tagrano, to even the score at 37-37 with 13:44 left to play.

From there, the Seawolves scored eight straight points until Matagrano stopped the bleeding with a 3-pointer from the corner to pull the Wildcats within five, 45-40, midway through the half.

After Coley drove for a layup, Myrick knocked down a trey on the other end to trim the deficit to four, 47-43, but Coley hit a pair of free throws to bring the SBU lead back to six, 49-43.

After UNH pulled within two on a Matagrano layup and a pair of free throws from Konan, SBU hit three straight foul shots for the five-point lead, but Rhoads drove hard to the rim and rolled in a layup to pull the Wildcats within three, 52-49, at 3:43.

UNH edged the Seawolves at the free throw line, 3-1, over the next two minutes to pull within one, but Jackson drilled a tough 3-point-er to push the visitors in front, 56-52, with 1:16 remaining. Myrick was able to draw a foul on the next play and hit both free throws for the one-point deficit, but Warney snagged the offensive rebound on Jackson’s 3-pointer with seven sec-onds remaining as the Seawolves ran out the clock to seal the win.

The Wildcats return to action on Wednesday, Feb. 6 when they visit Vermont at 7 p.m.

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WoMeN’S Hockey

UNH splits series with UVMSTAFF REPORTThe New hampshire

Sophomore forward Hannah Armstrong tallied a pair of goals as the University of New Hamp-

shire wom-en’s hockey team rallied past the University of Vermont,

4-2, Saturday afternoon.The victory over Vermont

comes after the Wildcats fell to the Catamounts, 3-1, on Friday.

The win improves the Wild-cats to 11-14-2 on the year and to 7-7-1 in Hockey East action while the Catamounts fall to 7-16-3 overall and to 5-7-3 in conference action.

Vermont’s Kellie Dineen gave the Catamounts an early 1-0 lead just 38 seconds into the first period as she tallied her fifth goal of the year. Gina Repaci tallied the first assist on the play as Erin Wente notched the second.

Hannah Armstrong responded at the 7:08 mark of the first with her sixth goal of the season on a power play. Senior Kailey Chap-pell started the play as she sent the puck to classmate Kristina Lavoie. Lavoie found Armstrong who then put it away to level the game at 1-1.

The Wildcats had a dominant start on offense in the first period, outshooting the Catamounts by a margin of 10-6. Through one pe-

riod of play, the score was dead-locked at 1-1.

Armstrong and Lavoie con-nected again at 15:23 of the sec-ond period when Armstrong tallied her second goal of the game and seventh of the year. Lavoie tallied her second assist of the game and twelfth of the season on the play.

Both teams had an offensively productive second period as a total of 22 shots on goal were taken in the period. UNH converted on one of its twelve in the period while Vermont was stopped on all 10 by Wildcat netminder Marie-Eve Jean. Through two periods of play, New Hampshire held a 2-1 lead.

The Catamounts opened up the third period with goal number two at the 2:02 mark of the stanza.

Valerie Stoul recorded her first goal of the season on the play while Repaci tallied her second

assist of the game and Delia Mc-Nally notched her first.

Arielle O’Neill gave the Wild-cats a 3-2 lead with a power play goal at 13:04 in the third period. Sara Carlson and Kristine Horn each registered assists on the play.

Lavoie gave the Wildcats some extra breathing room with 36 seconds left in the game when she tallied her seventh goal of the season on an empty net. O’Neill and Chappell assisted Lavoie on the play. As the clock struck zero, the Wildcats picked up a 4-2 vic-tory over Vermont.

Jenn Gilligan started the game in net for New Hampshire but was replaced by Jean after 38 seconds of play. Gilligan made two saves on the three shots she faced. Jean made 18 saves in relief on 19 shots faced and picked up her first win of the season, improving her re-cord to 1-1-1.

Vermont’s Roxanne Douville got the loss in net after making 29 saves on 33 shots faced. Her re-cord falls to 5-13-3 on the year.

The Wildcats took advantage on the power play, registering two goals in four opportunities while Vermont was held to 0-for-4 with the advantage.

New Hampshire returns to the ice on Saturday, Feb. 9 when they travel to Boston University to wrap up the season series with the Terriers. Puck drop is set for 3 p.m.

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ised me progression in my game,” Myrick said. “Coming to UNH I felt like I was going to take care of me and promised me progression in my game,” Myrick said. “Com-ing to UNH I felt like I was going to play right away so I knew if I played right away I would get the exposure that I need.”

Myrick was eased into playing time as a freshman, but showed some brilliance and made the America East All-Rookie Team. The following year he was a starter and a strong addition to the Wildcat’s offense, but halfway through the season a ruptured patella tendon in his knee put a premature end to his season and a belated start to his junior year.

“I don’t think he was totally healthy from the knee injury prob-ably until three quarters of the way into his junior year,” Herrion said. “The last quarter of the season he really played well.”

Myrick is making the most of his last year of college basketball as the leading scorer for UNH with 14.3 points per game. At the begin-ning of the season, his teammates elected him as a captain because of his credibility as a player and his amiability as a person.

“I think everybody looks up

to me,” Myrick said. “I’m a good teammate on and off the court.”

As much as Myrick can score he has also been spreading the wealth with more assists this year than ever before with 28.

“I distribute the ball more than when I first came here,” Myrick said.

“He’s giving us stats and numbers that a captain should give you,” Herrion said.

The Wildcats have won two of their last three games, but are 6-15 and nearing the season’s end. Herrion will be looking for Myrick and the other seniors to be the driving force behind a positive end to the season.

“What I’ve said to the seniors is, you don’t have many games left so don’t waste any,” Herrion said.

Myrick believes the missing link to the Wildcats’ success has been the defense.

“Our defensive has slipped,” Myrick said. “That’s when it’s hard to play in transition; it’s hard to get your offense going.”

Beyond college, Myrick as-pires to continue playing the sport he loves by playing abroad in Spain until he can catch the eye of an NBA team, a dream he has had as long as he has been playing the game.

“I love playing the game, so if I get paid to do something I like, that’s always a good thing,” Myrick said.

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DAY 34In Saturday’s loss to Stony Brook, the UNH men’s basketball team shot 34 percent from the fi eld.

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Senior John Henrion and the Wildcat o� ense left a lot of chances to score on the ice on Saturday night against Merrimack, as UNH shot the puck on net 52 times, but lost, 4-1.

Missed opportunity

Maro� a, Merrimack stonewall WildcatsBy ADAM J. BABINAT

SPORTS EDITOR

Opportunities were abundant for the Univer-sity of New Hampshire men’s hockey team on Saturday night, as the Wildcats’ offensive unit ac-

cumulated 52 shots on goal as UNH played host to Hockey East foe Merrimack College at the Whittemore Center.

Unfortunately for New Hampshire, Warriors’ goal-

tender Sam Marotta – who ended up being named Hockey East Defensive Player of the Week for his efforts over the weekend – was lights out in net, making 51 saves in what ended up being a 3-1 vic-tory for Merrimack.

“We bent, but did not break,” Merrimack head coach Mark Dennehy said about his team’s play on Saturday.

Saturday’s game came after the Wildcats up-ended Northeastern University on the road on Fri-

MEN’S BASKETBALL

By BRETT FERRELLCONTRIBUTING WRITER

In 2009, UNH basketball was in need of an athletic frontcourt player, and associate head coach Ken Dempsey answered that need with the recruitment of Ferg Myrick out of Philadelphia, Pa.

Myrick emerged from Prep Charter High School to carry on his basketball career as a Wildcat in the Granite State. Now in his senior year, he has shown his teammates and coaches his progression and leadership on the court as he looks toward a professional career.

“We knew coming out of high school he was a kid who had a lot of ability,” said UNH head coach Bill Herrion.

Myrick, a sport studies major and communications minor, was bred in a basketball-oriented at-mosphere, having played amongst some top talent at Prep Charter and helping his team to two state championships. He was also a

teammate of Markieff and Marcus Morris, who both currently play in the NBA. Other schools including Boston University, Binghamton and LaSalle looked at him, but Dempsey convinced Myrick to become a Wildcat.

“[Dempsey] told me he was going to take care of me and prom-

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CONGRATS COREY GRAHAM

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In one of the most exciting Super Bowls in recent memory – from the early Ravens lead, to Jacoby Jones’ 108-yard kick return, to the 34-minute-long power outage, all the way to the 49ers’ late comeback – UNH alumnus and Ravens cornerback Corey Graham put on a performance that would make any Wildcat fan excited and proud. Congratulations to Graham and the rest of the Baltimore Ravens for their win in Super Bowl XLVII!

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After winning a memorable game against then-No. 1 Michigan, Indiana University has ascended to the No. 1 position once again in college basketball.

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