Volume 90, Issue 9 | November 3, 2010
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ACJA-LAE Members Win Big At Regional Conference
By SARA J DUFORT STAFF WRITER
–––––––––––––––––––––––––– While most students at our university were worrying about homecoming weekend, eleven members of the American Criminal Justice Association (ACJA) were on their way to compete in their annual regional conference at West Virginia State University. These students had spent weeks preparing and hoped that they would come away with some trophies for their efforts. They were chosen by a panel, and included Sara Dufort, Timmy Farmer, Roman Gray, Rjay Irons, Angela Martello, Devin McCabe, Ross Oliver, Stephanie Pajak, Liliana Queiroga, Kyle Turpin, and Adam Wolfe. While the road was not easy, in the end, these students’ dedication paid off. What people do not realize about conferences like this is that they are not all fun and games. These students had to be prepared and study. With only three weeks, this was a difficult task for the newcomers, as they did not have to take just one written test, but five. The subjects were from a wide variety of subjects in the criminal justice field: Criminal Law, Police Management, Corrections, Juvenile Justice, and ACJA-LAE knowl-
edge. There was also a competition in crime scenes, shooting, and physical agility, which arguably needed less preparation. The students who competed revolved their day, and their outfits, around these tests, and this would be where the fun factor came in. For instance, when the shooting competition was taking
place, everyone dressed up in black ACJA t-shirts, camouflage pants, boots, and painted their faces blue and yellow for UNH. On the final day, the members changed not only one time, but three. This brought them a lot of attention from other chapters, as well as the judges. When all was said and done, our chapter of the ACJA, Psi Omega, came away with the coveted Spirit Award. All the students noted above received this. Yet the conference was not only about testing and getting the spirit award. After all, the students were in West Virginia for almost five days. West Vir-
Feds Approve Largest-ever Solar Project in California By LIANA TEIXEIRA STAFF WRITER
–––––––––––––––––––––––––– The Associated Press reports that the Obama administration has approved a solar project located on federally owned land in southern California. This comes after a five-year hiatus from the Bureau of Land Management
cost approximately $6 billion. Solar Millennium, a German solar developer, is assisting in its production. “Today is a day that makes me excited about the nation’s future,” Salazar said Monday at a news conference. “This project shows in a real way how harnessing our own renewable resources can create good jobs here at home.”
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when solar developers asked for rights to develop solar plants on federally owned land. According to Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, the thousandmegawatt project will be constructed in an area of the Mojave Desert, near Blythe, California. The project is called the Blythe Solar Power Project and will
The approval of the Blythe Project marks the sixth federally authorized solar power project this month; all projects are located in California and Nevada. With a seventh project awaiting approval in the coming weeks and a total of fourteen projects planned, this enthusiastic reSee SOLAR page 5
Political Ads Get Mean Around Elections body — and our laws.”
By ASHLEY MCDOWELL STAFF WRITER
“Candidates have told me that every dollar spent on a positive ad is a wasted dollar in 2010,” Have you seen any of the po- says Larry Sabato, director of litical ads on television lately? the Center for Politics at the It seems that individuals cannot University of Virginia whotold escape the hundreds of adver- Yahoo! News. “In other years tisements from our candidates voters might have been interand politicians, as everyone is ested in seeing the candidate’s bombarded with who should be spouse, kids, and pets, or hearelected. Coast to coast, north to ing about all the great things the south, midterm races have candidates going negative in ads in a big way. And this time it’s getting personal, aimed at the private lives and even the religious beAN AP PHOTO liefs of opponents. Political operatives and member of Congress observers wonder how low it can has done for the district, but not go before Nov. 2. this year.” It seems like more negative According to Yahoo! News, agents from these organiza- ads have been put out in this all but gone are the biographitions and get information about election than any other. Ken- cal spots of the past, with a how they might apply for a job. tucky Democrat Jack Conway’s candidate walking in a field or As well, each day there was a ad suggests that not having through a factory. Forget about presentation. One day the stu- Christian beliefs disqualifies Re- voter-in-the-street testimonials. dents learned about what a Fu- publican Rand Paul for a U.S. What’s coming through the TV sion Center is and another, they Senate seat or public office at all. screen these days is mostly mud. In addition to the personal learned about a case in West Vir- For his part, Rep. Alan Grayson played ugly with an ad equating attacks, Democrats are blasting ginia from a retired agent of Buhis GOP opponent in Florida’s Republicans by accusing them reau of Alcohol, Tobacco, FireEighth Congressional District of wanting to privatize Social arms, and Explosives (ATF). When all the testing was done, with the Taliban for his opinions Security. Republicans are blastthe awards banquet came, along on women. The tagline: “Tal- ing back with claims that health See POLITICAL page 4 with anxiety about whether they iban Dan Webster: Hands off our might win a trophy. The first catText message your news tips and comments to egory that was announced was the academic awards. For CrimiThe Charger Bulletin! nal Law, Rjay Irons took second ginia State University planned a variety of demonstrations and presentations to keep them occupied while they were there. For instance, on the first day of the conference, they held a career fair that included agencies like the FBI, DEA, as well as local law enforcement agencies. The students were able to meet
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New Jersey Weighs New AntiBullying Laws
but clearly weren’t enough. This one’s going to make a big, big –––––––––––––––––––––––––– difference.” The problem with the earlier laws was that they For eight years, New Jersey were too passive. They only enhas tried to protect students from couraged programs, instead of bullying by passing laws that enforcing and requiring them. encourage schools to set up anti- Many school employees are not bullying programs. Yet with the adequately trained to deal with recent suicide of a Rutgers stu- bullying problems; however, the dent, 18 year old Tyler Clementi, it brings up the question, were they doing enough? Some anti-bullying advocates argue no. Now, New Jersey lawmakers are considering adopting the toughest anti-bullying laws in the United States. Yet what constitutes “enough,” and what are the im- new laws would change this. plications that this could have on Included in the law are prothe school districts? visions about training nearly Current laws in New Jersey all school employees of how to only encourage school districts identify, handle, and prevent hato implement anti-bullying pro- rassment. This is important begrams, and strong warnings cause harassment often happens against bullying in college “code in classrooms and on school of conduct” information. Senator property. If all employees, not Diane Allen stated that the ear- only guidance counselors, were lier laws “broke some ground, able to identify these problems, it By SARA J DUFORT STAFF WRITER
would be detected sooner, rather than later. As well, another provision requires that harassment off campus be reported as well, if they have gotten a compliant. This part of the law is in wake of the more recent attacks occurring on the internet, through things like Facebook and instant messenger clients. Another way to prevent bullying on schools is addressed in the law as well. Currently, it is difficult for schools to handle bullying, as they don’t have enough man-power, and it is often the sole job of a guidance counselor. The new laws AN AP PHOTO would require that schools form safety teams that would shape policy and that would review how bullying is handled. As well, the schools website would have to clarify who is in charge of bullying issues. This is because, when a parent hears about a problem with bullying with their child, they don’t know who to turn to. See BULLYING page 6
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USGA President’s Corner What do you think?
Students of the University of New Haven, I am reaching out to hear your voice. What else would you like to see from the university and USGA? What can be done to make your life as a UNH Charger better? Also, besides complaints, I would also like to hear positive comments as well. Please let me know what you like and feel works well here at UNH. You can leave all this feedback by posting a concern or comment on ChargerVoice. Now, again, ChargerVoice is not just for complaints. It’s also for positive comments as well. So take this week to think about things, and let me know your thoughts. Have a great week! Scott Kazar USGA President
USGA Senator Spotlight Name: Marissa McKenna Birthday: February 27, 1989 Hometown: Fairfield, Connecticut Year: Senior Major: Secondary English/English Campus Involvement: Sister of Delta Phi Epsilon Sorority USGA Senator Health and Safety Committee Chair
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SCOPE It Out!
by Michelle R. Morra
Whooooooo! Halloween weekend was a blast, from the movie all the way into Sunday night when SCOPE’s Annual Haunted House was the place to be. This week, Film brought those famous and adorable vampires that every girl on this campus flips over to campus. Eclipse was like a girls night out; there were the funny moments, the sad moments, and, of course, the romantic moments between Bella and Edward and between Bella and Jacob. It was great time and a good movie to start off Halloween weekend. This week’s coming Film will be Inception with Leonardo DiCaprio on Tuesday and Friday in Bartels Café at 9 p.m. Bring your thinking caps. Weekend Programming also had some great Halloween themed events going on this weekend. On Friday, they had Pumpkin Painting and Carving, where students had a great time reliving childhood memories of painting and carving pumpkins. There were even first timers who joined in the festivities and had a ball scooping out pumpkin guts and carving one of those famous jack-o-lantern faces. SCOPE Committee Heads even joined in and made a SCOPE and Halloween themed pumpkin of their own. On Saturday, the fun kept rolling with Weekends Spookie Scavenger Hunt. There were a few teams that came out and took a walk around in the dark looking for carved pumpkins, big red leaves, a giant banana, a werewolf, and some other really great Halloween items. This weekend is going to be filled with a fun Game Night on Friday from 6-8 p.m. in the Faculty Dining Room, and on Saturday they have Robert Channing: Mind Reader in Dodds starting at 7 p.m. Of course Halloween wouldn’t be Halloween without SCOPE’s Annual Haunted House, which was also joined by a Haunted Carnival. Once we got over some mishaps on Sunday, everything went off without a hitch. Students came in their scary, pretty, and just plain out there costumes to go through the Haunted House that the SCOPE Halloween/ Carnival Committee put on. Walking through the Haunted House, students met creepy demon babies, evil clowns, deranged scientists, and your other everyday monsters. The screams were heard all over campus. If the students made it out of the Haunted House, they were able to have more fun by playing some Halloween themed carnival games to win some tickets to get some Halloween themed prizes. This year was different than past years, but it went over really well. So give the SCOPE Halloween/Carnival Committee a big hand for making Halloween scary. Also, this week coming up, join Day Programming for some Fun in the Sun. If you miss the warm weather already come to the Alumni Lounge from 12:30-4:30 p.m. for “Make Your Own Flip Flops”, Sand Art, and beach fun.
by Joann Wolwowicz
All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day All Saints’ Day, in the Roman Catholic Church, is officially the solemnity of all saints. It is also called “All Hallows” or “Hallowmas.” Often shortened to “All Saints,” it is a solemnity celebrated on November 1 by parts of Western Christianity and on the first Sunday after Pentecost in Eastern Christianity. The day commemorates all those who have attained the beatific vision in Heaven. It is a national holiday in many historically Catholic countries. In the Roman Catholic Church, the next day, All Souls’ Day, specifically commemorates the departed faithful who have not been purified and reached heaven. Catholics celebrate both these days because of the fundamental belief that there is a prayerful spiritual communion between those in purgatory or heaven and those who are living. Different Christian traditions define, remember, and respond to the saints and dead in different ways. Eastern Catholics of the Byzantine Tradition follow the earlier tradi-
Health and Fitness Nutrition Facts Just a Marketing Strategy?
by Melanie Rovinsky A group of health specialists from the Institute of Medicine believe the food industry should be required to print obesity-related nutrition information on the front of food packages, according to a mid-October report released by the association. Explicit warnings against nutrients responsible for obesity, such as calories, saturated fat, sodium, and trans fat, would help individuals determine truly healthy products from the sea of foods advertised as nutritious. In response to the claim that food companies often overemphasize the nutritional values of products, William Neuman, reporter for The New York Times, points to the marketing ploys used by these retailers. “Many of the methods, often accompanied by checkmarks or snappy logos, have been criticized for trumpeting the beneficial aspects of packaged foods, like vitamins or fiber content, while ignoring less appealing ones, like high sodium or sugar levels,” Neuman said. The Institute’s report, which aims to assist the F.D.A. and Congress in figuring out how to deal with certain labeling practices, stresses the importance of detailing harmful nutrients on the front of a package and entirely leaving out beneficial ones. According to the report, the current labeling system allows food companies to add unnecessary nutrients to their products in order to achieve a higher score. The ideas represented in the report are being taken seriously. The F.D.A. is currently in the proposal-phase of standardizing nutrition labels on the front of packages. The proposal states that the front label should serve as a dietary summary and should not replace the more detailed nutrition information found on the back of the product. Marion Nestle, a nutrition professor at New York University, said that the few nutrition facts provided on the front of products now simply provide consumers with what they want to see. She believes the food industry would be hesitant to focus on a label that called attention to nutrients the public wants to avoid. “If it weren’t about marketing,” Nestle said, “all this stuff would go off the packages and we would go back to packages that just said what the products were.”
tion of commemorating all saints collectively on the first Sunday after Pentecost. The feast of All Saints achieved great prominence in the ninth century, in the reign of the Byzantine Emperor, Leo VI “the Wise.” His wife, Empress Theophano— commemorated on December 16—lived a devout life. After her death in 893, her husband built a church, intending to dedicate it to her. When he was forbidden to do so, he decided to dedicate it to “All Saints,” so that if his wife were in fact one of the righteous, she would also be honored whenever the feast was celebrated. According to tradition, it was Leo who expanded the feast from a commemoration of All Martyrs to a general commemoration of All Saints, whether martyrs or not. The Western Christian holiday of All Saints’ Day falls on November 1, followed by All Souls’ Day on November 2. It is a Holy Day of Obligation in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church. The origin of the festival of All Saints celebrated in the West dates to May 13, 609 or 610, when Pope Boniface IV consecrated the Pantheon at Rome to the Blessed Virgin and all the martyrs. The feast of All Saints, on its current date, is traced to the foundation by Pope Gregory III (731–741) of an oratory in St. Peter’s for the relics “of the holy apostles and of all saints, martyrs, and confessors, and of all the just made perfect who are at rest throughout the world,” with the day moved to the first of November. The festival was retained after the Reformation in the calendar of the Anglican Church and in many Lutheran churches. In the Lutheran churches, such as the Church of Sweden, it assumes a role of general commemoration of the dead. In the Roman Catholic Church, All Saints’ Day is a Holy Day of Obligation in many (but not all) countries; this
means going to Mass on the date is required, unless one is ill or elderly. However, in a number of countries that do list All Saints’ Day as a Holy Day of Obligation, including England & Wales, the solemnity of All Saints’ Day is transferred to the adjacent Sunday if November 1 falls on a Monday or a Saturday. While in the same circumstances in the United States, the Solemnity is still celebrated on November 1, but the obligation to attend Mass is alleviated. All Souls’ Day commemorates the faithful departed. In Western Christianity, this day is observed principally in the Catholic Church, although some churches of the Anglican Communion and the Old Catholic Churches also celebrate it. The official name of the celebration in the Roman Rite liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church is “The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed.” Historically, the Western tradition identifies the general custom of praying for the dead with the Jewish practice of prayer for the dead dating as far back as 2 Maccabees 12:4246. The custom of setting apart a special day for intercession for the faithful on November 2 was first established by St. Odilo of Cluny at his abbey of Cluny in 998. From Cluny the custom spread to the other houses of the Cluniac order, which became the largest and most extensive network of monasteries in Europe. The celebration was soon adopted in several dioceses in France, and spread throughout the Western Church. It was accepted in Rome only in the fourteenth century. While November 2 remained the liturgical celebration, in time the entire month of November became associated in the Western Catholic tradition with prayer for the departed; lists of names of those to be remembered are placed in the proximity of the altar on which the sacrifice of the mass is offered.
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PIRO’s Trip to a Real Halloween Town
By KATIE EDWARDS STAFF WRITER
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Salem, Massachusetts is known for its witch huntings, ghostly tales, and active Halloween festivities. This is where PIRO and a few others went on Sunday, October 25. PIRO, or the Paranormal Investigations and Research Organization here at UNH, meets weekly to discuss topics that range from curses and ghosts to zombies and fairies. This trip to Salem, Ma, is their annual trip that is open to the campus. 99 UNH students packed into two coach busses that Sunday morning and made themselves con’t from page 1
comfortable during the three-hour bus ride to the “haunted” city. It was an especially nice drive, seeing the colors of the leaves become more vibrant as the buses got further north. To start the day off right, scary movies were played to pass the time. One bus watched The Ring and a documentary of A Haunting in Connecticut. The other bus also watched movies on the ride up. Once in Salem, the students were able to have free reign of the city, with the instructions to meet back at 8:30pm, and that there were tickets for them for a show at the Witch’s Cabin. Walking around Salem,
one encounters a wide variety of people. There are people in normal every day street clothes, Halloween costumes, and also people in garb that suggests they frequent Salem’s shops often. The cobblestone side streets allow one to imagine that he or she is in a very old area; people who participated in the mass hysteria of the witchhunt walked those very same streets, three hundred and eighteen years ago. The smell of kettle corn and deep fried dough were enough to make anyone gravitate towards the many stalls that sold them. Every ten to thirty feet there was a new shop to enter and explore, rang-
Charlie Melancon went for blood and drew gasps with his “The Worst” ad against opponent David Vitter. The 30-second ad, described by the campaign as holding Vitter “accountable for his miserable record” on women’s issues, opens with footage of Vitter and his wife at a 2007 press conference where he admitted using the services of prostitutes. “It’s nasty, meaner than ever… I never saw anything like that from a campaign. . .,” says Republican consultant John Feehery. “With all the problems going on in New Orleans and Louisiana — the oil spill, Katrina hangover, and to decide not to focus on that but on the prostitute, which is largely irrelevant in the face of that.” For now, however, money for advertising is flooding the campaigns, the result of a January 2010 Supreme Court ruling that allowed corporations to spend freely to support or oppose candidates for federal office. That decision overturned a 20-year-old ruling that forbade corporations from funding campaigns out of their general funds and also opened the door for labor unions and other groups to pump more money into campaign ads. Moreover, cell phone cameras and video cameras have only made it easier to snap a photo or film a
clip of a candidate doing or saying something foolish, or just unintentional. You Tube has revamped the way elections are covered, giving virtually every campaign a chance at a “gotcha” moment. That’s what happened to Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal when Linda McMahon, his Republican Senate opponent, got hold of film of him seeming to hint he had served in Vietnam. She’s still running ads about it. CBS News political consultant Dotty Lynch, a communications professor at American University, said she’s heard of one campaign advisor telling candidates they would do more good giving money to charity than running positive ads. She says another campaign consultant told candidates they can run a single positive ad in their own cable TV market to feel good about themselves — and then go negative. Evan Tracey, who tracks campaign ads as president of the Campaign Media Analysis Group in Northern Virginia, says “…With just one week to go before election day, the worst may be yet to come. The most negative ad so far will not be the most negative ad before this election is over,” he adds.
Germany's seven matches, as well as the final World Cup Match. Paul had reached the octopus old age of 2 1/2 years and passed away in his Oberhausen, Germany tank on Tuesday morning at the Sea Life aquarium. The octopus correctly tipped the outcome of all seven of Germany’s games at the 2010 World Cup games. Paul's predictions were designed so that he was presented with two boxes containing a mussel in each box, which was marked on the outside with the flag of a national football team in an upcom-
ing match. The first mussel Paul ate in a box showing a particular flag indicated his prediction of who would win. Paul and his aquarium caretakers used this method when he predicted Germany’s win in four of six Euro 2008 matches, and in all seven of Germany’s matches in the 2010 World Cup. He correctly selected a win for Spain against the Netherlands in the World Cup final on 11 July by eating the mussel in the box with the Spanish flag on it. His "predictions" were 100%, 8 for 8, cor-
Political Ads Get Mean
care reform has reformed the United States into a socialist state. Sex, religion, and even federal funding for research on ants have popped up in campaign ads aimed at fueling the electorate’s already considerable anger. Illegal aliens and terrorists are other hot button topics. A St. Petersburg, Fla.based website called politifact.com, which checks the truthfulness of ads, created a list of frequent slams. The editor, Bill Adair, said they are amplified this year by the ease of distributing them to millions of voters via the Internet, rather than to thousands through mass mailings. And anonymity in advertising is now both legal and prevalent, which only emboldens people to put out negative ads. “There is a bigger megaphone now, thanks to technology and interpretations of the law, that allow these negative ads to be spread far and wide without allowing us to know who’s behind them,” Adair says. Dave Levinthal, who is a spokesman for the Washington, D.C. based Center for Responsive Politics says, “Voters remember the ads that are scary, hilarious, or beating someone up. That’s why groups use this technique to bash the other guy.” In the Louisiana Senate race, Republican Sen.
Psychic Paul the Octopus Dies at Age Two
By CAROLE MCFADDAN STAFF WRITER
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The gambling legend of 2010 World Cup Soccer [Futbol], Paul the Octopus, died on Tuesday, October 26, 2010. Paul the Octopus was a common octopus hatched in January 2008 in Weymouth, England, at the Sea Life Centre. He was then moved to a tank in one of the chain’s centers in Oberhausen, Germany. Paul became internationally famous this summer during the 2010 World Cup for correctly predicting the winner of
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ing from pagan symbols and traditions to joke shops, sweet shops, and a bookstore of epic proportions. Ten hours in Salem is certainly enough time to explore all the shops a person could want, if he or she has enough money to spend that is. By the end of the day when the shops close and the sun has set, another side of Salem comes out. There is a carnival by the docks and a wide choice of haunted ghost tours, haunted houses, and museums. One thing that the 99 students received besides free transportation to the city was a ticket to the Witch’s Cabin. This was a short show filled
with creepy histories and tales of the area, along with many special effects, including bubbles that glowed under florescent light, smoke that pour out of the walls, and light tricks that accented the unsettling feeling the actors were trying to convey. Afterwards, there was a Q&A with the cast, where the audience (which consisted mainly of UNH students) could ask questions about anything in the show, as well as an interactive segment where the actors taught about the history of the broomstick. By the end of the day most people were out of cash and exhausted from the long, entertaining ex-
cursion. Getting back on the bus, many students took a nap, despite the early hours of the night, simply from their fatigue. One student said, “Overall, I thought it was entertaining, interesting, and different. Seeing everyone dressed up as witches and warlocks was interesting… I was exhausted by the end of the day because we were basically walking for 10 hours straight, but when leaving, I felt like there was so much more I could have done while there.”
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ing event. After an hour of moving quickly in groups, from one employer to the next, students settled in to speak with employers who could provide inside information on specific industries. The last part of the evening, a pleasant, relaxing meal, was a welcome respite as approximately 100 event guests continued networking over stuffed mushrooms, quiche, chicken fingers, dips, brownies, and lemonade. Some employer comments: “I was at the first one;
this one was exceedingly superior! “ “Have it 3x a year instead of 2!” “The more access students have to employment options, the better. This university performs admirably in preparing students for the ‘real world’” “Students were actively engaged with each employer, dressed well and motivated to participate” “I did not know what to expect; I am so glad I came!” We invite YOU to join us for our next one in the spring!
available in many of the academic areas studied by students here at UNH. Simply select the LibGuide for the subject in which you need to find information at http://libguides.newhaven.edu. The guide will direct you to databases, websites, and instructions on locating books, e-books and journals. There are even video tutorials. In addition to subject guides, there are guides to various citations styles, a general “introduction to research guide,” and much more. There are currently 64 LibGuides in all, with more to come. A great feature of LibGuides is the ability to tailor a guide to a specific class. This is especially relevant if the class has a research paper requirement. We (the librarians at the Marvin K. Peterson Library) would love to hear from faculty interested in working with us to customize guides for specific courses. These guides can then easily be linked to class blackboard sites to ensure that assistance
is available to the student whenever they need it! For an in-depth example, view the current E105 guide. LibGuide can be accessed by going to libguides.newhaven.edu or from the Library homepage by selecting “Guides” from the list on the left hand side of the page. Student and faculty comments and suggestions are always welcome! Each guide has the comment feature enabled. Let us know how we can help you. Feel free to suggest a LibGuide if you don’t see one for the subject area that you need. We are here to help you be successful with your research. Email us at libraryhelp@newhaven.edu or call (203) 932-7189 to schedule an appointment for in-depth research assistance with one of the Librarians. You can also stop by the library Information Desk for help. We look forward to hearing from you and assisting you with your research needs. You can also follow us on Twitter! Unh_library
Another Successful Speed Networking Event – Fall 2010
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On Thursday, October 21, professionals from around the state from a variety of professions, convened at UNH for the sole purpose of helping UNH students learn how to navigate the world of professional networking. Modeled after speed dating, employers told students about themselves and their professional backgrounds during the 3-1/2 minute ‘round-robin’ sequence of the Fall Speed Network-
Guiding You Through Library Research
By DIANE SPINATO
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It’s that time of year again, when green leaves are morphing to various fabulous, vibrant hues of red and gold. It is the signal to college students everywhere (well, in New England anyway) that it is now time to get started on that research paper! There are now so many different types of information available to a UNH student. Are you going to look for books? What about e-books? How about articles? Should the articles be peer-reviewed, or can they come from any journal, magazine, or newspaper? What about websites and being able to determine if they are suitable for academic research? Getting started on research can be a daunting task; but it doesn’t have to be overwhelming if you use the LibGuides available from the UNH library website. A LibGuide is an easyto-use guide that directs users to specific resources
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Fed Panel Getting a 60-day Extension on Spill Report
By KIMBERLY REILLY STAFF WRITER
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Because there is more time required in testing some failed equipment to stop a well from pouring into the sea, with the use of forensic science, Miami’s federal panel (who are examining the Gulf of Mexico’s oil spill) is receiving sixty extra days to complete their report. By doing this, they are given a chance to find out what went wrong. What really helped the fed panel was a key piece of evidence: a blowout preventer, which was taken to New Orleans in a NASA facility, after being hauled up from the ocean’s floor. This helped to determine the possibilities of BP’s well from dropping into the ocean. Unfortunately, it has still been undecided, whether or not the testing had started yet. Having the investigation being extended from January 27 to March 27 as the deadline, the federal panel has a chance to estimate the cause of an explosion that killed eleven workers, along with a
long, deadly oil spill. They will still have a hearing for the week of January 27 to come. With this, three members of the panel decided to share with the Associated Press breaking news that they would be distributing a public report, including what happened in the “Deepwater Horizon” disaster in Washington. This will take place November 8 and 9. This will immediately tell viewers how the federal panel will go about solving this massive mystery. The former administrator of the federal panel and co-chair of the commission, William Reilly, informed the press that it is not the commission’s job to operate with carelessness, proceeding to the awful disaster. “It’s certainly going to be clear that if one or another aspect of the rig design or rig operation failed, and there was one company that was responsible for attending to that, then implicitly it will be clear that they are to blame.” (Harry R. Weber, an Associated Press Writer). Reilly made it clear that they haven’t been operat-
ing any differently than other larger oil companies. After that he had confirmed, “Given BP’s history, the explosion in their refinery in Texas City just five years ago [in] 2005, the erosion of their pipelines, and their 500,000 gallon spill in Alaska in 2006, that there is reason to conclude that prima facie that probably this is a company that is challenged by safety. The industry itself believes that BP has problems that do not beset some of the other larger oil companies.” Following this, an update of the status of testing of the blowout preventer was denied by a woman speaking for the joint investigation team. The team, itself, had no say on any final procedures, until October 15 for their approval. This gave the joint investigation time to solve everything and decide what to say in advanced. As declared, a federal judge permitted for the testing of the device, along with the forensic analysis wouldn’t be finished until February.
sent from Yemen. Authorities believe Yemeni-based terrorists sent two mail bombs addressed to Jewish synagogues in Chicago last week, but the devices appear to have been aimed at blowing up planes in flight. While officials caught two bombs in the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom, U.S. officials warn there may be more in the system. Yemeni security offi-
cials said Monday that a leading al-Qaida militant in Yemen who surrendered to Saudi Arabia last month provided information that helped in thwarting the mail bomb plot. But he had been captured in Yemen and turned over to Saudi Arabia before the packages were shipped and likely would not have known the tracking numbers. Officials have said the tip that came in just before the plot unraveled
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Hiccup Girl Charged with Murder
By LIZ DE LA TORRE STAFF WRITER
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Forget the alcohol; blame it on the Tourettes. At any rate, that is what attorney John Trevena is saying in defense of his client, 19 year-old Jennifer Mee, who has been arrested and charged with first-degree murder in Florida. Mee, who came into the national spotlight for a series of hiccups that lasted five weeks in 2007, drew 22 year-old Shannon Griffin to a vacant house, where he was robbed and killed on Oct. 23. “Absolutely, my daughter’s Tourettes would have played a role here,” Mee’s mother, Rachel Robidoux stated on RadarOnline. com. As per Trevena, hiccups are a symptom of Tourettes Syndrome, a disorder that sets off compulsive actions and speech difficulties, and therefore, a sound case for Mee whose mother characterizes as having the “mentality of a 12 or 13 year-old.” Furthermore, Mee’s fami-
ly has insisted that she was still plagued with hiccups for weeks at a time even after her bout a few years back. Hailed “Hiccup Girl,” Mee developed hiccups that came 50 times a minute, bringing her to miss school and seek out remedies of all kinds to no avail. Though described as naïve but gentle, it was no secret that Mee had been experiencing trouble since her hiccupping phase catapulted her to headlines, according to friends and family. Former guardian Kelly Cook said, “I don’t think she was necessarily faking. [And] I don’t know if she kept it going on for the attention, but I know that was the way she was coping with the issues she had.” As maintained by St. Petersburg Police, Shannon Griffin met Jennifer Mee through a social networking site called MocoSpace, after he made a friend request. A meeting was later planned between the two. When Griffin ar-
rived at the house, Mee directed him to Raiford and Newton, who robbed him at gunpoint, taking several items and $50. Griffin was shot four times during a struggle that erupted and subsequently died. Despite the fact that Mee didn’t have a past criminal record, the police hold documentation of nearly a dozen communications with her over the last year. Many of these exchanges dealt with her boyfriend mistreating her. Although she is believed not to have fired the gun, Mee has still been indicted on the same first-degree murder charges as Laron Raiford, 20, and Lamont Newton, 22, Mee’s boyfriend for her role as an accessory to a robbery resulting in death under Florida law. Because of her high profile inmate status, Mee is currently being held at the Pinellas County Jail without bond in a protective wing. If convicted, she may face life imprisonment.
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Germans Say Bombs Would Have Badly Damaged Planes
by GEIR MOULSON & EILEEN SULLIVAN associated press
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WASHINGTON – Two mail bombs intercepted in Britain and Dubai contained enough packed explosives to cause "significant" damage to the planes carrying them, German officials said Monday, a grim warning as investigators tried to trace bomb parts and scanned for more hidden explosives possibly
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tion by NEASC as a 4-year university since 1966. Even healthy institutions undergo regular check-ups, however. A university’s ten-year reaccreditation evaluation is analogous to one’s annual doctor’s visit. The University will host a site visit team from NEASC next week in support of our routine re-evaluation. Our last comprehensive evaluation was in 2000, followed by a standard interim focused visit in 2005. Preparation for the evaluation began in 2008, including the University’s comprehensive “Self Study.” This document was compiled by a Steering Committee and ten task teams comprising faculty, students, administrative staff, alumni, and BOG members. Our visiting team will be at UNH November 7 – 10. During their visit, the
eight evaluators and an observer from the Connecticut State Department of Higher Education (DHE) will be involved in interviews with members of the Board of Governors, administrators, support staff, faculty groups, and students. The team will tour the facilities, examine a wealth of documents and records, and visit many staff offices. They will not be dropping in our ongoing meetings or classes, however. Student and faculty leaders will be meeting with members of the Visiting Team over lunch on Monday 11/8 and Tuesday 11/9. An open meeting with the Team is scheduled for staff and faculty on Monday 11/8 at 3:00 pm and for students at 4:00 pm, both in Moulton Lounge. All members of the UNH community are welcome.
was specific enough that it identified the tracking numbers. The mail bombs intercepted last week contained 10.58 ounces (300 grams) and 15.11 ounces (400 grams) of the explosive PETN, a German security official said Monday. The official, who briefed reporters in Berlin on condition of anonymity in line with department guidelines, said that if the bombs had gone off the explosive
effect would have been "significant." The detonation mechanism was very sophisticated, said the official, who declined to elaborate. By contrast, the bomb that failed to explode last Christmas Day on a Detroit-bound airliner used 80 grams of PETN. One of the packages transited through a UPS hub at Germany's Cologne airport before being intercepted at its next stop
in England. The device had already left Germany when an alert from Saudi authorities was received in the early hours of Friday. Another package was intercepted in Dubai. A second German official said that authorities in Berlin don't yet know whether the bombs were supposed to be, or could have been, activated in the air or at their destination in the United States. Both
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projects truly momentous. In spite of these breakthroughs, solar power has a long way to go before it becomes a major source of power in the U.S. According to Monique Hanis, a spokeswoman for the Washington-based trade group Solar Energy Industries Association, “Even after the 14 fast-track projects are approved, solar energy will remain a tiny fraction of overall energy production on U.S. lands.” If future projects such as the Blythe Project gain acceptance, however, solar power will gain a more prominent role within society. An increase in the usage of solar power would undoubtedly benefit people and the environment.
Unlike oil or gas, solar power is a natural resource and, therefore, has little to no danger of readily depleting. Furthermore, the release of pollution or greenhouse gases while using solar energy is virtually eliminated. This protects plants, animals, and other living organisms in the environment. The federal government is taking many precautions upon embarking on this major project, including the protection of wildlife. An 8,000 acre habitat will be established to accommodate animals such as the desert tortoise, western burrowing owl, bighorn sheep, and Mojave fringetoed lizard.
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sponse to solar energy does not seem to be ending anytime soon. Combined, the projects are expected to create 2,000 jobs during its construction and a few hundred permanent jobs after its completion. By the end of 2011 or early 2012, the power generated by all seven projects could start transmitting electricity to over 2 million homes. In addition to providing considerable employment opportunities, these types of projects are the first ever to be approved by the land management bureau. Compared to the 74,000 oil and gas permits issued in the past twenty years, this revitalized motivation towards creating more clean energy sources makes the
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NJ Bullying Laws
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The problem with these laws is that they require money to come from the districts pocket. With any reform, this is obviously going to happen; but the money has to come from somewhere. With the financial crisis still taking its toll on budgets, some people may not want to pay for the extra training involved and the extra time associated with it. Regardless, if these new laws pass, then the school districts would finally be required to do this. They would no longer be able choose, which could save many lives. Yet with all the proposed new laws and recent wave of suicides still on everyone’s mind, will any effort really be “enough?” There is always the person who slips through the cracks, goes undetected, and can still end up harming themselves, or others. These laws are definitely a step in the right direction, but the problem with laws like this is that they only come to fruition when a tragedy occurs. This is evident because the original laws in New Jersey were passed due to the shooting at Columbine.
What lawmakers need to do is pass preventative measures like the laws currently being proposed before someone has to die because of it. It would be better for people to get in trouble because of bullying, then for a student to take his or her life, because they see it as their only option left. While the recent suicides have been homosexual teenagers, it is important to note that these laws do not just protect gay students – they protect everyone. Bullying of those in the GLBT community has been more public lately, but they are not the only people being bullied. There is still bullying due to race, religion, and outward appearance. Hopefully New Jersey will not be the only state that passes vigorous laws to prevent bullying and that other states follow in their footsteps. This step is just the first of many to save lives and ensure that no other tragedies will have to occur due to people being bullied. It will be difficult to measure how the law helps students cope, but if only one life is saved, then the law has done its job.
Paul, World Cup Octopus Dies
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rect for the 2010 World Cup and 86%, 12 for 14, correct overall. Under the hypothesis that Paul was equally likely to choose the winner or the loser of a match, he had a 1 of 2 chance of predicting any single result and a 1/256 chance of predicting eight in a row. Paul was retired by his caretakers after the 2010 FIFA World Cup. After rising to global prominence during the World Cup in South Africa, he retired from the predictions business after the final and returned to his primary role of intriguing aquarium visitors. After Paul’s World Cup physic skills were revealed, the English-born Paul was appointed as an ambassador to England’s
bid to host the 2018 World Cup. The octopus seemed to be in good shape when he was checked late Monday October 25, but he did not make it through the night. He died of natural causes Tuesday morning. The aquarium has not yet decided how best to commemorate their most famous resident. Contemplation of cremation and a personal burial plot within the aquarium’s grounds and the erection of a modest permanent shrine are in the works. Although Paul’s burial is still in question, his name will live on the Greek island of Zakynthos where a sea turtle rescue center is being established and funded in part by donations generating from the famous octopus.
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Iraqi Christians Mourn After Church Siege Kills 58
By BARBARA SURK & HAMID AHMED aSSOCIATED PRESS
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BAGHDAD – Iraq's dwindling Christian community was grieving and afraid on Monday after militants seized a Baghdad church during evening Mass, held the congregation hostage and triggered a raid by Iraqi security forces. The bloodbath left at least 58 people killed and 78 wounded — nearly everyone inside. The attack, claimed by an al-Qaida-linked organization, was the deadliest ever recorded against Iraq's Christians, whose numbers have plummeted since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion as the community has fled to other countries. Outside Our Lady of Salvation church, Raed Hadi leaned against the car carrying his cousin's coffin, waiting for the police to let him bury him on church grounds. "It was a massacre in there and now they are
cleaning it up," he said Monday morning. "We Christians don't have enough protection. ... What shall I do now? Leave and ask for asylum?" "Now they make a show," said Jamal Jaju, who watched as Iraqi forces pushed back observers. "What can I say? I lost at least 20 friends in there." Pope Benedict XVI denounced the assault as "ferocious" and called for renewed international efforts to broker peace in the region. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki also condemned the siege, saying it was an attempt to drive more Christians out of the country. Islamic militants have systematically attacked Christians in Iraq since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime, effectively chasing more than 1 million people out of the country, according to estimates from an adviser to Iraq's top Catholic prelate, Chaldean Cardinal
Emmanuel III Delly. He shared the figures with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. In an interview, the cardinal encouraged the country's remaining 1.5 million remaining Christians not to be driven off by the militants. Sunday's carnage began at dusk, when a deadly car bomb went off in the area. Militants wearing suicide vests and armed with grenades then attacked the Iraqi stock exchange, injuring two guards. The car bombing and the attack on the stock exchange may have been an attempt by the militants to divert attention from their real target — the nearby church in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood. That attack soon followed. The gunmen went inside the church and took about 120 Christians hostage. At least 58 people were killed, including 12 po-
licemen as well as five bystanders thought to have been killed by the car bombing and blasts outside the church before the attackers stormed inside. Forty-one Christians inside the church also died, including two priests. Iraqi officials had initially provided a much lower death toll. Witnesses said hostages died both before and during the rescue. They described a terrifying scene in which they desperately tried to shield themselves from the violence. One parishioner, Rauf Naamat, said militants began by throwing several grenades and spraying the crowd inside the church with gunfire. After the initial violence and chaos died down, the militants walked up to the priest leading the mass, told him to lie down and shot him, he said. An Iraqi official said he talked on a cell phone with one of the hostages
second place, and Stephanie Pajak took third place. For the upper division, Angela Martello took first place, Devin McCabe took second, and Kyle Turpin took third. As for firearms and crime scene, Psi Omega also did not come away empty handed. It is important to note that there was both team and individual awards for shooting. For team firearms, Roman Gray, Kyle Turpin, and Devin McCabe came away
with first place in the Upper Division. In the lower division, Tim Farmer and Rjay Irons got second place. As for the individual, Roman Gray placed second, and Rjay Irons third, both in lower division. Finally, there were awards for crime scene which Psi Omega got third place in. The members on this team included: Liliana Queiroga, Tim Farmer, and Stephanie Pajak. When all was said and done, the team of students
came away with 16 trophies and 7 metals. They enjoyed themselves, and that enjoyment paid off. The University of New Haven will be hosting this conference at this time next year, and we hope that every student on campus can get involved in some way; even if that is just making the other chapters feel welcomed while they are here.
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ACJA Wins Big At Regional Conference
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place, lower division, and Daniel Maxwell took first place for professional division. In Police Management, Tim Farmer took second place for the lower division as well. It was a slow start, but when LAE knowledge awards came, it was nothing short of a sweep. Psi Omega took first, second, and third in both lower and upper division. For the lower division, Sara Dufort took first place, Tim Farmer took
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during the siege. He said the hostage described how insurgents began shooting wildly when they went into the church and that he could see about 40 wounded people lying around him on the floor. During the hours that followed, an eerie quiet descended on the building, punctuated only by quiet weeping, according to Naamat. "Most people were too afraid to produce a sound. They feared militants would kill them if they heard them," Naamat said. Naamat said he heard one of the attackers talking to what he thought was Iraqi security, threatening to blow themselves up if Iraqi forces stormed the building. The Iraqi official who spoke by phone with one of the hostages said he also had a four-minute phone conversation with a militant, who demanded that authorities release all al-Qaida-linked prisoners starting with the women. The official said he judged by the militant's accent and speech that he was not Iraqi. The militants also called an Egyptian television station, al-Baghdadia, during the hostage siege, repeating their demand that their colleagues be released. When Iraqi special forces joined police and other officials already on the scene, they heard gunshots and decided to enter the church "to prevent the further loss of innocent lives," said Lt. Col. Terry L. Conder, a spokesman for U.S. special forces. Naamat said the lights went out — turned off by Iraqi forces surrounding the building — and he heard the voices of Iraqi forces saying: "We will save you," as they entered the building wearing black uniforms and carrying rifles. He said he then saw a militant approach the security forces as they made
their way to the alter. The militant blew himself up, unleashing a massive blast. The Iraqi official said that when the security forces stormed the church, the militants were shooting at the hostages. According to two security officials, most of the deaths took place in the
basement where a gunman killed about 30 hostages when Iraqi forces began to enter the church. One official said the gunman set off an explosives vest he was wearing, but the other said the gunman threw two grenades at his hostages. A member of the commando force that went into the church said security forces found three explosives vests and grenades. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to journalists. Video footage from an American drone showed a black plume of smoke pouring out of the church followed by flashes before security forces charged inside. U.S. forces often supply air support to Iraqi forces conducting operations on the ground, feeding them video footage from their aircraft. Conder said Iraqi forces rescued 70 hostages, and Baghdad military spokesman Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi said they arrested five suspects, some of whom were not Iraqi. Others, however, questioned whether the raid was wise. Younadem Kana, a Christian member of the Iraqi parliament, condemned the operation as "hasty" and "not profes-
sional." "We have no clear picture yet whether the worshippers were killed by the security forces' bullets or by terrorists, but what we know is that most of them were killed when the security forces started to storm the church," Kana said. About 4 1/4 hours passed between the car bombing and the end of the siege shortly after 10 p . m . , said an American military official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter. A cryptically worded statement posted late Sunday on a militant website allegedly by the Islamic State of Iraq appeared to claim responsibility for the attack. The group, which is linked to al-Qaida in Iraq, said it would "exterminate Iraqi Christians" if Muslim women in Egypt were not freed. It specifically mentioned two women that extremists maintain have converted to Islam and are being held against their will in Egypt. Iraqi authorities on Monday took extra measures to protect Christian neighborhoods and churches in Mosul, Kirkuk and Baghdad. Additional police cars and checkpoints were seen near many churches, and authorities were conducting extensive searches on cars and pedestrians heading to churches. "This is more than a tragedy," said Iraq's Human Rights minister, Wijdan Mikheil, who is a Christian. Choking back tears as she spoke with reporters outside Our Lady of Salvation church, she said: "What is happening to
Iraqis in general and Christians in particular is an attempt to push them out of the country, but we hope Iraqis remain united." Our Lady of Salvation is a Syrian Catholic church. Karim Khalil, a 49-yearold Iraqi Christian, said he moved to Syria with his family last year because he felt his religion made him a target in Baghdad. "Iraqi militias threatened me, saying I was on the side of the Americans because I am Christian," Karim told the AP. "They said I would be killed if I stayed in Iraq." Now he lives in Damascus with his wife and five children. "I have left behind my house and everything to escape with my family," he said. Many other Iraqi Christians living in Syria refused to speak to the AP. They said they fear militias may exact revenge on their families in Iraq.
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officials said that Germany received its information on the bombs from authorities in Dubai and Britain. "Depending on where it is placed on the plane and if it breached the exterior wall, it could bring the plane down," said Leo West, former FBI explosives expert, who worked many major bomb cases including the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa. "It would be a sizable explosion. In a plane it doesn't really take a whole lot at a high altitude." Bombs experts say the key is the altitude of the plane when the bomb goes off. The chances of the plane surviving a blast increase at lower altitude. At a higher altitude, the plane is pressurized and a little hole can easily become a big hole, bomber experts say. An official United Arab Emirates security source said that authorities are tracing the serial numbers of a mobile phone circuit board and computer printer used in a mail bomb sent from Yemen and found in Dubai last week. Yemeni officials also said that Jabir al-Fayfi, a Saudi militant who had joined al-Qaida in Yemen, informed Saudi officials about the plan. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press. Several tribal leaders with knowledge of the situation, who similarly spoke on condition of anonymity, also confirmed al-Fayfi's role. U.S. officials have said an alert from Saudi Arabia led to the interception Friday of two explosive devices hidden in packages addressed to Chicago-area synagogues, on planes transiting in Britain and Dubai. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the ter-
ror group's affiliate in Yemen, is suspected in the attempted bombing. The Saudi newspaper Al-Watan on Monday cited Saudi security officials saying that the kingdom gave U.S. investigators the tracking numbers of the packages. The UAE security official told The Associated Press Monday the emirates are sharing the bomb part serial numbers with the United States, Yemen and other countries involved in the probe in an effort to track the bombs' origins. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. In the U.S., counterterrorism officials warned local law enforcement and emergency personnel to be on the watch for mail with unusual characteristics that could mean dangerous substances are hidden inside. The FBI and Homeland Security Department cautioned that foreign-origin packages without return addresses and excessive postage require a second look, according to an advisory sent to local officials around the country that was obtained Monday by The Associated Press. Major cargo firms have already suspended shipments from Yemen and on Monday, Germany's aviation authority said the country has extended its ban on cargo aircraft from Yemen to include passenger flights from Yemen amid the current terrorist threat. Authorities in the UAE discovered the powerful explosive PETN in a shipment that arrived at Dubai airport on a Qatar Airways passenger flight last week. The same explosive is the hallmark of a series of recent terror attempts by al-Qaida in the Arab Pen-
insula, the militant faction suspected in the mail bomb plot. U.S. intelligence officials believe the suspected bombmaker is a 28-yearold Saudi named Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, thought to be in Yemen. Al-Asiri has been previously tied to a failed bombing attempt last Christmas Day on a Detroit-bound plane and an earlier failed attempt to kill a Saudi counterterrorism official. Both attempts used PETN. The UAE security source said Monday that a green mobile phone circuit board, but no SIM card, was connected to the HP printer head, which in turn was linked to the explosives. The security source said investigators are examining the circuit board to determine whether it had been used before in the hope it might provide clues to who sent the bomb. Yemeni authorities hunted suspects linked to AQAP, but released a female computer engineering student arrested Saturday, saying someone else had posed as her in signing the shipping documents. A Yemeni security official said that security authorities are still hunting for a young woman who is believed to have dropped off the mail bombs at a shipping point in the capital, San'a. An anti-terrorism official told The Associated Press that the young woman acted as a "middleman" with the group. Investigators were still trying to figure out if other devices remained at large. Deputy national security adviser John Brennan, appearing on a round of television news shows Sunday, said that "it would be very imprudent ... to presume that there are no others (packages) out there."
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Politics and political campaigns are beautiful things. For a few months now, I have been bombarded by Linda McMahon and Richard Blumenthal’s faces as they praise themselves and smear each other in an effort to glean support from Connecticut voters. I’m all for voting, and I think it’s a freedom that every citizen of the U.S. should exercise when the time comes. That’s why I have a problem with these midterm elections. Little old me is from New Jersey, a state that didn’t have any elections this November. Therefore, other
By JOANN WOLWOWICZ ASSISTANT EDITOR
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The countdown has officially started: 22 days to Thanksgiving! I personally am excited for the turkey, the stuffing, the cranberry sauce, and the pies. However, I know that everyone is just as excited as I am to go home and see their families. I haven’t been home since August, so a break from school is really something I need right about now. Especially since midterms are so stressful and research papers are annoying. With Halloween over and done with for another year, you would think that
Woohoo! The Campaigning is Done! phone calls, television and radio commercials, and how could I forget the billboards lining various highways. On top of all the different mediums used to convey this information, the sheer frequency of the ads is obscene. Let me watch television for five minutes without having to see five commercials for candidate A and seven for candidate B attacking everything A says. I really believe that there must be a better way to get voters’ attention about any crucial issues when an election rolls around. Usually the campaigning I see makes me not want to vote for anyone at all because in
the end, all the candidates seem like jerks that are going to drive the town/city/ state/country into oblivion. Oh yeah, and they might steal candy from babies too. I know that it’s too much to ask for a completely open and honest politician, but it really shouldn’t be that way. Every time an election nears, almost everyone I talk to expresses their dissatisfaction with the candidates, and follows up by saying something along the lines of “I should just run everything.” Politicians spend their lifetimes building their name and reputation up so that voters have faith in them, yet their efforts rarely succeed completely, a fact made apparent by
the lack of faith we have in many of our government officials. Regardless of your political views, I hope that everyone voted if their state was one that held elections. Additionally, if you are politically inclined and would like to write a recap of the results of the elections for the November 10th issue of The Charger Bulletin, don’t hesitate to contact me. For that matter, we can never have too many staff members, so if you are at all interested in helping out with the paper, don’t hesitate to contact me at ChargerBulletin@ newhaven.edu.
be talking about the holi- cause it is over a month day of all holidays when away. Believe me; evit comes to food. There is eryone will have plenty of time to sing “Jingle Bells” ninety-nine times before December 25. Don’t get me wrong. I absolutely love Christmas. I am just not a fan of rushing through the end of the year to get to 2011, never appreciating what is actually happening. How many times do we look back in a given year and wonder where did the time go? Stores already had Christmas decorations out way before Halloween was even around the corner. Let’s try to apabsolutely no rush when preciate the time we have it comes to Christmas, be- now, before we jump too
far into the future. This is precisely why the countdown at the beginning of my editorial was a countdown to Thanksgiving, though no doubt many people can already tell me how many shopping days left till Christmas. I’m still trying to catch up on all of the Halloween movies I didn’t get to watch before Halloween. I cannot move onto my usually Christmas movies until then. It’s just simply not allowed. With all that being said, everyone should keep their heads up these next few weeks. We are so close to a well deserved break. It’ll be here before we know it. Through these next couple of weeks, try to pass all
of those obnoxious midterms and get ready for those even more obnoxious final exams, because sadly, just like Christmas, they are also around the corner. So think of it this way; if you want Christmas to come really quickly, you have to remember that with Christmas comes winter break, and with winter break you need finals to come first. I’d rather not rush finals into my life right now thank you, so I will stick with anticipating Thanksgiving and all the good things that come along with it.
than my personal feelings the truth is stretched pretty on various candidates, and frequently. an interest in the overall expectations and results of the various races, for the sake of this editorial, I really don’t care. Talk to me on November 3. I can’t help but be a little curious about how effective some of the various commercials I’ve seen have been. Do people really believe anything that comes out of these politicians’ mouths? I don’t mean to say that anyIt feels good to know one is flat out lying, but I think it’s safe to say that that I won’t be pestered by
Where Did Thanksgiving Go?
people are gearing up for Thanksgiving. Nope! As a matter of fact, everyone is gearing up for Christmas and the other holidays coming up in December. Good people of planet earth, November is a month worth appreciating too, and Thanksgiving is a holiday I think we should devote our time too. Already, just three days after Halloween, I hear talk of Christmas lists, Christmas movies, Christmas music, and Christmas trees. Woah there! Let’s slow down a bit. We should
Letter to the Editor Crazy Yalies
Pete Peterson was our president. I’m pleased to ––––––––––––––––––––– say that back then and up to the current times, our fraDear Charger Bulletin, ternities have not stooped Your latest edition featured as low as the “elite Yalies” a sad story about the Yale have. This disturbing trend Fraternity hazing on their has also been noted on othcampus. Hateful speech, er large college campuses. sexual slurs, and demeanWe may be a small uniing words towards women versity, but our size is also were all on a campus con- a blessing. People know sidered to be among “the each other, are more rebest.” A few years ago our spectful of one another, Yale brethren decided to and less prone to the adostart a “Fried Chicken and lescent behaviors noted on Porn Club!” I think there larger college campuses. are far too many people Thanks to our Fraternithere with “issues.” ties and Sororities! Your I graduated from (then) maturity and sanity is most New Haven College, when appreciated.
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As always I love Halloween, especially the costumes, the candy, the Skimpy Halloween costumes. partying, more candy, and all the great things going on around campus. Yes, that’s a tip of the hat SCOPES way for their awesome haunted Okay, I just want to say that I know the importance of deadlines, house and Halloween themed events. guidelines, and such. But come on! Sometimes it just goes way too far. Sometimes there are extenuating circumstances that may make it So a huge shout out to the band Railroad Salvage who played at the so that someone has to show up a minute late. Maybe you didn’t even PIRO/IEEE/Special events event last week. (Though to be quite honest, know paperwork had to be filled out for something. To all of you out it was mostly PIRO’s event.) They were by far the best band I have had there who hold the cards in this game, let the little guy have some slack. play in the German club. For all of you who went, keep an eye out for when they will return, because, believe me, I’ll make sure they do.
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Okay, don’t get me wrong, I enjoy the look of a beautiful woman. However, some of the costumes of Halloween just border on the obscene side. If I am walking behind you, I don’t want to be able to see your butt cheeks.
Courtney's Weekly Words Word of the week: Panjandrum : (pan-jan'-drum) n. a person of importance
Fact of the week: Halloween candy sales average about 2 billion dollars annually in the United States. Did they seriously just say that? "I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law." -- David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes. Weekly thought: Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
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Dorrie Brennick
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Dorrie is a sophomore from Hamilton, Massachusetts. She is an interior design pre-architecture major. Dorrie gives campus tours as a part of A-Team, and she is also a member of the track and field team. Dorrie likes meeting new people and hanging out with her friends. She also likes doing anything that is creative or active!
Ray is from Westerly, Rhode Island. He is studying Legal Studies/Pre-Law here at UNH. Ray is a member of the Delta Chi fraternity. He is also a member of the bowling club. Ray is a USGA senator and a peer mediator. He also helps with Residential Issues.
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Barry Bonds Become a Hitting Coach By TOM CHIEPPO STAFF WRITER
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The former San Francisco Giant, Barry Bonds, wants to become a hitting coach. “I love being home and, I love being here,” he said, according to the huffingtonpost.com. Bonds broke McGwire’s singleseason home run record with 73 in 2001 and went on to surpass Hank Aaron’s career mark of 755 in
his final season in 2007. The seven-time NL MVP hit 762 career home runs. McGwire, who retired in 2001, returned to the game this season, back in uniform as hitting coach for the St. Louis Cardinals. The team announced earlier this week that he would be back for a second season. Before the start of his first spring training as a coach, McGwire ended years of denials and a selfimposed exile by admit-
ting that he had used steroids and human growth hormone on and off for a decade, starting before the 1990 season and including when he broke Roger Maris’ single-season home run record in 1998. He also said that he didn’t use steroids for strength purposes, and God have him the ability to hit home runs. Bonds, 46, has also been accused of taking steroids. He is scheduled to go to trial in March on charges
that he lied to a federal grand jury in 2003 when he denied knowingly taking steroids. “I have a gift and sooner or later I have to give it away,” Bonds said, according to huffingtonpost.com. “I have to share it. Hopefully, I get the opportunity here.” Bonds, who never announced his retirement as a Giant, wants to redeem himself here because he is beloved by the fan’s of San Francisco. Everyone
in life deserves a second chance at anything, whether it’s professional sports or not. Even though Bonds didn’t say goodbye, he is hoping to become a hitting coach, so he can stay in the game he loves the most. He is also hoping that the Giants win the first World Series, because they fell short in 2002 against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. The Giants have not won a World Series since
the ballpark opened in 1958. The bottom line is that Bonds doesn’t want to say goodbye and give up the game of baseball that he loves so much. Will Bonds become a hitting coach either in San Francisco or anywhere else? We will have to wait and see.
details of the proposal that he hopes will keep Manning in blue-and-white for the rest of his career. Manning’s current deal expires after the season. The comments came hours before Manning was to make his 199th consecutive start for the Colts. Indy (4-2) faces Houston (4-2) in the first Monday night game at Lucas Oil Stadium, with the winner claiming sole possession of the AFC South lead. Irsay has made no secret about his intention to keep the record-setting quarterback in Indy, and has said he will use the hefty franchise tag to keep Manning here, if necessary. He has also repeatedly promised to give Manning, the only four-time MVP in league history, the biggest contract in league history — something he reiterated Monday. “He is going to be the
highest-paid player in the league,” Irsay said Monday. “Look we love him,
ning’s deal, Irsay said, million annually and $48.5 will be the recent contract million guaranteed. signed by Patriots quarterManning and Brady are generally regarded as the two best quarterbacks in the NFL today and are virtually mirror images in terms of their biggest honors. Brady has won three Super Bowl titles and one MVP Award, while Manning has four MVPs and one Super Bowl title. The only real question appears to be timing. “During the season, Peyton wants his only focus to be on preparing for football games,” agent Tom Condon told The Associated Press. Former NFL quarterback Ron Jaworski thought it was the right position to take. “What I love is the focus on the season,” said Jaworski, who is part of back Tom Brady. In Sep- ESPN’s Monday night tember, Brady to a four- broadcast team. “I think year extension worth $18 the focus on the season is
great.” The biggest wrinkle in negotiations may wind up being the one thing out of both sides’ control — a new collective bargaining agreement. Colts President Bill Polian has said he would prefer to see how he could structure Manning’s deal under a new CBA. But with many expecting no new labor deal before March, and a growing consensus among league players to decertify the union in an effort to prevent a lockout, Polian and Irsay may not be able to wait that long. And Condon doesn’t believe that will slow down anything. “It’s probably not any more or any less difficult because of that,” Condon said.
about too much in the past,” said Beasley, the No. 2 pick in the 2008 draft who leads Minnesota in scoring so far at 14.7 points per game. “The Miami Heat is in my past. The Timberwolves are my future. This is just another regular away game. This is a game we’ve got to win.” It’s been an adjustment, Beasley getting used to Minnesota. The Wolves run a triangle offense, which is complex to learn, and Beasley acknowledges that process is ongoing. But fitting into the locker room has been easy for Beasley, and his lighthearted ways have been embraced. “He’s been great. He’s been absolutely nothing but great,” Minnesota coach Kurt Rambis said. “He has an enthusiasm for life and an ability to play basketball. He feels like he was just born to play basketball. He loves playing, he loves practicing and he’s the guy who keeps our locker room loose. And I’m asking him to do very difficult things. He’s got a long learning process in front of him.” To portray the Beasley trade as one where Miami got nothing in return be-
sides second-round picks the cast that’ll surround in 2011 and 2014 would be LeBron James, Dwyane a bit unfair. It could be ar- Wade and Chris Bosh.
Irsay: Indy Has New Contract Proposal for Manning
By MICHAEL MAROT ASSOCIATED PRESS
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INDIANAPOLIS – Jim Irsay insists Peyton Manning will be the NFL’s highest-paid player next season. He’ll just have to wait until after this season to close the deal. The Colts owner said Monday he was prepared to make a contract offer to Manning during the team’s off week, but Manning and his agent wanted to wait until after the season. “Any negotiation is a two-way street and we were ready to roll and we had a proposal, but they wanted to wait,” Irsay said. “That’s OK because every player is different. We had a bye week, and we thought we could have gotten (negotiations) rolling.” Irsay did not divulge
and we’d like to see his career end here.” The baseline for Man-
Now a Visitor, Beasley Set to Play Again in Miami
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MIAMI – Michael Beasley spent two years learning the nuances of NBA play from Udonis Haslem, and quietly showed appreciation this summer for those countless lessons. It was at the funeral for Haslem’s mother. Barely three weeks after being traded from Miami — months of pleas to stay with the Heat having ultimately fallen on deaf ears — Beasley quietly and somewhat unexpectedly returned to stand by the player who always stood by him. “That says a lot about Beas,” Haslem said. “He could have just got as far away as he could from Miami and never looked back.” These days, Beasley isn’t looking back at much of anything. Determined to embrace a new opportunity in Minnesota, Beasley returns to Miami for the first time as an opponent on Tuesday night when he and the Timberwolves (1-2) get their first live look at the rebuilt Heat (3-1). “I don’t really worry
about his talent. “People forget what it was like when we won 15 games,” Heat President Pat Riley said as the 2010 offseason started. “Ever since Michael’s been drafted, he’s seems to be the most maligned player in the NBA. And we won an average of 45 games in two years, made the playoffs both years, and he was our second-leading scorer.” Riley told Beasley that the team expected more from him, and Beasley responded by saying he expected more from himself. But in the end, the dollars were the decider, and cap space turned out to be what Miami needed most from the enigmatic former Kansas State star. “Congratulations,” Haslem recalled telling Beasley when the trade got done. “Go to another team and be the All-Star that gued that Miami got most Even though Beasley had you have the capability of of its team — Mike Miller, no shortage of issues in being.” Beasley might need an Eddie House, Juwan How- Miami — getting kicked ard, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, out of the rookie sympo- All-Star effort just to score Haslem and others — in sium in 2008 for break- against the Heat. ing league rules, spending In Miami’s last two the deal. Without trimming Bea- much of the summer of games, opposing startsley’s $5 million salary 2009 in a Houston reha- ers at forward — Rashard from this season’s books, bilitation center, and a few Lewis and Quentin Richit would have been immea- posts on Twitter that fur- ardson for Orlando on Frisurably harder for the Heat ther harmed his reputation day, then Travis Outlaw to have room to attract — the Heat always raved and Joe Smith for New
Jersey on Sunday — have missed every shot they’ve tried against the Heat, that foursome combining miss all 21 of their attempts. “They use their length. They use their athletic ability,” Beasley said. “They’re using everything they’ve got. They’ve got two of the top five defenders in the NBA.” The Timberwolves have been in town since Sunday, giving Beasley a chance to see some friends, people he grew close to during his two-plus years as a South Florida resident, even getting an opportunity to check out his old house again. His trip down Miami’s memory lane won’t continue Tuesday night, he insists. “We’ve got to come in and play,” Beasley said. Which is exactly what Haslem always taught him. Block everything else out, and just play. “Throughout the whole process, regardless of whether Beas started, I started, what was going on outside, what people said, me and Beas still remained close,” Haslem said. “I still looked at him as a brother. And I always will.”
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Lamichael James Puts On a Clinic as Oregon Puts Away USC
By TOM CHIEPPO STAFF WRITER
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The Oregon Ducks keep showing the world why they are real team to be reckoned with in college football? Their highoctane offense put up a total of 53 points on the USC Trojans last week at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, by winning their eighth straight game. (80, 4-0 in PAC-10 Conference. “Our team feels like they get stronger as the second half goes along,” said Oregon coach Chip Kelly, according to ESPN. com. “It’s great for this group of guys. There is no panic.” The Ducks have beaten one of the most feared programs in all of college
football and also one of the kings in the PAC-10 Conference. By winning against USC, is Oregon the real No.1 team in college football? Lamichael James, running back for the Ducks, trick-or-treated in the end zone by rushing for 239 yards and scored three touchdowns. His stats for 2010 are 170 carries, for 1,210 rushing with 14 touchdowns. Overall, James has 400 carries for 2,756 yards rushing and 28 touchdowns. Darron Thomas, quarterbacks for the Ducks, had 288 yards passing and was 19 for 32 with four touchdowns, one interception, and a quarterback rating of 169.98. “It was a big-time game for us,” said Thomas, according to
ESPN.com. “I don’t think Oregon had won in the Coliseum for so long, so it was one of those goals that we had put forward at the beginning of the season.” The tempo was certainly in Oregon’s favor as they averaged touchdowns less than 1:48 going into this game. It was also the quickness of Thomas as the quarterback that made Oregon one of the most dangerous opponents to face, not only in conference play, but for any opponent who has them on their upcoming schedule. Oregon got a career-high 145 receiving yards and careerhigh three receiving touchdowns from Jeff Maehl. They have 53 points, the most the school has every scored against USC. Or-
egon had three touchdown drives that took two plays or fewer. USC played its first game against a team ranked No.1 in the AP Poll since it lost to Washington in 1992. The Ducks had a total of 599 total yards in this game: 288 passing, and 311 rushing. USC quarterback, Matt Barkley, was 26 for 49, with 264 yards passing, one touchdown, and two interceptions. “You could feel the momentum on our sideline,” Barkley said, according to ESPN. com. “We (USC) had it, and we didn’t capitalize on it.” USC entered the Coliseum as an underdog for the first time in 51 games, since 2001. However, the Trojans had their heads down when the fans made
the exits from the building, suffering a devastating defeat. Oregon has outscored their opponents 439-143, and they average 54.1 points per game. The Trojans are 5-3 and 2-3 in PAC-10. USC is just playing for pride at this point, with all the sanctions they have on their program. They don’t have to worry about playing a big-time bowl game this season, or next season. This college was so respected, but now it’s trying to regain its credibility. “It all went down downhill from there,” USC coach Lane Kiffin said, according to ESPN. com. The game fell apart when the Trojans had a 17-15 lead, according to Kiffin, and had the ball in
Oregon territory midway through the second quarter. Barkley fumbled a shotgun snap after getting distracted by Kiffin yelling from the sideline. On the next play, Maehl made a 45-yard touchdown catch, after the ball was tipped in the air and regrouped himself by making a onehanded grab. “That was me,” Kiffin added. “That was a coaching job,’’ according to ESPN.com. With Oregon’s highoctane offense, it’s going to be extremely difficult to stop their scoring drives. Is there any team that can challenge this Oregon squad? We will find out.
Senior Holly Dawson led a formidable midfield this season and landed a spot on the NE-10 Conference Second Team. Dawson registered six goals and two assists for a total of 14 points on the campaign. She was second on the team in goals scored, tied for second in assists and third in points earned. Dawson also led the team with three game-winning goals and recorded a
multi-goal game against Post in the second match of the season. Senior Claire Siekaniec anchored a backline this season that only surrendered 28 goals and posted a 1.36 goals against average. She started in all 19 games for the Chargers and even collected nine shots from her defensive role. Siekaniec and the UNH defense also recorded seven shutouts and only
allowed one goal in nine overtime periods. She was named to the NE-10 Conference Third Team for her efforts this season. Meabh De Burca stepped into her starting role very nicely in the 2010 season, earning a selection to the Northeast-10 Conference Third Team. The senior from County Galway, Ireland registered one goal and one assist on the campaign. De Burca
scored the first goal of the Chargers season at Dominican on September, 3 and recorded the lone assist in a 1-0 win at Stonehill. Her three points ranked her in a tie for eighth place on the team. Freshman Monica Yanez wasted very little time making her mark within the Chargers soccer program. In her first season, Yanez recorded four goals and one assist for a
total of nine points. The West Haven, Conn. native finished fourth on the team in goals and points and second on the team in game-winning goals (2). The highlight of her season came against Bentley University when she recorded the lone goal in a 1-0 overtime triumph at Kayo Field.
Kameel Lashley. The extra point was blocked and the Chargers maintained a 13-0 lead. Pace then took the ensuing Chargers kickoff 95-yards for a touchdown with 7:05 left in the first quarter. After a good extra point, Pace trailed 137. Hall returned the next kickoff 20-yards and gave New Haven the ball back at its own 32-yard line. Running back Victor Jones then took the ball and ran 68-yards for the Chargers third touchdown of the quarter, with 6:46 still left on the clock. Chris Scifo's extra point split the uprights and the Chargers took a 20-7 lead. Chidoziem Ezemma sacked the Setters quarterback on their fourth play of the next drive and put the Setters into a tough 4th-and-12 from their own 45-yard line. On the Setters' next play, quarterback Jordan Raynor's pass sailed out of the hands of its receiver and the Chargers took over on downs. Running back Mike DeCaro then took the reins for the Chargers. The junior capped a 5-play, 43yard drive with a 23-yard touchdown run with 1:58 left in the first quarter. After a Scifo extra point, the
Chargers led 27-7. The Setters regained possession and held possession as time expired in the first quarter. The UNH defense would eventually stall the Setters at their own 33-yard line before forcing a punt. New Haven then took the ball 53-yards on 10-plays to the Pace 18-yard line. Scifo then came on a connected on a 35-yard field to give New Haven a 30-7 lead. Pace muffed the ensuing pooch kickoff and the Chargers would once again regain possession with 7:59 left in the first half. New Haven's David Thomas recovered the ball which was fumbled by Eric Santos. DeCaro once again went to work and carried the ball two, once for two yards and again for 42 yards and New Haven's fifth touchdown of the afternoon. Scifo's kicked sailed through and the Chargers led 37-7 with 7:08 remaining in the second quarter. Pace then mounted one of two scoring drives on the afternoon. The Setters put together a 7-play, 58-yard drive, which was capped by a seven-yard touchdown pass from Raynor to Eric Ortega with 3:29 left in the half.
Ahmet Basci got his hands on the extra point attempt, which kept the score 37-13 lead the end of the half. New Haven added one more touchdown in the first half as Jones powered the UNH offense 57-yards on 7-plays in the closing minutes of the half. The running back also scored a 4-yard touchdown on the final play of the drive, one play after crossing the 1,000-yard rushing plateau for the season. Scifo again connected and put UNH up 44-13, a lead they carried into halftime. The Charger offense was halted in the third quarter, while Pace scored on their second drive of the half. The Setters managed a 10-play, 86-yard drive in the middle of the third quarter to cut the score to 44-19. Ortega connected with running back Jurrell Hawkins on a passing play from 28-yards out for the score. New Haven took over on the ensuing kickoff at its own 45-yard line. They held possession as the third quarter came to an end. Two-minutes into the fourth quarter, Nelson widened the lead with a 3-yard touchdown rush to give the Chargers a 50-19 lead. An extra point and
the Chargers led 51-19. The game's only other points came on Pace's next possession. Reynor rolled out to his left on the first play of the drive and UNH cornerback Jon Jackson stepped in front of the pass at the 50-yard line. The sophomore then returned the ball 50-yards for the Chargers final touchdown of the game. Scifo scored his 10th point of the game to make the score 58-19. Neither team scored on their final possessions and the Chargers sealed their eighth victory of the season. The Chargers racked up 529 yards on 56 offensive plays, while the defense gave up 319 yards on 63 Pace plays. New Haven relied heavily on the running game as it amassed 307 yards on the day. The Chargers also led the turnover battle once again, with a plus-two on the day. The two-headed rushing attack for UNH was led by Jones who finished with 149 yards and two touchdowns on 14 carries. DeCaro added 126 yards and two touchdowns on 14 carries as well. Quarterback Ronnie Nelson added 26 yards and one touchdown on five carries. Osiecki threw for 151
yards and one touchdown on 11-of-13 passing, while Nelson went a perfect 3-for-3 with 71 yards and another touchdown. Lashley led the UNH receivers with four grabs for 82 yards and a touchdown. Hall added a pair of catches for 55 yards and a score, while Demetrius Washington-Ellison amassed 44 yards on two catches. With today's numbers, running back Victor Jones became the third player in Charger football history to rush for 1,000 yards in a season. The junior has 1,049 so far this season, surpassing Don Highsmith (1,026 in 1997) for fourth in the record books. The top three spots on the single-season record list belong to former Harlon Hill Trophy winner and UNH football legend Roger Graham. The Chargers will return to the gridiron for their final game of the regular season on Saturday, November 6 when they host Saint Anselm College at DellaCamera Stadium. Game time for the Chargers and Hawks is set for 12 p.m. Complete game coverage can be found on www.NewHavenChargers.com in the week leading up to the game.
Four Chargers Land Northeast-10 Conference Regular Season Laurels
By ANDY BEARDSLEY
DIRECTOR OF ATHLETIC MEDIA RELATIONS
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WEST HAVEN, Conn. – Three members of the University of New Haven women’s soccer team have been named to the AllNortheast-10 Conference Teams for their performances on the pitch this season, announced Saturday, October 30 by the league office.
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DIRECTOR OF ATHLETIC MEDIA RELATIONS
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P LEA S A N TVILLE, N.Y. - The University of New Haven football team defeated Pace University 58-19 Saturday afternoon in a Northeast-10 Conference game in N.Y. With the win the Chargers clinch at least a share of the 2010 Northeast-10 Conference Championship and improve to 8-1 on the season, 6-1 in the NE-10. The Setters fall to 0-7 overall and 0-5 in the NE-10. On their fifth play of the game's opening drive, New Haven quarterback Ryan Osiecki connected with Sharieff Hall down the left side numbers for a 44-yard touchdown pass just over two minutes into the game. The Chargers would continue to score throughout the quarter. The UNH defense forced the Setters to punt after five plays on their first drive and New Haven regained possession on its own 16-yard line with 8:56 remaining in the quarter. Four plays later the Chargers took a 13-0 lead when second-string quarterback Ronnie Nelson connected on a 52-yard touchdown pass and catch to tight end
Chargers Roll In 58-19 Victory at Pace
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Review: ‘Dead Rising 2’ “Dead Rising 2” celebrates the everyday MacGyver, the person who’s stopped and said, “why can’t I attach a Super Soaker to a keg?” Or, “That coat hanger’s a bat’leth crying to happen.” And though you may not be trapped in a pool with an orca, you’re facing that other great threat to civilization: Zombies. So, if you’re fond of weaponized arts and crafts as well as facing the undead, welcome home. There’s a satisfying amount of story tying my slaughter-binges together, like the delicate lace of a Hallmark card. Playing as Chuck brought a nice sense of purpose to my mayhem. Sure I’m still using a bucket with drills to liquefy zombie brains, but now I’m doing it to save my daughter. Taking place after the initial outbreak in “Dead Rising,” I expected the world to be rotting in the decay of the post apocalypse. But that wasn’t the case! Apparently, civilization didn’t come crashing down. There’s still a government presence, but more important, Americans go back to what they do best: being Americans. There’s something disturbing about America’s ability to continue to wallow
in capitalist-indulgence, something straight out of Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead,” and I absolutely love it. The blaze of Vegasesque neon lights paired with driving an electrified wheel chair through a mass of zombies provides for countless psychedelic experiences. My absolute favorite moment of plump surreality? I unintentionally triggered a boss cut scene while wearing a blood stained Servobot mask. It turns out this particular boss was one of those bigheaded mascots for a department store. He was grieving over his mascot girlfriend, who by the way, was also wearing a bighead mask. So here I am, holding a lightsaber with my Servobot mask, arguing with a mascot . . . and there are zombies . . . priceless. And as central as I regard story and atmosphere to most videogames, “DR 2” is one of the few where I know I’m mostly playing to kill zombies. And for such a simple and practically flawless mechanic, Capcom found a way to evolve zombie killing in such a way that keeps it from becoming redundant. Sure it’s fun to kill zombies, but the next step is doing it creatively. You
could honestly spend half your gameplay just finding creative ways to dispatch the undead, especially with combo weapons. As you forage zombied Fortune City, you come across items with a wrench icon, indicating they’re one half of a combo weap-
And speaking of aneurisms, I have to applaud the Capcom on making a very critical improvement over “DR 1”; it fixed the Otis effect. Remember that constant nagging that would ring on Frank’s radio just about every time he was surrounded by
on. Find the right item to combine it with, and you create a powerful, and usually hilarious, weapon of zombiecide. These weapons deal more damage and even grant you more experience per kill, adding incentive for the handyman. Some seem like an immediately logical step, like a nail-spiked bat. But did you know you could bowl like Zeus by combining a bingo-ball-cage and a battery? My favorite weapon though; I won’t giveaway too much, but if you combine a Servobot helmet with a lawnmower, well . . .you’ll bring new meaning to the word aneurism.
zombies? Well, now you have the option of just skipping through the message and having it lined up in your inbox. So you can answer the call, skip the text, and review later, all within the time that zombie is trying to perform a gastronomic MRI on you. Plus, it didn’t hurt that they replaced Otis with Stacey Forsythe, the cute red head who acts as your contact at HQ. No offense Otis, but I didn’t mind her calling me. As alluring as it sounds, competitive multiplayer is still a project in the works. I really do appreciate the effort that was put into
Taylor Swift’s Speak Now Review
By SARA J DUFORT STAFF WRITER
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When Taylor Swift comes out with a new album, you can expect the music to be about one of two things: songs about love or songs about heart break. This album doesn’t break that pattern, but the breakdown of love songs to songs about heart break is definitely different. Instead of a vast majority of the tracks being about love, they are about heart break and getting over it. Despite this change, Taylor doesn’t disappoint her fans. Taylor Swift has gotten older, and now her songs have followed her. Since she is the same age as most college students, girls on campus can easily relate to the lyrics easily. Instead
of sing about being a high school freshman and getting your heart broke, like in Fifteen, she conveys the dilemma of being at a wedding, where the groom is marrying the wrong woman. While many people in college haven’t gotten married yet, it is bound to start happening soon. How would you feel, if you decided to stand up when the priest said, “Speak Now, or forever hold your peace?” The more adult topics discussed will draw in an older crowd; but this is not the only audience Taylor Swift is speaking to. Two songs off this new album seem to be targeted at the younger audience, yet her older audience can still relate to what she is saying. These songs are “Mean” and “Better than Revenge.” The lyrics include child-like saying that
we can remember from childhood. For instance, in “Mean” the chorus says, “Someday I’ll be living in a big ole city and all you’re ever going to be is mean.” Remember calling someone a big Meany, and being so proud of yourself? “Better than Revenge” also has a hint of child-like lyrics, but is more on the adult side of Taylor Swift. It is about stealing someone’s significant other, yet she says, “Soon she’s going to realize that stealing other people’s toys on the playground won’t make you many friends.” These childish lyrics give you the air that Taylor is still growing up; that is what makes her fans love her. She’s easy to relate to. Besides songs about love and heartbreak, Taylor Swift hits upon something that she never has
really addressed before: childhood and growing up. Yes, she’s talked about it before, but not while looking at someone else. In “Never Grow Up,” she seems to be talking to someone else that is still a baby in her eyes. She says “Oh darling, never grow up, it could stay this simple.” For once, she is addressing someone who isn’t a love interest, but instead someone that she cares about. This album is definitely something that any country, or even pop fan, should pick up. Taylor Swift surely doesn’t disappoint her fans, and she’s beginning to target an older audience. If you’ve ever been in love, or have had your heart broken, you will understand where she is coming from.
By Mike Gonzalez turning the multiplayer into a game-showesque experience, by having a pay-per-view intro of every session, but that cutscene got old the third time around. I just wanted to skip to a lobby where I could wait for other players. And unfortunately, you can’t select to play specific events. As I said, multiplayer goes in sessions with a few rounds of individual games, but you don’t get to choose those games. So if a game pops up that you’re not especially fond of, you have to suck it up and go through the motions. After a few sessions, I had no desire to even bother again. The co-op multiplayer is fantastic, though. Have you ever wondered if you were the zombie-chomping-lawnmower-recordtime holder? Well here’s your chance to finally race someone down the promenade with zombie-chomping lawnmowers! As simple as it is, it really is nice to have someone along with you in the middle of Fortune City’s madness. I didn’t notice just how quiet and isolating playing “DR 2” alone could be until I played with someone else. You really do go through hours of silent slaughter, so it was very encouraging to have some banter and
coordinating in my antics. Now, the next step would be the ability to have some form of split screen co-op. So if you liked the original “Dead Rising,” you’re definitely going to enjoy its successor. It builds and expands on that simple pleasure of cutting down masses of undead, and really allows for you to explore how to go about said pursuit. And the second playthrough just gets better. Keeping your upgraded stats, you can go about trying to find all of the survivors spread out throughout Fortune City. I managed to save about twenty and it turns out there were dozens more I hadn’t even run into. And of course, I have yet to discover all the possible weapons combos, and if these sound like menial tasks, trust me, they’re not. With my level 34 Chuck, I can’t wait to get into some more mayhem, and really get to explore the rest of the neon-lit sprawl. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go realize the full potential of a letter opener, duct tape and a T-square. For the latest information about videogames, visit http://www.crispygamer.com
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Retired, Extremely Dangerous By CAROLE MCFADDAN STAFF WRITER
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Red is an America action comedy loosely based on DC’s comics three issue limited series of the same name. The comic, created by Warren Ellis and Cully Hamner, has been transformed to a film starring Bruce Willis, Mary-Louise Parker, Morgan Freeman, Helen Mirren, and John Malkovich. It was directed by Robert Schwentke. Red, derived from the stamp on Frank Moses’ (Willis) CIA retiree file meaning “retired, extremely dangerous”, Moses and his retiree friends
are the target of a CIA hit in their “relaxing’ retired days. As former black ops agents, Moses and his colleagues work to uncover their target and unravel trails of lies from over 30 years ago. Eager to keep their new lives, and find out the mysteries behind their death wish, this squad mission leads them all the way around the country to the White House. With a 70% rating on rottentomatoes.com and $43.5 billion in box office revenue, this action, love story comedy was a film great for both halves of a couple. So don’t be afraid to take your girlfriends to this action flick boys.
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Dave’s Music Report Tis The Season?
Now that everyone is finishing up their last few pieces of Halloween candy and October has come to an end, the music world has now completely shifted into Christmas mode. As strange as it may sound, the holidays are off to an early start in music stores. With only a handful of big album releases left (Kanye West, Nicki Minaj, Rihanna, Nelly, and Black Eyed Peas) the market is now shifting to two popular Christmas releases: holiday music and greatest hits compilation. This year there is no shortage of either.
If you’re craving some new Christmas music, both today and yesterday’s popular artists in many genres are putting out collections of holiday tunes. Probably the biggest of these releases would be Mariah Carey’s Merry Christmas II You and Susan Boyle’s The Gift. As the title suggests, Carey’s release is the follow up to her classic Merry Christmas album. The collection features a mix of classic and new Christmas songs, including an update of her own “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” Susan Boyle’s album contains a mix of both covers
of popular songs such as Crowded House’s “Don’t Dream It’s Over,” as well as other popular Christmas
songs. This holiday season seemingly wouldn’t be
complete without a musical contribution from the cast of Glee, who will be releasing their own collection of Christmas tunes. Other releases include albums from Annie Lennox, Jessica Simpson, and even Wilson Phillips. As far as Greatest Hits compilations go, this season’s big release would be P!nk,
By SAMANTHA RAE SHINN
Eclipse was directed by the best of Twilight directors so far, David Slade, and produced by Summit Entertainment. Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner reunite to star together once again in this newest edition to the Saga. Eclipse was released June 30, 2010 and is rated PG-13. In this movie, Bella has to choose, once and for all, who she will love: Edward or Jacob. All the while her nemesis, Victoria, is creating a vicious newborn vampire army to kill her and the entire Cullen clan. This movie made approximately $83 million in the U.S. alone on its
opening weekend. In this movie, both Edward and Jacob fight to win Bella’s love; they shower her with gifts, affection, and safety, while the entire audience knew who she is going to pick anyway. Jacob tries too hard to win her love, while he inadvertently gives her a broken hand and ends up with half of his body crushed and broken. Bella doesn’t seem to understand the power she holds over these two fairytale creatures of the night, but she chooses the one she can’t live without. This was an overall great movie and a favorite to all the “Twihearts” here
on campus. A key scene in the movie was the actual battle scene. This fight was so well played by the cast and made to seem very real by the crew, that some people feel that, without this scene, Eclipse would be the worst of the Twilight movies so far. The event was a great success; it was put on by Scope and held in lower Bartels on this past Tuesday and Friday at 9:00 p.m. Thank you so much Scope for feeding the addiction of the Team Edward and Team Jacob fans here at the University of New Haven.
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The third edition to the Twilight Saga, Eclipse, is about the epic battle that unites the Cullen vampires and the Quileute werewolves against a common enemy. This movie also shows the final fight for Jacob vs. Edward. During the movie, every feminine audience member was hanging on Taylor Lautner’s every shirtless move and Robert Pattinson’s every clever remark; a lot of them were ready to swoon when Lautner was on the screen.
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who will be releasing her first collection entitled The Greatest Hits… So Far! The album will include many of her popular hits released over the last decade, as well as two new songs, including her current single, “Raise Your Glass.” In addition, Bon Jovi will be releasing their first career-spanning collection featuring all of their popular hits, as well as two new tracks. Jay-Z will also be releasing a collection of his own entitled The Hits Collection, Volume 1. In the country world, Tim McGraw is putting out a compilation of his number
one country hits (cleverly titled Number One Hits.) His collection features the new single “Felt Good On My Lips.” So whenever you feel that the holiday season has begun, there are plenty of new collections of Christmas music to add to the classics of the past. However, regardless of what and how you celebrate, there are plenty of new greatest hits collections that are coming out that are not only perfect stocking stuffers, but great additions to anyone’s collections.
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Dolores Enico: 2010 Bartels Fellow What: Dolores Ennico has been selected as the fall 2010 Bartels Fellow at the University of New Haven (UNH) and will present a lecture on "Critical Skills Needed for Corporate Success." When: Thursday, November 18, 2010, at 11 a.m. Where: Dodds Theater on the UNH campus
Details: A generation ago, girls were steered toward “soft” careers in teaching, nursing and parenting. Dolores Ennico, however, paid little heed, following her passion for math and science. That passion earned her a microbiology degree as well as a master’s from Southern Connecticut State University, and began her lengthy and varied career with Olin Corporation. She began as a research technician in the company’s New Haven office, soon becoming a lab manager and realizing she had a knack for management. “Developing a work plan, having larger objectives and making things happen was really rewarding,” Ennico recalls. She enrolled in the M.B.A. program at UNH and eventually became manager of human resources for the Olin’s Chemicals Research and Development Center in New Haven. Ennico laughs, “When they asked me to take the position, I said, ‘I don’t know HR, but I know R and D,’ and they said, ‘You’re smart. You’ll learn it.’” Clearly, she did. Today Ennico is vice president of human resources at Olin Corporation’s headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri. Last year, she was elected an officer of Olin and currently directs the human resource activities for 3,800 employees. Ennico maintains an active volunteer life as well. She has served on many non-profit boards, giving back to the communities in which she has lived and worked. She is a member of the Connecticut Women’s Forum and the International Women’s Forum, and serves on the boards of Lewis and Clark Community College and the United Way in St. Louis. Ennico advises students to learn everything they can, noting that she still draws on all of the classes she hass taken. “You never know where that bit of knowledge will lead you,” she says, “so never stop learning.”