"Keep it positive" -Timothy Parent Volume XVI, Issue II October 21st 2008 Manchester, NH OCTOBER IS: Biden Visits SNHU, Hopes to Revive the BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH "American Dream" Hampshire, stating, “1,400 Aimee Terravechia New Hampshire residents Staff Writer have lost their houses within the last quarter alone.” Many of these figures resonated After visiting the American Biden, both he and Obama are with New Hampshire resi- Legion Hall, Post 7, in Roches- working to address these con- dents who are beginning to ter earlier in the day, Senator Joe cerns by focusing on the econ- feel the financial pinch more Biden, running mate of Barack omy and job creation. and more. Obama, visited Southern New “Our plan,” Biden said, “is Biden also talked at length Hampshire University’s campus to create over two million new about what he considers to be on Monday, October 13th. The jobs averaging at about $50,000 an “attack” campaign being event attracted community mem- per year.” Biden began discuss- run by Senator McCain. The photo provided by Google bers and students alike, drawing ing the impact that these plans crowd, filled with Obama approximately 900 guests. would have on New Hampshire What's Inside? supporters sporting shirts Senator Joe Biden Pages After short speeches by residents. Nine-thousand of that read: McCan’t began News 1-11 both Dave Hendrie, a field orga- these new jobs, he said, would be “booing” at the mention of Obama, Biden said, “McCain wants Business 12 nizer for the Obama campaign created in the Granite State. the Democratic nominee’s to attack Obama and Obama wants Opinion 13-14 office of Manchester, and state Biden also addressed con- opponent. to attack America’s economic prob- Entertainment 15-18 Senator Betsy Devries, Biden cerns dealing with mortgages Highlighting the differ- lems. It’s as simple as that.” Biden Creative 19-20 was introduced to the audience and foreclosures within New ences between McCain and Please turn to page 03 Clubs 21-23 as the “Future Vice President of Sports 25-35 the United States of America.” Voices & Faces 36 In his speech, Biden focused on key issues in the election, SNHU Penmen Get Covered discussing everything from the economy to funding for educa- 2008-2009 school year. Accord- first [soccer] games, the last week tion, tax breaks for the middle Laura Rotolo ing to Greg Royce, Sports Infor- of August.” The site showcases class, and healthcare. Staff Writer mation Director at SNHU, the new features such as an athletic “Americans are asking new athletics website production overview, athletic complex hours, questions as simple as they are The Athletic Department at began last winter. “The Ath- pages for intramurals and recre- profound,” said Biden when Southern New Hampshire Uni- letic Department learned about ation, the Penmen Club, Men discussing financial concerns of versity published a new athletic the opportunity to get a grant and Women’s Varsity sports, as American families. According to website at the beginning of the through the Northeast-10 Con- well as the Hall of Fame. ference to build a new athletic The most noticeable changes screenshot provided by snhupenmen.com website with PrestoSports.” are the bios for every student- Happy Halloween “We were approved to start athlete and the live stats and building the new site in April, video for home contests. “We and really started working on it offer live, real-time statistics for once the 2007-2008 academic ten sports for home games and year was over.” video for seven at the moment,” The process was tedious, stated Royce. “We find that a which “took the entire summer lot of parents and other family to build, [due to] transferring members who can’t attend many information from the old site as games in person appreciate being well as adding a lot of new con- able to follow their son or daugh- tent” said Royce. ter’s games as they happen.” According to Royce, “the site launched the week of our Please turn to page 03 2 News the OBSERVER STAFF Letter From the Editors Carter Meyers- Layout Editor FACULTY ADVISOR Well, Well, Well… we’re sitting here in the office; it’s 1:17AM Judy Timney on Monday morning. We have six and a half hours to send the [email protected] paper off for printing. Libby is napping on the couch cuddled up in Dan’s fleece jacket (which only has a light coat of drool on it). EDITOR IN CHIEF She’s had four lacrosse games today and she’s a little tired. Nick Libby Parent Tasso is editing articles from the Red Sox game tonight (yes we [email protected] know, it was upsetting). However, for Libby, the game was a suc- cess because she’s not a Red Sox fan. Dan Smith is editing a draft MANAGING EDITOR September 12th 23:00 printed a few hours ago and commenting on EVERY mistake. Daniel Smith Public Safety approached a female sitting outside Kearsarge at the So anyways, you might be wondering why we are even up [email protected] approx time above. As PS was approaching the student, she began to at this hour. Well, if you were to flip over your paper right now vomit. When asked if she was a student at SNHU, she responded with you would see the number 36 at the bottom of the page. Yes, 36 LAYOUT EDITOR “Yes”. The female student claimed to have had four beers throughout the pages; we have never had that many before. Carter Meyers night. The female did not have her student ID on her, but informed PS [email protected] that she lived in Washington Hall. Public Safety then escorted her to her Daniel Smith-Managing Editor residence, but was told she’d rather not go inside as she sobers up better So, with 36 pages, you may be asking; where did all that con- ADVERTISING EDITOR outside. The female began to vomit again. Public Safety inquired as to tent come from? Well, it came from our amazing staff of writers Gina Arnone how old the female was. She responded by telling PS she was born in 1988. and a large influx of contributing writers this issue. We were also [email protected] When asked what her birthday was, she responded by saying she was born fortunate enough to have many submissions from the journalism in 1987. After verifying that information to be false, the resident laid down class this semester. PHOTO EDITOR outside Washington, became silent, and again began to vomit. Rocking- While we are excited to print the largest paper is SNHU ham Ambulance was called and the student was taken to the hospital. Cyan Cyan Suzanne Lentell history, we are always looking to bigger and better things. We are [email protected] still working on a website to be debuted soon and are working Magenta September 20th 23:10 on changing the format of our paper. The Observer is always NEWS EDITOR RA’s on a round in Washington encountered a room and sus- looking for ideas and innovations that will make YOUR paper Ashley Manley pected a marijuana scent coming from the door. After Public Safety better. Please send all ideas to the Observer at observer@snhu. Yellow Yellow [email protected] responded to the call, they knocked on the door to find no one in edu. the room. Public Safety and the RA’s entered the room and found a At 1:47 AM, Carter is now busy editing, Libby is complet- fan facing toward the window, a bong underneath the desk, and a pill Black OPINION EDITOR ing final edits to the paper, and Nick is supervising the whole Linda Mullally bottle filled with marijuana. Public Safety confiscated all items but the operation. We are almost done and are on our last food run of [email protected] fan and left a note for the resident informing them of the situation. the night. Hopefully we will actually get some sleep before we attempt to go to class tomorrow. We hope you enjoy the fruits CLUBS & ORGANIZA September 27th 01:10 of our labors. TIONS EDITOR The RD on duty requested assistance from Public Safety at the Linda Mullally time aforementioned. Several “students” carrying a backpack were Libby Parent- Editor in Chief [email protected] asked to stop by the RD. After finding the backpack contained sev- As previously noted, every section is on steroids this issue, eral beers, the RD asked the students for their IDs. After presenting with the most content in the Observer history. Alongside the ENTERTAINMENT the RD with their current high school IDs, the RD and Public Safety News section, which contains a large amount of political cover- EDITOR escorted them to the main entrance where they waited for a cab. age, be sure to check out the Sports section, as we have some Caitlyn Murphy serious professional sports and SNHU athletics coverage. We [email protected] September 27th 02:00 have been working extremely hard on this issue, (it is 2:45 AM) Public Safety responded to a complaint in Windsor Hall. and we would love to hear your feedback! Shoot us an e-mail, SPORTS EDITOR They responded to find four unregistered guests who announced we are here most nights, especially at deadline. Thanks, enjoy, Nicholas Tasso themselves as Status Quo. All who were involved cooper- and rock on :) [email protected] ated with Public Safety and left the premises as requested.