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Serving the University of New Hampshire since 1911 The New Hampshire TNHdigital.com Thursday, April 7, 2016 Vol. 105, No. 41 TNH NEWSROOM POLL Mark Garbino breaks down INSIDE What is your favorite ice cream flavor? everything you need to know about The Candy Bar brings ice cream back to the NCAA Men’s Frozen Four this downtown Durham. weekend. THE NEWS Page 4 Page 15 Bringing awareness into light Uber Everywhere AMANDA CHABOT/CONTRIBUTING UNH junior Karl Hamnqvist makes the Billboard Hot 100 with his track ‘Uber Everywhere’ By MICHAELA BURKE DESIGN EDITOR n this new age of music making, we now have the ability to pro- duce, create and record virtually anywhere. We live in a time where a beat, the melody, and the vocals no longer need to be laid down in a recording studio in order to have the same professional sound and effect. Now, more than ever, it is easier for anyone to have access to the industry. However, this is also what makes it harder Ifor people to make it big, especially when you’re a junior computer sci- ence major studying at UNH. But Swedish-American and Merrimack native, Karl Hamnqvist, also known by his stage name as ‘K Swisha’, has beaten those odds. Not only in the academic setting of UNH, but in the rap game/trap music industry. Hamnqvist is responsible for the widely popular viral track “Uber Everywhere” by Madeintoyko, which has gained attention of some ma- jor rap/hip-hop stars across the nation. Artists such as Tory Lanez, Soul- UBER continued on Page 3 #WhyIStayed Domestic violence survivor ALLISON BELLUCCI/STAFF (Top) Members of AXiD pose for a picture in all blue and white to show pride for their shares her story main philanthropy, Autism Speaks. (Bottom) Sisters of AXiD outside of their chapter house. By HADLEY appeared in the New York Times, BARNDOLLAR “Good Morning America”, “The Alpha Xi Delta looks to raise autism awareness in Durham STAFF WRITER Today Show” and CNN. Gooden’s presentation began By SAM RABUCK “The point of Light It Up Blue is so EXECUTIVE EDITOR Beverly Gooden realized she with a visceral video, showing a when you are walking around campus, wanted to live more than being woman’s face covered in bruises you’ll ask someone next to you why the married to her husband when he The month of April has been designat- and wounds, progressively get- Greek houses are lit up and it will get the pushed her out of bed one morn- ed as National Autism Awareness Month, ting worse as the video went on. conversation started,” said Alexa McKeon, ing. and the women of Alpha Xi Delta are aim- “Imagine what it’s like to be one of Alpha Xi Delta’s co-philanthropy “Every time he had been ing to help raise awareness about the disor- that girl,” Gooden said. “Falling chairwomen. violent to me, there had been a der on campus. in love, being happy. And then According to data from Autism-soci- reason,” Gooden said. “But what On April 2, Alpha Xi Delta, as well as something goes terribly wrong.” ety.org, an estimated one in 68 children will could you be doing when you’re other fraternities and sororities, began dis- Gooden shared her own sto- be born with a form of autism and more sleeping? I realized for the first playing a pair of blue lights outside of their ry, where her boyfriend-turned- than 3.5 million Americans are living with time it wasn’t me.” respective chapter houses to show support husband hit, choked, punched and an autism spectrum disorder. Social advocate and pub- for Autism Speaks’ Light It Up Blue cam- bit her until she left in 2010. “Autism is the fastest-growing devel- lic speaker Beverly Gooden paign. Autism Speaks is a philanthropic When Gooden told the story opmental disorder, but it is also the least stopped by UNH on Wednesday organization whose goal is to “change the about being pushed out of bed, night where she gave her “Why I future for all who struggle with an autism AWARENESS Stayed” speech to an audience in DOMESTIC spectrum disorder.” continued on Page 3 the Strafford Room. Gooden has continued on Page 3 2 Thursday, April 7, 2016 INDEX The New Hampshire Contents Candy Bar adds ice cream An introduction to dance 4 9 Due to the closing of Kaleidoscoop, The Candy Bar now carries a total UNH student refl ects on his fi rst experience watching the UNH Dance of 12 fl avors of homemade ice cream from The Bloom’n Cow, located in Company Concert. Newmarket. More than a job The journey to success 16 16 Track and fi eld coach Jim Boulanger discusses his rise to UNH coaching What started as a club program has turned into an America East power- success. house. Jill Hirschinger refl ects on her time as coach of UNH volleyball. This Week in Durham UNH Professor receives award Professor Emeritus Brent Loy was awarded the 2015 Veg- etable Breeding Working Group Award of Excellence by the April 7 April 8 American Society of Horticultural Science. • Wildcat Workout Proj- • Thrifting Showdown Pike ect, Field House - Jerry VS. 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Spencer 3 - 6 p.m. Room, 3 - 5 p.m. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] • UNH Car Club’s First • Meet, Section 3 A Lot, 4 - 6 p.m. Corrections Due to an error in editing, a headline that appeared in Monday, April 4’s issue of The New Hampshire • Cultural Show: Intersec- entitled “Alumna poised to be 1st-ever female Air Force combatant commander” was misleading. The tion, MUB GSR, 6 - 9 p.m. headline should have read “Alumna poised to be 1st-ever combatant commander nominated from the Department of Defense.” The next issue of The New Hampshire will be on Monday, April 11, 2016 The New Hampshire NEWS Thursday, April 7, 2016 3 living in the Mini Dorms spring to and they make like 20 beats a of wanting to be like the people SoundCloud, in regards to the re- UBER semester of his sophomore year, day, all day everyday, and I knew I looked up to. I just like the rap lease of “Uber Everywhere.” CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 and released the song on YouTube I needed to do the same thing.” lifestyle and had this vision, it “I don’t do anything now to in hopes to showcase his talent. When asked about how ma- was long term. When I’m making promote myself, I stopped up- ja Boy and Travis Scott all want a While Hamnqvist was taking joring in computer science may beats, I can already see the music loading the YouTube beats, now piece of the pie, indicated by the classes at Stanford University this have helped pave the way to his video in my head.” it’s just emails everyday. I stopped fact that they have all individually past summer, artist Madeintokyo success in the music industry, he Since meeting up with Ma- responding to beat inquiries to be released remixes to Hamnqvist’s approached him via email with noted that it was just something deintokyo and Private Club Re- honest and am just like ‘just go vibrant youthful tracks. Ty Dolla the record idea and an interest of that came easily to him. cord’s posse over spring break, to my website.’ Now I literally $ign has remixed, but not released working together. “It’s more just problem solv- touring from Cali to Texas, even- just upload and it does [its own] a different track of his. “It was magic, Toyko did his ing skills so making melodies and tually ending up at SXSW (a mu- work.” “Uber Everywhere” has not magic and everything started hap- stuff is really easy. I don’t need a sic and fi lm festival), performing Since the success of his only caught the eye of indus- pening real quick. I have the nasty piano but just click that stuff in in front of a packed crowd, the record, he’s accumulated over try professionals and graced the beats and Tokyo has the sauce, he and it’s like, easy.” realization of the booming suc- 3,000 Twitter followers and 8,000 blogs of major rap critics, but has promoted it like an artist should,” While Hamnqvist credits his cess of Uber Everywhere has hit Soundcloud followers, has hit recently made its way into the Hamnqvist said. new career success to artist Ma- Hamnqvist. millions of plays on other tracks number two spot of Billboard’s The 21-year-old started deintokyo, he individually sought “After getting back from feat Madeintokyo as well as other Twitter Emerging Artist’s list and making beats in 2012 when he after his career solely through in- spring break, I don’t wanna be artists, and has been getting more continues to be on the rise on Spo- was trying to establish himself as tensive study of the music indus- here anymore because I know I business than he seemingly can tify, SoundCloud and YouTube.