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Serving the University of New Hampshire since 1911 The New Hampshire TNHdigital.com Thursday, October 8, 2015 Vol. 105, No. 10 More fruit inside: UNH Men’s soccer suffered its first setback of the INSIDE researchers improve melon season on Tuesday to non-conference opponent yield. Harvard, 1-0. THE NEWS Page 5 Page 16 The push for women in office You say tomato, I say Rambling Rose By KAITLIN and then going further by help- BEAUREGARD ing them run for political offices STAFF WRITER and positions in the future. UNH researchers develop heartier, higher- “Part of the reason we ap- Gender gap is defined as plied [to Elect Her] is because we the discrepancy in opportuni- recently started a social justice yielding cherry tomato ties, status and attitudes between leadership project through the men and women. According to women’s studies program,” said the Women & Politics Institute Faina Bukher, the educational at American University and the program coordinator of UNH’s Center of American Women and women’s studies program. Politics at Rutgers University, 17 The social justice leadership percent of U.S. senators, 12 per- project of the UNH women’s cent of state governors, and 22.4 studies program is an event that percent of statewide elected offi- joins UNH students, staff and cials are women. These numbers faculty with New Hampshire statistically indicate that women and Maine women for dinner and today are still suffering from a workshops, where they discuss gender gap in United States poli- the future of feminist leadership tics. in and around the community. The UNH Women’s Stud- “Through this project we ies Program has been selected are trying to create leaders who as one of 50 colleges and uni- think through a social justice versities around the country to lens,” said Bukher. “With inclu- participate and host Elect Her: sion and equality our hope is to Campus Women Win. not only close the gender gap, Elect Her is the only pro- but think of ways that underrep- gram in the country whose main resented populations in politics purpose is training and providing women with the tools to run for ELECT HER student government positions, continued on Page 3 COURTESY OF BECKY SIDEMAN UNH researchers have developed a more resilient cherry tomato. By KYLE KITTREDGE with the New Hampshire Agri- tomatoes is called Tumbler, but it STAFF WRITER cultural Experiment Station and is expensive, has bad growth hab- extension professor of sustain- its, is not very available, and the A new fruit that grows sus- able horticulture production, has alternatives to Tumbler had prob- pended in the air is pink, round, developed a new cherry tomato lems, making farmers frustrated. small and has been developed called Rambling Rose. Rambling Rose is more suit- here at UNH, as a better option This use of regular cherry able for hanging basket growth, than the regular, fat, red, and large tomatoes in hanging baskets is a cherry tomato. struggle, and often does not work TOMATO Becky Sideman, a researcher well. The best variety of cherry continued on Page 3 Speeding through reading FRANCES PONTES/ STAFF By EDITH ALLARD CONTRIBUTING WRITER GRAND CHAPTER Having trouble keeping up with the reading assignments for class? Worry no more—Chicago-based Iris Reading, a worldwide provider of online and in person speed reading courses, has offered a set of free Hundreds of students in fraternities and webinars for UNH students. sororities packed into the Granite State The introductory courses, available for online registration, are designed to improve the reading speed, comprehension, and retention of participants. Two of these “Speed Reading 101” classes already took place Room for this semester’s ‘Grand Chapter’ on Sept. 30 and Oct. 7, but two more Iris courses will still be occurring later in the month—on Oct. 12 and Wednesday night. Attendance at Grand 15. Chapter is mandatory for all Interfraternity Paul Nowak, founder of Iris Reading and instructor for the UNH webinars, said that learning speed reading techniques during his own freshman year of college changed his learning experience for the better. Council, Panhellenic and United Greek As- “I started at around 190 words per minute. After about 10 hours of training, I got to 830,” he said. Later, sociation chapters at UNH. This semester’s he added, “When I was learning speed reading, I was wondering, ‘why didn’t I do this earlier?’” keynote speaker was Antonio Neves. In Nowak’s view, speed reading should be taught on a widespread scale for its effectiveness. SPEED READING continued on Page 3 2 Thursday, October 8, 2015 INDEX The New Hampshire Contents IT Fair Student models 6 8 The information technology staff hosted a fair on Thompson Hall Lawn. Students who work as nude models for art classes at UNH share their It featured smashed laptops, 3D printers and more. experiences. Men’s hockey preview Field hockey returns to Durham 15 16 UNH men’s hockey drops the puck for the regular season Sunday against UNH hosts a weekend doubleheader at Memorial Field. The team will American International College. The TNH sports staff provides a look at battle America East foe Vermont on Friday, then face off with ACC oppo- what’s ahead for the Wildcats. nent Boston College on Sunday. This Week in Durham Melons A UNH professor of plant biology and genetics and a graduate student gathered grafting data that will have an Oct. 8 Oct. 9 5 impact on the quantity and quality of melon production. • Museum of Art Opens • DBS Fall 2015 Seminar Exhibition, PCAC, 10 a.m. Series, SLS G70, 12 p.m. -1 Stay Connected: – 4 p.m. p.m. HTTP://WWW.TNHDIGITAL.COM • Keith Polk Music Lecture • Whalebone to Steel: The TWITTER/INSTAGRAM/VINE/YOUTUBE @THENEWHAMPSHIRE Series: Tom Moore’s Fifty Shape of Fashion, Uni- Unknown Flutists, Verrette versity Museum, Dimond Recital Hall - PCAC, 5 p.m. Library, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m. Contact Us: - 6 p.m. • Study Abroad Information • Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Session, MUB 334, 2 p.m. - The New Hampshire Johnson Theatre, 7 p.m. 3 p.m. 132 Memorial Union Building • Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Durham, NH 03824 Johnson Theatre, 7 p.m. Phone: 603-862-1323 www.TNHdigital.com Oct. 10 Oct. 11 Executive Editor Managing Editor Content Editor • Museum of Art Opens • Museum of Art Opens Ex- Sam Rabuck Allison Bellucci Tom Z. Spencer Exhibition, Paul Creative hibition, Paul Creative Arts [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Arts Center, 10 a.m. - 4 Center, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. p.m. • Dead Man’s Cell Phone, • Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Johnson Theatre, 2 p.m. Corrections If you believe that we have made an error, or if you have questions about The New Hampshire’s journalis- Johnson Theatre, 7 p.m. • Faculty Concert Series: tic standards and practices, you may contact Executive Editor Sam Rabuck by phone at 603-862-1323 or Elizabeth Gunlogson, Clari- by email at [email protected]. net, Bratton Recital Hall, 3 p.m. The next issue of The New Hampshire will be on Monday, October 12, 2015 The New Hampshire NEWS Thursday, October 8, 2015 3 TOMATO just started the breeding process CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 there and pollinated Tumbler.” Sideman and Noseworthy started segregating what they and is more readily available to wanted and grew the cherry toma- farmers due to its comparably bet- toes. The process took about six ter overall fruit quality, earliness, years from start to fi nish. yield, and growth habit than other “It’s not like taking a lot of cherry tomatoes. time at any given moment, you However, the development know?” Sideman said. “You’re did not occur overnight. sort of keeping it on the back Jennifer Noseworthy, a grad- burner.” uate student of Sideman’s, was “It was a great straightfor- teaching a horticulture class at ward project that wasn’t too hard UNH, and Sideman talked to her and it was great for two students about developing a cherry tomato. to work on, Sideman added, “and “I said, you know it would plant breeding is not the main part be really cool if we went and col- of my job here so it was a perfect lected all the tomato varieties that little side project to work on.” are supposed to do well in hang- Elisabeth Hodgdon, another ing baskets and see if any of them graduate student, wanting to learn are decent, and basically evaluate something about plant breeding, all these varieties,” Sideman said. picked up the project for a couple “So she [Noseworthy], in of years. her horticulture class, grew all of Sideman and Hodgdon de- these dozen varieties, that they cided it was ready after evaluat- could fi nd,” Sideman explained, ing it several times, giving it to “and it was really Jennifer’s work farmers to try, and getting feed- with her original horticulture class back. that started the whole project off. The research fi ndings were The class actually collected data reported in the June 2015 issue of and they got that, which was the HortScience in the article “Ram- foundation for the whole project.” bling Rose: A Pink-fruited Cherry “They were all really crud- Tomato for Hanging Basket Pro- dy compared to Tumbler, which duction.” was the best one,” Sideman said The next step for Rambling explaining the data results. “Yet Rose is to fi nd a seed company Tumbler wasn’t very available that will produce, carry and sell because it was a hybrid and so we the seed so people can have it.