UNH gymnastics team gave head coach Gail INSIDE Dimond Library hosts DataRescueNH Goodspeed her 600th career victory after the news event for national “Love Your Data defeating Temple University at Lundholm Week.” 4 Gymnasium on Sunday afternoon. 12 THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SINCE 1911 he New Hampshir TTNHdigital.com Monday, February 20, 2017 Vol. 106, no. 32E Martin Luther King Jr. interfaith service showcases ‘unsung heroes’ Student By Aaron Soroa vice. The service was a part of the sis placed on the concept of “un- program coordinator for the UNH STAFF WRITER “UNH MLK Celebration Series sung heroes.” Theses heroes are Offi ce of Community, Equity and Senate Program,” which is held annually seen as people that fi ght for posi- Diversity, spoke to those in atten- On Sunday, Feb. 19, the every February in celebration of tive change in their communities dance and provided the examples Update Durham Unitarian Universalist Black History Month. despite adversity, and might not of Septima Clark and Bayard Rus- While the service was in cel- have received proper credit for tin as such unsung heroes. Fellowship invited the UNH com- Resolution passed ebration of Martin Luther King the work they do to infl uence such munity to join them for their Mar- MLK opposing Trump’s tin Luther King Jr. interfaith ser- Jr. and all of his work regarding change. civil rights, there was an empha- Sylvia Foster, the educational continued on page 3 executive order By Tyler Kennedy UNH’s Dance Marathon raises $34,146 CONTENT EDITOR Though Sunday night By Gabrielle Lamontagne was the fi rst occasion in STAFF WRITER which the Student Senate met in over two weeks, the Over 800 people attended UNH’s Dance meeting’s timeframe was a Marathon on Saturday, which surpassed last crisp two hours and 29 min- year’s attendance by almost 200, in an effort utes. to raise money for Boston Children’s Hospital. Douglas Bencks, UNH At the end of the night, a total of $34,145.86 university architect and di- was raised. rector of campus planning, On the day of the event, however, UNH addressed the senate in re- junior phycology major and public relations gards to the expansion and and marketing chair for the event, Alyssa Kol- renovation of the Hamilton bert, said,“It’s been going amazing. We have Smith building. over 800 participants and it’s not even a quar- According to Student ter of the way through. Some of our people are Senate Speaker Alex Fries, out there dancing to make people feel like it’s Bencks stated that the build- okay to dance.” ing is still on schedule to be Though the offi cial motto of the UNH completed for the upcom- Dance Marathon was “For The Kids,” the ing fall semester. However, event also proved exciting for attendees as stu- Bencks provided the senate dents danced the afternoon and evening away with ranges rather than exact and played various games and activities dur- dates, Fries said. Bencks also ing this major fundraiser. highlighted the increased ac- Though the Dance Marathon takes place cessibility that would be add- at multiple other schools, UNH’s version of ed to the building – notably, this event is relatively new, being only four an elevator. years old. Another guest to Sun- The UNH chapter of this student orga- day’s meeting was a repre- nization works with both Boston Children’s Gabrielle Lamontage/Staff sentative from the Graduate Student Senate who spoke Hospital and the Children’s Miracle Network, Dance Marathon student organization hosted 200 more students than last in regard to a rally for voting a non-profi t in charge of raising money for year’s event with around 800 attendees on Saturday. children’s hospitals across North America. rights that is to occur in Con- According to their Wildcat Link page, the hospital and introduce the cause to a new just raise money throughout the year for the cord on Feb. 25. “The University of New Hampshire’s Dance generation of UNH students.” kids at Boston Children’s Hospital and all the A fl yer for the rally Marathon is a student organization that sup- “It’s called Dance Marathon because money goes to them and helping families not states, “Concord is currently ports Children’s Miracle Network hospitals. you’re supposed to dance for the kids who have to pay for any of the treatments,” Condon considering bills that would Students spend the year raising funds in a va- can’t,” senior fi nance and management ma- added. stop out-of-state college riety of ways, planning the main event Dance jor and head of the committee to organize the “It’s not really competitive, but you try to students from voting. Come Marathon, and interacting with children’s event at UNH, Ali Condon, said. beat your goal each year. Last year our goal join us as we advocate for hospital patients and families. The year cul- “[The Children’s Miracle Network] help was $25,000 and we raised $36,000. So this voting right for all of New minates with a multi-hour marathon where the us put on the event and with any questions students stay on their feet and stay awake to we have. They help us get the families to the Senate celebrate the total amount of funds raised that event and everything like that. Basically we Dance continued on page 3 year, throw a dance party for kids treated by continued on page 3 TNH alumni series Ali Jurta | Class of ’93 | Editor-in-Chief By Mark Kobzik tern at the Concord Monitor; she technologies currently used in a map. If she needed background popular. STAFF WRITER knew journalism and writing newsrooms. There were ancient information on a subject, she was “It was only through that were her future. What she did not computers and fl oppy disks, and out of luck because there was no trust, because you didn’t have Ali Jurta arrived to the Uni- know, however, was how much writers at the paper had to per- internet in the newsroom. Facebook. You didn’t have any of versity of New Hampshire cam- the fi eld would change in her 25 sonally come in and write their Jurta remarked that she those ways to share things, it was pus in 1989 knowing exactly what years of work. stories, no email. Suffi ce to say, would bring doughnuts to police more intimate. It was certainly she wanted to do. For the next four Jurta began her work at TNH times were different. departments for policemen and a currency of trust. That’s how I years, she would rise through The in the second semester of her When Jurta worked at the city councils to see what the word scooped up the number one story New Hampshire (TNH) ranks and freshman year. Back then, there Monitor in the mid ‘90s, she’d be was. Later, that would help her I did,” Jurta said. become the editor-in-chief, while were no smartphones, laptops, so- going to interview someone and when covering a shooting at city also becoming the fi rst UNH in- phisticated printers, the Internet, have to pull over to the side of the hall. She said that the personal Alumni social media or any of the endless road to ask directions or reference connections these days aren’t as continued on page 3 A Look The Ahead Feb. 20 NE - Organic garden W club, MUB 115, 7-8 P.M. - OISS resume/inter- view meeting, MUB AMPSHIRE 330/332, 4:30-6 P.M. Since 1911 H WEATHER: 39/17 INDEX* Sunny TNH picks: #instaunh snapshots Alumna gives lessons in leadership on listening Feb. 21 - UNH Ski and Board, UNH alumna Kelley-Jaye Cle- MUB 156, 6-7 P.M. land tells UNH students how - Relay for Life Kick- she landed at her current off, MUB Theater II, 7 P.M. career involving the creation of lottery tickets. WEATHER: 38/32 Mostly Cloudy 7 4 UNH students take to Instagram to showcase UNH’s beauty and Wildcat pride. Check out some fellow Wildcats’ photos! Feb. 22 ‘Cats ski to fourth-place finish TNH newsroom - Amnesty interna- poll tional, MUB 114 F, 6-7 P.M. - Geocaching club, TNH editorial staff answers MUB 321, 7-8 P.M. what they’re most looking for- - Women’s lacrosse ward to about spring in vs. Dartmouth, (3 P.M.) Durham. WEATHER: 50/33 10 6 Partly Cloudy Feb. 23 The UNH skiing team participated in the Middlebury Winter Carni- val this weekend and came away with a fourth place finish. - Outdoor jobs fair, GSR, 11 A.M. - 3 P.M. - Women’s basket- ball vs. UMass Low- CONNECT ell, 7 P.M. Executive Editor THE NEW HAMPSHIRE WEATHER: Allison Bellucci | [email protected] Room 132 Memorial Union Building 56/34 Durham, NH 03824 Mostly Sunny 603-862-1323 Managing Editor Elizabeth Clemente | [email protected] SUBSCRIBE AND READ ONLINE TNHdigital.com The next issue of Content Editor THE NEW HAMPSHIRE THE NEW HAMPSHIRE Tyler Kennedy | [email protected] will be published on: @THENEWHAMPSHIRE Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017 CORRECTIONS------ In the issue published on Feb. 16, it stated in the article “On the spot with Tyler @THENEWHAMPSHIRE Wentworth” that Wentworth worked at La Salle University; the correct institution Weather according to weather.com is Lasell College. In the same article, it incorrectly stated that Facebook has 1.75 billion users; the accurate amount is 1.79 billion users, THE NEW HAMPSHIRE NEWS Monday, February 20, 2017 3 MLK “Creating a Circle of Remem- using it to fi ght for social issues.