Health Services hosts several The gymnastics team defeated Yale University INSIDE body positive events in honor and Brown University 196.025-193.175, in the the news of Eating Concerns Awareness season’s fi nal home meet at Lundholm Gym- Week. 5 nasium on Sunday afternoon. 15 THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT PAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE SINCE 1911 he New Hampshir TTNHdigital.com Monday, March 6, 2017 Vol. 106, no. 36E Granite Guarantee to cover full tuition of 285 students Student Senate By Madison Neary and grants are applied. To qualify academic school year is $28,562 strong commitment to access and update STAFF WRITER for the Granite Guarantee, stu- including tuition, fees, and room affordability.” dents must be Pell grant recipients and board. In an attempt to make The Free Application for Not Too Sharp album goes Beginning fall semester of and have been admitted to the uni- college more affordable, Granite Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) back to SAFC, resolu- 2017, UNH will eliminate tuition versity’s Durham or Manchester Guarantee eligible students will process determines who is Pell- tions on voting rights and costs for approximately 285 in- campuses for fall 2017 as a full receive approximately $4.8 mil- eligible, meaning the university Grand Chapter passed coming fi rst year students, ac- time, in-state student. lion in grant and scholarship aid, has no say in the selection of its U.S. News and World Report according to Mantz. Granite Guarantee students. By Tyler Kennedy cording to UNH Today. CONTENT EDITOR According to UNH Media ranked New Hampshire as num- “Removing barriers to higher According to the U.S. De- Relations Director Erika Mantz, ber 48 in the nation in regard to education for the state’s best and partment of Education’s website, this program, titled the Granite students graduating from higher brightest students has been the “The Federal Pell Grant Program After discussing and Guarantee, is overseen by the education institutions with low top priority of President [Mark] provides need-based grants to reviewing a decision by the UNH Financial Aid Department debt. According to UNH’s Under- Huddleston over the last decade,” Student Activity Fee Com- and will pay the outstanding cost graduate Admissions’ web page, Mantz said. “And the Gran- GRANITE mittee (SAFC) that would in-state tuition for the 2017-18 ite Guarantee demonstrates our provide $10,000 to the a cap- of tuition after merit scholarships continued on page 3 pella group Not Too Sharp to fund their next album, a UNH senior explores Outdoor Adventures hosts annual bouldering competition SAFC appeals board has de- complicated questions cided to send the matter back surrounding Hong Kong to the committee for further evaluation before such fund- By Jordyn Haime ing will be allocated. CONTRIBUTING WRITER According to Student Senate Speaker Alexander Fries, the appeals board found Senior occupational therapy that the original proposal by major Stefanie Cheung moved Not Too Sharp didn’t contain to the United States from Hong “clear insight” on matters re- Kong when she was a sophomore garding the budget. Fries also in high school. She was tired of noted the board’s decision being asked if her home of Hong was impacted by how the 6-5 Kong was a country. Her answer vote by SAFC featured three was always, “it’s complicated.” proxy members. “People are very interested In Sunday’s senate meet- in this topic, so I thought, let’s do ing, two individuals were a Cultural Connections about it... added in as senators: Elias it is a very complicated topic, and Tyrrel-Walker of Jessie Doe I thought it would be very inter- Hall and Joseph Balsamo of esting for the UNH student body,” Van Hendrickx/Staff the Upper Quad. In regard Cheung said. to SAFC appointments, Aby Cheung’s lecture, “Is Hong (Left to right) Alumnus Dan Tauriello, senior Rachael Galipo and sophomore Spencer Mar- shall compete in the bouldering competition on Sunday night. Kourafas was approved to be Kong a Country?” was presented an at-large member and Sar- as part of the Cultural Connec- ah Scheinman was approved tions lecture series on Friday, By Van Hendrickx cally takes place at the old climb- Marshall claimed he was try- ing wall at the Whittemore Center, ing to place in the competition but to be a SAFC Member. There March 3, at 3:30 p.m. in the Me- STAFF WRITER remains one SAFC at-large morial Union Building’s (MUB) has been permanently relocated to was mostly there for fun. the new revamped wall inside of “I started climbing pretty in- member spot left. This past entertainment center. The room The climbing community at meeting also saw the resigna- was fi lled with interested specta- UNH is growing and diversifying, the Hamel Recreation Center and tensively fall of my freshman year took place on Sunday, March 5. and since then I have been climb- tion of Student Senate Parlia- tors who wondered about Hong and the walls that they climb seem mentarian Shannon O’Hara, Kong’s status in the world. to be doing the same. “This wall is much bigger, ing a bunch in my OE courses,” although the other wall had more Marshall said. and Fries has until Tuesday to This year’s annual climbing fi ll the spot with an interim. CULTURAL roof space,” sophomore outdoor competition, run by Outdoor Ad- BOULDERING The application for the posi- continued on page 3 ventures of Campus Rec, that typi- education (OE) major Spencer Marshall said. continued on page 3 tion is expected to close on Friday at 12 p.m. Four resolutions were brought upon the senate fl oor on Sunday night and all were On the passed; three of them passed SPOTwith senior musical theatre major Taylor Morrow unanimously. The fi rst resolution, Res- Mask and Dagger is UNH’s only stu- olution 25, calls for an updat- By Jocelyn Van Saun ing of the anti-discrimination STAFF WRITER dent-run traditional theatre organization, meaning anyone can audition, regardless policies concerning housing and residential life. The reso- Taylor Morrow has had a passion of major. “[Mask and Dagger] is cool because lution urges residential life for the performing arts ever since middle and housing to “include an school. Now a senior, Morrow looks for- we have plenty of people here [at UNH] who loved theatre in high school, but their explicit anti-discrimination ward to graduating in May with a degree clause on roommate agree- in theatre with a musical theatre empha- majors don’t necessarily allow them that much time to perform,” Morrow said. ments” and to also “form a sis. policy committee to examine You may recognize him from his role Their spring show, “Assassins” cov- ered all the presidential assassinations and its current anti-discrimination as Andrew Jackson in “Bloody Bloody policy and propose changes Andrew Jackson,” or recall his voice from attempted assassinations throughout his- any one of UNH a cappella group Alabas- tory, by putting all the assassins together, in a place outside any specifi c point in ter Blue’s performances. Most recently, Student Senate Morrow starred as John Wilkes Booth in continued on page 3 Mask and Dagger’s rendition of Stephen On the Spot Courtesy of Merrill Peiffer Sondheim’s “Assassins.” continued on page 3 A Look The Ahead Mar. 6 NE - Juggling Club W Meeting, MUB 330/332, 7 - 10 p.m. - Organic Garden Club Meeting, MUB AMPSHIRE 115, 7 - 8 p.m. H Since 1911 WEATHER: INDEX* 57/47 Partly Cloudy UNH hosts gaming marathon MSA presents a discussion on refugees Mar. 7 - Anime Club, MUB Humanitarian activist and 338/340, 5 - 8 p.m. author Becky Sakellariou spoke - Dairy Club Meeting, to UNH students on her work MUB 338/340, 8:30 - 9:15 p.m. with refugee camps in Greece and lectured on the need to take care of refugees. WEATHER: 66/50 8 Afternoon Rain A gaming marathon hosted by the UNH Meeple Cardboard Syndicate 6 this past weekend welcomed about 200 people looking to be challenged in various boardgames. Mar. 8 ‘Cats clinch quarterfinal spot UNH dimond library promotes - Table Tennis UNH, diversity and inclusion MUB 330/332, 7 - 8 p.m. - Geocaching Club, MUB 321, 7 - 8 p.m. UNH Dimond Library recently displayed the newly released di- versity and inclusion statement, WEATHER: along with multiple posters and 63/37 Sunny personal statements. 16X 7 Mar. 9 Th e men’s hockey team defeated Merrimack College in a decisive - Asbestos Awareness Game 3, 5-2, on Sunday night to advance to the Hockey East quarter- Training, MUB 302, fi nals. 9 - 11 a.m. - College Democrats Meeting, 154 Wildcat CONNECT Den, 6 - 7 p.m. Executive Editor THE NEW HAMPSHIRE WEATHER: Allison Bellucci | [email protected] Room 132 Memorial Union Building 57/40 Durham, NH 03824 Sunny 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, March 9, 2017 CORRECTIONS------ IF YOU BELIEVE THAT WE HAVE MADE AN ERROR, OR IF YOU HAVE ANY @THENEWHAMPSHIRE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE NEW HAMPHSIRE’S JOURNALISTIC STANDARDS AND Weather according to weather.com PRACTICES, YOU MAY CONTACT EXECUTIVE EDITOR ALLISON BELLUCCI BY PHONE AT 603-862-1323 OR BY EMAIL AT [email protected]. THE NEW HAMPSHIRE NEWS monday, march 6, 2017 3 CULTURAL is heavily influenced by the Brit- However, there is no discus- continued from page 1 ish.