The New HampshireVol. 103, No. 33www.TNHonline.com Friday,
February 28, 2014
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INSIDETHE NEWS
Friday, February 28, 2014
Eating Concerns Awareness week promotes healthy body image and
nutrition education.
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The womens basketball team fell to the Albany Great Danes 60-47
on Wednesday night in Durham.
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Above the Thompson Hall roo ine, years of ringing memories chime
the day away every half hour. At 11 a.m., programmed songs echo
outside the chamber, lling the Durham air. But since Thanksgiving,
the Thompson Hall bell sys-tem hasnt been working.
Carillonneur Peter Urquhart, who is also a renaissance
musicologist and associ-ate professor of music at the University of
New Hampshire, turned off the bell system.
Someone pulled the plug for the speak-ers and then Urquhart, who
did not know, shut the system off manually in the Elliott Alumni
Center because no one can gure out the problem.
The university is also working with an outside contractor on the
issue and hopes to have it resolved soon, UNH Director of Media
Relations Erika Mantz said in an email.
That got some thinking: How does this bell system really work,
and why arent we hearing it?
The Thompson Hall bell that students hear used to have to be
manually cranked for 15-20 minutes, three times a week. And
according to Guy Eaton, information and communication coordinator
within the fa-cilities organization, the crank was roughly 50
pounds.
Eaton, 76, used to run the housekeep-ing department earlier in
his career. He has a relationship with the Thompson Hall clock and
the bell, as housekeeping was responsible for the bells maintenance
and upkeep.
I was rst made aware of taking care of the clock by one of the
housekeepers there, Eaton said. He took me up one day
and said, This is yours when Im on vaca-tion. So you need to
know how to do it.
The single bell and crank were put into retirement after the
Thompson Hall renovation in 2006, according to Eaton. Now, when the
bell is working, that famil-iar Westminster chime dawns on campus
and Durham through eight speakers in the Thompson Hall tower.
Except for the occasional visitor and a cleaning, the bell doesnt
see much action.
Before that renovation, though, the Thompson Hall bell signi ed
a lot to the university and its inhabitants.
There was a time when the actual starting and ending of classes
ran by the clock, Eaton said.
The bell held signi cance during spe-cial events as well.
When there wasnt enough seating during a football game, Eaton
said, not everyone could see the game. Therefore, people who
couldnt see the eld knew UNH had a victory if they heard the
bell.
Urquhart said the bell system that you hear today is not the
single bell hanging in the clock tower; it is actually an
electrome-chanical device.
According to Urquhart, the electrome-chanical device is
programmed through a piano keyboard in the Elliott Alumni Cen-ter.
Urquhart can play songs and program them onto the keyboards memory.
Then, the 246-bell Grand Symphony Carillon console can play the
songs through a series of small metal bars. The signal gets
trans-mitted through two telephone wires from the Alumni Center to
Thompson Hall, where the eight speakers amplify them
Timeless tunes of UNH
A look inside the T-Hall bell tower
By CATIE HALLSTAFF WRITER
By MELISSA PROULXSTAFF WRITER
Police are on the lookout for an unidenti ed suspect who is
believed to have taken photos of a showering female resident in an
Upper Quad dorm.
The incident occurred the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 27, in
Randall Hall, according to a safety bulletin sent out to students
Wednesday by the UNH Police Department through Residential Life.
The victim called the station at ap-proximately 11:45 a.m.,
reporting that the unidenti ed sus-pect was outside of a shower
holding a mobile telephone over the stall in an effort to
photograph the female resident as she showered.
The victim believed the gender of the suspect to be male and was
certain that he was Caucasian and wearing a black, long sleeve
shirt or sweatshirt. The victim also said that the suspect was
using a white iPhone with a Minion sticker on the back, camera side
of the phone.
The UNH Police Department does not have any leads or suspects as
of yet.
By LILY OGARANEWS EDITOR
Ninety-two percent of students at the University of New
Hampshire are white, and can therefore attend any class, sporting
event or party con -dent that there will be people of their
ethnicity also in attendance. The other 8 percent are not
guaranteed that there will be other people of color present; in
fact, minority students on campus are not guaranteed many of the
things that white students may take for granted. This issue was
brought to light through the Of ce of Multicultural Student
Af-fairs (OMSA) #BAMUNH (Being a Minority at UNH) Twitter campaign
and in a subsequent forum on Tuesday .
Throughout the month of February, students were invited by OMSA
to share their experiences as part of the minor-ity population at
UNH with the trend-ing #BAMUNH. #BAMUNH follows in the footsteps of
a similar campaign that was launched at the University of Michigan
in November 2013. Being
Black at the University of Michigan, or #BBUM, sparked a
dialogue at the institution and Otis Douce, OMSAs multicultural
coordinator, thought that bringing such a movement to UNH might
start a discussion about race on campus.
There needs to be an acknowledg-ment that there is hurt, Douce
said
On Tuesday, members of the UNH
community gathered in the Memorial Union Building to continue
the Twitter conversation with OMSAs Say What event, The Post-Racial
Myth and #BA-MUNH.
Students tweets throughout the past month and their comments
dur-ing the event mirrored one another and
#BAMUNH sparks conversation about racePolice investigating
Randall Hall peeper
SUSAN DOUCET/STAFF
The O ce of Multicultural Student a airs is located in MUB
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