A 21-year-old male UNH student was taken to the hospital after being assaulted late Saturday night on Ballard Street, between Sawyer and Stoke Halls.
According to Sgt. Steven Lee of the UNH Police Department, the victim sustained significant injuries including damage to his face and upper torso, though Lee declined to comment on the exact injuries. The victim was rushed to the hospital but has since been released.
The attack happened around 11:35 p.m. Saturday night when three unidentified assailants, one dressed in what looked like a banana or hot dog costume and two others dressed in dark-colored hoodies, attacked the victim for an unknown reason while bystanders walked by and watched. One bystander called 911.
“I imagine with Wildcatessen right there, there were people,” said Lee in a phone interview after the attack.
Lee said the attack was not only witnessed from the street, but from the surrounding dorm windows.
Roommates Jacki Douglas and Courtney Parron, both freshmen and Sawyer Hall residents, live in a room that faces the location of the attack. Although Parron wasn’t in the room at the time, Douglas was and she said that she didn’t hear or see anything concerning the attack.
“If we had, we would’ve come out obviously,” Douglas said. “People probably just thought it’s Halloween night, probably just a couple of guys messing around.”
Parron hopes the bystanders that witnessed the attack, and did nothing, were misinformed.
“I really hope that people who walked by were intoxicated or oblivious,” Parron said. “It’s scary.”
After the attack, UNH Police issued a campus alert via email and text message in accordance with the Clery Act. The Clery Act, according to the police campus alert sent out Nov. 1, “requires all colleges and universities that participate in federal financial aid programs to keep and disclose information about crime on and near their respective campuses.”
After the campus alert, witnesses of the attack have come forward and talked with police. According to Lee, UNH police are continuing the investigation and are in the process of following leads on a couple of individuals.
Anne Lawing, Dean of Students with Student and Academic Affairs, cited the importance of the campus alerts in identifying suspects and solving attacks like this one.
“They’ve made an arrest in the September attack in front of Stoke partially because witnesses came forward after receiving these alerts and were able to give descriptions of the suspect, leading to an arrest,” Lawing said. “That’s the importance of the system.”
If you or anyone you know witnessed this attack and have information that would be useful to the investigation, UNH Police ask that you contact them at 603-862-1427.
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If you read on their facebook page for the stolen sign they accuse them of taking it. I just think that the blame game has gone too far on this campus and people see fraternities as a good scape goat. Yes some do some shady stuff, but at the same time one cannot instantly blame them. "They think it was maybe a fraternity stunt or scavenger hunt of some kind." - taken directly from their facebook page. I do hope that your sign does get returned because I understand how iconic it is for the university and the MUB.
It is time the faculity sucked it up like the rest of us on campus. This year staff over $40,000 received no raise, faculity received 5.5%. Take the 1.5% and be happy. Do You remember why you became a professor? I hope, to pass your knowledge on to the next generation. Some of you look like greedy individuals who can only think of the God almighty dollar and not the students you teach and mentor. If we keep increasing out tuition to pay for salaries students will look at other schools and then where will you be, on the street.
I don't think it's fair to compare UNH to UMass (Amherst, I assume) and UConn. Both those schools are considerably larger than UNH — 26,000 and 20,000 undergrads, respectively — while the other schools mentioned are closer to UNH's size, give or take 3,000 students. Massachusetts and Connecticut are also feeling the effects of the recession slightly more than NH is. I realize that UNH commonly uses those schools as comparators, but those two are just on a different level than our school.There are two other things I'm going to look up before I decide how I feel about this. First, how does the average UNH professor's salary compare to to other universities? It's probably in line with other schools, but if it's significantly lower, shouldn't UNH profs get that too? As some have said, if the pay is lower here, professors can quit and go to other schools — if they can find an open position somewhere else. But, if a professor leaves, the school will be left in the position of trying to attract a new teacher with lower-than-average salaries. Enact the raises and UNH remains competitive in keeping and hiring the best professors.Second, what percentage of UNH's budget goes toward paying the professors? Again, this could be that the professors are asking the university to dedicate an equal amount to paying educators at UNH as they are paid at other schools. If UNH only dedicates 15% of the budget to prof pay and the other schools all dedicate 20%, why shouldn't that be changed? Not to sound Beck-ian, but I don't know and that's something that should be looked at.Neither of those questions deal with the larger problem of education funding from the state, which I think was something like 2 percent (and that's for all schools, not just colleges). California students staged huge protests yesterday because fee hikes raised they amount they pay per year for school to around $11,000. Meanwhile, that's close to what UNH students have been paying for tuition alone for years, and it continues to rise. If Governor Lynch and our state reps don't start working to increase education funding in the state, all the groups involved, students, professors and administration, need to start showing the kind of outrage that California showed yesterday.
The whiny, lazy, faculty all need to get fired. I haven't seen a more wanna-be-entitled bunch anywhere I have worked. They don't deserve any raises, but instead a pay cut. The rest of the staff had a mandatory salary freeze that will last probably 2 years at least. Faculty also get the bonus of cheaper benefits than the rest of the staff. To top it off they are whiners and complainers about anything not in their contract or if they feel the least bit slighted by the administration. They got out of taking mandatory sexual-harrassment training that everyone else on staff had to take, since somehow their union filed a grievance with the administration that it wasn't required in their contract. The entire training was online and took less than an hour but that's too much for those slackers. Tenure indeed is the only thing that keeps many of them employed, and it's a concept that needs to get thrown out. Many of them are dead wood, not bringing new ideas to the table and too 'busy' to try anything new, despite having many grad assistants and others to do all their real work, and the most over the top support structure of any organization I have seen. Yet their greed continues unchecked! Ugh! Good riddance!
How quickly things change. Just last week, when editorializing about a group of campus perverts, the attitude of the editors was: "we also don’t think it’s any of our business to judge an organization just because their activities are a shock to our system." Seven days ago we were advised to "shackle our judgment" and told that the campus S&M crowd "deserves respect." Now, a mere week later, when the same editorial board concludes that the UNH faculty union's collective bargaining position is "shocking," what do the editors do? Take their own advice and "shackle their judgment?" Offer respect to the faculty? Conclude that the negotiations are none of their business? No, none of these. Instead, the hypocritical editors tell "whining" and "greedy" faculty they are lucky to have a job, and should be satisfied with whatever the administration considers to be a fair offer -- because, presumably, the administration ALWAYS tells the truth about university finances, and ALWAYS treats the employees of the university fairly.Why not spend some effort actually learning the facts regarding the financial situation of the university -- revenues from the state, tuition increases, higher enrollments, grant money? Why not report on the value of the faculty and the university as an economic engine for the state? Why not investigate both the enormous increase in administrative salaries and the bloated growth in new administrative positions over the last two decades? Why not write about the relative compensation of your faculty compared to those with similar education, training, and experience in other fields? I guess these tasks were too challenging. It's just easier to call faculty names. Everybody loves free-market capitalism as long as the managers and administrators get to call the shots and the workers remain docile and content with whatever the bosses decide they deserve. But, when workers assert their rights and engage in labor negotiations as equals -- well, that is just unacceptable to our enlightened editorial masters. You're all doing a great job of learning how to be corporate lap dog journalists. Oh, and you spelled "principal" incorrectly.
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