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Bonetti's Defense? Jake Tremblay '11, left, and Gloria Snyder '10 are two of the three dozen students on the UNH Fencing Team. Tremblay, a theater major, took up fencing to learn a skill he may need someday as an actor. But he has another motivation. "Swords," he says, "are just cool." Snyder says at fencing practice, she forgets everything else. "And when I go back to the dorm," she adds, "I can get into my homework again." It's also "a blast," she says. "There aren't many things you can do where you get to beat up your friends."

Ice Bound: Since UNH Campus Recreation took over management of the Whittemore Center from an outside firm, student access to the ice has been given a higher priority. Students have flocked to open skating hours, especially since skate rentals were added three years ago; a holiday skating party in December drew 200 students.