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(03/12/20 2:39am)
Kate Fagan, a former ESPN sports commentator, gave an emotional speech about her book, “What Made Maddy Run,” discussing the topic of mental health at the Memorial Union Building (MUB) at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) on Wednesday night. The book, a #1 New York Times Monthly Sports and Fitness best seller, focuses on Madison “Maddy” Holleran, a University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) athlete who shocked everyone when she committed suicide in 2013.
(03/05/20 4:36pm)
Curlies Comedy Club in Rochester, NH, is going to be starring a familiar face on Friday, March 6 and Saturday, March 7 when comedian John Poveromo brings his stand-up act to the stage. Poveromo, being familiar with the area, has performed at Curlies multiple times in the past and has a certain affinity for the comedy club. He attests this to how the club is ran in a very comedian-friendly way, owing it to manager Jay Grove, himself a comic.
(02/27/20 2:12am)
There is a class held every year on the University of New Hampshire (UNH) main campus that has no exams, no required note-taking, no PowerPoints, and also, no credit. It’s the Citizens Police Academy (CPA), held weekly at the UNH Police Department for 10 weeks every spring.
(02/13/20 4:40am)
In her debut novel, “Queenie,” Candice Carty-Williams tells the story of 25-year-old Queenie Jenkins, a black woman trying to navigate her life in London after a devastating breakup. Published in March 2019, Carty-Williams covers topics that are relevant to young people now such as the want for social change and justice, bad Tinder hookups, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, interracial dating, mental health, sexual harassment and more. Much like real people, Queenie is not perfect but she never pretends to be. She is funny and relatable, while also going through her own inner battles. Right off the bat, we are plunged into Queenie’s life, watching she and her boyfriend go on a “break” and figuring out her next steps. We see Queenie make a string of bad decisions while trying to figure out who she is, caught between her family’s Jamaican culture and the culture she grew up with in London.
(02/13/20 2:32am)
As presidential hopeful and Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) greeted a packed house at the University of New Hampshire’s (UNH) Huddleston Hall on Saturday, Feb. 8, she began her Durham pitch with a promise to “barnstorm your state,” one driven by her passion to prevail in 2020’s “first-in-the-nation” contest.
(01/30/20 2:59am)
Full beer bottles whizzed by the heads of a packed crowd. Chunks of wood, debris, couches and chairs flew with reckless abandon. Fire danced alongside wooden telephone poles. And in the middle of it all, a bonfire raged on Main Street in Durham.
(12/06/19 1:42am)
Fresh off his fifth national debate just the night before, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) centered his Nov. 22 rally at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) around a life story complete with personal encounters with the same inequalities he has persistently promised to fight through his candidacy, all as he told his political story and tackled multiple topics with the audience in a subsequent town hall format in an effort to rack up a stronger student vote.
(12/06/19 1:22am)
The University of New Hampshire (UNH) Police Department’s new comfort dog isn’t quite ready to join the force, but she’s working on it, according to Officer Callum Cochran.
(12/06/19 12:00am)
Following a botched first half of its yearly budget discussions due to technical fouls, the Student Senate scored a successful second half on Sunday, Nov. 24 as it passed the remaining Student Activity Fee (SAF) organization proposals without fail, on top of the passing of new legislation urging renewed action on the inclusion of American Sign Language (ASL) as a language capable for fulfilling student foreign language requirements, among other business.
(11/21/19 4:14am)
There are three questions posed by the University of New Hampshire (UNH) students and faculty to encourage inclusivity: “What’s your name, preferred pronouns, and where are you from?”
(11/01/19 9:41pm)
As he jogged down the hill toward his makeshift stage and through a crowded throng of students and community members into the University of New Hampshire (UNH) “fishbowl” on Friday, Oct. 25, presidential candidate and Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, IN. presented himself as a man of many titles.
(10/11/19 3:09am)
When considering his over 35 years of service to the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and a near-constant commitment to the daily doings and dreams of his student body, John “Ted” Kirkpatrick’s post-UNH plans may at first come off as unusual and out-of-character.
(09/26/19 3:12am)
“The Whisper Network” by Chandler Baker is part of Reese Witherspoon's book club and it did not disappoint. It kind of reads like “Big Little Lies,” but instead of Australia, it was in Texas and instead of moms in the schoolyard, it was working women with a variety of backgrounds. It also gives a mental picture of the movie “Nine to Five,” where women band together to take down a sexist boss, but while the movie can be seen as funny, this story can be all too real for some women.
(09/18/19 11:37pm)
A torrent of new faces, rule changes and words of advice from the Dean of Students flowed through Hamilton Smith 205 as the UNH Student Senate inaugurated its much-anticipated 41st Session, one promised by its own speaker to be the governing body’s “revitalization.”
(09/05/19 1:56am)
University of New Hampshire and Durham police are re-questioning the people involved in a late-night incident that occurred on campus Aug. 25 and was reported to police by an Uber driver in the area after claiming to see it.
(05/02/19 9:00am)
“May the fourth” be with you this weekend as UNH hosts two major campus-wide events this Saturday:
(04/25/19 1:07am)
With finals week just around the corner, students prepare to pull all-nighters, camp in the library, abandon all nonacademic activities, and ignore the entire concept of self-care. Unfortunately, all of those things are not only unhealthy, but also detrimental to the exam-taking process. With that in mind, Health & Wellness shared some advice on how to cope with stress during the end of the semester.
(04/11/19 12:06am)
An April Fool’s Day social media post from UNH Today concerning the campus’ Paws and Relax program a day after last week’s West Edge incident generated criticism from students and the community for its seemingly poor timing in light of renewed conversation over mental health.
(04/04/19 2:54am)
“My heart broke,” said Allison Pettis, a first-year nutrition student at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) who previously lost a family member to suicide. “Just hearing that someone else on campus was going through the same thing, my first instinct was fear for the family; fear for the person inside the car… It was just a lot of emotions going on.”
(03/07/19 5:09pm)
Durham-based artist Amy Issa unveils new mural, titled "Missing," that sorts through the depression and suicide attempt of her son
