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The Works Bakery took 21% off purchases made by women on ‘National Equal Pay Day’

On Tuesday, April 12, The Works Bakery in downtown Durham had a 21 percent discount off all items on its menu for paying female customers. The Works did this in honor of National Equal Pay Day.

UNH Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity officially unrecognized

Battle of the brands: Mixed responses to UNH dining's change in yogurt brand causes an uproar on Twitter

Off the meal plan: What students are cooking

Grown on campus: a look at the Dairy Bar’s sourcing

Located at the train station (adjacent to the Whittemore Center), the Dairy Bar is an establishment that takes great pride in serving food that comes from various local and wholesome products.

Best Buddies organizes Hobby Expo

Social-based organization Best Buddies provided dancing and coloring activities for its members at an event called Hobby Expo, to offer a little more fun on Sunday, April 10, before the weekend officially ended.  

Fairchild Hall turns 100 years old

A behind the scenes look at Resident Assistants on rounds

Residential Assistants, or RAs have important roles at UNH. They handle incidents while on rounds, provide socials for their residents, interact with their hall directors often, and most importantly instill a sense of community in their buildings.

SCOPE: How do they choose, what do students think?

Trying to choose an artist who appeals to the majority on a campus of over 12,000 opinionated students seems like a difficult task, yet the Student Committee on Popular Entertainment (SCOPE) seems to have done just that not once, but twice this semester.

Clean-up Crew starts cleanup initiative

Cans, bottles, pillows, couches, televisions, computers, you name it: it’s probably been dumped somewhere on the UNH campus.  In the back of the woods or right along the road, trash roams and piles on the weary ground, and a group of students have recently begun to pick it up.

Students stand against ‘Citizens United’

On Sunday, after a 140 mile, 9-day trek from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia to Washington D.C., a group of hundreds of activists arrived at D.C.’s Union Station. Their sights were set on Capitol Hill and campaign finance reform.

UNH students organize last annual run to remember the life of Oyster River High graduate

MECA holds cultural ‘Mystical Middle East’ event in MUB

Classroom to stable: The life of a UNH equine major

As summer nears and the end of the semester looms on the horizon, UNH students are beginning to prepare for finals, including those in UNH’s equine studies program. Students in their final semester of equine studies are required to take a capstone class to prove that they are truly worthy of an equine degree.

Retired professor awarded vegetable breeding award

Professor Emeritus Brent Loy was awarded the 2015 Vegetable Breeding Working Group Award of Excellence by the American Society of Horticultural Science.

UNH organization shows film to promote eating organic

Durham’s Candy Bar brings ice cream back downtown

When the beloved Kaleidoscoop permanently closed for business in early fall, downtown Durham lost its go-to ice cream hub… until now.

#WhyIStayed Domestic violence survivor shares her story

UNH student makes the Billboard Hot 100 with his track ‘Uber Everywhere’

In this new age of music making, we now have the ability to produce, create and record virtually anywhere. We live in a time where a beat, the melody, and the vocals no longer need to be laid down in a recording studio in order to have the same professional sound and effect. Now, more than ever, it is easier for anyone to have access to the industry. However, this is also what makes it harder for people to make it big, especially when you’re a junior computer science major studying at UNH. But Swedish-American and Merrimack native, Karl Hamnqvist, also known by his stage name as ‘K Swisha’, has beaten those odds. Not only in the academic setting of UNH, but in the rap game/trap music industry.

Bringing awareness into light

The month of April has been designated as National Autism Awareness Month, and the women of Alpha Xi Delta are aiming to help raise awareness about the disorder on campus.