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By Bret Belden · Thursday, March 24, 2016

Diplomat Richard Haass was announced as the speaker for the class of 2016’s commencement ceremony Wednesday morning. The announcement served as a painful reminder that graduation is, unfortunately, actually happening. To prevent potential tears or hyperventilation, I’ll omit the (steadily approaching) graduation date. 

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Obama’s swing and a miss

By Bret Belden · Thursday, March 24, 2016

President Obama was the first sitting American President to visit the Island of Cuba since Calvin Coolidge in 1928. It really goes without saying that this is not because of some odd coincidence that past presidents of the freest nation on Earth have chosen to skip over the island throughout history.

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‘School Hard’

By Bret Belden · Thursday, March 24, 2016

"Grade 9,” by the Barenaked Ladies, is a song that was released in the early 1990s and is all about first impressions and the crazy whirlwind that is high school.

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Letter to the Editor

By Bret Belden · Sunday, March 20, 2016

I wholeheartedly agree with Mark Kobzik that criticism of the powerful should not cease after they’re dead.  But it seems as though he forgot to mention on Monday any terrible person who wasn’t a liberal bugbear.  In the spirit of jogging the memory, then:

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A silent majority

By Bret Belden · Sunday, March 20, 2016

There is a quiet and subtle revolution currently taking place here in the United States.

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Explicating Educators

By Bret Belden · Sunday, March 20, 2016

The New Hampshire staff mourns the loss of Principal Lecturer in Music Arlene Kies, who passed away from cancer at age 63 on Feb. 11.

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Letter to the editor

By Bret Belden · Sunday, March 20, 2016

I was once a part of a political revolution.  A young, charismatic man was our leader.  He promised change.  He was going to reform the political system as we know it, and he was going to do it with the groundswell of support driving his revolution.  It was going to be amazing, a once-in-a-generation phenomenon.

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Shaking the establishment

By Bret Belden · Sunday, March 20, 2016

People are pissed. Americans, who are for the most part are lazy and apathetic voters, turned out in Iowa on Feb. 1 and in New Hampshire on Feb. 9 to send one hell of a wake-up call to both the GOP and Democratic establishments.

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Swerving Solipsism

By Bret Belden · Sunday, March 20, 2016

A political air has swept through Durham and across the Granite State as voters get set to hit the polls for the New Hampshire primary election.

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Proclaimers’ palpable patriotism

By Bret Belden · Monday, Feb. 22, 2016

History is always relevant, even though it may not seem so. It’s true that studying history can be a boring subject for many people. But, as the saying goes, ‘Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.’ Even international history is relevant and important to current and future generations.

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Editorial: Educational Edge

By Bret Belden · Monday, Feb. 22, 2016

The battle for the Democratic presidential nomination between former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders continues with tonight’s 9 p.m. debate at the Johnson Theatre on campus.

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LTE: Comments on Consent

By Archives · Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015

The topic of “consent” has raised many questions in the past few years as universities across the country have started to take actions to prevent sexual assault. Redefining consent, enforcing harsher legal judgments, and teaching bystander intervention strategies are just a few ways in which colleges have attempted to reduce the chilling statistic that 1 in 5 women will experience a completed or attempted rape during her college years.

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