2008 Woodie Awards
They drove 30 hours straight from Mississippi to New Hampshire. Braving 105-degree heat and severe dehydration, four New Hampshire volunteers returned with a horse trailer full of precious cargo. The four New Hampshire Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NHSPCA) volunteers returned to Stratham on Monday, Sept.
Josh Bedard's father does not know how old he is. He was not given a birth certificate or Social Security Number; he technically does not exist. He only knows that he was born on a reservation of his tribe, the Nez Perce, and given the name Longstar.
Students may have been curious when they found that the University of New Hampshire's Sexual Harassment and Rape Prevention Program (SHARPP) was missing from the second floor of Health Services this semester. Unbeknownst to many on campus, SHARPP offices moved at the beginning of the semester from their location at Health Services to Verrette House, on Garrison Ave.
They called themselves Channel 4 News Team and after Sunday night's dodgeball tournament, they can call themselves champions. Eight members of the UNH men's cross country team made up the victorious combination of players. Over 20 teams took to the turf Sunday night to raise money for Hurricane Katrina victims.
Concord, N.H.- There's growing sentiment in New Hampshire for stronger penalties for sex offenders, but some prosecutors who handle child-molester cases disagree on whether mandatory 25-year prison terms would help protect children. Some feel the sentence would get offenders off the streets, but others feel they would lose the ability to plea bargain and salvage cases.
The more things change, the more they stay the same. One could go as far as to compare the Durham House of Pizza to the Rolling Stones, in that they both consistently provide a classic American product, and while it's rock and roll that gives the Stones and their fans plenty of satisfaction, DHOP has shown the UNH community that when it comes to pizza, you can always get what you want.
Despite slow loading times and heated grumbling from students around campus, the use of Blackboard by the UNH community continues to increase, and CIS continues their efforts to fix as many glitches as they can. "Blackboard is like an online city," commented Bill Baber, who is in charge of The Blackboard Project.
As the summer draws to a close, the EEE virus still remains a viable threat. Concerns have been raised over the course of the summer due in part to the discovery of four dead birds, a dead horse and the recent deaths of a 20-year-old Newton woman, and an 80-year-old Hooksett man earlier this year.
