Her story begins in the Bronx in the mid-1980s. She spent the early years traveling around New York City providing AIDS awareness and free HIV testing. She was named after her creator, who died as a result of contracting AIDS. Now she provides health-care services for more than 900 patients along the New Hampshire Seacoast.
Measures are being taken to provide an organized response to bias incidents and hate crimes on campus. It is a mechanism that can be accessed online at specific addresses to inform the person or group harmed and the community. The Student Senate passed the Bias Response Protocol resolution with one nay meeting Sunday evening.
In the back corner of the Durham Market Place the sticker on the cooler reads: "Nobody ever wishes they'd slept more during college." In the front display right as you walk in Store 24 the big display has cans in 12 and 8.3 ounces, with a poster at the top that declares: "Minds, like pencils, work better when sharp.
A week from now a couple hundred UNH students are going to join thousands of students across the country devoting their spring breaks to help in New Orleans. These students will be dumbfounded, unable to find words to express themselves when they see New Orleans now, 18 months after Hurricane Katrina.
Would you ever register for a class titled "Germs 101?" What about "Making Babies," "Stressed Out," or even "From Frankenstein to Dolly and Beyond" or "You've Got Problems, I've Got Mine?" It seems that most UNH students would, especially if it means receiving valuable General Education credits to add to their transcript.
A group of curious students strolled into MUB Theatre I Tuesday evening and were asked to question the role of masculinity in America in response to a running series entitled "The Reel Thing: Films on Sexuality and Gender." This month's film, "Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity," featured the writer Jackson Katz, a male activist who promotes positive images of men.
The screening of "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West" drew an audience of about 90 students, professors, and community members to the MUB theater Monday night. The controversial documentary revealed disturbing images of Radical Islamic attacks on numerous occasions all over Europe, Israel, and the United States.
It's his first time, so he's a little nervous. He takes the stage and he begins to speak. The tripod is set, the screen is down, and close family, friends, and students perk up to listen to Christopher Otte, an award-winning photographer, address his admirers in one of the many Art Break presentations hosted at UNH.
This past Monday, the Galvanized Jazz Band of Connecticut performed at the Johnson Theatre in this season's fifth installment of the Traditional Jazz Series, put on by the UNH Department of Music and the New Hampshire Library of Traditional Jazz. The number of students in attendance however, lacked in comparison with only 33 of the 152 who bought tickets being college students.
Brent Scarpo, producer of "Journey to a Hate Free Millennium," presented his documentary and held a discussion for UNH students in the Strafford Room on Wednesday. Since 1999, Scarpo's film and lectures have been his response to the issue of hate. "Journey to a Hate Free Millennium" addresses three specific hate crimes: the shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado; the dragging death of James Byrd, Jr; and the beating and subsequent death of Matthew Shepard.
Preeminent scholar Dr. Fatima Sadiqi came to UNH to talk about the women's rights movement in the Islamic country of Morocco. Sadiqi is a native of Fes, Morocco, and led a discussion Monday night in Murkland Hall to educate more people about the women's movement.
