On Thursday, the University of New Hampshire released a media advisory entitled 'Poverty Expert Available to Discuss Romney's Comments About Poor Americans.' Beth Mattingly, of the ]]> Fri, 3 Feb 2012 1.2764214 Opinion Mattingly, of the Robert J. Johnson Opinion http://www.tnhonline.com/opinion/letter-from-the-president-please-keep-civility-after-the-super-bowl-1.2764209 Mark Huddleston
By: Mark Huddleston

Welcome back from winter break. It's great to see the walkways and halls busy with students for spring semester. I know you work hard and look forward to the opportunity to unwind. Nevertheless, I want to take this opportunity to urge you to keep civil...

Technology is all around us. Like it or not, it's not going anywhere anytime soon. A lot of people, mostly the younger generation, love technology, and it's hard to imagine a world without it. Personally though, technology and the Internet bother me a ...

The New Hampshire's most recent editorial was titled 'Bringing guns to a knife fight: HB 334 bad news for college campuses.' The editorial argues that an incident in which two defenseless and law-abidi...

Is UNH backing Occupy Wall Street? That seemed to be the message of the event hosted by the UNH Administration in Huddleston Hall last Wednesday. The event began with a largely leftist panel of speakers addressing attendees with bromides glo...

In a couple of months, I'll be sitting at my college graduation commencement with my graduating class. We'll be sitting out on Memorial Field listening to someone talk about how it is our turn to make a difference in this world. They'll ...

Suffice it to say that this has been a news-filled semester. In one sense, it made my job easier. In another, it made it 10 times tougher. No matter how you look at it, there was never a lack of stories. UNH was always buzzing about some...

The Occupy movement has, since its inception, been a stand-off: between the one percent and the 99 percent, the cash strapped and the fat cats, and the protesters and the police. For all the debate the movement has sparked, it's not as t...

As the Jan. 10 primary election date approaches and state newspapers make their endorsements, New Hampshire becomes a major player in the national political scale. Conservative candidates have been visiting the Granite State to mak...

Currently, lawmakers in New Hampshire are considering a bill that would strip the University of New Hampshire of its current power to ban guns on campus. The belief held by State Representative Mark Proulx (R-Manchester), who has come out in...

Monday morning the new UNH Twitter account, @UofNH, submitted the following tweet: 'Attn #UNH Seniors! What would you like to leave as your Senior Gift? Let us know your ideas! Please use hashtag #UNHSeniorGift.' UNH Class of 20...

For the past several weeks, the UNH campus had been buzzing with anticipation for the Avicii concert, which finally took place this past Saturday. As expected, many UNH students and other concert a...

In a story titled 'Private vs. public. Could UNH function as a private university? ' that appeared on the front page of today's issue, we examine the possibility and pros and cons of UNH becoming a private university. ...

Trailing by a sizable amount in the Granite State polls, Herman Cain made a scheduled trip to New Hampshire on Thursday. Suffice it to say, it could have gone better. In a state that values honesty and effort from politicians, Cain is giving us an ...

It was around Thanksgiving last year when Paul Dean, deputy chief of police to executive director of public safety, told student senate in a meeting that homeless people were discovered to be sleeping in the ]]> Thu, 17 Nov 2011 1.2705901 Opinion Julia Miller Opinion http://www.tnhonline.com/opinion/a-truman-s-take-fat-deficit-problem-will-require-compromises-1.2705892 Brooks Payette
By: Brooks Payette

It may sound absurd, but right now I'd trust the 'lunks' featured in Planet Fitness commercials to tackle America's deficit problem more than the Congressional members of the Super Committee. At least the 'lunks' understand the sacrifices it takes to a...

In my restlessness I sought out the message of the Occupy Wall Street movement. I thought that, like most movements, the Occupiers would have some common underlying theme, some objective, some set of stated beliefs. Alas, I have found none. Not so much...

The 2011-2012 UNH field hockey team's season ended this past Saturday in Chapel Hill, N.C. during the first round of the NCAA field hockey tournament. The 5-4 loss, which saw Michigan move on to the s...

As finals week rapidly approaches here at UNH, seniors are facing one of the greatest challenges of our college careers: the dreaded senioritis. It is an infectious disease that spreads rapidl...

At a town meeting last week, Durham Town Administrator Todd Selig introduced a movement to support the continuation of a Durham stop on the Amtrak ]]> Tue, 15 Nov 2011 1.2698871 Opinion Selig introduced a movement to support the continuation of a Durham stop on the Amtrak TNH Editorial Staff Opinion