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(11/21/19 4:26am)
It’s as simple as that. “Rick and Morty’s” fourth season is still just as funny as the first three. The new season premiered on Adult Swim two Sundays ago at 11:30 p.m. The series created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon (“Community”) is possibly the best series on the air because with each new season the show sets a bar they continually achieve and surpass. The series is in competition with itself and doesn’t worry about what else is being shown 30 minutes later on another network or whichever latest streaming series just launched.
(11/07/19 3:51am)
Remember, remember the, what was it again? Oh yes, the fifth of November. It’s that time of year again to revisit the gunpowder treason and plot as well as to watch “V for Vendetta.” Here is some background information that will help. In the United Kingdom on November 5, 1605, Guy Fawkes was arrested as part of a conspiracy to blow up the House of Lords (kind of like the Senate, not really, but yeah). He was standing watch over many explosives underneath the House of Lords. He was part of a group of Catholics that wanted to take out James I, a protestant King, and replace him with a Catholic one. This religious difference was a big and bloody debate (literally bloody, I’m not being cute and punny, at least not at this moment) but suffice to say that bad things were done on both sides.
(11/01/19 11:07pm)
Sophia took a sip of her medium roast Ethiopian coffee out of an orange ceramic mug inside Breaking New Grounds, a coffee shop on Main Street. She looked at her friends Emily, Sam, Ian and Caleb and asked, “You know why this place is called Breaking New Grounds, right?” Sophia took another sip and all four shook their heads in the universal sign for no as Emily bit into her pistachio muffin, Caleb dipped his apricot scone into his cappuccino and Sam and Ian gently gulped some dark roast java. They were sitting at a high-top table in the front of the café. “Well, it’s foundation was built on top of an ancient native burial ground.”
(10/24/19 2:54am)
Have I watched anything new lately? Let me think... I guess it depends on your definition of “new.”
(10/11/19 2:07am)
Instead of me telling you about a story in a review format, why not give you, the reader, the ability to experience an entire story right here on the page? This isn’t a review, rather, I’ve provided a selection of three tiny stories. Some would call them short. No worries if you’re uninterested in one because there are two others, and each are associated with a color. Blue is sentimental and about a baby. Green is a lone wolf, existential drama. Red is dystopic-like. All these choices but what to choose, what to choose? Read all three if you’re feeling unstoppable. After that you’re on your own though. Go nuts!
(10/03/19 12:46am)
The writer of this article is in the midst of a creative struggle with a non-named entity.
(09/26/19 3:15am)
“The Seventh Seal” is not an epic biopic on the reincarnations of the superb R&B singer Seal. Somebody go out and make that movie right now. However, “The Seventh Seal” is one of the world’s best films ever made. Ever! It’s just a truth. Like, how Beyoncé is always on beat or how if you’re running late you will hit every red light on your way to your very important and state-sanctioned therapy and Zumba class. You’d never be late to Zumba though because it makes you feel like a warrior. Just like how setting fires make you feel invincible…
(09/19/19 12:33am)
I decided, for science, to undertake a spooky experiment. I watched “Friday the 13th” on Friday the 13th. There was a harvest moon and I had drunk a pumpkin spice latte because I’m an adult and I can make those types of adult decisions for myself. I was terrified that this event could cause a possible singularity. Anything was bound to occur from watching this movie on this date. Would I die? Could this be a Pop Rocks and Coke situation? I’ll end the suspense though… I’m still alive! Maybe, just maybe, it wasn’t a scientific enough experiment. I wasn’t at a camp and it wasn’t 1980. I don’t know if all the variables were met. Perhaps the fact that the drinking age was 18 in 1980 had something to do with the disastrous consequences. It’s hard to tell when you’re almost four-decade-evening quarterbacking a fictional event, but it’s best to leave no stone unturned. All the lights were off in the room too.
(09/12/19 2:42am)
If you’re looking for more interaction in your life but prefer the isolation of your own room, then “Black Mirror: Bandersnatch” is the perfect film for you. It was written by the creator of the “Black Mirror” series, Charlie Brooker, and directed by David Slade. The movie’s concept is based off the popular choose-your-own-adventure style of novel and storytelling. Viewers decide with the click of their remote how the story will unfold for Stefan Butler. Stefan is a computer programmer working in England on an interactive video game. This is a first of its kind during the prehistoric age of the 1980s. This review will function in the same vein as the movie. You get to choose your own review. Each paragraph will be a different color and you’ll be directed where to go based on your decision. If you want to keep reading the review, go to the blue paragraph. If you want to put down the paper and head to Libby’s, go to the orange paragraph.
(05/02/19 2:33am)
Calef’s Country Store is turning 150.
(04/24/19 11:24pm)
The University of New Hampshire (UNH) Anthropology Club hosted its annual Open Archaeology and Anthropology Day in the Piscataqua Room inside of Holloway Commons on Friday, April 19, offering guests a variety of activities including a behind-the-scenes look at the college’s current and past archeology endeavors.
(04/17/19 11:56pm)
Lights, beats and hip hop echoed through the Whittemore Center Arena last Friday night as students and Durham community members united to for UNH’s annual spring concert hosted by the Student Committee on Popular Entertainment (SCOPE), headlined by rapper Lil Baby and opener J.I.D.
(04/11/19 2:54am)
RJ Grandstaff’s election as Lambda Chi Alpha’s newest president this year represents a milestone in a college career marked by dedication, ascension and success.
(04/04/19 12:05pm)
“The Dirt” is not a movie to watch lightly. This is a high-octane, male-gaze-driven autobiography of the 80s hair metal pseudo-satanic rock band Mötley Crüe. The Netflix movie is fully endorsed by all the living members of the band, and after watching the film you’ll see just how much of an accomplishment that is for such a debaucherous group. They should all be dead; the sheer number of drugs and alcohol content in their bodies would sedate a hippopotamus.
(04/04/19 11:51am)
UNH’s Relay for Life committee prepares for their biggest event this year—an 18-hour relay for which all proceeds go to the American Cancer Society. The event begins on Saturday, April 27 at noon and ends at 6 a.m. on Sunday, April 28. The New Hampshire spoke with Norah Silverstone, a senior communications major and the head of recruitment of the Relay for Life committee on campus.
(03/28/19 4:03am)
The New Hampshire Democratic Party held a meeting at the University of New Hampshire (UNH) on Monday in room 233, right next to Grafton Lounge, in the Memorial Union Building entitled “Student and Local Community Leaders Highlight Sununu’s Failure on Student Debt Crisis.” The meeting included Democratic State Senator David Watters, currently serving his fourth consecutive term, as well as Democratic State Representatives Tamara Le and Liz McConnell.
(12/06/18 5:22am)
Long lines and smiling faces were decorating all three of the universities dining halls; Holloway Commons, Phillbrook and Stillings, for the Winter Celebration Dinner Wednesday night, an event that ushered in the season of giving and finals. Holloway Commons sported a hot chocolate and eggnog bar for students. A multitude of treats ranging from peppermint marble bark to yule logs to a cinnamon babka. The university provides healthy options for students and has been ranked as having some of the best food at a college in the nation.
(10/25/18 4:14am)
Over Homecoming weekend, 30 University of New Hampshire (UNH) students were arrested on campus. Of those 30 arrests, 26 were directly related to alcohol, including unlawful possession of alcohol by a minor, transportation of alcohol by a minor, internal possession of alcohol and unlawful intoxication.
(11/08/18 5:28am)
Underneath the campus of the University of New Hampshire (UNH) exists a series of tunnels and a nuclear physics lab established in the 1950s on a federal grant. The nuclear physics lab is underneath DeMeritt Hall. A university pamphlet from the 1950’s entitled “Atoms at College” stated that, “with the help of the Atomic Energy Commission, the University’s Department of Physics recently installed a nuclear physics lab in Demeritt Hall.”
Precautions of the era were taken to protect the students and faculty from radiation. The lab is “located in an underground chamber which is shielded from the campus by four feet of concrete and earth,” the leaflet stated. These measures were implemented to block the dangerous output from the Van De Graaff accelerator inside the lab.
“Atoms at College” goes on to describe one of the functions of the Van De Graaff accelerator.
“The device can change the atomic structure of target materials by bombarding them with radioactive particles at the rate of several billions per second.” The university also received a $10,000 federal grant, one of several from the Atomic Energy Commission, to “develop new fluorides to replace UF6 in the preparation of radio-active materials for atomic explosions,” stated Issue 6, Volume 41, of The New Hampshire, released on October 25, 1951. UF6, more commonly known as uranium hexafluoride, is a compound utilized for uranium enrichment in the creation of fuel for nuclear reactors and even in the development of nuclear weapons.
An image from the same booklet shows a technician measuring radiation in the nuclear physics lab with the only protective gear being worn is a pair of glasses. These radioactive isotopes were used all over campus.
“The Agricultural Experiment Station is using radioactive tracers in its studies of the feeding of dairy cattle,” the pamphlet stated. Honey bees are doused with radioactive tracers to follow their flight paths, the radioactive compounds are used in vaccines, and are also implemented in other various agricultural capacities. The current chair of the physics department could not be reached for comment.
Along with the nuclear physics lab, nearby this facility is an underground utility tunnel. This subterranean passage, between James and Hewitt Halls, is in need of repairs. A sign there states a four-ton limit with no exceptions while the tunnel is undergoing maintenance.
“The repairs are necessary to support heavy vehicular traffic. The utility tunnel covers heating and cooling lines servicing the library way buildings,” Facilities Project Management Director Brenda Whitmore said. “Over time the concrete has deteriorated, most likely due to salt and other chemicals weakening the overall structural integrity of the tunnel cover to support heavy commercial vehicles, such as Waste Management trucks.”
These underground channels are expansive, meeting the heating needs of 68 buildings all across campus.
“UNH has four main underground utility paths that provide heating hot water and chilled water to the campus, they are on Main Street, College Road, Library Way and McDaniel Drive. They are under the sidewalks and in some cases, you can see the steel vault access doors,” she said.
An issue of The New Hampshire released on February 11, 1938, stated that, “a branch tunnel runs directly to Demeritt Hall from the powerhouse.” Pipes within the tunnels were originally insulated with asbestos. “Although the pipes are all insulated with asbestos, the temperature in the tunnels is usually over 90 degrees Fahrenheit.” The prime concern in that time period was the temperature, and not the cancer-causing material.
The university has worked towards making Durham an asbestos-free zone.
“UNH began the process over 30 years ago to abate and safely dispose of Asbestos Containing Materials, ACM, and we continue to this day,” Whitmore said. “There is none left in the tunnels today and we come across it less and less with most directly buried or hidden within walls.”
This isn’t an open invitation to investigate the tunnels on your own though, even if the high temperatures and possible asbestos residue aren’t reason enough.
“The tunnels are what UNH considers confined entry, they are only for utilities and are accessed with special equipment for maintenance by trained personnel when necessary.” Most of the tunnel repair projects require outside contracting, while more minor issues are handled through the department itself.
The university has progressed a long way from its use of corrosive, dangerous and radioactive substances as a power source, among other practices.
“UNH is a very green campus. Our energy costs are very low compared to general business and other colleges and universities,” Whitmore said. “We use processed landfill gas from Rochester, NH, natural gas and number two oil. It is very efficient and UNH is rarely subject to large utility interruptions.”
For those interested, the Facilities Department uploads a monthly report on all on-going campus projects that can be accessed on their website.
(12/06/18 5:10am)
The first night of Hanukkah was Sunday, December 2. The University of New Hampshire’s Hillel chapter, along with the UNH and Seacoast Chabad Jewish Center, held a public menorah lighting on the Corner of Pettee Brook Lane and Main Street to usher in the holiday. The eight-day celebration, also known as the Festival of Lights, was kicked off with speeches from Rabbi Berel Slavaticki, UNH President James W. Dean Jr. and Hillel’s chair Jordyn Haime. All in attendance were glad that the rain stopped just before the ceremonies began outside.
