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What team? Wildcats

By Bret Belden · Monday, Sept. 12, 2016

Think back to “spirit days” in primary and secondary school. The excitement of getting dressed up, walking in the halls and feeling the electric energy bounce through the corridors. The anticipation for the big game and pep rally distracting your brain in math class; memories of school spirit are some of the best.

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Editorial: The Earth without art is ‘eh’

By Bret Belden · Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016

One of the best parts about college is that a student’s schedule is mostly made up of personal interests. After declaring majors and minors, with the exception of the required discovery courses, classes are tailored to a student’s strengths and talents. It is often the case that after a student completes the required arts credit, that student will never again attend a UNH arts event. We at The New Hampshire think that’s a trend that should change.

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Beyond the classroom

By Bret Belden · Friday, Aug. 26, 2016

As a senior, the first thing I have truly realized, and it dawned on me just recently, is how fast my time here at the University of New Hampshire has passed. I can remember rather vividly, with nostalgia and angst for the future, moving into my freshman year dorm room. It was horribly hot out and I had so many things to move in, not understanding how small my room was going to be. I had mixed feelings of anticipation and dread. These were momentous times. No more parents to tell me to do homework or to find a group to join. Teachers weren’t going to be there for me every step of the way. No bells to dismiss me from class. No knowledge of where to go and who everybody was. That feeling of anxiety over something so serious and new held onto me for a little while, but eventually we all learn to adapt and survive. It’s learning how to survive in an active and positive way that really makes the difference.

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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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Justice Who?

By Bret Belden · Sunday, March 20, 2016

The death of 79-year-old Antonin Scalia, someone many students have likely never heard of until the news broke Saturday, leaves an open spot in what is arguably the most influential and powerful group of decision makers in the United States—the justices seated on the Supreme Court bench.

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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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A look at why hosting DJ Kygo is a superb selection from SCOPE

By Archives · Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015

Music is one category this campus doesn’t lack diversity in, and catering to the musical tastes of the 12,000 some-odd students is not an easy task. Nonetheless, the Student Committee on Popular Entertainment’s (SCOPE) decision to choose Kygo as the performer for its fall concert at the Whittemore Center on Oct. 24 was the right move.

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From the Right: Exploring the GOP field

By Archives · Thursday, Sept. 24, 2015

About four months and two debates into their campaigns, the large and impressive GOP field is finally starting to sort itself out.  We have already seen some rise quickly and others lose sight of their eventual path to the nomination and drop out. The political outsiders, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina and Donald Trump, have all been shown tremendous support thus far. Meanwhile Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have been waiting patiently for their opportunity to snatch the nomination.

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