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A new poll in New Hampshire suggests that former President Donald Trump's large double-digit lead over his GOP rivals may be shrinking in the state that holds the first primary and second overall contest in the Republican presidential nominating calendar. According to a University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll released on Tuesday, Trump enjoys the support of 37% of likely Republican presidential primary voters in the Granite State. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis stands at 23%, with the rest of the large field of contenders polling in the single digits. Trump's 14-point lead over DeSantis is down from a 20-point...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LraJw7zIR7c Elizabeth Carter discusses the future of UK as no-deal Brexit looms

A University of New Haven lecturer behind canceling a campus appearance by Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke has come forward to apologize for misrepresenting the popular conservative sheriff. Patrick Malloy, a senior lecturer at the Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, issued a statement last week saying he and university officials decided not to finalize the event with Sheriff Clarke because of his political views and extravagant requests for his arrival, which Mr. Malloy admitted he “unintentionally” misrepresented. “I would like to apologize and take responsibility for my actions that have compromised the University of New Haven...

The University of New Hampshire has removed from its website a “bias-free language guide” that warned against using the word “American” because it fails to recognize South America. The guide was developed in 2013 by several advocacy groups whose members are appointed by the university president. It was mentioned in an annual report submitted by at least one of those groups in 2014, but the university said administrators did not know about it until this week, when it was criticized in the media. […] It suggested replacements for common terms, such as “person of material wealth” instead of rich and...

As Portsmouth resident Betty Hill drove her mother home on Route 108 at 8 p.m. Sept. 7, 1977, she saw large red and green lights on what she believed to be a UFO as she neared Trickling Falls in East Kingston. Later as she was driving home, she saw another UFO with red and green lights following railroad tracks near Route 107. Betty Hill's report of a UFO sighting is one of thousands she catalogued during her lifetime after she and her husband, Barney Hill, became known internationally for reporting they had been abducted by aliens in 1961 in New...

DURHAM — The 2009 Martin Luther King Jr. Celebratory Events at the University of New Hampshire will come with a controversial twist — the inclusion of 1960s student radical turned academic Angela Davis who will give the keynote speech. Davis, who was on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list in the 1970s, will speak about the urgent need for prison reform as part of this year’s MLK celelbration theme “One in 100: Dismantling a Prison Nation.”

DURHAM — The cost of attending the University of New Hampshire just went up a minimum of $1,400 a year for some students. It has nothing to do with tuition, the cost of books or anything directly involving the education of students. The increase in cost has to do with a decision by university officials to join a growing number of the nation's land grant universities in requiring health insurance as a condition of enrollment for all full-time students. The new requirement will impact about 15 percent of the university's student population, or about 1,800 students, based on a survey...

UNH petition targets teacherBy Beth LaMontagne blamontagne@seacoastonline.com DURHAM -- Although the University of New Hampshire administration said it stands by Professor William Woodward and his right to share controversial views about the government's role in 9/11, a small group of students have started a petition to remove him. Bill Hunt, a UNH junior, is chairman of the newly formed and unrecognized organization Students for Academic Integrity. "Basically, we watch professors to just ensure they're doing their job ... they're not biased in the classroom and are not teaching what they are not supposed to teach," said Hunt...

Professor William Woodward describes the politics of his youth as "middle of the road." Woodward says he grew up a "mainstream" Protestant in a Republican household. He was not, he said, a born protester. When some Vietnam War opponents in his generation burned their draft cards or fled to Canada, Woodward chose instead to join the Peace Corps. Like President Bush, however, Woodward says his eyes were opened on Sept. 11. "After 2001," he said, "I recognized what I thought was a government conspiracy, and so I became more active in upholding the truth and seeking the truth." A tenured...

From kindergarten through college, returning students may not be coming back to more difficult reading, writing and mathematical tasks, but they will be able to ascend to the next level of sensitivity. But to what avail? Gender-Bending Etiquette For example, students may graduate high school not ready to read at college level but they will know what to say to someone who just had a sex-change operation. “There’s news today that students at Batavia High School in New York will be greeted by administrators, counselors, and psychologists when they return on September 6th for forums and question-and-answer sessions about ‘gender...

University of New Hampshire administrators are standing behind a tenured professor who has publicly theorized that the U.S. government orchestrated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, even as Gov. John Lynch condemned his remarks. Calling psychology professor William Woodward's theory "completely crazy and offensive," the governor said in a statement yesterday that he plans to address his concerns with the University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees. "Although academic freedom is important," the governor said, "if the UNH professor is promoting that view, it reflects a reckless disregard for the true facts and raises questions as to why such...

A tenured professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire believes an "elite" group within the federal government orchestrated the September 11th attacks on America. William Woodward has already raised that possibility in his classroom and later this year hopes to teach a class that would explore Sept. 11th "in psychological terms -- terms like belief, conspiracy, fear, truth, courage, group dynamics." He may not get the chance. Several state leaders yesterday criticized Woodward for bringing the radical theories into the classroom. "In my view, there are limitations to academic freedom and freedom of speech," said U.S. Sen. Judd...

Source: University of New Hampshire Released: Wed 15-Feb-2006, 09:15 ET NASA, UNH Scientists Uncover Lost Maya Ruins – from Space NASA and University of New Hampshire scientists are using space- and aircraft-based "remote-sensing" technology to uncover remains of the ancient Maya culture using the chemical signature of the civilization's ancient building materials. Newswise — Remains of the ancient Maya culture, mysteriously destroyed at the height of its reign in the ninth century, have been hidden in the rainforests of Central America for more than 1,000 years. Now, NASA and University of New Hampshire scientists are using space- and aircraft-based "remote-sensing"...

DURHAM - "Black Betty," a ’70s rock song used to rally fans at University of New Hampshire hockey games for perhaps a decade, is no more. Athletics director Marty Scarano told the campus newspaper The New Hampshire that the rollicking, 1977 song by the band Ram Jam was banned because it is "theoretically racist." The NAACP deemed the Ram Jam version of the old song offensive to black women three decades ago, and UNH has received intermittent complaints about it for years, the Concord Monitor reported Saturday.

Anthony Zizos was surprised this week when the University of New Hampshire student government called for condoms to be sold in dorm vending machines. As UNH's assistant vice president for business affairs, one of Zizos' many duties is to oversee the school's vending machine contract and he didn't recall asking vending company Canteen to stop stocking condoms. Until two or three years ago, students were able to walk to the snack machines in their dorms and campus apartments and buy condoms whenever they wanted. But the vending tubes that once held condoms now prop up Milky Ways and potato chips....

A Manchester man who went to retrieve his two daughters from a party at a University of New Hampshire fraternity was arrested early yesterday morning after he pulled a handgun and told revelers to "back off."

Freedom of speech at UNH — and the lack thereofBy WENDY McELROY Guest Commentary ON MARCH 22, University of New Hampshire student David Huffman spoke out in The New Hampshire, UNH’s student newspaper, against being excluded from an on-campus public event. He was excluded for being male. The incident spotlights the shell game being run on state campuses across North America under the guise of free speech. As a student, Huffman’s fees paid for the public forum from which he was barred. As taxpayers, his family underwrote his being treated like a black in the pre-bellum South. Critical commentary on...

DURHAM — The University of New Hampshire’s Student Senate will consider adopting a resolution tomorrow that would challenge the federal government’s policy of banning sexually active gay men from donating blood. Sponsored by student Sen. Nicholas Christiansen, a 19-year-old sophomore, and the student senate’s Community Change Council, the resolution wants the Food and Drug Administration and the American Red Cross to become, in its words, “aware of our strong opposition to the policy that bans sexually active homosexual males from ever donating blood, and that the students are dedicated to equal treatment and opportunity for all people, regardless of sexual...

DURHAM, N.H., October 28, 2004—The University of New Hampshire has evicted a student from housing for posting fliers in his residential hall joking that freshman women could lose the “Freshman 15” by walking up the dormitory stairs. The public university found him guilty of violating policies on affirmative action, harassment, and disorderly conduct, and has sentenced him to mandatory counseling and probation along with his eviction. [See the flier - PDF, 156.8 KB] In appealing his sentence, student Timothy Garneau explained that the flier was intended to make light of the common frustration with people who delay the elevator by...

DURHAM — Timothy Garneau can move back in to a University of New Hampshire dorm and stop living in his car after school officials dropped further sanctions imposed on him for joking about female freshmen gaining weight. The UNH sophomore said yesterday that Esther Tardy-Wolfe, director of UNH's Judicial and Mediation Programs Office, told him he can relocate to Gibbs Hall but not move back in to his former dorm, Stoke Hall. "I wish I was back in my original room but at the same time, it's a relief to be somewhere to be able to put your clothes in...