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DURHAM, N.H. -- New Hampshire residents are closely split on who they plan to vote for in the nest presidential election. N.H. Battleground State In Election A new poll will be released next week by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center. Pollster Andy Smith said the poll will show Sen. John Kerry with a slim lead over President George W. Bush, but there are signs that could change. Since February, the president's approval ratings have remained in the high 40s, but Kerry's numbers dropped dramatically over the last two months, from 57 to 46 percent. Smith said he's not...

DURHAM, N.H. BACK WHEN I was in college a quarter of a century ago, if a major party's presumptive presidential nominee had spoken on our campus, it would have been a very big deal. Indeed, when surrogates came to debate the cases for Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter before the 1980 Maine caucuses, students flocked to see them. And when California governor Jerry Brown, also a candidate, showed up in person, there wasn't a seat to spare in the largest lecture hall on campus. Thus it seemed odd at the University of New Hampshire on Monday to witness the relatively...

Press Release Source: mtvU mtvU Hosts John Kerry as Surprise Professor for Special 'mtvU Stand In' Event at University of New Hampshire Monday April 12, 3:00 pm ET Senator John Kerry Kicks Off 'Change Starts with U: Kerry Campus Tour 2004' By Surprising American Foreign Policy Class as mtvU Substitute Professor mtvU To Premiere 'Stand In' Event April 19th @ 9:30 AM (ET/PT) NEW YORK, April 12 /PRNewswire/ -- mtvU, the 24-hour college network, continued its surprise "Stand In" event series today by hosting Democratic Candidate for President John Kerry at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH. With...

A PREMEDITATED riot at UNH brought 2,500 students onto the streets of Durham after the Red Sox lost on Thursday night — in spite of stern warnings from the Durham police and an alternative celebration site offered by university administrators. Students clearly have no intention of moderating their behavior. When the Sox won the division series against the Oakland Athletics, Durham police sent a message. They came out in full riot gear, armed with pepper spray, and quickly dispersed a somewhat subdued crowd. The message: No riots will be tolerated. This time the students sent the message: We’re going to...

THE UNIVERSITY of New Hampshire plans to bundle some classes related to homosexuality and gender issues into what is called an academic “emphasis” on “queer studies.” We are highly skeptical that these courses will be purely academic exercises instead of politically correct propaganda offered to make homosexual activists happy. Human sexuality is a legitimate field of academic study, and as homosexual behavior has perplexed and intrigued humans for millennia, we think it would be a dereliction of duty were New Hampshire’s flagship university to ignore the subject as if it didn’t exist. Yet the creation of an emphasis (a step...

University of New Hampshire alumni yesterday remembered former classmate Michael Kelly, who was killed while covering the war in Iraq, for his “clever chutzpah” and talented reporting. Kelly, 46, editor-at-large of the Atlantic Monthly and a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, was killed in a Humvee accident while traveling with the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division near Baghdad. UNH alumni and faculty recalled Kelly as a high-energy, larger-than-life figure who often melded his intellect and antics into great news stories. “We’ve been telling funny stories about him for the last couple of hours,” said Dover native and USA Today reporter...