Who wouldn’t want to live here?
As a co-ed hall of 125 residents, Hunter Hall is a great community.  With half first-year and half upper-class students, Hunter is a small, but involved community.

Hunter hall is the home of the new and exciting theme community for first year students called "Think Globally, Act Locally: The Individual in Community Context."

 

(Visit the Think Globally, Act Locally: The Individual in Community Context Webpage )

 

The hall has all types of rooms and residents – students love it here! In fact, our students were surveyed in November 2007... (with 98% of students reporting), 98% of the students here reported that they like living in the hall. The hall is ideally located on campus with a great backyard as well as an open quad area that is home to the Lower Quad four square court! Students often hang out in these areas to study or catch up with friends while enjoying the outdoors on a nice day. Hunter is also the Fall 2007 winner of the campus-wide Energy Challenge – the hall won a trophy and $300 for saving the highest percentage of energy on campus (photo courtesy of UNH Photographic Services).

 

Other results from the 2007-8 Residential Life survey:
 96% of Hunter residents said their overall experience at UNH has been good.
 98% feel that most people on their floor arerespectful of each other.
 98% said they respect their RA.
 100% said their RA is dedicated to the job.

 

Everyone is Welcome!
With residents who have lived as near as Manchester and as far as Uganda and interests ranging from archery to zoology, Hunter is definitely an eclectic community.

In Hunter, you will find a home that celebrates difference of all kinds. The staff is committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment where all residents feel welcome.

Discrimination and hatred will not be accepted – ever.

 

Traditions and Programs
Hunter has some great traditions that play a big part in the hall. Look for the Hunter traditions of Floor Wars and a Halloween extravaganza in the fall semester and Lower Quad Wars (with neighbors Gibbs and Engelhardt) in the spring. An end-of-the-year tradition called Hunterfest helps wrap up the year with some outdoor fun.
With the staff and Hunter Activities Board planning multiple events each week, there is always something going on in Hunter. Be on the lookout - new socials and events occur many times each week! Some events so far this year have been:

 
 Food-themed Fun: Eating – you have to do it, so why not make it fun? Ice cream socials, Pancake Party, Grilled Cheese fundraisers, cookie decorating…there’s no shortage of food in Hunter! Floor dinners are also common – if you’re looking for a friend to eat with, look no further than your neighbors!

Sports and Games: Hunter Hall residents like to have fun. Apples to Apples, Guitar Hero, wiffleball, basketball, root beer Beirut, hallway mini golf – you can find a team for just about anything here. Hunter residents have been involved in intramural broomball and volleyball as well as many club sports and can often be found hitting the four square ball around in the quad.

 

Getting Crafty: Painting brick doorstops, making hemp and beaded jewelry, creating magnets and buttons, crafting cards….Hunter residents are creative!

Academics are important
Hunter is more than just fun socials, however – the students here care about their academics! Students working on group projects or studying together in the three lounges is a common sight. Residents here also flexed their brain muscles in an academic scavenger hunt. Forty percent of the hall hasn’t officially declared their major, so “undeclared” is not uncommon, but popular majors include business, biology, civil engineering, psychology, history and marine biology. The average GPA last fall semester was a 3.10 – way to go!

Community Service Partnership
Students from Hunter Hall are definitely devoted to serving the larger community; many of them serve as Wildcat Youth Mentors. This mentoring program pairs UNH students with local middle/high school students in need of a positive mentor. This program provides young teens a way to build self esteem and ideally succeed in earning their high school diploma while allowing UNH students to positively impact a person’s life and their community. For more information about this great project, visit the website.