For several months earlier this year, UNH Museum curator Dale Valena perused every issue of The New Hampshire and UNH student magazines, looking for laughs. The results, "Campus Comics: Cartooning at UNH," features the works of 50-some student artists, some of whom are reproduced here. Starting below: "Our Better Side," by Debbie Blood Crowder '78, now a high school art teacher, was published in The New Hampshire in 1976; "The Edge" by Cy D.

"JUST SO YOU KNOW—I PUT PEOPLE IN JAIL FOR A LIVING," William Stewart III '73 used to tell the captains of opposing ice hockey teams before the first buzzer. "So a 10-minute misconduct or throwing you out of the game is not a big problem for me."

When Darlene Dube needs to look at a particular computer programming textbook for her computer science class, she just logs on to the UNH library web site and tracks it down through one of its electronic databases. She's done it at home at night on her laptop, sipping margaritas by the pool and reading Safari Tech Books online.

The U.S. birthrate hit a 32-year low in 2018 as the number of babies born dropped for the fourth straight year. University of New Hampshire Carsey School of Public Policy senior demographer, Kenneth Johnson, offers insight into what this means in this USA Today article.

_{THE SPITE FENCE: In this mural painted in 1954 by the late UNH art professor John Hatch, now hanging in the Durham Community Church, the Durham waterfront of the 1820s fairly bustles. A fence built by Ben Thompson's father forced neighboring shopkeeper Ebenezer Smith to walk the long way around}

Ah, the romance of wine. In the Russian River Valley north of San Francisco, it's everywhere. Take a drive on Westside Road, which curves tight as a corkscrew through the vineyards of northwest Sonoma County. Twelve thousand acres of vines nudge the pavement on both sides, standing like ranks of gnarled soldiers with arms flung across each other's shoulders. Around one curve, a canopy of sycamores flashes overhead, top-lit emerald. Around the next, trees yield again to the vine-soldiers, marching endlessly toward the green-gold mountains with the rhythmic name: Mayacama.

Gerontologists call it "the phenomenon of the ageless self"--the feeling that we remain the same person on the inside no matter how old we may be. Then the first Social Security check arrives, and suddenly there's no denying that the "golden years" are upon us. But getting older doesn't have to take us unawares. Here are 10 things that experts--and alumni who are in or approaching their senior years--think everyone should know about growing older.

1. Old age will happen.

It all began with a crack in a window—one of two arched windows that gaze down at Main Street like large eyes beneath granite eyebrows in the red brick face of Thompson Hall. This particular window looks out from the office of the president in the university's oldest brick building on the highest point of land on campus. Within months of being repaired, however, the crack had reappeared. Again, it was repaired. Again, it reappeared.