DURHAM — One week after Charlie Kirk was assassinated on a Utah campus, students and community members gathered at the University of New Hampshire on Sept. 17 to pay tribute to Kirk, a figure credited with galvanizing legions of conservative youth into an electoral force .

UNH's College Republicans, Turning Point USA chapter, Americans for Prosperity and state Rep. Sam Farrington, R-Rochester, worked to organize and promote the event. They had help from the county and state Republican Party.

According to Mark Rittgers, the chairman of the University of New Hampshire’s College Republicans, engagement with conservative groups on campus has never been higher .

The UNH chapter of Turning Point USA, the group Kirk founded in 2012, has seen over 40 to 60 new members in the past week, ac

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