Blythe George '12 received the 2011 Beinecke Scholarship, which is awarded to 20 juniors across the country and will provide George with $4,000 before she begins graduate school in the social sciences, arts or humanities and $30,000 while she is enrolled in graduate school, according to a College press release on Friday. George, a James O. Freedman Presidential Scholar at Dartmouth, is the fourth Dartmouth student to win the scholarship since 2008, following Anise Vance '11, Gabrielle Ramaiah '10 and Jodi Guinn '09. George intends to enroll in a PhD program to earn a joint degree in sociology and social policy to gain a better understanding of how sociologists represent the Native American experience, according to the press release.
Jabrai Jordan Copney of New York, N.Y., received a sentence of life in prison without parole on Friday after being found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2009 shooting of Cambridge native Justin Cosby, The Boston Globe reported. Copney, who dated Harvard University student Brittany Smith but was not a Harvard student himself, allegedly used Smith's electronic keycard to access the basement of a dormitory where he and two additional cohorts set up a fake drug deal with Cosby, a local dealer. Copney allegedly used a 9mm semiautomatic handgun to threaten Cosby and demand that he give Copney marijuana. When Cosby refused, Copney shot him three times, according to The Globe. Smith has pleaded not guilty to charges of hiding the gun and aiding the three men in their escape from the authorities. Following the incident, Smith was suspended from Harvard and not allowed to graduate, The Globe reported.
Program closures in the arts and humanities at some of Britain's younger universities have sparked alarm that only vocational subjects such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics will be offered to low-income students, Inside Higher Ed reported Friday. Students at London Metropolitan University will no longer have access to courses in philosophy, history, Caribbean studies and the performing arts, according to Inside Higher Ed. With its unusually low tuition, London Met has the highest proportion of "working-class students" of all British universities. Cliff Snaith, branch secretary of the University and College Union at London Met, denounced the university's proposed plan, according to Inside Higher Ed. The University of East London will close its School of Humanities and Social Sciences, while the University of Greenwich intends to terminate its philosophy department, Inside Higher Ed reported.
