Hanover Police officers are currently searching for two males who vandalized the "Pig and Wolf" statues situated outside of the Hanover Town Hall, according to a Hanover Police press release. Tapes from a surveillance camera at the scene show two shirtless men knocking the statues off their bases on Sunday, July 24 at 2:07 a.m. The tape later shows several other young men in front of the town hall, some of whom attempted to return the statues to their bases and are therefore not suspects, according to the release. The vandalized "Pig and Wolf" pair is one of 10 placed around Hanover in honor of the town's 250th anniversary. Local artist Gary Hamel designed the vandalized set, which represented scenes from his early years as an artist in the Upper Valley, according to the press release. The statues were slated to be auctioned at a fundraiser in September.
Students of for-profit institutions graduate with the greatest amount of debt, sometimes as high as $100,000 per student, according to a new report on student debt released Wednesday by the education think tank Education Sector, Inside Higher Ed reported. The study compares the number of graduates per year at a given university with how much undergraduates borrow during their four years of college. Debt levels were lower in two-year programs. At public universities, debt fluctuated by state depending on the level of each state's education funding, according to Inside Higher Ed. Policy Director of Education Sector Kevin Carey and senior policy analyst Erin Dillon compiled the report by dividing degrees awarded by amount borrowed, based on data concerning federal student loans, but did not report whether the loans were repaid.
A federal ruling Wednesday found that the University of California, Davis violated Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 by not demonstrating a "continual expansion of athletic opportunities" for women in the case of several female wrestlers cut from the men's wrestling team in 2001, Inside Higher Ed reported. The plaintiffs claimed the cuts amounted to sex discrimination. Although a federal judge ruled that they were dropped from the team due to inferior athletic ability, UC-Davis was found to have violated Title IX because the number of women playing sports decreased dramatically while the plaintiffs were undergraduates. UC-Davis decreased the number of female athletes by cutting water polo and lacrosse teams a move that did not violate Title IX by itself, but resulted in fewer opportunities for female athletes, Inside Higher Ed reported.
