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By Soumya Gupta | February 28, 2011

The jury selection for the trial of Joshua Komisarjevsky an alleged accomplice in the 2007 Connecticut home invasion that resulted in the murder of 17-year-old Hayley Petit has been scheduled to begin on March 16, CNN reported Friday.

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Campus Blotter

By Soumya Gupta | February 28, 2011

Feb. 25, 2:08 p.m.41 Centerra ParkwaySafety and Security received a call from a college employee involved in a motor vehicle accident who had collided with another car on the parkway while in a college vehicle.

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People's Coalition to unite progressive orgs.

By Clare Coffey | February 27, 2011

A group of Dartmouth students, faculty and staff recently joined together to form the People's Coalition, an independent organization that seeks to unite progressive groups on campus, history professor Russell Rickford said in an interview with The Dartmouth.

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Daily Debriefing

By Isha Flores | February 27, 2011

The Board of Supervisors of the University of Louisiana system approved a new set of rules that will shorten the required period of notice given to tenured and non-tenured faculty members who are dismissed after their academic programs have been eliminated, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported.

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Jones '03 contributes to iPad app

By Matthew McNierney | February 27, 2011

After writing a New York Times bestseller about teenagers' social lives and pursuing freelance work for a wide range of major news sources, Abigail Jones '03 helped launch The Daily, the first iPad-only news application.

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Sacco discusses power of cartoons

By Gavin Huang | February 24, 2011

When cartoon journalist Joe Sacco travelled to Sarajevo, Bosnia at the end of the Bosnian War, he was well aware that he was entering a war zone, he said to a group of students, faculty and local comic book fans crowded in Kemeny Hall on Thursday. The hotel at which Sacco stayed in Bosnia a Holiday Inn frequented by many foreign reporters was "right on sniper alley," he said.

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New amendment may decrease Title X funds

By Grace Afsari-Mamagani | February 24, 2011

The availability of medical resources for Upper Valley residents, including College students, could decline following the approval of an amendment that would eliminate all federal funding for Planned Parenthood, according to Kary Jencks, New Hampshire public affairs director for Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. The U.S.

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Legislators debate student voting

February 24, 2011

Students, citizens and local and state representatives testified at the hearings for two bills both designed to combat voter fraud that would inhibit college students' ability to vote in New Hampshire early Thursday morning.

The plans to renovate College property along the Connecticut River include a new swim dock located 200 feet downstream from the current dock, which was closed last summer due to safety concerns.
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River dock likely to reopen this summer

By Sam Rauschenfels | February 24, 2011

Courtesy of Justin Anderson Correction Appended### New plans to renovate Dartmouth's property along the Connecticut River aim to reopen the swim docks which were closed last summer due to safety concerns in time for the upcoming Summer term, according to Justin Anderson, director of media relations for the College.

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College increases web speed for trial period

By Matthew McNierney | February 24, 2011

The College temporarily doubled its network bandwidth for a two-week trial period on Wednesday to compensate for an unusually slow Internet connection, according to Ellen Waite-Franzen, vice president of information technology and chief information officer.

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Daily Debriefing

By Taha Adib | February 24, 2011

Harvard University and Princeton University will reinstate non-binding early action programs for undergraduate applicants to the Class of 2016, The Harvard Crimson and The Daily Princetonian reported on Thursday.

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Proposed House bill cuts airport funding

By Angie Yang | February 23, 2011

Flights from Lebanon Airport could be canceled, become less frequent or become more costly if members of the United States Congress decide to eliminate or reduce the Federal Aviation Administration's Essential Air Service subsidy program as part of an air transportation reform bill, Lebanon Airport manager Rick Dyment said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The Essential Air Service program provides federal subsidies for airports that do not generate enough air traffic to receive the funding they need to operate, Justin Harclerode, communications director for the U.S.

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Civil Rights Movement activists tell their stories

By Claire Groden | February 23, 2011

When the Ku Klux Klan crashed a voter registration drive held in the South during the Civil Rights Movement, Janet Moses one of the voter registry event's co-organizers stood her ground. "We can only be chased if we run," Moses said during a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee event on Wednesday, recounting her thoughts as she refused to abandon her post at the voter registration event. Moses was one of three veterans of the Civil Rights Movement, along with Judy Richardson and Penny Patch, who shared their experiences working at the forefront of civil rights activism in the 1960s as members of SNCC.

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Panelists speak about homelessness

By James Peng | February 23, 2011

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Staff Long-haired and rugged-looking, Cornelius spent nearly 30 years living in abandoned buses, cars and homeless shelters, digging for cans in dumpsters.

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Daily Debriefing

By Amelia Acosta | February 23, 2011

Yale University will no longer offer daytime door-to-door vehicle escorts after Feb. 28, the Yale Daily News reported.

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