Six students arrested over Winter Carnival

Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Dani Wang / The Dartmouth Staff Correction Appended### Students made nine Good Samaritan calls and six students were arrested by Hanover Police during Winter Carnival weekend, according to interim Director of Safety and Security Keiselim Montas.

Spears initiates structural changes

Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Stephanie Han / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears has begun reorganizing the Dean of the College's Office, in order to create an organization that will have "fewer dean-level positions at the senior leadership level" that is more effective and less expensive, Spears said in an interview on Thursday.

Skloot: ‘immortal' cells spur research

Elizabeth Ericson / The Dartmouth Elizabeth Ericson / The Dartmouth When a poor tobacco farmer named Henrietta Lacks walked into a doctor's office in September 1950, she unknowingly became the first person to achieve "immortality" if only through a few cells from her cervix.

Redman, Carney to leave the College

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The College will experience a major change in the oversight of the Greek system, as Dean of Residential Life Marty Redman announced that his position at the College had been eliminated due to budget cuts in an e-mail obtained by The Dartmouth.

Republicans win favor among frustrated voters

Layoffs hurt morale, residents say

Alina Politzer / The Dartmouth Staff Alina Politzer / The Dartmouth Staff The layoffs College President Jim Yong Kim outlined in his budget-cut announcement on Monday will not significantly affect unemployment in the Upper Valley, according to economics professor Patricia Anderson.

Panel questions social media power

Ben Gonin / The Dartmouth Ben Gonin / The Dartmouth Social media technology has had a mixed influence on the effectiveness of political protest, according to members of the Tuesday panel "Activism in the Electronic Age: The Impact of Technology on Political Protest." The three panelists focused on the debate over the way blogs and other networking technologies are used by political dissenters, as well as the governments that attempt to thwart their protests. Bruce Etling, director of the Internet and Democracy Project at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University; Elham Gheytanchi, a sociology professor at Santa Monica College; and Evgeny Morozov, a fellow at Georgetown University, presented information about the impact that social media has in the context of protest movements. The Internet and Democracy Project began by observing anecdotal evidence of technological influence on protests and later shifted its focus to a more analytical examination of the blogosphere, Etling said. "I want to introduce this concept of Newton's Third Law of the Internet,' that for every action there is an equal amount of reaction," Etling said. While blogs may represent members of a population pushing for change, research shows that more conservative groups also have an online presence, Etling said. Authoritarian countries are generally less successful when filtering information than the international community generally believes, he said.