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.

SA appeals to police to rethink plan

Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Staff Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Staff Student Assembly unanimously passed a resolution calling for Hanover Police to reevaluate the new alcohol enforcement policy Chief Nicholas Giaccone announced last week at their General Assembly meeting Tuesday night. The resolution, sponsored by the Student Assembly Executive Committee, calls for the Hanover Police Department and Hanover Town Select Board to negotiate with the College and students and develop policies that will maintain or improve students' safety.

College announces plan to cut $100 million

College will lay off thirty-eight employees, reinstitute student loans

Students speak at Select Board mtg.

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Greek leaders restated their opposition to Hanover Police's new alcohol enforcement policy at Monday night's meeting of the Hanover Board of Selectmen, prompting members of the Board to express concerns that current campus attitudes towards alcohol may lead to alcohol-related deaths.

Basri '13 describes childhood in Iraq

Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Kevin Xiao / The Dartmouth Staff Murdered professors and daily car bombings are not experiences most Ivy League applicants have to consider including in their path to college admissions, but for Ihab Basri '13, these experiences were all too real.