Carlton Lee Yazzie, one of three men implicated in the June 2007 rape and murder of Nicole Redhorse ‘95, was found guilty on Saturday for the sexual assault that led to her death. The Colorado jury found Yazzie, 39, guilty of a high-level sexual assault felony with aggravating circumstances, an offense that carries a maximum sentence of 48 years to life in prison. The jury could not reach a verdict on two other counts of sexual assault and a felony murder charge.
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Rick Kimball ‘78 and his wife Kathy have donated $5.5 million to the College to endow a chaired professorship in history and support the construction of an auditorium in the new Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center, the Dartmouth Office of Public Affairs announced Monday. The gifts are part of the Campaign for the Dartmouth Experience, an effort to raise $1.3 billion by the end of 2009.
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The U.S. House of Representatives voted to significantly increase college tuition benefits for veterans as part of a war funding bill passed on Thursday. College President James Wright has been a major advocate of the legislation, which will offer tuition benefits equal to those provided by the World War II GI bill. The benefits will be available to all veterans who served after 2001 and will likely take effect in fall 2009.
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Increased political polarization may not only limit bipartisan legislation, but also reduce voter participation and the fairness of the judiciary, according to scholars and politicians who participated in a three-day Rockefeller Center conference that ended Saturday. The researchers, who came from across the country, presented 14 papers analyzing polarization and how it may have changed the composition of the political center, according to government professor Ronald Shaiko, the conference’s organizer.
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Students who take the SAT Reasoning Test after March 2009 will be able to choose which of their scores will appear on the official score report sent to colleges. Dartmouth Dean of Admissions Maria Laskaris ‘84 said this change would not have a significant impact on the way that Dartmouth reads applications.
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