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Another New England university considers symbolic fossil fuel divestment

A Dartmouth College presidential committee report suggests divesting fossil fuels would be relatively easy since only a sliver of the school's overall endowment is sunk in oil.

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Dartmouth students demand end to coddling, focus on learning

HANOVER, N.H. – Alleging that Dartmouth College administrators have increasingly "assumed the role of paternalistic babysitters," students at the Ivy League institution have launched an online petition that aims to refocus the school on education and the free exchange of ideas. The "Take Back Dartmouth" petition,

Harvard University

Harvard upstarts fall short in Board of Overseers vote

CAMBRIDGE – Five candidates for Harvard University's Board of Overseers who campaigned on a platform calling for free tuition and making admissions more transparent have come up short. On Monday, Harvard announced the five winning candidates who emerged from a field of 13. The new members include the president

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Dartmouth sorority buckles to protests, cans Derby party

HANOVER, N.H. – A Dartmouth College sorority, hit by protests that a May 2015 Kentucky Derby party was racist and a symbol of oppression, elected to pull the plug on this year's event. The sisters of Kappa Delta Epsilon voted overwhelmingly to ditch the celebration after talking to

Cambridge

Campuses erupt as students pursue racial grievances

PRINCETON, New Jersey – A student activist group at Princeton University calling itself "The Black Justice League" may have just dealt a fatal roundhouse blow to the school's longtime connection to Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the U.S. and the prestigious university's 13th