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Dartmouth, UNH to hold in-person graduation ceremonies
Update: Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2:57 p.m.
Dartmouth College and the University of New Hampshire are planning in-person graduation ceremonies this spring, with restrictions in place because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Dartmouth will limit its on-campus ceremony in June to graduating seniors and graduate and professional school graduates, with family and friends viewing online.
The college had hoped to also hold a delayed celebration for last year s graduating class, but that won t be happening. In Durham, UNH will hold ceremonies for the class of 2020 on May 15 and for the Class of 2021 the following weekend. Students will be limited to two guests.
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- Todd Bookman
Update: Monday, Feb. 1, 12:10 p.m.
The University of New Hampshire is starting its spring semester today. Students began arriving on campus last week, and will return to in-person learning. Students were required to show a negative COVID-19 test upon arrival and were tested a second time on campus.
The semester is starting a week later than originally scheduled, and there will be no spring break in order to limit the chances of exposure.
The university has added beds to its COVID-19 isolation dorm. It s also starting a pilot program that will allow a small number of students to attend UNH hockey games through a lottery system.
My Turn: The path to enlightened criminal justice reform
Published: 1/31/2021 7:00:07 AM
The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any nation on Earth. That means that even non-democratic regimes like Iran, Cuba, and Russia that routinely jail people summarily have a lower incarceration rate than we do.
Not only do all other advanced countries incarcerate at a lower rate, their crime rates in those countries are often also lower than ours.
A wise friend of a notably different political persuasion than mine once said: “There are dangerous criminals that we’re rightly afraid of and they should be incarcerated, but the majority of criminals are frustrating and we are rightfully angry about their behavior, but we need to be much wiser about how we deal with them.”