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DARTMOUTH ENDS COVID-19 VACCINATION REQUIREMENT

Dartmouth no longer mandates the COVID-19 vaccination, nor proof of exemption for students, faculty and staff as of Tuesday. According to The Dartmouth, the University still advises everyone to receive the US Center for Disease Control recommended COVID-19 vaccinations. The College will work with healthcare providers to continue to supply vaccines and inform the community of how to find vaccines.

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INDIE-ROCK BAND COIN TO HEADLINE 2023 “SLOPE DAY”

Cornell’s Slope Day Programming Board announced that the indie-rock band COIN will headline the college’s annual end-of-the-year celebration. The event, held this year on May 10, will also feature EDM duo Snakehips and hiphop duo Coco & Claire Claire. The news received mixed reviews from students. While the organization that plans the event takes student preferences into consideration, the budget limits performers they can realistically hire.

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PENN WILL INCREASE POSTDOC STIPEND AFTER RESEARCHERS PUSH FOR GREATER BENEFITS

The University of Pennsylvania will raise postdoctoral student stipends by 19% after fellows and researchers raised concerns about University benefits. On Tuesday, effective July 1st, the minimum postdoc stipend will be $65,000, an increase from this year’s $54,840. The increase was announced alongside changes to insurance benefits for postdocs that will feature three new options replacing the medical, dental and vision insurance.

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YALE WILL OFFER FIRST INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE COURSE IN FALL 2023

This upcoming fall, Yale will offer a course in Cherokee language and culture that will fulfill the language distributional requirement, the first Indigenous language course to do so in the college’s history. The college offered Indigenous languages informally through the Native American Cultural Center for over seven years prior to this decision, the Yale Daily News reported Wednesday. A Cherokee language instructor from the University of Oklahoma Patrick DelPercio will join the University’s faculty to teach the new lecture course.

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COMBINING PROGRAMS. Harvard Kennedy School is in the “early stages of exploring” a plan to combine the Master of Public Policy and Master of Public Administration programs into an expanded degree program, HKS Dean Douglas W. Elmendorf announced in an email to students early last month. The merged MPP program would consist of a required core curriculum along with a set of elective classes, Elmendorf wrote in the email, dated March 1. The Kennedy School’s MPA program does not currently have a required core curriculum.

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The Week in Photos

SUSPICIOUS PACKAGE. Harvard University Police Department and Cambridge Police Department responded to a report of a suspicious package in the Science Center plaza. The package was later deemed to be safe. FRANK S.

ZHOU—CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

NIGHT LIGHTS. The arrival of spring brought with it serene nights along the river. The Weeks Bridge cast light across the Charles. BY SOPHIA C. SCOTT— CRIMSON PHOTOGRAPHER

HUCTW PICKETING. Members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers picketed outside of Massachusetts Hall on Wednesday. The union frequently holds pickets in Harvard Yard. HUCTW is Harvard’s largest labor union and includes roughly 5,000 employees working across the University. BY LUCY VUONG—CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER

PRITZKER. Billionaire Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker spoke at the Institute of Politics, where he discussed the influence of big money on politics. BY ADDISON Y. LIU—CRIMSON

Second Expelled Democrat Is Sent Back To Tennessee State Legislature

Local officials unanimously voted on Wednesday to reinstate Justin J. Pearson back to the Tennessee House of Representatives. Pearson is one of two Black Democratic representatives ousted from the Tennessee House of Representatives after a gun control protest on the House floor last week. Republicans, angered by the protest, quickly moved to expel two of the chamber’s youngest Black lawmakers, according to the New York Times. The effort to remove Representative Gloria Johnson, a white lawmaker also involved in the protests, failed.

E.P.A. PROPOSES RULES TO TURBOCHARGE SALES OF ELECTRIC CARS AND TRUCKS

The Biden administration proposed plans to ensure that two thirds of new passenger cars and a quarter of new heavy trucks are all electric by 2032. These two plans are the nation’s most ambitious climate regulations to date. According to the New York Times, the new rules would require drastic shifts in the US auto industry. Last year, all-electric vehicles accounted for just 5.8 percent of new cats sold in the U.S. If they are enacted, they put the U.S. on track to slash planet warming emissions at the pace that scientists say is required of all countries to avert the most devastating impacts of climate change.

FIVE DEAD, EIGHT INJURED AFTER MASS SHOOTING AT LOUISVILLE BANK

A Louisville bank employee with a rifle opened fire at his workplace on Monday, killing five while live streaming the attack on Instagram. The gunman bought his weapon legally a week before the shooting. Police body camera videos released on Tuesday, taken from two wounded officers’ lapels, showed the rare perspective of police officers responding to a massacre. One wounded, a rookie officer, was shot within minutes after arriving at the scene.

F.B.I. ARRESTS MASS. AIR NATIONAL GUARDSMAN IN CONNECTION TO INTELLIGENCE LEAK

The FBI. arrested a Massachusetts Air National Guard member on Thursday in connection with the leak of highly classified documents containing national security secrets, the New York Times reported on Thursday. Airman

First Class Jack Douglas Teixeira, who is 21 years old, was taken into custody for allegedly sharing sensitive intelligence to an online group called Thug Shaker Central. Teixeira was arrested at his mother’s home in Dighton, Masschusetts, onThursday afternoon. According to Attorney General Merrick B. Garland ‘74 , Teixeira was arrested by the FBI in relation to the “unauthorized removal, retention and transmission of classified national defense information.”