New Hampshire
Dartmouth students launch hunger strike 'for Palestine and campus justice'
Eight Dartmouth students are going on a hunger strike, in part to demand more support for Palestinian students amid a growing death toll in Gaza.
“We will starve for Palestine and campus justice,” the protestors wrote in a public letter.
The protestors identified four main demands for school leaders, including divestment from organizations that support Israel and a commitment to review another detailed set of policy goals, dubbed the Dartmouth New Deal.
They also want Dartmouth administrators to ask law enforcement to drop criminal charges against two students who were arrested during another on campus protest in October.
Roan Wade, one of the students who was arrested, said the administration’s handling of that incident goes against its public pledges to support students’ rights to free expression.
“As U.S. citizens, this is something we can go through,” Wade said. “But for a large swathe of campus who are international students who are undocumented students they now feel like they cannot engage to the same extent in protest.”
The students engaging in the hunger strike are also asking for the school to more publicly acknowledge and support Palestinian students’ presence on campus.
Ramsey Alsheikh, who is participating in the protest, said he’s been alarmed by the administration’s silence regarding attacks against Palestinian people on and off campus, including when three college students were shot in Vermont last fall.
“Many Palestinian Muslim students were feeling extremely unsafe,” Alsheikh said. “We needed the administration to do something. They refused to send out a statement.”
A Dartmouth spokesperson said that the school supports the student’s rights to free speech, including protesting, and will have medical supervision on site for their strike.
New Hampshire
Tidemark, BOD Holdings Complete 135-Unit Multifamily Project in Somersworth, New Hampshire
SOMERSWORTH, N.H. — A partnership between developers Tidemark and BOD Holdings has completed The Overlook, a 135-unit multifamily project in Somersworth, located on the Maine-New Hampshire border. Designed by New Hampshire-based PROCON, the complex is located in the downtown area and offers studio, one-, two- and three-bedroom units and amenities such as a fitness center, package room, leasing office and onsite parking. Construction began in August 2024.
New Hampshire
Suspected gunman in Hampton Beach shooting was in U.S. Navy
The suspected gunman in a shooting in Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, in the hours after July 4 was an active-duty member of the U.S. Navy, officials said Monday.
The New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office had previously identified the man who shot a man and woman, then himself, early Sunday morning as 21-year-old Tyshawn Cooper. Cooper died by suicide in a confrontation with police.
Cooper worked on the USS Hampton as an information systems technician (submarines), second class, according to an update from prosecutors and state and local police on Monday. He was living in New Hampshire for the military assignment — the submarine has been at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
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Cooper was not on duty at the time of the shooting, a spokesman for the Navy told NBC10 Boston Monday.
“We are deeply saddened by this event and extend our heartfelt condolences to the victims and their families. The Navy is cooperating fully with the New Hampshire State Police, who are leading the investigation into the circumstances of the shooting,” the statement said.
The USS Hampton, an attack submarine, is named for four cities with the name Hampton, including New Hampshire’s.
The man, 23, and woman, 25, remained hospitalized on Monday, officials said.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service was reviewing the incident along with state police and prosecutors, according to officials’ update.
Officials haven’t yet said what’s suspected to have led to the shooting, first reported on Ocean Boulevard about 1:19 a.m. Sunday. Officers then encountered Cooper near P Street and Ashworth Avenue, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. During that interaction, the suspect pulled out a handgun and shot himself in the head. At the same time, an officer fired their weapon.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the cause of death was a gunshot wound of head and that the manner of his death was suicide.
Though the officer’s shot was not the cause of death, the Attorney General’s Office will conduct a use of force investigation.
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