Former Dartmouth Student Charged
Carlos Wilcox Allegedly Shot Out Lights On Chabad House Menorah
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Suit Filed Against ‘Divisive Concepts’ Law
Texts Incriminate Donald Trump
Carlos Wilcox, 20, a former Dartmouth College student who wrote for the Dartmouth Review and served as a member of Dartmouth College Republicans, has been charged with the Class B felony of criminal mischief for allegedly vandalizing the Dartmouth Chabad House Menorah. Wilcox, who lives in the Bronx, New York, was identified as one of two people caught on video surveillance shooting out the lights of the menorah near the college common last year.
Rabbi Moshe Gray, executive director at Chabad House, discovered the damage last year when he went to turn on the large electric lights during Hanukkah. Some of them had been shot multiple times.
Dartmouth’s associate vice-president for communications, Diana Lawrence, said Wilcox was a student at Dartmouth from the fall of 2019 through to the spring of 2021, but did not graduate. Wilcox was the director of communications for Dartmouth College Republicans until quitting in a disagreement with the group’s leadership, and his articles for the Dartmouth Review have been removed from the newspaper’s website.
Suit Filed Against ‘Divisive Concepts’ Law
The American Federation of Teachers has filed a federal lawsuit challenging the state’s new “divisive concepts” law, saying that, in attempting to stifle free speech, it also puts teachers’ careers in jeopardy.
Republican Senator Jeb Bradley of Wolfeboro, who helped to craft the legislation, said, “it’s terribly disappointing that this lawsuit has even been filed.” He explained, “New Hampshire’s anti-discrimination law prohibits teaching New Hampshire students that they are ‘inherently superior or inferior to people of another age, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, creed, color, marital status, familial status, mental or physical disability, religion, or national origin.’ Clearly, any instruction that teaches students they are inferior or superior due to these characteristics is discrimination.”
The AFT stated, “The suit aims to protect educators from the recent onslaught of politically motivated state laws that put teachers at risk for discussing honest and historical concepts in their classrooms.” Attorneys handling the lawsuit pointed to a social media post in offering to pay a bounty hunter $500 to report teachers who violate the law.
Texts Incriminate Donald Trump
The House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, during a televised hearing on whether to hold former President Donald Trump’s White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena, laid out some of the evidence that links Trump to the Capitol attack.
Texts to Meadows from lawmakers begged him to get Trump to call off the rioters, saying, “Someone is going to get killed.” “POTUS needs to calm this sh*t down.” Among those sending texts to Meadows were Donald Trump Jr. and Fox News Channel personalities Laura Ingraham (who had edited the Dartmouth Review during the 1980s), Brian Kilmeade, and Sean Hannity. “This is hurting all of us,” Ingraham wrote to Meadows during the insurrection.
Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyoming) said, “These texts leave no doubt: The White House knew exactly what was happening at the Capitol. Members of Congress, the press, and others wrote to Mark Meadows as the attack was underway. … Hours passed without necessary action by the president. These non-privileged texts are further evidence of President Trump's supreme dereliction of duty during those 187 minutes.”
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