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Student group hosts outdoor movie showing for Earth Day

By Bridget Hynes

April 22, 2014

Tim DeChristopher was a 27-year-old college student at the University of Utah in 2008 when he disrupted a federal auction under the Bush administration. According to the documentary detailing this event, the auction aimed to sell oil- and gas-drilling rights to under 150,000 acres of Utah wilderness, ...

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