The Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Committee released its annual report last Wednesday, urging the College to create more spaces on campus controlled by women.
The report suggested the College provide a house for groups of women who want social gatherings not organized primarily by men.
Following the suggestions of the Committee on Diversity and Dartmouth Community's report, the SASH report also urged the College to examine its Greek system.
"Despite the efforts of some fraternity leadership to address the problems of peer harassment, sexual abuse and excessive drinking, women students are still subjected to an environment in which ... women become accustomed to entering a space ... in which they will most likely be addressed on the basis of sexual attractiveness more than anything else," the report said.
The SASH report also suggested the College hire two full-time peer internsfrom among Dartmouth's seniors to provide leadership for student-based programming.
The SASH Committee, established during the 1987-88 academic year, utilizes education as a means of preventing sexual assault and sexual harassment on campus.
The committee felt that the campus community as a whole was not as intense last year regarding the subject of sexual assault in comparison to the preceding year as a result of the publicized "stranger" assault on a Dartmouth student in March 1992.
The report described student participation as relatively low at SASH events during the last year. Events held annually by the SASH Committee include the Take Back the Night March and Sexual Assault Awareness Week.
As a result of recommendations made in last year's report, students can receive physical education credit for the self defense and rape prevention classes and the committee has worked to continue conversations about the social climate at the College.
Judith White, the assistant dean of the faculty of the arts and sciences, chairs the committee.
