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SA announces SEMP committee members

The Student Assembly Membership and Internal Affairs Committee announced the nine students who will review the College's Student Event Management Procedures on Monday evening. In selecting the group, the committee sought to include students from a variety of backgrounds, including drinkers and non-drinkers, and affiliated and unaffiliated students, according to Student Body Vice President Cory Cunningham '10.

Cunningham is a member of The Dartmouth Senior business staff.

Acting Dean of the College Sylvia Spears proposed the creation of a SEMP review committee in late September after announcing that the College would not adopt the proposed alcohol management policy, a repeatedly delayed set of guidelines on alcohol use almost a year in the making spearheaded by former Dean of the College Tom Crady.

The board will include Amaka Nneji '10, Noah Glick '10, Michelle Reyf '10, Daisy Jones '10, Michael Funaro '12, Billy Haley '11, Eric Tanner '11, Alexandria Blythe '10 and Alex Caron '10, according to an Assembly press release.

Tanner is a photographer for The Dartmouth, and Caron is a comic artist for The Dartmouth.

Almost all of the students on the board are affiliated with a coed, fraternity or sorority at the College. Several of the students serving on the committee have current or past leadership experience within the Greek system.

Nneji is the current president of the Panhellenic Council, and has been a representative to the Greek Leadership Council and Palaeopitus, she told The Dartmouth in an e-mail. Tanner served on the summer executive board of Chi Gamma Epsilon fraternity. Caron currently serves as the social chair at Alpha Chi Alpha fraternity, while Jones fills that role at Kappa Delta Epsilon sorority. Reyf is the president of Panarchy undergraduate society.

Haley is a member of Psi Upsilon fraternity and Blythe is a member of The Tabard coed fraternity, which is a dry house.

After Spears originally announced that the committee would be created, several Greek leaders were concerned that the College's Greek system would not be adequately represented, The Dartmouth previously reported.

The committee sought to choose "people that represented diverse perspectives that could all provide different insights about alcohol policy," Cunningham said on Monday.

The applicant pool was heavily weighted towards affiliated students and members of the Class of 2010 because they have had the most experience with SEMP guidelines, he said.

"We had to really work to make sure we had a balanced group," Cunningham said, noting that he was generally pleased with the final mix of viewpoints represented on the advisory board.

Glick told The Dartmouth that he was likely chosen for the committee because of his perspective as an unaffiliated student and a member of the track team.

"My perspective is maybe slightly different than others [on the committee], but I'd imagine there are others on campus who have a similar lifestyle," Glick said.

Glick also said that his thinking is less "polluted" with preconceptions about SEMP and alcohol policy than is that of affiliated students'.

Assessing the current state and effectiveness of SEMP training will be a large part of the board's focus, Cunningham said.

Cunningham and Student Body President Frances Vernon met with Spears to solicit her input before MIAC began reviewing applications, Cunningham said. Spears told the pair that she wanted the group to focus on creating an improved education policy that could be more effectively administered and that would teach students how to oversee social events properly, Cunningham said.

Members of the advisory board noted a variety of SEMP regulations that they hoped to review.

Tanner told The Dartmouth that he would like the panel to consider the rationale behind each rule under SEMP, noting that he was also concerned with the Hanover Police department's policy of following ambulances carrying intoxicated students to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.

Reyf said in an e-mail that she would like to address how alcohol usage related to the "power dynamics and hierarchies that exist between students based on age, gender, race and campus affiliation."

The review committee will solicit input from Greek organization social chairs, as well as from other members of the Dartmouth community, according to the press release.

The advisory board's first meeting will likely be held within the next week, Cunningham said, depending on when Spears and Interim Associate Dean of the College Harry Kinne, who is chair of the committee, decide to convene the board.