Student Assembly finalized many of its committee chair positions at the Assembly meeting Tuesday night in Collis 101. For all committees each of which is chaired by two people the General Assembly elected one chair while Student Body President Max Yoeli '12 and acting Vice President Rohail Premjee '14 appointed the other. The position of co-chair of the Alcohol Harm Reduction Committee, which will be held by Will Conaway '13, proved to be the most contentious election, with three students running for the position. Conaway said he will draw on his experience as a Green Team member to help partner the Assembly with other campus organizations dedicated to alcohol issues. Mary Cromwell '12 was elected co-chair of the Diversity and Community Affairs Committee. Both Tyler Kuhn '14 and Donald Casler '14 ran unopposed to be co-chair of the Academic Affairs Committee and the sustainability representative, respectively. Yoeli and Premjee announced their appointments after the meeting. Ji Hyae Lee '13 will co-chair the Alcohol Harm Reduction Committee, Gardiner Kreglow '14 will co-chair the Academic Affairs Committee and Troy Dildine '13 will co-chair the Diversity and Community Affairs Committee. Camden Nogay '13 and Alan Keegan '14 will co-chair the Student Services Committee. While the Assembly's committee structure will include a committee on sexual assault, that committee's chairs have not yet been finalized. The Assembly is still in the process of determining how it will work with the existing Student Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, according to Yoeli. Student Body Vice President Amrita Sankar '12, who is currently off campus in India for personal reasons, reviewed the applications for committee chairs, but left the final decisions to Premjee, according to Premjee.
Provost Carol Folt offered updates on the student accessibility goals on March 3 by the Accessibility Steering Committee in a meeting on Tuesday in Fahey lounge. Folt announced that the Student Accessibility Services office is now in the final stages of hiring an assistant director and improving Dartmouth's online accessibility, but has not managed to implement other recently-announced initiatives such as a note takers program due to unforeseen setbacks. Committee members present at the meeting included College President Jim Yong Kim, English professor and Director of the Dartmouth Center for the Advancement of Learning Thomas Luxon, undergraduate deans and Emily Broas '11 and Rebecca Gotlieb '12, co-founders of the student group Access By Leadership Equity. Kim noted that it should not be students' responsibility, but rather professors' and administrators' responsibility, to initiate and insist on accessible campus improvements.
