Police officers in Hartford, Vt., and Lebanon, N.H., were called on the evening of Oct. 9 to investigate a disturbance that may have been associated with an instance of fraternity hazing at the College, Hartford Police officer Karl Ebbighausen said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The Hartford Police Department provided Safety and Security a copy of the police report, which suggests that Dartmouth students may have been directly involved in the incident, although Ebbighausen could not provide the names of the individuals or confirm that the perpetrators were students at the College, Ebbighausen said. On the evening in question, police received a call from a woman on Christian Street in Hartford who had heard loud banging on her door that seemed to signal an attempt to break and enter. When officers arrived, however, they encountered a group of young men pounding on a nearby U-Haul moving truck, which contained other young men, and determined that the resulting noise had caused the disturbance heard by the woman. The individuals involved were not charged, and were shortly released with no citations, Ebbighausen said. Director of Safety and Security and College Proctor Harry Kinne did not return requests for comment by press time.
Faculty members at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business approved a new master's in management program Wednesday, creating the first degree program at the business school's new campus in Kunshan, China, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Many professors questioned the impact that the Kunshan campus would have on the school's finances and reputation due to concerns that students may not be willing to pay the same tuition, $41,140, that is charged to students at the North Carolina campus. Although the final cost hinges on approval by Chinese authorities, Duke plans to charge approximately the same tuition as at its U.S. campus to signal that there is no difference in the quality of education at the two locations, Fuqua School of Business Dean William Boulding said in an interview with The Chronicle. Under the current degree program plan, students will complete half the year-long course in North Carolina and half in China, The Chronicle reported.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Skolkovo Foundation in Russia will establish the Skolkovo Institute of Technology, a new university for graduate research, in Skolkovo, Russia, that will begin enrolling students in 2014, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported. Although the new university will not adopt MIT's name, MIT will play a significant role in its curriculum and faculty decisions. The new institution, which will focus on interdisciplinary sciences, plans to admit 1,200 graduate students and 300 postgraduate students in its inaugural year, according to The Chronicle. Russian partners involved in the university intend to make the university as independent from the national government as possible in order to avoid corruption, The Chronicle reported.
