At approximately 7:15 p.m. on Jan. 6, a female student noticed someone attempting to take a picture with an iPhone above the door of her shower stall in a College residence hall, according to an email sent to the College community on Monday by Director of Safety and Security and College Proctor Harry Kinne. The intruder left the bathroom after the woman shouted, the email said. Safety and Security recently received a report of a similar incident that occurred during Fall term, Kinne said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The incident is under investigation by both Safety and Security and Hanover Police, Kinne said.
Yale University has adopted a new policy to reimburse employees for a $125 federal tax on health insurance benefits received by employees' same-sex partners, the Yale Daily News reported. The new policy which resulted after debate and discussion between administrators and members of Yale's LGBTQ Affinity Group is expected to affect roughly 40-50 employees. Yale will now join the ranks of Columbia University, Syracuse University and Bowdoin College in offsetting the federal tax on partner health coverage, the Daily News reported.
Although Columbia University's anthropology department announced last week that it would begin offering a course on the Occupy Wall Street movement, the course has not yet been approved and will probably not be available to students for the upcoming term, the Columbia Daily Spectator reported. Brian Connolly, the university's vice president for public affairs, said that the early reports about the offering were not true and the class titled "Occupy the Field: Global Finance, Inequality, Social Movement" was subsequently removed from the department's website, according to the Spectator. While there are no definitive plans to offer the course, professor Gregory Wawro, a member of Columbia's Committee on Instruction, told the Spectator it may be offered at a later time. The proposed course would have allowed students to "conduct fieldwork" at Occupy protests, the Spectator reported.
