The Education Department fined Yale University $165,000 for failing to report four incidents of sexual assault in 2001 and 2002, the Yale Daily News reported. Yale will pay $27,500 for each incident, plus additional fines for not including certain policy statements and information from the Yale-New Haven Hospital in its crime data. Omitting such information violates both the Clery Act and the Campus Crime Statistics Act. The department began its investigation in 2004 after an article in the Yale Alumni Magazine raised concerns about Yale's compliance with the Clery Act and found the university guilty of noncompliance in 2010. University spokesperson Tom Conroy said Yale asked the department to reconsider the fine.
Faculties of four New York University schools have approved a vote of no confidence in John Sexton, the university's president, The New York Times reported. Last week, faculty at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development voted 117 to 45 against the president's leadership, following the lead of Gallatin School of Individualized Study, College of Arts and Science and Tisch School of the Arts Asia. While the vote is a nonbinding resolution, other votes of "no confidence" have led to the resignation of other university officials, such as former Harvard University President Lawrence Summers in 2005. While Sexton has raised more than $3 billion for the university since he became president in 2001, NYU's tuition has risen as faculty salaries remain stagnant. Sexton received criticism for adding facilities in Greenwich Village and developing the Global Network University, a group of NYU campuses and study centers around the world. Many have said that the expansion aims to achieve financial, rather than academic, goals.
A Dartmouth student was arrested Wednesday for seeking to obtain nitrous oxide gas for purpose of inhalation, following a Hanover Police investigation that included two search warrants and multiple interviews. Hanover Police opened an investigation on May 2, after staff at the Hinman Mail Center alerted them to a suspicious package addressed to the student. The package was found to contain four cartons holding 96 nitrous oxide gas canisters. Sealed canisters of nitrous oxide, commonly known as whippits, are known to have an intoxicating effect when inhaled. A similar case took place in 2011, when an undergraduate student was arrested after Hanover Police intercepted a FedEx package he had ordered containing over two pounds of marijuana. The delivery was addressed to an alias name at an off-campus apartment.
Compiled by Amelia Rosch and Iris Liu
