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Changing e-mail hosts would decrease annual costs and increase e-mail storage space, she said during the presentation.
The Hanover Community Substance Abuse Advisory Council and Student Assembly members discussed possible changes to the town's alcohol policies in a meeting at Hanover High School on Monday. The meeting focused on reducing disincentives that may cause students to refrain from calling for help for their intoxicated peers, specifically looking at the role Hanover Police plays in the process.
Students described the effect of media stereotypes and social stigmas as they shared their experiences with eating disorders as part of "Speak Up," a panel discussion on Sunday in Tindle Lounge that began Eating Disorders Awareness Week at the College.
The Good Sam policy allows an intoxicated student or that student's concerned friend to call Safety and Security and, with no questions asked and no disciplinary ramifications from the College, receive a medical response.
The College's newly announced budget-reconciliation plan will cut jobs, dining services and offered courses, but the upcoming Winter Carnival's predetermined funds will not be affected, according to assistant director of the Collis Center and Student Activities Brian Dye.
The College will make 30 to 35 fewer courses available each year by not offering classes normally taught by professors currently on sabbatical, Dean of the Faculty Carol Folt said in an interview. Such courses are usually taught every other year or discontinued, Folt said.
The members of the College's Task Force on Sexual and Physical Assault will include Taylor Holt '09, Soo Hyun Roh '10, Alexandra Schindler '10 and Derek Weiss '09, according to an e-mail from special assistant to the Dean of the College Katherine Burke. Director of Counseling and Health Resources Mark Reed, Dean of upperclass students Rovana Popoff and Associate Director of Safety and Security Keysi Montas will also sit on the committee. The Task Force plans to organize campus-wide discussions about sexual assault during Winter and Spring terms and to produce a final report summarizing the members' findings by the end of Spring term, according to the e-mail.
Faculty retention at Dartmouth is "healthy" and comparable to retention at peer institutions, Dean of Faculty Carol Folt said at Tuesday night's Student Assembly meeting.
A new College task force will review the incidence of sexual and physical assault on campus, evaluate means of prevention and victim support, and assess Dartmouth's reporting and adjudication procedures, Dean of the College Tom Crady announced on Monday.
Student Assembly committees are looking into whether the flat panel displays in Food Court could be put to better use and are making progress in overcoming the logistical hurdles to install a microwave in Novack Cafe, committee members said at Tuesday's Assembly meeting. At the meeting, the Assembly introduced a new policy committee, led by David Nachman '09, to "think about broader, more long-term college policies." The committee plans to investigate how to improve residential life education and how to include more student input in decisions about faculty tenure positions. The Assembly also made plans to collaborate with the International Student Association on events for the term.
While students consider undergraduate research opportunities, Dartmouth Dining Services and College traditions such as Homecoming to be particularly important to their Dartmouth experience, the Native American Program, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership and the Hood Museum of Art are deemed to be of lesser importance, according to a Student Assembly survey released late Thursday night. The survey, conducted online over interim, is intended to help the College decide which areas to target for budget cuts.
The survey results have not been released due to legal concerns regarding student privacy, although they may be made public in the near future as these issues are resolved, Student Body President Molly Bode '09 said.
Heading into Winter term, the Assembly will make recommendations to the administration regarding upcoming budget cuts at the College. In initial talks, Assembly members brought up important aspects of a Dartmouth student life that should not be adversely affected by drops in the College's spending. Assembly members have specifically emphasized the importance of the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, the overall out-of-classroom undergraduate experience and College traditions, such as the three "big" weekends and other traditions. The Assembly also noted areas in which expenses could be spared, such as the extended hours of Collis Late Night and Food Court.
When Student Assembly introduced Zimride, an application on Facebook that facilitates student carpooling, to Dartmouth's student body, its goal was to have 500 users by Thanksgiving. The Assembly exceeded that goal last week, with 637 Zimride users listed on the application's web site as of Monday.
The Assembly will have until late January to come up with suggestions for possible budget cuts, according to Student Assembly President Molly Bode '09. Assembly members will also create a comprehensive survey for students to solicit a broader scope of opinions, she said.
Dartmouth College tested DartAlert, a new campus-wide emergency notification system, on Tuesday, shutting down all campus landlines for the afternoon. The system sends e-mails to everyone on campus and an automated phone call to those telephones in the College's system in case of a campus emergency, such as a natural disaster or violence, according to Roland Adams, the College's director of media relations. The test went well, and many people received the e-mail and phone call in a timely fashion, Mark Wilson '09, the MIR3 College Committee representative, said. The system is currently in its initial phase, but if the College continues to use MIR3, the company that operates DartAlert, later phases may allow for a registry of phone numbers to which notifications can be sent, according to Adams. Students would then be able to receive alerts on cell phones and in Greek or other off-campus housing.
As a result of the draw, Dartmouth Student Assembly President Molly Bode '09 and Penn's Undergraduate Assembly Chairman senior Wilson Tong will each wear the opposing school's paraphernalia. Dartmouth will buy a plaque to commemorate the 2008 elections and the College's high student voter turnout, according to Bode. The plaque will hang in the Collis Center. Penn is still finalizing their plans for a prize, Tong said.
DartAlert emergency notification system will test the system's ability to alert the Dartmouth community via e-mail, the school's web page and campus telephones, Mark Wilson '09, the MIR3 College Committee representative, said at the general meeting of the Student Assembly meeting Tuesday. The test alerts will likely slow down e-mail and shut down campus landline telephones, he said. Phones will remain active for emergency calls.
Female students almost always pay a higher emotional and physical price for casual hook-ups than male students do because of women's hormonal and anatomical biology, according to Miriam Grossman, senior fellow at the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute and former staff psychiatrist at University of California, Los Angeles. Grossman spoke to an audience of students and community members in the Rockefeller Center Monday for the third annual Dr. Tzvi Yehuda Saks Memorial Lecture sponsored by Dartmouth Chabad.
Dean of Residential Life Martin Redman solicited feedback on the new Alcohol Management Program proposal at the weekly general meeting of the Student Assembly Tuesday night. If adopted AMP will replace the Social Event Management Procedures, the College's current alcohol policy. The proposal was released last Tuesday by Dean of the College Tom Crady.