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(02/04/15 12:54am)
A new webpage highlighting all resources available to survivors of sexual violence was launched Tuesday by Dartmouth’s Title IX coordinator and Clery Act compliance officer Heather Lindkvist. The website was announced in an email sent to the Dartmouth community Tuesday afternoon that also detailed changes in policy regarding the confidentiality of resources on campus.
(01/30/15 4:06am)
College President Phil Hanlon announced new initiatives for residential life, including a complete redesign of the undergraduate housing model. Beginning with the Class of 2019, incoming Dartmouth students will be randomly assigned to one of six dormitory clusters. Beginning their sophomore year, these students will live in these assigned clusters for the remaining three years of their undergraduate experience. The College will commit $1 million annually to fund the social, academic and intramural programming in these residence communities. Freshmen will live on first-year only floors, and first-year residential education will continue. Upperclassmen will have the option to live in Greek housing, affinity housing or in Living and Learning Communities, but will remain members of their original residential community. Interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer said that she hopes the transition to the new community system will be transparent. While the system will begin with the Class of 2019, current ’16s, ’17s and ’18s may be given the choice to opt-in to a community if they wish, she said. The initiative also aims to facilitate faculty interaction and academic support within the residential community system. In Thursday’s address, Hanlon said that the goal of the initiative is to create a campus that is more inclusive and cohesive between undergraduates, graduates and faculty. The residential communities will have faculty advisors and graduate students who live in the clusters, possibly along with their families. Review of faculty candidates will begin this February, Hanlon said. “I’m hoping that each house will have its own identity and its own personality based upon the faculty leadership,” Ameer said. Robert O’Hara, a consultant to colleges establishing residential houses, said that the difficulty of implementing such a system is most apparent in the first years before house identities form. Each house should represent a microcosm of the larger college student body. He said, however, that community can easily be fostered by having students coming together at weekly meetings that will kindle connections and friendships. O’Hara also said that the strength of a house or residential college system comes from the rich social and academic environment it fosters. The idea of membership, he said, is essential to the model’s success. Dartmouth is unique with its academic calendar, known as the D-Plan, which makes study abroad programs and leave terms for internships possible throughout the academic year. Many feel, however, that the system makes it difficult to create a sense of continuity on campus, as students frequently move between dorms and friends’ D-plans often do not match up.
(01/23/15 4:20am)
Associate dean for faculty at the Tuck School of Business Matthew Slaughter has been appointed the school’s 10th dean, the College announced Thursday afternoon. Slaughter, who is also the Signal Companies’ professor of management and has been at the College since 1994, will assume the role on July 1.
(01/15/15 12:53am)
Movement Against Violence is set to expand its programming to freshman floors this term, with a curriculum tailored to the dynamics of first-year communities. The initiative aims to address issues of sexual and domestic violence prevention most relevant to the situations first-year students will likely encounter.
(01/06/15 2:45am)
Over the winter interim period, Dartmouth students, faculty and community members led two separate demonstrations in response to the non-indictments of officers involved in the deaths of unarmed black men Michael Brown and Eric Garner. On Dec. 4, a group of Dartmouth faculty members organized a rally on Hanover’s Main Street to protest police brutality. On Dec. 10, Geisel students held a separate die-in as part of the National White Coat Die-In, a showing of solidarity by medical schools. African American Studies professor Reena Goldthree said that the idea to hold the first rally stemmed from the desire to participate in the national protest movement. The rally plans evolved quickly, a turnaround which demonstrates the frustration felt by those in the local community, Goldthree said. “[The time] from my initial email to the day of the protest was less than 24 hours,” Goldthree said. “Part of that is there are so many people in the Upper Valley who were looking for a way to express their outrage about what was going on in the series of non-indictments of police officers for the killing of unarmed men and women.” The rally drew a crowd of around 60 people, about 15 of whom were students on campus. It opened with remarks from four Dartmouth professors — Goldthree, Alexis Jetter, Annelise Orleck and Jeff Sharlet — and other community members. In her opening statement, Goldthree outlined the three broad aims for the demonstration: protesting state-sanctioned violence and racialized policing, participating in the movement to seek justice for those who have lost their lives to police violence and connecting the national movement to issues in the Upper Valley. Jetter, a women’s and gender studies professor, elaborated on the link between national issues and the Upper Valley. She presented two narratives of police brutality in the area. In 2012, Wayne Burwell ’97, a black man who passed out in his own home in Wilder, VT, was assaulted by police who were called to the scene by a neighbor who mistook him for a burglar when he was entering his home. In 2012, Macadam Mason, a man who suffered from epilepsy, was killed when police tased him as he walked towards police with his hands up, according to witnesses. In both cases, no criminal charges were pursued against any of the officers involved, Jetter said. She then emphasized the need for police to refocus on proper training for diffusing situations rather than allowing them to escalate to a point where violence is justified. In addition, Jetter pointed out the problems that ensue from the militarization of local police departments. “The old adage is true — when you’ve got a hammer, everything looks like a nail,” Jetter told The Dartmouth in an interview. “We need to return to the idea that police officers are there to restore the peace and protect people, sometimes from themselves.”
(11/18/14 12:35am)
After reviewing the Student Assembly’s recent expenditures on customized apparel, a lunch event and a formal that was later canceled, the Undergraduate Finance Committee sanctioned the group. Between now and June, Assembly and UFC advisor Eric Ramsey must approve any purchases over $500.
(11/12/14 1:22am)
Two Geisel Medical School departments in biomedical data science and epidemiology and a new master’s program in quantitative data sciences will come to Dartmouth following the Board of Trustees meeting last weekend.
(11/05/14 1:38am)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., defeated Republican challenger Scott Brown in a tight race Tuesday. Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., was re-elected to a second term as Governor, beating Republican businessman Walt Havenstein. Rep. Ann McLane Kuster ’78, D-N.H., defeated Marilinda Garcia to keep her seat in the House of Representatives, and Republican Frank Guinta, beat Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-N.H., to regain the seat he lost to her in 2012.
(10/29/14 10:44pm)
The number of Dartmouth graduates joining Teach for America fell from 33 in 2013 to 21 in 2014, dropping the College from 8th to 12th place in the organization’s highest contributing medium-sized schools. This changes comes as the program seeks to broaden the pool of universities it draws from.
(10/19/14 9:44pm)
This fall, the Gender Research Institute at Dartmouth’s first post-graduate fellows will explore gender issues through research and discussions with students in residential halls.
(09/30/14 10:41pm)
Amid ongoing federal investigations, the College plans to release its annual security and fire safety report today.