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(11/05/12 4:00am)
Former Pennsylvania State University President Graham Spanier was charged with covering up allegations of child abuse against Penn State's former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education. Prosecutors accused Spanier and two other university officials of perjury, obstructing justice, failing to report a crime and endangering children, calling their actions a "conspiracy of silence." Spanier denied knowledge of Sandusky's abuse of children in university shower rooms, saying that he thought Sandusky was only "horseplaying around." Evidence suggests, however, that Spanier knew what was happening, The Chronicle reported.
(10/30/12 3:00am)
In recognition of Domestic Violence Awareness Month, Sexual Assault Peer Advisors and WISE at Dartmouth placed silhouette cutouts of domestic violence victims in prominent locations across campus on Monday. The silhouettes display facts about domestic and relationship violence and include both the SAPA and WISE hotlines to provide aid to students seeking help or more information, according to volunteer coordinator for local service at the Tucker Foundation, Stacia Burd.
(10/26/12 2:00am)
As weekend revelry ramps up, it is highly important that students be aware of the potential dangers of sexual assault during Homecoming weekend, according to students and College staff. Due to high attendance rates at parties and easy access to alcohol, Homecoming weekend creates an increased risk for incidents of sexual assault, according to Elizabeth Hoffman '13, the chair of the Special Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault, a council that facilitates collaboration between students, administrators, faculty and alumni on issues related to sexual assault. "Usually sexual predators find vulnerable people to prey on and use alcohol to make people more vulnerable and less able to resist," she said. "Because alcohol plays such a role in our social spaces, especially on big weekends, it's even easier to access this predatory tool." Homecoming brings both registered and unregistered guests, as well as alumni, to the College, increasing the likelihood of sexual assault, accoding to Holli Weed '14, co-director of Mentors Against Violence, a peer education group that works primarily within Greek organizations to raise awareness of sexual assault and provide prevention training. "There are people who go a little bit crazy over the weekend, and that kind of situation gives perpetrators an opportunity to [commit sexual assault]," she said. "There's a lot of people on campus and there's not a lot of accountability." Sexual assault, along with hazing and alcohol abuse, is one of the College's biggest concerns, according to Sexual Assault Awareness Program co-coordinator Amanda Childress. "The problems are really the same on every college campus," she said. "The difference is the culture around how to go about attacking some of the problems." One in four women and one in 33 men nationally are victims of sexual assault over the course of their college career, Hoffman said. "That number is for attempted or committed rape, whereas harassment or non-penetrating assault is much more common," she said. "I would say probably every woman at this school has been touched in a way she didn't invite or want." Dartmouth's statistics are much higher than the national average, but the Clery Act numbers officially reported statistics of sexual offenses on campus every year are hard to interpret because reporting rates are low nationally, Hoffman said. Higher numbers could be a positive indicator that students are seeking help instead of staying quiet about assault, according to Childress. "Anyone within this field would attribute higher numbers to the fact that more people know about the resources so they actually utilize them, which also indicates that students on our campus feel safer coming forward than they might on another college campus," Childress said. Increased awareness of sexual violence and a strong support structure for victims of sexual assault generally lead to higher Clery Act numbers, according to Weed. "Clery numbers do not necessarily correspond to how many actual cases [of sexual assault] there are," she said. "That is why it is so hard to get an accurate picture of this issue." SAAP co-coordinator Rebekah Carrow said that embarrassment, fear of reputational damage and loss of social status, shame and confusion can all prevent victims from reporting cases of sexual assault. "Creating a safe environment for survivors of violence to come forward and get the support they need is the number one priority of the SAAP office and this administration," Carrow said. Most sexual assault cases are initiated in social spaces and are not committed by a "stranger in a dark alley," according to Hoffman. Because Greek houses are the primary social spaces for a majority of students on campus, the houses perpetuate sexual assault on some level, she said. "There are dynamics to our social spaces that I think really facilitate abuses of power and enable some violent behavior, especially exclusive ownership of spaces and controlling what is in different drinks and who gets them," Hoffman said. Weed agreed that the Dartmouth social scene combines risk factors by having many people in an enclosed space with alcohol, which makes sexual assault more likely to occur. However, the Greek system itself is not necessarily responsible for this, according to Weed. "Colleges that don't have Greek systems still struggle with sexual violence, but our social system combines a number of risk factors," she said. There are many programs in place at the College to address sexual assault on campus, but these programs are mostly geared toward response, not prevention, according to Hoffman. Instead, students have to take responsibility for preventing this problem, she said. "The College should provide the right resources, policy and infrastructure, but we need to adopt higher standards for ourselves, especially in our social spaces," Hoffman said. "Ultimately, I think it's a failure on the students' end." The Dartmouth Bystander Initiative, a new College bystander intervention program which will train students to recognize potentially risky situations and intervene to prevent sexual assault from occurring, will be launched in the winter, according to Carrow and Childress. "Right now a lot of our time and resources are going into the bystander initiative," Childress said. "If we can prevent these things from happening, then we don't have to put as much time, effort, money and resources into [response] services because assaults won't happen as often."
(10/26/12 2:00am)
Amherst College President Carolyn Martin has created a new committee on enhancing sexual respect at Amherst and has met with sexual assault victims in response to an article written by former Amherst student Angie Epifano, Inside Higher Ed reported. Colby Bruno, managing director of the Victim Rights Law Center, said that Amherst is not unique in its problems addressing sexual assault and believes that other schools should model the proactive response Martin took after the issue was brought to light. Martin said her goal is to "integrate discussions about issues of this sort into the intellectual growth of our students in a fundamental way," Inside Higher Ed reported. On Oct. 17, The Amherst Student published Epifano's story about her rape and subsequent mistreatment by the college, according to Inside Higher Ed.
(10/18/12 2:00am)
Dartmouth graduates Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand '88, D-N.Y., and Republican challenger Wendy Long '82, faced off on Wednesday night in their only debate prior to the election for New York's junior Senate seat, addressing national debt and women's rights at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Polls indicate that Gillibrand leads Long by 40 percentage points, and the former is projected to win the election on Nov. 6.
(10/12/12 2:00am)
Because most of the discussion in Washington about debt focuses on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, people under the age of 30 are often left out of important conversations, Beach said.
(10/05/12 2:00am)
Emerging from a senior thesis project by Thomas Bao '12, CarSafe, an Android application that promotes driver safety, has since grown into a collaborative international project that represents the first application to use a smartphone's dual camera data to analyze a person's driving habits, according to computer science professor Andrew Campbell, faculty advisor to the department's Smartphone Sensing Group.
(09/28/12 2:00am)
Although it varies by term, between 8 and 9 percent of enrolled undergraduate students live off campus, according to Director of Undergraduate Housing Rachael Class-Giguere.
(09/21/12 2:00am)
Joshua Morse III, noted for his activism in law school desegregation, died last Friday at the age of 89, The New York Times reported. Morse was the dean of the University of Mississippi School of Law in the 1960s and admitted the school's first black students in 1963. During his six years serving as dean, Morse recruited minority students, hired Ivy League-educated professors and served as a model of liberalism for southern educators. Morse also hired new law school graduates to prepare legal challenges against discriminatory voting laws and promote legal assistance for the underprivileged. Born in 1923, Morse was a graduate of the University of Mississippi and its law school and served in the U.S. Army during World War II, The Times reported.
(06/09/12 2:00am)
Dartmouth will award honorary degrees to five leaders in fields ranging from music to human rights activism during Sunday's Commencement ceremony.
(05/25/12 2:00am)
Rauner is one of the most accessible and user-friendly special collections libraries for a collection of its size and depth, Satterfield said.
(05/18/12 2:00am)
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Opera North, an opera company serving the Upper Valley that is unique due to its largely rural audience base and its focus on developing young performers, according to Opera North Artistic Director Louis Burkot, a senior voice lecturer at Dartmouth and the director of the Dartmouth College Glee Club.
(05/10/12 2:00am)
A graduate of Yale University and Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Lord has played a "central and distinguished role in determining American foreign policy toward the Far East," according to Richard Stamelman, executive director of the Montgomery Endowment.
(05/08/12 2:00am)
Several Ivy League institutions have begun hiring retired military officers as faculty, according to The New York Times. Yale University currently offers a popular leadership seminar taught by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who was fired by President Barack Obama after Rolling Stone magazine reported that he and his staff made "dismissive comments" about White House officials, The Times reported. Princeton University and Columbia University will both offer seminars taught by military officers in the fall, according to The Times. In the past, Harvard University has frequently invited military officers, such as the director of the Central Intelligence Agency and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to give lectures on the university's campus. McChrystal expected more protest when he was hired, but Yale history professor John Gaddis attributed the lack of contention to "almost no antimilitary bias among students," The Times reported.
(05/04/12 2:00am)
Thirteen people were charged on Wednesday in the death of Robert Champion, a Florida A&M University student who was brutally beaten to death in a marching band hazing ritual last fall, The New York Times reported. Of the 13 people, 11 were charged with felonies and two with misdemeanors. In a tradition called "Crossing Bus C," Champion was forced to walk down the aisle of the bus after a football game and was "beaten, kicked and suffocated" by other band members, according to The Times. The suspects charged with felonies face up to six years in prison. Florida A&M has suspended the band, which will not be allowed to perform at football games this fall, and has placed the band director on administrative leave, The Times reported.
(05/02/12 2:00am)
Compared to Canada, the United States spends almost twice as much on health care services, even though the overall situation is similar to other developed nation's health outcomes, Johnson said.
(04/27/12 2:00am)
Last weekend, Daniela Pelaez, who has committed to Dartmouth as a member of the Class of 2016 and whom news outlets have dubbed the "poster child" for the DREAM Act, came to Dartmouth along with over 530 other prospective students for Dimensions of Dartmouth last weekend. Pelaez was facing deportation by the end of March, but she and her sister have recently been granted a two-year reprieve, largely in response to a student-led protest staged in her honor.
(04/13/12 2:00am)
A series of bomb threats at the University of Pittsburgh has canceled several classes, forced late-night dormitory evacuations and resulted in many students moving offcampus, The New York Times reported. Although there have been no explosions so far and no explosives have been found, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania David Hickton said in a statement that the threats are being "vigorously, aggressively and thoroughly investigated" by campus police and the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. The university responded to each bomb threat by evacuating students and calling in a bomb squad to sweep the buildings, The Times reported. Administrators of the university have asked professors to relax attendance policies and schoolwork requirements, especially since many students have chosen to leave campus due to safety and other concerns, according to The Times.
(04/06/12 2:00am)
The new packages were created as an attempt to halt the recent decline in computer sales from the College.
(03/30/12 2:00am)
Santa Monica College, a community college in California, has proposed instating a "two-tier" tuition structure that would charge a higher price for more popular classes, according to The New York Times. The plan is an effort to alleviate the problem of course over-enrollment in the wake of sharp budget cuts to higher education following the recent economic recession. In response to drastic budget cuts, many California community colleges have cut hundreds of course offerings, with some canceling the winter academic term entirely, The Times reported. Community colleges are widely known for providing inexpensive, accessible education opportunities, and many think that the new tuition structure would contradict the outreach goals of community colleges and put more financial burden on the poorest students, according to The Times.