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Sexual assault survey sees 40 percent response rate

By Lauren Budd | May 6, 2015

Forty percent of the student body -— including undergraduate students, graduate students and those in professional schools -— submitted responses to the Association of American Universities sexual assault campus climate survey sent out to campus last month, Title IX coordinator and Clery Act compliance officer Heather Lindkvist said. Dartmouth was one of 28 universities to participate in the survey, though not all other schools have completed the survey.

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Dever approves plans to split the Tucker Foundation

By Erin Lee | May 6, 2015

Provost Carolyn Dever recently approved plans for two new centers — the Dartmouth Center for Service and the William Jewett Tucker Center — that will continue the work of the Tucker Foundation following the Board of Trustees’ approval to split the foundation last June. Dever proposed new mission statements and outlined preliminary plans for the organization of each center at the end of the winter term, Tucker interim dean Theresa Ellis ’97 said.

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Student petition asks for Cunningham's resignation, Cunningham sends apology to campus

By The Dartmouth Senior Staff | May 6, 2015

Student Assembly president Frank Cunningham ’16 sent an email to campus apologizing for his behavior during a protest this weekend, when he moved within several inches of one of the demonstrators and yelled “I can't breathe" toward her. The incident was recorded and posted to YouTube multiple times—one of the videos has nearly 500 views, while another has over 300.

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MDF working groups provide updates

By Noah Goldstein | May 5, 2015

The three “Moving Dartmouth Forward” working groups — tasked with creating implementation recommendations for College President Phil Hanlon’s policy initiative — briefed an audience of roughly 20 on Tuesday night on their progress before an open question-and-answer session. Palaeopitus senior society and the Dean of the College’s office sponsored the event, and Palaeopitus members Valerie Zhao ’15 and Ashneil Jain ’15 moderated the discussion.

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College announces six residential cluster professors

By Max Gibson | May 5, 2015

Biology professor Ryan Calsbeek, physics and astronomy professor Ryan Hickox, engineering professor Jane Hill, sociology professor Kathryn Lively, mathematics professor Craig Sutton and comparative literature professor Dennis Washburn will be the first six house professors in Dartmouth’s new residential cluster system, the College announced yesterday.

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PRIDE Week highlights diversity of experiences

By Estephanie Aquino | May 3, 2015

PRIDE Week, a week-long celebration dedicated to raising awareness of lesbian, gay, bisexual, queer and transgender issues, wraps up today with a talk by keynote speaker and prominent transgender activist Janet Mock. Highlights of the week included an HIV screening in Collis Common Ground on Wednesday, a cookout on the Collis Center patio on Thursday and a series of lectures and discussions throughout the week.

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#DartmouthIAmHere campaign aims to showcase socioeconomic diversity

By Rebecca Asoulin | May 3, 2015

Ramtin Rahmani ’16 said he keeps thinking back to one anecdote submitted as part of the #DartmouthIamHere campaign — a new project using student submissions to showcase socioeconomic diversity on campus — where the student wrote about how at the end of each College tour he gives, he mentions that he is the first person from his family to attend college. This act, Ramtin noted, is this student’s way of expressing that there is diversity on campus.

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Students petition to preserve professor Milde’s position

By Sean Connolly and Max Gibson | April 30, 2015

Following restructuring in the chemistry department that has led to the apparent dissolution of Sibohan Milde’s position as a senior lecturer, support for Milde has spread among members of the student body, resulting in a petition created by chemistry major Josie Coury ’15. As of press time the petition has accrued 756 signatures from both undergraduate and graduate students alike, Coury said.

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College awards professors $450,000 for seed funding

By Bob Wang | April 30, 2015

Ten proposals of the 51 submitted were awarded seed funding from the Office of the Provost, the College announced last week. Funding for the 10 projects will go toward purchasing necessary equipment, financially supporting team members and running experiments to see if the project could potentially work.

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