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In an effort to reach out to student organizations, Student Assembly voted Tuesday night to allocate up to $500 to the Dartmouth Mountaineering Club for the maintenance of Daniels Climbing Gym.
The Assembly earmarked the money for the sanitation of Daniels Gym's climbing holds, the grips that climbers use to ascend and descend the wall.
The gym serves as a facility for upwards of 300 Mountaineering Club members as well as other interested students and members of the greater Dartmouth community, said Todd Rabkin Golden '06, who led the effort for funding the project.
Assembly members also discussed plans to implement a student advising system in lieu of the current system in which professors advise freshmen on their academic choices through the end of their first year at Dartmouth.
According to Julia Hildreth '05, the new system would be akin to the current Older and Wiser program but more geared toward academics.
Moreover, incoming freshmen would be assigned to upperclassmen according to broad interests -- humanities, social sciences and sciences -- rather than being tied down to a professor within a single department.
A similar system has been in place at Great Britain's Oxford University for decades, and has been met with much success.
Other matters of business Tuesday night included diversity affairs and student rights.
Jackie Famber '04, in conjunction with the Diversity Committee, said he intends to review and report on student incidents of bias within the community.
In related news, Ralph Davies '05, Noah Riner '06 and Lisa Warren '07 proposed a resolution to meet with the Hanover Police Department and Safety and Security in an investigation on the treatment of students.
The resolution also includes a provision to update existing informational cards that are intended to promote awareness of student's privacy and civil rights.
