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December 21, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Kristy Jarosh
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Group to advise on new stalking policy

The Subcommittee on Stalking, a branch of the Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment committee, will make recommendations at the end of this term regarding how the College should address stalking on campus. The subcommittee's findings and recommendations as to whether the College should create a permanent committee on stalking will be included in SASH's annual report, said Liza Veto, co-chair of the subcommittee and acting coordinator of the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program. Veto said SASH formed the subcommittee during Fall term in response to suggestions several groups of students made to Dean of the College Lee Pelton last spring and to anecdotal evidence that stalking exists on the campus. The recommendation for a new subcommittee to focus on the problem of stalking was one of the elements of SASH's annual report last year.

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College offers rape assault defense class

In conjunction with Safety and Security, the College has decided to offer a course in rape assault defense this term as a physical education class. Safety and Security Sergeants Rebel Roberts and Mark Lancaster are currently teaching four classes to female students and employees of Dartmouth. The course is based on the Rape Aggression Defense system and teaches women to use their personal weapons, like their hands, feet and heads to defend themselves against attack, Roberts said. "We looked at this program for what it was and looked at the need at Dartmouth, and thought it connected very well," she said. RAD was developed in 1989 by Lawrence Nadeau to empower women through self defense; this empowerment is taught through education, dependency on self, making decisions and realization of one's own power.

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