VOL. CLXXII NO. 141
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2015
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Second Title IX investigation begins
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By EMILIA BALDWIN The Dartmouth Staff
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Fahey and McLane Halls will now house upperclassmen as a part of the West House.
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Six new residential communities based in current residence halls will begin housing students next fall, the College announced in a press release on Monday. Students graduating later than June 2016 will be randomly assigned into one of the communities in February and will have the chance to request up to five students they would like to be in their house next month. Members of the Class of 2020 will be assigned
houses next July when they are given room assignments. The creation of residential communities was announced as part of College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative on Jan. 29 of this year. A student advisory committee was formed after the announcement and three working groups of students, staff and house professors were created this fall to contribute to certain aspects of the residential community plan. Dean of the College Re-
becca Biron, who has been overseeing the plans for residential communities, said that all students will be assigned a community, though they may live in alternate housing options, such as Living Learning Communities, off-campus options, affinity houses and Greek houses. Where a student lives any given term is not the same as their house membership, Biron said. While former interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer told The Dartmouth SEE HOUSES PAGE 6
The federal Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights began investigating Dartmouth for a potential violation of Title IX on Aug. 21, Vermont Public Radio reported in late October. The College has been under investigation for a separate complaint since May 31, 2013. According to a list provided to The Dartmouth by the Office for Civil Rights, other peer institutions with more than one pending Title IX investigation include Columbia, Stanford and Brown Universities. There are 146 colleges being investigated for at least one complaint, with 25 of those having more than one open investigation. Unlike the first complaint filed against the College in 2013, the second involves a complaint made by an individual against the College to the Office for Civil Rights, College spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote in an email. The College does not believe that there is merit to the complaint and, at this time,
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the Office for Civil Rights has not found any instance of noncompliance by the College, she said. Adele Kimmel, an attorney specializing in Title IX at the Public Justice Foundation in Washington, D.C., said that procedurally, students are able to file complaints to the Office for Civil Rights, assuming that there is an institutional noncompliance with Title IX. She said that the Office for Civil Rights will only pursue an investigation if research shows probable incidence of noncompliance. Although the Office for Civil Rights’ investigations are only supposed to last for 180 days, some investigations often last longer depending on the case at hand, Kimmel said. Office for Civil Rights investigations are common not only in institutions of higher education but also in many elementary and secondary schools, she said. The Office for Civil Rights also opens investigations without student
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Student Assembly will conclude this term’s installments of its “Stop Hiding, Start Talking” campaign to raise awareness about mental health this week with several panels and a relaxation event. On Monday, the organization hosted a discussion about anxiety and substance abuse at Phi Tau genderinclusive fraternity. On
Wednesday, the Assembly, alongside Counseling and Human Development, will co-sponsor a “Relaxation Fest” at Collis Common Ground. The campaign will culminate in an all-day event on Thursday — “Sticker Day.” Students will wear customizable stickers that allow them to share issues with which they are struggling. Even if students choose not to fill SEE SA WEEK PAGE 5
Dartmouth has announced the creation of an Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement to bring together the sciences and humanities. The institute will be directed by philosophy and physics and astronomy professor Marcelo Gleiser. “The goal is to bring the sciences and the humanities into a constructive dialogue,” Gleiser said. The Institute arose out of Gleiser’s desire to create a more comprehensive in-
stitute for cross-disciplinary study. “There’s been a lot of talk about cross-disciplinarity, but there’s very little being done that is effective,” Gleiser said. “There’s the odd course here and there, but you don’t have a truly transfor mative medium where this can be done.” To provide this medium, the institute will have three main functions. First, it will host public dialogues around the country on big questions between scholars from different disciplines. Second, it will bring scholars
in the humanities and the sciences to the College as fellows in residence for up to one term. Third, the institute will create two online courses in conjunction with DartmouthX, the College’s online learning initiative. The public dialogues will be held in large theaters around the country in major American cities such as New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago. There will be a total of nine dialogues, with three each year over three years. SEE ICDE PAGE 3