VOL. CLXXII NO. 151
SUNNY HIGH 46 LOW 23
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2015
LUL hosts community discussion on race
By ZACHARY BENJAMIN The Dartmouth Staff
SPORTS
MEN’S SOCCER FALLS TO BROWN PAGE 12
OPINION
JEON: BODIES OF COLOR PAGE 4
ARTS
HANDEL SOCIETY PERFORMS “MESSIAH” PAGE 11
Students and administrators gathered Monday night at Cutter-Shabazz Hall for an “emergency meeting” organized by Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity, a Latino fraternity, to speak about racial issues they have faced both on and off campus. The meeting was sparked by the alleged assault of Geovanni Cuevas ’14 at the Latinx Ivy League Conference at Brown University last Saturday. The meeting began with Cuevas’ description of what he alleges occurred at Brown on
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The College’s general faculty voted to advise the faculties of Arts and Sciences and the professional schools to recommend to College President Phil Hanlon that he ask the Board of Trustees to create a School of Graduate and Advanced Studies at Dartmouth at the annual
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No protest violence reported
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Despite allegations of violence by demonstrators, no reports have been filed with the College.
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general faculty meeting in Alumni Hall on Monday. The assembled faculties voted 174 to nine to approve the recommendation. No faculty members abstained. The meeting began with Hanlon addressing the audience about increasing diversity in Dartmouth’s faculty and staff. Later, discussion passed SEE SOGAS PAGE 3
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General faculty vote in favor of SOGAS
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Saturday. After confronting two officers at a party about what he felt was an unwarranted display of force against a drunken partygoer, Cuevas said the officers began to intimidate him and threatened to arrest him for trespassing. He told the officers that he was being hosted in the same building that the party was being held, he said. Wanting to avoid a confrontation, he left the party. However, he went back into the building from the back entrance to find his hosts. When he could not find them
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Thursday’s Blackout demonstration, org anized by Dartmouth’s chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, has sparked controversy after allegations of physical assault were made by users of social media outlets, like the anonymous messaging app Yik Yak, and later in an editorial in The Dartmouth Review, which on Monday gained traction from some national media outlets. The Review edito-
rial said demonstrators pushed and shoved students in the librar y. One female student, the editorial alleges, was pinned against a wall by demonstrators while shouting “filthy white b****!” in her face. None of the police officers who monitored the demonstration on Thursday night witnessed any acts of violence, Hanover Police Lieutenant Brad Sargent said. As of Monday, only one incident of violence in the library has been reported, and this was by a third party, Sargent said. No complaints of
physical violence have been made, according to a press release by the College. The College described the events as a “peaceful meeting” that transitioned to a “political protest.” Several students have filed bias incident reports with the College, with some describing feelings of intimidation and disrespect by other students, judicial affairs director Leigh Remy said. Other reports expressed concern from demonstrators, claiming they are being falsely accused of being SEE PROTEST PAGE 6
National Greek orgs remove support for Safe Campus Act B y KELSEY FLOWER The Dartmouth Staff
Despite spending more than $200,000 lobbying for the Safe Campus Act throughout 2015, the NorthAmerican Interfraternity Conference and National Panhellenic Conference withdrew their support on
Friday after eight national sororities dropped their support for the Act earlier that day. The Safe Campus Act, sponsored by Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.), Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) is a bill to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to
protect victims of sexual violence and improve the adjudication of allegations related to sexual violence. Vice president of university relations for the NIC Will Foran, who declined to comment on the phone, wrote in an email that the organization received many contributions and opinions
from its member fraternities, and that this decision best reflects their opinions. The Safe Campus Act has a few key provisions that would change the way current sexual assault adjudications system operates at Dartmouth, as well as at universities across the country. The legislation does
not allow the College to go through an adjudication process unless the complainant is willing to nonanonymously report to the police. If a reporting person asks for confidentiality, the institution would not be able to initiate or carry about SEE ACT PAGE 5