VOL. CLXXV NO.73
SHOWERS
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2018
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Lawsuit alleges wrongful expulsion
REFLECTING ON THE FALL
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By Elizabeth Janowski The Dartmouth
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Zeller discusses tobacco use B y Anne George The Dartmouth
“We are all playing catch-up with the tobacco industry — the regulators, general public, other policy makers and media,” director of the Food and Drug Administration’s C e n t e r f o r To b a c c o Products Mitchell Zeller ’79 said in his Sept. 28 talk on tobacco in today’s
America. “These are extremely smart people, and they have a 75- to 100-year head start on regulation.” In the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute sponsored lecture called “A m e r i c a ’s To b a c c o S t r u g g l e : Wi n s a n d Losses,” Zeller discussed the FDA’s recent efforts to reduce tobacco usage. He spoke to around 20
Digital cloud to protect materials B y Anthony Robles The Dartmouth Staff
Materials at the Rauner Special Collections Library will now have a permanent home in the cloud. The Dartmouth College Library recently announced that it will be using Preservica, a cloud-based preservation system, to protect and store digital materials currently housed in Rauner. “Some of the materials are
important research materials that students at Dartmouth, faculty at Dartmouth or even researchers around the world might be interested in, so we’re stewards of that kind of material to make sure that the global scholarly community has the ability to do research,” said associate librarian for digital strategies Daniel Chamberlain. “In this particular context, we also want to make sure SEE PRESERVICA PAGE 3
people in the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy and t h e S o c i a l S c i e n c e s, exploring the tobacco industry’s traditionally antagonistic relationship with regulation and what is being done today to remedy that. A f t e r w o rk i n g o n various FDA issues for SEE TOBACCO PAGE 5
On Aug. 6, a former Dartmouth student filed a lawsuit against the College, alleging that he was wrongfully expelled last September following unfair disciplinary hearing procedures that breached the College’s contractual obligations to him and violated his Title IX rights. He is seeking the reversal of the College’s decision, reinstatement at the College, the expungement of his record and monetary compensation for financial and emotional damages. Prior to his expulsion, the student had expected to graduate in spring 2018. According to a copy of the complaint obtained by The Dartmouth, the College’s decision last year came after a series of incidents in which the student, who filed the complaint under the pseudonym John Doe, allegedly threatened a female student with whom he used to be in a relationship. The female student, referred to as Sally Smith, attended a university
outside of the state of New Hampshire. In March 2017, according to the lawsuit, Smith submitted a report composed of messages from Doe to her university’s police department and was granted a restraining order against him. The university’s police department forwarded the report to Dartmouth’s Ju d i c i a l A f f a i r s O f f i c e, which determined that it was unnecessary to initiate further disciplinary action against Doe at the time, the lawsuit says. Doe sent a message to Smith and her mother in May 2017, prompting Smith’s mother to notify the police that Doe had violated the restraining order, according t o t h e l aw s u i t . H e w a s subsequently arrested by the Hanover police department, though he was later found not guilty in court of violating the order, the suit says. The complaint says that JAO assistant director Adam Knowlton-Young notified SEE LAWSUIT PAGE 2
Study links arthritis to depression
B y Berit Svenson The Dartmouth Staff
Arthritis in older adults may be linked to higher incidence of depression in these individuals. A recent study by a team of researchers from Cornell University, Dartmouth and the University of Michigan found a significant association between arthritis and varying degrees of depression in older adults. “This really shows that mental and physical health conditions are interrelated,” said Courtney Polenick, a contributing researcher to the study and lifespan
developmental psychologist at the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging. “It suggests the importance of screening for and treating arthritis and depression.” Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey collected from 2011 to 2014, the research team’s primary objective was to better understand arthritis rates among older adults in the U.S. who struggle with depression, according to Jessica Brooks, lead researcher and former postdoctoral research fellow at the Geisel School of Medicine. After analyzing the
collected data using weighted logistic regression models, the researchers found that a significant correlation existed between moderate depression and arthritis in older adults. The association persisted for both minor and severe depression, according to the study. Because of the correlation between arthritis and depression found in the study, Polenick added that she believes integrated treatments should be introduced to look at what can be done to improve both conditions simultaneously. SEE ARTHRITIS PAGE 3