VOL. CLXXI NO. 50
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MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2014
SA policy to incentivize bystander training
By CHRIS LEECH
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On the basis of members’ participation in six-hour-long Dartmouth Bystander Initiative leadership training sessions, Greek organizations’ governing councils could receive up to $30,000 in dues-assistance funds. Through a Student Assembly resolution passed Tuesday, councils will receive $2,000 in funding for each fraternity or sorority in which either 25 members or 50 percent of sophomore and junior members complete training. The proposal will offer funds to the Interfraternity Council,
the Panhellenic Council, the Coeducational Council, the National Association of Latino Fraternal Organizations and the National Pan-Hellenic Council. Any student who belongs to houses within these sub-councils can apply for funding, student body president Adrian Ferrari ’14 said. If 10 organizations meet the participation benchmark by the end of the spring, the Assembly will transfer up to $30,000 to the sub-council accounts by the end of the fiscal year. The total sum will be allotted proportionally to
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Though the extent of its impact cannot be concretely measured, the acquittal of Parker Gilbert ’16 will likely further campus discussion of sexual assault, said College administrators and members of organizations that seek to address sexual violence. The trial and verdict, they said, may also discourage future victims from reporting and perpetuate false conceptions of
assault. Last week, Gilbert, 21, was acquitted of five counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault and one count of criminal trespass. He had been accused of raping a female undergraduate student after entering her room uninvited the morning of May 2, 2013. New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual SEE TRIAL PAGE 2
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CoFIRED, founded last fall, asserts undocumented students’ presence at the College.
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When geography professor Richard Wright mentioned to a class several years ago that undocumented immigrants attend Dartmouth, the room’s atmosphere shifted. Everything went quiet, he said. Most students seemed surprised. First Year Student Enrichment Prog ram Director Jay Davis said he works with several
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undocumented students in each class, but cannot approximate the total number of undocumented students on campus. Neither the Office of Visa and Immigration Services nor the Office of Admissions and the Financial Aid track the number of undocumented students attending Dartmouth. Silence, and the inability of undocumented students to identify one another has hampered the formation of a communi-
ty among undocumented students on campus. A male member of the Class of 2017, who is undocumented, said that fear associated with his immigration status has accompanied him since he left Mexico at age 5. Many undocumented students choose not to tell others about their immigration status, leading some to feel “invisible,” said the male member of SEE UNDOCUMENTED PAGE 3
Black alumni, students discuss history
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Gilbert trial prompts campus discussion By MARINA SHKURATOV
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Launching an oral history exhibit about black alumni and collaborating to increase diversity at the College are among the Black Alumni at Dartmouth Association’s current projects. At a conference this weekend about
the experience of black students at Dartmouth, about 70 alumni, faculty and students examined ways to strengthen connections among students and alumni through presentations and group discussions. The program included discussion of the history of black students at Dartmouth and ways to
improve interaction and support between alumni and students, BADA’s regional director for Los Angeles David Moore ’83 said. Some sessions examined the experience of minority students and the retention of black faculty members, Afro-American SociSEE BADA PAGE 5