VOL. CLXXII NO. 29
SUNNY HIGH 10 LOW -12
FRIDAY, FEBURARY 13, 2015
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
FSP application numbers rise
College will hire new sexual assault counselor By ANNIE MA
The Dartmouth Staff
est. These programs included a film foreign study program in Los Angeles that began in winter 2014 and an exchange term in Cuba that will start next fall. Off-campus programs saw a significant increase in the number of applications to exchange programs. While 182 students applied to exchange programs for the 2014-15 academic year, this year’s figure reached 232,
A new sexual assault counselor will join the College’s Counseling and Human Development clinical staff to be used as a “confidential” resource, CHD director Heather Earle said, following the change of the Sexual Assault Awareness Program from “confidential” to “private.” The College will conduct a national search for candidates. Interested candidates will be screened and interviewed by a search committee, which will include both faculty and student input from diverse parts of campus. Title IX and the Clery Act require the College to keep a record of reported incidents of sexual assault, dating violence and gender-based harassment. Resources deemed “private” are required to report incidents to the College’s Title IX and Clery Act compliance officer, Heather Lindkvist. In contrast, those resources deemed “confidential” may not release any information shared by an individual unless granted express permission. SAAP, which provides support to survivors and connected them to other resources, was recently changed from a confidential to a private resource, Earle said. This change was a major motivation in the creation this new counseling position, which Earle said would be a confidential and privileged resource. “With the changes taking place, we really wanted to make sure there’s an identified person who can be confidential, and this is a great way to be able to have that,” Earle said. Currently, all of the College’s clinical counseling staff
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The number of applications for FSPs, LSAs and exchange programs has increased from last year.
B y STEFFEN ERIKSEN Applications for off-campus programs increased by 8.9 percent this year, with a significant bump in exchange program applications, executive director of Dartmouth’s Frank J. Guarini Institute for International EducationJohn Tansey wrote in an e-mail. With the Feb. 1 application deadline now passed, the number of applications for off-campus programs totaled
1,258 for the upcoming 201516 academic year, compared to the 1,155 received by last Feb. 1, he said. While off-campus programs cancelled certain programs recently — including a German language study program in Berlin and an Arabic language study abroad in Tangier, Morocco — due to a lack of committed interest, the College has also developed new programs for the upcoming year to meet student inter-
Experts speak at panel about Ebola B y ALLISON LIEGNER
The Dickey Center hosted an informational panel yesterday evening titled “Ebola in West Africa: Lessons from a Global Health Crisis,” featuring health workers involved in the Ebola crisis in West Africa. The panel, held in Filene Auditorium, highlighted the work being done by health officials to combat the disease, Dickey’s Global Health Initiative program manager Jessica Friedman said. She noted that the event provided
another perspective on the crisis than the one portrayed in the media, adding that this epidemic demonstrated the potential security implications of a public health crisis. The event started with a keynote address by the current director of the Global Migration and Quarantine division of the Center for Disease Control Martin Cetron, a member of the Class of 1981. He provided a brief history on the Ebola virus, calling it “a rare and SEE EBOLA PAGE 3
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Students gather around during a book arts workshop yesterday.