The Dartmouth 04/02/15

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VOL. CLXXII NO. 51

MOSTLY SUNNY HIGH 52 LOW 41

THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2015

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

UGA rounds will not begin until fall AAU survey to

assess campus climate By REBECCA ASOULIN The Dartmouth Staff

seeking comment. Associate director of residential education Jeff DeWitt also did not respond to requests seeking comment. In addition, several community directors — who preside over dorm clusters — either did not respond to requests for comment or declined to comment. The looming implementation of weekly rounds on Wednesdays through Saturdays is a component of College President Phil Han-

Provost Carolyn Dever invited students to participate in the College’s first-ever sexual assault climate survey today, which will be accessible to all undergraduate and graduate students until April 23. The Association of American Universities organized the survey and distributed it to 28 college campuses with a total of 900,000 students for this spring. Title IX coordinator Heather Lindkvist said that the survey provides students with an opportunity to share their perspectives on and experiences with sexual assault, sexual misconduct, dating violence, domestic violence and stalking on campus. Lindkvist said that the survey would give the College an idea of the prevalence rate of sexual assault on campus. Currently, she said, the College only has a sense of incident rates from reported or disclosed incidents. She noted that the data from the survey would help the College assess their current resources and sexual assault policy and will be helpful for the development of the four-year education and prevention plan proposed in the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan. Associate provost for institutional research Alicia Betsinger, who serves as the university coordinator for the survey, wrote in an email that it may prove challenging to gather representative data from across campus, but that she hopes students will understand the importance of the survey. Betsinger said that Westat, the statistical services firm that helped develop the survey, is offering students incentives for

SEE UGA PAGE 2

SEE SURVEY PAGE 5

SPORTS

WOMEN’S TENNIS SEES MIXED RESULTS PAGE 8

OPINION

GREEN: COLLEGE OF CORRECTION PAGE 4

ARTS

TAYLOR’S DEPARTS FROM THE HOOD PAGE 7

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More than 50 undergraduate advisors signed a petition in March protesting the increase in UGAs’ rounds duties.

B y PARKER RICHARDS The Dartmouth Staff

Weekly dormitory walkthroughs by undergraduate advisors on “likely drinking nights” will not be fully implemented until this fall. The announcement, which follows a petition signed by more than 50 UGAs at the end of winter term, was made in the UGAs’ termly meeting on Sunday afternoon to the surprise of attendees, several UGAs confirmed.

College spokesperson Diana Lawrence confirmed the delay in the implementation of rounds in an email to The Dartmouth and wrote that a pilot program will be introduced during the summer while the full program will launch in the fall of 2015. The College will work with UGAs this term to flesh out a “rounds structure,” Lawrence wrote in the email. Director of residential education and senior assistant dean of residential life Mike Wooten did not respond to numerous requests

Scot Bemis to take over as HR chief B y HANNAH CHUNG The Dartmouth Staff

Scot Bemis, the former vice president for human resources at Brandeis University and former employee of the U.S. military, was named the chief human resources officer for the College last month, replacing interim vice president of human resources Lynn Baker. In his new role,

which he will begin on April 27, Bemis will oversee various aspects of human resources management including payroll, recruitment, training and termination and will report directly to executive vice president and chief financial officer Richard Mills. Bemis wrote in an email that he hopes to continue SEE HR PAGE 3

Tuck team co-hosts event in Cairo B y EMILIA BALDWIN The Dartmouth Staff

This March, a Tuck School of Business team traveled to Cairo to co-host a summit titled “Learning by Doing: The Power of Experiential Learning in Management Education” at the American University in Cairo. The AUC School of Business and the Global Business School Network co-hosted the event alongside the team from Tuck. The Global Busi-

ness School Network is a nonprofit based in Washington, D.C., that dedicates itself to business education in the developing world, according to chief operating officer Page Buchanan. Buchanan said that the organization periodically holds summits, most often in countries with developing economies. These summits expose educators to various teaching techniques, which the organization hopes will be

implemented and ultimately contribute to long-term economic growth, she said. Buchanan said that this summit marks the first event held by GBSN in Egypt and the first GBSN summit on experiential learning. “It was really exciting to do the summit on this topic, since we think student projects and experiential learning are a very important piece of business education,” BuSEE CAIRO PAGE 3


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