The Dartmouth 02/04/15

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VOL. CLXXII NO. 22

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2015

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Sexual Respect website launched Tuesday

First MOOC class begins

By ANNIE MA

The Dartmouth Staff

At Dartmouth, Friedland’s course enrolls 60 to 100 students per year, but the MOOC format allows him to expose many more people to the material, he said. “I try to explain that there are natural systems on earth, humans influence them and there are no easy answers,” Friedland said. “If I can even get 10 percent of the course enrollment — 800 students — to get some appreciation of that,

A new webpage highlighting all resources available to survivors of sexual violence was launched Tuesday by Dartmouth’s Title IX coordinator and Clery Act compliance officer Heather Lindkvist. The website was announced in an email sent to the Dartmouth community Tuesday afternoon that also detailed changes in policy regarding the confidentiality of resources on campus. The page, titled Sexual Respect, contains information on Title IX, the Clery Act and a comprehensive guide to policies and procedures regarding sexual and domestic violence at the College. In addition, it features resources that can be found on and off campus for survivors of sexual assault, dating violence or gender-based violence. The website also defines terminology used by the College’s unified sexual assault policy and provides information on how to report an incident. The site consolidates information that was previously scattered over many of the College’s websites, Lindkvist said in an interview with The Dartmouth. The website aims to be a central portal for communication by making all information regarding sexual, dating and gender-based violence available in one place, she said. The site also redirects students to other programs such as WISE, Sexual Assault Peer Advisors and the Sexual Assault Awareness Program. She said that she hopes this centralization will lead to increased transparency about policy and resources at the College. Tori Nevel ’16, a WISE @ Dartmouth member and

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Environmental studies professor Andrew Friedland developed an online course on environmental science.

B y ERIN LEE The Dartmouth Staff

Dartmouth’s first massive online open course, “Introduction to Environmental Science,” launched Tuesday morning as part of the DartmouthX program on the Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed website edX. The six-week course focuses on biodiversity, energy and global change and cur-

rently has over 8,500 people enrolled worldwide, environmental studies professor and course lead Andrew Friedland said. The course is modeled after “Introduction to Environmental Science,” a class that Friedland has taught at Dartmouth for about 25 years. Because the course is shorter than a typical term at Dartmouth, some topics had to be omitted, namely air and water pollution and recycling, he said.

Dartmouth raised $250 million in charitable donations B y estephanie aquino The Dartmouth Staff

A Voluntary Support of Education survey ranked Dartmouth as the fourth highest charitable donation contributor per student from private research institutions, VSE survey director Ann Kaplan said. The results of survey, which were released last Wednesday, revealed that Dartmouth raised over $250 million in charitable donations in fiscal year 2014, a 56 percent increase from the previous year’s $160 million

in donations. The survey, conducted by the Council for Aid to Education, revealed that the College is part of a national trend of increasing donations in private research institutions for the year of 2014. According to this year’s survey results, colleges and universities raised a historic high of $37.45 billion. The survey found that donations to colleges and universities in the United States increased 10.8 percent in 2014, SEE DONATIONS PAGE 2

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Students try stamp making during a Book Arts Workshop.


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