The Dartmouth 11/05/15

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VOL. CLXXII NO. 143

SUNNY HIGH 70 LOW 53

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2015

SPCSA releases recommendations for administrators

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE

Graham talks presidential goals

By RACHEL FAVORS The Dartmouth Staff

SPORTS

MEN’S SOCCER BLANKS NORTHEASTERN PAGE 8

OPINION

SIMINERI: THIS IS NOT YOUR SPACE PAGE 4

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The Student and Presidential Committee on Sexual Assault called for increased campus preventive and response measures for sexual assault in its 2015 recommendations, released last week to the Dartmouth community. Following the release, SPCSA held a community forum last Thursday, where the recommendations and possible barriers to their promotion were discussed, SPCSA vice chair Shanet Hinds ’16 said. SPCSA was pleased by the implementation of two of its major 2014 recommendations — the introduction of a mandatory and comprehensive four-year sexual violence prevention and education program in the College’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policy initiative and the conduction of the Association of American Universities campus climate survey on sexual assault with publicized results, SPCSA member John Damianos ’16 said. In contrast to last year’s 21 recommendations, SPCSA members decided this year to focus on five to convey clearer goals that the committee, administrators and students could work with, Damianos said. The 2015 recommendations are as follows: regular responder workshops for all first-year faculty advisors, faculty members leading off-campus programs and Safety and Security officers; providing financial support covering the full cost of long-term counseling for student survivors of sexual violence; providing greater avenues for feedback from the different entities who respond to and adjudicate sexual assault; providing incentives for the integration of sexual SEE SPCSA PAGE 3

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Senator Lindsey Graham spoke about his views on foreign policy, immigration and the economy at the Hop

B y SAMANTHA STERN The Dartmouth

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) joked, “This is the only way I could get into an Ivy League School — by running for president,” at a town hall meeting Wednesday afternoon. Graham is the second presidential candidate to be featured in “America’s Economic Future,” a lecture series co-sponsored by the Tuck School of Business and the Rockefeller Center. At the

Professors discuss grad school

By ZACHARY BENJAMIN The Dartmouth

Plans to create an administratively independent School of Graduate and Advanced Studies were discussed in detail at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center on Wednesday during the second of three “town hall” style meetings. Information included details about the organization of the new school and concerns

about the project’s budget. Dean of graduate studies Jon Kull — who presided over the task force that recommended creating the school — gave a presentation outlining the task force’s rationale for the suggestion of a freestanding graduate school. The task force was organized by Provost Carolyn Dever last year to explore the option of a stand-alone graduate school. Under the current

administrative structure, the various graduate programs — outside of the Geisel School of Medicine, the Thayer School of Engineering and the Tuck School of Business — all report to Dean of Faculty Michael Mastanduno, he said. Under the proposed plan, all graduate programs not contained within the College’s three SEE TOWN HALL PAGE 5

event — held at the Top of the Hop — Graham spoke about his early life, his military and public service career and his views on foreign policy and America’s economic standing. Graham concentrated on the importance of American leadership in foreign policy. The greatest threat America faces is radical Islam since the war being fought by extremists is an attempt to purify their own faith and eliminate all other faiths, he said. The aspirations of young

people in the Middle East are similar to those of Americans, Graham said. Most fathers and mothers in the Middle East do not want to give their children away to the Islamic State, he said. Graham said the solution to the problem lies in military campaigns as well as education and empowerment of the youth. “This is going to be a long, hard fight,” Graham said. “But we’re on the right side of the fight.” SEE GRAHAM PAGE 5

Teaching Science Fellows program supports students

B y NOAH GOLDSTEIN The Dartmouth Staff

The Teaching Science Fellows program — created to make difficult introductory science courses accessible to a wider range of students — is now in its second year. The two current fellows, Therese Kienemund ’15 and Joshua Prickel ’15, work with the professors and students of large science courses in a variety of

capacities, including holding office hours and conducting course surveys. Biology professor and program creator Lee Witters said he thought of the idea after realizing that the people best suited to help students in introductory science courses were those who had succeeded both in those courses and at Dartmouth. SEE FELLOWS PAGE 2


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