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Sexual misconduct CPD, Rocky currently operating policy seeks to clarify without permanent directors institutional response B y LUCY TURNIPSEED The Dartmouth Staff
Dartmouth’s Sexual and Gender-Based Misconduct Policy, which went into effect on Sept. 1, represents an effort by the College to clarify its stance on sexual misconduct across the institution. “ T h e re ’s a d i f f e re n c e between having the same kind of core idea and really working out the details and identifying, in a completely clear way, what’s permissible
and not,” said philosophy professor and committee on the faculty member Samuel Levey. “We’re hoping this will be the beginning of a big change.” The policy outlines reporting, investigation and disciplinary procedure for all employees and students at Dartmouth. Previously, the policies for faculty, staff and students were separate and did not contain the SEE SMP PAGE 5
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The CPD is currently under the leadership of interim director Monica Wilson.
Astronomy professor leads discovery of planet B y ANNE GEORGE
The Dartmouth Staff
Dartmouth professors come from a variety of fields of study, backgrounds and careers; however, Elisabeth Newton has a unique and consequential claim to fame. In 2018, Newton led a research team which discovered an exoplanet. With the National Aeronautics and Space Administration confirming the planet’s existence in March, N e w t o n’s t e a m r e c e n t l y published its findings in
The Astrophysical Journal Letters. B e fo re b e c o m i n g a n assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Dartmouth in January 2019, Newton’s team beg an examining data published from a 2018 NASA Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission. Their goal, according to Newton, was to discover an exoplanet — a planet outside the solar system. The original NASA test SEE EXOPLANET PAGE 3
B y THE DARTMOUTH SENIOR STAFF Roger Woolsey resigned from his position as senior assistant dean and director of the Center for Professional Development on Sept. 6, which has left two major centers on campus — the CPD and the Rockefeller Center for Public Policy — without permanent heads. Former senior associate director Monica Wilson is now serving as interim director of the CPD, she confirmed to The Dartmouth i n a n e m a i l s t at e m e n t . Woolsey’s profile on the CPD’s “About Us” page on its website has been removed, with Wilson listed as interim
director. Wilson wrote that she would be serving as the CPD’s interim director this year and that the CPD is “operating at full speed.” The CPD recently hosted inter nship, job and law school fairs over the course of two days, which were attended by around 1,400 students and that featured more than 100 employers and 13 law schools. Woolsey began working at the CPD in May of 2013, according to his LinkedIn profile, before which he served as director of Colby College’s Career Center from 2008 to 2013 and as an adjunct professor at Emerson College from 1997 to 2008.
The Rockefeller Center director position has been vacant since July, when economics professor Andrew Samwick stepped down from the position to return to teaching and research. He had held the director position since 2004, after nearly 10 years in Dartmouth’s economics department and a stint as chief economist on President George W. Bush’s Council of Economic Advisors from 2003 to 2004. The Rockefeller Center’s website currently lists deputy director Sadhana Hall and associate director Ronald Shaiko as its top a d m i n i s t r at o r s. C o l l e g e SEE DIRECTORS PAGE 3