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OPINION
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VERBUM ULTIMUM: OUT OF TOUCH PAGE 4
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REVIEW: “IT: CHAPTER 2” SURPASSES PREQUEL IN THRILL AND QUALITY PAGE 7
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Oh rats! Residents of New sexual assault prevention French Hall face daily program unveiled for first-years battle with local rodents B y LAUREN ADLER The Dartmouth
As students moved in for the fall term, many living on the first and basement floors of French Hall were dismayed to find that they would be sharing their building with a few extra residents: mice. The mice, whom students have collectively dubbed “Remy the River Rat” after the rodent protagonist of the movie “Ratatouille,”
have been sighted in French several times over the last three weeks. Emily Hester ’23, who lives on the first floor of French, said that the mouse sightings are “just a daily thing now.” “We just have to roll with it,” said Frandy Rodriguez ’23, who also lives on the first floor. “We have a rat in our dorm. We have several.” Several students have had SEE RODENTS PAGE 5
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Thought Project LLC adjusts to life in former Sig Ep house
B y HAYDEN WELTY The Dartmouth
Unlike most residents in Dartmouth’s living learning communities, upperclassmen residents of the Thought Project Living Lear ning Community moved into a locale a little different from the McLaughlin cluster this fall: 11 Webster Avenue, the former house of Sigma Phi Epsilon, a fraternity de-recognized by the College in 2018.
Thought Project student coordinator Kos Twum ’21 said that the transition has been an unexpectedly large adjustment and brought mixed results so far. The Thought Project LLC has around 70 participants, some 40 of which belong to the Class of 2023. “Last year, Thought Project was only a floor,” Twum said. “So going from SEE LLC PAGE 3
The Sexual Violence Prevention Project is being rolled out by the College this fall.
B y AMAR SCHERZER The Dartmouth
The campus g roup Movement Against Violence announced on Wednesday that its programming is being absorbed into the Sexual Violence Prevention Project, with MAV no longer “existing in name.” Starting this fall, SVPP will take over all sexual violence prevention programming for undergraduate students,including MAV’s facilitated discussions and first-year programming. A critical component of this change is that unlike the student facilitators of MAV, student facilitators involved in SVPP will be paid by the
College and serve as private resources, resulting in a shift in their sexual violence reporting obligations. Associate director of the Student Wellness Center Amanda Childress, who is also one of the staff members of SVPP and a former MAV advisor, said that while the student-run MAV had “all the right intentions” regarding developing programming that engaged students around the topic of consent, the efficacy of these programs was not assessed in a systematic manner. “The students didn’t have the time or the knowledge to be developing those assessments — they didn’t have the time to do the
research about curriculum or about what is really going to be beneficial and useful,” Childress said. “As experts in the field, that’s what we know how to do.” However, Childress also emphasized the importance of student participation in the design of the four-year program, which is seeing its first iteration for the Class of 2023. She said that the SVPP’s ultimate goal is to inspire concrete alteration in student behaviors and execute this mission in a logical manner. Since 2015, the executive board of SVPP has developed its four-year c u r r i c u l u m by p i l o t i n g SEE SVPP PAGE 3