FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2019
VOL. CLXXV NO. 120
MOSTLY CLOUDY
HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
Lawyers weigh in on pending class action suit
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B y Eileen brady
The Dartmouth Staff
need for action, the ways in which climate change affects all aspects of our lives, why combating climate change holds promise for the future of the American economy, and why he is personally optimistic about our ability to fight climate change. “It is the moment for action,” Inslee said, regarding climate change. “This is the 11th hour, but it is America’s
A pretrial conference is set to be held on Feb. 19 to establish a schedule of events as proceedings continue in the $70 million sexual misconduct lawsuit against the College. Dartmouth will continue to “defend itself as an institution” according to a College press release addressing its answer to the allegations. The statement added that the College will not defend the actions of the three former faculty members in the psychological and brain sciences department named in the suit — Todd Heatherton, William Kelley and Paul Whalen. The College’s 85-page response to the suit was filed on Jan. 15. The class action, brought by seven former and current Dartmouth students, alleges that the College allowed three professors in the psychology and brain sciences department to sexually harass and abuse female students for more than 16 years. The next official step in the court proceedings is a pretrial conference that would occur Feb. 19, according to Charles Douglas, a Concord, New Hampshire attorney serving as the local counsel, or the attorney located in the state the case is filed in. Douglas added that if the parties can agree on a schedule of events in the case going forward, the conference may not be necessary. “If they can agree, there may not need to be a conference,” he said. “But otherwise, the court wants to see the lawyers and just get an update on how long it looks like we’re going to need for discovery of facts and documents prior to getting it ready for trial.”
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Washington governor Jay Inslee visits campus
B y Andrew culver The Dartmouth Staff
On Tuesday afternoon, d e m o c r at i c Wa s h i n g t o n governor Jay Inslee spoke to Dartmouth students on the importance of combating climate change. Inslee is “very close” to making a decision about running for president, he told the gathered students and community members. Inslee came to New Hampshire for the opening
of a chapter of the New Hampshire League of Conservation Voters, Jamal Raad, a political spokesman for Inslee, said. Inslee was invited to come speak at D a r t m o u t h by M i ch a e l Parsons ’20, director of outreach and candidate affairs for the Dartmouth Democrats. Inslee’s talk focused on the necessity of fighting climate change and was centered around the urgent
College to build new power plant B y SAVANNAH eller The Dartmouth Staff
The College released a plan this week to build a new campus heating facility by 2025, marking one of the first steps toward achieving the sustainability goals laid out in College President Phil Hanlon’s 2017 pledge. The new $200-million facility will burn wood
biomass as a fuel source, replacing the No. 6 fuel oil — a thick, viscous oil — that has heated the campus since 1958. According to environmental studies professor Andrew Friedland, who also co-chaired the Sustainability Task Force that published the plan, biomass heating will allow the College SEE BIOMASS PAGE 2
Researchers identify compound that could treat prion diseases
B y Eileen brady
The Dartmouth Staff
A Dartmouth research team has found that a compound discovered at Yale University to treat Alzheimer’s disease could be a potential therapy for prion diseases — a family of neurodegenerative diseases. T he team, led by Geisel School of Medicine
biochemistry and cell biology professor Surachai Supattapone, worked in collaboration with a Yale University research team that identified the compound as a potential method for interfering with a first step of Alzheimer’s disease. The team at Yale University, led by neuroscience professor Stephen Strittmatter is working to develop a
compound to treat Alzheimer’s. The current project took shape in 2009 when the team discovered the identity of a receptor that interacted with the Beta amyloid protein in the brain to cause Alzheimer’s disease, according to Erik Gunther, an associate research scientist in neurology at Yale University SEE ALZHEIMER’S PAGE 5