Dartmouth Reviewed

Clare Ebel, executive director of the New Hampshire Civil Liberties Union, plans to investigate civil rights questions at Dartmouth. Ebel said he was disturbed by reports of racial incidents that appeared in the transcript of the College disciplinary hearing involving students from the Dartmouth Review. Testimony before the College's Committee on Standards (COS) "raised several compelling civil liberties issues," according to Ebel, who named "racial hostility, affirmative action, academic freedom, freedom of speech and the due-process rights of students." The civil-liberties group plans to release its study later this year.

In May the group rejected Dartmouth Review staffers' claim that the College infringed on their freedom of speech when they were disciplined for harassing music professor Bill Cole in his classroom. It was the fourth time in six years that the Review had asked the Union for help.