CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL
CAMPUS CONFIDENTIAL
CAMPUS
SUSPENSIONS Kappa Kappa Kappa has been issued a three-term suspension for multiple infractions of the campus hazing and alcohol policy. Sigma Phi Epsilon was suspended for winter term for violations of the alcohol policy while already on probation.
NET GAINS Former pro goalkeeper Bo Oshoniyi has been named the new men’s soccer coach. The MLS veteran spent the past four years as head coach at East Tennessee State.
BAD BUG Not surprisingly, DartmouthHitchcock Medical Center reported the largest number of influenza cases during flu season since the winter of 2014-15.
TIME’S UP Only 28 percent of female undergrads said they felt Dartmouth would hold sexual assault offenders accountable, according to campus survey results released in January.
NEW ENERGY Consultants from Goldman Sachs are helping College officials explore options for a new power plant on campus.
BACK TO CLASS Dean of the College Rebecca Biron will step down and return to teaching Spanish and comparative literature at the end of the academic year.
NO RESPECT At the faculty meeting held February 18, several students passed out a document calling for a vote of no confidence in President Phil Hanlon 77.
CLASS OF FIRE AND ICE English professors Donald Pease and James Dobson taught a winter course called “Game of Thrones: Re-imagining Medieval History as an Allegory of the Present.”
WORD OF THE MONTH Due to limited storage space, Baker-Berry Library is going to “deaccession” 59,000 books and journals. That means the volumes will be permanently removed from the library.
STILL WAITING President Hanlon indicated in a February email that investigations into allegations of misconduct involving three faculty members are nearly complete. “We will, therefore, soon move from the investigative stage to consideration of any disciplinary action, where appropriate,” he wrote.
WEARING IT OUT Hopes for a new Guinness World Record were dashed when not enough fans showed up for the Dartmouth-Princeton men’s basketball game wearing tartan clothing. The official largest gathering of people wearing tartan stands at 1,146.
UP, DOWN, ACROSS Librarian Laura Braunstein co-constructed her first New York Times crossword puzzle, which ran last December. She caught the crossword-creating bug while chatting with Times puzzle constructor Andrew Kingsley ’16 when he was a student.
OPTIONS MENU New dining options for your Hanover visits: Domino’s Pizza and Leya’s Island Grill opened recently.
REVIVAL? For the first time since 2015, a larger-than-a-breadbox snow sculpture appeared on the Green for Winter Carnival. Inspired by a Star l/Ksrs-based “Snow Wars” theme, students carved a white Darth Vader helmet. It didn’t quite elicit memories of snow superstructures from the good old days, but it could be a start.
QUOTE/UNQUOTE
“The women with whom I have spoken do not, generally, have much faith in the institution’s ability to handle matters of sexual assault sufficiently.
—Natalie Vaughan ’20 of the Sexual Assault Peer Advisor program
OLYMPICS 17 Dartmouth coaches and athletes who marched in the Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Pyeongchang
