NEWS AND NOTES

NEWS AND NOTES

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Family Tree

English professor Jeff Sharlet served as a producer of the Netflix docudrama The Family, which is based on two of his books.

The five-part series exposes a mysterious group known as the Fellowship, a quasi-secret Christian fundamentalist organization of politicians who mix religion with politics and wield influence on the U.S. government. Sharlet appears in the series as a narrator, and he’s portrayed by actor David Rysdahl in flashback scenes.

One critic called it “a profoundly troubling example of the theocracy that wields power behindthe-scenes in Washington, D.C.” And there’s more: “What’s not included as much as I would’ve liked...is the deeper history. We didn’t go back in the early days of the ‘Family,’ ” Sharlet says. Stay tuned for a prequel?

Naming Rights

Dartmouth students can now have the name, gender, and set of pronouns they want, regardless of their legal names and genders. A new policy allows undergrads to make such changes to the online student directory, their IDs, and other official College documents such as diplomas, transcripts, and Commencement programs. “Students have been asking for this for a while, sometimes even before they matriculate,” says registrar Meredith Braz. “Students can change their name as many times as they wish and to whatever they wish.”

Title IX Revised

“The big change is that we have one policy to rule them all,” says Kristi Clemens, the College’s Title IX coordinator, of new sexual misconduct rules that went into effect on campus September 1. The revisions consolidate and clarify policies that previously applied separately to students, faculty, and staff. Clemens, who has hired two new coordinators for the office, notes that proposed Title IX recommendations from the U.S. Department of Education, if implemented, could require additional changes at Dartmouth.