NEWS AND NOTES

NEWS AND NOTES

Faculty Tidbits

Ezzedine Fishere, a senior lecturer at the College since 2016, has been named the Jamal Khashoggi fellow at The Washington Post. He’ll write two columns a month about topics related to the Middle East, which will be translated into Arabic as well. Fishere teaches courses on Middle East politics and cultures.

The fellowship is named for the Post columnist who was murdered in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul in 2018....Writing and rhetoric professor Jennifer Sargent has been named chair of the N.H. Adult Parole Board by Gov. Chris Sununu. Sargent says she hopes to bring the board “into the 21st century” by upgrading the board’s budget and staff....The College hired 30 new faculty members this academic year, Brief profiles of each can be found on the Dartmouth news website.

Helping Hands

The office of alumni relations surpassed its goal of accumulating 250,000 hours of volunteer service in 2019. The effort coincided with Dartmouth’s 250th anniversary and resulted in Dartmouth alumni, students, faculty, parents, and families engaging in 282,614 total hours of service. Alumni accounted for 34 percent of those hours. The class of 1982 led all classes in participation, with 132 classmates, and the class of 1989 led in total hours, with 6,270.

Sad Situation

A January 4 New York Times article about the death of former psychological and brain sciences chair David Bucci drew criticism from professors and alumni members of the Dartmouth Community against Gender Harassment & Sexual Violence. They claim that the piece blamed plaintiffs in the 2018, $70-million class action sexual assault lawsuit against the College for Bucci’s suicide in October 2019. He had been implicated in the suit, which was settled last year. According to the Times, College lawyers asked Bucci to keep quiet and not publicly defend himself despite his distress over the charges.