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(02/04/15 11:10pm)
In the wake of College President Phil Hanlon’s presentation of the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan last Thursday, I am surprised and disappointed to see students, faculty and national media fixate on the hard alcohol ban — a relatively minor part of the overall plan — rather than pointing out some of its glaring inadequacies. Given the amount of scrutiny that the College has come under for failing to meet its obligation to protect students under Title IX, it boggles the mind to see how paltry the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” policies on sexual assault prevention and response truly are.
(02/02/15 11:51pm)
While students and faculty have expressed mixed reactions to College President Phil Hanlon’s new set of social and academic reforms announced last week, alumni leaders of Greek house have voiced general support of the policies.
(02/02/15 2:31pm)
When it comes to avoiding alcohol abuse, moderation matters more than the choice between “hard alcohol” and beer and wine. Keystone Light may not get a student drunk as quickly as Grey Goose, but it causes its share of problems on campus.
(02/02/15 12:45am)
Dartmouth’s new hard alcohol ban, announced by College President Phil Hanlon on Thursday, will likely lead to an increase in sales for some local businesses, while others are unlikely to see changes, local business owners and town officials said.
(02/02/15 12:40am)
The College entered the national media spotlight again last week as College President Phil Hanlon announced his Moving Dartmouth Forward plan, with most coverage focusing on the decision to ban hard alcohol on campus.
(02/01/15 11:45pm)
College President Phil Hanlon’s decision to eliminate hard alcohol on campus has dominated the conversation surrounding Thursday’s speech. Some observers have rallied around what they consider a bold way of curbing underage drinking. Many students have instead rallied around their Captain Morgan handles, laughing off the ban as a quaint throwback to the Prohibition era.
(02/01/15 11:45pm)
Although administrators have framed Dartmouth’s policies in terms of student safety, this is not the bottom line for the College. They calculate their decisions in the interests of the institution itself. I assume most readers already have an understanding of some of these interests, centered on things like institutional financial stability and college rankings. Last April, then-Dean of the College Charlotte Johnson responded to the criticism of College President Phil Hanlon during the Freedom Budget protests by characterizing the his primary responsibility as fundraising. Despite Hanlon’s newfound passion for student affairs, we have no reason to believe that his priorities have changed in the past few months.
(01/30/15 6:20pm)
While the actual implementation and results remain to be seen, the Moving Dartmouth Forward plan announced by President Hanlon seems to adequately address many of the issues that the administration sought to fix, including sexual assault, exclusivity and the lack of an alternative social spaces on campus. Unfortunately, it really missed the mark on the issue of binge drinking. The plan does not take a realistic view and accept inevitability of collegedrinking (and underage drinking, specifically) by encouragingstudents who choose to drinkto participate in safer practices such as drinking beer and wine over hard liquor, and consuming alcohol gradually over the course of a night.
(01/30/15 4:14am)
In a Thursday morning speech outlining a new social doctrine for Dartmouth, College President Phil Hanlon announced a campus-wide ban on hard alcohol — beverages containing more than 15 percent alcohol by volume — to be enforced the beginning of spring term and the mandatory presence of third-party bartenders and bouncers at parties hosted by Dartmouth or College-recognized organizations. Hanlon also reaffirmed the continuation of the Greek system, but said that its existence could be revisited in the coming years.
(01/30/15 4:06am)
College President Phil Hanlon announced new initiatives for residential life, including a complete redesign of the undergraduate housing model. Beginning with the Class of 2019, incoming Dartmouth students will be randomly assigned to one of six dormitory clusters. Beginning their sophomore year, these students will live in these assigned clusters for the remaining three years of their undergraduate experience. The College will commit $1 million annually to fund the social, academic and intramural programming in these residence communities. Freshmen will live on first-year only floors, and first-year residential education will continue. Upperclassmen will have the option to live in Greek housing, affinity housing or in Living and Learning Communities, but will remain members of their original residential community. Interim Dean of the College Inge-Lise Ameer said that she hopes the transition to the new community system will be transparent. While the system will begin with the Class of 2019, current ’16s, ’17s and ’18s may be given the choice to opt-in to a community if they wish, she said. The initiative also aims to facilitate faculty interaction and academic support within the residential community system. In Thursday’s address, Hanlon said that the goal of the initiative is to create a campus that is more inclusive and cohesive between undergraduates, graduates and faculty. The residential communities will have faculty advisors and graduate students who live in the clusters, possibly along with their families. Review of faculty candidates will begin this February, Hanlon said. “I’m hoping that each house will have its own identity and its own personality based upon the faculty leadership,” Ameer said. Robert O’Hara, a consultant to colleges establishing residential houses, said that the difficulty of implementing such a system is most apparent in the first years before house identities form. Each house should represent a microcosm of the larger college student body. He said, however, that community can easily be fostered by having students coming together at weekly meetings that will kindle connections and friendships. O’Hara also said that the strength of a house or residential college system comes from the rich social and academic environment it fosters. The idea of membership, he said, is essential to the model’s success. Dartmouth is unique with its academic calendar, known as the D-Plan, which makes study abroad programs and leave terms for internships possible throughout the academic year. Many feel, however, that the system makes it difficult to create a sense of continuity on campus, as students frequently move between dorms and friends’ D-plans often do not match up.
(01/30/15 4:02am)
Reactions to the announcement of a hard alcohol ban, new residential communities and increased academic rigor were mixed following President Hanlon’s unveiling of his Moving Dartmouth Forward policies Thursday morning. Faculty members interviewed generally supported the academic aspects while students were mixed on specific policies and the overall enforceability.
(01/30/15 3:52am)
Yesterday, College President Phil Hanlon announced his “Moving Dartmouth Forward” plan to combat binge drinking, sexual assault and exclusivity. The plan includes a variety of measures that address sexual violence prevention, alcohol policy, residential life and academics.
(01/30/15 3:50am)
It seems that few are completely happy with College President Phil Hanlon’s speech, but likewise, few appear completely unhappy. Yesterday morning, he presented a comprehensive — though perhaps not as far reaching as it could have been — plan to “move Dartmouth forward.” He started his address with a story about College President Emeritus John Kemeny and his visionary guidance of the school into coeducation. At this point, and based upon the fanfare leading up to the speech, I expected some drastic changes to be proposed that would fundamentally alter the course of our school and entirely reinvent the social system. I expected a set of changes that would be second only to coeducation, a visionary plan that would restructure the school’s very mission. He delivered lofty goals and ambitions for Dartmouth’s future that we can all agree with, but in terms of sweeping changes, Hanlon left something to be desired — that is, if sweeping change is what you were desiring.
(01/30/15 3:43am)
College President Phil Hanlon’s “Moving Dartmouth Forward” address certainly has a number of noble ambitions, most prominently the effort to reduce high-risk drinking — but as the old adage goes, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Not only does his proposed ban on hard alcohol create a number of possibilities for dangerous situations with regards to risk-management, it will have the effect of increasing campus social stratification and further privileging those with access to alcohol.
(01/30/15 3:37am)
Dartmouth’s strengths are in education and research. Our weaknesses are an overconcern with reputation and appearance. Although I applaud the “Moving Dartmouth Forward” presidential steering committee for its work and many of its recommendations, I’m afraid that when it comes to their initiative on alcohol, they have played to our weaknesses and ignored our strengths.
(01/30/15 3:33am)
Thank you, College President Phil Hanlon, for allocating funds to residence hall clusters as part of your “Moving Dartmouth Forward Plan.”
(01/29/15 11:51am)
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(01/29/15 8:03am)
A residential community system, a campus-wide ban on hard alcohol, a mandatory four-year sexual violence prevention and education program and a code of conduct are among the changes College President Phil Hanlon announced this morning as part of the Moving Dartmouth Forward plan.
(01/29/15 2:15am)
This morning at 8:30 a.m., College President Phil Hanlon will announce his plans for Moving Dartmouth Forward. The plan is expected to address issues centering on alcohol policy, sexual assault and exclusivity at the College.
(01/29/15 2:04am)
The moment we have all been waiting for is here. College President Phil Hanlon will address the Dartmouth community today at 8:30 a.m., presenting the results of the Moving Dartmouth Forward process and laying out his plan for how the College will address binge drinking, sexual assault and inclusivity. According to a campus-wide email sent Wednesday night from Bill Helman, the chair of the Board of Trustees, President Hanlon’s plan was unanimously endorsed by the Board. One can reasonably expect them to have a significant impact on Greek life. As such, the timing of the announcement is either remarkably tone-deaf or a deliberate attempt to depress the turnout of the students who may be most affected.
