College News Roundup

Dartmouth Students Arrested

Dartmouth College celebrated its homecoming weekend with 15 student and alumni arrests, nine of which involved alcohol.

According to Hanover Police Chief Nicholas Giaccone, six of the homecoming arrests occurred on the night of Oct. 13 as students continued to celebrate after the traditional bonfire ceremony near Dartmouth's Baker Library Tower.

The rest were made the next day, when between six and 12 members of the class of 2010 rushed the field during halftime at Dartmouth's homecoming football game against Holy Cross. At Dartmouth, rushing the field is a traditional, albeit illegal, freshman activity.

Ben Gifford, Dartmouth '10, one of the students who ran onto the field, suggested his class was proud of the rushers' actions.

"I think that the Class of 2010 is pretty happy that we had 10 people," Gifford told The Dartmouth of his estimate of how many students participated in the rush.

College authorities are not so proud.

Proctor Harry Kinne, the director of Safety and Security at Dartmouth, said that more of the student rushers may be arrested as his department reviews video footage of the game.

The arrests came almost one week after Enfield Police arrested 11 Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority members for underage drinking at a roller rink in the nearby town of Enfield, N.H.

Yale Students Get Anti-Gay E-Mail

On Oct. 11, as the Yale University campus celebrated National Coming Out Day, the National Organization to Gain Acceptance for Your Sins sent mass e-mails and posted flyers containing homophobic messages.

Yale's Information Technology Services has identified the student account that sent the e-mails, but as of yet no disciplinary action has been taken against the sender, said LGTB Co-op Coordinator Anna Wipfler, Yale '09.

According to Wipfler, Dean of Students Betty Trachtenberg told the leadership of the LGTB Co-op in a meeting on Oct. 13 that the student had been given an e-mail warning against sending unauthorized mass e-mails. She added that the student's residential college master and dean had been informed of the incident, but that no further action had been taken.

Yale College Dean Peter Salovey, who is also investigating the incident, did not say whether or not he would pursue disciplinary action.

Some members of the LGTB Co-op expressed disappointment that the students involved have not been disciplined, but others believed the students should not be penalized for exercising their right to free speech.

"It's a pretty terrible thing to do, but you shouldn't be punished for expressing your opinions," Rachelle Alpern, Yale '09, told the Yale Daily News.