Graffiti criticizing sexual violence insurance policies, Greek life discovered on campus
The School is at the moment investigating the graffiti, in line with the School spokesperson.
No less than 5 incidents of graffiti — made with what seemed to be purple spray paint — appeared round campus on Sunday evening. The graffiti was discovered on each units of doorways to Sanborn Library, the sidewalk on the east aspect of Baker-Berry Library and the nook of the library. The phrases learn “Abolish Greek Life” and “Dartmouth protects rapists.”
School spokesperson Diana Lawrence wrote that the graffiti is within the technique of being eliminated and that an investigation by Security and Safety is ongoing. Director of Security and Safety Keiselim Montás declined to remark.
This isn’t Dartmouth’s solely incident of graffiti in recent times.. In Might 2021, college students protested the School’s psychological well being insurance policies by spilling purple paint on the steps of Parkhurst Corridor and writing on the constructing: “Paint is impermanent. Lack of life is perpetually.” Lower than every week later, the initials of three Dartmouth freshmen who died by suicide surfaced on the pavement outdoors their respective dorm buildings.
Whereas declining to touch upon the particular graffiti incident, WISE communications and improvement director Betsy Kohl wrote that WISE is an accessible useful resource for the Dartmouth neighborhood.
“We welcome alternatives to interact with anybody and any group who’s working to eradicate sexual violence,” she wrote. “At any time when there are conversations about making Dartmouth safer, WISE needs to be there.”
In a written assertion to The Dartmouth on behalf of the Sexual Assault Peer Alliance, SAPA govt members Ulgen Yildirim ’24, Eliza Holmes ’24 and Caroline Balick ’24 emphasised the group’s effort “to prioritize the wellbeing of survivors.”
“As a way to finest present empathetic and knowledgeable assist, SAPA is continually participating in conversations about gender-based violence on campus and holds persevering with training necessities for lively SAPAs in response to campus occasions,” they wrote.
Manufacturing govt editor Mia Russo ’23, who’s the president of SAPA, was not concerned within the modifying of this text.
