Bombshell Lawsuit Against Dartmouth
Federal complaint says college repeatedly ignored reports of three former professors' "Animal House" behavior in harassing students.
By
Colleen Flaherty
Three professors of psychological and brain sciences left Dartmouth College this year under a cloud of alleged sexual misconduct. But the exact allegations against them have been unclear. A new federal lawsuit against Dartmouth brought by seven former students may be filling in the blanks, with serious claims of misconduct on the part of the professors, up to and including assault, and negligence on the college’s part.
Dartmouth “knowingly permitted three of its prominent (and well-funded) professors to turn a human behavior research department into a 21st century Animal House,†reads the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire. For more than a decade, it continues, female students in the department were “treated as sex objects by tenured professors Todd Heatherton, William Kelley, and Paul Whalen. These professors leered at, groped, sexted, intoxicated, and even raped female students.â€
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/11/16/federal-complaint-against-dartmouth-says-college-repeatedly-ignored-reports-three
