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At Dartmouth, a student’s hunger strike over sexual harassment grows perilous
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Maha Hasan Alshawi, a graduate student at Dartmouth, took to Facebook in June to describe her frustration with the way the university handled her allegation that a professor had sexually harassed her. By mid-July, she said, Dartmouth had so botched the case that, seeing no other way to compel a fair investigation, she would begin a hunger strike.
Alshawi’s campaign has forced Dartmouth’s hand, prompting it to abandon its careful protocols and agree to an external investigation it previously said was unnecessary. But perhaps even more significantly, it has revealed the profound distrust that some students and alumni continue to harbor over whether the university can fairly arbitrate allegations of sexual misconduct.
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