After a hunger strike at Dartmouth, an external investigation clears a professor of wrongdoing
By Zoe Greenberg Globe Staff,Updated May 10, 2021, 7:32 p.m.
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Dartmouth students protested in front of the Parkhurst Administration building in a March for Maha in support of graduate student Maha Hasan Alshawi last summer. Alshawi initiated a hunger strike against Dartmouth College for their assessments of Title IX sexual misconduct cases.Aileen M. Eagleton
A graduate student at Dartmouth, Maha Hasan Alshawi, announced she was going on a hunger strike last summer to pressure the school to investigate her allegation that a professor had sexually harassed her. After a nearly four-week strike, during which she said she had stopped eating and then drinking, the school agreed to launch an external investigation.
By Anna Merriman - Valley News
• May 10, 2021
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External investigators retained by Dartmouth College after a graduate student went on a hunger strike last summer, claiming that a computer science professor had sexually harassed her, have cleared him of wrongdoing, noting that he was not in the Upper Valley when she said one of the incidents occurred.
The investigators’ report also found that Maha Hasan Alshawi, who is no longer a graduate student at Dartmouth, did not disclose that she had made nearly identical claims against a former professor of hers in Egypt.
“We find that there is insufficient evidence to support . a finding that (professor Alberto Quattrini Li) engaged in any conduct that would constitute Sexual or Gender-Based Harassment or Retaliation,” reads the eight-page executive summary of the report, issued on Friday.
Report clears Dartmouth professor accused of harassment by student who went on hunger strike
Modified: 5/7/2021 9:12:38 AM
HANOVER External investigators retained by Dartmouth College after a graduate student went on a hunger strike last summer, claiming that a computer science professor had sexually harassed her, have cleared him of wrongdoing, noting that he was not in the Upper Valley when she said one of the incidents occurred.
The investigators’ report also found that Maha Hasan Alshawi, who is no longer a graduate student at Dartmouth, did not disclose that she had made nearly identical claims against a former professor of hers in Egypt.