From descriptions of actions perpetrated by professors Todd Heatherton, William Kelley, and Paul Whalen in Dartmouth’s department of psychology and brain sciences, as alleged in a lawsuit filed against the college in November by seven female students. In February, a trial date was set for March 2021.
Advised that a student break up with her boyfriend
Picked out dresses and shoes for students and offered to purchase them
Emphasized to a student the importance of putting sunscreen on her chest
Speculated that a student would not wear a push-up bra
Noted a preference for breasts with a ski-jump shape
Demanded massages from students
Gave drunken bear hugs to students
Called a student a bitch for refusing to drink
Pressured students to attend pajama parties
Hosted hot-tub parties referred to as “tubby time”
Encouraged students to come back and sleep at their homes after nights of drinking
Sent a student a photograph of his penis wearing a hat
Grabbed a student’s face and told her that she was the prettiest girl in any room
Groped a student’s buttocks
Told a student that he would never let her go
Told a student that he would continue to put his tongue in her whenever he wanted
Told a student that he didn’t know how to separate the personal from the professional
Warned students that a woman’s report of sexual harassment undermined her career
and that she “got what was coming to her”
Invited a student to his office, shut off the lights, pinned her to the wall, and attempted
to put his hands down her pants
Prevented a student from leaving his house, raped her, and laughed when she requested
that he use protection
Changed a student’s flight so that she would arrive at a conference a day early,
suggested that she share his hotel room for that night, drank with her at the bar to the
point of inebriation, took her back to the room, and raped her
Hit a student with his car after drinking and referred to her as roadkill
