4 at Dartmouth Disciplined for Harassing Black

Dartmouth College suspended two members of an independent conservative student newspaper for two years Thursday and another for two terms for harassing a black professor in his classroom.

A fourth student staffer for the Dartmouth Review was placed on disciplinary probation for one year for disorderly conduct.

The four white students had faced possible expulsion over a Feb. 25 confrontation with music Professor William Cole over a Review article criticizing his class and his teaching ability.

The article and the confrontation had drawn allegations of racism against the Review and prompted demonstrations by black students at the Ivy League school.

Committee Fixed Penalties

The penalties imposed by the student-faculty Dartmouth Committee on Standards take effect Wednesday, the end of the current academic term.

Christopher Baldwin of Hinsdale, Ill., John Quilhot of Ft. Wayne, Ind., John Sutter of St. Louis and Sean Nolan of Lexington, Mass., were charged with harassment, disorderly conduct and invasion of privacy.

Baldwin, a junior who is the Review editor, and Sutter, a senior who is its executive editor, were suspended until the fall of 1989, or six terms. Quilhot, a sophomore photographer, was suspended for two terms. Dartmouth operates on a three-term college year.

Students Plan Appeal

Baldwin said the students will appeal.

The disciplinary panel found all four guilty of disorderly conduct for failure to leave Cole’s classroom after being asked to do so.

Baldwin was found guilty of harassment for initiating and persisting in a “vexatious oral exchange” with Cole, and Sutter was guilty of repeated “aggressive, confrontational and particularly vexatious” behavior, the committee said.