The Independent Advance-Titan Student Newspaper of the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Campuses Vol. 126, No. 3 Sept. 26, 2019 advancetitan.com Rocky horror Climate strike housekeeper titan takedown Stay Connected Two person @theadvancetitan Fans dressed Students join global climate garage rock Titan football defeats in fishnets strike last Friday by pro- Huntington college 44-14. testing in front of Sage Hall band jams @titan or @atitansports and heels out at Freshman quarterback for a screen- chanting: “Hey, hey, ho, ho, Kobe Berghammer scores Jambalaya @theadvancetitan ing at the climate change has got to four touchdowns in his Time. go!” Arts. first start. [email protected] Page 5 Page 8 Page 11 Page 10 Lawsuit says UWO failed to uphold 14th Amendment By Joseph Schulz sin on Sept. 16. sored by the sorority group Zeta On May 13, the woman spoke ter Culp to Bares, both witnesses [email protected] The student filed the case as Tau Alpha’s UWO chapter. with Associate Dean of Students said the male has a good reputa- John Doe and asked to remain The plaintiff alleges a sorority Joann “Buzz” Bares, who report- tion and isn’t known for being A UW Oshkosh student is suing anonymous, and much of the suit member invited him to the party ed the encounter as nonconsensual sexually aggressive. the university, alleging it violated refers to him only as the plaintiff. where they sat next to each other and informed the male the same In a May 31 email, Culp pro- his constitutional right to due pro- The suit also filed an injunc- on the bus ride home afterward; day. vided Bares with a third witness, cess and equal protection in its in- tion to postpone a Sept. 26 non- upon arriving at their destination, On May 29, 30 and 31, the who was in a sorority that co-hosts vestigation into a possible sexual academic misconduct proceeding they ended up in the woman’s male’s lawyer presented Bares events with the male’s fraternity. assault. that was denied by United States bedroom where they had sex. with information from three wit- The email said the witness had The lawsuit was filed in Win- District Judge Pamela Pepper on The woman’s version of events nesses, which the university with- a close relationship with the male nebago County Circuit Court on Sept. 20. is considered confidential and has held from its investigative report. and that she’s never felt unsafe Sept. 11 and moved to the U.S. The case stems from a March not been made public. According to May 29 and 30 See Lawsuit / Page 3 District Court for Eastern Wiscon- 16, 2019 off-campus party spon- According to court records: emails from the male’s lawyer Pe- Climate change We’re on thin ice Sexual assault stats By Joseph Schulz [email protected] In 2007 the U.S. Department of Justice published the Campus Sexual Assault study, which identified key risk factors leading to sexual assault and established the groundwork for UW Oshkosh’s “Red Zone” initiative. The 2007 study aimed to examine the prevalence, nature and reporting of sexual assaults experienced by college students in order to develop intervention strategies. Final The CSA part of study used data collected from a series more than 6,800 undergraduate students. The data showed that 13.7% of undergraduate women were victims of at least one sexual assault since entering college. 4.7% of victims suffered from physically forced sexual assault and 7.8% were assaulted when they Stories on pages 6,7 & 8 were incapacitated after knowingly consuming drugs or alcohol. Extreme deadly heat waves. activities have caused the earth port on the local impacts of cli- crease. You can read about how 0.6% were assaulted when they Wildfires that burn for weeks. to warm, and we are rapidly ap- mate change. limiting red meat consumption were incapacitated after having Storms so severe they flood our proaching the point of no return. Our hope is to encourage and could be a key solution to reduc- been given a drug without their towns, destroying homes and In collaboration with the inspire readers to take action to ing greenhouse gas emissions. knowledge. causing deaths. Hurricanes that United Nations Climate Change help slow climate change. Start- You can also learn about re- The study described being a are growing more frequent and Summit in New York that began ing on page 6, you can learn how search projects happening right victim of sexual assault as one more severe. Monday, the Advance-Titan has Oshkosh’s temperature has in- here at UW Oshkosh that could of the most violating experiences The majority of the scientif- joined hundreds of newspapers creased in the last hundred years help slow climate change. ic community agrees: Human nationwide and worldwide to re- and the implications of that in- Illustration by Susan Lor See Red Zone / Page 3 2 | AdvanceTitan.com News Sept. 26, 2019 The Advance-Titan Holocaust survivor speaks Phone: 920-424-3048 Email: [email protected] By Lydia Westedt from her own bed to make dia- Website: www.advancetitan.com [email protected] pers. “We have to rely on the kind- Editor in Chief Jack Tierney [email protected] Eva Zaret, an 83-year-old Ho- ness of strangers,” she said. locost survivor from Budapest, Zaret’s was finally able to es- Ad Manager Collin Tuchalski Hungary, spoke on the impor- cape to Milwaukee, where she [email protected] tance of kindness and love last fell in love with the beautiful 262-391-8452 Wednesday at UW Oshkosh as a scenery and wonderful people. guest speaker. “Young people in this country Managing Editor Joseph Schulz UWO history professor Karl don’t realize how good they have [email protected] Loewenstein introduced Zaret’s it,” she said. News Editor Bethanie Gengler speech as the “highlight of all Zaret has made sure to tell [email protected] events happening this month.” her family, including her young Zaret began her story by shar- grandchildren, the truth about Assistant News Editor ing that she was only 6 years old her past. She has even made the Amber Brockman the first time she realized her re- journey back to Budapest with [email protected] ligion made her different. Zaret her family to visit the apartment Regional Editor Alexus Olsen recalled being asked to leave the where she used to live with her [email protected] room when her classroom par- father and mother. ticipated in prayer, and said her At Zaret’s presentation, UWO Opinion Editor Leo Costello classmates were praying to the graduate student Zoe Meyers [email protected] Lord, and told her “the Jewish Chris Gajdos / Advance-Titan fought through tears to ask Za- people killed Him.” Zaret went Eva Zaret, a survivor of the Holocaust, speaks with students in ret if she has been in touch with Arts & Entertainment Editor Reeve Memorial Union. Ethan Uslabar home crying that day, asking her her Jewish faith since her escape. [email protected] parents, “Did you kill anyone?” selves off of buildings because had shown up at the house and After answering “yes,” Zaret Zaret’s father worked in a hard they couldn’t stand what was took the other children who were welcomed Meyers to come to the Sports Editor Neal Hogden labor camp for the Nazis for two happening,” she said. staying there, saying they were front of the room and gave her [email protected] years. Speaking on his death, Zaret lost many of her family going to the park. Thankfully, a hug. she said her father was one of One of the many UWO stu- Assistant Sports Editor Lydia members in the Holocaust. Af- Zaret hid under a mattress, too 2,000 men who, at the border of dents who met Zaret after her Westedt ter showing a picture of her two frightened of the soldiers. [email protected] Yugoslavia and Budapest, were young cousins, she recalled the “Those children ended up in speech was history student James shot into their graves after being story of their death. Auschwitz in the ovens,” Zaret Parnau. Parnau shared that he Copy Desk Chief Cody Wiesner forced to dig them. “It is very hard to speak of said. was inspired to attend because [email protected] “I was 6 and one-half the last them, because they were beau- Rape, murder and rooms half- his grandfather, Eddie Franken, time I saw my father,” she said. tiful,” Zaret said. The children’s full of dead people were among fought as an American soldier in Photo Editor Hannah Preissner Zaret said the horrors she ex- World War II and helped to lib- [email protected] parents were in concentration the other horrors Zaret saw be- perienced still haunt her dreams. camps, so her two cousins were fore escaping to the Carpathian erate the Dachau concentration Assistant Photo Editor “This is one of my night- being cared for by nuns. Mountains with her aunt. camp. Allison Russotto mares,” she said, as she went After going out to a movie, the But for Zaret, escape did not Zaret said seeing the large [email protected] on to describe watching a Nazi two cousins were recognized by mean safety. When Zaret es- crowd gathered to hear her speak soldier grab a crying baby from one of their friends. This friend caped to Ukraine, she said the at UWO gives her hope for the Web Editor Elizabeth Pletzer a woman’s arms and throw it future. [email protected] told the Nazis that the girls were people there were “as horrible as against a wall.