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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2018 tuftsdaily.com ‘It Happens Here’ projects voices of sexual assault survivors by Jessica Blough The steering committee stationed Assistant News Editor three people in the Aidekman Arts Center and encouraged audience members to Content warning: This article discusses use them as resources if needed. sexual violence. “This is not a performance,” another Twenty-four students read 24 narra- student explained, then advised the audi- tives of sexual assault, abuse and harass- ence not to clap after the narratives. ment in Cohen Auditorium last night at Following the introduction, selected the fifth annual It Happens Here event. students went onstage one by one to read Some of the narratives were read by the their narratives or the narratives of an students who wrote them and others were unidentified survivor to the audience. It read by volunteers — which were which was purposely unclear whether the narra- was not specified. tives belonged to the reader or not. Some The event was coordinated by a 10-per- of the narratives were only a sentence son steering committee that was formed at long, while others lasted several pages. the beginning of the semester. The commit- One student read a Rupi Kaur poem. tee included senior Bailey Siber, sophomore “What’s really important about this Evelyn Roozee and senior Ariel Weinstein. event is magnifying voices that are already According to Siber, the steering com- there. This event isn’t creating narratives mittee worked to make this year’s event or creating voices or experiences, this is more accessible than those in the past. about us helping people access a platform These efforts included publishing the from which they can share their stories and majority of the narratives online for the share what they want to share,” Weinstein JULIA MCDOWELL / THE TUFTS DAILY The Tuft’s Action for Sexual Assault Prevention’s Steering Committee of the annual “It audience to follow along with during the said. “We want to make sure that we’re not Happens Here” event pose for a portrait in Cohen Auditorium on Apr. 10, 2018. presentation. The steering committee also saying that we’re giving them a voice, but made an effort to highlight the experienc- rather we’re giving them a place to project “I think that sometimes Tufts is kinda and willingness of their community to es of survivors of various identities. their voice louder than it could be.” seen as a liberal campus that doesn’t expe- engage in these conversations. “Survivors are not all just white cis The goal of the event, according to the rience these things, which is definitely not “I really hope that if there are survivors females, and we want to represent the steering committee, is to foster empathy true, and I think it’s important that we who came to this event and didn’t want diverse experiences of people on this for survivors and equip audience members shed light on how sexual assault has a role to share their own narrative, that there’s campus,” Siber explained. with the skills to be intentional listeners. on our campus,” Roozee said. an understanding and acknowledgement The conversation began with a simple “I really hope that people come away “The people that should be defining for themselves and from their friends and address. “Tonight, we will bear witness to from this event with a greater and deep- what safety means are the people that communities, that that is okay … and that each other’s experiences.” er understanding of how vulnerable people don’t feel safe. I want the folks that not everyone should feel that they need Four students, who did not introduce may have to be in order to share their sto- attend this event to think about the fact to submit their narrative to an event like themselves but were on the steering com- ries,” Weinstein explained. “And that people there are people on this campus, for a this,” Weinstein said. mittee, explained the history of It Happens walk away from this…with more knowledge huge variety of reasons, that don’t feel After the final narrative was shared, Here as a national organization, then gave and skills about how to graciously talk to peo- safe here,” Siber added. four different members of the steering com- an overview of what the audience could ple after they disclose sensitive information.” Weinstein also acknowledged that sur- mittee returned to the stage and thanked expect from the evening. Siber and Roozee emphasized the impor- vivors may have been in the audience, the audience for listening. They urged stu- “Our hope is that this conversation tance of creating a space for survivors where and this event was not intended to place dents seeking support to decompress at expands and [evolves],” one student said. they could feel heard and safe while chang- pressure on them to share their narratives. the Interfaith Center after the event. “We will remember why and for [whom] ing the narrative that sexual assault does not Rather, it should provide resources for “It happens here at Tufts, and you are not we are here.” happen at a school like Tufts. survivors and demonstrate the sensitivity alone. Thank you,” the students concluded. Tufts admits Class of 2022 from record-high applicant pool by Austin Clementi Karen Richardson, the dean of under- cants to the School of Arts and Sciences, for students with financial need, accord- Staff Writer graduate admissions and enrollment while the School of Engineering received ing to the Federal Student Aid website. management, attributes the increased 4,059 applications. Eleven percent of the class are first-gen- On March 30, the Office of competitiveness in Tufts’ acceptance In addition, the School at the Museum eration college students, according to Undergraduate Admissions offered process to the continued increase in the of Fine Arts at Tufts combined-degree the article. spots in the Class of 2022 to 3,140 appli- number of applications. program and the BFA program, now in According to Patrick Collins, Tufts’ cants, according to a TuftsNow article. “Admissions has become more com- their second year, accepted 109 and 139 executive director of public relations, 54 The admissions office received 21,502 petitive in the past few years here at students, respectively. percent of the class identify as female, applications, marking a record-high Tufts and at every other highly selective The article also states that the class rep- 43 percent as male and one percent as number of applicants and a two percent institution. One of the main reasons is resents all 50 U.S. states and 70 countries. genderqueer or non-binary. He also clar- increase from last year. that application numbers continue to Additionally, nearly 50 percent of the ified that these percentages do not add The acceptance rate dropped from 14.8 increase,” Richardson wrote in an email incoming class applied for need-based to 100 because questions regarding gen- percent last year to 14.6 percent, keeping to the Daily. aid, compared to 48 percent last year. der are not required on the Common in range of Tufts’ lowest acceptance rate According to the TuftsNow article, the Ten percent of these students are receiv- Application. — 14.3 percent for the Class of 2020. admissions office received 17,443 appli- ing Pell Grants, a federal grant reserved see ADMISSIONS, page 2 Please For breaking news, our content archive and NEWS........................................... 1 recycle this exclusive content, visit Contact Us COMICS .....................................11 newspaper P.O. Box 53018, INVESTIGATIVE ...................3 tuftsdaily.com OPINION ..................................12 Medford, MA 02155 FEATURES ................................6 Mostly Cloudy [email protected] /thetuftsdaily @tuftsdaily tuftsdaily tuftsdaily SPORTS ........................... BACK 45 / 35 ARTS & LIVING ......................8 2 THE TUFTS DAILY | NEWS | Wednesday, April 11, 2018 tuftsdaily.com THE TUFTS DAILY CATHERINE PERLOFF Admissions office anticipates Jumbo Days Editor-in-Chief EDITORIAL Mary Carroll ADMISSIONS Zachary Hertz continued from page 1 Managing Editors Arman Smigielski Associate Editor Richardson added that these admis- Elie Levine Executive News Editor sions decisions come at the end of a dif- Daniel Caron News Editors Juliana Furgala ficult process. Melissa Kain Anar Kansara “The pool for the class of 2022 was the Robert Katz Arin Kerstein largest in university history,” Richardson Simran Lala told the Daily in an email. “As in years Sophie Lehrenbaum Natasha Mayor past, [the pool] was incredibly strong Seohyun Shim Emma Steiner both academically and in terms of … how Joe Walsh Assistant News Editors applicants engage with their schools and Jess Blough Jenna Fleischer communities. The admissions team was Liza Harris Daniel Weinstein impressed by what applicants could bring Sean Ong Executive Features Editor Emma Damokosh Features Editors to the Tufts campus and, as a result, had to Jessie Newman make some very difficult decisions.” Emma Rosenthal Michael Shames Richardson moved on to say that when Fina Short Grace Yuh determining which applicants to accept, Jenna Fleischer Assistant Features Editors the university considers how they might Kenia French Ilana Goldberg contribute to the culture of Tufts as a whole. Michelle Kwon Ameenah Rashid “The university wants to be able SEOHYUN SHIM / THE TUFTS DAILY ARCHIVES Alison Epstein Executive Arts Editor John Fedak Arts Editors to maintain high levels of academic and Bendetson Hall is pictured on April 11, 2017.