U.S. Senator Visits UR to Discuss Prevention of Sexual Violence
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CampusTHURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2015 / VOLUME 142, ISSUE 6 Times SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER COMMUNITY SINCE 1873 / campustimes.org Frederick Douglass Building renovations will begin in May BY JULIANNE MCADAMS will be done on the first floor over SENIOR STAFF the spring and summer breaks. The entire building will The Frederick Douglass close for renovations during Building will undergo summer 2016 and will reopen renovations throughout the the completed first and second coming year and will reopen floors in fall 2016. in fall 2016 as the last step in The first floor of the Frederick the 10-year process of updating Douglass Building, where the UR’s dining facilities. University bookstore used to “This is the final and most be, will house the new dining important puzzle piece for our area. The balcony will be program,” Marketing Manager removed from the second floor Kevin Aubrey said. dining area, where there will be Director of Dining Services production kitchens and food and Auxiliary Operations preparation areas, as well as new RACHEL HAMMELMAN / PHOTO EDITOR Cameron Schauf said that the event spaces which students will U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (right) spoke with students and visitors, including Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren (left), at a design for the new dining hall be able to rent out. The event roundtable discussion in the Welles-Brown Room on Monday. aims to balance the consistency rooms will be divisible into and change which are currently separate rooms, or functional as perceived as split between Wilson a single, large space for events U.S. Senator visits UR to discuss Commons and Danforth. like concerts, dances and the “We hear from students that annual Boar’s Head Dinner. An ‘Danforth changes all the time, expanded Grab & Go will also prevention of sexual violence and I like Wilson because I be located on the second floor. on June 30, 2014 but was not and other sexual crimes. Citing BY SAM PASSANISI know what I can count on,’ and The third and fourth floors of enacted. CASA expands on and a U.S. Senate study in which 40 NEWS EDITOR then we hear from students that the building, which currently revises the 1965 Clery Act, a percent of all college campuses ‘Wilson doesn’t change enough, house the Grab & Go and Meliora U.S. Senator Kirsten piece of legislation aimed at said they had never reported a and I get bored,’” Schauf said. Express, will be converted by the Gillibrand visited the University colleges and universities. The sexual assault under the Clery The current dining area on the university to a new Intercultural of Rochester on Monday to Clery Act requires institutions Act, Gillibrand discussed the second floor of the building will Center and a Language Center. participate in a roundtable of higher education to report need for greater transparency. remain open as-is for the 2015- The third and fourth floors discussion on ending sexual crimes on their campuses to the “A lot of campuses have gotten 2016 school year, although work SEE PAGE 4 violence. In a meeting with UR U.S. Department of Education. this wrong over a long period DOUGLASS staff and students, Rochester Clery Act reporting is tied to of time because it’s not worth officials and visitors from some federal funding of college their while to get the reporting neighboring colleges, Gillibrand programs. right,” Gillibrand said, adding, discussed a new bill that would “[CASA] creates historic new “We can’t imagine that there provide stricter sanctions against transparency requirements,” were no sexual assaults on that campus sexual violence. Gillibrand said. The bill would 40 percent of campuses, but we Representing the UR require a biannual survey of can imagine that the climate may studentry were SA President students at all colleges in order be so bad there that there is no and senior Antoinette Esce, to gather information about reporting, or that schools are SA Vice President and junior campus climates. All schools shoving it under the rug.” CASA David Stark, representative for would also be required to increases fines for universities Consent is So Frat sophomore establish a memorandum of failing to report sexual assaults Tate Richards, and members understanding (MOU) with from $35,000 to $150,000 per of Men Opposing Violence their local law enforcement violation of the Clery Act, which Everywhere (MOVE) senior agencies, detailing the procedures Gillibrand said she hopes will David Markakis and senior for reporting and investigating “flip the initiative” from the Michael Silverstein. Also in sexual violence. Rochester Chief federal government to university attendance were Rochester of Police Michael Ciminelli administrations. mayor Lovely Warren and Chief noted that his agency has already “When I look at this issue, of Police Michael Ciminelli. established an MOU protocol the reason I know campuses PHOTO COURTESY OF KENNEDY & VIOLICH ARCHITECTURE LTD Gillibrand reintroduced with UR Public Safety. The aren’t taking it seriously is the VIA UR COMMUNICATIONS a bill called the Campus MOU protocol ensures that law way they look at the crime,” Accountability and Safety Act enforcement will be notified in Gillibrand said. She noted that UR CHOOSES PRE-CONSTRUCTION (CASA) in the Senate last the event that a rape or sexual schools are more likely to take Thursday, prompted by support assault occurs on UR’s campus. disciplinary action against a MANAGER FOR DATA INSTITUTE from students and colleges. One aim of the bill is to help student for academic dishonesty The bill was first introduced improve the reporting of rapes This rendering of the new Institute for Data Science by Kennedy & Violich SEE GILLIBRAND PAGE 4 Architecture represents an early concept of the building’s look. STORY ON PAGE 3 LONG LIVE THE JUST “JOSHING” WORLD CUP WOES INSIDE INTERNET THIS CT AROUND One students responds to the Former Nickelodeon star Josh Sports analyst Jesse FCC’s decision to uphold net Peck comes to UR for a Q&A Bernstein discusses the issues neutrality. session. surrounding the World Cup in Qatar. / ILLUSTRATOR CHRISTIAN CIERI PAGE 7 OPINIONS PAGE 12 A&E PAGE 16 SPORTS PAGE 2 / campustimes.org NEWS / THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2015 WEEKEND FORECAST COURTESY OF WEATHER.COM FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Mostly Sunny PM Snow Showers Mostly Cloudy High 25, Low 15 High 34, Low 23 High 33, Low 24 Chance of snow: 0% Chance of snow: 50% Chance of snow: 20% PUBLIC SAFETY UPDATE Students found dancing in Gilbert attic PARSA LOTFI / PHOTO EDITOR BY ANGELA LAI items off of the male that he had NEWS EDITOR hidden on him. The male was HARI KONDABOLU BLENDS COMEDY AND POLITICS identified as having been banned SA, the Association for the Development of the Indian Subcontinent and Campus Activites Board sponsored an evening 1. On Feb. 28 at 5:12 p.m., a from UR property in the past. of comedy with Hari Kondabolu on March 4 in the May Room. student reported hearing what The male was then placed under sounded like footsteps above her arrest for burglary, petit larceny room in Gilbert Hall. The area and trespassing. The male was THIS WEEK ON CAMPUS in question was the attic area in taken to DPS Headquarters to be Gilbert. Department of Public processed for the arrest and then THURSDAY Safety (DPS) officers responded taken to jail by Rochester police. MARCH 5 to check the area. Upon arrival, RELIGION AND SCIENCE COPLAND AND DVORAK officers found a group of students Students leave belongings, are INTERFAITH CHAPEL BRENNAN ROOM, 6:15 P.M. - 7:30 P.M. EASTMAN KODAK HALL, 7:30 P.M. - 9:30 P.M. in the attic. The group stated that suspected of living in Gleason Come to an interfaith conversation about how religion The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and violinist they were practicing a dance and science inform our understanding of the cosmos, Augustin Hadelich will perform works by Smetana, routine and they wanted a private 3. On Feb. 26 at 6:20 a.m., staff humanity and human and cosmic origins. There will be Copland, Dvorak and late Rochester composer David place to do so. The students in Gleason Library reported the free pizza, snacks and beverages. Diamond. Tickets are available online at rpo.org. stated the door to the attic was possibility of students living in ajar and that that was how they the library. Staff reported finding FRIDAY a large amount of personal items MARCH 6 got in. There were no signs of forced entry. The students were inside two cubicles in the area. OUR HEALTH IN BLACK AND WHITE EASTMAN STUDIO ORCHESTRA warned and sent on their way. The items included pillows, URMC HELEN WOOD HALL 1W304, NOON - 1:00 P.M. EASTMAN KODAK HALL, 8:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M. The attic space was secured by blankets, two laptop computers, Speakers from around the community will give a The Eastman Studio Orchestra combines the officers when they left. clothes, shoes, food and other presentation on health disparities in the Finger Lakes personnel of the Eastman Jazz Ensemble with a full personal items. Officers collected Region and the work of our community’s African- complement of orchestral performers. This event is American and Latino Health Coalitions. free and open to the public. Suspicious male caught stealing all of the items and secured them from Barnes & Noble at DPS Headquarters until the owners could retrieve them. Four SATURDAY MARCH 7 2. On March 1 at 4:21 p.m., undergraduates were identified staff at the Collegetown Barnes as the owners of the property. THE 42-LETTER NAME THE CERAMIC ART OF WAYNE HIGBY & Noble bookstore reported a The four responded to the DPS MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, ALL DAY MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, ALL DAY Robert Kirschbaum’s “The 42-Letter Name” (2009) This nationally touring retrospective of Higby’s suspicious male who might be office to collect their belongings.