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This year, an even larger amount than up to a required seminar on sexual assault, called Get Megan Gray. “And the online one seemed to have a usual are adjusting; a predicted 90 percent of Explicit 101, it was the first week on campus and she lot of extra stuff that you didn’t really have to pay freshmen are living on campus, in comparison was dreading spending time in a workshop. attention to, so you start ignoring all of it.” to last year’s 80 percent. But once the program started, she eventually There were few exceptions to Get Explicit’s The increase is due to last year’s decision to warmed up to it. She said she was “pleasantly mandatory attendance policy. The UO made require all freshmen, except those living within surprised” by the authenticity from its accommodations to reschedule sessions for students 30 miles of the campus, to live in the dorms. student facilitators. honoring Yom Kippur on Saturday sessions and Rogers was one of the 3,949 incoming freshman students attending the Center for Multicultural This decision was a multi-year process students to take the workshops, which addresses Academic Excellence (CMAE) New Student Fall made by a collection of people, including the topics of healthy sexuality, boundaries, Retreat. Students were also told that wanting to attend vice provosts, presidents, partners from explicit communication, consent, sexual assault or watch the football game against the University of undergraduate research and students. and bystander intervention through interactive California, Berkeley on Sept. 30 did not count as a The university cited that better academic discussion, according to the UO’s Office of the Dean valid exemption. excellence was associated with freshmen living of Students page. “I was curious to see how much would be on campus for their first year, according to the This year, reported rapes have more than doubled informative and how much of it would be a statement Director of Marketing and Communication, on campus. Administrators say that’s because more that the university takes sexual assault seriously,” Leah Andrews. students are reporting them due to better resources. said sophomore Guthrie Stafford, in regards to his “Students who live on campus for their first Rodgers said that students should take the thoughts on the program before he participated in the year were more likely to graduate. They were program, which started fall 2015, seriously. workshop in his freshman year. more likely to graduate faster and they were “It’s important,” she said. Other students also expressed concerns that more likely to have a higher GPA,” said Andrews. Kerry Frazee, the director of Prevention Services at the Get Explicit program was orchestrated by the UO, was part of the team that initially developed and University of Oregon less in the interest of its student Continued on page 4 currently implements the program. body and more for its “branding efforts,” making a “When we were given the opportunity to expand half-hearted gesture to show its support for ending our prevention efforts, we worked with students, sexual violence on campus. faculty, and staff across campus to create a program “I do feel that they are posturing a bit,” said specifically designed for first-year students at the sophomore Connor Lane. “But I do think that there is University of Oregon,” Frazee said. genuinely good intention behind it.” Frazee added that she hoped that through the However, in general, the students interviewed program students would have the same foundational agreed that the overall experience was a positive one. knowledge about sexual violence to contribute to Frazee also added that the UO was currently a campus culture that doesn’t tolerate any act of researching the effectiveness and efficacy of Get gender-based discrimination. Explicit, and if proven effective, were hoping to Some students interviewed compared the expand the curriculum to build on the foundational interactive seminar to an online prevention course learning targets introduced. required of all new incoming UO students, but some Some students also praised the broad range of preferring the former. subjects that the workshop covered. The interactive “I didn’t particularly find the [online] exercises to workshop included a self-assessment on sexual be that useful because I was just doing it on my own,” boundaries in relationships, intended for use with said sophomore Connor Lane. “It didn’t feel like I one’s partner. was part of the UO community supporting other UO Rogers stated that the program not just being students. It felt like I was just trying to click the things focused on consent and sexual violence, but also as quickly as I could to get through and be able to go on healthy sexuality and bystander intervention, on with my life.” was critical to the program’s success. “It makes the Some of the students at the program said that Get conversation more approachable because it’s less The new residence Explicit had a higher level of student engagement. awkward. But if everyone’s doing that thing, it makes hall, Kalapuya Ilihi. (Sarah Northrop) “You have to be more engaged with Get Explicit it even less awkward.” The Emerald is published NEWSROOM NEWS EDITORS PHOTO EDITOR BUSINESS ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES by Emerald Media WILL CAMPBELL ADAM EBERHARDT CARSON BIERAUGEL EDITOR IN CHIEF Group, Inc., independent ERIN CAREY DESIGN EDITOR PUBLISHER & PRESIDENT KYLE BESA JACK PITCHER X325 FRANKIE BENITEZ RUBEN ESTRADA KELLY KONDO CHARLIE WEAVER X317 nonprofit media company EMAIL: [email protected] ALICE LIGGET A&C EDITORS EMAIL: [email protected] at the University of Oregon. DESIGNERS EDITH GONZALEZ PRINT MANAGING EDITOR SARAROSA DAVIES Formerly the Oregon MATEO SUNDBERG REGAN NELSON VP OPERATIONS DANI TORREY Daily Emerald, the news ZACH PRICE THEO MECHAIN KATHY CARBONE X302 SAM WISE DIGITAL MANAGING EDITOR DANA ALSTON organization was founded in 1900. 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The Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program provides college graduates a unique LIVE-ON REQUIREMENTS: opportunity to teach English to Continued from page 3 students in the Japanese public school system. Graduates help The new residence hall, Kalapuya Ilihi develop foreign language education by serving as Assistant Language is home to four Academic Residential Communities, including the Native Teachers or Coordinators for International Relations. American and Indigenous Studies ARC. This successful and respected program helps promote international exchange (Sarah Northrop) at the local level by fostering ties between Japanese youth and JET Program participants from around the world. The Consular Office of Japan in Portland, Oregon will be at the University of Oregon for an informational orientation on the JET Program on the following day: Date: October 12th, 2017 Time: 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Bldg: Lillis Hall Room: 111 APPLICANTS MUST Have U.S. Citizenship Or hold citizenship of one of the other 46 participating countries. Hold a Bachelor’s Degree by July 1, 2018 No Japanese language ability required for the Assistant Language Teacher position.