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The Wooster Voice A student-run newspaper since 1883 Vol. CXXXVI, Issue XVI Friday, February 17, 2017 “I say if you love something, set it in a small cage and pester it and smother it with WWooster, Ohio V thewoostervoice.spaces.wooster.edu love until it either loves you back or dies.” - Mindy Kaling Inside Story of the Week DEISPG Viewpoints | 3 & 4 announces Sara Onitsuka ’18 discusses protesting Chadwick Smith receives open meet- in the Asian-Ameri- can community Dorothy Reid Dalzell Award ings Smith to be honored for his outstanding contributions to Committee in- vites feedback re- the College community through extracurricular activites garding diversity Anna Hartig Contributing Writer Features | 5 The Diversity, Equity and Sanjana Kumbhani Inclusion Strategic Planning ’17 covers James F. Group (DEISPG) has devel- Dicke’s upcoming oped a multi-year strategic plan lecture to create the ideal environment at The College of Wooster. The primary goal of this group is to maintain diversity within fac- ulty, staff and students. To create an effective way to reach their goals of inclusion, DEISPG divided members of the group into four work- ing groups. The first three groups are focusing on creat- ing, retaining and improving the diversity of the College’s A&E | 6 faculty, staff and student body. Katie Cameron ’17 The fourth group is focusing on aspects of diversity, equity previews the play and inclusion in the College’s Funnyhouse of a Negro, campus culture. which opens Friday In the open meetings held Chadwick Smith ’17, above, speaks at convocation for the 2016-17 school year. Smith in January, DEISPG worked will also speak at this year’s Senior Baccalaureate Service (Photo by Matt Dilyard). on generating ideas that were then organized into their main Mariah Joyce in admissions, is helping to served as the catalyst for the goals. These goals were again Editor in Chief plan and will speak at the Se- Board of Trustees to install addressed at the February nior Baccalaureate Service and cameras on Beall Avenue in meetings and concentrate on Senior Chadwick Smith currently serves on President an attempt to address the establishing a more diverse has been awarded the Dor- Sarah Bolton’s sexual assault harassment. community in Wooster. DE- othy Reid Dalzell Award, task force. Since then, Smith has ISPG Student Leader, Marina which he will receive at the He is also something of a po- leaned into his role as an Adams ’19 said, “These goals Sports | 7 upcoming DeWald Recogni- litical figure at Wooster, a phe- activist, organizing several are meant to transform and tion Banquet. nomenon he says started in the protests on campus, attend- improve our campus as a whole Sam Kuhn ’19 covers The award is given to an spring of his freshman year. ing many more and general- and that includes everyone who swimming and diving’s outstanding sophomore, ju- In an interview with CNN in ly trying to serve in his own is a part of it.” performance at confer- nior or senior who “has con- 2014, which he was skyping words as “a voice for black Crista Craven, associate pro- ence championships tributed the most to the life into from his room in Biss- people” at the College. fessor of women’s, gender and of The College of Wooster man, Smith said that as a black “In every area I’ve tried sexuality studies and anthro- community in the area of man he sometimes felt unsafe to sort of voice what black pology/co-chair of DEISPG, extracurricular activities.” walking along Beall Avenue on students have been going stressed how easy it is to get Event of the Week Smith has certainly ful- Wooster’s campus. through and how they feel,” involved in helping DEISPG. filled that criterion in his Though Smith was merely said Smith. Those attempts “I’d like to highlight that there Funnyhouse of a four years at Wooster. A saying what he felt to be true, have ranged from a black are definitely ways that stu- vocal and active part of to- his comments sparked unin- men’s breakfast Smith orga- dents can still contribute,” Negro day’s campus life, he is the tended controversy; an angry nized in Lowry last semes- Craven said. “We will be hold- Friday and Satur- outgoing president of the and racially charged email ter, to protests of racialized ing the last series of Open day, Feb. 17-18 Black Students Association from a townsperson which police brutality, to a list of Meetings (OMs) to set priori- 7:30 p.m. (BSA), a brother of the Men went viral. ties as a Campus Community in of Harambee (MOH), works The incident eventually Continued on page 5 March & April.” Shoolroy Theatre These open meetings are ex- tended to interested students but also the wider Wooster com- munity including the Wooster Wooster community comes together to Rally for Solidarity Community Schools, Chamber of Commerce, Wooster Police Brandon Bell Department, NAACP, United Staff Writer Way and Wooster Interfaith Partnership. Students, staff and fac- Craven and Sandra Smith, ulty from the College joined assistant dean of students/ Wooster community members co-chair of DEISPG, both en- for the Rally for Solidarity last courage everyone to attend Saturday. the meetings held this spring The rally and march, held to prioritize the goals by set- near the gazebo downtown, ting time frames. The first was intended to show support meeting is Thursday, March for immigrants in the United 23 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. in States and Wooster, whom ral- the Scot Center’s Governance ly organizers believed had been Room. For those who are not the target of legal and social able to attend, a student survey discrimination after U.S. Presi- will be available with similar dent Donald Trump issued an questions and topics that are executive order banning im- covered during the meetings. migration from seven Muslim- Opinions from the entire stu- majority nations. dent body are encouraged. Before marching to Wooster Following the final open City Hall, speakers addressed Above, members of Men of Harambee speak in downtown Wooster during the Rally meetings, group leaders will the over 100 attendees that for Solidarity (Photo by Brandon Bell). present the strategic plans to had gathered. Planned speakers President Sarah Bolton and fur- included Matthew Krain, pro- Addington, who said he immigrants to the U.S. during with him for this reason. ther plans will determine how fessor of political science and wished to speak from a per- World War II. He told attend- “Their story is our story,” to achieve the goals set forth by global and international stud- sonal standpoint, not that ees that news that immigrants Addington said at the rally, en- the campus community. ies, and Nate Addington, the of his profession at the Col- had been detained at airports couraging supporters of the Active student participa- director of the Office of Inter- lege, spoke about his ances- following the executive order faith Campus Ministries. tors’ experience as Belgian had struck a “personal chord” Continued on page 2 Continued on page 2 Friday, Voice SECTION EDITORS: February 17 Janel England Mackenzie Clark 2 News Campus Council’s open forum addresses judicial procedures Caren Holmes not just in sanction purposes.” Concern surrounding a lack Staff Writer of administrative transparency, specifically in regards to recent On Wed. April 8, Campus suspensions of several Greek Council hosted a public forum life organizations, emerged as in the Lowry Center to inform one of the primary themes dur- students about the capacities of ing the forum. Members of the Campus Council and the Judi- council could not provide addi- cial Board, as well as to answer tional information regarding the student questions surrounding status of Greek organizations. these institutions. However, several representa- Jordan Griffith ’19, at-large tives suggested that standards Campus Council member, ex- of due process, laid out in the plains that the forum was also Scot’s Key, had been violated in designed to provide students the handling of hazing cases. with an additional opportunity Students and Campus Council to voice their opinions to their members alike expressed un- students representatives. certainty regarding whether or In the forum, representa- not the suspensions were being tives of the Judicial Board and sanctioned under Title IX regu- Campus Council representatives lations, which address issues of summarized their overall role gender discrimination. and responsibilities within their While Campus Council is Above, members of Campus Council and other students hosted a public forum re- given positions. They also dis- the institution responsible for garding judicial procedures and student concerns (Photo by Shoshana Rice). cussed details of the new alco- reviewing club charters, they hol policy and ongoing efforts made it clear that their members rum, did not comment or re- Scot Center Governance Room.