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Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College 2009-2010 Student Newspapers 4-20-2010 College Voice Vol. 34 No. 18 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2009_2010 Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "College Voice Vol. 34 No. 18" (2010). 2009-2010. 3. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/ccnews_2009_2010/3 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in 2009-2010 by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. NEW LONDON, CONNEGICUT TUESDAY,APRIL20, 2010 VOLUME 34· ISSUE18 One in Four Campus group battles sexual assault against women JAZMINE HUGHES significantly lower men's self- NEWS EDITOR reported likelihood of raping for an entire seven-month academic Since last Tuesday's Take Back year," says their website. the Night, the college campus has Owen, who joined the organiza- been plastered with a single ratio: tion during his freshman year after I in 4. a Dessert and Dialogue discussion, According to www.oneinfomu- believes that the Men's Program sa.org, the national organization is is successful. "Given that men are named after the statistic that one in usually the perpetrators, it is effec- four college women have survived tive to reach out to other men and rape or attempted rape. The signs stop the violence at its source." NAYAN POKHREL I CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER around campus help to depict this Though the organization is shocking reality: "What if the one named after the nationwide statis- was your best friend? Your sister? The Revelation of St. John '09 tic, it raises an important question: Your lab partner? A girl who lived is this the reality at Connecticut Student Commencement Speech Found to be Largely Plagiarized in your hallway?" College? LILA'" RAPTOPOULOS who was in attendance that morn- Alter the affair was brought to What if it was you? "I do not know the actual statis- MANAGING EDITOR ing, "I'll always remember him light, President Higdon wrote a One in Four aims to prevent that. tic at Conn, but unfortunately one & saying, just like that: 'it feels so personal note to Barbara King- "One in Four is a group composed in four is the national statistic. 1 BEN GITKIND risky. '" solver apologizing on behalf of the entirely of men who seek to advo- think the hook-up culture plays a STAFF WRITER In November, according to school. She wrote back accepting cate and educate other men about part in that statistic, but I think that Vice President of College Rela- ·theapology. issues of sexual violence against CELS Fellow, Senior Admis- the alcohol culture actually afJects women," said Alexander Owen sion Fellow and four-year tour tions Patricia Carey, a member of The school then made a nearly it more;' says Owen. "One of the the Administration received an unprecedented move: putting an '12, current president. "Adam guide, alumnus Peter St. John things we try to explain in our Lalor, current Admissions Officer embodied the Connecticut College anonymous note suggesting that alumnus through the college's presentation is that while stranger Peter's speech was plagiarized. judiciary process for actions com- and former director of the natioual image. And so his was an image rape occurs far too often, the no- chapter of One in Four, brought a they used; his face appeared on Upon closer inspection, they found milled as a student. Dean of Stu- tion that most rapes occur when a chapter to Conn about two years promotional materials, Admissions that extensive passages and many dent Life, Jocelyn Briddell, called woman is running by herself late at ago." encouraged him to give speeches phrases were not Peter's but writer St. John in late November request- night and is attacked by a man who Barbara Kingsolver's, from her ing he return to campus to appear Unlike other organizations that to prospective students and Col- jumps out of the bushes is false. In to prevent sexual assault, lege Relations filmed him giving 2008 commencement address in front of J-Board. Although the work most cases, a man who the woman One in Four targets a specific a tour of his room for YouTube, to Duke University. Roughly a proceedings are kept confidential knows carries out the assault. It third of his speech, including by the Honor Code and Federal audience: males. Through 'The which immediately heearue the could be an acquaintance. a friend, most popular video on their page. the most noteworthy lines and law, St. John's is unassailably a Men's Program", which, according or even a boyfriend. Because alco- Peter was one of his few class- general theme, clearly derive from case of plagiarism; the Student to Owen, "is designed to reach out hol is so prevalent on campus, its mates, mid-recession, to have a Kingsolver's writing. Her speech Rights and Responsibilities hand- to other men ... in it, we talk about disadvantages -loss of judgment, how it feels to survive a rape. how job an:d'apartment lined up for that became the skeleton for his.<.- book states that_plagiarism consists particularly-are taken advantage summer: the job for a boutique PR Kingsolver's address. entitled of using the language and/or "the men can avoid being in situations o.f" "How to be Hopeful,". is one of ideas, arguments, or organization where things can get out of hand, fum in Manhattan, the apartment Later this month, the CC chapter how men can help a female friend furnished and waiting in Brooklyn. Edncation Portal's 10 Famous and of another writer without proper of One in Four will be holding who has survived a rape, and also But his last formal action before Noteworthy College Commence- acknowledgment" with no mention the White Ribbon Campaign, as between how men can foster better social receiving his diploma was to give ment Speeches, listed alongside to a difference writing April is Sexual Assault Awareness attitudes towards women by not a speech comprised substantially speeches by Winston Churchill, and speech. Moreover, it states Month. The men will be wearing using language that puts women of someone else's words. Jon Stewart and Steve Jobs. It has "ignorance or negligence is not white ribbons, handing them out down and makes them inferior." In March of 2009, St. John been reprinted on various websites considered an excuse for plagia- to other men on campus as a way in its entirety. rism." This all-male focus-as unusual and a group of his peers were for them to take a stand against as it sounds-works. In an article nominated to submit outlines for "The hardest part will be to Dean Cardwell, who oversees all sexual assault. They are also issu- published in the Jourua1 of Ameri- student commencement speeches. convince yourself of the possi- heatings, spoke generally of how ing pledge cards, allowing men to can College Health, the Men's In the second round, a full draft bilities, and hang on," her address a process like this occurs. She ex- vow to never commit, condone. Program was shown to "decrease of his speech was selected by a said. "If you run out of hope at the plained that despite being alumni, or remain silent about violence men's belief in rape myths and senior speaker selection committee end of the day, to rise in the mom- individuals are sti.ll subjected to against women and girls. ing and put it ou again with your the standard proceedings of the comprised of the Director of the shoes. Hope is the ouly reason you judiciary process. Office of Events and Catering, the won't give in, burn what's left of 'The ouly way that you would Director of Arts Programming, the 2009 Class President and the Dean the ship and go down with it. The re-encounter the judiciary process of Student Life. It was missing ship of your natural life and your after graduating is if we learned a faculty member, as their usual childreu's ouly shot. You have to that you did something particularly conunittee member, Ann Devlin of love that so earnestly - you, who egregious while you were a stu- the psychology department, was were born into the Age of Irony. dent," she said. 'Then we reserve Imagine getting caught with your the right to bring you back." on sabbatical and went unreplaced. St. John gave his speech Optimism hanging out. It feels so ,However, the issue of how alongside Class President Nick risky." to appropriately punish alumni, Downing, President Lee Higdon According to St. John, his specifically in a case as serious and the keynote speaker, phi- nomination was concurrent with as plagiarism, seems complicated losopher Martha Nussbaum. St. the nomination of a close friend when the college has minimal from another college; they decided leverage. John's speech was by far the most to work with each other to produce "I would venture to say we've well-received of Commencement- something memorable for their never revoked a diploma," more relatable and persuasive than even Nussbaum's. respective schools. When his Cardwell said, "A diploma is a friend was eliminated from the diploma. You can't really do any- 'The hardest part will be to con- running, he emailed St. John a thing to change that." vince ourselves of the possibilities, document full of his preparatory According to Peter, the mem- and hang on," he told the crowd notes, and suggested he use them.

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