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WEEKEND EDITIONEDITION | SEPTEMBER 17, 20152 SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF VVOLUMEOLUME 122 | IISSUESSSSUUEE 1818 ALABAMA SINCE 1894 12 REVENGE The Crimson Tide prepares for redemption against the Ole Miss #ItsOnUs Rebels after last year’s upset in Oxford, Mississippi. TAKING THE PLEDGE UA joins campuses across the nation in taking a stand against sexual assault through the SGA-led It’s On Us campaign. See page 7. INSIDE news 3 opinions 4 culture 9 sports 11 CONTACT email [email protected] website cw.ua.edu twitter @TheCrimsonWhite THURSDAY 2 September 17, 2015 VISIT US ONLINE cw.ua.edu facebook The Crimson White instagram thecrimsonwhite twitter @TheCrimsonWhite cw.ua.edu P.O. 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Comer Hall REQUEST DATE: Aug. 19, 2015 STATUS: “There are no records responsive to your request.” Editor | Elizabeth Elkin [email protected] Thursday, September 17, 2015 3 By the numbers Study Abroad 2013 to 2015 Colleges Years LAW SENIOR NUR JUNIOR A&S SOPH C&BA FRESH C&IS GRAD/ EDU PROF ENG HES 62% 75% 11% 6% 9% 7% 6% 10% 4% 2% 3% 3% CW / Melanie Viering Lip Sync Hero Get ready for Ole Miss! $69.50 Sizes S-XXL Located on the strip · 1218 University Blvd. 205-752-2990 · www.locker-room.biz Editor | Leigh Terry [email protected] Thursday, September 17, 2015 4 GUEST COLUMN | SEXUAL ASSAULT Sexual assault is blind to identity By Ben Ray | Guest Columnist Whenever I tell someone I have been sexually assaulted, I always get the same look. It’s a pretty diffi- cult look to describe, which is strange because it is very particular and stings painfully as it finds your face. It’s the kind of look that you give to someone when you feel like they’re trying to convince you of something that just cannot be. It’s the kind of look you give to the con- man as he tries to tell you that you can own the Golden Gate Bridge or the Pyramids of Giza. It’s the kind of look a mother gives their child when asking about the cookie jar whose lid is slightly askew just before din- nertime. It’s the kind of look that sends chills through your spine because it signals that there is disbelief and, more insidiously, distrust. This look is suspicious and awkward. It’s confusing, disgusting, contesting and begrudging. For me, it has been a look of judgment, pain, and anger—as if I have always been trying to take some- thing away from someone else. That’s it. That’s the look. I’ve never been sure if I get this look because I pres- ent myself as a “man.” What I mean here is that I pres- ent myself in such a way that others think that I am a “man” who lives in “masculine” clothes like pants, CW / Marguerite Powers button-down shirts and short hair; that I heterosexually COLUMN | SEXUAL ASSAULT love my heterosexual partner; and that I do “manly” things that make me non-threatening to the order of things. I’ve placed these words in quotes because I UA greek community needs to discuss assault believe that gender and gender performance are con- testable categories—if they are categories at all. By Meghan Dorn | Staff Columnist It doesn’t happen every week, but it trust them for an entire evening. Then People read my body in this way and, because of has happened enough that I’ve come as home games come, greek women these markers, they assume that I am a “man,” which It’s been an interesting four years to realize the double-edged sword of have to find their fraternity counter- I am not. I am neither a “man” nor a “woman.” I have to be greek at The University of being in a more talkative and outgo- parts to sit with since there is no soror- never been trapped in the wrong body or confused Alabama, with many events landing ing organization than other houses – ity section for them. Then in some about a phase that I must be going through because in the national headlines. My house that my sisters are sometimes more swaps, the dying practice of bumping these are narratives that have been created so that we has always handled this in stride, likely to be targeted than others. But kicks off the evening as freshmen do not critique the categories that we are so beholden trying to do their best to keep us at the same time, in quieter houses, step backwards hoping this guy won’t to culturally. And no, oh constant critics, I do not think informed and ultimately trying to pro- do those girls ever get to share that try anything. this distinction about my gender identity and perfor- tect the house. We’re something hap- This constant pairing of frater- mance is out-of-the-way or beside-the-point. My gen- a pretty vocal group, pened to them at all? nity and sorority makes it great for der identity and my gender performance are so often and some days Campus sexual greeks to get to know each other, but at odds with one another that I am viewed as a “man” walking into the It’s time to show assault has become it doesn’t always stay innocent and and, therefore, I could not have been raped.