UAA CHAMPS Victims of Sexual Assault, Rape Speak out at Take Back the Night Men’S Tennis Upsets No

the independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since 1878 VOLUME 134, NO. 54 MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013 WWW.STUDLIFE.COM PIXAR SOFTBALL Wash. U. alumnus Bears win over Chris Bernardi Fontbonne and finds his passion Monmouth BAUER & KNIGHT HALL (Cadenza, pg 6) (Sports, pg 4) (Scene, pg 7) SPB’s first W.I.L.D. features new sustainability measures, more festival-style atmosphere BRIAN BENTON | STUDENT LIFE FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: Atmosphere performs at spring W.I.L.D.; Singer-songwriter Mat Kearney plays a set on the Brookings Quadrangle. W.I.L.D. on Friday. SADIE SMECK The concert, which featured per- student members of the Green Events do it in working with the GEC and “They didn’t know what it was, NEWS EDITOR formers Yeasayer, Mat Kearney and Commission (GEC) and volunteers. fulfilling Wash. U.’s goal to be more they picked it up to see what it was, Atmosphere in a festival-style lineup, “Over the years, Wash. U. has eco-friendly,” SPB’s WILD director and it became a conversation topic, This year’s WILD saw more head- was the first to be organized by SPB. made a very strong effort to become and sophomore Anna Eisenberg said. and then people were just drinking it lining artists, novel sustainability Among the changes were new sus- more sustainable, and I think that we Eisenberg noted that students to see what it was,” she said. efforts and new day events, under the tainability efforts, which included were still able to provide students all were excited about the boxed water, Despite the concern that students direction of the Social Programming boxed water, compostable uten- of the safety in terms of water, and and said the product will definitely be Board (SPB), created in November. sils and waste stations manned by we were still able to do all of that, but back for next year’s WILD. SEE WILD, PAGE 3 UAA CHAMPS Victims of sexual assault, rape speak out at Take Back the Night Men’s tennis upsets No. DIVYA KUMAR people, so it means a lot that as “I’m a slam poet, so I’ve basi- SENIOR NEWS EDITOR many people showed up as they cally told my story to hundreds of 3 Emory to take UAA title did,” host of the event and soph- people, and it’s always interesting ZACH KRAM tiebreak to capture the title and give The sound of students snap- omore Maxine Kali said. “I really because every time I do it, it does SPORTS REPORTER the Red and Green their second-ever ping their fingers filled Graham enjoyed the audience. They were something different to me,” she conference championship. Chapel as Take Back the Night very accepting and appreciative said. “I’m not always sad or I’m For only the second time since After the Bears opened a 2-1 lead audience members expressed of everyone’s bravery.” not always angry, and sometimes 1990, the University Athletic through doubles play with wins their support for a number of Students who submitted their I see it from another perspective, Association men’s tennis trophy by the pairings of senior Adam their peers who shared their first- stories, which ranged in form and every time I start speaking, will leave Atlanta. With Sunday’s Putterman and sophomore Ross hand experiences with sexual from poems to speeches and I say something different and I UAA championship match between Putterman at first-flight doubles and assault and rape. even a song, had the option of react to it in a different way.” No. 14 Washington University and Parizher and junior Jeffrey Hirsh at The event, which began at reading them aloud or having a “Continuing to tell my story No. 3 Emory University knotted third flight, both by scores of 8-5, 8 p.m. Thursday night with a Community Organized for Rape has been a really healing process at four match wins apiece, Bears’ candlelit walk toward Graham Education member read for them for me, and I’m happy that I have SEE , PAGE 4 senior Gary Parizher won a third-set MEN’S TENNIS Chapel, encouraged students while they remained anonymous. had the opportunity to do so,” with stories on the sensitive sub- According to Kwon, receiving Kali added. jects to share their experiences in a large number of submissions Kwon was another one of the a safe, sheltered space. is rarely a problem for the event, participants to share her story on Track-and-field men earn “Stories can range from differ- and few people choose to remain stage. She had also participated ent experiences that people might anonymous. last year but chose to share a dif- first, women second at have had, if they were assaulted “About a fourth of them ferent story at this year’s event. or raped, to their thoughts on have chosen to remain anony- “Last year, I talked about the the rape culture that’s prevalent mous, but usually people share before—what it was like before UAA Championships in our society,” senior Eunice their own stories,” Kwon said. it had happened—but this year I Kwon, coordinator of Take Back “They’re silenced so much in the wanted to talk about what hap- DEREK SHYR Carnegie Mellon (177), and the the Night, said. “It can either be normal community that a lot of pens after something like this MANAGING EDITOR women’s team placed second with a way to share stories or a social them want to share their stories, occurs,” she said. “My biggest 186 points, falling short of Emory commentary.” though I think it’s completely tagline is that what we don’t talk Emotions and spirits were high University by 23 points. The Red and This year, organizers received valid to want to remain anony- about is that we’re always living at Icahn Stadium in New York over Green compiled a total of one relay a larger number of submissions mous as well.” in the after.” the weekend as the Washington and nine individual titles, 38 top- than last year, with around 20 After a candlelit walk from As students took the stage, University track-and-field teams put three finishes and several personal pre-submitted stories and then Bear’s Den to main campus, stu- some tearfully, audience members together a performance that head and school records. an open mic portion at the end dents entered Graham Chapel, who agreed with certain state- coach Jeff Stiles described as “gritty” “It was just an amazing weekend, for any additional students that where T-shirts designed by ments or who wanted to express and “amazing.” and we really just laid it out there,” wished to speak. CORE members depicted various their support for the speaker were The Bears seized the moment at Stiles said. “Our athletes showed “I was actually amazed with statistics about sexual assault and asked to snap their fingers instead the University Athletic Association a lot of heart, and I think there the turnout because it’s such a rape. The event began with Kali of yelling out in order to avoid Outdoor Championships as the were times when we almost got too personal event, and I think it’s introducing herself as the night’s breaking the atmosphere. men’s team placed first overall with probably really uncomfortable host and then offering to share SEE TRACK AND FIELD, PAGE 5 191 points, outscoring second-place and overwhelming for a lot of her own story. SEE VICTIMS, PAGE 2 CONTACT BY POST CONTACT BY EMAIL CONTACT BY PHONE ONE BROOKINGS DRIVE #1039 [email protected] NEWSROOM 314.935.5995 #330 DANFORTH UNIVERSITY CENTER [email protected] ADVERTISING 314.935.6713 ST. LOUIS, MO 63130-4899 [email protected] FAX 314.935.5938 2 STUDENT LIFE MICHAEL TABB & DIVYA KUMAR | SENIOR NEWS EDITORS | [email protected] MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013 MONDAY 29 TUESDAY 30 WEDNESDAY 1 SUNNY ISOLATED T-STORMS PARTLY CLOUDY theflipside 81 / 61 85 / 61 83 / 62 EVENT CALENDAR Non-profit calls WU harassment MONDAY 29 policy potentially problematic Department of Music Concert Graham Chapel, 8 p.m. determined at the sole discretion of the enforcement.” “Flute Choir Concert,” conducted by Jan ELIZABETH GRAHAM Smith. The concert is free and open to the CONTRIBUTING REPORTER University.” FIRE annually reviews the speech codes public. “One very common problem we see of more than 400 universities nationwide, A non-profit, pro-individual rights with speech codes and their enforcement focusing on one particularly objectionable group has granted Washington University is an abuse of discretion,” Harris clari- policy per month. The group sends a letter TUESDAY 30 its “Speech Code of the Month” Award fied in an interview with Student Life. to each university in question with sugges- Department of Music Opera Workshop for Residential Life’s harassment policy “Generally speaking, rules that affect tions of how the policy in question can be 560 Music Center, Ballroom Theater, 8 p.m. that may be open to discretionary abuse. speech have to be very clearly set forth. improved. In this case, Harris’ forthcom- “Spring Scene Studies.” The concert is free Samantha Harris, director of speech If speech is going to be restricted, it has ing letter will refer the administration to and open to the public. Also on May 2. code research at the Foundation of to be done by very clear, objective and the Supreme Court’s decision in Davis v. Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), content-neutral criteria that are published Monroe County Board of Education that Moonlight Breakfast claimed that ResLife’s policy on harass- in advance.” contains the legal definition of unpro- Bear’s Den and the Village, 10 p.m.

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