1876 The 2018 Campus VOLUME 142, ISSUE 21 – FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 2018 – WWW.ALLEGHENYCAMPUS.COM Erie news meteorologist visits campus, gives lecture By MARGARET MALLEY Weather Forecasts.” The talk was on Caribbean TV. safe to assume many of these scien- who know very little about science Contributing Writer how he found the balance in broad- After McDonough told the au- tists we encounter daily know what so they will believe anything that [email protected] cast meteorology. dience a little bit about himself, he is going on in the scientific world, seems trustworthy. McDonough graduated from the began to explain how we do not McDonough said. Students and faculty packed For example, McDonough University of Miami with a bache- encounter a scientists in our every- McDonough spoke on how that into Carr Hall on Tuesday, April 4, lor’s degree in meteorology and mi- day lives. Here, in college it is easy was a hard thing to adjust to after joked about how people believe in to listen to Reed McDonough, an nors in mathematics and broadcast to come across scientists on a daily studying with a group of scien- Groundhog Day too much. Erie based meteorologist, present journalism. Today, he is a meteo- basis because many people attend tists for four years. Now, he comes a talk titled “Dropping Science into rologist at Erie News Now and One Allegheny to study science, so it is in contact everyday with people See ERIE NEWS page 3 ASG reviews SPRINGING INTO STEP constitution, establishes new cabinet By STEVEN HEINE News Editor [email protected] Allegheny Student Government dealt with constitutional questions and internal matters during its meet- ing on Tuesday, April 10. To start the meeting, ASG dis- cussed the constitution for the pro- posed Vernon Township Volunteer Fire Department Organization. Spencer Braunstein, ’21, said the club was an educational organiza- tion that would focus on expanding opportunities for students to get involved with local emergency re- sponse organizations, especially fire departments. “We want to promote full [emer- gency medical technicians], fire- fighters, [emergency medical re- See FEATURES page 7 spondents]. We can also give them the ability to work in this capacity after EMT training, help them get training. We also want to provide awareness for fire safety,” Braunstein said. Senators asked Braunstein how the proposed club differed from the currently existing Allegheny Emer- gency Response Organization. “There is a striking similarity be- tween the club that you’re trying to start and AERO here on campus,” Class of 2021 President David Roach said. Can you try to bring up how your club might differ from what AERO is already doing?” Braunstein said AERO was fo- cused on EMT training, while Ver- non Township Volunteer Fire De- partment Organization would deal with firefighting more specifically. This means while the clubs would Photos by JEN RODRIGUEZ/THE CAMPUS work together on some initiatives, Top: Students perform “Look,” a dance choreographed by Dance and Movement Studies Instructor Betsy Sumerfield, during the Spring they would have access to different Dance Concert in the Montgomery Performance Space on Friday, April 6, 2018. Above: Student dancers perform “A Balanchine Salute” resources. choreographed by Part-Time Dance and Movement Studies Instructor Gretchen Myers during the Spring Dance Concert in Montgomery Performance Space on Friday, April 6, 2018. See ASG page 3 Why Not Us holds Title IX conference at Allegheny Founders of Audrie Pott Foundation visit to speak on different aspects of assault By KELSEY EVANS “I don’t consider those girls inno- Photo Editor cent, because by doing nothing they [email protected] sided with the rapists. Their silence Why Not Us held the Allegheny helped the offenders, so Audrie’s Title IX Conference in the Tippie friends were guilty,” Lisa said. Alumni Center on Saturday, April 7. Lisa then spoke about how by- The conference started with standers can intervene when a po- speakers from the Audrie Pott Foun- tential situation arises. dation, named after a fifteen-year- “It’s important to have a plan in old girl who was sexually assaulted your head of what you could do [to and committed suicide in 2012. prevent a sexual assault] or how you Lawrence Pott, her father, Sheila could intervene,” Lisa said. Pott, her mother, and Lisa Pott, her She suggested creating a distrac- step-mother, all spoke to different as- tion or asking someone else to inter- pects of how assault and bullying can vene. affect someone’s life . “If the situation is very obvious, While Lawrence Pott spoke about you could also use the direct ap- his daughter’s life and who Audrie Pott proach and physically remove that was, Lisa Pott spoke to how Audrie was person from the situation,” Lisa said. KELSEY EVANS/THE CAMPUS abandoned at the party where her as- Representatives from Allegheny Title IX and Women’s Services take questions from students and guests sault took place. See TITLE IX page 2 during the Title IX Conference in Tippie Alumni Center on Saturday, April 7, 2018. 2 April 13, 2018 The Campus [News] AlleghenyCampus.com Title IX from page 1 Audrie’s mother, Sheila, ing through the process,” said with tears in their eyes and spoke about how her daugh- Title IX Coordinator Gilly comments applauding his ter’s sexual assault and the Ford. strength for being able to tell cyberbullying that occurred Women’s Services Ad- a room full of people his very after the incident led to her vocate Meg Lenherr works personal story. suicide. with all of the students from Why Not Us’s Title IX “As the rumors spread Allegheny College who seek conference kicked off April she was slut shamed and her counseling at Women’s Ser- as Sexual Assault Awareness friends turned away from her. vices and explained her role. month. She felt alone,” Sheila said. She said she is available to Pictures of Audrie’s assault help with the Title IX process. circulated throughout her “I’m actually in a really own and neighboring school unique position. While I’m a districts during the week confidential resource and can leading up to her death. provide confidential counsel- “ Their silence helped The Audrie Pott Founda- ing, I can also provide advo- the offenders, so tion ended its portion of the cacy as well,” Lenherr said. Audrie’s friends were “ program by showing a memo- The Title IX conference guilty. rial video filled with pictures ended with a discussion led and videos from Audrie’s by Michael Broussard, a the- childhood and teen years. atre artist and childhood sex- KELSEY EVANS/THE CAMPUS Speakers from Alleghe- ual abuse survivor. Above: Why Not Us Co-President Mark Myers, ‘19, thanks students and guests for ny’s Title IX office, Women’s With Broussard’s back- coming to the Title IX Conference in Tippie Alumni Center on Saturday, April 7, 2018. Below: Students, faculty, administration and guests from the community attended the Services and a sexual assault ground in theatre, he told his Lisa Pott Title IX Conference in Tippie Alumni Center on Saturday, April 7, 2018. nurse examiner took ques- story by emotionally portray- Member Audrie Pott tions from students and oth- ing what it was like to grow up Foundation ers who attended the Title IX with an abuser and stopped conference. periodically throughout the Throughout this past week, During the conference, the story for questions and com- Allegheny’s chapter of Alpha relationship between the Title ments from the audience. Delta Pi tabled to raise aware- IX office and Women’s Ser- Broussard has been per- ness for sexual assault in the vices was highlighted. Both forming his show, “Ask A Sex Henderson Campus Center organizations explained their Abuse Survivor,” since 2014 lobby. Their tabling was titled, connection to one another. where he portrays what it was “Consent is…” Each day had “The other thing that I like to grow up with a step-fa- a different activity that helped heard this year, that I wasn’t ther that doubled as his child- bring awareness to sexual as- anticipating, is that there is hood sex abuser. sault survivors. some sort of adversarial re- He said he finds the pro- Later this month, Women’s lationship between Women’s cess of performing every Services will be holding a pre- Services and the Title IX of- show as “healing” for him- sentation on sexual assault on fice, and that can’t be fur- self and audience members, Wednesday, April 18 at 7 p.m. ther from the truth. I rely on which is why he continues to in Schultz East Alcove and a Women’s Services very much. do what he does. Take Back the Night March We want students to get the Broussard’s show and dis- will be held on Friday, April support they need while go- cussion left many in the room 27. Panel visits college to discuss American opioid crisis By MASHA SERGUIEVSKI language of rehabilitation. Contributing Writer “When you look at the his- [email protected] tory of U.S. drug policy, it is not a discourse that in general Being a small campus, has been focused on care and many of Allegheny’s buildings support,” Mattiace said. “It is double from their intended quite overwhelming that there purpose to serve space for has been a strong discussion larger events, such as talks, in our country about reha- symposiums and banquets. bitutive and harsh measures. Ford Memorial Chapel But there has been a shift in participates in this often, and language, in comparison to on Monday, April 9 at 4 p.m., the 1980s crack epidemic.” the chapel lent its pews from Johnson agreed with Mat- its usual religious services to tiace, commenting on the hold the panel “The Opioid breadth of the epidemic.