Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange The Kenyon Collegian Archives 10-18-2018 Kenyon Collegian - October 18, 2018 Follow this and additional works at: https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian Recommended Citation "Kenyon Collegian - October 18, 2018" (2018). The Kenyon Collegian. 2472. https://digital.kenyon.edu/collegian/2472 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives at Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Kenyon Collegian by an authorized administrator of Digital Kenyon: Research, Scholarship, and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ESTABLISHED 1856 October 18, 2018 Vol. CXLVI, No.8 Former SMAs create new group after losing confidentiality DEVON MUSGRAVE-JOHNSON SMA Program. In response, some of changes to the SMA program that SMAs would fall into the category support to peer education,” SPRA EDITOR-IN-CHIEF former SMAs have created a new included the discontinuation of the of mandated reporter, which means wrote in an email to the Collegian. support organization: Sexual Re- 24-hour hotline and the termination that the group could no longer have “While peer education is important, On Oct. 8, Talia Light Rake ’20 spect Peer Alliance.” of their ability to act as a confidential legal confidentiality and that the we recognize that there is a great need sent a statement through student Just a day before the letter was resource for students. Beginning this school could be held liable for infor- for peer support on this campus. We email titled “An Open Letter from released to the public, 16 of the 17 year, SMAs were required to file re- mation relayed to the SMAs. felt that the SMA title which was once the Former SMAs.” The letter, which SMAs informed Director of the ports to the Title IX office that would “We felt these changes fundamen- used to empower students began to also appeared on The Kenyon Thrill Health and Counseling Center Chris include the names of the students tally altered the mission from peer encumber us.” page 2 the same day, detailed “the loss of Smith that they would be quitting they spoke to. Before this change, two core tenets” of the Sexual Mis- the program in response to the new they reported their statistics while conduct Advisor (SMA) program confidentiality practices implement- maintaining the student’s anonymity. and announced the conception ed in the SMA program. The other The change came as a result of the of a new SMA re- Department of Education’s Hand- group: the signed as book for Campus Safety and Secu- Sexual Re- I get concerned well, ac- rity reporting which defines “mem- spect Peer for students try- cording bers of a sexual assault response Alliance ing to take on some things to Smith, team (SART) or other sexual assault (SRPA). but not be- advocates” as meeting the criteria of “We that they’re not equipped to cause they “campus safety authorities” or CSAs. do not handle. agreed According to the handbook, “under want sur- “ with the the Clery Act, a crime is ‘reported’ vivors to Director of the Health and Coun- forma- when it is brought to the attention of be scared seling Center Chris Smith tion of the a campus security authority, the insti- into silence SRPA. tution’s police department or campus due to new “I’m safety office [...] If a campus security policies regarding confidential- sad,” Smith said. “But I respect authority receives a report, he or she ity,” the letter said. “Therefore many their individual rights and au- must include it as a crime report.” SMAs have disassociated from The tonomy.” Based on this wording as stat- Cox Health and Counseling Center’s The departure comes in the wake ed in Section 4-3 of the handbook, The SRPA logo. | SEXUAL RESPECT PEER ALLIANCE College raises $24 million during campaign’s public launch MATT MANDEL ther, earmarking a certain amount the remaining earnings will help to spective donors. The dinner empha- family going forward,” Decatur EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR to go to a specific area of the College, grow the endowment, account for in- sized support for financial aid and said. “I’m not sure there was a dry such as financial aid. flation and prepare for a down year. scholarships. Among the featured eye in the house when Mozzetta After launching the public phase The College typically draws Assuming that the College meets speakers were Alexa Yoo ’21 and Moody was speaking. It was a very of the capital campaign “Our Path about five percent from the endow- its $300 million goal in 2021, it would Melzetta Moody ’05, who described moving experience.” Forward” last week, the College has ment each year to support opera- be able to draw about $15 million the importance of financial aid in The following evening, the Col- raised another $24 million, bring- tions, according to Decatur. annually to support the operating their lives. lege held a dinner in celebration of ing the total raised to date to $224 The Board of Trustees received budget. This is an improvement, es- “[Moody’s] description of what the campaign’s progress at the Ken- million, according to President Sean a report during its fall meeting this pecially considering that for years the financial aid and scholar- yon Athletic Center. Just before his Decatur. past weekend that the earnings from Kenyon’s endowment has been noto- ship meant to her and her ability closing remarks to cap-off the week- The campaign’s kickoff weekend endowment were between nine and riously low. According to a Feb. 2014 to come to Kenyon, how it’s had end, Decatur announced that a long- was the biggest in College history. 10 percent last year, a return which is Collegian article, the endowment a ripple effect to her family, and time member of the Board ofTrust- “Typically when an institution higher than usual, according to De- stood at $206.8 million in 2014. what she’s been able to do to sup- ees who was seated next to him had goes public, it is halfway to its goal. catur. The College is drawing about On Oct. 12 recipients of en- port her sisters to go to college and just committed an additional $10 Kenyon is nearly 75 percent to our five percent from the endowment; dowed funds dined with their re- really change the fortunes of her million to the College. page 3 goal, and that’s extraordinary,” As- sociate Vice President for Alumni and Parent Engagement Scott Bak- er ’94 said. “It speaks to the passion that alumni and parents have for Kenyon.” “This is one of the cases that when we talk about ‘in perpetuity,’ that [an endowment] is something that can impact students over the course of centuries and is a pretty remarkable thing for a donor to be Students and alumni eat lunch at the downtown block able to do to have that kind of im- party on Middle Path, Saturday, Oct. 13. | ERYN POWELL pact,” Decatur said, citing the first endowment which was given in the 12th century at Oxford University and is still in operation. An endowment fund for a college or university is a sum of money that the institution invests. The yearly earnings from that investment are then used for the annual operating budget, according to Decatur. Use of the endowment is restricted to items “defined as important to the func- tion of the College,” he said. Donors Chamber Singers sing at Gala Dinner. | COURTESY OF Campaign co-chairs Jim Parker ’81 P’10 and Rose Brintlinger Fealy ’84 address can restrict their contributions fur- OFFICE OF ALUMNI AND PARENT ENGAGEMENT the gala. | COURTESY OF OFFICE OF ALUMNI AND PARENT ENGAGEMENT 2 Thursday, Oct. 18 | kenyoncollegian.com ODEI plans a busy October Smith raises concerns over for LGBTQ+ History Month former SMAs’ move to split BETÜL AYDIN NEWS EDITOR Continued from Page 1 have achieved their goal of regaining a sense of privacy between their group and the peers Offices and student organizations from Though, according to the members of with whom they speak. Because they are no across campus have come together to orga- SRPA, the group began deliberating their longer affiliated with the school in any way, nize events in celebration of LGBTQ+ History departure in the spring of 2018, Smith says SRPA members are not mandated reporters Month. The Office of Diversity, Equity and- In the dissociation came as a surprise to him. and therefore do not have to disclose any of clusion (ODEI) has planned several lectures, Before the open letter was published, the their findings to Campus Safety, the Health workshops and activities throughout October. SMAs had been in the process of creating and Counseling Center or the Title IX Office, On Oct. 4 Sherry Zane, associate director two new programs for the school and work- according to Hughes. of the women’s gender and sexuality stud- ing with New Directions, a local domestic Despite this, Smith expressed concern ies program at University of Connecticut, abuse and rape crisis center that runs a 24- over the newly founded group. kicked off the series of events with a presen- hour hotline, according to Smith. “Without proper training, without prop- tation titled “Surveilling Sex: FDR and the “[New Directions has] a very broad and er support — which now they lose because Section A Crusades, 1919-1923,” where she deep knowledge base and experience work- they aren’t connected to our Title IX office or talked about how gender identity and sexu- ing with people have experienced sexual to our counselors — if they receive some in- ality shaped the national security state in misconduct, intimate partner violence, etc.,” formation that is extremely heavy or intense, World War I.