/ VOLUME 144, ISSUE 4 MONDAY,Campus FEBRUARY 20, 2017 Times SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER COMMUNITY SINCE 1873 / campustimes.org Diversity Dandyhacks Survey Successful Results Out in 4th Year By AMANDA MARQUEZ By DAVID SCHILDKRAUT NEWS EDITOR NEWS EDITOR UR is connected by a common Students clacked away at purpose, but frayed on its their keyboards, munching cultural competency, according away on bananas and chips. to the results of the university- For over a day hours, they wide Diversity Engagement had been working nearly non- Survey (DES), administered stop in the Frederick Douglass last February and released on Building with a single goal in Feb. 11. mind: to wow a panel of judg- Forty-eight percent of UR es with their creations at the faculty, staff, trainees, and end of the weekend. students responded to the DES. That was the scene Sat- The survey measured the urday night in the Douglass inclusiveness of the University’s Ballroom, as teams of stu- academic environment dents from five schools and across eight factors—trust, two countries worked hard to appreciation of individual complete their Dandyhacks attributes, sense of belonging, / PHOTO EDITOR projects for an 8 a.m. dead- access to opportunity, equitable YIYUN HUANG UR has an ever-growing collection of books, adding 13,145 books in 2016 alone. line. reward and recognition, cultural Dandyhacks, UR’s hack- competence, respect, and athon run by the Computer common purpose. Science Undergraduate Coun- The survey results called ‘Serendipity of Discovery’ cil, is now in its fourth year. common purpose, defined as In a hackathon, students form “an individual’s contribution By JESSE BERNSTEIN 13,145 books in 2016 alone.) one ever accesses. MANAGING EDITOR teams and spend about 36 to institutional mission and And though only 52.4 per- It depends on what you hours developing an idea of connection to vision, purpose, cent of the books (digital and view as the role of libraries. theirs, usually through com- and mission,” the University’s Ever heard of Mark Ris- physical) available for check- Bowen, for instance, counts puter programming. greatest strength. jord’s “Woodcutters and out in Rush Rhees have re- preservation as a major part Senior Anis Kalleo, one of Cultural competence, defined Witchcraft: Rationality and corded a check-out in the last of a library’s purpose. the event’s organizers (an- as “individual believes the Interpretive Change in the 20 years, there isn’t any data “Libraries really feel like other is senior Maggie Cur- institution has the capacity to Social Sciences?” for check-outs prior to 1997, there’s a mission to preserve tis, whom Kalleo praised), make creative use of its diverse No? when the University first our cultural heritage,” she explained that the goal of workforce in a way that meets What about Suguru Ishika- implemented an online cata- said. Dandyhacks is to have “some- business goals and enhances za’s study of the efficacy of log that provides statistics on UR belongs to a group thing that is the intersection performance,” was deemed one various forms of digital com- check-outs. called Eastern Academic of computer science and data of its greatest weaknesses. munication, “Improvisational And given that new scholar- Scholars Trust—EAST—that science.” There was University-wide Design: Continuous, Respon- ship usually sees most of its tries to accomplish exactly To emphasize this, several agreement among participants sive Digital Communica- activity in the first ten years that, collaborating with other of the sponsors present over that these factors are UR’s biggest tion?” after its been released, it’s university libraries to deter- the weekend were three big strengths and challenges, but Who, you might ask, actu- possible that some of those mine how unique their collec- data companies: 1010 Data, perceptions varied significantly ally reads this stuff? that haven’t been checked out tions are, and which books are FactSet, and Google. Prizes among each of the seven The answer, it turns out, in the last twenty years may duplicated across their shared were given out to several markers of diversity: race and might be nobody. These two have been a hot commodity system. teams for use of data. ethnicity, gender, LGBT status, books are among the 47.6 at one time. Additionally, that In addition to the preserva- One such winner was Alg- disability, belief system, veteran percent of books in circula- check-out number can’t ac- tion aspect, there’s the “ser- ebrissimo, the brainchild of status, and generational status. tion at UR (about 1.28 mil- count for how many times a endipity of discovery,” as RIT juniors Stefan Aleksie Here were some of the major lion—more on this later), book has been taken off a shelf Bowen puts it. For students and Josh Miller. perceptual differences noted excluding those held at the to be referenced, but never stuck on a paper or humani- The project—which took among members of each marker science libraries or the off- brought to the Q&I desk to be ties professors looking for re- FactSet’s “Most Creative Data of diversity: campus annex, that haven’t recorded as checked-out. search topics, the unexpected Visualization” award and sec- • Overall, Asians and been checked out in the last But even allowing for those is always just sitting on a ond-place overall—was to Hispanics had largely twenty years. factors, could they even ac- shelf somewhere, waiting to create a program hosted on a similar—and positive— 47.6 percent! count for another five percent be discovered, regardless of website that allows users to perceptions as whites “That sounds like a lot,” of books? Ten, if we’re gener- its accessibility. perform computations with did about the climate admits Jennifer Bowen, As- ous? That raises a lot of ques- Which is, of course, some- songs to discover new music surrounding diversity and sociate Dean for Scholarly tions. What’s the utility of a thing that’s bound to happen that they might like. For ex- inclusion. Some Asian Resource Management. “But collection that only gets about in a searchable collection of ample, a person may like a respondents, however, it may be deceiving.” half used? 1.28 million volumes. pop song but not its rap com- wanted more support to Bowen oversees several “Couldn’t the schools mon- As for the mythical “over 3 ponents, and so they could overcome language and key library arms—collections ey go to better use other than million volumes” refrain from subtract the rap from the song cultural barriers, did not and acquisitions are under buying books nobody has some adventurous Meridians to get a new song with just the want to be labeled as her purview, as is the library ever even read?” asked junior (including yours truly), if features desired. “international,” and wanted metadata department—and in Dan Levien. there’s any truth to it, it would “I usually go to [hack- Asian representatives in the her 28 years at the University, That’s a big question—is include the Physics, Optics, athons] with the goal to meet University’s leadership. she’s worked to better shape this a waste of money?—but and Astronomy Library, Rob- people and learn new stuff,” • For Hispanics, the biggest its ever-growing collection of the bigger question behind bins, Koller-Collins, Carlson Aleksie said. “But this time I difference was in the books, both physical and dig- that, of course, is about the libraries, Rare Books and really wanted to emphasize the ital. (The University added utility of knowledge that no Special Collections, and the SEE SURVEY RESULTS PAGE 2 SEE LIBRARY PAGE 8 SEE HACKATHON PAGE 3 INSIDE STANDING WITH BANANA PRICES SAPLINGS SITS UR TENNIS: STANDING ROCK ARE BANANAS DOWN DIII VS DI THIS CT PAGE 5 OPINION PAGE 6 FEATURES PAGE 12 A&E PAGE 16 SPORTS PAGE 2 / campustimes.org NEWS / MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2017 Community Split in Survey Results SURVEY RESULTS FROM PAGE 1 largest marginalized group, this seems unconscionable equitable reward and recogni- to me.” Equitable reward, tion factor, defined as “individu- trust, and cultural compe- als feeling that the organization tence were among the larg- has ‘equitable compensation est areas of difference. practices and nonfinancial in- • Over 50 percent of partici- centives.’” Unlike Hispanic pants expressed that they faculty and staff, Hispanic stu- were Christians, and 39 dents had less favorable opin- percent identified as per- ions about the campus climate. taining to one of eight other • For all 22 survey questions, belief systems, most identi- black respondents consis- fying themselves as “Non- tently showed lower levels religious.” Common pur- of agreement compared pose and respect were the with whites, regardless of two largest areas of mutual their position within the agreement among all belief University. Cultural com- systems. petence, trust, and respect • Of the 365 individuals who were among the largest ar- identified as veterans, per- YIYUN HUANG / PHOTO EDITOR eas of difference. ceptions varied significant- • Men and women thought ly among faculty and staff ROCHESTER UNITES FOR ICE SKATING AND FUN similarly about the cli- and students, especially re- Senior Michaela Chan serves hot chocolate to a student at the Brooks Landing Family and Student Ice Skating Party on mate’s overall sense of in- garding the access to oppor- Saturday. The event also featured games, food, and a small petting zoo. clusiveness, but for ques- tunity factor. Most notably, tions that asked specifically veteran faculty perceived PUBLIC SAFETY UPDATE about position and trust, the campus climate more women’s opinions devi- favorably than non-veteran ated. There were signifi- faculty.