/ VOLUME 145, ISSUE 7 MONDAY,Campus APRIL 2, 2017 Times SERVING THE UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER COMMUNITY SINCE 1873 / campustimes.org SA Plan for Mice in Phase Gendered Clubs Draw Resident Criticized Complaints By JUSTIN TROMBLY By SHWETA KOUL EDITOR-IN-CHIEF NEWS EDITOR SA Government wants its Mice in Phase have disrupted constitution amended so that students’ lives this school year, gendered groups can remain leaving them upset and frus- SA-affiliated, drawing formal trated with their living condi- criticism from Pride Network tions. and social media outcry from “We pay so much money to other members of the campus go here and for housing,” said queer community. sophomore Brenna James, “We recognize the harm that whose suite on the fourth floor these gender-exclusive policies of Munro has caught 14 mice can have on members of the so far. “I already have my own transgender, non-binary, and issues with school and trying to gender-variant communities, stay healthy for sports, this is and that these students do not just so much more.” currently have the same ac- Four of the six buildings in cess as others to the opportu- Phase — Munro, Kendrick, nities and resources that these Slater, and Gale — have been gender-exclusive organizations affected, according to Senior provide,” reads the SA task DIWAS GAUTAM / PHOTO EDITOR Sanitarian Pete Castronovo force’s recommendation re- from the University’s De- port, which was released last partment of Environmental Thursday after it was approved Kids and Grown-Ups Play at Simcon Health and Safety. Reports to that Monday by the SA Senate. the Campus Times by students Visitors play in Feldman Ballroom at Simcon 40, the 40th annual convention run by the UR Simulation Gaming Association, “However, we recognize last Saturday. stated that the mice have been that removing these groups spotted on multiple floors of from the Students’ Associa- those buildings. tion would decrease the over- Fifteen suites told the Cam- all number of opportunities pus Times that they have dealt for students to be involved Students React to Slaughter’s Death with mice this school year, in co-curricular organizations with live and dead ones found By TRACY XU and, rather than lifting barri- NEWS EDITOR co-authoring the Violence I found to be incredibly in- in suite rooms, bathrooms, ers for marginalized groups, Against Women Act, and the dicative of the kind of en- lounges, an electrical outlet, may foster animosity towards only microbiologist in Con- vironment she fostered. She and the electrical part of one members of the marginalized Students who have worked gress, but also the author of even phonebanked with us student’s fridge. groups adversely affected by for the recently-deceased the Stop Trading on Con- for the Georgia 6th, calling Despite this, Castronovo said gender-exclusive membership Congresswoman Louise Slaugh- gressional Knowledge Act voters in that district her- his department does not con- policies,” the report continues. ter are remembering her as and the Genetic Information self.” sider any of the buildings in- The task force, co-chaired by a figure who, despite her Nondiscrimination Act. She Students emphasized that fested. He pins the apparent SA President Jordan Smith and towering influence, had no was known on campus for her death had left an unfor- higher rates of mice this year Associate Dean of Students hesitations about bending her fights to secure UR fund- gettable emptiness in the to the extremity and changes Anne-Marie Algier, was cre- down to help out those on the ing. community and that her leg- of the weather, as well as the ated to address last year’s All- ground level. “I was woken up by a call acy would be remembered structures around the buildings. Campus Judicial Council rul- “She would remember the around 10 a.m. to be told and for a long time to come. “It’s now become a common ing that gendered, SA-affiliated smallest details about you my initial reaction was disbe- “The congresswoman left issue, so I wish they followed groups were unconstitutional. and follow up, sometimes lief — how could somebody an irreplaceable mark on up more with the people who The decision, which was sup- months later,” senior Jacob who has become an institu- this community, which is reported mice or said some- ported by LGBT advocates on Tyson, who worked for her tion here in Rochester be evident to anyone who lives thing to us as a whole relating campus, brought into question during one of her re-election gone?” Tyson said. “Then, in Rochester or to anyone to the mice, about how they whether some club sports, a ca- campaigns, told the Cam- I was met with worry. The who worked for her,” senior were working on it now or their pella, and Greek organizations pus Times. “She remembered shoes left behind by the con- Tamar Prince said. “I at- future plans,” said sophomore would survive. from a brief conversation gresswoman need to be filled, tended her funeral and the Payton Nugent, who heard a Here is the proposed consti- that my mom was in the hos- and it is going to be very dif- entire Kodak Theater was mouse chewing on paper under tutional amendment, the final pital and she asked about ficult to find somebody wor- packed. Two planes full of her bed, has found droppings version of which can only be her wellbeing months later. thy enough to do so.” congresspeople were in at- on her sock, and discovered one passed by a majority vote of Congresswoman Slaughter Those who worked with tendance. The community dead in the electrical part of a students participating in the appreciated people and ex- her praised her personability adored the congresswoman, fridge in her Kendrick lounge. upcoming SA elections: emplified an authenticity sel- and passion. and it was evident in [...] “Facilities really just brought “Organizations whose exis- dom found in Congress.” “Congresswoman Slaugh- Nancy Pelosi, John Lew- me traps, which, if it was an tence and/or activities depend Slaughter died in George ter was incredibly sharp is, and Hillary Clinton’s individual case, could’ve been upon following gender-exclu- Washington University Hos- and funny but was very se- speeches that Rochester was fine, but it’s a pattern now, so sive membership policies set pital on March 16 after suf- rious about the gravity of her greatest love.” I do think something more by an external governing body fering a concussion from a her work and her duty to her Congress plans to hold a should be done.” (such as a national organiza- fall in her home. She was 88. constituents,” junior Lind- special election in which the Last semester, when several tion or intercollegiate league) Slaughter had been a Dem- say Wrobel said. “She was winner will be able to serve suites complained about bees or otherwise believe that gen- ocratic representative for the very down-to-earth in that the remainder of Slaugh- in Phase, an email was sent der-exclusive membership pol- Rochester area since 1987. sense as well, and her of- ter’s term. out to all residents with Envi- icies are warranted must have She was not only a strong fice referred to themselves Xu is a member of ronmental Health and Safety’s a Gender Exclusivity Waiver advocate for women rights, as ‘Team Slaughter,’ which the Class of 2021. contact information. As of Sun- SEE SA PAGE 2 SEE PHASE PAGE 3 INSIDE RUSSIA IGNORED OSAKA OFFERS ‘SPRING FUJIMAKI FOR TOO LONG BUFFET SUSHI AWAKENING’ TALKS TENNIS THIS CT PAGE 5 OPINIONS PAGE 4 FEATURES PAGE 8 A&E PAGE 12 SPORTS PAGE 2 / campustimes.org CAMPUS / MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2018 Constitutional Amendment Proposed SA FROM PAGE 1 sues — put out a statement opposing the amendment and approved annually in order to criticizing the task force’s retain recognition by the Stu- methods. dents’ Association. Through “Continuing to justify the ex- this waiver, these groups must istence of these single-gender demonstrate that their mem- organizations affirms the dis- bership policy and selection crimination and exclusion of processes are integral to the the TINT community in the mission of the organization, activities and organizations,” are openly advertised, and are reads the statement. “We have non-discriminatory on all other a right to these opportunities grounds.” under the SA Constitution. The According to the report, the responses also made clear that waivers would go into effect in amending the SA Constitution the fall of 2019. The task force to allow any form of gender recommended that waivers be discrimination would be a for- filed and reviewed annually mal and informal authorization and that they provide detailed for student groups to target the justification for gender-exclu- TINT community.” DIWAS GAUTAM / PHOTO EDITOR sive policies and evidence of The students said that having educational efforts and exter- only one transgender person on LOCAL INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN POLITICS EMPHASIZE GENDER EQUITY nal barriers to accepting all the task force made it unable Mayor Lovely Warren, the county executive, the district attorney, and a Monroe County committee chair shared their genders. to properly understand gender- stories to students about their personal experiences in the political system as women this past Monday in Dewey. In a statement, Pride Net- related concerns. work said it was disappointed “It should be self-evident that a recommendation created and PUBLIC SAFETY UPDATE with the recommendation and its SA approval. controlled almost entirely by “Due to the fact that the the discriminators rather than Student Injured at Psi U (1) amendment, which proposes the discriminated is fatally APR.