The independent newspaper of Washington University in St. Louis since 1878 VOLUME 141, NO. 22 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2019 WWW.STUDLIFE.COM EAST END EATS MOVIE MADNESS STAR DEFENDER Parkside Cafe is WU will host free Women’s soccer serving hot breakfast shows as part of the back Katy Mockett items on Wednesday St. Louis Internation- talks playoffs, memo- mornings al Film Festival ries before first round (Scene, pg 8) (Cadenza, pg 5) (Sports, pg 3) Sex Kindbom calling it quits after 31 educator years as WU football coach and activist tells WU radical sex positivity is not optional CURRAN NEENAN NEWS EDITOR Sex educator and activist Ericka Hart spoke to a packed crowd in Hillman Hall on the topic of radical sex positivity, Nov 12. Hart talked at length about how radical sex positivity can be achieved, saying it involves first addressing the systems of oppression inherent to our society and decenter- READ MORE ing white heternormativity when it ON PAGE 4 comes to sex education. The talk was part of Washington CURRAN NEENAN | STUDENT LIFE University’s annual Masters and Kate Kindbom kisses her husband, Larry Kindbom, after the Bears football team fell in overtime against Millikin University last Saturday afternoon. The Johnson Lecture series. From Kindboms have been part of the Washington University community for over three decades. Larry was the 2018 AFCA Good Works Honorary Head Coach. the late 1950s to the early 1990s, William Masters and Virginia Johnson, researchers at the Washington University School Spring student group budgets released amid rising demands of Medicine (who founded their JAYLA BUTLER information about each group’s pri- make student group events more allocating funds to that instead,” own institute in 1964), conducted SENIOR NEWS EDITOR orities and goals and the significance sustainable through their bud- Fikes said. groundbreaking research on sex by of their ideal budget to their mission. getary processes. SEC will fund Lunar New Year Festival directly observing thousands of sex- Student Union released their stu- The allocation period ran through compostable versions of napkins, (LNYF), a Category 1 student ual encounters between subjects with dent group budgets for the spring October and consisted of the com- plates and cutlery instead of the group, requested funding to put on the use of physiological monitors. semester on Nov. 11, allocating mittee holding six 10-hour meetings Budget Committee funding them. If their annual performance in the Before Hart took the stage, 66.9% of requested funds. to reach consensus about funding for needed, additional funds will come spring, which includes renting out Interim Provost Marion Crain In total, Category 1 student each organization. from SU’s internal budget. Edison Theatre. briefly discussed the legacy of groups requested an unprecedented With sizeable requests from stu- The committee is now entering “Our budget is not as bad as I Masters and Johnson’s seminal sex amount of $1,270,330.22. These dent groups and a finite amount of the post-allocation period, in which thought it would be,” LNYF trea- studies. Crain, a law professor who groups are approved to request over money to allocate, Kalra said the student group leaders are invited to surer senior Lucy Summer said. “We once taught feminist legal theory, $500 per allocation cycle. committee’s strictness was necessary, meet with the committee to learn were very fortunate. Overall, we’re said Masters and Johnson’s work The percentage of funds allo- though not ideal. about their funding rationales and pretty satisfied.” “fueled gynocentric sex-education cated decreased relative to the “Student groups are getting big- provide feedback for the committee In a statement to Student Life, and sexual equality among all fall semester, in which 77.3% of ger and bigger and bigger and their members. The first session was held SU VP Finance junior Ariel Ashie people.” requested funding was allocated. requests are getting bigger and bigger Nov. 13, with the remaining sessions emphasized the work that SU’s According to Crain, their work Last spring, 67.2% of requested and bigger,” Kalra said. “My best set to take place on Nov. 15 and Nov. financial leadership team put in to exposed the double standard of funds were allocated to Category approach would be to make sure that 19. satisfy the needs of student groups women not being able to initiate 1 groups. The amount given to the you’re being fair to all student groups Campus radio station KWUR ran to the best of their ability. sexual intercourse, a standard she SU Budget Committee for both the and you’re not just constricting a cer- into difficulties last semester when “The budgeting process is by no said concentrated patriarchal power. fall and spring semesters was deter- tain subset of student groups in any they received zero funding for their means perfect and mistakes are cer- “How often do I get to say that in mined in SU’s general budget for the way.” annual KWUR Week concert series tainly made…I would encourage the provost’s office?” Crain said. 2019-2020 school year, which was The rationale behind each group’s due to an allocation error, but this student group leaders to attend post- After Hart walked on stage to a determined in February. Category 2 funding decision is based on a set semester, the group is more satisfied allocation office hours or reach out standing ovation, she warmed up groups, which request between $150 of thresholds that the committee with their allocation. [to] the financial leadership,” Ashie the audience by having them turn and $500, were also allocated funds sets to limit the amount of funding “This coming semester is going to wrote. “We’re all here to listen and to their neighbors and repeat the through the budget. they will provide for different catego- be much better because we did get [we] need to hear feedback in order words penis, racism, vulva and pro- Sophomore Arjan Kalra, SU ries. The most significant threshold funded at 80% for KWUR Week, to effect change.” vost, among others; Hart said she Budget Committee chair, character- across the board was the amount of so we do have some money to work Kalra said that the budget alloca- uses this tactic in her midde school ized this year’s committee as one of funding provided for food. with, which is a lot better than tion process is constantly evolving sex education classes. Hart went so the most strict committees he has “They were being very purposeful what happened last year when we and working to adapt to the needs of far as to ask passerby walking past seen. with where they were funding food weren’t able to have any funding for student groups given the committee’s the Clark-Fox Forum if the mantras “I think it’s just a direction that and making sure specifically that that,” KWUR treasurer sophomore resources. were audible. possibly we need to go,” Kalra said. it had a very big impact and large Natalie Fikes said. “I’m very hopeful for the future After the crowd was sufficiently “We weren’t properly set up through reach whenever they were funding Although Fikes wished the orga- because I know a lot of people are loose, Hart asked what would be the the Student Union general budget to it,” Kalra said. “[The threshold] nization could have received more looking to better prioritize how we central question of her talk. address it.” looks different for every group funding for the group’s community- fund our student groups, how we “How can you maintain or attain During the pre-allocation period, because we evaluate every group building events, she acknowledges support those student groups,” Kalra sex positivity in a white-supremacist, which began in late September, differently.” that the group is in a better place said. “So I’m looking forward to the capitalist society?” Hart posed to the the committee received proposed The Budget Committee than it was last semester. next general budget session because audience. budgets from each student group also worked with the Student “It’s just [about] deciding what that’s a very big conversation that and interviewed them to gather Environmental Council (SEC) to we think is most important and needs to happen.” SEE SEX, PAGE 2 Constitutional Council votes to uphold flawed SU election results JAYLA BUTLER electronic election ballot contai- day delay in releasing the results, of SU and posted on the SU web- and catered food, the Council SENIOR NEWS EDITOR ned glitches and mistakes which which were sent in an email from site, the election would have been determined it would be in their allowed voters to violate election Election Commissioner junior rerun “in an ideal world.” best monetary interest to keep the Student Union Constitutional rules.” Randal Walker to the student The Council reached out to the current results. Council voted unanimously not One such error was that stu- body, Nov. 8. Election Commision for input Another major reason for the to rerun SU’s Nov. 5 elections fol- dents not enrolled in the College The Council agreed that the during their investigation, but they ruling was the Council’s belief that lowing an interpretation request of Arts & Sciences were able to election was improperly run, but were not available at the time. conducting a second election less from a petitioner who alleged vote for candidates running for decided that the election should According to sophomore Kevin than a week after the first would that the election was improperly ArtSci Council. Additionally, not be rerun due to time cons- Wang, the associate justice who negatively impact voter turnout, conducted.