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27 formal accusations
41
128 328
informal reports
2013-14 2014-15
Defined consent as words or actions demonstrating a voluntary agreement. Defines consent as clearly conveyed, verbal affirmation, not to be inferred.
Reports of sexual misconduct tracked under several reports, diluting numbers. All reports of sexual misconduct are now tracked by the Equal
Stigma, fear of unintended consequences and a process that put decisions in the Opportunities and Compliance Office, allowing for more accurate statistics.
hands of the University discouraged victims of sexual assault from reporting. A more open campus and national conversation encourage speaking up.
Several departments on campus offered services to survivors with little The University has emphasized the communication of resources and
communication and collaboration. assistance for victims of sexual assault.
REPORTING ASSAULT
‘My first gut reaction ... is that we have created a more accessible system of care’
By Kelly Jasiura the UNC Equal Opportunity and survivors as well as a general trend definitions of sexual assault. year.
Senior Writer Compliance Office has seen a 52 of increased national attention on Menghini said the new policy has Christi Hurt, assistant vice chan-
percent increase in formal investi- the subject. expanded definitions of consent, cellor and chief of staff for student
Nearly four years after UNC came gations of sexual assault and a 156 “Quite frankly, we see (increased harassment, sexual exploitation and affairs, was the chairperson of the
under fire for mishandling sexual percent increase in informal inves- reporting) as a good thing because sexual contact. She also said prior task force that revised the policy.
assault cases and two years after the tigations from the 2013-2014 to the people know we have services and to 2013, sexual assault cases would She said she expected an increase
University responded with a new 2014-2015 academic years. programs for them,” she said. have fallen under the student honor in reporting because they created a
reporting policy, UNC officials say Becci Menghini, senior associate Menghini said it is difficult to court, muddling the numbers. policy that reflected students’ needs
conversations about sexual assault vice chancellor in the Equal compare the reporting numbers The 2012 sexual assault policy in a world with so much violence.
are more open — and the numbers Opportunity and Compliance Office, prior to the policy change to the was still in effect for nine days at “I really think my first gut reac-
appear to support that. attributes the increase in reporting numbers after the policy change the beginning of the 2014 school tion, more than anything, is that we
Since the passage of the revised to a greater communication of due to the way the numbers are year and so is included in the data
sexual assault policy in August 2014, resources available for sexual assault reported and the modification of the collected for the 2014-2015 school SEE REPORTING, PAGE 5
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Some students and teachers think laptops steal attention away from class
Laptop bans have before the semester started.
“The reason I decided to
windows … it’s very difficult to
resist that urge,” she said.
tion of being their nanny, but
if you’re not paying attention,
has issued a ban. Bailey said
if there are any issues at all,
she said. “And I think then
some professors realize how
become more ban them is that the literature
in cognitive science is pretty
Eduardo Douglas, a
professor in the art history
you’re not going to do so well,
and that’s up to you,” he said.
they work with professors to
find an alternative solution.
essential laptops are.”
Music professor Allen
common recently. clear — students who take department, said he’s most He said engaging students Junior Neecole Bostick Anderson said professors
notes in lecture on laptops concerned with the student’s in smaller classrooms is hard said she is glad some profes- and students both have a
By Harris Wheless have a harder time retain- classroom experience. when they’re all looking down sors have banned laptops. She responsibility in maintaining
Staff Writer ing that information and “The one thing that I and typing. said she doesn’t use laptops classroom engagement.
then perform successfully on would take into consideration “But for a large lecture in class and thinks banning “The other aspect is that
Professors are still deciding exams than students who take and might convince me to class, there are any number them will help students focus. if the professor can’t hold
whether laptops are a distrac- notes by hand,” Burrill said. ban laptops in class would be of things that can spare one Sophomore Olive Fadale the attention of the students,
tion or a learning tool — but Burrill said students today if students came to me and the boredom of the lecture,” said in language classes she’s maybe that’s something the
plenty of professors are lean- are not as inclined to take said that they found them Douglas said. had, the lessons are mostly professor needs to work on,”
ing toward the former. notes by hand. disturbing for one reason or Tiffany Bailey, director of taught using a book, and in he said. “Part of our business
Emily Burrill, a professor in “If you have that many another,” he said. UNC Accessibility Resources those classes, she also didn’t is to get the point across but
the women’s and gender stud- people on laptops sitting that Douglas said he thinks it and Service, said if a student use a laptop. also to do it in a way that
ies department, said she had close together, it can be very should be up to the individual has been approved for accom- “In other classes, I’ve had keeps people interested … and
a hard time deciding whether distracting and it’s difficult to professor what is best for modations, faculty are very professors institute bans from people try different things to
or not to ban laptops in her resist the distraction bug where their classroom. understanding about the the start but they sometimes keep the students engaged.”
own classes and didn’t make a we have our laptops open “Students are adults and I student using their laptop in don’t really enforce these
final decision until a few days and we want to open other don’t want to be in the posi- class, even if the professor and people still use them,” university@dailytarheel.com
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Speed bumps have gotten larger for the free Uber ride plan
Due to liability “The issue just comes in
with regards to, would UNC
during a White House visit
about similar student ride ini-
Panhellenic Council.
UNC Panhellenic Council
always super scared about
getting to college and hav-
“Tuition is expensive. I’m out
of state, so anything I can get
issues, Uber will not want to cover the liability, or
would Uber want to cover the
tiatives at their universities.
N.C. State University has a
President Erica Batres said
the council decided to focus its
ing to deal with drinking and
driving, drunk drivers and
free, I really appreciate it.”
Opere said student
be free on campus. liability,” Opere said. similar student ride-sharing efforts on other things. my friends possibly driving government’s lines of
Opere said the free Uber program called College Beeper, The UNC Panhellenic drunk,” McNairy said. “And communication are still open,
By Anna Freeman idea originally sprang from a Opere said. But it is not sanc- Council has not said how the Uber just like completely so if Uber and the University
Senior Writer desire to cut down on drunk tioned by the university, so it money from the anonymous reduces that possibility.” get past the liability issue, the
driving and sexual assault. skirts the liability issue. donation funding the initia- Senior Chakiera Shields initiative is still on the table.
Plans to provide free Uber He said Uber would be eas- “UNC is a public university, tive will now be allocated. said she thought the free “I would say from my end,
rides for UNC students have ily adoptable because of its and so for us to adopt some- Sophomore Meredith Uber initiative would be it’s one of those things we have
officially stalled. popularity among students. thing of that nature, it would McNairy said when she first great for students who were on our wish list, but it doesn’t
Student Body President “I know a lot of students have to go through different heard about the free Uber coming home past the hours necessarily depend on what
Bradley Opere said the talks would definitely appreci- levels of approval,” Opere said. initiative she thought it was when the P2P runs, or who happens on our end,” Opere
between Uber and UNC are at ate having the ride service,” Opere said the free Uber too good to be true. were away from Franklin and said. “It also depends on what
a standstill because a decision Opere said. rides became a possibility “I thought it was such a Rosemary streets. happens on Uber’s end.”
can’t be reached over accessi- Opere said he spoke with because of an anonymous good idea because when I was “We hardly get anything
bility and liability issues. other student body presidents donation to the UNC in high school and stuff, I was free here,” Shields said. university@dailytarheel.com
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here crying?” source for every story
VIEWPOINTS
I looked about University events. TO THE EDITOR:
up from my bench in Coker He’s a slimy privatizing As an alumnus, I
Arboretum to see a small boy bastard, ok? This should be expected my main duty to
with both arms thrown in the abundantly clear by now. be deleting emails from
air staring straight at me. Brad Ives: “The whole various arms of the UNC
“She’s just reading!” The THE ISSUE: The University of Chicago’s Dean of Students, Jay Ellison, wrote a concept of sustainability is bureaucracy asking for
money.
Morehead camp counselor letter to members of the incoming class of 2020. In it, he warned them that the living in a way that allows
On certain occasions,
shushed the boy and hurried school’s commitment to academic freedom means it does not support trigger future generations to live
the boy and the rest of the at the same standard that sure, I’d have to stumble
warnings. Here, editorial board members share their thoughts on the letter. around Franklin Street, sling
small herd of children away as we do.”
I buried my face in my copy of HAHAHAHA, HAHA, my arm around a stranger
“Confessions of a Shopaholic:
Shopaholic Ties the Knot” that Open discussion It’s more than a Brad Ives!!!
You think future
and whisper my graduation
year (“16”) without context.
They’d walk away, with a
I was definitely not reading.
The boy stared suspiciously
in my direction as he toddled
should triumph statement against generations are going to be
able to live the way we do?
Driving cars and eating
story, and I’d lay marooned
in front of the Ackland
away.
It had been a long week. over civil silence trigger warnings out-of-season fruit flown
in from New Zealand and
Art Gallery shop imaging
TOPO’s balcony as the
side of a ship and myself a
Some time near the end of throwing away hundreds
A W
spring semester, still in the of pounds of trash per year jetsam from it.
large fuss is boiling over Jay Ellison’s hile Jay Ellison’s statement
clutches of midterms and like we do? That’s why they send you
communiqué scare quoting the phan- doesn’t outright ban trigger
approaching the grasp of Our way of living is a sailor’s hat when there is a
tom menaces of trigger warnings and warnings, it goes a long way
finals, there were just an OBVIOUSLY, doubly-over- building named after you.
safe spaces. Here he cheaply casts UC in the in condemning the practice. He goes on
overwhelming amount of proven to be unsustainable. But, I cannot simply lie
culture war against what almost always exist to say the school does “not condone the
stressors clouding my day: Doesn’t Carol “the scientist” in reverie with one of the
as benign, noncoercive practices. creation of intellectual ‘safe spaces’ where
homework, final projects, Folt know this? people for whom a building
Yet on the silencing of speakers and individuals can retreat from ideas and
internships, Villanova, work, is named, our conjoining
events, Ellison found some of the backbone perspectives at odds with their own.”
not being positive when I last Madeleine Slerlisk crapulence (it means vomit,
that seems to slip out of the body of most Would it have hurt Ellison to mention
cleaned my bathroom, my cat Chapel Hill so now who is gross, me or
university administrators. Activists of any that he’s registered in the university’s Safe
allergy and more homework. your imagination?) a per-
persuasion attempting to cause total stop- Space Ally Network for LGBTQ students?
When things pile up like page of speaker appearances and/or con- He also said the school will not cancel Consider the theme sonal swimming pool while
this, I head into the arboretum of entrepreneurship we abjure responsibility.
tent airings that may “challenge” or cause controversial speakers. In 2015, protestors
to my second-favorite bench So, let it be printed in
“discomfort” purport an disrupted UC’s Alumni
(my favorite bench is for read- TO THE EDITOR: bold font, on the front
indolent, childish tactic Awards, prompting the
ing and artsy Instagrams). Few students and faculty page of the newspaper,
that should be shamed event’s cancellation.
Sitting under the green canopy would disagree with the alone: CHASE RICE WAS
into a dark cellar In March, the UNC
and isolated by the faint buzz Sept. 6 editorial, “Fee would ACTUALLY THE JUBILEE
beneath university intel- College Republicans host-
of traffic from Cameron betray values,”about the fact PERFORMER LAST YEAR.
lectual life. The propel- ed “The Left’s Obsession
Avenue, it’s easy to feel like that a $3000 increase in Did they actually do it?
lant logic of this tactic with Race” with speaker
you’re very small and your fees in the Kenan-Flagler Well, in any case, know
(“anyone who offends Ben Shapiro. Though it
problems are very big. Business School would be it was not an illusion, a sick
me must be silenced”) wasn’t canceled, dozens
unfortunate and at odds joke, a prank gone wrong
Sometimes you need a place Chris Dahlie leaves everyone vulner- Emily Yue of protesters left just as
with the state’s oft-cited where your friend gets mad
to sit and think and feel your Editorial board able to silencing. Assistant opinion Shapiro began speaking.
feelings and embrace your constitutional article and leaves the sleepover or
member A recent report of UC’s editor, editorial To be upfront, I didn’t
stress. But what I got (and need- extolling affordability. even a part of someone’s
Committee on Freedom board member go — I skimmed his
ed) was an important reminder: But the quoted rationale initiation into Gimghoul:
of Expression offers a more adamant YouTube channel, saw a
“Everyone here is crying.” for the fee increase — that Chase Rice was paid 77,000
principle statement than many higher barrage of militant, misguided racism and
It’s a reminder we all need students “feel that they are dollars to play Jubilee in a
education institutions do. Abstracted to an calmly decided it wasn’t worth the effort.
from time to time, and hopeful- getting more as a result of legitimate manner.
equation: Open discussion is greater than I get that it’s important to learn from
ly it’s less embarrassing to have being a business major/ Only about 61 percent
civility and mutual respect. Not equal to. different ideologies, but Ellison has to
it come from this column and minor than their counter- of the tickets sold. On top
It is up to the individual to agree, critique acknowledge that protestors don’t force the
not a perplexed 8 year old from parts and recognize that they of this, CUAB canceled
or mount a more effective argument against university to cancel events. They use their
the Morehead Planetarium’s have not yet had to pay for Homecoming to create a
what they find to be repellent. Universities freedom of expression to organize, chal-
after-school program. this” — indeed reflects many Frankenstein concert with
will not shield us from externally imposed lenge and denounce. It’s up to the school to
I spent most of my first two of the core values now open- ample amounts funding to
discomforts when we leave them. They listen to their needs or shut it down.
years at UNC trying to pretend ly expressed, if not praised, get a supposedly big name.
should not acclimate us to a shield now. As a student with PTSD who engages
like I was as cool as a cucum- by the University’s use of the That’s a 100 percent
Universities should cultivate the internal in activism and edits the opinion page, I
ber, but really I was a very term entrepreneurship. reduction in Homecoming
resources to defeat the wrong through encounter offensive things every day. I don’t
flustered cucumber who cried It has, of course, various concerts from last year.
patient, forceful, and relentless argument silence the people who say things I vehe-
to Tracy Chapman songs in the historical meanings, uses Collective campus
and reasoning with oneself and others. mently disagree with, but I challenge them
dorm lounges a lot. and interesting connotations memory can sometimes be
The safest space is continually consti- without resorting to slurs or condescension.
We never really talk about that might be worth complex with the boiling
tuted within the well-educated mind and When people say politically correct behav-
how hard the first year of col- considering — but it seems over, up and out of a fresh
between collective well-educated minds. ior caters to a coddled generation, it does
lege is during that first year. to have been embraced batch of young “global
We should support UC and UNC in fur- trigger something in me. It’s not anger, but a
I was so positive I was the by UNC as a critical if not leaders” every year (there are
nishing those minds without compromise. resignation I should be too young to feel.
only one who kept no fewer paramount mission. tons of phrases like this in
than three transfer applica- It was a dominant alumni emails too).
tions open on my computer theme of Chancellor Folt’s There are traditions, but
QuickHits
at all times, the only one who inaugural address — much of both the good and
felt my old hobbies weren’t as honestly the first time that I bad just gets flushed. After
interesting to me anymore, had actually heard the term four years, it’s pretty much
the only one who worried used in a university — and a totally new school being
about not getting enough sleep forms part of a number of defined by its students.
and then heard of friends’ Down with dorms Stomp ‘em out RIP Harambe curricular directives. The question for each
all-nighters and then worried Its various recent permu- round of students comes
We at The Daily Tar Worker Thank you to the 4th Circuit The University of North tations notwithstanding, it with moments like these.
about getting too much sleep.
reject all efforts to improve Court for knocking down Carolina school system is still about creating wealth Will you make the same
There are always going to
on campus the Voter ID has a zoology by recognizing and exploit- mistake twice?
be people with problems big-
housing. What laws in North program. We de- ing opportunities to develop Or will you stand
ger than yours, and there are
students need Carolina. This mand Margaret viable sustainable activities against the long shadowed
always going to be people with
is assimilation. is a great step Spellings strong- to create more wealth (more imperium that is CUAB
problems smaller than yours.
We submit to toward ensuring ly and publicly money). (just go with it) and
I’m not here to tell you your
whomever has control over voter equity. Now, unfor- condemn the shooting of While the irony of the demand a better concert?
problems aren’t a big deal or
this to tear down all dorms tunately, party hacks and Harambe. We must let the fee increase should not be What kind of UNC will
that you should lose your-
and build barracks. Just bigots, like cockroaches, will world know that UNC will lost on any of the DTH edi- you create?
self in self-pity: I’ve learned
rows of tents, with one safe scurry away from the light not tolerate this kind of zoo- tors (or readers), we might
there’s a time to just suck it Jacob Rosenberg
box to store your govern- to every dark corner of the keeping. Spellings, please, question whether this
up, and there’s a time to weep Class of ‘16
ment-provided laptop and state’s laws and geography do not let us down on this.
to “Karma Chameleon” blar-
burlap UNC hoodie. possible. Chase on. #RIPHARAMBE
ing on repeat. There’s a time
to look into resources offered SPEAK OUT
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