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A trigger warning is used to let people know about something that is possibly triggering in a book, a film and other artwork or writings. Triggering material may bring up memories of a past trauma and can disrupt learning and lead to further harm.
As professors begin updating their course calendars and syllabuses, faculty and students at a few universities are adding trigger warnings to protect victims of violence and abuse from being forced to relive the experience in the classroom. The Associated Student Senate at the University of California Santa Barbara recently issued a resolution to mandate warning students when a class will include topics like rape, sexual assault, suicide and graphic violence. Trigger warnings are given to prevent victims of past trauma from being exposed to material that may bring up memories of the experience. The memories not only disrupt their learning
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but can lead to further harm. “These particularly affect students if material is being read in the classroom or a film is being screened, as the student cannot choose to stop being exposed to the material,” the resolution reads. UC Santa Barbara isn’t the only school looking at these warnings. Oberlin College in Ohio published a sexual offense resource guide for its faculty last year that included a section titled “understand trigger, avoid unnecessary triggers and provide trigger warnings.” The guide urged professors to remove trigger material when it does not directly contribute to the class.
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Student Center gets goCharge for tablets, Androids, iPhones CHRISTOPHER STEPHENS CHIEF REPORTER | castephens@bsu.edu
Ball State pitcher Zach Plesac continues to be honored for his first collegiate season. On Monday, the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association named Plesac to its Freshman All-America First Team. He was one of three relief pitchers nationally to receive the honor. Plesac was recently named the Collegiate Baseball National Freshman Pitcher of the Year and to the Collegiate Baseball Louisville Slugger All-America Third Team. The right-hander finished the season ranked fourth in the nation with a 12-2 record. He also tallied six saves, while boasting a 2.11 ERA and striking out 67 batters in 85.1 innings. Plesac was named as the Mid-American Conference Freshman Pitcher of the Year and received First Team All-MAC after helping guide the Cardinals to the conference regular season title.
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A charging station located in the L.A. Pittenger Student Center was added to the first floor Tuesday. It has eight stations for iPhone 4s and 5s and Androids and two stations for tablets.
Forgetting a charger at home is one less thing to worry about. The L.A. Pittenger Student Center installed a new goCharge station near the Tally entrance Tuesday. The station offers 10 individual lockers that allow users to charge devices for free. Eight of the lockers are for Androids and iPhones and two lockers are for tablets. For iPhones, the iPhone 4 chargers are on the left side and the iPhone 5 chargers are on the right side. Each locker is protected with a user-made, fourdigit code, allowing users to plug in their device and leave it without fear of it being stolen. Travis Peters, Student Center assistant director for operations, said the station is already being used. “I went down during orientation and eight of the 10 stations were being used,” he said. “Day one with little publication, it was being utilized quite a bit and I hope that is how it is [in the future].” He said the department decided to purchase the $4,850 machine after seeing them in use at a conference at the University of Cincinnati. However, the idea to put phone charging machines on campus was first popularized when Cardinal United ran for Student Government Association executive slate in 2013. Adding charging stations to Bracken Library and other locations was one of the slate’s platform points, but the slate lost the election. The Student Center chose the goCharge station because it offered a security aspect as opposed to other open stations. “They are a really nice thing to have in a day and age where everyone is connected to their phones,” Peters said. “[It’s] a safe place to charge their phone.”
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Study says most university presidents oppose concealed handguns on campus 91 percent of leaders put accidental shooting of students as concern HOVORKA CHIEF REPORTER | ALAN afhovorka@bsu.edu A Ball State study found 95 percent of university presidents oppose concealed handguns on campus with 91 percent citing accidental shootings of students as the primary concern for their opposition. At least 37 school shootings have occurred so far in 2014. The most recent shooting occurred at a high school in Oregon on Tuesday. In the past few weeks alone, there have been multiple ones,
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mass or otherwise. However, the study maintains the college campus is the safest place for college students. “The statement we made might look as an exaggeration, but if you look at the numbers, it’s not,” said study conductor Jagdish Khubchandani, an assistant professor of community health education. The homicide rate for ages 17 to 29 is 200 times greater in the general population than on college campuses, the study shows. The study also shows students already face numerous issues on campus. To Khubchandani, adding guns would only make the situation worse. “I don’t see a place for guns on the campus; it’s a place for educa1. CLOUDY
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tion and sharing ideas,” he said. Caleb Criswell, a senior computer technology major, said he almost always feels safe on campus. “No matter the hour of the day, nothing too bad ever hap-
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