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NEWS

Answers demanded at town hall Gary Wyatt, associate provost and dean of the Honors acrome@esubulle tin.com College, Amy Sage Webb, professor of English, modern Many students who attendlanguage and journalism and ed the Emporia State town Mallory Koci, clinical instruchall meeting on sexual harasstor in the Honors College and ment Tuesday demanded the interdisciplinary studies.

The event was prompted by stories published in The Bulletin about “Jane,” the student who reported a professor for sexual misconduct, according to Wyatt.

Several women in attendance shared their own stories, including Whitney Landreth, who graduated in 2016. During the town hall, she spoke about her disappointment with the handling of her sexual assault at ESU. “I was sexually assault seven years and one month ago,” Landreth said.

When she turned in her case, Landreth was told there would be a campus trial, she said. The student who assaulted her confessed, and she was unable to share the result of the trial. Landreth said she was then stalked by the perpetrator and followed to class.

“I was told that if I told Whitney Landreth, 2016 ESU graduate, spoke about Emporia State’s dealing with her sexual assault during the anyone the results of that... town hall Tuesday in the Preston Family Room. There were approximately 250 in attendance to discuss sexual ha- the campus and the perpetrarassment at ESU. Xiangru Chen | The Bulletin tor would be at grounds to sue me for exploitation,” Landreth A llie C rome

firing of a tenured professor who had a sexual misconduct case filed against them by an undergraduate student and demanded answers from the administration.

About 250 people, includ-

NEWS

ASG discusses resolution demanding firing of professor M egan S heckells msheckells@esubulle tin.com

Associated Student Government introduced a resolution condemning Emporia State’s response to the sexual misconduct case on campus at their meeting Monday. The resolution was in response to a Bulletin article about a sexual misconduct investigation in which “Jane,” an undergraduate Korean student, alleged that Brian Schrader, tenured psychology professor, took her into a storage room, touched her inappropriately and tried to kiss her.

“Associated Student Government, the student body and all the victims of sexual assault and harassment call for the removal of Brian Schrader from the Emporia State faculty in accordance with providing a safe environment to current and future Hornets,”

Kristian Gilmore, ASG senator and sophomore communication major read from the resolution.

Caylie Ratzlaff, ASG Senator and sophomore secondary education major, originated the resolution, and it was sponsored by Gilmore.

“Associated Student Government recognizes all victims of sexual harassment and assault and the trauma involved in being a victim,” Gilmore read from the resolution. “Associated Student Government calls for Emporia State University to handle all sexual assault cases with zero tolerance, and support for the victims.”

The resolution stated an intent to, upon its passing, be sent out to ESU President Allison Garrett, Faculty Senate,

see RESOLUTION page 2

NEWS

Garrett discusses residence hall controversy with PRIDE S arah S poon sspoon@esubulle tin.com

Emporia State President Allison Garrett met with People Respecting Individuality and Diversity in Education (PRIDE) yesterday to discuss the naming of the new residence hall after Kay Schallenkamp after it came to light that protections for LGBTQ students were removed during her time as president of the university. Schallenkamp was the first female president

in the state of Kansas for four year institutions, according to Garrett.

“I don’t necessarily agree that she doesn’t deserve a legacy because I did a little bit of research on her and she did some amazing things,” Lily Atherton, vice-president of PRIDE and sophomore English major said to Garrett during the meeting. “Our concern

see PRIDE page 6

ing students, faculty, staff, administrators and community members, attended the meeting.

The town hall was organized by Kansas Leadership Center Faculty-in-Residence

“I feel like administration failed me. I did not feel safe on this campus,” W hitney L andreth A lu m n a

said. “Every time I went to go up to the administration, he was there talking to them as if they were working together and nothing...ever happened. I called the campus police several times, I had to get a restraining order for five years, and when I went to the judge to get an extension on the restraining order, the perpetrator told the judge that he had been places that I had been and I didn’t even know it because he was allowed to on this campus.”

According to Landreth, administration at ESU “failed” her.

“I feel like administration failed me, I did not feel safe on this campus,” Landreth said.

‘Adaptive leadership’

Administration’s role in sexual harassment cases, their responses, and the lack of an-

see ANSWERS page 6

NEWS

A ‘frustrated’ Garrett says she can’t address ‘Jane’s story’ S arah S poon sspoon@esubulle tin.com

Editor’s Note: Emporia State President Allison Garrett sat down with The Bulletin Monday afternoon for a wide-ranging interview in which she described the process of how tenured faculty could be fired, pondered whether or not she was a role model for women on campus, and defended herself against a charge—leveled in an editorial recently by the Emporia Gazette—that she had displayed a lack of empathy after an undergraduate student told The Bulletin she was left “hopeless” by the university’s handling of her sexual misconduct complaint against a professor.

Garrett declined to discuss the complaint filed by the student, who was called “Jane” in The Bulletin’s coverage to protect her identity, without the consent of faculty member Brian Schrader, a tenured professor of psychology.

Jane said Schrader had led her to a storage room, where he tried to kiss her. Jane filed a sexual battery complaint with university police.

The interview was conducted at the president’s office on the second floor of Plumb Hall. In addition to Garrett, Gwen Larson, assistant director of marketing and media relations; Rayna Karst, editor-in-chief of The Bulletin and senior English major; Allie Crome, managing editor of The Bulletin and junior English education major; and Sarah Spoon, magazine editor and junior Spanish and English major were in attendance. Spoon conducted the interview.

A full transcript follows.

Spoon: Well, thanks for meeting with us.

Garrett: Well, you’re welcome.

S: I know you were planning on going to the town hall meeting, and I was wonder-

ing if you were going to be wearing black tomorrow?

G: You know, I wear black a good bit of the time and I certainly recognize that that’s an important way to make a statement so I hadn’t really decided what I would wear tomorrow, but I’ll certainly give that some thought.

S: Do you support the #metoo movement?

G: Sure. Yeah. I think it would be unusual for you to find any woman of a certain age, and I guess by that I am implying that I am of that certain age, who can’t say

‘Me too.’ I think most women would be able to point to certain things that have happened to them that fall into that category.

S: Do you believe that powerful men have not been held accountable for too long and it’s time for things to change?

G: You know, I would agree completely with that. As you look at Hollywood, as you look at Washington D.C., and other places, there is certainly strong evidence that a culture

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2 ASG ELECTIONS

Barragan and Jorgensen, a voice for everyone

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d b i tt e l @ e s u b u l l e t i n . c o m

There are two pairs of candidates running for President and Vice President of the Associated Student Government.

One pair is composed of Sawyer Barragan, junior Spanish and psychology major, and Elle Jorgensen, freshman elementary education major.

“We do have three main platforms that we are working on,” Barragan said. “Our first main platform is going to be establishing Ad Hoc committees to allow students to voice their opinions on some subsections and important topics in ASG.” They also plan on creating what they call “fireside chats” to allow the student body to meet with members of ASG one-on-one, including the senators of their schools along with the president, vice president and their cabinet members, according to Barragan.

“Our passion is Emporia State and it has always been that way,” Jorgensen said.

“So basically our passion is prompting engagement throughout the university.”

They also aim to “recharge Associated Student Government” and provide a clear and concise process on the creation of student task forces on campus, Barragan and Jorgensen said.

“We have securing our future which is promoting equality, diversity and inclu-

resolution continued from page 1

The Bulletin, The Emporia Gazette and “any other entities involved within this matter.”

“Associated Student Government applauds the effort of The Bulletin to bring light to this misconduct from Brian Schrader and Emporia State University,” Gilmore said.

“Associated Student Government calls for Emporia State University to do better. It’s on us to stop sexual assault and provide a safe environment for all people on campus.”

There were concerns about the resolution. Nick Wathke, ASG senator and junior history and political science major, proposed that the resolution take out all individuals names, including Brian Schrader and Jane.

Wathke also argued that the resolution should exclude any mention of media coverage on this case of sexual

Webb and Todd, experience for the future

Abigail Ponce | The Bulletin

Sawyer Barragan and Elle Jorgensen D ustin B ittel

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sion throughout all facets of Emporia State as well as ASG,” Barragan said.

Barragan said that they will also work to keep student tuition and fees low and create partnerships with IT, the Student Disabilities Services office and other campus offices in order to make sure all students have equal opportunities at ESU. Barragan and Jorgensen’s slogan is “Your goals, one passion, our future,” which puts their focus on the student body goals in general, having one passion for Emporia State and “our future as we work towards that,” according to Barragan.

“I also think one of our big pushes is making sure that everyone feels that Emporia State is their home,” Barragan said.

Both Barragan and Jorgensen said they agree that their passion for Emporia State and their desire in helping the entirety of the student body is what makes them stand out as candidates.

“The sheer amount of love and passion that we not only have for Emporia State but also for every single student that goes here,” Barragan said.

The candidate debate is at 5 p.m. tonight in the Preston Family Room. Elections take place from March 6 through March 8, and the winner will be announced at 6 p.m. on March 8. misconduct.

“I think we should look at the fact that we are a legislative body and we are not here to condemn specific individuals,” Wathke said. “We also need to take into account that the results of the investigation of the incident cited in this resolution are not yet conclusive.”

However, according to the investigation’s summary by Ray Lauber, director of Human Resources, Affirmative Action and Title IX Coordinator, there is a “preponderance of evidence” that indicated Schrader violated the university’s sexual conduct policy.

There was not sufficient time for all concerns about this resolution to be addressed during this meeting and the resolution was tabled. It will be further discussed at the following ASG meeting at 5:15 p.m. March 15 in the Senate Chambers.

Michael Webb and Michaela Todd D ustin B ittel d b i tt e l @ e s u b u l l e t i n . c o m

There are two pairs of candidates running for President and Vice President of the Associated Student Government. One pair is composed of Michael Webb, junior business administration and music major, and Michaela Todd, junior communication and political science major.

“We have five main ideas of where we want to take our administration if we are elected,” Webb said. “We want to connect RSOs (Registered Student Organizations) with campus in high impact learning situations, so one of our goals is to create an educational seminar series.”

They also want to create RSO round table discussions to have different representatives from different organizations come together and explain to other senate or staff members what issues they are facing in their RSOs, according to Webb.

“One of our other main goals is to really connect with the community,” Webb said. “Our initiative is called ‘Make a Difference Day.’ We’re looking at maybe one or two days each semester to really provide RSO’s with many volunteer opportunities on say a Friday or Saturday all at one time. We really want to engage a lot of different areas of the community.”

They also plan to strengthen ties with transfer students and TradPlus, non traditional students and veteran students, according to Todd.

“One of our goals is to

make ASG more of a resources to non traditional students,” Todd said. “I feel like they don’t see ASG as something for them especially for students who are older or single parents or the veterans so that they know ASG is representing them too and not just the regular undergrad student.”

They also plan on cultivating school spirit to help create a family environment and get people involved in other activities on campus, according to Todd. “(Our goal is) allowing each student to find their home here,” Webb said.

“And with that home that they establish here, being able to take their experience from that to really chase their dreams and achieve them after their departure.”

Webb and Todd’s campaign slogan is “Translating Passion into Experience,” putting an emphasis on creating experiences for students and allowing students to grow and learn from those experiences to help benefit them in the future.

“I started out as a freshman and I didn’t get involved a whole lot my freshman year,” Webb said. “I really feel like I’ve been able to create the opportunities for myself and now I want to be able to create those opportunities for other students as well.”

The candidate debate is at 5 p.m. tonight in the Preston Family Room. Elections take place from March 6 through March 8 with the winner being announced at 6 p.m. on March. 8.

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‘He and She’ to show early feminist ideas S arah S poon sspoon@esubulle tin.com

The Emporia State theater department is putting on “He and She”

by Rachel Crothers, a feminist play that came out of first wave feminism in the United States. The play opens at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 6 and runs through March 10, with a 2 p.m. showing on Saturday in the Fredrickson Theatre.

“It’s all about male and female relationships, particularly in couples,” said Robert Hart, theater instructor and director of “He and She.” “Can you truly be equals in a couple or does somebody have to have more power and what happens when the power is threatened? It’s very relevant to our world today.”

The main characters are Ann, played by Molli McClanahan, sophomore theatre major, and Tom, played by Ryan Wollum,

freshman speech and theatre education major.

They are married and Tom is a successful, professional sculptor and Ann is an amateur sculptor.

“A big competition comes up, huge, $100,000 in 1921 (and) would set them for life,” Hart said.

“She decides to enter, kind of on a lark, but a little bit because she’s pissed off that people dismiss her work...It really threatens their marriage.”

The play will be done in period clothing.

Erin Dublin, senior elementary education major, plays Ellen, the housekeeper and comic relief.

“Ellen gets to come out and lighten the mood a bit,” Dublin said. “I’m very proud of where this play is and the message that it’s bringing to Emporia and the campus.”

The play will be three acts and will have two intermissions.

Robert Hart, theatre instructor and director of “He and She,” informs Harriel Mack, senior communication major, Ryan Wollum, freshman speech and theater education major, Torin Horvik, junior art and theatre major and Elizabeth Tate, freshman theatre and communication major, that the “He and She” play will run the full three acts, instead of cutting it down to two like had been previously discussed. The play opens at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 6 and runs through March 10, with a 2 p.m. showing on Saturday in the Fredrickson Theatre. Sarah Spoon| The Bulletin

Vigil honors Parkland victims Jessica Stallings, interim department chair for counseling education and member of Emporia Justice Supporters, organized a candle vigil for those who lost their lives during the shooting Feb. 14 in Florida Friday evening in front of the Fallen Educators Memorial. The three teachers who died will be added to the 199 names already on the memorial.

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Honors College course plans to travel to Uganda M egan S heckells msheckells@esubulle tin.com

Students from the Global Problems honors course at Emporia State University will be making a trip to Uganda this summer to assist an organization called Edukey Gender Support Organization to work with young, underprivileged women.

“Last year when we were with EDUKEY we helped them build a wall, paint a wall, they gave leadership training, we took some computers, and helped with some computer training … whatever they need,” said David Westfall, instructor of sociology, anthropology and crime and delinquency studies.

The trip was initially brought about several years ago by Westfall. He was writing his dissertation on cultural events in Uganda, and students became interested in coming along.

“My second year here (at ESU), some of the students were asking if they could go, so I took a group of students with me then,” Westfall said.

“The Honors College was interested in what we were doing, and they started to get involved, so now it’s kind of a partnership between sociology and the Honors College where we take students abroad.”

A part of the trip’s purpose includes ‘Renae’s Pad Project,’ which was started

by Renae Wyatt, wife of Gary Wyatt, dean of the Honors College and associate provost. Renae’s Pad Project is aimed at providing women in Uganda with materials and teaching them how to make reusable feminine hygiene products.

“This year I’m fortunate enough to collaborate with Renae (Wyatt) for my honors community project that we do through the honors college,” said Brettany Williams, junior psychology major. “Since I’m going to Uganda, it is something I was really excited about and I know Renae, I’ve known her for a long time so it was something that caught my attention, something that I really wanted to do.”

The students will also be doing additional projects during the four to six-week trip, possibly including working on renovations for a school and neighborhood in Uganda as well, according to Wyatt.

“I think what Dr. Westfall really pushes for on this trip is nothing specific, just in general to learn about a new culture and experience a life and a society that’s very different from our own.” Williams said. “He just really wants us to learn and appreciate a new culture.”

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A ‘disappointment’ we won’t tolerate

It was hypocrisy at its finest.

At Tuesday’s town hall on sexual assault, one of the faculty coordinators used a phrase that is a favorite of the Kansas Leadership Center: “Leadership is disappointing people at a level they can tolerate.” The implied message, repeated over and over -- by platitudes, by body language, by the way in which microphones were jealously guarded -- was that it was more important for the university to give the appearance of giving a shit than actually having to do something about the serious gender and equality issues that face us.

The town hall was prompted by The Bulletin’s investigation into “Jane’s Story” in which Brian Schrader, tenured professor of psychology, took an undergraduate Korean student into a storage room, touched her inappropriately and tried to kiss her.

That’s what Jane--not her real name--told us, and she backed it up with more than 150 pages of documentation. In some of that documentation, the university’s police and human resources departments concluded that a “preponderance of

evidence” indicated that Schrader was likely guilty.

Yet, he still works here.

That fact is what brought most of the 250 students and faculty to the town hall.

They wanted answers and demanded to be heard.

Many also wanted to share their own stories of sexual harassment and disappointment with the university.

While the town hall was presented as a way to hear student’s perspectives and to discuss ways to fix the systemic problem of sexual assault and harassment, it ended up being a smoke screen for the administration to clean their hands of the problem and to put the fault back on the students and the victims. The phrase that was continuously repeated was, “No one can save us, but us.” That’s a nice sentiment, but it was

also clearly coming from someone in a place of power and privilege, a white male faculty member in upper administration.

And a question a student asked in response really res-

then, like Jane, was forced to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement that threatened her with discipline if she told anyone.

And, it was exactly what the university did not want to hear.

“Can you tie it into our observations of how sexual a s s a u l t exists?” one of the faculty coordinators asked. The coordinator said she didn’t want to silence Whitney, but she didn’t seem to be interested The administration remained in back and out of focus. in what she Photo Illustration by Abigail Ponce | The Bulletin had to say either.

T h e faculty coordinators running onated with us.

“How are we supposed to the meeting kept trying to save ourselves when victims move the conversation to like Jane are silenced and a more hypothetical space threatened with punishment where we talked about the for speaking out?” issue of sexual assault as a Whitney Landreth, a whole, instead of the very nurse who graduated from real issue of what is happenESU in 2016, shared her story ing on our campus. about how she was sexually When a sophomore assaulted on campus and brought up that there seems

to be a lag time with ESU investigating issues of any kind, the administrator who was running the meeting responded by saying “It’s easy to make it about administration, but what can you do?”

Time after time when asked what they could do, students kept saying that administration should be held accountable and sexual predators should be fired.

Instead, the faculty coordinators stuck to the “adaptive leadership” model they learned at the Kansas Leadership Center in Wichita.

They had a specific agenda in mind and it was not talking about Jane or about the firing of Brian Schrader.

But, the model broke down because of the student outrage over ‘Jane’s story.’

They were angry because all of them had experienced something similar, or they knew someone who had.

They were also angry because the administration sat in the back of the room and said nothing.

The truth is, the administration holds all the power here, and are the ones who should be held accountable.

Sexual assault is not a disappointment we will tolerate.

Reporting in the face of punishment

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It is troubling how common it is becoming for institutions to use their power to shut down and shut out the press.

Three days ago, “The Sunflower,” the campus newspaper at Wichita State University, reported on an open records request that they filed in Nov. for emails sent and received by

the president and several other key players that included key words or phrases relating to an investigation “The Sunflower” was conducting.

“The Sunflower” paid $593 for 2,102 pages of documentation, of which 539 pages were completely blacked out. That’s more than a quarter of the pages that “The Sunflower” paid $593 for.

An additional 928 pages had some redactions.

“The Sunflower” could be looking at paying WSU an additional $4,600 for these severely redacted emails, for the cost of “man hours” spent compiling this information.

This is a severe miscarriage of justice, especially since these emails are subject to the Kansas Open Records Act. Additionally, “The Sun-

flower” is looking at having their budget slashed in half by their student government, likely as a response to their unfavorable coverage that exposed so many important issues on campus, some of which involved their student government.

As a student journalist, I stand in solidarity with “The Sunflower,” but even as a person who just believes in democracy and wants to see the democratic process succeed in this country and in this state, I stand with “The Sunflower” and I commend them for staying strong in the face of administrative and student government pressure.

It isn’t easy, but it is worth it, and we need more journalists and people like those at “The Sunflower” who effectively

say “I don’t care if you take my funding. This story needs to be told and the people need to know about this and that’s more important than you, or I or any threats you might make.”

It is sad that we have been reduced to the point that we must rely on students, generally in their late teens and early twenties, to hold our administrators accountable.

But I am thankful we have them.

I am thankful that we have the free press that allows the truth to prevail.

I am thankful that we don’t have to rely on universities and their sanitized PR stories that are bleached white for public consumption.

I am thankful that people, like the journalists at “The Sunflower,” are willing to stand up,

put authority in check and say “Not on our watch.”

I would hate to think about where we would be without those selfless people willing to prioritize the truth, their journalistic integrity and what is right over what is easiest to do and what people in power, and those who blindly support those in power, want them to do.

Issues like this are bigger than all of us.

I commend and thank the journalists at “The Sunflower” for doing their due diligence and for going above and beyond what most people would expect of student journalists.

We can’t afford to just be kids or just be students anymore.

The world needs people like us to do our jobs.

What’s more important?

The “Power E” or LGBTQ rights

Emporia State announced at Founder’s Day that the new residence hall would be named after Kay Schallenkamp, a former ESU president.

A former ESU president that removed a clause protecting faculty, staff and students from being dismissed due to sexual orientation in 1998. By

removing the clause, gay and lesbian students at ESU lost any legal ground to protect themselves if they were discriminated against because of their sexuality.

But she created the Power E and was the first female president of a regent school, so it’s fine though.

Or at least it is at ESU. I’m not saying those aren’t important accomplishments.

Being the first female president is a step forward for all women.

Yet, I wonder why that overshadows a disregard for the rights of LGBTQ students?

Schallenkamp said the removal of the clause came in response to advice from general counsel and it was a “liability” for the school because sexual orientations weren’t protected

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on a federal or state level.

The “liability” was partly because there wasn’t a clear enough definition of what sexual orientation discrimination could be.

If it was such a liability, then K-State, KU and other regent schools who had similar policies would have removed them as well. But they didn’t.

ESU was the only one.

And instead of defining discrimination, ESU took the easy way out.

The protections were also removed less than a month after the murder of Matthew Shepard, who was beaten, tortured and left to die in Wyoming Oct. 6, 1998 because of his sexuality.

I don’t care about whatever bullshit excuse for removing

the protections that administration and Schallenkamp came up with.

If they cared about their student body, let alone their LGBTQ students, they would have known better than to remove it following one of the most prominent anti-gay hate crimes in the US. And sure, Schallenkamp replaced the clause.

But only months later, after receiving severe backlash.

And yeah, she issued a statement apologizing for any

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hurt the removal caused.

That still doesn’t erase that it happened. It doesn’t erase that ESU named a residence hall after her, without a single mention of that discrimination against LGBTQ students.

So, ESU, what’s more important to you? Letting ESU sweep this under the rug? Or letting your friends, peers and community members know that discrimination of any kind is unacceptable and should not be rewarded?

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\ that suppresses women has developed in many industries.

S: And what about the Midwest? And specifically, Kansas?

G: I don’t know any reason why Kansas would be different than elsewhere. I’m new enough to Kansas that maybe I don’t have the perspective of someone who is a lifelong Kansan, but I’ve certainly seen it in the Midwest. I grew up in the Midwest and I believe that it is widespread. Now having said that, it is interesting because, I think for men they sometimes think about #metoo and they think ‘Oh, well I’ve never done this so it must not be happening to women,’ and yet I do think that most women probably have experienced something that falls into that category.

S: You said that you felt like women of a certain age would have a hard time not saying ‘Me too’ and you said you were of that certain category. Have you ever been on the end of a sexual harassment case?

G: Not a case.

S: Or an incident?

G: Yes. I have.

S: What did you do in that incident? Did you report it?

G: No, and I’m not proud of that. Back then, people just really didn’t report it and I’ve had a couple of instances that have happened in the past. I think it’s wonderful now that we are in a culture where women are comfortable reporting and perhaps we are finally beginning to see the tide turn on it being okay to talk about these things.

S: As you are the highest administrator on campus and a woman, do you feel that you are a role model for women on this campus?

G: Well I would hope so, but I would never claim to be a role model in every respect and there are ways in which I might be and there are other ways in which I am definitely not. Cooking would be a great example of that. My youngest son bought me a cookbook for Christmas and the title of it is “How to Boil Water” and I have not yet opened it, so I still don’t know how to boil water. But maybe in some ways, yes, and in other ways, not so much.

S: So are you saying not being able to cook, you’re not a role model for women in that way?

G: No, I think anybody can cook. My husband is the cook at our house.

S: So there was an article in “The Wall Street Journal” about a lawsuit filed in 2001, that was against Walmart. It accused Walmart of systematically paying female workers less than men and providing them fewer opportunities for promotion.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote the dissent on the Supreme Court decision, saying that she felt that the burden of proof had been met based on past cases for class action discrimination lawsuits. From the outside, this case could reflect poorly and maybe make you look like you’re not an advocate for women. What can you say to women on campus, either about this case or in general, to refute that?

G: That’s a good question and that’s certainly not a case that I was highly involved in.

I was long gone from Walmart before much of that case had made its way through the court system. One of my roles during the time I was at Walmart was serving as the keeper of the company proxy statement. One thing that is true, under SCC rules, is that any shareholder who has a concern about something is able to file with the company proxy proposal and seek to have all of the shareholders take a vote on that issue. I viewed my role, in many respects, as providing, in Bentonville, Arkansas, a voice that executives might not necessarily hear outside of Bentonville, Arkansas. I took a lot of pride in making sure that I brought forward, to our executives, issues that were important to women, to LGBTQ individuals and on other social issues. So in that respect, I think I’ve done some good. I’m sure other people would look at my record and say ‘Oh no, absolutely not’ but I felt very good about that. During my time at Walmart, I wrote the first diversity brochure about the company, and it’s sort of sad to think that even at that time, we didn’t have any regular diversity report. But that was just something that was really important to me. I can’t say that I would look back on that effort today and say ‘well, that was great” because those kind of reports have evolved a

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lot over the last 15 or 20 years.

For its time, maybe it was a nice step forward.

S: Do you know what percentage of campus is female?

G: You know, it’s probably around 60%. I haven’t looked recently, but typically, in higher education today, at most universities, the university is about 60% female. I’ve got the data if you want me to send you that exact percentage.

S: According to “usnews,” it’s actually 62%, which is fairly close. That’s higher than KState, which is 52%, KU which is 50%, Pitt State, which is 53% and Washburn which is 60%.

So comparatively, we have the highest average of women on this campus and so this issue with Jane’s story, obviously effects a lot of women.

G: Sure.

S: What would you say to a campus that is yours that is 62% women, that would make them feel confident in the university’s policies and procedures to defend them against sexual assault and sexual harassment?

G: I would give any young woman several pieces of advice, and this is advice that is very similar to the kind that I’ve given to my daughter. I think you and I have talked about the fact that I have a daughter who just graduated from college, early, which I was really happy with. We do have all kinds of policies and procedures, you’re right about that. Sexual harassment should never happen. If it’s happened once, it’s happened one time too many. But we’ll talk about policies in a second. If you are ever in a situation where you feel uncomfortable, leave that situation.

Or, if you’re concerned about a situation, and you’re going into, take someone with you. We certainly do have policies and procedures. Often time, those kind of kick in after the fact. I will say, we do a lot of training. There’s always an opportunity to do more training but policies and procedures that have to do with sexual harassment often kick in after the fact. The more that young women feel comfortable about reporting, or older women, women of any age or anyone else on this campus who feels that they have been sexually harassed, the better this campus will become. As you know, we have a number of policies, lots of procedures. Sometimes it’s kind of confusing to people, but we do have individuals who are there to help you by hearing your complaint, investigating your complaint, alerting you to resources that are available to you if you do have some type of complaint.

S: How can women be confident that these policies and procedures will actually protect them when in cases such as Jane’s case, she wasn’t protected at all and the tenured faculty (member) still works here?

G: Well I can’t speak to Jane’s case. I can tell you that we do have policies and procedures.

We follow those very closely to

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the letter and in any situation, at times you have partial information that is available. I think one of your frustrations, your reader’s frustrations, my frustration is that I actually cannot share more information. There is only one person who can unlock that door and to date he has not wanted to do that.

S: I guess I’ll rephrase one last time. What can you say or promise to make women on this campus feel that if they do report, that they’re going to be listened to and something will happen that will help them, through these policies and procedures? That they won’t feel shut out in the same way that Jane, other women on this campus and men have felt shut out after the procedure has gone through.

G: What I have to go back to is we have these policies in place for a reason. We do follow them very closely and when we identify things that shouldn’t have happened that may have happened or did happen, we take appropriate action. I recognize that, given limited information, that sounds a little bit like a platitude and I certainly don’t intended that to be, but I would want your readers to know that we take all of this very, very seriously.

S: Could you maybe walk us through the firing of a tenured faculty? You said yourself it’s a very complicated process and there’s lots of policy and procedures that goes into that.

G: Right. I can speak to that policy, I cannot speak to a specific instance.

S: Right, so if you could just walk us through the process.

G: A tenured faculty member, who has received a notice of an intention to terminate, has an opportunity to appeal. All of us, students, faculty, staff, have due process rights, but in the case of tenured faculty members, there might be arguably a bit more process that is due.

If a tenured faculty member has exercised that option then what essentially happens is very much like a trial where a panel of disinterested tenured faculty, from other disciplines is selected to serve, essentially as a jury, and that group hears all of the evidence and then makes a recommendation to the president regarding the appropriate disposition of the matter.

S: And then you can either accept or decline whatever their decision is?

G: That’s correct.

S: I know there were some questions on Facebook from people, so I did want to address this. The people seem to be under the impression that tenured faculty can never be fired, and I know that’s not the case, but perhaps it would help to clarify for readers what specific things tenured faculty can be fired for.

G: There’s a fairly lengthy list, so I would draw your attention to that policy because it enumerates five or six reasons that would justify the termination of a tenured faculty mem-

ber upon sufficient proof.

S: And what kind of things would those be?

G: Examples might be if you caught a tenured faculty member stealing from the university.

Or sleeping with a student. Or plagiarizing a paper or research or something like that.

S: Have any tenured faculty been fired for cause at Emporia State during your time here?

G: No, not during my time here.

S: Okay. Have any sexual misconduct complaints been filed against Emporia State professors in the last three years?

How many?

G: I don’t know the number in the last three years.

S: Maybe the last year?

G: I’m only aware of the one.

S: And any disciplinary action that you can remember in the last three years that was taken?

G: I can’t speak to disciplinary action.

S: Okay.

G: To be clear, and you and I, I know you’ve discussed this with Gwen (Larson, assistant director of marketing and media relations) as well. One of the frustrations for me is that I cannot talk about confidential student information and I cannot talk about confidential personnel matters. I know you’re probably frustrated. I’m frustrated that I can’t explain.

S: Well I do have to ask this question, did you overrule the grievance panel’s recommendation and the provost’s recommendation for the firing of Brian Schrader?

G: I cannot answer those kinds of questions.

S: We understand that you cannot talk about specifics for Schrader.

G: Now, to be clear, if Dr. Schrader were to decide that he wanted to state something publicly, he could do that.

Or he could give the university permission. But that’s not happened.

S: Would it be appropriate to fire, and this specifically comes from Facebook some of these questions, to fire a tenured faculty if they murdered someone?

G: Yes. S: Would-?

G: So murder, yes. But it would depend on the circumstances.

S: Of the murder?

G: So there’s justifiable homicide. If you’re a woman who’s being abused, and you are killing your abuser, it gets a lot murkier. So just, there’s a big range, but if someone is going to prison for first degree murder, they probably don’t have the option of continuing their employment anyway, but that would certainly be grounds for termination.

S: What about beating someone up? Getting in a fist fight?

G: It’s hard for me to answer those because I think the circumstances are always going to be very, very different. Until you see the full facts of a particular matter, you can’t really address what the appropriate resolution is.

S: Right. You mentioned embezzlement and stealing as being possibilities.

G: Possibilities, yes.

S: Right. What about sexual battery?

G: You know, again, on any of those, I think you have to look at exactly what is proven and you have to look at the full record. It’s a question of what is proven.

S: One of the other questions that has come up quite frequently is, why is it seemingly such a secret how these matters are happening? It is through shared governance and I know the letter that you sent to Rob Catlett was read in Faculty Senate and the letter was worded in such a way that most senators didn’t even know what was being discussed. I asked many

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continued from page 1 swers students have received from them continued to be a theme of discussion throughout the rest of the nearly twohour town hall meeting.

Wyatt, Webb and Koci intended the town hall discussion to focus on adaptive change, using the “adaptive leadership principles”, while addressing the recent sexual assault story on campus.

“We have been disturbed about recent events on our campus,” Webb said. “We wanted to step into that disquiet and see if we could create some form of conversation that could help to move us forward toward meaningful change, future conversations and action.”

Webb, Wyatt and Koci attempted to steer the discussion towards a predetermined format using the adaptive leadership principles. They asked for people to follow the leadership model and place their questions and comments into three categories: observations, interpretation and possible solutions.

Students resisted having their comments moderated and insisted on telling their own stories, holding administration accountable and demanding the firing of Brian Schrader, a tenured professor of psychology. Schrader is still employed at ESU as of yesterday, according to the department of Human Resources.

No administrators spoke

Sixteen administrators attended the town hall, with the majority of them sitting in the back of the room. President Allison Garrett, David Cordle, provost, Kevin Johnson, general counsel, Ray Lauber, director of Human Resources, Affirmative Action and Title IX coordinator and Lisa Moritz, associate Affirmative Action Officer and Title IX Deputy coordinator, were in attendance, among others. None of the administrators spoke during the town hall.

In an email sent out to students on Feb. 21, Megan McReynolds, ASG president junior sociology major, encouraged students to wear black in support of the Time’s Up movement.

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continued from page 1 more lies in what incoming LGBT students would think if they learned that she took it out, so we more want to make sure that we’re working with the university to make sure LGBT students feel welcome, secure and like they have a place here at ESU.” According to The Bulletin archives from Nov. 16, 1998, a sexual discrimination clause was removed from the university’s Equal Opportunity Statement. The clause gave students, faculty and staff protection from being dismissed or discriminated against due to sexual orientation. It was implemented in 1990, by a bill passed by ASG, according to the archives.

“In my research I learned that the reason why she took it out was because lawyers advised her that Kansas... wouldn’t give health benefits to business who partnered with gay employees,” Atherton said. “Her lawyers advised her ‘Hey, maybe take that out and we won’t have to deal with some litigation.’

In Dec. 10, 1998, however, I noticed some Faculty Senate bills, notes and resolutions

“As we enter a time of unprecedented opportunity to support student success, it is time to rally against the inequalities before us,” McReynolds wrote. “In the face of challenging perceptions and important conversations, we stand in solidarity with the ‘Time’s Up’ movement and once again encourage all Emporia State University students to wear black.”

Of the students, faculty, staff, administrators and community members in attendance, approximately 40 percent wore black. Garrett, Johnson and Moritz wore black, along with several other administrators. Gwen Larson, assistant director of media relations, also wore black.

McReynolds and Jacob Miller, ASG vice president and sophomore communication major, were also in attendance, wearing black in support of the movement.

‘Time’s up’

During the meeting, students spoke about the issues that contribute to a climate that allows sexual harassment, such as shame and fear and lack of administration support.

Students also expressed their disappointment in the format of the forum and the conversation being steered towards the culture of sexual harassment, rather than addressing the issue of sexual harassment on ESU’s campus.

“I know that we’re not trying to focus on a lot of quick fixes, it is a community issue and it is a societal problem and something that is going to keep popping up...at the same time, I don’t think it’s a bad start to have this discussion,” said Caitlyn Price, sophomore psychology major. “Is Brian Schrader still employed on this campus? Are we still employing a sexual predator? That issue specifically has really been avoided today and...personally, I’m very disappointed in that.”

As a psychology major, Price said that if Schrader continues to be employed by ESU, he is someone she will have to work with. that did put that back in.”

“The lawyers for both the regents and ESU said ‘You’ve got to take it out,’ but it was interesting because then immediately the other started to put it right back in and I think she was a big part of that,” Garrett said.

“What I heard was that instead of that going through the normal shared governance processes, a single individual slipped it in one year and then, and on advice from lawyers, it came out the next year but Kay (Schallenkamp) started working to get it back in,” Garrett said. “I think we beat the regents as a system in putting it in because the regents as a system didn’t put it in until maybe a couple of years after that.”

According to The Bulletin archives from Nov. 16, 1998, the clause was removed following the legal advisement from the Kansas Board of Regents. Kansas State University and Kansas University, both regent schools, maintained a similar clause in their Equal Opportunity statements.

It was removed because regents counsel to ESU did not think it was appropriate for the university to establish a category of protection that state and federal law did not

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Gary Wyatt, assistant provost and dean of the Honors College, put on the town hall meeting with Amy Sage Webb, professor of English, modern language and journalism and Mallory Koci, clinical instructor in the Honors College and interdisciplinary studies on Tuesday in Preston Family Room. Approximately 250 students, faculty, staff and community members attended. Xiangru Chen | The Bulletin

“I’m also a sexual assault survivor,” Price said.

“I’m a rape survivor. Is that someone you all are telling me that I’m going to have to work with for my time here at ESU?” Kayla Gilmore, a senior political science major, agreed, saying that the issue was that they weren’t discussing the “actual problem on hand.”

“When we say time’s up, we mean time’s up,” Gilmore said. “Time’s up on bad hiring practices, time’s up on administration not being transparent with their process, it means time’s up on finding information out from The Bulletin rather than from the people that we work with or the people who supervise us or advise us. It means time’s up on sexual assault on campus. Time’s up on silencing victims.”

‘Technical solutions’

Wyatt and Webb intended the town hall to focus on making a change, without relying on “authority to save us,” according to the email sent out about the meeting.

“It is easy to make it about the administration and one of the things we want to do here is make it about us and what can we do,” Wyatt said.

Students resisted this, calling for ESU to hold administration accountable and

for Schrader to be fired.

“Let’s say we fire him, let’s say we fire them all, let’s say we fire all the bad apples,” Webb said. “We’re going to get them again if we don’t address what gave rise to them in the first place.”

Webb said that it is important to focus on adaptive solutions, instead of only technical solutions, such as punishment or discipline.

“I don’t say that technical solutions don’t make progress but if you simply get rid of one individual and you do not address the systemic problem that made it possible in the first place, you will get the same thing over again,” Webb said.

Throughout the event, Webb, Wyatt and Koci encouraged students to think of solutions and what they could do to make a change, without focusing on technical solutions.

“I feel like we’re skipping a process here,” Gilmore said. “Without ever having discussed the technical issue, we’re skipping to the adaptive issue and I think that’s why we’re having a hard time transitioning into that...

Expecting us to talk about what we can do is difficult when we aren’t even discussing why we are here in the first place.”

Wyatt disagreed and asked students to continue

to focus on the larger picture, especially the system.

“We were saying just a minute ago that the technical problem needs to be fixed first and I don’t think so,” Wyatt said. “I think systems are really huge and until we do what needs to be done to change them, then the technical problems will never go away.”

Elle Jorgensen, freshman elementary education major, identified herself as a sexual assault victim and questioned the usage of using adaptive leadership principles.

“You, the Kansas Leadership Center Faculty-in-Residence, stated in the email sent to all of ESU students that...‘a pivotal principal of the adaptive leadership model that we aspire to is that we do not look to authority to save us, we save ourselves,” Jorgensen said. “You have given us no option but to save ourselves now. My question to that statement, though, is how are we supposed to save ourselves when victims like Jane have been silenced and are threatened punishment for speaking out? When the person involved in this incident reported it, like she should have, the university shut her out and threatened punishment. To this I say, ‘shame on you.’ ...Time is up ESU.”

Miranda Boyer, junior history major, Mesa Weidembach, secretary of PRIDE and freshman political science major, as well as other PRIDE members listen to President Allison Garrett yesterday in Miller Room of the Memorial Union speak about the lack of gender neutral bathrooms on the first floor of the union. Garrett made an appearance to the meeting to listen to the concerns of LGBTQ members had about the name for the new campus dorms which are named after Kay Schallenkamp, who removed a clause from ESU’s Equal Opportunity Statement protecting LGBTQ students from discrimination. Abigail Ponce | The Bulletin

protect, according to The Bulletin archives from Nov. 23, 1998.

The initial concern originated from an email to Rochelle Rowley, PRIDE adviser and assistant professor of sociology, anthropology and crime and delinquency studies, from alumni Dale Masterson. Masterson was the associated student government vice president from 1990-91.

“I wrote legislation calling for the university to add sexual orientation to the university’s non-discrimination clause,” Masterson wrote.

“The current president at that time, Robert Glennen, responded by having sexual orientation added to the nondiscrimination clause. Dr Glennen was later replaced

by Kay Schallenkamp. One of her first actions as the new ESU President was to

remove sexual orientation from the university’s nondiscrimination clause.”

Masterson was disappointed by ESU’s decision to name the residence hall after Schallenkamp.

“It will be a travesty if her name is forever linked to the university, especially by being placed on a residence hall, considering how she didn’t value LGBTQI students,” Masterson wrote.

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Brettany Williams, estudiante de tercer año en psicología en el Honors College, entre los otros estudiantes del curso de honores de problemas globales en Emporia State University viajara a Uganda en el verano.

“Cuando estén ahí, una de las organizaciones con la que van a trabajar se llama Edukey (organización de soporte de géneros de Edukey) y trabajan con muchachas, particularmente muchachas del barrio pobre”, dijo Westfall. “El año pasado cuando estuvimos con Edukey les ayudamos en construir una pared y pintarla, dimos entrenamiento de liderazgo, trajimos computadoras y ayudamos con el entrenamiento de las computadoras (…) con cualquier cosa

que necesitaban”.

Inicialmente el viaje se empezó hace unos años con la ayuda de David Westfall, un instructor de ESU en el departamento de sociología, antropología y de estudios de crimen y delincuencia.

Westfall estaba escribiendo su disertación sobre los eventos culturales en Uganda, y los estudiantes empezaron a interesarse en ir también.

“Durante mi segundo año aquí (en ESU), algunos estudiantes estaban preguntando si podían ir, así que me lleve a un grupo de estudiantes conmigo”, dijo Westfall. “El colegio de honores estaba interesado en lo que estábamos haciendo, y luego empezaron a involucrarse, ahora es más o menos como una asociación entre sociología y el colegio de honores donde llevamos los estudiantes al extranjero”.

Parte del propósito del viaje incluye ‘el proyecto de toallas de Renae’ que fue empezado por Renae Wyatt. El proyecto de toallas de Renae está guiado en proveer mujeres en Uganda con materiales y enseñándoles en como hacer los productos higiénicos femeninos reutilizables.

“Este año soy afortunado porque voy a colaborar con Renae (Wyatt) para mi proyecto comunitario de honores que hacemos por medio del colegio de honores”, dijo Williams. “Ya que voy a ir a Uganda, es algo que me excita y conozco a Renae, la he conocido por mucho tiempo así que fue algo que me interesó, algo que quería hacer mucho”.

Los estudiantes también harán proyectos adicionales durante el viaje de cuatro a seis, posiblemente incluyendo trabajo en las renova-

David Westfall, profesor en el departamento de sociología, antología y estudios de crimen y delincuencia, apunta a Uganda en un mapa el viernes en su oficina y habla sobre sus experiencias en el viaje. Estudiantes del Honors College y sociología viajarán a Uganda este verano para trabajar con la organización Edukey. Tingxuan Lu | The Bulletin

ciones para una escuela y un barrio en Uganda, de acuerdo con Wyatt.

“Yo pienso que lo que el Dr. Westfall nos empuja no es nada en específico, solo es para aprender sobre una

cultura nueva y experimentar con una vida y sociedad que es muy diferente a la de nosotros”, dijo Williams.

“El quiere que aprendamos y apreciemos una nueva cultura”.

Gobierno Estudiantil Asociado discute una resolución que exige la despedida de Schrader

Kristian Gilmore, estudiante de segundo año en comunicación, habla sobre el abuso sexual en campus el lunes en el Senate Chamber. "El Gobierno Estudiantil Asociado, el cuerpo estudiantil y todas las víctimas de asalto sexual y acoso exigen que corran a Brian Shrader de la facultad de Emporia State para asegurar un campus seguro para los Hornets actuales y futuros", leyó Kristian Gilmore, senadora de ASG y estudiante de segundo año en comunicación. La junta se enfocó en la resolución que se originó de Caylie Ratzlaff, senadora y estudiante de tercer año en educación de ciencia social e ingles. Gabriel Molina Maruda | The Bulletin

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El Gobierno Estudiantil Asociado (ASG) presentó una resolución sobre la respuesta de Emporia State

al caso de la mala conducta sexual en el campus, en su junta el lunes pasado.

"Una resolución para condenar las acciones de ESU en relación al manejo de la agresión sexual", leyó

Kristian Gilmore, senadora de ASG y estudiante de segundo año en comunicación. "El Gobierno Estudiantil Asociado, el cuerpo estudiantil y todas las víctimas de asalto sexual y acoso exigen que corran a Brian Shrader de la facultad de Emporia State para asegurar un campus seguro para los Hornets actuales y futuros".

La resolución fue presentada en respuesta a un artículo publicado por The Bulletin sobre la investigación de la conducta sexual inapropiada que involucró al profesor de psicología Brian Schrader y una estudiante coreana que ha sido referida como “Jane” por su privacidad como víctima de abuso sexual.

"El Gobierno Estudiantil Asociado reconoce a todas las víctimas de acoso y agresión sexual y el trauma que conlleva ser una víctima", Gilmore leyó en la resolución. "El gobierno estudiantil asociado exige que

Emporia State University se encargue de todos los casos de agresión sexual con cero tolerancia y con apoyo a las víctimas".

Caylie Ratzlaff, senadora de ASG y estudiante de segundo año en educación de ciencia social e ingles, originó la resolución, que fue patrocinada por Gilmore.

La resolución establece un intento de, a su aprobación, enviarse a la Presidenta de ESU, Allison Garrett, Senado de la Facultad, The Bulletin, The Emporia Gazette y "cualquier otra entidad involucrada en este asunto".

"El Gobierno Estudiantil Asociado aplaude el esfuerzo de The Bulletin para aclarar esta mala conducta de Brian Schrader y Emporia State University", dijo Gilmore. "El Gobierno Estudiantil Asociado pide que Emporia State University lo haga mejor. Nos corresponde a nosotros detener el asalto sexual y brindar un campus seguro para to-

das las personas".

Sin embargo, Nick Wathke, senador de ASG y estudiante de último año en historia, política y ciencias menores, propuso que la resolución elimine los nombres de todos los individuos, incluyendo Brian Schrader y Jane, y que excluya toda mención de la cobertura de los medios sobre el caso de violencia sexual.

"Creo que debemos ver el hecho de que somos un cuerpo legislativo y no estamos aquí para condenar a individuos específicos", dijo Wathke, "También debemos tener en cuenta que los resultados de la investigación del incidente citado en esta resolución no son aún concluyente".

Debido a circunstancias externas, no hubo tiempo suficiente para abordar todas las inquietudes sobre esta resolución durante esta junta, pero la resolución se ha presentado para ser discutida en la siguiente junta de ASG en marzo.

Gobierno Estudiantil Asociado se prepara para el debate 2018-19 G aby A mparan g a m pa r a n @ e s u b u l l e t i n . c o m

El debate presidencial para la elección 2018-2019 del gobierno estudiantil asociado (ASG) con los candidatos para presidente y vicepresidente será hoy a las 5:00 p.m. en el Preston Family Room en el Memorial Union.

“Siempre es triste ver que una era se termina, pero creo que es algo bueno”, dijo Megan McReynolds, presidenta de ASG y estudiante de tercer año en ciencia política. “Espero que la fundación que construimos este año sea beneficio para el próximo año, para que puedan ver cómo sus acciones pueden impactar las experiencias aquí en ESU”.

Hay dos pares de candidatos para presidente y vicepresidente. Para el debate, tomarán turnos en los

dos podios para contestar preguntas.

“Las preguntas son ocultadas hasta cinco minutos antes del debate, luego los candidatos tendrán cinco minutos para verlas, y eso es cuando empieza el debate”, dijo Christina Brunton, comisionadora de la elección de ASG y estudiante de último año en negocio. “Y luego tienen dos minutos por pregunta”.

Después del debate va a ver tiempo para conocer a los candidatos el 5 de marzo en el Memorial Unión, según el sitio web de ASG. Será en Main Street para que estudiantes puedan conocer mejor a los candidatos antes de votar.

“La elección es del 6 al 8 de marzo, entonces esos días tendremos locaciones para votar en el Memorial Unión y la biblioteca, por lo menos”, dijo Brunton. Los

estudiantes pueden votar en esas estaciones, y también por correo electrónico”.

Se tomará de acabo una fiesta para anunciar los ganadores a las 6:00 p.m. el 8 de marzo como una hora después de que se cierre la votación. La locación de la fiesta no ha sido determinada.

“Los candidatos tienen la libertad de decidir que quieren hacer”, dijo Brunton.

“Se que unos distribuyen mercancía pero es la decisión de ellos”.

El debate durará una hora y no se permitirá tiempo para preguntas de la audiencia después, debido al evento Bonner and Bonner que empezará pronto después.

“Estoy emocionada para ver como va la elección”, dijo McReynolds. “Y cómo pueden prosperar en su liderazgo”.

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Hornet trumpeter dedicated to music R oyell B owleg rbowleg@esubulle tin.com

Bailey Poage, junior music performance and music education major, is a trumpet player at Emporia State who has been involved in band leadership since he was a freshman. His love for music inspires him to go above and beyond, practicing every day and helping out the band as an equipment manager.

“My experience at ESU can be described as eye opening and stressful, but in a good way,” Poage said.

“I’ve learned how to do things on my own and to go beyond that and hopefully one day to succeed.”

Poage’s favorite style of music is jazz, he said. He has enjoyed being part of jazz bands in high school, but really came into his own at ESU. “I wasn’t standing next to high schoolers anymore, I was standing next to

some of the best players at the college level and I was apart of that,” Poage said.

Poage acts as one of two equipment managers for the band, organizing the placement of chairs and the stands for rehearsals and performances.

“I think it’s really cool that he is helping out the band, apart from being in it,” said Lindsey Fender, senior interdisciplinary studies major.

He also drives the band’s equipment to various venues where they may be performing, he said.

“It’s appreciative that he is putting in a lot of work and his own personal time,” said Clarissa Childress, junior elementary education major.

Poage is very dedicated to his craft and wants to continue improving his musical abilities. Recently he performed in the ESU Wind Ensemble Concert held at Albert Taylor Hall, the ESU Jazz Concert,

Bailey Poage, junior trumpet performance and music education major, practices yesterday morning in the band room of Beach Hall. Poage, who is an equipment manager for the band on campus, practices nearly every day.

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and with the ESU Jazz band in Wichita at the Kansas Music Educators association.

“I practice every day, weekends included,” Poage

said. “I am very driven to learn the language of music and to be able to play the trumpet at the best of my ability.”

He hopes to audition for

the trumpet section leader once the opportunity presents itself, Poage said.

“I plan on playing trumpet until the day I die,” Poage said.

Bonner and Bonner Diversity Lecture to host Evelyn Hill C aleb M oes cmoes@esubulle tin.com

The annual Bonner and Bonner Lecture continues this year with Evelyn Hill, a former member of the Kansas City, Kansas Board of Education, who will be speaking about civic leadership for the common good.

“We want to bring in people who are exercising leadership, people who are actually making progress on important issues of the day,” said Gary Wyatt, assistant provost and director of the honors college. “We are pleased with her response and willingness to come down earlier and spend time with students.”

Hill values education and believes every child has the right to receive quality education, according to a pamphlet from the Honors College. She embraces the fact that we are

lifelong learners and that everyday we have opportunities to learn new things.

“Hill believes we need to prepare this generation of students for the global workforce which is very different from the workforce of yesterday,” the pamphlet said. “This new generation of learners must be prepared to excel in the technical fields of the new laptop, smartphone and iPad learning tools and beyond. Technology is changing rapidly therefore education should be changing rapidly.”

The Bonner and Bonner Lecture Series was established in 1992 by Thomas and Mary Bonner, according to emporia. edu. The Honors College began sponsoring and organizing the event in 2015.

The Honors College has been putting on the lecture series for a few years now about

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diversity and leadership, according to Wyatt. In the past they have brought in nationally known speakers, but this year they decided to bring in a speaker from the Kansas City area.

“She will be talking about her efforts in working with others in the Kansas City area to help homeless children become successful,” Wyatt said.

The Honors College is expecting around 250 people to attend, according to Wyatt.

This lecture will be free to all students, as well as the community of Emporia.

“We do want people to get tickets, they are free of charge in the Memorial Union ticket office,” Wyatt said. “We prefer those attending to have a ticket but we will not turn

those down who just show up at the door.”

Along with the main lecture, Hill will have a Q&A discussion with students at 2 p.m. in Visser Hall room 118 and dinner with students, faculty and community members at 5 p.m. in the Veterans Hall of Honor.

Hill will speak at 7 p.m. tonight in Albert Taylor Hall.

Submit your abstract for Research & Creativity Day!

Sponsored by the Research and Grants Center, the Undergraduate Research, Scholarship and Creative Activities Committee, and The Honors College, Research and Creativity Day is set aside to highlight a wide range of student and faculty research and creative activities.

Research and Creativity Day will be Wednesday, April 25.

The morning will begin with oral presentations by undergraduate and graduate students and the poster session will take place in the afternoon. A Three Minute Thesis (3MT) contest will also take place in the morning for graduate students. Students interested in the Three Minute Thesis are also eligible to submit poster abstracts.

Visual and performing artists are also encouraged to participate. A separate room for performances and the visual arts will be available if there are faculty or students interested in participating. The award ceremony will take place during the luncheon, which is free to all participants. Participants and attendees will be able to participate in People's Choice Awards this year.

Please go to www.emporia.edu/research/rcd.html to submit your abstract. Students may submit abstracts for both an oral presentation and a poster. Faculty are encouraged to participate in the poster session.

Submissions are due by Tuesday, April 10, 2018.

This is an excellent opportunity for faculty and students to share with the campus community their research, scholarly, or creative work.

Free lunch for all participants Free t-shirt for all participants People’s Choice Awards Door Prizes The Guidelines for Presenters site contains information on poster equipment and tips on developing posters. All participants are encouraged to visit http://www.emporia.edu/research/guidelinesfor-presenters.html. Contact Pam Fillmore at pfillmor@emporia.edu or at extension 5351 if you have questions.

Don’t wait – submit your abstract now!

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S: That sort of seems very secretive and I was wondering why that was the case?

G: Well it’s hard for me to say because that policy was drafted sometime back in the mists of time. I do think there is reason to review that policy, but as you know, I assume, because you probably have looked at the policy, the faculty member in question, under the policy that has to do with termination of a tenured faculty member has the right to say ‘This is a closed hearing, it’s all going to be secret.’

S: Why wasn’t the decision, in the letter to Rob Catlett, revealed when he read it in front of the Faculty Senate?

G: If you, again, read that policy, you will see that the faculty member is given the option of how much gets disclosed.

S: Was that one about Schrader?

G: I can’t answer that, Sarah.

S: Okay. Sort of on a different note, I know we’ve talked about the Non-Disclosure (Agreement) quite a bit with Gwen (Larson, assistant director of marketing and media relations) and we’ve been told that they’re no longer in effect as of September of 2017, so why wasn’t Jane notified that the NDA was no longer in effect and that she was no longer tied to that?

G: You know, you would have to visit with Ray Lauber (director of Human Resources, Affirmative Action and Title IX Coordinator) and Lisa Moritz (associate affirmative action officer and Title IX deputy coordinator) about that. I don’t know whether they made a decision to simply move forward from this point or whether they made a decision with respect to past investigations that they needed to notify people about a change in practice.

S: Okay. If you could send a message to Jane, what would it be?

G: I would want her to know that it’s incredibly important that any young woman, and I’m not speaking specifically to her, but any young woman who experiences something that makes them feel uncomfortable, needs to report that.

We don’t move forward as an institution, we don’t get better as a society, as a whole doesn’t get better, when people stay silent about things like this. I’m pleased when people come forward when they’ve experienced something that they think is not right.

S: I understand that Jane and other students who file complaints are protected by federal laws of confidentiality, for obvious reasons, but that’s not true of state employees.

While state law says that personnel matters might be exempt, it doesn’t mandate it. So why withhold all the information?

G: I actually asked that very question and was given a fairly long list of a variety of different federal laws, state laws and university policies. Something we touched on earlier, the fact that we have certain university policies in place today, doesn’t mean that those are the right policies for moving forward.

In fact, I’ve asked our Faculty Senate to lead a process of creating a task force that involves all the shared governance groups, including students, to look at whether we have the right policies in place on some of these matters. Sometimes you go through a particular process and it ends up being a sort of messy process when you realize that policies you thought would work, don’t work as cleanly or there are unintended consequences to certain provisions and those policies need to be reexamined. It’s clear that we’ve reached that point. There was already work being done to reexamine some of our policies but there are

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Allison Garrett additional policies that, in my opinion, need work.

S: And what kind of policies are those, that you think need work?

G: Well I asked the Faculty Senate, in particular, to look at two sets of issues. One set of issues has to do with this whole issue of confidentiality.

There are so many different laws that promise confidentiality in one form or another. We have so many different policies that promise confidentiality and yet we also know that sometimes that might not be ideal, in certain circumstances.

I think having a group look at that, particularly whereas here a portion of a faculty policy has been one of the sticking points here, would be important.

The other set of issues that I asked them to look at have to do with questions of how you discipline and whether our policies, which we go through whenever there’s a matter like this, whether our policies work as intended, whether there are unintended consequences, and whether there are changes that are needed to those particular policies.

S: You said you asked this same question? Who did you ask? What was the context of that conversation?

G: On the confidentiality?

S: Yes. G: I asked the general counsel for a list. This goes back to I think, your readers being frustrated, you being frustrated, me being frustrated too, because there’s obviously more to this story and we can’t legally disclose it.

S: Wouldn’t it serve campus just to be able to say that a faculty committee was convened to consider the firing of a tenured faculty? In your opinion?

G: You’ve raised a very interesting question. Our counsel has opined that sharing the fact of a convening of any disciplinary body does in fact violate that individual’s right to confidential personnel records. As I said, any individual can decide on their own to waive confidentiality of their personnel records. That’s not our option.

S: How often does that generally happen? That people waive their confidentiality rights?

G: I think it would be fairly rare.

S: Yeah.

G: But I don’t know.

S: In last week’s Gazette editorial, Chris Walker… said he would have fired Schrader and he accused you of having a lack of empathy for Jane. How would you respond to that?

G: I don’t want to talk about this specific matter. You know, as I mentioned earlier, there’s obviously far more to this story than you’ve been able to report on to date. Or that the university has been able to speak to. It’s unfortunate, I think, that there can’t be more evidence or more information out there in the public, but we are bound by certain laws which are unfortunate. I would say that, not specific to Jane, but

for any circumstance like this, I certainly understand what it’s like to be on the receiving end of unwanted attention. As I mentioned earlier, I think a lot of women of a certain age have, at some point, been on the receiving end of unwelcome or unexpected advances.

As someone who has raised a daughter in this environment too, I think that it’s important for all young women to know that they can and they should speak up when something happens to them.

S: Yes. And so maybe not specifically Jane, but say any sexual assault or sexual harassment victim, would you say, for yourself, that you have a lack of empathy for people that have gone through that?

G: I certainly wouldn’t say that. But I also want to be clear that there are certainly women and men on this campus and in this community who have probably had horrific things happen to them. The things that have happened to me, pale in comparison.

S: Yeah.

G: But it’s certainly true that different people react differently to different circumstances and anytime, whether they’re at Emporia State or in the workplace in the community, or in one of the other schools or at one of the government organizations in and around this community and in the state of Kansas, women need to be comfortable going forward.

S: My last question would be, anything else you want to tell us that maybe you want the campus community to know?

G: That’s a great question.

Let me just make a couple of observations. I am very pleased that we have a group of KLC faculty who recognize that this is a bit of an inflection point for Emporia State.

These issues we’ve seen are pervasive throughout society.

It would have been, I think, naive to think that this sort of issue would never come to Emporia State. There’s a lot of important work to be done over the next several months.

I’m excited to partner with others to move forward on ensuring that we have the kinds of policies, the kind of processes in place that we need to make people comfortable reporting, to make sure people feel heard.

We’ll be working on a lot of important topics over the next several months.

S: What does that look like?

You said you’ll be working on changing policy and I know you mentioned faculty senate.

G: Right, so I mentioned those two areas where I think Faculty Senate could be of particular assistance and in addition, there have been policy changes in the works for months now that relate to Title IX and Title VII and The Violence Against Women’s Act is part of that as well. Every so often, it is incredibly important to take a look at whether your policies work and sometimes you don’t know whether they did or didn’t work until you

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go through a particular matter and then you think “Oh well, this didn’t work the way it should have worked.” So there’s that that’s already in process. There’s a lot of additional steps required before anyone gets to a point of saying “That’s a policy we all feel good about.” Then the Faculty Senate has been asked to, starting this Spring, but probably continuing on through the Fall semester, to make recommendations regarding those two broad categories of issues that I mentioned, and I’ve asked them to engage all of the shared governance in that review.

S: So anything else you want to say, maybe encouraging students? Or anything at all?

G: It’s important that the students do make their voice heard. I mentioned that we were going through these processes and, of course, we’ve been working on goal 5 which is to become a model for diversity, equity and inclusion, these policies, these processes are a piece of that and the students voice is incredibly important in that. As we get to the point where there is much broader engagement, where the faculty senate is really beginning that process, I think it’s incredibly important that we have students who are willing to step up to the plate and play an important role in that. One other thing I would just like to mention, and I was pleased that in your initial article, you did keep the student’s identity confidential. One of the things that weighs heavily, so often, is you hear about so many issues, whether in D.C. or Hollywood or right here, at home in Kansas, that at times there has been a culture of victim shaming, which is incredibly unhealthy.

So thank you for that.

S: Okay. Well, thank you for meeting with us.

G: Yeah. Thank you. And I know you guys are frustrated. I have rarely been as frustrated. The only other time, I’m going to tell you a real quick story, maybe you’ll find it funny, maybe not. The only other time where I found myself frustrated was because, well in this case it’s because we cannot share because there are actually legal rules that prevent that. Once when I was working for Walmart, back in the day, we ended up with this weird situation where we were either going to violate the laws of the United States or the laws of Canada. There was no ‘We’re not violating anybody’s laws here’ approach that made sense, and it was kind of frustrating. I’m not analogizing this exactly to that situation but at times you think it’s frustrating because there’s not. As I mentioned, there’s only one individual who can make it okay for us to share a lot of additional information or even some additional information. That’s the way the policy works.

S: Thanks.

G: Yes. Thank you.

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Hornet men fall to Northwest at home C hristina W ankum c wa n k u m @ e s u b u l l e t i n . c o m

The Hornet baseball team took a fall to Northwest Missouri State University in a series last weekend, losing all three games.

The first game of the double header was played on Sunday, Feb. 25. It was a close battle between the two schools. The Bearcats took the lead in the bottom of the second inning, 2-0 against the Hornets.

In the fifth inning, the Hornets put themselves on the board with one run.

The following inning, they doubled their score, tying it 2-2.

The game continued tied until the 14th inning, where the Bearcats put one run on the board to win the game, 2-3.

Emporia State started off

the second game of the day very strong, scoring three runs in the top of the first inning.

The Bearcats were not far behind as they gained run after run in the following innings, finally taking the led by one in the seventh inning. The Hornets, who had lead the game up until this point, were defeated by Northwest Missouri State University 6-7.

The third and final game was played the following day, Feb. 26.

Like the previous day, the Hornets got off to a quick lead, closing on three runs and starting the scoring off in the bottom of the first inning, 3-0.

ESU continued to score two more runs in the second inning. The Bearcats, however, answered with 4 runs, raising the score to 5-4

Taylor Sanagorski, senior catcher, throws out the Northwest Missouri State runner at first base Monday at Trusler Sports Complex. The Hornets lost all three games this week and have a 6-7 record. Abigail Ponce | The Bulletin

Bearcats again outscored the in action at 5 p.m. tomorrow by the second inning. at the Trusler Sports Complex The game ended in the Hornets by one, 11-12.

The Hornets will be back against Southwest Baptist.

12th inning, where the

Track ends indoor Hornet basketball wraps up regular season against UCO season at conference M ackenzie T hornton mthornton@esubulle tin.com

The men’s and women’s basketball teams traveled to Edmond, Oklahoma last Saturday to battle the Bronchos in their last regular season games. Both men and women took close losses, but the women will continue to play in the MIAA postseason tournament.

The women opened the game strong, but could not hold on to a lead in the first half and went into the second quarter with a 22-14 deficit.

After a 12-2 run, UCO extended their lead to 52-32

at halftime.

The Lady Hornets came out of the locker room with renewed energy, outscoring UCO 23-19 in the third quarter. ESU kept the momentum going into the final quarter of the game. A final run of 31-16 in favor of the Hornets in final quarter was not enough for the women, and they lost the game 87-86.

Tyra Jones, junior forward, led the team in scoring with 20 points, followed by Emily Miller, junior forward, with 19 points. Jacee Kramer, senior guard, also scored 18 points for the Hornets.

Following the women’s

game, the men’s basketball team took on UCO in their final game of their season.

In the first half, the Hornets outscored the Bronchos 2725.

The final score was 7673 in favor of UCO, despite junior guard Brandon Hall’s outstanding birthday performance and senior forward Garin Vandiver’s 20 cumulative points.

The women won their first game of the postseason tournament against Northeastern State University, and they will take on Fort Hays State University today at noon, in Kansas City, Missouri.

OPINION

‘Super Teams’ ruining the world of sports

B ethany B owman bbowman@esubulle tin.com

Lebron James and Kevin Durant are just a couple of players on the list of best basketball players in history.

After being selected in the first round of the NBA draft in 2003 by the Cavaliers, James played for Cleveland in his home state of Ohio until leaving for the Miami Heat in 2010 to team up with Dwyane Wade.

In Miami, he reached the NBA finals all four years and helped lead the Heat to backto-back Championships in 2012 and 2013. James then headed back to Cleveland where he lead the Cavs to the finals from 2015 through 2017, winning another championship in 2016.

Durant was drafted in the first round to the Seattle SuperSonics (known as the Oklahoma City Thunder today) in 2007 after a phenomenal career at the University of Texas. He played there from 2008 until 2016 when he left to play for the Golden State Warriors, a team with standout players like Steph Curry and Klay Thompson.

Now, there’s talk of James considering joining the Warriors in a free-agent deal, and while there are always trade rumors, it is definitely not out of the question.

This is just one of many examples of professional sports teams ‘ganging’ up to create a seemingly inevitable championship team.

And it’s ruining sports.

Period.

I’m not saying players have to stay in one spot forever. They all live their lives wanting change from time to time like most of us do.

H o w e v e r, bringing together as many of the highest caliber players possible is wrong. Spreading

these players out and watching which ones can lead their team full of non-poster players to a championship is what makes sports fun to watch.

I may be picking on the NBA, though. Every sport is following suit.

The MLB is right behind them with the Yankees acquiring MVP outfielder Giancarlo Stanton from the Marlins to pair with slugger Aaron Judge and several other players being just one example.

The NFL and even college sports are beginning to get greedy with their trade deals and recruiting. It’s about how stacked they can make the team, not about good old fashioned, gritty competition.

Sports are taking a step back with this initiative, and it’s only going to continue when professional athletes set this example.

James said when returning to Cleveland from Miami… ”I’m coming home.”

I’m hoping that instead of building an empire with Golden State, he’ll stay there.

championship

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Over three days of competition at Pitt State in Pittsburg, Kansas, the Hornets turned out three event champions, three silver medal finishes, three conference meet records and a single school record at the championship.

Taysean Goodwin, junior sprinter, won and set a meet record in the 400 meter dash with a time of 47.74, placed second in the 200 meter dash and anchored the men’s 4x400 meter relay to a championship and meet record.

Luke Stenzel, sophomore sprinter, set a school record in the 600 yard dash with a time of 1:09.74. Thomas LaRoche, senior middle distance runner, went into the meet with two straight championships in the 800

meter, but missed winning his third title by one second.

Wyatt Sander, senior multi-athlete, placed fourth overall in the men’s heptathlon, and fifth overall in the 60 meter hurdles.

The men’s team placed second overall in the meet.

For the women, Emily Blevins, graduate student, finished third in the 600 yard dash and Jazmin Williams, sophomore sprinter and long jumper, placed fourth in the long jump.

Iva Shepherd, senior pole vaulter, cleared 3.61 meters to be ranked third overall for ESU. After all other conference championships have been recorded, ESU will find out how many athletes qualified to return to the NCAA Division II Championships. Five Hornet athletes are ranked in the top ten nationally.

Home Games March 2018 Baseball 5:00 p.m. Mar. 2 vs. Southwest Baptist University 1:00 p.m. Mar. 3 vs. Southwest Baptist Universtiy

Softball 3:00 p.m. Mar. 2 vs. University of Central Oklahoma 12:00 p.m. Mar. 28 vs. Northeastern State University 4:00 p.m. Mar. 30 vs. Washburn University

Tennis 1:30 p.m. Mar. 1 vs. Ottawa University

10:00 a.m. Mar. 9 vs. University of Arkansas - Fort Smith 1:30 p.m. Mar. 10 vs. Northwest Missouri State University 1:30 p.m. Mar. 15 vs. Missouri Western State University 2:30 p.m. Mar. 19 vs. Oklahoma Baptist University 2:30 p.m. Mar. 21 vs. Cameron University 1:30 p.m. Mar. 23 vs. Lindenwood University 1:30 p.m. Mar. 24 vs. Southwest Baptist University

Track and Field Mar. 16: ESU Spring Twilight Invitational Mar. 31: Emporia State Relays

Source: esuhornets.com Infographic By Kalliope Craft | The Bulletin