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%ODFN H\HV UHIXVH WR WXUQ RWKHU FKHHN $867,1 )/<11 'DLO\ (J\SWLDQ Abuse victims will often conceal facial injuries, but students took a stand by bearing bruises Wednesday. Women applied makeup to their face and eyes to simulate what someone looks like after being abused. Sheila Frampton, a domestic violence legal advocate for the Women’s Center, said the Black Eye Awareness Event took place to raise domestic violence awareness. Frampton said many domestic abuse cases can go overlooked or get handled in an inefficient way, but the issue can be faced head-on with more exposure. There has been more than 500,000 service hours provided to abuse victims within a year in Illinois alone, Frampton said, and this event helped point victims to professionals who want to help. “Education and prevention are key to ending violence,� Frampton said in an email. “The Women’s Center offers public education and prevention programs on many topics related to domestic violence and sexual assault/abuse.� Wendy Weinhold, coordinator for the LGBTQ Resource Center, said the Women’s Center is not the only option for abused partners, and her resource center also spreads knowledge on the subject. “The LGBTQ Safe Zone training does touch on issues of power and oppression, which are at the heart of domestic abuse,� Weinhold said. “I absolutely believe these issues should be discussed more and more openly because we improve our world when we work to end violence.� She said the Black Eye Awareness Event gave students the opportunity to talk about this problem outside the classroom. “Educational opportunities are not limited to classroom interactions, and this event offers the campus community an opportunity to engage in dialogue about an issue that leaves its victims voiceless,� Weinhold said. “This is an opportunity for the campus to join together and voice our concern and care for people who need our support.� Frampton said the Women’s Center offers training to identify whether someone is in an abusive relationship, how to prevent getting into one that could be abusive and what to do in a dangerous situation.

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Hanneh Shiheiber, a senior from Skokie studying special education, displays painted-on bruises to support The Black Eye Awareness Event Wednesday while she waits outside of her class in Parkinson Hall. Shiheiber said she was surprised how many women are actually abused every day after looking up statistics. Valerie Naglich, a junior from St. Louis studying nursing, who also wore a black eye for the event, said abuse can exist even without the physical signs. “Just because you can’t always see the bruises on people’s faces, they walk around like this every day,� Naglich said. “We just don’t realize it because their pain is hidden.� She said people should recognize a violent relationship’s cycle. She said it consists of highs and lows where the victim can feel at ease at times despite being physically or emotionally hurt at others. Proper knowledge and understanding can break this cycle, Frampton said, and victims can safely remove themselves from the situation. Frampton said there are also different forms of abuse besides physical. Other forms include financial, mental and sexual, she said, and can be achieved through dominance, isolation, guilt, threats and denial tactics.

A related event called, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, will take place at 6 p.m. Friday, when women will march from Shryock Auditorium to the city pavilion for the same cause. Jacob Rose, Walk a Mile in Her Shoes coordinator, said the event is important to him because it upholds people’s rights and explores an issue that affects many lives. “Domestic Violence is a very important issue because this issue is a violation of the right we all have to live healthy, supportive, and happy relationships,� Rose said. “Domestic Violence doesn’t just affect women, but men,

)UDWHUQLW\ RQ VXVSHQVLRQ IRU ORZ PHPEHU *3$V .$567(1 %85*67$+/(5 'DLO\ (J\SWLDQ The Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity’s university chapter has been suspended until spring 2015 because of low grade point averages, a university official said. Andy Morgan, director of Greek Life, said the fraternity was not meeting university Greek standards. Kappa Alpha Psi’s Registered Student Organization status has been suspended, and the fraternity is not allowed to recruit new members, Morgan said. However, he said members are still eligible to be national fraternity participants. “(The fraternity) was put on

probation, and they were given some sanctions,� Morgan said. “They just didn’t follow them.� The university requires Greek students to maintain a 2.5 semester GPA, he said, and the sorority or fraternity is required to put together a plan to raise members’ grades if the group’s GPA falls below that standard. A hearing is held if the group’s GPA remains low a second semester, Morgan said. The organization is then required to follow a schedule to fix problems. Fraternities and sororities are not required to follow plans unless they have sanctions levied against them, he said, but many choose to follow

plans anyway. “Other chapters we put on academic probation, they did those sanctions,� Morgan said. “They saw their grades go up.� Morgan said new Kappa Alpha Psi members are required to have at least a 2.7 GPA because of the sanctions, but the average GPA of all new members dropped to a 1.97 after members were recruited. The last seven incoming classes dropped below the 2.5 required GPA after fraternity intake, which is the time when new members become full-fledged ones, he said. Please see GREEK | 4

adolescents, and children, as well.� The Women’s Center offers a 24-hour crisis hotline that can be reached at 529-2324. Andy Morgan, director of Greek life, said the university also offers Saluki Cares, a network of faculty, staff, parents and other students who can report abuse cases so problems can be dealt with quickly and privately. Austin Flynn can be reached at aflynn@dailyegyptian.com or 536-3311 ext. 257.

1HZ JURXS WR FROOHFW 6,8 JUDGXDWH HPSOR\PHQW GDWD (/,=$%(7+ =,1&+8. 'DLO\ (J\SWLDQ While both presidential candidates have addressed college-graduate employment problems, President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney aren’t alone in the discussion. “This is a huge issue throughout college career services all over the country right now as well as college institutions,� said Michelle Garrett, a recruitment coordinator at the Career Services Office. Garrett said federal law will require universities to report specific, updated data on graduates’ employment statuses in the next few years. The Career Task Force, a new university organization that started this summer, will help accumulate

the data and encourage feedback to enhance students and alumni career development, she said. The group was formed because past surveys did not render enough participation to give accurate results. The Career Task Force consists of representatives from each college as well as other campus programs and departments. Another task force goal is to develop protocol and policies for data collection and reports. Garrett said the graduate employment numbers the university compiled in the past are not as comprehensive as they could be because not all graduates respond to surveys. Please see EMPLOYMENT | 3

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