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Yards for Yeardly continues SUNY Oswego campus community walks to show support
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Photo provided by Tashana Joseph The SUNY Oswego community has continued to walk in support of Yards for Yeardly, despite COVID-19 struggles.
Tomas Rodriguez Staff Writer news@oswegonian.com
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One yard at a time, SUNY Oswego’s campus community continues to walk in support of dating and domestic violence victims, even during the pandemic. This year marked the seventh annual edition of Yards for Yeardley since it first arrived at SUNY Oswego in 2015. After last year’s event transitioned into a virtual format, this year’s campaign continued that trend stretching over the span of more than one month. This virtual event began April 1 and came to a close May 3 at 2:30 p.m., the anniversary of Yeardley Love’s death, who was killed by her ex-boyfriend three weeks shy of her college graduation back in 2010. Spearheaded by SUNY Oswego’s Title IX coordinator Lisa Evaneski, the Yards for Yeardley annual event pertains to the requirements for some of the different laws requiring the college to do ongoing awareness programs, bystander intervention and prevention programs. Evaneski’s office has specific training designated for students and employees, student organizations, student-athletes and Greek
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organizations. Their work also partners with the One Love Foundation, the Clery Center and the national group It’s On Us. “We have such great support from our campus, including our students, employees, alumni and community members,” Evaneski said. “I’m always looking forward to ‘what can we do that’s bigger or better or what can we improve.’ I feel like I always wake up with that mindset every day. I’m very grateful that we have such a great community that participates in all this stuff we’re doing, that invites us into training and that reports to us when something happens.” When COVID-19 forced SUNY Oswego and other colleges nationwide to switch to remote learning, Evaneski says, it forced her office to pump the brakes quickly on Sexual Assault Awareness Month, leading them to move right into doing all the planned activities in a virtual format. “I was not sure if people would participate,” Evaneski said. “I always like to set a goal for myself and for us. I was like ‘wow, I hope we get to one million;’ I was really just hopeful that people would engage in some way and maybe participate, and it was better than expected.” Evaneski’s office had hundreds of people submit miles, yards and
steps, which they then converted to yards. Last year’s month-long tally added up to nearly 22 million yards. Putting that into perspective with the single-day editions celebrated in previous years, the first year they nearly reached two million yards albeit their highest ever pre-COVID yardage sat at approximately eight million, according to Evaneski. “Last year we didn’t overly advertise it, but this year we were a little more intentional,” Evaneski said. “Last year we were thinking ‘everyone is so overwhelmed because of the pandemic,’ and this year we were like ‘OK, let’s give people something fun to finish up the year.’” In fact, as of May 3 at 2:30 p.m. at the official closing of the yearly event, Evaneski and her team had recorded a tally of over 20 million yards. “It seems there are more people involved this year than last year, even though right now we’re seeing less of a yardage,” Evaneski said. “For me, it’s more important to have more people involved.” Evaneski’s office relies heavily on the support of its interns, who serve as an essential backbone in planning and carrying out the yearly events.
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Kaitlyn Goodwin Staff Writer news@oswegonian.com Assistant professor Catalina Iannone recently received the honor of being named the runner up by the editors of Hispania and the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese for a competition that reviews scholarly articles on Spanish language and Spanish speaking culture every two years. Iannone’s article, which is titled, “Visualizing Blackness in Contemporary Spain: Race and Representation in Juan Valbuena’s ‘Salitre,’” considers and inestigates how the white gaze can morph perceptions of black experiences in modern society, particularly in the field of scholars. Iannone’s research focuses on multi-ethnic hubs that have become branded for tourism. “I am looking at different types of texts. One of these texts was an album created by a photographer named Juan Valbuena who works on different photographic proj-
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ects,” Iannone said. “What’s unique in my take on the article, is that what he’s doing is trying to shed light on different communities.” Iannone went on to discuss it felt as though Valbuena was “recycling less progressive notions on what it means to be racialized in Spain… [it’s as though he said] ‘Tell me about yourself’ and then said ‘you know what? I want to tell people about this other part of you. ’” Iannone emphasized the difference between speaking for a marginalized group and giving them a platform to be heard. “They can speak, let them speak,” Iannone said. Iannone felt that one of the biggest issues about the way people talk about race in Spain was the way it is so focused on immigration. Of course immigration is a story that has to be told, but she points out that Spain is not a homogenous nation, and that the marginalized groups there are just as Spanish as any other person living in Spain.
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