April 8, 2014
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By Megan Petersen ‘15 advocacy for survivors of Editor-in-Chief sexual assault, from Title andy Salas and Denise IX work to work in firstHayes, finalists for responder situations. the Dean of Students/ Her goals as DOS/VPSA: Vice President of Student Salas said that she Affairs position at Scripps, received consistent met with students and advice from the senior senior staff recently to talk staff when she met with about their experiences them. She gathered, she and what they would said, that the team is still plan to do as a Dean and healing from Dean Bekki senior administrator at Lee’s passing and that Scripps. Here is a quick working with the senior and easy summary of officers as a group will be their qualifications, goals, particularly important. and responses to student She also said that questions she felt that Scripps Kandy Salas is in transition as it Her background: Salas attempts to realize its is currently a lecturer at goals at diversity and California State University, inclusivity. She said that Fullerton, where she has she wants Scripps to go worked for 24 years, first beyond merely diversity, as the Officer of Student but to push for cultural Life and eventually competence, which deals working her way up to the with issues of inclusion Dean of Students and the to work on big picture Associate Vice President diversity on campus. She for Student Affairs. She said that it cannot only be is a first generation groups and people who college student who are historically “new” earned her bachelor’s to college campuses in English and minor in who are having these women’s studies at the conversations—it must University of California, constantly be a campusLos Angeles, her master’s wide discussion. She in counseling and human said that reaching a development with a critical mass is only the specialization in student beginning, and after that personnel services is when the difficult work at Minnesota State begins. She said, however, University, Moorhead, that she is passionate and her Ph.D. in about and dedicated to education from Claremont this work. Graduate University. Salas She also said that part has varied experience of her work as Scripps’ working with student DOS/VPSA would include leaders and student clubs getting to know students and organizations, as very well, particularly well as running student student leaders. She orientations and working said that when issues with undocumented arose, she wanted to students. She also has help students learn how experience working with to address problems that
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By Meagan McIntyre ‘17 Staff Writer
Kandy Salas and Denise Hayes (inset) are two of the four candidates for DOS/VSPA. Photos courtesy of Claremont University Consortium and Flickr.
arise, rather than merely solving problems on their behalf. Denise Hayes Her background: Hayes has worked for the Claremont University Consortium (CUC) as its director of student health and counseling for nine years. She is a counseling psychologist who has also done work in organizational communications and leadership and management, which made her well-suited for a director position at CUC. She is currently teaching a course at CGU; Hayes said she felt compelled to get back into the classroom and to apply for the DOS/VPSA position at Scripps because she misses working with students directly. Hayes said she applied to work at Scripps because her older sister and daughter both attended
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Namrata Mohan ‘16 speaks about Coloring Beauty
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women’s colleges, and that they gained so much confidence during their years there. Hayes has also written scholarship and done work on women’s leadership, and black women’s leadership in particular. Her dissertation was on single mothers that are currently in schools; Hayes herself was a divorced mother with young children when she went back for her master’s degree. She worked to apply existing theories regarding leadership to the experiences of black women who are leaders in higher education. For example, some theories suggest that success does not come from hard work alone, but comes from willingness to take risks, from the ability to energize oneself during stressful and trying times, and from developing
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Fashion columnist Stephanie Huang ‘16 talks fashion magazines
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AlcoholEdu, the online alcohol abuse prevention course completed by incoming first years at over 500 universities across the country, provides students with information about the dangers of alcohol and also provides administrators with information about the drinking habits of its first-year class. This year the disparity between the five colleges’ results was quite surprising. Scripps recorded the highest percentage of students pre-gaming (68 percent) and taking shots (63 percent) out of all of the colleges. While Pomona and CMC were within 5 percent, Scripps still fell 17 percent above the national average. Some students were not surprised by the results. “So many of the parties are on campus that the majority of the drinking is happening at the pregame,” Joelle Leib ’17 said. The results seemed to back it up as well, because 84 percent of the first years that have drunk said they did so in dorm rooms on campus. The program goal is to educate students to practice safe drinking habits and to ultimately reduce the number of negative circumstances that develop from drinking. The course includes five modules covering topics such as: how to minimize harm with alcohol consumption, the standard drink, alcohol laws, and high-risk habits. Four of the five modules are completed before the start of the school and the last is taken a few weeks into the school year. Along with Scripps, Harvey Mudd, Claremont McKenna, and Pomona all participate in the online education course. High risk drinking, defined as five drinks or more at least once in a two week time period, is also a continued on page 2
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Guest contributor Ann Kirkpatrick praises Nonie Creme