16 October 2014

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16 October, 2014

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Scripps Terminates plans to bring George Will to campus

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By Lucy Altman-Newell ‘17 Editor-in-Chief Since 2006, Scripps has been bringing conservative speakers to campus through the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public Affairs Program, which, according to the webpage, “makes manifest [the] belief that a range of opinions about the world — especially opinions with which we may not agree, or think we do not agree — leads to a better educational experience.” Such speakers have included Newt Gingrich in 2010, Charles Krauthammer in 2013 and Peggy Noonan in 2014. Nationally-syndicatedconservative journalist George Will was slated to speak this year, but Scripps made the decision to not go through with the invitation after he wrote a column for Washington Post about sexual assault on college campuses which claimed that “when [colleges and universities] make victimhood a coveted status that confers privileges, victims proliferate.” Will’s June 6 article, entitled “Colleges Become the Victims of Progressivism,” has been widely criticized for trivializing sexual assault and trauma, although Will himself stated in a letter to the U.S. Senate on June 13 that, “I think I take sexual assault much more seriously than you. Which is why I worry about definitions of that category of a crime that might, by their breadth, tend to trivialize it.” In his June 6 column, Will

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blamed academia for “making everyone hypersensitive, even delusional, about victimizations,” and for proliferating the idea of the “supposed campus epidemic of rape, a.k.a. ‘sexual assault.’” Responses reporting outrage over Will’s article were widespread and immediate. On June 10, Amy Davidson published an article in The New Yorkercriticizing Will’s views, speculating that “perhaps what he calls a privilege is a young woman such as that being listened to by her elders and having her story taken seriously. That counts as a privilege — an extra benefit — only if a girl, in the normal course of things, wouldn’t and needn’t be heard.” On June 12, four members of the U.S. Senate denounced Will’s column, stating that his “notion about a perceived privileged status of survivors of sexual assault on campuses runs completely counter to the experiences described to us.” Advocates for women who have been sexually assaulted expressed anger about the way the column denounced colleges for their efforts to address sexual assault and its suggestion that said efforts are a harmfully-overbearing result of progressivism. Another suggestion for which the article received much outcry is the idea that some who bring forward charges of sexual assault do so not because of legitimate traumatic experiences, but because the campus climate encourages them

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to come forward, whether or not they have been harmed. In response, multiple groups — including the D.C. Coalition Against Domestic Violence, the feminist group UltaViolet and Change.org have called for the Washington Post to fire Will, although they have refused to do so. Similarly, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch protested Will’s article by dropping his column from their op-ed page. Scripps College’s uninvitation to Will was also a direct response to his column. This decision has been hotly debated on a national level. An Oct. 6 article in The Claremont Independent and an Oct. 7 article in the National Review argued that terminating plans to bring Will to campus is a freedom of speech issue and will only harm Scripps students because, according to the National Review, it ensures that “The students of Scripps . . . will remain cosseted in their bubble for yet another day.” However, the Elizabeth Hubert Malott Public Affairs Program was established to bring conservative views to campus, and continues to do so. President Bettison-Varga sent out an email to the Scripps community and to Inside Higher Ed on Oct. 7 stating, “Over the past eight years, the Malott Public Affairs Program has diversified the educational CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

Read The Scripps Voice’s editorial about this story on page 3.

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CP&R HOSTS ANNUAL

“LIFE AFTER SCRIPPS” By Sophie Fahey ‘17 Staff Writer

Last week, the Scripps Career Planning and Resources Office (CP&R) held its fourteenth-annual “Life After Scripps,” a week of workshops, panels, courses and advising to help students prepare for job and internship opportunities outside of Scripps. While CP&R is available all year for advising, “Life After Scripps” provides a number of workshops and networking opportunities in one week to get all students thinking about their futures. Some events required students to RSVP, although most were drop in. Events were scattered throughout each day to allow students to have options that did not conflict with class schedules. “Life After Scripps” is designed to help all Scripps students get ready for job and internship searches, no matter what year or what stage of the process they are in. Seniors can explore their post-graduation options; there are also programs to refine resumes and to learn how to best use the resources available at Scripps. On Oct. 9 CP&R hosted a dropin “Careers Al Fresco — Claremont Connect’s Best Secrets.” This event allowed students to sit down with a member from the CP&R team to explore all that Claremont Connect — a web-based recruiting system — has to offer. This gave students the chance to ask all the questions they needed to about how it works and to get a very personalized and helpful start on searching for career and internship opportunities. Students can also use the events feature on Claremont Connect to view upcoming events and workshops held at the Claremont Colleges. On Oct. 10, there was a workshop to help students learn to use LinkedIn. This workshop taught students the basics of creating a LinkedIn account: how to write a personal summary, how a LinkedIn profile is similar to and different from a resume and how to choose a professional photo. The workshop placed a lot of emphasis on networking and on how to use the people you know on LinkedIn to make connections that could lead to potential jobs. All Scripps students should join the Scripps Alumnae Association group on LinkedIn to connect with Alumnae who may CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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