The Chronicle
November 12th, 2013
The weekly student newspaper of The College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York www.strosechronicle.com - @strosechronicle
Volume LXXXII Issue 13
Sexual Assault: From Victims to Survivors By ARIANA WILISON Contributing Writer, GREG CRAWFORD Contributing Writer, LAUREN KLOSE Staff Writer, and MATT WOODS Contributing Writer
OLENA SADOVNIK
“They were hungry,” said four-year-old Katrusia Kulchynska, holding a picture of starving people during a commencement remembering the millions of victims who died during the Ukrainian Famine Genocide.
Holodomor Remembered Downtown
By OLENA SADOVNIK Contributing Writer The early November sunshine shone brightly on the Empire State Plaza. A stage with flowers, wheat sheaf, and a steel cross towered above the gathered community at the plaza’s southern
end. Ukrainian Americans and guests came together Saturday, Nov. 2 to commemorate the millions of victims who died during the Ukrainian Famine Genocide, or Holodomor in Ukrainian, in 1932-33. Attention to this genocide has grown since Ukrainian independence in 1991.
News & Features
Holodomor survivor Anna Kulbida, who now lives in Niskayuna, was only 8 when the famine, allegedly deliberately induced by Stalin, hit the eastern part of Ukraine in 1932. “I remember myself slowly Continued on page A5
Entering into college as a naive freshman, Chrys Ballerano didn’t expect to be sexually assaulted, especially by a mentor in her favorite subject. When Ballerano began having difficulty in her music class, the teacher assistant called her into his office and tried to sexually assault her. Ballerano got away without physical harm, but the emotional trauma she received caused her to withdraw from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. As previously mentioned in this series, sexual assault, particularly on college campuses, has become a more prominent issue in the media because colleges are mishandling cases that occur at the institutions involving their students. There are recent cases regarding this matter of sexual assault. Vanderbilt University and the University of Southern California have made recent news involving sexual assault on their campuses. At Vanderbilt University, four football players have been charged with raping a female student in an on-campus dorm, while another player attempted to cover up the incident, accord-
Arts & Opinion
ing to the Associated Press. Reuters reports that the University of Southern California has come under fire after not acting properly and underreporting cases on campus. Both of these cases are still ongoing. There are also incidences of false accusations such as the case that occurred at Duke University where, according to media reports, an exotic dancer claimed three of the captains from the lacrosse team raped her at an offcampus party. While these high profile cases illustrate the severity of the issue of sexual assault on a larger scale to the public, sexual assaults occur on college campuses nationwide. Some 35 out of 1,000 women will encounter an incident of sexual assault in their lifetime, according to Joe Farrell, the director of training for New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault. Currently at The College of Saint Rose, this roughly translates to about 68 students that are victims of sexual assault in the undergraduate program alone. But at Saint Rose, only two to three cases of sexual assault are reported to campus authorities each year. In the past decade, three students were dismissed from the school under the Sexual Misconduct Policy, all of whom were male, according to Dennis McDonald, vice president of student affairs. Even though at Saint Rose, Continued on page A4
Sports
Interview with Interim President Maggie Kirwin. See pages A2
How I Live Now: An Intense Dystopian Thriller. See pages B12
Staff Writer Tori Addison discuss why an NFL expansion in London is not the best idea. See page D18
A Night of Fundraising With Team Monkey Bear. See pages A6
Rob Ford is no stranger to controversy. See page C16
Senior Profile: Carmelina Puopolo. See page D20