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Fears lead to decreased sexual assault reports

By BRANDI ADDISON Staff Writer

Within the past couple of years, sexual assault on college campuses has become the center of attention within the collegiate community.

As the nation strives to reduce those numbers, Texas Tech officials continue to spread awareness of sexual violence and experts continue to speak against assaults.

Nearly 1 in 4 undergraduate females and 1 in 18 undergraduate males will be raped or sexually assaulted in college,

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according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network website.

C o r p o r a l A m y I v e y, crime prevention and public relations sergeant at Tech, said there are certain requirements people on campuses around the country have to fulfill when reporting sexual assaults.

“Texas Tech owns or leases property in between 200 or 250 counties. Where we own or lease property, if a student resides or learns there, we have to compile a report of the offenses reported,” Ivey said. “Even if a building is owned by someone else, like the city, if a student goes there to live or learn, or we’re in association with it somehow, we have to report it.”

The offenses, among many others, must be reported they occur in residence halls or other locations on campus, on public property adjacent to campus, or on non-campus property owned or controlled by the university or a recognized student organization, Ivey said. The reasons for reporting come from a staterequired report, called the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, which requires state-funded entities to report all crimes that happen in and around their jurisdiction.

The act comes from legislation that was passed in 1990, after a death in 1986 in which Jeanne Clery, a student at Lehigh University, was raped and murdered in her dorm room. Her parents believe because she was unaware of the other violent crimes at Lehigh, circumstances m a y h a v e b e e n d i f f e rent if she had been more cautious, according to a campus security presentation on the Tech Police Department website.

According to Tech’s Annual Security Report, applicable crimes and offenses under the sexual misconduct and relationship violence category in the Clery Act is composed of rape, fondling, incest, statutory rape, domestic violence, dating vio-

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The number zero is near the pinnacle of wishful thinking.

However, that number can be the worse digit to see when it comes to reports of campus crimes.

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Another change is to break the stigma around the myth that men cannot be sexually assaulted or should be embarrassed by it, Sharp said. Research shows that sexual assaults on a male is typically male-on-male assault, and the survivor does not report because he is afraid others will assume his sexual orientation over it.

However, the real situation is an assertion of dominance and has a minimal amount to do with sexual orientation, Sharp said. In fact, there is also a high number of sexual violence in lesbian relationships.

Sharp also said sexual assault should be treated like a loss.

According to a study on sexual assault conducted

by Tashel Bordere, sexual assault is a loss to the survivors, and it needs to be treated as such. There needs to be room for bereavement and grief, and a victim should not be expected to go back to class immediately, happy and content.

This is called “suffocating grief,” Sharp said. It should not be expected to go away within a couple of days or even within a year.

“Tech does have great support systems with the counseling center, RISE, the police department,” Sharp said. “Tech has worked hard to make the faculty and staff aware of the complicated issues that surround them, so when students do come to them, matters aren’t made worse, but (instead) they show the students support.”

Other great support resources include the Women’s Studies Program, the Gender Equity Council and the Office of LGBTQIA. Sharp said survivors are welcome to come to her, as well.

“I will always tell them they’re brave, and we can get them help,” Sharp said.

“There are so many people and entities here that will support them. We believe them, and we are very sorry that they’ve had this experience and will offer all the support that we have.” @DailyToreador

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reported to Tech PD, each report it receives is included in the annual report, Ivey said.

“One big reason (young women do not report) is that they thought it wasn’t a big enough deal,” Elizabeth Sharp, associate professor of human development and family studies, and chair of the President’s Gender Equity Council, said. “We can unpack that. Another one is that they didn’t know where to report. This is stuff we can change: them not knowing how.”

The first person — or the first few people — a survivor confides in makes a huge difference in whether or not the victim will report, Sharp said. If somebody starts questioning why the individual was at a party or how much the person drank, it could make one feel so bad that it becomes likely the victim will not tell anyone else.

“That can be more harmful by scrutiny to put on a survivor,” Sharp said. “It will take longer for them to heal.”

As far as not knowing how to report, Sharp said Tech is doing a good job of raising sexual-assault awareness and making resources known to students. Among other means, this happens through Title IX workshops for faculty and staff, as well as syllabi that encompass Title IX information.

“Our campus is one of the leaders in getting information about Title IX, and doing intervention and prevention,” Sharp said. “That being said, I have no indicator to think Texas Tech is somehow a bubble, but I do know we’ve made lots and lots of effort recently. Like any other campus, it would be odd if our numbers were just way lower or way higher.”

While the university has been successful in focusing on student-with-student sexual violence awareness, there needs to be a bigger focus on sexual violence between staff or faculty member with another staff or faculty member, she said. There should also be a bigger focus on sexual violence between a staff or faculty member with

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lence and stalking. Each of these violate Title IX, as well.

Any property that is along the sidewalk and directly across Tech’s campus is what is referred to as public property, Ivey said. So, Raising Cane’s or Chick-fil-A locations off University Avenue would both fit into this category.

However, it does not only apply to the main campus, Ivey said. Any property located directly opposite to Texas Tech’s Equestrian Center is still recorded in Tech’s Annual Security Report. This also includes some properties in Abilene, Austin, Dallas, Fredericksburg, Houston, Idalou and New Deal.

The annual reports are not due and released until Oct. 1 of each year, Ivey said.

So, the statistics for 2016 are not yet available.

The 1-in-4 women statistic is more than likely accurate under the university’s definition of sexual assault, which includes unwanted touching and verbal sexual abuse, Ivey said. However, state law defines sexual assault as penetration to a sexual organ, so the numbers may not match.

“The biggest problem is the number that’s not reported,” Ivey said. “I think the numbers would be a lot higher if every true sexual assault was reported to law enforcement.”

Only 20 percent of all female student victims, who are 18 to 24 years old, report the incident to law enforcement, according to the RAINN website. The top reason for victims to not report to law enforcement is the belief that it was a personal matter.

Other reasons include the fear of reprisal, the belief that it was not important enough to report, the victim did not want the perpetrator to get in trouble and the belief that police would not do anything to help. Therefore, Ivey said she encourages individuals to report, even if it is done anonymously, so there can be a more accurate representation of Tech.

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So, it is within the system currently in place, administration from Texas Tech has heightened awareness of what students should know when it comes to campus crime, more specifically sexual assault.

Every student has a right to know about crimes that occur on their campus, or at least that was the thinking when the Jeanne Clery Act was enacted

by Congress, then passed as a law by George H.W. Bush in 1990. The main focus of the legislation is to be a consumerprotection law aimed at providing transparency around campus-crime policy and statistics, according to the Clery Center website.

“With Clery, we put out an annual report that details the different levels of ‘Clery crimes,’” Ronald Phillips, university counsel, said. “But, what people may not know about Clery is that it also has universities providing a timely notice to the university campus in situations where one of these events have occurred.”

The Clery Act was inspired

by Jeanne Clery, a 19-year-old student at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, who was killed in her residence hall, according to the Clery Center website. At that time, there

were no standards for campuscrime reporting, and citing that as an issue, Jeanne Clery’s parents, Connie and Howard, lobbied to U.S. legislatures to establish reporting standards for campuses nationwide.

It is because of that piece of legislation all college campuses, Tech included, send out an annual report that details all crimes that may have occurred on their campuses, Phillips said. The report cites 11 crimes that are defined as Clery Crimes. Most of these crimes are in regards to violent or sexual-assault crimes.

When Clery Crimes are reported at Tech, the administration puts out a notice via email and through the TechAlert!

System that updates the campus community with relevant and public information, Phillips said.

“Here’s kind of the rule of thumb that we have if we need to alert the university campus: Is there an imminent threat or harm?” Phillips said. “Some parts of Clery are geographical, so it asks you to report any crimes that occur on your campus, and it has a timely notice requirement.”

But, the timeliness requirement goes beyond the imminent-threat requirement, and the area crime occurs in is also

important, Corporal Amy Ivey, crime prevention and public relations sergeant at Tech, said.

Sexual assault or crimes are to be reported even if they happen off campus.

The definition for a location that must go reported in the Clery report is a public space adjacent or close to campus.

“What is considered public property in the Clery Act is considered, ‘All public property including thoroughfares, streets, sidewalks and parking facilities that are within the campus or immediately adjacent and accessible to campus,’” Ivey said.

And it has been the trend at Tech within the last few years that the more violent, sexual crimes are where the most numbers are reported for Clery — aside from burglary which is an outlier — according to the reports from 2013 to 2015.

Preventing these crimes from happening is most important, Phillips said. Across campus, there has been an emphasis on crime prevention, especially with the Risk Management & Safety Education office.

“But, with the university across the campus, we really need to emphasize prevention.

Recognizing situations, making sure that both male and female

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are aware of what consent is and what is not consent,” Phillips said. “We can always do a better job in our educational activities.”

Tech PD has also been striving to inform students, staff and faculty on campus, Ivey said.

One of her main focuses is to inform students on the dangers of alcohol and drugs, and how people can use those as means to take advantage of another person sexually. Usually, when it comes to sexual assault, it is not always the case, but a majority of those crimes stem from some type of alcohol or drug use, Ivey said.

“Not all of them but a good majority of (sexual assault cases) do involve some type of alcohol or drug use,” Ivey said. “That’s why we go out and present these crime-prevention programs, these alcohol-awareness programs, where we say, ‘If you are going to go out and drink, make sure you know what’s in your drink or drink something that’s not opened.’”

But both officials said they know what they are dealing with is not going to fix itself anytime soon. The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network estimates that out of 1,000 sexual assaults, only 310 will be reported to police and out of that, only six offenders will be incarcerated.

That is why, Phillips said, he and other people around the campus have been working to create a more comfortable campus environment that will help ease the burden of people coming forward with their sexual assault stories.

Therefore, he said having people reporting cases is one of his main priorities.

“You don’t want a zero. You don’t want a high number either. You don’t want that type of environment on campus,” Phillips said. “But you want people to feel comfortable coming forward and reporting sexual misconduct.” @MichaelCantuDT

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Tech officials enforce Title IX policies

By KIRBY WARNER Staff Writer

For students and employees of Texas Tech, Title IX is in place to ensure everyone can enjoy a learning environment without fear of sexual harassment or discrimination.

Ronald Phillips, Tech’s Title IX coordinator, said Tech’s policies were reviewed and updated within the previous one or two years to be in line with best practices.

“I think it incorporates all of the necessary regulatory requirements,” Phillips said, “as well as best practices that we’ve seen within higher education.”

Tech’s policies let individuals seek action for any perceived sexual misconduct against them, Phillips said.

Title IX, as defined by the United States Code of Federal Regulations, states: “No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education or

activity receiving Federal financial assistance.”

Shawn Adams, a Title IX investigator for Tech and assistant director for the Office for Student Rights and Resolution, said her role is to investigate recorded incidents of misconduct between students.

Adams said she collects evidence around an incident — evidence based on facts found, and on complainant and respondent statements — before writing a report to present at hearings.

“We do not make determinations as to whether or not somebody’s responsible,” Adams said, “and we do not determine what sanctions would be appropriate if there’s a finding of responsible.”

If a student does not wish to make a report and remain anonymous, he can talk about the incident with a counselor at the Student Counseling Center retaining the doctor-patient confidentiality, Adams said.

However, if the student reports the incident to a Tech faculty or staff member, the latter is mandated to report

that information.

Kimberly Simón, the director of the Risk Intervention & Safety Education office, said the RISE office provides education on Title IX policies and options for reporting a violation.

It also offers support to victims of such violations.

RISE offers programs such as couples counseling and a sexual assault survivor’s group, and is able to direct people to other community institutions, such as Voice of Hope, Simón said.

“Every Texas Tech student should be able to go to class, be involved with student organizations, go to the rec center or whatever it is,” Simón said, “without fear of harassment or violence.”

Many students visit the RISE office in relation to sexual assault, Simón said, but it also provides services for stalking, violence and other forms of harassment.

Independent of the scale of the complaint, Adams said, the issue is always serious to the complainant, and it disrupts their lives in ways such as

not wanting to go to classes and negative impact on future relationships.

Despite this, Adams said there are some cases relating to assault and relationship violence that tend to stick with her, and each new case brings her new challenges and teaches her new lessons.

“When I see cases of an incident that’s involving alcohol,” Adams said, “it makes me not want to drink. It makes me want to talk even more to others about choices they are making, and it affects how I make my choices in life.”

A lack of teaching when it comes to communication skills on what is OK and what is not is part of the reason why sexual harassment and assault are problems on college campuses, Adams said.

Promoting prevention and bystander intervention, and understanding consent are some of the steps the Tech community can take to ensure Title IX rights are not violated, Phillips said.

“For everyone to understand exactly what con-

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RISE office raises sexual-assault awareness

By DAVID GAY L a Vida Editor

Sexual assault is a problem that most university campuses in the United States continue to face year after year. Most of these colleges have established an office or put in charge a few faculty or staff members to help combat sexual assault on their campuses.

Part of the job of the Risk Intervention & Safety Education office is to raise awareness about issues that could cause sexual assault like unclear consent and trouble with alcohol or drugs.

According to the office’s website, it leads the efforts in AlcoholEdu and Haven, which are required online courses on alcohol awareness and sexualassault prevention for incoming students at Tech.

Kimberly Simón, the director of the RISE office, said Tech established the RISE office to focus on topics related to prevention and wellness efforts.

“RISE was not the first to do this on campus,” Simón said. “We had a lot of people that were doing this kind of work before. The problem was, everyone was kind of doing it on top of other jobs.

People who just had a passion or were just very committed to the cause were helping out and filling some gaps. The neat thing about RISE is that we get to do it for our full-time job.”

The biggest area that the RISE office focuses on is called violence-prevention response, Simón said. This encompasses the talks given

by RISE that focus on sexual assault as well as the workshops and educational pieces the office hosts about consent.

Through this violence-prevention response, the RISE office also focuses on what healthy relationships look like in college, Simón said.

“If people know what a healthy relationship looks like,” Simón said, “that itself is good sexual-assault prevention.”

The RISE office also does work educating students, faculty and staff about the use of alcohol and drugs.

Sexual assault, and the use of drugs and alcohol are closely related, she said.

The goal for the RISE office, Simón said, is to be a safe place for students to come in and ask questions.

Gabrielle Easton, a senior community, family and addiction sciences major from Lubbock and a student assistant in the RISE office, interacts with many students who come in with questions. Even if a student has been a victim of sexual violence, the office offers a safe space to discuss and resolve their issues.

“Even if you are not ready to talk, this is an OK place to come,” Easton said.

Simón said the RISE of-

fice builds a bridge between sexual-assault resources on campus and in the community.

“A lot of times, students want to utilize resources that are on campus,” Simón said. “They may not want to go out and access community resources. We are a nice bridge. (The office) can take anonymous sources, so if a student wants to come to tell someone what happened to them and not have their name attached to it, they can come report in the office as a Jane or John Doe. A lot of students feel more comfortable with that, at least initially.”

During the initial few months after RISE was established, Simón said the officials in the office looked at successful programs in other universities and started to incorporate some of those practices at RISE. But, one aspect of RISE distinguishes it among all the other programs.

“One thing that has been a huge advantage on our campus is the relationships that we have had with nontraditional offices,” Simón said. “We have had really good partnerships with Fraternity & Sorority Life and with ROTC. We don’t just get called when someone is in trouble. We get called from men and women to talk to them before a problem happens.”

While everyone’s goal is to

stop sexual assault on campuses, it is unlikely the complete solution to the problem will be found on Texas Tech’s campus, Simón said. However, there are certain statistics on Tech’s campus that are encouraging and indicate conversations are happening.

“What we have seen is more students who are willing to get involved when something is happening,” Simón said. “The number of students who come in willing to report is up. The number of students who are willing to stop a friend who is about to make a bad call, that number is up as well.”

Easton said it is important for friends and acquaintances to get involved when someone they know appears to be in danger of being sexually assaulted.

“We need to watch out for our friends and family at parties or really anywhere for that matter,” Easton said. “A lot of the times, it is someone that you know. Being able to be comfortable with your friends and intervening and being a good bystander and saying that it’s not OK and knowing how to step in and knowing how to address it.”

Seven out of 10 rapes are committed by a person whom the victim knows, according to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network website. @DavidGayDT

sent is and what consent is not,” Phillips said, “I think is important.”

Consent should look like active engagement and can be read in body language, such as someone pulling another person toward them indicating interest or pulling away from another person indicating non-interest, Adams said.

Students should act on their gut feelings if

they feel something bad could happen, Adams said, and can even use bystander intervention in subtle ways, such as through distraction.

“College should be a safe time to enjoy your life,” Adams said, “and you shouldn’t have to worry about being assaulted or assaulting somebody. It should just be a time to enjoy and be successful.” @KirbyWarner_DT

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Both Trumps differ from each other O n March 11, “Saturday Night Live” aired a skit featuring Scarlett Johansson playing Ivanka Trump in an advertisement for a fragrance called Complicit.

The skit’s overall message can be summed up in one of its closing lines: “Complicit, the fragrance for the woman who could stop all this, but won’t.”

On Tuesday, CBS published an article detailing an interview with Trump. In this interview, Trump was questioned on her thoughts about her and her husband being called “complicit.”

In response, Trump stated she didn’t know what it meant to be complicit but that she hopes to make a positive impact and show her father’s administration is a success.

After the “Saturday Night Live” skit, a guest column from Dean Obeidallah — a columnist from The Beast and host of “The Dean Obeidallah Show” — was published by CNN commenting how the skit was correct in calling Trump complicit. After Trump’s interview, MerriamWebster jokingly tweeted the definition of “complicit” in response to Trump, saying she didn’t know what it meant to be complicit. And a column from The Guardian published Wednesday stated Trump is simply “(another) Trump in the White House.”

These are pretty harsh words for the unofficial first lady. But are they justified? I’m not so sure.

To be clear, I’m not a Donald Trump supporter, nor have I been in times past. I’m all for jumping on the Donald Trump hate-train every now and then, but I don’t think Ivanka Trump should be put under fire for our president’s actions.

It is true that since late March, Ivanka Trump holds the title of assistant to the president, meaning she is now an official White House employee. By extension, this also means she is officially a part of Donald Trump’s administration. For some, this is may be enough to demonize someone as a Donald Trump supporter, which is a bit silly, considering Donald Trump is her father.

Amusingly, the main reason for Ivanka Trump being called complicit is her apparent lack of attempts to stop her father going through with his policies.

This argument is ignorant, however, as it assumes Donald Trump’s policies are bad, and Ivanka Trump disagrees with them. It is important to keep in mind our opinions are not facts, especially during the course of this administration.

We can’t be sure exactly what Ivanka Trump’s thoughts on her father’s administration are, but she did mention in her recent interview that she does disagree with her father. As noted by The Hollywood Reporter, Ivanka

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Trump stated in her interview that when she disagrees with Donald Trump, he’s fully aware of it. She further added that her silence — through her social media channels and the like — should not be taken as “public denouncement” of the Trump administration’s actions.

These statements do not reek of complicity but show someone who makes her opinion known, just not publicly.

Of course, Ivanka Trump cannot be expected to publicly announce what she disagrees with in regards to her father’s administration. Doing so would be committing career suicide.

At the end of the day, I don’t really care what is going with Ivanka and Donald Trump. Ivanka Trump is bound to get hate as she’s employed by the White House and bears the Trump name. However, I use Ivanka Trump to illustrate a point: Don’t transfer hate and negative emotions onto those who support something or someone we don’t.

Avery Aiken — The Daily Toreador’s opinions editor — touched on this in a column published on March 30. Aiken wrote, “I find that the very ones criticizing Trump for his alleged intolerance find themselves denying tolerance to those who disagree with their opinions.”

I think we could all do ourselves — and those around us — a favor by reflecting on Aiken’s words. There is a tendency to demonize both Donald Trump and his supporters, not stopping to actually listen to the reasons why someone might side with the president. Not only is this ironic — being in one of the biggest Republican states — but it is harmful to our system of democracy as we begin to silence an entire side of the issue.

I said it before, but I’ll say it again: I am not, nor have ever been a supporter of Donald Trump. I believe the man to be harmful to our country and our freedoms, but I do not believe he is the Antichrist or that his supporters are demons. Even though their ideas may greatly differ from my own, Donald Trump’s supporters are simply taking the side that they believe is the best direction for the country. And who is to say my ideas are correct, anyway?

Hate Donald Trump all you want, but leave his supporters out of it. They’re normal people just like you, Americans just like you. Don’t buy into the toxicity.

If we are to make it through the next four years or so, we cannot turn on ourselves. aolges@dailytoreador.com

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Mayor who led Ferguson through turmoil is re-elected FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Voters in Ferguson, Missouri, opted for experience over change in re-electing a mayor who has led them through a tumultuous 32 months since the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown thrust the St. Louis suburb into the national debate over race.

James Knowles III won a third term, holding off a challenge Tuesday from city Councilwoman Ella Jones, who was seeking to become Ferguson’s first-ever black mayor. It will be Knowles’ final term in office, due to term limits.

Voters also approved a ballot measure adding strict police body camera requirements to the city charter.

Officers already use cameras, but the new policy will require them to be on virtually all the time and seeks to make footage more accessible to the public.

Knowles, 37 and a lifelong Ferguson resident, was first elected as a councilman at age 25, and was just 31 when he was elected mayor.

Jones, 62, a retired Mary Kay executive, was elected to the council in 2015, her first elected position.

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Identity of campus Greek life members deserves reframing A s a publication, we try not to print the phrase “sorority girl.” I’m sure this might seem like a strange effort, but our belief is we shouldn’t give a woman the misnomer of “girl.”

I hadn’t quite thought of the way such rhetoric could frame a sorority woman in an unfavorable light. It doesn’t seem harmful, at first, especially considering how frequently such a term is used. However, once I thought about it, I realized we often project an immature identity onto women who are members of sororities.

In fact, we project a whole slew of characteristics onto people who are in Greek organizations. Even if we don’t intend to, we automatically assume that someone who is in a fraternity or sorority spends the weekend drinking or smoking. We assume that person isn’t in college to get an education but to socialize.

We assume that person has purchased his friendships through membership fees.

We even go so far as to assume things like how intelligent that person is, how hard-working that person is, and what that person’s ethical guidelines are.

Now, of course, not everyone does this. But, it happens far too often.

Never do I wear a shirt with my sorority’s letters

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on it to class. For fear of being presumptively placed in a category to which I do not belong or fear that I will be given incongruous character attributes, I refrain from associating myself with any sort of Greek life.

And while my sorority is not panhellenic — it is a Christian sorority — I still am aware that having three Greek letters hanging on a chain around my neck could provide a social obstacle before I even introduce myself.

Would anyone care that I fly home on Hallow een weekend every year to avoid the party scene that overtakes Lubbock?

Would my peers tune out in class every time I raise my hand, assuming my response will be riddled with the word “like”? Would my blonde hair and propensity to hug prematurely confirm the Valley Girl identity my association with a sorority suggested?

All these questions lead me to feel as though I should be ashamed by my desire to find community through my sorority. I don’t want to stereotype myself, but I can’t help doing so.

The second I curl my hair,

clasp my initial-bearing necklace on and roll up the sleeves of my sorority’s T-shirt, I feel myself assuming the stereotype of a “sorority girl.”

And the saddest thing about that self-identification is that it is a confirmation of an idea I recently conceived: We only become upset about discrimination and stereotyping when we believe the stereotype is negative.

I wouldn’t mind if someone told me I look like a Parisian or even that I remind them of Elle Woods.

That sounds great.

However, when someone tells me I am such a “sorority girl,” I immediately become offended.

Why? Because I view that archetype negatively.

When my mother was in college, sororities weren’t looked at quite the same way.

The women who were involved in Greek life wore elegant dresses and were known for their polished appearance, social graces and appreciation of community.

They stood united as women of character and substance. They were known on campus as the ones who were composed enough to organize events.

They were kind enough to foster an environment that made new students feel as though they could be at home while away from home.

These sorority women were seen — regardless of

the liquor at parties or the frequency of formals or the blondness of their hair —as women who fully capitalized on their opportunities in college.

To choose to be a part of an organization like a sorority and still keep up with class work was seen as ambitious and impressive. It was seen as a full embrace of college.

Therefore, regardless of what someone might assume a sorority to be, I urge us all to start rebranding and redefining Greek life. It is an impressive feat to manage an intensive social agenda and also manage class work.

It is encouraging to see women joining together in support of one another. It is powerful to know that — while alone we can do so little — together we can do so much.

In my sorority, we close every chapter meeting with this Bible verse: “May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had, so that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Romans 15:5-6.

This is why we come together. This is why we exist as one group. This is why I am in a sorority. aaiken@dailytoreador.com

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Trump’s first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was heading the NSC at the time, but the official said Bannon’s role had nothing to do with the troubles facing Flynn, who was asked to resign in early February for misleading the administration about his communications with Russian officials.

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Tom Bossert, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counterterrorism, also had his role downgraded as part of the changes. The White House official said Bossert’s change in status is simply a result of efforts to streamline the NSC. Bossert joined Trump’s team having previously served as deputy homeland security adviser to President George W. Bush.

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Staff, students discuss blue phones

By AKHILA REDDY Staff Writer

Around many corners on campus, students can glimpse any one of 118 blue phones, a number that some people on campus are not satisfied with.

Blue phones, or blue lights, are phones with direct lines to the Texas Tech Police Department, according to the Tech website. They are located throughout campus and can be recognized by blue lights that are mounted above metal phones.

They are meant for students to use in situations where they are escaping assault or just feel unsafe, Sergeant Amy Ivey, crime prevention and public relations sergeant at Tech, said.

“Anytime anyone pushes the button, it’ll go strictly as a 911 call to our dispatchers, and they’ll send an officer,” Ivey said. “We’ll be there in 60 to 90 seconds, if necessary.”

Micah Sims, a freshman mechanical engineering major from New York, said Tech had fewer emergency phones than many of the other college campuses she toured.

The lack of blue phones on campus is something that worries her. There are sizable stretches of campus without blue

phones that are not lit well at night, she said.

“On the walk from Gordon Hall to Murray Hall, for example, there’s only one blue light I believe, and it would be a scary walk alone late at night,” Sims said.

“The fact that there aren’t more blue lights makes me feel like the school doesn’t value my safety.”

Ivey said Tech is adding more blue lights to the campus as new buildings are being constructed.

Near the new honors residence hall, for example, a new blue phone will be installed.

Generally, said there is a good number of blue phones on campus because of their strategic placement, Ivey said.

“I personally right now think we have a great amount because of where they’re placed.

Now, granted, could we always use more?” Ivey said. “Maybe.

However, just the way that our campus is laid out, the placement of the blue phone has actually worked really well for our campus.”

The blue phones are set up in a way that students can walk by and press them on the way if they feel they are being followed, establishing a path for officers to follow to help the student. Even if students do not actually talk on the phone, after pressing the

button, an officer will come to the area within 60 to 90 seconds.

In areas of campus where cellphone reception is low, there are regular phones installed inside buildings, as well, Ivey said.

Tech PD wants to make sure that in areas such as basements, students can still have access to the police.

“They still are very supported here at the university.

We just look at them with a strategic plan,” Ivey said. “They are still going up. They’re not going obsolete.”

At other large universities, such as University of California Davis, blue phones have become obsolete because of cellphones, according to the UC Davis website.

Ivey said the blue phones on the Tech campus are often not utilized by students because of the ubiquity of cellphones. There is a Raider Safe app that has one-touch dialing to the Texas Tech Police Department that also allows students to send texts to the dispatcher.

“It’s just in case somebody can’t get their cellphone to work because sometimes the cell towers will crash,” Ivey said. “Or, if they leave their cellphones in their dorms and need emergency assistance on campus, this way they can have a direct line to 911.”

The app is a great tool, Sims said, and cellphones are a great substitute for blue lights. However, there are still occasions when students might be unable to reach their phones and, thus, be in danger of being assaulted.

“I know that blue phones might seem a little antiquated now when everybody has some type of smart phone on them, but things can happen, like your battery dying,” Sims said.

“Knowing that those phones are always there, no matter what, is important to me.”

Tech will continue to operate these phones for the foreseeable future and has no plans to shut them down. Regardless of how students feel about the number phones, it is important they know Tech PD strives to ensure safety on campus, Ivey said.

Students should not hesitate to push the buttons on blue phones, even if they only have suspicions of being followed or of being unsafe and need to tell somebody. The department is happy to help, she said.

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There are 118 blue phones on Texas Tech’s campus. The phones are placed around campus for people to use in case of emergency, and an officer responds within 60 to 90 seconds.

SEXUAL ASSAULT

Voice of Hope combats sex trafficking, sexual assault Community members often want to avoid acknowledging the realities of sexual assault and sex trafficking taking place within their communities because of the taboo nature of the topics.

However, the Voice of Hope, a rape crisis center in Lubbock, believes it is time for Lubbock to climb out of denial and confront the sexual assault and sex trafficking happening within its community.

The Voice of Hope is a nonprofit organization that provides help and resources to survivors of sexual assault and sex trafficking. It also aims to raise awareness of these issues within the Lubbock community.

According to the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network website, every one minute and 47 seconds, a sexual assault takes place. Despite the fact that sexual assault has fallen by 49 percent, sexual assault is still a nationwide problem.

According to the Voice of Hope, it supported more than 400 sexual-assault survivors in 2016. Out of these victims, 365 were female and 53 were male.

Leslie Timmons, the primary prevention director at the Voice of Hope, is working to raise awareness by preparing and coordinating Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, the center’s upcoming fundraiser on April 22.

Walk a Mile in Her Shoes is a march consisting of mostly male community members who march a mile in stilettoes as a symbol of support by physically feeling what it is like to walk in another person’s shoes, Timmons said.

“We want men to be involved in preventing rape as opposed to perpetrating rape,” Timmons said.

The march is hosted internationally. However, the Voice of Hope was the first to bring the march to Texas. The concept is designed for the community to become cognizant of struggles

faced by sexual-assault and sex-trafficking survivors while enjoying the march to raise funds, she said.

“It’s just a lighthearted way to bring attention to a serious subject,” Timmons said.

This is the only fundraiser for the Voice of Hope, she said. Most of its funding comes from grants and a few private donations.

Donating and marching is not the only way individuals can help, she said. Trained volunteers can answer the crisis hotline during nights and weekends.

“Anybody can call 24/7,” Timmons said. “At night, the volunteers answer the phone from 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. and all weekend.”

Volunteers have to complete a 40-hour course certified by the attorney general’s office. Once completed, individuals are certified sexual-assault advocates in the state of Texas and may begin working the hotline, Timmons said.

“The next level would be

on-call advocates,” she said. “If a case comes in at the hospital, they would go to the hospital and meet the victim and be with them through the sexual assault exam.”

These volunteers are required to shadow cases at the hospital in addition to the training before becoming on-call advocates, she said. Upon arriving at the hospital, advocates may offer information to survivors about potential next steps and care packages.

“We just make sure they know they are in control and, when they’re ready, know we can help them in any way we can,” Timmons said.

All sexual assault survivors are unique individuals who process their event in their own time before taking any next steps, Timmons said.

While some survivors seek help two months after their assault, others may take 20 years, and some decide not to use any resources at all. The Voice of

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“The problem is people don’t want to think it happens here, but (Lubbock has) all the big-city problems, and it really is a big issue here, and something we have to address,” Timmons said.

One way the Voice of Hope connects with sex-trafficking survivors is through the National Human Trafficking Hotline, Timmons said. If the call is in service area of the Voice of Hope, it is forwarded to the office, so an advocate can physically reach out to the victim fast as possible.

However, simply learning about sex trafficking is insufficient, Timmons said. Public awareness and response needs to take place in order to combat the sex-trafficking battle.

“We get people talking about something that is very taboo.

Most people don’t want to talk about sexual assault or sex trafficking,” Timmons said. “But if you don’t talk about it, it’s not going to go away.”

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Timmons said she and her colleagues noticed a pattern in their incoming cases and felt it was necessary to take action by offering support specifically for sex-trafficking survivors.

The Voice of Hope has learned more about sex trafficking each year with the growing number of survivors bringing their cases to the nonprofit. The Voice of Hope members realized how drastic of a problem sex trafficking is for Lubbock and are now spreading awareness, so the community can come to the same realization.

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The Texas Tech softball team lost to the Abilene Christian, 5-1, for the second time in the program’s history. The game was played on Wednesday at Rocky Johnson Field.

Senior outfielder Camaury Washington was the lone Red Raider to score a run against the Wildcats.

Senior infielder Brittany Warnecke and senior infielder Ashley Fultz were the only Red Raiders to register a hit during the game. Overall, the Red Raiders had two hits, one run and one RBI. Sophomore infielder Kiana Workman registered the one RBI. “I think ACU played a really great game,” Tech coach Adrian Gregory said. “I think they pitched really well and made some really great defensive plays. They put the ball in play in key situations with runners on, and I think they were aggressive on the base passing, and we weren’t prepared for them to go home.”

On the defensive side, senior right-handed pitcher Mattison Maisel threw six strikeouts in the game and had nine hits against her. Overall, the pitching staff had seven strikeouts with freshman right-handed pitcher Kassidy Scott adding one on.

Abilene Christian had five runs in 10 hits during the contest. The one home run for the Wildcats was hit by junior outfielder Brianna Barnhill in the top of the seventh.

“You could go through different ways and make excuses on why we didn’t, but

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1. Texas Tech senior catcher Susan Welborn throws to first base after getting an out at home plate. Texas Tech played Abilene Christian on Wednesday at Rocky Johnson Field.

Tech lost to ACU, 5-1. Tech’s loss to ACU is the second defeat to ACU in Tech softball program history.

2. Texas Tech senior infielder Devon Thomey runs for second base during Tech’s game against Abilene Christian on Wednesday at Rocky Johnson Field. ACU defeated Tech, 5-1.

Tech will begin Big 12 Conference home play against Kansas at 6 p.m. Friday.

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we just didn’t play our best,” Gregory said.

Tech took the lead in the bottom of the third when Workman hit a ball into a double play that forced both her and Fultz out.

However, the hit allowed Washington to score the first run of the game to take the lead, 1-0.

Abilene Christian managed to take the lead, 3-1, in the top of the fifth when the Wildcats had bases loaded and were able to score their first run. The next two runs came off a single to shortstop.

“I thought they did what they needed to do,” Gregory said. “I thought they had some key plays at some key moments, but our kids swung decently well off a really great pitcher, and I thought they made some really great plays.”

The Wildcats extended their lead in the top of the seventh when Barnhill hit a solo home run, racking up the score to 4-1 over Tech. With the home run, Tech changed pitchers from Maisel to freshman right-handed pitcher Hannah Broseman.

After two walks, Tech had another pitching change: Scott replaced Broseman. With Broseman on the mound, a single up the middle allowed Abilene Christian to extend its lead even further to 5-1 in the top of the seventh. The two runs in the seventh inning ended the Red Raiders’ night with a loss to the Wildcats.

Tech hosts Kansas this weekend for the first Big 12 Conference home game of the season. The series will start at 6 p.m. Friday, and then continue at 4 p.m. Saturday and noon Sunday. @JackDensmoreDT

MEN’S TENNIS

Brown earns Big 12 athletic award Ronneblad awarded monthly honor After a strong showing at the Texas Relays, sophomore Charles Brown was named Big 12 Track and Field Athlete of the Week on Wednesday.

Brown ranked at No. 3 in the world after he had a long jump mark of 8.14 m/26-8.50, according to the release. Brown also leads the nation by more than half a foot in the long jump. Brown’s jump not only marked him at second place in Tech’s outdoor record book but also set his best-lifetime mark.

“What a great jump for (Brown) at Texas Relays,” Tech coach Wes Kittley said in the release. “I couldn’t be more BROWN pleased with the transition from indoors to outdoors and how he is figuring it out on the runways. We’ve seen the big jumps, but now they’re starting to happen.”

Brown is also a five-time

USTFCCCA All-American, a two-time Big 12 Conference long jump champion, a USATF junior triple jump champion and a two-time Men’s Mountain Region Field Athlete of the Year, according to the release.

Tech’s next track and field competitions will be the WT Classic and Multi in Canyon, and the Sun Angel Classic in Tempe, Arizona, on Friday and Saturday. @JackDensmoreDT

The Big 12 Conference announced Wednesday that senior Hannes Ronneblad, a student athlete for the Texas Tech men’s golf team, was named the Big 12 men’s golfer of the month for March.

This is Ronneblad’s first time earning the award and the second time a Red Raider has won the award this season, according to a Tech Athletics news release. Junior Fredrik Nilehn won the award in October. The last time two Red Raid-

ers earned this award during the same season was in 2006-2007.

At the Bandon Dunes Invitational from March 12-14, RONNEBLAD Ronneblad won the title after shooting 2-under par in the first round, according to the release. Ronneblad shot 4-under par to take the title, as Oregon’s top-ranked golfer Wyndham Clark followed behind.

At the Southern Highlands Classic, Ronneblad shot 3-under par to earn another top-10 finish at seventh place, according to the release. He shot under par in his six appearances for Tech during March and is on the path to earning the No. 1 spot on the European Palmer Cup team.

With Ronneblad finding his stride on the green, the Red Raiders will get back to action for the Hawkeye Invitational on April 16 in Iowa City, Iowa. @ABoutwellDT

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Rockets beat Nuggets 110-104 to secure 3rd seed in West, Harden scores 31 HOUSTON (AP) — James Harden scored 31 points and the Houston Rockets squandered a big early lead, but held on to outlast the Denver Nuggets for a 110-104 win on Wednesday night that secured the third seed in the Western Conference.

The Nuggets cut the lead to two points on a layup by Nikola Jokic with 1:20 remain-

ing. A 3-pointer by Harden a few seconds later pushed the lead to 106-101 and brought the crowd, which included rapper Travis Scott, to its feet.

Harden added two free throws after that for the last of 15 straight points he scored for Houston in the second half of the fourth quarter.

The Nuggets got a dunk

from Danilo Gallinari next to cut the lead to four, but Eric Gordon added a pair of free throws to secure the win.

The victory improves Houston to 4-0 against the Nuggets this season after the Rockets lost all three games to Denver last season.

Gallinari had 23 points for the Nuggets, who are in ninth

place and are fighting for the last playoff spot in the West.

Houston led by six entering the fourth quarter and remained up by that many before the Nuggets scored four quick points to cut the lead a basket with about nine minutes left.

The Nuggets cut the lead to two points after a layup

by Wilson Chandler midway through the quarter. Houston then used a 5-2 spurt, with all of the points by Harden, to extend its advantage to 98-93 with about five minutes left.

Denver trailed by nine early in the third quarter before using an 18-7 run to take a 73-71 lead with just under five minutes in the quarter.

Garry Harris, Kenneth Faried and Jameer Nelson had six points each in that span to fuel the run.

A layup by Harris soon after that left the Nuggets up by one before the Rockets scored seven straight points, capped by a 3-pointer from Harden to go on top 83-77 with about 90 seconds left in the quarter.