< Volume 128 Issue 102 kansan.com Monday. April 6, 2015 + THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN The student voice since 1904 NSAN e Clark Allen Fieldhouse takes out the trash after basketball games they in the real lot of work Brick- tuesday's going on the is past 2,358 lbs composted RYAN MILLER @Ryanmiller_UDK Even the greatest home-court advantage in all of college basketball still has to take out the trash after the game. According to Eric Nelson, the waste reduction manager for the Center for Sustainability, there was an average of 4,020 pounds of waste landfilled,580 pounds of waste recycled,and 2,358 pounds of waste composted for every men's basketball game during the 2013-14 season. With a capacity of 16,300, that means each person creates about 2.3 pounds of waste during a game at Allen Fieldhouse. With 17 home games during the 2013-14 season, that accumulates to more than 118,000 pounds of waste generated during the entire season. That's about the weight of 118 averagedize adult male polar bears. Nelson said during the 2013-14 season, Allen Fieldhouse had an average of about 42 percent of the waste from every game diverted from the landfill and recycled or composted. The highest diversion rate it reached was 60 percent. "We would like to see it up at like 70-80 percent, but that was our first year, which was pretty good," Nelson said. One thing Nelson said it didn't see a lot of was food waste and for good reason. "If I'm paying $4 for a hot dog, I'm eating it," Nelson said. He said the main waste he sees is plastic bottles. Nelson said one initiative taken during this basketball season was to introduce compostable service ware. "There's a lot more of compostable cups, compostable nacho trays, hot dog [trays], so the goal really is to be able to recycle or compost everything that comes out of there," Nelson said. Nelson said Sustainability handles the recycling waste and sorts it out at its central warehouse. "When a blue bag of recycling comes in, we dump it out on the table, dump out the liquids and we sort all of that waste." Nelson said. As for the thousands of shredded newspapers, those are composted. "The newspaper confetti they use in the student section, that all gets composted for the most part," Nelson said. "It goes to a company called Missouri Organic in Liberty, Mo." Missouri Organic also handles compost waste generated by KU Dining. SEE WASTE PAGE 2 Special Education professor wins Outstanding Leadership Award ALLISON CRIST @AllisonCristUDK Kathleen Lane, professor in the Department of Special Education, will receive the Outstanding Leadership Award from the Council for Children with Behavior Disorders (CCBD) this Thursday at the annual Council for Exceptional Children Conference in San Diego. Lane was nominated for the award by the department Chair Elizabeth Kozleski. "She [Kozleski] got many letters of support from other people," Lane said. "I can't tell you how humbling it was to read such nice things from those I respect so much. Even if I hadn't won the award, those letters alone made me feel like I'm on the right track." Wendy Oakes, assistant professor at Arizona State University and vice president of the CBD, said this year's awarding process was especially competitive. "We had a lot of top quality candidates," Oakes said. "It was difficult to decide, but Dr. Lane's research has been sustained over her entire career, and she's one of the most productive scholars in the field." Oakes also said Lane's research has impacted changes in schools across the country and been very influential in all of her roles. Last year, Lane won the CEC Special Education Research Award. "I've only been able to do all of this because of my amazing colleagues, students, and district partners," Lane said. "I've been on the faculty of a lot of different schools, and at each point,I've been so incredibly fortunate to Lane SEE AWARD PAGE 2 Most campus fire alarms come from minor incidents RYAN MILLER @Ryanmiller, UDK Countless students have woken up in the middle of the night to the shrill of fire alarms going off in student housing at the University. While it may only be a one-time occurrence for a student to go through, it's a common occurrence across campus. According to James King, the prevention division chief for Lawrence and Douglas County Fire Medical, they respond to approximately 250 fire alarms at the University every year. In 2014, 148 alarms were set off in student housing, and 93 of those were specific to the dorms. However, only three of those alarms were due to a real fire, as opposed to something like a student burning macaroni and cheese and setting off the fire alarm. King said the fire department has to come out for every alarm that goes off, and it costs approximately $400 per hour for a full- alarm assignment. That means that if each of the 250 fire alarms took an hour and a half to complete, the resulting cost would be $150,000, or about $5,000 more than it costs for an out-of-state student to attend the University for four years, according to Financial Aid and Scholarships. "They're not 'false alarms' because the system is doing what it's supposed to." JAMES ANGUIANO KU police department captain King said the most difficult part about dealing with a fire alarm evacuation is the students' complacency. "They are slow to evacuate or refuse to evacuate," King said. King said some measures are being taken to help SEE ALARM PAGE 2 Laci Green guides students on how to tackle rape culture LILY GRANT @lilygrant_UKD Laci Green captured the attention of nearly 300 students Friday night when she spoke to a full ballroom of University students during her campus speech "Taking Down Rape Culture." She talked for just over an hour and had a meet-and-greet afterwards. Green travels to different schools across the country to give lectures on topics like sexuality and feminism. Student Union Activities brought Green to the University to talk about rape culture. Green is a sex-ed YouTube personality with more than 1 million subscribers. In her videos, she encourages a "sex-positive" mentality and discusses everything from sexuality to social stigmas associated with sex. "I've been watching Laci Green since I was 16, and she's helped me through a lot of stuff, and I just love her so much," Lia Palazzolo, a senior from Denver, said. Many students in attendance of the event are subscribers to Green's YouTube channel. Everyone was advised to speak out on issues via social media and be an advocate for consent culture all the time. "I'm a personal big fan of Laci Green," said Mason Owen, a sophomore from Overland Park. "I've followed her YouTube work for a couple of years now, and I really wanted to see her talk about rape culture." According to Green, rape culture is a societal attitude that trivializes and normalizes rape. Green covered four main points in her lecture: the trivialization of rape, victim Green began her presentation by showing a collection of video clips of news broadcasters trivializing the issue and examples of rape culture in the media. blaming, gender roles and the toleration of rape culture. According to Green, rape and rape culture are seen as "inevitable" by many, so we're taught how to deal with it instead of preventing it. She used the song and music video "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke as an example of how LACI GREEN Sex-ed YouTube personality OPINION 4 A&F 5 PUZZLES 6 SPORTS 12 Index Green said while it's always smart to be safe, girls shouldn't have to protect themselves and live in fear of being raped. Green introduced the topic of victim blaming by asking the audience to shout out things girls are told when they are young to avoid rape. The crowd replied with comments like, "don't dress provocatively" "don't leave your drink unattended" and "don't travel alone at night." CLASSIFIEDS 11 DAILY BREW 11 "Victims don't cause rape — rapists do," Green said. "Rape happens because of power and control." Victim blaming is when the victim is made to feel like the rape was his or her fault. For example, when examining a rape case, there are often questions concerning the victim's clothing choices, amount of alcohol consumed rape is a present and tolerated topic in pop culture. Green explained how slut-shaming contributes to victim blaming. She said when a woman is labeled a "whore," she's seen as someone who can't be violated and is therefore inviting a rapist to take advantage of her. According to Green, this is slut-shaming, and it's one of the reasons rape culture is alive. Green also discussed sexual objectification. According to Green, women are not seen as people, but as objects to have sex with. She also discussed racial objectification and stereotypes associated with As an example, Green used the Steubenville, Ohio, rape case, in which two high school football players allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl and have received sympathy from the media for having "promising futures." ALL contents, unless stated otherwise, © 2015 The University Daily Kansan Green then discussed how gender roles contribute to rape culture. According to Green, in Western culture, Don't Forget and whether "she was asking for it." By asking these questions, the victims receive the blame rather than the rapist, Green said. She showed a parody of the "Blurred Lines" music video in which women played the men's parts, and vice versa. The audience thought the video was ridiculous. Green explained that the typical reaction is a result of the gender roles we've been trained to accept. April showers bring May flowers. we are conditioned from a young age to see females as nurturing, weak, passive and submissive people while males are supposed to be strong, competitive, aggressive and dominant. Green said this sort of gender identification is a culture that's only present in the Western world. SEE GREEN PAGE 2 Today's Weather Cloudy with a 20 percent chance of rain. Wind S at 18 mph. HI: 73 L0: 60 。 > +