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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, JAN. 18, 2016 | VOLUME 131 ISSUE 1
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Top Student Senate leaders called on to resign
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The Student Executive Committee called for the resignations of Student Body President Jessie Pringle, Vice President Zach George and Chief of Staff Adam Moon at a meeting on Nov. 13.
Pringle, George, Moon, Communications Director Isaac Bahney, Development Director Tomas Green and Government Relations Director Stephonn Alcorn were in Texas at the Big 12 conference student government meeting, but attended the Committee meeting via Skype. Members of Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk also attended.
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The Student Executive Committee voted to reduce the general elections spending cap to $1,000.
There was also a "motion of no confidence in the leadership" of Pringle, George and Moon, according to a statement presented by the Commit-
"We demand that all three resign their positions by 5:00 p.m. Wednesday, November 18, 2015. If they fail to submit their resignations, we ask that the Full Student Senate body take up a bill of impeachment and adopt the measure according to Student Senate Rules and Regulations Article V Section 16.4; read the statement.
Pringle, Moon and George did not resign and impeachment proceedings have begun for Moon.
At the meeting on Nov. 13, Tyler Childress, the finance committee chair, said the Student Executive Committee supports Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk.
"I'm first proposing that we support Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk and the 15 demands that they have made to the University," Childress said. "I think they're really quite simple and tame demands. They could be demanding a lot more, and I think we need to get behind them now on these."
One of the reasons calling for the resignations was that students at the Nov.11 town hall meeting "spoke of the disconnect between Student Senate and its black constituents," according to the document presented to attendees.
The conversation on Nov. 13 then divided into other issues listed in the document, including Pringle and George not standing when white students were asked to stand and proclaim that black lives matter at the town hall meeting. Another issue was the silence from Senate in regard to Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk's demands. Bahney said Pringle and George stood at that time, but did not stand when the audience was asked to stand in support of Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk's demands.
"We are pissed, and we are livid, and you guys are incompetent," said Kynnedi Grant, president of Black Student Union and a member of Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk. "Zach
even said he didn't know that all these multicultural organizations that he cares so much about are having a food drive. How do you not know when you are constantly engaged?"
"I really need you to engage about everything else that you haven't done for the rest of these students for the entirety of the semester. I really don't care anymore about whether or not you were standing up at this one event. You've been absent at literally every other conversation," said Shegufa Huma, vice president of University Senate.
George, who was on staff last year, said this Senate has exceeded what was done last year. He said that Student Senate has regular meetings with the Office of Multicultural Affairs and president roundtable meetings.
"You have an entire group of the student body that don't think that you represent them anymore and that the Senate is illegitimate in their eyes because the Senate doesn't represent
them anymore," Childress said. "That threatens the integrity of this institution. And quite frankly, if you think that you've done enough when you have students at a forum, students on social media, students talking to other senators saying that we aren't doing enough, but you think that we are because you are meeting with some administrators, but you're really not going out and mixing with students that are facing these concerns on a day to day basis, that's the premise of why I have no confidence in your leadership anymore."
Pringle said she agrees with a lot of the demands from Rock Chalk Invisible Hawk but would like to know more about the demands. Pringle said the problem is that campus isn't educated and that some people do not believe there is racism on campus.
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Vice Provost of Student Affairs Jane Tuttle said the new center will initiate its own programs as well as help steer other offices to ensure all components are on the same page.
["Before the center], there [were] no centralized folks, so sometimes our efforts weren't as effective as they could be if
sault Prevention and Education Center.
The center was established in October to centralize the University's sexual assault prevention methods. Previously, education and prevention efforts were coming from several different offices, including Public Safety, Student Affairs, Watkins Health Center and the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access.
Brockman, who will begin Jan. 20, has a history of tackling sexual assault issues. After getting a bachelor's degree in criminology and sociology with a focus in victimology from Drury University, Brockman went on to get her master's in organizational leadership from Gonzaga University
Brockman served as a sexual assault prevention educator at the University of Arkansas, and most recently, executive
Stop from Gonzaga University. She has since gone on to work in several sexual assault prevention coalitions in the Midwest.
Tuttle said she believes Brockman is the best person for the director position because of her experience.
"I think KU is positioning itself well to really have an intentional approach and effort to curb and eliminate sexual violence on the campus," Brockman said.
Brockman said she thinks University students are poised for helping prevent assault.
"You're high-activist, high-energy,and you've got students who already ready to go," Brockman said.
The first item on her to-do list is to build trust and cooperation within the community by understanding the culture and the components at work, Brockman said.
"I think the first step is to really understand KU's culture and make myself available and
a few ideas she's got in mind. The center's main focus will be prevention work, offender accountability and behavior recidivism work, that is, working to curb patterns of repeating sexual violence.
Brockman also said she looks forward to working with the University to make sure its policies are "reflective of the work and the philosophical standing of the center's charter" as well as developing victim resources.
The University currently offers several options for students who have experienced sexual violence, including off-campus advocates, medical and psychological counselors and resources for filing a com-
convicts to sexual assault.
"We need to be able to promise them we have their back," Brockman said.
Brockman said the center will hire two more employees sometime in the spring. She said the hires will be two educators, one focused on male engagement and bystander intervention, and the other on dating and healthy relationships.
Although Brockman said she feels nervous about being the first director of the newly-established center, she's said she's excited to get started.
"There's a lot of unknown, but this is really the opportunity to create something amazing from scratch," Brockman said.
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