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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY, JAN. 18, 2016 | VOLUME 131 ISSUE 1
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HENRY SETTON Brazilian violin student
COURTNEY BIERMAN
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Before coming to KU, international student Henry Setton had never left his home country of Brazil. A second semester freshman violin student, all Setton knew about Kansas before leaving his hometown of São Paolo was that it gets tornadoes, as he seen in "The Wizard of Oz."
Setton has been playing the violin since he was 10 years old. There are no other musicians in his family, and he had never picked one up before a dream where he was playing the violin. The dream made him ask his parents if he could take lessons. They agreed but said he would earn it
Setton's parents told him they would only buy him a violin if he continued to get good grades for the rest of the school year. Each side held up their end of the deal. As a child he says he was "talented but nothing crazy."
After skipping a grade in high school, Setton started college in Brazil at age 16 and had completed two years of it when he decided he wanted to study abroad. He felt stuck in Brazil, where he says the schools tend to put all of their money into STEM programs.
"In Brazil, I felt that I was stuck and also that I couldn't grow a lot as a musician," he said. "Even though I had a really great teacher, all the other music classes, they were not strong enough. They would not prepare me for real life or to try to get a Master's abroad, either in the U.S. or in Europe. So I felt that it was too weak."
Assistant Professor in the School of Music Véronique Matheieu, Setton's violin instructor at the University, is originally from Canada. Matheieu received her doctorate from Indiana University and taught at the State University of New York Buffalo before hearing about an open violin professorship in Lawrence. This is her third year at the University.
"I think in a way I can relate better to international students because I also was one during my graduate studies," Mathieu said. "I understand the challenges they face and can help them in various situations."
Mathieu makes yearly trips to Brazil to give master classes. It was during one that she met Setton. They reconnected last summer, and he mentioned to her that he was considering transferring to an American school. Mathieu encouraged him to apply to KU. He agreed, and Mathieu helped make preparations for his audition and transition.
"She would answer one million emails every day for me, and I know she's extremely busy, so, I mean, she's a wonderful person," Setton said.
Even though Setton sent his audition video that fall — after the deadline for the spring 2015 semester — the School of Music made an exception and accepted him. He began classes with Mathieu in January and says the two of them have grown very close.
"I like the way she tries to have a good environment in the studio," Setton said. "Even when she's choosing the students she's going to accept, she doesn't choose any student. It's not only how the student plays; it's also the personality. If she feels the student's too competitive and, like, jealous, she wouldn't accept the student, because her priority is having a good environment for the students. And that's great. I feel the environment here is much better, much less competition [than in Brazil]."
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Henry Setton is an international student from Brazil. Setton has been playing the violin since he was 10.
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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.
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
Tuttle said she believes Brockman is the best person for the director position because of her experience.
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. She has since gone on to work in several sexual assault prevention coalitions in the
Brockman served as a sexual assault prevention educator at the University of Arkansas, and most recently, executive
She has since gone on to work in several sexual assault prevention coalitions in the Midwest.
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"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
mings, browman said moves 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-
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"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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