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dangler
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maker
Strauss
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pronoun
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alias
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17 Conked out
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cheese dish
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and then
some
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for argument's
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Turgenev
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assured
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wishes"
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instrument
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transaction
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org.
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of football
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stupidly
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holder
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28 Regatta
entry
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snack
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ya!"
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precede
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away
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prov.
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quated
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the villain
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Lang said several events off campus took place last year, including a gathering to honor Rick Dowdell, a black teen who was shot by Lawrence police in 1970.
such as anthropology and sociology, that are "very invested" in these issues.
Nate Thomas, vice provost for diversity and equity, said in an email that the Office of Diversity and Equity, OMA, the Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access and the Emily Taylor Center are all working on initiatives surrounding bias, micro aggressions and a cultural competency colloquium for all underrepresented groups, not just racial minorities.
However, that isn't enough, according to the OMA. Jones said the past year of protests and police shootings has brought race narratives onto the national stage, and has forced many to confront the reality of race relations. Jones also said that many people may think that racism no longer exists in America.
"I think people are doing different things in different spaces." Lang said.
"It has brought [race] to the forefront because we, as a society, have such a sanitized view of things like race and things like segregation," said Jones. "Now our problem can at least be acknowledged."
Jones said that part of ac
knowledging that problem is understanding that even though society says all people are equal, it doesn't necessarily mean people come from equal backgrounds. Often, Jones said, minorities have different interactions with police than non-minority groups. Those differences, she said, have become apparent in the past year's events.
"The vast majority of police are good people with jobs to do, but police culture has become very corrupted in this way that its unfair towards certain groups of people, and I think the way to approach that conversation is to say that police officers aren't bad, but they have to be held accountable," Jones said. "It's not a radical idea."
As a result of the past year of police shootings and racially charged protests, the slogan "Black Lives Matter" has gained national support and attention. However, in opposition to the slogan, many have taken up another phrase: "All Lives Matter."
Last spring on campus, chalk advertisements for a "Black Lives Matter" event were crossed out and replaced with "All Lives Matter," according to Precious Porras, the interim director of the OMA.
"I think that when someone is asserting that all lives matter, it is coming generally from a place of ignorance," Charles said. "Saying black lives matter is not saying
that all lives don't matter, it's saying that my life has historically not been valued the way yours has."
Jones said part of the reason people have deflected from saying "black lives matter" to saying "all lives matter" is because there is a fear around confronting inequalities.
"We're taught about the civil rights movement and segregation, and we want so desperately to believe that that part of American history is over," Jones said. "But the remnants of that overt racism led to decades and decades of covert racism that is still going on, and I think that's kind of why we don't want to face it, because we don't want to face that something is still wrong. We want so badly to believe that we learn about these things in history because they're in the past and that's not us now."
Katherine Rainey a senior from Shawnee, said that in many incidents racism is not explicitly stated but sublimi-
nally implied.
"I'm forced to prove that I matter," she said. "I have to validate myself in certain spaces. I have to come up with all these facts and all these resources, and I have to provide all this proof to white males as to why I matter just for someone to take my needs seriously."
Rainey also said that more could be done in classrooms to facilitate conversations about "Black Lives Matter," particularly on a syllabus.
"It would open the door for that conversation in a very intentional way," Rainey said. Currently no plans have been made to formally implement discussions on race in classrooms at KU outside of culturally specific courses. Organizations like the OMA will continue working this year with events like the Identities Symposium on Sept. 19. "I think we need to continue to have conversations," Charles said. "Raise the tem-
JAMES HOYT/KANSAN
University student Chelsea Whiteside and graduate student Jameelah Jones march in the front of the Kansas Blackout protest group on Nov. 30, 2014. JAMES HOYT/KANSAN
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pitual has 13 Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners, or SANE nurses, and performed 64 rape kits in 2014, according to Terri Woodson, the SANE coordinator for Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
Collection usually takes
you have to state the facts and it's really hard not to get tied up in the emotional factors, so you have to be able to do as much as you can for the victim." TAMMY GUINN SANE Nurse
If victims do not want to file a report to the police, they can have an anonymous kit done, and KBI can store the kits for up to five years without testing. The victim can choose to file charges within those five years. The anonymous kit doesn't include urine samples, large blood samples or clothing collection.
"It's just so we can have the evidence available just in case they change their mind," Woodson said. "I'm so glad we have the option of the anonymous kit. It's better if they report, but if they don't then at least we are collecting
around four to five hours, and victims can refuse any step of the evidence collection, Woodson said. The test is free for victims.
"It's a very traumatic event to happen to you." Woodson said "It's hard to get people to understand the importance of evidence collection."
some evidence."
Woodson said some victims decide not to report because they know the perpetrator and are afraid to report them or because they can't remember what happened. However, if a victim can't remember what happened, Woodson said she would encourage them to report it because then the kit can test for drugs.
"If they want some advice then we're more than happy to come in and talk to them and in that aspect we will really try to report or do some sort of evidence collection," Woodson said. "Even though there's a lot of education, you can never quite get anybody. It's the ones that fall through the cracks that we need to get that information out to."
Kathy Guth, a SANE nurse at Watkins, said because of the hours of operation, most students go to LMH. She said SANE nurses at Watkins perform an average of two exams a year and that in recent years victims mostly did not report to the police.
Watkins Health Center also performs examinations and has three SANE nurses on staff.
Guth said the CARE coordinator, who serves as a contact for victims of violence, can help students navigate resources and services available to them.
"The job of that person is to facilitate through the KU campus and through the community," Guth.
SANE nurse Tammy Guinn said the nurses are the patient advocate and put their safety and choices first.
MCKENNA HARFORD/KANSAN The contents of a sexual assault testing kit at Lawrence Memorial Hospital.
"The most important thing about this job is that we are the patient advocate," Guinn said. "You have to state the facts and it's really hard not to get tied up in the emotional factors, so you have to be able to do as much as you can
for the victim."
—Edited by Maddie Farber
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