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TrueKU seeks to diversify Student Senate
DARBY VANHOUTAN @darbvanhoutan
Junior Chancellor Adams helps kick off the campaign launch for the TrueKU coalition on Feb. 21 in Eaton Hall.
A Student Senate campaign launch Tuesday evening addressed the diversity that attendees feel others preach but don't practice.
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The launch, which drew a crowd of almost 40 people to Eaton Hall, established a fourth coalition, TrueKU, and was spear-headed by Chancellor Adams, a junior from Kansas City, Kansas, along with junior Andrew Davis from Chicago. Both Davis and Adams used the launch to discuss the newly formed coalition's goal of diversifying the University experience.
"When I first came to KU I was quickly made aware of my blackness," Davis said during the launch. "I would walk into class and be either one of few or the only black student in the room."
Davis, who hasn't served on Student Senate but has voting rights in Student Rights Committee, followed his own experiences at the University up with a question to the crowd: "What does it mean to be you at a PWI (predominantly white institution)?"
Answers to this question were similar to Davis', with many people in attendance saying they were afraid to speak up on issues for fear that the current Student Senate wouldn't offer any assistance.
Constanza Castro, a sophomore from Raytown, Missouri, and the newly elected
Elections Commission liaison for TrueKU, answered Davis' question by illustrating what she feels the current Student Senate fails to do.
"I know as a Hispanic woman of color I'll go to the current senate and say 'We need you to do this thing' and the first question I get is 'Why?' and the 'why' shouldn't matter because we should care enough about each other as people to say 'Okay you need this thing so let me help you to get this thing,'" Castro said during the launch.
However, if more people of color were elected to Student Senate, as TrueKU is proposing with their launch,
things would be different, Davis and Adams said.
There's more communities represented in this room than a lecture hall in Budig."
"There might not be 200 people in this room but the reality is that there's more communities represented in this room than a lecture hall in Budig," Adams said during the event. "There's more
Chancellor Adams Junior from Kansas City
voices in this room than there is currently in Student Senate."
The coalition, which hasn't yet announced their platforms or voted on presidential or vice-presidential nominees, will bring a change to the current dynamic on campus, according to Adams, who currently serves as an on-campus senator.
According to Davis, both he and Adams turned to TrueKU after issues with previous coalitions. Adams, who originally helped with last year's OneKU coalition in its early stages and defended himself against allegations from the Elections Commission involving OneKU, said
'Heartland Project' seeks to research college sexual assault through survey
Ashley Hocking/KANSAN Dr. Natabhona Mabachi and Nacoya Copeland discuss the Heartland Sexual Assault Policies and Prevention on Campuses Project during a meeting in Twente Hall. Mabachi is the project evaluator and Copeland is a capstone researcher for the Heartland Project.
▶ HAILEY DIXON
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University individuals are looking to improve measures to halt sexual assault and sexual violence cases on campus.
The Heartland Sexual Assault Policies and Prevention on Campuses Project, also known' as the "Heartland Project," is seeking to hear students' feedback on the topic of sexual assault at the University.
The Heartland Project will send a climate survey to University students via email in the coming weeks, in addition to other schools in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska. The project was awarded a grant to implement this research last summer. The goal of the confidential survey is to hear students' perspectives about sexual assault.
"We are administering a survey with all of our campus partners," said Alesha Doan, project director and University associate professor. "We will be using the survey for all of them. And it's a wonderful tool for multiple purposes. One, to look at not only just the instances of sexual assault and sexual violence on a college campus, but also to help have evidence-based prevention programming. It's really hard to treat what you don't know."
"It's incredibly important to have your voice heard," Doan said.
then the results will be able to help the partnered college campuses prevent sexual assault and sexual violence, Doan said.
The survey will be available for about four weeks.
It's incredibly important to have your voice heard."
Alesha Doan Project Director and Associate Professor
Colleges are good at responding to sexual assault crimes, Doan said, but need to improve on prevention and any weaknesses that are found through the survey.
he heels he can do more with his voice in TRUEKU.
"The idea is to figure out and work with these campuses over the next three years to develop and implement
comprehensive prevention programing," Doan said.
Along with Doan, several University personnel are implementing this project. Others include project facilitator Juliana Carlson, project evaluator Dr. Natabbona Mabachi, project manager Natalie Parker and research assistant Mary Quizison.
"I think that we're really wanting our campus partners, and specifically KU as our home institution, to start using data to make positive change on campus," Carlson said. "Ihe data from the climate survey is going to both help us understand the breadth and depth of some of the issues related to sexual assault and sexual violence. But it also is something we really want to see inform our prevention activities."
"This idea of primary prevention is really important to us," she said. "Addressing an issue upstream before it happens downstream is one of our key pillars."
Mabachi said they are looking at these issues from a public health perspective.
At the University, after receiving the climate survey results and information, the project will continue to work with the Sexual Assault Prevention and Education Center and the University sexual assault task force to strengthen the programming even more, Doan said.
"Right now, they [SAPEC] are doing great stuff, like bystander intervention, and consent 101, and they've got great programming going on," Doan said.
"I feel like people preach diversity but they don't practice it," Adams said after the event. "There are some coalitions that do it and so we have to notice them and acknowledge them and we thank them for that. Honestly the truth is that most of the current coalitions, two in particular, aren't practicing it."
According to Adams, platforms will be announced at the coalition's next meeting along with a caucus for both presidential and vice-presidential seats.
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