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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY APRIL 29, 2008
TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 2008
EDUCATION
Sexy Week promotes more than sexual responsibility
BY JESSICA WICKS
jwicks@kansan.com
Students colored pictures of vaginas and penises on Wescoe Beach Monday to kick off Delta Force's Sexy Week.
The pictures were meant to educate students about their own bodies.
"Sexy is ourselves," Elise Higgins, Topeka sophomore, said. "It is important to know what we look like all over."
Each day of the week, Delta Force has a new definition for sexy, Monday was "Sexy is Yourself."
"Personally, I wouldn't feel comfortable coloring vaginas on campus, but maybe I should," John Cross, Kansas City, Mo., senior, said.
Cross said that it was interesting to see how little people were willing to talk about sex beyond a joke.
"A lot of people can't talk about it beyond your mom did something funny last night kind of comments," Cross said.
Delta Force, which used to run as a student senate coalition, gave up its senate aspirations this semester and focused on two campus issues: Environmental Sustainability and Sexual Health and Safety.
But sexy is not only defined by Delta Force. They have teamed up with a different organizations each day of the week to help them send a new message about sexuality.
Brendan Shaw, Milwaukee, Wis., junior, said that sex was multi-dimensional.
"It is something that people think they know a lot about." Shaw said, "but they miss out on many of the nuances and the fact that sex is complicated."
Shaw said that a lot of students
just simplified it down to whether or not they had a sex life. He said that many students didn't know what they looked like down there.
"You have to know yourself before you can make decisions about other people," Shaw said. "Plus, sex isn't always with another person."
On Monday, Queens and Allies showed a video called, "But I'm a Cheerleader," in which a cheerleader comes out as a homosexual.
"We didn't want to exclude sexuality outside of what is considered the normative," Shaw said.
Higgins said that much of the week's events stemmed from Dennis Dailey's Human Sexuality class that promoted communication about sex as an important step in understanding sex.
"That is why we invited him to speak for 'Sexy is Communication' day on Tuesday."
Higgins said that Delta Force realized that not all sexual experiences were positive. Sexy Week collaborates with groups such as The GaDuGi SafeCenter, Women's Transitional Care and the campus group One in Four because they felt that sexual responsibility should be a main focus of their campaign.
"All of these organizations deal with issues where consent hasn't happened," Higgins said, "and it is so important to highlight that aspect of it."
Higgins said if students could just open a dialogue about sex, they would learn valuable lessons.
"Whether they are having sex or not, sexuality is a huge deal to all students at the university level," Higgins said.
Andrea Peterson, Manhattan sophomore, colored a rainbow
sexy week schedule
Tuesday: Sexy is Communication
Tuesday: Sexy is Communication Questions and Answers with Dennis Dailey 7:30 p.m. In The Hawks Nest, Kansas Union
Wednesday: Sexy is Concnt
Table on Wescoe Beach with information from 1 in 4 and the GaDuGi Safecenter
Thursday: Sexy is Protection Get your condoms all week on Wescoe Beach
Friday: Sexy is Fun "Sex, Lies and Chocolate" 12 p.m.in the Wheat Room Kansas Union
vagina Monday.
"Actually, it is just the inner lift that is rainbow," Peterson said. "I am not homosexual, I just thought it would be cool."
Peterson said that she didn't learn much about sex in high school, so now she was learning about sex here.
"Plus we have coloring books and condoms!" Peterson said.
Students can pick up free condoms all week courtesy of The Watkins Health Center and Douglas County Aids Project, and the week will be topped off with "Sexy is Fun" on Friday, when they will have "Sex, Lies and Chocolate", a social event.
"No one knows sexy better than Delta Force," Cross said, "and that is why we feel the need to educate the University."
Edited by Mandy Earles
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Events throughout the week shed light on discrimination
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To raise awareness of discrimination against different groups, this week the Sabatini Multicultural Resource Center is sponsoring Hate Out Week.
Chastity Richmond, Waterloo Iowa, graduate student, is coordinating the week to train students in social justice and diversity.
"Diversity needs to be continued and be something that is expressed every day," Richmond said.
BY BRENNA HAWLEY
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"Things happen every day that people may not think is oppression," Porras said. "This is a chance to show students the types of oppression that exist in the world."
Precious Porras, program associate at the Multicultural Resource Center, is coordinating the Tunnel of Oppression, which will take place on Wednesday and Thursday nights. She said this was the seventh year for the tunnel, which takes students through a multimedia and sensory experience of different kinds of oppression as they walk through the Multicultural Resource Center.
Porras said the program covered issues of racial discrimination, sexual orientation, body image and genocide. She said she was also considering integrating immigration into the experience.
At the end of the tunnel, counselors will be available to speak with students about their experiences.
David Gonzalez, Angelowood, Calif., junior, works on a Become Educated About Diversity (BEAD) pin Monday, at the Multicultural Resource Center. The BEAD project is one part of this week's Hate Out Week. "There is a lot of hate out there still and we have to change that," Gonzalez said.
She said that the tunnel would show clips from different movies, such as "Crash," "Boys Don't Cry" and "Higher Learning." and that people going through the tunnel would also hear various racial slurs. She said volunteers would perform skits illustrating different kinds of oppression, such as one where a student asked his resident assistant for a new roommate because he thought his current roommate was gay.
Richmond said a new event this year was a tour of the Haskell/Baker
Students who want to help with the Tunnel of Oppression can contact Porras at 785-864-4350.
grounds in the wetlands. She said the center was not taking a stance on the current effort to build a road through the area.
She said there would be a cultural aspect to the tour because there are ancient Native American burial
"We are global individuals and we are assaulting our earth," Richmond said.
Wetlands. She said the Multicultural Resource Center was trying to integrate going green into social justice.
— Edited by Patrick De Oliveira
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