Western Kentucky University
Institute for Citizenship & Social Responsibility (ICSR)
Department of Diversity & Community Studies
2014-2015 Annual Report
Produced by:
Dr. Judy Rohrer, ICSR Director
Lindsey Devore, ICSR Administrative & Programming Specialist
May 15, 2015
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Preface:
This report outlines the Institute for Citizenship & Social Responsibility’s (ICSR)
programming, curricular work, personnel and financial reporting for the 2014-15
academic year. ICSR is a member of the Department of Diversity & Community
Studies housed within WKU’s University College.
ICSR creatively employs curriculum and programming to further WKU's mission
of preparing students to be "productive, engaged, and socially responsible
citizen-leaders." Toward that end, we also work to support faculty and staff
building social justice and engagement through their research, curriculum
development, service, stewardship, and student mentoring.
In 2014-15 we successfully brought together students, staff and faculty from
across the university to participate in critical thinking and dialogue about issues
of major importance to our community, region, nation and world. At the back of
this report we are attaching publicity for ICSR and ICSR co-sponsored events
(credit for our flyers goes to our student worker, Kate McElroy). We are also
attaching media by or about ICSR from this past year.
On-going Programming
T3 & Film series
The Third Tuesday Tea (T3) is a monthly opportunity for WKU faculty, staff,
students and community members to gather together to discuss - often
complex - contemporary social issues. The typical format of this discussion
includes a short presentation on a predetermined topic followed by a
facilitated discussion.
The Film series includes a monthly film/video that addresses a range of
topics. The films, hosted by different facilitators each time, range from
election coverage to issues of gender, race, and representation. Often, the
film series will link to the T3 topic (T3s take place on Tuesdays, while film
series events are on Thursdays of the same week).
September 2014 Dr. Dick Taylor, School of Journalism & Broadcasting
o T3: Media and Politics, September 16
o Film: Bill Moyers Journal on Media & Politics, September 18
October 2014 Dr. Tiara Na’puti, Diversity & Community Studies
o T3: Guam: Where American Colonialism Continues…, October 21
o Film: The Insular Empire: America in the Mariana Islands, October 23
November 2014 Dr. Howard Bailey (VP Student Affairs), Dr. Alan Anderson
(Emeritus), Dr. John Long (Emeritus)
o T3: Personal Histories of the Civil Rights Movement, November 18
o Film: A Time for Justice, November 20
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February 2015 Dr. Elizabeth Gish, Honors College
o T3: Christianity & LGBTQ Communities: Can We Talk?
March 2015 Dr. Christina Noel, School of Teacher Education
o T3: Disability & Deinstitutionalization: Then & Now, March 17
(event was cancelled due to speaker emergency)
April 2015 Dr. Lacretia Dye, Counseling & Student Affairs
o T3: Ancestral Health & Wellness, Apr. 21
o Event: Soul Retrieval Journey, Apr. 23
We had an average of 30 students at our T3 events in Fall 2014 (because of
cancellations and weather, our spring data is anomalous). This is an increase of 25%
from last year.
Faculty Reading Group
Each semester, the ICSR invites faculty from across the disciplines to
participate in a faculty reading group discussion. The group meets
approximately three times per semester with refreshments provided. In the
fall semester, in partnership with the Society for Values in Higher Education
(SVHE), we had a large group of faculty and staff reading Michelle
Alexander’s ground-breaking book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in
the Age of Colorblindness.
Public Achievement
Public Achievement (PA) is a national youth initiative created by the Center
for Democracy and Citizenship. The program is based on the following
principles: that societal issues, challenges, and triumphs are everyone's
responsibility; that young people should be educated to become effective
civic and political actors; and that students are not simply citizens in deferral,
but that they can be agents of change right now.
At WKU, undergraduate students are trained as coaches who assist in
navigating through student-identified community problem. They are trained
and receive course credit via ICSR 301: Public Achievement course. This year
PA coaches worked with students at T.C. Cherry Elementary School.
Social Justice Speaker’s Series, Spring 2015
We successfully ran our second annual Spring Social Justice speakers series.
As in the year before, we chose to bring three regional academics to campus
who are successfully doing social justice work through their academic
positions, whether in research, curriculum or programming, or in some
combination. These scholar-activists give an engaging public talk and meet
with ICSR & DCS faculty and staff to discuss models and strategies. We
purposefully chose people from different disciplines who are doing various
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kinds of work so that we are highlighting the diversity of scholar-activist
models. We were proud to host the following three speakers this spring:
o Dr. Jean Dennison, Assistant Professor, Anthropology Department,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, February 27
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o Dr. Matthew Wilson, Assistant Professor, Geography Department,
University of Kentucky, March 19
! Paying Attention, Digital Media, & Community-Based Critical GIS
o Dr. Alison Kafer, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies Program,
Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX, April 2
! Crip Futures, Future Coalitions: Disability & Social Justice
We had an average of 41 attendees across these three public lectures. This is a 14%
increase from spring 2014.
Faculty Brown Bags
Faculty Brown Bags are monthly one hour informal lunch sessions where
faculty (and sometimes staff) share works-in-progress (journal articles, book
chapters, pieces of larger research projects, invited talks, and so
forth). Presentations focus on issues of citizenship and social justice, broadly
conceived. The time is split between presentation and discussion and the
presenter gets to focus on areas where they are most interested in soliciting
feedback. Faculty, staff, graduate students, undergraduates and community
members are welcome to attend and to bring their lunches. In the spring 2015
semester ICSR hosted the following Brown Bags:
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September 3 Dr. Andrew Rosa, “In the Shadows of Empire: St. Clair
Drake and African Studies in the Cold War”
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October 1 Dr. Tiara Na'puti, “From Guåhan and Back: Enacting a
Both/Neither Framework for Rhetorical Field Methods”
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November 5 Dr. Lloren Foster, “Cultures of Resistance and the
Imagined Community of Blackness”
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February 4 Dr. Isabel Mukonyora, “Four Ways into an African Scared
Wilderness: A study of Johane Masowe’s Teaching”
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March 4 Dr. Christopher Lewis, “Dirty Mouths: Shameless Expression
and African American LGBT Literature.”
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April 1 Dr. Audra Jennings, “Save Yourself a Bunch of Heartaches’:
Disability, Marriage, and Gender in the United States, 1940-1960”
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Research Working Groups
ICSR launched Research Working Groups to support faculty, staff, and/or
graduate students to sustain critical research on citizenship, social
responsibility, community engagement, and social justice, broadly
defined. Interested groups apply for ICSR’s support for a semester period.
ICRS provides up to $800, meeting space and some administrative support.
Working groups strive to create productive, intellectual exchange among
members, facilitate deeper understanding of the identified research topic, and
create innovative ideas related to the topic of research.
Fall 2014
Child and Forced Labor Research Group
The Child and Forced Labor Research Group discussed the impact of recent
international directives to eliminate forced labor and child labor in the supply
chain for organizations and how it may affect the education of future WKU
students. These discussions will continue to educate WKU business students
to be more socially responsible members of organizations and future leaders
that can contribute to a sustainable global society.
Intergroup Dialogue Facilitator Training
The Intergroup Dialogue Facilitator Training group trained staff and
graduate students to facilitate intergroup dialogues on WKU's campus.
Intergroup dialogues are prolonged small group discussions between
different historically disparate groups, led by trained facilitators who create a
safe place for intergroup interaction to take place. This group seeks to foster
meaningful, structured interaction between students from diverse
backgrounds and increase student understanding and informed discourse
about their identities and inherent differences.
Third Space Research Group
The Third Space Research Group studies Makerspaces as Third Spaces in
education. Third spaces have the potential to address social and cultural
inequities in education by providing equality of access to learning resources
for minority students. They will be developing a prototype "pop up"
Makerspace for middle school students, focusing on the STEAM (science,
technology, engineering, art, and mathematics) areas for designing and
making things that meet the needs of the community.
Spring 2015
Fighting the New Jim Crow
In follow-up to the campus wide faculty reading group of The New Jim Crow
(Fall 2014), this working group began solution focused discussions and plans
to take action against the deliberate attack on African American males by
members of the U.S. Justice System. Specifically, the primary goals of this
group were to: explore and obtain a deeper understanding of local
policies/practices that negatively impact the judicial rights of African
American males; foster the opportunity to discuss and create positive actions
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that support African American males healthy awareness and understanding
of their rights, experiences and challenges with the U.S. judicial system; and
create meaningful and sustainable community interventions/support for
African American males labeled as felons with an intention to assist in the
expungement process.
Creative Identity Reframed
This research working group's project is based on the art of Ecuadorian
painter, Oswaldo Guayasamin focusing on a five-panel mural painting in
particular, with which the artist intended to represent the inherent racial and
cultural multiplicity of the Ecuadorian nation. A new digital traveling exhibit
of the mural was brought to the Kentucky Museum in February 2015 for a
broader WKU exposure in celebration of “WKU Year of Ecuador” event.
The RWG worked with the area ESL, Art, and Spanish teachers and WKU art
students to help them create their own version of who they are as individuals
in a broader social, political, and cultural context. Through this creative
involvement, participating P-16 students got an opportunity to explore their
own identity and think about what is important to them, and practice
problem solving skills to create a better world for us to share.
Anthropocene and Resilience
This research working group facilitated discussions, organized a workshop,
and used social media to raise awareness, clarify the debate, identify
challenges and responses, and start the conversation at WKU, in Bowling
Green, and Kentucky on what is likely to be the defining issue of the 21
century: The impacts of the Anthropocence and the resilience of individuals,
communities, and institutions in response to them. Their focus was on
exploring whether building local community resilience is the most realistic
and viable response to the challenges of the Anthropocene. They were main
organizers with the Office of Sustainability of the Pathways to Sustainability
events in April 2015.
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One-Time Programming
Dr. Stephanie Gilmore September 17, 2014
“Sexual Violence on College Campuses – Listening to and Learning from
Student Activists”
Dr. Gilmore is an activist, scholar, and a founder of Faculty Against Rape
Dr. Gitiara Nasreen October 9, 2014
“Whitewashing the Color Politics: The Unfair Construction of Beauty for the
(Market) Beast.”
Dr. Nasreen is a Fulbright Scholar from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Over 100 people attended this lecture, filling the Faculty House completely (see
photos from The Daily News attached)
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It Happened Here March 25, 2015
ICSR presented a showing of the just-released documentary, It Happened Here
with a discussion following with producer, Marjorie Schwartz Nielsen and
survivor-activist, Sarah O’Brien. Through the intimate portraits of five
student survivors, It Happened Here, exposes the alarming pervasiveness of
sexual assault on college campuses, the institutional cover-ups, and the
failure to protect students, and follows their fight for accountability and
change on campus and in federal court.
Co-sponsored Events
o Diversity & Community Studies Welcome Back Block Party,
September 10
o Ayesha Hardison “Of Maids and Ladies: The Ethics of Living Jane Crow”
Department of English, February 19 (rescheduled for April 30)
o “A Conversation about Race, Privilege and Fostering Success for Students
of Color on College Campuses” Office of Institutional Diversity and
Inclusion, February 25
o Bakari Kitwana, “Love in a Time of Horrow: Spirtual Healing in the
Aftermath of Anti-Black Murder,”African American Studies, February 26
o Gelien Matthews, “Black Abolitionists of the Caribbean.” African American
Studies, March 18
o Year of Ecuador events, Office of International Studies:
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Indigenous Women in Ecuador and SUMAC KAWSAY: The
Philosophy of Good Living, by Professor Luz Maria de la Torre,
March 17
With My Heart in Yambo, March 18
Political Humor/Cartoons in an Ecuadorian Context: A Free Press
or Censorship? By Xavier Bonilla, March 24
Film showing of Cesar's Grill, March 31
Kallari Chocolate Cooperative: A Story in Resource Conservation
and Economic Development, April 15
o “I AM a Kentuckian,” ACLU of Kentucky, March 30
o Interfaith Workshop on Earth Care, Philosophy & Religion, April 10-11
o Pathways to Sustainability, Office of Sustainability, April 17-18
o Ryan Sallans, “Stepping Toward a Trans-Inclusive Campus,” Housing and
Residence Life, April 24
Curriculum
In Fall 2014 ICSR launched the new Citizenship & Social Justice minor. The
minor includes two brand new core courses: ICSR 200 Introduction to Social Justice
and ICSR 435 Reimagining Citizenship. Both courses move ICSR’s curriculum
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from liberal Western models to more interdisciplinary global theoretical frames
including critical race studies, critical legal theory, queer theory, critical ethnic
studies, feminist theory, disability studies, and indigenous studies. To date ICSR
has 8 student minors.
Website & Social Media
Lindsey Devore has updated ICSR’s website and continues to keep it fresh on a
weekly basis. Student workers at ICSR have spearheaded and maintain ICSR’s
FaceBook, Twitter, and Instagram social media presence.
Current Personnel
Dr. Judy Rohrer started Fall 2013 as Director of ICSR. She put together a Steering
Committee to help guide her and provide institutional history. The members are
currently Dr. Saundra Ardrey, Dr. Eric Bain-Selbo and Dr. Tiara Na’puti. She has
worked with faculty and staff to both build existing programming and
curriculum, as well as to launch the new initiatives outlined above.
Dr. Tiara Na’puti was hired in Fall 2014 by DCS to teach in the SRSC masters
program and for ICSR. Her hire enabled ICSR to roll out our new minor
curriculum. Dr. Na’puti has also helped tremendously with programming.
Lindsey Devore started 30 hours/week as ICSR Administrative and
Programming Specialist in October 2014. Her work has been invaluable in
coordinating our new minor, building programming, and managing finances.
ICSR has two 15 hour/week undergraduate student workers who assist with a
range of administrative, publicity, and programming tasks.
ICSR had two 20 hour/week Graduate Assistants for the 2014-15 year. Due to
budget cuts we will just have one in the upcoming year.
Finances
ICSR managed all of the above programming with a scaled-down budget of
$40,000. We would like to be able to continue with this creative, interdisicplinary
and challenging programming for the WKU community and have ideas about
new initiatives we would like to launch. We recognize these are difficult
budgetary times. We also know that the programming we do attracts engaged,
civically minded, ambitious, and diverse students.
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Institute for Citizenship & Social Responsibility (ICSR)
2014-2015 Programming Flyers
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THURS
OCT 9
FACULTY
HOUSE
4:00 9
5:30
DR. GITIARA NASREEN
Fulbright Scholar, Howard University // Professor, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
WHITEWASHING*THE*COLOR*POLITICS:*THE*“UNFAIR”*
CONSTRUCTION*OF*BEAUTY*FOR*THE*(MARKET)*BEAST
RECEPTION TO FOLLOW
• Swipe-able
• Wheelchair
Accessible
• Contact:
icsr@wku.edu
Co-sponsors: Fulbright Outreach Lecturing Fund, Office of International Programs,
Communication Studies, Gender & Women’s Studies
OCTOBER'ICSR'EVENTS'PRESENTED'BY'DR.'TIARA'NA’PUTI
TUES
OCT 21
TPH 133
4:00 0 5:00
THURS
OCT 23
TPH 133
4:0005:30
Swipe-able
Wheelchair
Accessible
Contact:
icsr@wku.edu
Sponsored by
NOVEMBER ICSR EVENTS
TUES
NOV 18
DSU 2123
Personal Histories
of the Civil Rights Movement
4:00 6 5:00
Dr. Howard Bailey
Dr. Alan Anderson
Dr. John Long
A Time
for Justice
THURS
NOV 20
DSU 2123
presented by Project Freedom School students
Refreshments
Swipe-able
Wheelchair
Accessible
For other
accommodations
contact:
icsr@wku.edu
4:0065:00
Sponsored by
FEBRUARY THIRD TUESDAY TEA
TUES
FEB 24
DSU 2123
4:00 4 5:00
CHRISTIANITY
& LGBTQ
COMMUNITIES:
CAN WE TALK?
44
DR. ELIZABETH
GISH
Swipe-able
Wheelchair
Accessible
Contact for other
accommodations
Sponsored by
icsr@wku.edu
(270) 745-3218
Dr. Jean
Dennison
Assistant Professor,
Anthropology
Department
University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill
“Teaching Race & American Indians
in the Southern Classroom”
Friday, February 27
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
DSU 1006 - Cupola Room
Behind Fresh Food
MARCH THIRD TUESDAY TEA
TUES
MAR 17
GRH 2064
4:00 6 5:00
DISABILITY &
DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION:
THEN & NOW
66
DR. CHRISTINA NOEL
Swipe-able
Wheelchair
Accessible
Contact for other
accommodations
Sponsored by
icsr@wku.edu
(270) 745-3218
African American Studies presents
Gelien Matthews
“Black Abolitionists of the Caribbean” Free, Swipeable Event
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 7:00 p.m. Faculty House In this talk, Dr. Gelien Matthews’ draws from her past and current research on the Afro-Caribbean antislavery tradition. Based at the University of the West Indies in St. Augustine, Trinidad, Matthews is a leading authority on slavery, gender, and religion in the West Indies. In Slave Rebellions and the British Abolitionists Movement (LSU, 2006), Matthews decenters anti-slavery activity from the metropole to the colonies of the British Empire to underscore the agency of enslaved populations in bringing about the abolition of slavery across the English-speaking Caribbean. In the History of The Church of the Nazarene Trinidad and Tobago (Barataria, 2008), her most recent book, she shifts her focus to contemporary Trinidad and documents the compelling story of the Church of the Nazarene as a unifying force of societal change in an island nation wracked by the legacy of slavery, colonialism, and violence in our own time. Co-sponsored by WKU University College, Diversity & Community Studies,
Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility, and Gender & Women’s Studies
phone: 270.745.2715 | www.wku.edu/afam Dr. Matthew
Wilson
Assistant Professor,
Geography
Department
University of Kentucky
“Paying Attention, Digital Media, &
Community-Based Critical GIS”
Thursday, March 19
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
DSU 3020
for more information, contact icsr@wku.edu
PRESENTING A SHOWING OF THE JUST-RELEASED DOCUMENTARY
IT HAPPENED HERE
DISCUSSION TO FOLLOW WITH
PRODUCER MARJORIE SCHWARTZ NIELSEN
AND FEATURED SURVIVOR-ACTIVIST SARAH O’BRIEN
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
IN THE DSU AUDITORIUM
I AM
A KENTUCKIAN
Come hear one personal account of being impacted by the current
immigration system and learn about the steps we can take to build an
immigration system that meets our country’s changing needs.
Mon.th
Mar.
30
Western Kentucky University
Gary A. Ransdell Hall (GRH) 1074
4 p.m.
Sponsored by:
The Depts. of History, English, Philosophy and Religion; Potter College of Arts & Letters; Institute for Social and Civic Responsibility;
WKU HOLAS; WKU Coalition for Social Justice
Dr. Alison Kafer
Associate Professor,
Feminist Studies
Program
Southwestern
University, TX
“Crip Futures, Future Coalitions:
Disability & Social Justice”
Thursday, April 2
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
DSU 3020
Contact icsr@wku.edu for more information
APRIL THIRD TUESDAY TEA +
TUES
APRIL 21
DSU 2123
4:00 5 5:00
ANCESTRAL HEALTH & WELLNESS
Dr. Lacretia Dye
THURS
APRIL 23
DSU 2123
4:00 5 5:00
SOUL RETRIEVAL JOURNEY
Dr. Lacretia Dye
Swipe-able
Wheelchair
Accessible
Contact for other
accommodations
Sponsored by
icsr@wku.edu
(270) 745-3218
+
WKUICSR
21,100
Apr+20
Loops
The Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility (ICSR) announces Imagining
Otherwise, an amateur WKU student video contest aimed at providing innovative and
creative visions of a more just world.
In 2015, the world continues to suffer from identity-based discrimination, environmental
concerns, the far-reaching effects of colonialism, and many other broader human rights
violations. In light of these pressing issues, this generation is often left feeling overwhelmed
and powerless. In an effort to amplify millenial voices, ICSR invites you to participate in
Imagining Otherwise, a video contest that presents an opportunity for imagining the world
otherwise in a 30-90 second video. This contest celebrates the imagination of undergraduate
WKU students who strive to envision justice on local, national, and global levels.
PRIZES
AWARDED
in each category
$200 FIRST PLACE
$100 RUNNER-UP
SUBMIT 30-90 SECOND
VIDEO BY APRIL 20th
CONTEST RULES
& INFO
wku.edu/icsr/io.php
in WKU Bookstore
Certificates
show+us+how+you’re+#imaginingotherwise
21,100+likes+B+3,500+revines+B+1,300+comments
VIDEO
AWARDS
CEREMONY
April 28th
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Speaker says rape culture must change
By CHUCK MASON The Daily News cmason@bgdailynews.com 783-­3262 | Posted:
Thursday, September 18, 2014 11:00 am
The phrase “sexual misconduct” equates to using
the wrong fork at a meal, while rape is a reality and
the “rape culture” on college campuses across
America must change.
That was the assessment Wednesday of Stephanie
Gilmore, an educator, activist and writer who gave
a lecture titled “Sexual Violence on College
Campuses – Listening to and Learning from
Student Activists” at Western Kentucky University.
Gilmore said using euphemistic language such as
“sexual misconduct” to soften what is a felony and
totally unacceptable behavior is wrong.
“Violence is not biological. It is not ordained by
any god. We all live in a rape culture, and it is
certainly not unique to college campuses,” she
said. Speaker says rape culture must
change
Dr. Stephanie Gilmore
Gilmore said that during her 90-­minute talk “45 people will be assaulted on college campuses”
across the United States. She said statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice show one in six
women and one in 33 men will be victims of a sexual assault during their college experience.
Gilmore also said the eight forcible rapes accounted for in WKU official statistics for 2010
through 2012 would be accurate numbers if the campus had 50 to 100 students.
But with a campus of 21,000 students, the forcible rape numbers would be about 4,000, with half
of the victims women, she said.
Gilmore is also scheduled to speak at 3 p.m. today in the student union and at 6 p.m. at Helm
Library, room 100, about her research about sexual assault on college campuses. Gilmore said
she’s interviewed 24 student victims on three college campuses as part of her research.
“You’re here;; you’ve already invested in ending the rape culture,” Gilmore said Wednesday,
looking over the audience.
Gilmore is a founding member of Faculty Against Rape and taught at Ohio State University and
the University of Connecticut and smaller colleges before setting out to explore sexual assault on
college campuses. She said students are becoming much less tolerant of sexual assault and the
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climate which creates a rape culture, where institutions place more responsibility on rape victims
and protect rapists.
A key starting point, she said, is belief. Her mother’s boyfriend raped her in her house when she
was just 12, and when she told her mother about it, her mother’s response was “I believe you.”
With belief as a starting point – not how he or she dressed or whether they consumed alcohol –
intelligent discussions can begin to tackle the rape culture.
“We don’t talk about this enough,” she said.
Gilmore said when sexual assault occurs, usually it is someone known to the victim. “This is not
stranger danger,” Gilmore said. “This has happened to many people in this room.”
Gilmore said there is an alarming number of racist and sexually-­themed parties on college
campuses. Seventy-­seven schools are under investigation for their sexual assault policies. Federal
Title IX, instituted in 1972, calls for reporting of incidents. Just this year, WKU instituted a no-­
tolerance policy for faculty and staff. They must report an incident. The university stands to lose
millions of dollars in federal funding without a policy.
“Forty-­two years later, it’s high time,” Gilmore said of the Title IX emphasis across America’s
college campuses.
Ashley Hardin, 18, a Louisville-­area freshman who is studying psychology, said students have to
do more to change the rape culture. “I think a lot of people are starting to realize – people are
asking what’s wrong with these people committing these felonies,” Hardin said after Gilmore’s
talk.
Activism works, she said.
Hardin said men were “cat-­calling” women in the courtyard outside her dorm this semester, but a
meeting of hall directors changed all that and the men stopped. “We took back the courtyard,” she
said.
The talk was sponsored by the WKU Office of Scholar Development, the Department of Gender
and Women’s Studies, the Institute of Citizenship and Social Responsibility, the Office of
Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and the WKU Honors College.
— For more information on Stephanie Gilmore, visit www.stephaniegilmorephd.com.
— Follow education reporter Chuck Mason on Twitter at twitter.com/bgdnschools or visit
bydailynews.com.
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Dr. Gitiara Nasreen speaks to a full room Thursday, October 9, 2014, at Western Kentucky University's Faculty House. Nasreen, in her
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Administrator, faculty share experiences during Civil Rights
movement
Leah Brown Nov 19, 2014
Alan Anderson, far right, a professor of social ethics and racial justice, speaks during a roundtable event about civil rights on Tues
Downing Student Union. Nick Wagner/HERALD
When he was just in sixth grade, Howard Bailey, vice president for Student Affairs, was
put in handcuffs for the first time. The day before his arrest, Bailey and his friends were involved in a rock-throwing battle
against white children by railroad tracks because they were of different races. The
following day at school, Bailey and a few peers were called into the hallway where police
waited for them, holding handcuffs. This is only one of the many first-hand accounts given by the WKU community at the
Institute for Citizenship & Social Responsibility’s program, Personal Histories of the Civil
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About 40 students gathered in Downing Student Union, Room 2123, Tuesday night for an
informal panel discussion about civil rights.
The panel consisted of the moderator Saundra Ardrey, political science department head,
Bailey and emeriti professors John Long and Alan Anderson. Although Anderson stated he was not entirely comfortable sharing his experience, he
talked about growing up in Oklahoma during the Jim Crow era. Every spring, he and his
family would drive to the part of town mostly populated by Africans Americans, which
was at the bottom of a hill in a flood plain. When it flooded, his family packed up their few
belongings and moved them up the hill. “I wasn’t too old at the time, but I somehow knew that there was something wrong,” he
said. “And I’ve spent most of my life trying to figure out what was wrong. That was my
starting point.”
Throughout his life, Anderson assisted Martin Luther King, Jr. in his fight for civil rights. In
1962, Anderson responded to King’s call for a protest in Albany, Georgia. He was one of
40 people who were arrested for kneeling in front of the courthouse demanding racial
justice. Anderson’s first encounter with King was in jail. King visited the protesters and requested
that they remain in jail for a few extra days to keep the issue of racial justice going.
Anderson volunteered to stay in jail and fasted to protest the poor jail conditions. Long said that he did not have any bad experiences concerning race relations. He was naïve to racism and segregation growing up in Philadelphia. “I didn’t think there was anything I wasn’t supposed to do,” Long said. “It was more just
living, being unaware that I wasn’t supposed to be doing these things and just going
ahead and doing them.”
Bailey had a different experience dealing with segregation. Bailey enrolled at WKU in
1966 and recalled many times he felt segregated. The dorm room assignments were
separated by race. Bailey said black people were also restricted from joining certain
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campus organizations. He also felt singled out by his professors in multiple instances. Bailey recalled a time
where he was late for a class and his professor said, “Class, I guess we can get started
now that our black member of the class is here.” He eventually began confronting the university about segregation issues.
“I took on WKU to make some changes,” Bailey said. During the discussion, the panelists talked about social media’s negative affect on the
millennial generation’s willingness to fight for issues. As the panel was ending, students began asking questions. Owensboro junior Will Meloney asked the panel, “What is the best thing to do to break
the mold of the media?” Bailey compared venting about issues on social media to a wolf howling at the moon. He
encouraged students to come forward and say something to the administration if they
have an issue.
“How long is it going to take for your generation to speak up?” Bailey said.
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Letter to the Editor: Rape defense program only helps
select few
The Coalition for Social Justice Feb 16, 2015
Last Tuesday, women on campus received an email from WKU Student Wellness
publicizing a “FREE Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) Program” open to 20 female WKU
students over the age of 18 and of any ability. The program is sponsored by WKU Police
Department and WellU. While some students on campus believe that this RAD program is
a great opportunity to better protect themselves from sexual violence, others are
disappointed in its execution and lack of comprehensive education about sexual
violence. There are several problems with this program as a way to combat sexual violence on
campus and in the surrounding community that should be pointed out. First, we believe
that a class limited to 20 people is extremely restrictive and only allows a very small
portion of WKU’s students to participate. Second, as far as we know, the email was sent
out only to students registered as “female” at WKU and this excludes another portion of
WKU’s student body that is also at high risk of sexual violence and equally as important
to keep safe: our fellow transgender students. Third, this program ignores the root of the
problem that is sexual violence and further perpetuates the false ideal that rape and
sexual assault is more commonly committed by strangers. The Rape, Abuse and Incest
National Network (RAINN) offers these statistics: two-thirds of rapes are committed by
someone the victim knows and 73 percent of sexual assaults are perpetrated by a nonstranger. Moreover, when women are left with the burden of protecting themselves,
instead of others being taught not to commit acts of violence, we perpetuate rape
culture’s entrenched idea of victim blaming, i.e., when the victim of a crime is held entirely
or partially responsible for the crime committed against them. The RAD program may be helpful to a handful of students on campus, but education
programs that promote respect and gender justice are one of the more effective means of
alleviating the underlying causes of sexual violence. The double standard upheld in the
support of a program such as RAD to prevent rape is present and reminds women that
they are constantly at risk because those who believe sexual violence is permissible are
never held accountable. The complete elimination of rape and sexual assault will not
successfully come at the hands of self-defense programs, but rather programs that teach
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not to rape. WKU Police Department and WellU should be seeking partnership and
collaboration with groups on campus that have been working to fight sexual violence and
gender discrimination for years, such as the Title IX office, the Gender and Women’s
Studies Department and the Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility, in order to
create more comprehensive and effective programs that will end problems of rape and
sexual assault on campus and make this space safer for all of its members. -The Coalition for Social Justice
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WKU to host free Sustainability Fest
By CHARLES A. MASON cmason@bgdailynews.com | Posted: Saturday, April 11, 2015
12:15 am
People interested in “slow” rather than fast food or in how to create a “food forest” – both current
sustainability efforts – can attend a free festival in Bowling Green next week.
The “Pathways to Sustainability Festival,” hosted by Western Kentucky University, is scheduled
Friday and April 18. Events will be at Downing Student Union, Room 3020;; Corsair Distillery,
400 E. Main Ave.;; and the new Baker Community Garden, 150 Guinn Court.
John All, WKU associate professor of geography, said that the festival – a precursor to Earth Day
2015 on April 22 – is a chance to check out new sustainability initiatives locally and across the
nation. For example, a “food forest” is created when like items are planted together in a confined area,
such as a cherry tree, blackberry bushes, lettuce and potatoes, All explained. The key is putting
together items that can survive together.
All said people are becoming more aware of the need to preserve resources, but they still aren’t
familiar with the successful strategies available.
“We have begun to recognize the need, but the how is lacking. On Friday, we will look at the
theoretical, and then on Saturday, we will get our hands in the dirt,” All said.
Organizers signed up guest speakers well known in sustainability circles, such as Jeff Poppen, also
known as “the Barefoot Farmer,” a local food and agricultural biodynamics expert who lives in
Tennessee;; Bernie Ellis, who has been working with development of Tennessee’s medical
marijuana legislation;; and local artist Andee Rudloff.
There will be presentations and a roundtable discussion from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday at DSU.
Speakers include Christian Ryan, WKU sustainability coordinator;; All, who has an extensive
background in environmental planning;; Rhondell Miller of HOTEL INC;; and Laura Goodwin of
Slow Food Bowling Green.
The slow food movement in America is an effort to teach people how to appreciate a more relaxed
pace of dining, All said.
Slow food works in concert with the locally grown food movement. WKU recently joined a
locally grown food project where local growers provide fresh food to the university and the Fresh
Food Company dining facility on campus.
“There are a lot of new initiatives in local food, community gardens and farmers markets in town,”
All said. “This will be hands-­on learning.”
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From 6:30 to 9 p.m. Friday evening, Ellis will speak at Corsair Distillery, followed by distillery
tours and music. On Saturday, Poppen will be part of a full day of hands-­on workshops from 9
a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Baker Community Garden.
WKU Office of Sustainability is one of the sponsors. Other sponsors include Baker Arboretum,
Slow Food Bowling Green, Corsair Distillery, the WKU Institute for Citizenship and Social
Responsibility, and the WKU Master of Arts in Social Responsibility and Sustainable
Communities. The WKU M.A. degree is an interdisciplinary program of study that provides
students with tools to lead communities toward social justice and sustainability, according to the
WKU website. It is designed especially for students inclined toward the humanities, social
sciences and related fields, the website noted.
The Barefoot Farmer has quite a following, All said. For the past 15 years Poppen has appeared on Nashville PBS’ television program “Volunteer
Gardener,” and, for over 20 years, he has written a gardening column for the Macon County
Chronicle, according to his website.
Poppen is the author of two books, “The Best of the Barefoot Farmer” Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. He runs
a Community Supported Agriculture program with the food he grows using about 8 acres of his
farmland at Long Hungry Creek Farm in rural Tennessee and has about 40 head of cattle.
All said Poppen has subsisted on his own farm-­grown food for about 40 years.
Ellis this week saw committees in the House and Senate of the Tennessee Legislature delay until
2016 a bill to legalize marijuana for limited medicinal purposes. He and others have worked over
at least the last two years to convince lawmakers there to pass the legislation.
All said the festival has commitments from at least 50 people;; however, up to 100 could attend.
“We want to show people what they can do for themselves,” All said.
— For more on Slow Food Bowling Green visit www.facebook.com/BGFoodGarden.
— For more on the WKU Office of Sustainability visit www.wku.edu/sustainability.
— Follow education reporter Charles A. Mason on Twitter at twitter.com/bgdnschools or
bgdailynews.com.
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