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Topic Started: Mar 20 2014, 08:05 AM (145 Views)
Quasimodo

University administrators seem to all think alike?

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http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/03/07/is-there-an-epidemic-of-rape-culture-at-canadian-universities/

Is there an epidemic of ‘rape culture’ at Canadian universities?


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Brian Hutchinson | March 7, 2014

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Allegations of assault involving University of Ottawa male hockey team members and a female victim are the most recent. The university responded Monday, suspending the entire team from league play while police investigate. Weeks earlier at the same institution, a student union leader was made the subject of vile, sexually explicit Facebook messages shared by male students.

On Thursday, U of O president Allan Rock, and chancellor Michaelle Jean, Canada’s former governor-general, announced the creation of a task force on “respect and equality.” At their press conference, Ms. Jean described “rape culture” on campus, as if it was common discourse. “We think the disease needs to be curbed, and then cured,” said Ms. Jean.

At Saint Mary’s University (SMU) in Halifax last semester, a frosh-week “rape chant” attracted media coverage and led to a President’s Council report, which came out in December. “The Saint Mary’s rape chant is one manifestation of what the Council discusses as rape culture,” reads the report.

A version of the same rape chant was heard in September, on the University of British Columbia campus in Vancouver. Reported by the campus newspaper, the Ubyssey, and confirmed by UBC staff, the chant was described in an initial fact-finding report as “inappropriate.” Recited during frosh week by first year business school students, the rape chant is certainly awful. It goes like this:

“At UBC we like ‘em young, Y is for your sister, O is for oh so tight, U is for underage, N is for no consent, G is for go to jail.”

A second student-led chant, this one insulting to aboriginals, was also heard on campus: “Pocah, Pocah, Pocah, Pocahontas — white man took our land, sacrifice (family name of group leader representing John Smith in the skit). Pocahontas, ass, ass, ass.”

Media reports about the two incidents led to another, more assertive reaction by UBC, and to the formation of a President’s Task Force on Gender-based Violence and Aboriginal Stereotypes. The task force delivered a 23-page report with draft recommendations three weeks ago, titled Transforming UBC and developing a culture of equality and accountability: Confronting rape culture and colonialist violence.

Unlike the events that preceded it, the task force report received scant attention off-campus. It’s a curious, almost inscrutable document, prepared by a 12-member team of UBC professors, other staff, an alumnus and a student representative.

After suggesting in its title that UBC has a “rape culture” that must be confronted, the report fails to identify or even define the purported phenomenon. It does not attribute “rape culture” to any of the incidents leading to the task force formation and mandate. Indeed, the term “rape culture” is mentioned in passing, just twice, and in two footnotes.

In other words, UBC’s “rape culture” is essentially ignored in the very report tasked with “confronting” it; rooting out such a surreptitious disease will be difficult.

(Among the report’s 14 draft recommendations, now under consideration, is a mandatory new “culture of equality course” that would “include a coherent cross-list of all existing courses that deal substantively with intersectional gender-based violence and Aboriginal peoples,” and an effort to have “all existing courses” at UBC include material “relevant to gender/gender identity, Indigeneity race/ethnicity, and sexuality.”)

Over at SMU, the President’s Council Report gives its self-avowed “rape culture” short shrift as well. The report refers to a 1996 paper by anthropologist Peggy Reeves Sanday, and her “key elements for a ‘rape supportive culture.’” These include “sex segregation, tolerance for violence, and male dominance, all of which are common characteristics of male varsity sports teams.
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Quasimodo


So the first university (or corporate) response is to "form a committee".

Then the committee will suggest "mandatory" courses ("indoctrination"?) about colonialism, sexism, chauvinism,
racism, etc. etc. If instituted, these will generate more power and revenue for angry studies programs.

Of course, no one ever questions the basic premise of the accusations of "rape culture". To do so would be
out of place on a university campus or in academia (it would be worse heresy than denying global warming),
and would be treated appropriately.


Ergo, there was never a committee formed to investigate the university's handling of the lax case; or the responses of the Gang of 88; their responses were altogether in the "righteous" category; while merely being members of the lax team placed that team's supporters, even if they were on the side of justice, in the "unrighteous" category,

Just as the Scottsboro Boys' innocence would have called into question an entire culture's deeply held beliefs about blacks, so too would the players' innocence have called into question an entire world view in academia.


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http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2014/03/03/ottawa-hockey-team-suspended_n_4892167.html

University Of Ottawa's Hockey Team Suspended After Sexual Assault Reports
03/03/2014


The University of Ottawa suspended its men's hockey program today, following reports of "serious misconduct" by members of the team.

Though the press release announcing the suspension did not specify details and noted no further information would be released, the Ottawa Citizen is reporting that several members of the team were involved in a sexual assault involving a female university student in Thunder Bay.

According to the team schedule for the University of Ottawa Gee-Gees, the men's hockey team played in Thunder Bay on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, 2014. As the official report from the school notes, the incident in question happened several weeks ago, and was only brought to the attention of the administration on Feb. 24. The university reported the incident to police on Feb. 25.

This news comes on the heels of another University of Ottawa student's accusations about the campus' "rape culture." Ann-Marie Roy, president of the student federation at the school, recently went public after discovering fellow students, all of whom are male and in leadership positions, had been having explicit conversations about what they'd like to do to her sexually. While she received a written apology from them, she still felt her rights had been violated.

The University of Ottawa, for its part, has shown strong support for women's rights and demonstrated it would not tolerate this type of discrimination.

“The comments [about Ann Marie-Roy] demonstrate attitudes about women and sexual aggression that have no place on campus, or anywhere else in Canadian society,” said U of Ottawa president Allan Rock in a press release. “The University will work with our student President to ensure the situation is addressed properly.”

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