Issue 101

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Issue #101

Fort Lewis College News Magazine

April 18th, 2019

Outdoor Pursuits Spring Break Trips Mount BakeR & Gila National Forest

Dear Readers,

Editor’s Note

This is the last print magazine for the 2018-2019 academic year! You know what that means… Summer is almost here! We hope all of you in the Fort Lewis College community have an amazing season, we can’t wait to see you again in the Fall.

This is a very exciting time for the Independent, as many of our amazing staff members are graduating to do bigger and better things. We have an endless amount of gratitude for what they have brought to the table the last few years, whether it be with business or production.

I have seen the Independent change a lot since I have been here, and this last year was certainly one for the books. Alex Semadeni, our Editor-in-Chief for the last five semesters, has been nothing but an inspiration to us all. We are so proud of the breaking news stories we have tackled and posted online, as well as the feature stories we have printed in issues like the one you’re reading here today.

Next semester will be a huge flip for us, as we are losing our dear Alex, along with other incredible editors, reporters, graphic designers, and business administrators. However, this gives us a clean slate to create whatever it is we want, and we have some very big ideas in mind.

My main goal as Editor-in-Chief for the next year is to inspire students the way I was inspired– to teach our staffers to keep their eyes open, to create and to educate. As a reporter, there was nothing more satisfying than going out and simply listening to all that people have to say and absorbing as much information as possible. There are many special and intelligent individuals in this town, and there is something valuable to learn from each of them.

From building these connections and articulating a story, we are then able to transfer all that knowledge onto you: our audience! So we ask you to tell us what you want to read and what you feel is important, so we can provide the best news outlet as possible. Another goal of mine is to create a more diverse news outlet, so we can reach all of you, with your unique and incredible interests and passions. The Independent should be the heart of FLC, covering all aspects of campus and tying them together in a way to showcase our amazing little community as best as we can.

If working for the Independent sparks an interest for you, come talk to me! We encourage all majors to work with us, as that is how we can cover campus and Durango news as effectively and efficiently as possible. We have room for anyone and everyone, as you can take it for 1-6 credits, or participate in it as an RSO. If not, then hit up our website or grab a magazine, and I hope there is something in there that entertains or teaches you something.

I am so proud of the young and passionate staff members we have stepping up to help the Independent flourish, as well as grow themselves through the experience of working in a newsroom. We are truly a family here, and putting our minds together to create this magazine for you is what brings us together the most. Fall of 2019 is the beginning of a new era, and we hope you join us on this journey as we continue to grow and develop into a solid source of entertainment, inspiration, and education.

With love and excitement,

Coya Pair Editor in Chief

Cdpair@fortlweis.edu

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In This Issue

Paid for by Students How ASFLC Runs

Meritt Drake 3-4

Effects of the 416 Fire Live On vMandy Lorenson 5-6

V.A.P. Cancels Trip to Nicaragua Again, After Travel Advisory Taylor Hutchison 7-8

Juried Art Exhibition Gives Students Opportunity Benjamin Mandile

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Outdoor Pursuits Spring Break Trips Mount Baker & Gila National Forest Nate DeCremer

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How to Recognize and Prevent Bullying in College Taylor Hutchison COVER: One of the many river crossings an Outdoor Puruits led group encountered while they were trekking through the Gila National Forest.

Photo courtesy of Matthew Cecil

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enate is funded by student fees, for which each student pays $66.15 per credit hour.

Senate Duties and Requirements In order to join ASFLC, senators must be in good standing academically and cannot have any significant conduct issues on their record, Director of the Leadership Center, Mark Mastalski said.

Each year the president and vice president of senate decide what criteria senators must meet in order to receive their scholarship, Mastalski said.

Senators must attend meetings, hold office hours, and serve on committees which complete projects, Speaker of the Senate Becca Judy said.

“The scholarship is how we hold people accountable,” Judy said.

If you broke the scholarship down to an hourly rate, you would see senators are doing a lot of work for a small amount of money, Senator Joshua Emerson said.

“They’re putting in a lot more than they’re getting out,” Mastalski said.

Student body president and vice president receive a larger scholarship per semester.

The student body president sits on the hiring committees for administrative positions, like president and provost, Mastalski said. The student body president also sits on the Board of Trustees.

“ASFLC is involved in every aspect, in some form or fashion, of student life on this campus,” Mastalski said.

Senators receive a meal plan that allows them two meals a week and a 500 dollar scholarship per semester, Mastalski said.

The meal plan is intended to allow senators to sit down together for a meal every

Paid for by students: how ASFLC runs

Students on ASFLC determine allocation of half

a million dollars from the student fee each year.

Despite this, most students do not know what ASFLC is and senators often run unopposed.

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Senators’ scholarship is paid for through student fees, Mastalski said.

The senate scholarship was only introduced in Fall of 2015. Before that, senators only received the meal plan, Mastalski said.

“Not a year since the scholarship was introduced have we had a competitive senate race,” Mastalski said.

In the past there were fifteen senate seats, but now there are only eleven.

ASFLC realized they were having problems getting all fifteen senate seats filled, so they reduced the amount of seats, Mastalski said.

In the election for the 2019-2020 academic year only nine senators ran, leaving two open senate seats. Because they ran unopposed, each senator only needed one vote to guarantee their spot on senate, Mastalski said.

Only 582 students voted in the most recent election, and all senators only received around 200 votes each.

All senators must serve on committees which complete projects in order to receive their scholarship. If a senator does not complete their committee work then their scholarship will be reduced by a percentage, Judy said.

“The school really does listen to everything we say,” Judy said. “It’s very rare they ever tell us they disagree or don’t want to make the changes we want to see.”

Senate Engagement

“We see senators sending out emails or being on Facebook,” Judy said.

Senators join senate with intentions of making a positive change and representing the students, Mastalski said.

Laptops can be a distraction and can make it hard to stay engaged during meetings, Emerson said.

However, senators sometimes become busy and lose sight of their original intentions.

“We try talking to them about that, like if there’s a speaker, don’t get on your phones, and don’t talk during a presentation,” Judy said.

“People come in with really grand plans,” Mastalski said. “Then the reality of the semester kicks in, and people have to get a little more realistic about what you can really get done.”

Mastalski tries to prepare senators for the reality of what is feasible during their annual fall retreat, he said.

“I lay out that I know they’re all out here with great ideas,” Mastalski said. “Before we get to those, let’s look at what you already need to do. We have to run elections. Elections don’t just happen. We have budget season. Budget season doesn’t just happen.

Think about what we’re actually going to be able to get done this year.”

One problem senate has seen is senators becoming distracted by their laptops during meetings.

Senate is considering a no-laptop policy for next year, Judy said.

Senator Joshua Emerson chooses not to use a laptop during meetings and instead writes notes in a notebook.

“I take a responsibility to represent the student’s wishes the best I can,” Emerson said.

If students knew everything senate does, more would join or vote, Emerson said.

“An engaged table that feels empowered is ideal,” Judy said. “Because then they can make a change.”

Meritt Drake

ASFLC President Chance Salway listens to a presentation during a meeting at the Senate Chambers.

Photo by Colton Branstetter

Most students are not aware of student senate, Judy said.

“There’s many students who walk past and through the student union and have no clue they’re there,” Mastalski said.

It’s important to have a vocal and engaged senate in order for students to recognize the work senate does, Mastalski said.

“Every school, every college, every high school is asking the same question of how to get student government more recognition and engagement,” Mastalski said.

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s we inch closer to the anniversary of the 416 Fire, the towns that were affected are now seeing the long term affects the fire has created.

EFFECTS OF THE

THE IMPACT ON THE FOREST The most obvious and visual impact that can be seen is the number of burned trees in the area.

Since the fire has been out, the areas that were affected has been getting large amounts of rain and snow that is contributing to the run off we are seeing that leads to flooding, Hal Doughty, Fire Chief – Durango Fire Rescue said.

LIVE ON, NEARLY A YEAR LATER

In the early stages of the fire, it was far out of everyone minds, who were fighting the fire, of what would come after the fire, Doughty said.

“It didn’t give us a lot of time to think ahead,” Doughty said.

There was anticipation from the Forest Service team that the flooding that would come after could and would be severe, Doughty said.

The town is now seeing large amounts of run off that is leading into the floods and mudslides we are seeing because when a fire goes through a forest, it takes out the trees which eventually takes out the underbrush, the stuff that is soaking up the water, Doughty said.

Out on the Hermosa Creek Trail, it is almost like a new river has been created, leading all the water down into the areas of homes and other buildings, Doughty said.

The people who are now dealing with the floods are people who have never dealt with this type of thing in the past, Doughty said.

Without the underbrush to absorb, the water leaves it to where the water can run freely without anything stopping it.

Many of the areas that were closed due to the fire are now starting to reopen, such as Hermosa Creek Trail, Doughty said.

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416 FIRE

The trails that are along the burn path are being evaluated and assessed in order to see what needs to be done to prevent further damage with the flooding, Doughty said.

Many of the outdoor, laborious jobs were put on hold because of the inaccessibility the fire created, and also because of the levels of smoke that people were seeing, Doughty said.

Dillion Lemons, Hermosa resident, worked at the Glacier Club out in Hermosa over the summer and was out of work for several weeks while the fire burned, Lemons said.

The fire closed Highway 550 making it hard for people who worked at Purgatory Resort to get to work. Many of them were out of work as the fire was burning, Doughty said.

People whose homes were close to the flames had to drop their daily lives and just sit and wait till they heard they were getting evacuated.

Once Jessie Roukema, who lived in Hermosa over the summer, found out they were getting evacuated, there was a lot of panic and worry because they needed to decide what they were going to bring, she said.

“It was hard to know what to bring because we didn’t know how long it would be for,” Roukema said.

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THE IMPACT ON COMMUNITIES The fire had a big economic impact to many communities that were involved.

90% of Silverton’s business comes from the train.

With the train being closed and inoperable for a few weeks out of the summer, the town of Silverton took a big hit economically, Doughty said.

The economy of Durango also took a hit because during the summer the train brings hundreds of thousands of people to the town, and with it being closed for a period of time, the shops and the restaurants weren’t seeing as much business as they normally do during the summer, Doughty said.

Although the fire has left many impacts and has left both these communities in a rebuilding period, one of the impacts that the fire has left is surrounding whether or not the train started the fire, Doughty said.

To shut the train down because of a fire would be like shutting down a ski resort because of an avalanche, they are going to happen but that doesn’t mean shut it all down, Doughty said.

Besides the fire department, the train spends more money on keeping their fire operation safe than any business or industry in Durango, Doughty said.

The fire has left many lasting impacts that will be around for a while, but the truth of the reality is, the forest needed this fire in order to be beneficial and better in the long run, Doughty said.

Although there are still visual impacts of the fire, as the months have passed many people who were affected or involved in the fire have returned back to their daily lives without looking back on it.

“It is now just a reminder that I was a part of that,” Roukema said.

Mandy Lorenson

“The train is the economic drive in this town.” Doughty said.

The 416 Fire burns along a ridge uncomfortably close to local residences last Summer.

Photo by Colton Brastetter

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VILLAGE AID PROJECT:

Cancels Trip to Nicaragua Again, After Travel Advisory

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illage Aid Project, a Fort Lewis College student organization that partners with communities to bring them water and solutions to engineering problems, cancelled their trip to Nicaragua after spring break, which was scheduled to take place after graduation.

Don May, a faculty director of the Village Aid Project went to Nicaragua during this spring break to assess the situation and determine if it was safe for students.

Last year, two weeks before Village Aid Project was supposed to leave at the end of the spring semester, they cancelled their trip to Nicaragua because the U.S. Department of State issued a travel advisory due to crime and civil unrest.

The travel advisory was issued due to uprising against the president, Daniel Ortega.

Before the travel advisory was issued, Village Aid Project bought and delivered $17,000 worth of materials, May said.

The materials, which were mostly pipe, were in storage in Jalapa, near where a pair of

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Village Aid project supporters and villagers get to work on the system during spring break in Nicaragua.

Photo courtesy of Don May neighboring communities, La Luz and Los Terrerios, were waiting for the Village Aid Project to start the project.

During spring break, May and those who went were able to complete about half of the project, he said.

May said that when there were protests, they were in the capital and other major cities, not in rural areas like Jalapa, where students would be.

This was part of the effort to start the project, in hopes that students would still arrive after the spring semester.

For this reason, May said that he did not expect for their trip to be cancelled.

May left for Nicaragua on Feb. 28, just before spring break, and was there until March 10, he said.

The governor of the municipality took May from the airport in Managua to Jalapa, in the Nueva Segovia Department of Nicaragua, where the project is located, he said.

May spent the night there and used the following day to buy materials and start the project, he said.

They built a storage tank, a distribution tank, a structure to get water into the system, and a suspended river crossing. They also laid about four kilometers of pipe, he said.

“It went really well,” he said. “We had tremendous community support. On any given day, we’d have anywhere from 30 to 60 villagers waiting for us in the morning to get started.”

The organization is responsible for the design of the system, but a requirement of the project is that villagers do the heavy lifting, he said.

The Independent i “As we go through the project, they’re learning how to do it,” he said. “So, the first day we’re doing it and they’re watching and then by the second day they’re doing it and we’re watching.”

May said that this way, the project is sustainable, so the villagers can continue to maintain the system, without help from the organization.

“I wouldn’t hesitate to take my family there on vacation right now,” he said.

May understands that even though he felt safe, the college cancelled the trip due to the level three travel advisory, which asks U.S. citizens to reconsider travel, he said.

Bill Donelan, the interim director of environmental health and safety of Fort Lewis College, made the final call after working with May and other faculty, May said.

BEFORE THE FINAL CALL Village Aid Project held a meeting on Feb. 28, the same day that May left, to prepare for the trip.

Jane Cobb, nurse practitioner at the health center, taught students about safety precautions regarding physical health at the meeting.

Cobb presented a slide show about infections and diseases and how to avoid them while in a foreign country.

THE REACTION Kurtis Pink, a student who helped design the system to be built in Nicaragua, planned to go to Nicaragua last year.

He said that, once complete, the system will be the largest water system that Village Aid Project has built.

After it was cancelled last year, Pink said that it was hard to take in because he wasemotionally invested in the project and that he felt bad for Nicaragua and the communities that the project would benefit.

“It’s not like they did anything wrong, and the water system was for them, and so they were the ones that lost the most.,” Pink said.

This year, Pink was disappointed to hear that the project was cancelled again, but not surprised.

“We planned for that,” he said. “We have three projects in Myanmar this year and a project in Nepal so, if we couldn’t go to Nicaragua, we could absorb those students into the different Myanmar and Nepal projects.”

Pink was not the only Village Aid Project member that was not surprised.

“A lot of students decided to go to Myanmar because Nicaragua was still up in the

THERE ARE FOUR TRAVEL ADVISORY LEVELS: 1 EXERCISE NORMAL PRECAUTIONS 2 EXERCISE INCREASED CAUTION 3 RECONSIDER TRAVEL 4 DO NOT TRAVEL air,” Jenna Brown, Village Aid Project student co-president, said. “I think the students that chose to go to Nicaragua knew the situation, and knew that there was a possibility that it could be cancelled.”

Taylor Hutchison

Village Aid Project teaches villagers how to build and maintain the system.

Photo courtesy of Don May

Cobb has presented this topic to Village Aid Project students every year because she traveled with them in the past.

“I’ve traveled with them to Laos, Asia and definitely have been an active member in the past, a very active member in the past,” she said.

Cobb made sure to include information about Nicaragua, even though there was a chance that the trip would becancelled again.

“Village Aid Project has done many different projects down in Nicaragua and we’d like to be able to continue helping them,” she said.

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Art Exhibition Gives

Juried

Students

Opportunity T

he Fort Lewis College Art and Design Department gives students the opportunity to have their art featured and juried in an official art show during the Annual Student Juried Exhibition.

This year marked the 58th year the Annual Student Juried Exhibition ran.

This is one of many art shows the department hosts throughout the year, which the department tries to change every 3 1/2 to 4 weeks, Paul Booth, the interim gallery director and the chair of the art and design department said.

The department tries to run six shows an academic year, with one of those shows being a juried show, he said.

Every two years a faculty show runs, he said.

The art department put out a call for submissions for any student working in any art form to submit to this show, Booth said.

The department does not require the student to create the work being submitted in one of the art and design classes, he said.

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“Any student that creates any artwork or any design, like graphic design, we call communication design, can be put in,” he said.

Owen Stroud, a junior art and design major, said the professors push the students to create work they want to show.

Many art shows ask for a resume, so it is a boost to be selected in this exhibition, Stroud said.

Zyon Frauen, a sophomore art and design major, said that the exhibition is an opportunity to see different creative expression from other artists.

Frauen also said that being part of the exhibition gave him more confidence.

Stroud said that during the opening reception it gave him a good feeling to see his artwork displayed.

“The opening was awesome,” Stroud said. “The actual day The gallery is considered a classroom, Paul Booth said. that they open it up The art shows are free and open to all on campus, he said. and try to get as many Photo by Benjamin Mandile people there. You know it’s cool to see Having one’s work in an art exhibition all the artists in the room and other people has multiple benefits beyond having the opsupporting.” portunity to showcase one’s art. Students can put on their resume that they were selected Frauen said that he didn’t see many unfato be in an art exhibition, Booth said. miliar faces at the opening and estimated that 10-20 percent of the attendees were non-art “We’re trying to build their resumes,” department community members. he said. “We want them to get comfortable showing their work.”

The attendance rates of the opening

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These receptions are free and open to the public and have food, along with music sometimes, he said.

The department flew in Phyllis Shafer from Lake Tahoe, California to jury the entire exhibition.

A juried show means that the work is submitted and a judge makes a decision on what art will be included in the exhibition, Booth said.

A juried exhibition is chosen by a judge who determines which pieces will be accepted into the show.

“We try to bring in an outside juror just because it’s such a small community,” he said.

“IT’S COOL TO SEE ALL THE ARTISTS IN THE ROOM AND OTHER PEOPLE SUPPORTING.” Owen Stroud FLC Student

Susan Moss, a professor of art and design who runs a gallery management class that works on the gallery as part of their academics, knew the juror from California, Booth said.

The class is responsible for hanging the art for the show and working with the juror, he said.

Submitting work to this show involved the student to filling out paperwork detailing information about the piece, Stroud said.

There are a couple of hours on submission day that the students can present their work to the judge for consideration into the show, he said.

Any unselected pieces can be picked up after the jury process finishes, Stroud said.

This exhibition was taken down on March 25 and replaced by a show featuring senior art and design major’s work.

The Graduating Senior Art & Communication Design Majors Exhibition will run about a month, from April 3 to April 26. This exhibition is usually run last and is open for students to show their parents during graduation, Booth said.

The gallery will be closed for the summer but the gallery director will be planning which shows will run for the next academic year.

Benjamin Mandile

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Spring Break

Outdoor Pursuits O

utdoor Pursuits offered two different trips for students looking to expand their horizons this year during spring break. The first trip was a backcountry skiing trip that took students into the Mount Baker backcountry in Washington. the other took students on a week-long backpacking trip through the Gila National Forest in New Mexico.

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The OP group on their first day ofThe backcountry touring Independent i on Mount Baker in Northwest Washington.

Photo by Brett Davis

This trip put together by Outdoor Pursuits was led by student leaders Matthew Cecil and Carl Schnitker, both trip leaders and part of the Outdoor Pursuits staff.

The group’s original plan was to do a difficult backpacking route through Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument, but with roads being unpassable, ended up in the Gila National Forest in the southwestern region of New Mexico, changing the plan at the last minute, Cecil said.

“It was myself and my co-leader Matthew and then our superviser Colt Fetters, we all worked together to come up with a new plan” said Schnitker. “That was within the last week and a half, that we decided we needed to look for alternatives and it wasn’t until, I think it was pretty late on Tuesday before we left, that we decided we were going to go to the Gila, so we had about three days to plan our specific route.”

The group of students led by Cecil and Schnitker ended up spending seven days backpacking in the Gila National Forest.

The group followed a route that the Adventure Education department used for some of their trips in the area, which took the group up the West Fork of the Gila River, across a mesa top, and then back down the middle fork of the river, said Schnitker.

The backpackers ended up crossing these forks of the Gila River about 60 times throughout the trip spending a lot of time wet and cold, making for some interesting challenges and an overall different hiking experience than normal, Schnitker said.

Trips like these give students the opportunity to experience something new and exciting as well as a fun environment to learn new skills, Schnitker said.

“You learn so much about communication and teamwork and building relationships,” says Schnitker. “I think those are really important skills for any direction you choose in life.”

The group of students and their leaders Matthew Cecil and Carl Schnitker exploring the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico.

Photo courtesy of Matthew Cecil

Backcountry Skiing at Mount Baker The Mount Baker trip took eight students to Northern Washington to enjoy fresh snow and new terrain, led by Josh Kling, Coordinator of Outdoor Pursuits, and Brett Davis, the Assistant Director of Outdoor Pursuits.

For most students, the trip started at the beginning of the semester, with the majority of the group camping out in front of the Student Life Center during a snowstorm to ensure they got their spot on the trip, Matt Jordan, one of the students on the Mount Baker Trip, said.

For the remaining weeks leading up to the trip, the eight students going on the trip took part in weekly training workouts every Thursday morning before classes to get ready for the long backcountry ski tours they were going to encounter, Jordan said.

“Every Tuesday morning, we would go out to Chapman Hill and skin up it,” meaning climbing uphill on skis, “ski down it, work on transitions and all that,” Jordan said. “Kinda preparing to not only work hard, but also be fast and efficient.”

The students then left Saturday March 2, and drove 24 hours to northern Washington, reaching a chateau 45 minutes from Mount Baker after two days of travel.

The group had low expectations for the trip. The fact that Baker had a low snow year and Durango was scheduled to get a lot more snow throughout the next week paired with the long travel time, had them questioning whether they made the right choice leaving Colorado, Jordan said.

The first day consisted of a 12-mile ski tour with gorgeous views of Mount Baker and Mount Shuksan. Day two had another long tour paired with a 2,000-foot descent off of Lincoln Peak Jordan said.

“By the end of day two, I was like, ‘Okay I got my money’s worth,’” says Jordan. “And then the second two days were powder days, and powder days there are pretty amazing.”

Nate DeCremer

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HOW TO

RECOGNIZE

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PREVENT

BULLYING IN COLLEGE

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hough typically known as a middle school problem, bullying exists in college. At Fort Lewis College, faculty and staff do what they can to fix the problem.

Bullying in college might not look like bullying in middle school. However, there are some similarities.

“Bullying, in its form right now, one of the major places we see it is online,” Megan Wrona, assistant professor of psychology, said.

Cyberbullying is a common threat because of the anonymity that can come with social media, she said.

One of the ways in which bullying presents itself in college is via peer pressure, she said.

In college, students generally become more confident and begin to find friends in a way different than in middle school, for example, she said.

“That, hypothetically, can lower the risk, but it doesn’t make it go away,” Wrona said.

“It’s still present, and people are still very much harmed by it, and we see very clear links between bullying and a lot of mental health problems—depression, anxiety.”

Bystanders have a lot of power when it comes to bullying, and Wrona recommends that bystanders speak up to stop bullying.

“Certainly peer pressure is some of what we see tied into rates of sexual assault and the shame associated with victim blaming, like the example recently with the graffiti,” Wrona said.

“If somebody asks you how you’re doing, most of us will just say fine, but actually step back and allow people to answer that question in an honest way so that we can start to support each other better as a whole on campus,” Wrona said.

Molly Weiser, the Title IX coordinator at the college, said that she has seen bullying between roommates at the college.

Mimi Gates, a counselor at the college, has dealt with victims of bullying, and their abusers, first hand.

It can be difficult to share a home at any age, but when disrespect between roommates is intentional, it is bullying, she said.

Victims should be aware that the bullying in question is not their fault, she said. Gates would also encourage students to speak up when they witness bullying.

For Weiser, peer pressure is not always a bad thing. In college, peer pressure does exist, but if students did not care about what our friends, or roommates, thought about us, then we would miss out on an opportunity to learn positive behavior, she said.

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In general, the reason why bullying in college might not look like bullying in other stages of life is because of human development, Wrona said.

“We are all equally complicit if we turn the other cheek,” she said.

Wieser recommends that those who feel as though they are victims of bullying take

COUNSELING CENTER

Phone: (970) 247-7212 Email: jmgerhardt@fortlewis.edu (Judy Gerhardt, office manager) Location: 260 Noble Hall

STUDENT HOUSING OFFICE

Phone: (970) 247-7503 Email: studenthousing@ fortlewis.edu Location: 240 Miller Student Services Building

MOLLY WEISER, TITLE IX COORDINATOR

Phone: (970) 247-7241 Email: wieser_m@ fortlewis.edu Location: 230 Miller Student Services Building

advantage of the resources the college has to offer.

“I say to people, ‘The taxes that pay for all of this, and your tuition and fees, and the land that the college is on that is from Indigenous people - it’s here for you,’” she said.

Some of those resources include the Counseling Center, Megan Walsh, who is the Professional Advocate Case Manager, the Student Housing Office, and herself.

“Everybody comes here from different places, not just geographically but socio-economically,” Wieser said. “Everybody comes here with different layers of privilege. What I worry about is that people with a lot of privilege are going to use the resources, and people with less privilege are not.”

Taylor Hutchison

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