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Students prepare for finals said by seeing other students studying, it is motivation to study as well.

“It’s kind of like a silent way of cheering people on,” DeLuca said.

Study on Sunday gave University students Abby Pawl, a sophomore biology major, the opportunity to study, learn from tualso decided to utilize the Learning Comtors, de-stress and unleash their inner mon’s SOS to study for finals. Pawl said kindergartner. she has used the library more often in the A program existing since the Learnlast couple days than she ing Commons was crehad during the rest of the ated five years ago, Study semester. Previously, Pawl on Sunday, or SOS, has had studied in the Union. offered students the op“Since it’s finals week, I portunity to prepare for figured the library was a exams and de-stress in better option,” Pawl said. the library before finals “It’s more of a study atin both the fall and spring mosphere than a social semesters. Mark Nelson, one.” director of the Learning In addition to the difCommons, said it’s that ferent therapy events, last “cram session” before there were hours of dropfinals. in tutoring available for “It kind of started out students in a variety of a smaller version … and - Mark Nelson, subjects, along with the then we keep adding,” Director of the Learning usual Learning Commons Nelson said. writing appointments.

Commons This year’s events inSenior mathematics cluded free popcorn, tips tutor Jennifer Rudy has to conquer stress anxibeen tutoring for the ety from the Counseling Center, licensed Learning Commons since the fall of 2013 therapy dogs, pixie stick making and a and said SOS can be helpful. night snack and coffee from the Under“It’s important for the students to get graduate Student Government. last minute help … on things that they Another popular event at SOS was Back may have learned early in the semester to Kindergarten. During this event stuand forgotten,” Rudy said. dents were able to take study breaks to do Nelson said that on Finals SOS, Learncrafts, color and play with play dough. ing Commons tutors and staff see a lot “We like to create a nice atmosphere for of students who have used the services students … it’s kind of a home away from throughout the semester, but a lot of new home place to study,” Nelson said. students come as well.

Junior criminal justice major Callen De“We designed it, when we came up with Luca said that the library definitely crethe idea, as a way for students to kind of ates a helpful environment for students fine-tune their studies before they head and “pertains more to an academic coninto finals, so they can do well,” Nelson said. text” than other studying locations. She

By Holly Shively City Editor

“We like to create a nice atmosphere for students … it’s kind of a home away from home place to study.”

PHOTO BY ISAIAH VAZQUEZ

Students fill tables at the Jerome Library during the Study on Sunday program.

PHOTO BY ISAIAH VAZQUEZ

Therapy dogs are just one of the features at Study on Sunday meant to help students relax.

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PEOPLEON THESTREET What are you looking forward to most about the holidays?

“Not having to worry about exams.”

Rebecca Welker Sophomore, Art Education

INDIVIDUAL ACADEMY COMIC BY TYLER VOLTZ

Day at a time, future can wait During these past couple of weeks of the semester, I’ve been dealing with a lot of feelings of inadequacy. Being a perfectionist, I’m pretty familiar with this weight on my shoulders. I could feel inadequate while folding socks.

Yeah, it’s that bad. Last year, the stress of ending the year on a high note was not nearly this rampant. But now, I have my sophomore status, planning on a study abroad trip across the globe, grades and, most importantly, my future, all lined up in front of me.

I’ll admit that I’m a good student. In the classes that I’m fluctuating, I at least try to be. But I’ve never felt really great at anything, even writing.

But, of course, instead of comparing myself to peers that have just about the same amount of experience, I’m trying to stand up with the greats — William Shakespeare, Stephen King and Mary Shelley.

It’s not that I’m even stressed out about schoolwork; I study as much as I can. It’s what comes after that has me contorting like a pretzel. It seems as if I have to “have

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Abbey Serena Columnist connections” — whatever that means, and save the world twice before I can get the job that I really want.

I don’t even know what that job is. I know that I want to be a writer, but sometimes I feel like being an astronaut would be easier.

So, I’m going to have to look for jobs in editing, publishing; maybe I could write for a zoo.

It’s not like I’m asking to be a celebrity. I would be happy to write pamphlets about how a monkey threw a banana and made another monkey upset.

But even these jobs feel like they’re a thousand miles away. What am I going to do? Within the next five years, maximum, I have to find a job, figure out where I want to live and basically learn how to adult.

College certainly isn’t teaching me. I have

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a little cubbie of a dorm that my parents are paying for, I can walk downstairs to get food and my biggest concern right now is not failing a test. So I can get a job. And figure out where I’m going to live.

But as I’ve been thinking about all of this, I’ve realized that I’m going to be in college until 2018. And while I want to already have my first apartment paid for and a job beckoning me with open arms as soon as I take off my graduation cap, I get that I’ll just have to take this one day at a time. I’ll get an internship before I graduate, and I’ll study abroad next year, but for now, as a sophomore, I just have to worry about the next test.

And this last paragraph was hard for me to write, because so much as thinking about putting something as major as a job off until tomorrow makes me want to implode. But this is what I’m making myself do, because if I don’t then I’m going to wither away into the physical entity of stress.

“Being home with my cat.”

Leah Brubaker Sophomore, Undecided

“Going home, not having to wake up early.”

Omar Salem Freshman, Nuero-Science

“Being home with family.”

Paul Carbarino Freshman, Journalism

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Cheerful sentiment not aimed to criticize “Have a holly, jolly Christmas; and when you walk down the street, say hello to friends you know and everyone you meet.”

Yes, you may indeed say “hello” to everyone you meet, but keep your Christmas sentiments to yourself. God forbid, you might offend someone.

As we all know, department stores are inundated with seasonal decorations, and Burl Ives croons to shoppers as they weave through aisles after Thanksgiving.

The song’s lyrics encourage a holly, jolly Christmas, but this sentiment is one that is quickly disappearing from conversation and can only be found in the music of the season – “the classics.” And while it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, your cashier will be forced to utter the politically correct version, “Happy Holidays,” instead.

So what’s the deal?

I decided to do a little digging into the history of the expression “Happy Holidays” in the United States. A quick Google search revealed that the expression has been in widespread use for over 150 years.

It can actually be traced to newspaper

Deanna Huffman Columnist advertisements that date back to the mid1860’s. It’s not a recent mastermind creation of anti-Christmas secular liberalism. It’s not a war on Christmas, and it’s not a war on Christians themselves. It was simply a description of the season, including Thanksgiving through New Year’s. For example, on December 5th, 1863, the Philadelphia Inquirer pronounced “Happy holidays are coming!” I highly doubt anyone found that offensive.

Even when people celebrate Christmas in their own homes and there are images of Old St. Nick and Christmas trees and the familiar glow of red and green Christmas lights decorate the town, people seem to be conflicted about what to say in the workplace, at school, or in public. There

seems to be apprehension about making assumptions about other people’s religious or cultural beliefs, and a desire to avoid conflict or offense.

Perhaps, today, the “Happy holiday” expression is an attempt to be inclusive and respectful of various religious or cultural practices in the United States. But isn’t it exhausting to constantly worry about offending other people with something as simple as a well-meant salutation? I’d venture to say that being politically correct isn’t the issue, a hypersensitive American culture is, and entertaining these debates only coddles us more.

But if inclusivity is the goal, it’s important to note that true multiculturism would be to accept that different individuals have experiences that are different from our own, including holidays, traditions and customs.

If a person celebrates Kwanzaa, I would expect him/her to say “Happy Kwanza,” and the same goes for Hanukkah or Christmas.

The greetings are not offensive and we need to stop treating them as such.

Rather than worrying about being

Resentment granted

I have always actively chosen to continually give people the benefit of doubt. This isn’t a character trait I feel I need to change about myself, but it certainly has caused me some pain in my life.

What I mean is that I am always trying to put off judgments of those I encounter because I know that I will never truly have enough context to judge accurately who they are. The most I do, typically, is decide whether a given person is a positive force in my life and modify how much I hang out with them.

Take for instance my relationship with my biological father. He was completely missing in action for all of my childhood. It took my mother’s death for him to come around, when I was on the cusp of thirteen.

Now the situation is extremely messy, but what you need to know for my purposes here is that I came to resent him. But not for his absence, actually; I was perfectly content with my life with my step-father who raised me from six months old.

It was how everything went down when my mother passed.

He came to her funeral with the intention of taking me back with him to Ohio, from Georgia.

Now, I had been living with my brother and my step-father my entire life at that point, so from my perspective, he was coming in and killing my family in a way entirely separate from my mother’s demise.

Despite this, I got to know him in the years after

Tabitha Holowka Forum Editor my mother’s passing. I came to learn about his life, specifically, details regarding the nature of his falling out with my mother; mostly that he felt like she had been the one to cut him out. I empathize with him, but I cannot say this has been a good thing.

I was still the sufferer of so much, and directly by his actions, or mostly in his case, his inaction. Yet, I feel compelled to pity him.

I think that even the case of a seemingly totally good character trait, like patience in dealing with fellow humans, negative consequences can still arise. We have to then decide the limit of a good thing at the point which it does harm to the dogooder. In my case, I ought to have a right to reserve certain resentments towards a person who legitimately warrants them, lest my heart gets trampled in giving my emotional health up for the sake of the good of this character trait.

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politically correct and not offending other people, we need to focus on thickening our skin and being a little more impervious.

In fact, I’m not arguing for the use of “Happy Holidays” over “Merry Christmas,” or vice versa. One expression does not have more intrinsic value, nor is one more tasteful than the other.

I am advocating for the understanding that celebrating your holiday does not detract from or undermine my own holiday.

If I were an atheist, I wouldn’t be offended by a “Merry Christmas” greeting, and if I was Christian, I wouldn’t be offended by a “Happy Hanukkah” salutation.

Rather than worrying so intensely about which holiday expression is least offensive, perhaps we should focus our attention on things like remembering to say “thank you” to the person who holds the door in front of us.

Lighten up and get in the spirit, everyone.

It’s Christmas time.

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Field House track room closed for renovations

By Hannah Finnerty Reporter The Department of Recreation and Wellness has seen major changes to its facilities over the past few years. The overhaul of the student recreation center was completed in the fall of 2014 and the turf room in the Perry Field House recently made the transition from AstroTurf to a field turf. The most recent renovation, revamping the track room in the Field House, is just about wrapped up.

The Field House opened in 1993, according to the Department of Recreation and Wellness’ website. Over two decades old, the track room needed to be updated.

Director of Recreation and Wellness for the University Steve Kampf said that discussion of a new track was tossed around and decided upon in the spring of this year.

Construction on the track room was underway by mid-October. Now, just a few months later, the project is just about finished, with contractors just wrapping up a few loose ends.

This project included resurfacing the track, which is used primarily by the indoor

track and field team, as well as refinishing the hardwood floors of the three basketball courts that are circumscribed by the track.

Refinishing the basketball courts is the second step in the restoration process and will occur over winter break.

“When we get back for spring semester, (the Field House) will look like a brand new facility,” Kampf said.

Although the renovations were a necessary step in maintaining the condition of Field House facilities, the construction has kept student athletes out of their regular practice area.

The renovations have caused slight hiccups in scheduling with intramurals, one group of students that use the track room in the Field House Scott Sehmann, assistant director of intramural sports and sport clubs, said. “We had to be a little bit creative to make scheduling work.”

Some of the teams had to compete in the Student Rec Center since work started in the Field House earlier this year.

Three-player basketball, team handball, badminton and footsol had to make the

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The track at the Perry Field House, which has been renovated to include University colors.

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UPCOMINGGAMES sunday, dec. 20

Mens Basketball: @ Wright State | 4:30pm

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Womens Basketball: vs. South Dakota State | 7pm

WEDNESday, dec. 23 Mens Basketball: @ Cleveland State | 1pm

Football: vs. Georgia Southern in Mobile, Alabama | 8pm

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Senior Guard David Joseph runs the offense in a game earlier this season. Joseph was held to just one point in 18 minutes against Detroit.

Falcons snap winning streak in Detroit

By Aaron Parker Sports Editor The Bowling Green Men’s basketball team snapped their six game win streak on Saturday with a road loss to the Detroit Titans 95-80.

Senior Forward Spencer Parker, who is a Detroit native, led the Falcons in the contest with a career high 33 points and 11 rebounds for his third double-double of the season.

Bowling Green had a solid offensive night, shooting 44.1 percent from the field and hitting six of their eight three point attempts in the second half. However, the Titans were still able to keep the upper hand in the shooting category for the majority of the game, shooting 47.1 percent from the floor and 43.3 from three. The Titans hit 13 shots from long range.

“I didn’t like the defensive effort,” Head Coach Michael Huger. “I thought we could

have done a much better job in our help coverages and rebounding. I didn’t like the way we rebounded tonight. They pushed us

“There’s not much to correct. We’re getting closer to where I want to be, though we’re not there yet.”

- Michael Huger, Head Coach around and they were able to get what they wanted to on the offensive boards.”

The Titans grabbed 14 offensive boards in

the game and 14 second chance points. They also grabbed 27 defensive boards which they were able to convert into 11 points on the fast break.

The Falcons also left a lot of opportunities at the line, attempting 35 free throws and hitting only 21 of them at 60 percent.

Despite the Detroit advantage on the stat sheet, the Falcons kept the game tightly contested throughout with four lead changes total.

“There were definitely a lot of momentum changes. Our guys played hard,” Huger said.

“We were able to settle down a little bit and play hard and get back into the game within two or three points. We thought we had the momentum going in but they were able to make some big shots to change the momentum back in their favor.”

Freshman Forward Rasheed Worrell finished behind Parker in the game, scoring a

career high 16 points along with four boards.

Junior Guard Wes Alcegaire had nine points and five rebounds.

Despite the loss, the team looks at the contest as a learning experience.

“There’s not much to correct,” Huger said.

“We’re getting closer to where I want to be, though we’re not there yet. That’s the biggest thing. Each game has prepared us to get closer. It was a small step back tonight, but we’ve been getting closer in our understanding of where we need to be on the defensive end.

Going into winter break, the Falcons sit at 7-3 overall. They have scored 72 points or more in all of their last seven games and the 80 against Detroit was the second most of the season. The 95 scored by the Titans is also the most they have given up to an opponent this year.

Bowling Green’s next game will be against Wright State on Dec. 20 in Dayton.

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Hockey defeats Bemidji

By Zane Miller Sports Reporter

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Junior forward Kevin Dufour attacks on offense earlier this season against Alabama Huntsville.

The Bowling Green men’s hockey team made history on Friday and Saturday night, defeating the Bemidji State Beavers in both games to bring home their first ever victories in Bemidji.

The Falcons had an overall record of 4-3-1 against Bemidji State in all their meetings, but were 0-3-1 on the road until this weekend’s series.

“I was proud of the effort,” head coach Chris Bergeron said. “We haven’t played well in that building at all, we didn’t start on Saturday as well as we did on Friday, but we hung on there, and (sophomore goaltender) Chris Nell was good early, we were opportunistic and scored a couple goals in the second period.”

On Friday, sophomore forwards Mitch McLain and Brandon Hawkins scored for the Falcons in the first period at 3:51 and 19:21 respectively, to give the Falcons a 2-0 lead which they would not look back from. Freshman forward Stephen Baylis scored his first collegiate goal at 14:47 of the third.

“We did a good job of being opportunistic around their net and scoring goals,” Bergeron said. “They weren’t handed to us by any means, we did a good job of creating opportunities and creating chances.”

On Saturday, both teams went scoreless through the first period before Falcons junior forward Pierre-Luc Mercier broke through at 10:01 of

the second to give the team the lead. Freshman forward John Schilling scored another goal at 17:32 of the same period as the Falcons won 2-0.

“These are huge wins,” Bergeron said. “We were a little bit concerned about our players worrying about Christmas break and focusing on going home and not staying focused on the series, but I thought coming out of the box, our guys did a great job of staying in the moment and focusing on the games and ultimately they’re huge wins.”

Nell made 42 saves on 43 shots throughout the two games, including a shutout on Saturday to earn his sixth career shutout, putting him just behind the Falcons’ all-time shutout record of seven held by Tyler Masters and current National Hockey League goaltender Andrew Hammond.

“He was really good overall,” Bergeron said. “I thought we defended well both nights, and Chris was there all weekend long.”

Bemidji State remains in eighth place in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association with a conference record of 4-8-2, while the Falcons have moved up a spot in the standings up to second place in the WCHA, now holding a 8-2-4 conference record.

The Falcons will take a two and a half week break before playing in their next game, a non-conference matchup against the Western Michigan Broncos at the Huntington Center in Toledo on Wednesday, Dec. 30.

Midseason Review: Womens Basketball

By Evan Hayes Sports Reporter With three games remaining in their nonconference schedule, the start of the season for the Bowling Green State University Women’s Basketball team has been up and down. Sitting at 4-4, the Falcons’ strengths and weaknesses have been on full display.

After winning their two opening games in one weekend at home against Illinois State and Bradley, the Falcons dropped a pair of close games away from the Stroh Center against Cincinnati and Davidson. They followed those performances with a neutral court overtime win against Jacksonville State before returning home for a comfortable win over Evansville.

Their past two road games, however, have been blowout losses. The first came at Cleveland State by 21 points, and their most recent game at ACC opponent Virginia

ended in a 29-point thumping.

The Falcons’ weaknesses have been apparent, as they have struggled in their losses to find offense. In particular, they have struggled running offensive sets and break opposing teams’ presses.

“We have a thousand press breakers, maybe we have too many. But I am completely baffled why we cannot get the ball inbounds,” head coach Jennifer Roos said after the match against Evansville. “We work on that against our practice squad, we skeleton it; we have drilled it so much. That has been an Achilles heal for us, and it’s very disappointing.”

While struggling to bring the ball up against a press has buried the Falcons in losses like the one at Virginia, their offensive execution has also been shaky. In their four losses this season, the Falcons have shot below 39 percent from the field while averaging 19 turnovers a game.

In the games they have won, the Falcons have used their ball screen offense to pound the ball inside. They have shot 46 percent from the field in those games and have executed much better offensively.

“Our goal, to be completely honest, is to play twenty-eight good minutes,” Roos said.

“Twenty-eight really solid minutes, where the crowd will be like, ‘Wow that’s great execution’, or we made the extra pass.”

The Falcons focus has been on post play, trying to work the ball inside and then out. This was evident in their wins against Evansville and Jacksonville State with the 3-point shot helping them pull out victories. Kicking out from the post allowed them to average 10.5 made threes and shoot 45 percent from behind the arc in those two games.

With their offensive focus on working the ball into the post, fifth year senior center Lauren Tibbs leads the team in scoring

and rebounding at 10.8 points per game and 7.6 rebounds per game while also shooting 61.7 percent from the floor. Senior forward Miriam Justinger is second on the team with 8.5 points per game, and freshman point guard Sydney Lambert is averaging 8.4 points per game while shooting a strong 43.3 percent from 3-point range.

While this has been one of the tougher nonconference schedules the women’s basketball team has seen over the past few years, the Falcons have shown strength and resilience in the face of strong opponents and short rests between games. With senior leadership from Tibbs and Justinger and young energy from Lambert and fellow freshman Carly Santoro, the Falcons look poised to make some noise in the MAC this year.

Their next game will take place on Dec. 21 against South Dakota State. Tipoff will be at 7 p.m. at the Stroh Center.

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Intermural sports and the track and field teams were both affected by the renovations.

switch to the Rec Center. However, holding games in the Rec Center ended up bringing more attention to intramurals.

“In a way, it was a good way to get more activity on the new Mac court at the Rec Center,” Sehmann said.

They are now looking to keep several of the intramural and club sports at the Rec Center.

Not only were intramurals affected by the renovations, but the University’s track and field teams were as well. The track room was just reopened for the collegiate athletes a few weeks ago, but the team had been holding practices outside. The track room opened up to all students last week.

The Perry Field House project is almost finished, but Recreation and Wellness is not done upgrading their facilities. The pool room in the Rec Center is the next venture, including an installation of energy-efficient lighting, bleachers and a better quality sound system.

Kampf said that the renovations of athletic buildings across campus is “just another example of taking our facilities and upgrading them… just keeping up with aging buildings and making sure they are properly maintained.”

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Call to Action sees progress from University

By Annie Furia Editor-in-Chief More than two years after the student group Call to Action was formed in response to racially charged tweets, the list of five demands presented to University administration has yet to be completed.

Still, Call to Action representative Bryce Davis said the “small successes” show a positive trend.

“I would say this year, yes, there’s definitely been a huge switch in the administration’s attitude toward Call to Action,” Davis said.

When the group was first created, Davis said it felt like the administration saw Call to Action as “something they could ... push under the rug.”

However, during the past semester the administration has shown an interest in input from the group, even approaching them first to receive feedback on their progress.

“We knew it wasn’t going to be an overnight process,” Interim Vice President for Student Affairs Sydney Childs said. “(Call to Action) knew this was going to be an ongoing process.”

Childs called the demands a “living document” that requires conversations between the administration and the students.

One demand already met was for the University to create a plan for dealing with incidents of discrimination.

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took this over as a huge initiative and they worked with us very closely from the moment this demand was put in the air, leading up to the completion of the plan in March 2014,” Davis said.

This was an encouragement to the group because of the quick turnaround.

“Call to Action formed because we weren’t having that University response,” Davis said. “That was one of the quickest demands to be completed, one of the only to be completed.”

The first demand, asking for the creation of spaces for multicultural students, also required the relocation of multicultural spaces and services such as TRIO and the LGBT resource center to the fourth floor of the Student Union. The plan for this has since been changed.

“We realized that wasn’t a good use of resources,” Childs said.

Childs said the administration is in the process of developing an alternative plan with Call to Action.

Davis added that there were concerns about putting a large amount of money into completely renovating the fourth floor to accommodate the new centers and possibly having to move them later.

“The capital planning commission ... is working on finding places on campus that exist and that they could renovate, or expanding existing spaces,” Davis said.

Another demand was to increase the representation of marginalized communities among faculty, staff, and board of trustees members.

Collegefactual.com ranked the diversity among the University’s faculty and staff as “below average,” with 14.9 percent being from non-white ethnicities. The diversity among undergraduates was ranked

by Collegefactual.com as on par with the national average, with 23.3 percent being from non-white ethnicities.

Childs said departments need to be “mindful” about reflecting the makeup of the student population in their faculty and staff.

“We’re not trying to put quotas on anybody, but (asking) are you working toward that goal?” Childs said.

Davis said the Office of Equality and Diversity is currently tracking trends for why diverse faculty stay at or leave the University, in hopes of learning how to attract diverse faculty and keep those currently at the University.

NEWS As for the budgets for student organizations, Childs said there are limited resources.

He said the administration is “looking at how we can maximize and leverage our dollars and the processes by which students can get additional funds.”

Davis said of the more than 300 student organizations on campus, “75 percent or more of those are trying to get money from this pot that isn’t growing. It’s staying consistent every year.”

Call to Action is looking at funding models at other Universities to find what could be implemented here.

One of their success, Davis said, was encouraging organizations to use semester funding rather than looking at the full academic year.

“Not a lot of organizations are pulling from semester funding, so it gives those organizations a great opportunity to have their programs funded.”

Also in the works are changes to the cultural diversity requirement for the BG Perspective courses.

Davis said Call to Action’s focus is to “ensure that the cultural diversity courses are actually educating students about diversity.”

He said some diversity courses, such as jazz, would teach students a subject without ever referencing how it is connected to marginalized groups.

Right now Call to Action is having discussions with members of the multicultural initiatives committee to make courses more focused on diversity and inclusion and possibly including an interactive component.

This fall has seen protests on several college campuses due to lack of inclusion on campuses. Protests at the University of Missouri’s campus sparked by racial ten-

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sion led to the resignation of the university’s president and the creation of several diversity initiatives. Other colleges such as Ithaca College and the University of Mississippi also had protests against their administration and the attitude towards race on campus.

Childs said the administration was already meeting with Call to Action to talk about the multicultural spaces before these incidents occurred.

“We want to be intentional about holding these conversations with students, and we’re glad that students are holding us accountable as well,” Childs said.

Davis said the University has not necessarily been exempt from events like those at other colleges.

For example, on Nov. 13, students gathered in the Union Oval wearing black clothing to symbolize the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

“That is our form of protest,” Davis said, defining protest as bring an issue into the open. “We’re able to voice our concerns.”

Davis also said he has talked to students who have experienced racial incidents on campus, but didn’t want to report them.

“They don’t feel that administration, police officers or the counseling center will care about their issue,” Davis said.

He said it’s a common microaggression, everyday acts that contribute to discrimination, for students to feel that reports of racial incidents aren’t important enough to be taken seriously.

“We still have these issues, but they’re just not as visible,” he said.

Childs felt that the University is heading in the right direction.

“What makes us different is that we are working toward that goal (of inclusion),” Childs said. “And our students understand that it is going to be work.”

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