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Committee to announce chancellor finalists luke nozicka | @LukeNozicka The group searching for the university’s next chancellor has narrowed its candidate pool to nine people. Carl Flowers, co-chair of the Chancellor Search Advisory Committee, said the nine are strong candidates, and he expects the committee will recommend the top finalists to President Randy Dunn by the end of this week. The top
contenders will be invited for oncampus, open forum interviews. “The search committee is on target to possibly start having campus interviews later in the month of April or in May,” said Flowers, who co-chairs the committee with Meera Komarraju, chairwoman of the Department of Psychology. Flowers, director of the Rehabilitation Institute, said the committee has been conducting
Skype interviews with potential candidates, which it will continue to do this week. While he would not say how many of the nine work at SIU, Flowers said the committee has received internal and external applicants. The university has spent about $6,500 on advertisements for the chancellor position, which have appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education and
The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, he said. In March, Komarraju said the committee wants to find someone who can build a good relationship with the university’s faculty. “Someone... who would be a positive, visionary and engaging leader,” Komarraju said in a March interview. One of the candidates will fill the seat following the November death of interim Chancellor Paul Sarvela.
Since then, Dunn has taken on chancellor duties while presiding over the SIU system. While the university has not named chancellor finalists, four finalists for the athletic director position were announced Thursday, which became vacant in January after Mario Moccia started the same position at his alma mater, New Mexico State. The search for a full-time provost won’t begin until a chancellor is appointed, Dunn said in January.
Adding color to Gaia House’s herb garden Henry, Adams looking for signs luke nozicka | @LukeNozicka
p eter r ogalla | @PRogalla_DE Emmalie Hall Skank, a freshman from Streamwood studying interior design, adds color and designs to a support stake for the Gaia House’s new spiral herb garden on Sunday. “We [planted] dill and cilantro, sage, kale, rosemary and some thyme seeds,” Hall Skank said. “But that was yesterday so they obviously haven’t come up yet.” Spiral herb gardens enable plants that grow in drier climates and ones that require more water to thrive in harmony. Herbs requiring more water are planted lower on the spiral to benefit from water runoff, which keeps drier-climate herbs at the top of the spiral in good health.
Carbondale’s mayoral candidates are missing some signs. John “Mike” Henry said of his 350 campaign signs, about 109 are missing or have been vandalized, including two 4 feet by 8 feet ones that cost about $350 each. He said his smaller signs cost $7 each. “We’ve kind of lost track of [how many are missing],” said Henry, owner of Henry Printing Inc. in Carbondale. “Somebody’s just taking them.” On March 18, Henry made a Facebook post jokingly asking supporters, “Does anyone know how to train political YARD SIGNS?” “Most of them wandered off during the night,” he wrote in the post, which has 137 likes. “I honestly did not know that they were nocturnal - maybe some fencing would have helped but they are skilled climbers.” City councilwoman Jane Adams seems to have the same issue. While she would not give a definite number, Adams said of her 450 campaign signs, a lot have gone missing. She said she thinks a Henry supporter is taking them down because they disappear systematically. “Clearly some of its intentional,” she said. Please see SIGNS | 3
Group looks to combat harms of hypermasculinity Jessica Brown| @BrownJessicaJ More than 85 percent of violent crimes in the United States are committed by men, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Boys Resisting Against Violence Everywhere (B.R.A.V.E.), a group founded here in February, thinks this data may be the result of hypermasculinity ingrained within popular culture. Hypermasculinity, the group says, is the exaggeration of what is stereotypically a man’s role in society. This includes an overemphasis on strength, aggression, heightened-sexuality and stoical behavior. “It’s rooted in the American DNA,” said Derrick Williams, Black Resource Center coordinator. “It’s as common
as air.” Williams is the founder of Progressive Masculinity Mentors, the group after which B.R.A.V.E. is patterned. Williams, who is also assistant director for the Center of Inclusive Excellence, said these gender-based restrictions are enforced heavily from birth to adulthood by media and the absence of healthy masculine representation for boys. Benjamin Smith, a senior from Harvey studying communications, is making an effort to change the often violent and sexual way young men are pressured to express themselves. Smith created B.R.A.V.E. to help male youth and teens focus on what it means to be a man. “Having a group like this meets the need of boys developing themselves through using transformative leadership,”
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Smith said. “It makes sure [they] are growing and addressing things [they] normally wouldn’t.” In a typical session, Smith and other mentors meet and talk with youth members about combatting gendered thinking. “It’s about looking at how we can interfere with all that is being societally taught to them, and show them other avenues to being a man,” Adam McCallister, a volunteer for the organization said. McCallister, a senior from Buffalo Grove studying automotive technology and workforce education, said these different ways of teaching young men are needed. Smith’s idea for B.R.A.V.E. originated from his involvement in PMM. Williams created PMM in 2007 to broach the issue of men not discussing masculinity and manhood, he said. It recognizes
male privilege and uses an awareness of it to fight oppression rather than perpetuate it. Members talk about a variety of topics, including sexual assault, consent, pornography, homophobia, violence and diminishing the hypermasculine caricature— particularly the image displayed by the media of being constantly in control and unable to express feelings. Sometimes, these discussions are met with resistance or defensive behavior. “Most people who have privilege don’t typically understand that they do,” Smith said. “Oppression becomes invisible.” Boys seek approval from their peers, Williams said. They get their gender performance scripts from men, which is why it is important to teach them
about the potential harm of hypermasculinity at a young age “It’s about showing them it’s okay to show your feelings, to talk about things, to not always be the strongest person,” said McCallister, a rape crisis prevention educator at The Women’s Center. Dismantling oppression is the ultimate goal, he said. Traditional gender binaries are not accurate anymore and should no longer be enforced upon the general public. “It is really important that men join the movement along with other men,” Williams said. “Stand up and be advocates for change against gender violence.” PMM meets at 7 p.m. in Lawson Hall every Thursday. B.R.A.V.E. meets every Saturday morning in the Field Apartment Complex.
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