A Taboo TO PIC
Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015 | Volume 210 | Number 102 | 40 cents | iowastatedaily.com | An independent student newspaper serving Iowa State since 1890.
Percentage of young people watching porn at least once a week:
Women
Men
18% watch 82% don’t
68% watch 32% don’t
Men are
543
%atmore likely to look porn than females
Changing times spark pornography, relationship discussion By Sarah.Muller @iowastatedaily.com
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hen it comes to a sexual relationship, watching porn can sometimes raise expectations or even induce violent practices. Bondage and submission, domination and submission, or sadism and masochism all make up the BDSM community. With the recent release of “50 Shades of Grey” — a film based off of books displaying a BDSM relationship between Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, two unlikely acquaintances — discussion has sparked on what the effects are of pornography and BDSM behaviors. Between 64 and 68 percent of men, and 18 percent of women use pornography each week, according to Covenant Eyes, a resource dedicated to Internet accountability and filtering. “Even back in high school, sometimes middle school, guys would talk about pornography all the time,” said Jarid, an ISU student who watches porn. “I think for men, pornography is an accepted thing, but I think for women, it’s still a hush-hush topic.” Jarid wished not to use his last name because of privacy concerns. Pornography is more accessible with the increased popularity in the Internet as its primary resource. In another study done by Internet Safety 101, an online resource, 30 percent of content on the Internet is from the pornography industry. “I think when you have a society more open about their sexual preference or choice, that it functions better,” Jarid said. “I think people are closer because of it.” He said he thinks because the United States has a number of various backgrounds making up the foundation of society, opinions differ on pornography. However, Jarid said he believes the conversation starts when an adolescent hits puberty. “I think there should be sexual educa-
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1 in 5 Google searches are for porn
Porn Not Porn All statistics courtesy of Covenant Eyes
ISU student’s assault not the only one By Makayla.Tendall @iowastatedaily.com Because assaults such as the one involving the now-hospitalized ISU student Cale Truhlsen occur nearly every weekend, the Ames Police Department would like to add surveillance cameras to the Welch Avenue area. “Unfortunately, things like this happen every weekend where someone does get punched and people take off and we’re left here to determine what happened without a lot of information,” said Cmdr. Jason Tuttle of the Ames Police Department. A hole in his small intestine, a broken nose, two black eyes and possible internal bleeding behind one eye was the result of Truhlsen’s assault Feb. 8 around 1:50 a.m.
The sophomore in computer science was walking out of the 425 Welch apartment building, lagging behind a group of his friends, when he heard a group of eight or nine men on the sidewalk make a comment to a woman who was also on the sidewalk. “It was just a random girl going down the street,” his mother Jennifer Truhlsen said. “These groups of nine guys, I don’t know if they said something to her or what, and Cale heard and he kind of intervened and said, ‘woah, woah, woah,’ something like that.” The men, which witnesses described as white men in their 30s to early 40s dressed “as cowboys” in hats and cowboy boots, circled Truhlsen. Jennifer said her 6-foot-9inch, 230-pound son remembers saying he was not going to fight
and shaking one of the men’s hand. The next thing he knew, he was hit from behind, a man on either side of him holding him down on the sidewalk while two others punched and kicked him. The incident consisted of three different fights after Cale’s friends and a bystander got involved, according to witnesses. Jennifer said one of Cale’s friends was able to pull one of the men off of Cale, “which probably saved Cale’s life,” Jennifer said. A female witness brought Cale into the 425 apartment complex and helped him to his friend’s apartment, where Cale stayed until 6:20 a.m. when his friend called an ambulance for Cale, who was “screaming in pain,” Jennifer relayed. Cale went into immediate emergency surgery for the hole in
his intestine that was poisoning him by leaking fluids into his body. “In a couple of hours, he could very well have died,” Jennifer said. “Can you imagine if those guys had gone after that girl the way they went after my son?” After being in the hospital for nine days, Cale has lost 16 pounds, misses his friends and is worried about his grades, Jennifer said. Though Cale’s breathing tube is now out and he was able to try real food on Tuesday, Jennifer said she is still worried about the men who attacked her son. “It makes me think they’re preying on these college students,” Jennifer said. “I’ve received messages from ISU students who are girls that I don’t even know. They all said that my son is just really honorable in the way he defended the girl.”
Jennifer said a female witness also came forward Tuesday and said the same thing happened the weekend of Feb. 1 in the same location with a group of older men dressed similarly as the suspects in Cale’s assault. “The men said something to her, and she told them to ‘f--- off.’ Some guys stepped in and the next thing, she looked around and there was an all-out brawl. She said they were country boys,” Jennifer said. Tuttle said the Ames Police Department deals with multiple assaults in the Campustown area on any given weekend. “It involves poor judgment. It certainly doesn’t excuse what happened, but many of the cases we investigate each weekend are alcohol-related assaults,” Tuttle
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University seeks input on chief diversity officer job By Danielle.Ferguson @iowastatedaily.com The university community has a chance to give input about what they think the new chief diversity officer’s role should be at the university. The committee in charge of searching for the new officer will hold a series of town hall meetings and use the feedback provided to create a job description.
The first of the meetings is from 2:15 to 3 p.m. and then again from 4:15 to 5 p.m. Wednesday in the Oak Room of the MU. The other town hall meeting is from 10:15 to 11 a.m. Thursday in the Cardinal Room of the Memorial Union. More town hall meetings will continue through April. Anyone in the ISU community can give input as to what role the officer should fill and the responsibilities that person should have. Since the university is creating
the position, the job description will come after the town hall meeting input. President Steven Leath announced the chief diversity officer position in 2013 after The Jackson Consulting Firm conducted a comprehensive study of Iowa State’s diversity programs and initiatives. Included in the firm’s recommendations was creating a chief diversity officer position. Leath appointed the chief diversity officer committee, which is
made of about 15 faculty, staff and extension personnel, in October 2014. The position specification process is planned to last until April, with the position opening in May. From May to June, the university plans to recruit and reach out to candidates or nominees. The first round of interviews are planned for July to August, with on-campus interviews in September and October.
Leath said he would like to have the position filled by the late fall 2015 semester or early spring 2016. “Iowa state has done a good job in becoming a more diverse and inclusive place both in terms of the student body and the work force,” Leath said in a former Daily article. “I think we have to work harder to meet our diversity objectives maybe than some other places, we are a small college town in a rural state.”