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Sexual misconduct policies confusing for administrators By Makayla.Tendall @iowastatedaily.com State and federal sexual misconduct laws are confusing for universities, too, said administrators at the first ever Board of Regents campus safety and security subcommittee meeting Monday. The subcommittee met
at the Iowa State Alumni Center on Monday with representatives from the University of Northern Iowa, University of Iowa, Iowa State and Iowa School for the Deaf. While attendees spoke about differing policies and safety services each university offered, much of the conversation centered on sexual misconduct. Georgina Dodge, the
University of Iowa’s chief diversity officer, said she had heard discussion on possibly conflicting policies between Title IX and the Clery Act. Title IX is the legislation that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in education institutions receiving federal financial support. The Clery Act is the act requires public colleges and universities to
disclose their crime statistics and safety policies each year in a safety report. Dodge summarized Title IX into three requirements: Prompt and effective action by the university to stop harassment, remedy the effects and prevent recurrence of harassment. Dodge said those policies do not conflict with each other, but the require-
ments may contradict what is best for students. Dodge said though the Title IX policy is requiring universities to empower sexual assault or harassment survivors, a university may also have to investigate an incident without the consent of a survivor. “It’s relying on us to move quickly to ensure survivors have a voice in what
happens and whether or not their case proceeds through what we deem to be appropriate channels. The OCR also indicated in cases there’s a threat of further harm, the institution has to proceed with an investigation even if a victim does not wish that to happen,” Dodge said.
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Poet Joseph Capehart delivers a speech about aspects of his life during a Move event Monday evening outside the Campanile. MOVE, a campus version of Ted Talks, aims at encouraging students to talk about important issues with motivational speeches, similar to the online videos.
A MOVE to motivate By Hannah.Postlethwait @iowastatedaily.com
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s Monday night grew dark, a string of yellow Christmas lights lit up the Campanile. About 50 students were gathered in the grass, some with blankets, to hear the speakers of the second ever MOVE Night. The night began with words from Joseph Capehart, a national spoken word artist. Capehart spoke to the students in a series of poems that covered both serious and uplifting topics, like domestic violence or the responsibility that comes with being a brother. The main speaker was Caleb Ellingson, a senior in philosophy at the University of Northwestern in St. Paul, Minn. He made a case from the perspective of evolutionary biology that human beings should care for each other. Ellingson believes college students have a unique opportunity to be in a community with one another. He came to Iowa State because he believes in MOVE and ideas that are worth spreading. “What interests me about MOVE is that it’s open enough that no matter where you come from, no matter what world view, what disposition you have, you can
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Senior Jean Carloa Diaz challenges those in attendance: See how many people they could text to come to the MOVE event.
Joseph Caphart talks to a group of students in front of the campanile.
value it,” Ellingson said. MOVE, a new group created by students on campus, has stared a new weekly event. Entitled MOVE Night, the event is a series of motivational speeches that take place every Monday night and is free of cost. For the first three weeks,
we intricately matter.” MOVE Night is a series similar to TED Talks. TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks, according to its website.
MOVE Night is meeting at 8 p.m. on the grass in front of the Campanile. The event is short as well; students can expect speeches to last about 20 minutes. Jean Carlos Diaz, senior in management, is the founder and director of MOVE, and was MOVE
Night’s inaugural speaker last Monday. “We’re a movement of students who matter,” Diaz said. “We’re a movement of Christians and Atheists, of people who are black and white, of people who are straight and gay. We’re humans ...
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Life on the edge: A DREAMer’s story of immigration Editor’s note: The Daily When Monica is part of a state-wide Reyes arrived in her new network of student and Iowa home from Mexico at professional news orgathe age of three, she became nizations covering the one of millions of undocuIowa Caucuses, called the mented immigrants in the IowaWatch/ICMA Caucus United States. But growing Reporting Project. up in New Hampton, Iowa, a rural town of around 3,000 community members, she By Stephanie Steiner always felt accepted in her and Kiley Wellendorf community. Reyes is now The Buena Vista Tack covered by the Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a policy created in 2012 allowing certain undocumented people protection from deportation if they came to the United States as children. Recipients of DACA are often referred to as “DREAMers.” Reyes served as the youngest member of a citizen panel at Buena Vista University at the #Unit-
eIowa Forum on Immigration, Saturday, August 29. The goal of the panel was to offer varying political and social perspectives on the issue of immigration, but also to engage in a civil conversation, a characteristic sorely lacking on the national political scene, according to forum organizer, Des Moines Register columnist, Kyle Munson.
It was Reyes’s DREAMer status and activism on immigration that made her addition to the conversation a natural choice. “We felt as ‘Iowan’ as any other kid,” Reyes said. With childhood memories including the Iowa State Fair and the traditional rivalry of ‘Hawkeyes vs. Cyclones,’ Reyes spent her whole life living in Iowa.
But as she grew older, her sense of security in New Hampton began to shift as she and others in the immigrant community began witnessing what they perceived to be police discrimination. Upset by this, Reyes then partnered with her then 17-year-old sister, Nilvia, to raise awareness-
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