NEWCOMB NEWS FOR ALUMNAE, STUDENTS, AND PARENTS
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Taking the
LEAD
Newcomb women shape policy on campus and beyond
The Power of the Purse
Women have untapped financial capacity and a commitment to invest in social change
ALSO INSIDE: Setting the National Standard on Sexual Assault The Southern Roots of American Feminism
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From the Director
Dear Friends, t is hard to believe that my first five-year term as Director is coming to a close. Participating in Tulane’s strategic planning process and choosing a new president has provided a time for reflection about our mission and where we belong in the University’s future. The Renewal Plan creating the Institute designed it to serve undergraduate women, distinguishing us from other former coordinate women’s colleges such as Radcliffe and Pembroke or even the Wellesley Center for Research on Women where applied research is the principal objective. In the last issue, we focused on one of the four elements of our mission: preserving, documenting, producing, and disseminating knowledge about women. A second component of our mission is to honor the memory of H. Sophie Newcomb and carry forward the work of Newcomb College by providing a woman-centered experience in a co-ed institution. Our focus on current and future undergraduate women requires us to look forward as well as back to envision and create a 21st century campus. We often pause to consider what we think Mrs. Newcomb might do if she were making her bequest now with the same goals, given the changes in women’s education. As we prepare for how students will live, eat, play, learn, and engage the community in the future, we study examples from other institutions as well as learn through our daily interaction with women undergraduates. We know students learn best when we integrate living and learning and we will continue to insist that our work on behalf of women and gender equality is at the center of campus life, faculty research, and public service. A third component of our mission is our commitment to empower women by integrating teaching, research, and community engagement. Top research universities in the country including Tulane believe that scholars doing cutting-edge research enliven the classroom and inspire students differently from good teachers who do not do research. Moreover, we need our best investigators to join the effort to tackle society’s most intractable problems. I continue to study women judges. In June, I helped women judges in Tbilisi, Georgia develop a gender curriculum. I spoke to judges and lawyers at the North Dakota Bar Association’s Conference in Fargo and the Infinity Summit at the Eighth Circuit’s Conference in Omaha. We achieve our mission of educating undergraduate women for leadership by fostering close connections between students and research faculty. A great example of how we integrate research, teaching, and public service is in our efforts to end sexual assault on campus. I had the great privilege of being invited to the White House for the release of a report of the Taskforce on Sexual Violence on Campus. A team of faculty, staff, and students attended the inaugural summit on sexual assault on campus held at Dartmouth College in July. We teach a service-learning course on the politics of rape, assist faculty whose courses have taken up peer education, helped plan Tulane’s new bystander intervention program, One Wave, and support our Sexual Assault Peer Hotline (SAPHE) student group. Tulane is a leader in protecting the Title IX civil rights guarantee of equality for students. But we need to do much more to eliminate this widespread genderbased violence. We are leading the effort to bring together the scholarly acumen of the academy to address this pressing social problem, finally on the public agenda. We are excited to work with President Mike Fitts who, as Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, created interdisciplinary joint degree programs. Alongside President Fitts, we will continue to break down walls between disciplines and between the academy and the community as we put women and gender at the center of our work.
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“We know students learn best when we integrate living and learning and we will continue to insist that our work on behalf of women and gender equality is at the center of campus life and public service.”
Newcomb College Endowed Chair Professor of Political Science Executive Director, Newcomb College Institute of Tulane University
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Charlotte Travieso (NC ’64) joined other members of the Newcomb Alumnae Association at Tulane’s Grow Dat Youth Farm as part of a community service project this spring. They did a variety of farm tasks, including weeding.
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Features The Power of the Purse New research led by Andrea Turner Moffitt (NC ’00) reveals that women have untapped financial capacity and a commitment to invest in social change.
Setting the National Standard The Newcomb community is leading the charge against sexual assault on campuses through a collaborative approach that includes teaching, research, and advocacy.
Southern Roots Visiting historian Janet Allured’s year in the Newcomb Archives reveals the important, and often forgotten, contributions of Southern women’s activism.
On the Cover: Shivani Gupta (LA ’09, SE ’09) was one of the first Newcomb Scholars. A graduate of Emory University School of Medicine, she recently completed her first year of residency. Photography by Jackson Hill, Southern Lights Studio
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NEWCOMB Connections A Message from the Newcomb Alumnae Association President
NEWCOMB ALUMNAE ASSOCIATION
Greetings! We are 27,000 strong and growing each year—in fact, in June, our board welcomed two future young ladies who will be in the Class of 2035! We had a wonderful spring and summer, with many events which included alumnae and students. Particularly fun were our service day at Grow Dat Youth Farm in City Park and the party at 2 Audubon Place for graduating women. We presented Mignon Faget jewelry awards to nine seniors who had distinguished themselves through public service. Under the Oaks was both meaningful and so very Newcomb, honoring the 50-year reunion class, NAA award recipients, and our graduating seniors. We bade President Scott Cowen farewell and welcomed
Expanding the Newcomb Network The regional program continues to strengthen. This year, networking events and receptions featuring Executive Director Sally J. Kenney were held in Atlanta, Boston, Washington D.C, and Lafayette, Louisiana, in addition to book clubs gatherings around the country. Future events are planned in Florida, Texas, and New York.
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President Michael Fitts in July. Life is full of transitions, and we look forward to getting to know Mike and acquainting him with all the wonderful programs that continue so many Newcomb traditions. Earlier this year, the NAA Board developed a comprehensive Strategic Plan and as I write, our Long Range Planning Committee is hard at work prioritizing our efforts with regard to staff and volunteer time, actual cost, and appeal to alums. We endeavor to plan more activities involving students, so they will be familiar with alumnae opportunities post-graduation. In particular, we are partnering with Newcomb Senate, and it is a pleasure to get to know these gifted young women. This fall we are recruiting mentors for current juniors and
seniors. Mentors will develop a personal relationship with their mentees, and expectations on both sides will be clearly stated. Mentors need not be located in New Orleans. This is a new program we are very excited about, and I hope you will choose to take part. Finally, I urge you to participate in the raffle for the Gene Koss sculpture. Details appear on the next page. I urge you to support our Scholars Program and perhaps win a beautiful piece of art. Be sure to see our website and newsletters for what’s going on in the NAA. I hope you will join us!
Catherine Hagaman Edwards (NC ’72)
Growing Connections sustainable agriculture. Weeding allows them to avoid chemical fertilizers. Junior Allison Thornton is a leader with Newcomb Senate, and says these kinds of events reinforce the connection between students and alumnae. “I really value the stories that these women tell about their time at Newcomb. There are so many traditions and tidbits of history.”
A Warm Welcome for New Residents
There are plenty of lessons to be learned in hard work, and students traded in books and computers for garden gloves and shovels for the chance to connect with the Newcomb Alumnae Association at Tulane’s Grow Dat Youth Farm. The group took part in a variety of farm tasks, including weeding. It’s a big job that must be done by hand to ensure the farm’s commitment to
New Orleans alumnae provided some cool relief on a hot day at the NAA’s annual lemonade stand as students moved into the residence halls. Led by Kelly Ragland (NC ’00), the alums connected with today’s undergraduate women and their families taking the first steps on their own journey. The Newcomb connection can be felt in many residence halls, from the historic Josephine Louise, built in 1918, to the newest residential college, The Barbara Greenbaum House at Newcomb Lawn, named in honor of an alumna from the class of 1963.
Junior Allison Thornton, right, a leader with Newcomb Senate, works alongside Carter Dudley Flemming (NC ’70), center.
In Recognition: NAA Honors Accomplished Alumnae Each year, the Newcomb Alumnae Association recognizes exceptional members whose professional or volunteer achievements have brought honor to the legacy of Newcomb college and to the Newcomb Alumnae Association. This year’s Young Alumna honoree is Johanna Gilligan (NC ’03) who has worked in the field of food education since 2003. She began her career at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where she taught inquiry-based plant science to students in Title 1 schools. In 2006 she moved back to New Orleans and worked as the educational programs manager with the New Orleans Food and Farm network while simultaneously launching her own business, Clean Plate Projects, LLC. Johanna founded Grow Dat Youth Farm in collaboration with Tulane University and many additional partners and individuals in 2011.
The 2014 Community Service awardee is Sylvia Klumok Goodman (NC ’62), a community activist whose endeavors have ranged from science education to promotion of film and the arts and to preservation of small southern Jewish communities. Goodman was the primary force and fundraiser for the creation of Sci-port Discovery Center. On a national philanthropic level, she has chaired the board of directors of the Goldring-Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, whose mission is historic preservation and community engagement throughout the South. She was also one of the founders of the Shreveport Human Relations Commission to promote understanding and tolerance in her city. This year’s Outstanding Alumna is Merri Steinberg Ex (NC ’73). She is president and chief executive officer of Family
This year’s Newcomb Alumnae Association award recipients, from left to right: Sylvia Klumok Goodman, Merri Steinberg Ex, and Johanna Gilligan. Focus, a non-profit organization that helps Chicago-area families living in low-income communities to give their children the best possible start in life. Her first job as a bilingual community organizer in a Latin American community allowed her passion
and career to merge. Merri has now worked in the Chicago’s non-profit community for 40 years as a social service executive, a program officer at corporate and community foundations, and currently as CEO of an $11 million family support organization.
NAA Fundraiser Supports Today’s Students
Reunion Program Going Strong Last fall, over 200 alumnae converged on campus and throughout the city to renew old connections and learn about new happenings at the university. Members of the Class of 1988 Stephanie Dittman Teichner, Holly Hughes Moffett, and Michelle Bragg (from left to right, above) gathered for lunch at the Josephine Louise House
alongside alumnae from the Classes of 1943-2013. The tradition continues this year, with a full slate of activities planned for Friday at Newcomb, part of an expanded Homecoming and Parents Weekend. Hear an update about Newcomb alumnae and student activities. More details at tulane.edu/homecoming.
Tickets are available now in the NAA’s first fundraiser in support of the Newcomb Scholar’s program. The winner of the raffle will receive a one-of-a-kind sculpture—Ridge Road Climb, Series III—created by Professor of Art Gene Koss, worldrenowned glass artist. Through Professor Koss’s generous donation, all of the funds raised from the sale of the raffle tickets will be used to support a Newcomb Scholar. Entries are $50 each and the drawing will be held on Monday, December 1, 2014.
The piece is an exquisite solid glass sculpture with cane and etched drawings [17”(h) x 12” (w) x 5”(d)] valued at $2,800.
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Noteworthy at NEWCOMB Student Groups Focus on Community Service
STAGING A STATEMENT
Newcomb’s student organizations have a long tradition of working with and for their neighbors in the New Orleans community. This year, Mortar Board’s Leadership Conference for Middle School Girls was chosen as an outstanding community engagement project. Lauren Spangler (LA ’14) and Caroline Loeser (PHTM ’14) led workshops with fifth and sixth graders from ARISE Academy charter school, located in the Upper Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Mortar Board is a national senior honor society that selects members on the
With the support of Newcomb College Institute, this year’s performances of the Vagina Monologues boasted one of the largest student run productions in the nation. Originally written and performed by Eve Ensler, the show has evolved into an exploration of the impact of gender-based violence around the world. The three-night run generated over $10,000, benefitting the Global V-Day program, a global activist movement to end violence against women and girls, as well
Student leaders Lauren Spangler (LA ’14) and Caroline Loeser (PHTM ’14)
Cast of “Because He Liked To Look At It,” part of Eve Ensler’s ground breaking The Vagina Monologues. From left: Anna Rajo-Miller (LA ’15), Alex Moody (LA ’16), Claire Wilson (SE ’14), Allison Saft (LA ’16), Jennie Barker (LA ’16), and Elinor Chambers (LA ’15).
as Women With A Vision, Inc., a New Orleans-based non-profit founded by a grassroots collective of African-American women in response to the spread of HIV/ AIDS in communities of color, and BreakOUT!, an advocacy organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. This year’s production was directed by Cara Clatanoff (LA ’14) and produced by Mwende Katwiwa (LA ’14) and Charisse Poston (LA ’15).
basis of scholarship, leadership, and service. In the fall, students that write for the national lifestyle blog HerCampus-Tulane will partner with Dress for Success, a nonprofit organization that works to identify disadvantaged women who, with a little help, can gain employment and economic independence. The Newcomb group plans to partner with the local chapter to help supply the women they serve with suits and other pieces of clothing and accessories such as shoes, scarves, jewelry or other interview-appropriate items.
Newcomb Sisters Program Flourishes
Almost 400 undergraduate women gathered at Dixon Auditorium for the annual pinning ceremony.
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Matched during the summer, almost 400 pairs of women had the opportunity to meet in person at the pinning ceremony that officially links the two as Newcomb sisters. Big Sister Kate McCurdy (LA ’16) wanted to help out a new student after a rough transition into college, while freshman Siena Farrar of Oak Park, Ill., was looking for ways to get involved and wasn’t sure she’d fit in. She
says the Big Sister program helped ease the way. “I really wanted to be involved with NCI, because the focus is on women being supportive to other women,” she said. According to Newcomb Archivist Susan Tucker (NC ’72), this year’s crop of Newcomb Sisters are part of a tradition that’s been in place for more than a hundred years. Since 1909, there have been a variety of programs that have linked incoming students with more experienced counterparts. The Big Sis/Little Sis program in its current form has existed since 1975.
What’s
Looking at Women’s Roles in Leadership
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Showcasing the Scholars
This year’s Adele Ramos Salzer Lecturer, Rutgers University Professor Mary Trigg, posed the question to the university community in the latest installment of the annual lecture series. Her talk focused on several factors that affect society’s understanding of leadership and its relationship with gender parity and social change, including widely held stereotypes that people generally associate with leaders—male, older, authoritarian, loud, forthright—that contribute to the lack of women in positions of leadership across the U.S. Trigg called upon the audience
to “expand the notion of what we consider leadership to be. We need women leaders,” she said, “because their leadership can be a source for change in a world that desperately needs it.” She added that regardless of their field of work, women often bring a more collaborative approach to leadership that incorporates everyone’s skill sets and interests. Trigg, an associate professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers, cited first-hand accounts of modern feminism from her book Leading the Way: Young Women’s Activism for Social Change.
Student Grant Connects Local Girls with the History of Newcomb Pottery
This April, in collaboration with their faculty advisors, the Class of 2014 presented their research at the second annual Newcomb Scholars Symposium. Panels included “Societal Intersections within Art and Literature” and “Medical Issues within Marginalized Populations.” The daylong event concluded with a keynote lecture by Tulane University President Scott Cowen. Over 150 incoming students applied to be part of the Class of 2017 of the Newcomb Scholars program, now entering its fifth year.
Film Series Brings Women’s Stories to the Forefront
Thanks to funding provided by a Newcomb grant, local girls involved in the Upward Bound program were introduced to the world of studio art at a ceramics class led by Jenna Turner (LA ’14). While Upward Bound is a federally funded initiative that provides support for high school students to succeed in college by preparing them for
entrance into higher learning institutions, this project focused specifically on the needs and interests of young women. With this focus in mind, this year’s biweekly sessions ranged from facilitated discussion on the experiences of black womanhood to trainings on the appropriate use of social media for young professionals.
Since its inception in 2010, the Newcomb Film Series has been a collaborative project that provides the university community the opportunity to see womenfocused films not traditionally shown in a movie theater. Each film screening features presentations by outside experts, filmmakers, directors, or faculty with discussions to add to the viewing experience. The current schedule of films can be found on our website or Facebook page.
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Andrea Turner Moffitt (NC ’00)
Women have the assets and the knowledge to make savvy
financial investments. Andrea Turner Moffitt (NC ’00) reveals the keys women need to leverage that capacity: confidence and an industry that understands what they want. By Aidan Smith • Illustration by Stephanie Dalton Cowan
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hough generations of women have garnered financial independence, the financial services industry has failed to recognize their economic power. Andrea Turner Moffitt recently co-authored a groundbreaking report exploring the issue, Harnessing the Power of the purse: Female Investors and Global Opportunities for Growth. Featured in publications like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Inc. Magazine, and others, Turner Moffitt’s research is revealing. In the countries sampled—the United States, the United Kingdom, India, China, Singapore, and Hong Kong—66 percent of women identify themselves as primary decision makers over household investable assets. As the report finds, women are, in short, economic powerhouses. They are not just influencing wealth, but determining how their assets are allocated. Yet surprisingly, Turner Moffitt found that more than half of those surveyed do not have a financial advisor. These unmanaged assets represent an opportunity both for the financial services industry and for women. In the U.S., women without an advisor hold, on average, more than twice the level of cash in their portfolio than those that do, representing underleveraged capital and a lost opportunity for women to fulfill their aspirations for themselves, their families, and their communities. She sees that as a win-win situation. “There’s an opportunity for women themselves to be more engaged to ensure they are investing for their future and shaping the social change they want to see in the world. For the financial services industry, there’s a real opportunity to better engage women as clients and to help them better align their investments with the greater meaning and value women are seeking.” A key barrier for women when it comes to investing is confidence in their financial acumen. Turner Moffitt noted, “We found women are virtually as knowledgeable as men (in the U.S., 35 percent of women, and 39 percent of men, passed our literacy assessment). Indeed, women in the U.S. are among the most
financially literate investors in the world. Interestingly, however, superior knowledge does not translate into commensurate confidence: women in the U.S. don’t perceive themselves as financially literate (a mere 19 percent felt confident in their financial knowledge). Certainly they’re far less confident than men, who are 79 percent more likely to express confidence in their financial know-how.” The confidence gap impacts women’s decisions, and potentially is holding women back when it comes to philanthropy and values based investing (see infographic). Though the study reveals women are more socially conscious, they hold back when it comes to the actual dollars they allocate to philanthropy or social investing as compared to their male peers and as compared to their own desired contributions. Turner Moffitt says that closing the confidence gap is about information and clarity. “Women who take stock of what they know and where they are financially, really understand their financial picture and are more confident in their investment and giving decisions. Women often have the knowledge, but feel they don’t have a handle on their own situation. The more women have that full picture, the more confident they are around aligning their life and their resources to make decisions, be that giving money away to causes they care about or making smart investments for their short-term and long-term goals.” Turner Moffitt is committed to transforming the female financial services experience and to closing the confidence gap not only through her research and strategic advisory work with the industry, but also as the co-founder of Wealthrive, Inc., a startup platform inspiring and empowering women to be confident investors. Through curated content and interactive learning experiences like financial boot-camps, Wealthrive’s mission is to increase the number of confident female investors by helping women align their lives and their financial resources around lifestyle, growing wealth, and having meaningful impact.
88%
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NCI study finds staggering gender inquality on corporate boards in Louisiana
Currently a senior vice president at the Center for Talent Innovation and managing director at Hewlett Consulting Partners, Turner Moffitt has spent a large part of her career promoting gender equity in the business world. With a decade of experience on Wall Street, Turner Moffitt has taken active roles in a number of organizations committed to the advancement of women in leadership including 100 Women in Hedges, Financial Women’s Association, and Citibank’s Women’s Network. Her passion for women’s empowerment was heavily influenced by her undergraduate experience at Newcomb College. A Latin American Studies major at Newcomb with a business minor, she credits her involvement with Newcomb Senate and her junior year in Spain as inspiration for her interest in gender equity. “I was very involved with Newcomb Senate. In fact, the grooming Newcomb offered created a foundation for developing skills as a female leader and was really the impetus leading to my passion for women’s empowerment. It’s something I was already thinking about, even so long ago!” Following Newcomb, Turner Moffitt found herself in New York City as an honors graduate from Columbia Business School and the School of International and Public Affairs. After many years on Wall Street, she partnered with Sylvia Ann Hewlett, the Founder and CEO of the Center for Talent Innovation on the recent research and leads the think-tank’s advisory services arm, focusing on issues relating to female investors and consumers, leadership development, diversity, and social impact, making her a sought after resource for companies building talent and business strategies to realize growth opportunities in diverse markets. In addition to her many other projects, Turner Moffitt stays connected to her alma mater. In 2013, she came to campus to lead a workshop called “A Road Map for Protégé” for Newcomb’s Women in Business student organization. She also serves as a board member of Tulane’s Center for Engaged Learning and Teaching. She notes the university’s commitment to social enterprise nicely aligns with the broader value proposition female investors are seeking. “We call it the ‘values agenda’, in terms of the areas women want to focus on, from a philanthropic standpoint and from a social investing standpoint. We’re seeing huge demand from women around philanthropy and investing in companies that promote social well being—everything from poverty and the environment to education and gender equality.” Turner Moffitt feels that women have the power to make change not only for themselves, but also for the companies and initiatives they choose to support. The report shows that 77% of women surveyed want to invest in organizations with diverse leadership. As women still struggle to reach parity in corporate boardrooms (see sidebar), these facts hold promise for the next generation of Newcomb leaders. “It’s fantastic to have rich data that validates women’s desire to invest and support gender equality.” When women fully leverage their economic power, they will be an incredible economic force for social good, perhaps even the final push to parity in the boardroom.
Far too few women reach the top rungs of the corporate ladder in Louisiana, according to a 2013 report that finds women occupy only 7.2 percent of the total board positions on the state’s top 50 publicly traded companies. More than half of the state’s public companies have no women on the board and 62 percent have no women as top paid executives, according to the report, which uses recent Securities Exchange Commission filings to analyze gender diversity among boards and executive leadership teams. Newcomb provided funds for the study led by Saru Matambanadzo, associate professor of law at Tulane University School of Law. She found that: Women occupy 26 of the 363 total board positions among the companies studied.
Only 39 (13.6 percent) of the companies’ 287 total executive officers are women. Just 16 (8.4 percent) of the 191 top paid executives are women. Only one public company in Louisiana has more than 3 women on its corporate board—CKX Lands Inc., where women hold 33 percent of the top leadership positions. The study was co-sponsored by the InterOrganization Network (ION) and the New Orleans chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners. Next steps for the project include the development of an advisory board of business faculty and local business leaders. The group expects to release an updated report early next year.
39 Women 248 Men Above: Number of Louisiana executive officers in the top 50 publicly traded companies in Louisiana
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ccording to national statistics, 1 in 3 women has experienced some kind of abuse by an intimate partner, and 1 in 5 have been sexually assaulted. The Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network (RAINN) reports that college-aged women are four times more likely than any other age group to face sexual assault. Understanding the impact that these statistics have on undergraduate women, Newcomb College Institute first convened the group to open up lines of communication across campus, connecting those that were researching the issue with those that were working directly with students. “The evidence of prevalence is consistent, depressing, and incontrovertible. While other schools focus to improve bureaucratic compliance, Tulane is working on prevention and norm changes to eliminate pervasive campus rape cultures. The government rightly recognizes sexual assault on campus to be a civil rights issue,” said Sally J. Kenney, the Institute’s Executive Director.
While conversations about sexual assault on campus have recently dominated the headlines, a coalition of Tulane faculty, staff, and students have had ongoing discussions about how to change norms and prevent assaults.
Assault
Kenney first convened the group of colleagues and student activists in 2012 in response to the “Dear Colleague” letter published by the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. Widely distributed to universities around the country, the letter provides a detailed overview of institutions’ existing responsibilities under Title IX when dealing with complaints of sexual harassment and sexual violence. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits sex-based discrimination at educational institutions that receive federal funds, and the letter stresses that sexual violence and sexual harassment interfere with students’ right to an education free of discrimination. Tulane meets current requirements; yet much work needs to be done. Discussion of gender violence is integrated into undergraduate courses as well as co-curricular programming. In 2012, Lynn Rosenthal, the first-ever White House Advisor on Violence Against Women, visited Tulane in an effort to raise awareness about the growing epidemic of violence against women
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Above: Elaine Hicks, a librarian with the Rudolph Matas Library, takes a photograph of a string of T-shirts hanging from the fence along the Cassatt Courtyard on the Tulane University uptown campus. The shirts were decorated by members of the Sexual Aggression Peer Hotline & Education (SAPHE) organization to recognize April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Below: Dr. Karen Reichard, center, connects with Newcomb Scholars in the Vorhoff Library. As part of her work at NCI, she took part in developing the “One Wave” violence prevention program.
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in the United States. She described The Violence Against Women Act, legislation introduced by then-Senator Joe Biden that was the first comprehensive federal effort to address violence against women. Using examples of real women’s lived experiences, she discussed the history and key provisions of the Act, as well as the challenges local communities faced implementing the law. From judges to law enforcement to social workers, VAWA “required people to work together, and that made all the difference,” said Rosenthal. Cosponsored by Newcomb College Institute and Tulane Law School, Rosenthal was the 2012 Betty Werlein Carter Speaker, a guest in an ongoing lecture series that provides women students with information, training, experience, contacts and involvement in public policy. In 2013, national expert, Dr. David Lisak, consulted with the Tulane Title IX group and gave a public lecture that was as disturbing as it was riveting. Lisak, now an independent consultant, is a clinical psychologist and a former associate professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston who studies the long-term effects of childhood abuse in adult men and the relationship between early abuse and the later perpetration of interpersonal violence. His talk, “Confronting the Reality of Sexual Violence on the College Campus,” challenged the notion of sexual assault as the result of mixed messages in a “date rape” scenario. Instead, he reports his research found that only a tiny number of men—about 4 percent—are serial predators who knowingly coerce unwilling women into sex and use alcohol to facilitate the commission of the crime. They evade detection by knowing their victims and using no more violence than necessary to carry out the rape. They commit multiple acts of violence and become more skillful predators. Lisak argues that most assaults are not the result of a misunderstanding, but instead are deliberate acts of violence. With this research in mind, the University has launched an innovative bystander intervention program. Dubbed “One Wave,” the comprehensive series of events and trainings aims to encourage a culture of safety and a community of engaged and proactive bystanders that do not tolerate any form of violence. When she took her position in 2013 as NCI’s Administrative Assistant Professor and Director of Student Leadership and Engagement, Karen Reichard joined colleagues from the University Student Health Center for Wellness and Health Promotion, the Office of Violence Prevention and Support Services, and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Programs as part of the program’s steering committee. Their efforts to develop the program reflect the findings of studies that show that in 66 percent of violent crimes a bystander is present and could intervene. During Tulane student orientation and throughout the year, both men and women undergraduates will engage in discussions about how to recognize potential moments of harm, acknowledge the barriers that can prevent action, and brainstorm realistic and proactive ways to get involved. Reichard notes that One Wave is an important element of prevention. “As part of
a larger, comprehensive approach, this program gives students the tools to feel empowered to act on an issue that often feels overwhelming to us all. There is a place for all of our students to show leadership by helping to create a culture of care and concern at Tulane and to act in a way that reflects their values.” In recognition of the university’s ongoing efforts to address the issue, Kenney was invited to join other national campus leaders at the White House in April for the release of a national report on the subject produced by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault. The report, the first of its kind, is the result of quantitative research as well as a national listening tour that visited over fifteen campuses nationwide. In early April, representatives from the task force visited the uptown campus for a frank conversation with members of the campus community, including volunteers for SAPHE, the student organization that operates a 24/7 confidential hotline, Professor of Social Work Fred Buttell and students from his course on social policy, staff members from the WELL and the Office of Violence Prevention and Support Services, among others.
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Expanding the Conversation…Sexual Assault Beyond College Great documentary films
Twenty percent of all active-duty women soldiers are sexually
often do more than tell
assaulted. Women soldiers aged 18 to 21 accounted for more than
a story; they bring about
half of the victims. The New York Times has noted that the film “has
change. Since its premier
been credited with both persuading more women to come forward
in 2012, The Invisible War,
to report abuse and with forcing the military to deal more openly with
an examination of the
the problem.”
epidemic of sexual assault
Sally J. Kenney, director of the Newcomb College Institute, was
in the military, has been
moved by the documentary, and wanted to bring its story to the larg-
credited with chang-
er community as part of the Newcomb Film Series. “This film is the
ing both the culture and policy surrounding the issue. Last fall, the
most important and disturbing film I have ever seen. It will change
film’s producer Amy Ziering spoke to the university community at a
the way we think about sexual assault and the failure of institutions
screening of the film as part of the Newcomb Film Series.
forever,” she said.
“Many of the victims have been unable to move forward because
The event was co-sponsored by The Ridenhour Prizes for
they’ve been disbelieved, exiled and discarded,” Ziering noted. “Our
Courageous Truth Telling and the Fertel Foundation. The Invisible
hope is that the film will be a healing tool for all the survivors who
War won last year’s Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize. The annual
have felt abandoned despite all they have sacrificed for our country.”
Ridenhour Prizes recognize acts of truth-telling that protect the
A 2012 nominee for an Academy Award in the documentary feature category, the film paints a startling picture of the extent of
public interest, promote social justice or illuminate a more just vision of society.
the problem. Today, a female soldier in combat zones is more likely
The Newcomb Film Series screens films about women, gender
to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. The U.S.
and feminism on campus and around the community throughout the
Department of Defense estimates there were a staggering 22,800
academic year. For more information about scheduled programs,
violent sex crimes in the military in 2011.
visit tulane.edu/newcomb.
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Anurima Bhargava, Chief of the Educational Opportunities Section for the Department of Justice (left) and Catherine Lhamon, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education (right) joined Newcomb College Institute staff and faculty and other members of the Tulane community as part of their national listening tour in preparation for the release of a national report by the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.
In addition to the comprehensive report, the task force announced a new website, NotAlone.gov, which aims to make sexual assault enforcement data more accessible to both students and researchers. It said the site would provide information in one easy-to-read place that students have often struggled to find. The Task Force is co-chaired by the Office of the Vice President Joe Biden and the White House Council on Women and Girls. As the higher education community comes to terms with the realities of sexual assault on campus, Newcomb College Institute will be a campus and national leader. Kenney will again teach a course in the spring on the politics of rape, and the Institute will continue to weave discussions of sexual assault into many of its public programs. “Fulfilling our mission of educating undergraduate women for leadership, we will continue to help students mobilize. But we will also integrate the teaching, research, and service missions of the University by convening a campus and national research community. It is time that the research acumen of the academy be harnessed and deployed to address this serious problem that happens in our midst. No student can learn under the threat of or recovering from the trauma of sexual violence.”
Annual Take Back the Night Event Breaks the Silence on Sexual Assualt By Haley Ade (LA ’13) Over three hundred students, faculty, staff, and community members come together each year to take a stand against sexual violence as part of the annual New Orleans Take Back the Night event. The event, now in its twenty-third year, brings together advocates from around the city’s universities. Newcomb staff and faculty coordinate with Loyola, Dillard, and Xavier Universities to plan a week of programming that raises awareness about gender-based and sexual violence. Featuring a keynote address followed by a candlelight march from the Loyola University horseshoe on St. Charles Avenue to
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Tulane’s Lavin-Bernick Center, the event concludes with an open mic speak-out where survivors share their stories. Charisse Poston (LA ’15), who spoke at last year’s event, knows the event provides an important space for herself and for others. “Many survivors have faced victim blaming responses when telling people about their sexual assaults, which leads to shame, guilt and worst of all— silence. What drew me to speaking at Take Back the Night was my decision to no longer to be silent, not only for my sake, but for sake of all survivors in an effort to change the story society tells.” The event is a venue for community members to lend
support to survivors and to one another, both emotionally and financially. Each year, local organizations and businesses donate items for a basket raffle. Faculty, staff, and students on the Tulane, Loyola, and Dillard campuses also contribute to fundraising efforts by participating in Denim & Teal on the day of Take Back the Night. The proceeds of last year’s raffle benefitted the Family Justice Center, the Metropolitan Center for Women and Children (METRO), and the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program (SANE). Last year’s event raised more than $2,500. This year’s event will be held on October 29. All are welcome to participate.
As faculty and staff worked to create policy and programs to prevent sexual assault, Tara Wilson (LA ’16) found herself inspired to take a role in the movement to fight for a safer community.
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bout two years ago, I read Jessica Valenti’s Full Frontal Feminism. Suddenly, uncomfortable scenarios and disturbing stories from friends were conceptualized, and I found that those stories I’d heard from friends were not uncommon. Statistics show that 1 in 4 women experiences sexual assault in college and that affects the health and well-being of students of all races, genders, and sexual identities. I was confronted by the realization that this problem is closely linked to a greater culture of misogyny, which I had been oblivious to. I was galvanized to take action, and Sexual Aggression Peer Hotline and Education (SAPHE) provided a venue and direction for my drive. SAPHE, a confidential hotline, aids members of the Tulane community affected by sexual violence, intimate partner abuse, and stalking. Through SAPHE, I learned of Dartmouth’s Summit on Sexual Assault. Alongside representatives from the Office of Violence Prevention and NCI, I traveled to New Hampshire to learn more about this pervasive yet solvable problem on college campuses. I found that many colleges and universities are experiencing similar problems and the collaboration of these institutions is absolutely necessary to establish major, widespread change. Holding this summit with representatives from over 60 colleges and universities represents a serious effort to make that happen. Survivors, researchers, and representatives from the federal government gave informative and moving speeches. The
presentations contextualized the information I had learned regarding rape culture and prevention programs by linking culture to problematic behavior on college campuses to methods of prevention and response. The conference pushed me to analyze my own language and assumptions analytically. Still, there still exists a greater need to incorporate the needs and unique characteristics of different communities within a college or university in prevention and response efforts. I learned the most from fellow student activists. In some respects, I gained a greater appreciation of the Tulane administration, which includes students in major decisions, maintains a high level of transparency when dealing with the problem of sexual violence, and provides a high number of
Tara Wilson (left) is a member of the cheerleading team and is incoming president of the Panhellenic Council.
“I realized that students across the country are struggling with the same questions that I am.” accessible and helpful resources. Questions posed by students pushed me to think about how to help survivors and lower the rate of sexual assault on Tulane’s campus in a new light. Meeting these students enhanced my drive to combat these issues and challenge myself. I realized that students across the country are struggling with the same questions that I am. I hope to maintain the network of students I gained at the Summit, so we can all, to quote one Dartmouth student, “Keep up this good fight.”
student voices, student action
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SOUTHERN ROOTS Historian’s year in the Newcomb Archives reveals important contributions of Southern women’s activism
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hen most people think of trailblazing feminists, images of Gloria Steinem or Betty Freidan may spring to mind. Based in the Northeast, the public profiles of these iconic figures of the mid-century women’s movement often erased the grassroots efforts of other women to organize for equality around the nation. Instead, notes this year’s Visiting Historian Janet Allured, the modern feminist movement in the United States was part of a regional movement against social injustice that Southerners of all ethnic backgrounds initiated, mobilized and energized. In part because of their contact with African Americans, in part because of their transAtlantic connections (some of them religious), Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida produced some of the nation’s first feminist ideas and grassroots feminist meetings. Allured’s extensive research into modern women’s activism in Louisiana, primarily through the Newcomb Archives, has led to a book-length manuscript focusing on the Southern origins of the grassroots feminist movement typically referred to as “second wave” and dated from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. In addition to the traditional paper resources used by historians, including a full run of Distaff, the feminist newspaper produced in New Orleans, Allured has relied extensively on oral interviews of movement activists from Louisiana. She is donating all of these interviews, as well as paper accessions, to Newcomb Archives’ Louisiana Women’s Movement collections.
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“When I began this research, it did not occur to me to look for or ask my subjects about a faith commitment, but over and over again it popped up, in the records and in my lengthy discussions with Louisiana feminists.” Janet Allured, 2014 Visiting Historian, supported by the Barbara A. Greenbaum Fellowship Fund
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Much of her work highlights what she calls “the surprising Southern origins” of the movement, foregrounding the role of liberal religious denominations in training and in motivating many Southern feminists. “When I began this research, it did not occur to me to look for or ask my subjects about a faith commitment, but over and over again it popped up, in the records and in my lengthy discussions with Louisiana feminists. Not all of them cited religion as an important determinant of their world view, but even those women who had left the church of their upbringing (or “decommitted”) recalled how they had been influenced by the social justice ethic they learned in Sunday school, in churchaffiliated youth groups, or from devout parents.” Southerners, male and female, who came from progressive religious faith traditions saw gender equality as right, fit and just, and as supported by the sacred texts. The YWCA was a training institution for many women, and provided a great deal of support, in a variety of ways, for feminist initiatives. The first freestanding battered women’s shelter in New Orleans was Crescent House, established by the Catholic Daughters on land donated by the Archdiocese. St. Mark’s Methodist community center also provided space for meetings of the National Organization of Women, including celebrations of International Women’s Day throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Allured found that most participants of the feminist movement had worked in other reform organizations or social justice movements before, particularly in civil rights. These women, including Kathy Barrett and Cathy Cade, began consciousnessraising sessions and also started a “free university” dedicated to women’s studies in the mid-1960s. It met in women’s living rooms
in New Orleans and included some local faculty as well as students interested in challenging the traditional curriculum found in their academies. Newcomb contributed quite a number of activists to the postwar women’s movement, among them Sue LaPorte (’77), Felicia Kahn (’48), Flo Schornstein (’56), Judy Cooper (’59), Jace Schinderman (’73), Barbara Pyle (’69), Vaughan Baker (’59), Congresswoman Lindy Boggs (’35), and Mary Capps (’62). Allured also found that because Louisiana was a poor state, with a multi-racial, mixed ethnic heritage going back to the colonial period, the movement was much different than the image that dominates the national narrative, which is that it was primarily white and middle class. For example, many women who joined feminist circles in Louisiana came from the ranks of the working class, typically through their union affiliations. Not to be forgotten are the many women of color who paved the way for feminism in Louisiana through organizations like Women’s Equality Action League, National Women’s Political Caucus, IWO (Independent Women’s Organization), and Louisiana League of Good Government (LLOGG). The historian points to many of the successes of the activists: Replacing “Head and Master” with Equal Management of Community Property; establishing rape crisis and battered women’s programs; making domestic violence a crime; reforming the rape laws to make prosecution and conviction more likely and to prevent double victimization of the accuser; helping to establish and run family planning clinics; opening up their faith traditions to women’s leadership; getting more women elected to office; increasing tolerance and acceptance of gender performance and sexual orientation. Yet they did not win every battle, and some of their losses were significant: Louisiana never ratified the Equal Rights Amendment, one of many Southern states that did not, and the state did not establish comprehensive day care systems for working mothers. Allured stresses that her book, which will be published by University of Georgia Press and has the working title of Louisiana, The American South, and the Long Feminist Movement: Understanding Transnational Feminism in a Regional Context, 1950-1985, will emphasize the grassroots nature of second-wave feminism, rectifying the more top-down national narrative, and bring attention to the unsung role of Southern women in bringing about greater equality for all American women.
Congresswoman Lindy Boggs (NC ’35) with Lou Adrian Reed, chair of the Louisiana Women’s Political Caucus at their 1981 annual convention. Photo courtesy of Newcomb Archives.
Allured has returned to her position as a full professor of History and Women’s Studies at McNeese State University.
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Events
Newcomb College Institute sponsors a variety of events on campus and in cities around the country. Upcoming events include...
HOMECOMING AND PARENTS WEEKEND Lectures, a luncheon, and Tulanestyle tailgating, a weekend of new traditions. November 14-15, 2014
WOMEN, ART, AND SOCIAL CHANGE: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise Sponsored by The Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service •S tark Museum of Art, Orange, TX, Now through January 4, 2015 •G ardiner Museum, Toronto, Ontario, February 3, 2015-May 17, 2015
Author of Wonder Women: Sex, Power, and the Quest for Perfection President, Barnard College 2015 Adele Ramos Salzer Lecturer
LORRIE MOORE the 30th Zale-Kimmerling Writer-in-Residence
March 9, 2015
March 2, 2015
An Art Experience
March 2015 Join current students and NYC alumnae for a behind-the-scenes look at the local art scene.
Over a dozen events are planned around the country this fall. For a complete list, visit newcombalumnae.org.
DEBORA SPAR
An Evening with
NEWCOMB IN NEW YORK:
NEWCOMB BOOK CLUB GATHERINGS
UNDER THE OAKS
A ceremony honoring graduating women and the Newcomb College Class of 1965 May 15, 2015
For a complete list of events, visit tulane.edu/newcomb.
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REUNION FAMILY
— weekend —
Don’t miss out on any of the fun this weekend! To see the full schedule and register for events, visit tulane.edu/homecoming. FR IDAY
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• All-Class Year Luncheon at JL
• Tailgating with the Newcomb Alumnae Association
• Speakers Series, including a panel on Newcomb Today • Inaugural Homecoming Game at Yulman Stadium: TO LEARN MORE ABOUT YULMAN STADIUM AND HOW TO VISIT • Glassblowing with Prof. Gene Koss PURCHASE FOOTBALL TICKETS, Green WaveYULMANSTADIUM.COM vs. The University of Memphis • Student Showcase with Today’s Undergraduate Women • Class Parties around the city
— let the good times roll, again! —
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LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL
...again!