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Harun starts mentorship program Lauren Wilson Staff Writer

Nasreen Harun wants more strong women leaders on campus — so, she’s set out to find them. At Pitt’s Student Government Board’s weekly meeting Tuesday, Harun, SGB president, announced applications were open for the Pitt Women’s Leadership Experience, the University’s first mentorship program focused specifically on women. The applications are open to all female sophomores and juniors on campus until Monday, Oct. 26. Harun said she hopes to cap the program at 20 Pitt women. According to Harun, the program is free. “All we ask is that you are fully committed and invested in the program and improving yourself,” she said. The program will open with a retreat on Nov. 1, in West Virginia and will have meetings from 7 to 9 p.m. each month in different locations until the end of the school year. Harun said her aim with the program is to get more women into leadership positions — something she wants to see more of at Pitt. “We’re gathering a group of women on campus to talk about different ways to develop leadership skills and talk about obstacles they face that are unique to professional women,” Harun said. Harun said she is currently the only confirmed campus mentor in the program, and is still waiting for confirmation from 13 other campus leaders, including members of See SGB on page 3

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Remembering Julian Bond, activist Amy Beaudine

Contributing Editor When Denise McCaskill was in high school, a student not much older than herself — social activist Julian Bond, a college student at the time — convinced her that young people could make a change. To McCaskill, Bond was an inspiration that led her to lifelong work in activism. Bond, a former Georgia state congressman, civil rights leader and chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was a social activist from his college years until his death in August, participating in activities ranging from or-

ganizing groups to petition for justice, to petitioning directly for new policies. McCaskill was one of about 60 attendees at “Building on the Legacy of Julian Bond,” a panel discussion held yesterday on Bond and his life from 5:30 to 8 p.m. The Center on Race and Social Problems hosted the discussion, which it held in the Connolly Ballroom of Alumni Hall as a free event, open to the public. David Shribman, executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, was a panelist at the event who talked about how the media covers issues alongside Jessica Ruffin, Sammie Dow and Donald Cravins, Jr. — all local or national social activists.

Under warm yellow lighting, the somber crowd listened attentively to Larry E. Davis, dean of Pitt’s School of Social Work, who began the discussion with a brief, but heartfelt, background on Bond’s life, which ended this summer. To Davis, Bond was a precious friend, and the closest thing in his life to Martin Luther King, Jr. “Bond was optimistic about what had been accomplished so far, but committed to continuing work to advance society,” Davis said. “We are meeting here to discuss how to continue that discussion and advance his See Bond on page 2

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work.” Bond was a prominent figure in the ’60s and ’70s for many young people in America, but at yesterday’s panel discussion, Davis noted that very few students were present. “We need to find better ways to familiarize them with Bond,” Davis said. Ruffin, the chief operating officer of CORO Pittsburgh and the site director of Public Allies Pittsburgh, said she uses Bond’s teachings to guide her own attempts to advance his work. Particularly, Ruffin mentioned three abilities based on the teachings of Bond: the ability to inform people about civil rights issues, the ability to inspire and the ability to get going. “I feel myself getting goosebumps again,” Ruffin said. “The optimism he displayed, the power he’s given us as a people ... it’s another thing we encourage our participants to do.” Shribman was “struck at the innate optimism of Bond” as well as his commitment. “The notion that he spent so many years in state Senate fighting raw and difficult battles rather than seeking higher office speaks

Larry E. Davis leads the discussion at the Julian Bond Commemoration event on Tuesday. Nikki Moriello VISUAL EDITOR to his commitment,” Shribman said. That commitment is something Shribman said society should strive for as well — a continual effort to redeem the qualities of the Declaration of Independence. Dow, a panelist and director of the Youth

and College Division of the NAACP, spoke about his strong feelings based on Bond’s focused commitment, specifically geared toward young people. “I’m one of the radicals of this generation that believes the way we do this work had to

SORC adopts new website In an effort to make running student groups easier, Pitt’s Student Organization Resource Center has given its online management program a facelift. Launched in September, SORC has been working to transition to using CollegiateLink, a site designed for organization management and event scheduling, as its new student group management system. College assessment provider Campus Labs, which more than 750 colleges and universities use, produced CollegiateLink. Compared to Community, the SORC-run site groups previously used, CollegiateLink modernizes the site’s interface and allows student groups to create forms, schedule events and manage finances online, rather than on paper.

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With individualized profile pages for each group, members can post pictures, relevant news articles, club documents — like a group’s constitution — a calendar of events and a roster of all members. The switch also brings SORC onto the same system the Outside the Classroom Curriculum, Career Development and Placement Assistance and Residence Life already use. With the addition of SORC to the system, Pitt now uses two separate CollegiateLink web addresses, pitt.collegiatelink. net for students to track their OCC and career development progress, and pitt2.collegiatelink.net for students to manage their groups. Students can access all of CollegiateLink’s features by logging in to either of the sites using their MyPitt usernames

and passwords. According to Alyson Kavalukas, interim manager of the OCC, Residence Life uses CollegiateLink so Resident Assistants can track event schedules, while CDPA uses it so students can track their progress in the internship preparation program. Margaret Shuff, an administrative assistant at SORC, said SORC made the change because the outdated Community software didn’t serve its users’ needs. Shuff said the old website was archaic and visually unappealing. “[CollegiateLink is] a lot more user-friendly,” Shuff said, citing the improved interface and the intuitively organized directory, which allow students to find groups they’re interested in more

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fundamentally change if we want to achieve the success we aim for,” Dow said. Knowing some youth may be apprehensive toward this radical approach, Dow said current activists must work to help young See Bond on page 3

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Senior Staff Writer easily. SORC staff officially announced the change in an Oct. 1 email to student group officers, but has now transferred all student group information to the new system. Pete Danielson, treasurer of Pitt’s Club Cross Country Team, said the new interface looks “better, newer, more aesthetically pleasing,” but said the initial switch was slightly inconvenient. Danielson, a junior economics and actuarial math major, said before his club found out about the switch to CollegiateLink, they had already filled out their club forms on paper and had to resubmit them online. “We had everyone ready to go in paper, then See SORC on page 4

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people to not be afraid of it. Dow wants to give them resources and be a sounding board for their ideas, to make them more open to the idea of becoming social activists. However, as seen in the lack of students at the panel discussion — only two or three in total — Bond’s teachings may not even be reaching many young people to be able to make an impact on them. One of the few young people at the event was Dominique Cravins, 16, the daughter of panelist Donald Cravins, the executive director of the National Urban League at Washington Bureau. However, even with her father heavily involved in activism, Dominique expressed she had not known too much about Bond prior to the event, which taught her a lot about his personal life and work as an activist. Dominique said she has a desire to be involved in activism in the future, alongside her goal of majoring in English. “I hope to have a profession that could help me take a role in civil rights issues,” Dominique said.

Greek Life, Campus Women’s Organization and women involved in the typically male-dominated STEM fields. Harun is still working on finding professional mentors for the program. “It’s going to be a little bit more of a commitment in investing in leadership skills. We want to get people who were already established on campus,” Harun said. “We didn’t want to add stress to pressure of freshman year.” Harun said the program will feature guest speakers at the monthly meetings, though she and Kathy Humphrey, senior vice chancellor and chief of staff, have not yet confirmed who the speakers will be. “It will probably be people in[Pitt’s] administration or leaders within the Pittsburgh community. It will be men and women talking about equality and leadership,” she said. Harun said she and Humphrey discussed the idea during a meeting over the summer.

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SORC, pg. 2 we had to do it all over again,” Danielson said. Still, he thinks the switch to online waivers will be more efficient and convenient overall. But the site may not be a go-to for all groups. Gabrielle Hill, president of the Pitt College Democrats, for example, said while she likes the new site and said it’s easy to use, her group relies mostly on Facebook to recruit and keep in touch with members. “I’m not sure how often it will actually be utilized by interested individuals looking to become a

member of a new organization,” Hill said. For managing the club’s roster and keeping all official club documents, Hill said the site is useful. “I think the biggest difference is the userfriendly nature of CollegiateLink ... It is, in general, much easier to navigate,” Hill said in an email. According to Shuff, the only difficulty during CollegiateLink’s rollout has involved “getting everyone on the same page.” For example, she said, members of intramural sports teams and athletic clubs, like Danielson’s, have had to get used to filling out waivers online, rather than on paper.

So far, student feedback has been positive, Shuff said. She said she’s heard students have complimented the new interface. Even though his team had an initial difficulty, Danielson said their issues stoppped there. “Our team has over 100 members, and only a couple of them had any issues,” Danielson said. He added although a few of his teammates have asked him questions about the new site, he hasn’t heard any complaints or negative feedback. “Some student groups have done really cool things with their pages,” Shuff said. Danielson, for one, said his team has used the site to post the schedule of their meets, so runners can manage their time throughout the season. Danielson said it’s too early to tell whether the switch from Community to CollegiateLink will be an improvement, but he’s optimistic. “In the long run, I think it’ll be easier to use,” he said.

SGB, pg. 3 Since then, Harun has been meeting with Humphrey monthly to plan the program. Last week, Allie Chornick, assistant building manager of the William Pitt Union, who is also helping spearhead the effort, joined the meetings. “[Chornick] has done professional development programs and is like a mentor to me,” Harun said. Harun said mentors will benefit from developing connections with students in the program. “One of my philosophies is that the best way to learn is to teach,” she said. Mariah Callas, a sophomore rehabilitation sciences major, said the program could definitely be useful for resumé building. “I took the Emerging Leadership Summit, and I am in the National Society of Leadership and Success, so I definitely see how this could help girls be successful,” Callas said. Callas said the mentorship is a great opportunity to have someone to talk to. “I think there’s a lot of ways guys have to step up, but getting girls in leadership positions is really important,” she said. “It doesn’t have to be all guys in manager positions.”

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Marlo Safi sat down with Jackie Fuchs of The Runaways to speak about the bystander effect, sexual assault prevention on college campuses and ways to increase bystander intervention Marlo Safi

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t was New Year’s Eve, 1975, and The Runaways — the all-girl rock band founded by Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Joan Jett — had just finished their last set at Wild Man Sam’s, a small club in Orange County, California. At the time, Jackie Fuchs was known by her stage name — Jackie Fox. She was an eager 16-year-old bass guitarist balancing working in the band and at school. Fuchs arrived at an afterparty at a nearby motel and was handed a Quaalude soon after. She was given four or five other pills as the night progressed. The drugs kicked in and Fuchs — normally in control of her actions — became incapacitated. She was then raped in front of the crowd by her band manager, uninterrupted — no one intervened. She was conscious enough to recall part of the experience, but couldn’t do anything in her defense. Until recently, it was a secret that she

CHERIE CURRIE, JOAN JETT, LITA FORD, SANDY WEST, JACKIE FOX. COURTESY OF RONNIE FUCHS kept to herself — a secret shared only with her bystanders. Forty years later, Fuchs finally decided to speak out about her rape. Outlets like The Huffington Post and The Guardian have covered her experience — but Fuchs wants college students to acknowledge the event to gain a better understanding of the bystander effect. Fuchs spoke to The Pitt News about her experience with the bystander effect, sexual assault prevention on college campuses and ways to increase bystander intervention. The Pitt News: What is the bystander effect? Jackie Fuchs: One thing studies have shown is that the more people that witness a wrongful act, the less likely they are to intervene. So if two people witness a sexual assault, there’s a greater chance they will intervene to stop it than if a dozen people witness it. I think this just goes back to if you’re part of a group, there’s a social

dynamic going on at not an entirely conscious level. It’s just that you protect your group, your buddies, and if that’s a person you know, it’s hard to go against that social dynamic, and it does become somebody else’s responsibility. It has nothing to do, by the way, with morality. It doesn’t mean if you don’t interact or intervene, you’re a bad person or don’t know right from wrong. People who are completely moral can be just as frozen or inactive as people who are a little more callous. TPN: Why do you think it’s important for college students to be aware of the bystander effect specifically? JF: If you walk into a room and ask people, “Do you think you’re a leader?” probably most people in that room will put their hands up. But when something actually happens, something bad, because we don’t have that training — we’re not in the military, we didn’t go to the police academy — we don’t know how to stand

up and take leadership in that kind of situation. Most of us will freeze and look to somebody else for what to do. It is a natural response when we see something bad happen, or someone being perpetrated by someone who is a dominant figure in the social group, for us to not go against that person in any way. The first step in preventing sexual assault on campuses is for people to recognize, “Oh, I’m sitting here just thinking ‘Oh, this is not good’ and not doing anything because I’m being affected by the bystander effect,” and there is diffusion of responsibility. I think recognizing you’re [under the influence the bystander effect] is the first step in overcoming it. I have talked to half a dozen people who said they felt incredibly guilty about not having done anything when I was raped, and it’s really a tragedy that they had to live with that. TPN: You were juggling school and the band. Did you ever feel alienated See Q&A on page 6

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from the other girls because of your academic focus? JF: One of the things that I was very fortunate when growing up is my parents had friends from all kinds of backgrounds, so I was used to talking to a lot of different kinds of people. After that first semester with the band, I ended up in continuation because my mother wouldn’t let me quit school until the results of the GED high school equivalency exam came back. So, in continuation, I was in class with the kids who had trouble in regular school. They were people with learning disabilities or the “bad kids” and it prepared me for dealing with people in the music industry who were different than I was. After the fact, it’s easy to say, “Well, that’s what made me different from the girls in the band.” But the thing that made me different was that I didn’t use drugs and that I had been raped in front of the rest of them. And it turns out, that will put a lot of distance between you and the people who witnessed it. TPN: Do you think this aspect of being sexually assaulted changed your experience with the band? JF: At the time, I just didn’t think about it. You do your best to put that behind you and convince yourself that you’re not being affected by it. Being in a rock band was a lot of fun a lot of the time, but it was always the elephant in the room. I think that I acted out in a way that I otherwise probably wouldn’t have. It was very difficult sustaining relationships, which was hard enough when you’re in a band anyway, but whatever trust you have tends to be gone. Then you go through this yo-yo thing, where you realize you’re not trusting people, so you force yourself to be more trusting. But, because your compass for where trust should be and shouldn’t be isn’t properly calibrated anymore, it becomes very difficult. I think I got myself into some situations that I shouldn’t have been in because I was trying too hard to be trusting. I didn’t allow myself to be comfortable around people who were very good because I was suspicious, so that was, I think, the worst part of what happened to me. One of the things you have to

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remember is I was unconscious for a lot of what happened, so in many ways it was far more difficult for the people who saw what happened to me and have carried around a lot of guilt for having not intervened. TPN: In the Huffington Post Highline article, you mentioned that you weren’t the only victim of your manager having raped you, but so were the bystanders. Why do you consider the bystanders of events like yours to also be victims? JF: One of the things you have to remember is that the people who were also in that room were also very young. A lot of them had been doing drugs and drinking that night. The person who raped me was an

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I think that part of what happens when you’re at a party and you see someone, who’s a little drunk maybe making out with someone else, who’s also maybe a little drunk, it’s hard to tell there’s something bad going on initially. By the time it becomes apparent, you’ll be a little complicit when you’re watching, that it’s just that much harder to act. You look around and you see other people not doing anything, and it gets harder still to go against the group. But, because you know it’s wrong, there’s a voice inside your head saying, “I should do something, I should do something,” and then there’s another voice telling you why you shouldn’t. What happens is, over time, that initial voice

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But the thing that made me different was that I didn’t use drugs and that I had been raped in front of the rest of them. And it turns out, that will put a lot of distance between you and the people who witnessed it.

authority figure within our group, and it was also a group that had a common purpose. In that way, a rock band was similar to a sports team or a fraternity, in that it was a group we very much wanted to be a part of. It added some pressure to the group to not go against the person who was an authority figure in that group. There were a lot of reasons people found it difficult to act that night. You can ask people who aren’t in that situation what they would do, but until you’re in it, you just don’t know. It’s not clear, maybe, at the beginning that what you’re seeing is not consensual.

that tells you you should do something turns into tremendous guilt that you could have prevented what happened. For the people watching, they really didn’t know what to do, but they still thought they should’ve done something. Because they didn’t have the emotional vocabulary to talk to me about it, it just festered — both for me with my own sense of shame and self blame, and for them with the self blame of not having done anything. I know this because I’ve spoken to a lot of the people who had been there that night, and a lot of them told me how guilty they

felt that they didn’t stop it. One of them said it ate away at him for 40 years and he only ever told two people about it. Now, I find myself in the position, after the story came out, of having to comfort them and telling them that I didn’t hold them responsible for it. Nobody told them what they could have done. It’s just something they thought about. I hope by speaking out, I can help change that. Maybe people will have a discussion with their friends about what they would want their friends to do if they see them getting into a compromising situation. I think it would be great if guys in particular not only looked out for women but for each other, and if they saw one of their friends getting into something with a girl or a guy who was a little bit drunk or otherwise wasted that they would have permission from their friends to stop that from happening. I think it would be really nice if guys talked about this in advance because when you’re in that situation and you have drugs and maybe alcohol and definitely hormones screaming encouragement, it’s going to be hard to stop something from happening. It’s a lot easier to know you have permission to step in and say to your friend, “Hey, I think she’s a little too drunk, you don’t want a problem here, follow up on her tomorrow, she’s still going to be interested. And if she’s not, someone else will.” TPN: Why do you think people are hesitant to blame their perpetrators, and why didn’t you come out to blame the actual perpetrator until later? JF: I think that part of it is, when you’re the victim of an assault you feel you really didn’t have any control, and blaming yourself or blaming the people who stood there is the way of thinking that you could have prevented this assault if only you did something different. I don’t think people like feeling helpless, so you get things like some fairly prominent women who are standing up and saying I was drunk when I got raped and I was hanging around the wrong people, therefore I’m responsible for what happened to me. They have said that saying you weren’t indicating you don’t have any control over yourself or your life, which is See Q&A on page 7

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Q&A, pg. 6 pretty telling. It’s hard to admit that there are situations where we end up powerless. You have to remember, most people who commit sexual assaults are not people who misunderstood the signals, they are predators. It’s very disempowering to think that you can be in the authority of a predator at any point, but the truth is, you can. And that’s why the best way to stop a predator is to encourage the community to take part in preventing things like this from happening — not just sexual assault, but also bullying and harassment — and to really look at how our inaction can encourage these kinds of things to happen. TPN: Who do you think can be a victim of sexual assault? JF: Anybody. Babies are victims of sexual assault, so are old people. Anybody can be. It’s a really underreported crime. There’s probably more of it going on in places where you have the kind of situation like what happened to me or what happens on campuses — tightly knit groups of people that know each other. But that’s one of the big myths, which I think has changed since I was a teenager. In my day, a rapist was a guy hiding in the bushes with a knife, you know, forcibly grabbing somebody with a weapon. Most sexual assaults are committed by someone the victim knows — we are all at risk. And look, you can drug a 260-pound linebacker, but let’s face it, most of the time it’s women being attacked by more, slightly built men. It’s people of any age, it has very little to do with how the victim is dressed or how they’re acting or how tough they are. It’s a crime of opportunity. TPN: Why do you think it’s important for students on college campuses to know what qualifies as consent? JF: The law is very clear about what constitutes consent. I’m familiar with the California laws on rape and not the Pennsylvania ones, but they’re probably similar. In order to get consent, you’ve got to be, well whatever the legal age of consent is in your state. In California it happens to be 18, so if you’re 18 or older, it is very clear. There is no consent if the victim is unconscious or asleep or too See Q&A on page 10

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Recognize the bystander effect Combating the bystander effect begins with conversation

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I have fallen prey to the bystander effect — and so have you. I have sat on a crowded bus — like everyone else — while an elderly woman walked on, waiting for others sitting on the bus to give up their seat. Someone has to, and someone else will, on a bus full of people. The bystander effect shadows even the simplest of moments. You drive past a car accident on a highway and assume someone else has called 911. You enjoy long showers and don’t try to limit yourself — other people will conserve resources, and you can afford to consume in excess. You like a post on Facebook denouncing a horrifying act, but your actions end there. There’s no obligation to intervene when you’re not the sole observer. The bystander effect makes a routine appearance in our lives. Often times, neglecting to intervene in a potential incident

doesn’t have catastrophic consequences. But, in the case of Jackie Fuchs, the absence of bystander intervention led to a tragedy. Fuchs, a former member of the all-girl ’70s rock band The Runaways, was raped by her manager in front of a crowd — an event that changed her life and the lives of the bystanders who witnessed it. They were teenagers under the influence of drugs and alcohol. They had never been taught what to do in the event of an assault. They were pressured against intervening because the alleged perpetrator — the band manager — was a figure of authority. “I didn’t know what to do,” then-14year-old Kari Krome, a fellow bandmate, said to the Huffington Post. “It was one of those times you feel like there’s a spotlight on you,” Brent Williams, a partygoer and friend of Krome’s, said to the Huffington Post. “Everybody’s looking at you to see how you would respond. You just want to get out of there.”

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“Nobody seemed to really care,” said Helen Roessler, a friend of Fuchs who attended the party, to the Huffington Post. “It was really weird. Everybody was sitting in there alone with themselves. It felt like everyone was detached or trying to pretend like nothing was going on.” I thought I knew what the bystander effect was prior to my interview with Fuchs. But I only knew the textbook definition — in an audience, there is a diffusion of responsibility that decreases the likelihood of intervention by individual participants. And yet, when I witnessed the bystander effect in person — someone at a party pressuring another, well past their limit, to take a shot, for example — I idly stood by. I’m not the only one who has remained silent in a crowd. Pitt participated in an American Association of Universities survey that examined sexual assaults on campuses. The results of the survey made me realize that See Bystander on page 9

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Men’s soccer winless in six straight after loss to harvard Joe Rokicki Staff Writer

Losses are piling up for the Pitt men’s soccer team. The Panthers (5-7-3, 0-5-1 ACC) dropped their third consecutive match late Tuesday afternoon, losing to the Harvard Crimson (6-4-2, 3-0 Ivy League) 3-2 in regulation. The loss also marked the Panthers second consecutive home loss to a non-conference opponent. While Pitt established some success in the offensive third, its defensive backfield struggled. “I thought through 90 minutes [Harvard] were physically stronger on the ball, they won most of the tackles and that adds up to a goal difference” Pitt head coach Joe Luxbacher said. “When you score two goals, you should not lose a game.” The Crimson struck first in the 23rd minute when junior midfielder Daniel Smith headed a corner from sophomore midfielder Christian Sady past Pitt goalkeeper and team captain Dan Lynd. The Crimson outgained the Panthers in corner kicks 9-5 on the afternoon, a result of their bruising style. “Physically, we didn’t match up with them,” Luxbacher added. “They’re very direct, as soon as they get the ball they play it behind you and fight for everything.” The Panthers responded quickly. Freshman midfielder Alec Anselmo dribbled through two Crimson defenders and rifled a shot from inside the Harvard box. Senior Crimson goalkeeper Evan Mendez gave chase, and the Panthers earned their second corner of the afternoon. Senior midfielder Patrick Dixon lobbed the kick into the Harvard box, where freshman defender Matt Bragg headed his second goal of the season past Mendez to tie the score 1-1 in the 25th minute.

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Matt Bragg (25) heads in one of Pitt’s two goals Tuesday. Andrew Shim STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The Panthers struck again five minutes later when Dixon launched an upper 90 strike past Mendez from 12 yards out in the 30th minute for his third goal of the season, giving the Panthers a 2-1 lead. “It’s always nice to get on the score sheet, it doesn’t amount to much if we don’t win the game though, so I’m still pretty disappointed,” Dixon said. Dixon’s goal was also a result of a direct offensive approach, driving balls through the midfield rather than working through the wings. “We’re a team that likes to play the ball on the ground and like to have combinations through the midfielder, through the striker. I thought we did that pretty well, but it just wasn’t good enough today,” Dixon said. However, the Crimson were able to rally and capitalize against the Panthers’ depleted defensive backfield.

A handball led to a Harvard penalty shot in the 39th minute for senior Crimson forward Tim Schmoll after the Panthers’ illegal attempt to clear the box. Lynd guessed right, but Schmoll shot left and Harvard entered halftime with a 3-2 lead it would not surrender. “The cohesion has not been good [defensively]. Our two starting centerbacks Kyle [Brathwaite] and Stephane [Pierre] — when they were together through the [nonconference play] we didn’t give up a goal,” Luxbacher said. “Since then, we’ve never had the same two centerbacks. They’re a tandem, it’s tough when you throw a different guy in every game.” Braithwaite is out for the season. Pitt will monitor Pierre’s condition throughout the week, but he is an uncertainty for Saturday’s match against Duke due to a nagging ankle injury. “Stephane couldn’t play today. We’ll see

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where he is on Friday, we’re better with him on the field,” Luxbacher said. Sophomore midfielder Romeo Charron suffered a left leg injury in the 12th minute Tuesday night and left the game. He will most likely not play Saturday, and could miss the rest of the season. “They said they thought it was a ligament [injury],” Luxbacher said. “He’ll undergo further testing.” The Panthers have suffered serious injuries to key players this season. It’s been an epidemic of sorts — first Pierre, then Brathwaite, then sophomore midfielder Jack Dickens and now Charron. It’s frustrating for any team, especially a team struggling to earn its first ACC victory in program history.

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Bystander, pg. 9 bystander passivity was a common response to disconcerting events. Jackie’s experience, and the reality of the AAU survey, present valuable lessons for encouraging bystander intervention. According to the AAU Sexual Assault survey results, 43.7 percent of student respondents reported witnessing a drunken person heading for a sexual encounter. Among those bystanders, 79.7 percent did nothing, 23.7 percent weren’t sure what to do and 56 percent did nothing for another reason. The results have garnered an increased sense of urgency to reinforce bystander intervention, but it’s difficult to identify situations that may require intervention. Nearly 80 percent of students who took the survey reported not having done anything after watching a person head into a sexual encounter. In most cases, this is not a cause for concern — but there are times when heading back to an empty room isn’t so harmless. What appears benign may not always be consensual. Bystanders exist in a grey area — it’s hard to act when you don’t know the people involved or the details of the situation. “I think that part of what happens when you’re at a party and you see someone, who’s a little drunk maybe, making out with someone else, who’s also maybe a little drunk, it’s hard to tell there’s something bad going on initially,” Fuchs said. To instruct students in deducing dangerous situations, Carnegie Mellon University has designed a game that simulates real life scenarios. “We gave them answers about how they would intervene. Would you do nothing, would you get another person, do you wait to talk to someone?” said Jess Klein, coordinator of Gender Programs and Sexual Violence Prevention at CMU. According to Klein, there are multiple reasons people may not intervene. “It can be anything from not thinking it’s their business or that they have a place in that or not understanding the situation,” Klein said. “People can even talk themselves out of thinking they understand it. There’s the fear of being an outcast, simply not knowing what to do and personal safety.” Intervention doesn’t come with a manual — it’s hard to know how to define your role as

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the intervener.“The purpose of the game was to teach yourself how you would respond in situations where intervention is really clouded — you know something’s going on but you don’t know what to do or intervene.” Klein said. One in every five women and one in every 16 men will be sexually assaulted while in college. According to a Bureau of Justice Statistics report released in 2013, there has only been a surge in sex crimes on college campuses. Bystander intervention can end potential assault before it happens — and communication is the first step toward increased intervention. “I think having conversations within your friend group on how to intervene and what a compromising situation at a party may look like is most important,” Klein said. “Maybe you don’t know what to do, communicate it to someone else. If the time calls for it, call the police. You have options.” A conversation can’t start, however, without awareness — of responsibilities, situations and acceptable actions. “I think college kids in particular need permission to look out for each other,” Fuchs said. “I think college kids should start talking about the issue, that’s step one.” Following independent survey results, CMU planned three campus town hall meetings — closed to outsiders — that the university hopes will promote a dialogue among students. To supplement communication with friends, Pitt carries two student organizations that focus on bystander intervention — RAVE (Raise Awareness and Victim Empowerment) and PantherWELL. Between the groups, 75 trained peer educators aim to provide students with the skills necessary to safely intervene in the event of sexual or domestic violence. “See something, say something” — prior to speaking with Fuchs, this was my overused mantra. Despite knowing what the bystander effect was, I remained a person in the crowd who would turn a blind eye. Fuch’s experience was painful and haunting, for her and her bystanders. Fuch’s memories aren’t shadows of isolated events. They’re real, constant occurrences, and they’re preventable. If I only remained aware of my surroundings and communicated with friends, I could — when the day comes — be the person in the crowd who steps up and helps a person in need.

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Q&A, pg. 7 inebriated to give meaningful consent or is unaware of the other person’s identity, which is a strange one, but it does happen. The fuzzy area you get into is where somebody is too inebriated to give meaningful consent. It’s really hard for young people to interact with each other without the social lubricant of alcohol. One of the reasons I think it’s so important to talk about the bystander effect and what bystanders can do is that there can be an awareness in crowds that might not apply to an individual, where one person might not be sure if someone’s too [messed up] to give consent. In a group of people, there can be the sense that this isn’t a good idea, and it only takes one person to say, “I’m not sure about this,” and take a step back. And so, that’s why I think college kids in particular really need permission to look out for each other. TPN: What advice do you have for students in particular in how to avoid sexual assault? JF: I think the best thing they can do is talk to their friends about what they think they would do if they found themselves in that situation and how they would want their friends to react if the friend saw them in an ambiguous one. TPN: What advice do you have for students who have been victims of a sexual assault or have witnessed one?

KF: It’s never too late to do the right thing, and just know, it is not your fault. The only person responsible for a sexual assault is the person committing it, because even if you made a mistake, a mistake is not an excuse for rape. TPN: How would you relate your experience to that of any college students? JF: I was barely 16 at the time, so I was within a similar age range as college students — before your frontal cortex is fully set and decision making comes a little easily. I was part of a very tightly knit social group, and a rock band can be very much like a sports team or the people in a fraternity — it’s a group of young people with a common purpose. We were at a party and there were a lot of drugs and alcohol around, and you had somebody who was the clear alpha person within that group that was engaging in illegal behavior. It was very hard for people to act or prevent it, and unfortunately I think the only thing that has really changed between then and now is our knowledge of the bystander effect and we have a much better dial now on what constitutes sexual assault. So, it’s getting easier, but I’m shocked we’re not further along 40 years from when I was raped. It’s still very hard for victims to come forward, and shame is a big part of it. So we need to make sure that the message gets out. Marlo Safi primarily writes about public policy and politics for The Pitt News. Write to Marlo at mes26@pitt.edu

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