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Show WE rv fcr IutoM OB Gj) (iEMsQiiiCteffiB on! 301 ;f i -- 2- ob Dus. DsD f j J2 DIXIESUNNEWS.COM WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2Q gdimoa BY SPENCER RICKS SpencerRicks ' M f- I X 1 rj x & m For Sexual Assault Awareness Month, campus students and administration are becoming more involved in providing advocacy for victims in the community. Faculty will be going through mandatory training to teach them to become reporters of sexual assault. Sexual assault may seem like a historically taboo topic, but not for Dixie State University administrators who are intent on making a differ- ence. As part of Utah Sexual Assault Awareness Month, new training for faculty members on how to deal with sexual assault is being mandated. Organizations like the Dove Center are also coming to campus and working with the Women's Resource Center to help sexual assault victims find help. According to a study by The Red Flag Campaign in which 6,000 students at 32 U.S. college campuses were surveyed, 1 in 4 women had been victims of rape or attempted rape, but only 5 percent of the cases had been reported to the police. Elizabeth Bluhm is the sexual assault advocacy coordinator at the Dove Center and provides personal support for sexual assault victims each lals Wednesday afternoon in the WRC. The Dove Center is a local nonprofit organization dedicated to providing advocacy services for assault victims in the community. There is so much misunderstanding about sexual assault, Bluhm said. Our goals are just to spread awareness and help people really understand what victims have to deal with. Without talking about it, it won't ever end. Six DSU students have taken training to be volunteers on the newly formed hospital advocacy team for assault victims. When assault victims report to the emergency room, there is often a 4 to long exam they are subjected to. A member of the hospital advocacy team stays by the victim's side during the entire process. The members role is to give the victim emotional support while ensuring the victim's rights are being honored. There have been six instances so far this semester where a member of the hospital advocacy team was called in to support ur victim in the ER, with sity c half of them being sexua resea assault cases, Bluhm sai( At The majority of sexcolle assault victims don't their port, Bluhm said. ye parei need to dispel the fear sion': victims have to speak outmore by never blaming them succ and letting them know grad' their there's hope. New trainings for facf' ulty members are teach- ou' ing them to be mandaton a re- - - reporters of sexual assaiije when they hear about it buck A campus sexual violenn311 1 more prevention training for employees and students ?an will start May 18,1 in the South Administra ese adm tion Building. We don't want to be reactive, but proactive wet sexual assault with these)r0V to trainings, DSU Presidet011' smd Biff Williams said. Stu 1 dents and faculty need to be educated and be made aware of coni sexual assault. Williams said there 'ltlz is still a long way to go lre until DSU is completely :afd mem-ber- s 1 ,ous safe, but by working with the Dove Center ,om increasing sexual assault awareness trainings, it PO moving in the right dirtr tion. to pi who Stydleont debt lmgeEr Graducailon condensed info solifary ceremony jyst piagymg mak To tion to sf GD BY HAY LIE ANDERSON hayande Graduation is on the horizon for seniors at Dixie State University, but it is going to be a little different this year. William Christensen, executive vice president and chief academic officer, said graduation will be done like it was a while back. Instead of having each school do its own graduation, DSU will have one large ceremony. Graduation will be done this way because of the convenience for everyone attending graduation. Instead of graduates attending one ceremony then waiting a couple hours for the next one, there will only be one ceremony. The ceremony will not take as long as some people are thinking, Christensen said. We have the time for names being read down to about 45 minutes, Christensen said. The whole graduation ceremony should not take any longer than two hours. Organizers have cut down who will speak so people are not sitting for countless hours. The only speakers at graduation will be the student speaker, President Biff Williams, Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox and the Hal Hiatt, president of the alumni association. Each school will choose a valedictorian, but that person will not speak at graduation. To keep the personal level of being able to graduate with classmates, the different schools are being encouraged to put on a reception for the students. If a reception is done by the different schools, there is still the closeness, but it will be more efficient, Christensen said. Dexter Humphreys, a senior communication major from Hatch, said he understands why graduation is changing but thinks there still might be a couple problems with it. I could see how it could be beneficial to the camaraderie of all the graduation seniors to do it together, but at the same time, graduations can be long enough as they are, Humphreys said. This might negatively af- feet the audience members mostly who now have to sit through the entire school graduating. With graduation being condensed into one event, there are things like the traditions that will not be changing. For example, graduates will still walk through the D after collecting their diplomas. The only difference is the D will not be on the stage anymore but down in front of the stage. With it being down in front of the stage, there shouldnt be a line up on the stage from reading the names so quickly. We are wanting to be sensitive to traditions that people are accustomed to here at DSU, Christensen said. the f whel the p presi time ind DSU BY SAMANTHA EHLINGER TNS Student loan debt is not just a problem for young people. Still in the red on her old college loans, Rosemary Anderson told a Senate committee Wednesday about her ongoing battle with student debt, and her fear that the Social Security check she will start receiving when she reaches her 60s eventually will be garnisheed to pay it off. During the course of a divorce, illness and student loans balloonef Anderson's $64,000 in ac to more than Anderson unique. The percentagtwork of households headed tulty someone 65 to 74 yeatpolic old with s'tudent debt sumi $126,000 3eni( is not from increased to 4 W percent in 2010 from 1 percent in 2004, according to study released Wedneu day by the Governntei1 Accountability Office "While many think student loan debt for just a young person, increasingly that is I" ' the case," said co L. the Nelson, mittee chairman. While student debt' not the prevailing Of of debt among senior A Sen-B- D-Fl- a., - financial hardships, see DEBT page 3 For the record The softball player pictured in last week softball story on Page 6 was Courtney Hine, not Mallory Paulson. J sena I ld Graduates of the University of Pennsylvania sit at their convocation ceremony. Dixie State University is condensing graduation this year to one large ceremony. with emot natio 2 $ The quotes for last weeks Human of DNe on Page 9 were not paired with the right pictures. |