Interim AD 
discusses 

recruitment, 

expanding seating

By LYDIA MURRAY

Daily Staff Reporter

Interim Athletic Director 

Jim Hackett and Liz Barry, 
special counsel to University 
President 
Mark 
Schlissel, 

discussed ideas for improving 
sporting 
venues, 
the 

recruitment process and the 
importance of a transparent 
relationship 
between 
the 

athletic 
department 
and 

students at an open forum 
Wednesday.

The 
discussion 
was 

coordinated 
by 
Central 

Student 
Government 
as 
a 

venue for students to bring up 
topics pertaining to athletics 

as the University transitions to 
anew athletic director, Warde 
Manuel, next year.

CSG 
President 
Cooper 

Charlton, an LSA senior, said 
the idea for the dialogue was 
generated last semester to 
insure the inclusion of student 
opinions on athletics decisions.

The tenure of now former 

Athletic 
Director 
Dave 

Brandon, 
tenure 
prior 
to 

Hackett, was surrounded with 
controversy and ended in his 
resignation in October 2014. 
During Brandon’s time in the 
position, students spoke out 
against Athletic Department 
moves 
such 
as 
higher 

student section ticket prices, 
advertising 
campaigns 
that 

offered free tickets with Coke 
products and the decision to 
put quarterback Shane Morris 
back in a game with a possible 
concussion.

“We wanted to avoid the 

tumultuous situations we got 

into in the past,” Charlton 
said. “We really wanted the 
students to feel like they are 
part of the process.”

Several students in attendance 

offered ideas to improve student 
seating 
at 
various 
sporting 

events, 
including 
basketball 

and hockey. Currently, student 
sections at Yost Hockey Arena 
and the Crisler Center are 
spread out and divided across 
the 
seating 
space, 
which 

students said diminish from the 
overall bonding and excitement.

Hackett said the excitement 

of the student section is a 
vital part of the University’s 
sporting 
event 
experience 

for both students and other 
attendees.

“I love when we go crazy with 

the students,” he said. “That’s 
what makes me want to go to the 
games: to watch you. Not only 
does the team feed off of it but 
the rest of the fans do too.”

Looking 
at 
recruitment 

— 
specifically 
football 

recruitment — Hackett said 
the values the University was 
built on, such as integrity 
and academic excellence, are 
important when looking for 
prospective players.

“It goes without saying that 

the standards here are pristine 
in terms of integrity,” he said. 
“It’s a 150 year old program, 
and it’s the underlying values 
that make it great.”

The discussion of recruitment 

followed 
the 
University’s 

Signing with the Stars event 
earlier Wednesday for National 
Signing Day, which featured 
University alums Derek Jeter 
and Tom Brady.

Barry also highlighted the 

importance of an open route 

of 
communication 
between 

students 
and 
the 
athletics 

administration, 
especially 

with the ongoing transition 
from Hackett to Manuel.

She said Manuel will be 

willing to work with students, 
but that students also need to 
actively share their opinions 
on these matters.

“Warde 
is 
hard 
wired 

to be connected,” she said. 
“But I think this is kind of 
a shared responsibility. You 

guys reaching out is half the 
equation.”

CSG Vice President Steven 

Halperin, 
an 
LSA 
junior, 

said he appreciated the work 
Hackett has done during his 
time at the University, but is 
looking forward to seeing what 
new leadership will bring.

“He has impressed me and 

the rest of the student body,” 
he said. “We are all going to 
dearly miss him, but we are 
excited for Warde too.”

Republican candidate 
Rand Paul announced 
that he is dropping 
out of the presidential 

race, CNN reported. The 
announcement was made 
following a fifth place finish 
for Paul in Monday’s Iowa 
caucuses.

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Movie genre linked to stalking

University researcher 

Julia Lippman conducted 
a study and found that 
romantic comedies 
normalize stalking behavior.

In her study “I Did it 

Because I Never Stopped 
Loving You: the Effects 
of Media Portrayals of 
Persistent Pursuit on Beliefs 
abotu Stalking,” Lippman 
explored representations 
of stalking in Hollywood 
movies to see if women have 
become numb to taunting 
male behavior disguised 
as romance in such films. 
Potentially dangerous 
stalking behaviors are often 
portrayed as romantic in 
films.

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426 female subjects 30 
minute-long clips from from 
one of six movies: There’s 
Something About Mary and 
Management, which both 
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positive light; Enough and 
Sleeping With the Enemy, 
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neutral films.

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“Stalking myths are false 

or exaggerated beliefs about 
stalking that minimise its 
seriousness, which means 
that someone who more 

strongly endorses stalking 
myths tends to take stalking 
less seriously,” Lippman 
wrote in her study.

After watching the 

excerpts from the films, 
subjects answered surveys, 
one of which posed 
questions about stalking 
myths. Those women who 
watched the first two films 
were generally accepting 
of the aggressive stalking 
behavior.

This study was inspired 

by Lippman’s belief that 
terms such as “Facebook 
stalking” trivialize and 
downplay stalking behaviors 
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Hackett speaks with students 
about athletic dept. at forum 

also condemned the group’s 
values.

“The strong and unequivocal 

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University 
student 
calling 

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posted celebrating the official 
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Diag Saturday night, according 
to organizers. 

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will 
be 
planning 

events and having speakers/
organizations 
educating 
us 

on several topics including 
sexual assault, women’s health, 
reproductive justice, and much 
more,” the event’s description 

reads. 

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around 
the 

Nickel’s 
Arcade 
area 
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bar, who requested anonymity, 
maintained 
that 
security, 

however, would not be an issue. 

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already, and people walking 
the crowd to make sure no one 
is too intoxicated, or is trying 
to take a girl home without her 
permission,” he said. “Saturday 
night is already busy, and we 
have a great relationship with 

the (city) police, too.” 

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Rowland, 
an 

employee of University Flower 
Shop inside the arcade, said 
business owners she spoke to 
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amounts of publicity to ROK.

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Rowland said. “And it should 
be against the law. But we’re 
trying to find a good balance 
between not being too crazy 
about it and giving in, but also 
being outspoken about it and 
how ridiculous the whole thing 
is.”

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