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.
Lippman showed her
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minute-long clips from from
one of six movies: There’s
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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
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Hackett speaks with students
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also condemned the group’s
values.
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University
student
calling
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posted celebrating the official
cancellation. The protest, now
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Awareness Rally, will still
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Diag Saturday night, according
to organizers.
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will
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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
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Arcade
area
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bar, who requested anonymity,
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that
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however, would not be an issue.
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already, and people walking
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is too intoxicated, or is trying
to take a girl home without her
permission,” he said. “Saturday
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the (city) police, too.”
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an
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Shop inside the arcade, said
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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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