Scott McLellan I would like to offer these two images to the campus community to illustrate a certain climate on campus. k(NO)w and its members worked incredibly hard to put up a wall for College community members to think critically and constructively about sexual respect …
April 2014
Toward a pervasive gender neutrality
James May Last week, the Voice published an important article about the efforts of WGSS Department faculty and students to convert certain campus restrooms into all-gender restrooms, usable by people of any and all gender identities. These plans, if successfully executed, would be a huge …
Commercializing cancer
Ian Benson There was a moment last week when I contemplated going to Relay for Life. I thought about heading over to the Scot Center, getting a survivor’s shirt (lymphoma, summer of 2011) and running 104 laps, one for every day I experienced treatment. I …
Thoughts of cameras on a busy street
Travis Marmon When I was distributing issues of the Voice two weeks ago with a headline about the College installing security cameras on Beall, I was surprised by how quickly people reacted to the news. Some students were excited, saying it was just what the …
Feminism and masculinity for life
Erica Rickey Reflecting on the recent speaker on campus, Michael Kimmel, it is interesting to me how ideas of masculinity should be important to feminism. The two concepts are typically juxtaposed as oppositional and irreconcilable, but Mr. Kimmel helped me realize that could not be …
This is sexual disrespect
Gina Christo This past week k(NO)w, the anti-sexual assault organization on campus, used part of the art wall to spread the message of sexual respect on campus. One of the panels asked “How Do You Define Sexual Respect” and provided pens for people to respond. …