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Sincerely,
Your Culture Connects Team
Jonathan Alvizuri
Undergraduate Marketing Intern
Wendy Yang
Undergraduate Marketing Intern
Priyanka Das
Undergraduate Marketing Intern
Yeqing Liu
Gabrielle Cruz
Yikai Zhang
Dominique Russell
Culture Connects
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Asian Student Union
Binghamton Association of
Mixed Students
Chinese American
Student Union
Hillel Jewish
Student Union
Hong Kong Exchange Square
CAMPUS BEAUTY
There is
always a light
in the Dark
@Science1
photograph
by Yikai
Zhang
MRC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Day of Silence
The National Day of Silence, held this year on April 15th, is a youth movement sponsored by
the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). On this day participants refuse to
speak for the day in protest of the discrimination, harassment and common struggles faced by
those within the LGBTQAP community. Students are provided with a card which reads:
Please understand my reasons for not speaking today. I am participating in the Day of
Silence, a national youth movement protesting the silence faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender people and their allies in schools. My deliberate silence echoes that silence, which
is caused by harassment, prejudice, and discrimination. I believe that ending the silence is the
first step toward fighting these injustices. Think about the voices you are not hearing today.
What are you going to do to end the silence?
According to the 2013 National School Climate Survey of nearly 8,000 middle and high school
students, 85.4% of respondents said they have been verbally harassed and 39.9% reported
instances of physical harassment. The efforts of the many who choose to participate this April
15th will be most appreciated.
For more information, visit dayofsilence.org and glsen.org. Be on the lookout for events hosted
by SHADES (4/11 - 4/17), Rainbow Pride Union (RPU), Equality Project, and other student
organizations.
LGBTQ Awareness Week
April 11, 2016- April 17, 2016
Day of Silence
April 15, 2016
Night of Noise
April 15, 2016 at 7:30 PM in UU120
Lets Talk about Alternative Sex
April 16, at 8pm UU120
Join shades to discuss different methods of sex, with featured demos and topics. See page 10
for additional details including ticket prices.
Second Chance Prom (hosted by RPU)
April 28, 2016, 8-11pm in Old Union Hall
For those who want another try at prom, join RPU for Second Chance Prom. Music, Dancing,
food, and most importantly you can bring whoever you would like. Tickets are $3 in advanced
and $5 at the door. Proceeds go to the Southern Tier Aids Program.
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MRC ANNOUNCEMENTS
Day of Silence
starting Fall 2016. The LGBTQ Center will provide programmatic initiatives to increase
knowledge, awareness and support of students, faculty and staff of varying sexual
orientations and gender identities and expressions. The founding director, Dr. Kelly Clark,
was recently selected. Please help us welcome Dr. Clark to Binghamton University. Dr.
Clark comes to Binghamton University with a wealth of knowledge and experience. Stop
by the temporary home of the LGBTQ Center in the MRC, Library South Ground 549, to
meet her and read on to learn a bit more about her background.
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Earth Day
Earth Day is an annual event celebrated every year on April 22
. People around
the world celebrate Earth Day in their own way and make this special day more
and more popular. But only few people know the history of the Earth Day
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Egypt. The torah states Passover is to be celebrated for 7 days, the first night being
a seder. This year Passover will be celebrated from
April 22nd-April 30th. In honor of passover we
have set up a checklist to help those who celebrate
or those who want to celebrate prepare for a
Passover Seder.
1. Cleaning
Make sure all leavened products are removed from the house.
Sabbath- Participate in Shabbat HaGadol (the Shabbat before
Passover). It marks the beginning of redemption
2.Shopping
Time to buy all specialty Passover foods. Consider foods
needed for seder and the week.
3.Cooking
Seder dishes require time and attention to details therefore a lot of time should be devoted to cooling.
4.Planning the Seder
Which Haggadah (text recited
at seder) will you be using?.
A variety of options are
available online. What will
you do to make your Seder
special?
5.Preparing the Plate
The Passover plate contains
6 symbollic items, which are
zeroa, beitza, karpas, maror,
chazere, and charose.
6.Setting the Table
checklist
Kosher for Passover dishes, and glasses, small dishes of salt water for
dipping, bottles of wine and grape juice, a special wine cup reserved for
Elijah, a plate with 3 pieces of matzah and a cover on it, seder plate,
haggadot.
7.Enjoy the evening with family and friends
Now that everything is prepared, you have met all traditions,you are ready
to celebrate passover!
By Samantha Gillette,
graduate assistant
Source: http://jewishfederation.org/images/uploads/holiday_images/39497.pdf
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CULTURE CHATS
Culture Chats is a series of interviews conducted by students featuring Binghamton University
faculty, staff, alumni and the like! This series will help you get to know diverse professionals who
currently work at or have attended Binghamton. You will have an opportunity to get to know the
person, gain advice or learn about unique and interesting pathways to careers.
CULTURE CHATS
Me: Why do you think it is important to have sexual assault awareness on
campus?
Qiana: I think its very important to have sexual assault awareness on campus because
a lot of people become sexually active in their collegiate years. They dont have their
parents around to watch their every move and its more accessible because of coed
situations. Any kind of sex awareness in general is important because it helps to prevent
assaults from happening by making people become aware and understand that it could
be them in these situations.
Me: What do diversity and culture among students as well as faculty mean to
you?
Qiana: It means that we, in a perfect world, would have a salad bowl mix of everybody.
There would be people of different races, gender identity, gender expression and ethnic
backgrounds working together to make sure that there are programs that address the
needs of all and not one particular group. I think it makes a difference in the climate of
the campus and that it informs the way people respond to things that happen. There
needs to be some diversity because it challenges people to think outside their box. If you
are only with people who look like you, think like you and act like you it doesnt really
stretch you to grow and that makes you very one dimensional.
Me: What is your message to the diverse student population at Binghamton?
Qiana: I am still looking for the diverse population in the university. It is concerning to
me the number of African-American students here on campus and we can probably look
at that more to find ways to do better recruitment of students of color. As I walk around
campus I do see people of different races and cultures and there are a lot of international
students here, which I think is good, but I do think we have room to grow in the area of
diversity on campus.
Me: What do you suggest to make Binghamton a better community?
Qiana: I know that the creation of the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion was
created to help in those areas. I think that it is a step in the right direction. I think that
Student Affairs could do more in helping to create and sustain a more accepting and
diverse community. If we did some intentional services, programming and outreach to
reach different groups that would make a difference on the campus. I think the goal
is to create an environment where everyone who comes to this campus feels at home,
connected and welcomed.
By Dominique Russell,
undergraduate marketing intern
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CULTURE CHATS
Culture Chat with Amber Ingalls, Health
Educator in the Decker Health Services
Office
Amber: I am a health Educator but I also oversee the Reach Internship Program. The health
Education the office itself, not only houses the Reach internship but also provides students with oneon-one consultations if they have questions about birth control, general relationship questions, or
if they are having a hard time. It is not like counseling, its more like chatting about options and
referring if need be. We also offer a lot of other programming and campus wide events that are
related to alcohol and other drugs, sexual health, interpersonal violence, sexual assault prevention,
mental health awareness in relation to sleep and stress, flu outreach and essentially anything the
clinic needs us to help out with.
Me: What are some of the events that Reach and the health education office have
planned for Sexual Assault Awareness month?
Amber: Every year there are multiple offices doing programming for Sexual Assault Awareness
month, what we decided this year was to get together with all these offices and sit down and compile
a comprehensive list of events. For example, we pulled in the Counseling Center and their 20:1
program, Res Life, Deans Team and the MRC as well as several student groups to develop programs
for the month. Our office specifically houses a lot of the programing efforts for the Red Zone,
which includes our consent message but in April we will also be launching our Hurt Someone Else
message, which is our interpersonal violence prevention message. The most important thing to know
about the Redzone Campaign, is that it is a collective effort between a lot of different offices working
together. So when we say, What does Health Education do we just have our hands in a lot of peoples
programs. We support other peoples programs while providing our own.
Me: What is your end goal for Sexual Assault Prevention Month?
Amber: Prevention, we have to get the numbers down. I think that by having so many other offices
working on the same goal, it really strengthens the message and showcases solidarity across campus
not only in students but also in faculty and staff. I think the end goal is to raise awareness, and
talk to students who may not really be familiar with the reality associated with this huge problem
but also to equip students with the ability to step in and intervene. What you see with our Redzone
Campaign is the bystander intervention focus, because you are not only responsible as an individual
but also as a friend and as someone who is a part of this community. This is a high expectation to
put on students and faculty, and I think as long as we are providing this campus with the tools to do
so then we are doing our job. Our overall goal is to focus on building a better community through
bystander intervention and working to support our survivors and victims and spreading their message
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CULTURE CHATS
to eventually end it.
Me: Do you think our campus, besides for the events going on this month; does a
good job at getting the message out there?
Amber: I think we have the resources. The 20:1 program was in place before this was all even talked
about on the news. When you look at prevention education we are doing a good thing and are ahead
of the game with offering these resources. Legislation is constantly changing and we are changing
with it. We are offering more resources because the more we offer the more students might come
forward and talk about being a victim and we need to be able to be there for them. We have the
resources in place and it is our job to make sure that students know what these resources are, and I
think that is what we will continue to try and do.
Me: What do you think that high schools and the public education system can do to
make sure that when students get to college they are aware of these issues?
Amber: The hardest thing about working on prevention on a college campus is that we are working
backwards. We need students to come in with some of the foundation that we are teaching now. I
think that all of the things that are specifically related to sexual assault are things related to sexual
health, alcohol and drugs, body image issues and media influence, and students are coming to
college without being aware of all these issues. Its funny because when I go around to do the peer
outreach myself, Ill ask students how many of you had a health education class, and then you see all
these hands go up, but when I ask students how many of you were allowed to say the words penis
or vagina in class, most of the hands go down. If you were not allowed to say the words penis and
vagina then you did not have a health education. If students cannot be taught to be comfortable
with their body and what they can do with it, then you were not educated and that is why we are
here today. We need to face the reality that there are 13 and 14 year olds having sex and people
struggling with addiction in high school, and if we are not talking about it then they are not learning.
The one thing that hinders everyones growth with this subject is denial.
Me: As a society what do you think we can do to help make the issue with sexual
assault better?
Amber: Immediately I think of women being objectified in ads and that in itself leads to a lack of
self- esteem. We need to be building up and empowering people instead of breaking down. The
biggest issue is victim blaming, we need to stop talking about the girl dressed in the short skirt and
calling that the issue, when the issue is the person who
sexually assaulted her. It is the perpetrators behavior
that needs to end.
By Gabrielle Cruz,
undergraduate marketing intern
Sources: http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-theedge/2015/11/18/rape-on-college-campuses-nearly-1-in-6-freshmenwomen-are-assaulted
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Before you jump to conclusions or pass over this article, understand that the Department of
Justice has found that students from ages 1824 are the demographics most likely targeted
for sexual assault. Unfortunately, some of the
statistics found online are not reliable enough to
consider because 80% of college students who
have experienced sexual assault did not report it.
According to Huffingtonpost, it states that
According to the Rape, Abuse and Incest
National Network, one out of every six American
women and one in 33 American men has been
the victim of an attempted or completed rape in
their lifetime. No matter your sexual gender, when or where your assault occurred, or even
whether or not youve been sexually assaulted before, this month is meant to support those
who are still traumatized by the incident and is looking for the guidance and strength to move
on.
If you have experienced sexual assault before and is looking for help, there are many
resources around campus to help you regarding this matter. Services on campus include
individual counseling and
therapy, group counseling
and therapy, sexual assault
prevention programs-- all
that could be found on
www.binghamton.edu/
counseling/about-us/ourstaff.html
If you have a friend who is
still shaken up by a sexual
assault incident, there are
few ways you can help
him or her out. First and
foremost, be there for a
bearcat no matter the gender of sexual orientation. Even if a guy has been sexually assaulted,
he should not be treated any differently than if a girl has been. Future tips for your bearcat
family members are,
1. Whether or not you understand the traumatizing experience, your presence is priority.
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Sources: Bina, Emily Heinz. Speaking Now: Sexual Assault Survivors Share Their Stories After Years Of Silence. The
Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 24 Apr. 2015. Web. 18 Mar. 2016.
Reid, Paula. DOJ Releases Report on College-age Rape and Sexual Assault. CBSNews. CBS Interactive, 11 Dec. 2014. Web.
18 Mar. 2016.
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However you identify,
anyone can be a victim
of sexual assault.
Now is the time to stay united, share
compassion, and not be a bystander.
Learn more about Sexual Assault Awareness Month 2016 at:
http://www.nsvrc.org/saam
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Contact Us
Location:Library South G 549
Phone:(607) 777-4472
Fax:(607)777-2373
Email:mrc@binghamton.edu
Staff
Nicole Sirju-Johnson, Ph.D - Director
njohnson@binghamton.edu
Tanyah Barnes, M.Ed - Interim MRC Assistant Director
tbarnes@binghamton.edu
Michele Hayes - Secretary
mahayes@binghamton.edu