With the recent stories about alcohol abuse, fraternity hazing and sexual assault, The Times-Delphic will join Provost Michael Renner in calling for a campus-wide dialogue on the issues that are currently plaguing our campus.
By providing a forum for campus members – both students and faculty – to voice their opinion on how to solve our problems, we can capitalize on this moment in Drake history and leave the university better and stronger than we found it.
We will make it our mission that these recent, terrible stories will not define our Drake experience.
When we graduate from this university, we will be confident that those who know of Drake will not know it because of these tragic events that have occurred over the last two weeks, they will know it for the excellence in both education and morals that this university instills in its graduates.
So, please, visit www.timesdelphic.com and start this much-needed dialogue.
I think there needs to be more sober activities on campus.
It doesn’t help that SAB plans events for Tuesday night. For those of us stuck in our rooms while everyone else goes out to get blacked out, movies and board games can only go so far.
Some of my friends who are in the same boat as me are thinking about transferring to a larger school to find more people like then, hoping that university cares about those students who don’t drink or join Greek houses.
Something has to get done!
Drake needs to have a partnership with this council and be the first private school to participate. Please don’t exclude the role men play is stopping violence against women.
Men’s Anti-Violence Council (part of the Women’s Resource and Action Center, U of Iowa)
http://mensantiviolencecouncil.wordpress.com/
Every year, the group participates in the White Ribbon Campaign, the largest men’s anti-violence effort in the world, and has hosted film viewings and discussions on campus. “Men haven’t been challenged to get involved,” Koon says. “We’re trying to engage them and teach them the skills they need to be helpful. In addition, the council—one of few on college campuses around the country—has teamed up with Iowa State University and the University of Northern Iowa to engage college men in preventing sexual assault and violence.”