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The Brown and White Vol. 131 No. 22 Friday, December 2, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Islamic studies center in need of funding ‘Yes’ doesn’t always mean ‘yes’ Panhel announces recruitment changes By MATTHEW COSSEL B&W Staff Understanding unwanted consensual sex By DANIELLE CAMPBELL Assistant News Editor By CATE PETERSON Associate News Editor The Center for Global Islamic Studies is running out of funds and looking for financial support Lehigh’s Center for Global Islamic Studies has operated for seven years on donations and grants, but has never received funding from the university. Now that those initial funds have run out, the center is in danger of being shut down. Rob Rozehnal, the director of the Center for Global Islamic Studies and an associate professor of religion studies, said the center was founded in 2009 through the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Since then, it has hosted 11 traveling scholars, who have spe-cialized in such things as Arabic language and literature, Islamic art and architecture, Islam and gender, and others. “But the funding was tempo-rary, and visiting scholars moved on,” Rozehnal said. “Since the end of Mellon funding in the spring of 2014, the center has remained in a state of limbo.” Zara Khan, an adjunct profes-sor in the political science depart-ment, believes the center to be important as a space on campus for students to study Islamic cul-ture. Islam is one of the major global religions, she said, and having the center legitimizes the Muslim world’s contributions to society, in both historical and contempo-rary contexts. Khan is at Lehigh replacing Nandini Deo, an associate profes-sor of political science, who is on maternity leave. Roshan Giyanani/B&W Staff This photo is an artistic representation of the blurred lines of sexual consent in situations where individuals may feel pressured or obligated to say yes, even if they may not want to. Unwanted consensual sex is prevalent on college campuses. With rape and assault at the forefront of the gender violence con-versation, a quieter, less discernible type of gender violence is happen-ing across the country with a name that matches its ambiguity. Although less outwardly repul-sive, researchers believe it to be traumatic nonetheless. In a 2002 study entitled “Why Some Women Consent to Unwanted Sex with a Dating Partner: Insights from Attachment Theory,” unwant-ed consensual sex is described as sex that is consented to when one truly does not want to participate. The study says this happens for such reasons as not wanting to disappoint a partner, fearing one’s partner will break up with them if they deny sex and belief that men have a higher and uncontrollable sex drive. It happens at Lehigh. There is the 20-year-old Lehigh student who said she has sex with her boyfriend, even when she doesn’t want to, because she doesn’t want to fight. There is the 20-year-old Lehigh student who said she felt obligated to sleep with a date after a date party and then thought, “I didn’t want to do that.” There is the 19-year-old Lehigh student who said he sees men at Lehigh pressure their friends into having sex. There is the possibility that unwanted consensual sex can hap-pen in any relationship, regardless of gender, sexuality or seriousness of the relationship. Nicole Johnson, an assistant pro-fessor of counseling psychology at Lehigh researching the implemen-tation of prevention programming for gender-based violence, found a study on sexual behavior conduct-ed by a researcher at San Jose State University, Jason Laker. The researcher followed a group of stu-dents their first year on campus and recorded their sexual behavior. Johnson said the researcher cate-gorized these experiences into four types of sexual behavior: rape; trau-matic but consensual sex; enjoy-able but lawfully non-consensual sex; and enjoyable, consensual sex. Johnson said traumatic but con-sensual sex — a sexual encounter which is consensual yet results in one partner feeling traumatized — is closest to the idea of unwanted consensual sex. “Consenting to unwanted sex in a committed relationship may just be one more form of negotiation for the relationship’s sake,” said Rita Jones, the director of the Women’s Center. “In the same way that it is, ‘Fine I’ll go grocery shopping, you On Jan. 18, buses will drop potential new members, or PNMs, off at each of the nine sorori-ty houses on the Hill for spring sorority recruitment. Lehigh’s Panhellenic Council has decided to hold the first round of recruitment in chapter houses on the Hill as opposed to various academic buildings around cam-pus. In past years, each chapter was randomly assigned to a dif-ferent academic building. “I think it sort of became ‘Who can decorate this academic build-ing better than this other per-son?’” said Jacy Herman, ’17, Panhel’s vice president of exter-nal recruitment. “You can’t con-trol what space you were assigned to, so now it’s easier for recruit-ment chairs and chapters them-selves to go back to the house and not worry about decorating a space that could potentially not be decorated.” Some academic buildings were easier to decorate than others, taking attention away from the values and sisterhood of each chapter, and placing it on super-ficial embellishments. Stephanie Behrens, ’17, Panhel’s vice president of inter-nal recruitment, said moving the first round of recruitment back into the chapter houses also elim-inates the need for chapters to lug decorations, food and supplies to the academic buildings. Behrens said transportation costs will be covered through the cost of registration for formal recruitment. In addition to moving the first round of recruitment back onto the Hill, Panhel has also changed See CONSENT Page 3 See PANHEL Page 3 See ISLAMIC Page 2
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Title | Brown and White Vol. 131 no. 22 |
Date | 2016-12-02 |
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Day | 02 |
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FullText | The Brown and White Vol. 131 No. 22 Friday, December 2, 2016 ‘All the Lehigh News First’ Islamic studies center in need of funding ‘Yes’ doesn’t always mean ‘yes’ Panhel announces recruitment changes By MATTHEW COSSEL B&W Staff Understanding unwanted consensual sex By DANIELLE CAMPBELL Assistant News Editor By CATE PETERSON Associate News Editor The Center for Global Islamic Studies is running out of funds and looking for financial support Lehigh’s Center for Global Islamic Studies has operated for seven years on donations and grants, but has never received funding from the university. Now that those initial funds have run out, the center is in danger of being shut down. Rob Rozehnal, the director of the Center for Global Islamic Studies and an associate professor of religion studies, said the center was founded in 2009 through the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Since then, it has hosted 11 traveling scholars, who have spe-cialized in such things as Arabic language and literature, Islamic art and architecture, Islam and gender, and others. “But the funding was tempo-rary, and visiting scholars moved on,” Rozehnal said. “Since the end of Mellon funding in the spring of 2014, the center has remained in a state of limbo.” Zara Khan, an adjunct profes-sor in the political science depart-ment, believes the center to be important as a space on campus for students to study Islamic cul-ture. Islam is one of the major global religions, she said, and having the center legitimizes the Muslim world’s contributions to society, in both historical and contempo-rary contexts. Khan is at Lehigh replacing Nandini Deo, an associate profes-sor of political science, who is on maternity leave. Roshan Giyanani/B&W Staff This photo is an artistic representation of the blurred lines of sexual consent in situations where individuals may feel pressured or obligated to say yes, even if they may not want to. Unwanted consensual sex is prevalent on college campuses. With rape and assault at the forefront of the gender violence con-versation, a quieter, less discernible type of gender violence is happen-ing across the country with a name that matches its ambiguity. Although less outwardly repul-sive, researchers believe it to be traumatic nonetheless. In a 2002 study entitled “Why Some Women Consent to Unwanted Sex with a Dating Partner: Insights from Attachment Theory,” unwant-ed consensual sex is described as sex that is consented to when one truly does not want to participate. The study says this happens for such reasons as not wanting to disappoint a partner, fearing one’s partner will break up with them if they deny sex and belief that men have a higher and uncontrollable sex drive. It happens at Lehigh. There is the 20-year-old Lehigh student who said she has sex with her boyfriend, even when she doesn’t want to, because she doesn’t want to fight. There is the 20-year-old Lehigh student who said she felt obligated to sleep with a date after a date party and then thought, “I didn’t want to do that.” There is the 19-year-old Lehigh student who said he sees men at Lehigh pressure their friends into having sex. There is the possibility that unwanted consensual sex can hap-pen in any relationship, regardless of gender, sexuality or seriousness of the relationship. Nicole Johnson, an assistant pro-fessor of counseling psychology at Lehigh researching the implemen-tation of prevention programming for gender-based violence, found a study on sexual behavior conduct-ed by a researcher at San Jose State University, Jason Laker. The researcher followed a group of stu-dents their first year on campus and recorded their sexual behavior. Johnson said the researcher cate-gorized these experiences into four types of sexual behavior: rape; trau-matic but consensual sex; enjoy-able but lawfully non-consensual sex; and enjoyable, consensual sex. Johnson said traumatic but con-sensual sex — a sexual encounter which is consensual yet results in one partner feeling traumatized — is closest to the idea of unwanted consensual sex. “Consenting to unwanted sex in a committed relationship may just be one more form of negotiation for the relationship’s sake,” said Rita Jones, the director of the Women’s Center. “In the same way that it is, ‘Fine I’ll go grocery shopping, you On Jan. 18, buses will drop potential new members, or PNMs, off at each of the nine sorori-ty houses on the Hill for spring sorority recruitment. Lehigh’s Panhellenic Council has decided to hold the first round of recruitment in chapter houses on the Hill as opposed to various academic buildings around cam-pus. In past years, each chapter was randomly assigned to a dif-ferent academic building. “I think it sort of became ‘Who can decorate this academic build-ing better than this other per-son?’” said Jacy Herman, ’17, Panhel’s vice president of exter-nal recruitment. “You can’t con-trol what space you were assigned to, so now it’s easier for recruit-ment chairs and chapters them-selves to go back to the house and not worry about decorating a space that could potentially not be decorated.” Some academic buildings were easier to decorate than others, taking attention away from the values and sisterhood of each chapter, and placing it on super-ficial embellishments. Stephanie Behrens, ’17, Panhel’s vice president of inter-nal recruitment, said moving the first round of recruitment back into the chapter houses also elim-inates the need for chapters to lug decorations, food and supplies to the academic buildings. Behrens said transportation costs will be covered through the cost of registration for formal recruitment. In addition to moving the first round of recruitment back onto the Hill, Panhel has also changed See CONSENT Page 3 See PANHEL Page 3 See ISLAMIC Page 2 |
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