I am writing you with my concerns about a campuswide attitude that is ignored, even encouraged by Embry-Riddle. I hope to raise awareness about the experiences that I have had, as a female, on campus this year. As a female, I do not feel welcome at this university. Embry-Riddle talks a great deal about how they want more women to attend the school, encouraging them to pursue a career in engineering. Females are even offered an automatic scholarship to attend, but this is not enough. Everyone has the right to feel comfortable and safe on this campus, but misogynistic ideas are rampant and encouraged at Embry-Riddle. I always looked forward to college and hoped to meet peers with similar interests for intelligent discussions, but I never expected …show more content…
what I have experienced here. I will not be returning to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University next year. During my first week at Embry-Riddle, my RA explained a campuswide custom, known as Riddle Vision.
This is a situation where all girls on campus are automatically given a rating of a 5 on a 1-10 scale, created by the guys on campus. This handicap is due to the shortage of girls. This was a terrible introduction to the school, leading me to instantly question if women could be taken seriously on campus. It is not fun to be objectified. Instead we should have had a meeting explaining that language like this would not be tolerated and discrimination would be punished. I was shocked that of all people, my RA introduced this type of school lingo to me, but I began to recognize similar patterns throughout the year. I was very disappointed to have someone in a position of trust and authority introduce me to this practice, and the other day, my RA even made a joke that was ultimately about prostitution and oral sex, and I find this lack of respect and tact to be a form of sexual harassment and degradation as well. I do not believe that this type of behavior should be tolerated, especially from someone who is being employed by, and represents Embry-Riddle. Executives, CEOs, senators, and congressmen are losing their jobs every day now due to such behavior, but Embry-Riddle encourages it. I think college is supposed to prepare students for the real world, but someone has really dropped the ball here. At orientation students are told that with an ER degree, we can be hired anywhere. …show more content…
However, getting a job and having the skills to keep it are two different things. At the beginning of Blue and Gold week, comedian Adam Devine was brought onto campus for a “comedy” show.
I was not too familiar with his routine or stand up material, but I figured that the show would be fun to attend, and was looking forward to participating in the spirit week. I was aware that the show had a content warning, and knew that some of the material may be intended for older audiences. When I arrived, I found that there were two comedians performing that night, and they were both downright offensive and vulgar, mostly at women’s expense. The first comedian, who opened for Devine, had a crude act and many of his jokes were in regard to sodomy and other lewd acts. Adam Devine’s act was similar in content and material, with masturbation a common theme, along with degrading women in any way. My biggest regret was not walking right out during the show, not only because it was uncouth, but because of the way that women were being portrayed and laughed at. In a time where prominent movements like “Me Too” and “Times Up” have found success, I find it incredibly insensitive and inappropriate for a college to feature comedians that base their routines on jokes about women. The university must have a keen awareness of entertainment being contracted for events and nothing like this ever should have been allowed. It seems as though there is no adult supervision regarding what is respectable and what crosses the
line. More recently, the Avion published with a special “satirical edition”, called The Avioff. When I had heard about the special edition for April Fools, I expected the paper to read like The Onion, and was excited to enter the satirical writing contest in hopes of being featured in the paper. However, when I picked up my copy of the Avioff, I found that the humor was by no means satirical or intelligent, but instead, offensive, vulgar, and degrading towards women. Satire is clever, ironic, and pertinent, and the Avioff was far from it. I have included a copy for you in case you missed it. I find it to be extremely inappropriate, and I am shocked that the school would allow such content to be published even in a joking manner. Despite the warnings that the Avioff content is purposefully offensive, I believe that it perpetuates the misogynistic attitudes shared by many of the students. Jokes about hitting on, and harassing girls is not funny, and spoofing the school’s “Touch N’ Go” club name with “Fondle N’ Flee” is outrageously inappropriate. Many of the jokes in the so called satirical paper are about “scoring” with girls, and Riddle Ratio (which was renamed “Riddle Dicktio” for this particular paper), and forcing one’s self on girls who are not interested in your advances. Joking about harassment is never okay. Furthermore, many of the jokes cross other lines, and much of the content is simply uncouth and tawdry. The fake advertisement for “Mike’s Meat Market” for example, is an over-the-top euphemism for different forms of sexual intercourse. The jokes are ill-mannered, and reference male genitalia and sodomy. Never in my life would I have imagined a school allowing, or encouraging the spread of this type of content. Not only are the jokes sexually inappropriate, but they also reinforce the idea that this is humor. This childish material published and normalized creates an overall unfriendly and hostile environment, especially for female students. Few women will comment as they are outnumbered and overpowered. A warning or advisory does not justify ill-mannered or unacceptable actions. There is a difference between being easily offended, and knowing what is and what is not okay to joke about. After some research, I discovered that this type of content and sexual harassment is not uncommon for the Avioff. I found a previously published, particularly offensive image spoofing the Women of Excellence Scholarship, and it read “Ovarian Possession Scholarship. Requirements: Possesses female “genitalia,” have been diagnosed with RIBS, be open minded/legged”. Many of the jokes that I found reference the amount of “hot girls” on campus, and playfully encourage the stalking of girls. This edition of the paper is simply disgusting. This year I found myself regretting my decision to attend Embry-Riddle, primarily for the reasons that I have discussed. I have not been harassed personally, but being surrounded by sexism and coarse, lewd behavior every day, and seeing the school allow different types of discrimination to exist, is disappointing, to say the least. Even when I work with males in group projects there is a blatant disregard for any input from females, which is generally received with various obscenities. These students will never be able to carry these attitudes into any type of professional workplace, and it is irresponsible for a university to allow and even encourage such behavior. I will be transferring to a major research university which embraces open minds and intelligence, regardless of gender. During my interview, I relayed my experiences at Embry-Riddle, and I was assured that such behavior would never be tolerated at most schools. I hope that this letter will encourage some change, and that I was able to open your eyes to some of the issues at Embry-Riddle.
They should start discussions about rape and sexist cases because it’s going on in today’s society and for people to know it’s okay to talk about it if it ever happened to them. Colleges need to prepare students for the real word so they need to have real life discussions in class for the students that are growing up and entering the workforce. College campuses are going through the mircoagression theory and professors fear to talk about trigger warnings in class when both students and professors should have freedom of speech in classrooms. “One of my biggest concerns about trigger warnings,” Roff wrote, “is that they will apply not just to those who have experienced trauma, but to all students, creating an atmosphere in which they are encouraged to believe that there is something dangerous or damaging about discussing difficult aspects of our history.” (49). Professors try to avoid teaching material that will upset sensitive students, but instead they should start warning students about the materials they are going to teach and set boundaries so students can know what they are about to learn to prevent teachers from getting in trouble or risk getting fired from their
In this brief report, I will be examining common practices, policies and resources that support Black women attending Princeton University. Included is a brief review of national averages in regards to higher education attainment and a rationale for continued rhetoric on this topic. My interest in this topic stem from my experience at State University’s Women Studies Program. While the conversation around gender is necessary and crucial, little attention was given to discussions of how race and gender affect an individual’s lived experience. I was constantly aware of my lack of representation among students who were in those classes and the faculty who taught.
She confirms that the college she works at is affected by gender discrimination with the data stating, “more than 55 percent of our applicants are female” (Britz). The facts in the article that tell the most about the college gender gap are, “ two-thirds of colleges and universities report that they get more female than male applicants” and “ more than 56 percent of undergraduates nationwide are women” (Britz). This evidence reinforces the claim the author makes earlier in the article, that the overflow of women in colleges makes it harder for them to get accepted. The statistics in this article provide logical proof to appeal to the
Sexual Assault on campus has become an epidemic, for many different reasons but one major factor that contributes is when a sexual assault occurs on a University and nothing is done. By allowing the perpetrator to get away with his or her crime your “Okaying” them and in a way giving approval which can lead
Sexual assault and rape on college campuses is a serious public issue. Before applying to these accredited institutions most students do not look up the school 's past records of sexual assault and rape on their campus.College campuses have failed to keep students safe the system they use has failed to protect and obtain justice for those that have been victims of sexual assault. Society plays a huge part in how young adults view sexual assault. From young age girls are told “if he’s bothering you it 's because he likes you”, and boys aren 't held accountable for their actions because “boys will be boys”. At what time does it stop being a game. At what age is it not acceptable for boys to mistreat girls, when is the line drawn and, what is the punishment for when this line is crossed.
...male students had no problem befriending me, as well as the female students. I did know of a lot more “emotional” male students that were bullied, mainly by other male students. The main point of this article was to show that femininity is still looked at, as a bad thing because of the traits it has been given. It also brings up the fact that people are treated; whether they are male or female different, if they tend to lean more towards the feminine gender side. A persons gender is how they act and how they are but it is not what they are and that is the overall argument of this article(Shaw, Lee 126).
Life has so many exciting events that happen, from birth to having a family and one of those events is going to college. High school students prepare everything to be accepted by their dream college. In college, there are many opportunities and excitement,. But with all happiness, there’s always a negative to coincide. A very big problem that is rampant among big college campuses is sexual assault. One in five women will be sexually assaulted while attending college and yet sixty-one percent of cases are unreported. Why is that? How come so few are heard? The reason why most on campus sexual assault cases go unheard or unreported is because the college or university has their attention focused on income rather than the well-being of their own students. This is coupled with the fact that
“I felt his hands start to move down towards my shorts as if he was trying to unbutton them or pull them off. I was still crying at this point and felt so scared that I couldn’t move” (Henneberger, 2012). These are words written by a college freshman after she had been raped, but they are true for many others as well. According to the Rape Crisis Center of Medina and Summit Counties, “every two minutes someone in the US is sexually assaulted” (Get the Facts). “Girls ages 16-19 are four times more likely than the than the general population to be victims of sexual assault” (Get the Facts). These women may be described as slut, cheap, or ready for action, rather than victim, sufferer, or survivor. Rape myths encourage these demeaning terms for women and conceal the reality of rape culture. I will describe the pervasiveness of sexual assault on college campuses as well as the systems and procedures in place to address it. Power plays a role in this issue, including the powerful men on campus such as athletes and fraternity members as well as the administrators in power who regulate the punishments and actions that are taken against the perpetrators. The influence of those in power often goes overlooked in our society because it has become so intertwined with our culture.
This thought process is what causes a stigma later in college, declaring that when someone is sexually assaulted on campus, the person was asking for it. This can be detrimental to a young girl, and can even "Dress Code!" MasterFILE Complete. Educational Leadership, Dec.-Jan. 2014-2015.
Every semester, a student attending a college campus will have at some point experience some inappropriate, unwanted attention. There is always someone at school who tends to make someone uncomfortable, be it through eye contact, persistent advances, or just uncalled for innuendos. Of course, we do our best to ignore it, or to just report the bothersome activity, but that can only do so much without someone finding a way around such things. Someone is always going the extra mile to get what he or she wants, even if it’s at the expense of the victim. We can’t turn a blind eye on our friends, our family, or our associates in these dark, sexual assault situation. Campus sexual assault is a problem with plenty of factors regarding it.
Women’s education has been seen as a way for all the focus on all the attention and opportunity on the students that attend the college. It is seen as a way to eliminate the need to compete with their male peers, with no one to compete with these colleges argue that women have the ability to hold all of the leadership positions on campus which provide them with a valuable experience to apply their future cultures and post-graduate lives. The environment provides women with stronger role models they aren't typically p...
The first all female schools began in the early 1800’s. These academies favored more traditional gender roles, women being the home makers and the men being the bread winners. The first generation of educated women was the result of single-sex colleges in 1873. Wendy Kaminer, an investigative journalist, states that “single-sex education was not exactly a choice; it was a cultural mandate at a time when sexual segregation was considered only natural” (1). Women of this time were technically not allowed to attend school with males. Feminists of this time worked hard to integrate the school system and by the early 1900’s, single sex classrooms were a thing of the past. In 1910, twenty-seven percent of colleges were for men only, fifteen percent were for women only and the remainders were coed. Today, women outnumber men among college graduates (Kaminer 1). After all the hard work of early feminists, there are thousands of people today who advocate bringing back the single sex classroom.
Before 1965, higher education institutions were mostly populated by white males from upper and middle families. Blacks and other minorities were prohibited from attending colleges due to the prevailing discrimination attitude. Women, unfortunately, also had limited access to higher education because of their lower social statu...
This class showed me how inequality is the base of education, if it’s not about gender it’s about class or race, making it hard for a person that falls under this description to have an equal chance, yet our society train us to believe that education can change