Canada Universities r shaming us all- Memorial University Professor got it right and how brave he is- step up Canada- rape is rape is rape is rape- bullying is bullying is bullying is bullying - IN UR FACE WITH EVERY STUDENT- RAPE- BULLYING- RACISM-GENDER-RELIGION- ESPECIALLY WOMEN = MEN IN R CANADA..... The Day I taught students how NOT 2 Rape- remind them -talk- discuss and make it mandatory in schools and universities folks ...talk about it at home with the family and do NOT let kids pretend it embarrases them- IT MAY KEEP THEM OUT OF JAIL 4 RAPE!!!!... they need the rules... just like driving a car.... choosing the right friends.... having a soul....imho
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JUSTICE 4 REHTAEH PARSONS: NEWSFLASH:
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Young man enters guilty plea in high-profile Nova Scotia child porn case
STEVE BRUCE COURT REPORTER
Last Updated September 22, 2014 - 11:54am
http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/1238106-young-man-enters-guilty-plea-in-high-profile-nova-scotia-child-porn-case
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FEB 5 2014- Just in : WTF??? is going on in Canadian Universities across this country... YET ANOTHER SLAP AT WOMEN.... ??? Women = Men in Canada- it's been the law like 4eva.... University of Toronto- York University-University of BC-St. Mary's, University of Saskatchewan, Memorial University- NFLD (student union don't have the courage 2 ensure rape, bullycides are made part of the study)... oh come on! ur supposed 2 lead our children...
U of T student loses bid to avoid class with women because he’s shy
U of T student Wongene Daniel Kim loses complaint before Human Rights body against prof who docked marks when he wouldn’t attend co-ed class
The controversy sparked a national debate about how far universities should go to accommodate students, from religious belief to personal preferences.
“The heart of the Human Rights Code is to make sure people are treated fairly and accommodated for grounds protected by the code, like race, gender, disability — but shyness around women is certainly not one of those grounds,” said Jim Turk, executive director of the Canadian Association for University Teachers.
“There is no reason whatsoever to accommodate personal preference — what if I didn’t like redheads? — and when people try to use it for personal preference undermines the basic values of a post-secondary education dedicated to diversity and not treating any class of students as subordinate to others.”
U of T spokesman Michael Kurts agreed the university accommodates student requests based on any grounds protected by the Ontario Human Rights Code, “but those human rights obligations do not extend to individual preferences.”
With files from Graham Slaughter
http://www.thestar.com/yourtoronto/education/2014/02/05/u_of_t_student_loses_bid_to_avoid_class_with_women_because_hes_shy.html?google_editors_picks=true
COMMENT: Suggestion,
change schools - go to York U, and tell them you object to woman being in the same class on religious grounds.
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MENTAL WELLNESS MATTERS IN CANADA- Hold On... please Hold On
Please don't give up- everybody hurts... sometimes... hold on, hold on, hold on
R.E.M. ~ Everybody Hurts
Lyrics:
When your day is long and the night
The night is yours alone
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on
Don't let yourself go
Everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes
Sometimes everything is wrong
Now it's time to sing along
When your day is night alone (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go (hold on)
When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on
Everybody hurts
Take comfort in your friends.
Everybody hurts
Don't throw your hand. Oh, no
Don't throw your hand
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone
If you're on your own in this life
The days and nights are long
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on
Well, everybody hurts sometimes
Everybody cries
And everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes
So, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on
(Hold on, hold on)
Everybody hurts
You are not alone
R.E.M.- Everybody Hurts
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THE DAY I TAUGHT HOW NOT TO RAPE
Yesterday, the news invaded my classroom. I think the kids aren’t paying attention. I think the kids only care about the news as it relates to Justin Bieber. I think they aren’t listening or capable of advanced thought. Every single time I think one of those things, I sell out the ninth-graders that come traipsing through my room every day.
It started when I picked this poem to go over different ways to look at poetry:
Witness
Martha Collins
If she says something now he’ll say
it’s not true if he says it’s not true
they’ll think it’s not true if they think
it’s not true it will be nothing new
but for her it will be a weightier
thing it will fill up the space where
he isn’t allowed it will open the door
of the room where she’s put him
away he will fill up her mind he will fill
up her plate and her glass he will fill up
her shoes and her clothes she will never
forget him he says if she says
something now if she says something ever
he never will let her forget and it’s true
for a week for a month but the more
she says true and the more he says not
the smaller he seems he may fill up
his shoes he may fill up his clothes
the usual spaces he fills but something
is missing whatever they say whatever
they think he is not what he was
and the room in her mind is open she
walks in and out as she pleases she says
what she pleases she says what she means.
it’s not true if he says it’s not true
they’ll think it’s not true if they think
it’s not true it will be nothing new
but for her it will be a weightier
thing it will fill up the space where
he isn’t allowed it will open the door
of the room where she’s put him
away he will fill up her mind he will fill
up her plate and her glass he will fill up
her shoes and her clothes she will never
forget him he says if she says
something now if she says something ever
he never will let her forget and it’s true
for a week for a month but the more
she says true and the more he says not
the smaller he seems he may fill up
his shoes he may fill up his clothes
the usual spaces he fills but something
is missing whatever they say whatever
they think he is not what he was
and the room in her mind is open she
walks in and out as she pleases she says
what she pleases she says what she means.
It is ambiguous. I suppose that is the point. The best literature for me to teach is the kind that gives the kids enough to be interested in, but they still don’t have a clear idea of what is going on. We spend the day looking at the poem from every angle we can find, or at least that is the plan.
Yesterday, pretty immediately, someone in the back shot their hand up and did not wait for me to call on them. “Ms. Norman, this poem is about rape.” It wasn’t a question. It is rare for a fifteen-year-old to speak about anything with this kind of authority, let alone poetry. A few kids chimed in to agree with the first student and I admitted that I often read the poem that way, even if you don’t have to. I was about to launch into an explanation of other ways this poem could be read.
“Ms. Norman” another kid called, “Have you heard about that rape case in Ohio? Those guys got convicted. They have to go to jail. They are going to lose their scholarships. They were going to D-1 schools!”
“Well…”I responded, feeling the heat crawl up my neck, “maybe they are going to jail for rape because THEY ARE RAPISTS!” I yelled those last three words at my kids and watched as some of them blinked in surprise. Apparently, the thought had never occurred to them that these athletes who were convicted of rape, were in fact rapists.
It is a strange thing about looking into the face of a 15-year-old, to really see who they are. You still see the small child that their mother sees. You see the man or woman they will be before they graduate. They are babies whose innocence you want desperately to protect. They are old enough to know better, even if no one has taught them.
I realized then that some of my kids were genuinely confused. “How can she be raped?” they asked, “She wasn’t awake to say no.” These words out of a full fledged adult would have made me furious. I did get a good few minutes in response on victim blaming and why it is so terrible. But out of the face of a kid who still has baby fat, those words just made me sick. My students are still young enough, that mostly they just spout what they have learned, and they have learned that absent a no, the yes is implied.
It is uncomfortable to think that some of the students you still call babies have the potential to be rapists. It is sickening, it is terrifying, but it is true. It is a reality we have to face. My students have lived in a world for fifteen years where the joke “she probably wanted it” isn’t really a joke, they need to unlearn some lessons that no one will admit to teaching them.
Standing in front of my classroom and stating that a woman’s clothing choice is never permission to rape her should not be a radical act. But only a few heads nodded in agreement. Most were stunned, like this was a completely new thought. The follow up questions were terrifying in their earnestness. “Ms. Norman, you mean a woman walking down the street naked is not her inviting sex? How will I know she wants to have sex?” A surprisingly bold voice came out of a girl in the back “You’ll know when she says, you want to have sex?!”
If you want to keep teens from being rapists, you can no longer assume that they know how. You HAVE to talk about it. There is no longer a choice. It is no longer enough to talk to our kids about the mechanics of sex, it probably never was. We have to talk about consent, what it means, and how you are sure you have it. We have to teach clearly and boldly that consent is (in the words of Dianna E. Anderson) an enthusiastic, unequivocal YES!
What came next, when the idea of a clear yes came up, is the reason I will always choose to teach freshmen. They are still young enough to want to entertain new ideas. When we reversed the conversation from, “well she didn’t say no,” to “she has to say YES!” many of them lit up. “Ms. Norman,” they said, “that does make a lot more sense.” “Ms. Norman,” they exclaimed, “that way leaves a lot less confusion.” When one of the boys asked, well what do you want me to do, get a napkin and make her sign it, about four girls from the back yelled, YEAH!
What happened in Steubenville makes me sick, but we are kidding ourselves if we think that it is not representative of what is happening in basement parties after the homecoming game all across America. Our kids want to talk about it. They need to talk about it. We need to have conversations about consent that are not centered around what should have been done, but are instead centered on what will be done in the future. Our teens can handle it, I promise they can.
A strong understanding of consent as an enthusiastic and unequivocal yes is essential to reversing the culture that our teens have grown up in. The amazing thing is the way my students responded to the conversation. Our students want a better way, it is our responsibility to show it to them, even if it is scary, especially when it might make us uncomfortable.
Our students are paying attention. They do care about what is going on in the world. They do listen and are capable of advanced thought. I am done selling out the ninth-graders that traipse through my room every day. The news will no longer invade my classroom, instead I will invite it.
Is is worth noting that the young people involved in this incident were nearly the same age as your students?
I am glad y’all are talking about it, I hope it happens in high schools across the country because there appears to be a culture of confusion here (not surprising, as our adult culture is pretty confused as well). Our young people get a lot of mixed messages that as adults we just learn to cope with. I think we take for granted that young folks understand oppression, sexism and exploitation—but how will they learn to identify it when they see it in movies, on TV, in song lyrics, etc if there isn’t someone along the way to point it out? It just becomes the norm. A norm that needs changing.
I am glad y’all are talking about it, I hope it happens in high schools across the country because there appears to be a culture of confusion here (not surprising, as our adult culture is pretty confused as well). Our young people get a lot of mixed messages that as adults we just learn to cope with. I think we take for granted that young folks understand oppression, sexism and exploitation—but how will they learn to identify it when they see it in movies, on TV, in song lyrics, etc if there isn’t someone along the way to point it out? It just becomes the norm. A norm that needs changing.
Thanks for your work.
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The Professor at Memorial is a hero 2 all women and girls and boys raped around the world.... who often - MARTIN KRUZE- I WAS A PAEDOPHILE'S DREAM- commit suicide.... this needs teaching each and every day so public that students GET IT!!!!! RAPE AND BULLYING IS RAPE AND BULLYING!
Memorial University assignment on rape and suicide upsets student union
By The Canadian PressJanuary 31, 2014 12:07 PM
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The student union at Newfoundland's Memorial University is calling for a professor to apologize for a controversial assignment that it says makes light of sexual assault and mental health.
Candace Simms, the student union's executive director of external affairs, said she learned of the assignment after students in a computer science class taught by John Shieh (SHEE) came forward to complain.
Simms said the Jan. 20 assignment asked students to create a computer program that could help determine whether a rape victim would commit suicide.
"Students were very upset," Simms said Friday in an interview. "It's a pretty disrespectful question to ask and it's unnecessary for the type of assignment that it is. There are thousands of other possibilities that this instructor could have used."
Shieh could not be reached for comment.
A spokeswoman for the university said the dean of science, Mark Abrahams, was unavailable for an interview.
However, Kelly Foss emailed a statement from Abrahams in which he said the school was investigating the matter.
"I can assure you we are taking this matter very seriously," he said. "The particular assignment question has, understandably, raised concern throughout the Memorial community and beyond. It does not reflect the vision, mission and values of our university."
Simms said the student union believes Shieh should undergo sensitivity training with the school's sexual harassment office, but it is not calling for him to be punished.
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ON FEBRRUARY 14, 2014- come join world’s women and children- One Billion Rising – Break the Chains of Abuse- No more excuses- We want Justice... V-DAY.... and then we were jumping.... powerful video around the world.... inspiring...
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Published on Jan 8, 2014
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This event at Saint Mary's University was organized in part, to bring awareness to this years production of the acclaimed play The Vagina Monologues. One Billion Rising is also a celebration of progress in the work to end domestic violence.
We rise too, as a reminder that the discussion and activism need to continue.
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AUDREY HEPBURN – WHEN ASKED 2 SHARE HER BEAUTY TIPS…
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run their fingers throuh it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People even more than things need to be restored, renewed, revivied, reclaimed and redeemed.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you will find on at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself, and the other for helping others.”
PHOTO: Katherine Hepburn and the love of her life Spencer Tracy
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U are a child of the universe- no less than the trees and the stars- u have a right 2 be here....
CHILD OF THE UNIVERSE (Lyrics) Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be critical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy.
Max Ehrmann 1927
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