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As many as 16 Carleton University students are to be punished after two student leaders paraded in offensive tank tops Sunday mocking the school’s campaign against sexual harassment and discrimination.
“Such behaviour is not acceptable and extremely disappointing to the broader Carleton community,” university president Roseann O’Reilly Runte said in a prepared statement Monday. “Those involved have indicated that they will issue a sincere public apology and work with the university to ensure that such behaviour does not occur again in the future.
“Sanctions will be issued subsequent to individual meetings.”
It’s not known what the sanctions will entail. The students’ apologies are expected to be in the form of a letter to the Carleton community.
The announcement followed a lunch-hour protest over the incident by an estimated 50-plus mostly female students in the University Centre atrium.
“It raised a lot of alarms and kind of speaks to larger context on campus where a lot of people don’t feel safe, where rape culture is really pervasive, where we see a lot of sexual assault, just a culture on campus that is really problematic,” said rally attendee Dillon Black, a fourth-year social sciences student.
Sunday’s incident began when Ottawa lawyer Leslie Robertson photographed two young men, both university Frosh Week facilitators, wearing tank tops emblazoned with the words “F— Safe Space” on front and “Or Me” on the back. They were outside a row of houses near Bronson and Sunnyside avenues, just off campus.
The school’s decade-old Safe Space initiative aims to reduce the impact of homophobia and “heterosexism” on campus. It has trained thousands of students, faculty and staff over the years to offer “safe space” to students experiencing sexual harassment or discrimination. A program webpage emphasizes protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual or transgendered and queer students.
Frosh Week facilitators are responsible for creating a safe environment for freshman students. Facilitators are not supposed to drink or use inappropriate language, among other rules.
According to reports, more than a dozen Carleton facilitators were protesting those rules. Zach Petendra, who self-identified as a facilitator in a tweet, wrote on Twitter that facilitators were wearing the shirts in protest against a restriction on not being allowed to swear.
Runte Monday stressed that Sunday’s off-campus gathering took place after orientation week and was not a sanctioned event.
“The inappropriate action did not undermine the overall effectiveness of Carleton’s orientation programming, and the university remains committed to carrying on with its education and outreach to ensure safe spaces for all and an inclusive educational environment,” said Runte.
“The university takes this incident seriously and will work with utmost diligence to continue the efforts already made to reinforce a culture which promotes and respects safe spaces.”
Following the lunch-hour student protest, Black spoke of what she characterized as a campus, like others across Canada, where sexual harassment — and worse — is a real fear.
The students wearing the tank tops, “are role models and they have young, impressionable people who are going to university for the first time, and they’re kind of getting sucked into this culture,” said Black, 27, who also works as a project co-ordinator for the Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women.
“They agree to a contract of responsibility that they take on when they do this. So for me it was really damaging because they went into this knowing these are the responsibilities, an image that they had to show to the rest of the community, and for them to wear these tank tops, it’s really just kind of disrespectful to like all the other students who go to Carleton.
“For the person who was sexually assaulted on campus, when they see that shirt, it basically just delegitimizes everything that they experienced.”
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“Such behaviour is not acceptable and extremely disappointing to the broader Carleton community,” university president Roseann O’Reilly Runte said in a prepared statement Monday. “Those involved have indicated that they will issue a sincere public apology and work with the university to ensure that such behaviour does not occur again in the future.
“Sanctions will be issued subsequent to individual meetings.”
It’s not known what the sanctions will entail. The students’ apologies are expected to be in the form of a letter to the Carleton community.
The announcement followed a lunch-hour protest over the incident by an estimated 50-plus mostly female students in the University Centre atrium.
“It raised a lot of alarms and kind of speaks to larger context on campus where a lot of people don’t feel safe, where rape culture is really pervasive, where we see a lot of sexual assault, just a culture on campus that is really problematic,” said rally attendee Dillon Black, a fourth-year social sciences student.
Sunday’s incident began when Ottawa lawyer Leslie Robertson photographed two young men, both university Frosh Week facilitators, wearing tank tops emblazoned with the words “F— Safe Space” on front and “Or Me” on the back. They were outside a row of houses near Bronson and Sunnyside avenues, just off campus.
The school’s decade-old Safe Space initiative aims to reduce the impact of homophobia and “heterosexism” on campus. It has trained thousands of students, faculty and staff over the years to offer “safe space” to students experiencing sexual harassment or discrimination. A program webpage emphasizes protection for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transsexual or transgendered and queer students.
Frosh Week facilitators are responsible for creating a safe environment for freshman students. Facilitators are not supposed to drink or use inappropriate language, among other rules.
According to reports, more than a dozen Carleton facilitators were protesting those rules. Zach Petendra, who self-identified as a facilitator in a tweet, wrote on Twitter that facilitators were wearing the shirts in protest against a restriction on not being allowed to swear.
Runte Monday stressed that Sunday’s off-campus gathering took place after orientation week and was not a sanctioned event.
“The inappropriate action did not undermine the overall effectiveness of Carleton’s orientation programming, and the university remains committed to carrying on with its education and outreach to ensure safe spaces for all and an inclusive educational environment,” said Runte.
“The university takes this incident seriously and will work with utmost diligence to continue the efforts already made to reinforce a culture which promotes and respects safe spaces.”
Following the lunch-hour student protest, Black spoke of what she characterized as a campus, like others across Canada, where sexual harassment — and worse — is a real fear.
The students wearing the tank tops, “are role models and they have young, impressionable people who are going to university for the first time, and they’re kind of getting sucked into this culture,” said Black, 27, who also works as a project co-ordinator for the Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women.
“They agree to a contract of responsibility that they take on when they do this. So for me it was really damaging because they went into this knowing these are the responsibilities, an image that they had to show to the rest of the community, and for them to wear these tank tops, it’s really just kind of disrespectful to like all the other students who go to Carleton.
“For the person who was sexually assaulted on campus, when they see that shirt, it basically just delegitimizes everything that they experienced.”
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