[Wamvan] UBC Sauder rape chant

Sun Sep 8 21:01:14 PDT 2013

Thanks for your feedback, Angela. I will define frosh before sending it out
to WAM! social media to people who may or may not be familiar with UBC.

On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Angela Marie MacDougall
<director at bwss.org>wrote:

> Thanks Joanna,
>
> I am not sure who the audience is for this summary and I wonder if there
> is any value in defining frosh?  I have a sense that many are not aware of
> that reference.
>
> Thanks again,
> A
>
>
>
>
> On 2013-09-08, at 7:53 PM, "Joanna Chiu" <chiu.joanna5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks Angela, and thanks Anisa for advising on what non-UBC affiliates
> members of the community can do to support.
>
> A WAM!Van member has written this summary of what happened and has given
> us permission to post it to social media/email networks. Feel free to use
> it/reword it and there's no need to credit the WAM member.
>
> --
>
> Rape chants are now coast-to-coast as well as year-to-year: first-year
> students at the UBC Sauder School of Business participated in a "rape
> chant" during Frosh week, encouraging the rape of underage girls less than
> a week after controversy burst upon Saint Mary's University in Nova Scotia,
> where students were caught on video chanting an almost identical cheer. The
> Ubyssey broke the story after seeing a student's tweet, and a second story
> emerged: student leaders and organizers of the event, run by the UBC
> Commerce Undergraduate Society (CUS), have not only been aware of the rape
> chant as a "tradition" that has been passed down for years, but rather than
> address the existence of the chant itself, simply told Frosh leaders to
> restrict public demonstration of it, citing an inability to control what
> other student leaders do. The CUS, Sauder School, and UBC have released
> separate statements on the issue, none of which mentioned the word rape,
> instead using the problematic and dangerously euphemistic phrase
> "non-consensual sex". If you would like to tell UBC, Sauder, or the CUS how
> you feel about this, follow the links below:
>
> Change.org Petition to discipline the student leaders involved:
>
> https://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/discipline-the-cus-leaders-under-the-student-code-of-conduct-for-the-offensive-frosh-chant-2
>
> Sauder Facebook Page:
> https://www.facebook.com/sauderschool?ref=ts&fref=ts
> Twitter: @UBCSauderSchool
>
> CUS Facebook:
> https://www.facebook.com/cusonline?fref=ts
> Twitter: @CUSonline
>
> Sauder Global Alumni Network:
> http://www.sauderalumni.ca/
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Sep 9, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Cynthia Khoo <cyn.khoo at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm still keen on emailing alumni to encourage them to tell the school how
> they feel /put pressure on the school to take the problem seriously, for
> what it's worth...having said that, many of them may have seen it in the
> news by now anyway.
>
> I think the key is to do what we can to make sure this doesn't become
> another thing where there's a major circus but then nothing really happens
> and a lot of buzzwords and weasel words are thrown around then everyone
> goes on as they were after things die down. I'm just not sure how to do
> that...
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 5:55 AM, Angela Marie MacDougall <director at bwss.org
> > wrote:
>
>> Dear Anisa,
>>
>> Thank you for connecting on this and thanks to you and the team at Sexual
>> Assault Support Centre for all your work on this. I have been following
>> this closely through Ubyssey and media reports and it looks like SASC is
>> very much involved in the steps going ahead on campus. This is great for
>> all kinds of reasons!
>>
>> At BWSS, we're quite concerned and motivated to take any opportunity to
>> effect change.  What role might you see for women and women's groups off
>> campus and/or what action can we take that supports your work and our
>> shared goals?
>>
>> Please advise either here on the list and/or by phone at 604-808-0507.
>>
>> Warmly,
>> Angela
>>
>>
>> On 2013-09-07, at 4:14 PM, "Anisa" <mottahed at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I'm the Manager at the UBC Sexual Assault Support Centre. Quite a few
>> things are being done on campus to address this, which I'm happy to clarify.
>>
>> Feel welcome to connect if you like.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anisa
>>
>> On Sep 7, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Alexandra Tse <alex_tse at sfu.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Hey WAM, let's show these fuckers who they're up against.
>> http://ubyssey.ca/news/sauder-chant-325/
>>
>> Let's put on the facebook and twitter pressure NOW.
>>
>> Copy and paste this tweet or write your own:
>>
>> Hey @UBCSauderSchool, do something about this: http://ht.ly/oF3re You're
>> supposed to educate people, right? #cultureofrespect #rapejokes
>>
>> Join me and Cynthia and Tami on UBC Sauder's facebook page here:
>>
>> https://www.facebook.com/sauderschool/posts/671814579514611
>>
>> Write a message on your own wall and tag "Sauder School of Business at
>> the University of British Columbia" (Unfortunately I think you have to Like
>> their facebook page before you can tag them).
>>
>> Let's do this! Fuck Sauder admin for saying that rape jokes are okay as
>> long as the students do it privately.
>>
>> Alex
>>
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