“There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single issue lives.”

The Daily Intersection

Students were given

the chance to compete

and prove they are, in

fact, the most chal-

lenged among their

peers.

Those who chose to

compete in the events

tested they’re social

location on the larger

scale of the university

they attend. Events

pitted students—as

well as their beliefs—

against one another.

All of the events were

judged using a single

criteria for all oppo-

nents involved.

While many individu-

als, as well as groups,

competed there were

no winners. When

asked why, judges cit-

ed their own unmeas-

urable standards.

“I feel like we may

have set all of the con-

testants up to fail,”

John Smith IV, a judge

of the Olympics, said.

“We never gave them

any directions, or a

rubric, overall I think

we would have been

better off skipping the

whole day instead of

whatever this was.”

Held annual, the

Olympics are often left

without a champion,

especially when the

judges must pick a true

winner.

“I think the biggest

issue we ran into when

talking with them [the

contestants] was ,

again the lack of clari-

ty,” Smith said . “What

are we supposed to tell

them? No your op-

pressions don’t matter

because that guys is

worse? How can we

say one way is worse

than the other?”

When participants

were asked how they

felt about the competi-

tion, they expressed

their disgust with the

lack of a winner.

“I think it is bullsh—!

It’s not right that they

have us out here all

day, fitted against one

another, just to then

tell us we are all equal-

ly oppressed,” Aron

White, a sophomore

biology student and

Olympics participant,

said. “This is simply

not how America

works!”

White was no the only

student who felt pitted

against fellow contest-

ant.

Junior chemistry stu-

dent Sam Jones said

she felt her team divid-

ing from the begin-

ning.

“From the very start, I

felt as though they

were even trying to

make team members

fell fitted against one

another,” Jones said.

Event though no one

won, the gams will

continue next year.

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University Oppression

Olympics, no one wins

—Audre Lorde

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University to host second Diversity Week

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International and local students are encouraged to spend this one week mingling, then go back to their regu-

larly scheduled lives.

Students on campus will

have a second chance to

intermingle with their

peers at the University

sponsored second Diver-

sity Week.

This second week will

feature continuations of

last weeks events,

demonstrating to stu-

dents that sometimes

developing empathy for

other cultures takes more

than a weeks worth of

events—many of which

attendance is based on if a

teacher makes a cultural

event mandatory or not.

“We were very, very sur-

prised when asked if we had

the resources to ascend the

week to two,” Sarah Angle,

event organizer for Diversity

Week said. “In the past it

seemed like one week was

more than enough for the

University, and for most stu-

dents for that matter.”

She said recent events may

have also played a role in the

decision to extend the events

for another week.

“I heard about the Oppres-

sion Olympics protests, and

well I was surprised,” Angle

said. “When I speak with

students, more and more

lately they are expressing

this feeling of being pitted

against one another. I think

this was just the physical

embodiment of all of that

frustration.”

Students have mixed feeling

about the extension, as well

as the execution, of this sec-

ond diversity week.

“I think it is a waste of time,

racism is dead and if you

can’t see that, then you’re

most likely the real racist,”

Dude Brotherson, a fresh-

man engineering student,

said. “I think everyone is too

sensitive and likes to make a

big deal out of nothing—-so

what, they just take over

campus?”

Senior English student, Jus-

tine Thyme, disagreed

strongly with Brotherson.

“I think Diversity Week is

definitely needed! If not just

to create empathy, then to

give international students

the chance to share the cul-

ture they came from,”

Thyme said. “I think we

would benefit from more

events like this, having only

one week to celebrate all of

the cultures students share

can be very problematic—

who decides which students

get to showcase or preform,

when and where?”

Thyme said she has already

scheduled a time to meet

with members of the Univer-

sity to express her concerns.

She would like to see how

she can be further involved

on campus—especially in

the planning of Diversity

Week(s). Her advice?

“Persistence is key”

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Students participate in planned events o showcase the diversity across campus.

Both international and native students enjoy and participate in the week.

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Slutwalk Toronto started a movement which has spread internationally .

What began as a grass roots tour-

nament moved thousands to do the

same and fight against oppres-

sions associated with being sexual

and identifying as a woman.

The off-shoots of Slutwalk Toron-

to can be considered grass root

movements in their own right—

community based and centered

with a local following. Many col-

lege towns in the U.S. have picked

up the movement and molded it to

be there own.

Molding activism to serve the pur-

poses of groups can really work

to form change in individuals lo-

cations is the perfect way to bring

these smaller groups are able to

work with members in their own

community to create the change

they need.

Focusing on what individuals fac-

ing oppression need—as opposed

to what we may think they need—

should be one of the main focuses

surrounding activism. When we

are able to incorporate both the

needs of a group, as well as what

we are able to offer them, then we

can begin achieving our goals.

So here is your call to action.

Take up something that has effect-

ed your life, or even just some-

thing that means a lot to you., then

act! It may not always be simple,

but you have to start somewhere.

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