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• A recommendation to create a gender resource center was stalled at Thursday's MUSG Senate meeting


• MUSG recommendation: Marquette lacks clear source to report sexual violence
  
• Legislation sent back to Student Life Committee


• Senator: Recommendation lacked collaboration with administrators

A recommendation calling for the creation of a gender resource center was stalled at last Thursday's Marquette Student Government Senate meeting, as senators called for increased collaboration with university administrators.

According to the recommendation, Marquette lacks a "clear comprehensive source" to report sexual harassment and is one of only three Jesuit universities in the U.S. that does not offer such a center. The Marquette student handbook lists six different officials to which students and faculty can report sexual harassment.

MUSG President Ray Redlingshafer, a College of Business Administration junior, authored the recommendation along with the six senators on the Committee on Student Life. Redlingshafer said the issue was brought to his attention at the most recent Father Wild Forum by members of Empowerment, a student organization focused on promoting women's rights.

Members of Empowerment "asked about five or six questions at the forum. They clearly had some hot issues they wanted to deal with," Redlingshafer said.

Redlingshafer later met with members of Empowerment and brought the idea of a gender resource center to the Committee on Student Life, which presented the recommendation to the Senate.

John Kristan, a sophomore College of Arts & Sciences senator, successfully motioned that the recommendation be taken back to the committee.

"This is an incredibly important issue and something we should work on," Kristan said. "But it seems to me we didn't have a lot of background information."

Kristan suggested the committee talk with administrators "to make the most meaningful recommendation possible."

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Published: 4/15/08 Section: News

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