Fire Safety Meeting, SPA, etc.

Tonight from 9 - 10 pm Tower had its Fire Safety meeting in Aikins. It was so long mostly because of this cop who took up about 30 or 40 minutes of our time trying to be entertaining as he delivered information about DWI and parties in town and so on and so forth ad nauseum. I am a senior and I should be living off campus, because one of the perks of living off campus is that you are not required to attend fire safety meetings. I was trying not to fall asleep.

After the Saratoga cop finally stopped talking, Campus Safety spoke with us. At the end they started talking about sexual assault, and how you should report it to campus safety. The girl next to me whispered something to me like, "Why is it surprising that only 5% of rapes are reported? I wouldn't report anything to him!"

So I stood up and addressed the room (ahh zero to sixty! Sleeping to speech!) and told everyone that they can also come to the Center for Sex and Gender Relations on the third floor of Case to report sexual assault, that we are trying to get people to report there, and that you can also call our hotline on the little red cell phone magnets you see around campus. Did I mention that there were a lot of people, and that I was shaking from the adrenalin rush? That's when Greta chimed in and said that the cell phone is only on weekends. "Oh, only on weekends," I repeated.

Greta had been sitting on the floor by my chair the whole time. I forgot. Weird, I always thought Greta was much more involved in the Center than I am, that she's probably gonna be head PA one of these years. Maybe she just wasn't thinking about it or was planning to speak up in a minute, I don't know. But Campus Safety really needs to mention the Center as part of their talks.

Anyhow, before the fire safety meeting I'd gone to the Skidmore Pride Alliance's first meeting of the year. A lot of people showed up, but unfortunately many left right before or during the ice breaker. (We played the post-it note game.) Overall, Phred and Alex ran a fantastic meeting! There were faculty there, thanks to Mason, including the visiting prof Lettie met the other day. I can't wait to see which first years will really become involved.

GASH is planning a party for this weekend, but I might not be here, because Heather is coming to visit and we're planning to go visit Rita at some point. Bummer. Man, how can I miss the first GASH party of the year?!