Editor’s note • This article discusses sensitive topics such as sexual violence and assault. The University Counseling Center can offer support to students. Call 801-581-6826 or visit the website.

The University of Utah released its annual crimes report for 2023 on Thursday. The report shows a significant jump in reported rapes and dating violence, but the U said most of these reports stem from the experiences of one victim. 

“This year, both reports will show substantial increases in reported cases of sexual assaults and dating violence,” the all-campus email notifying students and staff of the report release read. “But looking closer at the numbers, 150 [out of 172 of] those reported  sexual assaults occurred in a single relationship plagued by a history of coercion and interpersonal violence.”

State and federal law require these crime reports. 

The Jeanne Clery Act requires that any university receiving public funding release annual security reports by Oct. 1 each year. The reports must show data for the previous three years and include reporting resources, educational resources and details on how the campus plans to improve public safety. 

The Clery Act requires the U to document reported cases. Cases do not have to have charges associated with them to be present in the report. 

The report also only details events reported to campus police. Off-campus crimes experienced by students only reported to the Salt Lake Police Department will not be reflected in the campus reports.

The Report

Rapes and dating violence reported by the victim, occurred in 2021 and 2022. The student did not report these events until January 2023. The only categories in the crimes report impacted by this victim’s reports are rape and dating violence, according to a post from @theU.

“Clery does require that we count these acts when they were reported and not when the acts occurred, which is why they are represented in this year’s report,” Deputy Chief Safety Officer Kimberly Barnett said.

The @theU post said “[The] student reported an almost-daily pattern of nonconsensual sex with their ex-partner —  both on and off campus,” adding that “during the seven-month relationship, which spanned 2021 and 2022, at times, he stalked the student, following them into campus housing. And threatened the student physically — sometimes with a gun.” 

In the past year, the victim-survivor has worked with UUPD crime victim advocates and has been connected with resources for future support. 

The victim did not pursue charges in this case, according to the @theU article. 

“The other thing of prime concern was just the victim and how this could impact that individual, and doing everything we can to protect their privacy and concerns for them,” Chief Safety Officer Keith Squires said. 

The alleged perpetrator is not a part of the campus community, according to an FAQ answered by the @theU article. 

What Is Dating Violence?

Dating violence is marked by abuse committed against a victim by their romantic or intimate partner. Abuse can take several forms, including emotional, physical, sexual and verbal.

“The absolute most dangerous time for a survivor in leaving a relationship is when they leave it,” Chris Linder, director of the McCluskey Center for Violence Prevention, said. “So sometimes people stay in a relationship because it’s actually the safest for them because when people leave, the person loses control over them, and that’s when the behavior escalates into murder, as we’ve seen in other cases.”

Linder also said abusive behavior can become normalized. Abusive behavior often builds, Linder said, so it can be difficult to identify troubling patterns from the start. Another common tactic abusers use is isolating their victims. That way, victims feel they have no one else to turn to when they need help. 

Consent is an explicit, voluntary and informed agreement to a specific activity. If consent has been given for one activity, that does not mean consent has been given to that activity moving forward. Consent can be withdrawn at any time.

In the contextual article from @theU, the U explained how perpetrators of abuse often have trauma themselves they’ve yet to work through. 

“The trauma they experienced leads to disconnection and an inability or refusal to empathize with other people,” the article reads.

Linder said the McCluskey Center is working to disrupt abusive patterns people exhibit before they start. 

“We’re trying to work on educating students about what harmful behavior is from the perspective of the person causing harm, to get those people to recognize their harmful behavior,” Linder said. “And so it’s about trying to help us understand how to interrupt the behavior of the people causing harm before it gets to the level of this situation.”

Other Reported Crimes

The report shows an increase in several other crimes, as well. Stalking cases rose from 69 to 117. Clery Officer Todd Justesen said this is likely because 2023 was the first year after COVID-19, so the U had a full campus of staff, students, visitors and more. 

The threshold for a report to be considered stalking is low in the Clery Act. Justesen explained that stalking is defined as “two or more incidents that cause a reasonable person to be impaired for their safety.”

The report also showed an increase in reported domestic violence incidents, from 20 in 2022 to 30 in 2023. Fondling also saw a small increase, from 51 in 2022 to 55 in 2023. 

Other crimes like motor vehicle theft and aggravated assault decreased. 

Squires said that to help address crime and safety concerns at on-campus housing, the U is launching a pilot program that would employ an officer who would be a regular presence there. 

“It will be a residential officer program that we’re working with our Housing and Residential Education Department at the U, and that officer that’s being selected is very specifically being sought to have the right skill sets that will be regular presence in the dorms,” Squire said. 

Resources

There’s a multitude of resources available at the U for a variety of support. Student Affairs offers mental health support. Victim crime advocates can be accessed through the SafeUT website or app and through the Basic Needs Collective.

Here’s a list of other campus entities that can offer support:

University Counseling Center (students only): 801-581-6826

 Office for Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action, and Title IX: 801-581-8365

Huntsman Mental Health Institute crisis line (available 24/7): 801-587-3000

Center for Campus Wellness (victim-survivor advocates, bystander intervention training and other support services): 801-581-7776

Center for Native Excellence and Tribal Engagement: 801-581-7392

Center for Disability and Access: 801-581-5020, info@disability.utah.edu

Dream Center: 801-213-3697

Employee Assistance Program (staff): 801-587-9319 or 800-926-9619

Housing and Residential Education (available 24/7): 801-587-2000

International Student and Scholar Services: 801-581-8876, international@utah.edu

Office of the Dean of Students: 801-581-7066

Veterans Support Center: 801-587-7722, vetcenter@sa.utah.edu

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Sci-fi sitcom “Futurama” released its eleventh season in 2023, almost a decade after its second cancellation. The series’ regular writers and main cast members all opted to return for the revival. As a popular, long-running series, “Futurama” has a large and devoted fan base, many of whom discussed their opinion on the new seasons.

While Season 11 boasts an 86% score from critics and a 71% audience rating, Season 12 only has 60% from critics and 62% from the audience. Looking at reviews, audiences and critics are split, some bemoan the new episodes, while others love them.

Season 12 is currently airing, and while I am a lifelong fan of “Futurama,” I found some of the episodes underwhelming, especially compared to how much I enjoyed the previous new season. 

The biggest complaint I have seen aside from the general claim that the show is now “unfunny” is how topical the episodes are. Many episodes of the new seasons focus on satirizing recent trends and events, such as the pandemic lockdown, Amazon, cryptocurrency and Internet canceling—with mixed success.

“One Is Silicone and the Other Gold” is an episode from Season 12 that I consider exemplary of “Futurama’s” failure to be topical. The first quarter of the episode focuses on the characters attending InfernoFest, a clear parody of Fyre Festival, an infamously disastrous music festival from 2017. The show fails to be timely here by making its references so specific to Fyre Festival. The jokes I found the funniest in that segment were the ones that were not specific references to the festival.

To draw a contrast, “How the West Was 1010001” from Season 11 focuses on satirizing cryptocurrency, and it does so in a clever way that does not use a specific event involving cryptocurrency as a crutch for all of its references. It also sets the episode in a location filled with tropes and caricatures of the Western genre, allowing the writers to use a Western parody as a vehicle for making fun of cryptocurrency.

This is not to say that “Futurama” has never drawn from real-world events and trends to write an episode before. Episodes like “Decision 3012,” “The Butterjunk Effect,” and “Proposition Infinity,” all from “Futurama’s” second revival by Comedy Central, all drew inspiration from things happening in the real world. “Futurama” has even done this badly before. The episode “Bend Her” has aged poorly in recent years.

To write good satire about a current trend, “Futurama” must be creative in portraying it. After all, in “Zapp Gets Canceled,” Zapp Brannigan doesn’t get canceled on Twitter for bad posts. He gets court-martialed, where the court pronounces him “canceled.” 

It should be noted that episodes from the Comedy Central revival and the original run on Fox have the benefit of time. In the decade since Comedy Central canceled the show, the episodes have had time to age, and the trends they drew from and satirized faded from the immediate public consciousness. Perhaps in another decade, fans will see “One Is Silicone and the Other Gold” and “The One Amigo” (Season 12’s divisive premier) through a lens of nostalgia without directly thinking of the Fyre Festival or NFTs. 

But to answer my question: is “Futurama” fumbling Season 12? In my opinion, no. Though I found “Quids Game” and “The Temp” to be lackluster episodes, the latest episodes, “Attack of the Clothes” and “Planet Espresso” were much more entertaining and felt like classic “Futurama” episodes. I am looking forward to the rest of the season.

“Futurama” currently airs on Hulu every Monday at midnight. It has been renewed for two more seasons to be released through 2026.

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As it turns out, Oregon State’s offseason mass exodus was a sign of things to come. Reser Stadium rapidly emptied out in a similar fashion as the Ducks took a 49-14 lead in the fourth quarter.

Four quarters of complete and utter domination gave way to No. 9 Oregon’s (3-0) blowout win over its in-state rival. Yet, the game’s two halves looked distinctly different despite the Ducks’ offense’s consistent production. 

In the first half, the contest’s two offenses went blow-for-blow in their own unique ways. The Beavers’ methodically moved the ball down the field with several long, time-consuming drives that saw Oregon State convert six-of-nine 3rd downs to put up 14 points. Because of this, the Ducks rarely got the football. In fact, Oregon ran just nine plays in the first quarter compared to OSU’s 23.

So, the Ducks had to make their limited time count. Remarkably, they were able to do so, manufacturing three touchdown drives that never used more than four minutes, the longest of which used just three minutes and 52 seconds.

Oregon relied on the explosive plays that head coach Dan Lanning had been calling for over the past few weeks. Big completions to the three-headed monster of Tez Johnson, Evan Stewart and Traeshon Holden led the charge as Dillon Gabriel worked a perfect 10-10 first half with 114 yards and both a rushing and passing touchdown. 

Oregon went into the locker room at halftime with a 22-14 lead despite only possessing the ball for just under nine of the half’s 30 minutes. But it just didn’t feel sustainable. There was this looming sense in Reser Stadium that if the Oregon offense stalled and the Beavers could continue to dominate the clock, the Ducks could end up in an uncomfortable situation. 

But something changed in that Ducks’ locker room at the break. Oregon’s defense came out with a newfound dominance, and the offense didn’t have to trade efficiency for effectiveness. 

In fact, the Ducks’ opening drive in the second half was their longest of the day at 4:35 (which is still an absurdly low number) and continued the momentum that they’d built in the first half. The rest of the game offensively became rhythmic for Oregon. The next three drives resulted in touchdowns, then a field goal, then Dante Moore kneeled the clock out. That 3rd down chainsaw that the Beavers love to flex only sounded six times, and Oregon converted on four of them. 

The difference between the two halves was strictly on the defensive side of the ball. 

Oregon limited the Beavers to a measly 91 total yards of offense in the second half while forcing 145 yards worth of punts. Oregon State couldn’t remotely move the ball, and its powerful run game that was supposed to run down the Oregon defense accumulated just 15 rushing yards in the final 30 minutes of play. 

“We avoided the explosive plays on defense,” Lanning said. “I think if you want to talk about a big mark, for us defensively the last couple of weeks we’ve had some explosive plays given up. We didn’t see that today.”

Oh, and that 6-9 that Oregon State was on 3rd down in the first half? That became 1-6 in the final 30 minutes of play. The Beavers’ ability to move the ball and land timely conversions disappeared just as fast as the OSU student section as it read the writing on the wall.

“We really, more than anything, talked about getting stops on 3rd down,” Lanning said. “To equate to stops on 3rd down, it meant winning 1st and 2nd down defensively. 

Now the Ducks are riding high into their first bye week of the season and have a chance to build on their momentum as conference play approaches.

Carl Shevidy’s doctor diagnosed him with leukemia in July 2014. Two weeks later, he was admitted to the Mayo Clinic. 

It was at the Mayo Clinic that Shevidy learned he needed four rounds of chemotherapy. After which Shevidy would need to find a stem cell match for a transplant to ensure the cancer did not come back. 

Months passed and all nine of Shevidy’s siblings came up as a negative match. National Marrow Donor Program (NMDP), formerly Be the Match, helps connect donors to patients in need. They came into the picture and found Shevidy a match. 

Shevidy and his family did not know much about his donor, only that he was in his 50s and lived in Germany. 

Shevidy said the transplant saved his life. 

“I don’t think I’d be here,” Shevidy said. 

Shevidy is just one of the over 130,000 people NMDP has impacted since 1987. 

NMDP Executive Director Joy King said when a patient finds a match, it changes their lives. 

“A lot of our patients sometimes say the day that they find out that they have a donor is the best news that they’ve received their entire diagnosis,” King said. 

Bone marrow donor Haven Davis said she matched with a 14-year-old girl in New York and was happy with her experience. 

“To go through such a scary diagnosis and have things changing really rapidly, not have a lot of answers and have their daughter get sick and so to hear from them the gratitude, relief and the emotional impact of that and with the gratitude they had (toward me), there’s just no reason to not keep supporting this project,” Davis said. 

But not everyone who’s in need of a donation is as lucky as Shevidy. 

Search for more donors 

Joy said people ages 18 to 40 are encouraged to sign up and find out their eligibility for the registry. 

To sign up for the registry, people can go to the NMDP website, fill out a brief medical questionnaire and a cheek swab will be sent in the mail. 

Joy said one of the most important parts of joining the registry is commitment. 

“If we call you, a patient is depending on you to say yes and follow through,” Joy said. 

Erin Bix, the senior marketing strategist at NMDP, said about 50% of people on the registry when called cannot follow through with donations. 

King said the Minneapolis NMDP headquarters are hosting a community event where people can sign up to join the registry on World Donor Day Saturday. 

“Last year we provided over five and a half million dollars in assistance to more than 2,600 families,” King said. “Providing a gift or fundraising really does go a long way, like $25 covers one clinic copay for a transplant patient.” 

NMDP also has a University of Minnesota chapter which helps recruit people to join the registry, Joy said. 

Giving stem cells is more similar to giving blood than a big surgical procedure, Shevidy added. 

“You’re probably a little tired after that, but most people are back to work the following day,” Shevidy said. 

NMDP is important because it provides life-changing service to people in need, Joy said. 

“We know that every three to four minutes there’s someone in the U.S. that’s been diagnosed with blood cancer,” Joy said. “A blood stem cell transplant can actually be a cure and treat more than 75 diseases.”

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