According to a Boston Transportation Department spokesperson, electric vehicle charging stations will be posted in every neighborhood by this year, with charging stations to be installed in Allston, Dorchester, Hyde Park and Roslindale.

This legislative session, Rep. Carol Moss sponsored H.B. 334. If passed, it would teach middle and high school students about sexual coercion, grooming and resources for survivors. However, this bill won’t pass. It’s been put on hold, something that I doubt surprised Rep. Moss, who has sponsored similar legislation three times and seen it fail each time. It also doesn’t surprise me, as I’ve seen how our state fails to take the necessary steps to stop sexual violence. H.B. 334’s failure is an indictment on our legislators who consistently fail sexual assault survivors.

Rape is the only violent crime in Utah perpetrated at higher rates than the national average. One in six women and one in 25 men will experience rape or attempted rape in our state. One in three women will experience some form of sexual assault. I have read and written these statistics time after time as I’ve covered sexual violence in Utah, but they always stay the same. In fact, our state has had rape rates above the national average for over two decades. These statistics make it all the more concerning when state legislators bury legislation like H.B. 334, which aim to prevent sexual violence and help young survivors find resources.

Prevention

The Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault (UCASA) explains three levels of sexual violence prevention. Primary prevention aims to stop sexual violence before it happens. Secondary prevention happens in the immediate aftermath of an assault. Tertiary preventions are long-term responses after sexual violence has occurred.

H.B. 334’s educational provisions include “sexual violence behavior prevention education.” Educating young people on sexual assault and how to prevent it can deter them from perpetration. Simply put, if people understand how not to coerce or force intimacy, they are less likely to engage in sexually violent behavior. That makes this a prime example of primary prevention, but H.B. 334 also has the potential to help in secondary and tertiary prevention.

The bill’s requirement to educate young people on “sexual assault resource strategies” would give Utah students the tools they need to “address physical and psychological effects of [a] sexual assault.” It makes young people aware of and more likely to seek resources and help after an assault. This addresses secondary prevention.

Finally, it’s important to acknowledge that people who experience assault or rape don’t always recognize that as their experience. They might feel that something wrong happened or struggle with trauma, but don’t have the language to describe it. A review of 28 studies found that, on average, 60.4% of women who experienced rape did not recognize their experience as rape even though it fit the definition.

Young people need to know what sexual assault is to know if and when it happens to them. That knowledge will allow them to take advantage of resources like rape crisis centers or to have a rape examination done. That’s another key aspect of secondary prevention.

The knowledge of what sexual assault is, and an education that teaches survivors that experiencing an assault is never their fault, could encourage more people to report to police. Only 11.8% of sexual assault and rape victims in Utah report to law enforcement. That means perpetrators often face no consequences. While no victim needs to go to law enforcement or through the criminal justice process if they do not want to, every victim should have the fullest education to guide them in that decision. Survivors should know that they have the option to hold their perpetrators legally accountable, which addresses tertiary prevention.

Listening to Survivors

This bill checks so many boxes in preventing sexual violence. Multiple sexual assault survivors even spoke in favor of H.B. 334 before it was put on hold. Those survivors, people who had experienced childhood and adult sexual abuse, said that the education H.B. 334 could give Utah’s students would have impacted their experiences. It would have taught them the reality of what they experienced and that resources existed to help them. In my own life, I only learned about many of these resources after I experienced sexual violence and struggled to cope on my own. I struggled with feelings of guilt that could have been mitigated if I’d received education on sexual violence as a young person.

Survivors have spoken from lived experience that this legislation could have helped them or children experiencing the same kinds of abuse. Yet, our legislators ignored them and buried this bill. It shows a lack of care for survivor experiences. It shows a willful disregard of policies that could help future survivors, or better yet, make it so less people have to survive sexual violence.

H.B. 334 has been dubbed “controversial” in its previous iterations because it had provisions about teaching consent. This year, it faced opposition from parents who want sex education to remain parent-controlled. None of these reasons are enough for me — not when so many people, including children, face sexual violence without any education to help them.

I’m tired of writing about sexual violence statistics only to watch our legislators actively bury legislative solutions. I’m tired of sharing my own story about being violated only to watch as our legislators ignore the recommendations and wishes of other survivors. I truly hope those who have opposed this legislation year after year feel ashamed about how their actions leave young people vulnerable to sexual violence and minimize survivors. More than that, I hope our state leaders will take sexual violence as seriously as it deserves.

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Marcus Sasser embraces his head coach, Kelvin Sampson, after walking off the Fertitta Center floor for the final time on Thursday night. | Anh Le/ The Cougar

Marcus Sasser stepped off the Fertitta Center floor, a court on which he had played 1,460 minutes over the course of four years and for the final time on Thursday night.

As he walked to the bench, a standing ovation from a record Fertitta Center crowd of 7,879 and hugs from his teammates and coaches greeted the senior guard, who tied Robert McKiver’s program record for career 3-pointers made with 261 and Fabian White Jr. as the winningest player in Fertitta Center history (49-4) in No. 1 UH’s win over Wichita State.

Just nine months ago, it was unclear if Sasser would even have a senior night as the UH guard heavily considered leaving school early and keeping his name in the 2022 NBA Draft.

He took his time weighing his options, waiting until the night of June 1 to withdraw his name from the draft.

“Marcus didn’t have to come back,” said UH head coach Kelvin Sampson. “He and I had some heart-to-heart talks, but not one time did he ever ask me what he should do. I was never going to tell him what to do unless he asked.”

While the opportunity to begin his professional basketball career at 21 was tempting, Sasser came back for his senior season at UH to experience moments like Thursday, a night full of joy, laughter with his teammates and cutting nets, one more time.

“You don’t get these moments in the NBA,” Sasser said. “I came back to have fun, experience the (NCAA) tournament (one more time) and really just to enjoy this time with my teammates.”

Sasser’s special night

With his family beside him, Sasser made his way to the UH logo at halfcourt forty minutes before tipoff for the senior night ceremony.

Greeted by a teary-eyed Sampson, the emotions started to hit Sasser.

“I was a little emotional because I knew it was my last time stepping on this floor with this team,” Sasser said.

Once the ball was tipped, Sasser switched into game mode, fully locked in.

After not making a field goal in the first half, Sasser found his rhythm from behind the arc to begin the second half.

With 6:24 remaining, Sasser drilled his third 3-pointer of the night, the 261st of his career. It tied the program record set by McKiver 15 years ago.

Finishing with 22 points in No. 1 UH’s blowout of Wichita State, Sasser also tied White for the most wins in Fertitta Center history with 49.

“It’s a credit to his work,” said UH point guard Jamal Shead. “He’s the last one out, first one in every day. That dude lives in the gym.”

After the game, Sasser was presented with two commemorative balls to capture the milestones achieved.

“Hard work pays off,” Sasser. “That’s a blessing just to be in that position, in that category.”

Leaving his legacy

Coming to UH, the 6-foot-2-inch guard had one goal.

“I just want to be a winner at the end of the day,” Sasser said. 

After his final game in Fertitta Center, Sasser is confident he cemented the legacy he hoped to leave at UH.

“That was my goal to really leave my legacy as being a winning player,” Sasser said. “I feel like I did that.”

The only thing that would make it sweeter — lifting the national championship trophy 5.6 miles down the road at NRG Stadium on April 3.

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Maine Day, Sodexo, Budget Cuts, we cover it all in this new episode of Anecdote! There were a lot of changes announced by the University of Maine at the end of the Fall 2022 semester that we on the Anecdote Podcast weren’t able to discuss. Here is our deep dive into every major change happening at the University of Maine, and why they’re happening. To start the new season of Anecdote, we’re happy to introduce our UMSG coordinator Keegan Tripp to bring updates from the student government!

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This week the BHB talks to junior forward, Nick Zabaneh. They discuss his hockey upbringing in Toronto, his journey to BU, and prank wars between teammates. Thanks for listening! Click here to stream this episode of “Terrier Hockey Talk” on Spotify. This episode was edited by Nellie Maloney. Music: RetroFuture Clean Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

This year’s Minnesota-Penn State trilogy contained a multitude of notable moments for the Gophers, but its last episode concluded on a somber note. The Nittany Lions routed the Gophers on Wednesday, winning the Big Ten tournament’s first game 72-67 and putting Minnesota’s season to rest.

The Gophers’ performance fluctuated between extremes throughout the game. Their abundance of turnovers early on placed them in a perpetual state of strife while they attempted to claim the lead.

Players for Minnesota struggled against Penn State’s staunch defense, led by Big Ten All-Defensive guard Leilani Kapinus. They launched cross-court passes to avoid the pressures of a Nittany Lion double team, only for the ball to be intercepted. When they were able to get the ball across halfcourt, a subtle hesitation on a dribble resulted in a defender swiping the ball away.

“I thought that when we kept our spacing and we played against the press with some pace, we were able to break it,” Minnesota Head Coach Lindsay Whalen said after the game. “The times when we did turn it over, [we were a] little bit back on our heels, and we didn’t provide outlets for each other.”

Soon enough, Penn State was up 21-3 with two and a half minutes left in the first quarter. Gopher freshmen Mara Braun and Amaya Battle would help trim the 18-point deficit down to 12 by the end of the quarter. Senior Isabelle Gradwell hit a 3-pointer a minute into the second quarter and moved it within single digits.

The scoring stint was brief, however, as Minnesota forward Alanna Micheaux, an essential piece in their previous contest against Penn State, picked up her third foul. Down by 12, Whalen decided to bench the Gophers’ top rebounder and preserve her for the second half.

Penn State and Minnesota traded layup-for-layup and 3-pointer for 3-pointer up until halftime. The Gophers barely won the exchange by a margin of 2 points but closed out the half down 35-25 and with a baker’s dozen of turnovers.

“We’re a bunch of fighters,” Braun said after the game. “No matter how young we are, how inexperienced, we’re going to give a fight no matter what.”

The Wayzata native finished as the game’s highest scorer with 25 points. Throughout the contest, she made one-third of her 3s (4-12) and 43.5% of her shots overall (10-23).

It took Braun until the second half to start warming her shots up. But once Battle passed the ball back to her for a catch-and-shoot behind the arc, Minnesota found themselves back within single digits, and it began to feel like a new game.

Shortly after, the Gophers altered back to making their typical mistakes.

Minnesota gave the ball away to Penn State eight times following Braun’s bucket and let up 17 points. By the end of the third quarter, the Gophers’ 7-point deficit doubled. It wasn’t until Gradwell’s 3-pointer with four minutes and thirty seconds left in the fourth and final quarter that Minnesota’s hopes of redemption became a possibility.

A minute later, Battle was face-to-face with Kapinus and gave her a taste of her own medicine, snatching the ball away and going coast-to-coast. She was fouled on her successful lay-in and sunk her free throw. Battle returned to the charity stripe on the following possession and made both free throws, bringing Minnesota within 7.

The game went scoreless for the next minute-and-a-half but consisted of two jump balls, four missed shots and plenty of scrapping in the paint. Gradwell and Micheaux broke the temporary chain of turmoil by each knocking down a jumper, tying the game at 66 a piece.

Penn State responded with a timeout and drew up a play for guard Makenna Marisa to drive to the basket. She scored, but the refs called a foul on Gophers sophomore Maggie Czinano on the shooting attempt, bringing Marisa to the line.

The Gophers’ production see-sawed till the very end, and when the game’s allotted time was up, their score was just below Penn State’s.

Minnesota finished the season with an overall record of 11-19, second-to-last in the Big Ten. Braun led the Gophers in points this year with 407 (15.7 per game), Micheaux led in rebounds with 221 (8.2pg) and Battle led in assists with 114 (4.2pg).

After the game, Gradwell, with puffed-up cheeks and holding back tears, reminisced on her final year as a college athlete.

“Despite our record, this was like one of my favorite years as a collegiate player,” she said. “Just from my teammates, the coaches, just believing in me as a player, as a person, and really caring about me.”

Gradwell received a few pats on the back for comfort from Braun as she continued to speak.

“Coming in, I had reached out to the coaches, wanting to get closer to home, and Coach said, ‘I don’t know if you’re going to play a lot. We’d love to have your experience,’” she said. “She gave me a shot, and that was all I asked for. Man, I’m grateful I got this opportunity.”

The much-anticipated production of “Artemis, I” opened on Feb. 23, 2023 to a nearly full house. The audience was brought into a space transformed into the garden of the goddesses, with the leaves of the backdrop washed in green light and silver-painted actors posing as statues on the stage and among the audience. Background noises of chirps and chatters completed the illusion of a rustic but grand temple. The lights went down and everything went quiet before a scream of rage and grief marked the show’s beginning.

Artemis, played by Anna Sosa, launched into a venomous monologue that held nothing back in displaying the goddess’s grief, rage, and power. 

“I love the opening monologue, it’s not a pretty monologue by any means,” said Sosa.“If you are someone who has a lot of challenges with your surroundings and all of the hard things that are happening in this world currently, you probably are going to love hearing it.”

“Artemis, I,” written and directed by Deborah Wallace, is a retelling of the story of Iphigenia that highlights the titular goddess’s point of view when King Agamemnon kills her sacred deer. Artemis swears revenge and halts  the winds to prevent the Greek armies from sailing to war until her demand of an equal sacrifice in the form of Agamemnon’s  daughter, Iphigenia, is met.

Wallace pays homage to classic Greek plays by including a Greek chorus and an oracle. The Pythia is a priestess of Apollo who receives visions of the future. In “Artemis, I,”she delivers a prophecy of disaster to Agamemnon. The character is not in the original telling of the story, but was included by Wallace because she loved her involvement in other Greek stories. 

“While it is a smaller role, I feel like she has an awesome impact on the story,” said Reicse Owen, ODU junior, who plays The Pythia.

There is a surprise collaboration between the costume and lighting designers for the scene where the Pythia delivers a prophecy from Apollo, showing a frighteningly divine connection between the two.

The play includes a Greek chorus, but instead of casting nameless extras, Wallace wrote in a pantheon of ten Greek war goddesses, including Athena, Nike, Ioke, and others. They are the actors who are posed around the stage when the audience first comes in. The chorus is brought to life by Artemis to help her orchestrate her revenge. Music and choreography play an important role in the goddess’s parts; the opening scene includes a choreographed dance number and the musical interlude in the middle of the play has the goddesses inform the audience of the background of the Trojan War.

“The dance at the beginning symbolizes that [the goddesses] are in sync, that they’re willing to fight with [Artemis],” said Adrian Rivera, who played Achilles.

The cast was full of talented actors, with the main role of Artemis played by Anna Sosa, supported by Angelina Paquin as Iphigenia, Brian Jinright as Agamemnon, and Leila Bryant as Clytemnestra. 

The pantheon of war goddesses, including Samantha Kay Hendrix who created the choreography, displayed excellent acting and choreography work. 

The show has been modernized in its language and its costume. Though the goddesses evoke classical Greek fashions, the mortals have been designed with contemporary fashions. The costumes are simple and primarily made of linen, and they would not be out of place in a modern Mediterranean city. 

“We all look like we’re going to a destination wedding,” said Paquin.

“The look is pretty modern,” said Wallace. “It certainly has references to the ancient world, but the design is modern, the music that we use is very modern.” 

This play uses ancient characters and stories to explore universal themes through a modern lens. The performance is accessible to people who may not know anything about the source material. This grand spectacle will shake audiences to their very core by getting their blood pumping, tugging on their heartstrings, and chilling them to their bones. 

“Artemis, I” will continue to play through Mar. 5 at Goode Theatre. Tickets can be purchased for $5 for ODU students and $15 for the general public. They are available to buy in person at the box office and online here.

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On Monday, the results of the 2023 ASUU elections at the University of Utah were announced — the O’Leary ticket won.

The ticket is composed of President-elect Jack O’Leary, VP of Student Relations-elect Parker Madsen, and VP of University Relations-elect Chloe Shewell. They had 40.21% of the total votes, amounting to 1,789 votes. 

“I’m so incredibly proud of my team and so incredibly thankful to the student body,” O’Leary said. “And I’m so so excited to embark on this journey.”

According to the election results report, there were 4,449 student votes cast in the election, which totals to roughly 13% student body participation.

The VKW ticket received 31.65% of the electoral votes with 1,408 student votes — 381 fewer votes than the O’Leary ticket. The Karabegovic ticket received 23.02% of the total vote.

Last week, ASUU faced backlash for sanctions placed on the VKW and Karabegovic executive tickets after the ASUU Supreme Court found them to have violated endorsement policy in the ASUU elections packet.

The grievance was brought by Ian Linnabary, campaign manager of the O’Leary ticket, who alleged the Karabegovic and VKW tickets violated the ASUU elections policy by, what he said, seeking an endorsement from Unsafe U. Unsafe U is an organization that aims to educate students about campus safety at the University of Utah, but they are not affiliated with the U according to their Instagram page.

In a public hearing last Tuesday, the tickets were found to be in violation of the endorsements clause of the elections packet, which states, “Endorsements from university employees who are not enrolled students in the ASUU, or ANY off-campus entities, are strictly forbidden.”

Both tickets were forbidden from campaigning, online or in-person, from 6 a.m. last Wednesday to 6 a.m. last Thursday. This included no activity on their campaign social media accounts or campaign-related posts on candidates’ personal social media accounts.

An ASUU Instagram post that notified students of the election results is full of over 200 comments with passionate reactions which voiced disappointment, frustration and support.

In a comment with 200 likes, U student Areesha Nazir said the little amount of trust she had left in the ASUU system is gone “after allowing a ticket that got away with cheating time and time again to win,” she wrote. “ … But I’m so happy for all the white and/or Greek life students who voted for them who get to be the only ones represented by ASUU once again. This system is made for and run by white students and it’s my own fault for thinking that change was actually gonna be allowed.”

A comment from U Business major Broxton Rose vowed his support for the O’Leary ticket.

“Historic win for Jack O’Leary. He is a trailblazer that will be renowned by the university for years to come,” he wrote. “We finally have LGBT representation in the student presidency that has been oh so needed. Barriers have been broken. Change is coming.”

Another U student, Radhika Bhakta commented, “Disappointing and not surprising, just another reason why I don’t believe in ASUU’s ability to create actual changes on campus.”

The O’Leary ticket will be inaugurated into office on April 26, 2023.

The results for Attorney General, Senate and Assembly elections are as follows:

Attorney General

Angelina Ho won with 33% of the vote, beating four other candidates.

College of Architecture and Planning

Senate: John “Jack” Israelsen received 84% of the vote.

Assembly: Andry Joseph ran uncontested and received 83% of votes cast.

College of Cultural & Social Transformation

Assembly: Naphtali Garcia won with an even 50% of the 28 total votes cast.

David Eccles School of Business

Senate: Jack Fuetterer won with 35% of the vote. Over 37% of students voting in this race voted for “none of these candidates.”

Assembly: Abdalla Alfaham, Nick Bayard, Justine Nguyen, Tyler Shumway, Charles Crockett and Michael Flores won assembly positions in the business school. There were 15 candidates in total.

College of Education

Senate: Abigail Taylor ran uncontested and received 84.29% of the votes.

College of Engineering

Senate: Austin Neff won with 41% of the votes.

Assembly: Christina Dong, Faith Alba, Mary Cernyar, Erik Bond and Betul Oguz won the five available assembly seats.

College of Fine Arts

Senate: Anna Roelofs ran uncontested and received 84% of the votes.

Assembly: Dillan Burnett ran uncontested and won with 87%.

College of Health

Senate: Andrea Garcia won with 84% and ran uncontested.

Assembly: Emma Ross and Belle Barlow won the two open assembly seats.

College of Humanities

Senate: Lillian Ault won with 43% of votes cast.

Assembly: Mercedes Johnson ran uncontested and received 59% of the vote.

School of Medicine

Senate: Sarah Lucas ran uncontested and received 82% of the vote.

Assembly: Adam Kotter and Jordyn Colligan won the two open assembly seats.

College of Nursing

Assembly: Emily Moore ran uncontested and received 92% of votes.

College of Pharmacy

Assembly: Lindsey Kisielewski ran uncontested and gained 86% of votes cast.

College of Science

Assembly: Scott Perkins, Megan Hammond and Merrin Maughan won the three open seats. There were eight candidates total.

College of Social & Behavioral Science

Senate: Hannah Truax received 48%, beating out two other candidates.

Assembly: Lydia Altamiranda, Edgardo Antonio Chicas Rubio, Anna Locke and Karina Barker won the four available seats. There were 11 candidates running.

College of Social Work

Assembly: McKenzie Johnson ran uncontested, winning 88% of the votes.

There are open Assembly seats in the School of Dentistry, College of Education, College of Fine Arts, College of Humanities, College of Law and Undergraduate Studies.

There are still open Senate seats in the College of Undergraduate Studies, College of Social Work, College of Science, College of Pharmacy, College of Nursing, College of Law, School of Dentistry, and College of Cultural and Social Transformation.

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Senior Annie Kim and freshman Moa Svedenskiold finished in the top 30 on the individual leaderboard at the ICON Invitational. | Courtesy of UH Athletics

The Houston women’s golf team finished in 15th place at the ICON Invitational with a team score of 876 (+12).

Freshman Moa Svedenskiold led the way for the Cougars with the highest individual finish of the competition as she tied for 28th with a total score of 214 (-2).

Svedenskiold played her best round of the tournament in her final nine holes as she posted a 4-under 68.

Senior Annie Kim followed closely behind as she sat in a tie for 30th with 215 (-1), posting the only other under-par score for the Cougars with a 4-under 68 in her second round.

Junior Delaney Martin and fifth-year Rebecca Earl landed one stroke from one another with scores of 224 (+8) and 225 (+9) to pick up ties in 68th and 70th places respectively.

Freshman Natalie Saint Germain rounded out team play for the Cougars as she tied for 85th place at 280 (+14).

Represented as individuals, junior Nicole Abelar, sophomores Brooke Morales and Anna Economon, and freshman Alexa Saldana all competed in the tournament as well.

Abelar finished in a tie for 30th at 215 (-1) while Saldana finished tied for 41st at 217 (+1).

Morales later finished tied for 74th at 226 (+10) and Economon took 89th place at 239 (+23).

The Cougars will now prepare for the Trinity Forest Invitational on March 6-7 at Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas.

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