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Resilience Among Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault: A Scoping Review
No full textAt least one in five women experience sexual assault on campus, often associating with negative impacts on their wellbeing and education. Although many survivors overcome these incidents, much literature focuses on risk factors or negative consequences rather than exploring protective factors for recovery. This scoping review synthesizes strengths associated with resilience among women who have experienced campus sexual assault, using the resilience portfolio model (RPM) as a conceptual framework. Method: We searched PubMed and several EBSCO databases, searching for articles that included at least one strength and one outcome for survivors of campus sexual assault. Results: The search identified 18 articles that were organized into RPM domains: meaning making, interpersonal, regulatory, and environmental. Some strengths associated with better outcomes for survivors included involvement in advocacy, hope, and agency over one’s life. Some studies highlighted the importance of confidentiality among support staff on campuses, as well as effective campus resources for survivors. Conclusions: Implementation of successful campus policies and resources would provide survivors accessible outlets for healing. More research is needed on this topic to promote discussion of shifting perceptions of campus sexual assault survivors from deficits-based to strengths-based
Cultural Ecosystem Services Enhance Investments in Other Ecosystem Services: Carbon Credits in Haiti
Full text linkThis chapter demonstrates how the cultural ecosystem services of education, sense of place, and inspiration served to strengthen a carbon sequestration project involving tree planting and maintenance in Haiti’s Central Plateau, a region in which poverty and deforestation are tightly intertwined. Where other carbon offset credit programs have not lived up to anticipated sequestration goals, this project – with its emphasis on cultural ecosystem services – succeeded in sequestering carbon and improving small-holder incomes while provisioning other regulating ecosystem services as co-benefits that increase agricultural resiliency. The case study involves a place-based educational program developed collaboratively by a small liberal arts college in the U.S., a Haitian non-profit organization and a community of small farmers who produce carbon credits in shade coffee agroforestry systems. The carbon credits were verified by Haitian and Sewanee students, building workforce and technical skills, while educating about carbon and approaches that build resiliency to climate change. A central focus of the program was not only to help farmers make more secure the place they value, but also to immerse students in place-based learning about historical injustices between the Global North and South. Thus, working with Haitian farmers to establish these agroecosystems inspired students to not only act towards effective solutions to climate mitigation, but to pursue other means of addressing inequality and injustices.Rick and Willie Sommer; Sewanee Green Fun
This Book Will Self-Destruct in Seven Stories
No full textThe following is a collection of short stories about some miserable bastards. I will let you decide, Reader, if they are bastards because they are miserable, or if they are miserable because they are bastards
Spatial Heterogeneity of Zooplankton and AquaBOT Water Quality Measurements on Lake Geneserath, Beaver Island, Michigan
Full text linkUnderstanding the spatial heterogeneity of zooplankton is important for identifying patterns in freshwater ecosystems and assessing ecosystem function and management. Lake Geneserath, Beaver Island, Michigan is an inland freshwater lake that is irregularly shaped and has become increasingly eutrophic, especially since the mid 20th century. Previous studies show correlations between zooplankton spatial heterogeneity and water quality measurements, but there exists a gap in the knowledge of how these patterns manifest in an irregularly-shaped lake that is undergoing eutrophication such as Lake Geneserath. New technologies such as the AquaBOT aquatic drone from Oak Ridge National Laboratory can provide insights on water quality in freshwater ecosystems. I collected zooplankton samples (n = 45) and AquaBOT measurements (n = 1933) simultaneously from Lake Geneserath. I divided sampling between the four main regions of the lake: the narrow, developed North Arm; the undeveloped East Shore; the developed West shore; and the developed South End. I found that zooplankton abundance was significantly higher in the narrow North Arm of the lake compared to the other regions. Rotifer diversity was negatively correlated with photosynthetically active radiation. The variability of zooplankton and water quality revealed that the narrow North Arm of the lake is different from every other region in Lake Geneserath, representing a novel ecological observation where higher zooplankton abundance, lower dissolved oxygen, lower conductivity, and higher turbidity occurred specifically within a narrow, protected section of an irregularly-shaped lake.Institute for Great Lakes Research, Dr. Kirk Zigler, Dr. Scott McNaugh
Building a Community-Focused State Park: Perspectives on Mental Health, Accessibility, and Conservation
Full text linkThe planned Head of the Crow (HoTC) State Park near Sewanee, TN offers a chance to promote student well-being, stewardship, and community connection. Natural spaces support mental health, place attachment, conservation behaviors, and community cohesion (Hunter et al., 2019; Liu et al., 2021; Mosimane et al., 2012; Wood et al., 2017). This study explores student perceptions of the park’s potential to advance these outcomes
Understanding the Apotheosis: Troilus's Love Transfigured
Full text linkIn this paper, I’ll argue against D.W. Robertson’s position that Troilus’s prayers to the God of Love are idolatrous to show that, through his love of Criseyde, Troilus begins to love the eternal goodness that is the Christian God. The epilogue of Troilus and Criseyde has been long divisive within study of the poem, but through understanding Troilus as finding God, or eternal goodness, we can explain his apotheosis in both narrative and religious terms. Troilus’s love is understood by Robertson, and many other scholars, as a selfish and objectifying love. But, this view fails to account for Troilus’s crucial decision to allow Criseyde to be taken away from Troy instead of violently reclaiming her from the Greeks, but risking her life in doing so. In this moment, Troilus allows Criseyde to be taken away instead of risking her safety so that they can be together. Through his love for Criseyde, Troilus transforms cupiditas into caritas and, in doing so, finds a love of God through his selfless love of the eternal good.Stephanie Batki