<div>On Sunday, Oct. 18, hundreds of Allegheny student athletes, sorority and fraternity members and other student leaders on campus walked into Schafer Auditorium for a 90 minute presentation on harassment awareness However, it was not the presentation that disappointed me, but the reaction of Allegheny’s student athletes afterwards.Now, I will be the first person to say that not all presentations are made for everyone. Some people learn better from stories and anecdotes (which was most of this presentation), some learn better from demonstrations and discussing what to do in a specific situation. However, just because a presentation is not specifically tailored to you does not mean that it does not have good information and that you can’t learn something from it. I prefer to talk through situations, so I have a plan in the back of my mind if I ever find myself in an encounter where I feel uncomfortable or harassed. Still, I sat through the presentations and took away lessons from each speaker, particularly former NHL enforcer Pete LeBoutillier’s message about being more than your sport and not letting it consume you.And yet, when I left the auditorium, all I heard was people saying loudly how this would never affect them, they would never be in such a situation, that would never happen on our campus, in our locker rooms or on our teams.That conclusion is extremely disappointing to hear from other students. History and present events has shown us that harassment can happen on any team of any size. It does not have to be a Division I football team, or a fraternity with hundreds of members. Harassment can come from a group of four, five or six people.It especially defeating when I heard male athletes talking about what a waste of time the presentation was. These athletes are the target audience of the presentations and they took nothing away from it.“I Have The Right To” brought in straight white men who were very successful in their chosen fields. LeBoutillier is even a former professional hockey player! These presenters were the exact demographic that most young, white, male athletes and fraternity members would pay attention to, listen to and hopefully learn from. Yet, when they left that auditorium on Sunday, they seemed to be more resentful of losing an hour and a half of their time than taking that time to reflect on what society they reside in.As a female athlete in a male-dominated sport, I grew up consistently being “less than” the men I played with and against. I have a strong memory from senior year of high school of one of my male teammates being annoyed about a youth girls golf tournament that was being held at our local course. Never mind that these girls were better than him, or that they had been playing for much longer than he had (he had failed to make the team until senior year). He felt as if he had the right to complain about them simply because it was a girls tournament in a male-centered sport.Clearly, he did not understand how this throwaway conversation affected me — since I remember it clearly almost three years later — or how it put down women in golf. I wonder how many women have to endure microaggressions such as this, actions and statements that men don’t seem to understand the depth of, but that can still make a lasting mark.I’m disappointed at the response to the harassment seminar. I know it was not all of the male athletes, and I know that I heard women who felt it was a waste of their time as well, but the general reaction disappoints me.</div>

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