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(From left to right) Tash Cheong, Lauren MacLeod and Lindie Last, classmates in Langara’s social service worker program, discuss the

idea of sexual consent.

More than a wink and a nod

Sexual consent is discussed on Langara’s campus after a bill, aimed
at reducing sexual asualt, has been passed in California

By MARY BEACH
| S means yes,’ a California
bill that requires universities

to adopt an affirmative con-
sent definition in cases of
sexual assault, is sparking debate on
campuses across North America.
“Students don’t always know what
consent means,” said Maggie Ross,
manager of student conduct and judi-
cial affairs at Langara.

To the best of her knowledge, Ross
said there has never been an incident
of sexual assault on the Langara cam-
pus. Still, she welcomes opportunities
for both male and female students to
get a better understanding of what
consent means.

The question created an impromptu

roundtable discussion at the Langara
Students’ Union on Friday. Lauren Ma-
cLeod, Lindie Last and Tash Cheong,
classmates in Langara’s social service
worker program, shared their reac-
tions.

MacLeod was a student at UBC
when controversy erupted over fresh-
men responding to the “no means no”
message by chanting “no means yes,”
in public, and even displaying ban-
ners.

“T think the intent of [‘yes means
yes’] is great. But there are always go-
ing to be instances that are going to be
grey,” said MacLeod, “Just having one
phrase can’t effectively control that.”

Lindie Last said “If someone, right
before you were going to have sex
with them said, ‘can I get your con-

sent?’ Like where’s the sex in that?”

“Where’s the chemistry?” Cheong
added. She said she supports legisla-
tion like this but what is more impor-
tant is “to empower people to mean
what they say [but until] that happens
words are just words”.

“Men involved in this might have a
problem,” said Last.

Ross advised the best policies “build
situations in which our male students
and our female students are allies, try-
ing to address that whole issue of sex-
ual violence.”

“There’s a wonderful video that
University of Victoria put together —
it’s not that kind of victim/perpetrator
bashing kind of thing,” said Ross. En-
titled “Let’s Get Consensual,” the vid-
eo has been reposted on Langara sites.

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Protective
patch for
Langara
comps

A Mac-specific anti-virus
patch has been installed to
protect Langara comput-
ers.

By ORVIS NOEL

raced to install an anti-virus patch

ion the college’s Mac computers af-
ter Apple issued a fix for the Shellshock
vulnerability - a software bug that
could let hackers in.

“Tt is a Mac problem,” said Kevin Mc-
Millan, a Mac information technology
instructor at Langara. He described the
exploitation as a shellshock virus on
the computer operating system Unix
that was discovered by Apple.

An unrelated technical issue was
causing sluggish computer perfor-
mance that same week -that UBC con-
ducted vulnerability assessments -
sparked rumours that a virus had hit
the college.

“T have concerns about confidential-
ity of school records,” said Cynthia
Leung, a Langara science student who
transferred from UBC. “While at UBC,
there was a [sic] virus attack that
caused a computer crash, and it was
not good. I am mad that these big insti-
tutions cannot build better firewalls to
protect students’ property,” she said.

McMillan said any computer issues
that were happening last week at Lan-
gara, were “pure coincidence,” and
that all software has bugs.

Sylvia Duong, the registration clerk
at Langara, experienced minor com-
puter setbacks last week.

“The system was very slow... but it
got better in the afternoon,” said Du-
ong. “The next day it was very slow
again, but in the afternoon, it was back
to normal. I have not experienced the
virus problem in the past and I have no
concerns about students’ records.”

Krysten Spetzer, a Langara family
studies student, said her entire class
was compromised; she couldn’t access
her files and her instructor was unable
to use visuals and audios for the class.

The IT Director at Langara did not
return calls by press time.

L:: week, Langara IT department

Lawsuit suspended between coffee shop and LSU

A planned Oct. 14 courtdate for the lawsuit between former Langara coffee shop, Duke’s Gourmet
Cookies & Cappuccino, and the Langara Students’ Union has been cancelled

By ALICE D’EON

he trial for the law-
Te between

Duke’s Gourmet
Cookies & Cappuccino
and the Langara Stu-
dents’ Union, originally
scheduled for the
morning of Oct.14, has
been inexplicably sus-

pended.
The reason for the
delay remains un-

known, as neither par-
ty would issue a state-
ment to The Voice.
Duke’s, who served
coffee in the Students’
Union Building from
2003 to 2013, filed a law-

suit against the LSU in
September of 2013 for
failing to renew their
long standing lease
without warning the
previous June. In addi-
tion, Duke’s is suing for
loss of revenue during
the construction of the
Students’ Union Build-
ing back in 2007.

Marcus Kim, former
manager of Duke’s and
the son of the plaintiffs,
confirmed the cancella-
tion of Tuesday’s trial
by email.

In a statement by
email, Marcus Kim
said he could “not say
anything until every-

thing is finalized.”

The Voice reported
back in February that a
court date in the dis-
pute had been set for
Oct.14, 2014. However,
according to court doc-
uments, Duke’s filed a
requisition for a tem-
porary adjournment
last month.

No further informa-
tion could be obtained
from the LSU.

As stated by LSU ex-
ecutive director Janna
Jorgensen by email,
LSU lawyers advised
that “all matters with
respect to this lawsuit
are confidential.”

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