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["Hotvedt, Carmen" <>]

For those who are interested in his web info:

http://www.adamritz.com/

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/2748128/detail.html

http://www.tcudailyskiff.com/news/speaker-gives-tips-for-safer-spring-break-1.2481486

 

I have yet to see any assessment information that backs up the sentiment that his presentation is “effective,” and I’m also not yet sure of how hiring him for his services interacts with the Campus Sex Crimes Prevention Act and the obligation to disclose.  Further, I’m less sure about what the implications are of campuses to hire him for mandatory programming, wherein students might suffer consequences for not attending his (triggering) presentation.

 

We found out he had been hired on campus by Greek students the day of their new member education sessions, so students came directly from his presentation to the peer education presentation on sexual assault.    

 

In general, I’ve found that folks have been far more receptive to an analysis of the evidence behind effective prevention more than they have to my concerns about his background and the ethics of hiring him.   

 

Carmen Hotvedt
Violence Prevention Specialist
University Health Services, UW-Madison
www.uhs.wisc.edu/assault
608/265-5966 

From: Viento, Wanda L [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 11:04 AM
To:
Subject: RE: Convicted Rapist as Campus Speaker

 

A group on our campus is bringing him in April and I’d like any feedback from you all as well. We’re very concerned about him and have declined co-sponsoring him through the Women’s Center.

Wanda

 

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Wanda L.E. Viento, M.S.W., Ph.D.

Director, Women's Center

Minnesota State University, Mankato

218 Centennial Student Union

Mankato, MN 56001

507-389-6146

 

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.  ~~  Saul Bellow

 

From: Linda Abbott [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2011 10:32 AM
To:
Subject: Convicted Rapist as Campus Speaker

 

Dear SAPC members,

 

Our Athletics department recently invited a speaker to our campus named Adam Ritz. Ritz is a convicted rapist who is now speaking at colleges about alcohol awareness. I am curious to know if any of you have heard him and I’d like to speak to you if you have. As a survivor, I was very uncomfortable with his talk and I had a strong emotional reaction. I am very open to hearing opinions of others who have heard him or even those who have some thoughts about perpetrators as guest lecturers in general.

 

Thanks so much.

 

Linda Abbott                                                     

Violence Prevention Coordinator

The University of Mississippi

208 Odom Hall, P.O. Box 1848

University, MS 38677-1848

Phone: (662) 915-1059

Fax: (662) 915-1727

http://violenceprevention.olemiss.edu/

 

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