Tuesday March 29th, 2016 \ TechNews 3 From champs to chumps: the public face of leadership Ynsra Sarhan rsctwsws WRITER What comes to mrnd when you thrnk about ethrcs? Thrs rs one ofthe questrons that was addressed dunng the most recent Leadershrp Academy Semrnar From Champs to chumps The Publrc Pace of Leadershrp along wrth other questrons that were armed at helprng the lllrnors Tech communrty members grow rnto ethrcal leaders The obrectrves of thrs semrnar rncluded drscussrng the toprc of ethrcal pluralrty, explonng how ethrcal values rnform our leadershrp strategres, expenencrng an rnteractrve decrsron model for resolutron of drlemmas, and practicing etectrve communrcatron strategres for ethrcal leadershrp ln the begrnnrng ofthe semrnar, we learned more about ourselves by analyzrng Gerald Doyle, VrceProvost for Student Access, Success and Dryersrty lntratryes, was called on to shed some lrght on the collaboratron wth the Career Servrces ohces, whrch he oversees Doyle compared the l 2 mrllron dollar block grant the unrversrty recerved about erght years ago when Presrdent obama came rnto ohce, to the estrmated 500,000 dollar grant that rs antrcrpated for the upcomrng fiscal year An rnrtratrve taken on by Doyle to make up for lost trnds rs approachrng deans of colleges and charrs of departments to match the federal fundrng the unrversrty rs recervrng rn order to focus on the best possrble rntemshrp and Job opportunrtres provrded to students Provost Bronet added closrng commentstothe student‘s questron by rnterpretrng the questron drterently and sayrng, “lts very possrble that we, rn thrs room, mrght now understand [the problem] or wrll understand rt, but how do we communrcate to the people that are meetrng wrth you every day? And lthrnkwell take that on, so thankyou for the question" The srxth demand delrvered to Presrdent Cramb by the Undocumented Students and Allres was restated by the next student, who also used a quote from the weekly Presrdentral Update emarl from the prevrous day, tyrng them together to say that hrnng someone to work closely wth undocumented students and other mrnorrtres rs a necessrty for our campus, and alrgns the results of the Ethrcal Lens lnventory ouestronnarrewhrch requrred every studentto answer questrons that were used to determrne what type of ethrcal leader he/she rs Although twasrnterestrngtornteractwrthallthevarrous types ofleaders, t was even more rnterestrng to use what we learned to partrcrpate rn an rnteractrve decrsron model that was centered around the Apple vs FBI court case in short, the Apple vs FBI court case rs an ongorng court case that hrghlrghts constrtutronal nghts and ethrcal values The FBI clarms that rt rs necessary to obtarn a warrant to search through the subject‘s rPhone because they belreve that thrs wrll help them find more rnformatron about a mass shootrng Apple, however, refuses to valrdate thrs clarm because there rs not enough evrdence that shows that the benefits wrll outwergh the burdens of authorrzrng thrs warrant our Job perfectly wrth Presrdent‘s Cramb‘s vrsron for our school as a communty that encourages krndness and sensrtrvrty towards one another Asked for hrs response to the rssue, Presrdent Cramb sard that we do, rn fact, have people workrng on drterent rssues faced by students and that we have never been rn a postron where we do not have people workrng on any rssuesthat we may have He sympathrzed wrth students who have had demeanrng words drrected at them by faculty and stat and talked about workrng wth the drversrty and rnclusron commrttee to sensrtrze people to what they‘re dorng and sayrng becausepeople oftentrmes do not understand the gravrty of therr words Presrdent Cramb responded to another demand rarsed by USA, sayrng that he wrll neverbe able to outlaw specrnc words, but rs wrllrng and determrned to work wrth people to have sensrtrvty trarnrng for faculty and stat to make our communrty a more thoughtful, krnd and helpful one Addtronally, the Provost brought up a statement drafted by Joseph orgel, Presrdent of the unrversrty senate that hrghlrghts the unrversrty‘s mrssron to be rnclusrve and respectful to all students, rrrespectrve of race, gender, country of orrgrn, rmmrgratron status or any other such determrnrng factor Following a large section of the forum that hrghlrghted the rmmense struggles faced contrnually by undocumented students on our campus, a questron was rarsed about theundenrablefocuson Eastern Blmpeanand wasto get rnteams offourand decrdewhether the phonewrll be opened or not keprdless, through thrs actrvrty we were grven the chance to analyze the pros and cons ofthe ethrcal drlemma that we were faced wrth l-lowever, rt‘s rmportant to remernber that thrs was a srmulated example of an ethrcal drlemma that was dealt wth rn a safe envrronment Thrs luxury cannot always be atorded when we deal wrth ethrcal drlemmas rn our darly lrves Nonetheless, somethrng that helps me make my ethrcal decrsrons rs to consrder all the drterent commrnrtres l represent You represent several communrtres lfyou were to stop and thrnk about how your decrsrons atected those communrtres, you would probably thrnk twrce before finalizing a few of those decrsrons, wouldn‘t you? Essentrally, thrs rs what a leader does A leader Amerrcan scholars rn scrence and engrneerrng classes, largely overlookrng the contrrbutrons of scholars rn the Arab world or rn Asra and what can be done to nxthrs drspartybecause, "on a drverse campus, students should know that scrence belongs to the whole world and not yust one regron" Provost Bronet was the first to answer thrs questron, sayrng that she would be delrghted tohave a group ofstudents be rnvrted to the unrversrty faculty senate to start the drscussron on howto tackle thrs rssue, havrng seen monopolrzed and male domrnated pornts ofvrew rn her own academrc experrence and knowrngthat change can and rs happenrng rnthrs realm, slowly, around the country Wrth the end of the hour fast approachrng, Wadhwanl set the lrmt on one last questronbefore closrng remarks kevrstrng the demands rarsed by the Undocumented Students and Allres, the student restated the last demand about outlawrng dehumanrzrng vocabulary and urged Presrdent Cramb to read the words of hrs faculty and stat rn addressrng some undocumented students and the commrnrty, as drsplayed on thebanners rn the back ofthe room Repeating a sentrment he expressed earlrer, Presrdent Cramb sard that the rssue was not to put certarn words rn the handbook as berng ofisllmlts, but rather to utrlrse the appropnate channels to report rnstances of harassment as and when they occur rn order to handle them approprrately and try to prevent them from recurrrng Provost Bronet added that they do not take represents several communrtres and stands for hrs/her communtres and therr respectrve causes Whrch communtres do you represent? Were you able to choose all the commrnrtres that you represent? Perhaps not Before closrng,l want to remrnd you that ethrcs rs not ablack and whrte subject, rt rs gray, so rslrfe As we movethroughourroumey of lrfe, we realrze that matters are not Just ‘rrght‘ or ‘wrong‘ Our moral compass begrns to sway rn drterent drrectrons because matters become more rntrrcate and multidimensional l-lowever,thrs rs naturalbecausethrs rs a part of growrng up Don‘t forget to always askyourself, as you travel through thrs rntncate Journey of lrfe, what you stand for Thrs wrll define who you are motor courtesy ofunetdeshrertdewy @— President, Provost Forum brings core student concerns to forefront Conhnuedfmm Page] these rssues lrghtly and called on l