Room 611: Friday, October 2. 2020

Today's classes are:

9:15 - 11:50 D Block Social and Environmental Science

12:30 - 3:05 A Block Criminology

D Block Social and Environmental Sciences - All Benton today, which means you're down to the Tsolum for a river study. You'll look at some important characteristics of a river and do a review of local hydrographs. On the field study, you'll be measuring flow and volume, freshwater invertebrate identification as indicators of water quality, with a summative report to be completed.

The quantity of water passing by a point on the stream bank in a given interval of time is the stream’s discharge. A stream’s discharge may vary because of changes in precipitation or the melting of winter snow cover. In response to varying discharge and load, the channel continuously adjusts its shape (and location). Discharge (expressed in cubic meters per second m3/s ) is a factor of width, depth for a specific cross section of the channel and velocity (Q=wxdxv). A hydrograph helps to measure discharge. Here is the provisional hydrometric data graph for the Tsolum River (near Courtenay) from September 25th to October 2nd, 2020 (08HB011) Compare that to the Fraser River at Hope (08MF005). Notice any differences?

If there's time the library is booked for the last part of the morning for you to continue working through the conflict over the Dakota Access Pipeline with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of the Oceti Sakowin Oyate Territory.

A Block Criminology - We'll continue our look at sexual assault today. I need you to answer the question:

Identify and explain the causes for sexual assault

You'll need to look at evolutionary and biological factors (remember Sigmund Freud's Thantos and Eros or instinctual drives that allowed species to be successful)? Look at modern male socialization (boys are taught to be aggressive, forceful, tough, and dominating...think about how boys play when they're young) and then at hypermasculinity (where some men have callous sexual attitudes and believe that violence is "manly"). Lastly consider both violent experiences (remember that those boys who were exposed to violence in the household are more likely to commit violent acts when they grow older) and sexual motivation (social, cultural, and psychological forces

After, we'll watch the recreation of the 1961 Stanley Milgram experiment on "Obedience to Authority". From ABC News "Basic Instinct: The Science of Evil"

In the experiment, conducted at Yale University over a period of months in 1961, an authority figure -- "the experimenter" -- dressed in a white lab coat and instructed participants to administer what they believed were increasingly painful electric shocks to another person. Although no one was actually receiving shocks, the participants heard a man screaming in pain and protest, eventually pleading to be released from the experiment. When the subjects questioned the experimenter about what was happening, they were told they must continue. And continue they did: Two-thirds of Milgram's participants delivered shocks as they heard cries of pain, signs of heart trouble, and then finally -- and most frightening -- nothing at all.

The ABC Primetime News team recreated Milgram's experiment and we'll watch it today. Why? Would you commit acts of violence if someone told you to? In response to voice on the phone claiming to be a police officer, a McDonald manager strip searched an 18 year old employee. The same man has convinced over 60 other managers across the country to perform similar acts. This sexual violence where the victim was forced to perform sexual acts on Walter "Wes" Nix Jr., the boyfriend of the store's assistant manager, Donna Summers resulted in charges and a conviction on sexual abuse charges.