Augusta State, Rape Crisis and Sexual Assault Services, and Paine College have partnered to increase awareness about sexual assault at this year’s Take Back the Night programs.
Now in its 13th year at ASU, the annual Take Back the Night rally and march will be preceded by various events to provide the community, faculty, staff, and students with information on sexual assault prevention and awareness.
The week will begin with an informational board on display in the lobby of University Hall. A lunchtime lecture, Sexual Trauma & Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, will be held Thursday, April 16, at noon in the Butler Meeting Room in the Jaguar Student Activities Center. On Friday, April 17, from noon-2 p.m. at University Village, the annual Clothesline Project will begin, with students and guests decorating T-shirts and making postcards for survivors of sexual violence. The T-shirts will be displayed, beginning Monday, April 20, at 9 a.m. along the History Walk and at the front entrance of the campus. Each T-shirt will represent a survivor of sexual violence. On Wednesday, April 22, at 11 a.m. in the JSAC and Allgood Hall, there will be a hot dog sale to benefit Rape Crisis and Sexual Assault Services. That evening at 7 p.m. in University Village, Cecilia Kemp, prevention educator at Rape Crisis, and Shannon Nix, counselor in ASU’s Counseling Center, will present Bedtime Stories, a sexual assault awareness program.
Culminating the events on Thursday, April 23, will be a rally and candlelight march, which begins in front of the Maxwell Theatre. At 6:30 p.m., the rally will begin, and more than a dozen organizations will be available to offer information on sexual assault. President William A. Bloodworth, Jr., will provide the welcome. Speakers will include District Attorney Ashley Wright, Richmond County Superior Court Judge Carl C. Brown, Jr., and Rape Crisis and Sexual Assault Services Executive Director Anne Ealick-Henry.
For more information, call Shannon Nix in ASU’s Counseling Center at 706-737-1471.
Mar 23, 2009
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