UNIVERSITY
Marchers Take Back the Night’
By Carrie Dennett
Emerald Reporter
About 50 women walked
through campus with flash
lights and lit candles in the
"Take Hack the Night" march
Thursday night, following a
rally and a five kilometer
walk/run.
"Take back the night! Take
back the day! Take back our
lives!" said Bobbve Sorrels of
Womanspace, speaking to the
crowd of participants and on
lookers at the rally in the EMU
courtyard.
"We can take it back by tak
ing action," she said, calling
"take" a key word, standing
for Taking Action is the key to
Empowerment.
Empowerment itself was an
idea central to the event.
"I feel empowered, that's a
given." said junior Ann Ly
man. “It's amazing to me to see
all these people who really
want change. I really feel it can
happen."
"The purpose of the event is
to assert, affirm and celebrate a
woman's right to be safe at
night without the protection of
a man." said Beth Long of the
ASIJO Women’s Center, which
sponsored the event with the
Lifestyle Planning Program at
the Student Health Center, and
the Recreation and Intramural
Office.
"Evttrv woman knows what
its like to go out and know
they’re not safe," said Shelley
Reecher, director of Project
Saferun.
Saferun put on a demonstra
tion with five of its defensively
PHuto b* S**n Pmton
Holding flashlights and candles, about 50 %*onwn marched on
campus Thursday evening to "Take Hack the Sight ”
trained dogs as part of the rally
Saferun rents dogs to women
runners, walkers and joggers
for a $25 monthly fee
Reecher said women are not
truly safe anywhere, day or
night, alone or on dates.
The event began at (> p.m.
with the run walk, in which
men and women could partici
pate. The rally and march,
which began shortly before 7.
were meant for women only.
"We decided that in keeping
with the history of 'Take Back,
tin- Night,' men should stay on
the sidelines, and I respect
that," said Joanne Frank of tlu;
I.ifestyle Planning Program
"Hut men need to bo educated,
and I don't think they should
bo included,"
The run was a way for men to
be involved, while preserving
the march for women. "I think
that women need to lie empow
ered. they need to reclaim the
night themselves." Frank said
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