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Walk aims to curb assault
The Men’s Center’s Walk to
Prevent Sexual Assault hopes
to raise awareness among
men about sexual assault
Aliyson Goldstein
Freelance Reporter
By Wednesday afternoon, Univer
sity students, faculty and staff will
have walked more than 60 miles
around campus in support of the
University Men’s Center’s Walk to
Prevent Sexual Assault.
The walk, which took place on
Monday and Tuesday and continues
today until 4 p.m., is part of Sexual As
sault Awareness Week. Groups leave
every half hour starting at 9 a.m. to
complete the approximately mile and
a half walk through the campus. The
route makes a figure eight and takes
participants from the EMU, around
the residence halls, back up past Ger
linger, and finally back down 13th Av
enue to end at the EMU.
Although this is the walkathon’s
first year, the Men’s Center plans
on making it an annual event, ac
cording to the center’s Student Di
rector George Hanawahine. He said
many groups, from fraternities to
physical education classes, partici
pated in the walk this year, and
said he hopes that next year even
more groups will get involved.
Hanawahine said the center’s goal
is to raise awareness among men
about what they can do to help pre
vent the sexual assault of women.
“Sexual assault has traditionally
been viewed as a women’s issue, but
it’s important for people to know
that it is an issue for everyone,” he
said. He added that the majority of
men are not perpetrators of sexual
assault, but they still need to get in
volved and show their support.
The Men’s Center Leadership
Team Supervisor Jon Davies also
said men should take an active
stance against sexual assault.
“Often times it’s difficult for men
to speak out against sexual assault,
and the walk allows them to show
their concern,” he said.
Dave Lichtenstein, a GTF for a Pre
vention of Interpersonal Violence class
and a member of the Men’s Center
leadership team, brought his students
to participate in the walk Tuesday.
“People enjoyed having a chance
to be a part of something on campus
in relation to this issue,” he said. “It
was a good way to put classroom
learning in a practical context.”
In addition to sponsoring the
walk, the Men’s Center provides edu
cational programs on topics such as
depression, relationships and overall
health to promote awareness of the
emotional, physical and social
health of men to all students on cam
pus, according to the center’s mis
sion statement.
For more information, or to join
the walk, visit the Men’s Center table
outside the fishbowl at the EMU, or
visit the Web site at
www. uoregon. eduJ~ counsel/UOMC/
UOMC.htm.
Apart from the walkathon, other
events scheduled today for Sexual As
sault Awareness Week include a talk
by the Sexual Wellness Advocacy
Team on healthy sexual communica
tion, titled “Does Anybody Wanna
Have Sex Tonight,” taking place from
4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in the EMU Ben Lin
der Room, along with a self-defense
workshop for women in the EMU Wal
nut Room at the same time. Former
NFL quarterback Don McPherson will
also speak about men’s roles in pre
venting violence against women in a
speech titled “You Throw Like a Girl”
at 6 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom.
On Thursday, survivors of sexual vi
olence and supporters can design T
shirts that illustrate their feelings in
the “The Clothesline Project T-shirt
Generation Workshop” from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. in the EMU Fir Room. Stu
dents can also see the Clothesline Pro
ject of Lane County on display in the
amphitheater from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
The weeks ends with the annual Take
Back the Night event, where people
will march through the streets of Eu
gene to protest sexual violence. The
march begins in the EMU Amphithe
ater at 6 p.m.
Allyson Goldstein is a freelance writer
for the Emerald.
News brief
Students for Choice
host guest speaker
University Students for Choice is
hosting a guest speaker and film
maker from Willamette University
tonight at 7 p.m. at the Knight Li
brary Media Center.
Rosemary Roberts will show her
half-hour film “Paris to Portland:
Conversations about Abortion, Con
traception and Feminism in Two
Cultures.” The film will be followed
by a question-and-answer session.
Roberts spent five months studying
in Paris, France, last spring, and her
film includes interviews with women
from there. She asked women about
their thoughts on reproductive choice
issues and conducted similar inter
views with American women from
Portland and Salem. The film was
presented as Roberts’ senior project
at Willamette.
—Lindsay Sauve
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