April 3, 2008 == MEDIA ADVISORY
Summary: Calvin will present a variety of events in April to mark Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Full story see http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2007-08/sexual-assault-awareness-month.html
The Sexual Assault Prevention Team at Calvin College has come up with a series of creative ways to commemorate Sexual Assault Awareness Month, which falls in April. The events are geared toward educating the Calvin community -- especially its men -- about creating an emotionally and sexually safe atmosphere on campus.
The featured speaker for this year's events is Keith Edwards, the director of student life at Macalester College and a specialist in engaging men about their role in reducing sexual violence. Edwards will speak in several sessions on the role of various members of the college community in disassembling on-campus "rape culture" and promoting healthy relationships.
The first event is Faculty Lunch and Learn, which happens Monday, April 7 from 12:30 through 1:30 p.m. in the Alumni Association Board Room. In this session, co-sponsored with the provost's office, Edwards will engage with faculty about their role in preventing sexual assault on campus. Also on Monday at 7:45 in the Calvin chapel, Edwards will speak on the topic "She Fears You."
From April 1 through 10, the Break the Silence Campaign will give sexual assault victims and their loved ones the opportunity to create a t-shirt to raise awareness of the issue. (Participants can decorate the shirts 9 a.m.-1:30 p.m. April 2 and 9 in the Student Life Conference Room, from 5-8 p.m., April 1, 2 and 8 and 2 p.m.-8 p.m., April 3, 4, 7, 9 and 10 in the Meditation Chapel.) The shirts will be displayed on a clothesline on the Commons Lawn from April 9 through 11.
The final Sexual Assault Awareness Week will be a prayer vigil, held at 10 p.m., April 9 on the Commons Lawn.
For more information on Sexual Assault Awareness Week, visit www.calvin.edu/admin/broene/sexualassault/saam.html
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