February 28, 2008
Bowling
Green, Ky. - Western Kentucky University and Hope Harbor will present several events in March as part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
“This month gives us the opportunity to increase the awareness of sexual violence and its effects on the entire community,” said Elizabeth Mohon, WKU’s sexual assault services coordinator. “Sexual violence does more than impact the victim’s emotional, social and physical well being. It impacts friends, families and others they come in contact with. This is why it’s so important to increase this awareness and help to be a voice to those who might not be able to speak out themselves. Help us to ‘Break the Silence’ against sexual violence.”
The Sexual Assault Awareness Month schedule for WKU and the Bowling Green community includes the following events:
March 3: Clothesline Project, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at WKU’s South Campus.
March 4: Healthy Days, 3 p.m.-6 p.m. at Preston Health and Activities Center.
March 4: Sex Signals, 7 p.m. at Downing University Center Theatre.
March 5: Hope Harbor open house and proclamation signing, 3 p.m. at Hope Harbor.
March 12: Clothesline Project T-shirt Making for females only, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Hope Harbor.
March 18: Clothesline Project, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at Downing University Center.
March 19: Greenhouse Poetry performance, 7 p.m. at Downing University Center Theatre.
March 20: Clothesline Project, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at WKU-Glasgow Campus.
March 22: Kites 4 Kids, 10 a.m.-noon at Preston Miller Park.
March 24: Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues,” performed by WKU Women’s Studies, 7 p.m. at Grise Hall Auditorium; tickets are $7.
March 27: Take Back the Night March and Candlelight Vigil, 6 p.m. at Warren County Justice Center.
The Sexual Assault Awareness Committee includes Hope Harbor, WKU departments (Health Services, Campus Activities Board, Women’s Studies, Counseling and Testing Center), and community agencies, businesses and organizations (Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Warren RECC, Yuki’s Japanese Restaurant, Bowling Green Junior Woman’s Club).
“It takes the efforts of a community to work together to help increase the awareness of sexual violence,” Mohon said.
More WKU news is available at www.wku.edu. If you’d like to receive WKU news via e-mail, send a message to WKUNews@wku.edu.
For information, contact Elizabeth Mohon at (270) 745-3159.
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