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11/19/01

'TAKE BACK THE NIGHT' EVENT PLANNED AT SLU

CANTON - A "take back the night" march will be held on Tuesday, 
November 27, at St. Lawrence University, beginning with a 
meeting in the Common Room of Sykes Residence Hall at 7 p.m.
	"Take back the night" is an occasion for all persons, 
especially survivors of sexual assault, abuse and violence, 
to reclaim the night. Speakers who staff sexual assault 
hotlines and centers against sexual assault and domestic 
violence in St. Lawrence County will give presentations about 
resources available in the community. A campus march will 
follow, to "take back" the campus and proclaim the outrage of 
the group and community against those who commit and endorse 
violence against others.
	Following the march, the group will re-assemble in 
the Common Room, and the floor will open for any victims of 
sexual assault or other kinds of violence to tell their stories 
of survival. All persons from the community are encouraged to 
attend and participate.
	The Women's Resource Center at St. Lawrence, which is 
organizing the event, will also sponsor the Clothesline 
Project, which bears witness to sexual violence through 
t-shirts, airing the "dirty laundry" of sexual violence in 
society. Decorated shirts represent a particular person who 
has survived sexual violence or died as a result, and are made 
by the survivors or their friends. Different colors of the 
shirts represent various types of sexual violence.
	For more information, contact Assistant Professor 
of Gender Studies Joel Morton, at 315-229-5660.

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