& only 5% of undergraduate women reported their sexual assault to police, or anyone.**& only 5% of undergraduate women reported their sexual assault to police, or anyone.**
Students Active For Ending Rape (SAFER) and Health Promotions invites you to a screening of a rape awareness and prevention film, Welcome to the Party, directed and edited by Tom Nicholson, assistant professor of television and radio in the Park School. The screening will take place on Tuesday, October 7, at 7:00 p.m. in Textor 103. There will be a discussion afterward led by an advocate from the Advocacy center.
Welcome to the Party was designed to be a teaching tool for professionals providing sexual assault prevention in higher education. The incidence of sexual assaults on campuses continues to hover at an amazing 20 to 25 percent. Someone the victim knows -- an acquaintance -- commits the vast majority of these assaults. This film was created to help address the acquaintance rape situation on campuses today.
Please note that there are scenes in the film that are graphic and may be difficult to watch.
Interested in SAFER? E-mail SAFERithaca@gmail.com or come to meetings every Tuesday at 7:00 p.m. in Williams 202
Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations may contact SAFER at saferithaca@gmail.com. We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.
*Weitzman, E., DeJong, W. and Finn, P. Alcohol and Acquaintance Rape: Strategies to Protect Yourself and Each Other. The Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention. U.S. Department of Education, 1999.
** (Schwartz, M. and Leggett, M. Bad Dates or Emotional Trauma: The Aftermath of Campus Sexual Assault. Violence Against Women, Vol. 5, No. 3, March 1999).
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