Ithaca College

Students Active For Ending Rape (SAFER), Health Promotions, and Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (PAVE) 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, November 2, at 7:00 p.m. in Textor 101. There will be a discussion afterward led by an advocate from the Advocacy center, Allison Bliss.

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.

Stick around after the discussion to take part in the Binding Project, sponsored by Pave. The Binding Project is an international art empowerment campaign where participants write a word of empowerment on plastic zip ties, one to wear and one to send back to PAVE to be included in an installation art piece. This project was launched on the anniversary of the day Rose was abducted — the zip ties were what was used to bind her hands behind her back when she was kidnapped.

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 should contact SAFER at SaferIthaca@gmail.com  We ask that requests for accommodations be made as soon as possible.