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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Wed Jun 6 14:54:28 2001
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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 14:53:59 -0400
From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
Please forward this to anyone who might be interested.
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Dear member of the MIT Community:
After much collective effort over more than a year, we have
finally succeeded in convincing the administration to include
a rape-awareness program into first-year orientation! If you
already were helpful in signature-gathering, signing, talking
the idea up to people you know, then thanks for your effort.
It has really paid off! If you didn't have the chance to get
involved, due to lack of notice or lack of time, there is still
a very important way for you to be involved with this program.
The format of the program is still being determined. So far
it looks as if there will be a talk (60-75 minutes) by Katie
Koestner, the nationally acclaimed speaker on the topic of date-
rape (http://www.campusoutreachservices.com/index3a3a.html).
Her talk will be followed by discussion among students (60-90
minutes): the first-year students will be divided into small
break-out groups (or "clusters") and the discussion will be
led by facilitators.
Among our suggestions to the administration is that the break-
out groups be small -- 20-25 students -- and that discussion in
each group be led (or facilitated) by students, to ensure the
maximum likelihood of connecting with each person in the incoming
class. To achieve these goals, we need as many volunteers as
possible who will:
1) be in town on or before Monday, August 20;
2) be available the morning through lunch of Friday, August 24;
3) undergo a training session on rape-awareness and leadership
skills (most likely an evening or two);
4) be excited to help put an end to sexual violence at MIT!
Whether you are an undergraduate or a graduate student, a woman,
man, or trans, you are encouraged to participate. People of all
sexual orientations, ethnicities, nationalities, religious
affiliations, different abilities, etc. are desired and needed.
Only a broad representation of participants will be collectively
smart enough to reach a diverse group of incoming first-year
students. What's more, sexual violence touches every one of us
in this community on some level, so we *all* have a stake in
ending it.
To volunteer to be a facilitator, please send your name and MIT
affiliation (i.e., undergraduate, graduate, staff, etc.) to us at
<stop-officer@mit.edu>. If you know anyone else who might be a
good volunteer, please ask them to sign up as well.
If you cannot volunteer to facilitate discussion on the 24th but
would like to help out in some other way, then please also send a
note to <stop-officer@mit.edu> and join us as we brainstorm and work
to build the program -- the more people working on it, the better.
Thanks!
MIT Coalition on Rape Awareness
