Events supporting Sexual Assault Awareness Month scheduled at CSC

The activities will begin with “Scream” Movie Night, scheduled to take place Tuesday at 6 p.m. in the Student Center. The film Scream relates to sexual assault awareness because it demonstrates the extremes of what stalking by a significant other can look like. The night will also feature a presentation by Title IX Coordinator Morgan Cullan on Stalking Awareness. The event is co-sponsored with RLA.

The Clothesline Project, a T-shirt display featuring graphic messages and illustrations intended to represent the experience of a sexual assault survivor or someone who lost their life to interpersonal violence, will be on display in The Pit of the Student Center April 2 through April 23. These shirts will be worn during the Walk-A-Mile in Her Shoes event on April 23. The Clothesline Project is organized by the UNITED Club.

A library book collection dedicated to books about sexual assault, mental health, and recovery will also be on display in the King Library for the month of April.

Shining Light on Mental Health & Sexual Assault Awareness will begin at 5 p.m. on Monday, April 8. Half of C-Hill will be lit in teal for Sexual Assault Awareness Month and half will be lit in green honoring Mental Health Awareness Month in May. A city proclamation will be read following the lighting ceremony.

On Tuesday, April 9, Cover the Cruiser will be at the Lindeken Clock Tower from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. This event invites students to make a pledge of support for survivors and speak out against sexual violence by writing messages of support on sticky notes and placing them on a police cruiser. The event is coordinated by Cardinal Key.

Lunch and Learn, a presentation about gaslighting, a type of abuse where the perpetrator makes the victim doubt themselves, presented by Cullan and Licensed Student Counselor Chelsea Turner, will be at noon April 17 in the Student Center’s Scottsbluff Room.

Walk-A-Mile in Her Shoes, sponsored by Zeta Alpha Kappa, will start at Memorial Hall April 23 at 4:30 p.m., and end at the Dawes County Courthouse.

The 10th Street Miscellany will be hosting Survivor Open Mic night at Bean Broker on April 23 at 6 p.m.

Denim Day is scheduled to take place at CSC on April 25. Students are invited to wear jeans to help bring awareness to victim blaming and destructive myths surrounding sexual violence. This event is sponsored by Every Eagle Succeeds. A photo booth, sponsored by the Social Work Club, will be set up in the Student Center for students to take photos in their denim and raise awareness for Sexual Assault Awareness Month from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

On April 26, CSC student Kolby Mason and Cullan will host a Sexual Assault Workshop in the Student Center’s Scottsbluff Room at noon. The workshop will discuss the impacts of sexual assault on the LGBTQ+ community.