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On college campuses, the Take Back the Night is a student sponsored and student supported campaign. Therefore, it allows for the students to send a message loud and clear to the entire campus that they are standing against violence against women and they are standing together. As they march through their campuses and communities, it symbolizes their right to "walk the streets free of male violence and without the need to rely on male protection". This is an extremely strong message relayed by college students. Take Back the Night opens the avenue for students to continue to raise awareness about sexual assault with the actual march, but also by having events prior to and after the march to explain its need and its importance. | On college campuses, the Take Back the Night is a student sponsored and student supported campaign. Therefore, it allows for the students to send a message loud and clear to the entire campus that they are standing against violence against women and they are standing together. As they march through their campuses and communities, it symbolizes their right to "walk the streets free of male violence and without the need to rely on male protection". This is an extremely strong message relayed by college students. Take Back the Night opens the avenue for students to continue to raise awareness about sexual assault with the actual march, but also by having events prior to and after the march to explain its need and its importance. | ||
Dickinson students participated in Take Back the Night in April. | |||
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Latest revision as of 23:39, 11 May 2006
Take Back the Night
Take Back the Night is an annual march that unites women, men and children, as feminists, contesting violence against women. The march often takes place in the darkness and when it originally began, it was open to women only in order to emphasize the idea that women, when united, are strong and can stand together against rape and other forms of violence against women. However, now the march serves to stand up against any violence committed against any person(s). The first Take Back the Night rally took place in Germany and the first one in the United States took place in California.
One woman in describing her experiences with the Take Back the Night rally stated
- "Take Back the Night was inspiring both on a personal level -- all these folks were out here because of something I did, something I organized -- willing to come and stand in the cold and try to light candles in the wind. That ... show[s] you you're not alone in this struggle. The other thing that was really rewarding was the Survivor Speak-Out afterward. As depressing and heartbreaking as that is, it could also be really energizing because you're helping to play a part in the recovery of survivors. I've always gone to the Speak-Out afterward because it reminds me why I'm involved with this stuff at all."
- (Gold and Villari, 2000, p.19)
On college campuses, the Take Back the Night is a student sponsored and student supported campaign. Therefore, it allows for the students to send a message loud and clear to the entire campus that they are standing against violence against women and they are standing together. As they march through their campuses and communities, it symbolizes their right to "walk the streets free of male violence and without the need to rely on male protection". This is an extremely strong message relayed by college students. Take Back the Night opens the avenue for students to continue to raise awareness about sexual assault with the actual march, but also by having events prior to and after the march to explain its need and its importance.
Dickinson students participated in Take Back the Night in April.
- image from www.dickinson.edu/news/ features/2005/takeback/
- image from www.dickinson.edu/news/ features/2005/takeback/
