EC gets RAD

The Department of Public Safety will be offering a Rape Aggression Defense (R.A.D) class for female students this fall semester in the Administration Building (AMR) in the month of September, October, November and December. The program will be on Mondays and Tuesdays from 6pm to 8p. Each month consists of 25 students a total of 6 sessions 2 days a week for (3) three weeks:

2007 Sessions:

- September 10 and 11
- September 17 and 18
- September 24 and 25

- October 1 and 2
- October 8 and 9
- October 15 and 16

- November 5 and 6
- November 12 and 13
- November 19 and 20

- December 3 and 4
- December 10 and 11
- December 17 and 18


Please take a break from the classroom and come have some fun.

Attendance is encouraged for all sessions. We are flexible with your busy schedules and we can cover missed techniques with you prior to or after the other scheduled sessions.

R.A.D is a simple, practical program offered to the community that teaches women to prevent and avoid attack. Participants spend time discussing risk reduction, risk avoidance, and hands on self defense techniques in case of an actual attack. The final session features “simulation” where participants utilize their training in a simulated attack.

To reserve a place in the class, please contact Bo Him at
himbo@emmanuel.edu

*info above provided via firstclass-all students*

Watch Your Step After Dark

If you're in the Boston area, breathing and have a vagina you've probably been told this news story by concerned friends and family who keep up on the news. Yes..another assault has occurred along the Esplanade in the wee hours of the morning.

I'm just taking the time to remind all you ladies to not walk alone at night if it's not necessary...Oh wait, you already knew that? Duhhh!! Most females know it's dangerous to walk alone at night. It's just not fair that having a vagina makes you handicap and incapable of making it home safely.

Everytime I leave my friend's house, a bar etc. and it's late and I'm alone..hell yeah I'm scared of what's lurking in the dark. But I've still walked home and I'm thankful every time I make it safely to my front door.

This whole violence against women/rape culture that we live in is pathetic. No wonder men have more money than women it's because women have spend all their money on cabs---well ya know what I'm saying.

I wish we all lived in a world where things like this didn't happen..but we don't. So our best defense if we must walk at night, be proactive about it.
-Have your keys (or another sharp, painful object) and cell in hand (with local police set on one of your speed dials)
-get pepper spray
-walk the long way, if it's more lit and populated
-fuck it, walk in the street, so people can't snatch you from the sidewalk
-don't wear your hair in a long ponytail or braid (easier target-can be grabbed)

to all you fellow nightly walking women..be safe and stay strong

fair trial? I think not

Okay so in an assault trail how the hell do you take away the constitutional first amendment right of freedom of speech??!?!?! In this particular situation the defendant's (Pamir Safi, an Army reservist)defense attorney (Clarence Mock) argued to have the words "rape," "victim," "assault," and “sexual assault kit” from the testimony throughout the trail.
I just don't get it. How do you not allow certain words (especially those) to not be used in court? I'm just confused, and pissed off.

It’s hard enough, embarrassing enough, and emotional to be put on trial as a victim of rape..and then on top of the judge isn't going to allow you to identify yourself as a victim..what is going on in the world? I feel bad for this woman...it doesn't matter if she was drunk..drunk women don't say "hey I would like to be taken advantage of now". This world is just ridiculous.

It is not the judge's right to out-law certain words, it's the jury's choice to decide if Tory Bowen was raped, assaulted, and a victim.

I can only imagine what Bowen is feeling right now..or should I say for the last three years because this incident occurred in 2004. I would be a wreck...so yeah I think outlawing the first amendment is bullshit...come on this is suppose to be America people!

Hey what can I say..

the image speaks for itself