Students for a Safe Campus
Who are we?
We are a group of women and men dedicated to ending and preventing
gendered violence in our community by educating ourselves and
our peers about its causes, consequences, and alternatives. The
organization has two primary goals: self education and peer education.
1. Self education
Self education includes participating in awareness-raising activities
such as the White Ribbon Campaign and attending meetings where
we hear from invited guest speakers, view and discuss films
dealing with the causes/consequences of violence or that present
alternative models for human behavior, and discuss our own
thoughts about ending and preventing violence.
Roles for group members interested in self-education goal: plan
meetings, facilitate meetings, recruit meeting participants,
attend meetings, and/or participate in other awareness-raising
activities and discussions.
2. Peer education
Peer education includes presenting information on causes, consequences,
and alternatives to violence to classes, other student groups,
and incoming students. Peer education also includes engaging
in awareness-raising campaigns by posting anti-violence signs
and posters around campus, holding pledge/petition drives to
end/prevent violence, etc.
Roles for group members
interested in peer education goal: attend peer education
training, conduct presentations, host information tables, host
pledge/petition tables, post signs and posters to promote awareness,
talk with friends about ending and preventing gendered violence.
Meetings:
6:00pm, Wednesdays in the Walker Room - Memorial Union
FMI on SSC Group please contact Robert U. Jackson
or Sarah MacAlister on FirstClass
Questions? Comments? Concerns? Thoughts
for the day? Contact us!
FirstClass: "Students for a Safe Campus" folder
To
access the folder, go to:
Student Resources -> All Student Orgs/Groups - >Students
for a Safe Campus.
Or contact Amy Blackstone, Students for a Safe
Campus Faculty Mentor on FirstClass or at 581-2392
Amy Blackstone, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology,
5728 Fernald Hall
University of Maine,
Orono, ME 04469-5728
Phone: 207-581-2392
Fax: 207-581-1762
Email: amy.blackstone@umit.maine.edu
