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Student groups plan special events next week
John DeBruicker
Issue date: 4/13/07 Section: News
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April may not have brought the spring weather so many had been looking forward to, but it will certainly be an active time on campus for three student groups in particular. Next week is Students Against Sexual Assault's Sexual Awareness week as well as the Environmental Awareness Group's Earth week. There is also still time for students to participate in the eleventh annual Colby Volunteer Center's Colby Cares Day will also take place on Saturday, Apr. 21.
Zach Haas '07, Co-president of the CVC hopes that 200 students will volunteer their time and take part in the more than 15 various planned service projects. This year, Waterville High School students will be working alongside students from the College. There will also be new sites this year where CVC will be lending a hand. Volunteers will be working at Lupine Farm in Vassalboro, the Kennebec Historical Society and the opera house downtown. Students will also be working with Rape Crisis to prepare future education programs such as Project Kidsafe 2007. Other activities include maintaining the old Colby 1920 trail at the L.C. Bates Museum in Hinckley and general spring cleaning at the REM center, Ken-A-Set, Maine Children's Home, and more. "It's going to be a lot of hard work for the volunteers so we're glad to have them so proactive and so charitable," Haas said. "We get a lot done." To get involved, contact the CVC at cvc@colby.edu, or the office can be reached at 859-4150.
This will be the fourth Sexual Awareness week on campus; the third under the governance of Students Against Sexual Assault. "The idea is we're not against sex, we're against sexual violence," said Ashley Hunt '07, SASA's co-president. Hunt says that with the awareness week, the group aims to change the way that students think about sexual rights campaigns. Rather than taking a lesbian, "feminazi," anti-sex, or even vegetarian standpoint, SASA's publicity campaign for the week will prominently feature Colby men who oppose sexual violence. "We just want people to communicate more, which hopefully will lead to better sexual relations, too," Hunt said. There will be a poster campaign, tee shirts for sale, and a discussion of "The Female Orgasm" at 7 p.m. on Thursday in Page Commons. SASA has teamed up with the Student Government Association and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies to support the week's events.
Zach Haas '07, Co-president of the CVC hopes that 200 students will volunteer their time and take part in the more than 15 various planned service projects. This year, Waterville High School students will be working alongside students from the College. There will also be new sites this year where CVC will be lending a hand. Volunteers will be working at Lupine Farm in Vassalboro, the Kennebec Historical Society and the opera house downtown. Students will also be working with Rape Crisis to prepare future education programs such as Project Kidsafe 2007. Other activities include maintaining the old Colby 1920 trail at the L.C. Bates Museum in Hinckley and general spring cleaning at the REM center, Ken-A-Set, Maine Children's Home, and more. "It's going to be a lot of hard work for the volunteers so we're glad to have them so proactive and so charitable," Haas said. "We get a lot done." To get involved, contact the CVC at cvc@colby.edu, or the office can be reached at 859-4150.
This will be the fourth Sexual Awareness week on campus; the third under the governance of Students Against Sexual Assault. "The idea is we're not against sex, we're against sexual violence," said Ashley Hunt '07, SASA's co-president. Hunt says that with the awareness week, the group aims to change the way that students think about sexual rights campaigns. Rather than taking a lesbian, "feminazi," anti-sex, or even vegetarian standpoint, SASA's publicity campaign for the week will prominently feature Colby men who oppose sexual violence. "We just want people to communicate more, which hopefully will lead to better sexual relations, too," Hunt said. There will be a poster campaign, tee shirts for sale, and a discussion of "The Female Orgasm" at 7 p.m. on Thursday in Page Commons. SASA has teamed up with the Student Government Association and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies to support the week's events.
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