2008 Woodie Awards
Students 'Take Back the Night'
Alex Moorman
Issue date: 4/21/08 Section: News
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"Basically the clothes line project is a way to show students and faculty all about sexual assault awareness," said Angela Golden, senior child development and family studies major. "We have tee shirts here from previous years and from students that made them this year about what they went through themselves and it's a way to let them get it out and to show others what they went through too."
The volunteers set up clotheslines and hung t-shirts made by victims of sexual assault in front of the Keathley University Center last week.
"We aren't supposed to disclose the names of the students that participated basically they could come into the June Anderson Woman's center in the JUB [James Union Building] and they fill out a form so basically it's just between us and them," Golden said.
"We don't want to tell the names because it's personal but it's not only the students it's also the community. They can come to the table and make one so it's just a personal thing,"
Students walked around the clotheslines in silence reading the shirts in horror.
"Its just out there if you don't want to you look, you don't have to look but its just eye catching there are some about people being raped by people they knew like their father, its really emotional once you read it, it hits you, but I think it effects everyone which is one reason why I feel like this is a great way to inform people," Golden said.
She said a lot of the students who made t-shirt sometimes where writing down what had happened to them for the very first time and that it really allowed them to face what happened and maybe even begin healing.
"Some of the shirts are really blunt and they don't sugar coat anything and I think that's important when trying to inform people of the dangers that are out there," said Lacresha Seals senior nursing major.
"Even as nursing students we've heard a lot of stories from emergency room patients and even just students around Murfreesboro who have been raped and assaulted and its good because it helps get the information out there and the tee shirts just make it more real."
"Even the people who come in are kind of afraid to write their whole heart on the t-shirt, its just whatever they feel comfortable with is all they have to put down there's some that just say a couple of words and then theirs some that write down their whole life story so I do think it's a great way for them to escape and tell their feelings," Golden said.
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