EU recognizes Sexual Assault Awareness Month

The month of April was nationally observed as Sexual Assault Awareness Month. 

Various contributions were made to honor the importance of the issues surrounding sexual assault on college campuses such as various programming and teal bows wrapped around trees on campus with information about the month.

Movements across social media platforms and college campuses continue to advocate for the rights of survivors, bring awareness to the issue of sexual assault in an effort to educate students, and eliminate any possible occurrences of this kind of harassment on campus.

Apart from the efforts being put forward this month, EU requires campus members to partake in Title IX training at the beginning of each school year. 

“Aside from the title IX requisite given each school year, I believe the school does make attempts to promote information and sessions related to sexual assault,” said junior Gabriel Galindo. 

Some of the events held on campus this month include self-defense classes, denim day, clothesline project, and day of silence. All of the events were held to stand in solidarity with survivors of sexual assault on and off college campuses. 

Many events, such as denim day and clothesline project are aimed to destigmatize the topic and discredit the idea of victim blaming when it comes to the clothing choice of survivors.

Elmhurst University has its own Title IX coordinator that handles all resolution procedures and monitoring of Title IX on campus when a student comes forward to report any instances of discrimination and harrasment.