MANHATTAN, Kan. - Women, have you ever been walking home alone at night, and jumped at every twig that snaps, or has your heart skipped a beat when a shadow crosses your path, do you go over self defense scenarios in your head? Many of us are aware of the rules for walking alone at night: do not listen to your headphones, do not talk on your phone, have your keys ready in your hand. The reality is often times, women do not feel safe walking alone after dark. Many women I know will not even walk alone at night on the K-State campus, a place where we feel safe and at home most of the time. It is time to "Take Back the Night"!
This fear we experience is the reason Take Back the Night was first started in 1976. Women all over the world gather together and march through the night in protest against the harassment and sexual violence that has made victims of tons and tons of women. Take Back the Night is an international event, the first march being held in Brussels in 1976, that same year a similar march was organized in Rome in response to a reported 16,000 rapes. Today Take Back the Night is held to eliminate sexual violence and is popular on college campuses.
Join the Take Back the Night march in Manhattan on Thursday, April 29. We will gather at 8:00 in the Bosco Student Union Plaza for a rally and speeches, and then march to Triangle Park. Come out and join the cause tomorrow night! End violence against women. "Shatter the silence. Stop the violence"
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