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["Thompson, Stephen M." <>]

In regards to "Bystander" programs I believe Colorado State University
may be better off by educating the population so that they may self
police.  Here at Central Michigan University all new students are
presented with a program that addresses bystanders called "No Zebras, No
Excuses."  We have found that most of the time other men know when a man
is targeting someone.  Male intervention combined with females looking
out for each other works.  On another note, educating the police and
others within the system to the characteristics and behavior of men who
assault women they know would be extremely helpful.

Steve

Steve Thompson
Sexual Aggression Services Coordinator
Central Michigan University
SAC 195
Mt. Pleasant, MI. 48859
Phone: 989-774-6677
Web:  www.sapa.cmich.edu

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   1. Bystander Program? (Barone,Ryan P.)
   2. RE: Bystander Program? (Ross A Wantland)
   3. speaker (Gretchen R Edwards-Bodmer)
   4. RE: speaker (Rosenfeld, Deirdre J)
   5. Re: speaker (Christine Mouton)
   6. RE: speaker (Robert Franklin)
   7. RE: speaker (Ross A Wantland)
   8. SAAM SPEAKER ENDORSEMENTS (Leah Prescott)
   9. programs for upperclass (Julie Hoen Bezek)


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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 10:36:51 -0700
From: "Barone,Ryan P." 
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Hello Friends,
 
At our university we have been approached by the local police department
wanting to address the number of "drunk women" in our major party/bar
areas who are being sexually assaulted.  The PD believes that the number
of sexual assaults is going up, and they want to combat this with a
bystander intervention program. 
 
We have done lots of education with the interested parties on victim
blaming and the dynamics of sexual assault reporting.  We believe the PD
is coming from a good place (at least the officer we are working with,
he took a Women's Studies class so he has some background).  As an
independent study, they would like to have a graduate student(s) walking
around the bar areas and checking in with visibly intoxicated women to
make sure they are with people they know.  Specifically, they will be
looking to intervene when men are assisting/carrying/helping visibility
incapacitated women. While we know that no harm is intended, our
concerns are that this could potentially be a set-back in terms of
putting the responsibility on potential victims to "prevent" sexual
assault from occurring. The argument we have gotten in response to this
is that it is worth it if it prevents just one sexual assault from
occurring, with the justification is that it is easier to identify
potential victims than potential perpetrators. 
 
There exists many logistics to be worked out, but we are soliciting some
preliminary thoughts.
 
We are wondering if any of your universities have any kind of structured
bystander intervention programs where students actually patrol parties
or the bar areas.  If so, who coordinates it?  Who does the training?
Are the participants men or women?  Do they wear identifiable clothing?
What kinds of liability issues have you had?    
 
Any insight would be extremely helpful.  Thanks for your time,
 

Ryan Barone

 
 
 
Ryan Barone
Men's Project Coordinator
Office of Women's Programs and Studies
112 Student Services
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-8200

970-491-6384
970-491-4922 (fax)



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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:01:58 -0600
From: "Ross A Wantland" 
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Ryan & others,

Not in the way you've state it exactly, but I do know of a pretty
intriguing bystander program. 

Dr. Victoria Banyard at the University of New Hampshire (and her
numerous colleagues) have created a pretty extensive bystander
intervention training program, focusing on some of the key pieces of
intervention research, including that bystanders must: 
1) recognize the problem
2) be asked to help
3) have role models who help them see how to intervene
4) believe they have support for their intervention from within the
group

Here was one of their first published articles:
Banyard, V. L., Plante, E. G., & Moynihan, M. M. (2004). Bystander
education: Bringing a broader community perspective to sexual violence
prevention. Journal of Community Psychology, 32, 61-79.

But additionally, I contacted Professor Banyard, and she provided me
with a bunch of her campus resources, including information about the
specific program they are implementing on their campus. They have a
whole training system for bystanders (& bystander trainers), and they're
researching it further. Her e-mail is 
,
 and I'm
sure she'd be willing to talk with you about this further (once finals
die down, that is). 

Also, with peer education work I've done with men in fraternities, I've
found that once these men understand sexual violence and how it happens,
they wind up 1) decreasing their drinking so they can 2) be more alert
to social situations that could potentially lead to sexual violence and
3) intervene if they need to. So to some extent, this bystander stuff
makes sense, BUT (and I'm pretty sure we're all on the same page here)
it can't be the Sex Police, going around to make sure everyone has the
appropriate Blood Alcohol Content to consent to sex. It needs to be done
in a respectful, community-building way. 

Hope this helps!
Peace,
Ross
(clearly avoiding grading my final projects)

"...[L]ike it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every
other being on the planet, and...politically, spiritually, in our heart
of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable." 

                                             - Aurora Morales


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Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 11:37 AM
To: 

Subject: Bystander Program?


Hello Friends,
 
At our university we have been approached by the local police department
wanting to address the number of "drunk women" in our major party/bar
areas who are being sexually assaulted.  The PD believes that the number
of sexual assaults is going up, and they want to combat this with a
bystander intervention program. 
 
We have done lots of education with the interested parties on victim
blaming and the dynamics of sexual assault reporting.  We believe the PD
is coming from a good place (at least the officer we are working with,
he took a Women's Studies class so he has some background).  As an
independent study, they would like to have a graduate student(s) walking
around the bar areas and checking in with visibly intoxicated women to
make sure they are with people they know.  Specifically, they will be
looking to intervene when men are assisting/carrying/helping visibility
incapacitated women. While we know that no harm is intended, our
concerns are that this could potentially be a set-back in terms of
putting the responsibility on potential victims to "prevent" sexual
assault from occurring. The argument we have gotten in response to this
is that it is worth it if it prevents just one sexual assault from
occurring, with the justification is that it is easier to identify
potential victims than potential perpetrators. 
 
There exists many logistics to be worked out, but we are soliciting some
preliminary thoughts.
 
We are wondering if any of your universities have any kind of structured
bystander intervention programs where students actually patrol parties
or the bar areas.  If so, who coordinates it?  Who does the training?
Are the participants men or women?  Do they wear identifiable clothing?
What kinds of liability issues have you had?    
 
Any insight would be extremely helpful.  Thanks for your time,
 

Ryan Barone

 
 
 
Ryan Barone
Men's Project Coordinator
Office of Women's Programs and Studies
112 Student Services
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523-8200

970-491-6384
970-491-4922 (fax)

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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:41:04 -0500
From: Gretchen R Edwards-Bodmer 
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Hi,
I was wondering if anyone had any referrals for funny feminist speakers
or
entertaining female speakers...
We're trying to find a speaker for our Women's History Month weekend
program.  It has to be entertaining and reach a diverse group of
students.
Any info would be helpful!
Thanks,
Gretchen

Gretchen Edwards-Bodmer
Assistant Director
S.A.F.E.  Coordinator
Women's Center
1000 Webb Center
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529
Email:  

(757) 683-4109
Fax (757) 683-4119
http://www.odu.edu/womenscenter



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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 08:53:22 -0600
From: "Rosenfeld, Deirdre J" 
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Subject: RE: speaker
To: "Gretchen R Edwards-Bodmer" 
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We were lucky to have Kathy Najimy on our campus last March.  Not only
did she fill our room to standing room only capacity, but she also had
us laughing throughout her presentation.  She's a remarkable feminist
with a long history of activism who draws an audience from such a broad
range due to her success as an actress and comedian.  We wish we could
have her with us every year!

Good luck - I look forward to hearing other responses.
-Deirdre

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Deirdre Rosenfeld
Director, Women's Center
Minnesota State University, Mankato
218 Centennial Student Union
Mankato, MN 56001

507 389-6146 phone
507 389-5539 fax


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From: 

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 On Behalf Of Gretchen R
Edwards-Bodmer
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 8:41 AM
To: 

Subject: speaker

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone had any referrals for funny feminist speakers
or
entertaining female speakers...
We're trying to find a speaker for our Women's History Month weekend
program.  It has to be entertaining and reach a diverse group of
students.
Any info would be helpful!
Thanks,
Gretchen

Gretchen Edwards-Bodmer
Assistant Director
S.A.F.E.  Coordinator
Women's Center
1000 Webb Center
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529
Email:  

(757) 683-4109
Fax (757) 683-4119
http://www.odu.edu/womenscenter

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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:54:17 -0500
From: "Christine Mouton" 
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Gretchen, if you are not restricted to Florida, there was an excellent
female speaker at the NOVA conference in Atlanta, her name is Alyce Kemp
DeWitt, Bryan Psychiatric Hospital, 220 Faison Dr, Columbia, SC 29203,
Phone: 803-935-7824, or 803- 935-7871, she is in her 70's though you
would not believe it, she is very funny, and motivating . She talks
about stress, and self motivation, while interjecting some of her own
personal victimization experiences. 

Happy Holidays,

Christine

>>> Gretchen R Edwards-Bodmer 
>>> <>
>>>  12/15/2005 9:41:04 AM
>>>
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone had any referrals for funny feminist speakers
or
entertaining female speakers...
We're trying to find a speaker for our Women's History Month weekend
program.  It has to be entertaining and reach a diverse group of
students.
Any info would be helpful!
Thanks,
Gretchen

Gretchen Edwards-Bodmer
Assistant Director
S.A.F.E.  Coordinator
Women's Center
1000 Webb Center
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529
Email:  

 
(757) 683-4109
Fax (757) 683-4119
http://www.odu.edu/womenscenter ;

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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 10:18:19 -0500
From: Robert Franklin 
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To: 

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I would highly recommend Angela Shelton (of Searching for Angela
Shelton). I
just saw her at the Kentucky conference last week and she was very
funny,
entertaining, and had some serious stuff to say. here is her information
-

http://www.searchingforangelashelton.com/

http://angelashelton.com/speaker/bookangela.html

Robert L. Franklin, MS
Male Outreach Coordinator
Center for Injury and Violence Prevention
Virginia Department of Health
109 Governor Street, 8th Floor
Richmond VA  23219
Phone: (804) 864-7739
Fax: (804) 864-7748

email: 


web: http://www.menendingviolence.com
web: http://www.varapelaws.org
web: http://www.vahealth.org/civp/sexualviolence


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Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 9:54 AM
To: 
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Subject: Re: speaker


Gretchen, if you are not restricted to Florida, there was an excellent
female speaker at the NOVA conference in Atlanta, her name is Alyce Kemp
DeWitt, Bryan Psychiatric Hospital, 220 Faison Dr, Columbia, SC 29203,
Phone: 803-935-7824, or 803- 935-7871, she is in her 70's though you
would
not believe it, she is very funny, and motivating . She talks about
stress,
and self motivation, while interjecting some of her own personal
victimization experiences.

Happy Holidays,

Christine

>>> Gretchen R Edwards-Bodmer 
>>> <>
>>>  12/15/2005 9:41:04 AM
>>>
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone had any referrals for funny feminist speakers
or
entertaining female speakers...
We're trying to find a speaker for our Women's History Month weekend
program.  It has to be entertaining and reach a diverse group of
students.
Any info would be helpful!
Thanks,
Gretchen

Gretchen Edwards-Bodmer
Assistant Director
S.A.F.E.  Coordinator
Women's Center
1000 Webb Center
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529
Email:  

(757) 683-4109
Fax (757) 683-4119
http://www.odu.edu/womenscenter

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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:44:02 -0600
From: "Ross A Wantland" 
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Subject: RE: speaker
To: "Gretchen R Edwards-Bodmer" 
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To add to this, I would recommend Gail Stern (who many of you may have
seen as half of the show "Sex Signals", as well as one of its creators).
Gail has done stand-up comedy as well as work with the Anti-Defamation
League, Rape Victim Advocates in Chicago, and many others
(http://www.catharsisproductions.com/bios.html#gail) . She's hilarious,
comes highly recommended, and has a new show "Rant"
(http://www.catharsisproductions.com/boob_job.html) that she's been
taking around that deals with "connections between the ways our society
has historically used racial and ethnic epithets to dehumanize minority
groups with the way we use words like "bitch," "whore," and "hole," to
objectify women" For more information on Gail and any of her ventures,
go to www.catharsisproductions.com 

Peace,
Ross

"...[L]ike it or not, our liberation is bound up with that of every
other being on the planet, and...politically, spiritually, in our heart
of hearts we know anything else is unaffordable." 

                                             - Aurora Morales

-----Original Message-----
From: 

[mailto:]
 On Behalf Of Gretchen R
Edwards-Bodmer
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 8:41 AM
To: 

Subject: speaker

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone had any referrals for funny feminist speakers
or
entertaining female speakers...
We're trying to find a speaker for our Women's History Month weekend
program.  It has to be entertaining and reach a diverse group of
students.
Any info would be helpful!
Thanks,
Gretchen

Gretchen Edwards-Bodmer
Assistant Director
S.A.F.E.  Coordinator
Women's Center
1000 Webb Center
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, VA 23529
Email:  

(757) 683-4109
Fax (757) 683-4119
http://www.odu.edu/womenscenter

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Message: 8
Date: 15 Dec 2005 10:50:53 EST
From: 

 (Leah Prescott)
Subject: SAAM SPEAKER ENDORSEMENTS
To: 

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Can we all send in our endorsements, as someone like myself that is
joing higher ed for the first time, i'd like to see what other schools
have done for SAAM.  And what you def. would not recommend.

I have a question about a few folks i'm thinking of bringing up:
Equalogy??? any thoughts

I heard that "No! The Rape Documentary" was fab?? i'm actually expecting
a sample video from them any day now??? any thoughts
(www.notherapedocumentary.org)

I also heard that Byron Hurt (www.bhurt.com) was great too in addressing
mysogony & sexual violence/DV in hip hop culture??? any thoughts



Well thanks in advance for all the gem's
Leah Prescott, Dartmouth College


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Message: 9
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:01:17 -0500
From: "Julie Hoen Bezek" 
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Subject: programs for upperclass
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Our university's violence prevention program currently has a
required workshop for all first-year students on sexual
assault, relationship violence, and stalking on campus.  We
want to continue educational programs on violence for
upperclass students, specifically juniors.  We are exploring
the option of an online training that all third year
students would have to complete (possibly tie this into
registration for classes).  I am interested in
programs/workshops/trainings that are directed at upperclass
students and the logistics of your program.

Thanks,
Julie


Julie Hoen - Bezek
CEASE Project Coordinator
SUNY Fredonia
Counseling Center
LoGrasso Hall
Fredonia, New York 14063
(716)673-3424

http://www.fredonia.edu/counseling/cease





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