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Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Designated as Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), April brings an annual opportunity to focus awareness on sexual violence and its prevention. It is also an opportunity to highlight the efforts of individuals and agencies that provide rape crisis intervention and prevention services while offering support to sexual assault survivors, victims and their families. SAAM raises awareness of sexual violence and its prevention through special events while highlighting sexual violence as a major public health issue and reinforces the need for prevention efforts.

Don't Skirt The Issue

Clothing With A Purpose - Skirts are handmade from donated pillowcases and bedsheets and are sold as a fundraising opportunity. Proceeds benefit various programs and organizations that help stop violence against women.

We collected gently used pillowcases and bedsheets throughout the month of September back in 2006. Our finished skirts will then be on sale during various parts of the year (mainly in October and April) in the University Center for only $10. We also have t-shirts for sale as well (also $10). All proceeds will benefit the Women's Shelter of South Texas. We are also encouraging everyone to wear their purchased skirts to bring attention to the silence surrounding sexual assault. We also encourage you to tell everyone about your skirt.

College Statistics

- One in four women in college today has been victims of rape, and almost 90% of them knew their assailants.
- Of these women, only 27% identified themselves as rape victims.
- One in twelve college-age men admit having fulfilled the prevailing definition of rape or attempted rape, yet virtually none of these men identify themselves as rapists.
- From a sample of sorority women, 24% had experienced an attempted rape, 17% were victims of a completed rape. Almost half of these rapes and attempted rapes were perpetrated in a fraternity house.
- College students are most vulnerable to rape during the first few weeks of the freshman and sophomore years.
- 34% of completed rapes and 45% if attempted rapes take place on campus. Almost 60% of the completed campus rapes that take place on campus occur in the victim's residence, 31% occur in another residence, and 10% occur in a fraternity.

* All information taken from http://dontskirttheissue.com