A student walks by the Women’s Center’s “We demand a rape-free campus” sexual assault awareness event Tuesday

in the Faner breezeway. Jenn Freitag, a graduate student in speech communication and prevention educator from

Carbondale, said the event was a great success. “We’ve had a lot of really great conversations about folks getting

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involved with volunteering, and people were engaged in the art project and activism project,” she said. Jennifer

Buchanan, a senior from Chicago studying social work, said the event was a good idea and helped bring awareness

to the issue. “This needs to be exposed, and it’s an ongoing issue,” Buchanan said. “Not a lot of people talk about it.”

The Center’s next event will be the clothesline project at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Eurma Hayes Center in Carbondale.

Nicole Hester-Daily Egyptian

Photo taken by Nicole Hester of the Daily Egyptian