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SCN presents
Safety Week at UGA each semester. Safety Week events at UGA begin on
Wed. Oct. 17th with informational tables at the Tate Plaza.
Volunteers
will distribute tips and info pertaining to sexual assault awareness
& prevention, pedestrian safety, apartment safety and more.
On Monday,
Oct. 22, at 7 p.m., SCN will hold two event simultaneously to
address sexual assault awareness and dating safety. Girls Night Out
will feature two speakers, one who survived being kidnapped, shot,
raped, and left for dead when she was a 19-year-old student in
Savannah, and the second who escaped a potential date-rape situation
when she was a student at UGA five years ago. The Guys Night Out
program will also feature the first-hand experience of a college
student who was charged and convicted of statutory rape after a
night of drinking. After these testimonies, two panels of campus and
community experts will answer questions from the perspective
audiences.
On Tuesday,
Oct. 23, SCN will hold a Fall Break Safety Block Party on Herty
Field from 1-4 p.m. This event will feature interactive safety
stations, including driving a golf cart through an obstacle course
with the driver wearing Fatal Vision goggles to simulate impaired
driving.
Other events,
including demonstrations on changing a flat tire and jumping off a
car battery, will help students be better prepared to take to the
road for UGA's Fall Break and the GA/Fla football game. Campus and
community law enforcement and organizations have been invited to
participate in this event.
Later that
evening, at 7 p.m., SCN proudly offers our "Deadly Decisions."
presentation
addressing impaired driving and riding with an impaired driver. The
guest speakers for this program are Eric and Joyce Krug. At the end
of this presentation, SCN will wrap up Safety Week by providing
attendees with glow necklaces, each containing a pedestrian safety
statistic, to remind them of the need for the increase visibility
when walking on and off-campus.
This spring,
SCN reached more than 4,500 UGA students through Spring Break Safety
Week events.
SCN is also
working with the Georgia College and State University Police
Department to offer similar events during the first ever Safety Week
on their campus Oct. 14-19. |
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