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16th
Annual "Take Back the Night" March and Speakout
Against Sexual Violence, April 10
The Take
Back the Night march and speakout will take place on Thursday,
April 10. The march, organized by Barnard and Columbia Take
Back the Night and Columbia Men Against Violence, is an annual
event to protest sexual assault and relationship violence
in the community. Over a thousand participants are expected
to march around Morningside Heights to symbolically reclaim
the streets and the night.
The march will begin at the Barnard Gates at 8:00 p.m. Both
men and women will march together; women participate in the
first half of the march alone while men will meet in Upper
Level MacIntosh for a discussion group. Men will gather at
8:40 at the Columbia gates at 116th and Broadway to meet the
women marchers. At 9:00 p.m. the Speakout on Lehman Lawn will
provide a place for survivors and co-survivors to speak about
their experiences. (Lower level McIntosh will host the Speakout
in case of rain.)
Take Back the Night is a national movement that began in the
United States in 1976. In the beginning, the movement was
primarily concerned with the role of pornography in perpetuating
violence against women. Today, however, on many college campuses,
student-run "Take Back the Night" chapters largely
focus on sexual assault and rape. The first march at Columbia
University was organized at Barnard College as a product of
a Seven Sisters conference. The march was held in April of
1988, with a participation of nearly 200 students. Since then,
march attendance has grown exponentially to well over 1000
participants.
For more information, contact tbtn@columbia.edu
or visit www.columbia.edu/cu/tbtn
Barnard
College, a distinguished leader in higher education for women
for over 100 years, is today the most sought after private
liberal arts college for women in the nation. Founded in 1889,
the College was the first in New York City, and one of the
few in the nation at the time, where women could receive the
same rigorous liberal arts education available to men. Independent
but affiliated with Columbia University, Barnard maintains
its own administration, trustees, faculty, curriculum, endowment,
budget and campus. Barnard students may take classes at Columbia,
as Columbia students may do at Barnard. Barnard alumnae include
pioneers like anthropologist Margaret Mead and Judith Kaye,
the first female Chief Judge of the State of New York, along
with prominent cultural figures such as choreographer Twyla
Tharp, writers Zora Neale Hurston, and Mary Gordon, and Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalists Anna Quindlen and Natalie Angier.
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