Finding support during Sexual Assault Awareness Month

By ZEVA ROSENBAUM News Contributor

Content Warning: mentions of sexual assault

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month and there are a variety of upcoming events throughout the month on the Oregon State University Corvallis campus, as well as ways to get involved.

Ray Sullivan, a Navy Veteran, member of the Center for Advocacy, Prevention & Education Health Team and SAAM Planning Committee member, said he volunteered to work with the committee as soon as he heard about the “opportunity to organize.”

“I got involved on the committee because

I love our community’s commitment to SAAM and providing a safer and more equitable campus for all of our students,” Sullivan said.

According to Sullivan, some of the upcoming events include Trivia Night on April 5, an open forum on April 17 concerning services and feedback for OSU’s continuum of care, the SAAM Activity Fair on April 25, and Denim Day and Take Back the Night on April 26.

“OSU is committed to building a robust environment of care,” said Sullivan. “But in order to effectively create this community, we must have motivated student community members who are committed to building a program that they can believe in.”

Sullivan said CAPE is working on hiring a Peer Education Advisor to help build a community education team so students can get more easily involved. He said student feedback and involvement in community care is necessary for success.

Before becoming a student, Sullivan worked as a Sexual Assault Victim Advocate during six of his seven years and provided care and guidance on policy for a tricontinental region, as well as helping to educate around 60 additional advocates.

He said he “loved the opportunity and the privilege” of helping to provide care and a voice to people who most needed it, and that led to him deciding to continue helping survivors on the CAPE team while going to college.

According to Sullivan, the SAAM committee formed over years of combined efforts on the part of OSU staff and students who wanted to create a program for Interpersonal Violence Awareness and Prevention founded on “the principles of "community, safety and agency for our students.”

CAPE as it is now is the product of two OSU programs merging: the Survivor Advocacy and Resource Center and Interpersonal Violence Prevention Team, Sullivan explained, and OSU supports these programs while professional staff provides

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Calendar

GARDEN EDUCATION WORKSOP

April 13, 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Learn from Benton County Master Gardeners with the Basic Needs Center. Event is free and drop-ins welcome.

OUT OF THE DARKNESS CAMPUS

WALK

April 15, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Student Experience Center Plaza

Enjoy a resource fair, honor bead ceremony and walk for suicide prevention and bring hope to those affected by suicide. Event done in collaboration with American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

CORVALLIS FARMERS MARKET

April 15 - Nov. 22, 9:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

1st Street and Jackson Ave.

The Corvallis Farmers Market returns for the season in downtown Corvallis! Market is held every Wednesday and Saturday till Nov. 22.

CITY EVENTS

Rotary Club hosts 2023 half marathon and 5k

By DAVID LI News Contributor

Four different competitive and noncompetitive races, including the twelfth half marathon, come to Corvallis this April.

The events are run by the Rotary Club After Five event on April 15, according to Bob Hazleton, race coordinator.

The four races include a virtual walk, a half-marathon, a 5k, and a family 1k occurring at different times of the day. While registering for the family 1k is free except for on-site registration, participants must pay to register for the other events with the cost increasing the closer you register to the walk.

“We will have a coffee cart which is new and the Oregon Army National Guard will have some sort of bouncing apparatus for kids,” Hazleton said.

Top finishers for the half-marathon and 5k races will be given awards, while the other ones give a finisher medal for all participants.

Four aid stations are included in the half-marathon course distributing water and electrolytes. More information can be found at https://corvallishalfmarathon. com/races/.

According to Lieutenant Benjamin Harvey, public information officer, event traffic should not be a problem. The event traverses across much of the city, into the county and through a city park. Minor delays may happen when navigating across and through the race course.

“The event does not appear to be any different from other years, which has worked well,” Harvey said. “We ask that people have patience and plan ahead for the delays as appropriate.”

According to Hazleton, delays may happen along 35th Street, and from around 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., 14th and 15th Street as well. For reference, the half-marathon goes from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., the 5k run/walk goes from 8:50 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. and the family 1k goes from 11:30 a.m. to noon.

The event was started by the Rotary Club of Corvallis After Five as a club fundraiser, which has netted over $350,000, according to Hazleton.

The money has been donated to local non-profit organizations such as LinnBenton Food Share and to the Rotary Club’s local and international efforts, which includes various humanitarian projects in pursuit of their mission to provide service to others, promote integrity and advance world goodwill and peace, among other goals.

These projects include ending polio, providing aid after a natural disaster, supporting education and more.

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