Students were able to sign a pledge and grab a pair of decorated high-heel shoes and walk a mile together around USU’s campus. Many men attended and showed support for women and the efforts against sexual assault.
“I love seeing the men walking around in the shoes and supporting women,” said Tina Edgar from Logan’s Center for Pregnancy Choices. “It shares our heart and our mission for helping women. To see the college guys walking that mile in their shoes, it just puts into place what sexual abuse is really like.”
”Walk a Mile is to raise awareness and to let people know and see that this isn’t acceptable,” said Codie Thurgood, SAAVI student intern. “People don’t really think violence and sexual assault and rape should be swept under the rug anymore. They really want to take a stand and raise a voice.”
Representation from around Logan City came to the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event. These included USU Student Health Services, the Center for Pregnancy Choices, the USU Counseling and Psychological Services and the Child and Family Support Center.
Logan’s Center for Pregnancy Choices has been coming to support Walk a Mile in her Shoes for a couple of years. They provide services to women with crisis pregnancy situations.
“Walk a Mile in Her Shoes has been inviting us to come here to have a table just to get our name out to the students,” Edgar said. “We appreciate that we have the chance to help them.”
Part of the SAAVI Walk a Mile event included a poster and video contest called Project 240. Students could enter it to help raise awareness about sexual assault.
“We started Project 240 which is where we just wanted people to bring awareness to their friends because they are going to talk about it. Then their friends are going to talk about it and then it just spreads into a web of things,” said Alayna Core, who is part of the public relations group who held the contest. “The posters will go in the bathrooms around campus and the videos we are going to hopefully use on a Youtube channel for CAPSA to help raise awareness.”
A handful of students entered their posters and videos into the contest, where their friends could vote for them. The poster and video with the most votes would win. The winner of the best poster was Becky Eisenhower and she will receive $400 on a Visa gift card. The winner of the best video was Aaron Griffiths and he will receive free food from Chic-fil-A for a year.
“I definitely feel that there is a big issue with sexual assault,” Griffiths said. “I wanted to do something that would bring awareness to the subject.”
Below is the winning video and winning poster.
Video by Aaron Griffiths
Poster by Becky Eisenhower
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