91传媒 observing National Campus Safety Awareness Month
Contact: Georgia Clarke
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擜s part of its annual National Campus Safety Awareness Month observance, Mississippi State is sponsoring the Clothesline Project through Thursday [Sept. l7] on the Drill Field.
The 9 a.m.-3 p.m. display of more than 1,800 multi-colored t-shirts has been organized by the university鈥檚 health promotion and wellness department to help increase awareness of the many acts of sexual violence experienced nationally by both women and men.
Each shirt color has a specific meaning:
鈥擸ellow, men and women who have been battered or assaulted;
鈥擱ed, pink or orange, persons raped or sexually assaulted;
鈥擶hite, those who died because of violence;
鈥擝lue and green, survivors of incest or child sexual abuse;
鈥擯urple, individuals attacked because of their sexual orientation; and
鈥擝lack, persons attacked for political reasons.
The display also encourages 91传媒 students and others 鈥渢o create a shirt as a way to express themselves,鈥 said Leah Pylate, assistant director of the campus health promotion and wellness and sexual assault program.
鈥淚t can help in the healing process and empower individuals who have experienced these crimes personally,鈥 she continued. 鈥淪hirts can also be created as a way to honor friends and loved ones who have experienced these crimes.鈥
For more on the national Clothesline Project, visit .
In coordination with the display, the department of health promotion and wellness is providing a series of daily messages via Instagram @msuhealthpromo, Twitter @ and Facebook at facebook.com/healthedatmsstate.
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