News Release
November 2003
(Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania) – On Monday morning, November 24,
faculty and students of Moravian College, under the auspices of the
college’s women studies program, will encircle Moravian’s
two campuses with a mile and a half of yellow police tape to create
a symbolic “safe zone” for women. According to Dr. Stacey
Zaremba, faculty organizer of the event and head of Moravian’s
women studies program, Monday’s effort is the first in a series
of planned events that will offer an “emotional and humane” community
response to violence against women, including rape.
Zaremba said that faculty and student volunteers
will gather near the Priscilla Payne Hurd Academic Complex at 8:00
a.m. Monday morning
and will fan out to “tie a yellow ribbon” around the College’s
campuses on Main and Church streets “to communicate the absolute
need for safety of women.” She said that the event had been proposed
by an ad hoc group of junior faculty members who sought a visible and
compelling way to call attention to “women as victims, violence
against women, and the need for rape prevention.” She said that
the faculty group, in collaboration with other campus offices, would
develop and organize other future events throughout the academic year
with the same theme and goal.
Moravian College is a private, coeducational, selective
liberal arts college located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Tracing its
founding to
1742, it is recognized as America's sixth-oldest college. Visit the
Web site at www.moravian.edu.
