Tri-College Students Walk to End Sexual Violence

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Tri–College students are taking a break from their homework and walking through the F–M area to end sexual violence.

Every two minutes someone in the U.S. is sexually assaulted. That’s why college students are walking together for a cause.

The performers stepped on stage and students grabbed food getting ready for their walk to Memorial Park in Moorhead.

While the dancers moved to the music and students and the community filled their plates, they say the night is about realizing sexual violence is all around us.

“This is an issue that does affect our community. It’s not just out east it’s not just out west or in a small community or larger community. It’s affecting our community,” said Rape and Abuse Crisis Center Volunteer and Training Coordinator Nancy Boyle. 

With multiple sexual assaults at MSUM over the last year, students say you don’t always feel safe but organizations are trying to help with that.

“It’s definitely kind of scary especially as a female student, but I think organizations like CFO are trying to like bring more awareness to the issue,” said Campus Feminist Organization Co-President Briana Rabenberg.

A line of shirts showing you are never alone and that students in the community will come together and help each other.

“The narrative so often is victims of sexual assault and we really want to boost the promote the idea of like we’re all survivors of assault you know,” said Campus Feminist Organization Vice President Ian Anderson. 

Like this line of shirts, they are a community that comes together.

They say they’re holding each other up and advocating for the end of sexual violence.

“With everybody working together we can truthfully make a difference and plant that seed of hope,” Boyle said.

MSUM officials say the event has been going on since the late 1990s.