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Department of Public Safety:
111 Low Library
Tel: (212) 854-2796
Emergency:
Ext. 99 or (212) 854-5555

Hate/Bias Crimes: Report any and all incidents to Public Safety immediately. You may also want to contact your dean, Leilani Adams, and/or Allen Settle.

11/7/07--Please note that I will be talking to the Public Safety
office tomorrow to discuss the current hunger strike on campus. The strikers' well-being is a concern of the GSSC and we want to ensure their safety during this time.

Feel free to visit the strikers' blog: http://www.cu-strike.blogspot.com/

*Also, the strikers are accepting water, non-caffeinated tea, and Gatorade, if you'd like to help them out.

--Leilani Adams

 

 


Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Program

Contact Information
2920 Broadway, Mail Code 3841
Alfred Lerner Hall, Room 301
New York, NY 10027
212.854.3500
212.854.WALK (Peer Advocates, 24 hours/7 days)
212.854.HELP (Peer Counselors, 7:00pm to 11:00pm/7 days)

Office Hours: Mon-Fri, 9:30am to 5:00pm

Rape Crisis/Anti-Violence Support Center is located in Brooks Hall (Barnard Quad), and provides peer counseling, advocacy, and education to survivors and co-survivors of sexual assault, relationship violence, childhood sexual abuse, and other forms of violence.

MISSION
The Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Program (SVPRP) educates students about consent and coersion, and promotes community standards for a respectful and safe campus. Through its programs and services, SVPRP fosters individual and collective action to end sexual and relationship violence by:

  1. Educating students and administrators about the dynamics and effects of sexual assault.
  2. Helping students develop the communication and assessment skills necessary to promote and maintain healthy and intimate relationships.
  3. Advocating for appropriate support for survivors of sexual and relationship violence.

The Men's Peer Education Program is a program of the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Program.

Contact Information:
Men's Peer Education Program
Alfred Lerner Hall, Room 301
2920 Broadway, Mail Code 3841
New York, NY 10027
212.854.2136

MISSION
The Men's Peer Education Program seeks to promote individual and community accountability to challenge beliefs and behaviors that encourage sexual and relationship violence. The Program examines notions of masculinities and manhood, and their relationship to violence toward men and women. Through awareness-to-action education and campus organizing, the Program aims to engage men as allies in an effort to transform cultures that support sexual violence.

Support Survivors: Men can be survivors of sexual violence and harassment. They may also be friends, relatives, and partners of survivors. Male survivors and co-survivors are encouraged to use any of the services available through the Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Program.

Personal Safety--Street Smarts:

  1. Reduce or eliminate opportunities that make you a target.
  2. Remain alert, even in places you're most comfortable.
  3. Trust your instincts, even if it makes you self-conscious.
  4. Prepare your daily schedule with safety in mind.

Walking--Be Street Smart--Use well populated and well lit streets. If you suspect that you're being followed, stay away from deserted blocks and head for an area where there are many people, or the nearest open store or a Public Safety SAFE HAVEN (RED LION DECAL ON WINDOW). Ask the store owner to call 911 or CU Public Safety. If you're being driven home, ask the driver to wait until you're safely inside.

Use Public Safety's Escort Service (854-SAFE). If you have a cell phone, program the Escort and Public Safety Emergency Number: 212-854-5555.

 


BICYCLE SAFETY!

Many bicycle safety guidelines stress the importance of wearing a helmet. Though a helmet will help if you are injured while riding your bike, it does not prevent you from getting hit by a car! The #1 goal in bicycle safety is to avoid getting hit by a car. Plenty of cyclists are seriously injured or killed by cars even though they were wearing their helmets.

Learn how not to get hit by cars--http://bicyclesafe.com. This website has very good diagrams of common accidents and provides realistic information about bicycle safety. For example, simply "following the law" is not the most obvious advice--the law says to ride as far to the right in your lane as is practicable. But if you ride too far to the right someone exiting a parked car could open their door right in front of you; also, you'll be less visible to motorists pulling out of driveways and parking lots. The website even offers versions in Catalan, French, Hungarian, and Spanish languages.

Here are some bike maps for NYC: http://www.transalt.org/info/maps.html.
And here is a map showing the most dangerous intersections in the five boroughs: http://www.transalt.org/crashmaps/index.html.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!

 

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