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VAV
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
LONGHORN LIFE
DON’T BE LATE FOR FINALS!
voices against violence
by the Longhorn Life staff
NOTICE OF REDUCED
SHUTTLE SERVICE
WHAT Reduced frequency of UT Shuttle Bus Service WHEN December 10–15 and 17–18, 2012 (including Saturday, December 15) WHERE All Routes DON’T blow a grade sitting at the bus stop. Shuttles will run less frequently during final exams. Please schedule your travel time accordingly. DO plan ahead. For information on how this affects your route and schedule, please call the Capital Metro Go Line at 512.474.1200 or visit us online at capmetro.org. LATE 2012–EARLY 2013 SHUTTLE BUS SERVICE SCHEDULE Dec 19 – 21, Jan 2 – 4 No School Service; PRC route will operate Dec 22 – Jan 1 and Jan 5,6,13,19 – 21 No Service Jan 7–11 Limited registration shuttle Jan 14 Spring schedule begins
The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey conducted in 2010 by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention found that more than one in three women and one in four men in the U.S. are survivors of relationship violence. To look around a room and bring faces to these statistics is often a chilling visual, but sexual and dating violence remains a prevalent stain on our culture. For the last 10 years, Voices Against Violence – an affiliate of UT’s counseling and mental health center – has provided support for victims of relationship abuse. Along with professional resources for survivors of sexual abuse and stalking, the program provides a safe outlet for proactive and reactive situations. Since opening, more than 150,000 UT employees have participated in VAV training sessions. These sessions provide participants with the skills to offer support to individuals who have suffered relationship violence and equip them with the contacts victims should turn to next. If you or a UT student you know has been a victim, know there is help. Voices Against Violence is here to provide services for survivors and allies, including individual counseling, an anonymous telephone hotline, connections to community resources and advocacy services. VAV also offers an interactive, one-hour program called “Get Sexy. Get Consent.” The group, which performs for classrooms and organizations around Austin, sheds light on how we negotiate sex, consent, boundaries and safety, and over 90 percent of past viewers say the program was useful, relevant and thought-provoking. To get involved in the fight against relationship violence on campus, you can become a VAV Peer Educator. Students are trained through a two-semester course sequence offered for academic credit. They create and perform interactive theater scenarios designed to raise awareness and educate other students on relationship abuse, sexual violence and stalking. For more information on CMHC’s Voices Against Violence, visit www.cmhc.utexas.edu/ vav or call 512-471-3515. To speak to a trained counselor anonymously, call UT’s 24-hour telephone counseling line, 512-471-CALL (2255).
KEY REASONS VICTIMS GIVE FOR STAYING IN AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP: • I’m scared of what will happen if I try to leave. • I am worried about what my friends and family will think. • I don’t have anyone to turn to. • I love my partner. I want the abuse to end, not the relationship. • I don’t believe I’ll find anyone else to date. • It’s my fault this is happening.