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ANTI ABORTION PEOPLE MISS POINT OF FEMINISM
TENNIS: PORTER’S PATH TO CSU LEADERSHIP
AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE FLASH MOB HITS PLAZA
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Volume 126, No. 124 Thursday, April 27, 2017
Abigail DeWolfe and Susan Brown lead the Take Back the Night March against sexual and domestic violence in to Old Town. This march is part of the annual ‘Take Back the Night’ event held to raise awareness for the victims of sexual assault. PHOTO BY ASHLEY POTTS COLLEGIAN
Sexual assault survivors share their stories at Take Back the Night By Haley Candelario @H_Candelario98
Lyn Weyand, the keynote speaker at this year’s Take Back the Night event, shared with the audience a deeply personal story: She was raped by her brother. Tears and sniffles could be heard in the crowd of about 100
students and faculty members who participated Wednesday in the annual sexual assault awareness event Take Back the Night. Participants gathered for the event on Colorado State University’s Montfort Quad, and then marched to Old Town, Fort Collins. The event was organized by CSU’s Campus Feminist Alliance
in partnership with the Women and Gender Advocacy Center. Weyand said that her parents were initially supportive when she wrote them a letter to come out as gay and to tell them her brother raped her, but by the next day, their support disappeared. “I woke up the next morn-
ing and my parents said, ‘We’re on our way to come get you, and you’re going to sit down and you’re going to look him in the eye, and you’re going to tell him what you said,’” Weyand said. “’Because we don’t say these things about our family. We don’t treat our family this way.’” Weyand said she reached out
to everyone in search of justification - she wanted to understand why she was assaulted. “I opened up to anyone I could. I told everyone my story,” Weyand said. “I wanted someone to say, ‘This happened to you because ...’ I just needed a formula. I just needed an explanation be see SURVIVORS on page 5 >>