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Show DAILY UTAH CHRONICLE 4 PROTEST continued from Page 1 to ask or how to communicate." Makomenaw said more than 91 percent of victims know their attacker. "We really want to bring awareness to the fact that it's actually more likely to be someone you know who assaults you," Makomenaw said. Women are especially susceptible to assault when living on a college campus, she said. Freshmen meet droves of new people and there are typically no overt characteristics that can be attributed to a rapist. "As kids, we're told to look out for the scary van kind of situation," she said. "We really aren't told to look out for the uncle or the neighbor. We just don't have that conversation." Most of the marchers were involved in a theater-based student group called Revolution that acts out sexual assault scenarios in order to dissect and understand them. Other participants came after seeing fliers posted around campus. "I want to smash patriarchy," said Jake Houghton, a senior in biology. "It's an evil institution, and I think that anything we can do to raise awareness about rape and women's issues is important." Thursday, April 19, 2012 Houghton said creating a hierarchy of the sexes leads to toxic patterns of thinking that permeate the social fabric, and that this toxicity can lead to tragic incidents of rape and exploitation. "This idea that rapists have in their mind, and the people who commit sexual assault, is that they feel entitled," Houghton said. "They feel entitled to women's bodies and just women in general. And this directly links to patriarchy because that hierarchical nature of the sexes justifies, for them, a disgusting kind of power of women." After a Io-minute walk, the protesters walked through the Union to the theater on the second floor. The group continued chanting as it moved through the property. A number of women paused to smile at the demonstration — a few high-fived individuals in the vocal body as it marched past. The marchers then entered the Union Theater to hear a lecture by Nubia Pena, a victim's advocate with the Unified Police Department, who discussed sexual assault as related to representations of women in media. "Pay attention to the media — we can either accept its misrepresentation of sexual violence and the images that glorify it, or we can fight back," she said. She said that 17.7 million American women have been victims of rape. t.gibb@chronicle.utah.edu Commencement RI 201 CommenCement Ceremony SVA7 9:00 AMA I ,Jon M. Huntsman Cenk * Procession of graduates begins at 8: < i / onvocation ( Ceremonies I, THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 College of Health 5:00 p.m. ji Jon M. Huntsman Center College of Nursing 5:00 p.m. ,friss Kingsbury Hall loft A i College of Social Work IP* 7:30 p.m. ami Kingsbury Hall r I I Libby Gardner Hall College of Social & Behavioral Science 11146.5:00 p.m. Graduate j FRIDAY, MAY 4,2012110 a. / -r -IN^ 411M1111 College of Architecture + Planning David Eccles School of Business College of Education i College of Engineering College of Fine Arts 4 College of Humanities e of Mines and Earth Sciences College of Pharmacy ih IiiCollege of Science College of Social and Behavioral Science i11 - Undergraduate 2:00 p.m. Olpin Union Ballroom 4:15 p.m. IE. Jon M. Huntsman Center 1:30 p.m. 0.1. Kingsbury Hall 1:45 p.m.' Jon M. Huntsman Center 3:30 p.m. Kingsbury Hall 6:45 p.m. Jon M. Huntsman Center 11:30 a.m. Film & Media Arts Auditorium 11:30 a.m. Olpin Union Ballroom 11:30 a.m. Kingsbury Hall 11:15 a.m. Jon M. Huntsman Center FRIDAY, MAY 11, 2012 S.J. Quinney College of Law 10:00 a.m Kingsbury Hall SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012 School of Medicine 10:00 a.m. COMMENCEMENT FLOWERS Flowers will be available for graduates and their guests to purchase on Commencement Days May 3 and 4, 2012. Flower booths will be located at Kingsbury Hall and the Huntsman Center. NOTE: Times will vary at each location PARKING CHANGES FOR MAY 4TH 1. The entire business parking lot, including reserved, maintenance and the loading stalls will be closed to all vehicular traffic from 5:00 AM until immediately following the beginning of the Commencement ceremonies (9:00 AM) to provide an area for graduates to assemble prior to the processional into the Huntsman Center. 2. All parking lots south and east of the Huntsman Center will be reserved for graduates and their families, commencement guests, and program participants. Parking will also be available at the Stadium Parking lot and the University will be a Trax free fare zone on Thursday evening and all day Friday. 3. The "A" lot #14, directly west of the Huntsman Center and lot #15 will be reserved for special guests of the President. Kingsbury Hall |