Hundreds Come Together To ‘Take Back The Night’
Hundreds of Niagara University students banded together with university employees and community members for a March 30 event that was held in conjunction with the Take Back the Night national movement, which aims to end sexual, relationship and domestic violence in all forms.
Co-sponsored by the YWCA of the Niagara Frontier, the event featured dozens of resource tables, poster making and a brief program, and concluded with a student-organized march across campus and candlelight vigil. It brought together students and faculty members from several academic programs, especially counseling and criminology and criminal justice.
Dr. Debra Colley, Niagara University’s executive president, stressed how the Take Back the Night movement correlates with NU’s Catholic and Vincentian mission. She reminded attendees that “this is another opportunity to educate and mobilize ourselves as agents of positive change in the community.”