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Is itJust Me, or is it Hot inHere?:
Mcfraniel's Pilgrimage to the October 1 2014
People's Climate March White House and McDaniel Students
Combat Sexual Assault
In an effort to combat the epidemic of sexual assaults on college
campuses, the White House released its "It's On Us" program Friday Sept.
19, challenging all students to work to prevent sexual assault.
The ad and campaign, which is specifically targeted to young men, features
celebrities such as "Mad Men" actor John Hamm, "Big Bang Theory" actor
Mayim Bialik, musici~n Questlove, and Vice President Joe Biden, among
others, who remind the viewers that it is their responsibility to take action
instead of simply being a bystander.
The site also asks all visitors to sign a pledge, which it states is a "personal
commitment to help keep women arid men safe from sexual assault."
Included in the pledge are also four tenets, which ask students to work to
prevent sexual assault through everything from spotting situations where
consent cannot be given to creating a culture that condemns sexual assault.
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Early on a Sunday morning--and by early, I mean 5 a.m. early--38 McDaniel Continu'ed 011 Page 11
students and two faculty members (Dr. Scullion and Dr. Iglich) boarded a bus.
Their destination: New York City. Their purpose: The People's Climate March.
The People's Climate March was an event organized bya coalitio~ of
organizations, both profit and nonprofit, whose purpose is to protect basic human
rights. The purpose of the marc? is to promote environmental justice across the
world, as well as to push political leaders into caring for the environment.
This march gathered nearly four-hundred-thousand people to the streets of New
York City, making it one of the greatest marches of our generation. The march
featured a grand number of nonprofit organizations and other environmental
groups, such as Polar Bears International, World Ocean Observatory, Women
Against War, Peace Action, Energy Vision, among many others.
Senior Amanda Fuhrmann was the McDaniel student behind organizing the
mobilization of the McDaniel contingent to the march.
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