Section 1, Group 2 Project Proposal

Section 1, Group 2 is doing a project titled "Healing the Wounded Hearts" and will be presenting on Wednesday, April 20th. We will be participating in promoting the Healing the Wouned Hearts Exhibit which is being displayed in the month of April beginning Monday, April 4th. This exhibit put on by the Women's Resource Center, is a display of decorated wooden hearts created by victims of sexual assault and abuse as a way of therapy. These crosses allow the victims to express themselves and promote strength and healing. It will be located in the Crossroads Community Lounge Ferguson Student Center and begins at 4:00PM throughout the month. Our project will deal with issues of sexual abuse and its victims. We plan to attend the exhibit ourselves, interview those who attend willing to share their reaction and thoughts about the exhibit (recorded on video from a borrowed video camera), and survey others at the exhibit and around campus about the issue of sexual abuse. We will ask questions about their thoughts on the topic, how they are affected or not affected, whethere they believe more awareness should be raised, and what we can do around campus to help with the issue. We will present our information gathere through a power point including factual information (researched on the internet), recorded vieos of students' thoughts, and results concluded from the surveys about the topic. We hope to inform our classmates about the problem of sexual harassment and abuse that is often not talked about. There are people in our area, even on our campus, who have been victims to this issue, and we need to become more aware and help with its prevention as much as possible. By openly discussing ther problem, we may be able to educate people on how to be safe and protected. Also, we desire to help others become more considerate and compassionate towards those who are victims and hopefully create more open environments where these can feel safe and not threatened or judged. Although sexual abuse affects both females and males, women and girls are the ones mostly affected. Therefore, the texts used focus mainly on women's perspectives on this issue. Abuse starts with whatever causes the thought to be placed in the mind of the one giving the abuse. In this example, it would be males. In Sharpley-Whiting's "I See the Same Ho: Video Vixens, Beauty Culture, and Diasporic Sex Tourism", we see how media has turned many women into objects, usually for men's pleasure. Because of images and concepts like these, mwn take these thoughts and can twist them into justifying taking advantage of women without the woman's consent-sexual abuse. Also in the piece "Fraternities and Rape on Campus" by Patricia y Martin and Robert Hummer, sexual abuse is discussed as a problem on many college campuses. This especially relates to our project by talking about it as an issue on campuses like ours nationwide. Our schedule of completion begins with attending the exhibit and discussing our thoughts on the best way to talk to people at the exhibit on Monday, April 4th. Throughout this same week and the following week (of the 11th), we will interview and survey people about the topic at the exhibit as well as around the campus/community. The week of the 11th, we will create the power point, including factual information, video interviews, and results from the surveys. By the presentation week of the 18th, we will have our presentation completed. Task assignments have been divided, even though a lot of our prohect will be done together through mutual effort. Alysia Nailor will be renting and taking care of the camera equipment for us. Robyn Jones will be writing and submitting the Project Proposal. Katherine Nowell will be helping create and administer the surveys. Monty Millard will be helping with the surveys and interviews, researching information on our topic, and creating the power point.