News
Be a Healthy Hen!
The Student Health Service is offering a new program this year called Healthy Hens, to help students in achieving optimal health, specifically regarding exercise, nutrition and sleep. Feeling great and performing at your best are the best benefits, but if you complete the program you will also be eligible for a grand prize drawing. Stop by the Healthy Hens Fair in Trabant Student Center on November 18th to learn more, see the Healthy Hens website, or call Student Health at 831-2226 for more information.
Helping a friend who has been assaulted...
If someone you know has been sexually assaulted, the following are steps you can take to provide appropriate help and support to the victim/survivor:
- Listen, be supportive and non-judgmental. Don't let your own emotions get in the way of your response. Understand that the survivor may be at a very different place emotionally than you would expect her/him to be. Survivors experience a wide range of reactions and emotions to sexual assault.
- Make it clear that the sexual assault was not the survivor's fault.
- Let the survivor choose which details to share with you. Don't press for information.
- Let the survivor decide what actions to take to help her/him regain control. If you are uncertain what the survivor wants from you, ask.
- Offer options. Suggest calling the police; seeking medical attention at the Student Health Service, ChristianaCare Medical Center, or Planned Parenthood of Delaware; calling S.O.S., Rape Crisis CONTACT, and/or the Center for Counseling and Student Development for emotional support. Suggest that s/he tell others about the assault (family, close friends, significant others).
- Refer your friend to this website and specifically to the information listed on the page about If you are victimized. If s/he seems resistant to help, you may want to read this page yourself, to get more detailed information about the options available to her/him.
Providing support for a survivor of sexual assault can be very emotionally painful and draining at times. Furthermore, if you have been a survivor of sexual assault or childhood sexual abuse, it can stir up your own feelings of victimization. Either way, as a helper, don't be afraid to call S.O.S. or the Center for Counseling and Student Development for emotional support for yourself. Make sure that you have an outlet for your feelings. It is also very important that you know your limits. If you can no longer provide the kind of or amount of support that the survivor is needing, try to help her/him get to these other resources as you establish your own helping boundaries. This step is healthy and important. If you don't take care of yourself, you won't be in good shape to help others.
Upcoming Events!
VOX Program on Birth Control
130 Sharp Lab
Learn about birth control options and bring your questions for the "Ask the Sexologist" portion of the program when Dr. Cat Dukes (Ph.D. in Human Sexuality) will entertain any questions you have!
Movie Showing for World AIDS Day: House of Numbers
120 Smith Hall
"This is the first film to present the uncensored POVs of virtually all the major players; in their own settings, in their own words. It rocks the foundation upon which all conventional wisdom regarding HIV/AIDS is based. House of Numbers could well be the opening volley in a battle to bring sanity and clarity to an epidemic gone awry." MEET THE FILMMAKERS: Brent Leung and David Snyder will be available after the screening for Q&A about the film. Take advantage of this rare opportunity to ask the directors your questions! Sponsored by the LGBT Office and Wellspring.
V8 presents Opt4 First Friday event: RELAXATION!
Alumni Lounge, Perkins Student Center
Stop by for a study break, relax and unwind.