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Yahoo
02-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Baylor recognizing National Sexual Assault Awareness Month
WACO, Texas (FOX 44) – Baylor University is once again joining universities and communities around the country to increase public awareness and prevention education about sexual assault and interpersonal violence during Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM). Throughout the month of April, the university's Equity, Civil Rights, and Title IX Office are providing opportunities for students, faculty and staff to join its commitment to fostering a safe and healthy campus, preventing acts of sexual violence and treating all members of the campus community with dignity and respect. Baylor's schedule of events for SAAM are below: Tuesday, April 1, 2025SAAM Active Awareness EventFountain Mall, 3 to 4 p.m. Join staff from the Equity, Civil Rights, and Title IX Office at Fountain Mall to learn more about Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Wednesday, April 2, 2025Empowerment JourneyFountain Mall, Noon to 2 p.m. The Equity, Civil Rights, and Title IX Office welcomes partners from across campus and the community to share how everyone can be a part of preventing sexual violence and supporting survivors. Participating partners include the Counseling Center, the Care Team, BUPD, Student Government, Health Services and Waco`s Advocacy Center for Crime Victims and Children. Thursday, April 3, 2025Light the Night/Campus Lit for SAAMBaylor Campus, 7 p.m. The Baylor campus will glow teal in support of SAAM. Light the Night begins at 7 p.m. in Fountain Mall as teal lights go on at Rosenbalm Fountain, Pat Neff Hall and the Mark and Paula Hurd Welcome Center. Wednesday, April 9, 2025Teal TreatsBaylor Sciences Building E-Side Atrium, Noon to 2 p.m. Students are invited to come by and sample teal treats and learn more about SAAM. Wednesday, April 16, 2025Succulents for SurvivorsBaylor Sciences Building, Noon to 2 p.m. Decorate a succulent in honor of a survivor and learn more about preventing sexual violence and supporting survivors. Tuesday, April 22, 2025Empowerment & Self-Defense ClassFoster Campus, Room 404, 5 to 7 p.m. Learn about the importance of stopping the cycle of violence and how to defend yourself in high-risk situations during a free self-defense class led by trained instructors. Wednesday, April 30, 2025Denim DayBarfield 213, Noon to 2 p.m. Denim Day, a national awareness campaign, encourages wearing denim on the last Wednesday of Sexual Assault Awareness Month to demonstrate support for survivors of sexual assault. Participants are encouraged to share photos on Instagram with #DenimDay and tag @BU_Equity. Denim Day was established in 1999 in response to a judge`s ruling that a survivor could not have been assaulted since she was wearing tight jeans. The day was set aside in solidarity with survivors and to shift misconceptions surrounding sexual assault. For more information about Baylor University events or resources, you can email Title_IX@ call 254-710-8454 or visit Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
New York Times
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Book Review: ‘The Man Nobody Killed,' by Elon Green
THE MAN NOBODY KILLED: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York, by Elon Green In the early hours of Sept. 15, 1983, a 25-year-old Black man named Michael Stewart was arrested for allegedly tagging a subway wall with a marker. According to the arresting officer, Stewart attempted to escape up the stairs, where the officer caught him, pinning him to the ground with a nightstick. Outside the precinct headquarters on Union Square, he allegedly tried to run off again, only to be piled on by multiple officers. College students in a building overlooking the square saw the officers kicking and beating the handcuffed Stewart (who weighed only 143 pounds) as he lay facedown on the sidewalk, screaming for help. One witness saw an officer slide a club under Stewart's neck and yank it upward. After Stewart stopped moving he was thrown, hogtied, into a paddy wagon, and driven to Bellevue Hospital. There, after 13 days in a coma, he died. No one was ever held accountable. Elon Green's grimly vivid telling of this story and its aftermath in 'The Man Nobody Killed' is part elegy for Stewart himself, part portrait of the city that failed him. It avoids drawing explicit parallels with our own time, but then it hardly needs to. An aspiring artist, Stewart was just beginning to make his presence felt in New York's downtown scene. He'd bussed at the Pyramid Club (until he was fired for being insufficiently aggressive), modeled for Dianne Brill (Warhol's 'Queen of the Night'), dated Jean-Michel Basquiat's sometime girlfriend Suzanne Mallouk, partied at Danceteria and appeared in Madonna's debut music video at Paradise Garage. His own art, executed at a dilapidated studio above the Anderson Theater on the Bowery (no running water — fishbowls for toilets), was still at a formative stage: 'small, resonantly colored abstract paintings,' the New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote, that conveyed 'a serious aspiration.' He was seriously ambitious too: 'He wanted to do giant murals across the country,' a tagger buddy tells Green. Image But it was his unlucky fate to enter posterity as the subject of other people's art and protest rather than the creator of his own. A remarkable number of the luminaries of that watchful, jittery era were shocked into action by Stewart's killing. The artist David Wojnarowicz designed a flier for a rally at Union Square while Stewart was still on life support. Basquiat, profoundly shaken by the incident ('It could have been me,' he observed), painted a spontaneous memorial on his friend Keith Haring's studio wall. Haring, who had been arrested four times for graffiti but — as he acknowledged — was spared mistreatment because he was white, later fashioned an anguished tribute of his own. Andy Warhol, Toni Morrison and Spike Lee all drew on the event in various ways, while political reaction ranged from demonstrations to two separate bombings, one of which blew up the bathroom in the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association building, injuring two maintenance workers. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and log into your Times account, or subscribe for all of The Times. Thank you for your patience while we verify access. Already a subscriber? Log in. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
