On that website. Were going to have a breakout later today to talk more about the website and some of the great information that is involved. I just want fed to say that. Due to the time, well go ahead and leave it at that. I believe these ladies are going to be here throughout the day. So i feel free to come up to them or any of our speakers today if you have some follow up questions and lets give them another round of applause. Republican incumbent is running for a second term against jason carter. Recent polls show governor deal ahead by an average of nearly 3 . Within the usual margin of error. You can watch the debate monday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. A Justice Department official told the audience that 11. 5 Million High School Students Experience date abuse. It is an effort to create a National Bullying prevention strategy. This panel is about 45 minutes. As i mentioned in the last session, im darling john sovenlt im a director on the violence against women and office
And id like to begin by asking you what comes to mind when you think of that word . College. Fraternities. Initiation. Okay. All right. So it didnt take long for some images to pop into your head. And, thank you. And youre like many others who think about some common images as they relate to hazing. And one is young men in college fraternities, beating each other, passing out or even dying tragically from alcohol poisoning because of hazing. Also people think about professional athletes like last years headlines of the rookie Jonathan Martin of the Miami Dolphins and more recently people think sometimes about marching bands with the tragic death of drum major robert champion down at florida a m university. And now more recently over the past month weve heard news of a sexually harassing culture and hazing in the ohio state universitys marching band prompting them to fire the band director. While these images and headlines reflect realities of hazing, they only paint a partial picture.
If everyone can give another round of applause for darlene johnson. Apologize for the technical difficulties and thank you for rolling it with and going ahead and starting. I appreciate it. I just want to make sure that i give her a proper introduction. Darlene currently serves as the associate director in the office of violence against women. In this capacity, she supports the director and managing the Community Engagement division and implementing Grant Programs that respond to violence against women. So thank you. Now were going to hear from elizabeth allen. Dr. Allen is professor of graduate studies and Higher Education at the university of maine and director of stop hazing consulting. Dr. Allen was Principal Investigator for the National Study of student hazing and is currently directing the hazing prevention consortium. So lets give her a round of applause. Thank you. Can everyone hear me okay . Great. Its great to be here. Thanks so much for choosing to come to this session toda
Yes, thank you. [ inaudible question ] about the needs around the clubs that kids go through hazing to get into because i think when theyre interpreting the event as a problem, a lot of kids going into a club think of it as an art. Its kind of a brainwashing. And theyre going to the hazing but they feel its an honor that theyve been asked to do it. And so the Marketing Needs to be up front about the clubs and the aura so that the kids are alerted way before they even are in the situation where theyre intervening. Absolutely. I wholeheartedly agree with you. Were moving in that direction. Yeah. Unfortunately, were out of time. I do want to encourage everyone here to please read through the biographies. They have a lot of information about the work that theyre doing. What their offices are doing. Theyve provided you with some great resources today. And some great jumping off points. So thank you both sincerely for coming. Cspans 2015 student cam competition is under way. This nationwide
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