Word: outreaching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Before I started my first outreach as a member of Contact, I was so scared I was shaking. I was about to try to get a room full of first-years to talk about homosexuality and other sexual issues. What if no one talked and they all just sat there staring at us? What if the first-years started arguing? What if I screwed something...
...hour wore on, I calmed down. Everyone participated in the role-play, and most of the first-years said something in the discussion. Afterwards, a few of them even told us that the outreach was interesting and that they learned something...
Over the three semesters I was on Contact, I went on several outreaches, some excellent, some good and one or two I'm still trying to forget. I noticed that how well an outreach will be depends on a number of factors: the attitudes of the first-years, if there's a Chem 10 exam the next day, whether the peer counselors had enough coffee and so on. They are almost impossible to predict. On some level, though, everyone learns something about each others' views or starts to think a little more about gays, lesbians and bisexuals and how they...
...became even more interested in out-reachesafter I finished my tenure on Contact. Even thoughdoing them made me a little nervous, I felt I wasperforming an important service. Christina S.Griffith, the Assistant Dean of Freshmen in chargeof the Freshman Dean's Office's outreach system,says it is important that after a student's firstyear, "they have collected the tools to haveconstructive, open-minded conversations about allsorts of issues." The outreaches help first-yearsdo this...
Soon afterwards, three new peer counselinggroups were formed and each group developed itsownoutreaches. Response, the peer counseling groupspecializing in rape, sexual abuse and sexualharassment, was formed and developed an outreachfirst. The other peer counseling groups, EatingConcerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) and Contact,dealing with sex, sexuality, sexual orientationand relationships, followed shortly. Room 13'sgroup discussions used to be limited to shortpresentations after Response outreaches. Only thisyear did they begin outreaches on their...