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...Coalition Against Sexual Violence and the Radcliffe Union of Students, with the express support of more than a dozen other campus organizations, have been handing out cards on campus with purple ribbons as women’s groups and others participate in Take Back the Night activities this week. Although this movement initially sought to make the streets safe for women to walk alone at night, now—at Harvard anyway—it means “raising awareness about sexual violence and other women’s issues.” The cards being handed out implore...
...wearing of ribbons to express compassion for victims was popularized with yellow military ribbons, but ribbons became a common symbol with the AIDS Awareness Ribbons campaign. According to Visual AIDS, the advocacy group that began the campaign in 1991, the ribbons were intended to represent compassion for victims, but became a symbol of awareness. AIDS and sexual violence are widely misunderstood problems, and their victims both deserve compassion—but ribbon-wearing itself does nothing to actually increase knowledge and is not a sincere or significant means of expressing emotion...
...wearing a ribbon on campus might erroneously suggest that one does not support the survivors of sexual violence. But if one chooses to wear a ribbon, is it for the right reasons? A friend who had been working at a table outside the Science Center stepped into Annenberg earlier this week and walked past my table. Someone else pointed out that she was wearing two of the purple emblems, one on her shirt and one on her backpack. “Yeah,” she said, “I kept walking past them. I felt guilty...
...more victims of sexual violence than the average flier-reader is aware of. It is vital to both combat the attitudes that lead to sexual violence and create a supportive environment in which survivors can freely express their emotions about what happened to them. But the purple ribbons are essentially meaningless. It would not hurt anyone to wear the ribbon, but what would it accomplish beyond a momentary acknowledgement of a serious societal problem...
...impassioned speech by the general and welcome every single Air Force Cadet in the ROTC program to Brian’s common room. I feel empowered by the fact that I am bigger and stronger than the AF-ROTC troglodyte girls and force them to drink Pabst Blue Ribbon while I tender libations at the bar. Cadet Sean D. McGrath ’02 of Eliot House allows me to referee an arcane Air Force drinking contest. That, of course, is my great honor...