About 150 community members across the 7Cs gathered at Scripps College’s Elm Tree Lawn Thursday at 1 p.m. and marched to Pomona College’s Walker Beach to rally against sexual violence in the wake of drugging and sexual assault allegations at Cornell University.
Co-organizers Don James (DJ) Basilico PO ’27 and Stephanie Li PZ ’28 brought together several student organizations, advocacy groups and Title IX Coordinators to spread awareness about sexual violence on college campuses and to protest the Cornell Administration. Li said she organized the rally to stand with the Cornell plaintiff, referred to as Jane Doe in a lawsuit filed last month, and every survivor of sexual violence.
“I wanted to send a message to Jane Doe to tell her that we, as the Claremont College Consortium, support her,” Li said. “I wanted to send a message to Cornell that this is what a proper administration that supports its survivors looks like.”
The EmPOWER Center, a violence prevention and advocacy center, aims to support all 7C members by offering bystander intervention training and support hours. The CMC and Pomona advocates both have a 24-hour hotline. CGU and KGI students can reach their advocates by hotline as well. Scripps Advocates operate an anonymous non-emergency “warmline,” which operates from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. every day of the school year. HMC, Pitzer and Scripps Advocates all have support hours by appointment or drop-in.
Words by Caprice Bielby and Nicole Teh | Photo by Gabi Ricciardi
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