This past Thursday, Notre Dame hosted its first Take Back the Night, an event dedicated to supporting victims of sexual assault (and we added domestic violence) and promoting education of this heinous crimes (particularly the Victim's Bill of Rights). Together, we came as a campus community to hear advocates from Turn Around (the hotline and organization in Baltimore for anyone who is sexually assaulted), survivors' stories, poems, open mic session, and a luminaria ceremony. Using glowsticks and breaking them at different times (timed to when the emcee says who you were there to support) in a dark room, you saw that there was so much love and support in various forms and how sexual assualt has touched us in different ways. Survivors held candles at the front of the crowd to lead the walk and everyone with their glowsticks followed behind and dropped them in the lumiaria bags along the path to "light the night" along the campus and really "take back the night."
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