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Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Staff
Students, administrators and community members shared concerns about sexual abuse even recounting personal experiences with sexual violence during Friday evening's annual "Take Back the Night." The event, meant to encourage prevention and raise awareness of sexual assault at the College, was held as part of the Sexual Abuse Awareness Program's observance of Sexual Assault Awareness month.
Anneliese Sendax '13 delivered the evening's solemn keynote speech, in which she challenged observers to reconcile what she sees as the "two Dartmouths" of day and night.
"We will be able to build a community in which no voice, no matter how quiet, is silenced," she said.
Following the address, a crowd of approximately 70 people, including College President Jim Yong Kim, gathered in front of the Hopkins Center to begin a protest march across the campus, in conjunction with marches held on college and university campuses across the nation.
Holding vivid signs with slogans such as "Awareness is Sexy" and "Claim our bodies, Claim our rights, Take a stand," the demonstrators marched past Collis, down Massachusetts Row and along Webster Avenue before circling around Baker-Berry Library and returning to the center of the Green.