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This past March, the Peer Educators hosted two discussion series that focused on different aspects of gender, sexuality, and sexual violence. The first, held on March 22, featured a viewing of the film “The Undetected Rapist”, a re-enactment of an interview conducted by Dr. David Lisak, Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of Men’s Sexual Trauma Research Center at the University of Massachusetts-Boston. The focus of the film was to address the issue that the number of women who have been victims of rape vastly outnumber the number of men indicted, much less convicted of rape.

One can travel on the open path through the middle of the room with a row of paintings and photographs resting on easels to the left side, a line of T-shirts that make up the Clothesline Project on the upper wall to the right, and a stream of deconstructed advertisements shuffle across a TV screen below these. Streaming on an LED message ticker wrapped around the edges of the room are the circulating tweets from rEV-goers containing the hash tag “umrev12”, with messages commenting on the art or the excitement in being at the location.

Several SAPAC student staff and volunteers have been recognized with two awards this year. The Peer Education Program received the "Innovation or Research" award and Carley Flanery, Co-Coordinator of the Peer Education Program, received the "Most Impactful Performace on the Campus Community" award. The awards were presented during a ceremony on March 28 in the Michigan Union Ballroom.

This March, a group of 25 undergraduate and graduate students, staff, and faculty gathered in the Union to participate in SAPAC's third biannual Ally Training. The morning began with discussion-based sections centered on sexual assault, intimate partner violence, sexual harassment, stalking, and barriers to disclosure and reporting experienced within different communities.