Darrin Glass, Editor-in-Chief

Reading T-shirts can be an educational and eye-opening experience. The National Oraganization of Women sponsored the Clothesline Project on Sanford Mall last Thursday to promote awareness of violence against women.

 NOW supported the project and urged Appalachian students to write on shirts voicing their experiences with violence.
 The shirts were displayed on several clotheslines with harsh words for the attackers.

 Colors  played a big part in the meaning of the shirts. White shirts were in memory of those who died of viloence. Yellow were for those who were battered or assaulted. Red, pink or orange symbolized those who were raped or sexually assaulted.  Blue or green represented the survivors of incest and child abuse. Purple or lavender dealt with those who were attacked because of their sexual orientation.

 The campus chapter president Clancy Nolan said, “Violence affects many different people and it is something that we should not be afraid of.”

 The chapter had a good response to the project with many different shirts showing the horrors of violence and sexual crimes against women.

 Nolan said that NOW would like to continue to sponser the project to “educate” the public about violence against women.

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