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The Independent Voice of Stephen F. Austin State University
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SFA’s Ladyjack Soccer
hope to continue winning
conference games Friday
at Central Arkansas.
By Sara Zavorka
Staff Writer
The SFA University Police
Department hosts the Rape Aggression
Defense Systems (RAD) program,
which teaches self-defense tactics and
techniques which women may learn
and then be able to implement if the
situation calls for it. This is the only
program ever to be endorsed by the
International Association of Campus
Law Enforcement Administrators
(IACLEA).
The Basic RAD course is free to all
women ages 13 and up. This particu-lar
program is indeed a women-only
course, and is taught by nationally cer-tified
instructors. Hands-on demon-strations
will be shown and performed
by the instructors, and the students
will also be able to test out their newly-learned
skills as well.
Upon completion of the course, each
student who attends is provided, with a
workbook/reference manual that high-lights
the points they learned in the
hands-on defense training. The mate-rial
covered is not limited to defense
training, however. Awareness, preven-tion,
risk reduction and risk avoidance
topics are also discussed throughout
the lecture. This particular program is
nationally recognized and is dedicated
to developing abilities to manage be-haviors
that may come on as aggressive
and violent. It is not a martial arts les-son,
but one of self-defense.
Criminal Investigator Amanda
Kennedy has taught with this program
for the past four years. She notes that it
is “hands-on and goes by really quickly.
It is a big self-confidence and self-es-teem
booster, and just about everybody
that has participated is happy about
it.” RAD “shows women that they are
able to do certain moves and be power-ful,
even when they didn’t realize they
could,” Kennedy adds.
Founder of this program, Lawrence
N. Nadeau has claimed, “The RAD sys-tem
is not for the weak at heart, or the
conscientious objector. Our system is
specifically designed for women who
are willing to consider as a viable op-tion,
defense, in situations where their
life is in jeopardy.”
By Emily Jensen
Contributing Writer
Many people associate hazing with Greek Life thanks
to movies and TV shows, often scaring new students
away from the thought of joining a Greek organization.
However, National Hazing Prevention Week and SFA have taken
big steps to ensure that students don’t have to live in fear of being
hazed.
“Prior to hazing prevention week we had our risk management
training,” Jonathan Elder, coordinator of student organizations
and Greek life, said. “We visited with over 800 students, faculty and
staff in regards to hazing and talked about the law.”
National Hazing Prevention Week occurs at the end of September,
and this year was the week of Sept. 24—28. During that week, or-ganizations
were encouraged to show how hazing is not promoted
and help bring awareness to what qualifies as hazing.
“During the week we put fliers in the student organization mail-boxes,
making them aware within our fraternity and sorority com-munity.
We discussed what individual chapters can do, and I know
a lot of the individual members on Twitter and Facebook put many
pictures up.” Elder said.
Jacks Council encourages
adopting a family
RAD instills strength
in college women
Hazing, page 2
RAD, page 2
By Mackenzie Herring
Contributing Writer
Jacks Council on Family Relations
is encouraging all students and cam-pus
organizations to participate in
its annual project, “Thanksgiving
Homebound,” by donating items or
adopting a family.
“Thanksgiving Homebound” is a
service project to provide local fami-lies
in need with Thanksgiving din-ner
and family-friendly gifts.
“Last year, with the help of other
organizations, we were able to reach
31 families,” Briana Eagleton, vice
president of Jacks Council on Family
Relations, said.
Organizations are urged to help by
adopting a family, or multiple fami-lies,
to ensure they have a well-fed
Thanksgiving, as well as a happy one.
Students who are not involved in any
organizations may also get involved
by donating non-perishable food
items, toys, or money donations, and
bringing them to the Office of High
Impact Practices in the Nacogdoches
Public Library.
“We would really appreciate any
support we could get from your or-ganization,”
Eagleton said. “This is
a great opportunity for us to come
together as a school to accomplish
something really big.”
Eagleton describes JCFR as a ser-vice-
based organization and a stu-dent
affiliate of the National Council
on Family Relations specializing in
service projects concerning fam-ily
life. They’re, once again, teaming
up with their adopted organization,
Solid Foundation, a nonprofit orga-nization
that helps local low-income
families, to accomplish this service
project.
The organizations were able
to reach 31 families last year, and
Eagleton hopes to reach many more
this year.
“Not only did we provide dinners,
but also, with a short description of
the family we were given, we were
able to give them family-friendly
gifts as well,” Eagleton said. “The
families really appreciated the gifts,
and we are so excited to make it even
bigger this year!”
The organizations will be given a
list of items to purchase necessary
for a Thanksgiving dinner, according
to the size of the family, along with
a few gift ideas. The organizations
participating will receive the list by
Oct. 19, and the items will be due by
5 p.m. Nov. 12.
If you or your organization would
like to get involved, or get more infor-mation,
contact Eagleton at 713-355-
0908, by Oct. 12, 2012.
Courtesy Photo
Rape Aggression Defense training by UPD officers teaches self-defense tactics.
According to an Alfred
University study, half of
the high school students
involved in clubs or
groups report being
hazed. 43% of these
students were subjected
to humiliating activities,
and 30% performed
potentially illegal acts as
part of their initiation.
(Lydia Ness/
Google Images)