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"Girls Fight Back" at UC

National Speaker to Give Interactive Seminar About Personal Safety

Written By Adam Lawless, PR Intern

Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu

   Utica College will take a stand against violence with the popular “Girls Fight Back” program.
   The interactive self-defense program will take place Wednesday, April 25 at 7 p.m. in the Library Concourse. It is free and open to the public.
   The program’s speaker and creator, Erin Weed, is well versed in cutting-edge concepts of personal safety, self-defense, threat assessment and violence prevention. She has traveled the country with her program and has addressed more than 50,000 young women at more than 150 colleges and universities.
   Weed has been a guest on the Fox News show “The Lineup,” CNN’s “Paula Zahn Now,” and NBC’s “The John Walsh Show.” She has also been featured in such magazines as “Cosmo Girl,” “Ladies’ Home Journal,” “Marie Claire” and “Glamour.”
   The Inter Greek Council at UC is sponsoring this program with support from the residence hall association, student senate and campus safety.
   For more information, contact Tennille Haynes, assistant director of student activities, at (315) 792-5294 or thaynes@utica.edu.

About Utica College – Founded in 1946, Utica College is a comprehensive private institution that grants the Syracuse University baccalaureate degree and the Utica College master’s and doctoral degrees. The College, located in central New York, approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse, currently enrolls nearly 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students in 32 undergraduate majors, 24 minors, 13 master’s and two doctoral degree programs.

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