In an article (“Community speaks out against abuse,” ODE Oct. 6) the Women’s Center made a statement explaining the importance of Domestic Violence Awareness Month on campus. We said, “College students are a particularly important demographic to reach out to because we are the next generation of husbands, wives, leaders and community representatives.”
We realize that the statement could have been taken the wrong way. It wasn’t meant to sound exclusively heterosexist in any way. We meant to include all relationship partners. Other parts of the statement we gave, which would have better quantified the segment that appeared in the paper, were not included in the article.
All the statistics included in the article included relationships of all sorts.
The Women’s Center regrets the way the statement was worded, and would like to apologize to anyone who might have been offended by it.
Tanja Jenson
University student