Media cover Healthy High road race, sexual assault awareness walk
WABI (Channel 5) and the Bangor Daily News reported on the ninth annual Healthy High 5k/10k and 1-mile run/walk at the University of Maine. About 700 people were expected to participate in the race that promotes health and wellness for members of the university and surrounding community. This year, UMaine’s Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Prevention Committee sponsored a free 1-mile fun run/walk. UMaine student organization Male Athletes Against Violence (MAAV) also hosted the awareness event, “Man Enough to Walk a Mile in her Shoes.” About 30 members of the group walked the 1-mile course wearing red high heels to symbolize the challenges of being a woman in today’s society. Sandy Caron, the group’s founder and director as well as a UMaine professor of family relations and human sexuality, said the event aims to bring attention to the challenges of being a woman and to raise awareness about sexual and other violence against women. “We’re symbolically walking in these high heels to show our support for stopping abuse on women and rape on women just to show that we’re here to care and that it’s a man’s issue,” said Chase Hoyt, the group’s student coordinator.