MBS Corps to host March Against Domestic Violence on Oct. 14
The Maine Business School (MBS) Corps at the University of Maine will host its ninth annual March Against Domestic Violence at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14 beginning at Stewart Quad.
The march will occur along Long Road and the Mall and conclude at the Memorial Union. Also during the event, names of people killed in 2022 in Maine as a result of domestic violence will be read and flowers in remembrance of their lives will be placed in the North Pod at the Union.
Amanda Cost, executive director of Partners for Peace, UMaine alumna and member of the University of Maine System Board of Trustees, will deliver the keynote address. Other scheduled speakers include Robert Dana, vice president for student life and inclusive excellence and dean of students; Casey Faulkingham, director of development and engagement for Partners for Peace; MBS Corps President Shelby Philips and Eli White of Male Athletes Against Violence (MAAV) and Lt. Col. Steven Veves from the UMaine Army ROTC.
For more information or to request a reasonable accommodation, contact Nory Jones, the John M. Murphy Professor of Business Information Systems and the MBS Corps faculty adviser, at njones@maine.edu.
Event partners include Title IX Student Services, Student Life, UMaine Athletics, UMaine Army ROTC, the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and Partners for Peace.