In an effort to create more extensive and accessible resources for the Hamilton College student body, the Days-Massolo Center (DMC), the Womxn’s Center, and Survivors Making Activism And Radical Transformation (SMART) are working with the local chapter of YWCA to create an on-campus office hours service. The goal of the service is to provide students with assistance and information regarding sexual health, domestic violence, sexual abuse, and a wide variety of other topics. All three of the on-campus organizations have worked extensively with these issues in the Hamilton community in the past and saw a need for improved and more accessible resources for students.
The DMC is an organization that, “enhances the academic, intellectual, social, cultural and leadership dimensions of the Hamilton community [through] forums, panels, lectures, and other programming developed in cooperation with students, faculty, and staff” and has been working tirelessly to provide students with educational resources pertaining to a wide variety of subjects. Both the Womxn’s Center and SMART are run by and focused on students, dedicated to creating educational opportunities and valuable resources regarding a wide variety of issues including those which the office hours seek to further improve.
The office hours service officially opened on Tuesday, Feb, 4, and will continue to run on Tuesdays from 12–1 p.m. and on Thursdays from 5–6 p.m. The sessions are run out of the second floor of the DMC and were set at the aforementioned times so that these crucial services would be accessible to all members of the Hamilton community including those with long-term extracurricular commitments such as varsity athletics. The office hours are not formally attached to any office on-campus and are also entirely confidential making it a resource that is both valuable and a safe place for those students dealing with complex personal issues.
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NOTE: This story has been updated as of 2/12/20 to correct two errors:
- YWCA was misspelled as YMCA in the headline.
- SMART was misreported as standing for “Sexual Misconduct and Reform Task-Force,” when it in fact stands for “Survivors Making Activism And Radical Transformation.”
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