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Take Back the Night for Survivors

On Tuesday, September 25, the Deborah L. Coffin Women’s Center will be operating an event called Take Back the Night on the Green Space at 7 p.m. Take Back the Night is a non-profit organization as well as an international event that is meant to consolidate participants against relationship, sexual and domestic violence in all forms. Campuses across the country organize marches, rallies and
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Open Auditions: The Vagina Monologues

The Vagina Monologues are a dramatic reading and performance of collected interviews done by Eve Ensler about vaginas. Ensler is an American playwright, performer, feminist and activist, best known for her work with The Vagina Monologues. The event will be held in the Last Chapter Pub on Friday, February 23 at 8 p.m. “This performance exists to entertain as well as inform audiences about
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VIDEO: SNHU Students Bring Down the House at North Country Drag Show

On October 21, Southern New Hampshire University's own Reagan Murphy, with the help of student organization Generation Equality, helped bring to the North Country a first of its kind event. Check out our video of the first North Country Drag Show in Gorham, New Hampshire. This event was important to so many people in the area, and The Penmen Press was happy to share the voices of the community
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Drama Club, Office of Diversity, Generation Equality and CAPE to Produce “Rocky Horror Picture Show”

The cast and crew are ready to jump to the left and a step to the right into the world of Rocky Horror. On Tuesday October 31 at 9 p.m., the Drama Club will be preforming a live screen play in Walker Auditorium, located in the Robert Frost building, of the infamous “Rocky Horror Picture Show.” This event is free and anybody is invited
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VIDEO: Take Back the Night 2017

This week, the SNHU Deborah L. Coffin Women's Center hosted Southern New Hampshire University's eighth annual Take Back the Night event and march. If you couldn't make it to this year's event, our staff went behind the scenes interviewing director of the Women's Center Brooke Gilmore, Women's Center staff members Amy Mercedes, Dee Dube and Jasmine McFarlin, and poetry performer Olivia Gatwood. If you'd
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Take Back the Night Sends Message of Support to Victims of Sexual Assault

The Deborah L. Coffin Women’s Center held the eighth annual Take Back the Night march on September 27 on the Green Space. Organized over the course of two months, Take Back the Night is an international event and non-profit organization with the mission of ending sexual assault and domestic violence in all forms. Brooke Gilmore, director of the Women’s Center, commented on the goals
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SNHU Student Leaders Speak out on the Importance of Leadership After Charlottesville

On the night of August 11, several hundred torch-wielding white nationalists gathered on the University of Virginia campus at Charlottesville to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate general, Robert E. Lee. These acts were met with counter-protesters, and a state of emergency was declared by Virginia governor, Terry McAufliffe, on August 12. The violence at Charlottesville intensified following a vehicle driving into