2008 Woodie Awards
R.A.D. self-defense course offered to women at DU
Classes taught on campus by certified national trainers
Tanya Jabczynski
Issue date: 2/8/05 Section: Features
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Every minute of every day more than one woman is reported raped in this country.
One in four women will be assaulted or raped in her lifetime.
One in four female college students has been a victim of rape or attempted rape, and only 5 percent of these women report it to the police.
Look around in one of your classes; there is a good chance it's happened to someone in the room.
There's also a good chance that one of the male students has committed acts that met the legal definitions of rape or attempted rape.
So what can we do to change these statistics? Don't be a victim. Use one of the many outlets at DU to prevent it from happening to you, including SafeRide, self-defense whistles, and self-defense classes.
Corporal Raymond Juan from Campus Safety is offering one of those classes. Juan teaches R.A.D. (Rape Aggression Defense) courses to DU women.
R.A.D. is the largest network of its kind with over 7,000 instructors who teach at various colleges, universities, and municipal law enforcement agencies as well as various other community organizations internationally.
Since the program was founded by Lawrence N. Nadeau, a United States Marine, in 1989, R.A.D. has trained close to 300,000 women .
This program is the only self defense program ever endorsed by the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA).
This women-only self-defense class is the largest program in the world. Students only pay for the first class and each class after that is free and available, no matter where you are in the country.
Each student is also provided with a workbook/reference manual for personal study. To date, over 250,000 women have attended RAD Basic Physical Defense Program.
The course includes lecture, discussion and self defense techniques, suitable for women of all ages and abilities. Classes range from nine to twelve hours in length, depending on the Instructor
One in four women will be assaulted or raped in her lifetime.
One in four female college students has been a victim of rape or attempted rape, and only 5 percent of these women report it to the police.
Look around in one of your classes; there is a good chance it's happened to someone in the room.
There's also a good chance that one of the male students has committed acts that met the legal definitions of rape or attempted rape.
So what can we do to change these statistics? Don't be a victim. Use one of the many outlets at DU to prevent it from happening to you, including SafeRide, self-defense whistles, and self-defense classes.
Corporal Raymond Juan from Campus Safety is offering one of those classes. Juan teaches R.A.D. (Rape Aggression Defense) courses to DU women.
R.A.D. is the largest network of its kind with over 7,000 instructors who teach at various colleges, universities, and municipal law enforcement agencies as well as various other community organizations internationally.
Since the program was founded by Lawrence N. Nadeau, a United States Marine, in 1989, R.A.D. has trained close to 300,000 women .
This program is the only self defense program ever endorsed by the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators (IACLEA).
This women-only self-defense class is the largest program in the world. Students only pay for the first class and each class after that is free and available, no matter where you are in the country.
Each student is also provided with a workbook/reference manual for personal study. To date, over 250,000 women have attended RAD Basic Physical Defense Program.
The course includes lecture, discussion and self defense techniques, suitable for women of all ages and abilities. Classes range from nine to twelve hours in length, depending on the Instructor