Consent is Sexy. Beer Bike is good. Love Your Body.
There are many weeks or months at Rice that are focused on celebrating or educating people about a particular topic. During Consent is Sexy week (conveniently, the week before NOD), students learn "what is consent?" and why consent is so important. During Willy Week, we all come together and revel in how awesome it is to be students at Rice, and how people at lesser universities are grudgingly making their way through the week while we're blasting music, filling water balloons, and enjoying the antics of our RAs and Masters in the Beer Debates.
However, one particular cause gets not just a week, but a whole month. All February, the Wellness Center schedules Love Your Body Month events that encourage students to develop positive body images and feel healthy and rejuvenated. There's the Revitalize Day study break (free massages!), Yoga on the Lawn, Body Walks, the Love Your Body Monalogues, and more. Plus, they give out those awesome sweatbands.
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| This is me hugging myself. Because I love my body. Like it says on my sweatband. |
I recently talked to some Rice students about their conceptions of negative and positive body image, as well as Cristina, the Wellness Center Nutrition and Body Image Intern for 2011. Take a listen:
Body Image at Rice University
[[If planning for Love Your Body Month is something you'd like to be involved with this year, contact Cristina at cbb2@rice.edu for an application to be a Coordinator or a General Committee Member.]]
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