{"id":94985,"date":"2022-10-12T15:16:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T20:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.northpark.edu\/?p=94985"},"modified":"2023-02-07T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T21:34:12","slug":"student-government-hosts-self-defense-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpark.edu\/news\/student-government-hosts-self-defense-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Government Hosts Self-Defense Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"
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[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”94965″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]“You don’t want to be the aggressor, but you do want to show that you’re ready,” said IMPACT Chicago instructor Deb Mier to a group of 20 天美传媒 students at a self-defense class Wednesday.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The 90-minute workshop was hosted by SGA and was highly requested by students.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n “We’ve been trying to pay attention to issues on campus and what we found was that many particularly female-identifying students didn’t feel safe at times,” said SGA President Labrene Efstathiou. \u201cThat is not so much a 天美传媒 issue, but an issue with living in a big city.”<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Students at the event were taught how to use their verbal skills first, walk with confidence, and practiced kicking and striking pads.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image=”94966″ img_size=”full”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Student Government hosted a 90-minute self-defense workshop with IMPACT Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":94965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-stories"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n