{"id":51579,"date":"2016-10-14T08:35:48","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T18:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=51579"},"modified":"2020-08-07T15:09:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T01:09:22","slug":"university-of-hawaii-marches-with-community-to-end-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/14\/university-of-hawaii-marches-with-community-to-end-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Hawai\u02bbi marches with community to end violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><div class=\"responsive-video-wrap\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mT3X1DAnTyE?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_51583\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-51583\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/system-mens-march-2106.jpg\" alt=\"large group of people in front of sign\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-51583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/system-mens-march-2106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/system-mens-march-2106-208x260.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-51583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Warriors Against Violence Everywhere<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span><\/a> students, faculty, administrators, regents and coaches helped to raise awareness alongside hundreds of fellow community members in the 22nd annual Men&#8217;s March Against Violence in October.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is a great opportunity for all us to get together with others in the public sector, in the private sector, in the social services to really make a stand and show that we care,&rdquo; said <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/offices\/op\/\"><strong>David Lassner<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Each year in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> 50,000 women between the ages of 18 and 64 are victims of domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/admin\/office-dean\/\"><strong>Jerris Hedges<\/strong><\/a>, dean of the <a href=\"http:\/\/jabsom.hawaii.edu\/\">John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> said, &ldquo;It&#8217;s very important for <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> to be involved, but the medical school in particular because we&#8217;ll deal with the victims of domestic violence and provide opportunities for people to turn their lives around.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&#8217;s not cool that any woman or a man is getting beaten by their significant other or by somebody else in their family,&rdquo; said <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> M&#257;noa basketball player <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/roster.aspx?rp_id=15309\"><strong>Michael Thomas<\/strong><\/a>. &ldquo;It&#8217;s something that&#8217;s a very emotional topic, but it&#8217;s real. It happens, and the more support and the more awareness that people have for it, the less it happens.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Retired <span aria-label=\"Kapiolani\">Kapi&#699;olani<\/span> Community College executive <strong>Salvatore Lanzilotti<\/strong> helped to co-found the march against violence 22 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The real question is, &lsquo;How do we create a safe environment for our women and our children?&rsquo;&rdquo; said Lanzilotti. &ldquo;It&#8217;s everyone&#8217;s responsibility.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Numerous 糖心Vlog官方 athletes and coaches have also participated in recent marches.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> is such a big part of this state,&rdquo; observed Head Football Coach <a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiiathletics.com\/coaches.aspx?rc=1824&#038;path=football\"><strong>Nick Rolovich<\/strong><\/a>. &ldquo;When the university can jump in and <abbr>糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> athletics can jump in, I think it really shows how the island community is tied together.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Kelli Trifonovitch<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">糖心Vlog官方<\/abbr> students, faculty, administrators and coaches helped to raise awareness alongside hundreds of fellow community members in the 22nd annual Men&#8217;s March Against Violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":51595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,12],"tags":[716,31,63,71,9,550,947,56],"class_list":["post-51579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-video","tag-domestic-violence","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-kapiolani-community-college","tag-uh-community-colleges","tag-uh-manoa","tag-manoa-athletics","tag-uh-system","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/system-mens-march-2016-2-f.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51579"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124704,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51579\/revisions\/124704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}