Carnegie Mellon Greek Life

Panhellenic Council brings Erin Weed to speak

How to be a Bad Victim

October 7th at 9:30pm in UC McConomy

Erin Weed's calling to the field of violence prevention and self-defense began in 2001 as a direct response to the murder of her friend and sorority sister, Shannon McNamara. After Shannon's death, Erin abandoned her career in TV production to study with some of the best anti-violence activists, personal safety specialists and self-defense experts in the world. Erin's presentation at CMU is on how to be a bad victim:

We hear it in the news all the time. Violence does happen on college campuses at an alarming rate, even in what we consider "safe places" and at the hands of seemingly harmless people. Furthermore, many violent incidents can be easily predicted and avoided by trusting intuition and by using a few simple strategies. It is time for college students to take control of their personal safety by learning how to be a BAD VICTIM. In this program, Erin will explain the realities of campus crime in America today, and teach students what they can do to avoid becoming a statistic. Erin teaches students how to be a hard target of crime, how to secure dorms/apartments from break-ins, how to detect violent people and strategies for responding in a dangerous situation. She concludes this program with self-defense demonstrations that any student could use in a confrontation.