T-shirts stolen from Clothesline Project
By Kelly McGaw
News Editor
Three T-shirts included in the Clothesline Project to fight domestic violence disappeared from the Elaine Langone Center this week, bringing the Clothesline Project to a halt, according to Tracy Shaynak, interim director of the Woman’s Resource Center (WRC).
The Clothesline Project T-shirts were designed by those interested in spreading awareness of violence and by victims and survivors of domestic violence, relationship abuse and sexual assault. The shirts were put on display during the final week of Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Shaynak reported the missing shirts to Public Safety on Oct. 31. The shirts were stolen between Oct. 27 and the morning of Oct. 31. Only one of the missing shirts has been identified.
Shaynak hopes to get the shirts back in order to preserve the hard work and passion put into them by their designers.
She asks that they are returned to the University Switchboard or sent through campus mail to the WRC.
The shirts can be returned anonymously, “no questions asked,” Shaynak said.
The theft also upset WRC student workers.
“I think the theft was immature and unnecessary. People clearly worked very hard to put together something on a serious topic,” said Ally Hopper ’11, who works for the WRC and Community Health Promotion.
“To take down the shirts is not only disrespectful to those who spent the time to make them and put them up, but more importantly to those who have been affected by sexual assault,” she said.
