Join Campus Wellness on the red carpet for their first annual Wellys on Dec. 3 at 7 p.m.
The Wellys is an award show featuring student-made films on the meaning of consent and bystander intervention. Community members are invited to dress up for the event and celebrate with a photobooth and more. The event will be held in the Taylor Meade Performing Arts Center.
Health and Wellness Coordinator, Kathleen Converse, expects to show 12 videos at the Wellys which the audience will vote on the winners. The top rated videos will be given prizes.
“The hope of the Wellys is that by having students actually make videos that explain consent and bystander intervention, we can use that in programing going forward,” said Converse. “Not only do you get the chance while making the videos to talk about consent and how to intervene. Then we have a chance to have this event where we show all of them.”
The videos will be used on campus to continue Campus Wellness programing events such as Got Consent.
“We’ve been going in and trying to do some workshops with athletic, Greek life, clubs and do bystander intervention workshops,” said Converse. “So those [winning videos] will be shown there.”
Senior Rachel Roberts, a Campus Wellness practicum student, adds that by making the videos personable, it makes them more real.
“Actually having peers and people that you know in videos makes it a little more personable and makes it a little more real,”said Roberts. “I thinkwouldmakeitmoreeffectiveinhelpingto prevent sexual violence on Pacific University’s campus.”
For the First Annual Wellys, the Campus Wellness Office has been working with interested groups to help make sure the messages are presented clearly.
“The purpose of us going through and helping them adjust scripts, making sure they’re super clear about what consent and bystander intervention are,” said Roberts. “We don’t want misinformation to get out there.”
Overall, the Campus Wellness Office hopes the event will be fun. They also hope the Wellys will make a difference on the Pacific campus.
“The main message,” said Converse, “is that we care about making our campus safer for everybody, that we want to help end sexual violence and we know this is a problem.”
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