Workshop to shed light on stalking
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The UK Violence Intervention and Prevention center will host a training lecture for the UK community about stalking.
The training session will include TK Logan, Ph.D, a national expert on the issue and a professor in the Department of Behavioral Science, College of Medicine and the Center on Drug and Alcohol Research.
The event coincides with Stalking Awareness Month.
Logan and Melanie O. Matson, director of the Violence Intervention and Prevention Center, published an op-ed column in the Kentucky Kernel, the University of Kentucky’s student newspaper, about the problem of stalking at colleges.
Logan said in the article that about one in six women have been stalked or frightened by stalking, according to a random household survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The study said much of that stalking was through unwanted text messages or phone calls.
The article was the first in a series of three to be published on the issues of stalking.
The event takes place on the lower level of Frazee Hall today at 4:30 p.m. The event will continue until 6 p.m. The workshop is free and open to students, faculty and staff.
