105 REAL MEN DON’T HIT WOMEN, SAYS AUTHOR

Anti-Domestic Violence Activist Targets Men with Message

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Oct. 3, 2006
EDITORIAL CONTACT: Gina Logue, 615-898-5081

(MURFREESBORO) – Rus Funk (spelling is correct), author, educator and advocate for domestic violence awareness, will deliver an address on “What’s a Guy to Do?” from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 10, in the Keathley University Center (KUC) Theatre.
Funk will talk about the effects of domestic violence, prevention strategies and educating men to be allies in this Domestic Violence Awareness Month event sponsored by the June Anderson Women’s Center and the student organization Women 4 Women.
In addition, Funk will provide specific training for various groups in the campus community in a workshop from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 11, in the KUC Theatre. He will highlight prevention and education strategies with a specific focus on how to establish organizations for men who want to help combat violence against women.
Funk is the author of Reaching Men: Strategies for Preventing Sexist Attitudes, Behaviors and Violence (JistLife Publishers, 2006). He is on the faculty of the Kent School of Social Work at the University of Louisville and the Spalding University School of Social Work.
In addition, Funk serves on the boards of the National Center on Sexual and Domestic Violence and the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence. Some of the grass roots organizations he has helped to found include the Baltimore Alliance Against Child Sexual Abuse, Mobilizing to End violeNce (M.E.N.), and D.C. Men Against Rape (now Men Can Stop Rape, Inc.).
“What’s a Guy to Do?” is free and open to the public and the media. For more information, contact the Women’s Center at 615-898-2193 or jawc@mtsu.edu.

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