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News Releases

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http://www.news4jax.com/news/Coast-Guard-interdicts-about-29M-worth-of-cocaine/16489540

http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/1402147/

http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00098614/00301/5j

http://coastguard.dodlive.mil/2013/12/top-boating-safety-gifts-for-cyber-monday/

Interview

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Video of interview: http://www.news4jax.com/news/How-to-be-safe-at-sea/12134288

Photography and Videography

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Photo inventory found here: https://www.dvidshub.net/search?filter[unit]=USCGD7&q=Petty+Officer+Jessica+Potter#.VjOMU6IRR1R

Video found here: https://www.dvidshub.net/video/317818/jaguars-military-appreciation-game#.VjLQUqIRR1Q

Video found here: https://www.dvidshub.net/video/317523/coast-guard-cutter-dallas#.VjLQ-qIRR1Q

Media Pitched and Facilitated Stories

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Video found here: http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/local/2013/06/13/4606279/

Video found here: http://archive.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=283344

Video and article found here: http://www.news4jax.com/news/practice-boating-safety-on-4th-of-july/20827608

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The impact of campus safety tips on feelings of safety, attitudes, behaviors and rape myth acceptance

Excerpt taken from a recent University of North Florida research grant proposal

Research on campus safety tips. We are one of the first, to our knowledge, to experimentally examine how

campus safety tips influence rape myth acceptance, willingness to report a crime, and ultimately campus climate

attitudes, as most previous research has been descriptive or correlational. For instance, in an analysis of commonly-

recurring sexual assault prevention tips, Bedera and Nordmeyer (2015) found four frequently promoted campus’ safety

messages: “there are no safe places for women, women can’t trust anyone, women should never be alone, and women

are vulnerable.” They also highlighted frequently used tips including: “avoid being alone,” “don’t let your date drink too

much alcohol,” and “take a self defense class.” These safety tips might indirectly adversely negatively affect the campus

climate. In a correlational study examining the relationship between gender-based safety strategies and perception of

campus climate, women were not only desensitized to the limited campus freedoms safety messages proscribe, but

often they succumbed to adopting a “better safe than sorry,” mentality, rendering avoidance behaviors (Starkweather,

2005). Furthermore, in open-ended interviews with female students, when safety strategies emphasized avoidance

behaviors, the campus climate was less positive due to campus restrictions placed on female students including: public

space restrictions “change paths to avoid unsafe people or places,” and daylight restrictions “don’t go places late at

night” (Day, 1995).

The current study. Campus safety tips are likely important in shaping a university’s climate, as these safety tips

are readily available on institutions’ websites; likely these tips serve to challenge or reinforce common myths and

misperceptions about sexual assault. Our research fills the critical need to understand how campus safety tips influence

rape myth acceptance, willingness to report a crime, and ultimately campus climate attitudes. We hope to use the

knowledge we gain from this study to encourage a wider discussion of how to create safer and more effective campus

safety tips, which will hopefully help in the effort to reduce sexual assault rates at universities.

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Never walk alone: How safety tips influence beliefs about rape and feelings of safety

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Excerpt taken from Florida Undergraduate Research Conference abstract submission

Safety tips may shape a university’s climate by challenging or reinforcing sexual assault myths and

misperceptions. We will examine whether a safety tip being directed at women (“Ladies:”) or not and whether safety tip

endorses (“Miscommunication can make you venerable to rape ”) or challenges (“It’s okay to change your mind without

an explanation”) rape myths affects participants’ beliefs about rape and feelings of safety. Participants will read a

fictitious safety tip webpage, then report their feelings of safety, rape myth acceptance, and attitudes about the campus

climate. We predict that participants who read rape myth-endorsing, versus rape myth-challenging, and participants who

read women-directed, versus non-women directed, safety tips will express decreased willingness to report a crime,

increased rape myth acceptance, and lower satisfaction regarding campus climate. We also predict an interaction

between whether the safety tip is women-directed and endorses rape myths. Participants in the non-women directed

condition will report higher willingness to report a crime, decreased rape myth acceptance, and increased satisfaction

with the campus climate when they are exposed to rape-myth challenging as opposed to endorsing safety tips.

However, when participants are exposed to women-directed safety tips, whether or not the tip challenges or endorses

rape myths will not have an impact on the dependent variables. We will be one of the first to experimentally examine

how campus safety tips influence participants’ beliefs about rape and feelings of safety. We hope our study encourages

discussion about creating safer and more effective campus safety tips.