{"id":1447,"date":"2012-10-25T18:17:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T18:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2012-10-25T18:17:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T18:17:12","slug":"domestic-violence-awareness-advocated-at-annual-runwalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2012\/10\/25\/domestic-violence-awareness-advocated-at-annual-runwalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic violence awareness advocated at annual run\/walk"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Danny and Patricia Bolden with JSU staff and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority members.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Derrick Walton<\/strong>
\nBlue & White Flash \/ Staff Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Latasha Norman 5th Annual Memorial 5K Run\/Walk continues to promote domestic violence prevention among Jackson State University students and the community.<\/p>\n

The run\/walk will take place on Saturday, Oct. 27, with registration at 7 a.m. and the event beginning at 8 a.m.\u00a0 Last year, approximately 250 people participated in the Latasha Norman 4th Annual Memorial 5k Run\/Walk.<\/p>\n

Many students are aware of the Latasha Norman Center for Counseling and Disability Services on campus, but may not know about the student for whom the center is named and the 2007 tragedy that made the prevention of domestic violence a priority at Jackson State.<\/p>\n

Latasha Norman was a junior accounting major from Greenville, Miss. who went missing after a class at JSU on Nov. 13, 2007.\u00a0 Two weeks after her disappearance, Stanley Cole, an ex-boyfriend, confessed to killing her and led officials to her body in a wooded area in North Jackson.\u00a0 Cole, a former JSU, student was sentenced to life in prison for his crime.<\/p>\n

Jackson State renamed the counseling center in her memory and Norman\u2019s family, friends and JSU students continue to promote domestic violence prevention through awareness, outreach programs and the annual 5K Run\/Walk.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Oct. 23, the Lambda Beta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc. presented a Domestic Violence Awareness Forum in memoriam of Norman. Norman\u2019s father, Danny Bolden, was the featured speaker.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not always easy to come back to where a tragedy has happened,\u201d said Bolden. \u201cGod chose to use (Latasha\u2019s) her life to shine the light on teen domestic violence. We don\u2019t understand that but that was God\u2019s choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bolden added, \u201cThe only way we\u2019re going to stop this killing, destroying our families, is that we educate our young kids at an early age.\u201d<\/p>\n

Danny and Patricia Bolden want others to remember Latasha\u2019s legacy and hope that their daughter\u2019s story will help save others from domestic violence.Former students like Jerry Miller knew Norman through the student publications staff.<\/p>\n

Miller, the former editor-in-chief of the Jacksonian yearbook said, \u201cTasha was the type of person you couldn\u2019t not like. If you didn\u2019t like Tasha, it was because of you. She just was not a confrontational type of person. You wouldn\u2019t think that somebody would do something like that to her just because of the type of person who she was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each year, the student publications staff members walk in honor of Latasha, who worked on the student newspaper and yearbook her freshman and sophomore years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel that the Latasha Norman Run\/Walk is a great way to advocate domestic violence and is a good tool to bring awareness to young people about this issue,\u201d said Diamond Jenkins, a sophomore mass communications major from Atlanta, Ga. and current Associate Editor of the Blue & White Flash.<\/p>\n

De\u2019Arbreya Lee, a senior English major from Pittsburg, Calif. and staff member with The Blue & White Flash, has participated in the run\/walk for three years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI participate in the run\/walk because it is important to me to actively take a stand against domestic violence,\u201d said Lee.\u00a0 \u201cAs a Flash staff member, I know Latasha\u2019s story and awareness promotes prevention.\u00a0 If any student is in a similar situation as Latasha, I hope knowledge of her tragedy will give them the strength to seek help because help is available.\u201d<\/p>\n

Norman\u2019s legacy and JSU\u2019s commitment to domestic violence prevention continues to thrive today with the annual run\/walk. This year, an organization that was born out of Norman\u2019s tragedy, will support the run\/walk.<\/p>\n

Eva Jones, founder of Butterflies by Grace, Defined by Faith, will use the event as a way to provide resource assistance and to raise awareness that help is available to victims of domestic violence.\u00a0 \u201cWe are committed to helping individuals acquire information and services,\u201d Jones stated. \u201cI didn\u2019t meet Latasha, but I feel her spirit in me.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more information on Saturday\u2019s run\/walk, contact Rachel Cowan at 601-979-1557 or email rachel.n.cowan@jsums.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Derrick Walton Blue & White Flash \/ Staff Writer The Latasha Norman 5th Annual Memorial 5K Run\/Walk continues to promote domestic violence prevention among Jackson State University students and the community. The run\/walk will take place on Saturday, Oct. 27, with registration at 7 a.m. and the event beginning at 8 a.m.\u00a0 Last year, approximately […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1447","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-campus-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}