LONGVIEW, Texas - The LeTourneau University Student-Athlete Advisory Committee, as well as others around the country, recognizes April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month by releasing the "It's On Us" campaign in an effort to pledge a personal commitment to help keep women and men safe from sexual assault. 

The NCAA Division I, II, and III SAACs have come together to create a Student-Athlete Day of Action, April 17. On this day, your LETU SAAC asks that you and your fellow student-athletes post to any and all social media accounts and using #ItsOnUs, as well as other hashtags, to make a statement in order to stop the obscenity that is sexual assualt on college campuses around the country. 

Suggested guidelines for the Day of Action:

1. Sign the pledge at itsonus.org 

2. Share the PSA. 

Post to any and all of your social media accounts with posts of photos of you and your teammates to you making a statement about how we all need to work together to stop the obscenity that is sexual assault on our college campuses. 

3. The color associated with Sexual Assault Awareness Month is Teal. This is similar to the color of breast cancer awareness month being pink. To that effect, we strongly encourage all photographic posts to include the color teal.

4. Photos should include a "stop" gesture. This campaign will be most effective if student-athletes in photos have a consistent action. We suggest holding your hand up the "stop" gesture. It is also encouraged for participants to use language written on their hands such as, "No" or "No More". 

5. Advocacy Language. As a general rule, we suggest you do not give a title to those afflicted by sexual assault. This is because we want those individuals to title themselves in whichever way they feel appropriate. However, if unavoidable, those afflicted by sexual assault should be referred to as "survivors."

6. Appropriate Hashtags. These are as follows:

ItsOnUs NoMore ItsOnUsAthlete ItsOnUsNCAA StudentAthleteDayOfAction DayOfAction #ItsOnStudentAthletes