Yellow tape and the outline of a body depicted a crime scene right outside Ventura College’s Learning Resource Center. The culprits were none other than VC’s Psychology Club.

“Break the Silence! End the Violence!” was the slogan for this year’s highly anticipated Clothesline Project.

In order to raise awareness in the community about domestic violence, the Psychology Club hosted the highly anticipated Clothesline Project on Wednesday, Nov. 3.

This was the tenth annual Clothesline Project that the Psychology Club hosted.

Clotheslines filled with over one hundred colored and hand-painted T-shirts hung from many trees in the courtyard between the LRC and SCI building.

The T-shirts were donated by VC students, and after a personal message was artistically painted on by participants, they were hung and displayed for all to see.

The PSY Club members who assisted in the event all wore yellow T-shirts, all with their own personal message on them.

Many different awareness organizations from Ventura County attended the event and set up booths in order to pass out information about their purpose.

Such organizations included Interface Children and Family Services, UCLA Santa Monica Rape Treatment Center, the Rainbow Alliance, and Planned Parenthood and many others.

Besides the many organizations that arrived, the event also featured speakers that spoke on a variety of topics from cyber-bullying and domestic violence to Human trafficking and rape.

Dawn Reid, one of the featured speakers, shared her own personal story with the students of VC.

The courtyard had been chosen as a suitable spot because of the high traffic of students that walk through. The area was also adjacent to the UV-2 building that several of the featured guests spoke in.

The PSY Club began the planning for this event in the summer. Other clubs like Alpha Gamma Sigma and Sociology club also gave a great contribution to the putting the project together.

It was organized to reach out to those people who had been victims of domestic violence, rape, or other similar misfortunes and let them know that they were not alone.

“The t-shirts I made represented an unspeakable pain within my soul,” said ASVC President Kathleen Leonard in an email.

“At the end of the day when I finished class and saw that the clothesline was gone, I realized that the angels that organized the event had taken my pain and stored it somewhere other than my heart”

PSY Club hoped to reach everyone on the campus with this message. They intend to continue the Clothesline Project in 2011.