MARYVILLE, Mo. — Loud music reverberated downtown last week when more than 300 Northwest Missouri State University students walked two miles, some rather painfully in bright red high-heel shoes, to the Nodaway County Courthouse where they gathered to show support for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.
Several hundred students — and at least one Pi Kappa Epsilon member pushing a loudspeaker on wheels that pumped out the jams bouncing energetic pop music off buildings — flooded onto the west courthouse steps and lawn, taking a much needed break from the heels to pose for photos with each other and their tall shoes.
“I’d be lying if I said it didn’t hurt haha,” Salvatore Bonadonna, TKE Historian and speech and theater education major at Northwest, wrote in an email to The Forum. “But it was a really cool experience and felt good to stand up for a good cause.”
