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Halle Vazquez is a Trinity first-year and a staff reporter for the news department.
The all-day event was entirely led by student groups Chabad at Duke and Students Supporting Israel, along with Jewish Life at Duke, and took weeks to set up following the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel.
Some attendees said that trainings presented to first-years lacked information on mitigating sexual violence and mental health resources for survivors while over-emphasizing Duke’s reaction to violence only after it happened.