Susan Rutz, with the Domestic/Sexual Assault Outreach Center, speaks to a group of Iowa Central Community College students Thursday evening about identifying abusive relationships and avoiding domestic violence. At left is, Anna Shenton, an RN at Trinity Regional Medical who works with sexual assault victims, and Jami Davis, center, who also with D/SAOC. Attending the session was mandatory for all student athletes at the school.

Statistics have shown that one in every three women and one in every seven men will eventually find themselves in an abusive relationship, and many of those victims are of college age. Iowa Central Community College wants to make sure that as many of their students and graduates as possible do not land among those statistics at some point in their lives, and in doing so, partnered with the Domestic/Sexual Assault Outreach Center to present “Surviving the College Culture: What you need to know about dating violence and sexual assault,” an informative session for students to learn the facts and warning signs of abusive relationships. “You are at an age now where you’re starting serious dating relationships where you’re looking at the years ahead and not just tomorrow,” Susan Rutz, community educator for D/SAOC, said to the hundreds of Iowa Central students who packed Decker Auditorium for the presentation Thursday evening.