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January 9, 2008
Award-Winning Risk Management Event Broadens Scope
Program memorializing Texas Tech student includes all student organizations.
Written by Ben Samples
The parents of the late Clay R. Warren founded the retreat in an effort to educate others about risk management practices.
The Center for Campus Life will host an expanded version of its nationally recognized Clay R. Warren Memorial Risk Management Retreat on Saturday, Jan. 12 at the Texas Tech School of Law.
In September 2006, approximately 140 chapter members representing more than 30 Texas Tech Greek organizations gathered at the first risk management retreat in memory of Clay R. Warren – a Texas Tech freshman who died from injuries he suffered in an automobile wreck while returning home from a fraternity event in 2002.
Now, three retreats and nearly two years later, more than 260 students from fraternities, sororities, sports clubs and student organizations will gather to cultivate campus-wide risk awareness and management practices.
“It was always our intent to include all student organizations, not just fraternities and sororities,” said Elizabeth Massengale, associate director of the Center. “With help from the Warren family, the retreat has grown and received support locally and nationally.”
Students will discuss an array of risk management issues, including possession and use of alcoholic beverages and illegal drugs, sexual abuse and harassment, hazing, travel, and strategies for each organization to prevent other risky behaviors.
In 2006, the National Association for Student Personnel Administrators honored the retreat with a silver award for exemplary efforts in increasing risk awareness and management.
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