Karen Hawkins Memorial Week: Self Defense Class

Northwest’s Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority hosts a week of activities to educate others about sexual assault while remembering Karen Hawkins, a student and sorority member killed nearly 30 years ago.

The University Police Department will offer a self-defense class in the Hughes Fieldhouse from 7 to 8 p.m.

Hawkins, a Maryville native, Northwest student and Sigma Sigma Sigma member, was sexually assaulted and killed in April 1995 by a man she had known since high school. Since her death, the sorority has annually organized Karen Hawkins Memorial Week, and the Karen Hawkins Memorial Peace Pavilion at the northwest bank of Colden Pond is named in her honor.