Everyone knows what a pink or a yellow ribbon stands for, but what about a purple ribbon? Or a green one? While eating disorders (purple) can be more common than muscle diseases (green), they are both serious issues that people throughout the U.S. and throughout Liberty deal with.

These issues, along with anti bullying, aren’t commonly talked about, so the students of Liberty took the week of Feb. 27 to make their voices heard. Dubbed as Awareness Week, Liberty had spirit days Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and videos were shared around the school.

On Monday, students wore purple for National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), on Wednesday, students wore green for Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) and students wore blue on Friday to support anti-bullying.

“Awareness week was started after I gave my talk sophomore year about my eating disorder,” senior Nicole Knobbe said. “We wanted to branch out to more issues other than just eating disorders, so last year we started an entire awareness week.”

The whole student council helps to organize Awareness Week, and sophomore Olivia Holler made a video (shared in academic intervention) to help spread the awareness.

“The more involved I have been with MDA has made me want to embrace and teach, hopefully inspire people,” Holler said in her video.

Holler was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy with respiratory failure when she was in sixth grade and is now apart of MDA.

They chose to honor NEDA for Knobbe and MDA for Holler and anti bullying because they thought it was an important issue.

“NEDA was chosen for eating disorder awareness because it’s an issue that is so prevalent but just not talked about or known enough,” Knobbe said. “MDA was picked for Liv Holler and anti bullying was chosen because it’s a very serious issue that needs to be addressed in our school and kids need to know it’s not okay.”