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I think with sexual assault policies and with sexual assault itself, there are always a lot of grey areas – a lot of iffy things that don’t make sense. And specifically, as a Black male,…

I guess [the policy is] relevant, but at the same time, it’s like, if you go through all these steps, what is the result? Am I actually going to get help? Or will it just…

I don’t know if we really need an advertising interface at every corner, because that kind of has a different psychological spin on it. I know for me, I am walking through the campus late…

I feel like we should have more discussions around consent and what that looks like: the different ways to consent and the different kinds of situations where consent is needed. Because, right now, it’s just…

Participant 1: What if it’s, like, a form of assault, but it’s not on the policy? They’re just like [claps hand to indicate closing the file]. Participant 3: It doesn’t say verbal. I don’t know…

[Service providers who receive disclosures should] have an open mind and be comforting, because it’s very different when you’re trying to explain something or say something to somebody that already has a bias about you.

The policy is semi-vague in terms of consent and things like that. Not explicitly, but enough that I feel like there are certain older members of our community that might read that and say “oh,…

So, I just wanted to say, that I feel like a lot of people forget that professors can be involved in this too. Because a lot of people will assume […] if a professor did…

What do you guys think about that though? Like do you guys, even just in terms of, I don’t know, it’s definitely different for men. I would assume that if something happened with like anyone…

Participant 1: I know people who are international students; and they wouldn’t want to say anything, because it happened from a Canadian and they felt like, I don’t know how to state it, but [I…

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