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You can feel so ashamed. Like, “I just want to forget about it,” [in a whisper] “I don’t ever want to think about it again,” “I don’t want to have to deal with it,” and…

I remember reading this thing in one of my classes, and I think it was like one in four [university students are sexually assaulted], and that seems like a crazy number and a lot of…

Participant 1: I feel like if someone were to say that “sexual assault isn’t my problem”… I feel like its everyone’s problem because it can happen to anyone. And just because I’m a Sociology student…

Participant 1: I haven’t seen it [the policy] or heard about it since I’ve been here, but I guess I didn’t look for it […] it didn’t feel readily available. Participant 2: Same, I haven’t…

Just typing it into a search engine or going to the Mount website might feel overwhelming. It would be nice to have, like, I’m always a fan of posters that feel more like I’m in…

I was also going to add that there are … because I’m also a victim of it, sometimes you don’t even want to identify yourself as that. So, when there are trickier situations, like you…

I wrote a lot of side notes [pointing to her draft of the policy], and it was along the lines of […] how is a person going to get support? Who is a person going…

Participant 1: I think that the people reading this [gesturing to the policy] are most likely people who have been assaulted- […] I feel like it needs to be really front-loaded like, “if you’ve been…

Okay, so do you know who they [the investigator] would be? […] I’ve had an experience recently in my life where there can be a certain amount of distrust for an organizational body to investigate…

I think people should maybe be more aware of informal resolution because I never really knew that existed or that it was an option. I mean, it’s a good way for people not to get…