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Perspectives on education and awareness

I was just wondering [unclear], when you mentioned the ongoing consent, I just wanna, to make it clear, I’m not talking about reporting it like a couple of months or years later, but I’m wondering,…

I believe that college and university is a place where our boundaries get messy with the whole cultural difference and without the cultural difference, as well. So, I think coming from the Middle East there…

Participant 1: Yeah, I’ve only ever come across it. I had to do a module once, you know, just required to do it. But I feel like if I didn’t have to do it, I…

You know how no one in the group was familiar with the policy- um, maybe giving it to us in a way that’s, you know, digestible and understandable for where we’re at, you know, our…

Just more awareness really. Like, I played sports, and even when you’re at those events and they’re talking about the policies and what’s going on and all of the information, no one’s really engaged or…

To be honest, I’ve heard a lot of girls telling me about incidents that happened, but I never heard about the policy and I’ve been at SMU for two years and no one has ever…

Our university defines sexual assault as any type of unwanted pressure [unclear] including, you know, from a hug to rape. So my question is do we need different words for different kinds of wrongdoing? Like,…

I just want to encourage that you should get people aware about information and policies and get them to know more how to protect themselves, because actually, we don’t want [people to have] experiences of…

Participant 1: I think alcohol abuse plays a big role in the situation. You know, we are coming from a place where a woman – or a male as well, you know – drinking is…

Participant 1: My complaint is that there should be more information such as the timeframe around this process. For example, when is the victim gonna receive services? Information like that could be helpful. […] Participant…

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