Policy distrust

Participant 1: [Laughs] The sexual violence response team creates the policy, and the sexual violence response team also happens to be the people that enforce the policy. Um, so, it’s bad- you can’t write the…

[Since] 1990, the entire world has changed a our policy has not. Comparing it to even to other schools, like, Dalhousie and St. FX, like, their policies are quite expansive and cover a lot of…

It’s really frustrating as a student, because, it feels like they’ve, they put a brick wall between us and that policy. It feels like they’re trying to put every single barrier that they possibly can…

In terms of an informal resolution- if that was the victim’s route, and everything was resolved this way, how would the university see the accused person? Like, would they still be seen as a risk…

I’d like to know why it [the policy] doesn’t touch on false allegations or whatever. As we mentioned previously, our demographic more typically is um, being a respondent role. So, as a personal fear, I’m…

Participant 1: What kind of records are kept for each case? Participant 2: That was an issue I had in my case – faculty, regardless of how serious the act, at the end of the…

Participant 1: When it comes to further education, let’s say we are in a situation where a student was accused of sexually assaulting someone. They went through all the processes and ended up getting expelled-…

Participant 1: I’m going to add something directly to what you just said about how it’s discouraged to talk to the police. I agree with that because when I went through this with my friend…

If there were a risk to the Mount community, at what point does the Mount community’s protection trump the personal wishes of someone disclosing and not reporting.

You say all these things: “It will be investigated”, “We will report to you, etc.,” but within what timeframe? Otherwise, it can drag on for six months. I’ve heard numerous stories about people graduating and…