Policy distrust

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…

It’s great that they say they will give you counselling, but what happens when it is faculty, and you do not want to set foot on campus anymore, and you’ve left university? What happens when…

You have to dig through a bunch of irrelevant pages on the Saint Mary’s website to actually find the sexual violence policy. Um, and then that is basically it; there are no supporting documents around…

There is relevance to students ’cause it does give them a little bit of insight into what’s covered under it and whom they can go to, to discuss their options. Um, but it doesn’t really…

There’s a lot of legal mumbo jumbo which might not be understandable for people who maybe have a language barrier.[…] And because it’s just so long, like, a lot of people want to find the…