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Try not to interject your own opinions or your own little comments about the situation. I’m thinking more so security people who could be the first contact after something like this happens- they might not…

I went to somebody who was a former professor of mine, who told me that if I reported, I would lose my degree, and I’d get kicked out. I felt swayed from coming forward and…

The advice we would give to anyone involved is, number one, don’t perpetuate rape culture. PLEASE, don’t perpetuate rape culture! Don’t have your first question be “What were you wearing or drinking?” People still say…

I think we also need not to update, but more so expand how we educate the population—the population of the Mount – on what consent is and what consent is not. […]. There needs to…

You can go through the SANE program, and they will not go to the police right away. You have up to six months or maybe longer where they will store that evidence to give you…

Participant 1: I don’t know if anywhere sexual education was different, but mine consisted of “Here’s a condom; don’t get people pregnant; you’ll get diseases; and your body is changing.” There was nothing about consent,…

Participant 1: There are a lot of different responses to trauma. Participant 2: The one thing I wish more people would have said to me is, “you don’t even need to answer me- I’m just…

Just make sure that they don’t rush them, because, like, it may have taken them awhile to come forward, but that doesn’t mean the second they come forward that they have to do this and…

Participant 1: I watched how much it took out of her each time she had to explain it to someone, so that’s why I’m wondering if there is any way to make who the best…

I don’t think that there’s enough visibility for people who can be talked to. Like, I know […] that you were discussing the people that could be spoken to, […] but as somebody who’s been…

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