MSVU

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,…

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…