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Thank them for taking time out of schedule to talk with you. If any questions are uncomfortable for them to answer, they can decline. Be as neutral and approachable as possible. Questions: There seems to be some confusion surrounding consent during a sexual encounter among both men and women. Why do you think that is despite all of the educational resources available on campus? Specific to 2 individuals-at that level, from institutional standpoint, we have great idea of what consent is-two people saing yes and no factors inhibiting that. Human beings have an idea of what that is, & whats comfortable in saying yes. But in the moment, other factors contribute to their decision making, alcohol being the #1. Awkwardness-getting someones permission is holding people back from asking. Stop, ask, clarify. We want people to be comfortable with those words. Trying to encourage people to say its not awkward, its everyones right to be asked for something & expected to be given permission. When anyone mentions rape and sexual assault, the room almost seems to immediately sober up and become quiet as the term is a sensitive subject. Do you think this is a good thing or do you think there is a way for people to discuss it comfortably? Why do you think it is such an uncomfortable subject when its simply a reality? Most peoepl talking about it think its not something that apply to them (dont think this would happen to them), thinking this would happen to someone else in a closed room, not happening to methinks they cant speak out about it, because they dont know what to do, we expect survivors to speak up, but its everyone elses jb to speak up because it they speak up against it, then there are more oppounrtities for discussion. W need to be ok with talking about it, and are comfrtoable talking about it. RedLight Green light is great for timing, but not a good way to continually talk about it, thisi is a serious issue, needs serious attention. Fun, lively, fits in with everyone. We as a university are trying, lots of conersations happening but not doing enough to continue it. Red Light Green Light is a fun way to disseminate these info, but we need to look at the nuts and bolts of it. Part of the moment, need to get serious about it. Many advocates for a safer campus allege that college campuses are in denial about a sexual assault problem. Do you think this is true? What do you think is the attitude from both students and faculty about this issue? Every year Ive been here, the conversation comes up, and weve always tried to bring this issue up and not push it under the rug. Certainly take on the media press with increasei nreports. Looks like its getting worse but its just an increase in reportingmore people getting help. No current thing going on to motivate people to rape/sexually assault, just more reporting so actually more people getting help. Some schools do better with getting people to speak up, especially at UR where it is so supportive. UR not scared to speak up about this issue.

When I googled sexual assault on college campuses, there were immediately results surrounding many different colleges and reported rapes/assault, yet you hardly hear any of these incidents in the media or even in the school newspaper. Why do you think this is? Do you know of a way to fix this? In all of these cases, someone has been victimized, so its hard to continualy drag them through that. Publicity can be good if there are people who are protected, and thats difficult. People who are reading about this arent connecting with this, allows people to be more aware, but someone has to go through it again, and thats not fair. Some schools have a huge confidentiality over these types of cases, usually publicized ones inolve a group or a lot of victims. Usually becomes big if survivor agrees to talk bout it, most of the itme survivor wants it to be dealt with quickly or not deal with it at all. Sometimes media is a healer, good to speak up. Here is a recent quote from a female student who was allegedly raped by another male student at Drake University: Our society is scared to talk about sexual assault, our society doesnt know how to talk about sexual assault, there is no discourse for sexual assault. If the question is, could Drake do a better job of raising awareness about sexual assault? The answer is yes. But, as much as this is a fault on Drake, this is a fault on our society as a whole. Do you agree/disagree with this? Always going to be a problem, never going to be able to say theyre doing enough. Needs to be more conversation between students + parents, many sudents only know a little about sexual assault from health class, you should know that drinking is not safe, what consent is. Cant throw it all on college to eduate them on all of these things, figuring these things out needs to happen beforehand between educators; starts before we get here. B/c its not happening, campus needs to pick up where its left off and educating everyone + making conversation comfortable. So much of sex ed is about somebody protecting themselves from happening to them, & we need to educate people that some behaviors are not ok-asking potential perpetrator to stop, ask, clarify. Here are just some statistics about the perpetrators: 8% of men admit committing acts that meet the legal definition of rape or attempted rape. Of these men who committed rape, 84% said that what they did was definitely not rape. (1) More than one in five men report "becoming so sexually aroused that they could not stop themselves from having sex, even though the woman did not consent." (8) 35% of men report at least some degree of likelihood of raping if they could be assured they wouldn't be caught or punished. (Source: Greenfeld, L. A. Sex Offenses and Offenders: An Analysis of Data on Rape and Sexual Assault, Washington, D. C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1997).

Do you think there are certain risk factors in the environment that may encourage these kinds of misconceptions? Education until the last few years are not focusd on the right populationMost rapes is date rape, acquaiantance rape. We havent been doing the best job in educating that, when people hear the word rape, they think of a stranger jumping ot of the bushes and think thats not going to happen toem . Going out to party and hooking up with someone is not viewed as a crime, we view sex as power, & ask survivor if it felt like sex, no it felt like I was forced to do something. Education needs to change, needs to shift to causing harm to someone, and not just penetration, not just rape, its any acts that are related to sex & to human being that does not fully consent to. Controversial: 55% of gang rapes on college campuses are committed by fraternities, 40% by sports teams, and 5% by others. (15). Do you agree with this statistic? Why do you believe it may or may not be true? (Source: O'Sullivan, C. "Acquaintance Gang Rape on Campus." In A. Parrot and L. Bechhofer (eds.) Acquantaince Rape: The Hidden Crime. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1991). What are some of the things we are doing at the UR that helps prevent rape? Early conversations, open topics-Red Light Green Light, aesome health education office at UHS w/ Melissa Kelley + grad students to promote sexual health, will make negative stuff lessen. Conversations have begin again, and have bcome more forceful + releasing video that highlights different important members of our community & their opinions on sexual assault to make it more real, have students recognize this is a UR issue w/ familiar faces. We have a message were promoting stop ask clarify, safe b/c it makes people be serious & understand we believe the awkward convo needs to be happened & not be awkward, multiple people talking about this, not just limited to one side issue. Free hugs. What are some of the resources offered to victims? Care system-how were trying to funnel reports through, we then connect to UHS, UCC, Melissa Kelley helps with survivors; have obigatio ot protect individual firsthand, not just community. Works with security & campus intercessor; conduct system grounded in principles that are supportive and looks out for all sides, dont assume anything allows for advocates of both sides & trained sexual assault hearing board to hear cases. Its scary going into it but we do good job in training/preparing people so its not so scary. Finding someone to tlak to, grounded insupport. What are usually the disciplinary actions taken for the victim and perpetrator? Depends upon case. In general we meet with declarant, or survivor we choose not to use victim. We see his or her options, present them with options (police, proxy report, conduct process). If they choose conduct process, they will go through hearing w/ respondent (peretrator) w/ 3 sexual assaul traine board members. Declarant has choice to be in or out of room, have right to hear the other person. Questions asked, statements made, hearing board makes decisions. Decide on

sanctions they recommend & hearing officer declines/accepts those. Have opportunity for appeal as well. In many incidents involving campus rape, it seems the victims wishes for the rapists punishment/consequences are ignored, though there are plenty of resources for the victims, but just not enough disciplinary action. Do you think this is true? Why or why not? Do you think UR does a sufficient job with this? Comfortbale and positive in saying what we do in protecting our community. Title IX-becomes much more important in sexual assault cases. Universities need to handle these cases, procedure of what to do, & if you dont these are the consequences. Nothing is swept under the rug, primary goal is to protect that person, schools ignore victims to protect themselves + even then tis not a good way. Protecting victims is to follow process & give opportunities for declarant. Problem is not easy to solve, cant be done through hearing, life-long issue, not easy for both sides but we cant be afraid of that, cant just give resources. We are doing a great job, our CARE system has become a great avenue to look into things to make sure we havent missed anything. Theres a system & people need to believe in it, and Im confident that we do it here. Thank them for their time. End interview.