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Home | Students Active for Ending Rape SAFER - 1 views

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Sexual Violence College Campus Policies Campaign Activism

shared by Kat Dunn on 25 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Kat Dunn on 25 Mar 10
     
    Active for Ending Rape is an organization that works with students to get organized and make a change within their own college community. Focusing on ending sexual violence, SAFER encourages kids to know their school's policy when it comes to such violence on their campus. Through policy changes, the organization hopes that university campuses will be a safer place for all. The website offers on-campus training as well as other free resources students can use to get going. With a list of other schools who have started using the program as well as specific student video stories, SAFER gives students the tools they need to get started.
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  • Michelle Seidman on 03 Apr 10
     
    Given the light of the recent UMass rapist who went unpunished I think this is an especially important website. Sexual violence is such an immense problem on college campuses, in fact, we have learned in class that a great deal of the sexual violence that occurs in the United States actually happens on a college campus. I think an organization like SAFER is very important in order to urge students to become aware of how their college deals with sexual violence in terms of policies for those that commit acts of violence and also the ways in which students can work and organize to make their campus a safer place. This website also pertains to us in this class given the fact that we are all college students living on a campus and although sexual violence may not be as much of an issue here at Wheaton as it is on other campuses, it most likely still is an offense which occurs. We should be aware of our college's policies on sexual violence and whether or not we need to join an organization, such as SAFER, to make our campus a safer place. I think this website and organization are very important when we talk about visions of change in regards to violence against women because as I mentioned before, acts of violence against women are very likely on college campuses, therefore this website works to change this by making campuses safer for their students.
  • Marijose Vila on 03 Apr 10
     
    This is a great webpage. One of my articles was on how one rape case in Holly Cross was poorly addressed. The importance of clear and fair procedures in college campuses mark a difference in prevention and in especially addressing the cases. I think that an organization such as SAFER ism important because it gives tools to empower students to end the inustice. It is a very positive article ! Thank you Kat.
  • Courtney Connors on 05 Apr 10
     
    Being a student on a College campus, I could not think of a better website to correlate everyday reality to this course. Also, this site seems appropriate to coincide with the Symposium, "Breaking the Silence", as it asks college students nation-wide to take a proactive role in sculpting the future of their College's sexual assault policies. It is important to note that on the Wheaton campus, we maintain and encourage a "don't ask, don't tell" type of policy where the discussion or realization of sexual assault on the campus is seemingly unheard of. This site encourages its viewers to be open-minded and encourage others to discuss the current campus policies and acknowledge that assault and rape do in fact, occur on college campuses nation-wide despite their lack of publicity.
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