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...went into the "Building a Safe Community" meeting during first-year orientation week desperately wanting to absorb all that I could. I tried to listen to the messages that the various peer-counseling groups presented and ignore the distractions of the two girls whispering in front of me and the guy next to me cracking his neck and smirking in between his sighs of boredom. The presentation did not focus on addressing the gravity of sexual violence, but raised comical questions about whether or not a woman lying down on a man's bed and winking constitutes "asking...
...proctor who lives downstairs, but she was unsure of what exactly that meant. Two of my friends who live upstairs knew who the contact person was but could not envision themselves talking to her. Although in my dorm we live with our SASH advisor, the students in most first-year dorms have never met the person they are supposed to turn to if they are the victims of sexual violence...
...difficult for most first-year women to envision themselves as victims of sexual violence in this community that is supposed to be a safe home for the next four years, but we must all face the reality of sexual violence in our society. As Peer Relations Date Rape Education (PRDRE) reported at the "Safe Community" meeting, the beginning of college is statistically the time a student has the highest risk for being affected by sexual assault. This is a situation that Harvard University must face head on and deal with to create a truly "safe community" for all its students...
...general sentiment among most first-years I encountered was that although the idea of a "Safe Community" meeting is a good one, the issues could be addressed in a more appropriate format. One person commented that the speakers needed to "talk to us more, be real and not make a joke of it." This University, which is supposed to be one of the best in the world, has no clear dedication to the serious issues affecting women undergraduates. Harvard University needs to take sexual violence seriously and address this problem by improving the education during first-year orientation week, increasing...
Irene B. Janis is a first-year in Wigglesworth Hall. She is a member of Coalition Against Sexual Violence...