They call it “the red zone”: the first weeks of the school year when researchers say sexual violence spikes on campus. But now, campus activists across the country are banding together to speak out against sexual violence with a collective voice that it appears some policy-makers cannot ignore. As Our Turn and other campus groups move these initiatives forward, she said, it seems like policy-makers are finally taking a lesson from students when it comes to combating sexual violence. At University of King’s College, students comprise four of the nine voting members on the school’s sexual-violence policy committee. About one year after the University of British Columbia passed its sexual-violence policy, student representatives found that certain aspects of the new regime had yet to be fully realized.

Source: thestar September 09, 2018 19:30 UTC