Date: 2013-02-06 03:25 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] whitemage
Despite the culture often cultivated on your campus, the SAO MUST address these issues. The kind of behavior you're describing creates a hostile environment, discriminates on sex, and constitutes sexual harassment. These are things the university as a whole could be taken to court for, and could damage their reputation.

If you're nervous about your reception, plan ahead what you're going to say. Write down notes for yourself of the points you want to make. Use keywords and phrases like "hostile environment" and be liberal repeating that you feel unsafe.

While civil cases are technically about "evidence," they aren't so in the same way criminal issues are. As a plaintiff, the burden of proof is NOT on you to prove the accusation: it's on the defending parties to prove they aren't engaging in that behavior. And they have no "proof", either--because they are!

It's okay to be afraid. It's going to happen. It understandably sucks to think about what could happen if you speak up. You're really scared that you could lose something that means a lot to you. It's terrifying to think how things might escalate in retaliation, I'll give you that.

And I would mention that, too, to the SAO. Protection isn't always great for whistleblowers, but as a student, despite being a legal adult, you're the university's responsibility. Make a catalog of the people you can trust, and even ask them to help keep an eye on you if you need.

This is not yelling at the hurricane: it is sounding the storm siren.
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