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As a point of clarification, first year students receive other (brief) education about sexual assault during summer orientation and providing information to all new students about sexual assault is required by state statue.   This said, we are struggling to move this campus from “providing information” to effective prevention programs designed to prevent perpetration and interrupt victimization.

 

Carmen Hotvedt, Violence Prevention Specialist

UW-Madison 

 

http://www.dailycardinal.com/opinion/students-must-act-to-prevent-sexual-assault-1.2576727

Last week, thousands of freshmen descended onto the UW-Madison campus.  Eager to start the next chapter of their lives, most are delightfully overwhelmed with everything this tremendous university has to offer. Most are also undereducated about a reality plaguing this campus: Sexual assault.

Promoting Awareness, Victim Empowerment (PAVE) continually finds that the majority of students come to UW-Madison believing rape is something that only happens in the middle of the night when no one is around. As we've seen far too many times this summer, this form of rape certainly happens and needs to be addressed, but there is another reality students need to be aware of: One in four women will be victims of rape or attempted rape during their time at college. Ninety percent of these assaults will be perpetrated by someone the victim knows. While these numbers are staggering, most students remain confused about the scenario in which sexual assaults most commonly occur.