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I’d appreciate this information as well.

 

From: Burton, Wanda [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 10:26 AM
To: Felty, Wade P.;
Subject: RE: Handling freshman orientation

 

This is a great question. Please share your responses with me.

 

Wanda M. Burton

Peer Education Coordinator,

Women's Resource Center

University of Alabama

Phone (205)348-5040

Fax (205)348-5282

www.wrc.ua.edu

 

 

 

From: Felty, Wade P. []
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 9:18 AM
To:
Subject: Handling freshman orientation

 

The College is asking me to redesign our sexual assault program at Freshman orientation and this has made me ponder something that’s been bothering me for a while. What to do about the large amount of incoming students who don’t know anything about human sexual relationships for whatever reason. I am worried that we are talking about consent and different types of force and coercion and so on….and assuming that they are able to use their past knowledge about human sexual relationships but I think many of them are uneducated in that department. For instance, parents who have had their children removed from human sexuality classes for religious/cultural reasons (where they are offered), and schools with limited human sexuality education. I also have a sneaking suspicion that there are a large number of incoming students who were involved in purity rings and abstinence movements in high school and I think they’ve been deliberately misinformed about human sexual relationships. What does the group recommend for quickly educating incoming students so that they have a basic working knowledge that we can build on for our sexual assault/relationship violence presentation?

 

Wade

 

Wade Felty

Wade Felty

Office of Residence Life & Housing and Judicial Affairs

Randolph-Macon College

(804)-752-3234 (Office)

(717)-813-3513 (Mobile 1)

(804)-441-4187 (Mobile 2)

 

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