During the four (or five or six) years of college, 25 percent of women will experience a completed or attempted sexual assault.
Take your four closest female friends and relatives and now imagine that one of those wonderful people has experienced the trauma of sexual assault.
What could you have done to help stop this tragedy from occurring to your sister or girlfriend or even mom?
Men are more likely to perform sexual assaults. As a man, this is a disturbing fact. I don’t want to think that my wife could be a victim of this type of crime, but statistically, she is a prime candidate.
However, because men are most likely friends with more men, the very group that is likely committing the crime is the same group that has the power to stop the crime before it happens.
The Women’s Center is hosting an event Thursday to discuss that very fact.
“Bystander Intervention: Men Can Stop Rape,” hosted by Alex Leslie of the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, will be held at 7 p.m. in 140 Bentley Hall.
Sexual assault needs to be stamped out, and it can start on this campus. Men, come learn what you can do to protect your mother, sister, girlfriend or wife at 7 p.m. Sept. 29 in 140 Bentley.
Daniel Partee is a senior studying psychology and a peer advocate of the Ohio University Survivor Advocacy Program.
