Email Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little at her request at Chancellor@KU.edu with your thoughts about how KU can better prevent and respond to sexual assault. 3 important things to do in your email:
1. Indicate that you will not donate to the University or any of its affiliated programs like the Endowment fund (and then don’t!) until she publicly announces a plan to meet student demands around sexual assault prevention and response.
2. If you have children, tell the Chancellor you can’t in good conscience send them to KU until you know they’ll be safe. We welcome prospective students in your family to make their voices heard as well.
3. Share the September Siblings’ demands, which are as follows:
Immediate investigation by the Provost’s Office into the Office of Student Affairs and Office of Institutional Opportunity and Access.
Install a victim’s advocate within the University Judicial Process, utilizing GaDuGi.
Immediate budget increase to $35,000 for the Emily Taylor Center for Women & Gender Equity.
Mandatory sexual assault training for all KU students that is comparatively rigorous to AlcoholEdu.
The minimum punishment for sexual assault and harassment must exceed the punishment for plagiarism.
Revision of KU’s sexual assault and harassment adjudication and sanctioning policies, to be completed before 2015.
Performance of said revisions by a committee of at least 51% students, and final approval by the Student Senate.
Re-investigating cases of professors, admin and students still at KU who were accused of sexual assault and harassment.
Allow for filers from 2012-present to appeal IOA decisions to a new panel
Elimination of the term “non-consensual sex.” It is rape.
