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SEXUAL MISCONDUCT AWARENESS:
What You Should Know & What You Can Do
as New International Students
2016 International Orientation for Undergraduate Students
FACILITATORS
Pradeep Moon Gunasekaran
India
Graduate Student
Kai Mishuris
Israel
Graduate Student
Gizem Yagci
Turkey
Undergraduate Student
FOR YOUR INFORMATION...
TRIGGER WARNING: This presentation contains some information or
examples about sexual assault and/or violence which may be difficult to hear
especially if this has ever happened to you. If you need to talk to someone,
feel free to utilize SAPAC.
Office Hours: Monday - Friday
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.
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AGENDA
▪ Cross Cultural Differences and Diverse
Transitions
▪ Differences in the Context of Sexual
Assault
From High School to College...
High School
The schedule (class bells!) and
others in charge (parents,
guardians, teachers) manage
and control your time
Teachers, classes and counselors
are assigned
Free / Required education in most
places
College
Self-Advocacy (watch out for and
be on top of stuff yourself)
Accountable to yourself
Freedom to choose your own
activities
Cost / Optional Education
From Home to Dorm/Apartment/House...
Living at home
Saves a lot of money
Easier to focus
Emotional attachment to home
Living on your own
(dorm/apartment/house...)
Freedom
Experience
Little change to step outside of
your comfort zone
Survival
Can be overwhelming
Socializing
Taste of adult life
Party Culture in the United States
Hookup culture: A culture that accepts and encourages casual sexual encounters
College Binge Drinking: drinking to the point of intoxication, a legal threshold set
at a 0.08 blood alcohol level.
Recreational Drugs: Recreational drugs are chemical substances taken for
enjoyment, or leisure purposes, rather than for medical reasons.
Greek Life: Social organizations for mostly undergraduate students. Typically,
Greek letter organizations are gender-based initiatory organizations. Fraternity
refers to a male membership, whereas sorority refers to a female membership.
Peer Pressure & International Students
Peer Pressure: positive and/or negative influence from members of one's peer group.
There are two types of peer pressure: Spoken (direct) and Unspoken (indirect)
Why can it be difficult to resist peer pressure?
● are afraid of being rejected by friends
● want to be accepted and don't want to lose a friend
● don't want to be teased
● unfamiliar with new culture
● don't know how to get out of the particular situation.
“To many international students, the maintenance of traditional values could serve as an
important role in protecting their self-esteem and sense of worth.” (Spaulding & Flack, 1976)
How to Combat Peer Pressure
1. Think about your values and trust yourself. If you need to compromise
your values to be friends with someone, you do not need someone like
that in your life.
a. Know before hand what you do and don’t want to do.
2. Stop things when you start to feel uncomfortable. Never push someone
else to do anything they don’t feel comfortable with.
3. Clearly state your feelings.
4. Point out the consequences.
5. Suggest something else to do.
CASE SCENARIO
It is the weekend before the Fall Semester officially starts, and you are at a
fraternity party. You notice that your friend A is very intoxicated and you think they
might need some medical help. When you bring it up to your group of friends, they
say to leave A alone because you don’t want to cause any trouble in a fraternity
house. Your friends tell you to forget about the drunk friend A and just have fun
during the night. You notice an unknown student B approaching your friend A, and
taking A upstairs. A seems very enthusiastic about going up with B. You don’t know
what B’s intentions are.
1. What does peer pressure look like in this situation?
2. Why could it be difficult for you to resist peer pressure?
3. How would you combat peer pressure in this situation?
Sexual Assault
VOCABULARY
▪ Survivor/Victim – The individual who was sexually
assaulted.
▪ Perpetrator – The individual who commits misconduct.
▪ Ally – The individual who consciously strives towards
promoting justice and disrupting and ending misconduct.
Sexual Assault
“Any form of unwanted sexual contact
obtained without consent and/or obtained
through the use of force, threat of force,
intimidation, or coercion.” - SAPAC
Consent: Whose Responsibility?
The duty for establishing consent falls on the initiator of sexual contact.
A: Get consent
B: Establish that consent isn’t distorted.
C: Remain alert to changes.
Consent can be withdrawn at any time.
Requirements for Consent
▪ Explicit Agreement
▪ Without force/threat/intimidation/coercion
▪ With Feeling
▪ With Awareness
▪ Confirmed by the Initiator
▪ Not Subsequently Withdrawn
▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGoWLWS4-kU
Alcohol and Consent
Alcohol is the substance used most frequently used to facilitate sexual assault.(Campus Sexual
Assault Study, National Institute of Justice, 2007)
▪
Alcohol use may raise certain expectations about gender under the influence of alcohol.
Men/masculine individuals may feel as though they are expected to be sexually/physically
aggressive, and may also accept beliefs about the sexual availability of women/feminine
individuals who drink.
▪
Intoxication may make someone physically and/or mentally less able to resist an assault. It
is important to remember that an inability or unwillingness to resist does NOT make an
assault the survivor’s fault.
▪
Alcohol is often used by perpetrators as an excuse for their actions, and as an attempt to
shift responsibility for the assault away from themselves and onto the survivor.
So what if someone has been drinking?
A good guideline to follow in all sexual
situations, especially those that involve
alcohol, is that the person who increases
the level/intensity of the sexual activity is
responsible for making sure that all
parties are capable of giving consent, and
that consent is being given.
Sexual Assault on Campus:
Myth and Reality
The Myth
The Reality
▪ Unpredictable and rare
▪ Frequent and patterned
▪ By strangers
▪ By acquaintances
▪ In lonely dangerous places
▪ In the victim’s living
quarters
▪ By force
▪ By incapacitation (esp.
intoxication)
Ending Sexual Misconduct on Campus
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