Aspire to Be W ell for Graduate Students

1. Aspire to Be Well for Graduate Students Sexual Violence Prevention

2. Sexual Violence Prevention • During your office hours, one of your undergraduate students comes by to talk with you.  She is very upset and ends up telling you about an incident that happened last weekend. She was hanging out with a guy she’d met a time or two before. They were having a great time, and he kept bringing her drinks. Before she realized it, she was really drunk.  She started feeling sick, and he said he would take her home.  She agreed, and she remembers getting into his car.  She doesn’t remember much after that but woke up the next morning and believes he had sex with her. 

3. Sexual Violence Prevention • What do you do after she shares this with you? • Do you feel obligated to take action after she shares this with you? • What does it take to give consent to sexual activity? Are there any instances where consent can be assumed? • Do you think that when a person allows touching to get to a certain point he/she is implicitly agreeing to have sex? • Do you think rapists are more likely to target a stranger than someone they know? • Do you think that having sex with someone who is too intoxicated to know what they are doing is rape? • What if this was a male student?

4. Stalking • Your student tells you that he thinks he’s being stalked.  There’s a girl in his class that has added him on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.  She shows up at his dorm room to “hang out” and waits for him outside the gym, class, and dining hall.  He does not want to hang out with her and has told her to leave him alone, but she continues to show up unexpectedly.  He has come to you for advice on how to handle this situation.  How would you help him?  What resources would you tell him about?

5. Stalking • What are the problem behaviors in this scenario? Is this considered stalking? • How would you respond to your student? What actions do you take?