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Wake Forest University students hold protest demanding safety for sexual assault survivors

Wake Forest University students hold protest demanding safety for sexual assault survivors
FIRED THEIR WEAPONS. STUDENTS AT WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY MARCHED ON CAMPUSN I A PROTEST THIS AFTERNOON. >> NO MEANS NO. NO MEANS NO. LEE ANNE: THEY ARE ACCUSING THE UNIVERSITY OF ALLOWING SEXUAL OFFENDERS TO RETURN TO CAMPUS. THE PETITION BECAUSE ON THE UNIVERSITY TO PUT MORE OF A PRIORITY ON THE SAFETY OF ASSAULT DRIVERS. WAKE FOREST SAYST I TAKES CONCERNS ABOUT STUDENT CONDUCT SERIOUSLY AND SAID "THE UNIVERSITY’STS UDENT CONDUCT PROCESSES TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION THE SAFETY OFUR O COMMUNITY WHILE PROVIDING A FAIR PROCESS FOR ALL STUDENTS INVOLVED
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Wake Forest University students hold protest demanding safety for sexual assault survivors
A protest occurred today on Wake Forest University's campus regarding the readmittance of alleged serial sexual predators with multiple Title IX offenses.When contacted about the allegations and Saturday’s protest, a representative from WFU had this to say: “The University is aware of concerns expressed by students and a protest related to those concerns. Wake Forest is working with students and others to provide care for those most affected and support for our community.Wake Forest takes all concerns about student conduct seriously. Federal law prevents us from discussing information about an individual student. The University's student conduct processes take into consideration the safety of our community, while providing a fair process for all students who are involved.”A letter that was included in an online petition calling for sexual assault survivors' safety to be more of a priority to the WFU administrators of Title IX, Residence Life and Housing, Dean of Students, and the office of the Vice President, offered this statement from concerned students: “Wake Forest University has recently allowed many abusers and sexual offenders to return to campus, taking the safety that the survivors once had away. Due to this safety being stolen from the survivors, many had no other choice but to step away from their education for their own emotional, mental, and physical well-being. The administration is enabling the behavior of known assaulters. Due to Wake Forest’s recent actions numerous students safety has been endangered again. The recent readmission of known abusers, Wake Forest University is putting survivors in a position of neglect, disrespect, and re-traumatization. Prioritizing these abusers jeopardizes an individual’s livelihood, access to education, and ability to exist on campus.Each day known assaulters are permitted on campus provides another opportunity for future sexual violence to occur. By enabling these individuals to return, the university is complicit in these traumatic acts. When an act of violence like this occurs, these survivor’s lives are forever changed. Never will they feel comfortable walking alone, night or day, never will they have the same access to safe spaces, and a part of their identity is lost forever.”

A protest occurred today on Wake Forest University's campus regarding the readmittance of alleged serial sexual predators with multiple Title IX offenses.

When contacted about the allegations and Saturday’s protest, a representative from WFU had this to say:

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“The University is aware of concerns expressed by students and a protest related to those concerns. Wake Forest is working with students and others to provide care for those most affected and support for our community.

Wake Forest takes all concerns about student conduct seriously. Federal law prevents us from discussing information about an individual student. The University's student conduct processes take into consideration the safety of our community, while providing a fair process for all students who are involved.”

A letter that was included in an online petition calling for sexual assault survivors' safety to be more of a priority to the WFU administrators of Title IX, Residence Life and Housing, Dean of Students, and the office of the Vice President, offered this statement from concerned students:

“Wake Forest University has recently allowed many abusers and sexual offenders to return to campus, taking the safety that the survivors once had away. Due to this safety being stolen from the survivors, many had no other choice but to step away from their education for their own emotional, mental, and physical well-being.

The administration is enabling the behavior of known assaulters. Due to Wake Forest’s recent actions numerous students safety has been endangered again. The recent readmission of known abusers, Wake Forest University is putting survivors in a position of neglect, disrespect, and re-traumatization. Prioritizing these abusers jeopardizes an individual’s livelihood, access to education, and ability to exist on campus.

Each day known assaulters are permitted on campus provides another opportunity for future sexual violence to occur. By enabling these individuals to return, the university is complicit in these traumatic acts. When an act of violence like this occurs, these survivor’s lives are forever changed. Never will they feel comfortable walking alone, night or day, never will they have the same access to safe spaces, and a part of their identity is lost forever.”