“GW’s Title IX office has constructed artificial barriers in processes for protection and justice which have harmed survivors,” Strongin wrote.Īccording to a Sept. The petition and protest advocate for change within the university’s Title IX office, which currently has no clear system for assisting survivors and often does not adequately penalize perpetrators of privileged backgrounds, according to Strongin. “We will hold our signs near the entrance of commencement in silence.” “GW SASA e-board members will be in attendance as trained confidential resources to provide support for survivors who may feel triggered during this work,” Strongin wrote in an email to The Hoya. Student activists want to bring awareness to the university’s unjust policies without disrupting the ceremony itself, according to Shira Strongin, GWU student and co-president of GWSASA. 2 protest will take place outside the commencement ceremony. “I don’t know how the barring process actually takes place because they don’t have it in formal writing anywhere,” Lee said. “That needs to stop effective immediately.”Īccording to Lee, when survivors attempt to work with the Title IX office or GWPD seeking protections from their perpetrators, their requests are often left unresolved due to inconsistent policy application regarding barring students from participating in activities like graduation. “I decided that we need to do something, and the thing that we need to do needs to be immediate because there’s people that are literally in classes right now with their rapists at GW,” Lee said in a phone interview with The Hoya.
However, Lee said the university closed her case because her assailant no longer attends GWU, motivating her to take action and revive the #GWProtectsRapists campaign. 25 to revive the #GWProtectsRapists campaign, attempted to request that the university bar her assailant from walking at graduation. Stephanie Lee, a senior at GWU, started an Instagram account Sept.
While the perpetrator was barred from residing in on-campus or university-owned housing, administrators permitted him to graduate as long as he did not commit additional offenses.
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Students first launched the #GWProtectsRapists campaign in 2017 after the university allowed an individual to walk at his graduation ceremony after sexually assaulting another student and violating the GWU Student Code of Conduct. “The process for initiating campus bans is unclear and the Title IX office has continually proven not only to be ineffective, but actually an obstructive force for accessing bans for many survivors.”
“Survivors have experienced stalling, innaction, and a blatant lack of communication, particularly when the perpetrator comes from a background of wealth and status,” the statement reads. GWSASA demands that the university establish a clear process for survivors to enact campus bans - which can range from preventing perpetrators from living in university-owned housing to barring them from on-campus classes - against their perpetrators after several occasions when survivors felt inadequately protected by the university, according to the GWSASA statement and petition released Sept. 2 after inaction and confusion from the university regarding providing protection for survivors. George Washington University | George Washington University students and survivors of sexual assault will protest outside of the university’s commencement ceremony Oct.
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