March 13, 2017 climate does not provide an adequate sense of safety for survivors of sexual ‘or an environment that encourages students to speak out about sexual rape. Recent examples include: "Routinely prefacing the word “rape” with the word “alleged”, as seen in email from Vice-Chancellor Tyler and University news articles. (invalidation.) © John Martellaro’s initial statement: “This is not necessarily a security issue because the victim went out willingly with the suspect. It was after socializing that she was taken advantage of, or raped, whatever you might call it.” (invalidating, victim blaming.) pparency issues: relative silence surrounding instances of sexual assault on Bean silence surrounding current status of administrative response to ‘representative John Martellaro's comments. While itis vital to protect the {their identity, It's equally vtal to have an open dialogue about sexual ion should be secure, bu ressed. about sexval violence: Media relations director's statement as UMKC official, failure from UMKC administration to send out ‘existing rules, policies, structures, codes, etc.) that some training and education gaps exist, in ‘be working to address those. We also wantto hear other ways we can improve.” ~Chancellor Leo Morton, email to student body. © How, ‘education gaps? How will we repair the social damage that has been done these past few ‘weeks, in light of the rape that occurred in Johnson? You said in your femal that we will do better; how, specifically, can we do better? What ideas do we have? What is our action plan? Can you provide students with current policy, conduct codes, any and all information regarding the University’s specific response tactics for sexual “Violence on campus, so that we may review them collectively, and aborate accordingly? oaches to problem (to include as many stakeholders as possible) specifically, will we be working to address said training and of findings (to ideally include those who are behind existing approaches)