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Students begin asking questions about sexual assault

By DeAnna Ryan
drr139@txstate.edu

SAN MARCOS, Texas –– Students from a college university conducted interviews on Monday, April 1, to see how big of a problem sexual assault is at universities. 

Media Writing students from Texas State University recorded interviews with students from Texas State and other universities to get their opinions on what they believe sexual assault is.

The students received many different definitions of sexual assault.

“When someone molests you in a sexual way." said Larissa Williams, a nursing major at Texas State.

This is a very common definition given when asked about sexual assault. Here are a few others.

"An individual of either sex, initiating a sexual act with another person who is uninterested,” said Omar Aguilar, a junior at Lamar University. “Especially when the person initiating the action has a personal advantage they use to try to coarse the individual they are trying to force the action on."

Patrick Doyle, who is a freshman at a junior college, described sexual assault as unwanted assertion of one’s bodice or words towards another.

It was discovered that some students couldn’t actually give a definition for sexual assault.

Emily Bogue, who is a senior at Texas State, gave this statement when asked to describe sexual assault. "Sexual assaults, to me, is a difficult thing to define, Because it takes it can take so many different forms, and it can look like so many different things, A it is either one or a series of unwanted sexual advances that are designed to that, or rather that function to empower and power and individual over and over another or others without their consent."

If you are unsure that you have been a victim of sexual assault or know anyone who has been, please contact your local university police department. To contact Texas State’s UPD, call 512-245-2890.

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