Facilitating a Changing Conversation
There were 12 reports of forcible sex offenses, nine reports of domestic violence and three reports of dating violence and an additional three reports of stalking at UC Santa Cruz, according to the Clery Act Report from last year. In the past year, President Barack…
‘Yes Means Yes’ Changes Conversation About Sex
Gov. Jerry Brown signed the law on Sept. 28, making “yes” an important phrase at all colleges in the state. To receive state funding, colleges must implement policies that require sexual partners to seek explicit consent from each other — defined by the college as “affirmative, conscious and voluntary agreement to engage in sexual activity and in addition a lack of protest or resistance does not mean consent, nor does silence mean consent.”