Sexual Violence

“Inviting Snoop Dogg to campus implicitly endorses his music and delegitimizes many of the on-campus initiatives we have to combat sexual violence.”
—Anabel Bacon, CC ’14

“Why is it that we wait for an incident to occur before we decide that it is time to address it? Is Columbia going to wait for its own Yeardley Love tragedy before it addresses the issue of domestic violence and abuse on its campus?”
–Vaidehi Joshi, BC ’11, former opinion columnist

“Full investigations and trials infamously can take months … the result is an unfair choice between pursuing justice in a court of law and not having to confront one’s attacker in a 9 a.m. discussion section.”
—Aarti Iyer, CC ’11, opinion columnist

“Silence empowers abuse … In speaking up and taking action, we have changed the past for someone else whose 'present' might have been what my sister lived.”
–Anonymous, Sexual violence supplement

“If I had to give any advice to a victim of sexual assault, it would be to remember that life goes on and that there are 10 times as many aspects worth living for as there are seemingly worth dying over.”
–Christopher Crawford, Sexual violence supplement, CC ’13