{"id":21347,"date":"2020-11-12T08:57:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T13:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=21347"},"modified":"2020-11-17T11:01:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T16:01:09","slug":"students-union-condemns-mount-allisons-institutional-failure-on-sexual-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/students-union-condemns-mount-allisons-institutional-failure-on-sexual-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"Students&#8217; union condemns Mount Allison\u2019s \u201cinstitutional failure\u201d on sexual assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mount Allison Students\u2019 Union (MASU) has issued a statement condemning what it calls Mount Allison\u2019s \u201cinstitutional failure to protect survivors of sexual harassment and assault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MASUOfficial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u00a0issued on social media\u00a0<\/a>on November 10th, calls the situation an \u201cunspoken status quo, widely known to students and alumni,\u201d which, \u201chas gone unaddressed for years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MASU says that while survivor supports do exist on campus, they are \u201cthoroughly underfunded and mismanaged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They say, \u201cstudents have not been adequately consulted in the creation of policy, prevention or response to sexual assault at Mount Allison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Echoing the many comments and posts on social media recently in response to an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CHTJoCrDDNy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">initial post by graduating student Michelle Roy<\/a>, MASU says,<br \/>\n\u201cthose who have sought help have had their experiences invalidated, or have been altogether gaslit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MASU statement says that \u201cstudents have witnessed assaulters shuffled between residences to create distance from victims, rather than be sanctioned, charged or expelled.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It also says that Mount Allison\u2019s SHARE program \u2014 the Sexual\u00a0Harassment and Assault Response and Education Service \u2014 is \u201cunderfunded and underequipped to act as the first and main resource for students (on campus or off).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MASU is demanding that the university consult with an independent third party to develop their action plan.<\/p>\n<p>The union says it will consult students to determine further demands.<\/p>\n<p>A solidarity rally being held today at 11am will be live streamed by MASU.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note that the South East Sexual Assault Crisis Centre has a 24\/7 crisis phone line available at 1-844-853-0811.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mount Allison Students\u2019 Union (MASU) has issued a statement condemning what it calls Mount Allison\u2019s \u201cinstitutional failure to protect survivors of sexual harassment and assault.\u201d The statement,\u00a0issued on social media\u00a0on November 10th, calls the situation an \u201cunspoken status quo, widely known to students and alumni,\u201d which, \u201chas gone unaddressed for years.\u201d MASU says that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":21350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,221,223],"tags":[1756,822,563,1413,3138,3207],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21347"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=21347"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=21347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}