Continued Calls for a Safer Campus as AUT Begins Implementing Review Recommendations
By Justin Hu (he/him) CW: Sexual misconduct
Politics student Hannah Falconer says that students need facilitated safe spaces on campus and more support services.
A second-year student is calling for student action against sexual assault and for improvements to make campuses safer for students. The call for action comes as AUT begins implementing recommendations of an external review into its handling of harassment on campus, including an interim code of conduct for postgraduate students.
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“Having the support system is creating safe spaces in uni for people who need to maybe escape from people they don't want to see. “As an example, what happens if you get into a relationship with someone in your class, they turn out to be abusive and you're stuck with them. What do you do then?”
