COLLEGE RAISES AWARENESS
OF SEXUAL ASSAULTS
BY ELIZABETH KESSEL
Walking across campus at night can be
scary for many college students. Now, add
on the fact that someone may be following
or watching students at night. What should
a student do in that situation?
April is sexual assault awareness month
when people raise awareness about sexual
assault and how people can prevent it from
happening and what to do if it happens to
someone.
There is a law called Title IX at Clackamas
Community College.
It is a clear guideline on how to treat
people in educational programs.
This law states that no one should be
discriminated against for their gender,
sexual orientation and more.
This law is there to help students feel
safe at their school and be able to report
assaults to the Title IX coordinator and
receive help.
The Title IX coordinator at CCC is Patricia
Anderson Wieck, and is also the dean of
human resources.
“ So what we build, our Title IX program
here at this college, what we build it on is
respect and so we say respect everyone,
respect every person,” said Anderson
Wieck.
Students can also go even further and
help themselves by being aware of their
surroundings at all times, walk with other
students, especially if it is at night time,
carry pepper spray or a whistle, or even
call Campus Safety.
Campus Safety Interim Manager, Pete
Kandratieff, said, “ Yeah we recommend
to always use the buddy system and we
buttons. And I think especially too
provide walk out service.”
Kandratieff said that campus safety can
that those blue call buttons started
provide walk out service with a student to
before anyone had cellphones and
so now with the prevalence of cell
their car, wait with them at a bus stop and
phones there’s no need for them .”
even drive around the parking lot to help
Campus Safety can be reached at
students feel safer.
Some cam puses, like Portland State i 503-594-6650, but the best number
to call is 911, where campus safety
University, use em ergency posts that
scatter the cam pus, lit by a blue LED I will also be alerted to an emergency
on campus. If a student would like to
light, where a student can press a button
report something to Anderson Wieck,
and campus safety officers will pick up.
the number is 503-594-3300.
However, CCC has not yet adopted that
However, if a student does not want
system.
to report something but instead just
Lori Hall, the public information officer,
talk it out, soon there will be advocate
said, “What I can respond to that is recent
on campus. An advocate can give
surveys have shown that those are not as
privacy to the studentw here they
efficient and give people a false sense of
can’t report what they hear and it will
security at times. So a lot of universities
also give students a chance to talk.
are steering away from using the blue call
For survivors of sexual assault on
campus and anybody else, there is an
app that can help. Currently partnered
with 132 colleges and universities, this
app called Capptivation packages all
of your options and contacts into one.
“ We hope th a t by b rin g in g
awareness of the app to campus, that
we can help survivors and friends/
family members of survivors because
through the app, they will be able
to access crucial inform ation, in a
more easy and intuitive fashion,” said
Jack Zandi, who is responsible for the
app’ s data maintenance.
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that we can help survivors and
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to access crucial information, in a
more easy and intuitive fashion.”
-JackZandi
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App helps victims
‘CAPPTIVATION’ IS HERE FOR SURVIVORS AND
STUDENTS WHO WANT TO LEARN MORE ON HOW
TO HELP THEMSELVES
BY ELIZABETH KESSEL
Capptivation is here for you. This is rep ortin g o p tio n s, prevention/
a free app for any student who may education, school links, advocacy/
want more information concerning support, hotlines, portal, get involved
and locators.
sexual assault.
This app could potentially help many
W hen you download the app,
just type in the schools name, like students and their families while going
Clackamas Community College. Then, through a difficult time in their life.
it will take you to a personalized home Now with a touch of a button, there
page with different buttons at your is much more information available
then there has before.
touch.
The design of the app is simple
The team who built this app made it
for survivors of sexual assault and their and convenient, that it can connect
family and friends. However, this app to the college by giving information
can be used by anyone. It started with that may have been hidden or hard
four college students who were talking to find before.
Sexual assault is a very serious
about sexual assault and decided they
topic and widespread across college
wanted to help.
W ithin Capptivation, there are 11 campuses, it should have some light
options to choose from and even more shined on it. Capptivation is doing in
inform ation w ithin each option. A that the sense of helping survivors and
good place to start would be the Start getting information out to students.
• Take a look at Capptivation on your
Here button which tells you how to get
to a safe place, preserve the evidence, app store on any smartphone, it’s free
.and able to help students prevent an
talk to an advocate and more.
Other options the app provides assault, report an assault and help
are campus resources, medical care, cope after an assault.