Dear Editor — My life outside of school is spent organizing with women and queer people. This shapes my curiosities about student life as I begin my first semester at Laney College — What informs conversations and awareness around sexual assault on campus? 
In June, three women — Sofie Karasek, Aryle Butler and Nicoletta Commins- filed a lawsuit against UC Berkeley for failing to educate students on sexual assault and gender-discrimination. All this in the wake of several high-profile stories, including assault-claims by the aforementioned women, exposing UC Berkeley’s Frat-culture and it’s connoisseurs for what they are — a refuge for the consensually impaired, ethically vacant and generally misogynist young men who’d rather not ask how you feel about sexual advances before application. 
It’s seems many school administrations’ policies on sexual assault are shaped by fear of being sued or are outright products of lawsuits. Students, however, are much less likely to have ethics shaped by legality and policy. On the contrary, I believe it is the students themselves who come to school knowing how frequently assaults and discriminations happen with or without the approval of the institution they work at or attend. 
With all this in mind, my curiosities remain and may be simplified into questions such as: When do the feminist student groups meet? Where are the anti-rape flyers? At Laney, outside of a designated office for complaints, where can one engage on the topic of rape-culture?
Jami Williams
Undeclared
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