From the NY Times: Learn about "Bystander Intervention"--Stepping up to Stop Sexual Assault
(The February 10 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/education/edlife/stepping-up-to-stop-sexual-assault.html?ref=edlife&_r=0
BYSTANDER INTERVENTION is so easy to grasp, even by the most
inexperienced college freshman, that the program may well be the best
hope for reducing sexual assaults on campuses. Mostly it is common sense:
If a drunk young man at a party is pawing a drunk young woman, then
someone nearby (the bystander) needs to step in (intervene) and get one of
them out of there. Of course, that can be tricky at times.
Jane Stapleton, a University of New Hampshire researcher who runs
bystander intervention programs at colleges around the country and in
Europe, tells students they’ll need to be creative about outmaneuvering
aggressors. Among the diversions she discusses: suddenly turning on the
lights at a party or turning off the music; accidentally spilling a drink on
the guy; forming a conga line and pulling him away from the woman he’s
bothering and onto the dance floor. One of her favorites came from a
young woman who approached her drunken girlfriend and said, loudly,
“Here’s the tampon you asked for.”
(Click on the link to read more)
(The February 10 Compassionate Living Tip from Interfaith Paths to Peace)
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/education/edlife/stepping-up-to-stop-sexual-assault.html?ref=edlife&_r=0
BYSTANDER INTERVENTION is so easy to grasp, even by the most
inexperienced college freshman, that the program may well be the best
hope for reducing sexual assaults on campuses. Mostly it is common sense:
If a drunk young man at a party is pawing a drunk young woman, then
someone nearby (the bystander) needs to step in (intervene) and get one of
them out of there. Of course, that can be tricky at times.
Jane Stapleton, a University of New Hampshire researcher who runs
bystander intervention programs at colleges around the country and in
Europe, tells students they’ll need to be creative about outmaneuvering
aggressors. Among the diversions she discusses: suddenly turning on the
lights at a party or turning off the music; accidentally spilling a drink on
the guy; forming a conga line and pulling him away from the woman he’s
bothering and onto the dance floor. One of her favorites came from a
young woman who approached her drunken girlfriend and said, loudly,
“Here’s the tampon you asked for.”
(Click on the link to read more)
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