To prevent campus rape, colleges change the rulebook from 'No means no' to 'Yes means yes' @phillydotcom | Affirmative Consent / Stopping Campus Sexual Assault.

Philly.com
9.5.16 | Emma Platoff and Jonathan Lai

The dorm room door hangers have three simple questions to help students understand consent: "Is the person sober? Is the person awake? Did the person say yes?"

Before 2011, the College of New Jersey didn't define sexual consent. This year, it reads: "informed, freely and actively given mutually understandable words or actions which indicate a willingness to participate in mutually agreed-upon sexual activity."

With a new definition and clearer policies, TCNJ has been better able to teach students how to communicate about sexual activity, administrators said.

Colleges and universities across the nation have similarly redefined consent, revised student policies, and tightened regulations in an effort to combat sexual misconduct on campus, including better response when cases are reported.

Many have adopted what is known as "affirmative consent," turning from the "no means no" message of years past to the new, stronger "yes means yes."

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