The Davis Enterprise
5.5.15 | Anne Ternus-Bellamy
Sexual assaults on college campuses have become a nationwide topic of discussion in recent years, with colleges facing accusations that they have not done enough to protect women or respond to rape allegations.
The White House formed a task force aimed at protecting women on college campuses and California passed the “Yes Means Yes” law, requiring colleges to strengthen their policies on sexual assault by mandating affirmative consent for sexual activity. Universities began implementing mandatory sexual assault prevention training for all incoming freshmen.
But locally, a consensus developed that young people needed to be reached well before they ever stepped foot on college campuses. They needed to learn the facts about what constitutes sexual assault — particularly the role of consent — as well as the role of bystanders. The question was how to reach them.
Into the void stepped Davis resident Dawn Yackzan.
Yackzan, who teaches in Vacaville, had seen and heard enough from teens in both Davis and Vacaville to believe something needed to be done — that young people were being harmed and the community needed to step up.
It did.
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