Times Herald Record
7.7.15 | James Nani

NEW PALTZ - About 100 newly-minted SUNY New Paltz undergraduate students chatted in a lecture hall Tuesday afternoon for orientation, casually tuning into a talk by administrators about grades, credits and dormitories after getting the full college tour.

But amid the discussion of what you may expect a college student to learn about came warnings by Tanhena Pacheco Dunn, executive director for compliance and campus climate at SUNY New Paltz. Taking the podium, she told students about "affirmative consent," a new law signed Tuesday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo that expands sexual assault policy to every college in New York.

"Sexual violence and rape is a reality," Dunn said.

While SUNY schools had already begun to implement the "yes means yes" rule and a range of other standards to help combat sexual violence on campus, private colleges will now have 90 days to adhere to the new definition as well as a bevy of other standards.

Colleges will now all have a uniform definition of affirmative consent, meaning "a knowing, voluntary, and mutual decision among all participants to engage in sexual activity," according to the new law.

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