Question of the Week: “What do you think of President Obama’s initiative on sexual assaults on college campuses and how important is it locally?”
“I do think that this federal initiative is extremely important, given the recent news and the sort of anecdotes that have been reported in campus newspapers, but I also think that things need to come from the bottom up. More conversations need to come from the students and more people need to be able to feel they can have candid conversations about this topic. The federal initiative helps by putting the issue more on the radar, but students should not be afraid to step forward and tell their stories.”
—Mengyi XU, Chicago, PU Class of 2014



“I don’t know that much about the sexual assault initiative that Obama is taking. But it’s something that is not always easily talked about by people. I just read that almost 60 percent of sexual assaults go unreported. I think it’s important to provide an environment where people are comfortable confronting this type of problem.”
—Henry Whitaker, Annapolis, Md., PU Class of 2017