#MeTooOnCampus Summary

A month by month summary of what's been happening in the campaign

 

February 2020:

• Sexual Assault Awareness week happened: Team Leicester talks, campaign recruitment stalls in preparation for the new academic year and continuing the campaign
• Erase the Grey was put up around campus as per the August demands from the Me Too campaigners

January 2020:

• Negotiating with University Senior Leadership team for more wins - third set of demands were made by campaigners to improve student support and education
• These include: Revision of misconduct policy processes; permanent implementation of me too in education; a public apology to all of those the university didn’t help in the past centenary

November/December 2019:

• Activism started with a silent protest during the inaugeration of the University's new Vice Chancellor
• The start of talks with Team Leicester. Sport teams took in turns to attend talks with the aim to educate those in sport from preventing misconduct and how you can support victims of assualt.
• New wave of #MeTooOnCampus started in time for the new decade

 

October 2019:

• A new set up of the campaign group to manage how big the campaign is getting
• A more public front with big presence on the website and social media platforms
• A committee of campaigners with various roles to even the workload and have more impact

 

September 2019:

• Launch of including anti-sexual assault and activism in education campaigning - the University agreed to put up "No means No" and "Silence is not Consent" stickers all over University of Leicester property
• The start of offering seminars to universities worldwide to show their students how they can achieve activism on their campus too – a unified movement
• Start of designing training sessions that will go initially to sport teams but eventually to all subjects
• Launch of disclosure training to be given to Union and O2 staff on how to effectively deal with a disclosure such as someone saying they had been sexually assaulted
• Discussions with academics with research in the field and how it can be incorporated into some curriculums or through activity on campus to reduce the taboos surrounding the topic and get more people talking
• Campaigning to have more resources such as media training for those who feel no choice but to speak out about their experiences to be heard, or ways to keep themselves safe if they want to take it to social media

August 2019:

• New meeting, new members, new demands
• More presence at Wellbeing meetings with new proposals of funding
• Demands now included:
  • A more public display of support – visible posters regarding consent on campus
  • For MeTooOnCampus to appear on sport kits
  • Awareness of the increased assault during certain celebratory periods and an action plan in place
  • On the day support available for survivors in counselling
  • Change in the appeals process for those who report through the University system, that those who report have a right to appeal
  • Have our own version of Erase the Grey on campus during an anti-sexual violence awareness week

 

July 2019:

• This month we took our campaign to the news – this in turn created more awareness for the cause we are campaigning for, gave good publicity for the group and caught the University's attention
• Campaigners featured and shared their stories in newspapers, radio shows, tv news, etc. Visit our media page for more information.

 

April 2019:

• Start of the campaign planning: initial meeting, Karli and Amy’s discussion and advertising in Student Union voice
• Twitter revelation
• The planning meetings of what demands people wanted, the best way to go about them and then the potential protest plans if demands weren’t met
• Our practise meetings – preparing what we wanted to say before our meetings with The Vice Chancellor and Head of Wellbeing, as well as, with the CEO of On campus nightlife
• Meeting with VC and HoW:
  • Asked for a specific specialised trauma specialist counsellor
  • To lift the 6 session cap on counselling
• Meeting with LSP:
  • Improve the banning procedure of the O2
  • Implement Good Night Out training