Sexual Assault Prevention
The UPD provides presentations on sexual assault prevention and education for men and women. In each case the presentation can be formatted to address the specific issues that the group desires. Presentations may cover topics such as:
• The Buddy System
• No one gets left behind
• Date Rape drugs
• No means No
• Rape Aggression Defense Training (R.A.D.)
The UPD stresses consequences of rape for both the victim and the suspect during presentations to mixed groups. The presentations include information, such as:
• Rape is a crime of violence. No matter how badly you want to have sex, it is rape without your partner’s consent.
• The importance of building a relationship based on equality. Communicate expectations clearly. Both men and women should work together and respect each other’s right to initiate and set limits.
• The importance of rejecting stereotypes that teach men to regard women as sex objects or that masculinity is based on dominance and aggression.
• Rejecting stereotypes that portray women as passive and powerless to control their lives.
• Reasons to use alcohol responsibly. Remember that if you use alcohol or drugs, you are still responsible for your actions.
• Recognize and learn to deal with peer pressure. Often sexual activity is encouraged or expected by peers in order to gain acceptance to the group. Consider the consequences before you make such a serious decision.
• If you have sex with a person who is incapacitated or unable to resist or consent (due to alcohol, drugs, or unconsciousness) you are committing a sexual assault.
• Alcohol is a common factor in acquaintance rapes. This is true not only of the victim but often the offender. It is important to give special consideration to this issue.
• Alcohol intoxication is NOT an excuse for rape.
What to do if You Are Sexually Assaulted
• Get to a safe place.
• Call the UPD by dialing 9-1-1 on any campus telephone, or by calling from an on campus blue light telephone or kiosk, or by calling from an elevator telephone, or by dialing 408-924-2222 from a cellular telephone, or come to the UPD located at 377 S. 7th St. (in front of the 7th St. garage);
• Make every effort to preserve any physical evidence of the assault. This includes not showering, or disposing of any clothing, or other items that are present after or during the assault. UPD officers and specially trained members of the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center will assist in obtaining a medical examination by a qualified doctor.
The University Police Department will initiate a criminal investigation of the reported sexual assault and every effort will be made to criminally prosecute the perpetrator(s).
Disciplinary actions will be imposed on individual students, student organizations, and or university faculty and staff, found responsible for, or contributing to a sexual assault.
Per Government Code §6254 and Penal Code §293, a victim of a sexual assault has the right to keep his or her name from being disclosed to anyone other than the prosecutor, parole officers of the Department of Corrections, hearing officers of the parole authority, or other persons or public agencies where authorized or required by law.
After a reported sexual assault incident occurs, the university will make crisis counseling available and will assist the victim in changing academic and on-campus living situations if so requested, and if such changes are reasonably available.
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