Sexual Violence On Our Campuses and How We Can Help Our Members
**Trigger warning - what follows below are my reflections on the topic of sexual violence in post-secondary** This week I attended the CUPE National Sector Council Conference - a meeting of CUPE locals from across the country, to spend 3 days in dedicated meetings from the sectors we work in. For me, I spent most of my time in the post-secondary sector. A large part of our agenda was set aside to start the serious conversation about sexual violence on our campuses. It brought back a lot of memories and the discussion over the past few days still has me processing. I have a long history at UBC. I started at UBC as a student in the fall of 1999. I remember when going through student orientations the many warnings I heard everywhere I went on how dangerous the campus was - at night, in the bars (watch your drinks carefully) and in the residences. We were all given rape whistles and the numbers to Safewalk, the AMS service to have someone walk you to your car (I was a commuter studen