Western University’s dangerous Orientation Week: School on defensive as students allege sexual assaults, druggings

A student who alleges she was sexually assaulted – her account corroborated by a witness who freed her – and other students who say they witnessed girls drugged on campus have provided harrowing accounts of a terrifying Orientation Week at Western University.

“There were a lot of times where it was just us, student volunteers who are not very old and didn’t have proper training, dealing with super dangerous situations,” said Teigan Elliott, a soph at Western’s King’s University College. The survivor and her roommate left an OWeek event to go to the dorm room of two male students. The two women had been drinking that night.The survivor sat on one of the dorm beds and said she was stunned when the assailant suddenly forced himself on top of her, pushing his hand into her face.Article content“I couldn’t move, his hand was covering my face really hard,” said the survivor. “It felt like I was punched in the nose.

She said her attacker then pressed his arm into her chest, preventing her from breathing, and started touching her. That’s when she began to yell, “I don’t want to!”Article content According to the Canadian Woman’s Foundation, only five per cent of sexual assaults were reported to police in 2014.They describe the night of Friday Sept. 10 at Medway-Sydenham Hall, known as Med-Syd, as a scene of chaos, with ambulances, fire trucks and students being taken to hospital on stretchers.

“Her stomach was over the curb and her arms were out and it looked like she was sleeping,” she said. “A couple of her girlfriends were surrounding her and then an ambulance came.” Before Newell got to Med-Syd, she ran into a student she knew, who was visibly distraught. The student told Newell she saw girls falling on the ground and described an atmosphere of panic within the residence.Later that night, Newell helped another first-year student outside another residence, Delaware Hall. She said the student appeared to have lost control of her body.Article content

Newell was physically assaulted by a male first-year student outside of Med-Syd that night, she said.Article content Much of her soph training aimed to protect Western’s reputation, rather than help students, she said. According to Elliott, OWeek events about consent and assault were optional for first-year students, and few students attended.

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Sounds alot like the Jian Ghomeshi bs at CBC.

I want to believe this story but without formal accusations with the police it's just as story as far as I'm concerned.

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