Last week, Student Life published an article telling the story of a rape survivor, fictionally named “Rachel” to protect her identity. For those unfamiliar with the article, a brief summary will hopefully suffice: As a sophomore, Rachel woke up naked after a night out at Morgan Street in the bed of a senior whose advances she had rejected the previous weekend and felt pain in her vaginal region. She had blacked out and could not remember what had happened the night before.

A bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would restrict federal funding for abortions has sparked controversy among abortion-rights supporters because of a provision that they claim would redefine rape more strictly.

This fall, the Office of Community Health and Sexual Assault Services made plans to implement a program called the Green Dot strategy. The initiative is a comprehensive approach to the prevention of sexual violence—one that capitalizes on the power of cultural influence, harnessing the potential of individual choices to shift the social norms that lead to the prevalence of sexual assault. We hope that this program is the first of many.

Early Monday morning, one of our fellow students was raped on her way home from campus. A crime of this severity does not occur often within our seemingly secure Wash. U. bubble, making the University’s response all the more important. However, Washington University delivered a seemingly rushed message that failed in its responsibilities.

A female undergraduate was raped early Monday morning while walking from the Danforth Campus to the DeMun neighborhood. According to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, the victim was walking south on Skinker Boulevard near Northwood Avenue around 12:30 a.m. on Monday when an unknown suspect overtook her from behind.

Following the rape and robbery of a female undergraduate leaving campus, the University has expanded its door-to-door shuttle service for students living in off-campus housing.

Although the decision to expand Campus2Home was made at the same time that the University chose to send out a campus-wide alert, that e-mail did not include a reference to the expanded service.

A female undergraduate was raped and robbed by an unknown suspect on Monday morning around 12:30 a.m., according to the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department.

More than two years after the hiring process formally began—and almost two decades after the first conversations about the position—Washington University has finally filled a position that will coordinate sexual assault prevention and education efforts on campus. The news that Kim Webb will lead a new Office of Community Health and Sexual Assault Services next year is long overdue.

As detailed in an Oct. 30 article in Student Life, the hiring process for a coordinator of the University’s sexual assault prevention services—an official who would take our campus’s programming around rape prevention to the next level and ensure that there is a comprehensive dialogue—has been stalled yet again.

Members of the Advisory Committee on Sexual Violence and Prevention (ACSVP) are moving forward with plans to hire an assistant director of sexual assault prevention and education. Over the summer, the committee chose three preliminary candidates to interview for the position.