Student Union Senate approved all proposed changes to Washington University’s student judicial code at its weekly meeting Wednesday. These include a change to how the University can handle cases of sexual harassment and assault that Director of Judicial Programs Tamara King says is regressive.

Jeremiah McMillon, the man accused of robbing two Washington University students last fall, will be put on trial in February 2012. KSDK reported Tuesday that McMillon is being charged with 10 felonies, including forcible rape, attempted rape and kidnapping. He is also a potential suspect for a separate sexual assault, among other crimes.

Today’s edition of Student Life tells the story of a student who was raped and how she has grappled with the realization of her attack. This is just one of many rapes that goes unreported, and even unrecognized, on this campus.

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.

The administrator tasked with issues of sexual assault prevention and education on campus is planning a sexual assault response team and a bystander intervention program.

To the editor: Like all students, I received a crime alert from the University on Monday morning regarding an off-campus sexual assault. I found the message concerning for a number of reasons. First of all, the crime alert could have re-victimized the student in a number of ways.

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.

The St. Louis County prosecutor has declined to press charges this month in the case of a Washington University student who reported being sexually assaulted last semester.

A female student reported this week being sexually assaulted by an acquaintance, according to the Washington University Police Department. The alleged assault took place on Sept. 29 and was reported to the police on Tuesday.

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.