Student leaders say excitement is high as Ontario universities prepare to host the first frosh weeks, largely in-person and absent of public health restrictions, since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
“I think people are just very eager to have this opportunity again,” said Omar Gharbiyeh, president of University of Toronto Students’ Union, which hosts campus-wide orientation events. But a year after Western University’s frosh week ended with a mass walkout in the wake of multiple sexual assault allegations and claims of toxic campus culture, student leaders say additional supports and training are a key part of their orientation plans.
Western University, meanwhile, committed to a full re-evaluation of its orientation week after releasing two reviews into the school’s culture in May. A 2018 survey of more than 160,000 Ontario post-secondary students found nearly one-in-four reported they had been sexually assaulted since the start of the academic year.
“We’re trying to educate our 101-ers on what consent culture looks like and how to not facilitate an environment that is conducive to rape culture,” he said.
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