Have you had enough?
Many students on campus face issues with sexual harassment on college campuses and schools need to do more to help reduce this major issue. Sexual harassment “consists of any unwanted verbal, nonverbal or physical attention, or contact that is sexual in nature”(1). Actions would consist of “comments about their physical appearance, sex-based jokes, gender-specific put-downs or other language meant to demean, intimidate or threaten”(1). " 62% of female and 61% of male students report having been victims of this form of mistreatment" Several students believe that whistling, making sexual comments, or gestures are harmless or claim to be “joking around”, but some individuals feel offended, mistreated, and unsafe on campus. They may even come to class less often due to seeing their harasser. To reduce the large numbers, schools, including San Jose State, should do hands on training instead of one sexual harassment online training that anyone could skip through ...