Three sets of bathrooms in the Student Union received some additional hardware in June.
Placed among pamphlets regarding sexual harassment and relationship violence, Safe Space Reporting boxes allow survivors of sexual offenses to report incidents in a private, anonymous manner.
The boxes were the idea of senior Annie Clark, who thought there should be a method to report sexual offenses without having a face-to-face conversation with police, Campus Health or the Office of the Dean of Students.
“In addition to the preventative measures we take on campus, I thought we needed a place for survivors to report privately,” Clark said in an e-mail.
The boxes were installed in three Student Union bathrooms — one near Alpine Bagel Cafe on the first floor, one neighboring the fish tank on the second floor, and another in the annex on the second floor.
They are located in both the women’s and men’s bathrooms, and the pamphlets are in both English and Spanish.
The boxes present survivors with two discrete reporting options.
Through the blind reporting option, the Office of the Dean of Students receives the student’s full PID and information on the report.
Students may also list only the last four digits of the PID to report anonymously.