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Bystander intervention can reduce sexual assault.

Women in Higher Education

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You can tell young women how to reduce their risk of being assaulted. And you can tell young men that real men don't rape. But student sexual assault persists on campus. What more can you do?

Bystander intervention training for both women and men brings changes in attitudes, behaviors and sexual assault levels on campus. Dr. John D. Foubert, associate professor of college student development at Oklahoma State University, described the program and its effects at the 2009 National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) meeting in Seattle in March.

Foubert got into sexual violence prevention 16 years ago, focusing on changing men's ...

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