To the editor: Visitor contributor Sarah Lyon is correct that banning fraternity events is not going to, by itself, train college students the best way to behave in another way (“Banning Cornell’s frat parties isn’t a real solution to campus sexual assaults,” Oct. 19). Her name for training about sexual citizenship raises one other query: What ought to we train college students to do once they witness another person in danger?
For years, working with educators and curricular students, I’ve explored that query via a educating instrument I developed known as the 4 “Bs”: bully, bullied, bystander and courageous upstander.
The essential motion is from the third “B” to the fourth.
Training about consent is crucial. However we should additionally educate witnesses: the roommate who sees somebody too intoxicated to present consent, the pal who hears degrading speak, the scholar who sees somebody being endangered.
Universities ought to train college students not solely the best way to keep away from inflicting hurt, however the best way to acknowledge the second when another person wants them to behave.
Linda Stein, New York Metropolis
