Sauder School stepping in after student referendum rejection
Posted November 4, 2013 5:21 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – UBC’s Sauder School of Business is stepping in, after commerce students voted against funding a sex assault counsellor.
It’s the latest development in an ongoing controversy over a so-called rape chant during Frosh week.
Sauder School dean Robert Helsley says he’ll find the $200,000 still needed to fund the position, after students rejected a plan in a referendum.
And Helsley says it’s still not over for students, as far as he’s concerned.
“We’re looking for some leadership from them in articulating what they feel would be a more appropriate way for them to live up to their obligations.”
Helsley expects to hear back from the Commerce Undergraduate Society.
“I am hopeful they will be able to find a way to make the financial contribution to the position, because I know it was always their intention to do so.”
The counsellor position was proposed in response to news students had chanted about non-consensual sex with minors during orientation in September.