WEBVTT 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:10.000 CASA stands for Campus Against Sexual Assault. 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:16.000 It is a U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Violence Against Women Act grant. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:27.000 It aligns with the purpose that Western has to have a safe environment so students can fulfill their purpose of being here to get their education. 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:37.000 One of the requirements of the Campus Against Sexual Assault program is to have an education piece of it. 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:44.000 So we worked with the theatre department and had a wonderful instructor, Ted deChatelet. 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:53.000 He worked with his improvisational class to create scenes, vignettes that were specific to Western. 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:59.000 We developed eight different vignettes. The students created each of the scenes. 00:00:59.000 --> 00:00:65.000 The WOU support team are all the people on campus that are there to support students. 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:13.000 So the Dean of Students was there, the director of Public Safety who brought in the Monmouth police and the Polk County D.A. 00:01:13.000 --> 00:01:20.000 There is the director of the Student Health and Counseling Center and the director of Abby's House. 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.000 Vignette 1 is about stalking. 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:34.000 This scene takes place between a male student who ended a relationship with a girlfriend that he'd had of three years, 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:42.000 and she really struggles with how that ends and continues to stalk Luke. 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:43.000 Are you following me? 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:47.000 No I'm not following you. 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:52.000 Okay, well, I just posted on Facebook that I was going to be here studying. 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:55.000 I just came to the library. 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:60.000 Vignette 2 is about sexual assault. 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:08.000 Lana goes to an off-campus party. She wakes up the next morning naked, sleeping on the floor with a male friend. 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:11.000 She has no idea how she gets there. 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:13.000 Should we go to the police? 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:16.000 No, I just -- 00:02:16.000 --> 00:02:20.000 What am I going to tell them? I don't remember anything. 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:26.000 Vignette 3 is about after a party. 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:33.000 The vignette is composed of two 'he said, she said' scenes. 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:38.000 If you listen to the male version, it's quite different than the female's version, 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:46.000 and the young woman becomes quite upset when she finds out about what the male is saying about her. 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:50.000 Jake overhead the guys talking in the locker room, and Mike just... 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:54.000 well he made it sound a little different. 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:59.000 Different, like he'? 00:02:59.000 --> 00:02:62.000 He just made it seem like you wanted it. 00:03:03.000 --> 00:03:08.000 Vignette 4 is about intimate partner violence. 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:14.000 A young man and a young woman have been in a relationship for about six months. 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:21.000 When he shows up at her apartment five minutes late, she yells at him. They argue. 00:03:21.000 --> 00:03:25.000 She shoves him and slaps him inappropriately. 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:27.000 You don't say those things to me, John! 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:36.000 Vignette 5 takes place in a restaurant. 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:42.000 Three football plays arrive at the restaurant. They are traveling with the WOU football team. 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:50.000 One of the three is very loud and becomes obnoxious toward two of the female wait people. 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:52.000 Oh, one more thing. 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:55.000 We were wondering if there was anything to do around here. 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:59.000 We're kind of stuck here for the night and we could use a little entertainment. 00:04:00.000 --> 00:04:05.000 Vignette 6 is two students in a study abroad scene. 00:04:05.000 --> 00:04:09.000 The scene takes place in a coffee shop in Italy. 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:16.000 The female student is very upset and the male student is trying to help her understand what just happened. 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:26.000 The male American student tries to explain that American women are often seen in other countries as flirtatious and very loose 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:30.000 and that she was really lucky that nothing more serious happened. 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:32.000 You were getting to know him, probably? 00:04:34.000 --> 00:04:36.000 Small talk, yeah. 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:39.000 Like, telling him what you're studying and where you're going to school and stuff? 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:42.000 Yeah, it came up, but -- 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:43.000 Tell him you where live? 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:55.000 No, I didn't tell him what house I live at. I might have said maybe the street name or something, but not -- 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:59.000 And then after all this you told him you have a boyfriend? 00:04:59.000 --> 00:04:61.000 Yeah, because he was acting weird. 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:08.000 Vignette 7 is between two international students. 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:11.000 This scene takes place in a dorm room. 00:05:11.000 --> 00:05:19.000 A male American student invites a Korean female student to his room to watch a movie. 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:22.000 The female student arrives and they begin to talk, 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:32.000 and it's quickly clear to the female Korean student that she misunderstood what the meaning 'to watch a movie' is in the United States. 00:05:33.000 --> 00:05:35.000 What's wrong? 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:36.000 What are you doing? 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:38.000 I was trying to kiss you. 00:05:38.000 --> 00:05:41.000 I know, but you told me we would watch a movie. 00:05:41.000 --> 00:05:46.000 Listen, Seung Yeon. I like you. A lot. 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:49.000 And I thought maybe you liked me too. 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:56.000 Vignette 8 is an LBGTQ conversation. 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:65.000 Kayla, who's an open lesbian, has been harassed for several weeks by a male on campus who wants to 'make her straight. 00:06:05.000 --> 00:06:09.000 She goes to Abby's House to try to get some help. 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:16.000 The Abby's House advocate provides a very good listening ear, helps Kayla determine a plan to be safe. 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:28.000 The final interview scene with Kayla shows that she is raped by the male while on campus and she is now trying to work through the system to have him arrested. 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:29.000 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:34.000 And it just sort of hit me that that had happened. 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:41.000 And it just all seemed very not real. 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:50.000 So I left, because I knew I wanted to report it. 00:06:50.000 --> 00:06:56.000 The eight vignettes are not meant to re-traumatize anyone or be unpleasant. 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:60.000 They are meant to increase awareness and understanding of a very serious topic 00:07:00.000 --> 00:07:09.000 that each of us would like to believe don't exist in this world, but they do and we can be impacted in a variety of ways. 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:18.000 The goal of the CASA Sexual Misconduct Education Program is to increase awareness and understanding of the sexual assault issues 00:07:18.000 --> 00:07:27.000 and provide resources and support for faculty, staff, and students here at Western Oregon University.