In 2014, President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden created a task force with the White House Council on Women and Girls with an aim to protect students across the nation from sexual assault.

In April 2014, a report was published stemming from a 90-day review by the task force, which identifies four areas that Universities across the United States should improve on:

1.) Identifying the Problem

2.) Preventing Sexual Assault and Engaging Men

3.) Effectively Responding When a Student Is Sexually Assaulted

4.) Increasing Transparency and Improving Enforcement

I am therefore proposing a joint CU Boulder task force made up of administrators, faculty, and interested students, with an aim to successfully implement these recommendations.

As students, we should be able to shape the discourse regarding sexual assault and violence on our campus, and should be able to help prevent it from happening.

We especially need this task force to implement these new recommendations due to the fact that CU is currently being investigated by the US Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights over its handling of a reported sexual assault, in which although the University acknowledged that the perpetrator was guilty of sexual assault, he was suspended eight months from school, fined $75 and forced to write a paper reflecting on the incident. He was never charged with a crime.

We can never let something like this happen to one of our students again. It is our responsibility, and the responsibility of our administration to make sure we feel safe on our campus.

Please sign this petition for a a more educated student population and most importantly, a safer campus for us all, and check out an article about the background of the petition, HERE.