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Assoicated Students
for Women's Issues
P.O. Box 6003
Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6003
tel: 928-523-6946
fax: 928-523-6541
email: aswi.set@gmail.com
University Union
Room 202
Mon-Fri 9-5
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Student Education Team
"Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it."
- Gandhi
SET MISSION:
We play an active role on campus and in our community by striving to promote open communication and education on issues surrounding sexual assault, domestic violence, gender sterotyping, and self-image. We provide an open forum for communication so that, as students and community members, we can enlighten each other with our ideas, experiences, and insights. We believe awareness, understanding, and knowledge are the keys to maintaining healthy relationships with each other and with oneself.
The Student Education Team is the education arm of Associated Students for Women's Issues, whose mission
statement is "Education, Advocacy, and Outreach." SET is a peer education program with 15-30 student members.
Our gender related issues on campus through student educational interaction and passive programming. Every
member attends an intensive training program and presentation leaders complete additional training in program
content and delivery.
RAPE IS A NATIONAL CONCERN
Nationally 1 in 4 college aged women is a survivor of rape or attempted rape: over 80% knew their
attacker (Koss 1987). Women aged 16-24 run a greater risk of being raped than any other population
group (Koss 1988). While there are currently no definitive studies of college aged men as victims of
sexual assault, we realize that male survivors do exist, and do suffer this form of violence.
WHAT IS SEXUAL ASSAULT?
Sexual assault takes many forms. It includes not only intentionally or knowingly engaging in sexual
intercourse or oral sexual contact with another person without that person's consent, but also includes
non-consensual penetration of any part of another person's body by any part of the perpetrator's body
or with other >objects. Any form of nonconsensual touching may be punished as sexual assaulty, or other
crimes (NAU Safe Working & Learning Environment Policy, Appendix L, 1995-96 Student Handbook, Arizona
Criminal Code 13-1401).
WHAT IS WITHOUT CONSENT?
The lack of a person's consent can take many forms, including occasions when the victim is coerced by
immediate or threatened use of force against the victim or property, and when the victim is incapable
of consent because of mental disorder, drugs, alcohol, sleep, age or other similar impairment (NAU Safe
Working & Learning Environment Policy, Appendix L, 1995-96 Student Handbook, Arizona Criminal Code
13-1401).
To Become A Member
Applications for membership are available through informational and recruitment programs and through the
ASWI Office in Room 202 of the University Union, or contact by phone at 928-523-6946/928-523-6541.
Your SET Officials
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