As a student advocate, part of your job is to monitor and assess the administrative response to the victims.

ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS:

· Are school policies re-injuring victims? Is the campus' dorm-transfer policy so restrictive that a victim must continue to live in the same building as the tormenter? Safety should be a primary and immediate concern.

· Have key campus leaders visited with the victims and members of the targeted group? Are arrangements in place to keep the victims informed of work being done in response to the incident?

· Are other university services in place to aid the victims, such as counseling and special arrangements for missed coursework?

· Once the initial police investigation is completed, have the racist scrawlings been removed from the wall? Has the burned door been replaced? Has the university provided the victims with new e-mail addresses or phone numbers?

· When victims are injured or in severe distress, has the university made travel arrangements for relatives?

· Also in such cases, has the university quickly made arrangements to allow the victims to take breaks from school without academic penalty?

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