Zero Tolerance Statement from Welcome Week

This is the official statement made by the SU, in response to Welcome Week. This is in particular for anyone who felt uncomfortable during SU nights. We are working together to make the Zero Tolerance approach to sexual harassment more prominent, and a working group is being set up as you read this. If you would like to get involved in the working group, then please email me on eandl@su.rhul.ac.uk.

"This Monday SURHUL held our first Club Night of the year in the Student’s Union building, it has come to our attention that a number of events occurred on that night that made students feel uncomfortable in our venue, and we can only apologise for that, the events were unforeseen and we have already taken steps to ensure that such events will not occur again.
The Students’ Union of Royal Holloway venues have a zero tolerance approach to sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is any behaviour that makes you feel uncomfortable, this includes, but is not limited to: unwanted sexual comments, inappropriate touching or groping, or someone exposing their sexual organs to you without your consent.
This term the Students’ Union will be further publicising this campaign whilst taking steps to enforce it in our venues, taking a clear stance that sexual harassment is no more acceptable than racism, homophobia, transphobia, sexism or ableism. At no point will we accept such behaviour towards other members of the Students’ Union or to our Staff.

If at any point you feel uncomfortable or threatened in one of the Students’ Union venues, we urge you to approach a member of staff to help resolve the issue, do not go on in silence."