The Maneater recently received correspondence regarding our editorial that was published last week entitled “‘Enough is Enough’ is not quite enough.”

Senior Rachel Swinney made valid points in her letter about what we left out of our editorial about MSA’s video that was sent out to the student body, such as the Relationship and Sexual Violence Prevention Center and the valuable resources provided there.

While The Maneater regrets not including this information in our last editorial, we would like to clarify what we were attempting to communicate.

We believe the RSVP Center, while an effective resource in and of itself for students to use, is also quite under-advertised on campus. While there is a three-credit sexual violence prevention course offered there, as mentioned in Swinney’s letter, we don’t feel that it is visible enough to campus to be effective in its purpose.

We also think that we need to take into consideration how effective our provided resources are. While students learn at Summer Welcome what a Green Dot is and while the center hosts events such as the Green Dot Conference, is the concept actually reaching out to students like it’s designed to do? Figuring out what resources are effective and which are not should be of vital importance.

More than anything, we think the student body needs to have a more cut and dry understanding of what “rape” is. Rape is sexual activity with the absence of consent from one of the parties involved. This is what students need to understand, and this is what needs to be communicated to the student body.

If you feel that you need to learn more about sexual violence prevention, please utilize the following resources [found on the RSVP Center’s website](http://rsvp.missouri.edu/get-help/rsvp-center-resources/):

– Basic crisis intervention by graduate and professional staff

– Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) exams (provided at the University Hospital). SANE exams can be conducted no more than 5 days after the assault and are a part of the forensic chain of evidence

– True North (a safe shelter for victims of sexual assault)

Let’s make the necessary changes so that we can put an end to sexual violence on our campus.