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    Stopping sexual assault: Students turn to video games to empower bystanders

    Nov 15, 2018 3 minutes

    What do these three actions have in common?

    • Starting a conversation about football.
    • Offering a friend a feminine hygiene product.
    • Responding to someone’s request for an “angel shot” at a bar.

    They’re all ways that everyday people have intervened in situations that they worried could have led to a sexual assault.

    The first one happened when a student noticed a man plying her friend with vodka; she started a conversation about the NFL, prompting the man to get bored and leave. In the second, a student offered a creative excuse so a friend could escape sexual pressure at a party.

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