In September of 2014, a group of students at Wilfrid Laurier University, Brantford campus, began analyzing all of the policies at all 20 universities in Ontario. We wanted to see how well their policies measured up to the Ontario Women's Directorate's comprehensive recommendations on how they should be preventing and responding to sexual violence.

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We found that the university-wide average score was 15.8%. Laurier only fulfilled ONE criterion--which was that they at least had a definition of sexual harassment. We were dismayed, and so the Toronto Star's investigation that broke later that year, unfortunately did not surprise us.

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We also conducted a social media scan to find out if sexual violence on was something students were talking about (as this was before #MeToo, Brock Turner, and other stories that have been largely in the public eye). We found many student collectives and sites were made across Ontario, which showed us that this mattered to students. If universities weren't going to step up, then students took it upon themselves to act. And that is just what we did.