An investigation into the effectiveness of the Bias Response Line— an NYU initiative to share or report experiences and concerns of discriminatory behavior on campus.
The number of alerts NYU students receive about sexual assaults that occur on or near campus in no way reflects the number of sexual assaults that actually occur. However, some students believe this is for the best.
Safe Ride should be an assertion of NYU’s concern of campus safety and an insurance that every student get home safely, but instead, it falls short of its promises and expectations and ends up being another frustrating tool.
A more explicit approach, like the policies put out by Columbia and Cornell University, would create an environment that both protects the wellbeing of students and clearly defines the authority of university staff.
Natasha Roy, Contributing Writer
• September 19, 2016
NYU has taken measures to make sure students of all backgrounds feel safer on campus with the new Bias Response Line, which lets students report incidents of marginalization via an online form or telephone.
