What to do if you believe that you have been a victim of Sexual Misconduct
If a Kenyon student believes that she or he has been, or may have been, a victim of Sexual Misconduct, the student should pursue the options listed below. These options can be pursued individually or in any combination the student chooses.
- Seek Medical Attention
- Seek Counseling and Advice
- Sexual Misconduct Advisors
- Administrative and Faculty Sexual Misconduct Advisors
- File a Formal Complaint to Start College Judicial Proceedings
- File Criminal Charges with the Knox County Legal System
Seek Medical Attention
- A student should seek medical services at the Health and Counseling Center (ext 5525) and/or Knox Community Hospital (393-9710). They can provide information about medical services, STD testing, and the rape kit.
Seek Counseling and Advice
- A student can seek counseling and advice from anyone: a friend; a faculty member; or a relative. However, people in some positions have the training, knowledge, and experience to be particularly helpful sources of counseling and advice for students who believe that they are, or might have been, victims of Sexual Misconduct.
- A student can consult with people in the following positions with complete legal confidentiality. This means that people in these positions cannot be forced by legal means to reveal what has been told to them when acting in their professional capacity. While on campus, students can see persons in the following positions for advice with complete legal confidentiality:
A member of the College's Counseling Center staff, ext 5643: Patrick Gilligan--Director, (Gilliganp@Kenyon.edu); Nikki Keller (kellern@kenyon.edu); Sarah D. Gill-Williams (gillwilliamss@kenyon.edu); Lindsay Anne Kuhlman (KuhlmanL@kenyon.edu); Mike Durham (DurhamM@kenyon.edu); Nurse Practioner Kim Cullers (cullersk@kenyon.edu); Nurse Practitioner Karen Crane (cranek@kenyon.edu); College Physician Dr. Amy Murnen (pbx 5525). One of the College's Sexual Misconduct Advisors (see below); a member of the Clergy.
Other persons on the campus who are good sources of advice and information for students who think they have been, or might have been, victims of Sexual Misconduct, but who do not have positions that give them the right of legal confidentiality are listed below. These people are especially useful sources of information about the College's rules and judicial procedures regarding Sexual Misconduct:
The Dean of Students, Hank Toutain, ext 5136 (toutainh@kenyon.edu); Director of Student Rights and Responsibilities, Samantha Hughes (HughesS@kenyon.edu); The Associate Deans of Students, Chris Kennerly (KennerlyC@kenyon.edu) and Tacci Smith (SmithT@kenyon.edu); the College's Equal Opportunity Officer,Mariam Nabil El-Shamaa, ext 5820(elshamaam@kenyon.edu).
Sexual Misconduct Advisors
SEXUAL MISCONDUCT ADVISORS
A number of students, faculty , and administrators serve as Sexual Misconduct Advisors. These persons are available for consultation and support.
Contact the Counseling Center pbx 5525 for consultation and support.
Name username@kenyon.edu
Lily Barrett barrettl
Owen Bitas bitaso
Nina Castelli castellan
Monty Clark clarkm
Elizabeth Daly dalye
Paul Dougherty doughertyp
Emily Estus estuse
Leigha Grosh groshl
Callie Gruman ckgrumn@gmail.com
Harry Hanson hansonh
Aneas Hemphill hemphilla
Megan Henshall henshallm@gmail.com
Courtney Himebrook himebrookc
John Honey-Fitzgerald honeyfitzgeraldj
Sarah Jenkins jenkinss
Alex Jordan jordanj
Ellen Kaufman kaufmane
Anna Krause krausea
Camille Leon leonc
Jessica Lieberman liebermanj
Blair MacDonald macdonaldb
Yuki Maruyama maruyamay
Nathan Marcus marcusn
Abe Nelson nelson
Brandon O'Connor oconnorb
Rebecca Ogus ogusr
Lucy Phillips phillipsl
Emily Rhoda rhodae
Julia Steinberg steinbergj
Colin Walker cwalker08@gmail.com
Abby Westcott westcotta
Charlotte Woolf woolfc
Staff/Administrators
Patrick Gilligan gilliganp
Nikki Keller kellern
Sarah Gill-Williams gillwilliamss
Lindsay Miller millerla
Duane Gomez gomezd
Administrative and Faculty Sexual Misconduct Advisors
Administrative and Faculty Sexual Misconduct Advisors
Contact the Counseling Center pbx 5525 for consultation and support.
Patrick Gilligan, Counseling Office, gilliganp@kenyon.edu
Nikki Keller, Counseling Office, kellern@kenyon.edu
Sarah Gill-Williams, Counseling Office, gillwilliamss@kenyon.edu
Lindsay Miller, Counseling Office, millerla@kenyon.edu
Duane Gomez, Athletics, gomez@kenyon.edu
File a Formal Complaint to Start College Judicial Proceedings
- To make a formal written report/complaint with the College charging another student with one or more forms of Sexual Misconduct, students should contact the College's EOO to bring charges of any form of Sexual Misconduct or the Dean of Students, the Director of Student Rights and Responsibilities, or the Office of Campus Safety to bring charges of any form of Sexual Misconduct other than Harassment (which can only be made to the College's EOO). Students who believe that they have been victims of Sexual Misconduct are urged to make a formal report/complaint, thereby starting the College's conduct review process. If the formal report/complaint is not made, the College conduct review process will not begin, and there will be no hearing, no possibility of a conviction, and no possibility of justice and punishment. Once the Sexual Misconduct report/complaint has been made, the following things will occur:
- The report/complaint will be shared with the EOO, the Director of Campus Safety, the Dean of Students, and the Director of Student Rights and Responsibilities.
- The Director of Student Rights and Responsibilities will place the matter into the formal College conduct review process.
- The conduct hearing officer will contact the student who filed the report/complaint to discuss the College conduct process with her or him. If the case goes to a hearing before the College Conduct Review Board, the student bringing the complaint will serve as Complainant and will be responsible for presenting his or her own case. The student affairs administrator will work closely with the Complainant and the Accused to advise the students about the conduct process and presenting their case. In general, a case cannot go forward if the Complainant chooses not to testify on her or his own behalf.