![]() Kirby Dick, the film's director, contacted The Tribune over the weekend to respond to a comment in that article by Notre Dame spokesman Paul Browne suggesting that Cottrell may have been pressured by the filmmakers to make a statement in the film about Notre Dame wanting to keep campus sex assault statistics as low as possible.Ĭottrell says he was not pressured and stands by his opinion that Notre Dame officials didn't provide enough support for victims, which discouraged other victims from reporting sex assaults. The South Bend Tribune on Saturday published an interview with Patrick Cottrell, a retired Notre Dame Security Police officer who appears in the film and is critical of Notre Dame's response to campus sex assault victims. Some students said they only recently heard Saint Mary's and Notre Dame referred to as separate institutions, and don't understanding why sex assault support and investigation procedures can't be uniformly applied on both campuses. "If we're going to fix this, we need to be the spark," student Amy Piekosz said. Several students said Saint Mary's can't wait for Notre Dame to make improvements to help victims. Several participants said they were stunned watching the stream of young women in the movie tell their stories of suffering sexual assault and not being supported by their colleges and universities in seeking justice against their assailants. "My plan is to continue this conversation with the students and the administration," she said. ![]() Kaitlyn Baker, Saint Mary's 2015-2016 student body president, said she plans to make improving sex assault response a priority.
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