diff --git a/_posts/2017-09-06-are-we-there-yet.md b/_posts/2017-09-06-are-we-there-yet.md index 4eecc57..3262732 100644 --- a/_posts/2017-09-06-are-we-there-yet.md +++ b/_posts/2017-09-06-are-we-there-yet.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ With close to 12% of the students and residents of the IIT Roorkee campus being #### __The Current Method__ -The general practice currently followed is that the students subjected to sexual misconduct reports their grievances directly to the Office of the Dean of Students’ Welfare. The limited times during which you can seek help from this channel and hence, the utter inaccessibility of this system forces the students to reach out to the Student Affairs’ Council, which is, in no way, equipped any better to deal with the problems than the aggrieved student himself/herself. +The general practice currently followed is that the students subjected to sexual misconduct report their grievances directly to the Office of the Dean of Students’ Welfare. The limited times during which you can seek help from this channel and hence, the utter inaccessibility of this system, forces the students to reach out to the Student Affairs’ Council, which is, in no way, equipped any better to deal with the problems than the aggrieved student himself/herself. If the complaint does make it through to the DOSW, a committee is set up which comprises the DOSW himself, the faculty-advisors of the Cultural Council, the Sports Council, and HEC, ADOSW (Bhawan and Mess), ADOSW (International Students), the Chief Wardens of Jawahar Bhawan and Sarojini Bhawan, the Member Secretary of Kasturba Bhawan, the General Secretary of Alumni Affairs, the General Secretary of Academic Affairs (UG), and the Convenor of SAC. This committee, upon listening to both the parties involved, takes action on the basis of their sound judgement. The complexity of this procedure makes for a delayed and possibly tedious sequence of steps, that, in some cases, the victims might shy away from.