Protect Female and Non-Binary Students at Hughes Hall

Dear all,

Last night I attended my college BOP at Hughes Hall college Cambridge. I felt unsafe and worried at the event. I witnessed a female guest being sexually harassed by a male student. There were not enough Hughes Hall staff present, nor security. 3 female students were vomiting and today we received an email from our Senior tutor informing us that ‘ two of our students have reported being spiked (a needle inserted into their arm without their knowledge) at the college bop on Friday night.’ The bar staff at hughes are all students also and the only Hughes Hall member of staff present was our head Porter. The security were hired and didn’t have a radio or phone number for our head Porter. Non hughes hall guest were also admitted to the event and no bag checks were carried out. I did not see the man sexually harassing the female student removed from the premises.

I am afraid and feel unsafe in my own college. Cambridge, as an institution, is extremely wealthy and needs therefore to invest some of its money into each college at this university specifically for the safeguarding of students that identify as female and non binary.

We propose:
- University wide staff training about sexual assault/ harassment and spiking
- Bag checks at all university events
- A university member of staff supervising the bar at all university events.
- All staff at university events to have walkie talkies and means to communicate with one another
- CRSIDS/ contact details taken of any guest to university events
- Immediate expulsion from the university of any student found to be spiking and or sexually harassing or assaulting another student.

No exceptions.

Please share this petition and help me make Cambridge university events safer spaces for female and non-binary students.

Kind regards,

Charlotte Brundle
2nd year Undergraduate student at Hughes Hall College Cambridge