Sexual Assault Policy
Occidental College is committed to maintaining a learning, living, and working environment free of sexual assault. “Sexual assault” is defined by the Education Code Section 94385 as including rape, forced sodomy, forced oral copulation, rape by a foreign object, sexual battery or threat of sexual assault. Sexual assault will not be tolerated.
The Sexual Assault Policy describes the College’s policy toward sexual assault and zero tolerance policy towards rape. It also provides guidance for survivors of sexual assault, outlines the College’s disciplinary response to alleged incidents of sexual assault, and identifies the relevant organizations within the College responsible for managing the policy and programs associated with it. Occidental’s policy complies with relevant state and federal statutes.
The complete Sexual Assault Policy is available here, in the Administrator and Staff Handbook and in the Student Handbook.
If you have been sexually assaulted:
- Take care of your safety and health needs.
- Immediately call the Los Angeles Police Department (911 or 9-911 from a campus phone or (213) 485-2563). Then call Campus Safety (“5” from a campus phone or (323) 259-2511).
- Get medical attention. Do not take a shower or remove articles of clothing. Campus Safety Officers will contact the person(s) you need to assist you through the crisis. Emergency Hospitals such as Huntington Memorial, Glendale Adventist Medical Center and St. Joseph’s Medical Center have a crisis team, including an advocate, a counselor and medical personnel who will help you.
- Utilize campus and community support services. Contact Emmons Student Health and Counseling Center at (323) 259-2657 or Project S.A.F.E (Sexual Assault-Free Environment) at (323) 341-4872. Emmons and Project S.A.F.E. can provide support and help identify the most appropriate support services.
- Contact a community service such as the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women – 24 hour crisis hotline at (626) 793-3385.
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