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Rape Awareness Week at MU COLUMBIA, MO (KBIA) - The University of Missouri is trying to raise student awareness about domestic violence and sexual assault crimes. Lindsay Toler is an MU student and a volunteer at The Shelter for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. She works as a hospital advocate. When a person is a victim of one of these crimes, Toler meets them at the hospital and helps them with health and legal procedures. Toler says that she hopes college women will learn some things about rape this week that they didn't know before.

The number one thing I want women to take away from this week is the idea that gray rape doesn't exist. There's this idea on our campus that there is rape, and then there's not rape, and then there's this weird thing in the middle that doesn't really count as either. For example when a woman, first says she wants to have sex and then in the middle withdraws her consent, says no, but the sex happens anyways. That is rape.

Rape Awareness Week kicks off today with a concert at Brady Commons on the M-U campus.
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