It was never the case. I can honestly say that my time in e5m was the most influential time that I have spent in college. Rape is not a woman's issue. Rape is everyone's issue. Rape is not only sexual assault.
Rape is social assault.
The sad truth remains, nevertheless, that students and faculty alike would rather not hear that rape can and does occur on university campuses, our academic safe-havens. At Cornell University and at Syracuse University, putting reserach into perfomrmance through interactive theatre has had the effect of making the relevant facts and figures come to life, in a sense. It is a process of which reflects back to student audiences the harsh reality of the social cultures that perpetuate sexual violence and the silences that aid and abet. It is aprocess which encourages every participant to speak out and to change their lives. It is, by and large, a process through which information and knowledge is shared and reconstructed by both the audience and the actors.