LSU isn’t waiting for a sexual assault crisis to breach its campus borders to educate its athletics department on sexual violence. Moving forward, the Tigers will require every student-athlete, coach and support staff member to undergo sexual harassment sensitivity training and awareness classes.
“There’s only two other schools doing this at the moment,” LSU president F. King Alexander told The Advocate. “They’re doing it in a reactive mode due to problems they’ve had. We’re implementing this in a proactive mode.”
The idea was sparked at the recommendation from former Big 12 commissioner Dan Beebe‘s consulting firm, who will handle initial training of the Tigers’ 400 athletes and 250 employees.
LSU deputy AD Eddie Nunez told the paper he’d like for his department to hold such seminars multiple times a year, which will hold lessons on prevention of harassment, physical abuse, sexual abuse misconduct and humans relations risk.
“Our hope is to be able to pursue this on an annual basis to continue to reinforce it,” he said.
