Sexual Assault

We were meeting on the topic of Sexual Assault and the speaker came in he was well dressed but had a shy stature. I couldn’t even hear his name when he spoke he spoke soft and fast and you could tell he was nervous of speaking in front of a group he rushed into showing the video he brought so he didn’t have to introduce it anymore. I think a main thing was that he failed to open up a relationship with the audience everyone in the room was still tense it wasn’t a real “open” environment. He failed to realize that he was communicating to college students who were mature enough to handle the language and topics that he was presenting. He didn’t adapt to his environment he had a small class of us and we felt like he was talking to 500 people the way he would shy away from opening up to us.

Many of us knew that he wasn’t very interested in the topic that he was teaching to us so we dozed off as well. There weren’t many students giving feedback even when asked. When the speaker turned on the video he himself wasn’t even interested in it. He left the room several times during it and many of us felt well if he’s not interested then it must not be that important. That definitely wasn’t the case though rape at a college campus are a huge deal. People need to be informed about it and I think that if you can’t be interested in presenting it then you shouldn’t be presenting it. Also when the video was over he didn’t talk about it but he handed out a generic set of questions about it and then didn’t even talk about peoples answers to them!

I think that although it was his job to speak about this he should have been slightly interested in the topic but if not it was his job so his job is to have an effect on us. Having an affect on a college student who doesn’t have much a long attention span when they are with thirty of their friends. If someone comes in and talks about something they are interested in and present material in an interesting fashion we will listen and get the main idea of what the speaker is talking about.