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74Women’s CampaignsHi! I’m Susy. I’m the CUSU’s Women’s Officer. I get theincredible opportunity to head the Women’s Campaign.Every woman in Cambridge University is automatically amember of the Women’s Campaign and together we pushfor change in how this university runs and in universityculture affecting women students’ day to day college lives.It is vitally important to us to recognize that although weare all women, the experience of being a woman is differentfor each of us. As a result of this, the Women’s Campaign workshard to supports and represents all women students in the university.Our Women’s Campaign is inclusive; we are made up of women that belong to all ethnic,religious and class backgrounds, women that define as trans*, queer, bisexual and lesbian andwomen who are student parents.What do we do?We have so many campaigns that are ongoing that it would be impossible to list them all here.But just to give you an idea, here are three that are ongoing:SusyZero Tolerance to Sexual ViolenceWe are trying to get every college to commit to having a zero tolerance to sexualviolence policy. Only half of the colleges currently have policy on what they haveto do if a student reports sexual violence and we are leaning on the othercolleges to update their policy and provide adequate support for students whoexperience sexual violence. Last year, as part of this campaign, we won asizeable victory with the council permitting us to install lampposts in some ofthe darker parts of town which are scary to walk down at night! Better lightingnotably reduces the risk of sexual assault so this is a big win!