Ryerson University students held an emergency meeting to address a series of sexual assaults at the downtown Toronto campus.
According to logs kept by Ryerson’s security watch, four cases of sexual assault have been reported on campus since late August. Police said two of those incidents could be related.
The most recent instance occurred on Sunday, Sept. 16, when a female was accosted inside the campus bar.
On Saturday, Sept. 8, a man grabbed the buttock of a woman walking along Gould Street, near Bond Street. Two women were similarly attacked on Sept. 5.
At least two other assaults have occurred just off-campus during the same time.
Vidya Kauri, a reporter at the student newspaper, says she has issues with how the campus has handled the sexual assaults, saying they needed to update the student population more frequently.
"They are not sending out alerts about every single sex assault," she told CTV Toronto.
The Ryerson Student Union organized the closed-door meetings will focus on challenging “gender based violence” on the campus.
A second meeting is scheduled for Thursday afternoon.
In a notice sent to students, the Ryerson’s student union said the meetings would be “the start of a larger conversation on how to build a campus community free from hate, violence and oppression.”
Tony Conte, a spokeman for Ryerson University, said on Wednesday that the university was taking the matter seriously and was working with the student union to address the concern.
"We are extremely concerned about these incidents," Conte told CTV Toronto. "The safety and security of our students is of the utmost priority, and it is important for us that students not only be safe, but feel safe when they are on our campus."
A campus rally was held two weeks ago, followed a massive demonstration at Christie Pits earlier in the month.
With files from CTV Toronto's Janice Golding
