A women’s agency is calling for a community meeting with students after a message advocating sexual violence was written on the front window of a house in a student neighbourhood this week.

“No means yes. And yes means anal,” said the multicoloured words at the home occupied by several young men on Epworth Avenue in the off-campus student neighbourhood between Western University and King’s University College.

Though the students who live there didn’t write the message — it was written on the outside of the window, likely as a prank — they didn’t immediately remove it, said Megan Walker, head of London’s Abused Women’s Centre, which got more than one complaint about the message.

“No matter who put it here, there’s a problem. Given the fact it remained there, speaks to the problem,” said Walker, who will meet officials of both schools this month about planning a student meeting.

A male neighbour said Friday he was shocked to see the message.

“I walked by and thought, ‘Why would you do that?’ ” said Ciaran Callaghan. He said students are inundated with sexual violence prevention messaging on campus, especially during orientation. “But it’s just common sense.”

It’s not clear who wrote the message or why, but a home across the street had a more innocuous message chalked on the inside of its window in similar colours Friday.

Though the offensive message was gone within days, after a King’s professor saw it and complained, it had already reached far beyond Epworth Avenue on social media.

“This is what my neighbours appear to think is true of the English language, of acceptable actions,” said Facebook user Emma Richard, a nearby resident who posted a picture of the message. “After standing, staring, taking a picture, I came home. My shock turned into rage, and my rage turned into awareness . . . Please. No means no. Every time, in every circumstance. No. Means. No.”

Housing mediation co-ordinator Glenn Matthews said he reinforced that message when he spoke to the students living at the Epworth home this week.

“I talked to them . . . They woke up and said it was on their window from the night before,” he said. “I made it very clear to them the message was totally inappropriate, totally unacceptable and I don’t think I could’ve made it any plainer that the university can’t tolerate this stuff.”

Matthews said Walker is welcome to organize a meeting for students, but noted Western has “all kinds of programs on campus.”

“I get it: the message is really bad, but students do dumb things,” he said.

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