Across the Atlantic, US universities are far more advanced in their response to sexual assault on campus. Film-makers may portray American universities as alcohol-fuelled frat houses where inebriation is standard, but several universities have created truly progressive sexual assault policies. American colleges investigate complaints of sexual assault and if a student is found to have committed an offence, they are disciplined appropriately – including the possibility of expulsion for the most serious offences. I remember reading about the scale of the problem and responses in the US while I was an undergraduate student – and I feel ashamed that it has taken us so long to open up a conversation about it in UK. We have no less of a problem – we have just refused to talk about it, and looked the other way.