Audience members sat down if the questions did not pertain to them, creating a visual of how many people knew victims of sexual assault. Questions included if the audience personally knew anyone who had been victims of assault, and if so, if the perpetrators had been incarcerated. Uttaro then asked the audience members to stand, listing a series of questions regarding their knowledge of people who have been sexually assaulted. If something makes you uncomfortable, take off.”
“Sexual assault and rape is a very difficult conversation to have,” he said. Uttaro began by urging the audience to keep the atmosphere inviting and comfortable. The talk was the second installment in a newly introduced Speaker Series held by Sawyer Library, and featured Uttaro and a friend of his, Rebecca, whom he only referred to by first name and brought to share her personal story. As students slowly started filing in, he shook hands with everyone, introducing himself in his thick Boston accent and thanking them for attending his talk, “Voices Against Sexual Assault.”
At the center of a semicircle of chairs on the ninth floor of 73 Tremont sat Suffolk alumnus and rape counselor Robert Uttaro, with legs crossed, gripping a coffee.
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