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Last year, veteran journalist Nancy Jo Sales got a strange call from Exeter, her high school alma mater. The elite boarding school was investigating an anonymous accusation of sexual misconduct—and the writer was the alleged victim. The problem? Sales says it never happened.
Joey McLaughlin talks with Preventionist & Community Advocate at the Prairie Center Against Sexual Assault (PCASA), Deb Bonner, about a new program called Raise the Bar , which is a bystander intervention program specifically aimed at reducing sexual violence in central Illinois bars and night clubs.