The coalition presented administrators with a list of nine demands. Four dealt with an alleged sexual assault in late August allegedly involving two MSU basketball players. It asked the university match MSU men’s basketball head coach Tom Izzo’s recent raise of $500,000 and devote the money to a campus consent and anti-rape campaign.

Residential College in the Arts and Humanities senior and coalition member Megan Spencer said the group is willing to negotiate the wording of the demands but not the message behind them. The coalition will be persistent and visible with its anti-rape message on campus, she said.

“If they think meetings are going to pacify us, that is not true,” Spencer said. “We’re going to be looking for real action.”

Russell said the university wants to have open dialogue regarding the group’s concerns, and wants to share information regarding existing university resources and policies.

“(Sexual assault) is not just a woman’s issue and I think that certainly from the voices
that were shared on Friday, that it doesn’t affect one gender or one segment of the population,” she said.

June said he hopes to continue discussing the group’s demands and present it with data from the judicial system and the Department of Student Life’s Sexual Assault and Relationship Violence Prevention Program that now is mandatory for all incoming first-year students.

“The intent would be to continue to talk through the list of nine issues,” June said. “Some are in our control, (as far as) how certain programs are working, and we will continue that discussion.”

Many members who have joined the coalition are students who are survivors or know survivors of sexual assault, Spencer said.

“Our goals would be to engage how to better those programs and how to improve the policies at MSU,” she said. “One of the points we’re trying to make (is that) we live on this campus and there is a prevalent rape culture.”

Staff writer Andrew Krietz contributed to this report.