A new student campaign at Oxford University is harnessing the power of community to stamp out sexual violence. Katherine Backler explains the startling facts behind an international grass-roots movement When a 17-year-old boy attacked and attempted to rape student Ione Wells as she walked home, she waived her legal right to anonymity and published an open letter to her attacker in Oxford University’s student press. The defiant letter, published in Cherwell before being picked up by national newspapers, has inspired dozens of other students, female and male, to share their experiences of sexual violence as part of a campaign called “#NotGuilty”.Sexual violence has become all too common for today’s students. In 2010, the National Union of Students (NUS) published a