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Dartmouth College's Consent Day Consent Day is an annual summer event held at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire to raise student awareness regarding sexual abuse on the college's campus. Begun in 2003 by Dartmouth's student government, Student Assembly, the two hour event features a barbecue, live music, and free t-shirts. The t-shirts are Consent Day's main component featuring the slogan "consensual sex is hot." While sometimes an easy target for those unsympathetic to the cause, the catchy tshirt phrase is meant to spur conversations about the occurence of sexual abuse on Dartmouth's campus and the ways in which sexual abuse affects the entire community, not just the victim and perpetrator.

Since its inception, Consent Day, on the whole, has garnered wide campus support, with most of the Greek houses on campus contributing financially to the event. In breaking from its original role of main sponsor of the event, Student Assembly refused to financially support Consent Day 2005 citing that the administration should be held accountable for such programs. In response, Dartmouth College's Health Services matched Student Assembly's previous financial contributions.

Consent Day 2005 drew almost 500 students, faculty and staff, a large number considering less than 1,200 students were enrolled for the summer term.

The program is directed by Dartmouth's Sexual Abuse Awareness Program.

Consent Day in The Dartmouth: Dartmouth College's Sexual Abuse Awareness Program: