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Verified verbatimBoise State Campus Safety Alerts Archive — official verbatim text of the September 8, 2025 Timely Warning, also quoted by Idaho News 6, KIVI TV, and Boise State Public Radio728 chars
Timely Warning Notification – Sexual Assault
Date of Notification: 9/8/2025
Incident Type: Sexual Assault
—Trigger Warning—
Location: On or near campus
Incident Date and Time: Sept. 8, 2025
Summary of Incident: On Sept. 8, the Department of Public Safety received a report of a sexual assault that occurred in a grassy area on or near campus sometime after 9 p.m. on Sept. 7, 2025. The student reported that after attending a fraternity party and walking nearby with a male acquaintance, he sexually assaulted her after she made it clear she did not wish to participate.
This message has been approved for mass email distribution by Annie Hightower, Deputy Chief Operating Officer in accordance with Boise State Policy 8100.
Boise State's Timely Warning template explicitly includes the line '—Trigger Warning—' before the incident description, a notable trauma-informed practice not seen at most peer institutions
Naming Annie Hightower (Deputy Chief Operating Officer) and citing Boise State Policy 8100 in the warning itself is unusual transparency about who authorized mass distribution
The verb construction — 'after she made it clear she did not wish to participate' — centers the victim's clear refusal, an explicit anti-victim-blaming framing that BSU has used consistently in its sexual-assault timely warnings since at least 2020
The location language ('grassy area on or near campus') is deliberately imprecise to protect the reporting party, which is standard Clery practice when more-precise locations could lead to identification