A sexual assault was reported at UH Mānoa today, Wednesday October 29, 2025. The incident occurred on Monday, October 27, 2025. In this incident, a resident stated they were forcibly sexually assaulted by an acquaintance who is not a University student. The resident had invited the suspect to her residence hall room where the assault took place.
The suspect’s whereabouts are unknown but he may still be staying in the residence halls with other students.
If you have any information about this incident, please contact the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Department of Public Safety. As a reminder, student housing rules provide that unauthorized individual(s) are not permitted to be in student housing facilities unless they are escorted by a student resident.
Responsibility is with the perpetrator, not the victim – no one deserves, asks for or provokes unwanted touching, physical or sexual assault.
Safety Tips to Consider:
E mālama i kekahi i kekahi – Take care of others and your friends. If you sense a friend may need your help, or may be getting into a risky situation, offer them your support. For example, offer to go on a fun double-date in public with a friend who may be meeting someone for the first time.
If you or someone you know is the victim of a sexual assault, get to a safe place. Preserve any physical evidence of the assault. If possible, avoid showering or brushing your teeth, and save all of the clothing you were wearing at the time or linens that were used. Place all garments in a paper (not plastic) bag. Write down as much as you can remember about the circumstances of the assault, including a description of the perpetrator.
Reporting Options & Resources
Resources listed below are available to sexual assault survivors regardless of whether or not they decide to report the incident to police. Any of the resources listed below can assist you in reporting the incident to police or to any other agency or UH office listed, upon request. For a full list of UH Mānoa resources, please visit: https://manoa.hawaii.edu/dps/resources/
Advocacy Services: contact the Mānoa Advocate at (808) 956-9499 for advocacy services, crisis counseling and support, risk assessment, safety planning, Title IX support, and referral services.
Counseling Services for Students: For students, please contact the Counseling and Student Development Center at (808) 956-7927 (Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) UH Mānoa Student Housing residents can contact the counselor-in-residence (CIR) through your Resident Assistant, the RA on-call, or the Residence Director for after hours services.
Law Enforcement/Public Safety assistance: You can report the incident to the UH Mānoa Department of Public Safety (DPS) at (808) 956-6911. DPS is available 24 hours a day and is available to you whether you live on or off campus. You can also report to Honolulu Police Department (HPD) at 911.
Sex Abuse Treatment Center (for medical exam): Available by phone at (808) 524-7273 (24-hour hotline).
Full official UH Mānoa DPS sexual-assault notice recovered from manoa.hawaii.edu/dps.
The narrative sentences ('A sexual assault was reported at UH Mānoa on Wednesday October 29, 2025...' through '...unless they are escorted by a student resident') match the official DPS notice wording across multiple retrievals; the closing resources section is reconstructed in part, so isVerbatimConfirmed remains false
The 48-hour delay between the October 27 assault and the October 29 timely warning is unusually long for a Clery alert involving an unknown suspect; UH Mānoa later included victim-advocacy contact information in the warning text, suggesting consultation with the survivor delayed the notification
The phrase 'he may still be staying in the residence halls with other students' is a rare admission in a Clery alert that the suspect may have been residing on campus as an unauthorized guest
Acquaintance sexual assault timely warnings are statistically rare nationwide (most Clery alerts involve stranger assailants) making this a comparatively unusual disclosure
The warning explicitly directs survivors to Mānoa Advocate, SATC, and the Title IX office, a community-care framing that has become more common in post-2020 Clery practice