Posts Tagged Greek life

By Sarah • 12 years ago

Disgusting UVM Fraternity Questionnaire Sparks Outrage

Today finds me crawling out of blog hibernation to point ya’ll to the latest installment of “College Boys Just Want to Have Fun…By Demeaning Women and Making Jokes About Rape.” Today’s episode takes place at the University of Vermont, where a puzzling and revolting survey was recently distributed to the brothers of Sigma Phi Epsilon. We were sent a copy of the questionnaire, which mostly consists of benign questions like name, birthday, major, amount of time with SigEp and favorite SigEp memories, hobbies, future goals, etc. It’s actually kind of nerdy and cute, until you get to the final three “personal questions.”

1. Where in public would I want to have sex?

2. Who’s my favorite artist?

3. If I could rape someone, ...

Today finds me crawling out of blog hibernation to point ya’ll to the latest installment of “College Boys Just Want to Have Fun…By Demeaning Women and Making Jokes About Rape.” Today’s episode takes place at the University ...
By Sarah • 13 years ago

3 Sexual Assaults. 3 Weeks. 3 Fraternities. Same School.

Even with the massive amount of campus sexual violence-related content I process every week, I still occasionally see a headline that just totally shocks me. Like today’s “3rd Sexual Assault in 3 Weeks at U of M Fraternity.” Yes, that’s right: over the past three weeks, one student reported an attempted rape, and two students reported sexual assaults, all at different University of Minnesota frats. Those are some staggering numbers, right???

So far, the campus response has been to ban alcohol from fraternity parties indefinitely. Apparently “alcohol was a factor” in each assault, which I am assuming just means that the alleged assailants and/or the victims (or some combo of the ...

Even with the massive amount of campus sexual violence-related content I process every week, I still occasionally see a headline that just totally shocks me. Like today’s “3rd Sexual Assault in 3 Weeks at ...
By Sarah • 13 years ago

Sexual Assault at Drake University Frat

Last week a Drake University senior was charged with sexual abuse after photos and video of him allegedly sexually assaulting an unconscious fellow student were found on his computer. What makes this different from the cases of campus sexual assault we usually hear about is that the victim was his fraternity brother. While incredibly disturbing—the video was found by the victim, who says that he has no memory of the multiple assaults, and he believes he was drugged—perhaps this shouldn’t be as surprising as it is. Statistically we know that 1 in 33 men have experienced rape or attempted rape, and research from the 90s published in the Journal of American ...

Last week a Drake University senior was charged with sexual abuse after photos and video of him allegedly sexually assaulting an unconscious fellow student were found on his computer. What makes this different from ...