The case has placed the University of Chicago, one of the country’s premier academic institutions, at the center of a nationwide reckoning over sexual assault on college campuses, fueled by another reported attack, this one at a fraternity house at Cornell University in upstate New York.
On Tuesday afternoon, University of Chicago issued an alert saying “a person of interest has been identified.” No arrests have been reported.
The woman’s friends said a group of men had tried to block them from entering the bathroom after the men were seen “cheering and appearing to encourage the activity inside,” according to the report.
The group of up to five men initially told the woman’s friends she wasn’t inside the bathroom, the report says. When the two other women pushed forward, a man grabbed one of them by the hair as the other picked the bathroom lock, according to the report.
The 21-year-old woman was “not fully conscious” when she was found inside the bathroom, according to the report, which says she and the man were both partially undressed.
After one of the woman’s friends told him to get off her, “he responded that everything was ‘cool,’ as though nothing had occurred,” the report says.
When the woman and her friends confronted the man outside the fraternity house, one of the men said they “had identified the wrong person” and pointed the women in another direction and then ran off, according to the report.
One of the friends gave chase but stopped when she encountered a university police officer, the report says. A complaint was taken, and the 21-year-old was hospitalized.
a man grabbed one of them by the hair as the other picked the bathroom lock, according to the report.
I’m sorry they were carrying lockpicks with them? That is some next level prepared to defend your friends against rapists. These girls are heroes.
My not very nice opinion is that frat guys do not provide free alcohol just for socializing with women and discussing philosophy while drunk. If you’re a woman and they’re spending all this money on booze it’s to get you drunk so they can have sex with you while drunk, aka rape you. That’s the only reason. All this talk of relaxing, yeah that’s for the guys, they’ll spend money on booze among themselves so THEY can relax but they’re not paying for your relaxation, they’re paying to put you in a state where there’s a chance one of them can rape you.
Frats themselves I think exist for that, sharing homework answers, and nepotistically giving their fellow former rapists jobs later in life as well as perpetuating an upper class hierarchy and caste system at universities. Big surprise they continue to exist under capitalism.
Do not go to rape houses. Tell your friends not to go to rape houses. Call them rape houses. Bully other guys and girls who want to go to rape houses by pointing out what they are. Paint the whole thing as the ugly monster it is. Abolish the frat aka rape house system.
I’m sorry they were carrying lockpicks with them? That is some next level prepared to defend your friends against rapists. These girls are heroes.
I was thinking they had a bobby pin on them, a lot of bathroom door handles have a small hole you can stick a pin in to unlock it in case someone is locked in. But it’s kinda badass to picture them with a lockpicking set!
frat houses should not exist
I don’t know why schools, even at the elementary level, tend to have internal policing rather than handling everything off to the actual police. Every subgroup (like a frat) becomes another level of legal obfuscation in this kind of environment.
A system’s purpose is what it does. The purpose is to keep it all within the house of the university where it’s hidden away so rich fail-sons don’t have a real record tainted by their crimes at school like rape or being drunk and disorderly.
They were cheering as she was being assaulted.
Cheering
These guys are young, impressionable, and they see the president of their country getting away with sexual assault of minors. You can almost see the reasoning behind why they think this is okay.
It’s fucking disgusting and they should be strung up and left as an example, but young affluent rapists seem to always get away with it. And they’ll say it was partly her fault because she drank, she went to a party, she tried to have fun. Make it make sense.
Is this trumps America?
It’s been like this long before Trump was president the first time.
True 😢
It’s one of the reasons I’m so fucking pissed off about rape. I’ve heard these types of stories my entire life. My entire existence. And I’m in my 40s.
My mom was raped. My grandmother was raped.
My eye is twitching because I want to have a classic New Yorker “what is upstate New York” argument
Cornell is in the Finger Lakes region
This isn’t about Cornell.
nobody cares. this is about a crime. read the room.
