The young women of Ohio University take to the streets [View all]

At a time when we're hearing more and more reports of sexual violence on campus, I thought many here would like to read something about how the young women of one university are taking the fight to the streets.

The Athens News
Anti-rape culture campus group ups the ante with Homecoming rally
F**kRapeCulture demands change as it did during last year's Homecoming march, asking for better police response to sexual assault
By Conor Morris

Exactly a year after their first rally on the Friday of Homecoming Weekend at Ohio University, the activist student organization F**kRapeCulture marched through Athens this past Friday. Just as they did during FRC's first rally, speakers for the organization made a number of demands of both the university and the local and university police departments.

Hoisting colorful banners in the chilly air, pronouncing slogans such as "'no' does not mean 'convince me'" and the phrase, "don't get raped," with the word "get" and the "d" in "raped" crossed out, a crowd of roughly 100-150 student and community protesters marched up Mill and Court streets, with numerous journalists covering the event following in their wake...

...The Homecoming rally was the second of two FRC rallies so far this year, on top of a similar protest Oct. 2 when FRC members carried a mattress across campus in solidarity with the Columbia University student who carried the mattress she was allegedly raped on around her campus...

..."We started right in this very spot last year," she said. "And we had three demands: we wanted amnesty for students who were drinking underage during the time of their assault, sexual harassment training for all student workers, and consent and sexual assault training for all incoming freshman. In just one year, we've accomplished all of that."....

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