ROCK HILL, S.C. Charlotte — Quite a few college students dressed in black are protesting the rape culture on campus at one particular of university’s fraternities and 1 of the greatest in the nation – Pi Kappa Alpha.
College students say they are worn out of not getting heard and fending for on their own against sexual assault.
“They replaced the sexual violence prevention teaching that we have to do each individual year with a shorter variation. This is a person of their factors that they are executing to make it superior and “take care of the concern,” a single of the protest organizers Ami Hughey suggests.
“Its shorter and you will find moments in it that telling girls that there’s times in it in which its telling girls that they can be attractive even if they are not consuming and there is certainly victim blaming and its extremely triggering to a position the place a good deal of members of our group haven’t accomplished it even even though its earlier due.. its triggering and we don’t want to comprehensive it.”
Organizers say they precisely want the fraternity Pi Kappa Alpha banned. They also want Winthrop to cease mishandling sexual assault conditions and correct the corruption in the administration.
“In normal, we want to modify the mind-set that Winthrop has when it arrives to sexual assault situations, since they safeguard school and staff members associates who abuse college students. They aspect with scholar athletes and Greek lifestyle users who abuse college students.”
