Leaders from the university’s Panhellenic Association did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.īut Brantley’s sentiments were echoed by some current students who said sexual violence has been a pervasive issue on campus.

But the fraternities were frequently a locus for sexual assault. (A spokesperson for the school did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.)īrantley said that the school’s Panhellenic Association would provide sorority women a list of “safe” parties to attend while she was a student. “This is a culture within that is regularly ignored and dismissed because it benefits the university and benefits those organizations,” she said. Reading, who left Kappa Delta sorority during her senior year, said that Strip Your Letters has “crowdsourced” for information on social media about sexual violence and found that no fraternity on campus has been spared from sexual assault allegations. University of Iowa Suspends Frat Over Totally Bonkers Hazing “Rape culture is a huge part of Greek culture, it’s not something that has ever gone away.” “Fraternity men are much more likely than non-fraternal men to engage in sexual assault, and that puts sorority women at the highest rate of any university group or demographic to be sexually assaulted,” she said. Reading told The Daily Beast they’re aiming to mobilize the governing body of sororities on campus-the university’s Panhellenic Association-to “disaffiliate” from the Interfraternity Council, which provides leadership and support to campus frats and “enables” sexual violence that disproportionately affects sorority women. Leaders from Strip Your Letters, a self-described “campus-adjacent” group, include recent graduates and founders Grace Reading, 23, and Anissa Brantley, 22. The Journal Star reported that men were filmed inside the house laughing as women outside chanted “Kick him out!” It was the second such protest in recent weeks: About 1,000 protesters surrounded the troubled Fiji frat house at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln last month after an alleged sexual assault. Adam Heffley, interim chief of police for the City of Lawrence, said in a statement to The Daily Beast that they were “aware of an incident involving a possible sexual assault near campus over the weekend” but would not provide further details “in order to protect the privacy of victims.” The “No Means No Peaceful Protest” outside of the Phi Kappa Psi Greek house was fueled by allegations that a woman was drugged and raped at the frat house on Saturday night by a new undergraduate member. Via than a thousand protesters demonstrated outside of a University of Kansas fraternity house on Monday night in an outcry against sexual assault that former students say has been “regularly ignored and dismissed.”

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