Guest wrote:She's so cute and transgressive, speaking power to the Man, Columbia students are so innovative with their bathroom rape lists. And it's shocking and patriarchal that the school keeps removing the lists, they wouldn't do that for other kinds of graffiti!!
It's not like girls haven't been doing this for literally 25 years and schools cleaning it off for that long.
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/18/us/da ... brown.html
Date Rape And a List At Brown
By WILLIAM CELIS 3d, Special to The New York Times
Published: November 18, 1990
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 16— At the beginning of the school year, the Brown University library became a repository for information of a most unusual kind: on its bathroom walls women made a list of the male students who the women said had raped them.
Repeatedly scrubbed from the bathrooms by janitors only to reappear, the list of names has grown in recent weeks to as many as 30 and has appeared in several other bathrooms on campus. In the process, the list has become the background for a noisy debate about date rape on this campus of 6,500 students.
"The list has had a good effect," said Ellie Schaffzin, a junior from Philadelphia, who said the situation has forced the university to toughen its policies on sexual offenses. But she said, "The side effects have been disastrous."
Many students here say the list has created fear among some women. Men, too, are leery, and some on the list are angry enough that they have filed complaints with the university. School officials, caught in the middle, said complaints would do little good given the anonymity of the women who compiled the list. Outrage 'Is Justified'
But school officials, forced to hold a student forum on the problem several weeks earlier than planned, acknowledged that policies were weak in some areas and pledged to strengthen them.
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