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A former student of Wesleyan University in Connecticut filed suit yesterday, according to news reports, alleging that the University violated Title IX by failing to protect her from being locked in a room and raped at a party at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, which allegedly had a known reputation as a "rape factory."  Wesleyan's response to her reporting of the rape was also indifferent, the complaint alleges, in several ways: the R.A. she reported it to the next day did not call university officials or the police; when the victim reported it to university officials the day after that, she was told she could go to the hospital, but received no offer of transportation or accompaniment; nor did they did not contact a rape counselor or offer any kind of services.

The complaint also suggests that the university failed to protect her from retaliatory harassment she experienced after having reported the incident.  In particular, there were protests outside her dormitory after the university revoked Beta's status the following year, and her her identity became known.  The plaintiff eventually transferred to another college.  The assailant, a non-student guest of a Beta Theta Pi member, was convicted of assault and is serving a 15-month sentence. 

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Crimson says:

Another post from the Title IX Blog having zilch to do with sports. What this litigation actually represents is the ever expanding sphere of influence that Title IX attorneys and their minions are focusing on in pursuit legal fees under the guise of fairness and the non-existent "rape epidemic" on college campuses.

I'm no rape apologist. Rapists need to be tried, prosecuted and convicted in the criminal courts if they are guilty. That said most folks that attended college are well aware that the Greeks as a group are pretty much a bunch of elitist @ssholes. If in fact this frat house had a well known reputation as a "rape factory", a logical person would have to ask themselves why any semi-sane woman would attend a party there in the first place. Further the fact that the accused was not convicted of rape pretty much blows up the rape theory now doesn't it? That said it didn't stop all of the Title IX press releases and propaganda from being pushed out there.

It's unfortunate that there is such an oversupply of attorneys here in the States that they have to stoop to this level to try to make a living.

Sunday, October 7, 2012 at 9:44am EDT

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