On February 2nd, 2015, my social justice group and I Facetimed Annie Gardner. She attends Dartmouth College and is the President of her Sorority, Sigma Delta. In the past, college parties usually occurred at frat houses instead of sorority homes, but Annie and her sorority recently opened their house to parties in order to address…
My group and I met with Marybeth Seitz-Brown, who is a rape activist and college rape survivor. She went and graduated from Columbia University and is now closely involved with an organization called Safer and has become an expert on the topic of rape on college campuses. This organization works to make all campuses free…
My group and I interviewed Anna, who unfortunately was a victim of sexual assault on a college campus and had to suffer through dealing with the college’s awful, unjust ways of handling her rape case. Anna went to LREI until the end of tenth grade. Then transferred to York and went to Hobart College. We…
My group and I attended a lecture at New York University where people spoke about the issue of rape on college campuses. At the lecture a Columbia Graduate and rape survivor named Marybeth spoke, as well as Vanessa Grigoriadis, a New York magazine writer who wrote an article about Emma…
At the end of October, my group and I attended a rally protest at Columbia University. This was a great experience because we got to get involved by supporting students who were victims of campus rape and people who just like us, think this is an important cause that needs to be acted on. There…
For this field work my group and I conducted an interview with Vanessa Grigoriadis. She is a writer for New York Magazine and wrote an article about Emma Sulkowicz. Emma was raped on her school campus (Columbia University) by a classmate, in her dorm room her sophomore year. After we read Vanessa’s Article we were…
