The title of this page is a quote from this 2011 article about the closing of the Sigma Phi Epsilon House in Burlington, Vermont:
I have a few things to say about this.
There are pictures of that fraternity house online; because of those, I know that it's a house that I walked past innumerable times when I lived in Vermont. It is not on an inconspicuous side street; it is unavoidable if you walk around Burlington and the University of Vermont.
What does that say about the prevalence of rape culture in the United States? People send their kids to school in Vermont because they think it will be safer than sending them to school in a big city. It's not as if the University of Vermont or other colleges in Vermont put the names "Michelle Gardner-Quinn" or "Brooke Bennett" on the front pages of their websites. Nor do they publicize the name "Paulette Crickmore," whom I knew because she sat next to me for music in middle school in rural Vermont before she was raped and killed. I didn't know her well; however, she is not a nameless, faceless statistic to me. She was a child in the chair next to mine.
Also; I've been trying the "hug and sensitivity approach" toward the conglomerate for almost 6 years. I don't think it's working. The conglomerate seems to think it's an invitation to videotape me in the bathroom.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, December 23, 2015 @ 4:00 p.m.
