res colleges & rape culture
This article & this related one were in today's Sydney Morning Herald.
I wish I could say I was surprised. It's not as open/institutionalised as the Greek culture in the States, I think, but it's almost worse for being such an unspoken phenomenon.
(Nothing's ever happened to me; postgrads don't go to O Week events, or to most of the intercol booze-ups. But my college is the 'sister' college to Paul's, and many of the undergrad events are combined with them. Ugh.)
I wish I could say I was surprised. It's not as open/institutionalised as the Greek culture in the States, I think, but it's almost worse for being such an unspoken phenomenon.
(Nothing's ever happened to me; postgrads don't go to O Week events, or to most of the intercol booze-ups. But my college is the 'sister' college to Paul's, and many of the undergrad events are combined with them. Ugh.)
