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TexasTowelie

(116,799 posts) Sat Jul 7, 2018, 06:11 AM Jul 2018

She was raped at a Utah State University fraternity. Now the school will pay her $250K and she'll

She was raped at a Utah State University fraternity. Now the school will pay her $250K and she’ll help improve its response to campus sexual assault.

A former Utah State University student who was raped at a fraternity house has agreed to a $250,000 settlement that will also require the school to increase its oversight of its Greek system.

The agreement announced Thursday for now marks the end of one of several high-profile sexual assault and harassment cases at the northern Utah school, which has been criticized for how it has handled allegations.

“It was definitely a huge healing moment for me to know that they finally heard me and wanted to do the right thing,” said Victoria Hewlett, 22.

Hewlett filed suit against the university after she was raped in July 2015 by then-Sigma Chi fraternity member Jason Relopez. The lawsuit claimed that five other women had reported to the school that Relopez sexually assaulted them before Hewlett’s attack and before administrators did much to act on that knowledge. The school said Relopez had been on its “radar” but denied receiving five previous assault reports.

Read more: https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2018/07/05/utah-state-university/

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She was raped at a Utah State University fraternity. Now the school will pay her $250K and she'll (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jul 2018 OP

The simple solution: Ban fraternities. kstewart33 Jul 2018 #1

A year in the jail for the fraternity member who admitted sexually assaulting two women. More_Cowbell Jul 2018 #2

kstewart33

(6,551 posts)

1. The simple solution: Ban fraternities.

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sat Jul 7, 2018, 07:56 AM

Jul 2018

As a retired academic, I'm familiar with Greek organizations and though some manage to maintain their respectability, many more do not. Many are simply a permanent social opportunity to get drunk and stay drunk. They generate and maintain a less than respectful view of women that leads to sexual harassment and in some cases, assault.

At least for private universities, fraternities are difficult to eliminate because schools greatly need financial donations from alumni. And many alumni were frat members and would raise holy heck if their "house" was banned. So when frat students "misbehave," the house is suspended for a period of time and then all returns to the previous norm.

Not good.

More_Cowbell

(2,204 posts)

2. A year in the jail for the fraternity member who admitted sexually assaulting two women.