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RandySF

(59,318 posts)
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 12:37 AM Jun 2015

Missouri students slam curfew for women

Students at the University of Missouri-Columbia are organizing against proposed rules at the college banning female students from fraternity houses at times officials say the women are at the highest risk of sexual assault, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

In response to a spate of rapes and other attacks against women on campus, the Mizzou Fraternity Alumni Consortium drafted new rules with the goal of keeping its co-eds safe. The proposals leaked and members of sororities and fraternities alike are up in arms about policies they say are sexist and dangerous.

The first policy listed in the consortium’s “Safety of Women Students in Fraternity Houses” document stipulates that, “Women students are restricted from being guests in fraternity houses during certain high risk periods. The high risk periods are: 10:00 p.m. until 3:00 a.m. on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights; every night during the first week of each semester (syllabus week); the night of Stop Day each semester.”

Further, the consortium requires fraternities to hire security personnel to enforce gender segregation at prescribed times — and be subject to auditing for compliance: “Student Conduct will hold all students accountable, including women students, for violating these policies and rules.”


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/mount-rushmore-of-university-incompetence-missouri-college-proposes-curfew-on-women-to-discourage-sexual-assault/

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Missouri students slam curfew for women (Original Post) RandySF Jun 2015 OP
Because we all know get the red out Jun 2015 #1
Why Not Just Outlaw Rape? Sparhawk60 Jun 2015 #2
 

Sparhawk60

(359 posts)
2. Why Not Just Outlaw Rape?
Fri Jun 12, 2015, 07:06 AM
Jun 2015

Seems to me they are blaming the victim. I guess the school think grown women are too stupid to think for them selves. And why stop at just restricting women's movements? Why not add a strict dress code, perhaps a head to toe covering of some sort for the women to wear? Surely that will protect women against their folly.

/sarcasm

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