The Hunting Ground Page #2

And it actually wasn't until one of my

other friends came to me and said,

"I was assaulted at a fraternity.

How do I report?"

And I said,

"Actually, I don't know. "

And I disclosed to her

that I was assaulted as well,

and we sat down

and just pulled up Google

and started looking up

how to report at UNC.

I knew I was more comfortable

reporting than she was.

So I said, "Okay, I'm gonna go report

and then I'll figure out how to do it,

and then I'll tell you,

and then you can do it too. "

So I told this administrator

I was violently raped,

and we're sitting down at this point,

and she looks at me and she's like,

"Rape is like a football game, Annie,

and if you look back on the game,

what would you do differently

in that situation?"

I was expecting resources.

I was expecting support.

And instead she gives me

this metaphor that rape is football.

And it made no sense.

And I ask her... I was just,

"No, rape is not like football at all!"

And she's like,

"Well, you know, were you drunk?"

And, "What would you

have done differently

if you could replay

the situation again?"

And I was just getting blamed

and blamed and blamed for this.

They kept asking me,

like, "What were you wearing?

What were you drinking?

How much did you have to drink?

Did you pregame?"

He kind of just lectured us about

how we shouldn't go out in short skirts.

And we shouldn't drink because,

I mean, that's our fault.

"Did you say no? How many times

did you say no? How did you say it?

Okay, what were you wearing?"

There was no response.

There was no response for seven months.

I thought that if I told them, like,

they would take action.

But the only action

they took was against me.

After I was sexually assaulted,

they said I should just drop out

until everything blows over.

Out of school.

I went back into her office,

and I asked her what happened.

She looked me right in the eye

and told me that she forgot.

The school's response

always seemed like

they were more concerned

about him and his needs.

She said, "You don't know what he's

going through right now and neither do I.

He could be really having a hard time. "

They also told me,

despite the fact that I had

a written admission of guilt from him,

that I didn't have enough evidence

and that, in fact,

what I'd presented to them, um,

could only prove that he loved me.

There's a lot of victim blaming

with this crime,

which has a silencing

effect on survivors.

If a student comes

to an administrator with a problem,

it's not as if the administrator

wants that student to be harmed.

It's not as if the administrator wants

the harm to be perpetuated,

but their first job is to protect

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