Two letters to the Editor of The Daily Maine Campus from two female undergraduate students requesting to remain anonymous. The students report on a off-campus party where they allegedly experienced multiple incidents of sexual harassment and sexual assault

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The University of Maine DigitalCommons@UMaine Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Special Collections 9-29-1988 Sexual harassment is not a laughing matter Student names withheld by request University of Maine Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/social_justice  Part of the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Higher Education Commons, and the United States History Commons Repository Citation by request, Student names withheld, "Sexual harassment is not a laughing matter" (1988). Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. 639. https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/social_justice/639 This Letter to the Editor is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Social Justice: Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact um.library.technical.services@maine.edu. J, . ' Sexual harcissineiit is not ·· a Iau irig matter To the editor: A oman · not safe walking alone night . How many~ ~take for~ university to harassment that happened Saturday, Sept. 24. l experienc-ed tbe orst sense-of-in ion lha 1 have everfelt in a.party ly sec wbAt a major pr9-· H ( at ~- blem this . ? :( .. atmosphere-. (1 abuse. The men surrounded me trying to · me, and pinch my · · behind and breasts. It was frightening to think that these men were-doing this apinst my ptsl Saturday niabt I September il . 2l, I t to -an off-a.mpus-- ~to There ere ei&ht tar c men _ will. I pushed them away to no in the k.itcben w o ere vuThTy -~.qoe..oi!tie men pull-party in Old Town -.ittt"somc To the cdifor: ' drunk.. I pm my jaclcet in the ed down his jeans and exposed fricilds. s· OC 1 am DO a beet drinker 1 1 I'· f re-quent trlps t<l ;tchcn for atc:r. One time, I entered fo a · and barasKd by eight very big -men ho ap-. pea.red drunk. They formed a · ti&ht circle around me and ed grabbin& at me. • o of tbc·men introduced themvl es to me one _ a member of the footba.ll team and the other a member o . the etbau team. I don't lcno if they wer-e tdfin& me the truth, but jun because they are joc _ \bey- have t to treat me in this manner. One man(~ footba.ll player), hoolc ·my band and informed aie that I coWd .. jac -him ff Ytime. ' Wu I uJ)l>iOICld to icd -OODOn:dT- • ,_. 4 i I honored, I fdt afraid. I made my way past them and ran out of the room. Why do some men think that they can treat omen thia ay? Am I uppolCld to be lo im· preaed U. they arc jocks? Are sent the University of Maine .,--...-mKH.MM! Uck'~ 1 Whv · · · buildin&. a new b91eball lounae and nOl llddioa more · • to cam1pus? ~in:hen cupboard where himself iQ me. Disgusted, I ran 1 also attended the same off, into t t other room. campus party as m)i friend. lh$>ught it would_ be safe. I left the pany intact, but am a sophomore and have been · On occasional returns to the later thou&ht what if a oman to many partiu, yet I have ' 'kitchen, I w faced with some had been invted to one of these never bad to deal with the kind of verbal or physical · "gang banp" witboutlcnowing · I 1 what could b&ppen and finding that be couldn't ~? I wouldn't even · h that '0n my orst enemy. Everyone bas their own ., private pace. No one h the : right to invade It. u JDYODC reads this and recosDi.zCs it as somCthini that they have done, think about ho. I feel and bow any other woman ould feel. Think about bein& raped. Nam withheld by request· 

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