At insert your university here, we value our students and we want you to have the best time of your young adult lives while giving us thousands of dollars
Don’t worry Mom and Dad
We’ll take good care of your little angel
We’ve got black, brown, ambiguously ethnic, and Asian kids on the front of our brochure
And they’re all smiling so you know that every single one of your upcoming, uprising, beautiful shining stars will be safe with us.
we value our students
Unless they’re raped of course.
Oh I’m sorry allegedly sexually assaulted.
Report to our offices
Wait time for justice is 3 months to indefinitely
The places you’ll see your rapist on campus are including but not limited to your class,
the gym,
Starbucks,
your other class,
your professor’s office
and your dorm because he lives on the floor above yours. don’t forget the dining hall.
Go to our omelet bar in the middle of a panic attack
We also have vegan options for-
Your rape has been found irrelevant.
Excuse me, your case has been dismissed.
With a thirty day appeal period buried in the fine print of the email, you’ll receive from our office.
And 30 minutes between you and a breakdown
We do care about our student’s mental health and academic leave is an option
Your rapist will do just fine this semester.
He isn’t just your rapist you know?
He’s an RA
on the debate team
student body president
a legacy
a baseball player
his parents donated a building It doesn’t matter.
Pick one
Prepare to be a case number
Pulled out of your classes, excused
Your rapist?
Accused assailant
He can go to class.
Get out of bed.
Call his mother.
Eat.
Sleep.
Feel safe.
Feel anything.
Feel like his body is his own.
Like there’s hope.
Like there’s moving past this
Like the dorm room walls aren’t closing in.
Like anything will ever be okay again.
Like that incident on said date at said time isn’t going to all come crashing over you
Your rapist will move on with his life without a consequence but you will be left standing still with questions like
What were you wearing
did you drink
Forced is a strong word
But your rapist will be just fine
Am I disturbing?
That this is all with a smile on my face. Have no humanity.
So blunt.
So callous.
So cruel.
So unfeeling.
I’m your campus police.
The office of institutional advancement.
University president.
Your roommate.
Your rapist friends.
The title ix office.
I am your college.
and your rape is just a statistic.
you
nothing more than a rape kit.
A problem.
A stain on our reputation.
And we can’t have that.
What will our next incoming class think?