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Rape crimes in India vs elsewhere: deliberate disproportionate reporting by international news
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independent.co.uk/student/oxford-university-suffering-groping-and-sexual-harassment-epidemic-college-head-warns-10249811.html



Quote:Oxford University suffering rise in culture of sexual harassment, college head warns



Dr Alice Prochaska said female students face 'excessively harassing and intimidating behaviour'

Victoria Richards Author Biography



Thursday 14 May 2015





The head of an Oxford University college has warned of an "unprecedented" scale of "epidemic" of groping and sexual harassment.



Dr Alice Prochaska said in an email to undergraduates that female students were facing "excessively harassing and intimidating behaviour" amid reports of rape jokes in communal areas, sexual coercion and groping at college parties and on campus.



"Rape is not a joke, as those who have been victims of it could tell you," she wrote.

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"Any level of sexual harassment is also not a joke; it is not acceptable that members of the college and their friends should be made to feel uncomfortable and disrespected here." Ione Wells, who is behind the #NotGuilty campaign (Image: Instagram/Ione Wells) Ione Wells, who is behind the #NotGuilty campaign (Image: Instagram/Ione Wells)



Dr Prochaska, who has been the head of Somerville College since 2010, warned that she had received reports of "rude and sometimes threatening behaviour on a scale unprecedented in my time as principal".



She also said that Somerville, which was attended by Margaret Thatcher and was one of the first women's colleges in Oxford - although now around 50 per cent of its students are male - had also seen incidents of homophobia, the Telegraph reported.



Her comments follow a widely-publicised open letter published by Oxford student Ione Wells, who waived her anonymity to highlight her own experience of being sexually assaulted in London, kickstarting the online campaign #NotGuilty.



Ione Wells has launched the #NotGuilty campaign to raise awareness of sexual assault Ione Wells has launched the #NotGuilty campaign to raise awareness of sexual assault



The Times also reported that a meeting held by the college’s junior common room, which represents undergraduates, heard that deans had received six times more complaints this term than in the past six years combined.



Daniella Shreir, a student who spoke at the meeting, told the newspaper that there was an intimidating atmosphere, adding: "Many left the room extremely shaken and in tears. Only a few of us felt able to speak out."

So, when's BBC coming out with the documentary on Oxford's rape/sexual abuse culture? Nah?

Time to tally all the spheres of massive sexual abuse in the UK:

- British medical establishment - both doctors (including of children with cancer) and nurses, all raping their patients

- TV hosts to politicians even monarchs (Saville et al) - entire paedophile rings

- Cab drivers

- and now Oxford university.



I'd say it's pretty endemic and epidemic: "UK rape central". Good title for Leslee Udwin's next documentary. If she doesn't make it, it will be taken as proof that she has an evangelical agenda against Hindoo men and, through it, Hindoo heathenism.
Death to traitors.
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Rape crimes in India vs elsewhere: deliberate disproportionate reporting by international news - by Husky - 05-14-2015, 07:05 PM

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