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[quote=Anonymous]How does UVA get out of staff requiremented to be a mandatory reporter for crimes?  I know mandatory reporter laws exist for primarily for children and elderly but it seems like they should be required to report a gang rape to proper legal authorities.

System is so woefully broken...

Sexual assault victims go to the university for help, the university's best interest is served in not reporting a rape.

The university sexual misconduct board investigates rape claims?  I can't imagine they have the resources or staffing available to properly investigate any real crime.

I know you will say if people are mandated reporters victims won't go get help, it seems like victims are already not reporting due to this broken system and if there is no evidence collected or confession then there is no way to prosecute.

Everyone says this issue need to be spoken about and addressed, read in bold the reaction of the young men to the march and memorials but also pay attention to the fact that the person describing the reactions and fixing the memorial was male.

http://www.roanoke.com/news/education/higher_education/uva-protest-against-sexual-violence-swells-on-rugby-road/article_83c704fa-2b1f-56b1-af3d-2c30e6ae5d86.html

[i]The fury in the crowd was palpable as speaker after speaker criticized responses from UVa President Teresa Sullivan and others in the wake of the exposé.

Claire Wyatt, a 2013 UVa graduate, dismissed the reaction that the article should “unite [students] rather than divide [them],” and praised the crowd’s “righteous anger.”

“As a survivor of sexual assault at UVa, I think our community should be divided,” Wyatt told the crowd. “It should be divided between the rapists, the assailants and those who would defend them, versus the rest of us that want to cut them out of our community.”
The protest did not proceed without criticism.[b] Men lining the patio of a bar on The Corner were quick to yell “insults and slurs” at the protestors as they walked by, said Carl Goette-Luciak, a fifth-year student who helped to lead the march.[/b]

Others volleyed comments scorning the actions of the crowd as it marched through the streets, but Goette-Luciak contends that facing such a reaction was the protest’s way of “confronting the issue where it lives.”

“If male students at this school will deride the people who are demanding change, [if they] won’t take seriously how important this moment is, it just stresses the gravity of the situation we’re facing,” he said.

[b]Later in the night, Goette-Luciak said he saw five students, both male and female, tearing down a memorial that students had created at Peabody Hall. In support of those who had been sexually assaulted, students had covered the doors of the administrative building with Post-it notes filled with stories of their experiences and encouragement toward survivors, he said. They also placed stones, creating a “small mountain” in front of the building, to symbolize survivors they knew.
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Goette-Luciak said he walked past the memorial an hour or two after the protest when he saw students tearing down the notes and discarding the stones.

[b]“We confronted them and they were very aggressive, very violent towards us,” he said. “One young man in particular, with chest puffed out, kept screaming, ‘What are you going to do about it?’ and then left.”

Goette-Luciak said he spent two hours taping the memorial back together, along with friend Danya Batallas, and called the university police to file a report.
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“It sheds light on the fact that despite the outpouring of concern over the issue that the Rolling Stone has started, there are still indications that there are many in the UVa student body who are angered by the concern being given to the issue,” Goette-Luciak said.
As the protest began to wind down early in the morning Sunday, Victoria Olwell, a professor in UVa’s English department and organizer of the protest, took the stage.

“When we thought of this, we thought this was going to be an event with seven people,” Olwell said, commending the outpouring of student support. “I’m moved. I’m astonished to see all of you here today — you know this is only the beginning.”[/i][/quote]

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