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Editor | Arielle Lipan [email protected] NEWS Monday, March 26, 2018 3 Protestors marched around campus dressed in outfi ts ranging from tank tops to corsets to show that a sexual assault victim never asks for it. CW / Hannah Saad Students, community protest victim-blaming culture By Jennifer Johns | Staff Reporter The group walked from Denny laughing at me and put me on your social “I believe they could do a lot better, Chimes, passed the fraternity houses media,’” Mellon said. whether that’s intake, keeping up with As Emily Triolet, a sophomore major- on University Boulevard, then looped Triolet said she was happy with the qualitative and quantitative data or even ing in public relations and co-founder of around on 4th Street and back toward turnout for the event and the group of how they respond to sexual assault cases the UA Walk of Shame, stood waiting by Denny Chimes. people they attracted. on campus,” Coleman said. Denny Chimes in her pink bathing suit, As they walked, they caught the atten- As the walk began, walkers chanted After the walk concluded, the co-found- she was catcalled. tion of many – drivers, bystanders and phrases including: ers of the walk spoke in front of Denny “It didn’t faze me, getting catcalled, fraternity members. Darties around fra- “2-4-6-8, stop the violence, stop the Chimes about the importance of the event because I’m used to it,” Triolet said. ternity row seemed to stop in awe as the rape!” and Mellon read anonymous stories from Triolet’s pink bathing suit represents group of people armed with bullhorns, “Say it once, say it again, no excuse for survivors of sexual assault. more than a hot day to her. She said it violent men!” “It takes a long time to share your was in that pink bathing suit that she was “However we dress, wherever we go, story,” Mellon said. “For some, sharing assaulted. Triolet said she was 18 years yes means yes, no means no!” your story is empowering.” old, and she was asleep in a tent on a We have a culture Toward the end of the march, the Mellon said she has always felt strongly camping trip when a male friend decided generic chants morphed into a direct call- about victim blaming and assault. As a to wake her up in a “special way.” of disrespect ing out against prominent, accused rap- survivor of sexual abuse and assault her- “I’m lucky that I don’t remember all of ists nationally and locally: Donald Trump, self, Mellon said people she spoke to said it,” Triolet said. “I know that a lot of other and coercive Roy Moore and TJ Bunn Jr. she asked for it and called her a slut. people that aren’t as lucky.” Taliafferio Coleman, an attorney for The Walk of Shame spoke of services Triolet had dressed specifically for behavior. Five Horizons Health Services, said he for those victimized by sexual assault, the second annual Walk of Shame. She attended this event because in his work including the Women and Gender and 20 other people walked scantily-clad he hears stories of victims of sexual Resource Center. Apart from the WGRC, to advocate for an end to sexual assault assault and how they have contracted dis- there are also Turning Point Domestic and victim blaming on The University of eases because of that violence. Coleman Violence and Sexual Assault Services, Alabama campus. - Emily Triolet said he feels like the University could do the University of Alabama Police According to the 2017 UA Campus better to help women who are victims of Department, the University of Alabama Security and Fire Safety Report, 21 rapes sexual assault. Counseling Center and the Title IX Office. were reported on campus in 2016. Of those 21, 18 occurred in a residence hall. The Rape Abuse and Incest National poster boards and pink bathing suits Network said only 310 out of every 1,000 marched on their row, but blank stares MORE INFORMATION sexual assaults are reported to police, turned into woos, laughs and snickers. meaning more than two thirds of sexual People outside the fraternity houses took To speak with a crisis advocate at Counseling center: assaults go unreported. pictures and videos and stared as the par- Triolet said part of the problem of sexu- ticipants walked by. the WGRC call the UAPD number: (205) 348-3863 al assault stems from cultural norms. Co-founder of the UA Walk of Shame, (205) 348-5454 Text BAMA at 741-741 to reach a “We have a culture of disrespect and Annabeth Mellon, a sophomore majoring Ask to speak to WGRC advocate trained volunteer coercive behavior,” Triolet said. “You in women’s studies and telecommunica- don’t owe someone something because tion and film, said they got the responses Turning point 24-hour line: Beth Howard Title IX Coordinator: you laugh at their jokes or accept a vodka they expected to get during the walk. (205) 758-0808 (205) 348-5496 cranberry from them.” “Honestly I was like ‘I hope you are Editor | Marissa Cornelius [email protected] 4 Monday, March 26, 2018 OPINIONS TWITTERTWIT- REACTIONSTER Do you think Alabama should allow the death penalty? Why or why not? Tweet us your thoughts! Georgia Gallagher @Georgia_Gall Tribune News Service No.