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N According to UM’s annual security report, O long blond hair stood on C 13 forcible sex offenses occurred on cam- the limestone outdoor pus between 2012 and 2014 (the numbers Tstage at the center of the Univer- for 2015 are not available yet). But accord- sity of Miami’s Coral Gables cam- ing to Westaway, the rate is much higher. | PULP “The numbers are increasing — a pus. When her name was called, few weeks ago, three students came to EWS EWS she approached the microphone me in one day,” Westaway says. “And N and detailed a violent rape she said that’s just me, one professor. What chills Y | had occurred three years ago at an me are those who suffer in silence.” Westaway grew up in Boston thinking DA end-of-year fraternity party. Her she wanted to be a journalist. But her true voice was steady as she recounted passion was feminist literature and poetry. how she had been drinking, but She wrote some herself. Then, in 2005, she not drunk, when a frat brother led moved to Miami to earn her master’s degree in English. In 2007, she received a graduate GE | NIGHT+ her into his room and attacked her. A certificate in Wom- T S “I was a freshman and wasn’t sure if the en’s and Gender health center even did rape kits,” explained “OPEN Studies from the Beatrice, whom New Times has given a pseud- DISCUSSION OF University of North onym because she’s an alleged victim of sexual VICTIM JUSTICE Carolina. After- assault. “I’m a senior now, and of the 20 or so TENDS TO BE ward, she moved to girls that lived on my floor [freshman year], six Gainesville to com- of us have been sexually assaulted, some of us SHUT DOWN. plete her PhD in drugged and then sexually assaulted. And I’m I’M HAUNTED BY English at the Uni- not counting the girls who were inebriated.” THE CLIMATE versity of Florida. That afternoon on the stage, students lis- THIS CREATES.” Westaway re- tened to Beatrice in pin-drop silence. Some turned to UM in sobbed quietly in the crowd. Beatrice ex- 2012, teaching freshman English classes and plained she had been afraid to come forward. lecturing on feminist theory. With a cherubic | MUSIC | DISH | FILM | ART | | MUSIC DISH FILM ART She thought either no one would believe her face and blond hair, she looked like just an- or she’d receive backlash from the fraternity. Photo by Beula Beatríz other student on campus. In the classroom, “You hear that there’s a freshman girl Katharine Westaway: “I stand before you pretty much terrified.” she was known for being approachable, at a party, and everyone blames the vic- welcoming anyone to her office to talk. EACH B tim,” she said. “It was intimidating.” fied because I don’t feel safe advocating for decision not to renew her contract. “Dr. Westaway inspired me to be more em- | MUSIC | CAFE | FILM | | ART | METRO | NIGHT+DAY | STAGE RIPTIDE | LETTERS | CONTENTS | Beatrice herself began to cry. Then Dr. victims on this campus,” Westaway said later “I feel like open discussion of victim services powered,” says Maleeha Riaz, a UM senior. “I Kathari ne Westaway, the outspoken 39-year- at the December 3 event. “This hits home and justice tends to be shut down,” Westaway was a shy freshman, and I learned so much from old adjunct professor who had organized the when I hear from UM’s attorneys nearly says. “I’m haunted by the climate this creates.” her, not only as a professor but as a mentor too.” event and counseled Beatrice for two years, every time I publicly speak out for victims.” Sexual assault on campus has become a “I love this school, but there are a lot of stepped forward and put her arm around For the past two years, Westaway has acted national debate. It’s a sensitive issue for col- privileged students who don’t care,” says the student. At the end, everyone cheered.