'Sorority girl' comment insensitive to assault reality
In Thursday’s issue of the Daily Wildcat, staff sports writer James Kelley wrote, “LSU had its way with the UA like it was a drunk sorority girl.” As the director of the ASUA Campus Acquaintance Rape Educators and as a student of this university, I am disappointed that the Wildcat would choose to publish Mr. Kelley’s statement and trivialize the serious issue of sexual assault. Nearly one in four college women are the victims of an attempted or completed rape. The great majority of these assaults are committed by someone the victim knows and involve alcohol use by the victim, perpetrator or both. The scope and magnitude of this violence makes sexual assault not just a women’s issue, but everyone’s issue. Mr. Kelley’s statement not only trivializes rape, it tries to make it humorous and normalizes this criminal and violent behavior. By letting such a thing be published, the Wildcat harmed its own reputation as a professional newspaper and showed a lack of concern for the safety of the students on this campus. We are all responsible for ending sexual assault, and I hope in the future the Wildcat will do its part.
Noah Aleshire
political science and creative writing junior