A Johanna Hanink column from
A Johanna Hanink column from yesterday’s Daily ties together two current stories: the University’s efforts at recruiting female faculty and the University’s efforts at discouraging female students from drinking by telling them that they’ll never have a “meaningful relationship” and they’ll get vomit all over their pretty clothes. But how about this confluence: the “party patrol” tickets students, male and female, for drinking and noise violations. The University’s anti-alcohol posters imply that being “taken advantage of” is at least partially the fault of a female student who drinks. Two women are assaulted walking home late on weekend nights, the most recent attack taking place over by the Law Quad. Is it fair to connect the dots here? Well, the AAPD, responsible for the party patrol, and the University group responsible for the anti-drinking announcements have nothing to do with each other. And there’s no hard evidence that the AAPD’s alcohol enforcement efforts detract from their ability to catch real criminals. But it’s an interesting juxtaposition, at the very least.
The Law Quad attack wasn’t even the only violent incident recently in which the victim doesn’t remember what happened. A 15-year-old boy woke up in a downtown parking structure with a bump on his head and a missing wallet the day after the Law Quad incident.