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    BDCBAnna Merlan
    3/02/16 12:57pm

    “Where Title IX Comes to Die" doesn't really have the same ring to it, does it?

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      FriedneckbonesAnna Merlan
      3/02/16 1:28pm

      I went to Notre Dame many years ago and had two friends who were raped. Neither reported and so these men went off into the world with zero consequences. It is just staggering every time I think about it.

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        atljawgaFriedneckbones
        3/02/16 1:30pm

        that is supremely sickening.

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        snakebiteFriedneckbones
        3/02/16 3:18pm

        It is really amazing/horrifying how one person can hurt another so much and just walk away, possibly never to even think of it again. Or not to even think, or care, they did anything wrong. I have my own story of sexual assault from an ND student. I also didn’t report it (my own friends didn’t believe me, so it was hard to imagine anyone else would). The culture there really doesn’t help.

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      courtAnna Merlan
      3/02/16 1:09pm

      But our football team is good, right? No? Not since 1989? Hmmmm... Remember Rudy, that bullshit movie about football? Remember? Football. Football! Jesus was the first Heisman winner! Elusive, made miracles out of nothing, lured in his opponents by playing dead and then resurrecting the play by leading his team into the promised land? Football! Touchdown Jesus! The Pope, Mother Theresa, and Lazarus walk into a bar and Lazarus slips a date rape drug into a pretty coeds drink and then two priests have sex with Lazarus hard! They literally kill him! Hail Mary, full of Grace, one two three bada boom, Lou holtz, football. Football!!!

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        kealeencourt
        3/02/16 1:18pm

        I grew up in South Bend, and this is a pretty accurate description of the Notre Dame apologist attitude that the majority of residents adopt.

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      Adrastra, patron saint of snarkAnna Merlan
      3/02/16 12:58pm

      Good. I’ve seen too many friends lose out on their cases after reporting to their respective schools. Universities need to handle investigations better, and any instance of greater applied pressure to these institutions can only be helpful.

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        Annie from the Grog BoothAnna Merlan
        3/02/16 1:00pm

        Anna, do you have any good resources for reading about Title IX and female athletes? Specifically, I'm interested in language about how coaches interact with their athletes (not in a sexual way). Thanks 😀

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          EileenOnSundayNightsAfterAllInTheFamilyOnCBSAnna Merlan
          3/02/16 12:49pm

          Notre Dame is the WORST.

          Seriously.

          Full of crazed acolytes to the cult of school spirit and sports, who will fight you for suggesting things should be different.

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            FlagrantErrorAnna Merlan
            3/02/16 12:59pm

            Notre Dame is essentially evil in university form.

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              Veronica Sawyer's MomAnna Merlan
              3/02/16 1:05pm

              Wait so the hour long sexual assault survey UofC made me take didn’t magically fix their structural sexism and inability to protect victims rights?!?!?!!?!?! Color me shocked.

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