Zach Olsons Blog

This article comes from the Little Village Iowa City/Cedar Rapids news, written by Adria Carpenter. The last couple of weeks the Fiji Fraternity both from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Iowa have had some controversial news coming from there respected frats over the last two weeks. The first reports from what I have heard of is that a 19 year old sophomore in the Fiji fraternity from the University of Nebraska on a Tuesday night during the first week of classes, brutally sexually assaulted a 17 year old freshman during a house party they were having that night. She was found on the lawn by another classmate bleeding and crying, then soon after was rushed to a near by hospital in Lincoln. After the whole school hearing about this incident started to protest outside the student union office and the Fiji house asking the school to ban the frat for good, and kicking out all members from the school. The student body of the school have started a petition online to get people to sign to get the fraternity banned and so far has over 500,000 signatures and still rising.

Moving onto the other fraternity getting a lot of heat to its name was the Fiji fraternity from the University of Iowa. These past couple of days Fiji at U of I have gotten the same heat as UNL, but this time these accusations are coming from last year, when two members of the chapter were accused of both sexually assaulting two young ladies and there is video proof of it and no action has been made by the university. The last couple of days the protests have gotten out of hand per say at the university. The protestors have started to spray paint words onto the the fraternities house, then proceeded to take more violent actions to the house. They started to break the entry level windows, people crawled through the windows and started to steal a bunch of tvs, windows, and much more. The guys who still lived in the house called the police but the police proceded to tell them they weren’t coming so they had to climb out the back windows to get away, because they were scared of their lives.

I really loved the way the students at the University of Nebraska the situation with the peaceful protests that they put on and didn’t put anyone lives in danger and did it in the right way and acted like how adults in college should act. The way the students at U of I handled the situation should not be acceptable by the university because it put kids lives in danger and most of them should have not have to go through a situation like that while still in college, but I hope the girls who went through this mess get some clarity and get what they deserve because no 17 and 18 year old girls should have to go through something like that as well.