Police arrest four students during protest

A “Day of Rage” sends the wrong message for this cause. Yelling “explicit chants” and getting arrested at the Administration building does not make people take you seriously. If anything, this sort of behavior is actually detrimental to the cause.

I support the idea of opposing sexual violence and increasing awareness. However when trying to attract attention to a noble cause, one must use their best judgment if they are to be the face of what they stand for.

I’m embarrassed for the manner in which these students tried to bring awareness to their cause. the chanting, and some of the signs were very immature.

They absolutely went about this in the wrong way. I agree that the signs were immature and seeing as the basketball players were never charged, I question if they are against sexual violence or simply against the basketball players.

“We are saddened to learn the two accused rapists are representing our university through our basketball team,” McPike said. “They are not our heroes. … We will not let them be our heroes.”

Christina McPike raped me. She is also now an accused rapist and no longer my hero.

dont see any of yall organizing against rape on campus!

Innocent until proven guilty…unless we really wanted them to be guilty in which case they’re totally totally guilty.

since when is justified anger displayed peacefully immature? yes, the players were never charged, despite convincing evidence that a crime may have taken place. this deserves a day in court.

Thank you for doing that.

Somehow I knew right away this was going to be about that alleged rape with the basketball players yet again. Some folks REALLY have an axe to grind about that for some reason.

They need to either put up or shut up. If there’s some evidence of a crime, they should present what they know to the media. I guess they believe that there was a coverup or conspiracy that led to the players not being prosecuted. Of course, the media is in on it too since they’re controlled by the Big Rape lobby. To go on endlessly throwing these allegations out there is just plain cowardly.

The worst part is how these folks always act like being against rape is somehow an edgy or progressive stance, as if all the power structures in our society were somehow pro-rape.

I love women’s rights

Darko, please grow up and move on.

So McPike is admitting her belief that everybody who is accused of rape is a bad person. It’s so blatantly hypocritical it’s funny. I was assulted by a drunk woman and almost suspended from the university for it because later she decided to accuse me of sexually threatening her. Essentially I ended up on probation because I got hit in the face, but I was found to be in the wrong because she was a drunk woman and I was a man. This is the type of agenda these people have.

These idiots need to be protesting at MSU sports games and at frat houses, not at the adminstration building. I don’t see anyone in the administration building raping anything other than our wallets. I think these kids are confused… Unless they are protesting financial rape too?

i am ashamed of my parents for giving me the name ross because that means i share the same name as alyx ross. this organization thinks they are doing justice but justice does not come with cursing and immature action. they deserve to get arrested and i hope to god that one day these people will get a life and not try to create such pathetic arguments. yeah, michigan state and the police let rapists get free…..right. sweet jesus this is pathetic and im appalled i share the same name as these immature brats: spartans. this organization contradicts the name of the school they so call love…change ur blood u dont dserve to bleed green.

whats worse is they make mistakes too and if they got away with it and some organization protested for that person to suffer for that mistake, then doesnt that defeat the purpose of human rights? im pretty sure if they made a mistake theyd be blessed that they are given a second chance and wont fuck it up.

thanks coalition against sexual violence for making me hate politics more than i already do. u did ur job…………………not.

Ross, you are a moron. You would be lucky to be a fraction of the person Alyx is. The evidence is out there, blatant as can be, and no one is taking it seriously. Instead, people are getting their panties in a bunch over the “inconvenience” of the Coalition coming to sports events, or a sketch of a gun on a rock. It is disgusting to see how strong the reaction is against the Coalition, but not against rape. If any of you did your research, as opposed to being entirely reactionary, you’d realize this is not just some random accusation; it is backed by enormous evidence that was ignored for no good reason whatsoever. Rape is hardly ever brought to trial, and even more rarely is any semblance of justice served.

Rape isn’t a “mistake.” It’s a crime, and it happens all the time. Being drunk isn’t an invitation for rape, and it certainly doesn’t make it “okay” or something the victim should be ashamed of.

Christina never said that all alleged rapists are bad people. She only commented on this case, one with considerable evidence.

It really disappoints me to see so many people jumping to discredit this group without even looking for the facts. They are bringing attention to a very real problem, and are doing it bravely. If you have a problem with their methods, fine, go about it your own way. However, I am willing to guess you won’t get very far—politely asking people to please stop raping others just doesn’t work. Maybe the Coalition’s methods aren’t always pleasant, but they are much more effective than writing letters to officials who have no incentive to listen. Do you all really think that change comes from pleasantly asking people to stop what they’re doing? The language of the signs and the images painted shouldn’t be what are making you so upset, it should be these crimes continuing to happen and be swept under the rug, and the culture we live in that first accuses the victim and blindly protects the accused. In what other crime do we call the victim readily ‘the accuser’? When a person claims to have been mugged or assaulted or x y and z, do we immediately call for “innocent until proven guilty”? Though false rape reports do happen (just like any other crime), they are infrequent, yet we cling to these rare stories of “fake” reports as justification for our skepticism. The truth is we live in a culture that doesn’t want to deal with the issue of rape; we either shrug it off, or say the person deserved it—“had it coming.”

I stand by the Coalition, and am disgusted with my peers’ ignorance.

@Leila – as much as there may be evidence, evidence does not mean things occurred the way that the accused may say. Last I checked, overzealous DA’s that find rape and go off of some evidence end up ruining a few kids lives. Read up on the Duke Lacrosse scandal.

As bad of a crime rape is, being accused of rape is a scarlet letter which is almost impossible to avoid in the future. A female friend of mine, 3-4 years after the Duke Lacrosse players were COMPLETELY EXONERATED said, “Wait, aren’t those the guys that raped that girl?” when I mentioned the team in passing.

Here’s a link for you on the story: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_lacrosse_case

Rape is also, in most cases, not nearly as clear cut. Forcible rape cases are easy to prosecute if you can find the perpetrator. It is a lot more difficult to see where rape is when a yes, a no, or a moan, can be misinterpreted. When is silence a yes? When is it a no? At the end of the day, rape is a crime, but it is also an extremely difficult crime to prosecute.

I was personally appalled at the fact that any MSU athlete would put him (or her – remember, guys can be raped too… and even date raped!) self in that poor of a position, but I think many of these coalitions do not understand the effect that a charge can have on a young man’s life. They may not be heroes, but they also do not deserve to have their life ruined unless there is enough evidence to at least get the prosecutor to get on board with charging them.

Dear Alum, I am also an alum who was educated at MSU. Things I learned there were that rape shouldn’t come with shame, yet victims do feel that (and don’t need more from public judgement). Rape isn’t about sex, more about dominance and sometimes violence. The judicial system isn’t alway fair, trials come about with proof of evidence, not because of truth of event. The Coalition is doing a service of awareness that all students and officials need to remember. Alum, your reference to Duke is interesting. However, there are other sides too….look up Notre Dame’s recent incidents. Notre Dame did not address their issues and sadly a vulnerable young lady died. So, the fact is that a prosecutor took the jaded way out and said and event isn’t provable (even though a player admitted something), and there are no charges. Let’s go from here and point out what could have been handled better…Someone letting those players move out completely from their dorm room the night in question. Someone advising them to drop their student info from the MSU people finder. No one standing up and saying to other students that an event happened and we are dealing with it in the Athletic Department. And lastly, to the players, WWYMS (what would your mama say). You freaky freshman used a girl by having sex with her several times, all three in the small little dorm room. So, Coalition use your voice in a legal way and let others hear that things must change!

There wasn’t a rape. Get over it.