[Reader-list] ATTENTION!

[Aaditya Dar]

Two dozen goons molest a girl student of Delhi University in broad daylight
within the campus.

If you think this is unacceptable, read on:

Examinees appearing for a police recruitment test in the university on
Sunday ended up sexually assaulting several girl students of various
colleges, attacking in droves, tearing off clothes and beating up guards.
This happened in broad daylight within the university campus.

Further, the police refused to register FIRs, observing that "nobody got
raped" [except for the law, of course]

The university administration and the "elected" students union woke up to
the facts only after several hundred students mounted a vociferous protest.
They've promised a slew of purely ornamental actions which will definitely
NOT help in dealing a death blow to the problem of sexual harassment and
eve-teasing in the campus, which seems to have become institutionalized in
DU.

The fact remains that such cases continue to recur in DU with frightening
regularity. But the administration still doesn't wake up from its slumber
and it doesn't develop any mechanisms which will deal with sexual harassment
on a daily basis.

*UNITED STUDENTS*, an independent group of DU students which has in the past
fought for justice in the Priyadarshini Mattoo and Jessica Lall cases, *is
taking the initiative of bringing together parents of DU students and other
concerned citizens to press for our demands of developing constructive
mechanisms to deal with sexual harassment on campus.*

We want DU to be a safe and enclosed campus, with its own sensitized and
sensitive security force [which would also comprise student volunteers] and
a strong central body made up of elected student and teacher
representatives, with statutory powers to deal with sexual harassment on
campus.

   *United Students organizes protest of parents and other concerned
citizens against repeated sexual harassment in DU. *
On 23rd September 2007 (Sunday)
Central Park, Connought Place at 5:30 PM
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*LETS JOIN HANDS TO SHAKE THEM OFF THEIR COMPLACENCY. IT'S THE UNIVERSITY'S
RESONSIBILITY TO ENSURE SAFETY OF ALL ITS STUDENTS.
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For more information pl. contact Ritwik (9873554908), Ekta (9818649392),
Nikhita (9818318359), Nupur (9868870647)