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Message: [QUOTE="Fairfield Fan, post: 2070497, member: 6911"] This article was written by Brenda Tracy, herself a victim of rape at the hands of college football players. Tracy continues: "Well Kim…. Let me start by saying I’m tired of hearing it too. I’m tired of hearing tone deaf people like you defending and refusing to hold your own 'great' institution accountable. I’m tired of hearing about the staggering number of sexual assaults and gang-rapes that have taken place on your 'great institutions' campus. I’m tired of hearing the slow drip of information coming from the Board of Regents. I don’t need to sit in a meeting or be part of the investigation to know what’s happening on that campus and neither does anyone else. Its over? Its done? Maybe for you it is, but it will NEVER be over for the survivors. We don’t get to just decide one day to 'move on'. We are forever changed. We are never the same. "Many of us will struggle to not commit suicide. Do you know what that’s like Kim? Do you know what it’s like to desperately want to die? To hate yourself and your body so much that you can’t stand to be inside your own skin? "Do you know the immense amount of courage and strength it takes for us to not kill ourselves? "I’m assuming that you don’t because if you did you wouldn’t tell the world to 'move on'. You would understand that survivors need our nation to stay put and listen..." [/QUOTE]