We wish to bring to the attention of Flyer News readers an incident we feel acted out against our Marianist values and degraded the reputation of UD due to the careless actions of a few immature students. We hope by bringing this incident to light, the UD community will be watchful to prevent other such occurrences from tainting the reputation of an otherwise thoughtful and socially aware campus.

This past Monday in class, a student shared seeing sexism within the Ghetto two weekends ago. Our peer saw a group of 30 or so intoxicated males throwing beer cans at passing females chanting "Women are objects!" repeatedly. Our peer was appalled by the blatant sexism and that UD students would act in such a way toward another, treating them as less than human. This event occurred for 20 minutes or so, including a female UD student who was a victim of this attack approaching the mob and encouraging their treatment toward her.

Many in class were saddened by this display of sexism and downright mistreatment of human beings by UD students, and the acceptance and encouragement of such acts. We, as a Catholic Marianist university, have certain charisms by which we agree to live, two of these being community and inclusively. This calls for UD students to respect their fellow students and treat them with love and integrity. This incident negates such charisms and gives a bad name to UD.

We say to you, our peers, we are better than this. This incident is unacceptable at any time in any place, and especially here at UD. We ask those involved to realize the impact their actions had and take responsibility; drunkenness not now nor ever should be an excuse. Also, we ask you to document such incidents using your cell phone or digital camera and report them to Public Safety as well as file a BRI, or Bias Related Incident at http://stophate.udayton.edu. Let's show the world what UD really is and never allow this to happen again.