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Warning: Story contains descriptions of sexual violence. Grace Pryor thinks back with remarkable clarity to that murky, nightmarish night six years ago, when she was stumbling back to her dorm room at Brevard College. Pryor, now 26 and an aspiring doctor of audiology, knew she’d had too much Bacardi to be driving home in the early morning of April 12, 2015. But she was alert enough to remember the alleged rape by two basketball players she called friends. In addition to that trauma were the stinging words of District Attorney Greg Newman, whose job Pryor thought was to uphold justice. “He told me five different ways it was my fault. The one that resonates most is he said it was because I was wearing a crop top and leggings. It was pretty horrifying,” Pryor said. ....
Mercer University fraternity suspended due to alcohol violation Phi Delta Theta fraternity is suspended for alcohol violations that took place in Fall 2020. Listen to the content of this post: MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) A Mercer University suspended a fraternity from campus through Spring 2021 due to alcohol violations. Mercer Director of Media Relations Kyle Sears says university officials suspended the Phi Delta Theta fraternity for alcohol violations. The incident happened in Fall 2020. Under the suspension, the organization can no longer occupy its on-campus house or hold events and meetings. What happens next? Sears says the fraternity must complete educational sanctions to address the behavior. This must happen before the organization can request a return to campus. ....