Don’t touch her.
That girl walking down the hallway is minding her own business. She’s not asking for a catcall or a stranger’s arm slung around her shoulders. And she’s certainly not asking to be slapped on the butt, no matter how she dresses or the way she walks …
The full version of this story is posted on HHSToday as “Hands off.”
Unfortunately, the motivation to write this column came from a personal experience. After an incident wherein I was sexually harassed in the stairwell at Hillsborough, I reported the incident to my guidance counselor, who reported the incident to the principal. My parents called the principal later that week, but they received mere assurances that Hillsborough is a safe school and apologies because there was nothing more he could do about students like the ones in the stairwell. Because administration would do nothing to prevent the incident from happening to someone else, I decided to speak up the best way I knew how: with a keyboard and an issue of the Red & Black.
This story was published in the Feb. 2015 issue of the Red & Black and on hhstoday.com.