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TexasTowelie

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Sun Mar 26, 2017, 12:59 AM Mar 2017

Sign campaign rips frat house culture at the University of Minnesota

Neighborly niceties aren't en vogue this spring along University Avenue at the University of Minnesota.

Out front of the Students' Co-op, a three-story, 18-room coed commune that's sandwiched between the Alpha Delta Phi and Delta Tau Delta fraternities, stands a village of hand-painted signs. While some are run-of-the-mill anti-Trump screeds, most address the Frat Row neighbors.

"Frat boys, stop raping people," reads one.

"Dear frat boys," says another, "I'll be making signs til y'all stop assaulting people!!!"

The display began early in the spring semester. Co-op members attending various sexual violence awareness demonstrations around the Twin Cities would leave them in the yard when they returned. That gave residents an idea.

Read more: http://www.citypages.com/news/sign-campaign-rips-frat-house-culture-at-the-university-of-minnesota/416829353

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