Final Project

   When the activist group Feminists United complained to the Department of Education stating that their campus, University of Mary Washington, was a hostile place for women they had every right to be concerned. After speaking out against their colleges Rugby team, for singing a disturbing chant that celebrated “violence against women, including murder and battery, sexual violence against women, including assault necrophilia, and rape”, Feminists United members began to be bombarded with messages on the popular app Yik Yak. Feminists United, as individual and as a whole, were threatened with violence and rape. The University of Mary Washington did nothing to protect them, they did nothing to protect Grace Mann.

      On April 17^th, 20 year old Grace Mann, a member of Feminists United was murdered. Grace Mann was murdered because Feminists United dared to challenge the hostile environment towards women on their school campus. The University of Mary Washington, at this point in time, is not being held responsible for her death. The University, however, should be held responsible for memorializing Grace Mann. I propose that a sculpture of Grace Mann be placed on the campus as a tribute to the ideals that Grace Mann believed in and a reminder to all current and future students to stand up for their personal beliefs.