"Assault case has elite St. Paul’s examining school’s culture" by Evan Allen | Globe Staff August 08, 2014
CONCORD, N.H. — Students call it an end-of-the-year tradition at the elite St. Paul’s School: Graduating seniors seek to hook up with younger classmates before departing the bucolic boarding school for college.
But two days before this year’s graduation, authorities say, the spring dating rite known as the Senior Salute took a darker turn. An 18-year-old senior, Owen Labrie, allegedly led a 15-year-old freshman into a secluded area and sexually assaulted her as she pleaded “no.”
Investigators say Labrie may have been in a competition with friends to see how many conquests each could chalk up.
Related: St. Paul’s grad charged with sexually assaulting student
News of the alleged assault — and the tradition that underlies it — has shocked and horrified students and alumni at St. Paul’s, set amid 2,000 acres of woodland and meadow. For them, the Episcopal high school founded in 1856 offers not just an education, but a home and family.
What is shocking and horrifying is the elite schools that train our leaders are the most perverted of all. It's the way they exercise and wield their power over the rest of us in the most blatant way. It's then mostly covered up by the whoreporate pre$$ with only tips of icebergs to be exposed.
“St. Paul’s is the best thing that ever happened to me; it changed my life,” said Jessie Dalman, 18, who graduated with Labrie but declined to discuss the allegations against him.
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In a letter to St. Paul’s parents in July, Rector Michael Hirschfeld called the allegations disturbing and vowed to review school’s policies, practices, and procedures, as well as its culture....
I thought it was a Protestant school.
A spokesman for the school, whose graduates include Secretary of State John F. Kerry and “Doonesbury’’ creator Garry Trudeau, and where tuition exceeds $50,000, said last week on that neither he nor Hirschfeld would comment beyond the letter.
St. Paul’s is cooperating fully in the investigation, according to Concord police.
The allegations are likely to prompt soul-searching at a school that views itself as having a responsibility to create a “good and just elite,” said Shamus Khan, an 1996 alumnus who later returned to teach and who wrote ‘‘Privilege: The Making of an Adolescent Elite at St. Paul’s School.”
The arrogance and conceit is astonishing. These are the same people lecturing the rest of from on high about morality. And you wonder why the country is crumbling.
But, he said, while sexual assault is horrifying wherever it occurs, it is not a problem unique to St. Paul’s.
“I’m not surprised by it, to be honest,’’ said Khan, now a sociology professor at Columbia University. “But I wouldn’t be that surprised by it at any college or high school.”
Oh?!?!
Labrie, of Turnbridge, Vt., had been accepted to Harvard, said his attorney, James Moir....
Figures.
One current student described the school’s sexual culture as “really casual.” The Senior Salute is a way for seniors to go after their “dark horse” — a classmate they liked but never connected with, said the student, who spoke on condition of anonymity because, the student said, St. Paul’s has asked the community not to discuss the case publicly.
I wouldn't want my little girl going there. OMG!
It's a PREDATOR and PREY situation, and what the hell? I suppose that is prepping for what they will encounter in the wider world and at college.
The school spokesman, Michael Matros, said students have not been prohibited from speaking but have been reminded that the issue is “a matter for the court system.’’
The student did not believe the culture of the school had anything to do with the alleged assault. “I think this was just a couple senior guys who thought they were much cooler than they actually were, trying to make a name for themselves and be legends, and it got out of hand,” said the student....
Pre-college hijinks!
A culture of hooking up — usually shorthand slang for casual sex — among high school students who may lack the maturity to discuss consent, and are often responding to peer pressure, is a “breeding ground for nonconsensual sexual activity,” said Toni K. Troop, spokeswoman for Jane Doe Inc., a statewide sexual assault and domestic violence advocacy group.
Our culture has been saturated by, I'm sorry to say it but, perverted Zionist values per the protocol.
And sexual violence, she said, knows no geographic, economic, or intellectual boundaries. “Sexual violence on high school and college campuses and among young people is an epidemic,” she said. “Unless we start to address it like the public health crisis it is, we are just going to hear more and more stories like this.”
Look at the excuses they are making for the sick elites.
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