Washington Post
6.15.15 | Nick Anderson
LOS ANGELES — Savannah Badalich had fallen asleep during a student government retreat one night in fall 2012 at a mountain resort east of this city. She recalls waking up to a shock: A respected student leader was sexually assaulting her. He urged her to keep quiet as she elbowed him and told him to stop. “Shhhh,” she remembers him whispering. “It’s okay.”
Badalich, then a sophomore at UCLA, said she didn’t report the incident to authorities because she feared no one would believe her. She kept her pain almost entirely to herself. At one point, she tried to commit suicide.
But during her junior year, Badalich stopped keeping quiet. She went public with her story, joining other students in a nationwide uprising against sexual violence that has shaken colleges and universities and seized attention in state capitals and Washington.
“I decided, I’m going to go a different way to find justice,” Badalich said. “We’re getting there. The revolution’s happening.”
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