Currently unknown individuals are responsible for the graffitiing* of the phrase “Fight Back Kill Rapists” across several campus sidewalks.
The Cornell Review cannot confirm if a student organization, individual students, or non-students were behind the act, but the three your correspondent saw all appeared to have been created with the same spray paint stencil. Two, both of which were on West Campus, were in bright red, and another in Central Campus was in black.
Internet searches for the phrase yield nothing substantive. Apparently, each half of the phrase is a trending hashtag on Twitter and Instagram–#FightBack and #KillRapists. Popular handmade goods e-commerce site Etsy also has “Kill Rapists”-themed clothing and accessories.
While walking down the slope, your correspondent passed a Cornell Paint Shop employee scrubbing out the graffiti on the sidewalk. He said, “It’s not the best way to get your message out.”
With the recent, arguably justified attempts to expand the definition of rapist on college campuses, this could end poorly