Penn protest for Mackenzie Fierceton draws crowds demanding apology
“It is never okay to punish a survivor for what they’ve experienced,” said one speaker at the rally.
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“It is never okay to punish a survivor for what they’ve experienced,” said one speaker at the rally.
Mackenzie Fierceton, 24, shared her side of the story after her Rhodes scholarship was rescinded last year, with a new report claiming she was abused by her mother and her mom's boyfriend.
After an anonymous email, the University of Pennsylvania went to extraordinary lengths to verify a student’s story — reaching out to dozens of people and scrutinizing what she had written about herself in several essays.