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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordMay 1, 2017
There is something going on where upper classmen believe that they can sexually assault lower classmen.
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Jackie Speier
Democratic · California
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Editor's note · Context

Speier points out the troubling trend of upperclassmen assaulting underclassmen.

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