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The university has told The Mill it is treating the allegations with 'the utmost seriousness', adding that it has undertaken a formal investigation and cultural review.
Read the full story below:
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How did one message uncover years of alleged sexual harassment at the University of Manchester?
In April, Charlotte Buttercase, a final-year medic, told her year group's Whatsapp chat about the strange, anonymous call she'd received in the middle of the night - one that had left her 'feeling tiny'.
A man had called claiming to be suicidal, then asked for sexual favours while other men seemed to laugh in the background. This man had phoned on No Caller ID and Charlotte didn't recognise his voice, but he seemed to know information about her that only a fellow student could be privy to.
Once Charlotte messages her year group, students start reciting similar accounts: late-night calls from anonymous men who call them gender-based slurs or tell them to kill themselves. Charlotte says 32 women have come forward; she's written an open letter to the university urging an investigation.
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‘Do you know how much of a bomb you’ve just set off?’
In the face of abuse, Manchester’s female medical students won’t be silenced
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Alongside Jen's fab piece, for anyone interested I'd also recommend this recent @manchestermill.bsky.social piece where a walk through the (desolate) 80s city centre is recreated, showing just how much has changed (in the centre at least) down the decades.
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