A Loyola student reported that she was raped off-campus April 7 during a Tulane fraternity party at F&M’s, according to a BOLO report e-mailed to students and faculty last Tuesday.

The student told University Police that she met a Tulane student at the party and accepted several drinks from him. He then escorted her to the back patio of the bar, she said. From there, she reported that he took her behind the building, forced her to the ground and raped her. The student said she firmly told him that she was not interested in having sex with him before he pushed her to the ground and forced himself upon her.

Another Loyola student who had accompanied the victim to the party found her in the bathroom shortly after the incident. The student took the alleged victim on the party’s provided school bus back to Loyola’s campus.

When she returned to campus, she informed an RA in Carrollton Hall, her residence, of what happened at the bar and went to report the incident to UP early the next morning. UP filed its own report, and the incident was also reported to NOPD. From the UP office, she was taken to Charity Hospital for a medical examination.

She identified her attacker as an acquaintance and a member of a Tulane fraternity. Last week, a warrant was issued for his arrest. According to the victim, who is working with a detective from NOPD’s sex crimes department, the accused attacker has not been arrested and a U.S. Marshal had been sent to his parent’s home in Philadelphia looking for him.

UP Sergeant Matthew Hahlos could not release the incident report from that night to The Maroon because he said that “the investigation is still ongoing.” NOPD would also not release the police report for the same reason.

The end of the BOLO offered information on the RADS (Rape, Aggression Defense System) self-defense program Loyola offers every year for women. The student said that she took the class last year from UP Lt. Angela Honora, but that it did not necessarily prepare her for an attack from an acquaintance.

Nicole Wroten can be reached at [email protected].