“As a survivor of sexual assault at UVa, I think our community should be divided,” Wyatt told the crowd. “It should be divided between the rapists, the assailants and those who would defend them, versus the rest of us that want to cut them out of our community.”

The protest did not proceed without criticism. Men lining the patio of a bar on The Corner were quick to yell “insults and slurs” at the protestors as they walked by, said Carl Goette-Luciak, a fifth-year student who helped to lead the march.

Others volleyed comments scorning the actions of the crowd as it marched through the streets, but Goette-Luciak contends that facing such a reaction was the protest’s way of “confronting the issue where it lives.”

“If male students at this school will deride the people who are demanding change, [if they] won’t take seriously how important this moment is, it just stresses the gravity of the situation we’re facing,” he said.