The Deputy President and Registrar of UCD, Professor Mark Rogers, has issued an email to all students stating that recent allegations of a Facebook group sharing images of female students have not been upheld.
Professor Rogers stated that “the investigation found no evidence of the existence of such a group where UCD students were posting nude photographs of female students and then rating them.”
The email continued that although a number of students said that there were postings on Yik Yak relating to the alleged group chat, the investigation did not find any student who had “first hand sightings” of such postings.
“The investigation sought, initially through the Dean of Agriculture, information on a confidential basis from students of the School of Agriculture and Food Science, and through social media from the entire student body of approximately 27,000,” Professor Rogers wrote to students. “The investigation also interviewed 28 individuals and went through a large amount of online and other documentation.”
“Although this investigation is concluded, I am not so naïve as to believe that the university community is immune to this type of activity. If you have been affected by the inappropriate sharing of private information on social media, the student advisors and wider University support services are available to you.”
Professor Rogers also wrote that the investigation “expressed disappointment” that the information had not been passed to the University when it came to the attention of the College Tribune and the Students’ Union between 28 December 2015 and 5 January 2016.
For more on this story, see the print edition of the University Observer this Tuesday
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