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Hundreds of protesters converged on a University of Nebraska-Lincoln fraternity house Tuesday night after reports surfaced of an alleged sexual assault at the house.
The crowd organized outside of the Phi Gamma Delta house at 1425 R St. at 10 p.m. on Tuesday, chanting at the men inside, one of whom is alleged to have sexually assaulted a UNL student sometime Monday night.
UNL Police Chief Hassan Ramzah said the alleged assault is under investigation and the department is “looking at a variety of different factors based on what was reported.”
The alleged assault was reported to campus police at 3:47 a.m. Tuesday.
Around 18 hours later, a wave of UNL students flooded the block of R Street in front of the Nebraska Union and largely remained there for more than two hours, holding signs and shouting chants and expletives as officers from the university’s police department and LPD looked on.
Largely unmasked demonstrators shamed and…