Here’s a weird thing: in most other countries, the University she went to would never make it into the headline…
It would be the “Baton Rouge student rape case”, or just the “Baton Rouge rape case”…
I get that the US is obsessed with alma maters and such, but it just… Isn’t really relevant here, and wouldn’t be, unless it happened on campus, or the gang rapists also happened to be students there…
As a non-American, I do find the phrasing of “LSU rape case” to be rather odd and jarring, in this instance…
Not that you’re the only one doing that. The articles written about it do so too…
Here’s a weird thing: in most other countries, the University she went to would never make it into the headline…
It would be the “Baton Rouge student rape case”, or just the “Baton Rouge rape case”…
I get that the US is obsessed with alma maters and such, but it just… Isn’t really relevant here, and wouldn’t be, unless it happened on campus, or the gang rapists also happened to be students there…
As a non-American, I do find the phrasing of “LSU rape case” to be rather odd and jarring, in this instance…
Not that you’re the only one doing that. The articles written about it do so too…