The rally concluded with a clear demand for a substantial reform of colleges and the oppressive culture they create — replacing them with student housing.

That they themselves believe that endemic sexual violence is a PR problem to be managed, rather than an abomination to be eliminated in its entirety, shows that these issues are institutionalised and deeply embedded in the Colleges.

During the talk, which called abortion a “net negative” for women, protestors’ cries of “our bodies, our choice!” from outside reverberated within the lecture theatre and the Law Annex building.