Student reports assault near campus graveyard on Friday

An IU student was sexually harassed Friday morning near the Indiana Memorial Union, according to the IU Police Department.\nThe victim, a 19-year-old resident of Briscoe Quad, told IUPD she was walking from Kilroy’s Bar & Grill, 502 E. Kirkwood Ave., to meet her boyfriend on campus when the incident occurred, said IUPD Capt. Jerry Minger.\nShe said she was walking down the stairwell near the IMU parking lot when she heard people talking by Beck Chapel. She thought they were talking about a class project and disregarded them, Minger said, reading from a police report.\nAccording to the report, three men then approached her. Two of them grabbed her, pulled her pants down and tried to get her to the chapel area, Minger said.\nThe men spoke to her as if they knew her, the victim told police. \n“They knew her name and names of people that she was with at the bar,” Minger said, “but she did not know who they were personally.”\nBefore the men took the victim anywhere, her cell phone rang and the men ran eastward, Minger said.\nIUPD officers searched the area but did not find any suspects.\nMinger said the victim described the men as “clean-cut-looking, college-aged, white males with dark hair and wearing dark clothing.”\nThe victim will be re-interviewed to confirm the incident, Minger said.\n“In second interviews, new details sometimes come to life,” Minger said. “Maybe something will come up that we can work with.”\nMinger requests that anyone with information about the incident contact IUPD at 855-4111.