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Jess Nani Rhetoric Final Dr. Moeggenberg Dec. 3, 2018 Leading the Way With Consent: How Fraternities Can Use Their Social Platform For Change In late September 2018, Utah State University hosted its annual “Mr. USU” male pageant. Ten USU undergraduate men got up in front of 500 of their peers and performed talents, talked about current events, and promoted USU. The vast majority of these men are affiliated both with campus involvement groups and fraternities. A poignant moment of the night came when Sigma Phi Epsilon and A-Team (a campus involvement group) member Lukas Lehman aka “Mr. Greek” got up to answer his assigned current events question. As a member of the audience, I couldn’t tell you what his question was but his answer stuck with me and almost everyone else in the room. He took his two-minute time limit to expound on the importance of believing victims of sexual assault. That same September weekend the U.S. government voted to allow Brett Kavanagh into the Supreme Court of the United States. It was a powerful moment in the United States’ history and Lukas’ commentary on the subject garnered a lot of attention. People came up to him and messaged him for days after thanking him for his bravery and leadership in a competition setting that was supposed to be “light-hearted”. Lukas has been a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon for three years as well as a prominent member of USU’s involvement groups. He used his platform to promote the