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Posted: 2019-05-09T17:35:38Z | Updated: 2019-05-10T00:40:25Z

A week after several dozen Swarthmore College students led a successful protest to disband two campus fraternities due to a culture of sexual violence and racism , the organizers are feeling the unique fallout that comes from disrupting a small campus.

At a small school, sometimes change can come at a faster pace, but a higher cost, Daria Mateescu, a junior at Swarthmore and a member of the schools Coalition to End Fraternity Violence, told HuffPost this week.

And change did come quickly to Swarthmore, an elite liberal arts college on suburban Philadelphias Main Line with about 1,600 students. It only took a month of organized protests to force the two fraternities, Phi Psi and Delta Upsilon, to voluntarily disband. But protesting on such a small campus can be an intimate and arduous job; one that comes with a price.

Mateescu and fellow organizer Maya Henry said everyone knows everyone on campus, including every single perpetrator.

The personal really is political, Mateescu explained. And its not a personal thing in that its a personal vengeance against anyone, but it is personal in that we are all anonymous to them, but they arent anonymous to us.