Xavion McLennan was removed as Freshman Class President on March 16 for what The Echo previously reported was due to a comment he made at a Kappa Sigma party, as well as a text message he sent to a fellow student. UCA’s Student Government Association was not aware of a police report filed against McLennan for rape, harassing communications and assault in the third degree.

In the March 16 meeting, SGA did not disclose why they removed McLennan except for saying he was removed for a “misconduct violation.”

In a previous article by Echo reporters published on March 18, McLennan said he was removed due to a comment he made at a Kappa Sigma party on March 13, as well as a text he sent to an honors student. 

McLennan said the text he sent to an honors student joked that he would help them with an assignment if they voted for him in the next election, but McLennan did not say what he said at the Kappa Sigma party.

Party

According to an email sent by Sabrina Jones to Bo Blew, associate director of recruitment and student programming, McLennan made an inappropriate comment towards her during the party.

“I do not want to contact the freshman class president anymore after his behavior at the [Kappa Sigma] party we both attended. At the party, he had asked me ‘Hey, where are your easy friends for me to take advantage of?’ After this behavior I no longer wish to collaborate with him for our honors service project,” the email read. 

“I am so sorry to hear that this happened to you.” Blew replied, “Please feel no obligation to interact with him further.”

Blew asked Jones in the email if he could forward this information to SGA advisers, and Jones agreed.

Reporters for The Echo reached out to Blew to comment on this exchange.

“I am not able to comment on this,” Blew said.

Kylie Mcgraw, executive president for SGA, said she was made aware of this incident.

This comment came seven days after a police report was filed against McLennan for rape, harassing communications and assault on March 6. 

Jane

Jones is a friend of a victim who filed a police report against McLennan. Due to fear of harassment and retaliation, the victim will remain anonymous and be referred to as “Jane.”

Jane had met McLennan during welcome week of Fall 2025, and they began dating shortly thereafter.

According to a narrative written by Officer Zack Hill in the police report, towards the end of their relationship McLennan and Jane were having consensual sex that turned nonconsensual after McLennan introduced a sexual act that was not discussed beforehand.  

“I was crying and I was screaming, and a little bit after I think, I feel like he realized it and so he stopped,” Jane said. 

“Afterwards I kept saying ‘Sorry, I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to ruin the mood,’ and then he broke up with me that day.”

Jane said, ”It made me feel very used, like I was just there for sex.”

Jane told her friends what had happened.

“I told them that he had made me cry, and when they asked what happened and I explained it, they said that it was rape,” Jane said. 

Jimiah Cooper is a friend of Jane, and has known McLennan since Kindergarten.

“She described it as just something that made her uncomfortable, but as a psychology student,  the way he went about it sounded like assault,” Cooper said. 

Jane’s friends began to tell other acquaintances about what happened, and it eventually circled back to McLennan. 

Jane said that after McLennan found out that it had been circulating among their mutual acquaintances, he began to follow her.

“[Jane] said that Jimiah Cooper had kicked him from their group chat and that he found [Jane] in the Student Center and ‘dug his fingers’ into her shoulders and dragged her to the side to demand to know why she told Jimiah to kick him from the chat,” the police report said.

“It scared me, my face started turning red because I was very scared,” Jane said. 

Cooper said that she saw McLennan grip Jane by the shoulder. 

“She came back with him and his hand was on her shoulder, and it looked tight enough to hurt her but not tight enough to bruise,” Cooper said.

McLennan also approached the victim during a “Lego Batman Movie” Night hosted by Student Activities Board, where he “confronted her about giving him panic attacks, depression and suicidal thoughts,” according to the police report.

“It felt very one-sided, like a very one-sided conversation. He was saying how much he hated me, he was very mad at me and how he forgives me, but he wants an apology,” Jane said.

McLennan also approached Jane in the Student Center after the first encounter and sat down near her table and watched her while she was on the phone.

“She told me that she assumed he was waiting for her to disconnect the call so she contacted Jimiah to come get her. When she arrived, they walked out of the Student Center and he followed them until they exited and then he went back inside,” the police report said.

Jane made the decision to report McLennan to the police after she was made aware of an Instagram story McLennan made.

“He was advertising an animation video he was going to post on Youtube titled ‘How my ex ruined my chances,’ and he was posting it on my birthday,” Jane said. “Since I thought he was starting to talk about me, I decided I needed to have something on file.” 

Kylie McGraw said SGA was not aware of any police report filed against McLennan.

McLennan

McLennan said that the rape allegations made against him are false.

“One of my worst fears is getting charged with a sex charge as a Black man, because it’s really hard to get those charges dropped,” McLennan said. “I even told her this, I told her that I’m scared of having a sex charge on me or anything like that.” 

McLennan said that the allegations of harassment are false and mainly just coincidences.

“I’m extremely busy, I’m in a bunch of clubs and organizations and so is she. We were also part of the same organizations too, so of course she’s going to see me around campus,” McLennan said. 

McLennan said that he did not touch her during the confrontation in the Student Center.

“I can see, in hindsight, how some of my actions look bad, but it wasn’t with intention,” McLennan said. 

Aftermath

McLennan was made aware of his removal from SGA the day of the March 16 meeting, which he was not allowed to attend.

“They said that I was threatening the image of SGA, and that they didn’t want their image to be threatened,” McLennan said. 

Kylie McGraw, executive president, said that SGA is not required to state the reasoning for removing a member, and that she was fine with Xavion himself telling the story in a previous article by The Echo. 

“They handled it great,” McLennan said. “It wasn’t blasted everywhere, they kept it quiet. A lot of people don’t even know that I got removed.” 

IDEAL was also made aware of the comment McLennan said at the Kappa Sigma party.

“They knew about it, they talked to me about it,” McLennan said. “They said you might be depressed and stuff, but here we believe in second chances and that you learn from your lessons.” 

McLennan is still allowed to be a part of IDEAL.

Jane said she felt like she was being silenced. 

“With SGA, I was happy with the fact that they kicked him off because I’m like okay, some justice was served, but they’re letting him run for reelection.” Jane said, “I normally wouldn’t mind if I knew that he could grow as a person, but like even then I want people to know what he’s done to me and my friends.” 

“And then with IDEAL I’m upset with the fact that they can’t kick him off just for that because it’s an allegation and speculation,” Jane said.

Sabrina Jones, the girl McLennan talked to at the Kappa Sigma party, is part of IDEAL, and when she went to talk to IDEAL advisers about feeling uncomfortable working with McLennan after what he said at the Kappa Sigma party, they said the best they can do is seat him away from her during meetings.

When Jane went into the police station for the last time, she said that lieutenant Michael Shaw told her to stop talking about what happened.

“They told me ‘If you don’t want him messing with you anymore and stop talking about you, then you need to stop talking about him’,” Jane said.

“It felt very dismissive, because I hadn’t been talking about him,” Jane said.

Shaw said he does not recall this discussion.

After this conversation, Jane decided not to press charges.

“[Shaw] said that I had a couple of options. I can either go to the attorney’s office and see if it’s actually classified as a sexual assault, and from what I told him it’s hard to tell if it would be since it started off as consensual,” Jane said. “Or, I can drop the case and go to the Title IX office. I still felt like it was my fault so I decided not to press charges.”

Jane also decided not to report the case to the Title IX office.

“I had heard from other people that they don’t really do anything, and at this point I was just really tired,” Jane said.

In a narrative provided by Shaw in the police report, he said that, “I informed McLennan that a Title IX report was submitted.”

Jennifer Craun, Title IX Coordinator, said that one Title IX report had been submitted to her this year, but she could not state who submitted it or who it was against. 

McLennan said he is planning on running for reelection this upcoming fall. 

“I plan on running, I love SGA, every part of it. Everybody there still loves me and stuff,” McLennan said. 

When reporters for The Echo reached out to McGraw for a follow-up interview, McGraw declined.

“There is no additional information to share at this time,” McGraw said.

McLennan is still extremely active on campus.

“I got a bunch of executive positions and I still got a full ride to college. I still have a lot of accomplishments and organizations that I’m a part of,” McLennan said. 

Jane said this situation has caused her to fail multiple classes due to poor mental health.

“I just want everything to stop, I want it to end. I fell into another depressive state and skipped a lot of classes,” Jane said.

“He had classes in the same building as me on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and I would see him. It scared me a lot so I didn’t want to go,” Jane said.

“I just don’t feel comfortable knowing what he did to me and others, and yet so many people still think he’s a great guy,” Jane said.

“I mean people don’t really know who they’re voting for if he goes up for reelection in the fall, which is completely unfair,” Cooper said. 

McLennan is a current staff writer for The Echo.