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UVA Rape Story Collapses; Duke Lacrosse Redux
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Why Rape and Trauma Survivors Have Fragmented and Incomplete Memories

James Hopper, Ph.D., trains investigators, prosecutors, judges and military commanders on the neurobiology of sexual assault. David Lisak, Ph.D., is a forensic consultant, researcher, national trainer and the board president of 1in6

In the midst of assault, the brain's fear circuitry takes over while other key parts are impaired or even effectively shut down. This is the brain reacting to a life-threatening situation just the way it is supposed to.

A door opens and a police officer is suddenly staring at the wrong end of a gun. In a split second, his brain is hyper-focused on that gun. It is very likely that he will not recall any of the details that were irrelevant to his immediate survival: Did the shooter have a moustache? What color was the shooter’s hair? What was the shooter wearing?

The officer’s reaction is not a result of poor training. It’s his brain reacting to a life-threatening situation just the way it is supposed to—just the way the brain of a rape victim reacts to an assault. In the aftermath, the officer may be unable to recall many important details. He may be uncertain about many. He may be confused about many. He may recall some details inaccurately. Simultaneously, he will recall certain details – the things his brain focused on – with extraordinary accuracy. He may well never forget them. All of this, too, is the human brain working the way it was designed to work.

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What role did training like that provided by Hopper and Lisak play in the UVA President's response?


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Did You See What Bill O'Reilly did tonight?

He read a letter from a viewer (gave no name) who said she was Raped at U. of VA. and that her friends were, too. She said it's an absolutely horrible situation.


What kind of "journalism is that? What is O'Reilly thinking?

I could write him and say I killed five people in Alabama in June of 1976!

You can't make this Sh!t up!



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I'm still having trouble with felony criminal complaints being handled by a university committee...
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One problem I see is that universities will never do the right thing as long as they are getting millions of government dollars. And a whole lot of their government dollars come into the university via student loans. Foreign students have their own government pay full price. Its obvious the university caters to the minorities at their school. And those minorities include woman, blacks, hispanics and asian, native Americans, etc. Taken together they are the majority. The only group left to screw is the white male. They are not part of any other group. And it is easy to pick on the white males becasue they have no one to protect them… not even their own university.
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Teresa Sullivan:

"Today is the first day of final exams, and in a few weeks we will end a tumultuous fall semester. Three members of the Class of 2017 have died this semester, and the sense of grief and loss is palpable. In addition, many members of our community are grieving over the deaths of young black men in Staten Island and Ferguson."


Funny, why doesn't she name the race of her dead students, one defiled and murdered by a serial killer of another race?

Why doesn't she say we're grieving over the deaths of young white women?

One of her "young black men" is 42 years old with 31 arrests and is a convicted felon.


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Teresa Sullivan:

"Today is the first day of final exams, and in a few weeks we will end a tumultuous fall semester. Three members of the Class of 2017 have died this semester, and the sense of grief and loss is palpable. In addition, many members of our community are grieving over the deaths of young black men in Staten Island and Ferguson."


Funny, why doesn't she name the race of her dead students, one defiled and murdered by a serial killer of another race?

Why doesn't she say we're grieving over the deaths of young white women?

One of her "young black men" is 42 years old with 31 arrests and is a convicted felon.


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Mason: I was thinking exactly the same thing!!!!

What relevance is the deaths of young black men in Staten Island and
Ferguson to the purpose of her letter??!!??!!

And how the hell can she overlook the death of a young white women
at the hands of serial rapist and murderer of a different race?!?!

I could not believe it when I heard about the contents of her letter!
Edited by MikeZPU, Dec 9 2014, 11:37 PM.
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Because race trumps gender.
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We are at a time when the multicultural left wants to destroy, once and for all, the power of the white man overlords who have forced war-mongering, white-privileged, paternalistic, heteronormative society on women, black people, brown people, and queer types for the last three hundred years.
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December 10, 2014
UVA Rape Scandal Update
By Ben Cohen

On December 5th, Rolling Stone issued a quasi-retraction on the UVA rape accusation. Turns out, the ritual gang rape they reported as truth might never have happened. Rolling Stone writer Sabrina Erdely alleged that, in September 2012, fraternity Alpha Phi Psi carried out a ritual gang rape of a freshman girl as part of an elaborate initiation. When evidence that contradicted this story emerged, Rolling Stone issued a statement indicating that they were no longer standing by their story.

Evidently, the fraternity had presented convincing evidence to the media that no party had occurred on the date of the alleged attack, and that nobody fitting the description of the lead perpetrator belonged to the fraternity at the time of the alleged attack.

The Washington Post interviewed one of Jackie’s (the accuser’s) friends. As recounted by Sabrina Erdely, Jackie’s friend Andy discouraged a bloodied and battered Jackie from going to the police, but this isn’t what Andy told the Washington Post. According to Andy, he asked a visibly shaken Jackie whether she wanted to call the police, and she declined.

Andy also recounted Jackie telling him a significantly different story than the one Erdely told, or retold. Jackie was not bloodied and bruised, but appeared shaken. In his version of events, she claimed that a group of men forced her to perform oral sex on them at a fraternity party, with no mention of being thrown through a table or vaginally raped.

Jackie’s freshman roommate Emily Clark also believes something terrible happened to Jackie. In a letter to the campus newspaper, Clark describes Jackie’s freshman transformation from a happy and outgoing girl, into a depressed loner. According to the letter, Jackie confided in Clark that she was assaulted at a party by several men, but wouldn’t go into specifics.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, Blogger Charles C. Johnson claims to have revealed Jackie’s real identity; he also claimed she had a history of making false rape allegations, but appears to have retracted this claim.

For their part, Rolling Stone seems to have modified their position somewhat. Rolling Stone editor has removed the part of the disclaimer stating that their trust in Jackie was misplaced, to a statement that Rolling Stone should not have honored Jackie’s request not to contact her (alleged) attackers.

At the moment, this story has received far too much scrutiny for the facts not to come out. But one thing is clear: for whatever reason, Rolling Stone dropped the ball. By agreeing not to seek comment from the accused rapists, or the other witnesses, they went to press with a bogus story. The specifics of what, if anything, happened will be sorted out, and the repercussions for those responsible for this bogus story will follow shortly thereafter.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/12/uva_rape_scandal_update.html#ixzz3LUUwCG00
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http://www.fspac.org/news/statement_rolling_stone_university_virginia_controversy/


Joint Statement from FSPAC, NPC & NIC on University of Virginia/Rolling Stone Controversy

The Fraternity and Sorority Political Action Committee (FSPAC), the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) and the North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) believes recent events show the need for a comprehensive reevaluation of many issues related to students and sexual assault on campus. We are saddened at the lack of journalistic integrity Rolling Stone demonstrated in publishing its article on campus rape at the University of Virginia. The reporter and magazine’s reckless actions have many negative impacts on higher education that cannot be fixed with a simple apology.

First and foremost, this article sets back the fight against rape and sexual assault, marginalizing and discouraging true victims from stepping forward. Fraternities and sororities will continue to educate students about how to intervene and prevent sexual assault, and how to support all victims of campus sexual violence. We believe anyone who has committed sexual assault should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. We will not allow the Rolling Stone article to undermine our intent to be leaders in solving the problem of sexual assault.

Second, the reckless Rolling Stone article set off a chain of events that led the University of Virginia to suspend operations of all fraternities and sororities for the remainder of the school term. This decision was made before an investigation into all of the facts alleged in the story was completed and it was not consistent with the law or university policies. The school’s decision to suspend hurt the reputation of thousands of outstanding student leaders in our organizations who had nothing to do with the alleged events described in the article. As a result, the University’s rush to judgment has caused great harm and emotional distress to the members of Phi Kappa Psi and many in the fraternal community. We believe universities must demonstrate more respect for the fundamental rights to due process and freedom of association for students and student organizations when allegations of misconduct are lodged. A rush to judgment on campus all too often turns out to be wrong, especially when applied at the organizational level.

Third, we call on Congress and state legislatures to look seriously at the complex issue of how to handle sexual assault on campus. We believe any crime that involves bodily harm – which automatically encompasses any sexual assault – should be handled primarily in the criminal justice system, regardless of the accused’s status as a student. Congress should examine whether the public interest is being served by forcing sexual assault cases into a campus judicial process. We believe campus processes lack the necessary skill sets, resources and capability needed to reach the right decision and many who work with these issues contend campus conduct bodies will always lack this expertise despite the best of intentions of those who work with Title IX and sexual violence on campuses.

Finally, we call on the University of Virginia to immediately reinstate operations for all fraternity and sorority organizations on campus, to issue an apology for its actions of the last two weeks, to publicly explain and release all records for the basis of its decision to suspend our organizations, and outline what steps it will take to restore the reputation of our groups and students at UVA.

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The Fraternity and Sorority PAC (FSPAC) is the nation’s largest political action committee devoted solely to higher education issues. For more information, visit www.fspac.org.

The National Panhellenic Conference (NPC), one of the largest organizations advocating for women, is the umbrella group for 26 national and international sororities. NPC sororities are located on more than 675 campuses with 353,345 undergraduate members in 3,184 chapters. Alumnae are represented in 3,773 associations throughout the world. For more information, including a complete list of NPC sororities, visit NPCWomen.org or find NPC on Twitter and Facebook.

Founded in 1909, the North-American Interfraternity Conference (NIC) is the trade association representing 74 International and National Men's Fraternities. Through advocacy, collaboration, and education, the NIC works to ensure that fraternities operate in an environment conducive to their success.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/us/students-and-leaders-grapple-with-crisis-on-university-of-virginia-campus.html?_r=0

Students and Leaders Grapple With Crisis on University of Virginia Campus

By ALAN SCHWARZDEC. 9, 2014

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Following Rolling Stone’s account of a horrific gang rape at a fraternity house at the University of Virginia, the university’s president, Teresa A. Sullivan, tried to navigate a path that shifted by the day.

On the day the article appeared, Nov. 19, she issued what many took to be a defensive statement, saying the article “negatively depicts the University of Virginia and its handling of sexual misconduct cases.” She said the local police would investigate the matter, and she showed little of the strong emotion that many students and alumni expected.

After three days of national criticism and campus protests for seemingly not acknowledging what some were calling a predacious “rape culture” at the university, Dr. Sullivan issued a far stronger statement, saying that “I have heard you” and expressing “sorrow” and “rage,” and then suspended all fraternity and sorority activities until after the Christmas break.

Then, some considered her initial caution partly vindicated when Rolling Stone acknowledged the article’s serious reporting flaws and cast large portions of its narrative into doubt.

She faced demands from national fraternity and sorority organizations that she reinstate Greek functions and apologize for the university’s “rush to judgment.” She did neither, stressing that the broader issue of sexual assault on campus goes beyond the specific allegations in the article.

Dr. Sullivan’s position underscores the narrow, bending path universities must traverse in evolving crises dealing with sexual assault and other emotional subjects as they try to balance public horror, demands for student safety, and calls for fairness for the accused in an environment overheated by social media and nonstop news coverage.

“The one thing you know for sure in these situations is that 80 percent of the initial reporting is going to be inadequate, or just wrong — there’s always so much more that’s behind the story and isn’t public,” said Richard H. Hersh, former president of Trinity College in Connecticut and Hobart and William Smith Colleges in New York. “It seems to me that the most responsible thing you can do is say, ‘Give me some time to find out more about this,’ but that’s unsatisfying to everybody but the lawyers. The demand on the part of the media for simple, clear and quick answers is part of the problem.”

Recent high-profile university crises include the Penn State child molestation cases and cheating scandals at Harvard and the University of North Carolina. An increasing number of sexual assault cases tend to highlight specific aspects of the overall debate, whether it is the function of local law enforcement (Florida State), mishandling of accusations by university personnel or the proper response to disputed allegations.

Virginia has spent three weeks becoming a knot of all of those threads and more. And it has done so on a campus not just heavily invested in Greek culture, but with many well-connected alumni in nearby Washington, raising both the benefit and risk of strong statements.

Any statement by Dr. Sullivan would have offended someone, as illustrated by comments on the university’s online alumni forum, where demands for her resignation came from both flanks. Comments about how “the uber-PC crowd at UVA,” including the president’s office, “only too happily bought into” the Rolling Stone article alternate with others saying the article was “the only reason things have been appropriately addressed” by the university.

“Does the administration have a feminist ax to grind and is therefore willing to trash the reputation of our University in order to enforce your agenda?” another post asked.

John D. Foubert, a former assistant dean of students at the university and national president of One in Four, which provides educational programs regarding sexual assault to college campuses, said had Virginia erred in not immediately sounding committed to ensuring student safety.

“When they respond thinking of publicity and liability first, they tend to blow it and miss something important," said Dr. Foubert, a professor at Oklahoma State University. “When they respond with a sincere desire to do what is best for students, they not only do the right thing, they also tend to do well publicly.”

Questions about the Rolling Stone article, combined with the beginning of final exams on Monday and the prospect of the Christmas break, have left most people on campus refraining from public comments until next year, when more facts could emerge. A university spokesman on Tuesday declined to comment.

Others have not held back. The National Panhellenic Conference, a national sorority organization, said on Sunday that the Virginia fraternities had been improperly maligned and punished. The organization said it was not satisfied with Dr. Sullivan’s statement Dec. 1 that members of Greek organizations were “good and decent people.”

“We believe in due process and it was not exercised here,” said Jean Mrasek, the organization’s chairman, in an interview. “Students have the right to assemble. Those are basic rights. It is something we do find common ground on as a fraternal community.”

But even Virginia’s fraternities did not support that statement from Ms. Mrasek. Tommy Reid, the president of the university’s Inter-Fraternity Council, met with Dr. Sullivan at her home on Monday night and told her that the national fraternity and sorority groups’ demands for reinstatement and apology had never been endorsed by Virginia’s fraternities, which as a whole supported the suspension from beginning to end.

“The temporary suspension has provided the fraternity community with time to step back and think critically about its role in the elimination of rape at UVA, and allowed us to sort of review our priorities as students first and fraternity members second,” Mr. Reid said. “It’s allowed us to take a breath.”

As the primary student representative of Virginia’s 32 suddenly embattled fraternities, Mr. Reid issued a sharp, unequivocal response to sexual abuse issues on campus before the university did. While the university appeared defensive, Mr. Reid wrote, “we are mortified that any fraternity member is responsible for perpetrating such a heinous crime.” In an interview Monday night, Mr. Reid said he had deliberately avoided hedging with “might be responsible” — or using any form of the word “alleged” in the entire statement.

As the campus enjoys some relative calm during finals, the university is making some nonverbal statements. The most symbolic, perhaps, is allowing the front doors of Peabody Hall, the home to the dean of students and the admissions office, to remain covered with more than 100 small notes written by students that read, “My friend was raped” and “I don’t feel safe anymore. Thanks.” On Monday, several prospective students and their parents walked through the doors uneasily.

Many of those notes were written by some of the more than 300 students who have posed in photographs on a Facebook page in which they hold a sign that says, “I Stand With Survivors.” Lyra Bartell, who set up the page in the wake of the Rolling Stone article, said in an interview that even if Dr. Sullivan were to shift out of her relatively neutral stand and volunteer to pose as well, she would question the motivation.

“I don’t trust anything the university says at this point,” she said. “Unfortunately.”

Richard Perez-Pena contributed reporting from New York.
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http://www.nationalreview.com/article/394238/we-should-name-rape-accusers-kevin-d-williamson

December 8, 2014 6:46 PM
We Should Name Rape Accusers
It is time to lift the veil of anonymity.
By Kevin D. Williamson

We tend to know infamous criminals by three names: John Wilkes Booth, John Wayne Gacy, Lee Harvey Oswald. This has led to some fun conspiracy-theory speculation — “Why do serial killers usually have only two names while ‘lone gunmen’ have three?” — but it is mostly the result of newspaper convention, e.g. “Police arrested Charles Francis Xavier of the 1400 block of Graymalkin Lane in North Salem, N.Y., on charges of operating an unlicensed daycare.” Sometimes the middle name doesn’t seem necessary — Leon Czolgosz doesn’t usually get the “Frank,” and Sirhan Sirhan is still just Sirhan Sirhan — but there are a lot of guys named “John Booth” out there, and police blotters traditionally have used full names and addresses to cut down on mistaken identity. One has to sympathize with people who have common names (I imagine the poor fellow who writes Stalker gets tired of people on Twitter wondering why he’s such a right-wing monster) but it’s worse for people with uncommon names: A Texas newspaper once identified a man with an unusual foreign name as a convicted sex criminal, noting that his job brought him into a girls’ dormitory at the college that employed him — both of those things were true, but the sex criminal with the unusual name and the college worker with the same unusual name were not the same man.

Never mind the large check that probably was written by the newspaper’s publisher — imagine being the man wrongly identified as a convicted sex offender, seeing that in the newspaper as you’re eating your morning Froot Loops. Imagine what that felt like. Imagine going into work that morning, and the looks you’d get.

Naming names is a serious business, so I do not write this lightly: We should publicly name the accusers in rape cases.

Put another way: We should treat rape and sexual-assault cases like every other crime. Criminal complaints are public records, and their contents are matters of public interest. That generally includes the names of crime victims, though there are exceptions, e.g. when information is withheld to maintain the integrity of an ongoing criminal investigation. Those exceptions are generally temporary and organized to a particular end. But in two cases, there are common blanket exceptions: The first is in the case of minors, and the second is in the case of rape victims.

In cases of rape, some states have statutory exceptions to the usual practice of releasing complainants’ names; and, even where that is not the case, it is the usual practice of media organizations to suppress those names. That is largely a formality in contemporary practice, inasmuch as it is practically impossible to suppress names in the modern social-media environment. If you’d like to know, for instance, the full name of the University of Virginia student generally believed to be the “Jackie” at the center of the fake Rolling Stone article, Twitter is just a click away.

Suppressing the names of rape victims — to say nothing of protecting the identities of those who make false accusations of this horrible crime — is intended to liberate victims from the stigma associated with such victimization, but it also contributes to it. By insisting on anonymity, we cultivate the false belief that rape victims have something of which to be ashamed in a way that victims of other crimes do not. This goes beyond mere embarrassment: Men who have been mugged may very well feel ashamed of their inability to protect themselves and their property, and may feel that their victimization reveals them as being somehow unmanly, inadequately virile. (That this is a less intense and less intimate violation than rape should go without saying.) The victims of Bernard Madoff, many of whom considered themselves financial sophisticates, may very well have felt ashamed of having been victimized. But we do not suppress the names of people who make accusations of fraud or file armed-robbery complaints. Nor is there a political faction in the United States insisting that we “always believe the victim” in securities-fraud cases.

And, for good reason, we do not offer anonymity to those accused of rape and other crimes. In the case of rape, this and other deviations from normal legal process creates a poisonous asymmetry and a powerful temptation: One can ruin a life while remaining comfortably cocooned in anonymity. Consider the case of Oliver Jovanovic, who was wrongly convicted of rape, and whose prosecution was enabled in part by so-called shield laws that excluded from evidence e-mails between the accused and his accuser in which she expressed her consent to, and her enjoyment of, the sexual acts that transpired between the two. In that case the accuser, a 20-year-old college student, was described by her grandmother as having a long history of having made similar false accusations. Jovanovic served two years of a 15-year prison term before his conviction was overturned.

Fortunately, Rolling Stone is not the last word in these cases.

The distasteful but undeniable fact is that organized feminism is not very much interested in rape as a crime; organized feminism is interested in rape as a metaphor, which is why the concrete problem of rape has been displaced in our public discourse by the metaphysical proposition of “rape culture.” If feminists were interested in actually preventing real cases of sexual assault, they would not abominate those who prescribe commonsense measures to avoid victimization, and they would not dismiss the teaching of self-defense as an accommodation to “rape culture.” If you want to help someone prevent rape in fact rather than tilt at abstractions, then the three-letter organization beginning with “N” that you want isn’t NOW — it’s the NRA.

For feminists, rape is not as much a discrete crime as it is a dramatic instantiation of what they believe to be the larger and more insidious project of men’s domination of women in all spheres — sexual, economic, social, political, etc. The reality of rape — and it is a horrific reality — is for them a political tool: If you refuse to prostrate yourself in front of the designated totem of the day, then you are an apologist for rape. It is not coincidental that false accusations relating to rape are used as political tools by the Left, or that the targets of these false accusations are either explicitly conservative groups and individuals or such traditional bugaboos of the campus Left as fraternities, the military, and sports teams.

During the clerical sex-abuse scandals, the Catholic Church was roundly — and rightly — criticized for its repeated failures to bring these cases to the proper criminal-justice authorities so that they could be prosecuted and for instead trying to handle the cases in-house according to its own rules. If we take the feminists at their word (we shouldn’t) then in terms of sheer numbers of victims the purported college rape epidemic dwarfs that scandal, and yet feminists are curiously resistant to the argument that these cases should be handled by police and prosecutors rather than by deans of students and campus kangaroo courts. If your interest is in preventing and punishing rape, then things like teaching self-defense and insisting on prosecution are the first items on your to-do list. If your interest is in using rape allegations as a political cudgel, then you ignore rape and focus on “rape culture,” an evocative phrase that can mean anything you need it to mean at the moment.

Rape is a vicious crime. So is murder. It is time that we began demystifying the former by treating it more like the latter. Lifting the veil of anonymity is the first step.

— Kevin D. Williamson is roving correspondent at National Review.
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https://soundcloud.com/slateradio/hanna-rosin-interviews-sabrina-rubin-erdely

Hanna Rosin interviews reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely about her Rolling Stone article "A Rape on Campus."
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We are at a time when the multicultural left wants to destroy, once and for all, the power of the white man overlords who have forced war-mongering, white-privileged, paternalistic, heteronormative society on women, black people, brown people, and queer types for the last three hundred years.

Give yourself an "A", young man!

You passed the course!

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