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December 10, 2014 5:27 PM
In WaPo, Jackie's Friends Reject Key Parts of Rolling Stone's Account
By Charles C. W. Cooke

Another day, another nail in the coffin of Rolling Stone’s now infamous tale. This afternoon, the Washington Post reports that Jackie’s three friends explicitly reject some key claims that were made about their behavior:

In their first interviews about the events of that September 2012 night, the three friends separately told The Post that their recollections of the encounter diverge from how the Rolling Stone article portrayed the incident in a story about Jackie’s alleged gang rape at a U-Va. fraternity. The interviews also provide a richer account of Jackie’s interactions immediately after the alleged attack.

The scene with her friends was pivotal in the article, as it alleged that the friends were callously apathetic about a beaten, bloodied, injured classmate reporting a brutal gang rape at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. The account alleged that the students worried about the effect it might have on their social status, how it might reflect on Jackie during the rest of her collegiate career, and how they suggested not reporting it. It set up the article’s theme: That U-Va. has a culture that is indifferent to rape.

“It didn’t happen that way at all,” Andy said.

This is unsurprising. For that detail to have been true, Jackie would not only have to have had the three worst human beings in America as her friends, but she’d also have to have chosen to relate her ordeal to a group of people who speak in the sort of language that one usually only finds in bad teenage beach novels.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the friends contend that Sabrina Erdely’s reporting does not tally with their experiences, and note that they were not were not so much as asked for their testimony:

They also said Jackie’s description of what happened to her that night differs from what she told Rolling Stone. In addition, information that Jackie gave the three friends about one of her attackers, called “Drew” in Rolling Stone, differed significantly from details she later told The Post, Rolling Stone and friends from sexual assault awareness groups on campus. The three said Jackie did not specifically identify a fraternity that night.

. . .

They said there are mounting inconsistencies with the original narrative in the magazine. The students also expressed suspicions about Jackie’s allegations from that night. They said the name she provided as that of her date did not match anyone at the university, and U-Va. officials confirmed to The Post that no one by that name has attended the school.

And photographs that were texted to one of the friends showing her date that night actually were pictures depicting one of Jackie’s high school classmates in Northern Virginia. That man, now a junior at a university in another state, confirmed that the photographs are of him and said he barely knew Jackie and hasn’t been to Charlottesville for at least six years.

The friends said they never were contacted or interviewed by the pop culture magazine’s reporters or editors. Though vilified in the article as coldly indifferent to Jackie’s ordeal, the students said they cared deeply about their friend’s well-being and safety. Randall said that they made every effort to help Jackie that night.

So: no fraternity, no name, no photograph, and an immediate account that is significantly different from the one Erdely presented as fact.

Finally, one of the friends, “Randall,” rejects Erdeley’s suggestion that he had no interest in contributing to her piece:

The Rolling Stone article also said that Randall declined to be interviewed, “citing his loyalty to his own frat.” He told The Post that he never was contacted by Rolling Stone and would have agreed to an interview. The article’s writer, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, did not respond to requests for comment this week.

Read the whole thing here.

Update: I just read the second part of the piece again, and it is absolutely damning. We are approaching the point at which one could construct a case in favor of the whole thing’s having been made up from scratch.
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It's getting so any responsible parent will want to home school any boy through college.
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"Update: I just read the second part of the piece again, and it is absolutely damning. We are approaching the point at which one could construct a case in favor of the whole thing’s having been made up from scratch."

abb, I think we're way past that point.
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Dec 10 2014, 07:09 PM
"Update: I just read the second part of the piece again, and it is absolutely damning. We are approaching the point at which one could construct a case in favor of the whole thing’s having been made up from scratch."

abb, I think we're way past that point.
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Wait! If, in five years, after Jackie is convicted of murdering someone
and sitting in prison, if she continues to claim that she was gang-raped
at a fraternity at UVA, then it must be true.

That is the logic of author William Cohan.

:sarc2:
Edited by MikeZPU, Dec 10 2014, 07:25 PM.
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So, if I'm following this correctly...she has a crush on this guy who only wants to be friends. She invents this other handsome upper classman who is not for her...probably to get the guy she really likes jealous.

Doesn't work. So now she calls him with a gang rape story. This is convenient because she never has to follow up with the storyline about the upperclassman admirer. He us a racist and conveniently leaves the picture. I wonder if the guy she was crushing on was one of the two that didn't that night condoling her. Later she finds that victimhood confers celebrity on college campuses...especially with a story that beats everybody else's rape story...(oh, you were only rated by one guy...I was raped by FIVE...no SEVEN!)

And, on stories like this, young men will be refused a degree, ostracized, and their ability to get a job severely impacted...at the minimum. What a horror!
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Wait! If, in five years, after Jackie is convicted of murdering someone
and sitting in prison, if she continues to claim that she was gang-raped
at a fraternity at UVA, then it must be true.

That is the logic of author William Cohan.




For Christmas next year?


The Price of Silence II : The UVa Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities
Hardcover – April 8, 2015

by William D. Cohan


Bestselling author William D. Cohan, whose reporting and writing have been hailed as “gripping” (the New York Times), “authoritative” (the Washington Post), and “seductively engrossing” (Chicago Tribune), presents a stunning new account of the UVa fraternity scandal that reveals the pressures faced by America’s elite colleges and universities and pulls back the curtain, in a riveting narrative, on the larger issues of sexual misconduct, underage drinking, and bad-boy behavior—all too prevalent on campuses across the country.

Despite being front-page news nationwide, the true story of the 2014 UVa rape case has never been told in its entirety and is more complex than all the reportage to date would indicate. The Price of Silence II is the definitive, magisterial account of what happens when the most combustible forces in American culture— unbridled ambition, intellectual elitism, athletic prowess, aggressive sexual behavior, and absolute prosecutorial authority—collide and then explode on a powerful university campus, in the justice system, and in the media.

Reserve your copy now!


:sarc2:


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Dec 10 2014, 07:44 PM
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Wait! If, in five years, after Jackie is convicted of murdering someone
and sitting in prison, if she continues to claim that she was gang-raped
at a fraternity at UVA, then it must be true.

That is the logic of author William Cohan.




For Christmas next year?


The Price of Silence II : The UVa Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities
Hardcover – April 8, 2015

by William D. Cohan


Bestselling author William D. Cohan, whose reporting and writing have been hailed as “gripping” (the New York Times), “authoritative” (the Washington Post), and “seductively engrossing” (Chicago Tribune), presents a stunning new account of the UVa fraternity scandal that reveals the pressures faced by America’s elite colleges and universities and pulls back the curtain, in a riveting narrative, on the larger issues of sexual misconduct, underage drinking, and bad-boy behavior—all too prevalent on campuses across the country.

Despite being front-page news nationwide, the true story of the 2014 UVa rape case has never been told in its entirety and is more complex than all the reportage to date would indicate. The Price of Silence II is the definitive, magisterial account of what happens when the most combustible forces in American culture— unbridled ambition, intellectual elitism, athletic prowess, aggressive sexual behavior, and absolute prosecutorial authority—collide and then explode on a powerful university campus, in the justice system, and in the media.

Reserve your copy now!


:sarc2:


:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

Perfect!
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BREAKING: Guess Which Politician #JackieCoakley Likes…

Gotnews.com has obtained the deleted Facebook page of the University of Virginia student at the center of a rape hoax.

Jackie Coakley is a fan of the TV shows–Criminal Minds and Law & Order–and Hillary Clinton...snipped

http://gotnews.com/breaking-guess-politician-jackiecoakley-likes/


Oh well, I am beginning to believe it was a total scam, a Sandra Fluke wannabe


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Dec 10 2014, 06:11 PM
Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire. And she's white and somewhat privileged...so good luck.
.
(in the most scandalistic voice one can create).

At one of the most prestigious Universities in the country....
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2014/12/10/Exclusive-Mayella-Ewell-rape

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"So, Mr. Finch, I need your support, not your pity. What survivors need more than anything is to be supported, whether they choose to pursue a criminal investigation or to rebuild their world on their own terms. You can help by never defining a survivor by what has been taken from her. You can help by saying I believe you."

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Joan Foster
Dec 10 2014, 07:52 PM
Quasimodo
Dec 10 2014, 07:44 PM
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Wait! If, in five years, after Jackie is convicted of murdering someone
and sitting in prison, if she continues to claim that she was gang-raped
at a fraternity at UVA, then it must be true.

That is the logic of author William Cohan.




For Christmas next year?


The Price of Silence II : The UVa Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities
Hardcover – April 8, 2015

by William D. Cohan


Bestselling author William D. Cohan, whose reporting and writing have been hailed as “gripping” (the New York Times), “authoritative” (the Washington Post), and “seductively engrossing” (Chicago Tribune), presents a stunning new account of the UVa fraternity scandal that reveals the pressures faced by America’s elite colleges and universities and pulls back the curtain, in a riveting narrative, on the larger issues of sexual misconduct, underage drinking, and bad-boy behavior—all too prevalent on campuses across the country.

Despite being front-page news nationwide, the true story of the 2014 UVa rape case has never been told in its entirety and is more complex than all the reportage to date would indicate. The Price of Silence II is the definitive, magisterial account of what happens when the most combustible forces in American culture— unbridled ambition, intellectual elitism, athletic prowess, aggressive sexual behavior, and absolute prosecutorial authority—collide and then explode on a powerful university campus, in the justice system, and in the media.

Reserve your copy now!


:sarc2:


:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

Perfect!
:toast:
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http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/10/rolling-stones-uva-rape-story-just-took


Rolling Stone's UVA Rape Story Just Took Another Massive Hit

Robby Soave|Dec. 10, 2014 7:02 pm

UVATroy / FlickrThe Washington Post just published another investigative report on the University of Virginia gang rape allegations—and whatever credibility Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Rolling Stone had left is totally obliterated.

WaPost spoke with the three friends who rescued Jackie after her alleged gang rape on September 28, 2012. The details they provided depart significantly from Jackie's narrative as reported by Erdely. The friends told WaPost that Jackie did not appear battered or bloodied and gave a description of the attack significantly different than what was later published in Rolling Stone. They also clarified that it was Jackie who didn't want to go to the police, not them:

The scene with her friends was pivotal in the article, as it alleged that the friends were callously apathetic about a beaten, bloodied, injured classmate reporting a brutal gang rape at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. The account alleged that the students worried about the effect it might have on their social status, how it might reflect on Jackie during the rest of her collegiate career, and how they suggested not reporting it. It set up the article’s theme: That U-Va. has a culture that is indifferent to rape.

“It didn’t happen that way at all,” Andy said.

Instead, the friends remember being shocked. Though they did not notice any blood or visible injuries, they said they immediately urged Jackie to speak to police and insisted that they find her help. Instead, they said, Jackie declined and asked to be taken back to her dorm room. They went with her — two of them said they spent the night — seeking to comfort Jackie in what appeared to be a moment of extreme turmoil.

Erdely portrayed Jackie's friends as popularity-obsessed sociopaths who deterred her from reporting the assault. They say that's not true; it was Jackie who didn't want to report it.

That may seem damning, but it's just the beginning. According to the friends, Jackie did name her attacker, but no one by that name attended UVA. Pictures of the attacker—the man Jackie claimed was a UVA junior who had asked her out on a date—that she provided to the friends were actually pictures of a former high school classmate who never attended UVA and "hasn't been to Charlottesville in at least six years." His name is not the one Jackie gave her friends. These details were all verified by WaPost.

Here's the timeline, according to the friends:

The three friends said that Jackie soon began talking about a handsome junior from chemistry class who had a crush on her and had been asking her out on dates.

Intrigued, Jackie’s friends got his phone number from her and began exchanging text messages with the mysterious upperclassman. He then raved to them about “this super smart hot,” freshman who shared his love of the band Coheed and Cambria, according to the texts, which were provided to The Post. ...

Jackie told her three friends that she accepted the upperclassman’s invitation for a dinner date on Friday Sept. 28, 2012.

Curious about Jackie’s date, the friends said that they failed to locate the student on a U-Va. database and social media. Andy, Cindy and Randall all said they never met the student in person. Before Jackie’s date, the friends said that they became suspicious that perhaps they hadn’t really been in contact with the chemistry student at all.

U-Va. officials told The Post that no student by the name Jackie provided to her friends as her date and attacker in 2012 had ever enrolled at the university. Randall provided The Post with pictures that Jackie’s purported date had sent of himself by text message in 2012.

The Post identified the person in the pictures and learned that his name does not match the one Jackie provided to friends in 2012. In an interview, the man said that he was Jackie’s high school classmate but that he “never really spoke to her.”

The man said that he was never a U-Va. student and is not a member of any fraternity. Additionally, the man said that he had not visited Charlottesville in at least six years and that he was in another state participating in an athletic event during the weekend of Sept. 28, 2012.

If the friends' narrative is accurate, it seems doubtful that "Drew" exists at all, and is instead the product of some kind of catfishing situation. Compare that with Rolling Stone editor Sean Woods' initial claim that "I’m satisfied that [the perpetrators] exist and are real. We knew who they were."

One of the friends, "Randall," also told WaPost that Erdely lied when she wrote that he declined to be interviewed because of "loyalty to his own frat." Randall said he would have gladly given an interview but was never contacted.

The friends quoted in the latest article still say Jackie's changed behavior that first semester is evidence of some trauma she sustained. That may be true, although it is difficult to say what, exactly, that might have entailed. There is not a shred of evidence to suggest such a trauma bears any resemblance to the incredible story told by Rolling Stone.

Lest anyone think that this debacle is solely the fault of someone who falsely claimed rape, keep in mind that these fraudulent charges were put forth by a national magazine that made no effort to verify them, and ignored every red flag in its haste to publish the story of the century—even when Jackie refused to name her attackers and attempted to withdraw her story. Whatever the truth is—whatever the excellent reporters at WaPost manage to uncover next—the fact remains that Rolling Stone and Erdely should have known better.

The degree to which everyone involved in this travesty of journalism failed at their jobs is almost unbelievable. But unlike the story of a gang rape at UVA, we now have incontrovertible proof of it.

More from me on this subject here.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2014/12/10/rolling_stone_sabrina_rubin_erdely_the_washington_post_inches_closer_to.html

The Washington Post Inches Closer to Calling the UVA Gang Rape Story a Fabrication
By Hanna Rosin

The Washington Post has an update on Rolling Stone's UVA story that strongly implies, without outright saying so, that the gang rape at the center of Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s article might be fabricated. Post reporter T. Rees Shapiro spoke at length with the three friends who met up with Jackie, the student who says she was raped, on the night in question. In the Rolling Stone story this scene was crucial. Erdely described Jackie as standing mute in her bloody dress, the Phi Kappa Psi house where the alleged rape happened looming in the background, as her friends callously debated whether they should take her to the hospital and risk ruining their social reputations. This set up the larger theme of a university culture and social scene indifferent even to the most brutalized victims of rape.

Earlier, those friends told the Post that Jackie told them she’d been forced to have oral sex—a much different story than what Jackie told Rolling Stone. This new Post article adds some details that make the entire account seem more suspicious. Jackie had told her friends—referred to by the pseudonyms “Cindy,” “Andy,” and “Randall” in the original story and in the Post’s follow-ups—that she had a date on Sept. 28, 2012, with a handsome junior in her chemistry class. (In the version she told to Rolling Stone, that date was with someone she'd met at her lifeguarding job.) But in the Post story, the friends imply that this junior might not exist and may have been invented by Jackie to make Randall jealous.

When the friends first heard about this junior, they were intrigued and asked Jackie for his number. They started exchanging text messages with him, and he described Jackie as a “super smart hot” freshman. He complained, though, that she liked a “nerd 1st yr”— meaning Randall—who is “smart and funny and worth it.” Jackie’s friends could never find this junior in the UVA database nor on social media. She provided her friends with a picture of him, but the Post has since learned that the guy in the picture is a high school classmate of Jackie’s who does not go to the University of Virginia and was in another state participating in an athletic tournament on the night of the alleged rape. (More recently, Jackie gave her friends the name of a different guy. The Post also contacted him, and he said he’d never met Jackie.)

The Post story doesn’t connect all the dots, but it’s not hard to do. Jackie has now given her friends two different names for the man she was with that night. Neither of them was in fact with her, ever dated her, or even knew her all that well. She appears to have invented a suitor, complete with fake text messages and a fake photo, which suggests a capacity for somewhat elaborate deception. Jackie, though, has not recanted her story. Her attorney would not answer questions for the Post's story on Wednesday and has told reporters to stop contacting Jackie.

Here's the most disturbing journalistic detail to emerge from the Post's reporting: In the Rolling Stone story, Erdely says that she contacted Randall, but he declined to be interviewed, “citing his loyalty to his own frat.” Randall told the Post he was never contacted by Erdely and would have been happy to be interviewed.

That could mean one of two things: Jackie could have given Erdely fake contact information for Randall and then posed as Randall herself, sending the reporter that email in which he supposedly declined to participate in the story. Erdely also could have lied about trying to contact Randall. Rolling Stone might have hinted at this possibility in its “Note to Our Readers” when it referred to a “friend of Jackie’s (who we were told would not speak to Rolling Stone)" but later spoke to the Washington Post. That would take Erdely a big step beyond just being gullible and failing to check her facts, moving this piece in the direction of active wrongdoing.

When Erdely came on the DoubleX Gabfest two weeks ago to talk about her story, the first question we asked was how she settled on UVA.

Erdely said she called several universities but kept hearing typical stories about sexual violence. Then she called some activists and heard this sensational story about Jackie and gang rape. Maybe the lesson there is, if one story sounds so outlandishly different than the dozens of others you've heard, you shouldn't decide to make it the centerpiece of your reporting. You should wonder why.

When confronted with what appear to be so many orchestrated lies, it's getting harder to see Jackie as a person whose memory may have been shaken by trauma. But there is still some chance of that. Everyone, including Randall and Jackie’s suitemates, says that she seemed utterly traumatized and continued to be throughout the semester, so much so that she had to go home early before finals.

“She had very clearly just experienced a horrific trauma,” Randall told the Post. “I had never seen anybody acting like she was on that night before and I really hope I never have to again. ... If she was acting on the night of Sept. 28, 2012, then she deserves an Oscar.”
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Students Come Forward To Poke More Holes In Virginia Co-Ed’s Gang Rape Story

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Details have emerged suggesting that a University of Virginia student named Jackie fabricated even more of her story of a brutal gang rape than previously believed, and that the Rolling Stone reporter who documented the tale abrogated her duty to properly investigate the tale.

“Andy,” “Randall,” and “Cindy” are three central figures in Jackie’s story, which was told to and reported by Rolling Stone’s Sabrina Rubin Erdely last month.

Separately, all three have told The Washington Post that Jackie’s story appears to have changed drastically from when they first encountered her on Sept. 28, 2012, the night Jackie told Erdely she was gang-raped by seven members of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.

And “Randall,” who Erdely reported declined to comment for her article by citing allegiance to his own fraternity, says that the reporter never reached out to him, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.

Among other damning details reported by the Post include Jackie passed around a photograph of a man she claimed she was going on a date with the night in question. The man, it turns out, had actually been a high school classmate of Jackie’s and was out of state the time the alleged attack occurred.

Jackie’s initial claims, as reported by Erdely, caused shockwaves throughout the UVA campus and sparked a national dialogue about the problem of campus sexual assault.

The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house was vandalized, and school president Teresa Sullivan shut down all Greek activity for the semester in response to the article. National lawmakers cited the article as evidence that more must be done to address not just sexual assault but also how the school handles it.

In her article, Erdely reported that Jackie, who hails from northern Virginia, claimed that she went on a date with a third-year student named “Drew” who she knew from her job as a lifeguard at the school’s swimming pool.

Jackie claimed that after their date, “Drew” took her to a party at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house. There, Jackie said that she was bloodied and beaten — even penetrated with a beer bottle — during a gruesome fraternity initiation.

According to Jackie’s version of events, when she left the frat house at 3 a.m., she called her three friends.

She claimed that the trio warned her not to go to authorities because it might tarnish her reputation at the school.

On top of that, Erdely laid out how UVA administrators allegedly failed to properly investigate Jackie’s rape.

The attack itself, the shame urged by her friends, and the disregard from school officials was meant to paint a picture of systematic disregard for sexual assault victims on college campuses, a recent focal point for feminists and other activists.

But Jackie’s three friends all told the Post that the story related in the magazine varies drastically from what they saw and what Jackie told them happened that night.

All three said that Jackie claimed she was forced to give oral sex to five men. They did not see blood or evidence of physical assault, as Jackie reportedly told Erdely.

“It didn’t happen that way at all,” Andy told the Post.

The friends also told the Post that they asked Jackie if she wanted to report being forced to give oral sex to the group of men, but she said she just wanted to go to her dorm room. The three said they spent most of the rest of the night with her.

“I mean obviously we were very concerned for her,” Andy said. “We tried to be as supportive as we could be.”

“She had very clearly just experienced a horrific trauma,” Randall told the paper. “I had never seen anybody acting like she was on that night before and I really hope I never have to again…If she was acting on the night of Sept. 28, 2012, then she deserves an Oscar.”

“Randall’s” friendship with Jackie is especially intriguing. He told the Post that Jackie was interested in him romantically during the Fall 2012 semester, but that he told her he just wanted to be friends.

Shortly after, the friends said Jackie began talking about a third-year student from her chemistry class. She said he had a crush on her and wanted to take her out.

Wanting to find out more, the three friends asked Jackie for the third-year’s phone number. They received a picture of him and began exchanging text messages, which were provided to the Post. In them, the man wrote to the trio about “this super smart hot” student, referencing Jackie.

In one message, he wrote “I really like this girl.”

But then the man said that Jackie had lost interest. He sent one text message reading: “Get this she said she likes some other 1st year guy who dosnt like her and turned her down but she wont date me cause she likes him. She cant turn my down fro some nerd 1st yr. she said this kid is smart and funny and worth it.”

“Randall” believes that the first-year student mentioned in those messages is him. The friends also began to doubt that the third-year was actually sending the text messages.

Nevertheless, Jackie said that she was going out on a date with the man on that September night.

The friends searched online but were unable to find any indication that the third-year student existed. School officials told the Post that no student by that name went to the school.

But the man, who the Post identified by his picture, said he knew Jackie from high school and that he had not been to Charlottesville, where UVA is located, in six years. He also said he was at an athletic event for the school on the night of the alleged rape.

“I have nothing to do with it,” he told the Post.

The mysterious third-year chemistry student appears to be a different man than one Jackie named to friends last week, as the first waves of doubt wafted over her story. The Post contacted that man, but he said that he had never gone on a date with Jackie and that he was not a lifeguard with her during the time the incident occurred.

Jackie’s three friends also told the Post that she never named a fraternity on the night they met up with her. That detail was added, along with others.

Emily Renda, one of Jackie’s friends in the sexual assault support community at UVA, met Jackie last year. Renda said last week that Jackie initially said she had been gang-raped by five men. The details shifted when Jackie said that she had been raped by seven men.

Erdely, who initially made the media rounds to tout her article when it came out, has remained in hiding during the fallout.
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Wait! If, in five years, after Jackie is convicted of murdering someone
and sitting in prison, if she continues to claim that she was gang-raped
at a fraternity at UVA, then it must be true.

That is the logic of author William Cohan.




For Christmas next year?


The Price of Silence II : The UVa Scandal, the Power of the Elite, and the Corruption of Our Great Universities
Hardcover – April 8, 2015

by William D. Cohan


Bestselling author William D. Cohan, whose reporting and writing have been hailed as “gripping” (the New York Times), “authoritative” (the Washington Post), and “seductively engrossing” (Chicago Tribune), presents a stunning new account of the UVa fraternity scandal that reveals the pressures faced by America’s elite colleges and universities and pulls back the curtain, in a riveting narrative, on the larger issues of sexual misconduct, underage drinking, and bad-boy behavior—all too prevalent on campuses across the country.

Despite being front-page news nationwide, the true story of the 2014 UVa rape case has never been told in its entirety and is more complex than all the reportage to date would indicate. The Price of Silence II is the definitive, magisterial account of what happens when the most combustible forces in American culture— unbridled ambition, intellectual elitism, athletic prowess, aggressive sexual behavior, and absolute prosecutorial authority—collide and then explode on a powerful university campus, in the justice system, and in the media.

Reserve your copy now!


:sarc2:


:roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

Perfect!
:toast:

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