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| Quasimodo | Dec 17 2014, 09:54 AM Post #436 |
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| abb | Dec 17 2014, 05:03 PM Post #437 |
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http://inthecapital.streetwise.co/2014/12/17/sororities-say-uva-greek-system-ban-is-violation-of-student-rights/ Sororities Say UVa Greek System Ban is a Violation of Student Rights Molly Greenberg - Senior Writer, Higher Ed Beat 12/17/14 @10:52am in Education National organizations representing fraternities and sororities across the country have been actively responding to the Rolling Stone controversy that has wreaked havoc at University of Virginia where Greek system activities have been suspended until January 9. First the FratPAC insisted that UVa lift its suspension of fraternity and sorority activities after Rolling Stone admitted to mistakes in its reporting of an alleged gang rape on Grounds, and now the National Panhellenic Conference has come out swinging, too. In a statement to The Washington Post, the NPC claimed that the freeze is a violation of student rights. "The sanctions imposed on the sorority and fraternity system, particularly at U-Va., have punished all members with no cited wrongdoing and their rights have been violated," said the NPC. "We must take a stand. Our voice must also be heard, and the time is now." The ban has had little to no impact on the student body as it was enacted directly before Thanksgiving break and will last through winter break until the semester begins again on January 12, but still the NPC remains concerned about the UVa Greek system and has thus vocalized its feelings on the matter at hand. Read the full-statement from the NPC to The Washington Post below: Hear our voices. Hear us when we say we are not tone deaf to sexual assault. The National Panhellenic Conference is composed of 26 women’s sororities with more than 300,000 active undergraduate women members, and 2,500 of whom are students at the University of Virginia. We care about the safety of all sorority and non-sorority women very deeply. A recent article that appeared in a magazine alleging a fraternity gang rape at the University of Virginia has escalated the national conversation about sexual assault. Whatever the merits of a portion of the article may have been, we believe it does not serve the goal of changing campus culture and eliminating sexual assault to shut down the business activity of our fraternity and sorority chapters. Our message on this matter has already been shared in our joint statement with our interfraternal partners. Hear us when we say the Greek community all agrees that one rape is one too many. Sexual assault awareness has certainly gained more momentum in the past six to nine months, and the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) has actively participated in the national conversations and taken deliberate steps to confront sexual assault. We attended listening sessions conducted by the White House and Department of Education last winter, and we have talked about this topic in our monthly messages, blogs, and social media channels. We most recently have established a Student Safety and Sexual Assault Task Force that is charged with researching resources and brainstorming avenues for training and prevention. We have held conversations with other agencies and national organizations about where our teams can overlap our resources in unified efforts to reach and protect more women. And we have engaged in dialogue on sexual assault with our friends in the other umbrella fraternal organizations. It is absolutely a priority of the sorority community to ensure our campuses are safe for women. These efforts are just the beginning of more to come. For anyone to assert that we are tone deaf to the issue of sexual assault is a false and simply unfair statement. No matter all the facts and truth to the recent Rolling Stone article, we remain gravely concerned that the turn of events regarding the article may prevent women from stepping forward to report sexual assaults because of the impact to others in the university and Greek community. Women should not be victims twice because of the sexual assaults and then again because of potential concerns with reporting and causing strife among student groups. This is an all-student safety issue, not just Greek community issue, which will continue to be addressed on local and national levels. No doubt, cultural change is necessary and critical. We seek to work with university partners and campus colleagues as we collaborate on next steps moving forward to heal from such events and accusations, and assist in education to help prevent sexual assault and protect women. While we are not experts on preventing sexual assault, we know the impact it can have on our sister victims and we look to those who can help guide and assist us in providing resources to our member organizations and all women. NPC encourages our sorority women to support and care for one another. We will not turn our heads on this important issue, but rather speak up so our voices will be heard and our actions will be noticed. The sanctions imposed on the sorority and fraternity system, particularly at U-Va., have punished all members with no cited wrongdoing and their rights have been violated. We must take a stand. Our voice must also be heard, and the time is now. |
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| abb | Dec 17 2014, 05:03 PM Post #438 |
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http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/20537/ Rolling Stone’s ‘Jackie’ used cellphone numbers from spoofing Internet services by Greg Piper - Assistant Editor on December 17, 2014 The Washington Post‘s thorough reporting has already cleaned up much of the mess that Rolling Stone made in its botched expose of an alleged gang rape at the University of Virginia. But crosstown rival Washington Times adds a few new details on how friends of “Jackie” got conned into thinking she was dating someone right before her alleged rape. Regarding that cellphone number that Jackie gave her friends to text the man she claimed to be seeing: Eventually, the friends ended up with three numbers for the man. All are registered to Internet services that enable people to text without cellphone numbers but also can be used to redirect calls to different numbers or engage in spoofing, according to multiple research databases checked by The Washington Times. “That definitely raises some red flags,” Alex Stock, a University of Virginia junior and friend of Jackie, told The Times. “I think as more details come out I definitely feel a little more skeptical. This is all new territory for me. I’m not too technologically savvy.” Another friend, Kathryn Hendley, said “It’s news to me” when told Jackie’s numbers were traced to spoofing services: “I think as the story has moved along it has raised some new doubts. I honestly wish I could just talk to her sometimes and ask her myself or at least tell her that I hope she’s all right,” she said. Another friend verifies that Jackie panicked and tried to back out when writer Sabrina Rubin Erdely indicated she wanted to write a broad story with UVa at the center of a national crisis of rape. Read the Times story. |
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| abb | Dec 17 2014, 05:04 PM Post #439 |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2014/12/17/taibbi-rolling-stone-devastated-by-u-va-disaster/ Taibbi: Rolling Stone ‘devastated’ by U-Va. disaster By Erik Wemple December 17 at 1:19 PM In an appearance on “Imus in the Morning” on Fox Business Network, Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi said that the magazine’s staff is “devastated” over the collapse of the Nov. 19 story about rape on the campus of the University of Virginia. The story narrated the alleged September 2012 gang rape of a freshman named Jackie at a University of Virginia fraternity house — and its particulars have withered under subsequent reporting done by the Washington Post Metro staff. Rolling Stone staffers “feel terrible” about these events, says Taibbi, who noted that he had no specific knowledge about just how the piece went awry. Taibbi was a longtime Rolling Stone contributor who left for a job at First Look Media launching a digital magazine titled “The Racket,” but that gig didn’t work out. He has since returned to the magazine. “For people like me and for a lot of the other reporters who’ve worked there over the years, this was a real shock to us because, speaking personally — people laughed at me when I said this on Twitter — what I go through normally in the fact-checking process at that magazine has always been a really difficult, long, thorough, painful process,” said Taibbi. “And that was actually one of the things that always attracted me to working there, which is that I feel safe when I publish things because I feel like it’s been double-checked and, you know, that was always a good feeling. And clearly I think in this particular situation, the controls got broken down somewhere and they’re looking into that. I’m sure they’re coming up with some answers.” After the Erik Wemple Blog asked about some aspects of the story this week, Rolling Stone spokeswoman Melissa Bruno responded: “Rolling Stone is conducting a thorough internal review of the reporting, editing, and fact-checking of Sabrina Rubin Erdely’s ‘A Rape on Campus.’ Once we have concluded this process, we will have comment on these and other questions.” After host Don Imus opined that the article may have been driven by an “agenda,” Taibbi said that on his first read, he skipped right to the “more important part” of the story — how the University of Virginia responded to the alleged seven-man gang rape of September 2012. “Obviously individual attacks happen, or maybe in this case they don’t happen, I don’t know, but I don’t think that’s necessarily relevant to the larger issue of how often this takes place and how society is set up to deal with it.” That response aligns with what Sabrina Rubin Erdely, writer of “A Rape on Campus,” told the Washington Post when her story started to come under scrutiny: “[T]he gang-rape scene that leads the story is the alarming account that Jackie — a person whom I found to be credible — told to me, told her friends, and importantly, what she told the UVA administration, which chose not to act on her allegations in any way — i.e., the overarching point of the article. THAT is the story: the culture that greeted her and so many other UVA women I interviewed, who came forward with allegations, only to be met with indifference.” |
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| Payback | Dec 17 2014, 05:32 PM Post #440 |
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And here I thought False Accusation was the Story. |
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| MikeZPU | Dec 17 2014, 06:48 PM Post #441 |
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Jackie is a pathological liar. Are there documented cases of a sexual assault turning a person into a pathological liar? I don't think so. Trauma does not turn someone into a cunning pathological liar who uses what are essentially fake cell phone numbers to further a hoax. The idea that something happened to Jackie is "crock." I don't know how a sociopath, pathological liar is formed, but it's not the result of something that happened to Jackie while a student at UVA. Edited by MikeZPU, Dec 17 2014, 06:49 PM.
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| abb | Dec 18 2014, 05:18 AM Post #442 |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/uva-finds-of-outside-review-of-sex-assaults-will-be-public-when-the-investigation-ends/2014/12/17/91bf58cc-8663-11e4-b9b7-b8632ae73d25_story.html U-Va.: Outside review of sex assaults will be public when the investigation ends December 17 at 10:33 PM University of Virginia administrators said Wednesday that the findings of an outside review of sexual assaults on campus will be made public when the investigation is completed. A statement issued Wednesday by board of visitors rector Keith Martin said that the Washington law firm of O’Melveny & Myers will serve as an independent counsel to review the university’s sexual assault policies and procedures. Martin said that when the investigation is completed, the findings of the independent counsel will be publicly available. “As a public university, we serve the citizens of the commonwealth, and I am committed to sharing the independent counsel’s findings as a public record,” Martin said. “We stand ready to take decisive action based on what we learn, and to share that with our University community.” University president Teresa A. Sullivan asked the Charlottesville police department and Virginia attorney general Mark Herring (D) to separately investigate allegations of a brutal sexual assault on campus detailed in a Rolling Stone magazine account. The pop culture magazine published an explosive story alleging a brutal sexual assault at the U-Va. Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house on Sept. 28, 2012. In the magazine’s account, a student named Jackie said she was ambushed after a date party and was gang-raped by seven fraternity brothers. A Rolling Stone article alleged a sexual assault at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house, but the story has been called into question as Jackie’s friends have identified inconsistencies in the article. (Steve Helber/AP) Phi Kappa Psi announced this month that the fraternity did not host a date function that weekend and that no member of the house resembled the man Jackie described to Rolling Stone as her main attacker. The Rolling Stone story has further been called into question as Jackie’s friends have identified inconsistencies in the article. In addition, information Jackie provided to friends about the date from the fraternity who allegedly attacked her that night led to a man who told The Post he has never met Jackie in person and to a second man who said he was a high school classmate of Jackie’s and who now attends college in a different state. Martin said that the independent review will help the university move forward in the wake of the sexual assault allegations detailed in Rolling Stone. “We need to have an objective, outside assessment of our policies and practices, and how we can strengthen student safety on Grounds,” Martin said. “The safety of our students is our first and foremost priority.” |
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| Quasimodo | Dec 18 2014, 07:18 AM Post #443 |
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When did Duke have an outside review of its handling of the lacrosse case (which probably cost it $100 million in legal defenses and settlements, and more in lost contributions from alumni)? And is this review likely to cover how false accusations resulted in a mob attack on a frat house? And what the university to that was? (likely not...) |
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| Quasimodo | Dec 18 2014, 07:35 AM Post #444 |
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| Baldo | Dec 18 2014, 09:40 AM Post #445 |
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University of Virginia administrators said Wednesday that the findings of an outside review of sexual assaults on campus will be made public when the investigation is completed. Just a smoke screen. I don't believe in outside reviews because they usually produce the agenda result desired. I can almost predict the report' wording yada yada yada. Take it to official bodies & depositions under oath with due process. |
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| Quasimodo | Dec 18 2014, 09:49 AM Post #446 |
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Nice to see a coalescing of opinion about the matter... |
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| abb | Dec 18 2014, 01:41 PM Post #447 |
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http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/18/what-uva-student-jackie-wrote-in-email-about-friend-she-liked/ Here Is What The UVA Student Behind The Rolling Stone Article Wrote About A Friend She Had A Crush On 10:52 AM 12/18/2014 Chuck Ross Reporter The Daily Caller has obtained a previously unpublished email purportedly written by Jackie, the University of Virginia student who claimed in a Rolling Stone article that she was gang-raped by seven fraternity members on Sept. 28, 2012. In the email, Jackie wrote about her romantic interest in a friend of hers named Ryan Duffin. Duffin was forwarded the email on Oct. 3, 2012 by a man named Haven Monahan, who Jackie claimed she was going out on a date with on the night she says she was raped. “When you like someone more than he likes you, you’ll do anything to switch the scales,” Jackie wrote about Duffin. It was Duffin who Jackie first called on the night she claims she was raped. Duffin, who showed up to help Jackie along with two other friends, has said that Jackie claimed that night that she was forced to perform oral sex on five men at a fraternity house. That story changed drastically in the Rolling Stone article, published last month, in which she claimed she was brutally beaten and gang-raped by seven members of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity. The email forwarded to Duffin, titled “about u,” is bizarre for several reasons. As Duffin has said in interviews, he found it strange that the man who Jackie claimed had been involved in her rape just days before would be sending him an email — especially one of that nature. (RELATED: UVA Gang-Rape Accuser’s Friend Shares New Details In Interview) Even more strange — as the Rolling Stone article has been debunked, it has come to light that Monahan likely does not exist. Before she claimed she was raped and after Duffin had rejected her romantically, Jackie gave Duffin and two other friends the phone number she claimed was Monahan’s. The friends began texting with Monahan, who later sent a picture. It has been discovered since the Rolling Stone article was published that a picture Monahan sent the friends via text message was actually of a man Jackie went to high school with. The phone numbers Jackie gave to her friends were also registered to an Internet website that allows users to send text messages from cell phones. (RELATED: University of Virginia Student’s Catfishing Scheme Revealed) All of that evidence suggests that the email published below was not actually forwarded to Duffin by a person named Haven Monahan. It is increasingly likely that the email was both written about Duffin and forwarded to him by Jackie. When asked by TheDC last week whether he believed that Jackie could have fabricated her rape claims as part of a scheme to get his attention, Duffin said “it’s a definite possibility.” ———- Forwarded message ———- From: Haven Monahan <haven.monahan@yahoo.com> Date: Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 8:33 PM Subject: about u To: “——@virginia.edu” <——@virginia.edu> you should read this. iv never read anything nicer in my life. Well yeah…Ryan is fine. Ryan’s great, actually. I mean he’s smart. He’s attractive. He’s funny. He’s a scaredy cat. If you creep up behind him, he’ll jump right out of his skin. It’s pretty amusing. He’s honest. He always calls them just like he sees them. You can constantly count on getting the truth from Ryan, even if the truth hurts. He has the most incredible taste in music. He’s like this walking, talking music library. And he understands how truly important music is. He’s stubborn. He has this regimented way about him that can be so frustrating sometimes. And sometimes the things he says hurt. But he’s a really, really good friend. And loyal to a fault. He’s realistic about everything. And I’m a dreamer so I mean, it’s good to have somebody like that in my life. He’s one of my best friends here, you know? He’s more than that …he’s everything So, then there’s Ryan. And Ryan…Ryan’s incredible. I didn’t fall for Ryan Duffin the first day I met him. Nor did I fall for him on the second day or the third day for that matter. But once I did fall for Ryan, you see, my world flipped upside down. Kathryn doesn’t understand what I see in Ryan. I guess I don’t understand what she doesn’t see in him. He’s gorgeous, but gorgeous is an understatement. More like you’re startled every time you see him because you notice something new in a Where’s Waldo sort of way. More like you can’t stop writing third grade run on sentences because you can’t even remotely begin to describe something, someone, so inherently amazing. More like you’re afraid that if you stare at him too long, you’ll prove your grandparents right that, yes, your face will get stuck that way…but you don’t mind. You, like everyone else, may think I’m exaggerating, but then again, you probably don’t know Ryan Duffin. Ryan has no idea what he does to me…he can make me feel more emotions in one second then I would normally feel in one year. He makes my head spin. And the truth is, I’m crazy about him. I mean, if I had the choice of hanging out with anyone in the entire world or just sitting in my dorm with him talking about music and watching a crappy TV show…I’d choose him everytime…without a single false step. I know he doesn’t like me. If someone really wanted you, they’d actually put some time and effort into trying to get your attention. Ryan doesn’t even like to be around me sometimes. And that really sucks. When you like someone more than he likes you, you’ll do anything to switch the scales. The thing is, you can’t. You want to tell him how you feel but you know it will end with “It’s just not going to work out.” How can I explain to him that I fell for him because of a million tiny things he never knew he was doing? I know I should just stop trying because he and I are never going to happen. He doesn’t like me, I’m not his type, I’m not the type of person he could ever be with so I should just get over it. The problem is I can’t shake these feelings I have for him, I try so damn hard, but they won’t go away. I can’t move on because the only thing I can find wrong with him, is that he can find so much wrong with me. [Redacted] said I shouldn’t give up. She said she read this quote once that said,” There’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.” She claimed that’s how Ryan and I are. I think she’s wrong. I think he was right from the get-go. He’ll never see me as anything more than some girl and it’ll never amount to anything. He told Alex I’m not his type and I’m a waste of his time. The things he says hurt more than you know but still…there’s something about him that makes me come back for more. All I know is, the girl who gets to be with Ryan Duffin is the luckiest girl in the world. And if she doesn’t know that, then she doesn’t deserve him. |
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| comelately | Dec 18 2014, 05:24 PM Post #448 |
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I have seen this kind of writing before, around year 2000. One of our daughters belonged to a fiction writing club (or whatever they were calling it) during the last couple of years in high school: several girls writing lies like this and calling them fiction. She showed us some of it, but NOT the stuff SHE was writing. None of them seemed to have any talent, and all could write competently. And most of it was about relations with (non-existent) boys... I have to say one thing in these girls' defence: they did not pretend that their stories actually had happened! |
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| Baldo | Dec 18 2014, 06:18 PM Post #449 |
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That e-mail reminds me of a 12 year girl with little self-worth, certainly not a old college student who was accepted at UVA |
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| jewelcove | Dec 18 2014, 06:53 PM Post #450 |
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Stranger and stranger. Now it appears the email was plagerized from a Dawson Creek episode.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/18/did-uva-student-plagiarize-dawsons-creek-in-love-letter-to-friend/ |
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