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| abb | Dec 21 2014, 05:55 AM Post #511 |
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http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/uva/editorial-title-ix-part-of-the-problem-rather-than-solution/article_9f1f3de2-87fe-11e4-843d-2fc6908d9512.html Editorial: Title IX part of the problem, rather than solution Posted: Saturday, December 20, 2014 8:00 pm The blinding bias and bumbling sensationalism that drew the media swarm on Grounds a month ago succeeded later in pointing to truths accidentally. Perhaps most salient among these regards universities’ uncertainty about getting to the facts of the matter in cases of alleged sexual violence. Advocacy groups emphasize neutrality in presenting options to victims, who frequently opt against turning to authorities over fear of reliving the trauma as they are compelled to recount it. We recognize this and sympathize. But there are vivid dangers when universities are tugged into the process by thoroughly misguided Title IX provisions of the federal Civil Rights Act, which requires schools to protect students from sexual assault. This is a noble but problematic concept. It places school administrators in the position of knowing about crimes without involvement of the authorities, whose vocation and mission are to investigate and prosecute crimes. In the tortured case of the University of Virginia and Rolling Stone, we now know that officials advised Phi Kappa Psi on Sept. 17 of the case of the woman known as Jackie. The allegations differed from those that appeared in the magazine, but still entailed what would have been a heinous crime – a woman being forced to perform oral sex on multiple men. Hearing this, no university official contacted police. The fraternity was contacted, but not the authorities. On Oct. 2, Rolling Stone reporter Sabrina Rubin Erdely told UVa President Teresa A. Sullivan there had been three gang rape complaints about Phi Psi. But Ms. Sullivan did not call police. On Oct. 23, an official from the corporation that owns the Phi Psi house off Madison Bowl contacted police. Ms. Sullivan did not take that step until 27 days later, after the magazine’s ultimately notorious story hit the web. Why does this matter? Because the truth does. Had one of the allegations proved true – and there has been no evidence reported publicly to support either – a group of men would have been guilty of a horrible crime. Men capable of such a crime would pose a threat not only to the university community but to society. A system that allows such men to roam free to find additional prey is badly broken. It’s a crime in this state and almost every other for people in certain positions of responsibility – doctors, teachers, clinicians and police, for example – to fail to report to authorities suspected abuse of children. But nothing in the law mandates reporting in a case like the one described by Ms. Erdely, whose story centered on an account of seven men raping a woman. Common sense and ordinary human concern should compel calls to police like the one Ms. Sullivan waited so long to make. But the system muddles the matter. Congress needs to repair its own flawed work, getting higher education out of the business of adjudicating sexual assault and putting that work in the hands of authorities, where it belongs. |
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| abb | Dec 21 2014, 05:56 AM Post #512 |
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http://www.roanoke.com/opinion/columns_and_blogs/gibson-uva-has-chance-to-lead-on-student-safety/article_4993ba9b-8989-5b55-88c2-03075e445f48.html Gibson: UVa has chance to lead on student safety By Bob Gibson | Posted: Sunday, December 21, 2014 2:00 am The University of Virginia finds itself in a position of potential leadership on the important issues of campus rape and student safety through the serendipity of suffering the slings of atrociously bad journalism. UVa, which admitted women as students only 44 years ago, can move forward from double secret Justice Department investigation to lead a long line of prestigious institutions out of an era of silent suffering by numerous victims of sexual assault. In other words, while most people and institutions have to learn from their own mistakes, the university is in the unenviable position of being able to learn from its own mistakes compounded and magnified by a national spotlight of spectacular journalistic malpractice. Rolling Stone in its Nov. 19 article, “A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVa,” moved the university to the top of a long list of colleges now in the public eye for being under federal investigation for mishandling sexual assault cases. Perhaps the ambiguous uncertainty of what really happened to Jackie and the shamefully botched telling of her story in Rolling Stone can take a distant back seat to the far more important story of how many times sexual assault goes unreported, uninvestigated and unpunished. A school that highly values its honor and honor system may need the prodding of shock and shame — even the temporary and unfair glare of what could be an exaggerated composite story sold momentarily as truth — to face the dishonor of a culture that cheats women of safety. No one really knows whether one in five university women are assaulted or one in 1,000. Investigations rarely result in the school’s quiet don’t-ask, don’t-tell culture where records may be as meaningless as crimes are unreported. Last year, 38 sexual assaults entered the opaque UVa reporting system through being referred to one assistant dean — about one for roughly every 300 female students. If anything was done in four student panel hearings that resulted, officials were not saying. One of the most shocking statistics reported in the 9,000-word Rolling Stone piece was that “UVa’s emphasis on honor is so pronounced that since 1998, 183 people have been expelled for honor-code violations such as cheating on exams. And yet paradoxically, not a single student at UVa has ever been expelled for sexual assault.” Should honor include a pledge or promise not to commit sexual assault, lie, cheat or steal? Should local police investigate all sexual assaults deemed to be felonies? That would put students in the real world. UVa students deserve to be in the real world instead of a secret society that protects serial rapists. Legislation proposed for next month’s General Assembly session would require police to notify local commonwealth’s attorneys within 48 hours of the start of an investigation into a felony criminal sexual assault on a college campus. The bill is sponsored by Del. Eileen Filler-Corn, D-Fairfax County. UVa has a limited number of weeks to act before the urgency of a national spotlight’s glare fades and the whiff of bureaucratic failure stinks up the status quo. The Rolling Stone piece with its questionable account of one serial rape will be taught at UVa and in journalism schools for many years as an explosive blend of shoddy reporting and inadequate fact-checking. But what is UVa doing to face and address its moment in the glare as a home of secret societies of privileged people who quietly discuss sexual assaults shielded by their own culture? Quite a bit, actually. An independent counsel is reviewing the university’s sexual assault policies and practices. President Teresa Sullivan is working with a group put together to examine the university’s climate and culture. That group is focusing on three key areas: 1. Culture, including student behavior, Greek life, alcohol and other drug use, and student self-governance; 2. Prevention, including bystander training, peer education and physical safety such as lighting, camera systems and policing; and 3. Response, including institutional survivor support, training for students and faculty and “policies and issues regarding adjudication.” New lighting will go up around the university. More trained individuals will provide escorts. Stronger counseling services will be offered. More cameras will appear. But the real test will be how much students feel the need to change the culture. UVa should not fail this test. Students are beginning to realize that secrecy shields those who commit sexual assaults more than it protects the women it promises to protect from them. Shame is a powerful motivating force that UVa has the momentary ability to leverage and provide leadership. Sullivan has said the university must and will take advantage of the opportunity to examine its culture and practices on sexual assault and safety and will pursue improvement. It would be a shame to fall short. Gibson is executive director of the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership |
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| Quasimodo | Dec 21 2014, 08:03 AM Post #513 |
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The typical bureaucratic (Brodhead) response. |
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| abb | Dec 21 2014, 12:40 PM Post #514 |
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http://hotair.com/archives/2014/12/21/irony-wapo-editorial-calls-on-rolling-stone-editor-to-resign-while-endorsing-narrative-journalism/ Irony: WaPo editorial calls on Rolling Stone editor to resign while endorsing narrative journalism posted at 11:01 am on December 21, 2014 by Jazz Shaw Appearing for a guest stint on the Washington Post editorial pages is writer and editor Amanda Bennett, who delivers a long and heartfelt message to Will Dana, the managing editor of Rolling Stone. In it, she lays out a brief but brutal history of the magazine’s coverage of the University of Virginia gang rape story fiasco. From there, she diverges to a general lecture on the perils and pitfalls which await journalists seeking glory while attempting to maintain the finest standards of the profession. This lesson is delivered in the voice of an old friend and mentor, concerned not only with the subject of the tale, but the welfare of the fourth estate in general. With all of that as prologue, she whips out a shiv for the final cut. There remains a chance to pull some good out of this. First you must resign. It was the job of the reporter and the editor on the story to get the facts. But it was your job to make sure they did — and that you could stand behind what you published. You did not do this. You must acknowledge this and step down. Once you have resigned, you need to spend some time using your experience to help show everyone what happens when you believe the narrative you want to believe. Share your experience with Old Media. We can certainly use a refresher course. Share it with New Media. Spare younger journalists the pain of your experience. And share it with us all. We all need to hear this again and again. We could almost stop right there and wrap this up with a bow as a job well done. But buried in the course material Ms. Bennett is dispensing there are a few nuggets which show that the general state of affairs in print journalism is suffering from a sickness of its own. It’s one which the casual observer can pick up on whenever we flip through the pages of the largest papers or listen to the network news anchors, but perhaps being too close to the situation blinds one to their own shortcomings. Bennett is no casual observer of the fish wrap trade. She is a graduate of Harvard, where she served as an editor of The Crimson. She had along career as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal before taking the helm as editor of The Lexington Herald-Leader and later The Philadelphia Inquirer. She’s been the recipient of multiple Pulitzer Prizes in her time. And yet, for all of that, after warning the intended recipient of the dangers of allowing the narrative to take control, she included the following disturbing notes in her instructions to Will Dana. (Emphasis added.) There is nothing wrong with pursuing a strong story, or even with having a strong point of view. Advocacy demands it. And journalism, like science, is often at its best when pursuing a powerful thesis statement. A crime was committed here. An administration is corrupt. This system is unjust. There is nothing wrong with such advocacy journalism. The search for social change in a cause you believe in is an admirable pursuit. But a strong narrative without the underpinning of facts is bias. And bias can morph in the blink of an eye into destruction, fear and suspicion. Look all around us for evidence of it from recent news events: All black men are threatening. All police are brutal. Our courts mete out justice. Our courts cannot be trusted. All Muslims are terrorists. All Christians are intolerant. All men are would-be rapists. All women are liars. You, Will — as editor of a major publication with huge readership and huge credibility — had an obligation to do one thing well, and that was to find out what really happened. Everyone should do this before they make up their minds, forward a post, condemn an actor, a politician, a school, a system. For you, Will, whose publication commands so many resources and so much respect, that was your primary obligation. To temper the narrative with the truth. And it was to do so before you passed this story on to others. It is rare and rather stunning to read such an experienced journalist and editor – one who can command a temporary lectern at the Washington Post, no less – and see her so blithely admit as little more than background footage what so many readers rail against on a daily basis. Just to utter the phrase, there is nothing wrong with such advocacy journalism, speaks volumes about today’s media. You see, the line between advocacy journalism and narrative journalism could be constructed out of a single line of carbon atoms. I suppose a preference for the phrase “advocacy journalism” pays itself the compliment of essentially saying, yes, I was pushing my own bias and narrative, but I made darned sure that the quotes were correct and the words were properly spelled. A true journalist and editor in what we perhaps fancifully picture as the golden era of news coverage would be horrified by describing part of a journalist’s job as the search for social change in a cause you believe in. A true journalist would be an observer of and reporter on social change, not a self declared agent of such change, no matter how carefully the facts in the article were checked. Your job is to observe history, not guide it. If your secret desire is to save humanity from itself you need to either run for elected office or arrange to be bitten by a radioactive arachnid. And yet, Bennett lectures the Rolling Stone editor on the need to temper the narrative with the truth. The mind doth boggle. Bloggers and editorial writers are all familiar with the concept of selecting news items which support our theme and likely lending them greater weight than reports of instances which run afoul of said theme. But that is editorial license and the presence of advocacy is a given. No rational observer reads a column by George Will or watches an episode of Ed Schultz and expects a barrage of unadorned facts which leaves the consumer to sort out the pieces on their own. But it is also made clear that we are consuming advocacy in action. When we read the front page of the Washington Post or tune in to a CNN Newsroom anchor, we are expecting news. And the same should have allegedly held true for the UVA article in the Rolling Stone. Sadly, as we have come to learn, there is little in the way of hard news out there. And no matter what the authors and editors choose to call it, it is narrative journalism nearly everywhere you look. Bennett’s examples are all too apt; police are brutal, the courts can not be trusted and all men are would-be rapists. Or at least that’s what you would come to believe if you consume far too much of cable news and major newspaper reporting these days. The sad part is that some of their most wizened heads now seem to weave an acceptance of this into their own manifestos on keeping the art of news coverage pure. |
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| Mason | Dec 21 2014, 11:52 PM Post #515 |
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FRAT HOUSE ATTACKED REPEATEDLY. UNPUNISHED AND ENCOURAGED. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/21/rolling-stone-university-of-virginia-rape-story-sp/ . |
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| abb | Dec 22 2014, 05:06 AM Post #516 |
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Unpunished vandalism rampage inspired by Rolling Stone’s U.Va. rape story Student activist who led vandalism attack on Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house says he has no regrets By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - The Washington Times - Sunday, December 21, 2014 In the wee morning hours after Rolling Stone's now-retracted gang rape story roiled the University of Virginia campus, a masked group of five women and three men unleashed their fury on the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the center of the controversy. Bottles and bricks were tossed through nearly every first-floor window, sending shards of glass and crashing sounds into the house around 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 20. Profane, hate messages such as "F--k Boys" were spray-painted on the walls of the colonial facade, along with anti-sexual assault epithets such as "suspend us," and "UVA Center for Rape Studies." The Charlottesville, Virginia, police blotter unmistakably describes the attack as a crime. "Vandalism and destruction of property," it reads. Felony charges also could be attached because the crime involved throwing dangerous objects into a private dwelling and because the damage may total over $1,000. It's unclear how many fraternity brothers were in the house at the time. Yet more than a month after the attack, no arrests have been made and no charges have been filed. The fraternity house, its shattered windows now boarded with plywood, remains vacant. Like the Ferguson riots, there has been little accountability for those who perpetrated violence in the name of protest. Police and prosecutors declined to say whether or when they might make arrests in the attack on the fraternity house. Yet finding a student willing to admit his or her role as well as eyewitnesses who saw the group conduct the attack was relatively easy for a Washington Times reporter who spent two days on campus. After all, a witness who found a cellphone at the scene he believed belonged to a perpetrator gave the device to police. The witness, who spoke to The Times only on the condition of anonymity because of fears of retaliation, said the cellphone had a text message from a second person he believed also participated in the attack. "That was exhilarating," the message said. After finding witnesses, cellphone information and social media postings bragging about the attack, The Times tracked down a male student identified by witnesses as a possible leader of the attack. The student agreed to talk to The Times only on the condition that his name wasn't published, saying he didn't want police to find him. The young man, the progeny of a privileged family, readily and unrepentantly admitted his role and described the attack his friends carried out in details that match police and eyewitness reports. He also said he knew his actions would be considered illegal. "I texted one of my friends and I was like, 'Let's throw bottles at the Phi Psi house tonight,' and she said, 'Yes!' I think that the article made it clear that victims at the university have no legitimate channels to take action, and I think vandalism is a completely legitimate form of action when like, legitimate authority is corrupt. I think it was justified," he said in an interview with The Times. Asked whether he believed the ends generally justified the means, he casually replied, "Sure." He also said he is not opposed to "armed revolution" as a means to end what he termed "systemic oppression." The student said his group of friends sent an anonymous letter to various news organizations several hours after the attack warning that it was "just the beginning." The letter threatened to "escalate and provoke until certain demands were met," including "an immediate revision of university policy mandating expulsion as the only sanction for rape and sexual assault." Only police and prosecutors ultimately will be able to determine whether the man, who said his group didn't spray-paint "UVA Center for Rape Studies" on the house, is telling the truth. The cellphone, the text messages, fingerprints on the bottles, security footage and eyewitness accounts will help determine his credibility or culpability. But on this police matter, the wheels of justice have been turning slowly. Steve Upman, public information officer for the Charlottesville Police Department, said he could not comment on the stage of the investigation because the department is not discussing anything related to the Rolling Stone article. But other law enforcement officials and the student who said he took part in the attack confirmed that no arrests had been made as of Sunday. U.Va. spokesman Anthony de Bruyn said school disciplinary boards could take action if they learn the identities of the perpetrators, but he made it clear that "the Charlottesville Police Department has jurisdiction over that incident." He gave no indication whether school officials were conducting a separate inquiry. The mentality on campus — including from the one student who claimed to have taken part in the attack — raises issues far beyond a single criminal act, analysts say. Alan Dershowitz, one of the nation's premier defense lawyers and a Harvard law professor, told The Times that university displays of double-standards in excusing violence from the political left and failing to punish activities such as attacks on fraternity houses can have dangerous consequences. "Look at people like [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn, who were violent radicals in the 1970s who now hold distinguished positions of respect [at universities]. It's clearly a left-right issue. No one would reward the Ku Klux Klan decades after their acts of violence, but if violence is committed by the hard left, then it becomes acceptable in the academic context," Mr. Dershowitz told The Washington Times. Mr. Dershowitz also said the mentality expressed by the student who claims to have participated in the fraternity house attack also should raise alarm. "It's the notion of collective punishment; you punish an entire fraternity for the allegations of several people, and you take the law into your own hands, and it's a total violation to the notion that punishment should be based on proof of individual guilt," he said. "It's become a mantra of the radical left, whether it's about punishing all policemen for Ferguson or all fraternity persons for alleged rapes. It's a road to lawlessness. "That's the argument the terrorists make," he said. "That's the argument that Hamas makes, that al Qaeda makes, and it's the argument that some radical Weathermen made in the U.S. when they blew up universities in the 1970s. It's the first baby step on the road to justifying terrorism." Many students on campus seemed apathetic to seeing the attackers brought to justice. One young woman who answered the front door of her sorority told The Times that she did not feel the fraternity attack was the right story to cover. "I think the next important story is continuing to focus on the problem of sexual assault of young women on campuses, whether Jackie's story is true or not," she said. Asked whether she felt it was important to consider the rights of the fraternity members and the violence inspired by the falsities published by Rolling Stone, she paused and said, "Well, I guess that's true." Men from Phi Kappa Psi whose fraternity house was attacked seemed despondent over the inaction. "There's nothing we can do about it now, anyway," one man said with frustration as he left the fraternity house. The student who claimed to participate in the attack said he had no regrets despite the fact that the accuracy of Jackie's story in Rolling Stone has come under significant doubt, including the name of the fraternity where the alleged attack occurred. Asked whether he felt at all bad about attacking the wrong fraternity, he showed no remorse and justified the attack on the broader woes of "social injustice." "I've done some thinking about that, but the answer is no. Everyone knows this is a house that does not respect women. They are part of the problem, and I do not feel bad. We have an objective set of laws that empowers the police to kill black men with impunity and protects white rapists at U.Va. from prosecution. The laws are only legitimate when they work. This is not a particularly radical campus, but we're mad. "As a college student, I know a lot of people who have been the result of direct oppression. We have tried peaceful political change, and I think a huge percentage of people in this country are fed up with that because we're not getting anywhere." Those views, he said were supported by the textbooks issued at U.Va., which he described as "tools for understanding" oppression. Rolling Stone declined repeated requests for comment. The University of Virginia, which previously issued suspensions for findings of fault in school-sponsored tribunal rape cases, changed its penalty to expulsion shortly after the attackers' threats were published Nov. 20. Some school faculty echoed similar concerns in a letter of their own. Asked whether the school's decision was based partially on the threat made by the students who attacked Phi Kappa Psi, U.Va. spokesman Anthony de Bruyn said he could not comment on anything related to that the incident because police were still investigating. One of the student's last statements during The Times' interview was a commentary on law enforcement. "The police force does nothing but harass the black community and protect white students from being uncomfortable," he said. If Charlottesville police eventually arrest those responsible for the Phi Kappa Psi attack, that student may find out the hard way that he is wrong. |
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| Quasimodo | Dec 22 2014, 07:06 AM Post #517 |
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| LTC8K6 | Dec 22 2014, 07:29 AM Post #518 |
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Assistant to The Devil Himself
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The country is in a lot of trouble if many of these college students are going to be running it... |
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| Quasimodo | Dec 22 2014, 09:34 AM Post #519 |
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| abb | Dec 22 2014, 10:30 AM Post #520 |
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http://www.mindingthecampus.com/2014/12/virginias-freedom-of-information-act-e-mails/ Virginia’s Freedom of Information Act E-Mails KC Johnson December 21, 2014 Leave a comment FOIA requests from several reporters prompted the release of numerous e-mails between various UVA officials and Rolling Stone’s Sabrina Erdely and fact-checker Elizabeth Garber-Paul. A few items that we learned: Erdely and UVA Employees The e-mails show that UVA wanted to control its message by not allowing Erdely to interview lower-level administrators. As a result, she appears to have had on-the-record discussions with only three University of Virginia employees: President Teresa Sullivan, a public relations official, and victims’ rights advocate Emily Renda, who works as a “project coordinator” for the UVA’s vice president for student affairs. In the e-mails, Erdely describes Renda as a “survivor, activist, and mentor/support for Jackie,” and confirms Renda’s role in facilitating publication of the article. The questions, as a result, are obvious: why was Renda, apparently alone among Sullivan’s subordinates, allowed to speak on the record with Erdely? At Sullivan’s UVA, do self-styled victims’ rights advocates operate under special rules? Why is someone who helped bring about what the chairman of the UVA’s board of visitors recently termed “drive-by journalism” against the school still drawing a paycheck from UVA? Erdely’s Ideological Biases Erdely told a UVA dean that she was “writing an article about rape/rape culture on college campuses”—suggesting that she came into her work accepting the absurd premise that a “rape culture” exists at universities. As Robby Soave has pointed out, the fact-checking process (overseen by a Rolling Stone employee who cited her work at The Nation as providing her training in fact-checking) provided zero evidence that anyone at Rolling Stone ever attempted to confirm that “Drew” (the alleged ringleader of the alleged gang rape that Jackie allegedly experienced) was even a student at UVA. Moreover, UVA officials told both Erdely and Garber-Paul that Erdely’s claim that a student had raped three separate UVA female students was “objectively false.” But, as Erik Wemple noted in the Washington Post, the claim nonetheless seems to have made it into Erdely’s article. Due Process A final Intriguing point: in e-mails to Erdely, UVA’s public relations spokesperson confirmed that the university’s definition of rape “may not rise to a criminal standard.” Virginia is the rule rather than the exception in this regard; most colleges (Yale is another prominent example) broaden the definition, reflecting a campus ideological environment that’s extreme on issues relating to gender. Yet the vast majority of people (both on campus and off) doubtless understand the phrase “rape or sexual assault” as the concept is defined in criminal law. So a student convicted through UVA procedures can be deemed a “rapist” for offenses that do not rise to the “criminal standard” of rape. How a university that finds a way to define the offense of rape excessively broadly, to appease campus “activists,” can simultaneously be suffering from a “rape culture” is a conundrum that didn’t interest Erdely. |
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| MikeZPU | Dec 22 2014, 01:16 PM Post #521 |
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I like Alan Dershowitz more and more each day. He's exactly right: if this had been right wing extremists doing vandalism in response to a false narrative, there would have been hell to pay. I am writing President Sullivan an email about this -- this is ridiculous!!!!! and Jackie should be expelled from UVA!!! |
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| Payback | Dec 22 2014, 03:07 PM Post #522 |
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And laws against false accusation should be passed and rigorously enforced. Ideally, the penalty for making a false accusation of rape should be precisely the penalty for conviction of rape. |
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| comelately | Dec 22 2014, 05:19 PM Post #523 |
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One does not have to be SO severe. Even, say, HALF of the sentence would dramatically improve the memory of many "survivors". And since the atrocity described by Jackie would easily warrant a few decades in prison... On the other hand, Jackie did NOT accuse anyone: she was just spouting (mostly plagiarized) fiction. So in this case, just kicking her out of the university does not seem unreasonable. It is not even obvious what laws (if any) Erdely violated! On a slightly different note, have you noticed that the terms "survivor" and "false accuser" are rapidly becoming synonyms of each other?! |
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| sdsgo | Dec 22 2014, 06:17 PM Post #524 |
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Columbia Journalism School To Give Rolling Stone's UVA Rape Story An Independent Review NEW YORK -- Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism will conduct an independent review of Rolling Stone's disputed November story on an alleged 2012 gang rape at the University of Virginia, the magazine announced Monday. Rolling Stone apologized on Dec. 5 after several news organizations revealed problems in contributing editor Sabrina Rubin Erdely's article. However, the magazine has not fully retracted the story. Since the apology, Rolling Stone editors and Erdely have declined to comment on the article, citing an internal review process. It hasn't been clear how the magazine was investigating itself, given reports that both Erdely and a Rolling Stone reporter were contacting UVA students. Last week, three friends of Jackie, the alleged victim, disputed how they were portrayed in the article and said Erdely never contacted them before publication. Erdely had also not contacted the alleged attackers before publishing Jackie's claims. <snip> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/22/columbia-rolling-stone-uva-rape-story_n_6368086.html |
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| Joan Foster | Dec 22 2014, 06:28 PM Post #525 |
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HMMM...so many Columbia faculty are so involved in inciting violence against the NYPD, I hope this isn't an imposition on them. |
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