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UVA Rape Story Collapses; Duke Lacrosse Redux
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LTC8K6
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So far, seems to be a bad presser for Jackie...
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Bottom line so far: All made up.
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Imaginary boyfriend.
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I think he slipped and said her name, Laurie or Lorie...?
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Not able to establish anything in the RS article as factual.

Doesn't mean something terrible did not happen to Jackie. Case not closed.

Can't corroborate the other claims of assaults in the article.
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Joan Foster
Mar 23 2015, 04:55 AM
Expect some version of "something happened" to Jackie...so she can retain her celebrity Victim status.
Excellent foresight.
:thup:
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Something happened to Jackie, but it left no evidence.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/24/us/police-to-release-results-of-uva-rape-inquiry.html

Police Find No Evidence of Rape at UVa Fraternity

By OWEN ROBINSON and SHERYL GAY STOLBERGMARCH 23, 2015

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Police here said Monday that they have found no evidence that a woman was gang-raped at a University of Virginia fraternity house in 2012, and they are suspending their investigation, after a lengthy inquiry in which the alleged victim refused to cooperate. But they said the inquiry was not closed.

“I can’t prove that something didn’t happen and there may come a point in time in which this survivor, or this complaining party or someone else may come forward with some information that might help us move this investigation further,” Police Chief Timothy Longo told a roomful of reporters here.

The announcement came four months after a now-discredited report of the sexual assault was published in Rolling Stone, roiling the historic university — and the world of journalism. But it was not entirely unexpected; university officials said in January that police had informed them there was no “substantive basis to confirm the allegations.”
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Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The woman at the center of a Rolling Stone article said this was where she was raped by several men in 2012.
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The Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. The school banned Greek activities after the university’s administration was criticized for its reaction to the allegations in the Rolling Stone article.
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Teresa A. Sullivan, president of the University of Virginia, speaking last month after an article alleging a brutal gang rape.
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The Rolling Stone article, “A Rape on Campus,” detailed what appeared to be a brutal gang rape of a student, identified only as Jackie, in an upstairs room of the Phi Kappa Psi house in 2012, followed by a botched response by the school’s administration.

The 9,000-word article set off a national debate about sexual assault on campus — and the fraternity culture more broadly — and cast an unflattering spotlight on the University of Virginia, depicting one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious universities, founded by Thomas Jefferson, as a place where partying took precedence over learning. But within days, the magazine admitted serious flaws in the article.

Rolling Stone has since commissioned a team of investigators, led by Steve Coll, dean of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, to examine its report. The magazine’s managing editor, Will Dana, said Sunday that the external review would be published “in the next couple of weeks.”

At the university, officials have required fraternities to agree to new rules for parties: Beer kegs are not permitted, security workers must be present, and at least three fraternity members in attendance must be sober.

At a meeting of the university’s Board of Visitors last month, the school’s president, Teresa A. Sullivan, detailed a list of steps she was taking to change the social culture of the school and to improve safety on the campus, which students call the Grounds. She and other officials said the university had been unfairly tarnished.

“UVA’s climate and culture are generally healthy,” Ms. Sullivan said then.

For Ms. Sullivan, and for the university, the last few months have been trying ones; the rape allegations are only one in a series of communal traumas that the university has experienced. In September, Hannah Graham, a second-year student (as sophomores are known), disappeared and was later found dead. In November, another second-year student, Peter D’Agostino, the great-grandson of the supermarket founder, committed suicide.
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And last week, the Grounds erupted in protest over police treatment of a third-year student, Martese Johnson, an African-American who was bloodied during an arrest by Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control agents. The university’s Black Student Alliance will convene a meeting Monday night to discuss ways to change the university’s culture.

“This year, our community has experienced trying, tragic and traumatizing issues that have personally affected the lives not only of students on our own Grounds, but those in the larger communities of which we are a part,” the organization said, in announcing the session.

Administration officials and student groups continue to send emails and post reminders around campus about counseling services as part of a move to support students through the events of the last few months. Dozens of black flags advocating suicide awareness were flown Monday on one of the main quads.

The flags reflect what a second-year student, Alejandra Gutierrez, said was an emotionally drained student body. Ms. Gutierrez said the episode involving Mr. Johnson added to the discouragement felt by many students.

“We were already low with what happened last semester,” she said, “so it’s made things even worse.”

A fourth-year student, Marcus Leibowitz, said that many students were ready for a return to normalcy at a university that has had off-and-on national media attention for months.

“I think it’s really frustrating,” Mr. Leibowitz said. “We’re tired of these slip-ups and we know we live in a good community, but these bad incidents keep on happening.”

Owen Robinson reported from Charlottesville, Va., and Sheryl Gay Stolberg from Washington.
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WE TOLD THEM SO!
SULLIVAN MUST GO!
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I was listening post presser on CNN and they have Sarah Ganin & another former women attorney. They do not want to admit it was a false claim.

The police found no evidence to support the Rolling Stone article. Nothing. The woman refused to give a statement to Police and said she wouldn't talk with them anymore.

Yet the Police are keeping the file open because maybe somebody will come forward with evidence.

Such PC crap.

The attorney besides Ganin said the off repeated statistic that only 2% of rape claims are false. Just trying cover their rears by spinning that something could have happened, just too much time went by and rape victims are too traumatized to speak or remember events.

Such pathetic commentary.

Follow the evidence that is all we can do
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just checked. cnn.com doesn't have this story on their front page.
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Joan Foster

She's a "survivor"....the language of academia debuts at your local police headquarters.

No evidence, won't cooperate...but they have to leave it open ....just in case. Just in case, she gets a movie offer...


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The next Lena Dunham...
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Spoke thing did happen.

It was all made up. That's what happened.
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dsl

I saw the police press conference and thought it was handled well. I did not read the same interpretation "between the lines" that some of you have. What I thought he was really saying, the reason he said that something may have happened, had nothing to do with rape. I felt he was keeping the door open to the possibility that this young woman may have had a mental/ emotional, even psychotic breakdown. The "something" that supposedly happened with the man, who has yet to be found, may have been a terrible imaginary episode for her... could even have been related to ingesting drugs.

I thought that the spokesman handled it very well under the circumstances. He did not discredit the "victim" but he certainly put the pressure on those who are friends of real victims, to involve the police immediately. And that is how I think all these complaints should be handled. If a crime has been committed, it needs to go to the local professionals, and not be routed through the campus security.

Of course, if the local LE are from Durham, that will complicate matters. But thankfully, not all of them are.

So how did "Rolling Stone" get involved, and what happens to its reputation?
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