Posted on 12/11/2014 4:14:21 AM PST by abb
Teresa Sullivan, the president of the University of Virginia — the campus at the heart of the Rolling Stone magazine debacle over its since-debunked rape claim piece — has become the target of a Change.org petition that calls for her immediate firing.
The petition has only gathered a few signatures so far, but its text is blunt.
It reads: "University of Virginia president Teresa Sullivan vandalized our legal system by immediately assuming the guilt of innocent men after an anonymous accuser without evidence cried, 'Rape!' Sullivan suspended activities of all fraternities (not just the one fraternity the accuser mentions), and no sororities — discrimination solely on the basis of sex."
The petition then reminds how Rolling Stone has apologized for publishing the story and distanced itself from the accuser.
"While the Board of Visitors immediately apologized to the anonymous accuser and her parents, now that 'Rolling Stone' has backed away from the story, the Board of Visitors' 'zero-tolerance' approach to sexual assault must including firing the woman who aided and abetted a false rape accusation as well as physical violence against the fraternity."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Brodhead Redux ping
Sullivan’s predicate was “she read it in the Rolling Stone.”
At least Brodhead had a prosecutor that lied to him.
A good liberal knows men are rapists.
A woman is innocent until proven guilty.
A man does not enjoy the benefit of the doubt.
That is the world President Sullivan lives in.
It’s all designed to blow our minds,
But our minds won’t really get blown
Like the blow that’ll getcha
When you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone.
wasn’t she embroiled in a controversy last year when she was voted out by some governing body and the leftists threw a temper tantrum?
The courageous and good progressive university president was faced with a public relations crisis involving a story written by a writer having a specific social and political agenda, published in a periodical known for promoting progressive social causes, about an alleged and uninvestigated heinous and brutal criminal act. The anonymous victim of the alleged act refused to report the incident to the authorities but did describe the unidentified perpetrators as belonging to one specific fraternity and alleged the incident occurred at that fraternity.
Faced with a media firestorm and feminist outrage at this unsubstantiated story university president Theresa Sullivan immediately took bold and deliberate action to suspend the entire fraternity system at the university thereby directly punishing 25% of the male student population.
Subsequently the story has been thoroughly discredited, particularly with respect to involvement by fraternity members or an incident occurring at any fraternity house on the date of the alleged assault.
Despite the story being discredited by hard facts, the suspension of fraternities remains in effect. Rahm Emanuel must be proud of President Sullivan. She has not allowed a faux crisis to go to waste. Furthermore she is on record stating she will reform the fraternity system at the university.
They fired her once already.
+1.
Mistakenly, in my view.
Isn’t Marxism wonderful. She is doing her part to fight male privilege.
Pray America wakes
Get rid of the battleax
it’s called ‘guilt by accusation’ and her actions are akin to forming a lynch mob.
Summed up nicely.
Sadly, she’ll end up at some other university.
We can’t seem to get rid of this mentality.
In all her statements, she has been focused on the campus rape issue and campus safety—but not one word of apology to the actual victims, nor any criticism of those who
threw rocks and broke windows in their house.
She has just continued on as though the charges were true.
To liberals, the seriousness of the charge always trumps the nature of the evidence.
I sure hope there are consequences for this.
The women's coach is also on the case.
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