Posted on 12/09/2014 6:30:42 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The University of Virginia refused to reinstate Greek activities that were suspended after a Rolling Stone article alleged a woman was gang raped at a fraternity house, despite the magazine acknowledging mistakes in its reporting, but officials said Monday that the story and debate has led it to create a group to explore its policies and campus culture.
Last month's article and revelations late last week about Rolling Stone missteps that casted doubt on the story prompted an "intense, ongoing period of introspection," the university said in a news release. It led to the creation of a group of faculty and students that will review policies, practices, organization structure and resources to "support the ultimate goal of providing an outstanding education while ensuring the safety and well-being of students," the release said....
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TRANSLATION: “It was all a lie, but we can’t let a crisis go to waste.”
Must have Dan “fake but accurate” Rather running UVa’s PC circus.
Fire Sullivan now!!
“Fake, but accurate.”
*To a leftist, a fact is the most irrelevant quantity of all. [Believing is seeing.]
There’s been a drumbeat lately about fraternities. Liberals think they’re bastions of white male privilege and must be destroyed at any cost.
Of course they will not reinstate the fraternities.
THAT would be admitting they made a mistake.
You got it.
The author of the hit piece targeted UVA explicitly because it lacked a “radical feminist culture.” Well, thats now going to happen. I bet the school administration and faculty is thrilled that this presents an opportunity to do something right away that they all saw as a long-term effort.
The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.
The frats should come together, pool their resources, and hire some bloodthirsty lawyers.
Looks like UVA and its’ President will be paying some LARGE settlements.
As a STATE university, there is a requirement for due process, not administrative fiat. . . .
“the facts were wrong, but the narrative was right.”
(Evan Thomas of Newsweek, about his magazine’s coverage of the Duke lacrosse case).
Applicable here, also.
Are they going to get rid of the sororities as well?
It’s not about the validity of the clam but the seriousness of the crime. Because there is no evidence they must investigate.
I hope the fraternities sue Rolling Stone for libel and the school for wrongful punishment.
Most undergraduates only extend the skill set of "how to go to school" rather than coming to grips with the task of providing for oneself through industriousness and resourcefulness in the workaday environment.
Make them prove they can do that before sending them to an institution to rape with consent withdrawn after the fact, to consume toxins until one is regularly blotto, and toss firecrackers and verbal barbs at one another.
I know, because I did it the wrong way the first time, myself. And the fraternity life was a factor multiplier in this, not a helper.
My salvation was that I distinctly failed, and after maturation got a second chance. I hate to think what my life would have been if I just barely passed the course work, got the degree, and thus never got the second chance.
Hire the nastiest lawyer they can find.
Alternate translation: We know you are innocent, but we’re going to punish you anyway!
Deprivation of civil rights (the right to free association) under color of authority.
Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America.
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