UVA Reacts to Rolling Stone Campus Rape Investigation, Promises Change

Submitted by ThomasI on Fri, 2014-11-21 06:49

Article here.  Excerpt:

'An explosive Rolling Stone investigation into the campus-rape epidemic at the University of Virginia has left the student body and administration reeling. UVA president Teresa A. Sullivan has quickly responded to "A Rape on Campus," which reported on a student named Jackie who was brutally assaulted by seven men at a frat party — and how faculty and her friends discouraged her from sharing her story. The article also chronicled the culture of sexual assault at the school, which some UVA women have taken to calling "UVrApe," and how students and the administration work to keep this reputation quiet.
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"The University takes seriously the issue of sexual misconduct, a significant problem that colleges and universities are grappling with across the nation," Sullivan wrote in a statement. She added that she had asked Charlottesville police to formally investigate the sexual assault on Jackie and that the university would cooperate with the authorities. Many of the details revealed in the article had not been disclosed to University officials, Sullivan claimed. She also said that the school had adopted new policies and initiatives to encourage people to report sexual assault and raise awareness around the issue.'

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Ed. Note: Thomas1 included comments with this submission, which are in the first comment for this item.

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From Thomas1:

"The guys of the chapter already relinquished their charter temporarily.  But the great news is how the president of UVA is reacting: no feminist tribunal.  She went right to the police.

One of two things will happen: This will justify calling the police and avoiding feminist tribunals and a lack of due process for men, or the article will be proven to be a false rape hysteria hoax.

Now if she can also investigate the violence perpetrated against the frat house: some vandals through stones through the window and smashed them."

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2014-11-22 19:33

Actually, this is good.  If there's a *real* culture of rape at UVA, it's long overdue the police were called in to investigate it.  Campus courts were orig. invented to handle affronts to academic integrity: plagiarism, misattribution, inattribution, cheating, submitting work not authored by oneself (i.e., submitting "ghostwritten" papers), engaging in "ghostwriting", lying to get deferred deadlines for submissions (i.e., "My uncle Fred died and I need 2 more days for that paper."), etc.  Rape/sexual assaults?  Please.

There can be a culture of criminality in any community.  Among investment banking arms of commercial banks in the western world, an extensive culture of criminal fraud and deliberate lack of diligence was exposed years ago, only after the housing bubble burst.   But did an internal body of investigation uncover wrongdoing at any time?  No.  Only until the bubble burst and the gov't went in to examine things was it exposed.  Sadly, what was also exposed was even the gov't's watchdog agencies were either derelict or turned a blind eye to the bad practices, or corrupt officials actually facilitated it.  Worse still, many involved have seen little or no jail time or have merely lost their gov't jobs, only to be hired at a much higher salary by the banks they covered for.  Disgusting.  But that's a separate matter.

So anyway, yes, sub-cultures of criminality can exist anywhere and facilitate any kind of crime(s).  Based on the comments in the RS article, it looks like UVA indeed may have been covering up real, actual forcible rape allegations in order to protect their reputation for years now. (Remember Penn State?  What, forgot it already?  Yes, the memory is short, isn't it.)  I find it hard to believe so many of the women commenting are lying abt their terrible experiences not just b/c they were forcibly raped, but also that UVA did little/nothing to help.  But indeed, they should've gone to the police -- in fact, called the police ASAP.  But young ppl are sometimes pretty reticent around interacting w/ police since police may still be "scary" to them.  Still, as soon as they could get the nerve up, they ought to have done so, as when the police hear the same name(s) often enough, they may still act to investigate even if they know they can't get enough evidence to bring even one case to trial.  That'd at least put the fear into the horrible little serial rapist, even if he doesn't see even the inside of a holding cell.

Defining sexual assault as failing to obtain affirm. consent at all times throughout a sex act is ludicrous, and grossly unfair when applied only to men.  So an example of a non-actual "rape culture" is one where men aren't constantly asking women if they can do X next.  That can hardly be compared to an actual, real "rape culture" somewhere.  But that standard was invented precisely by feminists to discourage heterosexual sex on campus.  Gay/lesbian sex is fine, but straight sex isn't unless it's filled w/ incessant questioning of the girl throughout.  Not just the ultimate mood-killer, but utterly ludicrous, unless the goal is to chase men almost entirely away from trad'l higher ed.  And indeed, that is the goal of campus feminists.  While the side effect will also be fewer women at co ed schools, it won't be quite as bad, since it isn't women feminists are looking to eliminate.  Regardless of who a college girl sleeps with, she knows she'll never be hauled in front of a campus ersatz court and "tried", found "guilty", and get punished in some way.

Well, good luck, UVA.  You'll need it, no matter what the truth is.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2014-11-22 20:55