Professor seeks UVA president's apology for closing frats after Rolling Stone's rape story, website reports

Story here. Excerpt:

'A professor at the University of Virginia and his son, a third-year student, are requesting an apology from UVA president Teresa Sullivan, who suspended all fraternity activities after an article in Rolling Stone alleged that a female student was gang-raped at the school's Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in 2012.

The magazine has since apologized for a series of journalism failures in its reporting of the story, including failing to contact the would-be attackers and to probe inconsistencies in the account of the woman who said she was attacked.  

Writing in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, professor Robert Turner and his son, Thomas Turner, said they found the details in the story "implausible" but they were equally shocked by Sullivan's decision to suspend fraternities before conducting an investigation of the incident. 

"Did U.Va. learn nothing from the 2006 Duke lacrosse team scandal, where -- reportedly under strong pressure from prejudiced faculty members anxious to make an example of 'privileged' athletes -- on the sole basis of an allegation of rape, the lacrosse coach was fired and the team's schedule for the rest of the season canceled?" the authors write.'