College Newspaper: False Rape Accusation Shows ‘False Accusations Are Extremely Unlikely’
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'On the main campus of Pennsylvania State University, the editors of The Daily Collegian published a 433-word editorial arguing that Rolling Stone’s fabricated, completely retracted article, “A Rape on Campus” demonstrates that “false accusations” of rape “are extremely unlikely.”
In the bizarre, unsigned Thursday op-ed, The Daily Collegian laments the fact that the Phi Kappa Psi chapter at the University of Virginia is now suing over damages caused by the Nov. 19 article by disgraced journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely.
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"The most important thing to come out of this failed journalism is the concept that sexual assault is a huge problem on college campuses, and false accusations are extremely unlikely,” the editors of The Daily Collegian declare. “We cannot let this situation hurt and set back sexual assault reporting and investigating.”
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“While we understand the fraternity may have a right to legal action, we don’t support its decision to pursue a case,” they lecture.
“With all of the media covering of this case, it has become general knowledge the fraternity’s name has been cleared and the article has been retracted.”
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Notably, Erdely did not apologize to Phi Kappa Psi.
Rape and sexual assault have been in the campus spotlight in recent years, ever since the Obama administration’s Department of Education created a complex new policy dictating how American colleges and universities must respond to allegation of sexual violence. The policy depends very heavily — at times exclusively — on Title IX, a comprehensive 1972 federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex. (RELATED: How Obama Bureaucrats Are Aiming To Deny Students Constitutional Due Process)'
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