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re: Article on Rape at UVA
Posted on 11/23/14 at 12:28 pm to jbgleason
Posted on 11/23/14 at 12:28 pm to jbgleason
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This will go down in history as one of the most extreme knee-jerk responses ever. Making policy based on a Rolling Stone article (a history of exaggeration and questionable journalism) is crazy.
It's not just the article. People are popping out the woodwork now with claims of their own and corroborating stories. I have friends who went to UVA who have admitted that there was a sexual assault problem that was swept under the rug, and everyone knew about it. Which isn't to say it was a mainstream culture there, but it existed to an extent.
This post was edited on 11/23/14 at 12:46 pm
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Posted on 11/23/14 at 1:32 pm to REG861
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It's not just the article. People are popping out the woodwork now with claims of their own and corroborating stories. I have friends who went to UVA who have admitted that there was a sexual assault problem that was swept under the rug, and everyone knew about it. Which isn't to say it was a mainstream culture there, but it existed to an extent.
If this is true, then I'm glad something is being done. That still doesn't explain why the punishment against a school wide problem is being exacted against a number of entities to whom the allegations may not apply in any sense. This is UVA picking the easiest target as a sacrificial lamb, and in a world where the definition of rape is being enlarged on a daily basis, it's another absurd move that'll just end up stigmatizing large swaths of people while doing nothing to get to the bottom of credible allegations of sexual assault.
Posted on 11/23/14 at 2:51 pm to REG861
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It's not just the article. People are popping out the woodwork now with claims of their own and corroborating stories. I have friends who went to UVA who have admitted that there was a sexual assault problem that was swept under the rug, and everyone knew about it. Which isn't to say it was a mainstream culture there, but it existed to an extent.
Bull. That is an allegation without merit, and without standing. I would suggest avoiding it in the future.
This article is straight up slander, what appalls me is that it would take a student to see that. The characterizations of the University, and of Dean Groves and Dean Eramo specifically - those are simply farcical.
I would wait for the facts to come out before people start crashing the barricades.
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I hear you but I thought from reading the article that she was about to go to the hospital but then her three friends talked her out of it for fear of not being able to go to parties in the future. Knowing the culture at UVA very well, that was odd to me.
I understand why she wouldn't want to but it sounds like she had some real shitheads giving her advice.
Those former friends have strongly disputed that version of events.
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Having attended three colleges and visiting several dozen others and seeing their social scenes, UVA does have a very strong Greek scene but I never heard of rape or sexual assault cases like being mentioned on there. The article makes it seem like everyone knows someone who got raped there and which fraternities to avoid being raped at. That's absurd.
Rape is no where near as prevalent as the article suggests
This post was edited on 11/23/14 at 2:57 pm
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