UVA and the alleged frat rape - Rolling Stone backpedals

Post/Kaiser poll shows that 20 percent of women sexually assaulted in college | The Washington Post

A national poll of students, one of the most comprehensive to date on the issue, provides evidence that sexual assault is often connected to factors woven deeply into campus culture.

 

Deeply divided over consent signals - The Washington Post

Asked about things students could do to prevent sexual assault, 93 percent said it would be effective if men respected women more. That was far larger than the shares that endorsed the effectiveness of drinking less alcohol (78 percent) or avoiding casual hookups (64 percent).

 

"93 percent said it would be more effective if men respected women more?"
No shit. It would also be nice if people had the respect not to rob, steal, murder or otherwise harm someone else.
The booze is the key here. I don't know how you would ever control it.

 

Layoffs hit RS ...
'Rolling Stone' Hit With Round of Layoffs - Hollywood Reporter - The Hollywood Reporter

 

Dana gone:

Will Dana, the managing editor of Rolling Stone, will leave the magazine, just months after a controversial article about a supposed gang rape at the University of Virginia was retracted.

Mr. Dana, whose planned last day is Aug. 7, is not leaving for another job, and his successor has not been named. When asked if the departure was linked to the controversy over the discredited article, Rolling Stone’s publisher, Jann S. Wenner, said, via a spokeswoman, that “many factors go into a decision like this.”

In a statement, Mr. Dana said, “After 19 years at Rolling Stone, I have decided that it is time to move on.” He added: “It has been a great ride and I loved it even more than I imagined I would. I am as excited to see where the magazine goes next as I was in the summer of 1978 when I bought my first issue.”

Mr. Wenner, a founder of the magazine, said that Mr. Dana was “one of the finest editors I have ever worked with.”

Mr. Dana and Mr. Wenner both declined to be interviewed.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/30/b...ng-stones-managing-editor-to-depart.html?_r=0

Lawsuit filed:

Three Phi Kappa Psi fraternity brothers are suing Rolling Stone magazine in New York federal court for defamation, alleging that a now-retracted December 2014 article on rape at the University of Virginia identified them as taking part in a vicious gang rape.

The three U-Va., graduates, George Elias IV, Stephen Hadford and Ross Fowler, filed the lawsuit in New York federal court Wednesday against Rolling Stone and Sabrina Rubin Erdely, the journalist who wrote the 9,000-word account, which alleged a gang rape at the Phi Psi fraternity house during a party. The article was retracted in April after a Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism review concluded that it was deeply flawed.

“As young men who have dedicated their lives to obtaining the merits to attend UVA, maintaining good grades and obtaining undergraduate degrees, while also becoming involved in UVA activities, pledging a fraternity and finding lifelong brothers and friends, Plaintiffs have been embarrassed to admit that they are members of Phi Kappa Psi as a result of the article and its accusations,” according to the filing entered in U.S. District Court in New York.

The three fraternity brothers are requesting a trial by jury and seek more than $75,000 for “mental anguish and severe emotional distress,” caused by the article and its aftermath.

Phi Kappa Psi fraternity members sue Rolling Stone over retracted U-Va. rape story - The Washington Post

 

These are the kind of names Tom Wolfe or Jonathan Franzen makes up for a novel and you're like "C'mon, bruh. Little too lazy and cliche."

 

Ah, come on. The last two aren't THAT bad. Since when is Ross a blue-blood name?

George Elias IV, on the other hand...I'd bet large sums of money that at the very least, George Elias Jr. and George Elias III were Wahoos. Probably the pater familias, too.

 

She sounds really pathetic:

That night, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, who had been engaged in her own effort to find Drew and who had just spoken to Jackie, called Pinkleton at one A.M. “I need to hear from you if her story was true,” she said, in Pinkleton’s recollection. “And I just said, ‘I don’t think you should have written the article.’ ” The following morning, December 5, Pinkleton said, she received another call from Erdely. “ ‘I’m writing the retraction right now. I just need to hear one more time what you think,’ ” Pinkleton told me. “She started bawling and said, ‘I am going to lose my job.’ ” That same day, The Washington Post wrote that Phi Kappa Psi said that it had not held an event the night of Jackie’s alleged rape, and that the “friends” who had spoken to Jackie then had heard details of her attack that differed from what was in the Rolling Stone article. Rolling Stone’s managing editor, Will Dana, issued a statement later that day in which the magazine admitted to mistakes in the story and apologized to readers. Dana would leave the magazine in August.

After a Rape Story, a Murder, and Lawsuits: What’s Next for the University of Virginia?

 

I see Erdely's Twitter has been inactive since last November. I wonder if she and Caleb Hannan are on some deserted island together.

 

Allow me to put on my editor hat for a moment.

He would leave? No. He DID leave. It has already happened. There is nothing conditional about it.

The correct sentence here is "Dana left the magazine in August."

Thank you for your indulgence. That drives me berserk.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/11/09/us/ap-us-rolling-stone-fraternity-lawsuit.html?_r=0

 

After reading that description of the claims of the lawsuit it sounds like an open-and-shut case.