UVA and the alleged frat rape - Rolling Stone backpedals

Police said Monday that they've been unable to confirm that an alleged gang rape occurred at a University of Virginia fraternity house as described in a Rolling Stone article, and the school reinstated the group and its activities.

The University of Virginia said in a statement that the decision to reinstate Phi Kappa Psi was made after consulting with the Charlottesville Police Department. The Rolling Stone article described in graphic detail an alleged gang rape of a student at the Phi Kappa Psi house in 2012.

"The statement reads that we did not find any substantive basis to confirm the allegations occurred at Phi Kappa Psi, not that we said the assault did not occur. We are still investigating," Charlottesville Police Capt. Gary Pleasants said in an email to The Associated Press.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/no-proo...university-of-virginia-fraternity-police-say/

 

Eh, fuck them. Bunch of Frat Bros:

The Phi Kappa Psi brothers sat together in a bedroom, turning the glossy magazine pages as they absorbed the account of a gang rape that allegedly took place within the brick walls around them.

The University of Virginia students read the Rolling Stone article that November night in complete surprise. A U-Va. junior said she attended a date party at the fraternity house in 2012 and was lured to a bedroom, where a group of men raped her in what appeared to be a gruesome initiation rite. The students were disgusted, emotional and confused.

“Some people actually had to leave the room while they were reading it because they were so upset,” said Phi Psi President Stephen Scipione, 21, a junior from Richmond.

But within 24 hours of the article’s publication, the U-Va. students reviewed the fraternity’s records and confirmed their initial suspicions: The magazine’s account was deeply flawed.

“We knew that the Rolling Stone story was not true,” said David Fontenot, 22, a senior from McLean, Va. But they also knew “that we would only make things more difficult by fighting it in the media and that our best move was to stay quiet, let the police do their jobs and ride it out until the time was appropriate.”

U-Va. Phi Psi members speak about impact of discredited gang rape allegations - The Washington Post

 

Love when people "actually" have to do something.

 

Here's the part that just burns me up:

“We don’t want to take away from the real victims, which are the victims of sexual assault,” Fontenot said. “We think it is incredibly unfair that the Rolling Stone article could in any way take away their credibility and the support they need.”

Fucking assholes. Have another brewski, brah.

 

Poppin' collars since 1850.

 

It's like it's so important to stress this point, that you're not even allowed to make any other point. And, folks are afraid to say anything else for fear of being accused of not stressing the most important takeaway from the whole episode.

 

The frat boys have had a few pow-wows to make damn well sure they'd say proper things like this. They have to appear sensitive.

 

Maybe Jackie had a laptop camera recording the rape.

 

Has the frat replaced that glass-top table yet?

 

It must've been hell for them - pretending to give a shit for a whole, entire interview.

 

Those guys are without a doubt the villains of this story, MC. No question.

 

Villians? No.

Victims? No.

Martyrs? Fuck no.