Rolling Stone Article - Sexual Assault at UVA

[Anonymous]

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/features/a-rape-on-campus-20141119

What are everyone's thoughts on this article? I was absolutely stunned and sickened. I did not go to UVA, but to Virginia Tech - which has certainly had its fair share of issues and negative portrayal by the media - but I never experienced or knew anyone who experienced anything like the gender-related sexual assault that seems so prevalent and accepted on that campus.

Even worse, I think, is Teresa Sullivan's attempt at damage control:

https://news.virginia.edu/content/important-message-president-sullivan-addressing-sexual-misconduct

[Anonymous]

I think sexual assaults happen on many campuses, not just UVA.

I was a victim during undergrad (as a freshman) in Boston. Much of the description in the Rolling Stone article mirrored what I went through. I wasn't the only victim, either. The Boston police were pointless.

[Anonymous]

That was one of the most depressing thing I've read in a while. And I believe it all.

[Anonymous]

Very depressing. My only hope as a mother is that this kind of horror gets addressed and eradicated before my DCs go to college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That was one of the most depressing thing I've read in a while. And I believe it all.

+1
Disgusting and yet another reason I hope my kids steer clear of frats.

[Anonymous]

The Commonwealth is a conservative's wet dream, and the place is a fucking disaster for anyone not super wealthy. This story is a pretty euphemism for what the rich are allowed to do to the rest of Virginians: sexually assault them and get away with it.

[Anonymous]

Really horrible. For the first time I am grateful my DC was waitlisted at UVA and went elsewhere. While I think there are issues everywhere I think it's a little more accepted at UVA and has been for a long time.

[Anonymous]

UVA is not rated high in world rankings. It is good at the easy subjects and is a sloppy drunken institution held in high esteem by sloppy drunken whites.

[Anonymous]

I don't know where UVa gets the reputation for being "conservative". They traditionally vote democratic and the majority of the students come from Northern Virginia, New York and other liberal places. They like to put on the facade of being conservative like wearing kacky pants and blue blazers, but it is actually not that conservative. It might be in a business sense, but not socially.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Commonwealth is a conservative's wet dream, and the place is a fucking disaster for anyone not super wealthy. This story is a pretty euphemism for what the rich are allowed to do to the rest of Virginians: sexually assault them and get away with it.

Weird and random thread-killer.

[Anonymous]

Ok, I'll say it: college fraternities need to be banned from campuses. They just need to be a thing of the past. What is the use of these organizations other than to shield and encourage pathological men and behaviors, such as binge drinking, sexual assault, misogyny?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Commonwealth is a conservative's wet dream, and the place is a fucking disaster for anyone not super wealthy. This story is a pretty euphemism for what the rich are allowed to do to the rest of Virginians: sexually assault them and get away with it.

Weird and random thread-killer.

Though I would've worded it differently, it's definitely not a thread-killer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, I'll say it: college fraternities need to be banned from campuses. They just need to be a thing of the past. What is the use of these organizations other than to shield and encourage pathological men and behaviors, such as binge drinking, sexual assault, misogyny?

+ 1000. Also, UVA needs an overhaul. It's absolutely disgusting but not that surprising.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Commonwealth is a conservative's wet dream, and the place is a fucking disaster for anyone not super wealthy. This story is a pretty euphemism for what the rich are allowed to do to the rest of Virginians: sexually assault them and get away with it.

You do not appear to be referring specifically to the college, so at a higher governmental level, we have a democratic Gov and 2 dem senators plus voted for Obama. How do you call this even slightly conservative, much less a "wet dream." Maybe if you used language and wording less like trailer trash, you would be treated better than trailer trash. If you are that bitter towards the "fucking disaster" that is Va, maybe you should move.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really horrible. For the first time I am grateful my DC was waitlisted at UVA and went elsewhere. While I think there are issues everywhere I think it's a little more accepted at UVA and has been for a long time.

I strongly discouraged (successfully) my DD from applying to UVA. What a frightening article. I have family who live in Charlottesvile and worked at UVA and told stories about the frat culture that made my skin crawl.

I wouldn't go as far as disbanding all frats and sororities because many of them are academic and do wonderful community service. But the beer drinking, girl raping, belly bumping frats should have their chapters removed. Georgia Tech just had a chapter revoked because of rape bait emails.