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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I thought the President of the school admitted in an interview that UVA has never expelled a student for sexual assault.  Is that a false story?[/quote]

I think there is plenty that's true in the story, including that fact.  The University acknowledges that there are problems at UVA.  What is unfortunate is that failure to properly report, check and vet a story (there were plenty of chances to catch this at numerous levels  -- reporter, editors , RS attorneys ) may have caused erroneous assumptions about certain people as well as hurt the case for other women who have been sexually assaulted.  As one commenter on a NYT story on this noted, it's not Jackie's fault -- she did not make her story public, the Rolling Stone did -- as a result even if they didn't run the accused boys names (I love how the attorneys are hiding behind that, btw), they had the obligation to verify the rough facts of the story -- did the frat have a date party that night?  did a frat member actually work with her at the aquatics center, what about the other guys?  etc.  Feeble attempts to contact the frat president or national head of the fraternity really seem to suggest at best cursory CYA, at worst, they were trying to protect a story that was too good to be true.  [/quote]

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