Two weeks ago hundreds of University of Virginia professors and graduate students marched on the Beta Bridge to protest sexual violence. Saturday we spoke with one of those professors, Ira Bashkow, about the university's response to Rolling Stone magazine saying they now doubt the account of Jackie.
State legislative leaders aren’t backing off plans to tackle reporting of sexual violence on university and college campuses, even though Rolling Stone magazine has cast doubt on its account of a fraternity gang rape at the University of Virginia.
The University of Virginia fraternity at the center of a gang-rape allegation detailed in a Rolling Stone article issued a statement rebutting the story Friday following an apology made by magazine, which acknowledges discrepancies in the report.
New York is increasingly drawing more academically capable teachers, reflecting improvements in the status of the teaching profession, concludes recently released research on the state's teaching force. The study, by Hamilton Lankford (University of Albany), Susanna Loeb (Stanford University), Andrew McEachin (North Carolina State University), Luke C. Miller, and James Wyckoff (both of the University of Virginia), was published in the December edition of Educational Researcher.
Right now and for the next several months, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services employees will be chipping away at creating a process to implement the unilateral immigration plan, called DAPA, that Obama laid out last month. "There were some glitches, but it was handled reasonably well," said Martin, a University of Virginia law professor. Compared with the program announced last month, DACA is clearly a less complex operation.
Much about federal prosecution of corporate crime remains murky, but Brandon L. Garrett, a University of Virginia law professor, sheds considerable light on the topic in his new book, “Too Big to Jail: How Prosecutors Compromise with Corporations.”
Claudia Emerson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning former poet laureate of Virginia, died early Thursday from complications associated with colon cancer. She was 57.
John Allan James, professor of economics and professor of history at the University of Virginia, died Friday, Nov. 28, 2014 of an unexpected cardiac event in Charlottesville.
“This is the first time that a galaxy was first identified as a spiral, then subsequently found to have large radio jets. It was exciting to make such a rare find,” said team member Dr. Ryan Duffin from the University of Virginia and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
Established companies are especially afraid to fail and can’t grow as a result. However, it’s the truly innovative companies that have learned to expect and manage failure who are able to pursue the freshest approaches. “Failure -- We could just call it learning,” says Jeanne M. Liedtka, a professor of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.
These are called “deferred prosecution” agreements, meaning that if the banks don’t behave, the government can come back at them. These agreements are standard, and if you consult the data compiled by the University of Virginia’s Brandon Garrett (author of the well-reviewed “Too Big to Jail”) you will notice the initials DP next to many cases involving errant financial firms. In other words, nobody was convicted of a crime.
Morgan Brian was named the U.S Young Female Athlete of 2014 on Wednesday. As a senior at the University of Virginia, the talented midfielder has notched 37 goals and 34 assists in the 75 games she’s appeared in thus far. She has been an integral part of the burgeoning renaissance of the Cavaliers’ soccer program.
(By Rachel Harmon, a former prosecutor at the U.S. Department of Justice. She teaches criminal law, criminal procedure and civil rights at the University of Virginia School of Law.)Proving 'willfulness' is often the biggest obstacle to federal prosecution. If an officer genuinely believed the force he used was necessary, he is not guilty of a federal crime, even if he was wrong.
UVA Health System announced Friday morning that Chris Ghaemmaghami is taking over the position. He’s been serving as interim since February.
The divorce rate in America is rising. Do you think that statement is true? If you do, you’re not alone. As it happens, the divorce rate isn’t rising. This dynamic plays out in the popular press, where much of the news about marriage and divorce is derived from the National Marriage Project, founded at Rutgers University in 1997 and now based at the University of Virginia.
A University of Virginia student’s harrowing description of a gang rape at a fraternity, detailed in a recent Rolling Stone article, began to unravel Friday as interviews revealed doubts about significant elements of the account. The fraternity issued a statement rebutting the story, and Rolling Stone apologized for a lapse in judgment and backed away from its article on the case.
Many people in the University of Virginia community remain outraged about the Rolling Stone account of a gang rape at a campus fraternity house that unraveled into a journalistic debacle Friday.But Tommy Reid, the president of U-Va.’s Inter-Fraternity Council, said Saturday that he had other concerns. Reid said he wants to keep attention locked onto efforts to reform the Greek system and the university as a whole to stop sexual violence.
Journalists are paid to be skeptical and to distinguish facts from assertions: Don’t get too close to your sources and check what they tell you.Rolling Stone magazine, it appears, ignored both principles in its explosive story, “A Rape on Campus.”The 9,000-word article about Jackie, a University of Virginia freshman who alleged a frat-house gang rape, was apparently fraught from the beginning with gaps in basic reporting. The story’s writer, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, as well as a phalanx of editors, fact-checkers and lawyers who massaged the piece before publication, accept...
The lighting of the lawn began as a way to get the community back together after 9-11. It brings together families, students and UVa faculty. They drink hot chocolate and cider and listen to acapella holiday music sung by choirs. This year there are more reasons than ever to come together.
University of Virginia faculty will seek to ban fraternities from campus for at least the rest of the academic year as investigators sort through a report of an alleged gang rape two years ago.