An article in Rolling Stone magazine about an alleged gang rape on the campus of the University of Virginia has come under scrutiny for its reporting methods, even as the university and the local police investigate the events the article described.
Several articles have appeared in the last two days raising questions about the recent article in Rolling Stone in which a woman describes being gang raped at a University of Virginia fraternity party. The Rolling Stone article has shaken the U.Va. campus, with many saying that it has exposed a campus culture that has looked the other way as women have been raped and mistreated. The critiques of the article that are appearing criticize the Rolling Stone piece's author for failing to contact the men described (without their names) as rapists. The...
Amid the furor over allegations of a gang rape at one of the University of Virginia’s oldest fraternities, questions are arising about the account that fueled the scandal.
For the sake of Rolling Stone’s reputation, Sabrina Rubin Erdely had better be the country’s greatest judge of character. On Nov. 19, the magazine published Erdely’s story about a ghastly alleged gang rape at the stately Phi Kappa Psi fraternity at the University of Virginia.
University of Virginia President Teresa A. Sullivan announced more steps to combat sexual assault on campus in the wake of a blistering magazine account of an alleged gang rape at a fraternity house.
Rolling Stone clearly identifies the culture that must die: rich, white-boy fraternities. But is the focus too narrow? Is it time to close the University of Virginia? Or would a more responsible response include an investigation of the facts alleged in the magazine story before unleashing the furies? If we can’t find “Drew,” can we begin to imagine the Rolling Stone story, while illuminating a broad societal problem, is merely bad fiction posing as journalism?
In the November 19 Rolling Stone article about campus rape at the University of Virginia that sparked rampant discussion about sexual violence, journalist Sabrina Rubin Erdely writes that survivors of rape often stay silent because reactions of “dismissal, downgrading and doubt is a common theme UVA rape survivors hear, including from women.” But in the past few days, various doubts have been raised about possible holes in Erdely’s reporting.
UVa is one of 86 schools being investigated by the U.S. Department of Education for Title IX sexual assault violations. UVa’s review was sparked by one specific lawsuit, but it also has been under an additional, broader Title IX compliance review since 2011.
Students and staff at the University of Virginia are hoping words will turn into action regarding sexual misconduct on grounds. Tuesday night, they met at Garrett Hall at UVA to start hashing out what they can do in response to the Rolling Stone article criticizing an alleged rape culture at UVA.
(By Larry J. Sabato, Director of the Center for Politics and University Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia) Think of the billions the parties must raise to elect a president in 2016. Consider the millions of paid and volunteer man-hours that will be devoted to this enterprise. The White House is the center of the partisan political universe, and Democrats and Republicans alike measure success or failure by their ability to win and hold the presidency. Instead, maybe they ought to hope they lose.
Rising frustration with Washington and conservative electoral victories across much of the U.S. are feeding a movement in favor of something America hasn’t done in 227 years: Hold a convention to rewrite the Constitution. Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political scientist, wants a convention to adopt sweeping changes, including a single six-year presidential term and concomitant House and Senate terms, to create more of a parliamentary system.
It is becoming clear that the native form for data is alive, not dead. Online, interactive charts will become the norm, nudging aside paper-based, static ones. One of the most impressive interactive works in the book, “The Best American Infographics 2014,” published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in October, is the racial composition of America by Dustin Cable of the University of Virginia.
For many people, the defiant act of jaywalking alone put Michael Brown and his friend in the wrong. But given the tragic outcome — Wilson killing Brown after a reported altercation between the two — it’s worth unpacking why walking in the street was ever seen as a crime or a threat at all. It raises the question: Just who do these streets belong to, anyway? Peter Norton, a history professor at the University of Virginia, also wrote about how jaywalking came about in his book, Fighting Traffic: The Dawn of the Motor Age in the American City.
The University of Virginia and Georgia Tech Research Institute have jointly demonstrated a cyber defense system for unmanned aerial vehicles in live flight scenarios. “Our research focuses on providing additional security by employing an on-board secure monitoring subsystem to detect illogical behaviors relative to the expected profile of a system’s performance,” said Barry Horowitz, project leader and professor of systems and information engineering at UVA.
Touching one’s toes or moving the head in a circle feels positively blissful to most healthy adults. But the benefits of stretching are much argued in the halls of kinesiology departments and fitness centers across the country. One professor of sports medicine at the University of Virginia, Jay Hertel, explains the upside of a full range of motion and why sometimes feeling good is enough reason to get those shoulders rolling.
Researchers at the University of Virginia School of Medicine received a $21.4 million grant to launch a major clinical trial to determine the best medication for treating people who experience prolonged, potentially life-threatening seizures called status epilepticus. The grant is funded by the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan on Monday acknowledged the role that excessive drinking and a social scene dominated by parties at fraternity houses have played in sexual violence on campus.
Virginia lawmakers are calling for mandatory reporting of campus sexual assaults to law enforcement agencies after allegations of a gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity house.
University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan, under fire for the institution’s handling of sexual assault allegations, spoke briefly to students Monday afternoon, saying, “Our university has been placed at the center of this crisis. We will not shrink from it. We will lead.”
The writer of a blockbuster Rolling Stone magazine story about an alleged gang rape at a University of Virginia fraternity has said that she was unable to contact or interview the men who supposedly perpetrated the crime.