@hawkeye10,
Quote:You cant get around the fact that when the U VA president read in RS a fiction about a gang rape at a university frat she assumed that it was likely true, and acted accordingly, before even beginning to do any fact checking. She started from the assumption of MEN SUCK!
Now you're clairvoyant? You know what she assumed and thought? You just know her thinking is anti-male? You're citing things as "fact" that are no more than products of your imagination.
Try considering the fact that she's a university President, with considerably more knowledge of the problem of sexual assault on her particular campus than you have. She also knows how much of that problem may, or may not, involve fraternities or fraternity members on her campus. My guess would be that, when she read the Rolling Stone article, some of it apparently resonated with things she already knew about the sexual assault problem on her campus--a campus which was already under special investigation for mishandling complaints of sexual misconduct--and she responded accordingly, given what she already knew about the problems on her campus.
You overlook the obvious supposition that the UVA President, and all university Presidents, may take the issue of sexual assault on their campuses very seriously, and may be sincerely committed to decreasing such misconduct in an effort to protect the safety and welfare of all students on their campuses.
In that regard, the Rolling Stone flawed article was little more than unfortunate bad publicity for her school, to the extent it was inaccurate, and we don't know how much of it was inaccurate, since the article included more than just Jackie's story. But it's not likely that anything in the RS article significantly affected or influenced anything this President already knew about her school, or it's sexual assault problems, or how she chose to address them in the wake of that article.
The RS article's significance pales in comparison
to the fact that the UVA President was confronted with the off-campus murder of a student this year, after the student was abducted "with intent to defile" her--a brutal and chilling crime which linked back to the entire issue of campus sexual assaults. Jesse Matthew, the only suspect in that murder, had previously attended two colleges in Virginia, and had been accused of sexual misconduct at both of them, and had simply been allowed to transfer out of the first, and drop out of the second, before these incidents were even investigated. And, before he killed Hannah Graham this year, Matthew is the prime suspect in the previous murder of another student, and the rape of another woman.
How differently things might have turned out if Matthews had been stopped when his predatory tendencies first became evident when he was accused of sexual misconduct at those two schools. That thought alone should compel the UVA President, and every other university President, to view all campus sexual assaults as very serious matters, that must be fully investigated, and appropriately addressed and punished, because the price for sweeping them under the rug, or treating them lightly, can turn out to be quite high, as was the case with Matthews. And that reality matters a lot more than a discredited RS magazine article.
You write well.