The University of Virginia fraternity where a horrific gang rape described in a recent Rolling Stone article allegedly took place issued a statement Friday rebutting several details of that story.
“We continue to be shocked by the allegations and saddened by this story. We have no knowledge of these alleged acts being committed at our house or by our members,” UVA’s chapter of Phi Kappa Psi said in a statement. “Anyone who commits any form of sexual assault, wherever or whenever, should be identified and brought to justice.”
The organization said that it had worked with the Charlottesville, Va. Police Department to investigate the claims detailed in the Rolling Stone article, but said that its “initial doubts as to the accuracy of the article have only been strengthened as alumni and undergraduate members have delved deeper.”
These are the details of the alleged victim’s account, as reported by Rolling Stone, that the fraternity specifically disputes:
- There was no Phi Kappa Psi brother listed as a lifeguard at the university’s Aquatic and Fitness Center in 2012;
- The fraternity did not hold a social event during the weekend of Sept. 28, 2012;
- The fraternity’s pledging activities take place in the spring and not the fall semester.
Rolling Stone’s managing editor, Will Dana, published an editor’s note earlier Friday that stated the magazine “misplaced” its trust in the victim, Jackie, as discrepancies had arisen in her account of the alleged rape.
Read the full statement below:
And what will get all the press? The possibility that the event didn’t happened. The pond scum masquerading as broadcast media will happily ignore the horrific number of rapes nationwide. There were 188,000 in 2010. That’s 1 ever 2 minutes. But lets focus on this one instance and ignore the rest. It’s rather like the gun fetishists ignoring gun violence statistics.
That’s it? Those are the “discrepancies” dug up by “alumni and students” that are supposed to disprove the whole story?
Having to post comment from this venue rather than from the story makes die a little bit on the inside with every new article.
“The fraternity did not hold a social event during the weekend of Sept. 28, 2012”
At least not any event that their lawyer said they the had to list as social events. I’m pretty sure most of the frat event that I went to during college were not listed as “Social events.”
Dev and Design can spin a better story than the UX people any day and that is because Dev and Design lie