‘"Shut up, " she heard a man's voice say as a body barreled into her, tripping her backward and sending them both crashing through a low glass table. There was a heavy person on top of her, spreading open her thighs, and another person kneeling on her hair, hands pinning down her arms, sharp shards digging into her back, and excited male voices rising all around her. When yet another hand clamped over her mouth, Jackie bit it, and the hand became a fist that punched her in the face. The men surrounding her began to laugh. For a hopeful moment Jackie wondered if this wasn't some collegiate prank. Perhaps at any second someone would flick on the lights and they'd return to the party.” Sabrina Rubin Erdely, Journalist for the Rolling Stones,
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It was after 3 a.m. She painfully rose from the floor and ran shoeless from the room. She emerged to discover the Phi Psi party still surreally under way, but if anyone noticed the barefoot, disheveled girl hurrying down a side staircase, face beaten, dress spattered with blood, they said nothing. Disoriented, Jackie burst out a side door, realized she was lost, and dialed a friend, screaming, "Something bad happened. I need you to come and find me!" Minutes later, her three best friends on campus – two boys and a girl (whose names are changed) – arrived to find Jackie on a nearby street corner, shaking.”
Again more and more anonymous sourcing. How do we even know these people are real? Erdely could have made up these sources, there is no way to fact check. Erdely needs more to her story, just like Bernstein and Woodward with the Watergate scandal. The story just isn’t complete. The story should have been vetted by editors better. The editors should have noticed that there were too many anonymous sources, and no way to fact check the information that was given throughout the …show more content…
“And so at UVA, where social status is paramount, outing oneself as a rape victim can be a form of social suicide. “I don't know many people who are engrossed in the party scene and have spoken out about their sexual assaults," says thirdyear student Sara Surface. After all, no one climbs the social ladder only to cast themselves back down.” The author is stereotyping UVA as the “party school” and the “high class”. Throughout the story fraternities are seen in nothing but negative light. “Studies have shown that fraternity men are three times as likely to commit rape, and a spate of recent highprofile cases illustrates the dangers that can lurk at frat parties, like a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee frat accused of using colorcoded hand stamps as a signal to roofie their guests, and this fall's suspension of Brown University's chapter of Phi Kappa Psi – of all fraternities – after a partygoer tested positive for the daterape drug GHB. Presumably, the UVA freshmen wobbling around us are oblivious to any specific hazards along Rugby Road; having just arrived on campus, they can hardly tell one fraternity from another. As we pass another frat house, one of my guides offers, "I know a girl who got assaulted there."’ After reading this the reader can have so many questions. What studies? What frat was accused at University of Wisconsin? Who is the guide? There continues to be facts
It was after 3 a.m. She painfully rose from the floor and ran shoeless from the room. She emerged to discover the Phi Psi party still surreally under way, but if anyone noticed the barefoot, disheveled girl hurrying down a side staircase, face beaten, dress spattered with blood, they said nothing. Disoriented, Jackie burst out a side door, realized she was lost, and dialed a friend, screaming, "Something bad happened. I need you to come and find me!" Minutes later, her three best friends on campus – two boys and a girl (whose names are changed) – arrived to find Jackie on a nearby street corner, shaking.”
Again more and more anonymous sourcing. How do we even know these people are real? Erdely could have made up these sources, there is no way to fact check. Erdely needs more to her story, just like Bernstein and Woodward with the Watergate scandal. The story just isn’t complete. The story should have been vetted by editors better. The editors should have noticed that there were too many anonymous sources, and no way to fact check the information that was given throughout the …show more content…
“And so at UVA, where social status is paramount, outing oneself as a rape victim can be a form of social suicide. “I don't know many people who are engrossed in the party scene and have spoken out about their sexual assaults," says thirdyear student Sara Surface. After all, no one climbs the social ladder only to cast themselves back down.” The author is stereotyping UVA as the “party school” and the “high class”. Throughout the story fraternities are seen in nothing but negative light. “Studies have shown that fraternity men are three times as likely to commit rape, and a spate of recent highprofile cases illustrates the dangers that can lurk at frat parties, like a University of Wisconsin Milwaukee frat accused of using colorcoded hand stamps as a signal to roofie their guests, and this fall's suspension of Brown University's chapter of Phi Kappa Psi – of all fraternities – after a partygoer tested positive for the daterape drug GHB. Presumably, the UVA freshmen wobbling around us are oblivious to any specific hazards along Rugby Road; having just arrived on campus, they can hardly tell one fraternity from another. As we pass another frat house, one of my guides offers, "I know a girl who got assaulted there."’ After reading this the reader can have so many questions. What studies? What frat was accused at University of Wisconsin? Who is the guide? There continues to be facts