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Last month, Rolling Stone published an explosive 9,000-word feature titled A Rape on Campus, a brutal assault and struggle for justice at UVA.

The author, Sabrina Rubin-Eardley, opened with a terrifying description of a female college freshman being raped by seven University of Virginia fraternity brothers and pledges.

The story portrayed not just a brutal crime, but a wofful administration response bordering on obstruction of justice and an unreconstructed UVA rape culture.

But at its core, Eardley's article was about a single event, a ritualistic gang rape, told by a single source, the victim nicknamed Jackie.

Here was Eardley describing her sensational scoop on PBS News Hour.

When I first encountered Jackie, I was absolutely shocked by her story. She went to the administration and told them that she had been gang raped at a fraternity house by seven men while two others watched.

And the administration did nothing about it.

The story was simultaneously terrifying and unsurprising, conforming with previous reporting on campus sexual assaults,

and with the Bacchanal Culture of UVA, where drinking and seduction are so woven into campus tradition, they are immortalized in the school's signature drinking song, Rugby Road.

The song is named for UVA's fraternity role, and here's one salient stanza.

All you girls from Mary Washington and RMWC never let Virginia man an inch above your knee. He'll take you to his fraternity house and he'll fill you full of beer, and soon you'll be the mother of a bastard cavalier.

The Rolling Stone article reverberated far and wide. The injustice was unspeakable, the rage palpable, and the media reaction swift.

In the article, a student named Jackie says she was gang raped, and a friend and a university dean later discouraged her from going to police.

Plus a student comes forward telling Rolling Stone magazine she was gang raped at a University of Virginia Fract party.

So how come we didn't hear about this? How come the school didn't tell anybody? Are they covering it up?

After the explosive allegations of sexual assault at the university, all a reaction to the Rolling Stone investigation detailing, quote,

a culture of rape at UVA with very disturbing details this morning.

Reaction from the University administration accused in the piece of suppressing justice to protect its own reputation was swift and dramatic as well.

The story in Rolling Stone is shocking.

UVA president Theresa Sullivan addressing reporters November 25th.

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