Sexual Assault on Campuses
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 10 April 2015
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
Margaret Talbot and George Packer join Dorothy Wickenden to discuss the University of Virginia sexual-assault case, the discredited Rolling Stone article, and the ongoing outcry over sexual violence on college campuses.
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| 1:33.1 | This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics. |
| 1:38.8 | It's Thursday, April 9th. |
| 1:40.6 | I'm Dorothy Wickendon, executive editor of The New Yorker. |
| 1:43.7 | This week, the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism released a report on a discredited Rolling Stone article about a rape allegation at the University of Virginia. Here's Steve Kahl, the school's dean, and a New Yorker staff writer, speaking from Columbia on Monday. Our record as a profession in reporting on sexual violence is not |
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