A stone-cold sober coed named Jackie is lured by her date " Drew" to an upstairs room at the fraternity house. This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. On November 19, 2014, Rolling Stone published the now retracted article by Sabrina Erdely titled "A Rape on Campus" about an alleged gang rape of a University of Virginia (UVA) student, Jackie Coakley. A former student who graduated in 2013 said "the day [the article] came out was the most emotionally grueling of my life. Ultimately, Rolling Stone got sued, paid out a big settlement to get out from under their own stupidity, and took a big black eye as far as journalistic competence. UVA: Rape Hoaxer Jackie Coakley Ordered To Comply w Second Lawsuit [80] [23][24] A few days later, President Sullivan suspended all Greek organizations until January 9, 2015. [27] A student quoted in The Daily Progress said that men at a nearby bar were "quick to yell 'insults and slurs' at the protesters as they walked by". Prior to the publication of the story, early-action applications were up 7.5 percent with 16,187 applicants. "[79], On December 6, The Washington Post's media critic Erik Wemple called for all Rolling Stone staff who were involved with the story to be fired. [12] In light of the findings, Erik Wemple of The Washington Post pronounced the story "a complete crock". We must, apparently, not give out the names of accusers even after they have been shown to be liars. At the party, Jackie alleged in the article, her date led her to a bedroom where she was gang raped by several fraternity members as part of a fraternity initiation ritual. "[80] An editorial in the Boston Herald declared: "a fifth-grader would've done some basic fact-checking before potentially ruining men's lives" before repeating the call for the firing of Rolling Stone staff involved in the story. The Great University of Virginia (UVA) Rape Hoax, Jackie Coakley [65] The Columbia Journalism Review called the apology "a grudging act of contrition". [57] A subsequent tweet sent by Rolling Stone managing editor Will Dana offered further comment on Erdely's story: "[W]e made a judgementthe kind of judgement reporters and editors make every day. "[145], The North American Interfraternity Conference and the National Panhellenic Council, meanwhile, announced that they had retained the services of Squire Patton Boggs to lobby the U.S. Congress to take action to ensure that Greek-letter organizations are protected from future accusations of the kind leveled in Erdely's article. In fact, her failure to speak to the three friends in whom Jackie supposedly confided immediately after the alleged incident was perhaps the most egregious of a string of journalistic failures. They came to the conclusion that they were comfortable" with not making it clear to readers that they had never contacted Ryan. I have no assumption to make, as to whether she has not been sued because she is a shallow pocket, incapable of affording a large settlement in a civil suit. "[58] On December 6, Rolling Stone updated the apology to say the mistakes in the article were the fault of Rolling Stone and not of its source, while noting that "there now appear to be discrepancies in Jackie's account". Jackie Coakley Where Is She Now - Gary Cluster Republican The woman, called "Jackie" in the article, cited PTSD as the cause for not remembering details of her assault, which was described as a gang rape in the article by Sabrina Erdely.
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