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Showing Original Post only (View all)"She's gonna be the girl who cried 'rape,' and we'll never be allowed into any frat party again." [View all]
A Rape on Campus: A Brutal Assault and Struggle for Justice at UVA
Jackie was just starting her freshman year at the University of Virginia when she was brutally assaulted by seven men at a frat party. When she tried to hold them accountable, a whole new kind of abuse began
By Sabrina Rubin Erdely | November 19, 2014
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When Jackie came to, she was alone. 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. "What did they do to you? What did they make you do?" Jackie recalls her friend Randall demanding. Jackie shook her head and began to cry. The group looked at one another in a panic. They all knew about Jackie's date; the Phi Kappa Psi house loomed behind them. "We have to get her to the hospital," Randall said.
Their other two friends, however, weren't convinced. "Is that such a good idea?" she recalls Cindy asking. "Her reputation will be shot for the next four years." Andy seconded the opinion, adding that since he and Randall both planned to rush fraternities, they ought to think this through. The three friends launched into a heated discussion about the social price of reporting Jackie's rape, while Jackie stood beside them, mute in her bloody dress, wishing only to go back to her dorm room and fall into a deep, forgetful sleep. Detached, Jackie listened as Cindy prevailed over the group: "She's gonna be the girl who cried 'rape,' and we'll never be allowed into any frat party again."
Two years later, Jackie, now a third-year, is worried about what might happen to her once this article comes out. Greek life is huge at UVA, with nearly one-third of undergrads belonging to a fraternity or sorority, so Jackie fears the backlash could be big a "shitshow" predicted by her now-former friend Randall, who, citing his loyalty to his own frat, declined to be interviewed. But her concerns go beyond taking on her alleged assailants and their fraternity. Lots of people have discouraged her from sharing her story, Jackie tells me with a pained look, including the trusted UVA dean to whom Jackie reported her gang-rape allegations more than a year ago. On this deeply loyal campus, even some of Jackie's closest friends see her going public as tantamount to betrayal.
"One of my roommates said, 'Do you want to be responsible for something that's gonna paint UVA in a bad light?'?" says Jackie, poking at a vegan burger at a restaurant on the Corner, UVA's popular retail strip. "But I said, 'UVA has flown under the radar for so long, someone has to say something about it, or else it's gonna be this system that keeps perpetuating!'?" Jackie frowns. "My friend just said, 'You have to remember where your loyalty lies.'"
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"She's gonna be the girl who cried 'rape,' and we'll never be allowed into any frat party again." [View all]
kpete
Nov 2014
OP
YES! And maybe those after you would not have had horrible things happen to them.
BlueJazz
Nov 2014
#122
Some of the comments at RS are deplorable. Total denial of the facts of rape.
JanMichael
Nov 2014
#116
There was a promising period through the early sixties to early seventies, when being a G.D.I.
maddiemom
Nov 2014
#136
He's what's called a sociopath and he will probably become a banker or a politician.
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2014
#13
So the sins of the Fathers continues on. Human consciousness must rise above all forms of attack.
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2014
#31
OK, Sally Hemmings as Jefferson's slave mistress is historical fact. Even creepier,
maddiemom
Nov 2014
#137
It's out there, as well as, his extravagant lifestyle and he was constantly in arrears
mackerel
Nov 2014
#141
I find it sad that women are resorting to self-segregation to protect themselves.
Odin2005
Nov 2014
#112
At least they wouldn't carry an implied endorsement by the University ...
eppur_se_muova
Nov 2014
#66
If I were a woman I'd never date or marry any man who is in or had been in a frat.
L0oniX
Nov 2014
#43
Does anybody else think it's weird that there's more criticism here for the three friends
LeftyMom
Nov 2014
#12
Thanks for posting, kpete. You stand up for us when very few will.
Dont call me Shirley
Nov 2014
#14
Are you suggesting that one would have to belong to a subset of a larger group..
Oktober
Nov 2014
#38
Read any of the many Cosby threads and you'll see people condemning his accusers for not
Sheldon Cooper
Nov 2014
#32
k and r. I would say, I think I am going to be ill--but, sadly, what is reported there is nothing
niyad
Nov 2014
#46
I know this happens, I just don't understand those folks who treat rape victims like this.
stevenleser
Nov 2014
#52
University President Teresa Sullivan requests Phi Kappa Psi Investigation
mahatmakanejeeves
Nov 2014
#60
Ironic but True: Ken Cuccinelli worked to combat sexual assault at UVa
mahatmakanejeeves
Nov 2014
#63
No more invites to frat parties = A fate worse than death. Not talking about rape = Loyalty.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Nov 2014
#69
UVa asks police to investigate gang-rape allegations outlined in Rolling Stone article
mahatmakanejeeves
Nov 2014
#76
Why isn't it 'They were the boys who committed rape and that's why we had to ban frat houses'
LynneSin
Nov 2014
#83
I'm sure I'm wasting my breath, but the point is that the serial sex offenders seem normal.
Starry Messenger
Nov 2014
#92
I've told all three of my kids that in my opinion it is best to stay away from
mackerel
Nov 2014
#138
Better yet, attend a college that does not allow frats or sororities. I did.
McCamy Taylor
Nov 2014
#140