I don't know if everyone who has attacked the Rolling Stone article, Ms. Erdely and Jackie, and even Ms. Eramo, understands that the Rolling Stone article was a challenge to a major power structure. That power structure is what school administrators, including school presidents, have to deal with when there are accusations of rape against fraternities.
Phi Kappa Psi says that its organization has over 86,500 people, all men. Most of them are or will be white collar professionals, at least, if not also people who own the businesses that hire white collar professionals. That's only Phi Kappa Psi, the fraternity accused by the Rolling Stone article. The system of fraternities and sororities is a SYSTEM; hundreds of thousands of people.
Jackie went to the University of Virginia because she was from Virginia and could get the state tuition, not because she was from a wealthy family.
Nobody has ever stopped rape, hazing and other horrible things from happening at fraternities. Gruesome incidents, publicized or not, injuries, deaths, lawsuits, arrests, chapter suspensions; nothing has stopped them because the system is too powerful. Every obstacle to impunity is transitory for that system, and that has nothing to do with right and wrong; it is only about power.
This is not a "he said, she said" situation; it never is when a fraternity is part of it. It is always a "she said, THEY said" situation, even if there is only one rapist.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, November 7, 2016 @ 8:16 p.m.
