Thursday, June 1, 2017

How is Phi Kappa Psi "a private figure"?

June 1, 2017












Also; is Phi Kappa Psi a corporation or not?


Those are pictures of some consecutive pages of the lawsuit filed by the Virginia Alpha Chapter of Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity on November 9, 2015.  

This is the address of the Washington Post app that has the text of the lawsuit:



This is a picture of part of an article called "Identification--Harm--Fault (public officials vs. private figures":



This is the address for the article, which is at the website for Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press:



These are also pictures of part of that article:






Reading the article is informative about why Phi Kappa Psi wants to be recognized by the court as a private figure even after extolling its own fame for 8 paragraphs.  What about this sentence from Paragraph 24:

"Owing to the success of its past members, Phi Kappa Psi was also known and respected by people who had never attended UVA."  


The first several pages of the lawsuit, which I haven't included and which were difficult to read without being goaded into anger, are devoted to portraying Rolling Stone as having strenuously avoided the truth, which nobody whom Phi Kappa Psi has named as a defendant did.  

I'm pretty sure that the only people who strenuously avoided the truth were Phi Kappa Psi, the University of Virginia's administration, of which Ms. Eramo was only one member and who had no options that would not have cost her job and/or caused her to be sued by Phi Kappa Psi and probably other fraternities, and the Charlottesville Police Department.  

This is a picture of part of the March 23, 2015 statement from the Charlottesville Police Department:



How many questionnaires did the police department send to members of Phi Kappa Psi?  As many as 25?

I'm also asking the question that I asked when I first read this statement in 2015; who investigates rape with a questionnaire and expects the rapists or their friends to write back, saying "How'd you know?  These are all the details of the felony that we committed/recorded from our cell phones/heard about."  

This is the address of the Washington Post article that says it has the full text of the police statement:




Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, June 1, 2017 @ 6:36 p.m./additions @ 7:12 p.m.