Tuesday, August 23, 2016

This statement by President Sullivan is not a denial.

August 23, 2016






That's the address of a Washington Post article that says it has the text of a statement by Teresa Sullivan, the President of the University of Virginia.  The article and the statement are from November 22, 2014, three days after the Rolling Stone article was published.

I am certain that President Sullivan knew for months that Ms. Erdely was investigating the University of Virginia and that Rolling Stone was going to publish an article about sexual assault.  I don't think it's possible that she did not ask her administration for all information about the sexual assaults committed by Phi Kappa Psi and other fraternities, months before the article was published.  I think that she and her administration were scared of Rolling Stone, and that she spent months thinking about what she would say when the article was published.  

If there were no records at the University of Virginia about the sexual assaults against Jackie and other women by Phi Kappa Psi, if the administrators to whom President Sullivan spoke before the article was published were telling her that there was no truth to the accusations, then President Sullivan could and probably would have issued a denial of the article, a defense, as soon as the article was published.  She didn't.  

The Charlottesville Police Department and the University of Virginia colluded to discredit the Rolling Stone article, after the article was published.  



Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, August 23, 2016 @ 2:26 p.m.