What you missed this summer: Jesse Matthew, Rolling Stone and U.Va.'s sexual assault policy
(08/22/15 2:10am)
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Jesse Matthew Trial
Donald Trump’s ascendancy into the Republican political milieu may result from his candid media interactions. The abrasive entrepreneur has won plaudits from supporters who perceive him to be a Washington outsider who dares to speak his mind and approach topics other politicians do not touch. In a CNN interview, former Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer responded to Trump’s comments linking illegal immigration to crime by saying, “I believe that Mr. Trump is kind of telling it like it really, truly is.” Prominent conservative commentator Pat Buchanan attributes Trump’s lead in the polls to his rejection of political correctness, which has resonated with Americans who are “tired” of politically correct Republicans.
University President Teresa Sullivan recently announced a new requirement for all students to complete two online educational modules — one on sexual and gender-based violence and another on alcohol abuse prevention — for the upcoming 2015-2016 academic year.
Three University alumni filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Rolling Stone magazine, Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Wenner Media for defamation and negligence in regards to Erdely’s Nov. 19 article in Rolling Stone titled “A Rape On Campus,” alleging sexual assault by members of the University chapter of Phi Kappa Psi.
The judge presiding over Jesse Matthew’s trial in the murder of former second-year College student Hannah Graham has denied a motion to formally recuse herself from the case.
Jesse Matthew entered an Alford plea Wednesday in a 2005 Fairfax sexual assault case, pleading guilty to charges of attempted capital murder, abduction with intent to defile and sexual assault.
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring submitted the report and recommendations from the Task Force on Combating Campus Sexual Violence to Governor McAuliffe Thursday. The recommendations are the product of an 8 month-long initiative to reexamine the current campus safety and preventive measures on sexual assault, in an effort to make substantive improvements.
Associate Dean of Students Nicole Eramo filed a defamation lawsuit Tuesday morning against Rolling Stone magazine, Sabrina Rubin Erdely and Wenner Media for defamatory statements made against her in Rolling Stone’s Nov. 19 story “A Rape on Campus,” as well as in other media promoting the article.
Charges against Jesse Matthew in the case of the Commonwealth of Virginia v. Jesse Matthew were upgraded to capital murder Tuesday afternoon.
4: Number of student deaths this academic year.
Recently, this newspaper published the most recent in a long line of articles assailing the idolatry of the University’s founder, Thomas Jefferson. The article posited that we must acknowledge the role slavery played in the inception of this University, and, by extension, permanently illuminate Jefferson’s enduring hypocrisy, which chagrins us and which we constantly attempt to mitigate. The Monticello website — under the “Property” heading — works to couch Jefferson’s slave ownership in apologetic terms: he was a benevolent slave master, it affirms, though he “did not always succeed in ‘lessening the violence of slavery.’” Further down, it lists “reasons” as to why Jefferson failed to free his slaves, none of which make mention of his moral cowardice, and the fundamental incongruence between his maximalist rhetoric on individual liberty and his complacency in the face of institutionalized oppression, a complacency shared by a great majority of his countrymen at the time. Jefferson was quite literally a revolutionary thinker — but ultimately he was only a man. It is a disservice to his legacy, and his ideals, to attempt to deify him.
The University Bookstore donated nearly $3,000 to the bystander intervention program Green Dot last week.
The new year has ushered in a number of new bills from the Virginia General Assembly pertaining to students and other members of the University community. These include a bill addressing the reporting of sexual assault cases, mental health assistance and barring discrimination of the LGBTQ community.
Throughout the 2014-15 academic year, the University has undergone several major policy transformations, most notably in protocol for adjudicating sexual assault, regulating of Greek Life and enforcing safety on Grounds.
Elizabeth Armstrong, a sociologist at the University of Michigan, spoke at the University Thursday about the problem of campus sexual assault and what universities can do to help address the issue.
Commonwealth Lt. Gov. Ralph Northam held a meeting with student leaders Wednesday to discuss problems on Grounds which included sexual assault, the recent violent arrest by ABC officers, the state drinking age and the new affordable excellence model.
Yesterday, Nicole Eramo, associate dean of students and chair of the Sexual Misconduct Board, released an open letter to Rolling Stone magazine condemning the magazine for its defamatory portrayal of her and her work in its article “A Rape on Campus,” touching upon how the magazine’s failure has affected sexual assault survivors here at the University.
A new buzzword has emerged on the pages of major publications from The New York Times to Vogue to describe the divide between a variety of culturally hegemonic groups and their corresponding minority groups in America. An “empathy gap” is the term being used to describe the unbridged distance between races, socioeconomic strata and gender identities everywhere from rural Oregon to Midtown Manhattan.
Associate Dean of Students Nicole Eramo spoke out for the first time since the release of Rolling Stone’s “A Rape on Campus” in a letter to Rolling Stone CEO Jann Wenner, dated Wednesday. Eramo wrote a scathing critique of how the magazine has handled the story and its reaction to public scrutiny.
The American Association of University Women of Virginia held a conference Saturday at the Doubletree Hotel in Charlottesville to celebrate the chapter’s ninetieth anniversary and address major issues, including campus sexual assault, human trafficking and the use of archives.