The Rolling Stone / UVa thing: what did the UVa President do wrong?

[Warren DeMontague]

4. How does that even relate to this story? It is physically impossible for events to have transpired

in any fashion resembling the story the woman in Rolling Stone told.

This isn't about "leave the frat alone", the frat factually didn't have anything to do with it, they weren't pledging during that fall, they didn't have a pledge party on the weekend Rolling Stone claimed... and "Jackie" invented the guy she went on the original date with, before she claimed she went out with him (and then afterwards said he - "Haven Monahan", the guy who didn't exist - assaulted her).

She showed pictures- before the 'date'- of this dashing upperclassman who she said was interested in her and texting her; she took the pictures off the social media page of some guy she went to high school with that she didn't know, and she invented everything else about the guy, including his name- totally out of whole cloth.

AND she did this before the incident took place, so.... it's not a question of "misremembering the details".


I'm no big fan of fraternities, but if they didn't actually do anything or have anything to do with anything involving this woman, yes, leave them alone is a reasonable position to take.