I don't think RS rolling back the story is the final curtain on this. The initial story hit a very raw nerve with alumni, students, faculty, parents, and community members throughout Virginia as reports of incidents such as this one have been going on for years. I, myself, heard of parents' concerns based on reports from their offspring well before the RS story.
President Sullivan issued a statement today, as did Attorney General Mark Herring. Investigations will continue.
Excerpted from President Sullivan's statement:
The University of Virginia is aware of today’s reports from the Washington Post and the statement from Rolling Stone magazine.
The University remains first and foremost concerned with the care and support of our students and, especially, any survivor of sexual assault. Our students, their safety, and their wellbeing, remain our top priority.
Over the past two weeks, our community has been more focused than ever on one of the most difficult and critical issues facing higher education today: sexual violence on college campuses. Today’s news must not alter this focus.
http://news.virginia.edu/content/sta...eresa-sullivan
And from Attorney General Mark Herring as posted on FB:
Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring called on
Rolling Stone to take steps to correct errors in the story rather than simply issuing a walk-back statement.
"It is deeply troubling that
Rolling Stone magazine is now publicly walking away from its central story line in its bombshell report on the University of Virginia without correcting what errors its editors believe were made," Herring said in a statement. "Virginians are now left grasping for the truth, but we must not let that undermine our support for survivors of sexual assault or the momentum for solutions."