Phi Kappa Psi at U of Virginia Voluntarily Suspends Activities

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Originally Posted by MysticCat

But nothing prevents a journalist from reporting this effect of privacy laws rather than leaving readers to assume that silence on the part of a university = confirmation. Good journalism would include in a story that privacy laws prevent a college from confirming or commenting on any allegations so that a reader would know how to put things in context and perspective.

I can't disagree with any of this, but it's definitely not the approach that has been taken by the vast majority of journalists who have been reporting on sexual assaults on college campuses. And it certainly wasn't the approach taken by Eardly in her RS piece. So, I'm commenting on the way things are, rather than the way they ought to be.

No. But to me at least, your posts have a tendency to come across as equally agenda-driven. My apologies if I'm reading in more than is there, but that is the vibe I have gotten—partially, perhaps, because your posts (at least those I can recall) have been almost exclusively on this topic.

It's not that I don't think there are any problems on our college campuses with sexual assault, or with individual fraternity members/greek life. I don't have my head in the sand. I have a college junior daughter and two sons who are fairly recent graduates. Most of my friends have kids in this demographic.

But if expecting the media to report accurately and truthfully and with context and perspective is agenda - driven, then I guess I'm guilty. My personal opinion is that knowing the facts and talking honestly about the problems will allow us to come up with more workable policy and solutions.

It seems self evident that if the crisis is truly what the advocates are claiming, we would never have had the RS fiasco. It's a logical conclusion, but some are obviously not following logic.

My posts here are about this topic, so I'm sure that contributes to the "vibe". But this is just one small slice of the Internet and my posts here are just a tiny slice of my life, and it would definitely be reading more than it is to think this is the only topic I engage in or follow or am interested in.