<p>GA2012, I’m so sorry. I’m sorry you had to go through the rape, and I’m sorry the justice system treated you so badly. It shouldn’t be that way.</p>
<p>I’m conflicted. On the one hand, I want to see all rapists accused, charged and convicted. On the other hand, if one of my friends or sisters or nieces came to me sobbing and trembling, telling me she’d been raped, I’d have a tough time advising her to go to the police. Some women I know, I would not advise to go to the police because I’d know they just aren’t strong enough. And it’s wrong that a woman who has already been victimized once has to be victimized again by the justice system, but that is the reality we face right now.</p>
<p>No, no, this refers to the original post. Some universities have presumed guilt because the process is flawed at those universities. I’m still responding to the original post. Others have gone off on tangents talking about rape. What the universities are making determination on is not exactly rape - rape is a criminal term. I think they are calling it sexual misconduct. If universities are calling someone a rapist I’m sure they are being sued. I’m all about calling the police, and firmly on record on this site for advocating calling the police if a person has been raped or as some states call it criminal sexual misconduct.</p>
<p>No no, the universities haven’t presumed guilt. Rather, they’ve redefined the offense… in a way that nobody here agrees with, so there is no sense arguing about it here.</p>
<p>This UVA story needs to become more widespread. Parents have to stop sending their daughters to UVA. Start with
one school. Go after one school. Boycott one school. UVA sounds like a good one to go after. Mess up that school. Others will see the ramifications of allowing these assaults. </p>
<p>One thing that can be done is cut federal funding to the school. Hurt the school where it hurts.
Right now, there aren’t any penalties.</p>
<p>These people working at the school are accomplices to crimes because they do nothing.</p>
<p>I get that you people are upset about UVA’s mishandling of this case, but don’t you think this is a bit of a witch hunt?</p>
<p>You’re hurting the current students who are attending UVA just as much as the criminals and administrators who allow this to happen. Injustice cannot cure injustice, and even if the administrators at UVA did the wrong thing, punishing everyone who attends the school is the wrong way to go about it. Shut down the fraternities. Employ stricter curfews and crack down on frat parties/underage drinking. Don’t ask for an attack on the academic opportunities of the students enrolled at UVA just because you think it’s wrong how they’re handling sexual assault cases at the school.</p>
<p>Even if the average student at UVA wasn’t involved in the case, or any related case, I’m sure most of them are just as outraged as you all are at the administration and the fraternity involved.</p>
<p>I don’t think there is a shred of injustice in telling parents, “Don’t send your daughters to U Va. U Va has fraternities that gang-rape some young women.” Don’t want that to happen? Stop raping, and stop coddling rapists.</p>
<p>Here’s what current U Va students can do: They can stop raping young women. They can stop telling women who were raped that it was their own fault. They can stop telling young women it would be social suicide to talk about their gang rape. They can stop making it social suicide to talk about your rape. They can stop singing songs about how hilarious it is to rape women.</p>
<p>This isn’t about UVA… it is about every college. My daughter went to Amherst, and they got slammed in the media a couple of years ago. Every.single. college has this problem, and need to first acknowledge it and then deal with it.</p>
<p>I think that you guys are being WAY too critical of UVA. I get that you guys want a scapegoat or something/someone to blame, but I think that going after a single school for vengeance is the complete wrong thing to do.</p>
<p>For instance, dstark recommends pulling federal funding from UVA. That does nothing but hurt the current students there. If people don’t want to send their children to UVA, fine. However, don’t pretend like this doesn’t happen at other schools. Does UVA’s atmosphere promote this type of behavior more than other schools? Possibly, but I don’t think we can confirm that off a single story. I think that it’s natural to blame a single entity. However, I think you’re deluding yourself if you actually believe UVA is somehow just worse than every other college. And you sound mighty accusatory by talking to all UVA students. I know plenty of UVA grads/students who have never raped a woman in their lives. Don’t pretend that this problem is unique to a single college.</p>