<p>There is no rumor. Perhaps you need to look at sources that are more thorough in their reporting. The Lynchburg paper seems to report only portions of stories.</p>
<p>Some players leaving practice may have run into the girl as she wandered around the parking lots.</p>
<p>Some people decided that the a player suspension was related to the case, but it wasn’t.</p>
<p>That’s why I asked. Obviously there were some rumors of the UVa would not have issued a statement to respond to the rumors.</p>
<p>The CVille paper reported even less–I checked it so don’t get all huffy.</p>
<p>““Because of the number of rumors that have been circulating about members of the university’s men’s basketball team in regard to the Morgan Harrington case, we felt it was important to make a statement to set the record straight.”</p>
<p>Seems to me like there WERE rumors as you posted two of them so maybe you need to work on reading this time.
"Some players leaving practice may have run into the girl as she wandered around the parking lots.</p>
<p>Some people decided that the a player suspension was related to the case, but it wasn’t"</p>
<p>That’s all I wanted to know.</p>
<p>UVA should be very upfront with their own students and their parents about the fact that someone has abducted a student who attended a concert that they were hosting at their venue, the John Paul Jones arena. It is understandable that a school would want to downplay publicity about this fact. But for the safety of all students at all Virginia schools, this is a new case still and very alarming.</p>
<p>Tia3 , You have been posting all over the place about this. The main message that needs to get out (and the universities have been doing)is that students need to be aware of their surroundings, stay together,etc. There is nothing unique to Virginia schools in dealing with these issues.</p>
<p>Part of it I think is the need to engender a culture of active resistance. Studies have shown that active resistance leads to less lives being lost and the perp often fleeing the scene when meeting with fiercer resistance than anticipated.</p>
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UVa’s public affairs and police department have been great about getting information out.</p>
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There was no reason to interpret my comment as huffy, Barrons. Twice in the last week or so, you’ve posted partial or poorly reported stories from the Lynchburg paper. </p>
<p>Regarding the Morgan Harrington story, I don’t think we need to give yet another forum over to rumors. Facebook and other message boards are full of them already.</p>
<p>Dean J: I’ve usually find your posts helpful and informative and do not wish to promote any rumors detrimental to UVa, however is it true that the murderer of the two VT students in the student-frequented park in August has also not been found?</p>
<p>Virginia Tech is not in this area. I don’t have any details about the case you mentioned.</p>
<p>Those interested in speculating will find a forum on Facebook and the message board on the Find Morgan website.</p>
<p>^^^
Thanks.</p>
<p>Dean J. obviously the L paper report was correct as there were "rumors"which resulted in the UVA news release that discussed “rumors”. </p>
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The statement from UVA Public Affairs reads, "Because of the number of rumors that have been circulating about members of the University’s men’s basketball team in regard to the Morgan Harrington case, we felt it was important to make a statement to set the record straight. </p>
<p>"As police worked to establish a time line of October 17 in hopes of locating Ms. Harrington, they interviewed a number of witnesses, including some members of the men’s basketball team. After a practice, team members had been approached by a female consistent with Ms. Harrington’s description. </p>
<p>They cooperated fully with law enforcement investigators and, like other witnesses interviewed by the police, they provided information that is important to police efforts to establish Ms. Harrington’s movements."</p>
<p>I misreinterpreted the other story–a simple error from reading fast and not thinking about it. I’m willing to admit my mistakes. Are you?</p>