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Rolling Stone in explaining “discrepancies” in its account of a young woman who was allegedly gang-raped at a fraternity party at the University of Virginia. Apparently the magazine could no longer ignore the growing chorus of doubts about the authenticity of parts of its story — that questioned “several key aspects” of it.
While it’s premature to dismiss the full account, the early fact-checking that Rolling Stone neglected to do does raise questions as to whether the university’s draconian response to the story was appropriate.
The school president suspended all campus fraternities — even though only one was allegedly linked to the incident.
And now even that link, it seems, has been frayed.
