U.Va. dean vilified in retracted Rolling Stone article blasts magazine

Published April 23, 2015 5:26pm ET



When Rolling Stone’s Sabrina Rubin Erdely set out last year to write an article confirming her ideas about campus sexual assault, she needed a specific villain for the story. While she broadly vilified the University of Virginia and the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, the only named villain was Dean Nicole Eramo.

Eramo, according to the story’s victim, Jackie (and not fact-checked by Erdely), was indifferent to claims of a brutal gang-rape and reportedly told the accuser not to report, saying “nobody wants to send their daughter to the rape school.”

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